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22
Month
August
Year
1873
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The orator whoae brilliant ïiumfcion Uül hini to Bugg i ■ " It' all tho rivers il', the World ere mie groat ''iver, ui! the treek in the world one uve, ál) the Uiöii in tin1 world one great and al! tbr hm-s in Ui-) world on i gleuf ix ! and then that great man should tttke t li il great ax mul uut down that great tire and it should fall into tlmt great river, what a mighty swash it would mako! " bas been ;cli j .siii by a patriotio Xuiv Hatnjishire dairyraan, who proposes to oulist all tbc eheesa nianufacturer i '■- Unitwd States in ihe novel and laudable en terpiise of tuakiug une great cheese : " cheese in the grundest and most sublimé sunsc of the term ; cheese. guch as the woiid btta liever seen ! ese - hundreds of thousands of pounds of cheese." It is to be "au immense plaiu " and prove the " adruiration of the world." Congress should bo called upon for an appropriation in jid of the grand undertaking. - in Matt. Carpenter's faraous defense of the salary-steal aud increase bilí he said that members should bopaid enough to enablo them to keep thoir families at Washington and not be oompelled to depend upon the favor of paramours or mistresses. If stories are true Matt's salary will needs have atiothor boost - not for the purpose indicated by liim, but to p;vy the expenses of s winging around the cirele of the fashionable watering places with a paramour. - The Graphic balloon is now hulletined to " set sail " betweon tho first and tenth of September, at about the hour of sunset, thu day to be determiued by an announcement from " Old Probabilities '' of eightfen or twonty-four bours of good weather ahead. The traveling eompanions of Profs. vV'iseJ and Dcnaldson have not yet been dofinitely named. - Ilon. Wm. M. Mersjdith, of Fhiladelphia, President of tho Pennsylvania Constitutioual Conven tion, diod on Sunday last, aged 7-1 years. Mr. Meredith was Seoretary of the Treasury undor President Taylor, and bas vvell filied other honorable and important positions. He was a lawyer and a gentleman of tho old school. - At the recent seasion of the Kational Educational Association, at Elmira, N. Y., Presidimt Eliot, of Harvard, read a report which was an effectual squoloher of the proposed Xational University at Washington. President E. don't recoguizo it to be the duty of the general govermnent to embark in the educational business. - .According to G. F. Hoar Dr. Butler is the " great quarrelist." Grant and Wilson, Colfax and Blaine, Andrew and Sumner, the Washb unies and Bingham, Sebenck and Dawes are named a.s a fragment of the public men with whom be has quarreled. A noble record. - Caleb Cushing's "yellow dog " snit lias given hini more fame and notoriety thau all his tnultifarious performances witli pen or tongue, uot exeepting his late onslaught apon Chief-Justioe Cockburn, and he is now pointed out in the street3 as "the man who put an injunction on that dog." - Jef&rsön hua at last been jus tl y punishud for not auoepting gifts, passes, pups, houses, etc, and for refusing to quarter all his relatives upon the public rcasury. His statue has been removed trom the grounds in front of thfl Wliifn House, ana nolouger reDukes Prtsldent Oraut. ■ - John Bigelow protests through the columns of the X. Y. Tribuut' againat the Centennial Anniveiaary being made th; occasion of an international celebration or fair. He thinks it should In exclusivoly an American affair, with all the world present as visitors rather than participators. His " bead is Wel." - Tho Milwaukeo Wiacoiuin (Repub.) demands that Senator Carpenteu shall come to the front and vindícate his charactor against " charges too grave to pas9 imnoticed." - It is now " positively asserted " that Associate-Justico Swayne - tho weakest man and biggest demagogue on tho bench of tho Supremo Court - is to bo appointed Chief-Justice. - Mrs. Brighara Young, No 17, who is seeking a from the fractional part of her husband, is only 28 years old. Sbe married Brigham at 2;3. - Jaffrey, N. H., is to indulge in a oentennial celebration, with Prof. Joel Parker, of the Cambridge (Mass.) Law School, as orator. - ■ Kev. Gardiner Spring, for 02 years pastor of tho " Briek Churcb," New York died on tno 18th inst., aged 89 years. - The silver wedding of President Grant is to bo celebrated at bis " cottago by the sea" to-day. - The Quakers are appoaling to tho President for the pardon of tho convieted Modocs. Tha last great scandal, touched lightly by tho press but bruited evcrywhore now, 18 not of avarice aul ffreed, but o't' ntemperance and lust. Open, publio, brazen, flauntod in the faces of decent wives and mothors, and of pure daughters and sisters, a shame, foul-fronte.l, sickening, beastly. Bétween the Bonsual 3ot, oí bi-illiant intellect but vilo associations and depraved habits, viho so lately set hiraseli' and paramour uu publio cxïiibition in this city and at Lonf? Brunei- between hun and the Preaideney of the United States are but twro hves, and ouo of them of frailest tenuie. Is the nation dranken tint it gees thia large diggiaoe paraded onder its vory eye, and takes inlo its nostrils the stenoh of the offonsc, and makos no sign of nausea? Has dead and burjed decency ao'rèsuiréotionï And the United Statea Senate - irhatis its dutyf Has it an'y self-respeet leít?- N. Y. Tribune, A,uj. 13. As "_theré is but one stop from the sublime to the ridiculous," so the descent from advocating and defending tho back pay steal to any lower grade of imfamy seems as short, natural, and easy. Tbia man Carpenter, whoso portrait is drawn by the Tribune, is an administration leader of the tfrst water,' and has been talked of as a fit man to don tho robes of ChiefJustice Chase. But with the long record of exposuro3 and the non record of expulsions, the Tribune imitatos tho " sarkasurn " of Ahtemum Wakd when it asks of the Senato : " Has it any self-respeot ieft '" Ho. Wit. BïODDABD, of Litchfield, Hillsdale County, committed suicide on tho 14th inst., shooting hirnself in tho hetul, in his oom field to which bo bad ;ono about half an hour boforo, in alleed óearch of a hawk. Temporary derangoment, rcsulting from a long sickness is said to be tho cause. Mr. Stodbakd was elected in ÜSü-I to represent his district in tho House ; in 1870 was elected to tho Seuate, and again in 1S72. Ths dale Standard says that be " was a man ' of intogrity, of industrious and sobor ] hubits, persoually popular, and h'Lby ] respuoted aü a i iti e.i." i

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