All Sorts Of Pen-scratches

That was rather a neat joke perpetrated by Dr. ANGELL on Wednesday evening at the expense of Hou, ÖEO. Wii.lard. We feit to sympathiA: with our old friend and fellow quilUdriver when we learned from the lips of the President tb at " he had been constrained to transfor bis labors to another field - Washington," and that the University would through this compulsión be hcreaftor deprived of his fatherly supervisión. Tt is too bad that the people of his district shoulrl have been so cruel, and especially when so many competent men (in their own estimation) wero anxious to sacrifica themselves on the altar of their country. But we trust that Brother Willard will survive both the pressure of tho office seekers at home and the seductiong of the rings of the capital city, and fiud his only punishiuent in longings to return to the more honorable labors of an editor. - The Lansing Kejnibliatn asserts that the total expenditure on account of Gov. Bagley'8 capítol corner-stone show will not exceed $7,000, and asks " tho opposition journals to ploaso note the fact that about $3,000 of the appropriation remains unexpended." We comply with its request, suggesting at the same time that both the tax-payers and the pet banks would foei greater pleasure if the fooled away $7,000 were back in the treasury. - A Kepublican journal says : " It is a somewhat significant fact that Allen, the new Democratie Governor of Ohio.actually received fewer votes than any Democratie candidato but one since 1865." That's it: we Demócrata have always harped on " a small vote" when defeated, and now it is the Republicana' turn. Don'tthey know, however, that as " silence gives consent " a stay-at-home voter really eourits with the majority ? - The California " Reformers " natter themselves that Gov. Booth is the " Coming Man :" and already see him the rnaster of the White House from and after March 4, 1876. Thereupon a curiosity seeking exchange suggests that to have Booth as a successor of Lincoln will be a " singular coincidence." Is it worth while to buüd too many castles three years before the Presidential election ? - ■ Youug Walworth glories in his Sing Sing home. Witness a letter from him to the keeper of the toinbs : " Please inform Ned Stokes that we are going to get up a first rato reception for him in this glorious institution as soon as he puts on the uniform and has his hair cut in fashion." - The Denver JXews is threatening another " black list." Having a column or two8pare advertising spaceweareinclined to follow the example of the News and gratify a liberal number 8f " patrons " who may believe the adage, " it is pleasant to see one's name in print." - The legal tender notes outstanding on the 31st uit. aggregated $301,031,948, and the coin in the Treasury vaults $82,313,581, but with coin certificates outstanding amounting to .$27, 069,880. A loor show for resumption. - Wall street went for Grant in 1872, jeing afraid of a " financial crisis " in case of Greoley's election. Greeley was not elected, but the terrible crisis he was o bring has demoralized Wall street and he whole countrv. i - The inerchant tailors of Boston have agreed to publish in the daily papers ful] lists of over-dilatory customers. And in this free country are fashionable swells uo longer to "shine in borrowed pluin age r" - Schuyler Colfax lives in a very modest house, and apends most of his time away frDm home, speaking for the Odd Fellows and Grangers : or so a South Bend correspondent advises us. - The National Banks have been "called" for two special roports : forOct. 13th, and Nov. lst.- the reports not for publication 'out to enable the Comptroller to make up statistical tables. - Colorado hens are of aristocratie breeds, "ranch" eggs being quoted in a late Denver paper at 45 to 50 cents a dozen, and " states " eggs at only 25 cents. Quite a margin. - The Opera llouse at Louisville, Ky., bas closed its doors for want of patrón age. A close money market and two new theaters are at the bottom of the " suspension." - The fmancial crisis has seriously affected the value of wives out in Illinois, $30 having been accepted as compensation for one recently killed by a railroad train. - The international railroad bridge at Buffalo has been couipleted and the Grand Trunk Railroad passenger trains now run over it regularly. - The national debt increased $3,309, 578 during the uionth of October : and just because Greeley ran for President in 1872. - f 1.18 per standard ounoe is the price now paid for silver at the Assay office in New York, - a reduction of 2 cents per ounce. - The name of Theodore Tilton bas been dropped froin the bnoks of Plymouth Church. How about Bowen. - The telegraph says that a new -Japanese Minister to Washington has been appointed, but dont teil his name. - $11,010,000 in doublé eagles weie coined at the Philadelphia mint in October, weighing thirty-eight tons. - 21,000 lbs. of gold were received at the Assay office, New York, on Saturday last - for coinage. - Artemus Allen, a grandson of Ethan Allen, died at Coldwater on the lst inst., aged 73 years. Last weck the heavy dry goods or print house of HOTT, Spkaque & Co., of New York, suspended, claiming, however, assets largely in excess of their liabilities. ïhe house of A. & W. Spkague & Co., Providence, lihode Island.also found itself in difficulty and unable to get accouirnodations. ïhe troubles of the finn also affected three Providence banks. The assets of the flrm are claimed to be sorae $7,000,000 in exces of liabilities, whioh may all be sunk by " shrinkage." Claixin & Co , of New York, one of the heaviest wholesale houses in that city, lave also been in hot water, but their croditors have granted thenj an extensión and they propose to go through. From all parts of the country come I )orts of suspension?, closing of factories discharging of men, reduction of time and wages, and "strikes" - which are never laudable but now'almost criminal, as mechanics of all grades must expect to ear their share of the burdens consequent upon the disorders of the times and the general shrinkage of values. We fear hat the worst is not yet.