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Day
25
Month
February
Year
1876
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Public Domain
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- "The Valué of Accuracy :" that is the topic Mr. W. S. George, of the Lansing Itepublican, discussed at the recent moeting of the State Press Association. And now, in the teeth of hi sound instruotion, we have President Grant answering undor oath, " I could gire the names of several Senators, and probably members of Congress," as if a Seuator is not a member of Congress as much as those fellows in the other end I of the Capitol. The blunder is a ooininuii one, but the President shonld have loarned before this that it takes both the Senato and House to constitute Congres. We might, perhaps, say that the names of " Senators and members of Congress " the President thought he might give, wero protestants against the appointment of the now convicted Maguire to be internal revenue collector at St. Louis. - " Where is Madagascar ?" That is the conundrum a somewhat ohronio offlce-seeker, whose name and location shall both be naraeloss, recently propounded to a friend. Getting an embellished answer and the return question, ' why 'i " he said that he had been offered the consulship thereto, that the salary was snuill, but that he thought he might piece it out by buying and shipping fruit to the New York market. Hu didn't accept the place, - thanks to the fiae descriptive powers of his adviser, - but now serves his oountry in a Washington (interior) bureau. -The New Yoik Sun says : " Let it be remembered and recorded to the imperibhable honor of Samuel J. Tilden, that under his auspices the eovernment of this State has been purified, thieves of both partios, and eapecially of bis own party, havo been driven out, the sale of legislation ba been stopped, and tbe whole tone of official and political life reformed and elevated." And j why shouldn't a man who can do all tbat be giren a turn at the Augean stablei at Washington ? - 10 peí cent. reduction in salaries, and 20 per cent. in foroe : that is tbe rule which the House Appropriation Oommittee is applying to the Executive and Legislativa Appropriation bilis. A decrease of the clerical forcé at Washington of 20 per cent. will still leave aa excess of clerks on duty ; but a 10 per cent out on all salaries alike is not exactly fair or business like. Some salaries will not bear it, while many will bear more. - The discussion growing out of Parton's marriage to big step-daughter has made the publio acquainted with the fact that a poor fellow hasn't inuch f reedom in Massachusetts. Besides his near blood relations, he is prohibited from marrying his stepmother, grandfather's wife, son's wife, grandson's wife, wife's mother (mother-in-law !)' wife's grandmother, wife's daughter, and wife's gianddaughter : whicb makes it almost necessary for hiin to take a " strange gal." - At the nfteenth annual commoncoment of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College (N. Y.), 159 new doctors were turned out to thrive and fatten on " the ills that flesh is beir to." The address to the graduates was given by Prof. Alpheus B. Crosby, formerly of the Medical department of the University of Michigan. Siz of the graduates were from Michigan, and one of them, Frank Wickham, attended lectures at M. U., class of '75. - Let it be recorded: at 12 o'clock (noon) on the lüth inst., the President signed the Centennial bilí, using a pen made from a quill of an American eagle, shot in the vicinity of Mt. Hood, Oregon. And that eagle and that pen, the man who presented it and the man who used it, will all be exhibited at the Centennial. As to the " bill," - well, the people who pay the taxes will " foot " that before they ever look upon the collection of wonders we have eaumerated. - (lens. Sherman, Sheridan, Hancock, and Ord all agree in wanting the Indian bureau trausferred to the War department, and figure out a saving of $3,500,000, with better management of the Indians. The transfer made there will be fewer army officers hanging idle around Washington. They will be sent to frontier posts to earn the rations they draw. - A year ago the Republicana of Syracuse, N. Y., eleoted their candidate for mayor by a majority of 600, and seven of the eight aldermen. Last week they had only 160 majority for mayor, and elected but türee of eight aldermun. Blaine'g amnesty speech - or speeoh agaiust amnesty - didn't produoe the expected fruit in that city. -This is the way the Hartford Courant comments on Parton's jauz pat: " Mr. Parton, married tirst and looked up the law afterwards, therein treating the lawg precisely as he treats the facts in writing kistory or biography." In the language of Mr. Toots, facts will be of " no consequence " when Parton goes for that fellow's scalp. - Charlotte Cushman, for more than a generation the most prominent actress on the American stage, died in Boston on the 18th inst., of a cáncer, aged 61 years in November last. To put it in the language of the stock eulogist and obituary writer, she leaves a reputation untarnished, and an estáte valued at 1600,000. - Sharon having been fetod by his miliionaire admirara at San Francisco, the bilis of fare being gotten up on solid platea of silver and surroundinga in keepiug, is now en route for Washington, whore he proposes to warm his Senatorial aeat for a brief period, draw his due salary, and then return to o versee his own business. - The Supreme Court of Wiseonsin has decided that women are not eligible to practico as lawyers in the Courta of that State, and an official ukase (or decree) has been issued in Russia, " forbidding women from exercising the function8 of barrister." - Horaoe Bushnell, an eminent theologian of the Congregational school and well-known in liternry cirolea, died at Hartford, Conn., on the 17th inst., aged 73 years. He was a gradúate of Yale College, class of 1827. - The Allegan 'Journal (that's Don Henderson) Bays : " Put us down for Blaine for President and Ferry for Vice President." Aud tbe same Don blows and strikes for Col. Stockbridge for Governor. " There is no accounting for taste " - is as truu in politics as applied to " beverngos." - SoYeral weeks ugo tho Democratie House paosed a bilí repealing tho thirdclass postage swindling act of the last sossion of Congres, but as yet it hangs fire in the Senato Committee on PostOffico8 and Post-Roads, of which Sonator Hamlin, the originator or sponsor of the swindle, is chairman. - The Kepublican monibors of the Obio Legislature have been polled on the Presidential question, and voted : 34 for Blaine, 33 for Hayos, and one for Morton. And that don't look as though Hayes has the Ohio delegation in hi pocket. - Senator Thurman has written ft letter to a member of the Ohio Legislature, " reitera ting his belief in the necessity for a currency convertible into gold at pur." No sort of political or otber pressure oan change hun into a soft-money man. - The Republicana of New York have five candidates for President : Seoretary Fish, Senator Conkling, ex-Senator and ex-Gov. Morgan, Representativo ïïm. A. Wheeler, and Wm. M. Evarts. - Ex-Qov. Morgan, of New York, han entered the lista as a Presidential oandidate, and will contest his State convention with Senator Conkling. - There are 808 penny papers issued in Great Britain. Several times that number are issued in this country not worth a Dennv. - " The Council of Evasion : " that is what the New York Sun calis tho Advisory Council now engaged in rehashing the Brooklyn scandal. - Senator Fenten has written a letter from away down in Florida to proolaim himself a Eepublican. Veil, vot of it? - By a vote of 18 to 1 1 the Senate of Maine has passed the House bill abolishing the death penalty. James Magill, a St. Louis letteroarrier who was called as a witness in behalf of Gen. Babcock, may hare testified to the truth and nothing but the truth ; bnt if he did so Postmaster-General Jewell cannot make hasto too quickly to reconstruct the letter-carrier branch of the service. This James Magill swears that on the last day of February, 1875, he was coming down Pine street when he was accosted by Mr. Joyce, - the man who, Everest testified, put a $500 bill into each of two letters addressed to O. E. Babcock anl W. O. Avery, Washington, which he (Everest) dropped into a letter box, - who wantod to get two letten out of the box at the southwest corner of Fifth and Pine', describing ttie letters and their address. The box was not on Magill's route, but, accominodating man that be was, ho opened the same, pickod out the letters, and gave them to Joyce. He didn't take the receipt of Joyce, because Joyoe deolined to give it, saying, " Oh ! that's all right - hunkidori, it's only a blind." And Magill didn't report at the office, didn't " saynothing to nobody," until he read Bverest's reportad testimony, then he told his wife (like a loving husband), and went and hunted up one of Babcock's lawyers (though he knew nothing of Baboock) and told him. There are not ten men in the whole land who will believe this story of Magill, but if it is true the letter-carrier system which permite such loóse transactions is rotten to the core. Senator Morton has been regularly entered for the Preaidential race by the .Republicana of Indiana in State Convontion convened. The resolution of indorsement speaks of his " executive abilities," his " statesmanlike wisdom," his " faithfulness to every public tiust," his " earnest devotion to the canse of the Union," and his " unflinching advocacy of the rights of the oppresied." If intense partisanship and dogged obstinacy in the pursuit of a desired end, regardTess of means, is an evidence of gtatesmanship, wisdom, etc., then ülivor P. Morton may have all the attributed qualities. But the better class of oitizens - even of the Republicana - don 't so see him.

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