All Sorts Of Pen-scratches

- The Springfield Republican does n't ake niuch stock ia Blaine'i chances for noniination, that is unlesg it concedes liat more popularity out of than in v' ow Euglaud. It gives Bristow from two-thiids to thrae-quarters of the New England delegates and Blaiue the est." It also givea Tilden the same roportion of the Democratie delega;ion, diridiug " the rest " between HenIricks and Thurman. Hon. Daaiel L. Crossman, of Ingïam : Gen. O. L. Spaulding and Hon B. E. Trowbridge, of Clinton; and Ion. Mark S. Brewer and Hon. Henry W. Lord, of Oakland, are a few of the ' loil " Republicans already entered for he Congressional race in the Sixth district, now so ably represented by ïon. Quo. H. Durand. Halstead, of the Cinoinnati Commercial, declares for Bristow for President " as the only man who can oarry the Republican party through in safety." Mr. Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, oo-worker with Mr. Halstead, is for Charles Franois Adams ürst, and then for Bristow against the field. - We incline to the opinión that the Democratio Senators who voted againsl the confirmation of Dana made a mistake. Better to have turnea a deaf ear to the charges made againat him than play into the hands of Gen. Butler. In fact, Butler's opposition was good reason for bis coafirmation. -The Kalamazoo Telegraph don't like the rscord the Hon. Allen Potter i mak ing in Congress, whioh we fear wil make " Unole Allen " feel bad, as we kaow he is anxious to please the Tele graph : that is after first pleasing him self and tho constituenoy he representa The " big village " (Kalamazoo) i evidently Democratie. At the annua town election on the third- the villager voting - the Demócrata were the vio tors; and another Democratie viotor was won at the charter election on Monday, the villagea voting alone. The Indiana Democratie editora - or a portion of them - have been in con sultation to lay plans to lay out Lan ders, the crazy soft-money candidato fo Governor. They favor the nomina tion of Holman, - who is n't entirel; sound on the currency question. - And now the charge or assertion that President White, of Cornell, Í8 not a Conkling man is denied by the President himself. Conkling is the President's model Senator and has hit cordial support, though he don't propose to go to Cincinnati. - A haheaa carpui : that is the key Hallett Kilbourne hopes to unlock the doors of the district jail with. He is n't contented any longer, now that the allowanoe tor rationa has been cut down from $20 to $1 per day. - " Kxposure of fraud is the first step toward righteousuess," or so says the Lansing liepuhlkan : which being true proves the Democratie investigators at Washington noble rivals of Moody and Sankey. - Cáncer in the throat : that was the cause of the death ot Gen. Butler's wife, which occurred on the 8th inst., at the Maesachusutts General Hospital, in Boston. - Crooked transactioms hare been unaarthed in the Government Printing Office : $40,000 realized from the sale of " waste " iniproperly expended, and other funds not account ed for. - The House has passed a bilí providing for the payment of $160 to Bro. Van Antwerp, of the Jackson Patriot, late of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, for a horse lost in service. - " Moses" says that the Government has oontraoted the currency $1,300,000,000. Whew ! What a liar a greenbacker oan be when he tries. - The admirera of crooked whisky Maguire propose to pay that $5,000 fiae provided the President will pardon him. - An exchange says : " Every Democratie paper in Missouri is supporting Hendricks for the Presidency."