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Show AN INFELICITOUS EXPRESSION. Ye have no desire to be hypercritical over expressions used by any on-.-; and Governor Shaffer has the right to thitik a he chooses and speak as be thinks, the same as any other citizen, no matter mat-ter how humble. But we think his Ex'.-eliency us! a -'jwewhat Infelicitous expression on Tuesday night, in his response re-sponse to the serenade, when he said " ou will have- all the aid I can furni.-h to break down this infernal theiX-racy." We have been accustomed to thiiik that "'theocracy" meant ''divine government;'' gov-ernment;'' and it seems strange that his Excellency should recognize ''divine government'' as existing anywhere on thU planet; or, if he doc? recognize it, that he should wih to break it down; and still more strange that he should call a "divine government" an "infernal" "infer-nal" one. COINCIDENCE. '1 he world seems topsy-turvey, and strange events aie of hourly occurrence all over it. "The times are out of joint," as Hamlet has it; and one evil follows so closely upon the heels of another, an-other, that there seems a visible inter ference of some powerful and controlling control-ling agency endeavoring to arrest the attention of the human family. The war-storm in Europe just now almost absorbs attention; yet nearer home there are startling events which under other circumstances would claim a large share of public interest. On Tuesday Dayton, in Nevada, was almost destroyed de-stroyed by fire. The telegraph last night informs us the loss is over a hundred hun-dred thousand dollars, lightly insured. The same day another town, Dogtown, in California, was entirely destroyed by fire. The calamity is unfortunately so common, that we can only draw attention atten-tion to the fact and leave the moralizing on it to the public. |