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Show POLITICAL NOTES. Among the hundreds of German papers in the United States there are only two that advocate inflation of paper money. The Chicago Times in view of the difl'tiring currency platforms in various vari-ous states, wants some authority to furnish a Etandard definition of the word democrat. Ex Governor Dix Bays the greenback green-back is an unconstitutional currency. Yet it carried the country through the i war and ought to be good enough for a peace currency. New York Pea quo'ations: The greenback dollar at 12 o'clock to day was worth about 86 cents gold, or accurately $100 in greenbacks were worth $S5.9S 100 gold. A New Hampshire prolmte court has granted Nathaniel Head legal authorization to be plain Natt Hend for the rest of hia life. So there is another issue disposed of. S. Teckle Wallis, the Maryland candid a to for attorney general, occupied occu-pied fourteen months in forts Warren and Monroe, during the war, on account ac-count of his disloyal sentiments. The largest vote ever cast in Ohio was in 1872, when Grant had 238,273 and Greeley 218,105. In 1873 Allen (democratic) was elected by 817 majority ma-jority in a total vote of 428,401. Tho re-publicans claim that a full vote this year will ensure a republican triumph. tri-umph. Mr. W. F. Coolbftiigh, hard money banker of Chicago, has recently paid a viait to Ohio and Pennsylvania, and and records his opinion that tho strength ol tho greenback parly is very much underestimated in that state, and predicts that tho democrats will win in both elates. The latest reliable estimate of the state, county and municipal indebted ness of this country bIiows an aggregate aggre-gate Of $1,331,970,577, or about $30 per capita for all the people. Tho mtorvst on this indebtedness at 7 per cent, would amount to (93,000,000 annually. The total interest we pay every year on all public indebtedness, national and local, is from $40,000,-000 $40,000,-000 to $50,000,000 moro than Great Britain pays upon its total indebtedness. indebted-ness. Who can wonder that the United States is absolutely poor? |