Show The Springfield Republican rises up to remark that Tho celebration of the centenary of the capital city of the United States Wednes day of next week has n vast amount of l Interest for tho whole people The greatest great-est mnn of America determined Us place personally superintended the first survey of tho site appointed the commission which took possession of tho trant ceded by Maryland and Virginia and laid It out according to Mij IEnfants plans and it was his namo that was rightly given to the Federal city That we suspect is all true but lest modern men may despair and conclude that virtue died with the fathers IL may he well to keep In mind that Congress Con-gress one day decided that Annapolis should be the capital that Uncle George did some rustling that night that next morning the previous days legislation was reconsidered and the present site selected that erc It was on Uncle Georges own land and that he mado 1000000 through the sale of town lotsand that the reason the city was built dO lon tho mud fats was because Uncle George charged such outragdous prices for lots on the higher land that people could not afford to purchase all of which shows that Undo George was notonly a patriot 0 soldier and a latesman but n first class financier and a good deal of a boss |