Show EDITORIAL nores kores NO res the baltimore B al timbre sun sim is anxious to know why the naval navai nav i al cadets cabets recently permitted to resign were not tried and if convicted convie Wd punished like lre iko other thieves and also asks 1 aks whether if sailors ill lil n the navy 1 had d perpetrated the theft of which these th ese bleil hene bene were guilty they would have been beell permitted to resign Washington thedas The hington star guess es not josli josh billings thinks that about as mean rdean a position as any man can put himself into Is for him liim tb work all the time for fo r the devia devil and poh pok all the time to the lord dord jor his pay the people residing near hell gate new york are exercised concerning the effects of the forthcoming explosion in three aar acre cavern at thab that place thirty tons of nitro glycerine are ate to be exploded the largest explosive mass ever used la in mining undertakings beneral newton corm corn forts torts the tho residents by stating that the explosion will be in separate charges each of which a new newyork york paper suggests is etious enough h to shake a county two tro texan cow boys at howe station grayson county quarrel quarrelled led and to fight it out with bix six shooters at twenty paces the one least hurt to have the helfer heifer at the first fire one jf if the belligerents lost a piece of his ear and the other a piece i e of his noe nose the youth with the abb abbreviated revl ear gave up the he heifer sunday times and relates the following to 0 ghow allow how bow tile the new york girl looks at some things this young lady informed me that her trousseau cost upwards of ten thousand dollars ars and when I 1 expressed astonishment at aft this extravagant expenditure pend iture of money she naively replied yeb yes 1 spent a great deal of meney money but one never expects to marry more than once in a lifetime and besides papa may play fail emma pama offen often expresses regret that she did not buy lots of pretty things when she was in europe for her father failed immediately after their return and a rew few thousand dollars more would not have made much dil Terence difference 1 21 the tho pittsburg leader thinks that blaine blame is not only a man of courage arld and ability but a man mall of napoleonic ic genius also aiso he helmun is un sharp subtle able and brilliant but it seems as if his head is Is not quite hard bard enough A mrs brown aged eighty seven teven of pittsfield mass died of fright during a terrific thunder and rain storm i june uhe une 3 the tho washington star says ih th it knott chairman of the bouse judiciary committee june 7 before the room waa was cleared passed over to mr Prye Frye and in a tone loud enough to be heard said frye frye prye your friend j blaine is the d d det t scoundrel in america bost boston has lias a band of boy burglars tho the eldest oldest not more t than han twelve years of age ago 1 chicago is said to owe nwe her firemen policemen and other city servants more than a million of dollars with no promising signs of early liquidation A member of the connecticut legis legislature lathre proposed that clergymen be prohibited from frow becoming members urging as a reason that it was a very avery common pra prat practice tice itice of congregations inducing clergymen to accept a low salary on condition that they shall be elected to the tiie legislature and thus get more here is more of the palmetto and the pine business charleston IS C cordially invites the old guard of new york and the boston light infantry to attend the centennial of the battle of fort port sullivan the letter of invitation to tho the old guard says we cannot e expect K to rival your accustomed niti alfi cent hospi tali lius lies but we can pr promise you ou a hearty bearty welcome to the land of the palmetto THE republican convention TIIE THE cincinnati republican convention ven tion choosing its nominees by a simple majority of votes votes accomplished its busi nessin a campara dively bhart time lime the democratic convention which is to meet at st louis by and by chooses its nominees by a two thirds majority and for that reason reabon it may be that the balloting at the last named convention will be more protracted than that was in in the I 1 late lato ate ato co convention i steil at cincinnati the general expectation seems ems to have been that blaine maine would receive c e ve t the it nomination at the ate cincinnati convention convent ion lon and indeed he had bad a good prospect for several ballo tings but falling failing so many times to get got the required number dumber of votes the convention probably concluded that it would be safer to nominate some candidate ohp had bad not made himself obi oui obnoxious s to portions of the party and wh whom 0 m it would be more difficult for the democrats to hold up to democratic detestation than blaine ill aine alne and in the nomination of hayes this has been effiec ted for little de derogatory rogato ty ilas has been flaunted before the publio public concerning him while blaine blame ju 4 the investigation business and und in his late somewhat unruly proceedings ia in congress and aiso also in a hi his hij attack k upon the confederate chieftain some time ago though lie he may thereby have inere increased in strength and popularity with rno of his part party y must have greatly incensed the more moderate men io in both parties and their totes rotes for him in the coming elect election loil could not be counted on the ticket concluded upon may be as good aa as the republican party could havo have chosen blit but time must decide the democratic party its ranks aa as good men as those chosen by the republican convention but whether the democratic convention will mill be able to choose a ticket that will command as general support as the republican ticket remains to be seen |