| Show EDITORIAL NOTE NOTES 3 As tb this is is leap year girls are advised not to marry until they cau cah support a husband 17 I 1 A washington paper remarks that requests for a suspension of public opinion I 1 are becoming painfully frequent OT offenders enders want a little time to explain things tiie the st louis republican talks in this way of some inequalities of numbers the census man of logansport Logan sport reports eight girls to ohie ofie one man A literal fulfillment fulfilment of the old prophecy seven women hanging to the skirts of one man ma n 1 the census man does not say whether the girls are arc willing notwithstanding to eat their own bread and wear their own apparel it is stated laft latt politics in new hampshire have become so demoralized that one tenth of the voters in the state regularly sell their votes to the highest bidder the rho republicans are said to do the most of this villainous work of corrupting it voters but the demo democratic cratie cratic managers do a large share of it and would do more if they could that is if they had bad more and more 1 v vor able ablo opportunities an exchange thinks thinka that this is a pitiable condition of affairs and if the other states should reach as low a 4 plane popular government would be on its last legs how has the fine gold bec become me dim now is the time that everybody is disgusted with rascality in responsible positions the papers throughout the country are indulging in jeremiad over the rotten nass of or public lifa in this country anu nuu the recent developments of official corruption in the high pla cei eci besof the land an english paper aper remarks s chatin many quarters it is belliZ believed ved that the jews entertain the idea of purchasing the holy loly land of turkey with the view of going there as a body now nov the papers throughout the country are saying that nhat this is lent in reality in this g great reat republic especially in the republican party it kt is a day of sackcloth and aslies ailles and mourning for kinsor sin sins sor or for 4 it hasa come to some something now even the papers of naughty paris in alluding to arthe beik Belk belknap nall nali scandal lament ibo iho decadence of morality in the united states the san francisco Vh ronicle says sacs in consequence of the financial embarrassment jf of the aduca dional department ehe the public schools of this city are to be closed on the of april next this is a necessity necessity to ba lie greatly deplored 1 it does nou nol dp to to be im poor in pennsylvania poverty is a great crime here there better steal than be poor two young vagrants were sentenced to nine months jn in the house of correction but they falsely confessed to the judge that bacon they be ware were thieves when his hon honor considerately sider sidera atey tely atcy reversed his former sentence and sent them to jail for ninety days those youths may be bank tellers or cabinet officers yet who knows hero 4 13 a good 0 a word for judge lowe from the tho g st louis globe democrat marcil marell 8 judge lowe appears to have a host of supporters for the office of associate justice several republican papers strongly recommend rid him the F corb orb scott monitor sayf hels Heis he Is generally general 1 and justly regarded as one of the a ablest yb at lawyers in the qualifications for the supreme cenah can tab not be doubted the wichita eagle bagle bays says AA XA a man and as is a a x J r lawyer he is one among ten thousand he possesses one of the finest trained judicial minds in the state whilo while dignity and fairness are attributes born inyim in him 2 the leven beven worth times bays says so no better man Inthe in the state 1 it seems to be almost the unanimous opinion of the press to place judge lowe upon the supreme bench the washington star of march 0 6 says of the reorganization at the white house the position of officials at the white house may bo be authoritatively stated as follows general babcock who ne verdrew never drew salary as a secretary but drew it asan as an engineer officer returns to duty and col fred grant is assigned to his place gen retirement did neotere not create a vacancy nor does col grants selection create a new position tion both draw army pay levi P luckey held the office known to law ns a private secretary to the president he takes A 8 11 whlter whiter place atthe at the interior department part menty ment and ano ulysses grant jr takes mr air lackeys Luc keys place mr air C C holds the same position he has hag always held as ai assistant private secre secretary iary fary 11 the springfield union says more than one kind hind of resumption is needed in this country it will take more than the resumption of specie payments payment 4 to restore our business prosperity it will take a resumption as well of solid honesty 11 A st paper talks of things existing in th this is sty style e clit it is certainly neither pleasant nor complimentary to say that our political morality f is the reflex of our social morality but any dispassionate attempt to weigh the evidence on both sides will show that such is almost exactly the case cae and that political corruption is rather the result than the origin of a widespread dishonesty in private life sophie edwin mrs arrs W stevenson died at san francisco march 7 in her year of a complication of diseases culminating in dropsy for twenty five years miss misa occupied a position in theatrical circles in california Calif orina orida having during all that time appeared in the principal thea thep theoties the tres aties of san francisco and sacramento her first fl rat appearance being in the american theatre in the first named city in 1850 in the cock neyson of california sl she was for several years leading lady in maguires company playing with equal success in tragedy comedy and burlesque her last appearance on the stag ewas was in november lasi last in wile alle 1 tut ut she was so ill that mrs sanders had to finish the part miss migs edwin was born in sidney idney Austi australia australla alla aila in 1839 and emigrated with her parents to california in 1819 her maiden name was anderson she was married to tu william stevenson in 1854 As az an actress and a woman her name was above reproach and sho bho sho gho was widely respected acted she left four children tile the springfield republican publican lre JRe thinks grant is not holding up the republic by the tall tail bs s m aluch u c h aa a he was A correspondent of an east 1 ern paper w wants ants to know why the habl habitual tuai use of profane languages language 4 increasing to such stich an alarming extent in the midst of what is supposed to be a community of superior civilization and christian intel telli gence why the merchant at the head of a vast establishment venerable and tind aged men pillars of banking houses lead leaders e rs of public charities and ef of other great and glorious enterprises should be addicted to this vice even in the pr presence e of ladies ladles of refined und and elegant ta taste 90 so that everywhere the air resounds with a coarse and low dialect governor ludington Luding ton toa of wisconsin is not inclined to be ever ready reidy to exercise the pardoning power he rece recently fitlY refused when importuned importuner to pardon a convicted criminal saying iril 1 I believe the decisions of our courts arrived at after a full and fair hearing should not be interfered with except u upon p on tile the most bravo grave considerations hamkins hamlins Ham lins new and complex comple postal bill does not seem to bawin be winding winning golden opinions from all sorts of people for that gentleman the springfield Rc publican lins ilus new postal bill will win him new execration in the eyes of all pe people ople opie tiie charging of f four our ra rates t es of f pi postage stare stage on all third class matter accordia according ato to distance is a violation of all convenience both of r di odthe we post office 4 t ri ure lre use q 0 o which will never be submitted to two rates easy as for instance one within the state and one beyond would have been peen toler toley tolerable able adle but a cent an ounce for all under miles and four rates in all make a mess of it the great desideratum in this country seems to be a lack of in in responsible positions and the great question seems to bea how shall a higher standard 6 0 honor be obtained such honor consisting very largely of probity and morality the aim of Amer american ioan loan public life certainly needs elevating very considerably recently a bill of importance to leavenworth passed lature cf kansas and was printed in the leavenworth papers in a garbled form A committee appointed to investigate the matter reported march 6 that senator johnson of leavenworth had been tampering with the bill johnson was crazy all that evening and twice attempted to kill himself the omaha herald says col 0 J hollister somewhat revived and invigorated after a silence so long and absolute as to cause us to forget his earthly existence is out in the utah organ of all the virtue of that dominion in a terrible phillip phil lipic le against the utah legislature tight colonel give them kub sud sub nellum helium or any other man there is nothing like frankness in dealing with public acra afra affairs irs but if we did not know your severely judicial cast of mind and benignity of thought we might think you slightly prejudiced against the mormons cormons Mor mons blaine is said to be growing very uneasy about the persistent attacks of the world and he wants to get got up a newspaper fight to ease eabe the assault upon himself A washington correspondent of an eastern paper writes the the bottom seems to be falling out of everything everybody is uncomfortable for table the army and navy are in a tremor about their tenure of ance office and salaries the departments are trembling about the cutting don down of clerkships clerk ships and salaries with the lengthening of hours of work presidential candidates are in in fear that they are not to be the chosen ones many who are in power rue the day the they ever entered public life virginia is not satisfied w with th her legislature for she complains that she has lifis had to pay for an eighty days session when one good lawyer would have prepared more and better jaws laws is in a week for 1000 virginia should do wi with th her legislators as congress did with the utah legislators pay them nothing but let iet them board and lodge themselves while they sit out their session that is one way to encourage patriotism and bid for good legi legislative work |
