| Show MARI ft texas widow ons sheep and every old bachelor or widower that learna of her fabulous wealth will arv to make a mash on marys little lamb A tramp 14 vears old reached mendola illinois on monday evening from san francisco on his way to his Chicago 1 home he ran away from and has been beating bis way torn a since october blacking boots when obliged to stop over NEWS comes from washington that there ara moie democrats around the capitol than has been known since bu chan nans administration all aro in search of employment for the winter and it matters not to them which baity is in power as they arc continually in the market men are over mrs langtry that they exclaim in one almost universal breath she Is setting the country on fire why dont the fools leavo bei arrested fai in bendian m her good looks would not save her from judge lynch out west if she was caught applying the torch TUB people of this country are credited with bunking dunking barrels of beer annually and yet can scaife ly find a man that has had his fill the above is from an exchange and it might truthfully have added that you could scarcely find a inari who would admit that he can become intoxicated on beer i erport comes aiom the east that the democrats talk of running ben butler for president in 1881 1 if ben should ue elected we presume the ne cesry lire cautions will be taken for the safety of the white house spoons the demo cratic party detected binm stealing spoons in new orleans and it would be too bad to leave such tempting articles lunar around within ins leach A EW map of the united states pro pa ed under the direction of the gen cial land office is now in the hands of printers in new york and will soon be ready for distribution it is said to bo H the most complete and accurate one compiled by the government it u n bains over glacis not on the old maps additions are mostly in the west aro probably ilio most severely punished criminals in the world A new form of punishment is now in vogue there for certain crimes in which the culprit is bent over a growing bamboo and kept there until ho 18 impaled the bamboo grows rap idly and straight allowing nothing that can be penetrated to turn it aside tle victim is impaled in abent twenty four hours THE union has established new passenger rates between omaha and los angeles california the following will bo the rates from omah of kansas city to los angeles or intermediate points first class first class limited second class 78 emigrant 47 50 this is a slight reduction but nothing to aliat may bo expected when the ario A rio geande gets completed and connects with the pacific coast or when the northern pacific spans tho continent 8 tall snatches of janette inquiry reports come over the daily and of what ube is this inquiry 9 if de long has been guty of a misdemeanor why institute a court finding it out it may benefit history and if that is tho object why not exhume the bones of the revola he acs or scrape boston gaibor for some of those old tea chesta that overboard history must be sustained you know even if mens lies hive been lot in the chopo of sustaining it after these weeks of toil the board of inquiry may learn that commander do long probably cheated one of the crew out of a cracker and what will they do about it put ins skeleton on trial and sentence it for eternity in the national museum we suppose will evidently bo a v arm contest this winter in the illinois legisla tue tu e for united staica senator as david divis term expires much ath next there is likely to ba three candidates for tho office viz david davi governor cullom and ex governor richard J oglesby senator davis has not made a very brilliant record and it is very doubtful doubt lul whether disaffected republicans or democrats will vote for a two sided politician governor cul boms aan ini strat on lias been almost without blemish and this accord will have considerable weight with tho illinois representatives ex governor oglesby has served his state in tho U enato with credit and it 13 tho opinion of leading politicians that cullom 01 oglesby wll succeed davi v ith chances in favor of the doimer either one of them would bo an improvement pro ocr the present portly in |
