Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1875 — To the Point. [ARTICLE]

To the Point.

Unde Daniel Drew’s “puts,** and “cells, ’ and “straddles’’ reminds one of Schoeck’* treatise on poker. '. a———— - What are we coming to? Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has manifested his dtswtersstedness by declining to permit his awe to be used for the Vice Presidency. Jeff Davis next A Southern exchange says: “Since the civil rights bill has become a law certain young white Democrats, who have been attending colored churches during revival meeting, now insist on having seats further up front ” yr# Mr. W. S. Grovesbeck, of Cincinnati, recently made a gift of $50,000 in water works bonds, with the understanding that the income thereof, amounting to $3,500 per year, shall be forever devoted to furnishing music* for Burnet Woods Park. Just before the “reform” Wisconsin Legislature adjourned, an enterprising undertaker hid his circular on each desk offering “a splendid assortment of coffins direct from easter manufacturers, at greatly reduced rates.” A cheerful episode. The latest instance of snobbish veneration for exalted rank was given by the tea-drinker, who, as soon as he heard of the Emperor of China’s death, restricted himself to the consumption of black tea as an emblem of mourning for the departed monarch. The jurors in the Tilton Beecher case are sadly misused. They are allowed only two dollars a day for all they are compelled to suffer. They ask seven dollars a day, and that sum doesn’t appear to be excessive. They ought to be pensioned besides.

[LaPcrte Herald.] Speaker Haines of the lower house of the late Illinois Assembly, was perhaps the most unfair, exasperating ass who ever presided over any legislative body. He was a ‘•Reformer. We learn from the Logansport Star that an ex-postmaster, of Reynolds, was arrested last Sunday in Victoria, Texas, by Col. Bringhurst, of Logansport. It will be remembered by the readers of the Republican, that said ex postmaster disappeared some months since, with a large sum of money belonging to Uncle Sam. The people will have a little rest on the matter of elections. The first one will be in August when the people of Kentucky vote; and in September, Maine, California, Vermont, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming will gladiate. In October Ohio and lowa vote. In November the bulk of the more important elections occur. If the tendency of the times, which leads to the invention of a new word almost every day, is not checked, dictionarias will have to become periodicals, like directories, and last year’s dictionary will be almost as useless as last year’s almanac. On of the latest outrages is “disestablishmentarian,” which it is needless to say is an octo-syllable of British devdopeuent. . The St Louis Republican, speaking of a third party says: “Three years ago there was an excellent chance, but a serious of inexcusable blunders defeated it. Now there is no chance. The two parties are in possession of the field, and they hold every part of it. There is not the ghost of a probability that anything will happen in the next twelve months td* displace either of thejn.” The School lands of Texas amount to over 100,000.000 acres, the largest endowment for free school *purposes in the world, and yet it appears that moSt of the public schools have been suspended *for want of means to carry them on.” When the Republicans were in authority the schools were in operation, when the Democracy came-into power, free schools were suspended. Democracy and popular education are impossible. The Court of Claims has just decided that full-pardon and amnesty to those concerned in the late war, while it blots out or throws into oblivion all personal offenses, .does not restore to them the proceeds placed in the Treasury from confiscated property sold. “The word *p:>rdon’ must,” the court says, “be constructed according to its meaning as found in english statute law at the time of the formation of the constitution.— The King had no power to restore estates except those in which he might be personally interested. Besides, the proceeds of the confiscated property being received into the Treasury, it co»ld not l»e drawn therefrom exeept by virtue of law passed iu conformity with the Con-

r W The Washington Republican Pays: Some people think Gen. Spinner’s signature is unique: but if’ the specimen we have seen of his successor is; correct, the general verdict will betbat it is “nfiriqd&.” JU BKkalike tiou of tea-chest hieroglyphics struck by lightning and’twisted into intermingling and confused circles, braided together and twisted up like the ringlets of a curlyheaded tchool-girl who has succeeded in accomplishing an incomparable friz.