The National Association of Mexican War Veterans will meet in St. Louis October 8. One of the things they will not do will be the endorsement of Blaine and Logan. They owe to these gentlemen no debts of respect or gratitude.

    An Indianapolis editor says of Mr. Hendricks that "the only time he was ever elected Governor" of that State was in 1872, "though he has been a candidate three times." There is at least one editor in Indianapolis who knows that Mr. Hendricks was elected and counted out in 1868.

    It is stated that Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., has made more money for his publisher than any other American author. This is a case of good fortune by accident of birth. He found a demand for his work in a peculiar literary period. He is even now almost a vague reminiscence.--Chicago Current.

    The Democratic campaign in South Carolina will open on Tuesday next with a Cleveland and Hendricks rally at Pickens Court-house.

    A conference of the chairmen of the various Republican county committees of Pennsylvania is to be held at Pittsburg on Monday.

    Hon. J. K. Upton, late Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury, has prepared a brief treatise on "Money in Politics," which is now in the press of D. Lothrop & Co., Boston.

    Upon some one's asking Baron Alphonso Rothschild lately why he did not give up business, his reply was: "It would take me twenty-five years to settle my affairs sufficiently to enable me to withdraw from the firm.--Waterbury American.

    Mr. Julian B. Arnold, son of Edwin Arnold, is now in this country, superintending the publication of "The Arnold Birthday Book," edited by his sister, and composed of selections from the works of their illustrious father.

    W. H. Hughes, of England, brother of Judge Hughes, better known as "Tom" Hughes, the founder of the Rugby colony, in Tennessee, has just returned to New York from a visit to his aged mother at that place. The health of the old lady has so much improved since coming to this country, that although eighty-seven years old she recently took a four mile ride on a pony.

    How little alcohol any substance must contain in order to escape destruction under the Iowa law has not yet been determined, but the decisions so far reach pretty close to sour milk and compressed yeast.--Chicago Journal.

    The Morosinis are going abroad. Thanks.

    Assistant Postmaster Morton, of Brooklyn, who is now in London, says that he will be home again soon and establish his entire innocence of the charges made against his official integrity. It would have looked better in Mr. Morton to have done so before he went away.

    John McCullough, who is at Milwaukee, says he is well and hearty--"never felt better in his life"--all the sensational newspaper reporters to the contrary.

    Gen. Logan says: "The grand old party stands on the brink of an abscess, but will be equal to the exegesis."--Albany Argus.

    Tammany may be mysterious, but there's nothing mean about her. She has just erected a Cleveland and Hendricks transparency 16 by 42 feet in dimensions, at a cost of $1,800.

    The Kit Carson Monument Committee announce that ample funds have been subscribed to carry out their plan for the creation of the proposed structure and Mr. E. W. Wynkoop, the chairman, has called a meeting of the committee at Santa Fe, October 1, to take such further steps as many be deemed expedient in the premises.

    Rev. Father Bilimek, confessor to the Emperor Maximilian, died a few days since at the Miramar Castle, near Trieste, Austria. Bilimek accompanied the ill-fated Emperor on his expedition to Mexico, shared his fortunes and has finally died in Maximilian's castle.

    "Who killed Grand Opera?" asks a Western paper. As no post-mortem has been held we cannot answer the question to a scientific certainty, but we have a suspicion that the charging of $5 for a nickel's worth of music had something to do with it.--Louisville Times.

    The Mother Hubbard is in trouble again--this time in Oregon. The authorities of Pendleton have posted bills forbidding any one to wear such a dress, on the ground that it frightens horses and thereby causes accidents. Evidently the Oregon horse has no appreciation of the beautiful.

    It seems to be a statistical fact that the Mosaic dietary law gives the Jews immunity from contagious diseases and epidemics. Of the Jewish community of 4,000 souls in Marseilles only seven were attacked with the cholera, two of these were life-long invalids; one was ninety-seven years old, and two others had not observed the Jewish law, which prohibits certain articles of food as unclean.

    Jeremiah McAuley, of the Cremorno Mission, New York, died in that city on Thursday. During the last twelve years he had probably done more towards reclaiming the fallen and vicious than any other half-a-dozen men in the metropolis. His last words were, "It's all right up there."

    If President Arthur really has Senatorial thoughts it would seem to be the proper thing for him to be making himself visible in the Presidential campaign.-Cincinnati Enquirer.

Source:

Unknown, "Original and Otherwise," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Sunday, 20 September 1884, p. 2.