Daily national Republican., 1865-10-28
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sxuFr.rAkNe is no longer the gentesl
thing in Scotland.
The public schools of Chicago are over.
crowded, and the papers say there are thou.
sands Of schoolless children.
THE Boston Transcript describes the drain.
age system of that city as a system by which
each landowner drains for himself, accord.
ing to his own plan, by which the least drain
age possible Is TO be achieved at the least ex-
pense possible, by ways and means apparent
ly impossible, and to human ken incOmpre-
hensible.
WANpERER, return. 1t.d.h.
JAMES GRAY, otherwise John Pettengell,
arrested in Springfield the other day for
passing counterfeit greenback ffties, escaped
from the officers in Boston, yesterday.
The coroner's jury at Lancaster, after q
protractod investigation Of the railroad acoi.
dent near that city on the l4th instant, rem
dered verdict yesterday, finding nine per-
sons killed in consequence Of front truck of
car in which they were seated giving way
and breaking through the floor, and that the
cause Of tho truck giving way is unknown to
the jury. The bodies of the three unknown
female victims Of this accident were identi.
fed as Mrs Bean and her daughters, Of
California.
ONE hundred and fifty horses and thirty
three mules, Government property, will be
sold at Camp Hamilton, November 7.
Miss ASNA Z. DICKINSON Is lecturing in
New York on Home Thrusts." Being a
spinster, what does she know about home,
any howl
A cocKSEY coming out of a well-known
gambling house the other night, said he felt
as If he had struck Heyle. .''-Press
SoUru CAROLINA is to elect members of
Congress November Is.
ANYBODY can tell you about the day rate
Of gold, but who, now that the Evening Ex-
change is closed, can tell you about the nj
trate of silver!-Satuyday Press.
TIE subscriptions to the Mexican loan in
New York yesterday amounted to $4,000.
Twenty-si banks have applied for agencies.
The stallion Dexter beat General Butler
in their two mile trot to wagons yesterday
afternoon, at Fashion Course. Time, Eve
minutes and three quarters Of a second, and
four minutes forty-six and a quarter seconds
The last heat is the best wagon time on
record.
The steamer North Star was not lost She
encountered a heavy gale of Hattcras on
Tuesday, and sprung aleak, and, having lost
her smoke.stack, she put into Norfolk.
In Norfolk yesterday the steam-tug Coin.
jock burst her boiler, and the boat was blown
to flinders. All on board five mem were
killed, including the captain and crew, and
Mr.. Patton, agent Of the Boston steamers.
TIE First District Columbia cavalry are
expected to arrive here to-day in the steam
ship Thomas Collyer from Fort Monroe. They
are to be mustered out.
IT was positively ascertained' some
time ago that the Supreme Court of the
United States has not original jurisdiction
in crimina! cases. The correspondent of the
New York Herald can make n note of this.
BENNETT catches hail Columbia at the
hands Of Olive Logan in the Saturday Press.
The Earl of Dudley has kicked up rum
pus by refusing to permit a musical festival
to be held in the cathedral at Worcester.
MORE LYNcHrSG IN IowA.-Hine, chieftain
of a gang Of thieves, was taken from the
Clinton county jail by the mob and hanged
A II. II. STUART, one Of the successful
candidates for Congress in Virginia, says
that the test oath is broad enough to exclude
him from his seat but that if he violated
any law of the United States, or incurred
any penalty during the rebellion, he has
been exonerated from all consequences by the
general amnesty of President Lincoln, Of
which he availed himself on the 26th of May
last, taking the prescribed oath, and there
fore he will decline to take the test oath
Let him stick to that and see who comes out
ahead.
TIE State Constabulary of Massachusetts,
are shutting up the barber shops on Sundays.
TIE Republicans of New York are nomi.
mating their strongest mon for the Assembly.
Mr.. KENNEDY, we understand is taking q
census of persons who stood at the corner ol
the avenue and Fourteenth street yesterday
and exclaimed "Woodman, spare that tree"
Also those who, on second thought, said
nothing.
Mr. HARRIS, of New Orleans, walked from
Monday night, at o'clock, until Friday
night, at IL o'clock-one hundred consecu
tive hours-without stopping to rest, eat o.
sleep He walked for wager, and won 1t
A SILVER statue of Napoleon has latel.
been placed in the middle of the Napoleon
Saloon in the Louvre. The Emperor is rep
resented in the costume of student of Bri
enne. The statue is signed Louis ROchet
1851" and was presented to the museum b,
the present Emperor.
The OLD sOw-is the elegant epithet whicl
} the accomplished Mr.. MARBLE, editor Of tn
World, applies to the Secretary of State.
AN official Investigation into the causes o