The national Republican., 1866-10-22
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

s. T. ARvArroS is staying at one of our
principal hotels for . few days.
SINCE the Richmond Examiner dropped
the k.Pollard II has manifested considerable i'm.
provsmsnt.
Mr.. JAMES Z. MURDocH's political labors
during the campaign have unsettled his health .
little. and he has postponed his theatrical engage
msnts for the present.
MARY-"Charles, dear, now that we are
married, you know, We must have no secrets. So,
do, like dove, hand me that bottle Of hair.dys;
you will hnd II in my dressing case"
A COUNTY COURT in Texas has been sus-
pended on account Of Indian deprsdations. How
many Of the jurymen wsro scslpsd Is not yet ascsr
tained.
An unwashed street boy being asked what
made him SO dirty, his reply was: II was made, as
they tell me, Of the dust Of the ground, and I
reckon II 10 just working out"
Mrs. BuRpELL CUNNINGHAM was lost on
the Evening star.-Netc York Herald.
Yes, but not that Mistress B. c., but another
| q lady friend Of ours once knew.
JOHN WHrPPLE, ESQ, one Of the most emf
| mont lawyers and orators Of Rhode Island, died at
Providence on Wednesday, at the advanced age Of
sighty-two.
The squirrel hunters Of Solon, Ohio, had
squirrel hunt on the 18th. Ono party returned
with 5,ss5 scaips and heads, and tho other party
with 4, os5 soalps and heads.
HARTLEY CoLERIpGE once being asked
which Of wordsworth's productions he considered
the prettiest, very promptly replied, His dsugh.
ter Dora"
A THIRSTY radical remarked to the bar
keeper at willsrd's the other morning that ICON.
gress water had nastisr taste last year than IT
ever had before" He ought to know tho reason
oft.
| Mr.. G. L. DABoLL, inventor Of the fog
trumpet, died at New London, Connecticut, on the
18th instant, aged forty eight years. He was the
son Of Nathan Daboll, the maker Of "Daboll's
Arithmetic"
FoRYEY engages some people to serenade
him periodically in order to make somebody be-
lieve he has music in his SOUL" whereas, on the
contrary, he Is "6t only for treasons, stratagems
and spoils."
IT IS UNDERSTOOD that Senator Wilson ex-
perienced 4 change Of heart and obtained forgive.
ness through the efforts Of Henry F. Durant Esq,
who Is preaching with great effect in Boston. Mr..
Durant Is one Of the ablest criminal lawyers in
Massachusetts.
We have some queer laws in Washington.
BARRIERS, who pay licenses and taxes. are compelled
to close their places at ten O'Clock, . M, Sum-
day, while boot blacks and newsboys are allowed
to bother people In the streets all day. There's
nothing like law for poor, weak humanity.
A MODEL HOUSE is now being built as an
experiment in one Of the suburbs Of Paris. It con-
ssts Of ton stories besides the cellars underground.
It has no staircase, but every minute hydraulic
power lifts travellers from the basement to the up
, per stories.
"EvERYTuIYG French is more elegant than
! that Of any other nation" says Parisian cnthu
siastic chronicler. Even the crocodile brought
from our possessions in Cochin China to tho Jardin
dss Plantes Is more elegant than the horrid beas
Of crocodile brought from the shores Of the Nile
q Hon. THOMAS D. ELIOT, after asserting tina
? he did not want denomination to Congress, ha
written letter in which he reluctantly consents Il
stand again, although 1t gives him ''sorrow thai
Q some friends may attribute to him uncertainty o.
purpose"
Mr.. GEORGE RIPLEY, the literary editor O
the Tribune, who has been travelling in Europe 70
the last sI months. arrived home by the Scotia OF
u Tuesday, and will this week resume the critica
chair which he has filled with signal ability for
,s many years.
Hon. WALTER A. BURLEIGH, has been re
elected Delegate to Congress in Dakota Territory b
. larger majority than before. He received the %
grsgate majority Of nearly one.third the entire vol
Z ing population, carrying every county in the Terri
I. tory.
70 Mr.. RUFus NJ. HUsrLEY, a worthy citize
q. Of Fi.ohburg WAS instantly killed on Thursda
morning, near the depot In that town, having bee
struck BY locomotive, which, with several frsigt
cars, passed over and horribly mutilatsd his bod,
e. He leaves wife and several children.
.. Mr.. WM. H. HESS, for many years cor
u nscted with the American Peoples and westsl
:" Union Telegraph Companies, has accepted the s,
psrintendency Of the International Oceanic Tel
10 graph Company, and left New York on saturds
to begin operations in Florida on the proposed liz
Y, Of Cuba and tho other West India Islands.
~ Mr.. FRANKLIN PHILP received, on Satu
- day, from friend who Is on hunting excursion
Virginia, present of venison in the form Of FL
fat doe. Some friends were inspecting the artcl
=. when one Of them, Mr.. G., remarked: I'M
n Philip will kill himself with eating" at would
he dear meat indeed" responded the senior clerk
t's Mossrs Philip solomons' establishment.
al The Newburyport Herald says that "or
he day last week hard working young man receiv
OF a letter from New York, announcing the death
h aunt who left . large estate, full half mill
o. Of which will come to him. He appears to be
very sensible, he Is industrious and tempeIa
VI VI man, and receiving the intelligence, complet
Ia his days work rs though nothing had happsns
,r. and after having been to New York to confirm L
,al facts in the case has returned to his daily labo
an. which he will continue till the administration
ra. the estate is completed.
roo GEN GLEEsoS.-Gen. John A. Gleeson,
no the army Of Tipperary, received letter fro
he President johnson to-day, appointing hi
in. brigadier general Of volunteers, in recog
|, tion of his gallant and meritorious servic
!" in the field, having fought bravely throu
DIV thirtY.fye general engagements. His col