The national Republican., 1866-11-09
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TCHChAs ohh SCAbsVESs
We learn that Morrissey "came up
smiling" after the last round on Tuesday.
THE Clifton House at Niagara Falls has
been closed for the winter.
FLORENCE is urged by Napoleon as the
capital Of the kingdom Of Italy.
Now THAT the elections are over, the
msteOrio shower is the coming excitement.
some women seem to think that their hus-
bands, like turkey legs, are improved by being
dsvilled-Lou. Jour.
TIE Journal de Lot ct Garonne (France)
states that 900, 900 tobacco plants have been de-
stroyed by the inundstion Of that department.
Or the 1886 children between the ages Of
and 49, in Killingly, Conn, less than one.half
attend school. The factories absorb them.
SINCE the reduction of one half in the
tariff for dispatches over the Atlantic cable there
has been large increase Of business.
The steamship China sailed from Boston
yesterday forenoon, taking 1913 passengers for Liv.
erpool, and 20 for Halifax, but no specie.
. IT COST wooden manufacturer Of North
ampton, Mass, before the war $3.50 to make q
yard of CLOTH which he sold for 81. Now 1t costs
him So to mads yard, and he sells it at $s.
AT Princess Anne, Va, few days ago,
a rabid dog bit thirteen dogs, a boy and q COW,
and the consequence was q sudden diminution Of
the dog population Of that neighbOrhOod.
The Mayor Of Quebec has received q num-
Der of cable kilograms from England empowering
him to draw money for the relief of the sufferers
by the fire.
ACCORDING to the report Of the Comptrol-
er General Of Georgia, the taxable property in that
State was deprecated seven hundred millions Of
dollars (s7oO, OOO, ,OOO) by the war.
In Great Britain on the 9Th of March last,
the total number Of cattle returned by occupers Of
land, and estimated by collecting officers, was
4,7s5, 1885, the number of sheep returned and esti.
mated, %, O4s, ,2Sli the number Of pigs, 24776l9.
The negroes in Botetourt county, Virginia,
have increased three or four hundred in number
since the last census This is the only increase Of
this population in any country district in that
State.
Coal VEINS, respectively six and three feet
in thickness, have been struck near Lesvsnwortb,
at distance Of about siI hundred feet beneath the
surface. Tho Leavenworth. Conservative thinks
the supply will be sufficient for the entire State Of
Kansas.
MEssRs. DOUGLASS & JOHNSON, of Nash
willie, have sold the celebrated hlly, Maggie Hun
ter" to Capt. Thomas Moore, of Kentucky, fol
$4,000 Maggie Hunter is twO.year old Lex
ington flly, out Of Laura, of the stock of Colone
woodfolk, Of Nashville.
In Louisiana the weather is most gena
and delightful just cool enough to make the warmth
of the suns rays by day, and woollen clothing Al
night, agreeable. The atmosphere is pure ant
bracing, whilst tho foliage of the shade trees ant
shrubbery is as luIurant and green as in midsum
mer.
THE head Of the great house Of the Roths
childs, Baron James de Rothschild, at Paris, Il
said to be in a critical state Of health. lie is tn
only living son Of the founder Of the house, and
at present the chief of the Paris branch and II
said to be the best huancier Of tho family.
A COUPLE Of open sail boats, about twent,
feet long have recently made the voyage from New
port to Annapolis, Md, and return, each manage
by lad under IS years Of age. Tho distance /
about !, 900 miles, and was accomplished withou
difficulty or accident.
The store and dwelling-house and ont
buildings belonging to Mr.. Jeremiah Bartlett
Locke's Mills, Maine were burnt Friday morning
the I'd instant. at 2 o'clock. Loss, about $4,000
insured for IS, 900. Tho FIRE was the work of a
incendiary.
A LIVELY discussion is going on anon
the friends of Yale College as to the merits Of Pre-
idsnt woolsey's plan of having the charter Of th
College SO amended as to drop from the Corporatio
the State officers and Senators who now belong I
1t sr oRfeio. Some friends of the College maintai
that the State members Of the Board are a salutar
check upon the influence of the clerical member
and of the Faculty.
TIE Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx, in q recen
speech at Detroit, said he did not believe in negr
inequality or Indian equality or Chinese equality
or Malay equality. lie believed that God ha
made us the superior race but he would not eI
deavor to grind down lower the negro. He added
q But think can say without any impiety,
wish He had made all these races white for had ii
done so, there would not be a Democrat to-day.
A New ESGLkND radical contends that to
Of the States are out Of the Union, leaving onl
twenty six in the Union. He then argues that th
Presidents salary should be reduced in the SAN
ratio and as thirteen siIteenths Of the States onl
remain, he would cut down the salary accordingl
to slS, S,O56.55, which would be the right propo
ton As Congress is increasing rather than dimir
i'hing salaries his proposition Is not likely to me'
with favor.