The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-04-25
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LAKE navigation is open at Buffalo.
THERE is good prospect for an apple crop
this year in most parts Of Massachusetts,.
A HORSE TRADER in st. Louis died few
days since Of CHAMBERS caught from mule
An elephant in India recently was rubbing
two men lying asleep on tho other side.
BIsHoP MoILvAINE has proposed prayer
to avert the cholera, which will DO read in all the
congregations of the diocese Of Ohio.
Ar eleven o'clock Friday night fire de-
stroyed the Chelsea File cOmpany's factory at Nor
witch, Conn. Loss $4,000
A MAN is apt to be saucy when he is drunk.
He gets in his cups and Is himself the saucer
Prentice.
THE number Of persons run over and killed
in the streets of London during the last year was
one hundred and forty.
The widow of Rev. Il. Starr King was mar
ried in New York last week to Mr.. Norris, rich
steamboat man of San Francisco, and an intimate
friend of her husband.
BY order of Mayor McMichael, Chief Rug
giles has instructed the police to abolish lounging
upon tho street corners, and consequently the
loafer are compelled to "mOve on"
We were at party in Washington last
December, where a majority of the ladies displayed
their beautiful persons very literally indeed 1t
Louisville Journal
PRESIDENT JOHNSON has subscribed twenty
Ave dollars towards the Tsnnesseedn, a paper pub
lishei In Nashville, in the interests Of the freed.
men. Senator Sumner subscribed Eve dollars
Cor Philadelphia Ledger.
BArrY, the lion tanner, had bad scratch
on his hand from ono of his lions, at the Paris
Cirque lately. Although the sight of blood might be
supposed to add to the danger of the performance,
it was continued without interruption.
THEcitizens Of Toulon Stark county, Ohio
are boring into the ground beneath their town, To
ascertain If coal does not exist in veins of sufficient
thickness for profitable working.
The prospect of Knoxville soon having
railroad communication with the rich minora
region near the northern State line has led to tn,
projection of iron works, rolling mills and found
ries in that city.
The Board of Health has determined tc
remove the cellar population Of New York ant
Brooklyn to more healthy abOdes, and to establish
temporary cholera hospitals in various parts of The
two cities for use in cases of necessity.
A DAY or two since, Mr.. Hiram Mcintyre
of Illinois, who was visiting brother at Dover
Dutchess county, while praOtioing with revolver
| fred at q dog house in which two daughters Of hi
brother were playing, killing one of them instantly
CAPTAIN CHARLES HOLMES, II. s. A., a well
known New Hampshire officer, was considerably
injured a few days SINCE by being in mail coacl
which was thrown down an embankment near Den
yer City, in Colorado Territory.
THE first party to reach the summit o
Mount Mansfield, in Vermont this year, went u
on Thursday, 18th instant. The road up tn,
mountain for three miles was filled with snow from
three to Ave feet deep, and near the summit 1t wa
ten feet deep.
THE Russian Government announces tina
It has obtained from the Government of China tn
privilege for Russian vessels to enter Chinese port
under certain conditions of paying tonnage due
only once in four months, whatever may be tn,
number Of voyages they make.
The Presidents message was read in CHM
forty three days after 1t was read in Washington
1t was teiegraphod from Washington to San Fran
CISCO and carried thence to China by sailing yes
sci, that made the remarkably quick passage o
forty days.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, il
a case carried before the full bench, on demurrer
has decided as follows: A revenue stamp Is no par
of the note and could not be copied, nor Is the val
idty Of the note affected by the want of stamp