The national Republican., 1866-11-08
Pen. Pencil. and Scissors.

The Cleveland box and barrel factory was
destroyed BY FIRE on Friday morning. Loss $la,o
The live Swami got the better of the Dead
Duck in Maryland Tuesday.
ADvrcEs from Vancouver's Island say that
. commercial crash Is hourly expected. -.. ......
IT is believed that there is Swans nest
somewhere in the United States Senate Chamber.
A CABLE dispatch reports the loss Of the
bark Ella Virginia, from New York for Zanzibar,
at Quiinans, July 50.
PHEAsANrs are said to be abundant in the
woods Of Maine, and hunters are taking them down
rapidly.
w. T. WALKER, United States Internal
Revenue agent for tho Pacific coast, has been in
| dictsd for malfeasance In Office.
A LONDON omnibus driver discovered q
packet of e. 900 In his vehicle. He returned II to
the owner.
An extensive business Is carried on in Eng
land hunting up portraits for Americans in order
to mako galleries Of ancestors.
WENDELL PHILLIPS says he was welded to
truth and philanthropy whom boy. He must have
become widower when quite young. g.-Boaon Pos
A PAIR of sweet potatoes exhibited at the
fremont Rooms yesterday weighed six and quar-.
ter pounds They were raised on the Marshall
Brown estate.
The wife Of Carpenter Daniel Jones, Uni
ted States navy, attached to the Portsmouth navy
yard, was burned to death on Friday evening, BY
the explosion Of kerosene lamp. ...
A HUNTING party, including Viscount
Couthwsll, Baron Holstsin, and Count Montague,
who were reported killed or captured have returned
safely to Fort Riley.
The Casco National Bank, at Portland,
Ne was robbed Of package containing 81, 100 In
gold, It having been stolen from the counter. Most
Of 1t was in double eagles.
The Essex (Mass.) Banner says that so
many shoe manufacturers In Haverhill have short.
have left town.
The health officer Of Cincinnati reports
100 deaths by cholera, and 1000 cases in the
total in that city thus far. During the month Of
October there were AL deaths by cholera, and tho
average per day Is now about Is.
The number Of deaths in New York city
for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 3, was $50.
being 20 less than the number reported last week.
The deaths last week were "a less than in the cor
responding week Of the preceding year
The president Of the paper collar manu-.
featuring companiss lately consolidated, receives
$4O0 more in salary than the President Of the
United States Mayor Shaw, Of Biddsford, Maine,
has been elected to the position.
In the Recorders Court at st. Louis A.
H. Harrison, tho champion billiard player, was
fined $500 for vagrsncy. The execution was
stayed, and twenty -four hours given to the cham.
pon to leave the city.
Saturday evening, the proceeds Of which will be
devoted to the erection Of monument to Edward
Kendall, the veteran buslsr, was attended BY one
Of the largest and best audiences Of the season,
among whom was Nine. Ristori and her suite.
JACOB SCALES, an old and respected iron
MASTER Of Pittsburg Pa, died on the 1st instant,
leaving Jacob Ashley $50. 900, John Robinson
$40, 900, Amsy Minkss SIS, 900. and G. r. Doane,
Of New York, $25, 900, and tho remainder Of hiI
property to build Univsrsalist church.
THE Paris Cham pays his respects tc
. cashiers as follows: "An applicant presents him
: self at bankers. I have been cashier in Amer
lea Very we'll. You ran away with the cash
: box. and consequently you cannot return there
1t is safeguard, and will employ you -
i A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Ga
sette estimates the population Of Cincinnati a
2lO, 900. In 1926 that city contained but 10, OOl
:: : inhabitants; Newport and Covington were petit,
= villages the suburbs were nothing no railroad
= existed, and turnpikes were unknown.
:; The wires Of the Western Union Telegraph
d Company were last Monday evening put in direc
communication between Port Hood, Cape Breton
and New Orleans, Louisiana. Port Hood reporte,
II heavy snow storm while New Orleans reporte,
. the weather sultry. The wires were never know
TO have worked better such 4 distance.
;. Mr.. JAMES G. HOLLAND, of the Washing
ton Office Of the Associated Press led to the matri
= monial shrine, yesterday, Miss Maggie Flennsr
= The marriage ceremony was performed in McKen
. drso chapel, BY Rev. VIM. Krebs, and the blissfu
Q couple departed from the city on their weddin
o tour. followed by the congratulations and goo,
wishes Of q host of friends.
The people Of northern Georgia are still
unable to talk Of anything but the gold deposits
> The Atlanta Intelhgener says It saw pan of dir
so rich that 1t Is calculated 1t would yield $500 Il
4 the ton. Tho Kentucky Silver and Load Compap,
is also doing finely. The mine near Russers cav,
produces lead AID silver in considerable quantities
Some Of the lead ore is available for the manufae
+ ture Of white lead.
i Dr.. FRANKLIN, by his will, gave thousan,
pounds sterling in money to the city Of Boston, t
\ be kept as 3 fund to assist young mechanics 0
good character in setting up in business for them
i selves. recent report of the city clerk of Bosto
on the state Of this fund discoses the existence
+ only lone bond" for $50, for money loaned to
, mechanic Tho opportunity for loaning to youn
mechanics under the terms Of the will have ceased
| owing to the changes in the manner of conductin
= business.
: SAM EMERSON, of Riverside Park, Cam
bridge, Mass, has matched the celebrated geldin
Capt McGowan to trot twenty.one miles With
the hour, to harness. the race to come of over th
Riverside track, Friday, Nov. 10, good day an
track. The hackers Of the horse put up So, 900 I
o $500. 1t will be remembered that he trotte
v twenty miles last fall in $685. and was not urge
+ in any part Of the race. Hiram Woodruff, nsphe,
of the veteran turfman, will handle the Captain o