The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-11-28
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York from California.
Gen, Van Valkenburg, our minister
to Japan, has orriyed at Ieddo'
"Lettcrs from IIell,'is actually the
title Of London publication.
John Mitchell who lately returned
from Europe, is now in Richmond
The lumber business in Maine has
been unusually prosperous this season.
They talk of introducing chloroform
into the New York slaughter houses.
The York river (Va,,) railroad is now
progressing finely toward completion
Anew novel by Bulwcr is published.
It's title is, "WeIcomo, Little Stranger y
Prof. Harris, OF the Bangor Seminary,
has been elected president of Bowdoln
College.
The freedmen Of Middle Tennessee
are refusing to make contracts for the
coming year
At the election in Frederick county,
Md, on the 9th inst, there were l45
rejected voters.
The North Carolina Legislature will
assemble at Raleigh on Monday next,
November 20. ISL
The Cornerstone OF the new Catholic
cathedral was lay in Columbus, Ohio,
on Sunday.
There are III Baptist. churches in the
State OF Connenti:ut, with total men-
bership OF $4,000.
John Bradley, for a long time con
ncctcd with the railroad interests III YER
mont, died at Rutland last Sunday.
Dan. Bryant, a very popular Irish
commedian, is attracting large audience,
at tho Arch Street Theatre, Philadel
phia.
Col. w. H. Taylor, who has been np
pointed postmaster at Cincinnati, is a
son in-law Of the late president Harri e
son.
A man has been arrested in Albany
for collecting money for the benefit OF Il
church, aud repairing his own house
withit.
1t is stated that Hon. John Hogan
will contest the election CT Gen. Pile. in
the first congressional district Of Mis-
souri,.
The Moosic Powder Mill, near Car-
bondalc, Pa, blew up OH the evening OF
the 5th inst. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
II. ID Marshall. proprietor Of Smith
field Hotel, Isle Of Wright county, Va,
diel last week from an attack Of cholera
Nearly twenty thousand boxes oI
eggs, containing one hundred dozen
each, have been sunt from Maine to
Boston this year.
Last year 40o,0 900 vessels cleared aud
entered the ports OF Great Britain, and
only one percent ofthis great multitude
were wrecked.
The people of North East, Eric coun1
ty, have subscribed SIG, 900 and the ne
cessary ground for Methodist Episcopal
seminary,
The New Orleans IriJunc,ln column
of editorial, advocates the election of
General b. f. Butler as President OF the
JT,,tod Stotaa IN 1868
France supports by voluntary contri.
buttons, d, 900 evening schools, employ
ing 80, 900 teachers, and attended by
100000 pupils, mostly adults.
AT Richmond, Ky, tho other day,
meae than twenty men and boys cngag'
ed in street fight, and were all blazing
away with pistols at once.
DR.. Dickson, of Madlea, Delaware
county, Pa, recently discovered near
that place, an almost inexhaustible bed
OF verdi antique or magnetism marble,
The steamer Henry Won Phul, from
St. Louis for New Orleans, with $500
bales of cotton, has been burned near
ponaldsonville. Two lives lost,
Mrs. Jennelio G. Preston, widow Of
the late Rev DAVID II. Preston, was &C
cidentally burned TO death near Lewis.
burg, Greenbier county, Va, on last
Thursday week.
The house at Appoma,ix, in which
General Lee surrendered 10 General
Grant, IL advertised for sale. Some en-.
terprisipg Yankee should buy il and
make it up into canes and snuif'boxes.
Minister Bigelow. Of France, was re-
lieyed at bis own request. lie was
anexious to get back to the quiet Of. bis
library, and to proceed with some liter
ary work he has long had in view.
wBrigham Young is luxuratlng in the
honeymoon Of his forty>fitth bride, Il
beautiful Danish girl Of scvep,cen. lie
has Just lost his twenty-four,h wife, who
was buried without any ceremony OF
even notice of her death.
The President is now without n re
spectacle organ in the country. lie il
praised only by journals which are sub
sidized, while those who advocate hi
cause look asrcgularly for their pay ii
docs shyster lawyer for his fees.
Levi w. Croft, dist,ller Of Lancaster
county, is the owner Of silver watcl