The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-10-09

MONSIEUR Blot is in Buffalo.
MESKEY is very i'll in Paris.
GEORGE n. SANDERS is in Paris again, and
looks decidedly seedy.
THE Vermont Legislature will convene at
Montpelier on the 1lth inst.
a SINGLE CoRSFTEr.D in North Carolina pro-
ducss this season 10, 900 bushels.
OxE THOUSAND new buildings have been
put up in Nebraska city this summer
FIFTY THOUSAND pounds Of whalebone were
sold in New Bedford last week.
The Colored Tennesseean, lately published
in Nashville, is dead.
A LONDON LADY has promised Mr. Spur
geon $40, 600 for the foundation of an orphauage.
THE polls close i'll Philadelphia this even.
ing at six o'clock.
MAzzISI is furious over the Italian read
justment with Austria. lie thinks Italy ought to
to have walloped both Austria and France.
CHARLES HoDGsoN, for many years Secre-
tary of the Board of Police Commissioner Tor Chi.
cago, died of cholera in that city last Friday.
TnE two politicians making the most noise
in New York city at the present time are John
Morrssey and Theodore Tilton.
The constitution al amendment has, so far
been ratified by the States of Vermont, Connect.
cut, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Tennessee, and
Oregon.
A MAN named Frazier was arrested at Des
MOines, Iowa, charged with being implicated in a
heavy bank robbery last summer, at Cnmanche, in
Illinois, and in a safe robbery at Rockford III.
A NEG of yeast powder exploded in an ex,
press ONCE at Preeport. Ill, blowing a 40 pound
bar of iron through the ceiling, and seriously in
jurng the express agent.
A VERMONT LADY, SO years OF age, il re.
ported to have read the Bible through in Ave
weeks and four days. without spectacles. She Is
tho champion Bible reader of New England.
CONFEDERATE CArTAIS q. ErNoRR BURGESS,
at Chunnennuggee, Macon county, Ala writes
that he has General McPherson's sword-belt and
is anxious to return it to the proper person. 1t
was picked up the field the day the General foil
Tug story about ex-senator Green, of Mis-
souri, having degsnorated into drunken loafsr, is
contradicted by Missouri papers. Mr.. Green is
said to bo strictly temperate and to have good
legal practice.
The Sultan Of Turkey has received, via
Trebizond. a consignment Of thirty magnificent
Arab horses, of the pursst breed which he intends
it is said, to present to the Emperor Napoleon and
King Victor Emanuel.
A Young MAN in New York, named Geo.
W. Stevenson, recently came into the possession
= n ..,t daa ,F lot hut h. has
lost it all. He fought several battles with the
tiger" and was badly whipped.
A MAN met II big Indian on the plains
a few weeks ago. The gentle savage had q large
bundle Of SC alps, and the white man made bold to
ask him what he bad been doing. "Heugh !" said
the noble red man, ''ms been skirmishing for
waterfalls"
TIE famine in India still rcigns unassuagcd,
and the unfortunate people Of the Valley Of the
Ganges are dying by thousands The correspond.
snts who write from Calcutta tell heart -rendiDg
tales, and in the open country vutures and jack.
as feed almost undisturbed upon the bodies of the
dead.
a MAINE newspaper mentions the case of
young lady who, for two years past has been Ill.,
| and has suffered severe pain, in consequence of
having accidentally swallowed a needle. The per.
nicious and dangerous habit of placing pins and
needles in the mouth should DO rigidly guarded
against.
THE National Reform Union" the chief
political organization OF the reform movement in
England, since its formation in April, 1864, has
been lsboring with great earnestness. It has held
nearly eight hundred reform meetings, and has or.