The national Republican., 1866-07-06
Pen, Pencil, and sciss ors.

Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.
TERRIBLE hot-weather reading" My writ
ings," in MY two newspapers, both daily"
IT HAS Just transpired that the Detroit post
Office was robbed of IS, 900 last September.
Army RArroSs are to be substituted for the
German Diet In Central Europe.
A PRINTER named Tilly was kicked to death
in Cincinnati few evenings ago.
Mrs. Q. says her husband has "joined the
late hour movomsnt," and she don't like 1t.
A THREE hundred pound panther has been
killed at Bayou Sale La. He was pig killing in =
geutlemsn's yard whom shot
WATER melons, very small and very watery,
have appeared in the Baltimore market labeled rs
cents and 81 . pieco. .... .....
CoRISru, which suffered terribly during
the war, is fast recovering from its effects, and
gives strong evidences of prosperity.
IT is said Julie Dean Hayne obtained q
Mormon divorce in Salt Lake City, and married q
man who had got rich 10 Montana
JAMES P. LusE, esq.,, late editor of the La
fayette Ind) Daily Journal, is about to assume
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| MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER has issued orders
for election OF brigade officers in the fret and sec.
ond brigades Massachusetts, militia, to be held on
the 26th Of July.
The Southerners have two hundred and
seventyfvs negroes in the Sabbath schools at Her
nsndo, Miss, Among the teachers in colored Sab
bath schools is Mayor falconsr, of Holly Springs.
| THERE are nineteen brides at Union Hall,
Saratoga, and a correspondent, who speaks Of thei
movements, says: The fact is that these nineteen
couples are too funny for anything, and they know
| it,"
| Col. SHAFFHER, whose experiments with
electricity and explosions have taken 20 much at.
tention lately, is the embodiment Of selfpossssson
We met him yesterday and inquired about the state
Of bis health and feelings, to which he replied
Gan giy.serons." .t", u'
A LADY writer, taking umbrage at the male
criticism of feminine apparel, is down on the
present fashion Of short coats, which she charac.
terises ''unbscoming, ungracsful and impodsst-
presenting to person at all belligsrsnt stsmpta-
tion scarcely to be overlooked"
GEN. SHERMAN made descent into the
Quincy Copper Mines, Lake Superior, the Other
day. He went down on tho ladders, but insisted
on riding up in the skip" OF course his word
was law and he was sent up flying, and came very
near being dumped out on the breaking floor when
he came to the top.
A TORONTO dispatch on Sunday says
There has been an uneasy feeling here for the
last few days on ac,ount of rumors that the Fe.
mans were again quietly concentrating at Buffalo
and the volunteers are still keeping an eye to bust
ness in anticipation of another brush with the
enemy"
The London Times is of the opinion the
the campaign about to open In Northern Italy will
differ from all previous ones, by beginning on the
west at the Minoio, whore those have generally le
of, and by having Its principal field on the south
on the Po. It thinks that Austria will act almost
wholly on the defensive.
TIE Boston Traveller says that the ex.
penses Of copper mining have been reduced more
than those Of any other branch of industry. "Ths
cost sheet Of one of our large mines" II adds,
(which fairly represents others of the loO.tou
class shows a reduction Of nearly 80, 900 month,
or $50, 900 for the first sig months of the year.
And this mine has employed as many hands and
taken out more copper than last year"
THE wife of returned Ohio soldier was
alarmed lest her husband should lose his arm,
which had been badly wounded by . musket ball
but by her careful nursing 1t was saved Eight
months after she gave birth to child one Of whose
arms was perfect, but the other stump similar
to one with which the wife's mind was impressed At
the time the surge were talking about taking Of
her husbands The scar Of the bullet.hoe, SO
visible on the fathers arm, also visible on thu
child's, At the base Of the stump.
Mr.. JAMES PARKER, Of Springfield, Mass,
has just received from friend Indian relic oil
peculiar associations viz: A red clay calumet, OF
pipe Of peace The donor says in his letter: ~ am
pleased to present you with this Indian relic which
I personally received from the renowned warrior
Black Hawk, It was received on the banks Of The
Mississippi, June 25. 1896, thirty years ago." The
calumet Is about four inches In length, with bow
two inches deep, and It weighs half pound.
GEN. JORDAN, chief editor Of the Memphis
appeal, on Saturday challenged M, A. Galloway,
Of the Apaianehs, to mortal combat. The chsl.
lenge was accepted, and the parties repaired ia
fernando, Mississippi, were both were arrested
and placed under bonds. II Is thought the partei
will 20 to Arkansas to settle the difficulty. The
challenge originated from Col Galloway writing q
severe attach sgaiust Col Jordan, on account OF an
article written By the latter to Ha,p0' WsssIy, In
which Jordan blamed JED. Davis for the failure oi
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