The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1866-10-10
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So oI"i'Ieio aIe 'an'"S 'ho Pi""o
of lap dogs,
There were $4,000 people at the
New York State fair.
English railways earned 100000,
900 sterling last year
Georgia wants $4,000 bushels of
corn. Call on Minnesota.
In London 'dead.broke'- Wigfall,
Benjamin and Breckenridge. r
"A bale ofnew hops recently sold in
New York for 81 per pound.
Newspaper thieves in Nashville
have been fined seven dollars for the
offense.
An Indiana paper tells ofthe recent
killing of rattlesnake with 40 ratlles
The ex,King ard Queen of Naples
are ahoat, and know not where TO find a
home.
Two and half millions Il year are
to be saved in the Court expenditure OF
Vienna,
In Naples, thirty,four out of eighty
inmates Of female school died in three
hours.
The Springfield Republic1~ thinks
the New England corn crop has worried
through.
-Four men were killed by boiler
explosion at New Milford, Conn. One
WIS thrown 100 feet
The Americans in the Sandwich Is
lanes are IN great fear of the numbering
Chinese coolies there.
Victor Emanuel owns an emerald
SIX inches long, four broad and three
thick-,he largest in the world.
The landlord of the Blue Star Inn,
in Prague, complains that tie King OF
Prussia did not pay his board BILL
AS a general thing, cholera does
not assume n malignant type until the
oldest and best citizens are struck down!
Mr.. Baldwin, the locomotive king,
had thousand men employed in his
works in Philadelphia at the time of bis
death.
There were rs hacks and 1900 or
foot in a negro funeral procession il
Richmond. The men were uniformed
aud carried sabres.
The Queen otNaples has sold pearl:
valued at 10000 crowns to the Princes
Sciarra for $4,000. 1t is said tina. the
Neapolitan royal family inted TO emigrate
to America.
Since the riots in New Orleans many
houses ofthc colored people have beer
entered by the police, and the occupants
threatened with death ifthey refused &c
surrender their arms In some instan.
ces arms which had been paid for by dis
charged soldiers, with the consent Of tn,
Government, have been seized
Lieutenant General Sherman il
visiting the military posts in Colora1,
and New Mexico
The cost of putting the RICHMOND
and Newport News Railroad in running
order is estimated at 81, l,003,GlO.
"A series Of experiments, under tn,
direction Of competent officers, is nov
being made at Fortress Monroe, will
l5>inch guns and rihed ordance.
A dispatch from Mobile sayst that o,
the 2d instant, on the Florida coast, fif
teen miles from land, an island wa
thrown up by volcanic influence to th
height OF ninety toet above the wate
E level. and measuring seventeen hundred
feet IN circumference.
The Pacific slope is beginning t.
yield large surplus of grain. 1t is no
Improbable that this year California vii
have 1909, 900 bushels ofwhea; TO spar,
for expectation.
"A letter dated at Mattoon, Illinois
says: The weather has been beautiful,
clear for several days past. The corr
! crop is doing excelently, a few NOR,
days OF such weather will put it beyond
all danger cf frost, and the farmers arr
antirinating very large yield. ..
--ruE STATES which hold their cleo
tons on November Sixth, are Illinois
New York, Maryland, Michigan, WIS
consin, Massachusetts, Missouri, Min
nesota, Mansas, Delaware, Nevada anc
, New Jersey.
t 1t is estimated that one thousan,
persons have arrived at Galveston ant
Houston, Texas, to escape the pcrsecu
tons of guerrillas in the interior, wht
rob and murder on both sides indiscri
Intimately, for plunder. Affairs through
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