The national Republican., 1866-10-19
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

The vines OF California are loaded down
with fruit Of unusual sise and sweetness.
AN English butcher has invented decimal
calculation on . new principle.
ENGLAND feels relieved at newly discovered
coal mines.
A LONDON shorthand writer has invented
. machine by which crusts Of bread can be turned
into -four.
The. Hon. Charles Cook died at the resi-
dsncs Of Gen Creddoli, in Auburn, N. Y, on tho
10th, Of apopexy in the sixty sixth year Of his age
OuR neighbor, the Intell,gencer, contem-
plates issuing weekly edition Of their paper. The
arst number will be issued In . few weeks.
A YOUNG MAN is around town boosting
that he drew 6ny cents worth Of dollar jewelry
from the Vincent and Buttericld lottery, but his
statement is generally disbelieved.
VINCENT, BUrrERFIELD & Co.'S wheel from
which the blanks were drawn in their late lottery
has been deposited in a bar-room. It was, no
doubt, the wheel of fortune to ", B. Co.
Rev. Z. d. KINNEY, of Darien, Ct,
preaohsd his eight thousandth sermon August IL.
He is the champion beater Of the drum eocesias.
tic" In the wooden.nutmsg State.
The names of the Japanese merchant
princes, j. NADIA and l. Nagia, were spelled
wrongly in our paper yesterday Well, a Jsponica
by any other name would smell Is sweet.
The Jesuit Father Leboucq has been dec
orated by tho Emperor Of China with "the star Of
precious gold with blue pearls" for eminent ser.
vices rendered to the Chinese army in the late war
against the rebels.
THE annexation of Venetia to Italy is to
be marked at Venice by the reopening Of tho Ven.
ice Theatre, which has boon so long closed The
director of La Scala, at Milan, has undertaken to
arrange the first twelve performances.
LETTERS from Saragossa, Spain, state that
fifty -four persons Of various classes have just been
arrested to be transported to the Philippines or
Fernando Po. These unfortunstes are said to be
treated like condemned criminals.
WHEY Sherman was in Toronto reporter
sided up to him and said: Gen. Sherman, will
you ave the kindness to give me your views hon the
Fenian question:" go to b." was the an.
| swer.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that the cotton pads used as falst
bosoms by the ladies are taxable. II will be diff
cult for the manufacturers Of these articles to set
"the milk In the cocoanut."
The Agricultural Fair at st. Louis, Mo.
closed on Saturday, the 9Th, with grand frolic o
the boys in the arena ponies Tho association
offered prize of $25 for the best rider under foul
years. and $40 for the second best, on ponies.
The new Monadnock Mountain House, a
Troy, n H. was recently destroyed BY fire. Til,
house was situated Ave miles from Troy village, a
the foot of the mountain. 1t had accommodation
for about $50 guests.
GEN. ID. Z. OsBAND, formerly Of Chicago, I
we'll. known cavalry leader in the late war, died q
his plantation in Mississippi, on the 4th instant,
brain fever His disease was induced BY over-exer
tion in attending to negroes Of his plantation at
tackled with cholera.
In FRANCE they are expecting the end
the world. Even the sceptics according to th
Paris correspondent of the London Starr are begin
ming to talk in a religious strain of "signs an
tokens;'' but their newly found religion takes
r very gloomy color.
IL secret organizations go on controlling
Republican nominations and defeating every can
didste who voted against the crude bounty bill las
year, the people at large may be obliged to vot
independent tickets, and thus secure the rstur
of the best men to the Legislature. Tran
,enpt.
A NUMBER OF WEALTHY IsRAELITEs at New
Orleans are forming society for the establishment
of schools for their children and the endowment o
q seminary Of learning In the State. They hav
organised under the name of tho Hebrew Educa
| Al of T. Th. hat D..
and constitution is ready for the signatures of a
Israslitss in the State.
Miss KATE JOSEPHINE BArEMAN, the well
known actress who suddenly gave up her theatres
engagements after the late brief season at Niblo',
was married on Saturday last at St. Luke's church
in Brooklyn, to George Grove, NJ. D., young ply
sician of London. We presume this may be cor
strued into a farewell to the stage.
The Ceylon papers state that as soon q
the Atlantic cable was laid captain of a ship VIII
arrived at Psint do Gale telsgraphsd to th
: owner at New York, through the agents in Londol
, but the answer was sent direct from New York
Gale. The distance which the telegram and repl
travelled was twenty thousand miles, and the oo
was $3.50.
THEODORE DWIGHT died at his house
: Brooklyn, Tuesday, aged seventy years. He wi
h the son of the late Hon. Theodore Dwight TO
merly member of Congress from Connecticut, ar
afterwards for many years editor of the Daily Al
vertiser, in New York. He was graduated at Va
= College in 1914, in the largest class that had
left that college.
s A NEW DODGE was lately attempted on
II countrymsn in philadelphia. He asked
e give two "fves for ten, which he did, rolling
v the ten with the rest of his money and putting
in his pocket. He afterwards discovered that
dne black silk thread was fastened to the ten, n
hung out of his pocket by the means Of which thu
4 expected to pull out the whole Of his bills, but
u didn't work
!, We SUPPOSE it is all right, says the Ne'
,, buryport Herald, but the knowing ones did laui
y the other day, to see returned soldier pay a Ii
n. insurance agent for a irst-class tperfect hsat
n, policy, with money he had received only the d
before from the seleotmen Of his town as State al
in consideration of his being completely brok
of down with complication Of half the ills that ae
j. is heir to- oil of which he contracted 'in the Ii
e, of his duty
e. MADAME DE LAVE and her son gave