The national Republican., 1866-11-17

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AFFAIRS in the dry goods market are as
suming semi.panicky aspect
In WHAT color should friendship be kept?
Inviolate lin violet)
THE largest room in the world-the room
for improvements"
WHAT is that which no one wishes to have,
yet when he has II would be very sorry to lose it,
A bald head.
The Sons Of Malta have reorganizcd in
Memphis Henry Wilson was a member Of that
famous organization in Boston.
A WOMAN who was severely injured by be-
ing DR. aged some thirty feet by q horse car. her
hoop skirt having caught projection Of the step
as she was getting OF, has recovered $4,000 dam.
ages.
A CENSUS has recently been taken Of the
dogs inhabiting Paris. The city possesses 49, ss7
dogs, 35, 900 Of which are pets and II, ,9sG watch
dogs. Paris must be very musical with this barky
roll.
CHARLES De CAVE, n young man employed
as q clerk in the counting-room Of the Now York
Herald, decampsd, taking with him package con-
tanning sl,135.15 in gresnbacks and currency,
which he had abstracted from the safe in the Office.
We have received from Messrs. Philip &
Solomons, "The Race for Wealth." q novel, by
Mrs. J. II. Riddell, author Of Maxwell Drewitt,"
"Phemie Keller" etc. It is one Of Harpers' oil
brary Of Select Novels
A New HAMPSHIRE blacksmith being urged
to bring suit against a calumnious neighbor for
sandsr replied that he could 60 into his shop and
hammer out better character than all the courts
in the State could give him.
THREE hundred cmigrants have sailed from
Liverpool fer Texas direct. About two hundred
and forty of the number arc Scotch agrculturists,
and the remainder from Devonshire, England.
They will make the Texan soil laugh with jolly
harvssts.
A FRENCH BIsHoP, in sermon, recently
administered . philippe to crinoline weares:
"Let women BEWARE" said he, "whils putting on
their profusivo and expensive attire, now narrow
are the gates Of Paradise"
The Legislature of Vermont has passed a
bill making hsbitual drunkenness for q period Of
two years, . sufficient cause for divorce. About q
year and half Of Washington whisky would sep
arats husband from his wife without the aid o
the courts.
TIE Cleveland railroad depot is claimed to
be the largest in the world. 1t is 6O3 feet long
and 1870 in width, and covers m area Of over tive
and half acres. 1t is built Of sandstone, and II
ornamented by a massive tower 90 feet high. Thi
great depot was opened on November TO-
As SENATOR HENRY WILSON and somt
friends wero walking about in Mount AuburI
| \ fter
noon, the body Of man was discovered In one o
the public lots. An investigation showed that h
had committed suicide by taking quantity Of tn
oil Of almonds, His name was Gayer, and he bs
longsd in Boston.
ONE of our contemporaries, in speaking o
Benjamin G. Truman, formerly war correspondent
who has been appointed Special Post Office Agen
for California and the Pacific coast, says: "Ben !
. good looking fellow, and If he has as good sue
cess among the mails as he mas among the females
his appointment will prove an excellent one"
Mr.. JonS GEORGE CHADWICK has been aI
pointed by Gov. Wells a Commissioner to the Uni
versai Exposition in Paris from the State Of Louis
ana, to fill the vacancy created by the death q
Gen. W. II. Palfrey, who was lost on tho Evsnin
Star DR.. La Mott and Messrs Goodrich an
weisse Commi ssioners, also from Louisiana, are q
present in Paris.
DAN RICE had q tusslo with his Sacrc
Cow recently, and got worstsd, Daniel in tn
COW pen Jared harder than Daniel Of old did in tn
lions den. The papers fail to inform us whethe
Dan. was attempting to milk the Hindoo mOOlsy
The cream of the joke, however, was that the COZ
tossed Dan. over the fence. Dan. had better on
gage for his show "the man that butted the bu
off the bridge"
"ISDIANs not taxed" now cannot vote, bu
If universal suffrage should become the rule, VIII
should Indians not taxed" be sxcluded1 Is no
the Indian man and brother2 Is he not 8
warm in his regard for our race that in the West
never let's an opportunity pass to secure lock {
our hair rs memento to be hung in his wigwam
boston Post
Col. NJ. d. MCALIIsrER, chief engineer @
tho Military Division Of the Gulf, has just cor
cluded contract for opening the Southwest Pa,
Of the mouth Of the Mississippi river with some er
tsrprisiDg citizens Of New Orleans. They will US