The national Republican., 1866-10-29
Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.

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'PAwrucKEr, r. l., reports l2O cases Of
typhoid fever Ii
SOUTHERN KANSAS is growing cotton with
success.
Two SHILLING BANK NOTES are to be issued
at Rome.
TWENTY RABBITS introduced into Australia
in 1850 have yielded 5000 head for consumption.
Mr.. SuMSER's organ-the Boston Common
tceaih-argues against having any President at all.
FOURTEEN inches Of snow tell in the Lake
Superior mining regions on Friday night last.
Mr. GABRIEI. will be the Lord Mayor Of
London for 1867.
GEN. SLocuM has taken up his residence
in Brooklyn, NY.
YouSo LADIES from "the first families" Of
the State are employed as competitors in Georgia.
The Census Bureau estimates the present
population of this country at $4,000, 900.
THEY are boring for petroleum in Italy.
Why don't they try the Isle, Of Gr.ece
RoBERr TooxBs, of Georgia, is in Paris.
He will return to the United States soon.
FASHIONABLE MARRIAGES in New York keep
Brown, tho dandy sexton Of Grace Church, as busy
as bee.
A WEALTHY PLANTER Of Mississippi is at
Now York urging smigrants to 60 South instead Of
West.
BREvEr MAJOR GENERAL DAVIDSON has
been elected professor Of military science and
tactics in the Kansas State Agricultural College.
JEAN INaELow has written novel which
will be published simultaneously in England and
the United Statcs.
GEN. FITZPATRICK, our Minister to Chill,
rumor has it, will shortly marry an accomplished
chilian lady.
RIsroRIs receipts for the entire perform.
ance Of twenty seven nights in New York amounted
to $50, $40.
The profits of Lord Derby's version of the
"Ind" amount to Fl, $50, and have been invested
as prize for the pupils Of the Wellington College
An impudent writer classifes American
brides as sentimental, speculative, anxious. &C
commodating, unresisting, and iuqusitive."
A QUAcK MEDICINE vENDER out West ad
vsrtises for young man to engage in the sale o
patent medicines, and says that II will provo nd
vantageous to the undertaken. No doubt oft
The author of "The Recreations of 0
Country Parson" has another volume in the press
entitled Sunday Afternoons at the Parish Church
of University City"
DURING q recent food in China two thou
sand persons and an immense herd Of cattle wsr,
drowned. Forty men were killed by the falling o
. wall.
THE prize recently drawn by Col. Chad
wick, Of willard's Hotel, will be on exhibition
within the area of tho hotel tomorrow betwsel
twelve and two p. m.
Mr.. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is said to hav,
been for some years engaged on . novel which |
to be q kind Of American "Wilhelm Msister.
So says an English literary gossipsr.
The police Of the city Of Chicago, on Fri
day last, made descent on thirty six houses Of III
fame and arrested one hundred and eighty Of tn
inmates. The amount netted by fines to the cit
government was over 5000.
The Boston Transcript (ntense radica
paper,) says wendell Phillips course toward
President Lincoln, and his recent coquetry wit
the eight hour movement, have lost him the r,
spect Of many former friends"
y THE lively Paris correspondent of Th
Publishers Circular is Mr.. Osborne, who write
the "sparidion" letters in the Boston Gasst,
s and the Gamma" letters in the New Orlesn
IimsJ
The Toronto Globe says that ex-Senato
Il James NJ Mason, Of Trent notoriety, arrived i
that city with his family on Wednesday, from Nj
, ugara Falls, intending to take up his residence i
Toronto for the winter.
-. l,,o
s. thieves, named Charles Lavsn, Philip wilborn an
It Benz. P. Mutt, jumped overheard from the steam,
Bart Able, on her last trip from Trenton ouachit
Parish, to New Orleans, and were drowned. II
sheriff had chained them together for safe keepn
n during the night. They were probably struck b
the Wheel on reaching the water.