The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-06-23
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IT is thought the confederation Of the Brit
ish Provinces will be completed in August next.
Mr.. JERoLoExAS is in town. He claims to
be member of the press. He owns cider mill
in New jersey. ..
An outrage-for the police to arrest
Aarons and collyer when they could not be removed
from their beds was adding insult to injury. Of
The Louisville Courier records that two
interesting young ladies were drowned in water
closet. Their bodies recovered and inferred.
THERE are but thirty-three places in Ala
bama aud Mississippi provided with pOstuastsrs
duly appointed and sworn.
The Post Office Department has begun
Government.
GES. RossEAu is candidate for United
States Senator from Kentucky, to succeed Gerrett
Davis.
A MAN in Indiana got divorce from his
wife because she went skating against his wishes.
He concluded to let her slide.
One Of the most desirable prizes to be
rallied for in the Soldiers and Sailors Fair is a
splendid mOckiug bird. He is "a screamer.'
A BILLIARD MATCH for the championship of
Massachusetts, was played by Msssrs. Daniels and
Wilmarth, at Boston, on Wednesday evening.
Daniels was the victor. H g.. .4.
TIE wheat crop in Albemarle county, Va.
tions in the last month, The tobacco, of which a
II. I. Ia. A.. Ill IL
good.
THE oat crop in this sec ton bids fair, at
present. to DO a very large one. The young corn
looks vigorous and is quite promising for this early
In the season. The wheat crop will not yield the
seed that was sown.-ALSrdndria Journal.
IT HAS transpired that DR.. Craven's ac-
count of JET. Davis in Fortress Monroe was not
written by the Doctor at all, but by that enter.
prising Bohemian, Col Halpine, better known a,
Private Miles OR eilley." -...
"WIFE," said married man. looking fol
his boot-j jack, after she In bed II have placer
where keepsl my things. and you ought to know
it" eyes, said She ~ ought to know where you
keep your late hours" -'
A BUCKET factory has been established in
Murfreesboro, Tenn. The company proposes tC
turn out from one hundred and Gfty to two hundred
buckets q day. Practical reconstruction 10 thu
going on throughout the South by the formation o.
new industries. ,. ... .| r.
A THRIFTY young man married rosy
young Irish girl quite to the horror of his mother
and sisters. but defended himself BY the following
logic: AFT marry an American girl must hav,
an Irish girl to take care Of her. and canno
afford to support both"
A PERSON who has recently visited the
Shenandoah valley says It is wonderful to zee thu
profusion Of cattle and poultry in this "dsnudsd
valley, amer the devastation II Is said to have suf
ferOd. Except the absence Of fences in some places
now and then a fertilization or n bu'nt barn, nj
one would suppose an army had been in the valley
One or two years crops will replace all the destrue
tOn that has been made, except loss of ifs
We regret to learn the death, at Glasgow
Scotland. on the goth Of May, Of Henry d, Rogers
Regius Professor of Geology and Natural HstOr.
in the University Of Glasgow, and brother Of Prof
W. B. Rogers, Of Boston. He was born in Phila
dslphia in 1909; early devoted himself to science
was successfully professor in Dickinson College
the University Of PsnnsylvaniS; and was seleete'
to make the geological survey Of Pennsylvania, b
which gigantic work he devoted many years Q
labor and thought ~ ~" IT." ..
TIE income returns for the Third Congress
sionaI District in Massachusetts, show large de
crease from those Of last year, One Of the sho
manufao ursrs Of Nswburyport who returned las
year an inoome Of 49, 900, now hsurss up lOSS o
an equal amount, with eighty thousand pairs o
shoes on hand. The largest income in the distre
is that Of Mr.. Nudge, Of swamPscott, $50. OOC