The national Republican., 1867-07-10
NEWS AND MIsCELLANY.

RA1ssKAu1, whose horse received the
pistol ball intended for the Gear, has not
only received q Russian and q French
order Of knighthood, buty he Is to get
title Of nobility, and his wife has been pre-
sented with El2,000 worth OF diamonds
by the Emperor OF Russia. .... =,
HEssr J. CnuRcH, Of Washington, Conn,
Judge Of probate and town clerk, and in
| 1866 representative in the Legislature,
hos. been detected in stealing money, in
sums varying from ten cents to $500 has
acknowledged his guilt, paid 81 800 to his
victims, and left the town. His thefts had
been practiced for more than year.
Tnn Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad
has arranged with the Erie railway and
the Pennsylvania coal company, to indorse
its bonds for seven millions Of dollars.
This sum, with the three millions granted
by the State Of Massachusetts,, will suffice
to complete the unfinished links between
willimantic and Mechanicsville, and be.
tween Waterbury and Fishkill.
DR. +. A. MuHLEsBERG, distinguished
physician Of Lancaster, Penn, died in that
city on Friday last, aged seventy-three
years. lie was for many years president
Of the old Lancaster Bank. In 1852 he
was the Democratic candidate for Con
gress, and was only beaten by q small
majority. Lntterly he has acted with the
Republican party.
Is some Of the counties Of Virginia the
negroes are up to snuff. In one county
Monroe-the commissioners Of revenue
returned the number Of males over twenty
one years Of age at Eve hundred and thirty
seven. In the same county, upward Of
| 200 were registered as voters. II is one
thing to pay taxes and an entirely differ
ent thing to vote. .s
MONEY slips through the fingers like
watermelon seeds, travels without legs,
and flies without wings; but he who digs
in the mines Of wisdom and learns lessons
Of usefulness, finds treasures more price
less than all the gold Of 0phir. Knowl.
along the pathway Of life, lighting up the
road Of the voyage Of time to a happy
hereafter.
A cREosorKD sLEEPER, put down on the
Stockton and Darlington railway in Eng.
land, in August, 1874, was taken up
March IA, 1867, after nearly twenty five
years service. The grain Of the wood
although slightly discolored by creosote,
is as fresh and apparently as tough as
that Of newly.sawed timber, and the odoI
Of creosote is as strong as il the wood had
just been operated upon.
The WIPE POISONING charged upon the
Cornwall Conn., clergyman is thus spoken
Of: A few weeks ago Rev. VIM. ii. Green
Suddenly retired from the firm Of Green a
Smith, and left town. 1t was soon sur
missed that he had poisoned his wife, whc
had died very suddenly few weeks before
Her body was disinterred and taken tc
, New Haven for examination, and arsenic
found in her stomach. A warrant for hi,
arrest was placed in the hands Of Deputy
Sheriff Chauncey E. Baldwin, who, It 4
said, arrested him near Utica last week.
i Bosros is not becoming more moral and
orderly under the prohibitory liquor bill
The Boston Transcript says: The outbreak
Of deeds Of violence on Thursday, was
something remarkable. The accidents
from carelessness and the change in the
weather were numerous, as was to be ex
pected; but the riots, fights, and murder
Z present q puzzling ebullition OF passion
rather difficult to account for. Rum and
rowdyism went together, as usual, maxim,
; disturbance. Still the rule Of disorder wal
! out Of proportion to past experience; ant
, il really seemed as il some special inspira
, tion and fendishness was abroad. Tn,
recreations were abundant; the police wer,
, faithful, and so there was no visible extra
, ordinary cause at work to stimulate mis-
chief Perhaps the excessive heat of th,
, day and Of previous days, had infiamed tn,
brutal in man, and so irritability culmi
! mated in some cases into the fury Of quicl
and ungovernable anger. Certainly tn
, liberty Of the occasion ran wild into license
and nobody who loves peace would care I
see such another Fourth.