The national Republican., 1867-08-30
Pen. Pencil and Scissors.

The English race on the Islands increa-
ses at the rate Of 1000 per day.
The Paris Exposition building is to come
down next year.
AN irrepressable relic-hunter carried of
Gen. shsrman's hat at Atchinson, Kansas.
Mr.. P. G. PUTNAM is about to publish
three new editions of Irving-one very elegant.
CHIEF JusrrcE CHASE is the guest Of ex-
Governor smyth, at Manchester, N. H.
MISS MAGGIE MrrcHELL's profits for last
year amounted to s16, 900.
The pecan crop this year will be nuts
to Texas.
GEN. SooFIELD is quite i'll of fever near
Hampton, Virginia.
TwEsrr-oSE persons died of yellow fever
on Tuesday in Galveston, Texas.
pride goeth before fall" Generally
before waterfall.
LAURA KEESE left Boston on Wednesday
for Europe.
A LADY died from sea sickness on Lake
Michigan few days ago.
The Hon. Gerritt Smith is visiting his
Boston friends.
ANOTHER whale has been caught in the
ssconnett river, R. I.
THERE is colored boy at Hatfield, Mas
sachusetts, only Q years old, who weighs over
200 pounds.
LIQuoR spies are henceforth to spy with.
out drinking. They have been allowed, pre-.
viously, to get drunk on duty In Connecticut.
Two Detroit slaughtermen are to have
| q trial Of speed in dressing bullock. Stakes,
800.
A THIEF at Long Branch stole $50, 900
in diamonds and money, but disgorged to de.
tectiye.
A WEALTHY citizen shoots his son and
dies in Jail of delrium tremens, is the epitome
Of Dubuque occurrence.
Or THE twenty.four new school directors
recently appointed in New Orleans eight are
cOlored.
Our gun manufacturers have an order
from the Emperor of Russia for 100, 900 Bsrdan
rifles.
The Worcester Spy, which is edited by
Congressman Baldwin, advocates an abolish.
ment of the office Of Vice President.
IT is SAID, on reliable authority, that
there will be more than an average crop Of
grapes in Ohio this season.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, spent some $4,000 going
to the circus Circus.hungry out that way We
should think.
A MAN in Buffalo fred pistol into his
mouth, and 1t is the last morss he will ever put
there, poor soul |
A BLIND colored boy, at Clinton. La,
has taught himself to read by feeling the inscrip
lion upon tomb stones in burial ground.
A JURY composed Of half blacks and hal
whites were empaunslled at Montgomery, Ala,
on Monday last.
In England the ladies have carried of
the lion's-or rather lionesss-share Of the
literary pensions on the civil list.
The Honolulu Advertiser predicts that
within few years a submarine telegraph will be
laid between that city and San Francisco.
GEN. PoPE threatens to close schools and
universities whore boys speak pieces not agree.
able to the Commander of the Third District.
A GAY Lothario, who rejoices in the
name of Fred. Horter, was on Wednesday ar
rested for being toe much married. Two Mrs.
II. s complain.
RECENT advices from Europe state that
the insurrection in Spain4s making some head
way, especially in the province of Arragon. The
rebels hol d tho city Of saragossa.
Our Minister at Constantinople, in an
audience with the Sultan, presented the resolu.
tions passed by Congress in relation to the war
with Gambia.
JONES propounds the following question
in domestic ethics, viz : Can q butcher be said
to be gambler because he is always putting up
steaks
JANE WILLIAMS, finding the society Of
her sistor-in.law disagreeable in their house in
Salem, Indiana, stabbed her dead with a table
knife.
The Bridgeport, Ct, horse railroad COM
pany are putting one horse omnibus cars on their
road. They will seat a dozen persons, and the
driver collects the fare.
THE Boston Post thinks that those who
have been in the habit of making hay while the
sun shines, have had "hard times of it during
the present summer.
CHARLES WOOSTER, the most successful
post office robber and jail breaker in the United
States, is again at large having recently escaped
from the ponitentiary at Pittsburg Pa.
The Prussian papers do not seem to be
very we'll pleased with the Slazburg conference
Some uneasness is felt in certain quarters in
Europe on this account.
THE YELLOW FEVER still prevails in New
Orleans. Fourteen persons died on Monday and
fifteen on Tuesday with the disease. Cyru,
Hamlin, son of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, died
there on Wednesday of the fever
From the publicity given to the arrange.
ments for fight to come of out West at the
close of the week. it is evident that the authori.
ties are in league with the roughs, and meant to
let them alone on purpose.
A GOOD DEAL of excitement prevails in
Nashville, Tenn, in respect to the forthcoming
municipal election. The Republicans have two
candidates and the Conservatives one. The
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