The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1867-10-15
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A COLONY Of English farmers Is expected in |
Tennessee.
SENATOR WILSON denounced rum on Saturday
last at Pittsheld, Massachusetts,.
PETROLEUM ia now used as fuel by tho steam
are engines Of Boston.
AGAssn says the Florida reefs were 70,
years in building.
TnE Dismal Swamp canal Is undergoing .
survey, and presents a melancholy spectacle.
CHESTNUT RoAsrERs have made their appear.
ance on the Avenue.
ENGLAND has paid out already more than
81, 900, 900 on the iron.clad Northumberland.
The weather prophets of Europe are predict.
ing severe winter.
Mrs. HARRIEr BEEcHER STowE's new novel
will not DO published till spring. 1t is to DO
called "old Town Folks"
A FREScu agriculturist is writing on the
value Of nettle. Probably Louis Napoleon
doesn't see 1t.
TuE Unireysalia reports that Rev. miss"
A. j. Chaplin has been called to the pastorate Of
the church at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
HEcLAi "erupting." and on SO extensive q
scale that men are almost sutfocating by its
smoke at the distance of forty leagues
The next "Chrstmas story" in Al the Year
Round will be written by Charles Dickens and
wilkie Collins.
The Whitlatch Union" mine, one Of the
richest leads in Montana, has just been sold to
General Sol. Meredith and others for $3.50, 900.
Poetry doesn't pay in America. Julia Ward
Howe received only S. for her famous Battle
Hymn of the Republic"
INTELLIGENCE has been received from China
that the rebels are meeting with success, and
seriously threaten the city Of Pekin.
The tanners in Japan are prescribed In so.
ciety. No other classes will associate or inter.
marry with them.
II a good thing to have utility and beauty
combined, as the poor washer-wOman said when
she used her thirteen children for clothes. pins.
TnE T,iJWne's critic, speaking of Ristori In
Alferi's tragedy, says, atrOciously, that sh,
"held the Myrrha up to nature"
REV. ALBERT BARNES, of Philadelphia, hal
been compelled to abandon all work and study,
in order to save himself from total blindness.
BOYS of Machias, Me, dll old rum bottIe
with water, seal them up, and sell them on tn,
sly for pure Red Eye"
SHERIDAN kissed a little girl at West Brook
0 field, and remarked that That's the size to d,
II; the other siEe WON'T
A PRINTER in TEXAS, whose FIRST son happsne,
to DO n very short little fellow, named hin
J Brewer Fullface Jones.
The Hub" is nothing If not poetical. It ha
a crooked street named after Tonnyson, the poe
laureate.
BISHOP SIMPSON prOgnOstiOatod " The Futur
Of Our Country" at Chicago last saturda,
night,
ONE hundred and nineteen thousand bushsl
of wheat, valued at nearly $3.50, 900, have beef
4 forwarded east by single firm at Alton, Ill,
a since the middle Of July.
a JUDGES BLACKBURN and MellOr have beef
appointed by the English Crown to sit as a spe
eial commission for the trial Of the persons i'm
+ plicated in the riot at Manchester
An exchange inquiries, would Powers eve
have thought Of chis6lng his statue of the Gresl
slave with a cAlgnon'" U'cOurso not; he ehlseIe,
her out of it,
TIE Howe sewing machine factory at Bridge
port, c., will probably be operated under tn,
superintendeneo Of Simeon A. Howe, son O
Elias Howe, j., deceased.