The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-01-15

In. New Jersey the contest for the va
cant Senatorship from that State is warm.
The candidates are Mr.. FreIinghuysen, ap-
pointed by the Governor for the present
session, and Mr.. Cobb, recent convert to
the Union party.
-Heister Clymer, a gentleman who
once ran as Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, is spoken of as the
nominee Of that party for the United States
Senator. Comment is unnecessary.
st. Domingo is developing its industry.
The Danes refuse to become Prussians.
Salt Lake City is infested with gam
blers.
-Forty-fve Popcs have been exiled from
Rome.
John Bright is accused of American
izing England.
The orthodox Jews iu New York pro
pose to erect college.
The French metric system has been
adopted in Austria.
General Grant has been i'll for the last
few days-but nothing serious.
"A Milwaukee butcher found a live
mud turtle in cows stomach.
"A Buffalo revenue collector, sues for
100000 his share of confscated goods
The Girard estate yielded $330,O00
last year and will soon support 1900
orphans.
stephens failed to offer the city of
Dublin as "Christmas gift to the Irish
Republic.
President Juarez gave a grand bali
when he took farewell leave Of the ladies Of
chihuahua.
Chicago has two rolling mills in ac-
tive operation, which do $2,500,000 worth
of business per year.
-Two-tbirds of the thirty thousand wo-
men in New York who are dependent on
daily labor for support are now out of en-
pIoyment.
Mrs. General Williams, formerly Mrs
S. A. Douglas,) is among the observed of
all Observers in Washington society this
winter.
Postmaster General Randall has hired
a house in Washington, and, upon the re-
turn Of Mrs. Randall from Europe, will COM
mence housekeeping.
Portland is being so rapidly sebuilt
that over $75,O00 a week are paid in wa
ges to the mechanics employed on the new
buildings which are being erected in the
burnt district,
"A call is issued for q State Republi-
can Convention, to meet at Nashville, Feb
ruary %, 1867, to nominate canidate for
Governor, and express the views of uDcon-
ditional Union men.
1t is said that A T Stewart, of New
York, who is believed to be the richest man
in America, is about to retire from active
business, and devote himself to taking care
OF his property.
-"Where are you going so FAST Mr..
SMITH" demanded Mr.. Jones' "Home, sir,
home; don't detain me; have just bought
my wife new bonnet, and | must deliver
it before the fashions changes"
Savannah, Georgia,is becoming North
ernized. Very many New England men
are settling there-engaging in commerce,
numbering. &C., and, it is said, are well
treated by the natives.
Mr.. J. w. Harris, Of Carroll county,
Ohio, was chloroformed, gagged, tied and
robbed of S6,750 in his house few days
since, by gang of ruffians, for whoes cap
ture a reward of $4,000 is offered,
Capitalists in ST. Louis have plan
for building a supurban town some four
miles from that city. They propose to-
build five hundred dwellings, with street
railroad, and provide for gas and water
supplies.
"A lady visited Petersburg last week
for the purpose of purchasing her wedding
trousseau, and while there also purchased
tomb stone to be placed over the grave of
her late husband. The old and the new
love.
-"ShaIl ladies have votes?" asked
stump speaker "Certainly, replied strong
minded woman in the audience. IS wo-
man made only to sew on buttons? And,
if she is, it is against the law of nature to
turn away the needle from the poll"
The trial of George W. Gayle, the
Alabamian charged with incitelng the
murder of the late lamented Lincoln, by an
advertisement offering a reward for his
body has been.commenced in Montgomery,
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