The national Republican., 1867-01-24
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present year are assessed at seas, ,ool2b.
.THK present Legislature Of New Jersey is
the ninsty-hnt. N
An effort is being made in San Francisco
to abolish the lsgsr beer saloons.
THERE are twenty-four men in New Haven
between sighty.thrse and one hundred years ofsgs.
A SWEET thing on ice-teachipg q sweet
sixteen year old bundle Of calico how 10 skate.
NEw YoRK rejoices in seven citizens whose
collective wealth Is estimated At $3.50, 100000.
THR war between the New York Central
and the Hudson River and Harlem railroads at.
tracts much attention.
Gov. GEARY, Of Penn, accuses President
Lincoln and Gen Grant Of morbid clsmsney and
esnsurabls forbsarsncs' toward the South. i
Tx thousand innocent rats met terrible
death BY the burning Of an old building In Evans
Vile. f.H 's5.
MkS need not fear the bounty Of their
Creator failing them, 90 long as they work In
harmony with His laws.
OK Friday last an explosion occurred at
the east end Of the Hoosae Tunnel, By which one
man, Dennis Kon, was killed and three or four
others more oriess injured.
THr Lynchburg Virginidn says IT is worth
trip from London to hear Lynchburs girl laugh.
Bat who wants TO 60 all the way to Lynehburg TO
be laughed at e. r.r-. -.rw
Tm Richmond Examiner announces that
Msssrs. Kelly and Branch. Of Pstsrsburg, have
purchased an interest In the paper L. o. Wash.
ington. present editor, rstirss. .
Tbs Indiana Legislature has before II q
bin TO make ''boiting" from either House BY any
member, whom . question 10 before u, q misds-
meanor, punishable with 81, 900 dne.
JonS MoRros, an insane dealer in second
hand clothing at saratogs Springs, on Sunday,
fatally shot customer named Michael 0Neil The
ball entered the windpipe and lodged In the
stomach Of the unfortunate victim.
In BosroS during the snow-stormy weather
shystsrs have "dOne" the police BY insulting them
and getting locked up as noisy, drunken persons,
securing in this way comfortable lodgings for the
night
The Lincoln Monument Association now
has $780, 900 in funds, the Illinois Legislature hay.
ing appropriated $50, 900 to the object. The sum
Of 5000 900 is however, still required to carry out
the designs Of the Association.
TIE magistrates in Derbyshire, England,
have just sentenced Jem Mace, Joe GOss and three
other less notorious pugiliss. to q months i'm.
prisonmeut with hard labor, for taking part in q
prire.bght.
CINCINNATI is troubled about its water. A
peculiar favor and bouquet" distinguishes all
the water from the hydrants, attributable TO the
refuse washed down from the slaughter houses by
| r.. ~ f,~ki ah fha mis- fak.
up the supply for the use Of the city.
One Of the members Of the House who
was arrested Tuesday night, for being absent from
his seat, excused himself on the ground that be
had been made sick BY eating oysters and straight
way another abssntins member made excuse, that
he too had eaten ofths same oysters. 0'fn " Y
ALL the sinking fund machinery needed is
that which We applied To the extinction Of our
Mexican war debt. TO wit Authority to tho Treas
ury, whenever II has surplus income, to buy Its
stocks In the market and cancel thsm.-N. y.
Evening POSt.
ACCORDING to the reports from about 500
National Banks for the last quarter, We sec that
about half Of the banks have declared semi annual
dividends Of Eve, sI. eight, ten, and some high
as fifteen per cent, besides carrying from ten to
twenty per cent Of net profit to their surplus funds
liz coSsEouEsCE Of Congress striking out
Of the deficiency bill the clause approprating
$50, 900 for temporary clerks in the Treasury De-
partmsnt, the Secretary Of the Treasury will be
compelled to discharge afty.hve clerks, many Of
them disabled soldiers on or before the 9th Of Feb
ruary next.
As PETROLEUM V. Massey is receiving credit
for several chapters Of the political brochure entitled
"wigwam Junction" tits rumOrsd that the authors
Of that publication intend to get out injunction
against Petrolsum's Swinging around the circle" /"
This promises q lively literary lawsuit.
A GESTLExAY long connected with the FIRE
insurance business said the other day II can take
the register Of losses Of any ere insurance company
long enough established, and tell you, BY the in.
crease Of losses the years In which business was
dull or deranged In this country"
Our FRIEND, the uncommercial traveller,
was asked inquirinsly to-day on the cars II the
hotel propristors In Washington had not "come
down ?" the inquirer adding. by way Of explaua.
tion, I can't stand 4t q day. The rsjoiuder was
I think not, on the contrary quite the rsverse-the
guests have to come dorm.
| ONE OF the recusant members who was
chased by the Sergeant Arms last Tuesday night
| when o ''oall' Of the House was made, was not ut
home when the officer called at his lodgings, but
his wife assured the officer that her husband must
be at the House or some other good place, for he
| had not returned home"
TIE New Hampshire Patriot describes
Mr.. Hartman, the Republican candidate for Gov.
ernor as "a priest without parish lawyer with
out . client, and 4 farmer without farm--always
having an eye to the best available othce. and
prosecuting his purposes with artful and tirele's
| labor"
BLAcK-BAND IRON Is an article which has
hitherto been almost exclusively imported from
| Scotland. But recently 4 strata three feet thick
has been discovered in the hrst southern nnthrA
cite coal field, and traced over of hundred
miles The discOvsry'has made great excitement
| In portions Of Pennsylvania.
THoUGH a gentleman in New York had
buttoned his Overcoat up to his neck, a valuable
gold watch was taken from pocket in his vest,
and his pOrtemOnae was stolen from his pantaloOnS
pocket. So carefully had the thieves done their
work that there had not been conveyed to him the
.it,ht..t that hia oyaFcoat was