The national Republican., 1867-01-30
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Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.
SoNR Of the Southern papers are discussing
the ruinOu, effect, flsrg. farm, to country.
HoaAcK GREKLEy, the negro murderer, has
besn sentenced to be hung on Ii. i'tOf March.
LARoE quantities Of herring are sent to
New York, froIsn together In solid masses, from
the banks Of newfoundland. ~.
TaE extremists in Congress are endeavor.
ing to make that body an inordinats instead Of q
coordinate branch Of the Government :
A. KANoSER, superintendent Of the En-
pirs woolsu Works, at Brooklyn. committed suicide
on Monday afternoon, by hanging himself
A LITTLE boy at Sunday School being
asked, "what was the chief end Of mani" replied,
The end what's got the head on"
A SuNRER Of cases OF smallpox have oc-
CURED at West Ro1bury and Jamaica Plain, near
Boston. .r..
PRETTY red skirts, and black dresses, scol-
lop.d at the bottom-ths black being elevated
about three inches above the rsd-are quite fash.
ionsble Just now.
Miss RosE EYrISeE gives rosy tinge to
the drama Of "GrifRth Gsunt," at Walls Opera
House. by her admirable psrsonstion Of the oharae-
ter Of Kate Peyton.
Gov. GEARY, complaining Of the feeble
ness of the Harrisburg (Pa.) intellect, says that
465 people slept whilst hewas making his inaugural
address In that city.
THE London Athenaum has grown very
cordial in It's tone towards American authors since
tho return Of Mr.. Dixon, a late number containing
very laudatOry notices Of Mr.. Baysrd Taylor, Miss
Alice Carey, and Mrs Elizabeth Aksrs.
DAVID F. MCGILvRAY, formerly Of Palmer,
Mass, now the wel.known Boston auctiOnesr, who
failed for $780, 900 eight or ten years snce paid up
the last cent Of his Indebtedness last week, and
will 20 South in short time, on q health.seeking
tour.
A NUMBER of pictures and other property
belonging to Crosby, Of the Opera House. have
been attached in New York. at the suit Of John
W. Coz, who claims Crosby Is indebted to him in
the sum Of nearly one thousand dollars, for goods
sold him.
THE Rev. George T. Williams, charged
with having picked the pocket Of lady while
riding on Broadway, New York. In Fifth-ayenue
stage, on the I'd Of November last. was committed
for trial by Justice Dodge on Saturday. He was
bailsd In the sum Of 81, 900.
Mr.. CHARLES PoPE surprised the audience
at the National Theatre by his representation Of
the part Of "Belphsgor." This great piece was
never played in Washington until this week. Mr..
Charles Dillon appeared in II one hundred nights
in succession in London.
The Springfield (ohio) Republican says
that II has been ascer tanned by careful measure.
ment that tho average depth Of snow now lying on
the ground in that vicinity, on fair level, Is 1871
inches. or this aggregate. about ten inches came
within the last two or three days. The series Of
layers beneath It is the closely packed accumula
tion Of the previous four weeks.
FREITCHE, the Frenchman arrested on
Thursday on suspicion Of being the murderer Of
tho two old ladies at West Auburn, Me-, and
against whom there were suspicious circumstance
Of almost convincing character, has proved his
whereabouts during the week Of the murder SC
clearly as to establish his innocence. The myste.
| ry Of the murder Is now greater than ever.
A GREAT number Of persons are wllfully
'shufHng Of this mortal coil about this time
On Sunday woman by the name Of Mrs. Lotti,
Martin committed suicide, at q saloon on Unior
street, New Haven, by taking dose Of laudanum
On Monday, in the samo city. woman aged 80
years, named Lyon, boarding at the Trinity Church
Invalid's House, attempted to kill herself BY out
ting her throat She nearly severed tho wind pipe.
but the wound was sewed up, and the woman Is or.
pected to live.
A SAD tragedy has recently occurred in
Cologne. The Baroness Dsslandes, interested In
the we'll known continental banking hrm Of Open
helm 4 Co., became so distracted by the news oi
the sudden and dangerous illness Of favorite child
she had left in Paris, that sho leaped out Of the
window Of her residence, and died Of tho injurisl
received a few days subsequent. Aiter she hat
been taken up from the pavement on which she hat
fallen she said; what have dons' thought
had wings, and that they would take me to my
| children"
The eyeing Of women by women, says the
GALAXY, Is one Of the most offensive manifestation
Of supercillousness now to be met with in society
Few observant persons can have failed TO motto,
the manner In which one woman, who Is not per
fectly wellbred or perfectly kind hearted will ey,
| over another woman who she thinks Is not In sucl
good society, and above ALL not at the time beinl
In so costly dress rs she herIelf Is In II Is don,
evorywhere-at parties, at church, In the street
It Is done by women In all conditions Of life. Tn,
very servant girls learn 1t Of their mistrssses.
TIE friends of Col. Edward Il. Gross, o
the Fifth New Hampshire regiment, who fell a
Gettysburg at the head Of his brigade, have raisst
a monument to bis memory In Lancaster, in tha
State. Col CrOss was printer BY profession, anC
for many years journalist, having been connected
before the war with several prominent newspapers
both in the West and East Hewas one Of the frs
to enlist In the service, having raised and discip
lined the gallant Fifth, which entertained for hin
devoted love bordering on worship. The deceased
participated cOnspicuouSly in the engagements Al
RappahannOck, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, Whit,
Oak Swamp, savage's Station, Yorktown, Malvern
Hill, Fredericksburg, and finally at Gettysburg
where he received his death wound. He was fol
several seasons a Washington correspondent, Ant
was highly esteemed both In military and civil life
easily making aud long preserving sincere and ar
dent friends.
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