The national Republican., 1867-08-21

ing ticket: For President, Ulysses s. Grant, Of
the Apple Tree, near AppomattOx Court House.
The Manchester Mirror says that during
the month ending on the 10th inst. fourteen
and one.tenth inches Of rain fell In that city.
GEORGE PEABODY has lately given $4,000
each 10 the Peabody and Holtsn High Schools at
Danvers. the income Of which is to be used for
giving medals and prizes to the pupils.
A CRICKET CLUB Of New York is en-.
gagged in q match game with Boston club at
Hoboksn. Thus far the game seems to be about
equal.
The Turkish Minister, Blaeque Bey, will
be presented to tho President on Friday. He
visited the State Department yesterday and had
an interview with Mr.. Seward.
RECONSTRUCTION under the military bill
does not look very hopeful in Georgia. A good
deal Of opposition Is manifested, particularly
among the leaders.
A MAN named George Anderson COM
mitted suicide at the Tontine Hotel, West street,
New York, on Monday. Deceased was about
thirty years Of ago.
An attempt was made to swindle the
Market National Bank, New York, BY means Of
check altered from $40. so to sS,OOo.So The
check bore the signature Of Mr.. Owen Brennan
The Connecticut river, at Hartford, rose
twelve feet during the recent storm, and at that
height the floods from the Vermont and New
Hampshire feeders were not counted in.
WHILE the complaint Of two much
dampue,s is current here, the people Of Ohio are
grumblins because Of an unusually protractcd
drought.
The only place on this continent where
the famous Egyptian lotus grows naturally Is in
pond In Middlesex county, Connecticut How
II 6rst came there Is 4 mystery to naturalists'
W. +. CooLBAUGn, president Of the
Uniot National Bank at Chicago, and one Of the
bondsmen Of the late Postmaster Gilmore has
been sworn in as acting postmaster at chi'agO.
7nE astronomers calculate that Jupiter's
satellites, four in number, will be invisible to
day in many parts Of the world. As that planet
Is now below the horizon the phenomenon will
not be observed in the United States.
THREE miners were killed and several
others were injured at Cliff Mine, Lake Superior,
on the I'd, by the breaking Of n connecting rod
In the machinery for letting down md bringing
up the men.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the st. Paul Press
urges the farmers af Minnesota to form associa-
tions in each county for the purpose Of keeping
up the price Of wheat to at least $l.sO per
bushel.
JOHN BULL states that Lady Dudley's
house was left in q fearfully dirty state by her
Eastern visitors; but 1t is said that the Viceroy
gave her ladyship necklace Of diamonds worth
E2O, 900, to add to her large stock Of jewels.
DTuE Emperor Napoleon and Eugene
are sojourning for a few days at salrburg, where
they are feted and honored in an enthusiastic
manner. Francis Joseph and Napoleon took
stroll arm .and.arm day or two since.
An omnibus filed with adults and. chill
dren on Its way to apic-nic, in the neighbor.
hood Of St. Louis, vas upset on an embankment
and precipitated down q steep place some thirty
feet All we're more or less injured.
A GENTLEMAN living in Greene county,
| Ala, has offered his entire crop Of corn for
thirty. five cents bushsl in the field and II is
said that any amount Of corn can be engaged In
the oansbrake region at fifty cents bushel.
GEN. GRANT is reducing the force in the
war Office, and will soon give up some Of the
outside buildings now occupied by the Govern
ment, and transfer the labOrs done there In the
war office proper.
The Strasburg journals state that IN Or
der for one hundred and eighty thousand Chase
pot muskets has been given to the arms manu-
factory at Mutrig, in the vicinity Of that city.
They are to be delivered in three years-sixty
thousand per annum.
The Labor Congress at Chicago bids
fair, SO far as numbers are concerned, to be n
success. 1t Is expected that much light will be
thrown upon the subject and that thorough
organization will be effected throughout the
| country.
The Emperor Napol con has given his
Judgment in favor of the Mccormick reaper.
He has been pleased to say that ho will employ
this machine on all the imperial farms in France.
Mr.. Mccormick will be awarded the highest
h0nOfb OF the ExnipitiOu
1t is thought that the meeting of the
two Emperors, Napoleon and Francis Joseph,
means something more than simple interview
to condole with each other over the death Of
Maximilian. It means an alliance, SO 1t il
thought,
The visitors at Mt. Desert, Me-, have
made a contribution of 5000 to Captain Royal
Higgins for his bravery and humanity in saving
the life Of Miss Blake at the peril Of his own, on
the occasion Of the recent sail.boat disaster at
that place.
MASONIC LODGES have been closed in
Austria since 1874. An attempt to procure the
reopening of them in IsI9 failed. The Vienna
Masons are said to be at present endeayoring to
obtain an authorization to recOnstituto the
former lodge Of that city.
MuLARD FILLMORE lives in very de.
lightful way in Buffalo. He has IN elegant home
where he spends portion Of the day in reading.
Several hours of each day he spends most faith.
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