The national Republican., 1867-08-26
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES are held N the Bar
stcsa Open House. -. ~ a 8 4
.Y JEFF. Dam weighs lao pounds at last
accounts. III ~ IL
Tns yellow fever has broken out atPen-
Iacols, Fh.
"a A MORMON with only four wives has
gone to the White Mountains.
Irfs said that the Indians never scalp
the negro troops.
THERE are 222 Congregational churches
in the State Of Illinois. with . total membership
Of 10, 363, an increase Of l, 722 over last year.
p, THE Denver Ne,cs Of the 7th tells us
thai the cholera is raging among the Seminole
indians.
CLAM bakes are now called "clam Sc
ancss'' by tho rose.tinted eIquisits'. What
nsIt'
"a SLICE or LUCK" is the name Of q new
drama brought out al the Hub, and the Hub
bites rejoice at its success.
OUR New York exchanges report that
business has been very brisk there during the
past week.
An oleaginous youth is writing q novel
with Oil City as tho scene. He should sntitls
II "Alps well that ends we'll"
A DISPUTE about which way the figure
Of carpet should run, postponed \ marriage In
Hsrtfork last week.
A RELIGIOUS newspaper calls camp
Al. ~ af akRta
tianity
ACCORDING to recent gossip jthe Prince
Of Wales has beon scolding his royal mother for
her weakness, for Brown.
PRENTICE advised friend to send him
some promised game chickens by Hatche's EI-
press.
The story that guerilla Quantrell is
living in Mexico Is denied, and II Is positively
asserted that he died in 1854 in Louisville.
lKTHE old homestead Of Ethan Allen still
stands in the village Of Bennington Centre, Yer.
mont. 1t is suggested that Congress buy 1t and
take care Of II.
TIE grounds where stood the former
residence of ]. FenimOre Cooper, at oOOpers.
town, are in q sad state Of neglect, oVsrgrOwn
with weeds and riotouS bushes.
The receipts Of wheat in Chicago are
quadruple the amount at this time last year. 1t
will require more currency to move the crop than
ever before, for 1t is immense.
Two HUNDRED Poles recalled from exile
have arrived at St. Petersburg. And q full
cargo Of poles arrived at AlsxAndris on Saturday
last on the schooner II. R. Tracy.
PARIS is q wicked city. It has 250,000
women who should be married but are not bs.
sides fifty thousand licensed and unlicensed
nynphs du pave. E
ST.. LOUIS is looming up. 1t has 2s0
miles Of streets. 73 miles Of sewers so miles Of
water-pipes, SO miles Of gas main pips', and 80
miles Of street railroad.
AN Iowa newspaper declares upon its
honor" that II knows Of six months babe
that said the other day to Its mother, "Give me
a drink Of water"
IT is said that seven thousand New
Yorker. wear false eyes, and 1t is rumored that
false tongues exist outside Of those known Is
cOrporatiOn officials.
Miss LEO HUDSON, whose style Of dress
outstrips Msnkin, If possible, is to play a star
engagement at St. Petersburg this winter.
Rather a cold climate, we should judge.
A BOY in Hartford walked out Of q third
story window in his sleep the other night. He
walked up in surprise to find that he wa, not
killed.
LONDON sent to n neighboring fair re-
Gently delegation of over two hundred noted
pickpoekots and they were only one division Of
the grand army that occupies that city.
A NEW York pickpocket offered to bet
the judge who sentenced him two to one that he
would BE- released before his time was up. De.
cidedly cool
A THUNDER storm in Galveston, Texas,
recently killed several fever patients, and the
churches have stopped tolling their bells as
noises arc frequently fatal.
SPEAKER CoLFAx and party, says q
Western exchange, arrived in Chicago on
| Wednesday, en- route for Lake Superior. Mr..
Colfax is spoken Of as looking quite hearty and
recuperated.
The New York papers speak Of the
"COming horse" An unframed stallion from
the far West, a square trottsr'' that has made
his mile in 2:22i. That great team, Bonner and
Dexter, must look to their laurels.
THE hundredth birthday Of Mrs. Eunice
Munger was celebrated on August IS, near
Piqua, Ohio. She is the widow Of Edmund
Munger, who served as brigadier In the war Of
1912.
From April to August l ffty-eight
sovereigns and princes royal paid their respects
in person to the master of the Tuileries. Fifteen
years ago he was a snob and parvenm in royal
eyes. Nothing succeeds like success.
The weakness many people have for ex-
changing poor umbrellas for good ones, is one Of
the unexplained phenOmenas of the human
mind-assisted slightly at given stage Of the
process by the human hand.
They unveil the statue Of Edwin Forrest,
as COriOlanuS, to-day in Boston. Some Of the
indefatgable reporters Of the Boston p ress have
had a sly peep at it under the canvass, and 60