The national Republican., 1867-08-07
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at Corpus Christi. ~ |
EroHr persons died in New Orleans last
week of yellow fever, and nino from cholera.
THERE is big rent in incomes in New
York, owing to the fall in house rents.
ELIAS HOWE, jr., has arrived home, but
Is sinking rapidly from " Brishrs disease
WHEN "laid out" Maximilian's corpse
measured six feet three inches.
The principal gymnast at Paris circus
is . large monkey.
JoHN BRoroHAN is drawing crowds to
the New York Olympic Theatre.
THE receipts to the Internal Revenue
yesterday amounted to $445,41l.43.
ENGLISH ladies are adopting the fashion
of wearing belts with small dagger attached.
SECRETARY McCULLocH has been for some
days In Norfolk. He returned to Washington
yesterday.
The Union men Of Louisiana are not
pleased with the threatened removal Of General
Sheridan.
In A fight with lager beer glasses in q
low den in New York, dissolute female was cut
nearly to death.
Mr.. SEWARD returned to Washington
yesterday. His sojourn in Auburn two weeks has
improved his health.
THE dog.killing business in New York is
accomplished by Eve men. They make about
$500 each this season.
| hoe nbo allan nod
. local reporter in St. Louis. Each hopes to
"take down" the other.
A CLERGYMAN who was preaching in New
York State tainted while in his pulpit, when he
was discovered to be n woman.
Two YIEcEs of Gen. Phil. Kearney are to
marry q pair of young English nobs, one Of
them relation Of Waterloo Wellington.
THE practice squadron has left Ports
mouth, England, for the United States. Its
visit abroad has been of short duration.
THE Times says the books in the New
York Metropolitan Library are so filthy that as
a sanitary precautiOn, they ought to be fumi-
gated.
ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT has been "con-
versing' with the President, and makes him say
that he has regarded Grant as IAN indorser Of
his policy all along"
IT Is DENIED that the visit of Napoleon
to Vienna is Of political character. 1t is sim
ply designed as a friendly Interchange of cour-
tesies between the two monarchs.
The INDIANS have made bold dash in
the nsighborhood of Fort Harker, and killed
seven men, employees on the Pacific railroad.
They also run of twenty horses.
A Mr.. HAwxHURsT and John NJ. Bolts
have had difficulty. The former has addressed
q note to Judge Underwood, refusing to serve on
the jury with Mr.. Bolts.
MANY Conservatives in Tennessee are
discharging the freedmen In their employ for
voting the radical ticket. Such acts are pitiabIe
exhibitions Of tyranny.
THE steamship Atlantic, from New Y York,
is telegraphed as in the Thames August 5. The
Hermion was in London, and about to sail for
Bremen. The Acadia was in the Clyde.
IT Is REPORTED that Gen. Fariola con-
fesses his connection with tho Fenians. He Of
fers to turn states evidence, and will reveal
some things to the Government about the Fenian
movements.
Mrs. HARPER, the colored woman who
is said to be almost equal to Anna Dickinson for
her elOqusnco, has recently spoke to a large au.
disnce in the House of Delegates, in Richmond,
Virginia.
The dispatches from the West tell Of
the abundance of the harvests in every direc-
tion. The late heavy rains have done but little
injury. The fruit crop of Western New York
will be larger than usual.
A BOY by the name of Sullivan in New
Haven, on Sunday, stabbed another boy by the
name of cahill with pen knife They were re-
turning from Sunday school, Cahill has since
died, and Sullivan has been arrested.