The national Republican., 1867-05-02
Pen, pencil, and scissors.

Pen, Pencil, and Scissors.
THE.xeceipts from internal revenue yes
terday mounted 10 $500, ,sO2.9s.
The police force Of London numbers
=, ,6Is men. - 5a- .
THREE men convicted Of murder were
hung at cineinnati on Tuesday. r..
LATER Apv1cKs from Fort Rice and Gen.
sury make no reference TO the reported massacre
at Fort BufOrd.
A COUPLE Of fools fought duel in Ken
tucky, April 80, but took care not to hurt one
another. 10 .. iFa
NINE MEN were fined $l0O apiece in
Boston on Saturday, for being engaged in the
lottery buiness.
THE pews in DR.. Todd's church at Pitts
field, Massachusetts,, were rented on Monday for
81, 800, Of which 81, 800 were paid in premiums
SAN ANTONIO has ceded to the United
States the ground near tho city used as burial
place for the military.
GEN THOMAS has appointed military
board Of survey to visit Southern battls.hslds,
make plans. sketches, &c.
An old German in indianapolis boils
up dead dogs TO obtain an oil which Ia considered
specific for Group in children.
INSURANCE has been effected upon the
Paris Exhibition building to the amount Of seven
and half million Of francs
A mob at Seymour, Indiana, on Mon
day, hung q negro whom they suspected Of
robbery. -.
CAIIFoRSIA has sent an additional con-
tributiOn Of 757 in gold for the relief Of south
ern destitutiOn, making total contribution Of
$45, ,757 in gold.
IT IS NOW stated that Judge W. D. Kelly
has given up the plan Of following Senator VIII
son in a lecturing tour down South, and that he
will 20 directly to New Orleans.
DR.. JARED LISsLY, Of New York, has
recently given 80, 900 to Yale College, to bs used
In purchasing works in the modern European
languages for the college library.
A SHARP street peddler in Boston calls
attention to the brass crook puzzle by crying out
" Hore you have George Peabody's puzzle, only
ten cents.'
The committee Of investigation into the
affairs Of tho Pennsylvania Central railroad have
made very favorable report, strongly approving
Of its management and policy.
MCCALL, the absconding treasurer Of
SANTA Clara county, California, was arrested in
San Francisco on Sunday. Eighteen thousand
dollars Of the public money was recovered.
A Five YEARS OLD son Of Barney Thomp-
son, of West Orange, New York, was caught in
the gearing of some machinery in his fathers
shop, on the goth, and fatally injured.
The streetcar difficulty in Richmond has
been settled by running four cars for both whites
and blacks, and two cars exclusively for ladies.
The company only have six cars.
| PASrHERs and wolves driven out Of the
swamps by the overaowed rivera are becoming
dangerous in the hill land Of Jefferson county,
Mississippi.
THE city of Binghampton held its first
charter election on Monday, whom Mr.. Abel
Bennett, the Union Republican candidate, was
elected Mayor By 139 majority. The Common
Council Is largely Republican.
A. M. BENEDICT, late clerk Of the Penn
sylvania House Of Representatives and Secretary
Of the Republican State Central Committee, died
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penny paper in the United States.
| wELI-ExEoUrED counterfeit hfty-cent
currency has been put in circulation In Philadel
lphis. Tho engraving on the faoe Of the note Il
excellent. Tho diverse Is slightly blurred. The
notes arc one.eighth of IN inch narrower than the
genuine.
The Red River Indians have invited the
Prince Of Wales TO visit them and 60 4 hunting.
They tempt him to come by saying: "our old
men will show you their medals which they re.
csived for being faithful to the father Of your
great mother"
WHILE the brig Crocus, from New York
for Boston, was entering tho harbOr of Holme,
Hole, on Saturday, and when off West Chop, Q
seaman named g. J. Stewart, WAS knocked over
board by the stsysail sheet nd drowned. His
body was washed ashore Monday morning.
A FARMER wrote as follows to u distin,
guished scientific agrculturist, to whom he fell
under obligations for introducing . variety o.
swine: Respected sir-I won't yesterday to th'
cattle show. I found several pigs Of your spe.
clos. There was 4 great variety Of hogs, and
was s'tonished at not seeing you there"
The various Conferences Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South have voted on two
propositions: that the name Of the church should
DO changed, and that there should be lay repre-
sentation in the various conferences. On the
first question, 1,l6s Of the clergy and !, 100 Of
the lay delegates voted aye and 400 Of the clergy
and 81 of lay representatives voted no. As a
three -fouri:hs vote was required, the proposition
was defeated. The movement for lay represon.
tation was, however, carried.