The national Republican., 1867-07-17
News and Miscellany.

lHERb ure one nunureu anu seventeen
places ofpublic worship in Boston.
TIE North British Review compliments
Longfellow very highly. and considers him
the leading poet Of ofAmerica,
A FRIEND says that the making Of
strawberry short cake is putting nice fruit
to poor use; setting rubies in paste.
LAWRENCE Is enjoying q series Of out-of
door-free evening concerts, and expects
to have horse railroad, soon.
The champion base ball club Of Connec-
the champion clubs Of Massachusetts,.
/ The Connecticut State Senate has, by
very decisive vote, determined to make no
change in the State law Of divorce.
BUFFALO Is to have State Normal
School, the seventh in the State Of New
York.
WoRK has been commenced upon about
one thousand new buildings, in New Y York,
within five or six months.
It is thought that Barnum, the Con-
gresham elect from Connecticut, will re-
sign rather than have the charges Of elec-
tion frauds Investigated. 0....
The Sacramento Union announces that
work on the new Capitol Of California has
been resumed, The iron girders have ar
rived from Philadelphia.
IT Is SAID that in some parts of Rhode
Island the grass is so heavy that, when
mown, il is necessary to remove II 10
other fields for drying.
The rumsellers' league excludes "un-
worthy persons" from membership-mean-
ing, we pIssnrse, persons who do not pa
tronize them.
A Prize Of Sl00 offered by II. Rives
Pollard Of Richmond for poem has been
awarded to Paul ii. Hayne Of Georgia, for
poem upon "The deeds, valor and sac
rifces Of the Confederate soldiers"
BUSINESS in Montana is reported very
dull, the market being overstocked and
prices very low. No Indian troubles are
reported, but it was feared emigrants
would be attacked by the Cheyennes.
MATILDA WEBSTER, a colored woman, is
now on trial in Wyandotte, Kansas, for
the murder Of Michael O'Marrah, June 8,
for which two colored men were hung by
mob.
The Yale Courant, published by the
Yale students, is dead, and is succeeded by
larger and handsomer sheet-The Col
lege Comant- under the same manage
meut.
WHEN an Irishwoman applied for relief
at Portland, the committee asked, "How
many children have you?" "Six, yer
honor" "How old is the youngest?'
"Me youngest is dead, yer honor. but I've
had another SINCE"
THERE is French machine in the ex'
position that takes in chopped tobacco
and turns out cigarettes at the rate oil
sixty minute the year round, ringing q
!; signal bell as often as there not enough to
put in package. These machines, about
half yard square, make saving Of TO-
100000 francs year.
, The NetU Hampshire Statesman says
,, the per diem and mileage Of the State
: Legislature is regarded not as compensa
tion, but as subsistence while in the pub
lie service; for if it is regarded as compen
| sation, then the services Of some member
ore very inadequately compensated whit
. scme others could earn no more III 81
!, much at their usual avocations at home
). THE WIFE POISONING charged upon tn
. Cornwall (Conp. clergyman is thus spokei
! of: A few weeks ago Rev. VIM. Ii. Greer
4 suddenly retired from the firm Of Green
+ Smith, and left town. II was soon sur
' missed that he had poisoned his wife, wit
I had died very suddenly few weeks before
Her body was disinterred and taken I,
, New Haven for examination, and arseni,
found in her stomach. A warrant for hi
) arrest was placed in the hands Of Deputy
, Sheriff Chauncey Il. Baldwin, who, it il
o said, arrested him near Utica last week.
2 A CORRESPONDENT, speaking Of the vic
. lent death of the Austrian Archduk
Maximilian, remarks that many of his rel
Il atives appear to have suffered grieyou
}. blows OF fortune. The Princess Charlotte
= wife of Leopold, died in childbirth. Hi
a daughter married the Duke Of Orleans
!, who was killed by fall from a cab. Thei
}. children were expelled from the throne Q
rs France. The Princess Carlotta is crazet
B. Marie Antoinette was executed. Mari
,, D Louisa was expelled from France. A
u =. archduchess was lately burned to deatt
~ Y Evening Post.
Al An aged ecclesiastic presented himse
IN u WtCh ukO w thN SbthSuiui VI %h'tbaoA
~ and asked if an old black chasuble, whic
Of he described minutely, was still in exi
T. tence. The sacristan recognized the rob
!. by the particulars given, and produced
N from the vestry; whereupon his visitor,
3 transport Of veneration, quite incon
u prehensible to the official, pressed th
IN threadbare garment to his lips, and le
d. fall tears upon it. Was it relic owe
IN looked? The holy coat Of Treves mislait
.; The sacrstan was puzzled beyond measur
"a at this devotion for n done.wth garb, whic
~ was too soiled and tattered for any NOR
of service. Laying aside the chasuble wit
Id loving care, as II it were cloth OF gold, th
old priest explained that this had been hi
r own vestment, and that he mad made
Il Il out of the last dress which Marie Al
~ toinette had worn at the Conciergerie. !
C. this silk that pale, brave lady, who's
to chief fault was that she was q Queen, ha
III prayed her last prayer, and the memor
of one faithful heart at least had outlive
u, the silk. So, after all, human love and d
ata nd tnnn &,