The national Republican., 1867-09-07
Pen. Pencil md Scissors.

Mr.. CYRus W. FIELD is seriously i'll at
New Hamburgh, N. Y.
Two escaped and prowling menagcrie
Panthss are frightening indianapolis.
August BELMONT has been importing
English brood.mares.
oPrrx eating is said to be very preva-
lent in Memphis.
The yicksburg Times estimates the
population Of that city at about 1000.
BONNER commenced life at the compost.
tors case in the Hartford Courant Office.
THE Queen of Spain is again in an in
tsresting situation.
THE population of Natchez is put down
by the Courier at Eve thousand whites and ten
thousand blacks.
OLD FATHER TINE, in order to keep up,
has thrown away his soythe and hour glass and
bought moving machine and watch.
GErLowsKI Pole, hns made q memo
rial bust of Artemus Ward, aud sells II in Lon.
don for a guinea.
| JENKINS is awe-struck because Sheridan's
father persists in calling him Phil" Bold old
men.
| WE learn from Cincinnati that Aaron
Jones is much better, but his fighting ardOr ha,
been cooled down somewhat
TIE colored youths of Cleveland have
organized base ball club. They will be called
the Black Ball Club.
FEMALE fashionables at Saratoga ostra-
else 4 lady who wears the samo drc" more than
once,
The Montgomery and Eufala railroad,
in Alabama, has been completed for fifteen miles
from the former city.
ISLANDERS issuing from beautiful lips are
a rose.
A LADY in Green Bay expended Sl4.24
for hens and feed, and realized in six months
$i337, besides the music of tho fowls.
A FEMALE balloonist was carried out to
sea from Marscilles at the fst, Of August Is Wet
feet was the result.
HAMLET had IN Irish friend with him in
the tragedy who has generally been overlooked
He ,ays-"Now may do it, Pat -
A DOUBLE APPLE TREE is owned by Judge
Moss, of Livingston county, Mo. The apples
grow in doublets, siamese twin fashion.
A YOUNG WOMAN with child in her arms
was found starving in the streets Of New York
the other day.
THE free baths in Boston have been en-
joyed by 742, 5i2 persons during the past three
months.
BRoUGHAN threatens to. bring out some
local horrors upon the stage, as the best thing to
pay in these days OF sensationalism.
In Ashtabula county, Ohio, within one
year, sheep to the value of sl,l3j have been
destroyed by dogs.
USIvERsALIsN will celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary OF its existence in Amer.
| lea in 1870.
GENERAL Ton THUMB has gone in his
yacht, Charles S. Stratton, on a fishing eIcur.
sion of Long Island.
The rainfall at Hartford, Conn, for the
past three months has been twenty eight inches
and forty nine hundrsdths
IDLEwILD, n. P. Willis's old home on
the Hudson, has been converted into a school
for young ladies.
THE Montgomery Mail says that the
ensuing cotton crop Of Alabama will be salts.
factory The crop is estimated at from sixty to
seventy thousand bales
L. \. =. has shown good taste in re-
christening the Dundsrburg "Rochambeau," ;"
after the Count who comm anded the French aux.
i.lares at Yorktown.
THE Everett statue, in the Boston Pub.
lie Garden, will be dedicated early in October
Ex. Gov. Andrew will deliver the dedicatory ad-
dress.
Az ingenious FrenChman has invented
a curiously shaped hearse, which contains not
only room for the coffin, but seats for the priest
and mourners
Two lovers, one a soldier and the other
a married woman, tied themselves together by
the neck and jumped into the river at Dublin,
drowning in each others arms
SEVERAL Bostonans, who intended to
pass the autumn in Italy, are returning home
on account of the alarming prevalence Of the
cholera.
CowrEE wrote that Churchill was the
greatest poet since Shakespeare, and the letter
in which ho said it sold for 500 in London tho
other day.
The LADY who undertook yesterday to
refresh simultaneously twin infants in horse.
car had her arms full and displayed a capacity
more than she was probably conscious Of
A NEAPoITAN PRINCE, they say, is to
marry tho buIom daughter of Sorrento hotel
keeper They also say he fell in love with tho
table fare rather than the maiden fair.
The editors of the Paris journals were
on the 10th summoned to the Office of tho Pro.
cureur Imperial, and there received an intima
ton that they must not discuss the Constitu.
tton, " under pain Of being prosecuted.
YorSG WISEERs says he wishes his Ara.
bella would not be forever singing, ~ wish were
alone 1t may bo very pretty to her, but it
seems to him like an invitation to call for his
tile and leave.
The New York Erening Post, with much
zeal insists that II We must call our new posses.