The national Republican., 1867-04-08

THE Southern printers agree to set q
thousand ems each towards Artemus Wards
monument. They ask Northern printers to do
the same.
THAT famous old militia organization,
the Baltimore City Guard" is being reOrgan.
lied as the FIRST regiment of the Maryland Ma.
tional Guard.
THE Committee on Printing, on an order
of the House, met on Friday to investigate the
purchase Of paper made last November by Cor.
nelius Wendell, at that time Superintendent of
Public Printing.
Miss NoMER was asked il they had cha
rades and REFUSES at q party she attended the
previous evening. "oh, yes, she replied, "es.
pecially yreJuSes-nearly all the young men kissed
the girls twice"
Two passenger trains on the Union Pa
ci6c railroad ran into each other on Tuesday
near Leavenworth city, Kansas. Tho locomo.
tives and cars were demolished, but fortunately
no one was hurt.
SucH lively music was rendered by an
organist at "high church." in New York, the
other evening, that an old man actually got on
the aisle and commenced to dance abreakdown.-
Home Journal.
The editors of French provincial papers
arc about to established at Paris a newspaper
for which they will all write the stereotype plates
of II will be distributed to all of them, and be
published as their local paper.
HoPEs had recently been raised that the
.-sptrt of the death of DR.. Livingstone would
Dr. I'VE untrue. They are dispersed by the latest
inte uigence from the Cape Of Good Hope, which
fully confirms the original account of his death.
THE watchman on duty at the Jefferson.
vile lin. " depot, who was robbed few days
since of 50 ., 900 by, as he said, gang of men,
was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of being
a party to the .'obesry'
THE bakers Of Paris, who have been in
the habit Of buyinL, old wood from rared houses
for frewood, have been warned to cease the
practice, as this wood e1hales metal oxides in
burning which mako the bread poisonous.
WHETHER Sir Fred srick Bruce will give
an entertainment on the birthday Of Queen Vic.
toria, the oath of May, isSyet an undecided
question, in which danes rsnd damsels are much
says "RaeOnteW."" in the New York
Commercial Advertiser.
WORK is suspended on Fort ConStitu.
tion, at New Castle, N H One hundred and
twenty men are employed on Fort McClary, at
Kittory Point Both ofthe wall of Fort McClary
which have been building for two years past, are
to be taken down and rebuilt according to the
notions Of the new engineer.
At HARrwELLvILLE, VI, q party of
ladies serenaded q newly married couple with
bells and various discordant instruments. Milo
Canned,, father of the new husband, got angry,
and throw q stick Of wood at the serenaders, in
turing on of them so severely that she is not
likely to recover. The father and son have been
arrested. and will bo examined before magis.
trats in a day or two.
A MAN who had for thirty years been
grave digger and coffin bearer in Paris, recently
fell heir to some property and retired to his na.
tive village. He soon became melancholy, and
said horrible dreams prevented him from sleep
ing. He has just committed suicide. A note
left on his table nays the dead he had buried
visit him nightly, and won't let him sleep.
KENDALL AND RAINFoRrH, the two life
swindlers, were tried at Chicago on
for contempt Of court, they having re-
fused to give evidence. Kendall was sentenced
to four months imprisonment, and RainfOrth
until the 22d of next February, that being the
anniversary of the day on which he was sup.
posed to have died. Kendall, while before the
Enm nnnfagainn n the At to
swindle.
ACCORDING to the Friend, Quaker
paper, Mrs. Cady Stanton is the orator of the
age "Her power over an intelligence audience
Ia irresistible. Keen as Phillips, majestic as
Sumner, elegant as Curtis, tender and womanly
as Lucretia Mott, magnetiEing massive logic
with the most ethereal graces, her claim to a
place among the first of American orators and
statesmen is beyond dispute. Her rightiul place
is in the Senate"
Ar vienna an Intelligence Office Of
a novel character has been opened here mar.
riageable gihs in quest of husbands are to be
found Tho blondes are in one room, the bru'
nettes in another. Rouge ou nOir is the ques-
tion asked Of the visitor, and as he loves blondes
or bruuettes he Is shown into one or the other
room. The next thing shall hear will be that
daughters are disposed of by lottery
Ar THE Purim ball in New York, Mrs.
W. ]. Florence, the cOmHsdlem"e, wore a nota-
bly, rich dress. 1t was very heavy white Lyons
silk, low in the neck, with long train The
skirt was heavily embroidered with gOlG, designs
in flowers and gold tasses being prominent.
Running with the gold embroidery was lace
work in black silk, also put in with the needle.
The top of the waist or corset was deeply fringed
with pearls and edged with white point lace.
Over the whole, and falling gracefully from her
neck and shoulders, was a white lace shawl Of
the richest design. This dress was made ex.
prsssly for the Paris Exposition, and was worn
that night for tue FIRST time. duplicate dre's
is to be made and sent to Paris In It's place
AT ALBANY, last week, lady who had
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