The national Republican., 1867-08-09
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will exceed 10000.
tbs yellow fever still prevails extern
sively in Havana Co..
WArERrSo-rLAcE LANDLORDS are con-
templating suicide. q 81 i
TuE receipts from internal revenue
amounted yesterday to $5I3, 26O,Ss.
An amusing item in the Louisville cen.
sus is thirty thousand cats of the Thomas gender.
Gov. FESroX refuses to commute the
sentence Of Jerry o,Brien. lie will, therefore,
bs executed according TO sentence.
TIE second session of the North Ger.
man Parliament will be held in Berli. on the
27th instant.
1r Is NOW DENIED authoritatively that
EscObsdo wrote the savage letter that was at
tributed to him against foreigners.
THE Herulds Montreal correspondent
denies that Jefferson Davis was hooted at Stan.
stead.
The cotton crop in Southwestern Geor-
gia is said to bo very fair. The picking COM
menees next week
A SPANISH ship loaded with coolies was
burned to the waters edge at Havana few days
since.
| The police has been largely increased
in Havana, at which the people are excited and
Indignant.
The United States revenue cutter Paw
Is to go to China.
The United States ships Hartford, Wa
chusett and Wyoming are at Shanghai The
Chinese seem anxious about 1t.
WORK in the Springfield armory has
been considerably reduced, and two hundred and
fifty workmsn have been recently discharged.
DR.GEoRGE TAYLOR, United States army,
died Of yellow fever, at Galveston, Texas, on
Monday last He belonged in Baltimore.
The Round Table says that gambling
Is become fashionable among the elite Of Fifth
avenue.
SOME Of the Jamaicans want annexation
to the United States because of the high taxes
on that island
CINCINNATI, Chicago and st. Louis are
calling each other very hard names through their
nowspapers-but then they are all "hard "
cities.
The latest news from Venezuela states
that numerous arrests were still being made Of
Epersons concerned in the late attempt to restore
the old Colombian confederacy.
| EIGHTY-THREE and seventyfve were the
respective ages Of a blooming couple whose
young loves were crowned with matrimonial bliss
in Indiana last week.
A RETURNED CALIFORNIAN wants S34 900
which ho lost at poker to a Wall street operator.
about month ago. and the anti-gambling so.
ciety says he shall have 1t back again.
The City Councils of New Orleans ap-
pointed by Gen. Sheridan is approved Of by the
press Of that city, and their acts relieving the
financial difficulty endorsed.
| A DISEASE called the hog cholera is pre-
vailing among the swine in different localities
The hog loses flesh, his throat swells and he dies
quickly.
SOME Of the Conservative and Demo-
cratic journals-among them the New York
+. WOrd-are urging Mr.. Johnson to remove Gen
e Sheridan.
] FAIRBANK, PECK ~ Co.'S oil refinery in
e Chicago was destroyed by fire on Wednesday
;. morning. The building and stock was insured
for $lO5, oOOi loss, s125, 900.
! The President contemplates making n
, short trip into Tennessee as soon as ho can be
spared from his official duties. If he goes 1t is
probable that Secretary Seward and Governor
Randall will accompany him.
THE Grand Master of Maryland has ac-
cepted the invitation to lay, with Masonic
hOnors, on the 18th Of September the corner
stone Of the monument to be erected on the
grounds Of the Antietam Cemetery.
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE made his way
from Middetown to Kansas with only one dollar
In his pocket, by a systematic plan Of getting on
trains and allowing himself to be put of again
only to take tho next one that came along.
Hon. JACOB THOMPSON is still residing in
Canada. 1t is reported that he will shortly be.
come a citizen and voter in the New Dominion.
Is Jacob after being made Secretary Of Interior
In that country
FRASER & Co., Of Charleston, have an,
swered the bill Of complaint filed against them
Uy Nho uoNcIuuioht' Ahey ucny tue ulltButlOH
that the Charleston firm were agents of the con.
federacy.
A WEDDING in Arkansas, between di.
vorced woman Of so and q youth Of 10, took
place at the house of the BRIDES former husband
who is said to have been in the highest spirits
Revenge is sweet
/ A MAN in Cleveland tried to murder his
father, was arrested and bailed out by the old
gentleman, who preferred to have his grey hairi
brought in sorrow to the grave by his own for
rather than by the hangman
The steamer Walter B. Dance, en- route
to Montana, struck a snag at the mouth of the
Missouri river, tearing large hole in her bow
and knocking considerable Government freight
into the river
i THE Chassepot rife does not receive a
very favorable consideration at the hands of the
Prussian commission appointed to examine It,
1t was rejected. It is 4 favorite in the French