The national Republican., 1867-12-11
PEN. psrcrI, AND scrssoss.

The Phiisdeiphis Chief Of Police has sued a
newspaper for calling him names.
THE gale OF Saturday night blew down Cath
Ollie church In Spencer street, New York
A CHICAGO paper announces sneefing match
for $500 q side.
A BASK for ladies is the latest thing talked Of
In uptown circles-S. Y. Mah.
Jryp. DAVIS got a musical cigar case at q
Richmond fair. A playful attention.
PowEns asks so,ooO for his last copy Of the
| Greek Slave.
| TON Of silver bricks recently arrived at Den
| yer.
WALL street banker took twenty onc-thou-
sand dollar counterfeit notes last week.
The new British knspssek weighs only four
pounds three ounces.
The embaimer Of Maximilian's remains has
been prosecuted for selling relies Of the Prince.
EscoBEDo Is reported to have said that fifteen
thousand men could seize on Cuba
Two thieves In Indianapolis robbed 4 eolored
man Of every cent he had, and he had twenty.
PARIS is to have new, beautiful, and eommo-
dious vaudeville theatre near the Grand Opera
The Cleveland Cohio) councils have prohibited
all sparring exhibitions In that city.
The Senate Chamber OF the Canadian Pariia-
ment is used occasionally as a ballroom.
PAUL MoRrHY is in Paris. He is not reported
as playing any chess matches Of late.
IT IL denied that James Gordon Bennett is to
read his editorials in public.
JANAuscHEK's acting Ia eostly-it has cost her
1000 more than she has received In New York.
A CHICAGO detective agency has, in fifteen
years, recovered ts,ooo,ooo worth OF property.
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intended to teach children the science Of music.
THEY have introduced the "curb-stone mar
ket" system into Hartford.
A NEW orator, Miss Kirkwood, aged twenty,
10 lecturing on the right Of women to the use Of
the ballot.
A DETROIT man is to make himself very un.
comfortable by walking three days without sleep
for s7,ooo.
BRIaHAx Youso's srsy-hslred frat wife is ter
ribly jealous Of the last bright-eycd addition to
his harem.
PHILApnLrHIA special says the rInderpes, is
prevailing very fatally In Baltimore county and
portions OF the adjacent country.
Nxw YORK PAPER raises the puerilc query
whether bakers on = strike can be considered
loafers. Information kneaded.
ONE THIRD OF the sugar consumed In the world
is made from beets. Beating and Gaming Arc very
much alike.
ouR friend Charlie Dickens had good square
American warm meal with the Atlantic Club in
Boston on Saturday.
Our Vice Consul at Havana, under date of the
nth ultimo, says that the cholera still prevails
there.
ATTORNEY GEsRRAL STASBaRr has rendered
an opinion that there 10 no doubt that the United
l n Ia 70 Arts A.
The Black Crook at New York 10 as popular
as ever, though the DEVILS Auction at another
theatre is dividing public attention with 1t.
A LONDON letter says that Mrs. Norton, the
poetess has recently fallen heir to t2soOoo, lef,
her BY relative in the East India service.
GILBERT MONSIEUR MARQUIS De LAvAsrrrE
SrRouT, Of Tennessee, requests the Legislature
to prune off his first three names.
The managing editor Of the London Times has
salary Of $4,000 tt2s, ,ooo) year. which Is some
thing like a fair compensation for journalism.
THE old "wsy to Get Married. a forgotten
comedy, has been revived in London by Charles
Mathew.
LEWIS WOOD ran from Ashton to Franklin
Grove, ILL.,. distance Of four and seyen-tenths
miles, in twenty minutes, on a wager s27s.
The house Of Mrs. Leonard, at London, Cana
da, was destroyed by fire on Saturday. sh,
perished in the flames.
NEXT August, grand total eclipse OF the sur
will take place In India, and scientific men from
several countries will be sent to observe 1t.
| An enterprising Yankee has established ,
newspaper In Shanghai, China, called the shang
hal Eeisslstfer.
The "Round Table" Association will issue, OIL
the nrst of January, a new Journal, entitle,
| "Ths Week"
A PooR sewing woman In Michigan has ha
$4,000 in gold left for her in deposit the Banl
of England.
SHRKwp editors that want to be advertise,
have taken to abusing Anna Dickinson. Sh
trots them out before big audience in her mex
New York lecture.
AMONG the candidates for degrees at literar,
examination In China, not long since, was al
old man aged lo3 years, accompanied by his son
80, his grandson OF %, and great grandson Of o
years.
MoRR than 5000 japanese are said to have de
| stroyed themselves during the past twelv,
months, and 1t was not good year for suicides
| either.
THERE is one delegate wanting In the virgini,
convention-he who stole a horse to go to tn,
| election, and Is now spending his time quite n
| prohtably in jail.
The widow OF q former member OF Congress, IL
| Massachusetts,, lately married her hostler, who
soon after deeamped with s2o, 900 In bonds which
she had placed In his care.
BLACK KETTLE 10 the pretty name OF the little
Indian whom Gen. Harney adopted, and who II
now big chief, helping to make treaties with
his adopter.
| FLOCK Of wild pigeons thirty miles long Il
reported by Pennsylyania paper. A flight o
fancy rather than pigeons. We take the story
AZ we do the pigeons cum grdno salus.
LADIES In Irish poplin are carefully watched
by the London police, and every man with any
green in his eye 10 summoned, says the TomG
hdpk.
STOCK COMPANY 10 being formed In this city
to go into the rather novel business of mAnufac
turing ladies' rubber bosoms under a new patent
Springfield RspubIisan.
A Conspiracy In the New Jersey State prison
at Trenton, Saturday, resulted In the escape oi
nine eonvicts Eight were reesptured after
hot pursuit.
THH Chicago Journal says counterfeit green
baeks-t2 and t2o-have been put In circulation
there within day or two-supposed In larg,
numbers. Look out for them.
1T Is said that A:tradesman In an Ohio city