The national Republican., 1867-02-06
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WHEN the ice has gone down the Potomac
the oysters will come up.
The navigation Of the Ohio river Is now
open.
The Potomac river now presents good
opening for bridge builders.
IT NAY not be generally known that logic |
Is most intoxicating study, II being 80 easy to get
drunk on the premisss.-PUneh
ANNA E. DICKINSON has presented TO the
physician who attended her at Rockford, two beau.
tifully chased solid silver medallion soblsts.
THE New Orleans Pcdyune is thirty years
old, and has made since It's first appearance nearly
q, 900, 900.
The two women who assisted in the escape
Of the Adams Express robbers from Danbury jail
are now themselves In durance vile.
An exchange thinks ferry-boats are excel
lent models Of temperance because they invariably
stop on touching DROP"
A BAPTIST CHURCH at Lexington, KY, was
destroyed BY FIRE Sunday morning The lOss 10
about $50, 900, and there Is little insurance
The United States gunboat Gettysburg,
with Assistant Secretary Seward on board, has re.
turned from tho West Indies.
The American Artizan has an article
headed "a cheap horse. power wanted" What has
become Of the condemned army horsss'
Ar village lyceum in Pennsylvania the
question was lately discussed-"Was David real
patron Of UriahH"
The FESrASs, it Is now said, have deter
mined to retain tho arms they offered to SELL as
they expect something soon-a war between France
and England, perhaps, in the Lamariande case.
A MAN made an attempt to commit sui
eide by jumping from the suspension bridge at
Cincinnati, at the highest point, but he taken
out Of the water unipiured.
A NArcuEz (Miss.) paper says nobody in
that State will ever run for the Legislature. We
wish 1t were so in New York -Nsv York ErsniHg
Gazefis.
The Court Of Appeals in Kentucky has
decided against Htbgrou's petition of rehearsal,
and ordered the immediate surrender Of the Mayor.
, atty Of Louisville to Philip TOmpsr.
A CERTAIN Mr. Coffin being blest with
son, 4 friend offered one hundred dollars for tho
t privilege Of naming him. Tho offer was accepted,
!. whom the friend named the child Mahogany
IT is announced that if wellseasoned
shingles are dipped in lime and then washed and
dried before being laid, they will last much longer
than ordinary shingles, and not become covered
with moss.
' To prevent Partisan manufacturers from
. losing their well.earnsd reputation for works Of
elegance, the municipal council that the
teaching of drawing Is extended to 122 commercial
schools, male aud female, and to 80 adult schools.
We learn from that nice paper,
Called the Boston Post,
That "the haunted house near Boston
n Has given up the ghost"
, WE were glad to learn last evening that
DR.. J. G. Hall, one Of most eminent physicians,
who has been seriously ill., was considerably better
His numerous friends most heartily wish him q
speedy recovery.
The New Haven Palladium says that re-
Gently a gentleman of that city lent very keen
q gambler, who had made and lost mints of money,
y, and who was out of funds and very dispritod, q
: fve.dollar bill The gambler took express train
u for Boston, and his way thither won $1,000 in
the smoking.car.
THE Buffalo Commercial Advertiser states
that the First National Bank of that city has, in
period of four years, accumulated surplus greater
: than It's original capital, and, without impairng
this surplus. 1t paid its proprietors dividend for
Il the past year of City per cent.
THE Boston Transcript says three thou
sand dollars worth of flowers, twenty tubs Of
II ice cream, and a corresponding amount Of cake
and confectionery shipped from that city tn,
o ether day for 4 grand party in New York. Tn,
e. New York GGsette says: "Tho idea of importing
10 ice cream from Boston is exceedingly drOll. W.
might as well send vessel to Botany Bay to i'm
y port dishonesty for City Hail."
A GENTLEMAN in California having made
=. lady present Of pair of pistols, after severa
70 trials Of skill they concluded to 60 through tn,
n forms Of duel. They took their positions, free
1t at the word, and to the terror Of the lady th,
gentleman fell She throw herself frantically upor
the corps, embracing and kissing 1t with ever,
emotion Of endearment. Under such magical in
Ut auence the gentleman revived, and rose unbur
I'd from the ground, and-and-they are to be married