The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-10-16
POLITICAL AND MisCELlAyY.

Only one whale has been caught
this season by the entire Hudson's
Bay whaler fleet.
Italian beggars in Boston collect
-four from the charitable, have it bar
relied and sell it.
Negro laborers, while digging a
we'll in Pensacola, found vault con-
tanning S340,652 80 in coin.
The tanners in Japan are pres
cribcd in society no other classes will
associate or intermarry with them.
"A French journal is to be sup
pressed for publishing one of Lonis
Napoleon's speeches delivered in forty
nine.
--Thirty-three people, travellers aud
guides, have been killed in climbing
the Alps, during the past eight years.
Eighteen hundred dollars were
laid upon the corner stone of the
Church of the Holy Cross recently
laid in Boston.
"A Chicago criminal lawyer clear
ed a thief by his eloqucnce, and the fel-
low robbed him the next day oftwo
hundred dollars.
Three iron establishments in
France employ twcnty-four thousand
hands, and work two hundred and
thirty thousand tons of iron year.
Under the head of "IIymcniap'
the Cincinnati Inquirer publishes the
fourth of q column of names of per-
sons to whom licenses were granted
last week.
The American Press is recording
the successes and defeats of vatous
heroes of the prize ring, preparatory,
we suppose, to sending another Nor
rissy to Congress.
The people along the Hudson are
catching cheese which floats off from
the carge of the Dean Richmond. 1t
is said to be excellent and uninjured
by the water.
"A young man in Dayton, Ohio,
is going through the bankrupt court
with only one creditor--a young lady
with five thousand dollars breach
of-promise verdict.
The Protestant Bishop of Cork
is a pauper. He has only ten thousand
Il year salary. The Bishop of Derry,
taking compassion on him allows him
five thousand from his own salary.
The New Orleans C6nmcrcial
Bulletin says that parties capable of
Judging estimate this years crop of
sugar, in Louisiana, at 10000 hogs
heads. This is about one-fourth an
ante-bsllum crop.
The French Government has Or
dcrcd eight hundred thousand waist
belts for the army, with a medicine
box attached, to contain what may be
used for wounds. Why has this never
been thought Of before?
The population of New York in
1860 was 9l31. 1t has been four
times doubled in one hundred years.
Paris has doubled within thirty-two
years; London within forty years, and
Vienna within forty-four.
In the destruction of two-thirds
of the town of Enos, in Turkey, re-
Gently, five hundred houses, four
Greek churches, one mosque, and sew
cral public buildings were burned.
The loss is twenty million piastres.
The Bull Run district, near Man
asses, Va, where occurred the first
great fight of the war, and the house
at Appomatox Court House, where
Lee surrendered to General Grant,
were both the property Of one man.
Broad street, Philadelphia, is
eleven miles and a half long, in one
straight line, and one hundred and
fifteen feet wide, extending from Lea
que Island, on the Delaware river, to
the northern boundry Of the present
city limits.
The Pacific Railroad is graded to
Cayenne city Dacotah), the point OF
Junction with the Denver branch, the
beginning of the high grade. 1t is
expected that the track will be laid,
and cars running to that place, on the
1st of November.
The Knoxville Wing states "On
Monday Gov. Brownlow was the re-
cipient of a wagon-load of coal from
Chamberlain, Richards q Co. This
was the first carload of coal ever
brought over that great enterprise, the
Knoxville and Kentucky railroad"
A writer in the Times complains
that England sends bad beer to her
troops in India. Formerly there was
a beer faster for the army, but the
Office has been abolished and the SOL
diers get sick from bad beer. In this
country people sometimes get sick by
good beer.
The landlord of a prominent hotel
in st. Paul received a letter day or
two ago, informing him that he was
probably one of the heirs to the estate
Of Lady Townly and others of the
royal blood of England. The estate
is valued at from forty to fifty million
pounds sterling.