The national Republican., 1867-08-21
p.,. Pencil ana scissors.

TIE eighthour move in California bids
fair TO collapse soon.
The Herring safe appears to have been
judged the best At the Exhibition.
ENGLAND imports 10000 tons Of Belgian
fruit ysarly--mOstiy apples and pears.
In DETROIT saloon keeper was fined
twenty dollars for selling liquor to minor
THE mercury has stood at 100 in st.
Louis for some time past.
ALL the accounts from the wheat crop
in Minnesota are very favorable.
SECRETARY BROWNING is confined to his
house in Georgetown BY sickness
MAJ. GEN. ROUSSEAU and suite do not
sail for sitka till about the lst Of September.
EARLY in June there were two or three
earthquake shocks in Csrracs.
THREE men were suffocated in q mash
tub in distillery in New York on Monday.
The report that the steam tug Adclia
had exploded her boiler is not true.
OK Monday 1871 emigrants arrived in
New York.
LAST WEEK 200 deaths occurred in
Brooklyn.
Mr.. BENNETT, jr., is reported to have
sold his yacht Henrietta for $4,000.
FLoUR'is selling in Staunton at s940,
and in HsrisOnburg, Va, at $3.50.
The Springfield Republican says that
the hop crop In northern Massachusetts, has been
nearly destroyed by the lice.
TIL St. Louis Democrat advocates the
extension of the North Mission railroad to
Omaha, as tho only way to head OF Chicago.
MRS. SoMERvILLE, the well known writer
on physical geography will soon publish a work
on Molecular and Microscopic Science"
IT Is SAID that seven and a half millions
Of dve-twenty bonds were shipped to Eurnpe
last week.
A YOUNG AMERICAN GIRL in Havana shot
herself with q revolver because her lover had
left her.
A STREET CAR CONDUCTOR in Cincinnati
has been convicted Of smbellling about four dol.
lars day from the fares lie collected.
IT rained so hard in Troy as to food
some portions Of the town and gil number Of
cellars with water.
The ninth section OF the Union Pacific
railroad, eastern division, has been completed.
and is approved BY the Government.
The walls Of the Park Bank, now being
erected on Broadway, N. Y, will be eleven feet
high.
A CANADIAN farmer recently lost his
life in an effort to separate two oxen that were
fighting.
The estimated expenses Of the Brooklyn
city government for the next fiscal year are
81, ,422, ,4lO.63.
A BUTCHER in New York has been SEN
fenced to thirty days imprisonment and to pay q
fine Of $50 for cruelty to an OK.
COUNTERFEIT ten-dollar bills on the Mar
ket National Bank, New York, have been dis
covered.
The revolution in Venezuela is q failure.
Marshal Rlcon, the President, is about return.
ing to tho capital from cOrO.
THERE has been negro riot at Bushy
Park, Jamsiea. Tho leaders were captured and
the disturbance quellsd.
Col. TAYLOR, one Of the Indian COM
missoners, Is en- route for Washington with i'm.
portant dispatches He left Omaha last Friday.
A VESSEL arriving in Liverpool reports
having passed the John 7. Ford, from Baltimore.
All on board were we'll.
THE civil and religious liberty of all the
Protestant inhabitants of Austria are to be en-.
largsd. Tho Government has SO ordered.
The Quaker City has arrived at Con.
stantinople. She sailed from New York on the
10th Of June.
A NEW Greek play has appeared at
Athens. Its subject is Philip Of MacedOn, and
the dranstist is Antoniades.
MADAME RIsroRI has. through the So.
cisty for the Encouragement Of Dramatic Art at
Florence, offered q prize for the best comedy.
IT IS REPORTED that the United States
Government has sent a letter to the Sublime
Porte in behalf Of the Cretans,
GEN. Blunt, Quartermaster of the Rich
mond, Va, district, has been relieved. Col. ].
NJ. Moore will succeed him.
FRox two to three thousand people are
daily engaged now in the blusberry harvest in
the shapleigh plains, in Maine.
TIE operate season at Covent Garden
was brought to close on the Sd. Mer Majesty s
Theatre also closed on the 10th.
MICHIGAN exports about 1900, 100000
feet Of lumber notwithstanding to the Chi.
cago PoH.
A GREAT public demonstration in behalf
Of Mr.. Stanton is to be held in Springfield, Hi.
nois as soon as Governor oglssby returns.
The Hartford Courant ..sensibly assails
the practice of Unfortunately preaxing the
titles Of Doctor" Reverend" and "Honora-
BILE, SO common in this country.
The Portland physicians account for the
remarkable healthiness Of tho city this year by
attributing it to the purifying influence of the
great FIRE.
In the little town Of Winn, Maine,
one hundred thousand hides are annually turned
into sole leather at one tannery-said to be the