The national Republican., 1867-08-08
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News and Miscellany.

A LITTLE SON of Hiram Luce, Of West
Randolph, Vt, fell down cellar one day
last week into barrel Of soap, and died
thirty.six hours afterwards. II Is supposed
that the soap got into his lungs and caused
his death.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican
thinks that Norwich would make the best
site for the capital Of Connecticut The
scenery is delightful; Gov. Buckingham
and Senator Foster live there, and "all the
people are social and pleasant"
The Detroit Post says that Senators
Chandler, Wade and Cattell, ex-senator
Creswell and Judge Cartier are going on
fishing excursion into Central Michigan
next week. This may be regarded as the
winding up of the Senatorial Excursion
Party
A FEW DAYS SINCE negro was hung by
q mob near Leipsic, Delaware, on suspi-
cion Of incendiarism. Itnow appears that
the barn was fred by colored girl, and
who has been lodged in Jail charged with
the offence. The murderers Of the poor
negro are still at large.
Col. ANAsA SPRAGUE, tho president Of
the Narragansett Park Association, at the
recent meeting, rigidly prohibited the sale
Of intoxicating drinks within the grounds,
and established such q thorough police
that pickpockets. gamblers and thieves
found no opportunity to ply their trade.
IT is reported that the sittings of the
Ritual Commission, in England, are likely
to be prolonged until the end Of August,
and even, it Is possible, into September,
although the commissioners display the
exceptionally laudable activity that may
be inferred from their meeting twice q
week.
REPORTS from New Orleans speak Of de-
falcations having been discovered in the
Internal Revenue Office, Of which General
Steadman is collector. They in no wise
implicate that officer, but his predecessor,
who, it is alleged, received returns from
the income tax which are not credited on
the books,
THE harbor of Michigan City, Indiana,
which has been closed for q number Of
years to large vessels by the accumula-
ton of sand in the channel, is again open,
with q good depth of water. Vessels
loaded with iron ore and with lumber enter
and discharge cargoes without difficulty
An efficient dredge is constantly at work,
and Michigan City will soon bee ONE lake
port Of importance.
A NEW PROFESSION, hitherto unknown
both to the monde and dtmi-mOnde OF
Paris, has sprung up in that city-that Of
conductor to Mabille." Every evening q
score Of gamins gather on the Place de 10
Concorde and keep q bright lookout for
foreigners. As soon as an Englishman OF
an American, German or Russian, ap.
pears, they surround him, knowing that he
will surely ask the road to take to reach
Mabille. The question having been put,
one Of the lads leads the way, and having
arrived at the gates Of the garden receives
ten-sous piece for his trouble. A regular
tariff has, it would seem, been in existence
for some time past.
UP TO July 81, the Pay Department has
received and recorded 1880 claims for
additional bounties, beside $4,000 re.
ceived, but not yet arranged. 1t is calcu
lated that not more than 10000 claimi
are yet out They are now received at tn,
rate Of thirty or forty per day Since pay
ments began, January l, 1927 have beer
settled, at an expense Of S6,635, 900
Claims are now being settled at the rate
of twelve to fifteen thousand per month
Ten officers are engaged in the payments
At the present rate, the payment will oc
cupy very nearly three years. The cos
of these payments to Government is from
30 to so cents in each hundred dollars.
A WEALTHY Frenchman, at New Orleans
lately committed suicide, and left the fol
lowing estimate Of life and the world: "A
life stupid, but strewn with enchantments
harpies conspiring against your purse;
thousand vain pretensions sustained badl,
and incessantly; conversation with listen
ers who bore you to death. Equipages
lackeys, carriages innumerable, uniform
of all colors. with swords nearly alway
innocent Of battle women pretentious ant
tattling; literary people, vain and destitute
Of talent; contempt, secret embarrass
ments, restaurants and hotels enormousl,
dear; fraudulent and tricky business trans
actions. Lies at discretion; vllainou
lawyers; snares of all descriptions demol
tions, mud and dust"
UNDER the penny postage system, tn
receipts of the British post Office hav,
increased prodigiously. In the estimate
of post Office revenue in 1867 and 1868
lately submitted to the House of Com
mons by the Chancellor OF the Exchequer
S23,25O,OO0 was set down as the probabl
sum for the year. and from the revenu,
returns for the June quarter, just pub
lished, it appears that the anticipated in
come is likely to be fully realized, tn
quarters receipts being no less thai
.$5,7jO,0O0 The London Times question
the policy of reaping SO large an incom
from the post Office, and suggests whethe
Its surplus revenue might not be turne,
to account, and its operations made still
more beneficial, either by reduced rate
Of carrage OF by m incrense in the fun