The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-25
CURRENT NOTES.

IHOIOGkAPHS VI W cStOu ouOco
sold at Troy for as much as the arti-
cles themselves were worth.
Col. KELLEY, one of the Fenians
rescued by the mob in Manchester,
has arrived in New York.
DURING November / ,415, 900 bush
els of coal were received at Pittsburg,
ond sold to citizens at nine and ten
cents per bushel.
The aggregate valuation of Wiscon-
sin for the year 1867 is $211, ,479,3l9,
against $l62,330,l53 for the year
1866.
Mr.. A. T. STEWARDS sales last
week were the largest on record. For
silks alone 3d., 200 was received.
Snow was three inches deep at
Newburyport, Mass, on Thursday
morning, and sleighs were running in
a lively manner.
In Spain, out of a population of
15,673,0O0, according to the last CEN
sus, no less than 100000 could
neither read nor write.
The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Dispatch
says that the streets of that city are
daily crowded with emigrants en- route
for Texas.
A CONSOLIDATION of all the rail-
way lines from New York city to
Chicago is talked of, their capital
amounting to $l50,00O,000.
The last valuation of property of
the State of Ohio is 81, 140, 600, 900,
nearly one-half enough to pay the
national debt.
IT has been judicially determined
in New Albany, Indiana, that it costs
man $40 25 to whip his wife.
The Bank of France has now a
reserve or idle capital of nine hundred
and fifty-six millions of francs.
DURING the month of October the
value of cattle sold at the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago, aggregated
$3,252,26O.
The New Orleans police have dis
covered that large amount of bogus
coin has been received in that city to
be passed upon ignorant negroes.
A SAN Francisco paper looks for
ward to the time when grapes from
California, by the Pacific Railroad,
will be retailed in the Atlantic States
for five cents pound.
MAINE lumbermen are entering
upon their winters business. The
sleighing is excellent the most of the
way in the woods, and logging opera
tions are fairly begun.
A CHEESE from Canada, destined
for Liverpool, is waiting shipment in
New York. 1t is eight feet in diam
eter by six in thickness, and weighs
over 1000 pounds.
MILWAUKEE has officially decided
the value Of a mah's beard. In a
fight a ruffian pulled out mans
beard, and the court awarded hin fif-
teen dollars damages.
The amount of bullion derived
from the mines of the United States in
the year 1867 corresponds very nearly
| i'm amount with the prOductiOn durinp
the previous year.
MASSACHUSETTS has population
of 1881, 700. Its population per
square mile is 1878. There are G3,-
900 more females than males. There
are 20S,69S dwellings.
The Knoxville Herald of the 7th
has good reason to believe that silver
abounds on the line of the projected
Nashville and Knoxville Railroad.
On the top of a hill between Pithole
city, Venango county, and Oleopolis,
there is a hole, the depth of which has
never been ascertained, which hos
recently commenced sending out a
powerful jet Of gas.
In St. Louis 1856 persons have
petitioned the city government for the
repeal of the existing Sunday laws,
Petitions, less numerously signed,
however have been presented, depre-
eating any such change.
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A YOUNG man named Reagan died
in Albany, Ga, recently, from having
a mole or wart on his face cut by q
razor while being shaved. The wart
was on the left cheek, and while the
whole right side was paralyzed, the
left leg and arm became rigid, and the
face turned over the left shoulder.
"THE SOUND OF Your HAMMER"
says Franklin, Eat FIVE in the morn
ing, or at nine at night, heard by a
creditor, makes him easy six months
longer, but if he sees you at billiard
table, or hears your voice at a tavern,
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