The national Republican., 1867-09-04
Pen, Pencil and Scissors.


law has been already located in Michigan.
FIVE county treasurers have defaulted
in Indiana within six months.
ANOTHER mushroom "city" is springing
up near Fort Hays, in Kansas.
THE first rain for q month fell in Mem
pbi,, Tenn, on Saturday last.
TnE total shipments of fractional cur
reney last week was s4s5, 9s6.
TIE Rochester Union says that the
grape crop in Western New York promises well.
THE Colorado mines are yielding better
than usual.
A COACH CAR on the English plan, to run
on the sound line between Boston and New Lon.
don, has been built, at a cost of SIS, 900.
MILWAUKEE has 90 2,l35 children Of school
age, IN increase Of nearly two thousand over
last year.
WATER is getting scarce in Palmyra
Wayne county, New York. 1t has not rained
there for months.
In Fort Wayne, Ind, the inmates Of the
city prison are to be set to breaking stones for
paving, as a useful recreation.
THERE arc in Virginia and West Vir
ginia SIS Baptist churches, with III, ,322 mem.
bers, besides 900 or 900 anti mission Baptists
WHEAT is selling in Denver at $l.0G
to s1.1O bushcl 1t used to bring Eve times
these prices.
The prize for poetry has been awarded
hxFtk tka aah A. n.
whose subject was "The Death Of Abraham Lin.
colp.n
SANTA ANNA is still prisoner in the
Castle Of San Juan d. Uloa, and nothing definite
has transpired in regard to his fate.
The number of immigrants that ar
rived in New York on Monday, amounted to
1880.
MILWAUKEE is debating whether to get
water supply from lake tunnel or from a lake
seventeen miles distant.
GOODS were recently delivered in Chicago
in Just seventy four hours and forty:ive minutes
from New York.
BUSINESS in Louisville is reviving. All
the local packets have good trips. There are
large shipments 10 W hlto river.
A NEW and large hotel is to be put up
in Hartford, Connecticut, when the Boston and
Erie Railroad gets well under way.
The grand jury at Nashville have in.
dicted over a thousand persons for drinking
beer on Sunday. The Germans are indignant.
TIE Hon. Charles Sumner has sold his
residence in Boston, intending to make his home
in this city
A SPRINGFIELD Ill.) physician has been
obliged to give bail to the amount of 81 900, for
practicing bis profession without license.
PEOPLE are apt to get tired OF living in
St. Louis. There have been thirty suicides
there this summer, two of them last week
| The yield of chestnuts, walnuts and but
ternuts in Vermont this season will be larger
than any preceding season for many years.
LARGE numbers Of cattle are dying from
the effects Of heat and dust on tho northern
plains.
RI GEN. SCoFIELD's health is in precarious
condition, with no sign Of improvement. H.
was recently attacked by intermittent fever.
LADIES are like watches-pretty enough
to look at-'weot faces and delicate hands, but
somewhat difficult to regulate, when once started
agoing.
| A WABASH lind. paper names base bill
club in that city the "Haul.up. and hit.em.g get.
sm.quick .take-em on. the. ny.goin .on.yOur. mus.
Gle base ball club"
The british Medical Journal says that
the birth rat, in England during the last quarter
was the highest on record. The number oil
births was s7,126.
Ar the New England Fair to be held at
Providence, R, L, it is expected that there will
be the largest and best collection Of paintings
ever exhibited in that city,
THE French Benevolent Society arc
about to establish hospital at Lima, where pa
tients will be received and treated at very mode
rate charges,
TIE State of Iowa has now | las miles
of railroad completed and in running order
which have cost in construction the sum o.
s45, ,4SO, 900.
A NEW daily line Of coaches from the
end Of the Kansas Pacific Railroad to Denver 4
to bo pa: on Adequate military prOte ction II
J. promised
= THERE are five patents in this countr!
: for cgg Matching machines. The FIRST one know
: was Invented during the French revolution, Il
0 which Robespierre figured.
l. TIE corn harvest in Texas promises t
c be the greatest ever garnered On some farm
), tho product will be ono hundred bushels to tn
|. measured acre, Cotton also, is doing we'll.
= A STRANGE story is told Of man name
c S, shurley living near New Lisbon, Wis, VIII
n was fcarfully mutiated in a quarrel with hi
wife and children.
A NUMBER Of mastodOn bones have beer
exhumed near Urbana, Ohio. The FIRST bon
e found weighed nearly forty pounds, and mea'
o ured thirIy.eight and half inches in length
a TIE western editors are planning anothe
d grand excursion over the Pacific railway, th
8 Platte route, to the Rocky mountains. 1t will
&c take place about the first of October