The national Republican., 1867-01-31
Pen. Pencil nnd Scissors.

CUcuNBERs raised in Senator Fessenden's
garden cost him twenty-five cents apiece.
DRINKING "between drinks" has been abol-
ished in Japan.
QuIBBLE says that the spring Of cata.
mount Is not half as pleasant A. his fall.
The newest skating novelty in Chicago is
that Of a Russian who skates on stiits.
The Boston Board Of Trade condemn Mr..
Randall's sinking fund bill E ....
GEoRoE PEABODY will cut up for fifty mil.
lions.
A PORTRAIT Of Edward Everett is to be
placed in fansuii Hall .-... ....
TEE ROSE that all are praisng"-
Rose Eytings.
Hon. HENRY B. STANTON, Of New York, is
in the city, quartsred at willsrds.
MINISTER DIE has made such arrangements
that Americans can 60 10 Paris 10 see the elephant
without having their trunks Ovsrhsuled.
THApDEus STEVENS has been elected Presi.
dent Of the shifhsr Hose Company, Of Lancaster,
Pa. 'sykssy, take der butt !"
A NUMBER Of Partisan seamstresses have
been suffering from violent COLES from putting the
silk they use in sewing into their mouths.
Mrs. d. l. WHITING committed suicide by
hanging hertelf In the cellar Of her own residence,
at No. 146 Chelsea street, East Boston.
TIE deaths Of II infants, all Of whom had
been accidentally sufocated In bed, " were regis
tered In London in one week.
The New York Senate has impeached the
county judge Of Oneida county, and removed him
from ONCE.
DURING 1866, 1889 emigrants passed
through Columbus, Ohio, going wsst-an increase
Of 10. .74s over the previous year.
TWENTY-FIVE FARMS have been sold in one
section Of Alabama for the low price Of one dollar
per acre.
A BROOKLYN skating park advertises new
sensation. Prizes are to be suspended in the CEN
tire of the pond, and competitors are to skate for
them blindfolded.
SOMEBODY has said that modesty is the
candle to merit Did he mean because II Is likely
to go out 2-E1.
No. Irs because true merit Is "up 10 snuff"
ENGLISH SPECTATORS are buying up all the
malt on the Continent, reducing 1t by some pro.
cess to powder, sending 1t to England, and mixing
II with water for use.
The Memphis Chamber of Commerce has
passed resolution, recommending E1.GOv Harris,
now refugee in Liverpool, to the confidence Of the
commercial world.
THE committee appointed by the Memphis
Chamber Of Commerce to test the cOnstitutiOnality
Of the cotton tax reported against the test to-day
owing to the apathy Of tho merchants and planters
Mr.. ASHLEY, in his efforts at impeachment,
should remember that the peach crop in Ohio, Is,
nine times In ten, failure Tho present cold spell
affords very slim prospect
MISS MILE CAvESDIsH, an actress who
was brought over to play in the "Blaek Crook"
died last week In New York. She had made her
self quite fame by her songs, especially "You
Naughty, Naughty Man"
A CALL, signed by citizens throughout
Arkansas who served in tho Federal army, has
been made for q convention at Van Buren,, on the
25th inst to protest against the overthrow of the
present State Government
The Salt Lake Vidette contradicts its re-
port Of the murder by Indians Of party Of new
miners who were out prospecting. They have 70.
tur ned 10 the settlement and report that rich de-
pOsits Of gold have been discovered BY them.
LAST Monday night the ferry-boat Bruins
wick, plying between New York and Astoria, lost
her rudder and drifted on the Ice at Hur Gate.
Here she remained till four o'clock the next morn
ing to the vast discomfort Of her passengers.
IT Is stated that the Rev. Henry Ward
Bsecher Is about to sue the Irdspsndent Theodore
TiltOn) for publishing his Plymouth church ser.
mons and lectures contrary to his (Bsecher's) ad.
vice and wishes.
Ar the Catholic Fair in Memphis on Satur-
day night cane was voted to be given to the most
popular county official. The votes cost 81 each,
and 40, s36 votes were cast The cane originally
cost $85. Sheriff Winters received the highest
number Of votes
ADVISES from Montana say that the des-
peradoes in that Territory have again become SO
bold to call out from the old regulators q notice
that the reorganization of that company has be.
come necessary. Hereafter all offenders will be
summarily dealt with.
G. L. ELLIOTT and lady, of Alabama, the
artist Gen. N. B. Buford, Of Illinois; Hon. VIM
Millward, of Philadslphiai Baron witterstedt
Swedish Minister Hon. Sidney Clarke, Of Kansas;
hVS' 1ohu D. Shiheei VI htINou NJ tno
Metropolitan Hotel yesterday.
A COLLECTOR Of walking-sticks, NJ. Henri
do Nicer, a Dutchman, attracted attention to his
collection by going mad and dying with a walking.
stick in each hand-feeblo imitation Of DR.. Morri-
son, who breathed his last grasping a box Of his
own pills, and calling loudly for more.
A YOUNG man in Cleveland, Ohio, who
has been confined in asylum for some time on
account Of insanity having partially recovered was
returned to his home, and soon after stabbed his
mother with knife the wounds being Of such a
nature as to render 1t exceedingly doubtful whether
she will recover, The son has been lodged In jail
for safe.keeping
In consequence of the prolonged cold
weather there Is great suffering among the whites
and freedmen In Virginia. 1t is reported that over
two thousand freedmen have been thrown out Of
employment by the suspension Of work in the to-
baeco factories. The Frssdmen's Bureau is issuing
ratiOns to the destitute, and Gen. O. H. Browne,
assistant commissioner Of tho bureau, Is In Wash.
ngton endeavOring to procure relief for them.
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