The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-05-05
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dRA,S widowers are nov terme aj inter IN
bachelors.
VERDI has gone 10 Paris to Euperintend the
production OF his Joan Of Arc"
MAIon JonS PErrIs, United States Marshal
Of Vermont died last week, aged IS years
SOxF of the deaf mutes Of Cincit natl have
,rrauited a society for mutual improvement.
A GRAND rose exhibition is soon to take
',oce 10 England.
DANi CRosKErr .arn. Of 300 a,te' IN
'r,bson county, Tenn, Is for sale,
TnE CoSrlSESrAL HorEL Of Philadelphia
employs three hundred servants.
Fnr TENrLE PLACE SAVINGS BANK, 10 Bos.
ten, has g, coo, 900 in deposits.
Mas HARRIET BEEcnER SrowE has re.
turned to the North from her home in Flc.
riia.
osr of Brigham Young's daughters otRcia.
ted as floor manager at q recent Leap. Year
ball at Salt Lake City.
A Colossal Bronze BusI Of the pet Bry.
ant, done by Launt Thompson. &: to be
placed in the Central Park
Ir /, considered to be cool to take a mans
hat with name written.in 1t, simply because
you want to get his autograph.
II has been ascertsined that lightning
strikes more women each year than men
Their attraction is the death Of them
A LITTLE Boy being asked what meekbess
was, replied "Meekness gives smooth answers
10 rough questions
Coon NATURE, like the bee, collects sweet.
ness from every herb. Immature, like the
spider, sucks poison from honeyed flowers.
Az exchange says There Is something
sweet about little girls And 1t grows on EN-
a. they grow bigger.
THE end Of the universe is positively an.
nounced to take place on Oct 9 ls6s-until
further notice.
FRED DoUGLAss has purchased a place at
Nineland, y. j.. and will locate there this
spring.
THE laborers on the Des Moines Rapid.
Improvements struck for 50 day last week,
and got it.
THE TR1JASs have subscribed upward Of
SllOO for me relief Of the family Of Craudell,
the murdered patrolman.
The frequent fainting cts to which the
Emperor Napoleon is subject, are the result
Of disease of the heart.
MARCUS DouERrr is the Irish Roman
Catholic candidate for the seat Of the late
Arcy Magee in the Canadian Parliament.
THE new prince Of the House Of Hapsburg
Is to be born in Pesth, out of compliment to
the Hungarans.
SIX ocean steamers left New York on satur.
day, carrying out 0S7 passengers, and 81 ,O33, &.
Jsl, beside valuable carsoes.
Tue New York journeymen bakers threaten
TO 90 on strike for SIS a week, and twelve
hours "A day, on May 10.
$1,000, 600 Bibles, in Ia different dialects
have been distributed by the British and
Foreign Bible Society since its foundation.
Tue funeral Of Mrs. T.. Joy Morris at Con.
stantinople was very largely attended. All
the members of the various Embassies and of
the Turkisk Court were present.
GEORGE CANE, Of Halifax, sold his wife
lately to man named Norbury, for So, Nova
Scotia currency. The article must be cheap
down there
The Hays City AdrIHcs says that buffalo
are very plenty 10 the neighborhood Of that
place, and can be seen browsing on all Of the
surrounding hills.
CARDINAL BOSAPARrE was invited to ride
in the Pontifcal chariot, in front Of the Pope
An unusual honor, and regarded as n signif-
cant right Of tho succession.
HERALD BERLIS SPECIAL says 1t Is rumored
on the BDurse that France, Prussia and
Austria have agreed to reduce their armie.
by granting turlOughs
PIILADELPuiAS wants the new society
for the prevention Of cruelty to animals to
begin by arresting 1.-THE IN IN who struck his
light guitar
New ZEALAND is very unhappily situated,
being plagued with floods, gales, Fenians. and
natives. The task of civilihiug the world 5
hard one.
Miss NELLIE De MARE. of New York, has
agreed to walk from jersey City to Philadel.
phia, in 80 hours, for 81 800. The task to be
performed between the 18th and ?2i Of May.
TIL carpenters of Westchester county, y.
Y, contend that they ought to have a halt
holiday on Saturday, and have given their EN-.
ployers notice that unless they have it, they
will quit work.
TnE Richmond newspapers are commenting
with great cheerfulness upon the prospective
revival Of the tobacco trade Of that city. Be.
fore the war, over one hundred tobacco fac.
tories were in operation there.
Tue New BEdrORD !Si9RdG,d says that in
Norton in population of less than ] 500,
there are Sd persons over 70 years Of age.
Tie Oldest is David Mnkepeace aged 100 on
9TH September last, who voted for Washington
and Lincoln.
iorSG FREScnNAS has been condemned
10 death for ttabbing widow in thirty nine
places and throwing he; body down the we'll
he crawlcd up the chain, and appeared to
testify against him
TIE residence Of DR.. Marsden, Quebec, the
other night, was smeared over with coal tar,
and Grape bordered placard affixed to the
door with these words do not have so
much u say about Irishmen II you do
Lu'e to trouble you
IpUSC ISDIAS MAID, visiting a Touring
mill in WinOna, Minnesota, surreptitiously got
bold of the stencils and decorated her white
blanket with "Ellsworth's choice" In bright
red letters, after which she strutted down
street, to the horror Of the bachelor f. l.worth,
who owns the mill
SOYE attendants on the funeral Of Thomas
D. Melee, disheartened at the idea of walk.
ing buck from the cemetery, a distnnce Of Eve
ruiles, n dozen clambered into the hearsc, two
or three perchei themselves on the outside
and with one on the back of each horse the
recession then returned to town.
DS'RIrTiyS has been started In Canada
to pay oil the mortgage on the house now
occupied by the family, and the other debts OF
Darcy McGee. This done, the money voted
by Parliament will yield the widow az, 200 a
year.
Is the London district there are nine
branches Of the Mormon church, one hundred
and seven elders Of conference, 6ftythr.e
Priest', twenty.iour teachers, thirty demons;
IN all, eleven hundred and seyenty.two Nor.
mons in the London conference.
TnEY tell humorous story at the expense
u the Town Council Of Wirtemburg. Once
on time the grass grew on one of the church
towers so thick that the grave fathers of the
town held meeting to consider its removal,
and 1t was voted to hoist up the town bull
aQd Craze it OF