The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-05-02
Natiuaal Aspnblitat1.
PEN. PENCIL. AND SCISSORS.

CHARLESTON . Y ~ tue rpeeuy
completion Of a shell road.
TINS Ku. KluI Khan RACES fsarfully in the
Western papers.
A MONUMENT to the late General Jim"
Lane Is proposed in Kansas.
A PRUssfAS school ship 10 now in New York
harbor.
NEW HAVEN had a snOw:storn last satur.
day,
A BorLEnst Manise, Michigan, has burst,
killing nine persons and ipjuring six
RICHMOND, Va, /. having . series Of Dick.
eus readings, by proxy Of course
An insane man in Iadians recently attempt.
ed to baptire his child with Ore.
A CArHEDRAL 10 about to be erected near
tho New York Central Park By the Trinity
Church Corporation.
GOVERNOR Frsros has signed the bill to
suppress obscene literature, and it goes into
eject at once.
TaERR were |. 900, 900 barrels of lime manu-.
Pictured at Rockland, Me, in 1867, at cost
ISL per barrel.
THr next annual session Of the Wisconsin
Wool Growers Association will be held In
Milwaukee.
TIE Revelation wants female copstabulary
force, uniformed and paid by the STATE" for
tho protection Of their own ser.
A Youso SEAL has recently been shot In
the Hudson river near the State Dam, above
Troy.
A RrPoRr saysthatthe New York Midnight
Mission reclaimed last yesr II fallen women,
''of whom 20 have gone back 10 their old hfs."
Rev. D. ". STEVENS. recently Superintend.
ent of Schools ut FAN River. has been called to
the Unitarian Church ut Tisbury.
We seem to have the same trouble with the
Gulf stream this year which we had last, and
the prospect Is 1t will rain oil summer.
CHARLESTON. S. C, has q German popuia.
ton OF 5000, with property worth Ave mil.
lions of dollars or 81, 900 for each individual
AccoRpIsG to the report Of the Board of
Control the Russian deficit in 1865 amounted
to very nearly 100, 900, 900 roubiss.
ONE years residence In the Dominion Of
Canada Is to be made SUI siept for naturaliz,.
tiOn papers.
Ar HUNTINGTON. L. l., n portrait of Lincoln,
done with a hot poker on an oak board, lie
attracting the attention Of art critics, and is
said to be wonderful
OLE BuLL visited Windsor. Vt some days
ago, simply to play for the mother OF one Of
his old friends in this country, Z. W. Slough
ton. OF New York.
WHELAs, the alleged McGee murderer, Is
said TO have acknowledged his guilt to q fell
low prisoner
The list Of candidates for admission to the
membership Of London Club /. so long thst
the present applicants cannot be admitted for
fifteen years.
Rev J. L. Dudley, of Middletown. CT, has
accepted cali from the Church Of the Phi.
gritns at Milwaukee. Wisconsin,
THE Mormon problem Is .olved-Paris
fashions srs fading q foothold 10 Utah, and
L. all L..
Think OF one man dressing twenty women.
The top-spinner Of the japanese troupe,
whose remarkable performances delighted ali
who saw them, died in London on the Sth inst.
Miss Hams, of Mississippi, raised hal.
Of cotton last year by her own Industry, and
has just sold it for 1912.
TINS total expenditures In Connecticut last
year for Common schools amounted to 1914. q.
600 an increase Of $3.50 900 on the year 1866.
NuNBER Of young men have started from
Salt Like City for the sweetwater Mines.
They will have to walk all the way.
THE Philadelphia Academy Of fne Arts has
-FOUR hundred new pictures and sculptures on
exhibition.
IT isssid that anybody of ordinary capacity
can learn to execute the new process OF em.
balming in few minutes II one doesn't
choose to practise upon himself perhaps be
can dnd an accommodating friend. Pleas.
ing prospects.
THg rapid growth of the West is shown BY
railway earniugs in that section in the most
striking manner. In four years thirteen
roads show an increase Of so per cent. in their
traffic.
DECATUR CIll.) lady adverti.es for a bus.
band, who must be handsome. we'll of, TEN.
Perate, anti.tobacco, and 60 to church regular.
ly, The lady is twenty.seveu, fair and good.
looking, and possesses enough filthy lucre ~
Mr. MARSHALL P WILD, Of Boston, was Mr..
Dickens ticket agent during his readings
Ere he babe his farewell, Mr.. Dickens &C.
knowleged the value Of his agents services
" making him prr'ent of a check for
$50.
ABEAUTIFUL mass Of fosslized sea. shells
has just been discovered 10 Paterson, y. J.
They will be deposited in the rooms Of the
Historical Society.
THE plsybills Of Ford's Theatre, In Wash.
ington, on the night of the assassination Of
the President Lincoln, now command $40
each, and are purchased at that price by ''col.
lectors' in New York city.
In addition to the parochial Catholic clergy
in Paris, the following confessors are support.
ed by the govern ment for the religious con.
solution of foreigners: Germans, ID; English.
sisPanish, Italians, 4 Poles 3 Flemish, 2
An Indian paper proposes that hereafter,
Instead fshyiug Let US sing the DOxology, y
the minister shall say, Let US put on over.
coats, adjust furs, slip on gloves, seize oul
hats and be dismissed"
IL the United States, In 1860, the Who'll,
number OF copies of newspapers circulated
during the year was o27, 95l, 5IS The nnpu
OIL circulation snrw estimated at l. 800 900.
600 In Grent Bitan the annual circulation
OF tho hew'phpers Is o'timated at 500, 900, 900
In fifteen years about IL, 500 children have
been sent from New York city to the Wes,
and placed In good bones. In that time. also
the New York Newsboys' Home has provided
partially for 81, 5O7 boys, and restored 4 900 to
relatives and friends. and at n cost Of s6J. 600
(which the boys paid about SIS 900.
IL The SUPERIOR COURT in New York, OF
Wednesday, juror was drawn in n case tha
TOOK nearly the day to try, and when tn,
Jurors bal retired for elaboration, eleven o
their number learned that their twelth com rads
could not understand word Of English. lie
answsred "Yaw," however in giving hi,
verdict
The HAWAIIAN EVANGELICAL Board have
Issued call for convention of all the mis-.
sions in the Pacific, to be held In Honolulu
In the month Of JuLe. 1870 The occasion
WIZ be the semi.ceDtenial anniversary of the
1stablishment Of missions on the Hawaiian
Islands.
NohhEsroNDEST Of the London TmsJ at
hthsns' mas lately been describing tho docad.
enoe oil oreece as compared with its ancient
activity and 'plendor, lie writes that now A
cart cannot pass along the road from P,los To
Sparta where q caTriRge amid ,rou.I ~