The national Republican., 1869-02-23
PEN. PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

LEG u not IN ihNor OF tne new movement
ArrArRs In Wall street are said to wear q
threatening aspect.
THEY are killing mad dogs by the score In
the neighborhood Of Charlottesville, Va.
JERSEY CrTr refuses to exempt church
property from taxation.
SINCE January /, 1859, 7,706 emigrants
have arrived at New York.
THE board Of health Of Santiago dc Cuba
declares that port free from epidemic.
NoBoDr appears to believe the Worlds
story that the murderer Of DR.. Burdell has
confessed. ..... .....
DEATH from hydrophobia has induced |
the authorities Of Patterson, N. j., to order |
the slaughter Of all dogs found running at
large.
GERMAN laborers are being largely intro
duccd into South Carolina, and the planters |
say they prefer them 10 the free colored meu |
rs plantation hands.
NEVER were there so many important rail- |
road enterprises, designed 10 foster the trade
OF Boston, before the Legislature Of Massa-
chusetts rs at the present time.
Gov. LEroHER claims TO be the author Of
that part OF the new Virginia movement In
relation TO universal suffrage and universal
amnesty.
THE people Of Janesvilie, Wis, have
almost unanimously recommended the ap-
polntmcnt Of a lady to the post office at that
place.
JESSE ALLEN and James Lyons, two noto-
rious robbers In Hartford jail, awaiting SON
tence, recently escaped, and New York fears
further addition TO Its already too nu-
merous community Of thieves.
IT mas transplred that all the victims Of
trichinmosis In New York had been In the
habit Of eating raw sausage and raw pork In
other shapes, and hence the trlchine, which
are voracious parasites Of innniteslmal size,
were taken into their bodies to feed at will.
THE Ohio steamboat inspectors have re-
ported, after q full investigation, that the
late collision between the steamers America
and United States could have been avoided,
and they have revoked the licenses OF the
pilots.
HARTFORD, Conn, has an interesting big
| amy case. Jacob @. Holman, In 1868, mar
| ried lady In Baton Rouge. Going TO Hart
| ford, he woocd and won a fair widow named
Barbara Gaus. He meanwhile kept wife No.
| l at his mothers, In New York, and alter
mated between Hartford and New York until
a few days ago, when wife No. 1, suspectlng
something wrong, followed her lord TO Hart
ford and found him with her rival. A scene
followed, and Hoffman fed, but was arrested
In New Bedford, and now both the deceived
and will help him TO residence In the pcni-
tentlary.
THE Marlboro (Md.) Gazstte predicts the
most favorable results from the building OF
the Point Lookout railroad. It says that
men of recognized probity and intelligence
endorse the project by liberal Subscriptions.
Hon. II. @. 5. Key, Of St. Mary's county,
has taken twenty-four shares at 800 each.
PRorAsE SWEARING Is abominable. Vulgar
language Is disgusting. Loud laughing Is
Impolitc. Inquisitiveness Is offensive. Tat
tling Is mean. Telling lies Is contemplate.
slander is devllish. Ignorance Is disgrace
ful, and lazlness is shameful. Avoid all the
above vices, and aim at usefulness. This is
the road by which TO become respectable.
Walk in ID. Never be ashamed Of honest
labor. Pride Is q curse-a hateful vice.
Never act the hypocrite. Speak the truth at
all times. Never be discouraged, but perse-
we're. and mountains will become mole hills.
IN 1880 the aggregate shipment Of anthra-
cite coal from the Pennsylvania mines TO the
seaboard was 104, ,734 tons. Since then the
increase has been gradual, and In 1868
reached the enormous amount OF 10, ,333, 720
tons. During the whole thirty-eight years
iiye only show q decrease over any former
one. In 1884, 1888, 1857, 1851 and 1865
there was a slight FILLING of, but each Of
these periods were exceptional epochs In
I
general thing, been very steady.
The srIsEcKE WILL CAsE.-In the case OF
the Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania agai INST
DR.. Paul schoeppe, Of Carlisle, Pa, an or
der was passed by the Judge Of the court Of
Cumberland county, Pa, by consent Of
counsel, TO take the testimony Of physicians $
examination Of the body Of the late Miss
Maria NJ. stlnecke, before John 0'Donnell,
eeq., Justice Of the peace Of Baltimore, The
| examination took place on Saturday last.
Miss Marin NJ. Stlnecke, Of Baltimore, aged
seventy.on years, died suddenly at Carlisle,
Pa, on the 2sth OF December last, without
any apparent cause of death. She was bu.
. ried In Grecnmount cemetery, In Baltimore,
on the 3oth Of December, and the body was
dlsinterred on the 10th Of February Instant
for a post mortem examination which had
been ordered by the executors Of the will OF
the deceased, VIM. A. Stewart. esq, and ].
, Russell Kelso, Jr. r
! Prof. VIM. L. Aiken and DR.. J. s. Conrad,
, Of Baltimore were employed 70 make the
! cluded on Friday last. Its object was to dis.
cover, If possible, the cause Of death.
The prisoner, DR.. Paul Schoeppe, who ID
4 under arrest and In Jail, Ia physician OF
Carlisle, aged about twenty-eight years. lie
attended the deceased, Miss stlnecke, at
d Carlisle, and Is charged with administering
poison to his patient.
On the same day that the will of Miss
Stinecke, dated November II, 1868, was nd.
!. mitted to probate In the Orphans Court, DR..
Schoeppe presented paper purportlng to be
O later will, dated December o, 1868. The
4 latter will was written by DR.. schoeppe and
b witnessed by himself and his father. It be.
: Queathed aud devised TO him CDR. schoeppe)
all the estate OF the deceased, valued al
| nhn AA MI ia nin
ecutor Of the will. On petition of Dr.
Schoeppe, a writ OF habeas corpus was Is.
sued, returnable before the Judge of the
Cumberland county court of Pennsylvania,
on Tuesday, when the testimony taken al
post mortem examination will be produced
This testimony will show the discovery ol
arsenic in the stomach, and no other appa,
rent cause Of death. All the evidence
, points to DR.. Schoeppc's guilt Of the murder
EXCITEMENT IN CATHOLIC CHuRcu.-A
telegram from Auburn, N. Y, says that on
: Sunday there was great excitement In a
Catholic church there. II seems that large
number Of members Of the church assembled
to resist the action Of Bishop McQuade In re.
moving their old pastor, Father o'Flaherty,
who has labored among them for the past
: twenty-three years, and to whom large ma.
b. jority Of the Catholics Of that city are
. warmly attached. The people Of the assem-,
blage resolved themselves Into a meeting,
and unanimously condemned the action OF
the bishop, and refused to permit him or his
appolntee, the Rev. Mr.. Kayanagh, to say
mass In their church. A large number,
pushing their way to the altar and taking
y the latter by the arm, led him out Of the
. church.
At one time II was feared that violence
would be committed on him, but Father
O'Flaherty prevented II. After the Bishop
. and Father kayanagh LEFT the church, the
$ assembly unanimously resolved to hold an
~, other meeting, and over one thousand
4 Catholics assembled and passed resolutions
3 declaring their determination to stand by
\ y their old pastor, and strongly condemning
I the action OF the Bishop and expressing
: their determination to no longer submit to
u the abuses OF what they termed some man
D.. power In the United states," but appeal at
!, once to the ecclesiastical authorities of the
= country, and, II necessary, to the Pope.
{ Addresses were made by influential Catho-
! lies sustaining the resolutions which, on q
y vote. weFe ndopted without n disaentInp