The national Republican., 1869-01-27
PEN, PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

JoHN ALLEN, "the wIckedest msn,n has
Joined division ofthe Sons Of Temperance.
PLowlNo cLuBs are reported to be popular
In Canada.
TaE base ball season has already commenced
10 Texas.
Hupsos COUNTY, N. j., wants a New Eug.
land Society.
TgrRx are rumors Ia New York that the
smallpox 10 again prevalent.
week.
HuHTsvILLE, Ala, 10 to have a normal
school,
A YOUNG lady in Hastings, MINI, has been
made insane BY "Planchette," and has been
taken TO an asylum.
BuyyALo brewed last year ls0,osl barrels Of
1857.
THE experiments Of throwing Cambridge
University, England, open to the admission Of
young lady students 10 to be tried this year.
9eorge Francis the "roaring martyr OF the
English Bastile.n
MISS EurIon POLAND, of Ipswich, Mass,
entered upon her esth year on the nth instant:
isa Her health MI y ;sia to be remarkably good, and
how cold the weather.
THE aquatic fraternity Of Poughkeepsie and
thereabouts have had some rare sport In their
iee.ooas races on the CLASSY surface OF the
TIE New York Herald predict. that within
the next four years, In all probability, as a
territorial deleyate to begin with, We shall
have man In Congress from each Of the Mex.
THH Boston people have a regular reoepts-
Gle for the city ofal, where proper chemical
appliances destroy all foul smells, and where
good proht.
TIM Louisville Courisr-J -Journaiju Judges, "from
speeches on the gallows, murderers, In proper
tion to number, have q much larger represen-
tstion 10 heaven than any other class ofhumsn
THE Ohio Senate has. passed a bill raising
Court from 5000 to $4,000, The Cincinnati
Gdzeffc says the amount 10 still too small, and
urges tS,o6o-sil the reasons for q less amount
being mean and shabby.
Gov. HAYES has communicated to the Ohio
Legislature the memorial for repairing the
rison, with a Recommendation that the State
posed.
AT BALLAnAr, Australia, Il 10 asserted, two
taken out OF the space now covered BY streets
and housea for the abode and trafne oil popu-
lation OF 10000 people.
GEO, W. wrERs, Of weliheet, Mas, com.
fsf sie1SsRP Il GsS Ps.T1h phs n. sSR 81 R,Gs.fiS sspS
| operator, leader OF band and member Of the
| school and town committees.
TnH State Comptroller Of New Jersey gives
Ss q. 81 ss RTopssst IN 'Gs
crease Of t27 l2o,o3I over the valuation OF 1907
The valuation 10 Camden county 10 placed at
ho 500 900; in Burlington county at t7S, ,osi ,e5i,
and In Cape May county at u, 200, 900.
THE Esston (Pa.) ErPress states that = wo'
man 10 that place, during IRE In her house,
seized r.S What she supposed w.s her child and
tInsuished she went lat into III The % bedroom DIR % and and
| there, to her astonishment, found her IN FAINT
lnpoeently sleeping In the cradle; then, and
only then, DID she discover that she had been
tenderly hugging pillow.
A GOOD pair Of legs, after a bold robber at a
| moments warning 10 good thing for q bank
clerk to have. They have such a clerk at the
Park Bank, New York, and the value OF his
legs was FULLY proved on Saturday last In re.
thief.
The Cleveland Pidindeaier Is In no wise CON.
piimentary to tax gatherers. 1t says OF them
that they are not, as rule, honest; that they
take illegal fees where they do not openly
steal that, as a rule, they all swell their In.
Some s s 10 making an unlawful profit by irIegu.
or less corrupt Is not denied"
| DAVIS, the murderer of Skinner, at Cleye.
land, received the Intelligence that the Su.
preme Court refused new trial without a
| tremor or even a change OF countenance. lie
seems to think that there will be no use 10 at
tempting to get a scommutation OF his sentence.
HIS wife, who has heretofore been denied ad.
husband once or twice week.
THE newest story about the murderer Of Mr..
| Rogers 10 this: A wellknown lawyer OF this
city called on the coroner and informed him
that three years ago he was called upon to de.
lend three desperate characters, who were
sent to State prison for an attempted bur.
gl.ryi that having served out their time there
they were released about the hrst OF Decem.
Der, and that his (the lswyer's) clerk saw
these same desperadoes prowling about
Twelfth street and Uniyerslty place, where
the murder was committed. Said clerk is
positive one of them wore a coat correspon nd.
Ing with the portion Of the one torn from the
back Of the ASSASSIN by the murdered man,
and thinks he could Identify the man without
dinieulty-ifhe he could see him.
THE Boston Traveller put the liquor question
IN the following strong light "The spitituou.
liquors sold by retail dealers in the United
teen millions OF dollars, while all the property
fall the religious denominstions In the coun
try 10 less than two hundred millions. The
actual profits OF the retail liquor traffic are
more than three times as much as the whole
| expense OF religious Instruction, and several
times greater than the entire cost of public
| education In the United States. It 10 moi
strange that our prisons and poor-houses are
| crowded, and that crime everywhere abounds
| II 10 not strange that the dealers In this gigan
| tic traffic, who share these enormous gains
should wiekedly consplre together to defraud
| the Government out Of millions Of revenue
and that they should openly defy all laws and
What othreyil, or sum . evils hsI ever dared
thus to challenge every legal form Of justice
What other so prolific ! source Of poverty and
| crime In all the States ~
GENERAL CusTER's RAID ON BLACK KEr.
TLR's CAhP.-The following dispatch has Jus,
been received at the headausrtefs OF the army
from Fort Cobb, Indian Territory, through
Lieut.. General Siberian, commanding Mill
taty Division of tho Missouri:
FoRT Conn, ]. T., Dec. 81. ls6s.-Lieut. Gen
erdl Sherman, U. S. AMY Dear Generali
notice the papers are stating that Black Ket.
ties camp, destroyed by Custer, were peace
able Indians, on their way to their reservation
| In his talk with me some Ave or six days be.
fore he was killed, Black Kettle stated that
many OF his men were then on the war.path
and that their people did not want peace with
the people above the Arkansas. His people
were those engaged In the trouble on the Solo
mon, and their reservation was not In thiI
section OF the country at all.
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