The national Republican., 1869-06-16
PEN. PENCIL AND sCIssoRs

THERE were ninety six arrivals In the port
Of Chicago one day last week.
QUINCY, ILL, forblds the driving Of vclo.
cipedes on Its sidewalks.
The grain prospect throughout Europe Is
excellent.
The 81. Paul Dispatch thinks pretty much
all Sweden Is going to Minnesota.
MONTREAL Is to be ornamented with fine
statue Of Queen Victoria.
WESTERN farmers offer prize for the best
grasshopper trap.
"MorHER.HuBBARD" is the attraction at
Wallack's, New York, this week.
CAMERON COUNTY, Pa, Is experimenting
In grape culture.
A CITIZEN Of Alexandria has hen that
lays nine eggs per week.
A MONEY PRESSURE In Kentucky Is closing
many the Bourbon county distlllerles.
BASE BALL is lively this week In Brook.
lyn.
WHEAT, in northern Wisconsin, promises
an abundant harvest.
The insane asylum for Southern Illinois is
to be located at Anna, Union county.
AN old indian burying ground has been |
discovered near Port Jervis, New York.
TIE English Presbyterians have estab- |
THE Ecumenical Council will meet in |
Rome. It is expected to last until 1870.
THE citizens of wilmington, Delaware, |
are about to enjoy the Turkish bath.
Strawberries are selling at two cents a
quart In some parts OF southern Illinois.
CYNTHIA, Kr., has erected %, ,25O monu-
ment to tho memory Of confederate soldiers.
The citizens Of Newark, N. j., have voted
TO have street cars run on Sunday.
The twenty-five cent carriages in the New
York Central Park have proved q success.
ONE hundred thousand persons will be IN
Boston this week.
MERrDES, Connecticut, has nine one.legged
men.
MIsrIc, Connecticut, Is about TO build
gun-boats-
EAsToN, Pa, is to have an envelope man
ufactory.
COMMON WINE in the wine growing re-
gions OF California is cheaper than milk, and
Is more freely used.
A REPUBLICAN paper of Virginia claims
that there are not less than 5000 white Re-
publicans In the State.
The Warrenton Hdcz claims that II every
person In Fauquier registers, the whites WI
have majority at the next election.
HARTFORD is indignant because 1t is sug-
gested by the Connecticut Legislature to
govern 1t with comm 'ssioners.
PRiscE ARTHUR makes visit to Canada,
probably extended to the Ur'ted Stitcs, this
summer.
ALI-e ANY CITY, Pa, has five thousand
five hr1dred licensed places where liquid
damnation is dealt out In the form Of spirit
uous liquors.
HEN In Genroio bo Ia "a n ., os,s, i,, criho od
"Woe to r. B. Bullock" From which the
Detroit Tribune infers tIat the hen who laid
such an egg belonged to the cluck clucks.
IL Williamsburgh, L. l., there is a man
one hundred and twenty-seyen years old. He
is weaver by trade, aud thou III too feeble
to work, is still lively.
THE Third regiment of the iaryland Ma.
tlonal Guard has been ordered to 20 into q
camp OF instruction for five days from the
I'd to the Sth Of June.
GEN. CANDY has issued an order directing
the new Court of Appeals of ' ilginia to as.
semble on Tuesday, July 90, fer the trans.
action OF such business as ma y be brought
before 1t.
SAYS the Tribune: can Epg!ishman can
do pothing without dinner , an American
cPnnot stop to eat" With regard to the
} la:ter, perhaps not but just ask him to
| tthc uiiufs, uuu ncc WuuL IuCu.
STRAWBERRY growers In Pennsylvania and
Delaware find difficulty In getting enough
persons to pick the fruit. II Is SO plentiful
( that the growers will sell ( or what they c1u
get.
THE cattle in Switzerland mount to 000, ,00C
In number, and are valued 1t s42, 600 600, oil
about SAT head. The lows, $4,000 In
number, yield $50, 100000 of milk every
year.
IN many parts of Indiana the potato bug
are making fearful havoc among the pota
toes and tomatoes, and in some instances
they have deyoured the green leaves OF rec
| pepper.
y KING JAMES l was once entt Gated by hi
old nurte to make her son u gentleman
"Nae, nae, nurse" was the reply of tn
ye wull, but 1t Is beyond my power to max
. him q gentleman"
In 'Allcgan, Michigan, the other day,
woman named Simmons drowned two of he
children by holding them In shallow waite
until they were dead. The W, oman was al
> rested. She had been married to Simmon
orly three months.
The bonded debt of Brooklyn, New York
was increased %, ,OO0, 900 the pa at year, an
is likely to be increased o., ,000, o 90 more thl
ear. The taxes for the conf Dg year Ut
, $4,057,S79.
d JUDGE BOWLING, of New Yorl :, Is charge
with expelling from the Toon lbs court u
lawyers who do not belong to what is know
As the Toombs ring. A pereT aptCry maj
damus has therefore Issued to co ulpcl him
allow such attorneys to practice.
1T APPEARS that tho only plares in vi
ginia where whisky is manufact ured is !
Falmouth, Stafford county, and at Fret
erck's Hall, in Louisa. The distillerics
!, the vicinity Of Richmond, and ell sewhere
% the State, have all stopped work.
a A PROPOSITION is pending to abolish IL
theological seminary connected W ith OberI
College. The reason given Is tina compar;
lively few OF the college gradual es are no
studying for the ministry, and mo It of thos
= who do go to other seminarles.
+ A CORRESPONDENT of the lScicnt lqc Amer
can recommends as the safest nd casio
way to cXtingulsh kerosene laml J, to bio
q across to the top of the chimn ey, with
= quick, strong puff, directed upward, at
Il without altering the wick, either up or dow
. A JAPANESE colony now on Its way to Sa
Francisco are skilled silk an d tea cult
N yators, who propose TO buy 'Governmcl
land, set out $1,000 new mulber ry trees al
6,000, 900 tea roots. They will not be ID
posed on as the Chinese are, but will
prompt to resent indigrity and ol ,pression
Two hitherto peaceful and friendly nelgi
bors at johnson, Ind, got into n despera
"a fight the other day, in which one of the
had two Of his fingers bitten oil and Il
NJ other had one Of his ears chewed of and on
Of his eyes gouged out Had not friends il
terfered they would probably have killC
, each other.
I, THE practice of ignoring the law whe
supposed social dishonOr has been inaictet
1, allowing private revenge to take Its couri
without punishment, and dignifyng IL
murderer into hero, is becoming dangerou
Men and women must learn to rely upon IL
!; law for the protection and healing of the
d honor, or deeds of blood will become IL
rule instead of the exception.
An Australian letter, noticing the secOn
visit of Prince Arthur, inst n year after hi
attempted assassination there, says; "ie he
received cordial, but not very demonstri
tive or enthusiastic reception. The heads {
,. families complain that the presence of Il
y Prince furnishes an excellent excuse for the