Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-04-23
Rrcyities.

The Senate has confirmed Daniel E.
Siekles Minister to Spain. The vote
was-ayes, As; hays, l3.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven>
ton is to be held IN Columbus on the
first Wednesday in June 1870.
An editor Of paper in Indiana
wants to know if modern whisky was
ever seen comm thro' the rye"
A school teacher in San Francisco
has been sentehced to six months i'm
prisonment for furnishing pupil.
The biggest shoes for women made in
the Philadelphia market 90 to Utah;
the smallest are ordered from Havana.
A tantalizing old fellow in Nashville
has left six widows $4,000 apiece upon
condition that they shall never marry.
Canada is talking of issuing frac-
tional notes as a part of its scheme to
rid the country of foreign silver coin.s
A White Pine miner, who came east
on palace car, and slept with his boots
on, says the beds are 'soft as down on
maiden's lips.
The British naval authorities have.
suspended the brutal Capt Eyre, of
Bombay, for bis inhumanity in the
Oneida disaster.
4 Hartford Life Insurance Company
has granted policies to two men whose
hearts, tho surgeons have ascertained, !,
are on their right sides.
Governor Palmer, of Illinois. par
doned l08 convicts last year, including
four convicted of murder, and twelve
convicted of manslaughter.
The Emperor Of the French is now.
one of the largest landed proprietors in
Spain. lie has been buying land inI
that country for the last ten years.
1t is estimated that the cost of the
public schools- to the city of Boston,
the coming ydar will be one million
four hundred thousand dollars.
A Connecticut farmer recently kill
cd turkey that did not lay, and found
inside of her eleven Perfectly formed
eggs with perfect shells, and full size.
A New Orleans woman escaped q
commitment for drunkenness by in
forming the court that she had the
smallpox.
A sdaring thief in Norfolk, Va, the
other day entered the court-room dur
ing recess and stole "the seat Of jus |
tice."
Internal reg genue from tobacco id
Virginia during four years prior I'd
July |, 1869, were s2,386,980 !; those
for eight months of the present fiscal
year were s2,782.742.
A Missouri gentleman carries about
with him memento of lost brothef
in the shape of cane cut from the
tree on which hat relative was hanged
for horse stealing.
The question of instantaneous death
by the guillotib he is the subject of much
comment in France, and the public
press is deluged with correspondence
both pro and con.
The Quebec Mercury says that it ID
proposed to buy Ameaican silver in
Canada at five per cent. and sell il I'd
the United States, and that 81 900, 900
in half and quarter pieces have been
ordered.
"And Satan smote JOB with boils'
is now rendered. !: "And Satan smote
Job with circhmscribed subcutaneous
infammations characterized by pointed
tumors, aud suppurating with centra
cores"
A lady teacher was endeavoring I'd
impress upon Her pupil the terrible eff
feet of the punishment of Nebuchadt
nezzar, saying, "Seven years he ate
grass like cow" when q boy asked |.
did he give milkf"
Oh! my dear child, how came you
so wet? asked an affectionate mother
of her son. "Why, ma, one of the boys
said [ daresn't jump into the river
and, by.jingo, | tell you, ma, | amt to
be dared"
A ray of hope Illuminated the sous
of certain sick persons in Kentucky
the other day when two doctors wen
out to fight duel. But they made it
up on the field, and came back to their
usual method of slaughter.
A western school teacher received
the following note from one of her
scholars as an exuse for tardiness
"Baby cross Biscuit to Bake Had no
Bakcn powders the dog upset the cof
fee pot the cat licked in the Milk and
got up late Excuse" :"
The editor Of the Chicago Times, Q
few weeks ago. said that tho hair Of
some actresses then playing there was