Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-10


ers this season.
The Fall River cotton mills, It Is said,
have q total of l,205, 800 spindles, or more
than any other city In this country. The
number Of looms is 27,0l5 About Sl4 O0O,-
600 is invested In the mills.
A CHARLESTON man committed suicide the
other day, because he had eaten so many
reed birds that he was unable to devour the ,
specially fine one that he had reserved for the ,
last
A MURDERER, who has been confined In an
Illinois Jail for thirteen months under SEN
tence of death, when asked II he hoped for a
communication Of his sentence, replied that 'be
was not given to building castles In the air"
An inuoceutmiuded Brooklyn girl said 10
a gentleman the other night 1.-THE mosqul-
toes arc terrible; / wish you could see my
back II wish | could, was the quiet re-
ply.
JONES and Brown were talking lately OF a
young clergyman whose preaching they had
heard that day. what do You think OF
asked D Brown so ,o think said !SHSSs
he didn't preach then, said Brown iTrue,"
said Jones, that ls what mean
do LEWIS gives az account Of how he sub
sisted for week on hfty-four and quarter
cents. We can believe all about his oatmeal
porridge and beans, but when he says he ate
half Of q small lobster which cost three cents,
BosToS girls are up TO everything. One
OF them at twenty years Of age, Ia In the In
dian Territory publishing q paper In the |
Choctaw Language. Her younger sister Ia |
thinking Of going to China there to publish |
journal In the Chinese tongue.
A DANBuRr man, whose wife has been dead |
three years, observed the anniversary with
supper to a select party Of friends Saturday
night. The affair passed OIL In very agree
| able manner, aud the party separated at
| late hour 10 the best OF humor.
THREE gentlemen In Wisconsin, who wish
| to vote for OConor, desire the use Of seven
other names to make up an electoral ticket;
and yet thls very reasonable request has
been negatively answered by two OF the
seven, while another responds that he don
care d-n."
F. D. PALMER, the Albany sculptor, Ia pre-
pairing for his first visit TO Europe. He Is now
over sixty years old, and Il Is his Just pride
that his genius Is Of wholly native growth,
unuurtured by the inspiration Of the elder
ages.
JULIA sCHENCK MEYERS, Of st. Louis, was
married to her Grst husband eight years ago,
and last Monday followed her fourth to the
grave. She has buried each one, and, being
still young aud blooming, is ready for another
| funeral.
FREpERICK KAPP, formerly a lawyer and
q commissioner OF emigration In New York
city, Is likely, II Ia said, To DO appointed
project Of police In Berlin, Germany, where
khe now resides. lie Is 4 member Of the Ger
man Parliament
> A NIECE Of Daniel Webster married for
! money some years ago. She Is now keeping
. a lodging house In Boston, while her husband
superlntends Ash stand.
} Mn. boutwell, says Mr. Greeley asked him,
3 during the past three years and half to do
! twelve things inconsistent with each other,
, and either OF which, done In Me way proposed,
would be fatal TO the business interests OF the
country.
SENATOR Pool, of South Carolina, gives q
! cheering account Of the political situation
lie Ia quite gu e that the electoral vote will bC
} cast for Grant, aud u the October elections gC
h right the majority will be large, and the Dem
Ocrats will break away from Greeley and 50
% for O'COn0r In large numbers.
J; nSR Of the largest chains ever manu-
II featured In this country Is to he made at tn,
Massa chusetts State prison. 1t will be mad
Of iron two and quarter inches In diameter
and there will be three hundred links, eacl
Of which will weigh about fifty pounds. |
lsIoT use on a marine railway at East BOs
ton.
~ OsBoENE P. ANDERSON, one Of the two sol
Q. survivors of the armed party under IOhl
T. Brown, who made the famous attack Ol
Harper's Ferry, Is now an invalid In Boston
tv stricken with 0 fatal disease, penniless anD
4. In debt. lie was the only cOlored man Il
that aft cir who escaped with his life, brave
ID stAlwart mulatto on whom Brown place
!, mucn reliance.
- Two Germans lately fought a duel nca
m Finsbury Park, London, with dagger.kniv
standing at arms length and toe to toe. Ate
ID twenty minutes severe fighting one Of ther
ID received an ugly gush from the corner Of hi
=. mouth to his ear, when the seconds stoppe
", the affair, and the wounded man was carrie
h. to the hospital. As usual, woman was III
lu cause Of the fight.
q THR Lexington Caucasian achieves TIL
h. obituary notice; "Her Alice Brannln, Len
ny Jacobs and EmmA Ware; and her Bettl
Vance, whose sister angels, pining at he
Is absence, recently hoRted down on jewele
Of pIniOns and bore her back TO her native skie
Oh have all been known from the great river /
o. o. the sea, as pre-eminently lovely types {
~ radiant young glrlhood."
IL An English member of Parliament, In e.
81 planning the patronage question to his col
AZ stltutiOn, remarked when say that theI
", are over $50 liberal members In the House
~ Commons, all Of them striving TO obtain slit
atoms for their friends, and that 100 Of theI
ie. may be applying for one Situation, you wi
cd understand how difficult q task the Govern
" ment have TO perform In the distribution q
W. their patronage
he A TITUsvILLR wife placed toy snake /
In her husbands boot the other morning, al
60, then could hardly get breakfast because
he her snlckerlng at his performances when
II; discovered II. He first looked In the miro
.O then went and threw his demijohn OF old y
,St into the mill race. Hedrapk thirteen cups
nv coffee at breakfast, and for several evening
q afterwards astonIshed his children by goln
he to bed at nine o'clock each night.
oi AN Idle, aimloss life, says newspaper co
cd respondent, life of waiting for the Bird
he groom, and the bridegroom doesn't com
'er would make any woman on earth queer an
int cross, and sharp.pOlnted old maidsh In
ny word, | should think II would be enough
gu make even a man Old-maidlsh or crazy.
od don't wonder that elderly single women tai
in to oats and dogs aud things while they llV
he and leave queer, crazy Wills when they die
iy DION BOUcICAULT says there Ia dlfferep,
vo between the old theatre and the new.
Olden times real life was comparatively Qule
and people went to the theatre for excit
lot. ment and for elevation OF thought; but no
On the existence Of every day Is 40 feyerish III
people attend the theatre, not for excitemen
" but relief from lt-nOt TO think, but 10 escal
md from thought. Judging from modern pla.
and play-goers the popular playwright b
IL. hit the mark this time.
NEVER put anything on paper II you CT
Vs. avoid II" Is very old and excellent piece
advice, and Il is gratifying To flnd that such
nj. distinguished dlplomatlst rs Prince GOrtsch
ar kOf adds the weight Of bis experience to
value. According TO the Berlin Nation
Gazette, the Russian Prince has expressed
an lluhkflOub peIeOuugo Jus pTOlOunu bht
ar faction that the recent Interviews Of the Fl
nd perors and their Ministers resulted In no wrl
~ ten document
am THE Roanoke Times publishes the folloN
H. Ing bit Of rhyme, evidently from tue pen
TO some fellOw-mOrtal who justly appreclat
i as the great sin Of cheating the printer
os. The man who cheats the printer
IA Out Of 4 single cent
ion win never reach the heavenly land,
In Where old Elijah went
I9d lie will not gain Rdmittance theTej
I" By devils he'll be driven,
,h' And made to loaf his tlme away
nm, Outside the walls Of Heaven.
20; Without man to greet him,
us without q pleasant grin,
Tly The happiness that he will reap
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