National Republican., 1877-10-09
NOTES AND FIHCIEs.

TIE Khan Of Bokhara threatens war against
Russia.
soMr Of the fixed stars emit iustrous
silver blaze.
JuPrrER's four moons may be seen with even
q good spy glass,
ENeLrsu journals agree that tho war has
gone far enough.
THE Bank of France will resume specie pay
ments January 1.
SALEM has daily-the Ere,ing Ners. It is
neat little sheet
A GEORGIAN pawned his shotgun to obtain
marriage license.
THE potato rot has appeared in several sec.
tions Of Nova Scotia.
mystery. -Roehcaer Democrat
BALTIMORE, II Is estimated, realized $780,
900 by the peach trade this season.
JOHN MoRRIssEy says Boss Tweed couldn't
lick postage stamp.-ROchester Erprcss
THE place to get spots knocked out of
things" Is a dye housc.-Boston Transcript
LEBANON COUNTY Pa, manufactured 5O6,-
go cigars during August, and sold IlS,0jO.
LANCASTER COUNTY Ia, raises more tobacco
than any other county In the United States.
KEsSEBEc (Me.) ice dealers are shipping
more Ice now than at any timo last summer.
SOME of the Western theatres don't burn
much gas now, the houses are so light without H.
IT Is proposed to remove tho well-known
Westminster school from London into the country.
VossIUs maintains that cannon were in.
vented In China In the reign OF kitey, In the year
A New HAMPSHIRE youth has been fined
$40 and costs for cruelty beating ducks What
widrake he must bel
FIVE THOUSAND Pennsylvania miners struck
THE New York Express.
RECENT reports show that agriculture makes
no progress in the French colonies Of Martinique
Guadaloupe and Cayenne.
THE Sacred Council of the Vatican refuse to
make a saint OF Columbus. But Columbus Ohio
will 20 Democratic, anyhow.
THE whisky bell punch has proved so sue
ccssfil In Virginia that Louisiana and Arkansas
are thinking Of adopting IT,
A MEMPHIS negro bought coat for Ave
dollars on credit, and sold 1t for fifteen cents in
cash, so rs to go to circus.
THOSE complaining Newfoundland fisher
total failure Of the cod.fshcry.
THE new hog disease In Georgia goes
through pen like an April sunbeam, leaving its
path strewn with grunts and bristles.
The Bank Of England, last week, had its
stock OF specie reduced by Withdrawals of 900
and the Bank Of France oft3,gOO,O00
THEY have had snow storm in the Shipka
Pass, and neither army had single snow shovel at
hand Some one has blnndercd again.
THE Roger Williams monument, in Roger
Tuesday, 10th instant The procession will be en-.
tirely Masonic.
Four HUNDRED men are working on full
time in the railroad shops at Remove. Ten locomo
being repaired.
THE Brooklyn Eagle looks with alarm upon
| the brilliant weddngs of the country as a Sign
that we drifting Into arisocracy and the idocie
| OF the Old World.
| PRoHIBTTIoNIsr estimates that about
fln nm is xnandpI ypnrly In this trN
for rum than the total gross earnings Of all oul
| railroads amount to.
Coop advice from the Petersburg Rura
Messenger: The tobacco planters will have to st
around pretty lively this month, as well US th'
cotton and peanut farmers"
THE sudden appearance Of q solitary skunk
In the Fall River Academy of Music the othe
esens Sowe RH sh " the midst
HEARING was suddenly acquired by Johr
Burt, Of Crow Point, N. Y, by an explosion In
mine He had been deaf and dumb since hi
birth. He is now slowly learning to talk.
THE hog crop of Iowa will, It is estimated
mount to over 10000 this year. Heavy corn and
ah eat crops and the certainty of plenty Of porl
wught to guarantee us against very hard times fl
ohe near future.
of a man in Vermont. Pane in his stomach. prob
ahly.-Grdphfc. Or probably a gla. too much-
Bofon Fod. Wanted more light pcrhaps.-Adrer
tising GUIDE. Champagne, without doubt.
| lHE extreme DANGER W amateur steam cngl
neering was exemplihed at studortown, Ohio
where three men put new portable steam saw
mill together, got up n terrible head Of steam, an
were within Few hours blown between 800 an,
1000 feet and torn to bloody shreds.
In the first seventeen days OF Septembe
2l5OO0 drinks were registered In Richmond. Va
This is at the rate of 200 day in population
AOOO-sbOut third Of drink To n person, or on
drink to three persons. This will never do. Ia
triOtism requires at least one drink day, If th
State debt is to be paid.
A PARIS paper gives the following particu
lars on trade In books In ancient times: "Th
book trade was highly esteemed: The shop Of
librarian In Athens wRs place Of meeting for IN
Idle aud for wits. There the author OF the latel
publication gave public reading Of It; literar,
, artistic and even political matters were dscusse
without the slightest mOlestation the part of tn
police, hence the taste for aud the price Of booi
; went up Pythagoras' Treatses were sold for 9.lI
francs FOR single copies; It was the material upo
(which books were written that made them then
dear. The prices fell when tho secret Of parchmet
was found out. At Rome the bookstores were kc-
in perfect order and with n certain elegance, Ill
0 our own, Inscriptions aud notices covered the e.
terror Of the shops inside the volumes were car