National Republican., 1878-01-15

OF the Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry
odicefs which. was contncted In 1851.
The Allegheny postmastership Is still hang.
ing. as 10 were between hawk and buzzard.
GESEn.L Hoop is AGAIN tho father of.twins.
Hasnt this man yet given up the last causef
TnE new Union Depot At Pfttsburg cost
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company $4,000.
HAnRrsBuRG, Pa, Is trying James Ferguson,
one OF its lawyers, on the charge Of burglary.
Ex-GovERSoR FENToS, OF New York, has
taken up his winter quarters n the Arlington
Hotel.
THE allotment Of American space ut the
Paris Exposition will continue week or two
longer.
THE City Hall in san Francisco, with the
grounds. will havo cost, when completed, some
81 10000. '.s
Mr.. d. +. CALDWELL, Of Greensboro, n. C.,
whipped two baltimore drmmcrs at Sanford
SOMEBODY has sent General Sheridan q
baby jumper, accompanied with u compli-
mentary poem.
IT is said that the poet L,ngrcllow greatly
admired Professor Csskie Harrison's traiisla-
| ton from Horace.
HENRY THURsToN, q Missourinn, residing in
Titds County, Texas, is seven feet six inches
high In his bare feet.
MEs SoUTuwoRrHs forty fourth volume Is
announced by T. D. Peterson & Brothcrs-Tho
Phantom Wedding.
SKoBELEFF has hal six gray horses killed
under him, but he still persists in riding an
animal of that color.
| WESTERN editor returned n tailors bill
indorsed: Declined; handwriting illegible."-
Commercial AdreJtiser.
THE highest wages paid to trai,,-men on the
railways Of Austria arc given to engineers, aud
the amonnt Is 1927 year.
PATTERSON says his trouble Is sort OF
vertigo" II looks more like sort Of fear to
go toto South Caroiins.-Er.
| THE eldest granddaughter Of Queen Victoria
will be married at Berlin next month. Her
Majesty will not attend the ceremony.
GENERAL ROBERT PATTERSON, of Phladel-
phia, reached his eighty seventh year oil Sat.
urday last, and is still hale and hearty.
| Mn. JAMES 9. FLOOD, the San Francisco
banker, gave to various charitable institutions
Christmas gifts worth more than $1,000.
The mother of Governor Mccormick, com
missioner general To the Paris Exposition died
at Jamaica, Long Island few DAYS ago.
LIEUTESANr-CoMNASDE +. W. DrcKESs,
United States navy, has been ordered to duty
at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Nd.
PRESTON POWERS son of the late Hiram
Powers, is at work in Florence, Italy, upon a
statue of Hon. Jacob Collamer, of Vermont.
THE King of Sweden has new palace car,
made in Wilmington, Del, and is able now to at
tend to his correspondence when he travels.
| KENTUCKY proposes to pay off her debt
through the whisky bcll-punch. II will take
about five minutes to liquidate II in that way
WILLIAM PENN wrote a message n, Coy
ernor of Pennsylvania that made only twelve
lines. William Penn was q great and good
man.
DURING the present year the Cnitcd States
sent l05,0OO,OO yards of cotton goods abroad,
ten times moro than was exported tho year
before.
AT Tracy City, Tenn, last week, John Man.
gus, baker, closed himself up in his own
oven, and was baked to dcath-crematcd to
cindcr.
FLoRIDA's champion old man is George
Willis, of Bedford County, who claims to be
l05 years old and the father Of twenty -ono
children.
| 'SQUIRE MAYEs, Of Washington County, Pa,
has married 1,269 couples, and the young
women begin to look upon him as q public
benefactor.
| OLD Thomas Parr was eighty when he first
married. and he became the father of two
children. That was his method of setting his
house in order.
OLIVE LOGAN insists that young girls and
| old men shall not marry each other. Olive Is
right but We don't see how the old men are
to help themselves.
THE Bishop of Colombo is an accomplished
person. On two successive days he preached
in four churches in four different languages
Cingalcse, BurghcrS, IA kind of Dutch Portu.
guese, and Tamil.
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