The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-02-04
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lections from the heads Of exchanges
patriotic and other moitoes--to string
them together ms beads 80 as to pres
eht In brief, d synopses Of what is GO
ing Oh IN tlewspapersdom. Indeed
the motto III many instances ID the
paper itself, md when you have The
motto, you have It's politics, its relig-
ion and its literature. Here II Tie
best we have met lately, and 1t is suf-
ficiently good to let II stand by itself
and speak for itself. The motto 1T
the head Of the council bluffs Bugle
"a California paper) is, Terms three
dollars truth tho ,efushe1, will rise
again II paid for In advance. '--4-------
Some few days ago We published n
notice Of the death of Mr.. Mason our
Minister to France. AT the time we
had not convenient leisure to write an
appropriate obituary bit inatle mem
ofandnm TO chat effect. on the slate !.
now we find that Mr.. Mason IL very
well, and u is doubtful whether lie
has been sick or not. This tireum-
Stance calls to mind The fact, that we
have now lin type q lengthy obituary
Of prominent citizen Of New Orleans,
which has been standing since the
epidemic Of 1863 When the dread
ful scourge was at It's hight that year,
telegraph news came to us that $3.50
was dead. A gentleman kindly vol
nnteefed to write us ati crbitiary, and
II was actually III type aud ready for
the paper before the fhllacy Of the
telegraph was discovered4-------At|
pekin. whei, an editor inserts any
false intelligence, the possibility Of Its
repetition is renewed by the ren,opedi
ofhts heut I What sad thing II
would be for come q our cotetnporar-
les IL sueh were The case IN this coun-
tty.---The Uoston Courier says
that money ia much more abundant
In that city, and the prediction on
change Is, that The rites will be down
to six per cent. Before the close Of
February nest..-4------'rhe Spanish
Government is said to look very cold.
ly Oh the English proposals to enlist
soldiers for the war. The Duke Of
Sevilliano succeeds Coronado az Min.
lister Of Finance. ----1'liere are no
less than fifteen banks for savings In
The city Of New York .-----1n la
vana, there is a late police regulation
of the city, which requires that when
two persons meet on the sidewalk
that the party with his left to the wall
shall leave the pavement to The other
coming from m opposite direction
but cuprcd people shall III al cases
give way to whites, under penalty
Of three. dollars.
CosruME.--'Never pull Out gray
hair said gentleman TO his daugh-
ter, "aa two generally come to The
II don't care how mauy
come to the funeral, If they only come
dressed In black. - Bayard
Taylor, in one of his lectures on In.
dia, says.
Fifty thousand Europeans there
rule one hundred and fifty million {
ll'ndoos. Their government is by |
some painted in too bright, and others Z
n toe high colors.- 80 Tho river
ell eighteen inches at Vicksburg from |,
saturday to "Wednesday haiti. a
Miss kirkpatrick, aunt to the Countess \
lo Montjo, and grand aunt to Tho Elm. :
'ress Eugenia, died recently ut her i
near Dnmfrios, ii Scotland.
q her soth year.-------At d meeting
4 the Spanish Gas Light Company, Il
eeentlvl1eld in Havana, JsMrs Euone o