Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-01-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

about mad dogs at Evansville
Indiana.
; The Leland brothers have leased
the Delavan House at Albany fol-
! ten years, at rent Of $4,000 year
~ The tunnel on the Albany and
Susquehanna railroad will BIZ finished
on The LIST Of June next. 1t will be
1900 feet long. u H. ~
There are 2o2 daily, tri-weekly
and weekly papers published on the
Pacific coast at this time. One
hundred and fifty Of them are printed
in California.
Among other novel sights in
tended to amuse or interest the
crowds which flock to Paris during
the universal exhibition, six bull
fights are spoken of.
General CoIston is lecturing on
Stonewall Jackson in Norfolk, Va,
but the houses are SO small as TO
cause the newspapers from which we
take the notice to "blush for the peo-
pie of the city,"
Take wine-glass full of eau de
co<ogne, and another of lemon juice,
then scrape two cakes of Windsor
soap to a powder, and mix we'll in a
mold when hard it will BIZ an ex-
cellent soap for whitening The hands
The war indemnity of twenty mil
lion thalers, which Austria paid TO
Prussia for the pleasure of being
whipped, was conveyed to Berlin
in a special railroad express train,
abundantly guarded. The whole
amount was paid in silver. 1t was
loaded by the ton, and took twenty
six men to count it. - -......
There are in Pennsylvania sixty
newspapers that are printed in the
German language, of which seven
are dailies, eleven are devoted to re-
ligious discussions, and of the secu-
lar papers fortyone are published
weekly. The editors and publishers
of the German press are holding a
convention at Harrisburg. ~
The one hundredth consecutive
performance OF the ''Black Crook" at
Niblo's Garden was signaled by a
change OF costumes by all the people,
and various additions and improve
ments. The receipts thus far have
been S53,6l2, and the profit for three
months is said to have been slS5,l12,
to be divided among Messrs. Wheat
ley, jarrett and Palmer.
A New York correspondent says
that Mr.. Beecher's Led ger story is not
a new idea on the part Of that gentle.
man. He has had the plan in his
mind for many years, and 10 his novel
will devote himself more especially to
those moral and social subjects which |
ne cannot handle with sufficient free
dom in the pulpit.
General Lucius J. Gartrell is named |
for next Governor Of Georgia.
The Pope is said to favor the an.
nexation of Canada to the United
States.
"Mark Twain" the humorous
writer, is on his way from California
to the East. He is son of ex-Gov
ernor Clemens, Of Kentucky.
Ross Winans, of Baltimore, built
the Nicholas railroad from St. Peters.
burg to Moscow, and made eight mil
lion dollars annually while it was be
ing constructed.
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham, who
was reported among those lost on
the Evening Star, is at present resid.
ing in San Francisco, where she
seven years ago married gentleman
named Hayes.
Susan Denim, married her fifth
husband at Albany, last week.
Mr.. Peter Curley has the distinction
Of being No. S.
Rosa Celeste, the rope walker,
who had such terrible fall at San
Francisco, has recovered, but will
always be a cripple.
A Meerschaum which Lola Mon
tez wheedled from the King of Ba.
varia, has been sold in Chicago for
800. The pipe is said to date from
1916.
Gen. Rosencranz is said to be .
making pile" in California by his $
skill and enterprise as a mining en-.
yineer.
The latest story is that Thurlow =
Weed has bought the New York
Commercial Advertiser, thus super
'eding Gen. Ben Butler, who was c
to have become the proprie-