New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-29
EDIToRIAL avn NEWS rrrMn.

An investigation continued throueh uauv
years proves that the barometer Predicted
no more tAan threefourths of .he changes in
Andrew johnson is one Il tue efout de-
4uueo OF men. He think fit mocratg
nominate him for the sstN .hg he can
beat General Grant.
An English officer ID tbvssinia. who
couldn't understand ihs idbbering of the
turkish mule drivers 4 81 -hey came to
ask Tor rations. b. dxty 4em tied up TO
trlangles and fogge- Ugtiny.
MI Colfax was the youngest man named
Ior the vice Presidency. He was one of the
seCretarles OF the Wing National Conven-
tons in ls4S and 1859. He was first elected
to Congress in 1855, when he was thirty.two
years old.
., When the oak Is in leaf before the ash,
1t Is said to betoken a dry summer. If this
Is correct, says an English paper, the pres
ent summer will be a fine one, as the oak
has taken the lead this year.
Rev. James Freeman Clark's congrega-
ton in Boston have subscribed fifty thou
SAND dollars toward erecting a new place
Oh worship, which will be built at once ON
a novel plan. 1t will be square, and the
light will come from above instead of from
windows at the side.
A party at Winona propose to fit up a
large ratt with evergreens, flags, dancing
platforms, etc, and inYite goodly number
OF their friends to take leisurely sail down
the Mississippi river, while at the same
tiIAe they Will enjoy all the Concomitants
OF a first class picnic. They will return on
one OF the commodious st. Louis packets.
The dramatic critic of the New York
Tribune tells story Of the death by con
sumption of a member of the Broadway
theatre company who had played two
evenings before his demise, and whose ina
ollity to perform his part correctly was
taken as a symptom of intoxication bv the
audience, Land the poor actor hissed &c
eordingly. The griefs Of actors are, indeed,
| but little known by the general public, and
the case of this poor fellow is but one of
many others quite as sad, quite as interest
ing. ~
Lately the dead body of a man was found
in the woods near Troy. The remains had
apparently laid there several weeks. 1t
was undoubtedly the body CE suicide.
The following sad and touching explaua.
tlon was found on his clothing, written ON
q piece of paper torn from the lining of his
Nat: 81 have no home no friends on earth,
no hope, no Savior in Heaven There is
nothing about my clothing by which can
be Identified 1t was written in a good
hand, and punctuated as quoted.
Noah Spears, one of the oldest and wealth
lest citizens of Paris, Kentucky died at his
residence in that city last week after a brief
illness. Mr.. Spears was seventy-six years
Of age. In his earlier years he was noted
for his rugged health and powerfully mus
cular frame. So forward was the develop
ment of his frame that he voted at the age
of thirteen years, being supposed to be
twenty.One. Trading to New Orleans, he used
to sell out and walk back. MIR. Spears was
the son Of Solomon Spears, who emigrated
from Pennsylvania, aud the brother of Adam
Spears, who was killed by federal soldier
i'm 1St1 Az thR aUA 1f ha r,av
ried Miss Morin, sister of Joseph NORM, of
Bourbon county, she being slightly his SEN
ior. They had no children. Surviving her
husband the widow gets by his will a large
estate, he leaving all his property to her to
years Mr.. Spears was strong anti-slavery
man, and set many of his negroes free, To-
eating them on good estates near Xenia.
Ohio. He was one OF the three in Bourbon
county who voted for Lincoln in 1850.