New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-26
MIS- uELLANRous NEWS ITEMS.

fear not"
A London rag picker recently found a
diamond ring in heap OF rags.
Not a stick or stone marks the last resting
place of Ex.President Taylor.
The title of "Sub.Hub7 is suggested in
Boston for the newly annexed Roxbury dis
trict.
The Pensacola Observer says that lemons
were raised in Marion county, Florida, this
year, weighing two pounds each.
A Connecticut Yankee has cleared his
house of rats by catching one and dipping
him in red paint. He then let him loose,
and the other rats, not liking his looks, left
Immediately.
The Evening Journol. a daily started in
Sandusky on the first Of January, suspended
publication yesterday on account Of not be-
ing unable to gain admission into the West
ern Press Association.
BULLOCK ELECTED.-We have information
from the best informed and most reliable
sources that Bullocks election is by no
means question OF doubt.-Aadntd (Ga.)
Ael1 Era.
John Phoenix said that when from the
deck OF an outgoing steamer he shouted TO
a friend GOOD by, Colonel,n two-thirds of
the crowd on the wharf raised their hats,
and said Good by, ole tel. Tekkar yer
self"
An eminent statistician is investigating
the facts involved in the query whether
the dirty boots of men in horse cars soil
ladies' garments as much as the bedrabbled
dresses of women soil gentlemen's apparel
in omnibuses?n
The English are trying 20inch smooth
bores with 1O0-pOund charges, and have
fred one gun ever 1000 times. They say
that armor for ships is played out, and talk
of building swift vessels with little or no
armor.
France is thought to have reached the
height of perfection as a military power.
One million three hundred and fifty thou
sand men, or nearly the whole of the able
bodied male population of the country may
now be said TO be under arms.
A stupid fellow tried to annow popular
preacher by asking him whether the fatted
calf of the parable was male or female.
Female, to be sure, was the reply, "for
see the maleh-loOking his questioner full
in the face-''yet alive in the flesh before
me.n
Fat is now the rage in fashionable circles.
Ladies cultivate it. They are devouring
vast quantities of butter, mashed rose
leaves, and such like. II is said that a
certain leader of the ton is quite corpulent,
which, we presume, accounts for the style.
4 youngster at the North is congratula
Lll ululbe4l Iudb ne mas SOL TIE measles at
last He says he shall not any longer be
kept from playing with the boys for fear he
may catch it. That little chap is philoso.
pher, and understands the doctrine Of com
pensations.
In Connecticut the oyster beds are staked |
out to the different owners by commission
ers elected by the people, under welldefned |
laws of the State Every man, woman, and |
child resident in the State is entitled TO |
al %v,a Of
viously appropriated, anywhere within the |
waters Of the State.
Kratsslatt's wife discovered an old hen |
sitting in the back yard and "bust up her |
nest Soon after the poor wife came in |
much excited and said, My dear Krat. |
salatt, / took the eggs from Browne and |
she has gone and sat onto an old meat ak !" |
"Let her set, said the bilious old fellow, |
III she sets on an ak may be she'll |
hatchet.n
The Philadelphians are Justly proud of |
their immense petroleum oil trade, and |
show by figures that its value is twice as |
great as that of the entire whale oil trade |
of New England. 1t is thought therefore. |
that the Washington authorities have made |
an invidious and unjust discrimination
against it by singing it out for continuance
under the old burdens.
Luthey Wheelock, lightweight years of
age, formerly OF Tyringham, Massachusetts,
now of Blandtord, when twenty.one wears
of age worked in Lanesborough, and among
the first money he earned was a fve.dolIar
gold coin (American halEeAgle1 bearing the
date 1903, which he carefully preserved,
Two years since he gave it to his eldest son,
Joseph A. Wheelock, who intends to keen
It in the family, although numismatologists
have offered him thirty dollars for it.
The St. Peter (Miqnesota) Tribune gives
an account of q desperate attempt of a
young woman OF that place to commit sui
eide. She shot herself little below the
heart, the ball glancing upon one of the
ribs, following 1t half around the body, and
passing out underneath the left shoulder
blade. Disappointed love led TO the act:
but she will recover from both.
We have received quite number of let.
tiers, recently, from men in the Northern
and Western states, making inquiries about
the price Of land and The prospects Of set
ting in Alabama. For the present we can
not advise these men TO locate here. Il will |
do very well for Copperhead Yankee to
settle hero now, but there are no induce
ments for Republican, nor must he until |
the rebellion ID suppressed more thorough
w. Montgomery Sentinel.
town in Hungary was the scene Of
most audacious robbery. A telegram from
Pesth says; ae
Hardly had the night train entered tie
station Of Szezedin, and the travellers alight.
ed, when all the gaslamps were suddenly
extinguished; the p0stottice agents were
then seized, bound. and gagged, and all the
letters, the value OF which has not been as.
certained, carried OF. The authors of this
audacious act disappeared without leaving
the slightest trace.
TRooPs FsR MAEsFIRLD. The Jefferson
,7iH9uieoltte OF the seventeenth saws M 1
troops az that point have left for Mansfield,
Louisiana WoAdeE how cur Mansdeld
Ifienda will like 70 entertain these ssclifter
soldiengn The Jineplenee saws this Is TIE
6fet time that piAce has been without eol-
dlefa since the war, aud takes occasion to
ldmonish the citizens 70 put on their best
behavior. Walt, neighbor, I'll you get g
elue' you read ABOUT 9hreteptft Soiitls.
Speaking OF the war Of he Memphis
aetels against the steambaoss, for feeding
paaseagers in port 10 the harm Of tie
ssmer, the Cincinnati TslAes ssys:
The assumption 'of such afgeht & slmpIy
Steamboata navinsl u the - af.sr
u the Uuilad alAtes ires lron State riooal
qrisdietoH tl BY 10 pAyalent Of . GOV.
.lnme4t u n ee7fI qflsenf gers, are en-
Ilaled 30 Ias 1ttn where and hoRnoeser
neg rlt1fo, IHe eIQinalC5 cedll not slaHd
ne aInplest test g. Law. ID q II net tested
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