New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-19
AIIscELLANEOUs NEWS ITEMr.

The rebel who edits the Louisville Jour
nal calls Meade a "petty tyrant.' The
rebels have thought Meade little tyrsnioal
ever since he chased them out of Gettys-
urg.-Chicdgo Post.
La Crosse Wisconsin, where is published
the most filthy Democratic paper in the
country, in 1866 gave over eight hundred
Republican majority in total vote Of less
than twenty-three hundred.
An able theologisn remarks that Eve was
the only woman who never threatened to
go and live with her mamma. And Adam
was the only man.that never tantalized his
wife about " the way mother used to cook
System is a great thing: but the advertiser
who deemed it essential to preserve an
alphabetical order overdid the matter, thus
"Bibles, black-ball, and butter; testaments,
tar, and treacle; Cody books and gimlets
for sale here"
Miss Belinda NJ. Elms, Of Boston, sued
Daniel D. Kelly, wealthy and extensive
ship builder of that city, and formerly
member of the city government, for $40 900
damages for breach of promise of marriage.
The jury after having been out sixteen
hours returned with verdict for the plant
itf this morning, and fixed the damage at
$4,000.
A Areporter upon the Harrisburg Telegraph
spreads himself thusly, in a description of
character at masked ball: Miss A. H.
personated a tambourine girl, delieately
eyed, like those who whirl and prank on the
meads of sensuous and imperious potent
ates, while rich music lulls them to Sleep"
That reporter ought to irrigate his lemon
AIDES.
The following hint, which dropped from
the lips of Charles Kean shortly before his
death, may be worthy of the attention of
some of our clerical friends "YOu can have
no idea what we actors suffer in hearing the
noble church service murdered by bad
reading. Fancy man beginning prayer:
% Gawd instead Of with the short, round
Saxon 'o.h
A noted Boston bank president who made
his fortune mainly by economy" had this
conversation lately with revenue assessor:
"Have you more than one gold watch ~
asked the official. Not one-a useless ex-
pense." "Any carriages, sir~ 81 don't
indulge in one" "a piano l think you
have5" "Sir, wish you to understand
own nothing that does not draw interest"
The new artesian we'll drilled in solid
rock by Thomas Colt, of Pittsheld, Massa-
chusett, for the use of his paper mill has
reached the depth of four hundred and
seventy-fve feet, and discharges water of
perfect purity to the amount OF two hundred
and ninety-siX gallons Der minute, or 426, 600
gallons every twentyIour hours, which is
equal to thirty three gallons day to every
inhabitant of that town.
EDUCATION. million acres of the
best lands in Texas have been set apart for
educational purposes, worth at least ST 25
per acre, or five millions of dollars; add to
this the school fund, about three millions,
and we have eight millions in reserve for
this all important purpose, One OF the first
duties of the State Constitutional Conven-
ton to meet on the first of June will be to
| adopt a welldefned system of common
schools for all the children of TeXas.-Gdl.
| Ueston Republican.
A. n. Rossiter, the Oldest of a trio of
! brothers from Richmond, Massachusetts,
who enlisted in the forty-ninth regiment,
one of whom was killed at Port Hudson and
the other at Baton Rouge, was wounded in
the retreat from Port Hudson on March IA,
| 1868. Since that time he has been troubled
with cough and bleeding at the lungs.
| Last week he coughed up rebel memento
in the shape of flattened buckshot, which
| it seems he has carried more than four
years. He is thereby wholly relieved from
his disagreeable symptoms.
A Pennsylvania inventor has prepared a
model of an iron railway passenger car,
one.eighth of an inch in thickness, cylin-
drical in shape, strengthened by iron ribs
of V form, completely padded inside with
at least four inches of padding, amply
lighted and ventilated, heated by warm air
| furnaces under the car (and outslde) and
protected, in case of collision, by compress
! sible platforms that will ''give" freely when
knocked together. He claims that in case
of accidents like that recently experienced
on the Erie road, his car would not splinter,
| crush, or burn.
The printing division of the treasury has
| turned out several specimens of the new
| fifteen cent fractional currency notes,
which are soon to be put in circulation.
| The notes are of the same width, but some
what shorter than the twenty-five cent
notes. On the right side OF the face is an
excellent vignette of General Grant, and on
the left vignette OF General sherman.
Between the vignettes are the words, if,
teen cents,n prominently displayed, and
| Immediately beneath the figures 6 l5." The
| back is similar in appearance to that of the
! twenty-five cent notes with the denomlna-
| ton on each end.
In one of Henry Ward Beechers recent
contributions to the New York Ledger he
| thus refers to a common charge respecting
| the "meanness' of Yankees:
II hear good deal of Yankee meanness-
| of the spirit of trade and dieker-of the
| stinginess and parsimony of Northern men.
| But, while the manner of showing economy
may be unfortunate, the essential spirit OF
thrift and economy is thousand times
nobler than that free-handed squandering
| of money which gives spurious reputation
for generosity to people who are on the road
to bankruptcy, and who have long spent
money not their own with a special grace
| fulness!"
1t is now stated that VIM. L. Yancey died
| from violence. His death occurred sh0rtly
after his return from an unsuccessful mis-
sion abroad in behalf of the Confederacy.
| He was in his place as rebel Senator from
| Alabama, and in the course OF hot debate
on the abstract doctrines OF State rights
and the divinity of slavery with q Senator
from Georgia, he received the lie from his
antagonist. Yancey Immediately leaned
| forward to strike, but was caught and yio'
lently thrown back ever a desk by his op'
penent, seriously injuring his spine. He
was carried away, a vote OF secresy was
passed, and in few weeks he died; it is
only lately that the mode of his death has
become known.
A Boston correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes that the famous Howland
will case has assumed new aspect by the
death of the complainant, Mrs. Z. Il. Green
formerly Miss Hettie Robinson. She is said
to have a child. Mr.. E. NJ Robinson, the
father of Hettie, who died in June, 1850,
left fortune of S6,000000, the whole OF
which, with the exception Of SSO,O80 IN
| legacies to servants and friends, went to
her. Her aunt, Sylvia Ann HoWland, Dy
the contested will left Hettie l,l0O, O9oi
| which her heir will get in any. event,
whether the present suit is won or lest. II
won, the whole of the aunts fortune, nearly
81, SOC, 600, will 60 TO the heir, thus making
4 total Of Ss, 500 600. As money at interest
doubles every ten years or SO, this infant, i
| it lives to be twenty-one years OF age VAL
be worth about SS5, ,00O,O 900.
The following table, which we compile
from the United States census returns, ex-
hibits the number of persons who can