New Orleans Republican., 1868-11-12
FACT AND FANCY.

Flour at St Pauls, Minnesota, sells for
FIVE dollars per barrel
Grant was for many years a tanner.
Hereafter he will be a cabinetmaker.
What the American people said By the
vote for President: We come to bury
Seymour; not to praise him"
Now that Grant is elected. all parties sud-
denly discover that they always took his
election for granted.
Tetanus, commonly called lockjaw, has
/ been successfully treated by repeated ap-
| plications Of chloroform to the spine.
One colored man in Memphis who could
not find his certificate of registration, wept
1 il bis distress at the loss of his privilege of
voting for Grant, Collax and Smith.
The Memphis AvalancIe accepts the stu
| alton and comes out squaraly in favor of
universal suffrage.
! Seymour's first formal speech on his cleo
! ton tour was in Buffalo. Result-ARepubi-
/ can gain of 1900 on the popular vote and
member of Congress.
junk dealers are on the lookout for the
cotton cloth on which the names of Sey-
mour and Blair are painted; the material
will be sold for much less than it cost and
will be ground into paper on which to
print the inaugural address Of President
! Grant.
The fires in the Oregon woods are G
| double calamity. Besides the destruction
of property they drive the wild beasts
into the settlements, where they commit
great ravages.
General Grant is forty-six years Of age.
He will assume the Presidency in the veIv
prime and fullness of manhood.
Seymour, after ALL has the best OF the
fight He didn't want to be President, and
isn't. Grant was content with bis Lieuten-
ant-Generalship, aud it has been taken from
him.
Queen Isabella of Spain received during
her thirty five years reign, over $50 900 600,
or more than double the amount paid to
our President, Vice-President, Senators.
and Representatives together.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company have just negotiated loan of
about $4,000 900. 1t is supposed that
several smaller roads are to be purchased
by the Louisville and Nashville Corpora
ton.
Z General Sheridan tells some tall buffalo
stories. He says that he saw, two weeks
age, herd of buffalo ninety-fve miles long
and twenty-five miles wide, which must
have contained 100000 buffaloes.
A speaker at a jubilee in Chicago, on
election night. popped the following:
'When lovely Blair stoops to folly,
And finds too late that he is jolly,
What 5rs can soothe his sickened BODY.
II not counter dose of toddy?p
Connecticut paper speaks of John
Quincy Adams as "a red-faced man, appar-
emily about thirty-fve years of age. who
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displaying huge watch chain and iewelry.
In crowd or on the cars one would take
him for sporting man going to the races"
OF the forty State Senatorial Districts in
Massachusetts, the Republicans have car
ried thlrty-eight, thus securing a gain of
six, Nine members of the last Senate have
been reelected and all but five have served
in the Legislature before. There will be a
strong majority in the Legislature ia favor
of prohibitory liquor law. the Senate
standing twenty-tour to sixteen on this
question.
After Hon. William Clafin, Governor
elect of Massachusetts, had briefly respond
ed to a serenade in Newton, on Wednesday,
Thomas E. Graves, Esq, presented Cover
nor Clahin with JEFF Davis sword, captured
by Colonel Graves at the fall of Richmond.
1t is the one used by JEFF at West Point,
and a portion OF the U in "U. 81 had
been filed away to read &c. s."
A Democrat and Republican in Proyi-
dence, Rhode Island made bet on the re-
suit of the election in that State. The
loser agreed to wheel a barrel of apples
from Providence to Boston, a distance of
forty three miles. Democrat lost, and
started on his expedition on Thursday
morning The barrel containing the apples
was inscribed, Truth crushed to earth will
rise again" When last heard from the
"wheelist" showed SYMPTOMS of suffering
from severe attack of the Grecian bend.
In Hudson, New York, there was rather
a curious bet made. Two citizens got into
discussion, as TO the chances in this State,
when the Republican offered to take SO
from the Democrat. and give one cent for
each vote that Hoffman received as a ma
jority. This was accepted, and the money
put up. The Republican then offered to
take SIS and pay the Democrat one cent for
every vote that Seymour should get as
majority in this State. This proposition
was also accepted, and the money put up
The Democrat made over 5000 on an out
lay of SIS.
A young man, laboring over the gradual
PncTO chments of woman-kind on mascu-
line ASEIltoIy III tue udttSF Oh uFesS, breaks
into song as follows:
d They took our coats, at first we hardly
missed 'em;
And then they aped our dickey and era
watts;
They stole our sscks-we only laughed and
kissed them.
Kmboldened, then they stole our very
hats,
Unit by slow and sure degrees, the witches
Have taken all-our coats, hats, boots and
breeches.n