New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-26
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has his name on the plates used at his
tables. Country people think the word an
invitation to ply the knife and fork Eigor
o, y.
a newspaper biographer, trying to say
his subject was hardly able to bear
lse 6cnise OF his WIFE, was made by the
1erable printer to say 1.-THE ohenlss OF
Ais Kife 2
That was good prayer which old Sir
Jacob Ashley made before the battle of Edge
hill. Ion Lord 3 he said, "thou knowest
how busy mus be this day; it, forget thee
DO not thou forget me- Then rising from
his knees he gave the command March on
boysn
A street railway projected in Norfolk, Va,
has been abandoned because of the project
ed social, civil, and political equality of all
the world and the rest of mankind.
The ceremony of marriage was recently
performed for three blooming daughters Of
a New York merchant at one and the same
time. That was an exhibition Of woman 9
rites which Napoleon the Great himself
would have commended.
A man named J. H. Nelson, of Louisiana
who sent a letter and petition 20 the mayor
and merchants exchange of st. Louis. so'
-Iiciting aid for the suffering in the South, is
reported to be an impostor, and other
cities are warned.
One would hardly suppose that the gay
theatre goers of Chicago would run mad
over the saddest sort of elegy. Such is the
melancholy fact. The literature of the
White Fawn and the Black Crook is made
up of naked l-e,g.-Chicago Post,
Callicot's visit to the Albany penitentiary
in 1860 was as a committee man; his visit in
1865 is as committed man. In the first
instance he went as a law-male err in the last
he goes asa law-breaker. The iooker-after
criminals is now looked.after criminal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that a man
over ninety is a great comfort 10 his elderly
neighbOrs. He is a picket guard on the
extreme outposts, and young folks Of sixty
or seventy feel that the enemy must get by
hin before they can come near their en-
,campmtRt.
'Lsay Mr.. Pilot ant you going to start
soon q said nervous traveller on steam
boat lying to during a fog. CAS- soon
IS the fog clears up replied the
captain. We'll, its starlight overhead, =
sad the man. .oh, yes! but we are not
going that way" ----.--------
A Hartford merchant has paid $50, 900 in
rents for q store which he could have
bought originally for SIS 900. His case was
probably that of the old trapper who was
offered the land that ST. Paul now. stands
on for pair of boots, and did not take it
Tor lack of the boots.
A little uptown fve.year old who was
hungry one night recently Just at bedtime,
but didn't wish to ask directly for some
thing more to eat, put the proposition in
this way: Mamma, are little children who
starve to death happy after they die?n A
good big slice Of bread and butter was the
answer.
Andy, who has been rendered exceedingly
frank by impeachment, declared the other
day TO a correspondent that he should go
with the Copperheads, because said he,
% can't do anything else. I've nowhere
else to go.h There is one other place that
Nv,dz 8 h -. a..
party he may consider himself booked for it,
They all go there at last.
D. Worthington, who styled himself
s'the champion jumper Of the world, ,
jumped once too often, 40 feet into river
and was instantly killed. His fate should
be a warning to politicians crazed by an
ambition that oYerleaps Itself. In striving
TO vault suddenly from one platform to an
orner they may find Themselves overheard
and struggling with popular current
sweeping them into oblivion.
Henry Ward Beecher said before the wal
that the prejudice against color was only
against color that ownedi itself. When color
WAS owned, he added, there was no preiu
dice. The same principle applies to color
voting. If color would vote. for the Demo
cratic party, the Democratic party would
have no objection that color should have
the suffrage.
Judge Portly went on a regatta the othei
uAys VI. bthlblu8 JuQXe SAID IelE Ike
throwing up his hat Before rounding the
lighthouse he thought he should threw ,uF
his boots. Just then Yacht snlan remark e1
that the sight of the feet was a fine eyi dencl
OF the power Of man over the waves, = Oh
oosh z replied the Judge, = II Is nothing K
compare with the power Of the waves ovei
snani5 ~ fad - sss
Brick Pomeroy announces that no PRO
family or drunkenness is allowed anaonp
employees IN his office. Brick does all khf
dndecenoy himself that one establishment
can stand. Id fact, ali the meanness Of 3
whole generation was concentrated ii
Brick when be was born, and every other
person born in that year Is comparatively
honest, honorable, and reputable in conees
quenoe OF the mean material for that wear
being abused Up BY Brick. We were Born
ouRselVes about that time Columbus fC1
{oiandl. q 9 g ~
TIE Rochester (Alinn. Post says: s. =
rae smallest trick Of the times Il the
effort ~ several second or third rate RapaHs,
since Grants nomination, to make 5heif
Eeadefa believe their particular paper WIS
ehe met q engsest him for the Presidency.
Il u aDout - sensible and true as fer ere 70
pretend that - q IRE he was the FIRST to think
81 TIE propT - q putting L out. The fact
10y ", ~ ss..s q re grsas s9lqief
white House Is like Topsv--it q & asTif ss',s0
bat qrOWed.ei Gr4nt1 nouiination 4nFlsin-
AfGd IA the eternal atpeM Of thinas.
a new and unexpected danger threatens
the South. The white race sfe aooSssS ~
poVesy. ignorance, ana eGllnrtIon eEh|i "a
the blacks vii become educated md 49,.
paloas. This alarming peril - tessiel
t1rouEh tie eolumns 81 the AzhHss1d
ErQmiRer AID Eaqutrer It Is said s6sre
Stat, no0lnE 70 the poverty Of fhe
&nd Tia superior advantages afforded N
4laoka b. tie HaFean and by tho Aboillln
e1lca az tAt NoFth, the ptobaollIsy, nay,
tnlasf eef3afntY, "A that the end of tAa
c9nlKt Wtl aee race Of edacataa and
rg5sptIo1 llEs in the midet Of race Of
IonQrent AID and nearly ba1us
biIal3 san nat believe tlaI
t Icrhutq This writer
tf|ot4a the not that ftf new
sI|Inilnnaa 81 ne Southern ss6Ir1
0rmT provide 81 1sen & d.
tia. N hinn al cl. a 81 Gail IS 3sili
a8d wta educaHAu AZ 1hA wal Iie
sNa Convinced befsfa Ae
Aaa omy aniicipaticns are 81 ee