New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-08-14
M1sCELLAnnOUs ITEMS.

MISGkAAANEOB8 ITEMS.
General Sol. Meredith was quite Ill at bis
residence ia Helena, Montana, on tie
twenty-fourth ultimo, Of typhus fever.
The Boston postofice, it is said. will con-
tain 1885 boxes when the reconstruction
arrangements now in process are COM
pleted.
A black boy, who serves as devil ia 9
Southern newspaper Office, was asked the
other day if he intended to vote. Z" No,
sar, said he, g amt tWenty-one yit but
i'll was, how gWine to vote Saturday and
help ediok this paper, too ?"
The Salem (Mass> Gazette, of August
fourth, comes to us with an entire page de-
voted to its history. This week it reaches
the one hundTedth year Of its age, having
been commenced as the Essex Gazette on
the fifth Of August, 176S.
The Ohio correspondent Of the Tines
Gays that General Grant has only 'dogged
persisteacy" to recommend him to public
favor. That's Just what Pemberton said.
"If it was not for bis logged peTsistency,n
said he, "Td have held Vicksburg ill
doomsday.'
In connection with the rumor that Roths-
child intends to purchase Jerusalem, and
have himself proclaimed King Of Pales-
tine, q German feuilletoniste asks, ''What is
the difference between Rothschild and Sol
omon? Solomon was King Of the Jews, and
Rothschild is the Jew Of the Kings"
Schuyler Colfax recently said the most
Of his life bad been passed among his fell
low citizens at South Bend in the editorial
profassion-where he thought he was no
sluggard- being generally the editor, the
publisher, the proof-reader, the mail boy,
and the collector, all rolled into one.
A little girl, on hearing her mother say
that she intended to 20 to a ball, aud have
her dress trimmed with bugles, innocenty
inquired if the bugles would blow whilo
she danced. "Oh, no /" said the mother.
"your father will do that when he discovers
1 have bought them
The ladies in London are guilty of queer
Vagaries, if we may believe a correspond
emit who says he saw lady in Rotton Row
the other day with a mound of hair on her
head full two feet high, and not hair OF it
natural. He says the ladies generally are
dressing their heads in that way.
The inference from the popular express
sion Of the day is that the loyal and Union
loving people will not vote for party
which stands in such close relation to trai
tors that the latter fly to il as to a city Of
refuge. The Lines are plainly drawn, and
there can be no hesitanoy on the part Of
legal people.
Ia 1898 delegation from the western
part Of Massachusetts was sent to confer
s~,ssstha oGc CO the Bostcn eie-gyGea as how
to get along with the doctrine Of the ''per-
severance of the saints" which troubled
them exceedingly. His suggestive reply was,
''My dear friends, it is the perseverance OF
Che sinners which causes me all my trou-
blesn lff
The Lawrence (Ps) Journal, published
Of Newcastle, says: "The graybaek nom
inatiOn hts gained 500 votes fol- the Repub-
lican party In Lawrence county, and SO Il
Is ell over the State. The Republican vote
ia Pennsylvania will be ineeeased by So
coo at the coming election. Bully for the
graybacksl'
6eynour's majority Of 100000 In New
York Gas figured by his friends has been
diminished 10 99,999. An Irish gentlem an
who had murdered aoount1yman and taken
passage for New York, expecting to be-
come O sovereign American citizen, was
arrested in that port the other day on an
order by cable, and taken back to the
could country III
The Jamestown (0bio) Journal tells Of
gewky who saw for the FIRST time q school
girl going through some Of her gymnastic
exercises to the amusement Of the little
ones OF home. After gazing at her with
looks of interest and COMMUNICATION for a
while, be asked boy near by sif that gal
bad Ets!' No. replied the lad, contemp-
tuOusly, chats Gymnastics" "Oh, it's,
heyln said verdant, sh0'e long has she h0d
Hcratio Seymour was never known TO
utter q protane oath, to tell vulgar story
or obscene aneedots, to be under the infla-
enoe OF liquor, to enter gamblers den, or
house OF iii-fame,- Marion Democratic
Bf;TTor,
Does the Mirror speak without reflection,
reversing the practice OF mirrors in com.
mon, or does II intend to reflect upon the
enthusiastic Blairl go in, FiHnegans p
When Horatio Seymour first ran for Cor
ernor Of New York, be went so for behind
bic ticket that though every other candi-
date thereon vas ele:ted, he was thrashed
and laid out By Washington Hunt In 1854
&c Wa again whipped BY Myron H, Clark.
AZ tSoa ne was whipped for the third time
~ ksqhea e. ksnton. Accustomed to de-
ieai, ne e the proper man to lead the for
iorn nope Of the Democracy in their last
trip up Salt River.
paper Published In East Saginaw.
Aiohlgan. reports that business man 81
bnnslo stumbled upon his runaway vito IL
that city dag 81 twp since. Tkev were
married 10 1885, shQ being AZ actress anS
had lived together til two moails 400
when she suddenly disappeared. aI5rt
time after he heard Of Der as The fureals ~
a disreputtbIe bouse in Deireit. and "a
has latlly been living otte1SihEv a. ~
wilA Of . laboEeg in East Saginaw. She a
now anxious to abandon Der evil wage. but
whether Der shusbaad will consent Is her
returning with hin reunina 70 be aesn.