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

| 01SN11LAAAN EOBS NEWS kTENS.
| Fifteen hundred tons of timber were re.
| celved at a factory in Boxford, Massa-
chusetts, last winter, to be converted into
| friction matches.
The four largest States in the Union are
Texas, 274, 366 square miles; California, Is8,.
9sl square miles; Nevada, 49, ,09O square
miles; and Colorado, l04, 500 square miles.
A vinegar and pickle factory in Chicago,
owned by number of leading citizens was
seized a day or two ago by revenue officers,
who discovered powerful odor of whisky
in some of the vinegar
The Ku-KluX are after Butler. He read
the following letter few days since during
the trial; Butler, prepare to meet your
God. The avenger is on your track. Hell
is your portion" (Signed) X. X.
Pears are said to be successfully shipped
from California to New York by way of the
Isthmus of Panama. Grapes are also ship
ped in this way, and the California fruit
growers are rejoicing at the high prices real
lied on their ventures.
A gentleman who had devoted good
many years to the task of getting rich at
last utterly failed. A friend commiserating
him, asked him what he proposed to do. Il
am going home" said ne, ito get acquaint-
| ed with my wife and children"
The man who ate fifty oranges at once Oh
| a wager, the other day, and asked for more,
must be wonder. They say he expects to
re Juice his amplitude of stomach by it, Just
as some ladies drink vinegar in order to
become thin and genteel.'
In England, on a railway leading out of
the city of Carlisle, a free passage is given
for seven years to any one who will erect a
residence of the value of f25O in gold, near
the line of the road. This is done to in
crease the population of the section through
which it passes.
A correspondent of one of the Detroit pa
| pers, writing from an interior county in
| Michigan, says that drunken Democrat, as
| he dropped into the ballot-boX a negative
vote against the new constitution, hic-
coughed: "You may work at me ten years
and you can't make me equal to a nigger.H
| The Postoffice Department has been in
search of a stamp that can not be used
second time. The frauds in this way
amount to large sum annually. The new
stamps are the same in appearance as the
old ones, but on wetting and applying them,
they soon become defaced by light check
cred lines across them.
Opium in the great factory at Patna is
done up in cakes resembling cannon ball,
and this has given rise TO the saying that in
time of war they give the Chinese cannon
balls of iron, in peace cannon balls Of
| opium, giving the chance whether they will
| be shot or poisoned, but making them pay
weIl for either attention.
W. c. Patten, of Liberty, Ohio, placed
quantity of clover seed in an airtight bin
last fail and to protect it from cold weather,
covered it with straw, the bin standing in
the field. On opening it this spring he
found that melted snow had got into the
seed, producing spontaneous combustion, as
the seed was burned to crisp.
Eight hundred women sang the ''Marseila
laisep in Msrseilles the other day. They
were employed in a government cigar manu-
factory, and as the tobacco leaves served
out to them were too dry to work with,
they chose this way of asking to have them
dampened. The ominous chant threatens
soon to be heard all over France.
A child in an English Sunday school be-
| ing called upon to say her text promptly
| delivered herself of the following: she
that hatched me Matched my Father also.n
! After some questioning it was discovered
| that the passageswhich the little innocent
! intended TO repeat was, He that hateth me
hateth my Father also.'
The Memphis Bulletin has become Radical
! in politics. One of its owners is United
| States Marshal, and it is surmised that ne
mas weighed (no pun meant) the probabili-
| ties of the impeachment trial. The KING Is
| dead, long live the king. Memphis now mas
two Radical dailies-the Post and the Bet-
| Ietin The Post is uncompromistng in its
| LOYALTY, and we trust the B1t4eIla intends 70
| be.-Ercbdnge.
Tba New Bedford (sIassachusetts) Stand
ard saws that there is a great rush this
snrinp of Eastern men to Omaha, Nebraska.
Nany Young men from New Bedford and
yiei1iity. Taunton, Nantucket, and the Cape
have already gone, and more are going.
The Omaha papers say those who come
there to engage in agriculture will do we'll
bHt such as seek employment as clerks and
bookkeepers will be disappointed, as the
supply is largely in excess of the demand.
Some of our Texas exchanges have much
to say about beef packing, processes of
curing, etc., and the large and profitable
business that such enterprises open up.
Paekeries are as numerous about Indlanola
and Victoria as sslaughterhouses in populous
cities, and others are going up at these and
other points, principally in the West. Great
progress has been made in the art Of curing
or preserving, and this in great measure &C
counts for the immense proportions the 3
BUSINESS is now assuming. A
aGive the Presidents counsel but time
with its soltening and healing intuenees, and
thew need not fear the Senate, says the
,Iols,.a5I Al Commerce, What would you
like to die sfgr asked Satan once oI slip
perV victim, "lVel, Nj. Devil, II It ls ali
the same to you, should prefer 20 dle ef
old sge.a Sothe defendant Johnson, wants
Hr,ss Zen months wiz do--that will drift tho
f;Teat Accidency along beyond the fourth
AN If Siarch, 1869 Aiter that comes
. silence aud eternal sleep. r-sNel0 Yors
T'ibtfse. ---- ~
Hon. Thomas Talbot, of the Goyernof's
Council of Massachusetts,, has made the
BAPTIST Society Of BilleFioa Of which the
Rev. J6hn D. Sweet is pastor, The liberal
offer of the sam. Of SO 600 for the erection
Of . church ediice at North Biileriea, and
as much more "a the proposed bnildins nay
happen to coot them. He also agrees -
gay $500 per annum toward the suppost 2.
preaching, and to leave the society 9 luhQ
At hiR deoeaae Of $500, the interest Of Nnapn
is 70 Be devoted to the same perpoae. aala
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