New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-10
M1sCELLANsoUS NEWS ITEMS.

SoOu LOOKING Iace Is us OIbuiG'
The fish in Lake OhaubungOgungamaug
! have been choked to death in trying to tell
where they lived.-BoStOH Post
A physician in Michigan has been ar.
rested for Furnishing his daughter, a woman
grown, by delugirg her With water while
securely fastened in a chlir.
A Mrs. Bunting, the wife rt a wealthy
citizen of Wellsville, committed suicide
few days ago because her husband declined
to newly furnish the house ut her request.
Some fathers, careful and cautious to a
| fault almost, in breeding training steers and
colts, suffer, aye allow their sons and
daughters to grow up as they list strange
as 1t may seem
The late King Louis preserved every arti-
| Gle Of dress which he has worn since his
| accession to the throne, more than half a
century ago. His successor has magazine
of old garments.
My dear,n said an anxious matron to
her daughter, it is very wrong for young
| people to be throwing kisses at each other"
"Why so, mamma? pm sure they don't
hurt, even if they do hit"
In order to get clear Of his creditors a
Detroit man transferred all his property to
his wife. The latter has now died leaving
a will which leaves the poor man pennilcss
/
| A Rutland (Vt.) marble firm have re.
celved from Georgia an order for a tomb
| stone, to the usual inscription on which is
to be added; Height seven feet; weight $50
| pounds. As tail as Vermonter.'
! The Boston Transcript observes: "a cor.
respondent suggests the endowment of an
institution TO teach the art of hOusekeep-
| ing. Many persons will say 1t is too late, as
housekeeping belongs to the lost arts
Miss Fanny Haskell, Of Batavia, New
| York, is what might with verify be styled
! phenomenon of music. She can and does
| play two airs with her right hand and one
with her left, aud sing a fourth, all at the
! same time.
In Oxford, Massachusetts,, a party of boys
! found snake den, and dug theretrom nine.
| ty'nine snakes, measuring 4s2f feet in
| length. At last accounts the boys were
! still digging with no appearance OF having
| exhausted the supply. They can tell good
snake stories down East
| In Connecticut, james NJ. Grant of
| Bridgeport, obtained divorce from his
wife Julia last week, and the fact was re-
| ported in the Fdrmer. The next duy Mrs.
| Grant informed the public through the col.
umns of the same paper that the notice WAS
the first She had heard of the matter.
An Ohio paper tells a story Of Colonel
| Washburn, OF Marietta, who has survived a
| remarkable wound received in the war. In
one of Sheridan's battles fnthe Shenandoah
valley he was shot through the head. The
! ball entered the bottom of one of his ewes,
| destroying it, and passed out Just under the
back Of the opposite ear. His face became
distorted and he has a glass eye but from
first to last he never experienced the slight.
est PAIN.
A Prussian journal relates a story of a
Jewish congregation which determined to
present its rabbi tun of wine, in token of
| their respect and love. Each was to bring
bottle and pour the contents into the re-
ceptacle. After the plan had been carried
out, the case was tapped and found to be
filled with pure water. Each one OF the
donors had conceived the idea that in such
| quantity single bottle of water would
not be detected, and the result was as stated.
The Hartford Post is responsible for the
story of conductor on road not thou.
sand miles from Hartford, who had agreed
in the kindness of his heart to pass poor
penniless fellow on his train. An officer OF
the road sitting in the same car with the
man observed that the conductor took no
fare of him, and called him TO account for
it. "Why do you pass that man ?" said the
treasurer. 'Oh, he's conductor on the
l- railroad Hes a conductor why,
what makes him dress so shab0ily" "Oh,
he's trying to live on his salary = was the
quick reply. Mr.. Treasurer saw the point,
and dropped the subject.
MAGNITUDE OF THE LIQUOR tt ADB.-Cov
ernment statistics show that the value OF
the retail liquor sales in the United States
during the year ending June 80, 1867, was
one billion four hundred and ninetyone
thousand eight hundred aud siyty-fye
(Sl,OOO, ADJ, $500 dollars, or nearly half as
I tfah flatlH b11n f,Nf A.
the country! To suppose that tie people
can not own and pay dent twice as great
as their liquor bills for single year /:
absurd. And yet it is believed that moi
more than two-thirds of the retail sales are
reported, so that the amount would be
81, ,333, 9S9, l53 a sum sufficient to support
4, 4,446, $50 people for one year at $500 each.
The father of rather charming young
lady residing in the vicinity of Columbus
Ohio, discovered last week that his off
spring had been spirited away from board
ing schooi she was attending near Cleye
land by some enticing swain, He followed
the leganting couple to Detroit, where h
found them snugly 'ensconsed rs man an(
wife, and without waitingfor explanations
[ proceeded to kick young IiothariO out 0
his clearinghouse and around the prem
ises generally. His strength at last being
exhausted, calmness ensled, and mar
riage certificate was produced to appeas
t his outraged feelings. Hsthen apologizec
and was invited to dinner,
: The States of Arkansas. Louisiana
Georgia, North Carolina Soath Carolina
and Florida have ratified their new C0nsti
tutions, aud will soon befalIy represente,
! in Congress. Does not this look YER
little like establishing negro suffrage on
firm and lasting basis in the South? Cal
our people expect to shake it off by an
exertion of theirs, however distasteful /
may be! Southern men, reflect, aud max
up your minds to accept With as good grac
as possible the inevitable DEGREES of fate
The spirit of the age demands this of you
and no earthly power can prevent it.
"There is Divinity which shanes our ends.
Rough heW them rs we nay"
TJaq.son Clfiss,) PHO
ACoLoBED AMERICAN ISEuROPE. -Thoma
Chester, colored, a native of Harrisbur
aud quo1dam war cdriespondent of
} Philadelphia paper, writes from Paris tha
he has had the pleasuIe of spending tn
night at the residence OF the Hon Johi
Bright, in England. Headds that the lei
ters of Introduction furnished him by Gov
ernor Ramsey, of Minnesota. aud senate
Sumner, we're Of great use 10 him, and says
While was IN Russia | was invited by tn
emperor TO accompany his msj sty ON
grand review OF his msjesty's body guard
about forty or fifty Thousand men Of al
arms, aud aiterward invited by his majest
! 10 lunch with his majesty and suite in th
imperial palace. Seyera imperial gran
dukes were present. | have inst returne
! from Denmark, where have been receive
with great consideration as the represents
tive OF the Garnet Eeague, whose object
the elevation of the freedmen, I was II
eeiyed by the king in the royal palace in "a
exceedingly cordial manner, and his expire
| ainna of inIaraat in hehalf ~ H. lrnadme