New Orleans Republican., 1868-05-20
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Two workmen in New London, Connecti-
crt while repairing an old desk the other
dav found one hundred dollars in ollls on
tbs Bank Of New York, dated 1916. They
have been sent to New York for redemption.
P, with her fathers walking stick,
" 3. I'D a crooked handle, he asked her
she as doing with that cane. 1t
a cane, she replied. 'Well, what is
ii ~ heasked, 1t is an umbrella without
any clothes on, she answered.
Referriiiak 10 the unexpected course of
certain Rep lioan Senators who declared
their purposeNto vote against conviction,
the Philadelphia Ilgleia says:
The Republican, palGf will undoubtedly
feel this treachery in Il Senate as severe
blow. But the Republican party does not
depend upon any little ehot of corrupt men
for its existence. y foundations are IN the
profound convictions OF an educated and an
intelligent people. Its body polite IS TO,
bust and healthy and casts of diseased
and worthless member without harm to II
self. The Senate will be purged oy thls
open treason, and while the traitors will re-
ceive their lust reward, the ranks will close
up and they will find that whatever the
price for which they have sold themselves,
thew have failed to destroy the great party
which they have deserted and betrayed.
It's announced that porters are to be at
tached TO the Washington through trains on
the New Jersey railroad, whose business it
will be to attend to the seating of passen-
gers, and otherwise provide for their com
fort. A new plan for selling tickets for the
through train is also to be introduced, by
which seats will be numbered and tickets
issued accordingly.
A Paris correspondent writes as follows:
Rapidity of printing has Just been carried
out in France to degree far exceeding any
thing which has been accomplished in ma
chine work, and outstripping the famous
American machines, which were supposed
to have realized everything attainable in
the way of speed. NJ. MarinoBi has put up
in the new printing Office of the Petit Journal
Ca one cent daily paper), marvellous ma
chine of his invention which prints 600
copies u minute. Four of these powerful
machines turn out l44,000 copies an hour,
the whole impression being 446 900 daily.
In accepting the nomination for Attorney
General BY the Republican State Conven-
tion of Iowa, Major Henry 0'Conner said:
feelmyself responsible for having done
something, and have always credited my
self with great honor for having presented
James W. Grimes for that position He has
filled the position of Senator his State
with honor until these doubts Ne reached
rs. We want no doubts. seak plain. 1
say that though he were ten times more
honored, though he were thousand times
Greater, and If instead of being my friend
he were my father or brother, or what is
still nearer, my son-if he started through
and stepped back and failed TO discharge
this plain, manifest duty-I say if he failed
when the evidence is there sufficient for any
man who will let his soul speak'and let his
conscience guide him-with readiness,
though with sorrow, would be the first on
every doorstep, IN every schoolhouse, to
denounee him as unit to represent Iowa,
and untrue to education and principles.
(Applause.)
Grimes is dead
WHERE THE BEST SHOES ARE MADE.-In
the United States the manufacture of shoes
has reached the highest perfection. The
shoes of Massachusetts, have q worldwide
reputation for their beauty of form, and
they excel those Of any other part Of the
world. A century ago the town of Lynn
was famous for its manufacture of shoes,
and at the present time about ten million
pairs of boots and shoes are made in this
town alone; and in the State of Massachu-
sets, in 1860, there were made nearly thirty.
three million pairs Of shoes, and eleven
million five hundred thousand pairs Of
boots. Outside Of the New England States,
Phiiadelphia is the city of next note as q
manufacturer of boots and shoes.
A Washington letter says: 'ssThe Presi-
dent has couple Of pretty little grand
daughters, who have been petted, eourted,
and consorted with By their schooinsates
most gladly until recently. One or their
was to have been Queen Of May a the
last May-tay festival, under promise fronl
the juvenile society in which they moved
at school; but the order was reversed a day
or two before, when another little miss was
selected BY q large prepondefanea Of votes
among the children. The little pitchers
bad long ears, and they turned their faces
from the setting sum-
Chemists tell us that single grain Of the
substance called iodine viii impart color to
1000 times its weight of water 1t Is SO in
higher things. One book, one habit, may
affect the whole life and character.