New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-09
s1IsCELLANEoUs ITEMS.

Said Franklin: Tell me with whom a
man associates, and will tell you who he
is"
President General Robert E. Lee of a
college in Virginia, was q halEbrother of
the highly respectable and $500 900 colored
Mr.. Alfred Lee, who recently died In George
town, D. G.
The following, which we clip from an ex-
change, is not so awful bad after ali:
Allowing offer to marry
Is always lawful trade,
For his is q legal tender,
And she is the tender made.
A fre-eating candidate for office in the
South was asked his opinion on negro suf
frage. "0h, d-n the niggers. They should
not be allowed to vote at ALL Yes, Col
lonel, but about five hundred of them in
ticket" '0h, ali! Yes-yes-yery well.
That makes all the difference in the world"
There was once consul at 49,, who
indicated his office hours by the legend on
his door. "In from ten to one" An old sea
captain, who kept coming for about q week,
without finding the consul, at last furiously
wrote, in terms of wager, under this le-
gend, Ten tc enc you're out"
The Eastport (Maine) Sentinel says: " Men
are hunting all over town to procure labor
ers, without success. From appearances we
should judge there was much, and indeed
more work going on here this spring than
usuaLn
The young girl who was reported to have
committed suicide from love, in Newark
New Jersey, lately, died from selflove rath.
er than from the love of a young man. She
was IN the habit Of taking arsenic to i'm
prove her complexion, and her last dose
brought DEATH ~
The latest Yankee inventions are econom-
&c cheroots, which are twice the length of
abe ordinary, and herein is the economy
The government taxes cigars without re-
gard to length, and the application of a
knife will make enc of these into two In an
instant,
An eccentric miller in Proctorsyilie.
Maine, has built his own monument of red
sandstone, millstOnes being used as the base
and cap Of the second section. He has
carved thereon this inscriptions: iarhou, /
am dead yet speaketh for here is rest it has
ever been my heart desire to do unto you
as would that ye should dountO me 90 east
the beam out OF your own eye and let me lie
in peace and sing my redeemers love come
my sweet companion meet me here.a
Rev Morrill, Allen, of Pembroke, Massa-
chusetts, who Is now ninety three years of
age, does his gardening with his own hands.
besides experimenting the work Of his large
farm. Hegshas until the past FIVE years
Occasionally ocenpled the pulpit, and
RANAAeAAee
takes walks Of from three to ten miles in
preference to riding.
The New York World says:
five can carry the election it makes little
difference on what platform OF with what
candidate. 4or afl .isFr .I.ss
Let the Democrats, then, nominate Gen
eral Grant aid adopt the Chicago platform.
and theg will be certain of Carving the
Presidential election. FL.
A patriotic youth Of Schenectady. Eew
York, who vas Anticipating the Fourth.
had his pocket niled promiscuously with
candy and torpedoes. &c meditated eating.
some Of the eandy, but BY mistake got 4
torpedo 10 his mouth The torpedo ex.
picded, but iaekiiy no greater harm was
done than 80 give tne lad good scare and
% impEes5 hlls with dislike for that Kind
Of toys.
u wopit-ais and won't be biistered .
said Sarah daughty Duchess OF MarlbOr
Ough, when hef physicians presented this
alternative ~ 1eri and she didn't die. The
Delnocradc paftf shows asimiiar obstinscr.
bat can hardly 19ld to exhibit Z parallel
witafity. Bllatefing Can seldom accomplish
lhe.W0rk IF bilsdefins; aud when the latter
% lmpfrsfiRe p il lhis case, the former
WIN beipu1i ia1liciept.
= one 81 tie oldest ana most reliable
AaQilt iHstit t.aus "a t1is city the QUESTION
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Ne 1889 W. Iesiee4it. the Welllkn6ris
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