New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-22
EDIroKrAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

EDITORIAL AND NE VS. ANE
The Galveston Heaes says that the Island
CITY hotel was sold by the sheriff last week
to a Northern creditor OF the late pro-
Prietors.
The Crockett Sentinel chronicles the death
from sunstroke OF Mr.. Matthias Wicker, an
old Texan and citizen of Houston county
for many years.
The hog may not be thoroughly posted in
arithmetic; but when you come to square
TJot he is there--the hog is, and finds no
dfeulty in extracting it.
The following is Aunt Betsy's description
Of her milkman: "He is the meanest man
IN % world" she exclaimed. He skins
his M on the top, then turns it over and
sbims bottom"
Senatoi, Wade is quite confident the Presi-
dent viii D convicted. He was asked if his
vote should be required he would give it.
His reply was quick: III had twenty votes
I'D give them aL.n
A venerable lady in Massachusetts states
that on May 8, 1903, sixty-hve years ago,
the peach and cherry trees were in full
bloom, with snow enough on the ground In
the morning for good sleighing.
Not single divorce has ever been granted
in South Carolina since its settlement. The
new Consultation, however, contains sec.
tisn providing for the legal separation of
1lSSdblSuGu nuSDAlu5 anu WlNtss
There is man in Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut, over seventy years of age, who has
spent but six and quarter cents for liquor
during his lifetime, and that amount was
assessed upon himiat military parade to
pay for wetting down the officers commits
sion.
Uncle 10. says: ''Young man let me
give you piece of advice. Never marry a
rich wife; behold in me one who married
rich. My wife had tbi19yseoef aud a halt
cents, while ] had but a quarter, and she
has been constantly twitting me of the odd
nine-pence ever SINCE
A little girl about four years old, and
little boy about six, had been cautioned not
to take away the nest egg, but one morning
when they went for eggs the little girl took
it and started for the house. Her disap-
pointed brother followed crying, Mother
mother Susey's been and got the egg the
old hen measured by"
The Chicago Republican saws: Free
trade is and always has been badge of the
Democracy. When the Tribune fights for it
that journal fights side by side with the
Chicago Times, the La Crosse Democrat,
the Cincinnati Enquirer, the New York Day
Book the Louisville Courier, and the
Charleston Mercury"
A grcenhorn in Connecticut recently in.
vested one cent in square" offre kindling
the Impression that 1t was corn candy. It
wasn't good eating, and he threw it away
and bolted out of the shop, exclaiming as
he disappeared, (" Waal, that's the gol
darndest sell l ever did see," ....
The following essentially French para
graph appeared in recent Paris paper
YESTERDAY young man and q lady took
supper at a fashionable restaurant on the
bouleyards. In the course Of the evening
the young man plunged knife into his
bosom. He was carried home. The blood
which he lost produced a salutary impress
sion upon him, and he now expresses firm
intention to go on with hte."
The following rather hard story is told by
a Troy paper; 9 The other morning gen
tlemen found in a trap he had set COM
plete rat skin, and-nothing more! The
snap had caught the animal by the nose,
and in struggling to escape he walked en-
tirely out Of bis skin. Attached to the skin
were portions Of the bones of the head, the
hind feet, and the whole tail. Leading
from the trap to hole near by were tracks
of bloOd.7
Hon. John r. French, one of the newly
elected members of Congress from North
Carolina, is a native of GilmantOn, New
Hampshire, and about forty-fve years Of
age. He learned the printers trade in Con
cord, New Hampshire, where he spent his
youth aud early manhood, and there he pub
lished the Herald Of freedom, which was the
IS ssiis s csiSlJ -ce Sellers oss View
Hanpshire.
A planter near Savannah consigned his
cotton crop to a merchant in that city, who
sold the goods, pOcketed the money, and
then failed, after which he wrote thus to
the conhding conntryman; T" Dear friend,
acknowledge ! spent your money. ! fee
trust that you will, as Eve taken the bened
of the bankrupt act. A1ectionately you
friend.r
A little three-year-old was in the habi
of helping himself to crackers in the pantry
lifting the tin lid and plunging his hand int
the stone jar for them. One dag, after listen
ing to stories about rats, he went after
cracker, and hearing some noise that b
imagined was made by rats, he rushed bacl
to the parler. and with flushed face said
q Muzzer, amt afraid Of lcuts, Int Use .
tised I couldn't ut The lid.s
a good wife should be like three thing
which three things she should not be like
First, she should be like snail, to kee
within her own house; but she should nc
be like d snail, to carry all she has upon he
back. Seeandly, she should be like q
echo. to speak when spoken to; but sh
snOuld not be like an echo, always to hay
the last word. Thirdly, she should be Tx
= t0En clock, always 70 keep time and regr
iarily; put she should NOT be ike 3 tow
clock, speaks 80 loud that al the town ma
hn9R her.
saa Antonio Express says the fields i
Af lHity0 II New Braunfels smile wit
skops Of corn and cott0n and her
nq Mz patches Of spaii efaiA elmoa
reaa4 M 4s sickle. We must tF NOR
OAld and wheat. Texas s 10
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