New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-16
11IsCELLANEOUs ITEMS.


The Lord is mercitul. Since we are to
have the seventeen year locust ne Will hOt
infiict the Democracy upon US.
A patent machine for exterminating the
cotton worm is on exhibition at the store OF
Mr.. A. Jackson in Baton Rouge
General Grant is not public speaker,
but his guns were. Let that fact put his
enemies to fight, as his guns also did.
The Democracy are especially bitter upon
Butler because, as they allege, he steals
spoons They can't abide rivals in their
regular line Of business.
The latest invention is said to be ink made
from India rubber. 1t has been suggested
that writers inclined to stretch story"
will make use Of the article.
It is said to be fact that the postmaster
general has received letters asking why
Petroleum v. Nasty is allowed to remain IN
his department while attempting 10 prlng
odium on the administration.
Once a Week perpetrstes the following
cruel epigram on lady pianist:
"When Orpheus played he touched the
rocks and trees. But you, my lady, only
touch the keys"
During a performance at theatre in
Salt Lake the prompter detracted somewhat
from the stage illusion by exclaiming in
voice audible to all present, Hurry up that
thunder and lightning there, you"
The Mobile Neirs says the work of grading
on the New Orleans, Mobile, and Chatta-
nooga load has been commenced at point
three miles north Of that city, aud will be
prosecuted vigdouaiy.
Every bergarly 3yebel south of Mason and
Dixon's line Il eiAmorinF FOR General Grant
to resign. General Grant never did resign
in the face of the enemy, and 1t is too late
for him to begin.
II hoe mat haan arrnStad in New York
for wearing mems apparel during more than
four years, All that time she has led fast
life with the fashionable young men of that
city, none of whom suspected her sex.
A barrel of -four can now be contracted to
be carried from Galena to New Orleans,
either by river or by railroad and river Tor
sixty cents. Other kinds of freight are car.
ried proportionally cheap.
The editor of the Louisville Courier has
seen an egg which, when broken, was found
to contain hard yolk, as if boiled. In the
centre of the yolk bullet was found.
How it got there is the question.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post says that Mr.. Pendleton has
written letter to friend saying that the
moment any other candidate gets single
vote more than himself in the nominating
convention his name must be withdrawn.
The Republicans of the Seventh Indiana
Orth for Congress by 1923 votes to 469 for
General Wallace. General Wallace promised
his cordial support to Mr.. Orth, and an
nounced himself as candidate two years
hence.
A young girl-one of the Arab children
under the protection of the Archbishop Of
Algiers-states that she is the only child
left OF five in her family, the other four
having been successfully killed and eaten
by their parents. On search being made the
bones were discovered in the cabin.
The yellow fever is raging fearfuIly in
Lima, Peru. In the middle of last month
from two hundred to three hundred persons
were dying daily, and two thousand five
hundred patients were in the hospitals.
Among the victims to the epidemic were
Mr.. Blakely, inventor of the gun bearing
that name, and his wife.
May was very rainy month. There
were only eight days on which no rain fell,
and the actual duration of all showers wac
one hundred and fifty hours eighteen
minutes. The depth of water that fell was
1.l89 inch more thaR during the month of
May last year. These are the figures for
New York.
One Democrat, in pressing upon another
the proPTiety of nominating the Chief Jus.
tice for the Presidency. said: Judge Chase
would make good President; because on
all the distinctive principles which divide
the two parties, with the single exception OF
the negro, he is inflexible in his irmness.p
The reply was: 81 never knew before that
it was wise in any party to covet a stern
Chase"
A good story ia told in Louisiana paper
OF a WAGNER whose camp was visited by
some travellers, TO whom he offered coffee,
and one of the latter declining it was asked
of what profession he was? He answered
that he was a Baptist. Thereupon the
WAGNER brought out his jug and offered a
drink to the Baptist declaring that he al
ways went prepared with chickens for a
Methodist preacher, and whisky for 8
Baptist.
A strange tragedy is related in the Chey-
enne papers. 1t appears that a woman
who has been living for some years as the
mistress Of man named Owens last winter
married another man one Hooker. Afterward
she returned to live with Owens, and Hook
er, therefore, last Saturday poisoned him
self. His wife, stricken with remorse on
hearing of this, went to the house where
an inquest was being held upon the dead
body, swallowed poison, and in a few mo.
ments was herself the subject of another
inquest. Since then Ovens the old lover
has disappeared, and it is reported that he
has also committed suicide.
A blacksmith confined in the House of
Correction, London, recently died there, as
witnesses testified to before the Coroner, for
want VI lOou. his Vile opposed that she saw
him every three months, and he complained
very much of the treatment, and said the
food was not sufficient to keep him alive.
He had been glad to purloin pieces Of tailow
candles and eat them, or he should have
died of hunger. He said other prisoners had
done the same, and when found out had
been punished for it. He many times had
said bitterly; "0h you little know what
we have to suffer-" The deceased was 4
eofpnlent, heavy man, and great eater
She thought the want Of sufficient food had
been his death. A juror said he knew mar
still in the prison who had lost eighteen
pounds in weight Of flesh during three
months. The deceased had been compelled
notwithstanding his short allowance, "a
work on the treadwheel. Three cheers for
Aerrie England