New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-03


is sour, Of fine quality. hardy, grows neare
the North Pole than any other, and bios
SONS and ripens within sixty days,
Charlotte Thompson's mother, Mrs. Clisbi'
Thompson. died on the LIST instant, IN Rock
lad cganty, New OK. She was the wild
owAA0 lie late Lysander Thompson-tht
sccel vic comedian.
Step5 6iassett is drifting about, and
the las7 We Heard Of him was on the sixth
Of February, mhei he was giving his enter
tainments a. Shanghae, IL China, with the
intention OF going TO Japan.
Some confident persons in New York paid
ninety cents on the dollar for Mexican
bonds three years ago, believing that when
the republic should be re.establlshed theiI
investment would be secured. Now the
same sort of paper commands only twenty
cents
1t is curious fact that the demand for
children for adoption in New York is in
advance of the supply. The number of
persons without children of their own who
wish to have child to bring up is large
and increasing. Girls are preferred to boys.
The diamond-pointed rubber pen is one
of the latest inventions. The pen Is as
elastic as a quill, and as durable as gold
pen. The point of the pen is of gold, while
the rest is of rubber. There is no chance
for it to corrode under the presence of ink.
A little girlSten iyears of age was recently
committed for three years to reform
school in England, on complaint of her
father, who stated that both she and her
brother had repeatedly robbed their parents
and were incorrigible thieves.
The treadmill is still in use in English
prisons. This is an ancient and cruel pun
ishment and ConviCts are sentenced TO ii
for eight hours and half each day, being
fed OF potato soup and meal. The health
and STRENGTH IF many are TINS DpTmaupnflv
ruined.
A Scotch lady, visiting a city, complained
much OF the hardness of her bed. To this
her host responded that the harder the bed
the healthier the rest, even when the bed
was hard as a board. '0h, ay ~ cried the
ScotchWoman, 'these will be the new
tangled Boards of Health hear tell Of"
AS there is a foolish wisdom so there is
wise ignorance in not prying into Gods
ark, not inquiring into things not revealed.
/ would fain know all that need, all that |
may. rleave Gods secret to himself 1t is
happy for me that God makes me of his
court, though not Of his council.-Bishop
Hal.
Norton, Massachusetts, with population
Of 1900, has hfty-fVe persons over seventy.
five years OF age. The eldest is Daniel
Makepeace, who reached his hundredth
year the ninth oflast September. He voted
for Washington and Lincoln, and at the next
Presidential election intends to vote for
Grant.
Hon. Ogden Bowdie, who has been
elected Governor OF Maryland, was lately
accused of opposing Mr.. Pendleton. He
replies with an emphatic denial, saying:
''Mr. Pendleton is my present preference
for the Presidency, and I am one Of those
who, having had enough of war, wart no
war man in the Presidential ofice.n
NJ. Vildmann has recently been going
through some curious performances for the
edihcation of the continental savants. He
appeared before them with three swarms of
bees, one swarm on his body, another on
his Shoulder, and the third in his pockets.
At signal given by him. the whole OF the
bees entered their hives, and at another
signalthey returned to their positions on n.
Fildmann's body.
Whatever is doubtful in the attitude of
the States in which elections have not been
held sStai &c resolved By the result Of the
impeachment question. If as we anticipate
Andrew Johnson shall be sent back to the
place from which he proposed TO make
treason OdiOus, there will be no hesitation in
Florida, Mississippi, or Texas, and no effect
ual opposition IN Virginia. The acquittal
OF johnson might proloDg and intensity
rebel bitterness but even that would be 4
temporary check. The full restoration of
every Southern State is as certain as the
rising of the sun.-Neao York Tribune.
New York never sleeps, It is said, and
there is much truth in the remark. Nine
hundred thousand of its population sleep
o'nights, but the other one hundred thou
SAND, about one-tenth of the population,
must be hard at work. So that while nine
hundred thousand are pushing through the
cares and business Of lite by day, one hund-
red thousand are equally active By night.
So there is one continued rush, stir and
hustle; no cessation; one continued scene
Of activities. What a strange, curious pic
ture does New York life present! II Is
humanity in active motion, and that all the
Anaes
The ruling spirit strong in death was
seldom If ever more remarkably mani.
tested than in the case of Colonel j. III.
Foster, Of the Pittsburg Dispatch. He died
en- the twenty first ult., at the age of forty
SIX years and three days, after protracted
Alnesa, from consumption. On the after
noon Of Monday, the twentieth, he visited
We L,lspdtca ONCE, and wrote the leading
article for The next days issue. While sit.
tlag 10 bed on Tuesday, he called for the
DlePdica, read the paper through aud then
aiteT few words conversation with his
Wiles ley back on his pillow aud quietly
passed AWAY.
An lAroErANF TELEGRAPH ENfFnpnfar
we learn nom Don Juan Gonzales ahat
NN-~A - te7~'4NlAsAD I'LL HO1llE I0uE Thousand
men under MIS- command, Is building : Nue
OF telegraph from san Luis Pctosi u Non
terry, which WIZ b eventually extended
to Brownsville aad Laredo and an y, ibia
place, 20 make Connection with the teie.
graph here in this CITY, sixty miles Ar
already completed. It has bAfs rennrtes
that EscOhedO had fallen ont with Issarez
but there IS no truth Ia TIE 4cnert: Esen.
bedo ID Ia perfect friendship Ith Inafts
aad tie Government. This teie1lanh enter.
prise Is one of great importanoa ala M
precursor Of a still greater undertaken y
the way OF a rallr0ad.--Sdn antonio AZ.
press.
Governor Bullock, Of Massachusetts,. A
taken 3 sIasular course with reference 4
the aet PISSED b. the Legislature OF "a
et41e licensing the sale Of liquors. As b
haa ptpueiY recognized, in his annual NEE
sage, aae jeqguens ofthe people as decisive
" proving cnanga iram fhe policy Of pro
htbltiou HAIea ~ long ptarailad ID HASA
chusetra. he aId not ~Ish 10 thwart thal
5unEuaul ~ Ntt9| On 4ne other hanei, he
regards the aet 81 efeA 10 very grave ohiec.
tinna, ia tn1oNiaa epaa pablo hafa aHd tlp.
ping houses in every arafsef Sc tAe State.
D Az citiz a he could Aah aa1a4ft such Z law.
ara therefore ~ Chef Itll'' s141fs rnniei
alen it lie therefore elG tao lnsaalsfe
cue q Law BY bis fal7lfe Is sign Il
Nc constitutional limit of si~s.