New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-21
EDIToRIAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

la petite Schlager is dancing in Boston
The Post don't see how she gets around
the stand so nimbly, with such ponderOus
name as Kleiner Fraulein SpitzenfrageR
Schlager.
According to a correspondent of the New
York Tribune, the ladies of Chilli are very
accomplished in music and nothing else.
It is said that performers who would pass
for accomplished pianists in this country
would there be regarded as hardly above
mediocrity. The character of the music
selected and enjoyed is Of the highest
classical order, but it is no unusual thing
for those who are thoroughly familiar with
Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelsshen to be
wholly ignorant in the simpler departments
of education.
Edwin Booth, having long been troubled
by opportunities to go abroad to play,
seems at last to have succumbed. He will
begin by playing next month in New Jer-
| sey.
The town of Pembroke, Massachusetts,,
has just elected a woman, Mrs. Lydia G.
Randall, as member of the school COM
mittee.
Punch illustrates plump youngster ap-
plying for the place of page, to whom the
mistress says wish my servants to have
plenty, but l don't allow any waste"
Page" Oh, no, mum which I'd eat and
drink till busted, mum, rather than waste
anythink, mum "
By investing some years ago his mileage
money in land in the vicinity of Chicago,
Ex-C Congressman John Wentworth is now a
millionaire, the growth of the city having
brought the land within the business por-
, tiOn.
Ii is stated that il the president is con-
victed of "high crimes and misdemeanors,"
he will swing round the circle, commencing
at New York, and address the people in
his own vindication. Arriving in Tennes-
see. it is supposed that he will be welcomed
by the Kuklux-Klan.
I Major General Upton, of Michigan, who
married the other day, has gone to Brest
f Before his marriage it was generally sup
, posed he was going to Hdrre.
) Mrs. Elizabeth Darragh has been ap-
+ pointed inspector Of tobacco, snuff, and
cigars in the fourth Indiana district, as sue
! cesser to her late husband. This is tht
I first instance of the appointment Of wo-
e man in the internal revenue service outside
:. of the bureau.
The total vote in New Hampshire at the
I recent election was 1906, of which 39,75s
were Republican. The estimate Of the
5 Republican state committee before the
election was 70, 1891, and of the Republican
d vote, reckoning half of the doubtful, 3d.
n $50. This is pretty close figuring.
Hon. Jacob H. Ella, member Of congress
a from New Hampshire, has four sons named
e as follows: Frederick Douglass, Parkel
y Pillsbury. Wendell Phillips, and Charlie
SAmner.
- Congress will eventually agree to a bill
granting more banks to the South an
West. The exact amount Of additiona
..ss bank notes is yet uncertain, but it is con
/. sidered probable that it will net excee,
o.oOo,OOO It's growing more probabl
, each day that congress will not authoriz
d the issue Of more legal tenders. A verl
Decentralization has come from amembe
"a of the supreme court that there is DANCE
that ii would declare such an issue in tim
Is of peace to be unconstitutional. The Pen
n dleton Democrats here, who have heard
.s the rumor, do not speak so reyerently Q
the court as they have recently been in thi
habit Of doing in connection with the re
a construction acts.
7 The Republican papers Of Connection
y y are eutresting the Democratic managers Z
5. import to that state c. C. Burr, Henry Clay
q Deane, Montgomery Blair. Brick Pouaeroy
Il and the remainder Of the copperhead crew
= who canvassed New Hampshire 50 success
fully for them. With the help Of thes
Democratic lights they think they can deisa
q English and secure Republican msiorlt
{. Of fully three or four thousand. The elec
y tion il 10 be held on the 9Th Of Aprl.
e The Houston gaswOrks are nov IA opera
!. q. tiOn, and the city was lighted with gas 70
week,