New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-01


The population of Michigan is estimated
at over a million.
A bridal pair in Detroit weigh $50
pounds. What an amount Of happiness.
Halt millioa dollars a week, on the
average, are deposited in the Massachusetts,
savings banks.
We advise Wade, in response to the Office
seeker who addressed him as Ad Interim,
to Wade iRter'iM.
Fort Morgan is to be abandoned on or
about tine first of May, and the troops re-
moved to Sweetwater country.
A few days since, parties while drilling for
coal on farm near Vienna, Ohio, struck a
vein OF fine block coal four feet in thickness.
Messrs. Hoe & Co. are making six eight
cylinder presses for English dailies. They
will soon begin to build presses in London.
Pere Natural, the best cook in Paris, is
sent for whenever a great dinner is given
anywhere, even at the Tuilleries, and makes
$1,000 d year By going out on 'io5s."
Members of congress who have returned
| from Connecticut report everything favora-
BILE for a Republican majority If the i'm :
peachment moves along smoothly. t.a
Cincinnati has three thousand liquor
saloons, all Of which are kept open on Sum
| day and are filed with young men. Young
man out there is a rum-inating article.
| The Young ladies who labor for a living
| in this city have all suddenly become music
| cal. At least ejudge SO from the fact that
each Of them carries brass band on her
| head
The reluctance of Mr.. johnson to appear
| before the bar of the senate is something re-
| markable. 1t is the first time in his expert
ence that a summons to the bar has not met
with ready and cordial response.
The country is indebted to the Cincinnati
| ENQUIRER for the astonishing discovery that
| ii the president should be deposed he would
become vice.president again, and that then,
by virtue of his office he returns 10 the
chair as acting president.
The Rancltero says that Leon Chavez, the
Guadalajara highwayman and fend, has
! Just kidnapped and murdered seven young
senoritas OF Tepatitlan, state of JRlisc0.
Chavez has 400 men under his orders.
Brick Pomeroy, Henry Clay Dean, and G.
| Chauncey Burr, are in New Haven, be-
seechlng the Democratic committee to allow
them to stump the state, but thas far they
have been snabbed in the most unhandsome
manner.
A murderer recently executed in Idaho
is said to have ascended the scaffold with
smile on his face But then it should be
understood that he had but recently mar
ried widow with eight children.
! A Boston teacher who, in fit Of vexatien
called her pupils set of young adders, on
being reproved for her language apologlzed
by saying she was speaking to those just
commencing arithmetic.
The Louisville Courier advises the De
mocracy to steer clear of the hnanciai qnes-
tion ia the coming campaign. ~ argues
that to take position on lt must cteate dis
| sepsion. Some of the shrewder Democratic
| organs evidently begin 10 realize the fact
That their party is too weak In the spine to
carry any question.
General Butler while in active practice
| In Massachusetts was a terror and torment
| a. iudVes of thin calibre. On one occasion
Jndge IS. having been bullied and badgered
| out of all patience petulantly asked
"What does the counsel suppose l am on
this bench for n Scratching his head 3
minute, Benjamin F. replied: Wen, con
fess your honor's got me there"
Barnnm upon being asked if be had lost
his all by the fire, replied; mo, have not
lost my spirits, my appetite, nor the means
Of gratifying it; in fact, expect have got
enough left TO spoil my children. unless
happily manage to spend some OF 1t be-
| fore have done with it, Of which there
seems to be fair prospect He has re-
sisted all Inducements offered for starting .
new museum.