New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-02
M1soELLANEous ITEMS.

rison. an Intelligent coIored man. Clerk of
The Senate Committee on Mines, OF which
he is chairman.
Most of the towns in Massachusetts that
zhave taken action on the license question
have voted not TO allow licenses within their
borders.
If a certain old gentleman and lady in
Vermont live another eighteen months they
will celebrate their diamond wedding.
Their oldest child is now seventy.oue years
old.
The Prince Michael, whose assassination
was reported by the cable, was divorced
from his wife for the same reason that Ma
poleon repudiated the Empress Josephine.
The American heiress for whose attempt.
ed abduction Chevalier Wikoff was incar.
cerated for some two years in Genoese
prison, is residing in London still, sin
maiden meditation fancy free"
Trinity Chapel, New York, was the scene
of q very fashionable wedding last week.
The bride wore gray travelling suit and
gray hat.
A New York itemizer has found out that
one of Mr.. Jerome's race horses sleeps with
his head upon the same pillow with his
groom, which shows that quadrepedal
genius is not exclusive.
The Mikado OF Japan enjoys nothing
better than Improving on nature. He has
mad his eyebrows shaved off and another
pair painted on an inch higher up on his
forehead.
Seymour says that the Democratic party
is laboring under " embarrassment from
the great volume of change in its favor"
The November election will relieve it of
that EN- barrassment.
Hartz, the wizard, is travelling westward
His floating head and Indian basket tricks
are among the most wonderful in the mod,
ern magical repertoire, but the manner of
The wizard is unpleasant.
Brick PomerOy made speech in st. Louis
The other day and so disguised the Dem
ocrats that the Republicans are anxious to
engage him to speak his piece throughout
the season.
Caleb Cushing is engaged in a most lu-
crative practice of his profession in Wash
lngton. He was sixtyeight years old on
the seventeenth of January last, aud is
perhaps the freshest and most youthful man
OF his age in America.
A Western lady recovered damages the
other day from NSientist for renting. her
mouth to the docLEs student to take Casts
in beeswax and plaster which she said Sc
riously impeded her articulation and respi.
ration.
The Chicago Post says:
Among the Conservative soldiers in Ohio
named as delegates TO the Tammany side
show is General l.. @. Hunt, OF Toledo, who
has been dead SIX months. And the rest of
the delegates are like the Irishman's turtle
Did, but not sinsibl Nv it.n
One John Rudge, of England, gave in his
will five shtlllngs quarter to a poor man
70 go about the parish church during ser
mon time with awhip, to keep the people
awake and to keep the dogs out. 1t is lust
possible that such u functiOnary might ind
occasion TO exercise the first part OF his duty
IN these days.
No matter who may be chosen the Demo
cratic candidate for President on the fourth
Of July, he will be the leader of the forces of
The rebels-of the men who, at any period
of the war would have voted for the rrc,,g
milton of the Confederacy. aud for The divis.
ion of the Union. Without their ballots
there would, in fact, be no Democratic party
The editor of the New York Herald has
rendered himself liable to be read out of
the Democratic party by declaring that
whisky is only luxury and not necessi.
sy.N Perhaps he prefers being read out of
she party 80 being red tn it.
Day by day the Richmond Enquirer and
Examiner reiterates its demand that Con.
sentative employers shall discharge freed.
men who presume to vote, and 1t asserts
that 1t feels quite flattered" by the denun.
clatlons with which its proposal has been
visited by some of the Radical papers In the
North. Its programme, it says, Is very sim
pie: Employment and no vote, or vote and
starve."
The Macon Journal is not allured bv the
glowing accounts from the Spanish Hondu.
ras. IL tells the young men of Georgia 10
remain in Georgia. The good time isleom.
ing, it sees it not afar, and it says: Never
give up the fight; flee not from the land
whose history you so proudly illustrated
Tor four long years by deeds thai the world
knows by heart
It has been found while firing At the
"runningman" target, at Wimbledon, en-
gland), which Is scarlet on one side and
gray on the other, that the scarlet dazzles
the eye, and is hence the most difficult 10
nit from leaving red streak behind it In
Its advance which unsettles the ann The
gray side was struck seventy-fOu times
and the red onlV fortytwo times. His a
curious fact, too, that those with gray ewes
nit fairer than those with eyes Of other
oolofs.
Mr.. Chase has performed signal services
70 the Republican party, bat DOthing that
he mas heretofore done Is perhaps SO worthy
o. the gratltude Of MS old associates, rs his
recent attempt TO introduce a new element
OF discOrd into the Democratic party
already rent by the contentious between
The factions OF Pendlet0n aud Hancock
L was q masterpiece of political strategy.
Boston Transcript.
A Paris correspondent writes that the
dress Of the season for walking purpOses Ia
a tnulArd-the shade light faWa or cream
cpiQr. with hinge Of someW ha1 darker
shade O. aetln- The Indispensable fehu AS
Lam belle, or mantle and ichu combined, is
worn with tails cut in two skirts. At the
theatres pink silk 10 worn under high mus.
an 0odices Inserted with lace. Fun dress
~ eoart is satin.
The frightful mortality OF the Chinese
asles imported into Caba 10 supply the
1-s|euoy Of negro iaborers aud the horrors
c1l4ucled With the traflc, long ago il IA
AnoWns induced both our QOveT6msnt and
ahas Of England TO forbid their citizeus TO
eneaae IA i. The humanity ST this ncfion
yindlc4te1 81 recent stafietics, which
gov tnat Of 81. % men embarked 81 Mseeao
tc.tten rue years 1851 aud 1856, only
t4l aiIlyed 81 lneN destination; aud 81
1es4A 81 tlfso only 30 z2 remained allre /
&C tne sd Of Ten years.
NlIert lNssid le Us = strohf npnosifion Il
lie ban leEsllgIne gold contftcI We can /
1ee 20 t4uN#pla Hsagen 4of aueh okBnaltion.
~ a pf74 cet load Of Mm6er 81 II ana /
4Efft4 t8 pay 1l4 + 1a1 saIA lnnl Der 81 ~, /
tII Qf HNt1t 4t ~ must be acoondin. - I
"a ~ fH4 Corn ll.I EA fai h6 Allied nS r4...l
tanzlnH 1eHHfN4. rnff4 ~ fae ssn'.s't iul /
legal tender u1iea H1|I n |l5 much a cam !
aeliY Rhe1ts ln9 tl.ill1 ~ y should he 4
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