New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-06

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NEW ORLEANS. DECEMBER 8. 1871:
Thanks to the Southern Express TOR late
New York papers.
The man who popped the question by
starlight got his sweethearts consent III
twinkling.
Doods thinks that, instead OF giving
credit to whom credit is due, that cash had
better be paid.
Apropos of wicked men. Why was Moses
the wickedest man that ever lived! BE-
cause he broke all the ten commandments
The coolest weather in New Orleans re-
ported thus far this season was during the
night Of Monday last. when the thermometer
was down to 260.
The Vicksburg Times says Governor
Powers has removed DR.. c. A. Foster as
mayor Of thatcity, and appointed General
j. c. Weber.
The Opelousas Journal says: "From what
we can learn, sugar cane in this parish is
now yielding about one hogshead and
half to the acre."
Tho new Biographies will have to state
that the principal industry Of Muscatine,
Indiana, is the manufacture of "sour krout,"
which is shipped down the river.
At . Louisville ball waggish youth took
out the ham from the sandwiches and sub
stituted slices of soap therefor. The result
may be imagined. He was lathered.
Mr.. Walton. Administrator Of Finance,
gives notice that he is ready to receive pro-
posals, until the sixteenth, for the sale to
the city of seven wharf improvement
bonds.
Clayton Crawford Gillespie, son Of
Colonel c. c. Gillespie. Of the Houston
Union, died at the residence Of his father
last Saturday morning, after a long i'll
ness.
A wife in Davenport, Iowa, who wouldn't
endure her drunken and abusive husband
any longer, took advantage Of his absence
one dav, and sold out their household goods
and disappeared with the proceeds.
Leave Of absence has been granted by
Governor Warmoth to J. Jules, Clerk Of
the District Court for the Ninth Judicial
District, Bossier parish, for fifteen days,
commencing on the fourth instant.
The great sale of the blooded stock of
the Fair Grounds stock farm will positively
take place this day. at half-past ten O'Clock,
at the Stonewall jackson stables, No. ia
Baronne street, by Messrs Montgomery.
We have received from C. s. Sauvlnet
Esq., pamphlet report Of the decision Of
the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the case
of C. S. Sauvinet Va. J. A. Walker. 1t is
neatly printed, and useful for reference.
An oyster supper for the benefit of the
Ladies' Missionary Society Of the Coliseum
place Baptist church will be given at the
church on Thursday and Friday evenings CT
this week. Tickets one dollar. A pleasant |
party is expected.
The cold was so intense here Monday
night that in some sections Of the city ice |
was formed. and the spigots of csterns
were frozen tight. Growing vegetation sut |
fercd extensively, and only the hardest |
plants survived the frosty orleal.
Young ladies who think Dame Nature
has not made their eyes sufficiently bright.
endeavor to enhance their brilliancy by
having belladonna dropped into their eyes.
or by blackening the lower eyelid, which
has the effect OF making them look large
and full.
Governor Warmoth has made the follow
ing appointments: j. II. Kingsley, police
Juror for Jefferson parish, right bank;
Robert Hammet, justice of the peace for the
third ward Of Natchitoches parish; Jonas
Hughes, justice Of the peace for the second
ward of Ascension parish.
King John, Of Saxony, is said to bear
striking resemblance to the General Robert
Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame. The king
spends most of his time in making transla-
tons from the French, English and Italian
poets. The older he growa-he will be
seventy next month-the more attached he
becomes to literature.
The President has appointed c. W. Bah
cock, Surveyor General of Kansas, General
W. Vandever, of Iowa, and n. Hilton, of
st. Louis, Missouri, United States Commits
'ioners to examine and report upon the
'oad and telegraph line of the Kansas and
Texas Railway Company in the Indian Ter
ritory.
Messrs. Louis Stern e. Brothers will sell
o-day, at ten o'clock, at No. Is Charities
street, one thousand cases boots, shoes and
Drogans, and five hundred dozen ladies',
misses and children's Philadelphia manu-
'actured congress CATERS, polish and button |