New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-15


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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATE
OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of new 0RlEAN
rev ORLEANS. NOVEMBER Is. 1871
Miss Josephine Fiddes proposes to sta
through the English provincial cities.
The King of Dahomey attended CRANE
fast the other day. wearing a quantity o
druggists labels as decorations. fiea-
TO- ---
At Ottumwa, Iowa, at the late election,
Democrat voted last years printed ticket
saying he didn't want any new departure
in his'n." 5 aaa
A modern thinker says that many people
will be astonished, when they get to heaven
to find the angels laying no schemes to b
made archangels.
Crimson silk parasols, with black lac.
covers and red coral handles, are the cor
rect thing to carry in full dress, at this sea
son Of the year. - r
The people of Wyoming, who are already
obliged to get, out their sleighs, envy thu
climate Of Virginia, where they have Wheel
ing all the year round.
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meeting Hon. William s. Calhoun, of Gran,
parish, formerly member OF the House Of
Representatives from Rapides.
The Hon. Emory Washburne, of Massa
chusetts, in his new volume on 1.-THE Study
and Practice Of Law" states that intelligent
women mako the best witnesses. III
Henry Whitlaw, . colored man, has been
appointed steward at the White House,
at Washington, The President himself
went on the new stewards bond for fifty
thousand dollars. -f .t
RI We are pleased to meet with Hon. John
Bowen, member of the House from the
Tenth Ward, who has recently returned
from . visit to New England, greatly i'm
proved in health.
A story is told Of person asking
another whether he would advise him to
lend q certain friend money. "What, lend
him money! You might give him an emetic
and he wouldn't return it," IF
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Colonel Daniel Stanton, auditor general
elect, Of Pennsylvania, injected morphine
into his arm, Monday, to quiet a nervous
pain, and fell into sleep, from which he
passed into the unvaking slumber, Tuesday.
Nantucket, Massachusetts, about a hum
bred years ago, had 1877 vessels, which gave
employment to 1900 seamen. Now its COM
merce has gone, and its population is only
about double the number of sailors once
ahoat in its vessels.
The freight bill for the tea destroyed in
Boston harbor, December, 1873, the Boston
Transcript says, was paid few years ago
by the East India Company of London, to
whom it belonged. The money belonged to
a Nantucket family.
The Sheriff of the parish of Orleans will
sell at auction this day, at lOh o'clock
A. NJ, at his warehouse, No. "A St. Ann
street, between Royal and Bourbon streets,
Second District, household furniture and
movable effects. g.'ta,t-. .
As an illustration of the law of compen-
sation, in place of the thousands of part
ridges destroyed in the burned forests,
thousands of business agents have gone
from the East to the West, and are now
vigorously drumming"
The French army is soon to be uniformed
anew as follows: Dark blue cap with red
turban, ornamented with q tricolor and a
cocks feather; blue tunic, with two rows
of brass buttons and red trimmings; and
gray trousers with red stripe.
In Chicago, a man can thrash his mother |
in-law, under q recent decision, for seventy
five dollars. Last week young man in |
Rockport, Missouri, undertook to do it for |
nothing. She was very healthy woman.
When he RECEIVERS sufficiently he will tell |
how it was.
The stockholders of the Calcasieu Sui
phur and Mining Company are notified by
the secretary that seventh install
ment Of ten dollars share has been called
by the directors, and made payable on the
the twentieth instant, at the Office of the
company.
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The Emperor William has conferred the
newly founded cross of merit upon Baroness
Charles de Rothschild for meritorious SER
vices in tending the sick and wounded
during the war. The insignia of the order
is accompanied by an autograph letter
from the Empress Augusta.
The wife of Joaquin Miller published
lengthy letter in the Oregoniam asking the
public to welcome her husband as a poet
and man of genius; but giving her own
version of their difficulties, and implying
severe censure for his abandonment and ne
elect of herself and their children.