New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-02

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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF the UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL O. NEW oelEAN!
NV ORLEANS, N6VEMBEK =. 1871
"A French astronomer has invented . bal
loon compass which will show both thu
course and rate of speed Of . balloon.
A Boston school marin instructs her pupils
that - hundred elbs make . cute" Sht
meant that one hundred he mako . cwt.
A private SORROW may overcome . MAI
who could brave hundred battles, OF beal
acutest physical pain without . murmur.
A New Yorker who went down to Sandy
Hook ON . steamer to bid some friendi
goodbye, was forgotten by the pilot boat
and had to 20 to Europe.
Any career may be spiritual that is not in
itself base. Be you scholar, merchant, ma
rine, artist. statesman, artisan, You may be
b saint.
Albert Morgan, editor of the Boston Sat
,srlay Erening Express, was in Louisville
three or four days ago, on his way to Texaa
for the benefit Of his health. i oii
Secretary Boutwell, has agreed to recon
mend that the government erect public
buildings at Chicago upon . single square
selected for that purpose. ~
What can be wetter than . woman with
cataract in her eyes, waterfall on her
head, . creek in her back, forty springs in
her skirts, high.tied shoes, and notion in
her head. ~
They have got an article they call car
rotine, Which they use to paint butter. 1t
makes the real Jersey article oat Of the
commonest lard, and il blessing to honest,
hard working farmers. f.t...
Governor Warmoth has appointed D. +.
Powers paymastef general of the Louisiana
State Militia; also, Thomas j. Perry COM
missioner of deeds in Rome, Georgia, for
the State Of Louisiana. e!7r1
The vine clings to the tree when ito trunk
is sturdy with cap, apd its branches are full
Of leaves and nests, and clings to it also
when 1t IL only Jagged stump, nven and
shattered by the lightning. N
Tho Orphans Home, located on the old
Daniel Webster farm in Franklin, New
Hampshire, was recently opened with ap'
propriate exercises. The lands and build
ings were purchased for $4,000.
The price of hay in Maine 10 rapidly de-
clining, and 1t is now difficult to realize
twenty dollars per ton. Farmers are freely
buying corn, of which they consider twelve
bushels equal in value to ton Of hay for
stock. sff.e E.f-+t.5- -..l- 4
Tho Sheriff of the parish Of Orleans sells
at auction this day, At half-past ten o'clock
A. NJ, ct his warehouse, No. "a st. Ann
street, between Royal and Bourbon streets,
Second District, handsome furniture, splen-
did carpets, mirrors, etc.
The clerks of the redemption bureau, in
the Treasury Department, voluntarily re-
manned at their posts on Saturday to count,
for redemption, . large lot of charred money
from Chicago, in order to aid those renting
it in obtaining money at the earliest posi-
BILE day.
The United States Treasurer thus far has
received thirty-6ve packages Of charred
money from Chicago, amounting in all to
almost $751; 900. This includes $4,000 re-
turned by Adams Express Company, $4,000
in United States bonds and $4,000 in gold
certificates. -
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Work is healthy; you can hardly put more
upon . man than he can bear. Worry is
rust upon the blade. It il not the revolu-
ton that destroys the machinery, but the
friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and
trust and sweet juices. .t..
A good instance OF ''sharp practice" lie
that of man in Ohio, who was acquitted
of murder on plea Of insanity. He had
secured his lawyers by giving them . mort
gage on his farm, but now repudiates the |
ON the ground that he was insane
when he made it, according to the showing |
of these same lawyers. u. ---sa-.-T
Says the Louisville Courier Journal of
Monday: "James H. Hummel, publisher
Of the New Orleans Home Journal, was in
the city yesterday. He goes North and
East in the joint interest of his paper and
The Louisiana State fair. which commences
November Is. Louisville business will NO
loubt be represented extensively there"
A corps of government surveyors are now
engaged in establishing the thirty-seventh
parallel. or boundary line between Kansas