New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-04

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OFFICIAL JOURNAL Of THE UNITED STATES
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS. OCTOBER 4. 1871:
There were ninety-two cholera deaths in
Constantinople last Saturday. TT
Governor Warmoth has appointed Charles
Nettleton commissioner of deeds for Louisi-
ana in New York city.
meeting of the Board Of City School
Directors will be held this evening in the
Council Chamber of the City Hall.
A heroic father in Montreal chose fine and
imprisonment rather than tell the census
man the ages of his unmarried daughters.
The thermometer was down to GO yes
terday at A. NJ, P. NJ. and P. NJ.
This is an unusual evenness Of temperature
oFNew Orleans.
A tourist in Japan looked on at the burn
ing OF corpse at . funeral until 1.-The skull
went bang" when he left, somewhat nau- |
seated.
No trains came in or went out over the |
Mobile road yesterday. except that from
Ocean Springs in the morning. The track
will be all right to-day.
Mrs. H. NJ. Walton, correspondent of the
Brooklyn Eagle, is doing Denver and Colo
RADIO. She is q very energetic and wide
awake newspaper man.
The Memphis Appeal bowed down with
woe. makes inquiry: "What can fill an
empty pocket with greenbacks, or pluck
from the memory Q rooted sorrow!"
The quantity of rain that fell yesterday
was greater than during any twenty-four
hours for several years. According to Mr.
Frigerio, ten and sixteenth inches fell.
Sealed proposals for the sale of seven
wharf bonds will be received by John s.
Walton, ESQ.,, Administrator of Finance,
until Saturday, the fourteenth instant, at
III n.
The charter of the town of Shieldsboro,
better known as Bay St. Louis, has expired.
The town ;s now within the limits of Har-
rison county, and not Hancock county, as
heretofore.
Among those who b ave recently returned 4.
from Northern tour We may name Mr..
Charles E. Halstead, of the Iberville Ners,
to whom we are under obligations for late
Western papers.
The Galveston Bulletin says of the quar- {:
antine, that it is not warranted by the
latest health news, and is of incalculable
injury to Galveston, and should not take =
effect without the sternest necessity"
John C. Breckinridge is now one Of the &
hardest working lawyers in Kentucky, and .
is likely to make good deal of money BY
his profession. lie seldom discusses politics
in these days, having discovered that they
are in no sense remunerative.
A Democratic paper says that Governor b
Haight, of California, was defeated because g.
he ''desired to protect the State from ex. =
travagant expenditure" The Democrats of =,
New York seem to be pretty well guarded
against defeat from that cause.
The Opelousas journal says: 1--WE are D
informed that there is considerable sickness n
in some parts of the parish, caused, most n
probably, by the very wet summer. Ope-
lousas, as usual, is healthy. Its natural
drainage is so good that its health lie never "
by miasmatic influences"
to
One of the most gloomy and uncomfort- a,
able days Of the year was yesterday. At &C
daybreak the streets and banquettes were 49,
flooded, and there were grave difficulties in y,
going anywhere. This blockade was gen. "
eral, and continued till a late hour. The ~
Of the day was rainy and dark. cl
In consequence of portion Of the track r.
in the vicinity Of Premier being submerged in
by the heavy rains, no trains ~
vent out or came in over the jackson rail- -.
:oad. The train due here at half-past ten e
o'clock yesterday morning was expected in
Turing last night. Travel will be resumed sf
Is usual this morning. an
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Colonel John H. Lippard, commissioner tn
f immigration for the State of Texas, has ~,
rrived in this city from Galveston. He -
eft that port on Friday, the twenty eighth r. =,
lltimo, on the steamer Harlan, of the ~
Morgan line, and had stormy passage. GA
The health Of Galveston was never better II
han now. Zee
One of the victims OF the Vidalia yellow w
over is that exemplary gentleman, Mr.. va
bennett Hitchcock, tax collector of Con- OF
ordia parish. Mr.. Hitchcock however, In
scking faith in the fatality Of the disease, bu
oncluded to recover, and yesterday visited yes
he REPUBLICAN Office three times to Sta
cquaint some one of the fact. ;rh
1t is now thrown out by newspapers at no'
he South, a. brand to fire the Southern gro
lind, that Webster's Dictionary is gotten car
D in the interests of the Radicals, and me-
tended by its definitions to Justify the and
amnable usurpations now driving the 7