New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-08

Soon winter falls upon your lite.
The dav Of reckoning comes;
Against your sins, by high decree
Are weighed those scattered crd'n'''
Portsmouth firm has Just entered III 20 q,
contract for the furnishing OF two hun Dr.
Thousand pumpkins, to be delivered at WI n"
land within the next twelve months LIS
purchasers propose to can them.
The Richmond Dispatch threatens to cut
off aIl exchanges that cop: its articles WIN
out credit AS that course virtually a"op.s
the sentiments of the Dispntca, an papers
who do adopt said sentiments oHJ"' !" W.
| cut oil.
A little boy in Brooklyn Sunday, school,
ras nskei lately to saw which was the most
beautiful verse in the Bible. After some
hesitation he replied blushingly,, III any
man pulls down the American nag Shoo'
| Kim On the spot"
\ would-5. highwaynan. near froyi-
| dencc, seized gentlcman's horse, wien 'ne
owner sprauc out Of his wagon anu gave
| him sound thrashing courageous laay
passing BY volunteering to hold the morse
| during the ceremony.
John Bull: Got all the a:Ins you want
! ali the ammunition. all the coal! :" France:
:" Yf.. all" John Bull: And you don't
want ANYTHING more from me" France:
| No" John Bull: "Then l think 1t - time
| for me to interfere.
| Nilsson has given Saratoga composer
| named Downs the browning giories OF his
I lifc-an interview. an autograph: anu Tue
! acceptance Of the dedication to herself OF
| two SONGS. which also she has promised 10
sing when opportunity Offers.
| The Toronto Glo6: is said to be the most
| extensive newspaper establishment ohte4"e
| of New York, in America. They have one
| nj VI
! for ne wspapers. and claim q daily circlla-
ton of $4,000 copies.
! The Superior Court Of Illinois has inst
! ruled it is not slanderOus for the defend.
| ant to say to the plaintiff: "Ycu cheated
| MANY people," Said the Court: g A charge
| Of cheating can not be made the basis OF an
! action. unless the particular act OF cheating
is connectsl with the PLAINTIFF business, SO
that special damages may be declared on.
Charles ellis. of Nashua. New Hamp
shire, sold, some timo since, Halls Hair Re
| storative to J. c. Aver, OF Lowell, tor sloV'-
900 Cash. 1t has made Mr.. G!lils very
| wealthy in few years, in his youth. before
! mos. youn, men have learned to make q
| dollar. DR.. Aver is worth over seven
| millions. made bv patent medicines and ad-
vertising.
The cleanest city in the world ia Brooch,
! in Holland where no horse or carriage has
ever been permitted to enter, and where
everything is kept with most scrupuions
neatness. Before entering many OF the
houses YOU are required 10 remove your
shoes 1t is said that even the Emperor OF
| Russia was compelled to comply with this
| custom on his recent visit 70 that place.
An old man III the calaboOse at Cairo
brought about his release by making his
cell vocal night and day with hymns. ami
declaring that ne had preached the Gospel
| 4 HOLE Enil
lease he WAS swearing shat he was half
boss and half alligator. and could outrun,
| throw down. and whip any man Of his a &c
and inches in the State OF Eelinoy.'
The severely modest city fathers Of Lou
isyilIe passed .'.In ordinance to protect
ladies on the street" prescribing fines for
all men who. from admiration or with
Air+at;ous intent. stare at ladies'. The
Mayor. who knows how it is himself
promptly vetoed it. saying that its faith
Jul enforcement would bankrupt not only
himself. but nearly all the City Council.
DR.. Russell. the correspondent of the
| London Times. at the Prussian headquar-
tiers in Versailles. lives in great style in Il
Dalatial mansion. He keeps two carriages.
fine horses, and three servants. all III
| gorgeous livery. KusSelrS latest cauCrd.
dispatched to the Times, was a story that
forty thousand people had come out of
!
nounccd u hoax. -.
A miss. eight years old, living at Batavia.
New York. wrote an impromptu composition
on the subject of What | Like in five
minutes. 1t contains two hundred and
twenty words well put together, and en-
bodying sense and mental brightness. A
few more such feats will either render this
little miss an invalid or an IDIOT or both
combined. Parents who rejoice in such pre-
| RI md
should discourage it, if they love their chill
: dren; but if they wish to ruin them. the
more encOura cement they give the sooner
their wish will be realized.
Two elderly maiden ladies last summc,
waited on a ne;ghboring magistrate to com
plain Of a man who was in the habit OF
bathing every morning in large piece OF
water overlooked by the windows of thei,
residence. But iladies," said the nlagis
mile wide. and that you don't live very
close to the edge of it. l do not see how
you could tell whether it was man at al
in the water" mo more We could" re
piled one of the spinsters; we were il
/ doubt more than week. but at last sste
, happened to think of sending to borrow
r Captain IS spy glass
A certain leading grocery house in New
York recently received cask of dried her
rings in the very best OF understandable or
der. The gentleman whose name the firm
bears caused these to be taken out of tn
cask. and had put in their stead lot tina
was old and decaying. These were sent t,
5 the firm from which the fresh lot had bee,
? received. with the explanation that tn
goods being dana ged, they could not be re
' ccivcd. 1t this be honesty what. then, i
: fraud F.! The names OF the parties are no
t made public, as the matter is shortly to h
: investigated through the law.
: avery writes this in the Cincjnna,
: Commercial ahont Andy Johnson's taiIo,
.. shop in Greenville The shop is lust abo,,
.. as it WAS when johnson worked in It. Tn
bench that he wore smooth by crossing hi
+. legs over it is gone, the rebels having use
= it Tor kndling-wOod, but the house remain:
!. :, and is kept in good repair. Relic hunter
u have carried Oft the wcather.boar.i,nr tha
:; was formerly upon it up to the distance c
y four or five feet, but this has been replace
:. 10y new. The relic hunters, however. sti
continnc to hag.le away at it. and its occ,
: pants say tilcy would have carried off til
( whole building if not watched closely"
). J touching case OF Hebrew mothc
. Si9nora Allegro dc Coli is related. who,
|. husband having turned Christian i'm Rom,
O she was at once deprived, by the orders ,
# the Cardina! Vicar. Of her three chidre,
u aged respectively six and four wears. an
II SIX months. The poor woman, oycrco,
IS with grief, transferred her residence
$. Leshorn. rs her children were shut ND
a.