The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-07-24
Editorial Items.

We take the following items froI
the New Orleans Times:
Tom sayer's son is a comic staf)
London.
Ristori is acting in Paris
Grant thinks it's warm.
Miss Kellogg will return next NOR
Murat Halstead denies thathis beJl
paper, the Cincinnati Commercial Nh
oppose Greeley. d
Newport, r. I. confesses to The 'lj
test weather it has seen for hall
century. NJ
AN Iowa man of 4G3 pounds wei. J
sits on the jury this warm wcatI
A Chinese murderer who has q,
himself up is named All Hung. az
A New York establishment MAJ
beggar children to order. al
The big city of Sacramento. eli
fornia, hasno steam fire engines.
A Kentucky farmer has sold .
short-horn heifers for s650O EACH
Portsmouth, N. IT,, proposes to q.
brate its 25oth anniversary onhe
fourth of July, 1873, /
Strauss got $4,000, and Name
Leutner $4,000, at the Boston juice. }
The head punching match befsn
Messrs. Mace and o'Baldwin, idcd
for August 18th. "
The Clafin hrunettcs is thornw
name for the New York 55th
Castleton, N. Y, boasts of a,egIy
born babe 10 inches long, ana oly
able to kick the beam at Of ,nn,s.
A San Francisco husband reseafp.I
buy q carriage for his wife, id i,o!
lady is trying to swear him inteap iu-3
sane asylum in consequence. 4
The Connecticut LegisIat'e has
amended the laws SO as to mac c,,m-
mon school education compulry.
Over twelvepcr cent, Of all catlB in
New York since the "llot spep lave
been from sunstrokc. liz
An exchange says a pod Wwau;cc
boy lately drew II sl5, oooopcA hose,
at Green Bay, Wisconsin, buffalo, to
say how far he drew it.
An Ohio boy sacrificed lis lifelto
save his father from the lima dal
disaster the other day.
Mexican Buchanan's danglser Thinks
her father was poisoned, andwM hsve
his remains chemically exaIaned
An enthusiastic gentleman kissed
Longfellow's sable rider aftsr le laJa
won the Long Branch race 8
The difference betweclIMr. Can't
and Mr.. Sumner is thatthe fo,per
prefers his stud and ths latter his
study IN. Y. World. RI
An appreciation listenelslippcd 900
into q st. Louis clersyhan's had,
the other day, as he was leaving The
church, as u reward for lis excellent
sermon.
Chicago's great confligration ont.
sumed none Of her colceit, and she
now accuses Constantinaple of getting
up its late fire merely to emuIatctho1
Lake City. ".
A Miss Brewer Postmistress Il
Brewers Mills, Ky, recently 1clopd
with a married man Of the place. Il
Another of Grants supporters gone
-[Boston Post.
The following message, written upoH
u "Wcstern Union" blank, was founS
on the beach at Long Branch the da ;
after Horace Greeley received til |
Democratic nomination "To my rel
atives: Make hay. u. S. G." o.
The Louisville Courier.J IL q
scasonably says that if the wcathe;
does not grow coolor very soon, M
Fahrenheit, in justice to his patrons
should at once add aBecOnd story, will
u Mansard roof, to his thermometer
John Bull is ~sispleased because
Greeley has been nominated for Pres;
dent. John would do we'll to attent
to bis whipping-post, and let America
affairs alone, the silly old minion of
petticoat.-[ uricr-Journal.
A New Orleans paper invites Ne,
Workers suffering from the heat to file
to that city. where the climate is dc
lightful and dclious brcczes are AWAY
blowing. The kind of breezcs thu
have lately been blowing in Louisiah
don't suit up this way Boston Pos
Dickens received over 4 hun Dire
thousand poundsfor "Little Dorritt.
But Douglass Jerrold received ont
ten pounds for "Black Eyed Susan,
the most popular drama ever riodusd
on the English stage, and died leaIa
his family without a sixponce.
THE LEE MONUMENT. The ri
mond Enquirer in description OF
memorial monument to General Rd
E. Lee, the model for which has
been completed by the sculptor Val
tine. Of that city, says:
"Tho impression made upon
mind is Of pleasant surprise at beho
inr no IL were. the reclining war;