Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-09

\ mass meeting mt Worcester. Mass
last night, thanked Mr.. Sumner Tor ms
civil rights bill, Mr.: Culiax for voting
for it, and George F. Hoar for his ma
tional system of education.
The Emperor of Brazil has been the
largest buyer of photographs ever
known i'm Paris. His purchases have
been packed mp in three large boxes.
Hereafter nobody Is 20 be hung for
murder in Kansas until one year after
conviction, and rot then unless the
Governor issues a warrant for ,execu-
ton.
"Letters wrote and revised y is the
verbatim announcement posted at the
door of teacher in Sixth avenue, n.
Y, " no processes to give lessons in the
English language and literature.
a tourist who did the Coloradian
mountains last fall asserts that he got
as ravenOus as a raven among the ra-
vines, and sat down in one OF the gor-
geeus gorges and gorged himself. 49,
Theo. Brockway has been sentenced
to 10 years in the California State
prison for shooting Robert Evans.
Both were San Francisco gamblers.
e. Marchant, who went to San Fran
cisco in 1849, and the original propre-
tor of the famous Poodle Dog restau-
rant in that city, died of paralysis on
Sunday night. =
: A proposal to establish asylums for
the confinement and punishment OF
3 drunkards is under the consideration
: of the Massachusetts legislative com
r mittee' on the Judiciary. -..
BoghDiel Dawson, an eminent ira
;, gedia1, died near Dresden on the I'd
/ of February, aged fifty tour years.
! "Superior" is the favOrite Boston
; feminine word of COMMUNICATION, and
y is applied equally to bonnet of ser
> ;, mon paiIitiifg Or a pie.
. Horseffesh, say Tie PARIS papers,
!. has been discovered by medical men
+ to lie very beneficial in cases OF chest
= diseases. .s-
} Constantinople is now declared free
l. from cholera. .*
IS A quail has been found in Florida
IS with ruby in its crop. 1~ @
n A LEAP YEAR SToRY-How THE
e GIRLS GOT AHEAD OF THE BOYs.-l,
= has long been the custom among the
d young men that attend the West
o brook, Maine, seminary, to secure the
Is services OF some good musician fol
: Saturday evening sociables, and tt
r. pay kim by contribution. A Portfant
,r musician has deHe the adding for hi
d term, and though his charges are mod
It crate, the continual draw upon thu
! slender purses of the boys at last 81
n. nearly drained them, that they cOnclu
d. ded they could not afford to pay hin
IS last Saturday evening, but made ar
10 ralfgemerfts to have piano music
is The young ladies got wind of this, an
is being unwilling to dance to the dul
he music of piano, when violin coul'
rs be had for ten cents apiece, they club
~ bed together, raised the requires
amount, and notified the same mus
nd clan that he would be wanted.
The time for the dance to begi
W., wv came. The piano ras in position an
NC the pianist on hand, the boys ,bein
nd unaware that the girls lad playe
m leap year on them, when, to their col
a., sternation, in walked the much wishe
We for musician and began to fiddle fur
ohsly. A more sheepish looking 81
ne of boys cannot he immagined. The
M n, looked from one to the other in di
ia. may, and involuntarily clutched the
an remaining FIVE cent pieces, undecide
RIM whether to give up all or to thro
vi y, themselves upon the mercy of IL
he knight of the strings, but finally d
py- posted their cash balance in the han'
nat Of a deputy, with instructions to pa
the bill or perish in the attemT
when they we're informed that tt
young ladies' had done that part f
them, and were now waiting for paI
are ners. So, with sickly smile, TIL
an- crooked their elbows to the waltz
,rn damsels and walked on to the fiOt
We inwardly resolved that they won
never be caught in similar manu-
ght again.