New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08

who. months ego, broke the head OH the
figure of a dog, which. was portion OF the
tr0ntispiece, oappeared few days ago at
one Of the gates Of the estate and handed
the missing piece of marble to one of the
domestics. by whom it was given TO the
| snrerintendent The regents of the MounS
Vernon Association are in correspondence
with one another. and a meeting will soon
be held when Miss Cunningham's admins
trati0n of the affairs Of the association wdi!
be reviewed
when Henry Wilson went to South Bend.
| Indiana, to speak, Schuyler Colfax was
watching the dying bed Of his mOther-the
mother to whom he owed all his early
| training and encouragement He declined
! an invitation to preside at the meeting, but
sent his greetings to Wilson. The dying
woman heard of the meeting and said to
her son: schuyler, you must go and pre-
side. II you do not you know what they
/ viii say No matter about me. Il wish you
| to 60" And he vent and introduced Sens
atOr Wilson in a generous, manly speech,
and fastened back just in time to receive
his mothers dying words.
| If you belong to a wealthy family in the
city Of Mexico nowadays, and drive into
| the country few miles from the capital
you will be gobbied up by guerillas, who
| will send tie cheering intelligence to YOUR
y
if you are not forthcoming in so many hours
on viii be shot. The funeral over, you, a
few days later, when your body is found by
the roadside horribly mutilated, will be
very impressive. Mexico is a more healthy
country for poor people at this time.
Mosquitoes may be smoked out by
properly constructed ''smudge," but if the
house is set on fire in the process, and the
family burned out the operation can hardly
No oa9iad a v,ayjTr The pynnpiman+
was lately tried at StaEdish, Michigan, and
the consequences were one girl burned to
death, one boy fatally cooked, and a woman
badly scorched. The mosquitoes are sus-
pected of having set the house on fire, and
have been shouting Justify over their vic
tory.
ExEmpress Eugene climbed to the top
of empire and fell down. She has just
climbed Ben Nevis, Scotland's Hottest peak.
This unusual and difficult feat was accom-,
plished more successfully than the first, for
She has received nothing but praise for her
daring and benefit from good, healthy exer-
else. It is, therefore, better to be an expert
mountain climber than an unfortunate
queen.
A new metallic compound, which bears
the somewhat fanciful name of Abyssinian
or talmi gold, has lately been manufactured
in large quantity in Germany Tor the pur-
pose Vi IdDTlCdliDS lulIidtlOH SOiu jbhtlLF
and other objects. This is brass COM
pound Of about ninety-two parts Of copper |
and eight of zinc. The appearance OF gold
is obtained by causing very thin sheet OF
gold to adhere by passingit through rollers.
complacent landlord of mountain
hotel at breakfast the other morning, plant
ed his thumb in his waistcOat armholes,
leaned significantly back in his chair, and
said, "GentIemen, where do you think that
r., ! ~
horn" was the quiet reply Of one Of the
bOarders. 1t is singular that the landlord
hasn't put any cOnundrums to his boarders
since.
Justin icCarthy says that James Russell
Lowell lis quartered in one of the pleasant
streets running out of Piccadilly-with its
one side formed Of a row Of handsome
houses, and its other side formed of the
raiIings of the Park-seems always to me to
bear an odd kind Of resemblance to Beacon
street, Boston, as it looks upon the Com
mon
Here is one Of those touching unwritten
tragedies of which the world is so full:
Ten years ago child six months old was
stolen from Forte Wayne Indiana, from
motives of revenge The Ghildless mother
died of grief, and the father has ever saHce
been looking for his LOST boy He found
him the other day with d taGmer living
hundreds OF miles awayo
The Boston and Albany railroad proposes
to try the experiment Of giving up the loco
onIv nse of The whistle vii be TO Five an
alarm when accident to the tra4n or to per
sons or ANIMALS on the track IS aPprehenoede
and as a crossing warning Before reaching
crossings where 5here is no tiagmapo in the
day OnIyo
etyvbag . nnYsancara1 eQcfaGmeG = GENTLE I
10 "oncn+ as 1o,1,,or en- !" fTorf of
linn kant tallzin% in a fond voice = 10 a jadT
at his side. Did YOU refer to me. sir?'o |
threateningly demanded the fOp. Cob No. | 7
meant the musicians there, who keep up 7
such noise with their instruments that | |
can't hear your conversation" was the |
singing reply.
Doing tIinos which are DANGEROUS ia the |
lives Of Others on a wager should be among |
the paala prOhi6itu. A young man in New |
mort. Kentucky. lately shot a small circular |
rard from the ton Of another Young mans !
head with a pistol. thereby winning a bet. |
If he had shot the head from under the |.
card it would have been awkward for the /
owner.
Nelson's marriage was the result Of a |
promise made ten wears ago. Ten wears
ago Auguste Rouzaud asked the future
queen Of song to marry him, and she re
died: Later, when | am rich and cele-
DRAFTED She has now kent her word. and
has married the man Of her hearts CHOICE,
achieving one of the sweetest romances ever
heard Of.
Al ono IF +lo o,-o,,7,,c, +,,o;.,, WOO ,.,;,,e.
into the New Vo,L dann9 40 ,e' 49,. a. ~
iittJe air1 Who cow tbo 49,. SnSI
NC Soo gts anu
$500 500 a. "iiee Vi Iue pact
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