The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-17

|, The panic and the late fearful marine dis
asters have greatly reduced the number of
American visitors to Europe this summer.
No great loss without some small gain.
That wicked paragraphist in the Boston
Post said it "San Francisco hasa first-class
murder every Sunday. They seem to prefer
them to long sermons"
Inducements in the way Of low fares are
now made by steamship lines to immigrants,
steerage passengers being now booked from
Liverpool to New York for SIS.
Paris letter says that the workingmen
of that city, which is France, are well
organized, and that the political situation
may change speedily.
facetious citizen, in particularly play
full humor the other day, having occasion to
remove his better half, knocked her down
with a Bible, remarking: "Overcome evil
with good"
A girl in Liverpool wants to know who
has got her young man. She hasn't seen
him since the evening she told him there
had been poets in her family for several gen.
erations.
The North and South Railroad, running
through Columbus, Ga, has been seized by
the Governor because of the failure to pay
interest on the bonds Endorsed by the State
of Georgia.
The Mobile Register asks: "Why should
not the Federal Government build and keep
up the levees on the Mississippi River, as
well as build breakwaters on the Atlantic
Oceans"
The Chief of Police of San Francisco, in
his laudable efforts to do all he can for the
convenience and comfort of the local news
gatherers, has labeled New Testament.
"For reporters only"
During the last ten years $2O,OOO,OOO
worth of property has been destroyed, and
10000 persons killed or injured by the use
of unsafe oils. This is doing we'll for oils
that are not professed explosives.
California juries are to decide in capital
cases whether the accused shall suffer death
or Imprisonment for life. Two cases are on
rial in that State in which this discretion
will for the first time be exercised.
The New York Sun and Graphic are hav-
ing lively passage at arms. The latter
should use the humiliation process with ex-
treme caution, being dependent upon the
sun for many of its pretty pictures.
A prospective mother-in-law up in Maine,
joined issue with young man who declined
to fulfil his marriage engagement with her
daughter. When she got through with him,
there ,cas no longer any breeches Of promise.
The Sparta Times says the farmers Of
Bienville parish are busy at work finishing
planting cotton and working out their corn
crops. Crops are generally backward. More
corn and less cotton is planted than last
year.
A saucy young widow out West said to a
clerical friend who asked her, condolingl.y,
how long her lamented had been dead 7 ~
am in the honeymoon of my widowhood.',
She will be boasting some day about cele-
brating golden wedding
A miss, upon whose faxen curls the suns
of fourteen summers had shed their fervOr
came here the other afternoon, weeping as
if her heart would break, and meeting
playmate, exclaimed in a paroxysm of grief,
80 Dora! we were engaged to be married,
and Charleys got the measles"
Beecher makes this comprehensive reply
to an anxious questioner who is DESTROYS of
knowing whether a man can love his sec
Ond wife as well as the first: "That de-
ponds on what sort of wife the first was,
and what kind of life the second leads
him."
Nearly three millions of dollars in gold
were drawn from the Bank of England two
weeks ago, in consequence of which the
rate of discount was raised half per cent.
1t is said that France is drawing gold from
the Bank of England just now, with the
view of resuming specie payments. During
the period of suspension the notes of the
Bank of France have been but fraction
below par.
1t is claimed by the Carroll county (Ga.)
Times that rich and inexhaustible mines Of
copper have been discovered at Gold Ridge,
locality about five miles beyond the State
line, and about fifty miles due west of
Atlanta. Wagon loads of the ore have
passed through Carrollton en- route to the
railway terminus, and the absorbing topic
of conversation in all that neighborhood is
copper.
Mr.. John NJ. Barton, after long legal
contest, has just established the value of
human hand. While assisting in the trans
shipment of some grain on the Hudson River
road in that city, in 1870, train suddenly
started, knocking him down and crushing
his hand so badly that amputation was nee
essary. He sued the company, alleging that
the train started without warning by bell or