The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-11

ter disappointment There is Mayor Have
meyer, who was thrown into Office upon the
crest of the great reform wave that swept
Tweed into the penitentiary. breaking the law,
appointing convicted thieves to office, and be-
ing charged with all sorts of crimes by the
very people who elected him. Gov. Dix has
been asked to suspend him, and it is within
the bounds of possibility that he may yet
keep Tweed company. This is strange
world, filled with strange people.
The Paris shows, great and small, ale COM
PEELED to pay II per cent Of their receipts into
the public treasury to be applied to support
ing charities. Olive Logan writes to the
Spirit Of the Times that recently some young
people gave private performance, to which
they invited their friends. Before the cur
tain had been up half an hour, in bounced
the tax-gatherers. "But there have been no
receipts" cried the man in charge at the
door, chow can I give you II per cent on
nothing?" The French Dogberry said
Yes, certainly-you can't give me II per
cent on you- receipts, but tell you what you
can do, give me II per cent on the expenses :"
At an open-air barn-door show exhibition on
the outskirts, the tax-gatherer suddenly ap-
peared at the first performance. eleven
per cent for the poor" he said, as he counted
the light receipts. Forty sous clear profit
for the poor?' cried the wretched mounte-
bank, the poor are richer than am" The
very Punch and judy shows of the Champs
Ulysses are not exempt. To the poor goes
but a 1.-THE of all the money pocketed; the
bulk of it is devoted to the support of useless
tunctionaries. An offer made by the man
ayers is to pay certain yearly sum, fixed by
the importance of the theatre of each, and its
understood receipts.
PERSONAL There Is wailing in the land
Magazine street looks deserted. Steve's is be-
reft Of its brightest gems. We mourn for them
for they are not-Colonels -McCrawley Back
water and Bullock. Even now they are on the
seas. and perhaps half seas over" Tell us not
that their feeble health demanded this trip that
their friends have daily seen them wasting away
and that they could not take any stimulant
stronger than old Rye" These distressing
facts We admit but we still refuse to be com
forted Come back they must, to their native
scenes /: even if they compelled to bring to
their weeping friends some consolation for their
absence in the shape OF trout and turtles. Come
back and take hand, at U. Cur.
SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR BLAspHEMY-
Tablet prints an order, issued by the Carlist
General Lizzaraga May % at Puenta La Reyne,
in which that general warns his soldiers that
the provisions Of the following article of the
penal laws will be vigorously enforced against
all violators: g He who blasphemes the holy
name of God. of the Virgin and of the Saints,
will be Immediately seized and chastised, the
first time by the disgracetnl penalty of the
gag, which he shall bear two hours in the
morning and two hours III the evening eight
days in succession, after having been bound
to a post. And if he relapses he shall without
fail have his tongue rubbed with hot iron
by the HAND Of the hang1nan and afterwards
be ANONYMOUSLY expelled from the regiment
on the decision Of the Council of War"