The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-07
Resignation OF Major Leech, the Captain
OF the Irish Rifle Team.

Resignation OF Major Leech, the Captain
OF the Irish Rifle Team.
MAJOR LEEcHs RESIGNATION.
We learn with regret that Major Leech, To
whose exertions the Irish Rife Association
owes it's existence, has resigned the captaincy
of the Irish Team. In doing so the gallant
Major but carries out resolution formed
when the challenge tor the return match In
ireland was issued. At the present moment,
the resignation strikes us as somewhat mop
perfume, because 1t is calculated to give rise
to comment at this side Of the water and to
some misconception of the motives which
have led to Mr.. Leech's action. 1t is quite
possible that his intended resignation was
hastened by the discomfort felt at the COM
position of the Irish team, and to the want Of
that organization which ii is the team cap
tain's duty to create and maintain. No doubt
public opinion in Ireland, snsrting under the
sense Of defeat, may have rendered the further
holding of the captaincy of the team unpleas-
ant, and the Major, who is sensitive and
polished gentleman, considered himself called
upon to retire from false position. It may
be that the members Of the Irish Eight
Who will have to contend at Wimbledon
desire the services of q practical rifeman as
captain of their team. The importance Of
organization and discipline has been deeply
impressed upon their minds by the two victo-
ries won by America, and which have been
due in great part to the admirable discipline
of our representative rihemen. But what
ever the cause, we feel certain that it is not
intended as an expression Of discomfort at
the American victory, for none bore more
gracefully the reverse at Creedmoor than did
the gallant Major Leech.-Ne,o York Herald
Those of our citizens who were 80 fortunate
as to meet Major Leech when he visited our
city will read the news OF his resignation
with great regret. He is q courteous gentle
man and . capable officer, and we are conf
dent thath he cannot be justly charged in any
manner with the defeat of the Irish riHemen.
He took q sincere interest in the welfare of
his team, and earnestly labored for it's sue
cess He doubtless has other reasons that
prompt him to resign, and the team will GER
tAinly greatly miss his valuable services as
their commanding officer.
criticism in the academy upon his "Life Of
Napoleon III, takes special exception to the
reviewers remarks on the scandaious rumors
that encompassed the Emperor's birth. He
says: Il have shown in letters and mes
sages from King Louis, addressed to his
wife during her confinement in 1908. that
he recognized his child as his off
spring; that he caused cannon to be
fired in honor of his birth, and that
mine months before the birth he was living |
with his wife at Cauterets. Moreover, the |
proofs that King Louis acknowledged and
knew the child to be his, are many. He |
claimed the custody OF the infant in 1914 Il
he was always ready to help him while he |
lived, he entered an eloquent protest when |
Louis Philippe's ministers locked him in |
Fieschi's cell; and, when he was dying he |
implored King Louis Philippe-in vain-to |
let his only son approach and close his eyes, |
Moreover, he left Prince Louis fortune. The |
more important of these facts are published |
forithe frst time in my paRes-and they are
extracted from the papers Of Queen Hortense.
We learn from the ACADEMY that "a most
valusble discovery has lately been made at |
Herculaneum-that of q female bust, life-size, |
of pure silver, in admirable preservation. |
What Is curious is that at first IL was thought |
to be only of bronze, of which metal SO many |
are found at Herculaneum and Pompeii. The /
scorite charged with sulphur, with which it
was surrounded, have specifically altered the
precious metal of this work of art, and the
sulphuret OF silver which has formed on its
surface gives 1t the appearance of black
figure OF ordinary metal. Il was only when il
was taken 10 the museum that one of the
keepers, struck by its color, which differed SO
greatly from that of the bronzes, thought Of
the surface, when the silver reap
peared'in all It's brilliancy. This superb work
Of art 10 the only one of it's kind that has been
yet discovered in the buried cities. It weighs
rather more than forty-two pounds.
The new Paris Synagogue in the Rue de Ia |
Victoire Is exciting considerable attention BY
he peculiarly Of its external architecture,
Ind the Dimensions and gorgeous character of !
he interiors In style it is mixed Byzantine
md Moorish, and II is to be regretted that the
,arrowness of the street in which it stands ]
md the generally unfavorable nature OF the /.
lite, mar the imposing character of the build !
ng, and prevent it from being seen to advan-
age The main isle. which is twice as broad
md nearly as lofty as that Of Notre Dame, :
orms suitable approach to the noble sThe- :
a." or high altar from which the Scriptures
re read, and on which stands q seven-armed =
candelabrum, six feet high,
which is in itself most admirable work Of
Irt.
Marsdens Zarsaparilla curer boils.
heal Old government Java, parched or ground. :
cents per pound, at the Tea Depot, Camp
treet.
The Jealousy Of Beasts.
A correspondent of the Spectator writes that,
q an article published in the Lyon Medical for
.pril IL. 1875, NJ. Oheville declares that he
as seen . mare refuse her food and kick her
tall to pieces from jealousy whenever her
room coaxed and petted another horse, her i
lable companion. He also says that, in 3
able where COW and o donkey were con.
ned together. curious scene might be wit q
essed whenever the dairymaid came to milk y