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purposes except Warmth and cookihg,
and that it will rsvolutioniEe the pfes
ent system of Motive power. The sci
entifc experts who have examined il
state that the invention is entirely
practicable, and will be patented.
Writing from New Orleans Nj
Nordtt6tf mentions, as an illustration
of what the Louisiana tax PAYERS
hate endured, that the Legislature Of
'69 which sat month, cost the State
5000, 900. Each member is said 70
have pocketed 81 600 for the session,
| and it is related that a single commit.
tee of the House had e:ghty-seve:l
clerks, who were paid SO day each.
Is 1t any wonder that Radicalism in
Louisiana was a load grievous to be
borne?
In consequence Of several decisions
by District Judges against the consti.
tutionality of the Enforcement Act,
and in view of the fact that these cases
have been carried to the Supreme
Court ON appeal, the Attorney Gene'
raj has Suspended further action in the
Kuklux cases throughout the South,
and will await the decision of the Su.
preme Court before renewing legal
proceedings against those persons ar
rested and indicted for violation of the
Enforcement Act,
a manufacturer in Georgia is m k
ing fotrthe by fiiaking Bingham sun
bonnets. He furnishes them by the
thousand, and gets orders from nearly
all the to&i!s of Georgia and Alabama.
Beginning by supplying the demand
in the little town in which he lived at
sixty-cents per bonnet, he was encour,
dyed by success to go into the business
more extensively, and now produces
equally as good an article at thirty
three cents, and the demand is increas=
ing every day. This shows what APP
parently insignificant things caii he
made available by enterprise In Dir
country
Washington presents some rather
remarkable phases of social life. There
is at this time in that city a grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, who,
with her young son, is pleading for an
appointment for one or the other, as
means Of support. The daughter Of
ex-Secretary Of the Treasury, Robert
j. Walker, ard those of Chief Justic.
Taney, are doing, copying as meals
of livelihood, and there are the er;iua
children of e&-Presilents; generals, and
hundreds Of other distinguished peo-
pie, pleading for labor, at even the
smallest remuneration, SO that they
may be able to live.
On VI ednesday a sailor was painting
the side of a bark in the harbor OF
Mantanzas, when suddenly the rope
sustaining the plank on which he Was
seated gave way, and the man fell into
the water. Being a goodswimmer lie
easily kept himself afloat, shouting to
his colnpanions to lower a boat for
him BY this time he had pushed his
way alongside the vessel, when his
c,mpanions flung him a rope, III the
moment of catching it, and while they
were preparing to haul him up. the
unf ,rtunate man was heard to Civ,
terrible cry, while at the same time
the sea was assuming IA reddish color,
and the body Of the MIN disappeared
bc.Ow the waves. A few seconds after
the upper half of his body reappeared,
the dOrsal fin of an immense shark ap-
rearing over the waer a few feet oft.
The mate ordered a boat to lie lowored
50 as to get what remained of the poor
sailor, hut the shark gave a sudden
turn Oh his side and swallowed the
other half Of Poor Jack at single
gulp.