The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-10
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80. DR. S. G. Russell has been appointed a
member of the Board of Control of the Agrl-
cultural College, vice Straight, resigned.
The corner of Basin and Common
streets has been graced with a new plank road,
which was sadly needed for some time.
....Assistant Attorney General d. G. Dbl
BILE will perform the duties OF the Attorney
General in the Superior Criminal Court until
further notice
The Pinchback Committee have not as
vet succeeded in finding q sufficient number
of colored men friends of Pinchback to make
up mass meeting.
We are requested to state that there
will be no Fair ct Grunewald Hall tonight.
The ladies will be ready to receive their
friends, however. on Saturday night.
The Canal street fountain is rapidly ap-
preaching completion under the hands of the
carpenters, and will soon be metamorphosed
into its new form-a street car starters stand.
-. There were rumo-s in circulation on
the street Wednesday that there was going to
be an affair of honor between two well known
Canal street gentlemen, but it is understood
the affair Was adjusted
80. The freight cars Of the Canal Street,
City Park and Lake Railroad were used all
yesterday afternoon carrying cotton seed to
tho Bienville Oil Works, at the corner of
Bienville and johnson streets
%. In Federal circles here, the reports
that the Presidents message indicates a war
with Spain seem generally credited, and
with winks and mods inquirers are told to
wait awhile and developments will take place
-. There was new move on hand We'd
nesday. number of members of the Fire
Department were discussing who the candi-
Frank Herron's friends say they will stick to
him, and VIM. Swans hackers say he will
beat Chief O'Connor by large majority.
-. Gov. Kellogg has received an anony-
nous communication signed San Diego, and
dated San Francisco, notifying him that in the
latter named city combination has been
formed to defeat all measures having for their
object the granting of national aid to the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and that
a man, prominent in politics in California, has
come East to work for the combination.
There was something of laugh in the
Marshal's Office on Wednesday at a rising
youthful Bohemian There was a new cigar
boz sitting on the table there, looking just as
if it had but few moments before lett the
steamship. He rushed at it, and opening the
lid, huge rat jumped at him. In terror he
dropped the box, and now the Marshals cigal
boxes are unmolested.
The denizens living in the neighbor.
hood of Annette and Morales streets have Of
late been considerably excited over a sort o.
nondescript running about loose there. L
appears that late each evening a man in wo
mans clothes chases every negro in sight
producing much CONSERVATION on all sides
So terrified have some become they shut theil
doors at shutdown.
AT last Old Probs seems determined
that we shall have spell of splendid weather
in time to make the Fall Meeting of oul
Jockey Club pleasant and successful, and Sc
give to the efforts of its Board of Stewards
the award they so we'll deserve. The weather
for the last few days has been just what was re
quired to put the track and shell roads in gooe
order; the former under charge of the club
and the latter managed by the Administrator
of Improvements, are both being given al
due attention, and will assuredly be in splen
did order for Saturdays races. The fai
ladies of the Crescent City are anticipating
delightful time at this meeting, and there viii
doubtless be an elegant array of rare beaut.
and brilliant toilettes in the Grand Stand o
the club on the opening day of the races.