The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-24
VOLUME II-NO. 392
ON DIT.

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-. Bib, the troublesome police Sergeant
Of the First Precinct, is again to be brought
before the board for an attempted outrage on
. oolored girl, on Nelpomene street
-. Perseverance Fire Company No. 10
gives grand picnic at the Fair Grounds on
Sunday next A splendid programme has
been arranged and lots of fun is to be pro-
yided for visitora
The Garrick Club have abandoned the
idea of playing the "Iron Mask" for their
second complimentary performance, and have
substituted the charming drama Of "Clouds
and Sunshine" most judicious selection.
49,. Both the New Histrionics, and the
Southern Dramatic Club have chosen Gloves
Sacrifice" for the next performance. Can't
the matter be adjusted in some way? Two
different plays would give much greater pleas
ure to the guests of the Clubs.
Judge Saucier, in the case Of A. Car
riere & Co. vs.. Carl Kohn, decided in favor Of
of the amount of an opera note. The fact
that there was no opera for the time the note
was given turned the case.
:. The Louisiana Relief Lodge dispatched
Mr.. T. W. Bothick Tuesday to Myrtle Grove
Plantation for the purpose Of disintering the
body Of Mr.. Jno. F. Ferrand, late engineer Of
the Chas Bodmann. Mr.. Bothick will place
the body in q strong metallic coffin, prepare
tory to its being sent to the Masons Of Gin
cinnati. e.-..-e..
All that section of country back of the
Magnolia Garden is drained into the Orleans
Canal through q subterranean wooden box.
This box having lately become disarranged,
the city has now q number of laborers en-
ployed removing the same, and substituting
large and substantial iron pipes. which will
be more effective besides being more durable.
This is good news to jewellers in those parts.
80. The steamer Indiana, which arrived at
her wharf Tuesday evening, had on board 1896
bars Of railroad iron, 800 bundles of fish bars
and SO kegs of spikes, consigned to Messrs.
T. II. Handy & Co., for the use of the new
railroad to the Lake. The Directors Of this
road are assuredly moving fast and well in
their labors to complete the road in the time
specified.
-. The French Benevolent and Mutual
Aid Association Of New Orleans have arranged
to give their grand picnic on Sunday and
Monday, July 25th and 26th. This picnic, it
will be remembered, was intended orr gnally
to have been given on June 9th, but was una
voidably postponed. It will, however, posi-
lively take place on the date above men.
toned.
80. The captain Of the steamboat St. Mary
has made arrangements for grand excursion
on the 4th of July. The boat will leave here
in the morning and will stop at Pilot Station,
where grand ball will be given on board.
The next morning a visit will be made to
South Pass, and the party returning will reach
the city on Monday evening. Two splendid
bands of music have been engaged and .
merry time is in prospect. Guests are always
treated splendidly on this boat, and on such
m occasion perfect feast of pleasure may be
expected.
80. Strawberries are selling for three cents
quart at Norfolk, Va. Growers allow peo-
pie to pick all they choose, as it costs three
cents . quart to pick the fruit.
The above announcement we clip from an
exchange How forcibly it brings to mind
the first months of the war, when the First
Louisiana Regiment was stationed near Nor
folk. The boys from New Orleans had
never before seen strawberry farm of
any magnitude, and to be station.
cd in country where strawberries
were the most plentiful fruit, where vast
fields Of them stretched out every where, and
the ground somehow seemed to produce
spontaneously the delicious berry, was almost
like being suddenly dropped into veritable
garden of Eden. And then when the gen.
rous and warm hearted people extended q
general invitation to the soldier boys to enter
the fields and eat their fill, it all seemed like
q beautiful dream, "too aattering sweet to be
substantial"
Will those who made that hasty midnight
march to Sswell's Point to repel an imaginary
invading force from Fortress Monroe ever for
get the march back to camp next morning,
along a perfect wilderness of strawberry
farms, in which the great, luscious berries
made not the slightest attempt at conceal
ment under their green leaves, but lay rudy
and bold and inviting in the warm sunlight
In fancy We can see, even now, the
of the Louisiana Guard, Com
panies B and c, reveling in the strawberry
fields by the roadside. their jaunty and be-
coming uniforms of dark blue fannel neat
caps and snowy CATERS. contrasting well with
the surrounding green foliage Of the straw
berry plants, and can hear their shouts Of de-
light as they discovered every moment berries
particularly large and luscious All those
were the halcyon days of soldier life. when
the boys, little dreaming of the dark and
dreadful future. almost lived on strawberries
and cream despising ra.ions - and made
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