The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-02
ON DIT.

-. Gen. M. jeff Thompson will attend the
Levee Convention at VIcksburg.
-. With this weather the matinee ought
to be jammed to-day.
The "blue ribbon" Natchez arrived
Friday morning from Vicksburg, with 2487
bales cotton and 1866 sacks cotton seed.
\. Gen. Jas. Longstreet has been granted
a release from the duties of his several official
positions for thirty days.
:. As soon as the large iron safes arrive
and are put up, the Revenue Department will
move in the Central Hall.
People are asking nowadays to have
letters written to them so they can make their
politics public.
-. Mr.. Mullen, sent to the Parish Prison
for contempt for ten days, by Judge Lynch,
is still in durance vile.
AT the meeting of Company B, Wash
ington Artillery, held last night, Lieut..
Eugene May was elected captain.
80. The first celery Of the season made its
appearance at the fruit stand at the corner of
Canal and Camp streets yesterday.
-. Adjustment people want the
School Board question adjusted by the retire
ment Of those who now compose it.
-. Not ready-The people are not ready
yet to turn their schools over to be ruined by
demagogues.
49,. ''Step down and out, is the quiet in
vitation extended to the School Board by the
people.
-. Jack, the dog at the Third Precinct
Station, tried to take another dog to the sta
ton last night, but the canine metropolitan
did not succeed.
-. There is considerable of futter
around the Second District Magistrates Court
over the Professional bond business, mentioned
in ION Dit" yesterday. This business should
bs looked into.
-. The Office in Commercial Alley of the
Dis riot Union Telegraph Company was open
ed for business yesterday. Mr.. Fred Cuisine
is day operator, and MIR. Jas. O'Connor night
operator at this Office.
-. There has been considerable talk of
late over the election law which passed two
legislatures ago, but has never seen daylight.
Inquiry at the Governors Office and the Sec
rotary Of States did not bring forth the law.
Where is it?
The Canal Street, City Park and Lake
Railroad Company have received two new
dummies, No. 2, W. H. Bell, and No. 3, G. F.
Brott. AT II A. M. to-day No. 2 was tested
and worked satisfactorily; at 2 P. NJ. No. 3
will have a trial
=. Superintendent Cavanac has put on q
strong force, and it will be but short time
before Crossman, Customhouse and Bienville
streets will be opened. Heavy plankroads
are being built out to the Levee, affording
ample room for the commerce of the lower
levee to be carted out.
-. In the report of Prof Dimitry's speech
at the mass meeting Wednesday night, we gave
the name Of Mr.. Bourges as having been one
of the three excepted from the scathing invec-
tive of the Professor. 1t should have read
Alfred Shaw, which gentleman was highly
spoken of in the speech.
-. The Acting Governor yesterday issued
commissions to the following named parties
E. Bourgese, Public Administrator, parish
Of St Bernard, vice J. A. Glassin.
r. A. Phelps. Mayor of Bastrop, parish Of
Morehouse. Councilmen same town, Benz.
ST.. VIM. Brown, J. I. Caron, J..
D. Howell and JAS Campbell,
-. "A young gent Of Camp street, who had
dined out considerably yesterday, was met at
the door of the parental mansion last night
with, "Why, James, you are positively in
toxcated." Ono! old man" he responded,
"oh, no Didn't you read what Bayard Tay-
lor says-the alcohol in one 'undred loaves O.
bread 'toxicates. I'd jus. finished my 'undred
to-day. That's ALL"
... The complaint made against Judge
Long, of the Fifth M. P. Court, in the "On
Dit" column on Friday morning, was based
on an error reg arding the facts in the case.
The charge against the man discharged was
not burglary, but that he was a dangerous
and suspicious character. The testimony of
the officer making the arrest was taken and
established, that the man at the time of his
arrest was crazy drunk, and had nothing on
his person but shirt. The officer stated,
further, that it was his belief that the gentle
man at whose instance the arrest was made,
did not wish to prosecute. The prisoner was
questioned, and gave satisfactory account of
himself, and was thereupon discharged.
The conundrum of the day is how can
Staub, our newsdealer, sell his papers SO
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