The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-27

COULDN'T PLAY IT.-A colored man named
Nelson is owing butcher on Beaubien street
five or six dollars, and after trying in vain to
collect the money, the butcher and friend
put their heads together the other night and
laid plain. About midnight they called at
Nelson's house, and he was awakened by q
rap on the window.
"Who's dar p he called out.
"The Devil" solemnly replied the butcher.
"You is, hey?"
EYES; want your"
"What fur ?"
"You refuse to pay your butcher, and
am sent to take you to the bottomless pit"
"You is?"
clam. Come forth at once"
Size coming, replied the negro as he
jumped out of bed 81 can't pay dat six dol
lars half as easy in any odder way, an de old
woman is SO mighty cross lie glad to get away
from home"
The butcher and his friend didn't wait for
Mr.. Nelson to come out.-Detroit Free Press.
The New York World of yesterday says:
Some time ago Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
complained in the Post Office Department
that he was continually receiving scurrilous
postal cards, and forwarded sample ad-
dressed to "Brother Henry Ward Beecher or
Brother Sherman, Tracy & Co., Plymouth
written: "Thou shalt not bear false witness
against tiny neighbor," and following is a
private verse of doggerel, descriptive of the
tall of Brooklyn because of its wickedness
and its idolatry of Mr.. Beecher, and ending
with, "Gone to meet Sodom and Gomorrah.
Assistant Attorney General Spencer decides
that the sending of such cards is an abuse of
mails, and that they should be excluded.
Sc -,
president pro tenn, of the Senate, will occupy
MIR. Wilson's place as presiding officer. In
the event of President Grants death, Senator
Ferry would step into the White House
agreeably to the act of March l, 1892, which
provides that the President of the Senate pro
tempore, or in case there be no President of
the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, is to act as President Senator
Ferry was born at Mackipaw, Michigan, June
i, 1927; was member OF the Michigan House
of Representatives in 1850, and of the State
Senate in 1856; vice president for Michigan
in the Chicago Republican Convention of
1850; was elected to the Thirty ninth, For
tieth, Forty first and Forty second Congresses.
He succeeded Jacob NJ. Howard in the United
States Senate in 1871. His term of service
will expire in lS77.-co'uier-JounaI.
Barnum has been lecturing in Chicago,
uAu Ac OcAis tHo ioilOWiuB StOEy III Ills Luu-
scum, gentleman and daughter stood gazing
at the Siamese twins. The Snowman said
they were the most remarkable phenomenon
in the whole world, were born in Siam, etc.
"Brothers, suppose" remarked the gentle
man, interrogatively, still looking with Won
der at the tied-ups "Yes, sir, brothers;
natural brothers, too" said the Snowman.
my DEAR" said the visitor, religiously turn
ing to his daughter, "think of the goodness
of Providence in thus linking two natural
brothers together, instead of two strangers"
One morning, not long ago, Vicksburg wife
woke up and informed her husband that she
dreamed she found IS greenback on thesUeet
He didn't say anything until he had looked INTO
his wallet and found his funds IS short, and then
he remarked; "Mary, I dreamed that you hand
ed me that IS bill as soon as you found it" You
did" Yes, Mary, and | thought told you it
would be dangerous TO do any more such dream
ing, and that hid my wallet where you couldn't
find it again." She passed it over.
Moving for new trial Counting second
wife.
Wants aud To Rent inserted in the BULLETIN for
Ft,-N ap4,