The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-26
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-. The hornblowers and cowbellions were
gut in force on Friday night,
Prof Tice predicted a wet Christmas.
Indeed, he even said We have storm.
~. 1t is currently reported that Matt no
gan is on the detective force.
-. Even small boys have commenced car
rying walking canes.
Lucky misses-the young ladies' who
won the Paris dolls at the Varieties Iheater
Christmas matinee.
The annual election of officers of Trad
Ferrv Fire Go. No - will take place to-mor.
row night.
Masquerade surprise parties, which are
SO popular in our city now, are frequently ar
ranged by the persons surprised.
Fortunate that this is Sunday. Plenty
time to sleep off effects of too much soda water
yesterday.
Japan plums and strawberries were to
be had yesterday at some of the Canal street
stores, though the prices were somewhat
fancy.
There was somewhat Of row on Eien-
vile street, Friday night, between couple OF
Creole sports who attended the ball of the
Roller Skating Club.
=. If the papers are weak this morning.
Just please to remember that yesterday was
Christmas, and plenty of Christmas turkey
and lively newspapers don't usually happen
on consecutive days.
49,. If our friends of the frozen North could
have witnessed our Christmas tables, deco
rated with natural flowers, culled from gar
dens that are almost as blooming as In spring.
and have seen our people sitting cut upon
their piazzas at night enjoying themselves
after dinner they would, We fancy, have been
some8 hat astonished.
The continued and almost unparalleled
hot weather played havoc with imported
Christmas turkeys, and tons Of them spoiled
even before they arrived here from the West.
One dealer alone, Lamantia, had to throw
away nearly 1900 pounds. The air on Canal
street, in the vicinity of the fruit and game
dealers, was filled with an odor Of decaying
meat not at all pleasant.
49,. 1t Was a very pleasant and merry
Christmas, even if it was hot enough to be
the 4th of July instead Of the 10Th of Decem-
Der; and the ordinance against fire-crackers,
etc, may have been observed somewhere
about town, but the boys in the neighbor-
hoods visited by us were gloriously oblivious
of the law, and would have fired a Roman
candle at any policeman who had made bold
to remind them that the law had undertaken
to regulate the fireworks Of Christmas.
THE following dispatch, which reminds
US severely of an April hoax, was received at
the Marshal's Office yesterday. There must
have been considerable benzine in circula-
ton around Bayou Sara yesterday:
BAYOU SARA, Dec. 25, 1915.
s. B. Packard United States Marshal, New Or.
leans:
More disorders here yesterday. Two
strangers supposed to be deputy marshals
were kidnapped last night at Henrietta 8
Hotel by masked men. Their whereabouts is
not known.
-. Brown took his family to the matinee
yesterday, and between acts Brown cele-
brated Christmas, and by the time the per-
Torrance had concluded he was full. " He
bore up, however, until he reached home,
and he would not then have made his condi-
ton manifest, if he had allowed the wife Of
his bosom to open the front door, but he
wanted to show how sober he was, and be
tried it himself He tried several keys on his
ring, and finally found the latch-key. and
this he inserted in the large key-hole. Ht
turned it around some half dozen times,
swearing little after each round, and would
have kept on doing SO had not Mrs. B. inter
rupted him, and requested him to "stand
aside" He did stand aside, and his good
lady turned the knob and opened the door
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