The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-06
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-. The grandest live oaks in the Southern
country grow in the little village of Madison
vile, on the Tchefuncta River
49,. 1t is said that if few more dead dog
were thrown into Claiborne canal, the per
fume would be sensibly improved.
-. The lessees of the levee have large
gang Of men at work on the upper wharves
They are repairing and rebuilding from Far
wood & Co.'S wharf down.
-. The shoemakers met at Zimmerman'i
Hall, 81 Bienville street, last night fol
purposes of looking to cooperation in theil
labor. 1t is proposed that other mechanical
and industrial classes meet at the same place
next week to organize like movement. The
work is said to be progressing finely.
-. Mr.. ]. A. Pierce, the popular assistant
of Mr.. Geo. Ellis, newsdealer, opposite the
Post Office, has left the city for a months
soJourn in Montgomery, Ala Pierce is a good
fellow, and we bespeak for him the kindly
attention Of our Alabama friends.
80. The boys attending the summer school
of our estimable friend, Mr.. r. M. Lusher,
are loud in their praise of his rooms. Facing
Tivoli Circle, there is always good current
of wind blowing through them, causing them
to be cool and delightful, great desideratum
for a summer school house.
Our respected friend, Mr.. E. K. Con-
verse, the big pork merchant of Magazine
street, is now vending his way to st. Louis
on q mission Of business. We sincerely hope
that the change Of climate will have the effect
of restoring him to health, and Of putting
some flesh on his bones
-. There sre some very pretty faces to be
seen on the wharf at Vaudeville whenever
the Camelia lands there, but they are usually
SO obscured by old fashioned white sun bon.
nets and flowing blue walls, as to make it ex-
tremely difficult for even the most prying
eyes to get glimpse of them.
The Governor Thursday morning ap-
pointed ex-Gov. Joshua Baker, of st. Mary
parish, assistant State Engineer.
In the report of the proceedings of the
Funding Board an error was made in stating
that five bonds Of the Nashville Railroad
Company had been funded for account of
Ranger, Fatman & Co. The application to
fund was rejected.
If the editor of the Times, who pub
blished, in his issue of August 4, an article
headed "Coming Elections" and not &C
credited to any other journal, will only look
over the BULLETIN of July %, he will find an
article bearing the title of Elections this
soL
publication may be found verbatim.
The article referred to cost us several hours
of hard labor; but it affords us much pleas
ure to be able to accommodate our friend of
welcome to the same
49,. "A friend of ours, who was an eye wit
ness of the occurrence, tells us of recent
instance of narrow escape from drowning
One evening last week whilst the steamboat
Campbell was backing out from the ferry land
ing, opposite Jackson Square, skiff contain
ing four persons collided with her. One man
was thrown into the water and went under
twice. On his rising to the surface the second
time, and when he was apparently in drown
bell threw him life-preserver which he for
tunately clutched; another was tossed to him,
and with these two life-preservers he managed
to keep his head above water until passing
skiff relieved him from his perilous position.
So excited were the passengers on board the
Campbell that it vas with difficulty the cap
tain prevented them from throwing his whole
stock Of life-preservers overheard.
Tchefuncta." Pronounce it slowly or
rapidly, undertone or high tone, separate the
possible, and it is the same unmusical and
abominable word, sounding like nothing SO
much as the noise frog makes when he
springs suddenly into the bosom of placid
stream "lter chunck-ta." We object to the
name if it is an Indian word-for that matter
we object to the Indians themselves, especially
the bad ones, and the good ones are said to
be those who are dead.
The stream which is saddled with this hor
rid name, this bull frog cognomen, this
mushy -mouthful Of gutteral absurdity, is too
picturesque and beautiful to be thus cursed,
and we hereby enter our protest. Who would
care to hail from the Tchefincta River, who so
dead to euphony and harmony as to live on
the banks OF river with such name
The old name of this stream. Bogue Fa-
layah, was bad enough as to euphony. Tche-
functa, we believe, in the original means
"The Lost" and if somebody could only
manage to lose it, he would be comforting an
everlasting favor upon hundreds Of people
who never utter the beastly word without
protest.
The Legislature should look into this mat
ter and see that the name of this pretty river,
the banks of which some of these days will
be thickly settled with refined and intelli-
gent people, be changed. Almost any change