The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-28
ON DIT.

uasS meetlng wednesday n1gnt.
-. Auditor Clinton has been granted fif-
teen days leave OF absence, and will enjoy it
ont of the city.
Let every school boy see that his
father does not fail attending the mass meet
ing Wednesday night.
-. If the weather should be too inclement
for the pigeon shooting match this afternoon,
notice of the fact will be given in the evening
papers.
-. A meeting of the Committee on Teach
ers Of the Public Schools has been called for
to- day at l o'clock, in the Council room, City
Hall.
-. The old and we'll known turnkey at the
Central Station, Daddy Lynch, is quite i'll.
His many friends will learn of the fact with
regret.
-. The plank road from the Canal street
ferry landing to the Mobile Railroad Depot is
in dangerous condition and in need of re-
pairs.
-. The School Directors are not so jubi-
liant now. The indications are that the
weather will not necessitate another post
ponement of the mass meeting
-. The steamer B. L. Hodge, which ar
rived Monday morning, brought two barrels
of new syrup from the plantation of Hy.
Cohen, in st. James, consigned to r. Milf
ken.
-. Those who desire to assist in the clos
ing of our public schools ought by all means
to stay at home Wednesday night and not be
present at the mass meeting to be held in
Lafayette Square.
We are requested to state that the pub
LEGATION of the third volume of the Neao Or
leans Rcviep will necessarily be postponed
until the return of the editor, Mr.. M. S.
Whitaker, to the city.
We are pleased to announce that
Bishop Wilmer returned Saturday from his
summer vacation at Rapidan Station, Gull
pepper county, Va, looking much benefited
by his residence in the hills.
IA telegram from New York Sunday to
friends Of the late Walter Merriam, Esq, an
nounced the death at that point of his widow.
Mrs. Merriam, we believe, was visiting the
North on a pleasure trip, and her death was
the result of severe attack of pneumonia
-. In the Mayors Office, City Hall, several
complaints have been recorded as in regard to
drainage of the Sixth Distri Fl. The residents
ask that force be ordered TO the rear of st.
Charles, between Bordeaux and Peters Avenue
to open the cutters in order to drain the
water into the Claiborne Canal.
80. We are pleased to chronicle that Messrs.
Raymond and Wash Marks, Of the committee
appointed to solicit aid for the Texas suffer
ers, have been most successful SO far, our
merchants responding nobly to the call. Up
to the present writing, New Orleans, in
provisions and money, has collected over
$4,000 for this humane cause.
-. Exposed in the window of R. Rhodes,
SIS st. Charles street, we noticed the beautiful
gold badge, to be shot for Tuesday, Septem.
Der 26th. On scroll above the letters @. P.
champion pigeon shooter) are engraved,
pendant therefrom, crossed shotguns and a
game bag, the whole wrought in IS karat gold
The winner of this will be the champion Of
Louisiana.
80. The committee of the Washington Ar
tillery, appointed to dispose of the funds
realized at the entertainment Thursday last
met Sunday, and passed the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved That sub. committe of three
members be appointed to invest the funds
realized from the entertainment in supplies,
and to ship such supplies to Messrs. ID. Runge
& Co., 81. Seelingson & Co., and A d. Sulii-
van, at Indianola, and request them. insthe
name OF the battalion, to disburse them to
the sufferers at Indianola, and along the Gulf
coast, where most in need, and that the quar-
termaster, Lieut.. Payne, be charged with the
duty of purchasing and shipping these sup
plies.
The committee of the Battalion is composed
as follows:
Col j. B. Walton, Chairman; Quartermas-
ter, Jno. NJ Payne; Lieut.. D. M. Fitzpatrick,
Lieut.. Eugene May, Sergt H. Dudley Cole
man, Secretary Louis A. Adam.
Prof. Tice predicted that Staub would have
rush to-day, and the crowd seen at Gold
thwaite's bookstore, SO Canal street, this
morning, verifes his prediction.
The great sale of furniture at 116 st. Louis
street, postponed on account of the weather,
will take place to-day, 2Sth inst, at II o'clock
A. M. See advertisement in the morning s
papers.
The sale Of millinery and fancy dry goods,
in the matter of Diniel Gorren's succession,
will be continued to-day at 10 o'clock, at 81
Canal street, by Vincent 4 Co., auctioneers.
FURNITURE. - The sale at 116 st. Louis
street will positively take place this day at II