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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12

~ From the Shreveport. Times, Dozen her b:
- we LEARN that DR.. Blthel Otis Was. killed
at Benton, Boseier parish. ON Saturday lAst,
BY Joseph Benjamin, q Jewv, assgciated a
II sppe9rs that DE- Otis, while int0xiested,
tue day previous, entsred the st0fe4 OF. Blue =
stein and behaved IN such a msnHee as to
aaasa. Bluestein to feaf. his lfe Vas in dam
ger, and he 1Afs she af0ne.a Soon sitter, ahe
Doctor also leftzs Returning y thee 4n6xt
day-to the stoEe, the iQo:toy sf6nnd Ben
.jamin there, kdt picking up . large
knife Used fosg .eattipg' bacon; aooD.i
s.saeed abusing and threate1ingaate NM
atea1deA 10 cut, HI 3Afpat Some Qua teak
th4 knife fmM Oh, WheA no aixedso3aake
stiokWh HIGH was near byssad, AtfueksRADja-
min With it.r Neantime, BeDjaaqin hsd5eot
I behind h~o.eoantera md wa. beGgnR the
Doctor 70 desist As he had never tote' him
asy harm, but the doctor, who; had been,
disarmed Of AHBtisk, made arush - BEN
iamin over the COUNTER when tho latter
drew Q Isix-Shooter from. thS drawer and
1tsiki0ghlm in the hand and tho second in
theleft eye,, killing him instantly. - Us
= Immediately aftEr the ki'iipg,s Benjamin,
accoNpSnied hEcseverel, friendss left for
ellAvui to surrender himself to the officers
Of the lAw.7sWe give the above account rs
10 Wag reported to us.
Or. OTIS was raised near Haziehurst, Mis-
'sissippi, and was Q very tslented aud prom
isinG young man, and had been locAted at
Benton about two yeArs. 47A hasa mother,
% IRE informed, residing in Texas.
MoREHousE. i
From tho OuAehita Telegraph, Deem
bar 8: 1.eo .aie ne@ ga t
NJ j. d. Howell, of Norehouas, Vas
w~aylaidsand shot, ten miles from this place,
Wednesday, ~ the Monroe and BatreP
road. One bali lodged IN. his right arm,
aud anothoe passed through the tail Ct hi
cat. Thoa1sAesiAs wse lust st To s1Ne &
TIE .o:S, e s.es s thss TIC &c. s.s Sn. = =. sSs
nSt - Seoa. 1f. Howell was oe0ine 70
Monroe with cotton, and va ridiSg along
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12

A RA1axR HlnnuIAR TRAHsACuoN.-
Yesterday hstliie lGf. 4. Duo, residing 1t
No. 1924 OsnD s1sest, fsand . Young ~
in trost Of Ais hsuss, qutts sxhsassed ~
loss Of bleod. He bod bssa stahhsA thEss
times, % e. De- tssk hin to psliss Nod
quarters. TIE nse. seventeen years old,
gave his nans = Charles Boy. and said
that hs s1sivsA \ III city iron Nashville
only . - 1aja age. Having but Attls
money - hitee aFeon on Dsits, near II
fsystte ssleet, vk6ss - besans a~cqaainesd
with . iallow whessssn6a sAssadiEs SAtV
sgresd, schndsy night, to 20 out AohAat
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his nind,, Il ssysy ~ eSSeladsA-to lssvs
his nsw acqpainl.nsss sHisstssy islhstb
had no s1sisfs tspeessea linssif than the
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know thtr6ssshs name, bat oaa readily
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Charity Hacnlfal. B4y xssy ik6ly did Aos
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any BODY weld lshM hin tse - tri
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12

OrERA HOUSE.
WedoaBAay evesings December -, l0yo.
RxttaordinarJ performance sdsreA - tAs
ASSOCIATION DRAMATIQUE'
~. O1LEANAI0E.
For the benefit Of the suft reEe By the lats aon1Ae.
radon y tho Third District; under the patronage
q the 4elisf CDnnittees
UNE FEMME QUl sE cRlsr.
Vaudeville in one act, n NesssA Gusnss, 0ales0
AID I. Thibeust.
LHs fOOvRKs De PARIS
Drama - ssven acts. By Messrs. I. Brisbane ~
Curtain rises ct seysn seleek proolkeH.
Scale OF r1ic<s -Presemluo Dezea, % =
tier, tWo1ty.1vo csStA 80
HeldeEs e tscae:s can secure se.ts By sppIJias
re. Friday, the eighth. iAstanas fk1A kW4
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12
WANTED


wAntad on : Cosinne1 FAnsatson., leh bank q
the river. down the coast and four miles below tho
jackson B,rrUoas. Apply on che pIaee. dels %
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12

Axornse Xnnzpe NAx.-Demin.qus RI
camille, GlxtySstsAs yoaes old, RrencAman,
i've Iset l6ar Inches high. dressed In . suis
of brsvA c1stb, tsft his homo on Dslashaiss
betwesn ChipPews aed Annansiatien
streets, - n - ~ hewa where hs H., II
my psssen peesDases infosmstion eenesfh-
ing his Whereabouts VOID may - ssat -
Etienne Rsylss ~. ~ Tolsdane street.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12

RnsuIa - 4 E3snr.-About tWo wells
ago TIVE Ill WsEo 0gAesg On Tie coE.er #
Jordan avsnns ~ DsapAtas strest. They
threw bsickhals ~ eech other, and ono of
the miniles -stxuck . woman On her Asad,
prostratiag her. Tt .vsuad proved sesi-
Gus, and yesterday ~ Aied. seg 49, ~
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12
0D0BDk UHI VO048s
NEW f1IAL oxANrHD.

Ga motion of w. 4. Whitnkee, jodg
eiectsd; eeeen3ed by J. A. Heeley. eefisl
district sttorney, this court adjouf1ed on
Il respect to tie dem,se Of Joha 81. Cooney
m attorney at law fie
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-12

ELECTION o OyFIcE1&-Esgle No. Z
never flies off vi aout proper proper cause,
and last night he tapped her wings and
elected tbs fpylss Ing namsa ea8aesli--~-,
President, JanHs Canpb11l; s4ozSteyy. g.
Cast; treasurtf, II. We1s terenaAs =. ".
Kennedy; assistsr... A. Wnshsr ~ =:
Better; ds1ekAsss, LCAnrssi' INV. Aen'
has BEEN e1ectsd presi5slt ~ 1snit
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-12-15
What it Takes to Make a Newspaper.

The Poughkeepsie Eagle, in an article on
"How mistakes happen in newspapers"
figures up the number of types used in a
newspaper the size of the Eagle at 600,0
--i. e., the actual number of bits of metal
arranged and rearranged each day in pre-
pairing newspaper Of that size for the
press. We suppose few people think Of the
printing trade as one of the most exact and
particular of all the handicrafts, but it is.
In making type, variations that might be
allowed in the finest machinery would
render the type useless. It is very rarely
that type furnished by two separate found
ries can be used together without great
deal of trouble, though they try to make it
after the same standard. We read once in
while Of a wonderful piece of cabinet
work or of mosaic work, containing ten,
twenty, or fifty thousand pieces, the maker
of which has spent months, Or even years,
of labor in producing it, and people 60 to
see it as great curiosity, but the most
elaborate and carefully fitted piece of work
of this kind ever made does not compare
with that which the printer does every day,
for minuteness of detail and accuracy of
fitting. The man who does the first is
looked upon as an artist-a marvel Of skill
and if a hundred of his pieces are put in
the wrong way, it is not observed in the
general effect !; but if the printer, in fitting
ten times as many pieces together in a
single day, puts one where another should
be, or turns one the wrong way, everybody
sees it, and is amazed at 'the stupid care
lessness of those printers"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-12-15
Mathematical and Logical curiosities.

Washington was born in the year 1889.
Washington was always "on the square, !"
and the square root of is /, ,732-a remark
able coincidence. AS further proof we OBJ
serve that 1882 is the sum Of 1896, 400 and
SO, all perfect squares. Let us give to each
letter of the alphabet a number, represent
ing A by /, B by 2, G by 8, and SO on to
the end. Then the sum of all the letters
in the word Washington is 1a0. Similarly
the sum of the numbers belonging to the
word Columbus is 106. Columbus discov-
cred America in 1899 The most perfect
square number is 4. Now add together 130,
1O6, 1892 and and you will get 1882, the
year of Washington's birth; and this is an
other coincident. Logic is sometimes a
strange thing. For instance, it is easy to
prove that our cat Tabby has nine tails.
Thus No cat has eight tails; Tabby has
one tail more than no cat; hence Tabby
has one tail more than eight tails; there
fore Tabby has nine tails! This will be no
puzzle to mathematicians, but to many pol
iticians it may afford food for meditation.
Speaking above of condolences reminds US
that there many remarkable ones in the
theory of numbers. you multiply 98765-
1921 by 45 the answer will be a curious one,
but the coincidence is not easily explained.
-New HageB Journal.
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Fast Railway Travelling.

The Engineer gives an account Of the
"highest authentic instances of high rail-
roads speeds" on record. Brunei, with the
Courier class of locomotives, ran 13 miles
in 10 minutes, equal to 7S miles an hour.
Mr.. P. Stirling, of the Great Northern, took
two years back, 16 carriages 10 miles in 13
minutes, equal to rs miles an hour. The
"Great Britain" "Lord of the Isles" and
"Iron Duke" broad-gauge engines on the
Great Western Railway, have each run with
four or five carriages from Paddington to
Dideot in ATT minutes, equal to 66 miles an
hour. The new Midland coupled express
engines, running in the usual course, have
been timed 6s, 10 and 70 miles an hour.
The 10 a. m. express ON the Great North
ern from Leeds has been timed, and found
mile after mile at tire rate of mile in SO
or at so and one-fiftil miles an
hour. The engines used are Mr.. Stirling's
outside cylinder bogie express engines, the
load being ten carriages.
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BOHEMIAN, Nov. 26, 1876.
The Author Of when This Cruel War IS
Over"

Henry Tucker, author of the popular
ballad "When This Cruel War is Over, !"
lives quietly in Brooklyn. He told re-
porter yesterday that he wrote the music
for it in 1860, before the war. The original
words he adapted to it began, Darling,
meet me IN the greenwood" but they were
never published, and together with the
music, aim ,st forgotten until the summer
of 1861, when, wishing to write war song,
he hunted up the manuscript and played it
for his friend, Charles Carol Sawyer, who
liked it, and SAID, "Let me write soma
words for that" This being agreed to,
the latter wrote the first verse. beginning,
dearest love, do you remember" while
Tucker wrote the rest, and took it TO a
music publisher, who offered him 800 for
the copywright, which was refused. MIR.
Tueker says he cleared $1,000 from the
so,,o the first few months, and would have
na,fed $40, 900 on it if his rights had been
resnected: but it was reprinted in England,
ss,,f ao Che Confederacy, and thence found
It's IL way over the whole country, greatly TO
tl,a datriment of his own edition.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-12-15
Aliirator Business.

Between 1000 and 90, 1000 alligator skins
are tanned yearly, which are consumed by
boot and shoe manufacturers in every por-
tion of the United States, as well as export
ed to London and Hamburg. The alliga-
tors formerly came almost entirely from
Louisiana, ana New Orleans was the great
centre of business. The Florida swamps
and morasses are now the harvest fields and
Jacksonville in that State the great depot.
The ailigators often attain length of IS to
90 feet, and frequently live to very old
age. The hides are stripped off, and the
belly and sides, the only portions fit for use,
are packed In barrels, in strong brine, and
shipped to the Northern tanner, who keeps
them under treatment for from six to eight
months, when tley are ready to be cut up.
30 far, the leather has been mainly used in
the manufacture of boots and shoes, but
handsome slippers are also made of it.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-12-15
Nv2H1ze'
60 TO Sleep.

Many children, instead of being as fresh
as peach are as wrinkled as last years
apples because they do not sleep enough.
Some physicians think that the bones grow
only during sleep. This we cannot say,
certainly; but we do know that those little
folks who sit up late at nights are usually
nervous, weak, small and sickly. The rea-
son you need more sleep than your parents
is because you haye to grow and they do
not. They can use up the food they cat
in thinking, talking and walking, while you
should save some of yours for growing.
You ought to sleep great deal; if you do
not, you will in activity consume all you
eat, and have none, or not enough, to grow
with. Very few clever children excel, or
even equal other people when they grow
up. Why is this? Because their heads,
IL not their bodies, are kept too busy: SO
that they can not sleep, rest and grow
strong in body and brain.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-12-15
HER TREASURES.
BIZ MARY AINGE DE WE'RE.

l keep them in tie old, old box
That Willie gave me years ago,
The time we parted on the rocks;
His ship lay swinging to and fro,
At waiting in the Lower Bay.
thought my heart would break that day.
The picture with the pensive eyes
Is Willie's? No, DEAR that's young Blake,
Who took the West Point highest prize
He went half crazy for my sake.
Here are a lot of rhymes he wrote,
And here's button off his coat.
Is this his ring? My dearest May
never took a ring from him!
This was gift from Howard Clay,
Just see--the pearls are getting dim.
They say that pearls are tears--what stuff!
The setting looks little rough.
He was as handsome as prince
And jealous! But he went to Rome
Last fall. He's never written since.
used to visit at his home
A lovely place beyond Fort Lee;
His mother thought the world of me.
Oh. no! l sent his letters back,
These came to me from Washington,
But look, what a tremendous pack
He always wrote me three for one.
know used to treat him ill
Poor Jack The fell at Charlottesville.
The vignettes-all that lot-are scalps
I took in London, Naples, Nice,
At Paris and among the Alps:
Those foreign lovers act like geese.
But, dear, they are such handsome men.
We 60 to France next year again!
This is the doctors signet ring,
These faded flowers? Oh, let me see:
Why. what a very curious thing!
Who could have sent these flowers TO me?
All! now have it-Count de Twirl;
He married that fat Crosbie girl.
His hair was red. You need not look
So sadlyat that raven tress.
You know the head that lock forsook;
You know-bnt you could never guess!
Nor would tell you for the world
About whose brow that ringet curled,
Why won't tell? Well, partly, child,
Because you like the man yourself
But most because don't get SO wild
have not laid him on the shelf
He's not bygone. In year
III tell you all about him dear.
-iScri5ner for Leseas6ei
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The Late Territory Of Idaho.

A glance at the map Of Idaho, and
slight knowledge of the physical geography
Of the region embraced within it's bounda-
ries, will satisfy anyone that if nothing is
to be considered but the purely sectional
interests of the people inhabiting the diff
ferent portions of the Territory, and if the
action of Congress is to be invoked to meet
and provide for all these separate interests,
we may look for speedy dissolution and
annihilation of Idaho.
The county of Lemhi belongs geograph-
ically to Montana. 1t is separated from
the central counties by high mountain
ranges, quite impossible for several months
in the year. The distance between Boise
City, the capital of the Territory, and Sal
mon City, the county seat of Lemhi, as
travelled during the summer over the high,
rugged mountains, is only about $50 miles,
but with the early autumn comes fierce
snow storms which soon make the route
impracticable. To reach tho capital at the
time when the Legislature meets detour
of one thousand miles must be made through
Montana and Utah. Yet from Lemhi
comes no cry for division. Oneida and
Bear Lake counties would still more natu-
rally gravitate toward Utah, to which they
are bound by ties, geographic, Brighamic,
and polygamic. But these two counties
seem content to remain where they are,
and express no desire for a change. Owy-
bee county seems so naturally part of the
State Of Nevada, that we forbear saying
anything for fear of awakening desire
which has thus far slept
In none of the counties mentioned las
| there ever been any war made for division
and annexation. One Of the reasons for
this may be that in none of them has the
capital of the Territory been located. 1t
| is greatly to be deplored that tho capital
was ever removed from Lewiston, for had
it remained there the question Of division
would never have been raised.
Ada county, shaving the capital, may be
supposed to be anxious to remain " in the
union" and to keep the parts together, while
Boise and Alturas counties, lying within
comparative easy access of the capital, can
have but little to complain of; but this il
not reason why they should stand il
the way of the general good; they nigh
be annexed to Oregon without doing any
great violence to natural boundaries Or tt
to the interest to the great mass of thu
people.
We, therefore, submit whether it woult
not be we'll for the Legislature to memoir
alize Congress on the subject, asking tina
the Territory of Idaho be cut into piece
and parceled out to the adjoining State
and Territ cries, thus doing for the who'll
Territory and at once what Mr. Fem ant
his highly and universally respected ally a
Lewiston are determined to do for tn
Northern portion.
This would be great saving to tn
Federal Treasury, and would save us be
sides from the soulharrowing scenes o
hungry and selfish wishes and expectation
on the one side, and anxiety, fear, hop
and despair on the other, which come wit
every change of administration. .-Idah
Statesman, Nou. 25.
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End Of a Romantic History.

The Springfield Republican of the 18th
says:
sThe sad and romantic history of Min
ME Reed is still fresh in mind. 1t. Philip
Reed of the army met her when she was
struggling to cultivate an unusually fine
voice. On the eve Of their marriage, the
wife sailed for Europe for music study and
the husband was ordered to the West.
They never met again, for in August, just
before the time for her to return, Mrs.
Reed died and was buried in Paris. The
sequel heightens the interest in this stainge
affair. Friends of 1t. Reed met in Boston,
Friday. to receive the body of Mrs. Reed by
steamer, and bury her in Lowell. When
the box was opened, however, the body en-
closed was found to be that of strange
woman, who must have died over year
ago."
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An Extreme Case Of Doubling"

At Convent Garden the curtain rose at half
past six o'clock. In the Haymarket the
representation commenced at seven. AT
the former theatre Farley was cast for one
of the witches in Macbeth. At the latterhe
was required to impersonate Sir Philip
Modelove in the comedy of " A Bold Stroke
for Wife," It was question of fitting
in his exits at Convent Garden with his en-
frances at the Taymarket. A hackney
coach was in attendance, provided with a
dresser, lighted candles, the necessary
change of costume, and the means of alter
ing his makeup. His early duties as a
witch at the Convent Garden fulfilled, the
actor jumped into his coach, aud, with the
assistance of his dresser, was promptly
changed from the weird sister of the trag-
edy to the elderly beau of the comedy. He
duly arrived at the Haymarket in time to
present himself as Sir Philip, whose first
entrance upon the stage is in the second act
Of the play. This part of his task perform
ed, he hurried again to Convent Garden, be-
back again to the weird sister. Again he
left the patent theatre, and reached the
Haymarket in time to reappear as Sir
Philip ON the second entrance Of that char
acter in the fifth act of the play. The actor
acquitted himself entirely to the satisfac-
tion of his two audiences {who were per-
haps hardly aware Of the extent of his la
bors), but with very considerable STRAIN
upon his nervous system. For to add to
the difficulties of his task, his coachman,
Indifferent to the counsel that the more
haste often signifies the worst speed, turn
ing corner too sharply, ran his fore-wheel
against post, anu upset coach, actor, cos
tunes, dresses, candles, and all. This un-
timely accident notwithstanding, the actor,
with assistance freely rendered by friend
ly crowd, secured another vehicle, and sue
ceeded in accomplishing an exploit that
can scarcely be paralleled in histrionic
records.