New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-18

alf,,, Orleans Republican,
aFfIcIAl JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
frlclAl JOURNAL or new ORLEANS
rev ORLEANS. AUGUST IS, 1876.
The question Of the dsy-Has Sitting Bull
. standing army!
Flood, the San Francisco C'@sus' 10 only
thirty.six years old.
R;.bop Haven is going to look after the
Mathodists in Liberia in October.
oueen Victoria has 100000 more MO
hammedan subjects than the SULTAN n'
self.
Watterson begins to be talked soou' 90
candidate for Speaker at the neA' '0''''A
of Congress.
The New York Tribune pronounoes 'n'
verdict On the fellows in the ia'ee' o'A
uress: "The worst lot yet"
7, tho New York municipal arrangement
the Sunday Democrat says tnefo 10 'Ao
clerk to every three laborers.
The Australian r tls Team and tour rep
ra.artasiyes of the London Rowing Clup
arrived at Philspelphia Monday.
The Winchester Arms Company, OF new
Haven. have in their employment Soo handa
hard ut work upon recent contracts.
Manv millionaire are Of less service 70
the community in which they reside than
are scavenpers that cleanse the street.
"Helen's Babies" book written oy =
Nav York gentleman, and published an
onymously in Boston, has been me SUCCESS
of the summer season.
Ex.Secretary Welles will contribute an
article to each of the next two numbers o.
the GALAXY on ''The Nomination ana hiec'
ton of Abraham Lincoln"
The political issues of the day will Dc dls-
cussed by able speakers at the grand ne
nublican mass meeting at Mechanics Ansti'
tute next Saturday evening.
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee while
abroad. secured for the University OF the
South the cum of &73,28O, one lady giving
ANONYMOUSLY the sum Of $4,000.
An economist calculates that the wasted
forces in nature are sufficient in the aggre-
gate to keep the entire n achinery OF the
vorld in motion for IL, 000, 600 years.
Al Mr.. Hayes never embezzled any rail
road bonds and Mr.. Wheeler never stole
anv vsterworks bonds, they Of course have
mn ripht to be considered reformers.
Early in September Don Carlos and the
Princess Margaret, his wife, will occupy
the spscious residence at Passy, near Paris,
long inhabited by Queen Christina.
There is one committee at the Centennial
Exposition that has not had . vacancy since
the opening. 1t is the jurors Of wines, AND
they have sampled over 800 different Va
rieties.
Rr;ck Pomeroy knows them. He says:
MWhen Tilden 10 President, Hon. john MOI
rissev will have faro bank in full blast in
the White House and another in the Treas
ury Department"
The First Congressional District Conven'
tion, held at Tallahassee, Florida. on the
twelfth instant, renominated Hon. w. ).
Purman for Congress and ratified the nomi-
nation Of Hon. M. L. Stearns for Governor
There are 1900 breweries in the United
States. They produce annually 2S5, ooo,ooo
gallons of malt liquors. Most OF THESE
breweries have been erected within the
last twenty. five years. In 1874 over 32ooo'-
600 bushels of barley were used.
A wap presented o New Jersey saloon
keeper with pair of steel engravings OF
Ssnkey and Moody, representing them to
be correct portraits of Tilden and Hend-
ricks. They now adorn the walls with Ill
denis letter of acceptance underneath.
Binks (who in seaside lodging suspects
his landlady OF taking his wine): Look
here, darling. think I've done the dis
honest old cat this time; I've marked the
height of the wine on the bottle with my
diamond ring. Now, We shall be able to
detect-v Turns and discovers, not his
darling, but his landlady. Denoument)
A dispatch from Philadelphia, August II,
in the Western Associated Press, says that
Captain James B. Eads, who has charge OF
the work for the Improvement of the mouth
of the Mississippi, received telegram TO-
night from E. L. Corthell, chief assistant
engineer, stating that they have straight
navigable channel twenty-one feet deep
through the South Pass jetties.
A special to the st. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat fl ON St. Joseph, Missouri, August IA,
ssys. "that General NJ. JEFF Thompson is
still in precarious condition. although his
friends express confidence in his ultimate
recovery. There is NO doubt his condition