New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-03
GENERAL NEWS.

suicide, by the use of chloral, at San Fran
cisco last Monday.
General A. j. Pleasonton has written q
long letter to the Chicago Tribune on the
wonders of blue glass. The glass which he
uses is of 9. dark blue, the color being de-
rived from q preparation of cobalt which is
fused in the pot with the other ingredients.
1t is imported from France, and costs four
times as much as American window glass.
He gives in this letter his personal expe.
rience as to the curative powers OF blue and
sunlight baths. In October last he met
with o very serious accident in alightiHg
from q wagon in Philadelphia. His physi-
clan said that there had been no frac-
ture of the ribs or bones, but that he
would suffer q long time from the
effects of the shock and fall Liniments and
plasters afforded no relief. He resolved to
try blue glass. I'm my bathroom" he says,
~ have window with q southern expos
ure, arranged with alternate panes of blue
and plain transparent glass. Uncovering
my back, sat with my back to the blue
and sun lights which were streaming
through the window into the bathroom. AS
soon as these lights began to fall upon my
back the pains began to diminish, and at
the end of half an hour they had ceased al.
together. Toward evening the pains re-
turned, but they were much less than they
had been before / had taken the blue light
bath, and during the night l was easier
than had been previously. The next day
took another bath of blue and sun lights,
which effeotually relieved me of every pain,
and since then, now about three mOnths,
have not had the slightest pain or sensitive
ness in the parts affected-three cOnsecu-
tive sun and blue light baths having COM
pletely removed every i'll effect of my most
serious accident"
Captain George A. Dearborn, master of
the steamer New Orleans, is another of
those who have given testimony to the value
of the automatic buoy in the marine ser
vice. In the New York Herald he publishes
q card saying:
On my last voyage to New Orleans, when
passing Hatteras on New Years eve, wind
| light from northeast and smooth sea, heard
the sound of the automatic buoy, distant
about three miles. Passed close to it and
continued to hear the sound after passing
| it about four miles. 1t is hoped the govern.
ment will have these buOys placed at the
| mouth of all harbOrs and shoals along the
coast, as they will be the means Of saving
many lives.
The amount claimed by District Attorney
Bliss, in his suit against Samuel j. Tilden,
is $50, 900, which amount that somewhat
notorious individual is shown to have
swindIed the government out of in evaded
revenue taxes. The books of the Fort
Wayne Railroad Company, it is said, will
alone convict him.
Antonio Blitz, the magacian, better
known as Signor Blitz, died at his resi-
dsnce, in Philadelphia, last Sunday, aged
sixty-seven years.
The steamer Celtic brought to New Yorl
the captain and three of the Grew of thu
schooner Island Belle, from st. Johns
Newfoundland, for Boston, abandoned Jan
uary 81. The captain of the schooner re
ports that four of his crew had died from
cold and exposure.
The Texas Pacific bill has probably beef
killed for this session, for which fact on
people are as usual, under obligations T.
the Northern Democracy. The most vigOI
GUS effort of the session was made on Mon
: daY-to take the bill from the committee 0
J the whole and fix a day for its considers
, | ton. In spite of all the appeals of tn
fused to yield the position, and the foo
, | could not be obtained to offer q resolution
1 upon the question. The friends of th
9 measure generally agree that the Las
Q chance of passing the bill, in this Congress
. has been lost.
Cardinal McCloskey, by a circular, ii
= vites the faithful of his archdiocese to unite
i according to their means, with their Cath'
lie brethren in presenting q worthy test
: monial of their ilial homage and atfectio
= to the most holy father on his golden j
bilee, on fftieth anniversary of his cpl
!. copate, which will be on the twenty. first {
next May.
n Iglesias declines the preferred services {
v American officers, He says there al
h many good reasons why this movement
my friends in this country can be of no 8
Il sistanee to me in my efforts to bring abot
4 a change of government in Mexico, and
q shall advise my friends to the conclusion
N which have arrived. For this purpose
intend to proceed east as soon as possible
3, Colonel Ellis Spear, the new COMM
10 siOner of patents, is Maine man, natiN
J. of Warren, and is about fOrty.fOur years
q. age. He is a graduate of BOwdOin. He Q
g. listed in the war as private, was speed
Or promoted to the rank of colonel, and serve
II to the end of the war. He first entered Il
y Patent Office as clerk, and has gradual
I'd worked his way up until now he becom
al head of the department.
u Who's got that money! The S0ltth,cestel
Christian Advocate states that Rev. j.
Oh Dunn, presiding elder of Greenwood d
70 triet, Mississippi, by mistake gave some o.
" of the preachers of the Mississippi COntt
ence a fifty dollar bill instead of five d.
lar bill. The mistake occurred at Mao
:. during the closing work of the conferenC
- on Monday. Brother Dunn would be und
GO lasting obligations to any one who eou
TO help him to secure the lost money. His a
"A dress is Greenwood, Mississippi. Brethe
in the Lord will please to search the
On selves, lest the venerable presiding cid
he finds his money done gone until the Tin
of judgment day.
NO The American ship Dakota, from NJ
Orleans to Liverpool, when about 400 mil
H. northwest from the Azores, was struck
no lightning and burned. The captain,
wife and two children, and the crew, we
at rescued and taken to Fayal, after being TO
days in open boats.
10 Hon. j. Wiley Edmunds, merchant
10 Boston, and Daniel 0'Neill editor of
IN. Pittsburg Dispatch, are among the late
bo notable additions to the mOrtuary lists.
be The President is said to be preparing
special message to Congress, urging an l
mediate resumption of specie payment.
( The Mobile Jockey Club will hold thu
j. spring meeting, commencing on the secO
of April, to continue three days.
be The congregation of the First Univers
il lat Church, on Jersey City Heights, resoly
or nv a vote of forty-five to forty.two to
ls, miss their female pastor, Rev. Phoebe
to Hunaford, the object being to secure mi
as minister. The friends of Mrs. Hunafo
Dr. threaten to start another church with
~ ~ as pastor.
,s After being ice bound for ffty,six da
~ the river, at st. Louis, finally burst
III bonds between ten and eleven O'Clock y
-. y. terday morning, and ice has been PASS
the city, but not in great quantities, O.
oa since.
n. The Rev. Myron w. Reed, formerly
ga this CITY, but latterly of Milwaukee, has
az eepted the invitation of the First Presby
AZ | rian Church of Indianapolis TO supply tn
1 nu1 xwin Drohablv commando