The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-01

among the goats at La Angosfura, near aipIai-
tar, that the French government last week, was
compelled to subject all goats coming from Spain
TO quarantine and vigorous inspection By the
sanitary authorities before they arc admitted TO
France, That f. in France they are more
about the lives Of animals than We are
here Of human lives.
A patent new religion IS, It seems, about the |
best paying institution q man can make, these |
hard times. Leonard Harper johnson has In |
vented the latest. His religion III bran-new, and |
has q bible OF Its own, communicated to him |
fJohnson) by revelation. In accorjanc with THE |
revelation, he is high priest can claim one.tenth
OF all the income OF his followers, and can have |
as many wives as he chooses. He has carried |
out the latter part Of his creed with goat sue |
cess, and at present enjoys moro wives than I'll.
lowers.
The Natchitoches status ono promises to be an
extremely complicated case. There are two
cla.p snts to the District Judgeship The clerk OF
the court recogn yes one, the other court officer,
the Sheriff, recognizes the other. II the status
quo is to be maintained what is the natural con-
sequence Neither judge can try cases, because
both lack something essential to count. The
court without sheriff cannot appoint one, for
that would be q violation OF the status quo, and
pice uersa The status quo then means anarchy
aud lawlessness, complete abolition Of all gov
eminent.
Graveyards are Tho proper places for poetry;
so, at least the Coroner of Chicago thinks. He
Ia poet and humorist-evidently one whose
poetry and humor break out even in the dry Off
cial record he makes Of the deaths and diseases
of that city. ';Let US pass from the contempla'
ton OF the tragedy Of love-" he says, "to that OF
the poor fellow who blew out what little brains
he had on account OF the fortunes to which he
was daily subjected by--his mother-in-law. Mo-
thers-in-aw have always been great source OF
mischief to the world, and alas lshe plague Ia 80
universal and enduring that we must despair OF
ever seeing It overcome. The misery caused by
mothers-in law is eternal even as mothers-in-law
| themselves are immortal" Education Brown is
the only man that can emulate that Chicago
coroner in an official report and Brown can beat
him. His last report 10 an exhausting common
tary on all the arts and sciences.
The New York World has been studying the
criminal record OF that city, for the past year. in
order to ascertain the effect OF liquor on the two
sexes. OF the total arrests for drunkenness,
| 1873 were men, OF whom one-third were ar
| rested for the double offense Of being drunk aud
disorderly, and 63sS women, OF whom two-thirds
were disorderly; showing, conclusively, by
figures, that while man is three times as likely to
get drunk as the weaker seq, that the latter,
when under the effects of liquor is twice as apt
| to raise q row in other words than man can
carry his liquor best.
They are going mad over color just now. The
Hartford Times declares that black is the most
absorbent color, and that IL there Is any poison
eifluvia or disease in the air, anything black will
most readily drink it in. A black dress In q
hospital is, it declares, dangerous conductor
and propagation OF disease. 1t would have been
we'll il Packard had taken this into consideration
when he packed his hotel full Of black forms and
faces the other day. We have not the slightest
doubt but that the present epidemic of smallpox
hare is due. in large part, to this cause. His very
coor makes negro most liable to have diseases
thsta are spread by poisonous atmosphere. And
this, Packard should have taken into considera
ton when he exposed theso people to the small
pox.
Tho people OF Iberville have given up politics
They have retired altogether from speculation,
about the Electoral bill and the count, because
they have something more important before
them. "The paramount question with the people
of Ibsrville parish to-day" says the Ibe-vil'
South, els not whether Tilden shall be inaug
urated as President on tho fourth OF March o.
who shall be recognized as the legal Governor o
Louisiana but the momentous and all absorbing
question Is how to avert inundation' from tn
breaks that have already occurred in the levee.
Fear Of inuDdation is, BIT seems, certain
cure for too much politics, and might be trie'
, with great success :, in those parts OF the countr
where the people are little too much excite'
over the political situation.
When the papers here told the story Of th
smallpox in the st. Louis Hotel, it was denied
although the sick men had been seen being con
, lveyed from tho building. We warned the negroe
then against focking in crowds into the pest
house and told them they ran great risk i
, aware OF this, for cleaning up of the buildin
| was ordered, and the usual crowd Of negr
, loafers and bummers refused admittanc
to the building. This came too late
however; it was shutting the stable door afte
the horse had been stolen the disease ha
already been scattered far and wide among th
negroes Of the city. That the papers spoke th
truth about Packard's pest-house, and that
| was real curse to the negroes, is shown onl
too terribly by last weeks record of forty cd
, negroes dead Of smallpox. The disease hs
r been in the city all the winter, but the Board
, Health has kept it within moderate limits; IL
, deaths by it have seldom gone beyond ten {
twelve; but now that Packark's pest-hou
refuses to obey the or der of the Board Of Heali
4 and makes itself refuge for politics and d
ease, the smallpox bursts out in all its virulen'
Q among The negroes and increases the negro mo
tally until it equals that Of the white citizens