The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-22
BREvITIEs.


return on the LIST proximo.
The New Orleans Gun Club match was post
poned on Thursday to October TO-
The Crescent City team, or a portion Of them,
are expected to return to the city by Monday
next
The letter carriers have now nearly six thou
sand names to their petition for An increase in
salary.
Something should be done with the awnings
on Royal and Chartres streets, for every tall
grumbles when STOPPING beneath their low iron
supports
Reports received by prominent factor yester-
day state that the cane in Assumption, st. James
ally injured by the recent 'teduinootial."
That handsome brick pile on the corner of
Chartres and Canal streets, has, 1t Is said, been
photographed and the "photos" will be preserved
as historical relic by the risipg generation.
We are not without sheriff now. as we were
some days ago, for Thomas FL. Handy, or as he
| liz better known-Tom Handy-has just returned
| from his summer cruise. We welcome our civil
| sheriff back.
| Deputy Sheriff VIM. Irvine, of West Felieiana,
| arrived in the city on Thursday, and on yester-
day left for home, having in charge the negro
horse-thief, Robinson Oliver. captured here few
| days since.
| The grand Complementary soiree dsnsante of
| Company O, "Louisans's Own" comes off this
evening at the West End Pavilion, New Lake
End. II aft ,rds fiue chance for all amateurs Of
| the terpsichorisn act.
The furniture carmen who have been in the
| habit OF making the corner OF Race and Maya
| zine streets "stand" for their wagons, have
been notified by the police to abandon that COR
ner, but they don't know why.
Rumor has it that certain member OF the late
Custom House Commission got in his work to the
that, too, after getting his IS per diem for
Services rendered" while q member Of the COM
| mission.
| The swallows are homeward flying. Judge W.
| r. Whitaker and District Attorney John J. Fin
ney Yesterday put in an appearance from the
| wiids OF Wisconsin, after 3 crusade against the
fowl and fish in that region. Both are looking
splendidly.
In the match race between Musgrove and
Soniat, OF the 81. John Boat Club, yesterday, the
latter won by ten lengths. The race was rowed
| on the lake; distance one mile and return. This
was contest for the championship Of the ST..
| John Club.
Judge W. II. Whitaker has announced that In
future he will order the Denire OF jurors to be
posted in a conspicuous place in the clerks Office
| of the Superior Criminal Court, SO that parties
having exceptions to individuals serving may
have time to make them known to the court.
The latest intelligence from quarantine is that
no new cases Of yellow fever are reported, though
the first officer and mate of the bark Harold will
probably not recover. The weather there ia yet
/
vessels. So says DR.. Finney in telegram to the
Board of Health.
The many friends-and they are many-of that
distiDg 1ished counsellor, Thomas J. Semmes
Esq. will be pleased to learn Of his return home
after his vacation trip away from us. Mr.. Semmes
is looking in the best of health, and his sojourn
| on mountain and by stream seems to have given
him the rudy complexion Of an Alpine hunter.
The building which is being erected by Major
T. A. Burke on Camp street, and about which
trt at deal has been said regarding contravention
OF law, ETC., will be great improvement On the
fkstty old rookery that stood on the spot form
erIy. In fact it will be an elegant structure and
an ornament to the neighborhood.
| Liver die sviver perish, damfdon't save sum-
wuD," said Perkins when he rolled out Of his cab
at the New Lake End yesterday. He thought
| that the "storrum" was still raging, but Major
I Mudoon quietly lifted him out OF the mud by the
| ear, and, thinking his absent spouse had him, he
managed to blubber out. "Jsgo get hansum-
NEST bunnit with yellofether ucanfnd. Scharg-
| ittome dollin."
It is just about the time now when the average
| Hubble" whose better two thirds lard the
| family have been spending the summer at the
North or the springs, TO overhaul the pockets of
| his summer clothing. examine his card case
closely, brush from his coat collar Tor seeve)
any stray blonde hairs that may have accidentally
~ fallen thereon, etc, etc 1t wouldn't, do you
know to have the better two-thirds find those
curosities There might be a cyclone or an
equinoctial when the "old lady arrived.