The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-07
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Two clergymen in Putnam, Conn.,, are to
publicly debate the merits Of their respective de-
nomi nations, for stake OF $i25, q committee TO
decide the contest, and the money to 60 to
public charity.
Sixty Indian convicts are In the old fort In
81. Augustine, Fla, and the guard is daily sc.
Iected from their ranks About once weeh
each shoulders musket as one Of the garrison
and does sentry duty over his comrades. They
do not escape, because they pre- fer TO stay and
BIO fed.
Two Baltimore men bet $1,000 on tho result
OF the presidential election. and being unable 10
amicably agree which had won, the case was
taken into court. Then the District Attorney,
under law, took possession Of the stakes and
turned the money over to the city treasury.
The standard of old aldermanic propriety
appears to be rather nicer in Canada than it is in
the States member OF the Council, of Belle
vile, Ontario, has resigned his seat owing to the
insolvency OF the firm OF which he is q member.
The railway superintendents of roads rum
ning into Boston have refused to sell tickets at
half price to persons in the rural districts de-
sirous Of hearing Mr.. Moody preach and Mr..
Hankey sing. The OBJ ections made to the plan
was at once lsmentable and funny. 1t was urged
chat business mon would come to the city on
half-rate tickets under guse OF going to the tab.
ernacle, and would then 60 to their place OF bus
iness.
I'm recent holiday lecture at the Royal In
stitute, Prof. Tyndal, speaking of the painless
death by electricity, enarked that Franklin was
twice struck senseless by the shock. He after
wards sent the discharge Of two large jars
through six robust men, who fell to the ground
and got up again without knowing what had hap
pened, neither hearing nor feeling the discharge.
-Nicolini, the tenor, who is said to be at the
bottom Of PATHS husbands application for d.
vorce, applied several weeks ago for divorce from
his wife in Paris. Madame Ni,olini having aai-
cipated him by move in that direction. Mad
anne Niconi says that her husband has been IN
faithful, and he says that often when he has en-
scted love scene with the warmth which the
dramatic situation required. she has waited for
him at the wings, and boxed his ears when he
came OIL. 1t is evident enough why Capoul hest
hates to marry.
Eleven OF the ringleaders Of the late rebel
lion In Japan have been beheaded, while 24t per-
sons have been sentenced to hard labor for life,
-Four men of high birth, wishing to escape the
indignity or decapitatiop, made their way out of
prison, and committed the "happy Dispatch"
after passing whole day in feasting. singing
and dancing. There has since been another out
break, but Of comparatively trivial character,
and having nothing to do with the nobility. Two
thousand farmers asssssinsted an obnoxious tax
collector, and we're about to besiege the Cover
nor OF the PROVINCE in Buddhist monastery
when troops arrived and the rioters retired.
-0ne OF the novelties OF the Paris Exposition OF
1878 which is most likely to attract the keen in
terest OF the public, will be the exhibition o.
historical portraits executed by French artists
from the fifteenth century 10 1880. This project
has been approved by the Minister of Public In
struction, and has been submitted to a sub-con
mission to consiies the bsst means of carrying
the scheme into effect and to ascertain the views
on the subject of the possessors of historical
paintings. The commission has already put itself
ia communication with the museums of the pro-
yinces and private owners of collections who, it
is said, have responded to the appeal with a
liberality which promises q rich harvest of
historical and artistic discoveries.
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