New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-06-02
IkL INTELLIGENCE.

il a city of fair proportions,
, Paris-Kentucky. Louisville
ma extraordinary people, half
1eereIy devoted 10 MammoH
er half to pretence of good
isvjlIe, although its foundation
Droad nor sound, is as ambi-
Mushroom. Another city, as
a, possessed q large public
eyeral public-spirited Louis
nose exchecquers after the war
in as tissue, resolved them
an executive committee and
that they would give their city
fine library-by virtue of a
I course the manipulators ex-
chance, to permit a few fat
fall their way; at least they
n themselves liberal salaries
"a thing moving as long as pos
AZ succeeded tolerably well,
,iic would OCCASIONAL ask i'm
uestions, which caused lingeF-
IL the minds of persons who
d in tickets.
cans, Mobile and Galveston
be public grand Mardi Gras
buisville, being an imitator, at
ape the mimicry. 1t is re-
success did not follow in the
cap and bells. In due time
yss sweated out.
a fast men longed for another
4 q popularity, so just before
/ racing day recently the city
sed that eventful occasion into
idsy. This was accomplished
I erious minority, and it fell on
81 sober-minded citizens as a
/ ht OF sin. Public meetings,
u excellent class of residents,
J, d the name of morality and
less, but their modest voices
4 Ely drowned in the rafting of
bfs over a race course.
q er the White League hosts of
4 Overpowered our proper State
4 and drove Governor Packard
d sit were, the Louisvillians, de-
I Dm their legend of sympathy
L and the oppressed, celebrat-
2 bt by q grand illumination Of
i houses and by the drinking Of
y Bourbon whisky.
four Louisville items, the first
. which is still in inextricsble
a There was a profitable lottery,
y nary is still 70 be heard from.
O Re are a few miserable vol
' usty shelves, but the works are
s the reading public desires.
N is now openly charged that
q . managers actually stole quar-
o and sections of the funds. So
9 er library swindle.
u e rushing Louisville nobs de-
ID to celebrate Mardi Gras the
q settled. A few of them had
u pses or the carnival show when
fleans and Immediately deemed
y capable of outdoing the Cres-
a mummery. Lavish expendi-
2 made, but there was no sys-
no master spirit; for let it
ned that each individual Lou
ieves himself fully capable of
that which anybody else has
Poor people who furnished
0 ods for that celebration more
e' years ago cry in vain for their
isl sportive minority should wish
M Prise racing down the throsts OF
M eople is one of the things that
IN an find out.
i . may be said concerning that
VI % for redeemed, Disseminated
d gested that our inland neigh
Cd the history of Louisiana, in
AXE in the Colfax, Coushatta,
Rouge, Felicians and many
acres, fix on a certain day and
s lnte it in. the most glorious
Ii ssible. Such a course would
- md the affair would be off theil
minds for at least one year.
,rp ScAvENGER. Yesterday morn
d pented old colored man, attired
begged raiment. waddled along
T. street, from Poydras street t.
ID square, river side. He wai
frd for particles Of waste paper
N most anything else that would
sack. The gutter was ex
Thy, SO foul that even the hal
fellow scorned to touch the pool
lt. BY chance the stub Of {
ys lying in the street, and the ole
: tsnddenly dropped his pacl
I'd seized the stub. He vigor
= sd that household weapon ant
9 Backed the reeking gutter, not
nj ng the task nearly overcamt
N wing succeeded in partially
slush into the dusty street
Nv ntly threw his broom from hin
the scene. just then some
ea ln upper gallery of the new
% brew something to the usurpint
and that something must havl
twenty cent silver coin, for b.
ast it from him as if worthless
iui the Department of Improve
:, EE. The North Louisiani
TO anks to its patent outside, i
u Louisiana papers in publish
Of the Black sea. Though no
10y Of the size Of the Picdyatne'
mp overhowed district, it has tn
q Of being Ineligible and cor
Oh
.ed ME SIZE OF 1T.-At the recen
% Election to settle the question
"A her real property of this cit
- taxed in small sum for rail
d POSES, several owners of insig
J q 5perties used all their efforts 3
a tax. One we'll authenticate,
ii ad; Let him be called Johi
only possession is assesse,
o. NJ allow it to be worth $1,000
= sd the tax fully as violently a
u of the tax resisters' associa
4 not likely that he ever con
sum he would be taxed 70
rs On election day he branches
, q on his acquaintances to urg
4 ole against the tax. When h
, !, Of his way Of thinking b
llled then into a bar-room t
I'd This operation was so oftel