Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

TEE e~oFuer.atone OF e Confederate
memorial mOnBment IL 70 be laid IN
Rome, Ga, April rs.
SIXTY YEARS ago VIM. Lloyd Gar
Fison was 3 printers devil, and be bps
been playing the devil o. and on ever
since.-[BOston journal.
! TIE CoMTNs MAN.-GrAnt, after
HayesJ will be very much like q square
meal alter Lent. Ulysses 10 the CON-
log man.-tSL Louis GlObe-D Democrat.
A BLACK and tan terrier, at Raleigh,
N. e., irrilated by the vociferous
Growing Of 3 game cock, attacked him,
and, afer . Is minutes fight, killed
him.
A SLANDER Both the Goddess Of
Liberty snd the American eagle on the
new dollar don't look you square in
the eye. They are afraid they will be
dunned for the balance OF the dollar
Cincinnati Commercial.
MEAN SESAToRs.-The St. Louis
Globe. Democrat says that 10 conversa-
ton with q gentleman about Christmas
last, Mr.. Hayes declared that there is
but one meaner man 10 the Senate than
Howe, OF Wisconsin, aud that is Ham,
lin, OF Maine" So honors seem to be
easy.
An OLD CoRPLAIST.-An old ST..
Louis complsuL, has broken out at
Vicksburg. TIE HERALD of that city
says: whenever 4 fellow attempts 10
use M Of the papers here and can't do
It, be generally s'arts q new one, just to
Gil "a want ,oHg ~felt.'"-tSt. Louis
Times.
MANIPULATED THE FUEDs,"-Ex-
Secretary Boutwell, has often been &C.
cused Of having manipulated the Treas
ury accounts 10 suit bic own peculiar
theories. Proof positive, sustaining
the accusation, 10 now promised at the
hands Of tWo patient experts, who have
steadily unrAveled his tAngles.-[N. Y.
Star.
DIDN'T FIGURE On 1.-THE Louis
VILE Courier. Journal alleges that Mr..
Edward Vest, ian old soldier OF The
Revolution" died in Rowan county,
KY, Q few days ago, at the age Of Sc
years. He must have been o young sol.
der, and certainly eve got beyond
the infantry In the Revolution. On the
whole, the Courier-Journal had better
pull down that Vest.
FOUR HuSDRED NJ. D's.-About four
hundred new physicians have gone out
from our Philadelphia colleges thll
week, and adding on the dentists and
apothecarieS, the whole number o.
graduates rises above six hundred. The
figures are somewhat appalling, but WI
have q pretty big country over whict
these young u Q and women-fOr there
are seVente II women doctors AmonI
the number--may spread themselves
and there 10 room enough for oil VIII
mean TO work, and who have atteI
themselves to work tfFectively,-LPhil
adelphia Times.
: The WAY THY DO IT.-People VIII
have been 10 the habit Of wonderin
!. where the oil. pAinllugs Of the rurI
Re gions come from, eau have all tbs
0 doubts solved by an article prlnte
f. elsewhere. II clears away, also, ID
mystery Of the cheap picture auctions
: where more oil. paintings e'sold 10
+: week than the whole guild Of Amerl
can artists can produce In 3 year, work
lug al high pressure. The daub-faC
, tories turn out hundreds Of picture
i daily. some the product Of stencil
plates, others Of house-painterl
brushes, and the process Of manufActur
i is Of no slight IAtrrest,-IN. Y. TrI
bune.
How TO LIslIr A CITY.-The Puel
to del Sol, the principal square In Mad
rid, is lighted very successfully b
i electric light. The lamp.pOsts are tw
in number, each having six globes
i opal glass in sets Of three. They al
y about twice as tall as ordinary LAM
II posts. A person can read a newspap'
easily at 9 distance from them of lhirI
Y or even forty yards. A corresponds
Il of the London Times thinks il "~strsnl
that q country which we consider
d backward as Spain should be expeT
3 mentinR with this light, and with sue
buCCehb1 WullG A4Ouuuu uan uNe yVA we
tried the light at such centeIs as o
70 ford Circus or Regent Circus, where
70 standard with three globes like the
~ would give Il light that would pro
Oh invaluable"
% A PLAYFUL PBEMIER.-A rather lu
W ny circumstance occurred Ia come
a. ton with the Collectorship OH FridS
IS II seems that 8 Mr.. y. A. Lee wants
be Collector, and wrote TO say 30. 7
W President determined TO give the mi
~ ter 9 hearing. So be sent to the Lou
nv lana delegation 10 inquire what Lee
Il record was aud find out sOmethiI
about him. Remarkable 10 relate, n
q man knew anything about him ; no
M Of them hal ever heard Of him. d.
rail-, VINO happened to be near, voIu
n teered the information that Lee wa
al druggist In New Iberia. Beyond Il
no information was altainable. \
of Evarts remarked that 9 cOmmlssi
ought 10 be appointed 10 unearth L
and introduce him to the louisa
IN. delegation, 81 the eminent citizens
Re Louisiana didn't "seem 10 be acquaiI
'iV ed, and those who were acquainted b
q damned bad opinion Of one anOthe
nm (This last remark referred 10 some &C
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