The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-23
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

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Mr.. Wendell Phillips has been forced by
illness to cancel his lecture engagements.
The fact that Cetywayo exhibits no reuc
lance To fighting leads us to believe that ht
must have signed the Berlin peace treaty.
Joseph A. Engelhard, Secretary Of State o
North Carolina, died on Saturday, aged forty
seven.
Ben Buffers annual income from money In
vested In stocks and bonds at Lowell, Mass.
is rated In the tax list at $4,000
Mr. Bret Harte has had such poor success
iecturing at London that this government
must appoint another representative at Gre
field.
Cameron-"I own Pennsylvania"
Chandler-"I own Michigan"
Grant, own Cameron and Chandler
JCourer-Journal.
The Philadelphia Press has private informa-
ton that the German mission has been Of
fered to the Rev Joseph +. Thompson, and
that the President is awaiting his reply.
It is the solemn opinion Of the Chicago
Times that the man who sets out to tame his
mother-in-law has bigger job than grub
bling the stumps from section OF pine land
Bishop Simpson confesses that he used to
be 80 timid that he would walk around the
square to avoid meeting young lady. just
like Henry w. Beecher, for all the world.
A Connecticut man has refused for fourteen
long years TO let his wife speak to q neighbor,
for fear some of them would become friendly
enough to want to borrow drawing OF tea.
Bret Harte is progressing. Six of his tales
have been translate into the Servian tongue,
and published under the title Of "Shest Kohl
forntiBkikh Pricha Breta Kharta."
On new years day 7,459OOO cards were
mailed at Paris MS compared with 5,68O.000
In 1877 The card Is inclosed In an envelope
to which Is affixed a five centime stamp.
Tennyson is the father Of a little new boy.
and the hand which inscribed the, glowing
lines Of 1.-THE Princess" and "Locksley Hall"
will soon be used in the well-directed spank.
The first husband of Mrs. Hugo Hartman,
of Bridgeport, Conn, hanged himself from
jealousy, and a second has just shot himself,
Yet physicians say that married men live the
longest.
The Potter committee having found out
who did not steal the Presidency, the Wash
ington Post suggests that 1t should now bend
its energies to the work of discovering who
did
The latest newspaper to try It's hand at
''first ballot" in the next Democratic National
Convention ID the st. Louis Globe Democrat
It giv,s Mr. Tiden 40 votes, MIR. Bayard
222, and Mr.. Thurman 96.
Thirty-tive hundred dollars Is the amount
Of the bill sent in by Lord Beaconsfield to
England for medical attendance at Berlin.
whittier his London doctor went to attend
him.
A ship lately took to Africa eight hundred
gallons of rum and one missionary. The
proportion Of rum to missionary seems rather
large, but the Hottentots probably know what
they are about.
The proposition to have worlds fair In
New York In 1889 is being extensively dis
cussed. With ten years for preparation 1t
ought to be possible to get up respectable
show.
The Governor OF Texas, In his last mes
sage, recommended as one means OF reducing
the public expenditure, that "thosa In charge
Of the State insane asylums should support
themselve-, as do other State officers"
An American bishop has been creating a
sensation in Edinhurg, Scotland. through his
exposures of Spiritualism. He produces
young lady who has been dead one hundred
years, but who is still looking for her affinity.
New York State has its Abby Smith in
Sarah d. Wheeler. of Greenfield. She is
wealthy maiden, and has been sentenced to
the county Jail until she pays fine and costs
of $50, because she would not pay her taxes
OF S65 unless she could vote.
Mr.. Alexander Henderson, late husband of
Lydia Thompson, has retired from the man.
agement OF the Folly, Globe and Criterion
Theatres, In London, with bank account OF
half million dollars, and will spend the
remainder OF his days in paying off his debts.
The late Pope Plus TX, it Is said, never al
lowed lady to kiss his foot at his audiences,
always giving her his hand. Pope Leo XIII,
on the contrary, sees lhsitpS go through lie
ceremony with calm indifference.
Princess Louise, at the drawing room"
last Friday, was prettily attired In aprincesse
gown of black satin, with which she wore
many diamonds. Many of the ladies wore
full dress, and many others wore gowns high
about the throat.
The Alabama Legislature has adjourned.
IL authorized the substitution OF six per cent
Inr the falling due eight per cent State bonds.
ms Will reduce the interest fund very con-
slueraDly, as It is believed the skies can be
readily sold at par.
Inc democrats and Nationals OF Portland,
Me- Viii run . fusion ticket at the approach
LIZ electlon. These municipal elections will
~ y Wy nfSL Importance. as showing how
many OF the Republicans who deserted Co the
Greenoack banner last year have elected To
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xa Sapt, Bogardus Indignantly denies the ale
CATIONS charging him with crookedness ra
Gently made In Wilkes SPIRIT. The Cantain's
protestations of iunocence ara CO nornnot
a NJ 1t Would seem his aim in life ia plass
is anu honesty at twenty-one wards rico
o ohen II there was any fraud at ajI ~
Vas most likely his nephew who did If "i' IL
Inc great objection to the Tennessee l..
competing insurance companies to nav tha
luii amount OF the policies when the i9Os si i
TOTAL, IS that 1t offers premium for incana II
arism; but thu companits have hrought !,
upon themselves by their attempts to taka
advantage OF every legal bubble to avoid the
payment OF claims that are just.
A representative OF the Atlanta (Ga,) ON
4StitEt&oa has been talking with leading citi-