The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-26
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

EEhSVNAL AMI VlnEh w ME-
Mr.. Vest pockets the Missouri senatorshIp.
I-lChicago Times.
.Reno's character is undergoing Renovation
at Chicago.
James Gordon Bennett has paid to Earl
Rosebery 10000 for three horses.
Gen. Mcclellan Is expected In Bangor. Me,
at the coming Grand Army campfire.
Col. Fitzhugh,,t "bigger man than old
Grant," has been elected doorkeeper Of the
Texas Senate.
The chapter notices in George Eliot's later
works are understood to Mr. Lewis running
commentary on her work.
Caleb Gushing hated busters He never
would allow servant to dust his room. II
any attempted 1t, Caleb would himself get up
| and dust.
Capt. French, Of the Seventh Cavalry. as
| serts that during the heat of the Custer mas
| sacre fight Gen. Reno was hidden away some
where.
Ten armed men overpowered the guard at
| the Mexican fortress Of Colima the other day
| and rescued ex-Gov. Filomeno Bravo from O
dungeon.
Congressman S. s. Cox sometimes carries
his humor too far. In his address on Prof
Henry the other night he alluded to "the
skeleton hand OF God"
DIR. Chas. J. Overholt, of indianapolis, was
convicted of bigamy at Muncie, Ind, on Fri
serve two years in the penitentiary.
There's b in every ones bonnet.-IN. Y.
World. And flea In the mans ear who fails
| to provide new one when his bonnet lassie
| asks him for 1t.
The Delaware Legislature has not a lawyer
among Its members, so that the little State
can count, at least, upon having laws that It's
people may understand.
The Free Press says Detroit woman OBJ
serves that II she was Bob Ingeroll's wife
| she'd make him believe there was @ hell, or
snatch him ball-headed.
The watch worn by Major Andre when he was
| arrested as spy 70 said to be In possession
shaped watch inscribed inside, "John Andre,
| 1774"
Ex-Gov. Mccormick, who recently returned
| from his work ia Paris, Is quoted as saying
that he came home because he was hungry.
| and the one place to satisfy the inner man Is
America.
For the first nine months of last year, OF
land. about two-thirds came from the United
States. Heretofore Russia almost monopo-
liked England's wheat trade.
In 1869 the United States imported paper to
the amount Of 1927 465, and exported none
worth mentioning. The last yearly statistics
give only S135, 4S7 worth of imports, against
81, 103,318 of exported paper.
The proposed reapportonment Of Indiana
will give the Democrats nine Congressional
districts, six secure and the others having
Democratic majorties OF A5,871 and $685. and
the Republicans four, with majorities ranging
In closing up the estate OF the late Capt.
Il. II. Ward the Desroit millionaire, who was
supposed to be worth S100OOOO0, the execu-
tors find that the debts amount to q much
larger sum than was expected. The heirs
will get about S2,0OO,OOO.
According to vice-regal order ut Is the
pleasure OF her royal highness and his ex-
cellency that the Ottawa troop of cavalry
shall In future be honored by being desig-
nate mated d. The Princess Louise Dragon
The late Dean Richmond once asked a
would-be deadhead the grounds of his ap-
plication for a free pass. ''Simpiy because
don't want to pay The testy old railroad
k King ct once handed him a pass; and said
head that ever told the truth"
The Darwinian maxim that the heaviest and
finest seeds tend to produce the finest plants
has found support In the observations and
tests made by Mr. A. s. Wilson on turnip
seeds. Large seeds gave product of pounds
ounces per seed, against pounds IL ounces
In the case OF small seeds.
Calvin 7. Fillmore, brother Of the late Pres
ident Fillmore, has just died at the age OF
sixty nine. Mr.. Fillmore was plain, we'll
to-do farmer, who lived for many years near
AnH ATDOr, michigan, Wnere his death OC-
Cured. He bore striking likeness to his
more distinguished kinsman. by whom he
was regularly visited several times year
before the ex-President's death.
The Springfield Republican lind. Rep
thinks 1t ''rather joke" after all the talk
about Southern claims, that the william and
Mary College bill, "a measure which was
fathered by so stout Republican as George
+. Hoar. should fall In a body controlled by
the party which was going to assume the
rebel debt, pay for the slaves and do sundry
other little things OF that Sort
OF the result of the Connecticut senatorial
contest the Springfield Republican says :
The nomination OF Mr.. Platt Is simply |
running through the woods and taking up |
with the poorest timber. Mr.. Platt Is O |
shrewd country lawyer and smart manag-
ing politician. Compared with Hawley Har-
rison or Jewell, he will carry into the Senate |
very meagre political accomplishments and |
no personal influence"
Senator Blaine's popularity is attributed. |
by correspondent Of the Inter Ocean, to the |
senator's keeping himself informed on every |
thing that Is going on In the four quarters of |
the world, and having a memory that can |
retain all that information. 1t is, In short, "a |
digniiied familiarity with the interests Of all |
men,.
No finer relish ever was Observation-Disclosures