The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-22
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

In England and Wales there are 6,75OOOO
sittings i'll all the churches.
sutler who was wounded In the eye with
n upp-hOttle cork Is entitled 70 only Nfuu uuueE
the new pension act.
The Potter Committee have before them
1000 pages of printed matter and the evidence
la not all in yet.
Senator McCreary, Of Kentucky, is said to
have saved over $4,000 Of his salary received
during his six years of senatorial life.
Mr. Henry Chaplin, who set himself to ruin
the late Marquis Of Hastings, and thoroughly
succeeded, Ii To be raised to the peerage
It is somewhat singular that Robert Macy
Valentine an old aud wealthy merchant of
New York, should die on st. Valentines day,
but he did.
Mr. Kparney has begun the publication Of q
paper called the Daily Sand Lot AS might
be expected from its editor and its name. 1t Is
dirty sheet
The new salary law Of Maine gives the
Governor St5OO year. The highest salaries
paid are to the Supreme Court judges. but
the sum is only $4,000 apiece.
Wade Hampton, II is said, will soon marry
Mrs pickpps the widow of Gov Pickens, of
South Carolina. The wife of Senator Butler
Is stepdaughter o Mrs. Pickens.
Rev. DR. Wilson OF the English missionary
conference says that only one OF every three
persons on earth has ever heard the name of
Jesus.
The Church Of Jesus, in Mexico, Epsco-
nal reports 1000 adherants, and $500 oommu-
nicants, with 500 children in schools. and II
theological students.
A Turkish steameris loading at New Haven
with cargo Of rifles, kerosene oil, pressed
brick and COWS. The pressed brick are in
tended for rations for the Turkish troops.
w. b. Fleming has been elected without OPP
position to Congress from the Savannah (1a.)
dintt.i m j
Hartridge.
MI. E. w. M. Mackey has been indicted for
libel by the Grand Jury at Charleston >. O.,
for charging one of the fOremen OF the Char
lesion Mems with ba1lot-box stufiing.
Gen, Rosser, Chief Engineer of the Northern
Pacific Railway, says that II Senator Window
will send on 1000 negroes he will put them at
work during the summer, and thus help TO
carry out the Senator's colonization sham.
The clergymen of the State of New York
receive SIS. 10000 for salary yearly. or this
amount the Methodists pay 81 100000 the
Presbyterians S952000, the Episcopaians
Ss11 900 The average clerical salary Is $40
MIR. j. A. Rose, of Highland Prairie, Wis,
weighs 242 pounds; 50 does his wife; their
twenty year-old son weighs I'll, and daugh-
ter, three years younger, requires a support
ing knee of the capacity OF 18l pounds.
The Massachusetts House of Representa-
tiyes has thought better Of itself and has de-
feated the bill requiring the railroads to give
free masses to the members of the Legisla-
ture, by a vote Of 81 to ~.
Although the French cooks Of New York
paid $1,000 for the use OF the Academy OF
Music on the occasion of their annual ball
and supper, they made profit OF over $1,000,
which goes to the widows and orphans fund.
The venerable ex- United States Senator
Truman Smith, of Stamford, Conn, now ~
years old argued for two hours law case at
Woodbury. Conn, last tuesday, with all his
ancient fire, and decidedly WorSted MS cppO-
nent.
Gen Jubal Early tells the Richmond papers
that he has no idea Of going into the Compo-
sition OF school histories a the war. IL was
reported that nc IHteudtt 10 supplement f
school history OF Virginia with an account Of
the war
There ia n bar-room in Blue Ridge, N. g.,
that has posted up notices that children un-
der 10 years Of age will not be allowed to get
drunk on these premises, unless accompanied
by their pai en- s.
Farming on a grand scale, even with the
assistance OF improved machinery and nipple
ments. is a dangerous experiment., and In the
West has terminated disaStrously. 1t is estl-
mated that the money sunk during the past
fen wears In such undertakings amounts 70
over S100, 000,0O0
Saws the Breckenridge (ky( Means: Isaac
III Trabue vino has announced nlmSell as Cne
Greenhack candidate for Governor, Is about
the size Of a piece OF chalk, ugly as original
sin and only lacks intelligence to be lunattc.
He strongly resembles ali Egyptian mummy
struck by lightning.
Senator Conkling has great admiration
for Senator Eaton, the coppery o Democrat
of Conueci icut. The Washington correspond
ent of the New Haven Palladium writes: III
is well known that the two are almost tne
Damon and Pythas Of the Senate, and. as
constant attendant on the Senate5 sessions
told me, there is no Senator into whose ear
Senator Conkling whispers so much as into
Eaton's.'"
Says the Denver Tribune. "They tell me
Leadville Is pretty high up remarked Den
verite To q visitor from the carbonate field.
High upH calculated the other; "well, /
should say. he air Ii SO thin that you We
got TO fan 1t lnto a corner to get a square
breath. why, live sorter in a valley, but
many ume Wheh went home at night |
had to push q cloud from the front door ia
get in
Rev. Allen Curr, minister and lecturer who
located i'll Dubuque III 1875, has been on
PEELED from the Dubuque Baptist Church &c
fraud. II u said he has a wife in Scotl,nd
AMI debts enough in various cities az that
country and this In bankrupt q millionaire
ffn u all aCcs lit- a. was dead beat of Inc
ms W.4s"r htd iaW;t l. we'll rid of MIN h
7. SUPPOSED ~ w ia Australia at the presani
time. = eS'on
MI. Gyms w. Field, of New York, will q,
tir L. II - Mi.t'h t' *, give a q and dinnpl
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MISTY ut tnr i,,tn,dliun III the COMPANY. n
New York Hti tinuts, u stAbtsh taleprsnbi
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vltitti, us ior ulS utSt Interesting iubilet
hahtsutBely, engraved Oh BEAUTIFUL cards
have teen SILT u distinguished people i
al parts u the WILD The festival will tax