The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-14
GENERAL NOTES.

The oldest inhabitant OF Watertown, N. Y.
is surprieed at the late snowfall, and pro
nounces 1t the heaviest ever known.
Apples from Massachusetts sell at from 8,
to IS a barrel In st. Petersburg. The Czar
probably. has set the fashion Of dumplings.
The present low price Of cotton has induced
Russian firm To order at Charleston, y. q.
3940 bales for direct shipment to Sebastopol.
The Governor OF Michigan receives salary
Of $1,000 year and no perquisites, except the
privilege Of having his Office In 81 COX, ,0Od
capitol.
Gen. Robt. Patterson, OF Philadelphia, ID
said TO have entertained at his table every
President OF the United States since Madf.
sons time.
Nurse, please give me penny to give tt
the organ grinder; he's coming round beg.
cling with dish."
Charles M. Stagg, q court stenographer at
Indianapolis, has gone mad through "exces-
sive and constant mental labor" In reporting
some recent murder trials.
Omaha has such beautiful wide streets
can't stand 1t, and are considering propo-
sition TO make them narrower.
Since the Illinois Board OF Health has been
at work, period OF eighteen months, It has
reduced the number Of doctors" In the State
by 20 per cent-from 1000 to 5000.
When Mccullough presented "The Glad
iator In Philadelphia, few nights ago, a
march OF amazons In BLACK Crook" style
and q wrestling match were introduced In the
arena scene.
1t will probably be found that the principal
stockholders In the companies for introducing
the electric light are also heavily Interested
In gas stocks, SO that 1t Ia not likely that any
change which may be made will be OF ruin
ously revolutionary character.
There are different avenues to fame. The
Maine newspapers announce that "the lady
who made the first pair Of trowsers for the
lamented William Pitt Fessenden died recent
ly at New Gloucester, at the age Of ninety
six years. Her name was Judith Rowe"
The Order OF st. George is the most i'm
portant In Russia, the Grand Gordon being
given to those only who have commanded
peror Of Germany is the senior knight now
living OF the wearers Of this honor.
The debts OF the nineteen cities OF Nassa-
chu5ettS are shown by the messages OF the
new mayors to reach total OF S51, ,913, 1876.
! hat OF Boston is $26 184, Ill, showing a re-
dnction OF $671 ,293 within year. Only three
cities have failed to reduce their debts more
or less.
Judge johnson, OF Cincinnati, In granting a
divorce to man of seventy-two, who had q
few years before married woman Of fifty,
told him that he ought not to have married
at MS age, and that he showed very poor
Judgment in marrying against the advice of
his children. "If had the power" the judge
added, II would enjoin you from marrying
again."
According to German paper, Luther's
house at Mansfield, which remained In the
possession Of the Reformer's descendantS TILL
the middle OF the last century. has Just Deen
bought by a person who wishes to turn 1t |
into public house. To prevent its falling
INTO irreverent hands a committee mas been
'ormed with a view to raising funds Tor 1ts |
purchase and preservation.
The son Of King Theodore OF Abyssinia,
Who was taken to England after the fall OF |
MagdaIa, is being educated for the British |
lrmy, He is slender and dusky youth, and |
naughty and shrewd as becomes q descend
mt OF the Queen Of sheba. He likes his |
ress and an ulster in London are preferable
o mat and bare legs and blanket In |
kbyssinia,