The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

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Randall is almost fifty-one.
A local option bill has been defeated in TIN
, Ohio House Of Representatives by vote o
80 to A..
Az a charter election In st. Louis lately th'
vote on an amendment licensing the socla
, evil was: yeas, 47l6, nays, 705S.
The Oneida Community since the late cru
, SADIE has been receiving three applicants
day from persons who wish to become mem
bers. The applicants are not received.
Il. A. Sothern Ia acting again. He playet
Hugh de Brass in "A Regular Fix" in Lon
don the other day for the benefit Of Manager
Chatterton Of the Drury Lane Theatre.
Marshall MaeMahon wouldn't hear Of q
pension, and refused to use the money voted
TO defray Inequalities mt the Elyseo during
tho Exhibition. II was distributed by his
wife among the charities Of Paris.
A Virginia paper gives the following advice
to the bnnptious Californians who want tq
secede: Don't go. Be warned by several
who have been there, and don't. for there s
nothing secedes like secession"
Mr.. Justice Hunt, Of the United States S,l-
preme Court, who was stricken with paralysis
early In january, Is improving. although
there is no hope OF bis entire restoration to
health. Within n few days he has been able
to sit up, and can stticulate u few words, but
not connect sentences.
Kate Cobb, the Norwich, Conn, poisoner.
was taken tothe State Prison on Saturday,
but Ia confident that she will be liberated.
She still maintains her innocence OF the crime
of numbering her husband and denounces her
alleged paramour, Bishop, rs the greatest
scoundrel Of the age.
| Mr.. J. w. Stayton. who Is now prominent
candidate for Congress In the Texas district
OF tho late Mr.. Schlecher, made his first APP
pearanee us n lawyer at San Antonio He
was blacksmith, and whom admitted to the
bar he still continued shooting horses or Mt
tending suits In court as his patrons needed
| him.
What Is said to be the largest bill ever in
PRODUCED into d Legislative assembly was the
new code admitted to the Ohio Senate. 1t
contained 5000 pages, and, rs II was insisted
that II should be read In full, the Senate sat
up till midnight TO hear 1t through oven at
/ that hundreds Of pages, 1t Is reported, were
slyly skipped.
young Hungarian noble has been ar
rested ut San Reno. Italy, for house and
| highway robbery. He offered u large sum Of
| money to his captorS for HE freedom, but
without success. His arrest was on the requl-
| sition of the Austrian government and bis
time since his incarceration has been largely
occupied in corresponding with ladies whose
| regard he had won withoutv suspicion on
their part Of his true character.
Now that the President Of the French re-
public Is a civilian The black dress coat relgns
supreme. The height OF courtesy and dellcaGy
consists in avoiding uniform. There is. too,
O great and grave question rs TO whether the
white cravat ought not to give way to the
black cravat The old men prefer the latter
and the young men the former. There are,
therefore, two camps. In many of the crack
clubs, however the black cravat has been
adopted exclusively for dinners.
Mr.. Hamlln, Mr. Chandler and Mr.. il. 81
Anthony are the only members Of the present
Congress who were also members Of that In
81, the yea Of the war. OF the other mem
bers Of that famous Congress, Yulee Is presi-
dent OF a Florida railroad, Lyman Trumbull
- practclng law In Illinois, Harlan has re-
tired with II comfortable fortune, Clingman Is
living quietly In North Carolina. Judah T.
Benjamin is u lawyer in London, and Jefer-
son Davis Is living In Mississippi.
Judge Tilghman, of Eastern Maryland,
who died last week, aged II, was % graduate
Of West Point being in the same class with
Gen. Joe Johnston and Jefferson Davis, both
OF whom have visited him since the war
lie acted rs groomsman Mt the marriage of
Gen. Il. E. Lee. He served In the army for
seven or eight years, and Mt the death of
his father, Col; Richard G. Tilghman, took
possession OF the "Hermitage," one Of the
finest estates In Maryland, and has since fol- |
lowed the pursuit Of agriculture.
The revision of the English Bible now going |
on Is conducted by committees In Britain and |
America, who exchange their results. In one |
case both the New Testament companies were |
at the same time on the same book. When |
notes were compared 1t was found that OF 93 |
changes made by one party 176 had been |
made by the other, acting Independently. A |
similar coincidence was observed In the case |
of the Old Testament companies when they |
were at work independently.
Ncapova Rodriguez belonged to an nflr' en-
tlal family In Chill but many years ago went |
to California for the purpose OF becoming
Claude Duval. His first exploit, In 1856 was |
to lead party of highwaymen that robbed a
wagon train OF bullion worth $4,000. He has
since performed feats Of the same sort that
would charm the readers OF dime novels, but |
he has had the unpleasant experience of ff-
teen years In prison, and must go there again
for recent stage robbery in Arizona.
Pietro Fanfani of Florence has Just died of
disease OF the heart He was a great phIolo-
gtst, and the chief photographer of Italy. In
love OF paradox and In conversational dex-
terity he was the equal of DR.. johnson. and
Waged for years war II poutrance with the
Academia della Crusca, OF which he always
declined to become a member An ardent
patriot, he was confined in the Austrian
prison of the Resienstadt, and was for time
Minister OF Public instruction under Giobertl |
at Turin.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of a
derman paper affirms that the Gar and his
son had squabble over the question of the
Grand Duke Nicholas being asked to ball
by the Czarovitch. The latter did not wish
70 ask his uncle, inasmuch as he believed
MN mn ;. TO have been implicated in army frauds,
out the Car said, If he is not asked l will
IL.
Jar s predecessors would have knouted such
!, son, or at least put him into dungeon, so
Russia does advance.
Cashier Clark of the National Bank of
Lowell, Michigan, was another rogue who
lid his wickedness under religious activity
Ills word was regarded by the directors as
sacred, and once, when an examination of his
DOCKS was suggested, tears welled up in his
yes, and he seemed SO hurt that the idea was
lever preached again. In the same meeting
II the directors he inveigled them into
counting three notes twice as assets, thus
hiding theft of 5000. He was exposed
liter he had used up about all of the banks
surplus OF $4,000.
Miss Blaisdell found that the biggest boy In
Ter North Adams school was unruly, and
made up her mind to settle the question OF
supremacy definitely. She led him into an
inte-room, closed the door, and undertook to
whip him. There was a rough-and-tumble
ight, In which the combatants pounded each
)ther, rolled over and over on the floor, and
thas. 1l,4