The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-10
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

| Representative from DeSoto Parish.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Train adjourned hi, peanut lunches in tbe
open air last week. He can stand a cold snack
aown 10 zero, but below that philosophy gets
nervous like. -
Mr.. W. 9. Plummer, Democrat will contest
the seat OF Mr. s. b. Dick, Republican, from
the Twenty-sixth Congressional District ~
Pennsy. .vania y.
A Texas Judge, In his Charge said: "Banjsh
whisky and the pistol from Texas. and crime
will cease in this State" But how are we to
banish the whisky?
The quarRelsome doctors OF Michigan have
made up and publicly shaken hands: so that
the necessary cadavers must corao from the
outside public as usual.
Miss Fanny Davenport, It Is reported, will
play IN London this year. Her Youngest sis-
ter, Florence Davenport, will make her
operatic debut In that city.
Cardinal Caverot, Archbishop Of Lyons,
has been dominated by the French Episcopate
as Mgr. Dupanloup's successor Ia the Su-
preme Educational Council.
Miss Kate Field announces In an English
paper the receipt Of e25 from our esteemed
iellow-citizen, Mr.. George w. Childs, for her
Shakespeare memorial fund.
monument to the memory OF Plus TX Ia
TO pc erected in the city Of Puebla, Mexico.
which will be one Of the most remarkable
works OF art in that country.
1t is stated on apparently good authority
that the forest acreage OF North America Is
decreasing at the annual rate Of 100000
acres, or 1000 square miles.
The condition OF Bishop Wbittjnpham. of
the Epspocal Church, is considered critical.
Prayers Tor his recovery were offered Sum
day In the churches OF Baltimore.
| The valuation OF property at Newport, r.
X Is about $25 25o, 900, and nearly one-half Of
vns. yhls Is owned by summer residents, New
Iorkers paying taxes on about $40, ,0O0,O 900.
Mrs. Herbert Fythian, in mems clothes. ia
making the round OF Texas towns, seeking
her husband, who eloped from Macon, Mo-.
with variety actress named Mabel Moore.
Tecumseh Sherman is to call the reunion OF
the Army OF the Tennessee at Chicago at the
time when Grant Is expected there on his tri-
umphal progress homeward for the Republi.
can nomination.
In court at Bennington, Vt, the defendant
asked the judge for leave to pray before be-
ginning is case, and the judge, though he de-
ciared tnat IL was somewhat singular re-
quest, granted 1t.
An Illinoisan has Invented "safety sand
valve" to be attached to the legs of one's pam
falcons IN Icy weather. BY touching sprin1
sand is scattered over the slippery places.
making locomation safe.-I exchange.
The largest amount of internal revenue re-
eeived from any district comes from the
Peoria district Of Illinois. 1t paid last year
$685., ,364. The largest distillery in the world
is at Terre Haute, Ind. That city is eailaliy
famous for the number OF Its statesmen.
Barbour county, Ala,. according to the
$293, 600 with accrued interest, amounting now
to $370,000, for bonds issued to the Vicksburg
and Brunswick Railroad; and the city 81
Eufaula owes $780, 900, principal and interest.
Tor her bonds to the Montgomery and Eufaula
Railroad.
Official rofurno yooda fo tho p,,.a.,. - ca
tiStics show that there arrived at the port Of
New York during the month ended Decam-
Der 81, 1873, 1881 passengers, OF whom 3317
were immigrants. During the corresponding
gers arrived at the port was 46A, Of whom
3O67 were immigrants.
The st. Louis Times Journal gives a newly
elected member OF the Missouri Legislature
the following advice In response toa question
as 70 what articles Of clothes, etc, he ought to
Will need Cushing's manual, free railroad
pass, box Of paper collars, copy Of Hoylo
and q set OF poker chips tbone will do)."
The author Of "My Grandfather's Clock" is
reported as saying: Il have written thou
them all has made me famous-ln small
way. Some OF the best things / have ever
written have had very limited sale, and .
Iew songs on which have spent the most
time have never sold at all" The author
should take into consideration the great pop
ularity Of tick.
"A warm personal friend of Gen. Grant,"
who is In constant communication with him,
says that the ex-President has, on several oc-
casiOns, expressed himself very strongly In
lavor OF Senator ConkliDg, and has also mem
Toned two or three others, after Conklfng, as
men whom he would be glad 20 see as the
next Republican candidate for President, MIR.
Edmunds being one of the number and Mr..
Blaine not.
Some OF the Nothern papers are grumbling
BECAUSE New Orleans proposes to celebrate
Mardi Gras. 1t seems very wicked to these
PRACTICAL matter-offact newspapers, for q
,eople who have recently been so terribly
ffiicted to spend money In festivities, This
eminds us OF the Rhode Island man who AZ
allied his neighbor with sharp reproof for
uying circus ticket, when he sought to
pnce." LIWashington Post.
The whole number of Indians In the limited
tates, not including those In Alaska Ia egti-
,ated at 276, 600. The whole number of schoOIa
mong them Is 230; scholars, 11,5l5. The
mouns 4oso spent IN 10 their education during the
{; is 5000; number OF acres OF land
y nlitlvated Is 292, 500; bushels OF wheat raised,
o,2.5; Of corn, 1855, ,951; OF oats and barley,
9,z47... In all these statistics Indicating
ID the last ten years. Which M Is vel very ~ erati-
ing exhibit. considering the number OF In
an outbreaks.
The total population Of the globe, accord
g. to Benin d Wagner's rBeroLseysmg der
|. rae, e. nth publication, just issued, is 1,439,-
visions: Europe. 312, ,39s, ,4So; Asia, S31. .OOO,-
o; Africa, 205, ,219, 500; Australia and Poly
sia, 4,411 800 and America, 86, co., Since
2 hrst publication Of Benin q Wagner's
nth shows Al increase Of Is, ,oOO. 900. and this
assigned - part 70 The moro exa1t cengueea
y obtalnqblA nd n part 70 notnrnk