The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-17
CURRENT MENTION.

Ex-senator Simon Cameron and Senator
| Don Cameron were among tho pail bearers at
this funeral of Mrs. Eaton in Washington.
| Dwight Whiting, OF Boston, Ia en- route for
GrallsInstown, South Africa. to buy 100 On
trIches to stock u farm In San Joaquin val
10y. California.
A now kind Of sweet potato Is cultivated In
Kern county, California, picked specimens Of
which weigh from fifteen to eighteen and
twenty-five pounds. -
During the late canvass In Virginia Major
James T. Mulligan, speaking on the question
Of paying tho State debt, said: 81 would
rather owe man all my life than cheat him
| out Of q cent
Lord Chief Justice Coctburn has another
| of his many attncka uf liberated sore throat,
md his physician hhs advised him strongly
| IN retire from tho bench, but he said no was
determined TO die In tho harness. To Is now
seventy -sevon years old.
| Stilson Hntchins. the snccessful editor of
| the Washington lost. on Monday bought the
/ Manchester. N. H.. DtItu and iFfekty Union.
with tbs object Of giving the Granite Stato u
straixhtout. hit-from -thc-shouldcr Demo-
cratic journal. ..z=.-@
Misfortune seems to have tempered ex-
Doorkeeper titzhugh, tho bigger man than
old Grant," into a Republican. He writes
from Texas, where ha lives, that tho people
Of the South would be really gind to 500 Grant
| In tho presidential chair again.
4 IanE. EiRAlJ, OF bHb SeNfIlLbHilbn LHUGNIH,
when shot at Ulundi foil back into the arms
of d omrade a Dublin man. exclaiming ~
his last words .See that the men spare the
wounded Spare the wounded One Of HE
soldiers rode III tho charge with o wooden
pipe In his mouth. and when shot down
asked with his latest breath, give tho pipe
| to brother"
1 Testimony ns to the angelic disposition 81
| the New York policemen is accommodating
Detective Wilson was arrested recently for
abandoning his family, and when Informed by
tho Judge that they were starving. he re-
would support them. One mouth In prison
softsned the gentle officers fury, and he now
| promises to take proper care OF his own flesh
and blood.
DIR. Crilus was sixty years old, and had
white hair. q long white beard. and m excel
lent reputation Ho was regarded as the
most exemplary man In Muncie, Ind. A Sc
rles Of burRlares were committed, and he was
| chosen chairman OF committee OF detection.
| Then tho plumber WAS accidentally discovered
| In his own house, and he confessed that no
was the thief. He Ind used the knowledge
gained In his medical practical as to where and
how to get ut hisipatients' yaluables.
NJ Andrieux, tho project of police at Paris,
is most sarcastic man. When, the MarseH-
iuisc being suspended. 1t was proposed In the
interim TO publish the Not u Ordre. M. An.
drie,x refused to allow this to be DONE and
when pressed for an explanation BY u wild
Radical said gently: The title Le MOT u Or
d,e belongs exclusively to Nj. Henri Roche
FORT he may want to use II some time or
other: meanwhile cannot allow the folks OF
the Marscitniac to infringe on the copyright
Of q poor exile"
EiA rich and chIldless merchant of Tamboy,
| karpor by name has left O fortune VI 600, 900
roubles nearly si5o,O0O to the Nthlllst hero
inc, Vera Sassulitch. The local court has
admitted tho will to probate There IL, how
ever, one little formality to be gone through
with before the young lady who shot Gen
TrepoT can get the money -she must appear
In the Russian court and prove her identity
A play called Vera Sassuitch" has, by the
way. been performed recently Ia Switzerland
In which the actress taking the title-role was
frnnticaly applauded, especially 10 the shoot
ing scene,