The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-07
CURRENT MENTION.

Inc OLD homestead OF Abraham Lincoln at
Sangamon, ILL.,. Is out OF repair and la used
as refuge by tramps.
II Justice Clifford, Of the United States Su-
preme Court, is now over seventy years Old.
and he is summering In New Hampshire.
i The British Lord Chamberlain has refused
to license a play which Durported to represent
the lives OF several noted London actresses.
A new ferryboat at San Francisco is 424 feet
| long ana 1l6 wide, has four rudders at each
end and eight boilers, and will carry twenty
four railroad cars at time.
The assessors report the valuation OF Fall
River, Mass, for 1879, at S36, 6,773,O32, against
$40 936, SIG last year. a decrease Of 81 163. .524.
The rate OF taxation Is to be raised from sew
enteen and half cents to eighteen cents on o.
hundred dollars.
1t is said that Chas. Reade, the novelist.
keeps two secretaries at work reading and
berries and other ''unco mournful tales
which furnish him with the hint or substance
OF Incidents for his stories and plays.
| London bridge is 80 narrow, and the traffic
on it so abundant, that $3.50 year Is needed
| for the pay of special policemen to keep
1 ing themselves upon one another. Hence
Parliament proposes to widen 1t.
An English army pensioner, who refrafned
from drawing his pension for nine months,
was was recently arrested and tried for desertion-
His explanation that he did not need the
money and thought he could let 1t lie, but had
no intention OF deserting, did not save him.
| A Philadelphian, dying, left $4,000 to his
widow provided she did not make "a nest to
hatch a brood of strangers in" by marrying a
second time; but she went off and did that
| very thing, and a court has just decided that
she cannot enjoy the $4,000.
The virtue OF patience is illustrated by the
fact that Costa Rica has recently paid to
Peru a loan OF $50 900 obtained during the
days Of Walker, the Nicarauguan filibuster-
| The incident recalls some Of the most stirring
events that antedate our own civil war.
| Joshua l.. Chamberlain, OF Maine has pos
sessed the following titles and fls is young
man yet: Reverend, professor, esquire, hon
orable Governor, major general, president.
In addition to this string OF titles ne has re-
ceived from the stalwart press Of Maine the
title Of ex-rebel sympathizer.
M. Yerschagin has painted picture OF
"The Prince Of Wales at Jeypore." which is
described as among the greatest Of modern
works That is to say, 1T is twenty-seven by
twenty feet, and the frame for. it weighs q
ton. Nevertheless, picture and frame were
taken to Windsor to be shown to the Queen.
Mr.. Chas. Foster, the Republican candidate
| for Governor OF Ohio, has accepted a chal-
lenge to discuss the Greenback question with
| Dom Piatt and VIM. CoIro This is a great
oversight on the part OF Foster. Hand-shak-
ing and thinking" constitute his strength
with the people
| .. o. Mills, president Of the Bank Of Cali
fornia, having made SO many money invest
| ments in the East, has decided to spend half
Of every year in New York. He will erect a
| handsome residence in the Eastern metropolis
and retain his beautiful villa at Milbrae, near
San Francisco.
| Gen Thomas EwiEg's home at Lancaster,
| o., is g. plain brick mansion, pleasantly sit
uated on high ground. The Generals eldest
son, William, who is twenty-three years old,
| is principal OF academy in an adjoining
| township. The General has four other chill
| dren, two boys and two girls.
| A carriage manufacturing firm of New
Haven, Conn, recently shipped an elega ant
coupe to San Francisco. 1t Was enclosed in a
| canvas covering to protect 1t from the weather.
Some impecunious chap managed to get into
1t, and, with a good supply Of edibles, made
the ten days trip comfortably. He escaped
observation. The coupe was not In frst-clasa
condition when it was uncovered.
The new clause In the Massachusetts, LIQUOR
law, requiring every liquor dealer to get the
written consent Of the owner Of the premises,
is a source OF great trouble In the trade, be-
cause many real estate owners, while willing
to take the money of such tenants, refuse to
commit themselves on paper. Some of the
most prosperous places in Boston are to be
closed.
with his usual frankness," says the Lon
don Saturday Reuieae, prince Bismarck de-
clares that he belongs to no party, and never
looked out for is not party to which to be-
long, but party which would belong to him.
His simple view is that he is the patentee OF
the German Empire, and tnat no one but him.
| self knows how TO work his patent.
There Is movement on foot In the Georgia
Legislature to procure the s. lection OF the
| late Dr. Crawford w Long, OF Athens. as one
Of the two prominent men Of the State Wnoee nee
statues are to be pa oed in the NaTionaM Mation
al Eclaetic Medical Association and Pr :, nan Ma1
DR.. Dr. Long as the discover Of anse.thesia oon
L kLeA turin
Dean Stanley rela.ss . tss iaa lafe Lora Lawrence
duos o1 fonng Taan the latter endsav
Rs ssss psee5 se the 'aos aoas
bag Oh 1, lup have offered to an EugIishman the
anaai araatest insult he could possibly receive.
This time In consideration Of your youth,
excuse it. Let me warn you, however, never
again to commit SO gross an ofense against
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