The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-17
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.


The Duke. Of Argyll will shortly reach this
country on his way to Canada to visit his son,
the Marquis OF Lorne.
In twenty years the United States has In
creased 13S,000,0 900 bushels in it's production OF
wheat; while the value Of its agricultural Inn
plements In use upon farms has increased
S185, 900, 000 and its live stock 81 08l, ,000, ,0O0
There Is an artesian well in Paris which is
nearly 1000 feet deep, feet In diameter at
the top, and 2 feet at the bottom, and which
discharges upward OF 100000 cubic feet Of
water every "a hours.
plans for the prevention of epidemics, have
adopted most stringent DILL which gives the
National Board Of Health almost unlimited
power, and gives $650,0O0 to put it's powers
into effect.
Aman has been exhibiting himself in Chi
cago who can absolutely disjoint any portion
of his body by a simple contraction OF the
muscles. He turns the bottoms of his feet
on an even level, and does other queer things
Of that sort.
the Maryland Legislature .endeayored to get
Mr.. jefferson to stand for third term In
| 1907 though the honorable example of the
| first President was then SO recent. This, it
seems to think, juStifieS the Grant movement
| to some extent.
| The services of the late Mr.. j. A. Mac
Gahan, the American newspaper correspon-
| dent, are to be gratefully cOmmemOrated by
the Bulgarian authorities on June 8, the ami
versary OF his death. They will hold formal
public ceremonies.
"The Bankers Daughter" will be Withdrawn
from the stage of the Union Square Theatre,
on Wednesday night, after run Of one hum
dred and thirty-eight nights. The manager,
Mr. Palmer, has cleared $4,000 from the
5000. -
| Mr.. Darwin has been gratified to learn that
the examining surgeon at Agram, Austria.
has found In batch OF recruits young man
with 'ssix-inch.long prolongation OF the
| vertebrg spinalis, In shape somewhat analO-
gous to a two-year-old pigs tail with a
twist"
| Prince Gortschakoff's g tides achates is Baron
Hamburger, Pole, OF Tcherniyoff. The
Western powers to interfere on behalf OF the
Polish rebels is one Of his best known achieve
ments No man ever excelled him In vindi-
eating the actions OF Russia. Baron Ham
| burger is small in stature and humpbacked.
| Garfield and Hayes, in 1867, both declared
that they would not vote dollar to carry on
the government unless President johnson
signed the army appropriation bill with the
bayonet law tackled on it. The Republicans
announced at that time that a President who
would veto the legislation OF the majority in
Congress, in whatever shape 1t might come to
him, should be impeached for treason.
i One day last week a man named Sigler was
cowhided hy his wife on one OF the principal
streets of Verona NJ On Leaving i5h MS nome hie
wife, and she told him when he returned sne
would thrash him. He didn't return, so Mrs.
4 s. went after him. She held him by the nape
Of the neck while she applied the lash. Sig
Ter has returned.
Consul Mosby attended state dinner TO Oh
the British Governor General the other DAY,
| clad in his usual everyday garments. In
response to loud hints that his conduct was
considered extraordinary and an apology was
expected he M re wl1e eood enoueh
for him In his capacity as an american m cls,-
zen and therefore, must do for the company
The American residents are padly torn up LII
their minds in consequence
The astounding cruelty 81 Mary D. Morris
ennears ~ ear to have been the result OF mania.
Thpo uir1 ia IA wears old, and until few days
nn amo s1uhen there was an official interference
LIN her behalf, she had never been OIL the family
nranises and seldom out OF the house. She
was compelled to do all the drudgery OF the
honsehold. was deprived OF education, and
nI1trageously whipped on slight provocation,
even for going to window to look out.
Mahomet Tewfik Pasha, the eldest son Of
the Khedive, and the future ruler OF Egypt, fs
stoa1t man of pleasant face, and courteous,
unaffected manner. He has originated and
mainly supports many schools and he takes
a real interest in the progress OF education.
His eldest son. now years old, is being
brought up accordlb9 10 EngilSn nOIlOnS. anu
under the care of an English nurse. OF the
brothers of Tewtik Pasha one was educated
in France and one In England. and one Is now
in the Military Academy at Woolwich, while
a fourth is at school in Switzerland.
Miss Julia Evelina Smith, OF Glastonbury,
Conn, the only survivor Of the Smith sisters,
celebrated for their resistance to taxation
without representation. and their translation
of the Bible was married on the ninth to
Amos G. Parker, OF New Hampshire Both
bride and groom are In their eighty seventh
, year. Miss Parker is the only one OF the five
sisters who married. They were daughters
: of an eccentric clergyman OF Glastonbury.
. the Rev. Zephaniah I'll. Smith, who named
them respectively, Hancy Zephna: Cyrinthta
9 Sacretia, Laurilla Aleroyla, Julia Evelna an, ana
/. Abby Hadassah Hancy Zephina died IA 1otla
8 at the age Of "a, OF Whooping- cough.