The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-10
NEWS OF TIE CITY.
What the Democrat Reporters Saw
and Heard Yesterday.
THE WRATHFUL PIC.
She Bristles Up and Goes Back on
Her Own Tsachinps

Il tJllB w hili AfOGS J3MGH Oh
Her Own Teachings.
/ There whs once in this city u faeefious gentle
man who Was 80 well known by everybody TO
| his real good nature aud his practical joeulartt
/ that no one was ever offended by the lthsrtie
no WAS wont to take. especially with citizens o
| large pomp Jsity and assum ption, of grand air
| and extra dignity. One of The contemporaries
| Of the fncetlous gentleman referred to was n re
| narkable example Of this sort Of personal hau
| tour and portly self Importance. 1t was re
garded % Incumbent on all citizens to approach
him with manifestations of the most profound
| reverence and awe. Any attempt at Familiarity
| o. sven intimacy with this old gentleman in
public was looked upon as m act Of perilous
audacity and presumption Seated on the stoo1
Of the bank Of which he was president. he was
wont. OF afternoons arraysd in a e,paciouc
| pea or monkey jacket. To mir his dignity aud
pnrtlY person to tho awe. rieken passers Nv
who we're content with furtys glahcts Mt this
ereht magnate OF SO much capital and ayofrdu-
uois.
One day. while engaged In this postpraudial
exhibition OF his IMPRESSIVE holiness Of man
nor md rotunuity of person TO the vulgar herd
.hs lace ioHs Gtti2sn first rsferref to happen
Ing to pass with u crowd of ethsr eiti2 ms, could
not restrain his nvariable sportive tendencies
and ohltyiou+ Ut all the propttsties of high So
eiety and established usage was senpted 10 be-
stow go Gre but friendly slap upon he large-
tG.I
report 81 which could be- distinctly heard q
square off. Aroused by this most astouud ng
invasion vt his sacred person. the mighty bank
president arose TO his feet. with eyes finishing
with Indignation, aud lips pouting with indie
sserihable scorn and horror; and Rlnring savage
ly mt his Asaailant. he demanded what ne
meant by such liberty and familiarity
Oh, Old Bsn, promptly replied the faeetiOus
intruder. 'if you get mad Ia that way / won't
play with Won any more
And so the andaeious and sportiVs vandal
pa sed on, amid the chuekling Of his compan.
Ions and the iierce denuneiatIous OF the digni-
tarv whose uortIinaas he had deseerated.
1t would appear from the Iff1HuHe of yester-
day that the DEMOCRAT had been guilty Of q like
departure from social and Journalistic prop is-
ties By the liberty taken 10y tuls too sporttve and
trreverent paper III i's comm ents on tho Pies
interview with jeff rson Davis Its explos ron
OF wrath for tn s. slight abef ration from Jour-
nalistfc morality Is 50 violnt lis to lead it long
way off from the path of journalistic reetitude,
morality and court sy which 1t marked out for
H. eon' emporaries few days ago Itl-natured
e iticism, vulgar diatribss and a the other sx-
cess8s of immoral Journalism. were so vigor-
onsly portrayed by our neighbor Ms to strike
with awe and win q resolution of reform all
lpl our own teacher and exhottttr Il few days
stter his impressive exbortati H. is caught like
Joseph Surface. after the delivery 81 his baat1-
,iul sentiment tp Sir Peter, In faarante delieto
Its edition Of yesterday knocked d wn the
screen. aud exnnsRd our purisfi5 tutor as the
free utterer Of such gross immortality vulgar-
lily aud uuehrisfian fll-nature as Il conveyed In
fts application ot the Ntfsnsivs epithet oil fox"
to tbs DEMOCRAT. and Il brutal reminder Of our
lack Of the Ghief essential TO discharge our du-
ties to wit-bfain-and q cruel md misarly re-
fusal I'd contribute from its overlooking surplus
Of this commodity to supply our unIoItunats
iatCIsacy.
This. too from the champion of the law
IL inst cruelty to animals "a If there we're not
9rusties to human bsings which demand nro-
settOn from the law mueb as those to which
poodle dogs and moving cats are exposed.