The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-26
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The Glasgow Bank Relief Fund has reached
81, 900, sum unprecedented In charitable
annals. Lady Burdett Coutts gave $4,000.
Mrs. j. j. Astor, in ten years, has secured a
home and the means of a livelihood for about
A50 homeless children, at cost of about
$4,000.
In proportion to population San FraDciso
lis said to be pre-eminent in suicide, which is
due, no doubt, To it's being pre-eminent Ia
gambling.
One night recently at Andovcr, Mass, a
woman gave birth TO triplets, and one hour
after, in the same house, her married daugh-
ter followed with twins.
George Magrath, Of Brooklyn, when In
short clothes, won Barnum's prize 0f Sl0oO
for the handsomest child. Recently he won
applause in London as pianist
Miss May Marshall. the Chicago pedestrian,
has walked 27g6 quarter miles in 1916 quarter
hours, being ninety-slx quarters more IMAM
Mrs Anderson accomplished.
A Lynn man got divorce from his wife.
married again. hired the first wife as house
keeper and the two women live under the
same roof without lighting.
Boston cIergymen of various denominations
have united in asking for Legislation against
church lotteries. The plan of taxing the prop
erty of such churches as raise money by
schemes of chance meets with favor.
Theodore Tilton thinks the bank directors
who sat around table in Glasgow and plot
ted how to appropriate $25,000,000 Of other
peoples money, are greater criminals than
the rioters who burnt Pittsburg,'
Gen. Chester A. Arthur, recently depozcd rs
collector at New York, has been unanimously
elected chairman of the Republican Central
Committee OF that city. This action Is con-
strued as a rebuke of Mr.. Hayes.
Woman suffrage squeezed through the up
per branch of Dakotahs Territorial Leglsla-
q lad M
special order for April |, before which time
adjournment Is expected.
The wife of Captain-G General Martinez
Campos gave premature birth in Havana,
Monday, to a daughter, owing to a fall.
Mother and child, however, are doing well
General Campos is now on his way to Spain.
The Blodgett investigation, according to
the Cincinnati Gazette. has shown that the
Northern District OF Illinois has an ass for
United States attorney, a most awkward
stupid and an monumental ass"
Five years ago the Italian mercantile navy
was In high state of prosperity, but. owing
to bad management at home, and its consul
lar agents abroad, 1t is now on the verge Of
ruin, and many thousand sailors are idle on
account of the crushing taxes, which have
destroyed their business.
Canada has abandoned special efforts to in
duce immigration, and her agents abroad,
who have for years been holding out all sorts
of allurements, are to be recalled. The trouble
about the business has been that, while Can
ada paid the heavy expenses, the United
States received large share OF the benefit.
John T. Raymond lately essayed the serious
part In the play of My Son" at the Califor-
mia Theatre, and the audience, having pre-
viously seen him i'm Col. Sellers, thought that
everything he did was intended to be funny.
As a consequence, the most pathetic scenes
were received with uproarious laughter.
The Legislature of Arizona Is abusing its
power of granting divorces OF the marriage
tie by enactment, and thereis clamor on the
Pacific coast for congressional interference.
None of the State Legislatures have such a
power. The State constitutions all prohibit
divorces except through the courts, and 1t Is
thought that there is no reason why this
should not be the case in the Territories also.
A writer in the Woman's journal complains
of meeting in Boston young ladies reduced to
the appearance Of idiocy by peculiar method
of combing the hair down over the forehead.
familiarity known as banging" and asks
SIS 1t a protest against being considered
strong-minded that the, young. woman thus
assume what Is evidently copied from the
iunatic asylumsY'
BY a change in the board of directors of the
Cincinnati Times Company Mr.. Charles Z.
TAFT son of Ex-Attorney General Taft, be- |
comes president, and Henry r. Boyden, at
one time managing editor of the GdseHe, |
managing editor. The new management
posed to be a movement in the interest Of
Father Alfonso Taft for the Governorship, If
not something better.
The Scotch colony established at Wimble-
don have been enjoying their favorite game
OF curling during the recent frost. keen
curler and true son Of Scotia let off rather
good specimen of "wut" the other day on his |
losing the game, owing to the bad play Of his |
partner, who happened on this occasion to be
q Sassenach. Turning on him with sar
donic grin, the Scotchman remarked, 'Eh,
maun, you'll ne'er max a curler in this warld, |
and you'll neer see ice in the next"
The Washington correspondent OF the Utica
Herald intimates that Senator CoDkling's
sudden and strenuous support of his substi-
tute for the Chinese bill was due to pique at
the hit, In a presidential way. which Senator
Blaine had made by championng the bill.
He adds: Mr.. Blaine made no secret, at a
very early stage of the session, when this bill
had not passed the House. Of bis anxiety to
have it known, and well and widely known
on the Pacific coast, that he opposed Chinese
immigration"
A sad discovery was made on the steam
ship City of Richmond, at New York, Tues
day, when an Italian boy, only twelve years
old and terribly deformed, was found on
board, evidently brought over to be utilized
as beggar. His story was that his father
had been killed in quarrel, and that shortly
after his mother came to this country, leav-
ing him in charge OF an aunt In Italy he
had been employed as a mendieant, and be-
ueved that 1t was to be used for the same
purpose that he had been brought to this
country.
The FLUTES believe that physician ought
to be killed as soon as five OF his patients
have died. A few years ago an Indian named
Moses learned to write his own name, and
that accomplishment was so highly regarded
by his tribe that he was made a medicine
man. His practice, however, did not prove
for his fourth patient died re-
Gently. This last victim was a chief, and it |
was thought that dose Of poisonous herbs |
killed him. Under the circumstances the
Piutes deemed it just to stone Moses to death, |
without waiting for the fifth patient to die,
and would have done SO II some white men
had not rescued him.
Prince Bismarck is great eater, but he
cannot be called delicate or scientific diner |
Beer, champagne, turtle soup, boars head, |
and mess of mustard and raspberry jelly /
formed only part of a repast in a day when |
he was recovering from a slight illness He /