The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Tho report that Representative Eugene
Hale. of Maine, will lmnva ~ Michigan to take
care Of the Chandler ee'ate ls heniei.
Mr., Freeman. ~ feeassot. who took ao
much 40 advanced Thought THAT ha rnurlereh
hla little girl. has been adinhHed Il lunatlc.
rho frat Legislative net nf Mr. Williams.
the rolorod n,ombar of tho Ohio Log talnture
was The introduction IF n Tin to permit tho
,ntarmarrIage " whites and blacks
II Ia reported that the Row Mr Hayden,
lately almost acquitted nf murder Ia Con
neelrut- ono juror held out tn declare
him guilty intends travelling about ~ n Ice
turer.
The fac,t the Iake ofHullch, In Swlt4ar-
land, Ia frozen nvar fer tho fourth time thIa
winter Ia very cold rnmin,t for tho men whnao
leo houeea on the Hudson liver etill romnIn
empty.
Negotiations arn IN progress for the conaol-
idaton Of tho Pullman Palace Gar Company
and tho Wagner Shopping Uar Company on
terms favorable ~ tho former. II Ia q good
wear for monopnlins.
Tho lower houae OF tho California I,oglala-
tura hna appointed n eommittoo on forestry
10 devise u plan for the protection Of tho Cor
eata In the State. That tho rainfall may bo reg
ulated In tho bonotloent manner intended by
nature.
In Chicago tho murders have averaged ono
n day alnre the beginning nf tho now year.
while N Ia alnlnat impnaathIo 81 en,lmoratn
city had such record wha, II howl would DO
raised hy tho atnlwarts In Innarosa about It..
Tho mayor or st Louis can now say to tho
mayor of Omaha anything he ploaaes, n toc-
phone 40 miles long having hoon placed be-
| tween the two yillagna. Some day, no doubt,
tho Governor of North Carolina Will nave u
telephone ~ the Governor of South Carolina.
unc of tl,oac peculiar aIavehol,iors known
na Italian padrom'a has boon aentonrMl to itvN
ycara in tho Albany uenitontiary Tor inveig
ling a"vnn boys from Italy To heg aud play
on mustrat Instruments while he pncliattNh tho
cash receipts and treated tho boys na slaves.
Al ar election hold In Cheyenne, Wyoming
Territory. tho county voted almost nnani-
moualy In favor OF as,liug ita honda In tho
sum of 100000 to tho Union Pacific Railway
Company tO all In thn construction Of TIL,
proposNd Black Hills Railroad.
A war hctworll tho Pacih, Mail Steamship
Company and Tho Pacific Railroad /. an
nounced. Tho prospective competition will
not gticve tho hearts of merchants and ship
peia, however II may affect the pockets Of tho
Stockholders Of the two great corporations in
volvod.
Ono of tho witnessed before the Senate apo-
cal committee ON negro exodus testified that
there existed belief among tho blacks In
North Carolina that the penal laws Of Indi-
nila were le,s severe than in the rlr-haal
State, and that this probably had some eff
feet in influencing emgra Ion to Hoosinr
dom.
Two Americans havo been arrested ut
Naples, charged with swindlinR n Russian
out Of $4,000 francs ut Brussels. They are
hrothers. and their real name is supposed to
be Collins. lhey have at various times
passed under the aliases nf Cleveland, Fer
guson. Everett and Clinton. They come
from Brooklyn. Tho cider Is twenty eight
years old. tho younger sixteen.
A bill lfAA been introduced In tho Rhode
Island Legislature which provides that any
person going about from place 70 place beg
Ginx and asking Or suhslstinE upon charity
shall be taken and deemed to be n tramp, and
shall be punished by imprisonment In the
State prison or House OF Correction for not
more than one year nor less than six months.
In response to an invitation to attend tho
| annual reception OF tho Iron City Tildcn
Club. or PttsbnrR on the thirtieth Instant,
Mr.. Tilden sent the following sentiment
Obedience to the choice Of the majority as eX-
pressed til the elections II the vital principle
of selt-govsrnment, without which Its forms
are a sham. representing only fraud or force.
Mr. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Com
mefcidt. was the author of the report that
| Grant had instructed his friends to withdraw
| him from the field a. presidential candidate.
The New York Herald, which first published
| 1t, now states that it has made an examina-
| tion, and finds Mr.. Halsteads story devoid ol
grounds to justify 1t.