The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

band. liz low living with her mother In Mary
land.
The students of Tho Illinois State Univer-
yhhve feheDed against the military dIill.
Two hundred III them are at outs with inc
faculty.
Henry L. Clinton, w. II. yandcrbIt's prn-
cipal counsel Ia the wtilts' rttSt case, has sent
HIS client I'll Tor $3.50 coo for services rem
deIed In that suit Vanderbilt declines to
settle.
The Cincinnati Enqmrtr enya that Blaines
strength is uIp ct,dly great III ONO, that
he In The second choice al his party alter John
Sherman aln that the latter Inns no strength
at all In Maine
tits stated TINT Secretary Shcrman'a Gin
cipnati brtther.lnIbw, with the Assistance OF
get 10 n Sherman III iaIy bureau in the Cor
Coran buiIdiI NJ Washington.
Thore W. o have been fupposIrg that Sena-
tor Cameron IA not Ter Grant If any had
such IN iden-must be anaz' q 10 see that the
young Senator ! m allowed his own county
to instruct Tor HE old commander.
The enrolled militia of Massachusetts, aa
appears hy III" sdjutnht - rails last report,
numbt ra 225. i6ta gain of a9l7 over 1878 The
volunteer milii1n consists Of .i2 commanding
officers and 1000 enlisted men.
Mr.. Boutwell, Is almost az fcrvent third
termer ~ Rohtr oD and BrlkDnp. Hell quoted
NJ declaring that he would lHt her be beaten
with Grant thnn Submit 10 the dietation Of
ecratchera, boilers ana Germans"
The Omaha HtrdM thinks the Democratic
convention v III net ic held IN Chicago, 'be-
cause every leading Newspaper IN Chicago.
including the Times. IL constantly belyinH the
Democratic patty and slanderiDH itB public
men and candidates"
The Hon. Jnetrh Cauchon. lieutenant gov
erDOr OF the Province of Manitoba, was mar
ried in Chicago, February !, TO Miss Emma
LIE Nome daughter Of Robert Le Moline, of
tr h.,,, ,i,,t.
Senate
Gov. Davis of Maine, Ia only ~ years OF
age. He IL the son OF u farmer, and while In
the army studied Latin. lecttinR to an officer.
At the close Of the war he attended the som
mary ut kents Hjll and helped himself
along by teaching.
The St Louis Giobc- Democrat anys that the
inscription To the glory Of God and the
memory OF Cornelius Vanderbilt" Ii very
bad mixture Of sentiment. even II Il has been
placed on tablet on the wall Of a New York
church.
The first choice of the New York Times for
President is Grant; it, second choice IL Wash
burne. The first choice OF the New York
Tribune Ia Blaine, and Its second choice seems
TO be Sherman. The first choice Of Conklinx
is-ConkllnE: and his second choice is-Conls-
ling.
Lovers Of worlds fairs cannot complain Of
The supply and variety furnished them this
year. They can attend the international fish
show ut Berlin In April, the international fair
OF arts and manufactures ut Brussels In May,
and the international axpositiOns la South |
America and Australia later In the year
The petriiied. living child at New PbiIadcl
phia, o, IL still an Obj sct OF wonderment In |
that State. He WAS taken to Cleveland re-
Gently and there examined by many medical
men. The hardness has spread gradually !
over the entire body. The little fellows legs
and arms are ice-cpld and now almost ma haTd
and white Ms granite.
Gen. Boynton. 70 whom 80 much interest
now attaches, graduated Mt Kentucky Mill
tAry Institute, and was Professor of mathe-
mates there for several years He entered
the service as Major Of the 'l'hirty-iifth Ohio
volunteers. was promoted as lieutenant
colonel, and breveted briRalier general for
gallant conduct at Chickamauga
The annual report Of the Prison Commits
Bloners OF Massachusetts, referring to the
treatment Of female convicts. says that two
years experience with the refOrmatory prison
Tor women has demonstrated conclusively
that an institution Of this kind can be sue
Ce6siully managed and controlled by women,
and that the Importance Of the experiment Ii
not yet fully appreciated.
Call fornia is thriving and happy-and a
porous In the history Of the State, tho az
ports including 2,00D,O0O gallons OF wine and
1000, 900 worth Of wheat. although her dis
lance from the worlds markets makes her
pAoAt vi Itls ldtteI GOIUtHHulLy small here
were built on her coast 1870 vessels, and the
exports OF gold and silver were SIG, 400. 900.
st. Louis Is ahead Of Chlcago-as q mining
gulch. The street department has struck a
silver mine while digging sewer through
OFailon street VERY rich Galena ores,
Ing proportion of silver" Tho deposit lies In ,
pockets and the O'Falonists are contem-
plating the propriety Of stalking out claims !
y the cellars AMI back yards. What has !
ChlcaRo TO say to this
The United States grand jury which Just
completed It's labors at Trenton, n d. did
lot find any indictment against Congressman
Jhares II. Noorhis. iii the Fifth New Jersey
iistrict who WAS recently held to bail In the
'um OF $4,000 for alleged fraudulent trans
lcttons in connection with his presidency OF
ne First National Bank OF Hnckensack. Tho
grand jury. however. did not dismiss the
'ase. but merely adjourned II for the con
liberation OF tho next grand jury, which
meets In April.
The Compagnie Franchise du Teegraphe
70 Paris q New York having opened their
Inc Tor business and transmitted quite a ]
lumber OF business and com nsrctal mes
ages. now practically withdraw from the
leid temporarily and suspend work. The Id
american Company. the rival line which be-
IAN the war ny reducing the rates from sew
nty-hve cents word to twelve and Il half. !
rs the new company had begun working un-
er tne oln tsr,if st sevenly-iive cents they
uddeniy found the public deserving them
md taking advantage of tho enormous re-
!uction BY the Anglo American. Mr. Van
)hauvan, the manager of the French Com !
ANY, says that he Is not prepared yet to an
ounce what his people viii DO. Twelve and
half cents word ID too low, he said. and it
you'd be simply ruinous for company to
AXE business at that rate. aud Of course the =
AnKlo- American Cannot ford to stand such /
tariff very long. MIR. Van Chauvan thinks
nat, IN few days. tho III anaganeut of this
ew line will agree upon some pl N of cam
align to meet the warlike attack uf the oppo-
ition. ~
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