The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Wenton haa agreed tn walk aix days with
O'Ispary. naming San Franeecu as the place
and the a. cund week In March "a the time.
The Cuban carnival thia year wae a dull
affair, brutal hull lights and epiritlees mas.
Queradea being ite chief features.
The Philadelphia 7smes has a description of
IAN immense CAVERN comprising several
large r,"ms, recently explored In venango
county. Pa.
1t turne ont that the Silver Jones banquet
In New York, the other day, waa gotten w
expressly w brinu the blaine aud Grant mel,
10 better understanding.
IL Ia proposed that q procession Of the me-
Chahtcal tr.dee. In operation. ehall he one "
the features vt the y, lehraiion on the seven
teenth Of II. At September. of the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement Of
Boston.
A man who waa released from the Iowa
penitnntlary some time aaa by the Executive
On premise TINT he would ahstain from the
tiae III intpxtcanta has, by order uf the Gov
ernOr, been reaIsested and taken back tn serve
out his term.
Cremation ia arparently getting popular,
and the undertakpl'a tcp-hux may ultimately
give way ~ the furnace. A hundred pending
applications tri incarceration In the Lac Moyue
oven at Washington. in fannay lvania. is a
promising beginning.
A bill has been introduced In the New York
Legislature directing savings hanks to invest
al least one.half their .lapoeite In United
States bonds. II Will be opposed by n large
bank lobby, but many members af the Assem-
bly, favor t. and II ia thought that II will PASS
The Mexican government has unexpectedly
ehpwn good eense by rpfnaing to permit Nor
mon coloniata To settle In that country, unleHa
they viii consent to abandon polysamy. IL
f.V.t tNt.Ni, lat la
lava, the Mormona would soon be pretty
etfectually cotnared.
The Beston Traveller says that a freight
car which broke duwn on the Hoatnn and
Providence Railroad the other day. wac way
billed ma containing 10000 pounds. lta con
tents were then weighed, and the acalea ra-
corded a. 1In rounds. almost twice "a much
as the shippa, gave AZ the true weight
ALL the papers that have lerturoh Gov
blackburn for nardnninE 90 many criminals
are compelled to acknowledge that he did
iYlHt right now that the horrible character uf
the Kentucky State praann ia known. "a very
hole uf hell IA enc writer calls 1t, saema to
be by no meana All inaccurate description.
A few dava aan the venerable Thurlow
Weed had hia pocket picked In Now York
street car of &45 In money and check Tor
$3.50. Az aoon aa the thief discovered that he
had bounced ON venerable ex editor he very
c,,nsiderately returned the atoien valuahles
10 the police authorities, dtadaining to retain
q cent OF Mr., Weeds hard earnings.
Vermont Republicans have chosen dele
yates to the Chicago convention who are In
Instructed to vote fret fof Edmunde for Prea
ident, and next for Grant. Edmunda Ia A.
fayprite aon. but his State Ia too small He
and we may. therefore. add Vermont to the
Grant column.
Brick pomeroy Ia extending his operations
over a vast amount nf territory. He is the
moving spiT,t III secret political orHan'aa
tlon In Maine, and ia giving his personal
capital In Colorado The great reformer
whose light for some month"; has bean hid
under buahel. Ia now fairly spreading him
eelf.
Miss BeeaIe Turner. the celebrated witness
III the case OF Theodore lilton agalnat Henry
Ward Receher. WAS married recently TO
Charles WalEratn. ataue carpenter ot the
Broadway Theatre. Brooklyn. Mrs. Wal
grain Ia a frequent viaitor TO her old friend.
Mrs. Elizabeth ltlton, who llvea in Brooklyn
with her sen Carroll, who Ia atuiyina to be-
come minister. Mra. Triton Ia supported by
her husband. who. however. never Waits her.
The Brooklyn IN. " common council has
granted permission to the Empire Heating
aud Power Company To lay pipes through the
streets for the transmission of steam, heated
water and Air fer heating and other purposes.
The company ie 10 bond to secure the city
from all damagea, To pay 10 the city three
cents per lineai teat Of mains and lateral and
service pipes laid. heat the public buildings
nj one.thiri losa than the cost Of heating
them III 1878. and furnish steam for cleaning
the streets from snow and Ice and for the lac
pf itre-enRnea nj d reasonable cost.
"A telegram from Spartanhurg, \. a.. 70
the Charleston Nfifa, dated February ~
save: mir N. u. Taylor. 81 this place, who
Your reporter tn Raid Mountain
about two years aso has Just returned from
tha neiYhbofhaoi and reports that the
residents there fet eevere shocks and heard
In the mountain on the twenty
eighth and twentv-ninth Of January. On
the tenth ot February be heard the rumhling
very distinctly At distance OF seventeen
miles, The people are considerably excited
again, and confidently expect the whole
apuntaiu to tall IL pieces soon.
cnrrsa San Franeiace Alta has this suggestive
w., Int: "0n the first of January. lSt2.
"a,s Va ,sitors had S'a,eao 900 to their credit
Q. He WAS ~ hanks Of San Francisco, and
Tocua, but there We're 1890 depositors
Oh composed Il, In the same period sli,2so.-
oted and faith full ara banks sna eap ana l half f"a
Of Bolivia. and ref,lss,res moved or began
idential aspiration Ht York; II extensively
however. aud Wand now ,hs Hla rs
q troops went In hathing In nding meetings
!. seiaad their clothes and rHnnot furnishing
them until thav agreed to rtroa
resident.
lew weeks ago two leading Bolivia, I ID
ns applied to tie officers Of the o. III IN
"a, the Huasoar, to land .hem In Bolsvi .aan,h
tory. declaring that they We're an1inn The
tart revolution there. aud that ChiH,l in
Z the enemy Of Bolivia. would necessarily lus,
melted by a revolution at La Paz. The tty
Ms OF the Huascar refused to do this and trl
he'd the would-be reyolutionists Off to po.
a, where they are now enjoying them bla>
.. kno
the best picture Of Bolivian politics Is teeI