The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Nine theatrical managers In New York city
have pledged themselves to give entertain
ments on st. Patrcks Day and devote the
proceeds to starving Ireland.
Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher should keep out
Of politics and cOnflne himself to preaching
the gospel OF love- He always was q failure
when be attempted to make sensation In
political way.
There Is so much doubt as to whether the
discoveries OF Commander GOrrinKe are OF
masonic nature or not that the Supreme
Court OF Maine had better be convened to
settle the question.
The Chicago Inter ocean is comparing the
trials and trium phs OF Washington with those
Of Grant. just TO show what an old foKy Wash
inRtun WAS for not wanting u third term any
more or less than he did the first.
More new transatlantic steamers Of British
build The Sahara, larger than any ship now
atloat. Is being laid down at Burns Yard,
Glasgow. And all the unle American enter
prise Is dormant lii this direction.
The aggregate liabilities of the savings
banks OF New York, according to official sta
tistics just presented to the Assembly, amount
to about $500. 100000, and about one third OF
the assets are invested In United States
bonds.
1t is real pity that Gen. Grant couldn't
wait long enough In Cuba for u fleet to be
should have been ut leae' ten men Of war and
salutes fired of u thous.'nd guns to help the
boom.
or course the s254,ooo.ooo of 4 per cent
"call'' bonds will be- sought for BY idle capital
lying In the banks awaiting business ven
lures. but persons seeking permanent invest
ments will not care to purchase bonds that
may be called In and Cancelled the next day.
Should the ING seat, no fare" bill intro
duced In the legislature pass into law, New
York will lose one OF its distinctive street
cries, Groom for another" In France and
England the principle has long been one Of
rigorous enforcement
The "obstructiontst" boom has begun to
give pOrtentOuS warnings In the British
House of Commons. Mr.. Big9ar will move
the rejection of the Irish volunteer bill be-
cause Of the ineXpediency Of putting further
power In the hands OF government at this
crisis. ..
The New Haven Register denies the report
that Hayden Is to be arrested and tried again,
but there Is a moral significance In the fact
that "a subscription has been passed around
In Rockland, Conn.,, the home Of the Rev II.
II. Hayden, to raise money to buy watch for
Hotchkiss, the obstinate Juror, who prevented
Hayden's acqutttal."
The Peabody charity In London is regarded
as failure. The buildings, says the London
Truth, instead OF being occupied by the work
Ing classes, are taken Dy people who can we'll
afford to pay higher rent; 50. as is usually
the case with such charities, the people FOR
whom the buildings were intended derive no
benefit whatever from them.
Advices from Yokohama state that there are
constant evidences OF the influences estab-
lished by Grant IN all public matters On which
he was consulted, and more than Que chanKe
OF policy Is attributable to his friendly repre-
sentaions. OBVIOUS efforts are made. on the
other land, to weaken the associations which
he c1eated by agencies opposed % closer rela-
lions between Japan and the United States.