The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Ohioans achieve fame in various ways. 1t
is the proud boast Of one family OF seven
such that they ate l165 pies In 1879 and sur
vive.
The little State OF Rhode Island wants to
stop bribery at elections. The astonishing
statement is made that $l25,ooo was paid for
three oflices.
proving fatal, has appeared In Kansas. Ii is
believed to have been brouH hit from the South
by refugee negroes,
The New York Chamber OF Commerce pro-
poses 10 erect statue Of Washington on
Wall street, among those immaculate stock
brokers who never tell a lie.
The brilliant naval officer who commanded
the German squadron at the time the Grosaer
Kurfurst was sunk has been rewarded by q
promotion to the rank of vice admiral.
"A repeal Of the duty On printing paper and
upon the chemicals uaed 70 ita manufacture,
\ iH q little boom on behalf of the newspapers
started Ia Illinois, which promises to gr Nv In
power.
Charles De:Young. brother of the man who
shot kalock, last fall, is now In Leaven-
worth, locking up the record or that preacher
politician. He 10 said to have found 1t very
fragrant.
A bogus Census Information Bureau" In
Chicago has been endeavoring to swlndle con-
fldinR people who wished TO become enumera-
tors out OF twenty-five cents each for ''stamps
and blanks"
Previous to the opening OF Parliament the
vaults beneath the building were searched for
Guy Fawkas. Az Guy has been dead and
buried many years, the astute detectives did
not find him.
The revolution at La Paz started by Mar
quez, has caused the Governor Of the frontier
province OF Lower California to proclaim
martial law. 1t is reported that Marquee
has been driven out OF La Pal.
Over six million citizen soldiers is the mill
tary strength of the United States, and all Of
them hard at WORK increasing the material
wealth Of the nation. What contrast to the
condition OF affairs in the Old World
A school teacher IN Louisville, Ky, saved
one OF her little pupils from death a few
mornings ago by wrapping her woolen shawl
around her, In spite OF her alarmed struH.
stove. sses, NAen - '''F'' V"'SA' MY 'ioDn '"'
In Venezuela many rumors OF conspiracy
against the HoCernm have been aiioat,
and several arrests had been made. Among
the persons arrested were Gen. Luciano Mem
doza, prominent member OF the Liberal
party.
Nj. do Truy, the French consul al Charles
ton, y. C-. has been promoted 70 the first class
In the consular corps and placed on the re-
tired list, having been over thirty years In
the consular service, besides eighteen years
In other official employment.
Mr.. Dion Boucieault, in communication
theatre and music hail in the United States
should devote the seventeenth OF March next
{St Patrick's Day. to performances In aid OF
the Herald Irish Relief Fund.
A bill Is now before the Wisconsin Leeisla-
tute providing for pensioning the Judges of
the Supreme Court, who retire at the age of
seventy. The pay of the Judges is now $4,000
per annum, and the bill proposes that the
pension shall be S25oo per annum.
The largest sale of real estate thus far this
year is that made by the st. Paul and Sioux
City Railroad Company to the Land Colont-
ration and Banking Company of London,
England. The trade Is for 100000 acres oi
land at Sc per acre-lying in Iowa.
The latest fashion in Cincinnati is for a
young lady to rush into the Office OF a bach
offer OF marriage. although OF course the un'
fortunate creature has never made any. Their
only excuse is that this Is leap year.
Capt. Carey, of Zulu fame. Is at Malta
where his brother officers are very courteous
toward him. Al a reception at the palace the
other day The appearance OF Carey and his
wife caused as much excitement as the advent
OF professional beauty would have done.
The power 81 wealth In politics is wei
illustrated IN Don Cameron. He never made
but one speech, and that was only two min.
utes long. What he has done, or can do. is
attributed solely 10 the length Of his purse
and the Gameronian style " doing things,
st. Louis merchants and manufacturers are
displaying some energy in direction that
merits the attention OF New Orleans business
men. They propose to establish permanen,
expositiOns In the different cities OF Spanish
America for the display Of their goods anc
manufactures.
Capt. James Il. Eads meets with rival In
the person of E. Redmond, of Rochester. n
Y, who claims that he invented the plan fol
dock system Of ship transit over the 18th
mus of Darien. and published a description O
It'll 1877 Mr. Redmond will ask Congress moi
to listen to the plea of Capt Eads.
Ligonier, Ind has an Enoch Arden. 81.
left there for the west ten years ago, and