New-York tribune., 1885-01-18
Ne W. Ms.
MRS. GAINES'S WILL co. "TIIE MASCOT"
AFFRAY-PERSONAL
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NEw-ORLEASs. Jan. 1.-THE smokingcar
nuisance has been brought before tho City Council
and two ordinances relating TO it aro now pending
One prohibits smoking in street cars until after
the close of tho Exposition, and the other prohibits
it for all time.
Governor McEnery has put a stop to the proposed
bulightng in st. Bernard Parish. inst below this
city, by officially directing tho sheriff to prevent it,
MIS- Julia Ward Howe who has beon in this city
for some time rs chief of the Women's Department
of the Exposition, on Tuesday evening delivered
a lecture before a select an fashionable audience.
Her subject was Is Polite Society Politei !"
w. B. KooDz died on Wednesday. age sixty
two years lie wollknown citizen and
n lawyer Of prominence. lie was ut time
member of the Legislature. and took part in various
politcal movements In the profession of the law
he had high standing, and by his successful
practice accumulated considerable fortune.
A bill was passed at tho last meeting of the Legis
laure appropriatine i 900 to defray the expenses
of removing the remains Of Henry Watkins Allen
the War Governor OF Louisiana. from this city TO
the State House grounds in Baton Rouge. Governor
Allen died in Mexico. The remains were brought 10
Newt Orleans aud placed in an ordinary tomb in
Washington Street Cemetery. When the monument
was in process of erection thoy were removed To
another tomb and afierward reinforced beneath
the monument. On the last occasion tho bones
were placed in tin together with some relics.
Il is proposed 10 remove the remains and munu
ment to Baton Rouge next month. and TO dis
tinguisl the occasion by reunion of Aliens rog
ment the tth Louisiana. and other Ceremonies
commemorative of the life Of iousiana's famous
Governor. These ceremonies will take place ON
February %.
The exposition has brought to the city a large
number of railroad ticket scalpcrs who, notwith-
standing Il vigorous war which is being wagol ON
them by regular ticket agents. still manage TO do a
thriving business and almost every day reports ara
received at the various railroad Offices 0f passengers
being put of of trains on account of being divided
with tickets procured from scalpers.
A. G.. NicolopuO, a wclknOwn cotton broker
on Tuesday arrested on the charge Of obtaining
bill of ladng from the firm Of A. X. Miller & Co.
under false pretences. The offence that Nicolopulo
committed. rs set forth in affidavit mado against
him, was that on tho 9th of January he obtained
from A. X. Miller d Go. bill of lading for 1913
bales of cotton. said to he shipped on tho Spanish
ship Saturnna. 1t subsequently transpircd that
only ffty-nine bales had been shipped leaving
sixty.four, valued at $500. unaccounted for
Nicolopuo was released on $1,000 bond by Judge
Davey to appear on the 17th inst. The firm of
winch the accused was a member. and which was
well. known in this country and Europe has failed.
Even after death Mrs. Gaines will cause litgation
Two wills have been filed for probate in the conrls
| here. Ono was dated Januafy q. 1850, and be-
queaths to Mrs. Julictta Perkins that part of the
estate known rs the Dc Fuentos property and 10 Mrs
| Evans 0nethird of the remainder OF Mrs Galnrs 4
estate the balance 10 bc equally divided among her
grandchildren. The other Is dated January g. 1885,
| and divides her property among her daughter-in.
law, sOnin-aw, grandchildren and other relatives
The will of Jnuuarys purports Ia be autographs.
and tho other one dated fire days earlier Is draw
| By q notary aud signed with her mark. the state