Year: 1872

A few Of the habitues still standing on
the corner almost in the same tracks they
occupied three months agO-a few pOliti-
clans lingering about this haunt on their
way from the State House to the St Charles
Hotel for dinner; broker with bundle of
papers in his hands hurriedly lodging in
one Office and out Of another, looking up a
settlement; now and then a notary's clerk
with big portfolio, looking for the drawer
of a note on which he may make the ''dew
and actual" occasionally bill collector,
standing in the shade of projecting pillar
spying ont his prey before the pounce, and
the everlasting jog of street cars; the roar
Of cabs, carriages and light wagons: these
are all the scenes Of the street to-day and
all for some time.


whats the news ~


Nothing


The same question brings the identical
answer from all those who, by pleasant
fiction, are supposed to handle the money
and act as arbiters of the town, There may
be sales, but no one knows it, and under
the spell, when Investment no longer
prompts the outlay of money, all things
that do not descend in value remain at the
same figure, stationary. An occasional leap
into the seventies by city certificates, only
to return back to their old base, a throb to
the pulse of warrant buying, constitute the
solitary movement, while Levee, the me-
dunn of speculation, stands stock still, one
of its friends saying, at will be either five
or twenty-five by November" If this is a
prophecy, make the most of it. That we are
in the midst of dulIness is not extraOrdi-
nary. 1t happens once a year.. endures
three months, and then life flows back into
the veins and arteries Of our commercial
system. Cotton has played out for the
year. Red river sends her 10000 bales to
St. Louis, and the street scarcely recognizes
the fact we're losing instead of gaining
There is an impression that the charter of
the Levee Company will be tampered with
in the event Of certain political change.
This keeps that stock down, and go one of
the daily TENS is for the time dispensed
with.


Builders get into furry ON Saturdays
to raise cash with which to pay off hands,
and the efforts they make to borrow creates
something like excitement, but this is all.


go and play base ball" was the advice
given by friend to man whose debility
compelled him to walk about on stick.


"You might as well tell a blind man to
60 read a charity sermon for the benefit of
his sight" replied debility feebly, "as to
tell me that. 1 receive such consolation
on all sides. Did you ever reflect how full
this world is of advice One man tells me,
Take ice water shower baths every day
Another Gays, go to a gymnasium and
practice on the horizontal bar Here am
so weak can't raise my cup of coffee to my
lips; can scarcely crawl"


A physician coming along told old debil-
ity he'd better 60 home and go to bed This
advice was taken.


That old man." urged one of the by
ISLANDERS, " ana the advice he receives puts
me in mind of the Die-in the Ditch party.
One gets up and says shake the banner to
the breeze. when it is so feeble a breath
could destroy it. Another advice is bring
out the old banners, revive old associations,
stir up and administer the old fodder, when
all have nearly killed off the old chap al
ready. Every one administers advice,
which of itself does no good, for the old
man is too feeble to think of it. His
strength is leaving him hour by hour, the
use of his understanding or platform was
taken away years ago, and now all he can
do is to hobble about, exhibit his old sores
to the people and ask for a sympathy he re-
ceives not"


That's about the size of it.