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0 THE DAILY PICAYUNE NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1886. (EI)c JBailn picarmtu. 0IUD Alt THB FOOT CmCTt AT XW OILU11, l.A AS fiKCOXO-CUUH XATTIB- MCHOLSO.N CO. FBOPKEETORS. MRS.

E. J. NICHOLSON, GEO. NICHOLSON THE PICAYUNE Has the Largest Circulation In the Southwest. TSSHS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

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1886. Amusements This Evening. Academtof Music "East Lynne." Miss vENr eThkatrb "Silver Spur." The Ben ion conioinaiion. aeanta's Thsatrb "Never Bay Die." Joh. J.

Dowline Ht.d a'Me Hson. Fkekch opera Boi se Miue. Bomlace. Halite's pencil opera troupe. Grand Opera Housk Lights o' London." Ltttaud g-r.

Cbari.es Theatre Dot." Bldwell's Biar dranintio company. RonijisoN's I)i mr Mlskcm Variety per-lormanr. inrt Mimeuni curiositl s. Tkmplk or art Battle of Paris Panorama. 01 PICA USES.

A combination lock makes a verv good cheBt protector. Godnt-8s only knows how much sin there is in tbe world. Very young show their age. The old ones know how to hide it. A Sunday law has been made that seems likely to make barbers shut up.

Let fathers set good examples and their children will eaten gO'Kl manners Persons who will beat an egg will not" hesitate to whip cream or let cats lick it. The prettiest thing in a stocking Christmas morning is a pretty girl's foot. The world does not seem so big as it used to ffbeo it took longer to go all over it. There is no editor's table and no chestnut drawer in the new Scribner. but it vill do.

Christmas is merry, in a horn, for the young man who blows and paints the town red. The St. Louis people demand more common schools. They have too many of the other kind. Henry M.

Stanley has arrived in London. Being an explorer he found no difficulty in hndiDg the city. There is only one slip between pillow and the lip but as that is to down a fellow it is all tbe same.r the apt Gambling Congressmen should be elected to stay at home. Those who -write laws should have clean hands. A peculiarity of the carpet tack is its habit of standing on its head, with the sharp endup, ready to be stepped on.

There are yet any number of heroes in tbe world, but somehow they are not talked about until they lose their The Green Glass Blowers of Philadelphia want to separate themselves from the Knights of Labor. They mast he trreen. If -a man wants to drown sorrow in the bowl, let him try a bowl of water. Bowls of liquor are already too full of Borrow. A bill to pay claim agents for assisting the government in refunding deposits put in the Freedman's Bank will not meet with success in Congress.

Champion billiard players understand that they cannot make money by winning every game. To make matches interesting some other fellow must have chance. little cy clone has done moreeffec-tive work in two minutes tlian a hundred orators could do in twenty years. It has taken the roof off the Mississippi Siatehouse. Ifayonnggirl wants to be rid of a BUepicious old beau who has unnatural ly black whiskers, she has only to offer to entertain him at tbe piano by singing "Love not, love not, the thing you love Buy dye." Remember the poor.

They never forget the rich. And while you 'are remembering the poor give them something, that they may remember you have remembered them. Colored troops give np their guns nobly. They have an abiding faith in the government, and know they will have new ones provided for them when they go on parade again. Breadth of culture makes narrow streets qaite tolerable to Bostonians.

Boston Record. This may be a reason why nioraLly straight Boston aldermen are eat is lied with crooked streets. The warning is given by the detectives of the Treasury Department that a number of counterfeit $20 silver certificates ara afloat and an effort will probably be made to work them off during the Christmas holidays. Girls, if you find these 20-dollar bills in your stockings hand them right back to your papa, tell him you are too fly for such paper. Two nice Indians, in bad health, who had murdered a white man, have been pardoned instead -of being hanged.

'When the Governor pardons a murderer, and turns him loose to commit other crimes, he does it upon the plea of restoring the hoodlnm to citizenship; but why an Indian, who cannot vote for his pardoner, should be pardoned, is past finding oat. Henry George says his new paper will be called the Standard, be about the size of the Irish World, and will be published in the interests of all who work with hand or head. He has not struck long felt want in this. All ne vspapers are made by workingmen, and for them as much as for any class. Newspapers axe the poor man's advisers, companions, friends and educators, if he will have there, and there are in this country thousands of newspapers better than any Mr.

George will be apt to make. "-A general order has been issued by the 0. iJoijtoa1 Board of Polios requiring captains-oJ stations to forward to the superintendent at the beginning of each month' "a report of any meritorious acta performed in the lineot duty by the officers under their commands which may be deserving of special mention." This order, was gratefully received among the men. It is different in a ring ruled city, where a policeman 'would be immediately discharged for doing his doty, provided his duty called him to interfere with every day viola-tions of law and disturbances of peace and on the part of hoodlnm politicians. 1 THE LAND GRAB AGAIN.

The Picayune has time and again brought to tbe attention of the people of Louisiana the vast spoliations perpetrated on the State lands by the State land ring. It now appears that not only is ex-Gov. John McEnery, the brother of the present Governor, the largest land bolder in Louisiana, but has such absolute control of the State Laud Office that the highest official in that branch of the State "Government is nothing more than the servant and subordinate of this mighty autocrat of acres. It would be difficult to believe this if the facts were not acknowledged under the signature of tLe State Register of Public Lands, but in order to secure an entry of public lands in that office the condition precedent is that the consent of Mr. John McEnery must be obtained.

This fact, with much othei matter pertinent to it, is set forth in detail elsewhere. It is known that a contract was made by tne Governor in 1880 with Mr. John McEi-ery as agent, for a com peusjtion of half the land recovered, in recovering certain land granted by the United States to the State of LuuUiana where the title was withheld for special causes. Under the cover of this contract, by the complaisance of high officials the agent has been enabled to gain control of a large body of 1 ho best lands in the State in violation of the act of Congress granting the land, which declares that thi- land is to be sold or disposed of in aid of drainage and protection from oveitlow of the State, and is not to be diverted to any Other object. To give these lands to Mr.

McEnery or any other relative of the Governor is clearly in violation of the act of grant, and this alone should invalidate the contract. We hope the Attorney General will look into the mat ter and take steps to protect tbe m-teiests of the State from these enormous spoliations. Capt. Bradford, whose correspondence with Rrgister Lobdell on the subject has been referred to, is determined to right this greedy grab, and he will have the support of tne Picayune, as he should of all citizens who do not wish to see the public domain devoured by an illegal and powerful monopoly. BAD (iliUUND OF ACTION.

The Chicago Tribune is greatly exercised because forty-six Republican Congressmen voted "to pay the Nastiville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad Company, a rebel corporation during the war against the Uuion, the sum of $250,000 for alleged damages." The bill passed by a majority of one vote. The raids on the general treasury under the denomination of war claims are outrageous in character and extent, and have been stinking in the nostrils of the people for many years. It is long years ago time for everything of this nature to be outlawed. But so long as Congress is stuffed full of bills annually for taking out of the treasury small sums of money for alleged loyal men or their assignees, we shall not very sternly object to an occasional bonanza for an alleged disloyal man.

It is at least time for the talk about loyalty and disloyalty to cease. Regarding this particular claim, it may or may not be true that the twenty-five miles of rails proposed to be paid for were used, as asserted on the one side, by the Union forces, or, as asserted on the other side, chiefly by the Confederates. That so strong a man as Judge Geddes, of Ohio, thought the facts insufficient is quite reason enough for the rejection of the whole claim. But what we do object to is the rejection of it on the old cry of rebeL The beneficiary of tbe claim, if the money can be urabbed, will be the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, one of the richest corporations in the country, which has within about half a dozen years watered its stock from $9,000,000 to and increased its bonded debt from about 17.000.000 to 70,000.000, and has a balance sheet of nearly 05,000,000. To call such a power "rebel" is an act of insubordination.

A quarter of a million will not go far as a dividend in this case. The probability is that the road's lobby attorneys thought that the old claim might as well go through as dozens of other claims which are enacted at every session, and so raked it up, Some of the old war claims are of a curious description. No lawyer could tell wheVe justice is in the matter. One which we vaguely remember ran somewhat after this fashion A man of Ohio, a loyal man of course, owned a steamer which was running on the Tennessee waters. After the war broke out the Cod fee" eratesseized her and used her.

Her engineer, a loyal Ohio man, stayed with her and ran her. Watching his opportunity he ran her into the Union lines. Then the Union forces seized her. Eventually she was sold by a Union quartermaster as captured property. The owner or his assignee a quarter of a century later is found in Congress claiming compensation.

One section of Senators contends that he was disloyal and contributed his boat to the success of the rebellion; another, that he was loyal and was robbed of his boat by the Union forces. It is a very delirium of absurdity that such a claim should have a day in court at this late period. Men on both sides gave life for their cause. Untold properties were sacrificed, some willingly, some unwillingly and some through stress of circumstances. What is a petty claim that it should be dragged into Congress at a time wnen testimony 18 buried in countless graves, when the living have enough burdens without taking np old losses of such nature! Out upon the statesmanship which makes a point of honor of what is essentially a point of jobbery and robbery But if it comes to this, that a claim is to be fought, not on its merits, but on a cry of rebel," we ehall seriously propose to try whose grip on the National Treasury is strongest.

THE PACIFIC RA1LH0ADS. The Union Pacific Railroad Company owes the United States over $70,000,000 the Central Pacific owes the nation $58,000,000. The aided portion of the roads aggregating about 2300 miles, the companies already owe the nation over $56,000 a mile, which is more than the roads are worth. The debt is moreover increasing, since the United States pays nearly $4,000,000 interest annually and must' continue to pay it for ten or twelve years longer. The roads are buried under first mortgage bonds to a greater extent than the government lien, and those bonds have been granted priority by an indulgent Congress.

It follow inevitably that the roads will be sold out under first mortgage and the government will lose every dollar. These roads have three debts, each of which is as much as the roads are worth their' stocks, their bonds, their dues to government. The otock is a gambling property, and will be sacrificed by the companies when the roads are sold. The only way in which the government can obtain any consideration for its aid, is to compel the companies to make provision for a partial satisfaction of their obligations by a reasonable sinking fund. This is the general principle of the Thurman act.

If the government should endeavor to 6a ve itself bv purchasing the roads under the mortgage sale, it would have to pay more than double what it would cost to build the roads new. Consequently the proposition to bid at the sale is a foolish one. Better lose the debt. At the rate provided in the Thurman act, it would require a cen'ury to accumulate a sinking fund sufficient to discharge the debts of the companies to the government, and our readers will live to see the roads sold under first It is strongly uraed that the government should extend the time, and allow the companies sixty years to pay. But what is the use of extending time to a bankrupt debtor Arrangements having been perfected by the wreckers to sell out the roads, it is not of the slightest consequence what form the overly ing govtruiuent debt lakes.

The one thing which Cougres should do is to force the companies to increase the sinking fund. Until the roads are sold and the government lieu thereby extinguished, the Congress has authority to legislate on the subject, and should use its power to enforce a little larger measure of justice. The Union Pacific be required to pay at least more into the sinking fund than it now pays, and the Central in equal proDortiou. These companies have divided about in all to their stockholders, a debt on which not a single dollar should have been paid till the demands for smkiutr fund had been adequately met. It may reasonably be assumed that the government will receive no cimideration in the courts.

It has put itself out of court by granting the first mon gage holders priority. It will get nothing but the inconsiderable amount it can squet-Z'j from the net earnings iurm the period of its authority, and that will terminate in about Ti 3-ears. Tho least that Congress should do is to see to it that for tho remainder of this time the wreckers of thase roads shall not be allowed to divide out any more money as dividends on stock while leaving the debt Que to the United States unsatisfied. TnE STlil'CK-JUKY FLAX. The need of a reform in the jury system is so strongly felt in New York that it is proposed to resort to the method of a struck jury in all important cases.

It is suggestea that the Supreme. Court in general term shall select each year he names of two or three thousaud citizens of the highest intelligence, respectability and responsibility, and that juries shall be struck fiom this list. It must occur to any oue that citizens of the highest standing are the very ones who are going to evade jury duty by all means. It is certain that something must be done to improve the jury system, or some substitute for it must be devised it is impossible to go on in the shameful way in wnich the matter is managed. Hundreds of talesmen are summoned in notorious cases of public importance, and the time of the court is wasted, and eventually a jury is sworn' which is so clearly incompetent that no man respects its action.

It is time to inquire whether the 6ystem may not be changed to advantage. The jury system was originally the defense of the people against the arbitrariness of a beueh not entitled to public confidence. The jndges in our days are fully in the public confidence. It is very rarely the case thatajudje is incompetent or even improperly biased. If the criminal courts were constituted of three or five judges, both the law and the facts could be left to their unassisted finding with perfect confidence.

It is a question whether anything is gained by the system which enables a majority of the criminals of the country to escape justice. It is time for a reform, and, if necessary, that reform should go to the roots of the whole system. The Stale Legislatures could not do a wiser act than to experiment in the direction of a reform of the jury system. LITERATURE AS A ELSE ART. It is not a little difficult to define precisely the province of literature.

Taken in its broadest sense, it covers everything that has been written and published. In a more restricted sense, it excludes books of science and abstract philosophy, and all works of a strictly technical character. In the sense most acceptable to current criticism, it includes all publications addressed to the general public without regard to professional distinctions. There is a feeling that true literature should be distinguished by a certain quality of universality that as one of the fine arts, it ought to appeal to as wide a range of sympathy as painting, sculpture or music. It is true that scientific and philosophic subjects may be treated in a popular style, and to the degree in which they are so treated they may be said to be within the domain of literature but, at the same time, they will be regarded as rather without their proper sphere.

We know that the mastery of any science requires a long and special training. Professor Huxley and Professor Tyndall, for example, hawe written magazi ne articles, and even books, upon scientific subjects, which have been very generally read; but reading of that sort would never make tha student thorough or raise him to the level of independent thought and research. By a tour de force, a mathma-tician might subject the elements of a popular literary treatment but differential and integral calculus must always remain "caviare to the general." We feel when a scientist addresses himself to the multitude that he is translating his thoughts as he goes from their proper speech into the vernacular. He does not, and cannot, address tbe people upon a footing of equality. It is different with the poet.

He speaks to the common heart of humanity, and simplicity is a part of his art and a source of his strength. It is true that all men are not poets; but there are very few men who are not susceptible to the influence of poetry. There is no equality between the poet and his public in respect to genius, but he can stand npon the same plane with it because it can share his feeling and understand his language. It seems to us, therefore, that pnre literature most always deal more or less with some phase of sentiment. Otherwise it would be without that quality of universality which we have said is of its essence.

The development of literature began with poetry, it has reached its last advance in the modern 1 novel. In both as in all its intermediary stages it has dealt mainly with Bentiment. It has portrayed the sublime and the beautiful, the comic, the grotesque, and the horrible. It has touched the springs of laughter and of tears. It has, in short, sounded the whole gamut of emotion, from hope to despair, from joy to misery, from love to hate.

And this is true of all the arts. A painting or a piece of music which is beyond popular appreciation has passed beyond the realm of art into that of metaphysics or mysticism. The ancients recognized this fact. Their artists worked for the public, and their works were placed in public places for the enjoyment and culture of tbe people. In our time the artist works for the millionaire, and very possibly that is one reason why we no longer have sculptors like those of classic Athens, or painters like those who beautified the cathedrals ot Italy.

But, the question may be asked here, how far does modern realism affect the purely literary character of any product of the pent We reply that in so far as realism is in any instance thorough it adds in some respects to the literary value of a work because it is to that extent less abstract and special. But it must be understood that no composition is strictly within the limits of literature, considered as a tine art, unless its subject is of permanent interest, and uuless its treatment is of a style which will never lose its charm. A realism which spends itseif upon unessential details is necessarily ephemeral. The fashion of this decade will not be the fashion of the next. The dress and the manners of men are changing constantly, and there is such a thin as being foreign in time as well as being foreign in country.

The great masters of iiterature are citizens of the world through all the centuries. They have understood that true and profound realism which is failhlul to the enduring traits of human nature. A society novel which tells us precisely how a drawing-room is furnished, how all the gay company is dressed, how the ladies flirt their fans and tne 'gentlemen twirl their eyeglasses, is a realistic novel in its way: but a century hence it will nave long been forgotten, and if it is recovered from oblivion it will be studied only as a curious illustration of the polite society of our era. Boston and New Orleans Culture. In the January number of Harper's Magazine appears a somewhat notable article on New Orleans by Mr.

Charles Dud ey Warner. Iu view ot the tart that Mr. Warner was one of tbe'partyof writers and sketch artists Bent ky tne Harper publishing uous through this section or the country and to this city recently, to writi up the resources, the present development and the future possibilities of the Southern States, tbe observations of Mr. Warner will be read with curioajty and Interest. But it should be here remarked that this particular article, as Mr.

Warner told us at the time of the visit of the Warner party, was written months previous, and is therefore not a part of the series of papers which Is to grow out of that tour of exploration, but was inspired by earlier views of the Crescent City. He then saw New Orleans and its people as they were, and not fixed up to make a favorable impression, as was supposed to be the case when waited on by a 00 ui ml ttee of inspectors and experts. Mr. Warner's article Is tall or agreeable observations on what be saw here, and the letter-press is enriohed with numerous plc-toiiul illustrations of scenes and objects characteristic of and peculiar to the lucale-Bat It has not been possible for a thoughtful observer like Mr. Warner, in the limits of a sin Kle paper, to do more than 'sketch outlines and gossip a little about our old town.

What hs most interested us in his remarks Is what is said of tne distinguishing traits of the Intellectual life of the city. He sees that it has marked peculiarities and a certain tone distinctively different from what exists farther North. Taking Boston culture as the standard of Intellectual development at the North, he finds In contradict notion another standard for the South, which culminates at New Orleans. He calls it Creole culture, but attributes its peculiarities wholly to French influence. In the same way the Boston standard might be called English but would this be strioily true I An English-speaking people, fixed upon an almost barren region, in an inhospitable climate, have In the course of two centuries grown to a certain type In mind, body and works.

At this date neither tbe people nor their achievement are English. They are Americans of tbe North. Nearly 20 degrees of latitude to the southward peoples of Frenon and Spanish nativity established themsMves in a region of extraordinary froitf lness, in a climate almost tropical, and in two centuries of time they have grown to be what they are, Americans of the Southern type. They are no more French than Spanish, with do small German admixture. To call them Creoles settles nothing.

Mr. Warner, however, recognizes some of the characteristics of a civilization distinctively Southern, and he has directly contrasted it with the Boston type. This is the starting point In Investigation which may lead to farther classification, bat at present there are only two standards of American Intellectual development distinctly recognized and admitted the Boston and the New Orleans. Mr. Warner has stated their existence, but has not clearly set forth their characteristics What he has said is interesting.

The following extracts are given: The Creole is accused of having a conceit that his way of lookin at lite is better than the Boston wy. His literary culture Is derived from France aud not from England or from the North. And his Ideas a good deal affect the attitude of New Orleans towards English and contemporary literature. The American element of the town was for the most part commercial, and little riven to literary tastes. That als Is changing, but I fancy it is still true that tne most solid culture is with tho Creoles, and it has not been appreciated because it Is French, and because its point of view for literary criticism is quite aitterent from that prevailing elsewhere In America.

It brings our American and English contemporary authors, for instance, to comparison, not with each other, but with. French and other continental writers. Aud this point of view considerably affects tbe New Orleans opinion of Northern literature. In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-inortest. I do not mean to say that the Creoles us a class are a reading people, but the literary standards of their scholars and of thoee among them who do cultivate literature deeply are difier-ent from those at toe North.

We may call it provincial, or we may call it cosmopolitan, but we snail not understand New Orleans until we fret its point of view of both life and letters. In making these observations it will occur to tbe reader that they are of necersi-ty superficial, and not entitled to be re- farded as criticism or judgment. Bat am impressed with the foreignness of New Orleans civilization, and whether its point of view Is right or wrong, I am very far from wishing it to change. It contains a valuable eiement of variety for the republic. We tend every where to sameness and monotony.

New Orleans is entering upon a new era of development, especially in educational life. The Tulane University is beginning to make itself felt aa a force both In polite letters and in industrial education. And I sincerely hope that the literary development of the eity and of the aouthwest will be in the line of Its own traditions, and that it will not be a copy of New England or ot Dutch Manhattan. It can, if It is faithful to its own sympathies ana temperament, mate an original and valuable contribution to oar literary life. Bo much for Mr.

Warner. We have given some space to tbe subject because it is important. We have a conviction that Southern life, traditions, history and all that contributes to make the Southern people what they atp alone can furnish the true field and material for the brightest achievements in American fiction. Southern development is neither foreign nor provincial, bat more truly American than life at the North which has certainly Injected into It foreign elements, while at the Booth the people have been mostlv Isolated and separated from old world influences. But the Boutnerners while satisfied with their type of civilisation have no desire to force it on others.

The Boston sort is nothing if hot aggressive. It sabssts only by making war. If shut np it would die of Inanition. That is one difference at least. Strong Wrong Again.

A prominent merchant of this eity has received from Hon. R. P. Hunter, of Alexandria, the following letter promptly denying any business transactions or Indebtedness to ex-8ecretary of 8tate Strong on account of election ticket paper as alleged by Stror. It speaks for itself Dear Sir I do not owe Will A.

Strong one cent for election paper. I never ordered any patter from him; aud if I had, would have sent the cost with the order. I bought all the tickets I need in 1SS4 at the olliee of the Louisiana Democrat in this town and ha no communication of uy eort with Mr. Strong concerning election paper, directly or indirectly. Some paper was sent -here but it was the boxiness of oar Parish Executive Committee to pay for It and if it was not paid for it was Mr.

Strong's own fault and he had no warrant or authority for using my name in that connecion. As a iend of mine, personally and politically, if you see proper, jou are authorized to trive publicity to tbl statement. Very truly and respecrlullv, RoHKUT P. HtJNTEK. Catting is not the only party who has his eyes fixed on Mexico, A colony to settle in the State of Slnaloa is being organized in the New England States, with headquarters at Portland, Me.

Some persons have already started for the scene of operations. Agriculture is not the prime object, bnt manufacturing is to be chiefly looked efier, and with this in view a city is to be built and maidy peopled by the colonists, who ate to be skilled workers. A dispatch from Portland says the directors of the company and Publisher Lovell, of New York, are to go on with tbe colonists to manage the business of the new city, which is to cenint mainly of manufacturing cotton goods, sugar, glass aud paper. The paper is to be made irom a shrub found on every band in that country. The directors have tcoo.ooo with wnich to commence operations.

Mr. Lovell will look especially bfter the paper industry. By opening thirty-six miles of new railroad ttie colonists will strike a new timber belt which will snpply all their requirements. Other cities will be formed as soon as tbe road is The Mexican Government has granted every request of the colonists and 11 purchase all their products. The land ceded to them will support 6.000,000 people.

Five bnildings occupied by the Shapletgh Hardware Company were burned some weeks ago in St. Louis. The fire was cansed by the falling In of the floors of one of the buildings, by which the heating furnace was crushed, communicating fire to the debris of the fallen structure. It now appears that the insurance policies contained clauees exempting tue companies from loss caused by a fall of tbe buildings or any part thereof. The insurance is nearly $400,000, and the loss was total.

Several large mercantile store houses in St. Louts have been burnt recently, the fires having been caused by the fall of the buildings, hence this special proviso in the insurance policies. Do You Waut a Cheap Sat? The Famous Hat Stork," 22 St. Charles street, suffered by the fire this night a week ago. Bnt it still lives to do good in the re duction in prices it offers on many styles of men's and boys' bats slightly damaged by water, and also on the balance of stock.

It is the intention of the proprietors to put in an entirely new therefore all In need of hats need scarcely be told that a bargain in elegant and stylish hats awaits them, right now, at 2a St. Charles street. WATSOK-On Saturday, Dee. 25. 1886, at (JAl'dAUINK MONIKK, beloved of ltoDt.

G. aeed ti2 Tears, a iiiit ui Alsace, France, ami a resident of it Is citv for lony years. The funeral will take place on Sunday, Dec 26, aft o'clock P. from her late residence. No.

b'J1? Third aireet. near Fulton. Fuends and acquaintances of tbe family, and those of her son-in-law, C. W. Vanderdoes, are respect-folly invited to attend.

A lexandria, patter please copy. M0RPHY Saturday. Dee. 25. 1886, at 4:40 o'clock Hiss MAhUAMlMUKPHY, aged 28 years and 2 month.

Her funeral will take place This (Sunday) Afternoon, at 4 o'clock, from the residence her parents, 2b6 Clio street. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. WILLIAMS On 8nndar, Dec. 15, 1886, WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS, agrd 43 years, a native of Norti Kn-lai and a resident of this city for tbe past twenty yeais.

Montgomery, papers please copy. GOLDMAN In Terre ante, Saturday, Deo IS, 18-6, l-AVID OOLDM.AJS, aged 39 years, a native of Mew Orleans. 8 HMEDTJE On unday, Dec. 19. 1886.

at Mrs.AUGUSTsCHMEUTlt, nee t'eciie Blanche Defrance, aged 27 years and 2 months, anat-Tiof Havre, France. tst. Louis, M- and Havre, Fiance, papers please ciy. BILLAKD On 8nnday. Dec.

19, 1886, at 3:40 P. HK.VKI HILLAHl) aged 42 years, born at Ambolse, Tadie-et Loire, France. HOWELL On Sunday, Deo. 19, iSSe, at 10 O'clock A. STODDA HO WELL, aged 73 year, a native ot Philadelphia.

Pa. Philadelphia papers please copy. CRUCRKS-on Moudar. Dec. 20, 1886.

At 11:30 o'clock A. EUWEN'A O'HuUKKK, daughter of James O'Kourke and ztiidget Flanagan, aged 5 years and 1 1 months. TYLH1R At Mandeville, on Monday Dec. 20, 18h6. at 1:30 o'clock A.

Capt CHACSCKY TYLER, a native cf Connect! cut. and for many yeais a resident of this city WADE In this city on Monday, Dec. 20, 18-6. at 10:30 P. M.t Mrs.

KL1ZABKTH GATES, widow of the late Wels U. Wade, aged 3 years, a native of Liverpool, aud for twenty -one years a esident of this city. BUKKJC on Monday, Dec. 20. ISas.

at 7 P. J' KPH aged 38 years, a native of this city. O'BRIEN Tnesdar, Dec. 21, 186, at 7H o'clock RUTH, daughter of Joseph O' Brien and Elizabeth Bryant, aged 6 years, a native oi -New Orleans. MI RAM BELL In this city, at 1:30 o'clock, Wednenday morning, Deo.

22, 1886, JOACHIN MIHAMUELL, aged 65 years, a native of Barcelona, bpain, and for thirty years a resident of this city. CATTLEMAN At her residence, in 8t Joseph, on Dec. 12. 1886. at 3:20 A.

M. Mrs. LATJJtA C. LYT TLE. wife of Rev T.

i Calenian, 'deceased, aged 73 years, a native of Oark couniy. Va. McGLOIN On Sunrtav, Dec. 19, 1886. at 15 minutes after lo o'clock A.

M. JOSEPH, in-faut son of Judge Frank McGloin aud Alice Kleinpeter. GA KTN RK In Cincinnati, on Thursday, Dec. 10, 188t. after a lingering illness.

WM. ARL) UAKTNtR. aged 41 yers. MILLER On Tuesday, Dec. 2lRt.

1886. at 6 P. Mrs. CATHERINE. HILLEk.

widow of the late Wm J. Miller, aged 05 years, a resident of this city for re pant forty-five year. orange county. Mew York, papers please copy. HE EH AN On Wednesday, evening, Dec 82.

)88t, at 3:50 o'clock, LtwiiEKCE CHARLES, youngest sob of John J. Hheehan and I aura E. Dean, axed 1 year 3 months and 27 days. ZAERINGKR On Wednesday, Tec. 21, 1886, at 11 A.

ALBERT ZAKKlJSGtB, aged years 1 month, a native of New Orleans. HU8HMANN on Wednesday, Dec. 22. 186. at 8:30 P.

JOH IV WILBRA.NDT HU8S-M A aged 62 years, a native of Hanover, Germany, and a resident of this city lor the past thirty-seven years. MONDAOE Thursday, Dec 23 1886, at 11 O'clock A. GEO. W. MONDAGE.

native of Louisiana, aged 33 years. LITTRELL On Thursday morning, Dec 23, lSe6. Mrs. SUSAN E. AkTKRBCKN, relict of the Ut- Wm Littreil, native of Louisville.

aged 63 years 7 months and 23 days. Louisville, Ky and Natchez, papers please copy. COLEMAN On Thnrsday, Dec 23, 1886, at o'clock A. DENNIS, youngest son of Dennis and the late Margaret Coleiuau, and beloved husbatduf Bridget Cavenangh, aged 25 years 8 months and 5 days, a native of this city. AM Ed On Thursday.

Dee. 23. 1886. at 10:30 P. M.

Cant. B. R. AACKri, aged 74 years, a native of New London, and a resident of this city for fifty years. New fork, and.

New London, Coul. papers please copy. WILSON On Thnrsday, Dec 83, 1886, at 7 o'clock P. RUB r. A.

WILSON, aged 45 years, a native of this city. CoRN WELL At Hmithland. La, on Tuesday. Dec 31, 1886. at 7 o'clock A.

WILLI BLANKS CORN WELL, youngest son of H. G. Cornweil and Celeste Genin, aged 4 months and i dv. WEAVER At half-past 10 o'clock P. M.

Thursday, Dee. 2S. 186, JOHN WEAVER, aged 39 years 1 month and 23 days, a native cf this city. MORRIHSKY On Friday, Dec 24. 1886, at MARY ANN DOM AHOE.

-widow of the late Ed wa Morrl-sey, and 64 yea. a. native of couh Carlo. rlni, and a resident ot this city for the past toirty-nveyoara. The Wexford.

Carlow and Dublin (Ireland) papers pieae copy. FTLUSJ7L HTJBBfe On Tneeday. Dee. 31, 1836, aUtetVAlphonsus Church, by Rev. Father Jas.

Meyers. GABfc FILLJ6UL to JENNIE A- II BBS. No cards. HURLBUT LAGAY-BROTj At Chicago, 111., on Wednesday, 22d December. 1886, by Rev.

Mr. UcPherson. EDWARD N. HURL-BUT, of Chicago, to Mrs. BL AJS CHE LaGAY-B ROrj, of New Orleans, La.

BAHM LEWIS At the residence of Mr. Alfred R. Lewis, in Amite City, on Mondy, Dec. 20, 1886. by lder W.

F. Elliott, Mr. EDWARD FLaTCHEtt BAH of this parish, and Miss LOUISE LEWIS, of New Orleans. CL ARK De RU Y8 On Thursday. Dec.

16, 18S6, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, by tne Rev. Father Hubert, LOUIS B. OLA RK io Miss ROSA LEE DeBRUEYa, both of this city. No cards. BORLAND-LeNEVK Thursday evening, Dec.

16. 18-i. at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Borland, by Rev.

Tr. S. D. Hedges, Miss MAGGIE M. BOkLAND, of New Orleans, and JOHN L.

LB EVE. of ft. Louis, Ma. tt. Louis, G'aagow (Scotland) and Maryland papers pieat copy.

MATTHEWS DART On Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1888, at St. Paul ChufVV by the Rev. H. H.

Waters, CILTON O. MATTHEWS, of Avoyelles pariah, to MARY KMJLY, youngest daughter of Mary Piauche ai the late Henry Dart. DAVENPORT FERRIS-In this city, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1886, at the residence of ChiS. P.

Truslow, by the Rev. Thos. R. Mark-ham, J. HaRVEY DAVENPORT, of Houston, and EDNA E.

PERRIN. of New Orleans, La. Austin, Perrysburg, Ohio, and Charles, ton, W. papers please copy. PERCIVAL GA-QUET Tuesday, Deo.

14, 1886. at the Church of the Annunciation, by Right Re. J.N". Galleher, D. Bishop of Louisiana, Rev.

Dr. JOHN PEkCIVAL, of Boston. Derbyshire, England, and MARTHA I'liUA uAsaUET, of this city, daughter of the late amos Anthony Gaaquet and Emily Alice Dorsey. Louisville and New York papers please copy. WILCOX WILLIAMS On Saturday, Deo.

1, 1838, at the residence of the bride's parents. Nicholson, Mia GEORGIA WlLCOX, daughter of C. A. Wilcox, to HEN SON WILLIAMS, formerly of Cincinnati. Papers please copy; HACSMAN BOSCO-At Boston, Aug.

25, 1886, JOSEPH H. UADuUAN, of Savaunah. to AN.NABk.LLE EMERSON BOSCO. of ew Orleans, La. LUSHER SOUBY On Tuesday, Dec 21, 1886, at the Jesuits' Church, by Rev.

Father Hubert, NELLIl'A FLORENCE SOCBY to JOHN ROBERT LUSHER, both of this city. No cards. Indiana, Ohio and Toronto papers please copy. Distaiciii: ill Tteatrtcal Competltioii French Opera House, FREDERIC MAUGE DIRECTOR TO-NIGHT TONIGHT, First Time of the Great Operetta. Mme.

Boniface MONDAY, December 87, NO PERFORMANCE. TUESDAY, December 28. 8econd Time of the Great Success. LAW AND, ORDER LEAGUE. WORKINGMEN, TAKE NOTICE.

On THURSDAY, the 80th it 8 P.M. there will held at Werlein's Hall. cor. Por-dtdo and Baronne, a meeting of the Law and Order League, to hich you are earnestly invited. Business of great importance.

H. M. HARM AN, Sec. CHARITY HOSPITAL, STATE OF LOUISIANA, New Orleans. Dec.

26, 1886. TMs to Mr. Leon Lamoliu The Board of Administrators of the Charity Hospital avail themselves of this method to convey to Mr. Leon Lamothe their thanks for the benefit extended to the Ambulance Service" of the institution, by the Races held on the Opening Day of the present "Winter Meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 21.

They yielded net proceeds ot Three Hundred and Forty one Dolors By order: Edwin Marks, Treasurer. DIAMOND JEWELRY. THEODORE B. STARR, Importer and Manufacturer, No. 206 Fifth Avenue, (Madison Sqnare), NEW YORK, Invites inspection of the extensive stock In his establishment of very carefully selected goods, embracing the finest Diamonds and otker reel on stones.

Pearls, Jewelry Watches, Clocks, Sterling Silverware, Bronzes, Decorative Foroelatn, Cameo Glass Vases, etc o29 Sm2dp TEE GEESAMA IXSURMCE COSPASi SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT, 51 CAMP STREET 61 The only place of SAFETY, in which can be deposited, at a small cost, any valuables (of limited bulk), such as Baas Boxes, Money, Bonds. Titles. Jewelry, Silverware, etc. Applicants for safes or room are referred to the custodian for information as to terms, sew curily offered, etc H. ZUBERBIER, President.

EMILE WKBER. eeoretary. n28 lm IMPORTANT. shall present for publio inspection the Handsomest fehoes it has been my privllose to show. As I propose to lead and not follow, yet will find mr stock tbe moat complets for Beaut and Durab lity ever exhibited hee.

and my PKIC.ei are tue lowest In the eity. I am determined to sell the very hoes made for the money. Every pal- of f.h varrantexi. It will be to your lnte-ust to call and examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere. The Best Ladies' Button Boot $2 ana upwards, all other goods In proportion.

113 CANAL ST. d24 lm ACkEE'S EXGLISH REMEUT, Ker Cemcha, Asthma, Crwap mad all tmug Trwablra. ACKER'S BLOOD KMXFE. ACKJEIt'H DYSPEPSIA TABLET. If they fail to give relief after using two-thirds of the bottle, return ib and the money will be refunded by fredericksom', DnuaiM, 13V UmI m.

o4 '86 SnWeFriygdp Drs. Geo. J. A. G.

Friedrichs, OKAL USD DENTAL SURGEONS, 155 ST. CHARLES STREET. a8'8-6lyad JOI MCMISS, NEW ORLEANS. Dee.24.iB,-The undersigned oertifles that he hiV? collection, for account of Well, Bank, i-u Francisco, CaL. on.It,tKC No.

93.174. Single Louisiana tate Lottery, which drew to. Caoital Prize of ONE HUNDRKD FIFTY THOUSAND Dec 14. 1886. and that the amount T' ly paw.

bv acheck on the New OrleW ifffi; Bank, on presentation of the ticket at of the company. CHAS. 8 a TAW a Note Clerk Louisiana National Bank. leans. La.

A Suj. NEW ORLEANS, IDec tsag The undersign ed certifies that hm tZ. for collection, for account of JtUr -one-tenth of tioket No. 83.174. Bingli iri2 class M.

in the Louisiana State LolUn- -drew the First Capital Prize of DRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ivvr" LARS, on Tuesday. Dec 14, 1886 nVl! the amount was promptly pala, by-w5 on the New Orleans National Bank. sbT sentation of the ticket at the offlos rfT' oomnany. J. BENDERNaoel.

Notary 158 Common street. Clxj, A CARD. SI 50,000. NEW ORLEANS. Dec.

1. tga i The undersigned certifies that he held foreri. lection, for aooount of a depositor, ona-tejitkZ ticket No. 93.174. Single Number, ClaajTJf the Louisiana State Lottery, which First Capital Prize of ONE HUn AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAfcA Tueidar.

Dec. 14. 1886. and that the smountJII promptly paid, by a check on the New OrlslT wational Bank, on presentation of ths tlckst the olhce of the company. P.

CKOi. Roxiner Hlbernia National Bank. Saw leans. La. a.

46100,000. A C-- NEW ORLEANS. Dee. IS, IBgg The underals-red certiBes that heWa. the holder of one-fifth ot ticket 1 93,174.

single Number, Class at, ha Louisiana state Lottery, which drew ths IW Capital Prize of ONE HUSDKin Awn FIFTY THOUSAN DOLLARS, on TnZZ Dec 1 4. 1880. and that the amount was nromZa'' paid, by a check on the New Orleans Km Bank, on presentation of the tieket sTtts office of the company. PBa.5 Mitv Oshkosh. Wis.

150,0.00, A CJD- NEW ORLEANS. Deo. 12, 1888. The undersigned certifies that he nlte collection, for account of Wells. Fargo Oe-a Bank.

Ban Sranclco. one-teuth of -No. Single Numler, Claea 1C, nTtta Louisiana Mate Lottery, which drew thsiw Capital Prize of ONE HUNDRED ASB-FIFTY 'HOUS AND DOLLARS, on Tmaadty Deo. 14. 1886.

and that tho amount vhiwk! ly paid, by a check on the New Orleans tionai Bank, on presentation of the ticket at the office of the company. CHAS. SANTAS Note Clerk Louisiana National Bank, atf tr Orleans, La. A CARD. S150.000- 1KW ORLEANS, Dec The ur dersigoed certifies that he held tor eal.

lection, for aocoant of parties In New York, through their correspondent in this uty oa tenth of ticket No. 93.174. Single Kvmfcst: Class M. in the Louisiana SUte Lottery, whick drew the First Capital Prize of ONE BUS DRED AND FIKTY THOU8ABD D0 LARS, on Tuesday. Deo.

14, 1886, and that ths amount was promptly paid, by a check on ths New Orleans Natiorad Bank, on presentaUoa of the ticket at the office of the J. o. lallandxI Banner New Orleans National Bank, Nrv Orleans, La. S20.600J A CiP' New ORLEANS, Dee. 17, 1R1 The undersigned certifies that bs wm as holder ot De-fifth of ticket No.

M.S07, Slarls Number. Class 2C. in the Btttt Lottery, which drew the Third Capital Prize of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1886, "irt amotuft was promptly paid, on presentation; ox the ticket as the fncaet the company.

F. M. SBOsS, Crawfordsvnis, On, S20.000. A NEW ORLEANS. Dae.ao, i88i The undersigned certifies, that he heM foe collection, for account of Wm.

I OiguUUal, Savannah, one-tenth of ticket He. 93,507, 1 Single Number, Class M. in the Louisiana Stats Lottery, which drew the Third Capital PMss 'WE STY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Tse. day, Deo.

14. 1886. and that ths amount vis promptly paid on presentation ths ticket attheoffloeof the coaapany. C. A.

PARDUK. Agent Southern Express Company, Sew Or. leans, La. A D- NXW ORLEANS, Dec 20, 1S88. The undersigned certifies that bs hals forool.

lection, for aocoant of Wm. P.Brasy 1815 Fulton Avenue, KvamsvlUe. Ind, one-tenth ef ticket No. 92.607, Single Number, Classic. is the Louisiana State Lottery, which orew the Third Capital Prize of TWENTY TBOCSAVn DLLARS, on Tnesday, Dec 14, 1886, sad that the amount was promptly paid, oa prt-sentation of the ticket at the office ef ths eoav Pny- C.

A. PARDUX, Agent Southern Express Company, Nsw Ot. leans. La. 1 S20.000.

A CP- NEW ORLEANS. Deo. 22. 1888. The undersigned oertifles that he held for eat lection, for account of Lin soy Haydea, Evsoa.

ville. oue-tenth of ticket Bo. VIM, Single Number. Class In the Louisiana Bus Lottery, which drew the third Capital Pais Of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, St Tuesday, Dec 14, 188b, and that the aaout was promptly paid, on presentation of thUcXt at tho office of tho company. C.

A. PABDTfaV- Agent Southern Express New Orleans, ts. sao.000. OARI- i NEW ORLEANS, Dec H. 1M.

The undersigned certifies that ho held for collection, for account of Wells Fargo A Oaf Bank, San Francisco, Cax, one-tenth of tteket No. 92,507. Blngio Number. Class M. to the Louisiana State Lottery, which drew ths Thud Capital Prize of rWISTY THOUSAND DO I.

LARS, on Tnesday, Dec 14. 1886, and that fbe amount was prompt paid on presentttJas ef the ticket at the office of the company. CHAS. SAN TANA. Note Clerk Louisiana National Bank, of Orleans, La.

CARD Si 0.0OO. i.n NEW. ORLEANS, Dec 94. MSi The undersigned certifies that held far eat. lection, for 'account of Wei's, Fargo A Oa't Bank, San Francisco, CaL, one-teats and Prendergast, Baltimore.

through Baltimore, one-fifth of tick Ha. Single Number. Claaa ia the Lomist- ana state Lottery, which drew the Foofk capital Prize of TEN THOUSANP 0I LARS, on Tuesday, Deo. 14. 1886.

and tbat tho amount was promptlv paid on proses tati of tne ticket attheoflloeof tho company. CHAS. BANTAM Note Clerk Louisiana National Bank, Orleans, La. A CARD. SIO.OOO.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. l.l9a The undersigned certifies that no held collection, for account of C. 3. Kenowsll. 676 Superior street.

Cleveland. Ohio. oas-aXta, and E. S. Pool.

Bakersfleld. CaL, eno-snta of ticket No. 8712. Single Number. Class in the Louisiana State Lottery.

drew the Fourth Capital Prize of THOUSAND DOLLARS, on Tneeday, Deo. 1838. and that tho amount was promptly on presentation of tho ticket at tho offloo the company. A. PA RDCJC Agent southarm Express Co, Now Oxlesaa, 2tdp ILLINOIS CENTBAL JL HoliSay Eicnrsion Ticteft." Co.mclnr FRIDAY.

Decomb U.l and continuing uaui snuaiy a. i 1 the jlUuoie Central R. R. Co. will soil Bouaa Trip Tickets from Now Orleans to an Southern irtvlrfon at one faro tor tho Trip.

Good to return until and on January 187. J. w. cui.s.f a r. 11 a 5.