The Times-Picayune from New Orleans, Louisiana • Page 1

ADVEBTI3EMENT8. DIED of the family. uric Uitie. and of Raymond, to the city and of K2pS i A5D ACTIVES ESS? IS. at lO o'clock.

A.M.. John G. Fleming. A FITTER fPSALE Of GAS FIITUBES, eroora promptly and faithfully attended University of Louisiana. theFacu ry.

AJLThSTION BtJegates to the Convention Moody's, BLEAK NATIONAL BAN hL, Jf o. 34 (amp otreo. OND DEPABTMENT. jBJs. en the Atlantic, Mlasiasipoi STB JOHN WILSON, W.

AD a Agents. the congregation character. The front and cupola repainted. perfectly a staging, the large and sweet toned organ gallery and placed In the i pnipit. The conslderablj the change gallery stairways mo Balks By Ki sac' FINE DENTISTRY.

Dr. J. H. Maloney, Josephine, corner Gamp str wt. rtaawhioh Ua gTiaaaM of Uto snaanorttr 356,432 GENUINE SINGER SEWING MACHINES Sold in 1878.

Tnojtwmdrtta owntafwrenoe. PRICES EREATLY REDUCED. The Singer Manf'g S. E. KI NDLE.

Agent, 85 Cana' street 615 Magazine st Butterick Pattern. Milliken's Philadelphia Linen Store, ftittl Arch hi reel. 1 KOrVJ LA Was, 95 Choice NOTICA KMu TaUB DAY BKBf 3 Tor. tnToi.Oer.lgiiea Ij, no toa nser connect. auditorium of the upper story has been an.

dergoing thorough repair at the baml of carpenters and painters. The necei. ary work baa been at length brought to a satis factory completion, and the public la now invited to attend the Sunday services in the ave been The roof baa been tightened aud cored. The entire Interior ha sty le. Mr.

Hang, the artist, has displayed excellent taate and MO, and the oongrega tton baa every reason to be pleaaed with the beauty and appropriateness of thee one danth lowtog'ootoiatTw: TufuivurZL Maaa PLAITS WHITE LINKS BRBSS LAWS, foil yJd wide, at 6fl. 62, US. 76, 87 cens ln ack and eon moaning Line Laone. duo qnadtlea. at 35 osuts pw yard.

3lliiiien i4 Linen Lawns tO utSM ATOtitrBo? PhttaSeipW PRIVATE BHJ PUUir ULA. PRf tttw. FBIDA Y'S AFTBBNOQy EDITION STljc (foemng fJixagime. NICHOLSON PROPRIETOR MRS. E.

NICHOLSON. GEO. NICHOLSON. Mb W. LLOYD, MAMAOmO EDITOR.

FRIDAY EVENING, MAT Merchants doing business with I the Southwestern states, win advertising 11 Bayard Tajlors lecture on Goethe is lost. It should be delivered again to tire widow. In the search for concealed weapons a fellow feeling makes us woo droualy ugly. Edison occasionally stops in the midst of his great work to make a little crawling bog. Sond rate billiard players are always playing with each other for the championship.

Christian Russia is advancing backward, and proposes to keep Jews out of her territory. A man called by a police court to ive op ten dollars is naturally cited. A cat on its back, holding up a hollow ball with its legs, is the newest device for a sugar bowl. If a loafer cannot stand on the street corners Be might as well be a working man. It is expected that the measles will xn break up some of the juvenile 'Pinafore'' parties.

the same corner. A barber will sometimes ask if his razor hurts you as feelingly as if it gave him real satisfaction to know it. Max Maretzek thinks the time ha come for establishing American opera. He is about forty years br bind Jim Crow Rice. A irginia lady has a pet pigeon rhat dances to the music of a harp.

Cutting the pigeon wing will be an easy ngure lor the bird. A Western paper announces in the line of poetry that What Makes a Woman is on tile, and will be used as soon as room for it can be found. The New York Herald says Superintendent Kiddle is not so much langhed at because he is a Spiritualist as because he is a fool. The Utica Herald announces the opening of the canal season by saying: "The festive mule will bein cavorting on the tow path to day "Tell Me How to Woo Thee" will never be a popular song. The response would be a dead give away on the part of the girl.

A Mattie Potts, of New York, tramping on foot, with resolution in her eyes and a small valise in her right hand, is on her way from Philadelphia to New Orleans The play of Camille' which died of consumption twenty years ago, is only revived successfully by jes ka, who has a thin face and an aristocratic cough. It has been figured out that if a man weighs ODe hundred and nfry four pounds, one hundred and eleven pounds of that weight will be water, no matter what he driiiks. The paragrapher of the Picayune calls the jolly minstrel a banjovial So, also, might the bone player be styled a rib rattler. Baton Rouge Herald. It is the worst joke of the season.

There ia nothing anonymous about an article that has au avowed author. A sympathetic Boston man speaks of Freeman, of Pocasset, as "simply and solely the victim of a false conception of He should have killed himself, instead of his little daughter. As regularly as new moons come North? 1 papers state regularly that Paul Murphy is reported insane. Mr. Morphy is a quitt little gentleman, engaged in minding his own business, which fact is perhaps sufficient reason for meddling correspondents to call him crazy The Paris another' 0.000 a year.

Wuklt Picatttnb, which baa an old estab llahed and immense circulation throughout the entire planting belt and commercial area of these regions. By this means they will secure to themselves Country Orders and increase their business at a com para dvcly trifling cost. Bend in your adverttse menta to oar Weekly and watch the result. THE POWERS OF THE CONVENTION. The discussion in the Convention on Thursday as to the powers of that revealed a conspicuous difference of opinion among the members.

The controversy arose out of the re 1 01 tot a majority of the Judiciary Committee against a proposal to pass a special ordinance concerning appeals from certain parishes. The ordinance was intended, by its projectors to operate as a repeal of an existing statute. It would be, in fact, an act of legislation. The majority of the committee report against it. The minority report in The issue was made up and presented on the question of the power or the Convention to perform this or any other act of legislation, and the argument included an examination of the nature of constitutional bodies and the scope and limitation of their powers.

Those who opposed the majority, report took the broadest views of the inherent power of the Convention, attributing to it the nature of aovereignty claiming for it powers limited only by the constitution of the United States; and asserting it to be, in theory and in law, an assemblage of the people of the State in their sovereign political capacity. Those who favored the majority report viewed the Convention as a body called, created and organized for a single purpose, that of framing a State constitution. They believe that its functions are limited to the discbarge of this duty; that it has no original inherent powers that it can provide the machinery of government but cannot govern, and that its work is inoperative until it is submitted to and ratified by the people of the State. Between these two theories the Convention will have to It is to be hoped that the decision will be in favor of that view which coincides with ibe actual precedents established by all recent State constitutional conventions, and which will Jivert the inconveniences and embarrassments that would certainly tiow from the assumption of unlimited power to legislate as well as to organize. Let it be conceded that Judge Lands theory of the omnipotence of the Convention is true as a proposition of abstract law what would follow from giving vit ality toit as a practical rule of action? It would follow that the Convention could constitute itelf the permanent government of the State that it could endow itself with perpetual succession that it could limit the electoral body to a small number of favored persons that it could even destroy the electoral body altogether; that it could establish itself as an oligarchy, preserving the form, perhaps of republican government, but abolishing its essence; that it could make and unmake the judi 1 nary to suit itself, and so assure the maintenance of its supremacy through the decisons of dependent I legal tribunals that it could frame I schemes of taxation levy taxes and collect taxes create debts, or repudiate debts at its option; and that, under pretense of exercising sovereign power, it could de stroy private rights, destroy per 1 onal liberty, and destroy popular sovereignty itself.

These are all logical deductions from the theory of the omnipotent sovereign power of the Convention. Whatever strength this theory may have as an abstract legal proposition, it loBes when confronted with its logical consequences. The common sense of the people teaches them that no set ot men, even a set of men called a constitutional convention, can rightfully assume to be endowed with powers which really have no existence except under despotic governments maintained by military force. The common sense of the pnblic teaches them tl at there is no such thing as sovereignty in the sense of that omnipotence which the supporters of the doctrine claim for it. Not the convention or the majority of the electors have any ab.

olute right to govern anybody still less have they an absolute right, or a legal right, to destroy or impair those fundamental rights which lie at the basis of sccial organization and to protect which governments are instituted among men. The theory may have been different fifty years ago It may have been different twenty live years ago. But all recent conventions, whether or not they have formally renounced the pretension to sovereign omnipotence, have, in practice, confined themselves to the eingle function of taming an law to be submitted to the judgment ot the practically a close corporation of Torie and never elects a representative pear ti diltepeurles. Within tbe past thirty years nine Irish gentlemen have been made peers by Liberal governments, and by the Tories. Three only.

A chief 'reaeenhytbe WhihSve hen so generous of peerages to Irishmen is LATtST TBLBGRAPH FOftEIG INTELLIGENCE Dublin to Have a New University. Germany Enters Into Treaty with Samora, sranhlps and exhibitions, at a 00 1 1.500. OOP. to be defrayed from the I Foester and an opinion The bill was according ty of Commons, to day, Mr. aeererary 01 atate Foreign AnVira, said he beUeved it to be cor i ecrthat Germany had concluded atrey Trading Com paalrs LlaMlttteo 70.000.

London. May IS Two companies me a reeiiiglng and Com efilCHESSS" losses are mainly in Holland and the United States. Bauer A Company, London ageutt sveertnglag Count Court Oi appro ved. The award of the Judge of the Durham County Court yesterday, in tbe case suo luitted by tbe ooai owners and workmen educlDg wages for underground labor ier surface labor 6H per i Miorigly disapproved In alt parts of the mSsar whether bey IMUa wort Monday at the reduction. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Remarkable Billiard Hatch Schaefer and Slosson Try Conclusions. CHICAGO. Mchaeler.PioeoM Billiard Match. May 15. A remarkable Miliar Jacob Schaefer and George Slosson.

Tbe the' follow iig' results Schrfe jesj exceeded by 226 points. SAN FRANCISCO. AH Quiet la Ala Ua Attempted Doawrttoa San FRAKciseo. May 16. A dispatch from Victoria says Tbe steamship California.

Alarka was lying at anchor in the haroor ix of her crew attempted to desert a re days ago by swimming ashore, having flrsi denned lile preservers. They wre tracked INDIANAPOLIS. I Arty registered 1 BASEJAJLL. NNATi. May 16.

Cincinnati May 15. Chloago 7. 5 Mayi NORWICH, CT. sley Bishop, who was accused of poison his wife and conspiring with Mrs. Kate lh for the murder af her husband, it is nounced that the State's attorney will ept a plea of guilty of murder in the FOREIGN MARKETS.

P' Bu Cplands. Low Middling clause. May and July and August 7 7 32d. Market for yarns and fabrics at Manchester urmer and slightly dearer fox all ae ULthjn, Mayie. PjMB7Jei flrm tor expert wo; actual exports SMS; 3.000; American 14.000: stock 8 500.000; afloat 300 ot Au cltar middles 6d.

fo nert'ineM? (N. yTpTstt, rTJ 5 VSSdrpSm wrong committed. The accused has been la jgenBaker' dted the caaa. of the LrvBHFOOL, May 15. Arrived Horrax.

LOCAL MISCELLANY. a reports 1 Jfew Orleans aur i Thursday night 6 ally pleasant weather with slightly Ught rains' riON 8CKKE. d.y Sight. Wednesday night a waders in the vicinity of Clay Statue rubbed ttaatr eyes In astonishment at beholding iu pagoda like structure's, tastefully auited aad adorned with architectural ieioes. Ttese buil.liugs are the work of Messrs.

L'Hote A of the well known laning mil and sash factory hie b' formerly Last evening a large number of people as eiobled in the Coliseum Baptist Church to orrnal Sunday school class. This lecture mmmmgm regular aeries inaugurated nllF'aanota ve Cattra1cUe theme ut the leewrerurrounuYtfwlth Interest ore conolndirg his remarks, and the lec urewas Instructive. Tbe next lecture of the series will be delivered by Rev. Geo. Bristor, of Am Bible.

At midnight, Thursday, tbe Mrs. Kaiiner. on Love street, rear of the building. ana Mr. aimer caused the burglar.

te derived irom th theprinclpal tei city government atniocould' 'be syndicate were foruii capitalist and speculator, such a high tbe enforcement of tbe weapsTse'veral amusing inefdena have On the occasion of the recent entertain tols are a necessary adjunct. Each person of the male sex was searched as he entered. At length there appeared two young men of who iirn edlately attracted the clot tiny of the vigUant Janlasaries narSvedd SS fiSWhJS the door, they one from either side ooped uown upon taeir victims. Having Tlmrsday morning at 11 o'clock William arhf poat'3 LD KESLASS, Wae Try to KIM a Erbw Macaase He Ob. VeMaU a.

seaaeof the chevaliers hold ort'h'Si1 at Charles 1 embler8 who The said hewasuriHljied to hear Fnrtav morning as an assistant to Surgeon Hpo t.tto M' A BJOTLBsS SEARCH. ky. the residence of theae3 tub crana bak. at ate ol IulsUna ex relai C.E irar 5.1 E. Glr'utey the matter tmiimr LotI Reels.

etc. Intba matter of the minors Victoria ThaneiSaawn, of "ioaeph Beraad has bean TWrd Blattlct Court young man wore low auarter shoes. THE COURTS. axtha'mct Cirta'of 'tUipanaafdnw lng the Jury Commissioners to select and ARRAIGNMENTS. Carrying concealed weapon George Morrison, George Bah.

larceny Joefu I Hayes a J. Robinson. Morris Jones. Embezzlement Joaepu' Wagner Jodge Wbitaaer read the following opinion on the challenge to the array ot juroi. made by the defense and submitted in brief Three of the points raised by this ehal then maturely considered aud passed up has' not reunited In muj change of oplai TbeoihUou urged la Eythe iirjM otuiuis luuersatojieteno.

another list of aco naiuei the presence ol the nmlasl; those uJorTS Tr ourt'and SSS hsTtor oceurTaaV a violation of law In this. Two commis make a qoorum. and me Sheriff tnat all make the selection of the namei Theieisnodouhtthattneooai "unconsidered that the eh allonge la ever tel Mmon yeia partortbe toi 1 raajuVsts we! i hen called and all but nve cbailenged. Tt.e list being exhausted, the absent jurors F.wrthDlatrictCeart. Sbwabaoher.

dVlala ranee Company vs. C. G. Wayne. Widow Anais Berens vs.

Joe. Paul La Franco" P. Beutte Judgment on agamat to pay to Sheriff r. tamed, and directs "the 1 Judge John A. CamDb dl argwmawt to night on the exceptions ia the City of New Orleans vs.

Workingmenja BTbecity has Sled its answer to the in tef opposinon State va Da Roche, (20 3i.) Margaret oSrJ jfl ever may to him..