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| North America:The eleventh Democratic national convention meets in Baltimore to nominate Horace Greeley.
The fifth Republican national convention meets in Philadelphia to nominate Ulysses S. Grant. |
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January 1872
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February 1872
The Rex organization is created in 1872, giving Carnival a major day parade, as Russian Grand Duke Alexis Romanoff is part of the festivities. The Grand Duke spends much of his visit at the new Fair Grounds. Lewis J. Salomon is the first Rex who helped organize the first parade whose theme is the Arabs. A group of his young friends who hang out at the St. Charles Hotel decide that the throngs of promiscuous maskers need a parade. Salomon gets 50 of his friends to donate $100 each and he names them Dukes. Every one is mounted wearing flowing robes. He borrows a Richard III costume from a Shakespearean company. The parade starts at the cotton press on Baronne and Poydras about 11 a.m. with Marines and federal artillery the king and dukes on horseback and individual and groups of marchers spread over several blocks. The route went down Magazine to Canal then up and down both sides of that street onto St. Charles, past City Hall, to Lee Circle and back to the cotton press. More than 60,000 people jammed the neutral ground of Canal Street. Two years later Lewis J. Salomon moves to New York, marries the daughter of a federal colonel. and by 1921 his firm has a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. The king of Carnival gives Mardi Gras its first daytime parade, its official flag and colors, and its anthem, If Ever I Cease to Love. |
March 1872
Eliza Jane Poitevent marries Col. Alva Morris Holbrook the editor of the Picayune in March of 1872. A month later Holbrook’s ex wife returns from New York and attacks Eliza in the bedroom of her new home. She shot twice and missed her, then whacked her about the head with a bottle of bay rum until the diminutive Eliza escaped covered with blood. The demented woman then attacked the furniture with an ax. Later in the year Holbrook has to sell his newspaper. Two years later he bought it back at a profit because the merchants who bought it knew nothing about running a paper successfully. |
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November 1872
William Pitt Kellogg resigns from the U. S. Senate to run against John McEnery as a Republican candidate for governor. Although the State Returning Board, controlled by Henry C. Warmoth is now supporting Democrat McEnery, a new board is organized by Grant to clean up Louisiana politics. Both William Pitt Kellogg and McEnery claim victory, backed by their respective returning boards and are inaugurated by two separate legislatures. See May 1773. |
December 1872
Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback is acting governor from December 9, 1872 until January 13, 1873 while Warmoth is impeached. 1872 December 9 Henry C. Warmoth is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. Pinchback becomes acting governor. The Knights of Momus, third oldest parading group, holds its inaugural parade on New Year’s Eve. |
| Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas, French Impressionist master whose mother and grandmother were born in New Orleans stays at his family’s home at 1206 Esplanade for five months. He paints 15 works here including one of his cousin Estelle Musson, which is at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Another titled The Cotton Office in New Orleans is considered a masterpiece of 19th century naturalism. | The New Orleans Athletic Club has its beginnings as fourteen men organize the Independent Gymnastic Club. In 1874 they will incorporate as the Young Men’s Gymnastic Club and by 1929 they will be come the New Orleans Athletic Club which still exists at 222 North Rampart Street. Metairie Race Track sold and becomes cemetery. Louisiana Jockey Club holds its first race at the Fair Grounds, which was the old Creole Race Course, a Harness racing course from the late 1850s. | L’Union Française is organized in 1872 to help French families in New Orleans in their transition to life in the United States Drummer and band leader George Vitelle Papa Jack Laine is born. He is the first major white figure in New Orleans jazz history. | LaPlace is the site of the disastrous Bonnet Carre Crevasse, 1872-1883, which cut a channel from the Mississippi to Lake Pontchartrain. Port Vincent is originally a Spanish settlement and early port on Amite River route from Mississippi River via Bayou Manchac. First called Scivicque’s Ferry for Vincent Scivicque, native of Italy. Site of parish courthouse 1872-1881. An educational institution for girls established in New Iberia by the Sisters of Mt. Carmel. The order was founded in 1825 in Tours, France. The old building which is nearest Bayou Teche was constructed by Henry F. Duperier in 1826. |
The house at 2343 Prytania Street is built for Bradish Johnson, popularly known as the Indigo King. Designed in the Renaissance Revival Style by James Freret, it became the Louise S. McGehee School, an exclusive girl’s school in 1929.
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