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Show I the work, said: "The Italians who are j doing this work are of a different class altogether from the Now Orleans Italian Ital-ian who killed Hennessey, and they are in perfect sympathy with the Americans Amer-icans who shot our evil-minded coun-irvmcn." THE MONUMENT TO 1IENNKSSKV. The monumeot which is to be erected in New Orleans, iu memory nt the late lief of Police Hbnnesmky is nearing i mplciioii at the works of tho llaliu-v.cll llaliu-v.cll (Me.) Granite company. Tho in-iimmeiit has three baees, the lowost Bcven and one-half feet square. On the top base the namo ''Hennessey" is chiselled in raised letters. The capital is two feet in height, with panuolled aides. Surmounting ihn capital is a plain granito column thirteen feet in he'ght. At the foot of tho column is tho coat of arms of the state of Louisiana, Louisi-ana, and above that is a representation of the dead chief's badge. From the draped top of tho column are suspended a policeman's belt and a club like those worn by the dead chief. A singular circumstance in connection with this monument is that seven of tho nine men employed in making it arc Italians. Speaking of til tt, Josti'ii Aiicui, who has cbargsuet-j |