Show an old new orleans custom if yon have plenty time to loaf and observe everything thai passes before your gaze yon will notice on nearly every post in the french quarters there are little hand bills tacked ap and bearing the heading decode beneath this there is additional printing all however in french these are death notices which seemed to be used instead of the newspapers to announce the invincible hand they state the hour of the funeral etc and the name of the deceased As a general thing these notices are tacked up all over the french section in an hour after the person has died I 1 noticed several upon which ache printers ink had scarcely dried and which announced the demise of some unfortunate which had taken place only a few minutes before new orleans cor rich mond dispatch |