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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-20

nothing in this ordinance relating to canals
and levees shall be 60 construed as to imply
that the earth taken from canal and placed
upon it's banks shall constitute levee, but
only such deposits a. the committee may
decide to be necessary for levee purposes
shall be paid for.
Mr.. Shaw accepted the amendment, and
called for the yeas and nays on the ordi-
nance as amended.
The Mayor: You do not desire the reading
of the ordinance, but the vote by yeas and
nays9
Mr.. Shaw: lam perfectly willing it should
be read, but did not call for it as did not
believe the Council wanted it.
Mr.. Bonzano said he did not believe there
was any harm in having the ordinance
read.
The Mayor: If there is nobody who
wishes to have it read there is no necessity
| for it.
Mr.. Shaw: Yesterday morning every
member of the Council was served with Q
copy of this ordinance for the purpose Of
considering it. If any member desired ii
read, should move it myself. Does the
Administrator Of Assessments desire to have
it read?
Mr.. Bonzano: Yes, sir.
The ordinance was read down to the end
| Of section two, when Mr.. Bonzano moved
that the further reading be dispensed with
/ Mr.. Shaw seconded the motion. which
was carried.
m. Nfavor aaid he would AJAX tha rr;v;
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-20

Of Commerce.
SECTION l. Be it ordained by the Council
of the city of New Orleans, That the De-
| partment of Commerce is hereby organized,
and shall consist of:
One Administrator.
One secretary, with an annual salary not
One clerk, with an annual salary not ex-
ceeding $500.
One messenger, with an annual salary not
exceeding $500.
One superintendent Of wharfingers, with
an annual salary not exceeding $500.
One wharfinger for the First District,
with. an annual salary not exceeding $500.
One wharfnger Of the Second District,
with an annual salary not exceeding $500.
One wharfnger for the Third District,
with an annual salary not exceeding $500.
One wharfnger for the Fourth District,
| with an annual salary not exceeding $500.
-Four deputy wharfngers, one for each
| division, with an annual salary not exceed
| ing $1,000 each.
Four acting deputy wharfngers, one for
each district, at an annual salary not ex-
Two laborers, with monthly salary of $50
each.
Two laborers, with monthly salary of $50
each.
One laborer, with monthly salary Of
$50 50.
One superintendent of market inspectors,
with an annual salary not exceeding $500.
Twelve inspectors Of markets, with an
annual salary not exceeding $1,000 each.
One superintendent of fire department,
at an annual salary not exceeding $500.
SEC. g Be it further ordained, ETC., That
the Administrator of the Department OF
Commerce shall define the duties of the
foregoing officers and shall have the power,
under direction of the Council, to transfer
the officers in his department from one pc
! sition to another, as he may think such
transfer will be for the best interest of the
city.
SEC. g. Be It further ordained, etc., That
the warfngers shall be ex-oficio collectors
of levee duties, and ii that capacity shall
discharge all the duties Of collectors Of
levee dues, and be solely responsible for the
collection and payment Of t6o aame b the
Administrstof Of Finances, a1Id that ia
| deputJ vha<1nger lham = any n1apnez
assist = in1n:llee MI - WlnS1n6Is =
8: 8 !: s; !: .
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-01
DISCOVERIES BY ACCIDENT.
The Pendulum, Steam, Galvanism,
Gas and Artificial Pearls.

Not a few discoveries in the arts
and sciences have been made or
suggested by accident. The use of
the pendulum suggested by the Vi
bration ofa chandelier in a cathe-
dral: the power of steam intimated
by the oscillatiDg of the lid of the
tea-kettle; the use Of coal gas light
experimental upon by an ordinary
tobacco pipe of white clay; the
magnifying property of the lens
stumbled upon by an opticians ap-
prentice while holding spectacle
glasses between his thumb and fin
ger, are welIknown instances in
proof Of the fact.
Galvanism was discovered by ac-
cident. Prof. GalYani, of Bologna,
in Italy. gave his name to the ope-
ration, but his wife is considered as
actually entitled to the credit Of
the discovery. She being in bad
health, some frogs were ordered for
her. As they lay upon the table,
skinned, she noticed that their
limbs became strongly convulsed
when near an electrical conductor,
She called her husbands attention
to the fact; he instituted a series of
experiments, and in 1883 the gal
vanic battery was invented.
Eleven years later, with that dis
covery for his basis, Prof Alessan-
dro Volta, also an Italian, announc-
ed his discovery to the ''voltaic
pile"
The discovery of glass making
was effected by seeing the sand Wit
rifed upon which a fire had been
kindled.
Blancort says that the making OF
plate glass was suggested BY the
fact Of a workman happening to
break a erncibIe filed with melted
glass. The fluid ran under one Of
the large hagstones with which the
floor was paved. On raising the
stone to recover the glass il was
found in the form Of plate, such
as could not be produced BY the or
dinarv process Of blowing.
Glass pearls, though among the
most beautiful, inexpensive and
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naetir @sms.
One Glass too Much.


40, hOI he has drank one glass too much n
So hear the jeer.ug rabble say,
AS young man from the bar-room door
Goes reehng forth down the drunkard's e
way
And l'wondsr, as be staggers on,
How many, nsny thousands such
The same dark oad to ruin have gono
By drinking just zone glass too mueh.n
A maiden sits at the banquet board,
her eyes uHame and her checks afush,
Her lips have quafFed of the fiery draught,
That drives her pulse ia feverish gush.
Now she can laugh at the ribald jest,
She shrinks not from the lecherous touch,
The sentinel sleeps in that maiden's breast;
Aiasi she has siPPed zone glass too mueh.''
a pilot stands at the quivering helm,
Whiis the waves with Herce and angry roar
Are drifting his baI K thre' storm and dark
To rocks that frown on a dangerous shore.
II vain do his aerveless tremulous hands
With 'wilderei clasp ths tilier-rope clutch
A wreck Oh tie r cks,E corpse on the sandsl
Tine sailor hasi drank one glass too much
A thousand patriots carry their flag
In the hght for freedom, bold and highl
With lofty courage they're forcing back
The legiOns that strike At liberty
And shout Of triumph almost peals-
The coveted prize they almost touch
When, ah from bis horse their captain reels
Aud the day is lost by one glass too much
'One glass too much ~ Aye. tell ME whocau
low long may the reckless tippler pass
The poisonous dram to his thirsty lips
And still escape from the fateful glass
Young man, so strong in generous pride,
Fair maiden, so blesr with beauty touch,
., tamPer not with the tempting tide ?
The very first glass is the glass too much
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-01
Something About Yourself.

Supposing your age to be fifteen
or thereabouts, I can figure you up
to a dot. You 16O bones and 500
muscles; your blood weighs 25
pounds; your heart is inches long
and inches in diameter; it beats
70 times per minute, 1920 times
per hour, 1O0,800 per day, and &c.
722, 200 per year. At each beat a
little over two ounces of blood are
thrown ont Of it; and each day it
receives and discharges about seven
tons Of that wonderful fluid. Your
lungs will contain a gallon of air
and you inhale 24OoO gallons per
day. The aggregate surface of the
air cells of your lungs, supposing
them to be spread out. exceeds 90
600 square inches. The weight Of
your brain is three pounds; when
you are a man it viii weigh about
eight ounces more. Your nerves
exceed 10000, 600 in number.
Your skin is composed of three
layers and varies frequently from
one-fourth to one-eighth of an inch
in thickness. The area of your
skin. is about LOO square inches,
and you are subjected to an atmos-
pheric pressure of 10 pounds to the
square inch Each square inch Of
your skin contains $500 sweating
tubes or perspiratoFy pores. each
of which may be likened to a little
drain-tile one-fourth of an inch
long, making an aggregate length
Of the whole surface of your body
Of 2O1, ,166 feet or a tile ditch for
draining the body almost 40 miles
long
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-01
A SehOOl-BOy's Composition on the
Bull Frog.

The bull frog is green. IfIcould
jump like one Tcould beat a pig or
two pigs. Frogs is a bald-headed
animal, but can't draw timber for
meeting houses. III was a frog it
would hurt me to stand on my head
to see the President sworn in.--
Jane Martin red dress and hoop
ed at me when didn't know it. It
scared me so I jumped to. Iffrogs
could run with fire machine it
would be fun to 60 to, for they are
all Baptist. When they growl they
don't bite. Mother melted the bot
tom out Of her tea pot, and Lordy,
how dad ripped about it. Geese
have more feathers than young
frogs, but geese don't give milk
Nor does a wild frog. When ashes
are worth fifteen sents a bushel is
the best time to go a frogging; lit
tie frogs peep, but who is afraid2
Scrambled frogs are nice in cold
coffee, but If / had to be a frog or
little dog I'd be a polecat for then
somebody wouldn't pull my tail
I'm goin' to sell my dog and see
then if he won't fetch something
besides heas.
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| position, or to cause the lady tC
conceal aught from her parents, the
! young man frankly and manfully
asked Mr.. C. for his daughter
hand. Very angry grew the plant
er as he listened to the audacious
proposal. He stormed and swore
furiously and denounced the young
man as an ungrateful and insolent
upstart.
my daughter has always been
! accustomed to ride In her carriage, -
he said. "Who are you, sirY'
"A gentleman, sir" replied the
young man, quietly, and he left the
house.
The lovers were parted. The Ia
dy married soon after a wealthy
planter, and the young man went
out again into the world to battle
with his heart and conquer his un-
happy passion. He subdued it,
! but although he afterwards married
a woman whom he loved honestly
and truthfully, and was worthy of
his love, he was never wholly dead
to his first love.
The time passed on and the young
man began to reap the reward of
his labors. He had never been to
the house of Mr.. c. since his
cruel repulse by the planter; but
the latter could not forget him, as
his name soon became familiar in
every Yirginian household. High
er and higher he rose every year IN
til at last he gained position from
which he could look down upon the
proud planter. Wealth came to
him, too, When the great strug-
gle for independence dawned he
was in his prime, happy husband,
and one Of the most distinguished
men in America. The struggle
went on, and soon the ''poor sur
veyor' held the highest and proud
est position in the land
When the American army passed
in triumph through the streets of
Williamsburg, the ancient capital
Of Virginia, after the surrender Of
CORVALLIS, the officer riding at the
head of the column chanced to
glance up at one of the neighboring
balconies, crowded with ladies'
Recognizing one of them, he raised
his hat and bowed profoundly
There was a commotion in the bal
comics and some one called for wa
ter, saying that Mrs. Lee had faint
ed. Turning to young man who
rode hear him, the officer said
gravely:
Henry, I fear your mother has
tainted. You had better leave the
column and go to her."
The speaker was George Wash
ington, once the "poor surveyor"
but then commander-in-chief Of the
armies of the United States. The
young man was Col Henry Lee, the
commander of the famous Light
Cavalry Legion the lady was his
mother, formerly Miss C., the
belle of the Northern Neck.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-01
Luck-What Is It?

The man who marries the pretti-
est girl Of the place is said to be a
'lueky fellow and 50 Of him who
draws the highest prize at a lottery,
or, by the fortunate" turn Of af-
fairs clears the gulf between wealth
and want in an hour. And yet the
histories tell Us of all times tat,
with a terrible uniformity and eer-
tainty the men who come suddenly
possessed Of unearned Millions die
in misery,
Within five years a weil-to-do far
mer drew a quarter of a million dol
lars at a prize at lottery. The
whole country envied him his luck.
But he has since died from q style
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9isrfHanroHs.
OLD FOGY OBJECTIONS.
What was Said Against Improve
ment Forty Years Ago.


At the present day people can af-
ford to wonder at such foolish OBJ
jections as the following, which
were urged against railroads and
canals forty years ago in England
and the United States. In England
it was said that:
The gross exageration as to the
power of the locomotive may delude
for a time, but must end in the
complete modification of those con
cerned. We should as soon expect
the people to allow themselves to be
fired upon by Congreve's rockets
as to trust themselves to the mercy
of machine, running eighteen or
twenty miles an hour.
Mr.. Wood, in his history of rail
roads, says:
Nothing can DO more harm to
the adoption of railroads than the
promulgation of such nonsense as
that we shall see locomotives trav-
cling at the rates Of twelve, sixteen,
eighteen and twenty miles an hour"
1t was reserved for a learned
member of Parliament to distin-
guish himself with an objection to
the Liverpool and Manchester Rail
road still more pointed. He said
that he considered it very certain
that the cars could not run more
than three and a half miles per hour
and could not, therefore, come into
competition with the canal.
When Mr. Clinton, of New York,
proposed the Erie canal he was
laughed at on every hand. In the
spirit Of derision the question was
asked: Where will the water come
from to ill this great diteh?' The
answer was given in the same spirit
of derision: "Yon need have no
fears on that subject; the tears of
the people will fill it." When the
Albany and Buffalo road was pro-
posed it was objected to as useless,
inasmuch as it was to run side by
side with the Erie canal distance
of $50 miles; yet such has been its
success in freight and passengers
that it has been found necessary to
construct another parallel road, of
greater length, from Dunkirk to
New York.
1t was in July, 1920, that the Liv-
erpool and Manehester--the first
railroad in England-was opened.
In 1926 the first railroad charter
was granted in the United States;
and that was for road from Quin-
cy to Tide-water In 1927 the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad company
was chartered. In 1929 it was put
in operation by horsepower. Only
about forty years have elapsed, and
in spite of wise objeetors there are
now in Europe, the United States,
Canada, India and New South
Wales over 70,136 miles Of railroad
costing $685.. .2S7, ,065.
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common ornaments owned by the
ladies, are produced by a singular
/ process. In 1856 a Venetian, nam
ed Jaqain, discovered that the
scales of a fish, called black-fsh,
possessed the property of commu-
nicating pearly hue to the water
He found by experimenting that
beads dipped into this water as
sumed when dried the appearance
of pearls. It proved, however, that
the pearly coat when placed outside
was easily rubbed of, and the next
improvement was to make the beads
hollow. The making of these
beads is carried on to this day in
Venice. The beads are all blown
separately. By means of small
tube the inside is delicately coated
with the pearly liquid, and a wax
coating is placed over that.
It requires the scales of over I, ;
900 fishes to produce half a pint of
the liquid, to which a small salam-
monia and isinglase s:se afterward
added.
Lunday Foot, the celebrated
snuff manufacturer; originally kept
a small tobacconist shop at Linn
merick. One night his house,
which was uninsured was burned to
the ground. As he contemplated
the smoking ruins on the following
morning, in a state bordering on
despair, some of the poor neighbors
cropping among the embers for what
they could find stumbled upon sew
eral canisters Of unconsumed but
half-baked snuff, which they tried
and found so pleasant to their noses
that they loaded their waistcoat
pockets with it. Lunday Foot,
aroused from his stupor, initiated
their example and took a pinch of
his own property, when he was
struck by the superior pungency
and flavor it had acquired from the
great heat to which it had been ex-
posed. Acting upon the hint, he
took another house in a place call
ed Black Yard, erected ovens, and
set about the manufacture of that
highly dried commodity which
soon became widely known as Black
Yard snuff. Eventually he took a
larger house in Dublin, and making
his customers pay lite: ally through
the nose, amassed a great fortune
for having been ruined.
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In the c unity Court Of Lawrence.

Alfred Bishop ct ais. rs. VIM. Burns ct ais
this case it appearing 10 the court Fl ON
4 petition of petitioner, which is sworn to-
that William BurnS and NJ. B.. Bishop
are non residents or IN State of Tennessee.
so that the ordinury process of law cannot oe
served on them On motion it is therefore or
dered by the Court hat publication be made
for four consecutive weeks in the Pulaski
iJizen," newsPape published in Pulaski.
Tenn. requiring the said defendants TO ap-
pear before the Judge of the County Court
of said county of Lawrence, at the cou &
house in the town OF Lawrenleburg on the
First Monday in July next, anc plead,
answer ur demur to >aid petition. or the
same will be taken rs confessed, and set for
hearing ex parte 30 them.
mayz5-4t wa. GILMORE Clerk.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-01
II Chanesry at Pulaski,
May RULES, 1871

EDWARD H. MoCoRD aud others vs..
Eliz beth Buford, Exeeutrix, aud others
\ this cauSeit appears to the satisfaction
4 Of the Clerk d Master from atfdavits fled
that the defendants, Lucinda O Clark, Jose
Phine U Keeney, g Keenev, Jas Brown,
Margaret Brown. Francis Z Holiaes, Surab
Z Glasgow, VIM Glasgow. Evelne Graves.
William Graves, Mary Furguson, d Furgu-
son, Alice @ peland aud James Copeland
are nOn-residents of the State of Tenn
eSsee, go that the ordinary process IF this
court cahnot be served on them; On motion
il Is therefore ordered that publication be
made for four weeks ia succession in the Pu-
laski Citizen. u newspaper published in the
town of Pulas HI. iD said State requiring said
defendants to be and appear on the first day
Of the next term of the ChHncery ourt. to
he held for the county OF Giles at the court
house in Pulaski on the lst Monday in Sep
Jemb T next and answer complainauts bill j,
or thesa Will be tn ken for confessed as to
him and set for hearing ex-parte.
mHyle " +. B :. ENTINE, C. m
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Social Degeneration.


A New York journal makes men
tion of a fashionable lady of that
city, the mother of several daught-
ers, who remarked, not long since,
that if it devolved upon her again
to rear another family of girls, she
would prefer to let them run wild
on the prairies to educating them
within the pale of what is called
New York fashionable society,"
This prompts the Washington Pa
triot to the following true but sad
reflections: Fashionable society,
not only in New York, but every
where else where it exists, means
the mingling of money, vulgarity,
ignorance and gilded vice, and in
some quarters it would be, to our
thinking, quite as dangerous to
rear a young woman amid its asso-
Citations and coarse culture as to en-
trust her education to persons of
pronounced bad character. In re-
gard to those so-called ''fashiona-
ble'' young women one thing is GER
tain, and that is that there are many
thoughtful, observant and expert
enced men who would utterly reject
the thought Of selecting a wife from
among their number. This is not so
pleasant to reflect upon, but it is
very true"
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A Rich Editor.

What is the world coming to?-
The Millennium must be nigh at
hand! There is a rich Editor at
Gallatinl Col Boyers, Of the Ex
aminer, appears to be the fourth lar
gest taxpayer on the books Of the
Revenue Assessor, and we know
that be was as poor as q church
mouse when the Confederate ban
ner went "ghere the woodbine twin
eth" We never expected to live to
see the day to announce the above
extraordinary intelligence. The
Examiner started out "to win and
has done it. Il owns its large f. e
proof building on the square, erect
ed since the war expressly for s
printing Office, and is chock fuIl Of
type and material, with splendid
modern fast machine presses, with
every appliance for the perfection
Of the "art preservative OF all arts.'s
In the extent Of its appointments
It equals or excels many a metro
poIitan establishment Of high pre-
tensions. And this is what good
pluck has donet But still-wbat
IS the world coming tor A rieA Ed
itor is such a rare bird shat the idea
sets Us laughingl VIII there ever
be Hartsui2is VidstEs.
How can you talk so1 Dent
you know that your story Is too IN
credible for people to believe. A
rich Editorl Who ever heard of
such q thingY
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-01
Love and be Happy.

It is the easiest thing in the
world to be happy, ifmen and wo4
men would only think so. Happi
ness is only another name for love;
for where love exists in a household
there happiness must also exist,
even though it has poverty for a
companion. Where love exists not,
even though it be a palace, happi-
ness can never come. He was a cold
and selfish being, who originated
the saying, "When poverty comes
in at the door love flies out at the
window" and his assertion proves
conclusively that he had no know
ledge Of love; for, unquestionably,
the reverse Of the axiom is nearer
the truth. When poverty comes in
at the door, love. true love, is more
than ever inclined to tarry and do
battle with the enemy. Let those
who imagine themselves miserable,
before they find fault with their sur
roundings search their own hearts
for the cause. A few kind words
or a little forbearence, wiz often
open the way to a food Of sunshine
in a house darkened BY the clouds
Of discord and unamiability.
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Circuit COurt-Giles County
WilinmJ. Hill, Plaintiff
.iIas Coz. pefsndant. A''ao nne"'.


<ilas Cox, Defendant,
this cause It appearing to the Clerk that
the attachment heretofore issued has been
returned levied 1pOn the interest of the de-
dendant. Siias Cox. in two tracts Of land-
being "a in tract OF 529 acres, and y in
"a tract Of 220 acre~, in the 4th civil Giserict
~ Giles county; also his interest in three
mites upon WIN. Malone for s666 .6G each
payable at one, two and three years respect
lively from the 2sth day Of Murch. is7I-
And it further appearing that said attach
mrnt was issued upon the aIfidavit of the
plaintiff tLat the defendant is indabte 20
him ia the sum of ESge IhoUsGad LOllars as
dumages for an assault &c and that the
defendant is a non resident of the State
of Tennessee, so that the ordinary process of
law cannot be served on him on motion il Is
Therefore ordered BY .he Clerk that pnbiie,-
ton be made for four weeks in succession IN
the PULASKI GITIzE. - newspaper pub
lished in Pulaski Giles county Tenn. re-
curing the defendant. Silas Cox. TO appear
al the next term of this court to he held at
the court house in the town of Pulaski on
the fourth Monday n .luly next. anil answer
and defend this suit, or tile same will be tsi-
ken for confessed as co him and set for hear
ing eT-PaTte. (mayl9 Al
IT, INSTANTLY. Clerk.
Jas. & W. n. McCALiUM, Att'ys.
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A Keokuk woman has made ap-
plicstion for a divorce from her
husband on the plea that he IS an
"infernal fool" The husband. BY
centesting the suit. has pretty well
substantisted the charge.