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The Placer herald., 1871-09-09
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.

YVHE PROPRIETOR HAVING RECENTLY
j purchased. and fitted up a portion of the
fre-proof brick block. adjoining his well known
stand, is prepared 70 extend additional accom-
furnished appointments and good beds can always
be found at this House-an excellent table set,
and the best 81 LIQUORS and CIGARS kept at
the Bar. 'E
Oysters aud Pigs Feet served up at all hours.
janl-ea no. 'r7 A. ADREAN.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-25

Forty.Fourth Days Session.
SENATE CHAMBER,
Thursday, February %, 1871.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Present: Hon. o. j. Dunn, Lieutenant
Governor and President Of the Senate. and
Messrs Anderson, Antoine, Barber, Black
man, Bowman, Butler, Campbell, COPELAND,
Daigle, Fish. Futch, Gallup. Harris. Her
wig, Hunsaker, InSraham, jerks, kelsO,
Lewis, Lynch, McMillen, holland. O'Hara,
Pierce, Pinchback, Raglan, Ray, Smith,
Swords, Sypher, Thomas, Thompson, Todd,
Twitchell, Whitney, Wileox-36.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
The minutes of the previous days session
were corrected and their reading dispensed
with.
REPORTS FROM EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.
Mr.. Campbell, State Land Register, sub
mitted the following report:
TO the Honorable the Senate and House of Repre-
sentativcs OF the State of Louisiana:
In accordance with section two of act No.
s., extra session of 1870 approved March
49, 1870, l submit the following statement
of the disposition Of the contingent fund
appropriated for the benefit of the State
Land Office for the year 1870:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-25
2. +. HERWIG.
Chairman;
PATRICK O'HAR.A,
SAMUEL $. BOWMAN.

New Orleans, February Il, lo' }
To Hon. p F. IIcrwg Chairman of the Committee
on Militia, Senate of the State OF Louisiana:
SIR-We would respectfully request that
the committee. Of which You are chairman.
report favorably on the militia bill now be-
fore You.
The amount of two hundred thousand
dollars. i'll our opinion. is not too much. as
most OF this appropriation will be expended
i'll purchasing improved arms. The artll-
lery is unprovided with its proper arms,
and we should have, in this important
branch of our service, at least eight Gatlin.
six twelve FOUNDERS. eight NapoleonS and
six ten-pounder Parrot guns. The infantry
should he armed with the Remington rifle,
an arm superior to any now i'll use.
Every citizen of this State with whom we
have conyersed upon this subject. is of the
opinion that the General Assembly should
make liberal provision for the militia. and
encourage us i'll keeping Np our organization.
JAMES LEWIS,
Colonel Second Regiment Louisiana State
Militia.
CHARLES n. SQUIRES.
Colonel Commanding Regiment Field Artli'
lcry, Louisiana State Militia.
w. N. OWEN,
Colonel Commanding First Infantry.
f. b. BRIGGS,
Major First Infantry.
| JAMES II. INGRA1AM,
| Colonel Commanding Third Regiment In
fantry, Louisiana State Militia.
| Mr.. Pinchback, from the Committee or
Enrolment, submitted the following re
ports:
CoNMITTER ON ENROLMENT,
! New Orleans, February %, 1871.
| To the Honorable President and Members Of thu
| Senate:
GESTLEMEN-Your Committee on Enroll
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-25
sle1, 0rtat1s &fpnbliea''.
FFlclAl JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
OF THE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
FIR $ +. S f S SO y
OF THE
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
slf,p 0rteans' &fpublital1.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE
FIR S II S f S S 1 q y
SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

STATE OF LOUISIANA.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-25

WILLIAM T1GERS.
Chief Clerk.
LErOE-S OF COMMITTEES.
COMMITTEE ON ENROLMENT,
New Orleans, February %, 1871.
70 The Honorable President and Members of the
Senate:
GENT1EMES-YourC Committee on Enroll
ment beg leave TO report as having been
duly enrolled. Senate bill No 4, entitled an
act for the relief OF Norbert +. Scopini, etc.
Very respectfully,
Chairman.
The consideration of Senate bill No, 3,
charter OF Baton Rouge was then resumed
Mr.. Raglan moved to amend section two
by striking ont 1852" and inserting 1871. -
Adopted.
Mr.. Raglan also moved to strike out "lS73''
in line thirty-seven, and insert "ls72."
Adopted.
The section was then adopted as amended.
Mr.. Raglan moved to amend section five
by striking out, in line four, the figures
"ie72" and inserting "1s71;" also. in line
twenty, strike out 1873" and insert "ls72,-
Adopted.
Section adopted as amended.
Mr.. Raglan moved to amend section six
by striking out, in line fifty-eight, the words
two thousand dollars and insert the
words ''tifteen hundred dollars"
Adopted.
Section adopted as amended.
Mr.. Ragan moved to strike out in line
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
V MONT FARM e r..

fully ripe, whereof enough had been gather
ed to determine the average yield. Ofcourse
Mr. Clark sells little of it as grain, but turns
it into pork and beef, and so keeps up the
fertility of his soil. He informed me that, by
blowing each year an inch deeper than the
preceding, he could, in his black prairie
mold, averaging more than two feet deep,
maintain the yield of corn without manure,
which he mainly applied to his grass. He
had had thirty-three acres planted in day
by one man, running planter that planted
two rows at once, and having II change of
teams. understood him to say that he had
1865 acres planted, titled, and harvested by
one man, using two spans of horses alter
natcly. On reflection, believe the man did
not gather all this crop, though rs the har-
vesting may continue from sometime in Au-
gust, when the grain is in the milk, to near
the end of winter, that would not have been
impossible. Swine pastured on clover
through spring and early summer, have corn
cut up and thrown to them us soon as the
ears have filled, and henceforth till they are
ripe for market. Many farmers feed so long
us they have corn to spare, thus converting
their great staple entirely into beef and pork,
so that it will bear transportation to distant
markets.-Hordce Greeley.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
A VERY CURIOUS CASE.

A very curious case has been on trial in
one of the Pennsylvania courts. In 1869
young man made contract with Barker &
Co., wool dealers of Pittsburgh, to furnish
about three thousand pounds of wool, repre-
senting himself to be son of one John Dins-
more, a well-known farmer living in Smith
township. He then made II purchase of the
wool from Mr.. Dinsmore, at this time rep
senting himself TO be an agent of Barker Il
Co., and the wool was shipped in sacks fur
nished by that firm, the bill of lading show
ing that the shipment was from Dinsmore to
Barker a. Co. On the arrival of the wool at
Pittsburg it was taken from the railroad de-
pot and II receipt given for it signed either
by the enterprising young man who was con-
Quoting the business, OF the drayman employ
ed by Barker & Co.,-which of the two was
II disputed point before the jury. At any
rate, the wool went to the warehouse of the
firm, who paid the pretended son of Dins-
more the sum agreed upon, after which that
young man left for parts unknown. few
days afterward, the farmer, who had been
the real owner of the wool, applied to Bar
ker & Co., for his money, having been told
that it would be ready for him mt that time,
and the discovery was made that the young
man was swindler who had deceived both
parties. The farmer naturally wanted to be
paid for his wool, while the wool dealers,
having paid the man who had delivered it to
them, quite us naturally considered that they
had nothing to do with any transactions be-
tween that individual and Mr.. Dinsmore.
The latter brought suit in the Allegheny dis
trict court for the value of the wool, and, after
one trial in which the jury failed to agree,
gained verdict of S3l2l,7l, the judge in
structing the jury that rs Dinsmore had con-
signed the property to Barker & Co.. and the
latter had received the consignment, the
payment of the proceeds to any third party
must be at the risk of the purchaser. An
appeal was made to the supreme court.
-Pitts6atay Commercial.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.


The Detroit Free Press says well known
chemist of that city, assisted by two seriously
inclined and science-loving gentlemen, re-
solved to make n number of experiments to
test the worth of this talk about spontaneous
combustion, and the result is well worthy of
notice:
They first took piece of cotton cloth,
which had once formed part of II sheet, and
which had been used until quite threadbare,
and smearcd it with boiled linseed oil. An
old chest was placed in the loft of store
room back of the drug store, II piece of zinc
over it, another under it, and then the chest,
filled with papers and rags and this particu-
lar piece Of cloth placed in the center. AL
though the room was not light one, and the
weather cold, in eight days there was such
smell of fire about the trunk, and the chances
were so good for conilagraton within it,
that the.contents were emptied out. An ex-
animation showed that the oiled cloth
had UNFINISHED and shriveled up, and
the rag looked us though it had been held too
near hot blaze. In April, when the rays
of the sun were stronger, IL pair of painters
ovcralls, literally covered with paint and oil,
were rolled up, II handful of shavngs placed
inside, and these were crowded in next to
the roof boards of the loft. The experiment
was not II week old when, during one warm
afternoon, II smell of smoke alarmed work
man in the next room, and he found the
overalls burning, and so finder like was the
cloth that it had to be crowded into pail of
water to prevent total destruction. During
the hot weather, last summer, a handful of
old cotton rags, in which couple of matches
were placed, but which were not smcared
with oil or other matter. were shut up in u
tin box and hung up in loft II rear window
allowing the afternoon sun to shine directly
on the box for several hours. Toward the
close of the fourth day the chemist took down
the box to see how the experiment was pro-
crossing, and found the contents to consist
of nothing but puff of black cinders, which
flew all over the room as the lid was lifted.
Having vacant corner in his brick wood
house at home, the chemist took the trunk
up there where there was no danger of burn
ing building. He filled the trunk with the
contents of the paper rag-bag, and then
smeared one with benzne and threw it in
last of all. The trunk was shut tight, every
thing cleared away from its vicinity, and he
commenced watching On the first day of
Van Amburghs menagerie, the family went
to witness the sights and came home to find
IL few ashes marking the place where the
trunk stood, while the bricks around and
above were badly stained with smoke.
--~-
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21

only a-joking, you know I'm willing take 1t back
(aside)
Well, now, II this amt joke with rather bitter cream
1t seems as II I'd woke from mighty ticksh dream;
And think she smells rat for she smiles queer
hope she don't good Lord hope that they didn't hear
Twas Of her practical drives-she thought I'd under
stand,
But I'll break sod again till get the lay Of the land
But things settled with me-to appreciate heaven WELL
It's good for a have fifteen minutes Of hell
-WiH NJ. Carleton in Hdrpers Weekly.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
A WESTERN CORN GROWER.

| found near Grinnell. Ia, the man have
long been looking for-he who grows nearly
or quite one hundred bushels of shelled In
dian corn per acre on a large area year after
year. His name is Wallace Clark, and he
has grown corn for the last five years success
svely on the same hundred acres on which l
found not less than nine thousand bushels
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21

In one county of Kansas alone there are
l2l acres OF castor beans under cultivation,
and Horace Greeley thinks it needs no math-
ematician to show that the crop will supply
castors to every bedstead in the United States.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
agricultural Stems.

ma.
There are 9Os agricultural societies in
Prussia
Not enough apples will be raised this year
in New England for the cooking purposes of
the inhabitants
The early frosts have been playing pranks
with the Wisconsin crop of cranberries.
One man lost $4,000 worth in a single night.
A young lady in Hardin County, Ky, plant
ed IL water melon viue last spring which has
produced l0l melons, each weighing from Is
to 25 pounds.
The man who has bale of hops this year
is independent. A Bethel farmer, Alden
Spooner, sold a load lately for which he took
nearly $1,000.
The tobacco crop now being cut in the
Miami valley, o., is the largest ever raised
there being estimated at 5000 boxes against
25 600 last year. The leaf is fine
A boquet made of grasshoppers strung on
wires took premium at county fair in
Massachusetts, recently. Where is the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty?
A gentleman in Connecticut some years
since sowed IN the spring some rye which
proved to be winter grain. He pastured it
through the summer, and the next year he
gathered II bountiful harvest from the same.
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society
has chosen VIM. G. Strong, of Brighton, pres
ident Edwin W. Boswell, of Boston, treas
urer and corresponding secretary, and John
l.. Russell, of Salem, professor of botany and
vegetable physiology.
correspondent of the Country Gentleman
who has tried keeping three cows exclusive
ly on green sowed corn since about June l,
last, finds the milk steadily diminishing.
His experience with sowcd corn fed in con-
nection with grass has been very favorable.
Late feeding on pastures is the worst pos
sible policy. 1t leaves the ground compare
lively bare, exposes the roots of the grass to
the freezing cold and winds of winter, by
which a large per cent. of plants are killed
outright, and the spring growth is necessari-
ly late, stunted and meager.
A fearful disease, with symtomps similar
to those of the European cattle plague, has
appeared among the horned stock of Wis
consin. The animal first refuses to eat or
drink; the nose, ears and horns are cold; the
shoulders tremble rs with the cold; the milk
dries up, and blood runs from the nose,
mouth and other orifices In about forty
four hours the animal dies.
The product of our dairying districts is
enormous. Herkimer, New York, ships an
nually over 100000 pounds of cheese and
300, 900 pounds of butter, worth $4,000, 900 in
the market. st Adams ships 1000, 900 pounds
of cheese and 2,75O,OOO pounds of butter,
worth IN the market Sl,25O,OOO. The village
of Wilmington, Ohio, shipped 100000
pounds of cheese in 1869, worth $l,500,000.
Miss Lille A. Kosbrook resides in Linn
Co., Iowa. and is fifteen years of age. While
her father was sick and confined to his room
for many weeks, she took the team and II
corn pillow and plowed large field of corn
over the last time, and then took the team,
and, with a Kirby self-raker, she cut forty
five acres of grain-all alone. Besides this,
she helped to stack all the said grain, pitch
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21

only a-jokng, you know I'm willing to take it back
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A number of Culpcpcr farmers propose
holding meeting at their county town on the
10th of April for the purpose of forming an
Agricultural society for the Piedmont section
of irgnia All farmers of Cupcpcr and adjon-
ing counties are invited to he present.
The Manassas Gazette compliments highly
the President of the Orange, Alexandria Il
Manassas Gap R. r. Co., for his zeal and eff
cheney in the management Of the affairs OF the
road, aud its general interests
DR.. S. G.. Osmun, an esteemed physician OF
the upper portion of Prince William, WAS at
tackled by paralysis while on visit to his
friends in Philadelphia. He is better now,
and may be considered out Of danger.
A delegation from the Virginia Legislature,
accompanied by representatives Of the Rich
mond press, are Oh their way to Philadelp hia
to confer with the city authorities there. by i'll
vitation, on the centennial celebration of 1876.
What are said to be the finest mills i'll Nir,
ginia, outside of Richmond, have been recent
" built by Capt. John e. Meem, jr., on the
celebrated Mount Airy estate, Shenandoah.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Ia sLouc the rrry ugp nnd Lotly ofhe 1Tn'

''7D xhov the rrry ugp nnd Lotly ofhe Times. y
The capital stock Of the Commonwealth Fire
Insurance Company in New York, Of which
| VIM NJ Tweed jr., WAS, yesterday. appoint
| ed receiver, is $3.50 600, its liabilities $lGj.4.S,
! and total assets S250O5S The officers of the
company decline to explain the causes OF the
disaster, concerning which numerous reports are
| current
The Raleigh On. c. Sentinel says that
Judge Jones confesses his drunkenness, and
sends in his resignation, to save the trouble and
expense of impeachment. Gov. Caldwell
thcrcupon makes Joness case his own and
refuses to accept the resi- gnatlon till the House
withdraws the admitted charge
Instructions have been issued by the Domin-
ion government to admit Immediately the fol-
lowing articles free Coal, coke. wheat, flour
salt peas. beans, rye, oats, Indian corn. buck
wheat aud all other grains, Indian meal, oat
meal, flour or meal of any other grain.
The boiler in Mccall 4 Go. s distillcry on the
Ohio river, at McCall's Landing Brown coun-
ty, Ohio, exploded Yesterday, greatly damag-
ing the building and killing six persons and
wuundng nine others, two of which have since
died
Twenty one suits have been brought in the
Superior Court of Baltimore city. against the
Parkersburg Branch Railroad Company to re-
cover from that corporation the amounts loaned
it upon the stock the Company.
Seven war vessels have been ordered to fit
out ior sea Immediately at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard and speculation is rife as to the meaning
OF the movement.
The New York Home Journal announces
the interesting intelligence that Miss Nellie,
daughter of President Grant, is engaged to a
young naval officer of uncxceptionable pedigree
Subscriptions to the new loan up to Satur-
day were s5O,ol5,050. There was redeemed on
Saturday 81 .O5OOOO three per ct. certificates
The April term of the IT, S. Circuit Court
for the Maryland District Judge Bond COM
mences in Baltimore to-day
Ex-senator Wade is being strongly pressed
to accept the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor of Ohio
The fund for the relief of the daughters of
Chief Justice fancy will, it is said, reach the
snug sum of s50,O00
Henry Schley, an old and Unknown citizen
of Maryland, died at Frederick Yesterday.
Mrs. Fanny NJ. Anderson, wife of Frank Y
Anderson, of the City Post Office, while tenn
porarily insane, committed suicide, in New York
on Friday last, by shooting herself with pis-
tol. She was the daughter OF Mr.. Benjamin
Seyerson, Of Washington, and for several years
held position in the Treasury Department,
which she filled with credit to herself and
family For some time. her physician states,
# diseases, which 80 afflicted her as to cause
he temporary insanity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-03

This company has passed the inspections, Of
the Insurance Departments of Missouri, Cali
forna and Kentucky, and has deposit: of
500, 900 with the proper authorities at Rich
mond. 1t will not fail, therefore, to be admit
ted, upon application. into New York and Mas
sachusctts
70 conclude as the company is progressive,
prosperous and prompt, its expenses and losses
small. its investments secure: its reserve am
plc. its surplus good, and its management con.
scrvative and Skillful, we highly recommend
the ':Piedmont and Arlington of Virginia,
as deserving the patronage Of insurers. The
General Agent in Philadelphia is j. II. Baird.
ESD. Office No. 10 South Third street, from
whom fuller particulars may be obtained if de-
sircd'' ap 3-lt*
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-03
Letter from LOudOun co.

Correspondence Of the Aieraniria Gu=ette.l
LEEsnURG, Va, March 81, 1871. Our
Council tonight ordered the Committee on
lighting the town to advertise for sealed pro-
posals to furnish the town with thirteen lamps,
the posts for which will be either OF iron or
wood, as the Council, upon tho report OF the
committee, may hereafter determine. Thus our
rcproach among strangers will be removed.
hope the brick yard Of Fletcher and RI
per may furnish bricks 50 cheaply as to enable
our citizens to put the sidewalks III much better
order than they now are.
| believe it is intended that several streets
on the plat of the town shall be opened, and If
=, it will bring into USE as building lots, some
fifteen or twenty acres cxccllently located :;
some of it so situat ri that water can be carried
to the upper story Of the dwellings, 1t Is IN
contemplation also to extend our water works
and to improve the pumps and hydrantS here
IS an abundance Ut water Tor all purposes here
and twice Us much runs to waste aS Is used.
Our Council also has on hand some plan to
mitigate the evil attending the large number OF
eating houses whether it will eliminate in L
bond with conditions not to sell to minors, and
on Sunday, and persons intoxicated already, or
in higher license tax so as to deter unfit per-
SONS from the business, remains to be determ-
incd
Unless April shall prove an unusually wet
month we will probably have a great deal Of
corn planted before May !, and reasonably we
may calculate on Il fine crop, as it will be push
ed forward before harvest.
Seven marriage licenses were issued during
the month Of March and 81 during the quarter
ending to-day During the first quarter of $50,
IS were issued In each case one third We're
colorcd Whether the Homestead Exemption
had anything to do with this large Increase of
marriages is question, which can be answered
only upon mature consideration and cxanina
ton Of the circumstances Of the happy pairs. If
the large increase is Of poor people this may be
presumed to be the case Yours
ALIQUIS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-03
ID ARG AIMS
CHEAP PIANOS AND ORGANS.

NOW have for sale the largest assortment ot
trst-class Pianos ever offered in Alexandra, from
the best makers. surh us WIN. KNABE l. CO.
and others. l will sell those that have brr!!
rented out ut great reduction from first cost oil
easy terms Of monthly payments. / WARRANT
them in perfect order, and will keep them iii tune
one year. They range in price from S15 to s. -
Also Smith l. Prince. celebrated Parlor o.
guns, suitable for churches.
| AN AGENT FOR
VIM. knubc IL Co.'S Unrivallcd Pianos, sold
ut factory prices. l will furnish any pattern n,.i
price on more liberal terms than in Baltimore
Call and sec them. ALSO,
4 select assortment OF SHEET MUSIC, vocal
and instrumental Instruction Books for I'LL H.
struments. Any piece not Oh hand will be flu
nishcd by ordering from New York. The u,ya.
deductions allowed to schools choirs and teacher:
Violin and Guitar STRINGS. including IT,:
cheapest and the very best, with Il general H.
sortment Of NiolinS, Guitars BanjoS, Flutes.
Bows and other small musical merchandise.
] will sell all these instruments upon cay
terms that will leave reasonable cause to pc:
sull> wishing to uphold Alexandria trade to pu:
chase elsewhere. Y. BECKER,
l43 King H.. near Washington =.
j. S.--All kind, Of Musical instruments tuned
and repaired. jan l2-t