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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

be enioined in the name of the State
| from proceeding further in the trane-
action of their respective business or vOca-
ton until such license shall have been PAID;
provided, no person shall be liable 10
penalty from the first Of January. 1877, up
to the time the tax collectors receive their
licenses for 1872
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the tax collectors for the parish Of Or
leans shall receive for the collection OF
licenses in their respective districts the fol-
lowing compensation, viz: The tax collector
for the First District, five per cent on al
licenses collected by him and paid into the
State treasury; the tax collector for the
Second District, seven and q. half per cent
on all licenses collected by him and paid
into the State treasury; the tax collector
for the Third District, ten per cent on all
licenses collected by him and paid into the
State treasury; the tax collector for the
Fourth District, ten per cent on all licenses
collected by him and paid into the State
treasury; the tax collector for the Fifth
District. ten per cent on all licenses col
lected by him and paid into the State treas
ury; and the tax collector for the Sixth
District, fifteen per cent on all licenses
collected by him and paid into the State
treasury, and the tax collectors of all the
parishes in the State, except those in the
parish OF Orleans, ten per cent on all licenses
collected and paid into the State treasury.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
each and every license shall expire on the
thirty-first Day of December in the year in
which it was obtained; provided, that any
person, firm or corporation engaging in any
IOf the trades or occupations, subject to
license by this act, after the first day of
July in each and every year shall be liable
for only half license.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That
all parts of an act to provide revenue, to
levy and collect taxes, to grant and collect
licenses, to provide certain penalties and
forfeitures, to provide for the creation and
removal of revenue officers, and to define
their duties, to punish certain crimes and
misdemeanors, to create liens and mort
cages in favor of the State in certain cases,
to regulate the manner Of the payment of
moneys from the treasury, to prescribe GER
and parish officers, to provide for the cOllec-
ton of back taxes or licenses and to repeal
all acts inconsistent Herewith, approved
March 81, 1871, so far as they appertain to
the collection of Licenses as prescribed in
this act, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, etc.. That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
tSigned) o. H. BREWSTER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives..
(Signed) T. B. S. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Approved March 5, 1872.
(Signed) H. C. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy: Saw
F. j. HEBRON,
Secretary of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
The Price of Killing Men by RailrOa a ds

The Price of Killing Men by RailrOa ds.
From the Knoxville Chronicle.l
Some time in December, 1870, one H. j.
Mitchell got on a passenger train of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road, at Greenville, to go tO-his home at
Johnson's City. He was under the intlu-
ence of liquor at the time he got aboard of
the train, and remained under the influence
Of it during the trip. In fact, we are in
formed he had jug of whisky with him
when he got on the train. The cars halted
their usual length of time. at Johnson's
City. A paralytic woman and crippled
man got of and several persons got on. The
usual signal was given for starting. About
the time the train started Mitchell found it
was the station he was bound for and went
out on the platform to get off. The train
was moving. but he jumped for the plat
form on the side of the track. Missing his
fOOthold he fell back under The cars, was
run over and killed. His wife, as admins.
tratrix, sued the company for damages
The case was tried last week at Jonesboro,
in the circuit court. The testimony in the
case, we are informed, was substantially as
above given. The jury gave verdict for
the widow of $4,000. The defendant ap-
pealed the case to the September term of
the Supreme Court, to be holden in this CITY,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

From the attitude of strongly biased
independence, the Boston Globe has finally
come to see flaw in the administration Of
Grant. He blundered, it admits gently, in
removing Mr.. Sumner from his committee.
General Grant," it continues, .knew well
enough, as soon as tue ill-advised act was
committed, that he had made a mistake,
but his disposition lacks that element OF
magnanimity which is always SO grand, and
yet so rarely evinced, which prompts the
acknowledgements of an error and hasteus
to repair it." This is not the only great
thing that Grant lacks; if it were, there
would be no division in the party, and no
need for the toll and trouble of revolution
in the interests Of purity and reform.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
Steamboat Explo sions Inquiry-The Gee.
anus Disaster.


anus Disaster.
This is Washington special to the New
York Herald:
The disaster to the steamer Oceanus, by
which so many lives were lost, has again
awakened an interest among officials here
to provide some way for practically testing
steam boilers to ascertain the cause of ex-
blossoms. Justice Bradley, of the United
States Supreme Court, has addressed long
letter to Secretary Boutwell, on this subject.
advocating an appropriation by Congress
for making such experiments. He sug-
gests that board be constituted for the
purpose of experimenting aud to carefully
note the result Of their labor. This letter
has been sent to Mr. Chandler, chairman Of
the Senate Committee on Commerce, with
Secretary Boutwell's endorsement, to the
effect that the subject is one of great i'm
pOrtance to the country, as it concerns the
safe transportation of property and the Sc
curity Of life upon steamboats, and railways.
He cOmmends the plan for the considers
ton of the committee, heartily approving
Justice Bradley's suggestions. William
Rogers, supervising inspector for the New
Orleans district, has been directed to con-
duct the investigation into the cause of the
explosion Of the Oceanus, to be assisted by
Frank Burnett. supervising inspector OF
the St. Louis district.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
FOURTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
OF ORLEANS.
ELIZA MURPHY VS.. HER HUSBAND, SYLVESTER
L. LangOOn-NO. 81 6el.

ELIZA MURPHY vs. HER HUSBAND. SYLVESTER
l.. LangOOn-NO. 81 ,6al.
7 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT ON THE TWENTY.
Il fifth day of March, 1872, judgment was rendered
In this court in the following entitled suit in the
words and figures following to wit:
Eliza Murphy VS.. her husband, Sylvester L. Lam
On motion of j. L. Tissot, Esq.,, Of counsel for
plaintiff and upon producing, due proof of the al
legations in plaintiff IS petition contained and the
law and evidence being in favor of plaintiff it 10
ordered, adjudged and decreed that the Judgment
by default herein entered on the fifteenth day Of
March, 1872, be now confirmed and made final and
accordingly that Judgment be rendered in favor
OF plaintiff Eliza Murphy ami against defendant.
sylvester L. LangOOn. her husband, di.soving the
community of acquests and gains which existed
heretofore between them; that plaintiff be separ-
ated IN property from defendant her husband;
that she be allowed to exercise all the rights Of
married women separated in property from their
husbands according to law, and that defendant
pay costs of suit.
Judgment rendered March 25 1872
Signed March 80 1872.
PAUL E. THEARD, Judge.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto set nv
hand and affixed the seal of the said court at tbs
CITY OF New Orleans, on this first day of April,
IN the year OF our Lord one thousand eight hun.
ared and seyenty-two and the ninety sixth year Of
the Independence of the United States
WILLIAM II. CARSON, Deputy Clerk.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

By the way, if General Grants admins
tration resembles Mr. Lincoin's SO closely,
why not keep up the semblance still fur
Their. For instance, Mr.. Lincoln discover
ing the Pennsylvania Warwick - Simon
Cameron-made dubious use of his depart
ment, found use for his accomplishments in
the temperate climate of Russia. Now,
General Grant might quietly replace era
mer, at Copenhagen, with the unsophisti-
Gated Robson, and, perhaps, Mr.. Belknap
might not mind temporary deprivation of
the joys of Office to aid Mischief in the in
stitution of Lincoln parallels"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

We should like to know what the st
Louis Jo's7'al of Commerce means by this
paragraph:
g. That bale of cotton presented, down
south, to Lydia Thompson has excited much
comment, and the problem is. what will she
do with ite the chances are that lydia
VIII devote the cotton bale to the same use
that General jackson did the same article
In the defense of New Orleans.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

one OF San Franchises largest Caravan
saries is said to be entirely under the man.
agement Of the fair sex From the proprie-
tress to the hall girl, from the bartender to
the boof-black, all connected with the es-
tablishment are women. The portresses are
muscular Germans, while the clerk is a
handsome brunette.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
LEGAL NOTICES,
THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
FIFTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH q,
ORLEANS

MRS. BERTHA SEIFERT VS.. WILLIAM SElFERT
Her Husband-No 34Ol
7 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT ON THR F1pru
Il day Of April 1872. judgment was rendered
IN TINS court IN the following entitled suit in the
words and figures following, to wit: o
Mrs. Bertha Siefert Va. William Sietert har brs
band-NO. 340i Ao' nu'-
In this case. submitted to the court for adiudca-
ton upon the evidence on file, the court Ravin o
duly considered, and being of Opinion that the la
and evidence are in favor eff PLAINTIFF '-' -
1t is ordered, adjudged and decreed that tbara
De judgment anat ID favor Of plaintiff Bertha sefer
band decreeing q separation Of property between
tne sald paItes that plaintiff do have and recover
nom her sald husband the sum of four thousand
four 9uaaied dollars, with legal interest thereon
paid and costs of suit, - 1'N' "A''
Judgment rendered April S. 1y72
Signed April 10, 1872.
CHARLES BEAUMONT, Judge
ha IN tesu d whereof have hereunto set my
nano ana afnxed the seal of the said court at the
city city, Of New Orleans, on this twelfth day Of
A e;pph., IN tne year of our LOrd one thousand
e!gnC hundred and seventy-two and the ninety-
s Sxtn year of the independence of the United
apl4 Vyl IA. Clerk.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.
DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA.
IN THE MATTER OF MICHAEL GERNON. BANK.
rupt.
In Bankruptcy-NO. 1899.

WHEREAS, MICHAKL GERNON, OF NEW OR.
w leans, and district aforesaid duly declared
bankrupt under the act Of Congress Of March 1857
has this day filed in said court petition PRAYING foI
. discharge and certificate thereof from All his
debts and other claims provable under said act.
Notice ia therefore given to all creditors who have
proved their debts and to all other persons in in
teIest that the fifteenth day Of Nav 1879
at II M. is assigned for the hearing of the same
and that they may then and there attend and shov
cause II any they have, why the prayer Of the said
Petiton enouid not be granted; and further notice
nation before Register Kellogg, on The eleventh
day Of May, A D.. 1872 ct II A. H.. nj bis
Office, Cust0mhouse building. ~ - "'
Clerks Office, New Orleans April 10. 1871
spSV - "ys 4 LOEW, Deputy Clerk.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
FIFTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH O
ORLEANS.

II HEREBY CERTIFY THAT ON THE NINE
Il teenth day of February, 1872, Judgment wat
rendered IN this court in the following entitled
suit, in the words and figures following, to witt
Mamie E. Harrington VS.. d. A. StinsOn-No. IL
On motion of David Goldman. of counsel fol
plaintiff. and ON producing to the court due proof
OF said plaintiffs demand, the law and evidence
being in her favor
It is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the
Judgment by default herein entered ON the tenth
instant, be now confirmed and made final and acc
cordisgly that there be judgment in favor Of
plaintiff, Mamie L. Harrington. and against de-
PENDANT. DR.. d. A. Stinson. her husband decreeine
q separation of property between the said parties.
1t is further ordered that defendant pay all costs
of suit.
Judgment rendered February 10, 1872.
Judgment signed February "a, 1872
CHARLES BEAUMONT Judge
In testimony whereof, nave hereunto set INV
hand and the seal of the said court at the city
OF New Orleans, on this eighteenth day of April.
In the year OF our Lord one thousand eight huns
dred and seventy-two. and the ninety-sixth yea
OF the independence of the United States
apis my4 ~ LOUIS POWER Clerk.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
THH STATE OF LOUISIANA.
FIFTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARSE OF
ORLEANS
MRS AMELIE DEBIAUNE VS.. RAYMOND MA.
nent-No. 2739

N~ ~AAAAsAAAC O1DIAONb VS.. RAYMOND MA.
nent-No. 2139
HEhEbf CERT1FY THAT ON THE TWENTY.
= eignth day of March, 1872 Judgment was rem.
dered IN this court in the following entitled suit
!" tne words and figures following to wit:
2739 VS. nay mona Manens-No'
On motion of E. Cambray, of counsel for plaintiff
an9 On producing to the court due proof of pain
1 demand the law and evidence being in favor OF
~ Is ordered adjudged and decreed. that the
J1"Eent ~ Default herein entered on the seventh
q Hovember, 1871, be now confirmed and made
f nnAG ana accordingly, that there be Judgment in
iHvor OF Pialntih, Mrs Amelie Debaune and againet
;Se.enuant raymond Manent, her husband decree
ties n OF property between the said par
AZ sI tnat PialntlH recover of defendent the sum
S BIZ thousand dollars, with legal interest thereon
a s; November U.s. 1859. until paid, and costs Of
sui, WIN hen and privilege as allowed by law 70
married women on the property of their husbands
Judgment rendered March 28 1872 '''-'~~
signed April 3, 1872
CHARLES LFAUMONT, Judge.
~ testlm0Iy whereof | have herennto sat mn
nand and ali xed the seal OF the said cenrt at ~
ciy OF New orleans. on this eighteenth Sav Of
aPrL, ~ the year Of our Lord one thousand siuht
nundred and seventy two, aud the niretv.sissth
year OF the Independence of the United STATE
anoa uroo,s PHILIP POWER, JR.
Deputy Clerk.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
In THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
In Bankruptcy-No. 626.
DISTRICT OF LOUIsIAN

AN me mAifEh OF FRANCIS J. HEBRON,
Bankrupt
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

VIE ChEDITORS OF THE ABOVE ESTATE ARE
e1al notified that the second and third gen
st. e the office Of c. s. Kellogg, one Of tho
n ~ IN Bankruptcy. Customhouse building.
H .nI 1o ca'y OF new Orleans on the sixth day Of
apo ~ i. 4. NORTON, Assignee
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

at least, in this State has already dope-set
apart a fraction of his land to be donated
or sold on long time and moderate terms to
permanent settlers.
He must welcome the foreigner as a de-
sirable neighbOr and owner of the soil. He
will never consent to come in any number
on other terms, and the best interests of the
country require that he should not accept
harder conditions.
Arrangements must also be perfected by
which they can emigrate in sufficient num-
bers at time to constitute o society for
themselves wherever they locate.
In this, as in most other enterprises re-
city can and will cheerfully aid YOU.
As practical method for putting this and
other needed reforms IN agriculture in mo-
ton, recommend the early organization of
parish agricultural societies.
Such societies exist in almost every coun-
ty of every State in the Northern Western
and Middle States, and their combined in
fuence is most potent for good to your
cause and the prosperity of the whole
country. Nothing is more marked as a
characteristic of this country, in all it's pow
erty and desolati0n, than the magnificent in
difference of each man in the rural districts
TO the views and opinions of every other.
This is the natural product of lives of iso.
lationl
Exchange ideas Oftener, and you will be
more open to conviction, to innovations, to
substantial improvements.
:, history furnishes many ludicrous Incl
gents OF the slOwness with which new
IDEAS i:M invade the sacred precincts of the
.lller OF the soil. Sir Robert Peel, in 1885,
PLesvh1ed ms tenants with two plOws made
Wildly OF IRON and steel. They called a
convention or caucus. and unanimously re-
soIveo mat they stimulated the growth of |
weeds, and declined to use them. |
oucn stupidity in this stage of our his
tory tory seems impossible, and Yet 1 venture
tne assertion that many facts more fully
a. d", h IN tne history of agriculture
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

AWenty-seVentn-EVefy person having more
than one shop, store or other establishment,
or who shall exercise or follow more than
one profession, trade, calling or business,
shall pay the tax on each separately
Twenty eighth-Each partner of any firm
doing business in the State, in any line of
occupation, whether resident or non-resi-
dent, active or silent, shall pay license as
herein prescribed.
Twenty ninth--Parties having tax as
sessed againt them other than real estate,
shall not receive license to pursue their
occupation until they shall pay the tax due
upon such assessment.
Thirtieth-All fOrfeitures collected as
herein expressed in the cOuatry parishes or
rural districts, be paid over to the parish
treasurer, for the exclusive use of the poor
ct the parish, to be expended as directed
by the police juries of the several parishes,
instead OF the Charity Hospital of New Or
leans.
Sec 2. Be it further enacted. etc. That
from and after the passage of this act it
shall not be lawful for any person or corpO-'
RATION to carry on or pursue, practice or
follow any Of the trades, professions or
occupations enumerated in the foregoing
sections of this act, in the State, before
paying the tax levied thereon, and obtain
ing license therefor, if not already licensed,
from the collector of the State taxes; and
no person or corporation carrying on pro-
fession, business or occupation subject to
the payment of license, as herein pro-
vided, shall be allowed to collect any claims
for services rendered in such profess
sions, business or occupation, unless he.
she or it can, upon demand, exhibit the
tax collectors receipt for such license, ac-
cording to law; and failure to exhibit
such license receipt, by any person or cor
poratiOn liable to such license, shall. in anv
suit instituted by him, her OF it, entitle the
party defendant in such suit to a nOn.snit.
and any person, firm or corporation at,
tempting to do business without license
shall, on written notice given by the COL
lector to the Attorney General or district
attorney, or district attorney pro tenn,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

Less than a quarter of q century has
passed since these utterances. Steam has
become too slow even for the proverbially
conservative tiller of the soil. Tn won
derful invention of immortal Morse has
been pressed into the service of agriculture.
The comprehensive mind of Ma1ry, which
has blazed q safe way for the mariner
through the rocks, the shoals, the cyclones
OF the ocean. is now turned, with the aid of
observations made practicable by the tele-
graph, to blazing the way OF the planter
ana farmer through the varying seasons, so
mat ne may avoid the shipwrecks caused by
excessive cold, excessive heat, excessive
Iains, excessive drouths. I commend
the noble aim of this illustrious man. to
TINS and every agricultural society through
out the United States. Lend him all the
AID IN your power to influence national
legislation to the granting of the moor nit.
lance necessary to the practical WORKING of
this enterprise, and if the government of
the United States, SO prodigaI in it's gifts to
less worthy objects, continues blind to the
magnitude OF the cause, aid him by direct
contributions from each State and countv
society throughout the land. He saws to the
farmer, furnish me the same log-book for
the land as the seafarer has furnished me
for the sea, and / will make your "path
straight" will smooth your way to larger
crops, better prices and handsOmer incomes,
That you may properly understand his
scheme call upon you to state his case,
much better than / can. in his own words.
Addressing the "Rockbridee Agricultural
and Mechanical Society of the Virginia
Military Institute" October Is, 1871, speak
ing to resolutions asking that Congress be
memorialized to invite other nations to
meet, in the persons Of their leading
meteorologists, at an early day, in confer
ence similar to that of Brussels in 1853,
he said:
NOW remember that agriculture is the
great source and fountain of prosperity,
wealth and power of this country and the
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-26
Quoted In Full.

You have doubtless heard the story
of the Chinaman who, in making new
pair of breeches for the American Cap
tain, with an old pair for pattern, fol-
lowed his copy SO literally as to repro
duce a stitched rent and two patches.
But the ludicrousness Of this following
was entirely thrown in the shade by
the mistake of an honest, literal servant
who had taken the job of the finishing
stone work of new church in Briers-
port. The presiding clergyman of the
parish was chairman of the committee
on ornamentation, and it was decided
that a suitable quotation of Holy Writ
shouldsbe craven upon the cap-stone of
the portal over the main entrance. In
accordance Herewith the workman was
directed to carve upon the stone the
sentence, -" My House shall be called
the House of Prayer" The man ac-
knowledged his literary deficiencies,
and in order that he might make no
mistake, he asked for an exact copy of
what was wanted. The clergyman, be-
ing in somewhat of a hurry, and having
small pocket Testament with him,
took it out, and opening to the twenty
first chapter of Matthew, and pointing
to the thirteenth verse, he said,-
"There, my man, YOU have it just a.
we want it."
The craftsman took the book, and the
clergyman went his way.
The dedication of the church wa:
postponed week to await the finishing
of the oap-stone. 1t was done in time
and raised to its place, and the con.
sternation of the good minister, and hi.
companions of the committee, can bt
better imagined than described upor
beholding how literally with ven.
geance the workman had copied the
text of Scripture. Commencing at the
point designated by the clergyman, he
had reproduced the whole verse, so that
the stone bore upon its face the startling
sentence:
"My House shall be called the House o.
Prayer; but ye haze made it Den o
| There's"
There was further postponement o.
the dedioatory services, and in the enc
the lower half of the oap-stone wat
adorned with a network of chisellingi
and clippings not contemplated by the
original plan.-N Y. Ledger.