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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07
THE DISTRICT COURT.

This Court is now in session, Judge
Orsborn, presiding. There will be but
little business done, owing to the fact
that no jury for this term could be had.
To get ajury here seems to be a very
difficult, in fact as difficult as to get
payment from most of the subscribers
TO the Gazette. 1t appears that COM
bination of circumstances presents it.
self most at every term of the Court,
which prevents ajury being had. Gen.
orally, the jury is setaside because lille
galIy drawn, and we have come to the
conclusion that it is as difficult mat.
ter to draw legal jury here, as 1t is
to draw a prize in the Louisiana State
Lottery, in New Orleans. Sometimes
no iury is drawn at all, and asa final
climax, for this term OF the Court, none
could be drawn, why or wherefore it is
too tedious to enquire into or explain.
We fancy that portion of our people
who have been little rough in their
manners, or thoughtless in. their ideas
of the questions of property. who now
wait on bond, for twelve honest and
true men to adjust their business, re
greet not the laws delay in this respect,
nor do the poor debtors among us
whose sad prayer, for general relief in
the premises, is now changed to the
more independent one of trial by
jury.
The emily case of much interest at
this term, is that of John Orsborn VS.
w. A. Seay, two Richmonds in the
field, striving one to win, and the
other to keep the judicial ermine, and
perhaps not altogether careless ofjudi'
cial emoluments. This is contested
election case, for the judgeship of the
ninth judicial district of Louisiana
and promises to be very interesting
as new legal points may be developed
In most legal matters of Importance
the fight commences in the sklrmish
ing line, exceptions and other lega
bubbles being freely fired off, and il
| is in general sometime before the big
guns are brought into action. Ac
cording to the constitution of this
State, when the District Judge is in
terested, the Parish Judge tries thu
case, and IN accordance to law, judge
Daigre commenced proceedings, bu
was met with an affidavit or motion o
the plaintiff, asking his recusation, OIL
the around of like interest, as the de
PENDANT in this case, and should -
well, we have not got to that yet, ant
will not bother ourselves or reader
with any metaphysical abstraction
regarding the point raised. but shall
simply wait for the decision OF tn
Parish Judge i'm the matter of inter
est, leaving him to unite this knot b.
some lucid decree, throwing ligh
upon the subject.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07

HELP YOURsELF.--We are not of
the class that expects to "catch larks
when the skies fall" for we have no
faith in the anticipation, but we are
always standing around ready to pick
up the lark that falls to our lot, let it
come as it may. In the meantime we
keep turning the wheel of industry,
satisfied that mankind ought always to
make sure of meal, even while it is
expecting banquet. We are ready
to be helped by President Grant in
any way he can afford assistance, but
as we are small believers in his ability
to benefit the South, weinsist that our
first duty is to assist ourselves.
Nothing that the President can do Will
prosper Louisiana, unless she takes
hold upon her own fortunes and builds
them up. All this fuss and feathers
about the design of the federal govern.
ment to do something for US is snare
that reasonable men should put away
at once, because they may be induced
to relax their own efforts if they listen
to it. The South must help herself.
She must teach her men to be better
farmers and the women be better house
wives. 1t is impossible to start cotton
mills in thickly populated neighbor-
hoods, because the labor can not be
had. Women have to be imported
from the North and from Europe, and
when they come they are SO superior
to the poor natives that they are mis-
taken for different class from what
they are. This evil must be remedied.
Girls in the South, as they are in the
North, must be taught to work for
wages. Their poverty DEGREES this to
them, and they only make the CON-
munity poor when they contend
against the necessity. Boys must be
taught to labor as mechanics. Shot
guns and rabbit dogs are the luxnries
of those who are able to maintain them
they do not belong to the family
that only has -four bread once week.
Grant can not help the State whose
people do not know the way to the
schOolhouse and the church. And the
South will always be the butt end OF
the country while the percentage OF
men that do not read the newspapers
is as ten to one of those that do. No
body but fools look beyond their own
labor for support.-[N. o. Republican
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07
SPECIAL NOTICE.

We call particular attention to the
rule we have adopted relative to adj
vertisements and subscriptions. All
judicial advertisements will be charged
at the legal rate of 81, per square fol
each insertion and must be paid fol
after the first insertion, or they will be
taken out. subscriptions and tran
silent advertisement payable invariably
in advance.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07
notice.!

a All persons owing the Gazette for
subscriptions or advertisements, are
requested to call and settle with the
present co-proprietor, I. G. Compton
who alone is authorized to collect and
receipt for all back dues.
GEO. Y. KELSO.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07
PROFESSOR FELIX MCDONALD,

THE GREATEST KINGS enter the DIS OF LIONS giving
Thrilling Exhibition displaying the Power of Man over the Brute
Creation. Centlemaniy welnlormed Animal Attendants
in front OF the Animal Cages ready 10
give any information that may be desired
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07

The Thibodoux Sentinel, of the Cd, has
cheering reports from the sugar planters. The
yield of the cane is fully up to and even sur
passes their expect stions.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07

u Hess has anything you
want at fair PRICES.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-12-07

TERMS:
TIE GAZETTE is published Weekly at
Three Dollars per annum; 81 OO for
six months. One Dollar for Three
months.
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate
of 81 90 per square for the first in
sertion aud 90 cents for each subse-
quent one.
EIGHT lines Of BREWER or space OF
one inch constitutes square, and any
number Of additional lines over four
counts as square, and less than four
rs a half square.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-12

GRAIN FOR GREAT BRITAIN.-Iti is posi-
lively asserted by those well informed that
the monthly requirements of Great Britain
up to the next harvest, will be fully one
million quarters of grain, hence the lively
interest exhibited at the grain centres in
the United States. In view of the above
statement, there is only one source to
which Great Britain has to resort to obtain
the required amount of grain, and that is
the Northwestern and Western States.
The new crop in England cannot possibly
be harvested in fit condition for use until
the beginning of September, so that for
two months to come the British isles will
have to depend on America for their daily
bread, the crops in France, Russia and in
other countries not affording surplus for
export.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-12
Prepare for the Turnip CrOp.

The most skeptical person would be con-
WINGED of the utility of folding sheep upon
turnips, if he could see the corn now grow
ing upon the piece of ground on the farm
of the writer thus treated. The corn was
rather late planted but the stalks are
from eight to ten feet tall at this writing,
June oath, and some of them are SO large
that they cannot be spanned with one
hand. In color, they are as dark as the
richest bottom land corn. Upon the rest
of the same field and same quality of land,
the corn will not average more than waist
high.
Now, the bringing this piece of ground
to this condition of fertility cost nothing.
The expense of the turnips was more than
betrayed by the benefit to the sheep dur
ing the winter. The corn on an acre of
naturally much richer land, MANFRED last
year with eight hundred pounds of Ober's
Manipulated, was not equal to the corn,
this year, on this folded land. This sheep
manure will be felt for term of years.
If any one will try this folding process
even on as small a scale as AN acre or half
acre of turnips, it will not be necessary to
urge him 70 repeat it afterwards on larger
scale.
The farmer may say: 81 have no port
able fence and cannot afford to by one"
cry We'll. lie Will De IN q different con-
ditiOn from most of us, if he has not some
old and light pine rails. These will an
swer for an experiment, as the pen can be
easily moved.
Another may complain that he has no
suitable ground for turnips. He is under
the impression that he must do as his
father did before him. That is, begin to
cow-pen the turnip patch in the winter,
continue it during the spring and summer,
and pillow it every time that corn is plow-
ed. But this is all unnecessary. There is
full time now to prepare turnip ground
Take any land, it may be broomsedge, that
has good clay foundation. Turn it over
we'll with two-horse pillow, subsoilng it,
if possible. Harrow it first the way it was
plowed; then cross-harrow and continue
to cross-harrow until the surface is per-
fectly pulveriZed. Lay off the rows two
and half feet apart with deep furrow !;
apply stable manure in the furrow if with
in reach, if not, three or four hundred
pounds of some reliable superphosphate to
the acre, cover with two burrows, level the
top of the ridge with board and SOW the
seed. The roller will be of great use after
sowing. Thin out the turnips to ten inch
es distance; plow and hoe once, and the
work is completed. If the turnips come
we'll, and are carefully folded with sheep,
that farmer will see the finest cotton or
corn next year that he ever saw grow on
upland, and the manure will not have ac-
tually cost him cent.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-12

EFFECT OF HEAT ON WILD BEASTS
The animals i'll the Central Park, at New
YORK, 1T is said, suffered terribly from the
heat last week. Large tanks of water
were kept constantly filled, and in these
they lay, and, with lolling tongues and
bloodshot eyes, passed away the long and
melting day. The elephants, chained to
staples on the green, tore up the sod with
theiT trunks and carpeted their backs with
cool earth, presenting an extremely laugh
able spectacle.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-12
POST OFFICE HOURS,

The MaryvilIe Mail arrives at 1920 A. NJ, az, To-
parts at 200, NJ, daily. except Sundays
Maynardve Mail arrives at 1900. NJ, on Thursday,
and departs at Loo, P. NJ. same day.
The Blain's y Roads Mail arrives Tuesdays and Fri
days at Hoo, A. NJ and departs ut 1900 NJ same days
Gap Creek Mail arrives "Wednesday at 800 P NJ
and departs Thursday at 600 AM
The Post Office opens at A. NJ, and closes at g.
PM Opens again lat I, PM; closes at Pm. Once
open on Sunday at Loo P. NJ. for one hour.
JAMES RODGERS NJ
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-12
Financial.
EsTABLIsHED 1860.

WE are prepared to purchase, at
~ Best Rates, Gold, Silver, Gov
eminent, State, County, City, and
Railroad Bonds and coupons, Bank
of Tennessee Notes, New and Old
Issue, Uncurrent Southern Bank
Notes, and East Tenn, Va. and Ga. r.
r. Stock.
We transact a General Banking
Business, buy and sell Eastern and
Southern Exchange at current rates,
receive deposits and make collections
upon the most favorable terms.
Interest paid on Deposits in Savings
Bank Department.
Tickets by Inman, Anchor and NatiOna
Lines of Ocean Steamers, and Exchange on
all the principal cities of Europe for sale.
f. P. BAILEY, CASHIER.
July15-d&wtf.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-12
Arrival and Departure of Trains.

f. T. VA. & GA. r. r.
DAY TRAINS,
Passenger train going West:
Arrives at Knoxville. 11:30 AN. Leaves, l1:40 AM
Passenger train going East:
Arrives at Knoxville, 1910 Pm; leaves. 1870 Pm.
MIGHT TRAINS.
PASSENGER trains going West;
Arrives at Knoxville. I1:19 PM: leaves 1l:29 PM
Passenger train going East:
Arrives at Kn' xville, 3:S9 AM; leaves, 3:49 Am.
KNOXVILLE AND CHARLESTON Rp
Arrives at Knoxville from Maryvile 10 AM; leaves
Knoxville for Mar vile 2;40 Pm.
KNOXVILLE AND OHIO R.R
Arrive at Knoxville, 1J:3O AN: leaves. 4P.M
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07
How TO Build Brick Chimney Tops.

All the brickwork above the super
structure should be made with cement
mortar, which will absorb much less wa
ter than mortar made of caustic lime and
sand. The bricks for chimney top
should be soaked in water for a few
minutes, so that they will not extract
the water from the lime. In order to
have mortar become very hard, it must
dry slowly. By laying up wet bricks,
the mortar will set slowly, dry slowly,
and eventually become almost as hard
as the bricks. Every brick chimney
should be covered at e stop with a
copestone, with an archie | top, or with
bricks placed over the tlues, like the
rafters of a building, for the purpose of
turning off the water, which would go
down the inside, be absorbed by the
bricks, and, in some instances, soak
through and wet the paper or kalsom-
lnlng on the inside. A chimney top
lald up with good cement mortar. and
covered with II copestone or chimney
arch, will stand the influences OF the
weather for more than hundred
years without any repairs.--Industrtal
UOuthiu
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07
Billings Wit and Wisdom.


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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07

AT about twenty miles from Berlin is
situated the village of Sperenberg, noted
for the deepest we'll that has ever been
sunk. Owing to the presence of gyp-
sum in the locality, which is at a mod
crate distance from the capital, it oc-
Cured to the Government authorities
in charge of the mines to obtain sup
ply of rock salt. With this end in view
the sinking of shaft or well Is feet in
diameter was commenced some five
years ago, and at depth of $50 feet the
salt was reached. The boring was con-
tinued to a further depth of 900 feet,
the diameter Of this bore being reduced
to about Is inches. The operations
were subsequently prosecuted aby the
aid of steam until q depth of 4,l94 feet
was attained. At this point the boring
was discontinued, the borer or bit being
still in the salt deposit, while thus ex-
hiblting the enormous thickness OF
1907 feet. The boring would have
been continued in order to discover
what desert ption of deposit lay under
the salt, but for the mechanical diff
culties connected with the further
prosecution of the operations. During
the progress of this interesting work
repeated and careful observations were
made OF the temperature at various
depths The results confirm very
closely those which have been already
arrived at under similar circumstances
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07

The Bucks County (Pa.) MaeNigencfr
says On certain farm in Pine Run
Valley, about three miles west of
Doylestown, is a remarkable collection
OF haystacks. The owner appears to
have stacked his hay for fifteen or
twenty years past, without consuming
much of it, and the result is that there
are now from forty to fifty large stacks
OF nay on the premises. There is u
group on almost every field, and the
buildings are almost surrounded by
them. Some of the stacks are so old
and rotten that they have fallen apart
ana SHOW great gap i'll the middle, ex-
posing the interior to the weather.
These stacks probably contain, or did
once, an average of eight tons each
This would make an aggregate of four
hundred tons, which at present CITY
prices would be worth not far from two
thousand dollars. As many Of them
are quite old, the hay cannot now be of
first quality. The object of this re-
markable accumulation of hay we do
not know, and the owner is said to be
quite averse to selling any of it, and de-
cllned to supply some to the neighbors
who ran short last spring. If it were
now put in the market it would bring
enough money to put the-l in prime
ordef and erect tirst-rate set of build
lngs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07
How TO DESTROY Mosquitoes.

A correspondent of the Scientific
American thus explains his process for
destroying mosquitoes;
1.-THE process for destroying mos
quitoes may be condensed into a few
words. The strongest crystalized car
bolic acid should be placed in bottle
and covered with the same quantity of
red cod liver oil shake the bottle
thoroughly until whitish. colored foam
appears; if such foam does not arise,
however, a small quantity of powdered
lime should be added with II little
water. Pour the mixture into a dish or
other convenient article, and place it
directly under the open window, as it is
from this quarter the mosquitoes enter.
In my humble opinion the effect
should be explained in this manner :
The moment the mosquito enters it
loses the scent of blood; for as the
combined odor of the oil and acid is
much more powerful than that of
blood, it follows, rs n consequence, that
the mosquito becomes suddenly per
picked. The consequence is that, after
scrambling and skirmishing in the
dark, the mosquito is led, as it WERE
instinctively into the mixture, where it
is either drowned in the oil or burned
to death by the acid.
"Formerly was accustomed to
smear my face, arms, and breast with
strong oil alone, but | frequently arose
in the morning smelling so terribly
that, though it protected me from mos
quito bites, was happy to lay it aside.
| have slaughtered more mosquitoes
with the article explained above than
ever could have done with my fists or
any other dangerous weapons
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07

The proverbial cleanliness Of the new
"element,' the Chinese, whose influx
in this city has become quite extensive
recently, will not be denied by those
who have had an opportunity to OBJ
serve them closely :. and yet, lik every,
thing else, this boosted virtue of the
"sons of the sun i, after all, relative
1t was but yesterday that large circle
was put III roar OF laughter upon be
ing informed by charming lady Of the
manner employed by a Chinese cook to
season salad The story may appear
incredible, but 1t comes from undoubted
authority. The lady in question related
that one of her friends, who enjoys the
services OF one of these Celestial Bril-
liat-Savarlns, upon descending into her
kitchen, the other day, was not little
surprised and still more Disguised to
discover her cook leaning over a copi-
ously filled dish of salad beating his in
iated cheeks alternately with his right
and left hands, and pouring from his
mouth into the dish a gushing spray Of
mixture of oil, vinegar, salt, pepper,
egg yolk and mustard, and then with
his tapering digits mixed the whole
still further to make it ready for the
table.
The honsekeeper's emotions natural
ly caused her to faint, and the last
heard OF the Chinese cook he vas ap.
plying at a city foundry for position
IN the moulding department of the in.
stltutlon, where his services as spray
spouter would be invaluable. - Ncs0 Or
leans Pico,0y,c
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07

Only Il Few years ago, neither China
nor Japan had "a vessel atloat larger
than the .junks that played round their
shores. At that time the stars and
stripes could be seen on half the ship
ping in the ports Of these two coun-
tries. But this order Of things bids
fair to be reversed at no distant day
Our foreign trading vessels have almost
disappeared from the seas, and grass is
growing in our ship-yards. But the
news comes from the Flowery Empire
that a first class s. cam frigate has been
launched in Chinese waters, every part
of which was manufactured ut home by
native artisans. The increase of the
Japanese navy Is giving positive alarm
to the Russian Government. An I'M
mense dock has been constructed in
the Gulf of icddo, capable of rcceiv-
ing for repairs the largest vessels in the
world. Extensive machine shops have
been erected, where all parts of war
frigates are turned out, including en-
gines and boilers. In few years we
may look to see the vessels Of China
and Japan bring the products of these
countries to our commercial cities. The
next step will probably be to do our
ooastng trade, for which we have not
vessels enough.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07

A Lafayette lover seated himself on a
barrel turned on its side, while sere-
nadlng his hearts mistress. In his
ecstacy he rolled the barrel over, slam
med his guitar against a shutter in his
efforts to regain his balance, and disap-
peared in the cistern. The bubbling
cry of the strong swimmer in his agony
brought out the entire family, includ-
ing the bulldog, in various brier and
picturesque costumes, ranging all the
way from a robe de mat and curl papers,
worn by the innocent cause of it all, to
Il simple yet serviceable collar, worn by
the bulldog. He was tished out of the
cstern, and then the bulldog went for
him, and a more demoralized lover
never took refuge in the first she
bang he encountered. He doesn't go
for the girl quite so heavily as he
did, but he has smashed his guitar to
pieces.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-07

In order TO have distinct vision and
the power for estimating the distance
of one object from another under water.
the magnitying lens Of aquatic animals
must necessarily be much more convex
than inland animals. A ash sees in the
air just as we do in opening our eyes in
the water-iudistinctly. Submarine
explorers are provided with glasses
which meet the emergency. Seals,
frogs, terrapins, crocodiles and water
birds, that seek prey alternately in air
and water, possess n marvellous me
chanical provision for varying the optic
axis in passing from one medium to
another. Human eyes, having no
such adjustable apparatus, meet an
emergency by u lens outside, as in wear
ing glasses.