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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-26
State Of LOsSiSi01e0-E'NriSH OF
RapideS-P0rish Court.

HfNPideS-PNriSh Court.
No. 169.-Succession of John Schwartzen.
burg, ST., for Homologation of Final
Account.
WHEREAS. John Schwartzenburg, Jr.,
w has filed for Mrs. Margaret Schwartz
zenburg, Final Account Of her Admins
tration as Exeautrix of said Succession,
praying that her Succession be discharged.
Notice is therefore given to all whom it
doth or may concern, to show cause if any
they have or can, within ten days from
date hereof, why the said Final Account
should not be homologated and the Success
sion of Mrs. Margaret Schwgrtzenburg be
discharged BY order of the Court.
Clerks Office, Alexandria, La, July 10Th
1873. CHAS. OWEN, Deputy Clerk.
July 10Th 2t-P. Fs S. 90.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-26
July 12-2t.
BvlAgc Notice.

RTOTICE is HEREBY CIV.
In en- that Sealed Proposals
will be received by the undersigned
Commissioners, for rebuilding the
bridge over the Bayou Beuf, at
Robinson's Store, for fifteen days
from the date hereof. Said bids
must be addressed to either of the
undersigned. Said bids must not
exceed the amount of the appropria-
ton, and the Contractor must give
bond and security for the perform.
ance of the work.
The Commissioners reserve the
right to reject any and all bids.
The proposals to be opened at
Robinson's Store on the 10Th of
July, 1873.
CHAS. KERR,
VIM. POLK,
T.G. COMPTON.
July 5th-3t.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-26
Monday, the 4th day Of August
1873,

between the hours of IL A. NJ, and P. NJ,
at the Court House Door, in the Town of
Alexandria, Louisiana, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
The undivided half of certain tract or
parcel of land, comprising portion of the
Plantation known as Wellswood, situated
on the left descending bank of Bayou BGuf,
in the Parish of Rapides, Louisiana, con-
tanning Five Hundred and Fifty Acres,
more or less, bounded above by the Home
Plantation of John and Amelia b. Comp
ton, below by lands of the Succession of
Hatch Dent, together with the Dwelling
House, and all other Buildings and I'm
provements situated thereon and thereto
belonging.
Also one undivided half of One Hundred
and Fifty Acres of land, bounded above by
land belonging to the Succession of Hatch
Dent, and below by land belonging to the
Succession of John and Amelia B. Compton,
with all the Buildings and improvements
thereon or thereto belonging.
Also the undivided half of the back con.
cession of the two above mentioned tracts
or parcels of land containing Eight Hum
bred Acres more or less, together with all
the Buildings and Improvements thereon
Also the one undivided half of the tract
on which is the residence of the deceased
Thos j. Wells, known as IDENTIFY, contain.
ing Two Hundred Acres of Pinewoods land
situated about nine miles northwest o.
Wellswood Plantation, being the same lant
purchased by deceased from Reuben Carnal
Terms Of Sale Twelve Months
Credit or Bond, the purchaser to furnish
good and approved security, and montgag'
retained on the property sold.
| JOHN DELACY,
Sheriff and Ex-Officio Auctioneer.
July 10Th sqrs, SIP. F's $24 90.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-26

ReNA! ReNA!l

4 NY one wishing to exchange Country
IA for Valuable Town Property, will find
it to their advantage by
Applying
TTHIS OFFICE.
July 10Th 1873.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
The Infant HippOpotamus.

The Popular Science Monthly, for
 May, contains Frank Buckland's article
 on "The Hippopotamus and her Baby. !"
 This is an account of the habits of the
 young hippopotamus that was born last
 November at the Geological Gardens,
 London, and called "Guy Hawkes." from
 the date of his birth. This is the third
 infant hippo born in Europe. MT. Buck
 land says:
 "A few days after the birth of the
 young one, Mir. Bartlett was watching
 1t swimming about the tank. It then
 suddenly dived, but did not reappear
 for such long time that he thought it
 had fit, and was lying drowned at the
 bottom of the tank. He, therefore, made arrangements to have the large plug pulled out-this plug had been fixed expressly for this purpose-and to run off the tank quickly, so as to resus- citate the little beast, if possible. They were just going to do this, when Master Guy Hawkes. suddenly reappeared, shaking his funny little horse-like ears, from the bottom of his tank, with grin on his face, as much as to say: Don't be frightened, I am all right you don't know all about me yetv The little beast had remained, without blowing or taking breath, actually under water for nearly twenty minutes. The parents have never been known to be under much over three minutes. Isus- pect Nature has given this wonderful power of remaining so long under water to the young hippopotamus, first of all, to enable 1t to suck-when the water has been clear, MT. Bartlett has ire Ivy in order that it may be con cealed from its enemies, though I am not at all certain but that large croc- odile would seize and swallow young as jack would a roach. It would be superfuous in me to at tempt to describe this little animal, be- cause every one ought to go and see it. It is about the size and shape of an or dinary bacon pig, but the color is somees thing of pinkishslate. He knows his keeper very well, and when he has had his dinner is as playful as a kitten, pop ping and jumping about his den, and throwing up mouthfuls of hay, like young calf. When first born he was small enough to come through the bars on to the straw outside his den, but soon he had grown so much that he could not get through. He used to put his head through the bars and allow Prescott, the keeper, to rub his gums. The tusks of the lower jaw were just beginning to cut. the gum. His back teeth have not come yet, but they are obliged to be very careful about his liet, for he has already (when I write, in January) begun to pick bit at the food prepared for him.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23

rotary movement is the opposite to that of storms in this region the winds blow round the vortex the same way that the hands of wach move. In the Torrid Zone, within what are tech nically known as the " doldrums (the limits of true cyclone action), the difference between the lengths of the successive parallels of latitude is so small that the conditions of rotary mo- tlon are present but feebly, and not at all on the equator.
 It IS evident that this knowledge is of much greater practical value on the water than on the land; added to which, storms moves with more regularity on the ocean than on shore, the motion not being interfered with by irregularity of surface. On land our theoretical c4rcle often becomes an irregular ellipse, bat on the ocean the circular form is very nearly preserved. The mariner may avoid serious damage, and perhaps total loss, by Q knowledge of these facts ot storm motion, by steering as nearly as may be away from the vortex. This may be accomplished by keeping the starboard side to windward, and getting out of the track if the storm-center be moving towards the first noted place of thevessel. Some of our ocean-going sea- men are already educated up to knowl- edge of these facts, and an appreciation of their value and there can be no doubt that more thorough dissemina- tlon of the principles of storm science will result in a material diminution in the annual percentage of loss by ship- wreck.-Elias Colbert, an the Chicago Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
A Remarkable Strike.

The details of the great strike among
 the coal and iron workers of South
 Wales are just becoming known in Eng
 land. They show that the strike was,
 Tn nearly every respect, one of the most important in its nature and extent that
 has occurred in any department of
 England's vast and complicated indus tries. A few figures, based on the esti- mates of the London Times coryes- pendent, and believed to be under rather than above the truth, will show the magnitude of the interests involved and the immense sum at stake both on the part of the employers, and on that of the workmen. Sixty thousand men, boys and girls were engaged in the strike. They earned, on an average, $6 each per week. The strike lasted about eleven weeks. The total wages lost by the strike reached tho enormous amount of $4,0OO,OOO. The trades unions paid toward the support of the average weekly product of the mines and collcries affected by the strike was 1O7, ,0OO tons of coal, 11,000 tons of finished iron, 1,800 tons of finished steel, and 1000 tons of raw pig-iron. Aho IoIsI pIouucG WlCunelu rom con- sumption on account of the strike; esti- mated at prices below the average i'm mediately preceding the strike, reaches, in money value, the sum of $1O,OOO,- 900. These figures illustrate the un- paralleled scope of the strike in its i'm mediate effects. When it is remember ed that, as a consequence of the strike, all local trade was almost immediately and completely stopped, and that all the dealers who furnished the strikers with clothing or food, and the landlords who furnished them with shelter, were unable to collect more than a small fraction of the money due for these, and that the industries dependent on the coal and iron of the district were almost entirely suspended, it will be seen that the indirect effect of the strike was hardly less than its direct affect
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
Pioneering in Western New York.

A correspondent of the Tribune says recent story brought to mind the scenes of pioneer suffering that were forced on his notice in Cayuga county after the cold season of 1916, when the corn crop almost entirely failed. He says My uncles had just built mill at Union Springs, and the hungry men from Mentz used to come up the Seneca River in dug outs, both to buy and beg little coarse middlings or barley meal. They lived in the woods, and had cleared and fenced just land enough to plant little corn, and the failure of this reduced them to starvation. But theyhad plenty of trees and made com fortable log-houses, made sap-sugar, and couldfeed their only COW on browse.
 Our farmers could not earn three shillings day. Money was so scarce that no house in any village could have been built if all the labor and material had not been bought in barter. There was emphatically no money. When I came to this village with a store of goods, in 1921, wheat was the only arti- cle that sold for money, and the price had been down to 31 cents bushel the year before. I have known farmer to 1ctNo HIS 1SUber d Woeh or more Ill the post-office until he could thresh wheat to sell and pay the IS cents postage. Hundreds of farmers then drank neither tea nor coffee, and the wife paid for her calico in butter, at eight cents per pound, and the poor merchant had to send it to New York, where it often sold at loss over transportation. have seen string of teams come in to dis tillery in Oneida county, loaded with potatoes, which they gladly sold for 121 cents per bushel. Now you could not hire farmer to haul the potatoes six miles for the same money. Yet can not see that farmers are any happier now than they were then they had be- come acclimated to privation and self denial, and it was as second nature to them. Many lived in puncheon-roofed houses, built almost without nail, but the latch-string always hung out for the benefit of those whose necessities were greater than their own.
 These poor Mentz farmers never had three dollars, and yet some contrived to pay for small farm, while others went further West to scratch poor mems heads the remainder of their days. Those who paid for the land had smart wives, who, in the beginning, helped their husbands by spinning for pork and Indian meal.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
Eggs of Four Years Growth.

The reproduction. says Prof. Agassiz,
 does not go on constantly. It is
 periodical, and this periodicity varies
 in different animals. Some animals re-
 quire Q long development of themseves
 before they produce eggs. Others lay
 eggs very early in life. Fowls begin to
 lay the first year after their birth,
 Fresh water turtles do not bear young
 before their tenth or eleventh year,
 sometimes not till their twelfth. In
 our common black and yellow dotted fresh water terrapin, and in the painted terrapln, the eggs require four years of growth before they are laid. Take q seven-year-old turtle of this kind: it will contain only very small eggs, all of uniform size. An eight-year-olA turtle of the same kind will have two sets of eggs, one larger, one smaller. One of nine years will have three sets, the oldest set being the size of small pea. A turtle of ten years will have four sets of eggs, and in that year she will lay for the first time, and give birth to the most mature set. Other animals require but few weeks to bring forth their eggs to full maturity. In our common jelly-fshes, for instance, toSo-SoAoiSo oNuA1oS, G1lo eSSS begin in May. In July they are all laid, and the young begin their inde- pendent life. The season of laying diff fers greatly in different animals Some lay their eggs in spring, others in mid summer, others, as the trout family, salmon, and the like, in autumn.
 The irregularity of number is another astonishing feature of this problem of reproduction. Itwould seem that some kinds of animals require far greater number of individuals for the main- tenance of the type than others. Some animals multiply by hundreds of thou sands-nay, by millions. Others bring forth single new seing, or at the most two or three at Q time. Some animals bear but once and then die. Others, more tenacious of life, bring forth new broods for @ long period of years. These various conditions of growth, and ripening, these extra ordinary differences in the power of and reproduction, are no doubt, a necessary part of the economy of the whole animal kingdom. There is nothing variably or capricious about 1t, and we must not forget that whoever would account for the origin or successive introduction of the different types of organized beings which have followed one another upon earth must include in his explanation the whole scheme by which characteristics are continued and transmitted.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23

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 It is a well-known fact that iodine
 when dissolved in liquids containing tannin, cannot be detected by the
 ordinary starch test. Tessier has found,
 however, that on adding to such solu-
 tion a few drops of neutral solution of
 chloride of iron, the iodine is at once
 set free, and can be detected by cover
 ing the test glass with watch glass or an inverted funnel, covered on the in- side with starch paste.
 American inventors and manufac-
 turers of stoves may be interested to know that the sum of $2,500 has been
 placed by gentleman, who does not
 wish his name to appear, at the disposal
 of the Council of the British Society of Arts for the purpose of promoting, by means of prizes or otherwise, economy
 in the use of coal for domestic pur- poses. The Council has decided to offer five prizes for articles which must not be delivered later than December, 1873.
 There are at present 130, 900 miles of railway on the globe, whereof about 68, ,000, or more than one-half ,are in the United States. In countries where government management exists there are altogether about 10000 miles of railway. The Belgium Government has the greatest interest in railways, that is to say, it has the greatest proportionate ownership. In Austria there are 1000 miles of railway, and Russia possesses 5000 miles open traffic, and 5000 more in course of construction.
 No incentive is wanting to seek for tin deposits in the United States, to judge from the small quantity pro- duced, and the increasing demand thereof. It is estimated that the annual consumption of tin in America and Europe was, in 1868, about 22, 900 tons {; in 1870, 24,0O0 tons in 1871, 27,000 tons. This supply was derived from four sources, which last year produced in all only 31,700 tons, made up as follows English tin, 10,500 tons Banca tin, 5000 tons Straits tin, $500 tons Billeton tin; ?, 700 tons.
 There still exists great indecision re- garding the best means of naval defense. Some engineers would rely on great guns, and maintain that there is prac- tically no limit to the powers of gun, while there is very narrow limit to the weight of armor that can be carried Others hold that by having o1@ plate of 4 or inches on the outer surface of the hull, and another of the same thick ness further in, that the heaviest shells would do very little mischief to vessels secured in that way.
 Good advice is given by The Chicago of Commerce to Western far mers who complain of the high rates charged by railroads for conveying pro- duce. It says Diversity industry develop local resources :; encourage near the farm make population denser create on your own soil as many centers of commerce as you can do everything in your power to bring consumers to your doors. All this will take time, because you have already gone so far in the wrong direc- tion. This, however, is certain, you are, by your present course, but adding force and momentum to the cause of your present troubles. The effect can be stopped only by removing the cause. Strike at the root of the whole evil.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
What to do in Emergency.

Here is useful hint on the best method of action when the clothing of any friend is on fire-an accident which all are liable to. Seize a shawl. or blanket, or any woolen fabric. hold the corners as far apart as you can, stretch them out higher than your head, and running boldly to the person, make a motion of clasping in his arms, mostly about the shoulders. This instantly smothers the fire and saves the face. The next instant throw the person on the floor. This is an additional safety to the face and breath, and any remnant of flame can be put out more leisurely. The next instant immerse the burnt part in cold water, and all pain will cease with the rapidity of lightning. Next get some common flour, remove from the water, and cover the burnt parts with an inch of flour, if possible, put the patient to bed, and do all that IS possible to soothe until the physician arrives. Let four remain until it falls off itself, when beautiful new skin can be found. Unless the burns are deep, no other application is needed. The dry flour for burns is the most admir- able remedy ever proposed, and the in formation ought to be imparted to all. The principle of this action is, that like the water, 1t causes instant and perfect relief from pain by totally excluding all the air from the injured parts.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
ADVERTISING RATES:
Industrial Progress.

Plaster of Paris, mixed with thin solution of gum arabic, makes perma- nent cement for china.
 Quartz flour is deemed one of the best articles for polishing knives. It is used largely in the manufacture of stone china.
 Topeka, Kan, having decided by popular vote to contribute to the build ing of rolling-mill, that work will soon be commenced.
 Nearly half the revenue of Victoria Australia is raised by duties on i'm ports, some of which discriminate in favor of home industries.
 The narrow-guage railways of the United States makes total length of 325 miles. The length of the lines pro- jecting or building is about 5000 miles.
 Belgium has begun to receive large supplies of coal from the Ruhr Valley, Germany. The cost price delivered at the works does not exceed $4. 12 per ton.
 A machine is employed in cleaning the old bricks in the burnt district of Boston, which removes the mortar, &c., from them at the rate of 35 or 40 q or about as fast as they can be placed in position.
 The British military authorities in- tend this year to make torpedo experi- ments on an extensive scale at Malta and Halifax, Nova Scotia, with view to ascertain the value of torpedoes for defense at these stations.
 Mrs. Col. Neill, a resident of Victoria, Australia, is promoting silk culture ill that colony. She has been so energetic as to visit Europe for the purpose of procuring a supply of silk worms eggs, and learning information on the pro- duction of silk.
 The prospectus of Q London company gives the following as the cost last February of producing Bessemer pig iron in the Cumberland district
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
FIDDLING TO THE WOLVES,

In semi-civilized countries, where the winters are cold and long, the wolf may be found almost everywhere, He fills ln the gaps of desolation. His savage. grinning head appears through the broken glooms of the wilderness hldeous, gaunt, and fierce. He has no sympathies, and will give none.
 Yet there is one droll incident with which my boyhood is familiar, which seems to indicate in the wolf certain susceptibility to softer emotions, and I will relate it here:
 In the early days of the settlement of South Kentucky, there was great trouble h midwinter with the wolves. Old Dick was colored fiddler. He was a very important old gentleman, for no merry-making could take place without his presence.
 Now Old Dick had very strongly de- veloped the most marked traits of the fiddler the world over-namely. punc- tiliousness and punctuality. Upon either of these points he was peculiarly irritable, nay, even ferocious. Nothing caused him to so far forget "Me pro- prieties in his own person as the in- tervention of any unusual or accidental causes of delay.
 On the occasion of grand wedding festival among the colored gentlemen of the neighboring plantation, some six miles distant, Old Dick was. of course. expected to officiate as master of the ceremonies. It had been an unusually severe winter, and heavy snow lay upon the ground on the eventful even ing, when, having donned his "long- ska s1I buttons, and mounted the immense shlrt-collar by which the dignity of his of1clal character was to be maintained, the ancient Apollo sallied forth, fiddle Tn hand, to dare the perils of the dis tant way alone; for the younger darkies had all gone to the frolic hours ago. with a haste and eagerness altoget6er unbecoming his importance. The moon was out, and the stars twinkled over head, as the old man trudged away over the crisp and' cracking snow. The path, which was very narrow one, led, for the greater part of the way, through the dark shadows of @ heavy forest, which yet remained as wild as when the indians roamed in it, and was untraversed py wagon-road for many miles.
 The profound and dreary solitude of the way could not have failed to impress any one unless he happened to be en- tirely occupied by one absorbing thought, such as now held the body and soul of the old man in his anxiety to reach the seat of operations in exact time. He was goaded at every step by the maddening vision of the expectant ranks of sable gentility rolling the whites of their stocking-feet upon the floor, impatient of delay for the truth was that he had fingered a little too long over the polishing of those brass buttons, and the setting of that immen- sity of collar, and he first became con.
Connecticut western news., 1873-05-23
The Deacon's SwiIl Barrel.

Just outside of the house stood faith CT, the deacon, tugging away at a lump of ice in the swill barrel.
 Bad business, that" said I, resting my hands on my sides.
 "Not half so bad as it might n been" was the reply, as he lifted out the cake of ice by stout stick that had frozen in the swill.
 "Many an many a bar'l has busted for me that wouldn't if this knowledge had come to me sooner" said he. "You see, when this cold snap came on sud- denly, thought of the swill bar1 away in the night, and said, Well, it can't be helped now It happened, however, that the stick stir with was left poked down in the swill, and that was all that saved it. A barl or tub or pail may freeze up solid, and if stick has been put down in the water, the vessel can't bust. But it took me good while to find it out lived seventy years before I knew it, "and his eyes twinkled know ingly.
 "Why, that's on the same plan, " said I, of putting a spoon in a glass jar when you are canning fruit; if you do that, the jar won't break.
 "Same philosophy exactly" said he, as he gave the ball of ice kick and sent 1t rolling off down hill.