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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-03-15
The "Three. Bottle, Times.

In those days Scotland would have
been rich field for Father Matthew's la
bOrs. Habits of drunkenness were COM
mon alike to rich and poor. They were
associated with goodfellowship, and were
tenderly dealt with, even by the church.
The orgies of Osbaldistone Hall, graphi-
cally described in Rob Roy, found their
counterpart in many Scottish manor.
The old baccha1alian rhyme,
He who goes to bed, goes to bed sober,
Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;
Lives long, jolly life, and dies an honest fell
was quoted, half In earnest, as apology
for the excesses which wealthy and re-
spectacle hosts, under the guise of hospi-
tslity, literally forced upon their guests,
when the cloth was drawn and the ladies
had abandoned the dInner-table to their
riotous lords and masters.
Ihave heard my father, more than once,
relate what happened on such an occasion,
when he was one OF the actors. He had
been dining, with a party Of eight or ten
gentlemen an few ladies, at the luxu-
rious country-seat of Z friend who had
shown him much kindness. When the
ladies withdrew, the host, having caused
the butler to set out on the table two doz-
en- bottles of port, sherry, and claret,
locked the door, put the key in his pocket,
and said to his guests, Gentlemen. no
shirking tonight Not q man leaves this
room till these bottles are emptied."
No remark was made in reply, and the
wine passed round. My father drank
three glasses-the utmost limit to which [
have ever known him to go, though he hab-
itually took glass or two of sherry after
dinner. At the fourth round he passed
the bottles without filing. His host re-
monstrated, at first in jest, then in half
angry tone, when the recusant persisted.
Thereupon my father, approaching a
front window which opened on the lawn,
only few feet below 1t, threw up the
sash, and leaped out, followed by three or
four other guests.
This enraged their host. As the fugi-
tives looked back, they saw him upset the
dinner. table with violent kick, smashing
bottles and glasses, and declaring, with
an oath, that, if they didn't choose to
drink that wine, nobody else should.
The deserters joined the ladies in the
drawing-room, but the host did not reap
pear /; and my father, as Leading conspira-
tor, lost. and never regained, his friend
ship.-Robevt Dale OtOen IN Atlantic for
March.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-03-15
Cottonwood Sugar.

Every one In the East by this time
knows that sugar is obtained from the
sugar maple. This tree abounds In the
Eastern States. AS soon as the sap be-
gins to move, in the spring, holes are
bored into the trees, wooden spigots in
serted, and the sap flows out into the lit
tie buckets provided for the purpose.
This sap Is then subjected to evaporation,
and the sediment becomes maple sugar.
In the West, the common silver maple
of our Eastern cities has been expert
mented with and fund to yield tolera-
bly, good article. Another maple, the box
elder, or negundo, as it Is called, also
yields considerable. AS these two naples
grow very rapidly, they are often planted
as much for sugar-making purposes as
for the timber they yield or the shelter
from the keen prairie winds which they
afford.
1t has been found, however, that sugar.
producing trees are not confined to the
naples. The poplars yield an article lit
tie Inferior to the true sugar maple of the
East and the annual product made by
the settlers In the cottonwood districts
of the West Is by no means inconsidera-
Bile.
The cotton wood poplar is one of the
best friends to the far Western settler. In
many districts there Is no timber except
along the river banks and water courses,
and Il is then often confined solely to the
cottonwood. 1t forms his frewood, his
fence-posts, and his cattlecorrals; and
now it appears, as well as boiling his cof-
fee, It furnishes the sweetening to make
it palatable. Although found naturally
in damp places It seems to grow rs natu-
rally on dry land; and it Is used for shell
ter belts on farms and street trees for the
towns. 1t grows with immense rapidity.
The writer has seen branches which have
made ten feet in length In single season I;
while some stumps Of trees cut down
have indicated by their annual rings d.
smeter of two feet In twenty years. The
timber is soft and not very enduring
but, take it all In all, the cottonwood, to
the Western man, Is by NJ means de-
spised blessing .-Forney's Press.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-03-15

The English Railw,y system has at least
one advantage over ours-the traveller is
not pestered, every five minutes during
his tourney, by venders Of small wares.
There, In each station, the handsome and
weli-supplied book-stall gives the traveller
an opportunity to furnish himself with
the books or papers he may desire and
then, once seated In the railway carriage,
he is secured from interruption. Buthere
the railway companies sell the privileges
of the cars to vender, and deliberately
subject passengers to q systemanzed an
noyance, that, with proverbial American
meekness, Is submitted to without mur-
muir, Scarcely has the train left the sta
ton. ere boy appears with an armful of
papers. He Is not content to walk through
the train, quietly aAording those who wish
to purchase an opportunity to do so but
he thrusts his wares into everybody's lap,
and then Immediately proceeds to gather
them up. No sooner Is the car canvassed
for the newspapers, than the vend re-
appears with q supply Of candy-parcels,
and these are similarly forced upon every
ones attention; then comes popcorn,
um-drops, comic newspapers, aimanacs,
pamphlets of all sorts, dougnnuts ana
sandwiches, prize-parcels In wnich tne
is almost interminabie, the industry OF
the small boy worthy OF Dester cause,
and the tax upon the travellers patience
and endurance rendered almost intoiera-
able.-ApptstoH.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-03-15
MADAME DUFOUR.

81 WONDER who she is :" said Walter
DrummOnd, looking back as he left the
churchyard.
.'who ?" asked Kate Hyslop with dis
plea ed air.
"That lady in the blue and gold shawl,
who sat opposite to us in church," he an
swered.
"Oh! that red-hcaded woman9 9'' indif-
ferently. 'Why she was a stranger, OF
course; what else should she be ?"
"But wonder who she is, and where
she comes FROM" repeated Walter with
insistence.
"ReaIly, Walter, you are very odd
What concern can it be of yours, and why
should you wonder about her at all ?" re-
turned Kate with iciest manner; and her
betrothed, taking the hint, let the matter
drop.
Hinton, where they all lived, was just
q dull English village without history.
and Walters curiosity was only natural,
under the circumstances.
Soon the whole place was astir with the
news that Madame Dufour, the pretty
woman who had sat on Sunday in
the chancel just opposite the vicarage
pew, had taken Elm Cottage where old
Miss Donne had lived; and that she was
oucy LlcLAuk ~ III q uiailuCI 81 COctly
as to be next door to wicked.
The stranger came regularly to church,
which counted for something In her favor;
and she was reported kind to the poor,
and charitable beyond the common run
Of even generous folks. Not that Hin
ton quite endorsed this last trait. 1t had
Its own ideas about excesses of any kind /;
and excess Of virtue Jared no better at
iis hands than If it had been vice. Lit
tle by little, however, her pleasant smile
ana genial manner broke down some of
the stifier predjudices which her stranger
hood and unlikeness to Hinton laws OF
life had created; and after a sufficient
time had elapsed to forbid the appearance
OF injudicious haste, the Vicar and his
wife called on her--rather solemnly, il
must be confessed, but with a good mean.
ing at bottom.
The next step was to ask her to tea.
Kate Hyslop was by no means well
pleased when she heard of this arrsnoe.
ment; and in general, Kate Hyslop's
wishes ruled the vicarage. But Mr..
Drummond had certain notions on priest.
ly duties which not even his heiress-ward
could touch (; and this was one of them
so now Madame Dufour was marked witt
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-03-15
Miscellaneous Selections.
JOHN REEDS THOUGHTS.

There's mist on the meadow below; the her
ring-fross chirp and cry;
It's chin when the sun is down, and the sod is no
The world Is lonely place, itseems, and dom
know why.
II see, as lean on the fence, how wearily trudge
Dan
With the feel of the String in his bones, like
weak and elderly man;
I've had it many a time, but We must work wher
we can.
But day after day to toll, and ever from sun Il
Though up to-the seasons front and nothing b,
Is ending at twelve like a clock, and beginning
again at one.
The frogs make a sorrowiul noise, and yet it'll
There's something comes with the Spring,
lightness or else weight;
There's something comes with the Spring, and i
seems to me it's tate.
It's the hankerng after life that you never hav,
It's the discomfort % with life that is always thu,
It's the wondering what we are, and where We
are going to go.
My life is lucky enough, 1 fancy, to most mems
For the more family grows, the oftener some
And now it's run on so long, it couldn t be other
wise.
And sister jane and myself, we have learned tc
She rules in the house at will, and in the barn
and field;
So, nigh upon thirty ,years!-as if written and
signed and sealed.
couldn't change If would; Pve lost the how
One day my time will be up, and Jane will be
the mistress then,
For single women are tough, and live down the
single men.
She kept me so to herself, she was always the
stronger hand
And my lot showed well enough, when looked
But I'm tired and sore at heart, and don It quite
understand.
wonder how 1t had been ifPd taken what others
The plague, they say, of a wife, the care of a
II Edith Pleasanton now were near me as Edith
Reed?
Suppose that SON well-grown were there in the
And felt myself in him, as was when my work
should fee! no older, sure, and certainly more
man!
A daughter, besides, in the house; nay. let there
be two or threel
We never can overdo the luck that can never be,
And what has come to the most might also have
come to me.
I've thought, when neighbor's wife or his child
was carried away,
That to have no loss was gain, butnowI can
hardly say;
He seems to possess them still, under the ridges
of clay.
And share and share in life is, somehow, diff
ferent thing
From property held by deed, and the riches that
feel so close in he breastl-I think it must be
the Spring.
Pm drying up like a brook when the woods have
been cleared around;
the sight and sound,
But 1t shrnks until there's oDlylef. stony rut in
the ground.
There's nothing to do but to take the days as they
And not worry with thoughts that nobody likes
to show,
For people so seldom talk of the things they want
to know.
There's times when the way is plain, and every
thing nearly right,
And then Of a sudden you stand like man with
aclouded sight;
A bush seems often a beast, in the dusk of q fall
ing night.
/ must move; my joints are stiff; the weather is
breeding rain,
And Dan is hurrying on, with his plow-team up
I'n go to the village store; I'd rather not talk
-Bdydrd Taylor in Atlantic for March.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-03-15

THERE is no outward sign of politeness
which has not deep mo- al reason. True
education teaches both the sign and the
reason. Behavior is q mirror In which
every one shows his own image. There
Is a politeness Of the heart akin to love,
from which springs the easiest poiiteness
of outward behavior.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04
MORE WHIrEWAsH

.
The Pomeroy investigating committee
through Frelinghuysen, Buckingham
and Alcorn, submitted a majority report
in the Senate last evening, in which they
conclude that that the charges against
Pomeroy have not been sustained. Mr..
Thurman made a minority report, hold
ing what everybody knows, that the
charges have been fully sustained. Such
lame and impotent conclusion az found
by the majority report only excites the
contempt OF the American people, and
we are surprised that Mr. Alcorn ever
signed such a report. The published
evidence Of Pomeroy's corruption was
as plain aud conclusive as human test
mony could be made. II has gone out
10 the world, and the people have their
own views, regardless Of any sympa
thetic coat Of whitewash that any com.
mittee can apply. Everybody that
wanted II has been whitewashed and
dressed in the habilimenis Of purity
except Patterson and the committees
aud they need it worst Of ALL This im
pOrtant piece Of work will probably b.
reserved for the special session.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04
THE STATE OF JACKSON.

The Union City Courier has discov-
cred that there is a vacuum, so to speak.
for a new State, 10 be composed Of West
Tennessee. North Mississippi and South
ern Kentucky. We are not so positive
about the want Of a new State, bnt il
one has to be made we know Of two gen
tlemen who will be eminently qualified
for the responsibilities Of United States
Senators by the time their services
would be required. One Of them does
not live in Memphis; the other one
well. modesty always adorns the cheek
Of youthful genius. He can be found
when needed; also, few candidates for
Governor. Treasurer, Public Printer,
Janitor Of Peniteniiary. Doorkeeper
and other paying positions. The Courier
says:
We care nothing for q name, and only
suggest Jackson until q more accept
able one may be found. In regard 10
that blessing ia disguise" the State
debt, We propose 10 shoulder oar pro
rata portion Of it aud pay il ia q lev
years, a. We viii BE- abundauily able 10
DO. tor the asotiOn embraced 10 the pro-
posed neE State 10 fer outsinpping the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04
SALARIES.

Alta late hour last night the Congress
sional Conference Committee reported
bill in the House increasing salaries oil
the President and others as follows:
The President of the United States to
receive $4,000; Vice President, $40, 900;
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,
$lO,50O; Justices of the Supreme Court,
$4,000; Cabinet officers, $4,000; As
sistant Secretaries of the Treasury,
State and Interior departments, $4,000;
Speaker Of the House--after the present
Congress, $4,000; Senators, Represent
atives and Delegates, including the pres
ent Congress, $500. This is to be in
lieu of all pay and allowances, except
actual individual travelling expenses
from their homes to the seat Of govern
ment, and return by the most direct
route of the usual travel for each ses-
sion, to take effect from the 4th OF
March; 1873. A warm discussion en-
sued, and the fact was fOrcibly recalled
that the House had refused to increase
the pay of female clerks in the depart.
ments from $500 to 1920 per annum.
The report was concurred in by vote
Of 1903 to "a Thus each member made
a good haul in the last hours OF a shame
less Congress. They can now 90 home
happy, and explain, il they win, to the
toihng people why money is so scarce,
wages low. provisions high, and times
so unusually hard.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04
NrM NONE.


New YoRK, March 4.-The annual
meeting Of the Sorosis was held at Del
monico's yesterday, when the report Of
business Of the society and its progress fOf
the year was received. The ANNIVERSARY
dinner will be held at Delmonico's on
March nth, Emily Faithful being the
orator Of the aag.
Governor Dix still has the matter Of
application in behalf Of Foster under
adyisementgglfa sfgGa 31ioH9
The Tribune is the authority for the
ststement that another series Of labor
strikes similar 10 those Of last year are
shortly to be inapguratsd. The battle
will be renewed late in April or early 10
May. The trade organizations are nov
making extraordinary efforts 70 gain re-
cruits so as 70 move vith a solid front
when the signal for Feyolt is gwen. The
employers, however. are prepared. They
have avoided large contracts, and viii
co operate for general defense. The
trades unions are nov much excited over
the eosing slFsggle. The Tnbqoe dep
reeaiss renewal Of last years strikes,
and points 70 failures and losses TO both
capitql and labor interests and TO the
whole community as reasons Why they
should not reeur.
The United States steamship Supply,
which has besu detailed 10 carry goods
20 tbe Vienna kEpohiion, has not yei
sailed, Sc previously reported. She viii
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04
CHICAGO.

CAIcAOo, March 4.-The Chicago and
st. Louis Railroad Company yesterday
commenced suit in the United States
Cireait Court at Springfield against
thirtsen different parties for damages
laid at $4,000. About ten days ago
these men got on the train at Lexington
offering 10 pay their fare to Blooming
ton at the rate OF three cents per mile.
The conductor received the money, and
allowed them to ride as far as the
amount would pay, according to the
company's tariff, and then tried to put
them off. This was resisted, and the
train was delayed about two hours until
sufficient force could be had to expel
the parties. 1t is for this delay and fol
the riotous actions of the defendants
that damages are claimed.
The condition of the finances in this
city ana ths West generally continues
to improve, and though money is rather
tight it is becoming more plentiful
throughout the Northwest. The bal
ances Of country banks with their cor
respondents here had been drawn pretty
low, but are now increasing again. Chi
cago merchants also report satisfactory
collections in the country, and in some
cases say their collections we're never 50
good az nov. The West, having already
marketed the largest hog crop ever
raised, and having a large crop of wheat
whichis now selling at good prices, is in
a better shape financially than any other
quarter in the United States. The only
drawbacks are low prices Of corn and
the nigh prices Of freight ip Che East
Notwithstanding The MERCHANTS Of Chi
cago we're, in most instances, obliged ID
DO business during the past year on
capita largely diminished BIZ loss RON
Gre. they sold more goods last year Than
| any previous year.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04
PUBLIC LEDGER.
ALLEGED Ho !IggYs,E BUSINESS A

The readers Of the LEDGER we're no
doubt surprised yesterday afternoon at
seeing in a special dispatch from Nash.
Vile a statement that Mr.. Mulvihill had
introduced a resolution 10 investigate
charges Of bribery in the last Legisla-
ture. The resolution passed and was
conquered In BY the Senate, and com
mittee Of investigation appointed 10
each House. Mr.. Mulvihill said be had
often heard il alleged that corrupt means
were employed to influence The last Leg
islatore in the matter touching the re-
duction or regulation Of official fees,
The present members who were in the
former Legislature were the first to rise
in favor of an investigation. Mr.. Mulvi-
hill il chairman of the House committee,
and will no doubt proceed with his
wonted activity in the performance OF
his newly assumed duties. II there Is
anything in the charge, or the rumor
rather, let il come out in an open com
mit.ee room and let the public have 1t.
The fact is we'll known that persons in
terested for themselves or friends IN
measures before the Legislature flock to
Nashville every session, and that per-
sonal influence is used with the mem
bers by their constituents; but we never
before heard even a rumor or an intlma-
ton that corrupt influences had been
brought to bear upon the Legislature.
But, as the untutored backwOodsmaA
said to the new preacher as they sat
down to dinner, "Shoot her Of, parsoE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04

Horace I. CLARK, Vanderhiits son.
in-law and right bower, was one OF the
most eloquent lawyers IN New York.
One day. being poor, be vent 10 Van
derbllt's Office, and said Commedore
Vanderbilt ] ike your daughter, and
she likes me; ] want your consent TO
ny marrying herl HAhl" said the
Old man, cynieally, lyon want my
money, do you7" Clark turned toward
the door and said "0h, you and your
money be - Say young fellow ="
shouted Vanderbilt, @come back here,
you can have herl SO be married the
girl, left law, went into Wall street aud
is worth twelve 70 fifteen millions, A
great many men have since then dung
the last remark Of Clarks at the Com
modore, but none Of then ever made
any money b. u.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04

other portions Of tho State 70 which
thew pow belong In populetlont IN
wealth bud ID al that contributes u
make asouniry great and prosperous,
We invite the cordial co-operahon q
the pres and the people TO JON Us "a
our efforts; ultimately they are bound
10 be crowned with success.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04


% d. Increase the .@-~-~-~ ~ 422 n2772O
Forfeited Surrender paid
amount daddii
~ p Is O. a . i
proper
Held for The Reserve meet The they R
holders Claims By death
d.
& different lGlfrT FFTfr
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04

the hard Be adsd
uplus
IA. treey will
amount ion hapi md
81 WA. n. c. BARTLETT, Acuary.
usztAc for climate rsf.
Bl-9 a. LITFLErON, Agent, d.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04
DIED.

LYNN-Al1O o'clock Monday night. March
Sd, 1873. Of brain. feycr. .Johe ,konreIsoh
LYNN, second son oh Henry j. and Lucy Lynn,
and aged twenty-one mouths.
Due notice Of ths lansral will be gIysn:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-04

urrrnIs warn Conf1Sr.l
Orrrrr No. III MrsT COrnT ST.,
NEnfHIs. March %, lsl3.J
V1HE ANNUAL MEETING Oh THksIOCh
toIirrr II The heurlil Water Company
vii tafs risce III the ollcs Of the company,
Tae.dsy. MaTsi IN. a, so, P.g.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-21
Stttj &6rertiss'S:xts.
NEVER.

NEVER
NEGLECT A COUGH. Nothing Is more certain
to lay the foundation for future evil consequences
WELLS CARB0LIC TABLETS.
Are sure cure for all diseases Of the Respiratory
Organs sore throat colds, Group, dptheria astDma g.
cotarrh, hoarseness drynees OF the throat Winappe
or bronchial tubes and all diseases OF the lungs.
In all cases OF sudden cold, however taken, tnese
tablets should he promptly and freely used. Tney
equalize the circulation Of the blood mitigate the
severity Of tie attack, and will in very short time
restore healthy action TO the affected organs.
Wells Carbolio tablets are pat up only In blue
boxes Take no substitutes. II they can't be found
AZ yorr druggists send at once to the agent In new
York who will forward them by return mail.
Don't be deceived by limitations.
JOHN z. KELLOGG,
IS llhitstreet, N. Y, Sole Agent for the q. 8.
Circular. angll4W
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-21

WNMAN LINE FOR QUEENSTOWN .~%Ts4R
u AND LIVERPOOL. = ROYAL N al sS4AH8&
6TKAMKRs are appointed 10 sail as folOwa:
CITY OF NEW YORK, THURSDAY, Aug. 81, at
2, p, M.
CITY OF MONTREAL, SATURDAY, Aug 9sd, at
2, pm.
=cITY OF LIMERICK, THURSDAY, Aug 2s at o,
A.
CITY OF CHESTER SATURDAY, Aug sOth, at 10
A. M.
And each succeeding SatW day and Thursdap. from
PseY a6, North RiveT, RelS York.
RATRs or PASSAGE.
Cabin-Ss5 and $3.50 gold according TO accommoda-
tlons Bound trip tickets at low rates.
Steerage-To Liverpool Queenstown, Glasgow. Lon
donderry, Bondon. LONDON, Bristol or Cardiff, ts0
Ncurrencv From the above places, $32.
Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Paris at reduced
rates.
Drafts for and upward, at current rate, payable
at any part Of great Britain and Ireland.
For further Information apply at the Companys
oflces. -
4O2 Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
or to X. Il. ROBINSON a CO., Agents, Fourth
and Market streets, Wilmington. myll-y