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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12


STEEI. &IA1l.: DOUBLE TRACB
BALTIMORE AND OHIO
RAILROAD
ne great short tiae from <incinnss iss Eosuhnos
CAST:
ssv;as esnayseven to ITO miles. sssd arriving sus
train IN advance ss
SEW york,
saving fey nine miles, and arriving sin aea hsl'
aours in advance at
BALTIMORE.
Sa-tD seventy seven miles, and arriving sagRt
cod three-9uarters hours in edvsneea a.
WASHINGTON
Reaching
PHILADELPHIA
ssne train the QUICKEST
eHB GREAT IRON RAILWAY BRIDGES
CseS tbs Ohio river, at Psrkersburg and BeAatB
are completed.
MORNING AND NIGHT LINES OF
Puillnan's Palnoe Drawing-Roens ana
sleeping Cars
sre run t:s from st. Louis, Cincinnati q
Columbus to Baltimore and Washington City,
WITHOUT GRANGE!
By 'his fouts you avois al omnibus transfer
and ferTiss.
Tickets isr ssis az al ticket of6ces ID the SOutb
and Woss.
Z. II. DOLE.
General ticket Agent Baltimore. Maryland.
". P SMITH,
Easter Trsn.portstl"n, Baltimore Maryland
SIDNEY B. JONES,
General Ssssengos AGENT, Cincinnati. Ohio
S,hl5
SCNDAy EXCURSION.
NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON AND GRBAT EORrB.
BRH RAILROAD.
Commencing SUNDAY, June 8, and until further
notice, excursion train will leave the CsIDoTs
street depot at 1855 NJ. and returning 'ssGs ths
city at II P. NJ
Great Reduction In Farce
New Orleans to
Frenier, intermediate stations and returr.o -
PonchstsGla intermediate stations and 10
.uiCi -. % "
Smite City, Intermediate stations and ce-
tuIh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ..-.'''" ~
Magnolia intermediate stations and return o.
x D. FROST, General Superintendent
isS s. r. CARLY. q neral Ticket agent.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12
SUCCESSION NOTICES.

Succession of Charles Ledig-No. IS, 700.
GECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
- of Orleans.-Notice Ia hereby given to the cred
iors of this estate and to all other persons herein
interested, to show cause within ten days from
why the provisional account presented by the
administrator of this estate should not be
homoiogated and approved, and the funds dis
tributed in accordance Herewith.
By order Of the Court
ialI Is 1875 FRANK PACR, JR. Clerk
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12

VNEVTCNLA INSURANCE COMPANY,
NJ. Al Gravier Street.
RsuIes against
fire, Marine and River Risks.
at the Lowest Tariff Rates.
4. Elm m BADKR, President
CHAs. EEG3TFELD, Vice President
GEORGE sTROMEYER, Secretary,
First Fiscal Yenr.
Premiums received ..........po..e....SlS7,l2 5 70
Fire, marine and riser Losses
paid. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 38,6F 50
Reinsuranoes rebates,
penees, enc ...-'. '.,.s.. 1888 8S-l34 0ol 81
ssa,lN Is
Total amount Of assets. 8 7e4 ,9l9 10
DECLARED
Interest capital paid in, ten par cent.
Dividend on capital paid in, eight per cent
Dividend on premiums paid sixteen per cent
TRUSTEES.
Henry Abraham, g. Kat2,
Louis Schneider A. Elmer Bader,
Joseph Keller w. B. Schmidt
n. A. Baumgarden, Theodore Lihenthal,
Il. steg, p Del BOndio,
q. H Miller, Isaac ScheIek,
II. Eieke, s. L. Nasits,
J. n Schwartz, Charles Bnsstfeld,
II. Pohlman, Louis SehwarZ,
NJ. Frank y. Riskert
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12

Total. 81, bSs A@
CHARLES l.. c. DUPUY, CsshsoEs
Dividend Declared.
Stockholders three and q half per cent for three'
months depositore one per cent for three months,
SAMUEL n. KENNEDY, President
CHARLRs L. G.. DuPUY, Cashier jail I'm cod
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12

Succession of j. b. Bertir-No. SECS.
GECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
y of Orleans.-Notce is hereby given to the
creditors of this estate and to all other persons
herein interested, to show cause within ten days
from the present notification, If any they have or
can, why the account presented by the ad-
ministratOr of this estate should not be homolO.
gated and approved, and the fpnds distributed
In accordance Herewith.
By order of the Court
JAZZ IS 20f PRANK PACE, JR., Clerk.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-12

Succession of Ann Maria Shmidt-No.
3S 007.
GBCOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
- of Orleans.-Whereas, Valentine Lightman has
pettioned the court for letters of administration
the estate of the late Ann Maria Smith, de-
ceased, interstate Notice is hereby given to all
whom It may concern to show cause, within ten
days, why the prayer of the said petitioner should
not be granted.
By order Of the Court.
les IL 17t PRANK PACE, Jr, Clerk.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

The authorship of the q Moon Hoax"
an elaborate description (which was first
printed in the Sun of men, animals, &C.,
purporting to have been discovered in the
moon by Sir John Herschell, is now dis
pvted. Until recently it was conceded to
K. A. Locke, now dead but in the " Budg-
ct of Paradoxes," by Professor De Nor
gan, the authorship is confidently ascribed
to Nj. Nicolet, French savant, once
well known in this country, and employed
by the government in the scientific explora
ton of the west. He died in the government
service. Professor DeMorgan writes as fol-
lows There is no doubt that it ithe
Moon Hoax) was produced in the United
States by NJ. Nicollet, an astronomer of
Paris, and fugitive of some kind About
him l have heard two stories. First, that he
fed to America with funds not his own,
and that this book was mere device to
raise the wind. Secondly, that he was
protege of Laplace, and of the Polignac
party, and also an outspoken man. The
moon story was written and sent to France
with the intention of entrapping M. Arago,
Nicollet's especial foe, in the belief of it"
1t seems not to have occurred to the sage
and critical professor that a man who
could steal funds, would have little scruple.
about stealing literary production. 1t is,
hence, more than probable that N,collet
translated the article Immediately after its
appearance in the New York Sun, and
afterwards sent it to France as his own.
~. Y. Erening Post.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

A MYSTERY OF THE SEA.-The story
comes from Gibraltar that. on the 18th
of December last. the Del Gratia came
upon the Mary Celeste, an American brig
antine, first seen by the Del Gratia in lat
itude thirty-eight north and longitude
seventeen west. She had been abandoned
by her crew about three weeks previously,
as was shown by her log, and since that
time had drifted about without living
being on board. The cause of the aban-
doument is a complete mystery, as the
brigantine was sound in every particu-
lar, and effects were found on her of con-
siderable value, which, had she been board
ed by privates, would undoubtedly have
been taken away. The articles that were
remaining seem to show the presence Of a
lady and child on the ship. One thing
found may furnish clue to the mystery.
1t is a sheathed sword, the blade of which
looks as if it had been stained with blood
and then wiped. There were marks of
blood on the top-gallant sail, and the bows
of the vessel had been cut as if intention
ally with some sharp instrument. Con-
lectures in regard to the true cause OF her
abandonment are. of course, likely to be
pretty fertile, but the probable hypothesis
is that for some reason the crew revolted,
murdered the captain and his passengers,
and then took to flight, carrying away with
them nothing which might lead to their
arrest and conviction.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02
A corresnondenI Gfthe Rrattlebore PIX

A correspondent ofth Brattlebore Pix
mir says that one ght recently the village
physician, DIR. W.. made sudden and un-
premeditated addition to his knowledge of
the natural history of quadrupeds. Return
ing from visit to patient, he had nearly
reached his home in safety when be took
in friend to ride. This was an unlucky
circumstance, thoug ID highly creditable to
the doctors good taste and courtesy. The
road-path was deep and narrow. and the
moon cast shadow therein. The doc
tor saw huge muskrat running in the
path few rods before. Put up your
horse and run him down; he can't get OF
the track ~ said the friend. The doctor
at once acted on the suggestion. The
horses hoofs struck the poor animal, and
the astonished doctor, with the whole estab-
lishment, passed through rapidly expand
ing cloud of penetrating mephitic vapor.
Science has demonstrated the exact number
of feet that light travels in second. but
it has not yet shown with mathematical
certainty how fast the odor of the Mctphitis
Americana (skunk) radiates. In this
case it brought people to their feet at
once at distance of half mile-a fine
illustration of the philosophic principles
of the almost infinite divisibility of the
particles of matter. " That wasn't musk
rat" said the doctor That's evident"
said his riding companion. The doctor
then became silent and reflective,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

a DINNER ExcUsE--Apologies for
poor dinners are generally o It of place
But when lady has forgetfal husband,
who, without warning, brings home a
dozen guests to sit down to plain fami-
y dinner for three or four, it is not in
human nature to keep absolute silence
What to say, and how to say it, form
the problem. Mrs. Tucker, the wife of
Judge Tucker of Williamsburg, solved
this problem many years ago. She was
the daughter or niece Il am uncertain
which, Of Sir Peyton Skipwith, and Gel
ebrated for her beauty, wit, ease and
grace of manner. Her temper and tact
were put to the proof one court day,
when the judge brought with him the ac-
customed half score or more of lawyers,
for whom not the slightest preparation had
been made, the judge having quite for
gotten to remind his wife that it was court
day, and she herself, strange to tell, hav
ing overlooked the fact.
The dinner was served with elegance,
and Mrs. T. made herself very charming.
Upon rising to leave the guests to their
wine she said Gentlemen, you have
dined to-day with Judge Tucker: prom
Use me that you will all dine tomorrow
with me-
This was all her apology, whereupon
the gentlemen swore that such wife was
beyond price. The Judge then explained
the situation, and the next day there was
a noble banquet. Moral; Never worry a
guest with apologies.-AprH number Of
LippincottS Magazine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

WHAT is CATGUT.-Some inquiring mind
has started the question. g What is Catgut ?
The Shoe and Leather Reporter thus an
swers: For many years the only article
used under this name consisted of the in
testines Of sheep, cut and twisted. AS the
Italian sheep are the leanest of those ac
cessible to market, and as the membranes
of lean animals are known to be tougher
than those of animals in high condition,
the best catgut has come from Naples and
that vicinity.
There is no historical record concerning
the use of the intestines of cats for strings
of this sort, but from the fact that the
name from earliest times has uniformly
been applied to this article, it would
appear altogether probable that the strings
did first come or were supposed to come
from that source. The chief use of catgut
for many years was for the strings of harps
and guitars it was manufactured from
the vicera of sheep. The membranes of
smaller animals are sometimes used for
the covering of whips and such purposes,
but sheep still furnish the strings for musi-
cal instruments. The process Of preparing
is gu t. curious. The membranes are Or
dinar.l ly exposed to the power of burning
sulphur, and then slit and twisted into
cords of differen. sizes as wanted. Mus.
ical strings. whip cords, hatterS' cords,
strings ofcloaks, etc., are the chief uses on
the list. They are then dyed, stretched
on frames, and dried in a very high tenn
perature.''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

A SHAWL FACTORY IN CAsHMERE.-A
gentleman who travelled long time in
India and Cashmere gives some curious
facts about the manufacture and cost of a
real Cashmere scarf or shawl. While in
Cashmere he visited Nook Shah, who is
the best and greatest manufacturer of
shawls in that city. The factory was a
miserable, dirty building, the workroom
measuring about sixty by thirty feet.
Here he found some forty men and boys,
of all ages, from six to fifty, arranged in
twos and threes, at different looms, each
one having loom to himself, for all the
most valuable shawls are made in looms in
small pieces, according to the pattern, and
then sewed together. The pattern is not
put in coIors and squares, like our pat
terms of worsted work for chair backs,
seats, or slippers, but the directions are
written. When the patterns are made,
they are all sewed together. At some
looms in operation there appeared to be
four or five hundred small bits Of wood
with roofs of different shades of wooden
thread, to be used in different parts of the
patterns. 1t was astonishing 10 see the
dexterity with which the small children
worked these hand-looms and understood
their written directions.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

Tue MASSACHUSETTS HEATHEN.-Whe
the test was applied, it was discovered to
the shame and CONSERVATION of the officer in
charge that there was no copy Of the Bible
in the capitol of Massachusetts,. While
one of the members was speaking on the
Sumner resolutions the other day, he called
the attention of the house to passage of
Scripture that he thought very pertinent
to his line of argument. and, that none of
its beauty might be lost by an inaccurate
quotation. called upon the clerk to read it.
The clerk 5 movements became embarrassed.
He opened the desk with an I-have-it-here
air, but he had it not. Then he looked on
divers shelves and in various pigeon-holes
with similar results, aud finally came the
awful announcement, There is no Bible
in the house." But the worst had not yet
come. The member still refused to trust
his memory, and pages were sent out in
quest of the desired book. Alas, there was
no Bible in the building. An agent of
the Bible Society has been induced to visit
that field of missionary work.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

There is no such thing as curbing the
enterprise or suppressing the ingenuity of
our Western people. Here are the inhsb-
itants of Nebraska determined. if possible,
to have oysters as large and luscious as
the more fortunate people who dwell within
few hours ride of the noble Delaware.
And they propose to rival our Delaware
bay and Maurice river bivalyes by stocking
the lagoons near Lincoln with young oys-
ters, and providing them with the proper
aqueous saline food by supplying their hab-
itation with steady streams of water from
the neighboring salt springs. The expert
ment is certainly novel one. and will be
watched with deep interest by all who
dwell far away from the waters where oys-
ters most do flourish in their primitive con-
dition. Artificial oyster culture is worthy
of attention as is that of their more active
fellow inhabitants of rivers aud bays-shs
fishes.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

An engineer on the railroad between
Cayuga and Ithaca, \. Y, recently ran
down a fox with his "machi ,e.'' Tue
animal was overtaken at a place where he
could only escape by superior speed, for
the lake on one side and a precipice on
the other left only room for tie road, and
so he sped on, stumbling little occasion
ally at some obstruction, but picking him.
self up again with remarkable celerity
as the pursuing monster gave frightful
screech. He at length took to one Of the
rails and ran on without missing step
until he came to safe spot on the lake
side of the road, where he jumped of.
just then the engineer blew a succession
OF shrill blasts, which so frightened the
poor fox that he jumped again upon the
track and in an instant was crushed be-
meath the wheels of the engine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

| think very we'll of elm trees but |
would not have all trees converted into the
elms, for the world. l think admirably
we'll of the oak but | should be tined if
there were nothing but oaks in the world.
think supremely well of the old cedar of
Lebanon; but l should be sorry to see
cedars of Lebanon take the place of all
other trees. No, let US have oaks, let US
have elms, let US have heeches, let US have
all forms of blossoming trees. Let US
have trees of all heights, and all the meth
ods of development Let US have all those
growths which are so beautiful to the
eyes, and which are so usefnl withal. The
hickory has no right to throw its nuts over
at the chesnut because it is not hickory !;
nor has the chesnut right to pitch its
burs at the hickory because it is not a
chesnut TIE perslmmon has no right to
make faces at the apple-tree, nor has the
apple-tree right to throw its fruit at the
persimmon The apple-tree, the peach
tree, the pear-tree, each stands on its own
root, and performs its own functions in its
own way. The world is geat museum Of
variations in unity.
Let no men, therefore, despise denomin-
ations. glory in them. | glory in Epis-
copacy glory in Presbyterianism |
in the modified Episcopacy of the Metho-
dist church | glory in the stout individ-
ualism of the Bsptists | glory in any
denomination that [ see has the power in
it to 90 out into the world and subdue it
to civilization and Christianity. And be-
cause it differs from the denomination to
W hich | belong, or because its mode of
working differs from my mode, it is not to
be despised .-Beecher.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02
SPEED OF THE CARRIER -PIGEoY.-Tl

SPEED OF THE CARRIER-PIGEoN.-The
speed of the carrier-pigeon has been gen.
orally overrated Careful experiments ;iave
shown that thirty miles an hour is the av-
erage, although, in few well authenticated
instances, thrice that speed has been attain
ed. In 1903 an English gentleman laid a
large wager that his pigeons could fly
thirty.fve miles an hour. To decide the
question, three Of his trained birds were
taken exactly that distance from his resi-
dence, and let loose in the presence of
witnesses. They arrived nome together in
Just fifty-three minutes, or seven minutes
ahead of time. In 1888 during the great
annual trial of carrier-pigeons at Ghent,
twenty -four birds were let fly at Rouen
one hundred and fifty miles distant, at
five minutes before ten in the morning.
Their flight was carefully timed. One of
them reached Ghent in one hour and thirty
minutes, having traversed the distance at
the marvellous rate of more than ninety
miles an hour. Sixteen made the journey
in two hours and half. Several were
never heard from. In the East wonderful
stories are told Of their speed and eA!ur.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

aace. The traveller Lithgow tells US that
one will carry letter from Babylon to
Aleppo in forty-eight hours, the places be-
ing thirty days journey apart by the slow
modes of travel used in the East. But
the stories of early travellers are to be
taken with many grains of allowance.
Although for short distance, or in ex-
ceptional cases, the carrier-pigeon may at
tain much greater speed, thirty miles an
hour is probably its average. 1t could not
sustain long flight with greater veloc-
ity
Even this speed Can not be maintained
without rest, for the carrier-pigeon has
not the endurance which belongs to many
birds of passage. 1t always descends at
night for shelter and repose, and hence it
can rarely fly across wide expanse Of
water. To this was partly owing the fail
ure Of the attempt to use them for convey
ing intelligence fromsthe arctic explorers,
and partly to another cause. Some writer's,
chiefly poets aud romancers, would have
us believe that the carrier-pigeon finds his
way home from remote places by kind OF
instinct; but this is not the case. Its
flight is guided by sight alone. When let
loose from confinement it rises to great
height in the air by series of constantly
enlarging circles until it catches sight OF
some familiar landmark by which to direct
its course. If flown on forggy day it
soon becomes bewldered, and either re.
turns to the place Of flight Or is lost. Let
loose from balloon on clear day, and
to far above the ground for objects thereon
to be discerned even by its piercing vision,
instead of rising, it drops perpendlcularly
like plummet, until it nearS the earth,
when it begins to wheel round in a descend
ing spiral, constantly increasing in diam
eter evidently for the purpose above
mentioned of ascertaining its locality, and
discovering some indications for the direc'
ton Of its course. Miss +. b. LEONARD,
in Harper's Magazine for AprI.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02

END to end to cover one inch, while "a, 631 of
the extreme violet waves would be required
to span the same distance
Now, the velocity of light, in round num-
bers, Is 10000 miles per second. Reducing
this to inches, and multiplying the number
thus found by SO, ,9l8, we obtain the number
OF waves of the extreme red in 1870, 900 miles
All these waves enter the eye, and hit the
retlna at the back of the eye in one second.
The number of shocks per second necessary
TO the production of the impression Of red is
therefore four hundred ard filty-one millions
of millions In similar manner it may be
found that the number of shccks correspond
ing To the impression of violet is seven hum
dred and eighty-nine millions of millions
All space is filled with matter oscillating at
such rates. From every star waves of these
dimensions move with the velocity of light
like spherical shells outward. And in the
ether, just as in the water, the motion OF
every particle Is the algebraic sum of all the
separate motions impaired to it, Still, one
motion does not blot the other OUT or, if
extinction occur at one point, it is made
good at some other point. Every star de-
cares by its light its own unchanged indi-
viduality, il it alone had sent it's thrills
through space.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02
The Test OF Friendship.

l once had an intimate friend
So dearl
His calling cannot defend,
/ fear;
For he sang Eut one song
The weary day long
Twas
Anyumberellerstomen mendl
Anyumberelerstomend
But though his profession is such,
| know
I'd not his acquaintance for much
Forego;
Meath his ragged old vest
Beats heart in his breast,
Which
Human misfortune can touch-can touch,
Human misfortune can touch.
For once when by show'rs was caught,
My friend
Was prompt an umbrella, unsought
To lend;
And from that very loan
Shrank the best friends rve known,
"Any umberelerstomend-to mend"
umberellerstomend -?
Tom HOOD.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-04-02
How SHARPER THAN A SERpExr's Tooru

How SHARPER THAN A SERpENr's Toorn
A benevolent Chicago lady lately visited
Mrs. Boyce, who is confined for the crime
of involuntary manslaushter.' Mrs.
Boyce listened attentiveiy to her Scripture
reading and conversation, took with earnest
thanks bundle Of tracts which the visitor
had brought, and offered her the hu nbis
hospitalities of her cell in the shape of 8
glass of cold water. This water, which
had been doctored with morphine, was
sufficient TO throw the lady into a deep
sleep, and Mrs. Boyce then " went through
her benefactress, taking every article Of
value upon her clothing. and even ex-
tracing set of false teeth, which were
set in heavy gold plate. On her awak-
ing, Mrs. Boyce denied all knowledge of
the matter, but search Of the room re-
vealed the missing articles.