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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

THE TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS OF EUROPE ATM
Acknowledgements p. Lowery, in his aD
gument last Wednesday before the House
Committee on Appropriations against the
oonstitHtienality of the Hubbard bill, in
troduced statistics showing that the West
ern Union Company operates more miles of
telegraph line than all Switzerland, Swe-
den, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Spain,
Bavaria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Wur-
temburg, Greece and Great Britain com
bined. 1T operates more miles of telegraph
and annually transmits more messages than
all Germany, Spain, Hungary and Russia,
notwithstanding that these countries have
nearly the same area of territory and nearly
four times the population of the United
States.
y Europe has a population of 3OO,OOO,OOO,
and sends annually 5O,0OO0OO Of messages,
being one message to six persons. The
and the Western Union Company alone
sends 100000 messages, being one mes
sage to two and half persons. In 1866 En-
gland had 8O,466 miles of telegraph wire,
and in 1873, 69,9lS miles, being an increase
of 16,O93 or "a per cent. In 1866 the West
ern Union Company had 1866 miles of
telegraph wire, and in 1873, 154 All, being
an increase of 1875, or lO4 per cent. Ii
1866 England had 215l telegraph Offices and
in 1873, 5474, being an increase o. 1923, OF
l54 per cent.
In 1866 the Western III ion Company had
22OO offices, and in 1873, $40, being an in
crease of 354O or 100 per cent. In 1867 En-
gland transmitted 100000 messages, and
in 1872, A,s58,O0O, being an increase OF
1853, 900, or 90 per cent. In 1868 the West
ern Union Company sent S, 49,, 1894 messages
and in 1873, 1882 ,S37, being an increase OF
,629, 43S messages, or 1873 per cent. In 1865
the average toll upon the English lines was
80 cents per message. In 1874 the average
toll is %, being a reduction of 10 cents per
message, or 26 per cent. In 1868 the average
toll upon the Western Union lines was 81 10
per message, and in 1874 So cents, being a
reduction of SIS cents per message, or so per
cent
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How TO GET CooL.-Of all places in the
world to select as a retreat from the scorch-
ing beat of June day, an ice-chest is per-
haps the last, and yet George Straubel did
it. George had formerly been barkeeper at
the Apollo Theater, in St. Louis, but lat
terly had been boarding at house where
lager beer is sold. George had been suffer
ing to some slight extent from collie, and
was also perspiring profusely. Do what
he would, he could not keep cool. The
more he tried to keep cool, the more he
perspired, and at last the brilliant idea
struck him that brief retirement in the
ice-chest would set him up all right. 1t did
the lager good, too. So he got into the ice
chest, and very soon felt cool enough. The
perspration was checked, and when Strau-
bel got out of the ice-chest the pelspiration
didn't return. On the contrary, he couldn't
get warm, and he continued to get colder.
until in a very short time George Straubel
was not only as cold as death, but he was
dead. He had cooled himself off with a
vengeance poor fellow, and all for want of
knowing that the human system is not a
watermelon or a key Of lager. A coroner's
inquest was held on the body, and a verdict
returned in accordance with the facts above
detailed, and George Straubel, after being
cooled off right in an ice-coffin, was buried
by the county undertaken.
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MoRMoNIsM RUNNING INTO CoMMUNIs

MORMONIsM RUNNING INTO COMMUNISM.
An interesting correspondence from Salt
Lake City, published in the New York Her.
aid, throws light upon new movement
of Brigham Young, or rather the revival of
an old one, calculated to give this "pro-
phetic" man more power and wealth. A
grand conference had been held, lasting four
days, in the Tabernacle, to consider the
" Order of Enoch," an organization pur-
porting to have all temporal things in COM
mona system of Communism, pure and
which will, OF course, give the
head of the. Mormon Church, Brigham
Young, absolute power over the property
and labor of his deluded followers
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be executed with the sword, that death may
follow, and they declare all his property
confiscated," the execution to take place So
soon as the sentence was read to the pris-
Oner.
Being allowed to write farewell to his
wife, the letter ran thus receive at this
moment the very heavy and sorrOwful
tidings that l, an old man, for all my ser
vices done well and faithfully to the Father
land for so many years (after having per
formed all respectful and friendly Offices to
his excellency, the Prince, with upright
affection, so far as my official duty and vo-
cation would permit, shown friendship to
many people Of all sorts, and Willingly in
jured no NAM, must prepare myself to die
tomorrow. l console myself in God the
Lord, who knows all hearts, and who will
Judge all men,"
He remained calm and undaunted to the
last moment, unbuttoning his doublet with
his own hands, and drawing the black cap
down over his eyes. Kneeling in the sand,
che executiOner struck his head off with a
single blow. He was nearly seventy-two
years old.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

The hitherto unpublished memorandum
book in which Gen. Kleber daily wrote the
thoughts and reflections which arose in his
mind during the expedition to Egypt is ap-
pearing in the columns of French news
paper. Bonaparte is not over teuderly
handled by his lieutenant and unfortunate
successor in Egypt. Is B. lovedin says
Kleber. "How could he be. He loves no.
body. He does not know how to organize
or manage; and nevertheless, wishing to do
everything, he organizes and manages.
Hence confusion and waste, which reduce
US to absolute want in midst of plenty. He
has never any fixed plan all goes by skips
and jumps; the day rules the affairs Of the
day. He pretends to believe in destiny"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

A singular computation has been made of
the receipts of the Paris theatres in 1869,
the year before the war, when France was
in the very zenith of her commercial pros
perity, and 1873, when relapse from free
trade principles and political insecurity had
brought affairs to their lowest ebb. From
this statement it appears that the theatres
were in a much more fourishing condition
last year than during the Empire. The re-
ceipts of the Coincide Franchise amounted
to $4,000 francs in 1869, and l.36O, 600
francs in 1878; of the Vaudeville, 5000
francs, in the former year, ga, 900 francs in
the latter; while all the other theatres
showed proportional increase.
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How They Kill Cattle i'm Texas.

The ordinary plan of drawing the steer
down to the block and striking him on the
head with an AK is too slow for the whole
sale butchery carried on here. About one
dozen head are driven into small pen, just
sufficiently large to hold that many closely
packed, and gate forced to behind them.
This pen has an open slat platform across
the top Of it, upon which two men are sta
toned with poles and sharp-ponted knives
fixed on the end of them. With rapidity
acquired by long practice, they plunge their
spears into the necks of the atfrghted and
struggling animals, cutting the .jugular
vein, and each successfully falls as if struck
down with an AK. The blood spirits out in
streams as if from dozen fountains, and in
loss than minute the whole penful are
down quivering in the throes of death, and
covered with blood.
The door of the pen leading into the rem
dering room is then thrown open, the ami
mails drawn out successfully, and a knife
rapidly Sits the skin around the neck and
down the stomach. A rope is attached to
the upper part of the hide by a clamp, to
the other end of which is mule, which
leisurely walks off down the yard carrying
the skin of the animal with HIM, and leav-
ing the carcass still quivering with animal
life. A tackle hoists the body up to a level
with one of the immense cauldrons, and in
less time than we have taken to describe
the process, it is in the seething and boiling
mass. There are four or five of the caul-
drons, each large enough to hold dozen
beeves, and they are kept constantly going
during the killing season. The tallow is
drawn off into large hegsheads, and the
remains of these great soup kettles are car
ried out on what is called the "hash piles"
of bones, horns, and the animal
matter from which the fatty substance has
been extracted.-BaltmOre American
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UNHEARD.

What if there may be music
Our ears can never hear,
Not quick enough, it may be,
To catch the echoes clear?
We know what grand old anthem
The ocean sings Away,
And how the surf-line breaking
Echoes the chant all day.
We know how bird songs culver
From tiny feathered thrOats;
We know how bells keep loyal
To solemn-sounding notes.
How wandering winds 60 softly
Through forest, aisle and glen,
Till piDe-harps, signing softly,
Give back the notes again.
But what if clouds above us
Chime, az they touch and pass'
What if the dew makes music
Exhaling from the grass ?
If wreaths Of smoke uprising
A-quiver, chant and psalm
And stars strike silver timbrels
In moonlight's seeming CALM
If notes, with elfin fingers,
On sunbeams family play,
Their harmonies too subtle
To sound in ears Of clay'
II snow fakes, gently falling,
Sweet rhythm may not make,
And cadenoed, sweet complaining,
The pillOwed silence wake
All \! though we boast our wisdom,
We are not wOndrOus wise;
And sights and sounds there may be
Beyond these ears and eyes. E.. l..
London DISPATCH
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SAD, But TRUE.-Ar amusing scene was
witnessed on train Of cars in the northern
part of this State the other day. A newly
married couple entered the car and took a
seat. The husband, wanting to smoke, left
his wife and went into the smoking car
The bride began to doze, aid while she
slept a stranger entered the car. and, as it
was crowded, quietly took seat beside the
young wife. Shortly she began to nod, and
doubtless imagining that her husband was
still in the seat, gently reclined toward the
stranger, and soon her head fondly nestled
on his breast. At this juncture the husband
returned. He stood in mute establishment
in the aisle until the lady awoke, and, real
izing the situation, drew back in amaze
ment, suffused with bushes. Stranger ex-
planned, husband was satisfied, ami wife
tried hard to appear unconcerned.
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me following table is given ~ -.
wages paid to agricultural iaho.sne weskly
parts OF Europe, by which thu N soln Q
h ~ snls country may be coran. .sses lid
a Ihgnest wages in En- gland, naId 1; g ahe
~ ~ t o. IN Devonshire and Com~bh!i 20 Aelt,
t ~ Ireland. "a 81, without board que ~ q;
P que INCEST wages are 81 96. W;ti e France,
81 ,1 So " IS; in Denmark q ~. - board in
c cn 90, an with board. AlthoncS 70 1taly,
th;s cann labor is undoubtedly a. me agn-
i; ;a's s,s country than is compeer = o9ster Of
inc ''1 no, 20 Dc remembered that ~ aslopesit
Enroppe ow tss. q money is much ~ puschas-
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

APPLE TREES HISTORICAL.-A West Viz
ginia newspaper says There is an arpE
tree standing in a lot adjoining the hoiee
OF }. w. Canter, at Huntersville, Pocahone
county, West Virginia, which has becoH|
historical, marking the spot where Gen.
E. Lee pitched his first tent in the late wa
Early in the summer of 1861 Gen. Lee va
ordered to the command of the forces
Western Virginia. Leaving Richmond h
came to Warm Springs the first day, aud d
the day following reached Huntersvill,
where, for the first time in the war, he b
youacked on the tented field, selecting tb
aforementioned apple tree, which stands :
hill overlooking the town, as the plad
where his tent should be pitched. Il is
singular coincidence that Gen. Lee shout
have commenced his military career upd]
an apple tree among the mountains of Wej
Virginia, and have closed that BIRD
career by captivating to Gen. Grant 20
an apple tree at Appomattox. And WI Is
more singular, as an incident connected )h
the war, John Brown, who commenced NJ
war, was chung on sour apple tree, "
1T is said that the forbidden fruit of ch
mother Eve partook was taken fro In
apple tree; and now, to cap the q kx,
agents for the sale of apple trees are B Ia
ing as numerous as lightning -rod me rd
sewing machine men.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

"Phebe QUEENS is high toned woman, y
says say Mrs Emily E. Briggs ("Olivia") in the
Philadelphia Press, =" a pioneer attempting
to open a new road for our sex to virtue and
bread" And pray, Mrs. Briggs, what does
your sex want with a new road to virtue I
The old road, built by the all-wise Engineer
himself, is far better and safer than any
new one is likely to be. 1t is perfectly plain
it has no branches that can mislead the
wakeful, it knows where it is going, and it
never goes any where else. Let Phebe open
TOR your sex new road to b. cad, if she will,
but if she goes to inveigling them into q
new road to virtue, we tear that many of
them will lind themselves lostA long way
nom home when night comes on, and have,
to sleep out in the woods.-C ovrjer -Josrsai.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

Gustave Dore's new picture Is 90.
Dream Of Pilates Wife," and was
w tne message sent to Plate whiS
judgment !" seat with his wife, Claudis
a. Ia: Have thou nothing to do ~
} 1b;s maj i; for | have suffered man Il
naint;ny s s ~ a dream because Of him q
DESCENDING sn1 t%s Inc NED dresaln-troubled S
i IN ola blaze Of strong lights from l sn" y
IN, and by her side, as if whispar;nr h
ear is flying angel, resplendert *
Gus of ngns: The dream is told bv th :.
Oh LII. Un1lst, radiant with light thai sne 81
nround, showing nov the forms Of &c chlle
the Ghu,ch the ,n Edv.a1gelists and fashss
Of KINGS ana ana following these ara crn9
crosses ca anG 9Poi;e a with bannerss
heavenly host of angels. above "1naeath 4
i Gai starry cross, shedding raw. ~ Re: a.
ugnt over the scene. "ys VI sllye
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

Mast has capital caricature of the recent
Manhattan CLUB Reunion, which seems to
have been inspired by the phrase of the
Chicago Times calling it "a gathering of the
dead-a kind of love feast among some an
Gent skeletons from the grave yard of the
ancient Bourbon party" The BOurbons un-
der Nast's pencil all appear as grave or joy
GUS or gleeful skeletons dressed in swallow
tail coats, the latest style of shirt-collars
and white neckties. On the rostrum a
deaths head is delivering an Grafton out of
pOnGerOus jaws and a pair of bony
hanGs is applauding him to the echo
Two grinning gentlemen grasp each
others metacarpal bones, and pledge each
others health in the foreground, out of
which are climbing a succession of other
skeletons, flocking from their tombs to the
feast. Shining occiputs and condyles give
au air Of ghostly conviviality to the scene,
and the very globes of the chandeliers dis
perse their light through CHASTITY sinciputs
and melancholy jaws. Even the hemis-
pheres which adorn the Worlds frontispicce
undergo the same transformation, and the
ccOrnice itself of the club room is afflicted
with bucrania. But Mr.. Mast forgot to give
his picture the proper legend "Can these
dry bones live! And, 10! they rose up and
became the hosts of a conquering army !"
New York World.
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The latest development of crowner's
quest law" was in California few days
ago, where Portuguese miner having shot
. Chinaman whom he found trespassing ON
his sluices, "the Coroner's jury rendered
verdict of iusti6able homicide, and the de-
PENDANT was discharged"
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A GOOD DEED-Stories of good deeds and
compensating fortune are go d to tell. They
are pleasant to read, besides, affording ex-
cellent examples to the rising generation.
They always happen long way off, like the
generality of eclipses, transits and other
events of high character, but the lesson is
all the same, and we'willingly take the mar
ratOr's word as the truth. Osborn went to
California fifteen years ago. He was one Of
the unfortunate. He found no gold, and was
helplessly sick into the bargain. fellow
adventurer, who had struck a lead, thought
there was something in the sick man worth
saving, so he tended him, and brought him
out, and gave him $3.50 to buy tools and find
some place to go to work. The nurse told
his patient he needn't trouble himself about
the payment and get sick again from hard
work. He could pay when he had the money
to spare. The two separated. In eighteen
months Osborn sent his nurse $3.50 as in.
terest on friendship, and the other day he
met the old friend who had saved his life,
and handed him a package, with instruc-
tions not to open until they separated again.
The package contained a deed for one sixth
of a rich silver mine, which the receiver sold
for 5000 cash.-St. Louis Republican.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

An amusing story is told of the daughter
of a well-known London herman, who was
recently taken into dinner by Judge who
figured prominently in the Tichborne trial.
The conversation turned ON the young la
dys usual place of residence, which hap
pened to be Highgatc. "Don't you think
Highgate pretty ?" she asked Unfortu-
nately, she WAS slightly uncertain in her as :
pirates. His lordshp gave her one hurried
glance of intense astonishment. g You get
prettys' he replied CALAMITY, recovering
his presence of mind. "No, Miss -, I
think you were always pretty" However
Mortified at the compliment, the young lady
quite justified it by her profuse bushes.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

The most trying circumstance under
which boy can be, is when another boy in
the alley is winking at him, and his father
Offering him nickel to carry in pile Of
wood.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-21

When Elmer Ellsworth died he was aft
anced to beautiful young lady, who made
vows at his deathbed to lead a mournful
life of celibacy. The reporter of the Albany
4rg"s made inquiry concerning this lady, Of
Ellsworth's mother, on the occasion of the
dedication of the Ellsworth monument, the
other day. He says:
But in answer to my question, the soft
placed her hand upon which cleaned wed.
ding ring to her cheek, "She is not here" I
Is she sick or-dead ?"
Neither one nor the other, l believe; but
the lady is married"
You surprise me! Is not that strange 2"
We'll, l don't know; some would have
married and some would have not 1t was
not until six years after his death occurred
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CRUELTY.-An act of infamous cruelty,
under color of law, reaches us from An
napolis. It seems that, some eighteen
mouths since, a private was caught drunk
and asleep while on duty. He was tried,
convicted, and sentenced to two years soil
tary confinement in dungeon. The dun
geon or cell selected for this purpose is a
closet five feet by ten, nnder the water-line,
in the hold of vessel. For eighteen months
this miserable wretch, we are assured has
IN this manner been shut out from the light
OF heaven, breathing the noisome air of this
loathsome place. Nothing but vigorous
constitution prevents this being, what it
will be yet, the death penalty, and slow,
lingering death Of torture. Now, how
often have the officers who meted out
this torture, or the Secretary who approved
1t, been drunk and asleep on dutyf One
doubts, with such fact before us, the
Christian civilization of our age.
[Washington Capital.
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Hash is noun that should be declined
whenever given out.
(Albany Evening Journal.
But it's like the widows cruse-it never
does give out.
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Does horse lift both feet of eat
alternately This question we ven
say can not be answered by many
readers in moment. Miss Tho
whose picture of Calling the Roll
Crlmea," in the London Exhibitio
oeen praised by the Prince of Vale
mas, therefore, attracted attention. h
tured one of her horses walking bv
the near fore and the near hind lao
tlanously, whereat there has arisen
discussion. Some say horse walks
J S.o;s, ana % some say not: Tho
street and Deserving the two
ster gives, "To trot: the pacS 3 pl.ees'
other quadruped when he liffsc
and the hind foot of the opposi
same s mel, time. This pace is the Sd
a walk, but more rapid" which "
believe that Webster evolved h
not from sight, but out of hi, I.
seriousness. Who will decides
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HONOR AND POSTAGE STAMPs.-A gentle
man, who was a stranger in Little Rock,
went to the desk of one of the hotels and
asked if he could bay postage stamp.
The clerk replied that he had none, where
upon bystander took out his pocket-book
and graciously handed the gentleman a
number of stamps, telling him to help him
self. The stranger took two of them, and,
thanking the gentleman for his kindness,
handed back the remainder of the stamps
and six cents for those he had taken. But
the pennies had scarcely been placed in the
hands of the other, when he flung them on
the floor and exclaimed excitedly,, "if you
that an Arkansian does not peddle postage
stamps" No apology would be accepted.
and the irrate man walked out of the hotel,
muttering about his offended honor.
New York Times
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The Tampa, Florida, Guardian says
There are but few of our readers outside
of Tampa aware Of the fact that the manu-
factories of cedar pencils in Germany and
other European countries are indebted to
this coast for the supply of most of their
material yet such is undoubtedly the fact
This ceiar is gotten out and hauled to
Tampa in the shape of nicely hewn logs,
some ten feet in length, worth, on an aver
age, fifty cents per square foot. This timber
is then shipped to New York, sawed into
slips, cedar pencil length, thence sent to
Europe. The cedar logs as hauled in by the
farmers are in piles about town and in heaps
along the river. The cedar forests up the
river are almost inexhaustible, though in
swampy hammocks causeways have to be
built to facilitate the getting out of the
cedar.
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From Mr.. Codman's book 'on Utah: ~
was astonished to hear polygamy advocated
by ladies of education and refinement !;
among them school teacher who strongly
favored it, perhaps because she was no Ion
ger young. At a hotel where was staying,
l met young married lady of one Of the
first families of Salt Lake. Two of her in
when they were out of the room, she asked
me, what do you think of Al She
is . charming GIRL l replied. Indeed she
49, exclaimed Mrs. B., do wish B
Cher husband) would marry her; should
so like to have her with me all the timer"
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The coolie traders do not take kindly to
the action of the Chinese Government in
destroying their infamous trade. Seven
harbor when the imperial edict went into
effect. The captains thought it would be
jocular proceeding to fire minute guns and
half.mast their flags during the day which
marked the termination of their traffic.
This performance scandalized and irritated
the Macao Government very much. 1t was
suddenly recollected that there was port
regulation against firing cannon without
official permission, and the jolly sea-dogs
We're hauled before a magistrate and fined
500 each. 1t is said that the coolie traders
out of the business do not think their joke
was so very funny after all.