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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-02
SCHOOL BOARD.


The regular monty meeting of the Board
of School Directors occurred last evening.
Present-Hon. H. c. Dioble, president;
Superintendent c. w. BoothUy, and Messrs.
Pinchback, Shaw, Mccarthy, Carey, Long
street, Ingraham, Tracy, DeKlyne and
Gaudet.
The minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved.
The treasurer submitted his report for the
month of June for school taxes collected
for 1871, balance S2446 &c; for 1873, balance
ST. 1876 26; for 1874, $l4,724 IL.
The reports OF the visiting committees
were received and filed.
Some changes were recommended ny
Messrs. Deklyne, of the Second DISTRICT
and McCar.y, of the Third District. MT.
Ingraham recommended the purchase OF
$500 worth of books for the six schools OF
the Fifth District. The decrease in attend
ance is noted.
Mr.. Longstreet reported from the com
mittee on teachers, recommending leave OF
absence 10 Miss O. Ptard, Beauregard
SCHOOL, Mrs. E. j. Wharton, Franklin
School, and Mrs. Kelley; Central High
| School.
Mr. DeKlyne, Of the committee on school
! houses, recommended another building 1or
the Hospital School. and also that $3o be
appropriated 70 recompense Mrs. Piles for
| damages for revocation of contract.
| Mr.. Shaw. of the finance committee,
offered the following report, which was
adopted:
To the Board Of School Directors OF the city OF Ne"
| o. cans: .
| Your committee OF finance respectfully
recommend the payment of the following
bills which they have classified az well as
they could, according to months in which
they were filed or the debts incurred, SO
that the payments may be made IN the
order required by law.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-02

(cONTNUKD on FOURTH pAGE.l
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-02
Time-l:45: l:474; LIS.

Time-l:45: l:47A; las.
Next was a trot for $1,000. Seven entries;
FIVE started. Won by Granville in 2:35,
2:33 and 1884.
Pacing race for purse of $500. Eight
entries; i've started. Won by Sleepy George,
who took first third and fourth heats in
2:l91s 2:24 and 2:34s4. Copper Bottom won
the second heat in 2:2234.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-02
SCHEME.

10000 Tickets............Tic Tickets only $40
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
A COMMON. DANGER.

People who wet their winters coal, in
order to lay the dust on putting it into
their cellars, do not generally know
that they are laying up for themselves
store of sore throats and other evils
consequent upon the practice. But SO
it is said to be. Even the fre-damp
which escapes from coal mines arises
from the slow decomposition of coal at
temperatures but little above that of
the atmosphere, but under augmented
pressure. By wetting mass of fresh
1y-broken coal, and putting it in q warm
cellar, the mass is heated to such de-
gree that carburetted and sulphuretted
hydrogen are given off for long periods
of time, and pervade the whole house.
The liability of wet coal to mischievous
results, under such circumstances, may
be appreciated from the circumstance
that there are several instances on rec
ord of spontaneous combustion of wet
coal when slowed into the bunkers or
holds of vessels. And from this cause,
doubtless, many missing coal vessels
have perished.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
| HUNDRED EXTINCT VOLCANOES.


The Academy of Science met. as
usual, on Monday evening, Gen. Hew-
ston In the chair. The attendance was
good. The donations were numerous
and some of them interesting. DIR.
Harkness spoke of discoveries made bv
himself in parts of Plumas and Lassen
counties little known hitherto A tract
of country containing about s, 600 square
miles he described not only as volcanic,
but showing traces of recent volcanic
action and having within its limits 100
extinct volcanoes. A large crater on
the dividing line of the two counties
had damned up lake, giving it new
outlet and spreading its waters over an
area of three square miles. The vol
canic cone is higher than Vesuvius.
Ashes and scori@ are scattered all down
its sides. In different parts of the lake
are stumps of trees, some of them forty
five feet in height, and showing above
the surface. Some of them standing in
the lava are only partially burned
through, indicating that the matter
elected from the volcano was not all in
melted state. In other places occur
round cavities, which were sounded by
DR.. Harkness and his party, and stumps
found at the bottom. Higher up, the
trees, though untouched by the lava,
were burned by the heat. The growth
of portion of the trees since the erup-
ton shows about twenty-five annular
rings. The lava from the volcano COW
ers about a hundred square miles. An
old resident of Red Bluff, who was in
the neighborhood in 1858, told the doc
tor that he saw bright sheet of flame
rising from the mountain, which con-
tinued during his entire stay. Shaved
Head, an old Indian of the Mil Greek
tribe, says that in his youth the region
was alive with volcanoes in active oper-
ation.-Sara Francisco Chronicle.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
MAN WITH a HISTORY.

Three times last week a man was
brought into the station who was found
on the street in an unconscious state.
SATURDAY. he was taken to the work
house. He had been peddling baskets
about town, and is subject to fits, fall
ing to the ground suddenly and remain
ing unconscious for some minutes. Be-
fore being taken to the workhouse he
told his story to Deputy Williams.
Hewas born in East Randolph, YER
mont, about thirty five years ago, and
his name is Horace Barney. From his
childhood he was subject to fits, and for
that reason unable to obtain steady en-
ployment. So he was sent to the poor
farm. Apparently they tired of him
there, for, he says the town authorities
took him to seaport and shipped him
on a whaler fox voyage to the Pacific.
Not long after the vessel ssiled his in
trinity was discovered, and the captain
cast about for some way to get rid OF
him. The old stock trick of leaving
him on an island was hit upon. AS the
ship was cruising around an island in
the Pacific boat was ordered ashore
for water, and Barney was detailed as
one of the crew. His shipmates per-
suaded him to push on toward grove
of trees, and then jumped into the boat
and pushed off for the vessel without
him. In despair he stretched himself
upon the sand, and presently fell into
fit.
The natives of the island found him
in this fit, and apparently were favora-
bly, impressed by his situation, for they
took him to one of their villages, fed
him and made much account of him.
They seemed to regard his fits as fits of
inspiration, and reverenced him as a
great medicine man. He was adopted
into the tribe, and his body tattooed in
the latest and most approved fashion.
(The tattooing is plainly visible on his
body now.) He took one of the native
women as wife, and she had child by
him. He lived with the savages two
years, and got very tired of his life,
longing to get back to his native land.
One day vessel hove in sight, and a
boat was sent ashore. He seized the
opportunity and escaped, coming to
] New York. Since then he has made his
living by making and peddling wicker
baskets. What fall, from the medi-
cine man and prophet of a nation to a
peddler of baskets.-Portldnd (Ne. J
Press.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18

not be repeated more than once q year,
otherwise the gold will most certainly
be rubbed off and the china spoilt.
When the plates, etc., are put away in
the china closet pieces of paper must be
placed between them to prevent
scratches on the glaze or painting, as
the bottom of all ware has little parti-
cles of sand adhering to it, picked up
from the oven wherein it was glazed.
The china closet should be in dry
situation, as a damp closet will soon
tarnish the gliding of the best crockery.
IN. Y. Herald.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
DANGER OF srIMuLANrs.

That man is nothing less than a de-
hberate suicide who drinks tea, coffee,
or ardent spirits of any kind, to induce
him to perform work in hand when
he feels too weak to go through with 1t
without such aid. This is the reason
that the majority of great orators and
public favorites die drunkards. The
pulpit, the bench, the bar, the forum,
have contributed their legions of victims
to drunken habits. The beautiful wo-
man, the sweet singer, the converse
tionalist, the periodical writer, has filed
but too often drunkard's grave. The
best possible thing for a man to do
when he feels too tired to perform
task, or too weak to carry it through,
is to go to bed and sleep a week if he
can this is the only true recuperation
of brain-power the only actual renewal
of brain forces, because during sleep
the brain is, in a sense, at rest, in a
condition to receive and appropriate
particles of nutriment from the blood
which take the place of those which
have been consumed in previous labor.
Mere stimulants supply nothing; they
only goad the brain, force it to greater
consumption of its substance, until that
substance has been SO fully exhausted
that there is not power enough left to
receive a supply just as men are some
times 90 near death by thirst and starv-
alton that there is not strength enough
left to swallow anything, and all is
over. The capacity of the brain for re-
ceiving recuperative particles sometimes
comes on with the rapidity of lightning,
and the man becomes mad in an in
slant in an instant falls into convul-
sions, in an instant loses all sense, and
he is an idiot. We repeat, there is re-
newed force for the brain only in early
and abundant sleep.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
BAD SHOOTING IN SPAIN.

So long as newspaper correspondents
have the officers only to deal with, be
they Republican or Carlist, they are
sure to be well received, but if any of
the rank and file see man in their
neighborhood whose identity with either
side is not clearly visible, they freupo
bim. If they only fire at him, he is
comparatively safe, for worse shots I
have never met. While at Hendaye I
met a young English doctor who is at
tached to the ambulance corps, and who
has occasionally been fired at himself,
in spite of white badge he wears
round his arm. In the course of con-
versation he mentioned that few days
since he was taking sketch of the
church at Irun from the top of a neigh
boring hill. While he was sketching
he heard several shots fred from behind
rock near to him. Although he did
not hear the bullets pass, he was un-
certain whether or not they were fred at
him, and was about to beat hasty re-
treat, when, suddenly, a Republican
soldier showed himself and fred down
into the valley below. Seeing that he
was not the object at which the man was
firing, the doctor spoke to him and
asked whom he was shooting at. Point
ing over the rocks to q road 200 yards
below, he called attention to peasant
who was walking along it. The man
was unarmed, and appeared quite at his
ease, although several shots had been
fred at him. "I believe he is a
CarIist, said the soldier "I have tried
four times to hit him, and have failed.
Will you take a shot?" There is a
superstition among the Spaniards that
if man is missed fur times his life is
being protected by the saints. and con-
sequently he is safe for that day at
least. My informant declined the offer,
his business being to heal wounds
rather than cause them. just at that
moment the peasant discovered that he
was the object Of the Republicans at
tention, and he therefore lost no time
in climbing over wall, so as to place
some protection between himself and
the marksman.-Letterf from Spain.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
PARASITES IN B1RD-CAGEs.

Many a person has watched with
anxiety and care a pet canary, gold
finch, or other tiny favorite evidently
in a state of perturbation, plucking at
himself continually, his feathers stand
ing all wrong, always fdgeting about,
and in every way looking very seedy.
In vain is his food changed, and in vain
is another saucer of clean water always
kept in his cage, and all that kindness
can suggest for the little prisoner done
but still all is of no use, he's no better
and why? because the cause of his
wretchedness has not been found out,
and until it is, other attempts are but
vain. If the owner of pet in such
difficulties will take down the cage and
cast his or her eyes up to the roof there
of, there Will most likely be seen a mass
of stuff looking as much like red rust as
anything and from thence comes the
cause of the poor birds uneasiDess.
The red rust is nothing more nor less
than myriads of parasites infesting the
bird, and for which water is no remedy.
There is, however, a remedy, and one
easily procurable in a moment-fre.
By procuring lighted candle and
holding it under every particle of the
top of the cage, till all chance of any
thing being left alive is gone, the
remedy is complete. The pet will soon
brighten up again after his "house-
warming" and will in his cheerful and
delightful way thank his master or mis-
tress overland over again for this, though
slight to him, important assistance
Land and Water.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
GRAY EYES.

The gray color is peculiar to the eye
of women. And here we meet with a
variety enough to puzzle Solomon him
self. We will pass over in silence the
sharp, the shrewish, the spiteful, the
cold, and the wild grey eye; every one
has seen them-too often, perhaps.
But then, again, there are some beauti-
full enough to drive one wild, and it is
only them which we mean. There is
the dark: sleepy, almond-shaped gray
eye, with long black lashes-it goes
with the rarest face on earth-that
Sultana-like beauty of jet-black hair,
and complexion that is neither dark
truth must be told-and soft and rich
as the leaf of the Gala Ethiopian itself
Directly opposite to this is the calm,
clean, gray eye-the eye that reasons,
when this only feels. It looks you
quietly in the face it views you kindly,
but, alas, disappointedly passion
rarely lights it, and love takes the
steady blaze of friendship, when he
tries to hide within. The owner of that
eye isupright, conscientious, and pitying
his fellow-men, even while at loss to
understand their vagaries. It is the
eye for kind, considerate physician,
for conscientious lawyer Cf such
man there be), for a worthy village
pastof. for a friend as faithful as any
poor human being can be.
Last of the gray eyes comes the most
mischievous soft eye with large
pupil, that contracts and dilates with
word, a thought, or a fash of feeling
an eye that laughs, that sighs almost,
that has it's sunlight, it's moonbeams,
and its storms wonderful eye, that
wins you whether you will or not, and
holds you even after it has cast you off.
No matter whether the face be fair or
not, no matter if the features are irregu-
lar and complexion varying, the eye
holds you captive, and then laughs at
your chains.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
SOME SILLY PEOPLE.

The Chicago Inter Ocean, speaking
of the silly people who are eternally
trying to appear intellectual, says: &c In
music they affect a classical severity of
taste. Vocal music they find trivial /;
instrumental music, if merely beauti-
full, is worthless. Depth of thought is
what they are after. In painting they
jabber about symphonies in green, har-
monies in white, and notturnos in all
sorts of colors. They beg of you to ad-
mire the tremulous tones of an, atmos-
phere, or the swell Of foreground, or
the diapason of scarlet in sunset. They
themselves might not inaptly be de-
scribed as inharmonious swells in green.
and it is difficult to say which are the
greater nuisances-these really soulless
windbags, whose appreciation is all
affectation, or the honest but unculti-
waited countryman, who listens to a
sonata of Beethoven and exclaims, 90.
dry up that scrapin', and give us a vir-
ginia reel"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
OPENING A coRREsP0NDENcE.

The Binghamton On. W Times
says "Miss s. M. Pollard, of this
city, who formerly conducted the ex-
tensive millinery establishment on the
corner of Court and Water streets, re-
ceived few days since from the execu-
tors of the will of her uncle, her fathers
brother, recently deceased in San Fran
cisco, Cal, letter informing her that
she was mentioned in the will as the
sole heir of her uncle's estate. The
letter further informed her that the es-
tate was valued at upward of 5000, 900
800, 600 being invested in lands and
real estate, and about $1O5, 900, con-
sisting of cash, on deposit in various
banks in San Francisco. MIR. Pollard,
we are informed, went to California
many years ago, and for long time his
whereabouts were unknown, until his
niece, by writing to the Postmaster at
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
CARLYLE as a READER.

Probably no author of his time has
read more than Carlyle. He actual
" devours, and has devoured, books
ever since he was 10 years old. He
will go through an ordinary volume in
two hours, and, although he may not
con each page, he will find in it all that
is worthy. His memory is prodigious,
not only for generals but for details.
He could repeat poetry by the ell. He
never does, however for he is always
averring that he hates poetry that the
greatest bards have crippled their
thought and limited their range by
rhythm and rhyme. He thinks Homer,
Dante, and Shakespeare would have
been greater had they expressed them
selves in prose. Nevertheless, he is a
poet-a poet, not without, but indiffer-
ent to, form. he has the reputation of
being better acquainted with all SUBJ
jects, historic, philosophic, literary and
scientific, than any living Briton. For
years and years he is reputed to have
read on an average five volumes day,
and to have skinned eight or ten more.
Reading has ever been a passion with
him, and he has said that his idea of
heaven would be to be turned into an
inexhaustible library of new and good
books, where he could browse for all
eternity. He estimates, have heard,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
DEATH FROM Exo1rEMENr.

The following incident is recorded in
connection with the announcement of
the death of Miss Emma Mclean,
daughter of Capt. George Mclean, of
Rochester, N. z. "Miss Mclean had
been suffering with typhoid fever for
about five weeks previous to her death,
but had commenced to recover slowly
a day or two before her final illness.
So much better had she become, in
deed, that she was left alone in her
room short time on last Wednesday
evening, as she had fallen into peace
full slumber. The sun was just setting
at the time, and a bright streak of sun
light was thrown across the sleeper's
bed-chamber. Miss Mclean happened
to awaken suddenly, saw the room
flooded with the suns rays, and, sup
posing that the house was on fire, sud-
denly sprang out of bed and called at
the top of her voice that the house was
on fire. Her fears were soon allayed,
however, when the family appeared, and
she was placed in her bed again. But
the sudden fright had proven too much
for her weakened body to bear. and she
commenced to sink rapidly, and died
on the following afternoon"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
To PRESERVE PEAns.-Take pea,

To PRESERVE PEARs.-Take pears
not quite ripe and peel off the skins.
Prepare sirup with three-quarters of
9 pound of sugar to each pound of
fruit. Melt it and boil for half an hour.
removing all the scum that rises. Put
IN the pears and let them boil for ten
minutes, or just long enough to soften
little; then take out and cover tight
~ with paper wet in whisky or alcohol,
and cover with another paper placed
over the mouth of the iar.-Gernsan-
toaVn Telegraph.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18

that he has cleaned the contents of fully
one hundred Thousand volumes, which,
when we consider his voracity, rapidity,
trained eyes and mind, is not at all un-
likely. There is hardly curious and
remarkable book in the British Museum
that he is not more less familiar with.
A gentleman's ordinary library he could
eat up-all that is worth eating, that is
in a single fortnight.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
REDEMPTION OF MUTILATED CUR
KENCY


A Washington correspondent states
that the reports of the Controller of the
Currency and Treasurer Spinner are not
yet complete, but are in n pretty for
ward state of preparation. The Con
troller will not recommend any impor-
tant changes in the present currency
law, but will ask for new legislation on
one or two minor technical points. The
treasury officials are highly pleased with
that part of the act which regulates the
redemption of mutilated currency, and
predict that next year it will work even
better than it has this. In. the short
time that it has been in operation, less
than five months, more than $50, 900, 900
of national bank currency have been
received for exchange for legal tenders !;
800, 900, 600 have been counted, assort-
ed, and set to the Controller. OF the
remaining $40, 1000, 900, three-ffths are
ready to send to the Controller and Re
demption Agent, and 100000 will
soon be ready for the transfer. It
should be borne in mind, too, that there
has been stoppage in redemptions for
one whole month, because when the
redemption was begun the agency was
in no proper shape for the work. Ex-
perience shows that $40, 600. 900 per
1uonth can be disposed of by the pres
ent force of experts, or an aggregate of
$120, 600, 900 per annum, making it pos
sible to renew the entire national bank
circulation once in three years. Ordi-
nary bank notes will not last much
longer than that length of time. The
treasury officials differ as to whether
the five per cent. provision is sufficient
for easy redemption.
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San Francisco, ascertained her uncle's
address and corresponded with him.
Through this correspondence, which
revived old memories and restored
family relationship, it is supposed the
deceased was actuated in making this
bequest."
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18

THE Way TO TAKE CARE OF CHINA.
ALI china that has any gliding upon
it must on no account be rubbed with
a cloth of any kind, but merely rinsed,
first in hot and afterwards in cold water,
and then left to drain till dry. IF the
gliding is very dull and requires polish
ing, it may now and then be rubbed
with a soft wash-leather and little
dry whiting, but this operation must
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18

" WHAT are you doing now ?" asked
New England man upon entering Mr..
-'s studio in Rome unannounced-
" just at present, replied the sculptor,
who was washing his hands, 81
am performing requisite ablution. y
" Requisite ablution 70 exclaimed the
New Englander. ST never knew of
such statue let's have look at it p
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18

THERE is a man living in Carrol
county. N. H.. poor-house who spent
all his property in Jaw suit IN which
the sum involved was only So. He had
two opportunities of settling the suit for
So and he knew all the time that he
was wrong.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18

A GENTLEMAN writes to the New York
Times that he has been hunting for a
wife for fifteen years, but has never
found well educated girl, occupying a
good position in society, who was will
ing to accepk himself and his 81, 800
year. He claims to be well-bred, good
looking and accomplished.