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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-30
The Bank Of Banks,
NATIONAL, STATE AND INDIVIDUAL

! The Bank Of Banks,
AT JOE WALKERS,
lib Canal and 6 Royal street,
EVERY FACILITY IS OFFERED TO PATRONS
The Deposits and Reserves are the finest Bran
dies, Whistles, Sherries Madeiras, Ports, Bur-
grmdies, Clarets and White Wines.
Change for Nickels and Greenbacks made in
the most Delightful Spirituous and Liquid Com
pounds, to suit the taste of the most thirsty Or
the most exacting Deposition
No Failure in THE BANK-no Infation-no
Contraction
KEEP COOL! KEEP COOL!
The visitor finds himself in the COOLEST
ROOM IN THE CITY.
He seats himself in Oriental Zephyr Chairs, at
Cool Cosy Table.
He is served with Icy Cold Mugs of Sparkling
placed in the Largest Refrigerator in the South
jam-full Of Ice right from the freezing Arctic
Zone.
just received and now on draught:
50 casks ALSOPP'S and 50 casks MUIR's ALES
so casks PORTER.
0O CASKS BASSS BITTER ALE.
ICE COOL LAGER constantly on draught.
j. A. WALKER,
je3O 1t2dp Proprietor.
Great Closing Out Sale.
Mems, Boys and Childrens' Clothing,
SHIRTS, FURNISHING GOODS,
HATS. TRUNKS AND BAGS.
AN UNPARALLELED SACRAFICE !
Our entire Stock
Must 9e Sold
before the expiration of our lease in September
next.
H. B. STEVENS & CO.,
je3O1t2dp Corner st. Charles and Common.
The Celebrated
CHAMPION AND WHITE MOUNTAIN
ICE CREAM FREEZERS,
ALL SIZES:
23,46,s, 70 and 10 Quarts.
For sale at REDUCED PRICES by
P.J. CHRISTIAN,
je2s 3t2dp So Camp Street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-30
Sunday Excursion.
Unparalleled Inducement-Special Toulme
Hotel Sunday Train.

Take the o'clock Train on Sunday mornings,
at the foot Of Canal street, and go to BAY ST.
LOUIS, to take refreshing sea water bath, eat
good dinner at the Toulme Hotel, and go back
to New Orleans after dark, all for the small sum
of 81 so. Tickets to go and return with dinner
coupon attached, for sale at the companys Office.
Try it once, and you will go every Sunday there
after. je3O 6t&Satf
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-30

Choice Yellow Corn.
5000 sacks, in New Square, Seamless Dundees
weighing over 3 bushels) now on Levee, ready
for immediate delivery. For sale, apply to
je26 4t2dp* JOHN H. HANNA.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-30

North British and Mercantile L,ssu-
rance Company
OF LONDON AND EDINBURG.
Established A. D. 1909
CAPITAL, GOLD. 10000 900 90
Gold. 4,5ooooo 90
Assets in United States, LIST January,
1874. q, GA, 1907 80
Liabilities. Observation-Disclosures. 1928 IS
This old and reliable Company issues Gold and
Currency policies ON Buildings Furniture and
Stocks Of Merchandise at the Local Board Rates,
with usual Is per cent. rebate.
All Losses made at this agency when adjusted,
settled through this Office.
VIM. E. FITZGERALD, Agent,
No. 2 Carondelet street.
ie2S lot
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
How They Kill Cattle in Texas.

The ordinary plan of drawing the
steer down to the block and striking
him on the head with an axe is too slow
for the wholesale butchery carried on
here. About one dozen head are driven
into a small pen, just sufficiently large
to hold that many closely packed, and
a gate forced to behind them. The pen
has an open slat platform across the top
of it upon which two men are stationed
with poles and sharp-pointed knives
fixed on the end of them. With a
rapidity acquired by long practice they
plunge their spears into the necks of
the affrighted and struggling animals,
cutting the iugular vein, and each sue
cessively falls as if struck with an axe.
The blood spurts out in streams as if
from dozen fountains, and in less than
minute the whole penful are down,
quiveling in the throes of death and
covered with blood. The door of the
pen leading into the rendering room is
then thrown open, and the animals
drawn out successfully, and knife
rapidly Sits open the skin around the
neck and down the stomach. A rope is
attached to the upper part of the hide
by 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 leaving the car
tackle lthil hoisEEjj iasEEjysfRs5"6 ysR5 with
one Of the immense caldrons, and IN
scribe the process it is in the seetnihg
and boiling mass. There are 1our OF
Ave of these caldrons, each large
enough to hold dozen beeyes, ana tney
are Kept constantly going during the
killing season. The tallow IS drawn oil
into large hogsheads and the remains O
these great soup-kettles are carried ou
on what is called the hash-pile," con
sisting of bones, horns and the anima
matter from which the fatty substance
has been extracted .-Baltin1ore An1eri
| can
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
Not a Brave Indian.

In the Rec tribe of Indians with
Gen. Clusters expedition, correspon-
dent says, there is a looking
individual clothed in a woman's frock,
but wearing a warriors seal p-braid and
accoutrements. He--or she-is the
drudge of the camp-does all the cook
ing, brings all the wood and water, and
looks after as many ponies rs his-or
her-other duties will allow. The
braves look upon him-or her-wlth M
air of superiority that cannot be mis-
taken, and in none OF the war dances or
other manly pastimes is he--or She
allowed to take part; but the poor,
begrudged indefinite drags out mis-
erable existence, neglected and forioln,
not even being allowed to ride with the
column on the march, but being per-
petual straggler, generally having to
lead three or four extra ponies belong
ing to the braves. L asked Bloody knife
about him-or her.
"The form of a man, but the heart
of a woman," he replied through an
interpreter, and then went on to explain
that the indefinite was man, but had
not the courage to endure the tortures
a Young man must subject himself to
before he can become one of the braves.
So he had to live with the women and
do a woman's work. Suffrage was not
extended to such as he.
"Why does he come with you?"
asked of Bloody Knife.
she wants to get rid of that frock,
said the interpreter, without putting
the question to the chief. "If he takel
a scalp, it comes off him."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
A Sea Story,

Is there anything, asks a writer, in
the sea-air that makes people of the
naval profession tell stories? 1 don't
mean falsehoods necessarily, but stories
that one finds difficulty in believing.
Why is it that all the most amazing adj
ventures are met with upon shipboard ?
Why does a man see things upon a
cruise that he could never dare to say
he saw if iourneying by coach, by train,
or on horseback? Why should not land
serpents be occasionally met with
measuring half mile from their head
to their tail, and rather more in the
reverse direction? Why should sailors
have q monopoly of seeing people in
their cabins at the very moment that
they are dying thousands of miles away
on shore? And, above all, how are all
ships companies persuaded to "wit-
ness things which nobody upon terra
trina could get soul to corroborate
The last thing that has been thus testi-
fed to by marine evidence is the de-
struction of ships company by
calamary. This is not, as you would
suppose, an epidemic, but species of
gigantic octopus. 1t was floating on
the sea in huge mass of brownish
color" much larger than the schooner
itself, and "seemed to be basking in
the sun" when the captain let fly at it
with his rifle. Then there was great
ripple all around him." and it began to
move toward the becalmed ship. "Out
with all your axes and knives, and cut
any part of it that comes aboard, and
the Lord help us - was command
uttered too late. "We could see
huge, oblong body moving by jerks
Just under the surface of the water,
with an enormous train following,
which might have been hundred feet
long" In another moment the ship
quivered under the thud of its collision,
and monstrons arms like trees seized
few seconds the schooner Pearl lay on
her beam ends, then filled, and went
down with all on board, save her
master, James Floyd, the narrator, who
was rescued by the steamer Strathowen,
the passengers of which had observed
the catastrophe through their glasses.
They are all unable to say exactly what
this marine monster resembled, but al
though I was not an eyewitness l feel
confident that it was Every like a
whale" Yet here we have names and
tonnage of the ships, longitude and
latitude of the place in which the Incl
dent took place Git was in the Indian
ocean,, and every particular which on
land would have established the
genuineness of the story. I believe
American sea-captains are favored with
at least as remarkable experiences on
their voyages as our Britishers, but the
ghastliness of this little anecdote seems
UNIQUE,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
A Worcester Rat Story,

This story is from the Worcester
CMass,) Gazette: "Messrs. Clark,
Sawyer & Co., of this city, are much
annoyed by the depredations of a col
ony of large gray wharf rats, which
were probably imported in crates OF
crockery. Some days since they set a
trap for them, the trap being of wire,
in shape of hemisphere, and holding
a peck or more. Next morning, on 60
ing to the trap, it was found entirely
filled with bits of straw and paper,
which Uttered the floor of the room so
full that nothing else could be seen.
On examination, however, six large
rats were discovered in the trap, and it
was apparent that after they were cap
tured those outside had thus filled the
trap for the purpose of concealing
them. The parties in the store sus-
pected trick, and the trap was clean
ed and reset, and all the litter was re-
moved from the floor and piled at one
end of the room. The next morning
five more rats were found in the trap,
and it was packed full of rubbish as
before. The straw and paper were
broken in small fragments, and it was
apparent that the rats had gathered il
and crowded it through the openings
in the trap until it was full, and thu
captured ones were entirely concealed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Waste not-either time, money, or
talent.
Prosperity is blessing to the good,
but curse to the evil.
Experience is a torch Lighted in tho
ashes of our delusions.
The tenderest heart loves best the
bold and courageous one.
Do we all realize that in us is an ele-
ment which will outlast the stars
He lives long that lives well, and
time misspent is not lived, but lost.
After forming a friendship you
should render implicit belief ; before
that period you may exercise your
judgment.
In my pursuits, OF whatever kind,
let this come to my mind, "HOw much
shall value this on my death bed ?"
Sin is never at a stay. Ii we 30 not
retreat from it we shall advance in it,
and the further on we so the more We
have to come back.
When anything is forbidden to bo
done, whatever tends or leads to il, as
the Leans of comprising 1t, is forbid
den at the same time.
The essence of true nobility is neg
lect of self. Let the thoughts OF self
pass in, and the beauty of a great ac-
tion is gone, like the bloom from Il
soiled flower.
Time appears very short, eternity
near and great name, either in or
after life, together with all earthly
pleasures and profit, but an empty
bubble, deluding dream.
A Scotch minister, when asked
whether he was dying, answered:
Really, friend, L care not if | am or
not for if L die | shall be with God, and
if 1 live God will be with mo-"
Towns which have been casually
burnt have been built again more beau
tiful than before-mud walls afterward
made of stone, and roofs, formerly but
thatched, afterward advanced to be
tiled.
90 = ~;~,rlest and most obvious use
W sorrow is to remind of God. Itwould
seem seem that a certain shock is needed to
struct10n IirnAeo-1t 41-..'' ..'" v"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
The GrasshOpper Plague,

The latest writer on the subject OF
the grasshopper plague seems to have
had an extensive acquaintance with the
erasshopper in Montana, Colorado,
Utah, and California. According to his
opinion, if the fertile lands of South
western Minnesota and Iowa had been
cultivated during the past two years by
experienced Western farmers, the story
would be different. Deep plowing
would have kept the grasshoppers' eggs
out of the sun, and prevented their
Matching by the million early in the
spring. The crops would have had
good start, and later on the young
grasshoppers could do them but little
injury. He thinks that it is folly FOL
any State to incur the expense OF EN-
ploying a special entomologist to study
their habits, and concludes with the
assertion that no agriculturist neeo
lose his crops by plague OF grassh09p
pers, if he attends to them CAREFUL!
and intelligently. The opinion OF
man like this is of some value. He Tor
titles his statement with the fact ina
old resident farmers, in territories tina
have been quite as well stocked wit
erasshoppers as Iowa and Minnesota
have uttered no cry for help.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
What is GuanO ?

After careful microscopical and chemi-
cal examination of the article OF COM
merce known as guano, DIR. Habel, an
eminent German authority, decides
that sea-birds have nothing to do with
it's production. 1t is, he says, an
accumulation of fossil plants and ami
mails whose organic matter has been
transformed into heterogeneous sub
stance, the mineral portion remaining
intact. Treating guano with solvent
acid, he found that the insoluble resi-
due was composed of fossil sponges
and other marine animals and plants
precisely similar in constitution to
such as still exist in those seas. Ihe
fact that the anchors of ships in the
neighborhood of the guano islands
often bring up guano from the bottom
of the ocean is certainly more in favor
of the fossil than of the common sea
bird theory.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
Saving the Pine,

The following plan for theprevention
of the bursting of water pipes during
frosty weather has been invented in
England. 1t is we'll known that when
water freezes it expands, and that the
force exerted is so enormous that no
pipe can resist it. This invention is
intended to give the water a chance to
expand without bursting the pipe. 1t
attempts this by securing in the inside
of the metal pipe space equal to the
difference of volume between water and
ice, so that when the water freezes it
occupies the space reserved for it, in
stead of exerting its force on the pipe
and bursting it. This is practically
carried out by passing through the wa
speG4a'Iy n-~e.s"au India rubber tube,
such diameter that the space insids q
1t is little more than equal to the ino .
crease in voluA>e &C tLo 800 m
gUPhar tlh is alwaSSgss ksPgs e ln&is naas
the necessary space for expansion, for,
by COMPRISING the air tubes it dis
places the air and takes its place.
When the ice melts the tube again ex-
pands, becomes filled with air, and is
ready for another frost; and so on for
any number of times without requiring
attention.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
How They Got Elected.

The following is a passage from a
recent debate in the Cleveland city
council
Mr.. Eggers-I wish to ask the gen.
tleman question.
Mr.. North-Certainly, put your ques-
tion.
Mr.. Egger-Didn't you go around
among the saloons on Sundays, spend
ing money for beer before you were
elected? (Appla1se.)
Mr.. North-No. sir.
Mr.. Higgins-T L may be allowed I
would like to ask the gentleman from
the Thirteenth one question.
Mr.. North-Le, her fly.
Mr.. Higgins--l would state that l
have evidence showing that when you
ran for councilman of the Thirteenth
ward you did go among the Germans
and spend money and drink beer on
Sunday.
Mr.. North-I will give you thou
sand dollars if you will show that to be
the fact. say it IS false, in toto.
Mr.. Eggers- s-Dmn't you entice sa-
loon keepers and give some of them
five dollars and some more to use their
influence for you?
Mr.. North-No,a M, ,,,o
Mr.. Eggar. can prove 1t.
-.eeted. You Judge others by y0nFsen.
People are o very sTsSnpd md s9 sR>. do that Be,
think I do. "
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
NO. 26.


Milwaukee is now known as Chicago's
left boot.
Horace Binney and Samuel Thatcher
are the Oldest living graduates OF Har'
yard College, the former having been
graduated in 1897 and the latter in
1893.
1t is only thirty years since the first
electric telegraph line was established,
and at this time there are more
than million miles Of telegraph wires
in use.
Here is the obituary notice OF an
Office holder in Iowa: Harvey Jack
son, county treasurer, is dead. lie was
lenient with the widow, and his books
always balanced"
One of the Professors asked a student
to give him an example of mixed
metaphor. The boy confidently spoke
out "When my tongue shall forget
her cunning, and my right eye cleayo
to the roof of my mouth"
When your neighbor's young hopeful
pauses in front of your house just after
supper and halls Master Johnny with,
Hy-ah yua-yua Comm ou5?" you
realize the force of GOethe's declaration
that the most dreadful wild beast in
the world is boy.
The Marquette journal says q Cho.
colay farmer was in that city last spring
and purchased all the Limburgher
cheese he could find. 1t now tran
spires that he planted the whole Of it
with his potatoes, a small quantity in
each hill, and as a consequence his crop
has thus far escaped the ravages Of the
potato bug. They go as far as the
fence, get scents worth Of the cheese,
turn up their noses in disgust, and HE
them away to other pastures.
In 1854 Parker & Golfer were extern
sively in business in Olympia, Wash
ington Territory. One day Golfer gave
1890 to Charles Jessup, friend, to
take to Parker, who was III San Fran
cisco. Jessup stole the money and
went to South America, where be bid
from detection. Parker suspected that
Golfer had helped in the theft, and so
the firm was dissolved. It now turns
out that Jessup, on the strength OF his
stolen capital, accumulated an immense
fortune in South America, and some
years ago returned to his native place,
Westfcld, Mass, to spend the rcmaln-
der of his days. Recently he died, and
left to his former friend whom he
robbed, or his heirs, if their be any,
clean 100000. In the mean time
Golfer was lost sight of and Jessup's
administrator is advertising ior him or
his children.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
CIOud-Bursts.

The Virginia Daily Territorial Enter
prise, Nevada, says: "The recent de-
structive cloud d-bursts in various parts
of this State have caused feeling of
uneasiness in the minds of many of our
citizens. it cannot be denied that the
occurrence of a cloud-burst above the
summit of Mount Davidson would result
in almost incalculable damage to this
city and Gold Hill, and perhaps in the
loss of many lives ; but it is not likely
that we shall ever have a cloud burst
here. We are, as it were, insured
against such a disastrous visitation.
The Palmyra mountains, lying twenty
miles to the southeast of us, are our
safeguard. All old settlers well know
that all heavy rains which reach us
during the season when cloud bursts
occur first visit and expend their fury
above these mountains. Leaving the
Como or Palmyra mountains, the storm
clouds move toward Mount Davidson,
often appearing to advance against a
strong northerly wind. Owing to the
confguration of the country and the
prevailing air currents, and perhaps to
the course of our rivers, all thunder
storms pass to the southwark of us till
they reach the mountains named, and
after raging there for time either pass
on to the eastward or change their
course and move toward this city. For
many years we have observed this, and
all old settlers at all observant will
have remarked this popularity in the
movements of our summer storms.
When a storm is raging on the Palmyra
mountains, if the wind here begins
blowing from the northward, it is sure
When we feel the under current of air
moving toward the storm there is at the
same moment an upper-current moving
directly toward us, and on this come
the storm clouds. But that the heavy
clouds discharge the greater part of
their water on The Palmyra mountains,
we might have cloud bursts here. Since
the discovery of the silver mines sew
eral cloud-bursts have occurred in the
Palmyra mountains, about the head of
Ell Dorado canon, but never one in this
vicinity. The course of our summer
storms across the Sierras is such that
they are almost invariably carried to
the southwark of us, and directly to the
peaks of the mountains mentioned
above. The so-called cloud-bursts are
simply the sudden condensation of the
vapor forming the clouds, caused by the
meeting and mingling of two currents
of air. A current or stratum of air
colder than that carrying the clouds
causes them to suddenly condense and
fall to the ground. The reason cloud
bursts generally occur in the vicinity of
high mountains is because there are
found broken and contrary currents OF
air. Doubtless there are powerful cleo
trical changes ana disturbances at the
point where the two currents of air and
the cloud masses meet, and doubtless
these aid in the sudden condensation OF
the watery vapors. Be this as it may,
our people may console themselves with
the reflection that we are out of the
course of cloud bursts. Long observa.
ton of the track of our summer storms
and the experience of many years show
this"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
Mushroom Cities.

The Baltimore Gazette saw, 10
resident of large Eastefn CITY OF 10
the European 1T is raost singular sen.
sation to cone, in America, npon one OF
those desert,d mushroom cities which
spring up in night and disappear in
morning. through the mountains of
PENNSYLVANIA there are many OF them
generally mining villages, after
the mines have run out. Perched often
on the top of high mountain, the gun
ner or the curiosty-hurter comes sud
denly upon them out of he densest soli-
tude. There sand tie houses in a
clearing filled With Wild raspberry
bushes and viles and small shrubs,
bleak, bare, and desolte, with hinge
less doors and plneless windows-with
small trees growing up through the
floors, and the gnawiry of wild animals
visible whereve: the bor or walls were
formerly greasestaine. On the line of
the Western railroads these temporary
towns appear aud disPpelr, and in the
oil regions probably Lore striking and
pretentiousiy, the fallDeipg more dis
astrous than elsewher"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
In The Orchard.

In The Orchard.
Here in the dear old orchard,
One little year ago,
Robert and together
Were wandering to and fro.
Only year! 1t is not long,
And the birds are singing the same sweet song
asked him, remember,
Had he ever loved before,
And he closed my lips with kisses
Till 1 could not question more.
But who would have dreamed there eer could
A man SO tickle and false as he /!
The songs that l sang last summer
Are turned to notes OF woe,
And my heart hath learned a lesson
Unknown but year ago.
And the days that then were sunny and bright
Seem suddenly changed to darkest night;
And even this dear old orchard
Seems hardly the place to mo
1t was when we were together
Under this same old tree.
ALI me- Is it only year ago?
How weary the days! the time, how slow
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27

OYSTERS. The cushion whether
Caucasian civilizationRil do to tie to,
was settled in the neeti'e by couple
of noble red men, in Gelon, who pur-
chased can of oystes and proceeded
to cook them. Thy placed the can
mon their camp firedoing so without
the precaution of entilation. Then
came a thunderbut, and the gentle
sayaees, oh, where ere they? They
would hardly have eel recognized in
the frightened ant p.rboiled natives
who were seen headhgtowaId the gro
Gerry store, desperately 'esolved to fog
the white man who hd sold them
thunder.bOx.