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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-05-22


The citizens Of LaGrange, Ga, contri-
butcd $131 20 for the relief of the desti-
tute of this parish, and forwarded the
same to Gov. McEnery,at New Orleans,
in whose absence Gen. Hays sent the
amount to its proper destination. The
people OF Ouachita are grateful for
this act of generosity and sympathy
and appreciate the sentiments actuating
the donors in selecting them as the
objects of their thoughtfulness and lib
erality. The writer knows, without
this token, that the people of LaGrangc
are among the best people on earth.
The Bastrop Republican, of all our
exchanges, appears to be alone in rccog-
nizing the labor we were at in giving
an account of the great flood. Pc, con-
ira, we printed over 100 extra copies OF
that issue, all of which were soon called
for, and we have had numerous appli-
cations since the supply was exhausted.
There is not single copy ofthat issue,
we will say to applicants, left in this
office. Even our file is a beggar.
Mrs. Sumner is now Miss Mason, the
court having granted her permission .r
make the change.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-05-22

Mrs. Sumner is now Miss Mason, the
court having granted her permission 40
make the change.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-05-22

freight apply Oh board. 1j:s
TAUNTON AovERTisEMENTs
NOTICE OF COPARTNERsHIP
In commencing our nov business, we
cordially invite the patrons Of tho old arm
Mr. W. WI, x boE p..s rs :. s.
times to see his old friends and serve them
" TSs nSb f. H w1s era n.r.,
sortment Of
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
on IA good terms as any OF her house In our
line.
1ighsst Market Price paid for 0stsos
and other Country Produce.
MURPHEY & WILLIAMSON.
Trenton, La, Feb. IL, 1874 n22:Iy
DAN. T. HEAD. l.. d. NcLA1N
HEAD n McLAIN,
TRENTON, La.
RECEIVING. FORWARDING AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
HARDwARE, IRON, CASTINGS,
| BAGGING, TIES, WAGONS
CARTS, BUGGIEs, RoC'KAWAYs,
COOKING STOVES. FURNITURE,
AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES
| or all kind.
| Liberal advances made on Cotton, in cash
and supplies. Trenton, Sept. 20, 1870. n2iy
A r. FLOURNOY,
(Successpr to Fiournoy II Miftsapsj
| DEALER
Dry Goods. 0roceriss, Hardware,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Buist's
Garden Seed, aud General
m~ PLANTATION SUPPLIES.-Ox
VIII be pleased to fill orders Of friends of
| house OF F.&M NJ. Juno %, Is73-tf
| r. c. sTANDiFER. ". +. AsHbET.
n, G. sTANDIfER n CO.,
| tanccc,sofs to Standifer Il McGuire)
RECEIVING, FoRwARpIEsa AND coMMTssIos
NJ f. RC H A ITS,
And Dealers in
GENERAL MERCHAN DIsE,
TRENTON, In.
April l, 1873. vs:29-tf
SUBSCRIBE FOR
THE OUACHITA TELEGRAPH.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-05-22

Mrs, Tbos. Dunn has resumed business.
Cutting and fitting done at the lowest pos
sibly price. Any lady wanting a stylish
dress will please cali on Mrs. Dunn, who
will give entire satisfaction. Stopping at
Mrs. Lacey's house.
Monroe, La, April 3, 1874. n29:tf
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19
Continental Currency.

From an advance copy Of a pampblet
on the Revolutionary Finance" by Mr.. ].
W. schuckers, it appears that the aBills
Of Credito authorized by the Continental
Congress, from june I775, to November
29th 1879, amounted to s241 $50. .7sO. the
coin value Of which W as only $50, ,367 .7l9.
The depreciation did not begin until Nav
TIT, and, then three Continental
Dollars equaIed one coin dollar In
November l779 Il roouired 3sl dollars Of
continental Money" to buy one in silver
In 1880 the depreciation was more
rapid. In February the relative value
was 40 to l. and in December. "a dollars
in aplaster money! were worth one spau.
ish silver dollar.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19
Age and Endurance.

II Is undoubtedly true that when men
have reached certain stage in the down
hill of life, it becomes them to walk with
cautious steps, for stumble then will be
a very different thing from what 1t would
have been when they were full of youth
and strength. Yet, strangely enough, old
men, notwithstanding all the wisdom which
comes from experience, do not like to ad-
NIT that their physical faculties have been
decayed, but often they say that they feel
as ever they did. Tho late Mayor Have
meyer, Of New York, although past his
three score aud ten, kept up the battle Of
ME with marvellous self.reliance, and after
walking two miles to the city hail, facing
a strong wind, with no other purpose than
to sign a payroll, congratulated himself
that he never felt better nor brayer Wind
and weather were nothing to him, and yet,
in the flush Of his triumphant boast, he
fell suddenly dead.
The Newark On. j. Adpertiser makes
some reflections on the incident, which
those spirited old gentlemen who persist
in imagining that they are able to endure
as much as they ever did DO well to lay to
heart: " However robust the outside ap-
pearance, the years have always done their
work, and the sure-coming severance Of
soul and heart is steadfastly approaching,
liable to happen at slight causes which the
youthful constitution would laugh aside.
As the years grow on the doom not only
approaches, but is positively happening.
One by one the chords are imperceptibly
severed and the physical frame subjected
to poverty Of nervous force which must
end in death. Old men die from frost us
young men do from sun-stroke. The
young man falls because the brain Is over
powered by heat and cannot act in CON
cert with the body, and the old man dies
from cold because the body has been steal
ing slowly away from brain control and be-
coming vegitative and automatic in its
action 1t was the frost that killed Mayor
Hayemeyer, just as il will kill other self
willed old gentlemen within the next few
months who will insist on proving to the
rising generation that an old boiler is bet
ter than new one, and that age has moth
ing to do with endurance"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19
A New Discovery.

Quite stir has been created in the
scientific world by the invention of ma
chine for the application of a new motor
a new principle Of motive power as far
superior to steam as steam is superior to
wind and water Mr.. John w. Kelley,
Of Philadelphia, is the inventor He has
worked fourteen years at Il, and is said to
have the favorable opinion Of leading
scientific men who have examined the
machine and seen ii in operation. A
patent has been applied for, but the public
is not yet to know much about it. Mr..
Keeley asserts that with only two gallons
of water he would be able to draw q train
of ears from Philadelphia to San Francisco
and back. The water would be utilized
over and over, much as in condensing
engine Incredible as the claim is, the
inventor declares that he obtains this vast
power without the use of fuel, without the
use Of chemicals Of any kind, and without
the use of electricity or magnetic currents;
and that in the machinenow at his residence
he has developed the enormous pressure
Of seven thousand pounds to the square
inch When it is remembered that steam
boilers are only subjected to strain of
from thirty to perhaps two hundred pounds
per square inch, according to the purposes
for which they are constructed, proper
sense of this leap to seven thousand pounds
may be realized, An immense change
this will prove--if all said Of the machine
be true.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19
italian Opera.

Italian opera is the most arbitrary, con-
yentional, and extravagant form, which art
has taken for the pleasure Of those whose
pleasures must be refined luxuries. And
this is the most refined and yet one Of the
most earthly of luxuries which is
partly sensual, partly emotional, and not
at all intellectual, and Of which the height
Of the enjoyment is in direct proportion
only to cultivated sensuous refinement and
emotional susceptibility. Regarded in the
light Of reason, Italian opera is monstrous
and even ridiculous. At best ii exists at
the very periphery Of rational conference,
a hairs breadth beyond which sends us
whirling in fragmentary fashion into the
abyss Of unfathomablc nonsense.
A reasonable creature, taken in stark
unpreparation and set down In an opera
house while the business Of high strung
scene was going on--a tenor stabbed to
death, and dying with such effusion of
musical noise as would tax the capacity Of
an organ bellows; loye-lorn prima donna
raying about the stage in the very ecstasy
Of melodious Mysteries; dozen or two Of
lockers on, who offer the man no aid and
the lady no hartshorn, but who simply
stand aronnd and sing, while before them
two or three score musicians give them
selves up to fddling, and footing, and
blowing, and humping, among whom,
perched high, man beats the air with
little stick; and yet, more wonderful, most
wonderful of all, vast assemblage, dressed
on purpose in their best clothes, look down
upon the scene with breathless interest,"
and when the noise stops--for noise it
simply is, not one distinguishable word
being heard by any creature present
break forth into such extravagant and
tumultuous expressions Of delight as he
never can have heard before (for il il re-
that no such outbursting and
manifestly soul-relieving applause as greets
the most admired passages in a favorite
opera is elected by any other act done
in earnest or performed in make-belisve
by any human creature on any other
occasion or in any other place what
ever)-the reasonable being, having this
spectacle set before his unprepared, untu-
tored eyes-would he not say that these
people, prima donna, tenor, chorus, I'D
dlcrs, and fiddleers, were mad--all lunatics
p The Gala1y for November.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

The other night we observed young
man reeling along the street as Indifferent
as if he were doing something highly res
pectable and honorable. He was drunk
and a young man too. Tell that young
man he is not gentleman, and he would
feel indignant Tell linn he is unworthy
Of public confidence, and that he is build
ing up black and degrading reputation,
and he will point you to instances in which
society wiuks at drunkenness aud pets and
fawns upon the favored votary Of the cup
False and fatal excuse young mani
You win find it 80 and when the world
turns q cold shoulder on you, and you
find yourself poor, ffiendless vagabond /,
you viii find out when you stand upon the
verge Of dishonore d grave and behold
the fancied orgies Of thousand demons
in the cursed cupi Young man, be care-
ful how you tamper with liquor; you have
name and character to form you have
destiny TO ell; determine at ouoe how
these all important matters are to be met.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19
WESTMINSTER, MD. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1o, 1874

very easy construction, and may be made
as durable as the house itself. A gentle
man whose house Is situated at about the
forty-second degree Of North Latitude,
where the rainfall, snow included, is pro-
baby about forty inches during the year,
receives more water from his roof than he
can use. The running water that comes
to his house from natural spring is al
lowed to go to waste, so much is his cist-
ern-water preferred to the other. He is a
druggist, and he finds this water sufficient
ly pure for chemical purposes.
The advantages of cistern water from
the roofs over that which is now usually
supplied from other sources, are several.
First, with proper fltering apparatus at
taehed to the cistern, the water can be
rendered nearly as pure as If it were dis
TILED. Second, the use ofleaden pipes, now
source Of disease to many, may be entirely
dispensed with. Third, no trouble need be
apprehended from freezing up" which is
now in many localities the cause of great
trouble and expense; while the water is
always of delightful temperature, both
Winter and Summer, rendering ice un-
necessary at any season. A fourth advan-
tage derived from the use Of roof-water,
and which is by no means ineonsiderable,
is that it enables one to select for the site
of his house high and airy point favora-
bic to health, where no other kind Of water
could well be procured. The location Of
our dwelling may make wide difference
In our enjoyment Of life. A house that il
situated at low point, towards which the
drainage flows, where the air is damp and
chill, the evening shadows come soon, and
the electrical condition Of the atmosphere
may be unfayorable, is not SO pleasant and
agreeable as il would be If itwere on some
breezy upland, from which the drainage
flows away, and the prospect is bright
sunny and cheerful.
We cannot close this article more fit.
tingly than by quoting passage from an
able paper recently read at the late Health
Congress held in Philadelphia, on the sub.
ject Of Building Ground in its relation tc
Health, by DIR. Ezra NJ. Hunt Of New
Jersey. The Doctor says awe mnsl
get the homes of the people on better
foundation than damp, water-sOaked, air
polluted, filth-burdened ground. We must
see that its soil particles are not overladen
with vegetable or animal decay, that its
fountains of moisture are not impeded in
their flow or saturated with impurities
that air has free circulation through all
its spaces and that its regulative ability as
to temperature is not unduly complicated. u
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19
So PER ANNUM.
Aoetrp.
From The Musical Million.
DECEMBER.

December winds are whispering chill
To barren oaks that crown the hill,
And to the dead leaves there
A strange, sad song, 80 full Of pain,
The sharp winds sing to bill and plain;--
A doleful dirge--for all the slain
That once bloomed swectly fair.
The pines and cedars wear their green,
But make more desolate the scene
OF darkness and decay;
Sole mourners on the hillside, there,-
They moan their tones Of wild despair
That swell upon the wintry air,
Then sadly ebb away.
And many human tree, tonight,
Stands leaaess in the waning light
OF Hopes expiring beam;
Beneath them all their dead leaves lie
Above them hangs wintry sky;
Around them chill winds wall and sigh
That JOY is but dream.
Pale lovers, whose young loves are dead
Sad bards, whose glorious dreams have fed
Stand on Life's windy hill
And with them stands the ruined maid,
Whose leaves Of joy have all decayed,
While unrelenting, undismayed
Life's wintry winds sing chill.
God pity all these human trees
That sway in Lfe's wild wintry breeze
This lone and dreary night,
And grant that an Eternal Spring
To each new robes of green may bring,
And joy-birds once more sweetly sing,
In Summers Land Of Light.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

A ragged, forlorn-looking urehin enter
ed a store in New Orleans recently, and,
addressing the merchant, pitsously asked
"a nickle to get my mother loaf Of bread
please, sir" A jovial neighbor, also a
merchant, with a sly twinkle in his eye,
thinking to have a joke with the boy, pro.
duced nickle and said aSIy son, this
nickle / worked for; now what win you
do for it?" Quick as thought the boy
''went down into his pocket, and pro.
ducing nickle, exclaimedi eI'll match
you, sir r
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

The carrier pigeon, says recent writer,
when travelling never feeds. If the dis
tance be long, il flies on without stopping
to take nutriment, and at last arrives,
thin, exhausted, almost dying. If corn bo
presented to It it refuses, eontenting
itself with drinking little water and then
sleeping Two hours later il begins TO
eat with great moderation, and sleeps
again immediately afterwards. If its
fight has been very prolonged, the pigeon
viii proceed in this manner for forty eight
hours before recovering its normal mode
Of feeding.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19
4oetrg..


When the long bright hours are numbered
And the daylight beauty dies
When the stars their nightly wateh.fres
Kindle in tho nightly skies
What is that which, gently stealing
Dream-like DER the musing mind,
Gains each wayward thought and feeling
With magic underlined 2
Hark the dash of distant waters,
Murm'ring in their ceaseless play,
Comes upon the breath Of evening,
Blending with the night. birds lay,
Whence the power that strangely sways us
As we list that mystic tune,
Bringing back sweet faded mem'ries
With the glances of the moon
Now the evening star arises,
Brightly Ger the wooded hill,
Gliding with her mellow radiance,
Field and forest, fount and rill.
Know'st thou whence this strong emotion,
Stirring cen the fount of tears
Why the glance so quick aud searching
Backward flies to childhood's yearsY
Is it memories of the wildwood,
Where in early life we strayedY
Or the moonlit haunts Of childhood,
Where we innocently played9
Is IL name Of friend or brother,
Hoarded long in memory's cell,
Or the mild glance Of our mother,
That awakes the mystic spell2
Deep within that cell is conferred
Yet what tongue can speak the whole2
Who reveal the hidden power
OF the strange, mysterious soul
Ever unexplained, yet present
With our spirit, dwells the power,
Potent thus to move or sway us,
In the pensiye evening hour
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

The importance Of correct punctuation
was strongly illustrated the other day at
meeting Of the Ways aud Means Commit
tee, when it was shown that n comma in
one place was worth s2,OO0,OO0. In the
tariff bill which went into effect August | /,
1872, the free list was entended by the
addition Of several hundred articles
Among tho number added was 'fruit
plants, tropical and semi-tropical," for
propagation and cultivation. In engrossing
tho bill or in the process of copying Ii for
official printing, comma was inserted
after .fruit, and all fruit was thereupon
placed upon the free list. The customs
officers, however, not noticing the change,
continued to collect duties on fruit until
the error was discovered. The Ways and
Means Committee have now agreed to
report bill to remove the comma, in ac-
cordancc with the intent Of the law Of
1872. The amount Of tax illegally collec-
ted is not far from $1,000 900,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

HAIR WAsH.-The Scisniifc Amsi-
can says;-Take aqua ammonia 3 ozs.,
salts Of tartar | o., alcohol ! or, aud soft
water q pints; perfume with bergamot
In applying, rub the head until The lather
goes down, then wash out.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

No two leaves in the forest are Of exact
ly the same from and texture. No two
grains Of sand taken from the seashore or
the great African desert are identical in
bulk and outline and from Adam TO the
last man, no two faces win be found ex-
actly the same variety in Iineament aud
trait of human character is as inexhausti-
bic as is mans outward appearance.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

The follies Of science are said to be the
following The quadraturs Of the circle,
the establishment Of perpetual motion, the
philosophers stone, the transmutation Of
metals, and divination, or tho discovery Of
secrets By magic.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

A Shelby county, Ky. lady shocked her
Knight-of-P Pythias escort, who aceompan-
led her in full uniform to a ball the other
night, BY asking him ''why he bad conc
in his knight clothes ?"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

A wag, in awhat he knows about farm
ing" gives avery good plan 10 remove
widows weeds. He says good hooking
man has only 10 say awilt thou, = aud they
wilt.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

Error is the negative Of truth as dark
ness is to light, or as death is 10 life.
These are essentially irreeoncilabIe and
antagonistic. Truth win make us happy,
can conduct us to God, to immortality, 10
heaven.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

Il Is always safe 70 learn, even from our
enemies seldom safe to venture 70 instruct
even onr friends.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-12-19

Always look 1t he bright side Of every
thing; i b just a. cheap and ten times Is
good
New-York tribune., 1874-08-03
RAILWAY AND FINANCIAL NOTES.
The firm of Harbaugh, Matthias g. Ov

Inc flrm OF HarDaugn, MattnlaS O. owens
OF the Superior Iron Mills, extensive manufacturers OF
railroad Pittsburgh who suspended few davs
have hed their petition for adjudication OF the
affair OF the firm III bankruptcy.
Suit was brought on Saturday in the Camp
bell County, KY. Court, at Newport by the Newport
and Cincinnati Railroad Bridge Company against the
Louisville Short Line RrOad TO 1900 arrears
III rents for the bridge. and asking that receiver be
appointed for the road.
Mr. Lewis, trustee of the estate Of Jay
Cooke Co., received Friday another dividend from
Capt Ainsworth President OF the Oregon Steam Navi
CATION Company. amounting 70 s1s.es7 So gold, which
reduced 10 currency produced ssOS2 50, and which,
added 10 previous dividends received Few DAYS since
amounts to SCI SO o. already upon The 10000
stock 10 that Company held by the estate Other dV
dends VIII follow.
The Citizens National Bank Of Washington
the institution having recently been removed from
Hagerstown, Md-wi open for business on Monday, IN
the building OF the late FIRST National Bank. ExPost-
master General Creswell Is one Of the directors
dent OF three other National banks. he will retire
from tie Czens Bank on the 1T of January next TO
be succeeded b. Mr.. Creswe as President.
Under the instructions of Secretary BristOw
the bureau OF Special Treasury Agents at No A. Broad
way in this city, ceased to exist Saturday Here
after the special agents who reported there VIII be re-
qued 10 forward the results OF their investigations OF
frauds on the revenue directly to Washington. Among
the officers Capt. Brack'tt Capt: Chdiker, Col
Alexander ana MIR. Brown. CJl. F. L. Howe, VINO Was
at toe head %. the viii continue III Office Depay
Surveyor KIRK Is to take charge Of the office IN the
Custoin-house lately vacated by ex-Specla Agent
jayne.
Attorney General Ewing and State Auditor
John B. Clark lett II. Louis for Davenport. Iowa. on
Saturday 70 defend state IN the injunction SUIT H.
stituted by the Chicago and Southwestern EaIoai
COMPANY to restrain the collection OF taxes based on
tbc recent assessment by the State Board OF EGuahz
ton Applications Will also be made for lnlnuctOhs py
the Atlantic Pacific ana the missouri Pac'nc' anu
perhaps other COmpanlcs, Whlch protest against lde
action OF the. Board Of Equalization. very IdrSe
amount Of money Is lny0ived ID theSe Sasrs. tno @
application viii pe made before Judge DIIOn Of the
UuIted States Circuit Court