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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16
Baby Farming.

The New York papers just now are greatly
excited on the subject of "baby-farming, 5
under which system" helpless little babes
are given Internationally into the care OF
persons who agree to do we'll BY them" for
such paltry sums as $40 or $50 per year. The
consequence is that these children do not live
more than two or three months, and such lit
tie creatures, make up large aggregates in the
mortuary statistics 1t is estimated that $500
illegitimate babes are born yearly in the city
of New York, together with as many more
whom the parents wish to get rid making
an aggregate of 5000 little innocents WIN are
doomed to this kind of putting out. 1t is
estimated that not one in twenty ever live
to reach man or womans estate What
with swill milk and chalk, downright starva-
ton, and the entire absence Of solacing care
they have q hard time of it. Something
should be done to interdict this wholesale
slaughter OF innocents and that is what New
York is puzzled over at this time. In con-
tinental Europe they do these things better
The government recognizes it's Obligation to
take care Of these innocents, and 90 estab-
lishments are opened for their exclusive care.
They are tenderly and considerably reared,
educated and instructed in trades MANY
persons who are brought up in these institu-
lions have in after years risen to eminence-
especially in France. Some such plans
should be devised here to take the place Of this
system Of most brpal and inexcusable muir
der, and it should be upheld by the strong
Arm OF the government. II there is anything
more fiendish than such cruelty to these little
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16
An Amusing Mistake.

Ohe OF those amusing mishaps to which the
best regulated families are liable, enlvened a
usually peaceful dwelling on Vernon street. on
saturday night. 1t happens that half dozen
houses, side by side, on tuat pleasant avenue.
are precisely alike, 50 tar as external appear
ance is concerned. What wonder then, that
Young married man and his wife, returning
rather late from a call she" Id have entered al
the wrong door? The gaslight, dimly burn
ing III the ball, fai ed to disclose anv unfamil-
ar object to undeceive them, and while the
hero OF our tale remained to lock the door.
which somehow didn't work just right his
wife went leisurely upstairs. VIII was he,
amaZement at seeing first a light in
her room, where none had been left. and then,
through a narrow space (the door being
slightly aJar), evidences that her bed was al
ready occupied Scarcely knowing what to
90, she tapped on the door, whereupon uprose
u the bed the manly form Of a handsome
young 81 .ther whose honeymoon is scarcely
yet ended. OF course thrilling tableau I'M
mediately ensued The la iy, the truth urst
ing on her like flash of lightning, sat down
squarely on the floor, screamed 'Oh, nv
God !! and shr.eked so as to terrify the whole
household; her husband, unable to manage
that confounded lock, rushed up stairs to de-
nand instant reparation for whit he imagined
was az insult to his wife; the clothier inquired
N emphatic terms what the satanic majesty
was to ply, OF words very much to that effect,
mi an enterprising member of the household
was about TO make rush tor box 2 to sun mon
he ire department, when the truth began to |
,limmer on several excited iutellects satisfac |
DRY explanations were made, nd the uncon- |
&c ously intruding couple retired in as good |
.rder as could have been expected Spring
ieM Union.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16
The Terrible Piano.
From Dom PIatt's Oakland Tectu,

u "OAAA 1'AAAi 'oec o Odhi alu A0CtuTST.l
We are content-with a tight roof over us
and one of the best wine-cellars in MARYLAND
under us. No fashion to annoy, with health
in every breath we feel as it life were re-
newed us. True, we have no band. no inyert
ed Jaw-teeth; We are not respectable, thank
God. But we have what seems the entire
commerce of the Mississippi Valley thunder
ing under our windows, as it sweeps by with
out ceasing, and we have piano-forte forty
horse power. We came near writing forty
jackass power, but we want to be polite. We
detest piano. We hate it almost as we hate
those noodles who makes themselves misera-
bic over their responsibility The great enemy
of man invented the rank -a-tank called a
piano. For the better punishment of the
wicked he has hell full of pianos, and we wish
he had them all. There is no music in the
thing, and every girl is taught to pound it.
No house is furnished without a piano. One
is never out of hearing of the detestable in
strument of torture. 1t has done more to de-
base our social standard and fetch on the
business than any thing else.
This Of ours never ceases. Women stop of
for the next train, and pound till it comes.
An accident delayed the passenger train two
hours here, and eighteen women took turns at
the piano. We have three deaf people, and
they alone are happy. We intend to serve
this piano with an ounce of nitro-glycerine,
J Ia lrvine's hand-organ, and then the Glades
Hotel, Oakland, will be heaven on earth.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

CONGRESSIONAL RECOGNITION OF HERoIsM. =
During the recent session of Congress bill
was passed directing gold medal to be struck
and presented to John Horn, Jr, of Detroit,
in recognition of his services in saving per-
sons from drowning. 1t appears, from a
solicited statement Of Mr.. Horn to a
member of Congress, last spring. that he has
saved at least 10 persons from watery grave
He gives their names and the circumstances
attending their rescne. In several cases he
came near losing his own lite by struggling
with the victims, and was repeatedly confined
to his bed by sickness resulting from his
almost superhuman efforts. The Director Of
the Mint will soon make arrangements for the
stri ing of the medal, which will be presented
in due 'orm, with a letter in Commentator of
Mr. Horns unselfsh services.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16
A Mothers Holy Love.
MAX Adeler.l

The excitement that existed in Philadelphia
concerning the case of the kidnapped child
extended to all classes, and every mother in
the city was for a time so wrought up upon
the subject that she could hardly be induced
to permit her children to go out of her sight
Gillespie lives on Tenth street, in the same
row with Mrs. Maginnis He moved in few
opportunity to become acquainted with him
he is very near-sighted, and when he came
home the other afternoon he thought he saw
his boy playing in the gutter, and he ap-
preached the youngster with the intent to
pick him up and carry him into the house
The fact, however was that it was Mrs.
Maginniss boy, and that estimable
woman was watching him with one
eye, while the other one rested upon
the second-story window, which she
was washing. When she saw Gillespie seize
the child she knew at once that the kidnap-
per had come, and as Gillespie walked off
with the booty under his arm a red-haired
woman, in condition of frantic excitement,
might have been seen shooting down stairs
and through the front door with the velocity
just as he caught sight of the Infatuated Ma
ginnis approaching him. and experimenting
trouble, he dropped the child and ram By
the time they had gone around the block
twice, Gillespie had not only Mrs. Maginnis
and six policemen at his heels, but 1900 other
people and half hundred dogs. At last he
darted up an alley and endeavored to jump
over his back fence but Just as he reached
the top the avenging Maginnis arrived and
caught him by the legs, and before he could
explain himself the policeman had hammered
him considerably. and four of the do had
bitten chops out of his legs. He is in bed yet
md will probably not be around again till the |
bump, on his head subside and the dog-bites
heal When he does get out again be will |
year glasses
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

IRON, and to make the financial wor d tremble
as he goes marching on.
A COMBINATION.
The only instance i'll which real and per-
sonal estate is combined almost equally in the
vast possessions OF one individual, is 70 md in
A. r. Stewart. He owns enough in each of
these shapes of wealth to make a dozen men
rich. In point Of real estate he has two great
dry goods establishments on Broadway also
the Metropolitan Hotel, and the former Uni
tartan church. Add to these the Baptist
church III Amity street, now used as the stables
OF his business teams. the Depeau row in
Blocker street, and above all, his Fifth Ave-
nue. place, which cost s1,0O0,O0O. In per-
sonal estate, is his stock in trade, capital and
bills receivable, which must be $4,000, 600
and also a large quantity of bank stock. In
III manner Stewart yields both classes OF
property He has differed entirely from Van
derbilt in this point. The latter has invested
almost solely in railway stocks, while the tor
mer has eschewed this form of property in
very peculiar manner. He has strong Atm
ity for those things which pertain to trade and
to this alone. 1t is said that his estates can
not be less than $50 OOO, 900. Although now
past seventy-six, Stewart is as much devoted
to trade as ever, and he has just started for
Liverpool on a voyage OF business character.
L.
Libby says that it is the intention Of the
great merchant prince to work till the last,
and indeed Ito put the case as strong as pos
sble) he desires, the very last day of lite, to
do days work.
MORE ABOUT TAXES.
Having made an allusion to the tax roll, |
may now add few figures. The panic alb ate.
the valuation of real estate nineteen millions
! bis shows how such calamity may effect
revenue. The report for 1874, however,
shows an aggregate increase, because vacant
real estate has been so largely improved that
Il afforded immense opportunity tor assess
nent. The aggregate increase over the pre-
Tlous year is twenty-tour millions Real
estate within the city and county is assessed
It, as have said, 1882, 0OO 900, and personal
It s272, OoO, OOO, making the handsome amount
If eleven hundred and tifty-three millions |
\ levy equal to nearly three per cent. will BE-
made on the above, and this will be announced |
n definite figures at the close Of the August |
acaton. Of the sum to be raised by tax it
will require at least $4,000 600 to pay the in
crest on the city debt, which is upward OF
ion, 100000. The ring had the power to
5sue city bonds and they did SO to an enor-
lous amount. Their plan was to steal the !
ash with which taxation supplied t treas
ry, and then to issue bends to meet the ex-
enses OF the municipal government. These
onds are really sold, and hence they had AN
mple facility to rob the public.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

The boys of Pittsburg have held a mass
meeting and resolved: 1--WE will 90 in swim
ming whenever we darnei please, and won't
come any extra sh nanigan about getting our
hair dry to sell the folks at home, and that
we will have shirts to wear, SO that the big
fellows won't laugh at us when we are nm.
dressing;" that ave are willing to do the
square thing to our p rents but amt cut for
tending to babies, and we won't do any labor
about home that does not properly come
~ltnln Boys sphere, and not that If it inter
!eres WITH the hours # play, which health
demands boys should have viz: Between ?
o'clock in the A. NJ. and 8 in the P. M. with
necess ~ intermission for meals; that .trans
and Jaws, nor cowhides, nor slippers vii
have any effect in this rebellion. ii thew trv
that game it will be goodbye John for a.,
rands' and we shall ever pray. That's the
kind Of hair-pins we are" ''-0
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

The Long Branch correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says: Il went on one of the
excursions to Long Branch short time ago.
and was just in season to witness the Child
ren's Grand Ball. I~agine a large, elegant
ballroom, Lit by innumeral chandeliers, and
wded with airy. fairy children to the
number Of about 800. The admiring and per
spring mammas and BONES, sitting around,
were making comments on other peoples
children; and the children themselves were re-
enacting the flirtations, affectations, and be-
havior generally of the elder folks. When
lovely gallop struck up, how the little
bellies toddlers, many of them
bowed and smirked to their rose
bud-in- button-hole, white-gloved, S-year-old
beaux! How these little pinks of politeness
aped the manners and copied the fashions OF
t. cir elders. How beautifully their little feet
flew in the many intrfcacies of the dance
How the little eyes sparkled and the cheeks
flushed! How these 4-year and 1O-year olds
danced, and airted, and ate ices and dainties
uni! the wee sma' hours! I looked in vain
for child simply dressed in plain whi.e, with
her hair curled or put back in rourd comb.
saw beautiful children, unnaturally bright
md precociously brilliant, befrilled, be-
bounced beruffied, with silk under
md over-dresses of Valenciennes, with hair
dressed by hair-dressers, and gloves, fans,
and bracelets, exactly like grown
Up lady.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

The Denver Ne,os calls Rev. Robert Cojiver
the beecher of the West" This seemed
10 De all right when it was written, but #
took tne AeDs some time to get to Chicago
strange things happening meanwhileeand
10Y now III. Coilyyer wants to know what the
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

"Dad, if were to see duck on the wing,
and were to shoot at it, would you lick me ?"
"Oh, no, my son; it would show that You
were good marksman, and l would feel
proud of you" ''Well, then, dad, 1 pep
pered your old Muscovy duck as be was fyin'
over the fence to-day, and it would have done
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

The Cape May Vare relates the following
incident: among the excursionists that came
from Wilmington by steamer WIS an unevenly
weighed man and wife. She, 800 avoirdupois;
he, scarce 100 pounds would poise. Well,
they must battle of course; what were the trips
to Cape May without an ocean dip? A bath
house was secured. By tight squeezing our
stout lady got into bathing robe that was
ready to burst at every step. Little husband
5irded about his body wooden garment that
fitted like shirt on killdeer. Down they
90, as bold as couple of whales, to the
water; but just at the oceans edge Puny sud
lenly halted. looked with awe on the furious
pillows, and then into the face of his deter
mined 800.
On her countenance were the words Come
on! On his trembling lips shivered the
sounds, oh no! The small specimen of di-
minutive husbsndry feared to risk his diminu-
tive portion of flesh and bones in the dashing
foam lest some unlucky billow might swallow
him down ike a snipe. You shall go in,'
said the fat woman. L won't said skinny,
At the same time making frantic efforts to
tear away; down he goes in the san scratch
ing worse than Kilkt my cat. Down drops
the 300 upon terrified bones, slack as a hawk
upon spring chicken. The sand flew, legs
kicked, man screamed. yet in spite of all the
wife gathered her 100 pounds OF
furious sweetness in her arms, walked COM
placently into the biggest breakers, and ker-
souse, she landed him headforemost into the
sea, and as he popped up to the surface, halt
she pressed HIM to der bosom, say
ing, Now, honey. that's what you came all |
lhe way from Wilmington to enjoy
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

A STORY OF Tom MARsHALL-O one &C.
casion Tom Marshall heard r. j. Breckin-
ridge preach, and falling in with him after
the service, accompanied him home. "Why
don't you preach better said Marshall II
do as well as l can" answered Breckenridge.
why don't you preach as the Saviour did :"
continued Marshall 'That's hard to do" re-
Joined Breckenridge, "Preach in parallels, +"
said Mars all; shat is a very simple and easy
thing to do; that's the way our Lord sets forth
the truth" "Well, Tom" said Breckinrid e,
Il have as high an opinion of your talents as
anybody else has, and set higher estimate
on your reading and information than most
people do. l defy you to make parable. and
| defy you to find one in literature outside of
the New Testament Nonsense :" exclaimed
Marshall; Il can make fifty, and can find
'Well, try 1t. and let me know"
replied Breckenridge. Shortly after they met
again. "Well, Bob" said Marshall, what
about those things-the parallels? have tried
my best, and l can't find one +: I've looked
and can't make one. Whit does
t all mean? I give it up" "You see, replied
why l dent preach in p rabies,
can't do that. GALAXY.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

A THRILLING INCIDENT singular and
thrilling incident occurred on the eastward
round passenger train, Recently, two miles
east Of Rose Greek, near Winnemucca, Cali
tornia. The train was on a heavy down grade.
going at high rate of speed, making up for
lost time, when the engineer, Nick Cole,
thought he saw an obstruction on the track a
few hundred yards ahead. The locomotive
whistled down brakes" the lever was re-
versed and every effort possible was made to
stop the train, which was under tremendous
Roadway. AS the train approached the spot,
the body proved to be a human being lying
with his body directly across the track. The
man for man it was) was alive, fully conscious
of his mortal peril, but unable to move from
his position. He had pulled out his handker-
chief as signal however, and was waving it
with his hand Thanks to the Westinghouse
brakes and other means used, the train was
brought to a stand still when within a few
yards of the helpless man. The man was found
to be paralyzed and was picked up, placed on
board of the train, and taken to Winnemucca,
where he was provided for at the hospital
lie states that while walking aloug the track
he fell down. completely paralyzed in his
limbs and body, and could not move himself
an inch. When he saw the train comil he
expected to be crushed to death, and his feel
ngs were too horrible to express He
scaeamed threw his hands up frantically, and
waved his handkerchief.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16
Railroad Accidents.

The annual report for 1873, of accidents on
English railways, showa, as was to have beer
expected. great increase in the number OF
fatal accidents to passengers in proportion to
the whole number carried although there
wa one more accident in 1873 than in 1872.
The increase in fatality was probably due to
the running of faster trains on the principal
railways, the force and effect of an accident
being In almost dir ct proportion to the speed
at which the train is run. The total number
OF persons killed by railroads, including those
run over at crossings, was 1872, and of in
Jured BIO. There was 40 passengers killed
and 1922 injured, from causes beyond thei,
own control. One passenger out of every
100000 travellers was killed, and one out
of every 300, 600 injured The wear previous
only one out of every II, 900, 900 travellers was
killed.
The dangers railroad employees run in at
tending to their business is shown by tina fact
that one out Of 213 railway servants was killed
and one out of 213 injured According to
Massachusetts Statistics only one passenger
was killed in that State last year, from causes
beyond his control. and Of employees one out
OF every 354 Was killed. and one out of 1923 in
lured The differences between the results in
England and in Massachusetts, are probably
due to the greater speed at which railway
trains are run on English railways, to differ
ences in the manner of constructing the cars
Or carriages. and largely to the fact that Eng
and has been slow to adopt the mechanical
'ontrivances tor preventing disasters, which
ire used on nearly all of the RAILWAYS of thi.
Ountry.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

A good many sigh for an expensive cottage
by the sea-but good many get one, and
then, like Pyrrhus hare to ciIher moro
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16

ssE8o t-gk MILIIoNAIEES or THE METROPOLIS
s,k-HoW THEY MADE THEIR MONEY.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-16
4 ParlOr i,atacOmh.

The Rome correspondent of the California
Bulletin writes: ''Thero is parlor catacomp
in town, more interesting. because more
novel, than anything else Roman. Under the
Capuchin Church is long room with row
of windows on one side looking out into a
quadrangle of the monastery, divide into
several small chambers that are fenced off
from the aisle that runs under the windows,
al these chambers foored with ear h bro ght
from Jerusalem. This astonishing cemetery
has been written Of much. and yet it is ever
new, and to me never tresome. 1t is kind
of conservatory, so limited that when monk
dies dead monk is taken from the grave that
has been longest occupied. and the new body
rests in the sacred soil
The skeleton of the resurrected monk is
taken to pieces and his bones are wrought
into some fanciful figure on the wall. 1t is as
If the bodies that are planted in this conserv-
atory sprang into wall flowers. There is no
saint here; the place is too light and cheerful
for saint. Nothing but bearded Capuchins,
who have spent their lives in sight Of their
tombs, hope to be thus translated. An altar
built of bones, before which lamp swings in
a chandelier of bones and around which are
inches Of bones, with whole skeletons totter-
ing in them, looking as if they were about to
bow their heads at the feshless brotherhood
opposite-this is the sort OF thing that cheers
the old fellow in the snuff-colored robe
who waits for me to read the
sonnets pinred against the wall, and to make
my little inventory before seeing him at the
door. Nothing can be cleaner or sweeter-
nothing jollier. Every skull seems to be
laughing, as if it was all a huge joke. The
sun streams in upon the voiceless carnival
the wind wags the long beard of one monk
with his head awry-a beard that needs weed
ing-and a great fly buzzes in at the window
and out again. Then l think of the long
sleep under the daises, of the waving grass
that seeks to soften the outline of the low
mound on the hillside, and l turn from the
grim humor Of these departed Capuchins
with but one thought. 1t is this Were l
monk and had my choice, rather than sit in
my shroud with my beard in NV lap, Id spat-
ter myself all over the house in perpetual
flash Of ossifed fireworks