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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
Difference Whicn VIII Tell i'm Time.

An order was telegraphed here day before
yesterday from New Orleans, asking at what
prices cargo eff No. 2 spring and cargo of
No. 3 fall wheat could be delivered free on
board the ocean vessels. The reply was 81 30
for the spring and 81 40 for the fall wheat
At this moment No. aspiring wheat is bringing
81 A in New York ahoat and No. winter
81 65 afoat Note then the advantage the
great water route offers to buyers of grain for
European expectation. A grade of wheat
worth 81 "A in New York a1oat is offered for
81 80 free on board in New Orleans Wheat
atioat means in the canal boat which brought
it; same as son track means in
the car which brought it. Consequently
wheat worth 81 A afoat in New York is
worth at least 81 AZ free on board the ocean
vessel that is to take it abroad. As the offer
of the st. Louis man is 81 80, free on board
the ocean vessel, it follows that the wheat will
cost the purchaser in New Orleans II cents
per bushel less than it would cost purchased
g free on board !" in New York. The No. 3
winter is worth 81 IS in New York ahoat,
consequently by purchasing the cargoes at the
St Louis sellers figures, 81 40 on board, the
New Orleans buyer saves % cents per bushel.
For the first difference in price is 25 cents,
and then it costs 3 cents per bushel to pass
the grain in New York from the canal boats to
the ocean vessels as it must be run from the
canal boats by transfer elevators into lighters,
and then from the lighters into the ocean YES
sels.-.T Louis Democrat oath inst
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
SUNDAY In PARIS.
[Correspondence of the World. I

PARIS, June 81 suppose that one OF tle
greatest charms of Paris to visitors from
America and England is the contrast between
Paris Sunday" and New York or Lon
don sabbath Here, on the first day of the
week. all is gayety and pleasure; we all go to
church in the morning; those of US who like it
go also to vespers in the afternoon; but, as q
rule, every one from noon until midnight
gives himself up to amusement and recreation.
Still we have Puritans here, as you have; and
on Saturday one of these Puritans, the Baron
de Chauvand, sought to induce the Assembly
at Versailles to pass bill for the better observ
ance of Sunday in a religious sense. No one
can deny that the day might be kept in a bet
ter manner than that practiced by many of
the people The church, although far
from intoxicating puritanical observ-
vvnce of the day, commands its chill
dren to abstain from servile work on Sun
day. But there are thousands OF laborers and
artiZans in Paris who, quite unnecessarily,
work all day Sunday, and thousands more
who labor half the day. The good Baron
wished to make a complete reform In 1914
law was passed prohibiting public work on
Sundays, but exempting from it's provisions
post-offices diligencies, and public carriages.
The Baron's bill proposes that on Sundays and
other church holy days, post-ofices should be
open only for three hours, and that there
should be but one letter delivery. The rail-
roads should not run goods trains, and only
certain number OF passenger trains. The
Baron made good speech, but it was listened
to with great Impotence by the Republicans.
One M. Boysset, reminded the Assembly
that various attempts had lately been made to
revive the obsolete provisions Of the law
of 1914, but the people revolted against
them. M. Caillaux, member of the Gov
eminent, assured the House that the
present Administration allowed no work for
the Government to be done on Sundays,
except in cases of great need, and that all
Government contractors were forbidden to
allow their men to work on Sundays and holy
days The best speech in defense of the bill
was made by royalist M. de Belcastel. He
spoke in a high religious strain. 'Richer
than the material mamma which fell six days
to nourish on the seventh" said he, sis the
moral mamma which falls on Sunday to nourish
the heart Of man for six days." He quoted
from Proudhon, the great democratic writer
''The JOY of Sunday spreads itself every
where; the most solemn griefs are less poig-
nant, regrets less bitter, sentiments more
chastened the tenderness of husbands and
wives becomes more lively and respectful, the
entertainments of maternal love revive, the
piety Of sons bows with increased dociity
before the tender solicitude of mother"
But the Assembly threw out the bill by PSI
to 1872 Strange to say, the Protestant men,
bers took no part in the debate
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
DREAMS.

What do we call them? Idle, airy things,
Broken by stir or sigh
Or else sweet slumber's golden. gauzy wings,
That into heaven can fly.
What may we call them? Miracles of might,
For such they are to us
When the gravs bursts and yields us for night
Some risen Lazarus
And if no trace memory of death
Cling to the throbbing form:
And ia dream we feel the very breath
Coming so fast and warm
Then all is real ; we know life's waking thrill
While precious things are told,
Ave- such dream il even stranger still
Than miracles of old.
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where woman rarely comes, but one is often seen
there 1t is the shape of little old woman that
salies from the boarding house on the corner,
less often recently than it used to, feeble,
stopped, totterinIg frame, and wizened, wrink-
led face, wigged and specialized. She is not ce-
lebrity of to-day her story stretches back full
sixty years to the DAYS whe handsome, pusil-
luminous exile married her on his own caprice,
and repudiated her at the beck of brother. For
she is Madame Jerome Bonaparte, King of West
phalia. Beautiful, brilliant and aristocratic, Miss
Patterson married him, then an unknown stran-
ger, against the wishes and counsel Of all her
friends. In few months Napoleon, imperial and
imperious conjured up kingdom for his brother,
and babe him come to it.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
INGENUITY OF RATS.

A farmers wife in the west of Scotland re-
marked that the cream on the surface OF the
| milk in her dairy was often interfered with.
At first she suspected that some Of her children
had taken the unwarrantable liberty of dip
ping pieces of bread in it; but she could find
nothing to confirm this suspicion: and by-and-
by she noticed strange little streaks OF cream
on the edge of the milk BASIN as if string
had been dipped in and drawn out so as to
leave mark. At last she discovered the Sc
cret. The cream was stolen by rats, which
got upon the edge of the earthenware basins
containing the milk, and not being able to
reach down to it, depth of several inches,
and not daring to attempt to go down, as they
could never have climbed up the smooth sur
face again, dipped in the tips of thelf long
tails, drew them up loaded with the rich
cream, and licked them. An arrangement of
the basins such that the rats could not get
upon the edges Of them put an end to all fur
Their depredations of this kind. There was
surely something more than instinct in this
case in the procedure OF the rats
We have something still to tell regarding
the ingenuity of rats. A family in a country
house in Hertfordshire had fancy for rearing
ducks but could not well do so on account Of
rats. which Systematically got hold of and
carried away the young ducklings even from
close to their mother. With view to circum-
vent the rats, the maternal duck and her
Young were housed for the night under COOP
which admitted Of no opening for the furtive
intruders. The rats were not easily to be
cheated of their prey. On discovering that
the mother duck and her family were shroud-
ed from intrusion, they devised pretty plan
of engineering, which was eminently success
full In the course of single night they ex-
cavated tunnel, going below the outer edge
of the coop to its interior, and thus very neat
ly, without producing any alarm, stole every
duckling from under the guidance of the mo-
Their
Two rats belonging to the same colony per-
formed feat quite as ingenious. trap which
was baited for their capture was habitually
plundered without securing single rat They
had evidently invented some plan for safely
stealing away the bait, and what the plan was
could only be learned by setting a watch on
the trap. We shall explain how the theft was
effected. The trap was of the kind which is
sometimes employed for catching mice. 1t
was box with sliding door which was sus-
tanned by mechanism connected with it; the
bait being nibbled at the door descends and
makes the mouse a prisoner. The rats saw
through the device, and resorted to the follow
ing very simple but effectual method of taking
away the bait, which was piece of toasted
cheese, and yet escape imprisonment One OF
them placed itself under the door, so that it
might fall on its back, while the other crept in
and successfully carried off the morsel Of
cheese. The first rat then drew itself from
under the door, and joined its companion.
This demonstration of rat intelligence like the
preceding incident, is of recent occurrence
Chambers Journal
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
A True Prophet.
Virginia New Enterprise.

lNTg ma New Enterprise
Not long ago fellow, apparently in a state
of great excitement, rushed into saloon in
this city, and throwing his hat on the bar, he
cried to the barkeeper: Give me a drink
Dan, quick Therell be the biggest row you
ever saw in about two minutes !" Dan set out
the whisky bottle, and, while the stranger
nervously filled his glass up to the brim and
drank it off at swallow, frightened his belt
and looked at the chambers of his revolver
Leaving his hat where it was thrown, the ex-
cited stranger hurriedly ran to the door,
looked out moment, and then rushed back
to the bar and exclaimed Yes in less than
half minute therell be an awful time here
Give me another drink quick! The bottle
was again passed out another glass was
drained, and the stranger had picked up his
hat and was leisurely walking away, when the
bar-keeper called after him Say, look here
What's all this about row? You lest come
back here and pay for those drinks or I'll let
daylight into your hide At this the
stranger tnrned about, his excitement en-
tirely gone and coolly said s'There you go
Didn't l say there'd be fearful row here in a
minute? knew it There you CO. just as 1
expected" By this time DAN saw the point
and quietly tumbled.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
The Matrimonial Chances.
From the Phila lelphia Board of Health's repo,
FIR the ma st YEAR ]

Iron the Phila lelphia Board of Health's report
for the past year,
The chances o. females being married be-
fore the age of twenty years are as one to five
of all probabilities that they will ever marry.
At the age of twenty years one-ffth of all their
chances are gone. At twenty little over
two-thirds and at thirty nearly six-sevenths Of
all their probabilities are lost. After passing
the age Of forty a female has a very slight
chance Of ever being married, over twenty nine
thirtieths of all her chances being lost.
At the age of twenty the chance Of males
being married are scarcely at all lessened. At
twenty-five there are still three-ffths of their
chances remaining From this period on they
diminish. but in a smaller proportion than with
females
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
A Burglars Campaign Closed.

An extensive burglars campaign in New
England has just been broken up by the ar
rest of the chief John Kerrigan alias Johnny
DObbs The band was known as the
"masked burglars" and had been unusually
bold and successful. They had worked all
night at bank in Colinsvlle, Conn, but
failed to get any money. They hurried off in
the morning. and were seen to get into car
riage and drive furiously out of town. The
owner of the horse they drove found his ami
nal, few days after, tied in the woods and
nearly starved to death. The lightning was
set to work, and detectives in all the railroad
towns were appraised of what had taken place
in Collinsville. detective of Hartford saw a
large man ON the train, who attracted his at
tention because he had mud blotches on his
overcoat, and had evidently taken a drive re-
Gently. The detective Swallowed him off the
train, and the man with a muddy overcoat no.
ticed his shadow Immediately.
He turned upon it, and, presenting a pistol
told the detective to leave off following him
The detective, not caring for the pistol, began
to close on his game The man ran and the
officer after him. The officer saw him throw
something into a lumber yard. The traveller
was finally caught and handcutfed and the de
tective found the imp 'ement that was thrown
away in the flight 1t was a steel jimmy with
one claw lrokea of. The man said his name
was Rice, Boston SPECTATOR He was taken
to Colinsville for preliminary examination.
He would have made them believe that he was
a deeply injured man, if piece of steel found
in the bank after the burglars had gone had
not exactly fitted the prong of the steel jimmy
that had been broken. He was put in Jail in
default of $500. A plan Of the operations Of
the gang was found, which included the work
ing up of several New England towns. Some
New York detectives went to see Rice in Jail
at Collinsville. They pronounce him to be
John Kerrigan, alias Johnny Dobbs, the chief
of the masked burglars st. Louis Republican.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28

A SOUVENIR EXTRAORDINARY correspon-
dent says: Mark Twain in one of his articles
speaks of the lady who treasures a precious
slice of bread from which Dickens had taken q
bite This sounds like the broadcast burlesque,
but the following anecdote, which is literally
true, and illustrates many peoples foolish de-
sire for relics, shows that Twain was hardly
burlesquing in his essay: The last time that
Mr.. Dickens was in this country he happened
one morning to breakfast at the common table
had eaten his egg he dropped the empty shell
into his egg-cup, and after finishing his break
fast left the table As soon as he had gone
lady who had sat next him arose, and taking
up the egg cup went to the hotel proprietor
and offered to purchase it Of him at any price,
and the unwashed eggcup containing the
broken shell i now kept by her a. suyenir Of
tho great novelist
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
$50! The Poor Negro 7"

They had another trial at the civil rights
bill Saturday, and the House refused to take it
from the Speakers table. It is therefore dead
dead beyond resurTection-dead as door
nail, or a nail in a coffin. We believe that had
not only because of his native antipathy to the
negro, but because he would have considered
it bad legisl alton as well as wholly unconstitu-
tional; but we are rather glad that he was not
put to the test, and doubtless he preferred
himself that he should not be compelled to
thus openly declare his hostility and perhaps
split his party to pieces before its time had
come. There was evidently something at
the bottom of all this engineering, for they
had the opportunity to take it up and
pass it, but did not do it. They coquetted and
hirted with the negroes all through the session,
from the entrance of Pinchback to the exit Of
the civil rights enormity, and yet gave them
absolutely nothing. This was the last Con-
gress from which 'Sambo" could hope for
anything, and he has lost his only opportunity.
He will never again loom up 80 formidably
above the horizon. His sun may not be alto
gether set, it is true but his status is pretty
well settled, and his influence and importance
in our politics quite well fixed and defined.
They might have sent the bantling to the
White House and laid its death at the door Of
the President but doubtless they had an
inkling from Mr.. Grant that he didn't want
the dirty little brat left ON his hands, and so
they have kept it at wet-nursing until it can
be more conveniently smothered and then
quietly buried. Richmond ENQUIRER.
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woman married to an old man do, OF the
young man married to an old woman? lake
offices where promotion comes by seniority
What anguish would wiring the bosom OF the
juniors if the seniors were immortal? Death
makes room for men; Death checks the wick
ed bett6 the condition of the good-in short
it is altogether a sweet boon.
MY young friend, long for death; for the
next world to perfect man, can only be
blissful one. l long to go. And now leave
me-"
'.Stay, said the young man, as he turned
to go. :. If you so long to CO. why don't you
go? Death is attainable to any one.
Il continue to live, said Abou, "because l
can do my tellow-men good by living"
And he walked slowly into his habitation.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
In the admirable letter, of D. W. Voorhees,

In the admirable letter, of D. W. Voorhees,
upon the financial question occurs the follow
ing pithy passage: IF it be said that these
views are sectional and peculiar mainly to the
West and South, and that they do not prevail
in the East, my answer is that, if Eastern
capital is wise enough to look after its own
interests, surely that is an additional reason
why the agricultural sections SHOULD do the
same. II others can afford to he Eastern in
their views on this subject. car afford TO be
Western IN mine.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28

WAsHINGToN's CoAcH.-Fifteen years after
the death of Washington, Bishop Mead, Of
Virginia, became the possessor of his coach,
and has told its fate: Becoming an object of
desire to those who delight in relics, 1 caused
it to be taken to pieces and distributed among
the admiring friends of Washington who Wis
tied my house, and also among number Of
female associations for. benevolent religious
objects, which associations, at their fairs and
other occasions, made a large profit by con-
verting the fragments into walking sticks, pic.
ture frames and snuff-boxes. About two
thirds of one of the wheels thus produced
$40. There can be no doubt that at it, dis
solution it yielded more to the cause Of char
ity than it cost the builder at its first erection
Besides other mementoes of it, have in my
study, in the form of sofa, the hind seat on
which the General and his lady were wont to
sit
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28

The New York Herald, referring to st. Louis
is delighted to learn there is one city where the
politicians die sometimes But they only do
that to avoid resigning.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28

'sThere is one good thing about babies, :"
said recent traveller; "they never change
We have girls Of the period, men of the world;
but the baby is the same selfposssesed fenr-
less laughing. voracious little heathen IN N
|ages md n eountxien."
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-28
wx9s TO HIM EvEg. A novel BY F. W. h
lSev York: G. w. Carleton Il Co Ne,
Orleans: Kahn & Co


Orleans: Kahn & Co
Presenting handsome appearance exter-
naay, this commonplace story of domestic
ne-including courtship, love and marriage,
ofeounse-ofers nothing especially interesting
neither characters, plot, or Incidents, if we
except perhaps, the somewhat exciting though
hasSneyed "nde for ife," with pack Of
wolves in hot pursuit Why such stories are
exer written, II is difficult to understand there
URi be demand for them, however, or the
supply would cease; instead of which We have
md perfect avalanche Of them lately.
TAs LOG or ConNopoRE RoLIINap1N HIS
Adventures AFLoAT AND ASHORE By
John II. Carter. New York G. w. Garlic
ton Go. London: s. Low, Son l. Co.
New Orleans /: Kahn 4 Co.
John 81. Carter is St. Louis author with
ood reputation as an annual getter-up of
comic almanac; which fact sufficiently illus
strates the character Of the present volume.
Wade up Of short character-sketches, anec-
dotes. rough jokes, funny sayings, some pro-
fAnity and much slang, the book is ludicrous
snd comical rather than witty or humorous.
H is thoroughly amuing, and the comic illus
taticns. especially the s;lhossttss with which
1abounda, Vim excite many hearty laugh
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-03-17
What II Means.

Tho intense but somewhat s%pasnodlo
indignation In Massachusetts, over the
confirmation OF Summons Is exceeding
" amusing az showing the rapid flight
which philosophlc resignation takes In
individuals who are concerned ut moth
Ing. until their own OK Is gored. Sim
mons is n much better man than Casey
aud fully rs good as Murphy, aud yet
the Massachusetts, people could see no
cause for grumbllng In New Orleans
and New York when they were APP
pointed. Tho Simmons appointment
ID OF a piece with them. 1t Is not so
bad la itself, but a all evidence aud
exponent OF a system II Is terribly bad.
It means Butler, and Butler means q
continuation, an expansion, a strength
ening Of the present corruption In
Government. He means q central
Government with Its servants In every
village and township, controlled BY
one will and brain ut the central gang
lion to which all arc attached. He
means the Abandonment and destruc-
ton Of State rights, the aggrandlzement
aud cnriching Of n few at tho expense Of
the many, the appearing aud mainten-
ance OF gigantic monopolles, the max
Ing OF politics n game In which all
means are lawful and stealing for ones
self honorable. He ear the worst
elements that can be introduced Into
our politics and he Is no worse than
others though perhaps more audaelou'.
He Ia no worse than Senator Morton,
no worse than Logan or Conkling or
Blaine or q dozen others Of equal note.
The events and influences OF the last
dozen years have not been such as to
produce pure aud dlsinterssted patrl-
ots.-hdidndpoiis Neics.