davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

RESULTS OF FIRE INsURANCE.-The SEES
sion Of the National Board of Fire Under
writers, which has recently closed in New
York, is said by the Now York journal Of
Commerce to have been in all respects the
most important held since it's organization.
Financial results have conclusively proved
the Wis lOm of insurance management
throughout the country generally. Accord
ing to the Presidents report, the New York
schedule of ratings has resulted in the stop
ping the erection of unsafe buildings and
himsy Mansard roofs in pOpulOus quarters.
No wooden Mansards have gone up in the
Boston burned district since the adoption
Of the schedule rates, and Chicago has been
rebuilt on the same safer plan. The admin
istratiOn of the new fund created for the ar
rest and conviction Of incendiaries has re-
suited in benefits unexpectedly great.
The reporting committee make statements
on the subject of incendial ism so extraOrdi-
nary that they would seem to require
strong corroborative proof. One company
asserts that, in their opinion, 80 per cent. Of
their losses is, directly or indirectly, trace
able to arson two companies report SO per
cent; one company 40 per cent; one 81 per
cent; two 80 per cent; three IS per cent,
and II! per cent., while . company organ
lied only one year report that of all their
losses no less than IS per cent. is attribut-
able, in their belief, to incendiarism. The
wide range of these estimates would seem
to indicate that they are mostly based on
conjecture, though the companies are right
in Investigating the origin Of fires, and not
rejecting arson as among the possible ex-
plantations, as well as in offering large re-
wards for the arrest ana punishment of in
cendiaries. The board has, no doubt, acted
wisely in authorizing . second fund Of
900 to be raised this year for this pur
nose. ~at yas #aEfJa ~ .H4.@ us .aai
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

Is FOOD OR DRINK MOsr ESSENTIAL 3
A Pennsylvania paper, the Hanover Spectator,
reports that stone-cutter named Peter
Breitler, Of Gettysburg, whose mind for the
last year or two has been considerably af
fected, had steadily refused to partake of a
morsel Of food for period Of fifty-eight
days up to Tuesday, its latest date, only
sustaining life during that period by drink
ing small quantities of cold water. There
is said to be case on record in which q man
lived eighty days without partaking of food.
Breitler, being in reduced circumstances
was an inmate of the Adams county aims
house for some months, and while there, he
asserts, some supernatural influence or per
sonage told him he ought not to eat, and he
has since stubbornly persisted in refusing to
allow any food whatever to enter his mouth.
On the o:her hand, the Montepelier argus
says that ten years ago Timothy Wheeler, of
Waterbury Centre, VT, adopted strictly
vegetarian diet, and five years ago became
impressed that nature did not require SO
much liquid to quench thirst as is commonly
used. The result has been that the first
year thereafter he went thirty eight days
without taking any liquids into his system,
the second year seventy days, the third one
hundred and thirty, the fourth one hundred
and seventy, and up to Thursday of last
week he had gone two hundred and twenty
eight days in the fifth year without drinking
anything whatsoever.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

A portion of marble column, ornamented
in bass-relief with men and horses, has been
discovered on the shores of the Sea of Mar
mora, and is believed to have formed part
of the Arcadius Column, which remained
standing more than two hundred years after
the taking of Constantinople. Another in
teresting discovery has been made at Cam
stadt, where some workmen, engaged in
excavating for the foundation of a house,
found Roman altar about four feet in
height. 1t is ornamented on the four sides
with tolerably well preserved figures of
Mercury, Hercules, Minerva and Vesta. We
further hear Of some Roman art remains
found in Paris on the demolition Of a house
in the Rue DIES Marmousets, consisting Of
large stones with fragments OF arms, legs,
and torsos sculptured on them, which evil
IDENTIFY formed part of the decoration of a
large building.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

PIETY KNOCKED INTO PI.-HOrace Greeley
used to affirm that newspaper men were the
most patient people, as class. on EARTH
and he was not far from right, though there
are times when patience ceases to be vir
tue with the most enduring. Nearly every
body in the western part of the State knows
Burr, who used to start a newspaper about
o1ce month the year round, generally
bringing them out in Grand Rapids, but
sometimes making flying trip to other
points. Burr could stand to be told that he
lied about his circulation, was on the fence
as politician, and that he didn't know
anything about publishing newspaper, and
when men threatened to sue or thrash him
he only smiled sad smile and wished that
mankind wouldn't get excited.
During a religious revival in Grand
Rapids Burr was converted, and it fire.
quentiy happened that religious people
called at his Office to talk with him. One
day minister came in and after talking
for awhile he proposed prayer. He was in
the act of kneeling when his foot struck
one of the outside forms, which was leaning
against leg Of the stone, ready to be lifted
up, and over it went, making half a bushel
Of ''pi." Burr looked at the ruin wrought,
thought of the two weeks of overwOrk, end
he commenced taking off his coat, saying ):
"Tm trying to be a Christian and set good
example, but rat my buttons if can't lick
you in Just two minutes" The clergyman
backed down stairs in no time, lodging the
I've brush on the way, and Burr backslid at
once, and sent down for a pint of stimu-
lant.-Detroit Free Press.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

Big FISH SrORY.-Thers appears to be in
born in Americans a disposition to wastetul
extravaganza. 1t crops out in their dress,
manners and impulses but is most wanton-
Nv prOfhse in the destructive proclivities it
manifests towards the bounties IF nature.
Our forests that should have lasted hun
dred centuries supplying fuel to all the pos
sible populations Of the continent, have been
mercilessly given to the axe. Game has been
butchered and thrown away, and the wild
herds of our. Western plains almost extir-
minated. The same destructive spirit has
manifested itself towards the fish, and re-
Gently in California the terrible explosive
nitro glycerine was used almost to the de-
population of the lakes. And now it is as
serted that steam power is to be used in
American fisheries; that immense sens at
tached to vessels miles apart will sweep. a
distance Of twenty miles, drawing within
the folds of the.fatal net all the fish in the
area it traverses. By this process, 1900, 900
of marketable seals were caught last year !;
but over 2O,O0O,0OO were destroyed, because
it killed old and young alike. Such whole
sale destruction should not be countenanced
by any government.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

DETER FORD,
Manufacturer and Repairer Of
HAIR, FEATHER AND MOSS MATTRESSES,
No. 33 Bourbon Street, New Orleans,
Between Customhouse and Bienville
Steamboats,, Hotels and Boarding houses supplied at
short notice and at low rates. myl76t
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

A Hero.

The Pittsburgh Dispatch, of May LIST, con-
tains one Of those commonplace histories OF
heroism in the discharge of ordinary duty
which we note with emphasis from time to
time, not only because Of their own stirring
meaning. but for the indication they give OF
the tone and temper and the ruling motives
Of the great under-mass of American society;
the men and women whose names never
find their way into the papers; never even
enter into calls for public meetings or chart
table subscriptions; who 60 through life
with one days meals, and work with no bet
ter prospect than to begin another next
morning; who know nothing OF the college
graduates lofty resolves or aims !;
never analysed their own souls
asthetially; would set down Long
fellows Psalm of Life, or Carlyle's
Thoughts Of Living as sentimental bosh,
yet, when occasion demands live and die in
their cheap homes, beside their tools or
their engine, simply and grandly as though
all the years gone before mad been solemn
preparatory vigil. Take this young fellow
Sutton, for instance-a subordinate OF some
kind or other on railway train. The
conductor" the Dispatch states, sent him
to the rear to flag another train coming up
behind. On his way he fell on the track,
and was run over by five cars and the ca.
boose. His legs were completely cut eft
above the knee, but remembering his Or
ders, he cleared the track Of the dismem
bercd portions of his own body, and taking
flag out of his pocket, waved it until he
had stopped the approaching train. With
out this collision would have been inevi-
table," 1t is only necessary for us to re-
peat the story. All our college and school
boys have histories Of countless heroic
deaths stored away with the rest of
their book lore. They can tell you
how Cato paused, sword in hand,
and Socrates waited to sacrifice cock--sO
coolly did these old sages watch deaths
coming. Their eyes will flash, and their in
genuous faces redden, and their hearts beat
to loftier measures thereafter at the hack
neyed recital of how Nelson died like a
woman in the first breath of his great vic
tory; how kings have died like kings on the
scaffold, spectacle for the attentive world
how unnumbered young heroes in our own
war leaped to meet death. Such facts are
enrolling and good for any American boy to
learn aud remember, be the book Latin or
English. But the notice in the mornings
paper of this poor railway workman throw
ing his own severed legs from the track, and
the train before he laid down tc
die, is Of more import to him than all the
others, and more wholesome in its meaning.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

The HARVEY BIRCH OF THE PERIOD
The somewhat noted Pardon WOrseley, of
whom several merchants in Baltimore and
Washington entertain lively recollection,
has made various applications to Congress,
since the close of the war, to be reimbursed
for the doubtful part played by him during
that period. Worseley, it will be remem-
bered, was, by authority of Gen. Augur,
permitted to carry on cOntraband trade
from this city with Mosby's band, on con-
dltion that he procured information of
Mosby's movements. BY his system Of
dOuble-dealing he succeeded in duplicating
in his contraband trade several leading mer-
chants of Baltimore and this city, who were,
on his evidence, arrested and brought
to trial before military commission.
At the trial, -Worseley produced
81, 500 he alleged had been offered
him by Mr.. Moses Weisenfeld, of Baltimore,
one Of the parties on trial, not to injure him
by his testimony. This money was carried
into the Treasury, and WOrseley has ever
since been trying to get it out. He has ap-
piled, as stated, several times to Congress,
and has at last made some impression. The
Committee on Claims, which has been con-
sidering the matter, has agreed to recon-
mend that he be allowed $4,000 as full
on the theory that he gave
information to the Government.
this action of the commit
tee it is extremely doubtful whether this
man ever really did give any information
which was Of value to the military forces of
the Government. His operations, like those
Of a great many other loyal" men during
the war, seem to have had no other aim or
effect than to spy upon and prosecute pri
yate citizens, either for personal profit or
personal vengeance.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

A Troy pawnbroker was badly swindled
recently by stranger who offered to pawn
heavy gold chain. The broker offered to
loan $40 on the article at p. N. At that
time the stranger appeared and presented
the chain to the brokers' clerk, who pro-
.duced the $40. The stranger thought mo-
ment and seemed reluctant to leave the
chain. s'No," said he. 81 guess won't pawn
it after ALL" saying which he picked It up
his hand. Then turning to the clerk he
threw the chain upon the desk again and
said, well, might Just as we'll do it now
as at any time Gin me the $40" He took
the money and departed. The broker on
examination fonnd to his establishment that
the stranger had deity changed the chain
while talking, and had pocketed the gold
one, aud pawned for $40 a plated chain
worth about 50.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

st: Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Mound City Life Insurance Company, ~
Missouri Mutual Life Insurance Company,
IL called the fact that the three companies hsva
been consolidated under the title Of the IT Louis Life
Insurance Company. The consolidated company COM
bining does the immense business Of the thrsa
companies With the expense Of but ono once manage.
ment, 10 enabled to offer exceptional advantages -
insurers. For payment of Premiums or any othaI
business connected with the companies. address
HARMON DOANE, GenI Southern Agent,
Louisiana and Southern Miss, 182 Gravter aa0
su8-r ~ rondAlet arreet NeW(D~ieenA
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-24

Particular attention paid to settlement Of State and
City Taxes and Licenses. my23 I'm
, 1874-06-13
THE TURF.
ruE GRAND NArIDH RACES,

THE TURF.
THE GRAND NAr1DH RACES.
.spcctas Utspatcht to Ths Chieaao Tribune.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, June 12.-At the races
Today tho track was still quito heavy and allow.
At 8 O'Clock 1t was thought that another show er
would fall, but 1t proved to bo obly short
sprinkle The day WAS severely cold and spring
oyercoa!s wore but a slight protection. Tito
spectators numbered about A. 600.
In tho 1855 raco for purse OF 81 ,U00, Gold
Loaf took the first, second, and fourth heats,
silveraidos wiuning the third, and taking second
mouey. Captola got third money, and Decision
fourth. Time-2:5SY@; 2:38; 2:S014.
Tho opon,,to-aal race was won BY Red Cloud IN
Frod Hooper took second money, Ct, James
tl,ird, and Huntress fourth; Mollio Morris dis-
tnncol. While scoring for the first heat, Fred
IIooper's enlky wns broken, aud IN the acconl
heat 1sed Cloud was run into by Western Boy,
Bill Mclaughlin driving. The aulAy Was a total
wreck, tho horse was uninJurod, and tho driver
eighty bruised.
The two-mile running race was taken neatly by
Nellie Grim in two boats; timo. 3:44laa, 3:Gl91 /;
Western StAr SECOND, War Girl, Groy Hiley,
and Jim Alexander were diBtancod in tho first
lont.
Tomorrow two rncoB will tRtc place, ono for
beaten running horses; tho other for 5-year old
colts.
RACES At r1TTBDUn6.
p1rTBnuno, Pa., June 12.-The trotting match
to-day, for purse Of 24G0, WAS won by Blowgo.
Time-2:3791. 1855, 2;30.
Tho second was pacing race, pnrse 1900.
Silver Cloud won tho first heat in 2:8714. and in
the second heat was distanoed by 6orrol Jim,
who won tho raco In 2:33.
, 1874-06-13
CASUALTIES.
A Chnptcr OF Accidents.

opEc1A$ A7&patGH 70 1 NC LHsCHHf 4fiossIk6.
WnKEsnlnnR, pa, Juno 1a.-Yeaterday at
noon an explosion Of fre-damp occurred In tho
Black Diamond Mines, by which Thomas ".
Morgan and Andrew Lynch wero badly burned.
A young brakesman on tho Delaware b Hudson
River Railroad mot with q sad accident yeater-
day. While working on the track hin foot WAS
caught in q frog near the awitch, and, while ho
was making frantic eudeavora to e1tricate his
foot, he was run down bya heayily.loaded coal-
and ons log was SO badly crushed as to rondor
amputation necessary. He cannot recover.
During the past week there has been singu-
lar fatality in tho mines and on the various rail-
roads around this city. To-day, Densmore
Coxton, ten miles ahovo this place, was walking
on Tho Lohlgh Valley Railroad whom his foot no.
camo faatenod in frog, md before he could
FREQ hinself..a passenger train struck him, cut
ting on his head. Tho deceased WAS 80 years.
old.
Near the name place this evening, Bernard
Dodd fell from platform cnr and was run oycr
BY tho rear car. He was brought to his homo in
Wlkesbarro, whero his vito md Guild wore ex-
peoting him to aupper. He will probably re-
cover.
, 1874-06-13

Wits him to tile platform, and ask him to mako =
speech, and II lie Ind the bad luokt to gst into all
orthodox Honvon, 1o would got up diBQusBion
with Jeaus Christ on side sHuoB.
4, a. an: E. Il. w11soN oia ii. ,,o,,, ,v,s
man belonged to him. Ho spoke OF Mr. Darnos'
will, giving 100000 to support gplritualiHtto
educational effort, saying that, under crelal IN
nina % lawyors employed to OF maintain IL ' TIC viii
sold out. uo held that the Northern lllf-
noiB Association OF Christianity and
Free Thinkors was tho gate through
which people must pasa bofore th0y, wore qualt-
to think as tlloy did, nor obligated themselves to
think as no man thought. They wore free to
think and Worship tho good God, who scnt thom
friends to commune With, instead Of strong
fuiorum on which seiontlata could roat thoir
thought and soiontitlo men were lnorely roc
ondafy workors Ill the fold. Ho would 60 fur
ther than tho preaching speaker, and soy that
100 per cont Of Spiritual manifestations woro of
mundane origin, .springing from n mundane
brain. As to tbs cheats and impoBtora, ho Was
glad they exinted, for thoy sere evidences TINT
thcro was something worth Initiating. Nothing
but genuine coin was eyor ,counterfetedi.
what ! furoro It kicked up In tho Presbyterian
Church. Frothingha1n pradloted TINT Spiritual
ism was to bo tue future religion Of Atnorica.
Tho speaker nakod tho Bpirltuaiiats to havo =
back-bono He had learned TINT God aud ono
mado majority, and that there were two
aphores Of ii,spiration-ono from tho throne,
tho othor from tho gutter, both aotive and uso:
ful. It Was tho triumph Of tho gutter element
that beat tho crusaders, because their rights
wero threatened. This was juBtice. Tho orl,sa-
dors were wiped out and now everybody muat step
forward and savo God from this element. Ho
had learned that the minority waB always right
and the majority wrong. -.~ ..
Tho Association then adjourned until 7:90 In
tho evening.
Tho Association mot In the evening President
Howard in the chair. Aftor an hour Of confer
| cnco talk, tho speeches began. It would ap-
pear that the Business Committee ran short Of
talking material, for they were Obliged to foil
back upon those Of the speakers who had odi-
f1od tho meeting ut tho afternoon session.
| Mossrs. Wilson, Lynn, and Stewart came to the
| reeoue, and continued In q vein similar to that
given above keeping IL up among the throe until
about ba!f-past 10 o'clock. when tho Association
adjourned until 10 o'olosk this forenoon.
, 1874-06-13
dotrtmout, never s1eneod, always returning With

-dotrlmeut, nover si1encod, always returning With
undlmintHlicti onn.
Harkn,oav, although, it ts not prominent, ono.
Mr. owon Favoott, aa Dolly spa''ker, was equal
- htiss' Ills "a Fanny Davenport played tho famous
sos aenr Of s Lazy o5 @fy oxaetns spahss on %' ths
stago.e Drossod With the elegance and
taste which ele 80 thoroughly understands and
tho play roquiroa. lor appearance "na In ovory
this part Is I,or first in tho description OF tho
hunting episode, aud In this hltaa Davenport
wan applaudod without stint. Her vivaetty and
earleBtneBB IN this alluson to hor taTorite sport
furnish key to tho lady's character which is
with Dolly mud Sir Harcoar1. Mas Davenport
displayed to great advantage tho qua9itios which
mako Ill her acting 50 acceptable.
tho first timo, and, while his performance was
not altogether faultloss, 1t poseoased morita
equally percoptlblo with the flaws. 1t MAS
moro matter Of sttangonosB.
Tho ptcco WINS mounted protttly and dreaHed
suporby, hB q mattor OF course.
A runL1o CONVENIENCE.
Tho Chicago Omnibus Company havo made
arrangements with the managers Of thoatrea to
convoy Tho public to and from either tho Acad-
tros. and 10 their honos at tho conclusion Of
tho performance at Is cota the round trip. This
iBn ueetod accommodation, and will doubtleaH be
found worry aRrooAblo to b0lth-Sluefe, eapcclally
when thcy go to the 1rHt-namod house.
- LINCOLN PARK.
Tho programme for tho music thia afternoon
at Lincoln Park viii bo aa follows:
!. Jubilee March .8nro
g. oSss.ars @sssn e Das
1. Fantasie from Norma n........... .Noscnkranz
8. Waltz" Now Vienna a"...."....... Strauss
T. Potporri. Musical Tsieai.ph .nerf,'rth
8. Isornanza from "a1iBnon u. Thomas
0. Waltz" Wine, Women. and Song "..... .strauss
II. March Nprecht..... Faust
s1nB. n1cE8 ao1nEE.
Tho third musical soirce OF tho serles compli-
meutary to Mra. Eugene de nootlo Rice will be
given at the Palmer House this evening, upon
which occasion this talanted pianist will be
assisted by Mrs. Balfour and Mesars. Sloan,
Meyer, and Baird. The programmc will DO az
follows:
1fr. Ht9an.
\ "sousohlr 40 Do!l9 Artos
8. 40, Fair Dovot O. Fond Dove ei"........... .Gaty
Mrs. BalfoRf.
1. Moonlight sonots. Beethoven
Airs Rice.
s. "shall in Aamro's Fertile Plain" .Hsendc
6. "Dolero from 9lciltnn Vcspere Verdi
AIRS, Rite.
FAHr II.
f'n'ae'e IF'ompnAG; %,. :: o''''a''A
2. "Ah Lovely, Blooming Maiden !",... .Meyerbeer
Mrs. 1alfo1r. -
.. Fantasia capr1cs":: .Visu1tcmps
dfF. Meyer.
''' ~ Mrs. i7ict.
Mrs. nai}our and liz. Sloan.