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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07
u A. MURRAY,
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA.
IN THE MATTER OF T. DREYF0US l. CO.,
bankrupts.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07

Dr.. CT iTiS senld impress upon those patients
who have al.eady correspondent with him the nee
essity % personal interview, the material advan.
tag. of which will enable him to form . complete
An.! Thorough diagnosis of the case.
Consultations confidential ho23 3m
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07

Second District Court for the Parish Of OIiean
No. 49, 1876.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07
By Placide J. Spear.

HUMAN HAIR. LADIES AND GENTLEMEE'S UN.
derwear and Furnishing Goods. Fine Pocket
Cutlery. Walking Canes. Fancy Articles. and .
large stock OF fancy and othe- articles too long
to enumerate: Store Fixtures. Counters. Show
Gases. etc. in the matter Of J. q. Bermel. in
bankruptcy, No. 1864.
DY PLAClDE }. SPEAR. ArCrfOEEER-
ID Office No. 46 Exchange alley.-SATURDAi. Feb.
ruary 7, 1874, at 10 A. NJ, will be sold on the prem
ises No. l2l Canal street, between Royal and Bour.
bon streets by virtue Of and in obedience to an
order of sale rendered by the Hon. Z. H. Darrell,
Judge OF the District Court OF the United States
the District OF Louisiana, sitting in bankruptcy.
and dated January 30. i81+~
THE EONTBNTS OF SAID STORE consisting IN
part OF a | .rge and valuable collection OF Human
Hair, splendid assortment of Ladies' and Gentle.
mems Underwear and Furnishing Goods great
assortment OF fine English Cutlery. the most varied
and complete collection of Walking Canes Fancy
Articles and large line OF fancy and other goods
too long to enumerate.
Also Store Fixtures, Counters, Show Cases, etc
Terms-Cash on the SPOT. fs1 Q:
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LOT ON FOURTH STREET IN THE FOUEII
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF z. MCALPIN
Second District Court for the Parish OF orleans
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07
In Bankruptcy-N0.-

TIME UNDERSIGNED HEREBY GIVES NOTICE
Il Of his appointment ~ assignee of T. Dreyfoua
Co. of the parish Of Ouachita and State Of Lou
isiana, who have been adjndicated bankrupts upon
creditors petition by the district court of said da.
trict. D. WALLACE, Assignee.
ial7 fel Is
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07
VALUABLE FIRST DISTRICT PROPERTY COR
EER MAGAZINE AND POEYFARRE STREETS,
SUGGESTIONS OF JOHN o. AND ANNIE MCCALL
CONSOLIDAT

TWO FOURTH DISTRICT PROPERTIES,
ON DRYADES, NEAR WASHINGTON STREET
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-07
SUCCESSION OF HENRY HART.

ONE HUNDRED AID THIRTY-SIX SHARES ST.
CHARLES STREET RAILROAD COMPANY
STOCK.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
An Earthquake Experience.

A lady correspondent or the Oleve- land Herald writing from Callao, gives as follows her first experience of earth quake shock: " Night before last we were having very restless night !: could not get to sleep. About 12 o'clock Belle awoke-her big eyes wide open, and few moments after a low. under ground thunder came rolling toward us. H. sprang up and said earth quake, but there was no need of being informed, for it was unmistakable. l jumped from my bed and cried, O., my God r By the time we were fairly up the house was convulsed with the demoniac shake. I had but one idea in my head it had been told me few nights before to keep my slipp CTS al- ways by the bedside. I had neglected to do so, and in the frenzy of fright could only cry out, o, where are my slippers, where are my slippers ? B , who lay in her little bed quite compos- ed, not appreciating the danger, told me just where they were. My hands were cold and clammy, and I was truly beside myself. I cannot describe an earthquake in a manner that you could comprehend. They are neither sub- lime nor grand, but terrible and de- moniacal. This one lasted about fifteen or sixteen seconds, yet it aroused sen sations that did not get over for twenty.fours. All night I was trying te realize that God had anything to do with terror so horrible.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
A Case of Imaginary HydrOphObia.

The New Orleans Tunes gives the particulars of case of imaginary hy- drophobia. The victim to his own con- ceit was 8 well-known citizen of Oar rollton. He had been reading about hydrophobia as recently developed in New York, and the impression made filled his mind with frightful pictures of mortal agony. He then read DOT tion of medical work on the subject,
 when instantly he became seized with the earlier symptoms of the disease. His aversion for water was almost maniacal, and the sight of dog would throw him into the most repulsive con- vulsions. After the first outbreak he was quieted, but still he was absorbed in the horrible fantasies created by his imagination. The morning succeeding the day of his first attack he arose from his bed with wild and haggard expression, and refused to taste food or drink. After time he became very excitable, and twitching of the mus cles once more betrayed the strength of the impression made on his fancy. This was his condition for two success sive days and nights, during which time sleep never visited his eyes and he rolled in his bed like madman. The slightest circumstance would frighten him almost into convulsions, and if only fly approached his bed he would shriek like one possessed. On the third day he was induced to eat some fruit and remained quiet for few hours, when his muscles again began to twitch, and he threw himself on the floor, where he snarled and parked like dog. Having been again quieted, some medicine was offered him, but it was only after vio- lent struggling that he was forced to swallow it, and he then fell into spasms till thick and snow white froth gathered on his lips. Another night of sleeplessness and agony passed away, and the morning found him somewhat improved. But his old aversion for food or anything of liquid character was still extant, and two negro boys were constantly in the room with fly brushes keeping the flies away. Some purgative medicine was again forced upon him, which threw him once more into spasms that raised foam upon his mouth. This spasm, however, was of short duration and was succeeded by @ nervous calm. He was then taken to the house of friend, but In his passage through the street the twisting of the muscles was again revived, and care had to be taken that nothing canine or aqueous came within range of his vision. During this time h1s countenanoe pre-. sented peculiarly weird expression, but was full of an apparent anxiety. He ejected saliva from his tongue very fre- quently, and his skin was hot and dry, as though it had been parched. From the day of his first visit to his friend's house he began to improve gradually, and with the assistance of chloroform occasionally snatehed 8 refreshing sleep. In four days subsequently he could venture on the street unattended, but still displayed restlessness and a slight symptom of nervous disorder. He is now completely restored, and stands one of the most remarkable living examples of the effect of high imagination on the brain.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
An Accursed Land.

In the Northwest corner of San Bernardino county, California, lying partly also in Invo county, and by the newly surveyed line partly also in the State of Nevada, is region paralleled by few other spots on the face of the earth. We say the world is instinct with life. Here, if the phraseology may be pardoned, is place instinct with death. A huge basin, whose rim is the ancient hills, stricken with the barrenness of eternal desolation; whose bosom, the blasted waste of the desert -treeless, shrubless and waterless, save few bitter pools like the lye oi potash water surrounded by mountains that tower thousands of feet above the sea- level, itself lying three hundred feet below the sea. It is very "Gehenna" "a place of death and bones. Birds do not fly over it. Animals do not enter it. Vegetation cannot exist in 1t. The broad sands absorb the heat. the bare mountains reflect it, the unclouded sun daily adds to it. Ninety degrees in the shade (artifcial shade, there is no other) means winter. One hundred and thirty and one hundred and forty sgrees--that is summer. gt3F -'H''.'
 The hot air grows hotter, Wavers, trembles with heat, until nature, goaded to madness, can endure no mol e 1; and then the burning blast rouses itself rouses in it's might; rouses as an angry beast, with 8 hoarse, ominous roar sweeps mile after mile, on, ever on, over the broad reach of the desert, bearing in its black, whirling bosom black as the midnight, dust, sand, alkali and death. Sometimes murky cloud gathers on the mountains above; then there is rush--a warning sigh on the winds--a low stumbling in the air; the hills culver, the earth trembles, and a torrent-half water, half mud-bounds from the hills, leaps into the desert, blowing chasms like river beds in the loose sand. The clouds scatter, the sun comes agaln, the eternal thirst of the desert is not quenched. The raging river was not 8 dream. ., -...., .' ua
 In the year 1S49 apsrty of emigrants entered the basin. Day after day they toiled on, thirsting, dying. The pitiless mountains walled them in; no escape. One by one they dropped and died. A few, abandoning every thing, scaled the mountains, and they fell, dried to mum mies-no beasts to prey upon them. Wagon tires nhnrusted; gun-barrels brig ht, untarnished. Such Is the place. Mile after mile silence reigns silence and death. -f..-s-,, -.? -a;-Ei
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
Pleasant.

What can be pleasanter than the life of Missouri farmer? At daylight he gets up and examines the holes around his corn hills for cut worms, then he smashes coddling- moth 1arvse with a hoe handle until breakfast. The fore noon is devoted to watering potato bugs with solution of Paris green, and after dinner all hands turn out to pour boil ing water on the chintz bugs in the corn and wheat fields, In the evening favorite occupation is smudging peach trees to discourage the curculio, and after brief, season. of family devotion at the shrine of the night-fying ooleop- tera, all the folks retire and sleep soundly till Aurora reddens the east and the grasshoppers tinkle against the panes and summon them to the labors of another day. a... =..s -1-. moo F.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
Broad and Marrow Gauge Rail way.

The broad gauge Great Western Rail- way of England Is virtually no more, and the idea which cost SO much money to carry, out has given way, after forty years, to the force of circumstances. About 200 miles of the southwestern portion of the Great Western lines was relaid in three days to the standard gnage of four feet eight and sone-half inches. The arrangements were well made, and everything passed of satls" factorily. Although. nominally the whole distance was relaid in three days, much of the work had been previously prepared, such as removing ballast, par tially saving of transoms, placing chairs in position, to receive tho rail in it's new position where the rails were laid on the sleepers, and so on. The last of the broad gauge rolling stock was taken off at Ohippenham and sent into depot.o The line is now narrow, or rather standard, guage, from London to Bath, Bristol and Weymouth, in cluding most of the branches, and in short time the whole tsystem will have been completely remodeled. soL
 About 2,000 men were employed, working eighteen hours 8 day, sleeping accommodation being provided, where necessary, in huts built by the side of the road. The inconvenience to the public of course was great ,rbut the change is hailed with satisfaction on all sides, and especially theside represent. ed by the shareholders, Whatever may be said of the merits of seven feet as a suitable gauge for railways, itmust be acknowledged that, without any reAec. tion on the intelligence of its designer, the Great Western was . blunder from the commencement, And yet, with this example before them, the engineers and the authorities are repeating it in India and elsewhere. gs5 lo e.Fgpual
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
What is in the Bedroom.

The importance of ventilating bed rooms is fact in which everybody is vitally interested, and which few prop erly appreciate. If two men are to occupy a bedroom during nigut let them step upon weighing scales as they retire and then again in the morning, and they will fnd that their actual weight is at least a pound less in the morning. Frequently there will be & loss of one or two pounds, and the average loss throughout the year will be more than one pound that is, dur ing the night there is loss of pound of matter, which has gone off from their bodies, from the lungs partly and partly through the pores of the skin. The escaped material is carbonic acid and decayed animal matter, or poison ous exhalations. ......
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14

VERY AMus1Na.-A correspondent of the. Providence Journal tells an amus- ing story of a man who saw thief en- ter his room when the moon shone brightly upon him. He lay quietly as if in sound sleep for time as the ex- animation went rapidly on. At length he was conv,llsed with laughter, which startled the miscreant peering into his desk. Seeing he was taken at 8 disad- vantage, the intruder turned and asked what occasion there was for such an outburst. He replied, 1T was thinking how extremely ridiculous it is for you to be searching for money in the night when I am unable to find any in the day time.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
What Faith Did.

By faith men are saved in more things than theology makes note of. There was one Heck, 8 farmer, living near Arcanum, Ohio, who imbibed from some dream, vision or other source, fixed notion that he is to die in bed, of sickness, and hence that no accident or violence can possibly kill him. Thus believing, Heck went to war as soldier. He had his arm broken and was shot through and through in one of the battles. The sur geons booked him for dead man l; but Heck's faith in his destiny was so strong that he laughed at the surgeons, and got we'll. Presently, in another battle, he caught it again but he re- covered again. Taking what then was left of him home, he went to farming.
 With his faith in peaceful death, he was not easily frightened, and was rather reckless. A few days ago, while driving team attached to reaper, having only one arm, jolt threw him off the seat, and he was struck by the dlvider, and then by the cutter bar, cutting off three ribs, laying his lungs open to sight and otherwise terribly mangling his body and limbs. The doctors said he would die, sure, inside of forty-eight hours but Heck, in as strong voice as he had left, swore that he was going to get well, and related his faith about dying in bed of sickness, which he said proves that he cannot be killed by violence. And he is getting well-at least all his symptoms are favorable and he continues to swear that he is going to recover. The doctors say that his faith has great effect in keep ing up his strength and spirits, and even has direct physical effect upon his body 1; and that, if he lives, it will be his faith that saves him. By all the usual rules, he ought to die; but he don't die because he thinks he can't die. " ,,-.,.-.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
The Hay Fever.

Those who are on the water at the time when an attack of hay fever is ex- pected are the only ones liable to it who escape. A gentleman who is hay fever subject. came over from Europe in the season. On the ocean he had not a symptom. He had not been On land three hours before he had the disease as badly as ever. Some persons suffer more than others-many are so pros- trated as not to be able to leave their beds. One gentleman last year at Oak land was so feeble from hay fever as not to be able to walk quarter of mile.
 He brought his doctor with him to watch over him, and the doctor was nearly as sick from the fever as his pa- tient, and it became case of "physi- clan, heal myself. . A German profes- sor, quoted in Scribnes, advises adilute solution of the sulphate of quinine poured into the nostrils while the pa- tient lies on his back and keeps the head low. It is not cure, but pallia-
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
The Boundary Line.

Representative Robinson, of New Haven, in urging the SIC, 900 appropria- tion which the House passed for sur vey of the State, declared that Oonnec. ticut had not schoolmaster or scholar within the borders of the State that can tell wLere these borders are. The lines between New York and the State and between the State and Massachusetts have '" never, been fixed the exact boundarles of counties and towns are not known; the confguration of the land has never been correctly ascertain ed i: even the source and course of it's rivers are mot to 8 certainty given in any map which has yet bsen made. Indeed, the Surveyor General has testi- fed that there was no such thing as an even approximately correct map of the Skoko -.s .#''f.' .'. .f'
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
Marriage as a Sanitary Measure.

The papers East tell us that we'll known Brooklyn (N. Y. merchant has filed petition for the divorce of his daughter, on the ground of hopeless imbecility. The lady, it seems, a few years since. having graduated with high honors at Packer Institute, was ushered into the social world with fairest prom ise. Alas the old story of over-taxed immature brain repeated itself and those unhappy symptoms appeared which only developed as time went on. The child of wealthy parents, she re- ceived every attention which affection could suggest or money command travel and rest, sea- bathing and noun tain air, various diversion by land and waterfall to no avail As last resort "she was married to her present hus- band," in hopes that this would save her. It failed, and now the father is the applicant for divorce for the uu- fortunate wife.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
VOL. w..

Ever Present. Through the sunny hours of childhood, At life's ever-restless tide, We'll know an unseen spirit Fingered ever at my side; In the radiant dreams of boyhood, Draped in fancy's brilliant hue, Still own the witching presence, Stealing all my visions through. Undeined, the soothing influence Still attends me night and day, Guarding with angelic fondness, Watching lest go astray: And, when twilight draws the curtains Gently OCT the weary earth; When the young flowers droop in slumber, And the timid stars have birth ;- D hen the mystic spell grows stronger, And 8 hand enfolds my own; When hear the winning cadence Of deep and loving tone, All my visions, fancy-freigbted, Fade before the glorics.s Real; arth has crown indeed an Eden have found my Bright Ideal
 LUTHER G. RIaas.
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
A Remarkable Case of Suffering.

A case of unparalleled suffering and tenacity of life, in the person of an in- telligent lady, the wife of one of Oin- cinnatl's best citizens, is reported. This lady was some years since attacked with a disease known to physicians as ''caries of the skull," which decomposed and entirely made way with the upper plate of the skull, the fbrous network which intervenes between the upper and lower plates, and of course the entire portion of the scalp covering that portion of the head. She remained in this condi- tion for over year under the treatment of physicians, when the disease changed its location to the forehead, where it has continued to act, entirely closing one eye and causing 8 continual dis charge of pieces of bone and other mat ter, and finally leaving large piece of the skull entirely exposed. '.' .,' ,'-.
 She was then attacked by a seveYe hemorrhage from the lungs, which in diate loss of life, which was in turn fol- lowed by bronchial difficulty, causing sloughing of the arteries of the neck, from which she almost miraculous escaped death. H--. -.-..... 'H@ a. ,..
 She was, after this, attacked with. a dropsical disease, and her physician has, wi hin the last three months, removed from her system by the "tapping '' process between seven and eight buck cts of water at three operations. | By the first one of which he obtained an ordinary washtubfpl of these secretions. The doctor says that it is the most ag- grated case of the kind ever coming under his notice, and the fact that her life has been continued so long under his treatment, speaks highly for his skill as practitioner. He, however, with an unusual amount of modesty, objects to the publication of his name, but expresses himself willing and ready to verify his statements to the incredu. lous if necessary. -..l .-
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
Singular Fight with a Mad Cow.

MT. E. W. Rutland, who is herder for MT. R. F. Hall, dairyman who has his stock in the suburbs of the city, had . most wonderful escape from the attacks of mad COW while attend ing to his duties as herdsman. When in the act of driving his stock the COW charged him, knocking him down, and would have gored him to death but for the human faithfulness of his herd,
 who, seeing their friend and protector in danger, themselves in turn became assailants, and charged en neGsSe the mad brute and saved their master.
 Mounting his horse, MT. Rutland had occasion to stop in small brook whose banks were about four feet above the level of the water. While in this posi- tion he was charged again by the COW, who with fcaming mouth and glassy eyes plunged down upon her victim, unhorsing him and alighting herself upon the horse, bearing both upon the prostrate rider. The horse. to all appearance, was dead, but the furious COW, although prostrate, was still in tent upon her victim. The feelings of poor Rutland can hardly be surmised when finding himself thus imprisoned with the weight of his fallen horse upon his limbs and lower body. and the fore part of mad COW upon his chest, striving with the desperate en- ergy of madness to paw, to gore, and to bite her helpless victim. With the desperate energy of despairing man, MT. Rutland drew from his pocket the smallest of penknives. whose length of blade does not exceed one and three- quarter inches, and proceeded after Q true Texan manner (being a native of that State) to investigate the neck of his infuriated enemy, and with this puny instrument succeeded with 8 single blew in severing the jugular vein, and effeoting 8 quietus to her madness. We have held this tiny pearl'handled blade in our hand, and wondered at the fortunate cut, and must confess that were we not standing amid hon orable men, the unfortunate sufferer and his gentlemanly and efficient physician, Dr. Cross, we could not re- alize the truth of the cutting without suffering some qualms of our most sem sitivs judgment. .,. .'-' -.-
 But the end of poor Rutland's troubles was not yet-he was still im- prisoned, bruised, helpless man. cov- cred with froth aud drenched with blood, under his. tormentor, now more helpless than himself. For more than an hour after the conflict ended he lay, thinking, no doubt, of the horrible prospect of death, when a neignbor's s son, seeing blood in the stream below him, followed the current and rescued the sufferer, more dead than alive. We are happy to say that the gentleman is doing very well, considering the fear full encounter, and, excepting sore bones and joints, under the skillful care of his physician will soon be him. self again.-Little Rock (Ark.) Re- | pubLtc07a. .,.a -t"-t'-
Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
A Fancy Officer.

The Ridgewood, N. J., correspondent of the Hackensack Refo1bsicva says that " the first case on record, in Der gen county at least, where man got over $35 month for doing nothing, has beep discovered. The party is the gentleman who sits under an apple tree near the depot, reading 8 newspaper from morning until night. Some peo- pie call him the fagman, but why he should be called that we cannot under stand, unless it be because he has 8 flag lylng within few yards of the chair he occupies. As for guarding tn, railway crossing, with flag or any thing else, that he certainly never does. |" ---- E. --...1 ''' Q