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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-14

the possible and probable; and the exile
from the homestead, accompanied las In
the case of some ancient Oriental patrIarch)
BY flocks and herds, and tillers OF the soil
ia Texas. conducted by Louise, whom
Lucia Dare had known az a schoolgirl in
Paris, ia a chapter of personal adventure
drawn from the lite of Mrs. Dorsey herself
Much might be written of Southern co.
c;ety in the light which is freely shed upon
it by the volumes now before ss; and we
shall hope to present in concentrated
form some of the results Of our reading il a
rooopI rtioia
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-14
A Perplexed Granger.

This is one of the Cincinnati Comme'f'9'S
letters from the people:
Mr.. EDIrER-Will you please enquire :,
whether can get a devorce in this State,
lind it impossible to live eny longer VIII
my wife. hev bean married tweed sna
may God forgive me for taking the last o1g
6 months ago She is 10 year older ta. .tb
deceived me by warlng false hair and tes'i.
and positive fact her breth is so oaa
rots her false teath. izzent that csu
enough afore eny coart. If you print yT MT
anser mark it X. Y. q. don't prlnt IN; ~
name. Yours in hopes The crops Is ieoA''e
good saving we need rain badly.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-14

The Spanish bark Doce de Quins, which
arrived at Pensacola, Florida, May ~, lo''
one OF her crew ON the voyage from Hay.
ana from yellow fever; another was sick
with the same disease when the vessel ar.
rived at Quarantine. The Pensacola board
OF aldermen met on the thirtieth ultlmo
ana passed resolution requiring all yes.
to remain il Guara any 11 unt frost sets
or leave the port. One of the members o.
me board having violated city ordinance
Dy going within quarantine limits, was e.. eA'
PEELED and fined $50. He failed to pay In'
me and was committed to the county ~,
The stringent resolution of the board nas
inspired confidence in its ability to pTese nn
the spread of a disease which would sooa
nave been communicated to the shore nao
not strong measures been promptly taken sa
heretofore the quarantine system as praI
tlced at Pensacola has proved inefieeI .r;ii
put the course now determined upon WI
probably prove the surest safeguard agaln''
the pestilenco
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-14

A Georgia girl is credited with being the
cause of three duels and ten fights, and
abe is only a cross-eyed girl at that.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-14

The dearest thing to a man should be his
wife, but it is sometimes her clothes.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-14

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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
The Currency Bill.

The bill to provide for the redemp-
tion and reissue of United States notes
and for free banking, passed the senate
on the 9Th, by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Allison, Bogy, Bore
man, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton,
Dorsey, Ferry of Michigan, Gold
thwaite, Harvey, Hitchcock, Ingalls,,
Johnston, Lewis, Logan, McCreery,
Merrlman, Morton, Norwood, Oglesby,
Patterson, Pease, Pratt, Ramsey, Rob
ertsOn, Spencer, Upton, West and
Windom-29.
NAvs-Nessrs. Anthony, Chandler,
Conklin, Clayton, +, Cooper, Cragin, Da-
Wis, Fenton, Frelinghuysen, Hager,
Hamilton of Indiana, Hamilton of
Texas, Hamlin, Howe, Jones, Kelley,
Morrill, of Vermont, Sergeant, Sauls
bury, Schurz, Scott, Sherman, Stewart,
Thurman and Wadleigh-24
Messrs. Gordon, Brownlow, Mitchell,
Sprague, Conover, Ransom and Wright,
who would have voted for the bill, were
paired with Messrs. Bayard, Flanagan,
Boutwell,, Morrill, of Maine, Stevenson,
Stockton and Edmunds, who would
have voted against it.
The following is the text of the bill
as adopted That the maximum amount
of United States circulation is hereby
fixed at four hundred millioas of dol
lars. That forty-six million dollars in
notes for circulation, in addition to such
circulation now allowed by law, shall
be issued TO national banking associa-
tons now organized and which may be
organized hereafter, and such increased
circulation shall be distributed among
the several states, as provided in section
one of the act entitled can act to pro-
vide for the redemption of three per
cent. temporary loan certificates, and
for an increase of national bank notes"
approved July u, 1870; and each ma
tional banking association now organ
lied, or hereafter to be organized,
shall keep and maintain, as a part
of its reserve required by law, one
fourth part of the coin received by it
as the interest on bonds of the United
States deposited as security for circula-
ting notes or government deposits, and
that hereafter only one-fourth of the re-
serve now prescribed by law for nation
al banking associations shall consist of
balances due to an association, available
for redemption of its circulating notes
from associations in cities of redemp-
tion, and upon which balances Of inter
est shall be paid.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
The Disposal of the Dead.


The Popular Science Monthly for
March says: I assume that there is
no point of view to be regarded as be-
longing to the deceased person, and
that no one believes that the dead has
any interest in the matter. We who
live may anxiously hope-as I should
hope, at least-to do no evil to sur
vivors after death, whatever we may
have done of harm to others during life.
But, being deceased, take it we can
have no wishes or feelings touching
this subject. What is best to be done
with the dead is, then, mainly a ques-
tiOn for the living, and to them it is
one of extreme Importance. When the
globe was thinly peopled, and when
there were no large bodies of men liv-
ing in close neighborhood, the subject
was an incOnsiderable one and could af-
ford to wait, and might indeed be left
for its solution to sentiment Of any
kind. But the rapid increase of popI-
lation forces it irto notice, and especi-
ally mans tendency to live in crowded
cities. There is no necessity to prove,
as the fact is too patent, that our pres
ent mode of treating the dead, namely,
that by burial beneath the soil, is full
of danger to the living. Hence intra-
mural interment has been recently for
hidden, the first step in aseries of reforms
which must follow. At present we who
dwell in towns are able to escape much
evil by selecting a portion of ground
distant-in this year of grace 1873
some five or ten miles from any very
populous neigborhoOd, and by sending
to be buried there-lRying by poison
nevertheless, it is certain, for our
children's children, who Will find
your remains polluting their water
sources, when the now distant plot is
covered, as it will be, more or less
closely, by human dwellings. For it
can be a question of time only when
now every waste spot will be utilized
for food-production or shelter, and
when some other mode of disposing of
the dead than that of burial must be
adopted. If, therefore, burial IN the
soil be certainly injurious either now
or in the future, has not the time al
ready come to discuss the possibility of
replacing it by a better process We
cannot to soon cease to do evil and
learn to do we'll. Is it not indeed a
social sin of no small magnitude to
SOW the seed o. disease and death
broadcast, caring only to be certain that
they cannot do much harm to our own
generation 1t may be granted, to an
ticipate objection, that it is quite pos
sible that the bodies now buried may
have lost most, if not all, their power
of doing mischief by the time that the
particular soil they inhabit Is turned
mp again to the suns rays, although
this is by no means certain but it is
beyond dispute that the margin of
safety as to time grows narrower year
by year, and that pollution of wells
streams which supply the living must
ere long arise wherever I'VE bury our
dead in this country"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
Rivers md Canals.

The views of the senate select CON-
mittee on transportation are ! retty veil
defined ON the leading poiRts before
them. The scheme of aid to the pre-
sent means of transportation embraces
the Fort st. Phillip canal at the mouth
of the Mississippi, the enlarged COM
munication by way of the lakes, the
improvement of the navigation of the
Ohio and Kanawha rivers, a portage by
double track freight railroad from the
latter river by the KanaWha valley 20
some point on tide water in Virginia
and the like work from the Tennessee
river over the Alleghenies, to connect
with the general system of water COM
munica ion.
There is a good deal of disappoint-
ment in Virginia at the failure of the
committee to report fsvorabIy on the
james river and Kanawha canal meas
ure, but The advantages of the improve
ment of the Ohio and KanawhR, coupled
with a first class freight railway over
the Alleghenies, are 80 manifest that the
delegations of the two Nirginias will
generally favor the measure. There is
the same disappointment among the
friends of the Georgia canal, and more
doubt whether the proffered boon to
this interest will be welcomed. Il is
understood that the report against the
great water lines will be placed solely
on the ground that the present eondi-
tion Of the treasury does not justify
such costly undertakings, and that the
advantages and practicabiiity of the
James river and KanaVha canal will be
recognized Louts Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
Cuban SUGAR Production.

Of the 1887, I64, 800 pounds of sugar
imported to the United States during
the year 1873, !, ,073, ,795, $40 pounds came
from Cuba that is to say, more than
ve-sixths of all the sugar we use
comes from this important island. The
condition of its sugar interest is, there
fore. of very great consequence to us
It was anticipated that the continual
struggle of the Oubans for independ-
ence would materially interrupt the
growth of its sugar production, but
the statistics of the last three years
show, on the contrary, steady and
healthy Increase. The total produc-
tion of the island, estimated in tons,
has been as follows In 1871, SAT, ,179
in 1872, 708, pa IN 1873, 796, ,179. The
prospects for the present crop are said
to be very fine, and there is no good
reason to suppose that there viii be any
falling off from these figures. The
capabilities of Cuba for the production
of sugar are practically unlimited, and
under proper direction, it could be made
to yield as rapidly as the demand could
possibly grow. In 1873 il exported
ia, 960 tons of sugar, of which 23I, 196
tons, or 32.34 per cent, cam to the
United States. These figures show that
we are by far the best customers that
island has. This fact is still more
strikingly illustrated in the case of mo-
lasses, for of the 189, ,333 tons exported
last year, we took III, 519 tons; or SO. rs
per cent. of the entire amount.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
Bloodless Amputation.

This is the latest attainment ia surgi-
cal science. An exchange describes the
new process If a limb is 10 be am
putated, for instance, the surgeon be-
gins by administering an@ sthetics, as
usual, and the patient being reduced
to a comatose state, he takes q long,
elastic bandage, and, beginning at the
toes, wraps it around the limb very
tightly, each successive tuIn overrap
ing the former at least one-balf, until
the entire limb below, and four or five
inches above, the place of amputation
is completely enveloped. This forces
all the blood in the limb upward, be-
yond the point of incision. When this
is accomplished, a piece of flexible rub
Der tube is wound tightly around MEM
Der just at the upper edge of the band
age and secured by knots This pre-
vents the blood from returning, and it
only remains necessary to remove the
elastic bandage below, in order to
be ready for the amputation. No blood
follows the knife, and the operator can
see to perform his work as well rs If
carving round of beefsteak. When
the work is completed, and all the arte-
ries tied, the tube is Ioosened for the
purpose of letting IN the blood, IN or
der to discover any twig-arterieB not yet
fastened. BY this method the patient
not only does not lose any blood from
above the wound, but even that below
is retained in the veins, leaving much
greater strength in the body to recover
from the shock than where the usual
hemorrhage occurs. It is thought that
this method may be also utilized to
avoid the administration of aL@sthe-
tics, which are so much, though as a
rule unnecessarily feared. The very
tight elastic bsndage several inches
above the incision, it is believed, dead
ems the nerves of sensation to such an
extent that the operation can be per-
formed without great pein to the sub
iect, even though not under the inhu-
ence of ether.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

Hon. Daniel Rougherty, In q recent
leoture on :. Orators ana Oratory," at
Washington, D. O., is reported to have
said
Models Of American eloquenoe are
drawn from speeches made by congress /:
and though the republic is yet y6ung.
she has produced as splendid parlia
mentary speeches as can be found IN
the archives OF any government. But
the grand days OF oratory are gone for
ever. It IS not improbable that the TEEN
ing future may give birth to those whose
respondent genius viii Iieservedly rank
them among the immoTtals OF the past.
But in these latter days there has arisen
power mightier than an army of or
ators a power that has destroyed their
influence. dwarfed their genius, and
lowered them to the level OF ordinary
mortals e power that can Danish kings,
destroy dynasties, revol1tionize gov
ernments, embroil nations in triumph
ant or disastrous wars, for good or III,
and change the aspect of the civilized
world.
The glory of the orator sank when
the printing press arose. The orator
at best can speak to thousands the
press to hundreds of thousands. The
orator speaks rarely-the. pre- s, every
day. The speech dies with the sounds
that give it birth the press lives for
ever on the inperishable page. Let us
hope that the press may be faithful and
pure, devoted to truth, right, justice,
freedom, and virtue, as the orators have
been. II the press gloat in hcentiOus-
ness if 1t stoop to strike the private
man If it expose to the public gaze
the sacred privacy of homes; II it vio-
late all decency in thrusting gentle wo-
men to the gossip of the town; i it
catches en idle rumor or envious tongue
to mRlign the innocent If it can be
bribed to suppress the truth or circulate
the false If it shield the public wrong
doer or denounce the faithful public
servant if it pander to the base pre-
judices and passions of the populace-
then we may grieve that this great en-
gine should work such mischief in So
ciety
II, on the other hand, its mission
be TO disseminate intelligence and
truth to educate the masses 20 be
faithful to their country and just to
their fellow-man to expose, with an
hand, to public execration,
the corrupt legislator or unjust judge F;
If it be honestly independents, instead
of timidly neutral, in all that concerns
the citv and state if it lift mp modest
and true worth, and hurl down brazen
infemy if all It's aims be the public
good, the honor of the nation, and the
glory of God-then we may he recon-
ciled that the days of oratory are over.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

round their head and fixing It as well rs
they could. The turbans were Of va
rlous colors, and wound in different
ways; some of them were like a high
tower.
Shoes and stockings were unknown,
but soles OF leather were fastened with
two latchets. The ladies, who carried
luxury into every department, and who
are supposed, even in the present day,
to be far from Indifferent to a nice, neas
boot or to elegant slippers, had their
shoes, or rather sandals, and their latch
cts, made of beautifully coIored leath-
er; dark blue, violet, and purple were
faTorite eOlors. Solomon admired Shu-
lanaite's shoes very much, and also the
feet which wore them, for he says
'How beautiful are thy feet with shoes,
0 princes daughter I" Round the an.
kles bracelets of gold or dainty silver
chains and rings, with tiny silver bells,
were worn.
Hair-nets and head-hands were in
great request. The latter we're made of
gold or silver, and worn under the NET.
extending from one ear to the other.
T. lr-rings were much thought of we
are told of some that weighed thou
sand and seven hundred shekels of gold.
and that were so large that man could
easily put his hand through them.
Some OF the women wore several lings
with little bells attached tc them. They
we're generally made of horn or of sill
yer. But the most popular ring was
the nOse-ring. The left nostril was
pierced for the purpose, and a ring made
OF ivory or of metal was put through
it. To our western taste this practice
seems revolving and barbarous, but why
II should be more so than tue piercing
of the ears I am at loss to conceive.
Bracelets were generally worn on the
right arm, and some of them were ex-
ceedingiy large, so that they reached
up to the elbow. Rings on the fingers
were worn; chains of fine gold, or
strings of pearls with little silver balls
or small tinkling bells were worn round
the neck. ''Thy cheeks, +" said Solomon,
who knew more about women than most.
of us do, "are comely with rows of
Jewels, thy neck with chains of gold"
It was customary TO attach ornaments
to these chains, either with no meaning
as the crosses which our ladies wear, or
to serve as amulets; such were round
tires like the moon, small scent bottles,
ornaments in the shape of serpents,
and little gold or silver plates on which
were written words supposed to be pos
sessed OF magical power.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

Tell person that you are perfectly
willing 70 make bet with him that he
cannot see through water, say, in 3 tum-
bier, though he prepare the vessel for
the experiment, provided he follows
your directions, which shall in no way
interfere with his vision, nor will you
touch tho glass after he has once depoe-
tied It. This viii give rise 20 some
quibble, and yoa viii be accused Of
wanting to "put something IN, etc. /;
all these you can stoutly deny. and pro-
ceed to the experiment, which simply
consists IN placing a tumbler Of water
in an elevated posItion-say, on q chair
placed on q table-snd directing your
friend to look up through the water et
the ceiling IN an oblique direction,
when, instead Of seeing what is above
the water, he viii zee the reflection OF
those objects which are on the other
side Of the glass and level with him.
The explanation Of this is that there
is always an angle at which you get to-
tai reflection Ia E transparent medium ;
this is very Pretiily seen At the large
aqueria.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16

NUMBER Is.
Popular Weather sienn.

Would It not serve a useful purpose il
some scientific meteoroiogist we're TO
gather into q mss the various weather
signs-whether valuable or not-treas-
ured by the farmers and other common
sense people Of the country, and then
sift them, 50 that those OF real value
may have their proper influence, and
those which ere merely fancifal may
cease to mislead
That there are weather signs IN abun-
dance, everybody knows That the
greater part of these signs are utterly
valuelesss every person of intelligence
can testify. Yet that they do practi-
cally influences the time and mode OF
planting of crops, aud of their culture,
viii be acknowledged by many who
would not be suspected of the folly,
and who can give 40 other reason Tor il
than the force OF habit.
'' We are going 10 have q dry moon, -
said farmer the other day.
How do you know % he was asked.
By the Indians sign of the new
moon, "he replied. 'sIts horns hung so
sloping that they could hold no water. .
His companion laughed, Why,
that's my Injin sign for 3 wet moon,
The horns slope SO that they let loose
all the water
The sign in the one case was no doubt
as prophetic as IN the other.
Always plant your potatoes in tine
dark of the moon, il you wish TO have
a full crop" heard my neighbor say
but never kill your pork nor boil your
soap at such q time, unless yOu are
willing to have them. shrink no moth
ing."
$ What is your authority for this "
/" 1 have always so heard" he an
Ewered with some hesitation, I" and al
ways so practiced. Potatoes, you know,
being roots, naturally love darkness.
And soap aud bacon--1 suppose they
take their cue from the state of the
moon. The fact is, only know that
this is the old time rule"
9 We are to have frost on the 10Th
OF May, said a farmer to me on the
9th of April.
was shocked, for he looked wise and
lugubrious, and frost at that time IN
our latitude would have cost millions of
dollars. I asked "a How do you know ?"
Because we had fog on the 10th of
March.
He saw me smiling, and added, Ct
have heard this rule over since I was a
boy, and it has ever failed yet"
The surest rule know for foretell-
ing the weather throughout the year."
said a planter, possessed OF at least a
seni-colleg;ate education, :" is to note
the twelve days between new Christmas
and old Christmas lfrom Dec. 25 to Jan.
81. The months of the ensuing year
are apt to be wet or dry, cool or warm,
according TO the days corresponding.
He seriously declared that for many
years he had "pitched his crop and
ordered his plantation work under the
guidance of this lule, and found that
it served WE'LL No doubt. for that
amount of time in advance, il was quite
as good rs any other rule IN ordinary
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
A Misused Title.

The title of esquire with us frsquent-
" abbreviated to squire) originated Ia
chivalric times, when sons OF gentle
men, from the age of seven years, were
brought up in the castles OF superior
lords-which was an inestimabls adj
vantage to the poorer nobility, who
could not otherwise have given their
children the accomplishments of their
station. From seven TO fourteen, these
boys we're sailed pages, or Wallets; at
fourteen, they bore the name of esquire.
They were instructed in the manage
ment of arms, in the art Of korseman-
ship, in exercises, of strength and ao-
tiyity, 50 as to fit them for tournament
and battle, and the milder glories of
chivalrous gallantry. Long after the
decline Of chivalry the word was only
used in limited sense, for Il e sons
and peers of knights, OF such as OBJ
tanned the title by creation or some
other legal means. Blackstone defines
esquire to bO "all who bear Office Of
trust under the crown, and who are
styled esquires by the king in their
commissions and appointment; and be-
ing once honored by the king with the
title of esquire, they, and only they,
have a right to that distinction for life.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-16
Louisiana.

The negro population of Louisiana
seems to be steadily increasing. In
1870 the state had total population OF
726, 275, and IN 1874 the number had
diminished only couple of hundred,
while during the same period the num-
Der of blacks in the state had increased
nearly ten thousand. OF the T26, coo
inhabitants, nearly 29S, 600 can neither
read nor write of these 6S,O0O are
whites and 230, 600 blacks. This state
ment, including, as it does, infants and
young children, is Of course likely TO
TnisIead as to the real state Of affairs,
but the actual fact that of the children
old enough TO attend school, number
ing in all go. 900, only s., eco, or not
quite one-third, attend school, is ap-
palling enough 10 awaken the most seEi-
Gus apprehensiOns concerning the fu-
ture Of that unfortunate state.