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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

LOWER COAST.
,-@ Lower Coast Daily Passenger
80 Packet.-The fast and tafe passenger
steamer
WaIO0n,
John 0. Vallette master, Al. Thomas clerk
Leaves daily at r. NJ, from the head of St IOnia
street, for Mathe Mary Plantation and Terrean
Beouf Landing returning to the city early In the
morning.
P. S.-Has a clerk on the Levee during the dav
au14 If.
PORT EADS AND LOWER COAST MAIL
PACKET
Leaves every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRI.
DAY at 10 A. NJ.
r. For Buras and tntermed imao
landings, extending Wednesday trip TO
Port Eads; Friday trip to Pilot Town
We hne passenger and freight steamer
Iberia,
geo. A. Sheldon, MASTER Jno McConkey clerk
For further information apply at office of A MT
COMPANY, No. D Carondelet street je2s I'm
- - Lower Coast Daily Passages
- 49, Paeket--The new safe and fast pas.
senger packet
Ori0le,
James 7. DRY. master, John EstopinAl. clerk
Leaves daily at 10 o'clock A. M tsharp) from fooo
OF st. Louis street, for Live Oak Grove PlantAtie1
returning to the city In the evening.
Apply to JOHN KOUNS,
Canal Street Ferry oDoa
P.9:-Has clerk on the leyee during the day.
No debts contracted BY any one except ]. T. 0PI1
owner win be paid.
ny9 In
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

FOR ME MPHIS AND BENDS.
MEMPHIS AND vICKSBURG PACKET.
i.@h The new and elegant side.whesl
passenger steamer
Illinois,
M. r. Cheek, master, J. W. Spears, clerk
Leaves Vicksburg every MONDAY on arrival Of
train.
Passengers leaving New Orleans on Sunday even-
ing by rail will make connections
Parties consigning freight to care of steamer ILIL
NOIS will please enclose bill of lading to
au4 tt DUFF GREEN e. CO., Vicksburg.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

LAFOURCHE.
REGULAR DONALDSONVILLE AND BAYOU
LAFOUKCHE PACKET.
Bertha Drummer,
Hn place of Henry Tete)
Joe Dalferes master N. 2. Dupuis and N. Daleres
clerks.
r. Leaves New Orleans every Mon.
la1fS DAY at P. NJ and THURSDAY at S
P NJ Returning every SUNDAY and
WEDNESDAY Goes to ThibOdaux on Monday
LockpOrt Oil Thursday. For freight or passage apply
on board. or to B. RIVET 80 Cont street.
JED If
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

OPBLOUSAS,
REGULAR OPELOUSAS PACKET.
Leaves EVERY WEDNESDAY, ~ S r. II.
- - Fer Washingten, Port Barre.
- Simmsport Churcnville and all landings
On the Coast AtchAfAAya River and b.
you CourtablsAu-ths nov and light dranRht passen-
ger steamer
II. Broad, master Thee. John, clerk.
All freight for Bayou des Gaizes will be landed q
Smmsport or Big Bend Landing. For freight or
passage apply on board, or to
jy27 tt ERITTON EPPLER. los Common st.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

Passengers.
Passengers per steamship Memphis, from Liver
pool Mr. Crofts. wife and child. w Bradbury, G
Campbell Mrs Kel ey. Mr. Garcia, Mr. Whitley. A
Deminger Mr. Holland, and 50 steerage passengers.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

Arrived.
Steamship Lizzie Fletcher, from Pensacola to Stu
ber-New Basin
Barkentine Elmina. Partridge, 43 days from Rio de
Janeiro to master-1st dist
Steamer Amite, Adams, from Pensacola to NJ So
ria-New IA sin
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

He Jaeger. Van Hook, from st Louis
WalOon, Vallette. from Lower Coast
Favorite, Fargot. ON College Point
Lotus No 3. Dannals. from Shreveport
Willie, Blanks, from Ouachita City
Oriole, O'Pry. from Lower Coast
Josephine. Cozzens. from st James
Shannon. King. from Cincinnati
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16
BAYOU SARA.

III - For Bayou Sara, Waterle~.
A9 hermitage, Port Hudson Baton Rouge.
- Paquemine and way landings - The
United States mail semi weekly packet
w. 8. Pike,
j. j. Brown, master, S. s. Streok, clerk
leaves every MONDAY and FRIDAY at5P
for Bayou Sara. For freight or passage apply to
HITE g. CARLIN 4Tch0upitoufss n.
s10 A. c. GODDIN. SO Magazine street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-16

PHILADELPHIA VIA HAVANA.
PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NAIL
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR PHILADELPHIA VIA HAVANA.
Carrying the q. s. Mails.
yuniata, ]. W. Catherine, commander. 1900 tons.
YaKoes L. D. Barrett, commander. tons.
FOR HAVANA.
O. ". Lord, L. Cotton commander. ...11oo tous.
49, The fine Al steamship
C. w. LORD,
Lodge Cotton, commander,
viii leave her wharf opposite Jackson Square
SATURDAY, September IL, at 6 p. NJ.
Passage t. havana 70. b. currency. ......t4o
Passage to Philadelphia 50
Through tickets issued to New Y0rk...... IS
Tor freight or passage apply to
EDWARD 4. YORK;, Agent
MS " Corner Caronaelet and Gravier streets.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-15
THE BROOKLYN MYSTERY.
Mr.. Fullerton Exhausting the Ar
senal or Cross-Examination
on the Defendant.
A BATTLE OF KEEN INTEELECTS
Mr.. Beecler'S Confidence In the COncilia-
tory Powers of the Mutual Friend.

THE PISTOL As A SILENT ARGUMENT.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-15

Mr. Betcker went on 70 say:-He then vent up
Btat4s: be did lot know where Mr.. Moulton went (;
ne did not sec any member OF his lMr. hoult0nisl
family. lie wisred monitor 10 be present, IS ne
tneught 10 was business interview, and ne wished
q ulfness: iliiOn charged him with soliciting MTs
9Aon 70 tsegne wis ~ hlpi nc said " vas =
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19
Ancient Measurements.

AT recent meeting of the Society of
Biblical Archaeology, apaper on Ancient
Neurology" by Mr.. F. r. Gender, G. f.,
was read. In this paper Mr.. Gender in
dictated the confused and contradictory
state of our present knowledge of the sub
ject, and proceeded to establish an abso-
lutte metrical base, identifying the barley
corn, which the Hebrew writers state to
be the unit of length and of weight, with
the long measure barley-cOrn and with the
Troy grain. The grounds of identified
ton were-(1) actual measurement and
weight OF full-sized grains of barley at
time OF harvest; (2) determination Of spe-
citic gravity according to statements
made in Hebrew literature; 81 actual di-
mansions of ancient Jewish buildings. and
actual weight of a Babylonian talent now
in the British Museum, which cor
responded to Mr.. Conder's determination
of 100000 Troy grains within one per mile.
The remarkable double division of the
Chaldee metrical system, which is both
decimal and duodecimal, was then ex-
planned, and shown to apply to measures
of length, area, capacity and weight. The
origin of the Troy ounce, the diamond car
at, the Spanish ducat, and other existing
divisions is traced to the early system
employed by the Phenician traders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19
A Glance at Jerusalem.

| LET us look at the Jerusalem of to-day.
Seen from without, with her girdle of
walls circulated and fianked with towers,
above which appear minarets and white
cupOlas, clearly cut in the Interchangeable
blue of the Syrian sky, she presents from
whatever side you approach one of the
most picturesque sights. She seems
small, indeed, to the traveller arriving
from the north or west, but when you be-
hold her from the top of the Mount of
Olives she is truly imposing and displays
herself with so much majesty on the
slopes Of her hills that she appears great
er than she really is. 1t is to be remarked,
besides, that the Oriental cities always
make more of a picture than European
cities This is not merely owing to the
style Of the buildings, to the absence of
red or gray roofs, and to the quantity of
cupolas. Its principal cause is the want
of suburbs. The approaches of our cities
are blocked up with woodyards, with
docks, with gas-works, and with country
houses, which do not let you see where
the cities begin or where they end; but in
Palestine, where they rarely venture to
build isolated houses, the cities appear
clearly in the landscape with well-fnished
outlines, like those which we see on the
old maps. This is especially the case with
Jerusalem.
You know in turn that the interior of
Oriental cities does not answer at all to
the idea you would get in looking at them
from without. Jerusalem is no excep-
ton; she is, [ think the most wretched of
all. The houses are, however, built of
good materials; they are not Of brick, as
in Egypt, but of great cubes of rock.
Moses, in fact, promised the Israelites
country whose stones are iron, and out
of whose hills thou may'st dig brass"
You do not often see on the outside fronts
those little windows with wooden lattices
which ornament the houses of Cairo; as
a rule the houses have no other opening
than the door. A European who should
be transported all at once into certain
streets of Jerusalem might 60 about there
long while without suspecting that he
was in a city.
The sweepings of the houses piled up
before each door make yeritablc sewers of
the streets. The dogs and jackals are the
only scavengers of Jerusalem, and on
them lies the care of freeing the public
way from the carcasses of domestic ami
mails that rot in the open street You
walk besides in the midst Of the dust of
the ruins and at every step strike against
some broken-dowp wall. You would say
that the city had just been taken by as
sault The Jerusalem that is has shot
upon the ruins of those that preceded it. as
the moses and mushrooms grow On the
remains Of an old oak When they build
house there they commonly place the
foundation on ground formed Of ruins. In
lo4l, when the English began to build
their church on Mount Zion, they wished
to settle it in the rocks and they had to dig
IN the ruins to depth of forty feet Imy-
self saw like fact during my stay in Jeru-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19
In the CatacOmbs.

WRITING of visit to the catacombs of
Paris correspondent says: 1.-The ceme-
terry, gentlemenw said Joseph the guide.
pointing to small black door IN the on
pOsite side of the wall We entered one
by one, and 10! the walls which bef re
had been of white virgin rock of Paris
stretched before us a solid surface of
skulls, jaw-bones, thigh-bones, femurs,
knee-joints and every imaginable CHASTITY
piece of Justification that the human body
yields. They were piled from floor to
ceiling; they were running over at the
top and protruding at the bottom; they
were everywhere except beneath our
feet, arranged in fanciful curving lines,
stars, belts and various strange contri-
vances. The femurs or large bones of the
leg and the skulls seemed to be preferred
for this purpose; they packed better.
"These bones," said Joseph, laying his
hand Familiarity on a black, grinning skull
care very old-Roman, in fact. Thatrow
of skulls yonder is of little later date.
They belonged to the Gauls of the time of
Childeric [. These fellows here were the
contemporaries of Charlemagne Further
on they are still more modern. See, this
| gentleman had bullet through his head
at Cressy, and here is a skull nearly cloven
in two by a sword stroke. We Will pro-
ceed." We proceeded. Once far down a
| side passage which crossed the main GAL
| lery we saw the candles of another
party quarter of nile away glimmer-
ing like stars in the distance as their own
ers raised them far above their heads or
bent down in ghostly way to examine
the bones Now and then we would
catch a hollow echo of their voices, borne
down to US by some stray draught out of
the darkness. BY this time we were get
ting pretty well used to the bones, and be-
ginning to admire the CHASTITY ingenuity
of their arrangement. They pretty much
resembled small cordwood, stacked close,
the protruding skulls serving for the
larger sticks of timber. In' one place
there was a small niche, or chapel, fur
nished with crosses, etc, all constructed
of skulls and thigh bones. They were
all arranged neatly and tastefully so far
as might be when grinning skulls and
bones were the working materials. Pres
emily the bones ended suddenly before US,
giving place to plain, black, funeral
monument, bearing only single name
and date, and then another of the same
and another. They were one of the sad
memorials of the revolution of '93. Each
monument bore the name OF a conflict,
and beneath each, indiscrlminately min
! gled were buried the bones Of the fallen
Shortly after this the bones ceased alto
gether, and we entered a part of the cata-
combs which was rOOmier and more COM
modious. At one place there was a long
well or tank sunk into the solid rock. We
reached our candles over the edge and
looked down. Nothing but darkness. 1t
seemed to sink down into the vast black,
unfathomable depths of the earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19
Quacks In Great Britain.

THE British Charity Organization Soci-
ety's Reporter prints the following letter:
SHERBoRNE UNION WORK HOUSE, July 10, 1875.
HONORED SIR: | duly received your
note of the 10Th inst, to which | now re-
ply. | commence with the quack doctors.
In the first place, must tell you that 1
never engaged in the dirty business on
my own account. | have been tool in
the hands of others. The first time it was
in Yarmouth. A quack who was lodging
at the same ken" with me asked me if
was willing to earn a couple of shillings
easily. | replied in the affirmative. This
was to come into the marketplace in the
afternoon while he himself was expatiat-
ing on the virtues of his infallible medi-
cine and purchase half dozen boxes of
the pills, saying that myself and others
had derived immense benefit from their
use, and that, for the future, [ was re-
solved never to be without them, the
money to pay for them having been given
me beforehand by the doctor" (save the
mark. Well, [ carried out my instruc-
tions TO the letter, and so well pleased the
modern Esculapius that in the evening he
employed me to work for him at a salary
of 81 per week besides travelling ex-
penses. | was now to be initiated in
the sublime mystery of cOmpOunding the
medicines" almost invariably "pills."
My duty was to collect the ingredients,
and l now solemnly declare that I got
them ready-made from the sheep-fold or
the rabbit-warren. Those from the sheep
fold had to be considerably reduced in
size, after which they were coated with
fnel y-pulverized sugar and -four, and,
after being dried to a proper consistency,
they were placed in pill-boxes, which are
easily obtained, and then held forth to the
dolts who were silly enough to listen to
him as American sugar-coated pills.
purely vegetable, and warranted not to
contain one particle of mercury, colo
cynth, or other deleterious poison, so ex-
tensively used by regular doctors. These
pills are sovereign remedy for bilious
disorders liver complaints, dyspepsia or
IN digestion, the symptoms Of which are
learnedly described by the Orator
(which was generally myself, learned by
heart from the medical work of DIR. Bu-
chanan. When we were travelling in
country villages there was no =" ill which |
flesh is heir to' that my master-blatant |
ignoramus as he was-would not under |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19
A California Tree for the Centennial

SOME time ago we mentioned the fact
that Mr.. Vivian was preparing a large
piece of one of the Tulare County big
trees to exhibit at the Centennial next
year. From t. J. Vivian, his son, we
learn the following facts: 1.-The piece of
timber selected will DE sixteen feet long
and twenty-one feetin diameter at one end
and nineteen feet at the other. The heart
of this will be taken out, leaving only
about one foot of the body of the tree at
tached to the shell or bark. This outside
shell will then be divided into eight equal
parts, each of which will weigh 1000
pounds without the bark. 1t is necessary
to divide it into this number Of parts in
order to allow it to pass through the
numerous tunnels between here and Phil
adelphia. The eight parts will weigh be-
tween 10000 and 10000 pounds, and will
require two cars f-f their transportation.
One solid foot of this tree weighs seventy
two pounds, being ten pounds heavier
than so much water This timber was
taken out of the Gen. Lee, tree 275 feet
high, which, had it been sawed into lum-
Der, would have produced a sufficient
quantity to have built very respectable
young town or large ship. 1t contained
more than 200, 900 feet of lumber besides,
probably, about 200 cords of wood The
Gen. Grant, much larger tree than the
Gen. Lee, and the largest in the world,
growing in the same grove, is left stand
ing, probably for the benefit Of future gen
erations. y VaSaIia (Cal.) Delta.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19

take TO cure-worms, piles, tusky or itch,
govt, rheumatism, ulcers, fits, ETC.; but
the naked truth is that he was a greater
fool than I.
He could not read paracr. oh in
newspaper and could scarcely write his
own Name. He knew no more about tho
maladies he professed to cure than = hoo.
but he possessed, in an eminent degree,
that grand, indispensable qualification
any amount of cheek, and his takings on
an average, were e10 a week | travelled
with this man for about four months
chiefly IN the eastern counties when [ ex
pressed desire to leave him, when he i'm
mediately offered to raise my wages by
giving me twenty-five shillings a week,
but | would not accept it and left HIM |
have travelled with three others, all of the
same kidney, since that time.
Suffice it to say that set of more un-
principled, ignorantrascals never disgraced
earth. Perhaps, sir, you may think that
by turning "Queens evidence" | am
worse than those impeach; but I don't
wish to exonerate myself. for | confess
that L am about the most worthless of all
beings. But the truth ought to be known.
Poor people ought not to systematically
robbed by quack-doctors, or any other de-
scription of rogues; for rogues, rascals
and liars are the whole fraternity, myself
included. Yours, unworthily,
G.. A. BRINE.
p. 81 was born Oct. 9, 1912.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-19

salem; they dug at the corner of the Via
Dolorosa" CNay of Grief for the founda-
ton of a large and fine house meant to
serve as an abiding place for the Austrian
pilgrims, and they did not find bottom I'M
til even greater depth.
Jerusalem is divided into four great
quarters: the Christian at the northwest;
the Armenian on the southwest on Mount
Zion: the Jewish at the southeast, and the
Mohammedan at the northeast. 1t is nee
essary to count, besides, as belonging to
the last, the little quarter of the Maugrab-
ing at the east of the Jewish quarter and
the old Enclosure of the temple, called to-
day lei Haram." The "Haram" by it
self makes more than fifth part of the city,
and stretches over more than half its east
ern face.-F'ron7 the French Of Fegtr Bou8t.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-11
Ud-Fashioned Winters.

The New Haven Palladium has been
searching history for colder winter
than the present, and selects 1741 as a
specimen In that year the snow, which
covered the whole country as early as the
18th of November, was still found the
next April covering the fences. In JAN
uary tent was maintained on Charles
River, Boston, for the entertainment Of
travellers. From Feb. %, George Wash
ington's birthday, until March g. the
people crofsed the sound on the fee every
day from Stratford. Conn, to Long
Island, distance of three leagues Even
as far east as New Tendon the ice ex-
tended into the sound as far as could be
seen from the town. and Fishers Island
was united to the mainland by solid
bed On March IS the Boston Meas
Letter reports thai the people living on
Thompson's Island had crossed over to
Dorchester to church on the ice for if
teen preceding Sundays As late as the
9th of July letter from New London.
Conn, reports ON the east side of the
Connecticut River body of ice as large
as two carts can draw. clear and solid.
and adds, very artlessly, that " it might
lie there month longer were it not that
50 MANY resort out of curiosity to drink
punch made out of it" On the nth of
July snow was still lying in a mass in the
town of Ipswich, Mass, nearly four feet
thick But the most marvellous record
of that season is the statement made BY
Alonzo Lewis, author of the Annals of
Lynn. Mass, that Francis Lewis, the
signer of Tie Declaration of Independ-
snce, drove his horse from New York to
Barnstsble, the whole length of Long
Island Sound, on the ice"s
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-11
+" Powder Tea"

- THE Pau HAL Gazette has the following
Something new to drink is one of the
chief requirements of the day, and il
might be worth the consideration of en-
terprlslng tea-dealers to import some
powder tea, which, according to Consul
Robertson, in his report to the trade OF
Kanagwa, just issued, is esteemed a
great luxury by the japanese. This tea
of two kinds, known as 'kiocha' and
'usucha,' is made from very old shrubs
selected from the best grounds or planta
tions. These shrubs are very freely
MANFRED some ten times in the year fol
'kiocha' and some six times for usucha
About the end of March the shrubs are
surrounded on all sides in addition to be.
ing covered with bamboo screen-work,
so as to protect them from the frost.
This screen-work is removed as soon as
summer has well set in. When the
leaves have been picked they are
steamed for about half a minute, spread
out on the mating and cooled. Then
follows the same process as with ordi-
nary tea-namely, firing first over quick,
then over slow fire, the only difference
being that the leaves are turned about
with stick, and not with the hand.
When about half dried the leaves are
placed on trays and dried gradually be-
fore light fire, after which they are
passed through bamboo selves; finally
they are spread out on sheets of paper,
each leaf being picked out singly. Great
care is shown in the mode of storage of
this particular kind of tea. The leaves
are placed in tin or white metal jars,
which again are inclosed in wooden
boxes and packed with certain guam
hty of common leaf. This preserves
the scent and favor for q long time.
When about to be used for drinking a
sufficient quantity is taken out of the
metal jar, placed in small hand tea-mill,
and slowly ground into q. very. fine
powder. This powder is then remoy ed
with a feather and placed in an air-tight
jar Boiling water Is then got ready,
and, when just at boiling point, about
one-quarter of an ounce of powder is
put into a teacup and boiling water
poured on to suit taste. The whole is
then rapidly stirred with bamboo stick
especially made for the purpose until a
good frofh is produced, when the tea is
ready for drinking. Much ceremony is
observed in the drinking of this particu-
lar tea"