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The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-13
COMMERCIAL.
CFEIOE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN, |
Friday Evening March H. 1875,

Friday Evening, March II. 1875. {
Co1.roN- The sales to-day mot including
81" bales additional Yesterday summed
I'D 600 bales Of steadier and tirmer prices
-sguiring an advance of &c in our inside
gur4a tor strict Good Ordinary to Strict
Mid ding, inclusive. We give also the figures
ma full report Of the Exchange as below:
saEaycaS STANDARD OF CLASSIFICATION.
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SUNDAY THOUGHTS.


Brutes leave ingratitudeto man.
Self-trust is the essence OF hero
ism.
Jealousy dislikes the world TO
know it.
When all else is lost, the future
remains.
Hope is a light diet, but very
stimulating.
The innocent seldom find an un-
easy pillow.
A foe to God was never a true
friend to man.
Who gives o trifie meanIy is
meaner than the srifie.
We read the book of experience
only backward and find it punctu-
ated as God willed.
OF all wild beasts, preserve me
from tyrant; and OF the tame-a
fiatterer.- Ben Johnson.
Every man has in himself con-
tinent of undiscovered character.
Happy is he who acts the Column
bus to his own soul.
There is no dearth of charity in
the world in giving, but there is
comparatively little exercised in
thinking and speaking.
Man without religion is a crea-
ture of circumstances religion is
above all circumstances, and will
lift him above them.
If we look upon life as a gift of
days, only one to be used and inn
proved at a time, all its duties can
be done, all its burdens borne.
Many persons are judged harsh
Iy by the world. because they al
low no eye but Gods to see into
the inner sanctuarieS of their
hearts.
Everything that tends to eman-
cipate us from external restraint
without adding to our own power
of self-government, is mischiev-
louS.
When all il summed up, man
never speaks of himself without
loss his accusations of himself are
always believed, his praises
Moataigne.
To pardon those ahsurdities in
ourselves, which we cannot suffer
in others is neither better nor
worse than to be more willing to
be fools ourselves than to have
others SO.
The capacity of sorrow belongs
to our grandeur and the loftiest
ofour race are those who have had
the profoundest grief, because they
have had the profoundest sympa-
thies.
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PERSONAL.

Fighting Joe Hooker is now
Fishing Joe Hooker down at Lake
George.
Conkling Roscoe is summeriz-
ing with Ben Butler in Massachu-
sets.
Victoria Woodruff is sojourning
at Niagara Falls. Query-i5 it
moral Niagara now?
Hwalkin Miller is trying Schoo-
ley's Mountains. He should try
to school his verse into sense.
The Chicago Times just announ-
ces the death of George Washing
ton. II ought to have the fact CO.
py-righted,
Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of
Plymouth church, will remain
with Brother Johoward, having
sold his Peekskill farm to pay his
law expenses. Poor fellow, and
his salary only $1o0,000 per year.
The Hon. John Morrissey is in
Saratoga, and has opened his spa
cious Club House. Mr.. Mo: rissey
is one of heavens chosen ones and
keeps his head above water by the
sweat of his cards.
Geo. w. Childs, of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, has announced that
he will distribute boquets of fiow-
ers to 5000 children at Eairmont
Park, near Philadelphia. This is
better than writing obituaries of
the little ones.
Stokes has changed miserably
since his incarceration in Sing
Sing. All the stories of his increas-
ed good health and physical well
ness are humbugs. His hair has
turned quite white, and his whole
system is shattered.
How happy Eddy would have been
If he had not met Josephine.
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A Wise Dog.

Mr.. Hermann A. Lang, a florist
residing In Worcester, Mass, has
dog, concerning which the
Gazette tells this story -" 1t is
only year old, and of the Prince
Edwards Island breed, and is the
constant companion of Mr.. Lang's
boy, four years of age. Not long
since the boy got possession of a
Ratchet which he had been for
hidden to touch, and went about
hacking things generally, and en-
dangering his own legs. After
watching this a short time the dog
approached, took the Ratchet away
from the boy, carried it into the
garden, and buried it, and when
the child attempted to dig it up
the dog drove him off and lay
down over the buried Ratchet,
effectually preventing the boy
from recovering it,
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USEFUL HINTS.


Persons fed largely ON oatmeal
always have good teeth.
Waterglass Is good cement for
mending broken china and glass.
When suffering from cold 1t
viii be found advantageous to put
cotton wool In the ears.
Castor oil is said to preserve ma
chiaery from cracking, and from
the attacks of vermin.
Nickel p.a.ed screws are rapidly
coming into use for ioinery and
cabinet work. They do not rust.
TO cure a smoky chimney, it is
suggested to suspend an inflated
bladder within it, about eighteen
inches or two feet above the level
Of the mantel-piece.
Lemon juice has been recon-
mended in paper presented to
the French Academy Of Medicine,
asa. most efficacious remedy for
diptheria. Lemon juice certainly
has this advantage over most med
icines: it is pleasant, simple and
safe.
In opening tins of preserved
milk 1t is better to open the CORFU
gated end, as from some cause
probably the solder used in fasten-
ing the tins the milk at the rough
end is always discolored. The dis
colored milk can then readily be
separated from the pure and
thrown away. This is opening the
tin upside down as the labels are
pasted on.
For destroying bugs a correspon-
dent writes: After fighting them
eight years, / learned from a girl
who had served as a chambermaid
in a large boarding house that bugs
could be entirely obliterated for all
time. / Immediately followed her
directions, which were to take
grease that was melted out of salt
pork, to melt it and TO keep it
melted (the vessel can be kept In a
pan of coals) and to put it with
the feather end ola quill wherever
/ could find q bed bug. 1t is neces-
sary TO see that the bed cords are
entirely free from pests, and | will
warrant there will be no more
trouble. 1t is more than thirty
years since a bug has been seen in
my house,
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Playing Rooster.

Il say, girls said a little blue
eyed, fiaxen-haired boy the other
day, let me take your candy, and
We'll all play CHECKED
rs it nice?' inquired half-a. dozen
six-year-olds, in chorus.
Nice! you bet it is! Let me
show you. Now, I'll lay the can
dy down here on the step, and you
all go down there and come back
when you hear me call like roos-
ter
The girls retreated and gathered
in group about Is feet off, while
the boy got on his knees, with his
head over the candy, and began to
call, and strut, and flap his arms
like a ROSTERS wings.
'Cluck, cluck, rat, tat, rap, tap,
cluck!' and all the girls came run
ming up and bent to pick up the
candy, when the little fellow OPP
ened his mouth and took it in at
one gulp.
'Oh, you mean boyp they cried,
you have taken all our candy
That's cause / played rooster, ,
said the boy; "a rooster always
calls the hens up when he finds a
grain OF corn, and then picks it up
himself. I'm little rooster
ami
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-24
The Trouble OF Virginia.

Virginia has long been near to
be destroyed with the dry rot of
conceit, a most narrow and pro
yinciaI and local conceit. The war
brought us somewhat out of IL by
teaching us that there are other
brave men, good soldiers, devot-
ed patriots, beside US of Virginia.
Pride of race and of country is
noble, great, and no man, least of
all, q Virginian, denies 1t. But it
should bring forth other fruit than
self-praise, show itself by other
proof than contempt of our neigh
bors, and ignorant, raise estimate
ofourselves. We call the Yankee
mean and his thrift knavery yet
where among ourselves in the
spirit which north of us has COW
cred the land with libraries and
public halls, with colleges and
museums, with hospitals and OBJ
servatoriss and public parks :?
Virginia of to-day has n lesson to
learn--a lesson she has known.
She has to cultivate that public
spirit once at the root of her great
ness, once by the fountain Of her
fame, the public spirit of Wash
ington. creating the canal, project
ing the waterway through the
great Dismal, and founding Wash
ington college; the public spirit of
Madison, laboring to erect on the
shores of the Chesapeake, a great
Virginia port of Giles, abandon
ing his seat at Washington to sit
in the capitol Of Virginia of JEFF
ferson, finding time in the midst
ola thousand labors to invent new
forms Of the pillow, to import the
rice plant and the tomato, to
write his notes on Virginia, which
still, alas! remains alone, and to
found that great university which
was the darling of his age and
shall be the monument OF his fame.
--Norfolk Virginidn.
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Terrible Death OF II Young
Man Bitten by "a Rattle
HnnIn

from The ST. Louis Globe Democrat. J
A young man named Dunlop,
aged fourteen, lost his life near
Marissa, Illinois, Monday after
noon, in terrible manner. He
was engaged in binding wheat in a
harvest field, and, whilst in the
act of picking up a bundle, he felt
a sharp sting in his left foot, he
being barefooted. Upon looking
around, he saw that he had been
bitten by a rattlesnake. He i'm
mediately started for the house,
calling to the men who were. with
him TO kill the snake. He fell
down after running a short dis
lance, he describing his sensations
as though fire was running through
his.yeins, and that he was becom-
ing blind. A physician was inn
mediately sent for, in the mean
time all the known remedies being
administered by those present
All was of no avail, however, and
in less than eight hours after being
bitten young Dunlop was corpse.
A horse had been bitten in the
same field in the forenoon, and
died from the effects, the Wednes-
day previous. 1t is thought that
this was the same snake. 1t had
four rattles and button, which
indicated an age of four and half
years.
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THE KITCHEN.

We will give to intellect, to mo-
rality, to religion, and to all vir-
tues, the honor that belongs to
them. And still it may be boldly
affirmed that economy. taste, skill
and neatness in the kitchen have
a great deal to do in making life
happy and prosperous.
Nor is it indispensabfy necessa-
ry that a house should be filled
with luxuries. All the dualifica-
tions for good housekeeping can
be displayed as well on a small
scale as on a large one.
A house can be more easily kept
clean than grand palace. Econ
omy is most needed in the absence
of abundance.
Taste is as we'll displayed in pla-
ding the dishes on pine table, as
in arranging the folds OF damask
curtain.
And skilful cooking is as readily
discovered in nicely-baked pOta-
to, or respectable Johnny-cake,
as in nut-brown surloin or brace
Of canvasbacks.
The charm of good house-keep-
ing is in the order, economy, and
taste displayed in attention to lit
tie things ;-and these little things
have wonderful influence.
A dirty kitchen and bad cooking
have driven many one from
home, to seek for comfort and hap
piness elsewhere.
Domestic economy is a science
a theory of life which all sensible
women ought to study and prac-
tice. None of our excellent girls
are fit to be married until they are
thoroughly educated in the deep
and profound sciences of the kitch-
en-.
See to it, all ye who are moth
ers, that your daughters are all ac-
complished by an experimental.
knowledge of good housekeeping
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Ferns are rich ornament to the
house, and we find in an English ex-
change the following directions for their
cultivation in pots. The hole in the
bottom of the pot being broken cut very
much larger than the maker leaves it, |
put in three or four pieces OF broken pot,
then some rich soil and old manure, just
what should be used for cucumbers; no
peat, no sand; then ! put in fern. and
very gently Gil the pot with good garden
soil, intermxed with few small bits Of
soft brick as large as peas. The pot is
placed on soil or ashes, perhaps partisliy
plunged, perhaps surrounded With ly-
copodium. In any case the soil is always
kept quite wet, in fact muddy, and the
ferns grow as never saw ferns grow be-
fore. The whole secret is in keeping
them wet and warm, partially plunged
and thoroughly drained. You may take
pet-bound fern, pull roughly the drain
age from the roots. break off the fbers
anyhow, re-pot it in wet soil instead Of
dry, and it will grow and flourish as IL
never would with ordinary treatment.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-24

A correspondent of the New
York Tribune gives the following
methods of killing off the green
cabbage worm, which our readers
may find sufficiently valuable to
pay for preserving until time for
applying them: Dissolve spoon
full of saltpeter in common pam
full of warm mot hot) water, and
sprinkle the cabbage Herewith on
the first appearance of the worms.
Two or three of these applications
will suffice for the season. The wa
ter, besides, acts like charm in
promoting the growth OF the plant.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-07-24

Why Is a pig the most provi-
dent of animals? Because he al
ways carries spare-rib or two
about him.
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Muslin overskirts and jackets are
made this season in many varieties, and
for evening nothing is more dressy and
cool than these accompa niments to a
black blue or brown silk.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-06

A COLORADO JURY.-Two Of the wit
nessos gave testimony in such Il manner
rs to cast severe reflections on the others
yeracity. After they had given their cy-
idence they adjourned to the outside, and
after lively dispute came to the conclu-
sion that the best way to establish thoir
several claims to truth was to fight it out
in the good oldfashoned, rough-and-
tumble style. SO at it they went, and
just as II. G. Thatcher was addressing
the jury, somebody yelled Eight !" and
out ran the jurors and constable, despite
the rcmonstrances of the court and at-
torney-the latter having just arrived
from the States, being decidedly aston
ished at the abrupt departure Of those
"peers" upon whom he had been lavish
ing tho flowers of his rhetoric. The scene
outside OF the court house was curious
one. One of the pugilsts-the one on
top-was n friend Of Constable Joe Cox's
and that worthy would sing out: 81
command the peace !" Then STOPPING
down TO his friend, he would say in low
tone > Give him hill" This state Of
affairs continued for some time, until at
length Joe's friend was turned by his ad-
versary and then it occurred to Joe that
he ought TO put an end to this violation
of the dignity Of the court and of the
peace and quiet Of The community. Ac-
cordingly he called upon George Chap
man, who was standing near by, to part
the combatants which George proceeded
to do, though several of the jury were SO
at the abrubt termination Of the
fun, that they pulled Off their coats, aud
threatened to thrash HIM for hi. efforts in
discharging his duty as private citizen
-LueGLO Chie/tatH.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-06
AN INDIAN LEGEND.

The following is told of q beautiful
sheet of water known the Spirit Lake, in
Central Wisconsin: Many years ago
ere the foot of the pale face had trod the
soil which the red man claimed as his
own, many tribes dwolt near this lake,
for in this lake were fish and among the
bluffs and in tho neighboring forests WAS
game while the warrior when tirod of
the chase, could seek pleasure and find it
in bathing in the clear, bright waters,
which he only, under the Great Spirit,
claimed, and with his light canoe could
take his love out boating. Indeed, it
seemed to the red man a paradise, as well
it might.
As fortune would have it, a Frenchman
more daring than his fellows, wandered
from the settlements and found the lake.
He indulged with the Indians in the dis
appointments and pleasures of the chase,
and fingered long among them. When
he first camo among the red men he WINS
charmed with the beauty and loveliness
of an Indian maiden, and made love to
her.
She loved in return and all went mer-
rily and when tho Autumn leaves began
to fall, and the teathored songsters to fly
away to n southern home, the Frcnchman
sought an interview with the aged chief,
her father, to ask his consent to the hoped
for marriage.
But ut that time young warrior who
had long looked upon the Fronchman
with Jealousy, and had often in vain tried
to win the affections Of tho fair maiden of
his tribe, came TO the old chief and asked
his daughters hand. The chieitain dis
daining partality on account OF tho fact
that he was one of his tribe, stepped to
the lake with the two suitors, and point
ing TO high and rugged looking tree on
the opposite shore and said:
lilo Of you who shall first bring me nm
eaget from its nest IN yonder tree, shala
be the successful suiter."
When the old chioftain ceased speaking
| lu0 Wulll lOT uHu wv HuhtcT sprung INTO
their light canoes and were across the lake
in trice. Tho warrior struck tho shore
first, but the hunter was tho first to climb
the crags and tree, and was descending
with the oaglot when the faithless warrior
pushed him from the limb on which he
stood and he was dashed to pieces ON the
ragged rocks below.
Tho Indian maiden, who had Watched
with painful interest the transactions pro-
ccding, when she saw hcr lover fall, took
II leap far out into the lake, and with u
wild, piteous cry, sank into tho clear
waters never to rise again. The super
stiious red men fancy that the spirit OF
the departed maiden rules the storms and
that it would be death for m Indian to
risk himself on the waters of the lake.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-06

Comet Lodge, No. 81, y. o. o. H.,
Holds its regular meetings, at ODD FELLOWS
HALL, Trinity Center, on Saturday evening
of each week. j. f. MURRAY, n. q.
S. HUBBELL, Il. 5. janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-06

A JEWISH LEoEND.-According to
Jewish and Mohammedan tradition, King
Solomon, who was wise beyond all other
men, knew the language Of animals, and
could talk with the beasts Of the field and
the fowls of the air. A rabbnical story
is told of him in this wise:
One day the King rode out of Jerusa
lem with great retinue. An ant-hill
lay directly in his path, and Solomon
heard its little people talking.
"Here comes the great King" he
heard one Of them say. His lattercrs
call him just, wise and merciful, but he
is about to ride over us and crush US, not
needing our sufierings."
And Solomon told the Queen Of Sheba,
who rode with him, what the ant said
And she made answer:
" He is an insolent creature, o King.
1t is a better fate than he deserves TO be
trodden under foot"
But Solomon said:
1t Is the part OF wisdom to learn of
the lowest and weakest" And he com
manded the train to turn aside and spare
the ant-hill.
Then all the courtiers marveled greatly
and the Queen of Sheba bowed her head
and made obeisance 10 Solomon.
" Now know the secret of thy wis
dom. Thou listenest as patiently to the
repr6aches Of the humble as 10 the fatter-
les Of the great"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-06

AN UNHAPPY ATTACHMENT.-Ap pain
ful scene occurred in church in Buck S
township, Ohio, few Sundays ago. The
church had lately undergone repairs.
Among other improvements, new coat
Of paint was placed on the pews followed
by coat Of varnish the result was most
pleasing to the eye, but unfortunately the
varnish had been applied so late in the
week that it had not had time to become
hard before Sunday when the congrega-
ton focked to the seats. No apparent
inconvenience was felt until the man OF
God was about to pronounce the benedc-
zion, when the members of the congrega-
tion found that they were unable to stand
up; in fact they were glued, or rather
vanished, to their seats. Their spas
modic efforts to rise were distressing to
witness; in vain did the clergyman OK
hort them TO resignation, from the pulpit.
They were seized with kind of panic,
all the more frightened because they were
for the moment powerless. At last, by
what seemed to be simultaneous jerk, ,
herculean effort, they managed to tear
themselves from their sittngs, but at
what sacrifice The pews were literal
ly covered with Sunday apparel. Shreds
Of silks, lawns, calico, broadcloth and
cassimeres were left as souvenirs of the
varnish used in beautifying that church,
and the hapless hearers rushing from the
doors, hurried homeward with an express
sion on their faces as though their feelings
were even more severely rent than their
garments.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-06

jim BENEDICT was something Of a
prodigal son. He took all the money that
his father, n Philadelphia merchant,
would give him, and went to Chicago,
where he spent the funds in riotous living.
With the last fifty dollars he went on a
spree, ending in police station at Joliet.
Miserable in body and mind, he decided
TO kill himself. lie had left Of his money
two five dollar bills and five gold dollars
that he had kept as pocket pieces. He
gave boy one Of the bills to buy pistol,
some powder and percussion caps. Left
by himself with these things, he loaded
the weapon, using the remaining bill for
wad and the coins for bullets, and shot
himself in the head. He died instantly
Of the wound, and post mortem exami-
nation revealed the golden missiles and
bits Of the costly wad in has brain.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-03-06

FROZEN MINEs.-The remarkable fro
zen mines Of Colorado are described by
Mr. K. Woiser of Georgetown, in that
territory, in Siitintdn'S Journal. One Of
them is the Stevens mine, at hight OF
1880 feet above the loyc Of the sea, in
Clear Creek county. At depth of from
sixty to two hundred feet the lode or vein
Of silver ore, rs well as the surrounding
rock, was found TO be frozen soid.-
" there are no indications of a thaw,
Summer or Winter the whole frozen
territory is surrounded by hard, massive
rock and the lode itself is as solid and
hard as the rock. Tho minors being un-
able to excavate the frozen material by
pick or drill, found the only way was to
kinde a large wood fire at night against
the back end Of the tunnel and in tho
morning take out the disintegrated ore.
This has been the mode of mining for
over two years. The tunnel is over two
hundred feet deep, and there is no dimi-
mutton Of the frost; it seems TO be rather
increasing." the writer cannot account
for the occurrence Of this frozen mass SO
far under ground except on the hypothe-
sis that the frost penetrated to that depth
during the glacial epoch and has staid
there ever since. Itcould not have found
its way from the outside while the region
is subject to any such climate as now
prevails there.