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and will distribute to the ticket holders

1881 Gifts, amounting to-. .$57. 500
The following prominent and well known
citizens have been selected to act upon com.
mlttees for the purpose OF supervising the
Concert, and who pledge themselves to
guard against everything that is not just and
right to. ticket holders, both In. their dis
bursement of funds and in the manner Of
conducting the Concert. IL is their duty to
inspect all books and records, and if at alay
time the affairs are improperly conducted,
their indication of the fact will be publicly
given otherwise, their guarantee is o sure
protection against any possibility Of wrong
or fraud.
GENERAL SUPERVISING COMMTrTEE
Hon. 7. P. White, T.B. Patton.
w. A. Martin, Col. WI Young.
=. Il. White, H s. Priest,
). f. Griffith, John L. Voolfolk
COMMITTEE ON DISBURSEMENTS
viii Firth, VIM. Moody.
B. Levy, j. L. Wright,
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
The following gentlemen have CONSENTED
to act and do all in their power in the fol-
lowing positions:
A. I. BISSEL, General Manager.
EP. WILEY, Gen1 Ticket Agent.
WI. HALLECK, Secretary.
Those widely known and sound financial
lnStlCuu0nS, the Mechanics Savings Bank
and Avery & Voolfolk, Bankers, have been
selected as repositories Of all monies re-
ceived from sale of tickets.
REFERENCES Norman J. Colman, Lieut
Governor; Hon. Theo. Brace, State Senator;
Hon. VIM. Quayie, Representative; Hon. Ii
N Porter, member Constitutional Conyen-
ton; Hon H Burkholder, Mayor of Mober-
II; Joel Smith, A p Terrell, City Council.
city of Moberly; Mechanics Savings Bank,
Avery 4 Voolfolk; DIR Lockridge, Sturgeon.
Mo; K L Billingsley & Co; North Main street.
st Louis; VIM Bosbyshell, SIG North Third
street, st Louis, and for further reference.
any business or professional man in The city
Of Moberly.
Good and responsible people wanted to
work for the interests of the Association
Liberal commissions allowed.
How I'd Remit 10 Us.--Money should be
sent by Express or BY Draft, Postoffice Mon
ey Order or Registered Letter, and all or
ders will be promptly filed. For full par
ticulars, address
". ]. Hallsck, sec'y.
N. BIN writing, be sure and sign your
Name, Town, Parish and State in full.
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STRAYED or STOLEN.

EVrom the Naples place, in this parish, .
i certain Dark Bay Marc Mule, medium
size, one side Of belly little whittier than
the others nose white and branded ON tho
right shoalder with letters o r, and on the
left tho premises.
win give ten dollars reward for the mule
delivered 70 me At che Naples place. - !. srsa
gahs 10, lss5. 4:
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The first Extraordinary Drawing was nre.
sided over by Col. Patrick, President BOARD
OF Trade. The second by Governor James.
Third by Ticket Holders. The fourth by
Judge Haskell, Pres't Of the Senate. Draws
every 80 days.
Agents wanted. Liberal paw. For full
particulars send for Circulars Address the
Manager. PATTEE. 80
49, Laramie City, Wyoming.
n b. Laramie City is on the Union Pacific
Railroad, between Chicago and Ogden.
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BILLINGS & WHITNEY

6xA11NdS q WHITNEY,.
ROCKY HILL, CONN,
Breeders Of
Light and Dark Brahmas, white Cochins,
Rouen and Ayesbury Ducks, Bronze
Turkeys,
A { the Connecticut State Fair and Conn.
"A State Poultry Show, 1874, were award
ed 40 Premiums; at the State Poultry Show,
won the Presidents Medal for the largest
number Of Meritori0us Entries in the CALI
naceOue and Aquatic Glasses; also Special
for best collection Of Aquatic fowls. Have
for sale b. B. r. Game Bantams at IS per
pair. Eggs in the. season at tho following
prices
Light and Dark Brahmas, per doz.. 81 90
White Chocins,s ...... 6 ....4 90
Bronze Turkeys. q -. 6 90
B. B. E. G. Bantams.. g -. 3 90
Address BILLINGS & WHITNEY,
n0-3ms Hartford, Conn
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Stray Sales.
STRAY SALE.

betrayed before Joseph E. Adger, Jr., j
n 2. by George Gamble, on the 9th
day Of March. 1875, and will be sold to the
highest bidder, for cash, at Bellevue, Louis
lana, on Saturday, the 3rd day OF July,
1875, . certain small sorrel horse about ten
years old. When said horse came to his
premises he was shod oil around.
s Appraised At us.
The owneris requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges, &c.
J. A. THOMAS, Stray Master.
April 1, 1875 -
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CELEBRATED FLOCKs Of tho .veRA. This Il
exhibited. - S n III /
b Among other premiums, tie Tifst Hede !
ct The Worldss Fair, hel4 Ct E6stons III =
and 1856, where al nations wheIe1 epFeaentFoi
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BE. COCKRII.L, III.
n12'yzs 81 Z Box &, Nashville, Tenn.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-19
The Cities of the World.

Statistical tables show that there are
in the whole world about one hundred
and sixty-four cities with 100, OOo m
habitants nine with over l,OOO,ooo
twelve with from 100000 down to
500. 600; twenty with from 100000 to
400, thrty-three with from lO0,-
600 to 100000. The aggregate Of the
population Of these cities comprise
$4,000, 600 of inhabitants-thot IS to
say, the twenty. eighth part Of the pop
ulation Of the globe. The average
population of town is reckoned to oe
for England, 47,77O inhabitants tor
France, 32,251; for Prussia, ~, $50 !;
fer Sweden, 5,849. The density OF
population in reference to area Is for
Paris, 329 inhabitants per hectare
(about two acres and half; for Lon
don, 103; for Berlin, SO. The den93lty
varies considerably from one district 10
another it is generally the highest III
the poor or manufacturing districts
Next to thes figures come those Whlo9
represent the average density IN regard
to dwa!liug pieces It is in -. Peters
burg 81 Inhabitants for each mouse IL
Vienna, 49. 4 III Paris, 81 III bsriin'
81 in London 8.
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Informal People.

Preserve lis from unceremOnl0us peo-
ple-those men and women who 'Fnover
stand on ceremony who arc always
perfectly at home in other .people's
houses! Society has many pets, but few
so intolerable as they. "Free and easy"
visitors are most Thoroughly disagree
able. They will infict themselves upon
you at any time, and expect to be always
cordially welcomed because theJ' are SO
free and easy and so 10th to put any ybody
to trouble. They will come before
breakfast, or just as you are sitting down
to dinner, and draw up their chairs quite
like one of the family. Early in the
morning they delight to "run in, and
they will come right up to your chamber
to save you the trouble of coming down,
and there they viii sit and watch you
make your toilet, and comment on how
gray your hair is getting, and wonder if
you are not good deal stouter5 and red
der in the face than You used to be.
They will hunt over your writing desk
for note. paper bathe their faces with
your cologne water, and scsnt their
handkerchiefs with the contents of your
choicest perfumery bottle. They are
always ready for luncheon-''You know
I'm too much at home in your house to
go hungry, my dear, and pny stray
Confectionery lying about neits before
them as dew before the sun. They make
no scrnple of borrowing your latest
magazines and novels; even your ward
robe does not escape their encroach-
ments; and all this insolence is cloaked
by some such empty remark as this : 81
never stand on ceremony, but make my
self at home everywhere, so don't put
Yourself out to entertain mew Again
we pray, preserve us from uncerem oni-
GUS peoplei is" .
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Curious Trees.

just beyond the Darbonne of Calea.
sieu river, in the parish of Caleasieu, is
a white oak tree, about two and half
feet in diameter. There are no branches
for twenty-five or thirty feet up. About
twelve or fifteen feet up, apino limb or
part of a pine tree, six or eight inches
in diameter, and twelve or sixteen feet
long, runs at right angles through the
center of the tree, sticking out about
the same distance on either side. 1t
tapers little to one end, where are
two or three knots, giving it the appear
ance of tree top. The oak, where 1t
passes through, is grown closely around
1t. The pine is rich in turpentine, and
will not decay. There is no fork or
hollow in the oak; but it has the ap-
uearance as if hole had been made
and the pine stuck through, after
which the oak closed on it by growth.
The question is, how did the pine get
through the oak, or the oak round the
pine? In Mallet woods there is another
white oak, of considerable size, that
divides into two prongs about one and
ahalf feet from the ground, which, after
running up like pair of Lowlege, about
fifteen feet, unite in one round compact
stem. The propgs are about one and a
halt feet in diameter ; and where they
unite above, the tree is larger than
either of them, but smaller than both
together. A man can walk between the
two pronge. and the tree stands on 9
land boundary line. Forked trees are
very common but the question here IL:
how did the two prongs unite so per
fectly into one stem above.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-19

DRESSING WOUNDS. DR.. Alphonse
Guerir, 40 eminent surgeon Of the Hotel
Dieu, III Paris, has presented to the
French Academy of Sciences memoir,
of quite an interesting and important
character, on the influence of atmos.
pheric germs on surgical mala(Hes, and
in which he strongly advocates the use
of tow dressing for wounds. He state s,
as the result of much observation in
this line, that, when this material is
packed upon tbs injured part, the pus
is completely preserved from putrid
fermentation. He used the tow, in
brief, as a filter for the air, which Cir
culates freely through it, and, in fact,
produces an arrangement which Is de-
ribbed as highly analogous to the cotton
wool respirator mentioned by Professor
Tyndall in his paper On baze and dust
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"'Can't leave, he told me ; Nell
requires all my attention, for [ can't
possibly afford to have her sick ag1in!'"
And so Aunt Mary knew that Ella
had I" tried" " to make home pleasant
and succeeded. Hearth and Home.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-19

A FRENCH traveller arrived in Paris
the other day from the Cape of Good
Hope, bringing with him diamond
larger and more beautiful than the cele-
brated Regents diamond. It is the
purest water, and is worth more than
81, 400, 900. It was found in an old
abandoned mine called the Devils
Table.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-19
An Electric Girl.

A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly says: In the beginning OF
1916, year memorable IN the history
of table-turning and spirlt-rapplng,
Angeique Coffin was girl of fourteen,
living in the village of Bouvigny, near
La Perriere. Department of Orne,
France. She was of low stature, but
of robust frame, and apathetic to an
extraordinary degree both in body and
mind On January Is OF the year
named, while The girl was with three
others engaged in weaving sllk'thread
gloves, the oaken table at which they
worked began to move and change posi-
ton. The Norkmen were alarmed ;
work as for moment suspended, but
was soon resumed. But when ADgel1-
que again took her place the table be-
gan anew to move with great violence
She felt herself attracted to it, bnt, so
soon as she touched it, it retreated be-
| fore her or was even upset The fol-
lowing morning similar phenomena
were Observed; and before long pubhc
opinion vas very decided in attirm1n9
that ADgelique Coffin was possessed OF a
devil, and that she should be brought
before the parish priest. But the cure
was a man of too much common sense
to heed their request for an exorclsm,
/ and resolved to see the facts for HIM
self. The girl was brought to the
cures house, and there the phenomena
were repeated, though not with the
same intensity as before the table re-
treated. but was not overturned, while
the chair onwhich Angelique was seated
moved ia contrary direction, rocking
the while, and giving Angelique great
difficulty in keeping her seat"
In the days when rouge-et-noir flour.
ished at Baden Baden the Prlsslan Of
ticers were strictly forbidden to play.
On of them, however, dressed as a
civilian, ventured to place 10 Napoleons
on a color. The color came up twice,
and the officer was just about to take
up the money when his eye fell upon
| the king of Prussia, who was watching
the game with interest. In his fright,
the officer did not dare TO remove his
NapoleoLs. The play continued and
the same color came up a third, a
/ fourth, q fifth time, and 5000 francs
were added to his pile, but the winner
STOOD motionless, erect as if on parade,
expecting the next Instant 10 see al
his winnings wiped out The king put
an end 10 his suspense by approaching
and saying in kindly mood: 81 ad
wise you to draw in your winnings ane
to be quick about is, before | notice
YOU; your luek cannot continue ST
! favorable.
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The San Francisco Bulletin says that
the first piece of gold found, which
raised such a revolution on the Pacfo
coast is still to be seen. It's value is
between four and five dollars. It re-
sembles piece of spruce gum just out
of the mouth of school girl. with
similar indel tatiofls. It could easily
be identified by any one WHO had ever
seen it. E
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-03-19
THE FORTY FOURTH CONGRESS.

1.-THE following is a list Of the senate of the
Forty-fourth Congress, as rendered complete
by the recent election in Minnesota. There
are of straight republicans (in Roman) 40; of
independent republicans (in ita5ics) S Of dem
ocrats Gin SMALL cAPs) %; vacancy l; total Il.
The year in which each senator's term expires
is set opposite his name
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PALABRAs CARINOHAs 5.
BY T. B. ALDRICH.

Goodnight! have to say goodnight
70 such host Of peerless things!
Goodnight unto that fra4ile Land
All queen]y with its weight OF 1iogs;
Goodnight to fond, Gplfted eyes,
Goodnight to chestnut hraids u2 hair.
Goodnight unto the perfect iuoudh,
And all the swettnesB nestled there
The snowy hand deteins me, linen
I'll have to say goodnight 8gaIn!
But there will come time, my love,
When, if | read our stars Alright,
shall not linger by this porch
With my adieus. Till then, goodnight!
You wish the time were now? And I.
You do not blush to wish it so?
You would have blushed yourself to death
To own 70 much ear ago
What, both tn, sc snowy hands an, then
III have to say goodnight again
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HOUSE.

HOUSE.
[Repub leans Gin Roman) 1902; democrats On
SMALL CAPs) 1877: independents Gn H0tc$) =.
There are II to elect by states and to fill va
cancies caused by death. The asterisk (*) in
dicates members of the present congress, re-
elected; the stands for colored.l
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
A Truthful Sketch

Let man fail in business, what an
effect it has on his former creditors!
Men who have taken him by the arm
laughed and chatted with him by the
hour, shrug their shoulders and pass
on with cold "How do you do? y
Every tride of bill is hunted up
and presented, that would not have
seen the light for months to come,
but for the misfortunes of the debtor.
If it ispaid, we'll and good; if not, the
scowl of the sheriff, perhaps meets
him at the corner. A man that has
never failed knows but little of human
nature.
In prosperity he sails along gently
waited by favoring smiles and kind
words from everybody. He prides
himself on his name and spotless char
acter, and makes his boast that he has
not an enemy in the world. Alas! the
change. Helooks at the world in a
different light when reverse comes up
on him. He reads suspicion on every
brow. He hardly knows how to move
or how to do this thing or the other;
there are spies about him, writ is
ready for his back. To know what
kind of stuff the world is made of, a
person must be unfortunate and stop
paying, once in his lifetime. If he
has kind friends, then they are man
ifest. A failure is a moral sieve--it
brings out the wheat and shows the
chaE A man thus learns that words
and pretended good will are not and
do not constitute real friendship.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
SOCIETY NOTICES.
MaSo1ic Motlce.
Los Angeles Chapter No. 80, r.: A.. NJ.

Stated convocations on I'd
\ & HA II MONDAY of each month at
M SM To P. NJ. AT Masonic Hall. So
NJ (N joulning companions in good
N>C/SN standing cordially invited. BY
NA>U order of the III. z.
w. II. A. KIDD,
~ Secretary.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
A Soft Answer.

The husband was quick tempered
and often inconsiderate. They ha d
been married not yet year, when
one day in a fit of hasty wrath he said
to his wife:
want no correction from you.
If you are not satisfied with my con-
duct you can return to your home
whence | took you, and find happi"
ness with your kindv'
"If leave you," returned the un-
happy wife, twill you give back that
which l brought to you?'
every dollar. I covet not your
wealth. You shall have it all back. !"
S "Ahn' she answered. IT mean not
the wealth of gold. thought not of
the dross. meant my maiden heart,
my first and only love-my buoyant
hopes and the promised blessing of
my womanhood. Can you give these
back to me?n ~ ssaI
A moment of thought, of fconvulsion,
and then, taking her to his arms, he
said: -.
"No, no, my wife; cannot do that,
hut l will do more; 1 will cherish
your blessing as my own, and never
again, God help me, will forget the
pledge gave at the holy alter when
you gave your peace and happiness in
to my keeping.o
How true it is that "a soft answer
turneth away wrath" and how many,
O, how many, of the bitter strifes of
domestic life might be avoided by re-
membering and acting in accordance
Herewith.
A. P. Guthrie, one of the early set
tiers of Eureka, Humboldt county,
and twenty-years resident there,
died few days ago.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
K. %. WISE, M. O.,
DIR. a. s. SHORl
j. "a. MCKEE, M. D.,
DR.. Wv. HAzELTlNE.

nENTIST-CORNERS SPRING AND TEN
IL pie streets (opposite Temples Baunk)'
Los Angeles. Jaoo u
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
Dr. Joseph Kurtz,
PH SICIAN.

.bnve fhe Drug store of G.. +. Heinzeman q
Co. viii give particular attention to EYE
and EAR DISEASES. Office hours: from
10 ii A. NJ, from to P. NJ, and nom 10 p
NJ Residence: Buenavista street. auglo
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
D. o. HOFFMAM, M. D.,

(LATE OF SAN DIEGO.
NFFICE--No. II DOWNEY BLOCK, Los
~ Angeles. Residence-Backman House.
Refers by pc mission TO DIR. John ;. Griffin,
DR.. w. f. Edgar and Or, j. p. Widney
my2 If
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
EREp. EUPNRAT, M. D.

DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. SPECIAL
L ty. diseases of children.
Main street. myl9t
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
4. o. .. r.
Golden Rule Lodge No. IsO. L. 0. o. r..
Los Angeles Ioage no. a5. 4. o. Q. +.

,,Ngs.sss.. Regular meeting held on WE'D
30 NESDAY EVENING ofeach week
ssss<ssSssss< at "a o clock. Soiourning breth-
>asss1ss~ ren in good standing are 1rdially
invited. BEN. A. STANARD, n. G..
A. FRANK, r. S.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02

A. P. Guthrie, one of the early set
tiers of Eureka, Humboldt county,
and a twenty-years resident there,
died few days ago.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-06-02
sAM'L. w. BROOKE, M. D.,
Physician, Surgeon and ObstetriCian.

OFFICE-In Lanfrancos Building. Main st
ONCE hours-S TO 10 A. NJ, ITO and Toe r. NJ
Residence, No. 240 Main street. dZStf
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-21
The Cost OF the Rebellion.

The great pecuniary loss which the
country sustained by the late civil war
is not generally taken into the account.
If you consider that, including advances
made by States, towns and individuals,
and what the Government paid out dur
ing the war, with its acknowledged debt
it makes $4,OO0,000, 900. The debt of
the Confederate States was probably half
as much, or $4,000, 600, 900. Then l,O0O,-
600 men, perhaps, were either killed or
so disabled as to become non-producers
If these men were estimated as being in
dividually worth only as much as an
able. bodied slave sold for in 1860
81, ,500-there must be added further
loss to the country of $1,000, 900, 900.
Then there were employed on both sides,
nearly 100000 men, who received for
their labor not more probably than one
third of what they would have earned
at home. Besides this, there was an inn.
mense destruction Of property in the
South during the war, while the North
sustained heavy losses on the sea in sew
eral modes. A fair summing up of all
these items will show that the country,
as whole, must have sustained loss OF
not less than $4,000, ,000, 900, and perhaps
as much as $4,000, 900, ,00O.- General
Uingudn, of North Carolina.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-21
PerilOus Descent Of q Balloon.

1e San Francisco Call says: Profes-
sobteiner, who made balloon ascen-
sid from the City Gardens on Sunday,
nj given the following account of his
Wage: The ascent was made without
E trouble at the appointed hour, and
te balloon rose rapidly to high alti-
lde, the wind blowing freshly and car
king her over the bay in a northerly di-
ection toward Suisun. The panoramic
View presented was of the most mag
bifcent description, taking in both sea
and land and the high Sierras. When
near Suisun she struck current of wind
setting toward the southeast, which car
ried her across the Straits of Carquinez
to Contra Costa, near Martinez. The
Professor was about an hour and half
in air at this time, and had reached an
as great as three thousand to
four thousand feet. Here he made up
his mind to descend. He Immediately
proceeded to let go his gas with this in
tention, and with what result will be
perceived. Mr.. Steiner having found a
desirable place to descend on hill
side, he threw out his graphing irons
with this view; but the undercurrent OF
air was so strong, and carried along the
balloon so swiftly, that the iron did not
take hold until the balloon struck the
telegraph wires on the county road. II
skinned along the wire for some time
until it made sudden lunge, whirled
the basket around and sent the grappling
irons twisting around the wire. In an
other instant the ropes attaching the
basket to the balloon were cut by the
wire, and the balloon, thus separated
from its encumbrance, Immediately rose
high in the air, and reaching a northerly
current was again carried in the di
rection of Bridgeport, and probably
reached the ocean. The Professor, thus
summariiy separated from his aeria'
messenger, was lucky enough to be able
to grasp hold of the telegraph wire, o
which he was compelled to instantly le
90 his hold and drop to the ground. Al
the drop was a long one, the contac
with the ground was severe, causin,
such conclusion of his body as to swell
his ankles and otherwise jar his limbs
He expressed himself fortunate, how
ever, in getting off 20 easy under the cir
cumstancps