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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15
DIED.,

SHIRAs...On the 18th inst, at O'Clock a. m,
Brigadier General A. Z. SHIRAS, Commissary
General, and Breyet Major General, y. S. A.
Funeral from his late residence, No. 1925 New
York avenue, at O'Clock p. III. to-day.
BURCHE.-In this city, on Tuesday night. the
18th inst, Of rheumatism of the heart, KATE HEw-
lit, daughter of Raymond w. and Catherine
Burche, OF Mon tgomery county, Nd.
Her funeral will take place from the residence OF
her aunt, Mrs. Pedrick o. 42l Sixth street north
west. on Friday, the 10th inst, at II III. The
friends Of the family are invite to attend. ."
SHACKELFORD.-Att the residence OF his SON
in-law, James D. Smith, 9i1 street northwest,
JAMES SHACKELF0RD, in the seventy-third ye "
of his age.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
YERKES.-On the 18th inst. of congestion tof
the brain, JOHN ARTHUR, youngest child OF VIM.
II. and Hanna A. Yerkes, aged tao years, two
months and five days.
Funeral from the residence of his parents, No.
6lO street southwest, Thursday. 18th in st., at
O'Clock p. IN. Friends of the family respectfully
invited to attend without further notice. ."
ATOCHA.-At Now Orleans. on the 9th inst,
Judge A. A. ATOCHA. Of that city.
His funeral will take place at O'Clock, Thurs
Gay. at the Church OF the immaculate Conception,
and the remains will lie buried at Mount OHTet
cemetery near this city.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

IT IS NOW STATED, on no less competent
authority than the st. Louis GIObe, that
United States Treasurer New is going to
amend his spider signature. The Globe
says: ''Mr. John c. New, the successor of
" Spinner, is going to take the Globes ad-
''vice and extract some of the talent from
90 his signature. If he had stuck to his
" original autograph-as .fac-simiIed in the
&c Globe a week ago-we should have been
prepared to hear of him as a ten-million-
" dollar defaulter at any time, simply be-
q cause there is an eXuberance of genius
% about his big flourish, and superintendent
% genius is very apt TO take what it can lay
&c its hands on
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

WHILE large number of journalists are
inclined to make sport of Governor
Sam Bard, and may be provoked thereto
by certain oddities that pertain to him,
none of them find fault with his republican
ism, or allege that he is dishonest. They
all agree that he was not born TO blush IN
seen, while the people ofAtlanta especially
commend him as a capable and accommo-
dating postmaster. But it remained for the
Brooklyn Argus to say the most unkind
thing of this much-persecuted man. That
paper insinuates that Mr.. ex-Speaker Blaine
is jealous of Bard, because he may yet be-
come a candidate for President.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

THE Legislature of Louisiana met and
organized yesterday, and received an elabo-
rate message from Governor kellogg. The
country is to be congratulated upon the
success of the compromise and the DISPOSE
ton that its adoption indicates upon the
part of the politicians of the State to join
hands with Governor Kellogg in efecting
legislation to redeem the credit of the State
and develop her material interests, regard
less of partisan warfare
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

THE Washington National Monument
Association is indefatigable in its efforts to
raise the funds necessary to the completion
of the great shaft which is the objective
point of its organization. Elsewhere will
be found circular, fully Endorsed by all
the benevolent and charitable orders and
associations of the District, disclosing the
plan by which the monument may be
easily and speedily finished.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

THE DEMOCRATS charge that New Or
leans has been plundered by Republicans
They admit that New York has been plum
dered hundred times more by their own
party. Yet New Orleans is said to be dead
and New York is known to be alive and
energetic. Conceding, for the sake of ar
gument, all the Opposition claims re-
garding the condition of affairs in New Or
leans, the suggestion is natural that there
must be some radical difference.in the bust
ness capacity Of the people of the two
cities
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

THE Ohio State Journal has struck ter
Tor to the hearts of the Opposition. 1t has
added to the list of agencies to be employed
in forcing Third Term upon an unwilling
people, which already includes the civil
and military service, those awful engines
of public opinion, 'the marines and canal
boats. This settles it. 'Rah! for Gen.
Comfy; he shall have command of the first
detachment of the boats.
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THURSDAY MoRNINe:::::::::::ArR Is, 1873.

THE Wilmington IN. c. Journal thinks
President Grant cannot be reelected him
self; but he can and will prevent any
" other radical from being his successor. !"
Wise, beyond his y)ears, is the man who
wrote this solid chunk of political wisdom.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

and Protestant converts and conquests made
by fire and sword are without the sanction
of Heaven, and only afford happiness to the
Devil But, of course, the Cardinal does
not mean the warfare of the armed hosts.
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STILL ANOTHER.

The Use Of Van Auksn's Bottom Two Dollars.
PETERsBURc, va, April IL, 1875.
To the Editor ortAe National Republican:
SIR: Enclosed please find 50, for which
please send me yourself for another quarter.
My great admiration for your course in sus-
tanning the cause of right and justice during
the last session of Congress impels me to
pledge you my bottom 81.
Yours, very truly,
..... J.H. VAN AUKEN.
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Financial Troubles in Cuba.

Every month it is becoming more.and more din
cult to collect taxes In the island of Cuba. In
late report upon this subject from the Director
General Of Finances to the Captain General, the
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-04-15

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, has
LARGER CIRCULA TTOE THAN ANY OTHER
FORMING PAPER IN TIE DISTRICT OF Co
LUHBLA,
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DEPARTMENT OF
~ GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.
CTMNFER

SUMNER SEASON.
FACULTY. ROBERT REYBURN, A. NJ, NJ. D.,
PrOfe ssOr of Histology. W. H. Ross, NJ. D.,
Clinical Lecturer, Diseases Of the Il cad and Aldo
men. II. H. BARKER, NJ. D., Clinical Lecturer,
Diseases OF Women. 6. V. BoARMAN. N. D.,
clinical Lecturer; Diseases Of the rhroa', Heart
turer on Surgery. c. H A. KLEINsCHMIDT, NJ.
D.. Clinical Lecturer. Di of the Eye and Ear
j. WALTER. NJ. D., Clinical Lecturer, Diseases Of
Children. The Summer Session will begin April1S
and end July Is, 1875. The Course OF instruction
will embOdy Clinics and Examinations, to be held
on three days of each week, ftOm 6 to s p. m.
For furthtr Information apply to
JOHNSON ELIOT, N. D., DEAN.
an6. Tu&EcM No. $40 z street Northwest.
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O a n ID.

RO1 ID NORTHWEST.-GOODB 0ARD-AND
OO1 ROOMS, at esl d street northwest, q
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live Stack and Formulation.

Prof. Thorold Rogers, of Oxford uni
versity, England, has made up curious
return of the proportion of domesticated
live stock to population in the most
prominent countries in the world. It
shows the following results Great
Britain has one COW to every twelve
persons, a sheep for everybody, and q
pig for every six.
France has like proportion of sheep,
q double share, comparatively, of COWS,
but only one pig to six persons.
The Swedes have q COW between three
and one-half of them, a sheep between
two and thres-quarters, and pig to a
bakers dozen.
There are as many sheep as there are
Norwegians IN Norway, when they are
all at home, and two and one-half of
them (the Norwegians) are entitled to a
COW. They can have only one-eighteenth
of pig each.
Denmark has q COW for three persons,
as many sheep as persons, and g pig for
four and three-qUarbers persons.
Prussia, with her usual uniformity,
has an equal number of COWS and pigs,
one to every five inhabitants, besides a
sheep apiece all round.
Wurtemburg has quarter as many
COWS as people, bHG6P 10 bND ahu
three-quarters, and q pig to seven.
Bavaria rates the same as Wurtem-
burg, as to COWS and sheep, and is as
much better off for pigs, as ene-tifth IS
better than one seventh.
Saxony has a sheep and pig for
every eight persons, and a COW for every
six.
Holland has a COW TO four, a sheep TO
four, and q pig TO twelve persons.
Belgium, q COW to six, sheep to
nine, and a pig to eight (Which is a
HiberDicisID).
Austria has a COW to six persons, and
a sheep and pig to every I've.
Switzerland runs up to the Swedish
standard on COWS, one to three and one
half persons, and has q sheep for five
and pig for seven and One-half per
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Jim Fisk's Estate.

An inventory Just made Of the Jim
Fisk estate, which at the time OF his
killing was reckoned at millions, shows
that, with all claims paid and suits ses-
tied, it is S1S7, 500 worse than nothing.
The inventory put it originally at $780,
0O0. Half q million has been paid ont
in the settlement of claims. The worth
less stock found IN his possession aggre-
gates $50, 900 at par value. His wid-
oW's legal expenses have been enormous.
and only the lawyers in the case appear
to have got anything ont Of the dead
mans pocket. His jewelry was valued
at s., 600. The legacies to his father
and mother, and the Misses Morse, and
to Mrs. Hooker, his sister, have been
paid in part. Only 5000 went in
horseaesh, single horse, too. Six
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-21
THE CAPTAIN OF THE NORrHr1EEr.
BY GERALD MASSEY

90 Nl-A-AA@p A-Aa1A4=
SO often is the proud deed done
BY men like this al duty's call
30 many are tho honors won
by themI we cannot wear them all
They make the heroic commonplace.
And dying thus the natural way;
Yet II IL our worldwide English race
Enhobled BY that death, today
II brings the thoughts that fathoms thiLgs
To anchor fast where billows roll
II stirs us with a sense Of wings
That strive to lift the earthiest soul.
Love was 10 pe7, and life so sweet,
bat at the call he left the wine.
And fpranR full statured TO his feet
Responsive to the touch divine.
- Nay, dear. cannot sec you die.
For me, have my work to do
Up here. DOgn 10 the boat. Good-by.
God bless you. shall sec It through
We relH. until the vision dims
And browns; but, ere the pang be past
tide of triumphs overbrimg
And breaks with light from heaven at last
Thro' all the blaclrpess Of that night
A glory streams from out OF the gloom
Ills hteafiflft spirit holds the light
That shines tin night is overcome.
The sea win do ss= sorst, and life
BE sobbed ont in a bubbiing breath;
Bot firmly in the coward strife
There stands maA who hath vanGuished death
A soul that couQuers wind aud wave,
And towers above a sinking deck;
bridge across the gaping grave
rainbow rising Ger tho wreck.
He SAVED others saved the name
,UnHullied that he gave his wife;
And dying with pure aim.
He had no need TO save his life.
Lord how they shame tho life we live,
These sailors Of our aea-girt ise,
Who oheerily take what Thou mayst give,
And 60 down with heavenward gmilel
The men who SOW their lives TO yield
glorious crop IN lives 10 be:
Who turn TO Engand's harvest field
The unfruitful burrows Of the sea.
with such breed Of men so brave,
Tho Did land has not had her day;
But ieDR, her strength. with crested wave,
Shall ride the seas, the proud old way.
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FACTS AND FANoTEs.


Queen Vioto,ia carried of the first
prize for pigs and Herefordshire heifers
at the Christmas cattle show in London.
The great desert Of Africa has
nearly the present dimensions Of the
United States.
AT public meeting a speaker said
that q certain thing was . Just as sure
as that Romeo founded Rome."
Says Miss kellogg: "a young
girl in her training to become q singer
must make covenant with her oyes,
and not look upon a man.
IL Eve should come now people
would say, What big feet she has No
one would tempt her With apples. They
would throw them at her.-NesU York
Herald.
The other day BiDghampton girl
offered TO let a countYyman kiss her foE
FIRE cents. "T gad," exclaimed the
bucolie youth, = that's darn che1p If :
fellow oniy had the money"
-Petraleum springs have been dis
covered IN Eorthern Germany, which
... s..---- - @ : .s:s = . 7Ss;sss,
are said to surpass those Of the United
States. There are also many in Russia,
I'VE don't want TO make anybody
mad, nor discourage true genius, yet We
can't help but believe that the man who
spends his time writing the Lords
Prayer in a circle the size Of a three
cent piece had better be seen working
around his woodpile.
Worse than eyolUtion.-Ben Butler
said in q speech in congress the other
day that he 90 stood erect in the image
of the God who made him, and dealt
with principles as seemed to him right"
II il gets out that Ben. Butler is an
image Of God there viii be a mighty
spread of infdelity through the country.
The New York Tribune notes that,
whereas, a Brooklyn preacher is pitch
ing into theaters. the builders Of tho
new Globe play house IN Boston have
to some extent, initiated the pew Fys-
tenn. One hundred seats have been
sold outright in kind of fee simple,
TO be held by the buyers, their heirs
and assigns forever.
The navigators of the boisterous
Bay of Biscay lately encounterd new
terror in the shape of ioebergs which
had been driven there by the late
severe storm. Icebergs, though found
farther south, have rarely entered the
limits of this bay, and, hence their
presence there is an event of peculiar
interest.
"A German journal, published in
the interest of sugar-refiners, makes the
interesting announcement that the effic-
ienoy of bone-blaek as a decolorizing
medium is independent of the quantity
of pure carbon it contains. This being
the case, it is stated that bone burned
to whiteness decolorizes the liquor even
better than the now universally used
bone-coal.
1t would be a great convenience If
farmers generally would have their
names painted upon the gates in front
of their residences. Strangers often
have much difficulty in finding persons
of whom they are in search, which
would be obviated by this course. Be
sides, a nice gate. with the name OF the
occupants, add greatly to the appear
ance of place, and looks Is though
the inmates were not isolated from the
outside world,
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bow women Headed the Table.

A writer says "In Elizabethan,
England, when gallimawfreys had given
wav co the substantial fare Of our later
cookery, It was the custom at private
dinners to place the principal joints and
masses of meat at the upper end of the
table, above the salt, so that the chief
guests could see clearly the best of the
good cheer, and also appropriate the
choicest cuts before the inferior folk
below the joint of honor were served.
Fashion having thus decided that the
carving should be done on the table,
the ladies were invited to the top of the
table. not out of gallantry, but in order
that they should do the work which
could no longer be executed convenient
ly bv professional cRrvers. It may cost
the reader a struggle to admit that our
ancestors had no more chIvairic pur-
pose in view when they promoted
woman to her proper place at the festal
board. But there is doubt as to the
| fact. The new ordering of places was
| the result of masculine selfishness and
insolence rather than masculine gallant
ry. just as in medieval society the
| lady of the house rendered service to
! her guests by discharging the functions
/ of q gentle serving woman, in prepar-
/ ing dishes for their enjoyment, and
[
/ own hands, SO in Elizabethan life she
went up to the top of her table, and
seated herself among the first guests,
/ in order that she might serve them as a
carver. At the same time the number
of great pieces requiring several carv-
ers, she brought other ministering Ia
dies to the upper end Of the table where
the grand Joints were exhibited. Hsv-
/ ing been thus called = tie top of the
table for her lords convenience, instead
of her own dignity, the mistress of the
house soon made It a point of honor to
occupy the place, which had in the first
instance been conceded to her as a ser
want, rather than as principal lady. Ere
long, with her characteristic cleverness
in making the best of things and stat
ing her own case IN the way most agree-
able to her self-love, she regarded her
carver's stool as a throne Of state, and
effected to preside over the company,
though the terms of her commission
only authorized her to help them to
food"
The fact that twenty men are
wanted by the SaC Francisco police fol
deserting their wives indicates changs
of sentiment from the time when th,
first white woman was received IN Cali
fornia with procession,
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room. I found Aunt Hetty talking to
Walter, and saw him gravely kiss her
hand as he came toward me. When I
saw the light In his eyes as he looked
at me, for the first time IN ny Iife I
thanked God for my gloxioHs beauty.
There was a grand time when I went
home, and for a while my unfortunate
appearance ceased to be the general
theme of conversation.
My first anxiety, when nurse brought
me my little Fannie TO look at, was
whether she was pretty. I need not
have troubled myself. Her nose is fiat,
her mouth is wide, and only her blue
eyes and sunny temper keep her from
positive plainnese. She has relieved
me from al fear of perpetuating the
race Of Lorleis. - The -Aldi1e.
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in the New York poatofioe there is

in the New York postofice there is
s clerk whose memory Of the Office
brings him back to the year 1886 when
a young woman used TO call every week
for a letter sddrss ssed to IS Miss Mary
n. Russell, post Office. 4" The regular
ity of her visits, her constant reserve,
and the quietness with which she re-
sented inquiry asto her history and occu-
patton excited in the Office a curiosity
which was never gratiied. Until within
ten years she made her calls with accus-
toned regularity and was never disep-
pointed in her expectation of letter.
Since, she has not been seen, but the
letters come as of old. They are for
warded to the dead-letter office where
they are opened, but contain no clue to
the identity of either the writer or the
recipient. In each is a s. note, with q
line saying when the next remittance
VIII be made-nothing more,
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Raising Tobaeso IN the South.

In many portions of the south, be-
fore the war, very much Of the tobacco
used among the farmers was grown
upon farms and plantations. In Mis-
sissippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
the Oarolinas and Louisiana, there was
considerable tobacco grown but lew
years ago. Now there is but little at
tention paid TO growing this very inn
pOrtant crop. The old IS home twist
is hardly to be seen, where q few years
ago little other was TO be had. The
poorer classes, with the colored pOpula-
tion, since the settlement among them
of the northern element, have re-
ceived very Injurious notions in their
drinking, smoking, and chewing habits.
The finest whisky or brandy iB sought
after. while +" white whe6t" and "peach
and nolasses are fast going out Of rse.
Fine smoking brands of tobacco are in
use, as we'll as the most popular plug
and fne cuts. Those who should be
the producers are consumers of the
very article they could grow more
cheaply thsn others. How much ike
nonsense it looks for Connecticut, Iowa,
Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and
Tennessee to raise tobacco for the south
and large export trade
The IDEA that cotton naQ ceiiseQ 70 De
king IN the south was most absurd
and premature one. That more corn IL
grown, we do not deny, but not TO the
considerable extent we have been led tC
believe by the reports Of those who
desire TO make it a corn-produeiDe
country.
Experiments have been made in more
than thirty counties in Te1aa, the past
season, in growing tobacco Of the vari
GUS varieties, to test their adaptahility
to that soil and climate. The greater
part of these tests have been made II
northern and central counties Of tn
state, where the Missouri and Ohi'
population has settled. With a pro
/ tracted drouth and an early frost, stil
the result TO the planters has been tn
most satisfactory. Texas viii becomi
one of our most excellent tobacc'
states.-CoT. Rural World.
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ecriptioP is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay mp at onca.
We would take great pleasure In extend.
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but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
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~ q tha ~. I

80 Says the Scientific Ameriesn. It,
of course, bases its command not on thS
shifting Eunds Of sentimentalism, but
on the rock (pssseboard or otherwiss)
Of science. The danger It finds in the
kissing Of babies Is that diptheria may
be given 70 them by an adul who has
kha disease in sueh mild foIm that he
(og more probably she) treats it as .
cold. The American admits that it
would be absurd 70 charge tbe spread Of
diptheEsa entirely 70 the aractiee OF
child kissing" but Says that il Is hard
TO cohesive Of say mode Of propagation
more directly suited 70 the spread OF
tbs infection r Is 20 natural for good
women TO kiss bright children, and Il
Is & sign OF goodwill and Affection 20
readily understood by the babies, thas
ihey rnfeht after al Euiier more nom
living without either kisses or d9pthss
ria than from dying With both.