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The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

"A little girl up in Gallon, o., has
developed parts as dentist. She tied
a string to her little brothers tooth.
tied the other end of the string to the
stove-leg, and then touched a red-hot
coal to the little victims nose, The
tooth came out.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02
PANAMA MELANGF.

Pansma is the name given to new
basket. woven goods both of silk and Of
wool. The wooden bananas have very
broad threads that seem loosely woven,
vet are thick enough for warmth, and
are very soft and pliable. 1t is hand
some in plain gray and brown goods,
but is also shown in plaids.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02

not been exptored-auother is danger
ous-On another the people are gener-
GUS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09
Supper in a Harem.

Mrs. BURTON says in "The Inner Life OF
SYRIA: Now they are preparing supper,
and you see the huge, flat, brass trays
perched upon round, small, mother-of-
pearl stools, and covered and balanced
with various dishes. A slave will now
bring round brass,jug and platter with
rose-water and bit of rose-colored scented
soap, and slung over her shoulder silk
and embroidered towel We wash our
fingers, but not like Englishwomen dip.
ping them in the basin. We only use the
water from the ever, and the moment il
has left our fingers it becomes ceremonial
ly impure. All sit around these trays.
We shall eat with our fingers, dipping in
to the dishes with bread, and for liquids
they will hand us mother-of- pearl or wood.
en- spoons. There are plates full of rice,
with bits of meat and fat; kid roasted
whole, stuffed with pistachio-nuts, kibbeh,
or meat, chopped and mixed with burghoI,
bruised and boiled wheat; nudiadardt,
lentils (adas), and rice, or burgh'oE, mixed
with brown sauce, and very tasty; kuS.
SUI VI o00sy0C, cucumber OF vegetable
marrow scraped out and stuffed in sausage
form, with chopped meat herbs, rice, pep
per and salt The forced meat is called
naahshi;; kubab, dish known to English
men as cu6obs, is roast meat, fat and lean,
sliced, and impaled with onions on a stick
like our cats meat, and grilled at the fire
with salt and pepper. There are bowls of
le5sn, every sort of fruit and vegetables IN
season, and piles of sweetmeats. The bread
acts the part OF plate; of these large,
round, flat scenes, some are thick and 9th.
ers as thin as wafer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09
A Turks Penance.

In John Howard Payne's autobiography
is the following incident from his life in
Tunis "a native Tunisian, who called
upon me, mentioned a strange scene and
q stranger history which had just come
under his notice. His curiosity was ex-
cited by the view of tall, haggard, tur-
baned person, with long white beard, and
skin pals filled with water girt all around
him, and bearing in his hand cup He
made seven steps and paused, knelt, bowed
his face to the ground, licked the dust
rose up, and then went on again, but re-
peated the same at every seventh step. All
looked on him with respectful silence and
sort of awe. My informant learned that
he was Turk from Egypt During the
French invasion he fed thence, leaving
behiad him wife and child. He obtained
employ on board vessel that brought
him to Tunis. Meanwhile, unknown to
him, the troubles of his country drove his
wife and child from it, and chance also
led them to Tunis. The wife died. The
motherless child found protecting friend
who brought her up as her own daughter.
The Egyptian Turk, hearing description
of this young girls attractions, demanded
her in marriage; courtships in these coun-
tries always going on through others, and
without personal acquaintance. After
some months of marriage, the husband
and wife happening to disclose each their
history to the other, the Egyptian, horror
struck, discovered his wife to be his
daughter. He few distracted to the Cadi
and told him all. The Cadi forthwith de-
creed divorce and condemned the man
through life to give water without pay to
all who should desire it, and at every
seventh step to lick the dust. This he hes
done for years, and is often seen perform
ing his penance, especially at Moorish
funerals
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

MUSHROOMS and toadstools are confus-
ing objects in fields. You can tell how
many years old they are by saving of
their heads and counting the rings on the
top of the stuff. No, I'm thinking of oaks
Oaks are slow growers Mushrooms and
toadstools are not. 1t is important to
know the difference between toadstools
and mushrooms; but it is not worth while
trying to learn this difference unless you
belong to very long-lived family and
don't object to being poisoned at the end.
1t takes years to find out and authorities
differ. The only sure test is to eat one. 1t
you live it is mushroom. If you die 1t
is toadstool.-!St Nlclt0Las.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09
A Railroad Three Hundred Feet Above
City.

Iris difficult to imagine anything better
adapted to produce vivid and startling
impression on the memory than the first
sight OF Morlaix, Brittany as approached
by rail. The city lies on both sides a
deep, narrow valley, and the railroad
springs across the chasm on a magnificent
viaduct 300 feet high. Entirely UMPIRE
pared for anything of the sort, the trav-
eler finds himself taking a bird's-eye view
of a city of the middle ages There it
lies, 800 feet below, almost as if it were in
the days when Mary, Queen of Scots,
passed through here on her way to Holy
rood and the scaffold. The precipitous,
winding, narrow, darksOme streets, the
peaked roofs, misshapen by time and
studded with curious dOrmer windows,
are still there as when she looked upon
them centuries ago, when with brilliant
pageant she and her cortege of knights
and ladies swept through Morlaix with
laughter and song. Should it be a festal
day or fair the sight is still more unique,
for the square is then crowded with booths
and peasants in various costumes, and it
is positively white with the starched caps
of the women. The city is divided by the
river of Morlaix, an estuary up which ships
come into the heart of the town. The
banks Of the river are faced with granite,
and afford a fine promenade on each side.
A smaller stream dashes roaring down the
streets, bringing to the dirty lanes of the
crowded town the music of the pure fount-
aims whence it came.-Ercltange
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09
DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY.

SHE was watching at the window
AS hurried down the street,
IN the simple brown merino
That fancy looks so neat,
And her smile I thought portentous-
It was so exceeding sweet.
Then she met me at the threshold
With very loving kiss
That recalled the early stages
OF our matrimonial bliss,
And felt at once tremor-
Was there anything amiss?
No! The children were all quiet,
And the hearth was very bright,
And my pet-our roguish Charlie
Was quite festal in his white;
Yet braced myself for something,
Be that something what it might.
My chair was near the fire
And my slippers by its side,
My pipe was very handy
And my papers open wide,
And she wore the pretty breastpin
That | gave her when bride.
The dinner was perfection
1t was lavish without waste;
The soup was vermicelli
And exactly to my taste,
While the dessert was triumph
Of artistic skill in paste.
And when the meal was over,
And the inner man at rest,
She drew her chair beside me,
With the baby on her breast;
And felt, and so I told her,
i was one among the blest.
Oh! the smile of tender radiance
That illumined all her face
AS clasped her to my bosom
In lovers fond embrace
twas then she softly whispered:
Won't you let me have that Iace?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

A SEA Captain, off Massachusetts, has
caught a sea-serpent. He espied it to the
larboard and gave chase. Coming up with
it, his vessel gave it fearful dig, stunning
it so that the crew could take It. Upon
examination it proved to be of the species
sugar hogshead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

WHEN ten-year-old young man comes
home at night with four CORY toes, a
scratched face, bleeding nose, and seven
tons of mud on his trousers, you may
know that mumble-te-peg is in the ascend
ant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

"A certain ward in Memphis has one
dog to every two voters. 1t should be a
ward-ed the first premium for purp-pet-
uating the species.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08
Illustrated journalism.

The progress Of modern journalism is seen
in nothing more than in the multiplication
of the pictorial newspapers of our own and
other countries A prominent staple of our
newspaper stands is the pictorial press. We
have all manner Of pictorial newspapers.
We have special organs of the arts and the
Sciences of agriculture and the sports, of
various branches of industry and achieve
ment. We have not done as well with the
humorous department Of literature as in
France and England. 1t has been a areproach
to US sometimes that we have not sustained
as good a comic weekly as the London
Punch, the ChdriUdri of Paris, the Bis-
Ghetto of Turin or the Klddderdddtsch of
Berlin. In fact, we are behind Sweden even,
which has in the capital one of the best
humorous journals in the world. There is
no end to the publications of this kind which
arose in Madrid after the fall of Isabella.
But the humor of Spain, so far as it is polit-
ical and sarcastic, is found more frequently
on the match boxes than in any periodical
form. We have more humor in our ordinary
journalism than in the journals of the older
countries, where an editor of a secular news
paper feels it almost beneath his dignity to
smile. Our humor is more of O universal
quality than with our friends in England
and in France. Instead of having depart
ment of this kind among our newspapers we
have it in almost every paper
There is q great world of literature Of
pictorial character given to romance and fic-
ton, and the appetite for this kind of lit
erature seems to- grow with what it feeds
upon but the highest form is found in
London, where the illustrated weeklies have
an almost fabulous circulation. and seem to
grow from day to day. The best Of these
and in some respects the founder Of that
school of journalism, is the me-honored
and well-conducted Illustrated London Nelrs
This publication has become almost as
much an institution Of the old country
as the Tower or the Abbey. Beginning in
an humble manner, like tho acorn, as it
were, it has grown to be an oak tree among
journals. Wherever the English language is
spoken its fame is known. It's artists have
served it in every climate, under every sky
and amid the most adverse circumstances.
They went to the wars, to the great scenes in
France and Germany, where the fate Of an
empire was decided. They have tracked the
explorer over the world, from the tropics to
the Arctic seas. Its pages are q pictorial
record Of this generation Of English history.
We can well imagine what value it must be,
not only as an educator TO England of to-
daY. but to the historian Of the future who
The New York herald., 1875-11-08
Sundays Services and Discourses.

In the Lords vineyard yesterday Mr. Hep
worth pointed out the right way to read the
Bible. Mr. Beecher was eloquent upon the
eloquence Of silence as exhibited in the con-
duct of Christ before Pontius PLATE. DIR.
Deems, of the Church Of the Strangers, dis
coursed on the discipline Of the Divine
Providence Bishop Loughlin, in dedicating
the Church of ST. Francis de Sales in Brook
lyn, showed why Catholics should magnify
the Lord. Even Mr.. rockingham, in de-
Tending the religion of worldliness, was not
so far out of the way of orthodoxy as usual.
The only exception to this rule OF drawing
Scripture lessons suitable to the season was
the discourse of the Rev. Matthew Hale
Smith on the lesson of the Beecher scandal.
Our Sunday services are SO free just now from
mere sensationalism and so replete with the
simple teachings of Christian doctrine that
such an exception only serves to exalt
the better and purer discourses heard
from our pulpits In the spirit of tho
churches, too, was the work at the Brooklyn
Rink. Mr.. Moody discoursed on love and
sympathy, enforcing the duty Of bringing
10 Inc ScrVlC6 OF (TOu.
Next Sunday will be the last Of
the evangelsts in Brooklyn, and if their
efforts have not been so successful as was
anticipated they at least have done their
best to accomplish the purpose of Mr..
Sankey's song, "Hold the Fort" The
opening hymn at the evening service, "Yet
There is Room" was q little unfor-
tunate in its worldly application, as
there was no room in the Rink while the
singer was chanting it. On the whole the
services and discourses yesterday were up to
the highest Christian standard, and reported
as they are at length in the HERALD this
morning, they cannot fail to have the most
blessed results.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

THE voIvoDA is great parsonage just now
with the peasant insurgents of the Herze-
govina, and he, cannot fail to excite much
interest among the people of other lands.
In view of this the graphic story
of our correspondent recounting his
march with Ljubibratic from Ragusa
to the rebel camp will be welcome
addition to the literature of the Sclave
rebellion 1t was picturesque march of
picturesque band over picturesque road.
and the story loses none of it's interest in the
telling. These Sclavic insurgents evidently
are much in earnest and if Ljubibratic and
his followers are pc rmittcd to contend only
with the Turks there can be little doubt as
to what will be the final result.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08


the corrupt Tweed regime; emancipated from
that control it scourged the thieves out Of
Office and gave promise Of good government
until the power Of Tammany was re-estab-
lished under new leaders. Last year uniyer-
sal suffrage partially broke loose from Tam
many control and elected far better man
for Register than the Tammany can
didate. This year it made a complete
revolt and triumphantly reelected the
best criminal judge we have ever had
in the city. Every citizen will bear witness
that our city government has been the most
corrupt when universal suffrage has been most
submissive to Tammany dictation, and that
the most signal municipal reforms have
been accomplished when the people have
risen against this precious substitute for
vigilance committee. When universal suf-
frage, acting apart from Tammany, shall give
the city as corrupt and infamous govern
ment as Tammany established under Tweed,
there will be some color of plausibility in
urging that it is no longer safe to trust the
people out of the leading g-strings Of this secret
and usurping cabal
Every form of free government is neces-
sarily government by parties. and political
action is never so healthy as when contesting
parties are SO equally balanced that the
change of a small body of independent and
honest voters from one side to the other
suffces to transfer power into new hands.
But the purpose of Tammany is to keep one
party so strong that there can be no efficient
opposition, and thus undermine the chief
safeguard of administrative purity. If such
an organization as Tammany is needed as
check to the evils of universal suffrage on
one side it is q necessary logical conse-
quence that it is equally needed on the
other, and that the republican party, for
want of it, can never make good
nominations. Ridiculous as this conclusion
is there is no logical escape from it but in
the self-stultifying admission that the repub-
ican voters of the city are of higher moral
grade than the democratic voters and, there
fore, do not need substitute for a vigilance
committee to restrain their free action.
We recognize the difficulties and dangers
of universal suffrage in the government of
it has not, of late years, worked well in New
York may be found in the very control which
Tammany has exercised over the voters and
the prostitution of it's power to base,
sordid ends. Nobody any longer dis
putes that this was the fruit of
the organization under Tweed, and nobody
can point to any good it has done since his
disgraceful downfall. The people of this
city have not had fair play. With a success
sion of bad charters, and under the incubus
of Tammany, they have been long mis-
governed; but it remains to be seen what
they would do under really good charter, if
freed from the odious control of an organiza-
ton which is now confessed in Tammany
Hall itself to have the same purpose and
object as a vigilance committee. 1t will be
soon enough to proclaim universal suffrage
failure in the government of great cities when
it shall have had fair trial under more
favorable conditions.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

Mn. E. G. SPAULDNe, who is generally
credited with being 'the father Of the green
back, has given his opinion on the recent
election in this State to reporter Of the
HERALD. It will be seen that he attributes
the republican gains, in q great measure, to
the emphatic resolution against third term
in the republican platform. This opinion
viii be generally indorsed by observing poll
ticians, and the republican leaders can only
regret that they failed to adopt this policy
year aGo.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

The HERALD BY FAST MAIL TRAINs.-Nelcs-
dealers and the public throughout the States Of
Ne1o York, Ne,o Jersey and Pennsylvania, as
UeH as in tie West, the Pacific Coast the North,
the South and Southeast also along the lines
of the hudson Riuer, Ne,o Yorlc Central and
Pennsylvania Central Railroads and Hesr con-
nections, aeia be supplied tcith THE HERALD,
free Of postage. Extraordinary Inducements
offered 10 nersdedlers By sending their orders
direct to dis office.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

population, rendering the hen roosts less
secure, and that they indulge in all sorts OF
minor offences, to the terror and annoyance
of good ordered citizens. 1t now seems this
is all mistake-at least we are so informed
by representative colored soldier whose
characteristic communication, published In
another column, will be read with interest.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08
Fast Mail Trains.

We trust the public and the Postmaster
General will not think us immodest if we
congratulate them upon the success of the
experiment of fast mail trains, in which the
HERALD as is its custom and its duty to the
American people, modestly led the way by
the establishment Of Sunday fast news
paper train, first to Saratoga and next to Nj
agara Falls. In all such enterprises, where
it is necessary to break through established
custom or routine, it is but natural that pri-
vate effort should somewhat precede the ac-
ton of the government. The fast mail train
is now an established fact in our postal ar
rangements, and the Postmaster General de-
serves the gratitude Of the public for the
effectiveness with which he has carried out
the idea. The people accept such an inn
provement not thoughtlessly but yet without
considering all its value to them the read
ers Of newspapers to-day realize wildly the
fact that they get their fayorite journals some
times day earlier than formerly, but they
do not think of the great economy effected in
many business transactions.
The fast mail trains have within a short
time practically reduced the time between
New York and points in Illinois, Michigan,
Missouri, Indiana Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Iowa twelve hours for all States and
Territories west Of the Missouri River they
have reduced the time twenty-four hours,
and for all Southern and Southwestern
States from twelve to twenty-four hours.
This saving Of time effects a very important
saving of interest son remittances Of money
RENTS thus from six to seven hundred mill
ions per annum to New York and, under
the new arrangements, while the delivery is
twelve hours quicker than formerly, whole
banking day is actually saved and business
is very greatly expedited From St. Louis,
Cincinnati and other points, an equal saving
of time, which means interest, is made
We understand that the Post Office De-
partment feels itself under especial obliga-
tions to Commodore Vanderbilt for the readi-
ness with which he met its views and the
thorough manner in which lie has carried
them into effect lie has, they say, carried
out great idea in grand way" We can
readily believe this, for we found him equally
ready to adopt and to carry into effect the
HERAIDs idea of fast newspaper train, and
were indebted to him for the readiness he
showed to accommodate the HERALD and the
public when We desired to establish that
train, and later, to extend it to Niagara
The number Of fast trains is rapidly in
creasing. Between New Orleans and New
York there will presently be saving Of
nearly sixty hours and the Baltimore and
Ohio Company will put on two rapid trains
To show what Commodore Vanderbilt can
do we are informed that in forty days the
New York and Chicago fast mail was behind
hand only once
w. nvr DpNrpp.v Cr.x.r ...na.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

TENNYsoN's CHARGE OF THE SIX HUNDRED
has 50 immortalized that marvellous deed of
valor at Balallaya that nothing else seemed
necessary TO embalm the memory Of the dead
or celebrate the virtues Of the living. There
was, however, poetic justice in tho recent
gathering Of the heroes Of the memorable
charge, and the story Of the meeting Of these
brave men has both q painful and poetic
interest
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

WHAT PITY the Washington reporters did
not tell us what Boss Shepherd said about
the elections when he was serenaded on Sat-
urday. We know what Boss Kelly and Boss
Mclaughlin think about it, but the world
would like Boss Shepherds views also.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

RECENT POETRY. The season is more than
usually prolific in poetry, and this morning
we present series of reviews of the latest
productions of some of our most distin-
guished writers-Longfellow Joaquin Miller.
w. w. Story and Bayard Taylor.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

The DIFFERENCES between the Irish nation
alists and the clerical party in Ireland are
treated in our Dublin letter this morning
with intelligence and discrimination.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

THE RED CLOUD REPORT Of the whitewash-
ing commission appointed to investigate
the alleged Indian frauds received a crush
ing blow from McCann, one of the accused
contractors. A few more answers Of the same
kind will bring both the Commissioners and
the report into contempt.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

PRESIDENT GRANT in his speech on Satur-
day said that the result Of the late elections
assured the continuance Of the republican
party in power for four years longer. Did he
mean that it left the course clear for o third
ter1n2 If yes, bad for the republican party.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC is just now Of pro-
found interest, and the letters brought by
the Pandora from the Alert and Discovery,
which we print to-day, will be read with
much satisfaction.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08
TRIPLE S HEE L.
NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1875.

From orr reports this morning the probabilities
are that the ueather to-day scW be cloudy, seaA
vain
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

WHAT DID GENERAL GRANT mean by his
speech on Saturday when he said 1--WE have
on assurance that the republicans will con-
troll this government for at least four years
longer" Did he mean that the late elections
left the field clear for the election Of a repub-
lican successor to President Grant2 If yes,
good for the republican party.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

NOTICE TO sUBsCRIBERS.-On and
after January /, 1875, the daily and weekly
editions Of the New York HERALD will be
sent free Of postage.
The New York herald., 1875-11-08
NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
The New York herald., 1875-11-08

may wish to know what the England Of the
nineteenth century really was to the men OF
the time.