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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-30

The direction Of the Bureau Veritas gives the
following statistics of vessels reported lost dur
ing the month of August, 1877 Sailing yes
sels--so English, 10 American. 2 Norwegian, 9
ian. Republic Of Nicaragua, Republic OF Ecu
ador, Of which the nationality is unknown: to-
ported missing. Steamers-7 English, italian.
/ Swedish, / of which the nationality is un-
known. In this number is included steamer
reported missing.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-30
HELP wANTED-FEMALEs.
HELP WANTED-MALEs.

NTANTED-A YOUNG MAN AT A MOD
w crate salary. to assist at account sales and
other work in cotton office. State salary. and
in own handwriting address K. G. L.. Democrat
Office. oc28 30*
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-30

Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-30

Fire losses during the first nine months oil
this and last year in the United States and Can
ada compare as follows:
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-30

The Can adan Insurance Advocate is out with
. .well written and suggestive editorial entitled
Timely Warnings It gives excellent hints
methods to avoid burning up property. But
wherefore2 Why should people bother them-
can get full lines of Insurance for next to moth
ing. and when they know TINT though the fire
insurance companies are Indifferent to the re-
ceipt of premiums, and are satisfied with mere
ly nominal rates, they pay losses literally and
gracefully 2-Balti more Underwater.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-30
Ill., Canal Street 145
Next house to corner of Baronne.

Her numerous friends and customers are
respectfully informed that Mme BERNHETM
has opened her NEW MILLINERY and DRESS
MAKING ESTABLISHMENT with an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21
GENERAL NEWS.

DR.. J. c. Aver. the well known patent medicine
man, who is hopelessly insane, has amassed a
fortune of about $4,000 900.
On account of the war. the price of opium has
suddenly risen from IS to IS pound.
There is a 800, 900 tomb in Greenwood. A stone
mason made it, In the outskirts of the city q
pauper lies under rose bush. God made it.
Several of the largest umbrella and parasol
manufactures in New York do a business of from
$500 900, to $500, 900 per aunum'
The Dismal Swamp canal is to be sold at auction
in Norfolk, Va, next August The work cost
over q million and half, but is not expected to
9ring more than one half that sum.
ACambrdge( Englsnd) theologue, when he told
the story of the good Samaritan, after recitng the
benevolent mans promise to the host, aud when
| come again will repay thee" wound up with,
This he said, knowing he should see his face no
MORE
Tne receipts OF Miss Nelson's engagement at
the Fifth avenue Theatre, New York have been
handsome. Three hundred dollars were paid for q
pr1scenlum box one nsht-the highest pnce
since Jenny Lind-and the Grad Duke Alexis
who cane late, found himself unable to obtain .
seat on another occasion.
The new French Cabinet is announced AZ fol.
lows Due de Broglie, De Fourtou, Eugene Gail.
laux, Aususte Paris, De Meaux. and Brunei.
The designations of Berthaut and Decszes are
not accepted. The Chamber has resolved not to
support auy Cabinet which is not committed to
Republican rules.
Captain Bearse, OF the steamer Glaucus, relates
curious incident Of his last trip from New York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21

Mr.. Medll of the Chicago Tribune Il
so powerfully excited over the flashing
"Gail Hamilton" administered to him il
her letter that he talks like bedlamtt
in his newspaper. Beside accusing Mr.
Blaine of being the author of the letter
in question and assailng him otherwise
he filings mud furiously at Miss Dodge,
and blunders fearfully in defending him
self. He says:
Not long after the time of the appearance of
The (Chieago) Tribune paragraph Mr.. Blaine adj
dressed letter to the editor. inclosing an article
from Pittsburgh paper, which he requested pub
lished, giving short biographical sketch of him
self. Mr.. Blaine stated in his note that this arti-
Gle substantially embodied the facts as to his re
ligious position. . The article which he sent
was printed in The Tribune. Upon this weak
chain of circumstances Mr. Blaine at this late day,
under the name of his maiden sister in-aw, and
in tolerable imitation Of 40 angry woman's style,
proceeds through the New York Tribunes broad
columns to arraign the editor of this paper of
manifold crimes, heresies, and treasons.
We are truly sorry that the alleged membership
in the Catholic Church is so disgraceful and harm
full in the estimation Of Senator Blaines sster-n-
law. And yet she admits that his mother was a
Catholic. For the sake Of the memory of that
mother, The Tribune would fam believe that Sem
ator Blaine will hardly feel obliged to his super
calous sister-in-law for denouncing as a"hsrm-
ful, malignant, and criminal libel" a statement
ever Miss Dodge or Mr.. Blaine may think, there
are few who will agree with them that for his wife
to be Of like faith with his mother is worse than
smuggling silk or distilling crooked whisky.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21
Democratic Economy.

The economy Of the democratic house
OF representatives in refusing TO make the
appropriations necessary to meet the ex-
penses oil the government is causing great
mischief both in the civil as well as the
military branches Of the service. The Of
ficers and men of the army and navy are
driven to expensive and humilialing make
shifts to raise the pay which belongs 10
them and which most Of them need as il
becomes due. and even the course of JUS
tice is interrupted. Witnesses, jurors and
officers are without pay, and in some cases
the courts have adjourned for want Of
money TO pay the bills. "All this was
pointed out, says the Providence Journal,
land fully explained when the bills were
pass ng through the House. The estimates
prepared were based upon the laws, and
upon the experience of former years. 1t
was clearly shown that the amount
appropriated was insufficient TO meet the
expenditures required by law But
the democrats were pledged to economy"
to "retrenchment and reform" and their
idea OF retrenchment was to appropriate
less than the exigencles of the public SER
vice and the laws OF Congress required
their idea of economy was to save money
by refusing to pay the obligations of the
government, postponing them to the fu
ture. and leaving the public service to al
the embarrassments and dangers conse
quent thereon. The wrong to the officer,
and men of the army aud navy, and OF
the civil service, reacts upon the service
itself, Gripping it and greatly mpairlng
It's efficiency, in some cases inteirup,inp
1t altogether, and, in the end, increasing
the inevitable total, rendering dminishe d
service. at an increased expenditure.
Such is the evidence lha, the democrats
afford of their fitness to govern the coul
try"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21

While passing through Long Island Sound, on
Tuesday night, the sky being thick with smoke
from the forest fires to the southwark. it was OBJ
served after nine o'clock that the air was full OF
birds. apparently bewildered and in search of a
roostiue place. Attracted by the glare of the
ships lights they steered their flight toward the
vessel. and striking against the masts or the
house fell dead upon the deck. A few of them
were found to be alive. About 200 in all were
picked up on the deck, representing thirteen DIFF
ferent kinds of birds. During five hours they
continued to drop on the vessel. she going at the
time full twelve knots per hour, and multitudes o.
the poor creatures must have persisted i'll the wa
ter. 1t is probable that the birds were driven
from Long Island by the extensive forest fires aud
were flying over the Sound for shelter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21

One of the leading advocates OF concil-
iation toward the South Is constrained to
speak as follows of the Chisolm tragedy
"If there is any decency or humanity left
among all the native white population oil
Mississippi, now is the time to assert it.
If this cold blooded massacre be allowed
to 60 unpublished, the State of Mississippi
will be formally oullawed by the civilized
world, deserted as rapidly as possible by
all the decent people who are now there.
and avoided as far as possible by all man.
kind. 1t will be serious question Uheth-
err considerations of common humanity
will not demand such an interference by
the country at large in the State OF Miss
issippi (if such an outrage goes unpun-
ished) as will colonize the Bashi-Bazouks
of that State into a penal community. and
place over them such a guard as will con-
fine and curb their outlawry to themselves.
The Italian bandits, the Greek pirates.
and the hordes OF Asatic brutes employed
by Turkey to murder Christian women and
children find too close resemblance
among these people to tolerate them as a
recognized portion of the American peo-
ple."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21
Virginia is State in which the demo-

Virginia is a State in which the demo
Gratis have long had control, and where
we have a ri ght to suppose "home RUE
would prevent outrages if anywhere
But ia that State, within the last week
five men. United States officials and their
assistants. have been shot and MORALLY
wounded while in discharge of their du-
ties in Lee county. II the republicans
ruled that State this would be attributed
To the control of the "scalawags' and
"carpet baggers," but with that State in
democratic hands some other excuse for
this murderou. spirit will have to be in
vented.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21

An appeal has been made to the British public
on behalf Of three great-granddaughters Of Dan.
lei Dsfoe, the suhor OF Robinson Crusoe." The,e
three ladies over fifty years of age, and two arc
de oenden. on the exertions of the youngest o.
them, who works at button-hols making, by which
she realizes 7ss week.
Gen. Grant is the only living ex. President Of the
Uaited States,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21

The recent rains were much needed to
prevent forest fires as well as to wet the
parched earth. The belt of country in
which the fires have been raging stretche S
almost continuously from Maine, across
New Hampshire, into Northern New York
The greatest damage is reported from the
last named region in which lumber mills,
dwellings and barns have been swept
away. Considerable restitution is report
ed 10 the devastated districts. and 1t has
been found necessary to open subscrip-
tons for the relief Of fugitives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-05-21

ON the premises, the estate owned and occupied
by PETER GRANT, pleasantly situated IN Farming.
dale, on X yer Road leading from Gardiner to tLal
Lowell, only one mile from Gardiner and Pittston
Bridge. Land is igh, Ommands one OF the finest
views oftee kennebec river in this vicinity. The
house is large two story, high studded, with two
story f. and she'd built o. the best material, all by
the day, Modern style, Double Parlors, 10 dir 4
do RS, large Hall, good sized Dining Room and
Kitchen, seven Chambers, all finished, abundant
ippy of water, large stab G. lathed and plastered
Wood Shed Hen-hou G, Carriage House, &c. The
lot Is large, being about ares of splendid
land. clay loan soil, Tree from rocks, fine Apple
Orchard OF about 100 young thrifty trees all graft
ed. Also, one Of The earle Gardens OF hbout ia
acre, lot OF Cherry frees, Grape, Currants. &C.,
ard elegan lot oi shade Trees handy 10 Sch 'o!s,
Churches, Depot and Post .nce, goo | nei Ihbors
This properly Is very desirab e and o1ers rare
opportunity to parties wishing to purchase home
Tor CON ort and profit.
Also, at the same time and llace, n d sirable
House Let on Grant Street in Farmingiale Of
about acres.
This is positive sale No pc tponf ment on &C.
count of the weather. Terms very liberal. Par.
tlculars of
y. -. l. M BARD,
Auctioneer h Real Estate Agent,
No. So Water Street, Gardner, Me.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
A Remarkable Scene In Court.

A remarkable scene occurred at the
close Of the Wieners. murder trial in st.
Louis. Wieners is gigantic rufisn,
formerly employed in a local variety
theatre, and the murderer nearly year
ago of q young man named Lawrence.
he shot and instantly. killed Lawrence
in fit of rage, the tragedy taking place
in the theatre. During the progress OF
the trial the aged and respectable father
and very attractive sister OF the prls'
oner were his constant attendants in the
court. The jury, after being out but q
short time, brought in verdict of MUIR
der in the first degree. The court room
was crowded. When the verdict was an
nounced the prisoners sister burst into
a paroxysm Of ,shieks, and the entire
family were removed by order of the
court to q side room. The father had
listened to the verdict of guilty ; but all
at once he began q series of hoarse yells
and blasphemous cursing, in fit OF alb.
solute temporary insanity. Then the
prisoner became frenzied and violent, and
had to be handcuffed, being 30 taken to
his cell, Meanwhile the father had
fallen in fainting ft, and divorced
wife Of the prisoner laughed in JOY at
his conviction. The entire scene was
one of the most horrible ever Witnessed
in 8 court room, occasioninga general
excitement. The verdict met with uni
Yersal approval.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
A War Romance.

The war correspondent OF the London
Times relates this incident of the battle
of Rasgrad: As the Russians began to
waver and their fire to slacken as the
Turks were pressing forward with in
creased vigor, young Russian officer
was seen standing just behind one OF
their batteries waving his sword and
boldly encouraging his men to stand
their ground. Over and over again ne
rallied the troops who were pouring out
of the trench, but it was of no use !; it
was not in his power alone to stem the
tide of victory. His men, animated by
his example, turned and held their own
for few minutes, but the fire was too
heavy for any human thing to stay and
live. They could not bear it. They fell
on their knees and entreated him to fly,
but not an inch would he stir, and at
last he stood for more than minute ab-
solutely alone, save for the dying and
the dead piled in heaps around him.
It could only end one way amid the
storm of bullets which were raining
around him thick as hail one at last
found its way to that noble heart, and he
fell dead. As the Turks swept over the
parapet and dashed past the spot where
he Lay, the colonel, struck by the boys
extraordinary courage and devotion, gave
orders that he should be decently buried.
In the evening he reported to the com.
mander-in-chief that the body was that
of girl. I give this most astounding
declaration Of the colonel upon the au-
thority of one of the English officers Of
the serdar's staff. who tells me that he
was really present when it was made. IT
seems almost incredible; but, true OF
false, no braver heart ever beat than now
sleeps in that little grave on the sunny
slope of Kacelyevo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
i Brave Russian Generals Origin.

The Skobelefs have singular origin.
In 1889 the Emperor Nicholas, while at
review of his whole army, ordered
General Skobeleff to select the finest
men in the army to form into q body of
imperial guards. !, In the first regiment
examined, the general came across q
stalwart young soldier, who far surpassed
his; comradesin appearance. The soldier
said that his name was Kobelef, and that
he came from a village in the province
Of Novgorod. The general, upon hear
ingthis reply to an inquiry he had made,
seemed greatly interested, and being
told thatit was only the youth Of Kobe
lefs that had hindered his advancement
from the ranks. at once gave orders that
he should be made a non-commissioned
officer. That evening General Skobeleff,
at a dinner given to the officers of the
regiment to which Kobeleff belonged,
told an anecdote. He said that many
years before, when he was 8 private
soldier, he was on guard one day at the
Winter Palace. While keeping guard
the empress passed by, and, after
looking at him a few moments, asked
him his name. He replied that it was
Kobeleff. ".Kobeleff," said the empress;
81 don't like the sound of that name !;
for the future you are to be called Skob-
cleft" From that time the empress
took an Interest in his welfare, and
eventually, through her favor, he be-
came aide-de-camp to the czar. II have
only one more remark to make" said the
general, ..and that is that the young
fellow whom I raised to be On officer to-
day is the son of the brother I left at
home to look after rour village home
stead" The nephew took his uncle's
name, and subsequently himself be-
came a general. It is his son, "skob-
cleft the younger, who has just dis
tinguished himself before Plevna.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
Run Down on the Mississippi.

James Crowley, his wife and baby,
and son fifteen years old, Ephraim
Weaver, and q widowed sister, named
Susan Smith, and her baby, left Hamil-
ton, d., for the purpose Of immigrat-
ing Southwark. They embarked in two
wide skiffs and small fatboat, which
contained their small store of worldly
effects. They had proceeded down the
Mississippi until they reached point
opposite Quarantine Station, floating
down midstream, when they discovered
coming toward them the steam boat
Grand Duke with barges in tow. The
men had lights displayed on their frail
craft and ha1looed at the top of their
voices, but the steamboat paid no atter-
ton to the warning and bore down upon
the boats, capsizing all three and hurl-
ing the occupants into the river. James
Crowley passed under the steamboat and
was struck by the wheel and badly in
jured, but was luckily, thrown against .
capsized skif, upon which he clambered.
Weaver also managed to reach one of the
overturned boats and to rescue his sis-
ter, but her baby, together with Mrs.
Crowley and her baby and q fifteen. year
old son, were drowned. They charge
the officers of the steamboat with heart
less conduct. in paying no attention to
their warning cries, and in refusing to
aid in rescuing them from the water.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
Bulletins from Smith.

It is protracted business. The
papers generally get hold of the man q
week before he breathes his last, and
then they keep him hard at it until the
breath really leaves his body. In the
good old-fashioned days of our grand
fathers man was dead but once in the
newspapers. Now the agonies of disso-
luton are kept up as long as possible
"for the benefit of our readers" Thus
Sept. 1-Mr. Smith is dangerously ILL.
Sept. 2-No hope of Smiths re-
covery. ..
Sept. 81 Mr.. Smith will not live
through the night. 81, -.
! Sept. ASmith is sinking.
Sept. 6-Smith has hidden last fare
well to all his friends.
Sept. 7-Smith rallied little yes
terday.
Sept. 8-Smith is dead.
Sept. 9-The report that Smith is dead
is false. -. - -
Sept. 10-Smith was able to partake
of little tea and toast last evening,
and bid his friends Q second last fare
well. : - ~ I T.. ~.
| Sept. 11-Rev. Mr. - spent the
night with Smith, who is resigned, etc.
Sept. 12-Smith feebly rallied this
msrning, expressed o few devotional
wishes and asked the price of Lake
! Shore. - = ( ."s ..
! Sept. 13-Smith is sinking again.
|, Sept. 14-Smith is able to sit up. Par.
takes of oysters.
| Sept. 15-Smith is out.
Sept. l6-Smith was seen at down.
town restaurant, yesterday, stufing
himself with mock turtle and pumpkin
pie.
Sept. 17-Smith won the athletic foot
race Yesterday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
A Romantic japanese Legend.

The romantic origin OF the Ava family
is related in the Toxic Times. The story
is familiar one to the japanese, and
connects the first daimio of the house
with the career of the famous Hideyoshi
That eminent warrior and ruler of the
sixteenth century, the only man In the
annals of Japan WHO ever rose from a
plebian station to the position Of ruler
of the empire, was pauper and va
grant in his youth. While wandering
an unprotected child in his native prov.
ince, he was accustomed to sleep at night
in the fields or by the roadside. 81 On one
occasion. according to the popular
chronicle, he lodged himself upon q
bridge in Okasaka, and was roughly
awakened by kick from a powerful and
well-armed man, who demanded his
name. "Myj nameiis Sarumatsu," he
answered, "and this is tho highway.
You have no right to disturb me. The
road is mine as much as yours. Who
are you2" II am Koroku," said the
other. II know Koroku, OF Dwarf,
retorted Sarumstsu (such was Taikos g
name in schildhood), g for I come from
/ EOxari myself. He Is robbsr, and !
viii hot stir for him. 1t is related that
Korsku. who was one of the most no.
torious highwaymen Of his time, instead
of lrasantng the lads ,audaeity, was
amused at his spirit and took him under
his protection, and in many ways be-
friended him, in return for which, when
he attained the supreme executive con.
troll, he made the former desperate
dainio, and endowed him withthe prov.
ince Of AVA The young nobleman,
Hschisuka, now in London, Is biz ineal
descendant, ..r'.. .,.I
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-14
Words Of Wisdom.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe
unless It is mixed with little adversely.
To be really and truly Independent, is
to support ourselves by our own e1er-
tions. ...'.-
Success has q great tendency to con-
ceal and throw veil over the deeds OF
men. "".... DID,. .-. ..p.-
The same earth produces health-bear-
ing and deadly plants-and ofttimes the
rose grows nearest to the nettle.
He who boasts that his heart has re-
NAMED whole, confesses that he has only
a prosaic, out-of-the-way.corner heart.
Thousands of good people never half
enjoy even enjoyable homes, because
they arc always looking ahead, and never
learn the beauty and the value OF to-day.
They 90 through life expecting enjoy
ment by and by, but without the art to
take it as it comes. They learn too late
that they passed happiness on the road
without recognizing her.
At fashionable wedding breakfast in
London, recently, an orator'of the most
lugubrious type, who was beginning to
weep copiously, took out, as ne thought,
his pocket handkerchief, ,and was greeted
with shouts Of unrestrained laughter.
He had in his hand one Of his wife's
silk stockings, which she had asked
him to match, and which he had forgot
en- to do.
The safety and progress Of humanity
depends upon each mans filing his ap-
pointed place-no matter how humble it
seems-well. We are all workers-each
class is dependent upon the other. The
rude fisherman OF the Northern sea, as a
great English writer has finely said, col
lects the oil which fills the scholars
lamp in the luxurious capital three
thousand miles away. -