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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-01
by Nash e. Hodgson.
NEAT COTTAGE HOUSE,
No ETA nRYAD s STREET.

IN THE MATTER OF THE MINOR JOSEPH
+, Kendall.
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OPEN ACCOUNTS, CREDITS. ETC.
SUCCESSION OF MRS. JEANNE A. DUFOUR,
WIDOW OF JEAN CAZEAUX.

Second District Courtfor the Parish of Orleans
No. 1882.
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THE FRAME COTTAGE.
With Large Lot
ON ST. MARY. BETWEEN ROUSSEAU AND
ST. THOMAS STREETS.
SUCCESSION OF THos. Med. CONNOLLY

ST. THOMAS STREETS.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08

THE warmest kind OF hat one
that's got stove in.
You've man, you can go up hill as
fast as you please, but 60 down hill
slow.
The experience Of many q life
aWhat fool I've BEEN" The expert
ence of many . wife, "What fool I've
got"
"WHEN I de-" said married man,
al want to go where there is no snow
to shovel" His wife said che pre-
sumed he would.
ACCORDING to a late definition, a
bachelor is q man who has lost the op-
portunity Of making q woman misers'
BILE.
WHAT is the difference between a
soldier and q fashionable young lady {
One faces tho powder, the other pow
ders the face.
u. OONES, yOu eoAu yOu "SAS S~A-
nected with the fine arts do you mean
that you are q sculptor
NO, sir, 1 don't sculp myself, but i!
furnish the stone to the man who does.
JONES believes in policemen, and
thinks they are square men. AT any
rate,' he says, they are never round
A French paper says, Not one
American in q hundred has hand
some chin.' OF course not their time
is devoted to the cultivation of cheek
WHEN shall we get cotton 2 said a
Northern manufacturer to the late
President Lincoln. 'When the South
erners get worsted,' was Abe's reply.
AN old German froze his nose.
While thawing the frost out, he re-
marked: 'Dy tam! I no understand
dis ting. I haf cary dat nose forty
years, and he never freezed hisself be-
fore.'
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One of your correspondents writes :
of the killing of the rattlesnake by the
common blacksnake, as witnessed by
him. This I have not myself seen,
but in Florida, where the rattlesnakes
are numerous and large, it is univer-
sally believed, that they are killed and
eaten by the large blacksnake. called
the pinesnake or gophersnake, from
its habit Of occupying the hole of the
gopher or land tortoise.
We are told that from the mouth of
three witnesses every word shall be
established, and L have that number
to establish this fact. One of them
tells me that he has twice seen go
phersnake kill and swallow a large
rattlesnake, first, however, biting off
the head, which was rejected. An
other time a rattlesnake was seen to
crawl through the fence into the yard,
when it was killed and hung up on a
tree. Soon after a gophersnake came
through the fence, trailing the other
along the ground like hound, follow
ed the trail to the tree, and when it
saw its dead enemy hanging there it
departed. He tells me that he encour-
ages these blacksnakes to live about
the house, and they are excellent ver-
min killers, driving away rats and
rabbits, which do much mischief in
house and garden. They themselves
are harmless, except that sometimes
they steal eggs and poultry, and per-
haps now and then a kitten might be
gobbled up. On one occasion a large
blacksnake, (which grows to- the
length of eight or nine feet) took a
kitten, and finding it to suit his taste
came for another, when the two house
cats attacked and killed him after a
severe battle. It is not only the rattle
snake which is killed by the black
snake, but it has the habit of killing
and eating all other serpents which it
can overcome, which it does by stran-
gulation.-[Forest and Home.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08

Below will be found some of the
oddities In advertising
Two young women want washing.
Teeth extracted with great palms,
Babies taken and finished in ter
minutes by country photographer
wood and coal split
The next appeared in London pa
per under the head of For Sale:' 'Pi.
anoforte-cottage, seven Octaves-ihe
property Of a lady leaving England iu
remarkably elegant case on bcauti
fully carved supports There is q
mystery. too, 2 bout these closing words
which it is not necessary to suggest.
And ones mind gets hopelessly
dazed over the advertisement Offering
q reward for "A large Spanish blue
gentleman's cloak lost iu the neighbor.
hood of the market
There are others deliciously incon.
sequent, like the advertisement Of q
runaway, which furnished this valua.
BILE hint for Identification Age moi
precisely known, but looks older than
he is.'
On the notice a shoemaker put on
his door: Shall be back in ten days
from the time you see this shingle.'
Some, however, leaye no loophole
for doubt: Babies after having taken
one bottle of my soothing syrup will
never cry any more
And an editor, putting air-tight cof.
fins, said: NO person having once
tried one of these air-tight coffins will
ever use any other
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HOW A DRILLER STIR UCK OIL.

Yesterday afternoon an old man
with crude petroleum dripping from
his clothes, and pant-legs enclosed in
his boots, entered the Derrick Office
and said: . .5srs-
Want an item2'
'Pve got the durndest item you ever
heard tell on. struck an lie we'll on
my lease Monday, an she flowed a
stream of lie 100 feet high straight up
for half an hour. Then she kinder
died down-one Of my drillers was
standing over the hole, when she sud-
denly spurted up again, and blast my
eyes, if it didn't take that driller right
up with it. The stream was power
ful one, you see, an he went mp 100
feet. You've seen these little balls as
dance about on top of those little
squirting fountains such as they have
in cities! Yes, we'll that's tho way
this here thing acted, and there's that
there driller right up on top of that
hundred fut column of crude lie, an
he's dancing about like chaff In fan
ing mill. What do you think OF that
un?' Hfr e4ii '7''r's-t rs .ei
How long has he been up there p
About four days and four nights
sHe must be very hungry by this
time. Doesn't he come down to get
something to eat p
.Why,we uns just put plate of hash
ip this stream OF lie, and it takes it up
to him, you see. And it's mighty handy,
as he finds his victuals ready creased,
and he doesn't need any BUTTER
sBut he must have frozen to death
before this time
why, man, we've sent him up on
the same stream bed and bedding, a
small stove and wood, and we're going
to build him a small house, and then
he can live there as comfortable as a
prince
His face was as innocent OF deceit as
a piece of tanned leather, and when he
asked to have his name put down as a
deadhead subscriber for information
he had given, we didn't have the heart
to hurt his feelings by rcfusing.-[Oil
City Derrick.
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CATS ON THE HOUsETOP.


I passed a night once away from
home. What learned that night
would fill very large barrel. had
retired and was endeayoring to tangle
myself up in sleep, when q most inde-
scribable banquet of sounds stole into
my room and entwined itself about my
ears. It was the Hrst strains of a cat
fight. got out of bed and opened my
mouth and dropped q 'ScatP out of
the window. The yowling increased.
l added apair of ten dollar boots to the
affair; q bootjack followed the boots,
but the noise continued with more zeal
if possible than ever. My contribu-
ton was not the only one from other
windows a continuous fire was kept
up; bottles, boots, shoes, clippers and
every available article that could be
reached was SHE'D into the darkness at
the noise, Occasionally moro ter.
rife yell would seem to indicate tina
the objective point had been reached,
but still the yelling continued with
unabating ardor.
At last 1 bethought me of a dark
lantern had, and lighting it, / turned
the light down into the back yard, in
the direction of the noise. What l
saw can tell about, but how 1 felt and
looked would need larger pen than
mine to describe. To say that my
hair stood up would be very tame. 1t
not only stood up, but it fairly lifted
me from the floor. saw hanging
from the clothes line q couple of Tom
cats, tied together by the tails, and en-
gagged with all their might in tearing
each other apart, while in the yard
was man with bag, into which he
was putting my boots, bootjack and
other contributions, making for him q
fair nights work, and after gathering
up all the spoils, as he unslung the cats
from the line and placed them in the
bag and scaled the fence, it dawDed
upon me that had been sold. Iblew
out my light and crept into bed, Won
dering if my angel grandfather was
not looking from beyond the clouds
at his grandson.-lB Boston Globe.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08

Mrs. O'Mara, of ST. t.Catharines, Ohio
yawned herj jaw out of joint week ago
and at last accounts two doctors had
been unable to restore it to its normal
condition. A physician in the next town
knows how to effect cure in such cases,
but the woman's husband, who is a low
err of quietness and peace. and some
thing OF brute besides, says blame il
he is going fifteen miles for a doctor.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08

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AYERS PILLS have been known for
more than a quarter of a century, and
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for their virtues. They correct dis
eased action I'm the several aSsimila-
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their range can rarely withstand or
evade them. Not enls' do they cure
the everyday complaints of every
body, but also formidable and danger
Gus diseases that have baffied the best
of human skill. While they produce
powerful effects, they are, at the same
time, the safest and best physic for
children. BY their aperient action
they gripe much less than the common
purgatives, and never give pain when
the bowels are not infamcd. They
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and strengthen the system by freeing
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Adapted to all ages and conditions
in all climates, containing neither
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Practical and Analytical CAsnists.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
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OHaIOwArHA.

Harki what cometh from Ohiof
From the land OF Hayes and Garfield.
Land OF Dicksmifh. land Of Halstead?
Wailings load the chilly north wind
With the news OF fresh dis asters,
Prom Columbus and from Cleveland,
And from truculent Toledo;
From the shores orthe Miami,
Where first sat the red haired maiden,
Sat and bathed her freckled FOOTE'S;
rron the Run that men call Paddy's;
Prom the lake. and from Sandusky,
Come the cries Of fallen chieftains,
And it II not Ephriam Holland,
Nor the bouncing, bounding Banning.
That hat wrought this fearful mischief.
sE4 Courier Journal.
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NOTICE.

II cola VAN AUKEN, minor, e. 8. Osgood.
IL her Guardian. OF P.trsiord. Hillsdale
county, Michigan; Leroy Vanuukeal. of Fay
ettc. fulton county, Ohio: Erwin Seeley and
Hannah Seeley, OF Mahtua. Portage county.
Ohio. will take notice that a petition was
flied against them On the 18th day of October,
a. ID 1871, i'll the Court of Common Pleas with
in and for the County OF Portage. by Martin B
sanford. and is now pending. wherein SAID
Martin Is SANFORD demands partition of the
following real estate. to wit: Being part o1
lot number thirty -tour, and bounded beg inn in g
in the center Of hi ghway leading from Brick
Tavern. west thirty rods easterly from the
center OF said highway. being the east line OF
lands belonging tn the heirs of Garrett Van
Wagner: thence sontherly at right angles with
the road aforesaid, seventeen and one-naK rods
11h) thence easterly parallel with said road,
eighteen (lS) rods ana seven links; thence
northerly seventeen and one-half rods 10 the
center OF highway above named, and thence
westerly along said road to the place OF be-
ginning containing two t2) acres OF land; and
that at the next term OF said Court the said
Martin Is. Sanford viii apply for an order that
partition may he made oI said premises.
Dated this 18th day of October, A. ID. 1871.
MARTIN Il. SANFORD,
417-6 by e. z. HATFIELD. his Attorney.
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SIR WALTER SCoTT, in lending a
book one day to q friend, cautioned
him to be punctual in returning 1t.
"This is really necessary" said the poet
It apology; for though many of my
friends are bad arithmeticians, OBJ
serve almost all of them are good
boOk-keepers."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08

SOMEBODY says the best way to get
rid of weeds is to always put your
cigar-case and its contents at the SER
vice Of your friends. Jones says the
most effective means he ever tried was
by squeezing the hand of a plump
young widow lady in deep black. The
next day she was in half mourning,
and second kindly pressure resulted
in pink gown, with white bonnet.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08

AN Iriehman In Iowa was bitten by
q rattlesnake, but the liberal use of q
neighbor's whisky cured him. The
next day he was seen walking slowly
on the prairie and looking earnestly
for something. He was asked what
he was looking for. For the bite Of
. snake" was the reply.
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Are the most
effective and
congenial pur-
gativc ever dis
covered. They
are mild, but
efectual in
their Op era
tion, moving
the bow c $
surely and
without pain.
Although gen.
tie in their op-
nrafinn fhnVr
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"A journalist says that the girl Of the
period prides herself on 'being no
larger round than CANDLE He means
that she has taper waist.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-11-08

NOTICE
TINE undersigned have been duly appointed
Il and qualified as administrators OF the es
tate of Lydia Underwood. deceased, late OF
BrimAeld Township. Portage County, Ohio
MARIA UNDERWOOD,
WV, r, UNDERWOOD,
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Times Of Holding Courts for
1873.

1878
| THE STATE OF OHIO, SIS.
| To tie C2eyG Of tie Court OF Cona,now FI.yys and
District Court GJ TIE Connty oJ Forfa9e:
IT Is ltEREEY ORDERED. that the sever al terms
of the DistrIct. AMI Court of Common F>ieas, for
the year lS'S shall be held in ths several co,in-
ties composing the Ninth JNticiat t,i>trict III
the State of Ohio, conmencin, a> Follows, 10
wit:
DISTRICT CoUEoT-
| In Trumbuli county, on April Sth.
| In Portage county. ON April 18th.
| In Lake county. 90 March 25th.
| In Geausa coanty on Apri! ith.
In hshtabuls eouity, on March 18th.
! In Mahonias comfy. on March 9..h.
| In Coinn.al,n;l county. on April Sth.
In Carroll county, On April 4th-
| In stark coar.ty. on April 18th
| COURT OL' COM MON PLEAS.
In Carroll county. onJ anuary I4th-Aprii Goth
i-September 10th.
In stark county, on January l1th-Aprii Sgth
| I-Seplemper 10Th.
In Columbian. county. on February 4th Ms ay
| 2Oth-October 18th.
In Mahoning county. on ,JanuaFy 1lih--May
6th-September 9ih,
In Trumbull county, on February 1lth-May
stth-Octohcr 14th.
In Portage county, on January 14th-May
6th-Septemher 9th
In Lake county, on February 9Th MAY 9th
| November 9TH.
In Geanga county. on January 1ith-May
In Ashtabnla county, january 14th-May
| 6th-October 7th.
You will enter the foregoing orders on the
c" ', VI ,I .o Dls'ract court anu tne Court ol
common Pleas al your county and cause, the
same to be published according to law for three
weeks.
WITNESS. .T'heSignatures OF the Judges of said
District. at Warren, Ohio, this 10Gh day of1pcto-
Der, 4. u. IS17.
L s. SHERMAN
PETER A. LAUBIE
PHILO CONANT
+. b. TAYLOR,
S. MEYER, Judges.
THE STATE OF OHIO,l
Portage County. SIS.
1, JOHN MEHARG, Clerk of the Court of Com
mon Pleas. within and for said county and
State. do hereby certify the foregoing to be a
true ,copy of the original order on file in my
Office.
Witness. John Meharg. Clerk or our
said Court ,r;. and ,,t the seal thereof at ks
1917. JOHN MEHARG, Clerk.
47S-3t
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THE STATE OF OHIO,l

TOB PRINTING OFALL KINDS
- Promptly and N eatly Ex cuted att lls ono
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AmARxxING GoyExNox.

New YorkEveningPo Post.-Claiborne
F. Jackson, native of Kentucky, was
once Governor Of Missouri. The most
remarkable fact connected with his
life is perhaps that he married five sis
ters i'm one of the most respectable.
wealthy and distinguished families in
Misspuri. AS soon as one wife would
die he would marry her sister in rea :.
sOnable time. In connection with the
marriages there is a standing Joke, told
at the expense of the Governor, name
ly that when he went to ask his faith.
err in laws consent to marry the last
daughter, the venerable man replied:
'Yes, Claib, you can have her. You
have got them all. For goodness sake,
don't ask me for the old woman
FRlcAssED Rabbit (White) )-Clean,
cut into joints. and soak in salt water
for ah hour. DO not cook the head or
neck. Place in the saucepan with a
very little cold water-nOt quite enough
to cover them ; add one small finely
chopped onion, one pinch Of mace, one
grated nutmeg, some pepper; use at
the rate OF pound of fat salt pork for
one rabbit cut the pork into thin sill
ces, and place it in the pan with the
rest, cover il over and stew until ten
der remove the joints and thicKen the
gravy, add half cupful of cream or
milk, one well-beaten egg, stir it in a
little at time; small lump of butter
boil up once, thicken with little -four.
and remove from the fire; add the
juice of half lemon, stir we'll, then
pour the gravy over the joints; serve
hot.
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In IL w
Eunn1Tn0 R00mV
r 1uAAluU AeUOmN
W 7 DDlV0W = In
VII DDhN!lUV " UU
Would inform the public that
they have opened a new
Ero;turo Room
~ ~ AF.: a.
mo. 81 Md1u 0k.,
Ian AZ W
whore NAV be fo,,nd a oeneral
.ossortn,ant of Fnrn;tnre Of
90 R,ra.ns
= Redsteads.
Chamber Sets
Extension and
LII A"o' "oioo'
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Ayers Cathartic Pills.

For AZ the purposes Of a Family Physic
and for curing COstiveness, Jaundice,
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Headache, Erysipelas, Rheuma-
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Bliousness, Dropsy, Tumors,
Worms, Neuralgia; as q DIM
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DR.. J. c. AVER & CO., Lowell, Mass.,
Practical and Analytical CAsnists.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
, 1877-12-03

TIN QUESTION or FURNISHING sUrrL1Es.
II the Editor Of The Tribune.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9,--1n your issue of yesterday
notice communication from my old friend,
Ten. White, on tho subject at our county aifnira
Fully apprcclat!ng The good Intentions which
rre:npicti the author 10 fay before the public
tho result Of Ills large cxncrfence, permit INC to
state nv notions In rcear,l to tho sub}cct-nattcr
VI the t,cncrai's letter. IT,.
There ia some little ambiguity in hts but par
tially4lcffned pfnn. Onc rnrt OF hls en,sim,i,'..
cattIn would lcu .@ u Infer TINT, II We returned
to tile old rotten system pt CONTRACTING lnr a!t
;a9ps, 5 for IL ,c ny 5 , Then RI. ~ nssl wo IJ ssa, ws
err Of 1t, old why to supply the County-iianso
and It's nxtlEarics IL to e,c 10 nmcndct NJ III re-
qIisc really great tnan to supervise thu entire
1on And this supervisor Is e. s ,a tnan OF e1
nni not a,irnrtsc.t that tlle tienefal's nattve
f,tAlcatY prevented him from nA!ulnG tho uual-
lied man; | hare no tlo.ibt that lie Will consent
to @ II at ts f%SHsn te nanoo 1eFt TO
state that tho systcni nt contracting for ct'unty
suppltes l.as hcen failure.
It always 80 hnppcns TINT when contract u
let ior spnynx tA' eoanty s WIN a51 M Is
trtutul Ut aotnc or many Of thosc who have tho
letting of such contr.et, md henco we SEQ
sprontft.g out IN al! directions intamlcs TINT
] r. s sssks .c 0' ". ~ ani s' no sseni eenrae t.
for county supplies 10 cxte,Hl beyond prcss,;
ent requirements. Tho market has at all
times abundant supplies for tho cotlnsyh ncces"
term longer thnn it's prcsont necessities. the
contractor will, II lie 1s Ills coil. .ract ,1nprot-
into liquidation BY tint now fashionable method
Of paying u,lr Just debts, mud thus will end tha
farca of contracting for county supplies. What
we most need 10 men who, III their ehimcity OF
county olctrs, will act rs they talk Just before
, 1877-12-03

tions, nnl VI. Ferry returns to l,is scat, ntfcr
rrrnktng for two and t.alf hours, with llnal
injunction to t1ie Cabinet, (which Inns l"rh
denounced to p'stcrtty by Ills voirr,' 10 f'c-
ware!
As a flrst consequence Of N. Fcrry's too ar.
1cnt cioquencc, io!ir MonarchIsts were elected
yesterday 10 ftl the raca,,rtc. in The Senate. 4
lev dass ago, thc, Senatorial Con.tIsntionalis.s
were tlnf decided to lnakr ron,snon caltso With
tho Republic. Four fcats h'st IN the Coo.f
rauso !nnv weigh as 1,casIlv ~ tho balance rs
forty, sh1ufti Apt.oEtt dissolution l'o really
nsket for. This evenings France. however, ~
ecrts that, notwithstanding these elections, tho
Constttutiona!.re IN tho ecnH,c llnvn just IL.
formed the Marshal. thrunGll the flnko a'Autltf
fret-rnsu,itcr, that thcv will fu1fow him m fur.
thcr N resistance. / cannot obtain any condf-
inAtOn of this Insertion.
had talk with
M. ALBERT 1REvT
Wednesday. ife kays that he believes the
Senate will refuse tccnnd dissolution, for fear
Of i,clptng tho Bnnapartisss into power. A
fresh dissolution woul'!, III N. Albert urcvy's
deliberate opinion, have hut one consequence
Revou.ionl The Republicans arc prcpnrcd to
faec all grcnt1nlltes.
nccl not dwell upon tho Importance Of such
n declaration, coming from al.ch q is,a.i.
JlAnEY ST. ttlEI1EI.,