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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-01
HIS SILVERWARE

cannot be excelled. He draws his entire stock
from THE WELL-KNOWN GORHAM FAC
TORY, the largest sterling silver factory in the
world. EVERY PIECE of silverware is made to
his order. the same bearing his stamp. and can
be had in any style. You will also find this fall
in his establishment the finest stock Of Parian
marble statuary ever before seen in New Or
leans. Also the richest assortment Of
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-01
WAGONS! CANE CARTS! SPOKES
H. NJ. soRIA,

streets.
Sole Agent for the Celebrated "STUDEBA-
KER" WAGONS, CARTS and SPRING WORK
of all kinds and sizes.
Dealer In Philadelphia and Western Cane
Wagons, Carts and Drays; Timber Wheels ;
Wheelbarrows of all descriptions Spokes, Fell
loes, Hubs, Shafts. etc. Wheelwright material.
Orders promptly filed ALI work warranted.
al2 I'm
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-01
Quick Sales and Small Profits.

intend to sell any longer like the balance Of our
jewellers. who usually charge thirty or forty per
cent profit on their goods, but is willing to sell
any and every article in his establishment at
private sale or at auction with TWO AND A
HALF TO FIVE PER CENT PROFIT, and
through his late experience has found great
Improvement in his sales. which accounts for
his making great preparation for
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-01
TRADE OF NEW ORLEANS WITH
SPANISH AMERICA.

The location of New Orleans at the con.
fiuence and embouehure OF more than 10000
m iles of navigable river made 1T the natural
antrepot and point of transhipment for the
water-borne commerce between the interior
West and the Atlantic and foreign markets.
II was the suspension of this right by the
Spanish government of Louisiana which COM
PEELED the purchase of that province. The
successful substitution OF artificial for nat
mral ways of transportation has 80 far neu-
tralized these natural advantages OF position
ms 10 have reduced our export and import OF
Western commodities to small and d.
diminishing proportion of their former
amount, while the rival outports of the
Eastern Atlantic have increased their COM
merce in the direct ratio Of our loss.
It liz thus that New Orleans the CONSTANT
nople Of this continent, seated almost mid
way between the production of provisions
and manufactures at the North and the
great tropical necessities OF civilization, sits
isolated and insulated, while the precious
commerce is swept triumphantly around her
into the Golfers of her sagacous competitors.
This pcrversion Of trade reflects no reproach
Iap0n the merchants of New Orleans for two
reasons, First-It Is the result of revolu-
tion which has pervaded the whole CONNER
cial world Second-The sail vessel has SUI
fered from the superior facilities offered by
the steamer, and all the principal rivers in
Europe and America have surrendered, in
great part the travel and carrying trade to
the railroads. tits only necessary to examine
theelaborate and authenticated reports of the
Federal government to see that the direct
or latitudinal trade between the East and West
mas been permanently established across the
mountains, the rivers, the continent and the
oceans.
We may employ an authentic summary of
this movement, taken from the recent speech
Of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The entire tons passing any point on the
mississippi river is 100000.
The tons passing the lakes is .... 100000
M
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
NOTICE EXTRA.

On the first week OF each imonth commence
ing in November, bills up to the first of the
month whether small or large ,1ill be present.
ed for payment unless u previous arrangement
is made for longer credit.
o. L. RICHMOND.
Woodstock, Sept 4, 1876.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
POET r. Y.
Pig in the Pot.

Young Paddy McChane-sure as no lad could
be bolder,
Coaxed Biddy O'Shea to bo sharing his lot !;
And Pat had q lively young pig on his shoulder,
And she ON her head bore big iron pot.
From the town, just at nightfall, at home they
were walking
Through dark lonely thicke their winding
path lay
Biddy set down the pot, stopped her laughing
and talking,
Paddy turned round and axed the cause Of
delay.
"Och, said she, I'm afraid ye'll be acting
uncivil--
I'll not go alone through the thicket with
you;
For, Paddy avick, you're as wild as the devil
You'll be kissing and squazing me, that's
what yell do"
"But the pig" replied Pat, "that I've lugged
30 securely,
|, loose, back to town like the devil he d
trot,"
"Och Paddy" said she, as she looked demurely,
"sure couldn't ye put the pig under the
pot ?"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
NORTHERN RAILROAD.

1876, WINTER ARRANGEMENT 1876
IN and after Dec. 4, 1876, Passenger Train
" will run as follows
UPWARD TRAINS.
Day Express Train leaves Concord at l0.47
A,M.* and Accommodation Train at 1852
A.Mtfor White River Junction, connecting
ith train for Well River, st. Johnsbury,
warton, Newport, Willoughby and Magog
Bakes, stanstead, Quebec, Bath, Littlcton,
Lancaster, and theWhite and Franconia
Mountains. Also, withtrains for Mont
pelier, Mansfield Mountain, Burlington, st.
Albans, Rouse's Point, Montreal, Ogdens
burgh, and the West.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Concord at
$3.50 P. H." for White River Junction & Bristol.
EVENING EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Concord
at S.45 P. NJ. for White River Junction, con-
Meeting with trains for Montpelier, Burling-
ton, st. Adams, Rouse's Point, Montreal,
Ogdensburgh, and the West. and with Wood
stock Il. X. for Quechee, Woodstock, etc.
*Or on arrival oil trains from Bostn, Woor-
cester, Portsmouth, Portland, &c.
DOWNWARD TRAINS
INFORMING EXPRESS TRAINleaves White
River junction for Concord at l.50 A. NJ, or on
arrival Of trains from Ogdensburgh and Mon
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves White X.
junction for Concord at 600 A. N.
tBRIsToL TRAIN leaves Bristol for Concord
at $50 A. NJ. and Franklin at 9.05 A. NJ.
rMAIL TRAIN leaves White River junction
for Concord ut 1926 P. NJ, or on arrival OF
trains over the Vermont Central, Passumpsic,
and White Mountains Railroads.
DAY EXPRESS TRAM leaves White River
junction at 5.l4 r. NJ, or on arrival of trains
from Montreal and Ogdensburgh, Brattle.
boro, Keene, Bellows Falls, Windsor, &C.,
connecting at Concord with train for Man
chester, Nashua, Lowell and Boston.
tThese trains connect ut Concord with
trains tor Manchester, Lawrence, Ports
mouth, Portland, Nashua, Worcester, New
Y ork, Lowell, ard Boston.
GEO. L. TODD, Supt.
Concord, N. H., Dec. lst, 1876.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
A WOman's Friendship.

1t is a wondrous advantage to man,
in every pursuit or vocation, to secure
an adviser in 4 sensible woman. In
women there is at once a subtle deli
cacy of tact and a plain soundness Of
judgment which are rarely combined
to an equal degree in man. A woman,
if she be really your friend, will have
a sensible :egard for your character,
honor and repute. She will seldom
counsel you to Go shabby thing, for
a woman friend always desires to be
proud ofyou, at the same time, her
constitutional timidty makes her more
cautious than your male friend. She.
therefore, seldom counsels you to do
an imprudent thing. A mans best
female friend is a wife of good sense
and heart, whom he loves, and who
loves him. Bat, supposing the man
to be without such Il he]pmate, female
friendship he must have, or his intel
lect will be without a garden, and
there will be an unbeeded gap even in
the strongest fence. Better and safer,
Of course, are such friendships where
disparity of years Or circumstancesput
the idea oflove out of the question.
Middle age has rarely this advantage !;
youth and old age have. We may
have female friendship with those
much older and those much younger
than ourselves. Female friendship is
to man the bulwark, sweetness, orna-
ment of his existence.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

One evening recently the friends
of a married couple up in Chillicothe.
determined to give them surprise
party. To this end, twelve couples Of
young ladies and gentlemen with well
filled baskets, made their appearance
before the house about nine o'clock.
AS they came up to the door they saw
tn. gentleman standing in the alleyway
smoking cigar, and the parlor was
all lighted up. This struck them as
rather singular, but the leader grabbed
the door knob, and they rushed hilari-
ously in. The gas was burning bright
ly, and six dignifed old ladies' were
sitting around the stove, looking as
solemn as grand inquisitors.
"Oh, my ! where's Matte? shouted
one exhuberaut young lady, setting
her basket on the piano.
"She's up stairs said an old lady,
looEing over her spectacles with solemn
acrimony.
Lets have her down. screamed
halt dozen in chorus, and they made
a break for the hall.
"Here, girls, girls, don't 60 up
there p and the old ladies made Il
L~,'y attempt to check the proposed
raid
"Why, what on ear!hs the matter
here anyhow y inquired the impatient
darlings.
"Well, I believe its boy"
"Oh, let's go!
And that company of nice young
men and women moved away like a
soap bubble in hurricane, and the
girls never stopped for beaux or bask
cts, but stuffed their handkechiefs in
their mouths to hold their breath
down till they were safe behind their
own doors, and not girl in the
Fourth ward knows where Matte
lives.-Detrot Free Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

An exchange says that Mr.. Neal
Dow, the father OF prohibition, is re-
ported to have told Maine audience
some nights ago that if he could have
his way he would make the selling a
glass of cider punishable with hang
ing, on the first offence The Maine
Legislature is not yet ready to go quite
as far as that, but the extreme and
frantic demands of Mr.. Dow end 9th
er heated apostles of prohibition have
not been wholly unheeded at the State
capital.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Keeping Hams.

Farmers are often troubled about
how to keep hams in the summer.
We have tried good many ways, and
have failed in keeping them nicely.
The smoke though hidden
away in among the apple trees that
lay their 1.-THE limbs lovingly over,
above, and around it, is still too warm;
the wide roomy cellar too damp, and
the shop, though cold and airy, being
the large tbird-story of the old house,"
too light.
A good neighbor, who knows all
about it, tells me that he always packs
hams in the early spring time, before
the flies come, in box, with all the
interstices between the hams filled up
with some course, dry salt that he has
used for many years for the same pur-
pose salt that comes out of fish bar
rels. He washes and dries it thorough.
ly first, He keeps the box in his barn
in a cool, airy place.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
lsEPLEVlN.
BY MARGARET yANDEGRIFT.

He was youth all simpleness.
And she maiden full Of wiles
How could the rustic ever guess
That mischief lurked beneath puch smiles
She did not wish his heart to break
For past.me ere she went to town.
But just to keep herself awake,
And win, perhaps somo slight renown.
She frted with him at the well,
She firted with him in the wagon,
And at her meals-though, truth to tell,
His mother watched her like adragon.
He cut her pencils when she drew,
He cut her name on several beeches-
In fact he did the best he knew,
And racked his brain for pretty speeches.
The thing went on some little while,
Until at last the maid grew weary;
She could not always raise smile,
The country, too, was growing dreary;
She thought she'd try new effect.
Ind 50, without the slightest warning,
She she said to her firtee-elect,
"I'm going home tomorrow morning"
She scanned his face for signs of grief,
But what she saw surprised her, slightly;
A look OF IN ,st intense relief
Appeared there, and he answered brightly
'I'na thankful no. 1 maan TO say,
lhope you'll find some other fellows
To tiirt with, if you come our way
Again, for Sue 5 most awful jealous!
"1've tried to tell you, but somehow
always felt SO dreadful sheepish,
You see, we're promised, Sue and me
She's bright, though she's not had much
schooling
She said last night she'd set me free,
Unless I'd say I'd quit this fooling
"Of course l said would, but then
wondered what you'd think about me,
thought I'd catch it, sure, again,
You seemed so lonesome-like without me.
never thought that you might hear
From some one else of my engagement,
But Mas been telling you, it's clear "
+ y
He wondered what her look Of rage meant
-''Bric a. Brac )" Scribner for april.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

30, that's true. But you might
eh or you might-eh ?" and here
his wits failed him there are so few
grand things that people can do III the
hope of cheating others into the belief
that they are working for fun rather
than from necessity. But soon the
old gentleman added 1t was the tru-
est word hd ever uttered:
81 declare, I'm afraid to go home,
lest it has reached your mothers
ears y
The proud woman soon heard of 1t,
and she talked angrily about what
Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Col. West, and
that proud Miss Allen would
say, and she was almost inclined to
think it would be better to give Love
five hundred dollars than to be dis.
graced in society.
'Love wouldn't take any money"
replied the old man whose attitude
during the conversation was that of
one caught OUT in cutting hail,storm
without an umbrella.
'Dreadful independent for anybody
that's penniless," cried the old lady.
Love and her stout Irish helper
went to work at once, and very soon
the china closet, and next the neat lit.
tie dining room were filled with glass
jars through which tiny green cucum-
bers and onions and everything nice
in that line was peepiug, Or, as Love
said, Smiling on the family
The business went on bravely y, and
in one year Loves husband, who was
partially restored to health, forsook
the bed and took charge Of it, and she
went back to the nursery--every good
mothers place when Providence
doesn't call her out of it.
This IS no pretty fiction to teach
young folks that ''where there's will
there's a way" 1t is true story Of {
brave little woman, and we can tel
you the street and number of tho
large store in a certain city, not tal
away, where her enterprislng husband
has built up large business, and made
not little money.
He says that if Love had neve
learned to make pickles, or mad beer
too proud to make them for Others, il
his dark time, he should have been II
his grave five years ago.
Who thinks less of her for doing it
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

When proposing to widow, the
question whether her first husband is
dead or divorced should be put as del
lcately as possible.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04

"A honest farmer being asked why
he did not subscribe for newspaper,
explained, "Because my father, when
he died, left me good many newspa-
pers, and / have not read them
through yet"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
FRANK WILLIAMSON,
SLATE AND TIN R00FER.

Stock furnished and all kinds of work thor
oughly done at lowest cash prices. Leaky
roofs repaired. Address, (1764.]
B0x 331,iWOodstock, W.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Pi m le s -!

will mail (Free) the recipe for preparing
u simple VEGETABLE BALM that vii! remove
TAN. FRECKLES, PIMPLES, and BLoTcH-
Es, leaving the skin soft, clear and beautiful !;
also instructions for producing luxuriant
growth of hair on bald head or smooth face.
Address Ben. Yandelf Il Co., Box 5l2l, No b
Wooster St., N. Y.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
Meat Market.

r1lHE undersigned having purchased the in
l terest of b. II. PINNEY in the
Meat and Provision Business,
will continue the business at the Store re-
Gently occupied by Richmond & Pinney.
Thankful for past favors, he hopes for a con-
tinuance OF patronage such as his efforts to
keep good market merits.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-04
WHOLE NO. 1902.
April characteristics.

APRIL, at its best, is the tenderAst
Of tender salads. Its type is the first
spear of grass. The senses-sight,
hearing, smell-are as hungry for lis
delicate and almost spiritual tokens,
as the cattle are for the first bite of its
fields. How it touches one and makes
him both glad and sad ! The voices
Of the arriving birds, the migrating
fowls, the clouds of pigeons sweeping
across the sky or filling the woods, the
elfn horn of the first honey-bee vent
urug abroad in the middle of the day,
the clear piping of the little frogs in
the marshes at sundown, the campfire
in the sugar-bush, the smoke seen afar
rising over the trees, the tinge of
green that comes so suddenly on the
sunny knobs ard slopes, the full
translucent streams, the waxing anG
warming sun,-how these things and
others like them are noted by the eager
eye and ear April is my natal
month, and | am born again into new
delight and new surprises at each re.
turn of it. Its two syllables are like
the calls of the first birds-llke that of
the Ppbe- bird, or Of the meadow-lark
Its very SHOWS are fertilizing, and are
called the poor mans manure.
Then its odors ! am thrilled by
its fresh and indescribable odors-the
perfume of the bursting sod, of the
quickened roots and rootlets, of the
mold under the leaves, of the fresh
furrows No other month has odors
like it. The west wind the other day
came fraught with perfume that was
to the sense of smell what wild and
delicate strain OF music is to the ear.
1t was almost transcen1ental. [ walk
ed across the hill with my nose in the
air taking it in. 1t lasted for two
days. l imagined it came from the
willows of a distant swamp, whose
catkins were atfordiDg the bees their
first pollen,-or did it come from
much farther-from beyond the hori-
zon, the accumulated breath Of innu.
merable farms and budding forests =!
The main characteristic of these April
odors is their uncloying freshness.
They are not sweet, they are oftener
bitter, they are penetrating and lyri-
cal. | know well the odors of May
and June, of the world of meadows
and orchards bursting into bloom, but
they are not so inetfable and inmate.
rial and so stimulating to the sense as
the incense of April.
One characteristic April feature,
and one that delights me very much,
is the perfect emerald of the spring
runs while the fields are yet brown
sere, e,-strips and patches Of the most
vivid velvet green on the slopes and
in the valleys. How the eye grazes
there and is filled and refreshed |
had forgotten what a marked feature
this was until | recently rode in an
open wagon for three days through u
mountainous, pastoral country, re-
markable for its fine springs. Those
delicious green patches are yet i'll my
eye. The fountains flowed with May.
Where no springs occurred, there
were hints and suggestions of springs
about the fields and by the roadside
in the ireshened grass-sometimes
overfowing space in the form of an
actual fountain. The water did not
quite get to the surface in such places,
but sent its influence. John Bur-
~
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-01-14
A GRAVE n11srAIlE.

The Reese Rivor RepeiYe IL OF tho
opinion that If Blaine had been tho
choice Of the Cincinnati Convention for
President, the Republican party would
have marched TO an easy victory. How
tho Rereitie arrives at such conclusion
~ difficult to surmiBe, when according
10 its own argument, sufficient hostility
towards him existed in the Convention
to defeat him even for tho nomination,
and docs my ono suppose that tho same
influence would not hive opposed his
election; furthermore, Mr.. Blaine was not
popular with the mass Of tho pnrty ;truc,
with certain element in the party he
stood par ereeilenee, nnd had his elevation
depended upon tho vote OF Maine, or
even the aggregate voto Of the East
crn States, no might havo boon
successful, but tho fact ID generally
knuwn-nnd outside Of his intimate
friends and personal admirers, generally
ndmitted--ihat Blaine was n weak mnu
before the people. Tho fact is that
Hayes. nfter his Endorsement of Grant i
administration, WINS tho strongost man
tho Republicans could havo presented
for tho suffrNges OF their ontiro pnrty.
Had even Mr., Bristow been tho choice
OF tho Convention, the support he would
have received from tho Democrats
would hAVo been fully countcrbnlanccd
by The opposition Of tho Administration
aud It's ndhetents.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-01-14

alviccs from Washington before falling
any further action.
Another member of tho Republican
House has just been sworn in as II mcn-
Der Of the Democratic Heuse. The
Democratic Legislature had another
ballot for United States Senator without
II choice. ~ g.
LONDON. Jun. 10.
a telegram from COnstnntinople dnted
Thursday evening says: ''It is stated
TINT ut to.day's sitting Of the confer
erce, Baron Yon werthcr declared in
the maine OF Germany, that no further
concession could DO madc. Tho Turk.
ish delegateSlidn't present to-day any
new project fLr All understanding. The
next sitting is fixed for Mondny, md il
is generally believed here that the
European plcniPotcntia will not then
present al ultimatum. but will make
fresh communication 10 the Porte md
finally summing up the intentions Of
the Powers. declaring this commuuirn.
ton 10 Dc the lust, and demanding TINT
categorical reply be given. AT the
sitting following. its presentation, if nh
understanding is then found to be inn
possible, the plcniputcntinrics would
quit"
CoSsTASTISopIE JIM 10
Tho Standards dispatch from Bel
grade says: General Sikitinc goes to
Gl"voda and NiLiline to Inspect the for
tiiications. Intelligence come from
bucharest That fresh mems Of transport
for troops, artillery. and AMMUNITION
arc arriving ut KischcnGT. The Car is
is expected there shortly"
LONDON, Jan. IL.
The Paris correspondent OF the Times
says: The statement is confirmed that
at the beginning of tho week, Bismarck
sent Baron fon Wcrtllcr very curt dis
patch critising the extreme slowncss Of
the conference, and declaring TINT The
plcntipotcntinrics had gone too fur in
their successive concessions to tho
Porte, and regretting that Wcrther had
Joined the concessionists. bismarck nj
the Same timo sent TO his Minister II
note directing him 10 communicate tho
dispatch to Lord Derby"
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-01-14
--s- - :
LOUISIANA,

According to yesterdays dispatches
Now Orleans is what would 10 termed
in this country q fright lively camp"
Tho Kellogg faeIi"n arc monoiolizing
tho State House, md Nichols cohorts
having imprnrised Capitol OF lhcir
own, yesterday took possession OF the
Supreme Court room, installed tho
Judges and then looking around for new
conquota, swoopcd down md took in
tho police stations. formerly held by
tho enemy. No powder wns burnt nor
blood split, but IN tho present condition
OF affairs, We very much fcnr that any
amount Of political sngncity will bc In.
sufficient TO control tho action Of n
people as "much" governed us are they
Of Louisiana.