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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23

ever means, Is trust or agency
which he must administer with fidelity
to the expressed will of his manufactures,
who are the majority Of the people.
That majority declared itself in favor of
the installation OF the spirit and body
of Samuel J. Tilden in the White
House, but the body OF Samuel, small as
1t is, had not the spirit to force itself
therein, and Hayes, having been showed
through the window on the shoulders of
Morton, Conkling and the rest, takes
possession and concludes to stay and so
administer the property that Tilden's
friends shall have no grounds of COM
plant. The rascals who used him as
Bill Sykes, old Pagan and the rest did
Oliver Twist, when they pushed him
through the transom that he might
open the door to the "big burglars"
should be foiled in their felonious de-
signs. Little Oliver turned traitor,
as did Hayes, peached on his principals,
and sought to condone his involuntary
agency in the burglary by assisting to
defeat and punish their nefarious plot.
Now, was not such treaehery q moral
duty Of Oliver and President Hayes
How else could he repair the wrong
done to the people and prevent the de-
feat and the diversion OF the trust which
Mr.. Tilden was entitled to but failed
to assume and discharge, unless he
administered the same in the spirit
in which Tilden was instructed to ad-
minister it /? And was it not the first
requirement of his mandate that he
should make corpses of the gang of
which Morton, Blaine, Butler, Cameron
ct al. were the Bill Sykeses and Fagans
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23
The New York sun, more prompt tina

The New York Sun, more prompt than
other daily journals Of that city, renders
full justice to our State securities and
to the wise and honest administration
which has attracted capital ard induced
permanent investment therein. The
following reference to our consols and
financial system evinees the Suns just
and intelligent view OF this subject
Not long ago the immense natural resources
Of Louisiana were described by o careful corre--
spondent Of the Sun, With good government
and an honest financial policy. Louisiana can
hardly fall TO prosper. We observe In come Of
our Republican contemporaries disposition to
depreciate Louisiana securities by chasing
them with the bonds Of States which have made
no adequate provision for the payment Of In
terest and the redemption OF principal. This
The bonded debt of the State is limited by the
constitution to s1B,o D9s. La point Of fat IL
In hardly over *lt 100000. BY the present
funding system the only constitutional bonds
isauabe ara the cons0ls. the interest on
which does not depend upjn any Legislative
made by coDstituticnal provision setting aside
for the purpose q bh mills tax entirely beyond
the reach OF any official or any department OF
the government This In deposited as soon Bs
collected, with the bank which acts as the States
Fiscal Agent and hlch has already guaranteed
the payment OF the Juy and January interest
We entertain n, apprehensions for the credit OF
Louisiana. Her great natural wealth and the
economical an honest administration Of Coy.
Nichols should give her securities good stand
Ing In the markets. nm apparent attempt to
bear those securities Ia the occasion OF these re-
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23

creased as the business Of the road
increases. The striking and irrefutable
fact then is presented to the public
that the Ne,o Orleans Pacific Raiiacay can
be built and equipped from Ne1o Orleans
to Shreveport and Marshall for four
millions t,vo hundred and eighty seUen
thousand sic hundred dollars.
This road, completed at this price, will
be the cheapest railroad in the United
States, the average cost of building and
equipping our existing roads having
been twenty eight thousand dollars per
mile. But the remarkably low estimate
of the cost Of this road is easily ex-
planned. The country presents
great advantages for railroad build
ing; much of the work has
been done and will continue to be done
by cheap convict labor; much other
labor will be required and employed,
but the cost of grading has been re-
duced fifty or sixty per cent. Besides
this, the cost Of material has been
immensely reduced. Thus, iron rails
formerly cost eighty dollars per ton ;
now steel rails may be purchased for
fifty dollars per ton the class OF loco
motives which formerly cost $4,000 are
now worth only $4,000; box cars for
merly cost $500, now the price is but
$400. Everything else pertaining to
railroad building has undergone SINH
lar reduction. 1t is very easy to see
from these figures how railroad, the
estimated cost Of which was ten mil
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23
PRESIDENT HAYES AS OLIVER TWIST

What Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer means by
his elaborate and very peculiar letter
descriptive Of President Hayes policy
(printed in the DEMOCRAT Of yesterday
whether it Is written in bitter irony to
expose the Presidents ingratitude and
Inconsistency, or in covert commenda-
ton and approval, will puzzle all inge-
nious minds. We think, however, that
the Presidents champions may be able
to deduce from the statement and the
conclusions Of this mystical German a
logical process through which the force
Of much OF the satire Of Pulitzer Is
greatly weakened.
Pulitzer's main proposition is that
Hayes got into the presidency through
the fraud Of his own party; that he
Is the conscious receiver Of sto-
len goods; that he has administered
these goods in the interest Of the party
from which they were stolen; that he has
made "dead corpse" Of the principal
thief and has, while excluding Samuel
J. Tilden from physical possession Of
the place to which he was justly enti-
tied, installed therein the spirit Of
which that eminent citizen was the in
adequate embodiment. He has done
more than that; he has expelled the
chief perpetrators of the fraud Of the
party in the electoral villainy; has bro
ken the spell of the bloody shirt and
silenced the cry of REBEL" etc.
To all Of which the supporters Of
Hayes have this ready and logical
answer:
The President Of the United States
does not receive the office, nor does he
administer it, as mere personal gift,
purchase or endowment, nor is he
expected or required by any ethical
law to recognize any obligations of graf
itude towards the party or towards indi-
viduals who may have aided in elevat-
ing him to this position, by whatever
methods. His highest and strongest
obligation is to recognize and carry
out the will Of the majority Of the
people OF the United States; the
Office he has obtained, by what
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23

We have had occasion before to no.
tice the eminent qualities Of U. s. Grant
as writer of English. We find, how
ever, that we have never done him full
justice. The recent letter Of Mr.. Grant to
Mr,Childs, describing the workings Of his
noble heart and powerful brain, under
the pressure of English snobbery. is
simply sublime. He says;
love TO see our country honored aud respec-
ted abroad, and am proud to believe that 1t Is
by most all nations, and by some even loved. 1t
between England and the United States abated
and every sore heaiod. They ara more power
full for the spread of commerce and civilization
than all others combined and can do more to
remove causes OF wars by creating mutual in
tarests that would be so much DESTROYED by
war
Now, the touching patriotism which
glows throughout this eloquent express
sion Of condescending interest in "our
country" In one who has given so much
talent, self-denying labor and unre-
Quilted energy to its service, is beautiful.
It even suggests an increase of salary,
a gift from the bankers, or some paid
up stock, you know. But when we are
given il the closing paragraph the
sweet picture of ''jealousies between
England and the United States abated
and every sore healed'-as being more
powerful for the spread OF commerce
and civilization than all others COM
bined"-we feel how great a thing is
the English language-when we'll used
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23

The owners OF houses, and all people
engaged In trade, complain Of the hard
times aud pathetically inquire when
thore will be change, revival OF
business and hope in this city. We
can answer this inquiry by saying
''when the stock subscription Of the
New Orleans Pacific railroad is COM
pleted to the sum demanded to render
that enterprise speedy certainty"
Considering that there are seventeen
millions on deposit In our banks, we mar
vel that weeks delay should occur in
making up the comparatively small sum
required by the managers to fulfill their
pledges to the people to complete this
road In time to participate In next sea-
sons business.
The mere assurance Of such result
will impart new life TO every branch OF
trade and business, attract new cap
ital. increase immigration and give
enhanced value to every species Of pro-
perty.
Capitalists and property holders Of
New Orleans, rouse yourselves from your
lethargy and lend q hand to bring back
the trade which belongs to this city and
has been diverted from 1t as result Of
that lethargy and lack OF enterprise
go to the meeting tonight at st. Pat
rick's Hall and aid by all means in your
power the president and directors OF the
New Orleans Pacific In their patriotic
efforts to build that great road.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23
The Pit MICkS.

This Club. composed of some of the most
prominent citizens Of this community, have the
pleasure Of announcing to their many friends
that their First Complimentary Entertainment
will take pace, as designated, June 80. Ap-
plications for invitations will be promptly at
tended to by the genial Secretary of the Club,
Mr.. EUG. DHERETE, at No. 40 st. Ann street.
1Ia
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23
DIED:

DE ARMAS-Ye Yesterday evening, at ~ O'clock,
de Armas, a native Of France. aged 81 years.
Her friends and those of de Armas, Villarru-
bia, Ducros and dHemecourt families. are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral, which
will take place at Al O'Clock To-Day. from her
late residence. 4ss Royal street. between Spain
and Lafayette Avenue. Third District.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-23
The ROLL OF HONOR,

REVISED AND COMPLETE.
Price 10 cents. Now ready. For sale at all the
Book stores. ie23 ct 2p
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-31
A MurderOus Maniac.

In Spalato, village of Dalmatia, a
wealthy ''proprietaire," named Giovanni
Tonic, occupied a house on the Borgo
Grande, opposite the parish church of
Santa Croce On the Goth of March, in a
furious tit of rage, he fell upon his wife,
with knife, inflicting such frightful
wounds that the poor woman succumbed.
her father, who interfered on her behalf,
likewise fell victim to the madman's
murderous blade When the police ar
rived at the scene of the tragedy to arrest
the murderer, they found all the issues of
the house barricaded. Tonic had in
trcnched himself against all corners, and,
armed with gun and abundant ammuni-
ton, fired on every one who attempted to
approach the house. The police retired
before this fusillade to consult. \ young
man, crossing the square at the time, then
attracted the madman's attention, and he
fired at him, bringing him down. The
next victim was a woman who was COM
ing from the church.
She received IA severe wound, but man
aged to get off. The gendarmes surround
ed the house on three sides, effectually
cutting off all means of escape for the
man inside The front of the house,
which commanded the plaza in front of
the church and the streets opening on it,
was closely watched. For fear of the man
inside, no one dared attempt to rescue the
corpse of the young man who had been
shot, and which lay purifying in the sun.
Finally the cure of Santa Croce, who had
considerable influence with the murderer
proposed to parley with him. As the
brave priest advanced toward the house,
Tonic ceased popping away at every head
that showed itself, and greeted him re-
spectfully. The priest asked him to send
out his little daughter, child of two
wears. whom he had barricaded in the
house along with himself. For answer
the inhuman father tossed the limbs of
the child into the street one by one.
The poor little one had actually been
cut to pieces. Tonic then resumed his
cannoade, and for twenty four hours
more kept the entire armed force of
Spalato at bay. The authorities refused
permission for the gend'drmes to fire on
him, alleging that he was crazy, and not
responsible for his acts. All that was
left for them was to blockade the house
and starve him out. During the block
ade one comic incident occurred. In the
night, in the midst of the deathlike
silence which prevailed in the neighbor-
hood of the singular battlefield, voice
could he occasionally heard from the
church piteously begging for bread. The
speaker was the sacristan who had gone
into the church ON the day of the tragedy
to ring the "Angelus," and had been
there when the shooting began. As the
only exit from the sacred edifice was
under fire from Tonnes barricade the
poor sexton dared not venture forth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-31
The Oriental Business.

A good citizen of Crogham street was
reading the other day of a good Persian
gentleman who always walked about
with a smile on his face. When this
Persian was asked why he always looked
so happy when other men looked sad he
replied:
Il smile because it may be sunshine
to some poor soul surrounded by
shadows.
II was very nice in the Persian, and the
Croghan street man said he'd be banged
if he couldn't outsmile the Persian or any
body else walking around on two legs.
He at once began to smile at his wife.
She stood it for few minutes, and then
observed:
whats the matter, William got the
collie again"
II smile because want to carry sun
shine to your darkened soul, he
replied.
She wanted him TO understand that fif-
teen minutes at the wood pile would
help her more than all the grins he could
grin in "a straight week, and when he
went into the kitchen to smile some sun
shine at the hired girl the wife followed
lAlIn anu u a ltn NidN But
three-quarters of an hour behindhand.
However, one can't get the hang of 0rien-
tai business in day, and this man tried
it again ON the street car as he came down
town yesterday. Opposite him sat an
old woman with basket, and he under
took to smile the shadows from her heart
She watched him for two or three min
utes, growing mad all the time, and pres
emily she asked:
DO YOU think you know me, that you
are grinning across the aisle, like circus
babOon."
Il smile, madam, because-because :
he stammered, forgetting what the
Persian said. Il smile because -
You are grinning because Nv got
sore eyes, she shouted.
mo, madam, l smile that THAI
T.
III not stand itln she cried, and she
hammered him with the basket until be
escaped off the platform.
Now grin over that, will you she
called after him as she shook the basket
in the air.
The Persian who went around smil-
/ ing was fool and I'm his first cousin y
growled the man, and he quit smiling
! and picked fight with harness maker
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-31
!. Who could have done II 50 wcll!'

Who could have done it so welll1
Thus. from feeling of diseased vanity
] be had deliberately sacrificed friends, for.
tune and position, smlrching his good
name and earning nothing but a fellon's
I doom.
When asked how he had contrived &c
I keep the seals unbroken, he answered
with contemptuous laugh;
Why, / got piece Of watch spring,
/ Strengthened il out, and took it with me
| to the bank. There / heated it in the
flame of a candle. and sliding the hot,
+ thin steel carefully along under each seal,
/ cut off the top of il very neatly, and
laid It aside until / had done what
wanted, and then. by relocating the wax,
easily replaced the seal
\ man named Bottonly, who owned a
wooden mill not far off, having heard of
this confession. thought that he also could
get some information from Jerry Larned
that he had long desired to have. For
some time this man had noticed that, in
spite of his buying a superior wool, his
goods had all the appearance OF having
been made from inferior materials.
He concluded to examine his wool
sacks at short intervals, and see if any
change took place.
lie found TO his establishment that the
very bags he had seen with his own eyes
full of the best wool showed, on a second
visit wool that was decidedly inferior,
yet the exterior of the bags seemed all
right
He concluded to set watch when Re
bought his next lot, so as to find out W
had changed it.
The man he hired for this purpose saw
a wagon, with two men in il, coming to-
ward the mill about midnight, and ran
across to the house for help.
Unfortunately the men in the wagon
saw him, and, turning around, drove flu
riously away.
Suspecting now that Jerry Larned
might have been this skillful operator, he
went to the prison TO inquire of him
about it,
Jerry confessed with laugh, and
seemed as foolishly vain of this exploit
as his brother had been of the bank rob
berry.
Thus these two men. though wealthy
and respected, either could not, or did
not resist temptation, and went down
from their high and enjoyable position in
society to all the disgraces and diseom-
forts of a cOnvict's life, tending to confirm
the views of those who consider all wrong
doing as insanity, and that the proper
punishment for crime is to cure the crimi-
nails disease.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-31
Worn Out Land.

Those farmers who have fields of worn
out land-and who have not!-and have
no means of adequately manuiing them,
can make at least one profitable crop on
the same by adopting this course
Tomatoes are most admirably adapted to
be grown or worn out land. For field
or garden crop, the plants should not be
set nearer than six feet apart. Put a
half-busllel of well rottcd manure, thor
oughly mixed with the poor soil, in the
spots where the tomato plants arc to be
set (the surface of these prepared spots
being about two and half feet in diam
teri, will insure just that healthy growth
which cultivator is always so glad to
see At first the roots of the plants will
luxuriate in the fertilized soil, but after
ward they will have travelled to the outer
limits of the rich earth and begin to pene-
trate the thoroughly poor soil.
This will check the luxuriant growth,
and tend to induce fruitlessness in the
plant, and afford a large and profitable
crop. Besides that, the plants, put out in
this way, will completely cover the soil,
which also has a highly beneficial effect,
so much so that the field may be plowed
shallow the succeeding fall and thoroughly
narrowed, and then, very early in the
spring, clover seed can be scattered over
it with an almost positive certainty that
a good set of clover will be the result.
Besides, manuring poor field in spots
six feet apart each way is much easier
task than thoroughly manuring the en-
tire surface of such field. An acre set
six feet apart each way will contain 1,21O
tomato plants; they will be set in rich
earth, and it will not be difficult to esti-
mate the yield that may be reasonably
expected from an acre thus presented
Southern Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-31
corr. and Pork.

There have been various careful tests
as to how much pork bushel of corn
will make. 1t seems to be conceded that
with the best breed ofhogs and the great
est care in feeding, there may be certainly
three and half pounds to the bushel.
With this data it is easy for farmer to
know what he is doing, as well as what is
best TO do. He will see at once, if corn
is twenty-five cents per bushel and hogs
five cents, he should sell hogs and not
corn. But ifcorn is fifty cents and hogs
five cents, it is more profitable to sell
corn. Corn at fortv-five cents and pork
at five cents, they are equal. And in this
way farmer can easily decide what to
do. Or in other words, find out what he
can obtain for his corn, then divide the
price of corn by eight and half, and he
can at once sec which is the most profit
able. Pork ought to be the standard by
which to ascertain the price of corn, and
not by what they will give at the railroad
station. We have said, frequently, that
most farmers do not know whether they
are making or losing money, for the rea-
son they do not make any effort 10 know
what their wheat, corn, pork or beef costs.
But when they have the raw material on
hand they should carefully ascertain what
is best to do with it. And the rule which
we here present to them will solve the
question of what to do with their corn
| In these calculations we make no allow
ance for poor breeds of hogs, or for care
less or indifferent quarters for the comfort
and improvement of the animals All
these must be taken into account. Some
men, by a slip-shod system of feeding and
bad treatment, do not get five cents pei
/ per bushel for corn. of such we are not
writing or calculating. We are figuring
for the careful and prudent man, who I'M
derstand his business.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-31
RED RIDING-HOOD.
RYI.a. WHITTIER.

On the wide lawn the snow lay deep,
Ridged DER with many drifted heap;
The wind that through the pine trees sung
The naked elm trees tossed and swung,
While, through the window, frosty stirred,
Against the sunset purple-barred,
We saw the sombre crow flap by,
The hawks great fieck along the sky,
The crested blue jay fitting swift,
The squirrel posing on the drift,
Erect alert, his thick gray tail
Set TO the north wind like a sail
1t came to pass, our little lass,
With fiattened face against the glass,
And eyes in which the tender dew
OF pity shone, stood gazing through
The narrow space her rosy lips
Had melted from the frost's eclipse;
"Oh, seer she cried, +" the poor blue jays!
What is it that the black crow says:
The squirrel lifts his little legs
Because he has no hands, and begs;
He's asking for my nuts, know;
May not feed them ON the SNOWY
Half lost within her boots, her head
Warm sheltered in her hood of red,
Her plaid skirt close about her drawn,
She fiOundered down the wintry lawn;
Now struggling through the misty veil
Blown round her by the shricking gale;
Now sinking in drift so low
Her scarlet hood could scarcely show
Its dash OF color on the snow.
She dropped for bird and beast forlorn
Herlittle stock of nuts and corn.
And thus her timid guests bespoke:
"COme, squirrel, from your hollow oak
Come, black old crow-eome, poor blue jay,
Before your supper's blown away!
Don't be afraid; we all are good;
And I'm mammals Red Riding Hood"
o, Thou, whose care is over all,
Who heedst cen the sparrOw's fall,
Keep in the little maidcn's breast
The pity which is now its guestl
Let not her cultured years make less
The childhood charm of tenderness,
But let her feel as well as know
Nor harder with her polish grow
UumOyed by sentimental grief
That walls along some printed leaf,
But, prompt with kindly word and deed,
To own the claims of all who need,
Let the grown wOman's self make good
The nrOmise of Red Riding Hood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-05-31
The Torture of Bearing-Reins.

The severe bearing-rein. as USED by
cOachmen generally, Is nothing more nor
less than horrible and needless torture TO
the poor suffering hOrse-torture while
in harness and the cause of internal
maladies when he is put back into his
stall for food and supposed rest. Ifthere
IS one thing more opposed to natural
health than another it is the increased
production and then the waste of the
saliva which is so necessary to the func-
tons of the body. Who ever saw a prop
erIy bitted hunter do so when ridden to
hounds In an easy bit and obedient TO a
light handi / never saw 1t, nor do
think any one else has seen it; therefore,
TO begin with, the position of the car
rage horses head, gagged with bearing
rein out.of place, and that profusion of
saliva ever falling from the mouth, must