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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-16
THE OHIO CONVENTION.

~ VIII Heiise 10 6ndOrse Hayes Policy.
baltimore Sum-
A letter received here to-day from
Ohio, written by q professional gentle.
man, who Is a Republican, but who has
never mixed in politics, says that the
Ohio Republican convention will refuse
to pass resolutions indorsing the Presi-
dent. The writer says that this will be
done because the convention will be
afrald, to shoulder such load and then
appeal TO the suffrages Of the Radical
voters Of the State.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-16

Barbarin gssight machines, carburators. etc.
20 oe SOD on THURSDAY, at IL O'Clock, by MeeTs,
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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-16
THE WAR In THE EAST.

The Policy to be Pursued by Great
Britain.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-16
THE SUEZ CANAL,
measures tn be Taken to Ensure It's Men.
traIify.

LONDON, May ia Paris dispatch
says. M. Lesseps had long interview
with the Duke de Cazes relative to the
measures to be taken to secure the neu-
trality of the Suez Canal during the
present war. The French shareholders
OF the canal seem to suspect the
Intentions Of the British feet
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
THE MAN WHO STOPS HIS PA
PER.

Phillip Gilbert Hamerton, in his ed
mirable pages on intellectual Life,
thus talks to the man who stopped his
paper:
Newspapers are to the civilized
world what the daily house talk is to
the members of the family-they keep
our daily interest in each other, they
save us from the evils of isolation. To
live as member of the great white
race that has filed Europe and Amer
lea, and conquered or occupied what
ever territory it has been pleased to
occupy; to share from day to day its
thoughts, its cares, its Inspirations
it is necessary that every man should
read his paper. Why are the French
peasants SO bewildered at sea? Be-
cause they never read newspaper.
Why are the inhabitants of the United
States, though scattered over terri
tory fourteen times the area of France,
so much more capable of concerted
action, SO much more interested in
new discoveries of all kinds, and ca
pable of selecting and utilizing the
best of them? 1t is because the
newspapers penetrate everywhere, and
even the lonely dweller on the prairie
or in the forest is not intellectually
isolated from the great currents OF
public life which flow through tele-
graph and press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

1t appears that New York City is
declining in population an business
slightly. Many conjectnres are in
dulged in by denizens thereof as to
the cause. The permanent decline
of New York, the great metropolis OF
America, would be thing to be re-
gretted by every public spirited man,
no matter where his residence. In
import business that city is not de-
clining but rather advancing. 1t ap-
pears from well written article in
last Scribner that 60 or 20 per cent of
all imports landed at Atlantic sea
boards is received through New York.
Her other trade is in thriving condi-
ton excepting grain. In the matter
of grain her trade has fallen off won-
derfully in the last few years, the
facilities and cheapness of shipping
by railway systems constructed with
in few years back, have made Balti-
more and Philadelphia great rivals of
New York in that trade. The Erie
Canal which ten years ago carried 40
per cent of all the grain shipped to
the Atlantic sea board, carries now
but Is per cent of it. The railroads
are shipping as cheaply and much
quicker than the Erie. This is doubt
less the key to New York's decline.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
swEETKATHLEEN OF KILKRN'
NV

We met in Ireland's shady groves,
But long I could not linger;
1 placed kiss on her sweet lips,
A ring upon her finger. J.
A parting smile she sweetly gave, s.
Disclosing pearls mid roses;
Both ring and smile are in the grave
Where she in peace reposes.
Tho time has changed my locks OF
gold,
And brought me changes many .
NV heart recalls with mem'ries old &
Sweet Kathleen of Kilkenny
The sweet brunette. with eyes of
jet
Sweet Kathleen of Kilkenny.
Her form was lithe---her lips like
dew
Her face, of classic beauty !.
Her soul shone through her eyes so
true,
And made my love duty.
No other name did / e'er learn,
1t was rs sweet as any;
But deep into my heart did burn
Sweet Kathleen of Kilkenny.
| ne'er shall see her as of old,
But mid the angels many
[ know she wears q crown of gold
Sweet Kathleen Of Kilkenny
That sweet brunette, with eyes of
JET
Dear Kathleen of Kilkenny.
---Yew York Mall.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
GOING TO BED.

The young girl trips gaily up to
her chamber, and with the cautious
timidity peculiar to her sex, first
locks the doors and arrAnges the win
dow curtains, 80 that by no possible
chance passer by, or q belated noe
turnal wanderer from the pavement
can catch glimpse Of her budding
beauty when en- dishabille. The task
completed, she turns on the gas TO
its full, and Institutes a general
search throughout the apartment that
she may be sure it does not contain q
sshorrible burglar" or a desperate
ruffian in big whiskers and crisp hair.
Carefully with her delicate little fin
gers she lifts the bed vaieace, peeps
into half emptied trunks, not forget
ting to glance nervously under the
sofa, the space between which and
the floor, is not sufficient to contain
the ghost of Calvin Edison, much less
an ordinary robber. Having ascer-
tanned that she is really alone. she
leisurely proceeds to divest her fair
form Of the silk and linen conyen-
tionalities or society. First, she re-
lieves her glossy hair of the pins and
combs which enthrali it and does it
up more compactly. Then off comes
the little collar anG the light vapory
cloud she calls undersleeves, which
| all the day have been clasping her
white plump arms, by a pair of India
rubber straps. Next the love OF a
spring silk dress is unfastened in
front. Then sundry strings, buttons
and hooks are loosened, and 10! what
a collapse, like Lows big balloon.
She stands like Saturn, the center oi
i rings; There they lie upon the car.
pet, patty covered by the linen nm
derfxings, with no more expression
lin them than there is in the door be.
4 meath the carpet
| She now sits upon the edge Of tht
snowy bed, and begins the unlacinf
tof CATERS, and the disrobing of thos,
Effair, swelling limbs Of the stockings
Il a.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
INFLUENCE OF BEN FRANKLIN.

'See here, old woman" Henry OBJ
served, with his eyes intently fixed on
a s'Poor Willis Almanac of 1927.
Snow, what is it?'' said Mrs.
Archibald, withoutl removing her
hands from the pie dough.
why, that great and good man,
Benjamin Franklin, who writ into this
almanac afore you was born, says
Never argue at home >"
"Of course not. Any fool might
know that
''But it's good idea of him, un-
withstanding."
''No, faint. / knowed that much
afore your old Ben Franklin was ever
thought Of
"Then why don't you try it on once
in a while?"
''Try what on?''
''Not arguing at home.''
"Who's arguing, I'd like to know!"
''Why, you are."
II ain t"
''You are.''
Il amt; you are; amt; 'yar;
'ain't; var; hain't-' yar-hain' var
hain't."
You, Martha,'' she screamed,
"wher's that poker? What on the
face of the air this the reason every
thing in the house is out Of the road
when it can do the most good?'
Henry made a break for the door,
but saw the movement, and grabbing
up lump of dough as big as water
melon she brought it down over his
head and gave it twist around his
neck, as though she was putting the
Finishing touches on an apple Dump
ling while Henry, blinded by the in-
voluntary mask, fed across the front
room only to fall out of the open win
dow, breaking the eggs he
had got for breakfast across the
sill, and dropping through
the open cellar door into the coal
pile, where the old woman held him
at bay with soft pumpkin pie, while
Martha scrubbed the dough out of
his ears and the smut off his nose
with the stove blacking brush she had
been using upstairs.
When Henry got out he eonfiden-
TALLY buttonholed Oxtoby and re-
marked, with cautious look over his
shoulder:
II always thought that Ben Frank
lin was fool, and now TIM convinc-
ed of it. "-Easton (pa. Free Press
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

&C her face 90 deathly pale, and Nitl
II heart eweraowiag with pity. spoks
out: s
"a ''Shall / bring you some water,
miss? You look sick.''
"AIind your own business! She ID
deaf and dumb" cried the most vii
lainous Of the two.
"She was not 30 deaf but she heard
your cowardly threat to cut her throat
IL she even breathed whisper" said
Jim boldly. ~ saw her trembIe from
head to foot when you made it, and ]
want her to understand that she has
friends here who will not see her
wrongedi"
"Friendsi Oh, where? Where
Save me-save mel" screamed the
Girl.
s.Herei shut mp, you crazy fool!''
cried the other man, and his hand
went over her mouth in a second,
while the other ruffian rose with his
hand in his plstol-pocket.
By this time Al. Price was on hand,
and as Tornado Jim reached over and
dealt the furthest ruffian tap on the
temple that made him drop his hands.
AL. had the nearest ruffian by the
throat.
In a second, though they resisted
madly, both men were powerless, and
the poor girl, assured of powerful pro-
lection, told her story.
She was q school-teacher near the
station where they had come upon the
train, and these men had seen her
some weeks before, when on some trip
into the interior. "
That morning, only short time
before the train came along, they
stopped before the school house in 8
carriage, rushed in, and forced her
out into the carriage, swearing if she
made the lie asst alarm OF opened he
lips till they gave her leave, they
would murder her on the spot. II
she kept still, she would find a rela-
| tive and q fortune when she arrived
at st. Louie.
Terror had kept her silent until the
hero of this story, satisfied she was
in bad hands, came to her rescue.
While the excitement on the car
was at its height, St. Louis detec.
tive came in from the smoking car,
where he had been watching a gam
bling game. He instantly recognize.
ed the two men as williams and thieves
| OF the most desperate character, both
Tor whom were wanted by the officers
Iof Che law. He had hand-caffs in
1 MS UOcket, s-ssSA Assat3So Oo5OsA1SA t>te
! TO the iron railing of the car seat
they continued their passage.
At the next station Tornado jim
put Al. Price and the rescued girl OF
westward bound train, and tina,
| night AL. had the happiness to restore
the now more than happy girl to bel
widowed mother, who was in terrible
agony, for the news Of her daughter,
abduction reached her soon after il
occurred, and the whole neighbor.
hood was sroused.
The two men were sent on old in
dictments to prison for a term OF
years, but for their last intended
crime got no punishment but defeat.
But Estelle Gordon almost wor-
ships the hero who saved her--Tor-
nado j INN. Y. Weekly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
MURPHY TEE TEMPERANCE RE
vIvALTST.

F4F ALk01.
In 1869 I was proprietor of the
Bradley Hotel in portland, Me. On
the morning Of September s, a party
of travellers from the boat, came up
to my hotel for breakfast. After they
had washed up and gone to breakfast,
l found one of them remained in the
office, and sat with his face in his
hands, I asked him If he wasn't going
in to breakfast, and he said he had
no money. I told him to go in and
get his breakfast, and he would fbe all
right. He said he didn't feel well,
and would like glass of liquor, and
1 gave it to him. ] saw from his face
that he was recovering from debauch.
He told me his name was Murry that
he was a tailor, penniless and a
stranger. I felt sorry for him, and
told him that if he would avoid drink
and get work I'd trust him for a
weeks board. He seemed grateful,
and soon got work in a tailor's shop.
Two days afterward, unknown to me,
he began to drink again and a few
days later, while drunk, he insulted a
lady boarder at supper, and after sup
per, when she was going to her room,
he attempted to outrage her. My
clerk rescued her, and l ran up stairs
and took hold of Murry to get him
down stairs. He resisted some, but
1 got him down to LANDING, eleven
steps from the floor, when he tried to
throw me over the bannisters, but
failed, and / threw him over. He
didn't seem hurt, and started to
come up stairs again, but / forced
him back, called a policeman, and
had him taken to q station-house.
That night he was very sick. A
medical examination showed that
there was a slight fracture OF the skull,
and in few days the poor fellow
died. was tried for murder, and
was convicted of manslaughter. In
the first place, there was great ri
valry between Frye, the prosecutor,
and Shepley, my counsel, and Frye
would do anything to beat Shepley.
In the second place, people believed
that Murry got liquor at my place,
and they were f;anatical enough te
believe that a lquor-seller ought to
be hanged. The fact is, Murry
never had drop of liquor in my
house except the glass 1 gave him the
first morning. My case was appeal
ed and / was let out ON bail, Shep
ley being my bondsman by permis
sion of the Court, though it was con
trary to usage. bus the charge O
murder hung over me. All my prop
erty had gone to pay the expenses o
my trial. My family was in poverty
l was in deep despair and took t.
drinking. had always drank some
but 1 had not previously been dissi
pated. Three weeks after 1 got ou
of Jail my wife died. Tha
threw me into greater misery
and L drank to such excess
that my friends had to put me back in
to Jail as a place of safety. While
there Chaplain Sturtevant visited ths
Jail and held religious services, and ]
was converted. AS the result of my
appeal / was sentenced to 80 days
imprisonment. Pretty soon after
was releasedI went into this temper.
ance work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
MEXICO MISSOURI 1TIURsIoAY. NovEndBER

There il q smile that peers out from
the blsnhes Of her sweet face, now as
standing before the glass, she places
upon her head the night cap and with
a quick twist of her fingers, ties the
bewitehing bow. Then the night
gown Is thrown over the frilled chem
ise, concealing the heaying bosom and
the shoulders in the linen folds, the
counterpane and sheets thrown back,
the gas turnsd down very, very low,
and tie little form presses the yield
ing eoueh, and the angel goes off to
the world Of dreams.
|. Now in the room directly above her
is the great brute Of brother. He
comes into it, shuts the door with
slam, growls at . chair which hap
peEs to oe in his way, pulls off his
boots and throws them into the cor
ner, jerks his socks from his feet,
drops his pantaloohs on the floor,
lets them lie there, gets out of his
coat and vest by quick, vindictive
sort of twist of his arms and body;
unpins and unbuttons his collar,
throws it carelessly at, rather than
on, the table; travels to the window
in his shirt extremity to let down the
curtain, as if he didn't care a cuss
whether the entire population of the
street beheld his anatomy or not;
then puts out the light and bounces
into bed like great calf jumping into
pile of hay; curls himself up, his
knees nearly touching his nose, lies
30 o moment or two, turns on his
back, stretches his limbs out, swears
at the bedclothes, grunts, gets over
on the other side and asleep. Then
comes the snoring and snorting.
Isn't there difference in their
style?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

Some six years ago Mr.. j. III.
Whitson of Joplin swallowed the half
of cambria needle, which at the
time caused some pain in the stomach,
bat not so much % to create any mn
easiness. About year ago he fels a
pain in his left thigh, which gradually
worked down to the calf of his leg.
Last Thursday evening while walking
he could feel something scratching
the leg Of bis boot. He pulled the
boot off and sticking through the fesh
he saw the point Of needle, which
proved to be the identical one which
he had swallowed six years hcfore.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

They were what the world calls
stengaged." and they were going to
visit some sf her relatives thirty
miles distant. Two railroads ran to
the homo of the latter, and the low
ors were undecided which one to
take. nThere is q long, dark tunnel
on the Qroad, isn't there 2" she
innocentfy asked. He said there was.
q And none OF the B-line?r sha
futher inquired. He said there was
mot. "Then let us go by way of the
Q.---road,n she softly murmured
Aud they welt.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

An invalid Frenchman who hired a
horse every evening from livery
stable particularly desired TO see that
the horse had nothing to eat for din
ner. Because he remarked
monsieur lie doeteur he say mus
talk &c gentle exercise on ze emptv
stomach .
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

II some ono should wrte book
and call it "My Great Toe,n soma.
body else would issue s.My Little
Toe" followed by the second. th,rd
and fourth toe, and probably o,hs-
portions Of the pedal anatomy sar.
vale imitation seems to be the rsra
among the bnok-makers Of the A. 49,
--Fat Contri1ssor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
SHEEP FOR PROFIT.

In paper recentiy read before Tie
Hillsdale (Michigan) Institute, Alex
ander Hewitt gave the following rea-
sons FOR keeping Sheep:
''But while advocate mixed hus-
bandry as a rule, there are preferen-
ces among farmers with regard to the
kind Of stock most profitable for
them to keep, which is very proper,
for while one man can see certain sue
cess in the future from breeding good
horses, another can see it much more
clearly in the production of good
cattle. The man who would go aside
to kick a sheep has no business with
the care of that inoffensiye animal.
Sheep give quicker returns than cat
tie or horses. Suppose, for illustra-
Psien, that n fArnssr nays 81 per head
for twenty-five good sheep soon after
shearing, consisting principally of
grade Merino ewes and a full-blooded
pam, 500; and that be also pays the
same sum for four steers, say fifteen
months old, and keeps them on his
farm for period of two years and
three months. Now at the end of
the first year his sheep will produce,
at six pounds per head, one hundred
and fifty pounds Of wool, and that at
forty cents per pound, which is below
the average price for the last twenty
years, would be $50; and during the
next three months he sells the in
crease, or part Of the original stock
and part of the lambs, as he shall
deem best-say fifteen in number-at
s3 per head, which would be $45;
this added to the $50 received for
wool. makes $l05. Continue the ex-
pertinent another year, with the same
result, and we have s2l0 received for
wool and sheep sold, and the original
stock, worth $10o-altogether S310.
Now the steers are three years and
six months old, and we will estimate
them at 800 pounds, at five cents q
pound, or $65 per head, making for
the four $3.50, or $50 in favor of the
sheep, allowing the interest on the
s1O5 first received. for shearing and
etc. The question I leave
for solution is, Which has cost the
most in time and feed, the twenty
FIVE sheep or the four steers? Never
having demonstrated an experience of
the kind myself, l am unable to say,
but from general knowledge and OBJ
should think them about
equal. Another point in favor of the
sheep is, they do not usually die in
debt to the farmer, for we see from
above calculations that they are a sort
of pay-as-you-go investment, which
system might have prominent place
in oil business Transactions.
Some win object to Mr.. Hewitt's
estimate in considering twenty-five
sheep IS equivalent to four steers.
Where the ewes and lambs are in the
pasture during the spring and sum-
mer, we would prefer to furnish pas
ture for four steers; but during the
winter We think the advantage would
be on the side of the twenty-five
sheep; ewes and lambs are close nip
pers of early pasture.-Colman's Ru-
raj World.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

The whirligig of fashion may bring
round the most sudden and dazzling
changes, and the duties of the toilet
may multiply like leaves in Valam-
brosia, but there 10 nothing that will
make woman stand before her look
ing glass so long as sunburnt
nose.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
MARK rWAIN'S HOTEL.

Having lately opened hashery,
send you these, my rules and regulaf
tions:
This house will be considered strict
ly Incorporate.
None but the brave deserve the
fare.
Persons owing bills for board will
be bored for bills.
Boarders who do not wish to pay
in advance are requested to advance
and pay.
Boarders are expected to wait on
the colored cook-for meals.
Sheet will be nightly changed,
once in six months or more, if neces-
sary.
Single men and their families will
not be boarded.
Nightmares hired out at reasonable
rates.
Safety valves will be furnished to
snoaring boarders.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-03-22

n,esto," from Donizetti, by Miss Emma
Abbott and Signor Ferranti.
Mr.. Charles E. Pratt acted as musical
director.
The concert was grand success and
gave universal pleasure,
The Boat Club may justly feel proud OF
the manner in which the people of Moline
have sustained and encouraged their
efforts and this closing concert was a
merited tribute to their enterprising
management. Depending from the wall,
fronting the organ. were large evergreen
letters forming the:word wv elcome, " from
which hung the initials S. B. G.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-03-22
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-03-22

IMPORTANT TO PERSONS VISITING New,
YoRK.-One of the best kept and most
convenient Hotels for Merchants and
others to stop at when in New York is the
Grand Union Hotel, nearly opposite the
Grand Central Depot, kept on the Euro
pean plan--you therefore only pay for
what you get. Everything is FIRST class,
and prices moderate, adapted to the string.
ency of the times. You save the expense
of carriage hire, and by leaving your bag
gage check on the counter of the Hotel,
your baggage will be delivered in your
rooms, fifteens minutes after the arrival
of the cars, free of expense. We advise
you to give the Grand Union q trial.