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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1877-05-05
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1877-05-05
Large and Complete
Blacksmith, WheelaUrigAt
and Carriage Shop.
HI. Tetreau, Proprietor.

H. Tetreau, Proprietor.
INFORMS his friends, and the public in
L general. that he is prepared to under
take all kinds of work in his line, Mt advan-
tageous conditions and moderate prices.
He has secured the services OF first class
workmen of recognized ability. He has laid
in a full and varied supply OF spokes and
ielloes of first choice, for carriages, etc.
Also an assortment of patent carriage
wheels, steel hubs-a new article.
Grand opening of large and small sized
new style Collins with glass;, imitation rose
wood. black walnut and ash.
4 cLoice and select stock of ready-make
shrouds, for men, women and children, an
article of luxury, new style. at very moder
ate prices.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14
Cnble Tolls.

Recently we were told, apparently by au-
thority, that the tolls for cable messages
would not be increased again, even though
the big devil fish of monopoly should man.
age to catch and swallow the Direct Cable
Company. 1t will be remembered that as
on act OF war against the Direct Company
the Anglo-American had reduced its rates
very low, and this announcement was made
to reassure all persons who foresaw that if
the Anglo-American should conquer its
rival it would-having absolute control
put its rates at such figure as would in
demnify it for its presumed loss by the low
rates. Another announcement is now mado
which may be taken, wosupposc, as COM
mentary on the preceding. This is to the
effect that after the LIST Of May the rates will
be three shillings word-a slight increase
Of two hundred per cent
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14

We publish in to-day's HERALD q map Of
the equatorial regions of the African con-
tinent which are now being explored by
Stanley. The lines indicating the routes
passed over by our representative have been
traced by DR.. Petermann, Of Gotha, whose
fame as geographer is world wide. Ac-
companying the map will be found two in
teresting letters from DR.. Petermann, in
which he sets forth his views on the value
and results of SANKEY'S work. One of
these is addressed to the HERALD and
one to the Cologne Gazette, both being
filed with intelligent comments on our
explorers great work. Such documents,
coming from such source. cannot fail to
enlighten any Of our readers who may be
tempted by adverse criticism or want
OF appreciation of the magnitude of
the undertaking to regard Stanley's
explorations in Central Africa as the
mere results incidental to ordinary travel in
such region. Explorers who preceded
him announced important discoveries, but
left them unexplained and open to doubt
and uncertainty. SANKEY'S mission is to
oiosi w al inioconcePtioHS reSaIuluB tHcse
unsupported announcements and to follow
them where they lead to new discoveries
Some he has verified, Of others he has modi-
fed the deductions, and others yet proved
to have been unwarranted by geographical
facts. His success in this work is now be-
yond doubt, and it is pleasing to notice how
readily DR.. Petermann, conservative and
scientific geographer, accords to the travel
Ter all the credit which his great achieve
ments merit.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14
A Spring Charter Election.

The Senate yesterday passed Mr.. Norris
sey's bill providing for the election of a
Mayor, Comptroller, Counsel to the Cor
poration and Board of Aldermen on the first
Tuesday of April, 1878, and every second
year thereafter. The present Mayor is to
hold Office for his full term, or until Janu-
airy, 1879; but the Comptroller, Corporation
Counsel and Aldermen elected In April Of
next year are to enter upon their duties on
the first day of May following. In electing
the Aldermen-at-large tho voters are to
designate one for President, and he is to
serve in that capacity; but in case of
vacancy the Board is empowered to elect.
Mayor, and all appointments to Office are to
be made by the Mayor alone, without con-
firmation by the Aldermen. These pro-
visions are simple and calculated to i'm
prove our local government. 1t is generally
believed that the Comptroller and Corpora
ton Counsel should, as a matter of princi-
pie, be elected by the people and directly
responsible to them, and independent
of the Mayor so far us their title to Office is
concerned The Comptroller and the Mayor
are mutually checks, one upon the other, in
the signing and countersigning of warrants,
and it does not seem desirable that Comp
troller who, acting with the Mayor, has
supreme power over the public moneys,
should owe his position to the Mayors favor.
1t can easily be seen that corrupt Mayor
MIGHT appoint n corrupt Com ptrolIcr and
thus have the public treasury at his mercy.
There is also good reason why the Corpora
ton Counsel, whose duty it is to give legal
advice to the Mayor and al the departments,
should hold his Office Independently Of the
Mayors appointment. 1t is certain that
under the elective system we always had
capable and honest controllers. A spring
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Mud is coming into the garden.

Mud is coming into tho garden.
Frogs have begun TO sing in tights
Wendell Philips now Calculates 'the Devens you
say"
II there should DO a little more there would DO
a little less dust
II is believed by some that Do Soto visited tho Hot
Springs OF Arkansas.
Whitehall Timcs.-sNo well bred tramp will eat
lemon Pic with his knife"
Some says that you can SEQ tho Inhabitants on
Saturn Not by a long sight
Summer comes along tlowiy, and tho crop reports
from tho barber shops very discourasng.
The hard times have had tho effect OF making mon
think that this year they must begin have gardens
Garfield Is assurcdly free trader. but he docs
believe in FREQ lances lIc does not like Sir Lance
lot
jim Mace says he is now coming to Now York to
knock the stuning out OF OF thcm muscle crck-
cts"
Ex-senator Matt Carpenter says that lawyer can
be disgraccd by bad cause but only by his manage.
mcnt of It.
Earth is like a big Newfoundland dog. When It
comes out OF Of spring shakes itself and
gets up and dusts.
ono Of IgnatIcn's eyes is weak that II is always
wet with tears This always tho way with those who
hear Bob Tngcrso.
Said tho boy Of tho period yesterday, INA. I'm hun
cry and Id ike have broad and olcomargarine
with moIasscs on II"
The sweet, imid grass is coming mp through tho
gray landscape, and with tho baby fingers of spring.
Is feeling Tor cows teeth
Both Halscad and Bowcs have the literary instinct
and because thing that literary phase attracts
them they burt out the truth and 10 spoil Howell
chances.
man who wanted to be agricultural editor OF a city
paper recently wrote saying that he especially loved
cows and, fact, that had one in every room in
the house.
William Black Is writing new novel in serial, and
he that no Is playing out for he Jugs In wost-
crn American life and scenery, Of which he had only
q breath OF experience.
New Orleans RpuJiican;-''G General Escobedo, OF
tho Lcrdo Mexican government has this city for
several weeks boarding in private family in the Soc
ond district lie Is expected on the Rio Grando next
week. where he will mead a rcactonary movement
ngains. Daz
Judy:-"Aunt Emiy-'why, Nellie. don't yon know
hair?' Nellie (who doesn't SEQ it)-Wcll, Aun,ic,
saw you holding Cousin Frank round the neck quito
tightly yesterday, when mamma out, and pulling
his hair, and he DIDN'T cay anything"
Eccaing Telegram Ex-senator Patterson, OF South
Carolina, who declare year ago that there five
years OF good stealing left that state yet lndg.
nant his deprivation OF four OF them by Chamber
laips surrender and frankly expresses his fear that
J Hampton will lodge him in the penilentiary"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14
England and the East.

Denial has been made in the House of
Lords of the story that Lord Derby had
written to Constantinople that the Porte
must in no way rely upon England. 1t
seemed safe enough to make this denial, be-
cause to deny that Lord Derby said they
must not depend upon England is not to
imply that they must or may depend upon
her That is, in the countries inhabited by
reasoning people it is well enough under
stood that the British government may deny
that Lord Derby made certain declaration
without it's following that England will
be bound to any particular policy by that
denial. But it is not certain that this will
be understood in Turkey. On the contrary
it is very probable that differences will be
seriously drawn in Constantinople that if
the government takes pains thus to deny a
rumor of this sort it deems it essential to it's
honor that it should not be thought to have
cut free from all responsibility for the
Sultan; and that in this train of ideas it may
yet mean to sustain him. But if it is q
little likely that this may be ser-
ously thought and believed, it is
in the highest degree probable that
those who play on the fanatical humors of
the Moslem mob will use this fancy as a
direct encouragement to the defiant anti
peace spirit. They will hold it up as an
evidence that England is not SO Indifferent
as she is forced to appear; and thus the de-
NAL, as likely to overwhelm the little chance
for peace that is thought to be left, is but
one more of the wonderful series of Lord
Derby's plumbers. 1t is just now thought
by the English government to be their cue
to keep the world in doubt on the point
whether or no England will fight in this
auarrel-to hold out consequently so much
encouragement to the fancy that she means
to fight as will deeper. that impression with
out committing her. Hence, when the Marquis
of Harrington said in the House of Commons
that the facts, so far as known, appeared
to make England directly responsible for
the impending war. Mr.. Claiborne Hardy
said this language was calculated to en-
danger peace" 1t could only endanger
peace if peace depended upon other nations
believing that England was united on the
Eastern issue and disposed to fight; and the
observation shows that the government has
no conception beyond that of any way to
prevent war; This discloses an exceedingly
pitiful, shallow and histrionic policy. 1t is
wretched craftsmanship to presume entirely
on the ignorance of your opponents.
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The Herald Weather Service.

We publish to-day an interesting cable
despatch from our Paris bureau recounting
an interview with NJ LIE Verrier, the Director
of the Paris Observatory, on the subject of
the HERALD weather service and the success
of its system of storm warnings for Europe.
The distinguished scientist declares himself
much interested in our meteorological la
bors, and particularly on account of the
failure Of a former attempt made under the
auspices of the British government to trans
NIT storm warnings from Newfoundland to
Europe. To show how DESTROYS M. lie Yer
rier is to obtain information as to the course
of storms over the Atlantic he exhibited
to our correspondent a series of meteorologi-
cal charts compiled by him from data col
lected in Europe. He asks us to prepare for
him similar set of weather maps from the
data at our disposal and memoir Of our
means of observation and the results OBJ
tanned, which he will publish in his forth
coming volume. This information, being
ready to hand among our weather records,
we will of course forward without delay.
NJ LIE Verrier also gives our correspondent
details of the meteorological system of
France, and cites some amusing instances
wherein barometers and Comparison get
mixed up in our sister Republic Altogether
new impetus has been given to meteor
illogical research in Europe by the HERALD
storm predictions.
In treating of this question editorially
our courteous contemporary, the New York
Tribune, gives the HERALD the credit of a de-
cided success, and points out how our storm
warnings will modify certain meteorologi-
cal theories which are accepted in England
The trouble with most government meteoro-
logical organizations is that. in the effort to
be very exact in their predictions they miss
splendid opportunities Of being useful
BY timid adherence to forms they rarely
venture out into the broader paths Of re-
search, and sacrifice utility to routine
Our American system, rs created and prac-
tised by the Signal Service Bureau, is SO far
ahead of anything of the kind else
where that it really cannot be COM
pared with European systems. Its
scope is wider, it's direction more intelli-
gent and its results UNNECESSARILY more USE
full. AS regards the latter, much is due to
the advantage we possess in geographical
position, but more to the system that pro-
duces them. IT. as we have practically dem
onstrated by our own labors, properly or
ganized international weather service could
be created, there is no reason why single
marine disaster should occur on either the
Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean, due to the ig-
norance of navigators as to weather conditions
prevailing or likely to prevail around them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14
The Lesson OF the St. Louis Fire.

Tho Lesson OF tho St. Louis Fire.
1t is unhappily the case that great calam-
tiles are necessary to convince people that
the violation OF tho laws Of construction
brings it's own punishment. We do not
dare to build heaps of combustibles in
large edifce and set fire to them in order to
test whether the building is fireproof, but
we scarcely ever remember that the struc-
ture itself is not u7frequently heap of
combustibles artistically arranged to burn.
We insist on passenger steamship carrying
sufficient number of lifeboats to provide
against the possibility of danger; yet we un-
hesitatingly crowd into buildings whence
there is no chance of escape because of
the defective arrangements Of the stairways
and passages. What the lifeboat is to ship
the stairway is to large building that ac-
commodities q considerable number of
people. If the one is unserviceable and the
other inadequate or destructible by fire
frightful disasters must result when either
is necessary to the preservation of life. If
the law regulates the size and number Of
ships lifeboats, why not the size, number
and positions of hotel, church and theatre
stairways? It is this dreadful disregard of
possibilities that increases the number and
aggravates the horrors of such calamities as
the destruction of the Brooklyn Theatre
and the Southern Hotel at st. Louis.
Then, again, that most deadly of sources
of danger, the elevator shaft, is reck-
lessly ignored. Safety is sacrificed to
convenience. What can be moro absurd
than to construct a fire conductor through
the centre of building already erected
without any regard to the danger from fire
Why cannot these useful labor and fatigue
saving elevators be built in towers attached
to the main buildings, with doors opening
on every floor? In contemplating this vital
question Of means of exit from buildings it
is really startling to remember how many
sources of danger exist in proportion to the
means of securing safety. We hope that the
lesson of the st. Louis fire will not be lost
on those who own and control hotels and
other such places of public resort. Perhaps
the best way to bring about reform in this
regard will be for travellers to patronize
only such hotels as are most completely
guarded against the danger of fire.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14
Useful Officials and Clean Streets.

The structures Of the HERALD on the Off
cials of our city government with regard to
the condition of the streets are deserved by
these gentlemen. We are aware that legal
difficulties stand in the way of their accom-
plishing speedy reforms. But we see no
effort made by any of them to combat these
difficulties or no suggestion from them as to
how we should seek and find remedy.
The Mayor says he has no power to inter-
fere with the Police Commissioners in their
management of the Bureau of Street Clean
ing that the law places that department
beyond his control. But the law also
clothes the Mayor with power to remove de-
liquent officials, subject to the approval of
the Governor, and we do not believe that
the State Executive will refuse to sustain
the Mayor in any just action of that kind.
Governor Robinson is raised by his Office
above the level of mere party. His duties
are toward the people of the State and not
particularly toward those who elected him.
Therefore party considerations should not
sway him in the exercise Of authority which
affects the whole people equally. Comp
troller Kelly is the legal custodian of the
city's money. He cannot withhold it at
present from the wasteful hands Of the
street cleaning officials, but he can protest
against the disgraceful waste, and, as a men,
Der of the Board of Apportionment, refuse to
vote q dollar until he has acceptable guar
antees that it will be properly expended.
The Board of Aldermen confirms the
award of the Board of Apportion-
ment Why, then, do its members with
hold their protests against this crying
disgrace to which we are subjected? Why
do the Aldermen confirm appropriations
which they know will be misspent ? The
truth is that if our officials were only honest
and energetic in their efforts toward reform
we would have reform. 1t is rs easy to
maintain an honest administration as dis
honest one. The mass Of the people benefit
more from the former than the latter. and it
is only the vermin of politics that wish to
preserve the status quo. In the meantime
the old plan which was so generally effective
in the days before commissions were saddled
on New York can be tried again. Let the
people sweep the streets in front of their
dwellings. All the dirt and refuse can be
collected in the middle so that all that re-
mains for the bureau to do is to remove it.
AS an economical experiment this is worth
trying again. Anythingt to clean the streets.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14
last year, but it is not yet sufficient to be o
topic of much CONCENTRATION.

last year, but it is not yet sufficient to be o
topic of much congratulation.
Another indication, which is almost as
conclusive ms the state of the money market,
is furnished by the business of our rail-
roads. All business languishes when the
railroads languish. 1t is their Office to trans
port and distribute the commodities which
the business classes sell and buy When
general traffic is lively the railroads pros
per but unfortunately they have never
been more depressed than they are at
present. The railroads and the banks
are the two grand indexes of the
amount of business in the course of trans
action, and it must be reluctantly admitted
that neither Of these unerring barometers
are giving any very satisfactory indications.
There will be a great change, as if by
magic, in case the general expectation of
great war in Europe is realized. This i'm
pending event, tho moment it happens. will
touch all the neryes Of American trade and
industry. 1t win open vast and profitable
market for everything we can produce, and
set all the wheels of business in active mo-
ton. Our banks will find employmentfora all
their idle money; our railroads will be bur-
dened with freights; mighty stimulus will
be given to the raising of grain and pork, to
the manufacture of arms, clothing and mill
tary supplies, and we shall recover within
the ensuing two years more than we have
lost since the great panic. 1t is absurd to
indulge in sentimental misgivings about
thriving on the calamities of other nations.
We are not responsible for those calamities.
The effect of our great business activity will
be to alleviate them. We snail supply food
to those who would otherwise famish, cloth
ing to those who would otherwise go naked,
arms to those who would otherwise be with
out adequate means of defence. Our advan-
tage will be like that of the producers Of
Peruvian bark, for which the great military
hospitals will create an excessive demand.
1t is mercy to the sufferers that the slim
illus of profit will insure means of allevia-
ton.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Thc stock market
was active and MS n rnlc stcadicr, the closing
prices showing an Improvement over those of
Thursday. In the forenoon an attack was made
on Rock Island. which broke that stock down to
BG, from which it aftcrward recovered. Gold
opened ut LOG, advanced to 1O6ls and closed at
1853. Government bonds were quiet and
steady and railroads irregular hut generally
lower. Money on call loaned at 8 4 per cent,
advanced to 41o and closed at 2 2l2 per cent
on call.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14

The WEATHER.-Our anticipations with regard
TO the storm that is in progress in the South
ern States have been fully borne ont by the de-
vclopments since Thursday. As predicted by
the HERALD yesterday the storm has moved in n
nOrtheastly direction TO the coast Of the Carroll
mas, attended by heavy gales and rains. Indeed,
the rainfall ut Charleston during the first eight
hours Of yesterday must be regarded as unprccc-
denied, being $40 inches in eight hours. At other
points within the same time the rainfall has
becn--Angusta, Ga, 1.T6; Wilmington, 80
Montgomery, 10, and mt Savannah, in less than
eight hours, 1873 inches. The storm area being
now east of the southern part of tho Allegheny
Mountains its effects do not continue to be felt
further west than Alabama but on the coast the
tempest is unusually severe. 1t is essentially
q cyclone such that which recently
passed off tho same part of the coast.
Tho heaviest winds have been between
Wilmington and Jacksonville. The temperature,
evcn ut the centre of disturbance, is very low.
The pressure continues highest over the lakes,
the Middle and New England States, where clear
to partly cloudy weather prevails, except on the
coast. where it is cloudy. Another depression is
advancing from the Northwest, with u decided
rise Of temperature, but present indica-
,;ons do not lead MS TO think that it will
prove a serious disturbance. Vessels bound
for Southern ports should prepare for
the prevailing storm. The Middle Mississippi
has risen and is two inches above the danger line
nj Cairo. The Missouri, Ohio and Red rivers
have also risen. The weather in New York to-
dsy will be cloudy and cool, with brisk winds
ftom the northward, and probably rain.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14

THE LATEST INFORMATION about the New
Jersey Mutual comes from an cx-drector of the
company and from n well known insurance ex-
pert. but it does not put the companys transac-
tons in any better light.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-14

"a MANS FOES SHALL BIZ THEY or Hrs OwN
HOUSEHOLD is bit of prophecy the truth Of
which the Latter Day Saints will realize as they
read the letter which we publish this morning
from the pen of Mormon woman.