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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08
PENALTIES.

The letter addressed by Hon. Allen Jumel
Auditor, to the Attorney General, on the 4tf
inst, suggesting that consultation be held
with his Excellency the Governor, and that
as broad construction as possible be given
the law relative to penalties on back taxes, in
the interest of the taxpayers, will be received
with cheerful hearts throughout the State
Both the Governor and the Attorney General
we feel entirely safe in saying, are In full
accord with the Auditor in this matter. and
will recommend the very broadcast construe-
ton of the law consistent with their sense OF
duty.
The law limiting the exemption OF delin-
quents from penalties to those who settle
their dues by the first of December, 1877,
is very explicit. It seems to leave NO
power with the collectors to remit any pen
alties after that time. But, perhaps, the col
lectors might be directed to conditionally sus-
pend the collection Of the penalties until the
assembling of the Legislature, when that
body can take such measures for the relief of
delinquent taxpayers as it may deem wise
and just.
The penalties due under the law are very
large and constitute real burden upon the
property of the State. In very many cases
penalties were incurred through the actual
inability Of persons, impoverished by the long
era Of misrule which afflicted the State, to
pay their taxes
liberal policy by the government in this
matter will greatly relieve the State and
prove another illustration Of the fact that our
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08

Senator Conkling, the most bitter enemy Of
the Mississippi levee bill, because it relates
as he says, to purely local interests" has
recently presented to Congress, and given
his Endorsement thereto, a petition asking for
$4,000 for preliminary survey by army en-
gineers OF route for grand African rail-
road, extending from Liberia into the inte-
rior. It is Conkling's intention to develop
Liberia. He wishes, in addition to this $780,
900, to establish a steamship line from New
York to Liberia, by means Of large subsidy,
and will probably follow this up with bill
making the United States guarantee the
bonds of this prospective Liberian railroad
All of this is strictly proper The Liberian
railroad cannot be called a purely local affair.
It is true that only two American vessels
rickety old schooners at that visit Liberia
a year; that the national currency of the
country is plug tobacco; that noteeven mule
can live in it's climate, yet withal it is certain
ly far more deserving of Federal aid and as
sistance than the Mississippi valley, which
contains only half the population of the
Union, since it's inhabitants are negroes,
while those affected by the levees are for the
most part ex-rebels. Let us build Liberia a
dozen railroads If her intelligent citizens want
them; it will develop an immense business in
cocoa nuts
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08

The Commissioner of Agriculture, Gen. LIE
Due has devoted great deal of attention to
the question Of sugar raising in this country
He has shown disposition to favor Louisi-
ana in this matter, and in report published
some time since, suggested that this State
could, with proper capital, supply entire
the whole Union with sugar. Texas, how
ever, has responded to this report and
suggestion even more heartily than Louisiana.
The immense influx Of immigration into
Texas necessitates diversified crops, and
cotton is now no longer the sole product
of the State. Quite number Of planters
have taken Gen. LIE Dues hint, and given up
the cultivation OF cotton for that of sugar.
Sugar cane Is not new to Texas; it has been
cultivated there for over forty years, but the
entire production Of the State never got
higher than 5000 hogsheads and 10000 gal
Ions Of molasses. The Texas sugar plan
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08

tations were mostly situated in Bra
zorta, Matagorda and Fort Bend, coun-
ties. There seems to be general re-
vival in sugar culture in the Lone Star
State just now. The BRENNAN Banner,
notices the fact that large number of
farmers went into sugar raising last year
and that it proved SO profitable that the acre
age devoted to cane will be quadrupled next
season. 1t is noticeable fact also, that the
old and reliable German-American farmers of
Berks county, Pennsylvania, have deter
mined on the cultivation Of the sugar beet.
The fact that Cuoa is no longer able to supply
this country with sugar, and that It's pro-
duction Is decreasing each year makes it
absolutely necessary that the United States
shall raise its own sugar. Here is Louisi-
ana's opportunity. Neither Texas nor Penn
sylvania can step in ahead of her.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08

The world is too much governed" and
Rorticulariy the United States. Such seems
10 be tho popular sentiment of the country
inst now. The demand for less legislation is
row Enfversal. Three States, Minnesota,
Mississippi and Virginia, have. during the
past month, made the sessions Of their Legis-
laturo biennial instead Of annual as they were
1urmerly. The Board OF Trade of New York
follows in their footsteps, and wants Congress
ID meet only biennially, holding that all the
interests OF this country, commercial and in
dustrial, suffer from the constant change Of
laws made by Congress. And now, q similar
demand for q biennial session of our Legisla-
lure has been made by the people OF Cameron
parish In letter to their Representative, Mr..
gillespie published in the DEMOCRAT few
days ago.
Whether these suggestions be adopted or
not, II Is evident that the people generally
think very much like old Chancellor Oxen
ettern, end will insist on fewer laws In the
n 5Ss&tarA
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08

Rhe 0s0cyion Ill Georgia JnIs WICK snu weu
moro opposition 10 the new constitution,
framed only few months ago, than it was
thought there would be- There was gen.
eral hope that this constitution would be
adopted unanimously, and that not over
lew hundred votes Of professional GROWERS
would be scored against it, and SO it would
probably have been but for various independ-
mt movements and the struggle over the
location Of the State capital. In Burke
Henry, Lowndes, Pike, Sumpter, Troup
Warren and a number OF other counties, the
Econstitution was actually beaten, and in many
ether places the vote for and against ratifica-
Hon Was almost equal. The figures point to
= majority Of not much over 90, 600 for the rat
ilcation OF the constitution. The new home
etoad law, which was submitted to sepa-
rte vote at the same time, was also adopted,
but by D smaller majority.
Atlanta won the fight on the capital ques-
taon, the northern counties voting solidly for
~ while the southern and middle countless
0xcoptiDg those In the immediate neighbor-
hood u Nilledgeville, were divided on this
question.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08

Frank Rande, the Western rufian, ar
rested In a pawnbroker's shop in st. Louis {
few days ago, after having killed one police
officer and wounded another is undoubtedly
a remarkable character and would make ar
excellent hero for yelIow-back novel, His
murderous career shows him to be man ut
terly destitute Of fear. In August last, wher
herobbed the house of Mr.. Belden In Illinois
and was pursued by large and angry
crowd, he stood his ground, killed Belden
wounded several others, and escaped in the
confusion that followed. At st. Elmo also
in the same State, he faced the whole town.
shooting down three persons, and again es-
capped. He was only taken in st. Louis after
q severe fight with several policemen, and
after he was himself dangerously wounded
These are only few of his many deeds,
and the claim he makes of having killed
more men than anybody else in the West is
probably a true one; yet, says he, In his con-
fession, II never killed an unarmed man,
never shot any one but faced me with pistol
In his hand, and never, under any clrcum-
stances, harmed woman in my life"
His later murders have caused Rande's life
to be investigated, and it has been found that
all he says is true. He Is of good family, has
fine education, and writes poetry Of that is
not against him), seems to love his wife and
family dearly, and is taking the greatest
care in educating his children.
Those who have read Eugene Sues "Mys-
teries of Paris will probably find the true
solution of Rande's apparently contradictory
nature In lie Chourtneur, who at certain mo-
ments felt an irrasistible decira IN yn,,r5or
and STAY.
The danger Of such men as Rande In a
community have caused the people of st..
Louis to look on him only with horror and
disgust. 1t is said that VIII, Rande reached
Illinois in safety a general feeling of disap-
pointment prevailed in st. Louis that he
had not been lynched There seems to be
no hope of his escape, however, as the
Illinoisians have laid down these PROPOSE
tions: II the jury sentence him to be hung
they (the mob will spare him. but If the
jury fails in it's duty they will then lynch
him. Rande's chances for life, therefore,
appear to be no better than those of the old
women Of Connecticut tested for wtchcraft,
who were thrown in the pond with the under
standing that II they swan they were
witches, and were to be taken out and burned !;
If they drowned they were good women and
true, and were buried at the expense of the
State.
Rande Is perfectly undaunted by his fate.
He is not afraid of the crowd outside his Jail,
80 anxious to lynch him, and announces his
willingness to face them all alone If he be
given but club.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08
COMMERCIAL.

Win view OF making the Commercial
Department Of the DEMOCRAT as full. accu-
rate and complete as that Of any journal in
Kew Orleans, we have engaged Mr.. W. J.
Seyrnour as commercial editor.
Mr.. Seymour Is well known to this commu-
nifty, having been connected for twenty-five
yoaxy with the press OF New Orleans. Before
tte war be was for eight years co-editor and
Bo-pryprictor with his father, Col. Isaac G..
seymour, In the Commercial Bulletin, recog-
mixed, ID it's time, as the great commercial
erxan ~ the South.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08

New York city has taken considerable
0edit to itself for its lately introduced fox
xaces 1t Is true that these races are perfectly
bildish and absurd, there being in most in
tAnccs no fox at all to hunt. and in the others
y <1nly fox tame borrowed for the occasion
lill, tho sport Is manly one, and New York
- the honor Of having introduced and estab-
9hed it La the North. The papers TEEN
nth full particulars of the last Long Island
Il 1ne8t and every person who figure in 1t re-
lives . hattering personal notice. Scribner's
Gn0nsfne Of this month has been stirred up to
80 subject and appears with very learned
GIesertation, for Northern circles only, on
sDx hunting" in which New York is compli-
ented for having introduced this custom in
~ United States.
In certain sense" 1t says. "there Is no
DE1ctical use writing about fox hunting for
Enn American people. 1t Is true there are
several Bemi-private hunts in the country,
Ge 1T least near Philadelphia being very
ke the real thing. There are also few for
nate Americans who are able now and then
4 Is indulge in this sport abroad, but the num-
III Of American readers who ever see fox
hnnt Is comparatively very small"
Z AS the Lynchburg Ne,os notes. this was
evidently addressed only to Northern ears
/ md shows the most lamentable ignorance Of
tho South. There Is scarcely Southern
State where fox-hunting is not an every day
Occurrence. Only few days age we gave
I long account of a fox race in Feliciana,
which was indeed the true sport, and in no
aense that absurdity that is daily witnessed
E0n Long Island.
III Virginia, particularly, This sport is per-
hnps more universal than even In England.
There are dozen hunters" says the
Nescs, within circuit of less than one hun
.dred miles, who viii average twenty foxes
1npieoe per season" Hunts with one hundred
aiounds are frequent in Virginia, and the
E&unt often extends over moro than twenty
|fIles.
The following, from the Roanoke Valley,
LOWS what an interest Is felt in this matter
IL Virginia:
wa hear that challenge has been sent
3sSn MesSrS. ID. r. Stokes, OF Lunenburg,
Ssssi III m. Wimbish, OF this county, to MesSrs.
s II BrOadnax, of Brunswick, and T. g.
5Sn6Har 81 CASTOR, NJ to run their dogs
~ re2l foxes for anything from $l0,0Oo To-
~ 49, Stssbner man knows evidently as much
III hunting in the South as the Radical
eI112s do Of our general condition.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08
BOARD OF LIQUIDATION.

BOARD OF LIQUIDATION.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans, December 6, 1877.
hereby give notice that the following appli-
cations have been filed in this office for the
funding Of the following enumerated Bonds
and Coupons.
ALLEN JUMEL,
Auditor and Elk off1cio Secretary Of the Board.
A. Elmer BADER co.
Bonds and Coupons issued under act lis
OF 1857. 81 040
DEF st
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THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT SATURDAY pEoEMBER s. 1877

present Administration Is resolved, as far as
the existing laws will permit, to aid the peo-
pie In rehabilitating their fortunes.
The suspicious suggestion OF the Auditor
has been cordially responded to by the Gov
ernor and Attorney General, and we have no
doubt wise measure or plan of relief will be
devised
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-08
STORAGE.
RAINBOW AND INDIA WAREHOUSE

Coffee. Flour Produce. Bagging and General
Merchandise taken on storage at moderate
rates. For terms, apply to
CHAS. PLUCHE
Office. 1888 Tchoupitoulas street. corner Notre
Dame. no24 1m2dp
Sharp County record., 1877-09-28
Odds and Ends.

How to take life easy: Be careless
with cOal-oil. b.
There is reaper whose name is
Death, but none of the agricultural
warehouses advertise it.
"A woman need never despair of
rendering herself attractive until she
hasn't enough hair left on her head to
fasten switch to-.
Over Il kinds of pain-killer and chol-
era-cure are advertised, and yet one lit
tie cucumber may double fellow up in
the original Greek, just as it would 1900
years ago.
"A tramp applies to a lady for en-
ployment. 81 have nothing for you to
do replies the lady. "Ah, madam"
sighs the applicant, If you only knew
how little work it would take to occupy
me-
The most needed improvement in
agriculture just now is corn crop with
a handle growing out of the end of each
ear. Any one who has ever tackled an
ear of corn at fashionable dinner has
sadly felt the want of a handle to the
cob.
When the German Government
sowed that Cologne farm 10 inches deep
in tan-bark, saturated it with kerosene,
and fired it, the officials supposed it
would crisp the Colorado beetle; but
the second day they were shocked to see
him crawl out of the fire, climb up on
the fence, wipe the beaded perspiration
from his brow, and remark to the near,
est official, "Purty hot for comfort,
stranger, but it is the boss weather for
corn"
-"Boy,n said a gentleman to the
hostler of a hotel on alighting from his
phaeton, "extricate that quadruped
from the vehicle, stabuiate him, donate
him an adequate supply of nutritious
aliment, and when the aurora of morn
ing shall again illuminate the oriental
horizon | will award thee pecuniary
compensation for thine amiable hospi-
tality" The boy ran into the house
and told his master that a Dutchman
wanted to see him.
Sharp County record., 1877-09-28
Foreign Notes.

Dom Pedro, having "done" Scot
land, has crossed the Channel again,
and is now puzzling the people of Brus-
sells by his rapid maneuvers.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, of Suez
Canal fame, is enjoying the profits OF
his enterprise near Paris. His accom-
plished wife has recently presented to
him his seventh heir.
Harriet Martineau had a collection
of quaint, old-fashioned pictures, which
were recently sold in London for Sc, 900.
A landscape by George Moreland, paint
ed in 1892, brought 81, $50.
The London Court of Aldermen
have decided by an overwhelming vote
that Sir John Bennett is not fit to be
one of their number. Boards of Alder
men are not usually so discriminating
as to the character of their associates.
The House of Commons has just
granted f400 with which 20 silver
watches and golden chains were pre-.
sented to the Welsh miners who saved
the lives of their comrades at Tynewidd
colliery last April. Each watch con
tains the inscription announcing that it
has come from the members of Parlia
ment in recognition Of bravery in say
icg life.
Sharp County record., 1877-09-28
Hans and MishapS.

Frank Hedrick, aged II, of Du-
buque, Iowa, was shot and instantly
killed by his little brother, while care
lessly handling gun.
james Dewey, wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Flint, Mich, while overheated
drank two goblets of ice-water and i'm
mediately fell dead.
"A farmernsmed Gould, ,OfLivingston,
Me-, after picking lot of potato-bugs
from his vines, ate freely of bread and
milk, crumbling up the bread with un-
washed hands, 1t is supposed that some
of the poison juice of the bugs got into
the bowl, as he died before the morning.
A farmer named Reuben White,
while cutting oats in a field near Wash
ington Courthouse, Ohio, cut through
a nest of bees. His horses, maddened
by the stings of the insects, threw him
from his seat before the sickle. He was
so badly mangled that he died in few
minutes.
Accidents by machinery: John
Drucker, an employee in a paper-mill
at Grand Rapids, Mich, was caught in
the betting and drawn several times
around the pulley, causing instant
death.-A 16-year-old daughter of Mr..
Warner was standing near vertical
shaft in a fouring-mill at Chatfeld,
Mimi, when, in turning around, her
hair, which was hanging loosely down
her back, caught in the shaft, and in an
instant, every hair on her head, with
her scalp, was revolving with the shaft.
Her clothes also were torn from her
body, leaving her in nude condition.
Her injuries were almost necessarily
fatal.-Owen O'Brien was sharpening
chisel at steam grindstone at Jetfer-
sonville, Ind, when the shaft caught in
his clothes and lacerated him in most
shocking manner.
Sharp County record., 1877-09-28

"A bill has been introduced in the
House Of Commons to put an end to the
further creation of Irish peers, who, by
the terms of the union, were to number
100, exclusive Of those holding seats as
English peers in the House of Lords.
Nowadays nobody cares to be peer
without seat in he.legislature, At the
the union there were 234 Irish peers,
but in 1874 the number had fallen to
1O5, of whom so were peers of the Unit
ed Kingdom.
Charles Duneby, one of the Itch
borne jurymen, has lately recanted the
verdict which he gave at the trial, and
addressed petition to the Queen, in
which he sets forth that he believes he
was in error in agreeing to verdict
against the defendant. He adds that
since the trial he has become acquainted
with many facts which, if known to him
at the time, would have prevented him
from agreeing to such verdict-most
of these facts being such as the defend
ant could not then have brought in eyi
dence before the jury. The petition
concludes with a request that Her
Majesty will be pleased to order that
the defendant be forthwith released, or
that there be a further inquiry into the
case.
Sharp County record., 1877-09-28
Health and Slow Pulse.

Some interesting statements are re-
ported to have been made at a meeting
of the Clinical Society, London, show
ing that slow pulse mayin no wise inter-
fere with health. The most remarkable
case. perhaps, was that of DR.. Hewan,
as related by himself. 1t seems that, p
years ago, after prolonged study and
work, his pulse fell from p to 90, and
he felt very cold; from that time its fire.
quency gradually decreased until about
II years later, when it was but "a beats
per minute Its present rate is about
2S. Notwithstanding this, he has not
suffered from fainting, fits, or cold, is
capable of great physical exertion-of
which evidence is to be found in his
ascent of high mountain-and his di-
gestion remains unimpaired. Another
speaker said that Napoleon had slow
pulse, being about 80 to 40 per minute !;
and another member stated the rate OF a
Lo,,So'C ,)r1cn - hn N,,ly- 1f
Sharp County record., 1877-09-28
school and Church.

The Unitarians of Iowa have or
ganized an Iowa State Unitarian AsSO-
citation.
Col. "Ligen White, a celebrated
Confederate guerrilla during the late
war, has become Baptist preacher.
Every negro church in Richmond,
OF the Methodist or Baptist persuasion,
is now providing itself with a new house
of worship, or has recently done 80.
The Austrian Government would
not allow commemorative services OF
the death of John Huss to be held in
Prague. Father Hyacinthe was to have
spoken on the occasion.
Prof. Z. C. Mitchell, of Chicago,
who has for a few months past filled the
chair of Greek, Hebrew and Oriental
languages in the University Of London,
England, has been formally rendered
the permanent proteSsorship.
Iowa State University has had dur
ing the past year $50 students. OF the
25 academical graduates, 3 were wom-
en-; of the law class of 1O9, 2were wOm-
en-, and of the medical class of 79, 2
were women.
MIR. Charles Francis Adams, Jr.,
desires to see the school system subject-
ed to a thorough and intelligent over
hauling His experience is that the
scholar sent up from the grammar to
the high schools who can really read
and write is the exception, and not the
rule.
The camp-meeting used to be pecu-
liarly a Methodist institution; but it has
been adopted pretty generally by the
other denominations, especially the Pres
byterians, Baptists, Unitarians, Univer-
salists, and Spiritualists, besides the
meetings held by the temperance peO-
pie, the Sunday-school workers and
others.
The National Educational Associa-
ton holds its annual meeting at Louis
vile on the 14th, 18th and 18th of Au-
gust. President Porter of Yale will
read paper on "The Glass System, "
and President Runkle Of the Massachu-
sets Institute Of Technology one on the
Russian System of Mechanic Art Educa-
ton as applied in his own institution.
The Rev. Joseph Cook is a well
paid preacher. He will put into his
purse $500 for going from Boston to
preach at Lake Bluff, Chicago. One of
Mr.. Cooks charms in the eyes of his
hearers is his exceedingly informal man.
ner on the platform. He will sit quietly
with his knees crossed and talk in the
conversational tone he would use in a
drawing-roOm.
Sharp County record., 1877-09-28
A Submerged City.

A strange discovery is reported from
the Lake of Geneva. A tourist having
lost his trunk, two divers we're employed
to search for it. While they were below
water, they found what they supposed
to be village, since covered by the lake.
Their statements led to an investigation
of the spot by the municipal authorities,
who took measures to ascertain the truth
of the extraordinary account of the
divers. On covering the placid surface
with oil, these latter were able to distin-
guish the plan of town, streets, squares
and detached houses marking the bed of
the lake. The ruddy hue which charac-
terized them led the observers to sup
posethat the buildings had been covered
with the famous vermillion cement,
which was used by the Celts, Cimbri
and the early Gauls. There are about
200 houses arranged over an Oblong sur
face, near the middle of which is space
more open, supposed to have been used
for public assemblages. At the eastern
extremity lies large square tower,
which was taken for rock. A superb
cial investigation seems to indicate that
the construction of these buildings dates
from some centuries before our era. The
Council of Vaud has decided to have the
site of the dwellings inclosed by jetty
stretching from the land, and to drain
off the water, so as to bring to light
what promises to be one of the most in
teresting archaeological discoveries of
our day,-L0ndon Daily Telegraph.