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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-22
SCHOOL BOOKS.

Having been awarded by the State Board OF
Education a majority Of the bids for furnishing
he public schools OF the State, and having ar
rangements with publishers, we are prepared to-
furnish the following books at prices named.
Column No. 1 is lowest retail price adopted.
column No. Q exchange price. for first introduce
ton. when books of similar grade in actual use
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-22

The Democratic caucus will consist Of
about $50 members, SEVENTH five votes
being necessary to secure nomination
from that body. OF these the Gulf
States have forty.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-22

Mr.. Offner who has been North for some
time purchasing goods to stock his elegant
China Palace, No. TIA Canal street. has just re-
turned after having selected q very large and
beautiful assortment Of crockery. which will be
sold very low
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-22
Freaks Of a Rabla Dog,

At halfpast s o'clock last evening. while s
little boy aged four years md = Little girl aged
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-22

Private schools will be allowed same prices as
public schools.
Other lists will be published hereafter.
LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE,
j. G.. EYRICH,
BOOKSELLER AND sTATIONER,
100. ....,........ Canal street. ......4..l30
NEW ORLEANS.
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

They wear on their heads red kerchieiS,
with the ends hanging down their backs,
bound on their heads by velvet fillet,
embroidered with. coins, in which were
often stuck flowers, chiefly inired and
white. They were generally dressed in
white, but invariably with the brilliant
aprons sewed down TO the skirt, and
often with gaudiIy embroidered stom-
acher, or, perhaps breast-pIate would be
the more descriptive term, studded with
coins ON black velvet. The working
dress of women in the fields is a short
Jacket, braided and slashed in the fashion
of that worn by the men, red and
yellow kerchief crossed over the bosom,
petticoat striped m lstly in. tie parable
stripes of Moorish patterng but occa-
sionally in the checkered, which makes
the pattern tartan, tapestry.like
apron of brighter colors than the petit
coat, and bare legs and feet. The men
are fine race, tall, with a certain state
illness and self-respect in every gesture
their faces are almost always good, and
often quite intellectual and chivalric,
but in muscular development the peas.
ant women Of Eervia can give their hus.
bands . stone and leating,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04
THE TWEED RISG DITIDESD.


The whole amount OF warrants paid
by authority of the special board Of
audit was 50, ,312, ,541 81. OF this Inger-
soil deposited in bank ga, ,549,S29 IS, and
paid over 20 Woodward 81 ,817 ,467 40,
leaving a balance ofsi ,7Sl, ,s5l 80, which
could not be traced. Garvey deposited
in bank 81, ,l77 ,4lS 72, of which he paid
to Ingersoll S47,744 68, and Woodward
$7s1 ,S71 OF, with $685., 1898 OS not traced.
Woodward deposited in bank in warrants
and these checks from Ingersoll and
Garvey S,5s2, ,O54 26, of which he paid
to Tweed $932, ,S58 50. leaving balance
not traced of s2,649, 1876 '76. Tweed re-
ceived in addition to this sum Sl0i,-
1913 GA from the New YORK Printing
company, making total realized by
Tweed out of this special audit of ST.
O37, 1872 IL. Subsequent investigations
and the confessions of Ingersoll, Garvey
and Woodward reveal the fact that Con-
molly received 20 per cent, Watson and
Woodward each 8 per cent, and pay
ments were made TO James M. Sweeney
of 10 per cent, traced to his account at
the Nassau bank, and supposed to have
been the share OF his brother, Peter B.
Sweeney. These figures show that ex'
Mayor Hall, on basis of 10 per cent,
must have received more than 100000,
or, in exact figures, S57l, III 80.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

headway by the 1stof January, 1873,
and from that day to January l, 1876,
135 of the above named joint stock COM
panies were forced to go into liquidation,
and carefully made figures show that of
the 969, 900, 900 of forins which these
135 companies started with at least 206,-
$4,000 forins viii prove an absolute
loas.
In some respects the Austrian empire
resembles the United States. 1t is a
debtor country, but Is struggling hard
to reduce its debt. Is has a paper cur
rency, and silver yet bears premium of
81 per cent. 1t is an exporting country
and for the first time for many years it
exported more than it imported last
year. Here the parallel ceases, for the
United States is free country. Austria
is a despotism. In The United States
the agricultural and mechanical classes
are mainly educated; in Austria they
are mainly ignorant. The United States
is gold and SLY producing country,
while Austria iSff5st, 8 any great extent.
The United States has wonderful re-
serve of undeveloped resources. Aus
tria has not. Austria will very soon be
distanced in the coming race OF indus
trial supremacy.
France is the most industrious and
nation on earth to-day-lhat
is to say, she excels all the commercial
nations in this particular. France is
more prosperous than Germany is-as a
nation-but how strong will she be in
for supremacy as the manu-
acturer of the worlds goods Her
masses can not read and write. How
ire they to win the race from more in
.elligent competitors? 1t can not be
lone. England admits that intelligence
5 the card that is going to win, and
America holds that card.
As sure as the world endures the ma
ions of the earth will find that of all
things they ever attempted to |
maintain the ignorance of the masses
arries off the palm.
Switzerland cries out that American
Tatches and American boots and shoes
re selling under their very noses for less
money than the homemade article can
e manufactured for.
Why is this?
Intelligence, on the one hand, makes
lachines to do its work cheap and well.
nd ignorance on the other sticks to the
Id, slow, laboTious and expensive
lethods, and is beaten, of course.-.St.
ottis Republican.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

blunder yesterday, and l think If ole
DR.. Manning had had Elisha's power
you would have stood in considerable
danger of being torn to pieces by the bear
after your facetious remarks on the sub
ject of bald heads.
"Oh, never thought about his being
bald?
But my dear child, these are matters
that ought to be thought about. Let
me give you one plain, simple rule, Mel
lie: Neoer remind anyone Of has or her
personal defects. "
I'll try to remember that.
"There is another thing you would
do well to remember-that comparisons
are odious. When Kate Sibley played The
The Beautiful Blue Danube Walties'
for me the other evening it was
scarcely polite in you to exclaim as
soon as she had finished oh, Aunt
Alice, you ought to hear Minnie DuBose
play that She does play it beautitullyp
Later in the evening, when / asked
Kate for the 'Etude Mazurka, she re-
piled yoIt nnst.-wait AID get
Minnie DuBose to play that, as Nellie
says she does play it beautifully"
"Resentful creature. Well, at any
rate, have never said anything against
Kate's looks.
"No; on the contrary, 1 once heard
you remark in the precence of dezen
of her scheolmates that she was By far
the prettiest girl in Mr.. Radford's school;
but then you went on to qualify your
praise by coolly observing: However, I
don't think that is saying much for her.
You showed more temerity than / i'm
agined even you were possessed of in Civ
ing so many young girls to understand
that you did not consider them at all
pretty"
" Well, 1 don't think them pretty"
" Nor interesting either. At least so
l judged the other night when, as they
were going away, you observed, yawn-
ingly: Only ten o'clock. l thought it
was great deal latter than that You
are an unselfsh child, Nellie, and always
ready to give up your own pleasures to
Oblige your friends but you viii never
be popular until you learn to bear this
in mind that although it isalways wrong
10 tell falehoods, it does not follow that
it is always right to tell uncslled for
truths. 20 Constance Marion, IN 81. Nieh-
,las for AgriI.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04
MR.. Gladstone ON PREACHING.

My belief is that as long as mankind
subsists, preaching and science will both
have their places in the field of life, and
if l were to wager | would just as
readily wager in favor of the longevity
of preaching as 1 would on the longevity
of science. / will venture to say as
much as this, and l hope it will not be
misunderstood. quite comprehend that
it is no part of the ordinary business of
preaching to puzzle and disturb mems
minds by wandering into questions which
are for them to a great extent and in the
majority of cases abstract and specula-
tive, questions lying outside their path
of life and outside their path of duty in
life but when ask myself why is it at
this moment that the tone of so many
professors of science is so harsh, so un-
kindly, and so domineering towards
that precious gem and jewel of religion
which is the hope of human kind, /
cannot but admit to myself that it is in
part a reaction from former state of
things, thst those who have believed in
religion, and professed religion, and even
taught religion, have in various ways
been not sufficiently careful at all times
to avoid placing stumbling blocks in the
way of their brethren by fictitious
modes of representing divine truth. l
am persuaded, and it is precept of
great practical Importance, that not only
the substance of the thing taught but the
manner of the thing taught should be
continuously studied that the precept
not to offend zone of these little ones"
should be remembered in its application
not merely 10 those who know them
selves to be little ones, but to all who
are little ones in reference to divine
truth and knowledge, even if they be
rich in the cultivation and science that
this world can give them.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

near Slaughter's, which / rented from
G. NJ. White. At 7 o'clock, on the
evening of the 18th, I, John Slaughter
and Fred Conway went from Slaughter's
house down Eighth street. Shortly after
we went out on the Humboldt road
and met Eugene Roberts and Charles
Slaughter, who joined us. We then
went up the road, and turned towards
the Chinese camp. At Lemm's Ranch,
Roberts and John Spangler went ahead,
and got over the fence into the field,
where they stepped and talked about
who should lead into the camp. Roberts
agreed to. John Slaughter first entered,
and then all rushed in. Roberts pro-
posed shooting but 1 and Conway OBJ
jected. When the other boys entered /
stood outside. None were disguised.
Roberts gave me the word to shoot first
When first heard of the intent / was at
the fence. When Roberts and Slaughter
proposed the robbery, near the camp,
Roberts proposed killing, 1 think, for
safety. Roberts had bottle of kero-,
sene, the contents of which he threw
over the Cinnamon. When the firing
commenced, some one asked: (Which
one do you want ?"
The five confessing to murder are the
two Slaughters, Roberts, Steinbrook and
Conway. The other confessions are by
Holdenbaum and Wright, of incendi-
arism. H. T. Jones, third Slaughter
boy named Pleasant, and John Mahoney,
are in Jail as incendiaries. These have
not yet confessed, but doubtless will |
Wright says he and Jones fired the soap
factory. The three Slaughter boys, |
Conway and Jim Fay, burned the Chico |
creek laundry and Mrs. ROberts's barn
and the Chinese tenement near Chico.
was arrested in a lumber |
camp thirty-fve miles from here. Fay
and Pleasant Slaughter were arrested
here. The two Slaughters, Conway,
Wright, Steinbrook and
were taken before Justice Hal
et and waived examination. The five
nurderers were held without bail. The
were held te bail in $4,000
zach, and were committed in default
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04
VOL. XIII. NO 13.

pipes aud some stone relics which he hsd
removed to his effice, where they were
thrust aside and forgotten for quite 8
nmber of years. But when the ancient
kettles and iron camp utensils were
found at the salt wells few years ago
giving indisputable evidence that De
Sotoshad camped there, the colonel be
thought him of the ancient sword and
went to his barrel to get it, but il
was gone, and has never since been dis.
covered,
Some five years ago Gel. Mcmillan
gave the relics he had left to one of the
editors Of the Memphis Appeal, and that
gentleman deposited them in the state
library at Nashville, where they still
remain.
During the last twenty years Mr.. w.
A. Trigg (the largest planter in this part
of the state, and gentleman of the old
school OF hospitality, has gathered many
relics similar to these already described,
from mounds on his plantation, but has
given them away whenever asked for.
Lest year be oontributed many Of them
70 the centenniaf commission of thisstate.
Last week ditcher named LOUIS Glib
ney, while making excavations on the
Welch farm hear here, found number
Of pipes and lamp formed in imitation
of duck, the whole surface bearing in
scriptions. About the same time some
persons living near the Ouachita river,
about five miles below here, discovered
that the river in washing the bank away
at bend had unearthed large number
OF skeletons which measure over seven
feet from the top of the skull to the heel.
No relics of any kind have been discov-
cred, but this is probably due to the fact
that no excavation has been made save
by the action of the river.
The distance from here to the Hot I!
Springs is twenty miles, and the evil |
dences prove beyond a doubt that the
inhabitants must have known |
OF their existence, and have used them
as their extensive burying grounds, and
their mounds would indicate that they |
visited this rich and beautiful valley of
the Ouachita as a water-cure and health
'esort.
From this point up to its source in
he mountains the Ouachitt is one of the
most beautiful streams on the continent.
In size the stream is about equal to the
upper Wabash, but the fall is 50 great
hat the current is much swifter. 1t
'bounds with fine fish, large> portion
'eing shad, and the wild character of the
cenery after it enters the mountains
lear Hot Springs, makes it delightful
etreat for fishing and hunting parties.
But few days ago a party of gentle-
nen from New York went up the river
o spend a month fishing and hunting.
they were supplied with tents and camp
guipage.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04
THE JOHN OAKHURST OF THE
SOUHETN HOTEL FIRE.

The first TO reach the hotel and the
most prompt to render assistance were the
keepers of the all-night houses along
Fifth street, whose places are particular
numerous in the vicinity of the South
ern. From stalking dollars they came to
stake lives, and the game they played
was one with death. More than score
of these brave men ran up the stairs by
the ladies' entrance on the Fifth street
side, and penetrated to the topmost story
bringing down women and children only
to let them go in the comparative safety
of the street. They returned again and
again to the rescue and gave up floor after
floor only when they felt sure no one
had been overlooked. These men were
the last to abandon the building, and
some clung to their life saving heroism
even when the means of exist was cut
off save by the ladder.
One Of these men was Charles Tiernan.
partner of Nose Labonta, at No. 81
South and Fifth streets Herman had
DrOuglJ OuJ ScNcIdl women and was
taking one last look when the ladder
was moved to another window. He
came back to find himself in a perilous
situation. The flames were closed be.
hind, and to turn back was to face the
terrors of death from suffocation, SO he
crept out upon, the window-sill, forty
feet above the stone flags, and sprang
for the ladder. His fingers barely raped
the rungs, ..and then Swiftly falling OBJ
iects truck the pavement with adult, dead
sound. They picked up all that was
mortal of poor Charlie Tiernan, and car
ried him back feet foremost into the club
house from which he had rushed forth on
his noble mission an hour before. Today
the body was placed in handsome cas-
ket and men came and went softly,
sneaking reverently of the dead. To-
morrow the mass will be said over
Charlie Tiernsn's remains at the cathe-
dral.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
An AIphaoet for the little People.

AH AfphdOet Tor The Lttfte PeOpto.
A tumbled down, and hurt his Arm against bit
of wood
ID said, a Ny Boy, oh do not cry; It cannot do
you any good"
& said, d Cup Of Coffee hot e.At do you any
harm.0
ID said "a Doctor should be fetched, and he would
the arm -
T. said, IAN Egg beat up with milk would quickly
make him well.'
said, "a Fish, If broiled, might cure, if only by
the smell"
HI said :, His Hat should be kept on to keep him
from the cold"
L said, " Some Ice upon his head will make him
better soon"
said, Some Jam, If spread bread. given in
spoon"
II said, "a kangaroo is here-this picture let him
see."
L. raid, "a Lamp pray keep a light. to make some
NJ said, "A Mulberry or two might give him sat
isfaction."
said " Some Nuts If rolled about might be a
slight attraction
said. AN owl might make him laugh, if only
II Would wink"
r said, " Some Poetry. might be read aloud. to
make him thiBk."
a said, "a Ounce / TecOmmend-a Ounce OF
else a Quail"
Il said, % Some Rats might make him move, If
fastened by the tall"
y said, "a Song should be sung in hopes to
said, "a TgrniP nights avail, If sliced or gut in
U said, IAN Uurn, with water hot, placed under
meath his chin"
said, IN stand upon chair and play a
Violin"
w said, " GONE Whisky whizzigIggs fetch, some
marbles and n ball"
n said, {" Some dOuble,XX ale would be the best of
ALL"
said. " Some Yeast mixed up with salt would
make perfect plaster"
n said, " Here is box Of Zinci Get in, my little
masteri
Wen shut you upl Wen nail you down We
will, my kttle master
We think we've all heard quite enough OF this,
your sad disaster"
NJ y Sun.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04
BURIED CITIES IN CENrRAL AsHA.

An expedition to explore the buried
cities in central Asia is talked OF in
Bombay and elsewhere in India.
Thattre asures like those of Mycene
may be found in the sands of Mon
golia is at least possible. If tradi-
ition be of any value-a tradition,
too that has persistantly chung to one
locality through the lapse of centuries-
the tomb of Ghengiz Khan is yet, with
its fabulously rich treasures, to be found
(as Colenel Prejevalsky was told by the
Mongols) to the south of lake Tabasun-
Nor. Your readers may remember the
quaint legend about the last resting
place of the great Khan. Within the
tomb lies a man who seems asleep.
Every evening sheep or horse is tied
near to the spot, and loi in the morning
the animals have been eaten. In three
hundred years, says the Mongols, the
sleeper will awake and lead countless
hosts of his children to victory and do
minion. The old story is said to be cir
more and more widely every
year Then the Mongols say that con-
stantly the drifting sands disclose, here
and there, gold and silver treasures,
have superstitious dread of
The buried cities under the |
sands of Cobb are affirmed to be mines of |
wealth, guarded by gnomes
and fearful spells, while all the deserts
around the hidden ruins are peopled by
myriads of bowling ghosts. DIR. Bellew
the fact sometime since that |
we shall probably have several of these
buried cities revealed shortly, in sim
liar naturally manner to that in which
they were primarily concealed from the
sight of man. The sands of the deserts
Of central Asia regularly move and drift
from east to west, and even now the
eastern borders of deserts are being
ienuded widely of all soil that can be
torn away and be borne westward by the
violent winds that rage with incredible
fury many months of the year in those
regions. Will Russia be the first to
avail herself practically of the knowl-
edge of this p Lon don Afheneug1
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When 6fst young Molly
ssfhritcaed beneath the holly, ssss
Fast<e1eap foTeniust her Sheep wan dreamy sum-
mefss day,
Wild daisies laughin' round her,
Hand and foot bound her, -
Then kissed her on her boomin' cheek, and softly
stole -aH
~ t&st Bat as, wild blushes burnin,
"a Tiptoe turnin',
From sleep she starts, and me darts dreadful
1ghtnin ray,
Ny foolish, Rowery letters
Scornfully she scatters,
And like winter sunbeam, she eodiy sweeps
away, 81
But Love, young love, comes stoopin'
49, Aus.sssu Ger my daisies droopn',
x ~ Axdoht each flower, wild fairy power, the rosy boy
~ renews;
Then twines each charmin' cluster
rs in links of starry luste-,
And wild the chain, enchanting, my colleen proud
~szzzs- epursues
= y And soon met young Nelly
49, siif Husn' melancholy,
g 9std dss neast eyes and startn' sighss along the
( meadow-bank-
And OH her swellin' bosom
Was wreathed wild blossom,
Like stars In summer heaven, as in my arms she
sank.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

Mems evil manners live in brass;
their virtues we write. in ter.-iShak-
Pcare, 1888
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

Bayard Taylor speaks disparagingly
of the popcorn and withered figs upon
which the train-boy feeds the American
traveller. If Mr.. Taylor had. been read
ing g Red-headed Mike, or " The Hunt
er's Bride" either of (which entertaining
romauces be might have bought of this
same traiu-boy, be would not have 80
much time to find fault with his victualf.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

Marriage is a feast where the grace is
sometimes better than the dinner,--Col-
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

Nothing so prevents our being natu-
raj as the desire of appearing so.-Roche-
EoucnnLd Fa-L-
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

The mind il its own place, and in
itself can make heaven of hell, hell of
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

Some five years ago Gel. Mcmillan
gave the relics he had left to one of the
editors of the Memphis Appeal, and that
gentleman deposited them in the state
library at Nashville, where they still
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-05-04

Never marry but for love, but see
that thou lowest what is lovely WTHiana
Penn.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-08
Practical SuggestiOns.

For the protection of iron and steel
tools against rust, Vogel recommends a
solution of white wax in benzine. The
latter, heated, will dissolve half its
weight of wax. This will preserve the
metal, even from the action of acid
vapors. Apply with brush.
IT is common thing when screw or
a staple becomes loose to draw it out, plug
up the hole with wood and reinsert it.
But screws and staples 30 secured soon
come out again. 1t has been found that
a much better way is to fill up the holes
tightly with cork. Screws and irons so
secured are said to remain perfectly tight
as long as when put into new wood.
ONE thing should be borne in mind
by farmers who raise their own stock
and every good farmer ought to do this
and that is always to keep the best Of
their own animals for that purpose, no
matter what temptations there may be
to sell them. BY adhering to this at all
times, except when fresh strain may be
necessary to introduce, there will be no
difficulty in always possessing satisfac-
tory supply Of horses, cattle, sheep, and
swine. Breeding in-and-all for long
period may be advisable in all cases, but
any farmer with grain of practical
sense can see this and judge for himself.
Sell all your "scrubs," of every kind,
and by keeping and propagating from
the best, the best will always he found
on the farm.