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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04

It is a fortunate thing for the tax
payers of this State that all Of the Radi-
cal legislators really elected did not
take their seats in the legal Legislature.
IL they had, it is doubtful If half the re-
form measures already enacted into
laws could have been carried through.
There is no telling what improper influ-
ences might have been brought to bear
upon those who, under the immoral and
pernicious teachings Of their carpet-bag
leaders, have come to believe that there
is no great harm in making merchandise
of the legislation of the State and CIV
ing their votes to the highest bidder.
But we do not despair OF witnessing a
change Of heart on the part OF these mis-
guided people. When the Legislature
meets in regular session in January
next, it is to be hoped that these same
men, under the benign influence Oh a
pure administration Of the Governments
will have had removed from their eyes
the scales Of moral blindness and preJu-
dice, and not only formed a true concep-
ton of their duty to the State, but take
their seats resolved to perform that duty
and to contribute, to the extent of their
power. to the enactment Of measures
calculated to bring about harmonious
relations between the white and colored
races and to restore prosperity to this
suffering State.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04
LOUISIANA COrrON FACTORY.

A few years ago Mr.. Cavaroc succeed
ed in organizing and establishing a COM
pany to set in operation cotton factory
in the Third District of this city. The
project met with much favor and the
stock was soon taken and made up in
brief time. The land was purchased
and the buildings and machinery put
ND. and the whole establishment placed
in working order. Before the factory
could be started. there occurred one OF
those periodical commissions In financial
affairs; Mr.. Cavaroc with his bank, in
surance company and the factory were
swept into the whirlpool OF financial
trouble. Ever since, the factory has
been closed and the fine and complete
machinery unemployed and rusting.
The original cost Of the establishment
was $4,000 Yesterday it was sold in
liquidation Of the affairs of the COM
pany, and the highest bidder was Mr..
Davis Mccain for forty thousand dol
lars.
Mr.. Mccain is the proprietor Of one
Of the largest foundries in this city,
and is also a large capitalist. 1t is his
purpose to convey this property to a
company which will be organized by
several large capitalists to carry on the
cotton manufacture in this city on a
| large scale. This is movement in the
right direction. The lack of manufac-
turing enterprise and employment has
been great reproach to this city. There
| is no use Of capital which, il properly
directed or organized. can be made more
productive to the investor and conducive
| to the general prosperity than IL ths
conversion Of the raw products g on
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04
PORTRAIT OF DIR. WARREN STONE.

PORTRAIT OF DIR. WARREN STONE.
Mr.. Fl. Bonzano has commended him
self to the kindly regards OF the nu-
merous friends and admirers OF our
great and lamented surgeon and philan-
thropist, the late DR.. Warren Stone, by
purchasing, at his own expense, An
trobus' fine portrait Of him, and pre-
senting it to the Charity Hospital, to be
placed by the side of that OF the NUM-
ficent Poydras, whose liberal legacy fur
nished the chief basis and foundation
Of that institution.
This was noble act Of Mr.. Bonzano,
alike creditable to his heart and head.
His letter of presentation is equally
creditable to his taste, his sentiments
Of benevolence and his appreciation
of the highest qualities and brightest
traits of human nature. We give 1t
below.
DR.. Warren Stone was q man who will
be the last to be forgotten by the gen.
erations in which he lived and to whose
relief and welfare he devoted his splen-
did talents and generous deeds. He
was a grand man; grand in his moral,
intellectual and physical virtues. No
one impressed all with whom he was
brought into intercourse more than he
did. OF gigantic mental and phi ysical
structure and masculinity, he was as
gentle as the most sensitive and deli
cate woman to all appeals to the affee-
tions and sentiments-to the heart. or
immovable strength and power of will,
and dauntless fidelity to duty and hon.
esty, he was at the same time the most
yielding and submissive to the appeals
Of suffering humanity, the promptings
ofpity, charity and magnanimity.
1t is indeed an agreeable incident in
this ase Of dreary selflshness and alb
sorption In personal cares and aspira-
tions, to find one citizen, at least, who
has yielded to the all-pervading senti-
ment Of love and admiration for our
great surgeon, and sought, at some
sacrifice, to perpetuate the remem-
brance Of him in the manner indicated
by the donation and the very appro-
pirate letter which follows:
NEW ORLEANS, April 2, 1877.
To the Board of Administrators Of the Charity
Hospital, New Orleans. La:
Gentlep,en-It is q source of much qualification
to me to inform you that. through the kindness
Of 4 friend, am enabled TO present to you. and
through you to the hospital, an oil painting. life
70, OF the late End lalnented DR.. Warren stone.
Ihe work was executed some years ago by Mr.
Autrobus, an eminent artist, and all conno1ssenrs
attest thai 1t is most excellent likeness OF the
deceased.
II is my wish, il you will permit me to make the
suggestion that it be placed in the room of the
Boat of Administrators alongside Of the likeness
OF our deceased friend and boneeactor Julien
Poydras, whom, X comparison were permissible,
while living, he even outshone in noble qualities
and virtue, having combined oss rare ana ex
which knew no other tLrobbing than that Of be-
ueyolence and kindness towards the whole hu.
man family and especially TO the poor sick and
i'-'"'- q. BONZANO.
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w. w. WAsHBURN,
ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHERS,
r12 Canal street,
onnosite Clay Statue. New Orleans

Opposite Clay Statue. New Orleans.
Mr.. WAsHBUBN is himself an arts. q
twenty-five year. experience. and y nta
who have no superiors In this or the Old World;
He is the master of bis business Re Bes1 hass
matariaIs. and ma es the best work on the Con-
tfnent. You may call this ~-<>.,xrn
| s.BL OWING HIS OWN HORN.
e,d ~ stfr<ss ad rs he work which may betns
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04
DIED.

BRIGHTON Tuesday, April 8, 1877, at g. m :.
year OF his age. native of Lexington, Ky, and
q resident of New Orleans for the past ffty-four
years.
His funeral will take place on Wednesday, 4th
inst. at 10 o'clock O. M. from his late residence,
No. 235 st. Oh aries street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-04
CARPET WAREHOUSE.

1S......... .Chnrrres street. .........1S
We offer at Reduced Prices our Large Stock OF
OARPETING of all kinds.
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, of all widths and quail
MATING, Table and Piano COVERS.
WINDOW SHADES Corniees, Bands, etc.
CURTAIN AND FURNITURE MATERIALS
Of all kinds and qualities. etc.
Also. BURLAPS by thebale or piece.
ap1 2DSuWe A. BROUSSEAU n SON.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-22
American Arms for Turkey.

Both the establishments of the Prov
idence Tool Company are engaged in
the manufacture of rifles for the Impe-
rial Ottoman Government, and, judging
from appearances, they are turning out
nearly thousand rifles day; SO that
the three Turkish Inspectors of Arms
resident here have their hands pretty
fully employed. The gun itself is moth
ing else than modification of the Pea
body breech-loader, which was adopted
for the United States Government on
the recommendation of Board Of
army officers in 1865. The gun attract
ed considerable attention in Europe,
where it was exhibited to committees
of experts; and in 1867 Friedrich Mar
TIM, a Swiss, produced modification
of it, and claimed the entire invention
as his own. The gun, with certain
notifications in regard to rifing and
form of cartridge, suggested by an En-
glishman named Henry, was adopted
ny Iu0 DTIIlSH UON6Ium6HO DIS lHc StdIlu-
ard gun for their troops,
under the name of the Martini-Henry
gun. The Turkish Government hav-
ing, in 1873, determined upon entirely
rearming their troops, and fixed upon
the Martiri-Henry gun for this purpose,
they entered into a contract with the
Providence Tool Company for the man.
ufacture of 100000 stand of these arms.
This was followed almost Immediately
by a second order for 100000, and
eventually by third order for 100000
stand, aggregating 100000 stand of
Martini Henry riaes-the largest con-
tract ever given to private armory.
OF course, this immense contract neces-
STATED very large expenditure by the
Company for buildings and machinery.
Up to the end of 1876 they had furnish
ed rather more than half the contract;
but recent events have caused the Turk
ish Government to urge upon the Com
pany the desirability of increased pro-
duction, and believe l am not far out
in estimating the amount of work per-
formed at 1000 per diem.-Providence
Letter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-22
A Testimonial to the Efficacy of
the Blue-Light Cure.

A lady, well known in the Third
Ward, and the wife of a prominent
manufacturer, says the Providence
Press, has been for three years afflicted
with paralysis, which deprived her of
the use of her limbs. In her helpless
state, she had to be taken bodily to and
from her chair. Various doctors were
consulted, experiments with electricity
were made, and nothing was left I'M
tried that would afford relief. But all
efforts of the medical men were una
vailing; their visits ceased, unless spe-
cially urged to call; and, while not
wholly abandoning the case, yet they
very broadly intimated that it was hope
less to expect any permanent benefit
from the physicians skill. So matters
stood, when the articles on blue glass
appeared in these columns. Little at
tention was at first given the matter;
but, as reiterated statements were made
of the beneficial effects derived from
blue-glass sun-baths, it was deemed of
sufficient Importance to give the matter
trial. If no good effects followed,
certainly no injury could result from so
harmless an experiment, while the the
DRY of the efficacy of blue glass could
be satisfactorily tested. Accordingly,
the husband of the sick lady had the
lower sash of two of the parlor win
dows glazed with blue glass in the man.
ner recommended by Gen. Pleasonton.
The parlor fronts south ON Transit
Street, and in the morning the sun
light streams through the south blue
glass window. The other side is
side window looking,to the west, and
along in the afternoon the sunlight
pours through the blue-glass window,
so that for several hours of the day the
patient can sit and receive the sunlight.
The husband had not particle of con-
fidence in the blue-glass theory, but
cheerfully acquiesced in the expert
ment, being willing to go to any expense
or inconvenience to have his wife's
health restored. About ten days ago
the blue-glass arrangement was COM
pleted, and the next succeeding pleas
ant day, when the sun was shining, the
experiment commenced. The lady
was carried to the parlor and left sit
ting in her chair, the other members of
the family Withdrawing. In the course
of an hour or two the family was
startled by a noise in the parlor, fear
ing that the lady had fallen from her
chair. On entering the parlor, what
was their establishment to find that she
had actually risen from her chair and
walked across the floor. Strength had
returned to her limbs, she was able to
move her arms, and Immediately in
credulity in the efficacy of blue glass
was banished from that house. This
was the first days experience, but sub
seeuent experiments only confirmed the
confidence of the household, and the
husband, who at first had "pooh-
poohed the whole thing, is now one
of the firmest believers. 1t has done
great good, and while a cure has not
been by any means effected, yet very
good results are looked for.
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

OYSTER AND CLAM FRITrERs.-2 cup
fuls flour. 2 of milk, eggs, and little
salt; beat well, and add an oyster to
each spoonful of batter, as you drop it
in the fat, which must be quite hot /;
CLANS should be chopped and stirred,
in the batter, then dropped by spoon
fuls in the hot fat.
SLEEPS ToNGUEs.-Put tongues in
quart of warm water, with moderate
sized carrot, onions, l bay-leaf, 1
piece of thyme, and l teaspoonful salt;
simmer until they are tender, then skim
them and trim off the roots and fat, and
cut in two lengthwise; melt piece of
butter, adding the juice of lemon !;
pour boiling over the tongues. A very
inexpensive dish.
ORANGE FRITTERs.-1 pound flour,
pint of milk, with teaspoonful of salt
in it, and 1 pound of melted butter, and
eggs beaten very light. Prepare A
oranges by removing the yellow rind
and every particle of white pith, divide
into small pieces without breaking the
skin. In each spoonful of butter put a
piece of orange, and fry golden brown /;
sift powdered sugar over as soon as
taken from the pan.
BAKED MACCARoNI.-Put into sailed
boiling water 1 pound Italian macca-
roni broken in pieces; let the water
cover it; boil till quite tender; drain
off the water and place the maccaroni
neatly in a baking-dish; pour cupful
of milk over it and put butter size of an
egg cut in small pieces on the top, and
cover thickly with grated rich cheese.
Place in the oven and bake till the milk
is absorbed and the top is brown.
SCOTCH MARMALADE.-Cut Seville
oranges in quarters, pull off the rinds,
and place in cold water sufficient to
cover; remove the pulp and juice from
the skin and pips, cover from the air
until the rinds have remained in water
"a hours; strain the rinds and boil until
tender in fresh cold water; drain and
cut in three strips; add the pulp and
juice, and to each pound of fruit allow
pound and half of cut sugar; boil !
of an hour, stir constantly.
CHICKEN PIE.-Cut up the chickens,
by unjointing them; soak thoroughly
in weak salt and water; wash thor
oughly; put chickens into kettle
with quarts of water and 3 teaspoon
fuls of salt. Boil hour. Make crust
by rubbing pound of lard into quarts
of flour. Take 2 teacupfuls of sour
cream, and II teaspoonfuls of soda !;
knead quite hard, and roll out inch
thick. A 4-quart pudding-dish will
answer to bake in; bring the edge of
the crust little above the rim of the
dish; arrange the chicken by packing
closely around the dish; if you are
fond of pepper, sprinkle some over
each layer of chicken; ! pound of but
ter, cut up in Jumps, and scattered
among the meat, is a great improve
ment when the chicken is all in the
dish; stir some -four into the gravy and
turn over the chicken; then roll out the
upper crust and put over the whole,
pinching it closely with the under crust
that comes over the rim; prick the top
crust for the steam to escape. Bake
slowly ii hours, and serve hot.
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across the waste of bleak trodden snow
fields in the direction of the stream. /
saw black figure skim past the parlor
window, dimly outlined against gray
sky and white drifting waste, and won
dered vaguely who it could be. Not
Janet, surety Janet barely risen from
sick bed, and with only ragged
shawl over her cotton gown.
Tom Carter had not gone to La Ga
rave after all. Calamity prevailed ovor
business, and he coolly disobeyed me
and turned back with Felice. They
were talking and laughing in lovers
fashion as they came up to the path
across the icebound stream; but the
talk ceased suddenly, and the laughter
changed into startled cry; for where
the path had been square pool of wa
ter, dark and sullen, leaped up to meet
their gaze, and dashed the fragments of
ice, which so lately had covered it from
view, against the frozen bank.
OOOO ncdFOuS! VIM mas uOA6 bIlS!
cried Tom, and then he stopped, for
crouched in dark heap upon the
snowy bank lay stiff, silent figure, one
arm still dangling over the edge. Stoop-
ing down to it, he uttered sharp ex-
clamation-
"Janet! Is it possible?'
She was speeches. then, but she
looked up in his face with smile, and
tried to point to the hole. He lifted
her in his arms and carried her home,
Felice following in silence; but Janet's
last escapade was over, and life was
already fast drifting into eternity. Be-
fore midnight, however, she opened
her black eyes once and tried to mutter
something. Emily, who was leaning
over her, bent her head nearer.
"Where is hep" Janet said. "Sam
had cut it through; but broke it in,
an Liz will see the hole now an not
step on it. She amt worth saving;
but-he likes her." And with faint
smile of pity for his taste, Janet turned
her head aside and died.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-22

A good story is told concerning a
town-bred curate, who had consented
to do duty on Sunday for his friend, the
rector of country parish in the mid
lands. The subject of the morning
sermon was the parable of the Prodi-
gal Son, and in the hope of impressing
upon his hearers the JOY which the
patriarch felt on the return of his son,
as instanced by his ordering the fatted
calf to be killed, the young curate felt
pardonable pride in dwelling upon a
subject which could not fail to be COM
prehensible to the dullest plow-boy in
the congregation. Remember" he
said, "this was no ordinary calf which
was to be killed; it was no common
calf or beast suffering from murrain ;
no half-starved calf, slowly awaiting
death. MOI it was not even merely a
fatted calf; but" becoming more inn
pressive, sit was the fatted calf, which
had been priced and loved by the fami-
ly for MANY gears" A sea of wide
eyes and gaping mouths arrested for a
moment the eloquence of the fledgling
parson, and in the next there was such
a chuckling and grins and luttering OF
old heads below as had not been wit
messed even in the memory of the
quaint-legged sexton for more than
many years. "-Engltsh Paper.
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And the large number of testimonials which are con-
stantly being received from persons who have been
cured by its use conclusive proof OF its real value
II is recommended by physicians and apotbecarles
As Blood Purifier and HealthRestorer II has no
equal. So, l..
VFGETINE is not prepared for fancy drink made
from poor liquors. which debilitates the system and
tends 70 destroy health instead Of restor ng Il.
Are not the many testimonials given for the differ
ent complaints satisfactory 70 any reasonable persons
suffering from disease that they can be cured? Head
the different testimonials given and no one can doubt.
In many Of these the persons say that their pam
and suffering cannot be expressed as in cases OF scrOf
MA where apparently, the whole body was one mass
ofcorrupton. II VEGETINE will relieve pain, cleanse
purify and such diseases restoring the patient 70
perfect health after trying different ply scians many
remedies suffering for years, is II not conclusive
proof II you a sufferer, you can be cured? why
Is this medicine performing such great curesF IL
works in the BLOOD in the circulating fud IL can DC
truly called the Great Blood PlT1ter. The great
source of disease originates the blood and no med
icipe that does not act directly upon it. to purify and
renovae has any Just claim upon public attention.
When the blood becomes ifeess and stagnant. either
from change Of weather or of eli mate want OF eNer-
else irregular diet from any other cause the EG-
ETINE will renew the blood, carry OF the putrtd
hunors cleanse the stomach regulate the bowels and
impart tone Of vigor 10 the whole body. The con,
yction is in the public mind well as in the medical
profession that the remedies supplied by the lfQed
BE RJn1dOB are more safe. more successful IN the
cure Of disease than mineral medicines. NEGEriEH
is composed OF roots barks and herbs. 1t s pleasant
TO take and is perfectly safe TO give an infant DC
sou need it? Do not hesitate to try 1t. You viii
never regretit.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-22
Lumbermen-Their Life and
Work.

Three hundred men will cover and
cut section of three miles square, tax
ing off over 10000 logs, which would
measure about 100000 feet, each
season. Work begins at daylight and
ends at dark; and when the days
lengthen and the moon favors a longer
twilight or earlier morn the men get
the benefit in longer working hours.
On the river, when the drive is started,
work begins at o'clock in the morn
ing and ends at 9 in the evening, the
men having five meals: breakfast at 6,
lunch at 9, dinner at y, supper at 5,
and tea at 9. The meals consist of
pork and beans, corn-bread, molasses-
cake, and tea or coffee. No stint is
given to mans appetite. The fare,
such as it is, is abundant, monotonous,
nutritious, and cheap. A cook is pro-
vided for every fifty men. The beans
are generally the large white bush, par
boiled in pots holding a half bushel,
then ten pounds of pork is set in the
middle of the beans in the pot, quar-
ter of pint of molasses poured into it,
and then the pot is set in a hole sur
rounded with hot ashes and burning
charcoal, the top covered with a stone,
over which heavy wood fire is built,
and here they stay from five to
eight hours, coming out most palata-
BILE dish. All the baking is done in
rudely built stone ovens, which are
heated, before the dough is mixed, with
good wood fire. The loaves of bis
cult or cake are set upon the hot stones,
and are cooked quickly and thorough
ly. A camp of 800 men will consume
daily four barrels of beans, half bar
rel of pork, one barrel of flour, half q
barrel of meat, one quarter of a barrel
of sugar, and five gallons of molasses
The men are encamped in tents, max
ing their beds of boughs, while their ex.
ira clothing, pair of dark overalls,
wooden shirt, and two pair of wooler
socks, is kept in an old grain sack and
used as a pillow at night. Sunday ii
the woods is always day for sharpen
ing axes, mending sleds, repairing
boots and clothes, setting out a new
tenting spot handler to the cutting il
the woods, and all the odd chores
which would grow out of the congre
CATION of so large body of men. Al
well-regulated camps exclude liquor
Being usually fifty to 200 miles from
any settlement, and the men not pait
until the end of the season, there is lit
tie inducement for any speculator t.
peddle rum through the woods, or TO
the men to straggle off in search OF it
The consumption of axes and handle
is enormous, an axe lasting montl
and handle about three weeks. TIL
axes are sharpened daily, hAV ng regu
lar sharpeners, while otheFs requir
each man to keep his own axe in order
The old axes are never collected for tn
junk dealer, the distance to ship then
being almost too great to make it a
economical measure. Woodsmen gen
orally consider spruce harder on axe
than either birca or pine. The CUR
which runs out of spruce tree is foun
hard enough to chip the edge of tn
axe when striking through it.-NOrti
SceStsrn LunlbernlGn.
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from the forces which destroyed Pom
pei. The lGpilli were not incandescent,
as has been supposed, and only in rare
instances were they hot enough to give
to the yellow ochres in the wall paint
ings reddish hue. The carbonizing
of the woodwork of the houses as well
as the bread, fruit, ETC., which have
been found in Pompeii was the work OF
dampness rather than heat, similar to
the effect produced on logs or piles
which remain for long time sunR~in
the ground. -LectFre 6y Prot. SpGlliHg.