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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

this matter, they owe 1t to themselves
and to the people to take prompt and
early steps to clear their regulations OF
the dark suspicion which rests upon
them, for the guilty will be brought to
Justice, or at least exposed, and their
future career through life can only be
attended by the scorn OF those who APP
preciate the importance Of virtue in
public officials and just pride In the
good name OF Louisiana.
We have shown that this statute Is
not law and can furnish no warrant for
the payment of money from the public
treasury. He, then, to whom such pay
ment has been made has received that
which was not due to him. Article 1901
of the Revised Code says: "He who re-
ceiyes what Ia not due to him, whether
he receives 1t through error or know
ingly, obliges himself to restore 1t to
him from whom he has unduly received
IT,"
We now call upon the Attorney Gene
raf to enforce that obligation. and to
show that the pledge given by him dur
ing the canvass to secure for the people,
as far as in his power lies, just and
equal administration OF the law, was
the sincere expression OF conscien-
tious and firm determination to dis
charge his duty without fear or favor.
This case involves some $75, 200 OF the
public money, but its moral Importance
is far greater than the pecuniary.
What this community especially
needs for It's publication Is the expo
sure and, 80 far as it can be done con-
sistently with the principles OF law,
the punishment Of those who have
been engaged In populations upon the
public treasury. We want cleaning
OF the Augean stable such as Is now
threatened In New York. Here Is a
favorable opportunity for beginning
The law is plain and simple. the evil
dence OF the facts is easily accessible,
Will the officials to whom is committee
the care of the public interests do Their
duty? We trust and believe they will.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

The motion for q new trial In the case
recently decided by Judge Billings, In
yolying the rights OF Mrs. Gaines to q
large property in this city. was heard
by Judge Billings in chambers day be-
fore yesterday. Long arguments were
made by w. II. Mills for Mrs. Gaines,
and by Mr.. Mcdonnell for defendant.
Judge Billings reserved his decision
OF the motion, which he will probably
render to-day.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

The recent city election In Joliet, Ill.,,
seems to have ended altogether unsatis-
factorily, In consequence Of very
proper provision OF a State statute.
This statute provides that no person
who ID In arrears for taxes can be elect
ed to any Office.
It is now discovered that all the alder
men elected at the last election were
thus in arrears for taxes, and, In conse-
ouence. their election null and void.
Joliet. therefore, is In the pleasant con-
iition OF being without government OF
anv kind,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

The case Of the teachers In the public
schools of this city Is very hard one.
The salaries OF the teachers at best were
small and the Board Of Directors have
deemed 1t necessary to suddenly and.
eat one fell swoop, lop off forty per cent
of their pittance. This action may have
been enforced by circumstances. but the
cutting down process. taking in all ex-
penses, strikes us as having been too
indiscriminate. Certainly there Is some
difference n the Relative Importance Of
rents, porterss wages and teachers sala-
ries. Carlyle tells In oRa This essays of
o shrewd town clerk who. ohc0in found
ing q Burg-Seminary. when theVuestion
Acame how the school teachers should be
maintained, delivered this brief counsel,
ssd-n them, keep them poor" Wefear
our school directors have acted rather
too much upon the theory OF this wise
town clerk. The world has always had
its teachers. and has always treated
them in q peculiar way, but We hope
the directors will reconsider their action
With reference to the teachers of the
New Orleans schools. It would be
better To cut down still more largely
lofher xpenses, "a abolish some entirely
oinhlx and keep up toat least living
81 81 fho salaries.
xfs bAxa n6 desire q make an Issue
lflI the direct but the cause of the
ors deaeE7 khe sgmpsthy 81 us
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DIED.

BARTLEY-On Wednesday. April Is, at 1910
.. M, Mrs. Susannah BARLEY. aged fifty six
years. q native Of Lurgan. county Antrim.
Ireland
Her friends and acquaintance and those of
her sons. Robert II. and George II. BARLEY. are
invited to attend her funeral, from her late resi-
dence. No. $40 Ram part uate Love> street, on
Friday, 27th inst. at 10 q. m.
Boston Pilot. and Lurgan. county Antrim.
pnperS please COPY.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

We call attention to the meeting OF
the Democratic and Conservative Parish
Committee advertised In another col
umn. The meeting will be held this
evening. In the Hall of the House OF
Representatives, at II o'clock.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

The Only Authorized soliciting gents oil the
Democrat for the City ARE Dlessrs' H. -
RAKER and r. o. DRvEZIN.
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Ths chico Of the New Orhea"s Dnv
CHAT has been Removed from % C~'"p
etreet To 100 drawer street.
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DENTISTRY.
]. r. WALKER, D. DIS,
No. $50 Dclord Street.

Latest improvements and best styles Of both
Operative and Mechanical Dentistry at most
Moderate Prices. Contour Filings specially,
mia II
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Pgetlgesg'
Pledges!
PhdJes!

respectfully request all persons owing me
back interest on articles pledged BY them to pay
The same by APRIL 80. All forfeited pledges
will invariably be SOLD AT AUCTION.
p. S.-The sales will commence ON the 30th
instant at the corner OF CONT and Bourbon
Streets, through PlacideJ j. Spear. Auctioneer.
ana i5t y. ANGLADE.
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WASHES SHIRTS.
SPECIAL PRICE OF 81 rs EACH

SHIRTS with long bosoms specially at
WALSHE'S.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

Here, then, we have as near demon
stration as the nature Of the subject adj
mits, Of the principle that the Legisla-
ture cannot change the constitution,
and that any act having that effect is
not la,v but 7ttterty null and Uoid. It can
furnish no warrant or excuse for any
action in conformity with it. Yet the
reports Of the Auditor and Treasurer
show that those judges, under pretense
of that void statute. have, since January
/, 1871, been drawing this excess in
shameless defiance of their oaths to
support the constitution. In doing this
they have on each and every occasion
Of drawing a warrant on the treasury
committed a crime which, in the terse
| ana shomely language Of the common
law is called sperjurS and added to it
the statutory offense OF. obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Who are the men who have been thus
false to an exalted trust epd cast this
deep shame upon Louisiana? John T..
Ludeling. J. G. Taliaferros r. K. How
ell, w. g. WHY, W. W Howe and r. II.
Morgan, have occupied the Supreme
Bench during the existence Of the ille-
gal statute and are presumed to have
drawn the money In excess Of their
salaries granted by it.
]. II. Kennard held . place on the Su-
preme Bench for d couple Of months,
but 10 hare no eyidence to show, and
~ reason III believe ttaf ~ a;cepted
|any ~ 81 the j. prlbe. = any q
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26

We have fine selection OF RIO. CORDOVA,
Old JAVA and Genuine MOKA, which we retail
at wholesale prices. Coffees parched and
ground continually We GUARANTEE our
Coffees to be free from any adulteration. Pask-
ages delivered free of charge. Country orders
delivered free to any conveyance.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-16
Miss Neilson's Divorce.

+ ~
Miss Lillian Adelaide Nelson is again
Miss Nelson in private life as we'll as upon
the stage. 4 suit for divorce, began by
her in the Supreme Court of New York last
year, has just been decided BY Judge Dom
ohue in her favor on the ground of adultery
by her husband, the adultery being proved
conclusivelj by several witnesses. Miss
Nelson was born in 1850, near Saragossa,
in Spain, of an English mother and a
Spanish father, and at an early age went to
Paris, where she received her education.
She made her first appearance in public at
the age of fifteen, playing Julia in "The
Hunchback 2 at the Margate Theatre. A
year after she made her debut in London,
playing Juliet at the New Royalty Theatre.
Her success was instantaneous and undis-
puted. She subsequently appeared at
three other theatres in London and played
through the provinces with great success.
When quite young Miss Nelson ~as mar
ried 10 Philip Lee. the son of Church Of
England minister, who afterwani, ii is said,
was set up in the wine business by a we'll
known English nobleman. Soon after she
became involved in the. divorce case of
Bury VS. Bury, tried at Manchester, and
after ITS settlement sailed for this country,
making y brilliant debut at Booths Thea
tire; She afterwards played enga agsnaents
N all the principal cities with great sue
cess. Mr. Lse accompanying her on her
tour . e
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Rspublieanisn in England.

Moncure d. Conway, in letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial, says: Of two
things I feel certain. The Centennial
Presidential struggle in America has seated
the royal family of England more firmly
on it's throne. have not heard of Re-
publican gathering for six months; and if
one were now held the old objection,
based on flying from all ills known to
others unknown, would probably be modi-
fed by the assertion that the dangers be-
setting Presidential SUGGESTIONS are no
longer unknown. The recent agitations in
America could not have occurred here
without political earthquakes, and in France
universal revolution must have ensued.
But at the same time there may be noted
an increasing resolution that the crown
shall become more and more shadowy as
an element of the constitution. This feel
ing has found more frequent expression
since the Queen gained her new Indian
title. The publication of Theodore Mar
tins Memoir of Prince Albert, disclosing
an attempt to graft on her MaJesty's reigu
certain strong featres of German Imperial
ism, has been followed by an expression of
opinion, which shows conclusively that no
backward step is to be taken in this direc-
tion, but that the English monarch is to be
regarded merely as an historical emblem of
the greatness and glory of the English
name. Alta banquet recently given to Mrs.
Helen Naylor, Sir George Campbell, in pro-
posing the health of the Queen, said that
although he was not woman's rights man,
IN the common acceptation, he did wish
that the Salic law might be so completely
reversed that in England the throne should
hereafter be occupied only by women. The
sentiment was received with loud and pro-
longed applause, and the members of par
lament present, among whom were Ssans-
field and Roebuek, seemed no less pleased
with it than the others. The feeling dis
played was certainly not due to the person
al popularity of the Queen; that she is not
popular was, indeed, shown at this banquet,
where at least eighteen persons kept their
seats when her health was proposed; but it
was due to the feeling that the general alb
stinence of the Queen from political affairs.
since her consort's death, has set
an example from which none of her sex
will be likely to depart. AS to the throne
itself, when that goes into The museum it
will be after the United States has proven
that a great nation can get along without
personal headship and presidential strdg-
oles -
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-16
Draining a Lake.

The Florida Agrieulturist says Lake
Okeechobee is about forty-f1ve miles long
and twenty five miles wide. This does
not include the marsh lands surrounding
it, which must be of still larger dimensions.
The water OF the lake IS very shallow,
seldom over seven feet and in very few
places ten feet deep, and in most parts
boats cannot approach within two or three
miles of the shore on account of the shall
lowness. No fish live in the lake-not
even an alligator can be found-as the
water is stagnant and very offensive to the
smell. There is nothing to prevent the
draining of this lake into the Caloosahat-
chic river. A canal about eight miles long
will accomplish it, the river having suffi-
cient fall to allow Of its being done. At
present the outlet from the Jake to the
river is closed up by saw-grass and lily
pads, throwing the water of the lake, in
the rainy season, into the Everglades.
What a grand speculation there could be
made by draining the lake and cutting the
land into forty. acre farms. For several
years it would give the most splendid rice
crops ever seen, and then comes in sugar
cane, which would almost rattoon forever.
We, have never heard of any country pes
sessing such grand belt of cane land that
could be SO easily turned to advantage. @
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-16
A Riue-Glass Man.

He was blue glass man. He had read
about blue glass and believed in it, and was
determined to be the healthiest individual
in town. "Have ye' any blue-glass in
strips for winders ?'' inquired he, as he
rushed into a glazing shop. T" We have.
sir,' was the reply; "just the thing, as
recommended in the Pleasonton theory"
"Wal, then," said Bluey, "I'lI take enough
for four winders." He paid the money and
departed, while the glazier chuckled,
Good thing for us fellows, the blue-glass
craziness" Bluey kept on he went into an
opticians and bought pair of blue gog-
giles to wear on his eyes. He dropped into
hat store and ordered a little round piece
of blue glass put in the top of his hat in
place of the usual tin ventilator. He then
partook of dinner of blue-fsh at a restau-
rant with bule light, dipped his fingers
into blue-glass inger-bowl, and refused
to drink anything until the waiter hunted
him up mug with blue-glass bottom.
The day was now spent, and going home in
blne-light street car the blue-glass man,
meeting his children at the door, refused to
kiss any but those having blue eyes, sat
down in blue chair to read q copy of the
blue laws of Connecticut, and got into such
fit of the blues that he took some blue
ink and writing in his will that at his death
the glass in his coffin should be blue-glass,
and his monument be made of blue granite
he grabbed revolver and blew out his
brains.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-03-16
Vanderbilt On Passes.

4 well-known merchant signing himself
"A Traveller" communicates the following
| funny anecdote about the late railroad
king
"An amusing thing came under my OBJ
servation between Vanderbilt and Lloyd,
the map man, in New York in 1867. Lloyd
wanted pass over the Central railroad for
| one Of his agents. and Vanderbilt refused
it. 4 week after this happened, Lloyd
completed his relief railroad map Of the
United States, a shade larger than the New
York Herald, on one sheet Of bank note
paper, on lightning press, and sold it.like
a newspaper, all over the country, aud the
sale was tremendous, several newsdealers
ordering 100, 600 at single order. Lloyd
had the railroads on the map about as
broad as an ordinary penholder-yery dis
tinct aud clear. To make old Vanderbilt
angry he lifted out of the electrotype plate
the New York Central railroad lins, from
New York City to Buffalo, and the Lake
Shore road and its connections from Buffa-
10 to Chicago, and issued the cheap ten
cent map without their lines on the map at
all. There was white, canal-like blank
space in the map where these railroads had
been leading from New York to Chicago,
that looked curious enough. Well, Lloyd
mailed copies of every edition, not only to
Vanderbilt, but to all the stockholders, and
all in any way connected with the Central
railroad. Old Vanderbilt swure and raved,
and threatened to sue Lloyd for damages,
but every issue made, Lloyd would mail the
commodore and his crowd copies of the
railroad map without his line and his con-
nections shown on it. until Vanderbilt
yielded and sent passes by the wholesale to
Lloyd, and to the day of his death he never
refused Lloyd all the passes he wanted.
Vanderbilt would jump up and down every
time lie saw a copy of that map, with the
canal from New York to Chicago running
along the course of his track, with his track
invisible +.
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Carlyle d, Darwin.

A good sort Of man is this Darwin, and
well meaning, but with little intellect.
All! it's sad, a terrible thing to see nigh
q whole generation of men and women,
protesting to be cultivated, looking around
in purblind fashion and finding no God
in this universe. / suppose it is reaction
from the reign of cant and hollow pretense,
protesting to believe 10 what in fact they
do not believe. Ard this is what we have
got to. All things from frog spawn the
gospel of dirt the order of the day. The
older grew-and T.now stand upon the
brink of eternity-the more comes back to
me the sentence in tile Catechism, which
learned when child, aud the fuller and
deeper its naeaning becomes What is
the chief END or mans To glorify God and
ENJOY Film forever.'' No gospel OF dirt,
teaching that men have descended from
frogs through monkeys, can ever set that
aside.
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The First Whistle On the Missouri.
From the Kansas City Times.

FROM the haIlsdS SlCy llIuSs'
The story of the first steam whistle on
the Missouri river is amusing. Its intro
duction dates back to 1914. At that time
the settlers on the Missouri river were in
the habit of making regular yearly visits to
St. Louis to do their trading for themselves
and friends. They were not provided with
daily intercourse with the outside world,
and many who lived back from the river
seldom, if ever, saw steamboat more
than once year. 1t happened during the
fall Of 1914 the new steamboat Lexington
started ND the Missouri river loaded down
to the guards with freight. Among the
passengers were Judge Joseph G. Ransom,
now of this city; Theodore Warner, of
Lexington Ben. Holiday, afterwards the
famous overland stage proprietor Col.
Pomeroy, of Lexington, and a planter Of
Platte county, named George Yocum.
The steamer Lexington was provided
with steam -whistle--the first used on the
Missouri river-and as it happened no one
knew about it except Warner, who was
wag aud lover of joke. The night after
leaving st. Louis the passengers were col
lectcd together playing cards (for fun) in
the cabin, when the talk turned upon
steamboat explosions, then very common
occurrences.
"E feel perfectly safe on this boat said
Warner.
"Why ?" inquired Yocum.
"Why ?'' echoed the rest of the COM
pany.
81 will tell you Why" said the wag,
carefully studying his cards. g This boat
is provided with new patent safety-yalye,
which notifies the passengers on board
when it is about to blow up. 1t is con-
Germ which makes a most unearthly noise,
and when you hear it tits time to get back
aft or jump overheard.
Notwithstanding the fact that Warner
told his story with the most solemn and
earnest countenance, some were skeptical.
Not so. however, With the planter. Next
morning when the Lexington was steaming
ing up the long straight stretch of river
lust below Washington. Mo-, the passen-
gers were at breakfast. The meal had been
called, and all were busiy engaged in do
ing Justice to the kind of meals they were
accustomed to serve on steamboats, in those
days. Suddenly the whistle commenced to
blow, the first time out ON the trip. The
passengers look at each other moment,
and horror and disnay spread over their
faces. The first man to realize the situa-
zion and act was Yocnm, the planter, who
with hair erect and blanched face, jumped
up, crying as he pulled over one after an
other of the passengers
sRnn, rnn for your lives; the O.
things going to bust. Follow me and let's
save ourselves
OF course there was q stampede for the
rear Of the Loaf, and it was only By the ex-
ertions Of some Of the crew that the more
excited were restrained from jumping into
the river.
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Up m THE PINERlEs.
The Lite and Labor Of an American Lumber
man.

| Three hundred men will cover and cut
section of three miles square, taking of
| over 10000 logs, which would measure
about 10, 100000 feet, each season. Work
begins at daylight and ends at dark and
when the days Iengthen and the moon IA
vors 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 three O'Clock in the
| morning and ends at nine in the evening,
the men having five meals breakfast ut
six, lunch at nine, dinner at twelve, supper
atsfiye and tea at nine. The meals consist
| of pork and beans, corn bread, molasses-
cake, and tea or coffee. The fare, such as
it is, is abundant, monotonous, nutritious,
| and cheap. A cook is provided for every
| fifty men. The beans are generally the
large white bush, parboiled in pots holding
half bushel, then ten pounds of pork is
set in the middle of the beans in the pot, a
quarter of pint of molasses poured into
Pit, and then the pot is set in hole sur
rounded with hot ashes and burning char
coal, the top covered with a stone, over
which heavy wood fire is built, and here
they stay from five to eight hours, coming
out a most palatable dish. ALI the baking
is done in rudely built stone ovens, which
are heated before the dough is mixed, with
good wood fire. The loaves of biscuit or
cake are set upon the hot stones, and are
cooked quickly and thoroughly. A camp
of 300 men will consume daily four bushels
of beans, half a barrel of pork, one barrel
of flour, half barrel of meat, one quarter
of a barrel of sugar, and five gallons of
molasses. The men are encamped in tents,
making their beds of boughs, while their
extra clothing, pair of dark overalls,
woolen shirt, and two pair of woolen socks,
is kept in an old grain sack and used as q
pillow at night. Sunday in the woods is
always day for sharpening axes, mending
sleds, repairing boots and clothes, setting
out u new tenting spot, handler to the
cutting in the woods, and all the odd
CAOlcS WulCh WOuLu wAoW Out Va GuC COH-
gregation Of SO large body Of men. All
we'll regulated camps exclude liquor. Being
usually fifty to 900 miles from any settle
ment, and the men not paid until the end
of the season, there is little inducement for
any speculator to peddle rum through the
woods, or for the men to straggle off in
search Of it.
The consumption of axes and handles is
enormous, an axe lasting month and .
handle about three weeks. The axes are
sharpened daily, some having regular
sharpeners, while others require each man
to keep his own axe in order. The old
axes are never collected for the junk deal
er, the distance to ship them being almost
too great to make it an economical meas
ure, Woodsmen generally consider spruce
harder on axes than either birch or pine.
The gum which runs out of spruce tree
is found hard enough to chip the edge of
the axe when striking through it.-North-
acestern Lum6erneGn.