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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-06

Ask for Soapina and YOU will get the best soan
Soap1na containing no rosin is the best soap
5or washing woolen goods, can be found at Ito
Gravier street. - -1'
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TAX AND LICENSE PAYERs.-In another column
the State Tax CJllector of the First District
gives notice that under instructions from the
Auditor. the roll of Delinquent tax on real es-
tate ard capital in the First District for the
year 1876, PAYABLE in 1877, is now being ma 10
up, and that Delinquent licenses will be col
leeted by. suit and seizurs.
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He Wanted n Tile.

The following Letter was addressed to friend
OF ours early yesterday morning, before the col
ored Odd Follows parade
New ORLEANS Oct g. 1877
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A CARD.
A CARD.
MIR. JAMES RICKETTS,,
For many y ars connected with
D'Arcy's Well known Hat store.

Corner of Canal and Chartres streets, will be-
found ON and after the 9th instant at the same
place under the proprietorshio of Messrs.
REINERTH & MONTARDIER. where ne Will
be happy to receive the visits Of his old friends
and cussonayrs. pezS u
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New dress goods ut SIC and upwards at M. l.
Byrne Il Co.'S, No, 1863 Canal street.
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Pearl SOap.na.

New shapes and styles in china at others
only. IVA Canal street, opposite Varieties
Theatre,
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New Parian q gures at Differs, ia Canal street
opposite Varieties Theatre -.
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New majolica ware at others, ia Canal, OPP
pcsie Varieties Theatre.
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silver a08DiOa

New dress goods at SIC and upwards at NJ I
Byrne & Cos. No 1853 Canal street.
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Offner has only one store-174 Canal street
opposite Varieties Theatre.
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A Child Burned,

Remnants ut half price at NIL. Byrne Il Co.'s.
No. 1863 Canal street.
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Lava figures in great variety, at others IA
Canal opposite Varieties Theatre.
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Remnants a. hall price at NJ. L. Byrne & Co.'S,
No. 1863 Canal street. - =
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BONDS FUNDED FROM SEPTEMBER IL TO DATE:
Seven per cent bonds Of 1870. ...... $1tg, 450 90
Seven per cent bonds Of 1869. ...... 1902 800 90
Street Improvement bonds. ......... rs 900 90
Ten per cent bonds. $500 90
Seven per cent bonds OF 1869. ....... $4,000 90
Seven per cent bonds OF 1870. ....... 400 90
Old railroad bonds. ....... ....... 5000 90
Gold certificates, drsinsg &c series. 81 Is
Gold certificates, general series. 695 IS
Total. Observation-Disclosures. 1896 l4O 90
This, said Mr.. Brown, in answer to our qnea-
ton, includes the $3.50, 900 "the gentleman just
from Europe" has recently caused TO be funded
into premium bonds. and which y. save were
"mainly, or all OF them," OF the drainage series
We questioned Mr.. Brown again on the subject
OF the city scrip referred to by b. Tho Ad-
ministfaor OF A counts replied that no "scrip"
or certificates Of indebtedness OF any kind had
been issued by the city siuce 1873, and he appre-
hended that 8. referred to s'transfers or assign
ments" Of claims against the city, which, he had
no doubt, could be supplied in any quantity.
These assignments or transfers are made in the
following form:
TRANSFER Or ASSIGNMENT.
New ORLEANS, -, 1877.
For value received, hereby transfer and as
sign to -, or order, all my right, title and H.
tereet in and to the claim due me by the city OF
New Orleans, amounting to ------ dollars in
conformity with ordinance No. 206G, Administra-
tive series, as described below:
NO. NO.
Assign Ordi-
ment. nance. Description Of Claim. Amt.
Pay roll - for the
month OF --, -- days,
at g. per day. ....... :. s.
Folio No. pay roll -.
Deposited in the Department OF Public Ac-
counts for registration -, 1877.
-, Trsnsferee.
The object being to ford convenience to
claimants against the city TO dispose of their
ntai nd tn Id DIN nlica
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Go to Offers only for new and choice china.
glass and erueksry.
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others grand opening takes place Monday
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Having rented the elegant and eommodious
store formerly occupied by Messrs. Levos 81
Co.. and later by Messrs. McGibbon d Co., we
have fitted it uo in the most convenient and
comfortable style.
The old stock having all been disposed Of
during the summer we will offer an
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Deposited in the Department OF Public 40
counts for registration -, 1877.
TranaFerea
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The object being to afford convenience to
claimants against the city to dispose Of their
claim and to AVOID duplication.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25
Guardian Angels.

There arc those who believe that it is
the especial privilege of "the loved and
lost " to be hereafter the guardian watchers
of the living who are left behind. Such a
persuasion has dried many mourners
tear. In the overwhelming grief which
death brings, is a relief unspeakable to
think the lamented parent, the cherished
partner, or the darling child are still with
US, separated only by division as thin as
air, sympathizing with us, watching over
US, silently persuading us to holy actions.
Often has such conviction checked the
rising thought of evil, and turned the
tempted and erring back to the paths of
virtue. We would believe that those
sweet innocents who are given to their
parents for awhile, and who are then taken
away just as they have begun to weave
themselves about our hearts, are angels in
disguise, sent to wean us from earthly
things, and revive in our souls the longing
for Paradise. We are spirituralized in this
way, when all other means fail. There
are praying mothers, whose sons are far
away, to whom this belief has sometimes
come with peculiar beauty. Oh, what
inexpressible joy to think that guardian
angels attend the wanderer in the watche:
OF the night, in the storm at sea, on the
wild prairie, on the black sierra. Grown
men, separated by vast oceans from theil
earliest homes, often feel as if some in
visible presence was with them-a pre-
sence as though celestial spirit, won b,
a mothers petitions, constantly protected
their footsteps. There is German legent
which says that each of us, at birth, ha
a guardian angel appointed, who remains
with us until death, unless driven ava,
by our remorseless wicxedness. Alas 70
those who have banished their invisible
attendant. What dissolution theirs mus
be, as they 60 out into the dark eternity /,
come, lonely wanderers whom nc messenge
from Paradise takes by the hand
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25
Amusing Experiment.

Take sheet of stiff writing paper and
fold it into q tube an inch in diameter.
Apply it to the right eye and look stead.
fastly through it, focusing the eye on any
convenient object. Keep the left eye
open. Now place the left hand, held palm
upwards, edgeways against the side of the
paper tube, and about an inch or two above
its lower end. The astonishing effect will
be produced of hole, apparently of the
size of the cross section of the tube, made
through the left hand. This is the hole in
which we propose to materialize another
and smaller hole. AS we need a genuine
aperture and it would be inconvenient to
make one in the left hand, let sheet of
white paper be substituted therefor and
similarly held. Just at the part of the
paper where the hole, equaling in diameter
the orifice of the tube, appears, make an
opening quarter of an inch in diameter
Now, stare intently into the tube, and the
second hole, defined by its difference oI
illumination, will be seen floating in the
first hole, and yet both will be transparent
4
The illusion, for, of course, it is one of those
odd pranks our bnocular vision plays upon
us, is certainly one Of the most curious ever
devised. Besides, here is the actual hole
clearly visible, and yet there is no solid
body to be seen to define its edges. II i:
not mere spot of light, because, if page
of print bo regarded, the lines within the
boundaries of the little hole will not coin
eide at all with those surrounding it and
extending to the edges of the large ap
parent aperture. Each eye obviously
transmits an entirely different impression
to the brain, and that organ, unable to dis
entangle them, lands us in that palpablt
absurdity of materialized hole.-IHustratet
| WeekLy
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25
Mrs. Stubs, the Suffers Wife.

" His Inheritance" a new novel by Miss
Adeline Trafton, author of The American
Girl Abroad " and Katherine Earle" is
begun in the Midsummer Holiday Num-
ber of Scribner. The scene is laid in the
southwestern frontier before the war. OF
the characters introduced in the first in
stallment, the most prominent are Stubs,
the sutler, his little girl Blossom (evidently
to be the the heroine of the story and his
wife. The following description of the last.
named shows that she is to play no insignif-
cant part in the story:
She was tall, she was gaunt as a gray wolf
in winter. She was strong Of arm and stout
of nerve, with talent for devising and a
will for executing almost any work. She
could serve a dinner to tolerably straiten-
ed garrison that would tempt king, or
she could steady a rifle and drop a
red-skin, if need be, at three hundred
yards. There was even rough kind of
femininity about the woman, who was by
no means disagreeable to look at, with her
bright black eyes and her brown cheeks
showing a subdued flame. She had been
known more than once to nurse a wounded
man back to life when the surgeons had
given him up,-with just scolding enough,
it must be owned, to spur him on to conva.
lescence. Add to these the aggressive
qualities of thrift and neatness, and we
shall have perfect character, you will say
Oh no; do you fancy that all the natural
graces as well as the Christian virtues are
to be found in one individual2 She was
envious. But that is not so rare a fault
that it need be dwelt upon.) She was
crafty and unscruplous. But the first she
concealed by the second; and the third, il
tending upon tho other two, kept in the
background. And then she was comely tC
look at,-and that is better cloak than
charity, even,-with her sleek black hai
and the fresh color just deadened by the
tan on her cheeks. Comely to look at, i
one could forget the embers in her eyes
which gust of passion might blow into
blaze. After all, it was kind of bcaut
which a man might like to look upon, bu
would hardly covet for his own.
As for her thrift and neatness, the sutler'
quarters showed the effect of these goo
qualities, which were kind of stockad
about the real woman. Her home was It'd
and inviting, or would have been, but tina
the tidiness became tryrannical at time.
Gradually kind Of cabaret of a most rt
spectacle pattern was established here
where the officers dropped in of an evenin
to order bit of supper, which the mistre:
of the house was not above cooking wit
her own hands. A well-thumbed pack
cards was brought into requisiton Will
waiting for this to be served, and rumc
did say that many pile of governmer
gold changed hands over the table her
But rumor is always malicious, and tn
may or may not have been true. Drinkin
there certainly was, but no brawling ov,
the cards or wine, or the friendly pipe wit
Stubbs himself, who was a quiet, shrew
, man, an excellent listener at all times
and what could be more desirable in
companion?. He could even tell a stol
of his own when Mrs. Stubbs was not by.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25

KEEPING ROSES IN BLooM.-As soon as
they have formed their first flowers in the
open ground, pinch off the end of the first
shoot, and as soon as the rose is fully
opened, pick it off. No rose should be
left to fade upon the bush, as when so left
it exhausts the plant in the formation of
seed. As the plants grow pinch back the
ends of the shoots when they have grown
six inches, and rub out all puny shoots,
thus keeping the plants in a rounded,
open bush form. If strong shoots alone
are left to grow, they will soon control the
strength of the plant, and the flowers will
DO few and often of imperfect form.
Should the season be hot and dry, mulch
of fine, fresh grass or sawdust, or moss
from the woods, should be placed all over
the soil, three inches deep, and at night
watered thoroughly, not sprinkled, but wet
like days rain.-- Cttltivator.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25
Taking Comfort.

The dream OF mortals is of time coming
when cares shall cease to infcst anxictics
to oppress, every wish be gratificd and
they shall "tallc solid comfort"
Many waste all their lives in the vain
pursuit of this dream, which, like the
will-o' the-wisp, leads them sad chase
over the bog and fen and morass, eluding
them to the last. A few thoughtful souls
arrive seasonably at the wise conclusion
that not in this word will the time ever
come when without any dregs Of bitter
ness, the chalice pressed to our lips will
be full of only comfort. We must take
the bitter with the sweet as we go along.
Contentment is not an outward growth
Its roots spring from the very depths of
the soul, and are nourished as well by
rain as by sunshine, by sorrow as by Joy.
When once one has resolved within him
self to take life as it is, and make the best
Of it, then he may, even in tribulation,
take comfort, though the majority OF
people do not prefer to take it in that
| form.
The delights of life, like pleasant weather
through the year, are scattered all along
the way, and unless we enjoy them as
they come, the opportunity once past
never returns. 1t is ali very well to pro
vide for a rainy day, but that man is very
foolish who allows himself to be soaked by
drenching rains that he may save hi
umbrella for some future storm.
Pleasure taking is not nearly so mucl
provided for among our earnest, intense
energetic American people as it should be
We live altogether too much in the future
too little in the present. We live poo
that we may be happy, and when we ar,
quite ready, infrmity or disease or deatl
steps in, and the chance to take comfor
in this life is gone. five only could b.
content to seize upon the little pleasure
that lie just outside, and often within on
daily pathway, they would make a larg
sum total at the end Of the threescore an,
ten. Far too many of us scorn pleasure
that are cheap and near and within ou
grasp, and complain because we canno
have such as are costly and remote an,
inaccessible. But if we would only mag
Nifty the little things that make life plea:
ant as we do those that make it unpleasant
the cup of our joy would continually over
flow. We complain of cloud and storm
but do we rejoice in the sunshine and fai
weather? We grieve at the GOODNESS Of
friend, but do we value fully the fidelity c
those who remain true? We count tn
hours when sickness prostrates us, bu
how many days of health pass utterl
unnoted and without thanksgiving? w
mourn passionately for the dead, while W
neglect the living whom tomorrow we ma
weep as dead. 1t is well for us to heed tn
saying of the wise man: "There is notl
ing better than that a man should rejoic
in his own works; for that is his portion
for who shall bring him to see what sha
be after him r.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25

All sorts of extraordinary things come
out of New Jersey-seventeen year locusts,
" Jim" Scovil, and the potato-bug, but the
strangest of all is just announced. 1t is
nothing more nor less than conspiracy
to kill off the whole thirty eight Governors
of these United States at clip. The
author of the conspiracy is q citizen
of Haddonville, New Jersey, and he
DISCUSSES his diabolcal purpose under
the ingenious pretense of a Conven-
ton of Governors. The avowed object
is a comparison of financial, CONNER
cial and industrial views. All of the
Governors, it is solemnly announced, have
promised to attend. The first meeting is
to be held at Philadelphia on August &c,
the second at New York few days later,
and the last at Boston. In Philadelphia
there is to be grand banquet at Indepen-
dence Hall, which is, we are told, "to be
perfectly American-the food cooked in
American style, and the table set with
American wares" This is the first attack
upon the Gubernatorial stomach. At New
York the conspiracy begins to be disclosed.
"The grand dinner is to be altogether
foreign, comprising dishes, cooking, etc.,
after the style of foreign countries" Not
one country, mind you, but all of them.
Those who survive this attack are expected
to be finished by the Boston feast, which is
"to comprise American and foreign
material" The whole "idea is that the
first is to represent home; the second, our
foreign relations; the third, America and
the rest of the world combined" The
great question is, what will the Guberna-
torial stomach represent" at the close of
the performance If there is survivor of
the Boston conglomeration, he will be
taken to Rhode Island and finished with a
clambake.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25

A gentleman returning to London from
Leyton one evening hailed the conductor
of an omnibus and asked him if he was
going to the bank. He answered in the
affirmative, and that the fare would be a
shilling. The gentleman took his seat in
the bus, and when it arrived at the
Flower Pot in Bishopsgate street the cad
opened the door and said; "We goes no
further, SIR" "Why, you told me-" said
the gentleman, "that you went to the
bank" ave calls this the Bank, sir"
"oh, very WE'LL" said the passenger, giving
him a sixpence, "I calls that shilling"
The fellow was so taken aback that he
could not say word.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25
WHOLE NO. l,l6O.
Exercise.

Writing in CaSsclla Fan.ily .Nagao:rc a
Family Doctor" says =" Exercise must
be taken in moderation, and extend over
some considerable time. 'Spurts,' and
that amount Of exercise which borders on
fatigue, should be avoided. Whenever the
body becomes tired, cxertion, instead of
being any longer Of value as a tonic to the
muscles, becomes a positive dcpressant.
Do not forget that exercise is q tonic, and,
like all tonics, benefit is not to be expected
from single dose. Its effects are gradual;
hence exercise should be taken ,c;M rc5e-
yariy. If you are pedestrian, the same
hour every day ought to find you enjoying
your round Of pedal progression;' and
you must never, if possible, omit it the one
day and take it the next. Look upon
your daily walk as a duty, and let neither
rain nor sunshine, snow nor hail, keep you
from performing it. Of course, l am sup.
posing myself addressing those in ordinary
| health and even they ought to protect
| themselves from inclcment weather. The
time at which exersice should be taken is
of considerable Importance. 1t ought to
be, as nearly as possible, the same time
every day. One should never take hard
exercise either Immediately before or soon
after heavy meal. l should be inclined
to give Dr. Abernethy's advice, and say,
Rest for three hours after dinner.
Always take your exercise in the open air
Exercise ought to be taken in clothes
which are neither tco cumbrous nor too
heavy and, if heated in the intervals of
rest, be very careful you do not catch cold.
Work is not exercise; do your utmost,
therefore, to prevent your exercise becom.
ing work. If all that were expected to ex-
ercise were merely the increasing of bulk
and firmness Of the muscles, than course
of dumb bells, and the performance of a
few gymnastic feats daily, would be all that
would be required. But proper exercise is
meant not only to strengthen the muscles
but the nerves as well, and brain and mind
itself. Consequently your mind must &C
along with the exercise of the body. A
long walk with book will not do you one
half the good that half the distance walked
with a genial friend would. Ny advice
then is, choose what or which form of exer
else you please-I do not care whether it be
lawn tennis, quoits, walking, or riding
but it must be something which interest.
you. If you do your exercise as you would
do penance, you are merely deceivinl
yourself"
Smyrna times., 1877-07-25

Owen Brown, one of the sons of John
Brown, whose "soul is marching on" lives
alone on the Island of Gibraltar, in Put.
in-Bay, on Lake Erie. A visitor to his
retreat describes him as man near the
middle hight, with a long, sandy beard
streaked with threads of silver, hair dark
for one of fifty.two, bushy eyebrows, from
under which looked eyes as pleasant as
woman's, with look all over him of old
Ossawattomie," whom he, of all the sons,
is said most to resemble. He has never
married, and when it was suggested that he
had remained single because he had been
too busy to marry, he replied: Hardly
there are men who fix their affections on
one, and losing that one remain single ever
after"