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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
New Police Appointments Reduction Of
Assessments Applied For with

"
Assessments Applied For with
vengeance.
Col. Denis, acting Mayor, has ordered the pro
molten of the following named supernumerariel
to regular positions on the police force:
First Precinct, n. Hennessey; Second Precinct
d. Cheevers; Third Precinct; r. Conrad; Fifth
Precinct, J. J. Fitzgerald; Sixth Precinct, PATH
Walsh; sub.seventh Precinct, L. G.. Boudousquie
J. W. SWEET and W. A. stilee; Suburban Precinct
A. Jones; Harbor Precinct, P. Harrigan and r. J.
Haight as supernumerary clerk and operator.
There will, however, be no appointments q,
supernumeraries ON the force until the return Of
the Mayor, In about two weeks.
ASSESSMENT REDUCTIONS.
Many people are still m aking unreasonable re-
quests to the board for reduction OF assessments
some gong as far TO make them according to
their own acknowledgment, for the sake of doing
80 and running the risk of obtaing reduction
whether entitled to ii or not. Such \ case has
actually presented itself since the opening Of the
rolls for examination.
Among some OF the
EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATIONS
for reductions that have been made within q day
VI bWo hEo tuht VI taxpayer 0WLtDK " QOuDl6
tenement house, each side Of which is rented Tor
$50 per month, who wants his assessment
reduced from $4,000 to $25O1; that of another
who IL asking reduction from s2500 to $500 on
q piece OF property bringing $40 per month; and
still another, whose property has been assessed
at $780, wants the assessment reduced to $500,
although the buildings on the land are insured
for $4,000.
II would be well, the Board OF Assessors think,
for people who have such
UNREASONABLE REQUESTS
to make TO save themselves the trouble of calling
IT the City Hall to urge them, thereby ammo, ing
The assessors and their employees and wasting
valuable time.
No action has as yet been taken by the city
authorities on the report Of Surveyor d'Heme-
court, recommending that certain street cars
running along Canal street shall protect their
windows with wire screen to prevent passengers
rom being manned by striking their heads or
arms against the trees on that street.
The railroad company manifest rs much dill
yence In the matter. Notwithstanding
THE SERIOUS ACCIDENT
which has recently happened to one OF our prom
nent sugar brokers.
The car company has not even posted labels
II warning in their cars against passengers
,utting their heads and arms out of the windows
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
Rrevitiss.

The Girls High class OF ST. Alphonsus School
give their annual exhibition ut st. hlphonsus Hall
on Wednesday, the 25th inst.
| On Sunday, the 10th inst, the Pastirne Social
| Club give their fifth complimentary picnic ut the
Oakland Park. Great preparations are being
| made.
| Tho Brewster brothers, owners OF the cham
| pion yacht Maggie, have ordered new two thou
sand dollar boat from the North, which will mr.
| rive 10 this city about the 18th Of August.
Yesterday morning about o'clock an event
most unusual behind the bars occurred ut the
Parish ?, son. One Lizzie Johnson found guilty
OF petty larceny. while serving out her sentence
yesterday gave birth to bouncing child which
died during tbs afternoon, Notwithstanding the
attention OF Capt Gain and his assistants.
The rnmor was current yesterday that VIM. FL.
Hunt had been appointed to the Associate Justice
ship OF the United States Supreme Court, made
vsCant by the resignation OF Judge Davis.
FiDlay & 90. have received the acceptance OF
contract to furnish Mobile with disinfectsnts.
Those already purchased by our own Board of
Health II liz expected will not be used the excel
lent health OF the city prscluding the necessity
for their use.
The Crescent City Rife Club will hold special
meeting Tomorrow evening at the Office Of James
Buckley, Esq, stationer, No 30 Canal street
The Jackson Ralroad Company have now re-
duced the extension excursion round trip tickets
to Ht Louis and return to $50.
Pelican Hook and Ladder Fire Company No.
left on Ell excursion for Mobile on Friday eve
ming, to return tonight.
Jefferson Fire Engine Company No. 90 went to
the West End yesterday to spend Sunday ON the
lake shore.
Yesterday several Chinese left for San Francis
GO. via Mobile and 30. Louis, and will 'emigrate"
TO their native heath from San Francisco.
The Galaxy Social Club was organized on the
9th inst by the election Of the following officers:
A. J. Mead. president; j. jaeger, fret vice presi-
dent; A. Hauey, second vice president, Charles
Koehl recording secretary; J. Faser, financial
secretary; j. Hoffmier, conductor.
The boys Of the q. q. w. l.. say that things
are getting 30 monotonous do wn here that the
rum pus on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad excises
their envy. There's chance for the Governor of
Maryland.
The Canal Street Ferry boat runs all night; eve
~ twenty minutes from 0 until midnight, and
thereafter until sunrise every half hour, and yet
we have no all night cars.
Col. Marks, president OF tho Firemen's Charita-
bic Association, requests the financial officers OF
the various fire companies to assemble on Mon
day at half-past seven o'clock in the evening at
the Office OF the Firemen's Insurance Company.
corner OF Gravier and Camp streets. The call ID
made owing to urgent business.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
H. L. Bvrne IL %. Offer their linen lawns and
muslin lawns at immense reductions.

W. W. MISUNDERSTANDING the many old land
marks left among US tn. re are none more pro-
m1nen.ly before the public than our enterprising
friend Washburn, whose elegant and beautiful
studio looms up on Canal street before the adj
mirins gaze OF the thousands who constantly
throng this handsome boulevard OF ours. The
entrance to this art gallery is 80 beautifully
finished that one feels Irresistible inclination
to enter, and when once within the richly deco
rated rooms, on the walls OF which are grouped
in the most pleasing. manner exquisite gems OF
Photographic art, We find that this establishments
IL what tie old hero was determined to have, the
finest Photographic gallery in the South.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
After n Burglar.

At an early hour Saturday morning, as Cor
poral McCord was making his rounds he discov-
cred thief trying to enter Mrs. X ines grocery,
at the corner of Broad and st. Louis streets. He
ordered him to surrender, but the thief refused
and the corporal discharged his pistol at him,
but without effect.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
burning of the Sandy.

The following dispatch was received this
morning:
SHREVEPORT July 21.-Jos. A. Aiken: Steamer
Sandy burned last night. Total loss.
NOAH hCOVELL.
No further particulars could be ascertained,
save that no lives were lost. The Sandy was
stern-wheel boat, running between Old river and
Shreveport, and owned by Messrs. Hamilton &
Co., Of that city. She was valued at $780, There
was no insurance upon her in New Orleans.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
A Correction.

In our article on the public schools, published
yesterday. ii is said that superintendent VIM. o
Rogers shared the opinions entertained agains
the board" etc. We meant to say the reverse
that is, that the opinions entertained against the
Board Of School Directors were also entertained
against MIR. Rogers. or course the article goes
on to explain the position Of these gentlemen as
most satisfactory, and that they have acted in
strict compliance with the law
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

A LUXURY FOR SUIMEa.-Ths enterprising
shirt king Le'ght1n Ii ever Ga the q1i viva to
manufacture something new in the shirt line.
This time we think he has hit upon style which
is bouad to be q success. Instead OF the old way
of pushing ones head throu "a thu sm i op sning
above, he anufacturss tnsm to opsa at the
side, which enables ono to slip il on wlthons
rumpllng. Mr.. Leighton has other styles aI.o.
which he adverti.es In another Column.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
New Cotton.

Those enterprising merchants, Messrs.
Schmidt q Ziegler, have Just received by Nor
gan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, two bales Of
new cotton, from A. Marion 4 Co., Of Matamoros.
The cotton was raised by Messrs. Marion & Fall
Ion, on their fine rancho, 'Flor de Mayo" sit
uated about three miles above Brownsville.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
This New Istce f,ror,.

fine sample Of rice has been received from
Messrs. Roman & Cucullu. No. ia Gravier
street, grown this season on the plantation of
Mr.. 8. B. Stephens, near Gretna. The sample
shows full head we'll ripened. and will compare
favorably with any yet raised this year.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
The Yacht Regatta.

The entries 80 far for the yacht race which
takes place at the New Lake End are as fol-
lows.
FIRST GLASS,
Carrie ". J. Mcneil; Zoe. volkart Gov. Clai-
borne, Claiborne Grace Darling, Bell.
SECOND CLASS.
Adelia, Volkart: Maggie, Brewster; Jennie,
Harris Emma, Ulman; --, Del Bondio !;
Mobile boat new.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

We call the attention oftaxpaser to the notice
of Messrs John Klein & Co., IN another column
Taxes of 1876 and 1877 will be paid by them at
large discount and licenses will be settled on the
most favorable terms is worth the while to
interview these gentlemen.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
Personal.

Mr.. F. B. Piseros, connected for number of
years with the Illinois Central Railroad, leaves
this evening on the Jackson Railroad FIR St.
Louis, where he will engage in new business en-
terprise. We wish our young friend fuccess.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

Summer cults this summer have been all the
rage, aud Messrs. NJ L. Byrne l. Co., who t1rss
introduced them, seem to bs well satisfied that
hey have pr. Ven great convenience and com,
fort to the ladies generally. Thls week he will
offer at greatly reduced prices his brown linen
suits,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
the Dramatic performance.

The Performance Of "Othello" last night at
10. B. B. was fairly attended. and the amateurs
did az well as they could have done under the
burden OF such difficult task. We were sur
prised, however, to notice that the house was not
crowded as it should have been for charitable
pnr Dose.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
Scrub, sisters, scrub,


Scrub like blazes at the kitchen ware;
Scrub till your elbows through your dresses tear;
scrub. but your tins will not polish wear.
Till you have put the KITCHEN CRYSTAL" there
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

M. L. Byrne Go. offer their linen lawns and
muslin lawns at immense reductions.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

M. L. Byrne & Co.. 1853 Canal street, offer the
balance CT their brown linen suits at half original
nrinas
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
Buy, sisters, buy,
But buy with care.

Buy with subtle and cautious air;
Buy from the grocer who are square and fair;
Buy only the soap that does the imprint besr-
Both On the bar and on the red "wrappaire"-
True KITCHEN CRYSTAL" printed everywhere.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
]. B. Walker, D. D. S., 1870 Delord street.

Nj: L. Byrne On. off r their linen lawns and
muslin lawns at immense reductions.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
THE COMING RIFLE BENEFIT.

The following letters will explain themselves.
It appears that the benefit to be given the Cres-
cent City Rife Club has attracted unusual atten.
ticn, and will doubtless draw to the West End
thousands on August e, on which day the enter
tainment, races, etc., will be given. The follow
ing are the letters:
BATTALION WASHINGTON ARTILLERY,
New Orleans, La, July 4, 1877. I
Col. W. T. Vrudry, Vice President of the Cres-
cent City Rifle Clup:
Dear Su-At the regular meeting of the
Washington Artillery, it was resolved the com.
mand should Offer it's services to assist your club
in the entertainment it is about giving. Plea SO
consider Us at your disposal. Respectfully.
W. NJ. OWEN, Colonel.
New ORLEANS, July Is, 1877.
Col. John Glynn, Jr, Secretary Q. G. R. G.:
Dear Su-The Continental Guards Company
have the homer to offer their services to your
club for the purpose of assisting in the proposed
entertainment to be given ON the I'd of August.
Confident OF the result of the coming contest at
Creedmoor ending in favor of our New Orleans
rltiemen. this command is anxious to assist in it's
way in sending the winning team to New York.
Very respectfully, you're,
At the entertainment The Continentals will give
a series OF tabeanx, and the Washington Artillery
Will nave artillery practice with tweivs.pounders.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22

Hats. IN all styles, just received BY John U.
Adams 9. Q. Q. La. store, 2s s.. c,sa,ies street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
New ORLEANS. July l6. 1877.

At the entertainment The Continentals will give
series OF tableanx, and the Washington Artillery
Will nave artillery practice with tweive-pounders.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04

my hands. In minute my fingers were
twisted in the rope. loosened the moose
and tore it from my neck. My eyes
opened.
/ was lying down and in q boat. Ihad
been fast asleep and dreaming. The cord
around my neck was my fish-line, and at
the other end was three-pound bass,
pulling for dear life. The taste of nico-
tine was from my pipe, the ambermouth-
piece of which / still held clutched in nv
teeth.
Looking at my watch, / found that
had been asleep about twenty minutes.
I looked toward Grand Island There it
was, as green and quiet as ever.
But, Heavens! what a dream! From
that day to this I have never expert
mented on that animal.
My human conscience, in a dream, had
retaliated upon my inhuman science, and
yet my conscience, while / was operating
on animals, had never found fault with
my act.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04
Japanese COmDOsitiOns.

"A correspondent of the New York
Eten7og Post, in Japan, sends several
specimens OF the compositions of jap
anese students in English schools in that
country. We print these two for their
curious interest:
One day, postman was required to
carry a letter to certain VILLAGE. which
was about 80 miles from his dwelling.
Accordingly, next morning he started
for the village, carrying the letter,
and four pieces Of bread in his pocket
for dinner.
On his way there he became so hungry
that it seemed as if his stomach would
have been filled with gastric Juice and
his mouth with saliva, yet he was too
lazy to take his provisions out of his
pocket.
Thus bearing his painful appetite, he
walked on and on till he met q man.
who, with his mouth opened and his
chin pressed on his chest, went toward
the sluggard.
When the new conner came near
enough to him, he cried:
" Good day, my friend! where are you
going?'
'To the next village" was the reply.
Well, you seem as if you were hun
gry-open your mouth for the want Of
TODD. AS | have some pieces of bread
IN my pocket, if you take them out, and
put one into my mouth, you may take
the remainder"
No thank you, my DEAR" returned
the man; "if [ were diligent enough to
move my hands for you, [ would rather
eat my own pieces, which are in my
bundle"
However bad this composition may
be, it is too short to finish, and 50 | will
tell another curious story about foolish
family.
In a certain province of Japan there
lived an old, ignorant couple and two
sons
One evening the younger son was
playing with stick, then he stood on
tiptoe, and pointing to the moon wit
it, began to murmur.
What are you doing?" asked his
elder brother, who, having heard the
murmuring, pushed his head Que Of a
window.
| am trying to take that bright ball
down; help me, brother" answered the
stupid little boy.
3" Oh, you fool,' the elder said, "you
can't take it from the ground; go up to
the roof and try. Then your stick will
reach it.
When their father heard this he was
very glad, and told his wife, saying:
How wise is our elder son; he knows
the distance between the moon and the
earth, while we cannot write even our
names-he is light in this house"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04
Cardinal SimeOni.

Simeoni, the Cardinal Secretary Of
State and successor of the renowned An
tonelli, is mechanically regular in his
habits. No circumstance, if not of an
urgently official nature, will prevent
him from retiring at half-past nine P. NJ.
He is immersed in his papers long before
the earliest riser of his household is astir.
When the tardy morning newspapers of
Rome come around he has nearly shalf
days work performed. He devours
the news; then attacks his voluminous
mail, opening every envelope himself, and
with great precision he promptly CLASH
fies the letter into Important" Per
sonal," "Worthy Of Attention." and
" Examine" The Personal he ex-
clusively attends to. The rest are care
fully examined by his secretary and sub
mitted to the Cardinal in the order Of
their Importance. His breakfast con-
sists of an orange, crackers, and small
cup Of black coffee. The other meals of
the day are very hearty ones, but he
uses no wine except after dinner, when he
barely colors glass of water with a dash
of Masala He is far more polite and
considerable than Antonelli in dealing
with ordinary people. Old clerks think
that ne possesses the astuteness Of Anto-
nelli with greater prudence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04
AFTER THE COUNCIL,

Mr.. David Gray editor of the Buffalo Courier has
IN article g The Last Indian Council on the Gen
.see in ScribRer for July, closing with the follow
ng poem:
The fire sinks low, the drifting smoke
Dies softly in the autumn haze,
And silent are the tongues that spoke
The speech OF other days.
Gone, too the dusky ghosts whose feet
But now yon listening thicket stirred;
UnScared within its covert meet
The squirrel and the bird.
The story of the past is told,
But thou, O Valley, sweet and lionel
Glen of the Rainbow. thou shalt hold
Its Romance as thine own.
Thoughts OF thine ancient forests prime
Shall sometimes haunt my summer dreams,
And shape to low poetic rhyme,
The music OF thy streams.
When Indian Summer filings her cloak
OF brooding azure on the woods,
The pathos OF vanished folk
Shall tinge thy solitudes.
The blue smoke of their fires once more
Far DER the hills shall seem to RISE
And sunsets golden clouds restore
The red mans paradise.
Strange sounds of a forgotten tongue
Shall cling to many crag and cave,
In wash OF falling waters sung,
Or murmur of the wave.
And oft in midmost hush OF night,
Shrill Fer the deep-mouthed eataract's roar,
Shall ring the war-cry from the hight
That woke the wilds of yore.
Sweet Vale, more peaceful bend thy skies,
Thy airs are fraught with rarer balm;
A peoples busy tumult lies
flushed in thy sylvan calm.
O sweet tiny peace! while fancy frames
Soft idylS of thy dwellers fed
They loved thee, called the gentle names,
In the long summers dead.
Quenched is the fire; the drifting smoke
Has vanished in the autumn haze;
Gone, too, O Vale, the simple folk
Who loved thee in old days.
But, for their sakes-their lives serene
Their loves, perchance as sweet as ours
0, be thy woods for aye more green,
And fairer bloom thy flowers!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04
A Happy Thought.

At ball in Austin, Texas, the other
night, says the Reveille of that city, the
floor was quite sticky, owing to its hav-
ing been newly waxed, and the wax not
being evenly spread over and worked
into the boards. A prominent citizen
who was suffered considerable inconveni-
ence from the circumstance, and had
Undetermined to refrain from dancing
during the remainder of the night, when
he was struck with happy thought.
Approaching his wife, he asked her to
waltz with him. Surprised at such an
unusual condescension from her hus-
band, who generally when he attends a
ball dances with every lady present ex-
cept his wife, the lady asked him the
cause of such unexpected gallantry as he
displayed to her on this occasion. "Oh, .
said he looking down at her feet, "I
want you to waltz with me SO as to
spread this grease over the foor.' She
didn' t. dance, with him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-04
Story of the MOhammedan Religion
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press
We briefly record the story of the
founder of this present Mohammedan
religion: Arabia never was conquered
by any foreign nation. It's sands have
been its security, and the poverty of the
scattered people offered no temptation.
1t was always the native country of
romance and superstition. In it Sebean-
ism, or star-worship, prevailed for indie
finite ages, till overturned by Moham-
med, who was born at Mecca in $50. His
father was Abdallah, and his mother
Amina, both of good family and great
personal beauty. His grandfather,
Motalleb, who took charge of him, died
at the age Of ITO. His uncle Abdu
Taleb, brought him up as his own son,
and took him, with caravan, to Egypt
and Syria; and he afterwards served in
campaign under his uncle, who was the
commander and guardian of the ancient
temple of the Caaba. At twenty-five he
married Cadiga, rich and noble widow,
and lived in opulence The religions of
the Arabs were the ancient Sabeanism,
Jewish and Christian. At forty he an
nounced himself a prophet, and taught
the Unity Of God in opposition to the
Trinity, and disclaimed the reverence
bestowed on Ezra. His first converts
were his wife, his cousin Ali, his servant
Zeid, and Abu-Bekr, man of distinc-
ton who made five proselytes.
He now preached in public the
belief and worship of one God in
the courts of the Caaba, and began
to produce Koran. This, he pretended,
was brought to him ready written by
the Angel Gabriel, and its ford COM
position, III splendid Arabic language,
imposed on the vulgar. The Koresh
now sought his life, and he fed with
Abu-Bekr to Medina in 622 (the Hegira),
where five hundred disciples met him.
Here he adopted the kingly and sacre-
dotal Office, established mosque, and
publicly preached He banished seven
hundred of his opponents, and buried
seven hundred alive, chiefly Jews, seiz-
ing their wealth. He soon after had a
battle with one thousand of the Koresh
forces, and defeated them in the battle
OF. Beber in 623, after which he had one
thousand warriors, but at the battle of
Ohud was defeated, and Medina was be-
sieged by twelve thousand and defended
by three thousand; but the besiegers
being baffled, a ten years peace was con-
Guided. Two years after he gained
victory at Muta, over large army of
the Eastern Empire; and, in 629, with
ten thousand men, took Mecca, and de-
stroying the three hundred and sixty
idols in the Caaba, consecrated it to his
own religion, called Islamism. In an
other year all Arabia listened to his pre-
tensions, and he now marched with
thirty thousand men against the Eastern
Empire, securing peace by his approach.
He returned to Medina and performed
the Pilgrimage of the Valediction, with
train Of Ia, 200 believers. Soon after
he was supposed to be poisoned by
Jewess, and died at Medina in 632, aged
63. He was regarded as man adorned
with every virtue.