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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-11-01

TIP TOP s
THE CELEBRATED
HARNESS AND SADDLE STALLION,
Will make the present season Mt my
stable on the plafe ,e ares
offered at $40 single leap; $40 the season
or $25 to insure a mare in foal. Money due
with. The colt, in all cases, standing good
for the money.
DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE:
TIP TOP is u beautiful bay, full 16 hands
high, strong and muscular, possessing hne
renowned old Edwin Forrest, owned by
Alexander Of kentucky dam by Excelsior
Morgan grand dam by old Gray Eagle.
PERFORMANCES:
He has taken several premiums at vari-
Mo-, and u number Of premiums at Column
blu, Fulton and Jefferson City fairs, COM
West. He has trotted n mile in $40.
March %, 1873. ii. w. MCLEOD.
NEW ALEXANDRIA RESTAURANT
Has been removed to the corner of st.
John and st. Ann street, in tho rear OF b.
Rills' book store, where will be found at
and the public with tho best that New Or
loans and this market can afford.
Oysters in every style;
Fish, Grabs,
Shrimp, Game,
And everything else to he found in
FIRsT-CLASS RESTAURANT.
will give my personal attention to all
who call upon mo and guarantee the best
&C. ENSSMINGER.
Monroe, October s. 1877.
DETAIL FAMILY GROCERY STORE
ALL GOODS FRESH, AND DIRECT
FROM ST. LOUIS.
Ihave opened, at the store formerly occu-
pied by Chas. Saunders, n retail family gro
Gerry, and offer to tho public n choice selec-
ton of Family Groceries, at lower prices,
for tho cash, than any house III Monroe. 1
solicit a share OF tho trade, and guarantee
satisfaction.
tho business and attend to the demands of
customers.
Monroe, Oct. 26, 1877.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-11-01
MONROE ADVERTISEMENTS.
nELlCAN SALOON,
G,tta,e, Street, Iicrce's Oh Stand,
w. Fl, FERRY, Proprietor.

Where the public will always find the
served up in style by an old and expert
onced bartender. Ho offers FREE LUNCH
every day as an extra inducement to the
public, from IL O'Clock a. m. to 3 o'clock
p. m., consisting of Hot Seasoned Soups;
Roast Beef, Salads, etc. Price of one drink,
fully solicits a liberal share of tho patron
age OF tho public.
Monroe, January %, 1878.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05
TEMpTAT TONS or POVERTY

The newspapers from day to day have
columns of sensational descriptions Of
fraudulent employees, cheating clerks or
swindling cashiers. 1t is very sad
chronicle to read, and indicates a low
tone of morality some where. But
where is it? Are the employers en-
tirely free from blame? They demand
not merely skilled labor, but intelli-
gence, diligence, education and integ-
rity, at price not one whit above that
paid TO smart carpenter or any artisan
clever at his trade. ! know at this mo-
ment man capable of fulfilling all the
requirements | have mentioned above,
and he has been offered post of conf
dence and heavy responsibilities in a
large city house of business for $12 a
week! His wife is lady in every sense
of the word, and they have family of
children. Is this not offering pre-
MUM for dishonesty? The employers
say, Well, we can get plenty of men at
that price," and so they can in quantity,
but In places OF trust quality is also de-
sirable; and by the records of the Grim
inal courts ii is serious problem how
much money they save in the long run.
Every unfaithful servant thinks that he,
at any rate, can escape detection, until
some day he is confronted with police
man, and the old story is told over again.
But do the employers recover their loss :?
Never; but they take another man at a
low salary, and it happens all over
again. We once saw diction in some
old French Almanac. Its meaning was,
Good wages make good servants"
The morality is little low in tone, but
we think there must be a good deal of
truth in it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05
India as a Wheat Producer.

The amount of wheat sent from India
to England in 1877 has given rise to the
belief that within a few years England
would be practically independent of
America with regard to this element Of
her food supply. The Madras Mail dis
putes the proposition, alleging that the
fact is, India exports, not because she
has surplus, but because the people
are too poor to retain the food now ex
ported. Were the people able to afford
it, every pound of grain produced would
be eaten. A very large proportion Of
the inhabitants of this presidency do
not know what really hearty and salts
factory meal is from years end to years
end. In Madras the cultivators have to
pay "a, 500, 900 annually in the shape Of
rent, and must sell their grain to get the
cash needed to give to the tax-collector
Again, much of the grain exported goes
to pay for the scanty clothing of the
people, for the cotton fabrics worn are
mainly of Lancashire weaving. AS re-
CARDS the wheat trade from the North
west provinces, it is clear that the great
export for time was due to the people
parting with their usual reserve. What
has been the result? Why, as the eff
feet of the failure of single harvest,
Sir George Cooper has had to encoun-
ter not merely scarcity, but actual
famine"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05
The Only Exchange Fiend Ever Re-
pulsed.
LOIl City DerrIek.l

The exchange fend, after an absence
of two weeks in the country, where he
lived off his lame and widowed aunt,
came into this Office yesterday, and pro.
ceeded to take possession of our choicest
exchanges with his old-time familiarity.
"Pve been out in the country" he
said, "for, it seems to me, at least six
months, and haven't seen paper, ex-
cepting the Christian Monitor or the
Saints Rest, since I've been away. j
want to read up this awful yellow fever
scourge which is depopulating the
Southern cities. It's the most terrible
thing | ever heard of, and l can hardly
wait until / get hold Of New York
paper to read about it,"
"Here's the New Orleans Times" re-
piled the exchange editor, drawing a
copy of that paper from the pile before
him. at hasn't had anything in it for
three weeks but Yellow Fever, Yellow
Jack, Saffron Scourge, Bronze John, and
the Carnival of Death -
"Merciful heavenp exclaimed the
fend, throwing up his hands in horror
and retreating to the center of the room.
Why, that paper is printed right in
the heart of the infected district, and
there is nothing in the wide world that
will carry disease through the country
like newspaper. ] wouldn't touch II
for half of Oil CITY,"
"Beg PARDON" said the editor, tossing
the paper in the direction Of the iend,
from which that individual leaped as
from snake about to strike; beg par
don; here is yesterdays Memphis Ava-
lanchc, damp from the press, with the
smell of the bayou still upon it; sixty
deaths occurred there the day before its
publication, and it will give you elabor.
ate details -
"Take it away, take it away!" yelled
the fend, retreating to the door, breath.
ing hard and looking like man with
the horrors; "please throw me over 9
New York or Boston paper, and III read
it at home"
"For real information" continued
the editor unmoved, 81 would recon
mend this little paper; its editor anc
pressman died of the disease day before
yesterday, and two reporters and sever
printers are now down with it" and the
young man twisted the paper into bal
and hit the fend with it, remarking:
"It's the Grenada SIN, and hasn't {
blessed thing in it but yellow fever ant
ads"
Before the editor had finished, the ex
change fiend uttered shrek like los
soul, turned back-handspring out O
the door and disappeared down the stair
way, seven steps at jump.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05
A Queer Creature with a Crook Among
the Foothills.
Id Hin News.

J. c. Martin, Jim Mcknight, Bill
Bird, and others, have recently come in
from a prospecting tour north and east
from Virginia. While searching for a
hidden ledge over the hills some FIVE
miles north of the Badger mine, they
came upon veritable shepherdess
among the foothills. Whatever of the
romantic which is usually attached in
the mind TO thoughts of such an adven-
ture, in this instance give way to the
stern realities of the case There was no
fairy creature with her crook, tending
her fathers focks," but ga woman,
wrinkled and wry," and of three score
years leading herd of from two hun
dred and seventy-five to three hundred
goats. She was clad plainly, if not
neatly, in an apron like a schoolgirls,
armless and open in 'front.'" simply this
and nothing more" She was making
her headquarters within the Enclosure
of three rough stone walls, with an old
wagon cover one-half the top, and the
front being wanting. Her couch would
scarcely do for Morpheus-wooing CON
trivance for modern belle. 1t was half
a blanket and a sack of wool for pillow
The food on hand consisted of pound
and half of -four, which WAS used by
mixing it in water ana drinking it in
place of tea and coffee. She had also
two dried up slapjacks, one of which
she was nibbling. She added to these
luxuries such portions of the flesh of her
kids killed by coyotes as she was able to
recover. But the boys appear to have
caught the aged shephderdess away from
her home. She told them where she
lived, and invited them to call. 1t was
five miles away, over the mountains.
In the course of their wanderings they
found the place, and accepted the invi-
tation accordingly, although the mis-
tress of the mansion was not at home.
They found there eight pounds of beans
and about as many of bacon, eight chick
ems and nary rooster among them. She
explained this to them on their return.
She got hungry in the spring, and killed
the rooster, as the hens were laying, and
she did not care TO eat 'em up. They
also found there a sort of dress, and the
other half of the old lady's blanket. She
refused to talk much of her history or
tell her name. She said, however, that
she used to keep the house on the other
side of the desert. At the time of the
Reese River excitement her husband
left her, and she has never seen him
since. She thenlived with Sam Dildine,
but he had gone off and left her, taking
twenty-one head of her cattle, and she
did not know where he or her kline were
She started in as shepherdess, with
one goat of her own and two others
which were given her, and from these
had sprung in six years her entire herd,
besides all which had died and been
killed by coyotes. This shows the ad-
vantages of herding in Nevada. When
the prospectors left her they gave her
provisions enough to last couple Of
weeks.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

THE French military instructions pro-
vide that if the commanding officer or
instructor who is drilling the troops
makes mistake and gives the wrong
order, the troops shall not obey it. The
Germans, on the contrary, insist that
no matter how unlocked for or absurd
the order is it shall be obeyed, and their
officers even make point of sometimes
giving the wrong orders so as to test the
men. The French argue that if the men
halt the officer will Immediately per-
ceive that something is wrong, and be
able to give the correct command with
out having to straighten his company or
battalion. The Germans declare that
the commander is responsible and his
orders must at once be obeyed without
hesitation, no matter what the conse-
quences; also, that it would be danger
Gus to encourage the men to review their
orders, or get into the habit of doing
every thing one way.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05
Purifying Infected Rooms.

We call attention to the following
means of purifying foul rooms and in
fected places. 1t is important to know
this, and the means are very cheap:
Gone of the best methods of fumigat-
ing an infected room, as well as the
most convenient" says DIR Chandler, an
eminent chemist in New York and its
official one to the Board of Health in
that city, is to place some sulphur in
an iron vessel and pour little alcohol
on it. The alcohol is set on fire, and be-
fore it is burned away the sulphur will
be ignited. There will arise from the
burning sulphur sulphurous acid and
gas, which, like other gases, will mix it
self with all the air in the house, with
out the aid of draught or current. 1t
will penetrate to every crevice, and will
destroy the vitality of every disease
germ with which it comes in contact.
How it destroys their vitality is not
known"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05
Timid People
P ortsmouth Chronicle. !


We used to know man who, without
a tremor, would drink half pint of
New England rum or face an Infatuated
bull, and yet could not have been hired
to sleep in graveyard on the pleasant
est night of the year for fear of ghosts.
Another instance of this odd terror at
an imaginary or trifling danger on the
part of person who will recklessly
seek out real perils to needlessly face
was brought to our notice by friend,
on Monday evening. During the little
thunder-shower of Monday afternoon, a
lady of this city took refuge on feather
bed on the aoor, and stuck there until
all (" danger ofbeing struck with light
ming was over; then she arose, and,
finding that the fire had got very low,
proceeded to enliven it by pouring kerr
osene out of gallon can into the stove.
We are ready to insure that lady against
being killed by lightning.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

In the German army alone the forma-
ton of men in a line of three ranks is
still retained. After the disastrous cam
paign in 1906 line of two ranks was
introduced for use in the field under
certain circumstances, but the three
rank formation was still to be employed
for parade, drill and Institutional pur-
poses. OF late, however, and especially
since the conclusion of the war of
1901, in which it became very APP
parent that the only conditions under
which it might still be advantageous to
employ three-rank line are not at all
likely to occur again in the field of bat
tie, the wisdom of still retaining the
formation in the drill book has been
much questioned, although there is also
strong party who are in favor of al
together discarding, not the three-deep,
but the two-deep line. A writer in the
last number of the Deutchhe Here's
Zeitaag demonstrates very conclusively
that the three-deep line is a cumbersome
formation, by no means suited to modern
conditions of warfare.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

The weight of scientific evidence
seems to warrant the conclusion that
yellow-fever is produced by an invisible
outside of the human organism, which
it enters through the air passages. The
poison germ or miasm is product Of
the Tropics. In this country yellow
fever has prevailed in most of the Gulf
and Atlantic cities, and in many of the
towns along the Mississippi River. In
some instances it has been carried in.
land with the people fleeing from in
fected localities, but it has never shown
a disposition to spread epidemically at
points remote from the continuous wa
ter-roads of commerce or to lodge in
high, salubrious places. The cities of
the Great Lakes have always been free
from the disease. Yellow-fever cannot
be said to be epidemic in the United
States, from the fact that in some years
it does not appear, though the imported
germ undoubtedly survives the mild
winters
1t appears to have about as much re-
sistance to cold as the banana plant
When the banana plant is killed down
by the frost, the yellow-fever does not
recur again until imported. The germ
is transmissible. 1t is capable of being
transported to the clothing or personal
effects of passengers and sailors, but
its spread from one city to another is
chiefly accomplished by vessels, their
damp, filthy holds and bilge water be-
ing its favorte lurking-places. Con-
finement, moisture aud high tempera-
ture favor the multiplication or viru-
lence of the place.
When wharf, or spot of ground, or
house becomes infected, the poison at
once commences to spread, creeping
slowly in all possible directions, con
tinually enlarging the area around the
center of infection unless checked by
disinfection, as has undoubtedly been
done by the use of carbolic acid in
New Orleans in former outbursts.
Yellow-fever is not communicated
from the sick to the well, the sick and
well being dangerous only as possible
carriers of the poison germ or miasm.
In support of this assertion, 1t may be
stated that at quarantine hospitals.
where the effects of yellow-feyer pa
tients are burned or otherwise thor
oughly disinfected before the admission
of the patients, the attendants do not
contract the disease. This has been
demonstrated many times. All the
well persons whose effects have been
disinfected may be considered harmless
after six or seven days have elapsed
from the time of leaving an infected
district or vessel, as the period of in
cubation of the disease lasts from two
to six days. This simplified the ques-
ton of quarantine, absolute land quar-
antines being deemed impracticable,
and indicates the direction of preventive
measures to the vessel, cargo, or the
locality, il the poison has found lodg-
ment on shore.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05
How They Spelled Isaac.

The eccentricities of spelling noticed
in the direction of letters to a Wiscon-
sin lumberman led the clerks to begin a
list, some months since, Of the various
methods arrived at by correspondents in
spelling Isaac. Following is the list.
It is genuine throughout, having been
entirely made up from letters received
through the mail: Isiac, Iisac, Icaack,
Iseac, Ysac, Isaag, Izie, Isiace, Isach,
Isle, Isiaacc, Isaacc, Isaac, Icaas,
Iaasic, Icks, Aisec, Isaac, Iassac, Isaach,
Iceic, Isaas, Isica, Iaac, Iaasac, Isac,
Isick, Issacc, Isacc, Isaace, Iseke, Issick,
Isack, Isaak, Iisace, Isle, Isak, Isaack,
Ike, Icaac, Isict, Isaac, Issac, Isace,
Isice, Isoaac, lsaic, Sick.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

A NEW disinfectant, recommended in
the British Medical Journal for use in
hospitals, and to destroy the poison
germs of smallpox, scarlet fever, and
other infectious diseases, is composed of
one part of rectiied oil of turpentine
and seven parts of benzine, with the ad-
dition of five drops of oil of verbena to
each ounce. Its purifying and disin-
fecting properties are due to the power
which is possessed by each of its ingre-
dients of absorbing atmospheric oxygen
and converting it into peroxide of by
drogen highly active oxidizing agent,
and very similar in its nature to ozone.
Articles of clothing, furniture, wall
paper, carpeting, books, newspapers, let
tiers, etc. may be perfectly saturated
with 1t without receiving the slightest
injury; and when it has been once
freely applied to any rough or porous
surface, its,action will be persistent for
an almost indefinite period.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

The cost of woman's dress, as regu-
lated by tyrapnous fashion, in truth, be-
come verv onerous. No lady who has
not good deal of money to expend on
her clothes can now afford to go into
fashionable society with any frequency,
while man can put in an appearance
at balls, parties, dinners, and receptions
daily and nightly without heavily in
trenching on a comparatively small in
come. Yet women are now and must
always remain the center and the mold
ers of the most elegant and refined
society, and wealth, as we we'll know,
can not always confer on its possessors
grace, wit, or cultivation. Therefore, it
is great misfortune if fashion shuts
many women out of sphere in which
they could exercis a beautiful influence,
and which by nature and requirements
they are well fitted to adorn.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

THE Cinnamon in San Francisco, de-
spite their violation of some of the COM
monest sanitary rules, are healthy
class. The vitiated air of their sleeping
kennels does not seem to affect them I'M
favorab,y. The San Francisco Ne,cs-
letter says that their good health is due
TO temperance in eating and drinking.
Their strongest beverage is tea, and
they eat very little rich food. Their
simple fare makes them require less
oxygen. They are free and frequent,
too, in the use of soap and water.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

~ sixty-six shots fred. At spicheron

cry sixty-six shots fired. At Spicheron
the Prussians scored one Frenchman
for every two hundred and seventy-nine
shots, at Woerth one for one hundred
and forty-seven, and at Colombey- Nou-
lily one for one hundred and fourteen,
so that if the Russian figures are cor
rect, the Russian soldier is better shot,
or more economical of ammunition,
than his German cousin. However, the
Russians employed artillery fire more
largely than usual, and London paper
hints that they may have used the bay
onet after their enemies had surren-
dered.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

Moscow people are indignant over
the proposition to remove their great
bell-useless as it is-from its place in
the steeple. They say it shall never be
taken down. 1t is Of no earthly ac-
count, except that it is the largest bell
in the world, weighing 443,772 pounds.
Moscow has another bell that weighs
al 00pounds. The other famous bells
are light weights in comparison to
these. Pekin has one weighing 1876, GOO
pounds; Noygorod, $4,000; Vienna,
10000; Sens, $4,000, Parliament House,
London, 81 900: Erfurt, 100000 Mon
treal, 29,00n; Cologne. 25,0Oo; York,
$4,000; Bruges, $4,000; Rome, 1899;
Oxford, 1900; Antwerp, 10000; ST.
Paufs, London, $4,000.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

lures which are being delivered at
the Royal College of Surgeons in Lon
don. IT came about in this way: Mr.,
Fowler is the lecturer, and his wife
begged to be allowed to hear him. After
some hesitation the authorities consented
and the precedent being thus established,
other ladies succeeded in pressing in.
This is the first time in seventy years
that such an event has occurred.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

A REGULARITY of the baobab-tree,
found in Africa, is that scarcely any in
jury will destroy it, though it finally
dies of some sort of disease after living
to a great age, upwards of one thousand
years, it is believed. Fire scorching
the exterior does not impair its vitality,
and even cutting down does not ex-
terminate it, for it continues to grow in
length while lying on the ground, and
its roots, which reach forty or fifty
yards from the trunk, retain their vital
itv
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

THE most important geological dis
covery of the year has been made by
Prof. Snow, of the Kansas University
scientific expedition, about three hun
bred miles east of Denver. 1t consisted
of gigantic reptile or Saurian, so per-
fectly preserved as to exhibit portion
of the hide. Previously biologists had
found hundreds of specimens of these
Saurians with the bones alone remain
ing, so that this discovery of the outer
skin is new to science.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

"JAspER ADAIR" writes: What is
the significance if you drop your fork
and it sticks upright in the foorY' We
don't know what the superstition is,
Jasper, but if you sit down to the table
and break cracker in your hat and
then put your soup-plate on your head
and walk out, it signifies that you are
dangerously liable to get most awfully
drunk. Hdaekeye.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

In 1866 constitution agreeable to
monarchy"-the work of John Locke,
the philosopher-was adopted in the
Carolinas. 1t attempted to connect
hereditary wealth and political power
Orders Of nobility were created and the
rights of common people ignored. The
law survived but twenty years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-10-05

IN Massachusetts, colonial days that
gross delusion, Salem withcraft, was
prevalent. 1t was believed the devil, in
the shape of a black cat, appeared to
people and persuaded them to enter his
service by signing their names in a big
red book. They then had power to be-
witch their enemies.