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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

The peanut war" in New York. which we
spoke OF some days ago has come 10 more
serious ending than was expected. A peanut
vendor was granted last month the right to
place his peanut stand on certain crowded
thoroughfare Of New York. Tho street COM
missioner insisted on removing him as n
nuisance; the Board Of Aldermen declared
that they controlled these matters, and swore
that no should stay; they further claimed
tho right to grant permission 10 any ono to
use the thoroughfares for peanut shops,
newspaper and fruit stands, etc, whenever
they saw lit.
At this point Of the fight Recorder HacI1ett
stepped In, called the attention Of the grand
jury to section of the city charter making
IL penal offense for any one to obstruCt the
public thoroughfares. The whole matter
was then referred to the grand jury for &c
tion. The grand jury proceeded at once to
indict the fifteen Aldermen for misdemean-
or In violating that section Of the city char
ter which forbids them 'tO authorize the
placing or continuing Of any encroaGhment
or obstruction upon any street or sidewalk"
Not content with this they followed IL up with
fndiaments against all the Health Commits
sioners of the city for permitting nuisanCOs to
exist which 1t was their duty to suppress. The
eases will DO brought to trial Immediately, and
some OF the papers suggest that If the trials
90 against these officials they will be ouBLcd
of their Offices at once.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

Fear Of the Workingmcn's party has caused
queer union Of the Democrats and Rcpubli-
cans In California. The aim of the California
WOrkiDgmcn Is to elect enough delegates to
the constitutional convention In August to
control, In some measure, the action Of that
body. or at least to have certain communistic
ideas inserted In the new constitution
Tho probability Of their accomplishing this
has. up to within few weeks ago, seemed Ger
tain. 1t was fear Of their success that drove
the two older parties into an alliance. The Re-
pubCans of San Francisco met some days
ago and offered a compromise to the Demo-
Gratis This was that there should be but one
ticket for delegates TO the convention in the
field composed Of Democrats and Rcpubli-
cans, in the proportion of votes received by
the two parties ut the last election. The Dem
OCratic Convention, beaded by Gov. Irwin
accepted this offer for San Francisco and 6ug-
gested that the two parties should unite
in other portions Of the State where
there was any danger of CommunistiC sue
cess. The WOrkingmcns' party of California
will therefore find itself in the position Of hav
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

The Herald says: "Gen. Sherman. in his
speech last evening, sharply lectured tho po-
litical non-combatants who are so bold in the
forum and when the storm comes jump down
below and leave others to do tho fighting"
If Gen Sherman refers to Mr.. Dana, of tho
Sun, why don't be come out and say 10 Like a
man. Mr.. Dana Is honest and outspoken. and
we should like to know II other people can't
be that way. When things got hot about the
time OF the Electoral Commission Mr.. Dana
was honest and outspoken. and said In all the
candor OF his Ingenious heart, Nov, say
nothing rough, If you please Hayes has been
counted in and you can't count him out but
we Will tell each other all about II after
ayhile.1
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

The great jackson Route has now on
sale excursion tickets to the beautiful
summer resorts of tho Northwest ut
very low rates. They will remain on sale till
September 30. and will be good to return till
October 81, They include such we'll known
points ms Waukeshn, OCOnOmOWOC and Green
Lake. Wisconsin; st. Paul Minnesota; Grand
Haven and MaCkinaw. Michigan, and Niagara
Falls, besides numerous others OF perhaps
equal attractions. There are no more desira-
bic places at which TO spend the summer than
these cool and hcalthful resorts. situated in
tho lovely lake district Of Wisconsin, or on
tho noble Lake Michigan and Niagara river,
Boarding is cheap and Of tho best quality.
and Mt many Of them arc mineral springs
particularly adapted to the cure Of complaints
0ngendered by n Southern climate. All arc
easily accessible from largo cities, and com
bine with their associations the benefits of
rurdl life.
To reach them tho great Jackson Route Is
tho shortest, quickest and only direct line
Cally rebuilt with steel rails. No ono passing
senCe Of dust, and thoroughly satisfactory
condition of everything about 1t. Pullman
cars run through 10 Chicago without change
and there Is no change Of cars from there to
nearly, If not quite. all The points to which
excursion tickets arc sold.
Books, maps and folders, giving full de-
sOriptiOns of the Northwestern Watering
places and tho routes and rates thereto can
be had Mt the office Of the great jackson Route
No. % Camp street, under City Hotel, where
every ono Intending to spend the summer
away from this city Is invited TO call before
deciding to go elsewhere.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

The arrest OF two boys, named l}allsChmiC-
cher and Wagner aged respectively sixteen
and fourteen in New York the other day for
highway robbery is a fit sequel to "Doad-
wood Dick" to which exciting romance this
robbery Is altogether due. BallsChmiochcr
was the head of n regularly organized band
of Juvenile desporadoos. He was extremely
candid and explicit In his confessions and told
the whole story Of his crimes. He had been
carried away with enthusiasm on reading
s'DeadwOOd Dick" and swOrc to lead a life Of
crime and adventure Running away from
home at the age of fourteen, he went to the
Western plains and finally wound up in
Texas, whore he spent two years. Not finding
The opening for highway robbery promising
in Texas, he came back to New York and or
ganized his gang Of hiRhwaymen in that city.
The particular Oi1en8e for which no was ar
rested was about as aggravated AZ tho law
has ever been called on to punish.
The two boys, with companion. !. r. Frey.
met one Thos Lynn, on Mott street Ball
schmiecher, with black mask covering his
face. called on Lynn to surrender his money
or his life. The terrified Lynn shouted for
help, whereupon the young rascal opened ON
him with his revolver. That he did not mean
simply to Brighten Lynn, but really to kill him
is proved by the fact that every ono of his
balls took effect, and that Lynn owed his os-
cape from death to the fact that he had a
large pocketbook In his pocket, in which two
of the balls took effect, Jack Shepherd him.
self would scarcely have been so prompt and
ready with his pistol as this sixteen year old
highwayman.
The two boys declared that they expected
to be hung, and showed considerable pride at
the prospect of addressing crowd from the
gallows.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

ing to fight the allied forces Of thetwo older
parties; parties that control both the State
and Federal offices. They go into the fight
divided; the Kearneyites or Communists have
split off from the regular labor or Working
mems party. If they succeed, therefore, In
their undertaking they can boast Of a success
that no new political party has ever met
with. For a new party, divided and split. to
enter the field against the united forces Of
the two strongest and most thoroughly or
Ranizod political parties this country has
ever known. is indeed a daring undertaking.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05
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NEW ORLEANS. JUNE Il. 1878.

That Is horrible story that comes from
Cincinnati Of the finding Of the body of John
Scott Harrison, u venerable gentleman and n
son OF President Harrison, hanging by tho
throat In the cellar Of tho dsseCtlng rooms Of
q medical college His body had been stolen
by body-snatChers from his grave and car
ried to the college and Sold MS insight have
been the corpse Of murderer executed on
fhp ualIowa
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-05

The scene at the hanging of tho negro
Webb at Mansfield, Ohio, the Presidents
home was about as disgraoeful as the C0un-
try hes been treated to for some time In &C
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
A Good Liquid Manure.

A BALTIMORE florist sends the Bos-
ton Journal Of Chemistry the follow
ing formula for liquid manure for
flowers:
"Put one bushel of the clippings
from horses hoofs into a barrel, and
fill it up with water. Let it stand for
week, when it is ready for use. APP
ply it with q watering-pot. All bed
ding plants can be watered with this
liquid every other day if they are pot
bound; newly repotted plants should
be watered once q week until they have
plenty of working roots to take up the
manure. It will also be found excel
lent for hard-wooded plants, if used
once or twice q week. Two or three
weeks after the plants have been wat
cred with the manure the foliage gen.
orally changes from green to golden
yellow, moving from the stem down to
the point of the Leaf, which, however,
lasts only for few weeks, when it
changes to a dark glossy green. Plants
under this watering grow very strong;
the flowers are very large and bright
in color. Plants thus treated can be
kept in very small pots for long time
without being transplanted. This is
especially advantageous to the market
gardener, who can sell his plants in three
or four inch pots, while he would have
to shift them into five and six inch il
he used rich soil alone. Flowers
watered with this liquid manure will
bring Is per cent. more than other
wise; beside, being in small pots, they
are lighter, can be packed closer and
are easier to be h~ndled. The fertilizer
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
The Chap Who Was Not April.F Fooled
Badly.

A GANG Of young sports stood on the
corner OF Walnut and Fourth streets
yesterday morning, grinning and eve
ing something on the pavement. It
was a pocket-book neither fat nor lean.
but q pocket-book a little worn and
without the usual string attachment
and juvenile at the other end. Still il
was first of April joke, let the Joker
be who he might, aud the young men
laughed and.waited for some one to get
s. taken" on it. Men and boys came
along, SHE'D at it and passed on grim
ming. They were "too old'' to be
caught, and they chuckled at their own
cuteness. Presently blue -shirted un-
cerned-looking young man came
along, with . torn hat-band and q
leathern belt around his waist. He
seemed to see nothing in particular till
he got at the pocket-book. He darted
for it, secured it, and had scarcely got
it in his hands till yells of mirth broke
on his ears. The young "sports'' were
laughing at him. He said not word,
but opened the pocket book and took
out two ten-dollar bills. Somebody had
lost it: The laughter stopped suddenly,
and the young man. turning on the
crowd, placed his thumb on the side of
his nose, with aggravating GOODNESS,
and walked off with the prize in his
pocket. -Rkslode!phia times,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
The Man. from Jackson.

HE was pretty tight when brought in,
but yet he knew what the blotter was,
and refused to give any name.
Puz me down as zhe man FIN
Shackson," was all the reply he would
make, and when he came before the
Court he was greeted with:
"YOu man from jackson ought to be
ashamed to come here and get yourself
into our House of Correction when you
have a great big State Prison at homer
Judge, it is blessed to forgive, !"
earnestly replied the prisoner.
But this isn't q case of elopement,
bank defalcation, or any such senti-
mental thing, sir. 1t was q case of
drunkenness-not a hilarious birthday
festival, but a stupid guzzle. You
poured down a lot of whisky. waited
for it to take effect, and then carefully
lay down on the sidewalk and expected
to draw crowd and become hero. :"
Judge, let me 60"
Il can'tr'
"Judge, listen to me! l am penni-
less and far from home. I'm the worse
for clean shirt, and my hair needs
combing. But, Judge, the day may
come when I'll be railroad conduct
or. wear a diamond cross, have a
neck-tie for every day in the week, and
run the Pacific Express between De-
troit and Chicago. You may come
aboard of my train, bound to Chicago
to see your mother-in-law sign her
will in your favor and then die. A
wall.eyed young man may pick your
pocket of money and ticket, and when
l come along gathering up the PASTE
boards you will be dished. will look
down into your benign countenance,
pull down my vest, and instead of
dropping you off in Wildcat Marsh, I'll
give two beds in the best Pullman and
play the harp while you sleep. Do you
hear me, Judge?"
"Man from Jackson, it wasn't u bad
case OF drunkenness-you can gor' soft
ly whispered the Court, and he slid
Detroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

COMMENTING on the recent Bugbee
defalcation, the Boston advertiser says:
ut appears that it was known some
years ago that the Western Mr.. Bugbee
was specializing, and he was at that
time taken to task and obliged to
promise to refrain from outside opera
lions in the future. But he did not
keep his word, and has now ruined the
house for which he was q trusted
agent" From the first it has seemed
very surprising in this matter that the
Boston firm should have allowed the
operations at the Indianapolis end of
the line to run SO long without close
scrutiny. 1t is useless to lock the door
after the horse is stolen, but it does not
seem to have been good business man.
agement in the Boston firm to have per-
mitted 1.-the Western Mr.. Bugbee" to
carry on his large operations year after
year without requiring regular balance
sheets, or making such examination of
his accounts as would have discovered
the fraud he was perpetrating. To say
that they had implicit confidence in him
is no sufficient reply. Even implicit
confidence does not justify the suspen-
sion df or departure from sound business
rules, the strict enforcement of which
conduces to the safety of all parties.
This view receives additional emphasis
from the statement quoted above that
it was known some years ago that fIr.
Bugbee was specializing, and that he
was warned to desist from "outside
operations" If this means, as it
doubtless does, that he was using the
credit and funds of the firm in outside
operations, that circumstance should
have put them on their guard at once.
They had no right to have implicit con-
fidence in him after that, if they had
before. Implicit confidence is ali very
well and very beautiful within certain
limits, but in matters of business there
should be strict adherence to business
rules. Many q man has yielded to
temptation and become a defaulter or
embezzler through the removal of these
restrictions. Implicit confidence and
long immunity from close exami-
nation has led many an agent into
crime, who would have been saved by q
strict adherence to business rules. This
is not said in any spirit of apology for
Bugbee's crime, which admits Of no
palliatiOn whatever, but in vindication
of general business principle.-In-
dianapolis Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
YHE CHOICE.

BKN ERA mourning wild
Above tho body of his child,
HIS faith with fate unrcconciled
Complained. and could not understand
Why Death relentless hand
A thousand common lives shOuldsIst'
To snatch a life 20 fair.
y The old outlive the young;
The sweetest song is hushed ere it be sung;
:. Is come to naught;
The page Of brightest promise falls unread;
Oh. cruel Jest. he said.
His soul flew back into the past.
Again he smiled above his newborn son,
And VIA aware Of One
Who. standing by thu cradle, srako:
This gift again take
When but a few swift years are sped.
Now chocse; the Presence said:
Since by the changeless, fathOmless decree.
This bitter loss must be,
We're it not better should touch
The child. and mar it. lest it grow to such
AS. losing, thou wouldst mourn too much?
Or shall crown it with my rarest crown
Of glory. to bring down
A deeper shadow " hen it fades
Than common shades!
So wouldst thou have-and misa-
The greater bliss.
Nay cried Ben Ezra; since this grace
Bides but SO little space.
Keep back no gift of treasures manifold
That heaven doth hold:
But pour the brightness of all spheres
Into my child's few years.
That may drink of Joy 9 full measure first,
Though afterward thirst
The vision fed.
Ben Ezra alone beside his dead;
And. while afrcsh he grieved,
Praised God with tears, that such a child has
lived. -Christs0n Union.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
Extravagant Habits Of Califorrians
CAL1FoRN1ANs are nroverb;allv

CALIFORNIANs are proverbially ex.
travagant, whether male or female.
They seem to care little or nothing for
money other than supplying their i'm
mediate needs. This extravaganza is
one of the evils of the early flush times.
A man of bibulant propensities who has
only four bits in his pocket and does
not know, and, parenthetically might
say, does not care, where the next half
dollar is coming from, will invite a
party up to bar and spend it all for
one round of drinks. Women never
think of asking the tradesman to take
off anything in the price of the article
they are purchasing, but pay just what
he asks for the article. Thousands and
thousands of dollars are squandered by
the extravagant habits of the people
here. They pay whatever is asked and
spend as they 60, without regard for
the morrow. Whatever they want they
buy, regardless of the cost, and not
stopping to ask whether they can afford
it or not. In living and dressing these
extravagant habits are manifest. If
the fashionables of Mob Hill in this city
wear $500 dresses on the street the
woman in the humber walks of social
life feels herself as amply able to put
the months earnings of her husband
on her back, and she does not begrudge
it either. And so with the men. The
best of everything, and everything they
want. they must have and will have If
it takes the last piece of coin. There
are thousands of dollars which Cali
fOrnians are swindled out of in the MAX
ing of change. The difficulty here in
making the exact change, owing to the
kind of currency in use, produces one
of the grossest impositions ever saw
practiced. You cannot buy an article
but whatyou are bound to be swindled.
Californians, however. never complain
or think anything about it, and the rich
and the poor are alike in this respect.
Cor. Boston Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

is not stimulant but plant food, and
plants that are watered with it, if plant
ed out, will continue growing and keep
in good growth, which cannot be said
of guano. 1t is as powerful as guano,
as quick in action and more lasting.
cit will not do the slightest harm to
the foliage; most other liquid manures
spoil the foliage when they come in
contact with it. 1t forms no crust on
the pots or soil. tits cheaper than any
other good fertilizer which is used in
liquid form. The chips need he re-
newed or replaced only twice a year,
while the water can be withdrawn
every day. I filled barrel last Octo-
Der, using all the water it holds every
day. and shall not find it necessary to
renew the chips before May or June.
When liquid guano is used too strong
it will cause the plants to drop all their
leaves. This liquid manure will not,
even if used once or twice day for q
short time''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
A Home.Made Telephone.

l NOTICED a recipe for making a
cheap telephone, given by Prof. Bar
rett in a recent lecture on that instru-
ment. In making his instrument you
use bar magnet, and have to 60 to
considerable trouble, for all of which
you can only talk distance of about a
hundred yards. Now I can give q
recipe much more simple. and when
the instrument is finished you can con-
verse at distance of nearly SEQ yards.
Take two half-gallon Tor quartz tin
fruit cans and take the bottoms out OF
them. Now take a couple of half cigar
boxes, tack down the lids and cut a
hole through the bottom and lid of each,
so you can fit in your cans, first bring
ing the ends level with the lid or bot
tom. Now stretch wetrawhide, parch-
ment or bladder over the other end,
and tie tight and let it dry, and your
speaking tubes are finished. Now take
two-ply of shoe thread and wax it we'll,
making it as long as you wish it.
Punch hole in the center of the parch-
ment head, poke the end of the string
through and put knot on it to keep Il
from pulling back. Then put up your
string like a telegraph wire, but don't
let it touch wood. Where you wish to
support it or make q turn, run it
through loup of the same kind Of
string it is, but don't put the support
ing loups closer together than is neces-
sary to keep it up. and leave the string
pretty loose to allow for contraction
when wet. Fasten up your speaking
tubes at each end of the route, and you
are ready to gable away. You can
bore large gimlet holes in your window
sash to run the line out through, keep
ing it from touching the sash with a
drum on the parchment end of the can
with your fingers, or, better, pick the
string like harp about a foot from the
head. They are very useful and inter-
esting.-J. N. Huston, in Detroit Free
Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
A Little ON Ventilation.

VENTILATE your school-houses or dis
pense with them entirely. Far better
to raise your children in ignorance and
health, than to drag delicate body and
poisoned system through the many hard
struggles and difficulties that are gen.
orally to be overcome through life. Do
not think us too radical on this point,
but look and see for yourselves. There
are none but know that fresh pure air
is necessary to sustain life, and five
sixths of our school-houses, etc., are
built without the least attention being
given to ventilation. and every one that
is 50 neglected is foul and poisonous as
q swamp. Children come home with
headaches, or cannot learn or do not
want to go to school. No wonder,
when they are compelled to breathe
over and over again the foul and poi
sonous breaths Of forty, perhaps fifty,
others who are subject to the same
slow but sure poisoning process. Let
us demonstrate it by figures, and see if
we can verify what we have said; each
child poisons seven cubic feet of air per
minute; now, suppose = school-room to
be 24x35 and 14-foot ceiling, it will con-
tain 11,76O cubic feet, which forty
scholars will poison in forty-two min
utes.
The tender child that sits and reads,
and perhaps cannot learn its lesson,
and stupedes and pines, droops and
yields, day by day, to the atmospheric
foe, and as it loses its first start of life
its lungs play freely, its blood cir
culates more slowly, its chest contracts,
its limbs dwindle away, its digestion is
disordered, and unless it has a power
full constitution, must surely die.
DR.. Hitler, Secretary of the Metro
pOlitan Medical Association, says: "In
consequence of the differentiated school,
houses in London, 1000 children, be-
tween the ages of five and fifteen, lose
their lives annually" Henry Ward
Beecher says: more children lose
their lives by ill-ventilated school
rooms than from any other cause. -
EEchanQe.