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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue is
said to have discovered perfect scheme for
breaking up the crooked whisky business in
the Southern States. He believes, it Is said
and will govern himself accordingly, OF
rourse-that as soon as the Southern moon
sinners ascertain that they will not be pun
Ished If they reform, illicit distilling will be
voluntarily abandoned, and crooked whisky
will become as scarce as carpet-baggers in the
reconstructed South.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

Securities were quiet and steady. State
Consols opened at TAX, and closed strong at
7ss1074, against 731s073s4 on Saturday.
Premium Bonds opened at 31A, and closed
firm at 3l2S@s151, against 3o1s@311S on Sat
alriay.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

4 Col. George K. Leet, of the old custom
house firm Of Leet & Stocking, Of New York,
which figured conspicuously during the Grant
administration, is at present ticket agent
on the New York Metropolitan Elevated Rail-
road Col. Leet, who is now in reduced cir
cnrnstances, was undoubtedly a rich man at
one time. During the palmiest days OF the
late administration his yearly income was
supposed to be $4,000, but it came easy and
went as rapidly.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

THE stock Of lard in New York is reported
at III ,642 tierces Including 66o33 tierces prime
steamed, lilo tierces of grade and 4499 tierces
stearinel against 81 800 tierces one month
ago. and 80 99 tierces one year ago.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06
COMM ERCHAL.

OFFICE OF NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT.
Monday Evening. August 6. 1878.
CoTToN-The supply on sale LIZ limited, and
it Is difficult for buyers to find such quality
as their orders call for. The movement to-
day was confined to $50 bales at strong prices.
The following Is the official closing OF the
Cotton FEchanpn.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

Yesterday there were received mere from the
upper coast 1853 sacks OF rough rice. The
new crop has commenced to come In early,
and we are glad to hear the most favorable
aeeo,,nts of the prospects of heavy yield
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

The Galveston News Of Saturday last says
ut was ascertained from one Of the employees
of the Morgan steamship line that the four
vessels that now ply between New York city
and New Orleans will hereafter run to Calves
ton during the continuance of the quarantine
These ships are too large when fully loaded
to cross the bar, and hence it was suggested
that they would anchor in the offing and
lighter their cargoes up to the wharf,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06
Total

LOtttl 'S'H1' toofovo
Nearly 40 per cent Of the above was gold,
and the remainder silver and lead, though
there was not over 100000 in lead, leaving
over $4,000, 900 for silver.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

The Cincinnati Price Current estimates the
a,rn1ner pork packing in the West to date at
2.111 1886 hogs. against 1,574,476 hogs to date
1n,-
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06
The movement at ports for three days, up to
IL H. to-day is given below:

Receipts at ports since September /. 4,223 ,696
Receipts same time last year. ....... 1886, 166
Receipts same time year before. ..... 49,.
The consolidated report for three days gives
exports to
G.. B. Ere. Con. Chan. Stocks
This week.. 4,781 100 T2,548
Last week. 49,. 3.679 98,328
This week last
uaor Tt2 1890 $500 . 1876 g5l
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06
FLAT PAPERS.

Of all weights and sizes used in this market for
| ger eral jobbing purposes.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06
Commercial and Financial Matters

The bark XII JUNO cleared yesterday fol-
Rareelona with 26,040 bushels OF wheat in
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

A travelling crop correspondent Of the New
York Bulletin writes as follows:
Our last letter told you of the very precari-
GUS condition of the spring wheat crop in
Minnesota, and all our reports received since
then fully confirm the situation. When the
wheat was in the dough the intense heat
struck it, It does not take a bull or a bear to
tell the result. On the top of this came heavy
rains and winds, which have knocked the
wheat down. In some portions of the State
as much as sixteen inches of water fell in
eight days, and the reapers would not run.
IN Nebraska we find the harvest just open
ing and the weather fine, and the yield salts
factory. A letter from MI. Towzalm the land
commissioner Of the Burlington and Missouri
road, says that they will not have cars enough
this fall to carry the grain out of the State
and lumber into it. This statement fully con-
firms our position with regard to the Western
Improvement which we have so often the
present season stated Kansas reports for
The last week have shown a most favorable
outlook for that State. Last year the wheat
crop was a poor one-this year the reverse
The threshing machine is telling a story that
all like to hear Grain of fine quality, and
welding from fifteen to thirty bushels per
acre There is no doubt but the corn will be
al Immense crop, and is now so far advanced
aasl to all out OF the way OF frost. Harvest
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06
PROGRAMME CARDS.

The very latest and most attractive styles
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

The fractional currency outstanding is
$16,455,59S A year ago it was S16,547, 76s, so
that there has been presented for redemption
only $3.50 of this currency in the last twelve
months. Of the SIG 455,59s reported as nom
inally outstanding it may be assumed that
very little is actually in existence. It has
been lost or destroyed, and the government S
profit on the whole issue of S52,0O0,000, there
fore, has been about S16,000,Oo0, or nearly
pne-third,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

Good Ordinary. LOS 1O1a
Low M1ddl1ng.. .s..10R l0s
mldQllnE t.s...-..-----ss's..ll1s lA7s
Good Midding. .1216 1915
Middling Fair. nom.
Sales to-day 100 bales Market strong.
COTTON sTATEMENT.
In store and on shipboard sept.1, 1877. 2i.356
Gross receipts since Saturday 60
Gross receipts previously 1857 ,362-1 SGT .422
Excess In actual stock made from
inters. loose. etc, since septem-
Der 1..... ....,.,..',''.',, I2,o25
Total supply. Observation-Disclosures. 1.701 COZ
Exported previously. 697, 4371 6s7 437
Total stock this ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4165
'rotai stock this day last year.......... 2s.o98
There were no exports to-day.
Net receipts since Saturday. 60
Receipts from other ports. ..:......
Net receipts last Sunday and Monday 26G
Net receipts same time last year. 80. SOC
Net receipts since Friday ....... 1872
Net receipts same time last week. -. 301
Net receipts same time last year.. 513
Net receipts since September 1..... 1,370, 1870
Net receipts same time last year. -. 1,179,997
Cotton on shipboard as per account OF the
Cotton Exchange Is as follows: Liverpool
= bales, Havre -, Bremen -, Mexico -
Spain -, Mediterranean 49,, coastwlse s;
total, bales. This, taken from the stock
at noon, as noted at the Exchange, leaves in
esses 1857 bales.
The receipts at all ports, consolidated, as
per kilograms to the Cotton Exchange, show
totals from noon Saturday to noon to-day of
500 bales, against 500 bales on last Sunday
and Monday SOC last year, and - the year be-
fore.
The movement at ports for three days, up to
IL N. to-day, is given below:
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-06

10y IblBRTapH.l -
NEW YORK, August 5-Close.- Money closed
at u cent. Exchange closed steady at
4s3311aaD487. Gold opened and closed at u.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
How Mamma Plays,

just the sweetest thing the children do
Is to play with mamma APPLYING too:
And Baby is Lost" they think is the best,
For mamma plays that with merry zest
Z" NY baby lost!' up and down mamma goes,
A peering about and following her nose;
Inside the papers, and under the books,
And all in between the covers she looks,
"Baby! 6aby.r' calling.
But though in her way is ,papa's tall hat,
She never once thinks to look under that.
She listens, she stops, she hears the wee laugh,
And around she flies, the faster by half,
Why, ao2.ere can he be!n' and she opens the
clock,
She tumbles her basket, she shakes papa's
sock,
"Bo6y! 6a1yn' calling.
While the children all smile at papa's tall hat,
Though none of them go and look under that,
A sweet coo calls. Mamma darts everywhere
She feels in her pocket to see if he's there.
In every vase on the mantel Shelf
She searches sharp for the little elf,
"Ba6y! 6aby'' calling.
Another coo comes from papa's tall hat,
Yet none of them stir an inch toward that,
Somewhere he certainly must be, she knows
50 up to the china cupbord she goes;
The covers she lifts from the sugar-bowls,
lut sweet white Jumps she TdGCleS ana rolls,
"Bo6y! 6o6y!!'' calling.
But though there's stir near papa's tall hat,
They will not so much as look toward that.
She moves the dishes, but baby is not
In the cream pitcher nor in the teapot;
And she wrings her hands and stamps on the
floor,
She shakes the rugs and opens the door,
Baby! 6a6y" calling.
They stand with the backs to DaDa's tall hat
Though the sweetest of E1urmurs comes from
that
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
The Beautitude Of Brutality.
London World. January %. I

1t is, perhaps, in our common, everyday
life that we are most actively irritated and
annoyed by the genus ''brute." In this
overcrowded country, where politeness in
address and bearing has not yet been elevated
into one of the fine arts, we are at their
mercy continually; our peace and comfort
are often altogether in their hands. In the
haunts and public places where people now
a-days must meet perforce the brute con-
stantly AFFECTS us, and we cannot escape him.
Sometimes he is dressed in little brief au-
thority, policeman, for example, although
rarely, who is rudely unsympathetic, and
threatens to run us i'm because we have al
lowed ourselves to be robbed; more often it
IS an official of the underground railways,
who considers it an insult to be asked ques-
ton or to be supposed that he is there for
anything but his own good pleasure. Brutes
yet again unequalled for inciviity and per-
emptory airs may be found at the doors of
Burlington house, in the livery of the Royal
Academy. In the streets brutes jostle us
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
Glimpses of Lincoln.

From "Reminiscences by Noah Brooks scribner for
So much has been written about Lin
coins private life and personal habits,
that 1t seems unnecessary now to add
more than word. He was simple in all
his tastes; liked old songs and old poetry.
He was always neatly, but not fnically
dressed. He disliked gloves, and once I
saw him extract seven or eight pairs of
gloves from an overcoat pocket, where
they had accumulated after having been
furnished him by Mrs. Lincoln. Usually,
he drank tea and coffee at the table, but
he preferred milk, or cold water. Wine
was never on the table at the White House
except when visitors, other than familiar
friends, were present. The Presidents
glass was always flied, and he usually
touched it to his lips. Sometimes he
drank few swallows, but never whole
glass, probably.
He was cordial and affable, and his
supplemented manners made strong
impression upon those who met him for
the first time. l have known impression
able women, touched by his sad face and
his gentle bearing, to go away in tears
Once found him sitting in his chair so
collapsed and weary that he did not look
up or speak when addressed him. He
put out his hand, mechanically. as if to
shake hands, when [ told him had come
at his bidding. 1t was several minutes
before he was reused enough to say that
he " had had hard day Odce, too, at
a reception in the White House. joined
the long "queue y of peoples, shook
hands with him, received The usual Glad
to see you, SIR and passed on Later in
the evening, meeting me, he declared that
he had not seen me before, and explained
his preoccupation of manner while the
people were shaking hands with him by
saying that he was " thinking of man
down South It afterward came out that
" the man down South was Sherman.
Once, when visitor used profane
language III his presence, he rose and
said, II thought Senator c. had sent me
gentleman. l was mistaken. There is
the door, and wish you good nighu.'' At
another time, delegation from distant
state waited on him with written pro-
test againit certain appointments. The
paper contained some reflections upon
the character of Senator Baker, Lincoln's
old and beloved friend. With great
dignity, the President said, /" This is nav
paper which YOU have given me?"Assured
that it was, he added, 'sTo do with as I
please!" g Certainly, Mr.. President
Lincoln stopped to the fireplace behind
him, laid it on the burning Goals, turned
and said, 6 Good day; gentlemen"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
Sea.Watcr as a Beverage.

Visitors at the seaside who out of curl
osity have slipped alittle of the salt water
will easily understand the intense thirst
generally caused by its continuous use.
This thirst is the chief torture endured bv
persons who have taken refuge from
laundering ship in small boat, and find
themselves without fresh water on the
open ocean. Many instances are on re-
cord of men, thus exposed, being driven
mad by resorting to sea-water to quench
their intolerable craving for something to
drink; and in works of fiction this great
horror OF shipwreck has been frequently
depicted. Yet itappears upon some of the
coral islands of the Pacific Ocean there
exists a race Of men who actually use sea-
water as their daily beverage! These
islands are situated at an immense dis
lance from the mainland, surrounded by
the boundless ocean; they are of small
size, and being elevated only very slight
~ above the level of the waves, and with
out vegetation except a few cocoanut trees,
contain no streams or springs Of fresh
water. If wells are sunk they weld a
brackish liquid, little differing from that
of the ocean.
The inhabitants are therefore obliged
to drink from the sea, and they do so con
stantly without i'll effect. So extraordi-
nary circumstance has caused much
conjecture as to whether these men are
constitutionally different in some manner
from others; or whether they have grad
ually accustomed themselves to its use at
times when cocoanuts were scarce, and
the milk that they Faforded unavail-
able. Perhaps the ability arises from
both causes, since now and then instances
have been known of sailors drinking
from the sea on board ship, at first kffrom
partial necessity and afterwards without
hesitation, while their companions could
not touch it. So that it would seem to
require popularity in the constitution,
developed by exercise. In one case, a
sailor who drank sea-water foud his com
plexion become yellow. The human
body appears capable of accommodating
itself by degrees to the most poisonous
substances; even corrosive sublimate is
stated to have been taken safely by some
persons. The particular places were
these sea-water drinkers are found are the
Paumoton Islands, and Easter Island, in
the Pacific.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20

freely if we will let them; they blind us,
quite without apology, with the sharp points
of their sticks or umbrellas, which they carry
recklessly and carelessly under their arms.
At the theatre many well dressed, seemingly
well-to-do, brutes sometimes spoil all our
pleasure. Ladies, in irreproachable cos
tunes, giggle or gossip aloud, or carry on
unblushing firtations, callous to the discom-
fort of neighbors who have come to hear the
play and not their outspoken philandering.
Gentlemen ostensibly, in faultless evening
attire, talk of their private affairs, and laugh
at their own jokes through three acts, or,
when the drop-scene falls, push past every
one in order to go out and smoke In the
railway carriage the selfish og-in-the manger
spirit of the true brute often stands out in
the strongest relief. It is not only that he
will not recognize the claims of lady to the
best. seat nor open the carriage-door when
she wishes to get out, but he arrogates the
exclusive control of the window, and has it
in his own good will whether we shall be
asphy xiated or die of cold. If he be similar
~ situated at a restaurant, he insists tina
his own personal convenience and comfort
comes before every one else in the room;
and although ladies be carried out fainting,
or, conversely, men wear hats and great
coats, he sits stolid and unconcerned, refus-
ing resolutely to surrender control of the
fresh air. Such brutes, it is to be feared,
have none of that disinterestedness in little
as well as in great things the wish to oblige
and defer to the will of others which has
been described as the real foundation of good
manners.
And yet brutes have the best of it.
Thoroughgoing brutes generally get on in
the world. Nothing wounds them: they suf-
fer no qualms of conscience, no stings of re-
morse; they are seldom distressed by the
misfortunes or troubles of relations and
friends. Being entirely without bowels of
compassion, they will have without mercy
the uttermost farthing and the last ounce of
flesh. They marry often the incest women;
they are clothed in purple and fine linen,
live on the daintiest fare, have the best of
everything that is going, and are commonly
rich, prosperous and successful to the end of
their days.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
The Angels Greeting.

Come to the land of peace!
Come where the tempest hath no longer sway
4 The shadows pass from the soul away,
The sound of weeping cease. !.
Fear hath no dwelling there!
Come to the mingling of repose and love.
Breathed by the silent spirit of the dove
Through the celestial air.
Come to the bright and blest,
And crown'd forever! Midst that shining band
Gather'd to heavens own wreath from every
land.
Thy spirit shall find rest.
Thou hast been long alone,
Come to thy mother! On the Sabbath shore,
The heart that rock'd thy childhood back
once more
Shall take its wearied one.
In silence vert thou left:
Come to thy sisters! Joyously again,
All the home voices, blent in one sweet strain
Shall greet their long bereft.
Over thine orphan head
The storm hath swept,as DER willows Dough
Come to thy father! It is fnish'd now,
Thy tears have all been shed.
In thy divine abode.
Change finds no pathway, memory no dark
trace,
And oh! bright victory, death by love no place
Come spirit to thy God.
School and Home.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
others, while he alone is to blame.

others, while he alone is to blame.
There are men who are too stingy to
make good fences or properly repair those
which are rotting or tumbling down, and
who yet talk Of being stock farmers, and
they will buy grade short-horns, grade
Jerseys, mongrels of all colors and sizes,
and expect the puplic to admire their
animals and believe them to be some
thing superior. Now by using good
pure bulls and raising the calves,
Improvements could be made in these
grades, but those niggardly souls will
begrudge the trouble to raise the calves,
and either sell them for veal or let them
go with the COW to dairvman.
System would raise all the heifer calves
and by using good bulls each generation
would become better. Or, any man with
sufficient capital would commence with
some really good pure-bred stock, and
breed and sell frst-class animals. and
thus conduct the breeding ona system
Of continually selling at double and treble
he price OF common stock and gain
ing extra profits. System, too, will cause
any man of intelligence to have every de-
partment methodically conducted, and
not to have anything delayed or capri
ciously changed from the rotation or reg
ular course. But the miserable, shiftless
farmer will have a piece of blowing in
the middle of meadow and field of
corn or grain with no fence between it
and the pasture, and then every neigh
Dor will be complaining of injury from
stock through the bad fences, He will
also be so simple as to attempt to fatten,
IN the winter, cows which have been in
milk and have lost their flesh and per
haps some course, thin big boned steers.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
system In FARMING.

There must be system in every bust
ness if it is to succeed, and whoever
ignores clear foresighted way of con
Quoting farming will soon have no far n
ing; for if he is depending on it for a lly-
ing he will become bankrupt, or if doing
it for amusement the drain on capital
will be SO heavy as to cause prudence to
step IN and end such losing transaction.
Some men are SO opiniated as to mag
inc themselves competent to manage a
farm without any looking forward, and
they will make inadequate preparation
for winter and have nothing in readiness
by the time it is wanted, no if anything
goes wrong it is laid at the door Of so ne
other than the right person. There is not
a more pitiable and contemplate man
than the one who thinks himself smarter
than any one else, and yet runs around
seeking to charge all his shortcomings to
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-20
A Doctors Queer Story.

The Cincinnati Times tells the follow
ing on the authority of a physician in that
city, who says the incident happened on
the 4th, of September,last: lady drove to
my office door about 9:45 o'clock, and
asked me to visit her sick child. In
order to learn Of the child's illness l
questioned the lady as to the symptoms,
and she stated that she had not seen the
child in four months, and that when she
last heard from it it was we'll. I then
asked why she wished me to go to the
house. She said, Because it is sick
now. You can see her in the cab. She
got in at the depot with me, and her face
is pinched and pale, and she seems to be
in great pain" 1 took seat beside her
and examined the carriage closely, but
could see no child or shadow of child.
The lady stated that DR.. M. was her fam
lily physician, but that she knew she
would be unable to find him at his Office
at that late hour, and she had no wish to
be delayed, as she feared the child would
die. On arriving at her home, found
that an hour or more previous the little
girl had been taken with severe pains in
the stomach, and was crying terribly.
The father asked his wife how she came
to return without letting them know, and
asked who her companion was. She
stated that he was physician she had
brought to treat the child, and then pro-
ceeded to tell her husbrnd the same story
she told me. She had no means of know
ing that her child was i'll, and had ne
thought of such an occurance until
took the cab. at the depot.