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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-10-02

A new purse has been invented in
London. When you open it it appears
simply to be an ordinary portmonnaie,
but by touching spring at the side,
the trigger of small revolver drops into
your hand; portion of the end of the
purse opens out, discharging the muzzle,
and you suddenly find yourself with q
most useful protector.
The consumption of coal in London is
steadily augmenting, both in arithme-
tical and geometrical ratio. Thus, in
1851, the consumption was within 200,-
600 tons; in 1851 it increased to $780,
600 tons; in 1851 to 5,073, ,275 tons, and
in 1877 to 5000, 700 tons. For manu-
featuring purposes alone 800, 900 tons
are used up annually in that huge city.
A peculiar system of weather warn
ings for the benefit of farmers has been
established at Leipsic, under the direc-
ton of the observatory at that city. -Four
different signals are given by means OF
drums hoisted to different heights. One
indicates fine weather, another change
able, a third rain, and fourth that
no trustworthy prediction is possible.
These forecasts are already highly es-
teemed by the agricultural proprietors,
for whose guidance they are intended.
It is estimated that the amounts OF
wheat for export from the countries
named during the current crop year will
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-10-02

It is estimated that the amounts of
wheat for export from the countries
named during the current crop year will
he aDnroximatelv as fOllOwa in hushala.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29
TIN new ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MARCH % 1875
Of our industry and properties are 70 be re.

4
Of our industry and properties are to be re
morselessly swept.
II now the Supreme Court shall sus
| tain the very able, and to our mind clea1
| and convincing decision OF Judge Mon.
| roe, the unquestioned debt of the city,
| amounting to about 81, ZOO, 900, will be estab.
| lished on the basis Of the act Of 1852, and ii
| will then become the duty Of the city authori-
ties to challenge in the courts all claims
| against the city created subsequent to
and in violation Of that act, and thus solve
| this post-debt problem in the interest of the
people. If the Supreme Court, upon the other
hand, reverses the decision and declares the
act Of 1852 unconstitutional, all the founda-
tions of public credit will be swept away, and
we do not see why all claims against the
city should not be then COMPOUNDED and set
tied in one system Of general population
for, if the consolidated bonds do not represent
q valid debt, certainly the mass of claims
created under the most corrupt and profli-
gate administrations, not only without,
but positively against the will of the people,
can have no binding effect upon the tax
payers.
"
maintained by the Supreme Court all the
claims created subsequent to It's passage
should be repudiated. On the contrary, we
believe that the holders of many, If not all of
those claims, have equitable rights which
should be recognized. But we also believe
that when those claims are reduced to their
equitable proportions the city will be relieved
of large part Of it's burdensome debt
The city authorities deserve all praise for
their untiring exertions to work out solution
OF this debt problem. We indorse them in
carrying the suit Judge Monroe has decided
for final adjudication to the Supreme Court
If the act of 1852 Is not constitutional, and il
the consolidated debt is not just and valid
debt, or if, being valid debt, the Legislature
and the City Council have right to force
change or modification Of it against the
consent of the holders Of it, such points
ought to be established beyond dispute by
our highest court. II, on the other hand,
Judge Monroe has rendered correct de-
cision, it should be affirmed as early as pos
sible 50 that the authorities of the city may
take advantage Of the establishment of the
consolidated debt on the act of 1852 to attack
and reduce to due and just proportions the
debts created subsequent to the passage, and
in violation of that act
The interests of the taxpayers ought to be
maintained in this ISSUE and the
rights of the consolidated and all other bond
holders subjected to the most rigid and re-
lentless judicial investigation.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29

can be decided only by much more extended
and thorough investigation than they have
yet received, and that any plan either Of them
may have proposed for the improvement OF
the navigation of the Mississippi does not
give any satisfactory assurance that exemp-
ton from overflow or from the need of levees
will necessarily result or even be acknowl-
edged, for centuries. On the other hand,
| it is a matter of history that there has never
been suggested system for the improve
ment OF navigation which has not recog nized
| levees as of the utmost Importance. The only
sure conclusion, then, is that the rebuilding
of our levee system is the only step that can
be taken, as the question now stands, with
any certainty that it is In the right direction.
But this is the controlling idea in neither Mr..
Cockrell's nor Mr. Gibson's bill. In both
Mr.. Gibson's as well as the other it is made
subservient to the mere theory of improved
navigation. The commission Is authorized to
consider the interests of Louisiana merely IA
an incidental question, and only as they may
be affected by the wild project of placing
"Cairo on a hill, or securing "deep sea navi-
CATION to st. Louis" The following provision
In Mr.. Gibson's bill contains all that the COM
mission Is empowered to do for the protection
of Louisiana: "It may also provide plans and
specifications for the immediate closure of
such outlets Of the river or of such crevasses
or gaps as may exist in the levees on it's banks;
provided that in the opinion of the commission
such closure wM secure an earlier deepening
Of the riuer channel and shall constitute q part
Of the general system for permanently locating
and deepening The channel of the riuer"
Here is levee bill with vengeance levees
to transport wheat and barley but no levees
to protect sugar and cotton! We may have
levees when they help navigation and only
because they do so, and not on their merits
and for our protection and that of the rich al
luvium of Louisiana. We are entitled to an
equal consideration with those States claim
ing as their due the improvement of the nayi-
CATION of the river, and we see no just reason
why our levees, which are necessity to us,
as well as to every theory for the improve
ment of navigation, should be denied us in
order to allow Mr.. Eads to follow his scion
tific vagaries.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29

A very sensible modification has been made
in New York relative to the law prohibiting
the carrying OF concealed weapons. This
amendment recognizes the fact that certain
trades and professions are dangerous, sub
jecting those engaged in them to serious
risks unless they are fully armed and
equipped. In view of this fact, the law now
authorizes such persons to appear before a
competent court and obtain therefrom q
written permission Ito fix themselves" that
is, to carry pistols bowie knives, or whatever
other weapons they may see fit. AS num-
Der Of these applications have already been
made and granted, it enables us to see at a
glance which professions are the most unsafe
to follow in New York, and which afford the
greatest risks and dangers to those engaged
In them. Newspaper men naturally lead
off, but, strange to say, the next two
professions figuring in this danger" COL
umn are butchers and undertakers. Why
these trades, particularly undertaking, should
be dangerous, it is hard to conceive. The I'M
dertakers have mostly to deal with occupants
of another world whose inhabitants ore deaf
to the pistols bark, undaunted by the boldest
bowie knife. Bible and prayer books would
seem their proper weapons, instead Of bowcs
and revolvers.
On The other hand, it is found that no agent
OF the gas company has yet applied for q per-
init to use pistol, q strong proof of the dar-
ing Of these men, who are notafraid, unarmed
and unattended, to turn Off a mans gas leav-
ing him in darkness, misery and desperation.
Nor has single city official, or politician.
applied for the right to carry arms. An
unarmed, defenseless politicinn Evidently
things are topsy-turvy in New York: politics
are not what they used to he in that city un-
der Tweed's benefcent rule.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29
NEw ORLEANS. MARCH 20, 1878.

The Atlanta stitsltiOn takes exception, and
with reason, to the universal habit that South
ern newspapers have adopted of late Of abusing
d the staple production Of the South-cotton.
majority Of these papers seem to regard King
Cotton as an ,nemy OF the South, RESPONSE
bic for all our present poverty andsufrerings,
for the hard times just now affecting this
section Of the country, as well as the rest of
the Union. They warn the planters not to
plant 1t; to go to raising corn, pork, pea
nuts anything but cotton; cotton is going
down and down, and is no longer o crop that
can be cultivated with any show Of profit
The truth Is that these journals see tho fall
In the price of cotton but fail to SEQ the fall
in the cost of all other kinds Of produce
Prices are on the average so per cent lower
than they were ten years ago, and il Is by these
reduced prices that the value OF cotton ought
to be estimated. Comparatively, cotton is
bringing better price now that 1t did before
the war It will now buy 1913 pounds of bacon
where It formerly would buy only GOO; 1t will
buy 1000 yards Of calico where, even in ante
bellun times. it would buy only 800 yards,
and SO on, with almost all the necessary ar
ticles Of domestic use. Its purchasing power
mas increased from 45O to 500 pounds Of sugar,
from six to eight and a half barrels of flour,
from twenty TO thirty-five sacks of salt, etc.
The purchasing power of bale of cotton is,
therefore, from one-third to one-haIf greatar
than 1t was before the war. man who raises
twenty bales Of cotton ought and can live to-
day far more comfortably than he could be-
fore the war on the same crop. The present
hard times are universal: thew are not the re-
suit Of an over-production of cotton or of any
other article, but of the general prostration
OF all business interests in this country by
the ruinous financial and political systems
followed by the Radicals. If the South had
cultivated any other product, the result would
have been exactly the same. King Cotton has
been much abused by his subjects; il is about
time to cease these reasonable cries against !
q monarch to whom we, as well, indeed, as
the whole Union, owe 50 much.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29

The Washington Post reviews the Con-
greSsional probabilities Of November, and
discovers that the control of the House OF
Representatives depends on very slim major
tiles either one way or the other. The Dem
oerats have twice secured control of the
House, In 1874 and 1876. The election OF 1874
the Post regards as phenomenal and untrust-
worthy data on which to calculate the posi-
bilities of 1875 The last election 1t thinks n
much better one by which to prophesy. There
are, according to this 157 Democratic dis
tricts, 1888 of which are overwhelmingly DEM
ocratic, while 10 are close and doubtful. The
Republican districts are 132, OF which 112 are
certain and 30 close and doubtful. Tho doubt
ful Democratic districts gave the Democrats
7600 majority last election, while the Repub-
licans secured only $3.50 In the doubtful Re
publican districts. These $4,000 votes repre-
sent the balance of power in the Union. The
change Of 1000 votes in these 80 congressional
districts, $50 to each district. would give the
House of Representatives to the Republicans,
or double the Democratic majority in that
body
OF the thirty nine doubtful districts thirty
five were carried by the Democrats in 1874
In 1876 the Republicans regained by large
maiorities eighteen Of the districts lost by
them two years previous, while the Demo.
Gratis secured only two Republican districts.
In view OF the further fact that the Repub-
lican vote Is much more equally divided
throughout the Congressional districts, the
Post sees reason to think that the result in
November will depend pretty much on the
,.ocx,,r3 @hot fha rracnnt Iamnera}ic House
makes
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29
WAGONS! CANE CARTS! SPOKES
H. NJ. SORIA.
Is and 20 Union and Is and II Perdido
sfr

40 &nO ~ OH1on ana Id ana IL FeTd1dO
streets,
NHaoN and spRNd %on
Of all kinds and sizes.
Dealer IN Philadelphia and Western Cane
Wagons. Carts and Drays; Timber Wheels !;
'WheelbarroWs Of all descriptions Spokes, Fell
loes. Hubs. Shafts ETC.; Wheelwrght material
Orders promptly filled. ALI work warranted
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29

FARM AND PLANTATION WAGONS,
Cane Carts. Bagasse Carts. Small Carts of all
Felloes. Shafts, Wagon Material, Axle Grease.
etc.
meut in the south. manufacturing their own
work and guaranteeing everything they sell.
fa3 1Y 2dn
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29

MLL IIANU VT TIL Oh AIE VEN FGAI
COMMITTEE.
Rooms STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Democratic Conservative Party,
New Orleans. March IS, 1873
There will be meeting of the State Central
Committee of the Democratic Conservative
party of Louisiana on the FIRST DAY OF
MAY. 1878. in New Orleans.
Country papers please notice.
!. W. PATTON,
President State Central Committee.
mh16 I'd
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-29

Loans and discounts 81 .656, 429 20
United States bonds to secure circu-
IatiOn. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. On0O 90
| Other stocks, bonds and mortgages 1852 90
| Due from approved reserve agents 174.126 II
Due from other national banks 8,945 IS
Due from State banks and bankers 1852 "a
| Real estate, furniture aDd fixtures. 1A.78s 80
Current expenses and taxes paid 1851 or
| Exchanges for Clearing
House ................. $274.7 %
Bills of other banks. 1865 90
Fractional currency tin
Guiding nickels). $780, 81 IS
Specie Including gold
Treasury certificates}. 1880 40
Legal tender notes, 10000 90
637.715 93
Redemption fund with United
States Treasury. per cent OF
circulation. ............. $3.50 90
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 50 1851 $50 Is
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in s85oeoO 90
Surplus fund. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000 90
Undivided profits. Neutrality-suspicious.. 1858 10
National Bank notes outstanding As 600 90
Dividends unpaid. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1857 81
Individual deposits sub
ject to check. 81 6O1, 1888 10
Demand certificates of
deposit. 3,165 90
Certified checks. 141 ,357 80
--- l,74e,511 SO
Due to other National Banks. &c, 3o6 80
Due to State banks and bankers. s7,9s OF
$685., $50 66
STATE OF LOUISIANA, /
Parish of Orleans, IS. !
/, CHAS. L. C. DUPUY, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement Is true, to the best of my knowledge
and belief.
CHAS. L. C. DUPUY. Cashier. i
Subscribed and sworn to before nae this twen-
ty-third day OF March, 1875
THEO. GUYOIl. Notary Public.
COrrect-Attest:
ALT. MOULTON,
JOHN B. LAFITTE,
THOS. A. ADAMS,
mha4 iw Directors.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27
NJ ISC III IA N Z 0 s.
BUSINESS FOR LADIES.

Our attention has been called to a new ar
ticle for the use of ladies, the invention of
which has conferred an everlasting blessing
upon every lady. We refer to the Queen
City skirt s%uspenders for supporting ladies'
skirts, the most desirable and beneficial ar
ticle ever invented for the relief of women,
many of whom nave suffered years of mis-
cradle health caused solely by carrying the
weight of a number of heavy skirts, COM
pletely dragging them down. Something
to support ladies' clothing is absolutely nee
cssary. These suspenders are recommend
cd by our leading physicians to all ladies
and young girls. Every lady, should have
them. They are sold only through lady
agents. A splendid opportunity is offered
to some reliable lady canvassero of this coun-
ty to secure the agency of a pleasant and
profitable business. .For terms, and terrific
ry write at once to the Queen City Suspen-
der Company, 27S Clark street., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27

HOW TO SIT.

HALLS Journal persists in robbing us of
our comfort in this style: All,consump-
tive people and all afflicted with spinal de-
formities sit habitually crooked. in one Or
more curves of the body. There was a time
in all these when the body, had it's natural
erectness, when there was the first idepart-
uge on the road to death. The make of our
chairs, especially that great, barbarism, the
unwieldy and disease-engendering rocking
chair, favors these diseases, and %undoubted-
ly, in some instances, leads to bodily habits
which originate the ailments just named, to
cay nothing of piles, fistula and the like.
The painful or sore feeling which many are
trubled with incessantlycfor years, at the
extremity OF the backbone, is the result of
sitting in such a position that it rests upon
the seat of the chair, at a point several
INCHES forward of the, chair, back. A physi-
illogical chair, one which shall promote the
health and preserve the human form erect
and manly, as our Maker made it, should
have, the back straight, at right angles with
the seat, the seat itself not being over eight
inches deep. A chair of this kind will do
more towards correcting the Longing hab-
its Of our youth than multitudes of parental
ieeturings, tor then If they are seated at all
they must sit erect, otherwise there is no
seat hold. ,
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27
PROFESSOR. R1TcHEL's FLYING MA
CHINE.

Experiments were made in Philadelphia
with what is called "Professor Ritchel's 9ri-
al or flying MACHINE" The machine looks
like a velocipede on runners with a balloon
canopy. The operator sits on a. small. seat
and puts his feet in the stirrups. In front
Of him is a crank by which the main.,pra-
peller at the bottom OF the machine is con
trolled. These paddles breast the air like.
wings. Another one serves as a ,rudder. be-
ing connected with the stirrups by. metallic;
bars. The balloon is twenty-five. feet in
length and twelve in diameter ~. The inven-.
tor says: 1.-THE principle on which l estab-
lished my idea was that of. the flying of
birds. l held that if birds could supply the
impetus of flying, and ehangexe1eir course,
invention could do the same for man. This
cylinder | have arranged shall carry about
So per cent. of the total weight. Thefyoper-
ator, in moving the wings, is supposedss.to
possess the muscular weight of a dozen ea-
giles" The person trained to operate the
machinemade some successful ascents and
descents, and those who witnessed the ex-
pertinent regarded it as a success.
------
Mao ,x~oxlo
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27
TO MINERS.
United States land Office, I'll
Helena, Montana. June 1. 1878. 4

- TIcIcIt, MOHtaHu~ JUNE I, 1910. T.
Willard G. Pierce, whose post office address is
this day fled,hi application to enter as agricultural
land, under the homestead laws, the s e quarter
of the N w quarter, and them e quarter of the
s w quarter Of section "a, in township No. 8 north,
range No 2 east, which land is suspended from
entry.
Notice is hereby given that a hearing viii be had
at this Office on the 9Th day of July, A. ID. 1873,
at 10 O'Clock a. m, to determine as to the mineral
or non-mineral character of said land, and testi-
fore the Register and Receiver on the 9Th. day of
July, A. D.. 1878, at 10 O'Clock a. M. 1t is alleged
there are no known miners, nor mining improve
ments, upon said land. j. II. MOE, Register.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27
TO MINERS.
United StatesILand Office,

United States1and Office,
Helena, Montana, June !, 1878.
John Shay, whose post office address is Canton,
Meaghereounty, Montana, has this day filed his
homestead. laws, the S halt of the S w quarter of
section 26. in township No. s north, range No. 2
east. which land is suspended from, entry.
Notice is hereby given that a hearing will be had
at this Office on the 18th day of July, A. D. 1s7S.aat
10 O'Clock 8. ma, to determine as to the mineral'or
hoh he nleG an enas Sa;d h ot sa,a ' Mia h anu fah .estl haears
the Register and Receiver, on the 18th dav of July,
AID. 1878, at 10 O'Clock a. m. 1t is alleged there
are no known miners, nor mining improvements,
upon said land. 30 j. II. 0 Register.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27
TO MINERS.
United States Land OMee,
Helena, Montana. Junc l. 1878.

ItIeHH, MOnIHfIH, JUNO I, 1873. J
James Hmmmel, whose post office address is
Centerynle,: Meagher county, NJ. T., has this day
filed his application to enter as agricultural land,
under the homestead laws, the S w quarter of the
n Il quarter, the Sc quarter of the N w quarter,
the n w quarter of the S + quarter, and the n +
quarter of the S w quarter Of section 2, in township
No. north, range No. Q east, which land Is sus-
pended from entry.
at this ONCE on the 9Th day Of July,s A. ~ b. 1873 !.
at 10 O'Clock a. M, TO determine as to the min
eral OF non-mineral character. of said land, and
testimony to be used upon said hearing will be taken
before the Register and receiver on the 9th day of
July, A. D.. 1878, at 10 O'Clock a. m. 1t is al
legged there are no known miners, nor mining i'm
,nrovements upon said land.
~ J.H: MOB, Regieter.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27
T TO MINERS.

United States Land Office,
Helena Montana, June 4, 1878
Edward P. Smith, whose post office address is
tory, has this day fledahis application to enter as
agricultural land, under the pre- emption laws, the
S hal of the N w quarter and the N half of the S w
quarter of section IA, in township No. 10 north,
range No l east, which>land is suspended from en-
try.
Notice is hereby given that a hearing will be had
at this office on the 18th day of July, A. ID. 1878, at
10 O'Clock a. M. to determine as to the mineral or
to be used upon said hearing will'lbe taken before
the Register and Receiver on the 18th day of July,
A. D.. 1878, ut 10 O'Clock a. m. 1t is alleged there
upon said land. 30 J.. III. MOE, Pegister.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-27

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