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The Yellow Fever Scourpe
FRIGHTFUL FATALITY IN NEW ORLEAN

FR1GHTFUL FATALITY IN NEW ORLEANS
One hundred and eight new cases of yellow
fever were reported yesterday at New Or.
leans, with twenty nine deaths The deaths
include twelve children, ten of them under
five years. In answer to question, DIR. Chop
pin, president of the board of health espresso
the opinion that those who had previously had
yellow fever were in no danger of taking it
again, even though they had spent summer
or two away. At Port EadS there have been
SIX new cases and one death since yesterdays
report.
FuGITIvES FROM THE FEVER DISTRICTS.
A dispatch from Louisville. KY, SAYS many
persons from yellow fever cities are arrivin
there, and that $l,OC0 was subscribed in the
city yesterday for the Grenada sufferers The
schooner Ida Lawrence from Sagua la Grande
bound to New York, has put into the Delaware
eakwater with her entire crew, nine in
number. either sick or dying with yellow fever
Captain Barrett died yesterday, and Isaac H
Warrington, of Camden, N. j., and two of the
crew had died previously. The steamer
Golden Rule, from New Orleans, with fever on
board, was furnished With supplies at the
Cairo quarantine and allowed to proceed up
the Ohio river. John Blum and the cook OF
the boat had died. Two Others were sick, it is
supposed. with yellow fever. VIM. Riley ar
rived at New York yesterday from New Or
leans quite sick, it is supposed, from yellow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-17

Two MARYLAND THIEVES SENT To THAT
STATE FOR TRIAI--Mr. X. A Shekel of
Rockville, Nd, arrived at police headquarters
this morning, and fully identified the 800
note and other articles taken from Albert
Port and Robert DuvaT the two colored
thieves arrested Thursday ight in the West
Ind by Detective ClarvOe They are fuei
tives from the Maryland reform school, and
were sent 20 Rockville by Lient Nernnu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-17

Beat leaves u b street wharf at 7:30 a. IN re-
turning, arrive homo 10 ?. IN. NUMBER LIMIT
ed. Tickets. IS cents; children under IL years.
70 ceGts. 20 Dc hsf of members CT the Corps
MeSlS Oh The beat, 80 cents. Those DESTROYS of
carrying baskets are privileged to do so. The
torps to avoid dscomforts and incon yenienceS
have chal tered the swift and commodious steamer
j. w. Thompson, thus insurng three hours at
SAL water bathing, fishing, Grabbing. aud visiting
friends stopping at Colton's and DR. Blackis-
IONS. aug15 6t
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DEEDS IN FEE have been filed as follows
H. X. klUckhuhn to Frederick Winter. lot So
square l4;s-. Frederick Winter to Caro-.
Bailey ct al, trustees. TO j. F. Darth, lot 81
square 623; s.. Levi Woodbury. to E. M
Mcleod ct al, part of d tract of land in Stat
ford county, Va. $500. Michael Conner to
Rosie ONen. lot ID, square 80; 5000. L. W.
James to Robert johnson, lot II. square 217 ::
s2OGo. C. NJ Matthews TO Ann McQuade. lot
;, square II: sl,2l5. Henry Blacksmith to
Archibald White, part OF tract called Peters
Mil Seat and addition to WOodwards lot -
81 l5J.
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THE RAIN yesterday did but little damage
IN the city as compared with The previous
storms OF the month. In the adjacent cOun-
Try the damage was quite .heaN especially by
country roads, and the destruction of small
culyerts and bridges on the turnpike and other
roads. on the Alexandria aud Fredericks
below Alexandria, about two hundred yards
of track were washed out A cow belonging
TO Nil. Carl Heirloom was killed by lightning
about 0clOck under a large tree situated in
Mis- Ga .eS past lure, near boundary. between
Isl and I'd streets northeast
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
The Fail. Sex.

Basques and polonaises are. equally
fashionable.
Braided letters and huted ruff1es are
used on palmer sets.
Lace mitts are as fashionable this
winter as white kid gloves for evening
tsilettes.
A felt bonnet With.a coronet of shaded
gray feathers will complete the toilette.
Dark tinted smoked-pearl buttons are
more used than any ether kind for wool
dresses.
| Get sheet muslin for petticoats, as it
retains starch better than that more
closely woven.
Brecaded silk is very stylish, and win
look well made up in conjunction with
plain black silk.
The lew-brimmed toeues that come
down on the forehead are worn by ladies
who have long faces. The trimming
may be fringe or lace, but if economy is
necessary, simple piping is sufficient.
White or colored mitts are preferred tc
black, though the latter are much used
in very fine qualities.
a band of galloon, a kni.e-pleating oi
silk or else fringe will trim your green
cashmere overskirt nicely. Have q
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
From Washington.

The secretary of the treasury, in an
swer to resolution of the house, sent a
communication to that body showing
the amount OF interest paid in coin and
currency to the national banks from
bonds held by the treasury for the Sc
curity and redemption of the currency
issues of said banks, from 1868 to Janu-
ary II, 1878. The recapitulation shows
coin interest paid, $244, 278, ,27l; currency
interest, $S,5se,2S5; total, $252, ,s37 ,556.
The house bill for paying the army
fixes the pay of the general of the army
at $40, 900, that of the lieutenant generals
at $s 600, that of major generals at s6,
900, that of brigadier generals at s., 1000,
colonels at 50, 900, lieutenantcolonels at
s., 500, majors at $4,000, captain of cav.
airy at $1,000, captains of infantry at
81 800, first lieutenants of cavalry at
81 900, same of infantry at 81, 400, second
iieutenants of cavalry at 81 200, same of
infantry at $1,000. Under the law all
the officers below the rank of colonel get
what is called the "5ogy ration" which
is ten per cent. on their pay for each five
years service. The bill also increases
the pay of sergeant major from $22 to
$33. All first sergeants are increased
from $22 to $32, all sergeants from $17
to $22, all corpo1als from $15 to $18.
The increase of pay to the non commits
stoned officers amounts to about $4,000
year. The decrease of officers pay and
allowances amount to about 81, ,250,0 900.
The treasury department is embar-
rassed as to the proper course to be
pursued in relation to the coinage of
trade dollars. The demand for these
coins at San Francisco for export to
China is quite active. It is expected to
continue to the last of April. The law
requires this demand to be met without
limit at the present price of silver and
gold and of the value of the greenback
dollar. The trade dollars can be placed
in domestic circulation at profit of
from to 4 per cent. to the owners Of
silver bullion. A portion of the San
Francisco mint coinage of trade dollars
is coming east, and bullion dealers in
New York and elsewhere in the east
demand that the Philadelphia mint shall
be opened for the same coinage. It is
probable that a decision will be reached
soon, and that it will be to allow de.
posits of silver to be made at the Phila-
delphia mint for returns in the trade
dollar. II this is done, coinage will be
continued at San Francisco and Carson
City, and all three miuts will have work
sufficient to keep them fully employed
until congress acts definitely on the silver
question. The director of the mint con-
siders it important to retain the present
skiIlful force of workman at the mint. in
view Of pending legislation in relation to
the silver question.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23

figures, published in 1874, place the
slave population at 1,0l6,262.
The new queen of Italy, Margarita, is
one of the most beautiful women of royal
blood in Euroye. She is twenty-six, and
eight years the junior OF her husband,
WHO is her cousin.
The Dutch at the Paris exposition will
come out very strong in tulips. Forty
thousand bulbs are to be planted 80 as to
figure out the arms Of Hearlem in most
effective manner.
An enterprising German has cleared a
banana plantation On the Isthmus of
Panama, where the wet, rich, alluvial
soil is peculiarly adapted to the produc-
tion Of the banana. He employs more
than two hundred persons, and is rapidly
growing rich.
The incomes of the leading surgeons
in London are enormous. Sir Henry
Thompson performs the operation of
lythotomy ninety times a year, on an
average. His fees range from 200 to 500
guineas, and amount to about $l5O,000
per annum.
Great excitement is said to have been
caused in San Domingo and Hayti by a
rumor that Spain will sign treaty with
San Domingo at the end of this month,
assuming protectorate over that island.
The rumor serves to further increase the
unpopularity OF President Diaz.
Adispatch from the United States vice.
consul at Shanghai, asking for funds,
says an appalling famine is raging
throug ghout four provinces of north
China. Nine millions of people are re-
ported destitute. Children are daily
sold in the markets for food.
From 1870 to 1874 the profits to the
government from public lotteries in
Austria amounted to nearly $35 900, 900.
the prizes wofa by by ticket holders in the
same period amounted to SIG, 800, 900.
In Italy the net receipts of the govern
ment from lotteries in three years reached
$40, 500: 900, while the sum won by the
people was $2O,50O,000.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
Barn,tm'S Petrificd Giant
Fraud.

The New York Tribune publishes an
exposure of the Colorado stone man
which has been on exhibition in eastern
cities as the petrifed remains Of human
being of heroic size. The "man" was
made in Elkland, mountainous town
in northern Pennsylvania, by George
Hull the maker of the Cardiff Giant.
The figure was composed of ground stone,
ground bones, clay, plaster, blood, eggs
and other materials, which were nodded
into proper shape and baked in kiln.
1t is said Hull spent SIC, 900 or $40, 900 in
this scheme. Then P. T. Barnum, the
Snowman, became interested in the plot,
and the "man" was boxed and sent to
him at Bridgeport, CT. 1t was marked
" fine machinery" Barnum decided
that the image should be. taken to Colo
RADIO to be discovered" and it was put in
charge of Hull, who occupied six weeks
in burying it. Turtles, fishes, and other
"small game" were nodded out of the
same materials as the giant and buried
near him, so that the shock of his dis
covery might be softened, as it were.
One Conant, who was selected to be the
discoverer, got position as station agent
on the Santa Fe Railroad, 50 as to seem
to have some excuse for being in the
neighborhood. In August Barnum went
to Colorado, ostensibly to look after his
stock farm and lecture on temperance,
but really to be ON hand when the grand
discovery should be made. This was
done according to the prearranged plan
and Barnum promptly offered $4,000
for the " "fnd." When the incredulous
people began to laugh, Barnum offered
$40, 900 to any one who could prove that
the giant was made by chisel. He had
them there. Then came the scientific
test. Prof. Taylor bored into the arm Of
the giant, and Hull, having learned that
a certain kind of crystal should be found
there, by sleight of hand changed one he
had obtained for the dust of the boring
implement, which was first handed him
by the professor. Barnum had the stone
man brought east. and its subsequent
history is known. This is held to be one
of his most stupendous humbugs.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
IN THE OLD LIKENESS.

Douglas, my Douglas, oh hear how cry to you.
Fac ng your land OF the lupine and palm
Hear how cry to you, longing to fly to you.
From the cold heart Of this comfortless calm.
Call me, pray, from the reeds where the robin,
Swinging and singing alone to his mate,
Strs my slow pulse to passionate sobbing
For the home-lllies thst grow by the gate.
On at the gate of love;
Call, for wait, love;
Call, and answer ct breaking of day;
Swift to your bosom,
Oer hillside and blossom,
Bre2ze-like and bird-lke awake and away.
Douglas my Douglas, oh hear how cry to you
Leave me no longer so lorne and so lone;
Call ME your darling, and say may fly to you,
Never 10 leave you oh Douglas, mine own!
Oh! If you heard the winds carry my sebhing
Over the mountain and over the plain!
Oh! if you heard my heart heavily tnrobpins
Under its burden OF passion and pain
Now, at the gate love;
Call, for wait, love;
Call, aud answer at breaking of day;
Swift to your bosom,
Oe'r hillside and blossom,
Breeze-like and bird-like, awake and away.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23

l subsided, of course, but rot before
had received sign Of recognition from
the ventriloquist, When the performs
ance was over he beckoned to me, and in
the privacy of his ewn room he grasped
my hand with a hearty pressure.
Hastings" [ asked. chow in the
mamie of miracles were you saved ,"
Saved Where9'
When you jumped over board ravng
mad"
FIe laughed his own natural: hearty
laugh; not the unearthIv one which he
SEM down from the chimneys and mast>
heads
" | never jumped overheard, Ashton,'
said he; land | never WAS any more mad
than | am at this moment. 1t was only
a plan 70 frighten old Phelps, and think
it succeeded hut too we'll. If he had
been tried for his life, and I thought
him in danger, | should have appeared
in court and frightened him again to
save ~his life. But he could not be
found, and | have never heard of him
since. Ny madness was all sham, and
the man overheard was only bundle of
duds, surmounted by my old hat. /
slipped down into the forepeak and lay
concealed till the night alter the ship
arrived, when / stole out and went
ashore, OF course you understand the
cries you heard?"
/" Certainly; and the other strange
sounds on board Your vetriloquism
explains the whole matter"
II performed in most of the cities and
large towns in England before [ knew
you but was then dissipated in my
habits, and squandered all that I made.
While on one Of my sprees [ shipped and
went to sea, and that is how you found
me in Cronstadt But was never stock
to make sailor of. Since ] have
returned | have done we'll and saved
money, and you must allow that ] aefeit
myself better on this stage than | did on
board the Norway"
! And that's the only haunted ship that
| ever was in. I've heard of others, but
probably those cases might all be ex>
! planned in some similar way.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
Gravity in the Moon of Mars.

We are able to consider the relations
of intermatter in worlds where gravity
is SO small as it must be in the Martian
moons. 1t has been said, by myself
among others, that building and ali en-
gineering processes would be much easier
in world where gravity is very small
than in our own world. Bat if less ar
duous, so far as mere labor is concerned,
they would in some respects be far more
difficult. Much more skill would be re.
quired to give adequate stability to
buildings, made even of the most solid
materials, in a world where all weights
are so much reduced. Suppose even
platinum were available in sufficient
quantities for architectural purposes, yet
block of platinum of given size would
press downward with less force there than
block of deal wood OF about one.
twentieth of its size on our earth. Whe-
we'll has we'll described, in his Bridge
water treatise, the effects of g great re-
duction in the force of gravity, though
he is not there considering life in other"
worlds, but the Importance (Which many
are apt to overlook) of those portions of
our earth's frame which lie far below the
deepest mines ever yet dug by men. If
the interior of our Garth could be
scooped out and removed, we should,
in fact, suffer from precisely the
same inconveniences as would affect
creatures like ourselves living in the
moons of Mars. We should indeed find
ourselves, living like them, in dread and
terror. Things" as Whewell truly
saws, e"would not lie where we placed
them, but would slide away with the
slightest push. We should have diff
Guilty in standing or walking, something
like that we have on shipboard when the
deck is inclined and we sheuld stagger
helplessly through an atmosphere thinner
than that which oppresses the respiration
of the traveller on the tops of the highest
mountains" "It is hard" says the
ingenious writer in the Spectator, to
conceive even one-storied house hold
ing together" in the Martian moon
world; "against any serious lateral
blows" Projectiles would be no less
deadly than in our own worldi but the
range which projectiles such as ou1s
would obtain in such werld would
render close fighting impossible, on the
one hand, and efficient aiming impossible
on the other. A Krupp cannon, for in
stance, whose greatest range on our earth
is, let US say, five miles, would on the Mar
tian moon fire a projectile which would
leave the moon forever, and the recoil of
the cannon would probably carry it half
a dozen miles away from the firing point.
Much weaker projectile force would have
to be employed, and less mischief would
he done on this account, and also because
any living body struck by one OF these
proiectiles would give away before it
much more readily than similar body
similarly struck on our own earth
Richara A. Proctor, in Bslgravsa.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
Foreign Gossip.

The estimates for the expenses Of the
Paris police for 1873 are 81, 900, ,00o.
The total Russian losses to January 5th
were SO, 0,l85 men
In Japan a law requires fish to be esold
alive. They are peddled in tanks.
The young king Of Spain proposes to
guard himself against military aprisings
BY being the commander Of his own army.
American experts are engaged in exam
ining oil wells in the north of Formosa,
China, and extensive preparations are
making for their development.
Brazil is the only country in America
There slavery legally exists Official
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
Wonders of the American Cont
nent.

The American Enquirer thus cata-
logues few of the wonders of the
American continent: The greatest cata-
ract in the world is the Falls of Niagara,
where the water from the great upper
lakes forms river of three-fourths of a
mile in width. and then being suddenly
contracted, plunges over the rocks in two
columns to the depth OF ITS feet. The
greatest cave in the world is the Mann
moth cave, of Kentucky, where any
one can make voyage on the waters Of
subterranean river, and catch fish with
out eyes. The greatest river in the
world is the Mississippi, 1000 miles long.
The largest valley in the world is the
valley of the Mississippi. 1t contains
5000 900 square miles, and is one Of the
most fertile regions of the globe. The
greatest city park in the world is in Phil
adelphia. 1t contains over 2,700 acres
The greatest grain port in the world is
Chicago. The largest lake in the world
is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland
sea. being 43o miles long and 1000 feet
deep: The longest railroad at present is
the Pacific railroad, over 5000 miles in
length. The greatest mass of solid iron
in the world is the Pilot Knob of Mis-
soHri. 1t is $50 feet high and tive miles
in circuit. The last specimen of Gre
clan architecture in the world is the
Girard college for orphans, Philadelphia.
The largest aqueduct in the world is the
Croton aqueduct, New York. It's length
il 4Ol miles and it cost 81, 100000 The
largest deposits of anthracite coal in the
world are in Pennsylvania, the mines "
which supply the market with millions
of tons annually, and appear to be mex
haustible,
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
Cum Accidents.

Guns should always be carried at the
hall'cock, as then neither blow on the
striker nor a pull at the trigger will
bring the former into action. There is
no necessity whatever for gun to be
otherwise than at the haIf-cock, unless
game is Immediately in. front; and, fur
ther, it may not be out of place to add,
that it is dangerous, when shooting in
company, for the gun to be swung round
in taking aim with the finger on the
trigger. The eye should follow the line
OF flight, and the gun be raised at the
proper moment. Accidents from guns
bursting are rare, but caution is very
necessary in getting over fences to see
that no earth gets lodged in the muzzle,
or in winter time that the latter does
not get blocked up by snow dripping
from bushes or otherwise. These obsta.
cles, although they may be easily
removed, are quite sufficient, if they
remain. to burst the strongest barrels
when the piece is fired. This is caused
BY the wonderful velocity of the expand.
ing gases. This expansion, which is said
to be at about the rate OF seven thousand
feet per second, is the same in all direc>
tons, and the least check at the muzzle
OF the gun causes such a sudden increased
pressure on its sides that the latter are
unable to resist its effects, and are burst
open. No one is more cautious or
scrupuleusly careful in the use of his
gun than an old sportsman, and no one
more readily than he detects and con-
demns carelessness in the manipulation
of their guns in others.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23

walking~jacket of the same, warmly lined
with flannel and trimmed as simply as
the polonaise.
The brocaded camel's-hair is very
handsome. especially that in which
threads Of gilt or silver are introduced:
White mateIassee silk is used for the
most elegant opera cloaks; but if you
cannot afford this, get white, cream
colored, or else pale blue camel's-hsir.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23

y man never uses his thumb-uaiI for
screw.:lriver but once.
Nothing like being correct. Chev-
reau, in his history Of the world, say
that 1t was created on Friday, Sept 6, a
little after four p. N.
Man, as to his understanding, may
rise almost to the light in which the
angels OF heaven arise but if he does
not also rise az to the will, he is still all
old and not a new man. wedenborg.
WAITING,
When rose-Ieaves in long grasses fall
To hide their shattered head,
All tenderly the grasses tall
row down to veil the dead
And there are hearts content to wait
Still as the grasses lie,
Till those they love, however late,
Turn there at last to die
=. Erratum.--In the case of the sigma
ture to the communication On Senator
Conkling on our inside page to- day, "a
Quiet ASS read titquietas" Typo.
graphical errors will occur in the most
carefully managed papers, Detroit
News.
In closing d sermon on Good Works
and Good Words, Dean Stanley, of VEST
minister quoted the following lines, which
some suppose were written by one Of the
earliest deans of Westminster
" Say well is good, but do well is better;
Do we'll Sc ems the spirit. say we'll is the letter.
Say well is goo3ly, and helps to please;
But do well Is godly and gives the world euse;
say well to silence sometimes is bound
Do we'll is free on every ground.
Say we'll has hlends-s0me here, some there,
DO well 1s welcome everywhere.
BY say well many to CtON'S word Cteaye,
But Tor lack to do well it often leave
If say well and do well were bound in hano
They all were done, all were won, and gotten 'rero
gain"
An Ohio politician I" on the stump
stayed the torrent of his eloquence for
moment, and looking round with a self
satisfied air, put the question: Now,
gentlemen, what do you think"' a
voice from the crowd replied; "Well,
| Mr.. Speaker, if you ask me, think, sirss
I do indeed, that if you and me were to
stump the state together, we could tell
more lies than any other two men in the
county, sir; and I'd not say word, my
self, sir, all the time
"A curious experiment has been tried
with buttermilk by testing it against
claret. One who is in the secret will bet
with one who is not that the latter,
if blindfolded, cannot distinguish claret
from buttermilk by the taste. Several
glasses are filed with claret and All equal
number with buttermilk, and they are
handed alternately to the blindfolded
person, who tastes them. For a few
terms he will name the respective liquors
correctly but after awhile his sense of
taste become confused, and he insists
that buttermilk is claret, and vice versa.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-23
WAITS AND WHTMS.

They are Always at the Gata
They are always at the gate,
Are the poor;
And at early morn and late
Come these beings deaolatr,
Seeking more.
Freely as Col gives to you
Give to the poor,
Trust Him, for he shall rpstcrr
t!l you give to them, and more
Never clos" to them toe door.
To the pooY