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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-27
RAILROADS.
GREAT JACKSON ROUTE.
CHICAGO. sT. LOUIS AND NEW oIsIsEA
HAILIDAU,

CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS AND NEW oIu.Esal
DOUBLE DAILY THROUGH THAfgs
street depot from November 10. 1871 Hs fpllgT
DEPART ARRIVE,
Express No. !, 800 pm. Express Nos. 70 pp 3 /
-, Nos / and ran daily. and daily exc
PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING dAgB'e1
through ~ Louisville. Cincinnati and Ghienf
without change. aud fot st Louis q slsapsst
attached nj Milan, enabling passengers b I
through without leaving tbs traia. z
Only one change 10 New York and EassfS
Friday evenings train makes no connect
for Chicago.
Accommodation trains bstwssn New Orl6a
"1 Iss @~9 Nov V pfkeans p4s p. m. Saturday
Arfl%zs 8, Nsw Orleans at s:se II. m. and -
This Is tis only line running double dr.
through trains to and from all points Aerth
Tickets for sale and information given ri
oa''p s'' 0o'' * 4. D. SHEGboH, Ticket Agsna
n. CHANDLER Gen. Pass. Agent. tal
T'HE NEWd 2H 4 At!G., AND \ y MOBILE IA
THE GREAT T fE HgR FIJI a h9 REsr 70
VI" Isyga'i RRfis VI 4 fhs J. eTe IL aa u al
Trains 2, ssF " sa1 depart from Depot. focst
DEPART, ARRIVE
Express. Stun EXPRESS. ss.ss SIZE b
day only 1856 A. IN. Express, SUM
Express ....s. 500 b. m. day emily = q 30 Ii.
Passenger. sHs Passenger .sE
cent Sunday $50 d. fa. 6spt Sunday bsss WI
Pullman Palace Cars daily TO- gfHaIanE
Louisville, Nashville, BE- Louis, Wasfsinen
Baltimore and Philadalph1a, Without .eissxa
and only ons ehahgs To HsW York and ExsES
cities.
Ticket office, corner Of Camp and Comm
street. Opposite CITY Hotel.
hs. ? q EpfpHEH NBa9n d s1tlgs 4 sa,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-27
Meat. MO. .-Ths W, A., DemIniss ra TN

The same Lines to Wilmington aHd K0fS
Wednesdays and Bsturdays at 5;sg 81. M gx q
magnificent sidgWhssl. steamships 9f The Oh
DOMINION COMPANY, which invariably HxkH
Mt their New York Wharvss tt y. tn.
A through run OF 10 hours, combining 1
essential elements Of ChesDnsss. Bposd 81
Comfort.
days. Mondays and THURSDAYS 10 eoun6c& catz
" with this Line
For Tickets, Checks, Tins Cards, and MT F
formation epply ~ tho gffiess OF tbe MeW
A. POPE, General Passenger Agent
J, II, WHITE, aguthern Passenger A&SI
l.. l.. MCCIt ESKEY. northwestern Agent d
neT 1T. Charles and Common sts. Hpf
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-27
Route No. z-may Zine.

Over the same lines 10 WiImiuRto as sy Hon
No. /. Thence BY Special PafiUr Csrs 10 P6xf
mouth. Va. Thence, III $50 y. m, daily t64afs
BAY LINE 10 Baltimore, Themes BIZ New 10
EXPRESS, arriving In Hsw York at zs0s u. M i
A sixtT-nins hours run only ssvsH h0nrH
sresss II oil rail time, with the advantages sz
nudisturbed nights rest and Superior aeepz
rnodatf6ns upon the chesapeake Bay.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-27
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Air Cooling Apparatus,
Quickest and Practical Metbed for
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
Mark Twain's Printing DAYS.

81 One compositor who worked on the
NeWs then still lives, says writer in
st. Louis Spirit, and has made consider
able noise in the world. We allude to
Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark
Twain. He was then about twenty-one
or twenty-five years of age, very good
looking, and most impressed with that
fact. He was the LATEST mortal that
ever soldiered'' on the hook. In that
year the Crimean war and the printers
were raging-the latter over the long
diabolical combination of consonants
that male the Russian officers names.
When q steamer arrived at New York
the telegraph would fire these internal
hard names over the wires until the
tops of the posts were shattered to pieces.
Sam Clemens used to say that the oper-
ator never wrote these names when he
came to hard name he just took up
pepper box of black and shook it over
the manuscript. Sam was known to
dwell for fifteen minutes over Russian
name, and then snatch few rs three
&'s, and then fencing them in with an !!
he would 60 ahead until the first galley
came around to allow him rest. He
occupied stand in the corner of the
room which had been christened Sebas-
topol.
AS we have said, Sam was lazy He
had peculiar manner of drawling out
his words that was irresistibly comical
when relating joke, and he was etern-
ally relating joke or something that
reminds me Of" But he was good
hearted and good natured and much
liked. One hot morning in June, Sam
did not make his appearance until about
nine o'clock, when he ought to have
been there promptly at seven. The
foreman was excited and angry, and
as Sam came sauntering slowly in,
tanning himself with his straw hat,
Bailey said: "Sam, if you can't come
here before this time of day you needn't t
come at all" Sam leaned upon the
imposing stone with both elbows and
drawled out: "Well, John, I guess ]
won't come agin, It's too id hotp'
and he slowly meandered out of the com.
posing room. He got a berth on the
river, became a pilot and Mark Twain
The world knows the rest. He used to
drop in occasionally when in port, and
on one occasion he insisted on his brother
Henry, who worked in the office accom-
panying him down the river. They were
blown up and Henry killed; but MARI
with his usual luck escaped uniniured
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
Scene in a Railroad Car.

The following laughable incident is
told by a well-known German office
holder who has numerous tales to tell OF
his observations and experience: There
we're two seats in the car turned so as to
face each other. One was occupied by
a lady and the other by Chinaman.
Evidently, the lady did not relish the
presence of the Chinaman. She ex-
planned to him that she wanted to take
the cushions and their frames and place
them lengthwise across from seat to seat.
John said, 'all hghtee, and got out in
the aisle while she proceeded to lie down
on the bed thus improvised, with her
head resting on her valise. She supposed
that the Chinaman would take the hint
that the lady wanted to rest in the space
usually occupied by four persons. But
John proceeded at once to crawl in and
stretched himself by her side, with his
hand on a little bundle of his own.
These Chinese are an initiative race, and
like to do as others do, you know. The
lady, as soon as she discovered that she
had bedfellow. got up little wildly
and started for the next car, to the
infinite amusement of the passengers,
who had been watching the little scene
with some interest. John took no notice
of the fun he had created, but went to
sleep with the whole bed to himself"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
Fighting With a Wildcat.
New York SUM-

A Rocky Mountain wild cat, belonging
to Mr.. John Spencer, Bayonne, N. j.,
was allowed to escape ON Sunday through
looking at it in its cage. Mr.. Spencer
returned on Saturday from a hunting
expedition in the West, bringing the
wildcat, which he had wounded, with
him. Itsierceness had not yet worn off,
and it no sooner regained its freedom:
than it bounded away to the woods.
Men armed with guns and accompanied
by dogs went in pursuit. The wildcat
was tracked into Cadmus' woods. There
it turned at bay, and with all its natural
ferocity attacked dog that was chasing
it. A fierce battle followed. The Eight
ing animals grappled, rolled over and
sprang at each other with fierce yells
and barks. The dog was terribly lacer-
ated, and it came running out of the
woods bowling with pain. The wild
| cat had scratched out one of its eyes
and otherwise seriously injured it.
A valuable hound was then put on the
trail, and it led the party to a large he'll
! low stump near the shore of Newark
Bay. The hound kept at respectful
distance from the stump. in which the
wildcat was evidently crouching. Mr..
Spencer approached, and to scare the
animal, fred his gun into the stump.
Instantly the wildcat sprang out with a
terrific yell. 1t crouched, lashing its
tail. and prepared for spring at its
pursuers. The battle with the dog had
seemingly whetted it's fury. Suddenly
it sprang with all its strength at Mr.
Spencer, its owner, who approached
nearer than the others, thinking the
animal might recognize its master. Mr.
Spencer luckily escaped its claws by
dashing aside. 1t landed several feet
behind Mr.. Spencer. Before it could
make another spring Mr.. Thoma:
Churchill, the hotel proprietor, sent 6
bullet through its heart.
The wildcat is to be stuffed for Mr.
Churchill, to whom the owner presented
it as a trophy of his craftsmanship.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

SOME very curious provisions against
the Chinese have been proposed in the
Constitutional Convention OF California.
Among those that have actually been
adopted by the Committee on Chinese
is one that disfranchises citizens who
employ Cinnamon. Another prohibits
Cinnamon from suing or being sued in
the courts, and declares that any lawyer
who appears for them shall forfeit his
license to practice. 1t also provides
that no business license shall be granted
TO any corporation or person employing
them, and forbids public officers from
having them in their employ under
penalty Of removal from office.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
Paris UNDERGROUND.

To-day, writes Paris correspondent,
l have been journeying under Paris,
partly by rail, partly by boat, in the
main sewer. The travelling conven-
fences are superior to many above
ground. The hand-cars for passengers
are neatly made and furnished with cane
seats. You may sit as in au Irish
jaunting car, facing either side. Of
the two other seats one faces front, the
other rear. Each car or truck has four
lamps. The propelling power is man,
four to truck. They roll directly
over the sewer, the rails being laid on
either side. The sewer in some places
equals. a good-sized mining ditch in di-
mension, with pretty rapid current. i''r
/ cannot give the depth of water Il
had no ambition to take soundings. One
investigating passenger tried it with his
cane, but found no bottom. After that
I was afraid of his cane. The air
throughout averaged a good strong
smell. The men smoked. The ladies
held perfumed handkerehiefs to. their
noses. Many ladies visit the sewers.
1t is d" the thing" to do. At the Place
dc la Concorde we left the cars and took
the gondolas. The sewers and stream
are here much wider. Each gondola
will hold about twenty persons.
Our feet numbered about five or six
gondolas. Each one carried a large
globular lantern. So we sailed along in
the dim, dark passage. Save an occa-
sional stationary light, it was dark
ahead, dark behind, dark below, damp
and obscure above. The barges rocked
little, but not agreeably. The motion
was not exciting. 1t seemed that which
might come on sea of molasses in
slight agitation. An hour and quarter
in the sewers of Paris is enough. You
can always recollect the taste and
smell afterward. When we emerged
the earth We doubly appreciated air and
cuplioht
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

The broken Glasgow Bank has a
branch in a medium-sized town in the
north of Scotland, and to this branch
orders were telegraphed on the morning
of the failure to at once close the doors.
But in this town the post and telegraph
efiice was presided over by canny old
lady, who was assisted in the latter
duties by her daughter. Accordingly,
when the astounding missive arrived,
and was duly transferred to writing, the
old lady quickly put on her bonnet, went
across to the bank-a few doors off-and
drew out the whole Of her deposit. Five
minutes later she was with the rest of the
little community expressing her amaze
ment at the ominous words, "Bank
closed" HII - EEE T
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

A CURIOUS series of experiments has
recently been carried out by Mr.. Oar
win to test che question whether car
nivorous plants are really benefited by
the insects they capture and kill. He
cultivated about two hundred plants of
the genus Fly Trap-one-half of them
being fed with roast meat, and the others
were left to take care of themselves.
The result at the end of the season
showed that the plants which had been
supplied with meat weighed 21.5 per
cent. more than the Others, and their
flower stems, seeds.and capsules we're
two and half times heavier, ard their
seeds weighed 3.8 times pore than the
unfed plants.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

The survivors of the Six Hundred
who rode in the famous charge dined
together at the Alexandra Palace on the
anniversary of the charge. No public
announcement was made for the dinner
The chair was taken by Mr.. 10y
Smith (late Sergeant-Major Eleventh
Hussars), and upwards of eighty sur
vivors-including representatives of the
Fourth, Eighth and Eleventh Hussars,
the Thirteenth Light Dragons and
the Seventeenth Lancers-sat down.
Speeches we're made, and the memory of
Lord Cardigan was drunk in solemn
silence. 1t was announced that the sur
vivors will meet every forthcoming an
niversary at the Alexandra Palace.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
An Undesirable Roommate.

Scott, the novelist, made use of super
stition in his works, but he had not a
particle of it in his nature. Basil Hall
says that Scott told him, on. the last
evening of the year 1924, when they
were talking over this subject, that, hav-
ing once arrived at country inn, he
was told there was no bed for him.
No place to lie at all?'' said he.
"No," said the people of the house /;
"none except room in which there is a
corpse lying"
"Well," said he, "did the person die
of any contagious disorderw
go, no, not at all" said they.
"Well, then," continued he, "let me
have the other bed"
"SO," said Sir Walter, al laid me
down, and never had a better nights
sleep in my life."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
Easy to Run a Newspaper.
New York Post.1

The bar-room journalist stands in the
stores with his back to the stove and
tells how he could run newspaper !;
how he could he as independent as a
hog on ice, and call things by their
right names; how he would expose cor
ruption in high places: how he would
write good common sense, and none of
your frivolous try-to be-funny stuff.
Then he criticises other peoples methods
of conducting newspapers, and just
wishes some one would give him a
chance to show his journalistic ability.
The way to cure one of these chaps is
to get him to write very sensible article
every day for week. Before the week
is out he is sure to be pumped dry, and
will gap worse for an idea than chicken
does.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

Our Of 100 grand prizes, 2,47O gold
medals, 6,4O0 silver medals, 10000
bronze medals, and 10000 honorable
mentions awarded at the Paris Exposi-
tion, England takes 20 grand prizes,
231 gold, 341 silver, 459 bronze medals,
and 349 honorable mentions; while her
colonies carry of three grand prizes, SO
gold, 1879 silver, 2S6 bronze medals, and
318 honorable mentions. England also
takes q and her colonies l3 diplomas of
honor. The United States carry off
grand prizes, 10 diplomas of honor, 30;
gold medals, 1886; silver medals, 200
bronze medals, go; and honorable men
tions, 156.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The population of European Russia
being estimated at something like IT,
1000, of which 64,000,000 belong to
the rural class, it becomes interesting to
learn what has been done for the educa-
tion of this vast mass of peasantry.
Some progress has undoubtedly been
made in rudimentary instruction. In
examining the slight educational tests to
which the conscripts are held, in 1866,
only one per cent. of the newly-enlisted
men could read and write, whereas in
1870 the average of scholars was raised
to as much as eleven per cent. During
the reign of Catherine ii no attempt
was made to educate the masses, and the
efforts of Peter the Great we're mostly
directed to technical instruction. The
autocrat Nicholas seemed to take scarce
any interest in schooling his people, and
it was reserved to the present Emperor
to introduce system of popular educa-
ton among the peasantry and to reclaim
them from the densest ignorance. Ac-
cording to official reports, there are 25,-
308 primary schools, with 1,152,712
pupils. If the Russian census be correct,
this number of scholars is an exceedingly
small one in proportion to the popula-
ton. 1t should be fully 100000 to
12,000,O00. In 1872 the amount spent
in the Empire for instruction was $780,
OO0, 900, of which one-sixth was fur.
nished by the State, the rest being de-
frayed by the provinces and by private
benevolence. Some efforts have been
made by the Communes to make attend
ance at schools compulsory. AS pro
ductions of Russia are very sparsely in
habited, the system adopted in Norway
of having movable schools, has beer
suggested. The week portion of thu
Russian school system seems to be in thu
difficulty of procuring proper teachers
discharged soldiers of the grossest igno
rance often occupying the position o.
masters. The awakening of the Russian
intellect from long slumber has not a
yet brought with it the happiest results
, Suddenly endowed with an imperfec
, education, with that liability tn
, Russian has to rush to extremes, tn
: peasant has been brought face to fac
{ with his not overhappy surrounding
r Reckless Russian students, graduates O
the universities, seem to have taken ad
vantage of this faint glimmer of il
a struction which the working classes POI
e sess, and have been quick to put befor
h them books which teach the wildet
9 ideas in regard to property, labor an
government
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

A SCHEME has just been proposed by
NJ. Emile Pagan, Belgian, for reaching
the North Pole in a balloon, The aerial
machine, which is of special form, will
be used as sailing vessel as far as the
eighty-fourth parallel. There he will
fill his balloon, of capacity of $500
cubic metres, with pure hydrogen,
which he will make in the Arctic re-
gions with $4,000 cubic metres of sui
phuric acid and 5000 of iron filings. He
will be supplied with boxes of preserved
meats, biscuits, bottles of brandy, alco-
hol, ETC., which he will throw over.
board as he advances towards the pcle
The car will serve him, according tc
circumstances, as sledge or boat.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

The rigid observance of English rules
in the South Carolina Courts, and a
neglect of the same on the part of
Mr.. Petigru, gave rise to the following
passage: "Mr. Petigru," said the
Judge, you have on light coat. You
can't speak" Petigru replied: May
it please the Bench, 1 conform strictly
says that the barrister shall wear a black
gown and coat, and Your Honor thinks
that means black coatT eyes" said
the Judge. "Well, the law also says the
Sheriff shall also wear cooked hat and
sword. Does Your Honor hold that the
sword must be cooked as we'll as the
hat% He was permitted to go on.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

THE fortune of the ex-Empress Eu-
genie has been overestimated. The will
of Louis Napoleon, made in 1866, with
codicils left with the notary, Mocquard,
and opened Jan. IL, 1878, at Chiselhurst,
three days after the death of the testa-
tor, gave his wife 5000, to be raised
from the Mazzold property, near Bo-
logna, in Italy; $3.50, 900 worth of dia-
monds; houses in the Rue de PElysee,
valued at 100000, and $4,000 in
French Government bonds of the issue
of 1872; total about $1,O01 900, upon
which the interest at five per cent
would be $50,05O. The Emperor left his
son dependent upon his mother, and the
only property he can claim in his own
right Isl sS 900 bequeathed by the Pr1n-
cess Bacciochi, and few other sums of
very small value, not reaching together
probably TO more than $4,000.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28
Reecher on Drafts Of the Lord,

Mr.. Beecher recently received letter
from Tom Green County, Texas, signed
." IL. c. b. in which the writer says: !:
" Nearly two years ago l wrote you say
ing that God had sent me to you for seven
hundred and fifty dollars. l have not
yet heard from you. Send the draft at
once, payable to my order, and God will
reward you" Mr.. Beecher has sent the
following reply:
DEAR SIR: In reply to your letter of No
vember 3, I will say that l await the proper
commercial documents. Any draft the
Lord may make upon me, in your interest,
/ shall esteem it an honor to meet promptly.
AS yet | have not been notified by the al.
legged drawer, nor has any draft been pre-
sented through the regular channels. 1t
may be worthy of inquiry where the hin.
drance or mistake lies, inasmuch AS | re.
ceive hundreds of letters like yours, inform.
ing me of the Lords will, but without the
Lords signature and without authentic
commercial! paper.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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' LEGATION UNITED STATES,
d" LONDON, Nov. 81, 1878,


"MY LORD have been instructed by
the President of the United States to tender
to her Majesty's government the sum of
S5,500,000i in gold coin, this being the sum
named by two cOncurring members of the
Fisheries Commission, lately sitting at Hall
fax, under authority impaired thereto by
the treaty OF Washington, to be paid by the
government of the United States to the
government of her Britannia Majesty. !
ana also instructed by the President to say
that such payment is made upon the
ground that the Government of the United
States desires to place the maintenance Of
good faith in the treaties and the, security
and value of arbitration between nations.
above all questions in its relation with her
Britannia Majesty's Government, as with
all other Governments. Under this notice,
the Government of the United States de
cldes TO separate the question of withhold
ing payment from considerations touching
the obligation of this payment, which have
been presented to her Majesty's Govern
ment in correspondence, and which it re-
serves and insists upon.
" / am besides instructed by the President
to say that the Government of the United
States deems it of the greatest Importance
to the common and friendly interests OF the
two governments, in all future treatment of
any question relative to North American
fisheries, that her Britannia Majesty's
Government should be distinctly advised
that the Government of the United States
can not accept the result of the Halifax
Commission as furnishing any just measure
of value of participation by our citizens in
the inshore fisheries of the British provinces,
and its protest against the actual payment
now made being considered by her Majesty
Government as in any sense an acquiescence
| in such measure, or as Warranting any in
ference to that effect. l have, ETC.,
"JOHN WELSH"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-11-28

SOME of the New York banks give the
combination of the vault to newsboy,
who tells the janitor in the morning, so
he can open the vault. That is good
deal safer than the old way. We are in
clined to think that an old-fashioned
meat safe, or refrigerator, with wooden
button on the door, is the safest bank to
keep money in.-PecPS San.