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St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
The Telephone ExtOrtion.

No sooner has this much talked-of in
vention passed from the experimental into
the practical stage, If indeed it has SO
passed, than its adoption to any extent
has been rendered extremely doubtful by
the prohibitory price proposed to be
charged for its use. We have always un-
derstood that the telephone could be pro-
duced in quantities for ridiculously
small sum, at few shillings in fact and
ooking at the apparatus itself there seems
no reason to doubt that such is the case.
1t surprises us, therefore, to find that the
price of set of instruments for short cir
cult is twenty-five pounds to purchase,
and five pounds per annum to rent, and
for long circuits thirty-five pounds and
ten pounds respectively. Each set of
instruments consistsof a pair Of telephones
and o call bell" the equipment for one
end Of a communication )" and, inasmuch
as some end 7" Of a telegraph wire is about
as useful as one end of rope, with the
other in the sea, to drowning man, or
one side of a bridge to a retreating army
it follows that an expenditure of some
thing between fifty and seventy pounds
must be incurred before one is in position
to ajoin OF" to wire which may of itself
have cost more than the instruments.
The purchase money paid for any set of
instruments secures license to use them
!" only for the purposes specified within
the license" so that even for the high
price paid there is by no means absolute
freedom in the use of the instruments,
which, on the generally accepted maxim
that man may do what he likes with his
own, are little better than 6 leasehold 2
property london Tines.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
Brine for Lice ON Cattle.

A stock-grower, writing to the New
York club, gives his mode of destroying
lice on cattle. He says: "I destroy them
with brine; any kind of salt water will
do it. ] find two kinds of lice, the blue
lice, and think the other is hen lice. I
tried red precipitate one year; it killed
the lice, two yearlings and two-year-
old. But washing the cattle with brine
is easier, and they get into the habit of
licking one another, and are more gentle
toward each other.n
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
Regular Secretion Essential to Health.

The regular secretion nd flow of the gas
trio juices and of the bile, which the use of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters promotes, are
effects which conduce materially to the
restoration of health, when the system is
disordered. Food is not d1gested in the
dyspeptic stomach, because the gastric fluid
is deficient, superabundant or vltiated the
liver becomes congested and the bowels con.
stipated because the supply of bile is made.
quate or misdirected. The Bitters rectiies
all this, and removes every i'll consequence
of non-assiDdlation and bilious irregularity.
Furthermore, it stimulates the action of the
kidneys, by which impurities are, so to
speak, strained from tie blood, and any
tendency in the urinary organs to grow
sluggish and disordered counteracted.
Whether it be used as means of regu!at-
ing gastric or bilious secretion, and rellev-
ing the overloaded bowels or to promote
complete, and therefore healthful, urination,
Hostetter's Bitters may be relied upon with
confidence to accomplish the end ir view.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
Torture in India.

The following facts, elected at the trial
at the recent sessions at North Arcet of a
case in which five natives were charged
with having murdered five of their caste
people, show that torture is not yet
extinct in that part of the world. The
prisoners fields were robbed of a small
quantity of cumboo, and the deceased
and three others being suspected of hav-
ing hand in the robbery, they were by
the orders of the first prisoner, who was
a village reddy (headman), seized and
tied, some to the trunks of trees and
others to large stones. In the first case
the feet of the unfortunate victims were
tied above ground with their faces
exposed to the scorching rays of the sun,
with their hands tied above their heads.
The whole five having been firmly bound,
cold water was, by the orders of the first
prisoners, poured upon the ligatures,
with the object Of tightening the bonds
and thereby increasing the suffering of
the suspected men. After this the first
prisoner poured scalding water over the
hands and arms of the sufferers. The
object of this was to extort confession
OF their guilt, and statement implicat-
ing others. After the men had suffered
excruciating agony for eight hours, and
were released, it was found one of them
was dead, while the others were unable
to novel Two OF them died in the hos
pital, whittier they were sent for treat
ment; one expired in his village, while
the fifth was able te give his evidence
before the committing magistrate, but
never rallied from the effects of the
torture, and died after the case was COM
mitted to the court of sessions. The
medical evidence was sickening in it's
details, as it described how the arms,
hands and lower extremities of the VIC
Tins had become gangrenous, and how
the fingers had rotted and dropped off.
The authority and influence reddy
usually has in village went in a great
measure to deter the spectators of this
wholesale murder from interfering on
behalf of the tortured men. The court
convicted the first, second, fourth and
fifth prisoners, and sentenced the first to
death, and the others to transportation
for life.-Ismes. IN India.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
Breeding ana Raising Hogs.

An intelligent farmer in Iowa gives to
), the public his experience in the follow
ing letter:
My herd of sows is never smaller than
100 and at times $50. This for the last
six years; previous to that time, my
herd was from 20 to 80 head; sell all
! can raise, except a few March pigs that
come late; those ! make pork of, and
keep the young sows of the same litter
to breed for the next year, and sell in
January and February already bred. I
have in all this term of years never lost
hog by disease; have more or less
pigs killed every year by having too
many in a bunch. I have been
surrounded with neighbors who have
lost heavily almost every year since I
began; they come to my farms q have
two in operation), and say: .Hew is it
that your hogs do not die with the
hog cholera 7" They want to know if
it is in the breed or what is the reason.
I always tell them it is the keep, the
care, the attention and never putting
rings in noses. My keep is bluegrass,
clover and timothy, and Brazilian
artichokes, corn, oats, bran, shorts and
barley. Now to particularize somewhat.
with your pigs. have them come in
April, May and June (60O came this
last year, and few came scattering along
after these months) ! put them on
soaked corn and oats as soon as they can
eat, and when the pigs are large enough
to follow the SOW, put the SOW and
pigson the grasses, where they run until
the 25th OF September to the 1st of
October, when put them in the fields
of aftichokes (by this time the pigs
have learned what theirnoses are made for
After few days you can leave
off all other feed, and the hogs and pigs
will dc finely, growing and filing out ia
good shape, getting ready for corn OF any
ether feed that may be intended for them
to fatten ON. The hogs will do well on
the artichokes until il freezesup (making
their own living by roofing up and har-
vesting them.l This fall feed win last
until about the tenth to The fifteenth Of
December, putting the stock in fine.
healthy condition for the winter. and
sows for breeding. Then, again, in the
spring, as soon IS it begins to thaw out, i
putmy hogs backon the feldofartichokes
where they are kept until the fifteenth
Of june or the first Of July, making j
frst-clasa living, and clearing themselves
Of oil intestine worms, er stomach worms
which cause all appearances Of liberated
stomach and intestines When handled
In this way yon viii find in the spring 81
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
CRaeagp Grass Seeds.

An old seed dealer of Philadelphia
says that never in his experience has he
known timothy seed to be as cheap as at
present. He exports considerable guam
titles of various field seeds to Europe,
and says by the carload he could sell
timothy as cheap as s1.45 per bushel.
It's cheapness is owing to the extraordi-
nary yield this year and the large area
under cultivation.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

How to carry some burning Goals
from one room to another was the prob>
lem that arose in the philosophers apart-
ment for the philosopher was too poor to
own a shovel and too wise to burn his
fingers. In the absence Of proper uten-
sill, it was a problem of Unreasonable
difficulty, and the philosopher racked his
brains in the desperate effort to solve it
BY the rules, methods and processes, Of
all the science at his command. And
while be was deep in these processes the
neighbor's little girl gathered up d double
handful Of cold ashes, aud the live Goals
placed thereon went safely to their dess
tination.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

Poverty is the mother Of children
The small boy grows rank and abundant
IN the tenement>house. and whenever
the workman strikes, and thereby cuts
Oft his wages, an epidemic Of twins breaks
forth. Thus we see that the financial
difficulties Of our country have had their
natural results in giving an enormous
impulse te the small boy crop. Itwenld
be useless 70 conceal that at present the
prospect i far from reassuring. The ex.
istence Of an unprecedented plethora of
small boys is undeniable. ~ Y Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
Get fhe Eenu5pa-

The genuine DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is
sold only in cans. Always refuse it if offered
loose or in bulk. It's The practice of many
grocers and dealers to keep cheap Baking or
Yeast Powder loose, and sell it for anv
brandy that is called for. We, therefore,
caution purchasers to see that, thev get It
only in cans, under the Labefsand Trade
Mark of the Mana afacturers, DooLEY 4
BROTHER, New York.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

of this dreadful circumstance. The poor
creature had torn her clothes TO pieces
and even fractured her limbs in her efforts
to release herself The doctor who
signed the certificate and the municipal
officer who sanctioned the interment
have been sent to jail for three months
for involuntary manslaughter.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
FARM AND HOME.
Feeding Dairy. Cows.

s'Meal Feeding and Animal Digestion
is the title of new work by Linus w.
Miller. Mr.. Miller is an experienced
dairyman, and gives the results of his
long experience in comprehensive form.
The gist of Mr.. Miller's system is the
feeding of cows during winter with three
quarts of Indian meal per day. He as
serts that this amount of good Indian
meal, fed under proper conditions. is
more than the equivalent for all the good
hay COW can be ceaxed to eat-that the
animal does not need to have its stomach
distended with a great bulk of woody
fibre, which imposes upon the system a
large amount of extra mechanical work
both in the processes of digestion and re-
mastlcat.ion-that, in brief, bulk in food
is no.. advantageous, but to the contrary,
an,d that nutriment in food governs the
condition and health of the animal, and
that condensation of nutriment is true
economy. Mr.. Miller has conducted
physiological Investigations into the
functions of the four stomachs Of the cow,
whence it appears that meal follows the
same course as herbaceous food, and
stays longer in the rumen than coarse
food, while it also digests more thor
oughly than when the energies of the
stomach are divided between meal and
coarse herbage.
Whatever may be the correct theory
in this regard, results of actual practice
appear to bear out Mr.. Miller's views
Tho report of committee, appointed to
examine into the system by the western
New York dairymen's association, shows
the following facts: The examination
was conducted upon Mr.. Miller's herd of
Chatauqua county native cows, the aver
age live weight of which was 900 pounds.
This herd were fed exclusively upon
corn-meal for seven weeks, each animal,
according to its digestive capacity, max
ing an average of about three quarts of
meal per day for each cow. The animals
did not ruminate, did not manifest so
much desire for food as COWS fed on hay
alone in the usual way, a little less than
they will eat, showed no signs of unrest
or suffering, and at the time of going
back to hay, the cows had neither lost
nor gained flesh. After returning to hay,
their stomachs filled and Eliminating
went on normally, healthy calves were
dropped, and when turned to grass the
animals took ON flesh faster than those
wintered in the usual ways. Their daily
yield of milk was twenty pounds three
ounces, or one pound eleven ounces per
cow more than that of any other herd
sent TO the same cheese factory.
As regards the economy OF meal feed
ing, Mr.. Miller points out that one
bushel of corn, ground and tolled, will
last an ordinary sized cow of 900 pounds
weight twelve days, and is equal to 24O
pounds of hay. Corn at sixty cents per
bushel is therefore the equivalent of hay
at $5 per ton of 1000 pounds, and where
it can be had at that rate the cost of
wintering the animal will range from So
to $40, according to coldness and length
of the foddering season. But hay as a
rule, costs at least $40 per ton, and
frequently much more. Hence, the es-
timated saving by meal feeding is placed
at from $5 to $40 per animal, according
to the respective prices of corn and hay.
-1wf, Field and Farm.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

No PAPER issued Of its kind equals the
Hartford, Conn, "Poultry World" 70
choice CHRoMos year. $i.25 postpaid
with rs cents for the dozen Chromos, will
give fowl.raisers the best practicaI monthly
in America. Try it in 1878. Ten cents for
specimen
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

BURNETT's FLAvoR1NG EXTRACTS are
used and endorsed by the best Hotels. Con.
fectioners, and Groeers throughout the eoun-
try. They are perfectly pure, and of great
strength-at once the cheapest and best !;
and received the highest award at the Cen
tennial Exhibition.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

COUGHS AND COLDS yield readily to
Sehenck's Puimonic Syrup, which is most agree
able remsdy. 1t heals the soreness, loosens the
phlegm and expels it from the system with scarcely
an effort en- the part of the patient.
Forsale all Druggists.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

A LIFE SAVED FOR THIBIY-FIvE
CENTs.-A lady in Boston had diptheria and
was almost dead from strangulation. She was
instantly relieved and finally cursl by John
sons Anodyne Liniment. Every family
should have a bottle ready for instssnt use.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

The liver being the largest and most
important gland in the system, what affects
it msst affect all others; to keep hts action
natural use HOME STOMACH BITTERs. Pre-
pared by the Hone Bitters Co.. ST. Louis, Mo
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

PROFITABLE INvEsTMENT.--One dol
lars worth of Sneriaan's Cavalry Condition
Powders, fed to q coop of thirty hens, will
yield q profit Of IS, besides preFenting all
manner of disease.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

One box OF DIR. TUTT's Pills will save you many
dollars in doctors bills. They will surely cure
Chill and Fever; Dyspepsia; Disordered Liver or
Bowels; Sick Headache; Jaundice or Chroni
Constipation. Only 25 cents.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

Two writer's (theatrical critics, of
ceurse) were quarreling. Your articles
are the laughing stock of tae town."
"The time will come when yours will
be-" "When? ?" "When somebody
read them"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
It was at a charity ball: the girl

1t was at a charity ball; the girl was
pretty and exquisitely dressed. She
said, "Now, Mr.--, don't you put
my name in the paper, nor tell what |
had on. I have worn this dress once
before, and it's horribly old. [ was
going to have a French dress from
Worth's, but it didn't get here, so l had
to wear this. Now, mind, don't put my
name in the paper, but, ii you do, send
me six"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
Great doubts have often been threw

Great doubts have often been threWn
on alleged cases Of burial alive, but the
London Lancet mentions recent and
undoubted case at Naples. The grave
il which woman had been inferred
having been opened for the reception Of
another body revealed the elearest proof
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26

1t has been discovered that tie same
drug is used in coloring whisky and
making striped stockings Whisky,
however, more visibiy affects the legs.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
A Quaint Legend of the Rain
bow.

According to the popular belief in Ger
many the eStremities of a rainbow al
ways touch streams, whence it draws
water by means of two large golden
dishes. That is why it rains for three
days after the appearance Of a rainbow,
because the water must fall again on the
earth. Whoever arrives at the right mo.
ment on the spot where the rainbow is
drinking can take possession OF the golden
dish, which reflects all the colors of the
rainbow; but if nobody is there, the
dishes are drawn again up into the clouds.
Some say that the rainbow always let's
the dish fall. This once happened at
keutllngen, in Suabia. 1t broke in
several pieces, but the finder received an
hundred gulden for it. At. Tublngen
people used to run to the end of the
rainbow, which appeared to be resting
over the Necker or the Steinack, to secure
the golden dish. Usually it is considered
wrong to sell the dish, which ought to be
kept as an heirloom in the family, for it
brings good luck. A shepherd in the
Suabian alps once found such dish, and
he never afterwards lost a sheep. A un-
fortunate native of Heubach, who sold
the treasure at high price, was struck
dumb on the spot. Small round gold
coins marked with a cross or star, are
frequently found in Suabia, and the
peasants declare that these we're man
ufactured from rainbow dishes by the
Romans when they invaded Germany.
In the Black forest the rainbow used a
golden goblet. The Servians have
theory that passing beneath a rainbow
changes the sex.
When double rainbow is seen, Sua-
bian peasants say the devil would like to
initiate the rainbow, but he can not sue
ceed. The Esthonians called the rainbow
" the thunder of Gods SICKLE" A theory
existed in the middle ages that the rain
bow would cease to appear certain mum
ber of years before the last jugement
aud Hugo Won Trimber, in an old Ger
man poem, mentions forty years as the
prescribed time.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
TIT I
GOOD old
STANDBY
MEXICAN MUST aNG llAlMEHT.
FOR MAN AND BEAST.

Established s3 Years. Always cures. Always
ready. Always handy. Has never yet failed. III 'rtv
millions have tessea it. The whole world approve
the glorious old Mustang-the Best and Cheapest
Liniment in existence. 2s cents bottle. The
Mustang Liniment cures when nothing else W ill.
soul ByALL MEDICINE vENDERs.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
A Rela8h hln Sayinpa RenIx

Patentees sand inventors should read ad.
vertisement of Edison Bros. in mother column
St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
FER E I N Il .
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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-06-14
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Hippo is emily there Christian name.
bat thers full Name is hipl,opotamusses.
BY pictur says hippo means horse,
but | think the first lsller that said il
Was fool, cos herse is essier for to say.
Hippss il found in Africa, but wen yon
have found one wat oan you do Once
tAere was man came up to q ether to
give him q liekin' and said, mad as ever
could be: " ! have been locking for
you, you wrasslc, and I've found You It
last y Then the other maA he ssid !.
That is a fack, sure enough, and " hen
he had said it he picked a big stick up,
and the man which had demo the tindin'
he said: Yes, I've found YOU at last.
yoa bet !" and the ether said he cudn't
deny It, and was rollin' mp his sleeves.
Then the man which spoke firnt said :
"Do you knew what street this iu T.
And the ether fellsr said "Ceurse 1
dc, you vagabune il Is Blank street. +"
Thsn the man what WAS goin' to do the
lickin he thut awhile and said, aoh, if
you amt lost wot was the use Tor me 10
ind you = aud he walked away as fast
As ever he could. Tho baby hi,,pose is
about the size of Mister Brllv, the
butcher, and Uncle Ned says that minds
him Of wen baby vale c,mss ashors
and everybody went out for - see, and
it was long like a tug bots and thickern
= or. A young lady wich wsnt out
with Uncle Ned she looks at it and ser:
Jest to think of sseh n little tot hav-
ing NO mother = Aud every woman
who came to see /: said 4" Poor little
thing = | had seen two hipposo in
show holdin open their mouths for ais
kits wich folks gave 'eNa. Vile one
WAS bsin fed the ether WAS of 10 one
side watchin, aud ven 1t seen the biskit
ia the otherns mouth it wui4k its eye,
and then the other shet its mouth aud
sWollered, cos you m,ght pat q hole loaf
IN their nouth ard they wouldn't kno
It les the other told en-. but that way
they didn't waste no time ON had boys
vich NAILS beleeys. Wen my sister
tslts tn her dickey bird in the cage
spose it thinks like We do about the
hiPpOSs What hoiqid. CRATE. ollie
nouth /" But if Missy knew it thet
way | bet she would say ats crewel
g ltsp birds shet up, let's give it to the
cat But wen il comes to birds give
lae the American eagle, wich licks orl
ethers, and flies rouR, aud roum, and up.
aP, NJ, hcoray st Lopis Post.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-06-14
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TIE death Of John Mortisaey an.
the failure Of Ben Wood recall tho csle
brated bout between these two gan
blers, when the latter won 1924 .OO(
fruin the former. The New Ysrl,
correspondent OF tha Buffalo GouriSy
describes the occasion. Ben was in The
habit Of dropping into Morrisaey's placs
occasionally for little recreation, and
cite night about nyesrs ago, he sauu.
tered in Is usual and fell afsul Of the
bank Morrissey was there and nans
men about town, all Of whom knew
Woods plack aud hang-on-ativeness.
aud the party settled down for soma
lively work. Weed bad about So. .OOO
in his pocket, and a. the betting was
heavy he managed to ret TO tho bottom
IN about an hohr. In fact be was clean
ed out. But bis blood was up that
night, and as his "a saAtisn for pluek
was at stake among the boys, he decid.
ed that enoe for ell il shoald make i
break. His ready cash was gone. bat
he owned valuable property on Tryoh
row, where the .Skasssis Zsisu,s1 buiIiins
now stands. and he psoposed to NJ
l'othecate the prpl,sg4 = to Morfissey.
against whatevev aiHa. up 70 It's vaius,
he SHOULD lose The offer was ACCEPTED.
aud the great night begau. Il lasted
al night and up to nine o'clock the
next morning, and, when truce vas
tinally called, Ben had won back the
81, 900 he had started With and scored
about $4,000 ahead besides. With
the money that MorrisAey bad advanced
him on the hypethetcated property, he
turned around snd gave John the worst
Whaling he ever received AZ the card
table. Not . sign Of wincing was
shown on either side till phyisicsl sr
haust on forced = cessation of the hos.
tilitiss. Both men were true grit "a
the last, neither showed the least i'll.
temper from beginning to end. Il was
On this occasion that Ben performed tka
sxtraord nary feat of smoking 500
worth Of cigars in ons night. Morris
Sey had 8 special brand Of cigars At 81
zach for his flush customers, and Wood,
who is tremendous smoker Tor chewer,
rather, for he merely chews farisusly at
: cigar and thea Aings it sway), nan
aged TO spoil ninety Of them while the
iight lasted.