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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-04-20
DAILY INTELLIGENCER.
Saturday, April 20, 1878.

Mr.. WEBSTER, in one of his CONVEX.
sations with his biographer, made this
extraordinary statement. L am not
unaware said he, and it would be
afectation in me to deny it, that |
have q public reputation 70 leave to
posterity; but it has been earned with
difficulty. If / were to live my lite
over again, with INV present experiences,
! would, under no circumstances and
tram no ooasi,lerdtions. alI0'o myself 10
enter public life The public are un-
grateful. The man who serves the
public most faithfully receives no ad-
equate reward. In my own history
those acts which have been, before
God, the most disinterested and the
least stained By selfish considerations
have been precisely those for which l
have been most freely abused. No, No.
have nothing to do with politics. Sell
your iron, eat the bread of indepsn-
dence, support your family with the
reward Of b )nest toll, do your duty as .
private citizen 70 your country, but
lot politics alone. 1t is hard life, q
thankless life
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-04-20

DIt is said that sliding down bill
in the evening air has been the direct
cause Of over six hundred deaths this
Winter. Always slide down hill in the
Summer time.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
w. W. FARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,

MUNfOE, LOUISIAWAt
Practices In the parishes of Oa&ehita. More
house and Richand. Claims tass,n for collecA
tion In all other parishes. with privilege Of man
aging same In connection with attorneyg resldA
ing there nnan aThu1v
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
Death in Life.
IN. Y. independent

Cases Of complete blindness or deaf
ness are frequent, but not Of the sense
Of touch. But lately a boy Of sixteen
was received in the Leipsic hospital,
who gradually lost all sense Of feeling,
and, indeed, all other four senses, ex-
cept that Of sight In the right eye and
Of hearing in the left ear. The skin Of
the whole surface of the body was COM
pletely insensible, and thatoin respect
to every kind Of sensation. The most
powerful electric current, burning
taper held to the skin, WIS not able to
produce any pain or even q sensation of
touch. Almost all the accessible parts
Of the mucous membrane Of the body
exhibited the same insensibility to
pain. Also all those sensations which
are classed together under the name OF
muscular sense" were entirely alb
sent. The patient, when his eyes
were closed, could be carried about
round the room, his limbs could
be placed in the most ineonve-
nient positions, without his being
in any way conscious of 1t. Even the
feeling of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. was lost.
20 the patients seeing eye was handaged
and his hearing ear was stopped, after
few-usually from two to three-min-
utes the expression Of surprise and the
uneasy movements which at first showed
themselves ceased, the respiration be-
came quiet and regular; in fact, the pa
tiont was sound asleep. Here, there
fore, the possibility OF artificially induc-
ing sleep at any time in person, Sim.
ply by withholding from the brain all
stimulation by means of the senses, was
realized. The awakeing of the patient
was as interesting as sending him to
sleep. He could be awakened by an
auditory stimulation-as, for example,
by calling In his hearing ear-or by Wis
lus of light to fall upon his seeing eye;
but he could not be walked by pushing
or shaking. III he was left to himself, he
did eventually wake up, of his own &C.
cord, in course Of the day, after the
sleep had lasted many hours.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
WON EN-.
A Calm Review of Some Of the Follies
and Foiblcs Feminine.


We do not agree entirely with those
writer's or speakers who say that women
dress and adorn themselves simply to
please the eyes Of men. Beyond q
doubt, there is a sentiment in the heart
of women-natural and uncomfortable
passions for beauty and loveliness, Of
all kinds, that impels her, almost I'M
consciously, to adorn herself and to
seize on every means of making the
most of whatever personal gifts she has
received.
There are women land we are glad
to say they include the greater part OF
our sex, for we believe that God in
tends us all to be as lovely as we CAM
who, IL they were cast away on desert
island. to live there alone, would crimp
their front hair. and put frill on the
bottom Of their skirts, If they had the
crimping irons and the lace.
Nor could this, in reason and Justice.
be condemned or stigmatized as weak
ness. We assert that it is the outward
cropping OF an inward distinction be-
tween ours and the other sex-the true
elementary mark Of sexhood. For the
fondness and tenderness which women
have for the loveliness that pleases the
eye Is but a branch or modification of
that love which, as a class, they cherish
for all things pure and fair to the soul
and heart. Who will contradict us
when we assert that in the mass, wo-
men are good, generous, faithful, pious
and the inviEctble enemies of crime
Yet these same mothers, wives and
daughters = these frail and tender
beings, who, IL they were called
on to enact some deed of heroism,
to sacrifice their lives for those they
loved, would meet the eXecutioner's
ak with the tirmness Of Marie Antoin-
nette. and the dignity of Mary Stuart
are mundane enough to feel immeasur-
able concern as to whether the new
style of dressing the hair will be becom-
Ing to them, or the fashionable color in
Tlbbons suitable to their compilations!
NOW, where the harm Of this comes in,
Is what we cannot see. No one doubts
That there Is a merit in beauty, for
Wnere smoothness, symmetry and grace
awaken pleasurable emotions, delight,
and love, the opposite qualities Of hon.
illness, coarseness and irregularity call
forth repulsion, GOODNESS and dislike. A
bird Is loved for its pretty plumage. a
flower for its delicate coloring. q fine
sunset for it's exquisite tints, a rainbow
for its brilliancy, a swan for its symmet-
~, music for its loneliness to the ear.
And woman was born with the percep-
ton Of this intuitively impressed upon
her soul! She is akin to all
OF these things. She is the SIS
ter OF the rainbow, the twin OF
the flower, and the embodiment Of mar
mony. Sooner might Hildebrand have
expected the fairy Undine to live aloof
from the watery elements for which
sne was created than the censors OF
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
Old Husbands and Young Wives.
boston Post.I


Because Mr.. Lordq aged eighty. five,
married Mrs. Hicks, aged forth three,
the children of Mr.. Lord, perceiving
clearly q promise that they will lose
some Of the dollars for which they have
waited, ask the courts to inquire into
the condition Of his wits. That the old
gentleman's heirs should desire to an
null the marriage is natural enough, but
his conduct surely cannotofairly be re-
garded as proof that he is crazy
There are many much more ineongru-
Gus marriages upon record, some of
which are worthy Of mention. The Gen
tlenan's Magazine tells of 9 boy Of Gig
teen, living in Bedford, England. who
Tilted his sweetheart and married her
mother, aged sixty-four. A physician
in Worcester, eighty years old, married
a woman Of twenty eight, and still con-
tinued to drug and drench the sick
people Of the town; q blacksmith,
ninety years old, in the same place,
took for bride girl Of eighteen. and
escaped the mad house. It Is related of
man in Berkshire that he married,
when at the age Of seventy six, q girl
whom his third wife had brought up.
Another case is that of a soldier who
had served in the wars, and at the age
Of ninety five still carried bullet in
nls Hoses Taking as lbs Wlle Elfi 81
fifteen. In Scotland, Mr.. W. Hamil-
ton, who was eighty years old, and
whose legs were drawn up to his ears,
and his arms twisted backward" mar
ried woman Of twenty, and was carried
to church on mems shoulders on the
happy day. At another almost equally
rel aar llsable wedding in Berkshire, the
groom was eighty five, the bride eighty
three, and each Of the bridesmaids were
more than seventy. Six granddaughter
Of the groom strewed flowers in the
path of the bridal party, instead Of sus-
pecting him OF insanity. Ii Mr.. Lord is
dragged into court he can produce 80
many instances of marriage at q greater
age than his that the court will grow
tired of listening to them.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
Legal Fashion in 1889.

The fringed danes and demoiselles OF
1878, and others Of the tender sex sigh
ing and grooming for Liberty and free
dom from man 8 control, would do we'll
to peruse the following, and thus real
ize how great are the privileges they
enjoy for the exercise Of their Wills
compared with the females of 1000. This
Is an exact copy Of law which passed
the general court in 1889, found in
records Of ancient Dorchester, Mass.
Whereas, There is much complaint
Of the excessive wearing Of lace and
other superfluities tending to little use
or benefit, but to the Furnishing of
pride and exhausting of mems estate.
and also of evil example to others: it is
therefore ordered that henceforWard no
person whatsoever shall presume to buy
or sell within this Jurisdiction any man
ner OF lace to bee Worne or used within
or limits.
And that no taylor or any other per-
son whatsoever, shall hereafter set any
lace, or points upon any garments either
linnen, wollen, or any other wearing
celoathes whatsoever, and that no p'son
any manner Of lace, but such as they
sell to such persons as shall and will
transport the same out Of this jurisdic-
ton, who in such case shall have liberty
to buy the same; And that hereafter no
garment shall be made with short
sleeves, whereby the nakedness Of the
arme may be discovered In the wearing
thereof, and such as have garments
already made with short sleeves shall
not hereafter wear the same, unless
they cover their armes to the wrist with
Inner or otherwise; And that hereafter
no woman whatsoever shall make any
garment for women, or any of their sex
with sleeves more than halle an ellie
wide in the widest place thereof, and so
proportionable for bigger or smaller per-
sons; And for present reformation Of
immoderate great sleeves and some
other superfluities, web may easily be
redressed without much prudice or the
spoile Of garments as immoderate great
breches, knots Of ryban, broad shout
der bands and ralyes. silk rases, double
llffes and cafes, &C."
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY B. 1878

woman expect her to exist and be ma
tural without penchd7.t for personal
adornment and pretty things.
In ten cases to one where women are
extravagant, who Ia to blame for it i?
Why the very men who condemn them?
For though we have said that we do not
entirely agree with those who assert
that women dress solely to please men,
still we confess that the generality of
women like to be admired; and the
hardest part of the whole thing is that
the very men who admire tbem-who
show it, too, in their eyes, voices and
words go right off and blame the poor
little humming birds for the extrava-
gance of their pretty plumage
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
TO THE LADIES.

DR.. BILLIE has returned from Paris and
opened an Office st 1874 Canal street. between
cret of Ninon de pEnclos. who. up to her death
in her seventy second year Of age, retained the
beauty. vivacity and spirit as when she was
which is pleasant, even enjoyable, ladies' can do
away with all cosmetics and paints. as the skin
wonted lustre and strength, and vivacity res
turns. The old become young, and the young.
who have ruined themselves with late hous,
vigor and fire OF youth, All diseases and
troubles peculiar to ladies' treated by harmless
and painless method. Consultations and COR
respondenee strictly confidential.
dec tt DIR. BILLIE 154 Canal street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
STEADY. borg

The following spirited lines were written b
an English yenng lady whose lover, captain Z
tho Seventh Regiment. was killed on the eight
The incident on which they are based is this
Early In and for some hours of the action Their
was but a small brigade Of English troops q, np
uosed TO an entire Russian army corps. LII
Seventh Regiment suffered heavily, and in orde
to keep up the courage q those left La MS con
paily the brave captain eheered tnem, WIN III
assurance that help was at hand. and, after re
eeiving his death wound. his last WORD 10 III
men was, stand.
Stsady, boys, IL little longer. . ~"
hear the bagpipes plaintve scream
Stand, brave hearts, D little stronger.
Soon we'll see the broadswords CLEAN.
Britain bids you keep her honor
Snow white in this dusky dawn. ~
Bids you bear her blood RED banner
Steadfast in your arms OF Drown.
In our island homes are dreaming ami %
Wives and aweethearts OF their braves:
Ger us now their love is behming,
While the earth yawns thick with graves.
Women are they. proud Of mourning
Toy'd ones brave in battle slain,
And they never fail Of seorning
towards come to them again.
Steady, boys q little longer.
The bagpipes now are drawing near;
stand bold hearts q little stronger.
There's the Highland battle cheer.
Steady boys, for England's glory.
Keep the line close. firm ana true:
BritHif's bards shall send your story.
Sounding all the nges through
Steady. boys hear drumming
'Tis the harp of Erin bold;
Celt. with Gael. too. Is coming
Gross the frosty Russian void.
Brjtain's blended music sounding,
Britail's colors mingled too.
Der the Tartar moor land bounding.
Come the scarlet green and blue
Britain's en- blems brightly shining
Mid Muscoyy's dreary SHOWS.
British wreaths for victor 8 twining.
Shamrock. thistle with the rose.
Blood OF men to win and wear them
Leaps alone through British veins:
Foes from Bri ish breasts to tear them
Ne'er were bred on Tartar plains.
Steady, boys. q little longer
British bosoms ne'er yet quaiFdl
Stand, oak hearts, a little stronger
British succor Ter yet failed.
Steady. boys I've fallen, dying.
Close the files up where fell;
And when Russia's lords are flying
- Wake axe fffe With g British yalll
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03

A Washington woman has applied to be ap-
man In any other way Danbury News.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
Gas FIXTURES FOB SALE,

GAS FIXTURES FOR 6ALEs
Below New YcrR Wholesale Prices,
EITHER TO THE TRADE oh PUBLIC GEN.
ERALLY.
Also large supply Of English Pipe Hooks.
Gas Filters Tools and Malleable Fittings can
be bought. for cash. at less than factory quota
tons. at 90 Camp street.
apN1y JOHN 3. FLKMIN0, Assnts
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
REMEMBER, 1872 CANAL STREET.

THE EUROPEAN DENTISTS ARE THE
4 only dentists in this city doing work on the
European plan. They will come to your resi-
dence and I'LL your teeth painless Silver, only
Polishing. 80 cents Appointment hours to
a. M. Ito 8 D. m. Send orders by mail de21 tt
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
r. BUSCH.
GUN AND LoCKsMITH.

GUN AND LOCKsMTTH.
No. n Commercial Place. New Orleans.
DELL HANGING, IRON RAILRINGS. AND
ID General House Work attended to at short
notice and reasonable prices. Also, Vaults.
Locks and Copying Presses repaired: Duplicate
Keys of all descriptions made. Safe repair
In M
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
AT COST.
OFFICE SsCONVEYANCE RECORD.O
No. iG ct. Charles street,

The undersigned respectfully announce to
complete Chain Of Title or list Of Transfers OF
Real Estate In New Orleans, back to original
grant Or purchase. when reGnred also full
curing to parties purchasing Real Estate or
Investing in Mortgages perfect security from
fraudulent or defective titles. The method OF
indexing orr "Conveyanee Record" peculiar TO
our system, enables us to give information Inn
medlately.
Attorneys, Notaries. Auctioneers, Land
Agents, Surveyors, and all parties Interested in
TITLES to Real 1, Estate are invited to call and ex-
del am u. y. DODGE NJ 60.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-03
RAILROADS.
GREAT JACKSON ROUTE.
CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS AND NEW ORLEANS
RATT.R0An

Y N 1~~ON~h'SA'
CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS AND NEW ORLEANS
-, DOUBLE Daily ine1l, TGRDUoH TRAINS
street depot from November 49, 1877 as follows:
Express No /, 100 pm. Express No.. 10 $50 am.
Express No ?, TOO am; Express. No.a 1905 .fa.
q, NOS Nos l ana run daily, 0 and daily except
=. PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING OARS
without change. and for st. Louis q siesper Il
attached at Milan. enabling passengers to 20
through without leaving. the train.
Only one change to New York and Eastern
Friday evenings train makes no connection
Accommodation trains between New Orleans
Leave Now Orleans s:45 p. Iii. Saturday. and
Arrive at New Orleans at 900 a. m. and 1900
p. m. Monday.
This is the only line running double daily
East.
;, Tickets for sale and information given at 81
- $500 <: b sHgrDoN, iTioket Agent.
T. CHANDLER. Gen. Pass. Agent NH
TIE hBR R6 2ah1EASB AEP ll MOBILE RAIL
THE GREAT EAST ER NoRga Aa Ho WET TO THE
VI" 10ogA,fEs hFS yaf A fhE rna Y NAIL Louis
Trains arrive End depart from Depot foot Of
S@nH bbTS6t, HS IOllOW6s
DEPART. ARRIVE
Express. Sun Express. .... s:ss A, m.
day only 50. 7:55 q. m. | Express Sum =
Express $780, 500 D. m. day only 30 D. m,
Passenger, OK. Passenger ex-
Gsptsunday 80 a. m. cept Sunday 8:A5 b. m,
Pullman Palace Cars daily to Oincinnati.
Louisville. Nashville. st. Louis Washington.
Baltimore and PHILADELPHIA without change
cities,
Ticket office. corner Of Camp and Common
street. opposite City Hotel. n
.. B. ROBINSON. Superintendent.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
THE GRAND JURY AND THE STATE
PRINTER.

| In our city columns this morning will be
| found an important special report Of the
Grand Jury representing that Mr. Geo. w.
| Dupre. the State Printer, has made an over
charge against the State land collected the
money! for printing the documents of the
second session of the Fifth Legislature Of
Louisiana, 1878. The Grand Jury is quite
| specific In the details on which the report is
based and recommends that the attention of
the executive and law officers Of the State be
called to the matter, that it may be fully in
| vestigated.
| We do not propose here to review the report
or to enter at this time any defense whatever
of the State Printer. The pla &c for that is be-
fore the commission which the Governor and
law officer may organize to investigate the
Charge or the court to which the question may
be sent for trial The State Printer has been
careful always to keep within the law in the
execution of his work and in the charges he
has made for 1t, and he Is not In the least exer-
cised as to the Judgment which may be rem
dered. 1t Is unpleasant, Of course, to any
gentleman to be charged by SO weighty d
body as the Grand Jury with having claimed
money from the State which was not earned
It would, however, have been unreasonable
for Mr.. Dupre to have expected to fulfill 81
printing contract with the State, complex as
| printing laws and printing work are, without
| being assailed from some quarter. All he de-
sires Is that before the charge Of the Grand
Jury is accepted by the public. the report Of
the investigation shall be heard. The Grand
Jury has acted properly in making this re-
port on the representations made to It, But
that body has done only half its duty. When
the gentlemen composing it found testimony
sufficient to constitute basis for the grave
charge they have preferred against Mr.. Dupre,
| they were, ii seems to us, sOlemnly bound to go
| further and indict that gentlemen for perjury.
The Grand Jury alleges that in one Of the
bills of the State Printer there is an over
charge of several thousand dollars. The
State Printer swore that that bill, to the best
of his knowledge and belief, was correct II
to defraud the State out of two or three thou
sand dollars he swore falsely he Is certainly q
perjurer, and should be indicted as such.
| The Grand Jury is q body which works in
secrecy and all of whose members are sworn
to secrecy; hence the State printer is igno-
rant of the person who has instigated this
proceeding But whoever he may be, Il his
purpose is to serve the State and protect the
treasury against what he honestly believes to
be a fraud, he is invited to be present at the
investigation, either as q witness or prose-
cutor, or as both. II his purpose has been to
strike at an enemy in the dark, we feel too
deep contempt for such a character to re-
sent the wrong; If his object Is to serve the
public, we have too sincere a respect for the
work in which he is engaged to feel other
than regard for him. More than this 1t Is I'M
necessary for Mr.. Dupre to say at this time
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

| though 1t was, and with that government she
concluded q satisfactory treaty,
! The Usurpation by that treaty agreed TO
Withdraw the troops from the State capital !;
to cease all interference in State affairs to
permit the people to establish and sustain In
their own way their chosen government in
short, to restore to Louisiana all her consti-
tutional rights and liberties. of which she
had been deprived for more than ten years.
Louisiana on her part, as is shown in the
documents submitted by Major Burke guar
anteed:
1. The acceptance of the thirteenth, four
teenth and fltteenth amendments TO the con-
stitutfOn OF the United States, and will not at
tempt to deprive the colored people Of any
political or civil right.
| 2. The enforcement Of the laws rigidly and
impartially, to the end that violence and
ished, and that the hu1nblest laborer upon the
soil Of Louisiana Of either color shall receive
full and equal protection OF the laws in per-
son and property.
8. The education Of the children of white and
| eolored citizens with equal advantages.
| d. The promotion OF kindly relations be-
! tween the white and coored citizens OF the
State upon q basis Of justice and mutual con-
| fidence.
| S. DESTROYS OF hearing the dissensions that
h"A1ts
anxious that the citizens OF all political par
ties may be free from the feverish anxieties
of political strife to join hands in honestly
restoring the prosperity Of Louisiana the
Nichols government will not engage In the
persecution Of individuals for past political
conduct, but do not assume to grant immunity
| from crime.
| IF this constituted o bargain, let the Sun,
make the most of 1t. 70 our mind it is the
most remarkable exemplifcation and triumph
of State rights the history Of the country
affords. The little poverty smitten and long
oppressed State Of Louisiana, through this
| treaty, won back all her constitutional rights
with exemption from military domination
and left New York and the other Northern
States, with the New York Sbn, and other
such journals, to shoulder all the shame and
disgrace Of the quiet peaceful and pusillani
nous submission to the Inauguration Of the
GREAT FRAUD OF THE CENTURY. .-.s.: