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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
Fire.

At o'clock yesterday mornin0 FIRE broke
out in the one-stOry frame house on D1rgenois
street brtween Banka and Palmyra. The house
and occupied by Mr.. Laclen The adjoining
house, occupied by Mr.. Hagan, was also totally
destroyed.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
Personal,

Chas. Bein, who has been absent for some
days in ST. Louis on business, returned yes
terday, looking none the worse for his expe-
rience with the hot weather up there. He
can be found by his many friends, as usual,
at Branch, Crooks & Co., full Of wise saWs
and modern instances.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27

In another column of this paper will be seen
the card Of DIR. W G. Austin, who has for many
years, with great success, practice his profess
sion in this community. The doctor is particu-i
larly successful in all kinds Of fevers common
to this city. and will be found night and day
ready TO respond to the call OF the sick.
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Brow ned.

At about o'clock yesterday morning little
boy named Geo. White, aged six years, while
swimming la the river, was drowned. His BODY
was not recovered. His cl Ithes were taken tQ
his mothers residence, corner OF st. Mary ana
Carondelet streets.
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THE RIVER LANDING.
A NEW LLGRT.

The attention of DEMOCRAT reporter was
attracted last night to large light on st.
Charles street, above the City Hail. He at
once repaired In the direction and found q
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sTATE-HOUsE NOTES.

Edwin E. Vidrine, notary public for st. Ian
dry. ,,
John Wilson. j. A. Addison, Chs. e. Lea. alder
men of the town of Greensburg, st. Helena
parish.
Of Ct. e. Y0oEhies, assessor Of AYoyelles.
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sfahhing ARRAY.

At about ten O'Clock Yesterday morning
woman named Isabella Wilson accused Henry
Woodbridge of stealing two blanktng, he denied
It. and she stabbed him in the back twice. For
tunately the wounds are very slight.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27

Unedualed in its location and unsurpassed In
its arrangements for the convenience and COM
tort Of the travelling public, the Colon made Hos
highest rank.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
nuerhnnrh fn neath.

At nine O'Clock Wednesday night colored
woman. named Rosa Hudson, whiie attempting
to b ard a lugger lying in the river near the in
tersection of Jordan Avenue. accidentally fell
into the river and was drowned. Her body was
not repovare6
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
Died Suddenly.

A man named Geo. Schneider died suddenly
of congestion of the brain. at the corner of Camp
and ST, Andrew streets, at IL o'clock yesterday
morning.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27

That genial gentleman Of the old Virginia
type, Col. Dan Wilson, the Public Administers
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
Body Found.

The body Of a white man was found floating
In the lake opposite Tunisburg. Coroner no.
titled.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
CARoNDELET STREET.

The BIDS marked Win q = were feJeCJeQ, anu
the revenues Of these markets will be offered
to the highest bidder under sealed proposals.
CARoNDELET STREET.
The repairing of Carondelet street, from
Eighth street to Peters Avenue, is all but
completed. The road, which had been in an
abominable condition for several years.. is
now neatly graded and in travelling order.
Mr. John Casserly, the contractor, has, we
understand, been complimented by Adminis-
traitor McCaffrey and Surveyor dHemecourt
for the excellency Of the work.
THE RIVER LANDING.
Surveyor d Hemecourt is making the neces-
sary diagrams, Indicating the new steamship
and barge landings adjoining the steamboat
landing, proposed at the last meeting OF the
City Council, by Administrator Cavanac:
The ordinance is a very important one, and
is intended particularly to accommodate
steam tonnage, which is constantly on the
increase in our port, and to afford them a
central mooring place.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
THE nIFFERENoE OF LEVEL

between the waters on the inside and the
waters on the outside of the wheels. The
efficacy of the London Avenue draining
machine can be largely increased by
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-27
The VI RrketS.

The revenues Of the city markets for August
were sold at auction yesterday at the City
Hall. The table published below gives the
olt
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improved. Owing to the irregular manner in
which they are built, flushing will not
thoroughly clean them. Some physicians
claim that the green slime which covers our
canals is injurious. | do not think So but on
the contrary am of the opinion that they con-
centrate and retain the foul gases, preventing
them from evaporating. I do not advocate
planking over the canals even as temporary
improvement upon open drainage, because
the pIanks will soon rot and be as Injurious as
the canals themselves.
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The Tricks Of the Cigar Trade.
New York Sun.

New ork ouA.
Cigars are being made here in almost ex-
act imitation of Havana brands. They
are made in every way like the imported
article, and are sold as such without de-
lection. The tricks of the trade have been
exposed in the custom house by the siez-
ure of 10000 fine Regalias, Reinas, and
Henry Ciays by an officer of the night
watch, who saw them being driven through
West street, and became suspicious that
they had been smuggled from Havana
steamship. The offer of $500 by the driver
to let him 90 made the officer feel certain
that they had been smuggled. Some oi
the cigars were shown to government
| expert for appraisement, and he reported
| them to be imported and worth at the rate
of s125 a thousand. The siezing officer
rubbed his hands over an expected noiety
from Washington. On Saturday three Gig
| armakers called on Deputy Collector
Phelps, and said they believed the lot TO b
cigars that had been stolen from them
few days ago, and they gave trade mark
i and numbers which corIesponded VIII
these on the boxes on the siezure The,
admitted that their business was to manu-
4 facture cigars in imitation OF any Havan
brand wanted by their customers. Whe'
shown the cigars they made afidavits tina
Il they were the ones stolen from them, an
they were given up to them. The Office
| lost the moiety and the Government To
! duties.
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THE TELEPHONE APPLIED TO WAR PUR-
PosEs- A telephone, especially adapted for
use in the field, designed by Berlin firm,
has been recently tried with very good re-
suits. The great obstacles in the way of
the profitable employment of the telephone
for military purposes have been found in
practice to be the want of some simple
method of attracting the attention of the
person to whom it is wished to send mes
sage and the difficulty of connecting the
telephones themselves with the intermedi-
ate wire or one length of wire with anoth-
er; but in the instruments lately tried,
these difficulties have been overcome.
Each telephone is eight inches high the
diameter of the lower part, in which is the
coil of wire with some 1900 turns, being
something less than inches. The trump
ct. when the disc of the telephone at the
other end of the wire is blown upon, gives
out loud note which can be plainly heard
from 90 to 80 PAGES away from the instru'
| ment. Another Improvement introduced
consists of an arrangement for turning the
magnet of the telephone into the position
| which renders the words transmitted very
clear and distinct, SO that whatever the
condition of the atmosphere may be, ar
equally audible message can be SENT 1t il
confidently predicted that it will before
long be largely substituted for the so-callet
portable field telegraph in the German
army.
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Theatrical Thunder.
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 10th.

San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 10TH
A good many people have been perplexed
at the late position OF the London Times,
sometimes known as "the Thunderer" 1t
was, not long ago, the warm supporter OF
Gladstone, both as to his foreign and do
mestic policy, and it did not desert him
until almost up to the time of the calling
Of the Berlin Congress. Then it suddenly
faced about and became one of Beacons-
fields hottest allies, echoing his caustic
speeches against the leader of liberal
thought and politics in England. The
London World of late date lifts the cur
tain and reveals the motive of the sudden
change. It boldly states that the proprie-
tor of the Times was converted by the
offer of place in the peerage and adds
tina. this is the reason why the late editor,
Delane, was retired from his position in
favor of an incompetent but more flexible
man. The World also accuses the leading
editor of the Telegraph of being bribsd by
| the promise of baronetcy for like sum-
mersault in favor of Beaconsield and his
Eastern policy. The New York Herald,
September 27th, also broadly and without
| qualification asserts that the London Times
has for good while been corruptly con,
| Quoted. For years, it says, the financial
ana theatrical opinions of the London
| Times were as notoriously purchasable al
ary commodity in London shop window
| These are grave charges to make against
| a journal that every Briton in the land ha'
been swearing by ever since the battle O
| Waterloo, supported as they are By sucf
weighty circumstances as the undoubtet
corruption of the late Times financial edl
tor. Sampson, and the unexplained retire
ment of the chief editor, Delane. But
Mr.. Walters shall secure his coronet iron
Beaconsfield 10 one can longer doubt tina
that the thunder of that paper in favor 0
the Berlin Congress and the disgraceful Sc
cret treaty with the Porte for the Isle Q
Cyprus was insincere and theatrical.
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A Clever Adventures.

The elderly Spanish woman, arrested re-
Gently at Auteuii, suburb of Paris, oy
order of the Spanish government, and about
whom so many different stories have been
told, proves to be the notorious adventures
that swidled the Madrilenos, two or three
wears since. out of near $2,000,0 600. She
opened a banking house in the capital; re-
celved deposits. paying 20 per cent. on re-
ceint thereof, and at the end of the fourth
month gave 80 per cent. more, still owing
the original amount. Strange as it may
seem. the Madrilenos, so dazzled were they
by the prospect Of gain, allowed her 10 nave
their money to the extent Of SO, 500, 600. In
a few months she disappeared, and when
her bank was opened by the police, of course
nothing of value was found. She had paio
about 100000 in interest, and made ON
with the rest. The government agents had
been looking for her a long time when they
traced her to Auteuil, where she was living
with, her sister in great luxury. She is the
widow of Senior LARA, the popular satlrlst'
who, not long since, as satire on hlmsell'
blew out his brains, an act Wnicn
nature seems to have performed without
any fatal result for the creditors OF the ad-
ventures. She has been sent to Madrid
where Justice will promptly be meted out
to her. This affair closely resembles the
case of Fraulein Adele Spitzeder, who sci
nm a similar bank in Munich some years
ago. She paid 10 per cent month, ane
lent money to the aristocracy whose mem
bers were temporarily embarrassed, at rates
still more exorbitant. Millions OF Horin'
passed through her hands. She lived iik'
a Princess; started and supported a Lews
paper: was very charitable to the poor, ant
won a good name which various accusation
could not hurt. She continued her PAM
for eight years, employing 80 clerks ant
hook KEEPERS. and would have continued
| longer had she not suddenly been arreste'
for fraud and thrown into prison. Ina
caused her downfall. Her credit was rum
ed: her shop was forced to shut up. he
liabilities were five times greater than ne
assets. She was tried and condemned t
three years. imprisonment for sWlndlina
# requires a woman for .udacity like this
Men are prone to reason about their COZ
ceiyed yillainies. Women take counsel
their wishes and imagination, and throug
these everything is possible. In this cour
try, Sonora LARA and Fraulein spitzeds
would have been acquitted by gallant Juris
and have gone into the lecture-iield. no
they would draw here if they should sele'
for a subject the "Poetry OF Honesty
the "Science Of Finance"
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P 0 ETRY
ROCK-A-BYE. BABY,

ITO ck-a-bye, baby, in the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall.
Down tnmbles baby and cradle and ALL"
Rock-a-bye, baby; the meadows in bloom,
Laugh at the sunbeams that dance in the room.
Echo the birds with your baby tune,
Coo at the sunshine and flowers of June
Rock-a bye, baby; as softly 1t swings,
over thy cradle the mother love sings;
broodlng or cooling at even or dawn
What will it do when the mother is gomez
Rock-a-bye, baby; SO cloudless the skies,
Blue as the depths of your own laughing eyes;
Sweet is the lullaby over your nest,
That tenderly sings little baby to rest.
Rock-a-bye, baby the blue eyes will dream
sweetest when mamma eyes over them beam:
Never again will the world seem so fair
sleep little baoe-there are clouds in the air.
Rock-a-bye. baby; the blue eyes will burn
And ache with that your manhood will learn
Swiftly the years come with sorrow and care,
With burdens the wee dimpled shoulders must
bear,
Rock-a-bye. baby; there's coming day
whose sorrows asmother's lips cant..kiss away.
Days when its song shall be changed to moan.
Crosses that baby must bear all alone
Rock-a-bye, baby the meadows in bloom,
May never the frost pail the beauty in bloom,
Be thy world ever bright as to day it is seen,
Rock-a-bye, baby thy cradle is green.''
London Reader.
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The TUI1ERIEs BALLOON.
A YANKEES SAGE OPINIONS THEREFRo,
Paris Letter IN N. Y. Graphit

Paris Letter IN N. 7. Graphic
Car, in shape, circular gallery. Weigh
loOo pounds. Carries so persons. Fare s
per head. Balloon cordage massive. Ca
Die big ships hawser. Length 1900 feet
= Diameter of the rope smaller near the cart
than where fastened to the balloon. Rea
s son giVen-if it should break it is desirabl
: to have it break near the ground, SO tina
those in the balloon should have a lons
/; trail rope to be hauled down by. Eigh
: big hawsers. with great iron hooks attach
ed, hold balloon in it's place. Total weigh,
of cordage 5000 pounds.
Eight small windlasses work the small
hawsers, for anchoring the balloon. Main
wlndlass around which cable is coiled, 40
feet feet long and 10 feet in diameter. Bal
loon made of seven thicknesses of cloth.
thus =: muslin, rubber, linen, rubber, linen,
Vulcanized rubber, varnish and white zinc
paint.
Passengers walk into balloon on gang
way plank on two wheels Balloon partly
moored in pit about 12 feet deep. Cor
dage worked by crew Of 16 men in semi
nautical uniform, largely red sash and straw
hat. Managed by an officer who pipes a
boatswain's whistle. "a G.tH
Balloon ascends. Band plays. Does not
seem to go up. Earth seems to go down.
People below get small, then smaller, and
at last dwindle to crawling dots. Cabs and
carriages ditto, only they crawl little fast
er. Houses seem about two feet in height;
streets diminish to ruts; Paris resembles an
immense model in miniature plastered over
the land.
No sense Of motion. Didn't know when
balloon stopped going up; Or when it COM
menced to 60 down. Very still and calm
above. Air pure. No dust. Pleasant to
breathe. Proportions of palaces and
churches toy-like, and not an angle, corner
or turret lost. People below in most thick
ly croWed streets do not seem close togeth-
er. Each person carries some space be-
tween him or her. Singular to observe
how so many crawl about without touching
each other.
Little sense of danger seeming felt by
passengers. Not at all like standing on
"giddy heights" Balloon gives one an
impression of being strong enough for it's
work. No jolting, pitching, tossing or la
boring as at sea. Our three toms weight of
30 passengers float as lightly as SO many
feathers. Room enough in car for passen-
gers to walk about and pass each other.
Little talking on trip, although passengers ]
mostly French, and six were women. No I
1oise from the world below. AS seen from
balloon, human beings really take up but {
title room. They and their houses are q
imply plastered thinly over the earth. 7
'lenty of room left over their heads. Great s
'ity that we can't fly and utilize it, espec- c
up in balloon twenty minutes Not
ong enough. Wanted to stay up an hour
{ least. Hauled down by two engines.
Zach passenger on stepping out of the car =.
resented with box containing gilt medal.
inscription "Souvenir of my ascent in M.
llffard's Captive Balloon !,
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4 HAPPY MAN.-We once knew a man
who was always praising his wife, On the
corner, down the street, at tho post-office,
at the race track, in the skating rink, at
the theater, in the sal-that is, at the choir
meeting, be was always telling what hap
py man he was, just because he had such
splendid wife, and he talked every man he
met into perfect frenzy of envy about her.
Well, one winter merniug when it was not
yet too light to make one appear overly os-
tentatious, we sneaked into that neighbor's
yard to steal fence board for kindling, and
had to wait before we could safely obtain 1T
until that mau's wife came out and sawed
a couple of armfuis of wood, shoveled out
three snow paths, fed and groomed the
horse, and cleaned out the cowshed, and
then when she vent intu the house and we
heard her call to her husband that the sit
ting room was warm enough for him to
dress in if he wanted to get up now, we
| were so amazed that we forgot what
we were waiting for, and went
back and kindled the fire with corncob
| and a pint of kerosene. -Haackege.
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CURIOUS ACTION OF AJuRY.-A strange
verdict has been rendered in murder trial
recently concluded in Weldon, \. c.' as
vii, be seen in dispatch from that city
dated Oct. Q: In murder trial which
closed here to-day the defense set up q plea
of insanity. The counsel for the accused
offered to show that the killing was done
on the change of the moon. The Court
however. interrupted and insisted that no
would not 90 that far back into the history
Of the world as that the sun or moon a.
fected lunatics. Then followed long dis
sertation by counsel on the Jasperlan SOAR
theory. Notwithstanding the charge o.
the Judge the jury held 70 the moon theory
and the Jasperian system and acquitted
the prisoner. This is the first time sna'
such questions were ever raised In Cour'
: this state, and It is exciting q great dea
of interest.
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The editor of the London Trgth, who has
lately been making war On gamblers and
gambling clubs, tells this of himself and the
late Mr.. George Payne at a club in French
town, where baccarat fiourished "The
banker of the evening was the person
ready to risk the highe st amount Of money.
We were spectators ff several evenings,
and at length deternr ned to try our luck.
So we offered to put up "a 900. No one
outbid MS, and we became the bankers. 1t
was decided that should deal out the
cards, which / did, and the intelligent IN
habitants soon became the possessors of our
$4,000. How this came to pass do not
exactly know ;all that can say is, that
! whenever I happened to have good peint
some inhabitant had better one.'
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THE NEW bonanza.
THE FRENZY OF 1874 REPEATED IN THE
SAN FRANCISCO STOCK ExcH AEGE.

San Francisco Correspondence New York Sum-
Stock gambling is once more rampan
throughout this State and Nevada. Th
rapidity with which fortunes are won ant
lost is absolutely startling. After a Ions
period OF stagnation in the stock marke
and the absence of new ore strikes in tie
Comstock, the discovery of an extensive
bonanza north of the Consolidated Virginia
and California has literally set people wild.
There has been nothing like it since the
frenzy of the last months of 1874. Shares
in Sierra Nevada, Union and Mexican.
which were selling at $5, So and $12 IN
June, are now fetching $21O, $3.50 and $115.
For two or three years past Sierra Nevada
shares have been almost worthless and
many holders had abandoned their shares
rather than pay the assessments, which
have been levied with painful regularity.
Six months ago 1000 shares could have
been bought for $1,000; to-day they are
1920, 1000, and may be worth S15O,OOO or
$500, 900 tomorrow.
1t is these rapid changes and apprecia-
tlons, the chances of getting in for next to
nothing and coming out with fortune,
that demoralizes all classes, and turns this
people into community of gamblers. To
go largely into Sierra Nevada or Union
now requires heavy investment of capt.
tai, and the shares have gone beyond the
reach of the general public ; but the work.
ingman or woman who knows or hears of |
some one who had the good fortune to in
vest $lOO when the stock was 81 share,
and is now the happy possessor of $4,000,
is ready to rush into the first worthless
wild cat +" that is offered at so cents or
81, and just now wild cats are prolific
race. At least $50 new companies, with an
aggregate nominal capital of 81 500, ,OCO,-
OOO, have been incorporated within the last
sixty days, and the chances are that not
one in fifty of these so-called mines will
ever produce ore. A few shrewd and for
tunate men will be large gamers by this
speculative mania, but ninety-nine out of :
every hundred of their humble and lily ,
informed followers will lose all the money
they may be silly enough to venture. So
far as an outsider can judge of their ac-
tions and methods, the managers of the
Sierra Nevada are treating the public very i
fairly. They permit free access to an ex-
animation of the mine, and do not pretend v
10 possess exclusive knowledge of the ex- v
ent or richness of the newly discovered ore Il
body. The public are gratifed that the
lew bonanza is in Independent hands, who d
re free from all connection with Flood & o.
)'Brien and their partners in the Consoli- f.
ated Virginia and California. The Ne $,
ada bank party are not popular IN San
'ranclsco, and without expressing any r.
pinion as to the justice of the popular 4,
rejudice against that powerful and infIu- !,
romoted by diversion of the wealth of h,
,e new bonanza to other and competing !,
,pitalists. VI