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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-23
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
AND
Agricultural a1l Mechanical COLLEGE
BATON ROUGE. LOUISIANA.
MILITARY ORGANIZATION.

The nineteenth session begins October next.
and ends July 4, 1879. r
apparatus and museums, extensive coupse OF
literature and science; tuition free+ board
a9dgng THstnfb e an g9s fnd dco fee
sion; uniform clothing about S22 for dress suit
OF West Point gray cloth I$t5 for fatigue auIt
Of same material. and ~ for cap OF dark blue
Total expenses III every respect for session of
nine months r5:S 9xceedng s2o3: payable sc on
throughout the session of nine months ten
equal Payments Of $40 each:
during the session. They will be charged only
from date Of entrance and for time Oh attend
Oadets can find good boarding In the city of
Baton Rouge at rates essentially the same as
those above given for maintenance tn the Uni
versity building
MILITARY EXERCISES
obligatory on oil students or cadets, Those
who are CHARTERED In the University ballding
discipline. cadets who board and lodge In
only while they are performing their daily du-
ties at the institution.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS.
Catholic and Protestant. given In the uni.
verslty, and on Sundays cadets will be required
to attend the churches in Baton Rouge. desig-
Granted that this Institution fs capable Of
educating the, youths of Louisiana. why SHOULD
parents spend half as much IN moro travelling
expenses to and from institutions In other
sons here for whole session of nine month";
E95 5o b&W 1n'0EN" s. Ai B6Yb President
W.P CONVERSE, Jn. RICHARD M. ONa.
w. ?. CONVERSE, JR., & co.
90 and 81 magazine street.
Warehouses-Cor st. Joseph and Front Sts..
NEW ORLEANS.
Have for sale the following namod articles
ed1pted to tho wants of SUGAR PLANTERS
and othors together with D complete stock of
such goods AS arc usually kept by dealers in
Oils Paints, Limo, Building Material and Naval
Stores, viz:
BOIL SULPHUR OR BIRTHSTONE. for sugar
making.
LIME for sugar making.
LIME, for building purposes.
CEMENT. SAND.
PLASTER. PLASTERING HAIR.
FIRE BRICK. FIRE CLAY.
PACKING YARN.
COAL OIL,
LAID OIL.
HEADLIGHT OIL.
ENGINE OIL.
LUBRICATTNG OIL,
COTTON SEED OIL.
WINDOW GLASS.
Are manufacturers agents for the sale of
NAILS AND SPIKES. Of which large stock is
generally kept. se29 I'm
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-23

JUDICIAL ADvER EASEMENTS.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-23
ASSETS APRIL 80, 1878, $1,280, S16 a.

AODu1H HINI1 VI, IUTU, VI,luU,UIU IT,
ED. 4. PALFREY. President,
JOHN CHAFFE, Vice President,
THOS, T. WALKER, Secretary,
Trustees.
r.yohn 7. Noble, 3. T. Eschelman,
.yohn ChGffe. W. G. Black,
Richard Milliken, Charles Chaffe.
J. [. Warren. L. C. Jurey,
Samuel Frodlander, VIM. HartWeu.
4. A. Yates, @. J. Leeds.
r.. M. Walmesley, A. T. Janin.
a. Ell. May, Joseph Bowling,
r. LYtt Lyon. A. NJ. Bickham.
Samuel FL. Boyd. Henry Abraham
Joseph McElroy. Louis Bush.
Win. J. Behan, A. Brittin.
IN G. W Sentell
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-23

AUCTION SALES.
Fly Plaoide j. Spear.
DRUG STORE. FIXTURES, ETC.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
STARVING TO DEATH.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.--There is a
great deal of suffering among the rOor
at Hoboken. The fund set apart by
the city for their relief is exhausted,
and those dependent upon it are now
thrown upon the charity of their
neighbOrs, who. unfortunately, in
many cases are unable to give them
aid. The distress is very great. Five
hundred families, each averaging four
persons, are without food or fuel. The
bodies of two old men. who died at
the close of last week. were allowed to
remain six days in their wretched
novels unburied, neither their friends
nor the Poor Commissioners being
able to pay the funeral expenses. A
generous undertaken untimely buried
the bodies. There is an old man who
has been sick for six weeks, and in
that time has had hardly anything to
eat. When the City Physicians
visited him he was found to be slowly
dying of starvation. Numerous other
eases of an equally distressing nature
are reported from day to day. The
office of the Poormaster is constantly
besieged by aged people and sick men,
women and children. pleading for aid.
Mr. Lewis says the condition of things
is becoming alarming. and if some
thing is not done Immediately many
persons will starve to death.
Still John Sherman continues to
burn up greenbacks. because there is
too much money in the country.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21

| England is feeling the full effects
of the increased value of the gold dol
lar through the demonstration of
silver. Terrible suffering is among
her working people. John w. Forney
| writes from London to the Philadel-
phia Press:
Beggary follows the absence of en-
ployment all over the Kingdom. and
| if the season were as harsh as the
times, Charity, however generous
and active, would be Intellectual. The
newspapers are full Of sad details,
and the half has not been told. In
the manufacturing districts nothing
but the liberal perseverance of the
rich saves the poor from starvation.
l have sent you some of the facts
printed in the Times, and the News
OF to-day is even more candid. Two
thousand half famished children in
one district of South Wales, called
Merthyr, were fed last night. Shoe
less, ragged, unwashed boys and girls,
from two to twelve years of age, had
one bowl Of soup for the first time in
weeks sThe better classes came
forth and superintendent the benefac-
ton, and the contrast at the distribu-
ton between the richly-attired ladies
and the half-naked children must
have been very suggestive. The
same paper tells shocking story of
distress in the great iron and steel
district Of Sheffield. A few facts
may give you the skeleton of the ro-
nance. The Sheffield work-house
has more Inmates, and many of these
able-b bodied. than it ever held before.
In one district, that of BrigL tside,
which is in the immediate neighbOr
hood Of the large iron and steel
works, there are about two thousand
cottage houses empty. and in some
few instances almost entire rows of
cottages are unlet. TO make matters
worse, those employed at the Atlas
and Cyclops works, two of the largest
establishments in the town, have had
to submit to reduction in the rate
of wages, and the works have not yet
been re-opened after the holidays.
The works of MeSSrs. Brown, Bayley
& Dixen Qimited) have also remained
closed since the Saturday before
Christmas, and many of the cutlery
houses are likewise closed. AS a rule
the steel meters and the puddlers
have not been engaged more than two
or three days a week for months, and
hence they are living almost at
starving point. Everything available
has gone to the pawn-broker long
since; and how some of the men and
their families live is a mystery.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
PETER COOPER.

Mr.. Peter Cooper has announced his
intention of establishing u university
in the south similar to the Cooper
Union. Two weeks ago he wrote a
letter to Wade Hampton governor of
South Carolina. offering TO give to the
state some 500 acres of the land stu
ated in Spartanburg county. south
Carolina. for the purpose of establish
ing free institute for women. if the
state would undertake to support it.
Governor Hampton wrote back asking
Mr.. Cooper 10 send q more detailed
statement of his plan. Mr. Cooper
has not vet answered this letter.
Half a century'ago Limestone Springs.
as the tract Mr.. Cooper proposes TO
give is called. was the sitetfor fash
ionable watering place. In 1854 the
hotel and land were bought by a DIR.
Curtis. who established there a school
for young ladies. which prospered for
some ten years. The place is so
healthy that it is said only one girl
out of 1000 who were educated there
died from disease. 1t is 90 miles
east of Atlanta. Us North of Column
bia and is easily accessible by rail.
The property is at present owned by
Thos. III. Bromar. who is under bonds
to sell it to Mr.. Cooper. Professor
Rossiter Raymond. and Sutherland
Tenny have visited it by direction of
Mr.. Cooper, and have given favorable
reports. 1t is said that if the state
wilfnot accept the property Mr.. Coop
er intends end0wing it and having It
managed by board Of trustees-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
A TOUCHING LETTER.

|
| Every one knows the story of the
little girl who, wishing to ask some
thing of Heaven, wrote letter to
God, which she put into the hands OF
the Virgins statue in the parish
church.
A circumstance nearly analogous
has just taken place near Marchiennes,
in Belgium. A girl named Blanche
was in the service of Monsieur and
Madam c., who were much attached
to her on account of her fidelity and
piety. Some days ago Madam G. fell
i'll and died very suddenly.
The day after her death, Blanche.
profting by a moment when the corpse,
already prepared for the grave, was
alone, made her way into the chamber
of death, lifted the shroud and then
retired precipitately.
Those who. saw her suspected she
might have been trying to pilfer the
jewelry of the corpse. Search was
made and nothing found missing, but
there was a letter in the dead
woman's hand. This being opened
was discovered to be a letter from
Blance to her mother, dead long
time before. It was as follows:
Ny Dear and Good Mother: This is
to let you know that Mr.. r. has asked
me to marry him; as you are no longer
here. / beg you will let me know, in a
dream, if 1 ought to marry him. and
to give me your consent. In order to
communicate with you profit by the
occasion of Nine. c.. who is going
to Heaven.
This letter. which bore the super
scription 'sTo my mother Josephine,
who is in Heaven !" is truly a poem
of ingenius piety.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21

The Aar1-MoHopoLlsr is published every
Thursday for circulation by newsmen and mail
SINGLE Snbscription. one year, $500
SINGLE Subscription. six months, 100
Single Subscription, three months, 81
In clubs of five or more to one address it will
be furnished at ST.. so per year; or $l.OOfor six
months Address,
No. 10 Wabasha St.. st. Paul.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21

There have been many who have
urged that we should he very generous
with the European bondholders. more
generous even than the contract
required. because the European capi
talists saved the life of the nation by
furnishing money to carry on the war.
This is not true. We quote:
Gen. Butler said in his speech before
the Chamber of Commerce. of y. \.
city. in January 1875. and he chal-
lenged any man in that city 10 con-
tradict him:
after the $40 bonds were issued
say from that hour during the whole
war. and until after the strength.
power. credit and stability OF the
United States. were assured by Lee )
surrender ut Appomatox Court House.
not single dollar of gold or silver
was subscribed or paid by any banker
or capitalist in America or Europe.
for bond of the United States.
Henry Carey. the best authority
upon political economy in America. a
man the peer of John Stuart Mill or
Charles Moran. says that five months
after Lees surrender there had not
been bond of the United States
government sold in the markets OF
Europe. and only 500 100000 of our
State railroad and corporation bonds
were then held there.
1t was the American soldier that
saved the nation and the American
farmer that fed him. The soldier
took his pay in grecnbscks.an the far
mer sold his productions. intrinsicaly
more valuable than gold or silver. for
greeubacks. Without brave hearts,
full granaries and greenbacks the
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
ADVERTISING RATES.

Locals, Is cents per line, each insertion.
Locals, editorial columns, % cents per line
each insertion.
Bills for advertising PAYABLE quarterly IN
advance.
Advertisers will please take notice that
the ANr1.MoyoPoL1sT is the best and
cheapest advertising medium in Minnesota.
It has a larger circulation among the farm
ers than any other, while it is read IN
every town and city and almost every vii
lage of the State 1t is perused by thou
sands who take no other paper.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
Things are getting to a pretty pass
in the east. Whole cities are bank
rupt. Chases lMainel Chronicle says:

Things are getting to a pretty pass
in the east. Whole cities are bank
rupt. Chases (Maine) Chronicle says:
The city of Orange, n. j., an outly
ing suburb of New York city, is in a
financial strait. The people can pay
their taxes; the property won't sell
for money; the city can't borrow
money, and the collector threatens to
arrest and imprison thousands of
delinquents. 1t is proposed to close
the public schools, discharge the police
put out the street lamps, and let this
city that has been the abiding place of
a happy, contented and prosperous
people, go back into barbarism.
Houses, lands and factories are not
legal tender to pay taxes, but it is
from such property that revenues are
raised to pay taxes. There are no
profits in holding such property, be-
cause it's debt-paying and tax-paying
power is all the time diminishing, and
there are no profits in hiring labor at
The present starvation wages. The
Lewiston mills cut-down wages and
pass dividends. The Auburn shoe
factories cut-down wages and make no
profits. This thing can't go on much
longer before there will come shut
down of the factories in Lewiston and
Auburn, the same as in Orange. n. }.
When the bondholder's cry of 'scome
to gold" has stopped the water-wheels
of the Lewiston mills, the city can't
borrow money nor collect taxes.
In this connection we see that the
people in some sections, unable to pay
their taxes, are turning out with shot
guns to prevent tax-harpies buying up
their homes for a song:
ALBANY, n. Y, Feb. 1.-THE gov
ernor to-day received a telegram from
Greenwood, Steuben county, inform
ing him that at the sale of land for
taxes Friday, 200 armed men appeared
for the purpose of intimidating buy
ers which they succeeded in doing.
The dispatch asked for assistance.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21

nation would have persisted. Capital
never saved any nation, but it has
ruined many. It has but three c har
acteristics, -timidity, cunning, and
selfshneSs.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21

The resumption act is not an act to
resume specie payments; the men who
framed it know that specie payments
cannot be resumed under it. 1t is
really an act to destroy the green
backs and supply their places with
national bank notes; and thus make
the people pay interest on every dol
lar of the national indebtedness, and
put the whole control of the currency
of the country, and consequently of
its institutions, into the hands of the
national banks. Mr.. Crittenden of
New York, Il leading banker, testified
10th. January 1874 before the House
Committee on Banking and Currency,
as to the way many Of these banks
were started. Is it safe to leave the
destinies of the Republic in such
hands! Here is Mr.. Crittenden's tes-
timOny:
Il believe that of those 1000 ma
tional banks there are not two-thirds
Oh JlltiIl SOutlO lO-uby ~ iie9u NV
two-thirds in number. In the vast
proportion of them the capital is very
small. know, for instance, how one
national bank was established, and
presume there were hundreds estab-
lished in the same way. l say, know
national bank Of 100000 capital,
whose broker in New York purchased
500. 900 of government bonds and
paid for them. The owners Of the
bank furnished the margin between
the 30 per cent. in currency, which
they were allowed on the deposit of
the bonds and the cost of the bonds.
and that margin was all the capital
that was ever put into the bank.
| The broker sent the bonds to Wash
| ington. got his 90 per cent. on the
dollar in currency, and got the mar
gin from the gentleman who establish
ed the bank. That bank. in the late
crisis, was one of the first to suspend.
but resumed shortly. and is going on
again as before. 1t has banking
| house which cost over $50 900.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
POSTAGE.

We are compelled to prepay postage on
al papers sent out from our office. Prlor
Ito January lst, 1875, subscribers paid
twenty cents each at the local post-oftlce
We now pay the postage for them. II
amounts TO fifteen cents per annum. Those
/ who have not paid us are respectfully urged
. o remit at once.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
HOW TO ORGANIZE GREEN
RACK CLUBS.


| Below is simple form for the Or
] ganization of Greenback Clubs, for
| che use of any community deslrOus
{ of organization. Let the workers IN
every town organize at once.
The =. Independent
Greenback club:
SEC. |. This organization shall be
! DENT GREENBACK CLUB.
SEC. ,. Its object shall be. to aid in
publishing the principles of the Green
back party, to the people by getting
,peakers, holding meetings. etc.
j. SEC. 3. Its officers shall be 4 Presi-
\. emit. Vice President, Secretary and
Treasurer.
SEC. 4. Its meetings shall be held
from time to time. ut such times and
in such places as may be appointed by
the Club, through its executive COM
.mittee and proper officers.
SEC. 5. The officers shall be elected
every three months. and the first elec-
zion shall be held on the date of the
adoption of this constitution.
See. 6. The expenses of the club
shall DE betrayed by subscription.
SEC. /. Any person can become Il
member of this Club by signing this
CONSTITUTION.
SEC. s. There shall he IN executive
committee appointed by the President,
. whose duty shall be, in connection
With the President and Secretary. to
call meetings, and attend to other
business of the Club.
SEC. .. Upon the application of ten
members of this club 4 meeting shall
be called at any time
SEC. To. This Constitution can be
Qamended by \ two-thirds. vote of the
Club present ut any meeting.
Here is another illustration of the
way in which contraction is blottina
out valuable lives: forno one can read
the following letter of i suicide with
out perceiving that the unfortunate
. man possessed some good qualities:
NEW YORK. Jan: 1873.
Edward +. Underhll, Esq, No. SOC
West Twentieth street. New York:
DEAR Mr.. UNpERuiLL-t trust YOU
will excuse my writing To Won. rs
shall not bother YOU for some time.
| have advertised repeatedly to try
and get steady work. hut have not
been able to get it. My money IS run
ming out. and think it hest for me t,
end my life before become dependent
'upon any one, and while have enough
money to pay my funeral expenses
wish first to thank You for your
kindness To me since l have known
YOU and to assure you that l feel sin
, cerely grateful to YOU. | have done
my best to qualify myself III business
thinking that if did not succeed
, would at least deserve success; but II
isnot my fate to succeed. and l may
as we'll accept it without whining.
know that when commit suicide
people will say | am fool and a III
matte, and such complimentary terms
hut | don't care for the kick of IN ass
. though can't help feeling it. l vii
! be beyond all that very soon. however
| have minded my own business in
life, have paid my own WAY and done
as much good as | could. and will put
nv trust in God for the next world
, Perhaps | may lind out that there is :
hell. though | think we have hel
enough on earth without manufacture
ing one for the hereafter. vt any
rate. if there is hell ii is a comfort
to know THAT there will be no more
winter there. Thanking YOU ones
more for Your kindness 10 me. re
! main yours truly,
FRED HoNCK.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-21
REMiTlANCES.

Parties renting money are requested to d
rect it to Ignatius Donnely, Box 3S4, T. y,
: St. Paul, Mimi, and to send by draft, cheek,
registered letter or postal order. Money sent in
sny other wav will be at the risk OF the sender.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-26
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
OFFICIAL.
10 the Qualified Electors Of the State
Of Louisiana.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY or State, J
Err tItrn rxrr i rnnrr sxt A M


OFFICE OF SECRETARY or STATE. J
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
New Orleans, July II, 1878. J
In pursuance OF article 1a7 of the constit,l.
tion OF this State publ lion ID hereby given
to the voters of this State of the proposed
amendments to the constitution Of this State
agreed to by two-thirds of the members
elected to each house Of the General Assem-.
bly,, at Its session Of 1873, and which are re.
quired to be published, three months before
the next general election for Representatives
to the General Assembly, in at least one news
paper In every parish of this State, in which
newspaper shall be published Said amend
ments appear more fully LII acts Nos. 10 and
ID OF the regular session of the General AS
semhly Of 1878, and In act No. IL Of the extra
session Of the General Assembly of 1878,
which are officially published for the informa-
tlon of the voters, and which will be submit
ted to the people at the next general election,
to be held on the fifth day of November,
lnextl 1878, In such d manner and form that
the people may vote for or against each
amendment, separately, and Ii q majority Of
the votes at said election shall approve and
ratify all or either of said amendments, the
same shall become part Of the constitution.
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary OF State.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-26
OFFICES OF REGISTRATION.

MAYoRALTY OF New ORLEANS !
City Hall. August 30, 1878.
The following mentioned Identities have been
sselected for offices Of registration in the diff
ferent wards of the city. viz
First Ward-No. 378 st. Charles, corner OF
Mepomene street,
Second Ward-No. 24 Carondelet, between
Delord and St. Joseph streets.
hird Ward-No Perdido street. near st.
Charles.
Fourth Ward-Rampart. corner Of Cont
street,
Fifth Ward-Rampart, corner of st. Ann
Sixth Ward-No. 1so Hospital near Burgundy
street
Seventh Ward-Corner OF Lapeyrouse and
Claiborne streets.
Eighth Ward-Corner of Greatmen and Poet
streets,
Ninth Ward-Corner of Greatmen and FL.
miro streets.
Tenth Ward-Beeond door from tho corner Of
st. Mary and St. Charles streets.
Eleventh Ward-Corner Washington and
Magazine streets.
Twelfth Ward-:At the Market-house.
.Thirteeth Ward-Northeast corner Of Maga-
zine and Bordeaux streets
Fourteenth Ward-Magazine. between Peters
Avenue and Octavia street.
Fifteenth Ward-At the AIgfers court house
Sixteenth Ward-Court- house.
Seventeenth Ward-Corner of Second and
Jefferson streets. ED. PILBBURY