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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-25
BY MI. Behan-

Resolred That permission be and is hereby
granted to Macmillan Hermann to put up
small engine and boiler at No. Charities
street, for the purpose Of running a coffee
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27
4 Gigantic Bridge Enterprise.

Mr.. John Waddell, contractor for the
foundations of the North British rail
way bridge across the Forth, recently
began operations with large staff Of
workmen. Starting from abutments
on the high ground overlooking the
foreshores on either side of the Firth,
the bridge is to be carried in the form
of light lattice girder structure upon
cylindrical brick columns to the edge
of the water. AS far as this part of the
work is concerned, it is not believed to
present any feature Of difficulty. But
in the two great spans, each 1000 feet
long, which are to form the central por-
ton OF the structure, there has to be
faced one of the most difficult engineer
ing feats imaginable. Regarding this
portion of the work the Scotchn,dn says
that at the point on each side of the
estuary where the bottom begins to
shelve rapidly downward, there is to be
placed an immense composite pier,
consisting of four groups of iron col
umns-sixteen columns in all-firmly
bedded on easements of masonry and
securely braced together throughout
SuCA CuNIiC hSibhSs ONSi Wiz tOYS VI
these piers will be carried immense
chains, to whose shoreward ends will DO
anchored lponderous masses Of ma
sonry, and these, being continued over
two similar piers, placed on the island
Of Inchgarvie in mid-channel, will
afford, on the suspension principle, such
assistance as is estimated to be requir-
ed in supporting the spans, which, of
course. will also rest at either end upon
the framework of the piers. The
height of the great 1-6OO-feet spans has
been fixed at $50 feet, to reach which
level the shoreward section will require
as in the case of the Tay bridge, to
have certain gradient, and When it is
added that the piers will reach the
height of from 500 to 600 feet, some
idea may be formed of the imposing
appearance which the completed strnc-
ture will present.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27

case with their own notes. The full lie.
gal tender notes will of greater value
than those Of the other class, unless
both are redeemable in gold at COM
mercial centres. 1t is believed by the
comptroller that this proposed substitu-
ton is impracticable, and that the re-
peal of national bank accounts will re-
suit not in an additional issue of treas
u-y notes but in the restoration of state
systems similar to those which were
previously in operation.
In regard to resumption, the comp
trollcr says congress has fixed day for
the restoration Of specie standard, and
the legislation needed is that which will
not overthrow but cooperate with the
present well managed monetary insti-
tutlons of the country, in accomplishing
this result When this is done the pres
ent banking system, if then thought
desirable, may be modified without
danger to credito. or business, and the
commercial interests of this great ma
| ton.
Then follows a table showing that
the amount Of reserve held on the LIST
of October last was greater than that
required by law
The treasury department owns one
hundred and forty millions Of coin
which is equal to more than 40 per
cent. Of the issues Of legal tender notes,
and is available for their redemption,
while banks hold nearly one-third OF
the legal tender notes. If the banks of
the country cooperate with tine treas
ury it is impossible that resumption
should fail; but even if cooperation
should not be univeral, it could not ei-
feet the ultimate result, for if any con-
siderable portion of legal tender notes
be exchanged for coin at the
treasury, and withdrawn from
the United States, the notes will become
scarce and can be forced into circula-
ton to supply the requirements of
business and fill the gap. The coin
will soon, therefore, be returned to the
treasury IN payment Of customs, duties,
and internal revenue taxes, and offered
in exchange for greenbacks and coin
certificates, which will be more general
ly accepted, the same as the notes of
the bank Of England and bank of
France are preferred to coin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27

AT last we have the official vote on
congressman in Iowa. In the first
district, McCord, republican, received
1905 votes; Hobbs, democrat, 1915;
Rereman, greenbacker and nationalist,
5,505; scattering, 8.
Second district candidates in the
same order as to party)-Price, 1887
Brannan, $500; Gerger, 1868; scatter
ing, 3.
Third district-UpdegraH, 1928;
O'Donnell, 1O,SS6; Spangler, 5,4O6,
scattering, 3.
Fourth district--Deering, 1874;
Allen. 5,293; Weller, 5,742, scattering,
Is.
Fifth district-Clark, IA, 205; Brown,
900; Carter, 1901; scattering, 2.
Sixth district-Sampson, 14,30S;
Weaver (greenback,) 1886; scattering,
6.
Seventh district-Cummings. IL, SAG;
Gillette (greenback,) 1914; scattering,
Eighth district-Sapp, 15,343; Keat-
ley, 7,453; Hicks, 1850; scattering, 4.
Ninth district-Catpenter, 16,4S9;
Brown, l, POP; Hoggatt, 1888; scatter
ing, "a.
The total republican vote for congress.
men in the state is 131, 200; total oppo
sition vote. 1854. Republican ma
lority on congressman, LAB; on secfe
tary of state, 1865.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27

After Seven Years. Communication. a Man
Yearns for the GallOws... The Cartons
Case Of Jermiah Collins. the Rag.
Picking Wife. Murderer.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Special.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Special.
Jermiah Collins was a rag-picker in
the streets of st. Louis, and because his
wife stole MS money and refused to
cook his victuals he killed her. and,
leaving her body where it fell, went to
his sisters house, fell asleep, to be
awakened for arrest. He admitted the
crime, alleged the reason, said he had
tried on previous occasion to commit
suicide on account of family troubles,
and wanted to be hung. He was tried.
convicted and sentenced to be hung on
the 10th of May, 1872. His attorney.
out OF the charity of his heart, believed
Collins crazy, and frankly wrote to the
governor that Collins foamed at the
mouth, tore his hair and refused to be
party to an application for a stay of
execution or communication, but never
theless he made it for him and
solicited commission of inquiry.
A reprieve postponed his execu-
ton to July 10Th: another to
September 9th; another to the 10Th.
The commission in the meantime met,
looked into the case and unanimously
pronounced verdict of sanity. Yet It
was such n singular phenomenon, that
man actually desired-craved. in
fact-the execution of the sentence of
the law, that the governor, concluding
that time might set all these things
right, COMMITTED the sentence to inn
prisonment for life, erring, iferror there
was on the side Of mercy. Time, has,
however brought no pleasure nor de-
slres of life to poor Jerry, and he takes
the following method to get himself
hung,
ITO His Excellency, Gov. Phelps:
This Is to inform your excellency that
l am confined in this penitentiary going
on seven years, against law. was SEN
fenced to be hung, and never had new
trial Or applied for one. l was forced
to come here against my protest to the
contrary. Now apply to your excell-
ency that you will be 50 merciful rs to
have the law executed IN my case. /
ask no Communication or favors, but that
the law be carried out. BY so doing
you will confer benefit to me, and it
may prove to your own earthly advan-
tage. Your humble obedient servant.
JEREMIAH COLLINS"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27
public, and they are naturally opposed
to being compelled to purchase worth
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public, and they are naturally opposed
to being compelled to purchase worth
less patents. Il is not appropriate for
them to discuss their wrongs. but he
hopes justice may be done them, for as
class they are ready to comply with
every wholesome provision of law. OF
the total number of vessels inspected.
26O belong to the Pacific coast, with a
tonnage oil los. $50; 1920 to the Atlantic
coast, with tonnage of 466,757; $50 to
the western rivers, with a tonnage OF
$685.; S51 to the northern lakes, with
Il tonnage Of 1850, and 81 to the
gulf coast, with tonnage of S6,S31.
FINANCIAL.
Washington dispatches of Nov. 10th
say: The secretary of the treasury has
called for the following $50 bonds oil
TO, interest to cease Feb. 10th, 1879
The following are descriptions of the
bonds:
Coupon bonds dated July LIST, 1865;
$lOO-Nos. l40,0Ol TO l42OUO, both inclusive.
5oo-Nos. 80 col to 10000, both inclusive.
], OOO-Nos. 1873 DOL to l97, 900, both inclusive.
Total coupon bonds, 81, 0000O.
Registered bonds redeemable at pleasure o
United States after July LIST, 1870, as follows:
$50-Nos. 1886 to 2 493, both inclusive.
l0O-Nos. '9l51 to 1929, both inclusive.
5W-Nos. IL PSI to 1 ,279, both inclusive
], 00-Nos 3S 65l to 80 600, both inclusive
5, 000-Nos. ~ l0l to 1889, both inclusive.
III, COO Nos. 235i! to 2l,1aO, both inclusive.
Total registered bends, $3,CCO,0OO
Aggregate, $500O,0OO.
The treasury now holds:
U. S. bonds to secure national bank
circulation S3iS, 040, 20,
Y. 5. bonds to secure public deposits. 49, sos, 40
Bonds held to secure per cent loan. 3, 4Sl, 60
U. S. bones deposited for circulation
for the week ending to-day ........ l79, so
U. s. bonds now held for circulation,
withdrawn week ending to-day GAG, 90,
National bank circulation outstanding
currency notes ...... ......... 1921. ,2s, %
Gold notes ........... ............ LAOS, 81
Internal revenue receipts to-day. 333, 10
Custom receipts. ................ -. 339, 20
Receipts Of national bank notes for
week ending to-day, compared with
corresponding week last year-lST7. 1873, 90
-1S7S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2,236, OO
Receipts to-day Observation-Disclosures. 325, 90
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27

ascertained and stated before INDUCING
in q general arraignment. / think It Is
not asking too much in the interest Of
the public service that such rule be
observed by effers of the army like.
wise. General Sheridan's intimidation
that the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
sioux were allowed to select their
present locations owing to systematic
working up Of case by traders and
contractors. This is also made subject
OF emphatic comment by Secre-
tary Schurz, and he states that
TINS policy was adopted by the
department on the earnest nd.
vice OF the distinguished Indian tichte,
and manager, Gen. Crook, who, as a
result OF his long experience with the
Sioux, opposed any policy that would
force the Sioux, against their unani.
nous and determined protest, to stav
on the Missouri river, as seriously en-.
dangering our peaceful relations with
those powerful tribes; and the secretary
adds that so far, ut least, their loyal
conduct seems to have justified the
course adopted. Secretary: Schurz
challenges Gen. Sheridan to produce
evidence in support of his imputa,ions
and meanwhile remarks that it would
not have been asking too much of him
to inform himself little better of the
circumstances before publishing his as.
sertlons in ar official document. The
secretary also makes the following
comment on the remark of Gibbon,
that there is an entire absence of re.
sponsibility in the Indian service: II
Gen. Glbbon, when writing his report,
was cognizant of specific cases Of wrong
doing, he would have obliged tho de.
partment by reporting them, and if
after such report, the charges thus
made had not been enquired into and
the guilty persons held to their proper
responsibility. Sweeping statements
contained in his report would have
been adopted rs justified. If he will
communicate such specific information
now, he will find there is no such lack
of responsibility as he alleges. Severa
employees in the Indian service, who
are now under criminal prosecution
have discovered this at their cost.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27
THE DEATH OF GEN. RENO.

heulhrkaDlc StOry...KenO Said to
Have Been Deliberately Shot by a
Member Of Col. X. d. Hayes Regi.
ment.
The Washington Sunday Herald
prints to-day the following account of
the death OF Mai. Gen. Reno, which it
vouches for as coming from trust
worthy source:
The night before the memorable
battle Of South Mountain the twenty
third Ohio volunteers, Col. II. b. Hayes.
were encamped in a field in which
there were number Of wheat stacks.
The men were tired, and utilized the
wheat in making their beds, to the
destruction necessarily,..of the wheat.
Gen. Reno, passing that way in his
rounds, discovered what they had done,
and upbraided them in no measured
terms for their conduct in destroying
private property, using language that
1t would be idle to repeat; and it was
while he was thus engaged that a
colonel. who is now president OF the
United States. came up, attracted by
the loud tones, and, announcing him
self as the colonel of the regiment, de-
manded what was the meaning of the
language used. Gen. Reno, in terms
more forcible than polite, him and
his regiment. and declared he
held him responsible for the conduct of
his men. The next day, when the line
was advancing on the enemy, Gen.
Reno passed through the twenty-third
Ohio, on his way to the front. Only
light skrimishing was going on at the
time. The general had just left the
flank of the regiment, when one of the
men of the twenty-third Ohio fired and
killed him. AT the time he was shot he
was at least three-quarters of mile
from tho enemy's line. Col. Skies who
was at the battle of South Mountain as
captain in the twenty-third Ohio volun-
teers, was afterward ma or of the eighty
eighth Ohio, and at present is trading at
Fort Clark, Texas, tells the above re-
markable story, which comes from an
officer of the army to whom Skies re-
lated it some time ago."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27

The Louisville Courier Journal says
that "the editor of the Ouachita, La,
Telegraph publishes an engraving of
himself to show that it does not require
good-looking man to edit very poor
paper"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27

HAPPY MAx.-The brighter lights of
the Strakosch Opera troupe gathered
round them few friends on Saturday
evening for quiet little supper. The
talk turned on Max Strakosch's new
play.
"He's got a TOOTH" said a gentleman
sitting at the end Of the table.
"Max is very proud of his baby"
said Miss Kellogg, who was sitting at
the other end.
eyes," said the gentleman, still car
rying out his own train of thought,
"and he's got more coming
Miss Kellogg shrieked and dropped
her napkin and her knife and fork,
while the gentleman still further en-
livened matters by insisting that his
reference was solely to the eeth.-Cin-
cinnati Times.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27

The favorite dish with impecunious
swells is woodcock on trust.-PiHsburgh
Telegraph.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-27
IlOyiIS Certificates.

It is no vile drugged stuff. pretending
to be made Of wonderful foreign roots,
banks, &C., and pulled up by long bogus
certificates of pretended miraculous
cures, but a simple, pure, effective
medicine, made Of well known valuable
remedies, that furnishes its own certifi-
cate by its cures. We refer to Hop
Bitters, the purest and best Of medi-
cines. See "Truths" and Proverbs"
in another column.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-22

and workingmen need employment, and q
liberal policy for the improvement Of the
great national channels Of commerce, like the
Mississippi river and It's tributaries"
The platform ends with an expression OF
strong disapproval OF war claims.
There are probabilities OF this platform
being accepted by the recalcitrant Republic
cans, as it Is about as good O one as any they
can frame. There is, it is true, not man In
the Union, excepting Hayes possibly, who can
swear he believes in all of its planks; there Is
not State In the Union that would endorse
it as whole. Yet there Is not section OF the
country that cannot find in it something
pleasant and agreeable. New York must re-
joice, for instance, over the proposed resump-
ton and the opposition to Initiation; Pennsyl-
vania and New England are promised protec-
ton; the Mississippi Valley and the South
government buildings, new harbors and the
Improvement OF the Mississippi, the work
ingmen are promised work, and the ultra
Radicals are left the war claims to howl over
as the last torn remnant Of the bloody shirt.
Finding the Republican party broken up
into hundred discordant elements. Hayes
evidently thinks that the only way to unite
them again is by this still more discordant
r,Ja t form
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-22

Political combinations and alliances are no
litical reasons have hitherto been unknown in
this country. 1t looks, however, as if new
system, such as prevails among the diplo-
matists of the Old World is about to be intro
duced here. 1t was announced the other day
that the Shermans were reaching out and
marrying with the Camerons, the powerful
Pennsylvania leaders. The Shermans have
already a pretty large political family al
lance. The Ewings, who are related to them,
Blaine, another knsman, leads the Hayes op-
position. The family has thus got represent
atives in all the political parties of the day,
the Administration, anti-Administration
Democratic, Republican, hard money and soft
money parties, and is we'll represented in the
Cabinet, the Senate the House and the army.
number of other similar alliances that
have lately taken place in Washington have
given rise to the suspicion that the great po-
ltical leaders of this country, like the
crowned heads of Europe, are endeavoring to
strengthen their position by alliances with
all parties and factions. The greatest diplo-
macy of European minister is to arrange a
successful royal marriage. The Austrian
ministers were famous for this, and won for
their emperors more by marriages than by
wars The Sherman family seem imitators
of the Hapsburg, and are acquiring by judi
cious marriages an immense and powerful po-
litical influence which, it is whispered, some
member of that family will attempt to utilize
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-22

Tt was announced several months ago that
the administration was looking around for
reformed and revised platform for the Repub-
Iican party. Somehow or other the original
platform on which Hayes had been elected to
office did not fit the present condition OF
affairs, and was out of date; or, in other
words, such broad differences had arisen be-
tween the administration and the Republican
party that it was necessary to lind some
issues on which the two factions could
unite.
This was no easy matter. The differences
between the two sections of the party were
extremely bitter, and they seemed more
widely separated than even the Democratic
and Republican parties themselves. Months
have elapsed since this announcement was
made without the discovery of any issue on
which the two opposing factions could unite.
It began to look very much as if this union
could not be made before the fall campaign
came on.
But at last, SO the papers announce, that
much sought platform has been found, and
found by newspaper, the Cleveland Herald
The administration now offers its Republican
opponents the following issues: Resumption
and protective tariff; opposition to imitation
ri ALI kinds. The "anti-Catholic" question,
with which Hayes fondly imagines he
carried the gubernatorial election in Ohio
In 1874 is made national one in this
administration platform. The fifth plank
is an ingenious one indeed, bidding, as
II does. for the vote of the South, the
Mississippi Valley and the workingmen.
n demands the speedy completion OF
all public works, such as river ana haroor
public buildings and fortiflca-
lions, now that labor and materials are cheap
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-22
TO THE CITIZENS OF NEW ORLEANS.

With view to secure to the people Of this
city the exclusive and permanent control
and direction OF the New Orleans Pacific
Railway, SO that 1t shall not pass into alien
hands, or be controlled to the detriment OF
the trade and commerce of this place. or to
the injury Of our agricultural interests, or to
prevent or delay the speedy development Of
Louisiana by discouraging immigration, but
used to strengthen and uphold the credit OF
State and city by making their bonded debts
secure and reliable beyond possibility OF
failure, and to popularize the enterprise still
more with the mass Of our fellow-citizens by
Offering eligible Inducements to them to sub
scribe for the stock OF the company. the
direction now address you To float success
fully the five millions Of first mortgage bonds
to be issued by the. company for the con-
struction and equipment of the road,
the direction deem two proceedings pre-
cedent both wise and necessary. First, to fix
the total amount of stock to be issued at one
and a half millions of dollars until the line
has been open for five years to traffic; and
second, to give by local subscriptions encour-
agement to purchasers of bonds to repose
implicit faith In their absolute safety as an
investment. The first has been done, and the
second the people are now invited to favor and
complete, as follows:
The stock of the company is now offered to
subscribers on the following terms, to wit:
Five per cent in cash of amount of subscrip-
ton at time of subscribing, and the balance in
notes payable monthly, as follows: Ten per
cent January 1, 1879; 10 per cent February Il;
10 per cent March 1; 10 per cent April l; 10
per cent May 1; 10 per cent June l; 10 per
cent July /; 10 per cent August 1; Is per cent
September 1, 1879.
This liberal plan it is hoped, will meet the
approval of every one, and on Monday, the
twenty-second instant books of subscription
will be opened at the office of the company.
1t Is proposed to issue stock untransferable
on the books Of the company for the amount
subscribed by each person, which will entitle
the holder to vote at all elections of the COM
pany, but not to claim transferable stock
until his subscription has been paid In full in
cash.
The president of the company can exercise
his discretion in accepting or rejecting sub
scriptions.
By order of the Board of Directors.
Z. B. WHEELoCK, President.
New ORLEANS, April 81, 1878.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-22

will be permitted to serve a limited number of
mares at my stables. 81 and IS Baronne street,
at TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS the season.
CLOUD MAMBRINO. five years old, fifteen
hands and three inches high. beautiful black.
and can trot in 2:35, and has been handled very
little Cloud Mambrino was sired by Cloud
Mambrino, he by Dan Underhill. he by Flying
Cloud, Of Long Island and he by Wells Black
Hawk. the sire of Ethan Allen. The dam of
Cloud Mambrino was Lady Brown. she by Nam
brine Paymaster. she by Old Mambrino, she by
imported Messenger.
CLOUD MAMBRIN0. JR's.. dam was by Shaw
down in the eos. and the mother of Cloud
Mambrino could pace in the 2:ao's.
also have three year old that has been sent
the best colt ever brought to this city: his sire
is Goldsmith Abdalla. by Volunteer; first dam
Martha by Abdalla. second dam by Conklin's
dam by Mickey. / will let him serve three or
four Mares good ones. ap14 1m2dp