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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-17

SECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
> parish Of Orleans. No. 1857 - Whereas,
Victor Sere has petitioned the court for
letters Of administration on the estate OF the
late Francois Lacrox. deceased. Notice is hereby
given to all whom it may concern to show
cause within ten days why the prayer OF the
said petitioner should not be granted.
By order Of the court.
DIES - IT. JOHN HERBERI, clerk.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-17
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER IT, 1873

second Ward. g. N. Ardisi Third Ward, z; 4.
Warren: Fourth Watd. T. J. Martini rum
Ward ID. n, Simmons. Sixth Ward, ". d. oalo
we'll.
Given under my signature and the seal o. tho
| State N Louisiana nj the city o. New Orleans'
this sixteenth day of December. A. u. 1873.
WILL A. STRONG,
q Htatn
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Mary Weir, Widow Of IsidOrc Gerard, VS..
Iop w

T'HIRD DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PAR,
/ ish Of Orleans. No. 81. 499. by virtue OF writ
Of seizure and sale to the Civil Sheriff Of tho PR
iah Of Orleans directed by tho honorable the
Third District Court for tho parish OF Orleans.
in tho above entitled Cause will Iroceed to soil
Mt public auction. Mt tho Merchants aud huct
tioneers Exchange. Royal street. botwoeD Canal
and Cusomhouoe streets in the Second District
of this city on SATURDAY, January II, 1879. Mt
- clock M. the following described property.
to wit
TWO LOTS OF GROUND. with tho buildings
and improvements thereon, situated IN tho
Second District Of thfe city. In squire bounded
by Chnrtree ST. Philip. II bya and Dumaine
streets. and designated by tho nnmbers two and
three on IL plnn In the Office Of J.. Lhcoste late n
notary public In this city Lot number two
measuring twenty-five feet two inches ana lol
number three twcni y two feet hree inches front
on Chartres street by depth Of sevnnty ilve
feet six inches six lines. between parallel lines.
Being the Same property purchased by ~"
defendant hprein from Maria Rachel Fitz. by
net passed before Theo. Guyol. notary public
In this city on the first day of June. 1876.
Soized in the above suit.
Terms Cash on the spot.
j. ALCEE GAUTHREAUX,
Civil Sheriff Of tho Parish OF Orleans.
de10 II "a 81 la7 II
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FACTORS AND TRADERS
INSURANCE COMPANY,
AZ .CarOndeIet street............37
ASSETS APRIL 80, 1878, Sl,208, 316 IA.

~ ,CAFOHue1cL a q
ASSETS APRIL 80, 1878, Sl,268,3l6 IA.
ED, A.IPALFREY. President.
JOHN CHAFFE. Vice President
THOS. F. WALKER. Secretary,
Trustees.
John I. Noble. B. F. Eschelman.
John Chaffe. W. C. Black.
Richard Milliken, Charles Chaffe.
T. 7. Warren, L. C. Jurey,
Samuel Friedlander. VIM. Hartwell.
"A. Yates, c. J. Leeds.
r M Walmesley A. T. Janin.
A.H.May. Joseph Bowling.
T. Lytt. Lyon. A. NJ. Bickham,
Samuel e. Boyd, Henry Abraham
Joseph McElroy. Louis Bush.
VIM. ]. Behan, A. Brittin.
81 G. ". Sentell.
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leans, Mobls and IeXA5 KaIIFOad %.
ct al.-No. 1913
DY ORDER OF THE COURT. NOTICE IS
ID given that the said plaintiff has filed his
final reports Of the sale OF the property In
euded III the deeds Of trust. Of the deeds to be
made to purchasers at the sale and OF the
moueyto be distributed. and the tableaux Of dis
tribution among the holders Of bonds. and the
same have been referred ID the Master for ex-
animation and a report upon the same.
The Master will on and after the tWenty-sec-
ond instant hold sessions In his office, to receive
objections to the report Of the Trustee, and will
make his report to the court thirty days from
this date, December !. 1873. under the order Of
the court. F.. WOOLFLEY, Master.
J. a. CAMPBELL,
des lot Solicitor for Plaintiff.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES, DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA.

FRANK NJ. AMFs. TRUSTEE. vs.. NEW OR
leans Mobile and Texas Railroad Go.
at pl-No 7u72
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II. weston vs.. Canal street, City Park and
Lake Railr6ad Company,

Civil Sheriff 81 the Parish Of Orleans,
nOi9 &c de3 10 II Il
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1878-05-10
Now . Delaware Women cnrca her
husband Of On Over.F ondness
for ljuuor.

4 woman reading In tllis town.
becoming tired III tho constant potA.
tions 81 her husband, determined to
try desperate remedy % c,lre him.
Ono hight lie came staggering into
the house and said he wns very
sick man, and In u moment or two
he wins comfortably settled on tho
nofn In drunken sleep. Ilis face
WAS reddish purple. his breathing
heavy, md altogether h. wHs ii pit.
liable object, The doctor VIII ren,
for post haste.
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pulse, md examined him. md found
that he wns only drunk. h. said.
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ing
Buf tho wife insisted thut In wns
very sick. and that severe remedies
mnat be used.
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ply hllstera," SHE urged, "or | will
semi for some one that WILL
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piled. The patient lay all night In i
drunken sleep, md Notwithstanding
the bllsters. Il wins not till near
morning that he began 20 hen, about
disturbed with palm. About daylight
hc walked up 10 most tlnssmfurt.
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what docs this mean liz suId
putting HI. hands 10 the bnn,la.rl
head.
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the wife, you have been taken very
sick"
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fever. We have worked With you I'LL
night.
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tneni ~ hnsts Tor the redemption
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places tn. money IT thu country IN.
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ton Ut bankers, and by them ~ b.
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Ing about, costing tho people moth /
Ing. but when retired WILL ncrarunl.
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bo converted Into Interest bearing |
bonds. and n,ltl about eli, OODtslO an. |
nnAlly u our already heavy burden
vi taxation.
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AND Demanded q Repeal ~ Their
Charters.
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should =. placed upon tic -ain. In. /
rlS - other branches III business and /
thai ~ 'he Constitution delegates 4
~ tahrlttas 'nr varlaal,r right \
I'D coli money, regulate
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credit. ani III 40 manner restricts |
tia functions II such hills 81 .f,slt; 1
AMI ~ tiir rate ~ interest paid /
for ill., use of money II IL value.
anil not he natrri.ll uf which Ii /. /
inait, ~ believe IL 10 h. tie iminin,
tive duty ~ Congress til irgnla'rl
III. rl'ns ihrnurliuAs ill., rpAulr, liz l
rnin not exceeding that uf Tho INT.
urAl Increase ~ wealth by rrndur.
tive Industry. thereby placing tho
value Of money equal with TINT ~
productive property or labor Ma.
tionai Labor Tribune.
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tTv'Hatt fril'tI.fihI m excellent tutile II taken
VI 01Jt1tHd sla bs Hll Drnxgists
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In II niiraNry Mh.isin fl life nnh
IN iHh lnsteai ~ nrsint III frsliInI.
thsfa il alirn ID b. iouad II. Hulln
las Syrup, Prize. 81 eenia i bnttle.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-01-24
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

EDWARD TATRo, the Highgate muir
derer, of Vermont has been sentenced to be
hung on the first Friday OF April, 1880.
WHILE returning home from a visit
in one OF the most frequented sections OF
Chicago, on the night of the 10Th inst, Hugh
Mcconnell was set upon by two roughs
named Patrick Sherry and j erry COnley, and
fatally stabbed in the abdomen.
The jewelry store of Simon & Rod
burg, Baltimore, Md, was robbed on the
night of the 10th inst, of gold and silver
watches, diamond rings, ETC., valued at
$4,000.
SUIT was commenced at Chicago on
the 18th inst, by the government against
Macarthur, late postmaster, and his bonds
men, Tor $4,000 the sum in which he is said
to be deficient in his accounts.
THE wife of VIM. Mcqueen, the we'll
known packer, of St. Louis, hung herself
on the 10th inst. She was derangcd. She
was formerly of Peru, Mich.
AT New York, on the 18th inst,
James Jacques murdered his mistress, Mrs.
Surman, who was pregnant at the time
Jacques then ended his own career by shoot
ing himself. Jacques kept the Jacques
Hotel, IN Chicago, i'll 1872, where he became
a. luainted with Mrs. Surman.
GAnBoTEkS attempted to waylay a
messenger and rob him of g, 700, in New
York city, in broad daylight, on the 10Th
inst. The Williams We're captured after an
exciting chase through the crowded streets
IN q wagon.
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ABROAD.

IHE British royal geographical society
resolved to give banquet in honor of
Henry NJ Stanley and to invite him to read
paper on his explorations.
The merchants. bankers and shipown-
ers OF New York have prepared a memorial
to congress against the reconciliation of
silver.
The funeral of Mccarthy, the Fenian,
took place at Dublin, on the Goth inst.
There were 40 bands in the procession,
which was the largest since the burial of
Daniel OConnell. 1t is estimated that Co.
600 persons followed the remains to the
cemetery.
ALEXANDRA RENE DETHoN, republi-
can member of the French chamber of
deputies, died on the 18th inst.
The Arctic steam yacht Pandora, was
purchased by James Gordon Bennett, on the
18th inst. 1t is stated that Mr.. Bennett de-
signs fitting out polar expedition.
1. B. JAMES, a well known manufac-
.urer OF boilers, committed suicide on the
18th inst, al Cincinnati. Cause, financial
embarrassment.
MARsHALL's posse in search of illicit
destilleries in Wavne county, Tenn, on the
18th inst, repelled an attack by moonshin-
ers, twenty strong, killing one, wounding
two, and destroying several OF their houses.
The British army and navy estimates
have beer framed on a peace footing.
KING VICTOR EMANUKL was buried at
Resas es les ,fsh inss, -ish great es.emsrs.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE EAST.

HE Mercantile savings bank, of Bos-
ton, will require sixty days notice from de-
positors before withdrawal, as over $500, 900
nave been taken out within two weeks.
THE executors of the estate of Horace
. Greeley made their final settlement with the
Surrogate of Wsstchester county, \. Y. on
the 21st. The estate, consisting largely of
stocks and bonds, which have greatly de-
, preciated in value, it was considered advisa-
/ bic to distribute them among the heirs
There is $163, 900 of such assets, inclusive of
100000 OF Tribune stock. Among the assets
there is, at least, $50, 000 in worthless prom
lSsorv notes, besides $40 900 due the estate
from Cornelius Vanderbilt.
BISHOP CoNNoR, of Nebraska, is
fecturing and collecting III the Catholic
Church OF New York and Brooklyn, for the
purpose OF securing funds to establish and
maintain missions among the Sioux Indians.
SUIT was commenced by the United
States in the L. S. Court, at New York, OH
the 18th inst, against the Erie Railway
Company, to recover SOS, ,405, alleged back
taxation.
The conference Cf the paper-bag man.
ufacturers st Philadelphia, on the 18th inst.
resulted in settlement of differences be-
tween western and eastern manufacturers,
and establishing uniform schedule of prices
ALL the coal mines in the Lehigh re-
gion have suspended for one week, COM
menclng January 10Th.
Mr.. SAMUEL BowLEs, editor of the
Springfield Mass Republican, died on the
night OF the 10th.
BEAR & Sons, fancy goods dealers
Broadway New York made an ASSIGNMENT
on the 10th inst. Liabilities, S1S6,00O; as
sets, $113000.
AssEMBLYMAN JAMES H. TAYLOR, of
New York city, was taken to the Blooming
dale asylum for the insane on the oh inst
His election to the legislature is supposed
to have affected his mind
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lor $4,000. During the fire, several mer
were seriously injured by the fall OF wall
! 1HE revenue cutter sent out from
New Orleans in search of the dredge Nc
Aillster, has returned, and reports that q
number of the pieces of the dredge have
been found. The certainty of her loss il
established beyond doubt.
/ \ BOY named John Hennessy, intend,
ing to frighten some girls, pointed loaded
gun at them, which went off instantly kill
ing Rosa Farrell, aged six, and woInding Q
Two others. The tragedy happeaed at
Philadelphia.
4 sKIFF was carried over dam in
Bymmes Creek, near Huntington, W. Va,
! on the 18th inst, drowning Washington
Russell, Spencer Mitchell, Walter Goodall,
and Jesse Ingham.
THF straw works of Daniel Brown, at
Wr,.-.thani, Mass, was burned on the 18th
ins} Loss $4,000.
tHE schooner Vernal sailed from the
passes at New Orleans on the 9TH inst, with
coal and provisions for The United States
dredge boat at Sabine Pass, and has not been
heard from since. 1t is feared that she is
lost
FOUR men were burned or crushed
TO death by the fall of a shanty at Whining
ton, \. C., on the 10th inst.
\ YOUNG lady named Temple was
burned to death at Columbus, O., on the
10th inst Her clothes caught fire from
pan of ashes which she was carrying.
AT Tariffville, about Is miles from
Hartford, Conn, on the evening OF the 18th
inst, an excursion train returning from a
Moody and Sankey meeting at Hartford fell
through treste bridge into into the Farm
ington river. Two engines, one baggage
and three passenger cars went down. The
latest reports state that the number killed
viii foot up in the neighb arhood of twenty.
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WARRINGTON.

Col. ADAIR, delegate to the Chero-
kee Nation, was before the house commit,
tee on territories on the 2l.t inst and spoke
for more than an hour in opposition to the
bill TO establish the territorial government
of OkalOhoma in the Indian Territory. He
agreed that the proposition was in the in.
terest of land spectators and in violation OF
the treaties and the decision of the supreme
court, and read from the writings of Presi-
dent Washington, Madison, Jefferson and
Jackson and of Calhoun, in support OF the
treaty rights of the Indians.
AT Washington, on the 18th inst,
Bertha Won Hillern accomplished her task
of walking eighty-nine miles in twenty-six
consecutive hours. She finished in good
condition, with her pulse at 104.
The contest over the appointment of
collector of customs of New Orleans was
settled on the 18th inst, by the president
who sent in the name of George Williamson
the present minister resident at Guatemala
City, Central America.
A BILL introduced by Representative
Mills, on the 18th inst, provides that there
shall be granted to the several states for col.
leges for the education of females, public
lands equal to $4,000 acres for each senator
and representative in congress.
The light house board, on the 18th
inst, awarded the contracts for supplying
$500 gallons Of winter strained lard oil TO
the use OF the various lighthouses at from
66 6S-l00 to "a cents.
The senate committee on naval affairs
reported in favor of the bill appropriating
100000 for the removal of the national OBJ.
servatory at Washington to a location where
fogs rising from the river will not lessen the
power of the instruments nor malaria influ.
ence those in charge.
ARGUMENTS were made on the 10th
inst, by some woman's rights advocates
against the 18th amendment, claiming that
the constitution as it now stands gives
American women the right to vote, there
fore no amendment for that purpose was
necessary.
A BILL introduced in the house, by
Mr.. Blair, to facilitate open correspondence
through the mails, and reducing postage
thereon, provides that such matter as NAV
now be transmitted through the mails on
postal cards may hereafter be transmitted
IN unsealed envelopes, at the rate of one
cent for each quarter ounce. Postal cards
however, to be supplied as at present
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THE WEST.

The wholesale glass, paint and oil firm
Of Page & Sprague, Chicago, H., failed on
the 21st inst. Secured liabilities $l95, 900,
with securities of 100000 quoted as worth
less; unsecured debts $1,000; liabilities on
bills and discounts $116500.
TIE tailors union organized a strike
for an advance of from % to 40 per cent. in
wages, at Chicago on the Dist inst.
The citizens of Lebanon, Mo-, irres-
pective of party, gave a grand banquet on
the night of the 10Th inst, to Hon. II. P.
Bland, author of the silver bill now before
congress.
The Southern Pacific railrad authori-
ties announce that they will complete their
road to Mariposa Wells, Arizona, during the
present season.
A BISMARCK special says the Indians
are collecting in the Milk River country,
and trouble is feared.
ONE of the richest discoveries ever
Eade was that at the Ranter mines, short
distance from Pueblo, Cal. Mr.. Mum, an
old prospector, struck a lode of ore from
which assays the enormous sum OF 81 , ,990 in
gold and 81 100 in silver per ton.
IT commenced showing on the Sierra
Nevada mountains on the morning of the
14th inst The storm steadily increased, be-
coming furious all the way from Virginia 10
Sacramento-the heaviest for several years.
On the morning of the 10th inst. sheds at
COlfaX were blown down, taking all the
telegraph wires. During the day wires were
continually broken by falling trees on the
mountains, and communication west was en-
tirely cut off, west of Emigrant Gap. Over
four feet OF snow had fallen al Summit, and
it was still falling steadily from Emigrant
Gap east to Virginia City, accompanied by
heavy wind
MAJOR HART, of the Fifth cavalry,
captured Bannock camp on Snake river,
on the 10th. Fifty-fve hostiles, some arms,
and fifty horses were taken.
SITTING BULL and his band are still
at their old quarters near Fort Walsh. No
instructions have been received by the
British authorities to assign the band to any
reservation. The story that white captive
is held by Sitting Bull is regarded as "a fab
ricatien, as police officers have been con-
tinually in the Sioux camp and have failed
to hear or see the faintest trace of white
man there.