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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
A HAT.IS-IT.
speculatIOns of Disinterested Spectators
As to the secret, and That
solved at Last.

Hey, hol what's all this 2" was the remark
made by rural gentlemen who walked Into
the State Auditors office yesterday and glanced
at four singularly shaped circular box arrange
ments, with crank attachments. located on the
top of the desk used by the Auditors messen-
ger.
II don't know" was the mild response of the
gentleman to whom the remark was addressed
unless they are the lightning cacuators that
are used in footing up tax collector $ settle
ments.n o, ,o .ha. ,noun 10
marked q third party. for two OF these con-
Germs are made of iron, the third OF copper and
the fourth Of amalgamated zinc. ana you know
there's no chalk attachments or patent black
board combi nations. and they always go with
those calculators.
I down h sbbs by the gsea sarvee
manner Of old State indebtedness sent here
from Europe to be funded" remarked the first
.Wei.' said No. 2. Il never yet saw any old
Indebtedness, as You call il. with handle be-
fore and each of these contraptions, has q
handle. I believe it's some of the old State
records petrified. that went out of this office
into the Custom House"
There you're mistaken again." said No. 3.
! They are patent stamps sent here by same en-
terprising Eastern patentees to assist the Audi
tor and Secretary OF state IN affix1ng their sig
natures and the seal Of the State to new consos,
Don't you see there's round hole in one where
you can put the stamps in by the box, and then
there's that crank (pointing to an Il inch re-
voIving crank to grind them out again"
No that can't be it, replied No. |. but
can s.lve the problem. These are the n machines "a
returning boards in counting the Fl rida and
Louisiana returns. Can't yqqu, see those dials
that jump from 0 to 1000, and I'll bet a, touch on
hand from zero to the figures 1000 in a flash:
Now look"
Suiting the action to the word. the gentleman
49, pfy md riy-irr nra +fIYrl a
terrible racket came from the interior Of the
iron concern. There, I told you So" re-
marked the gentleman alluded TO. That Is a
made expressly for Louisiana and Florida,
Yes. bnt they're not all alike" remarked
No, Q, These two tpointing 10 the two small
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
M X. VAN HILL.

Our report of the killing of VIM. r. Gibson by
J. r. Lawless, the pilot Of tho steamer
Fanchon. came in at so late an hour
last night that it was not submitted to
supervision oil the editors having gone
home For this reason it contains an unjust
criticism of Mr.. Van Hill. which we cheerfuy
correct. Mr.. Van Hill. as we have ascertained.
Ia by birth IL gentleman and occupies good
rank among our steamhoatmen. He Is con-
nected with the best families Of st. Landry, and
two of his sisters have married In New Orleans
pAntl tlamen of the highest respeetabilitY.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

Officer Frank Davy, Of the Harbor Precinct
must have held full hand Of clubs. if the af1-
davit sworn out against him before Judge Mil
tenberger is true.
The affidavit sets forth hat the accused, with
out cause or provocation, dubbed a stranger
named Charles Leon while conveying him TO
prison.
Chief Boylan has ordered Sergeant Rourke to-
Investigate the mater.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

Sunday evening man by the name or Col
lum was at the New Lake End In search OF hls
missing from their homes. on Claiborne street.
near Lafayette. since the twenty sixth Instant
The two children, when last seen. were IN
skiff in the New canal. in company With
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
BREvITIEA.

The first OF May. with picnios. ham sand
wiches. pickles and lemonade. is upon US.
Sub-Treasury deposits yesterday. from all
sources. $596l5 81.
The Merry Entertainers give their second
complimentary soiree at Mrs. A. T. Yenns. No.
lat st. Andrew street ankthe tenth instant
Street beggars are on the increase. One gem
teman received eighteen calls at MS mouse
yesterday from them.
1t is strange that the holder Of ticket No 40o7
which won the sewing machine at the picnic OF
the Sons of Louisiana on Sunday, April Il. has
not yet called for his prize.
The St John Rowing Club will celebrate their
sixth anniversary by agrand regatta at the New
Lake End tomorrow. commencing at O'Clock
.. N.
Now doth the pensive barkeeper ruminate
over brandy cocktail chewing the cud OF sweet
and bitter fancy with alternate imprecations
against the Moffett register.
Saturday the fourteenth instant. has been Sc
lected as commencement day of the Law Dc
partment. University of Louisiana The cert
monies will take place at Odd Fellows Hall at
Il O'Clock M, and the law class is anxious thai
the public should attend.
This evening at 4:3o o'clock the regatta of the
Louisiana Rowing Club takes place at the Bayou
st. John. The occasion will draw a large num-
Der of the friends of that popular boat club
which though yet young. has long roll Of
members. From what we have heard the 'fairer
sex" will attend en- neasse.
Redwitz has the very newest patent Moffett
Register arranged expressly for the consump-
ton of beer, and with it is a telephone attach
ment connecting it with the district telegraph
lines in the city. by which means every family
in the city which has box is advised when
pater faniltas walks into Redwitz,s and sings
'one lager" or two Milwaukee,. as the case
may be.
Eleven gentlemen of capital from Chicago
passed through our city yesterday on their way
TO Central America for the purpose OF eApior,,
the advantages of opening a trade with them.
They chartered vessel and loaded her with
commodities for trading. and If successful.
have given orders for the purchase OF two
steamers at Toledo. which will be sent down to
start line.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
THE NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER.

MIR. Chas. q. johnson. who has been appoint
ed Police Commissioner twice Hugh Kennedy.
ESQ. whose torn has expired', Ia gentleman
we'll known in this community as one of Its
worthiea and most enterprising citizens. Mr..
johnson has for many years been established
here in the foundry business. and has the re-
putation of being very wealthy.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

BARNES HoTEL.-No doubt the public will be
delighted to learn that this celebrated summer
resort at Mississippi City will be opened this
season under the most favorable auspices. Gen.
Chas. E. Smeades and John E. Rowland having
assumed control thereof. These gentlemen
have had long experience in hotel keeping
and are we'll versed In all its requirements. and
possess the happy faculty of making their
guests comfortable, eontented and happy. For
further particulars see card in another column
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
AMIsEM ENTS.
NAV Pole Matinee.

The grand May Pole Matinee which will be
given on Sunday next at the Opera House. will
be another Of those fashionable entertainments
of which our people are Justly proud, and,
we expect to see the house full when 1t takes
place. All the children who appeared at the
floral festival wi take part IN the various
tableaux that will be presented. The receipts
will be for the benefit OF the Association Of the
Servants of the Poor
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Kate Putnam appears again tonight at this
theatre.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
Fire.

At o'clock yesterday morning fire. ,Eup-
was discovered in the woodshed attached to
house on Laurel street. between Harmony Jana and
Pleasant. The shed WAS total ~ destroyed. Ine
property is owned and corrupted by Mr.. P. Lawfs.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
PER SONAL.

Yesterday we were greeted with the ever
genial face of Col J. o. Nixon. the hosptable
City. who dropped over here for day or two.
He reports that already the tide of summer Wis
itors has commenced to flow toward the coast
watering places and the prospects are that
they will be crowded very early in the season.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
Discovered But Not Captured.

While Officers Eagan and Bowling we're
patroing their beats at the Vicksburg landing
they discovered two negroes In the act Of steai
ing two half sacks of coffee. The officers gavt
chase. but, as usual. the would be thieves bsina
more feet Of foot. made good their escape, Aftel
dropping their booty. Re
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

At about O'Clock Monday evening an en-
ployee OF Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Rail-
road. while attempting to couple cars. had ais
head squeezed to such an extent that it laid
open both his cheeks, which were sewed up by
Dir. Dyer. His injuries are severe though not
DANGEROUS.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

Commerce to secure the aid Of the national gov
erument In the enterprise
Cdl. Burwell thereafter offered resolutions
asking Congress for revision Of the treaties
establishment OF postal steam service on the
Atlantic coast: the construction ut the expense
of the United States Of ship canal from ocean
to ocean by way Of the lakes aud through the
territories OF Nicaragua and Costa Kica.
The resolutions were adopted and the meet
ing adjourned.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01
A $50 Fire,

The alarm OF fire turned in from box 3 at 9:3e
O'Clock last night was for a small blazs at No.
111ish4d b Iacksnn No 1a ard the SalYaRe
Corps with dana Of $50,
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

Now is the time for planters and merchants
tn give their orders. SO as to be in time for the
growing crops when gathering time comes; In
this respect we refer our readers to the adver-
tisement of +, T. Layiilebeuvre, in another col
umn. agent of the Old Stacker Iron Works OF
TennaSSaA.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

LIQUIDATION sALE.-A large sale is going on
Marks Levy & Co. Nos. % and 50 Magazine
street. commep cling at 1890 a. Quite large
number Of the knowing ones were on hand yes
is time wasted in the bidding. Mr. Alex
Levy is undoubtedly champion autioneer !:
the intelligence and rapidity and i'm with
which he dispatches business Is remarkable.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

and carefully managed the Coionnade Hotel
offers unequaied inducements to Philadelphia
visitors
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

Moet & Chandon has the call at hotels and
restaurants.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

dry, 1
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-05-01

In the presence Of the coroner and his jury Of
inquest. ] held an autopsy on the body OF VIM
lying dead in the First Precinct Police Station.
and found an incised wound Of the thorax Sit
line between the second and third ribs said
1y wound ei'y was about one inch long and ranged
from left to right, and slightly downward and
mamary artery. causing internal hemorrhage
and death j. q, BEARD, City Physician.
The accused was transferred yesterday morn
ton. and arraignad before Recorder Smith and
remanded to the Parish Prison without bail.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

MASSACRE OF BULGARIAN INsUR-
GENTs.-The Bashi- Bazouks and Cir
cassians have defeated the Bulgarian
insurgents in Macedonia and burned
twenty villages. Not more than a
thousand of the inhabitants escaped.
Three hundred and fifty Bulgarians
were massacred.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

the baseness of his life, his dishonest
dealings, his midnight carousals, were
all depicted to her and even proved
still she was not convinced; and when
she at last discovered that her mother
had been summoned she hurried the
wedding and was married in one of
the most fashionable churches in Bal
timore two days before her mother ar
rived. The "happy couple" departed
on a short wedding tour and were
only back FIVE days when she left him
on account of his brutal abuse which
she affirmed she could endure no long,
err. Very little sympathy is felt for
her in her circle Of acquaintance on
account of her obstinacy in marrying
the man when she knew all his faults.
Lolita, the inimitable, is now at
Ford's making her innocent puns and
perpetrating her funny jokes for large
and delighted audiences. Her new
play, La Cigale, as arranged for her
from the French by Olive Logan, has
an impossible, absurd plot, and i'm
possible and absurd characters, but
funny that Is no name for it. She
is in her element and this piece is per-
haps more Lotta-y than any of her
other plays, for if it is possible she is
better in this. She dances, plays the
banjo, jumps through windows, over
tables, chairs, etc., laughs and talks
as only this sprite Of mischief and fun
can and keeps the people in con-
slant roar from beginning to end.
PICKENs,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07
A GOLD MEDAL

Has been awarded at the Paris Exposition
of 1878 to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

JOSEPH Cook rendered the old saw
Sauce for the goose, sauce for the
gander," as follows
Those culinary adornments which suffice
for the anserlne female are adequate to
meet the masculine adult of the same spe-
cies.
Now, that's a style of rhetoric
particularly easy of imitation even
by weak writer's. What is better, it
is nearly devoid of bird Latin.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

The Hagsrstown Guard quotes the
Cumberland Times reference to Mr..
L. n. Gorsuch's effort in behalf of
those Of his employees who are anx-
ious for an opportunity to gain school
advantages, and adds thereto the fol-
lowing we'll deserved commentator /:
We desire to give the above as wide cir
culation as possible, both to stimulate
others and to honor Mr.. Gorsuch, who in
bis endeavor to educate his laborers shows
himself truly philanthropic. The exam
pie is wholesome and we doubt not, as no
good deed goes unrewarded, that it will
bear fruit
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

| LIE hFGdAN w AH.-Ueu. hoDerts
has gained complete victory over
the Ameer's force, capturing Peiwer
Khotel and all the Afghan cannon.
The enemy's loss is heavy. The
British loss is 80 killed and womI,d.
Capt. Kelso, of the artillery, and Capt.
Anderson, of the Pioneers, are among
tho killed.
Coal PRosPEors.-There are no
new features in connection with the
trade in Bituminous Goals. but from
all that can be gathered, there is
bound to be large trade done next
season. We have many intimations
from parties in business that sales are
being made to parties who used An
thracite, and when the value of tho
soft Goals become known, no doubt the
tonnage will largely increase for steam
uses.-Coal Trade Journal.
HE overcoming question of the
success or failure of the Pennsylvania
coal combination has come up again
in the form of discussion as to the
possibility Of its continuance. The
Lehigh operators have followed the
example set them by the miners, and
have "struck' for the assignment %
them of larger quota Of the coal to
be produced than was allotted to
them last year. Their claim will be
opposed by the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad. So the matter
rests. A compromise is in order.
A BROOKLYN physician returning
from thc meeting of the Public
Health Association, in Richmond, has
predicted that if the present is a mild
winter the Summer 1879 will witness
greater ravages from the yellow fever
than were seen IN 1878, and he ex-
1ects even the northern cities to be
visited. This pleasing prospect will
doubtless cause healthy activity in
the way Of cleaning streets and re-
mcTing nuisances, since it is to be
feared thai there will be no national
quarantine to meet the emergency.
THE PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-The
message of the President Of the
United States, which was received in
Congress Monday soon after its assem-
bling, is compact, clear and we'll
written State paper, much briefer
than the average Of such documents,
yet comprehensive enough to give in
resume all the important operations
Of government for the year, and to
express, with tact and frmness ad-
nirably mingled, the very positive
opinions which the President has as to
lis duty in connection with some
eading questions that seem to him to
ltiect the common welfare.
The style, the moderation, and the
general character of the message will
'e likely to secure for it the approval
# most persons. 1t is we'll arranged
nd business-like, and the President
vidently has no particular or private
policy" of his own to foist upon an
nwilling or incredulous Congress.
lie simply makes a calm review of
vents as they pass, and even in those /
sw portions which wear something !
Ike a partisan aspect he seems to be c
ronouncing upon what he considers !
} be facts which have been officially 5
resented to his attention. -BalG- n
,ore 8tEsa.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

MORE funds will be disbursed by
the Philadelphia coal and iron COM
pany, at Shenandoah, on next pay
day than before for two years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07
General Items.

WITH cotton and wooden mills bus
mess is somewhat steadier than it has
been for some months.
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Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL
BALTIMORE, Dec. 4, 1878.

Special Correspondence of the JOURNAL.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 4, 1878.
The carelessness with which coal
oil lamps are handled and the fright
full accidents that result have become
matters of such common occurrence
that they attract very little attention
from the hardened public. But this
week notice has been drawn to two
such very sad cases that even the most
unsympathetic esclaim with pity.
The principal actors in both horrible
scenes were young girls; one was left
by her mother to attend to breakfast
while she performed some duties
which required her attention in an
other part Of the house; she was soon
recalled by the screams of her daugh-
ter, who when found was enveloped
in flames. She had gone too near the
fire which ignited her apron; she did
not scream for fear of frightening her
mother, but ran into the yard think
ing to extinguish the fire at the ny
drent, and when she found that this
was impossible then it was that she
gave vent to the piercing shrleks
which, had they been uttered earlier,
would have saved her life. The yoor
girl was horribly burned and fingered
in the greatest agony for two or three
days when death relieved her.
The second case was equally rad.
A young girl went up to her room at
night to retire and in The uncertain
light Of the lamp she carried imagin-
ed she saw man; she started 0 run,
collided with her sister who had fol-
lowed unperceived and who she in
agined to be second intruder, ana
in her haste stumbled at the top Of
the flight of stairs and fell to the
bottom with the lamp in her hand
which set fire to her clothing. Before
tho flames could be extinguished she
was burned beyond recognition, and
died in a few hours.
A marriage in high life is gen.
orally considered very fine and is all
well enough to read about, but the
following is a pretty fair type of what
most of them are: A young lady
from the South, very wealthy and &C
complished, the only child of a wild
owed mother, was permitted by her
indulgent parent to come to Baltimore
and visit her aunt and uncle who were
quite anxious to have her. The heir
ess came and in few weeks met a
gentleman with whom she Immediate
ly fell in love. He was a absolute,
drunken spendthrift, who was, how
ever, wealthy and of good family.
He ingratiated himself into her favor
and before her relatives knew any,
thing of 1t they were Mortified to learn
that the couple were engaged to be
The mother was kept in
ignorance, but the aunt and uncle
tried every way in their power to
to the girl the true charac-
Ter OF the man she had chosen, but
he would not listen, and although ,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

The Grand Lodge of colorod Odd
Fellows met in Chicago Tuesday.
The fraternity has 200 lodges and
$4,000 members.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07
OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
Baltimore Letter.

Two Young Ladies Burned to Death
-Marrsed IN Raste-Repenting at
Leasswe-Nesy Characters IN an Old
Story-Lotta, the znimstabs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-12-07

The strike of the coasting seamen
at San Francisco against reduction
of wages has virtually ended, the
owners acceding to the terms Of the
strikers.
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