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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11

A PATH FROM HEAvEN.-A little 81 =
year-old Whitehall boy wa WATCHING
the sunbeams as they shot through a
window and danced diagonally across
the DOM.
stamina" said he, what are those
streako:'
Those, my son." she replied. ARE
sunbcams from heaven"
"Oh, | know what they are for.
mamma, sad the little fellow. Who
had been slldIng down beams in the
barn lot, they ate What God slides
the babies own on when he sends
EN- 10 ioiAe.'-n nitehaI IN. "
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11
TO LOVERS OF ELONERN..

We desire q call your attention 81.
STOCK OF
CHOICE FLOWER ~Ei@l-
We also have 4 full stock eli Gre
Pants, iucIldiHE t~rer4nfuIn>, EUs. ~
lions, ~tucAs!as, iclargoufuWs,
SUMNER PIONEERING BULBS
varieties, 500 luberoSs> Ill.ons-.
SMALL FRUITS,
Strawberry, Raspberry, BIZ Gbr.le E,..
VEGETABLE PLANTS
Cabbage, Tomato and Egs Plant.
BOUQU ErS. WREATlIs.
and Floral - signs made En- u...r
Plants sent ~ mail Any dis
safety.
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11

The Concord Sun says Char
i"tte Is SO proud OF her street sprinkler
that she does not permit IL To hold up
on account Of rain. The rain storm
sday like I'D have drowned the ma
chine out, but 1t kept going, aud finally
came out with flying colors.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11

A returned missionary was recently
invited TO a party, where all the la
dies appeared in low cut dresses. Said
~ 70 MS host. Il don't mind it all;
We spent ten years among the saw
ages.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11

The Supreme Court of Louisiana
fully settled the Returning Board mat
ter yesterday By refusing a new trial
III the Anderson case, for the reasons
stated III the former opinion.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11

Capt. John &. Nichols has found
some line gold On his lot at Rocking
ham. lie gave $500, and now asks
flo-Oyo, as We learn from the SPIRIT II
he South.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-11

Mrs. c. Il. S.-You advise US to
have II premises white-washed, and
when look round upon mine l feel
how good it would be to follow your
advice. But how am | to get it done?
| live six miles from town. Ny hus-
band is q country doctor. and whatever
time he can have at home must be
given to necessary work and superin-
have a hired hand to do such work.
My children are small. | do all nv
W work, except the washing. and
the old woman who does that knows
no more about white washing than
she does about painting. Now, will
you tell me if | am to blame that nv
rooms are dingv. How can a woman
manage" when there is no way:
S. j.
Aaswer. DO the white washing
ourself. | suppose the Doctor will
get you half a bushel of lime and a
brush. If he is a good Doctor he will
know that whitewash is as necessary
on a lot as a good many other things.
Make the wash and put it on with your
own hands. Why not? | would as
soon be seen doing such work as play
ing on the piano, or FASTING pictures
on a ginger-iar. Indeed, if you had
passed my house last week you would
have seen me busy whitewashing nv
garden gate. and unable to keep my
hand off the fence in addition. Take it
slow and easy. Don't turn the house
upside down at once. Make one room
at a time white and sweet, and be proud
of the work. We are all a little too
bound to appearances, and narrow in
oar Judgments of what is, and what
is not right for ladies to do. What
ever "real sure enough" lady does.
IS always the right and proper thing
for her to do. G.. p. {
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

Thanks to the popular uprising here against
our ice monopoly, we have now a fair stock of
that article in this city offered at prices that
are daily growing more reasonable. On the
other hand, an ice famine is now imminent in
many sections of the North and West. The
annual consumption OF ice in the United
States is 100000 tons. New Orleans,
although the most Southern city of the coun-
try, uses mparatively less Of this article
than any other American city, our yearly
consumption being on1y $4,000 tons, against
1900, 900 tons used in New York, 100000 in
Chicago, 275,OOO in st. Louis, and 10000 in
Cincinnati This is due to the fact that New
Orleans is almost wholly without breweries
and pork packing establishments, both heavy
ce consumers.
Contrary to the general belief, last years
ice crop was not failure, but a fair
average crop. The cause of the present ex-
pectant famine is the hot weather, which has
increased the consum ption of ice far above that
Of past years. 1t having become apparent
that there would not be sufficient lie to last
through the summer, the dealers every where
selzed on the opportslnit fered them 90 adj
vance tic riea ofS Il one, hoYfsst bad
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

George q. Seward, United States Minister
TO Pekin, who arrived ct San Francisco ten
days ago, says that the prospects of American
trade with Chinese ports were never so good
as they are to-day There are nearly q hun
bred sailing vessels carrying petroleum to
the East; cotton manufacturers are begin
ming to find q good market In competition
with English goods, and the general DISPOSE
lion Of the Chinese government Is to abandon
b some extent the policy of isolation which
has been the rule for SO many centuries, and
lo favor foreign intercourse, which although
lid the first instance thrust upon them against
their will, has proved beneficial. He states
that the new Chinese embassy has not
been sent abroad with reference to recent
agitations against cheap labor In California.
The chief ambassador is q man of large intel
|ligence, and the new diplomatic policy will be
apt To promote intercourse with foreign pow
.ers. For the first time in forty years the
Celestial empire Is OF peace. The famine has
been the only incident of late years Of an UNI
favorable kind. Its extent has not been exag-
sgerated. At the lowest estimate 100000 OF
people have persisted. The region affected has,
III the most favorable seasons, too little rain,
and when the usual supply fails, the conse-
auence is q general failure of crops. The
afflicted region has suffered from short rain
fall for the past two years. Fortunately this
season the rains have been abundant.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

the interruptions audacity Of our ice monop-
olies, who tried to put prices up to 800 q ton.
In Philadelphia, Detroit and Cincinnati ice
has gone UP from s5 to s12 q ton; In Louis
Vile and st. Louis to S14. The result has
been to decrease the demand within reason
able limits; 80 that OF these high prices the
stock may suffice for the summer.
According to the st. Louis Post that city
thanks TO it's recent hot SPELLS In actual
danger Of an Ice famine, which will enable
dealers to get corner on Ice and raise prices
even higher than they now are. The Indiana
crop upon which st. Louis largely depends
was complete failure last year and the stock
on hand In that city Is smaller than for many
summers past. This has persuaded the st.
Louisans that natural ice cannot be wholly
depended on; they propose, therefore, to ini-
tate New Orleans in manufacturing It, An Ice
manufacturing company has already been or
ganized In that city and expects to be La full
operation before the summer Is over. It is to
be hoped that the st. Louis company will
succeed In what our company failed: that Is In
steadying the supply OF Ice, preventing an Ice
famine and keeping the cost Of this article at
reasonable rates and safe from fluctuations. Il
these companies were to deal fairly with the
people and the people on their part to get
over the absurd prejudice that natural Ice is
better than artificial ice-the contrary has
been shown to be true-there would be no
chance of an Ice corner or monopoly In future,
no danger Of an advance in prices such as
we have Just passed through and which
| caused SO much alarm and suffering here.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
HONOR.

We have before had occasion to mention the
Wonderment and contempt that overwhelms
us when we are brought face to face with
Yankee newspaper struggling with stques-
tion Of honor" The latest and most lament
able example we have been confronted with is
In the shape Of an article, entitled 'tThe Code
In the South" which purports to give the
story Of the Eppa Hunton-Alexander affair.
published In the New York Times OF August 7.
We regret to say that our remorseless news
editor has cut out very nearly all of the
editorial of the Times to which we refer.
But, by way OF preliminary, we must say,
In Justice to our news editor that what he cut
out Of the Times was printed on the reverse
side OF the Times able editorial remarks In
regard to the Hunton-A Alexander affair. How
ever, it Is matter Of small consequence what
may be clipped from an editorial Of the New
York Times In regard to % question Of
honor
The Times LIS the first exponent and exem-
plar Of Northern sentiment, and IL there is
anything alien to Northern ideas and feelings
1t 10 something that must needs be honorable,
according to our Southern custmos and faith.
The whole theory and object Of Northern
civilization and speculation 10 to obliterate
the word "honor" from the English voeabu-
larry. Anything that Is honorable simply
and per Sc; anything that Is pure and uncon-
taminated, because of an ideality; anything
that may find It's vindication In an abstr ac-
ton, such as the refusal to lie because to lie
is immoral, Is thing lncomprehensible and
unaccounted for In Yankee ethics. With
them, and according to their creed, all things
must be reduced to basis of dollars and
cents. This is their gauge Of civilization;
the rudimental thought upon which all their
ideas of morality or heroes are based. Their
widest inspiration finds Its suggestion In
cent per cent; the most splendid vengeance
their imagination suggests Is damages for a
debauched child or wife. Yet these are the
people who venture to cast ridlcule upon our
social customs. 1t is one Of these creatures,
born of such civilization, who ventures to
tell us the "code" has been satisfied and nobody
hurt.
1t is just this sort Of comment which makes
the Southern gentleman rejoice In whatever
epithet Of opprobrium- secessionist, Confed-
crate, rebel--that separates him from the de-
auctions of Yankee civilization. We are will
ling to incur any rhetorical ignominy that
will separate us from them morally. Their
whole idea is to eliminate the word ''honor"
from the English language; but SO long as
the South lives to overwhelm Northern cum
ming with the courage of a grand conviction,
to justify to the motherland the vigor of our
plain, blunt English tongue, the grand old
word "honor''-the word which has made the
true heroes Of earth, and whose inspiration
no mortal has ever withstood- shall be Inn
mortal.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

The Mobile Neaus complains bitterly of the
rumor that prevails all over Southern Missis-
sippi and Alabama that there Is yellow fever
in that city. The Baton Rouge Advocate is
very severe on those scandal-mongers, who
have started the same story against that
burgh. The Vicksburg Herald informs coun-
try farmers that there is only one case Of
fever there in a remote section Of the city,
and assures them that they can enter Vicks-
burg with their cotton without risking their
lives. The Shreveport papers stigmatize the
rumors prevailing In Minden-that there is
yellow fever In Shreveport-as groundless, alb
surd and without the least foundation. The
New Iberia Sugar Bout is vainly striving to
allay and disabuse the minds Of the country
people In that neighborhood that the yellow
fever is raging in Morgan City and New
Iberia. Instead Of there being any truth In
the story that there have been three cases
and one death from fever in Morgan City, it
declares there has not been single case of
sickness of any kind In that town for several
weeks back. AS for New Iberia, it assures
the country people that 1t is not infected, as
they believe, and that there Is no reason why
they should avoid entering town as they do.
we m1SnI pIOuuCea buOuS&tuu SluullaL CaSeSS
BY some coincidence those very towns that
have taken the widest, most Illegal absurd
and energetic proceedings against New Or
leans which almost daily declare to the
world, ON oath, that they are free from fever
and in good sanitary condition, suffer most
from these rumors Of epidemic.
The wild scare of these towns has begotten
all these rumors. They brighten the country
people first, and then they try to reassure
them and when they find this impossible
express surprise thereat. All these towns,
Mobile, Vicksburg, ct al, are beginning al
ready to experience the inconvenience of the
panic they started. Vicksburg is already
troubled about the coming cotton crop, and
appeals to the Yazoo merchants not to listen
to the silly stories Of the Sentinel, but to
bring their cotton into town at once; the
Sugar BoWl Is much troubled at the increase
In freight rates to that town, which the quar-
antine has caused; Mobile has gained repu-
tation for "panic" and fever and less than zoe
bales by her embargo. We think, therefore,
that when these towns strike the balance of
their embargo enterprise, they will find that
it has cost them more than it has cost New
| Orleans.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
DIED.

MCLEAY-sunday morning. August II. aG
quarter to o'cloek g. M, Erannkie, only enid
aged one year and ten months.
Friends of the family and those of his uncle,
George Hayman. are respectfully invited to at
tend the funeral which will take place This
Sunday Evening, at s o'clock. from No. 266
Customhouse street, between Marais and Where
streets.
FIsHEL-On Saturday. August 10, at 1880
o'clock, Friedereka Metzger. beloved wife Of
Lewis Fishel. aged 28 years.
Her funeral will take place from her late resi-
dence. No. IA Euterpe street, This Morning. at
O'Clock. Friends of the family are invited to
attend.
LAWLER-On Saturday. August TO- at :15 p.
late John Lawer and Anna Pike, aged seven
teen years six months and eighteen days, a ma
tive of Loveland, Clermont county, Ohio.
The friends of the family are respectfully in
vitedsto attend the funeral which will take place
from the residence Of his uncle, Ell. 7. LAWYER.
No. ee Louisiana Avenue, This Sunday Even
ing. at 4 o'clock. -.... .....
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Illinois. Iowa, Wisconsin
and California papers please copy.
CONMANDEUR-sa Saturday morning, August
TO- 1878 al $3.50 o'clock. Nicholas Commandeur.
var and member Of the Fifth Company Wash
tngton Artillery, :--..5- 49,.
PETERSON Friday. August 9, 1878. at $50
o, M, Edwin William Wilson Peters, aged seven
years ten months and twenty-four days young
est son of Charles w. Peters and the late Ada
line @. Peters.
BALDWIN-At Boston. Mass. August 8, 1879
Jacob Baldwin, aged 70 years.
MAGRAW-On Thursday, August g., 1878, at
Magraw, a native OF County Galway, Ireland.
T.ATHAM-Ou Monday August < 1873 at 1O16
.. M. Elizabeth Commit, aged forty-hve years,
wife of VIM. ii. Latham.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

4 The money flow from England to the conti-
nent OF Europe continues, and the Bank OF
England steadily loses in Its bullion balances.
The rates fol- money In London are fair and
tend to higher figures. An advance from
present rates Of 4 to 8 and even 6 per cent Is
not unexpected, and another advance may be
made at the directory meeting Of the Bank Of
England tomorrow. The New York Bulletin,
In Its remarks on Saturday last says: "It is
fortunate for this country that there Is. COM
paratively speaking, SO little English capital
there subject to withdrawal; also, that there
are 30 few United States bonds held in Eng
land Tor for that matter In Europe) subject to
return here In case Of q financial pinch in
Tjoneion''
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

The Baton Rouge platform has severely
"rattIed" the New York Times. Here is what
1t says of the aforesaid platform:
The platform OF the Louisiana Democracy
contains about as mischievous a series of
demands as the most rabid Of the Labor
Greenback conventions have yet formulated
Subsidies for the Southern Pacific Railroad
and the Brazilian steamship line; levee
system with an indefinite expenditure Of pub
lie money; the repeal Of the resumption act;
the abolition of national banks; and the pay
ment OF the later issues Of bonds
In irredeemable greenbacks these are
few Of the measures which the
the Democratic machine In Louisiana think
calculated to improve the condition OF the
country There Is an om1nous call upon the
next Legislature to summon q constitutional
convention, for the Obvious purpose of throw
ing obstacles in the way OF negro suffrage,
and sop Is thrown to the Labor Reformers
In O meaningless demand that the wealth
producing" class should be made secure In
the enjoyment of the product Of their labor
Those who look to the Southern Democracy
as a conservative factor In the pending strug-
gle over financial and economic questions
must evidently look elsewhere than to Louis
lana
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
TO PASSENGERS
LEAVING NEW ORLEANS.

All persons having trunks or boxes known as
baggage, leaving New Orleans by the Jackson
Railroad, are requested to saturate two small
pieces of cloth tabout six inches squared with
pure white earbolic acid, say one part OF acid to
twenty of water; place one in the bottom OF their
trunk. and the other on top Of their clothing
Just before they close 1t I'D preparatory to leav-
ing the city. When they open their trunks at
the end Of their journey. these clothes will not
be in the least soiled and If there should be any
germ or moth, it will be completely destroyed.
Yellow fever poison cannot be conveyed from
one person to another. The poison is conveyed
in clothing or baggage. especially If confined In
trunks and boxes. All sleeping cars on this
road will be thoroughly fumigated under my
supervision before leaving the city OF New Or
leans, with sulphur fumes. that will not leave
any unpleasant odor. This is considered ad-
yisable for perfect safety and to ailay the fears
of the people In the different towns and cities
who have connection with New Orleans. and
who hear greatly exaggerated reports OF the
fever that IS prevailing here.
u. 6. AUSTIN. u. d,
III chicago, ii Louis and new Orleans Ball
rod. aust aap
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11

We are glad to see one paper, the Courier
Journal, taking manly position on the yell
low fever scare and the many outrages COM
rnitted on inoffensive persons in pretended
defense OF thepublic health. The Couret affair
which occurred in Louisville last week Is a
sample OF this inhumanity. Mrs. Couret, q
French lady of this city, over eighty years OF
age, was travelling to Cincinnati with her
nephew. The latter fell from the cars and was
killed When the train reached Louisville,
Mrs. Couret was unable to find her escort and
naturally became very much alarmed. She
tried TO explain this to the conductor, porters,
and other employees Of the railroad, but as she
spoke only French and none of them under
stood this language, this was impossible
The old lady grew very excited over the mys-
FERROUS disappearance OF her nephew; this
excitement was charged to insanity. Upon
her refusing to leave the car. until her nephew
returned, she was ordered out and finally
driven III pushed out, falling in leaving the
cor and cutting her face badly. When 1t was
learned that the old lady was from New Or
leans, it was ct once presumed that she was
sick of the yellow fever. With the blood
streaming down her face, she was driven to
the ST. Johns Eruptive Hospital, treated for
yellow fever, and locked up by herself for
twenty-four hours, no one being brave
enough to come near her on account Of the
disease she was supposed to be afflicted with.
Her agony and suffering under this cruel treat
inent and while thus imprisoned, it is impos-
sible to estimate. She was everywhere treated
with humanity and indignity, roughly
handled imprisoned. held down and phys
licked, and must have suffered greatly both
physically and mentally. Cruel as the
treatment OF Mrs. Couret was, 1t was no
worse tlan that which q hundred other per-
sons, suspected rightly or wrongly OF the ne
farious crime Of being sick, have suffered
since this disgraceful fever scare began. The
treatment of Mr.. Hines In Cincinnati, and OF
scores OF other persons in Southern towns
was equally brutal and inhuman. The Cbu-
yier-JoeY1at Is the first paper we have seen
Snat treated this matter as it should be
treated, sit was o shame and disgrace" il
declares, 'sto civilized community. There
was heartIessness about 1t that will meet
with the condemnation Of every man and
woman who can sympathize with distress,
and shudder over the agony Of others. 1t is
right enough TO use every reasonable pre-
caution against the spread Of infection; but
Ii quarantine against yellow fever means a
quarantine against what ought TO be the com
mon Instincts Of humanity, lot US have the
decency and risk the danger
espectfully submit these sentiments e
ckeburg and Mobile. f. not an epidemic
sEsaII better than such ontrages and stains or
e easse III humanity and Christianity
sEfie New Get all hes trad'
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
I'M MEMORIAM.

Whereas. the Almighty has in His, divine
providence seen fit to remove our late brother
In arms, JAMES HEANz. from our midst, and
lost q valuable member and stalwart soldier
therefore, be 1t
Resolped. That in the death of JAMES
HEANZ the Louisiana Guards have lost q true
man and good soldier: that we cherish his
memory and extend our heartfelt ympathies
to his bereaved family. and that the above reso-
O0N~ > j. N. LANDRY, Captain.
Ed. II. GUST, Secretary.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
THE NEW ORLEANS DBMoORAT SUNDAY AUGUST IL 1878.

you can steal; but In the name oil Southern
manhood and civilization let us have an end
to these cowardly and inhuman prosecutions
Of sick persons and unprotected old ladies,
whose only offense is that they come from
this CITY,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
-, IPT.E SHEEI

The friends OF Grant are contending that II
be runs Id 1880 the third term hullaballoo
won't apply. The Washington Post observes:
No, sab; dat Was not de second bell. but de
second ringin' OF de fus' bell"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-11
MARRIED.

ORNE-At the residence Of
the brides father, by the Rev. j. Wilson. OF the
M E. Church South, August 2, 1878, Robert w.
Greene, OF New Orleans, to. Nathalie. youngest
daughter of Col. N O. Claiborne