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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-27
THE YELLOW FEVER.

Official statement of cases Of yellow fever re-
ported In New Orleans is as follows, viz:
Deaths from 70 m. yesterday to IL IN. to- day a.
Total cases to date ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 215
Total deaths to date IS:
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-27

The revenues Of the various markets we're
sold at public auction yesterday for the month
of September, bringing the following prices:
Saptnnhar Aupust
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-27

r. L. G. AND G. G. r. r. LANDING,
August "a. 1878. J
Howard Association, New Orleans:
Passage for four white nurses. .......o.... $25
Passage for three colored nurses. .......,.. 9
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30
NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS.

The practicability and usefulness of mar
row gau ge railways continue to secure the in
vestigation of those who are mostly concern.
ed in perfecting the railway system in this
country. As feeder to important through
lines, and an imperative necessity to commu.
mites now isolated from the busy marts Of
commerce, the narrow gauge system com.
mands the utmost respect. Not every com.
munity can expect to be penetrated by great
and important lines of railroad, but net
work of less costly highways, sufficient to
transport the productions of the country with
celerity and economy, is within the reach of
almost every State. The millions of dollars
already expended in the construction of rail-
roads in South Carolina, if it were possible to
begin anew, would be amply sufficient to fur
nish greatly superior facilities to the people
generally, by combining the narrow and
broad gauge system as whole, and building
only such lines as would create harmony of
interests and furnish the most complete facil-
tiles for transportation at the most reasona-
BILE cost. But it is manifestly impracticable
to remodel our present disjointed system OF
RAILWAYS; and we must suffer for all time to
come III Lne lOSS VI Ca plIal luFeoIou, 'n0 noosy
expenditure of labor and energy employed in
its maintenance, and the necessarily increased
cost of freight and passenger transportation,
which comes directly out of the pockets Of
the people.
The errors of the past need not be repeat
ed, however. If projected railroads in this
State can as we'll supply the wants of the
public by the construction Of the narrow
gauge, it does seem to US that the plainest de-
mands of the situation would procure its
adoption hereafter. In order that the subject
may receive attention, we propose to state
few facts connected with the progress of the
narrow gauge system in the United States,
which merits careful inspection. The Chi
cago Railway Age has just prepared list of
railroads operated with the narrow gauge,
which shows the mileage of track already
laid, and will convince the most skeptical
that there has been wonderful progress in a
short time in this direction. The list shows
that narrow gauge railroads are already con-
structcd or being built in thirty-two States
and Territories, aggregating the number of
1872, and with completed mileage of 1882
miles. All of the roads named in the list,
except sixteen, have the feet gauge. This
measure may be accepted as the established
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CorToN.-
The american Exporter recently published
an article on the increase of the cotton trade,
from which We gather some interesting facts.
In the decade of 1S40-1S5O, the United
States supplied almost 81 per cent of the
whole importation into Great Britain, and
in the decade Immediately preceding the war
furnished nearly 7S per cent, while the four
years from 1862 to 1866, inclusive, the aver
age yearly supply was less than 5 per cent,
and in the year 1863 it was less than 1 per
cent, of the whole British consumption of
cotton. The first year subsequent to the war
showed sudden increase of 3775 per cent,
from 1888 per cent. in 1865, and this pro-
portion has continually advanced, until in
1877 the per centage reached 67.23, just
equaling in proportion the year 1860, in
which latter year the largest crop was pro-
duced. The amount furnished the parent
country by the British possessions in the
East Indies, during our "unpleasantness,"
which averaged for several years over 50O,-
100000 pounds, has fallen off so largely that
the quantity in 1877 was less than 194,OoO,-
900 pounds.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30

narrow gauge of the country. although it is
not improbable that still narrower gauge
may come into use to some extent. Colorado
leads off in mileage with $40 miles of track
now completed on three roads, Ohio comes
next, and is second only to Pennsylvania in
the number of roads, having 16, while Penn
sylvania has II. A larger number of three
feet roads are low building in Ohio than in
any other State, and few years will make
remarkable showing for the system there.
South Carolina has 45 miles-Cheraw and
Chester, 10; Chester and Lenoir, 35. The
latter has II miles additional in North Caro-.
lima.
When We remember that it is less than six
years since the first road of this class was
opened in the country, and that by far the
greater part have been built within two or
three years, the growth of this experimental
system, despite strong disbelief in its prac-
ticability, has been certainly remarkable.
When it it added that the narrow gauge
mileage now in process of construction or &C.
tually projected greatly exceeds that already
opened, it is evident that the principle has
passed beyond the domain of experiment,
and must be accepted as an important part
of the railway system in the United States.
By their existence and accomplishments, mar
row gauge railroads now command and will
henceforth receive respectful recognition. We
have consistently believed that the system
offered great advantages in appropriate local.
tiles, and maintained that there was an i'm
perative necessity for cheaply worked rail-
roads, especially in the Southern States,
where sparse population and limited demand
for transportation suggest the utmost econo-
my in the construction and operation of rail"
roads, The broad gauge roads now supply
ing the wants of our people are breaking
down for lack of business-many of them 60
ing to utter ruin and inevitable bankruptcy.
The enormous amount of capital already en-
gulphed admonishes US to seek proper rem
edy in the future In our judgment, the mar
row gauge system offers the greatest induce
ments for cheapness, reliability and sure
return upon the investment, and where new
lines are projected, it well deserves most care.
ful investigation. Columbia Register.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30
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A STERLING OLD POEM.

Who shall Judge man from his manners
Who shall know him by his dress ?
Paupers may be fit for princes,
Princes fit for for something less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket
Nav beclothe the golden ore,
Or the deepest thought and feelings
Satin vest can do no more.
There are streams of crystal nectar,
Ever flowing out of stone;
There are purple beds and golden,
Hidden, crushed and Overthrown.
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones the highest
But as pebbles in the sea.
Man appraised above his fellows,
Oft forgets his fellows then;
Masters, rulers, lords, remember
That your meanest kinds are men!
Men of labor, men Of feeling,
Men of thoughts, and men of fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine
In mans ennobling name.
There are foam embroidered oceans,
There are little wood-clad rills;
There are feeble inch high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills.
God, who counts by souls, not station,
Loves and p-ospers you and me;
For to Him all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone are builders
Ola nations wealth and fame;
Titled lazinessis pensioned,
Fed and fattened on the same;
By the sweat Of others foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor mans outraged freedom
Vainly lifts its feeble voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light;
Secret wrongs shall never prosper,
While there is a sunny right.
God, whose world wide voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Links oppression with his titles
But as pebbles in the sea.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30

CHARITY FOR THE FALLEN.-Never say
anything damaging to the good name of Il
woman, it matters not how poor she may be
or what her place in society. They have 8
hard enough time at best, and God he p the
man who would give them kick down bill
We are all too free with their names-we
talk too much about them on our street cor.
ner clubs and in public places, to be heard Of
men. We do very wrong. The least little
hint that there is something wrong, that 'she
amt all right" whether spoken in jest or in
earnest, is taken up, and like the rolling stone
gathers moss as it goes from corner to corner
and at last comes home to the prosecuted
creature with crushing weight. She has done
nothing but kept quiet while her idle persecu.
tors have pursued her, and now she is kicked
from door to door, and is fallen so low that
none will do her reverence. Give dog a
bad name and you had as we'll kill him talk
about good woman in the street corner club
and across bar.room counters, and you had
as we'll set her down as social wreck. No
one wants to help her. We don't want SO
much theoretical. dogmatic religion; we want
kind of blue jeans and homespun piety that
will do for the washtub and kitchen as well
as the drawing-room and the parlor-a sort
of universal honesty that will not think q
woman thief because she should happen tc
wear sunbonnet and walk across the street
with string of mackerel in her hand There
is nothing wrong in manual labor, and honest
poverty is a sure passport to heaven.
----> >---
DETERMINING THE EARTH's SZE.-It has
been determined within very few miles, in
what appears to US now very simple man
ner In the first place, every section of the
earth is bounded, approximately, by circle
and mathematiciaus divide all circles into
$50 degrees. Hence, if we can measure &C
curately the 1-360th part of this great circle
and if, when we have got the measure of il
in.o miles, We multiply it by $50, we get the
circumference of the earth, that is to say, the
whole distance around it. Then by dividing
this result by something a little over 3 {;
1,4l6 the ratio of the circumference Of th'
circle to its diameter), We find out how far il
is from one side of the earth to the other
This gives the diameter of the earth.
As result of a long series of observations
| it has been found that degree measures So!
miles; and if you take the trouble to multi
ply So! miles, the average length of degree
by $50 degrees, the number of degrees tina
there are all round the earth, you will fine
that the circumference is something like 25,
600 miles, and, therefore, that the diameter
of the earth is something like 5000 miles
Mark we'll the words. ION the average" Ii
truth, the earth is fattened at the poles, 81
that the length of the degree varies from th'
pole to the equator, and hence the diamete
in the equatorial plane is in excess of thu
diameter from pole to pole. These two diam
eters, expressed in feet, are as follows Equa
torial, Al ,S48, $3.50; solar, 4l,708,710.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30

INVENTION BY CoLoRED MISSISSIPPI
AN.-Bep Taylor, a colored man living in
this place, has lately returned from Washing
ton, whittier he has been to secure patent
for new steam engine which he had invent
ed, and which, if the judgment of many ex-
perienced and scientific men to whom he has
shown his model is correct, is calculated to
revolutionize the present application of steam.
The engine is rotary, having the steam appli-
ed at the circumference of wheel, giving
this treble the force of ordinary engines, with
no Distinguishing of power at the various
stages of the revolution of the wheel. This
inventor dispenses with all the machinery
except the one wheel, which answers at once
the purpose of cylinder and driving wheel,
and the two steam boxes through which the
steam is applied. 1t is estimated that en-
gines on this plan can be manufactured at one
fourth or less the cost of those now in use, and
their simplicity, and the possibility of making
them of extremely light weight, will extend
the use of steam engines beyond the present
limit. Ben. Taylor, the inventor, is sort
of mechanical genius, having before manites-
ted an insight into mechanics of no ordinary
degree His invention, if nothing fails-and
the probabilities are in his favor-will rank
him among the first inventors of the day
Rosedale (Miss.) Journal.
Daily globe., 1878-11-24

threshing machine and in the meantime
Lowell continued to run the class meeting
| just the same.
Finally it reached the ears of the girls
mother, and mother, after crying over it a
day or two, told father. And father first
| loaded the
SHOT GUN WITH BUCK SHOT,
| and then deliberately, and with malice pre-
pense, mad clear through, went and-laid
| the whole case before the church authorities.
That closed the account. Brother Lowell
was arraigned before the sanhedrim last
Monday, denied at first, then admitted a
portion, and finally plead guilty to the whole
charge, and threw himself on the mercy of
the court. It wouldn't go. Brother Lowell
couldn't
SAIL FOR CANAAN
on the Methodist boat any longer. Either
he must join some other church or seek the
red hot comforts of perdition. Hence the little
Methodist church in Eden Prairie will to
day be crowded aud the preacher will de-
Eberately turn the old beast out on the left
hand among the goats, where he belongs
and to make them fit company for him they
will have to be almighty mean and strong
scented goats, too.
Finally, Lowell has been commanded by
Bro. Smith, father of the girl, to pack his
carpet bag and leave the town inside of one
week, failing in which he will make the old
sinner carry off full cago of lead, in the
form of buckshot, in his wicked carcas. As
Alr. Sleek would say, "Uh! Ya-sm
Daily globe., 1878-11-24
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELErs.

Mr.. George Morrison, the well know
lumberman, has gone East for trip of tw,
weeks.
| The new safe for the city engineers ofic
arrived yesterday afternoon, and is one o
the finest in the city.
/ Don't forget that Billy Emerson and th,
Big Four make their first appearance at th.
Academy next Wednesday.
Frank B. Clark, general freight manager
of the Chicago, st. Paul & Minneapolis rail
road, was in town yesterday.
The well-known female drunkard, Hannah
Welch, was arrested and taken in dray t,
the police station yesterday for the same ole
offence.
] The eleventh annual ball Of Hook anc
Ladder Company, No. 1, will be held at Har-
monia hall on Wednesday evening, No
yenber 9th.
Mark sutherland, the brakeman who was
injured by falling from a freight train on
the st. Paul and Pacific road, was consider
| ably better last e7ening.
| Mr.. S. Simmons, the State agent for the
Mutual Life Assurance company, will leave
tomorrow for the pineries on a pleasure ex-
cursion of three months.
Miss Mary Parry, the acknowledged belle
of Richmond, Ind, who has been the guest
OF Mrs. EIma Parry for the past two weeks,
left for her home last evening.
The matinee at Pence Opera House yes
terday afternoon was crowded with ladies
and children, and the performance was uni
versally pronounced most excellent.
The ungraded school which was opened on
Tuesday last ct the high school building, has
an attendance of thirty pupils, and from
present indications is decided success.
Noah Spaulding Twas before the court
charged with larceny of shawl from Mrs.
jerks, (not the one of political fame), who
lives on the east side. The case was
continued until Monday at o'clock.
The noted Col. "Bob'' Ingersoll, the great
free thought lecturer, has been engaged for
six lectures in Minnesota, and will appear
some time in March. His lecture in Mime
apolis will be ''Some Mistakes of Moses
Manager Goodwin, of the Murray troupe,
was prominently swinging a gold-headed
cane around yesterday, q present from E.
keyser, Esq. 1t was a beauty, too, and now
Goodwin is so proud that he won't allow his
children to play with those Of his neighbors.
Mr.. A. w. Smith, correspondent of the
Now York Times for the Northwest, has made
arrangements to make Minneapolis his home.
Mr. Smith is an old newspaper man, having
been for a long time an attacne of the Boston
Globe and the Associated Press agent for
New Hampshire.
The turkya shoot held at Calhoun house
grounds yesterday resulted as follows: Otis
Wescott carried off 5, 0. Quinn 4, FL. Tuttle
4, Il. Morse l, John Harvey 8, Doc Noble O.
(out then Doc did nobly, shooting off the
legs OF each one he shot at9 The shooting
was success, and the boys are making ar
rangements Tor another one some time this
week.
Daily globe., 1878-11-24

Trouble i5s ahe Eden PsGtrie Ch,.rc7,--i
Class Lgc;de, Leading Gse Lass.5s of tlte
FfocH 4str0y--He is Dctscted-- Co:lfssses
--Church lHaute1 Gad Giress One Iyeezc il,
Which to TRcate the Farm tssad Legpe lie
State.
Citizens of Minneapolis who were resi-
dents here some five or six years ago will re-
member an elderly man named Fl. Z. Lowell,
smooth of tongue, most dreadfully pious,
and exercised his talents as
LIFE INSURANCE AGENT.
In the neighborhocd of six years ago he
disappeared from this city, and soon after
turned up as a granger located in the town
of Eden Prairie, where he proceeded to
raise wheat and carrots and cabbagas, and
baets, and - cain. He continued (it is
supposed) at his bucolic employment, yirtu-
Satan entered the modern Eden (Prairie) in
the Shape at
UNCOMFORTABLE uANKERfNGs
after the carnal pleasures Of the world, the
flesh and the devil. Lowell was. from the
date of his arrival in Eden Prairie, one of
the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He was teacher in the Sunday
school, a class leader, and indulgsd frequent
ly in long prayers to
BE HEARD OF MEN.
He also took Appointment part in the politics
of the neighborhood, aided in electing his
friends and defeating his enemies, and made
himself useful generally to the public. In
addition to these employments for the
good of his fellow man, he also es-
tabiished nursery for the rearing OF fruit
and ornamental trees. These be sold at
moderate sum, and devoted the proceeds to
I THE CAUSE OF THE LORD
and Lowell. Time went On, and Brother
Lowell grew in grace and in the regard of
his neighborhood, but there were breakers
ahead.
Living on the farm adjoining WIS neigh
Dor (whose name is not necss ssary to this Ser
true tale), with whom Lowell and his family
were on the most intimate and friendly
terms. Lowell being family man, with q
| wife and three or four grown children, it was
| natural that an intimacy should spring up
between the families. But the story grows
long and tedious.
On a certain evening, some months ago,
(date not necessary to the story q
|
FIFTEEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER
of the neighbor (Smith, we will call him)
visited the Lowell homestead and remained
in social converse with the members of the
family until the shadows of night began to
fall. Preparing to seek the shelter of her
| house the innocent Miss gracefully accepted
the escort and protection Of Lowell who had
''some business to transact with her father y
Proceeding across the prairie through the
darkness, lowell made the most insulting
proposals to the child, and took such lib
critics with her as proved him most
4 11BID1N GUS OLD BEAST.
Not proceeding to any extremity, however,
the frightened girl was readily induced to
promise that she would not expose him;
which promise she kept SO far as the imme-
diate members of her own family was CON
cerned. But among her school mates, girl
like, she
| GAVE THE OLD MAN AWAY,
and SO it came to be mooted through the
neighborhood, first in whispers among chill
dren, then louder among the women, then
some lady told her husband, then it was
talked over in an undertone at town meet
ing, then spoken of openly around the
Daily globe., 1878-11-24
THE COURTS.
District Court.
Before Judge Vanderburgh.

SPECIAL TERM.
A. f. Best vs. Holenberg Bros and A. j.
Streeter; garnishee. Continued by consent for
| two weeks.
John C. Oswald VS.. John Zaiser. Order on
demurrer.
John D. Evensole VS.. Preston Cooper, de-
fendant, and Charlotte E. Barrett, earn1shee
Continued to next term.
David II. Culbertson vs. Edward D. Benja-
min, ct al. Continued to next term.
Louis Fitzgerald, trustee, VS.. Harriet Muir
ply, ct al. Final decree signed in foreclosure
Sampson VS.. Sampson. Tried and divorce
granted
Warder, Mitchell & Co., VS.. Robert s. viii
lia.ns and P. N. Train. Default entered and
case continued for such further order as may
be proper.
The following cases will be called before
Judge Vanderburgh on Monday:
liz. Morrison Bros. VS.. N. L. Cole ct al.
l59. John H. johnson Vs. VIM. Frazier.
Before Judge Young.
JURY CASES.
Elias Moses VS.. Nels Nelson. Dismissed on
motion of defendants counsel.
Dorilus Morrison vs.. Joel Basset. The Jury
returned a verdict for plaintiff (as directed by
the COURT for $535.S9. A stay of proceedings
was granted defendant for thirty days
Joseph Il. Thompson va. N. T. Clark and
Thomas G. McCleve, as Clark & McCleve. Case
on trial when the court adjourned.
Jerome Fisher was admitted to practice in
the courts of Minnesota.
The grand jury intesded to report what busi-
ness they had transacted last evening, but
Judge Young, not knowing their intentions.
adjourned the court, and in consequence they
will report m Monday. They will probably be
IN session during the entire week.
The following is the call for Monday:
l02. Andrew Bergquest vs. James White.
203. Leonard Snow vs. Carrick & Gould.
LOT. John Hedlnnd VS.. John l. Black, An
thony Kelly and Hiram w. Wagner.
Daily globe., 1878-11-24
New York Produce hIarket.

NEW YORK, Nov. %.
CoTTON-sssc; futures qriiet.
FLOUR-Demand active; receipts 1900 barrels I;
s',perfne state aud western S3.4013.75 common to
good extra s.9osL2o; good to choice 4.25ls4so ;
white wheat extra 4.55l5.25; extra Ohio 3S095. 90
St Louis 3e0Q5.75; Minnesota patent process $50
08.25.
GRAIN-Wheat, fair demand; receipts 27oooo
bushels; nngraded spring Ssc; Nc. spring ss99lc;
NO. Milwaukee S1O0; ungraded red Si.o39I 10
amber 1.O6@l. 10 IL; No. amber 10. IL: uneraded
white 1.12 IL; No. white, sales 2a000 bushels at
LII l-2so1 H. Rye dull; No. western 5l@5sc. Malt
quiet and unchanged. Corn, moderate demand; re-
cslpts 1877 900 bushels; ungraded 44@47c; No. 8,
43g4s 1-2c; steamer 46046 1-2c; white western, 5oc
Oats qiet receipts $4,000 bushels; white western
81 l-2037c; mixed western 31np3ic.
Daily globe., 1878-11-24
MONEY AND TRADE.
FINANCIAL.
Money and Stocks.
Rxw YoRK. Nsy. IS.

Nxw York. Nsv. IS.
Gold firm at 100ik
Carrying rates Vol per cent.
Borrowing rates fat.
Bar silver here are 110A In greenbacks; 11oh In
gold. Subsidiary silver coin M01 per cent. dia-
count.
Governments firm.
Railroad securities strong and higher.
State bonds steady.
The stock market with the exception Of brief in
teryal OF weakness at the opening, when prices de-
clned 1s1Ga per cent, was strong and buoyant
throughout the day, with active business in Chicago
Northwestern, Milwaukee l. st. Paul, Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern, and Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Towards the close the decline on st. Paul
especially large, and quotations the highest
OF the week. Investment shares were all higher
Rock Island held up to 118s and Fort Waynes to par
The market closed strong.
At the close transactions aggregated 900 shares
OF which $4,000 were Lake Shore; 18 900 Northwestern
common: 10000 Northwestern preferred IL, ,O0O st.
Paul common; 1900 st. Paul preferred 5000
Lackawanns, and $500 Western Union.
Money per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 4M05x per cent.
The assistant treasurer disbursed S212,OOO.
Custom receipts 1857 600.
Clearngs $7,7270OO.
Sterling, long 80; short 86S.
The following we're the closing quotations: