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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-10

NEw YORK, July 9-Dutfng q quarrel at
the Juvenile AsylHm to-day, a boy, named
VIM. Hamilton struck another, named James
Crawley, on the head with bat, killing him
instantly.
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James Watson wehb sIowEy sinking.

NEW YORK, July 9.-Jsmes Watson Webb is
gradually sinking. He takes httle or no
nourishment, and complained this morning
of feeling worse than usual. Thsre isy how
ever, no marked change ih his condition TO-
d.
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ssrInus Rnilrnad Accident.

LONDON, July 9-A railway accident Is re-
ported at Chester, in which several persons
were killed and forty injured,
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COLUMBUS, O., JAsly 9.-The wheat and
corn crops in this State are gocd, and the pc
tato crop the best for twenty years.
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MILWAUKEE, July 9.-The fifth annual ses-
sion III the American Hebrew Congregation
commenced its labors at COncordia Hall this
morning. Over one hundred delegates, rep
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A shnckinx smIeide.

CLEVELAND, July IA very shocking sui
eide occurred here last evening. The victim
was Mrs. DR.. Alyne Maynard, q lady moving
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Austrian mobilization

LONDON July 9.-Vienna advices state That
Austria has modified 100000 troops, who are
ready to act at moments notice,
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Two Years fer Five Cents.

NEW YORK, July 9.-Two years in the peni-
tentiary for having stolen five cents is the
sentence just given In the criminal court.
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orsor. tor Ammunition Countermanded

LONDON, July 9-Orders have been issued
countermandng the orders recently given TO
Woolwich arsenal for forty millions OF cart
ridges.
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STATE FINANCES.
TREAhURkR-Gs5, ,O2O 80 PAID IN
nv THfRTK.EIvE PARISHES.

Hard Times Bnes Not Prevent the Pay-
ment Of Taxes-A Favorable showing.
Aprop0s OF the matter Of tax collections
throughout the State and the healthy con-
flition of the States finances 1t may be a.
matter of surprise to some of the doubling
Thomases to know that the collections for the
last uuarter-the dullest always of the year--
In thirty-ftye parishes, and for the month Of
June in the parish of Orleans, amounted 10
the sum of s85O29 90, the amounts paid in by
oooh IN the State Treasurer being as follows I
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-10
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
Yesterdays Sitting OF THE con-
GREss-CEs~ION OF KHOTOUR
TO PERSIA APPROVED.
status quo of the DH rdaneI'es to be MAIN"
taIned-HeaC8nsfleld Announces the
treaty Retwten ENGLAND and Enrkey.

BERLIN, July 9-At yesterdays, sitting, OF
the congress, Mira MoluGolta, tne fersiaLl ~
Minister was admitted, and after listening 10
his statements the cession of khotour to Fer
The condition of the Armenans was, also
discussed, without result. The reports OIL Ine
military commissions were received anu ap-
Ii was decided to maintain the status quo Oh
Beaeonsfieid, in mentioning the Anglo
Turkish treaty, stated that England guatain- ~
demnity, and also proportional part OF her
liabilities, debts, etc. ..-., A..
Nj Waddington said France approved the
convention.
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LONDON, July 10.-A dispatch for Belgrade;
says that Prince Milan, of Servia, has ISSUED
an independence proclamation.
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ENGLAND.
The Liberals Oppose English Occupation
0f gynrUS.

LONDON, July 1O.-The Liberal associations
are organizing an extensive opposition to
English occupation OF Cyprus
The English troops lately stationed at
Malta are en- route to Cyprus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
The 1'ramp's Yarn.

"Quad Box writes in the American
Newspaper Reporter = There are but few
printers throughout the country but
what have seen or heard of George
Washington Machett, probably the
Oldest tramp printer on the road. He
says he has tramped across the continent
several times, and has visited almost
every printing Office in the Union. The
following is story related by him on
his last trip through this place:
He was on one of his long walks, and
had got as far west as Kansas, and had
found little work during his journey; but
one day he "struck small town with
one printing Office in it. He went up to
the Office, and found the editor scratch
ing away with his pen, and the devil %
seated upon stool. He asked the editor
how work was, and what was the chance
for sit," and upon being told that he
might have a job for few days, and
that he could go to work at once, he
asked where he would find type and
cases, was told that the type was upstairs
in sack, and that he would have to
chalk his case out on the floor. He went
to work and marked out his case and
laid the type. He worked all that week
and when Saturday night came he went
to the "boss" for his money, whereupor
the latter went upstairs and threw dowr
two coon skins, and explained to G. w
that they were currency in thatcountry
George had to make the best of it; SO ht
threw the coon skins over his shoulder
and started down street to store. HI
got some tobacco, paper of pins, ant
some thread, and threw down cool
skin to pay for it. The storekeeper tool
the coon skin, and handed him back tw
squirrel skins and one opossum skin il
change. 49,
Machett told the story with relish
and after taking collection, departe
on his weary way.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
END OF THE CUBAN STRUGGLE.
[Chicago Times.1


Everything pertaining to civil war in
Cuba, which was carried on for nearly
ten years, is remarkable in its character.
1t is hard to tell how the insurgents
maintained their strife so long with so
few resources. They had hardly show
of an organized government. They had
no way Of imposing or collecting taxes;
no seaport, no manufactures of arms
and ammunition, and no town that was
denominated capital. Their only for
titled places were those which nature
had formed. Strategy was the only kind
of tactics they could avail themselves of.
They worried out the forces sent against
them by making them "move on"
They trusted to the climate and the hard
life in the mountain camp to put an end
to their adversaries. Nine years passed
without great battle; but it is said
that one hundred and sixty thousand
Spanish soldiers left their bodies to be
buried in Cuba. The insurgent leaders
surpassed both Fabius and Washington
in wearing out armies by leading them
from one part of the country to another.
The close of the struggle was as sin
gular as its commencement and contin.
uance. The Spanish troops had gained
no victory, while the insurgent forces
showed no signs of weakening. The
government of Alfonso was doing nc
more to put down the insurrection thar
was done under the rule of Isabella
Serrano, Prim, Amadeus, and CASTELAR,
1t was simply sending over fresh troops
to take the place of those continually
dropping out of the ranks. The contes
has continued so long that it has becom,
something more or less than an insur
rection. The determination to hold ou
in any case gave it sort of respecta
bility. The war had become somewha
unpopular in Spain, and the doings o
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
UNNUmRERED GRAVES.
BY EMANUEL.

Yon hillside with its shafts of cleaning white,
Bathed in the glory Of the setting sun
Holds many grave where, hidden from our sight,
Some loved one sleeps, hfe's toll and labor done.
But there are graves above whose slumbrng mold
No polished marble rears its stately head,
And where no fragrant flowers above unfold
To waken pity for the quiet dead.
These are the graves deep down within our hearts,
Where lie the hopes and dreams Of early years,
Buried from sight; but signaled by such mark,
AS only can be made by blood and tears
Some early love that crowned us in our youth,
And made life glorious for short sweet hour,
Some cherished promise, robbed Of strength and
truth,
Crushed in the morning Of its newborn power.
Here Is the spot where memory has engraved
The form and face of one we called friend,
One for whose welfare We would cen have braved
Censure and heartaehe to the bitter end.
But twas not wisely done and so we draw
Before the treachery Of the smiling eyes
A heavy veil. The cold world If it saw
Would profer pity in thousand lies.
So life goes on. We lay the forms away,
OF things We loved not wisely but too well
And In the laspe Of years we learn to stay
the fretful chanting of their funeral knell.
We learn to smile, before the smiling throng,
Although the Adder's fangs be deeply set;
And join, perhaps, our voices In the song,
To soothe the pain we never can forget.
And thus we learn to envy the calm rest
6 those who sleep beneath the silent sod;
Bound with lifes CALLING chains, we know tis best
To bend our heads and pass beneath the rod.
And when we see some mourners, heavy clad
In robes of black, haggard, with tear-dimmed
eye,
We kno! their lives would be more bright and
glad
Could they but treason-itis is life to die.
Mourn not the slumbering dead, but rather say,
Blessed are the sleepers. Years may come and go:
Heads that are brown and gold may turn to gray;
But they are done with earth and tears and woe.
Somewhere, we know, beyond the world Of stars,
They will at last have found sweet Lethe's
stream,
Some time wen meet them at Gods judgment bar,
Where lifeis love, and love one long sweet dream.
-Oqdea Ufdh) Freeman.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Fashion Gossip.

The yoke of the kilt skirt should fit the
hips like glove.
New and beautiful grenadines have stripes
and flowers of velvet.
Ladies' silk ties have ends of net heavily
embroidered in colors.
Spring bonnets are de rigeur at matinees
and evening performances.
Metal buttons will be profusely used on
the " "costume de fatigue"
Bonnet coronets are very high, and turned
very far back at the sides.
Pearl buttons are shaded to match all the
new shades of new materials.
Primroses and cyclamens are the pot
plants of the passing moment.
A handsome gold slipper of unique design
is the latest candlestick holder.
Mastic is the last shade of putty color
1t is the color for gloves at the moment.
Square necks, formed by long and higf
shoulders straps, are seen in opera toilets.
Dolmans, French sacques, and Carricl
capes will all be fashionable spring wraps
The correct length for the kilt skir
allows it to escape the sidewalk two and ,
half inches all round.
Havana brown and black are favorite com
binatiens of color for checked and baske
woven spring bourettes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Ripening for Death.

No one (says Won Humbolt) can fear
death less than do, neither am / much
attached to life; but l have never known
the feeling of an anxious longing for
death; and although it be nobler one
than that of absolute weariness of ex-
istence, it is nevertheless blamable.
Life must first, for as long a period as
Providence wills it, be en- joyed or suf-
fered-in one word, gone through, and
that with full submission, without
murmuring, lamenting, or repining.
There is one important law of nature
which we should never lose sight of
mean that of ripening for death.
Death is not break in existence, it is
but an intermediate circumstance, a
transition from one form of our final
existence to another. The moment OF
maturity for death cannot be decided by
any human wisdom or inward feeling
and to attempt to do so would be moth.
ing better than the vain rashness of hu
man pride. That decision can only be
made by Him who can at once look bach
through our whole course; and botf
reason and duty require that we should
leave the hour to Him, and never rebe
against His DEGREES by single impatien
wish. The first and most importan
thing is, to learn to master ourselve
and to throw ourselves with peaceful
confidence on Him who never changes
looking on every situation, whethe
pleasant or otherwise, as source from
which our interior existence and indi
vidual character may draw increasing
strength; and hence springs that entir
submission which few attain to, a.
though all fancy they feel it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
AGE OF THE IDEA OF HE'LL.
Popular Science Monthly


In the first place, it is necessary to
rise above that narrowness of view
which regards the doctrine of hell as es-
pecially a Christian doctrine, or as the
monopoly of any particular religion.
On the contrary, it is as ancient and
universal as the systems of religious
faith that have overspread the world.
The oldest religions Of which we have
any knowledge-Hindoo, Egyptian, and
the various Oriental systems of wor-
ship-all affirm the doctrine of future
life, with accompanying hells for the
torture of condemned souls. We GER
tainly cannot assume that all these sys-
TENS are true and of divine origin; but
if not, then the question forces itself
upon us, how they came by this belief.
The old, historic religious systems in
volved advanced and complicated creeds
and rituals, and if they were not real
divine revelations in this elaborate
shape, we are compelled to regard them
as having had natural development
out of lower and cruder forms of super
stition. To explain these religions -as
to explain the earliest political institu-
tions-we must 90 behind them. There
is prehistoric, rudimentary theology
of the primitive man, the quality Of
which has to be deduced from his low
infantine condition of mind, interpreted
by what we observe among the inferior
types of mankind at the present time.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

leave me penny, and though can't
bear him near me-"
"She said she adored me-" groaned
Jones.
"And though 1 know / shall feel
awful, why l must have him now. Sc
goodbye, Alphonse. And, you. know,
he's a good deal older than l, and may
be rich widow some day."
"Let me out" cried Jones; but Sus.
picion wrapped him tight, and flew back
to Jones's snug bachelor apartment.
When he unwrapped his gray mantle,
Jones was insensible; he had tainted.
When he came to himself it was nearly
morning.
The sky was gray, and the cocks were
Growing.
He looked about him.
There sat Suspicion all agrin.
"Ah, Pm glad Pm awake" cried
Jones. "Pve had bad dream"
"Oh, no." said Suspicion, it was
"Hold ysur tongue!' cried Jones.
"See here. know what sort of a fellow
l am. There's no reason people shouldn't t
like me. They do. No reason people
ouOuluu lOfO uC ouO uOCos NOg OuIs
"Ehw cried Suspicion. "Then you
don't want me to stay7"
"No," said Jones. "Get out"
cts his vanity" said Suspicion, hob
bling away. ellis vanity has saved
him. Pve shown him the truth, but he
can't believe it because he's so vain.
He'll marry Amanda, and invite his five
hundred dear friends to the wedding"
And Jones did.
1t was all true enough.
The Greenboughs, and the Fishes,
Todkinson, and Miss Flyblister were as
ungrateful, and talked as badly of him
as Suspicion had shown him they did.
And Amanda had a memory of Al
phonso and his whiskers in what she
called her beart-and at many a key
hole might Jones have listened and
many letter might he have opened
as who might not with sad results.
But though his vanity left him to be
fattered, cajoled, and cheated his life
through, it saved him from more awful
fate that of having old Suspicion take
up his abode with him.
Rather any fate than that.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21

contractors and government officials
were being inquired into by members of
the Cortes. The expenses of the war
during three years were $40, 900, 900, and
many persons demanded that such a
drain on the resources of the home gov
ernment should be stopped. Even the
people in the western part of the Island
had lost in interest in putting an end to
the civil war.
There would seem to be no further
cause of dissensions in Cuba. The is
land is hereafter to send representatives
to the Spanish Cortes, who will have an
equal voice with the representatives of
the home provinces in making laws for
the entire kingdom. The local govern
ment is to be placed chiefly in the hands
of residents, and slavery will be grad
ually abolished. With these reforms,
Cuba could gain little by being indepen-
dent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
A FoREGoNE CONCLUSION.
New York Times.

Let the immediate result be what it
may, the ultimate destruction of the Of
toman power is a foregone conclusion. A
grotesque story is told of suicide, who,
being dragged from the river into which
he had leaped, promptly hanged himself
with the rope which had extricated him.
His rescuers, who had gone to seek help,
returned in time to cut him down; but
they had hardly done so, when the obsti-
nate telo do Sc cut his own throat with the
knife that had severed the cord. Such
has been, from first to last, the course
pursued by Turkey. Reprieved by
Western Europe in 1889 and 1854, she
has used her respite only to plunge
deeper into the same entanglements; and
should she escape third time, it will
merely postpone the accomplishment Of
ruin which sooner or later, must come
as inevitably as the fall of an under
mined tower.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
MEMS LOVE AND sELF-LovE.
lBow Bells.l

lBow Bells.
Girls are sometimes admonished not
to firt because, however pleasant it
might be to them, it might break the
hearts of those with whom they hirt.
Nonsense. We have heard of victims of
blighted affection, but never yet came
across one. Time. in this sort of mat
tiers, works wonders. We doubt whether
any man ever yet died of a broken heart.
Men are more vain than women. There
are exceedingly few of them who are not
fattered by the idea of some woman fall
ing in love with them. The lady for the
moment affords them this qualification of
self-love. She makes herself as agreeable
as she can. If the vanity of the man
leads him to believe that she has fallen a
victim to his charms, this is his fault,
not hers. The illusion has raised him to
the seventh heaven for brief period.
In one of De Bernard's novels he de-
scribes an old Captain who lives SUI
premely happy because he fancies that,
years ago, some girl died of broken
heart because he had declined to marry
her. He carries about her portrait, and
on all occasions takes it out and weeps
over it. One day, however, he meets the
girl, who had not died, but had married
grocer, and forgot all about the Cap
tain. He is in despair. He can no longer
indulge in the luxury of grieving over
the sad fate of the object of his youthful
affections. Flirt on, young ladies, and
do not imagine that the amusement will
break the heart of any one. 1t may
wound his vanity, quite likely, and where
this is the only quality the man has, the
blow may stagger him. But it will do
him good-show him his real sel6shness.
So firt on, young ladies, but at the same
time temper the blow to the tenderness
of the youth who is to receive it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
Diffidence Of Great Men.

1t may comfort some of our readers,
troubled with an excess of modesty, to
know that great men have been difident
in company and have broken down in
attempting to speak.
The eloquent Robert Hall made an
utter failure the first time he attempted
to speak.
The great Pitt was exceedingly shy in
his private intercourse with men. Lord
Camden was on terms of the greatest in
timacy with him, and one day remarked,
as Pitt was at his house:
"My children have heard so much
about you that they are very anxious to
have glimse of the great man. They
are now at dinner. Will you oblige me
by going in with me momentT'
40, pray don'tp said the orator, in
great alarm. "What on earth would ]
say to them"
"Give them the pleasure of seeing
you, at least" said his lordship, laugh.
ing, as he half led, half pushed him inte
the room.
The Prime Minister of England ap
preached the little group. There he
stoOd, looking alternately at tne 1aInel
and the children, and twirling his ha
for few minutes, without being abl,
to utter sentence.
When Daniel Webster was school
boy, he tells us: "Many a piece did
commit to memory and rehearse it owe
and over again in my room, but whel
the day came, when the school collected
when my name was called, and I saw al
eyes turned upon my seat, 1 could no
raise myself from it."
Cowper's friends purchased him
place as Clerk of the House of Lords
where his duties only required him t
stand up and read parliamentary docu
ments. The thought of standing up be
fore such an audience was SO terribl
to him that as the time drew on, he wa
in agony of apprehension and tried t
hang himself.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
IRISH IN THE SCHOOLS.

In seeming good faith a proposition
was submitted to the st. Louis Board of
Education making the study of the Irish
tongue part of the curriculum of the
public schools. Referred to q committee,
the resolution was urged by its friends,
but after lively row the committee de-
cided to report that the Boards finances
would not permit the introduction of
this important branch of elementary ed
ucation. 1t does, however, admit the
teaching of German; and if German,
why not French, or Spanish, or Choc-
taw, or Boston? If it did not happen
that the proposition as to Irish was seri-
ously made and advocated it might be
taken as, in appearance it is, satire
upon the absurdity of teaching any
other than the tongue of the country
at the public expense. Of the modern
languages, German is selected for the
curriculum of the public schools with an
eye single to the numerical superiority
of German-speaking voters.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
WHY SHOULD WE?
IRnstnn Posi-.

The idea of sending a representative
of the United States to the conference of
the European powers at Baden Baden is
said to be fayorably considered at Wash
ington. But what in the world would
representative of the United States have
to do in such a conference? What pos
sible interest of ours is it if Russia takes a
larger or smaller slice of Turkey, or the
Sclaves crowd Austria, or the Greeks get
Epirus? If the foreign appointments
fall short of the number necessary to
60 around among those entitled to favors
for services during the electoral count,
this will of course make comfortable,
though temporary place for some poll
tician. But it is foolish luxury for
which the people should not be COM
PEELED to pay. 1t would be well to let
one of the visiting statesmen" 60 at
his own expense.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-03-21
PSYCHOLOGICAL LIVING.
cincinnati Gazette.


Thirty-four doctors having invited
Bertha Won Hillern to walk twenty-six
hours without sleep, to give an illus
tration of feminine endurance" in order
to demonstrate what free physical de-
velopment, good habits, correct diet,
temperance, and systematic exercise will
give her the capacity to do. we suggest
that they now invite man to give a
similar illustration of masculine endur-
ance, in order to demonstrate what regu-
lar habits, correct diet, the avoidance of
extra suppers, temperance in all things,
free physical development, and system
attic exercise will do for masculinity.
This illustration, it seems to us, is quite
as much needed for man as woman.
Physiological living would make the
average man much more wholesome.