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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-14
REV ORLEANS. FEBRUARY u, ISL,
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

From this time until the close of the con
vention, the columns OF the DEMOCRAT will
be open for the discussion OF all questions
touching the proposed constitution. Indeed
we invite communications from the city and
the country, and we will print them whether
we agree with the views expressed or not re-
serving of course, the right to exclude such
as we do not think of sufficient interest to in
sert. We wish 1t also distinctly understood
that we will not return or undertake to pre-
serve rejected manuscripts
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-14

1t is the opinion OF the st. Louis Republican,
the Post and Dispatch, and, indeed, the entire
Missouri and Kansas press, that the investi-
CATION of the election of Ingalls,, of Kansas, to
the United States Senate will show bribery
and corruption. These papers'prophecy that
the examination will compel Ingalls, to resign
his seat In the Senate before he has even taken
possession of IT,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-14
YELLOW FEVER.
TILE NEW LOUISIANA REMEDY.

Greatest Cough Strip of the age, or Of
any age. Product Of our swamps. SpIen.
did for children. NO poison. THIR-
TEEN pages Of names OF HOME REFER
ENCES, and increasing! Sold by drug.
gists. Depot No. 106 Camp street, N. o.
ja2 6m 2dp
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINas.

The Duke of Argyll arrived at New
York by steamer from Scotland last week. He
comes on a visit to his son, the Canadian Gov
ernor General
Austrian Minister Kasson and Rus
sian Minister Stoughton are home on leave of
absence
A recent telegram from Eagle Pass,
on the Rio Grande, in Texas, says that COM
pany of Mexican infantry at Pedras Negras, on
the Mexican side, mutinied and fought their
way through the guard at the gate. About fif
teen crossed to Eagle Pass under heavy fire
from the loyal troops, who continued firing
after the deserters landed The fugitives sur
rendered their arms to the citizens. and were
subsequently returned to Mexico. number
of the mutineers were killed on the Mexican
side. The cause of the desertion is that the
troops have been six months without pay and
have nothing to eat
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
The RulyarianS.

Lady Stangford, writing to the Edin-
burgh Scotsman, on the condition Of the
Bulgarians, says: "The most salient
characteristic of the Bulgarian every
where, of the educated and uneducated
alike, is what is vulgarly called Cheek
the most offensive self-confdence, the
most superb self-estimation. Their nat
ure is at present at very low level; the
bulk of the nation is profoundly igno-
rant, brutal, and untruthful; nor are
they particularly afecti6nate or amiable.
Yet, Notwithstanding this ENJOYABLE
character, there is mass of solid good
stuff which can be carved into virtues by
and-by-that is, with time, patience,
and discipline. These they must h ave;
these they must be taught. Unlike the
Turk, the Bulgarian is not at all law
loving. He can be beaten into sub
mission, however, by his new masters,
who have already silently sent two large
patches of Bulgarians, whose patriotic
aspirations were little too lofty, to the
mines of Siberia. When occasion re-
quires, the whips of the Cossacks are
freely piled upon the backs of the newly
liberated, and the common phrase of
the Russian officers in speaking of their
new proteges is, eve have got these
pigs, and we mean to drive them"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
A Cautious BOarder.

Charles Thompson, Secretary to the
first American Congress, was noted for
his caution. It may be due in part to
this trait-one Of no mean Importance
in those stormy days-that he held the
office, through successive appointments,
during fifteen years. An anecdete ex-
hibits his caution and prudence.
When young man, he boarded with
a school-teacher and his wife, both noted
for their slanderous tongues. For some
good cause Thompson wished for new
boarding house; but he dreaded to leave
the teachers family, fearing lest his
character might suffer from their back
biting. He, however, hit upon an in
genious expedient to prevent them from
slandering him. One evening he grave
ly inquired if his conduct as boarder
had been satisfactory to them.
" Entirely SO" replied both husband
and wife.
" Would you be willing to give me
certificate to that efect?" he asked.
ooh, certainly" and they wrote one
then and there.
The next day Thompson moved to
another house. Thanks to his caution,
he parted in peace from his host, and
they never disturbed it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Maine Greenbackers assembled
in convention at Portland, on the Sd inst, and
nominated Joseph 81. Smith for Governor, on
the first ballot
The following gentlemen have been
mentioned as most likely to succeed Mr.. Nc
Crary in the War Department: Ex-senator
Ramsey, of Minnesota; Gov. Hartranft, Of
Pennsylvania; Gov Mccormick, of Arizona !;
ard Gen. John B. Hawley, of Illinois, now
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. 1t is not
probable that any appointment will be made
before fall
The Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton convened at Columbus on the 18th inst, the
number of delegates present being the largest
that has attended any Democratic State Con-
vention since the war. Gen. James B. Steed-
man, of Toledo, presided. Gen. Thomas Ewing
was nominated for Governor on the second bal
lot. The remainder of the ticket is as follows
Iieutenent Governor, A. Y. Rice; Treasurer,
Anthony Howells; Auditor, Charles Reemelin !:
Judge of the Supreme Court W. J. Gilmore;
Attorney General, Isaiah Pillars; member of
the Board of Public Works, Patrick O'Marah
The Greenbackers of Ohio also held
their State Convention at Columbus on the 4th,
and placed the following ticket in the field:
For Governor, Gen. A. Saunders Piatt; Lieu
tenant Governor, Hugo Preyor; Auditor, An
drew Rey; Treasurer, Charles jenkins; Su-
preme Judge, A. M. Jackson; Attorney Gen
eral, James G. Crogan; Member of the Board
OF Public Works, George W. Platl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
American and English Climates.

Our ups and downs of temperature,
with deep SHOWS and shifting heats,
make exercise and activity at certain
seasons a burden and peril for all ex-
cept the strongest, while in England all
the year is open to outdoor amuse-
ments and toll. The English summer
is almost always comfortable
times very cool; all the year overcoats
are in demand, and in the evenings fires
are desired, as at our summer re-
sorts by the sea and in the mount
aims. During the summer of 1868
the thermometer in England ranged
between 80 and IS degrees, and at one
time rose to 80 degrees, anu all COM
planned of the excessive heat. In the
winter ice is not abundant; snow falls
only to the depth of two or three inches,
and remains on the ground for but a
few days; skating and coasting and
sleighing are almost forbidden joys.
Through the entire year, in midwinter
even, the meadows are fresh and green,
and there is not a month when the
public parks cease to be visited. In
the coolest seasons a temp erature of
zero, or even 10 degrees above, is I'M
known; at Greenwich the average of
the thermometer during the month of
January for half a century was 81 de-
dress, temperature that will not only
allow but invite various and active olt-
door recreations. The English winter,
indeed, is not unlike our March shorn
of its bitterness and on its good be-
havior.
We Americans, on the contrary, for
part of the year are prisoners to our
climate-in the summer not daring to
walk abroad, for fear of sunstroke; in
midwinter hemmed in by biting cold
and impossible drifts of snow; at no
season able to predict or calculate the
temperature for a day, or even half an
hour, in advance. These sudden leaps
of the American climate from distress
ing heat to severe cold, or the reverse,
are quite unfamiliar to England, where
spring slowly unfolds into summer, and
summer in turn descends into a mod
crate winter.
The element of dryness of the air,
peculiar to or climate as distinguished
from that of Europe, both in Great
Britain and on the Continent, is of the
highest scientific and practical interest.
The evidences of this dry state of our
atmosphere are numerous and striking.
Clothes on the line can be taken in
more quickly than in Europe; there is
less of mold in libraries, in closets and
on furniture; the specimens of the
naturalist keep much longer without
injury; woodwork of houses and pict-
ure-frames crack more speedily; the
hair and beard are drier and sitter.
have less oil and moisture, than in
Europe, and pomades are in greater
demand atlantic Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
Hast.

haSTs
Smallpox has broken out at Sara
toga, N. Y.
The extensive variety establishment
Of s. Barnum & Sons, Buffalo, N. Y, burned
last week. Loss, $3.50, 600; insurance, 5000, oOO
Pardee Hall, one of the Lafayette
College buildings at Easton, Pa, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $25o,OOO; insurance,
$4,000.
A telegram from Island Pond, Vt,
says that "a medical examination and invest-
CATION of the poisoning cases at Newark, Vt,
to-day resulted in showing that diphtheria was
the cause of the terrible mortality, aggravated
by poisoned water. Diphtheria in mild form
had been in the vicinity, and four cases were
known to exist, 30 that water poisoned by
barnyard drainage and putrid carcasses of
dead animals was just the thing to feed the
disease intoa the development of the terrible
disaster. Eleven deaths have occurred. The
others will recover"
By the explosion of boiler in brick
yard at Freedom Pa, John Bryan and Frank
hathany were instantly killed, and John Powell
and Frank Bryan fatally, and D. Grim, W. Err
win and Joseph McDermott seriously injured
Low water caused the accident.
A negro named Swingler was executed
at Chambersburg, Pa, on the 5th inst, for the
murder of John Anderson (colored) in Deem
Der last
In the Pennsylvania House of Repre-.
sentatives, last week. resolutions were offered
for the expulsion of Representatives Petroff.
Smith, and Rumberger, the three members
accused by the Riot Bribery Committee
OF having corruptly solicited members
to vote for the 100000 bill. In
each case Majority vote was recorded in favor
OF expulsion, but as it requires two-thirds of
the members to expel, the accused members
escaped the penalty which the investigating
committee proposed to inflict.
Felix McCann, an old man of 70
years, was executed at Norwich, N. Y, on the
9th of June, for the murder of J. M. Hatch.
m December last
During storm at Asbury Park, n.
D., the house of the Rev. George Clark was
struck by lightning and two painters killed.
At Rochester, N. Y, Peter Peters
murdered his wife and then committed suicide
At Philadelphia, Edward Parr has
been sentenced to death for the murder of his
daughter, Mrs. Susan Irwin.
Three young men, Charles Fifeld,
William D. Pinkham and William Rowell were
drowned in Salem (Mass) harbor, the other
day, by the capszng of a sail boat
West.
r. L. Squiers, convicted OF murder
in the first degree, committed suicide at Co
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
Private Balzell. Champion Letter. Writer.

The most peculiar character in he
Slxty-thlrd General Assembly is Pr vate
DalzeH. His appearance at once at
tracts attention. Lean. tall and slight
~ STOPPING, with long, curly hair of a
sandy hue, long, red, struggling beard,
and bright blue eye, he looks more
like the traditional soldier of the South
than the blue Yankee that he is.
The most peculiar thing about Pri-
vate Dalzen is his mania for letter
writing. There is hardly prominent
newspaper from the Atlantic to the Pa
cltic, or from the lakes to the gulf, that
has not heard from Private Dalzell.
he writes at all times, on all subjects,
and to all prominent persons, giving
editors the preference. I had a talk
with him to-day on this subject, and he
Tells me he has spent small fortune
for postage stamps.
When he was % he left the Junior
class of Washington College and en-
tered the war, where he served three
years. During this time he was con,
t1nuous correspondent, and sent his let.
tiers broadcast over every part of the
country. Here he served as private,
and his letters generally appeared
signed Private Dalzell" He told me
to-day that not single night passed
during the time that he was in the wal
that he did not write from one to fifty
letters to the newspapers, and that he
spent all of his money for stationery.
In response to question as to whether
he had never risen above the rank of
private while in the army, he answered:
Might have done SO, but it was my in
ferna, writing that ruined me. I
continually wrote for the newspapers,
and many of my letters found their way
through the press back to the army.
Well, some General would see them.
They would please him, and he would
take me from my company and make
me his clerk. After month or two
would gravitate back to the ranks, when
in several weeks was again picked
up by some new admirer and again
made clerk. If had stayed in the
ranks l might have risen to a higher
command, but this changing about pre-
vented it,
AS to my being called Private Dali
zell, [ signed all my letters James M.
Dalzell, private Company II, One Hun
dred and Sixteenth Ohio. The edit
ors abbreviated it to Private Dalzell,
and after the war I adopted that name.
Cleveland (Oh5O) letter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

WHKIR COLLINS is coming to visit
America this season.
WASHINGTON (Pa.) College is Senator
Blaine's lima Mater.
ASA PACKER left will so drawn up
that it can't be contested.
BEN BUTLER owns 10000 acres of
land in Polk county, Wis.
VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER has no
living relative nearer than cousin.
SENATOR HILLS smelling works in
Colorado are paying $1,OO0,O00 year.
SENATOR WILLIAMS, of Kentucky,
was educated at Oxford (Ohio) College.
JOHN Browns revolver has been pre-
sented to the Kansas Historical Society.
SENATOR MCMILLAN, of Minnesota
graduated from DuQuesne (Pa.) Col
lege.
SENATOR CocKRELL, of Missouri, is
a graduate of Chapel Hill (Mo.) Co.
lege.
The English Sir Garnet Wolseley has
started for the garnet fields of strife in
Africa.
EX-SENATOR SARGENT, of California,
is feeble, and has gone to Oregon for
his health.
HE Republican nominee for next
Governor of Ohio, Hon. Charles Foster,
is 81 years old.
GAMBETTA dwels in a magnificent
house, keeps the finest horses and hest
cooks in Paris.
TRANsYLvANIA (Ky.) University has
two graduates in the Senate-Beck, of
Kentucky, and Vest, of Missouri.
The African fever has kept young
Napoleon on his bunk ever since he
went down to intimidate the Zulus
JENNY LIND for long time cherished
the hope of seeing her own artistic
glory revived in the person of her
child. but she has given up the idea.
HENRY SEL1GMAN, the eminent New
York banker, began life by working for
the late Asa Packer for so cents day.
THREE poets have been selected for
centennial honors in Great Britain
Shakespeare for England, Burns for
Scotland, and Moore for Ireland.
SENATOR HAMPTON is described as be-
ing yet unused to doing without his
amputated limb, and as standing erect
with great difficulty. He is an agree
able public speaker, having pleasant
voice and distinct enunciation.
AN exchange*direc attention to the
fact that number of original Adolf
tionists of even greater age than Will
lam Lloyd Garrison, who was rs when
he died, survive him. DIR. William Ell.
Furness, of Philadelphia, is now in his
18th year; Lucretia Mott in her S7th
Calvin E. Stowe, II; Lydia Maria
Childs, over II; Ralph Waldo Emerson,
just 76. Besides these, there are DIR.
Cheever, Oliver Johnson, Wendell
Phillips, Samuel May, Henry B. Stan
ton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Drs. Cha
pin and Bellows, Parker Pilsbury, and
Stephen Foster, all pretty well advanced
in wears
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
Popular Sanitary Errors.

is popular sanitary error to think
that the more man eats the fatter and
stronger he will become. To believe
that the more hours children study the
faster they learn. To conclude, that if
exercise is good, the more violent the
more good is done. To imagine that
every hour taken from sleep is an hour
gained. To act on the presumption
that the smallest room in the house is
large enough to sleep in. To imagine
that whatever remedy causes one to feel
Immediately better is good for the
system, without regard to the Interior
effects. To eat without an appetite, or
to continue after it has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste. To eat
hearty supper at the expense of whole
night of disturbed sleep and weary wax
ing in the morning. Sanitary Record
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

is said to be quite deIquescent and mus
be kept In tight bottles. It is quick il
action, retains its qualities for Ions
time and has no injurious effect OH thu
taste, smell or healthfulness of the sub
stances to which it is applied. 1t has al
ready found a use in making sausages
IN preserving meats, in tanning and il
butter making. A small quantity of the
salt added to milk will preserve it il
good condition for a week. It is also
used in preserving beers and wines, and
is being made the subject of experiment
IN several other Observation-Disclosures
Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
New Preseryatiye Agent.

During some experiments in separat-
ing sugar from molasses double salt
of borate of potassium and sodium was
found that proved to have valuable an
tiseptic properties. This salt is now
manufactured on commercial scale,
and costs about 10 cents kllogram. 1t
is obtained by dissolving in water equal
quantities of chloride of potassium, nj
trate of sodium and boric acid: filtering
and evaporating to dryness. The salt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS

A Paris dispatch states that M. De
Lesseps has already commenced the formation
OF q company to construct the tide-level inter-
oceanic canal from Colon to Panama, atross
the Isthmus of Darien, the route selected by
the International Congress. A first subscrlp-
ION of 1900, 200, 600 francs will be opened
simultaneously all over the Torld about Sep
TENDER next 1t is to be an essentially popular
loan without Government aid or guarantee.
The Spanish Government will shortly
submit to the Cortes a bill for the abolition of
slavery. "E4 5~t
By an overwhelming majority of 372
to 80, the French Chamber of Deputies has
voted to annul the election Of Blanqui, the
Communistic convict, to seat in that body.
The death of the head of the house
of Rothschild, Baron Lionel Nathan, is chroni-
cled in London dispatches. He was grand
son OF the founder of the family, and succeed
ed his father, Nathan, as head of the London
branch on the latter's death, in 1886. He was
born in November, 1908, and was the first pro-
lessor of the Hebrew faith ever admitted to a
seat in the English House of Commons, the
standing orders of the House requiring an Off
cial oath con the faith of Christian" being
revoked in his favor in 1858, after he had been
successfully elected and rejected in 1847, 1849,
1852 and 1857.
The police of st. Petersburg are to
be armed with revolvers.
Reports from Cashmere of the pro-
gress of the famine in that romantic valley
grow worse and worse Measures are being
pressed forward for the relief of the starving
population, and $500 tons of grain are on the
way from India.
A committee of the German Bundles
Tia has reported in favor of the assumption
of control over railroad freight rates by the
imperial Government
Mr.. White, the new American Minis
ter Germany, has arrived at Berlin. The
German press welcome him as an appropriate
successor to Bayard Taylor.
An overflow of the river Pc, in Italy,
has caused great destruction of grain and fruit
erops.
Germany has resolved to propose the
joint Interference of the European powers to
end the South American war, or the improper
and nhuman manner in which it is carried on
by tine bellgerents.
Spain has demanded satisfaction from
San Domingo for the shooting of two Generals
at Puerto Plata who had sought the protection
OF the Spanish representative.
Solovleff, the assassin who attempted
the life of the Emperor of Russia, on the 14th
of April last, has just been executed at St
Petersburg.
The Afghan treaty has created a
strong impression in Persia, greatly increasing
the British prestige.
Forty thousand camels belonging to
the British transport service died during the
war in Afghanistan.
The famine in Cashmere is taking it's
course, and people are reported dying by hun
dreds.
A riot against the collection of taxes
has occurred in the district of Catania, in
Italy. Several soldiers and peasants have
been killed
Mrs. Howard Paul, we'll known En-
glish actress and singer, is dead
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
REFUNDING CERTIFICATES.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has nominated Simon
B. Conover, of Florida, to be Collector of In
ternal Revenue in the District of Florida.
Nothing will be done at this session
by the House Military Committee, it is said,
with the Fitz John Porter case.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

At Workingmen's State Conven-
ton, held at San Francisco. CAL, and presided
over by Denis Kearney, full ticket for State
officers was nominated, headed by William F.
White, Of Monterey county, for Governor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

The Senate on the Sd inst, passed the House
bill establishing post routes, and the House bill
extending the time for the payment of pre- eaptors
on public lands in Minnesota and Dakota. In ex-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

Two CoLoRED baseball clubs in Flor
ida had a free fight, in which two per-
sons were killed and several wounded.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

THERE are 10000 miles of telegraph
wire under ground in London.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in law
full money: Principal outstanding S 64,623 512
Interest accrued and not yet paid ~ 1,6l5,5S7
Interest paid by the United States. 41,773,745
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc ........................ 11,177,435
Balance of interest paid by the United
States ..........:............ sO.596.scs
crI nrHn NIT ON IrrA1 Arro TO-