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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-26

cisco and 10000 ounces for New Orleans. the
philadelphia mint having d supply on hand
sufficient for some tlmeIto come. The present
capacity of the New Orleans mint is about
100000 month, to which limit the director
OF the mint expects TO have II worked, Up
to this time comparatively no bullion has
been shipped to New Orleans. the mint hav-
ing been engaged almost exclusively In re-
colning Mexican dollars which have been
purchased aB bullion. At=t
writer iilsthe London Times draws u
forcible contrast betueer Tho progress of
American industry and that Of Great Britain
IN cotton weaving the difference being due in
d great measure 10 the superior inventive
skill Of our oonntrymen and the promptness
with which they take hold Of and apply new
improvements lii machinery. In the twenty
five years from 1859 To 1878 the average week
ly product of English weavers rose from s25
yards In sixty hours to 97B yards II, flftY-
seven hours--an increase In productive capac-
lily per hand OF 81 yards per hour. or % per
cent Ia the average rate OF production. In
the decade between 1865 and 1876
the cotton operatives OF Che United
States increased In number 100 per cent,
and In aggregate rate OF production 800 per
cent. The progress due to Improvement In
processes was more than ten times az rapid lii
this country as In England The ability 10
double LII the course Of only ten years the
number Of yards cotton weaver can pro
duce lii given time makes the competition
OF the United States very formidable thing
for Great, Britain. The Times writer further
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-26
CITY LICENSES FOR 1879.

DEPARTMENT or FINANCE, CRY Hall. |
New Orleans. April 8. 1873.
TO accommodate the public and save them
expensive costs and Inconvenience license In
spectors clothed with authority 10 collect will
call upon those who have not paid and furnish
them the appropriate license under ordinance
No. 47s9. Administration Series, and those re-
fusing will be- enioined at once.
ap10 ALE. II. ISAACSON, Administrator.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-26

rive years ago the assessed valuations Of
real and personal estate In New York were
si,i54 900 600; last year they were ,oes, ooo,-
GOO. In 1874 the rate OF taxation was 2s0 per
cent for 1879 It will be abous z55 per cent. The
aggregate amount of tax to be levied this
year IL $AO0nD0p lees than 1t was Id 1874.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-26
Commercial and Financial Matters.

The silver coin bin which passed the lower
house Of Congress on Tuesday provides that
subsidiary silver coin shall be legal tender Tor
all debts not exceeding $40, and shall bel
Interchangeable with lawful money TO that
amount: also makes the minor coinage re-
ceiyahIe at postuflres I'd the amount Of 80.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-26
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.G,oMMEHClAL.
OFFICE or NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT
Friday Evening. April a.. 1879.

GOTTuN-Innueneed BIZ favorable tele-
graphic advices from abroad the market ruled
Arm. and good demand prevailed throughout
the. day; the sales summed up to the close A.
Rregating 25oo bales. The movement In futures
at New York for The week has been large; the
. ales to The elose to-day amounted to 100000
bales. #
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-26

Secretary Sherman has succeeded III retir
Ing 8i45 00o, 900 of8 per cent bonds In 1877, ala
s1os55e ,sbo III 1879, and ss4o 800 In thehfpt
quarter Of 1873, and now has also prqtided
for the retirement of $lG4. 500. 800 Of pei cents
making In OH $7gl, 2o2. 450 In skies any hves
that have been put out 81 the way Within
less than twenty-five months and HalE
and sos, AZ, $50 per cent bonds To BIZ refund
ed In 1881, and after that time, ,no further re-
duction can be made for ten years, until the
AZ per cent bonds become redeemable.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-26
The movements at ports, from . N. Friday up
90 II III. bU-uHv IL RfVHU HBIUWs IA.
Received Same time Game time

FuTUHEE
The position OF the market at New York may
be- seen from the following:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07

A lady writes the Household: "What is
meant by clear starching and how is it done"
Clear starching'' is simply the process by
which laces and "sheer" muslins, lawns or
cambrics are made to look like new after 60
ing through thorough cleansing. None of
these delicate fabrics will bear rubbing or
wringing; the only proper way is to squeeze
them gently in the suds and rinse them care
fully through a suds of tepid water. This
may be prepared either by lathering a piece
of borax soap through the water, or odds and
ends of toilet soap may be cut very fine and
half teaspoonful of powdered borax added
to pint of these scraps. Put the soap and
borax in al earthen pipkin and pour quart
of boiling water over it; stir and beat thor
oughly with an egg whip, which will cause
every particle of the soap to dissolve, and
when it is cool it will look like jelly, and will
make an excellent lather. Il it is desired to
have the articles look yellow, a teaspoonful
of clear coffee added TO a pint OF starch will
give proper tinge; if dead white is preferred
bleach the articles by sleeping in glass jar
filled with suds, and set in the sun, but do not
use bluing; if clear white is wished use only
the smallest possible quantity of bluing and
if a blush tone is intended, increase the
quantity of bluing. Always blend the raw
starch to perfectly smooth paste with cold
water, then to liquid with cold water, add
boiling water, stirring all the time briskly,
till the starch is OF right consistency. Let
it boil until clear: add teaspooniul of alco-
hol to a quart of starch, and when cold
through it, squeeze out and clap with the
hands until nearly dry. Lace articles pin to
pillow or ironing table, smoothing them in
to shape with the hands, and they will not re-
quire ironing. Laces may be raised by pass
ing the underside of the pattern over the
rounded point of warm iron, and carefully
pinching stiletto through the small open
ings from the underSide.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
A Giant Unearthed in Nevada.

The fossilized remains Of gigantic
prehistoric man have been discovered
200 feet beneath the earth's surface in q
cave recently opened in the Kit Carson
mine, near Eureka. The lower limbs,
head and neck were as natural as those
of the Cardiff gian., and in some re-
spects the traces of the human features
plainly marked. That they have found
the remains of some prehistoric being is
beyond question. One of the lower ex-
tremities was broken off and is now on
exhibition at Jack Perry's saloon, where
it has been examined by numerous peo-
pie recently, those posted in the anat-
omy OF the human frame pronouncing it
wonderful petrefaction, the minor
points all being perfect to NATURE
Eureka (Nev.) Leader. ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
TWO KISSES.

When made visit homo, .,,...s.>s
And stole up stairs, good fortune leading,
ssw, or. rather, thought saw,
Ny sister in the study reading.
With noiseless treal forward crept,
With schemes of mischief most imprudent;
And, leaning DER the arm-chair's back,
softly kissed the gentle student.
She turned to fly, with burning face,
As IT brothers kiss polluted
Rapturel Twas not MY Sister Lu, .s..
But Cousin Amy I'd saluted.
OF course I then began to beg
She would excuse my having kissed her;
Protesting that, upon my word,
really thought it was my sister.
A conversation followed next, 81.
Whose theme, be sure, was not the weather;
And then very blissful pair ~.
Seated-well, rather close together.
And Amy with her roguish way, a..
When for the second time kissed her,
Said, archly looking up to me, -... 3d..
"Are you quite sure it's not your sister2"
HaTrord Crimson.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
Substitutes for Liquor.

A curious feature of the operation of
the No-License law at Norwich, c.,
is the substitution by drinkers of other
stimulants in place Of liquors. Per
haps the most natural substitute of all
is Jamaica ginger. This extract has
about double the alcoholic strength of
whisky, and, as it is medicine in con-
slant demand, and kept by all druggists,
it makes very satisfactory substitute
for the habitual old topper who is bound
to get drunk on something. That it is,
used in this way to q considerable extent
is shown from the increased sale of the
drug, as we'll as the confession of the
user. One dealer estimates his sales of
Jamaica ginger since the 1st of Novem-
Der as fully three times as great as they
were before; another sells perhaps a
third more now than before that date;
another has noticed but small increase
not over per cent; while fourth
estimates the calls upon him as five
times as large now as they were up to
Nov. 1. It is also said that the sale of
paregoric has slightly increased in some
cases. Boston Journal
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07

early patrons of her school who had
allowed themselves to recommend her
for last employment. The latter ended
as above described, only few days ago,
and where the unhappy woman now hides
her misery and shame no one knows.
The sad story reaches print here for the
first time, all names being withheld be-
cause the family involved naturally
shrink from public association in such
matter, and Identification of the hapless
fugitive might close to her some future
possibility of redemption.-Ba Baltimore
Sum
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
A Sick World.

The world is sick, and the doctors do
not seem to be helping the patient
much. On the other hand it appears to
be getting worse. The plague which
broke out in Astrakhan is steadily adj
vancing northwestwardly into Russia,
and the whole empire is thoroughly
alarmed. They have not only the
plague to guard against but numerous
other epidemics. Smallpox and a viru-
lent type of typhus fever are increasing
alarmingly in Central Russia. An cpl
demic is raging in Siberia, and unknown
diseases have broken out, sweeping off
the people by thousands. Wherever
large bodies of men are gathered, fatal
sickness breaks out. The Russian
troops iii the Balkan peninsula are sui
fering fearfully with spotted typhus
fever. A large detachment of troops
which recently arrived at Tripoli from
Constantinople was suddenly taken
down with a mysterious disease which
proves SO fatal that the Mediterranean
ports have guaranteed against it.
Meanwhile the cholera is at work in
Morocco and at other points in Northern
Africa. The physicians of England say
there never was a time when lung dis
eases were so prevalent as now, and the
same is true in the northern section of
our own country. It is an almost uni
versal complaint from New England to
California, especially in the cases Of
people of advanced age, that, instead of
shaking off a cold, it rapidly assumes
the form of pneumonia and proves
fatal. There probably never has been a
time in the West when diseases of the
throat and lungs were SO prevalent as
now. To add to the calamity of the
situation, the germs of the yellow fever,
which were supposed to have been
killed by the frost, have again made
their appearance in the South. Even
the brute creation are not spared, fol
the cattle in Russia, Germany, England
| and to a certain extent the United
States, are suffer ng with pleuro-pneu
monia. Prof. Law, of Cornell Univer
sity, who has been directed to investi
gate the causes and extent of the dis
ease in New York State, visited a Long
Island stable the other day and found
800 COWS suffering from the disease
The hogs have the cholera, and tn.
horses in some sections are coming
down with the epizootic. Upon thu
whole the outlook for the coming sum
mer is not q very encouraging one.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
Bismarck's Pig.Sticking.

When the German law against the
Socialists was first passed, it is said that
Prince Bismarck burst out with, "Now,
off we go for the pig-stickingp ("Jetzt
gent die Sauhatz los"). And, apparent
", the chase has been tolerably active,
for 1877 clubs and societies, and fifty
eight periodicals, as we'll as 21O non
periodical publications, have been sup
pressed. In addition to this, sixty-two
persons have been banished. The be-
lief in Germany is that the law has been
really q success, in the sense of driving
Socialism out of the field.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
EccentriCs.

There is no other day of the week that
finds 20 much general enthusiastic favor
with the small boy as Saturday. Saturday
tohlm is great realm of poetry and flow
ers. Everything seems different, because
on that day there is no school and he can
lie abed late and come down after all the
breakfast things are cleared away, and be
entertained with sample of his mothers
eloquence. I
Tommy Simpson always looked for
ward to the arrival of Saturday with keen
satisfaction. Last Saturday he had az
ranged with some other boys to open the
base ball season. The dull monotonous
week of study passed SO slowly away
that 1t seemed to him to be hanging on
to the past with its chronological claws.
But finally it arrived. go -9g..s.
On Friday afternoon Tommy split
wood, carried up coal. took down the
clothes line, and did other small Jobs
about fireplace in order to be free upon the
morrow. He was down bright and early,
and was as happy as bee on lily. He
worked at his BREAKFAST like windmill.
Before him the buckwheat cakes vanished
neiselessly as an April rainbow Sudden
~ some of his compeers came up, leaned
against the fence, and commenced to
whistle as execrably as boys can. In res
ponse to the signal Tommy redoublod
his masticatory speed, and was soon
comfortably ensconced in his jacket, and
was walking out whistling merry tune,
when his father yelled after him
"Come back here, your
Tommy retired to the paternai side
with dismal anticipations
sWhere are you going, sirs" said the
father.
"Goin' down to Thomson's livery sta
ble."
"What are you going to therea"
"Goin' to play base ball."
"Goin' TO plav base ball, roared the
parent, in stentorian tones. 81 inst reck-
on you amt, if I know anything about it.
Do you think I find money in the streets
to buy you clothes to- play ball ing"
Tommy wiped the tears out of his eyes
with his cap. What an auful change
those few sentences worked in him? He
felt like the chief mourner at funeral,
and he deeply regretted having done so
much work on the previous afternoon ;
and his bosom was not thrilled with tran
sports of bliss when his father continued !:
"Come now, get out and spade up that
garden, and be lively about it. too;
vant to get them seeds in next week!'
Tommy took the spade reluctantly and
went out in the garden, and, while he
thought what a good time the other boys
were having, and how they would make
fun of him the next time he should meet
them in the street, he spaded away with q
vim that seemed TO indicate that be was
taking satisfaction Out Of the ground.
Then he hoped that his father would fail
in business and be taken dangerously i'll.
He exhausted his whole vocabulary in
denouncing him as an eminent tyrant
and his spirits didn't rise to the standard
of responsibility until the bell summoned
him to dinner.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
DON'T STOP ny PAPER

Don't stop my paper, printer:
Don't strike my name OF ut;
You know the times arc stringe0A
And money hard to got;
But tug . little harder
10 what I mean to do,
And scrspe the dimes togethe9,
Enough for me and you.
I can't Afford to drop 1t; !
I ind 1t doesn't psy
10 do without . paper,
However others may.
] hate to ask my neighboEs
To give me theirs on loan:
They don't Just say, but mean
Why don't you have your ow13
You can't tell how we'd miss Il,
II It, by any fate,
should happen not to reach 10
Or come . little late;
Then all is In . hubbub,
And things 60 all sWry,
And, printer, If you're married,
You know the reason Why.
SouAAOs w WAtAVVt IL, s.r-1--' ..
It Is no use to try, .-
For other people take Il,
And, printer, 30 mustI
!, too, must keep mo posted,
And know what 10 going on,
Or feel, and be accounted "
A fogy simpleton. IglGs.sS
Then take it kindly, printer,
II pay be somewhat slow,
For cash is not 80 plenty,
And wants not few, you know.
But I must have my paper,
Cost what It may to me,
I'd father dock my sugar,
And do without my tea.
30, printer, don't you stop It,
Unless you want my frown,
For here's the years subscription,
And credit It right down;
And send the paper promptly .
And regularly on, l. s.s.- ,-i4sr
And let it bring us weekly ..sg
1ts welcomed benison. .3fs .
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
Crime In New York,

The report of the Supervisor of AID.
missions and Discharges from the AL
bany Penitentiary gives an alarming
picture of the growth of crime in New
York city, and attributes it to the evils
of the tenement-house system and the
effects of trashy literature. 1t says that
cheap novels and cheaper serials are to
be found where bread is wanting, and
in the pocket of almost every boy and
girl able to read. The report goes on
to say: Another evil, and one more
shocking on account of the depth of de-
pravity of which it is the cause, is the
exposure of girls of tender years en-
gagged in seeming innocent occupations,
peddling or vending small wares at all
hours of night, their faces prematurely
old
SPINNER and his autograph say they
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07

A wELI-DREssED, polite man walked
into the police detectives Office in Troy,
N. Y, and asked to see some novel tools
that had been used in trying to break
open safe. The things brought out,
he examined them with great care.
"Much obliged" he said; Il have just
finished five years in Sing Sing, and I
wanted to see what progress had been
made in my profession"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
TWO LITTLE GIRLS.
~ 1A1aIH4 =. .. onnagI.

TWO little blus-sysd girls,
With lovely daxen curls,
Arc fitting round my chair;
And, % 60 to. write, g
One merry little sprits
II pulling Ut my hair.
The other little miss
Insists upon kiss,
And says she will /" DO 'till;"
And, a. toward her lean,
The ink falls down between,
And on the floor doth spill.
Then the little eyes grow bright,
For tits happy sight
10 them when mischief,s done, g
And four chubby little feet
Tattoos on the carpet beat El1
At thought Of all the fun. #
And, II try to scold,
The tiny arms Unfold 3#
Me in such loving way f3
That must smile instead,
And even kiss the sunny head
Planning mischief all the day. +
Then I get their little beck, n &
And we ct the pictures look |fs' Il
TIL they more sober grow E
Or box of buttons bring,
Which the little fingers string, 1881. 3
Their dolls beside them In row.
And when each darling head :
IL laid within the trundle-bed, I
And they repeat their evening prayer
fancy I can hear ... -.
The wings of angels rustling near
VHho 1itf1n nin1aao roir ga .
And, when for the nights repose
Their eyes so sweetly close. :@Na
inger near them for while,
And on their little pillows weep,
Praying God to ever keep ="
1 Their precious hearts from guile.
TsFIELD. Mass. ..r.... .J /
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07

A NEVADA woman scolded her Chi
nese servant for not properly cleaning.a
fish, and, on going into the kitchen soon
after, found him theoretically washing
It with brown soap.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07

The first gaslight is said to have been
used by Mr.. Murdoch, of Reduth, in
Cornwall, England, who, in 1892, illu-
minated his house by an apparatus OF
his own construction.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
Amateur Fishermen's Expedient.

One of the coolest days this winter,
w. O. Sherwood, Tim Whiting and
James Irwin conceived the brilliant
idea that by heating up the river water
they could catch fish out of season.
They accordingly gathered up four or
five bushels of powders, took them into
the country five miles, and placing tho
stones on an iron framework built q
fire under them. When the stones were
heated the men carried them to the
still water near at hand and dumped
them in. Then they began fishing in
the most approved and scientific man
ner, but to their intense disgust they
didn't get nibble. They returned to
the city colder and wiser men, fully de-
termined to try no more piscatorial ex-
periments in the dead of winter
I1Clia71QpOliS Journal.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07
English and American Locomotives.

The EngGshman seems never to be
able to escape the influence of his sur
roundings. Though he occupies a part
OF every continent, his methods are sell
dom continental. This is aptly illus
trated in his railroad building. His
island is small and densely populated,
his roads short, and the traffic heavy.
Naturally the roads are of the best.
Every valley is spanned by viaducts or
bridges, every hill pierced with deep
cuts or costly tunnels. The early rail-
road men had an impression that rail-
road must be as nearly straight as pos
sible, and as level as labor and money
could make it. Later English builders
followed these ideas closely, and the
final result is magnificent in every sense.
The roads are the best known, and make
fit ways for the splendid engines de-
signed to run upon them. But all this
is insular. When the Englishman tried
continental railroading, Gas in Canada
and in Australia, he built on insular
plans, and the result has not been wholly
happy.
It is to the American we must turn to
learn what ale the requirements of the
modern railway, and to get some sug-
gestion of it's future. More than this,
the moment the English locomotive is
taken from it's island line it exhibits
defects and a certain want of piability
that completely unfit it for CONT
mental railway. But, if the English road
and the English engine are the best in
the world, why are they not the best for
the world? Simply because they do not
pay. There can be no higher reason
than this. Anything that does not pay
is useless, because it does not meet q
human want. The excuse of the rail-
road and its train is that it moves men
and things cheaply. The cost of any
operation is the measure of it's value to
human beings, and, if the road does not
pay, of what good is it? Now railway,
to be cheap, must follow the face of the
country. That is, the line must go up
and down hill, pass around abrupt
curves, according to the lay CT the land,
and without much attempt at straight
line or level bed. It is upon this idea
that American railroads have been built,
and all continental lines are likely to be
built in the future. If railroad can
thus follow the face of the country, it
will not cost SO much, there being no
high bridges, deep cuts and tunnels.
OF course there, is limit in this direo-
ton, and even the American engine
cannot climb up the side of a house, or
turn a right angle in its own length;
but within certain broad limits it may
be said that the future locomotive must
follow lines that run up hill and down
dale, and get round very remarkable
| corners.
This being the case, what of the En-
glish locomotive? Can it travel in safe
ty over crooked lines that wander in
astonishing freedom over hill and dale
through all the sinuous lines of wind
ing river valley? There is no need tt
say it ought, or it may, for it never did
It has been tried again and again, anc
the end of all is, the engine is in thu
ditch, and the unhappy stockholder
are clamoring for American engines, o.
at least engines built on American plans
Charles Barnard, IN Haqpe1's Mag
azi11e for March.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-07

SPINNER and his autograph say they
viii never Leave Florida