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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-22
0rKLOUsAs.

NEW ORLEANS AND OpELOUBAH PACKET
- COMPANY.
REGULAR UNITED ETA IRIS MAIL PACKET
Leaves ON SATURDAY October &C. Mt b. m.
T. - FOR WASHINGTON. OpIGIagD.
L aa n Port Barre, s!mmsport. Church.
Vile ind oil landings Oh the Coast
Atchsialavn RIVER and Bayou Oourtableau 1.-THE
s : $3.50 BERTHA,
Il. II. Broad master,
VII leave ss above. For freight or passage aps
HRITToN 4 EppLER. ,sa arayier street
j. 70. OAHLIH. 60 Magazine street.
REGULAR OPEIOUbAH PACK ET-
Leaves TU EBDAY, Oct. 2s. Mt 70. m
IT. FOR WASHINGTON, oPEiLoU.
gas. Port Barre simmsnort.
-. Ohurchville and all landings on the
Coast. Atchafalaya river and Bayou Oonries
benu-The new liRht-draft steamer
YAXOO.
VIM. Crawford master. II. Molaison clerk.
will leave as above. For freight or passage an.
ply on board, Or to LORD MoPEAKE. AGENTS,
doa4 GEO. D, HITE. 142 Gray,er street.
Freight for Bayou des Giaizes put ont nj
bimmsport. Big Bend Landing or Water Valley.
Tho steamar Yazoo is assisted ut the mouth I'll
Old lsiver by tho steamer Ollie T., and connenfa
ut Little Devil with the steamer Eleonnre.
fsates OF freight Same as any boat In the trade.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-22
RAILROADS.

NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE RAILROAD.
IN MOBILE FAST LINE.l
THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO EASTERN
CITIES
ONLY LINE WITH DOUBLE DAILY PAS
SENGER TRAINS,
On and after Sunday. August 81, 1879, trains
will arrive and leave depot foot of Canal street,
as follows:
LEAVE. ARRIVE,
No. Express No. 2 Express,
daily. z 80 am. daily. a. M.
no. 5 Express No. Express
daily. 500 pm. daily .9:14 D, m
Nos Coast Ac. No 6 Coast Ac-
commodati'n commodatin
daily except daily except
Sunday .....3:D p.rn Sunday. rs an
Tickets may be obtained and Sleepirp Oar
Berths secured In advance on application at the
office corner Camp and Common streets. opDo.
site City Hotel.
Oily ]. W. COLEMAN. Ticket Agent.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-22
LAX IL PORTS.

WILL LEAVE NEW LAKE END:
OnMONDAYS and TIL tuesdays for Vaudeville
ana Old Landing. on arrival Of the - IN.
train
On SATURDAY for Vaudeville and Old Land
ing, on arrival Of the y. m. train.
SUNDAY EXCURSION leaving on the arrival
of the n. m, train.
RET UKNING Leaves Old Landing on TUES.
DAYS and FRIDAYS at H. M. and Mande-
villo at $3.50 a. m.
Leaves Madisonville MONDAYS $50 q. NJ.
and Vaudeville ut Gas n. m.
SUNDAYS leaves Old Landing at 2. p. m. and
Vaudeville at D. m,
Fare tn All Points. Observation-Disclosures 81
sunday Excursion. .......................... 4
Oc3 I'M w. G.. COYLE.
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Receipts ar rrSducs.

COLON Ter steamship Bolivar--1p hunehea ta-
nRnaa 10 otaer
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MORaANS LOUISIANA AND TEXAS RAIL.
ROAD AND STEAMSHIP 90


het..k4= at-tk hhda anEar Rlchard MilIiL 81 u
do y Given & Son -ao bills syrup 80 balas cotton
w Burbridgo &oo--lo do q w Sentcll huo-qp do
ClApp Bros Aoo-6 Felix Walkers Lehman. Abra
Is 7 g Gihert-a Hirsoh Adler &co-4ia to PAYNE
Kennedy &oo-5 FrotsUher-s III Allison SCo-l 10
Scott McGehoe--a Levy, Loeb, Scheurer &oo--l to
Rykoski q Manadc-2a4 sacks rough rioe II Allison
&co-la do j Latimor Aces Loeb--5 l. Zorro
bonne-- . hides hbls talow 40 boxes eggs kykoski
Manade 80 do ~ hides bbls pc ans bbla sugar
y NJ Wssh--a to IL Groebc &co--3 to j. Ebolct-ti6
head cattle q Mehie &co--56 do + Servat-sundries
70 nrder-Fotal las bales cotton 80 hhds sugar 30
bhls syrup 255 sacks rough rice
kfomoranda.
Tho brig Bogota, saA toms register sold al Bal
tinlore October Is, to John f. Farland, for $500
IBy Telegraph
New York October 81 1879
To A. Monlton:
The steamship New Orleans Capt Halsoy arrived
tins afternoon.
AMERICAN PORTS
New York, Oct l7,-Arriyod from Galveston, schr
L Edwards, Peterson.
FOREIGN PORTS.
by Gable TO the n. Y. Herald
Holyhead Oct 17-Of Be steamship Warrior.
zones, from New Orleans for Liverpool.
EBy MALL
Newport, Oct 4-Sailed for New Orleans Br steam-
ship West Stanley. Ashley
Kingston, pa. Oct lr-Sailed for New Orleans, Br
steamship Chancellor, Valiant.
Hamburg. Oct 3-Sailed for New Orleans. bark
Eastern Belize Curry
Gibraltar, Oct Passed. Br steamship Louise II,
Noss, from Aleiers for New Orleans
Dartmouth, Oct 5-OT Bt steamship Ben Lemond
Chrystsl, from London for New Orleans.
SPOKEN.
Aug 80, lat IA S, lon w Br bark David McNutt
huncle, from Table Bay U. G. H., for Noble.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
About Editors.

Every editor loves to have his friends,
and particularly his readers call on him.
They belong to the same family, as it were.
But when you call 10 see the editor, don't
stay too long. Editors are generally very
busy in business hours. If you have a sug-
gcstion to make, or news to communicate,
state ii in the fewest words possible. Don /
oiler any excuses, or indulge in a long
preface to what you have TO say. Blurt it
right out; tell the editor you wish him
well, and bid him good-day. Editors dote
on such men as that; they love TO receive
calls from them. Don't argue with them
---don't try to do it, They have no time for
argument while at work.
When you write to an editor for publica-
ton, make it short---boil it down. Pitch
right into the middle of your subject, and
be sure to stop when you are through. Edi-
tors always like something fresh and origi-
nal in the way of communications, and are
especially fond OF news. But the editor
must always be the jndge of what is worthy
of publication. OF course, every writer
thinks his own publication the best, just as
every mother thinks her baby the prettiest
that was ever born. But the editor may be SO
stupid as to have different opinion If SO, it
can't be helped. Don't try to argue him
out of his notion, ii he is too stupid to
remedy his dullness. You may think you
are great deal smarter than the editor,
and this may be true; but the editor may
be responsible, and you are not. There is
no class of people who are so anxious to
please a majority of people as editors are.
There is no class SO covetous of the good
opinion of others. 1t is we'll TO remember
that fact Exchange. -..-t.. Is... .r.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
Died in Harness.

Only fallen horse, stretched out there on the
road,
Stretched in tlr, broken shafts, and crushed by
the heavy load;
Only fallen horse, and circle of wondering
eyes
Watching the 'frightcd teamster goading the
beast TO rise.
Hold for his toll is over-.no more labor for
him;
See the poor neck oustretched, and the patient
eyes grow dim;
See on the friendly stones how peacefully rests
the head
Thinking, if dumb beasts think, how good il is
tla 10 be dead; .ear il1.lra s.a-.r.. .-r
After the weary journey, how restlul il is to lie
With the broken shafts and the cruel load
waiting only to die.
Watchers, he died in harness-died in the
shafts and straps
Fell, and the burden killed him; one of the
days mishaps-
One of the passing wonders marking that city
sE road- .r.-.'. .a. 1r.
A toiler dying in harness, needless of call or
goad. .... 01#
Passers, crowding the pathway, staying your
steps awhile,
What is the symbol? Only dcath-why should
we cease to smile
At death for n beast of burden? On through
the busy street
That is ever and ever cchong the tread of the
hurrying feet.
What was the sign? A symbol TO touch the
tireless will!
Does He who taught in parable speak in par
ables still?
The seed on the rock is wasted-on needless
hearts of men,
That gather and SOW and grasp and lose-labor
and sleep-and then
Then for the prize "A crowd in the street OF
ever-cchoing tread
The toiler, crushed by the heavy load, is there
in his harness-dead
j. Boyle OReHly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
Cattle, Sheep and Hogs.

The Detroit Free Press says: The Cincin-
natl Enquirer deserves the belt for the cham
pion war map. 1t is a map of the United
States, and on every State are three ami
mails, COW, a hog and sheep; and on
each animal is an array OF figures denoting
the number that there is in the State. In
Guilty in telling which is which, but, as a
general thing, the curl on the tail denotes
the pig, the horns, the COW, and OF course it
stands to reason that the other must be the
sheep. In Arizona, New Mexico, Indian
Territory, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
and Dakota, the three animals have no
figures on, and so it may be inferred that
only one of each class inhabits those sec.
tions of the country. Texas seems to take
the lead in cattle, having 1905, 300; New
York comes next, 2,100,400; Illinois next,
with 1862 700; Iowa, 1,696,600; Missouri,
1881 100; Pennsylvania, 1,530,700; Ohio,
l,474,2OO; California, 1,S90,30O; Indiana,
100000; Wisconsin, 963700: Kansas,
500, 500; Michigan, $500. California leads
off on sheep, with 6,660,O0O; Ohio next,
with ,783,600; Texas, 3,674,700; Mime.
sofa, 100000; Michigan, 100000; New
York, l,5l8,l00; Wisconsin, 1928, 600;
Pennsylvania, ], ,307 900; Illinois, 1,25S, 500,
and so on. California is the most sheepish
State Iowa the most hoggish. 1t has
2,950,0OO hogs; Illinois, 100000; Missouri,
2.5S5,6O0; Indiana, 2,422, 500; and Ohio,
2,250,000; Michigan has only $50, 100 hogs
Kentucky, 100000; Tennessee, l,S00,90O !;
Georgia, 1,5S6,000; Minnesota, 1884, 100;
Arkansas, 1,040,S00.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
EyerythinG Goes Wrong

In the bodily mechanism when the liver gets
out of order. Constipation, dyspepsia, contami-
nation of the blood, imperfect assimilation, are
certain to ensue. But it is easy to prevent
these consequences, and remove their cause by
II course of IIostettcr's Stomach Bitters, which
stimulates the hillary organ and regulates its
action. The direct result is disappearance of
the pains beneath the ribs and through the
shoulder blade, the nausea, headaches, yellow
ness of the skin, iurred look of the tongue and
sour odor of the BREATH which characterize liver
complaint. Sound digestion and q regular
habit of body are blessings also secured by the
use of this celebrated restorative OF health,
which imparts degree OF vigor to the body
which is its best guarantee of safety from ma
lariu epidemcs. Nerve weakness and over
tension are relieved by it, and it improves both
appetite and sleep.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
The Credit system in japan,

A New York paper says: "The many
Americans who have visited Japan
within few years-Japan is only across
the (water) way, really next door to the
big shop of the republic-have been
struck by the almost universal preva-
lence of the credit system there. In
Toxic, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Kama
gawa, Hakodadi-in all cities and towns
whether big or little, at hotels, restau-
rants, shops, barrooms-credit is GUS
tomary, SO firmly fixed that it is hard
to pay cash. When you buy anything,
the clerk or salesman presents you with
n chH-very much like pad-on which
you write the article, its price, and your
name, and the thing is repeated if you
go to the same place dozen times day.
IN TACT, you need no money for any or
dinary purpose until the end of the
month, when you liquidate your chits
and begin over again. 1t is counted
very dishonorable not to pay your chits.
II you DO not, your name is hung up on
the wall of the establishment where YOU
are IN debt, and you can get nothing
more there, Still, in Japan, as in every
quarter of the globe, there are persons,
and not few, who don't pay; and who,
when Shut out from one place, 90 to
another. and make fresh bills. The
system is as bad as bad can be. Credit
widely extended is an evil in any COM
munity. 1t hurts the man who gets it
as well as the man who gives it, Its
tendency always is to relax principle, to
encourage extravaganza, to dull insensi-
bility, to weaken character. Hundreds,
yea thousands of persons in Japan to-day
have lost their sense of integrity, and all
idea of financial promptness, who would
not have done so but for this pernicious
order of credit. The custom arose some
years ago, from the scarcity of small
change, which rendered it really neces-
sary. But now, although change is
abundant, the custom continues, with
no signs of disruption or decay. Trades
men and everybody else suffer greatly by
it, having, at the end of each year, a
number of debts not only uncollected,
but uncollectible. Business never will
be, and never can be, on any sound or
desirable basis in Japan until thor
ough reformation shall have been in
Stitutod -
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
Coffee as an InyjgOratOr.

a correspondent of the London Lancet,
who owns a water-power mill, says: II
am frequently compelled, during this sea-
son of the year, to have men working in
water, even in frosty weather. find the
following allowance gives great satisfac-
ton to the men, and we never have a
case of cold or injury to them in any way
Kettle of coffee, made with half sweet
milk, half water, three or four eggs,
whipped, poured into it when off the
boil; hot toasted bread with plenty of
butter of the finest quality. Serve up
this every two and half hours. The
expense is much less than the usual
amount of whisky, and the men work far
better, and if care is taken to have the
milk (cream is better), bread and butter
of the finest quality, the men are delight
ed with it.: am persuaded it would be
worth while to try this allowance instead
OF grog. Furnishing the men with grog
gives the men the notion that it is good
Tor them and perpetuates the belief i'm
stimulants among workmen. z
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
THE YEAR 1879.
Some Predictions Inv prr. ID. q. Cr

Some Predictions by Fir. ID. q. Croly.
The following is an abstract of the
predictions developed in the course of an
interesting conversation reported in the
New York Graphic, the prophet being,
we believe, Mr.. ID. G.. Croly, who was
lately the managing editor of the journal
named:
l. The year 1879 will, on the whole, be
prosperous one for the United States.
There will be a general revival of indus
try, labor will be employed, and conf
dence in the future universally felt. Be-
fore the close of the year there will be
u widespread interest in precious-metal
mining. A dangerous speculative feel
ing in other industries will soon show
itself. s.-.
3. There will be partial failure of
crops this year. Our hay crop on the
Atlantic slope will be short.
3. AT least two important failures of
Wall street magnates will take place this
year. They w4}l be of persons with
whose name every one is familiar
4. An unsupported weakness in our
national banking system may be develop
ed during the coming year.
5. The disproportion between our ex-
ports and imports, such as we have wit
messed for the past two years, will come
to an end before 1881. Home prices will
go higher and foreign goods be sold
cheaper. We shall export less and i'm
port more. Unless the unexpected "
occurs there will be drain of gold
abroad, and then resumption, as at pre-
sent established, must be legislated upon
anew OF it will fail
6. Resumption has not settled all our
financia difficulties. Questions affecting
the business interests of the country will
be the subject of many warm political
contests. But the final result will be the
establishment of national bank similar
so that of Great Britain or France, but
probably called by us by n different
name. When that occurs the secretary
of the treasury will be stripped of much
of the power he now possesses.
7. A foreign war before many years
are over is not improbable, due to the
weakness of our navy and the unprotect-
ed condition of our rich seaport cities.
8. A new pestilence or the revival of an
old one, which will affect the people in
habiting the temperate zone, is among
the probabilities of the near future.
9. A new motor will soon be discover
ed which will make air navigation posi-
bic.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
,attle by his chief enemy. Berend (called

cattle by his chief enemy, Berend (called
Nicholas by the Dutch), Titus made
feigned attempt to recover the booty, and
then drew of, ,as ifhopeless ofsuccess. But
during the night he made a forced march
of extraordinary speed, surprised the
enemy's camp, and, by sending half
dozen men to fire volley into one side of
it, drove the panic-stricken crowd out on
the other, close to where his main
body lay in ambush. The moon had by
this time risen, and the fire of the con-
cealed marksmen was so deadly that only
Berend himself and a few of his chief adj
herents escaped, leaving both the stolen
cattle and all their own in the hands of
the Africaner party. On another occa-
sion, in the heat of severe bush-fight,"
Titus and Berend suddenly came face to
face. Both rifles were instantly leveled,
and each being the best marksman of his
tribe, the death of both seemed certain
but at that moment a stray bullock came
rushing between them and received the
two bullets, whereupon the superstitious
warriors at once withdrew from the COM
bat. Another of Africaner's recorded ex-
plots was to swim, at midnight, with his
gun on his shoulder, to an island in the
Orange river, where he awaited the COM
ing of q hippopotamus, whose lair he had
marked, and laid the monster dead with
q single shot just as it opened its huge
jaws to seize him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
Trimming I'm n Tenor

While on a tour in Ireland the tenor
fell i'll, and was replaced by a youthful
aspirant to operate honors of exceeding
ly diminutive stature and mean capacity,
whose birthplace was Dublin, and whose
friends had engaged the manager. But
the little man could neither sing nor act,
and his conceit was, strange to say, as
great as his ignorance. Nine. Ruders-
dorff soon lost patience with him, and
determined to rid the company of this
incubus. The opportunity soon occurred,
and in Dublin. 1t doesn't much signify
what opera was being performed, but
Nine. Rudersdortfwore very long dress.
The unhappy tenor could in no way avoid
this very long, dress; in whatever posi-
tion he placed himself, somehow or other
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17

Body snatching, not for medical, but
for political purposes, is sometimes prac-
tised in Russia under the authority of the
government Recently a Nihilist, who
had recently been released from prison,
died in his own house, and his relatives
made preparations for the burial, which
was to take place next morning. In the
night, however, the body mysteriously
disappeared from the house; and it was
ascertained that it had been surreptitious-
ly seized by order of the authorities, who
apprehended Nihilist demonstration at
the funeral.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
Burlington Hawkeyetems.

1t is singular thing that no railroad
man has ever applied for patent on the
day-break.
Sitting Bulls medicine man is about to
issue a little pamphlet on the "Treat-
ment of the Scalp"
Sitting Bull is very restless, and it is
feared he is getting ready to abandon
his chronic tailorly attitude for the pur-
pose of indulging in little pedestrian
exercise and Indian club practice.
Mario, the famous tenor, is hopelessly,
wildly insane. Will the young man on
Seventh street. who howls, "Come into
the Garden, Maud" and Goodbye,
Sweetheart" please note this solemn
warning?
Z. G. Stedman sings, in Scribner,
"Why should fear to sip the sweets of
each red lip?" Why? Because, Mr..
Sttedman, you have a conviction that the
gloomy-looking old gentleman in the
background, with blood in his eye and
a cane like the angel of death in his
hand, will make poultice of you if you
do any such sampling while he is in
reach.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
A XuIU Chief.

The military skill displayed by the
Zulus is more common than might be
supposed among the warriors Of Southern
Africa, some of whose exploits deserve "a
wider celebrity than they are likely to
attain. One of the most remarkable of
these untaught generals was a Griqua
chief named Titus Af,icaner, for many
years the firm friend of DR.. Livingstone's
Robert Moffiat. In their
youth, Titus and his elder brother, Chris
tian, were the terror of the whole coun-
try, never happy except when making in
cursions upon the surrounding tribes, or
the Dutch and English settlers. On one
occasion, having been robbed of all his
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
A Forgotten Calamity.

The recent inundation in Hungary,
though on larger scale, bears a resem-
blance to the terrible calamity that devas.
ta,ed the Swiss valley of Martigny half
century ago, which is still remembered as
one of the most formidable floods ever wit
messed in that part of Europe. In the
spring of 1918, the Dranse, which flows
through the valley, lessened by degrees till
its channel was left perfectly dry. A party
sent to reconnoiter found the river COM
pletely blocked by the fall of huge mass of
Zee, behind which the rising waters were
drowning the upland villages one by one
while the lower ground was left waterless
and parching. 1t was instantly resolved to
avert the threatened outburst by cutting a
tunnel through the ice and running off the
water by degrees. The execution of this
arduons task was one of the most heroic on
record. For five whole weeks the indomi-
table men, with death staring them in the
face, toiled day and night in alternate
gangs, the water rising around them from
below, the half melted ice laundering down
upon them from above, and the danger of n
sudden overflow increasing every hour. By
some miscalculation, the two sections, COM
mencing from opposite sides, had a twenty
foot difference of level, which cost several
days additional labor to rectify. At length
the water began to flow, and the danger
seemed over, when suddenly the base of the
ice barrier, already weakened by the grow
ing heat of summer, gave way with terri
fic crash, and the whole body Of water burst
forth at once, sweeping down the valley
with the speed of an express train. Its force
and volume may be estimated by the fact
that solid bridge, ninety feet above the
ordinary level of the river, was torn away
like thread. OF the whole town of Mar
tigny, nothing escaped but the ruined
castle on the highest ridge, the destruction
of life and property being so great that for
the time being the beautiful valley was an
absolute desert.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17

Rabbits are so numerous and destructive
in California that the farmers are being
forced to combine for war OF determination
against them.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-04-17
The Physical PaindOx.

1t has been said that g the blood is the source
of life" 1t is truly the source Of disease and
death. No life, that is to say, no healthy It's
sue can be generated from impure blood, no
organ OF the body can normally perform its
functions when supplied with impure blood.
The fluid that should carry life and health to
every part carries only weakness and disease.
Blood is the source Of life only when it is pure.
If it has become diseased, it must be cleanscd
by proper medication, else every pulsation OF
the human heart sends wave OF disease
through the system. To cleanse the blood of
all impurities, use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant PurSative Pellets, the
most eifectual Alternative, tonic and cathartc
remedy yet discovered. They are especially
efficient in scrofulous diseases.