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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23
THE RAILROAD FEVER.
Many Miles of steel nails To he Laid
During This Year.

[st Louis Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer
eff a railroad wants obuy steel rails" said
Oliver Garrison, brother OF Com. Garrison
and the vice president OF the Pacific Railroad,
"they will have to pay for them after this.
"Why?" / asked.
because, sir, the price Is going ND. We
want 400 tons of rails now to lay in Missouri
and to extend the Missouri Pacific out through
Kansas, and we can't find them. I've written
to half the steel rail mills in the United States
and they are not to be had"
what causes this scarcity"
$50 many new roads being built. | tell
you that the railroad fever has started again.
Twelve thousand miles of new railroad are In
thousand miles OF steel rails In one year will
exhaust the supply"
"What new railroads are to be builtw
"Well, we are going to build our Missouri
Pacific out through Kansas, south Of and
parallel to the Atkinson, Topeka and
forty to sixty miles south of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Road and run 1t clear
through to Albuquerque (Al-be-kerk), in New
Mexico. Then the Santa Fe People are build
into New Mexico; the Southern Pacific people
are building west and South Of Fort Yuma, a
mile day; Albert Pierce has gone down to
San Antonio to commence building his Gal
weston and San Antonio Road from San An
tonic west to the Rio Grande, where he
Northern Pacific people are piling
up their steel rails on the
west bank of the Missouri, at Bismarck,
ready to lay the track to the Yellowstone
with the first grass; the Canadian Pacific
people are blasting through from Winnipeg,
In Manitoba, and piling up steel rails at Fort
William and Winnipeg to connect with Thun-
der Bay, on Lake Superior, in the spring; the
st. Louis, Kansas City and Northern road
will pass through from Chillcothe and Gala
tin to Council Bluffs; the Utah Southern will
be built $50 miles south, and the Utah North
ern $50 miles north from Fort Hall toward
Virginia City and Helena, making a continu-
GUS north and south line right in the centre
of the continent over 700 miles long. Besides
these there are dozens Of other little roads all
over the country which you know are always
being built
"Then railroad and iron interests look pros
porous just now p
very. Never, In ten years, has the future
and present looked so bright as now for their
interests"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23
HARD TIMES ENDED.
Promise of Good Times Coming and n
=. Return of Prosperity Throughout the
Whole COuntry-Reports from Four
teen States

NEW YORK, March 18.-The Times will pub
IiSh tomorrow some ten columns OF reports
by telegraph and mail from its correspond
entS and prominent business men, showing
the actual condition of trades, manufactures
and other interests in fourteen States-Mas-
sachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kentucky, Ten
nessee and Louisiana. They give promise Of
q profitable season and 81 return Of national
prosperity. Capital is seeking profitable
investment. The wholesale dealers generally
report an Increase in sales, ranging from 10
to 80 per cent, although at low prices as COM
pared with the business OF previous years.
ally and upon shorter credit, or
for cash. Collections are more easily
made than during any year since the
panic. Southern trade still shows the effect
OF low prices OF cotton and sugar, but the
planters are feeling encouraged. The yellow
fever epidemic delay cd rather than injured
the trade OF the places it ravaged In the
North and extreme West immigration, an
active numbering season and the beginning Of
work by farmers and builders have stimulated
trade. Manufacturing interests are generally
fourishing. Pig iron and leather manufac-
turerS complain somewhat, and the tobacco
manufacturers are only beginning to accus-
tom themselves to the new condition of af-
fairs. These are the exceptions. FIGURING
mills in many cases have been running all
winter. Their proprietOrs are cheered by the
large export demand, with an enlarging for
eign market and improved means OF trans
portation. Many factories OF different classes
are resuming work nearly all running on full
time, and with Touring mills finding difficulty
in supplying orders In the grain States an
increased acreage has been or Is to be seeded,
and the indications are favorable to crops
gratifying in quality and quantity. Farmers
generally are hopeful OF good returns, and
the real estate and building interests are ac-
tive.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23

already attained will be his. Death will come
when least expected, the result OF bad treat
ment rather than of disease, and he will die
at the age of sixty-four-not before "Now,"
said the writer as. after showing the horo-
sooptst the names of those whose horoscopes
he had been casting, he rose to depart, give
me, IL you have 1t. the horoscope OF
GENERAL GRANT
with reference to his future" Taking a small.
neat-bound book from private drawer In his
eseritoire, the astrologer turned to the index
and, having found the page, opened the book
and read from foot notes: ''Gen. Grants fu-
ture." he read will be peculiar He will be
the peoples idol the peoples god. for time,
but he will fail. | foresee great disasters,
disgrace, ruin-financial and moral, circling
and circling, and coming nearer and nearer,
and, mark me, the day Is not far off. | mean
only eight or nine years at the furtbest, when
q. s. Grant will be an alien from his native
soil" "Sic transit gloria mundi," echoed the
reporter, as the door closed quickly upon him
as he departed.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23

An important discovery Of test for dia-
monds has been made by Prof. William
Crookes, Of London, the full details OF which
have not yet been made known. He finds
that rough diamonds emit an intense blue
light when subjected to the action Of cleo
tricity in tube from which most OF the ar
Is exhausted. Diamonds placed among otneS
gems can thus be easily distinguished.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23

The passage Of the tramp law In both
uneasiness among foot-pads throughout the
State, and especially among the colony of
about fifty who have occupied caves In the
tract OF woods at old Greenwich for the past
two years, foraging In the vicinity for sup
niles
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23
French Lottery Incidents.
Paris Paper.l

Madame K. ran away. Monsieur had a
good idea. He announced that he had won
10000 francs in the lottery, and behold. ma
girl won a musket In the lottery. When they
gave it to her she asked: Don't they give q
soldier with 1t.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23

The London Economist complains that, al
though England is spending $4,000, 900 a
year on her army, 1t is never ready to meet
an enemy on short notice, and that the small
demand for the Cape lately caused pereept-
OF 10000 men Of all arms, should be always
be kept in campaign order and ready to start
instantly
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23

There Is no better remedy than Reeds Gilt
Edge Tonic for dyspepsia and indigestion.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-23

AldDaEeT CIlQSOD, OF the Howard Athena
n, Boston, has just returned from weeks
sit to Charles Fechter, at the lattcr's coun-
y seat, Cooperstown, Pa, during which ar
Pngements were perfected for Mr. Stinson to
fcome Fechter's manager during the coming
eason. Mr.. Fechter's first engagement IN
r this contract will be for month or more,
fginntng March "a, at the Howard Athene-
2; The first piece In which he will appear
Ill be Monte Christie, for which entirely new
fenery has been painted from the models
Fed at the Princess Theatre, London, where
II. tecnter produced the play. The Dukes
(otto Will follow, and will be mounted in the
lme style as at the London Lyceum Theatre,
y. Feehter supplying the models In both
seS. Next will come Black and White,
nich Will be followed in turn by a new play
Mr. techter, entitled Satan's Diary, new
aptatlon OF Rouge ct Noir; Bel Delmonio
Pc Roadside Inn Robert Macaire), as played
Frederic Lemaitre; Hamlet, Ruy Bias,
on Cesar de Bazan, The Lady of Lyons, etc.
r echter dramatized The Woman In White
Lemaltre, and is now engaged in translat-
ms work from French into English, to be
peeo. f'>'-,
DRAMATIC NOTES.
whenever John T. Raymond, says the Phil
ggipnla Item, appears as Herr Wieqdld, In
w Son, his gesture in delineating the
mo. "a OF the part are so remarkably similar
tnose used as COL Sellers that the audience
ugh, instead Of being affected to tears.
aymoha Will discover that like Hackett,
~ was laughed of the stage for attempting
ssyserlous part, when his forte Is eccentric
neqy; ana the New York Tribune says
~. 9onn l. Raymond surprised and delight
,eseryDody last week by his acting of the
shoemaker In the drama OF My Son. His
aAe-up' 10 the last act, was wonderfully
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

The sublime cheek of Ben Hill is some
times sufficient to completely overwhelm
his opponents and cause them to wonder
where he got his capacity for unadulterated
lying. In a recent speech in the senate he
claimed that the real welfare of the union
rested utterly with the south, which had al
ways been Its loving protector. He denied
that the republican party was entitled to any
credit at all for preserving the union, and
said that it would have been impossible for
them to have done anything without the
help of the democrats through the north
He held further, that the republicans nov
were trying to break up the union by deny
ing the constitutional rights of the member!
Of 1t, and that the south was again the real
friend and protector Of the union against thu
encroachments Of the north. In the cours,
Of an hour or SO Chandler got after Mr.. Hill
and when be finished there wasn't much lief
Of the honorable gentleman from Georgia.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Empress Augusta, Of Germany. viii
. visit England this month.
. Sir Austen Henry Layard, British amps =;
8 sador to Constantinople, has arfiseo ~ la
J, post again.
j. Aleko Pachs, governor of Roumelia, and
!. the international commission VIII 80 &c
Philippopolis in a fortnight.
The crown prince of Austria arrived IN
Madrid last week, and was received in great
state by the king and court.
At the annual meeting Of the Iron and
Steel institute at London the Bessemer Med.
al was awarded to Peter Cooper, of New
York.
The German federal council has approved
the grant of $4,000 to pay the expenses Of
the German participation in the Australian
international exhibition.
General Todleben has arrived at Odessa,
and assumed command of the g~overnorshjp
of the Crimea and of the greater as:t Of
south Russia under the cars ukase estab-
fishing martial law.
A home rule bill authorizing the eatab-
lishment Of volunteer regiments in Ireland,
and subject TO the same regulations as in
England, has passed a second reading in the
house Of commons.
A despatch to the Standard from Cape
Town says a white prisoner who escaped
from the Zulus reports that Umbelini and
his brother were both killed in the attack
OF Colonel Woods camp.
A decree has just been published by the
government ordering all Chileans not natur'
allied in Peru to leave the republic within
eight days. Those not complying with this
disposition will be sent to some place in the
interior to be designated By government
Exception is also made in favor of Chilean.
who have married in Peru and who are il
possession Of real estate.
The different ports on the Peruvian south
ern sea-board are being strongly fortified,
Admiral Montero is in command of the
forces in Africa, consisting Of nearly four
thousand men, and heavy guns are being
placed on the Moro or high hill overlook
ing the town. In Iquique there are 5000
troops Of all arms, under the command of
General La Cotera, and forces are. being
pushed forward to QuilIagua, a little town
on the banks of the Loa. almost within shot
of the Chilean advanced guard.
The Journal de St. Petersburg says:--"The
news published abroad about the state Of at.
fairs at st. Petersburg is untrue. There has
been no prohibition against the possession
Of arms, but persons possessing arms must
the authorities. All traffic is entirely
free and unimpeded. The statements that
theatres could not be visited without an Off
cial permit, and that the lights in houses
would not be allowed after ten o'clock, are
ridiculous inventions. The city lives and
works in the same manner az heretofore,
without excitement and u%nd'sturbed in its
daily life and intercourse"
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

with q salary Of 81, 200 to $4,000 yearly
and q number Of officers in the same RAM
who receive over 5000.
By order of the secretary of the navy the
steamer Alaska conveyed to Sitka 100 Win,
chester repeating rifles, ! Calling gun aud
"A. 600 rounds Of ammunition, which wers
to be placed in the hands of Collector Ball:
Fearing that if the Indians meant mischief
thew would be sure to make a raid upon
their places Of deposit and arm themselves
more effectively for the destruction of the
whites, the collector thought it prudent not
to accept of this amount Of arms and am
munition, and, in accordance with his wlshes
he received for the better armament OF !ne
citizens all the revolvers and ammunition
he desired.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

X. d. Shannon, superintendent Of public
schools for the state Of Missouri, and a dem.
ocratic official, calls attention, in his annual
report for 1889, to the Systematic and
successful efforts of the white people of the
state of Missouri to deprive the colored PEG.
pie Of the school privileges for which they
pay their portion. He says, "a wicked and
malicious advantage is taken of the weak.
ness and ignorance Of the negro to shield
the law breaker while it uses the money
drawn from him, sometimes by taxes, and
appropriated to his benefit by law" He
says further, that "there is no possible way
of Disgusting the fact and it is both wisdom
and duty to tell 1t and deal with It," The
superintendent then recites the various
methods resorted to by which the negro ele.
ment is absolutely deprived of the benefits
OF Tree education, and closes by suggesting
that within the constitution and the law,
can be found ample means for correcting
the existing evil. This comes from a atate
- Tar north as Missouri. The condition
farther south, where the negro is under NOR.
complete subsection to the unlawful rule q
.ne whites, can be imagined. But We sc,
IN the very words Of this superintendent o
Mlseoorl education an awakening to reaso,
and liberation which if it gains full sva,
nay cause q halt in the exodus and ave,
: threatened result of virtual depopulatio,
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

Commissioner Hayt has an oleomarga.
rine factory and LeDac, the agricultural
commissioner, sends out government cir
culars advising the people to use that va.
rlety Of butter. Thus the great and good
Indian commissioner figures it to get his
advertising through official sources and at
the expense of the people.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

The Chicago and Dakota railway com
pany, to build and operate a branch Of the
Winona and st. Peter road from Tracy
Lyon county. to the west line of Minneso-
ta, in the county Of Lincoln, has been for.
mally organized and articles filed in the
registers office at Winona. This is the
first step toward the promised westward
extension of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad. According to the articles Of in
corporation it will enter Dakota near tie
southeast corner Of Brookings county.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

A delegation of northern Cheyenne In.
dams has gone to Washington to urge the
president to allow them to leave the
Indian territory and return to
their northern home. They probably haven't
heard Of Judge Dundy's decision, else they
wouldt ask for a privilege which is already
theirs,
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

The secretary Of the treasury has issued
. notice that $50 registered and coupon
bonds, consols Of 1867 and 1868, embraced
in the ninety-fourth, ninety. fifth and nine.
ty.sixth calls, will be redeemed at the treas.
ury department the first Of July next, with
Interest to date Of maturity of the bonds.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14
States, and in violation Of the laws thereof,
Standing Bear and his party must be dis
charged from custody and It is 20 ordered.

Indian Commissioner Hayt was arfalgnst
last Thursday at jersey City, and plead no
guilty to the indictment found against him
1t is probable that he will have his trial ii
q the fall. He has given $1,000 bail for hi
appearance. The specific charge agains
this distinguished moralist and reformer il
that he circulated q fictitious statement re
garding the financial condition ofthe savings
institution Of which he was president. Evi.
: dence in the form of an advertising slip has
been filed away for use. This dodge was the
creation of Commissioner Hayt, and consist
cd of 36.inch measures made of narrow slips
of colored paper. On one side the inches
were recorded, and on the other the follow
ing advertisement was printed in conspicuous
lettering: 1.-THE International Trust Co..
corner Washington and Montgomery streets,
Jersey City, N. J., is the only savings bank
in the state with a paid'up capital of $780,
600 for the security of depositors." 1t is
shown that the company never had a paid
up capital of more than $4,000, and Com
missioner Hayt's crime is the violation OF
the following section of the New Jersey sta
tute:
Whoever. being a director or manager or
public officer of any body corporate or public I
shall make, circulate, or publish or i
in making, circulating or publish
ing any written statement or account which .
he shall know to be false in any material :
particular, with intent to deceive or defraud .
any member, shareholder or creditor of any i
such body corporate or public company, or :
with intent to induce any person to advance !:
any property to such body corporate or pub II
lie company, or to enter into any security . =
FOR the benefit thereof, shall be guilty Of a :
and being convicted thereof a
shall be liable, at the discretion of the court,
10 imprisonment at hard labor not to exceed I
Two years, or fine not exceeding $500 or Fl
both. b
1t has been the rule of Mr.. Hayt's official o
life to declare all men guilty upon the finn
iest charges Of his paid detectives. APP. 9
,lying the same rule to his case, he can be .
made out a very successful sort Of a defraud. q
r. But it is unchristian like to do this, and i
he public will probably suspend judgment J
,r the time being. Still Mr.. Hayt is now ,
I a position to realize how it might be if
ne whole world was like himself. |.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14
tte 3xily 3rtss aud 9xtatxixs
YANKTok . DAKOTA.
DAKOTA.
Wednesday Evening, May "a, 1879
Representative Buckner has introduced
= bill reducing the salary Of the president
Of the United States to $4,000.

An effort made in the house on Monday
to suspend the rules and pass the army ap-
preparation bill was defeated by Q party
vote, the democrats opposing the motion
and the republicans and greenbackers favor.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-14

Over 200 different styles Of wall paper a,
Mills & Purdy's. Parties designing to pur.
chase are invited to call and inspect.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1879-03-19
SUPLEM EN'TO.

Por 81 acaso no ha llegado q ma
nos de algunos de nuestros suscrip.
torres ell alcance que dimos aver, aun.
que 4 todos 10 remitilnos, 10 repro.
ducimos q continuation, no sin ad.
vertir que en- 10 sucesivo no trans.
cribiremos en- ell periodico los supple.
mentos que nos proponemos publ
car cada vez que alguna noticia i'm
portante 10 haga necesario.
"Con objeto de trasmitir con urgen-
cia a nuestros lectores la grata mott.
cia de que nuestro digno diputado
{ que fue D. Salvador Albacete, ha
sido nombrado Ministro de Ultramar,
indicio seguro de convenientes refor-
mas OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES para
las Antillas, y de hacerles saber eli de.
recho de reunion que ha decretado el
Gobierno General y algunos tclegra-
mas extranjeros, nos apresuramos d
publican este alcance.
GACETA EXTRAORDINARY.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1879-03-19

Tenemos noticia de que por inicia-
tiva de un respectable amigo nuestro
de Ponce, que present6 mocion en-
este sentido, ha resuelto la Sociedad
de Credito mercantil nombrar un re-
presentante suyo en- cada localidad
importante de la Isla para que acep-
te 8 rechace las negociaciones que
Sc lie presenter, segun su leal critic
rio, proporcionando con este que los
benefcios del establecimiento men.
cionado Sc extiendan a todos los
principales centros mercantiles de la
provincial.
Mientras no haya capital bastante
para establecer sucursales en- forlna
entendemos que esta es una medi.
da oportunfsima que reauira er
provecho de la Sociedad y del pd
blico, va que q larga distancia nc
siempre es facil saber la solvencia
sujeta a variaciones frecuentes, d.
las firmas, y va tambien porque NJ
todos los que deseen hacer negocia
clones con aquella pueden venir .
efectuarlas a esta capital.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1879-03-19
SECCION OFFICIAL.
Contaduria General de Hacienda pdbhc'
DE LA IsLA DE PUERTO-RToO.

S. M. el Rey "a. D. G. J, en- vista de
10 propuesto por el Excmo. Sr. Gober.
nador General, de conformidad con Ia
Intendencia, ha tenido a bien disponel
en- su Real 6rden n1mero 1876 de % de
Febrero proximo pasado, que SO admi.
ia & la circulation Official, la moneda de
plata mejicana por igual yalor que las
de los Estados- -Unidos de America, SO.
gun consta en- la tarifa de precios de
monedas extranjeras aprobada POI
Real 6rden de 20 de Noviembre de 1867,
que ha sido publicada en- la Gaceto OFF.
cial del dia de hoy, y que Sc considera-
ra adicionada en- esta parte previnien-
do ademas s. NJ. que los contribuyen.
tes al Tesoro p1blico por todos concep-
tos satisfagan en- plata I'M cinco por cie'a-
to, en- cuantos pagos tengan que hace1
al Estado.
Y acordado por s. E. en- el dia de
aver el c1mplase de la Soberana dis.
posicion, de 6rden del Iltmo. Sr. Inten-
dente SO publica en- la Gaceto Official de
esta plaza para general conocimiento,
y en- la inteligencia de que la obliga-
cion de satisfacer ell por 100 en- plata
tendra lugar desde el L. de Abril pr6xi-
mo.
Puerto Rico, Is de Mario de 1879.-
Ell Tesorero general, Francisco Fdbro.