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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

The New York Post, Of Saturday last, says:
The local money market may be called
stringent, and 7 per cent Is the bottom rate
for Stock Exchange call loans, except when
the collateral consists OF United States bonds,
and then the rate i5 per cent Time loans
are reported to-day at per cent on stocks
and > per cent on United States bonds where
they run thirty days, and at s per cent on
stocks where they run sixty Gays. AS the
treasury has drawn ID very little more money
in the last seven dayS-ai the eighth when
the call loan rate was 30g3lla per centr-than
it has paid out it is evident that
other sources must be found for the sharp
and sustained advance in rates. Among these
may be mentioned the fact, which Is not new,
but which has only just made Itself felt In the
loan market, that the volume 81 mercantile
business has increased over last year about 30
per cent, that We are appI pachlng the time
for the autumn shipments Of currency to
move the crops, and that considerable
amounts have already been sent, that the
disturbances In Canada have drawn money
from here-much mDre than enough to offset
the probable receipts of gold from Europe in
the next twenty days, and that the towering
speculation In stocks In this market has, in
the first place, taken up great amount q
loanabIe capital and, in the second place, by
its breakdown has caused an active shifting
Of loans The last reason Is perhaps the irn
mediate cause of the sudden advance In
rates. .~m@.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

The rapid growth Of Kansas In population
is shown by the result Of the census which
has just been completed, which gives the State
population on March last Of 8io.97s. This
Is considerably more than double the popula-
ton shown BY the Federal census of 1870 there
being 1854 800 inhabitants according to that
enumeration. In 1875. according to the STATE
census, the population was 528,437. The In
crease since 1875 has been much larger, rel
ativeiy and actually, than from 1870 to ] s75
The only States which have grown at as rapid
a rate as Kansas are Texas and Nebraska, and
Colorado since the silver mining fever broke
out In earnest. Each Of these States has
gained at the expense Of more popalou5 sister
States, the increase coming from them to
far greater extent than from foreign immigra-
ton.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20
Z To-day. Yesterday.

Thus far this week .......-..........~~-. -.
Same time last week. 100 BIC
same time last ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1854
The movements at ports from IL u. Friday
up to Il N. to-day is given below:
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

According to the New York Financial and
Commercial Chronicle Of the sixteenth, the
total visible supply OF cotton was 1,I73,584
bales, against ,231 ,357 bales at the same date
last year. Or this 543,si0 bales were from
East India, and 629,744 bales from America.
The price Of Middling IplandS at that date
was 655d, against 61ad at the same time last
year
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

The German Gazette Of Berlin gives some
curious intimate details Of the efforts made
by lamail Pasha to save his throne Two
days before his deposition. while the English
consul was pressing him to abdicate, he Of
fered him heaps Of gold and engaged to as
sumo the entire Debt and discharge it from
his own resources # he We're allowed to re-
main. Then seeing that his appeals were in
vain he sent to his harem for fifteen of his
most beautiful slaves, and when they arrived,
decked with diamonds, he said These are
my favorites; the Jewels they wear are worth
S3,oOo,O00; they are all yours If you will only
leave me little longer in peace"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

An authoritative announcement Is made
that twenty-aiS American railways have
agreed to discontinue making special con-
tracts for certain lots or quantities OF freight
at tariff rates Of less than tariff rates. Ship
pers will get ten days notice of the Increase
in tariff, during which time all their engage
ments must Re filled. otherwise increased
rates will be charged. All freight must be
billed at full tariff rates; otherwise 1t will be
detained at the western terminus of the trunk
lines until the correction in billing is made.
No rebates or drawbacks will be allowed ex
cept on freight On which contracts have been
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

W. G. De Pauw, the millionaire Christian Of
New Albany, Ind. has been at Summit camp
Maryland, but - now ~ Ocean Grove. He has
the largest plate-glass factory in America and
immense iron works, where about 10000 per
sons get support. He Is pfesidenbof all the
banks In New Albany. and Is worth over s.
100000. He does not drink nor dance but be-
lieyes In singing gospel hymns. ymm@@"@.. a.sr@@
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

Honesdale, the great shipping centre Of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, is
said to be the largest coal storing place in
the world During tho winter, while the
canal is closed, the coal brought from the
mines over the gravity road accumulates on
the two great dumping grounds where fully
100000 tons can be stored. As much as $4,000
tons have been piled there a. once, awaiting
transportation when the trade was very
heavy. At one Of these dumping grounds
the coal is raised by means Of immense
steam shovels, which lift two tons al q time
and pour 1t into the canal boats Atthe other
it is upon a level, and Is poured into the boats
by chutes like those in use at the brakes.
When mining is going on from 5000 to $4,000
tons are brought daily over the gravity road
from the mines to Honesdale, the day being
ten hours.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-20

The Sick Man OF Europe appears to he get
ting from bad To worse. He il never at peace
unless when fighting or preparing to fight.
He has just negotiated for q shipment 81 arms
from the Providence Arms Company for G9o,-
600 rifles at a cost Of ST. % q piece, ana $780,
0ao cartridges. The total value Of the contract
Is estimated at $40, 600. The terms Of pay
ment are not stated, but urgent delivery IS
called for Singular that, its notorious hard
upness Notwithstanding, Turkey still finds
means to purchase the latest improved pat
terms of firearms IN unlimited quantity, and
move troops and ornaments as quickly and
easily about as any tirst-cIass power who
naYS its debts ---.--
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15

The wild wind of November, whirling
about the big Kearney mansion, found one
morning a new plaything; from the muffled
bell noated the black pennant of death, the
pirate flag that means no quarter"
Within the great drawing-room sat Car
roll Kearney alone with his dead mother,
counting over the loving words and helpful
deeds through childish days and later years.
treasurng the last soft word, the fiuttering
hand.clasp and gentle sigh that closed the
scene. He had been with his mother in
the CITY through her illness, and the house
had been shut After the funeral he would
return, and the house would then be left
alone.
A soft step came into the room where he
sat behind the great curtain across the
window recess, and Lilly Allen, the minis
ter's daughter, came in with cross made
from her own parlor ivy, with tiny sheaf
of banded wheat and idle sickle at its inter
section, to lay ON the velvet pail. As she
stood looking at the pale and peaceful clay,
she started to find Carroll kearney close be.
side her, holding out cold and nervous
hand.
"My last friend gone, Lilly-Miss Allen.
don't seem to be very rich in friends, do
| 2" said Carroll in a new tone. !" have
loved two women well. There lies one in
her coffin the other-wel- the use
of thinking any longer-she will never care
for me-"
"Carrolll" The gray eyes lifted them
selves softly as she spoke that one reproach-
full word.
Chilly, will you trust me once more ii !
show You that can live a sober man /
have resolved beside this silent witness to
try anew. Tell me that somewhere in the
time to come may hold Lilly in my
keeping. Trust me three months, six, a
year, seven, any probation, if | may find
the reward at the end OF it,"
Beside coffin, once more Lilly Allen
promised to trust Carroll Kearney, scarcely
hoping that he would keep his vow, and
| hold out TO the end.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15

roots. have seen the yellow birch destroyed In
the same way by perforated patches, rather than
by girdling the entire trunk and have seen
Southern pine wounded beyond recovery in the
same way have seen the finest trees in a young
orchard destroyed by these pests The trees, II not
killed outright, were 80 badly injured that only
few knurly, worthless apples ever grew afterward,
and few days since my attention was called to
an apple tree loaded with fruit, except a large
girded branch dry and worthless. | have
watched their operations for hours and shot half
a dozen from the same tree, thereby saving
beautiful orchard from utter destruction. They
dip their bills in one hole, then another, and an
other, tapping out the juices deposited, and II
one is little dry they irritate the pulp Of the
new wood laterally and the wound bleeds afresh.
The assumption that they seek In this way worms
insects is about as far from probability as one
could be made They never attack dead or dy
ing tree. They strike only at the young, healthy,
smooth bark, and invariably just below the first
branches on the trunk, or just below where
branches separate above IT, Whether this is the
resutof sound philosophy in their education we
cannot say, but in our own it is So since in knotty
portions of wood the capillary tubes are crooked
and contracted consequently the sap is retarded
in its passage upward and rushes more freely to
an opening in the side. | brought down from
upper New Hampshire and Vermont sections Of
trees destroyed by these birds, to demonstrate
their work. The inclsons- In the specimens are
enlarged laterally and approach each other until
sap ceases to flow between them, when a new belt
is projected or a new subject sought. We think
the character of the bird as sap-sucker fully es
tahliahed
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
Praise from Two "Sir Huberts.0

We believe we have never yet copied into
these columns anything but the criticisms
of contemporaries upon their editor. But
we are going to crafty ourself this once in
giving two brief extracts, one from the
leading agricultural weekly of the nation
the Rural New Yorker--and the other from
the most successful of the state agricultural
journals, the Maine Farmer. Each stands
at the head of its class. The former says
The VERMONT WATCHMAN AND STATE
JOURNAL has for its agricultural editor DIR.
T. II. Hoskins. We know him only as the
agricultural and horticultural world has
long known him-through his able and ver-
satile pen. We take occasion to speak of
him as an exception to the rule of which
Dr. Sturtevant complains, viz; that prom
inent agriculturists are too chary of their
praises of others who are laboring in the
same field" etc., etc. Our Maine cotem-
porary says I" DR.. T. H. Hoskins, who con-
ducts an excellent agricultural department
in the VERMONT STATE JOURNAL, in the
issue corresponding to that of the last
weeks Farmer had lengthy article on
Formula Fertilizers, which also formed the
subject of our own leader for that week.
| We wish we had room for the entire article.
| Here follows an extract, and the editor
adds "We regard these views as very sound
and from the source from whence they EN-
anated are entitled to great weight. The
Doctors opinion of the value of formula
fertilization will find few dissenters, either
among practical farmers or chemists"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
Opium Eating.

The taste for intoxicating liquors is not |
the only depraved appetite that demands
the attention of philanthropists. There are
other agents for drowning sorrow " by |
benumbing the senses, which, if not now so
extensively used as alcohol, are becoming
more and more generally popular. The most
important of these, and one of the most fatal,
is opium in its various forms. This dan
gerous drug, which has proved so terrible
a curse TO the Chinese, is already sold in
this country in quantities far in excess OF
the legitimate demand for it as medicine.
A new method of administering this in
sdious poison has been introduced within
few years, and it is the opinion OF
number of eminent physicians of New
York that the invention has had much to do
with the growth of the vice, 1t consists of
the injection under the skin of morphine,
one OF the preparations from opium, by
means of a sharp-pointed syringe. The
effect of the poison thus administered IS
said to be much more immediate than when
taken internally but it is also much more
injurious to the physical constitution. The
instrument should never be employed by
any but an expert, experienced in the ad-
ministration of the drug. But it is stated
on good authority that it has become a
practice with some physicians to instruct
their patients in the use OF the syringe, and
that this has led many TO continue the de-
grading habit after the immediate necessity
for the drug has passed away, until the vice
becomes firmly fastened upon them. The
statements of several physicians, published
by the Tribune, show that the habit is
spreading with alarming rapidty. BY one
of them the morphine syringe was spoken
of as Gan instrument of death in the hands
of any person except a skillful and cautious
physician" and he denounced the practice
of teaching the use of it to patients as a
crime, which :" is sending hundreds of per-
sons to the inebriate asylums and filling
thousands of homes with misery" Another
observed that the secrecy with which the
habit might be INDUCED in made it all the
more seductive. "Like other secret vices,
he said, "the use of morphine gains a
stronger hold over the will because of the
deceit which it engenders. victim to the
morphia crave might be trusted in every
thing else, but he will descend to the lowest
deceit to obtain and use his favorite drug"
Many persons every year are sent to inebri-
ate asylums to be cured of this deplorable
appetite, but so powerful is the hold that 1t
gains over its hapless victims that very few,
| il any, ever recover lasting self-control
If these things are so, there certainly ought
to be some plan devised to check the in
crease of this terrible and degrading vice,
| The sale of the drug in all its forms should
be at least as carefully regulated as that OF
strychnine or arsenic.-ErdminerS Chronicle
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
The American AgriculturIst.


1t is not often that high self-appreciation
aud popular appreciation go together The
old Agriculturist has never thought small
beer" of itself, and has not been chary of
dissenting upon its own merits, yet we doubt
if its highest note of self-praise has ever got
above the estimate of its hosts of readers.
And it blows its own trumpet so cheerily
and SO genially, and lives up to its manifestos
so completely that, though its rivals some
times turn up their noses, its readers never
do. On the contrary, they like its cheerful
td-ran-td-td! and would surely miss the jolly
music of its horn. The coming year our
old friend promises grander things than
ever, offers the most varied, wonderful and
stupendous list of premiums, and will give
us more and better practical. scientific
pictorial, statistical and correspondence
information, well boiled down, in English OIL
German, than any other agricultural Oh
horticultural monthly on earth and all fo
one dollar and fifty cents. The Orang'
Judd Company, publishers, PAS Broadway
| New York.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
A " Sentimental /" Board of Agriculture.

DR.. Sturtevant, of the Scientific Farmer,
expresses the opinion that the Vermont
Board of Agriculture was abolished because
it was "weal" and sentimental" And
this. notwithstanding he admits that he is
not familiar with the merits of the case.
We submit that this is not the scientific
method" of dealing with a subject. We
profess to be "familiar with the case"
having attended more meetings of the Board
from the beginning than any other individ-
ual except the secretary having reported
more than half of them for the press, and
being personally acquainted with all who
have belonged to it. 1t is our judgment
that the epithets used by DR.. Sturtevant
are woefully misapplied We do not say
that the methods of the Board could not
have been improved, or its sphere of use
fulness enlarged. We think there was room
for betterment in both directions But we
cannot see how in Justice it could be called
"weak," and as for its "sentimentality we
don't know what DR.. Sturtevant means by
the word in this connection. The members
of the Board have usually been good farm
ers, each skillful and successful in one or
more branches of agriculture and farm work
They have called to their aid the best talent
of the vicinity where each meeting was held,
and the call has met a good response
Every question raised land they have mostly
been practical questions) has been discussed
and bv question and answer the KNOWLEDGE
of the whole assemblape has been brought
ont and made common propertv This
knowledpe has been disseminated tbrouph
the newspapers. which have literally re.
norted the meetings and tbrouob the nnb.
Isbed report Of the secretary The interest
has been good among the neonle the attend
ance large. and both increasing year Inv wear
IF then the Doctor demands @ whv Rru.
tins rose AGAINST Cmsar that is. why the
farmers of Vermont abolished the BOARD
we replv that thew didn't All the hast and
most intellipent farmers in the looislatpre
tbose who vvara ,,ost familiar with tho
Board and its work. sunnorted it. r. was
simply killed bv the noliticians. aided nv
the tap-rag.and- bob-tail of the farmers =
both secretly egged on by influences eman-
ating from an association that las regards
its otficials) persists without reason in re-
gardinp the Board as a rival. and from an
institution that fears and breads the intelli-
gent criticism of its course that has been
IL
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
The Sap-Sucking WOOdpecker.

There is a bird, familiar in every orchard
and wood lot, that, with the peculiar jerk
ing flight of the woodpecker family, fits
from tree to tree. If you watch him you
will find that he is the fellow that makes
those peculiar rows or rings of holes around
the trunks of so many trees, birches, frs,
pines, the apple, and some other species.
This bird is what is commonly called the
yellow-bellied odpecker-small, but dread
fully destructive. Upon trees of medium
size he will make belts OF holes around the
trunk, close together laterally, and about an
inch apart perpendicularly. One of them
will thus girdle many trees in day, and
though the tree so attacked does not usually
die, it is so. greatly injured, especially the
apple, as to be practically valueless as a
fruitproducer
What these holes are made for has been
question with many. The ornithologists,
true to their prepossessions and advocacy of
the right of anything with feathers (espe-
cially pretty feathers) to live at any and
everybody's expense, have maintained that
these creatures were after insects eggs in
the bark. If this is so, they must get them
all, for no insect makes its appearance or
does damage in such regular form as these
holes show the eggs to have been deposited.
Nor does it seem likely that any insect with
such a peculiar way of laying its eggs would
attack both evergreen and desiduous trees
alike. We have asked ornithologists re-
peatedly if they had ever identified the in
sect, or found the eggs. None could say
that they had. They inferred that the eggs
were there, because the holes were there
made by the bird. But the country boy
are pretty close observers of the doings o
wild creatures, and it is they who have fixet
upon this species the name of " sap-sucler.
We believe the boys are right. We hav
shot few of them (the birds, not the boys
and one thing we know-they have not tn
peculiar barbed tongue of the true 1000
peckers--the tongue with which they dra,
out insects from holes in the trees they visit
We think they are not wood-peckers at all
they are bark-peckers; and so far as W
know they never attack any but living trees
while the genuine woodpecker hammer
away mostly, if not entirely, upon dead one
writer in the Springfield Republican say
of this sapsucking fellow;
"To say this is the most destructive bird in OF
climate will no doubt surprise quite a number
people. have seen scores Of white birch tire
aix IN ten inches in diametar 0irdlad nv n halt
small holes through the outer and inner bark, n
touching the wood, the tree above dead al
broken of at that point have seen secol
belt a few feet below the first, and as before
was dead and rottng above it, have seen tho
belts repeated at intervals down to the groul
and tree twenty inches In diameter dead to {
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15

That was many years ago. In the grand
old house on the hill Carroll Kearney and
his gentle wife Lilly keep open house each
New Years day, and with lights and fires,
aud right good cheer, the mansion welcomes
all. But all the lights find not a wine-cup
with its ruby lure, the fires warm no I'M
steady, shaking hands, and the good cheer
lacks the subtle poison of the adder's sting.
Annie has studied well through her girl
ish years, and in her turn is guiding three
little Kearney's through spelling-book and
"jografy." Aunt Ellis went to sleep before
the bluebirds came back to their haunts or
the snowdrops rang their bells in the spring
wind of that bright New Year, when left
handed man did right-handed action, and
signed Carroll Kearney's name thereto
And John and his wife live peacefully on,
in their cottage now, or rather Armies, for
that was her New Years present when
another year came around and he had won
his bride. A pleasant, shady spot, where
the sun shone in the morning, and the CRATE
full shadow came in the summer afternoon,
and all the people know it by the pleasant
name of "Kearney's Promise. = Christian
JVeekIU
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15

We too often speak of the ravages OF in,
temperance as confined to the Ignorant and
degraded classes. But its havoc is Just as
frightful among the rich and the cultured
A gentleman who lately left one OF our in
ebriate asylums says that he met there as
fellow patients twelve lawyers, fifteen phy-
sicians and five ministers of the gospel.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15

TOTAL ABSTINENCE has had fair trial
upon individuals and communities. 1t has
never failed yet in keeping men sober, IN
keeping their purses fuller their breaths
sweeter, their consciences purer, and their
homes happier. Fashion, avarice, and ap-
petite have striven to disparage and de
molish it, But to-day it commands a
premium" as the safest investment for every
Young man. 1t is Just as sure OF ultimate
triumph as that gospel of love with which
1t is allied. Theodore Cuyter.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
Temperance.
JOHN ALCOHOL, MY FOE"

A TEMPERANCE PARODY.
John Alcohol, my foe, John,
when we were FIRST aoquaint,
ia money in my pocket. John,
Which now know there amt.
spent It all in treating, John,
Because loved II 40,
But mark 1t how you've have treated me,
John Alcohol, my foe,
John Alcohol, my foe, John,
We've been too long together,
So you must take one road, John,
And will take the other
For we shall tumble down, John,
II hand in hand we go,
And viii have the bill to foot,
John Alcohol, my foe.