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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12
How CIncIunati received Beecher.

CINCINNATI May 11.-Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher preached this morning In Music Hall
to one OF the largest congregations ever seen
In this city. Fully 5000 persons were present.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

The DEMOCRAT is responsible for none OF
the views expressed in tho communication
under this head; but no communications will
be printed except from responsible parties.l
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12
FROG MOOR.
Contest for the LIIlenthaI Cup-Glass
Rail Shooting.

The competition for the new Lilienthal cup
took place at Frogmoor yesterday In the fore
noon. The Louisiana Field Artillery made the
winning and second best scores. Mr. Renaud
made the best score at 300 yards-22. and Mr.
Bercegeay at 500 yards made 81. The following
is the score Of each competitor:
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
destructive Fire In chicago.

CHICAGO, May 11.-Last evening fire rem
dered some fifty poor families homeless. Ine
main building of Palmer, Fuller d Co.'S
planning mill was saved, but all the drying
houses and lumber were destroyed, including
,OOO, 900 feet of lumber and 100000 shingles.
Their loss was 100000 to $4,000; insurance
S43, ,OOO The total loss was $120OOO to
$150,000.
A FoRGER TRAPPED.
JERSEY CRY, May 1.-For several
months a large number of skillfully executed
forged certified checks have been passed In
Newark and other cities. The means by
which the forgers operated was for one or Two
men to enter store, make a purchase pay
for 1t with certified checks largely In excess
Of the goods bought, and receive the differ
ence in money. One OF the raScals, EDWARD
Lencer, has just been captured, and the ar
rest Of the others is probable.
CARRIED OVER THE BLACK RIVER FALLS.
WATERFOWL, N. Y, May 11.-Robt: Harris
and Dell Shaw, aged twentyone and thirteen
years, while out rowing on Black river, near
this city, this afternoon, We're carried over
the falls at the suspension bridge and
drowned. The bodies We're not recovered.
FIRE IN A DETROIT PRINTING ESTABLISH
MENT.
DETROIT. Mich, May 11-About o'clock
this morning, fire broke out in the office Of
Post and Tribune building. The fire entirely
destroyed the composing rooms and par
TALLY destroyed the editorial rooms OF the
paper. Ihe Job rooms We're considerably
hurt by water as were also the
offices of the Michigan Farmer and CONNER
ing. The Calvert lithographic establishment
was but slightly damaged. The loss is un-
known, but it was fully covered by insurance.
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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12

A ball, at which all the guests were COM
PEELED to wear the costumes of workingmen
and working women, was recently given In
Paris.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12
FRANCE.

s,r,ous differences In the Council Of Min
listers.
LONDON, May 1l.-A dispatch from Paris
oavs If ID reported that serious differences
have arisen between the French council OF
Minister'S. c,
A dispatch from Rome says that Gen. Carl
haldi ID hpttar
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12
THE CRESCENT CITY GUN CLUB.

The Crescent City Gun Club. whose organiza-
ton is Of recent date, yesterday had the month
ly shooting match on what is known as the Mel
pomene Fields, at the head Of Louisiana Ave-
nue.. It was glass ball match twenty yards
rise. twenty one shots to the right. seven
to the left. and seven straightaway. The follow
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12

There is no better remedy than Reeds Gil,
Edge Tonic for dyspepsia and indigestion.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12
GERMANY.
The Tobacco Tax Law-Men-Of-War TO
g# be sent 10 Peru.

BERLIN. May 1.-THE German Parliament
Yesterday discussed the tobacco tax bill.
Germany and Italy will each send man-ot-
war ID the Peruvian coast to protect their
various interests.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12

I'm weary Of the TODD eat. Try shadines.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-12

The king of rotted things -shadines.
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AT EBB-IlDE.
THE KANSAS WAVE COMMENCING TO
ROLL SOUTHWARK.
Departure or l3z disappointed Refugees
for Their Old Homes.
Lst. Louis Globe. Democrat. Rep.. May y.

tst. Louis Globe. Democrat. Rep. May ~
The steamer Joe Kinney brought seventy
eight and the steamer Belle OF st. Louis
thirty-eight colored emigrants from WXaI-
dotte to this city yesterday forenoon. They
had had enough Of Kansas. They @ were
among those who first migrated from MIS-
sissippi, and say that they have given the
"promised land"a d fair trial, and have found
1t wanting In many respects
A few Or them paid their fare to this city
the majority were furnished free transporta'
tlon by Mayor J. B. Stockton. OF Wyandotte,
Kansas, chairman OF the relief committee at
that place and other prominent citizens
About dozen travelled on the strength OF the
following: mz....5.5.
70 Steamboat Captains The bearer, Henry
Clendenln, has had all of free Kansas that he
can stand, and is desirous OF returning to
Vicksburg. II you will return him as pei
Sells u Co.'S printed circulars, and look &c
them for the transportation Of himself and
family, you will confer favor not only or
him, but on the committee. Respectfully,
' v j. LANE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
Autumn Care of Young Stock.

Thousand of calves, says The North
British Agricuhurist, tolerably well reared
in the house and while living mainly on
milk, are seriously and even fatally in
jured by carelessnees and parsimony in
their subsequent management; and the
came applies with equal force to foals
and lambs. The young creature is per-
haps suddenly turned out to pasture;
its digestive apparatus is vainly expect
ed at once to accommodate itself to the
change from the digestible concentrated
milk to the less digestible, fbrous, bulky
grass. For time, at least, nutrition
and growth are impaired, the blood
sometimes becomes deficient in some
of its important elements, the tissues
are starved, the muscles are pale and
soft, the walls of the intestines are thin
and pellucid; draTma sets IN, while,
still further to reduce the weakened
calf, irritation and cough are sometimes
set up from thread-worms invading the
bronchial tubes. The an9mia, with all
our boosted skill and management, still
annually kills off thousands of calves
and lambs. Yet these losses are easily
preventable by supplying continuously
regular suitable food, by more gradual
weaving, by teaching the young animal,
before weaving, to eat little bruised
linseed-ca or crushed oats, and con-
tinue regularly after weaving the sup
plies Of such concentrated adjuncts.
Once the milk flesh is lost it is hard to
say how many shillings per pound it
costs to replace its equivalent. 1t is
doubtful whether an animal thus
stripped of its dainty handling calves
flesh can ever be made quite so good,
while this pulling down and building up
treatment is attended with great risk of
serious disease. A wasted and danger
Gus loss of flesh and strength similar to
what is apt to follow weaving, too COM
monty results throughout the English
grazing counties from keeping the
young stock on the pastures in the late
autumn, when the grass has lost much
of its nutritlve value, and the tempera-
ture of the air and the ground has be-
come materially reduced. Then the
animals require for the maintenance of
health extra, instead OF diminished,
supplies of food or fuel. Careful flock
m 3sters usually avoid these risks by
giving their lambs frequent changes OF
pasture untainted by other sheep; by
placing them very early in autumn on
cabbage and roots, and often by contin-
| uing the few ounces of cakes and dry
food before weaving. Many foals and
/ calves now lost or stunted in growth
would be preserved by similar treat
ment-by the early reasonable use of
/ dry food, and, if they are not housed
early in autumn, by sheds on the pas.
lures, which are most valuable for shell
ter from extremes alike of heat and
! cold and from wet
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
February % and 20 One Day.

FROM the 81. LOUIS Illnes-0ouIuai+
The Supreme Court of Indiana has at
firmed a principle in respect TO the COM
putation of time which is likely TO prove
of serious trouble 10 bankers and others.
1t is that the 28th day OF February and
the Goth day of February are to be COM
puted as one day. The question was
suggested by the fact that there ten days
previous service of process is necessary
for Judgment. And the cause having
been begun in the last leap year, 1876, the
process was not served in time, if the 2Sth
and Goth days Of February were to be
computed as one day. And the court held
that they must be so counted. The pith
of the decision is in these words: ut
must be regarded as settled in this state
that the 28th and Goth days of February
in every bissextile year must be computed
and considered in law as one day. 1thas
been held by this court that the English
statute, 81 Henry Ill, is in force in this
state This statute, speaking Of the goth
day of February in leap year, provides
Computitur dies lille ct dies prorinae pre-
ceradens pro uaico die (And that day, as
well as the day next preceding, shall be
computed as one day. This English
statute is recognized as part of the law
governing this state. The service OF the
summons was not sufficient in law to JUS
THY either the default entered or the
Judgment rendered"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
NOOktOWn Gossip.
Good COMPANY, Number Two.


We are having serious times of late
in Nooktown. The church is in tu-
multi. Some are in favor of the minis
ter and some are not. Church meet
ings are the order of the day; we have
them every meal Things are greatly
mixed. The strife 1uns high and the
bitterness increases. First there was
trouble about the prayer meetings.
Some thought there was too much sing
ing and not prayer enough. Others
thought there were too many prayers
and not singing and exhortation ,"
enough. Some of the members would
get displeased with the others, and then
sit far back in the room and do moth
ing, while the rest had to do the whole.
Then somebody found that Brother
Holdfast's fence extended beyond his
bounds, on to the church property. The
church requested Mr.. Holdfast to move
it back. He refused. and the church
moved it for him. Mr.. Holdfast got
angry at this, and refused to pay what
he had subscribed for the support of
preaching. The church tried to make
him pay. The church sued Mr.. Hold
fast for his subscription; and then
Mr.. Holdfast sued the church for
pulling down his fence. Finally it
seemed best 10 drop Mr.. Holdfast
from the church. The minister, Mr..
Ernest, favored the plan. Then the
whole church began 10 take sides; some
fer Mr.. Ernest, and some for Mr.. Hold
fast. Mr.. Ernest said he had doubted
for long time Mr.. Holdfast's SINGER ity.
Mr.. Holdfast has discovered that Mr..
Ernest is unfit for the position as MN
lister, and thinks he ought to be re-
moved; and with his friends is trying to
remove him. The best friend Mr..
Holdfast has on his side is Mr.. Strong,
our representative in the legislature.
Mr.. Strong says he has mistrusted Mr.,
Ernest's unfitness for some time; "but
didn't Ike to speak of it." Says he
knows Mr.. Ernest brought up this fence
affair on purpose to get Mr.. Holdfast
into trouble, and get him out of the
church. Says he can prove it by wit
nesses. Says ne don't know but it was
his duty to bring this up before, "but
didn't like to speak of it." He says,
fully treated by Mr.. Ernest. Says Mr..
Ernest tried to hinder his election last
spring by advising people not to vote
for him, because he wasn't right on the
temperance question. He says he
don't think the minister has treated
him quite fairly ever since he came to
town. He had thought sometimes that
he would bring up the matter before
the church; "but didn't like to speak
of it,"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
Facts that We Know.

If you are suffering with a severe
cough, cold, asthma bronchitis, con
sumption, loss of voice, tickling in the
throat, or any affection of the throat OF
lungs, we knoiO that DR.. KINGS New
Discovery will give you immediate re-
lief. We know of hundreds OF cases it
mas completely cured, and that where
all other medicines had failed. No
other remedy can show one-nalf a
many permanent cures. Now to give
you satisfactory proof that DR.. KING Z
New Discovery aiA c,us you of Asthma,
Bronchitis, Hay Fever, Consumption,
severe Coughs and Colds, Hoarseness,
or any Thoat or Lung Disease, if you
call at any drug store you can get 8
ttial bottle for ten cents or regular
size bottle for $1.00 Sold by all retail
druggists and 10y Greene& Button & Co ,
Milwaukee, Noyes Bros. q Cutler, S..
Paul, and all Chicago wholesale drug
gists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
THE OLD CHURCH THAT STOOD
IN THE SHADE.

tang wears have flown since first we met
In me old church that stood in the shade:
GRAY hairs have come, bat we'll ne'eI forge:
The good old tunes we sang and played.
We yet hear tie birds that sing each day
When to the glorious GIyeT prayed:
While prayers and songs 1oated softly away
From the old church that stood in the shade
No stained windows reflected the light.
Nor was pulpit IN velvet arrayed;
Yet every heart was cheerful and bright
Ia The old church that stood Ia the SPACE
But pride one day in a glorious bout
Appeared in gorgeous apparel afrayed;
The world crept in the spirit crept out
From the Old church that stood in the shade
They moved It away and cut down the grove
And not bird nor prayer has staid;
Nothing 70 mark the spot we love,
Where the old church stood IN the shade
And we built a steeple that touches the sky,
Aud Otherwise made tremendous parade,
And thus ~e expected 10 ascend on high
But not from the church that stood in the shade
We put on a mortgage much interest We pay.
While daily we are seeking for aid;
We'd gladly return 10 the good old way
of the old church that stood in the sb'lde.
But, when God shall come in glory and peace,
He'll uTelY grant US full release
Because of the church that stood In the shade
CHICAGO, August 1879. JAMES P. Roo
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
Raising Colts.

There is a crude notion prevailing
that hardships make young stock hardy.
A colt that is weaned in the fall, as is
commonly the case, should not be al
lowed to become poor in the first win
ter. 1t is true that it will often improve
so rapidly in the spring that its wretch
ed condition in the winter will seem re-
ally to have been an advantage to it,
but this is grave mistake. If the same
condition were imposed during the
whole period ofgrowth, the effect would
be very perceptible. Although the
summer may in some degree remove
the effect of the winter, no animal SO
treated ever became what it might have
been in size, symmetry of form, and
usefulness, by generous treatment
There is profit in breeding nice carriage
and draft horses. As general rule, it
costs no more to raise a good colt than
q poor one, while the former will bring
two or three times as much as the lat
ter. A dark stable is a poor place to
keep a colt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
Blondin Still RiskinS His Neck.

From the London World, September 9th.
Never have | seen more painful per-
Torrance than that which is now to be
witnessed in the old Exhibition Building,
in Vienna, where Blondin daily risks his
life on rope stretched across the vast
dome at giddy height. Blondin has
expressly requested that no net be placed
under the rope to break his fall, should
an accident occur. He says that he has
found by experience that the public do
not care half so much for his performance
when the possibility of terrible acct
dent is not present to lend zest TO the
show. He receives large sum of money
for every exhibition; and the more dar-
ing his feats, the higher his wages. lie
now traverses the rope without the bal
ancing-bar, walking backward blindiold-
ed. Blondin is followed everywhere by
a Mr.. Thompson, who has made bet Of
10000 that the hero Of Niagara will fall
from the rope and be killed ere he at
tains the age of 60. Five years more and
the cruel wager will be decided one way
or the other, for Blondin is already So.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
Quick Wit Wins.

Years ago, into a wholesale grocery
store in Boston walked a tall muscular
looking man, evidently fresh conner
from some backwoods town in Maine
or New Hampshire. Accusing the first
person he met, who happened to be the
merchant himself, ne SAID;
"You don't want to hire man in
your store, do your"
"Well," said the merchant II don't
know; what can you do?"
"Do?" said the man; "rather guess |
can turn my hand to almost anything
what do you want done"
well, if | was to hire man it would
be one that could lift well, a strong,
wiry fellow; one, for instance, that could
shoulder sack of coffee like that yon-
der, and carry it across the floor and
never lay it down."
There, now, Capting," said the coun-
tryman that's just me. | can lift any
thing | hitch to, you can't suit me bet
ter. What will yor give a man that
will suit you?,'
81 will tell you" said the merchant;
''if you will shoulder sack of coffee
and carry it across the store twice and
and never lay 1t down. | will hire you
year at 500 per month.
Done" said the stranger, and by
this time every clerk in the store had
gathered around and were waiting to
join in the laugh against the man, who
walking up to the sack, threw it across
his shoulder with perfect ease, although
extremely heavy, and walking with il
twice across the store, went to large
hook which was fastened to the wall,
and, hanging it up turned to the mer.
chant and said:
There, now, it may hang there till
dooms-day; / shall never lay it down.
What shall | go about, mister? Just give
me plenty to do and 800 month and
it's all right"
The clerks broke into laugh, and
the merchant. discounted, yet satisfied,
kept his agreement, and to-day the
green countryman is the senior partner
in the firm, and is worth million dol
lars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
How to Water Horses.

In cold weather give one pailful at
a time three times day. This is
enough unless you are working them
regularly; then give them little more,
but not to exceed four pailsfuli day.
In warm weather when they are brought
in, first sponge out the mouth and nos
trils well with cold water. After few
spongings they will wait for it to be done.
Then give them not TO exceed pail
full apiece; aud after feeding give one
more pailfull before you commence
work. Don't let them go without long
enough to make them want more than
this. II allowed, a thirsty horse, when
warm, will drink too much. A com
mon twelve quart pail is the size refer
ed to above.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30
Good Cultivation Pays.

A coed soil rarely fails, even in a
poor season, of returning paying in
come for the labor expended upon it in
the cultivation of any crop adapted to
it. The idea that the number of acres
in crops indicates the farmers income
must be abandoned, and the number of
bushels per acre must be looked for in
stead. There is certainly less profit IN
blowing fifty acres. to raise 1000 BUSH
els Of grain, than in blowing but TWEEN
ty-hve to raise the same amount, ana
trusting to good seasons for fair crops
will not be thought of by the improved
farmer. A rich, well-cultivated soil,
will usually make fair returns i'll what
we call bad or unfavorable seasons.
What the farmer on poor soil would
call good season, seldom comes
Valley Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30

In the United States, however, farm
ing is generally regarded as means of
getting a living, and men of means
do not engage in il as they do in other
kinds Of business. In Great Britain the
agricultural journals are few in number,
costly in price, and adapted to the in
terests of men of large means and good
I business qualifications. In the United
States agricultural journals are numer-
Gus and cheap and contain articles In
tended to meet the wants of persons
living in the country.
Great Improvements in agriculture
have been made in both countries dur
ing the past fifty years. In the United
States they have been chiefly the re-
suit of the inventions aud introductions
of implements and machines for light
ening or supersedlng human labor. By
means of them one man is enabled 10
do the work of ten men in many kinds
of field work. Inventive talent and
mechanical skill have accomplished
marvels in rendering farm labor easy
and productive. Machinery has en-
abled our farmers TO produce a larger
| amount of field crops than double the
number of men can produce in almost
any other country in the world. The
enormous yield of the present year is
largely the result of favorable season.
But the enormous crops could not be
harvested without the aid OF labor saving
machinery. For that matter, the seed
could not have been planted nor the
labor of cultivation been performed.
Improvements in farming in Great
Britain have been in different diree-
ton. They have consisted in develop
ing superior breeds of cattle, horses,
swine. and poultry; in introducing great
systems of drainage, and in the manu-
facture and application of fertilizers.
The changes in American agriculture
have been brought about through in
ventive talent and mechanical skill,
while those in British agriculture have
resulted from scientific investigations,
careful and long-continued experiments,
and patient, thorough work, directed by
the highest intelligence. We have
made the most money by our system of
farming, but the English have added to
the value of their lands. while we have
impoverished ours. When the time
comes that we no longer have any more
virgin soil to appropriate It's likely that
we shall find it necessary to adopt the
systems of farming that are pursued in
Great Britain,