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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1879-05-09

Subscnbed capital, for which the
stockholders are personally liza
bic. not YET called in s11 $50 900 90
UNITED STATES BRANCH.
@=. ASSETS.
Market
Par value. value
q. 8. govern ment bonds. 81 21a 900 s1277 996 90
GaSh on hand and III pankS. 86,4o1 80
Premiums In course OF collsction... 129s48 rs
Total assets In United States. 81 494, ,o4s o5
LIABILITIES
Total liabilities in United States :. 1881 1893 13
Surplus over all liabilities. ...,... s9l2 $50 %
INCOME,
Total income. Observation-Disclosures. s94o 942 GO
EXPENDITURES.
Total expenditures. res......,.-.e....... $676.77i 20
Surplus income $264.1 .168 81
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1879-05-09

Chew Jackson's best sweet navy tobacco. u
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1879-05-09

Net surplus over all liabilities. sg7s, s,o7s 10
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
BUSINESS NOTES.

PHnADELPHIA's produce merchants
report fair trade.
Ice factories are being built in many
of the Southern cities.
The boot and shoe trade of Boston is
unusually active for this stage OF the
season.
The coal product of the Schuylkill
region for the year thus far is 9,329,9OO
tons, against $50, AIS tons for the cor
responding period of last year-an in
crease of ALT, 4S2 tons.
The Cincinnati Times prints series
of interviews with the iron men of that
city. Some of them take rosy view
of the situation, but large number of
them are far from being satisfied.
The Philadelphia Bridge Works re-
Gently shipped ten iron truss bridges
from seven to fifteen feet in length,
built at their establishment, at the east
ern end of Pottstown, for the Caibai-
rien and Espiritu railroad, Cuba.
The Boston Traveller says: "The
demand for labor at the West has ma
terially reduced the volume of unem-
ployed labor here, while the demand
Tor our products to meet the wants of
the West is causing most of the New
England manufacturing corporations to
work on full time"
ACCORDING to the Biddeford (Me.)
Union, the large cotton factories at
that point are full of operatives, run
ming on full time and presumably max
ing fair profits. The machine shops
and foundries are hives of industry,
employing full forces, and turning out
large amount of machinery. The
shoe factories were never doing a
larger or more prosperous business than
at the present time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
A Midnight Duel.

The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Journal writes: Among
the many bloody duels on record as
having been fought by congressman
was one in which James jackson, of
Georgia-who had been and who was
afterward a United States Senator
was the challenged party. He was an
Englishman by birth, but he went to
Savannah when lad, studied law, was
leading Freemason, and fought gal
lantly in the Revolutionary war. He
killed Lieut.. Gov. Wells in 1880 In a
duel, and was engaged in several other
affairs of HONOR until he finally deter
mined to accept challenge on such
terms as would make it his last duel.
So he prescribed as the terms that each
party, armed with a double barreled
gun loaded with buckshot, and with
hunting knife, should row himself in
skiff to designated points on opposite
sides of the Savannah river. When
the city clock struck II, each should
row his skiff to small island in the
middle of the river, which was wooded
and covered with underbrush. On ar
irving at the island each was to moor his
skiff, stand by it for ten minutes, and
then go about on the island until the
meeting took place. The seconds wait
ed on the main land until after l
o'clock, when they heard three gun
shots and loud and angry cries. Then
all was still. At daylight, as had been
agreed upon. the seconds went to
the island, and found Jackson lying on
the ground, insensible from the loss of
blood, and his antagonist lying across
him, dead. Jackson recovered, but
would never relate his experience on
that night, nor was he ever challenged
again. He died in this city, while serv-
ing his second term as United States
Senator, March IS, 1906"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
POLITICAL POINTS

Ex-Congressran Henry w. Blair has
been elected United States Senator from New
Hampshire for six years from the 4th Of last
March, succeeding Mr.. Wadleigh
The California Republicans held their
State Convention at San Francisco on the 18th
of June George G. Perkins was nominated
for Governor on the first ballot
The Republican State Convention of
Wisconsin is called to meet at Madison July 90
The California Republican Conven-
ton met at San Francisco, June II, and nomi-
mated full ticket, with George G. Perkins for
Governor. The platform sustains the Presi-
dent in his use of the veto, and contains an
anti Chinese plank and q declaration in favor of
small holdings of land
The Democratic State Convention
of Maryland will occur Aug. z.
The State Central Committee of the
Wisconsin National Greenback party have de-
cided to hold their convention for the nomina-
ton of a State ticket in Watertown, Tuesday,
July Is
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
Mirror Photographs.

According to the Deutsche Allge-
meme he tung, German, named Karl
Steinbach, has made an important dis
covery in photography. After years of
study and experiment, he has succeed
ed in obtaining chemical composition,
by means of which mirror image may
be fixed and sold as a photograph
With this composition the mirror sur
face is painted, and the back part of the
mirror receives also coating of OIL
The mirror thus prepared is held be-
fore the person who is to be photo
graphed. The oil-coatng evaporates,
and the likeness of the person remains
in natural colors on the light surface.
The image, so fixed, is brought into
bath, and is exposed half an hour to
sunlight before delivery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
DoINGS IN CONGRESS.

The Senate was engaged in debating the
Army Appropriation bill on the 18th, and the
House spent the day in discussing the bill to pro
hibit political assessments. An effort was made
In the House to take mp the bill in relation to
lures, but the Republicans blocked business BY
declining to vote, thus leaving the House without
quorum.
The Senate was the scene OF long and hot
debate on the 18th, the Army bill constituting the
bone of contention. The debate eliminated In =
personal alteration between Messrs. Conkling and
Lamar, which for time produced considerable of
sensation about the Capitol. Mr.. Conkling de-
lvered a bitter speech. I'm which, referring to the
course of the Democrats in regard TO the
Appropriation bills, imputed to them bad faith.
Mr.. Lamar at the concius ion OF Mr.. Conklings
remarks. aud said that as Tar any animation of
bad faith to him was concerned, he had lived In
vain II he was not superior t. such charge from
such source. ut is not my purpose" he said,
" to indulge in personalities but will say TO the
senator that II he intended 20 intimate that any
tibg have done was not in good faith, pronounce
MS statement fasehood, which Irepel wuh all tho
nnmiugated cont mpt that feel for the author OF
IT." Nj. Conkling. who had been walking slowly
pack ana forth behind the benches advanced to his
seat aud said: Mr.. President, was diverted dur
ing the commencement of the remarks. the cul
minaiion OF which heard. from the member from
Mls'lssippi. III understand the membsr right he
inteHet 70 lmpute, and cid in plain and unparlia-
mtntary language impute, ~ me an intentional
misstatement. lPausing.l The Senator does not
disclaim thatf' Mr.. LAMAR will state what
int nded sir, so there can be no mistake
Tue presiding officer (Cockreilj called Mr..
amar To order, aud Mr.. Conkliug proce ded:
Niether am willing TO respond TO the mem
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN English Judge, who has continued
his observations on the bench for twen-
ty years or more, says the defendantsi In
breach of-promise cases have very rarely
well-developed foreheads.
FLOUR obtained by drying and pull
verifying bananas before maturity was
among the articles of last years Paris
Exhibition. 1t contained 66.1 per cent.
of starch and only 30 of azotized mat
ter. Very good brandy from the ripe
fruit was also shown. Banana trees
have the property of keeping the soil
moist around them, and have therefore
been planted in proximity to coffee
trees in Venezuela, where drought often
exists for months. As the country can
not consume all the fruit, it has begun
to export extensively.
THE hitherto despised, neglected and
apparently worthless pine straw has de-
veloped into new industry and an ar
ticle of export at Wilmington, N. O.
Over eight tons were shipped on one
steamer to New York last week, and the
mandatory requires fifty tons week.
1t is said that at the factory where it is
consumed it first undergoes sweating
process, by which an article of spirits is
obtained, which is used for medical
purposes, and that it is then manufact-
ured into paper, and also an article for
stuffiEg mattresses.
A NEW method of recording instru
ments has been invented by an Irish
gentleman. 1t consists in copying the
instrument by photography in minia-
ture, and converting the copies into
thin metallic sheets with indented let
tiers, from which enlarged copies can be
made to order. The same gentleman
has invented an ingenious process of in
dexing, too complicated to be described
here. 1t is wonder that photography
has not been Systematically resorted to
in this country for producing copies of
records.
THEATER tickets in ancient times
were In some instances of very odd de-
sign. In Rome O visitor purchased at
the Office slender little cane that he
carried in his hand and delivered to the
doorkeeper. For the highest-priced
seats this stick was of ivory; for the
cheapest, of bronze. Many of these
bronze canes have been found in Pom
peii, and there are some in the Museum
at Naples. They are very slender and
gracefully made, having at the tor
little dome, on which pigeon is
perched.
SLEEP has a most wonderful power,
often stronger than the will, as in the
case of the sleeping soldier, and mere
mighty than pain, as when sick persons
and tortured prisoners sleep in the
midst of their suffering. No torture, it
is said, has been found equal to the
prevention of sleep. The amount of
sleep needed differs according to the
constitution and habits. Big brains
and persons who perform much brain
labor need large amount of sleep.
Children need more sleep than grown
people, because construction is more
active than decay in their brains. On
the whole, however, people better not
sleep in meeting.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
HMOther ShiDtOn.o

Concerning Mother Symptoms Proph-
ecy," beginning
Carriages without horses shall go,
and ending
England shall at last admit a jew;
The world TO end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty
Texan" writes to the New York World
from Texas, to ask who was the author
and when was it published, and that
paper makes reply: This prophecy is
an old friend of ours. 1t appeared in
the edition of Mother Shipton's proph-
ecies issued by Mr.. Charles Hindley, of
Brighton. in 1862, book purporting to
be an exact reprint of chap-book YER
sion issued in 1641, but really as old as
l44S. 1t did not take long to expose
the fraud. The earliest edition to be
found in the British Museum proved to
be of 1641 , and neither that nor any of
the later ones contained line of any
importan e, being a vague tumble of
local predictions, and not long after
Mr.. Hindley confessed that he had fab
ricated the prophecy" of which our
correspondent speaks, and ten others,
so as to make his book sell.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
Church Pews.

The discomfort of church pews is
commented upon by the Christian at
Work, which says: Concerning pews
and chairs, why is it that modern inven-
ton fails to furnish even comfortable
pew or chair? The bench of the or
binary church pew is fourteen inches
wide, whereas it should be eighteen
inches; then it is placed on a straight
level, perpendicular to the back; but
mankind are not constructed in this
way, and pews, to be comfortable, should
conform to human aDatOmy-the seat
should slope downward toward the
back, making fall of full three inches,
while the back should incline away
from q vertical line fully four inches at
the top, and the distance between the
pews should never be less than three
feet"
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ing on the Metropolitan elevated railway at
Franklin Street station, in West Broadway,
New York The uptown train was delayed
there for q short time. and another train ran
into it. The hind carriage of the first train and
the engine of the second train were badly
wrecked.
West.
Gen. Crooks recent visit to the
frontier military posts has satisfied him that
there is no danger of an Indian war this sum-
mer.
The Illinois Legislature lately passed
a bill aimed at the Socialists, taking away the
right of military companies not organized un-
der the State law to parade with arms. This
law was to take effect July 1. On Sunday,
June %, such Q company, called the Bohemian
Sharpshooters, attended Q picnic at Chicago,
and in disturbance which arose, made bay
onet charge upon some outsiders who were an
noying the picnickers, and discharged their
pieces into the crowd, firing three volleys, in
juring number of persons seriously, and some
fatally. A squad Of police arrived on the scene,
and arrested the Bohemians who were threat
ened with severe punishment by large crowd
which had gathered.
Investigation of the reports concern
ing cattle disease III Colorado have proved that
there was needless alarm, no new cases having
been developed for some time previous to the
examination
South.
Revenue officers and moonshiners
met recently near Gainesville, Ga. Three stills
were found in a valley, and two of them were
destroyed. The moonshiners rallied to make a
stand at the last still. The revenue men hailed
it, and were met with volley, but succeeded in
dislodging the distillers, laying one of them
with dangerous wound and capturing two
more
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.


Frequent arrivals of vessels from
Hayti, infected with yellow fever, excite good
deal of apprehension in New York The sani-
tary authorities admit that there is danger Of
the pestilence obtaining foothold in the city
nnless rigid quarantine is enforced.
Evan Rice, ex-cashier of the National
Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine del },
pleaded guilty to embezzlement and false en-
tries, and was sentenced to five years impris-
onment
Three hundred puddlers and helpers
in the Allentown Pa.) Rolling Mills have struck
for an advance of cents head The mills
stopped work.
The steamship Italy, when leaving
New York for Liverpool, ran into the German
chip Barbarossa, which was at anchor in the
bay, sinking her. While the Italy was backing
from the wreck she and the steamship Canada,
for London. came in collision. The Canada was
obliged to return to her dock. The Italy pro-
ceeded to sea.
By the explosion of boiler at an
iron mine near Emsns, Pa, FIVE men were
killed and four wounded.
The mystery which has surrounded
the killing of Mrs. DeForest Hull, in New York,
has been cleared up by the arrest OF the muir
derer in Boston The capture was brought
about by negro man selling to a pawnbroker
In the latter city cameo set, and at the same
time exhibiting a gold watch. Two days later
a description of the jewelry stolen from the
Hull residence was received, and the SGT was
later identified by two friends of the murdered
woman, who came from New York for the pur-
pose Meantime the man had disappeared.
but the description of Chastine Cox. a
negro who formerly lived opposite Hulps
residence, was sent on, which described him
pretty well az nearly as the pawnbroker re-
membered him. The city had been watched
night and day by Boston detectives, but the
game was finally nabbed by newspaper
man, who suspected a negro whom he saw on
the street. followed him to a church, and then
informed the police, who arrested him. Cox
was found TO have Mrs Hulrs watch, and made
free confession, in which he stated that. bav.
ing lived opposite the Hull mansion and been
occasionally employed there, he knew the place
and the habits Of the inmates. He entered the
house 10 rob, but Mrs. Hull awaking, he put
his hand over her mouth until she was quiet.
and then tied her in the way she was found.
She revived again, when he gagged her with
the sheet, and discovered that he had overdone
the work, and that che was not breathing.
Then he left the house, and had been skulking
ever since.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has sustained the decision of the lower court in
the case OF Pete Manners and john O'Neill,
Molly Maguires, convicted in Northumberland
county and sentenced TO be hanged for the
murder of Coroner Hesser in 1874.
A collision occurred the other even
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decision of competent tribunal against their
validity. The effect of this bill is to deprive
the Executive Department Of the Government
of the means to execute the laws which are not
repealed which have not been declared invalid,
and which il is, therefore, the duty OF the Ex-
ecutive and of every other department OF the
Government to obey and to enforce.
have In my former messages on this SUD
feet expressed Willingness to concur in suita-
bic amendments for the Improvement OF the
election laws, but cannot consent to their alb
solute and entire repeal, and l cannot approve
legislation which seeks toprevent their enforce
ment RUTHERFORD b. HAYES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, June u, 1879.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS oLEANlNGs.

The proceedings and findings of the
court martial in the case of Col d. s. Stanley
and Col W. B. Hazen, of which Gen. Hancock
was President, have been made public The
court found Stanley guilty of conduct to the
prejudice of good order and military discipline,
and sentenced him tc be admonished in general
orders by the General of the Army.
The President has approved the Joint
resolution authorizing a bridge to be built
across Detroit river, near Detroit
Recent deaths: Rev. Samuel Newall
for eighteen years pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Paris, Ill Hon. Richard Metheany,
for many years Mayor of Lima, Ohio; Luther
IL. Fiske, former owner and late manager Of
Fiske's Opera House, Valparaiso, Ind.
Information has reached the secret-service
division of the Treasury Department that new
counterfeit s. legal-tender note has made its
appearance in Western New York. 1t is of the
series of 1875, and bears the names Of Allison,
Register, and Wyman, Treasurer. 1t is exc
cuted on printed imitation fiber paper, which is
lighter than the genuine Bankers pronounce
1t dangerous counterfeit.
d. l.. Moody will conduct revival
services in Cleveland, Ohio, in October
The six distillers known as the Chi
cago first batch " have at last received full
and unconditional pardon of all assessments,
penalties, damages or claims of the United
States against them, President Hayes having
signed the document which sets them free
Joseph Roelle, Anton Junker, Burton NJ. Lord
Walter W. Oliver, James Conner and Roswell
c. Mersereau are the fortunates, and their as
sistance as witnesses for the Government in
the whisky prosecutions is cited as having
earned for them an equitable right to pardon.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-27
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS

The Receivers office, in Cherson,
Southern Russia, was undermined and robbed
of a million and half of rubles.
Prof. Johann Karl Frederick Rosen-
cranz. the eminent German philosopher, is
dead.
Disastrous floods are reported in
Poland
Rome dispatches report violent earth
quakes in the vicinity Of Aci, Italy. Several
persons were killed, and the inhabitants Of the
district were fleeing en- masse
A Cape Town dispatch says the young
Prince Imperial of France, who went to South
Africa to fight the Zulus, has been killed. He
was one of party of officers who left Col
Woods camp to reconnoiter. The party dis
mounted in a meale field, when the enemy
crept upon them and assegaied them, killing
the Prince and five others, and wounding
fteen.
The French Minister of Marine has
decided to send three cruisers to the Pacific
ocean to protect French subjects in Chill and
Peru.
A Socialist conspiracy has been de-
tected at San Miguel, in Spain.
kilograms from Cairo report that the
English and French Consuls General have de-
manded the abdication of the Khedive of Egypt
in favor of his son, Prince Mohammed Tewpik.
The Khedive replied that when his creditors
were paid he would abdicate.
The London walking match was won
by Weston, the American pedestrian, who foot
ed $50 miles in five minutes less than six days,
beating all former records. and winning the
lorg distance championship. Five thousand
persons witnessed the finish.
The French Government has sub
mtted to the Chambers a bill regulating the
details of the return of the Chambers TO Paris.
1t fixes the first meeting Of the Legislature in
Paris the Sd Of November.
The German Parliament has passed
the bill granting q constitution for Alsace-
Lorraine.
A correspondent at Berlin reports
tina. there were $50 CONGREGATIONS in Russia
during the month of May, occasioning loss Of
100000 rubles
The Canadian Government has re-
scinded the permission given for American
militia to visit the Dominion.
The Bonapartist Deputies in the
French Assembly have decided that the cause
of the empire must be maintained, notwith-
standing the death of the late Emperor's son.
The British court has gone into mourning for
the young Prince Imperial
Queen Victoria has visited ex-Em-
press Eugene at Chiselhurst
The private sculling trial between
Frederick A. Plaisted, of New York, and Will
iam Nicholson, of Stockton, took place on the
Tyne, and Plaisted was badly defeated.
A Paris dispatch says Ferdinand de
Lesseps, in lecture at Amiens, stated that the
first sod of the Panama caual would be turned
Jan. /, 1880, and that with 10000 navvies, in
Guiding some Chinese and 1900 Brazilian ne
groes, the work would be completed in eight
years
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The legal difficulty discovered by the
Senate Judiciary Committee in the way of con-
firming the appointment of Secretary McCrary
to an Office which will not be vacant for nine
or ten weeks induced the President to send q
brief message Withdrawing the nomination.
A German named Kemmler, at Hol-
yoke, Mass, killed his three children, by shoot
ing, in order to save them, as he said, from the
misfortunes of lifa
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Or eleven female candidates who pre-
scented themselves for the first examina-
ton for the degrees of the University of
London, six were placed in the honors
division, four were declared entitled to
exhibition, and one was second in the
whole list of candidates. The standard
of the London University is very high
one.
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WANTED His MULE.-Tbe Carlisle

WANTED His MULE.-The Carlisle
(Ky) Mercury says: A gentleman from
Rowan county, named Stewart, went to
the Methodist Church last Sunday and
sat with bis feet upon the benches, and
Just before the preacher went into the
pulpit he arose and said: Say, did any
OF you see stray black mule with his
head tied to his feet If he hasn't got it
loose yet?"
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A PHILADELPHIA litigant visited
every Juror at home while the trial was
in progress, just to argue the matter
quietly" He says that he meant no
harm.
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FROM 10000 to 10000 persons per-
ished from cholera in India, recently,
while returning from religious fair.