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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-17

The Secretary of the Treasury relieves the
minds of the Greenbacker5 by denying that
he has directed discrimination against the
silver dollar at the Treasury Department In
certain cases The silver dollars are abSo-
lutely legal tenders and are paid out when
desired, and received when presented, exact
" on the same terms as gold. @M%#
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-17
AUCTION SALES.

ew Jaeksop's best sweet navy tobacco =.
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MOS ETAKY.
OFFICE OF NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT.
Tuesday Evening. eeptember Is. 1879.

NEW ORLEANS CLEARINGHOUSE.
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he has directed discrimination against the
silver dollar at the Treasury Department In
certain cases. The silver dollars are abso-
lutely legal tenders, and are paid out when
desired and received when presented, exact
ly On the same terms as gold.
The Austin Statesman says the civil courts
OF Texas and their Incidents cost the people
Of the State, 1t ID estimated, S5.000,0O0 annu-
ally, and they do not collect and pay over to
plaintiffs one-fftieth part OF that sum- That Is
hardly as fair thing as that OF the old pro-
bate Judge in the days OF the republic, who
said he always allowed the heirs half an es-
tate. 5m
The Missouri river war OF rates between st.
Louis and Chicago resulted In enormous
losses to all the lines, and Commissioner
Midgely's estimate Of the cost places 1t not
less than 81, 100000 Dividends have been lost
to stockholders In the case OF some OF the
roads and have been reduced In others, and
the bonded securities Of the companies have
been threatened with serious Impairment.
Still bonds and stock Doomed" right ahead
through the whole of the war.
It Is Of course just that railroads should re-
ceive larger percentage per mile for local
freight than for through freight, but local
traffics can be made entirely too high. The
rnillers Of Rochester, N. Y, are making &C.
rious complaints that the railroads are ruin.
ing them by making rates SO low to the
millers In Minnesota that they cannot com
pete with them, the local rate to New York
from Rochester being about 40 per cent more
than the through rate And while these New
York milIers are complaining OF high rates
the Minnesota milers have like claim u
make.
The receipt Of S9,512o5o In specie at NeV
York during the past week shows an unprece
dented influx Of precious metals to this coun
try. The amount Of specie actually received
at the port OF New York during the f1v
weeks ending Ga the sixth instant wa
S59G6, 437, to which add the S9,5l2,0 5o re
ceived since, and we have SIS 1881. Add t.
this the S5,G90,000 announced by telegraph Z
nave left France for New York On the thir
teenth instant. and we have the huge sum 9
S2l ,018, 537 as the specie receipts IN this coun
try from Europe for about seven weeks, Q
an average rate of $4,000, 900 per week. Tn
movement has thus far exceeded anything
ever before known In the history OF thi
country, the largest excess OF specie import
over exports il any one year having bee
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
The Chaplain's Innocent Hints.

Some time ago a prisoner named
Reilly escaped from the eastern peni-
tentiary by c~oncealing himself under
the body Of a wagon which brought sup
plies to the institution. Before the We
hicle reached Market street Reilly
snatched a cape from O lady, was appre-
hended and sent to Moyamensing prison.
Here he was visited by one of the officials
connected with the p%enitentiary.
"Well, Reilly" said the officer,
"what did you run away for9"
"Don't blame me; put it on the man
who got up the scheme, and who told
me to do it." wa the reply.
"Who was that? ?" was the question.
"Why, the chaplain" quoth Reilly.
essay no more; I will bring the chap
lain" said the official.
In due time the chaplain, who is q
good and holy man, and who was horror
stricken at the charge, confronted
Reilly. .
SHOW, Reilly, here is the chaplain"
said the official. "Chaplain, Reilly
charges you with encouraging him to
get out of prison." added the official.
$50 you did," answered Reilly, COM
~placently.
"It is not so, you william =! You are
not telling the truth, and you know It'll
spoke up the chaplain.
"Hold on !" cried Reilly. "The last
time you saw me you said: Reilly,
watch and pray didn't you2"
eyes," added the chaplain.
"Well, I did watch, and I prayed, and
I prayed and watched, and the first an
swer that came to my prayers was that
wagon, and I slid out on it," was Reil-
ly's answer.
The chaplain acknowledged Reilly
caught him, only lie meant for the con-
vict to watch and pray in another direc-
ton .-PhiladelphiG Record.
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Frightened Into Saving Her Own Life.

*+* Michael Manning, a Waterman
in the employ of the steamship com.
pany, heard the splash, and Selling a
boathook rushed to the spot, and bid
ding the drowning man take hold of il
kept him above the water until assist
ance came to him, when the drenched
Jerseyman was hauled out and taken to
the central station. This is the thir-
teenth trophy for the faithful watch
man, who in sixteen years of service has
saved thirteen lives from death by
drowning. without counting my own
boy, a lad six years of age," added
Michael, "who came down here to stop
all night with me. I don't count him.
I remember a case that happened about
five years ago, when the women used to
wear large hoop-skirts. A woman came
down Chestnut street and just jumped
right into the water. I rushed to the
wharf-log and reached u hoathook to
her and told her to grab hold of it, but
be the powers, she wouldn't do it. EFF
you don't tax hould the hook I'll bate
you over the hid wild it, says I to
brighten her, and she took hold of it.
Then I got down on to a raft, hollering
for help all the time, and pulled her
near enough to me to get hold Of her,
when she caught me wrist in her teeth
and held me 80 tight I couldn't get
away. By this time an officer got there,
and he hit her a belt in the jaw which
made her let 60 of her hold. She said
she wanted to be let alone that she
was going to drown herself. Git out
of this, you blackguard, says I; you
are not going to drown yourself here );
and We pulled her out and the officers
took her off. Yes, sir ; it's as true as
I'm telling you the man last night
makes thirteen I've saved from drown
ing" concluded Michael. - Philadel-
Min Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
HOW Candies are Made.

It is an easy matter to drop a luscious
chocolate cream or a crystal candy into
ones mouth, but the process by which
the morsel is produced is not so small a
matter. Take a chocolate cream, for
instance. First, q half barrel of sugar
is put into q caldron with a little
water and placed ove a slow fire until
it assumes a paste.like consistency.
Then it is put on a marble slab and
worked like butter until it is smooth
and plastic. That paste forms the basis
of ali cream candies. The favoring is
put in afterward-vanilla, orange, lem
on, strawberry, pineapple, anything, in
fact, that may be desired. The choco.
late used comes in huge cakes, is melt
ed, and the creams covered with it by
dipping them in rapidly.
The crystalizing of candies requires
more work, and it is in this that es-
pecially-prepared apparatus is used.
First, the form of the candy is secured
by holdings in Underground starch.
Then the candy, favored and prepared
according to taste, is reduced to a strip
and poured in the molds, and placed in
a closet to cool slowly. These closets
are kept at a certain temperature, and it
requires from three hours to several
days to bring the candy to the right
consistency. When it is taken out the
starch is removed with a brush, and the
candies are ready for sale. Each kind
requires a different mode of treatment,
and the work occupies the entire time of
a professor of confectionery" and
four assistants to supply the demand.
Candies may be bought of large whole
sale manufacturers as cheaply as they
are made by smaller dealers, but
greater purity and freshness are obtain
ed by manufacturing them, and the fla
voring and the supply can be regulated
to meet the demand.-Newark en-. ~
Advertiser,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
Good Advice to Young Men.

Young men, be busy. Don't throw
away the precious moments of vigorous
youth. Don't loiter about the streets
in idleness. Don't be out at night; for
if you are vice will overtake you. The
first little step in the path Of error is the
biggest, longest and most fatal step OF
of all of them. Stay at home with your
parents and books. Look for something
to do; there is plenty of it everywhere
if you will but take hold.
It is your duty to be industrious and
energetic. Life was not given you for
idle pleasure; it was given you that you
might improve yourself, glorify God,
bless your fellow.men with good ex-
amples as we'll as good deeds. Remem-
Der that the errors of to-day can never
be corrected. The little fountain that
pushes out of the mountain top and
hurries on to the great ocean cannot 60
back to it's source and retrace its steps.
Like that little fountain you are leaping
down the hill of time to the great ocean
of eternity. All along the way of life
there stands a sentinel on either side,
above and below, who records your
every thought, word and deed. That
these reports may be good, make haste
to improve every moment of life; make
haste to be just, honest, truthful and
honorable in all things. Go at it now.
This is the time. This is the most i'm
portant moment of them all, because it
will be lost if not used now.-Ffanklin
(Kv,) Patriot.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
. Wildcat Disperses an Audience.

A Gold Hill. (Nev.) paper gives this
account OF q fight that was advertised to
take place between q bulldog named
Turk and a wildcat in a local theater :
The fight was to be followed by a grand
clio on the stage. It was an immense
bill, and it drew. In due time the cat
was introduced upon the stage and was
Immediately followed by Turk /; but at
the first kiss of the dog the cat took to
the audience, and the olio, instead of
being performed by the troupe, was
done by the spectators. tooth and toe.
nail accompaniment. The first bound of
the cat took it upon the piano of the
orchestra. The pawer of ivory left the
swelling strain unfinished, and turned a
back handspring over among the audi
ence. The next leap of the "varmint" "
was at the c%ontrabass, and both player
and instrument went down instanter
with broken heads. The cat fingered
lovingly q moment among the strings as
if to test their quality, and then sprang
out among the audience. Then began
an olio in dead earnest, but not the one
advertised, although the fight was over.
Il consisted of ground and lofty tum.
bling, leap.frog, and such.like feats of
de1terity, all having q single object-to
amuse the audience by a glimpse OF sum
light out of doors and under the free
light of heaven once more 1t was per-
fectly satisfactory as a whole, and each
player did his best. Time-shortest on
reeord-I.69. Everything went off well,
especially the audience. The cat was
found a few moments later looking out
of one of the boxes and waiting for an
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
Mule Kicks q Can OF NitrO.Glycerine

There was q disastrous and fatal ex-
plosion of nitro. glycerine and blasting
powder at darlington, Ky, a mining
town fifty miles south Of Evansville, one
night not long ago. The st. Bernard
coal company, in whose mines tho e1-
plosion occurred, have Of late begun to
use a small quantity of nitro-glycerine
with powder for blasting purposes. On
the night in question ar old colored
man was ordered to carry some nitro.
glycerine. He went to the magazine,
and, after getting a supply, LETT a can OF
it sitting by the car-track till he could
deliver the charge. While gone a team
of empty cars came by, drawn by two
mules. One of the mules kicked the
can of explosive matter, which instantly
exploded, blowing mules, cars and the
colored driver into atoms, and filling
the passage with debris and rubbish OF
all kinds from the roof. Two seconds
later the blasting powder stored in the
adjoining room exploded with terrific
force. The shocks were distinctly felt
at Madisonville, Ky. three miles distant,
and were attributed to an earthquake.
The widest confusion prevailed in Earl
ington, as it was supposed to be an e1-
plosion OF Are.damp, and there were
eighty men in the chambers beyond
reach. The whole city turned out, and
affrighted and weeping miners wives,
mothers and children made a scene
which beggars description. The popu.
lation gathered at the mouth Of the pit
and made various attempts to enter, but
the volumes Of smoke that rolled out
prevented, and for an hour the most
agonizing suspense prevailed. BY that
time tho miners began to emerge, as the
smoke decreased in volume, and the safe
ty of all was announced. Not one was
injured, though all sustained some ner-
vous shock. The only deaths were those
of the driver and the mules.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
Story Of a Brooch.

There is q brooch in the window of
one of our best jewellers, writes a Paris
correspondent, to which a curious tale
is attached. This breastpin is mounted
with great art, and set with gems. 1t is
divided in four parts, and shows four
twisted, bent and blunt ordinary pins
under a transparent enamel. Where
we're these four found? What were
they used for? Did they hold a fchu,
shawl or fower2 The poetry of the
brooch had to be looked into, and the
following has been ascertained: A
foreign count was, years ago, hurried
one night out of bed and arrested for q
political offense. Ere his dreams had
been quite forgotten, he was dressed by
those who had spied cut his abode, and
dragged to prison. It happened to be
rather a dark one. The day after this
occurrence he began to think how ter
ribie it would be to live long in such a
location with nothing to do, and, as he
thought, he fumbled about his coat
pockets. While doing so he discovered
four pins which he had stuck in the
lining of one of his frock tails in case
he might require one. He held the four
for some moments, then flung them
right and left about his narrow cell. 1t
was a quiet one; but, listen with all the
intensity he could, there was no way OF
knowing where they had fallen. He
therefore went down On all tours and
carefully felt about, sprawling in every
direction until he had recovered them.
Then he got up and recommended scat
tering them for another exciting hunt.
Well, readers, this he did six and seven
times q day, and when he wau sleepless,
for six long years. Napoleon III. died,
then Victor Emanuel, and the count was
set at liberty. The four pins were kept,
and q comtesse is to wear the brooch
they are enshrined in. This story only
teaches that all must take al interest in
life, and the most exciting the best un-
der the pressure Of grief. The comte
has related that had he lost one of his
four pins he could not have endured
captivity. Each time he flung them
about he fancied they were quite lost,
and the ardor with which he crawled
over his nude floor was the equal to that
of the chase. Books, papers and pens
were denied him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
A Sea Slug that Restores Youth.

Rachel Levison, otherwise Nine.
Rachel, is, it may be assumed, too much
absorbed in the interesting occupation
of picking oakum, making coirmats, or
wringing out clothes in the prison laun-
dry, to devote her attention to her once
favorite pursuit of making ladies "beau-
tiful for ever" Indeed, were she so
inclined to revert to her favorite study,
the governor of the establishment in
which the venerable matron is spending
her period of seclusion from I" the mad
ding crowd" might perhaps object to her
experimentalizing on the ~countenances
of her fellow prisoners, or on those of
the female wardens. Still, there are
plenty of lady Cagliostros at large, and
these occult dealers in elixirs and cos
metics will learn with much interest that
there exists a simple and ef1cacIous ros-
trum possessing the specific %propertyof
making aged people not only look
young, but of positively endowing them
with renewed youth, as the tabled Fon-
tame de Jouvence was said to do. The
marvellous specific is the large sea slug
known as 6eche dc mer, q mollusc about
the size of cucumber, which is fshed
for in very deep waters among the rocks
off some islands in the Pacific. The ex-
traordinary virtues of this slug were
mentioned q few days since, in a trial at
law, by Nj. Wills, Q. O., who inciden-
tally andhumorously observed that 5eche
de mer was highly priced in China, not
only as q delicacy for the table, but for
its reiuvenescent properties. He had
seen it, pursued Mr.. Wills, but his
friend Mr.. Hill had tasted it, and that
might account for the fact that, although
MI. Hill was his senior at the bar. he
looked 80 much younger than he Mr..
Wills did. This, as bar humor goes,
may be held as q very good joke; but
the. question before us is how to supply
the London markets with sea slugs capa-
BILE of making old people young. If a
cargo of beche de mer could only be
OF the London docks, baskets Of
the youth-giving edible should at nee
be forwarded to all the aged celebrities
of the day, and all the old ladies who
were once famous beauties. It may, in
conclusion, just be limited that snail
soup is a very old-fashionea English
remedy for consumption, and that the
supernatural qualities ascribed to sea
in China may be only an imaginative
exaggeration of the supposed efficacy of
the 6eche de mer in pulmonary com
plants. London Telegraph.
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Thieves entered the cashier's office Of the
government printing Office and carried OF
about e10, 900 put up In envelopes.
The aoting secretary of the treasury has is-
sued the seventy-seventh call for the redemp-
ton Of $40 bonds OF 1886, oonsols OF 1857 ;
principal and interest to be paid after the
fourth Of April next.
The United States supreme court has de-
cided that Congress has a right to legislate
against polygamy in Utah
Foreign News.
Tie Japanese steamer tocashema Mara,
running between Osaka and Deva, was totally
destroyed by the explosion Of q quantity Of
gunpowder among her cargo, and eighty-three
persons we're drowned.
Much damage has been caused by heavy
foods in England and Scotland.
A great national exhibition will be held in
Moscow in 1880. in honor OF the twenty-6fth an
niversary Of the czar's accession to the throne.
A thirty. eight ton gun burst during prac-
tice on the British man-of-war T%hunderer, at
Ismid, killing seven men and wounding forty.
The steamer State Of Louisiana, from Glas-
cow for New York, which went ashore in Tough
Larne some weeks ago, has gone to pieces.
The failure of the Cornish bank, Of Truro,
Cornwall, has caused great CONSERVATION in
England, as the suspension will prove disas-
trous to the traders Of West Cornwall and the
Cornwall miners. The banks liabilities are
given at over s5, 900, 900.
Juan Moncasi, who fred upon the king Of
Spain at Madrid, last October, WAS officially
strangled by the garrote In the Spanish capital,
in presence Of an immense number Of specta-
tors. he was twenty-five years old, and leaves
q wife and one child.
At q banquet given to General Grant in
Dublin, he is reported as having made the
longest speech in his life.
The elections for senators in France have
resulted In a great victory for the republicans.
All the retiring republican senator's we're re-
elected, while the places Of all but fourteen OF
the retiring conservatives have also been filled
by republicans, giving that party q majority OF
hfty-six in the senate.
Suleiman Pacha, q leading Turkish general,
has been DE- graded and e1iled for life on account
of his conduct during the war with Russia, and
has appealed to the sultan for pardon.
Havana is to have an agricultural bank.
The plague has been raging with extreme
virulence in southeastern Russia, causing many
deaths. The disease is sHid to have been in
troduced from Turkey by returning Cossacks
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
WintariSmS,

"I tumble" as the boy said when he
let 60 of a sleigh.
"That was a cracking time" remark
ed another as he was whipped off.
GA hind hold is q safe hold" is the
motto OF every twelve-year.old.
81 bob for a ride when I go for a
bob," explained a young philosopher as
he pulled down his cap.
81 allus like to spread myself" OBJ
served the youth as he put a foot on
either runner.
"Soon's the ice gifts a foot thicker
then I'll have a foot less further to fall"
he unused as he got up from the last one.
1t takes only one word to express it:
"Gimmeahitchmister ?"
"Them wet feet cum from gittin' SO
much snow in my ear" explained the
six-year old as he was taken to do.
81 sec the snow-drift of them re-
marks" yelled the lad as he was buried
ont of sight.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-01-22
A Queer Duel.

The recent grotesque duel between
Gambetta and Fourtou has brought to
mind other queer duels fought by
Frenchmen, some of which are re-
hearsed in the Paris journals. One Of
the queerest was fought in 1870, be-
tween Cazales and Barnave. In the
assembly, the former in an eloquent
speech, called the left "brigands."
The latter replied that he could take no
notice of a collective insult, but if it was
personally applied he would feel bound
to notice it. Of course Cazales grati6ed
Barnave; but the matter was arranged
by common friends. The next morning,
however, Cazales called with Saint 81
mon upon Barnave, saying: 81 am very
sorry, but the ladies m unwilling we
should be at peace" 81 had expected
as MUCH" was the laconic reply.
"When, where, and how9" SAT the
Bots, in an hour, with pistols" Cazales
insisted that his antagonist should fire
first. Barnave refused, because the
%provocation mentioned by Cazales had
not been intentional. They threw dice,
at which Cazales said he had no luck.
Barnave won; fred at thirteen PAGES,
and missed. Twice Cazales' pistol
missed fire. "Pardon me for keeping
you waiting" he said, and his adversary
reioined: II am here to wait" When
he had missed his man the third time,
his second, Charles de Lambeth, wanted
the affair stopped, but Saint Simon was
unwilling. Meanwhile the combatants
we're walking about arm-in-arm, talking
pleasantly together. 81 should be very
sorry to kill you," remarked Cazales;
"but you are greatly in my way in the
assembly. Let me disable you from de-
batting for the present." "You are
more generous than I am" responded
BarnaVe, Gin wishing to let me off
easily. You are the main support of
your party; my party would hardly feel
my loss" Again Barnave won the toss,
and his adversary fell, shot in the fore.
head, with the words: "This is what I
came here for" His cooked hat had,
however, broken the force of the bullet.
The surgeon soon pronounced the wound
not serious, which Cazales corroborated,
adding: "And 10 the ass opened his
mouth and spake." He went home in
Lambeth's carriage, profered as more
comfortable than Saint Simon's; and in
a few weeks the combatants dined to-
gether, and spoke of their duel as a de-
lightful little recreation.