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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-23

In the New York World OF the nineteenth
instant there are several columns containing
general review OF the business affairs of the
country, from which we take the following
Yale 4 Bowling, Of New Orleans have a
representative at No. Sc Worth street who re-
ports: THE situation In Louisiana Is very
hopeful, and business this spring has been
better than for tine past eight years; and this,
too notwithstanding the quarantine Of two
months To which we were subjected last fall,
which OF course hurt us very much. / have
no reason, however, TO fear for the future and
all the departments of business within our ex
perence at TIC South are III healthier con
dition than for long time. Collections
are easy and people are paying their debts,
whien Is good sign. The Louisiana State
debt and its city debt Of New Orleans are
some stumbling blocks in the way to per
will be adjusted so that the creditors will not
lose anything. All the merchants and bust
ness men of Louisiana are in favor of course
of paying the debt in full but the State Is an
agricultural one and the country people hold
the power. II we are not visited by yellow
fever this year to an extent which will make
quarantine necessary there is no doubt at
ali that next year will see an era of prosper
ity to which the State has been stranger
How BUSINESS LooKs.-The revival which
Is now beginning slowly to appearin business
makes itself, perhaps, most apparent IN the
iron industry. From all parts OF the country
10 which they are numerous we hear reports
Of healthful state OF activity In the foam
dries, and the promise that the year is to be
one favorable to the trade. The starting up
OF this industry, which supplies the means
and contrivances on which nearly all branches
OF manufacture 90 largely depend, - an en-
couraging indication that the wheels OF our
factories are again turning with rapidlty.
The shoe and leather industry OF Massa-
chusetts is also quckening. and trade IN Bos-
ton takes on hveler appearance Ia conse-
quence. The low prices Of cotton and wool
favor the manufacturers OF textile fabrics
but the extraordinary great decline in the
value of their products during the last two
years makes profits small and the dangers Of
the business great, and some Of the largest
companies have been obliged to pass their
dividends
Manufacturing, as whole, however, shows
decided Improvement; and the growing
reliance Of the country on home productions
% the neglect OF foreign fabrics and manu-
lectures, and the increasing, II still compare
pvely small expectation OF our goods are
hopeful signs.
It cannot, however, be denied that the re-
cent rapid and unparalleled success 10 placing
ne government per cents furnishes an lndl-
catfon which does not point toward any very
great and widespread revival of business en-
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-23

I'm weary Of the food eat. Try shadines
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-23

Reed Gilt Edge Tonic is wholesome stimu
ant and its quality Is guaranteed.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-23

rect transcript from the books of the Company.
PAUL FOURCHY, President.
q. ". MORT, Secretary.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of Orleans, City OF New Orleans.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the tenth
day OF June. 1878. JAMES FAHEH.
Notary Public.
1t meeting OF the Board OF Directors. held
on the tenth day Of June, 1873. 1t Was resols ed
to declare cash dividend OF twenty per cent on
the net earned participating premiums for the
year ending May 81. 1878. payable on the third
Monday OF July next
Also. to pay to the Stockholders. on demand
interest at the rate of FIVE per cent Der annr m
on their stock
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-23

Portable gas IL sold and delivered IN Eng
land like milk. People in the country and
villages receive their gas in copper vessels
from the city, and the German railroads are
lighted In similar manner. Thia method
derives much of its popularity from the fact
that 1t dispenses with the erratlc and de-
nrared meter.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-23

The shreveport Times of Saturday last
saws. "Jbe reports from the river planta-
tions. above and below, are highly gratifying.
The late rain was pretty general and proved
of incalculable advantage. The hail storm
Injured only few places and those In the Inn
mediate vicinity of the CITY,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

THE "wild man" of Yolo and Colusa
was again seen by e party Of hunters in
the foothills back Of Dunnigan last Thurs
day. He made bold this time to con.
front the party and ask for some tobacco,
which was given b i'm. He refused 10
answer any questions, and when he re-
ceived the tobacco started off into the
brush. His paraphernala was very scant,
consisting of simply breech clout. He
appeared to be man of about 35 or 40
years Of age, had n long, shaggy beard,
VIII ich looked as though It had not under
gone barber's siege for several years.
His hair was exceedingly long and irreg>
uar in length, and his body was sum
burnt to copper complexion and in
many portions was covered with thick
growth of hair. He was totally dnarmed
VII yen, although he has been seen
with firearms on former occasions.
People in the neigh borhood say he obtains
food by robbing sheephefders cabins in
the vicinity. No one has ever been able
10 learn his name or any port ion of his
history. The supposition is, however,
that he was formerly fugitive from jus
tice, and has become so accustomed to
that mode of living that it has become
second nature to him. He is apparently
harmless and no one in the ne eighborhood
seems to seriously object to his running at
aarge.- Woodland Democrat.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

WONDERFUL The most remarkable
invention of this or any other age is duly
chroniced by the Columbus (Ohio) Dis
patch. 1t is based upon electrical proper
ties of the fur in cats. For generating n
powerful current, the cats are securely
tied tail to tail in pairs, and by the loo p
thus formed they are suspended from a
heavy insulated copper rod that passes
longitudinally through the cage, TO the
ends of which are attached the telegraph
or telephone lines. With battery Of
128 cats the inventor succeeded in gener-
ating a current so strong that it instantly
pclarized all the lightning srresters and
demagnetized all the switch boards on The
way to Omaha. The operators all along
the line were terror stricken, and rushed
from their Offices. Eighteen hundred and
nine glass insulators were broken and as
many poles shattered, as if by lightning.
A great deal more damage would doubt
less have resulted if the copper rod over
which the battery was suspended had not
suddenly become red hot and burned the
tails off the cats and let them drop.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
WEDNESDAY, the 9Th day of No.
Vember, A. ID. 1879,

at o'clock p. NJ. at the Court House door
in the wnof Weaverville, III the County
ot Trinity, State Of California, all the
right, title, interest and Estate of the sa id
William McElvaney ut the time of his
death, and All the right, title and interest
that the said Estate has, ny operation of
law or otherwise, acquired other than or
in addition to TINT OF the said William
Nc Evanry, vt the time of his death, in
and to all the following named and de-
scribed Real Estate situate. lying and be-
ing in the County Of Trinity, State Of
California, to wit:
The one undivided one-half Of that GER
tain Placer Mine, situated in Cox's Bar
Mining District, known a. the Currey
Placer Mine, continuing l06 20 100 acres
of land, more or les, particular de
scrption of which j. recorded in the office
OF the County Recorder OF the County
of Trinity, State of California, in Book
Y > page 430, records Of sad Office to
which record reference is hereby made,
together with the one undivided one-half
of hll the Improvements situated on said
mining claim or belonging thereto.
Also the one undivided one-half of that
certain Water Ditch, taking the wster
of Saw mill Creek and conveying the
same onto said Placer Mining Claim !;
also the one undivided one half OF the
right to the use of all the water of said
Snw-mil Creek or the first flow thereof
to the extent of the full capacity of said
ditch.
Terms and conditions Of sale, one half
cash, Gold Coin Of the United States, ten
per cent. thereof to he paid to he auctirn-
eer IN the day OF sale, balance on conhr-
nation OF sale by said Probate Court. a
credit of one wear will be given by the
purchaser giving his promissory note for
the remaining one half of said purchase,
money payable one year after date with
interest thereon at ten per cent. per nnnum
from date until paid, principal and inter-
est payable only in Gold Coin of the
United States, and securing the payment
of said promissory note by mortgage on
the prem ses sold
DAVID TAYLOR.
Administrator of the Estate of William
McElvaney, deceased.
Weavervile, California, October Sth,
A. d., 1879. I'd.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

The BENEFITS OF SINGING. Singh ing
is one Df the most healthiul exercises in
which men, women and children can en-
gage. The Medical Wochenschrit, OF
st. Petersburg, has an article based up
on exhaustive researches made by Prof.
Monassein during the Autumn OF 1878,
when he examined 222 singers ranging
between the ages of nine and fifty. three.
He laid chief weight upon the growth
and absolute circumference of the chest,
upon the comparative relation of the lat
ter to the tallness of the subject, and up.
On the pneumatometric and slirometric
condition Of the singer. Itsppears TO be
al ascsrtained fact from DR. Monassein Is
experiments that the relative, and even
the absolute circum ference of chest is
greater among singers than among those
who do not sing, and that it increases with
tie growth and age of the singer. The
professor even says that sing ing may be
placed physically as the antithesis of
drinking spirituous liquors.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
EDITORIAL JOTTINCs.

PER1LoUs AMUsEMENT.-About ten
days ago balloon with two occupants
went up in Missouri and nothing has
since been heard of the air-ship or its
passengers. Last Sunday two aeronauts
made an ascent from Woodward's Gar
dens, San Francisco, the balloon falling
in the streets OF the city, and its occu-
pants being dashed to death. With two
such frightfu instances of the fatality Of
this dangerous announcement 1t IS prob
able that ballooning for pleasure will
cease. The proprietor of Wood wards
Gardens has already given out that no
more balloon ascension will be per itted
from that place, Prof. Colgrove and
Mr.. Williams, manager of the Gardens,
were the unfortunate men who met their
fate SO tragically. A defective balloon
and strcng gale were the direct causes.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
TAXING CoNcEAIyD WrApoNs

TAXING CONCEALED WEAPoNs.-At
present, many exchanges are advocating
proposition to tax pistols, dirk Snlves
etc. We favor the idea. The days
when it was necessary for every man to
carry six.shooter in his hip pocket-if if
such days ever exi,ted-are gone by, and
there should be some means devised to
put stop to it. One half the murders
committed are perpetrated by men during
the heat of passion, and would not occur
was the carrying OF concealed weapons
discountenanced by law, or made so ex>
penslve luxury that none but million
aires could afford it. We hope the next
Legislature will give us law in the pre-
mises that will deprive every half grown
hoodlum or drunken vagabond OF the
means whereby to slaughter peaceaLle
citizens whenever it suits his fancy
OroUtHe Mercury.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
CHEAP PosrAor.-The Post Office De

CHEAP PosTAGE.-The Post Office De-
partment has recently made the follow
ing rulings IN relation to third class mat
ter: Printed blanks may be filled out
in writing, if not in the nature of a pri-
vste correspondence, and sent at thild-
class rates. Under the new Inv il is held
that an insurance policy filled in, in
writing, and enclosed in an unscaled en-
velope. is thiId-clas matter" This un-
doubtedly includes the filling out of p int
ed billheads, which will be considera-
BILE saving to business men who dislike to
send statements on postal card ard who
have found it Improbable to send the
same by letter. These rulings will give
great satisfaction.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE Con
sTITUTIoN - Amendments to the now
Constitution are already being discussed.
1t is announced that during the first week
of the next session an amendment to the
Constitution will be proposed in both
Houses of the Legislature, providing for
the amendment of Article seventeen Of
the Constitution by adding thereto the
following: "SectiOn 4. After the first
day of January, 1881, no person shall be-
come by purchase, the owner of more thar
100 acres OF land. If, after said day, any
person, shall by gift, grant, will, heirship.
or in payment Of II just debt, become the
owner of more than 100 acres of land, he
or she shall lave five years, after his or
her right to the possession thereof shall
have occurred, in which to dispose Of the
surplus. The Legislature shall enforce
this Section by proper laws providing for
the sale and transfer by the State of any
and all lands heId contrary thereto"
Should the amendment be passed by the
Legislature it will be Iubm itted TO the
people for ratification ct such lime us the
Legislature may select-probably at she
next general election.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

VINO says the affairs of the Federal
Government are not honestly administer
ed 1t has been officially announced
that the entire collections of the Internal
Revenue Department for the last fsca !
year amounting to more than n hundred
millions, and collected through hundreds
counted for and paid into the Treasury
without the deficiency OF single cent (;
and, furthermore, in the accounts of i've
hundred postmasters by whom four per
cent. funding certificates have been sod, ,
there has not been discrepancy or loss
Of fraction. There is not another such
record in the history OF the country
MdrysutLte Appeal.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

SHOULD BE ELECTED.-In some Of our
exchanges we see mention made of the
fact that Marcus d. Boruck. of San
francisco, will be a candidate tor Secre-
tary of the incoming State Senate. 1t
is with pleasure that the JOURNAL gives
its hearty Endorsement to his candidature
ard recommends his election. No man
is more at home mt the Clerks Desk than
is Boruck, and none are SO competent and
experienced in the duties Of that position.
Another fact which should secure his
election is that the Senate viii! be Repub-
lcnn, and no member of the party in tins
State is more entitled to position at its
hands than is Boruck.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
Weaverville, = October II, 1879

TIE CoLoRADo PLAN.-The Governor
OF Colorado telegrapbs that the State is
willing to bear n the expenses Of the Z te
war, il Congress will allow it to dispose
of the Indians to suit itself, and will give
it their reservations. The Colorado plan
is simple but comprehensive one. 1t is
proposed to exterminate the Utes, ard
then TO divide their possessions. The
Government will, OF course, not listen 10
such proposition. twill treat it as un
civilized and barbarous. And having ft>
ly rebuked its advocates, will take steps
TO have it carried out under the national
authority. The Utes are the creditors Of
the Government for a large amount, and
TIE Government does not want to dis
charge its obligation 10 them. In order
TO do 50 Congress would have to appro-
pirate money, and the people would have
10 pay IT,; and when the elections come
On Il could not be shown that so much had
been saved. But the case assumes a diff
erent complexion now. Ten times as
much will probably have to be spent in
killing off the Utes, but then it will be
tpossrbSe TO c0nfscate their reservations,
and with the lands to placate the miners
and 'prospectors whose hwless encroach>
ments precipitated the outbreak. And
thus the Colorado plan will be carried out
after all, and with the great advantage
'.hat nobody will think of charging the
Government with injustice, because it will
be argued that the U les had to be sup
pressed, and being suppressed it was Of
course necessary to dispose of their lands.
In this way civilization will be benefited
and source of difficulty got rid of, at the
trifing sacrifice of every attribute and
quality which civilization is supposed, in
conventional phraseoogy, to be distin.
,guished by.-Reco1d- Unton.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
PUBLIC SCHOOL MATTERs.-TheN New

IUBLlC OCHOOL MATTERS.-l L ne new
York Times says:
1.-The Board of Education is out with a
call for S55S 200 for public purposes next
year, with The accompanying warning
that the sum total in the year succeed
ing will be round million. Ta4-pay-
ers would not complain of these heavy
estimates il they had some assurance that
the money was economically applied. AT
present there il II wlde>s spread conviction,
which we believe well founded, that halt
a million at least could be saved if The
great army of three thousand teachers,
not few Of whom are said to owe their
places TO poltical fayoritism, were judi
ciously reduced"
Remarkirg on this, the San Francisco
Examiner has the following:
New York has n population of nearly
or fully a million. Its public school
system is second To none in the Republic
in point of efficiency and completeness.
The number of schools, officers, teachers,
pupils and subordinate employees must be
as propOrtlOnately larger than those of
San Francisco II. the population of that
city is greater than this. Ard yet, it ap-
pears, tina. the total appropriation for the
ensuing fiscal year is less than six hun
dred thousand dollars, with the probabi,
ity, however, that it may be million of
dollars, or n per capita expenditure. at
the excess, OF one dollar per year. San
Francisco has less than 275, COO white and
colored population-of those from whom
the schools are supplied. But the yearly
expenses of the public school system in
this city and county rise to nearly $500,
000-a per capita cost of a fraction more
than three dollars. Living is MS high in
New York as it is here. ifnot higher, in
fact. And, in all the public schools Of
that city the text books are supplied free
of charge, whereas here only those whose
parents cannot afford to pny for the text
books are supplied without cost.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

WHILE Gen. Sherman was down in
Kentucky the other day, among the crowd
of old soldiers who gather around him
with delight and exclaimed: " Why
General, IN delighted to see you don t
YOU remember me,-Stenley, formerly
Of Leavenwor;h. WHY, of course |
recognize you" said the General, "what
in the-are you doing in this countrv:"
" Why, SIR" was the reply, II am
preaching now" Preaching" said the
General, suddenly changing his tone to
one of more respect for the clergyman,
" l hope to heaven you are doing we'll I"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

THE temperance "boom" in Wes,er-
vile, Ohio, will not commend itself to
quiet people. Gunpowder used AS a
means of abolishing the liquor traffic is
in advance of the age, and although The
blowing up of a saloon by the temperance
people proved entirely eftectual, the ex-
ample is not to be generally initiated
The plan of blowing up tho saloon keep
ers by praying bands was much safer,
and had the redeeming merit of being in
side the limits prescribed by law.-N. Y
Star.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

Tue great agony Of counting the ballots
in San Francisco is at last ended. Al SIS
votes were cast on the Sd of September.
Perkins received 1894 votes, White
IS. .593. Glenn $500. The Republicans
elect 81 officers and the Workingmen 81 d.
The Supervisors are all Republicans and
msjority of the Board Of School d.
rpcfOre
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

ENDED.-The great six day, go-as-
you-pease pedestrian contest at San
Francisco has ended, the following being
winners in the order and amounts named:
Mcintyre, $500; Carmichael, 81 500
Scott, S625 Murdock, 1915. Their rec
olds were respectively 500, 47S, 400 and
430 miles.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

john B. REED, of the New York
Times, comes back from nm Ohio trip To
say in an intery lew that the feeling for
Grant is so strong that the delegation to
the Republican convention in 1880 will
be for Grant instead OF Sherman.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

GENERAL GRANT informed General
Miller that While in China he learned
from the Viceroy that the Chinese Gov
ernment was anxious to cooperate with
tho United States in checking the inn
migration from China to this country
The General seemed to think the question
could be quickly and easily settled by
friendly negotiation.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

SANTA ANA has got the biggest sweet
potato. The Times says: George Ford
has brought into our Office :he largest
yield of one vine of sweet potatoes, or
yams, that we have seen. The largest
one weighs fourteen pounds, and the three
Others weigh twenty four pounds"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
Settlement Notice.

A LII PERSONS knowing themselves
II indebted Ia me are hereby respect.
fully requested to settle medintely.
have waited long and patiently for vol
unMrY settlements aud now give due
notice that must have the money. "A
word To the wise is sufficient" Pay up
and save costs. LOUIS SCHALL.
Weaverviile, Sept. l6, 1879. I'm.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

IT may satisfy the public mind to learn
that the entire expense OF General Grants
reception is to be betrayed without cost
to taxpayers. The Finance Committee
have decided to appropriate all the re-
dueiions in salaries which the elected
Workingmen's candidates propose to pay
back into the Treasury. This will foot
all the bills incurred and leave large
surplus (in our minds. ).-NeWs Letter.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
MAR RIAC ES.

At the Union Ho:el, Weaverville, Oct.
9th, 1879, by T. e. Jones. County Judge,
Mr.. JOHN III. HEATH to Miss NELLIE G.
ToURTELLoTTE, all of Minersville.
Rochester Olmstead Co., Mimi, Post please
CODY.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

ALL the leading Governments of Eu
rope, and the United States and Chile on
this side, have united in accepting new
international code of ocean rules and sig
mails, which will come into operation
about year hence.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

IT is estimated tina. wagers TO the
amount of $3.50, 900 were stakpd on the
last grea. walking match at New York
which indicates the intense interest the
new national diversion excites in the
Eaet
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

MEXICO is excited over the discovery Of
grand gold and silver bonanza near the
Dewey Mountains, 200 miles south of the
Rio Grande. The Comstock is said to be
nothing in comparison.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

The CAMPAIGN IN MASSACHUSETTS
The Boston Herald says: The reports
from the manufacturing towns of Massa-
chusetts, where last fall the Butler move
msnt fairly doomed among the Idle or
hslf-employed VOL kingmen, indicate that
the Republican ticket will make heavy
min
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

A MAN and his wife were precipitated
IN a carriage down an embanNment 100
feet high near Sunol, Alameda county.
Monday evening, and escaped without
injury, though one of the horses was in
stantly killed.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11

WE have in the country, 10 gold, silver,
greenbacks and banks notes, nearly one
thousand million dollars Cincinnati,
Commercial.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-10-11
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Public Sale.
NOTICE OF ADM;NsSTRATOR
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
~ in Pursuance OF an order of the
Probate Court Of the County of Trinity,
State Of California, made on the 9th day
of October, A. D.. 1879, in the matter OF
the Estate of William McEIyaney. de
ceased, the undersigned, the Adminstia,
tor OF said E-tate, will sell at Public
Auction to the highest bidder and subject
to confirmation by said Probate Court, on