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MURDERED AT A DANCE.
ST. LOUIS. Mo

ST. LOUIS. NO.. July IL. 1879.
In at negro ball. the Three Mile House
in the western suburbs OF the city. between aud
three o'clock this morning, Scott Hunter shot and
instantly killed Eugene Black and wounded Ben.
George. Hunter was arrested.
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HOT WEATHER IN TENNESSEE.
KNOXVILLE Iulrio Il

KNOXVILLE, July IL, 1879.
The weather has been very dry and hot tor tho
past six weeks. II there is rain soon there will
not DO half the usual corn crop this season. At
three o'clock this afternoon the thermometer was
Al
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NEW ORLEANS DECLARED PERFECTLY HFALTHY
by THE SANITARY ASSOCIATION
NEW ORLEANS. La, July ~. 1879.
The Auxiliary Sanitary Association makes the fol-

Alter thorough investigation by the officers and
bcrs of this assoetaton bS the
hoard OF Health and of the New Orleans Medical Associa
tton, hereby declare that this city perfectly
healthy condition. aud that .hcre has sing
case OF yellow fever In this city this The city
IN hbetcr sanitary condition than many
absence of levers which usually pecedo yellow
spires the belief that shall serious sickness
Tue county will bc officially notified should any yellow
lever appear.
AT meeting of the Common Council last even
Ing ut the suggestion of the Health Ocer, $1,000
were appropriated Tor placing the city in the best
possible sanitary condition, and to ll up all outy.
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THE DAY AT ST. JOHN.

ST. JOHN. N. b.. July IL. 1879.
The principal celebration in honor Of the Twelfth
is being held to-day at Moncton. special train
conveyed largo party of st. John Orangemen to
Moncton this morning The weather is ine, and the
celebration is passing of peaceably.
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ARRIVAL OF THE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AT
NEWPORT.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1
NEWPORT. July L. 1879.
The Duke of Argyll. Lady Elizabeth Campbell and
Lady Mary Campbell and suite. route from Boston
to New York. boarded the steamer Bristol Fall River
soon after seven o'clock this evening. They were
shown about tho steamer by the officers of
the boat, and expressed themselves being
pleased with the great floating palace"
They were interested in the machinery.
and remarked the dimensions Of the huge
engines, boilers. &c. They subsequently taken
to the upper deck to the pilot house. Captain Sim
mons pointed out the various localities on either
side of the bay. The steamer reached here at about
nine o'clock this evening. but only a few persons
were ON the wharf to the distinguished visitors
land. II was generally understood that the party
would arrive at six o'clock by train. and quite
crowd had assembled ut the depot. but they were
sadly disappointed.
The visitors were driven to the summer residence
occupied by Mr. Cyrus W. Field. of New York. where
they will remain until Monday night. Arriving at
the residence of Mr.. Field the party cordially
received and subsequently taken to the dining
room whore dinner awaiting them. 1t is prob
able the party will attend divine service at Trinity
Church tomorrow morning. During their stay
including Fort Adams and the torpedo station. II
IL intended invite many OF the distinguished sum
ner residents, including Mr.. Bancroft, tho histo-
rian; Colonel Bonnpare and others meet tho Duke
during his stay at Mr.. Fields.
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SEVERE STORMS.
DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AND CROPS FROM WIND,
RAIN AND LIGHTNING IN MICHIGAN, OHIO
(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. !

BEILEFoSTAINE, Ohio, July II, 1879.
The storm last night was the most severe
perienced here 1t blew perfect hurricane in the
southwestern portion of the county. The rain fell
in torrents. deluging the fields. Many barns were
struck by lightning and all houses in its track
less damaged. Much valuable stock
killed Its track was about miles
wide and ten long. in which all the hay,
corn, oats and wheat were swept away. The amount
of damage unknown. but will probably reach
1000. One man. Jules kavanaugh. was killed by
lightning in a barn.
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ing ponds liable to breed miasma and causedsease.
1t was also ordered that all streets and alleys be thor
oughly flushed by the Fire Department.
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AN INSPECTION ORDERED AT WATER VALLEY.
New ORLEANS, July IL, 1879
The Board of Health to-day sent inspector to
Water Valley, Miss. to investigate the reported
death there from yellow fever.
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QUARANTINE ALL ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
VIcKsDURG. Miss. July II. 1879
Quarantine is being established at all points on
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TEXAS TOWNS ENFORCE QUARANTINE RULES.
AUSTIN July IL. 1879.
The Governor to-day issued a proclamation quar-
antining the State against Memphis and other points
which may become infected with yellow fever and
appointed health officers at all exposed points the
State line.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
The SenOrita.

Even if Spanish woman is not pretty,
which, when young, is seldom the case,
81 carries charm with her which never
fails to assert itself. Her figure is
rounded and graceful-she has, unfor.
tanately, a tendency in after years to
grow Stout and her bearing such that
no other race of women I know of can
pretend. The little arched foot treads
the ground lightly but proudly, aud her
step and carriage the very poetry OF mo-
ton. The robe, which has generally a
sweeping train, is worn somewhat cling
ingly, showing the contour of the form,
but not impeding free action in every
movement. A gauzy mantilla, falling
artistically from the admirably arranged,
luxuriant tresses, is the simple head.
dress, with perhaps the addition of
rose Or camelia, planted just where one
would have it. And she Carries dam
gerous and even killing weapon, which
in other hands than hers loses its power
1.-The fan. How it opens and shuts
with dexserous yet careless nrn of
the ivory wrist; how it taps the pink
tips of the dimpled fingers, to give snl-
phasis to some arch expression how in
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
the sunglare is spread and posed grace.

the sunglare is spread and posed grace
fully as shield against the rays
how, when DESTROYS of addressing unno>
tieed gallant, and stabbing him with a
glance of the lustrous eyes, it is made to
act as screen; how, by an almost i'm
perceptible movement, it beckons an ex-
pectant but irresolute admirer T.; how it
imposes silence On some too presuming
cabalero by being passed lightly over the
speakers lips; how it indicates impa-
thence in a quick futtering, and how it
is sometimes 80 manipulated that its
softly cadenced breath fans both the
wielder and the supremely happy lover
Yes, the Spanish woman is by no means
deficient of the elementary powers of
facination, and if one can only induce
her to descend from the realms of artifi-
cial complimentary speech and to speak
naturally, she is perfectly charming
She has a fashion OF saying what she
thinks--in this she differs from the lords
Of her race and OF calling spade q
spade. She is bright and even sparkling
in her badinage, which, however, seldom
rises above triviality and if one would
not break the momentary attractive
spell, one should never attempt to change
the superficial character of the conver>
sation
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
The Mystery of Perfume.
Sacramento Journal.

a sacramento Journal.
No enc has been able to analyze OF
demonstrates the essential action of per-
fume. Gas can be weighed, but not per-
fume. The smallest known creatures
the very monades of life,-can be caught
by microscope lens and made to de.
liver up the secrets of their organization,
but what is it that enmanates from the
pouch of musk deer that fills q wide
space for years with its penetrating odor
An oder that an illimitable number of
extraneous substances can carry on with
out diminishing its size and weight
and what it is that the warm summer
brings to us from tie flowers, no man
has yet been able to determine. So fine,
SO subtitle, SO imponderable, it has eluded
both our delicate weights and measures,
aud our strongest senses. If we come to
the essence of each odor we should have
made an enormous stride forward, both
in. hygiene and chemistry, and none
would profit more than the medical pros
fession if it could be as concluslvely
demonstrated that such an odor procee~
ded from such and such cause, as we
already know of sulpher, snIphurate, by
drogen, ammonia and the like.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
A Dog Killed by a Mouse
Berlin Neue Stettisehe Zsitung.

4 gentlemen writing for this journal
relates the following curious occurrence
II was alone with my lsbors in a field
where potatoes were being harvested.
My watch dog was along with me.
saw him seize mouse, swallow and lie
down at my feet. I went home to din
ner, and while seated at the table was
asked what was the matter with the dog.
He was turning round and moaning, and
something was hanging from his eide l
took him up in my arms and found it was
R mouse which had just been killed. At
first thought it had merely stuck in
the long hair, but on examining it closer
I saw that only ore-half of the mouse
protruded from the dogs body. When
the aperture was cleared it was found to
be an inch in depth. The dog had no
front teeth, had swallowed the mouse
and the little animal had at once begun
to enaw its way out. It was at first
stopped by one Of the ribs, and had actu.
ally burrowed out between the skin and
rib. The dog killed the mouse when it
put its head out by munching it with his
jaws. The dog Aed the next day.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
THE TWO MYSTERIES.

We know not what 1t il, dear,
This sleep so deep and still,
The folded hands, the awful calm
The cheek 90 pale and still
The lids that will not lift again,
Though we may call and call
The strange white solitude of peace
That settles over all.
We know not what it means, DEAR
This desolate heart pain
This dread to take our daily way,
And walk in it again;
We know not 10 what other sphere
The loved who leave US go,
Nor why we're left to wonder STILL
Nor why we do not know.
But this we know our loved and dead
IT they should come this day
Should come and ask us, what is lite?"
Not one of us could say.
Life is a mystery as deep
As ever death can be,
Yet, oh how sweet 1t is to us,
This life we live and see
Then might they say-these vanished ones
And blessed is the thought,
% So death is sweet to us, beloved"
though we may tell you naught;
We may not tell 1t to the quick
"1his mystery of death
Ys may not tell uB if ye would
The mystery of breath"
The child who enters lite comes not
With knowledge or intent,
10 those who enter death must 90
As little children cent.
Nothing is known; but believe
That God ID overhead,
And as life is to the living
So death Is to the dead.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
The DesolatiOn of Babylon.
Gesry's Travels


It is usual for travellers to dwell upon
the utter desolation of Babylon, and to
paint its site ss strip of desert espec>
tally woe-bsgone and unfertile. But the
elegant gentlemen who dwell upon this
aspect of the place could not have seen
it in the middle of April. The date
groves and gardens along the banks of
Euphrates are then things of beauty in
their fresh sdring verdure, and the plain
itself is laid down with crops. Irrigs,
ton canals cross it here and there and
give trouble to the horseman. No grass
grows upon the mounds, and there are
patches of the level white with nitre
which is to be found here as in other
parts of Mesopotamia but the surface
of the soil is on the whole green and
pleasant to the eye. The glad waters of
the river flow on in bright morning SUM-
shine, with palm and mulberry hanging
over lts banks, drinking in sap and lie
The great city which counted its popu>
Iation by millions, and filled the world
with renown not yet forgotten, has dis
appeared under the dust Of twenty CEN
turtles, but nature is as fresh and jocund
as when Babylon was still unbilt. Birds
sing overhead in the pleasant spring air;
butterflies futter about in search of
aowers ;balmy odors regale the sense. It
is difficult under the circumstances to
feel as one perhaps ought to feel for the
great capital which once numbered this
ground. Nature does not mourn for it,
and it is hard to be sad at the budding
of sentiment when the bright spring
hides is grave.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
Ravages of the SMALLPOX.
Adv;ces from Rio Janeiro indicate a

Advices from Rio Janeiro indicate
deplorable state of things in Ceara, one
Of the northern provinces OF Brazil. In
the capital Of the province, also named
Ceara, and town Of not more than
20 600 inhabitants, the deaths from
smallpox are reported at 900 daily, and
among the agricultural population OF
the interior, numbering probably 10000
people, the distress is said to be 50 great
that carton and even corpses are being
converted into food. The sensational
character of the news will cause it to be
received with caution, but ii there be
either pestilence or famine in Brazil at
all approaching in virulencesto what is
indicated in the dispatch, there cannot
be too prompt movement for relief
among those who are willing and able to
furnish out of their superfuity the means
O. allaying 80 much suffering. Brazil is
bound to us by ties too intimate to per-
matt of any appeal for aid, in such g.
cause, being disregarded,
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
TEE SECOND PLACE.

Unto nay Lowell ones have given all
The tireess service of my willing hands,
The strength of swift feet running to their call,
Each pulse of this fond heart, whose love com
mands
The busy brain unto their use; each grace,
Each gift, the flower and fruit of life. To me
they give, with gracious hearts and tenderly,
The second plac
Such joy as my glad service may dispense,
They spend TO make some brighter life more
best;
The grief that comes despite my frail defense
They seek to sootae upon dearer breast.
Love wells his deepest glcries frem my face
I dimly dream how lair the light may be
Beyond the shade, when 1 held, longingly,
The second place.
And yet tits sweet to know that though / make
No souls supre1nest bliss no life shall lie,
Ruined and desoated for my sake,
Nor any heart be broken when / die.
and sweet it is to see my little space
Grow wider hour By hour and gratefully
thank the tender fate that granted me
The second place.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
Population of the United States.
Now York Tribane.

It is singular that writer's and speakers
contrary to the usual American habit
have almost without exception under
stated the population of the country fol
some years past. Probably the nation il
now growing too modest, as it formerly
was too much inclined to boasting. But
those who have occasion to refer to the
present population almost invariably
mention number which the country
has undoubtedly passed several year,
ago. 1t is customary to speak of the
population as about 100000 or 49,,
100000. But the calculations of Prof
Elliott, of the census bureau, which thus
far have been singularly sustained by
facts, give 47,9s3,O0O as the probable
population July l, 1878, and 1895, 600
as the probable population July l, 1879
These calculations, based upon the prin.
ciple of constant second differences, give
an increase of about 80 per cent. for the
decade now approaching an end. They
are strongly confirmed by the cepsua
taken in fifteen states by state author
ity-during 1874 in Michigan; during
1875 in Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mas.
sachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New
Jersey, Sew York, Oregon. Rhode Is
land, South Carolina, and Wisconsin :;
and during 1875 in Missouri and Me-
braska.
With allowance for the unavoidable
incompleteness of every census taken by
defective state machinery, it must be
granted that the actual increase for the
whole country to 1875 must have been
at least as great as the increase apparent
in the returns from these states of the
dates named. The population of the Gf-
teen states in 1870 was 1850 636, and
according to the census taken by the states
about the middle of the decade, it was
16,963, 020, the gain being Is per cent.
in about five years, or at the rate of 80 2
per cent. for the decade. It is, therefore,
probable that the estimate of Professor
Elliott will be realized in the actual
figures,
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29
. Let those OF us whose circumsta

Let those OF us whose circumstances
forbid hankering after riches, resolve
to make the best even Of limited oppor.
tunities; Leu us not murmur vainly that
there is no place for us in the Aforesaid
Temple, or perhaps the ground floor;
there is plaaty of room quite outside the
precincts of that famous structure to
live life, not grand and great 1t may
be, but surely good and noble.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-03-29

We didn't talk together any longer
Shortly after that the weather changed,
the car grew very cold, and l went into
the smoking-car to look for fire.
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December 18th by Rev. J. H. Davis, j, B.
Spencer. q Danville, Va, and Mrs MARY u.
OWEN 6f Halifax county.
December sd, by Rev A. S Mofett, DR.,
JoHx 5. BLAIR and Miss MINNIE CRAvER, all OF
Churchville, Va.
December 10th. in Dinwiddie, Va, by the
Rev. T. T. Jones, JOHN T. WILLIAMS and Miss
NJ. A. MAITLAND, ali of Dnwiddle.
December 23d, in Fredericksburg. Va. by thu.
Rev. Jane P. Smith, WILLIAM j. BRAGG OF
Fluvanna county, Va, and Miss MARY A.
daughter of A. E. Samuel of Fredericksburg
December 2sd in Lynchburg Va, by the
Rev F. G.. Railev, of Liberty, Va, JOHN r.
RraxrER and Miss OTTowAY l.. HoLT, both OF
Lynchburg.
December 23d, at the residence of the brides
father Jacob Snidow, of Giles county, Va, by
Rev. W. B. Arrowood JAMES HoGE, Of Mont
gomery county, and Miss HELEN B. SNIDow.
D Der 23d, in Collierstown Rockbridge
co .ntv. by Rev H. r. Smith, JOHN W. GLLIs-
PIE. of Botetourt county, and Miss ELLEN B.
BLACK, daughter of Henry Black, of Golfers
town.