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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-11

The st. Louis Republican says: THE Erie,
New York Central. Pennsylvania, and Bal
tlmore and Ohio railroad combinations have
I'll extended their grasp on to the sea, and
are now operated In conjunction with steam
ship lines to Liverpool. There could be no
better proof Of the truth Of the prediction
made In the Republican long ago, that the full
possibilities Of the Mississippi route to
Europe would never be realized Until big
pool was made between tile railroads Of the
Northwest, barge company TO New Orleans
and steamship line 70 Liverpool, which
wosld give the shipper through bill OF lading
BY that route"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-11

The New York Produce Exchange Weekly
gives AZ It's estimate OF the wheat crop Of the
United States In 1878, 800, 600, 600 bushels, w.
the Agricultural Department, 4oO0000OO to
AL. 100000 bushels. The surplus over con-
sumption and seed on the basis of 100000 900
bushels crop viii be about 13o,Ooo,o00 bushels.
The exports Of wheat and -four fIom the
crop or 1878 have been as follows.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-11
BLACKMAN'S
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.
.C9r0m0e1et street. N

TUDENTB ARE HERE QUAIL
ned Tor business In the shortest
pebble time. bookkeeping maybe
|0r0u9h!y learned In q few weeks. -x1eM
enrnanship. Commercial Calculations, Eng
yh, French. Spanish and German practically,
|ugnt: at reduced rates. from a. m. TO . .. "a,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-11

Between the several great commercial
cities Of Western Europe and the chief sea-
ports Of South America there ply regularly no
lees than fifteen lines Of steamships num-
Der equallng, II not exceeding, the lines that
run regularly from Europe to the ports Of the
United States. The statement Of such fact
carries It's own argument TO country like
ours producing more than supplies our own
people and anxiously looking for markets In
which to sell the surplus. Something Of
what the European manufacturers and mer-
chants have done we must do.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-11

OMAHA RHUBARB WINE,
A valuable aid In case OF
1di0estion and all Stomach Complaints.
A Purifier Of Blood.
This wine contains In an agreeable form all
be medical properties OF the plant from which
! IL expressed. the valuable qualities Of which
Re well known TO physicians.
Experience has afforded the most ample proof
hat this wine possesses all the fine aromatic
nd stomachic properties for which the plant has
ben esteemed. It's benefits are decided and
|ealthful. Its use Ia strongly recommended TO
|ersons attending sick rooms, ae It is believed
be preventive during prevalence Of fever
nd other infectious diseases.
Put up In pint bottles, champagne style, With
Ro.dozon In o case.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07
The Paradise Of Babies.

The real paradise of Babies" is Japan
as has been said many times,-for not only
do the children have every imaginable toy,
but many persons get their living by anus
ing them. Men go about the streets and
blow soap bubbles for them with pipes that
have no bowls as ours have. These young
Japs have tops, stills, pop-guns, blow-guns,
magic lanterns, kaleidoscopes, wax-fgures,
terra Gotta animals, hying-f fish and dragons,
masks, puzzles, and games butterflies and
beetles that futter about; turtles that move
their legs and pop out their heads; birds that
fly about, and peck the fingers and whistle !;
paste-board targets that, when hit, burst open
and let a winged figure fly out and-most
wonderful of all, perhaps-little balls looking
like elderpith, which, thrown into bowls of
warm water, slowly expand into the shape of
a boat, or fisherman, tree, flower, crab, or
bird.
The girls of Japan have dolls furniture
and dishes, and, of course, dolls They have
dolls that walk and dance; dolls that put on
o mask when a string is pulled; dolls dressed
to represent mobiles, ladies, minstrels, myth
illogical and historical personages Dolls are
handed down for generations, and in some
families are hundreds of them. They never
seem to get broken or worn out as yours do ;
and, in fact, they can hardly be the dear play
mates that yours are. They are kept as a sort
of show; and, though the little owners play
with them, they do not dress and undress
them and take them to bed, as you do. A
good deal of the time they are rolled up in
silk paper and packed away in trunk On
the great festival day of the Japanese girls,
the Feast of Dolls, of which no doubt you
have heard, there is great show of dolls
and toys, and it is the event of the year for
the queer little black-eyed maidens. The
Feast of FLAGS is the boVs' great day and theY
have banners, flags, figures of warriors and
great men, swords, and other toys suitable for
boys OE0e 7AOrae, in 50, Nicholas for No
g,ptDber
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07

ture of the interior of the globe reaches that
Of boiling water at depth of about six miles,
and prevents the water from descending any
lower but the absorption will continue with
the cooling of the globe. The oxygen, nitro
gen and carbolic acid which compose our at
mosphere also appear to undergo absorption,
but slower. The thinker may foresee,
through the mist of ages to come, the epoch,
yet afar off, in which the earth, deprived of
the atmospheric aqueous yapor which pro-
tects her from the glacial cold of space by
preserving the solar rays around her, will be-
come chilled in the sleep of death. As Hen
ri Vivarez says: From the summit of the
mountains windng-sheet of snow will de-
scend upon the high plateaus and the valleys,
driving before it life and civilization, and
masking forever the cities and nation that it
meets on its passage Life and human ac-
tivity will press insensibly toward the inter
tropical zone. st. Petersburg, Berlin, Lon
don, Paris Vienna, ConstantinOple and Rome
will fall asleep in succession under their eter-
nal shroud. During very many ages equato-
rial humanity will undertake Arctic expedi-
tions to find again under the ice the place of
Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux and Marseiles. The
sea coasts will have changed and the geo.
graphical map of the earth will have been
transformed. No one will live and breathe
any more except in the equatorial zone up to
the day when the last family, nearly dead
with cold and hunger, will sit on the shore of
the last sea in the rays of the sun which will
thereafter shine here below on an ambulent
tomb revolving aimlessly around useless
light and q barren heat"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07
HITS AND MISSES.

There won't be any Indian summer this
year. The Indian agents have made arrange
ments to steal it.-Ir0y Press.
A young lady in Philadelphia is 30 modest
that when she hangs her stockings on the
clothes line she places veil over them.
Little Daisy's mother was trying TO explain
to her the meaning of smile "Oh, yes,
know" said the child, lit is the whisper OF a
laugh"
A little boy came to his mother recently
and said: "AIamma, l should think that if
was made of dust, l would get muddy inside
when l drink"
"Ah, yes business is picking up" mutter-
ed the farmers lad as he followed behind the
potato digger in the field, filling his basket
YEARLY with the tubers.
Little six-year-old was obliged to take a
dose of medicine that left an unpleasant taste
in his mouth. When asked how he liked il,
he said, "Its good enough, all but the end Of
it,"
A Judge of much experience says 81 new
er had breach of promise case before me in
which the mother of the girl didn't know
more about it than her daughter. She RlwayS
suspects the fellow is a rascal, and gets ready
for him."
One of the most oaustc replies was that Of
Mr., Curran to his opponent in celebrated
case. "If that be law, Mr.. Curran," said
Lord Clare, 81 may burn my law books. 1t
would be far better, my lord, to read them,'
was the rejoinder.
An abundance of guests and limited lOdg-
ing rooms caused Jimmie to be ''slept out" at
neighbor's. On arising in the morning he
was invited to remain at breakfast. well,
guess not" he replied, 1--WE have mighty good
breakfasts at our house when we have cOmpa-
ny."-Ne,o Hapen Register.
professor lecturing on English indus
tries" to a class of Juveniles, informed them
that it took seven men and boy to make
pin. II expect" said little fellow, that
It's the seven men that make that pin, and
that they use the boy to stick it into to see if
it's sharp enough"
"Well, my man" said military doctor to
a patient who had been on slow diet" for
long time, chow are your" much better,
sir" Gould you eat small chicken to-
day ?" "ThAt could, sir" What would
you like it stuffed with 2" please, your
honor" replied the hungry patient, II would
like il stuffed with another"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07
Miscellany.


Once, in the hush Of eveutide,
when daylight tasks were put aside,
And dew and coOlnesB after heat
Made the sweet stiffness doubly sweet,
The Master walked in Galee;
His footsteps followed by those three
who afterward on Olyet
Watched with him in his agony.
They had no dread forebOdiug yet
OF that dark hour; the world was bright
With sunset splendor; and It's light
Seemed in their peaceful hearts to dwell
Till suddenly slant ray fell
Upon an object in their path
That stirred up quick, unreasoning wrath.
dead dog, hideous in decay,
Mangled, and foul with blood and dust,
Prone in the trodden high-roAd lay
sight indeed to rouse disgust.
And the disciples, Justified
BY their offended senses, WED
Each with the other to express
Scorn Of the creatures loathsomeness;
Nor-till at length the Master spake--
Were either Of them moved to make
one little pitiful pause, wherein
Some kindlier utterance might have been.
He, listening, silent for space,
Bent down to the disfgured head,
As one who seeks some hidden grace;
Then with a calm, uplifted face
And som ethng in his sOrrUwful eyes
That caught their hearts up with surprise,
"Pearls are not half so white" be said,
"As the dogs teoth,'
Aud went his way.
whereat the three In mute dismay
Glanced at each other. Sudden shame
Reddeued their browB; and as a flame
Leaps to the wind, the kndling Ire
OF penitencC and swift desire
Leaped in their breasts with one accord,
And proved itself in deed, not word.
with willing hands they put aside
All the reluctance Of their pride,
They dragged the dead dog from the miro
Wherein 1t lay to green place;
Where, with Ftrewn leaves, and branches rent
From the thick olives, its disgrace
They hid from future passcrs-by.
Then eagerly, with look askance
That dr., aided yet besought his glance,
They to their Lord again drew nigh,
To ind his brief displeasure spent,
And in his gracious smile to meet
A recompcnse exceeding sweet
Sweet is the hidden truth that lies
Too deep, perhaps, for careless eyes
In the old story. For who knows
Since a dogs teeth his praise could win
What inward grace may be in those
Lost souls that out Of reach of care,
Beyond our pity and our prayer,
Seem dead In trcspAsses and sin7
MdTg BrrdteEi Good Company No. 2.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07

sound to you like romanccs. could give
you glimpses into life that would wiring your
hearts with their terrible suffering, bot have
not time nor space. The work has reached
farther and deeper than was dreamed of in
the beginning. But the hard times have af-
fected it, and for the first time since its
earliest days, it stands before the public in
the attitude of suppliant. 1t sndly needs
help and so a fair is to be held in Music Hall,
beginning the 18th of December and am
going to ask those of my readers who are
willing to do SO to help us. No matter how
small the gift, it will help swell the aggregate,
and no Offering can be too trivial. l know
there are among my readers many young la
dies who have some leisure, and if they will
make some trihe and send to me at SO Clifford
street, Roxbury, 1 will see that it goes into
the right hands. l always have said that l
never would ask any thing for fair, but
cant help it when l see this noble charity
needing the aid it ought to receive. | feel
that | must do my little. How many of you
are inclined to help me
SALLIE JOY WHITE.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07
The Good Shin "ResoIute."

Never was there vessel that had a more
wondrous record than the old Arctic explor-
ing ship Resolute, from the timbers of which
a piece of furniture is to be made for Mrs.
Henry Grinnell, of this city. Early in 1854
a court martial sat at Sheerness England, to
inquire into the abandonment, on Sir Edward
Belcher's Arctic expedition of the 1nvestigat
or the Resolute, and the Assistance. These
vessels, with two others, had been sent forth
to search for the lamented Franklin and his
devoted companions, and their three Cap
tains, Belcher, Kellett and Mcclure, had
been obliged to return, not only with no news
of the missing explorer, but without bringing
back their ships. The Resolute, a stalwart
and powerful sailing g-craft, had passed through
many difficulties, when she was finally fasten~
ed in the foes of Melville Sound, and behev-
ing that she could never get away again, Sir
Edward gave orders reluctantly to abandon
the ship. The crew made everything snug
below and aloft; then, one May day in 1854,
bade adeu to their floating home, and re-
turned safely with their fellows, to England.
One morning of summer, off the Labrador
coast, an American whaler named Hartstein,
spied a bark-rigged ship, all a-taunto, but
strangely silent, lying aground. He boarded
her, and found everything in perfect order;
every brace trimmed every rope coiled, with
colors flying at the mizen peak, but not soul
on board Presently he discovered that this
was the Resolute. She had drifted for over
thousand miles, without starting rope, from
Melville Island, through Barrows Straits,
through Lancaster Sound, round by Cape
Liverpool, past Ponds Bay, down Davis's
Straits, to the shoals of Labrador The ice
had melted, the foes had opened, currents
had taken charge of her, and the lonely ship,
with none but the forces of the sea for her
pilot, and only invisible hands on her wheel,
had hoated safely and soundly past all the
reefs and rocks which stud so long a course,
until such time as this "seafaring man" made
her out He brought this abandoned British
vessel into Boston Harbor as sound as on the
day when she started from England. Our
Government behaved nobly about the Reso-
Lutte We paid Hartstein his salvage out Of
the Treasury. Then the Washington author
tiles set riggers and ship-painters to work up
on her, tidied her up inside and outside, and
sent her across the Atlantic under an eminent
officer, with the English flag at the main and
the Stars and Stripes aft, with the comph-
ments of Uncle Sam" to her Britannia Maj
esty. The people of England were greatly
pleased by this act of generosity on our part,
, and Queen Victoria went herself on board to
receive from our officers her ship, for which
she thanked them most sincerely. 1t is q
pity that this old wanderer should have to be
broken up but it is eminently proper that
some sort of memento should come ont OF
her timbers to the widow of the American
gentleman who, at great expense, searched so
often for Sir John Franklin.-N. 7. Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07
NO. 45.


Some months ago, says correspondent of
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, l met gen
tleman from Alabama who related the follow
ing parrot story, which l believe to be the
best l ever heard 'Dr --- of Mont
gomery, Ala, owned parrot during and af-
ter the war that was the pride and wonder of
all Montgomery county. He had learned so
many phrases and witty sayings that the
darkies when they came to town on Satur-
days would congregate around his cage in
crowds and applaud by saying: 'Bress God
dat ar bird got white folks sense! The doc
tor, like all physicians, was frequently called
out at night by some ones 'halloo' at the
front gate. Polly learned this and one night
when the doctor answered shrill 'halloo' by
coming to the door and asking what was
wanted Polly answered from bunch of rose
bushes He hi ha! fool the doctor that
time hi he ha" Polly received a sound
thrashing for this trick and was quite sullen
for a week or so, when one dark, rainy night
the doctor woke up to hear some one at the
gate repeating his halloo' frequently. Going
to the door he asked who was there. From
the top of tall Lombardy poplar the parrot
screamed out in fendish glee 'Ha ha ha
You can't catch Polly this time You cant
you can't ! you can't = All the doctors
persuasive arts were called into requisition to
get the parrot down from her high perch but
she could not be deceived, coaxed or fatter-
ed into doing as he commanded or entreated
her. She resolutely kept her perch all night
in the rain, and waited until he started off
next morning on his daily round before she
ventured down.
The doctor had little boy aged about two
years, for whom the parrot formed a strong
attachment. Warren was the childs name,
and by and by he fell sick. The parrot moped
around and appeared to be quite melancholy.
At times when the child was left alone for
few moments, Polly would hop up on the
edge of the cradle, and, spreading out her
wings, she would vibrate them like fans, and
ask as she had heard the nurse ask Poor
baby Baby want water Baby sick? Baby
hungry Poor baby Polly's 5000 sorry
Finally the child died, and the parrot skunk
away for the two days preceding the funeral,
and was neither seen nor heard. On return
ing from the cemetery, the family met her
waddling along in the middle of the road, re-
peating to herself in the tenderest and most
mournful manner: Where's little Warren
Poor baby Baby sick? Baby want water
P-o-o-o-o-r baby Poly's 5000 sorry
She was picked up and taken back home,
but never spoke another word until the day
of her death, when she cried out, Hawks,
hawks, and the next minute was whisked d
away in the talons of o monstrous chi cken
hawk that had been watching for an oppor-
tunity to carry her off for several hours"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07
Good manner. and Equal Rights.

If you pay half-a-dollar for admission to
concert or any other entertainment, you have
a right to the undisturbed enjoyment of that
which you pay for and persons who come
tramping into the room while the entertain
ment is in progress, or who go tramping out
before it is concluded, or who by hustle and
whispering prevent you from hearing what
you came to hear, are robbing you of that
which belongs to you. These persons would
not, of course, steal half-a-dollar out of your
pocket book, but if they wilfully spoil that
which costs you half-a- dollar, their act is es-
sential larceny. Well-bred persons never do
any of these things, because well-bred per-
sons are always careful to respect the rights
of others.
If you pay for one seat in railway car you
are entitled to that one seat but if you oc-
cupy two seats while any decent person who
has paid for one seat has no seat at all, you
are simply robbing that person of what be-
longs to him. The writer of this not long
ago saw a well dressed lady sit for an hour
and look in the face of an equally well-dress-
ed man who stood during all that time and
held a young child in his arms because there
was no vacant seat in the car save one i'll
which this lady had placed some small par
cells of hers, and which she did not offer to
relinquish The man had paid for the seat
and it belonged to him. The lady had not
paid for the seat and it did not belong to her.
She would have been greatly insulted if she
had been called robber, but what was she
doing? In some way she ought TO have been
delicately admonished that to take what does
not belong to her is not one of the rights of
woman, and that it is evidence of a lack of
good breeding.
You secure, by the payment of good
round sum, berth in sleeping car. That
should enttle you to immunity from disturb
ance by your fellow passengers. Unhappily
it does not always Not long ago train
stopped at midnight in a large town at the
West where it was to remain for twenty min
utes Into the sleeping car of that train
came three passengers, two males and fe-
male. 1t appeared that they had just met in
the station and on entering the car they were
exchanging loud greetings. They sat down
in one of the sections and went on with their
conversation, without any lowering of their
tones, The porter of the train was absent
while the train waited in the station, and af-
ter he returned he seemed to be too timid to
rebuke the takers, so they kept ON for the
best part of an hour, talking and laughing
much louder after the train started than be-
fore The fact that there were a dozen 9TH
er passengers in that car, all of whom were
in their berths, and all of whom had pur-
chased a right to sleep in the car, was fact
of which they were utterly obliyious. Yet
these persons evidently belonged to what is
called good society. Their language was
grammatical, their dress was faultless, one of
the males was clergyman. Good Company,
No. 1snO.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07

DISTRESS AND THREATENED TRoUBLE IN
IRELAND.-A correspondent of the Dublin
Freeman, writing from Donegal. Ireland
draws n melancholy picture of the distress
prevailing in that part OF Ireland. Owing to
the failure of crops the peasantry of Done
gal, with an area of l., POO, 600 acres and a
population of quarter of a million, are de
scribed as subsisting almost exclusively on
Indian meal. Fifty thousand acres of pota-
toes are said to have rotted and as many
more acres of hay, 1000 acres of turnips
and 81, 900 acres of oats have been destroyed
by the wet weather. The situation there is
likened somewhat to that which prevailed
during the great potato famine of 1S4G-7
throughout the country. Nor is the distress
due alone to the failure of crops The old
evil of absentee landlordism has been and is
now prevalent in Donegal. Many of the
owners of the land are residents of London,
Paris, and other capitals where they remain,
never returning to look after the welfare of
their property or to consult the interests of
their tenants The absentee insists upon the
full payment of his rental no matter what ill
luck his tenants may have had, As a result
the tenantry are left to the tender mercies of
agents and bailiIs who, with the proprietors,
are largely responsible for their present de
plorable condition. Many of the tenants
have received notice to vacate their holdings,
and are in danger of being turned, with their
families, shelterless and pennless, upon the
roadside, 1t seems almost incredible that a
landlord in receipt of an annual rental of Si5,
600 should insist upon its prompt and full
payment in times like the present in Ireland,
under penalty of the ejectment of his tenant
ry But this is what the Earl of Arran an
old pleasure seeker residing in London, is
represented as doing, in common with other
landlords in Ireland. The peasantry are, ac-
cording to recent dispatches, assuming a
threatening attitude, and the whole situation
is dangerously like, in its symptoms, to that
which preceded the rising of the pikemen of
'9S. Mr.. Parnells monster meetings are large
ly made up of armed men, and the incendia-
ry threats of the platform are answered with
sedtious shouts from the multitude below.
Sooner or later England will have to heed the
lessons of this tumult, and yield another in
stalment of 'Justice to Ireland"