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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-17

In the Circuit Court Of the United States,
for the District Of Louisiana.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-17

Under AND BY VIRTUE OF THE DE-
tered in the above entitled and numbered cause.
on the fifth day OF March. A. d. 1880. and under
the powers contained IN mortgage or deed 81
and Chattanooga Railroad Company, the Drede-
cessor OF the company first above named. on
the first day Of seg and which h g
the said decree. we. Edwin d. Morgan and
james A. Raynor. trustees hereunder. Will sell
ut public auction TO the last and hiahest bidder.
ence Of Francis A. Woolfley. the special master
appointed for that purpose; on sAIu ~ AZ
hour Of u O'clock ' M At the entrance to the
Custom. House building on Canal street. In the
city OF New Orleans. In the State Of Louisiana,
corporation. in. between and within the cities
Of Mobile. IN the state OF Alabama. end New
Orleans. Ia the State OF Louisiana. and between
Mississippi and Alabama. and I'll Of the real
and personal property Of the said corporation
Of every nature and kind whatsoever described
or com pretended In the terms OF the said deed
OF trust, together with all OF the rights. privf-
Ieges. franchises immunities. corporate or 9TH
erwise, included IN the same and from whom.
soever derived. pursuant to the said deed OF
trust established In and by the decree aforesaid.
Including rights Of way lands; tracks. bridges.
rana a o.
houses. enatne- houses. warehouses; freight
houses. water tanks. wood sheds. section
shops. machinery, business oiiices and furni-
ture. as we'll as all of the fuel. railroad stores
and materials on hand. owned. used or occu-
said railroad. Also. seven thousand one hun.
dred and eighteen shares OF the capital stock OF
the Pontchartrain Railroad Company Of the
said court relative to the said stock, In
favor Of the said trustees; AGAINST the
said Pontchartrain Railroad Company. OF
conferred TO said c2mplainants IN and by the
said decree. And also all Of the additions. anne;
N and 91 to h4 ea
OF every nature and kind whatsoever. which the
said complainants may have made az trustees
and ~ o. sne end
ten ances Of the Oreosoie Works at West Pasca-
goula. In the State Of Mississippi.
ton between the cities OF Mobile, In the STATE Of
Alabama. and In and through the States OF Ala.
bama. Mississippi and Louisiana. to the city Of
New Orleans. In the State OF Louisiana. being
| In length 141 miles. more or less. exclusive OF
Terms and conditions Of sale In accordance
bidder on the spot: but under the decree afore-
said majority or greater number OF the bond
! holders under the said deed OF trust. II they
Master ten days prior to the sale) may purchase
all Of the said property. In accordance with the
| terms Of said decree.
holders or their purchasing committee, will 81
required to deposit In the hands OF the said
Special Master the snm Of $780, ooo cash 10 lay;
will be considered or an adjudication made o.
a 1n inysntoTy Of the said property viii ! b b.
made and filed In the Masters office, ten days
prior % inc Gay . n fS P J M9 gsAA and
Truetees and Receivers.
| F. A. WOOLFLEY.
mh11 to ap24 Special Master.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12
THE GOLDEN SILENCE.

What though l sing no other song?
What though speak no other "oruf
Is silence shame? Is patience wrong;-
At least one song of mine was heard;
One echo from the mountain air,
One ocean muImur, glad ana nee
One sign that nothing grand or talr
In all this world was lost to me.
Iwould not wake the sleeping Tyre;
would not strain the chords OF thougnt;
The sweetest fruit vi ali desire
Comes its own way, and comes unsought
Though all the bards of earth were dead,
And all their music passed away,
What Nature wishes should be said
She'll find the rightful voice to say!
Her heart is in the shimmering leaf,
The drifting cloud, the lonely sky,
And all we know of bliss and grief
She speaks in forms that can not dle'
The mountain peaks that shine atar,
The silent stars, the painless sea,
Are living signs of all we are.
And types of all we hope to be.
-Waliam Winter, in Bdldwin'S Monthty'
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12
NOT PREPARED.

She leaned her head on shapely hands,
And let her girlish fancy rove;
Amid the dingy diagrams
She dreamed of lovers and OF love; :,
When "Take the blackboard, ii you
please"
Snapped out the grim professoress,
"And find the sine OF II degrees
And 30 minutes "-more or less.
She started up with flushing face, .
And looked around the room halI
scared;
Then said, remembering the place.,
"Not prepared"
She had lover like prince,
loyal lover, too, wis;
And though she feigned indifference,
Her foolish little heart was his.
So when upon the star-lit strand
He spoke of all his hopes and fears,
And pressed her soft patrician hand,
He told his love to willing ears
Though still she would not yield as yet,
Lest he should think she really cared,
But whispered low, the sly coqucttte,;
"NOt prepared"
They were engaged and then again
To test that lovers fealty,
She treated him with cool disda1n,
And flirted most OutrageOusly.
But when her lover came no more,
She wrote and said, remorsefully,
I" Will you not seek me as before
Redeem your pledge-and marry me"
The answer came; with blush divine
She broke the waXen seal hall
scared;
Then weeping, read the single line
Not preparedp'
-ACtG C0lumbiGnG.
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12

Once more sat down to my neWspa-
per and pipe, but with no better success
than before. The sorm seemed now to
have centered right over the little sta
ton. Peal after peal of thunder rent
the air, and the lightning played about
the sky like phosphorus on an inky back
ground. If you hap ever chanced to be
in telegraph ofici during a thunder
storm, you may haze seen the electricity
dash down the wirs in way to make
timid people nerpus. Even veteran
operators, like myslf, wouldn't want to
undertake to receie that sort OF mes
sage. was tented to close the key,
but the meaningless ticking had a sort
of fascination for I'd in the mood then
was. 1t was lik kkthe incoherent NUT
terines of a mapac, where now and
then, at long interals only, could one
distin .uish a wordor sentence. Maybe
the extra allowanc of toddy had made
me more imaginative than usual, and
given weird coloing to my thoughts;
for. listening to te rapid click-click, |
remember Of fanSing that some spirit
hand had got holdOf the key, and was
pouring out wil of woe over the
wires.
I was too restless to sit still and too
nervous to 90 to bel. Besides, even if |
hadn't been so upyt in my mind, it is
doubtful whetherfI could have slept
through such 10 as that. To occu-
DIV myself about something, | relighted
nv N lantern, went out into the freight
room, examined again the bolts of the
doors and the fast things of the windows,
and returned to 4 room more worried
and upset than et tr. Just as | was en-
tering my own Ast, the light of the
lantern fell squarey on the wooden box:
Oddly enough, until that moment | had
forgotten all abouthe dead young wom-
an. Thinkings so steadily of the $4,000
had, l suppose, driven the box out OF
my mind. But Ican't say it was any
comfort to have it brought back now;
for corpse is never the most cheerful
of company, and, feeling as | did then,
I would great deal rather have had no
company at all.
1t must have been the imp of the per-
verse, l suppose, that compelled me, af-
ter the box had been brought back to
my mind, to leave the door open so that
l could sit and stare at it with morbid
curiosity. As have already said, my
sleeping apartment was partitioned OFF
from the freight room, and was con-
nected with the latter by door. The
body had been placed in such position
that, when this door was open, the head
of the box was in sight. Two or three
times got up to shut the door, but some
strange fatality drove me back to my
chair, and caused me to keep in view
the box with its sad freight. All this
time the storm ragged, the thunder dis
charged its mighty batteries, the light
ming dashed, and the mad rawlings of the
telegraph csshtinutl. u caught my hand
trembling as tried to refill my pipe.
Nervousness, no doubt; but possibly an
observer might have thought Old Billy
was frightened
l had just risen to wind the little
clock on the shelf, when suddenly out
of the hitherto meaningless ticking OF
the instrument sharply and distinctly
came to my ear these sounds:
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12

half-open door, So intent was /. :,
examining the safe that it was not u S.S
1 was within reach of him that he bs.a,
me. He sprang to his ~
bringing the glass of the LAM
full into my face, and res~S %
for his revolver, which he had laid NY
the top of the safe. But he was \
late. With the rusty old pistol h.SI "a
by its long barrel, l dealt him =, cnG u
ing blow on the head just as his fno,S G
grasped his own weapon. Ha N
heavily, without uttering groan NJ
lantern was extinguished as it fel y,
with trembling fingers l struck a n,S'
and lighted the lamp in the Office 10 4,
its rays fell upon the upturned fn. y
the robber, I saw that blood was i''
ing from the wound l had inflicted ~
l saw, too, that the mans faca =
delicate in it's outlines and intelln'
in expression. had time to nOtic5 !
more, for I felt now that the long, no,
Gus strain was over-now that a
danger was past-the need of aid !
after hurriedly binding the uncopssr'
mans feet and arms and batbinc n
head in cold water, l pulled on "
boots and overcoat and started in n
haste for the hotel. p
Half way on the road l met cOye. {
carriage, drawn by one horse. It@e
to be the turnout of Matthews, the ny
proprietor, and, wondering WHERE p
could be out for at that hour, sbOr,n
his name. l got no response. Tha
cried out at the top of my voice: d
"I've killed a burglar down at
station!"
Whoever was in the carriage ulI
have heard me, but the horse onlymt
ened his sharp trot and disappeara if
the darkness. u
They give me a great deal n,ar
credit, the people of Red Ravine, IT.
that nights adventure, than | deser.il
And | do not blame them for laugbJf
at how things came out, For wIa q
party of us got back to the station, 81
unconscious burglar had disappear avo
and the tracks next morning shoEi.f
that the covered carriage, which llr
met on the road, had drawn up ia
platform. Who was in itP well r
couldn't swear, but have a notion 10 !
it contained the gentleman who =. ~
come on with the dead body. All y,
events, neither he nor the body w&S1I
seen in the town again. l had the n'
isfaction of delivering the moneys
age safely to Eldridge & Ricketsol .,
the check they gave me was really
merited. For what would have Bco
pened had it not been for the myseil ln'
message which no man sent? tra
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12
Intense COld-Where and How
Generated? u

1t is d problem of prime impOrag
saws that New York Herald, for mssl
ology to determine how and wheny
tense cold can be generated. The g
explanation, which refers the phen3
non to the chilling effect of the n
Mountains, can not avail, since tin
well known that a current of airT3'
passes over a mountain range M
temperature raised decidedly, shlt
comes fohn-like in its descent. N;
unavailing, apparently, is it t0@
the cold waves to polar agencele
call them "polar waves" for, &ne
polar research has shown, such il
mometric enormities are not peculle
the Arctic seas, and in the wholea
exceptionally severe winter Of WI
were unobserved by the Swedish ut
dition when stationed beyond theA
circle, in the very track when III
meteors, if of polar birth, would 1lpt
sarily take in order to reach the n
States. In all probability, as , 'hla
denskjold expedition found, the J
thermometric wave of the 2Sd was was 100
agated from the northeastern stt
coasts towards British Amencss-'
tance of less than 1900 miles Nl !
far from incredible that wave III
travelled eastward from ManltOOA ltr'
Atlantic in 60 hours could hayspDe ~
the narrow part of the Norm r0Q'
dividing the Asiatic and AmerlSa i,
tinents. The observations OF lHpe.
nette, at Wrangell Land, WnIhel
bined with those of the vega VISA
doubtedly solve this great plJs1 y y
American meteorology, and enaS ,oo
trace the normal lines alons, SS 81
winter climate of the Unlteu au
developed, as also to discover ~ y B
cations of approaching cola w., y" is,
purposes of weather preaic~ LIS
series of weather observance LES
within the polar area will be o. Tsir
value to science in solving tnp IN 9
mystery. ~
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12
which in spoken words meant:
WATCH THE BOX!


started as if a charge of electricity
had shot through my frame. | could
fairly feel my face grow white. | stood
motionless, clutching the back OF the
chair and with my eyes riveted in va
cant stare at the table in the ticket-otfice.
l knew this was no work of an excited
imagination. The words, to my prac-
ticed ear, were as plain as if shouted in
clarion tones. There had come no call
for Red Ravine, and the message ended
without signature or mark, but abrupt
ly, as it had begun. More than that, 1t
was not the writing of any operator On
any section of the line. l would have
swown to that with as much positiveness
as you would to the tones of voice
with which you were familiar. In the
dot-and-dash alphabet we learn to dis
tinguish who is handling the keys almost
with as much accuracy as others distin
guish handwriting. And in all my ex-
perience had never heard the sounder
click off message like that.
While stood dazed and almost par
alyzed-for you must remember that
Old Billy's nerves were strung to ter
rible pitch that night-the rapid and un-
ineligible click-click was resumed as if
a demon again had got hold of the key.
1t was fully five minutes before l mus
tered courage to pass into the ticket
office and sit down at the table myself.
Not once in that time had l turned back
to look at the box. Almost on the in
slant of my sitting down at the table
the clicking stopped short, as it had
done before, and then those words were
repeated:
WATCH THE BOX!
Every dot, every dash, every letter,
every word, came with such horrible
distinctness that it seemed to send a
sharp pain tingling through my ears.
1t was like the loud whispering of some
ghostly voice. Then, again broke out
the jargon of sound that turned the
clicking into meaningless confusion.
Isprang 1 up from the table, and, with
the now strengthened conviction that it
was no delusion, no fancy, but that the
sound had come plainly over the wires,
l felt my courage returning, and re-
solved to heed the mysterious warning.
The rolling of the thunder and the mad
roar of the storm no longer depressed
me. stepped boldly back into my own
room, and rested my eyes unfinchingly
on the wooden box. What was its mys-
terious freight Why had the phantom
of the storm sent those startling words
over the wires? What unknown hand
had reached out from the very lightning
itself to warn me of some impending
danger? These questions rushed through
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12
mystery

ANTS are m IRE domestic "
These wonderfully intelligent !
communists make forays !
marches by columns or Q, cy d, \
lanx. They believe fully III ". W
val of the fttest, for tney ca CAV
the lazy by biting them IN ! ~ s%u, o,f
municstions are conveyed to tsS Gn'
by their antenn@, ana a,saT Wv
sense is that of smell. INV
haunts of other species, car! NJ
pupa, and keep the caPtu[es ! ~ h
a life of slavery. Beetles aiV b +
and lay eggs for them .,,,erir,
furnishes a secretion answsadIf' Cd |
dominant race for milk, sh% as0ii,
they actually squeeze from Wv
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12

At the recent meeting =, y ID y
land teachers, the report oi l'.1,r :
on Greek was read. 1t gem IT, M
the language was notorlousis and
in educational institutions .arIi I
Gated a different mode OF .s' % 4;
a shorter time devoted St.tP S
Professor Newell of the s,;sr, ots
School said that in his exPv,IIs
students were generally apRtDs t9t' .
sight of the Greek alpha;u'ffs N fsdt
those who were students III Ir To-
came enthusiasts in the sVu
~. M. ,onrpS WtlVs
Sharp County record., 1880-02-12

Five million oranges MU .,asr.
Putnam County, Fla, last w.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-05
NEW pH0TOTYPE PROCESS.

At the last meeting in Paris of the Society for
the EucOura cement OF NduoEa liIdASUif' Il
communication was received describing pro-
cess discOy cred by VI. LenOlr, tor producing en-
cravcd plates IRON negatives photographed
from nature. In order 10 OBTAIN thrse mega
tlves said VI. LenOir, PRINT WIS made IN FATTY
ink by p0lteV.n's system. An impression was
taken upOn a sheet of transfer paper when
was placed upon a metal plate AFTER submit
ting IL to the action of acld, II was mixed sew
eral times under water. All tins was dllncult
rs well as uncertain. NJ. LenoIr sought a
means Of operating directly upon the plate,
without mixing \ metal plate was lightly
coated with a.bumen mixed with bcTomaie
and carmiuc; ths lasi is used not only as aye,
but 4 assists i'm the lifting Oi the him, ON ac-
count OF It's sOiublilty III ammonia. TamDoge
and various rcslus answer the same purpose az
most ~ well. The use OF c3imIne Is IN the
strirriuu of OF the mass. When me MIN Is
strlDued of. an IMAGE remains formed or alba
mru I'm itself unable 20 resist me acl0n OF
acids II must Therefore, br rendered lnsol-
uble There are two wa by which this may
be- e1ec. cd one is % cause the alhuueu 20 1p-
sOrb "A solution OF g1m-l1c dissolved IN not
WAITER with bUaX: the other is o. plunge the
plate once stripped. ln solution OF uicHlolnAle
OF potash, then drying at me Neat Oh ap"u.
1902 The aliumcu has by THIS means acquired
the rc0uircd resistance to the action of acl4s.
The plate has now 70 be engraved to give lt q
gram according To the amount oi lhA u suouiu
take no. Upon tie UndbS0rDent ana stripped
pate q film is spread, consisting OF solution
OF bitumen of Judea and turpcntlnc mixed with
carbonate of lime. When plunged IN acid, car
bonic acid Is liberated. This forms tiny canals
through which the acld attacks the meta. more
or les, quickly. according % the thickness II he
aIbumcp. But if strong acid Dee employed, the
minute canals are soon destroyed. NJ LrnoIr
therefore uses acid liquid composed az wafer
acidulated with nitric and 0Xallc ACIDS ana
alum. An oxalate of the metal is then formed
ON the sides of the canals, which causes them
tn adhere TO the plate. The texture of the etcl-
iag is more or less tine according to the length
of time the albumen IL allowed 10 absorb he
acid Minnie hillocks remain IN form of micro
scopical obellsks In this state the pate Is
finished it requires only to be dried, and is
ready to be printed from Immediately. No pre-
liminary preparation is necessary, and the whole
operation may be completed in three hours.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-05
KNITTING AND CROCHET.
MrTTENs on TWO NEEDLES.
From TAe Weekly Tribune.
Cast on so stitches

Cast on 90 stitches
Il, row. Slip the first stitch and then knit l. purl
4 across the row knit the last twist stitch
Re1sat tins row until you have knitted piece
long enough to extend from the bottom of the hand
mot including the wrst-to the end of the little
ginger Then slip one-half the stitches on TO spare
needle and proceed rs follows:
Slip the first stitch, knit the next two stitches
together and then knit the rest of the stitches as
usual Repeat this row until there are 10 stitches
remaining, then cast them of. Narrow off the
other 80 stitches in the same way.
For the thumb. cast on stitch in this knit
PLAIN aud purl stitch. making stitches. Knit
the first. and plain and purl in the other, max
Ing stitches The next row, slip l, knit stitches
in the next loop: knit the last twist stitch
Proceed In this wav, increasing one stitch in each
row by knitting stitches in the second stitch "
the preceding row. until there are 81 stitches rake
care to knit the stitches they come, that u.s. kht
the plain stitches plain and pur the puried stitches
Now cast Of stitches from eachend OF the needle,
leaving % Knit a piece long enough for the
thumb perhaps 90 rows always Singing the first
stitch When loug enough take of One-hllf the
stitches on spare needle and narrow. as IN the up
per part of the hand. until there are stitches left
on the needle, then cast of. Proceed in the same
way with the other IL stitches This completes the
thumb.
Work II rows In Russian or ribbed crochet across
the bottom Of the hand this Will make ribs.
Then. with some bright-coored yarn, work row
Of scallops ia this way.
Join to the LIST stitch with DC. miss 3 stitches
and work trebles, en-, trebies IN the next
stitch. Repeat from.
In working the wrist increase 2 stitches on each
row after the 1st by working stitches Y De- into
the 1st and 18th stitches OF the preceding row.
This makes 1t gauntlet shape. The first row of the
wrist should consist Of 80 stitches and the last Of
81 Work rows in fcather-sttch on the back.
Sew mp the mitten. sewing in the thumb to ut the
hand. tiny bow OF narrow ribbon on the back
is pretty. Knit yarn of medium size. THIS NIT
ter Will tit n hand that wears 6l2 glove.
THIS pattern IS contributed By Miss A. L. New
eOn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-05

and will be fouEd sngulary plain and accurate.
Another knitting extra will be published early in
the winter.
AFGHAN LATTICE PArTrRN.-Mrs. B. NJ. s. asks
that Mrs. NJ. P. Fl. should again explain this pat
tern She SAYS: II would like the 5,h row ex-
planned more clearly. cannot how she makes
six STITCHES when she has only wrapped the thread
around four times. nor how she makes the fth sttch
become the LIST, and the Sd the last and what
six is it she knits plain in this order VIII he
greatly obliged to have this made plain. This is the
first year | have taken The Tribune, but think
cannot lie p house without IT,"
AFGHAN IN PLAIN KNrrrISG.-L writes NJ. F..
r. car make a pretty afghan in plain knitting.
Cast on SO stitches widen at the beginning Of each
needle and narrow stitches III the middle of
each alternate needle by knitting 17th, 18th aud
10Th STITCHES together Knit "a ridges Of each
color red black white and repeat until of reqU red
length Finish the strip with point by continuing
to narrow but not by widening, the last ridges
Materials required: Germantown wool-red,
hanks black and white. hanks each; also.
of red and black double zephyr for joining
the strips: bone needles medium size. Joining tor
Afghan strips resembling twisted cord Join the
strips with S. c. stitch Of one color make eh; join
again about an inch further on. Take out needle
I
where the first was begun, and carry it forward
about an inch then take up first color again. and 50
on being careful 20 keep il front the thread no. in
use.
ROMAN AFGuAN.--" AIDE aide" kindly writes: " /
am knitting the Roman Afghan and find that slip
ping the first stitch aud scanning or puring the last
stitch every 1ime across makes the edges exactly
alike and they will crochet together nicely when
the strins are finished. lam very grateful for the
information receive every week from yonr depart
| ment."
KNITTED EDGTYG.-" Cavrio' sends the following
pretty pattern-her own invention.
Cast on - stitches.
KNIT Q thread over twice. seam > together,
knit ?, thread over narrow, thread over, narrow.
thread over knit 2
2-KniJ back plain til remain, then thread over
twice. scam together knit 2.
3-Knit . thread over twice seam together.
knit 3. thread over. narrow thread over, narrow,
thread over knit o
4-Same as second row.
5-Kmt 2 thread over twice. seam together.
| knit t. thread over narrow, thread over narrow
! thread over KIM 2
6-Same as fourth row.
KNIT . thread over twice. seam together,
knit D thread over, narrow, thread oyes narrow
thread over knit ?
Same sixth row.
Q-Knit thread over twice, seam together.
KNIT the remaining - PLAN.
10-Blnd of 4. KNIT plain Till 4 remain. then pnt
thread over twIce. seam together, knit ..
This completes one sCallOp.