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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14
AssAULTINa SOPHIE.
She Is Found Lying in Gutter with
an Open Scalp.

Tuesday morning a woman. giving her name
as Sophie Stillman, was found living in the gut
ter at the corner of Canal and Franklin streets
suff-riug from wound In the head, which she
said was inflicted by one Henry Decord The
wounded woman was conveyed to the Charity
Hospital. where ner wounds were dressed. The
police ate looking for har assailant.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14

ern Rocky mountain slope. from Dakota 20
intarior Of Texas trace Rocky mountains 0.0s:
plateau districts. o.o5 California Las F; oregon
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14
Second District Court
District Court.

The succession of Robert James MeCary has
been oDsped
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14
LOOK AT YOUR TICK ETs,
The Monthly Drawing of the Louisi-
ana Lottery Company,

The regular monthly drawing of the Lousi-
ana State Lottery Com pany occurred yest rdsy.
The following were the principal prizes drawn
RSD, ,0OO-415aH
Kl4, ,A@0-Ann4G
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14

Reeds Gut Edge Tonlu provous malaria.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14
MIsDIRECrED.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

'd's Gilt Edge Tonic cures fever and aqua
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14
LOCAL n RgORn.

q. Indicates rising: n, indicates failing; u
indicates stationary.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14
Superior Criminal Court.

Willis Pueh, alias Niger Willis. larceny.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14

An excellent appetizer and regulator Of the
system Is Malakoa Bitters.
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-14
NEW ORLEANS, April 1s. II
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Maximum temperature 10, minimum 81.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
Duel With Hatchets.

At Breckenridge, Col, in the early
settlement of that country, were two
friends, Q. P. Hall and Spencer, form
erly Senator from Alabama.
At a social gathering, Hall, imagining
Spencer had insulted him, wrote him q
challenge. The latter at once accepted,
naming hatchets as the weapons, and
the next day as the time.
The parties each bought hatchets,
but they were not the size and weight
that could be thrown with accuracy.
Spencer had practised as a boy in
throwing a particular-shaped Ratchet of
certain weight, and blacksmith was
employed to make two of the kind.
This delayed the meeting until after
noon, and the interval was employed
without avail by friends III the effort to
settle the difficulty.
The parties met, and again friends in
terfered, but neither would 1etract or
make any apology. This delay proba-
bly, saved the life of Hall, for at this
moment the mail-carrier came in sight,
and the seconds told the principals to
wait, as the carrier might have letters
for them. The carrier came up with r
letter for Hall from his mother, who
wrote that she had visited Spencer'e
mother the day before. and how happy
they both were to think their two boys
we're together to take care of each other
in case of sickness or trouble.
Hall, after reading the letter, passed
it to his second, who read and handed
it to Spencer's second, the latter giving
it to Spencer. After the letter had
been read all around, both principals
blamed themselves for being too hasty,
and apologized.
left for home, and. during the war,
joined the Union army. Hall, finding
gold in Montana, was there married.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22

husband" Entering the Doctors con-
sultatlon room, IN an apparent state of
uncomfortable agitation, she informed
the latter that she had brought her I'M
fortunate spouse to visit him. III the hope
that he would undertake to cure him of
the strange monOmania under which he
had labored for some time past my
afflicted husband, she said, us wealthy
proprietor from A, in the Govern
mcnt Of Ninsk; he is quiet and harmless,
but has diamonds on the brain He will
talk of nothing else, poor fellowl
Will you see him! | have leIt him in
your drawing-room, and am much too
nervous to be present while you diagnose
his case. Might I, therefore, ask YOU to
accompany me to my carriage bafore you
go to him! It Will be such relief to
nae to leave him in your care" Her
ingenious device was crowned with COM
plete success. She drove of with the
diamonds; an interview bet the doc
tor and the jeweler fully confirmed her
statement in respect to the latters alleged
monomania, and resulted in his being
placed under bodily restraint, from which
he was rescued three days later by one of
his partners, who succeeded, with the
assistance Of the police, in tracking him
DR.. F-f's renowned private lunatjc asy-
lum. No trace has yet been discovered
Of the gifted lady who accomplished ting.
in every sense OF the word, 'briiliant"
coup.-London Telegraph
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
A SyphOn Boot.

Thanks to the good offices CT rich
friend. poverty stricken young artist
obtains commission to paint the por-
trait of a rich young lady.
Upon going to wait upon the lady he
manages to get himself up very credit
ably as to hat, coat and pantaloons. but
his boots-ah, his boots! There is an
aperture in the toe of each where the
sole has parted company with the
upper.
On the ROAD to the lady's mansion a
sudden and violent shower came up,
flooding the sidewalks, and when he
enters the drawing-room he perceives to
his horror that his boots have turned
into pumps and that at each step the
water within them is spouted forth over
the costly carpets, as if from the bow
holes of lively young whales.
He, however, is not disconnected, but
says gracefully to the lady of the man
sion,
upon my word, madame, these sy-
phon boots that are all the fashion and
are SO highly praised may be all that
they are said to be for outdoor use, but
for wearing in the house they will never
answer at all"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
F0reyyarned of Death.

The Port Byron (N.Y) Chronicle re-
lated singular premonition o. death
of George Edison, of Seneca Falls. He
arose in his usual good health, and dur
ing the morning he took gold ring
from his finger, and, handing it to his
sister-in-law, said, Kate, take this ring,
ard always keep it as memento of me;
it is the last gift you will ever receive
from me, for 1 am going to die to-day"
She tried to laugh him out of his fancy,
as she thought it, but was unable to do
SO. By his request she accompanied
him to the village posto flee to see one
of his most intimate friends, to whom
he broke the same sad news, and with
tears in his eyes babe him good-by and
a last farewell. He then visited each
person he wished to act as pall-bearer,
and received from each promises to act
as such at his funeral He also visited
the members of the band to which he
belonged, and requested them to attend
his funeral in body. He then returned
home and made an urgent request for
his brother to come home early in the
afternoon, as he wished to talk with him.
During the afternoon he gave his broth
er full directions as to the disposition
to be made of his worldly goods and
the necessary arrangements for his
funeral. About shutdown the same day
he was taken with hemorrhage of the
lungs, and at 10 o'clock the next morn
ing he was corpse.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
A Brilliant Diamond Robber.

One of the cleverest diamond robber-
les of modern times is reported in tone
of odd complacency by the leading jour
nails of St. Petersburg. About fort
night ago handsome equ1page drew up
at the door of the first jeweler in the Rus
sian capital. Alighting from the carriage,
an elegantly dressed and remarkably pref
ty young lady entered the shop and re-
quested that some parures of brilliants
might be shown her. Several costly
were forthwith submitted for inspection,
and after some hesitation she selected
RIVERS and pendants valued at 10000
rubles, and stating that she was the wife
of an eminent mad doctor, whose name IS
a household word in st. Petersburg, re-
quested the proprietor of the establish
ment to accompany her home with the
Jewels, in order to settle finally with her
husband about their price. The jeweler
packed up his diamonds, and got into
the carriage with his fair Gus
toner. Presently they arrived at a
large hotel, and were received at the por-
tie cochere by Suisse IN splendid livery,
who conducted them up a brilliantly
lighted staircase into a richly furnished
drawing room, in which the lady begged
her ompanion to take seat, and, jewel
case in hand, proceeded to summon cher
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22

In one of our sleeping-cars in Amer
lea there was an old bachelor who was
annoyed by the continued crying of a
child and the Intellectual attempts of
the father to quiet it. Pulling aside the
curtain and putting out his head, he
said: "Where is the mother of that
child? Why doesn't she stop that hui
sance?" The father said, very quietly {:
"The mother is in the baggage-car in
her coffin; I am travelling home with
the baby. This is the second night 1
have been with the child, and the little
creature is wearying for its neither. I
am sorry if its plaintive cries disturb
any one in this car" wait minute"
said the old bachelor. The old man
got up and dressed himself, and COM
PEELED the father to lie down and sleep,
while he took the babe himself. The
old bachelor stilling the cry of that
babe all night was a hero. And the
man who, for the sake of others, gives
up lawful qualification in his own
house or in the social circle, is as great
hero as though he stood upon the
battlefeld.-J. B. Cough.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22

goddess-and for this feeling alone he
felt the great treasure of Elsie's love
had been denied him.
But rumor was stirring in the fash
ionable world that never reached the
quiet old homestead. Men looked with
pity on the lovely, trusting wife; women
smiled and sneered behind their fans;
and still Elsie never dreamed aught Of
the shame and disgrace that was gath
ering around her.
When the news of her tickle husbands
elopement with dashing widow reached
her, she threw up her hands with cry
of despair" Nathaniel, Nathaniel, my
sin has found me out!"
Three days later the dead body of
her husband-for a railroad accident
had ended his career-was carried home
to her; and Elsie, broken and full of
bitter remorse, followed it to its last
resting place; then turned her face to
the quiet old home she had left bride
but a few months before.
Nathaniel asked no questions. The
sad, white face was dearer to him now
than it had ever been before. Hemade
no outward sign of the love that was
burning within his breast, yet his care
of her was wonderful, and he thanked
God that through affection he had been
shown the weakness of his idol, and that
Elsie was but human, while his own
heart had been purified in the fire of
tribulation. More than a year after
Lewis Walton's death, We find them
standing where we first saw them-under
the old willow-and Elsie is wearing q
wreath of dogwood berries and autumn
leaves. Her cheeks are flushed and
tender light fills the beautiful eyes.
elsie" -Nathaniel imprisons the
slender fngers-"you must let me
speak. Give me back the love lost
when you became the wife of another"
Nathaniel voice is full of
contrition-"I did not know my own
heart then"
"Yeu know it now, Elsie; say it is
mine"
Forever and forever, Nathaniel"
And who will question his right to
take the golden head to his bosom,
where We hope it may rest for many
years to come.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
A Suggestion for Whist Players.

In his book on whist" Caven-
dish gives an admirable method of shut
ting up nuisance who is to be met
with at three tables out of four. This
is the " If you had" partner, who, after
every hand, informs you that " If you
had done SO and so, we should have
made so and So" This is the remedy:
I" My favorite retort to him is to ask if
he has ever heard the story of your
uncle and your aunt?' If he has, he
does not want to hear it again, and is
silent. If he has not, and innocently
falls into the trap by expressing de-
sire to hear it, I say, in solemn voice:
If your aunt had been a man she
would have been your uncle"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
Snow Forts.

There is no sport among winter
games more exciting and amusing than
SNOWFALL warfare.
All the boys must join in building
the fort, selecting the highest point of
the Fairgrounds, or, if the grounds are
level, the corner of O wall or fence.
Surprising the top of mound has
been selected as the place where the
works are to be built, the first thing to
do is to make out the plan of the foun-
dations. The dimensions depend upon
the number of boys. A circle, twelve
feet in diameter, or square with sides
of ten feet, will make q fort that will
accommodate company of ten boys.
It is better to have the fort too small
than too large. The chief engineer
must set his men at work rolling large
snow-balls; the smaller boys can COM
mence and the larger ones take them
in hand when the balls have gained in
size and become too heavy for the
younger boys.
Make these balls of snow as large and
dense as possible, then roll them in
place upon the lines traced out for the
foundation. We will suppose it to be
a square. In this case, care must be
taken to have the corners of the square
opposite the most probable apnrnanh Of
the enemy. This will leave the smallest
point possible exposed to the attack,
and the inmates of the fort can, without
crowding each other, take good aim at
the foe. After the four sides of the
square are covered by large snow-balls,
all hands must pack the snow about the
bottom, and fill up each crack and
crevice, until a solid wall is formed.
Then, with spades and shovels, the
walls should be trimmed down to per
pendicular on the inside, but slanting
upon the outside. The top of the wall
may be two feet broad and the base
four feet. When the wall is finished,
prepare mound of snow in the center
of the square for the Flagstaff. This
mound will be very useful as reserve
supply in case the ammunition gives
out. A quantity of snow-balls should
next be piled up, inside the walls, at
the four corners. This done, the fort
is ready for its defenders.-St. Nicho-
las.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
LOVES "pRoM1sEp LAND"

From this high hill, crowned by wood,
My sight enjoys as fair land
AS that which Moses thought so good
When last he led his pilgrim band.
Broad fields Of grain and rustling corn;
Amid the orchards. houses white
And well filled barns; and scenes where morn
And noon and eve should give delight.
Though DER the land his power still shines,
Down in the west grows large the sun;
And far away those blackening lines
Tell Nights rule is even now begun.
1 see the slanting beams of light
Upon distant window fame.
All thus greet the falling night,
And dream of one must not name.
Fond fancy sees dark-eyed ginl,
Who, looking on the glowing west,
Is toying with dark brown curl
May her dear life be ever blest!
I'm glad to think she has no thought
That upon the mountain stand.
As have sinned my prayers are naught;
I'll ne'er enjoy the promised land.''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
Science and God.

Physical considerations do not lead to
the final explanation OF al that we feel
and know.
We meet problem which transcends
any conceivable explanation of thepow-
ers which we now possess.
We may think of the subject again
and again, but it eludes all intellectual
presentation.
Having thus exhausted physics and
reached it's very rim, mighty mystery
still looms beyond us. We have, in
fact, made no step toward its solution.
We try to soar a vacuum when we en-
deavor to pass by logical deduction from
the one to the other.
Religious feeling is as much verify
as any other part of human conscious
ness; and against it, on its subjective
side, the waves of science beat in vain.
I could see that his (Carlyle's) con-
tention at bottom was that the human
soul has claims and yearnings which
physical science cannot satisfy.
1t seems high time to him (Virchew)
10 enter an energetic protest against the
attempts that are made to proclaim the
VI iCSSdtCn dSOupl 1GASlo, SilAN~
the opinions of scientists as established
science.
We ought not, Virchow urges, to rep
resent our conjectures as certainty, nor
our hypothesis as doctrine; this is
inadmissible.
The burden of my writings in this
connection is as much recognition OF
the weakness of science as an assertion
of its truth.
If asked whether science had solved,
or is likely in our day to solve, the
problem of the universe, I must shake
my head in doubt. Behind and above
and around us the real mystery Of the
universe lies unsolved and, as far as we
are concerned, is incapable of solution:
The problem of the connection of body
and soul is as insoluble in its modern
form as it was in the pre-scientifc ages.
There ought to be clear distinction
made between science in the state of
hypothesis and science In the state of
fact.
And, inasmuch as il is still in its by
pothetical stage, the ban of exclusion
ought to fall upon the theory of evolu-
ton.
After speaking of the theory of
evolution as applied to to the primitive
condition of matter, as belonging to the
dim twilight of conjecture, the certainty
Of experimental inquiry is here shut out.
Those who hold the doctrine of evo-
luton are by no means ignorant of the
uncertainty of their data, and they only
yield to it provisional assent.
In reply to your question they will
frankly admit their inability to point to
any satisfactory experimental proof that
life can be developed, save from dem
onstrable antecedent life.
I share Virchow's opinion that the
theory of evolution in its complete
form involves the theory that, at some
period or other of the earth's history,
there occurred what would now be
called spontaneous generation. 1 agree
with him that the proofs of it are still
wanting.
1 hold with Virchow that the failures
have been lamentable, that the doctrine
is utterly discredited.-PTCt. TyqadaU,
nm the F0Yt11 j0bfI3y Re,,je1c
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22
BRIEF MISCELLANY.
FALSE CUPID.

False Cupid passed my road one day,
Clamorine for an hour:
led him to my cottage porch.
Where roses blushed in flower.
Then pleading hands he wrung and said,
In tone half sad, half play;
~Give to me but one blossom, dear,
And shall stay away"
MY heart laid within his palm,
My true heart full-and free;
lifted loyal lips to his,
For love meant love-to me.
Devoid was of all loves art;
only knew to love and give.
Alas he taught M my sweetheart
Loves common sequel-grieve and live.
Oh, love poured ont like vineyard winei
oh, kisses wanting vile or guile!
give my past, my all to come;
He-mock smiles for a little while.
1 cannot change nv wounded youth,
Nor hour OF bleak hereafter,
For love to me proved tears and ruth;
For him twas lies and laughter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22

"Aw, MY good man, what kind of a
residence do You think would suit me?"
asked an exquisite of a house agent.
After taking him in, eye-glass and all,
the agent replied: "A fiat, I think,
would be most appropriate"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22

He that pryeth into every cloud may
be stricken with thunderboN.-Joseph
Cook.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22


past him, leaving him to conquer the
rush of feeling that threatened to over
power him. At length he felt strong
enough to face his future, and went in
to the house with o look on his face
that told his mother the hour she
dreaded had come; for, with the keen
instincts of her sex, she had foreseen
the result of Lewis Walton's attentions
and was more grieved than surprised
when Nathaniel told his pitiful story.
Elsie was married. The first snow
had just whitened the earth when she
left the Holt farm, the wife of Lewis
Walton, strange pallor on her beauti-
full face, a strange dread in her heart !;
for some thoughts mad come to her in
the eleventh hour that were neither
pleasant nor ennobling, for they taught
her that her life had been a mistake, as
far as stability of feeling and purity
of purpose were concerned; for the
white, weary face of Nathaniel Holt was
dearer to her heart than the handsome
face of the husband at her side.
The winter days rolled on. News of
Elsie Walton's triumphs came now and
then to the quiet farmhouse and
stirred Nathaniel Hollis heart with a
touch of his old pain; for he could not
forget that all this beauty and grace
might have been his. Lewis Walton
might value it as a child prizes beau
tiful toy; he would have idolized it as
q devotee worships the beauty of his
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-22

y
this was what turned me wild altogeth-
er. Old Martha never liked my coming
here, and always was telling me what
changed times you had-how none of
your friends would come to the house
because they weren't pleased with your
choice, and how unhappy you seemed
to be; and at last she told me there was
young Lady you had been engaged to,
good, pious, energetic worker in the
church, that the congregation would
have been delighted with-Mis Vanson,
you know and, ali me. when l COM
pared my useless self to her, and re-
membered how my love must have
made you take me out of pity, I couldn't
couldn't stay to be burden"
@Hush, my beloved wife; don'tcry on
this happy, white night of our lives!
That was all false, and Martha shall find
a place elsewhere. Now, tell us about
this little fellow"
They both pored over the soft waxen
face of the sleeping infant, JOY in the
mothers and in the fathers eyes.
"He came three weeks ago." MUIR
INJURED Laurette, blushing happily. @and
it was to give him to you I lived and
worked so hard. He kept me from de-
spair and wrong many dark day, and
SO, as soon as could travel, we came"
"Our little boy" breathed the pastor,
softly kissing him, and then, with ten
der, but most grieving reproach, he
cried: 3Oh, how could you leave me,
and battle through it aIone-and new
er knew"
Sc that was how Laurette came. back
to Beranger Haslem.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-17
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

GLADSTONE has published letter ex-
pressing his gratitude to all, at home and
abroad, who manifested sympathy for him
in his recent illness.
The Government Inspector announces
that the number of dead bv the Seaham
(Eng.) colliery explosion is close upon 165.
MARSHALL o. ROBERTS, one of the
wealthiest and best known citizens of New
York City, died at Saratoga on the 18th of
paralysis. He began life Is clerk in a ship
chambers store and amassed fortune,
mostly in the shipping business, estimated
at from s., 0OO, 600 to $6,OOO,0OO.
ADDITIONAL returns from the YER
mont election, received up to the 11.h, for
24O towns, show Republican plurality Of
26, 551 and majority of d, 041.
The Republicans of the Second Illi-
nois District have nominated George r.
Davis for Congress.
"NICKEL" SMITH, general hard
character, was hanged by some Of his neigh
bors at Pueblo, Coio., on the 18th. 'e
BY order of the National Board of
Health, the embargo upon the Mississippi
River ceases on Oct. 10, no further danger
from yellow fever being apprehended this
season.
JOHN S. CHAPMAN, prominent law
yer of Alexandria, Va, committed suicide
by blowing out his brains. No cause as
signed. UsJ4
& A DAUGHTER has been born to the
Queen of Spain. It will be christened
Mercedes.
1T is thought that an official count
will be necessary to determine the result Of
the Alabama election so far as concerns the
Constitutional amendment,
JOSEPH TAPsoN, formerly Secretary
Of the Metropolitan Railway Company's
Provident Savings Bank of London, who abb
seconded in May last with about $50, 900 of the
company's funds, has just been arrested in
New York.
JOHN MCCARTHY, an employee in the
Mare Island Navy Yard at San Francisco,
killed his wife and then shot himself, but
not fatally. His wife refused to live with
him.
Hon. G. B. WILLIAMSON, prom
inent lawyer of Waycross, Ga, was found
dead in his law Office the other day. 1t is
supposed he poisoned himself on account Of
a cancer. -