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FOR SALE.

E'oR sALE-WILL BE SOLD ON tn ESDAY.
L April 10. 1880. at the Baoe Stand, Fair
Grounds. after the selling race. the bay stallion
DOOILITY. aged six yeRrs, out OF Carrie
Crosby by Hunters Lexington, he by Lexing"
ton. apt0 st*
E,OR ALE-sCH0oNER sYLPH-TWELVE
IL tons. now lying In the Old Basin. near
Bayou bridge She is In perfect order and
ready for service. For further particulars
apply to X. FRANCIS. Agent.
mbs1 i'm No 8 Cotton Exchange tup staire).
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FOUND.

CAME TO 4ss VICTORY STREET ONE
- large BAY, HORSE bald tses, one one white
mprks which the owners can have by proving
property and paying expenses Of advertising
JOSEPH MoDONALD9ON.
ap12 its 4sg Victory street.
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ORDER OF the COURT
IS I2* JOHN HERBERT, Clerk.
succsss,on of l., n. Generes.

HMEEbEsEUH D, IT. WNMFFS8s
SECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PA
~ ish of Orleans, No. SO, s44-Notiee ts hereby
given to the creditors of this estate aud to all
other persons herein Interested to show cause
within ten days from the present notification,
II any they have or can, why the account pre-
scented by Elmors Dufour and Mrs. Josephine
Gsneres. executors of this estate. should not
be approved and homologated, and the funds
distributed In accordance Herewith.
By order Of the court
ap3S12 JOHN HERBERT, Clerk
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City Of Rev Orleans vs.. John r. Exnict0s.
THIRD DIaTRIOT COURT FOR THE PAR
l. ish II Orleans. No. 1891 BY virtue of q
writ Of hari ,facas, to me directed by the
ish of Orleans, In the above entitled cause. will
proceed to, sell at PUBLIC auction. a. the Mer.-
chants and Auotioneers' Exchange. Royal street,
between Canal and Customhouse streets. In the
teoond District of this city, on FRIDAY.
April 80 1880. at IA o'clock m. the following de-
scribed properly. to wit
A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND. together
with all the improvements thereon and all
the rights. ways. privileges, seryitudes and ap-
purtenanoes thereunto belonging or in any
wise appertaning, situated In the Faubourg
West Boullgny in theeauare bounded by Camp,
Magazine Lyon and Bordeaux streets. desig
mated as lot number twenty -four of square
number twenty nine, on q certain plan drawn
and dated August IT, 1865. deposited In the office
Of Charles Strlnger then q notary In this city.
according to which plan said lot measures thirty
feet front on Lyons street by one hundred and
eighty feet In depth.
Seized In the above suit.
Terms Oash on the spot.
j. II. ALCEE GAUTHREAUX
OWL Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans.
mh9e ap6 IA 10 26 10
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aT, LOUIS AND NEW ORLEAaB
ANCHOR LINE.
Ror ~. LouIe and all way landings
JOHN A. sOgpDER: :...:;... Carter master
Leaves TUESDAY. April 10, at s o. m.
CHAS. T. OHOUTEAU. -. .Thorwegan master
nm L Is. THURSDAY, April 15., Mt D. m.
tUm NUN EALId. -. .......... Bryant master
Leaves SATURDAY. April IT. at 8 ., n.
r. - THE BOATS OF THIS LINE PAL
.ARS&ES particular attention to all way and
plantation business.
y, ID. WOODS. General Agent
1O4 Common strsek.
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LEGAL NOTICE.
TRUSTEES SALE.
In the Circuit Court of the United States
for the District Of Louisiana.
No. 1857.

EDWIN d. MORGAN and JAMES A. RAYNOR.
Trustees and Receivers
vs.
THE NEW ORLEANS. MOBILE AND TEXAS
RAILROAD COMPANY,
THE NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE AND TEXAS
RAILROAD COMPANY tSuceessor).
HENRY J. GARDNER AND PETER BUT
LER EFT AIS.
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SUCCESSION NOTICES.

Succession OF Mrs. Frances Ann Kenuer,
Widow of George Currie Duncan.
CEOOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
- parish of Orleans. No. So 1913 - Notice
this estate and TO all other persons
herein Interested to show cause within
ten days from the present notification. II AM
they have or can. why the account presented BY
Duncan T. Ksnper. testamentarrv executor IL
this estate, should not be ap proved and homol-
ogated. and the funds distributed In accord.
ance herewith.
BY order of the court.
aps 8 I2* JOHN HERBERT CLERK,
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No. 1857.

EDWIN D. MORGAN AND JAMES A. RAYNOR
Trustees and Receivers.
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SlXTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
- parish OF Orleans. No, 90. 65s-By virtue Of a
writ Of fieri faoas. to me directed by the honor
able the Sixth District COURT tor the parish of
coed to sell nj pubic auction. at the Merchants
and Auetiopeers' Exchange. Royal street. be-
tween Canal and Cuatomhouse streets. In the
Second District of this city. on FRIDAY. April
as 1880. at IA O'Clock M, the following described
property. to wit
LOT OF GROUND the property Of VIM.
W. Wilson. defendant In the above entitled suit.
In square bounded by Religious. st. James, St.
John the Baptist and Market streets, measur-
ing forty feet three inches and four lines front
on st. james street by depth of sixty feet
eleven inches and two lines.
Seized In the above suit.
Terms-Cash on the spot. -
J. r. ALCEE GAUTHREAUX.
OWL Sheriff of the Parish OF Orleans.
m hon q IL
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LEGAL NOTICES.
LEslAL NOTICES.
COPY OF ORDER.
M. BERE B. 90. VS.. THEIR CREDITORS.

FIFTH DISTRICT UUUHT-NO. 10 GIG.
1T Is ORDERED THAT THE CESsION
Il herein made By the insolyents. NJ Rere q
Co., be and is hereby accepted for the benefit of
tors be called for the EVEN TEENTH day of
April 1880. at the office Of Martin VOORHEES,. no.
tary public In this city, as provided by law. at
II o'clock q. M, and that all proceedings as
we'll as against M. Sere & 90. as against their
property be stayed.
New Orleans, April 2. 1880.
W. II. ROGERS. Judge.
A true COPY:
john J. HANNAH, Deputy Clerk. aps Il II
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LEGAL NOTICE.
THUsTEEs' SALE.

In the Circuit Court of the United States
for the District Of Louisiana.
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J. A. H LAGROUE, JAMES FRERET SUB
ROGATBD. vs.. GUSTAvE J. FREREI
AND VIM. P. FRERET.
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J. A. II. LAdROUE. JAMES FRERET SUB
ROGATED. vs.. GUBTAvE J. FRARET.
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JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
AUCTION SALES.

By the Sheriff of the Parish of 0rIean
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ATEAM HOAyA.
RED RIVER,
He'd River sna Tsxns.

He'd River ana Texss.
NEW ORLEANS AND RED RIVER TBa wssu
P0HTATION COMPANY, AND TEXAB pa
ri. IFlO HALLWAY AND OONNEOTIONa.
lhTgufn bllls OF lsdtng and through pnpsEnss
ger tickets TO all landings on Red river and MI
Hot Springs. "oo' '"''No W
,.E h FOR SHREVEPORT, JEFTEHs.
Fl son, Hot Springs, and all lsndtnnz
In Texas. WOE ''''@S''1sse
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THE NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE AND TEXAS
RAILROAD COMPANY,
THE NEW ORLEANS. MOBILE AND TEXAS
RAILROAD COMPANY Buocessor).
HENRY J. GARDNER AND PETER BUTLER,
EFT Ais.
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BAYOU MACOn AND TErsAs.

TENsAs AND BAYOU MACON REGULAEs
PACKET.
Leaves WEDN EBDAY. April 4. ct D. no.
In FOR FLOYD, DELHI. WARSAW
grocketts Point. Egypt. Cut-oR.
Westwood. Eureka. Mound Bayou,
Coulter Point and all way landings on Bnyun
Macon and Tensas-The fine passenger steaneeg
TMN6AS,
L. v. Cooley master, Thos. Knee clerk.
will leave as above. For freight or passage an~-
ply on board, or to
BRITTON d EpPLER. 1sa Gravser al.
de2e LORD d MoPEAKE. 122 Drawer ssreaR
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Fourth District Court for the Parish of Orleans
Nos. AZ. 096 and 49. 0s7.
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FOR SHREVEPORT
Jewel, 9. p. Truslow master,
Leaves WEDNESDAY, April IA, at o. m.
40 WhsrfDoat charges. draysEs OF com rnssssars
YIN De charged 81 mouth of He'd River, Hsyoss
5ara, or at New Orleans In forwarding frsseas
For freight or passage apnlv an hoard III t,.e.
goats or ut the office Of the com pany No. 81
uamR street.. JOS. A, AIKEN, Presidant.
~. ", JQYQE, GEO. D. HITE,
u. n. UAkLIN, BRITTON b EPPLEI
JA LORD n MoPEAKE Agsnkn
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LID w Err go ST.
TECHE AND ATCHARALAYA.

TECHE AND ATCHArALAYA.
FOR BAYOU TECHE AND ATCHAFALAYA
- RIVER.
Leaves WEDNESDAY. April Il. at 8 D. m.
1beria s Jeaneaatte Franh,p' F Gsn
treville, Pattersonville. and all inter-
mediate landings on Bayou Teehe and Atcha-
'''''" 'F0 JOHN NJ CHAN tFRs. ano'
7, r. Muggah master. T. K. Voorhees, clerk,
will leave as above. For freight or passage
apply on board, or to
GEO. b. HITE. No. 142 Gravier street,
ap11 J. II. OARLIN. No. so Magazine ct.
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WEEKLY RED RIVER PACKE
Leaves every SATURDAY at o, no,
sE n FOR GRAND ECORE. ALKxAFs4
wares and md; wag l ian Il NV pa 8
elegant and new steamer
JESSE. BELL.
~ Stnnott master. G.. O. Hamilton elark.
WIN leave as above. For freight or passage
T. W. ADAMS. II Commercial Place,
P.B.-No wharfboat charges. or eommisssests
WILL be charged at mouth of Red river or Wogy
orleans for forwarding freight consigned tes
posl VI t&ells les
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BAYOU BARTHOLOMEW.

MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS INDEpEND.
ENT PA KET.
Leaves on WEDNESDAY. April u. ct D. m.
r. FOR LIND GROVE, POINT
Pleasant and all way landings on
Bayou Bartholomew-Th new pas
senger steamer
CLARA g.,
VIM. Wenzel master. @. Fl. Packard clerk,
ings on Black and Ouac6ita rivers as high as
the mouth Of Bayou Bartholomew. For freight
or passage apply on board or TO
+. J. WINBURN s5 Natchez street.
W. M SURL5. II FroIt street.
p. S.-Connects with steamer Ollie b. for
points on Upper Bayou. api1
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FOR SALE
BY
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
NO. 81 Camp street.
$4,000 OF FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS

OF NEW ORLEANS CITY RAILROAD co..
In denominations Of 800, SsOe and sI0es.
These bonds bear 6 per cent interest. payable
semi annually. on June and December l.
To secure the punctual payment of the inter-
est and retirement of the bonds. the company
deposits weekly with the Canal Bank SIa2s,
irrevocably pledged for this purpose.
The payment OF principal and interest Is
further secured by mortgage on valuable city
real estate and the following city railroad lines.
with all their rights and franchises:
Magazine Line. Prytania Line, Rampant and
Dauphine Line. Bayou Bridge Line. French
Market and Bayou Line. CANAL Line and Lake
Road.
For full description Of properties see act be-
fore N. B. Trist. notary public APPS 2w
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sfEME%s FOR BRA2Os SANTIAGO VIA
s1eeaasaa22SS Galveston iron sfeamar
4. q. HARRIS
VIII sail from Agiers
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TEXAS.
M0RaAN'B LOUISIANA AND TEXAS RAIL
ROAD AND HTEAMAHIF COMPANY.
PASSENGER ROUTE FOR GALVESTON AygEg5
HOTJHTON
STEAMERS LEAVE SUNDAY, TUEgDAx
THURSDAY AND HATURDAY

Passengers take Railroad Ferrybost sofyt o L
~. Ann street. at a. M. reaching Morgan "Trip
% Ia ~, there connecting with steamers pIyiugs
from Morgan City. In connection with Morgaaa
Louisiana and Texas Railroad.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.


| A subscriber TO the ReralGs Irish relief
fund exclaims inlay q mouse never leave
your cupboard with a tear in his eye."
Aphllosopher says: 'You require in
marriage precisely the same quality that
you would in eating sausages-absolute
confidence. Is tg .Tr r.a.ats. ...."
The Nihilists got up dinner for the
Gar at the Winter Palace the other day.
Fortunately the Czar had not sat down
wien the dinner went p.--Philadelphia
Bulletin. 2 'ifi7ss af h ra > a, 80
Young man, remember these things
while in the heighth of single blessedness
Seven dollars a week with solitude will pan
out further than ten dollars week with
twins. - Osaoego Record. '' y =
Light colors are recommended for cold
weather, as they do not part with heat
easily. Bat we notice that hand with a
white kid on will part with red hot poker
about as previously as the one enclosed in a
brown mitten.
What's in nanee'' All, William,
you aidn't know everything, that's certain.
Salt can be bought for few cents pound,
but call it chloride of sodium and the
druggist will mulct you to the tune OF half
dollar for one poor scrupIe. e.-Boston
Transcript. g. '.t'. "-I ..| '. ..."
A man will mash his fingers into jelly
while cracking nuts for the hired girl, but
let his wife ask him to tack down the par
lor carpet and there comes series of artic-
ulation that was never known to harmonize
with a camp meeting to any great extent.
1ioga County Record. .# .r. o.. ...
The following message, intended to
break bad news gently, was sent to the
widow of man who had been killed by a
railroad accident: "Dear Madam-Your
husband is unavoidably detained for the
present. Tomorrow an undertaken will
call upon yon with full particulars" a,
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TRICKS OF MEMORY.
SOME CT THE EFFECTS OF HAVING TOO
mi s5 MUCH WORK TO DO. #'m .'H
MacMillan's Magazinc

Too much work to do, besides its direct
effect on the busy worker, exposes him TO
certain incony.niences apt to escape the
notice Of others. One of these is the effecC
produced on his memory. One who leads
a rushing life, who has to hurry from one
thing to another and from one person to
another without a moments interval can
not have y vivid remembrance of many
things that happen in his experience. He
is necessarily liable. to forget, in . way
that another cannot understand. Many Q
busy physician has found himself at times
in serious trouble from this cause. He has
made promise to a patient, but before the
promise hardened in his memory, some ex-
citing case has buried him away, and the
promise has been forgotten. fta.r a'iF, sat#
Authors memories have been known
from similar cause to play them strange
tricks. We know an author who was en-
gagged in writing book amid other alb
sosbing occupations. Fer some weeks the
book had to be laid aside. When leisure
came he resumed it, as he tb ought, at the
po' mt where he had broken it of, and got
through q considerable chapter, when TO
his mingled amazement and damusement. he
be found in his drawer another manuscript,
almost precisely similar, the existence of
which hc had entirely forgotten. aa.n3a5 ).
So strange and incredibRe are these
tricks of nature. that sometimes the most
honest of men, if examined in court OF
Justice, would hardly be believed. The
non ms vicorde would hardly be accepted
BY those who have had little experience Of
the. difficulty OF carrying in the memory
impressions which have not had time to
photograph themselves on its tablets, or
have been blurred by other impressions
following too quickly. sis5a ia r5 ,f5v. ts.a.s
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Dali Times On the ccms.cck.

Next spring there will probably be quite
an exodus of prospectors from the Com
stock to camps in the eastern part Of the
State. There it is supposed there are still
chances for finding something at depths
that can be reached by means Of the or,li-
nary windlass. Here is little hope Of find.
ing anything of value short Of depths
which require the erection Of heavy and
costly machinery. A few here are also
talking of going to the Skagit mines, bnt
as yet no letters have been received from
persons kuown on the Comstock giving
particulars in regard to what amount of
gold Gao be obtained to the pan Or can be
taken out by one man with q rocker or
sluices. There have of late years been so
many . false alarms in these northern
regions that most Of our prospect0rs fear
that the right section has not been foupd.
Not few win 60 TO the Leadville country
10 the spring, and smaller number will
try their, luck in Arizona, Unless times
change greatly here within the next two
months there are many more miners on
the Comstock than will be able tof1nd work.
Experienced Comstock miners readily tlnd
employment in Colorado, and the young
and loose-footed should strike out for new
and growing camps. By so doing they
would be likely 70 better their own con-
dition, and would leave openings here for
men who are tied down by fainiles and
debts. - Virginia Enterprise. y y. ,,,ts 81.
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AGE OF THE HugAa RACE.
PROFESSOR PAIGE PREDICTS A FREEZE OF
a7I 10000 YEARS.

Ii . lecturs the other evening at Lake
View, Ill, Professor Paige developed,
among other strong theories, the rapidly
growing belief that the great icr period
that gsound the rocks into the soil had
been atzr1buted to time too remote in the
earth's history. He said it had been the
universally accepted opinion that the great
ice caps were formed by a climate endered
cold by reas9n of changed cosmic relations.
IL was known that the eccentricity of the
earth's path around the sun was subject, at
long periods. TO carry considerable change,
resulting u carrying the earth out from
the sun some $1,000, 600 Of miles further
than now. Tbs earth's great apheliou,
together With changed conditions attribu-
table to the procession OF the equinox. was
believed TO have produced the great periods
Of ice In ths past.
From this standpoint OF reckoning,
Clifford claims man has beer on earth for
z. 600 Gsc years. The Professor said be
believed the modern theory Of thought was
in favor of a different view. During ;he
winter IN our northern hemisphere we are
2. soc, 900 miles nearer to the sun than in
summer. This helps to equalize our cli-
mate, rendering the winters much more
mild and the summers heat far less than 1t
would be If the conditions were reversed.
In the southern hemisphere the exact re-
yefsed state of condition exists. They are
nearer ths sun in summer and further off
in wiater. t.t .r..r,f
i, They have cold winters and hot sum
mers. At tho South Pole there is a vast
excess of ice over that of the North Pole.
The vast accumulation of ice at the South
Pole attracts the waters of the ocean,
changing the equilibrium OF the eartb's
centre, moving tue equator to the south
and drawing off the waters of the North
Pole toward the South Pole. This ac-
counts for the clearly noticeable subsistence
Of waters in the north. and for the tact
that there is but little dry land in the
southern hemisphere. ..' '. ''.'"
a., If the ages of ice can be charged up TO
these causes, a glacial period is approach
ing in the southern hemisphere, aud will
be as its greatest heighth is about $500
years. The last period OF Ice in the north.
eru hemisphere Is also Of equally recent
date, occurring probably 6,C00 years ago.
The lecturer was OF the opinion that, II
these recent views proved correct, there
would be recurrence of the ice period in
about 1G, ,0e0 years ia the northern hemis-
phere, THIS view wonld shorten the time
of mans existence on the lobe. It was
probably safe to say that man had not ex-
listed more than afty or a hundred thou-
sand years. ....-
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8hE EagL llgyI az.
A Sad Ending,

j ST. LOUIS, March 2.-Last night q tran
sient guest at the Eaton Hotel was discov-
cred dead in his room. Investigation Show
ed a case of suicide. Morphine aid, the
work lie registered simply. (" Stock top.n
He left note saying IT die because
have got no home To go tor To-day the
body was recognized as that of u. C.Stock-
ton, nephew of Commodore Stockton and
cousin of Senator Stockton. The dead man
has occupied many Offices OF distinction
He was South Carolinian by birth and
graduated from the Naval AcaGsmy.a He
was with Perry In the japan aexpeditinn,
and at the outbreak Of the civil war resign
ed his poeition M commander IN the United
States navy 10 join the Confederate army,
Ia which he was o captain. lCAicefwafdss he
became q alcolonel of land forces. After the
war, Stockton identified himself with thsI
RAILROAD interest in the Sostb, and wis
tfeasurar Of Texan enterprise. Two
years ago be wasthe heaviest real estate
dealer in Galveston. but made o wreck of
his fortune, in wild land speculations, He
came 70 St, Louis as western manager for
the United States Trade Journal OF Bos-'
ton. He attempted to reform and fgured
here somewhat sas a importance speaker
More recently bis finances were very strait,
ed and be took to drink again, His sui !
eide was the flnal act in prolonged spree,
Before the war Stockton had o very large
plantation In South Carolina and summer
residence at Newport lie leaves Q widow
and three children comfortably provided
for by life insurance. Stockton was wholly
out Of means. Mrs. Stockton is acousin
OF Mrs. Jefferson Davis, and was once a
Southern woman OF high social position.
She and ber husband had letters to some
OF the wsaltkiest peoplein st., louis, but
he never presented them. The Knights OF
Hoaor took charge Of tho remains. ,,8
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a.. a NOVEL DUEL.
FIGHTING WITH LAssoEs UPON THE OPEN
..t PRAIRIE.

iHs A novel kind of duel was recently
fought in the Indian Territory, near Alo-
ka, between two Mexicans, cattle drivers
returning from a drive to Colorado. One
was Don j uan de la Cruz, the other Pedro
Garcia, and both were in love with the
same woman-a circumstance not confined
to Mexico. While discussing their claims
TO the possession CT their mistress, they
guarreled, of course, and declared in the
hottest of hot blood that the world was
not big enough for both of them. They
determined. therefore, that one Of them
must be extiaguished, and were on the
point of personal encounter with revol-
vers when common friends interfered and
and persuaded them to adopt the native
weapon--the lariat or lasse, Having taken
position on the open prairie at certain
distance apart, they wheeled their horses
they were finely mounted-and dashed to-
ward one another, lariats snpgly in hand,
and crouching in saddle to avoid the flying
moose. The lassOrs were simultaneously
cast. Cruz missed bis aim, but Garcia
iariAt fell With unerring precision over the
head of bis adversary, who was .ierked to
ground with sufficient JGrce 10 break his
neck. Cruz unfortunately was thrown on
his side and wouid certainly have been
dragged to death. for the horses were run
ming at full speed-had not the lariat
snapped with the sudden strain. As it
was, he was SO seriously hurt as to be un-
conscious, and he may not recover. The
iasso generally used in South America fer
capturing wild horses and cattle is dissini-
lar to the lasso employed mainly in New
Mexico. The former, long stout thong
Of skin with leaden ball at each end, is
so thrown that when it strikes neck or leg
it coils around and restrains the flying
beast. The Mexican lasso, or lariat, has q
slip moose and requires more skill in man
agement. The lasso was frequently di-
rected against the Spanish soldiers during
the struggle Of the South American Re-
public for independence, and also by some
iof the, Russian, tribes. during the Crimean
war against the French sentinels, but
with poor success. Occasional attempts
with the lariat we're made upon our troops
IA tho Mexican war, thopgh they were
speedily abandoned, az the Americans
proved much less tractable than the native
wild cattle. ...t.,,,-. ....