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St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
A Broadway (New York; Jam.

You have read of them, but pertains
you were never on the spot when 4 sire f
jam occurred. Think first of the n,nn-
Der OF vehicles passing up and down
two lines to the right going up and two
TO the night going down.. and If their
miscellaneous character. A coupe j,
followed by bIg mail wagon, that bv a
butchrr-cart, that by q phacton, that 'bv
an omnibus, and perhaps Il load of hav
comes next. Stand here with me at the
corner of Broadway and Chambers
Street. 1t is ten o'clock in the fore
noon. As far a. you can see, M or
down, Broadway is full of moving veli-
cle5-moVlnT on and on as if notIinr
but stone could wall check their pro,r
resS. 1he roar Is dtafening. The siyilt
is grand. 1t is q living panorama
which thrills and cXcites you, and makes
you needless Of the procession of pe,lrS-
TRANS on the walks. All! What : thut,
The stones III the roadway are like glass.
One OF a pair Of horses hitched to 4
truck slips, plunges forward - Sins
again, and, wheeling to the left, fails
fiat on the street. This is on the right
hand SIDE looking up the street. The
two lines of vehicles going down have
room 10 pass, but a team TURNING out
from behind the fallen horse locks
wheels with an ice wagon, and Broad
way is i'll an instant blocked from the
BATTERY to NtcWart'>. Look either way
and you see that every vehicle has come
to standstill, the roar has ceased,
wheels are still, and the sudden silence
almost frlghtens You. This for fifteen
seconds, which seems five minutes to YOU,
and then drivers Use from their seats,
whips flourish and crack, horses rear
and wheels rub, and yells, oaths, shouts
and screams echo up and down.
Git OUT o. the way.n
Haul that horse out of the strect!n
"Tear his wagon to pieces!n
"Look out there! Keep off my
wheels! -
How will they ever break such Jam?
Who has the power to set this tide
moving again? Two miles of vehicles
are damned togcther-a thousand
wheels are locked fast Five-ten-
thirty-a hundred men swarm around
the fallen horse in minute. They
seize him and lit him upon his feet as il
he were an overturned hobby-horsc.
He is badly hurt and can not stand.
The yells from up the street grow
louder; the shouts from down the street
are coupled with threats. Off comes
the harness, the horse is almost carried
into Chambers Street, and then fifty
men rush his mate and the heavy wagon
after him.
eli! there!n
"L0nk out! Look out!'
"OaJ % the way--shear off-shear
Off"
Crack snap - whip pull - move,
and 10! the jam is broken, the tide
moves, and the deafeniDg roar comes
back to your ears with the old familiar
sound. You may see one of these jams
during your first hour in New York
you may be there for months and only
hear tell Of them" II. ftai, - IN De-
tr0U Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
A Banner with a Strange Device.

Upon the declaration of war in 181:
the town military companies reorgan.
lied by the election of new officers and
general brushing up of accoutrements
Just before the battle of Plattsburg a
town company in that vicinity elected a
stalwart but rather illiterate fellow, by
the name of Jonathan Pilsbury, Captain.
He felt that the eyes of the whole State
of New York were upon him. He en-
courged his company to be brave in the
coming battle. He assured them that
he would "behead them as long as there
was man of them left, and that his
own name should go down to posterity.n
The banner of the company had en-
blazoned upon its folds, in addition to
the stars and stripes, the emblematc
eagle, holding in his talons the legendary
scroll, sE Pluribus Unum.'' The Cap
tain eyed the eagle with admiration, bat
was puzzled as to the significance of the
motto. Seeking light upon the subject,
he was informed by a wag that it was
the name Of the first Captain of the
company. A bright thought dawned
upon the uncultiyated mind of Captain
Pilsbury. He quietly took the flag to a
sign-painter and had the name Of the
3" first Captain :" obliterated and his own
substituted, and that company rushed
bravely into the fight bearing the banner
with that strange device, "E. Jonathan
C2erelond Penny Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
Brother Gardner Disciplines Member
OF the LimeAiIn Club.

VIII Whalebone Howker please step
dis way?' inquired Brother Gardner in
his blandest voice as the meeting was
declared opened.
Mr.. IoWker had taken seat on one
of the back benches as if to escape OBJ
servation. He moved forward at u slow
pace, and finally halted in front of the
Presidents desk.
" Brudder Howker,' continued the
President, :'you am past de MONDAY of
life, an it grieves me to hev to call you
up heah an tell you dat yer nayburs
find fault wild de carryins on aroun' yer
cabin. Dey complain dat you fight wild
your wife, keep late hours, drink too
much whisky, an dat you never have
good word fur any man. What heV you
to say?''
The old man hung his head and was
silent.
"You war slave, an dat am some
excuse, and befo' mo- gray hairs come
to yer head you hev much to Earn. If
We didn't mary fur love We hey no biz
ness libin wild a wife. If ye did, den
why do We quarrel wild her? If ye can't
agree-if We can't be ali to each oder
ii libin togeder keeps yer temper up, de
bes' fling ye kin do am to walk outer dat
cabin. De Lawd ncber tended dat man
an wife should call names an pull ha'r
an indulge in midnight battles wild feet
fists and broomsticks.
The old man raised his head to speak,
sut the words would not come.
can so you drink whisky? Ole man,
We ar layin' up heap O. sorrow fur yer
last Vars. Better put powder under
yer cabin dan whisky down yer froat.
1t am hole in yer pocket summer an
winter; it am an evil voice constantly
urgin' We to misdecds; it am a ga'lnt
wolf drinkin' yer blood; it am de voice
of misery an poverty-de clods on
coffin furnished by the Postmaster. Let
it alone. An SO ye SANDER folks?
Whisky an SANDER 60 together. Hev
We lived fifty long years wldout known
dat de sunshine of life am IN speaklh
good words to an of yer fellow-men'
All men hev DER faults an weaknesses,
but SANDER won't work change. Ii we
expect men to condone our faults we
mus excuse deirs. Go home and speak
well of YOUR naybur and dey will speak
well of YOU. Speak kindly to dem, an
kind words will come back. Oar am
fifty million souls in dis kentry, Brud1er
Howker, but yit de pusson who am dc,
termined to be an enemy to de rest VIII
soon come to feel dat he am all alone
heah. Make a change, Brudder ilowker
it tonight. Dis club hez got
helpin' hands fur any man who wants 10
be a man. ''-DctroU F'ree Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
Odds and Ends.

There are menageries, but no wom-
en-ageries.
The greatest strike of the day-12
o'clock.
Trouble can always be borrowed
at low rates.
Good deeds pan out better than
good intentions.
Claws and effect: When the farmer
hears the caws and goes forth with his
gun, the crows are likely to see the eff
feet.
The trouble with the midnight cat
is not so much that it can not sing as
that it firmly believes it can.-Chicogo
Inter- Ocean.
Those also serve who only stand
and weigh it," remarked the young man
whose dnty it was to attend pair of
scales.-Steubenyille Herald.
The dentist lives from hand to
mouth Boston Transcript. Yes, and
he has q hard pull and must frequently
jaw customers to get his fll.-Neao Or
leans Pscayune.
The ballots for ladies who vote at
the next election will probably be cut on
the bias or scalloped. It will not be at
all strange if we hear them exclaim:
!" Her ballot is old-fashioned; it didn't
look tit to be seen. Hudson Register.
Mary Anderson, in the play "Love,n
exclaims to the Empress: "I'H deal
with thee as woman deals with womant,,
and then she sails in and jaws her Ma
jesty up hill and down. Oh, you bet
your back hair that Mary acts true TO
life Boston Post.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27

THE ravages of what is commonly
known as "rot " or "banen are as
Stunning appalling proportions in the
midland and western counties of Eng
land in consequence, it is generally sup
posed, Of the excessive and long con
tinued wet weather last year. Tens of
thousands of sheep, principally ewes,
are dead and dying. In some parishes
in Gloucester, Oxon, and Warwick there
are comparatively speaking, very few
sheep left, and in Somerset there are
only 5000 left in one district, which
usually winters $4,000. Hundreds, if
not thousands, of sheep have been sold
off in the Bristol district at from IS. Cd.
to los. head.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.


John Brougham will, on the 9th of
May, be seventy years old and he will
have completed his liftieth year upon the
stage.
-Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan have
returned to London. They promise to
be back in New York in the fall with a
new opera.
-Byron's Bible, some locks of his
hair, his writing desk, and divers gar
ments and other personal belongings,
have just been sold at auction in Lon
don.
John B. Cough, the temperance
lecturer, is a bookbinder by trade. He
is a man of moods, very sensitive and
modest; either very happy, full of fun,
or respondent and sad.
Theodore Thomas has resigned his
position as Musical Director of the Gin
cinnati College of Music, on the ground,
us stated by him, that the Directors re-
fused to agree to certain reforms that he
deemed essential to the welfare Of the
institution.
MIR. Longfellow is said to write
easily but very slowly, weighing every
word before jotting it down in lead pen
Gil. There is hardly an erasure in his
manuscript, but when his work returns
to him in proof hardly any thing of its
original form is left. 1t is asserted that
"The Divine Tragedy was rewritten
after the most of it was in type.
Mr.. BARLEY Campbell said to a re-
porter of the Boston Traveller the other
day "My profits last week were $4,000
from five different companies. My
progress for the past nine years has
been through purgatorial existence,
and if have reached the heaven of sue
cess l think have fairly earned it, and
any one who wants to get it at the same
price has my sympathy.''
Count de Lesseps is a man of mid
die stature, with white hair and gray
moustache, piercing hazel eyes, which
have an extremely kind expression,
black eyebrows and ruddy, healthy
face. In conversation M. de Lesseps is
frank and eloquent and kind to re-
markable degree. His manner it ener-
getic, and his "A years and gray hair
are obliterated in his vigorous diction
and demonstrative gestures.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27

ambassador, who has just reached Lon
don, and whose style Of living is OF
barbaric splendor, is not as rich as he
was some years since, but is still mag
nifcent. The horse he rides is shod
with silver, but this is not vulgar display,
but from q conviction that silver is the
best adapted for the purpose.
-Mademoiselle Alice de Gilberton de
Breuilles, a young lady of distinguished
family, has just fallen a victim to her
love of of mountain climbing. She re-
solved, without a guide, to ascend the
Pic du Larmont, in the Pyrenees. She
had mounted some distance when her
foot slipped and she fell into the abyss
below
The Peoples Entertainment Society
has taken root in England. 1t began,
at the instance of Mr.. Bethune, by
inviting a few people to spend an even
ing in a Lambeth district of London)
schoolroom. The charges for admission
are from two to twelve cents. The room,
lights, and pianoforte are the only ex-
pense, the music being given gratis by
noblemen, gentlemen, and ladies. These
Clltl ttIC hCiS
popular.
The Russian police attach immense
Importance to the discovery of the secret
printing press in St. Petersburg. The
detectives who made the descent each
received grant of 1900 roubles, and
the Captain of the Police, who was pres
ent in person on the occasion, has been
promoted to the grade of Lieutenant
General.
DR.. j. II. Provost has found that
rain removes much more matter from
an uncropped than from cropped soil.
He placed three inches of soil in two
glazed earthenware pans seventeen
inches in diameter. Four grammes of
white clover seed were sown in one of
the pans, and the other was left without
any stimulus to vegetation. Both pans
were exposed from July 81 to Oct. 4,
and then the drainage water was col
lected and analysed with results which
warranted the above conclusion.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
Foreign Notes.


Sir James Ferguson, who has filled
many offices of profit and honor in Eng
land and her colonies, has been ap
pointed Governor of Bombay. %
-" Band plays at 4 O'Clock and Mrs
Langtry will be present. is the leeenc
of a notice recently placarded at thu
Brighton (EnglandD Skating Blink.
Mr.. Judah P. Benjamin, the new
counsel for the Tichborne claimant, ,
has expressed himself as confident O.
proving the innocence of his client anG
the truth of certain new evidence recently
discovered.
The Pope, who was great pedes.
trian in the days of his youth, still dis.
tingnishes himself in that way, taking
his daily walks in the gardens of the
Vatican at such a pace that his attendants
can hardly follow him.
The German War Department IS
busy with a plan for the fertilization OF
Berlin after the fashion of Paris. Sew
eral Of the Continental newspapers are
already discussing the details. The de-
lenses willinclude some twenty outlying
forts.
An Austrian Jew, named Julius
Blum, has been raised to the rank of
a Pacha and Assistant Secretary Of
State by the Khediye of Egypt. It is
said that no other Israelite since the
time Of Joseph Of old has reached such
eminence in the land of the Pharaohs.
Lord Wentworth, the Englishman
whom Miss Dudu Fletcher is not going
to marry. lives in a new house of Queen
Anne architecture on the Thames en-
bankment in Chelsea. He is reported
to be no great match as regards charms
of mind and temper.
Prince Lobanoff, the new Russian
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27

Two thousands police, in plan
clothes, most of whom were btouSn'
from the large provincial towns, IN a"-
dition to the regular force, guarded me
Queens procession from Buckingham
Palace to the House of Lords, i'll c"nse-
ouencc of limitations received OF meet
ings having been held of three foreign
revolutionary societies who have their
Headquarters in London.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
In England Young gentlemen speak 0

=, :.
their fathers as ''the Governor"
"pater,'' &c the overseer," etc. Here
we are more civilized. We say dad"
g the boss,'' or i" the old man." In
heather countries they say father"
but they are away behind the age
NeW York Commercial advertiser.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
School and Church.

The Baptist theological seminaries
of which there are eight, have 450 stu.
dents, the Southern Seminary at Louis.
vile, KY, leading the list with 50 stu.
dents.
Miss Lizzie Smith is q new evan.
gelist who has been working in New
Jersey. At Paulsboro about forty con
verts have been counted as the result of
her recent protracted efforts.
Mr.. j. M. Sears, the young Boston
millionaire who graduated at Yale, is to
give that institution $3.50, 600 with which
to erect a new gymnasium. The
cause of education is certainly adj
vancing.
An English paper reports THAT an
Archbishop and two Bishops of the sect
known as "Old Belieyers,' have been
confined in Russian fortress for peri
DDS ranging from seventeen to twenty
six years, their only offense being that
they celebrated religious services ac-
cording to the rites oftheir own faith.
A dispatch from Rome says it is
believed at the Vatican that many Of
the clergy who left the church as Old
Catholics are DESTROYS of returning.
Instructions have been asked by the
German and Austrian bishops. 1t was
replied that all may be received who
make an explicit declaration of
submission to the holy see and the
DEGREES Of the Vatican Ecumenical
Council.
The Baptists report 12,407 Sunday
schools, with 922,6O2 scholars. In the
list by States, North Carolina leads,
with 200 schools; New York follows,
with $50, and leads with 1885 schol-
ars; Illinois has only 500 schools, and
56,377 scholars; Indiana, $50 schools,
$4,000 scholars; Michigan, 1888 schools,
$4,000 scholars; Iowa, 224 schools, H.
445 scholars; Wisconsin,, $50 schools,
12,l5O scholars; Minnesota, Is schools,
$500 scholars.
An English gentleman named Gard
ner lately left $1,5OQO0O to found col
lege for the blind, and the Register of
Hon College has supplemented the gift
by the offer of several splendid sites.
One of them is Botham's Hotel, at Salt
Hill, where the Elton Montem, bygone
collegiate festival, used to be celebrated
with extraordinary eclat. Seventy
coaches had to change horses daily at
Botham's, which is four miles from
Windsor Castle.
1t is proposed in certain Methodist
quarters that the number of Bishops in
the church be increased. At present
there are nine, the limit which has pre-
vailed since 1864, and if nine were need
ed in 1864 it is held that twice that num-
Der are necessary now But whether
the church can support that number on
the present plan of work is another
question. The matter of Bishops
expenses is of itself a consid-
cradle item. About IA, 900 miles is the
average annual travel of a Bishop.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27

Queen Victoria, in opening Par
lament in late years, takes on the APP
pearance of robes of State but not the
robes themselves. She wears her or
binary widows dress and the royal robes
are outspread upon the throne. After
she seats herself, it is the office of the
Princess Beatrice to pull the corners of
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27

The Iowa Legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting the manuiac s.,a anu 'n
sale of oleomargarinc in that State IN
der heavy penalties OF tine and l'hPr's1
onment,
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
-Aniline inks are now is common

-Aniline inks are now is common
use, especially in connection with the
various gelatine tablets for multiplying
copies of written matter. Upon the
hands it makes annoying stains, difficult
of removal by water or acids. They
may be easily washed out by using a
mixture of alcohol three parts and gIy-
cerine one part.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27
Science and Industry,

In England portable gas is now sold
and delivered everywhere. Country
residents receive it from the city in cop
per cylinders. ~
: ALI the iron mines in the State OF
New Jersey are being worked thorough
ly, and ten of her fifteen blast furnaces
are running, with three to be lighted up
soon.
The exports of butter from this
country are only four per cent. of the pro-
duction; those Of cheese forty-five per
cent. English people eat far more
cheese than butter. 1t is staple food
among laboring men in England.
The export Of French beetroot sugar
to the end Of the year amounted to only
5000 tons, as compared with $4,000 in
1873; but in Austria, where an increased
acreage more than compensated for the
deficient crop, the export was 110,547
tons, against 97,400.
The Hlustr1rte Zeitung gives the fol-
lowing statistics concerning the tele-
graphic wires Of the world. Those of
Europe measured at the close of 1878,
76S,7S6 English miles; those of Aneri-
ca, 4,157; Asia, 24,521; Australia,
1852; and Africa, S,149. The tele-
graphic net that embraces the world
comprises, therefore, 98O,176 English
miles, or l,513,6S3 kilometres.
The Municipal Council of Paris
have made arrangements whereby the
correct time is indicated by electricity,
day and night, along the boulevards
and the principal streets, ON a large
number of dials, thus carrying out in
the most liberal manner the system of
time distribution begun by Leverrier
A small fee only is necessary to secure
accurate time in private establishments.
AS the color of indigo is really a
greenish blue when it is used as a pig
ment or in solution, and as the color Of
the dry cake is not only very black, but
variable, according to the mode in
which it is handled, Prof. O. N. Rood
thinks it desirable to let "indigon fall
into disuse in designating color of the
spectrum, and to substitute "ultrama-
rine for it, the color of the artificial
variety being intended.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-03-27

The submarine cables now working
traverse distance of 81 900 miles.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-02-27

Sparkling wit, appropriate anecdotes,
fervent eloquence, practical common
sense, and profound thought made up
the feast of good things enjoyed by
the audience. The speaking was new.
er better and the enjoyment never
more complete than on this annivcr-
sary occasion. One of the prominent
features of the and main sources of
pleasure was the excellent music fur
nished by the Orangcburg Quintette
Club. Indeed the entirei get up Of
the affair reflected credit on the
Young Americas and we wish them q
long and successful career as one Of
the leading organizations of Orange
burg.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-02-27

DEATH OF AN EDITOR.- regret
to learn that II. l.. Wright, one of Tic
editors and projectors of the Augusta
Chronicle, died Sunday morning, after
short illness, aL the residence of
Governor III. V. johnson, in Jefferson
County, Ga, in the twcnty-ninth year
of his age. He was the principal of
the Chronicle editorial staff, and had
been engaged on that paper since the
death Of his father, and was regarded
rs one OF the ablcst writer's on the
Southern press.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-02-27

HILLS IIErATIC PANACEA. The Liv.
cr is the king imperial organ of the
whole human system, rs it controls
The life, health and happiness of man.
When it is disturbed in its proper
action all kinds Of ailments are the
natural results. The digestion Of
the food, the movements OF tie heart
and blood, the action Of The brain and
nervous system, are all Immediately
connected with the workings of the
liver. TO keep the liver in healthy
condition take Hills Ilapatic Pan
acea. Only 80 cents per bottle.
For sale by S. A. Reeves.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-02-27
COURSE OF STUDY.

COCRSR OF STUDY.
First Grade.-Alphabet. Spelling. Rutl-
imcntary Arithmetic, Writing and First
Steps in Geography.
Second Grade, Spelling. Reading.
Writing, Arithmetic, SecOn,i Steps i'm
Geography, Grammar, Written Compo-
sition, Latin, Greek and German.
Third Grade. Spelling, Reuuinp. Writ
ing, Arithmetic completed, GeOvraphv
completed, Grammar completed, t'ompo-
stion, History, Philosophy. Rhetoric.
Logic. Bookkeeping, Algebra, Geoms
try, Chemistry. Latin, Greek, German
Elocution Is taught in each grade.
Miss Mackay has charge of the girls.
Students may enter ut any time durinp
the term, and are charged only fro,l,
date OF entrance.
y liberal deduction made when three
or more children attend from the same
family.
Boys and girls are prepared for tl,e
Sophomore Class in any College or for n
successful business life.
Neatness OF person, polite manncrs
ana high sense OF honor are considered
Of no less importance tl,an the brunchc,
taught, and are therefore inculcat,1
with unrcniitting asstduity.
Board may be had In good fumili.e
near the school ut ten and twelve dolluta
per month, Including washing and lights,
Boys and girls are kept separate and
no intercourse allowed.
iiberal Share OF public patronage il
respectfully solicited.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-02-27

A horse Of Mr.. Danner became un-
manageable on Sunday evening and
ran away with Mr.. Perryclea's little
son but was stopped by some negroes
beyond Mr.. w. II. bikes house be-
fore any harm was done to the boy.
This is q warning which should cause
parents to be more careful how they
allow inexperienced boys to ride spiri-
ted horse.
The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1880-02-27

JUST So.-Noticing the many idle
men in Augusta, Ca, who complain
that they connot get work, the Consti-
tutionalist advises them to go into the
country, saying: "There is demand
for labor. No man need starvc in
this section of our country, unless his
pride prevents him from working in
the field. Pride and lazncss keep
hundreds Of ablc-bodicd men out of
the fields in Georgia and other
States" Perhaps they all want
office.