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Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01
THE .JJM.JAMS.

A correspondent Of the New York
World tells all about the sensation pro-
dnced by the .jim-jams. This is the
way he tackles the subject: "Delirium
tremens! Snakes! Jimjams! Yes rve had
touches of them. You want to know
how it feels +! I'll tell YOU, You have
been drunk maybe week, maybe more.
At last liquor ceases to excite, brace tYb
or tranquilize. You drink a half pint
of brandy. It has no more effect than
SO much water. Then you are close on
the horrors. Food won't help you;
your stomach rejects it.. Now your pun
ishment commences. You can't sleep.
You are weary Oh, SO weary, but
there is no rest. You are tired of think
ing, yet the brain Will think. You lie
down, drop into doze for q moment
and wake up with a shock, as if touch
ed with an electric WIRE You are COW
ere0 WIN perSplratlOn. You get up and
walk the room, streets walk, walk.
and then fling yourself down, praying
for few minutes, sleep. All this fo1
days, with people about you, and
through nights. But no Chinese tor
turer employed in keeping some miser-
able criminal awake until he dies was
ever more full of relentless vigilance
than your abused nerves. breads hides
cribable seize upon you. Your hands
have sensation of being enormous size.
size. They do not look it. They feel 1T.
Your head in like manner feels as ifenor-
monsly pulled ont. Then your breath
comes spasnodically; hot flashes strike
at the region of the heart; all the blood
seems to rush in that direction, and
you fight aimlessly for life and ex-
pect to fall dead. This is the commence
ment of the horrors. Now You are fixed
for seeing rats and snakes and vernin."
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01
THE SORGHUM VENTURE.

FoRLoRN HopE, August 25.
EDITOR CAPITOLIAN-ln compliance
with my promise, | herewith hand you,
for publication, statement of my first
trial ofNrange cane, Of a series for 1881.
We excluded early in the season to
make several trials at different stages of
ripeness in the cane, and for the reason
that we did not deem % trial OH open
kettles fair and just. The results
which follow were attained in open
kettles at our Hermitage sugar house !;
the next trial will be by steam train
and vacuum pan at Forlorn Hope, when
we will endeavor to granulate. After
closely examining the material our su-
gar maker and myself agreed that
whilst there was - good showing for
syrup and grade sugar, it would be an
Herculean undertaking to crystalline
it, the stock being too green.
The canes we planted were from the
"Orange" variety, planted OH April 80,
in light, alluvial soil, very rich; rows
were six feet apart, aud the stalks, after
growing to six inches of height, thinned
out to about twelve stalks on every
square foot Of ground. The cane grew
rapidly and after one worl;ing in sixty
days attained its full growth and
headed heavily.
At different seasons | noted it's sac
clIarine strength and am almost certain
that it loses very rapidly in sweetness.
When we ground yesterday it was
sweetest in the centre. We have fifteen
acres still for experiment and from time
to time will note the stages of sweetness.
The all absorbing question in the
the minds of Louisiana planters is
as to whether it will granulate or not.
Now their doubts on that point appear
to me exceedingly strange when we
have the fact staring MS in the face,
that Western enterprise has extracted
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01
COMPELLED TO LICK A GIRLS
SHOES.

An incident illustrating the gallantry
OF frontiersmen toward women, is relat-
ed on William Porter, better known as
Comanche Bill, Gen. Terry's favorite
scout. It happened at Wichita few
weeks since. Bill rode into the town
dressed in complete suit of buckskin
and with gang Of honest rangers at his
back. AS he went along he saw q
"counter-iumper," as he was pleased to
call him, roughly catch o little girl
about eighteen years old (Bilps idea of
a "little" girl) by the shoulder and So
licit her attention. The girl withdrew
her arm angrily, and just then the
scene fell under Bills personal inspec-
ton.
"She was a poor girl says Bill, "and
plainly clad in an old dress, but want
going to see her insulted by any burned
counter-hopper, under my mountain
eyes. jest jumped down from my
boss, and called for that fellow to stop.
He didn't seem to want to, but l made
him stop. took up the little girl in
my arms and sat her down on q box. i
took off her shoes and said to fhe coun-
ter-jumper; Now l want you to get
down and lick the dust off the soles of
that poor girls feet yon have insulted.'
"And made him do it. He looked
down in tho mnzzle of a 45-calibre
Colts for Just about half a minute and
then he came to his milk like q little
lamb.
"And | made him lick that girls feet,
though a big crowd gathered around,
but ! had my men with me and didn't
care whether they liked it or not
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01
THE MONITOR MERRIMAC.
REER OF THE NOTED CONFED-
ERATE IRONCLAD.
-. l.. EggIeston in Philadelphia Times. ]

|
When the Federals abandoned the
navy yard at Norfolk in ISGl they set
fire to the vessels lying there in ordina-
ry. Among these was the Merrimac, one
OF a class OF vessels which, when they
! were built, were considered the finest
| specimens of naval architecture afoat
| On the occasion in question the Merri-
mac was burnt to the water line. Her
machinery remained intact and it was
determined by the Confederate authori-
ties TO make Of what remained of her an
ironclad ram that would give some trou-
BILE to the eneiny'S vessels lying in the
waters of Virginia 4 structure of oak,
sloping like the roof Of a house. was built
upon the old hulk. and this woodwork
was covered with plates of wrought iron,
two inches thick. The ends of these
plates. where they rested on the edge of
the hulk, extended about a foot under
water, Below that line the vessel was
vulnerable Us she had ever been. The
rudder chains, toe, were perfectly I'M
protected lying exposed on the fan
tail, or that portion of the hull which
extended ont abaft the shield. The
wheel was under the forward part Of the
! shield and tie pilot was protected by q
huge hollow cone of cast iron, perforated
with holes for him to see through, The
battery OF the Merrimac consisted Of ten
Dahlgren guns, lI-inch, pointing for
ward, and another pointing aft, and eight
9-inch guns on the sides.
At last there is sign of life on board
the two trigates. Their swinging booms
go alongside: their boats are run to the
davits, the Congress pipes down wash
kclothes, and now we hear the long roll of
our own drum and fife calling us to
quarters There is no longer doubt of
our captains intentions. He soon APP
pears on the gun deck, making stir
ring appeal to the crew and then takes
his station near the wheel
commanded the third division Ofguus
and was stationed amidships of the shield
From that station my view of what was
going OH outside the vessel was restrict
ed to the gun-port, and that was nearly
filled by the gun. For time | could
see only the rim of the horizon on the
distant shore. But suddenly the side of
| a great ship close aboard, came in view.
| saw her but moment, for the smoke
from her broadside of twenty-five guns,
promptly answered by our own, soon en-
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01
hour of our practice at long range, with
the Minnesota for target.


When we finally ceased firing and re-
turned to Norfolk it was for the following
reasons, as stated by Capt. Jones to
each fhis division officers: eve cant
get nearer the Minnesota than we are,
for our draft is the same as hers, and
we'll get aground if we try to get nearer
She is now apparently reduced to a
mere wreck and / don't think she will
ever get ahoat again. We have done
all that we can do, for the enemy's iron
clad keeps ont of our range. Our ship
IS leaking, probably from the loss of her
PROV when she rammed the Cumber-
land, and our crew are tired out from
working their guns for nearly two days.
| think we have fulfilled the mission on
which we came and had better return, !"
which accordingly we did, and the next
day went in dock to get ready for an
other raid
We had met and silenced upwards of
$50 guns afoat, to say nothing of the
shore batteries. 1t is safe to say that
never before had ten guns successfully
encountered such odds. If what have
said be true the Northern version of our
encounter with the Monitor is utterly
false. And ! am sustained not only by
all who served on board the Merrimac
and the wooden vessels of our little
squadron and the thousands who viewed
the battle from the neighboring shores,
but also by the captain OF the Minneso-
ta. In his report to the department he
says in effect that, seeing the Monitor
silenced and withdrawn from the battle
and his own vessel at the mercy of the
Merrimac, he had nearly completed his
preparations for abandonment and burn
ing the Minnesota, when, much to his
joy, the Merrimac returned to Norfolk.
1t may be as well to add that in her en-
counter with the Monitor the Merrimac
did notsustaln any material injury, while
l think an inquiry into the reason for
the withdrawal of the Monitor will show
that her turret would not turn after she
had been rammed by the Merrimac.
The last demonstration by the Merri-
mac was against Federal fleet of eight
or ten Vessels, the Monitor among them
They were bombarding Sewell's Point,
under the eye, as we heard, of Mr.. Lin
coin himself, then on visit to Fortress
Monroe. We steamed down from Nor
folk and offered battle, when the whole
feet made haste to huddle under the
guns of the fortress. We sent in and
cut out two transport briggs under their
very noses, but the Monitor let slip the
splendid opportunity of driving us back
to Norfolk second time.
We are much blamed by our people
for destroying the Merrimac when we
did. After the evacuation of Norfolk
by our land forces no other course re-
NAMED to us. We could not go to sea
or up the James river Unless the ves-
sci had been destroyed her surrender
would have been mere question of
time. With the enemy in possession of
Norfolk we would have been speedily
starved into submission.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

The Mansfield Democrat wants De
Soto parish to give $4,000 and tho
right of way to Col. Bremond's propos-
ed Shreveport and Logansport railroad
across the Sabine. The Democrat COM
plains that Shreveport should have Civ
en- the $4,000 asked by Col. Rre,nond,
in lieu of the offer of 500, 900 which was
made him.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

Had | the time might say something
more on this subject, but this much |
have satisfied myself of am confirm
ed in my opinion that Mr.. LeDuc is cor
rect in asserting that there is money in
sorghum. Very truly yours,
T. w. NICOL.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

Calling the sugar planters attention
to the anomalous juice measurement as
shown in table (9o Baume) l would di-
rect their attention to the large proper
ton of covering around the cane, adj
herring so tightly as to make it very diff
ficult to pull away. Our manager early
in the trial saw the cost it would entail
and allowed the cane to go with the
shuck. This causes large quantity of
foreign substance in the juice and makes
trouble for the sugar maker.
"Orange cane" juice, weighing 81
Baume, cooks to 49, thermometer at
225.
Sugar cane juice weighing I to 50
Baume, cooks to 25o thermometer at 24O.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

w T. CLUVERIuS, Druggist Bogols old
w stand dealer in drugs medicines cutlery
Anan. garhen seed and tanCN ARTICLES.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

A LEXANDRE GROUCHY, proprietor of the
II Capital House, Board by the day. week or
month, with tie best the market affords.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

TOHN JOHNSON, matchmaker and ieweler,
dealer IN iewery, silver ware, pictures and
picture frames Third street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

JOSEPH LARG UIER dealer in foreign and
- domestic hardware, house furnishing goods,
corner Third and Florida streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

I OUISlANA CAPITOLIAN Book and Job
l ! Printing establishment, on Third street, is
one Of the most cnmplete in the State.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

NJ j. WILLIAMS, manufacturer of steam
1'l trains strike pans, boilers and tanks, and
al kinds of sugar house work, corner of Main
and Front streets, near the ferry landing.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01
w. A. LeSUEUR, Publisher I,
L. JASTREMSKI, Editor. 5
VOL. 3.
ATTORNEYS.


~ G.. BIRD, ATTORNEY At LAW. viii
". attend promptly to all business intrustet
TO him. Office on Convention street, between
Third aud Church streets, Baton Rouge La.
~ w. POPE, ATTORNEY At LAW and
". Notary Public, Port Allen, West Baton
ROuge La. Special attention given to the col
lection OF accounts, taking testimony under com
mission, and to all other matters requiring the
attention of an Attorney or Notary in the parish
Of West Baton Rouge. apr9 v2nl5
T'HOS. B. DUPREE, ATTORNEY
Il and Counselor at Law. OfficeNo o, PIKE s
Row, Baton Rouge, La Will practice III the
State and Federal Courts.
HER RON 81 Is H A IL E.
I i ATTORNEYS and CoUNsELoRs AT Law. Office
ON North boulevard street, near tho post 0ffice,
Baton Rouge, La. viii attend to all law busl-
ness entrusted to them in this and adjoining
parishes.
A. &. Hsrron ,.................-.L.D ID. Beale.
VIAVROT 81 LAMON. ArToR.
NgYs AT LAW. Office Oh North Boulevard
street, Baton Rouge, La Will attend to all
law business entrusted to them in this and ad.
joining parishes.
IL. Nj. Favrot. 80. : :. D. II. Lan,on.
~ w. rs. Nj. ROBERTSON,
EI. Attorneys and COunsel0rs at Law. Office
On North Boulevard street, Baton Rouge, La.
Willprsctce in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
judicial Districts.
T.. w. Robertson. ........S. M. Robertson.
GEO. w. BUCKNER, Attorney
VI at Law and Notary Public Baton Rouge.
La. Business promptly attended to.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

grain from corn stalk and Indian corn,
and are succeeding SO we'll that they
are getting grain for grain, when we
reduce it to dollars and cents. Again, I
have seen samples made in Minnesota
from Gambler cane" q similar variety.
But these doubling Thomases, these gen.
tlemen friends of ours in Louisiana,
must come to the sugar house, smoke q
cigarette, look, doubt, string it up,
taste, and finally, with a wonderfully
wise countenance, say, "Not so good as
cane yet" Mirabile dictu! and who said
it was.
"But there is no money in it," All,
there is the point Well, my table will
tell (and we are prepared to make aft
davit to what we say, the product per
acre, and / herewith give an estimate
of cost of cultivation and manipulation,
making the cane into marketable goods
to-day:
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

WILLIAM GESELL, worker in tin, copper
w and sheet iron, and dealer in stoves. tin
ware and crockeryware, cor. Third and Florida
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

- GESSELLY Civil and Military Tailor,
VI Latest styles, Third Street
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

NICHOLAS WAX, wholesale and retail gro.
lN ser dealer in plantation supplies, fancy and
staple groceries, wines, liquors, crockery, cut.
iery, cigars and tobacco, st. Louis street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

DATON Rouge Oil Works, manufacture cot
ID ton seed oil oil cake, cotton seed meal and
iinters; Front street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

DIPER'S Furniture and Undertaking Estab-
ishment, Main street, well supplied with
everything in this line
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

MRS. 2. KAUFMAN, dealer in dry goods,
lVl fancy aud family groceries, crockeryware
aud tinware Main street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

4 ID. LYLE, Photograph Artist, Main st.
~ Photo.albums, frames, etc, kept on hand.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01
LOCAL DIRECTORY.

TADOT e. Way, auctioneers, commission
eB merchants Office and salesrOom on Third, BIO
tween Laurel and Florida streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

IL u. THOMAS, dealer in Fancy and Staple
IL. Groceries and Dry Goods corner OF Main
and st. Anthony streets
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-09-01

MISS ?. BERTRAND, AIilliner, dealer in
1'L Millinery Goods and Fancy Goods Main
4treet.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-23
Enterprising Druggist.

Mr.. George Z. O'Hara, the live druggist
of the town, is always up to the times and
ready to meet the demands of his many
customers. He has just received supply
of that wonderful remedy that is astonish-
ing the world by its marvellous cures. DIR.
Kings New Discovery for consumption,
coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, hay
fever, phthisic, Group, whooping cough, tick
ling in the throat, loss of voice, hoarseness
or any affection of the throat and lungs.
This remedy positively cures, as thousands
can testify. If you do not believe it call
at his drug store and get trial bottle free
of cost Or regular size bottle for one del.
lar. AS you value your life, give it trial
and be convinced, as thousands already
have been (4
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-23
The AutOphOne.

Is the cheapest, best, and most compre-
hensive automatic musical instrument ever
brought forth. 1t has 90 notes; (6 more
than anyother musical instrumenD plays in
3 keys; is simple in construction; 1t can be
played by a child-It is absolutely perfect
in its rendition Of music, beating Its own
time, while all others require faster or
slower motion
Does away with cranks and handles,
being played by direct action of the bellows
1t plays any kind of music. Both Auto
phone and music are cheaper by far than
all others. Send for circular,
Liberal discount to canvassers.
Address, THE AUTopHoNE Co.,
Ithaca, N. Y.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-23

The New York Times, writing Of 3
young woman who wanted to be min
lister. says that when her pastor hinted
that certain amount Of scholarship
was necessary to minister who wished
to expound the Scriptures intelligently,
or to discuss questions OF ecclesiastical
history or polity. she confronted him
with the fact that she had read the en-
cyclopedia and two religious newspa-
pers. and was, she rather guessed. quite
as good scholar as most Of the men
who tried to keep women in slavery.
Then he suggested that minister, in
order to be able to comfort persons in
doubt and afliiciion. and point out to
inquirers, the path of duty, should have
some knowledge of human nature, of
the temptations to which men and
women are exposed, and Of the ways
Of the world; but Miss Smith replied
that a woman's insight into the human
heart was far clearer than that which
any man could obtain, and that sho
huew inv vyvriA r.--s --.iy- ----ii, f---- -t.-
was eighteen years old, aud had twice
spent week in Baltimore.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-23
Belshazzar and His Brother Bill.

Belshazzar Smith had q very bad
and very dangerous habit of walking
in his sleep. His family feared that
during one Of his somnambulistic saun-
terings he would charge out Of the win
dow and kill himself. so they persuaded
him to sleep with his little brother
William, and to tie one end Of rope
around his body, and the other around
little William.
The very first night after this ar
rangement was made, Belshazzer
dreamed that a burglar was pursuing
him with dagger. So he crept over
to Williams side Of the bed, stepped
over Williams slumbering form,
Jumped out on the floor. and slid under
the bed He stayed there while. and
then, his nightmare having changed,
he emerged upon the other side of tho
bed. and got under the cover In his old
place.
The rope, IL will be observed, was
beneath the bed; and 1t was pulled
taut, too. Early in the morning, Bel
. shazzar, about half awake, scroughed
over against William. To his surprise,
the movement jerked William clear out
of bed. Belshazzar leaped out to as
certain the cause Of the phenomenon,
and ut the same time his brother dis
appeared under the bed. Belshazzar
hardly awake, was scared, and no
dived beneath the bedstead; as he did
so he heard William skirmishing across
tho blankets above his head. Once
more he rushed out, just In time to see
William glide over tho other side. Bel.
shazzar Just then became sufficiently
conscious to feel the rope pulling on
him. lie comprohended the situation
at once, and disengaged himself.
Perhaps little William was not mad.
He was In the hospital undergoing re-
pairs, for about three weeks, and when
he came out he had q strange desire 70
sleep alone.
Belshazxar anchors himself to an an
vii uow. &
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-23
A Chinese Wedding.

Mr.. Lee You and Miss All Chung,
two members of the Chinese aristocra-
CIV of San Francisco, were lately mar
ried. The presents to the bride were
from female friends only, while those
to the groom were from male friends,
On the second day after the marriage
the newly made husband gave ban
quet TO over five hundred invited
guests. The dishes were such as ap-
peal to the Chinese palate, and includ-
ed swallows nests and pheasant soup,
stewed sharks fins with chopped chick
en- and ham, roast Chinese goose with
ginger and cucumbers, stewed mush-
rooms with young shoots Of bamboo,
ducks wrapped in dry orange peel and
stewed. and tea al libitum. While the
guests were RECALLING themselves on
these and other dainties, asudden peal
ing of gongs. and an explosion OF thou
sands of ire-crackers, announced that
the bride was about to visit the enter
tainment. She entered the room hold
ing fan before her face, her bashful-
ness permitting her to remove it only
in the case of favored few to whom
she rendered the compliment Of tea
drinking. After passing through the
room, she slowly retired backward, still
keeping her face concealed from the
gaze of the curious. For three day the
festivities of the groom and his friends
continued, after which time the bride
took her turn at entertaining her
friends at her fathers house. But here
the groom was not allowed to appear
until sent for by,his parents-in-law. Up
on receiving notice, he came and car
ried away his bride to his own home,
and the wedding festivities were at an
| end.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-23
A Fool Once More.

"For ten years my wife was confined to
her bed with such complication of all
ments that no doctor could tell what was
the matter or cure her, and used up Il
small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months
ago I saw u S. flag with Hop Bitters on
it, and thought l would be fool once
moe. tried it, but my folly proved to be
wisdom. Two bottles cured her, she is now
as well and strong as any mans wife, and
it cost me only two dollars Such folly
pays.-H. w., Detroit, Mich.-Free Press