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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-29
Investigating che Ninth Massa-
chuksttG.

Boston, Ostober 2s.-Adjutant General
Berry has issued a special order commanding
a detail of one staff and one line officer
from the First Brigade to visit Wilmington,
Del, Richmond, Va, and other places, TO
investigate the charges made against the
Ninth Massachusetts Regiment on their late
visit to Yorktown.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-29

81 consider it 5 great pleasure" writes A.
}. Doak, Esq., manager American House,
AmesbuTy, Mass, "to state that the IND am
matOTy rheumatism which so severely affect
ed my feet, yielded et once upon few applt-
cations of the St. Jacobs on. which is
worthy Of the highest recommendation"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-29

The New York Sun says that ''Robert
Bloskie, who has just died in Wabash,
Ind, has for nine years lived chiefly on
dog meat, which he declared to be whole
some and paiatable. His family relish
the same food, and propose to Continue
its USE" Some people do fall la love
with sausage
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-29

LONDON, October 2S.-The British steamer
CalliOpe, from Odessa for Bremen, has been
totally lost on the Spanish coast. Only one
person was saved.
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skinny Men.

"Wells' Health Renewer," greatest reme-
dy on earth for impotence, leanness, sexual
debility, etc. 81, at druggists. Depot, Os-
ceola Butler, Savannah.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-29
Louisiana State LOTTERY Oomp'v

Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Leg
islature for educational and charitable pur-
poses-with capital of 81, ,000, ,0O0-to which q
reserve fund of over $4,000 has since been
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise was made a part of the present State
Constitution, adopted December I'd, A. D. 1879.
frs GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS viii
take place monthly. It never scales or post
pones. Look at the following distribution:
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE LYNCHBURG POST OFFICE.

The Fight Resumed-A Lively Row
Behind the Closed DOOrs-NO De-
cIsiOn Reached Republicans
Weakening - FIltbusterIng and
Feasting-mOTgan TO Arthur-Ab-
sent Senators Recalled by TeIe-
graph.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-29

STANTON, Va, October 28 "A fire broke
out this morning on New street and par
TALLY consumed three stores. The entire
damage is estimated at $4,000. j. w. Abby
is the heaviest loser, his loss being about
$l2, 600; covered by insurance.
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ruE sssHvEsT ROME.

-.-,-..r.d M she Post 0mee In Sa-
D. .- second Glass Matter.
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lotteries.

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sT. LOUIS, October 2S.-The Mississippi
improvement Convention reassembled at
1920 o'clock this morning. The following
telegram was read by the Secretary:
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-04-03

might pass for French. with ignOr-
ant persons, but 1t is q sac wager
that 1t is anything else than
French.
The truth Ia that no foreigner
ever can attain the accom- pllsh =.
ment of writing French In q man.
ner which will stand criticism.
Lord Brougham thought that he
could do 1t, and he even published
addresses which he supposed to
be in that tongue, but 1t was all an
illusion. The late Count Gurow.
ski, q man of far more eolid abil.
tiles and more substantial erudl.
ton than Mr.. Evarts, once com.
posed = volume In French and
sent 1t over to q friend to get It
published in Paris, with the single
Injunction that nothing In It should
be changed. 1t was submitted to
an eminent French scholar whose
word would have been influential
with publishers, but he soon return.
ed the manuscript, saying that 1t
was original, vigorous, and interest.
ing, and that II 1t were only written
In French 1t would be worth print
ing.
Probably Judge Thurman and
Mr.. Evarts both will know more
about the French language when
they get back from their silver
mission than they know at present.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-04-03
Limo ON Alkaline s oil.
from the visalia Detail

It Is q fact known to chemistry,
that soda and potash have a strong
er affinity for sulphur than lime
has. 1t Is also known that lime
has a stronger affinity for carbon
than either Of these minerals. It
follows, that If sulphate Of lime be
added to soil impregnsted with the
carbonate Of soda, that the soda
will take up the sulphur from the
lime, and the lime will take up
the carbon from the soda. Both
substances in this form will be
harmless in their action on vegc.
tation. Now, 1t has long since
been determined that the obnox.
ious property In some Of our soils,
known as 'alkali," is the carbon.
ate of soda. II we add sulphate of
lime (gypsum) to the soil, this
property will be neutralized, and
the soda will remain as q fertilizer,
for no plant grows which does not
have either soda or potash In Its
com position. Some plants, a. to.
bacco. for instance, can be'made to
replace one OF those minerals for
the other, and this Circumstance
causes the difference between the
tobacco grown In, the valley OF the
Connecticut aud that grown on the
banks of the Loire, In France.
Quicklime would ultimately have
much the same effect that lime sui
phate would have, but 1t would
lack the double reaction, and, there
fore, its effect would not be go sud.
den. 1t Is said that gypsum exists
| In ebunda moo In tho coast range,
and it would probably, therefore,
be the cheapest. The cost of trans
portatiOn, and the abundance of
cheap land, will prevent any inn
mediate efforts at retaining any
considerable parcel of alkaline
soil; but it frequently occurs that .
small patch of al b all is found where
1t Is an awkward bushes to leave
1t, and D dead expense to cultivate
1t. As we trrigate our soils, how.
ever, In this climate, we shall learn
more Of the necessity Of using lime.
Tho great amount Of water which
will he evaporated from the surface
will continue to increase the de.
p0sit Of alkali. The moisture Of the
subsoIl holds the carbonate OF soda
In solution, aud rs that moisture IL
evapOrated from the surface the
soda is deposited. Hence, the sudden
flooding of land, while the subsoil
10 dry to great depth, tends to
sink the alkali, and hence dry
lands which are open and porus are
never coated with 1t. Where dry,
sandy land, noted for its freedom
from alkalI, has had the water
backed up into the subsoil by the
filling up of the channel of the ad.
jacent stream, so that water comes
within one or two feet Of the sur.
face, five years were sufficient to
give thick coating Of alkali. The
alkali, In its turn, acts upon the
silicates in the soil, thus tending
to dissolve the sandy PARTICLES. It
will be seen that we must be pre-
pared for radical changes In the
soil as the result Of Irrigation.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-04-03
Still Nsving.

The agitation OF excessive
freights, opposition stea ship com.
pany, o wharf at Prices landing,
etc., bids fair to be the cause Of
something being accomplished yet.
The people at Arroyo Grande are
determined to build . landing
Themselves, II 1t 10 not built from
some other source. The farmers of
this county are beginning to see
that they can do something TO re.
duce their freights, and are
now getting this thing In \
tangible form 30 that something
may be accomplished. When
SUCH men as r. e. Jack, Fl. N.
Warden, Steel Bros, and others,
among the largest and heaviest
producers and shippers In the
county, take hold Of these matters,
OF course they will do something.
On Monday morning we we're
shown q paper setting forth the
necessity OF new wharf at the old
Avila landing and those siguing
the paper agreeing to take the
| amount Of stock In said wharf ~
the amount set opposite their
names. The paper had just been
drawn up when 1t was shown US.
but we found that the paper al
ready contained subscrl ptions to
the amount Of ten thousand dol
lars, with such names 40 r. e Jacks,
Steele Bros, aud H. NJ. Warden for
i've hundred dollars each. Tnis is
no Hght sgainst the Sonthern
Pacific Steamship Company nor
the Railroad Company, but the
people want . wharf whore they
can drive their teams to and un-
load their own produce, 60 II they
have tse ms OF their own and desire
to haul their produce to the wharf
Instead Of paying freight over the
railroad, they can do u. II 10 esti-
MATED that . wharf 1t Avila would
COST about 3le.00o. and the gsntls-
men Who have thle move 10 charge
are satiellsd ehey oan rails that
Qent q : WY eneEe tsmA nad
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-04-03

From the New York SUM-

In . couversatlon with Senator
Thurman, reported In the Cincin.
natl Commercial, the question was
put to the distinguished gentleman
whether Mr.. Evarts spoke French +,
and his reply was quite positive.
HE reads and writes the language
very rsadlly,n said Mr.. Thurman,
stbut to read and write French, OF
te talk French, 10 very different to
making . speech In French"
Jndge Thurman may be- pardonsd
for mot being 90 familiar With ques-
lions oonqeFntng the French lang,
49, asN e With question: q !
AGlesleo1 lev O. polttico: The
0lQt6 = t&at "a French which NJ.
~ A.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-04-03

oue yssr, by mail or express one copy"es@
Six months, 20, " eel g
Thres "a " .1 "
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-04-03

Advertisement Inserted at reasonable
rat4S.
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Eos An9eles geralG.
,.Rms FOR DAILY hERALD.
OSkNGELES WEEKLY HERALD

tspublished every Saturday NJ orning..
TERMS.
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TINE COMMERCIAL
RESTAURANT
". DOL. PROP'R,
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Receives alive and serves mp every day
the choicest FIsa. including sole.
Mr. DOL il the exclusive consignse Of
the celebrated FROMA0E DE BRlE,
which can only be had ct this reetaurant
SPRING CHICKENS, Just In from the
ranches, cooked in every style.
This Restaurant II Los ANGLERS Dol
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ound
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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
Bright Post. Office Clerks.

The ingenuity of Post-office clerks in
reading illegible hieroglyphics, and cor
recting blunders of direction, deserves
to rank among the wonderful feats of
human skill. An English periodical
gives an amusing instance of this inge-
nuity. The late Bishop of Oxford, Sam
uel Wilberforce, carried on 80 extensive
an official correspondence that he wrote
many letters in the cars to save time.
He was accustomed to date from the
place OF writing. One such letter,
dated "Rail, near Reading" and
signed as usual, s.. Oxon Samuel of
Oxford) came into the hands of man
who was ignorant OF the official rank of
the writer, and of his habit of using the
cars as a writing-desk. He, therefore,
interpreted date and signature in the
most literal way, and directed his reply
to IS. Oxon, Esq, Rail, near Read
ing" The Post-ot1ice clerks were
sharper-witted, and read in the direc-
ton more than he had put into it, for
the letter, after delay of only one or
two mails, found its way to Bishop Will
berforce's London residence, 81 Eaton
Place. There was no red-tape, as in
our Post-office, compelling long jour
ney to Washington, in order to receive
a new direction Youths Companion.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
The Ladies of CTDruS.

An American lady recently returned
from Cyprus gives some interesting
facts concerning the Cypriote women.
Two-thirds of them are Greek. and the
remainder Turkish, with sprinkling
of Europeans. Beauty is not their
strong point fact they are fearfully
ugly. The Greek ladies are more intel
ligent than the men, and their handi-
work. in lace-makin$, in cotton-spinning,
in the manufacture of silk, is often
splendid, but they are opposed to the
introduction of steam and the modern
improvements. The Turkish ladies are
inferior to the Greeks, INDECENT and I'M
educated, but a cross between the Arab
and Turk is extremely intelligent and
witty. The Greek women have French
eye for colors; 'my Greek maid wore a
blue cashmere skirt, fine black velvet
jacket opened in front, with loose
sleeves gold embroidered, and under it
a white silk chemise--a sort of gauze
with heavy stripe and trimmed with
white lace, cut low in the neck, and set
off with considerable jewelry," for
a Greek woman dresses to be seen,
while if q Turkish woman allows her
veil to fall and shows herself, her bus
band is entitled to a divorce. The
Turkish married women wear no Jewell
ry; only young ladies wear it, and they
marry often at fifteen years Of age.
Greek women walk out freely in the
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12

evening and often with masculine es-
corts, but Turkish women are never
seen in public with man, nor after
shutdown. Though the Greek women
often talk very agreeably. and are ex-
tremely polished in manners, they can
not write their own names, and are un-
able to read line. There are plenty
OF children in Cyprus, and they are
treated as if they were dogs. Even
when belonging to good families, their
hair often is matted, their bodies are
dirty, and beaten in frightful manner
by the parents. Yet every father thinks
it his duty to provide house and
garden for each of his children-es-
pecially for a daughter, and parents
frequently relinquish their own home
to daughter who is about to be mar
ried. Y. Eveni,,g Post.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
WOolly Elephants in New York.

Two "woolly" elephants of diminu-
tive size arrived in this city on the
steamer Oxfordshire from Singapore.
They were the property of Captain
Jones, of that vessel. who has sold
them to Charles Reiche, an importer of
animals. A Tribune reporter saw the
animals at No. 30 Chatham street yes
terday. They are the first of their
species ever brought to this country.
The larger of the two is less than thirty
six inches high, while the smaller
scarcely measures six inches in height.
They are thought to be about six years
old. The chief popularity of these ele-
plants is the fact that they are covered
with a thick black wool or hair, es-
pecially about the crown of the head,
the back and the legs. The wool is two
or three inches long. "Prince" and
"Sidney''-for thus they were named by
the crew of the Oxfordshire- ARE natives
of the Malay Peninsula. Although
other elephants have been caught, they
have invariably succumbed when taken
from the bleak mountain ranges to the
warmer plains. Hence the fact that
this species is generally unknown, and
mentioned by but few naturalists.
7. Tribune.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
American Incomes.


THERE is no table of the average
duration OF fortunes; but the statistics
OF business failures in the country since
1866 show that the average yearly fail
ures ranged from one in 1863 in the wear
1871 to one in Is in 1876. How many
business men in thousand fail, once
or more during their business lifetime,
| cannot learn. The proportion used
to be estimated for New England at 81
per cent. That is probably too high
figure for the business of to-day, con-
Quoted rs it is upon much shorter cred
its than formerly. Blu: the proportion
of traders who fail is probably not lower
than Is per cent. of the whole number.
How many of our people live upon
their invested means? In 1866 our in
come-tax returns showed 771,OOO in
comes of $500 per year and over, and
5000, 600 incomes of less than $500.
But these were not incomes from cap
ltal; they were mostly earnings or
wages. Probably not one in hundred
OF these smaller incomes, and not over
10 per cent. of the incomes over $500,
represented the interest upon invest
ments. In France, ten years later, the
census returned no less than 1000, 900
OF people, renters, who live entirely
upon their invested means. In 1877
seven and half millions of the people
one fifth of the population--weree en-
rolled as rentes-holders or savings
banks depositors, but it must be added
that the savings-banks do not often fail
in France, and that sooner or later they
are apt to fail with us. Most of these
deposits are small ones. But no less
than two millions of the French can say
with Petrarch, Parva sed apea nsih;i:
cit is little enough, but it will do for
me-"
Thus, in spite of the resources of the
country, in spite of the almost univer-
sal search for wealth, and in spite of
the fact that we have a great many rich
men at any given time, we still do not
have large class of permanently rich
men; we do not even have, like the
French, alarge class of persons who have
permanent, though small competence.
The rich American wealth is extreme
ly volatile; in nine cases out of ten it is
''fairy gold.'' The old landowners
form the chief exception to the rule;
especially in our large cities, where the
z
But if our class of permanently
wealthy people is small, so also is our
class of destitute people. We are for
tunate in having few of the very rich or
the very poor, in having no such i'm
mense and harmful inequality of for
tunes as we see in modern England.
Our i'll fortune is this, that our class of
moderate completeness is also small,
that so few of US, in spite of our OPP
portunities and our labors, have seized
the good of even small assured COM
petence. The land is full of people
who have not on the other hand, and
who are not likely to have, any assured
competence, however moderate, but
who have nothing to expect but labor
to the end. That is, indeed, the ap-
pointed human lot for the majority in
any community; but need it be, in
country of resources like this, so nearly
the universal lot? Might not many Of
us avoid it by a greater care for mod
crate competence, lessened ambition
for fortunes?-T. II. Coan, in Hurper's
MQOQzi7le.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
WHOLE NUMBER l57.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

An International Sanitary Congress-
will be held at Washington IN january
1881, under the authority of the Govern
ment.
PROF. SYLVESTER finds that the sum-.
NIT of Mount Etna has been lowered
about forty feet as result of recent vol
canic activity.
UNDER favorable conditions the chest
nut and the oak will live a Thousand
years. The beech and the ash live less
than half as long.
The attraction of the earth upon a
magnetic needle ut its surface has been
found to be about the same as that of a
strongly magnetized hard steel bar
forty inches long at distance of one
foot.
AN appropriation bill passed by the
United States House of Representatives
provides for survey of the Gulf Stream
from its origin to the Saragossa Sea.
The plan embraces soundings, deep-ses.
temperatures e5,r4snts and observations Of the
IT has been proposed to utilize the
swift current OF rivers by systems OF an
chored floats carrying current wheels
connected with dynamo-electric appa~
|ratus. The electricity thus generated
might be used for almost any purpose
for which power is required, as well as
for lighting towns.
ANOTHER lake village, assigned by
experts to the age of bronze, has been
discovered at Auvenier, near Neuchat ell
Several millstones quite new, others
half made, have been brought to light,
from which it is inferred that the place
may have been the seat of manufac-
tory of these articles.
The size attained by icebergs is some
times prodigious. From measurements
made upon one, Dr.. Hayes estimated it
to contain about $4,000, O00,00e feet,
while its weight must have been not less
than l ,O0O, 200, 900 tons. 1t was grounded
in water nearly half mile in depth.
What, then, must have been the thick
ness and size of the glacier from which
this mass had become detached.
A VERY curious proof of the identity of
animal and vegetable protoplasm has
been supplied by Claude Bernard, who
has shown that both are alike sensitive
to the influence of annsthetics. Ex-
posed to ether, a sensitive plant no
longer closed its leaflets when touched.
Assimilation and growth, as well as
termination, are arrested by chloro-
form. Schuztenberger has proved that
the fresh cells of the yeast plant breathe
like an aquatic animal.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
THE BROKEN BARS.

THE broken bars upon the footpath lie
That leads across the upland, DER whose
brOWS
At evening the home-returning cows
In long procession used to wander by.
A little maiden, with q fawn-liko eye,
And quick light feet, toward the old farm.
house
Drove the slow herd, that still would pause
to browse
Upon the sweet grass standing ankle-high.
Now, all is changed; the bars are always
down;
No tinklng bells come sounding DER the
hill:
Upon the lonely place the sun and stars
See nothing but the tall grass thin and brown:
And naught is heard save that the Whip-poor-
will
Flutes his sad note above the broken bars.
"A. K. Haven, in Harper's Ma0azi1ss.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12

PROBABLY the smallest defendent
who ever appeared in a court roon
the United States, was seen the %
day in New York City. It was Co .
modore Mutt, who is under indictp
for keeping a disorderly saloon in s %
Avenue. He bought the saloon RECENTLY
out Of his savings under 2. T. Barnunl
management. He pleaded not guilty.
and was released under $500 bail ponds:
ing trial.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12

A METHOD of removing the bark from
trees, when the sap is not flowing, by
treating the wood with superheated
steam, has secured for its inventor a
prize offered by the French Agricultural
Society.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
Miss 7. Westphal.

Keeps on hand large and veal
sorted stock Of MILLINERY, FANCY
GOODS and ZEPHYR WOOL, opposite the
Union Hotel, between Second and
Third North streets.
NEW ULM, MINI.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12

EMMA ABBOTT told a Chicago re-
porter 80 he says-that she is one of
the strongest and healthiest women
ever born, and never has any pain from
her head to her toes.