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Cotton Dress Goods.

The new cotton goods repeat all the
rich colors and outer effects seen in
woolens, while for their varied designs
everything known to embroidery and to
decorative art has been called into use.
The loveliest outline designs used by
needle-women have been copied in
porcelain blues, olive, green and rose
on white grounds; the autumn leaves of
the American forests have been carried
to French manufacturers to saggest
new coloring; the Indian pink of the
far West, the palm-tree of the South,
and the stateliest Egyptian models are
placed beside those taken from old Nam
kin porcelain on this pretty toile u
AIsace. Yet quaintest of all are the cor
rect reproductions of designs used in
the same factories one hundred wears
ago. Samples and bits of goods made
each year are kept by the manufactur
ers and among those lately copied are
broken plaids of Indigo blue, with CAV
flowers strewn upon them. while Others
show tiny fruits hanging from the
bough; one of blocks divided diagonally
into pink and gray has white flowers
upon it while blocks of two old blue
shades have red buds or yellow. A new
design not taken from the old repre-
sents a Confused Picture-Gallerv''
with gay pictures in their frames,
thrown together on the dark ground),
and is thus catalogued in the mer-
chants albums of designs. A soft
pretty figured goods, with India designs
and colors, has the popular name of
mousseline de pInde; it is intended to
take the place of organdy muslin and
has less dressing; fruits, thistles and
nuts are among its quaint patterns.
Cretonnes for shirtings have outline de-
signs on white showing dragon-1ies,
Japanese umbrellas. animals heads.
saddle-bags and horse shoes, with the
usual dots. diamonds and stripes.
The graceful plates showing how
these printed stuffs should be made
have invariably short dresses. Some of
the prettiest have Jersey-shaped
waist, with low pointed throat. worn
with muslin fichu. The open sleeves
are widely turned up in monks sleeve
style, being caught permanently on the
inside seam nearly as high as the elbow.
The long over-skirt, with wrinkled
~ VA tohieON NCCplf Ou Tie IeIG, ana
quite boufant behind, is sewed above
the edge of the waist, concealing it,
and giving the effect of an entire over
dress. The part of the lower skirt visi-
BILE on the right side is covered with
many small founces. Another figured
muslin dress has a full round waist,
worn with a narrow belt, and elbow
sleeves edged with two full ruff1es. The
long over-skirt has box-pleated effect
in front, with points on each side. and
is worn over pleated skirt that has no
founces. Another pretty dress retains
the pelerine, Or round cape worn with
winter dresses. This barely covers the
shoulders, reaching just over the top of
the armholes, and is edged with a
striped border. The daisy border is
popular on dark percales and is used to
trim narrow flounces and to border the
deep-pointed apron or over-skirt. A
soft sash OF these eottons is worn around
the waist, pointed in the front and tied
on the left side, with the short wide
ends cut off diagonally and bdfdered. =
Harper's Bazar,
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-PaflS has eighty Protestant Sunday
schools in operation.
The statistical tables of the Luth.
eran Church, just published. show a
grand total of 944.S6S communicates,
embraced in fifty-nine synods.
The total amount OF money con-
tributed by the juvenile associations in
1879 to the Church Missionary Society
of England was about S25,OO0-a noble
example to the youth of America.
The Peabody fund will have an in
come of about 100000 for the current
year. 1t is said that Rev. DR.. Curry, the
new agent, was selected by Agent Sears
several years ago as his successor, and
that he informed DR.. Curry of his plans
before he died.
The Baptist Yearbook shows a
Baptist membership of 2,296,32 in
America, an increase of 1863, 293 during
the year. The total Methodist mem.
bership in the same field is 1885, 900 in
the United States, and, including Can
ada, 3,654, COL
Rev. George Washburn, D. d., Pres
ident of Robert College, at Constanti-
nople, is in this country. soliciting aid
for that institution. The college has
now 22O students, principally Arme-
mans, Bulgarians, Greeks, Turks and
Persians, and but for its limited capac-
ity and Strengthened circumstances this
number could be more than doubled.
The committee of the PRESBYTERIAN
General Assembly on the revision of the
discipline will, it is said, report in favor
of a "Judcial Commission to be
elected by the General Assembly, and
to be court to which all appeals from
the lower church courts should be re-
ferred for adjudication. This ''Com-
mission is to be composed of nine
ministers and nine elders, whose deci-
sion will be final
The standing committee of the
Episcopal Church for the diocese of
South Carolina, recently met in Charles
ton for the purpose of formally passing
upon the application of the Rev. Thad
deus Salters for deacon's orders The
candidate, who is a colored man, stood
a creditable examination upon all the
canonical requirements before the
Board of Examiners. The standing
committee, having received satisfactory
testimonials of the good character of
the applicant, signed his papers. Mr..
Salters will be the first colored man
ever admitted to holy orders in the
Episcopal Church in South Carolina.
The Rev. DR.. Sonneschein, preach
ing recently in a St. Louis synagogue.
il" The Unitarians look to us
to come over to them; we have a certain
pride in the hope of bringing them over
to us. Who will succeed cannot say;
but one thing is sure, that the religion
OF humanity is the craving of the day.
and that the questions of education,
charity and society, which alike under
lie the revolutions of the past and the
future. will be solved only by it. 1t will
be OF the new peace, and its stipulations
concluded on, one education common
to all, one charity open to all, one So
ciety sheltering all. This is the burden |
Of the hour, the gospel of humanity. |
Who shall preach it first, the Unitarian |
Christian or the Reformed Jewp"
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traversed two miles OF sewer 1t was
enough. A mile would answer for or
dinary people. The Parisians are justly
proud of their sewers. Some maintain
that there is no unpleasant smell at all
in them. Theoretically this may be so
to the Gallic nostril. And argument;t-
lively also. 1t has been argued thpt
people visiting the sewers imagine they
smell more than they do. In such cases
Imagination answers all the purpose of
reality. Yet | never imagined such
smell in my life as may have imagined
there-if | did imagine it. imagine.
however. there was little basis of fact
for the smell 1 did imagine.
MuIf0rd, IN the San Francisco Chronicle.
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VALUE OF THE COUNTRY PAPER.

The following Just views on the above
subject are from our excellent cotempo-
rary, the Richland Beacon:
Have you ever thought of how un-
just it is to compare the price and
amount of reading matter Of the little
country paper, with 800 or 400 subscri-
bers, with the big city paper, with its
10, 900 or $4,000 subscribers ? You could
as reasonably expect a little country
dealer to carry as large q stock and
sell rs cheap goods us the big whole
sale city merchant. Buying in large
lots enables the city publisher to pur-
chase material cheaper; most of them
publish dnilies, from. the contents of
which the weeklies are made up, aud
consequently cost nothing but the price
of paper, ink and press work while
the country publisher pays retail prices
for his material and has 80 little custom
that he is compelled to charge more
for his paper. Each paper has its
separate and useful sphere, and there
should be no conflict in pursuing them,
and there is none SO far as the publish
ers are concerned, for they know and
acknowledge that the city paper, with
all of its news and miscellaneous litera-
ry and scientific matter, cannot take
the place Of the country paper and
should not supplant it in its local cir.
culation. The trouble is with the
country readers who contemn the
country paper because it is not as large
and cheap as the city paper, seeming
to forget that they are indebted to the
country paper tor what little local
news they get through tho columns of
the city paper, and for the advocacy of
such measures as tend to tho Improve
ment and prosperity Of their own
locality. gas 4-- '"
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rotation on its axis everything on the
surface would be buried headlonH into
space, II the motion, on the other
hand, would be Increased ull sdoose
bodies would fly nom the eArkA, Cold
Is produced by regular in161aCex and
human science. although ID
foretel approximately the 0eeAstence
of n great cold, 1t can not tell what As
the creative cause. firmly believe
that the planetary influence mentioned,
has brought on the unprecedented cold,
and science will in the next three years
have abundant opportunity from the
the most startling events to learn what
the planets can do.''
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WILL WE HAVE 4 SECOND GLACIAL
PERIOD!

Col. Bianton Duncan, of Louisville,
KY, has written Il letter to the New
York Star, in wich he says:
"The sweeping wave of cold which
cnvcloped our hemisphere in Novcm-
Der last and was succeeded lately by a
second wave OF such intensity and
dimensions, that no record exists as
great, can not be dcduced from any
cause other than the primal cause Of
everything-God. The scientists the
orize that the glaciation Of the earth
may have been produced by some OF
the great Irregularities in it's motions
which rccur according to their calcula-
tions at regular periods Of many thous-
and years. At present our greatest
distance from the sun occurs in the
summer solticc.
Astronomers tell US that something
dreadful in the way of glacia ton would
happen if three conditions existed Mt
the same time. IHirst-Grcatest dis
tance from the sun in the winter SOL
stice. Second-Obliquity of the eclipse
at minimum. Third-Eccentricity OF
orbit in maximum. These can happen
only in coincidence once in 1000, 900
years. Nos. 1 and can only happen
in 4, POO, 900 years. According to some
scientists tho last glacial period was
caused by No. in the year 9i27 Il. G..
Is ccording to Prof. Agazis this was the
period when all the Old world south of
the thirty-ffth parallel was covered
with huge mountains of ice. If there
should be another change of climate
the polar regions would become tropi-
cal, rs it is supposed to have been be-
fore the change in 9l27 Il. G. occurred.
"If the great planets have hitherto
aided in such changes, their remark
able perihelia, from 1881 to 1885, Gro wd
ed into n shorter space OF time than
ever before 1880 Il. G. gives rise to the
conjecture that something more than
extraordinary may be expected to oc
cur. Now all the four great planets
Except Jupiter) and tho earth are il
pcriholion-that is, approaching thci
nearest distance to the SUN. Who,
planets are exercising their powers O
attraction on the earth from difrcrcn
directions, they neutralize each othc
50 far rs any change of the earth's axi
or orbit be effected. But when thcj
powers are cxerted ut once, all in tn
same direct line, pulling the earth, Il
it were, into a different orbit, in n man
ner such as never before has bee
chronicied since the creation of Adam
who can say that such Il coincidenc
may not mark the coming of wonder
ful events"
! "Ifthe globe should suddenly stop i
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TMENEw SENATOR FROM TENNESSEE.
New Orleans Democratic. I

New Orleans Dcmocratic.1
Judge Howell Edmonds Jackson is
son of DR.. Alexander Jackson and
Mary Hurt, both of Virginia., and was
born in Paris, Tenn, April s, 1882
Eight years after his birth he removed
with his parents to Jackson. He
graduated at West Tennessee College
in 1s4s, and studied at the University
of Virginia two years. After leaving
years under his kinsmen, Judges A.
w. o. Tolten and Milton Brown, at
Jackson. In 1856 he went to Lebanon
law school and graduating one year
later, commenced the practice OF law at
Jackson. He removed to Memphis in
1859 and formed a partnership with
David NJ. Currin. In the winter of
1867 he was sent to New York by the
Mississippi Central Railroad Company,
now the Chicago, ST. Louis and New
Orleans, to negotiate the bonds of the
railroad, which he did satisfactorily.
When the war began he relinquishcd
his practice and accepted an appoint
ment to Il civil position in the Confed-
crate government. At the close of tho
war he resumed the practice of his pro-
tession in Memphis. His wife died in
1878, and in April, 1874, he was mar
ter Of Gen. w. g. Harding, of Belle
Meade Farm, by which marriage he
has two daughters. Three years ago
he was prominent candidate for
supreme judge before the nominating
convention. In 1876 he removed to
Jackson and continued to practice law
He served on the supreme bench by
appointment on two occasions. lie
was elected to the present House OF
Representatives on the State Credit
platform and was appointed OH the
committee on elections. lie was alsC
a member of the judiciary committee
He is conservative man, and his
election meets with entire approval ali
over the State. Being scrcnaded al
Maxwell House he briefly responded
saying that though n Democrat h,
would not be partisan, but woult
represent the State without reference t,
party.
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THE HERO OF A THOUSAND FEEDS.
With .sPncll's - Compliments to Gen.
Grant.

President Grant, for he is once more
q President of the Fair Commission
is still kept SO much before the public
that he runs a very good chance of
degenerating into nuisance. He has
dined with SO many people and ut so
many places, that the mere work of
enumerating them would take IA much
longer time and more space than we
would care to devote to it. The
smallest village political Organization
provided its creed is Republican-vies
with the SWEETEST social clubs i'll New
York in doing him honor; and this
honor invariably consists in sending
him an invitation to dinner, which he
as invariably accepts. His sword has
not been beaten into a ploughshare, but
into Il carving-knife, and his spear has
assumed the shape of dinner fork.
We rather admire the man who is fond
OF good living, who can sit down to a
feast fit for an Apicius or a Lucullus,
and appreciate all the n,too,ces of the
courses.
But, if General Grant really under
stood what good dinner Was-and
we don't think that he has sufficient
refinement in his composition even to
knoW-We should have nothing to say
vided they were simply for the pur-
pose of giving the General something
good to eat in his private capacity.
But, as matter Of fact, they are nothing
of the kind. General Grant practically
invites himself to these feasts, and he
does SO for the purpose of keeping his
name before the people as long as there
is a chance of his being nominated for
the Presidency. 1t is not pleasant for
us to be constantly under the necessity
ofrcading lecture to General Grant.
He has been a successful soldier, and
we have had worse Presidents-but
very few. Yet, beyond the fact of his
having deadheaded it round the world
and hob-nobbed with a lot of emperors,
kings and princes, and thus advertising
the United State and himself, we do
not think he has done anything to en-
title him to one-half the attention he
is receiving. Eight years of the
Presidency, with the concomitant
| salary, were ample reward for any
ought now to be satisfied to retire into
private life.
| This perpetual junketing, undeservet
and unnecessary, does little to raise
General Grant in the eyes of sensibl,
men, although the dazzle and glitter
of the entertainments and the com
monplace chatter of the speeches ma,
have their effect on the vulgar. Gene
raj Grant probably counts on such sup
port for future honors, and herein ht
shows his shrewdness, for he knows
perfectly well that on his simpl.
merits as statesman-he has beer
amply repaid for his soldering
he is not in the slightest degree en-
titled to the fulsome adulation and
notice he is attracting. There arc
many worthier men in the country, o.
whom the people could, with much
more credit to themselves, show thcil
appreciation.
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THE HIGHER LAW.
1mpcachmen, of the supreme Judges.

CFrom the Baton Roage Capitolian.1
The Supreme Court Of Louisiana has
placed itself in nm attitude which is as
unbearable as it is novel.
The Justices, whose mission it is to
guard the rights of the people against
the encroachments of the Legislative
power upon the Fundamental Law
which expresses their sovereign will
u barrier which no power can overstep
have dared to decree the violation OF
one OF its most sacred clauses.
What the General Assembly did not
dream of doing, three judges have arro-
gated to themselves the right to or
lain.
The letter of the Constitution which
says that municipal corporations shall
not levy, for all purposes, a tax greater
than ten mills, is set aside by the Su-
prene Court and the precedent is laid
down that will expose the people to
unlimited taxation.
Surely, II the laws can be enacted
defining the rights of individuals and
the powers of Legislative assemblies,
there ought to exist some power to
arrest that of the Judiciary when it
tramples under foot the rights of the
Sovereign pewer, which Is vested alone
in the people.
We don't believe in the idea of play
ing hide and seek with the Supreme
Court, by having the Legislature to
abrogate the charters of cities, In order
that those corporate bodies may escape
by dodging the unlawful DEGREES OF
Judges who Disregard the mandates of
the very instrument to which We owe
their existence.
Whenever such judges so far forget
themselves as to give the example of
disobedience to the Supreme Law of
the State, then they become chargea-
BILE with q high crime or mistlemeanor.
Under such circumstances, the people,
through their representatives in Cen
eral Assembly convened, owe it to the
majesty of the Sovereign will to bring
the transgressors 10 an account for their
actions. .t-
If the General Assembly is to be
called in extra session to take steps to
protect the people against the levy of Il
have established, that end should be
reached, in this instance, by resolving
that body into High Court of I'm
peachment. ....a .-l
The people can only respect tho Su.
prcme Tribunal of the State, so long as
it is the guardian OF the Supreme Law
and the rights vouchsafetl to them
under the provisions of that instru
ment .. 4
Flagrant usurpation of power, whcr
ever it is found, must be arrested, elst
constitutional liberty will be destroyed
and Democratic Government exist nc
longer but in name.
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THE RICHEST NAN IN THE WORLD
lEleyateti Railway sJo,arnal,l

+ lEleyated Railway sJcurnal.J
William II. Vanderbilt ns0civod a
check on December 81 for, $475, 600, be-
Ing Interest for the past three months
on his Investments In the United
states b0ndsSs The Roverntnent pays
each and every yeah Assidea the
ment bonds, thus indlcated. Mr.. Van.
derbilt Is believed TO own moro than
500, ,O0O, 900 Of railroa1l secaslties. 4 He
ia the largest tndlviduals oaHueele9 the
stock of the following named j roads.
several Of which are almost his cxclu.
sive property: New York Central.
Harlem, New Haven, Fourth avenue
horse, Spuyten Duy vii and Port Morris.
Canada Southern, Lake 6hore and
Michigan Southern, Michigan Cantrai,
Northwestern and Rock Island. He
owns also large line In the Union
Pacific aud the p Erie railroads, tho
Western Union Tetegraph,s tho Wag-
ner Parlor Oar Company, the Albany
Bridge, the Merchants Dispatch. and
In several other express and transpor-
tation companies. He has large In
vestmeptsa In ! Rrench srantes; and : in
British consols. =, lie owps a large lranch
In Colorado and h0s ,soMe v0SyssNalu-
able real estate In New York. city.
His fortune iss without historic precc- reSs.
dent. Several English noblcrnBn' bWn
life interests inllarge estates,s but this
gigantic fortune, Ia without entail. Mr..
Vanderbilt Is unQuesttonnbty,y the
richest man now living or that, eyer
lived. 1t is extremely probable that
he is worth more than any two mon
who have ever lived. As,ttt,ias vast
accumulation is the, result of q srafilc
within twenty.fiv years past. its vast
ness suggests grave doubts rs to the
public policy of giving 10 any individ-
ual such great und tttircstrained power.
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John NIcIIIlery,

ATTORNEY AT LAW & LAND AGENT,
No. 6 Carondclet ST., Now Orleans.
7 AND BUSINESS at the Land Offices in
IL New Orleans and Washington City at
tended to. Agency for sale and purchase
OF Plantations, Farms and unimproved
lands oiicited.
Ms-M Major J. G. Richardson is associated
with Mr.. McEnery in tho land business,
to which he will give his entire attention.
January q, 1881.
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A minister overlook u Quaker lady
and politely assisted her in opening q
gate. AS she was n comparative stran-
ger in town, he said: "You don't
know, perhaps, that 1 am Mr.
Haven't you heard me preach ?n ~
have heard thee try" was the quick
rcSpOnse. .'
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The price of a seat in the New York
Stock Exchange has been advanced to
$50, 900; and still all cannot be accom-.
modated. Most people will therefore
have to be content with a scat onsome
grocery cracker box. t.
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Street gamin to a friend essay, Bill,
yer must quit going to variety shows
every night, or pcopie'if take you for a
country member Of the Legislator"
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The red head of a girl becomes gol-
den as she grows up, but the red head
of boy remains go to the end.
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f. J.. STUnIsS. TALBOT SrIILMAN
SStulDiDS Il StiIlnlan,

A TTORNEYS AT Law. Monroe, La,
OWUchittt, ALoreAouse, Richlanel and Franklin
and in the Federal Courts. viii take
claims for collection in all other parishes in
Louisiana, with privilege of managing
enle in connection with attorneys residing
here. March 7, 1879. ly
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Dentistry.
nR. S. l.. BRACEY, Dentist, respectfully
~ offershis professional services to the
citizens of Monroe and surrounding coun-
try. Having an experience of fourteen
years in the practice, he feels confident of
giving satisfaction in all branches of his
profession. Is willing to warrant'al work.
Once at residence on Jackson street, near
the Fo,nale Academy, Monroe, La.
v7-mar16:1Y
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c. J. HOATNI1R. NJ Il .lDDrLIA.
BOnlner ~ LisltlelI,
4 TrORNEYS A ND COUNSELI4ORS AT
n Law, Monroe, La, will practice in all
tho Parishes OF North Louisiana, in the
Supreme Court ut Monroe, tho Federal
Courts and in the Land Oilice Department
of the General Governments.
Office fronting northeast corncr Of public
square. January ), 1879.
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Dentistry.
DAINLESS extraction of teeth by the aid
L of nitrous oxide gas administered by DIR.
ID. Beatty & Son, dentists. Can refer to
work of 20 years standing i'll Monroe.
Office over tho Bank.
Monroe, La, December II, 1850.
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a woman who went 10 II concert TO
hear Blind Tom "play by car" says
she was swindled, and wants the fraud
exposed. She says that instead Of play
ing by ear, he played with his fingers,
just like other perform ers.
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w. T.. MiilSnDS.

4 T'rORNEY AT LAW, MONROE, La.
n will practice in the courts OF the Fifth
Judicial District, and i'll the Supreme Court
at Monroe. Will take claims for collection
in all the parishes Of North Louisiana, with
privilege of managing same through resi-
dent attorneys.
NoveiIibcr4, 1850.