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Year: 1879

cans Dodge any Responsibility.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The Potter
Committee, on motion of McMahon, ordered
an investigation of the cipher kilograms
and requests the house to grant addition
al appropriation for expenses When the
resolution was offered by McMahon, Gen.
Cox, Of Ohio, in behalf of the republican
members of the committee, said it was
we'll known the policy Of the minority has
been to leave the majority to act upon
his matter without interference from the
minority, therefore sthey would ask to be
excused from voting upon McMahon's
resolution. This action was consistent be-
cause the republicans had taken this
ground when the Potter resolution was
first introduced, that investigation of the
presidential election was unnecessary and
inexpedient and calculated to disturb bust
ness tranquility. The resolution was then
adopted by votes of all the democratic
members. General Butler was absent
the other republicans did not vote.
Year: 1879

New York, Dec. 20.-The Herald
says:


'The laboratory of Prof. Edison at
Menlo Park was brilliantly illuminated
last night with the new electric light,
the occasion being the visit of a num-
Der OF inventors, personal friends.


Forty lamps in all were burning from
six O'Clock until after ten. The effect
of the exhibition was to convince those
present who were before skeptical, that
Mr.. Edison had in reality produced the
electric light for household illumina-
tion.


No day has yet been set for general
public exhibition, but it is quite proba-
BILE that inside of week everything
will be in readiness to be seen by all
who desire to visit MenIo Park.


Gas stocks are still depressed with a
downward tendency.
Year: 1879

Washington, Dec. 29.--It is learned
that the main purpose Of Gen. Grants
visit to Washington at this time is to
enable him to have business talk with
General Beale, who has had charge of
his property here during his long ab-
sence abroad.


Gen. Grant also desired to break his
journey south and to meet old friends
for purposes of social enjoyment, but he
continues to maintain strict reticence
even among his personal friends upon
the subject of the presidential nomina-
tion and all collateral topics SO far as
they relate to his own future.
Year: 1879

THE looms at the pcnitentiary are still
in the best of order, and they present to
any cnterprising man or firm the very
best opportunity for II paying invest
ment. The buildings and machinery
are there ready to be utilized, 80 that
the capital can be used for the purchase
of the raw material that is hauled to our
city from the ncighboring country in
more than sufficient quantity to keep it
supplied, thus saving all freight and
other charges thereon. As to the man
ufactnrcd goods, they can be shipped to
New Orleans or to the West by river ut
the very smallest cost. Coal or wood
fuel can be had here as low as anywhere
else. AS to labor, our city, that con
tains some eight thousand souls, would
more than supply it, and at the cheap
cat rates. Many ofour population would
be but too glad to avail Themselves ot
the opportunity of obtaining employ
mcnt. A small rental, and every tacil.
ity will be extended by the lcssccs ani
board of control Of the penitcntiary, tt
further this enterprise. Any practica


business man cannot fail to see mt {
glance that no such advantages are Of
fcrcd in any other locality.
Year: 1879

For the information Of our readers, we
publish an extract Of the proceedings Of
this body, at their meeting on last
Wednesday:
The Mayor brought to the notice of
the Council the fact that he had been
informed Of Vacancy existing Of one
member III the representation from the
Second Ward, caused by % tie vote be-
tween two of the candidates for the City
Council and suggested that an election
be ordered under the charter to fill said
vacancy.


By Mr.. Wax, seconded by Mr.. Sanchez:
Resolred, That the Administrator Of Po-
lice be instructed to observe and report
when and where any of the street lamps
are not lighted, or If they are not kept in
good order, and present said report to
the Council ut the end Of each month,
with the view of making the proper de-
duction for same.o Adopted.


The Mayor stated that he now wished
to inform the Council officially of his
election as o member of the State Con
stitutional Convention, which was to
meet on the 2lst of this month; that the
motive which prompted him to accept
the nomination as q candidate, was the
fact that questions would be brought up
before the convention in which the city
of Baton Rouge had deep interest and
the passage 6 which In its favor, his
friends urged that he could materially
promote. As the Legislature had pro-
vided for the remuneration of the mem
bers of the Convention, he desired it to
be understood that he wished to relin-
ouish his salary as Mayor during the
| time in which he would receive pay as a
member of the convention.


He further requested that the Council
grant him leave of absence during the
time of the sitting of the convention and
appoint one of their number, rs provided
for by the city charter, to act as Mayor
during his absence and recommended
that the acting Mayor receive the salary
to which he would be entitled.


1t was moved and seconded that leave
of absence be granted the Mayor as
asked for. and that Mr. John Wax be
appointed to act ~ Mayor during his
absence. Adopted.


/ By Mr.. Wax, seconded by Mr.. Sanchez:
Resolred That action Oh the recommend
alton of the Mayor in regard to the dis
position of his salary be deferred until a
future meeting of the Council. Adopted.


II was moved and seconded that the
Council adjourn to meet on Tuesday, the
18th inst, at II o'clock, a. m. Adopted


LEON JASTREMSKI, Mayor


GEORGE HENDERSON, Secretary.
Year: 1879

Last Monday-elcction day-for tie
reason that the Sheriff and tho Mayor
were in doubt as to the proper author
ity to order the bar-rooms and saloons
to close, these establishments kept open
all through the day. TO the surprise of
every one, very little drinking was done,
contrary to the custom on similar occa-
sions when these resorts are closed
by order Of the authorities. In fact, a
disappointed proprietor Of one of the
bar-rooms facctiously remarked that it
was because of the fact that none of the
candidates had money enough to make a
single man drunk! We can't but be-
levc that it il because the fruit was not
forbidden that the boys abstaincd from
going for it.
Year: 1879

During the session of the Convention
we intend publishing in every issue Of
the CapitoliaR an editorial correspon-
dence, containing all the items that
will be interesting to onr readers, besides
an account of the doings in and around
the Crescent City. We assure our pat
rons that we will strive in every way
to render this paper what they have
been kind enough to denominate, most
interesting and outspoken journal, and
one open to the free discussion Of any
question of interest to the people.
Year: 1879

An anecdote is told Of a judge, pro
fame and irritable, who never let meal
pass without sonorOus invocation on
the repast. Once he rebuked q deaf
guest who innocently interrupted him
while thus engaged. OH it," said he,
"don't you see I'm saying grace"
Year: 1879

We would inform our friends that
the CapitO1ian Job Office is new and
complete in every particular, and we
turn out job printing at the short
est notice and in the most approved
style. II matters not what kind OF jobs
you have, bring. them ON. We print
them from the size Of q full sheet poster
to visiting card.
Year: 1879

We acknowledge the call of Mr. Tnp-
per. the joviai and very cntcrprising
mail contractor, who indmlges in the
hope that a tri-wcckIy mail line, starting
from our city, will soon he operating as
far az Red River landing, connecting
there with the stage line to Alexandria,
and thus supply want that has long
been felt in this section. Mail and tray-
cling facilities is what we have been in
need of, and according to Mr.. Tupper,
we are about TO have these to our hearts
content. The central location of Baton
Rouge is about to tell, and we expect to
see our city on the high road to pros
pcrity at an early day.
Year: 1879

The sparrow comes from good family,
having host of representatives in Europe,
and full list in North America; but,
strange to say, it is the only scion of this
large division of the bird tribe from which
the e gift of song seems to be wholly with
held. Everybody who has strolled in the
country during May and June has listened
to the sweet love carols of our chirping and
song sparrows, but no one ever heard the
sparrow in question utter single sound
that possessed the faintest melody nothing
bat that incessant complaining chirp and
distressful chatter from one end of the year
to the other--no intermission, no rest. If
it could sing like our cat-bird, or even the
clumsy robin, for instance, the opposition
to it which now exists would, it is safe to
say, never have been aroused, because in
ali fairness, waving, the question of song,
the spparrow can not be called any better
or worse than the rest of its kind, which
are all plump, sober, dull-plumaged birds.
-Harpers Magazine for November.
Year: 1879

its success is the dog nuisance. Skill and
care in breeding and the proper manages


ment of fiocks would not be wanting II


there was any, adequate security against


the incursions of worthless ours among
valuable fiooks, but the certainty OF dis
appointment and loss from this source Is
the great stumbling block in the way OF the
introduction of this or Ito any great extenO
any other kind of sheep into these sections,
which are 80 eminently favorable to TINS
industry. The destruction OF sheep by
dogs, even in the wool growing States, ag~
gregates every year an enormous sum, ana
without doubt it frightens many persons
who are so situated rs to make some branch
of wool growing a speciality, from engaging
in it, In the absence of judicious and
helpful laws for the protection of sheep
husbandry (denied by short-sighted law
makers) the most effective remedies for
the dog evil are plenty of buckshot and
strychnine liberaly dealt outside of the do
mains of its owner and approaches the con-
fines of men who raise sheep. This abom-
Unable nuisence ought not to stand in the
way of an industry whose development
affects the productive interests of the coun-
try to 80 vast an extent as this does, and
we are glad to notice that in some of the
States wholesome laws on the subject are
meeting with more favor than they have
hitherto received.


As we have said. the United States can
produce every class and style of wool
known to commerce, and it ought to do SO.
We have reached that point in this industry
where full discussion of this matter is in
order. 1t is one which has numerous pha-
ses that are Important, aud the American
Stockman will lend what assistance it may
possess in bringing out facts which are
pertinent and necessary to a full under
standing of the subject. American Stock
man,
Year: 1879

seem question secondary to that OF


getting manure. is really of primary


importance, for by using what one has


TO better puprose he opens way to


increase his supply. We have found


this to be the case in our own expert


ence, and by strict attention to saving


and preserving every particle OF manure


in its best condition we have succeeded


in so enlarging our supply OF fodder


that the number OF stock that could


be fed was largely increased each year,


and very soon it was necessary 10 20


out and buy animals to consume the


surplus. To bring farm into improv-


ed condition there is no cheaper or


more effective way than this. The


ordinary management of manure, In


open barn yards where it is washed by


rains, dried by the suns scorching heat
and wasted by every wind that blows, Is
the worst that is possible. In this way


half or more OF the value of the manure
is lost. By figuring up what it would
cost to purchase quantity OF manure
equal to what is thus lost, the costllness
of this common method would be dis
covered, and the question how much
could be afforded to take care of the
manure would be settled. When prop
erly Uttered one COW or OK would maize
ton of manure every month, II the
LIQUID as we'll as the solid portion IS
saved. Ten head would thus make l2O
tons, or sixty two-horse wagon loads IN
a year. A pair of horses will make as
much manure as one COW, or twelve
tons in the year. A hundred sheep II
garded every night and well Uttered,
will make n 100 tons of manure IN the
year, and ten pigs will work up wagon
load in month if supplied with sutfi-
Gent coarse material. The stock OF a
1OO-acre farm, which should consist OF
at least ten COWS; ten head OF stears,
heifers, and calves; pair OF horses,
100 sheep and ten pigs, would then make
in the aggregate 315 tons OF manure
every year, or sufficient to give twelve
tons per acre every fourth year. Ii this
were we'll cared for it would be, III
effect, equal to double the quantity OF
ordinary manure; and if plenty OF
swamp muck could be procured, at
least six hundred tons of the best ma-
nure could be made upon n lOO-acre
form. If this were the rule instead of
a rare exception, or only possibility,
what a change would appear upon the
face of the country and what an addl.
ton would be made to the wealth OF
the nation.
Year: 1879

l soc in the Chicago Field of the 9TH inst
IL communication from G. i. W. in which
he makes a statement that man named
Chas Smith, while plowing in a field
plowed up rattlesnake and that the snake
swallowed its young. know case of that
kind, in fact was one of the parties who
killed the snake. Myself and brother were
hauling wood at the time; We killed the
rattlesnake and after killing II concluded to
take it home; we tied the snakes tail to the
coupling pole at the end of the wagon, and
had not gone far before about halt a dozen
OF so of young ones came out Of the old ones
mouth. / have friend who says he saw a
mocassin snake swallow her young; he was
hunting on the bank of a creek, and
came across the snake. she became frightened
at him and began to blow and make kind
of a Kissing noise, and very soon afterwards
four or five little snakes crowded up aud
went into her mouth. W. Crockett, De
Witt Ark.
Year: 1879

There is no question more frequently
OF seriously considered by the farmer
than how he shall get, keep and spend
an adequate supply of manure, nor Is
there anything about the farm which Is
of greater importance to its successful
management than the manure heap.
There are few farmers now left who
pretend to ignore this need for the
land. and few localities, even In the
newer Western States, where manure
now is thought to de a nuisance. We
have gradually come to the inevitable
final end of our virgin farms, anu
have now either to save what Is lett OF
their wonderful natural fertility or to
restore them slowly and laborlously to
a profitable condition. We have reach
ed the end of our tether, and are obllg-
ed to confess that We have trespassed
over the line which bounds the terri
tory of the locust, or have improved
the face Of the country SO much that,
the protecting timber being removed,
the water supply is becoming precari-
ous, and springs, brooks and rivers no
longer flow as they did heretofore. To
some extent the tide of emigition,
which has flowed westward so many
years, is now eddying or even ebbing.
and the cheap, worn lands of the East
are finding purchasers who undertake
TO bring them back to their former
condition. At the same time Eastern
farmers are discovering more and more
certainly that they must increase their
crops and make one acre produce as
much as two have heretofore done.
The only way in which either of these
classes can succeed is by keeping suffi-
cieut stock TO manure their farms lib
orally; to feed these animals so skill
fully aud well, that they shall pay for
their feed with profit. and in addition
leave a supply Of rich manure, with
which the soil can be kept in pro
dUciiye state, aad 10 use and save the
manure with such care that no particle
OF Il be lest II is not every farmer
who can procure all the manure he
needs; but very many can save what
they have with far greater economy than
they nov DO; and this, although it may
Year: 1879

MANY years of experience and observa-
ton have taught us that two things are
absolutely necessary to profitable tarming:
the first settled policy, and the second,
thorough pulverization and manurlng.
What is meant by settled policy is that u
farmer should ascertain the crops best
suited to his land, as we'll as to the de-
mand of the market; and having decided
on these, to stick to them through thick
and thin, whatever the fluctuations in price


He will find it to hit oftener than miss,
which is not the case with those who jump
about from one thing to another, with no
settled rule to go by No man should
ever engage in special business OF any
kind merely because some other individual
has made money by it. 1t requires long
experience to grow and market successfully
any special crop, broomcorn, tobacco, etc,
and we had better increase our experience
with such products as we know than to fly
to new ones, about the handling or aultivae
ton of which we know but little or nothing.
1t is in the better culture and manuring.
in farming. that the greatest improvements
are made. The most effectual way to
lessen the cost of production is to increase
the yield per acre. There are hundreds of
farmers who for years have been cultiva-
ting forty acres of corn for two hundred
barrels; and twenty of wheat for two hun
bushels, and yet find it hard work to get
along. To all such we should say, put
half the land in clover and give such cultl-
yaton and fertilization to the other half as
will enable you to raise as much grain on the
thirty acres as you arr now doing on the
whole sixty. And although this could not
be expected to be accomplished in a single
year. yet there is no question that time
would soon bring it about. If you think
the sixty acres are too much for you to
undertake at once, try it on few acres,
and we will answer for it that after you
have harvested thirty bushels of wheat or
seventy>fve bushels of corn to the acre on
these, you will be so disgusted with your
old practice of growing the third of it that
you will be very willing to increase the
area of your heavier producing lands.
Year: 1879

The hanging Of JOHNNY LAME for the
murder of Officer RACE is fixed for the 21st
inst, and the proximity Of that event, un-
less retarded by the Intervention Of the
higher Courts, suggests the renewed publ'-
cation of the fact that the pawnbroker
FR1EDBERG, who was the head devil in the
conspiracy that led to Officer RACES death,
is still free to come and 60, being on bail
for the charge Of burglary alone. The
very same evidence which led to LAMBS
conviction left no doubt that this
FRrEnBERa WAS the guiltiest man OF the
entire gang, since it was be who organ
lied the robbery, furnished the professional
thieves with the "guns," and advised them
to shoot if anybody interfered with them
Wouldn't it be eminent1y proper and desira-
BILE, under these circumstances, for state's-
Attorney Mills to bestir the June Grand
jury to find a true bill against this Infamous
organizer of robbery and kil1ing,-oa tAe
charQ6 Of murder?
Year: 1879

Mayor HARRISON has been loud in his
promises of what he intends to do for the
improvement Of the morals and good order
of the city, whose destiny is now lodged in
his keeping; yet ever since Mr. HARRISON
has been fairly settled in the Mayors seat
Tm TRIBUNE has been pointing out material
upon which he should begin his work. The
unparalleled effrontery by which the robbery
Of the Illinois Central messenger was perpe-
trated while he was on his way yesterday to
deposit $4,000 in the Merchants Loan and
Trust Company's Bank would seem to imply
that the thieves have supreme contempt
for Mayor HARRrsoN's police force. When
men get bold enough to select the most
crowded thoroughfares and broad daylight
for their highway robberies, there is some
thing defective in the police system which
encourages them to do SO; and Mayor HAnR1-
soS, with this practical view of the case be-
fore him, should abandon tho spreading Of
the eagle long enough to inquire into the
matter and ascertain what the trouble is.
Where is E1MER WAsHnuRN?
Year: 1879

It has been long time since baseball par
agraphs seemed to be- imperadvcly called for
in any Chicago newspaper; but the remark
able performances Of the Chicago Club
during the present season have made such a
call On the resources Of TIE TRIBUNE. The
young men who have been engaged to up
hold the glory and honor Of Chicago on the
tented-that is to say, the diamonded-deld
have met with unusual success. They have
beaten the Boston Club SIX times in sue
eession, and suffered no defeats, and the
Providence Club four times out Of six, and
hayo won total Of sixteen games out Of
eighteen played It is remarkable, by the
way, that the temperance of baseball edi-
torial paragraphs in the Chicago papers
should be simultaneous with the disappear
ance Of the same from the Boston and Provi-
dence papers The editors Of the latter city
seem to have agreed unanimously that base
ball is an uncultured sport, unworthy the at
tention Of anybody save the very lowest
classes in society.
Year: 1879

and many other ordinary household practices
that result in the waste Of water WILL 90
recognized and admitted by housewives.


1t is high time that effective measures wefe
adopted to 1epresa this wastefulness. Ine
taxpayers of Chicago cannot afford to let IL
so on, for it is bound to impose cost OF ne"
works and pipes, which they cannot afford,
and which ought not to be incurred, because
Chicago already has the most liberal supply
Of water of any city in the world nccord1ng
to population. There is one and only one
effective way to stop this waste Of water aud
to measure it ont fairly to all people,-an
that is the metre system. By attaching a
metro to every house, a very brief experience
will demonstrate what charges must be made
to secure the needed revenue, and then every
householder will pay for the actual amount
of water which he consumes. This plan will
not only be an enormous saving to the tax
payers at large, by economizing in the exten-
sion of the Water Works and the current
expenses for running them, but it will be
individual economy for all persons who
manage their households systematically. No
person will then be paying for water con-
suned by somebody else, and every one who
wishes to indulge his servants in their usual
wastefulness will be obliged to bear the cost
thereof. The metre system is the only
one which can regulate the water
supply fairly. No other means would
protect the gas companies, and there
is no reason why the city should not
guard it's property and interests just as care
fully as private corporations are in the habit
Of doing. The police cannot watch and fol-
low up the individual instances of wasting
water, because it is done in way that at
tracts no attention, and because it is univer!!:
sal. The proper remedy is for the Council to
provide for the adoption Of water-metres
without more delay.
Year: 1879

put up by: the President of the Louisiana
State Lottery, the SUN Of SIC, 600 being ad-
vanced to the NICHOLS Government. This
witness positively stated that he received no
money from KELLOGG, nor did he know Of
any one who did. The SpoFToRD interest has
not made out very good case so far, all the
testimony Of corruption being datly against
that contestant, and, like good many other
things which have come up from the State
Of Louisiana, the fight promises to be very
unsavory for those who have all along en-
deavored to display their political purity and
iucorTuptiblity.