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Year: 1876

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About halfpast one o'clock this
morning n fire was discovered in the
front room OF the second story Of the
brick building No. 3iS Tchoupitoulas
street, near Thalia. The lower part
OF the building is used as harness store,
and tho two rooms upstairs, where the
fire was discovered, are used for drying
moss. The building was occupied by
Mr.. Dennis O'Keefe, and owned by Mr..
Cooper. The flames were extinguished,
with but slight damage. On ex-
animation the building showed
signs that incendiaries had been at
work. The floor OF the hallway leading
to the said rooms was covered with moss
and saturated with coal oil. In the
front room can containing five gallons
of coal oil was found. together with a
large package Of gunpowder.


Under the staircase was found another
ive-gallon can Of oil. fixed in box,
without a cork, but concealed from
sight by being heavily covered with
moss. AS the officers were examining
the building a man was seen to drop off
shed on Thalia street and run towards
the river. Chase was given, but, owing
to the darkness, the man made good his
escape.


Had it not been for the timely discov-
cry Of the flames by Officer Charlse, OF
the First Precinct, large conilagration
would have been the result.
Year: 1876

Some OF the papers have an idea that
Gov Hayes is a feeble man physically.
Well, he weighs between 18O and 100
pounds; can jump any ordinary fence in
the State upon which he can place his
gloves in a sparring match; is a good
shot with rifle or shotgun is pretty
good muffer at base ball; can ride any
horse in or out OF Kentucky; can cut a
good swath with scythe in anybody's
meadow; wouldn't make bad hand
with a cradle in wheat field can
plough as straight furrow through
fallow ground as the best Granger in his
county; can throw Halstead, .back or
side holts, five times out OF six, and can
tie his right hand behind him and fling
Deacon Richard Smith over counter.
There's plenty Of H-ayeseed in him.
Year: 1876




Peanut oil, first made in the South
during the war, is now in large demand
It supplies the place Of almond and
olive OILS for various uses, and is lower
in price, retains its purity and flavor
for long time, and is less susceptible
to the effect OF light than olive oil. The
oil is extracted entirely from the meat
of the nut by pressure, the refuse being
used as cattle feed or fertilizer.
Year: 1876

BY a recent act of the Legislature of
Texas it is made misdemeanor, punish
able by fine Of 500, to use profane
language near private residence. If
some Of our Lone Star friends have not
changed good deal of late, we will look
out for rise in Texas State bonds.
Year: 1876

Now that Coke is elected to the Senate
the public will have leisure to bring
their minds to bear on the other subject
that goes right home to the people
of Western Texas We refer to the
fleas.-fSan Antonio Herald.
Year: 1876

Get your rooms in advance.


Else you wont stand a chance
At the good things that roam at Point Clear.
For all people "a tell


That at the Grand Hotel
The visitor makes his Point Clear"
Year: 1876

| Of whom she was loved and reverencsd IN
no common degree. She learned thus the
grand lessons-"to suffer and be strong,'
and 70 make the best Of destiny; and she
felt that If she were . sadder woman, ahe
was also wiser one, and at any price
wisdom, she knew, is a purchase not
to be despised. g
Mrs. Beauchanp had been married lit
tie more than FIVE years when her husband
died. His will showed, that however un-
happy he had made her during his life,
he had not been insensible to her merit,
for he left her the sole guardian Of their
only sen, and, while she should remain
unmarried, the mistress of Woodthorpe
Hall. In the childish affection and OPEN
ing mind Of her little boy poor Emily at
Last found happiness-unspeakable hap
piness, although it was of course qualified
by the anxiety inseparable from parental
love. She dotted upon him but her love
was of too wise and unselfish nature to
permit her to spoil him. while her
maternal affection furnished her with an
other motive for the cultivation of her own
mind and the improvement of her own
character. She was fred with the noble
ambition of being the mother Of her child's
mind, as we'll as of that minds mere
perishable shrine.


TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1876

A case of indisposition most peculiarly
marked has recently made considerable noise
among the medical men in Berlin, which
warns US all to be exceedingly careful in the
use of materials painted green. For some time
past young lady passed her evenings with
working at embroidery, when, in order to
modify the light cast by the lamp, she placed
a green lamp shade over it. The very first
evening she complained of headache, and
SO on for the succeeding evenings.


The hair of the young girl beginning to fall
out, physician was called, though he could
render no assistance, as he could not detect
the cause of the malady. Finally the mother
observed to the patient that perhaps the green
lamp shade may contain some injurious in
gredients 1t was chemically examined, when
it was established that the green lamp shade
contained not inconsiderable quantity Of
arsenic. The shade was removed, and the
young girl has since enjoyed good health.
Year: 1876

TO the Editor of the Commercial Advertiser.


l have seen, of late, several articles upon
the time it would take to count billion. One
writer, in stating that billion is only thou
sand million, not million of millions, con-
siders the task one that can be easily accom-
plished in lifetime. But conceive no two
generations of men, or rather man during
his lifetime, to be followed up by his son
after the decease of his father, taking up the
number and continuing on, that could posi-
bly, accomplish the task. This, to me, is the
point which renders it impossible, viz: TO
count billion means to count from one con-
secutively up to million, not to count Sc
series of hundreds or thousands. The first
thousand consumes but a few minutes, but
from thousand On to ten thousand takes
relatively much longer, and SO on in constant
ly repeating each amount as it slowly pro-
crosses up the scale, it gradually becomes a
task beyond the physical endurance of any
two or three persons in lifetime. Think of
the slow process when one has reached
''seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand
seven hundred and seventy-seven,' and goes
on repeating these words over and over as he
advances one numeral at a time! 1t is easily
seen, when this feature is considered, that
the task is really physically impossible To
count from one to ten hundred million times
is child's play to counting from one to bill
lion. GRADGRlND.
Year: 1876

1t needs no guilt to break a husbands s
heart The absence of content, the mutter-
ings of spleen, the untidy dress and cherries
home, the forbidding scowl and deserted
hearth, these, and other nameless neglects,
without crime among them, have narrowed
to the quick-the hearts core of many a
man, and planted there, beyond the reach of
cure, the germ of dark despair. 0, may
woman, before the sight arrives, dwell on
the recollection OF her youth, and cherishing
the dear idea of that tuneful time awaken and
keep alive the promise she so kindly gave.
And though she may be the in jured, not the
inJuring one-the forgotten, and not the for
getting wife--a happy alusion to the hour of
peaceful ove-a kindly welcome to COM
Portable home--a smile of love to Danish hos
tile words-a kiss of peace to pardon all the
past and the hardest heart that was ever
locked within the breast Of selfish man will
soften to her charms, and bid her live, as she
had hoped, her years of matchless bliss,
loved, loving and content-the source Of
comfort and the spring Of joy Chambers
,IINrnHL
Year: 1876

Some years ago picked up several child
ren in Chicago, and thought | would clothe
them and feed them; and took special in
tereSt in those boys to see what | could make
of them. | don't think it was thirty DAYS
before the clothes had all gone to whisky,
and the fathers had drank it all up One
day met one of the little boys, for whom |
had bought pair Of boots only the day be
fore. There was snow storm coming up,
and he was barefooted. mike" says l.
elbows this? Where are your shoes %
"Father and mother took them away"
said he. There is a good deal that we think
is charity that is really doing a great deal of
mischief and the people must not think be-
cause we don't give them money 10 aid them
in their poverty that we don't love them, for
the money would go into their pockets to get
whisky with. 1t is no sign that we are all
hypocrites and insncere in our love that we
don't give money. l believe if the prodigal
son could have got all the money he wanted
in that foreign country he would never have
come home, and it was good thing for him
that he did get hard up and had to live on the
husks that the swine ate. And it is good
thing that people should suffer If they get
good living without work, they will never
work. We can never make anything of them
God has decreed that man shall earn his
bread by the sweat of his brow, and not live
On other people.-Noody.
Year: 1876

On a basis of 20O,0O0,00O smokers this
would give an annual per capita of two
ounces avordupois. But why should this
small per capita cause the Chinese to degen-
crate? Because the moderate use Of the
drug is so widely diffused, and because the
normal effect of opium smoking is to dimin-
ish the appetite and to reduce the per capita
consumption of food. Here is the secret of
the degeneracy. Opium tempts the smoker
to let bis muscles waste for lack of sufficient
food, and hence this rice eating people are
losing in physical forces. Alcahol, beer and
wine have a tendency to increase the con-
sumption of food, but it would be impossible
for the Chinese to employ these stimulants,
since the empire is already too crowded in
population to afford food at the present
rates Of confumption. 1t is probable, there
fore, that the ply Biological fact which lies at
the root of the Chinese appetite for opium is
economy of food and has been for Gen.
turies the strongest necessity of the Chinese
peoples, and the use of opium tends to pro-
mote that economy.
Year: 1876

PREVIOUS to the big fire which occurred at
Virginia City, last October, there was cat
in Judge Rising's family which had attached
itself to one of his little girls. After the fire
the Judge and his family went to California
to spend the winter, returning about week
ago, when. while they we're collected at their
first meal, the cat, which had not been seen
since the fire, quietly walked in and jumped
into one of the little girls laps, as if there
had been no interruption of friendship.
Year: 1876

Travellers on railroads are often desirous of
knowing the speed at which they are moving,
and as general thing, are not aware that
with the aid of watch they may readily find
out, even when the mile posts are not placed
along the track. This may be done, says the
Scientific Press, by simply counting the
number of rails passed over in any one given
minute. On the best railroads the hammer
ing sound made by the wheels in passing
from one rail to another is quite audible, and
may be easily noted on whichever side Of the
car the observer may be sitting. All rails
are either twenty four or thirty feet long
the length may be easily ascertained by
pacing or measuring with pocket rule at
any station where the train stops. Then by
counting the number of rails passed in thirty
or sixty seconds, the speed of travel may be
calculated by any passenger. When train
moves ID 81 feet second, it is travelling at
the rate of ten miles an hour, or mile in
six minutes.
Year: 1876

N pro,oseor vnda on "Modern Materialisn." Profess
or Uu,evs essay on the Border Territory between the
Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms" biographical sketch
of Caroline Hersche the sister and helper Of tho great
the concluding chapter OF the pquant series
of German Home Life" and other articles which cannot
fail TO attract the attention Of the American reader ana
which are not easy OF access In their original sources
Year: 1876

ticipate in the desperate battle of Fair
Oaks. That engagement brought me worl;
enough, for my regiment suffered terribly.
As hardened as | thought had become, [
grew faint and sick over the dreadful work
that gave me neither rest nor hope Of rest.
The little field hospital which had estab-
i'shed on the edge of the swamp seemed to
be perfect slaughter house. and | longed
more eagerly than | had ever done for
cess ition Of the fighting 1t came at last,
Il lite after ten o'clock on Sunday morn
ing.


| had cleared out my hospital, and had
sent my last man across the Chickahominy.
My assistants were absent for some pur
pose, and | was the only person in the lit
tie structure of bouuhs Suddenly | was
aroused from Il reverie into which had
fallen, by the hurried entrance Of some
one. l looked up and saw Colonel Anson
standing before me- He was pale and ex-
hausted, and was bleeding from deep cut
in the head. He held in his arms the in
animate form of Lieutenant Hill. l never
saw so much grief in human face us was
written on that of Colonel Anson, as he
laid his burden on the rude table


"Bc quick, doctor, for Heavens sake ~
he said, painfully.


Bat you are wounded, colonel y I ex-
claimed, when my astonishment would let
me speak.


"Never mind me" was the quick retort.
ATTEND to this one"


Hill WAS wounded in the breast, and
saw at glance that it was dangerous and
doubtful one | bent down to loosen bis
coat, and examined the injury. could do
no good The aim had been true and the
ball had gone right through the heart. This
WAS not my only discover. l had learned
Il part OF the mystery that had hung over
! Hill.


Heavens, colonel ~ exclaimed, look
ing up at him. This is Il woman -


The only one that ever loved me, y
sroaned the colonel "She fnllowcd me
here in male dis-uise anI, this morning.
i when | was in danger, saved me, who had
! done nothing but wrong her, at the cost of
her own life. She WAS my wife doctor"
He left me before | could speak.
This was all | ever knew. The next
day the colonel WAS shot in skirmish.
had him buried in the "rave where We had
/ laid his wife, and to this day l have never
! learned the secret Of their unhappy lives.
Year: 1876

A novel operation recently performed at
the Maine General Hospital is thus describ-
ed \ person came there with can
cerous under lip, which IA quck had made
worse 10y the use of caustics The patient
being placed under the influence of ether,
the lips was cut down and removed, the
mouth slit far into the cheeks on both sides,
the flesh turned down, and the inner mem
brane and bone scraped to remove all traces
of the cancer Then the cheeks were
brought forward over the chm and sewed
together to form il new under lip, Il new
and handsome mouth WAS formed by sew
Ing up the Sits and cutting out triangular
notchcs in the corners, and that the new
lip might not lack the natural redness, the
lining membrane was brought out over the
edge and sown down. a new face having
thus been put upon the patient, he went
home rejoicing.
Year: 1876

The San Francisco Sunday Gail Of March
9Th has well authenticated story of nine
year old boy of that city who has, until re-
Gently, been supposed to be entirely blind,
but who has been discovered by eminent
scientists to be possessed Of most wonder
ful powers of vision. He has an abnormal
formation of the eye, causing presbyopia or
farsi sightedness to such degree that moth
ing at a distance of less than 240, 900 miles
is perceptible to his vision, but at that dis
tance he has full visual power of a person
with ordinary eyes. The moon fills lis
whole sphere of sight and does not seem to-
be more than 100 yards distance, and he
gives a minute description of its surface
aud inhabitants, for he claims that it is in
habited and by race of beings who have
four radial limbs like the spokes of Il wheel
and whose motion is votary and almost con-
tinuous. The vegetation is all metallic, of
gold, silver, tin and copper. The cart
wheel inhabitants amuse themselves by skat-
ing on Il lake of quicksilver, have nothing
to do and 90 to sleep three or four times in
the twenty-four hours. He SAYS the moon
has continuous day on one side and con-
tinuous night on the other, and that when
the people wish to sleep they 90 over on
the dark side. The names Of eminent
Scientific men are freely used in connection
with the report. and if the whole thing IS
the child of some reporters highly magma
tive brain, it is we'll got up and deserves to
take rank as the leading scientific lie of the
centennial year.
Year: 1876

\ monster with head measuring six
feet by four, and body forty five in length.
is, according to the Dundee Adrertiscr, we'll
known to Scotch fishermen as the cher
ring hog" \ very fine specimen of the
animal was seen the other day by some
Broughty Ferry men off the Bell Rock.
The crew of fishing boat were hauling in
their haddock lines when the herring hog
came up to blow only few yards from the
starboard side of the fishing buat. The
huge head seemed to be full of Sits or holes
and it had eyes resembling those of an OK
but much larger. Its skin was black and
apparently rough, changing into a light
hue toward the lower part of the body. 1t
had broad tail, which measure about six
feet from tip to tip, and seemed to be very
old, for its head and tail were covered with
large white barnacles measuring about three
inches long, and one of its fins was partially
eaten away, us if by decay. 1t took several
haddocks off the lines, and broke the line
the crew We're hauling in. The men then
became alarmed, and threw stones at it, one
of which struck the hog, when it plunged
and reappeared at greater distance, giving
Il great roar.
Year: 1876

ga fool for luck The other day a
drunken man leaped from an express train
on the New York Central Railroad, which
was moving at the rate of nearly fifty miles
an hour, receiving no other injury but the
tearing of his coat
Year: 1876

If work about house is done quietly, 1t
seems to be easier. Slamming oven doors,
clattering dishes, and other kindred noises,
weary and bewlder almost as much as the
work ITSELF The most successful house,
keepers are generally quiet workers. t'd


To sprinkle damp bran upon carpet be-
fore sweeping is good way of laying the
dust without injury 10 the carpet. Oilcloths
should be cleaned in warm, not hot, water,
and rubbed dry with cloth wrung out of
milk and water.


Zinc that is used under stoves should new
er be dampened. If it becomes soiled or
dim, rub with soft flannel and little fresh
lard. Cleaned in this way. zinc may al
ways be kept as bright as when first pur-
chased.


Gilt frames should have coat of demar
varnish, which will keep them from becom-
ing soiled with dust or fly specks, and per-
NIT their being cleaned with a damp cloth.


To remove smoke and dust from wall pa-
per carefully rub it with soft cloth and
plenty of dry bran or Indian meal
To render lat-irons smooth, rub them well
with salt, and then with piece of beeswax
after heating.


Stove blacking mixed with vinegar instead
OF water is more permanent, and gives a
higher polish.


"Learn to save yourself work" is the best
maxim to be observed in housekeeping.
Year: 1876

your presence when you least expected it,
and l learned that it was not Ricardo that
you loved, but your pale young Englishman.


had agreed TO do your wish, but not that
it might free you to accept the embrace of
another lover. No, l was not such a fool.
| determined that he should first be well
out of the way. All how simple you
thought me, and how you and he laughed
together, no doubt, that I damned myself
for the shadow that he might have the SUBJ
stance. But he will laugh at me no more.
1t is easier to kill for hate than love-"


The woman listened throughout without
word, then dropped into chair near her
with sobbing cry, ''Oh fate is pitiless in
its retribution."


The student approached her. THAT is
to love you, for l have to love you yet with
all my soul, despite the treachery you plan
ned to me, and I say to you, Felicite, let us
love and forget"


As he spoke he knelt upon one knee be-
side her and put his arm around her.


The touch recalled her to herself, and she
sprang to her feet.


"Love for you Never! Rather would
love the most loathsome leper Love for
you / will denounce you as an assassin in
stead"


"And yourself as my accomplices"


81 care not"


She turned and opened the door. Two
gendarmes stood before her. She reelcd and
fell swooning to the floor.


Both the Countess and Ricardo Pocolini
were placed in confinement, and both con-
fessed their agency in the tragic occurrence
of the death of Mr.. Renwick, in sub
stance the same as had been outlined in their
conversation.


Ricardo Furthermore afforded clew to the
mystery of the duplicate daggers in saying
that the one given to him by the Countess
had been stolen from him while he was in
toxicated in little wine shop frequented by
Italians, and that he had been forced to have
it duplicated. Being an art student and
having studied with an artistic and critical
eye the curious old weapon, he had been
able to so exactly make drawing of it that
an armorer in the Rue st. Antonio had re-
produced it for him, and it was this second
knife which he left in the young English
mans back, hoping that it would lead to
fastening thecrime upon Count Fornelli
The Counts agency in the matter of the
other assassination was established with suf.
ficient clearness to procure for him life
sentence to the galleys, though not to send
him to the guillotine with Pocolini and vi.
tucci. He had hired. the latter to kill Mr.
Renwick, and the bravo, deceived by rare
personal resemblance, had assassinated the
wrong man. The Countess Fornelli wa:
condemned to ten years of penal servitude
but in some way contrived to procure poison
and died in prison before the expiration O.
the first six months OF incarceration.
Year: 1876


ave need Young man to stir the people
And lead them to the fold,
The deacon said 1--WE ask your resignation.
Because--youre growing old"
The pastor bowed his deacons out In silence,
And tenderly the gloom
or twilight hid hun and his bitter anguish
Within the lonely room.
Above the violet hills the sunlight's glory
Hung like a crown of gold,
And from the noble church the organs anthem
Adown the stiffness rolled.
Assembled were the people for Gods worship
But in his study chair
The pastor sat unheeding, while the south wind
Caressed his snow-white hair.
A smile lay on his lips. His was the secret
OF sorrows glad surcease
Upon his forehead shone the benedction
OF everlasting peace.
"The ways Of Providence are most mysterious, "
The deacon gravely said,
AS wondering eyed, and scared, the people


crowded


About their pastor-dead
ave loved him. wrote the people on the coilln,
In the words OF shining gold
And 'bove the broken heart they set statue
or marble, white and cold,
The end? All no, the undiscovered country
Somewhere In brightness lies.
Though only space and stars may be discerned
by mans short-sighted eyes.
The Baptist.
Year: 1876

BE CoURTEoUs.-A teacher should never
forget that in his teaching he is to be cour-
teous as well as pointed, and the most cour-
teous when he is the most pointed. Any
person who cannot put truth with decision
and point and without becoming uncivil or
offensive in his manner has much vet to
learn as teacher. He must keep his eye
upon not merely what the scholar is doing
and the kind of truth he wishes to teach
him, but also upon the manner and spirit in
which he teaches and the student receives
the truth. A sharp and offensive manner is
certain to irritate and repel the scholar.
Year: 1876

"Tilden Republicans are turning up rap
idly. They are a class of honest men who
think for themselves. and see no hope of re-
form under IN administration that would 20
into power Endorsed by Grant. ...Is,I