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THE DAILY PICAYUNE NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, APRIL 17; 1888 Jie JUailn picatmnr. nxsuD at trk rowT omcs at hw oklxaxs, LA, AS HOOSTk-CLAM JtATTEB- KICHOLAOX CO, FUOFKHTTOU-S. JK2S.X J.HICK0LSO3T. GEO. JflCHOLpOJC THE PICAYUNE Em the Largest Circulation In the Soutlrwest.

i i- i vi. a ivyw-jvAv -sjt TXJUtd OP SCBSCRIPTIOX. (Postage Prepaid.) DAILY. Tele Xoeths 12 OO Bix Month 6 OO Tare Mnr.Uia, OO WEEKLY. Twetw Months fl 5C Fix Monies ThreeMoaufea 60 srsDiT picatcjt bt maii.

rwW-r MooOia gcoo UxMntiu 1K mSDAT MOR-MXC. APKIL IT, To insure prompt attention all letter and communications, whether on business matters or for publication, must be ddresed either to The Picayune" to Jiicholsoa 3t Co. The tndicaUous to-day are: For Alabama: Fair weatber; alight chance In temperature; ligbt to fresb variable winds, becoming fresb to brisk southerly. For Mississippi. Lonlislana and Eastern Texas: Generally cooler.

lair weatber. except aUchtcbaagea la the temperature alone the coast; fresn to brisk winds, generally southerly, becoming northerly in the northern portions. The Mississippi river la above tbe dancer line Inches at Cairo, 1 loot at Yicksburg and Inches at Sew Orleans. It has risen inches at Cairo. 4 inches at Vicksborg and inches at New Orleans.

The Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland. Savanna and lower Missouri riTers will fall slower; the upper Mississippi rirer will remain nearly etatlonmry the lower Mississippi will continue slowly rlslnr at Yicksbarg. GEE riCAYCKES. Between two evils choose neither. The depth of politic must be measured with polls.

Power is unhealthy. Bismarck now claims to be sick. It is the fiftieth congress now assembled at Washington. It acts like sixty. The best thing that ice can do in hot weather is to keep cool and be natural.

There is nothing like natural ice. The king of the Sandwich Islands threatens to abdicate. This will not interfere with the supply of sandwiches. "ew doctors are generally commissioned in the spring, just in ad ranee of the encumber and watermelon season. Jake Sbarpe died a millionaire.

Chief Justice Waite diea poor. It is probable that both of them would have preferred living. The Banker's Magazine for April has a article on "The Formation of Trusts." Too much trust in a cashier may send him to Canada. The dignity of a deadlock is doubtful. Congressmen singing songs and smoking in the bouse of representatives make themselTes appear like hoodlum city leoun eilmen.

An exchange says: "The Keely motor is to be examined by four Better examine Keely. There is nothing in the motor. A distinguished negro belle of Port-au-Prince. Ilayti. was recently married to the brother of William Black, the novelist.

Exchange. This may or may not be true, but it seems as if one Black person has a right to marry another in Ilayti. Don't forget the entertainment for the benefit of the Widows' Cow to-night at Temperance HalL Mobile Register. It does not appear what the widows of Mobile are making a row about at Temperance Hall. They bare no cause.

They have no husbands to come home loaded and nnable to find the keyhole of their doors. Judge: Pompons Old Teacher (to class in sacred history) What weapon did Samson nse to kill the Philistines No one remembers. Pompous Old Teacher (who believes suggesting answers, touching his chin) What is this Bright Boy (who takes the hint and remembers it all now) The jawbone of an ass, sir. Circus, in which pompous old teacher and bright boy are principals. Boston Courier: "John," she said softly, "have yon been saying anything about me to mother lately "No," replied John "why do you ask "Because she said this morning that she believed you were on the eve of proposing to me.

Now, I do not wish yon to speak to mother when you have anything of that kind to say; speak to me, and 111 manage the business with mother." And John said he would. We suppose it is pretty generally understood that about all the dead horses, cattle, hogs, dogs, etc, fonud on Cincinnati streets are taken to the fertilizing establishment at Delhi. The belief is probably general that this carrion is made over into that which will make tbe ground fruitful. The desiccating factory at Delhi was recently burned. Tbe lire there started in the iard room.

Cincinnati Times-Star. Hence the lard trust, and the combination to keep tbe prices Delhi. A local correspondent of the Philadelphia Times says: "Some outrageously sacrilegious fool has cut his name on the frame of the old Liberty bell in the state-bouse. If not too late, let me suggest that your friend who wishes to spend $50,000 invest it in a few pounds of rat poison to be administered to such things." This name may have been cut while the Liberty bell was off on its southern traveling tour. There can be nothing very cacred about the frame when the bell itself is allowed leave of absence and stays away like a city official.

Detroit Free Press: "Cm! Yes! Singular he said, as he stood at the cashier's desk in the restaurant and felt in his pockets. "Been robbed, I suppose sneered the cashier. "Perhaps, let's see. Did I change my pantaloons?" "Oh, of course!" guess I did, and left all my money in the other pair." "Say, that's too old to go down here, mister, I want CO cents." "Yes yes, but. you see "I see a dead beat, who'll get a good kicking if he doesn't hand over the cash "Mercy! but yon don't take me for a dead beat, I hope "60 cents!" "But I've left my money." "60 cents or you get the bounce "I'll go out and borrow it." "Oh, no Hand it over or the kicker will take charge of you." "Let's see! Did I change my clothes! Yes, I did.

But" "No buts about it! I want 60 cents!" "But I must have slipped some money in my hind pocket. Ah so I did. and here it is." And he fished up a great wad, tossed the cashier a (50 bill, and while waiting for his change shoes -bandr with two bankers and drew' his check for $0000 to settle a real estate transaction. The cashier is still in bed, aud he doctor says it is a very eerieus case. To-DAI'S ELLCriU.V Men of every order of mind, men of every social grade, men under the control of nearly every influence to which human nature is susceptib.e.

are looking forward with intense interest to the result of this day's work in our State aud city. Not one. but many issues are involved, and the supreme questions of the day are so related that they are in some vital respects inseparable. For this reason it has been necessary to look over the whole field before committing one's vote or influence to any one of the contending parties. In the municipal contest in New Orleans the regular Democracy, theY.

M. D. A. and the Republican party are engaged in a triangular fight. It is true that the Republicans have not nominated a city ticket, but it is also true that they have nominated a number of candidates for the Legislature from the city and that they intend and expect to profit by the local dissensions of their opponents.

For this reason certainly not because of his aflinity for reform Warmoth has urged his fellow-Eepub-licans to support the ticket of the Y. M. D. A. We do not attribute to the Y.

M. D. A. any voluntary or conscious share in the effort of the most wily enemy of the Louisiana Democracy to divide its ranks. On the contrary, we appreciate and applaud the high motive of that organization.

Nevertheless, it has always seemed to us that tbe leaders of the independent movement in New Orleans have npt sufficiently considered the effect upon the whole situation of that political segregation which they have invited, and which they have rendered inevitable, i We objected, in the first place, to their plan of abstaining from taking any part in the regular primaries held to elect delegates to the Democratic Parish Convention because it struck us that, it they could carry the city, they could carry the primaries, and that if they conld carry the primaries, they could control the Parish Convention, dictate a good ticket, aud secure possession of the party machinery. The consequence of the course they have pursued is that, whether they win or not, their next figbt must be made, as this one ismade, against the organization recognized by the Democracy of the State through its Central Committee. We were not surprised to find our arguments npon these points scoffed at by the immemorial advocates and organs of the State and city rings. They have never been capable of taking aud have never cared to take a broad and patriotic view of the situation. The Picayune has had as every sensible and candid man must admit no selfish end to serve ir its eflorts to nnify the party in New Orleansand to bring about an arrangement which would have placed in the field one unexceptionable Democratic ticket.

It would have been tbe simplest matter in the world for us to have taken the lead in this independent movement, and to have profited by all the popularity that could have been achieved in that way. But we did not conceive it to be our duty to oppose the Democratic city ticket, in so far as it was good, at the expense of tbe Democratic State ticket. When the regular Democracy nominated candidates whom we conld not indorse, we entered our protest in the plainest possible terms; but that was no reason why we should have been expected to denounce the good names on the regular ticket, or to support the inferior names on the ticket of the Y. M. D.

A. We have advised the people of New Orleans to support all the supportable candidates on the Democratio ticket, both because it is the Democratic ticket and because it is dangerous to divide tbe ranks of the Democracy at this particular juncture. In supporting the State ticket in the midst of local dissension, in calling attention to the menace held over the city by Warinotb's candidacy, the Picayune has stood practically alone in New Orleans just as it stood in the figbt against the State ring. Our contemporary, the Times-Democrat, has apparently taken no interest in this phase of the situation, and judging from its editorial utterances for some time past one wonld hardly have supposed that it was aware that the Republican party had a State ticket in the field. We leave the motives of that journal to the public, merely expressing our surprise that a paper which has so uniformly opposed every movement in the direction of reform both in tbe State and in the city government should thus suddenly have resolved that there should be "no more cakes and ale." Taking all the circumstances into consideration, we were naturally inclined to the opinion that the had appeared as an advocate of not because it had lost its appetite, but because it had lost its opportunity to sate its hunger and slake its thirst.

Whatever may be said to tbe contrary by special pleaders, it is plain that the defeat of Warmoth is the paramount consideration in this election. The Governor of Louisiana appoints the Registrar of Voters for New Orleans, the Judges, and tbe Board ot Assessors. This power of appointment places tbe city politically, and to a great extent commercially, at his mercy. The fact that the entire election machinery of the State is in his hands renders the party relations of the Governor of immense importance in a national contest in which the solidity of the South is a material consideration. Therefore, however else a New Orleans Democrat may vote, he must vote for the Democratic State ticket or forfeit forever the right to bear tbe party name.

In the struggle between the different parties to-day all will go well if everybody will act upon tbe principle that the only thing to be ascertained and established is tbe will of the majority. The issues before the people can be settled by ballots ouly, not by bullets. The situation is unquestionably very serious, and it would be wrong aud nnwise to conceal the fact. The old ring organs, notably tbe Times-Democrat, have done everything in their power to work the people up to fever beat, and if men are killed to-day on the streets those journals will bo largely responsible. Our hope is that, as it is generally understood that both sides are thoroughly prepared, prudence will prevail over rash counsels and hasty impulse.

Ordinary and mere individual offenses against the law should be dealt with by the police. Troops or organized bodies of armed men should be used, iT at all, to suppress riot or a very serious interruption of the due course of the election. The Y. M. D.

A. is more than sufficiently protected. With a representation of two to one in the polls, with the whole police force and hundreds of special officers appointed by Gnillotte, all in their inter-eat, what occasion have the members of that organization for the use of Winchester rifles? If they are in the majority they have as fair a chance to win as any party has eTer had in this State. Hence they have no need to make an irritating display of force at tbe polls, and we trust that they will not do so. Let us have a peaceable election, a nil vote and a fair count.

A YIVT LIMSS C0CHM-NG E1TEU. THE The reports of failing levees in Arkansas, near tbe Louisiana State line, will be heard with regret by those who were desiring to see a complete and efficient system of embankments from Cairo to the sea. The news, however, does not portend anything of an alarming nature just yet. Most of the levees between the mouth of the Arkansas River and tbe Louisiana line are not only of recent construction but there are considerable reaches where the new work is not complete. Damage to a greater or less extent was to be expected in that section, but it is to be hoped that every effort will be made to protect the new banks from being swept away.

The Louisiana levees are now in better condition than has been known since tbe civil war. and while weakness may develop somewhere there is not likely to be any general failures. We are constantly gaining ground in the way of fencing out the floods and a few more years without any great disaster will enable the State to put its embankments into a state of efficient reliability. The water that comes through the breaks in Southern Arkansas will find its way iuto Louisiana through Bayou Macon and other streams of the Tensas basin, but it is to be hoped that it will not be beyond tbe ability of those streams to carry it off. While the river from Vicksburg down to this city is pretty full it has not attained an unusual height, and as there is no excess of water in the river from Cairo down to Memphis it is likely that tbe water in the lower river will run down before any considerable damage can occur.

The Ohio river is not specially high and shows no signs of rising. THE ENGLISH FCND1SU SCHEME. Mr. Goschen, the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, has won golden opinions from the financial world through the success of his scheme for funding the 3 per cent English consols iuto 21 per cents, with an ultimate gradation to 2i. The radical nature of tbe change was such that many distrusted tbe success of the measure, and feared that Mr.

Goschen bad undertaken more than he could accomplish. These fears have been set at test by the virtual acceptance by holders of $635,000,000 of 3 per cents of the reduction to 22, to be ultimately lowered to 2J. Mr. Goschen based his measure on a theoretical shrinkage of the normal rate of interest on money in England, and the correctness of his logic has been demonstrated by the reaJy acceptance of the scheme by the holders of tbe bonds. Of course the nsual percentage of malcontents was found, but as their defection from tne ranks of the bondholders enhanced the value of other safe securities in tbe London market, financiers generally found no cause for complaint.

This last success added to Mr. Goschen's previous achievements has elevated Lim to the front rank of British financiers. THE DI1.NG EMPEKOK. Poor Emperor Frederick seems to be rapidly nearing his end. The malignant ulcers that are eating away the air passages of his throat appear to be complicated with inflammatory affections which have attacked the bronchial tubes and the outlying appendages of tbe lungs.

He is forced to wear a metal tube or canula in his throat to maintain an open airdnct into his lungs, and in tbe presence of a frequently recurring spasmodic cough the annoyance caused by this tube is extreme. In anticipation- of the most serious symptioms additional authority has been conferred on the Crown Prince William, who is himself Baid to be suffering from scrofulous inflammation and discbarge from the ear. The afflicted Emperor has tbe sympathy of the civilized world, which believes that his reign, if he were spared in health and vigor, would be a wise, useful and beneficent one to his people, and freed from much of the absolutism which marked that of his illustrious father. UTILIZING THE STATE DEPARTMENT. No one expected or dreamt of any innovation in the diplomatic procrastination and red tapeism of the Department of State at Washington but the unexpected has nevertheless happened, and this appendage of the government is actually credited with a nsef ul enterprise.

The department publishes at irregular intervals volumes of consular reports on trade in foreign countries, which have lost much, if not ail their yalue, in the delay they have suffered in reaching tbe public It is this drawback that the department has resolved to correct, and it nowissies to the press advance sheets of these reports as they are received, so that tbey may be at the disposal of the commercial community at tbe earliest possible moment. This system of consular trade reports has been more or less adopted by all the great powers, and in the greater number of instances has proven of substantial benefit to trade interests. In this fast age it is not only essential to secure thorough information on all such matters as come under tbe notice of our consuls abroad, but it is equally important to get it before the public at the earliest possible moment. The State Department is, therefore, to be credited with a useful and intelligent piece of enterprise. CONGE ESS HAS fjU TIME FuE BUSINESS Congress can afford to spend a week or ten days in filibustering over an unimportant scheme like tbe repeal of the direct tax bill, but when it comet to a great national and necessary measure like the river and harbor bill Congress has no time to consider it.

Such an urgent matter must be indefinitely postponed. But, then, that is the way of Congress. Let ns see what is to be done with the tariff question, another vital national measure. An American Turk. The champion polygamist oatside of Utah and Turkey is a rascal named Brown, at Detroit.

Michigan. His seventeenth wife, an Intelligent girl named Annie Winter, denounced him to the police after he bad robbed her of her money and jewels and deserved her. This was bis game with each ot the women he so cruelly wronged. They were all young and handsome, some being widows with property. Weraen may be fully capable of voting and managing the affairs ot the nation and of the world, but they appear to have but little ability to resist the arts of the poly- i eamist.

Jdormonisni will never be out of tbe United State until the women ol the country tar a ablest it. At present nine-tenths of the converts of the Mormon missionaries iu all parts of the world are woa.cn. Scant Pay for High Officials. Tlie almost penniless condition In which the death of Chief Justice Waite leaves his family suggests the Importance ot making some better pronsion for the members of this great court, the most exalted and dignified as to its powers and functions in the world. Compared with the salaries of the British adzes those of our Supreme Court are inconsiderable.

Here are the figures UNITED STATES. SUPREME COCKT OF THE ClflTED STATES. Chief a st ice 10.5G0 Associate Justices 10 CIRCUIT COCBTS OF THE EXITED STATES. Circuit Judges- I3.C00 United States District Court Judges $3,600, 4.000 ENGLAND. The Lord Hljrh JE10, 000 or 130,000 The Lord Cuief Jnsuoe of England 8 000 or 40,000 COURT OF JUDICATURE.

Lords Justices of tie Court Of Appeals 5,000 or $25,000 HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. Justices of the Chancery JE 5 000 or $25,000 Justices of the Qaeen'a Bench Division 6,000 or 25.000 Tbe Chief Justice caonot maintain a respectable position in Washington society on his salary. The Walking; Good, but the Wading Bad, The American Exchange, whose failure for a large amount some days ago was announced, was a concern which was supposed to carry on a banking business in London, receiving deposits from American -tourists and dealing in letters of credit. There were also reading-rooms and lo for Americans who might bo in London and wbose baggage and other property could be stored at the exchange. Tbe concern had an office in New York also.

The actual capital was said to be half a million, but tne business amounted to ten times as much. It is claimed that tbe exchange has Issued letters of credit or become liable for $4,000,000 of the money of travelers, and all la lost. These tourists may have a very hard time of it before tbey get back home. Tbe walking is geuerally good in Europe, but the wading Is decidedly bad. Leath of Charles Armand Durel.

The telegraph on Sunday eight brought to this city the sad tidings of the death of Charles Armand Durel. who was killed almost Instantly at Taj lor, in an unfortunate accident. The young man was oat horseback riding and. La falling with his steed, struck a barbed wire fence, tbls cutting all the main arteries and half an inch into the bone of tho thigh. The deceased was a native of this city, tbe son of Mr.

nies Durel, tbe well-known cotton factor, and at the time of his sad end was a machinist in tbe shops of tne Texas and Pacltlo Ball way Company at Taylor. He had won by fidelity aud a high place in the esteem and oswilience of his employers, and by many admirable traits of character had attracted the warm friendship of his comrades. His farewell to the world to all that be held most dear in life was bidden as he stood on threshold of manhood, fall of the vigor and gayety of youth, and endowed with those qualities of lcteilliceiioe, learning and courage which gave promise of a brlll'ant future. Young Durel was educated In this city as a machinist and draughtsman, and displayed remarkable talent in his adopted profession. After completing his theoretical studies, be served an apprenticeship in a foundry, and about a year ago was Invited to and acceptea the position he held in the Lone Star State.

The remains will be brought to tbe city this evening, wneu arrangements will be made for the faneraL A proud father, a loving mother, and fond brothers and sisters mourn the loss of the promising young Loulsianian. Death of George Linaui. Mr. George Lanaux, who for all his life was connected with the commercial interests of New Orleans, died yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. Mr.

Lanaux was born in this city on tbe 16th of August, seventy-one years ago. of a prominent Creole family. After completing his studies at Spring Hill College, near Mobile, he entered tbe ofllce of M. Mautre, a notary public, to study tbe notarial business. Leaving that, he became clerk in the mortgage olfice, and after some years there opened a commission bouse.

Later he owned and personally cultivated a sugar plantation in the parish of Plaquemines. The war left him stripped of his fortune, but be clerked for a while for Laiitte Jc Dufilho and was made general bookkeeper of the New Orleans National Banking Association. Abont tbls time the New Orleans Insurance Association was organized and in August. 1869. he was made its secretary.

Tuat position be held until January, 1880, when he was elected president and continued lu the latter office up to his death. Mr. Lanaux was a modest gentleman, courteous and genial to all be was loved and admired by his friends as well as his devoted sons and daughters. His children he fitted for honorable and useful posts of activity and his loss will be widely felt. NO CASE AGAINST THE LETTER CARRIERS.

Tbe United States grand jury yesterday brought in not a true bill in tbe case of Messrs. Julian B. Dietrich and F. Desarbey, the two young letter carriers who 'were arrested by the post office inspectors, charged with tampering with the United States maiL Conclusive evidence was produced before the grand Jary, and all tbe decoy letters wnicn bad been sent by tbe inspectors were found to have reached their destination and been returned hare, and offered la evidence by Major G. L.

Hail, the attorney for Dietrion. The two young men who were thus charged with being mail robbers have come oat with flying colors and tbelr fair names and fame thoroughly vindicated. They were proven to be lalthlnl and true to tbe charge reposed In them, abd were honorably acquitted ot the charges made against them. Appropriately Named, Colgate's Cashmere Bouquet perfume, combining tbe odors of many sweet flowers. RAlLROAfcS.

Railroad Employes Given Time to Tote. It was stated In an afternoon contemporary yesterday that the Louisville aud Nashville Kailroad had refused to sign the agreement to close on this, election day, aud that it was the only company so decreeing. A Picayune representative called upon Mr. Joun Kllkcny, division passeuger agent cf the louisville and Nashville Koad, aud whs Informed by tnat gentleman that obligation to the pnblio and to the owners of the road would not Justify his closing the office, out tnat the employes would be given ample time to go out to the polls and vote aa tney pleased. Superintendent Cnarles Marshall said that the freight and other ottioea would not be closed but that all the employes would be allowed time to visit the polls, arrangements having been made to that effect.

The Projected Decatur, Tupelo and Helena Railroad. Helena. April 16. Special- The Decatar, Tupelo and Helena Railroad Company has been given a charter by the State ot Mississippi and its designers hope to commence work at once. The company is composed of southern men alone, and it is to be run from Helena to the Alabama state line.

The secretary. Mr. Harry Medford or Tupelo, has written Messrs. Stephens At Trieber of this city that the president of the road will be in Helena soon to. see about terminal facilities.

This is an Important road tor Helena, and will put ns in direct communication with he ceal fields ot Alabama. fRS0XAL A.VD GENERAL 5UTES. Mr. Allan C. Story, a well-known Chicago attorney acd president of the bor4 ot education of that city, is in town.

Mr. Story is located at No. 11 Dauphiue street, ana expects to remain here for some time. A recent traveler through the Chinese province of Maucauala says that besides having a reverenca for animals the rustio Mancbos worship disease, and particularly the small-pox. which is represented under the form of a repulsive idoU Mr.

DaTid Todd has spent the last week in 8t. Mary parish, working incessantly in tbe Interest of the Democratic state ticket, and we learn bis efforts have been very successful. Mr. Todd will be in the city to cast his vote for the Nicbolls ticket to-day. Tbe pope's income from' Peter's penoe.

which since 18T0 has been the only source of revenue left to tbe papacy, amounts, to 6.000,000 francs a year. On the occasion of his recent jubilee the Peter's penee presented Pope Leo aggregated to S5.000.000 francs. Thousands of smau pickerel have been- thrown up at times recently from an artesian well near Winnipeg. The opinion is expressed that they come from a subterranean stream which probably flows Into lake Man itoba, and which has evidently been tapped bv tbe well. Mrs.

Mary A. Lowman. the new mayor of Oekaloosa, Is 43 yea rs old and has led a busy life. She was formerly a school teacher, anu for nearly fie years has Deen chief clerk in the office of the county regis ter of deeds. She is the mother of two chil dren, a son and a daughter, each of whom is of adult age.

Tbe word "chirruping" Is now used in a RinirnittP Adrift A In England, according to a London newspaper, where it is employed to designate tbe practice of lounging around tbe stage doors of music balls to blackmail the singers by promising to applaud them for a consideration, and, if that be refused. to bias them for love of art. There is surely nothing new under the sun. It is now learned that the gambling game in which the players place -coins on the ground before them and bet on tne probability of a fly lighting on a particular coin baa known to tbe people ot Cen tral AsIa for centuries, is probably a heritage that tbey have received from their prehistoric Aryan ancestois. New York World: Parson Talmage tells his hearers that if they sy "My stars!" or "Mercy on me!" or -By George!" or "By Jove," they are "ntit rtojr to imprecation and blasphemy." Hs the preacher never learned the danger of tying down tho safety valve and putting a weight on it If there is no vent for the feelings some men and women will surely explode.

Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: "The father of Amelie Kivrs, the Virginia authoress, is tbe chief engineer of the Panama Kailroad Company and has bis office in Colon. He is uncle to Assistant Secretary of State Rives. He is very popular on the Isthmus. A sin gular fact about tbe Rives family is that of its two distinct brancbes, the northern or New York part are all Democrats, while the Virginia Rives are Republicans to a man." New York World The Merchant Tailors Society baa struck a dreadful blow at the order ot dudes and at tbe numerous class of eeiui swells who delight in being genteel at other people's expense. It has adopted the cash system for clothes, "or at least a rule to render bills to customers the first of each and every month." The enforcement of the cash system wonld give a very dlffeient appearance to upper Broadway on week days and Fifth avenue on Sundays.

And yet the merchant tailors can hardly be expected to adorn te promenades at their own expense. This ti a bad year for trusts. Chattanooga Times, April 14: "Mr. J. E.

Fenn. chief electrician, and Mr. C. G. Mer-riweather, manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, were iu the city yesterday, and it is understood that tbey were bere to make arrangements for extending tbe lines of the company over the road.

This will give Chattanooga another route to New Orleans and the southwest. The company has just finished yesterday a new line ot poles between this city and Nashville, and it is said some Improvements are in contemplation in this city, and that it is Chattanooga will become an all night office in the summer." Montgomery has been baving some fun with the Lewis Gillespie "Lady of Lyons" Combination. The Advertiser says: "The audience was small but notwithstanding that the players held tbeir own and gave tbe play a creditable rendition. In the closing scene, when Pauline, the Beauty of Lyons, Is abont to sign a marriage contract with the man she never loved, in order to cave ber father from financial wreck and ruiu. she asked ber cousin, the Colonel, if he wouldn't advance the amount to save her father and herself.

The Colonel replied: 'No, my dear cousin, I cannot. This honse doesn't pay. I'm too The Colonel had evidently sized up the house for about what It was worth." A most pleasing and quite an Interesting Incident of the occupation of Ship Island, by the Ninth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in 1861 and 1862 has just come to light. The keeper of the lighthouse on Ship island In bis rambles accidentally uneovered a bronze metal shamrock, which had doubtless been worn by some member of the famous Connecticut regiment. This typical ornament had lain burled in the sands of tbe Island for the past twenty-seven years, and now that It has been recovered It Is found to be in as fine a state of preservation as it was when It first received the Impress ot the die.

This memento was presented to Captain J. H. Lawlor by Dan MeCall. and by him to bis old comrade. Captain William Wright.

The shamrock was adopted by the officers of the regiment, many ot whom were Irish, as its distinctive badge. In the upper part of tbe trefoil appears the figure 9" and in the two lower parts of the leaf are the letters all in relief. It makes a handsome ornament and one worthy of preservation. Samuel Mlnturn Peck, the Alabama poet, writes to the Birmingham Herald as follows concerning "A Southern '-In the Herald, of April 10, appeared the following editorial The Nashville American of Bun-day published a poem entitled, A Southern Girl," and credited It to the Montgomery Advertiser. We have seen the same poem with the same credit lately in several papers, and believe there is a mistake about tbe credit.

We are prepared to testify that the poem Is at least two years old, and we believe it had a northern origin. We think It first appeared In Peck's San, of Milwaukee, though we are not so positive In that regard as we are aa to iu age. Tbe Advertiser may have published the poem without credit, but didn't originate It. Your surmise la partly right and partly wrong. You are right In thinking that the poem Is 'two years and that the 'Advertiser didn't originate but you are mistaken in ascribing it to a northern writer, and thinking that It first appeared in Peck's Sun.

It appeared first in tbe New Orleans Sunday Times-Democrat, in the spring of 1886, aa an original contribution, and was written by me. It was widely eopled by the press when it was first printed, and was properly credited to the Times-Democrat and to me. About a year after, when Mr. Earnest De Lancy Pierson of New York prepared his collection of 'Society Verse by American Writers. he included, bv permission, 'A Southern together with another of my poems.

'An April Maid, also from the Times-Democrat. A Southern Girl' again went around the press credited only to the collection of Mr. Pierson. A few weeks ago it began its third journey over the country, aud it gave me some surprise and a little amusement to see it credit by the Times-Democrat to tbe Advertiser, wben the had printed it as an original contribution and paid for it two years before. This Is one of tbe ways by which a poem becomes anonymous." Cheapest window shades in town, carpets, mattings, curtain poles.laee curtains, equally low at Pilger'a.

451 and 53 Dryades BLxeeU Tbe Chinese of Taeotna, W. T. Import from Alaska every few months big boxes full ot dried bears' paws from which they mtM a medicine similar to their dried lizard tonic Bears' gall, which sells at tlO a pound, is also lu great demand among them. New Orleans Writers. Miss Giles Talks to a CInb in Wisconsin.

Tbe Madison (Wis.) State Journal. April 12. contains the following editorial Tiie Contemporary Club, which usually embodies in its programme "tlks" a themes of interest in history, literature, science, art and discoveries, erjoyeU an informal paper, last evening, given by Miss A. tilie. who took ior ner hhuoi-pallv.

New Orleans author. Her unbounded enthusiasm for the people she met in her rnnE visit aoutn lad ner to speak of many others not claiming distinction through their pens. MU RIIm nraiM.d hirhlv the writings and personality of Mary Ashl-y Townsend, and read selections from her voloroe, Down the Bayou Of the Louisiana historian, Gayarre, ana bis valuable works she made frequent mention, and quoted from the glowing tributes paid biui by Harrison in Tbe Critic, aa well as giving a description of ber visit to his homeiu New Orleans and ner attendance at a banquet giveu by the celebrated Creole committee in his honor on his 80th birthday. She dwelt enthusiastically upon the character and genius of Miss Leon a Quey-rouze. French Creole poet, whose acquaint-anre she formed while in the Crescent city, and stated that she hoped ere long to introduce her to the club in person, as tbe gifted young lady contemplated a visit to Madison at a day not far distant.

via. Preston Johnston, the president of Tulane University, who contrloutes to numerous periodicals; Marion Baker, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat suff, and his talented wif, ha has lor ner pen name ana K. WVttieriil Mrs- Martha K. Field, the the Picayune, and tbe New Orleans delegate to the recent international council wf women at Washington, were all iuciuded in Miss Giles list of writers met in Nw Orlan. and of each she spoke in a reniinlscrntlal way that made her remarks, Concerning these hall-laminar writera peculiarly graphic She mentioned as new a-pirauts for literary distinction, Louise Cunningham Bowles and Ruth McEuery smart, botn pleasing dialect story writers, and tne latter a contributor to tne Princeton Review and Harper's.

To Laura F. Hinsdale of Biion, whom she aid not claim as a New Orleans writer, but a frequent contributor to its leading dailies, she alluded in conuectiou with tne historian Gayarre, saying tuat upon bla romantio chapters many of ber tine gulf coast stories and legendary poems were founded. In giving some of her experiences among the literary people of New Orleans, Miss Uiles said that sue felc disposed to mention some, charming episodes relating to its innaiolans, and in tbe net dwelt particularly upon Caarles Dudley Warner's favorite, Mrs. Peniberton Hincks, a Fiench Creole lady of nigh social standing, much beauty, and' promising remarkable skill as a vocalist. The poetLeoua Queyrouxe aud ber superior rendering of old Creole songs, and Coiione Bouligny Nott, also a Fiench Creole and an gifted singer, were most appreciatively named.

Mias titles then read selections from a poem in tbe January number ot Harper's Magazine, "Fere Dagobert," by Mrs. T. E. Davis, and called attention to other poems and stories by ihat autnor in various periodicals. She said that in New Oneans she was everywhere known as Mrs.

Mollle Moore Davis, a society woman of exceeding popularity, and a poet of real genius. The description or ber home and tne circumstances under which she wrote tbe long and pleasing poem, "Fere Dagobert," were admirably woven into Miss Giles' experiential talk. Mr. F. J.

Tamer, tbe president of tbe club, gave a brief history of the manner la wnlca some man nsenpts had recently oome to light, which dispute tne claim of La Salle, or even Marquette, ollet or Nloolet as being tbe earliest aiacoverers in Wisconsin. That honor, when tbe claim is eataoUsbed, will be given instead to Padison and Grosseil, two Frenen traders, who were bere, it la said, in 1629. Tbe remark waa made that thus It la that long established claims of many of our so-ealied historical facta are be-iog changed through the researuhea of Historians. Beware of counterfeits 1 Always call for Coigan's 4'afly-Tolu Gum. a Charles Williams, a native ot Franklin county.

and a veteran ot the war ot 1612, lacks only two years of being a century old. He lives iu Chained, and la still active. HUSBAND'S CALCINED MAGNESIA. Four first premium meda'a awarded. More agreeable to the taste, and smaller dose than other magnesia.

For sale in bottles odIt. w.th, U. 8. Uovernmeot registeied label attachsd, without which none is genuine, at druggiste and couatrv stores. DIED.

LFOVT At San Diego. CaL. April 16, 188S, HHNRY HCNLEY Lh.oVY, soa of Henry J. Leovy and E. A.

Due notice will be gives of the funeral. MACKIF On Monday, April 16, at 4:10 o'clock a. CATHERINE LOUISA M. SUTHERLAND, beloved wife of Thomas O. Mackie.

aged 60. years, native of Holland and a resident of New Orleans for the past thirty-nine yeara. The funeral will take place from her late residence. 53 Oliver street, Algiers, This (Tuesday) Morning at 10 o'clock. Friends and relatives are respectfully Invited to attend.

LAWATJX Monday evening, April 16. J883, at 1 oc'ock. liKOKUE LANAUX. aged 71 years and 8 months. Friends and acquaintances of the family are respectfully invited to attend his funeral, which will take place on Wednesday Morning, at o'clock precisely, from his late residence, corner T'rsolinen and Pr-'enr streets.

A Stimulant That Does lVot Harm. All sort of bitters and beverages have had their brief day of popularity and come and gone. But the reputation made many years ago by Wolfe Schiedam Ammatia Schnnnna ntmtlni untarnished and undisputed. This famous tonle, useful as a mild tairaulant. good (or all warm drinks of the kind that the aiak require, useful in stomach and kidney trouble, and handy to have In every household.

Is made of the same pare component parts that first gave it worldwide repute. AU druggists and grocers keep 4,000,000 LADIES Are doing Family Sewing on Impyeu Singer Family MacMfles. 8,000,000 SLXGEE SI WLC MACHIIES Havs Been Sold. The Singer Manufacturing Ka. Canal Street, SEND FOB PRICE LIST, S.

BUNDUt General Agent, controlling the Btatea ot Texaa. Ixtulaiana. Alabama. Mis sissippi and Tennessee. rcs Sna NOTICE.

KE1 ILATIVE TO CLOSING BARKOnv GK tr during Ihi.wii lo be held thronhoor the city ot OFncE op civil sheriff rot tb Pariah of prill Zm I HE attention of all icron. moms, or other plai-r, where linaorl sold, cned to orotion an of Act 10i a tiJ! extra session of i77. wuich leads aa tLiL- "Be it further enacted, etc. 1 bat it aiih 7H the outy of each registrar and hJ? or comiiilaaioTjer of election, on ilia dar a tion. to -loe ail dnnki salooaa.

taiB.hm2" groargerlB. or places where Honor is somI bVTTl glass, b-iue or giion. situated within a riAZ ol two miles or any oollinr place; aad ahallil? rest ana impn-ou. until alter bacluiBc it 2 polls, ail person who shall rf fuA to do place wtere liquor is sold when by eiiali them ordered la io so. and aa peraeawI shail sell.

or olhr rm iae. or riva te ant pe-son ontbeaarot election, a uv iuioxt, ml7. liquors by I he gUss. or ailo withla radius of two runes of auy polUug plar shall guilty of miMlemeannr. aod on cxmviciioa ii.L.? of nhall bepuaiHhed by hue of not less ihaB AAa lor ea'h separate onVnse." All persons owning barrooms or Otter Dlan wbem liquor is sold, and to whom the soot! section mav apply, aie hereby ordered toVeZZ the same eloiwd during the election to be b.J thiougaont the city of Orleans ant aatlakJ O'leans.

ou TUESDAY, April 17. le8sBaiI strictly comply with thr above law. TH'iMAr IDFT Civil Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans aad ar officio omcer of the Pm.J Orleans. iaac W. PaTTOS Supervisor of Registration ot the Pariah af Orleans.

1 5- If not. and you wish get rM ef II, throw away dangerous nJj ll, throw away daageroaa liaw Tift YAH nieutsamt poisonous anoavaa VV IVV nn anpiy Dabby sbr.xTii fcrTr 1FKS. which qnickly allay uiflas. rriir maujn and relieve rain, wbera L.iJUI all other remedies faiL TM plasters are neat and cleaalr and TOOTHACHE Si sent by iull on receipt of 25eia. by t-EAHl KV fc JOHSMJX.

aui! factnrmg i eniisf, Jiew AMMUNITION, POWDER, Fishing Tackle, Baseball Geeaa, Keaa. Packing and Twine, WOODEN WABE, Brooms and Brushes. Lamps, Lanterns and Globes, Wrapping Paper and Bags Tinware. Hardware, Accordions and Harmonicas, Market, 1 each. Grain and Oyster Butsta, Agency for Empire Co-'s Standard Scales.

AO, 49 and 44 Tchoopitoalaa street, C. MORRIS. Ja23 'eX TnSaly Planters' Fertilizer Manufacturing Company, NEW ORLEANS. Manufacturers of their well known braads Hagar Fertilizer. Csimd Fertilizer.

Oata Fertilizer. Vegetable Fertilizer. Fruit Tree Fertilizer, eta, Dealers in high grade ENGLISH ACID PHOSPHATE ASH OtJU MAM KA.LN1T. A. MAGIMIS' SONS --Aral Otflce 103 Magazine street, New "rlim o9-w GOILARD, PARISIAN MODISTE, 17 BOURBON STItEET 17 Has Just received per Steamship ConaseUara lot ot Fine Imported MILLINERY GOODS I Which owing to the lateness of the I will be disposed of at greatly reduced rates.

Amongst the latest styles st Parisian Hats, Foulards, Laces, And In fact all tbe latest MOVELTIESef the season. All orders promptly execatedv aplA enTnfrlm LOUISIANA BUREAU Of IMMIGRATION WM. H. HARRIS, COMMISBIONEK. DeacriprJosi of Lands Suitable ter Xsaada crania File la OOlce.

Vft 11 9 rflMMft RTTl "EFT- NEW ORLEANS, LA. Jel'ss buiulliAWl; CLIPPER Sat Mill an! MaMctirii Man of adorers of and Dealer in VEGETABLE CRATES, Bough and Dressed Boxes, Step Ladders, Etc. Ob Jfew Basin, Corner lire ui Euphrosiie StraU OFFICE, SO. 208T. CHABLI9 8T.

Special bills of lumber filled promptly. bavea large supply ot logs cot. Curtis' Art Room, 2011DASAI. STREET, TJP STAIBS. Old Mahogany, Furniture, Aotiqoes, BBICA-BKAC.

FAIITHWGB. FI2 tr FUND IN AID OF WIDOW AND CHILDREN, OF Hon. PATRICK MEALEY. Inspired by high personal regard for bis sterling qualities, as well as profound sympathy with bis surviving family in tbeir irreparable bereave rnent so lamentable and unexpected, a 1 f.ll i 1 41 tuts luiiuHiDK-namea citizens uao it st V. I.

ani that tbey only voice tbe general wish wbea tney lormalate a plan wnereoy sen lament and feeling can be converted Into substantial aid to the widow and children now left without means and deprived, of tbeir accustomed sapper. The idea is to raise and of sneh amount as friendship and generosity may make possible, with a view to its investment in some suitable form, so as to seen re a fixed, if modest, income to Mrs. Mealey. to assist ber in bringing up the six minor children forming her now unhappy household. Saosrriptions to tbis end will be received and reported by any member of committee named below.

Any friend wishing to assist in tne (rood work wiil confer a favor Df making it known to the chairman. -secretary or member of tbe committee. Donations made will be duly pub" COMMITTEE. Mr. Maurick J.

Hart, Mr. E. Lu Israel, General A. METER. Mr.

W. B. Schmidt, Mr. John T. Moore.

Mr. Maurice Schwabachek. Mr. Nicholas Burke, i i ao. uniuii, Dr.

Jos. Beard. Mr. Jacob Hassixqer. Mr.

C. H. Hyams. Mr. John- T.

Gibbons, Mr. Vm. B. Eingrose, Mr. Michael Hackett, Mr.

Maurice Newman, Mr. J. V. Moore. Mr.

John Mathers. Mr. Jno. P. Moore, Mr.

Henry Newman. Mr. A. Vizard. Mr.

V. J. Bkhan. EDW. BOOTH, Chairman.

WM. BEANHAM, Secretary. i HI) If.