The Telegraph-Bulletin from Monroe, Louisiana • 1

1-31-37 1 1 trv Lx ILS) 1 fOM uuU 4 'n As 5 1 VOL. IV. MONROE, LOUISIANA, FEBRUARY 7, 1883, NO. I. TIIE ORIGIN OF STOIOIS.

The Color Line in the South. are Dicely displayed they will many buyers. To 1 make a good showing it requires much but with a little care, preservance and study, good results will come, and it will be found an easy task. i I the Star Route frauds and navy yard thieves immediately made arrange- ments to pluck him. lie accepted an invitation to play.

The stakes ran high, and tlm spurious millionaire was well supplied with Jones At the end of the tournament the stranger rose from the table the winner of $300,000 of the money of the club. It was a severe blow to the Ringsters, but they made the people of the United States pay it back to them indirectly and in shoit order. Jones divided swag with his friend, and never set foot in the club rooms again." It was not' long after before the Ringsters found out that they had been beaten at their own game, but they were not iu a position to make any fuss about lt. M0M.0E APmttBEMEHTS. 11.

i 1 Gratad St.fTWOnroe, I.a., IVFAL'FR'TX Family Groceries, Candy, Fruits, cigars, PCife. Wines, and New. Millinery Store! LATEST NOVELTIES To i the Ladies Monro? and North Louisianai- Mrs. Annie of No. 102 Canal ami 37 Bourbon street, New Orleans, has opened her millinery, establishment in the brick officeiately occupied by Gov.

McKuery No. 8 Grand street. I take pleasure in thanking you for your patronage, bnd I shall.t endeavor to merit a liberal snare of the patronage of the public bv strictly adhering to the policy of prompt, honest and fair-dealings and' reasonable prices, i I am now receiving th latest Parisand JVew York Novelties in Millinery and Istraw Goods, Felts, imported Ilats and Bonnets of the Lapst Styles, i Bihbons, Laces, Collais, opskirts and Ladies Underwear, Infants Itobes, Bridal Wreaths, Special attention giv en to -country orderr. cry Respectfully, 7 i- Hus. annie mitciiell! i D.

GUNBY-ProduceDealer, Geai Merchant i 'AKD i 111 ft i 1 1 i Receiving and Forwarding-Agent, 12 and-14 North Grand Monroe, La. i j. Pork, ime, Dry Goods, Corn, Bacon, Cement, Oats, Flonft Hardware, I Bran, Meal, Ties, I in crop. Specialties are therefore liec -essary in the farm economy. Any individual may learn tone thing thoroughly, but the wisest cannot know everything.

"The bulk of the' farm labor and the devotion to crops may be conducted in the Usual routine manner, with such improvements as are incidentally acquired; hut, in progressive agriculture there should always be one field or part of a field devoted to a Specialty'; which1 should command the closest study arid most careful observation of the fanner. The advantages of sucl a policy are not limited by the mei'6 pecuniary gains, though such is undoubtedly the best method of securing profitable returns. 4 fafuiev lias learned more about any special Crop than a majority of neighboring farmers know then lie is quite sure of ft profit. In all the occupations the majority of men etirfl little more than bare living, food, clothing, and shelter. Whoever would have more than these necessaries of iife must earn rt by greater skill than the average of his 'The.

competition in the most easily grown is so great that it is no wonder good fanners me discouraged and young meri resolve to1 devote their energies to some other A few years ago, when Congress by a retroactive law legislated $5,000 back pay into the pocket of each member, a calculation was made by a Westein paper of how much' labor this ''suul represented in oats at tire selling rate of the time, say about eighteen cents por bushel. Without doubt, easier modes of getting, a living and fristcr ways of making money than growing oats at low prices have driven thousands of young men from the farm. The fact, however, that such meagre results need not nl ways be the result of the fanners labors too often escapes attention. There are many more profitable crops 'than those usually grown by farmers, and it is within the power of any farmer, young or old, to learn the secrets for their successful production. Young men nt home on the farm nre always glad to go into new things, and to a reasonable extent this should be encouraged.

In thousands of cases it will save to farm life the active, enterprising young man, who, if kept in the unvarying round of routine drudgery, would drift into other and pel haps to the youthful mind more congenial pursuits. 1 It is not the' labor alone to which farmers, young or old, It is the almost inevitable fact that in most farm crops such laboi; is not adequately rewarded. No crop demands more labor, and that of the slow, tedious, baekaching kind, than onions. Yet in more than one instance, young men have been persuaded to remain on the old homestead by the alluring promise of having a piece of suitable land set 'apart for their use as an onion patch. In one such case now in mind, the acre cultivated by the lad netted more profit than the 100' acre farm of his The next year the father allowed the son to- rent the farm, and the youth is now one of the most intelligent and enterprising farmers iu his section.

The cultivation of specialties in' farming tends to broaden the mind and make the farmer more observant and more intelligent. There are no secrets in farming or gardening which may not be learned by the peisistcnt cultivator, and any one who wishes to gain all the knowledge that is to be acquired concerning any crop, can secure such information from successful cultivatois or experienced authorities, free of charge. It would be an excellent policy for farmers 1 to visit such nurserymen and seed growers-as are iu their vicinity, for the purpose of securing the information they need. After all is told that can be put in words, the neophyte must i (toliiilibuS (Ga.) Enquirer.) It seems the hardest matter in the world for northern people to understand the color-line1 business. They imagine that there is a struggle unceasingly gojng on between whites and negroes fof the ascendency of the colored ikice.

They imag ine' that in church social, "and ''in affairs of a political -nature, the white man is the time trying toi.put down the negro, and they on the other hand are endeavoring to put themselves on an equality with the whites by mingling with them on equal terms. Such is not at all the case The negro'es lire just as- anxious to he left entirely to themselves Iti all their affairs as the whites could possibly he; want their own churches, for their own and under tbeiy own- management. 'If the white churches of any denomination were to throw open wide their doors and invite the colored people to join them, it would he only U3 very last resort that they would do so. They are as much opposed to-; a mixed membership as any other and they are so, fiom While the most cordial Christian fellowship exists, between, the races, they desire to have their own houses of worship, and to control them in accordance with the creed of. the denomination to which they belong.

And so it is with them as to schools. ihey want is their rate share of the educational -fund, and want their own institutions of Teaming. This fact is growing stronger and stronger year by year, and the negro would make it so even could he have any way he desires. When they see that they have their rights under the law, it is all they ask. They have no desire for social equality, and the most cruel thing that could be done would be to tlnust it upon them, Discovery of Anthracite Coal, (Pittsburg Comereial.) Anthracite coal was discovered in Pennsylvania soOli after the settlement of Wyoming Valley, but its first prateial use was by Obediah Grose in iiis blacksmith shop in the year 1768.

In 1791 Philip Ginter dicoveicd anthracite coal qn the Lehigh. In 1802 Robt. Morris of Philadelphia formed a company and purchased 6000 acres of the property on which Ginter discovered the coal. The coal company was called The Lehigh Coal Mine. This company opened the mine and found the vein to be fifty feet thick, and of the very best quality of coal.

The company made every effort to secure a demand for the but -without success, and having become thoroughly disgusted with their speculation, leased the 6000 acres of this mammoth gold field to Messrs. White Hazard of Philadelphia for twenty years, at an annual rental of one ear of corn. White Hazard tried to use the coal in the blast furnace iD 1826, but failed the furnace chilled. In 1832 Neilson conceived the idea of the hot blast for saving fuel, and in 1833 David Thomas adopted the idea of the hot blast aud anthracite together. White Hazard had previous to this formed a company and bought the property.

In 1839 David Thomas made use of anthracite for making pig metal a success, by which the twenty ears of corn were transferred into And thi3 is the early bistoiy of the great Lehigh coal mines of the present I remember well the banquet given by Bird Battersun and Nicholas Biddle at Mount Carbon in 1850, at which time they paid William Lyman, proprietor of Pioneer Furnace, $5000, the premium they had offered for the first successful use of anthracite coal as fuel iu the blast furnace, but David Thomas was the lion of the day. Display. (New Orleans States.) The secret of success in any line of business is the ability to make an attractive display of goods that will draw the attention of buyers. The man who fully understands his business will find no better advertisement for lam than an artistic arrangement of goods, whether it be on the counter or in the, show window. We always find that the man who makes the finest display, no matter if he does not possess a great amount of stock, will eventually do more business than the man who possesses the most stock and makes no effort to show it, aud allows to accumulate old styles covered with dust, which have no at-attractioii8 to the passer by, and consequently an advertisement that is worth many dollars is thrown away.

Goods may be of the latest stales and thrown into a showcase. witLht any regard for position or care, and will not sell but if these same goods i Lecture by 'Prof. William M. Davis, 4 of Harvard University. (Boston Advertiser.) In the Lowell Institurc course of lecldres, W.

M. Davis, 'M. instructor in geology in Harvard Uni-ersitj, have his second 'lecture on storms in Huntington Ilall, at the In- stitute of Technology last evening. He said that all the activity of a storm originated from the sun, and the circular motion Seen in a cyclone is caused by the rotation of the earth, the motion of the wing currents in the northern hemisphere' being from right to left, and those in the southJ ern hemisphere from left to right. The origin of a cyclone is caused by central area of heated damp air- which causes the surrounding air to flow in adially from all directions but this adial motion is immediately affected by the rotation of the eartlij and the wind is more and more deflected, and at the same time increased in until near the center-the spiral -has reached almost a perfect circular motion.

If near tlie edge of the storm the elocity of the storm is ten miles an lioilr, nt the center it will be 120 miles per hour, or even far- greater. This whirling motion developes an immense centrifugal force, which has a tendency to dish out the air in the Center and throw it out to the bbundnries. This effort is so great that if at the beginning of the cyclone the storm center Shows a fall in barometer of half -an incli, as soOn as the centrifugal- force is the barometer at that place will fall two inches. It is of the greatest importance when the vessel is in the edge of a cyclone to notice how rapidly the wind is deflecting from a direct course, as from this the direction of the center of the storm is calculated and the diiection it is advancing, which, being known, with care the storm may be partially or wholly avoided. While there is a circular motion to the storm there is also a forward motion caused by trade-winds or other causes, one of the principal being the fall of rain.

When a storm center is being formed iu the northern hemisphere the air rushing in from the north is dry, but that from the south 'coming rapidly north its moisture is condensed and great quantities of rain fall, and the center of the storm continually tends to seek the place of the heaviest rainfall. These two motions of the storm affect each other, thus the eastern side of storms in Atlantic being accelerated and the western side retarded thus if the circular motion at any given distance from the storm center be fifty miles on the eastern side the wind, in addition, will have its for ward motion of twenty miles if the path of the storm is advancing at that rate, w'hile on the western side the twenty miles is to be deducted from the fifty, so that the wind will only be blowing at the rate of thirty miles per hour therefore, it is very important as to which side of the storm the vessel is on. Cyclones only occur at sea, as it is only there that the air is sufficiently quiet or moist' to originate one. but when they strike a coast, as the southeastern coast of Asia, there is frequently great destruction of life one single storm in 1877 having des troyed 60,000 people. The reason why there was a failure in predictin our late storm was because it came up from Cuba, and the Signal Service failed to get the weather report from their station on 'that island.

i i A Big Poker Game. (Stockton Mail.) George L. Waters, the janitor the City Hall, related an incident today to a Mail reportei; concerning big poker game in which Senator John P. Jones of Nevada was player. Waters has been in the employ of certain Congressmen around the Capitol at Washington for ipany years, and Lis statement may be accepted as true.

It was several years ago, before the millionaire had become thoiougbly posted in the ways of Washington society. Almost before he had thoroughly warmed his seat iu the Senate, he was introduced into the District Club, of which Boss Shepherd.wa a prominent member. Poker at that time was the prominent recreation of the club, and Joucsj was induced to take a i hand. Although a good poker player, he retired from the game a loser to the amount of $70,000. The Senator, having a few silver mines at his Lack for pocket money, was game, and did not allow the least expression of chagrin or distrust to escape him.

The next morning he telegraphed to one of the most expert card sharps in Virginia City. Eight days afterwards the gambler arrived in Washington, dressed in a very expensive suit of clothes and sporting a small fortune in the way of diamonds. Jones introduced him to the members of the club as a mining millionaire from Nevada, and Notes of the Day. The i eldest son of the Prinpe JVales is fond of his Crime has of late been alarmingly on the increase in Germany. Desperate murders and robberies are of almost daily occurrence.

Additional1 evidence that this is a hard winter comes from Chicago, where ft single pawnbroker has lent money on twenty-two hundred revolvers. Lovers of genuine sugar from the cane will be glad to learn that all the glucose factories in Iowa, established at an aggregate cost of 'more than OC half a million have proved financial failures'. To restrain the depopulation of Scottish Ilighlands the Duke of Argylj wishes to see the district cut up into farms of all sizes, including the smallest capable of supporting a man and his family. Wm. Preston Johnson has tendered his resignation as President of the Louisiana State University, and will accept the chief position in the Tu- lane school to be in New rs The woman in Leadville who shot her partner because he danced, has furnished an argument in favor of dancing schools which extreme moralists will find it difficult 'to refute.

1 Statistics show that it is a misnomer to style- Brooklyn the City of Churches. There is one church to every 1988 persons in but at least four other large cities of the country have more churches in proportion to the population Under the Canadian law, a building can not be exempt from taxation unless it is used exclusively for services. The city of Montreal has made, a i claim for taxes against the Temple Emanuel on the ground that a fair was recently held in the building for profit. Two tramps were making a tour in Missouri together, and their agree-inent was to share comforts and discomforts equally. One 1 asked farmer for a chew of tobacco, and got it.

i Tiie 'other demanded half, and was told that there Was not enough t6 divide. Enraged by this act, he murdered the offender. Colorado sends two so-called be-nanza kings to the Senate. Tom who' goes in for the long term, is the chief owner of the famous Ida gold mine, in San iuan, and is worth several millions. Mr.

Tabor, who captured -the short term, is re puted to be worth about $10,000,000. lie is deservedly popular, having used his- wealth largely iff building up Denver and Leadville. Every worthy enterprise in the State has received his ready assistance. Mrs. Langtry, the renowned 1 Jersey Lily, arrived in New Orleans, on last Saturday, by the Mobile train aboard of which she was interviewee by1 a States reporter, who describe her as a pretty, graceful Woman somewhat after the style of Nilsson She expressed her grateful apprecia tion of the considerate treatment she had met through the South, where she was spared the rude manifestations of curiosity to which she has been subjected in the Eastern and Western cities.

The private burying ground Goodrichs landing, on the Missis sippi river, is gradually being de spoiled of its dead by the encroach ing wateis. Only a few days ago the remains of a youth who liad been buried, it was supposed, at this point, were found floating in the liver, and yesterday a casket with the remains of a young girl, evi dently of wealthy parentage, shown by her costly grave habili ments, were discovered floating in tile river at Delta, and re-interred on the shore. i It was remarked that during the delnery of the eulogies on the late Ben Hill of Georgia, on last Thuis day, the attendance of Senators was much larger than is usual on such oc casions, and that each member of the Senate paid close attention to the speaker, and abstained from reading or writing letters and giving atten lion to other private business. There were nine speakeis, and the eulogies of Senators Vest, Ingalls and Sher-man were exceedingly eloquent. The galleries were crowded with the wives daughters and lady friends of Senators, and the brief session was one that will long be remembered as brilliantly solemn and impressive.

The seat and desk formerly occupied Senator Hill were heavily draped by in Josh Billings on Hotels. I dont know of any business more flatteisome than the tavern There dont seem to be anything to do but to stand in front of the register with a pen behind the ear and see that the guests enter house; they yank a bell rope Six Or seven times then tell John to show the gentleman to 976, and then' take four dollars and fifty cents next morning from tire poor traveler, and letliim went. This seems to lie the' whole thing (arid it is the nhole thing) in most cases. 4 Yoit will discover the following description, a mild one, of about nine hotels out of ten between the Atlantic and-Pacific oceans, across tho( United States in a straight line. -Your room i 13 feet 5 inches by 9 feet 7 inches, parnllelogramly.

Your room is on the uttermost floor. 1 The carpet is ingrained-with dust and kerosene oil spots of other generations. There is two pegs in the rooms to hitch coats onto one of them broke off and the other pulled out ami missing. The bureau has three brick. The glass on the bureau sw ings on two pivots, which have lost their grip.

There is but one towel on the rack, thin but wet. The rain water in the pitcher came out of the well. The soap was as tough to wear a whetstone. 1 1 The soap is scented with cinnamon oil and varigated with spots. There is three chairs, cane one is a rocker; all three is busted.

There is a match safe- empty. There is no curtain to the window, and there dont want to be any you cant see out, and who can see in? The bell rope is cut off about six inches this side of the ceiling. The bed is a modern slat-bottom with two mattresses, one cotton "and one husk, and both harder arid about as thick as a sea biscuit, You enter the bed sideway, and you can feel every slat at once as easy as you could the ribs of a gridiron The bed is inhabited. You sleep some, but roll good deal. For breakfast you have a gong and Rio coffee too cold to melt butter fried potatoes, that resemble chips that a two inch auger makes in it: journey through an oak log.

Bread, solid; beefsteaks, about us thick as a blister plaster, and tough as a hounds ear. Table covered with plates, a few scared to death pickles on one of them, and six crackers on the other A pewterincum caster, with three bottles irt it, one without any mustard and one with two inches of drownc flies and some vinegar in it Servant girl with hoops on, hangs around you earnestly, and wants to know if you want another cup of eoffec. 1 You say, No, maam, I thank you, and you push back your You havnt eat enough to pay for picking your teeth. Specialties in Farming. (American Cultivator.) Adherence to mere routine W0Lk in farm operations is the mistake of too many of our A variety of crops are commonly grown, yet in no one of them does the average farmer expect or even dare to hope for greater excellence than attends the efforts of his neighbors.

Mixed farming is undoubtedly best adapted to a majority of farmers, because with a number of crops one or more will probably prove a success. There is such a thing, however, as a knowledge of the habits and requirements of certain crops, so thorough in its character as to insure success, whatever the season or other surrounding conditions. It is only in the case of such crops as are thoroughly understood that remunerative results may be expected and it is impossible for even the most intelligent and skillful farmer to devote thorough study and investigation to every variety of farm 'attention given to Storing and Shipping Cotton. Freights stored at reasonable rates and no dravage chaiged. Fire proof warehouse-adjoining liver and railroad.

jgg Mr. D. Trovrdai.e is with this house, and will he pleased to serve his friends at all times. U. 1 J.

E. PETERS, IKALKU FURNITURE, Window Shades, Collins, Coffin Trimmings, Etc. Meialic Rukial Cases, with of Undertaker and Lodiev preserved with embalming fluid1, if desired. All orders promptly attended to. Terms reasonable.

Store on Grand street, below the Court House. USTFuiiMiuitr. repairi d. full stock of Childrens Car JAfull Vagou-. and Velocipedes.

PIANOS. am Agent 'for the New England Piano Oompanv of Boston, and offer special inducements to cash buyers. For elegance, durability and cheapness these Pianos are unexcelled. Ladies are invited to call. February 10, 1882.

a I. Ik PETERS. OUACHITA HOUSE, conkEit i DeSlard andl Third St. i MONROE, Convenient to railroad depot mid steamboat landing, and provided with superior accommodations, is now open to the trav eting public. Terms, $2 per day.

D. li. Proprietor. 'February 25, 1S81. P.

Jr BoilehMaker Machinist (Established 1864) All kinds of Steamboat and Plantation Work attended to. Second-hand Boilers and Engines always on hand. VICKSBURG, i. Corner Grove and Mulberry Streets CITY STEAM SAWMILL. NOTICE! The.

death of mv late husband, JOHN R. MUIR, ill not ill any way interrupt his SAW-MILL, LUMBER And SHINGLE BUSINESS. The business will be continued in my name as hereto subscribed. shall endeavor to merit a liberal share of the patronage of the public bv strictly adhering to the policy of prompt, honest and fair dealings, and reas-SnabU prices. FLORENCE It.

P. O. Box 80. Tutrix, Monroe, August 4, 1882. learn much from experience, which'1 is the best, though often the For this reason, when any new is undertaken it shonlube Cist tried on a small scale, while its adaptation to the climate or locality' is fully determined.

1 I PM Smallpox lias been prevalent over a wide extent of territoiy this winter. Scarcely a town in the East, West or Noitli has wholly escaped the scourge, while many places in the South have been visited by it. Baltimore has suffered severely through-central New Yoik the dread malady has claimed many victims, and so on, westward and noithward, its ravages have been more or less to the logging camps of northern Minnesota where a frightful epi-t demic is now threatened. There is evidently a pressing need of better' precautions all over the country against this loathsome monster There is this difference between a' newspaper and a farmer: The for mer teems with items, and the latter teams with rrHE BULLETIN and Tiwes-Deviocrat i One year for 93..