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" ;; •••• T ‘- '-V, r- fjj jjr.' - , — nomt or sHADOwa (H. C Banner.^ jo” .‘(JISbrMiciM •or*'” «*• ,kla > W*“? *> throaib the tree-tow Wow ‘.•SffiSSSfpSm below. lb »-&itfS£3t. drenuM, KSS2»Sl tnuurti ffirayod?and lost, ir W “ l ’.toft«S > towarl < Seir'home. v too have gone astray, Kuft m v comrades on the win Ke brougU aisles where soft you moan, inu» suJ Spot you know alone, W?oaly leaves and nestlings stir, JTwa/dream, and dream of Her. A WONDERFUL WOMAN. * Myra Clarke Gaines, Uev VI- talliy and Mental Brilliancy. [Now Orleans Cor. Inter Ocean.] I la Ibis pleasant home we had the |L u re of meeting one of the most T lerful women of the ninteenth cen- Lr-Mvra Clarke Gaines, the widow {the late Clen. Gaines. Mrs. Gaines a for the past fifty years teen trying, trough the courts to prove her right -property which actually belongs to r; an j nbout which the supremo court rtiie United States has decided in her I v or but now comes some technical about bonds. The little.woin'vu seen 76 years, but has the appear- „f being only 50, with her fair EJnplexicn, bright black eyes, that Lor look through glosses to decipher | j\ nes t print or to use her pen, which l doiug, and the result will be her iitohiography, which cannot liolp but »n interesting work. With all her CmMe and opposition, she does not l)i,,\v any vindictivoness or bitterness, L amiable, generous, and a true friend * the poor. When relating to us the •it nces of her trials, she would vi- abont the room, gesticulating in |u amusing manner. She avows that n outtalk, outlaugh, outwalk any under the sun, nnd boasts of laving monopolized the conversation thenMme. LeVeit was of the company, L. h to the chagrin of that renowned foreigner. I \\ hen the question of the illegitimacy L Mrs. Caines’ birth was introduced in Euurt, she pleaded her own case in the Viesence of more than a thousand peo ple. winch plea brought every member l.t the jury to her side. She says “God Yever repented having made woman, |iut He saw that man was a decided fail- e, at.d was sorry that Ho had created m.” She is always a woman’s cham pion, believing in her rights, wh.'ch she Kays must come, nnd the right of fran chise, on which subjoct the has talked i public to thousands of attentive stoners. “If,” said she, “I had been a mn 1 should have adopted the medical [profession, becauso for it I inherit both and talent.” She restored hor llaughter to perfect health nfter the [physicians had pronounced her beyond ire. Mrs. Gaines’ father, Daniel Clarke, as a native of >ow Orleans, and in tat city he is buried. I n her early laidenhoad she became tho wife of William Wallace Whitney, of New York, but in a few years was widowed. Mho says: “Gen. Gaines was greater 'than Clay, Calhoun or Webster, and his Ila<t words to me were, ‘Your cause is [jiiNt and you must succeed.’ ” Although her lather was born in Louisiana and hor husband in Virginia, she 1ms never known any north or south, but has idol- her whole country. Her first bo- wvolent work will l>o to build a '-•'lows’ home, tho noxt an orphan asy lum, if tho grectlv lawyers do not ‘irobble up” all who secures. The • hargen in tho case thus fur, for fees, biographers, writs and counsel fees, have already beon over $300,000. Tho printed record will cost $12,000. It is hoped that tho monoyel woman will »oon secure her rights, as sho lias been li'ing on borrowed capital sinco 1870, / art of the time supporting thirteen per- Mundny In Kl Paso. [Cor. Inter Ocean.] Me spent Sunday at El Paso, and in tho afternoon wont across the river to >ee the old church, tho only object of interest in tho town. The doors were >'*:ked, and woiuquirod at a neighboring •tore where we could get tho key. “W the priest,” was the reply. "And where is tho priest?” At tho cock-fight. ’ And there wo found him; in a rough •“nphitheatre, crowded with men who 7°*ed like banditti, nearly every one of . m w itb gamecock under one arm and m tho other hand a few dollars of .‘•xican money, engaged in tho na- ,on ®‘ amusement ami betting upon the * i jativenesa °* bis favorite roo-t,. r. it is the regular practice on Sunday , n . ** l0 *ico for tho ontiro congregation, •nest and all, to lonvo tho clmrcit lor a" cock-pit after high moss and spend . rer ttainder of the day in that re* jJJr. a wnsement. The priest at Paso j: , rto owns a number of tine game •Ms, and was too much interested in match to accompany us to the place worship where he officiates. A IlumorlHt’H Beady Wit. [BillNye.] ‘ms is a story of George D. Prentice } never saw in print and which ‘better illustration of his ready wit IK. ‘^ything else he said, I think, ••id Journal office used to be the ^ping ground of many southern or known, who liked to ff 1110 veteran journalist tell a story 1^.1. n P a presumptuous young ir.n. i i unc b- Among those who fre- C rhe J °nmal ofilce was Will S. the song writer. °mmg into Mr. Prentico’s office jj ; , } ‘ la * v ia that free and easy way of 10 * Qt down in one chair, with his ■uZV a ? the S’ ant * jamming his hat n of his head, said, without Mr. Prentice’s leisure: *eeu mv l Mt gong, George?” iif-aviiJ rea , kw r e ceased writing, sighed i"'MlftalhI 1 ..^^ ing ap udl f tod re ~ •i i-.^ y t oiim/“ an8 md: : •» ••> bl ? ulU ‘ u 4 # 01 dl who in age* urtn, t0 knowledge, to ■Mb (“^^he»ie deed,, .bon on | LINCOLN TO HOOKfiR. j A Be markable Letter from the War Department Archives. [Chicago Tribune.] j President Linooln had trouble with , to® hcry Gen. .To Hooker, who was angry at the appointment of Burnside is commander of the Potomac army. Subsequently Hooker was appointed to i ’onmiaud it, and then Lincoln wrote him a roinarkablo letter. Ibis letter, says tho Washington iorrespoDdent of Tho Boston Herald, was given to Col. Robert N. Scott, of i the war department, by Hdoker him self, and the original is now in the | arclm es,, It is one of the most notable I productions ever writen by President | Lincoln. Some parts of it are fairly ! Shakespearean in diction and thought. ! It is ns iallows: ‘•Executive Mansion, Washington, I). C., Jan. 26, 1863.—To Mai. Gkn. Hooker—General : I have placed you at tho head of the Army of the Potomac, Of course I have done this upon what appears to me to be sufficient rea sons, and yet 1 think it best for you to know that there aro some things in re gard to which 1 am not quito satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable, quality. You are am bitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. But I think that, during Gen. Burn side's command of the army, von have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which yon do a great wrong, both to the country ami a most meritori ous nnd honorable brother ollicer. I have heard, in such a way as to bo- lieve it, of your recently saying that both the army and tho government needed a dictator. Of ccAirse it was not for thi8,bnt in spite of it,that 1 have given you a command. Only those general! who gain successes can set up as dic tators. What I ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. 1 much fear the spirit you have nidod to infuse into the army of criticising their com- mauder and withholding confidence from him will turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if ho were alive again, could get any good out of any army while such a spirit pre vails in it. And now, bewaro of rash ness! Beware of rashness! But with energy nnd sleepless vigilance go for ward and give us victories. “Yours very truly, . “A. Lincoln.* Monotonous Crackers. [New York Times.] A dozon men gathered around a cracker barrel in a west sido grocery store last evening and watched a cooper eat crackers. The cooper had bet u new hat with a carpenter that ho could eat ten butter crackers about one and one-half inches in diameter in ten min utes without drinking any water or other liquid. Tho cooper bogan his fourth cracker nfc tho end of two mill- utos, and seemed to enjoy it. It was a minute later when ho started on the fifth. “Well, they aro pretty dry,” he remarked huskily. It took him two minutes to get tho cracker down, and when ho began on the sixth ho looked as if ho didn’t enro very much for crack ers anyway. His eyes were red and thoro was an uncomfortable working of tho muscles of tho throat. Exactly eight minutes from tho start ho put ihe seven tli cracker in his month nnd chewed slowly upon it. By hard work ho managed to swallow it and began on the eighth. “Time’s up,” said tho time keeper before tho cooper lmd bogun to swallow again. “Well, I’ll bo hanged,” said tho cooper, "that’s a tough job.* “1 never yet saw a man do it,” observed the carpenter. “In Kngland wo used to pit a man eating ten of those bis cuits—you call ’em crackers—against a man drinking a glass of water by tho teaspoonful, ami the water-drinker al ways came out ahead. Heven and a quarter is my size.” Malvlnr* lircat Power. (New York Tribune.] “In ‘La Morto Civile,’ ” pays Halvini, I always weep, and greatly. Now, there is in Bio Janeiro a newspaper editor, Senlior de (.’astro, a big, bearded man, who is famous f.»r his lack of feel ing. They say ho buried his wifu with out a tear—I do not know, but they say m». Ho saw *La Morto Civile,’ and after tiio curtain fell he came upon tho stage. Behold, on each sido of his nose there was a groat wet furrow, and as lie laid his hand upon my shoulder I could feol it twitching and trembling. And noxt dav every one in Bio Janeiro wont about saving: ‘Ho lias made Castro weep! What a triumph!’” Lordou us to Future Life. [Chicago Humid. ] Gen. Gordon, the commander of the English forces in Egypt, thus ex cresses his views as to a future life: “ I think that this life is only one of a series of lives, which our incarnated part has lived. I have littlo doubt of our having pre existed; and that also in tho time of our pre-uxistenco we were actively employed. So. therefore, I believe iu our active employment in a future life, and like the thought. Wo shall, I think, Ikj far more perfect in a future life, and indeed go on toward perfec tion, but never attain it.” A liiant Cuspidor. [Chicago Herald. J The United States treasury ha* the biggest spittoon on record. It is a great oblong w ooden box as big as^ a bed, filled with sawdust. It lies in tue basement at the foot'of the four flighia of stair* which lead to the various stories, and accomodates tho govern ment employes and othcra. Houston (Tex.) Poet: When the time comet to vindicate the honor of the American name, the veriest dslv in swelldom will cut bin bang, take off hit eye-glass, And shoulder a musket tt wawly ucUdbt, A GRAND REVOLUTION DIM THE OLD PRICES Mil TIE Kl -AT Schumpert & Roney’s, THE 03NTL.Y “Spot Cash Store" IKT AMERICUS. We'promised in issue of the Recorder of January 2d, to give you some prices so soon as we arranged and marked down our goods. We are now prepared and ready to give you more goods for less money than any house that sell goods on thirty days time. Con.emplate a few quotations and note the difference in SPOT CASH prices and thirty days credit: Flour. Flour. In this article we stand head and shoulders above everybody, having ransacked the big markets of the West and Northwest in search of the best, and paid the CASH DOWN. We will sell you First Patent, (entire Roller system) For 50 pounds, $1.75. Old price, $2.16. 2d Pat., for 50 pounds, 1,65. “ • ■ 1.90. Fancy, for 50 pounds, 1.50. “ 1.80. Choice Family 50 pounds, 1.35. •* 1-65. We guarantee nil these Flours as represented, and if not satisfactory you can return them and we will cheerfully refund the money. In future we will keep on hand the best grades of GRAHAM FLOUR—cheap. Sugars. Sugars. Will sell you 10 pounds Granulated Sugar for... . .$1.00. “ “ 11 pounds New Orleans Clarified for 1-00. “ “ 11 : }; poundsNewOrlcans (Bellcwood) Clarified, for 1.00 “ “ 13 pounds New York Sugar, lor 1.00. In this line we are fully up and advise everybody to seize the golden opportunity nnd pur chase at once a sufficiency for the year’s comsumption. in Coffee. Coffee. In this article alone (by buying from us) we can save you money enough in one year to buy all the “Santa Claus” vou want lor the little ones. We deal 6J pounds Choice Rio Coffee for $1 Thurber’s No. 41, (Roasted) a combination of Java, Rio, and Mocha, for 23c per pound. Salt. Salt. Liverpool, full weight, for $ 1.20 per sack. Fine Salt, seamless bags, 1 SOjwunds,;#! .05 per sack We are slaughtering at the very low price of $1.00 per cwt. to make room lor a'[car load ol SEED POTATOES. Whiskies. Whiskies. In this line we are full to overflowing, nnd to unload we have reduced the price on all grades from 25c to $1.00 per gallon. Think ol it! Cox, Hill & Thompson’s genuine Stone Mountain Corn Whisky I or $2.20 per gallon, usually sold at $2.50, ^ Tobacco and Cigars. We can undersell anybody—we offer “Lucy Hinton” at 57c per pound, and all other grades proportionately. Wc regret lbat we have not spin e millleient to give full and complete quotations on all of our goods, bat you will hear from us occasionally. Remember that by (i-vins your goods from us and paying SPOT CASH you do not pay from 25 to 50 per cent, for bad debts, as usual in credit store. er-cariTAi. pbizb #»«,ooo,^» | Tie let ti only t». Shares In proport laa Louisiana State Lottery Co. " We do hereby certify that tee tupertue the arrangements for all the Monthly an4 Semi-Annual Drawings of The iMuisiana State Lottery Company, and inperson man age and control the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with hon esty, fairness, and in good faith toward all partus, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, with Joe-similes of our signatures attacked, in its advertisements ^2- Commissioners | Incorporated i» IMS for id yean by the Lezltla- turefor Educational and Charitable purposes— with « capital of #1,000,OOO-to which « reserve fund of over #550,000 has since been added. By *n overwhelming popular rote its franchise was made a part of the present Stats Constitution adopted December 2d, A. D.. 187t. The onIn tottery ever toted on and endorsed yt the people of any State, It never tealet or postpones. Ill Grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FORTUNE* TEETH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS K. IN THE ACADEMY or MUSIC, NEW ORI.EANB, 'I UEaDAT, October 14, ISM lfM MnuUy Drawing. CAPITAL PRIZE, *TS,000. 100,000 Tickets at Fire Dollars Each. Fractions, In Filths, In Proportion. LISTOV PRIZES:J 1 CAPITAL PJIIZK ,71.000 if ' lo j" 23,000 2 PRIZES OK <0.000. isjioo 4° ‘WS 0 * lo do 10,000 *0 do 600, 10,000 U» *• M0. 20,000 800 do lbO,..** MlQOQ do 26,’ ::SouO 9 Approximation J'rlses of |?B0 M.7S0 » “ “ 600 4,600 0 “ .“ 250...... 2.260 1,901 Prizes, amounting to 9266,600 Application for rates to clnbs should be mads onl? to the office of tho C'orapsny In New Orleans. ror further Information write clearly, civile frill address. Make P. O. Money Orders psyssle and address Registered Letters to NBW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK Now Orleans, La. % POBTAIs NOTH! end ordinary letters by Mnil or Express (ell sums of f9 end upward by Kxpn-sn et our expense) to H. A. DAUPHIN. or M. A. DAVP11IN, »" r SOT ■m.m Ml., Warahl.ftt.., D. C. Tie Lost is Fold! ANirCANfBEJFOUNDAT BUG CHAPMAN’S Bar aitii Restaurant. EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY, --- loop on a^free bod. Everything'has'bsen renovated aid is sweet and clean. I bud in But’s Liquors from S to 13 Years Old! Cali and get your share of the best. Bacchus the Second In drink* a rival er Delmonlco In good eating. Call early an\ secure jour beds and something to eat end dniik. Words esunot ex press my thanks to my friends. Corns and see me and you shall bo satisfied. Mptl2ml HENRY O. JOHNSON. All School Julies, MRS. FRED LEWIS'. Auierioua, Go., Aug. 24, 1884. if A Word as Regards the Penny ! To all those who sccut at the idea of introducing the Penny in Americas, we say that wo stand read} to redeem in gooi'ii or the cash any amount from 5c upwnrds. Bring them along and get their full value a! THE OILY SPOT CASH STORE II AHEM FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF J. W. WHEATLEY & CO.’S BANK. Very truly. SCHUMPERT & RONEY. Americui, Ga., January 11, 1884* mSf* cw-toffc E. J. KN0WLT0N, Atm After. I Welfl t fifteen pounds. Adjustable. FOR PHYSICIANS AND FAMILIES Neatest, Cheapest, Beat. • Cleanliness is next to Godliness." oetll-ly DURHAM’S IMPltOVKD WMDIRU lllllIE! Is the'Best canstructed sod fin- ^s^tsssssssu