The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-12-18
JAMIE.

Father, where is our Jamie tonight
Jamie so bold and gay 2
The twilight shadows are falling now,
Why does he stay away?
Jamie is handsome, and manly too,
And lie win be good and great;
But, Father, why is our darling boy
A-straying away SO late q
g Our noble boy is a child no more,
He has grown to mans estate;
He has gone a counting Minnie Gray,
The reason LIE stays so late; gt.
For her golden hair and eyes of blue
Have stolen his heart away,
And be goes in the holy twilight hour
A-wooing sweet Minnie Gray
"Why does the maiden lure him away
Now we are growing so old
And we have shielded him all his life,
Our love has never grown cold;
The maid can never love him as we
Have loved him all his years,
Who have led him along the path OF Life,
Sharing his smiles and tears"
But Mile, remember long years ago,
When was handsome and gay,
And you maiden so fair and sweet,
That you stole my heart away,
had o father old and gray,
And mother kind and true,
Who loved me fondly all my life
But my heart went out to you"
A blush crept over her withered cheek,
Her eyes shone clear and mild;
Nolonger she chided the lovely maid
For winning away her child;
She thought ofthe long ago, when she
Stood close by her lovers side
In the little church, and the man of God
Made her happy bride.
PolSss OF HoNoR. Colonel Montgom-
cry was shot in duel about a dog Colo
nel Ramsay in one about a servant; Mr..
Featherston in one about recruit
sternes father in one about goose and
another gentleman in one about an "acre
ofanchoyies one officer was challenged
io' merely asking his opponent to enjoy
thesecond goblet; and another was com.
PEELED to fight about q pinch of snuff
General Barry was challenged by Cap.
taiu Smith for declining wine at dinner
oaa steamboat, although the General had
pleaded as an excuse that wine invariably
made him sick /; and Lieut.. Cowther lost
MS lltoia a duel because he was refused
@mltlance to club Of pigeon shooters
alsHa duel occurred in New York city
@sRaen Lieut.. Featherstonhough, of thu
rstn, and Captain Mcpherson, of the 42e
ptusa Regiment, in regard to the manne'
MestIug an ear of corn, one contendins
la, Tue eating was from the cob, the 9th
mat the grain should be cut from tn
s0o before eating. Lieut.. Featherston
asusa lost his right arm, the ball from hi
ssa'ag'onlsts pistol SCATTERING the lim|
asaulully so much so that it had to b.
s s;al Graham, Major Noah's As
sl sa u. Editor in the National Advocate
g gs, llIs ME in 1927 at the dueling ground
ppyoooSen, with Barton, the son.iu-law 0
ss Inward Livingston, in a simple disput
s s,va' what was trumps " in game 0
@ Ten. Kirby Smith is in Nashvill
/ sssAl'g aid extending the snuthern Tels
/ napa lrom the Tennessee State line t
a'''slile ID is constructed from Louis
| p p,'s 70 the Tennessee State line, on tn
1 ssnsld and Kentucky road, forty-tw
/ miles from Nashville.
1 frS
:. BY official returns it appears tina
~ Louis had over thousand death
/ l j.. eholeraic diseases between til
| osn August and the LIST of November
W. 'usse four hundred and eighty-tw
s. S.s nom Asiatic cholera, and all oc
/ n 'e % during five weeks, from the mid
octOber. 90 ''''i i'"'' :