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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

STRANGE CHARACTER.--A man With
a Mania for Seeing His Fello,U- beings
Asl6ep.-A man who gave his name as
Charles Wilkins, and who turns out to
be Chas. Livingstone, once respecta-
BILE merchant in this city, was arrested
while trying to enter the house Of Mr..
Schaefter, on Portland avenue, before
daylight yesterday morning. This man
has strange mania for which name
is yet to be invented. He will break
into house at night just for the luxu-
ry Of standing by the bedside of a per-
son and looking at him or her, as the
case may be, as they lay asleep. He
has been known to do this on several
occasions, and after standug there
and gazing for hours leave without
disturbing anything, and close the
doors carefully after him.
About six months ago he got him.
self into serious trouble in this way,
being arrested as burglar and held to
answer. He entered the room of a
young lady after she had retired and
gone to sleep. Taking his favorite
position besides the bed, he stood gaz-
ing at the beautiful sleeper till, per-
haps, conscious of the presence near
her, she awoke and was frightened
terribly. By the faint light of the
moon as it shone through the lattice.
she saw this stranger standing still
and motionless at her bedside. She
screamed and tainted, and the inmates
of the house, aroused by the noise,
came rushing in just in time to catch
the intruder. The affair caused a
good deal of excitement, and no little
gossip at the time, but subsequent
facts have proved that the man was
harmless, and went there just to sat
isfy this singular longing of his. He
has been caught in several such places
since then, bnt at no time has he ever
disturbed anything or anybody. He
was presented to the court as suspec
ted felon, charge hardly justified by
| the facts in the case, and held in $500
to be of good behavior for twelve
months. His case is strange one
indeed.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08
A REVERE.

turned the pages of memory slowly,
with a heavy heart, and heavy hand;
And my mothers face
Beamed from the place.
And filled my sight
With radiant light.
q And nv soul with a peace sweet and molly.
T, her ewes there was a look ofpity,
THAT came there whene're l knew sorio" !
Then bowed my head,
And with reverence SAID
Shield thy child from harm
And her enemies ann
1,,om thv seat in the eternal city.
Let sby spirit wand guide my steps Alright
Ero,r sarth's snares and trials secure:
Let thy love divine
Upon me shine,
For am weary OF lie,
And this bitter strife
orope alone in my anguish tonight.
Nh for tbe touch of thy gentle hand!
And the sound of thy voice In prayer;
For my feet have trod
On fine Christening rod.
And nv heart pleads IN VAIN
For thy presence again,
m, ,on,a from that unknown land.
Her face seem'd to glow with holier light,
Al Invisible hand soothed my weary brow
And her voice was as sweet
AS echoes that meet;
Then heard her lips say
Reverently, holy-Pray!
And the features so dear had gone from my
sight.
Never again will her sad, sweet face
Soothe and Tighten my life OF care;
But now can kneel,
And with penitence feel
That her word of prayer,
Which came on the air,
Has in my heart found resting place.,
RAp1pEs, May 25th, 1870.
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Nora O'NEAI- Some wag gets off the

NORA O'NEAL.-Some wag gets off the
following:
"O. you say you are lonely without me,
that you sigh for one glance ofmy eye ;
you're blarueying always about me-O
why don't you to papa apply? You men
are SO very deceiving, can't believe aught
that you say; your love will OILY believe
in when my jointure is made cut au fait.
This trash about eyes, voice and glances
may do for miss in her teens but he
who to me makes advances must talk OF
his bankstock md means. You beg ple
to 90 galavanting, to meet you at the foot
of the lane with kiss, too, why, man
you're ranting? do yon thisk that 1 am
wholly insane? When You WOO young
lady of sense. sir don't whine about sorrow
aud tears, it's matter of dollars and
cents, sir: no tale of romance interferes
o! poverty is not all fancy (my style
will never conceaD if | can't get husband
with money, o! I'll live and die, Nor
O'Neil."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08
NOTICE,

TINE death Of Mr.. L. P. Spyker in
i 1867, dissolves the firm Of Spyker
g. Sandidge.
Since the LIST of January last Charles
II. C. Brown has been a partner in the
business now announced to be contin-
ued under the maine and style of John
NJ. Sandidge 81 Co., who, as Commits
sion Merchants, assume all the liabili-
ties of the old firm and will settle all
it's business.
Office, as heretofore, No. 80 Perdido
Street, New Orleans.
JOHN NJ. SANDIDGE g. co.
June 8, 1870,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

To PRESERVE FRESH FLowERs.-If
our lady readers wish to keep bou-
quet fresh, let them drop a teaspoonful
of powdered charcoal into the water
intended for the flower stalks, and they
will keep their freshness and perfume
for several days, and look aud smell
the same as those just gathered. The
charcoal settles at the bottom of the
vase, the water remaining clear.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08
New ORLEANS, May 9TH, 1870.

New ORLEANS, May 9TH, 1870.
E. r. B1ossAT Esq, Dear Sir:
I have the honor to appoint you
President of the branch Organization of
the H w. Allen Monumental Associa-
ton. for your parish.
You are authorized to proceed at
once to the organization of a branch
association, and to appoint a sub-exe-
cutive committee of as many persons
in your parish as you may see fit, with
the power to adopt your own plans for
pushing forward the work of obtaining
subscriptions. Enclosed, you viii find
our circular.
The subscription is limited to one
dollar for each person. AS you collect
fund convenient for remittance, you
will send the SAME to our treasurer in
this city Col. John M. Sandidge. We
hope, to have your hearty co-opera-
ton in orr work of love. For further
information, address the corresponding
secretary, E. w. Halsey, Esq.
1 am, lSopCC'i"Hy,
Your obedient servant,
A. w. ROBERTS.
Vice President, Acting President Ii. w
Allen Monumental Association.
In accordance with the above, The
following named gentlemen are ap
pointed sub-executive committee .te
receive subscriptions for Rapides:
JOS. FELLOWS,
DIR. ST. JOHN Alexandria.
J. c.. WISE.
j. w. JOHNSTON, }
JNO., l.. WALKER, ; Pineville.
VIM. B. HARPER, J
DIR. F. w. MARSHALL, ! C hene v
GEO. W. STAFFORD,5 vile.
L. TEXADA, !. cot;,o
HI. A. BOYCE, s oo'i'o.
? ?. u 7. H ThxapIl : Rapides.
NJ. PAUL, JR., ! Spring Creek.
DR.. E. E. SMART, { Annaccs,
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10 Mrs. Cupps, of Illinois, recently
gave birth to three fine looking male
children. A contemporary attempts a
pun by saying that 1t is having the
he-Cups with Vengeance"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

gea- An Irish farm hand asked his
employer to write a letter for him to
his friend, Tim O'Brien, telling him to
come to this country. "Telf him, yer
honor,n said Patrick, s'that we have
meat twice week here" Upon the
gentleman that he knew very we'll he
had meat every day, Pat replied:
s'Troth, an I do, but sure he would
think | was f00lin' him."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

ened, falling hair checked. and bald
ness often, though not always, cured
by its use. Nothing can restore the
hair where the follicles are destroyed,
or the glands atrophied and decayed.
But such as remain can be saved for
usefulness by this application. Instead
of fouling the hair with pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling OF, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances which
make some preparations dangerous, and
injurious to the hair, the Vigor can
only benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

Mg A Sunday school teacher ask
ed a little fellow If he had learned
anything during the week?
eyes, said he.
What is it you have learned ."
aee." Pea 'nei >
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

/" Shoe Fly,"-says the Boston
s o,d now SO popular, is an
oIu southern negro melody, and was
sung ON the plantations near Charles
,Vn 60 .. y, more than fifty years ago.
i isse OF "shoo Fly" as long ago as
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

rea- A chap who bought gas meter at
Akron wanted to know show long such a
box-full would last
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NOTICE.
TIES! TIES!

TIES! TIES!
WANTEH-CYPRESS TIES IN
w lots of not less than ten thou
sand, delivered along the line of the
New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreve-
port Railroad between the Atchafalaya
and BoWle's Bridge over Gotile Bayou.
For information as to dimensions, ETC.,
apply to C0L. j. c. WISE,
II. NJ. ROBINSON.
May 25, ls70-tf.
10 Rapides Gazette copy.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08

STRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR
- 9"'e =" ii ST JOHN.
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Baa- The number of taxable real estate
acres in Vermont is 500s, $50.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08
Ayer's
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its natural Vitality and Color.

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for preserving the
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soiM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair Is thick
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-06-08
HAIR DRESSING,

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Containing neither oil nor dye, it does
not soil white cambria, and yet lasts
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PRAor1oAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS,
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The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

The METHODIST Book CONCERN IRREaU
LARITIEs. - In the New York Methodist
Preachers meeting on Monday, the Rev. DR.
Andrews presented resolutions endorsing the
report of the majority OF the Book Committee
in their recent investigation, which were adopt
ed by large majority, after considerable dis
cusson. The general expression was that the
allegation of fraud had not been and could not
be sustained, and that the verdict of ten against
three was sufficiently strong in itself to de-
mand approval. The publication of the mino-
rity report was deprecated, and declared to
have been illegitimately acquired and made
known. The committee had directed the
minority report to be sent to the General Con-
ference together with that of the majority.
The action of the Baltimore Conference in CEN
surfing the majority and withholding its Sun
day School Union funds was also unjust and
harsh, there being no proof, either before the
Conference or before the community, to sustain
the allegations Of fraud, and after careful inves-
LEGATIONS the Book Committee had failed to
find proof. Their action is final, and can only
be reversed by the General Conference.
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

MIR. EDIroR.-The new Mayors remarks in
relation to this hospital may be subject to
some misunderstanding, as though the institu-
ton started merely from some local suggestion
here in Portland, and was only for local bene-
fit 1t is not material to inquire what one per-
son may have made the first public PROPOSE
tions-certain it is that the State Medical Asso.
citation (not last year, but before 1869 first gave
form and force to this movement, and the Pc
titicn on which the charter was granted in
1868, were signed by a number Of medical men
of the highest standing, from Bangor, Belfast,
Bath, Limerick, Augusta Sc. The whole pro-
ceeding, from the beginning to this day recog-
nize and recommend the hospital as public
institution for the whole State, and than that
its actual and direct advantages will be felt
and enjoyed quite beyond the immediate 10.
cality, where it is established r.
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

THE New York Sun has the following para
graph explanatory of the cause of Capt. Eyres
steaming away from a shipload of sinking
sailors:
In his testimony before the court at Yoke.
hama, Capt. Eyre, of the steamship Bombay,
stated that he was not allowed to stop unless
it was absolutely necessary to do so in order
to gave life. A gentleman familiar with the
service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company-to which the Bombay
belongs-says that the directors require the
captainsto make their voyages as short as pos
sible, and that the commander who is delayed
from any cause is sure to be censured. So rig
id are the regulations that if captain should
see ship making signals of distress, he would
hesitate to 60 to her aid for fear of lengthen-
ing his voyage and thereby mourning the risk
of reproof and dismissal. With this kind of
discipline the P. and o. Company secures
promptness on the part of its officers, but at
the same time it stiles their humanity and
leads to conduct like that of Capt. Eyre. The
blame for the death of the brave men on the
Oneida belongs in part to the directors who
made at their Office in London the regulations
which the captain of the Bombay obeyed.
The directors of the Company are equally
amenable to the laws as accessories to the
murder, The regulations do not absolve
Capt. Eyre from responsibility, for it is a
crime to accept service under such condi-
lions
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

The NEW TEMPERANCE LAw.-The fol
lowing are the provisions of the law intro
duced in the Senate by Mr.. Lang, from the
special committee ON Temperance, passed by
both Houses, and signed by the Governor I'M
der protest:
1st. Only one person is required to make,
sign, and swear to a complaint for warrant
OF search and seizure, instead of three per-
sons.
I'd. An officer may seize intoxicating Ii
quors or the vessels containing them without
a warrant, and keep them in some safe place
a reasonable time until he can procure war
rant.
Sd. The court or magistrate trying any
case Of intoxicating liquors seized, when sucl
liquors are declared forfeited may order then
destroyed in all cases by any officer compe
tent to serve the process on which they were
forfeited.
4th. When any municipal officer of any city
town or plantation, after being furnished with
a written notice of violation of any of the
provisions ofthe liquor law, signed by two per-
sons competent to be witnesses in civil suits,
wilfully neglects or refuses to prosecute he
shall be liable to fine of not less than twenty
nor more than fifty dollars.
9th. When person has been guilty of a
violation of the law in the supreme judicial
court, he shall be sentenced at the same term
unless for satisfactory reasons the case may
be continued for sentence one term, but no
longer.
9th. If any municipal officer or officers
shall purchase liquors to be sold under the
law OF the State, except of such persons as
they are authorized to purchase from, or shall
sell or offer to sell forfeited liquors, or shall
adulterate any liquors which they may keep
for sale, they shall forfeit a sum to the city,
town or plantation of not less than twenty nor
more than one hundred dollars.
It'll. All acts inconsistent with this are re-
pealed, and nothing in this act, except section
five, shall effect any cases pending or offences
already committed, or acts already done.
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

THE MAsONs IN Consolidating to the
imprisonment of Freemasons in Cuba by De
Rodas, the Havana correspondent of the N.
Y. Times says:
Masonry has been used as cloak to cover
and inaugurate the present revolution. Clan
destinely made Masons and clandestine lodges
have existed here and been used for political
purposes. All the prominent men of the rev.
olution are Masons, many of them having
joined the order shortly before the breaking
out of the war, &C., &c. There are many good
and true Masons here, both Spaniards and
Cubans, men who are truly Masonic in spirit
and ideas, but others undoubtedly joined the
acted against the laws of the country in as
sembling, and in that respect the action Of the
authorities was justifable. Rodas was com.
PEELED to act as he did, the meeting having
been denounced by the volunteers, who con.
slider all Masons as nothing less than msur.
gents.
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16
Doom Go the Prices!
ALL ABOARD FOE
"A. 8. ID A Wis s. CO..
80 Middle Street, Boyd Block.
The season and its Dangers.
The Great Tin-Type Rou


The human body is chiefly composed of tissues and
bres as sensitive to every change in the condition Of
the atmosphere the most delicate electronOmetor
The stomach, the skin, the nerves, the lungs, and
excretory organs are especially liable to be affected
by these variations, and the best defence against
their disastrous tendency is to keep the digestive
machinery, which feeds and nourishes the whole
system, in COED working order.
If the stomach is weak or disOrdered neither the
blood the bile can be in healthy state and up
ON the fitness OF these two important fluids for the
offices assigned to them by nature and the regularity
of their flow, health in great measure depends.
When the air is heavily laden with chilling vapors,
it often is at this season of the year, the digestion
should be an object of peculiar care. If it is weak
and languid, the whole physical structure will be
enervated. If it is vigorous, the entire organization
will be strong to resist the untoward and depressing
influence OF a damp and Initiated atmosphere.
A pure and powerful tonic is therefore especially
needed as a safeguard against the diseases most
common in the spring, and Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters being the most wholesome and potent med
icne of the class at present known, course OF is
particularly advisable at this period Of the year. The
stomach will thereby be toned and strengthened, the
liver and bowels regulated, the nervous system
b,aced up, and nature put in state or active de-
fence against the miasma which superinduces inter-
mittent and remittent fevers rheumatisms, nervous
debility, headache hypochondria and other COM
plants which are apt assail the untoned and un-
fortified organizations. The body Is strengthened
without exciting the BRAIN and consequently no un-
pleasant reaction follows its revving and renoyatipg
operation.
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

alton for the term of tel, years, who shall in
vest the sum of ten thousand dollars and up
wards tor manufacturing purposes or the inn
provement of its water-power. Town voted to
loan its credit for ten thousand dollars to any
nerson or manufacturing company for ten
wears who shall invest twenty thousand dol
lars within the limits of the town for manu-
featuring. Town voted to do away with a
town agency for the sale of liquors. We have
good water power here and on the line of a
railroad and with the inducements now offer
ed by the town and extra inducements that
will be given by private individuals it offers
the best chance to enter into manufacturing
of any place in the State. L.
Observation-Disclosures, j. G. SWEET; Select
men. Assessors and Overseers of the Poor,
Jesse Kinks, Jasper Hutchings and II. p.
Sargent; Clerk, VIM. Morgan; Treasurer and.
Collector, VIM. p. Burr; S. S. Com, Geo. A
Snow; Constable, A. Fl. Barnes. All Repub-
licans.
Observation-Disclosures N. H. Hubbard
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the
Poor. Elisha Arey, Horace Davis and John
York; Clerk, Luther Curtis; Supervisor Of
Schools, John Miller; Treasurer and Collector
Luther Curtis. All Republicans.
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

ROBERT COLLEGE, CONsTANTINoPLE.-
We have from time to time printed articles in
relation to Robert College, Constantinople, an
institution built up by the efforts of DR.. Ham.
in formerly of this State. A correspondent
of the Christian Mirror has seen a remarka-
BILE pamphlet, printed at Constantinople, Civ.
ing an account of the laying of the corner
stone of the college on the 4th of July last
The correspondent says:
The pamphlet contains the addresses de-
-liuarod tho suspicious occasion referred to
in the title, and now printed, as they were
delivered, in five different anguages-English,
Greek, Armenian, Bulgarian and Turkish,
those in the last four being accompanied re-
spectively with exact and literal TRANSACTIONS.
The speakers were the Hon, E. J, Morris.
American Minister ;lSir Philip Francis, II. b.
M. Judge of the Supreme Consular Court: ],
3. Brown, Esq, U. s. Secretary of Legation !:
hev. Z. b. Gribble, Chaplain to the British
Embassy; Philip Apostolides, ESQ.,; Hagop
EGhendl, bekll of the Armenian Protestant
SC,oniinuhlty; Petko Gorpanoff, Prof. of the
1iavlc language and literature in the Colleoe !.
= p astop Anedis OF Marash, N. SYRIA: and the
hev: Dr. Pratt of the American RosrJ 'Ae
The building which is now ra,,id,n aduo,o
ing 10 completion, stands at the Ronna,;a
Hlpar on the Bosphorus, near where nar;.,,
King OF Persia crossed over into Tire s,l:.
his!army OF 100000 men, on bridge of b ".rn
2416 years ago-near also to the s6ot ,vhoro
there was once an altar erected to tbe gnS
Mercury or Hermes; and not far from 3 5ba
former sites of two heather temples dedicataJ
respectively to Scraps and Jupiter Ammon
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16
Personal.


Minister Thornton has called on Senator
Revels.
Fanny Fern is SO sick as to be confined to
her bed.
Babbitt, the soap man, has presented every
member of both houses of Congress with a
bar of his best.
The outlaw Hildebrand has been heard
from. A Missouri paper says messages have
been received by citizens of Irondale and by
others in st. Francois county, threatening va
rious punishmeDts on these who have incur
red Hildebrands emnity by aiding in the at
tempts to capture him, and other acts of
which he did not approve.
General q. II. Sibley, formerly of the Uni
ted States Army, and afterwards prominent
southern officer in the war, is now brigadier
in the services of the Viceroy of Egypt. He
writes to his friends in Georgia, under date OF
Alexandria, January 81, that he arrived in
that city on the 10th of that month, and met
Generals Mott and Loring. The three Off
GERS then had an interview with the Viceroy.
The Portland daily press., 1870-03-16

HE rock-bottomed town of Quincy, Mass
has live sensation. 1t is related that Dr
Ebenezer Woodward died recently at the r;no
age OF eighty years, having previously INSTALL
ed DR.. Martyr Ogden in his dwelling as suc.
cessor to an extensive practice. The aoed
widow of the deceased subsequently became
interested in the young doctor aud willed him
$1,000 in anticipation of her own death. but
afterward increased the amount by codicil to
$4,000 and soon departed this life in a man.
ner that caused her brother to express his
mind quite forcibly while the funeral services
over her remains were in progress. At a later
day domestic in the family, Maggie Erskne,
with whom the young disciple of Esculapius
is said to have been on good terms, announc-
ed her intentions of leaving for New York,
and asked him to prescribe for cold from the
effects of which she was then suffering. He
uid SO, and advised her to have the prescrip-
tlon hlled in Boston on her way to New York
ana take dose every five hours. Contrary to
ms ms instructions, she applied to Quincy drug
s'st' VINO declined to fill it, fTc the reason that