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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27
From the St. Louis Democrat. !

from tile st. Louis Democrat.
Thirty years ago great sensation
was created in this city by the discoy-
cry that Augustine Kennerly, the CITY
Collector, was defanlter to the amount
between $1,000 and $4,000. The ex-
act amount was never ascertained, ow-
ing to the system of book keeping in
vogue at that time. Kennerly belong
ed to highly respectable family.
Several years afterward he published
statement, attempting to exonerate
himself, but it was not entirely salts
factory. He also published a novel
called the Heiress of Fotheringayn
which did not make him very high
reputation as romancist
During many years of his life he liv-
ed on terms of intimacy with a colored
woman. This woman had several
children, who were bright mulattoes.
The old lady is known as Mrs. Holland,
and has resided for many years at.
Cheltenham, owning five or six acres of
land there, besides property in the CT
ty--the whole valued at about Sa0,-
100. Her younger daughter, Angus
tine, was her favorite, and was educa-
1 Vcu tIIC SOutCut bdttIiuOiC, Ill
the accomplishments of modern edu.
cation.
The mother, having seen the colored
people of the United States rise from
condition of servitude to the plane they
now occupy, fondly looked forward to
the time whcn Augustine would be led
to the altar by q respectable white
man. But her hope was doomed to be
blighted. She had in her employ a mu-
latto man named James Madison, who
drove a team belonging to her, and
hauled fire clay for the brick works at
Chcltenham. Being an inmate of the
house, he had frequent opportunities of
cultivating the acquaintance of Angus
tine; but his wooing was in secret, rs
he we'll knew the old lady would scorn
any alliance with him.
lie succeeded, however, in winning
the affections of the girl, who is about
twenty years of age, and well educat-
ed They were married without tho
knowledge of the old lady.
Immediately after the wedding the
compile started on the Pacific road on a
short bridal tour to Rocheport, Boon
County, the former place of residence
of the bridegroom. When Mrs. Hol-
land heard Of the marriage, her indig-
nation knew no bounds. She pursued
| the fugitivcs to Rochcport, and there
meeting Madison face to face, plunged
dagger into his heart, killing him on
the spot. Such is the account that
reaches us from authentic sources.
Mrs. Holland was arrested on charge
of murder, and her trial is set for Au-
gust 3.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

REARING CH1cKENs.-The following
are some rules that it would be well
to observe in rearing chickens -
l. Keep the chicks in warm.
clean, dry coop.
2. Don't let them run out in the
morning until the sun has removed
the dew frum the grass.
3. Let them have plenty Of food
and fresh water.
A. The coop must be rat-proof.
5. Don't let the chicks have access
to slops OF stagnant water.
6. See that they are housed when
q storm is threatening.
Rules for keeping the henery in
proper order =
1. Clean out every day, and sprin-
kle handful of lime.
2. Sprinkle ashes over the floor
two or three times week. Ere
quently change the straw or hay
forming the nest, and white-wash the
nest-boxes at every renewal, and
twice year thoroughly white-wash
the whole interior of the house.
Rules for the management of set
ting hens:
1. Set the hen in place where she
will not be disturbed.
2. Give a large hen 10 or II eggs
medium-sized one 10 or II, small
one s or 9.
3. Don't let the hen come out o
the setting room until she has hatch
ed, but keep her supplied with gray
ell, food and water.
4. When chicks are Matched leav'
them in the nest for eight or tel
hours.
5. Don't NEEDLE with the egg
during incubation /; turning the n
once day, and all such foolishness
is apt to prevent the eggs from
Matching.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

IMPORTANT NoTIcE.-Notaries Pub
lie, Sheriffs, Recorders and others
will do well to read the subjoined ex-
tract from State laws, now in force
Extract from Act 1866 Sec. 3147.]
Hereafter, neither Sheriffs, Re
corders, or Notaries, throughout the
State, nor other persons authorized
to convey real estate by public act
shall pass or execute any act for the
sale, transfer, or exchange of any real
estate situated within said Parish,
unless the State, Parish and Munich
pal taxes due ON the same be first
paid to be shown by the Tax Col
lector's receipt, Or certificate to that
purpose.
"Sec. 314S. The Recorders, Sher-
| ifs, Notary Publics, or others, violat-
ing the provisions of the preceding
section, shall upon conviction there
of, be fined in the sum of not less
than fifty, nor more than two hun
bred dollars for each violation, to be
recovered by the District Attorney,
| for the use of the free schools, before
any competent tribunal"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

To The following verdict is re
ported to have been written and given
by the foreman of Coroner's Jury
in the northern part of Massachu-
sets:
eve are Of A Pinion that the De-
cest met his deth from Violent In
formation in the he'd, produced from
Unoan Cauz."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27
sl7o,OoO,oOO

The custom duties were in gold.
Reduced to legal tenders, at the
price of gold for the last year, they
are brought up to 5000, 100000. The
whole revenue, therefore, is $780,
600, 900, on the greenback standard.
The expenses of the Government
should not exceed 500, 100000. To
tai, $24O,O0O,0OO. Why then go on
and raise $3.50, 600. 900, or even $780,
OOO, 000in taxes? The Custom House
duties, with the taxes on spirits and
tobacco, are sufficient.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

imitators and followers. This ques-
ton will resolve itself in one between
capitol and labor. The capitalists
declare that there must be stop
put to the exactions of labor and
this is one of the means to degrade
it. This struggle between capital
and labor has been going on for hun
dreds of years, from the time when
the Saxon was a serf in England I'M
til to-day when the laborer is the
equal of the capitalist. Every con-
cession granted to the laborer has
been wrung from wealth. This i'm
portation of debased people and in
order to have them compete with and
take the place of our own workmen
is but another effort Of the capitalists
to break down the energies, the
power, the independence of the me-
chanic and the laborer in every
branch of industry in order that
wealth, the sham though powerful
aristocracy, may rule without let or
hindrance, fearing that if by some
such means as this importation if
cheap labor will demand and receive
q share of those profits which are alb
sorbed entirely by wealth, while skill
ed labor gains mere subsistence.
This in reality is the question and we
find that the Eastern Senators alive
to the interests of their -aristocratic
and wealthy section favor. This at
tempt to degrade labor to the Level
of the Asiatic and will not only con-
troll the price Of labor but will even
tually bring about great distinction
between the rich and the artisan la
borer who will be classed with the in
ferior Chinese. This is the Yankee
aim in the interest of their manufac-
turers and political supremacy. Let
labor watch capital in this last move
TREBLA.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

tB Hon. Johu O. Cole, of Albany, N.
Y, has resigned the Office of Police
Justice of that city, after having held
it for nearly as years. He was first
elected to the position in 1925, and has
held it ever since, with the exception
of the seven years, between 1888 and
1916. What makes this long incum
bency remarkable is the fact that the
office has always been an elective one.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

A letter to a Wisconsin paper
from Lamarie tells how a young giri OF
ten years of age had to carry a baby ~
the jury room three times day, near
ly a mile, that it might get its meais.-
The county is going to build an addl>
ton on the Court House for nurseIyA
that these delicate attentions to the
young may not cause bushes on the
face of the judge.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

u Hays City, Kansas, has female
constable. The young men are in con-
slant fear that she may have "an at
taehmenth for them.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

A HEALTHY DIGEsTIoN.-Life is rem
dered miserable when the digestive Or
gans are impaired. Food becomes re-
pulsivc; the body emaciated; the mind
depressed, and melancholy broods over
you. TUTT's VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS
is the remedy for these evils; they pro-
duce sound digestion create good
appetite, impart refreshing sleep and
Cheerfulness of mind.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

nea. We have no space, at this late
hour, for the proceedings of the Police
Jury. They will appear in full, in our
next; and in supplement on Friday
morning.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27
TIM LINKINWATER.


A BALLOON DUEL.-Perhaps the most
remarkable dpel ever fought took place
in 1868. 1t was peculiarly French in
its tone, and conld hardly have occur
red under any other than a French
state of society. NJ. dc Grandpre and
M. lie Pique had a quarrel, arising out
of jealousy concerning lady engaged
at the the Imperial Opera, one Made
moiselle Tirevit. they agreed to fight
a duel to settle their respective claims;
and, in order that the heat of angry
passion should not interfere with the
polished elegance of the proceeding,
they postponed the duel for a MONTH
the lady agreeing to bestow her smiles
on the survivor of the two, if the other
was killed; or, at all events, this was
inferred by the two men, if not actual
ly expressed. The duellists were to
fight in the air. Two balloons were
constructed, precisely alike. On the
day denoted, De Grandpre and his
second entered the car of one balloon,
LIE Pique and his second that ofthe 9th
er; it was in the garden Of the Tuil-
lcries, amid an immense concourse of
spectators. The gentlemen were TO
fire, not at each other, but at each 9TH
ers balloons, in order to bring them
down by the escape of gas; and as
pistols might hardly have served for
this purpose, oaci Rronaut took blum
derbuss in his ear. At q given signal
the ropes that retained the cars were cut,
and the balloons assembled. The wind
was moderate, and kept the balloons at
about their original distance of eighty
yards apart. When about half a mile
above the surface Of the earth, pre-
concerted signal for firing was given
NJ. lie Pique fired but missed. NJ. dc
Grandpre fired and sent ball through
Le Piquc's balloon. The balloon col
lapscd, the car descended with fright
full rapidity, and LePique and his Sc.
cond were dashed to pieces. De Grand
pre- continued his ascent triumphantly
and terminated his aerial voyage sue.
cessfnlly at distance of seven leagues
from Paris.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

be- See several important Ferry
and Bridge notices by the President of
the Police Jury.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

Flour, pork and corn are going
ap and. as a consequence, cotton is
going down.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

tES We are indebted to the clerk of
the st. Louis Packet, Fl. M. Shreve,
or file oflatc Western papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27
Result Of A Secret Marriage,

A NEGRO WOMAN WANTS HER DAUGu-
TER TO MARRY A WHITE MAN-rur
GIRL WEBS A MULATTo-THE MOTH
Err STABS HIM.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

IL Special attention is directed to
the educational card of Mrs. Garfield,
Principal of the Alexandria Institute.
The morited success, last season, of
this popular Institute, will insure an
increased patronage forit.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

u The Era No. 10, Julia A. Ru-
dolph, Enterprise, b. L. Hodge No. 2
aud Fleta have supplied our office with
papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

LEA Mississippi paper declares that
the capitol at jackson is in a danger
GUS condition, and calls upon the Leg
islaturc to move out of it at once. If
the building is going to fall the Legis-
lature should stay right where it is.
When the calamity comes, let every
man be found sternly mashed to his
post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

How TO LOOK YoUNG-SIXTEEN.-
Don't paint or use vile Hair Restorers,
but simply apply Hagan's Magnolia
Balm upon your face, neck and hands,
and use Lyons Kathairon upon your
hair. The Balm makes your complex
ion pcarly, soft and natural, and you
can't tell what did it. 1t removes
freckles, tan, sallowness, ring-marks,
moth-patches, etc; and in place OF a
red, rustic face, you have the marble
purity of an exquisite belle. 1t gives
to middle age the bloom of perpetual
youth. And these effects to a splendid
head of hair produced by the Kathai-
ron, and a lady has done her best in
the way of adornment. Brothers viii
,have no spinster sisters when these'ar-
ticlcs are around.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

lyWeather still clear, but awful hot
with one or two partial showers-river
still falling slowly-Crops of cotton
fine, the very best that ever grew out
of Rapides soil, and what is better,
no catapillars as yet-we rather. guess
these vermins are behind time this sea-
son. We hear of plenty of grass
worms ON some plantations, eating the
leaves from the cane and tie young
corn.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

Why SO Much TAXATION ?-The
above pertinent question, put by the
Cincinnati Enquirer, is thus answer
ed
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27
Healih'S Best Defence.

"The weak eateth herbs," says st.
Paul, so that eighteen hundred years
ago the. value Of medicine plants was
appreciated. In the Old Testament
botanical remedies are repeatedly re-
commended, but in no passage of sa-
cred history is man recommended to
swallow calomel, or blue pill, or any
other mineral preparation. The sick
We're directed to cat herbs to strength
ell them, to purify them, to heal them,
to restore them. In that day the art
of making vegetable extracts was I'M
known. The herbal medicines were
mere infusions.
1t was reserved for later age to
unite the sanitary essences of tonic
aperient and ambitious roots, barks,
and plants, with an active stimulant,
and thus secure their rapid diffusion
through the debilitated or disordered
system. The browning triumph of this
effective mode of concentrating and
applying the virtues of medicinal veg
etables was achieved in the production
of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. New
! er before had a perfectly pure alcohol
ic stimulant been combined with the
expressed juices of the finest specifics
of the vegetable Kingdom. Never yet,
though eighteen years have elapsed
since its Introduction, has this great
restorative been equaled. 1t is taken
at all seasons, in all chimes, as the most
potent safeguard against epidcmics, as
a protection against all unhealthy ex-
halations that produce debility or beget
disease as a remedy for intermittent
and other malarious fevers; as an ap-
petizer; as sovereign cure for dys-
pepsia as a general tonic and invigo-
rant; as gentle, painless aperient;
as blood depurent; as vervine; as
cure for bilious affections; as harm
less anodyne and as the BEST Defence
OF HEALTH under unfavorable circum-
stances, such rs sedentary pursuits,
undue bodily or mental exertion, hard
ship, privation and exposure.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

~ What fishes have their eyes near
est together! Answcr-The smallest
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

NEW ORLEANS, July 10Th, 1870.
WAR wAR!i
The al describing topic of converse.
ton now is the position of affairs il
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

SUICIDE OF THE FRENCH MINISTER.
Not many days after the insult put
upon the French Minister to Prussia,
the French Minister to the United
States met melancholy death at the
city of Washington. NJ. Provost Par
adol committed suicide on the morning
of the Goth inst. by shooting himself
through the head with a pistol.
The late ambassador had won a high
position in the Empire as a politician
and man of letters. His fame rests
chiefly on his brilliant reputation as a
journalist; hence the fitness of his
holding the office he held in country
where the press yields such a power
full influence as it does in America
Though scarcely forty-tive years of age
M. Paradol had already been elected a
member of the French Academy. His
loss will be deeply felt.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

STRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR
- sale by Ii. ST. JOHN.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27
ALEXANDRIA, La.

~ The Police Jury of the Parish OF
Rapides, at its late session, recalled its
former Ordinance submitting to the
people the question of voting s1d0,0ot
to aid the Back Bone Rail Road. 1hls
is most singular proceeding. In a
country as Democratic as ours it Is go
ing very far in any Legislative body to
show an unwillingness. to allow the
people to vote on a question IN which
they are deeply interested. But we
presume that the small squad of oppo-
ncnts to the welfare of the Parish be-
came satisfied that the tax would have
been carried by an overwhelming ma
iority, and hence hit on this dodge to
defeat it and disappoint the people in
their just expectations. The people,
however, have their remedy and will
make use of it when the proper time
arrives. When the road is built and
the Parish prosperous, it would take
a search warrant to find any one, either
on on off the Police Jury, who will adj
nit that he opposed the recent Ordi-
nance.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

NEW ORLEANS CAKES
~ at JULIUS LEVIN'S.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-27

HE HAIR.-The quality and color
of the hair was q subject of specula-
tive theory for the ancients. Lank
hair was considered Indicative of pu-
sillanimity and cowardice yet the
head of Napoleon was guiltless of a
curl! Frizzly hair was thought an in
dication of coarseness and clumsiness.
The hair most in esteem was that ter
minating in ringlets. Dares, the his
torian, states that Achilles and Ajax
lebanon had curling locks; such also
was the hair of Timon, the Athenian
AS to the Emperor Augustus, nature
had favored him with such redundant
locks, that no hair-dresscr in Rome
could produce the like. Auburn o.
light brown hair was thought the
most distinguished, as portendirg in
telligence, industry, q peaceful dispo
sition, as well as great susceptibility
to the tender passion. Castor ant
Pollux had brown hair; so also hai
Menelaus. Black hair does not appear
to have been esteemed by the Romans
but red was an object of aversion
i Agnes before the time of Judas red hail
was thought mark of reprobation
both in the case of Typhon, who de
prived his brother of the sceptre o
Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar, who ac
quired it in cxpiation of his atrocities
Even tile donkey tribe suffered from
this ill-omened visitation, according tt
the proverb of ''wicked as red ass
Asses of that color were held in sucl
detestation among the Copts, that ev,
cry year they sacrificed one by huri
ing it from u high wall.
NEW ORLEANS CAKES
y I
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-10-13
Educational.

We have always taken lively inter-
est in the cause of education, especially
10 our own county. There are now a
number of active, live young men and
women engaged in teaching the COM
mon schools of this county, many OF
them natives of the county. There will
be over one hundred thus engaged dur
ing the present winter. When we en-
large and improve cur paper, at the
commencement of the new year, we in
tend, if our friends, the teachers, will
aid us, TO open an educational depart
meut in the paper. But the teachers
need not wait until then, but we would
like to hear from them at once. You
eau aid each other much, and further
the good cause much. 1t will be worth
to you more than halfa dozen institutes.
Write to the. point, use few words, and
do not make your articles too lengthy.
We do not think that the publication ol
puzzling questions, or problems, is as
beneficial as other matters; yet a pro-
portion OF these would no doubt be in
teresting.
Now friends, let us hear from you
1t will improve the writer's quite at
much as it will the readers.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-10-13
Judge Guthrie.

During the two weeks that Court has
been held in this place, Judge E. A.
Guthrie, of Athens, presided. The
Judge made very good impression.
BY bis patience, urbanity of manners
and department towards all, he won
many friends. The membeh of the
Bar, litigants, jurors, witnesses, and all
who had business in Court, found Judge
Guthrie to be an able Judge, and q
courteous gentleman.
We could but contrast the kind o.
Judges we now have, when they are
elected by the people, with the Judges
under the old Constitution, when they
were appointed by the Legislature
The present plan is a perfect success.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-10-13

The attention of colored men is par
ticularly called to the following, from
that true blue Democratic paper the
New York Day Book;
"THE DEluDED NlGGER-A Con-
venton of negroes was recently held at
Poughkeepsie, New York, Among
the resolutions was one, in which the
sable brethren declare that 1--WE will
give to negroes voting the Democratic
ticket no protection or shelter in our
houses aud places of business but will
consider them an enemy OF our race for
ever"
You poor, miserable, deluded, ignor.
ant nigger! have you forgotten how,
in the days ofso.called slavery, when
there were four millions Of your people
in the South, with not poor house
nor a hospital with one of your color
within its walls when the home of
your master was your home, and you
were fed and clothed, aud warmed,
with him aud HIS, on the same planta-
ton, cared for in health, aud watched
over in in sickness, never overwOrked,
and when too old to labor, had your
cot in the little cottage, your seat under
the shady old elm, and dozed away
your existence without care or want,
aud all this was the fruit OF the Democ.
racy you now profess to hate, and whom
you regard as your enemies You were
the heathiest, longest lived, and hap
piest four millions of people on Gods
earth, Sambo, and If YOU had not been
in the very condition then that God
made you for, you would not have
shown so great degree of longevity.
But where are you nowi Idle, sick,
demoralized, debauched, filing jails aud
poorhouses, dying on the roadside, or
insestiug the highways as villains oflhe
most atrocious character. AL this is
the fruits Of "anti-slavery" and of the
doctrines of "nigger equality" Poor,
deuded nigger, bow basely you have
been victimissd BY your false friends