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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-08-30

HOME AND ITS QUEEN. There is
probably not an unperverted man or
woman living who does not feel that
the sweetest consultations and the best
rewards of life are found in the loves
and delights of home. There are few
who do not feel themselves indebted to
the influences that clustered around
their cradles for whatever of good
there may be in their characters and
conditions.
Home, based upon legitimate mar
riage, is so evidently an Institution of
God, that man must become profane
before he can deny it. Wherever it is
planted, there stands bulwark of the
State. Wherever. it is pure and true to
virtuous idea, there lives aa institu-
ton conservative of all the nobler in
terests of society.
OF this realm woman is the qneen.-
1t takes its cue and hue from her. If
she is in the best sense womanly-if
she is true and tender, loving and he
role, patient and self devoted-she
consciously or unconsciously organizes
and puts in operation set of idfluen-
ces that do more to mold the destiny
of the nation than any man uncrown-
ed, by power or eloquence, can posi-
bly, effect. The men of the nation are
what their mothers made them, as a
rule; and the voice which those men
speak in the expression of their power
is the voice of the women who bore
and bred them.
There can be no substitute for this
There is no other possible way in
which the women of the nation can Or
ganize their influence and power that
will tell SO beneficently upon society
and the state. Neither women nor the
nation can afford to have home de.
moralized or in any way deterioratet
by the loss of her influence there. Al
a nation, we rise or fall as the charac
ter of our home, presided over by wo
men, rises or falls, and the best gauge
of our best prosperity is to be found il
the measure by which these homes
find multiplication in the land. Ii
true marriage, and the struggle afte
the highest ordeal of home-life, is t.
be found the solution of more of tn
ugly problems thatsconfront the pres
ent generation-moral, social and pc
litical-than we have space to enume
rate American Odd Fellow.
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" A Kansas billiard table is th,

" A Kansas billiard table is thus
described: "First, in the middle of the
floor was large goods box, on which,
was laid about wagon load of sand
stone, covered with about eight yards
of blue jeans. For pockets they had
old boots, about No., 10: for cues they
used old broken hoe-handles boiled
eggs for balls, and to count this lovely
game they used dried apples on a
clothesiine."
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KENNETH BAILLI0,
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
and
General Commission Merch ant,

CUfntr MAIN anu LEVEE SIS,
WASHINGTON, La,
ID RESPECTFULLY INFORMS THE
~ Planters and Merchants of Bayou
Beuf that he will give his especial per-
sonal attention to any freights coming by
way of Washington, La, for Bayou Bpuf
that may be consigned to him.
Will promptly forward all freight so Or
dered to ny point on Bayou Bout by first
boat or barge, and thus obviate to ship,
pers the delays heretofore incident to ship.
ping freight by this route; ana will gen
orally do and attend to all business con
nected with the Receiving. Forwarding o.
re-shipping of freight that may be ordered
for Bayou Boeuf by way of Washington.
Feb. l, l571-tf.
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~ People of nervous temperament,
or what is usually called fine sensi-
bility, in their joys and sorrows are
eyer in extremes. In adversely their
depression is too deep, because they
have not fortitude to sustain it with
constancy and cemposure in pros
perity, their citation rises too high
because they have not moderation tc
temper it with reflection and fore
thought.
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~ A story is told of d young Prus

~ A story is told of d young Prus-
sian officer, WHO is now an incurable
lunatic in Berlin asylum, which
shows the folly of a too curious inves-
tigation into the feelings of the female
heart. Having occasion to doubt the
love of his affiauced bride, he request
ed one of his friends, after tho battle
of Gravelotte, to say to her that he had
been killed in that battle. The result
of this indiscreet disclosure was, that
the maiden, too true in her affections,
committed suicide, and the lover, filed
with despair and remorse, became a
raving maniac.
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A Puzzle Solved.

In our last weeks issue, says the N.
Q. Picayune, we published the follow
ing, for which the New York World is
responsible:
A late resident of Hartford who died
leaving his lady in condition which
it is hoped her love for her lord rem
dered consonant with her wishes, also
left a will providing that if the antici-
pated infant turned out to be boy
two thirds of the estate should be his
and the remaining third go to the
widow; if, on the other. hand, a girl
should be born, the widow was to have
two-thirds of the property and the
child o1e:third. But with a woman's
peculiar aptitude for unnecessarily
complicating questions tie lady saw
fit to bring forth twins, OF whom one is
male, the other female. And now all
the lawyers in the land are at logger
heads to decide whether the boy shall
have two-thirds aud the girl one-third
of the estate, leaving nothing for the
mother, or whether the mother can
claim one-third for having borne the
boy and the other two thirds for lrav-
ing borne the girl. DR.. Butler is re-
ported to have suggested that the sim
plest way out of the difficulty would
be to divide the property into six
thirds-or say seven, and give him
one.
This week we were called upon by
w. II. Sutton, Esq, of tine firm of SUIT
ton, Powell s. Huey, of this city, who
handed US the subjoined solution of the
puzzle, which we publish for the edit
cation Of the disagreeing New York
doctors of law.
| Daughter !.
Mother twice as much as daughter, s
3 Son twice as much as mother.
Suppose the Hartford mans estate
to 0e $4,000
Daughter ..---............l
Mother twice that --..--.-.2
, Son twice mothers share. 80 4
$4,000
Daughters share 81 ,42S A.
Mothers share. 1857 l.
Sons share. .-...-.....-... 5,7IA 2
$1,000
Estate automatically divided! Jan
5 will sustained.
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Is IT A MERMAID "A. A. Freeman,
ESQ.,, member elect from Haywood
county to the next Legislature, made
to one of the editors of this paper, in
the presence of several well-known
gentlemen, the following remarkable
story: 81. B. Maxey, an intelligent
citizen of Bells Depot, in this county,
and keeper of the hotel at that place,
and for whom IA. Freeman vouches
as reliable, truthful man, was fish,
ing in canoe on July z, in Folked
Deer River, near Bells Depot, and in
that part of the river between the rail-
road and dirt road bridges, when his
attention was called to an object in the
river, some fifty yards distant, which
presented the appearance of a man
drowning. Maxey rowed his boat
within ten feet of the object, and saw
u remarkable creature, as the follow
ing description will testify: 1t had a
face perfectly white, with features like
those of human being. 1t had some
thing like moss on its head instead OF
hair, and it's neck was longer than the
neck Of mau. Its body, down to the
waist, Or SO much of it rs was exposed
was covered with black and spots. Il
was as large as an ordinary man, and
had large black eyes. Macy was
within ten feet of it for ten minutes
He did not see any arms. 1t looked al
him and slowly turned around and dis,
appeared in the water. Thomas Neal
Esq, told Mr.. Freeman that he saw
the same thing at the same place abou
three years ago, bat, did Rot tell i
because he thought he would be laugh
ed at. James Neal and Isaac Ward sa,
they Saw the same creature.-[ Browns
vile (Tex.) States.
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Quaintanco there had been considera-
bic between the parties, of courtship
there had been little or none, and
furthermore, at the time of the elope-
ment and marriage the young lieuten-
ant knew full we'll that his lovely bride
was intended by her friends for tenn
porary seclusion in n mad house.
But the runaway couple had not been
long from home until they received
assurance of forgiveness, and returned
to the house at Gulf Mills. They also
for time lived at Norristown, and in
Philadelphia again. 1t wasn't long
after marriage until Mrs. Wharton was,
in financial difficulties again, which
were again settled by her 'indulgent
father.
After this her husband, who was
captain now, was stationed at Fort
Kearney for some five or seven years.
Mrs. Wharton accompanied him, as
indeed she did in all his wanderings,
even down into Texas with him on one
occasion. But while out upon the
plains the eyesight of the captain had
become defective, and he and his wife
returned to Philadelphia again. They
put up at Glass g. Co.'S Hotel, on
I Chestnut street, during such time as the
captain was under the hands of an
oculist.
AT the breaking out of the war the
captain got a commission in Della
ware regiment, and eventually was
appointed general disbursing agent,
having his headquarters in Eutaw
street, Baltimore, right near his house
in "Hamilton Place" With the ex-
ception of a short time they lived in
Washington, this was his home up to
his mysterious death in 1867.
+ Such are some of the salient points
and bold outlines in the career of thi:
most remarkable woman. NotWith.
2 standing the growing suspicion tha
7 she poisoned her husband ana-son, it il
Q the universal testimony that neve
I was there a more loving wife. Sh,
, was most passionately devoted to him
and followed him everywhere. W.
p have also seen that money was be
4 great weakness. She was nearly al
o ways in difficulties of this kind an,
q would borrow from any one. This is
of course to be accounted for in grea
+ measure by her inordinate passion 70
9 dress. Wherever she went she wa
:, bound to move in the most fashionabl
circles, which she Invariably adorne
y by her beauty and engaging deport
: ment.
If We do not propose, as we said a
II the start, to touch upon the particular
RI of this most remarkable case. Mr.
J. Wharton now stands before the bar {
J. justice, charged with murder and al
:. tempted murder, and it seems to b
,e the general opinion that three or for
,e more items will be added to the GRIN
d son list, two of them the murder {
9n, husband and son. The facts the pull
re lie are already familiar with !; the thee
10 ry that will. embrace every case ca
,e never be arrived at. The whole stoI
d only goes to show that, keen as d:
10 been the scrutiny of human charact'
re these thousand of years, it still hi
is unsounded depths and undiscovere
~ ATTITUDES. And this Monumental Gil
,r tragedy, whose central figure is g
N elegant lady of the first circles of 81
g. ciety> only adds another enigma to tt
ks lengthy list that our poets, philos'
~ pliers and scientists are called upon
as solve.-[ Philadelphia Telegraph.
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~ There is some advantage in b

" There is some advantage in be-
ing fat. A few nights ago bulky
lady in Bridgeport, Connecticut alarm
ed by the approach of burglars, leaped
out of bed with such force that she
shook the house from garnet to cellar,
awakening a male ledger who slept on
the lower floor and frightened away
the burglars before they had time to
secure anything.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-08-30


MILLIONS Bcnr Testimony 10 their
Wonderful Curative Effects. E.
Vinegar Bi;tcrs not vile Fancy
Drink, Made of Poor Rum, Whiskey.
. Proof Spirits and Refuse Liquors, doc
,tored, spiced and swsctened to please the taste,
called Tonics,"'" Appe.izers." Restorers, Sc.
that lead the tipplcr On to drunkenness and ruin.
but are true Medicine. made from the Native
Roots and Herbs of California, free from all
Alcoholic Stimuiants. They are the
GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and 4
LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE. perfect
Renovation and IIvi-orstor Of the System. carry
Ing off ali poisonous matter and restoring the blood
to healthy condition. No person can tnke these
Bitters according TO directions and remain long
.unwelI. provided their bones are not DESTROYED
by mineral poison other means, and the vital
organs wasted beyond the point Of repair.
They urc n Gentle Pargntise rs we'll
ms Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit
of acting n powerful agen; in relieving Conges-
tiou or Inflammation Of the Liver, and OF all tho
viscerai Organs.
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether
In young or old. married single, at the dawn OF
womanhood or at the turn pf life, these Tonic Bit
tiers have no equal.
For Innamnatory and Chronic Rheu.
mntism md Cont, Dyspepsia or In.
digestion, Bilious, Rcmitreut unsa
Intermittent Ecvers, Diseases OF tho
Blood, Liver, Kidneys aud Bladder,
these Biffers have been most successful such
Diseases are caused By Initiated Blood,
which is generally produced by arrangement Of
the Digestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION,
Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tight
ness of the Chest. Dizziness, Sour Fluctuations OF
the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth. Bilious
Attacks Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation OF
the Lungs Pain la the regions Of the Kidneys. and
a hundred other painful symptoms are the or
springs of Dyspepsia. -
They inyigorate the Stomach and stimulate the
torpid Liver and Bowels which render them Of
unequalled efficacy in cleansing the blood of all i'm
pr,ritics and i,nparting life and vigcr TO the
whole SYSTEM.
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Ernpsions, letter.
Salt RheiIm, Blotcfes, spOts, Fimples. Pustnles,
Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, sca,d Head, Sore
Eyes Erysipelas Itch, Scurfs, Dscolorations of the
Skin. Humors and Diseases of the Skin, OF what
ever name or nature are hteraiy aug up anu AT
these Bitters. Ono bottle in such cases VIII con-
vince most ncredulous Of their curative effect
Cleanse the Initiated Blood whenever VOW find is
impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples,
Eruptions or Sores; cleanse it when you find it
DISTRACTED and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it
when it is foul and your feelings will tell You wiien
Keep the blood pure, and the health of the stem
| will follow.
| PIN, TAPE, and other WORMS, lurking
In the system of mrny thousands. edectually
| destroyed and removed
| SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
| J. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD 4
Co Druggists and Gen. Agents San Francisco.
Cal, and g and "a Commerce Street. New York.
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~ Miss Amanda Sanford, M. D., is
the first woman graduS3e of the Michi-
gan University, medical department.
She is practicing at Auburn, New York.
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RAPIDESEEMALE SEMINARY,
ALEXANDRIA, LA.
Mrs. A. P. CLARKE, PRINCIPAL.
Miss MATHILDE CLARKE, ASSISTANT

THIS SEMINARY WILL OPEN for
l. thereception ofBoARDING and Day
Scholars on
Monday the 18th day Of September,
and continue for a period of 40 weeks.
For the whole year, Boarding,
lights and fuel 8 200 90
Tuition in Academic department so 90
Tuition in Preparatory dept. 40 90
Tuition in Primary dept. 80 90
Music-PianO or Guitar or Melo-
dian 60 90
Modern languages-(each.) .----. 20 co
Embroidery, Paintns-iu u il
and Drawing-(each) ..- 25 90
Having had long experience in teach
ing and being able to offer first class
facilities for the acqnirment ola sub
stantial and polite education the Prin-
cipal hopes to receive an extensive
patronage from this community.
REFERENCEs-Rt. Rev. j. P. 3. Will
mer, D. D., Bishop of La, Rev. Otis
Hackett, A. NJ, Cheneyvlle, Rev. S.
Burford, A. NJ, Patron and Visitor,
Alexandria, DR.. S. Slaughter and B.
Tanner, CheneyviIle, Capt J. G. White
and Henry st. John, Alexandria.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
TIME UNDERSIGNED WOULD
i respectfully inform their friends
and the sugar planters generally of the
Parishes of Rapides and Avoyelles,
that they are now prepared to set or
repair kettles and boilers iD the most
approved style and best wormanlike
manner. Having had q years expert
ence in this line of business, they feel
satisfied that they will render satisfac-
ton, and will guarantee that their work
will be better, and by their style of
setting boilers, economic more fuel
than that of any other Mason in either
Parish. Best of references given, if re-
auired. GILES SMITH & SON.
March Is, 1s7l-1y.>
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REGULAR
SEMI WEEKLY ALEXANDRIA PACKET +!
The Fastest Boat in the Red River Trade
60

ID. l.. TALLYy
VIM. C. HARRISON. Master
WILL leave Cattle Pen, below Alex
w andria,every Monday and Friday,
at o'clock in the morning. Leave New
Orleans every Wednesday and Saturday
evenings, at 5 o'clock.
Will run regular in the Cattle Trade,
having capacity, with boat and barges,
for 1000 head Cattle
Aug. 23-tf. APPLY ON BOARD.
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NOTIGEI
Notice /!

THE entire stock. with books and ac-
i counts, of u. Weiss has been pnr-
chased by l.. Weiss. Those indebted to
the Same will please call and settle imme-
diateiy. L. WEISS.
August 0-3m.
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GREAT RAILROAD AND
COMMERCIAL MASS MEETING

UUM LII bIGUlAL MAOO MILL 1lNUi
IN VIEW of the fact that Shreveport has
4 been selected as the initial point of the
Texas Pacific Railroad, which is destined
to be the great Pacific coast,~ great Rail-
road aud Commercial Mass Meeting and
barbecue, will be held in the City. of
Shreveport, on the 18th day of October,
1871.
The hospitalities of the city are extend
ed to all the cities and localities interested
in making direct connection with the
trade of the Southwest. Special invita-
ton extended to the press.
By Order of the COMMITTEE,
W.. d. WYLIE,
Chairman.
Auv 90
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Aug23

LIE HAS REMOVED FROM FRONT
IL to THIRD STREET, and has just re-
turned from the city, where he purchased
we'll selected stock. and has reduced
prices to suit the times. He flatters him
self that he can give entire satisfaction
both in quality and price of Goods. Give
him call and examine his stock and sat
isfy yourselves.
May 10th, 1S71-1y,
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NOR SALE AT BIOsSAT'S WARE
Il honse-FLOUR, in barrels and half
barrels, every grade and guality-dircct
from st. Louis aud under New Orleans
prices,
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Shirts and Mems Furnishing Goods.
Sewing Machines.

- Z. WALSHE, No. 10 Canal street
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Music and Musical Instruments.
Orleans Inlirmar, No. ll2 Canal Street.

OiiUuhs luhiHul!. NUs az Ouuul NtttCts
nR. chopin, General and Special
H. Surgery. DIR. Beard, Diseases of the
Eye and Ear. DR.. Brickell, on Diseases
peculiar to Females. DIR. Bruins, Diseases
of the Throat and Chest. Accommoda-
tons, First Glass. Send for Circulars
P. 0. Box G..
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.~1s4napter from Mrs. Southworth. Suisse
quent investigation showed conclu-
sively that the marriage had not the
slightest foundation, so far as any in
tention of Mr.. Williamson was con-
cerned, and taking this tact into con-
sideration, it is not strange that peo-
pie now began to speak mysteriously
about the young lady and to intimate
forcibly that something was wrong in
her head. This bitter suspicion began
now to shape itself into tho solemnity
of a fact in the mind of Mr.. Nugent, and
after careful pondering of the matter,
it was resolved to have Nellie removed
to an asylum for the insane.
As key to subsequent events, is it
to be presumed that she knows the in
tentions Of her family at the time. 1t
wanted but day or to of the execu-
ton of the asylum project, when one
morning it was found that the beauti-
full bird had flown in the night from the
paternal nest. But in a very little
while the father received intelligence
that his daughter had eloped with
young Lieutenant Harry w. Wharton,
had proceeded with him to Philadel-
phia, had been there married, and that
now, as Mrs. Harry w. Wharton, they
were living at Jones' Hotel, in Ches-
nut street, above Sixth, just where the
German DEMOCRAT Office now stands.
This was almost as strange and un-
accountable q movement as the bur-
lesque marriage, and caused a great
deal of comment. Although of ac-
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Boys and Childrcn's Clothing.

ID It. WALsHE, 10 Canal street, near
Ds st. Charles.
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NEW ORLEANS DIRECTORY.
Agricultural Implements.

yEyHOS. B. BODLEY, 9 Perdido Street.
4 Balls Ohio Mowers and Keepers, Suit
ley Gaug Flows, Stafford Cultivators,
Southern Corn and Cotton Planters, Vic
tor Cane Mills, Cooks Evaporator.
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Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant.
U S. COPIES, "A Carondclet street, Com
- mission Merchant.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-07

AN ALLIGATOR ON THE RAMPAGE.-Some
time ago we announced that very respectable
sized alligator, which for months before had
been the pet of the visitors to Floral park, had
escaped from that institution, and was roaming
at large in the ponds in that vicinity. Until re-
Gently the exact whereabouts of the reptile,
which by this time has grown TO formidable di-
mensious were unknown. Within the last few
days, however, the ducks and goslings in the
neighborhood have disappeared in a most mys-
terions manner. Saturday afternoon a lady,
who lives near the pond, alarmed everybody by
her cries. When assistance reached her she was
in fainting condition, and could barely ejacu-
late that "a horrible haste, with jaws like barn
door," had swallowed seven of her ducks in
succession. While friends were endeavoring to
restore her to consciousness, his alligatorship
crawled up to the waters edge, and, with a
1endish snap of his teeth and hoarse below,
Owed into the water again. On Friday, a gem
tleman, who was teaching pet dog how to re-
trieve, was surprised to observe a commotion in
the water, Immediately followed by the precipi.
tate retreat Of the dog, which was bowling with
pain and bleeding from long cash in the side
The boys, who have been in the habit of bathing
in the pond, haveleft it in terror, and report thai
they have been chased by a strange animal with
wicked eyes and glaring teeth Louisville
Ledger,