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Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
SUCCESSION SALE.

PURSUANT to an Order of Sale, issued by
L the Honorable the Parish Judge of Ra.
pides Parish, State of Louisiana, in suit No
1907, in the Succession of Winder Crouch. on
the Docket of the Court, commanding me ia
sell for the payment of debts, the property OF
the deceased, shall offer for sale at Public
Auction, before the Court House in Alexan
dria, on
Tuesday, the 4th day of February,
1873,
at-12 NJ, tie following property belonging to
said Decedent, viz;
A tract of land situated on left defending
bank of Bayou Benf, in Rapides Parish, adj
joining the Crouch Plantation, containing One
Hundred and Thirty-seven acres, more or less,
with all the improvements thereon.
The undivided half of the Crouch Plauta-
ton, situated on the left defending bank OF
Bayou BPuf, bounded above by the Compton
lower place, and below by the tract abo, de-
scribed and by lands of r. L. Tanner, contain
ing twenty-five Hundred and Twelve acres,
more or less, in the whole tract, together with
all the Buildings and improvements thereon.
TERMs-CASH.
JOHN DELACY,
Sheriff and -Officio Auctioneer.
Jan Asst. r. F's $50.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
ALEXANDRIA, LA, SATURDAY, JANUARY H. 1873

which trOwns down venality and ele-
Yates and encourages purity of life,
probity of conduct, and scrupulous
regard for good and honorable name.
16. We do not teach our children
that they must nor how to, earn their
own living, and are too willing to com.
nit them to life of easy unscrupu-
lousness, depending on their skill as
make-sAifts rather than, upon their
solid requirements as men and women.
II. We roll about too much like
stones that gather no moss, enriching
carrying corporations and specializing
capitalists, and defrauding ourselves
of the substantial profits of our own
industry.
Is. We are devotees OF show rather
than substance, and pay homage to
the glitter of a s'succeSs" which is but
robe covering filth, rottenness and
corruptlon-social, commercial and
political.
10. We build too many churches
and cultivate the Christian virtues
and spirit too little; we have to many
schools and too few real teachers; we
are too undivided in certain directions
and not enough so in others; we adj
here too closely to what we ought to
depart from, and refuse to take hold of
that TO which we ought to cling.
20. In short, we are too much what
we ought not, and not enough what
we ought to be.
Is our theory satisfactory
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11

II The announcement in another
place of the death of s. X. johnson,
ESQ.,, one of our oldest and most re-
spected citizens, will shock his numer'
GUS friends as much as it did us. Com.
ing up on the 'sTally7 we stopped at
his place, not knowing that he was
sick until the Doctor came aboard ard
reported, adding, however, that he
was then out of danger, and would
soon be removed to his residence in
town. We have neither time or heart
to dwell on the sad event of our old
friends death how, but doubt not it
will be our mournful duty to give
place in our columns to some fitting
tribute TO his memory.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
SUCCESSION SALE.

DURSUANT to an Order of sale issued by The
Il Hon. the Judge of the Parish Court, for
Rapides Parish, State of Louisiana, in suit
No. 106, of the Docket of that Court, in the
Succession of James ID. Lloyd, and Sarah Fl
Lloyd. commanding us to sell for the payment
of debts the property of the two Decedents,
we shall offer at public auction, on
Tuesday, the 4th day of February,
1873,
at IL NJ, before the Court House door, in Alex.
andria, the following desc ibed property, viz
The Lloyd Plantation, situated ON Bayon
BGuf, near Loyds bridge bounded above by
the w. X. Brown tract, and below by the 4
II. jackson tract, in rear by Woodland, and in
front by Bayou Beuf, containing Three Hun
bred and Seventy five acres, more or less, with
all the Buildings and improvements thereon
The Land will be sold in Lots of from Ten
to Fifty acres, and plat of the lots will be
exhibited on day Of SALE
Terms-CASH.
JOHN o. PICKENS,
Executor of Sarah III. Lloyd.
o. X. HAWLEY,
Public Administrator and Dative Testament.
airy Executor of James d. Lloyd.
Jan 4th-5t 5t-P. Fs $50.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11

TIE CUsToMHoUsE LEGISLATURE.
"A careful inquiry fails to show that
there is truth in the statement tele-
graphed from Washington that the
Customhonse employees had resigne1
their seats in the Kellogg Legislature.
Such resignation it is believed will
break the quorum in the Senate. Post
master Lowell, Surveyor Ingraham,
the two Herwigs and Sypher took part
in the Legislature proceedings to-day.
1t is understood all CustOmhonse mem
bers have leave of absence from the
Customhouse during the session OF the
1.egislature.- Washington cor. Mem
pkis Araldncho.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
VOL. a.

THE SITUATION.-We put Oh gong
to press yesterday, in hopes OF receiv.
ing late news from New Orleans by
mail or boat. No mail has arrived and
we only succeeded in getting Wednes-
Morning Times, which gives very little
information, and in fact is ve,y reti-
cent regarding the political situation.
One thing, however, we make out,
which is that. the Fusion Legislature
had notvorgasiEed on Wednesday, not
having a quorum ia the Seaate. The
widest rumors have been flying abont
for the last few days, according to
which both Kellogg and McEnery had
been inaugerated, both Legislatures
were in session, the banks freely dis
counting Fusion warrants at mere
nominal rate, the others worth moth
ing, all troops withdrawn from the
city and State, Grant backing down,
Fusion stock long way above par,
&c, &C., &C., too numerous to men
ton.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
A Little Of All Sorts.

With all our newspapers in the Uni
ted States we have only one newspa-
per to every 1888 inhabitants.
AGO to America and lecture +" is, in
London, equivalent to the New York
phrase /" Go West and Dig"
Daniel Boone's axe, rife, 1goi Sis
ter anu numerous terrapins are tIayel-
ing separately through the newspa-
pers.
A dog with two tails was seen in
Taunton the other day. One belong
ed to an OK, and was carried in the
mouth of the canine.
The keeper of New York GROCERY
advertises, in conspicuous characters,
The biggest hot whisky in the city
for 10 cents.n
A reading notice in Inter Ocean is
as follows: "The chill winds of adj
versity kept out by Torrey's weather
strips. See Kelly, Tribune building"
An enterpi;sing tradesman in Paris
in order TO circulate his advertise
m nts, has been FASTING them upon
the backs OF the currency of the realm.
This is a novel way to make advertis-
ing pay.
A young man in San Francisco
found an old deacon he knew "buck-
ing the tigefn in a gambling hell.
" What" he exclaimed, deacon, you
here ~ "Yes," was the reply, " am
bound to break down the evil institu-
ton"
Our exchanges are considerably agi-
tated over our indian trouble. We are
worried to death ourselves about it, al
though we never say anything. We
prefer to let the grief eat into us-eat
into US silently anbury Newe.
Undertakes are making name for
themselves as being the architects .of
the most fearfully and wonderfully
made advertisements which appear i'll
our newspapers Here is the latest
sample, as taken from the Williamtic
Comm Journal:
"By industry we thrive j. e. Cush-
man, Furniture Dealer and Under
taker. Motto Equal service and re-
turn, without importantly. Patronage
is respectfully solicited"
An exchange thus chronicles local
improvement:
Mr.. Hebron, of Nelson street, has
sigually improved the avenue by sett-
ing up hitching post in front of his
palatial residence. This piece of sta
tuary is of chestnut, and received its
graceful proportions and delicate finish
from the well-knOwn Italian sawmill
of Ike Giddings, in Dumping Hole
district. 1t is painted yellow, and has
a beautiful knob on the top. To the
way faring man it imparts feeling of
security and rest that beggers descrip-
tiou."
The following is given BY the Bridge
port Standard as seaside gossip !:
J. Rubber overshoes will be worn by
elite of Gloucester the present winter.
Some people may not know that the
wooden tobacco men, the gilt balls, the
mortar and pestle, the big shoe, and
other symbolic signs OF tradesmen,
are relics of time when the public
was so ignorant that lettered signs
were useless, and the newspaper ad-
vertising of to-day did not exist, be-
cause people could not read.
DIED-At his plantation, Oh Red
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
What Causes Hard Times.

1. Too many spend money and toe
few earn it.
2. Too much money is spent waste
fully and uselessly, and too little saved
and made productive and accumula
tive.
3. We buy too much abroad that we
ought to produce at home.
4. We buy too much that we do not
nav for cash down-to0 much OF what
we buy being what we do not actually
need.
8. We are too wastefnl. know toe
little how to cconomize, and have toe
little disposition to do so.
g. We are too speculative, unscrupu
lous end actually dishonest in our Ell
forts to make money.
z. Too many of US prefer idleness to
industry, and 70, few of us know how
to work and derive pleasure and profit
from our labor.
8. We spend too much time learning
what is not useful, and too little in
forming ourselves upon the best
methods of promoting our material
prosperity.
9. We know too much of politics,
spend too much time and money as
politicians, and know too little ebout
political economy ano the science OF a
stable and economical, successful pub
lie policy.
10. Our actions are governed too
much by passion, prejudice and parti
san feeling, and not enough 5y q
broad, intelligent, liberal and patriotic
conception of the duties which Amerl
can citizenship involves.
II. We are too superficial and I'M
patient, and lack the clear purpose:and
persistent, patient application neces
sary to permanent success.
II. We depend to much upon oul
"sharpness,r and .'cuteness," and read
mess TO take advantage of circumstan-
ces, and not enough upon earnest,
honest labor.
Is. We talk and read too much, and
think and act too little.
IA. We spread ourselves oyer toe
great a surface, and thus fail to dig
deep enough in one place for the mug.
gets that will surely enrich us.
ID. We lack in that higher morality
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
Succession Sale.


State of Louisiana-Parish of Grant.
In the AatteI of the Successor of James z.
Tyson, deceased.
10y VIRTUE of an order of Sale, issued to
- me by the Honorable Parish Court. of
the said Parish, in the Succession of James E.
Tyson, deceased, l will sell at Public Auction,
on
Monday, the Goth day ofJanu.
airy 1878,
at II o'clock A. NJ.
at the late residence of The deceased, in said
Parish, the following property, viz:
Three Head of Horses, One Mule, Fifty
Head of Cattle, Three Hundred Head of Hogs.
One Lot of Plantation Tools One Wagon.
Two Colts, Two Yoke of Oxen, Fifty Head of
Sheep, One Spinning Wheel, One Saddle and
Bride, One Grind Stone, Seven Chairs, One
Table, Seven Bedsteads, One Bureau, One
Wardrobe, Two Clothes Presses, One Cup
be ID. One Safe, One Clock, One Lot of Beds
and 3edding, Four Bee Guns, One Stove and
Cooking Utensils. Two Wash Kettles, One
Shot Can, One Rifle, One Silver Watch.
TERMS OF SALE For all sums not over
Ten Dollars, Cash. For all Sums over Ten
Dollars, on Credit of Twelve Months. bear
ing Eight .oent per annnm interest, to be
secured by approved personal secursty.
J.w. MoSLEY,
Jan.4-3t. L. rs Sl2. Administrators.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11

W BY an extract in a different
place, it will be seen that the Custom
house and other government officers,
in the Legislature hare net resigned
either the one or the other of their
places, Pee 81 jete.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11
WANTED !!
FOR RENT.

On the Sd day of February 1873
| will offer for Rent at the Court
House door, in the Town of AlexaR-
dria for the year 1873, the Plantation
on the Bayou Rapides, belonging to
he Succession of B. X. Hunter.
r. A. HUNTER,
st. Administrator.
Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-11

DIED-At his plantation, Oh Red
River, in the Parish of AvOyelies, on
Friday the 10th inst, S. K. JOHNSON,
ESQ, for thirty odd years past resi-
dent of this place.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-03-13

them from the hook. These orifices, Oh
chimneys, have no connection with the
waters of the lake. The hot fumes com.
ing up through tissures extending down
toward the interior of the earth are con-
fined within the walls Of the orfice,
which are mostly circular and beautifully
lined with delicate porcelain"
This may not be desirable resort du-
ring the winter season, but the climate is
said to be pure and invigorating during
the months of June, July and August,
though frosts occur every month in the
year. tits also believed that these Springs
possess medicinal properties that when
understood will attract the invalid, and
that all classes Of people will gather here
to view the beautiful as well as grand
displays of nature handiwork.
The Act dedicating this tract to the
public, provides that it shall be under
the exclusive control of the Secretary of
the Interior, who is required 10 make
and enforce such rales and regulations
as shall be necessary to prevent spoha-
ton OF timber, mineral deposits, natural
curiosities, fish, game, &c. He may grant
leases, not to exceed ten years, of loca-
tions for buildings for the accommoda-
ton of visitors and shall cause trespass-
ers TO be removed or punished.
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HORRIBLE MURDER.-It is a great
misfortune that something can't be
done to check the spread of crime
and restrain the hand Of the coward
ly murderer. Nothing short of a
literal fulflment of the old Mosaic
law will be the means Of curbing the
passions of those whose business and
delight it is to make the life of fel-
low human being atone for some real
or fancied insult.
John Smith a quiet. peaceful, inof-
fensive colored man was brutally
murdered in his own house near
White Hall on last Tuesday night,
An inquest was held over the remains
of the deceased on Wednesday by
Trial Justice McClinton when the
following facts were brought out,
Smith was sitting in his house with
his wife and two children some one
came to the door and knocked; Smith
asked who it was and II 1t was some
party with whom he was we'll &C.
quainted; the party knocking AZ
swered yes and shF;ltA opened the
door when hs was Instantly fired upon
and wounded in the breast. He
turned and attempted to make his
escape when the lnurderers, (for these
we're two) opened brisk fire and al
most instantly killed hllMop hllMop,: He was
completely riddleA With balls anf
our Informant told US that he, counted
! no less than eight bullet holes. The
. deceased was one Of the best colofeo
, men in the country and q the motive
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South Carolina,

The financial condition of South
Carolina is fit illustration Of tn
manner in which carpet-bag Radicals
have ruled and robbed the Southern
States. The. recent report OF the
Comptroller of that State gives its
total debt, including con ucingent and
railroad liabilities, at $2l, 100000.
As the taxable wealth of the State is
only $lS3,000,000, it will be seen
that this debt amounts to a twelve
per cent. mortgage on the whole
State. All of it, with the exception
Of about 100000, has been incur.
red since 1866. The revenue needed
this year to pay the expenses OF the
government and meet the interest is
$2,054,34 and besides this, there
is deficiency for last year of ST.
225s, ,405, making a total Of $780,
752 to be raised this year This is
nearly five per cent. on the property
valuation, a demand which the I'M
noverished and plundertd people
cannot meet. And what nave the
people to show for all this expendi-
turc Of money? What public i'm.
provements have been projected and
carried forward. that required such
d vast outlay Of money! In what
way has the State been benefited by
this pouring forth Of its wealth, by
this lavish use Of its credit? In nc
way. The money has been stolen by
those in authority. and their confed.
crates in the North, and the Federal
Administration have sustained these
men by all the means in its power
Chronicle & Sentinel.
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Inaugural Address of President
Grant.
WASHINGTON, March 4, 1879

WASHINGTON, March 4, 1878.
The weather isvery cold, but there
is an immense crowdin attendance at
the Inauguration. It.is probably the
grandest display ever witnessed at
the Capital. The inaugural address
of the President was as follows:
Fezloau- Citizens :-Undse Providence
I have been called a second time to
act as Executive over this great ma
ton. 1t has been my >endeavor in
the past to maintain all the laws, and
so far as lay in my power to act for
the best interest OF the whole people.
My best efforts will oe given in the
same direction in the future, I trust,
by my four years experience in the
Office. Nhen my first term of the
Office of Chief Executive began, the
country had not recovered from the
effects of great international revo-
luton, and three of the former States
of the Union had not been restored
to their Federal relations 1t SEEM
ed to me that no new questions should
be raised, SO long as tha. condition Of
affairs existed, therefore, the past
four years, so far as I could control
events, have been consumed in the
effort to restore harmony, the public
credit, commerce, and all the arts of
peace and progress. 1t is my finn
conviction that the civilized world
is tending towards republicanism o.
government by the
thcir che
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agq'aies al:: nvritles,

- A Graphic reporter says of wo-
man who died suddenly, that "she died
without medical assistance" This re-
mark causes the average mind to- pause
and wonder how much medical assis-
tance one needs i'll dying.
Gs- An exchange says: "That unfor'
tunate set of men known as Washing
toms body servants is thinned out so
rapidly by death of late, that it is feared
not more than Il few thousand will be
left to take part in the centennial cele-
bration.'
@r Two plugs Of tobacco i'll his pock-
ct stopped q bullets and saved Kentucky
mans life recently, but you will never
see this circumstance related and circu-
lated in the form of tract.
ms- Teacher" who was the first
man?" Brown (head boy)-" Washing
ton; he was first in war, first in"
Teacher-"No, no; Adam was the first
man." Brown" Oh! if you're talking
of foreigners, s'pose lie WASP"
ns- The man who returned his neigh
bor's borrowed umbrella was seen, day
or two ago, walking in company with
the young lady who passed looking
glass without taking peep. 1t is be-
lieyed they arc ensagcts.
ns- A Lii Crosse, Wis, girl has been
turned out of house and home for rub
bing hor cheeks against her sisters hus-
bands beard when she wished to get mp
a healthful glow FOR Il bull.
au- One of Brigham Young's chill
drcn rot lost the other night, and Brig
ham was half an hour calling the roll be-
fore he could tell which one it was
es- A gentleman in Kansas had re-
ception at his house the other evening,
and when the guests went away it took
him all night to wash the tar and pick
the feathers off his person.
ny A Tennessee schoolmaster re-
proved one of the big girls for splitting
ON the stove and her brother took down
his little shotgun and chased the peda,,
poeue into North Carolina before he
could pepper him.
mr Nasby keeps two white gate posts
in front of his house to enable him to 90
right when he goes home late with q
heavy load of loil enthusiasm. Some
bodv painted the posts brown one night
and Nasby couldn't find his front door
after that. He wandered around for two
hours and three quarters, and then went
back to a saloon to get q couple of glasses
to see the way with.
na- scenei in Cleveland. A large party
Of ladies and gentlemen assembled in the
drawing room. A little girl examining
book on natural history. 4 pause ip
the general conversation. Little girl
"Ma! you called pa bear the other
morning when he kissed the chamber
maid. Was he polar bear, ma?h Sen
sation.
@ Nothing makes husband 30 mao
90 to fill his boots with buckwheat cakes
IN the raw, and then laugh at him wher
he pulls them on. Mrs. Smith, will EN-
,,orse this statement as soon as the swell
inc in her nose subsidies sufficiently to
enable her to read.
rss A clairveyant trio. two Women
and man, have been travelling in the
South, pretending TO cure epizootic by
the "laying on of hands," They prac
istised on Kentucky mule the other day
Z and the fran has since dissolved.
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MAMMoS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
The Shenandoah Herald, of Schnyl-
kill, Pennsylvania, has motto which
strikes us as little singular. + !.
this "Our Aim: To fear God. ,.i
the truth, and make money" The
candor of this avowal is to be admir-
ed. ITO make money seems to be
the object of most everybody nova
days, and many no doubt wish "tt
fear God and tell :he truth; )" but
unfortunately if men do fear God
and tell the truth, they are not like
ly to make much money. AS the
world goes now it seems that the
wicked are, as general rule, more
prosperous than the righteous; but
the aim of the righteous should be
not to grow rich in this world, but tc
"lay up treasures" in heayea, BY
fearing God and telling the sruth' anc
walking uprightly ali the days o
their life.
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Blessings on the hand of Woman!
Angels guard its strength and grace
In the palace, cottage, hovel,
0, no matter where the place!
Would that never storms assailed it.;
Rainbows ever gently curled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Infancy's the tender fountain;
Power may with Beauty flow;
Mothers first to guide the streamlets;
From them souls unresting grow,
Grow on for the good or evil, i.
Sunshine streamed or darkness hurled
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Woman, how divine your mission
Here upon our natal sod!
Keep, o keep the young heart open
Always to the breath Of God!
All true trophies of the Ages
Are from Mother Love impearled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.
Blessings on the hand of'Woman!
Fathers, sons and daughters cry,
And the sacred song is mingled
With the worship in the sky,
Mingles where no tempest dark ems,
Rainbows evermore are hurled;
For the hand that rocks tie cradle
Is the hand that rocks the world.