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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-08-20

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-08-20
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-08-20

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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-08-20

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nals rpsnn er Natrin aus'n &ppf s'ma9s
len tp1re."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
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% We publish this week the pro-
gramme, or at least condensed one,
Of the Rapides Agricultural Fair AS
ISOLATION, which will be inaugurated,
under favorable auspices, on the 18th,
10th and 18th of October next. The
gentlemen members who compose
the various committees are energeti-
cally at work, at their different tasks,
and will have everything ready in
ample time for the Fair. The build
ings are all under way and all neces-
sary arrangements are perfected to
secure complete success and a mag
niicent Inauguration of the whole
affair. AS we remarked the present
Programme is mere compendium Of
the various doings of the Fair; a full,
complete and varied one will be is
sued from our office, giving and al
lowing premiums for hundreds Of
works Of art, science, labor, genius,
cooking, pastry, needle work, live
stock, fowls, &C., in fact for every
thing ever encouraged at the best Of
fairs. The Association is in the
best sense of the word fully organ
lied, and alive to the necessities of
such an enterprise in Rapides, and
are determined to spare neither
trouble nor money to make it sue
cess and touch the public pulse with
it's good results. An immense num-
Der Of these special Programmes will
be issued and circulated far and wide
into the country and neighboring
Parishes, thus making it semi-na-
tional affair. For the moment we re-
fer our readers to the present Pro-
gramme, and ask of all hearty good
word and some help to the efforts of
the Managers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

MIND AND BRA1Ns.-The brains of
idiots have usually been tonnd quite
small-cften less than half the ordinary
weight, and in some instances less than
fourth. But in a list of crania con-
tanned in recent work by DR.. Flint,
one idiot is shown to have had brain
that weighed 54.33 ounces; two others
had brains weighing little more than
as ounces; the brain of another, Of "the
lowest degree of intelligence" 1856,
and that of one "below the condition of
BRUTE" 44.3, or less than four ounces
below the normal weight of the human
brain. The cranial cavity was meas
ured by Morton in 623 instances; the
largest, ia cubic inches, was that of
a German; the smallest, that Of an Aus
tralian, only SO cubic inches.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
ALEXANDRIA, LA:
Wednesday, August 20, 1873
sm The whole of last week our

p@- The whole of last week our
planters, or at least a large proper
ton of them, have been manfully
and hard at work killing caterpil-
lars and have succeeded in Staying
them by the million and milliard,-
The poison mixture seems to be a
success, and all admit that wherev-
er used and applied properly it
will save the leaves from being de-
s.royed. But these worms are
here in full force and every where
carrying destruction with them,
save when they taste the Paris
Green or Arsenic mixture. One
thing certain, next season, when
commenced at the first appearance
of the Caterpillars, we are certain
theycan he totally destroyed. The
work commenced too late this sea-
son to effect full destruction, but
the present experience will be a
full guarantee for the future.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

D Amember of the Detroit bar, who
went out to Orchard Lake Oh fishing
excursion the other day, went off by
himself to take a bath, and when he
had taken it he couldn't End his clothes,
which had been appropriated by some
theft who didn't care cocoanut for
law or lawyers. The attorney don't
care so much about the loss of the
clothes and $l8, but he said it was aw-
full gloomy waiting behind a haystack
until he coul find some one to go and
borrow an overcoat and a pair of over.
alls Of farmer.-[ Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

1.-THE river is getting in the
neighborhood of low water, hence
our fine, large steamers are drop
ping out of the trade, making room
for the low water crafts. The John
Il. Moore, South Western, La Belle
and Maria Louise have left us for
q while, and in their stead we have
the Carrie A. Thorn, Belle Rowland,
Fleta and r. T. Bryarly.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

70 Gen. John c. Breckenridge was
in Richmond last saturday. The Wing
says this was "his first visit to Rich
mond since, as the last Secretary of
War OF the Confederacy, he left the
city at the evacuation of April, 1865.
General Breckinridge visited the Capt.
tol Saturday, noted with interest the
changes that had taken place there since
he was last III that edifce. The Gene
raj is still a man of imposing appear
ance and distingue air, and although q
little grizzled, is still robust, erect, and
ruddy."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
4 RADICAL SECRET CIRCULAR.

The subjoined circular of 'trepre-
sentative colored men" was directed
to good Democrat of our town,
whose devotion to Republican prin-
ciples," is not so deep as to prevent
him from exposing the game that is
playing on innocent ofice-holders.-
It is simply specimen of that black
mailing of ofice-holders which has
been practiced by the Radical party
ever since it came into existence
How a few ignorant colored men,
who belong to party in Louisiana
whose infamies stink in the nostrils
Of every honest man of every party,
can do a thriving business in ''cor-
recting misapprehensions," it would
be rather difficult to explain. The
truth is, we apprehend, that they are
anxious to spend the summer at
some of the Northern watering places,
and expect to dupe the faithful into
subscribing enough money to pay
their expenses. We caution all Of
fce-holding fedgings to keep out of
tn cir way. This advice we give
gratis, not being specially interestedin
the matter. Here is the Circular
It is rather cool for the dog days:
ROOMS COMMITTEE OF COLORED
MEN
APPOINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN, MASS
MEETING HELD IN MECHANICS INSTITUTE,
MAY 26, 1873.
No. 80 Rampant St., near Common.
New ORLEANS, Aug. sth, 1873.
DEAR SIR f: AS the approaching ses-
sion of Congress will finally pass upon
the status of the government of Louis
ina, and as the decision will be deter
mined by the evidence presented, it has
devolved upon a Committee of Colored
Men to submit testimony for the judg-
ment of Congress, and to procure a suf-
ficient amount of funds to send a dele
cation of representative Colored Men
north, to correct the misrepresentation
which have been formed through the
persistent and crafty efforts of our po-
litical adversaries.
Believing in your devotion to Repub-
lican principles, and your desire to
maintain, by all honorable means; the
existence of the State government, the
constitutional choice of the majority of
the people of this commonwealth, the
undersigned Finance Committee would
respectfully and earnestly solicit from
you a donation of Ten Dollars, in aid Of
the commendable objects contemplated.
A prompt remittance to Col. James
Lewis, Glass Box 279, New Orleans, La,
will confirm our high opinion of your
Republicanism and your fidelity to the
State government.
Receive, sir, the assurance of our dis
tinguished constellation, and believe us
to remain
Very respectfully your ob't sevt.,
I. MORRIS CHESTER,
G. G. ANTOINE,
JAMES LEWIS,
B. T. JOUBERT,
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

s@- A poor widow in Milwaukee
with seven children paid the taxes
the other day on six fayoite dogs
of both sexes, which were shut up
in the pound, and walked home in
triumph at the head OF her canine
procession.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

70 The traveller On the water
crafts that navigated the Potomac
before the war cannot fail to recol-
lect the tolling of the bell Of every
boat as it passed Mt. Vernon, where
sthe hero lies buried" It was SOL
emn and impressive tribute to The
memory Of one whom all nations de-
light to honor as among the greatest
of men. We understand that, since
the war, this custom has fallen into
desuetude. We are not surprised at
it. Now that the breath of Radical
ism poisons the whole atmosphere,
it is not strange that irreverence for
things great and pure and holy
should be numbered among the car
dinal virtues of the day.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
inal virtues of the day.

10 Cows are appreciatedin Ken
lucky. At a recent sale in Clark
County, seventy cows sold at an
aggregate of about $4,000; the
average price was $3.50. At an
other sale, near Lexington, sixty
COWS brought the aggregate sum of
$4,000, at an average Of nearly
$500. At another sale seventeen
COWS sold at prices ranging from
$3.50; 81, 100, and $500 down to
$155.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
w Ianra Kaana tho ant.ass III

D Laura Keene, the actress who
personated the leading character in
"Our American Cousin" in Ford's thea
ter on the night President Lincoln
was assassinated, is in the last stage of
consumption. She was very popular
actress in her day.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

u A lady of Los Angeles, CAL, took
strychnine and died, because her hus-
band scolded her about the character of
his breakfast.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

Iy In Missouri, when man kills an
other on Sunday, they prosecute him
under the law against desecrating the
sabbath by shooting at mark, and fine
him So and costs.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

THE INFLUENCE OF K1ssEs.-The
kiss has been a powerful agent in the
annals of the human race. They have
been kisses like those of Antony and
Cleopatra, of Henry VIII. and Anna
Boleyn, which have shaken an empire
or destroyed a religion. If we knew
the secret history of courts, we should
probably learn that nations have been
created or erased by the magic touches
of a woman's lips. A great problem,
therefore, lies before us. Has this dis
covery proved an affliction or bless
ing to mankind? Probably the latter;
for it has certainly increased the influ-
erce of woman, and the influence OF
women is employed more for good
than for i'll. Beloved, tender-h hearted
woman, companions and CONSIDERS OF
our life! With kiss you welcome the
infant to the world; with a kiss you be-
stow on soft-cheeked youths the rap
lures of first love; with a kiss you allie
viate the agony of death. Aud what;
alas. are the kisses which men too often
give you in return? Judas kisses,
treacherous and fatal, which poison in.
noeent hearts, and turn to curses or
painted and despairing lips. Happy
are they who can remember without
remorse the kisses of their youth
IN. Y. Home Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

"a A Kentuckian claims to have dis
covered mine of sealing wax. Let
him stick to that until he raises crop
of red tape.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

"a The opera house at Davenport,
Iowa, has been converted into fancy
bakery, and where rolled the orchestra
drum now rolls the dough.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
Communicated.

Mr.. Editor:
In your last Democrat | had oc'
casion to ask you some plain ques.
lions in regard to Printers Fees as
charged in the Official Journal, and
though my contribution was not so
classical and refined, as the learned
and gifted Editor Of the Official
Journal of Rapides, Grant and
Vernon would have desired it, still
II am more than certain that have
we'll fitted the cap and placed it on
the right head. This Editor, who
is waxing fat and saucy on the
spoils of the infamous law, which
grants him and all Radical Pub
fishers in Louisiana, a perfect mo-
|nopoly, and at higher prices than
their usual and private rates, de-
priving all men of the right to adj
vertise where they please, seems
not to be satisfied at these liberal
and forced allowances, but wants
and charges more. l make. the
charge direct and by no flank move
ment, and though unaware of the
motives Of the Editor in thus max
ing these overcharges, still I here
reiterate what 1 stated in my COM
munication, and now come to the
facts and proof: I take up his last
issue now before me, and direct at
tention to the "Delinquent Tax
List 1871" advertisement of M. Le-
|gras, Collector. He there charges
tor Do squares S135.0O. Now I
state, count and measure it, eueuln
the type it is set in, and it is only
80 squares $4,000, thus being an
overcharge OF thirty nine dollars.
Bring it down to the law and it is
only 20 squares $500, being real
ly an overcbarge Of forty eight dol
lars. Again, in the same issue take
the Sberritf's Sale of John Macau-
ly VS. W. Baily; there he charges
for six squares, $4,000, when in his
type, counted and measured right,
it only makes four squares, s24.0O,
thus being an oyercbarge of sir
dollars in this short advertisement.
These two items, in one issue,
ought [ think to be sufficient proof
to bear me out in my charge.
Now, Mr.. Editor, though not an
old Democrat, still l always believ-
ed in your old Marcy doctrine, "to
the yictors belong the spoils," but
then / want to hand over and &C.
knowledge only the legal ones
The Radical law, framed exclusive
ly for Radical Journals, does we'll
enough for its friends, and in all
conscience they should be satisfied
at being the full and sole recipients
of all the public printing. at higher
rates then they ask on private con-
tracts, and construe the terms and
words of that law fairly, plainly
and legitimately and within decent
bounds. This is what I demand,
and this is why l called your atten.
ton 10 it, and this is what I shall
harp on till the evil is reduced and
remedied. 1 desire right and fair
play; the laborer is worthy Of his
hire, but he should be held
to the bond and letter of the
law, and not allowed to stray in un.
forbidden paths.
Pooh DEBTOR.
|
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
Hon. VIM. Allen.

Colonel William Allen, the Demo-
cratic candidate for the governship
of Ohio, is sixty-six years old, having
been born in 1907. He was elected
to the House of Representatives in
1888 and served single term. He
was elected to the Senate in 1887,
just as he had attained the Constitu-
tional age and served twelve years,
giving place in 1849 to the Hon. Sal
mon P. Chase. He has been in per-
feet retirement, leading the life of a
plain farmer and cultivated gentle
man, for twenty-four years. He re-
tired at an age when many men-his
successor, for axample-just COM
mence public life. Of the men who
entered the House with him, there
now survive only Willard Fillmore,
Horace Binney and Henry A. Wise.
Of those who were members before
him we can recollect the names only
Of Judge George G. Robertson, of
Kentucky, who entered in 1917; An
drew Stewart, of Pennsylvania, who
entered in 1921; and Nicholas d.
Coleman, of Louisiana, who entered
from Kentucky in 1929. OF the Sen
ators who voted for the 'Expunging
resolutions" he is the sole survivor.
Of the Senators who entered with
him in 1887 the only survivor is Gov
ernor Alexander Mouton, of Louisi-
ana: of those who entered before
that year there is not solitary Sen
ator now among the living. He is in
truth a relic of the past. Hence
some of the opposition papers call
him can old Democratic fossil" We
only wish there were enough Of such
fossils left to overlap the neocene
formation of craftsmanship that
deals in Credits Mobiliers, salary
grabs, and other Radical scandals
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

ssa- Several bales of new cotton
have reached New Orleans, from
different portions of the State
Rapides has not yet had her first
bale.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20
The New York Herald on New Or
leans.

The New York Herald, referring Il
the statement that there were six thor
sand houses in New Orleans for rent
or sale, says that the people Of New
Orleans have been too busy with their
politics and fights to attend to any 9th
er business. We can not complain Of
such remarks in the Herald, when the
same idea is so often uttered in our
midst. 1t is one which embodies the
very gravest error and injustice to our
people.
Business has left us, adversely has come
upon US, by virtue of the exclusion orr
withdrawal of the best portion of ours
people from politics. It is because our
government aud the entire control of /
our politics have been taken from the
respectable, honest and industrious cit
liens, and confded exclusively to a.
horde of vandal plunderers and consul
mers of the products of industry and
capital; tits because, through the ma
chinations and corruptions Of the Rad
ical party, the honest portion of the
community have been ousted of all au-
thority and power over the legislation
and administration of the government,
that the disastrous condition of our af-
fairs has been reached.
Put yourselves in our plce, ye proud
Pharisees of the North! Place over the
great State of New York a government
composed half of carpet-bag adventu-
rers and the lowest class Of political
jobbers, and half Of ignorant negroes,
but recently emancipated-place and
keep them in power by the aid of the
army ofthe United States, with the uu-
limited power to tax, plumber aud OPP
press the people, to swell its debt to
one-eighth of the assessable property
of the State, and to exact taxes at the
point of the bayonet at the rate OF SIX
per cent of an excessive assessment.
How would you feel this situation,
to hear from a distant portion of the
Republic that your political troubles
were nothing, and that you have only
gone behind because you would not at
tend to some other business besides
politics?-[N. 0. Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20


~ The Shreveport Times thus speaks
of the death of the Unifcation move
ment in New Orleans:
As one proud of the metropolis Of
our native State, hoping for and believ-.
ing'in her ultimate emancipation from
the tllraldom of political thieves aud
her development into one of the most
magnificent cities in America, we say
to the people of North louisiana and
of Texas, that New Orleans has repu-
dated this vile thing. In this she has
been true to the State; in her captivity
she has not fallen, and we echo the
exclamation Of the multitude who, wit
Messing the captured queen of Palmyra,
in the triumphal procession of the Ro-
man conquerer: ''In fettels yet, still
queen"
New Orleans could not afford to ac-
cept a political theory that would des-
integrate society. The natural gram
depot of the West, and geographically
located to command the trade of the
regions of the south Atlantic, and in
the event of the construction of the
great American snter. oceanic canal, of
the imperial caste; she would stand be-
fore the bar of nations self-convicted
of the most infamous of social and po-
litical crimes were she to sacrifice a
splendid civilization and a princely
commerce to a miserable and false po-
litical expediency.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

70 The Sisters Of Mercy give no.
tice, in our present issue, that their
School opens on its second scholastic
year, September LIST.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

n@- One ofthe new Congressman
from Wisconsin has had some val
liable experience. He has been su-
perintenGent of a lunatic asylum.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

70 The Natchitoches Times an
nounces the death Of Thomas Hunt
er, lone Of the most public spirited
and enterprising citizens of that
Parish. Mr.. Hunter was we'll known
and esteemed in Rapides, and many
of our people will regret his death.
He was native of South Carolina,
aged A years, but had lived in Nat
chitoches from his early childhood.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-20

u We have been poorly sup
piled with papers, the past week.
The only thanks in that line, which
we owe, are due solitary and alone
to our regular Packet, st. Mary
So her obliging officers will please
receive them, with our blessing
thrown in.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-11-25

way. to conoiliate the colored people,
and make them see their inter ests az,
identical with their own? They have
done 80 more than once. They have
more than once rendered the olive
branch. The reform movement in 1870
sprung from sincere effort to heal politi-
cal divisions, to secure just and eco
nomical government. to repress corrup-
ton, and to raise the State once more
to safe and honorable ground. It con.
templated fair division of political
power with the oolored people. It was
we'll intended, but it was premature and
failed. Perhaps it was necessary that
it should fail. It was an important link
in the chain Of events and causes which
necessarily precede the dissolution OF
party. The down-hill progress of the
Radical purity was only accelerated by
it. Receiving new lease of power,
with nothing left to check its excesses,
it has gone to destruction and ruin as
if by special providential visitation of
madness and folly, of cruelty and pro-
scription. We stand in the midst of
wrecks, holding a few spars which we
have saved. The party journal has pro-
nounced the general result to be that,
in their hands, the State credit is
buried beneath the waves, and the
honor OF the State cruciied between
thieves. Have we daty to discharge
in this emergency? We have Past
failure should not dcprcss us. Rather
should it incite to renewed efforts. The
colored voters Of the State now realize
that they have been betrayed. They
must be tired of their company by this
time. They will listen with more atten.
ton now than in 1870 to candid and
earnest appeals. Let us organize for
victory.