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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-04-19
LouiSiana---War of Races in Grant
Parish---A Bloody Combat.

New ORLEANS, April 15.-The steamboat
Southwestern, which arrived about 20 this af-
ternoon, brings stirring and important news
from Grant parish The whites have retakcn
Collax from the negroes who took possession
of the town some days ago, and there is not a
negro to be found for miles around. From a
passenger on the Southwestern we CLEAN the
following The negroes had strongly entreHch-
ed themselves in the courthouse, and built
breast works three and four feet high. There
were. it is said, about 400 armed and equipped
thoroughly.
On Sunday, about o'clock, about $50 men
who had gathered from the surrounding par
ishes, made an attack on the breastworkS and
brisk fight was kept mp until somewhere near
o'clock The bleaStwolkS were then storm
ed and captured, the negroes taking refuge in
the courthouse. the doors of which were bar
rcaded. After some further fighting the ne
groes threw out a flag of truce, and several de-
tachmeuts of men advanced on 1t, when they
were fired on by the beseged party, wouDdng
several Of whom was Capt. lIadnot, who was
shot i'm the bowels and it is feared fatally
wounded. They retreated on the outside Of
the breastworks, and as the only means of dis
lodging the negroes the courthouse was set on
FIRE aud they were shot as they came from
the burning building. 1t is reported that be-
tween eighty and a hundred negroes were kill
ed, aud there were none 20 be found for miles
around.
The captain Of the steamboat Southwestern
makes the following statement: " We arrived
at Colfax Sunday evening about o'clock
Found that the white people and sheriff, sup
pose at their head, had captured the town after
having conflict with the negroes. 1t was re-
ported 10 me that about 100 negroes had been
killed and many others wounded. We saw
from the boat fifteen or twenty lying around
on the bank dead. One white man vas report
ed killed, whose name did not learn, aud two
very seriously wounded, MeSSrS. Hadnot and
Harris Mr. Hadnot was shot through the
bowels and supposed to be MORALLY wounded.
We brought Harris and Hadnot down from
ColiaX to Alexandria. Three or four other
white men were slightly wounded. About 100
negroes escaped but it was reported the whites
were still pursuing them. All Of the leaders
Of the riot escaped, especially the white men
The negroes having ambuScaded them
selves in the courthouse, and the whites, find
ing there was no other mode ofattack left them.
set fire to the building. The whites numbered
in the neighborhood Of $50 men The fight
lasted from y o'clock until nearly P. NJ
The whites are now in possession of ColfaX
and when left last Sunday night, everything
was very quiet"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1873-04-19
The State of West Virginia,

In the County Court,
Jefferson County, to-wit:
April Rules, 1873.
At Rules held in the Clerks Office Of said
Court, the 7th day of April, 1873.
ALEXANDER NJ. EVANS,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-10-03

To MAKE TOMATO FlGs.-Pour boiling
water over the tomatoes in order to remove
the skins; then weigh them and place them
in stone jar, with as much sugar as you
have tomatoes and let them stand two
days; then pour off the syrup and boil and
skim it until no scum arises. Then pour
it over the tomatoes, and let them stand
two days, as before, then boil and skim
again. After third time they are fit to
dry, if tho weather is good if not let them
stand in the syrup until drying weather.
Then place on large earthen plates or dish
es, and put them in the sun to dry, which
will take them about week, after (which
pack them down in small wooden boxes,
with fine white sugar between each lager.
Tomatoes prepared in this manner will
eep for wears.
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VOL. XVII.--NO. 40.
farlNetg' Golnmll.
" SDee& fhe E1EOsC."


A weed is a plant growing where YOU
90 not want it to grow. Thistes are not
weeds when grown, as they are in France,
to make perfume you have six plants
OF corn in hill where you only want four,
two OF them arc weeds. A dead weed is not
weed. growing weed pumps up water
out of the ground. The weeds in an acre
OF the Dcacon's clover pump up more water
IN day than all his animals drink in IL
month. Weeds propagate faster than rats.
l nave got more rats than the Deacon, but
the Deacon beats me on weeds. The bows
shoot the rats. Yesterday they shot two
and scared away dozen. Next year they
VIII come back again. The Deacon kills
hundred OF his weeds and buries a thous-
and. Next spring they will come up by
the million: You can't get rid of weeds
unless you kill them. If you do MT kill
them they will kill you. They are worse
than toot-rot in sheep. They spread faster
than caterpillars on currant bushes, or than
the cankcr worm on apple trees. Some of
the orchards in this neighborhood look as
though they had been sprinkled over with
Kerosene and set fire to, The worms have
eaten OIL every leaf Some farmers keep off
the insects by putting tar bands round the
trunks of the trees in the spring; some
don't. They think it is no use fighting
The worms. Some farmers think it is no
use killing the weeds. 1t is natural for
the soil to produce weeds. They say you
can't kill them. The Deacon does not say
you can't kill them. The Deacon does not
say weeds can't be killed, but he does not
try to kill them. He hoes his corn. /
don't hoe my corn hoe the weeds. |
would kill the weeds if there was no corn.
| am not sure that the Deacon would The
Deacon never summer fallows. He never fall
falloWs. lie never tries to make the weeds
grow. He smothers them up for n few
months. He does not kill the roots. lie
does not make the weed seeds grow and
then kill the young plants. The weeds on
his farm are getting worse and worse. NV
farm used to be worse than his now some
OF it is cleaner than his. | am fighting
the weeds. He let's them grow, and is
waiting for something to turn up. The
weeds cost us more than all our State, ma
tlonal and local taxes more than ali our
schools, churches and newspapers. They
are more expensive than children's boots
and ladies' bonnets. They arc as bad as
cigars and fast horses. The horse may
break his neck, and you will get rid of
him; but the weeds will stick tighter than
a mortgage, and run up faster than COM
pound interest or grocery bill. They are
like bad habits. You must not tainper
with them. No halfway measures will
answer. The only way to stop using to-
bacco is to stop. The only way to kill
weeds is to kill them. hope the old gentle
men will be pleased with my composition"
l hope when he visits this neighborhood
again he will find fewer weeds. Land
worth $3.50 per acre ought to produce
something better than thistles, red-root,
quack- grass and chess.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-10-03

BILL1NGsGATE OUTDoNE.-Johnson once
made bet with Boswell that he could 90
into the fish market and put woman in a
passion without saying word she could
understand. The Doctor commced by ST.
lently indicating with his nose that her
fish had passed that state in which mans
olactores conld endure their odor. The
Billingsgate lady made verbal attack in
common parlance. The Doctor answered:
"You arc an article, madam"
mo more on article than yourself, you
misbegotten villain"
"4ou are noun, woman"
"You-you," stammered the woman,
choking with rage at list of titles she
cound not understand.
"You are pronoun.'
"You are a verb, an adverb, an adjective,
conjunction, a proposition, an interjec-
ton !" suddenly continued the Doctor,
applying the harmless epithets at proper
intervals.
The nine parts of speech completely con-
quered the old woman, and she flung her.
self down in the mud, crying with rage at
being thus "blackguarded" in set Of un-
known terms, which, not understanding,
she could not answer. ;.
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Plaster and Salt.

A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man thus relates his experience and success
IN renoYating light, sandy soil by means
OF plaster and salt. He says: "This year
have been experimenting on my light,
sandy land with plaster and salt in limi-
ted way, in view oftaking new departure
in their cultivation in future. l plowed
about one-half acre of this land about the
goth of May; it was part Of n boundout
moving field. About a week afterward
| dressed it with two bushels of salt and
three bushels of plaster, sowing it broad
cast and then narrowing the surface of the
field with light harrow to mix the salt
and the plaster with the soil. then open
ed rows three feet apart one way, not run
ming the pillow so deep as to disturb the in
verified sod. About 30th of May l planted
in drills about three-quarters of the piece
to fodder corn, and the remainder to pota-
toes and beans; the potatoes and beans
had plaster in the hills, also in addi-
ton. June was very dry indeed; in
conseq uencc, my corn, potatoes and
beans on other lands, dressed wit
barn-yard manure, came up very slowly,
and good many hills did not come up at
all. But on the field dressed with the salt
and plaster, the corn potatoes and beans
came up rapidly, and though their growth
was slow through the dry weather in June,
the plants had from the first start healthy
appearance, and were of dark, rich green
color. Since the rains set in, about the 1st
of July, their growth has been very rapid
and vigorous all l could reasonably ex-
pect or desire-fully equal to similar crops
where dressed the land quite literally
with good compost manure
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Household Receipts.

STRAWBERRY AND CRUMB PUDDING
Butter a piedish, and put small pot of
strawberry jam at tho bottom, then good
layer of bread crumbs. Well beat four
eggs, stir into them two ounces OF powder
ed sugar, and little nutmeg; add a quart
of new milk, stir it over the fire until it is
sufficiently thick, pour it over the preserve
very gradually, and bake the pudding half
an hour in very moderate oven.
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The only way to be a gentleman is to
have the feelings of one-to be gentle in its
proper acceptation, to be elevated above
others in sentiment rather than situation,
and to let the benevolence of the heart be
manifested in the general courtesy and affa-
bility of the demeanor.
AT best, life is not very long A few
more smiles, few more tears, some pleas
ures, much pain, sunshine and song, clouds
and darkness, hasty greetings, abrupt fare
wells. Then our little play will close, and
injured and injurer will pass away. Is it
worth while to hate each other George
ID. Prentice.
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DEAD.
REMOVED.
REGISTRATION LIST
OF TIE
First Election District
OF HARTFORD COUNTY.

THE Officer of Registration of the First
Il Election District of Hartford county,
having sat at his office, in Abingdon, on
18TH, 10th and 18th days of Sept, 1878, in
compliance with the provisions of tue Reg
istration Act passed by the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland at its session for the year
1870, hereby announces the following list
comprising the names of those registered
persons which the said officer has stricken
from the list of qualified voters and the
books of registration, and also the names
of the persons which said officer has regis
tered at the registration just made, and the
names of those persons Gf any whom the
Judge of a Court to which an appeal from
the decision of said officer of registration
has been taken, has decided to be entitled
TO be registered as required by the 9th
section of said act.
WIN. G. HANWAY, Register.
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COMING STYLEs.-Of Autumn modes it
is hardly time to speak definitely, only one
thing being assured. The promise of plain
ness, made in the early Summer, will be
strictly kept. superintendent tlounces and
furbelows, will take an unlimited leave of
Winter wardrobes, and artistic simplicity
reign in their stead. How our weary and
over dressed women have sighed for this
change, they only are aware and that they
will hail the new order with delight is un-
doubted. 1t is limited that the prospective
styles will require not more than half the
quantity OF the past; but this is dream
that seems impossible of realization.
1t is not improbable that the newly mod
eled garments may have skinny" appear.
ance, but familiarity will soon arrange
that, and once accustomed to il, weary
eyes will be thankful they are no longer
compelled to wander over vast fields of
fittings and hedgerows of headings.
Plainness of fabric, no less than of fash
ion, is to be the rule. New goods, differ
ent from any yet produced, will soon be
shown, and new colors, or rather new
shades, are imminent. The tints aud
double distilled shades of last year were so
unbecoming to Americans that the dry
goods houses are importing only novel hues
which it is expected will satisfy the most
exacting and Society," Scri5ner'S
for October.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-10-03

PLAIN BOILED CUsTARD.-Put a quart
of milk into delicately clean saucepan
with three laurel leaves and the peel of
lemon; set it by the side of the fire for about
twenty minutes, and when on the point of
boiling strain it into jug, which place in a
deep saucepan of boiling water, and stir it
one way until it thickens; then pour it into
q glass dish or into custard cups. You
may put knob of colorcd jelly on the top
of each custard cup.
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20 g t ic al .
A FOREST SCENE.

And then from out the Swallowed wood
The antlered deer came stalking down
In half shot of where | stood;
Then stopped and stamped impatiently,
Then shook his head and antlers high,
And then his keen horns backward threw
Upon his shoulders broad and brown,
And thrust his muZzle in the air,
Snuffed proudly, then blast he blew,
AS if to say the coast is clear.
And then from out the sable wood
His mate and two sweet dappled fawns
Stole forth, and by the monarch stood;
She timid, while the little ones
Did start like aspcns in gale,
Then he, as if to reassurc
The trembling and dcmure,
Again his antlers backward threw,
Again blast defiant blew,
Then led them proudly down the vale.
joaquin Miller.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-10-03
REGISTRATION LIST
OF THE
Fourth Election District
OF HARTFORD COUNTY.

FHNHE Officer of Registration of the 4th
l. Election District of Hartford county,
having sat at his office, in Jarrettsville on
18th, 18th and 18th days of September,
1873 in compliance with the provisions
of the Registration Act passed by the
General Assembly of Maryland at its
session for the year 1870, hereby announ-
ces the following list comprising the
names of those registered persons which
the said officer has stricken from the list of
qualified voters and the books of Registra-
ton, and also the pames of the persons
whicllsaid officer has registered at the reg
istration just made, and the names of those
persons Gfany) whom the Judge of a Court
to which an appeal from the decision of
said officer of registration has been taken,
has decided to be entitled to be registered
as required by the 9th section of said act
GEO. r. CAIRNES, Register.
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To REMOVE IRON Rust OR TOMATO
STAIN FROM LINEN OR COTTON CLoTH.-
Wet the spot with cold water, and place
the cloth in the sunshine. Then mix equal
quantities of cream tartar and table salt,
and sprinkle the mixture upon it until the
dampness has absorbed great deal, then
lay on enough to hide the spot. Wet the
spot with cold water every half hour, and,
if the stain is then seen, cover it again with
the cream tartar and salt. Keep it in the
sunshine, and continue these applications
till the stain is gone-if recently contract
ed, two or three applications will remove it.
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MI i S c elan VEs.


Sarah Flower, the writer ofthis touching
hymn, was worthy Of the name, for Sarah
signifies princess, and swceter fragrance
has rarely cXuded from any flower in tho
garden. This gifted girl married Mr.. Will
liam 3. Adams, an English civil engineer,
of superior abilities. She was of frail con-
stitution, and, amid many bodily sutferings,
she kept her pen at work upon various po-
ctical productions. At what time she
caught the inspiration to compose that one
immortal hymn, which is now sung around
the globe, VIC have never learned. Probably
it was some season Of peculiar trial when
the bruised spirit emitted the odor of q
childlikc submission to Christening father
Her hymn first appeared in Il volume of sa-
1t must have oozed from bleeding heart
cred lyrics by Mr.. Fox, in England, about
the year 1871. The authoress did not live
to catch the fame it was to bring, for she
died in 1940, aged forty-four. She was
buried near NARROW, in Essex. Presently
the hymn began to work its way into va
rious collections of songs of worship. 1t
was married to the tune Of Bethany"
and everybody caught the strain. In noon
day gatherings for prayer it soon became
SO familiar that if anybody "struck up"
the hymn the whole audience joined in.
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Whitef0rd John S Wallace John N
Sadder George colored
Bowser Richard Nj colored
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REGISTRATION LIST
OF TIE
Fifth Election District
OLE HARFORn COIrNTY

THE Officer of Registration of the 5th
i Election District of Hartford county,
having sat at his office, in Dublin, on 18th,
10th and 18th days of September, 1878, in
compliance with the provisions of the Reg
istration Act passed by the General Assem-
bly, OF Maryland at its session for the year
1870, hereby announces the following list
comprising the names Of those registered
persons which the said officer has stricken
from the list Of qualified voters and the
books of registration, and also the names
ofthe persons which said officer has regis
tered at the registration just made, and the
names of those persons Gf any whom the
Judge of Il Court to which an appeal from
the decision of said officer of registration
has been TAKEN has decided to be entitled
to be registered as required by the 9th Sec
ton of said act
SAM'L N. WHITEFORD, Register.
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REGISTRATION LIST
OF THE
Second Election District
OF HARTFORD COUNTY.

TNHE officer of Registration of the I'd
Il Election District of Hartford Co., hay
ing sat at his office in Halls X Roads the
first days, and at Hopewell x Roads the
3D. day, being. the 10Th, 10th and 18th days
ofSeptember 1873, in compliance with the
provisions of the Registration Act passed
by the General Assembly of Maryland at its
session for the year 1870, hereby announces
the following list comprising the names of
those registered persons which the said of
ticer has stricken from the list of qualified
voters and the books of registration, and
also the names of the persons which said
officer has registered at the registration
just made, and the names of those persons
Off any whom the Judge of Court to
which an appeal from the decision of said
officer of registration, has been taken, has
decided to be entitled to be registered as
required by the 9th section of said Act
JAMES B. GALLON, Register
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DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS
ATTENTIONS!

T1IE attention Of property holders of AS
for back taxes is called to the following
Act, passed at the recent session of the
General Assembly:
AN ACT No. 46.
For the relief Of tax payers, renting all
penalties and interest to all delinquent
State tax payers. provided said back taxes
are paid within ninety days from and after
the passage of this act.
SECTION L. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House OF Representatives OF the State Of
Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That the delinquent tax payers Of the State
are hereby relieved from the payment Of in
terest and penalties imposed upon them for
non payment Of taxes when due provided,
however, that the same are paid within
ninety days from the passage Of this act, in
default Of which all penalties and interest to
remain as heretofore.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc, That
this act shall take effect from and after it's
passage.
lsigned) CHAs. w. LOWELL,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
tsigned) c. c. ANTOINE,
Lieut.. Gov. and President of the Senate.
Approved March IA, 1873.
tSigned) WIN. =. KELLOGG,
Governor of the State of Louisiana
A true copy:
Z. G. DEsLoNDE,
Secretary Of State.
Delnquents consulting their best interests
will come forward and settle I'D before the
expiration OF the time specified in the above
Act. l.. Z. BENTLEY,
Tax Collector, Ascension parish.