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Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-04-03
TO ANYoTHER FOREIGN COMPANY

First-It was established III 1903. and is the
Oldest FIRE insurance Company represented
in the United States.
Second-It has subscribed capital Of $1,000
Geo, of which s. 900 is PAID UP in Gold
with further accumulated assets of s.. 21 .0l5
making it at once the Strongest and Richest
Fire Insurance Company in the World.
Third-THIs COMPANY DOES Fire Business
Exclusively, and none of its assets are lisble
TO be diverted for LIFE or MARINE losses, as is
the case with ALL other English Companies rep
resented on this coast.
Fourth--This Campany's losses at CHICAGO
were less than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
and have been paid in full. DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-04-03
Is OF Admission. s. In gold coin.
THE GATE CT CRAVING.

All The necessary arrangements having been
completed for the sale Of the remainder OF the
unsold tickets in the State of Nevada Gift Con-
cert under Act of the Legislature. I am now en-
abIed to definitely fix she day OF drawing. The
drawing and distribution of prizes will posi-
lively take place on
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
Harpooning a Alinnow.

The Modoc war is a grave matter !.
laugh about, but we suspect that ~ y
long telegraphic report of the thrs NV
days fighting at the lava beds wy ~
read on Friday last by great mars y
thousand veterans who found it d;&
cult to keep from smiling li,,ls
When it is considered that the ent;s s
Modoc army consisted of fifty.faas'
men, and this number is now reducsa
to fifty three by the death of Scarfaesead
Charley, whose scalp is now danplioas
from the mule of Sergeant Forrest !
the cavalry, this high-sounding reco u
of marching and conference.-the.
gallant charges upon strongholds
bringing up the batteries and rockies,
ly Smelling various sections of countrs
extending and advancing lines to cov :,
and support strategic movements
must have seemed to the old soldier
mindful of the sweep of army corn.
and grand divisions, something IT,
bringing out a Dahlgren to kill a cam
airy. The joke of it all appeared in thu
final paragraph announcing somewh,t
'ruefully that after all this intrenM
work by the morta,s and the tbre s
field batteries, and notwithstandiu.
the slashing work of the cavalry ana
infantry, Captain Jack aud his rollict
ing tifty-three had not only kept tbs
eishboring tribes informed Of ths
fight, but had at the last mouen nv
slipped out of the trap and gone to aa
other stronghold" still more inacces
sable, plentifully stocked with rats
toads and bugs, provided with a Mira
cave which half dozen Modes can
defend against an army while the rest
Of their party repose in the cool ar.
cades of the lava grotto, or huut ths
wild jack rabbit on bis native leath
Captain Jacks cheerful disregard If
the prophecies ofwar, and his indifIer.
ence to grand tactics, can not be I'm
strongly censured. So much strateev
and fixed ammunition having been eS.
pended in soothing one individual
Modoc, it wearies the mind to consider
what mountains of shlapnel and shea
leather will be sacrificed before Schon.
chin, Boston Charley, Ellens Man.
Shack Nasty Jim, and the other forty,
nine are colralled in the happy hunt.
ing grounds.--[Cleveland Leader.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
ALEXANDRIA,, La.
Wednesday, june 4, 1873

~ Gen. DeBlanc and his brave
comrades have had their examina-
ton before Commissioner Shannon
and been discharged from custody
because nothing could be proved
against them. They were acquitted
on the testimony of the witnesses for
the prosecution, the defense not
deeming it necessary to summon
any. So far from being ready to
dine every day on roast niger, Gen
eral DeBlanc was proved by the ne
groes themselves to be a much better
friend TO them than the carpet-bag-
gers who got them into the trouble.
It turned out that they were induced
to have these gentlemen arrested by
Kellogg and Field, for which the
Commissioner raped them quite
sharply.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
Foreign Reviews.

We have received from the Leo
nard Scott Publishing Company,
New York, the Edinburgh Review
and Westminster Review for April
and Blackwood's Magazine Tor
May. These periodicals are filled
with able articles Of various kinds,
Literary, Scientific and Political,
and are just the thing for Summer
reading. Now is good time to
subscribe. The whole five are fur
nished for s15 per anuum. The
following is the table Of contents in
the Westminster:
I. The National Importance of Scien-
tifc Research.
2. Mr.. Gladstone's "Defence Of the
Faith"
3. Venetian Painting.
4. Henry Murger, the Bohemian.
5. Charity Schools.
6. irresponsible Ministers-B aron
Stockmar.
7. "Our Seamen."
8. Irish University Education and
the Ministerial Crisis.
9. Contemporary Literature.
The Edinburgh Magazine has the
following:
]. Trade Routes to Western China.
2. Maury on Sleep and Dreams.
3. Cooks Life of General Robert E.
Lee.
4. Drunkenness, Abstinence and Re-
straint.
5. Samarow's "For sceptre and
Crown"
6. Cost and Consumption of Coal.
7. Darwin on Expression.
8. Religious Movement in Germany
9. The Claims of Wing Government
Blackwood's Magazine has the
following:
A True Reformer-Part XIV.
The Doctor Abroad-Part |.
The Members for Muirshire.
The Parisians-B0ok vi.
Two Acts of Self Devotion.
To Lima o.
Some One Pays.
Home-Sprn Songs.
kenelm Chillingly.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
France.

Poor France has again undergone
one Of those periodical political cen
WILSON'S which have ever distinguish
ed her volatile people. After stor-
my debate in the Assembly President
Theirs has resigned and Marshal Nc
Mahon chosen temporary President
of the Republic. The veteran states
man has given way to the veteran
soldier.
This is indeed significant. It has
long been common to assert that the
French people can be governed only
by military despot; that after rev.
cling for awhile in the wildness of
Red Republicanism they would run
to the other extreme. The time is
not far distant when France will
have paid her way out Of German
dependence and will be in position
to form a permanent government
Will that be Republic or a Monar,
chy? And if the latter will the
reigning sovereign be a Bourbon,
an Orleanist, a Bonaparte or a new
man?
The new President has become all
that he is through the agency of Ma
poleon Bonaparte and is understood
to be attached still to the fortunes OF
the fallen house. He has served
with distinction in the army in Alge-
ria, in the Crimea and in the late
war. Whether he has any ability as
statesman remains to be seen. We
should not be surprised any day to
see under his administration coup
d'etat in favor of Napoleon ". We
fear that there are still a great many
troubles in store for France.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
SHARP WoRDs.-In commenting IN.

SHARP WoRDs.-In commenting IN.
on the political condition of Texas, t5e
Houston Chronicle has this to say:
There are lobbyists at Austin once
high in public favor, who have built I'd
fortunes and fame through the mis-.
placed confidence of the people-Wlo
are exerting all their influence to pros.
trate the welfare of Texas to the d.
sires OF it's enemies. They are permit
ted to proiane the halls CT Legislation
by their presence, and are even allow.
ed to participate in the discussions Of
committees. Hired by capital, they
at1ront common sense by asserting That
they have patriotic desire to advance
the interests of the State and its Cit.
Zens.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
~ There is a popular idea that The

~ There is a popular idea that The
climate OF Italy is beautiful, poeticsl,
sunny and all that soft and serene sort
of thing; but a writer in thefLondon
Times, giving his personal experience,
says that III April he was nearly frozen
in the best hotel in Paimero, was fam.
ished at Syracuse, doubled up with
cholera in Messina, and though he has
made many voyages, crossing the At.
lantic four times, he never suffered 80
much as on the way from Palmero to
Naples.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

70 No one with the most fanciful
Imagination and the most fervid and
cheerful disposition can, for single
instant, conceive the grave yard dull
ness and dismal stagnation of bust
ness and trade in Alexandria. The
like never was known, never dreamt
of in the vocabulary of any croaker
before, and rightfully indeed do our
merchants look morose and hang a
loose lip. The dog days. are upon
us, and poor little Alexandria Town
and her distressed people must grin
and bear it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

~ An American judge once inter
vened in an odd way to prevent a
waste of word. He was sitting in
chambers, and seeing from the piles Of
papers in his lawyers hands that the
first case was likely to be hardly con.
tested, he asked: "What is the amount
in question:" 1.-TWO dollars" said TIE
plaintiffs counsel. "I'll pay it, said
the judge, handing over the money;
"call the next case"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

nsa. The Courier-Journal says:
At a small town on the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, the otha
day, four able-bodied white men
were seen in a field playing Gro.
quot. 1t was the sublimcst specta
Gle that an impoverished country
ever bebeld.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

SozoDoNT.-This word, which has
been staring everybody in the face for
the past few years, and is now getting
into nearly everybody's mouth, is
preparation tor cleansing, beautifyias
and preserving the teeth, sweetenlns
the breath, and arresting the progres
of decay. Spalding's Glue-up to tue
sticking point.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

% We can't accord many words
of praise to the weather the past
week. We believe it has rained eve
ny twenty-four hours in some locality
in the Parish. In Town we have had
three consecutive days without rain,
which has not happened before in
two months. The crops are still
badly in the grass and the ground
too wet for work.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

D A little apple-headed dry goods
clerks in New York, who has a fortune
left him by his parents, stands up DC.
fore a world and says there is ''no tae''
talent or ambition in the young meD
of to-day" and that is why they az
poor.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

eD~ Boston, the honored hub q
all creation, has had another big COZ.
fagration; this time only three blccss
burnt up and loss less than SIX nb'
lion dollars.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04


DIR. TUTT's LIVER P1LLs.-They act as
kindly on the tender infant, the most
delicate female, and inirm old age, as
upon the most vigorous system, eradica-
ting every morbiic agent, invigorating
the debilitated organs, building up the
tagging nervous energies, imparting
vigor to body and mind.
A constitution broken down by dis
ease is worse than bankruptcy. If it is
the result Of fast living, the excessive
use of Whisky, the injudicious use of
Mercury, exposure in miasmatic re-
gions, sedentary habits, self-abuse OF
scrofulas tint, few bottles of DR.. TUFTS
Sarsaparilla and Queens Delight will
restore you to health, more desired
than gold.
A deadly enemy is DR.. TUFTS Sarsa-
parilla and Queens Delight to Ulcers,
Pimples, letters, Secondary Syphilis.
BARRIERS Itch, Salt Rheum, Glandular
Swellings, Worms and Black Specks in
the Flesh, Ulcers in the Throat, Mouth
and Nose, Mercury, Lead and Arsenic
1t thoroughly neutralizes the virus in
the Blood.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

~ The river has been rising at a
lively rate the whole of last week;
mostly, however, from the continued
local rains, the big thirty foot" rise
still behind time.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

n@+ T he Metropolitan Police
went to ThibodeauX to install the
Kellogg officers, but some small
boy accidentally fired off a pop gun
which scared them out of town in
two hours after their arrival
They have not yet made the trip to
clean out the Red River Valley III
accordance with Kellogg's blood
and thunder threat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

New BooTs.-It is a little singular
how we'll pair of boots can be made
to fit at the store. You may not be
able to get your feet only part way
down the leg at the first trial, but
that is because your sock is sweaty
or you haven't started right, and the
shoemaker suggests that you start
again and stand up to it, and he
throws in little powder from pep
per box to aid you. And so you
stand up, and pound down your foot,
and partly trip yourself up, and your
eyes stick out in an unpleasant man
her, and every vein in your body ap-
pears to be on the point of bursting,
and all the while that dealer stands
around and eyes the operation as III
tently as if the whole affair was per-
fectly new and novel to him. When
your foot has finally struck bottom,
there is q faint impression on your
mind that you have stepped into an
open stove, but he removes it by
solemnly observing that he never saw
q boot fit quite so good as that. You
may suggest that your toe presses
too hard against the front or that
some of the bones in the side of the
foot are too much smashed, but he
says that this is always the way with
new boot, and that the trouble will
entirely disappear in few days.
Then you take the old pair under
your arm and start for home as ami
mated as a relic of 1872, all the while
feeling that the world will not look
bright and happy to you till you have
Drained that shoemaker. You limp
down town the next day, and smile
the while with your mouth, while
your eyes look as if you we're walking
over an oyster bed bare foot. When
no one is looking you kick against q
post, or some other obstruction, and
how fondness for stopping ani
resting against something that vii
sustain your weight. When you ge,
home at night you go for those ole
boots with an eagerness that canno
be described, and the remarks tina
you make, upon learning that YOU
wife has disposed of them to widow
woman in the suburbs, are calculated
to Immediately depopulate the eartl
of women and shoemakers generally
- Danbury News.
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W See "Stray" Notice of H. C
|Farquhar,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

Me- The colored hard shell Bap-
lists Of Rapides, under the gui-
dance Of the Right Rev. Nicholas
johnson, d. M. j., had a big and
imposing procession on last Sab
bath, and their usual monthly dip
in Bayou Rapides
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
Sewing Buttons

It is bad enough to see q bachelor
sew on button, but he is the embod-
iment OF grace alongside of a mar
ried man. Necessity has compelled
experience in the case of the former,
but the latter has always depended
upon some one else for this service,
and, fortunately for the sake OF socl-
ETY., it is rarely he is obliged to re-
sort to the needle himself. Some
times the patient wife scalds her
right hand, or runs silver under the
nail of the index finger on that hand,
and it is then the man clutches the
needle around the neck, and, forget
ting to tie knot in the thread, COM
mences to put on the button. 1t IS
always in the morning, and from five
to twenty minutes after he is expect
ed to be down in the street. He lays
the button exactly on the site of its
predecessor, and pushes the needle
through one eye, and carefully draws
the thread after, leaving about three
inches of it sticking up for the lee
way. He says to himself: "Wel], if
women don't have the easiest time |
ever see." Then he comes back the
other way, and gets the needle
through the cloth we'll enough, and
lays himself out to find the eye, but,
in spite of great deal of patient
stabbing, the needle point persists in
bucking against the solid part of that
button, and finally, when he losses
patience, his finger catches the
thread, and that three inches he had
left to hold the button slips through
the eye in a twinkling, and the but
ton rolls leisurely across the floor.
He picks it up without a single re-
mark, out Of respect for his children,
and makes another attempt to fasten
it. This time, when coming back
with the needle be keeps both the
thread and button from slipping by
covering them with his thumb, and it
is out of that part of him that he
feels around for the eye in a very
careful and judicious manner, but
eventually losing his philosophy as
the search becomes more and more
hopeless, he falls to jabbering about
in loose and savage manner, and it
is just then the needle finds the open
ing, and comes up through the but
ton and part way through his thumb
with a celebrity that no human inge-
nuity can guard against. Then he
lays down the things, with few ia
miliar quotations, and presses the in
jured hand between his knees, and
then holds it under the arm, and f.
nally jams it into his mouth, and all
the time he prances about the floor,
and calls upon heaven and earth to
witness that there has never been
anything like it since the world was
created, and bowls, and whistles, and
means, and sobs. After while he
Gains down, and puts on his pants,
!, and fastens them together with a
stick, and goes to his BUSINESS very
changed man. Danbury News.
DIR. TUTT's LIVER PILLs.-They act as
kindly on the tender infant, the most
delicate female, and infirm old age, as
upon the most vigorous system, eradica-
ting every morbific agent, invigorating
the debilitated organs, building up the
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

s| Early Monday morning We
heard the "dingdong" of the Court
House old COW bell. We learn
that it was the summons for both
Parish Courts aud both Police Ju-
ries. AS yet we cannot report their
doings and sayings.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04
Fire.,

Between twelve and one o'clock on
last Thursday night, our citizens were
aroused from their slumbers by the
fire bell. The building which proved
to be on fire was the Carriage and
Wheelwrisht Shop ofB. Glatt, corner
of Third and Beauregard Streets
When the citizens and our two Fire
companies reached the premises,
they were found to be all enwrapped
in flames and too far consumed to be
saved. The fire boys went to work,
however, with their usual good will
and energy, checked the flames and
saved the surrounding buildings, one
of which, Jacob Geiger's residence,
was in great danger of being prey
to the devourins fend. This was
we'll accomplished and the only build
ing destroyed was the Shop. The
cause of the fire is deep mystery to
Mr.. Glatt, who had not been at the
Shop on that day, and no fire, for
sometime had been lighted on the
premises. We can but believe it was
set on fire purposely by some Of our
lurking incendiaries, as part and par
eel of certain idle threats afoat for
more than two months. It beho ives
our Town people to be on the con-
slant watch these times, for we dread
many more such occurrences. The
loss is serions One to Mr.. Glatt-
besides the bui1aing, which was I'M
insured, his loss in tools and valuable
materials was considerable.
WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE O.
HIS FRIENDs,-Commenting upon
the Presidents Louisiana message,
the New York organ of the Admin
istration, the Times, says:
Yet we assure the President that
the country is not blind to the fact
that his own appointees in Louisi-
ana are. to a lamentable extent
responsible for the bitterness
and confusion which prevail there,
and that had he, in 1871, as we then
urged him to do, removed Messrs
Casey and Packard, and COMPEL.
ed their associates and successors to
keep out OF State politics altogeth.
er, his present action would either
never have been required, or if re-
quired it would have come with q
much better grace.
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| TIL L.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

sA Our nautical reporter sends
us the valuable information that
the Ozark, the old fy-catcher, is
now undergoing repairs for a COM
plete gunboat, will mount four
heavy Oolumbiads and will be rea-
dy for the 'ssaad hills" of Red Riv-
er in about ten days. Then look
out for Kellogg thunder in earnest.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

neA- ALI the up passing boats az
heavily laden with Railroad ifep
for the Southern Pacific Road.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

pa Judge Seay left on the steam
err st. Mary Monday last to hold the
regular term of the District Court in
Natchitoches.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

U Remember III q t our Packet,
the st. Mary, goes down this morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

70 Thanks once more to the cour-
teous clerks Of the Texas, Lessie Tay
lor, South Western and st. Mary for
late New Orleans papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-06-04

nT See 'Stray" Notice of II. G,
Farquhar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-25

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Day School FOR young and ehr French sposen 40 sp
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p and Ancient Languages Drawing Painting ard Music y poor
No CHARGE WITHOUT ADEQUATE I5PROFsiENl Highest
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