The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-06-10
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Lecturers have adopted the gro
GERS motto-"Cash on delivery"
The Washington bridal party
left New York for England, on Nav
23d.
Weston is q man from the hum
Bile walks in life. He walks for wa.
ges at poultry shows.
Hood called the slamming Of a
door by a person in a passion ga
wooden OATH"
"A journal in Missouri says that
Senator Schurz "as an amateur plan
ist is no SLOUGH"
"A little three-year-old, down
east, recently said: "There's two
things | do 'spise Sunday and
dying
1T is proposed in Los Angeles,
Cal, to establish q beet sugar facto-
ry by cooperation between farmers
and capitalists.
Persia is said to be the land of
roses, but recently an order was re-
ceived in England for some of the
finest varieties Of English. roses, to
be plcnted in the Shah's gardens.
--Asahel Mix, of Polkville, Conn.,,
sprightly youth of so, was married
the other day to Bella Landon, aged
IL. Who says that Grabbed age
and youth cannot live together9"
Weston, the walkist, has failed
in his effort to accomplish 500 miles
in six days. He walked 43O miles
within 46 seconds Of the &llotted
time. The last mile he walked in
ten minutes and fifty-three seconds.
The Vendome column will be en-
tirely reconstructed by the anniver-
sary of itf destruction in 1871. The
bas-relief No. 81 has just been laid,
leaving only four more spirals to be
added, with the cap, pediment and
statue.
"A curiosity is shortly to be
placed in the Ordnance Museum at
Washington, consisting of Federal
and Confederate bullet impacted in
the air, which was picked up before
Petersburg in 1864.
There is II woman living in Pen
dacer Hundred, Newcastle county.
Delaware, who has been married
twenty-four years, and who last week
gave birth to her twenty-third child,
which makes her record one child
per year since her marriage
In moving for the sentence of a
man who had been convicted of tax
iug bride for his vote at Louisville,
KY, Baird, the prosecuting attorney,
said that no punishment could be
too great, no infamy too damning.
The convict deserved t o he hanged
by the neck to the nearest tree like
Judas Iscariot.
The retiring editor of a South
crn paper boasts that he has never
been "horsewhipred, revolvercd,
e knitted, kicked, licked, bricked, pum-
meled, or eussed for anything l have
said, written, done or left undone as
an editor, and in ceasing to be one l
am filled with melancholy sadness"
Think before you speak what
you shall speak, why you should
speak, to whom you shall speak,
about whom you arc to speak, what
will come from what You may speak,
What may be the benefit from what
Fou may speak, and lastly, who may
be listening to what you may speak.
Turn your speech seven ways, and
there will never come any harm from
what yon may have spoken.
Alabama seems to be returning
to pristine wildness. Eagles hunt
deer, and carry off eleven-y ear-old
girls, and the latest record is Of a
young man named George Godfrey Of
Gnerryton. who was attacked, in
spite of his gun, by large and hun
cry wolf. The battle was o fierce
one, and after repeated blows with
The musket the wolf sullenly retired.
But Godfrey, it is feared is mortally
injured by cash near the heart.
4 Florida does not seem to be sat
listed with the munificent appropria-
non of $4,000 for the dredging of
The bar of the st. Johns River.
lhe Florida press is nearly unani-
nous in the opinion that the dred-
glng business is fraud and job
Tor the benefit of u few persons, the
sand settling again as fast as it is
removed. 1t is believed that the
construction of q break water or the
opening of q new channel would be a
Amnch more effectnal methnd of Loo,,