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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-27

HORRIBLE DEATH-DRAwN INTO A
THREsHING MAcH1NE.-On Wednes-
day of last week one uf those horrible
accidents that happen only once in
hundreds of years, and by which a hu-
man being was unexpectedly, in the
twink!ing of an eye; hurried into eter-
nifty, occurred OH the farm of the Wild
ow Kettles, in the town IF Junius. a
few miles south Of here. Parties were
engaged i'll tlIresling grain, aud at the
time of the accident were threshinu
loose oats, and Theodore Butlne was
'teding the machine. In some unex-
planned way coil of fence wire had
tieen brought in with the grain, and,
unseen by the pitcher, was pitched up
"B the platform and showed into the
machine with the oats. One end of the
coil WAS caught by the rapidly revolv-
ing cylinder, and the other end, in u
very mysterious way, wound around
Mr.. Bndine's neck, and in a shorter
space of time than it is possible for one
to conceive, the unfortunate mans
head was drawn into the machine, torn
int" atoms and carried out with the
straw. while portions of the brain
passed through the separator and came
out of the spout below with the grain.
1t was some time before the other
workmen realized the nature of the
dreadful accident. Mr.. B0dine was
seen leaning over the platform 10 front
OF him, but his position being some-
what elevated, it was not discovered
that his head was in the machine, and
it was only when blood and brains
were seen coming out If the spout
with the threshed grain that the man
attending to that part Of the work
called the attention Of the others to
the fact that something awful had ia
ken place. We understand the uufar-
tunate man leaves wife and two chill
dren to mourn his terrible death.
|-[Clyde Letter in Rochester Demo-
crat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-27
HENRY ST. JOHN,
AGENT.
Notice!

NOllCCs
4 MEETING OF STOCK HOLDERS
n of Rapides Agricultural Fair Associ-
alton is hereby called, to be held in the
Town of Alexandria, ON MONDAY, the
9Th day of November, to take into consid-
Grafton certain changes proposed to be
made in the Constitution of the Associa-
ton. A full ATTENDANCE is requested
None but written proxies will he received.
F. SEP,
J. c. FIR NcH, President.
Secretary.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-27
Fine Tobacco and Cigars

OK tn $On PER DAY. AGENTS
Wv " Wv wanted. All classes Of
working people Of both sexes, young
and old, make more money at work for
us, in their own localities, during their
spare moments, or all the time, than at
any thing else. We offer employment
that will pay handsomely for every
hours work. Full particulars, terms,
&c, sent free. Send us your address
at once. Don't delay. Now is the
time. Don't look for work or business
elsewhere, until you have learned what
We offer. G. STINsoN & Co., Portland,
Maine.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-27
a NDRIA
Ayers Cathartic Pills.


- W whatever. Much
serious sickness and suffering is prevented by
their timely use; and every family should
have them on hand for their protection and
relief, when required. Long experience has
proved them to be the safest, enrest, and
best of all the Pills with which the market
abounds. By their occasional use, the blood
is purified, the corruptions of the system ex-
PEELED, distractions removed, and the whole
machinery of life restored to its healthy activ.
tty. Internal organs which become clOgged
and stimulated into action. Thus incipient
disease Is changed into health, the value of
which change, when reckoned on the vast
multitudes who enjoy it, can hardly be COM
puted. Their sugar.coating makes them
pleasant to take, and preserves their virtues
unimpaired for any length of time, so that
they are ever fresh, and perfectly reliable.
Although searching, they are mild, and oper-
ate without disturbance to the constitution or
diet or occupation. I.
Full directions are given on the wrapper to
each box, how to use them as q Family Physic,
and for the following complaints, which these
Pulls rapidly cure:-
For DyaPepsia or Indigestion, List.
lessness, tanguor, and loss Of Appe.
tite, they should be taken moderately to
stimulate the stomach, and restore its healthy
tone and action.
For Liver Complaint and its various
symptoms. Bilious Headache, Sick
11O0S1oONO9 - @uMS4ACo VI OfEcGu SACAo
ness, Bilious Collie and Bilious Fe.
vers, they should be judiciously taken for
each case, to correct the diseased action, or
remove the distractions which cause 1t.
For Dysentery or Diarrheea, but one
mild dose Is generally required.
For I1heumotism, Gout, Gravel,
PalpitatiOn Of the Heart, Pain In
the Side, Back, and L0ina, they should
be continuously taken, as required, to change
the diseased action of the system. With such
change those complaints disappear.
For DrOpsy and DrOpsic0l Swell.
in8s, they should be taken In large and FIRE.
quent doses to produce the effect Of drastic
purge.
For Suppression. a large dose should be-
taken, as it produces the desired effect BY
sympathy.
AS Disner Pin, take one or two Palls to
promote digestion, and relieve the stomach.
An occasional dose stimulates the stomach,
and bowels, restores the appetite, and invigor.
ates the system. Hence it Is often advanta.
geous where no serious arrangement exists.
One who feels tolerably well, often finds that
q dose Of these Pulls makes him feel decid.
eddy better, from their cleansing and reno.
waiting effect on the digestive apparatus.
PREPARED By
d. ]. G. AVER Z CO., Practical Chemists,
LOWELL, MASS, q. s. A.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
Mr.. TwOstickS and his Children.

How naturally children find out who
a~e their friends and who are not.
Old Mr.. TwOsticks has no children. lie
is a worrisOme sort of soul, not very
happy himself. and not well versed in the
art and science Of making other people
happy.
The other day somebody remarked to
little Rosie. who was complaining about
how cross old Mr.. Two,ticks was. that
the old gentleman had no children to
make him happy.
Poor gentleman - said Rosie. Dc Got
no children 10 make him happy. Then.
stopping moment To think, She added
But / guess its just q, well, for be could
not make them happy, I'd pity the poor
children If they were his. lie don't know
anything about children anyhow
\ love for children is certificate OF
good character. and children know to
whom it ought to be given. No child
loves the selfish person who says: There
now, run away, children, and don't both,
err me so" No child wants to be with
the snarling person who is all the time
looking as if he were just going to say
something snappish. = Christian at Work
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
Burke's Conservatism.

The outbreak of the Revolution in
1889 menaced Europe with one of the
greatest of all evils--the premature
adoption of LIBERAL institutions. For
ever vain and always fruitful of pro-
digous evil will be attempts to found
government by the whole people
where the mass of the working popu-
ton are grossly ignorant and supersti-
tious. The reason is known to all
who have an opportunity of closely Oh
serving the workings of such minds.
They can only be swayed by arts
which honest intelligence can not use,
and therefore they Will be usually gov
erned by men who have an interest in
misleading them. Great Britain was
nearer republic than any other nation
in Europe but England, too, needed
another century to get the tap room
reduced, the peoples school developed
in every parish, and the educated class
intensely alive to the "fnlly of heaping
Importance upon idiots"
Edmund Burke was the man who,
more than any other, held England
back from revolution in 1892. Rational
appeals To- the rational faculty could
not have awaited. Appalled, at what
he saw in France, Burke, after thirty
years advocacy of liberal principles,
anu assisting to create a Republic III
America, became fanatic of cOnserva-
tism, and terrified England into stand
ing 10y the monarchy. He was alarmed
even at the influx If Frenchmen into
England, flying from La LdnterHe,
and lie gave vehement support to the
Alien Act which authorized the SUM
mary expulsion from the kingdom OF
| foreigners suspected by the Govern.
ment Vehement? Some of his sell
| fences read like lunacy. II was in the
course of this DEBATE that the celrbra-
| ted dagger scene occurred which Gil
| ray has satiTized. 4 wild tale reached
| his ears of the manufacture of d1ggers
| at Ri mingh ham for the use of French
| Jacphins ia England, and one of them
| was given him ~ a specimen. 1t was
! an implement Of such undecided form
| that it might have served as dag ger
| "a pike head, or IA cHrving-knlfe. lie
| dashed il upon the floor of the House
OF CumnIn"s, almost hitting the foot OF
| All honorable member, and proceeded
to declaim against the unhappy exile
| i'm the highest style of ausurhity
"When they smile,' said he, Il see
blood triclllIng down their faces | SEE
their insidious purposes; l see tina
the object OF their csjOling is blood
| A pause ensued after the orator haC
spoken a while in this strain. "YOl
| have thrown down knife" saic
Sheridan. "where is the fork ,"
shout of laughter followed this sally
which relieved the suppressed feeling
of the House, but spoiled the effect
of Mr.. Burke's performance.-Jam
Parton. in Harper's Magazine" 70
July.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
Detroit Justice.
From the Detroit Free ptess.

John Jacob Astor Harrison. is it right
for a man to strike his wife with a hoe
handle ~ inquired his Honor of colored
man who slid softly out.
avail. she's Just de wustest woman in
dis town." answered the prisoner.
% But that's no excuse. Mr.. Harrison ;
YOU have no business to take the law into
your own hands,"
"Who's Token de law? | took de
hoe-handle, and il you had been dar and
seen what little bit l hit her you
wouldn't make dc least fuss over it.
81 have been several times informed.
Mr.. Harrison, that you are as lethargic as
a hotel waiter, and as cross as a hyena
with a sore throat, and that it would be
far better for your family IL you were re-
moved to higher sphere-say the third
story of the House of Correction"
I'D jess like to have we live wild dat
old wife of mine bout free days-den
you'd know who's to blame" answered
the prisoner.
"That is impossible, Mr. Harrison, and
| believe that it is my solemn duty to put
you where you can't hoe-handle the pub
lie any more for long three months"
az l boosted?"
"You are"
"Den far'wcll to dis yere wourld-
far'well {. Dey'll find corpse in de cell
aud dat corpse will be me -
81 can't help it, replied his Honor, rs
he picked out another warrant, duty
stands here with Outstretched hand, and
if you die | shall feel no stings of remorsC
shall see no accusing spirit in my mid
night Dire ans"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
THE TEATASTER.
Delicate Questions Decided Profess
sioaally.

Professional tea-tastlng calls into action
ali the senses, some of which are thus de-
veloped to degree Of perfection seldom
attained in any other art An interesting
SIGHT to the uninitiated wonld be the
sanctum of a professional chazee or tea
faster.
The long rows of apparently inuumera-
BILE little sample-boxes and bottles, the
large. revolving. round table, and many
tiny, pure white tea cups the delicate
little scales, with grain weight that vi
brate with the gentlest breath; silver
spoon, the magic wand Of the profession
the glass tumbler; the bright copper tea
kettle. putting forth the steam of boiling
waterfall remind you of tea-making. Be
seated. aud watch the movements of the
chaZee.
Dozens of tca-samplcS are placed
around the inner edge of the table chose
selected from among hundredS) as many
tea cups are placed before them; just
twenty grains in weight of each sample
carefully averaged as regards to size Of
| the leaf of the teal j. placed in each little
! cup Just one gill of water. while boiling,
! is poured in each. and the faster counts
| the minute now lac sits down and scans
| the liquid tea as the vapOr rises from all
! the samples. In meditation deep, he is
! lost to the outer world. He then agitates
each little pool, a if to call up some tiny
lymph. His penetrating eyes scan tine
various shades from light to dark. He
now inhalcs their ethereal odors. The
| twitching OF MUSCLES shows the effect of
appreciation or dislike. Thus he con-
tin1ics unto the end. deep in contempla-
ton. Thunder. lightning, artillery, can
not arouse him he Is lost to all other
thoughts: it is tea. and tea alone, that
absOrbs his whole attention.
The rounds are gone once more. From
the little spoons he sips the steamiug
liquor. He does not drink it quickly, but
as though he feared it would burn. or
that he would lose it, delicious flavor.
lie twirls it around in hi, mouth, as it
were: extracts its quality; then cXpel> it,
Each illusion shares the same criticism:
and with intense Thoughts hr ,u'ns mp all
the characteristics. The result likes the
value: each sample shows its worth from
the figure he has made THUS all the tea,
| of commerce are valued bv the experts
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
RObbing the Treasury.
Lspeeial ID Baltlmore Sun

A very curious circumstance has be-
come known in connection with the
Treasury robbery. A few years ego
twenty thousand dollars were stolen
from the Treasurer's Office and upon
the same day 1t was discovered that a
certain nameless gentleman, with sew
eral friends, visited the vaults. or this
twenty thousand dollars six thousand
only were recovered. This sum was
placed by some unknown parties 10
The credit Of the Treasury of the Uni
ted States through New York bank.
No further clue To this robbery Was
ever discovered IL happens that on
the same day when the forty-seven
Thousand dollars were taken this very
same gentleman, who went through
the vaults several years before when
the twenty thousand were taken, also
visited the vaults with several friends.
There may be nothing in this peculiar
coincidence, but it IL a fact which has
come TO the knowledge of the de,
tectives, and which is being considered
by them.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
His Looks Deceived Hin.
From the Detroit Free Pre- s =

lie did not look like q Joker. One to
sit and study his face would have said
that his soul was so lost in melancholy
that he didn't care two cents whether the
sun set at noon or staid up until O'Clock.
He entered the ladies' sitting-room at the
Central depot walked up to a woman
whose husband had left the room about
ten minutes previously, and calmly in
quired:
Madam, your husband went out to
see the river. didn't he:'
- Ies--why;' she asked, turning pale
in an instant.
" He was a tall man. wasn't hc:'
He was, she replied, raising up and
turning still paler.
Had red hairg''
" lie had-oh what has happencd:"
Weighed about one hundred and
eighty pounds -
- Yes-yes-where is he-where is my
husband ~ she exclaimed.
Couldn't swim. could hc?'
Hes drowned-my husband is
drowned :" she walled.
Had silver watch-chain = continued
the stranger.
Where is my husband-wherc is the
body ~ she gasped.
"Do not get excited, madam. Did
your husband have on gray suit -
"Yes--oh my Thomas ! my Thomas"
"Aud stoga boots?"
Let me see him-let me see him -
she cried,
CONE this way madam, but do not
get excited. There, is that your husband
across the street at that peanut stands?
why, yes, that's him that's my hus
band - she exclaimed ioyfully. -.
thought you said he was drowned
" No, madam, / did not. | saw hin
buying peanuts, and / believed it IN!
duty to say to you that peanuts are no
healthy at this season Of the year ~
He slid softly out, and she stood Their
and chewed her parasol and started afte
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
COMMERCIAL.
WHOLESALE NARK FT~
TuposrcLE OFVlCE

CU"osTCLH OFVlCE
KNoXvILLE, TENN, June IA 1875.
Transactions in produce, as we'll as in all
other lines of trade, were few and light
during the week just closed, and we have
but little change to make in our report for
to-day. We are now passing through the
dullest season of the year, and can not
reasonably look for any marked activity
until after harvest.
The wheat market is easy at last weeks
quotations.
Corn, dull with a fair stock in store
The supply of bacon is ample, with light
demand and small sales at quoted prices
Lard, in moderate demand and rul, S
steady at former rates.
Good varieties of late seed potatoes con-
tinue in excellent demand at outside quo
tations.
Aside from very fine fresh butter, the
supply remains heavy and prices low
There was a little spring during the
week in prime geese feathers, and few
sales were made as high as IS, but prices
hurriedly fell back, and 80 cents now is the
top of the market
We quote;
WHEAT-Quiet; white 81. lOal. ls.
CoRN..oDulli loose, 74a75c.; sacked in
depot, S0aS2c.
LARD-Steady, l6c,
OATs-In demand, 55aG0c.
| IRISH PoTATOEs-For seed, Northern
$500 per bushel, $500 per barrel country
81. 70 to $500 per bushel.
dAY-Fair demand, SlOOsl.lO, bsled
Loose from wagons, SOC per 1On lbs
DRIED FRUIT-Apples, Ease. Peaches
quarters, 1aSc.; halves, SL9c. Biackber
ries, 7taSc.
FLOUR, Firm and higher; country family
buying, 81. 75a3.C0; selling, 3.OOa3 %; ex
ira, buying, $3.50 AZ 75 selling, $3.50
800. Knoxville City Mills, " our STANDARD
family" $685.; Pearl Mills family, SO. 80
City Mills family, SO 10; Pearl Mills extra
81 80.
BAcoS-Dull with heavy stock on hand
hams, 49, clear sides, IA; shoulders, IL.
FEATHERs---In fair demand; prime
Soc. mixed. 25a30c
BUTTER-Dull and declining l5al8c
EGGs-l0al0lc.
RAos-Cotton, 24a2Sc.
BEEswAx-27a2Sc per pound.
ToB - tennessee leaf, 6al2c.
| fRA-. = VI timothy, SO. 76a4OO pc
hush
GRASS SEED-Clover, $3.50 per bushe
herds grass, 81. 6Oa2OO g -
Blue Sl.60 "
z" Orchard grass, $3.50
GIssEsa- 81. 25al. 40.
SENEKA SNAKE-In demand, 55a60c.
YELLOW RoOT-Dull, &c.
WOOL Washed. 8ja40c per 10,
FURs--Out Of season,
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
influence of George III.

The fatal objection to the hereditary
principle in the government of nations
is the importance which, to use Mr..
Jefier-ou'- words, it heaps upon
lido Idiot is "A harsh word to APP
ply Ia 81 uersnn - well disposed az
George III, King Of England, TO
whom the violence of the Revolution
airy period vas chiefly due; but when
we think Of the evil and suffering
from which Europe could have be, n
saved if he had known little more or
little less. we can not he surprised
that contemporaries should have sum-
med him up with disrespectful brevity.
But for him, so far as shorted-sighted
mortals eau discern, the period of
bloody revolution could have been a
period of peaceful reform. After exas-
perating his subjects nearly to the
point of rebellion, he precipitated the
Independence OF the American colo
MES, which, in turn, brought on the
French Revolution, and that issued in
Napoleon Bonaparte, whose sins
France only finished expiating at
Sedan.
1t is true, there must have been in
Great Britain myTiads upon myriads
of such heads as that of King George
to make his policy possible. But sup
pose that instead Of placing himself at
the head OF the dull minds in his ems
pire, he had given the prestige OF the
crown to the bright and independent
souls! Suppose he had taken as kind
| ly to Chatham, Burke, Fox, franklin
Priestley and Barre as he did TO Butte,
DIR. Johnson, Addington and Eldon!-
James Parton, in ''Harper's Magazine
/ for July.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-16
A Religious War PropLecied
IChiclgo Timesl.

What time is it?" asked the
mother. " Half-paSt one" said the
baby. There was great establishment
in the household when the infant
spoke up so promptly in answer to a
demand for the time of day, for he
was only two days old 1t was in
humble residence on Lafayette street,
II Detroit. The family gathered
around, and the baby proceeded to speak
fu her. He said that in two years a
great religious war would come, he
tween the Catholics and the Protest.
ants, aud that thu Catholics would be
victorious, wiping thel, enemies from
the face Of the earth, and avenging the
wrongs OF centuries.
Then the baby stopped. The in-pira-
ton ceased. Hisinfantile features lost
their seraphic expression, and he was
"only baby" after that. In few
hours he was dead. There was great
excitement in the neighborhGod of
Lafayette street, and much tall was
INDUCED in over the Infants miracu-
lous speech. and the bloody prophecy
which it contained. There is no doubt
ing the story, because it was told to a
Detroit newspaper reporter by "A man
! who was sober, and the nan who told
him had good reputation for truth
aud veracity. We can only hope that
the taby himself was misinformed.
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.Wrt'e7 FIR he Enoxv lie Chr5 cIs
RfG"FES.
ny MARY GILMER FOoTE.

Littledid Idraam at parting. when he kissed
my broS and cheek,
A. be- c'aspcd me close in silence, for adieu
he could not speak
That 10 more his arms would fold me or the
face SO frank and fair,
Smiling down on me So sadly, with It's
crown Of chestnut hair,
Would so soon within the shadow Of the
cypress tree be laid;
Else the words of eager yearning Ola my
lips had not been stayed,
Andrepentance, like canker, be co5roIing
at my heart
Fer the love I lief, unspoken lest the
smo.hered tears should start
Oh, these words of eager yearniug, could l
only then have seen
How the dark and dismal shadows from the
churchyard stole between
We, who fingered 10th atparting, then this
ceaseless vain regret
In my bosom wouli not ramble, nor my
morning sun be set.
l have acted well the stole, but now would
give my all,
Could l only for moment be permit d
TO recall
just that bitter bitter parting, tina. such
love l might reveal
As would make the heart wounded hy my
seeming o,dness heal.
But t. sayea moments weeping, | have
turned all time TO tears,
Changed my morning into midnight, where
no star of hope appears,
Where sweet buds of recollection should
spring up and bud and blow
Eyermore the turbid waters Of regret mus
ebb and flow:
But, alas alas this wrnging out life il
drops of woe,
When the soul itself seems bursting witt
each agonizing ttroe.
Yet, they come not in van-these birth
pangs if thereafter we shall find
They have brought forth fruits more ten
der for the dear ones left behind
Chattanooga, May 3lst, 1875
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HOME CIRCLE.
Written FIR the Knoxville Chronicle
EVIL THOUGHTS,

" Well | don't care what people think,
III do just as l please;
| know my gait, and, swim or sink,
I'm bound to take my ease"
He took his ease; with swelling pride,
He laughed the world TO scorn.
He wasted wealth and health-and died,
Cursing his God, forlorn
d" No! my mother don kno,g I'm out;
paddle this canoe:
Mothers are wise, have no doubt
And I'll know something too
a short life and merry one
She kHeiC year or two,
Then cursed the hour when she begun
The evil to pursue.
I know its wrong, but must have gold,
They'll never think it's me-
And I'll grow rich as grow old,
While men with envy see
Ten years of honest work he d done,
Then yields himself to sin;
And wife and children weep for one
By prison walls SHUT IN.
What if nirt little sure
No harm can me betall.
Ny will is strong my heart is pure
So I'll coqueL with all.
\ pretty, spoiled, and thougtless wife,
Thus reasoned mid her joys,
But ali, for her ruined life,
Which she herself destroys,
Oh. evil thoughts and vain desires
Ye Irvine yourselves among
Our heartstrngs till our lives expire,
" Unhonorcd and unsung"
But there is Life and there is Rest,
For you, oh weary man
>hun evil thoughts-'tis Gods behe,t-
And do what good you can.