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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

GRANT ON HIS MUscLE.-Has the
President had fight with the dog
catchcrs2 It is told by a Washing
ton correspondent that ''Mr. Sharp,
of Washington, friend Of President
Grant, is the possessor of fine dog,
which he keeps inside his grounds,
now the dog law is in force. But as
that gentleman sat at a window a
short time since he saw two of the
official dog catchers enticing his ca
nine into the street, which they had
no sooner done than they seized him
and attempted to throw him into
their cart, the dog resisting yio-
lently. 4E E
Mr.. Sharp went to the rescue of his
favorite, and demonstrated with the
catchers, but Intellectually. A short,
squarely-bullt man, who had accom-
panied Mr.. Sharp, also joined in the
protest, when he was told by the
bully catcher to "mind his own bust
ness" accompanying the remark by
still more expressive actions and a
brisk push ON the shoulder. In
stantly the short man struck out a
forcible blow from the left shoulder,
and the boor went down like log.
But he was up as quickly, and was
about to take the offensive, when Mr..
Sharp put himself in the way and
said hastily, "Stand off, you fool;
this is the President of the United
States" And so it was IN. Y.
Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

f. E
The ORIGIN OF SExEs.-Arssto-
planes, the funny man of classic
Greece. gives the following myth:
"Once upon time man had three sex
es and a double nature; besides, this,
he was perfectly round, and had four
hands and four feet, one head with two
faces looking opposite ways, set on
single neck. When these creatures
pleased, they could walk as we do now,
and their pride was such that they
made war upon the gods. Jupiter de-
termined to punish their insolehce, ~
will cut them in two," he said, $50
they will walk on two legs instead of
four" Thus the two halves are going
about looking for one another. If we
nortals (says lie) are not obedieht to
the godt, there is a danger that we
shall be split Up again; aud shall have
to hop around on one leg"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

"A NOVEL lawsuit has just been de-
cided in Kingston, Ulster County, New
York. James O. Schoonmaker and
Stephen j. Case, Of Kerhonkson, made
funny wager. By the terms Of agree
ment in writing Schoonmaker proposed
that. if Case got married at any time
within three months from date, he,
schoonmaker, would pay the officiating
minister's fees, supply the wedding
feast and board Cases wife for six
months free of charge, together with
other favors to be extended to the new
family. If he failed to get married
Case waste forfeit an equivalent con-
sideration in money. Case tried hard
to get married and couldn't. None OF
the girls would listen to him. The
three months elapsed and found Case
still single man. Schoonmaker
brought suit before an Ulster County
Justice of the Peace to recover two
hundred dollars damages for Cases
failure to perform. The Justice decid-
ed in favor OF Schoonmaker. Case ap-
pealed from the decision and carried
the cause before the County Court.
The contract was examined and
laughed over by the lawyers and
judges. The Court decided it was
void, and that Schoonmaker could not
recover a cent on it. The Judgment of
the lower Court was reversed, and
Schoonmaker will have a big pile of
costs to pay for his pains. Case is out
Of his pecuniary misery and breathes
again, but his whole life is blighted by
the thought that there is not single
woman in the world who would have
him, even on speculation.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

-THE fraternity of smokers will
be interested to read of a box Of CT
gars manufactured in Boston, A. D.,
1850, by Cyrus Green, and which re-
NAMED unopened until the 18th Of
June this year, when, in honor Of the
day, the top was removed. The
weeds were found to be Of fine flavor
and in good preservation. Three of
them were sent to the President, who
will perhaps give his opinion upon
them in a special message to Con-
gress. The reraainder we're repacked
in an alright case, and are not to
be smoked until the second Bunker
Hill Centennial. Whoever opens
that box need not save one for u.s.
Exchange.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28
Personal Appearance.

On personal appearance aid habits
much of our success in life depends.
There have been many instances
where the Soul, shining through a
MANNED or deformed body, has con-
quered the adverse circumstances.
This is far easier to do than to over
come an offensive or disagreeable
trick of behavior; for society will ac-
cord its pity and sympathy to natu
raj defects, but for acquired ones it
only reserves its disgust.
Every reader will recall to mind
some person toward whom he or she
has felt repugnance almost unen-
durable, merely from an offensive
habit such an one has formed-some-
times mere turn of the lip, cast
of'the eye, or a peculiar infection of
l. J. :
the voice. Often practice has been
formed of clearing the throat, or
splitting profusely about, or picking
the ears, or some other vulgar habit.
These things will create a distaste
for such persons in a fastiduous mind,
and deny it as we may, or call it
'"squeamish," or a"silly," we are all
OF us more or less fastidious. q
1t is the duty Of every person to
make himself agreeable to others.
Most of those peculiarities of manner
which create aversion are spontane-
Gus IN their origin, but become so
hsbitual that VIC are unconscious Of
them. Many roflthem were formed
in childhood, when habits are easily
removed in after years While we
cannot like everybody, or be loved
by everybody in return, still we take
especial care that we do not make
ourselves personally offensive by hab-
it's and ways that shock the delicate
fastidiousness Of those around US.
Il Exchange. ? s4: 81
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NEW THIS DAY.
TEMPERATURES
AS REPORTED BY FERGUSON scHNAc
Notice.

7 HEREBY NOTIFY THE PUBLIC NOT
1 to purchase the following described
NOTES, belonging to me which were sto-
len with other property on the 18th. day
Of July, 1875, to-wit: A Promissory Note,
of ]. T. Hatch in my favor for 800, with
eight per cent interest from date, and da-
ted about the lst Of November 1872. An
other NOTE of J. T. Hatch for $500: in ia
vor Of H. L. Saunders and Mary A. Saun-
ders dated about 1869, with eight per cent
interest from date upon which Note there
are Credits reducing the amount due to
about $l25. One other Promissory Note
of Henry Williams and Dempsy Fennel in
solido. ii favor of H. L. Saunders for 5000,
dated about the year 1865, with two Cred
its endorsed on said Note at intervals,
which interrupts prescription on said Note
being the balance due including interest
about $3.50. JAMES PHILLIPS.
July 28,-3t.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28
SOUND ON THE GoosE.-Governc

SOUND ON THE Goose. Governor
Allen, of Ohio, now the Democratic
nominee for reelection in October
coming, has taken the stump, opened
the ball, and already pours hot shot
into the ranks of Radicalism. And
already the papers Of that persuasion
are raking up his war record to tell
against him. One Of them, the N. O.
Republican, quotes the following ex-
tract from a speech he made in 1863,
to prove that he is not sound. We,
in turn, re-publish it, to convince
certain ones here what sort of stuff it
takes to make and constitute DEM
ocrat, a national Democrat. We
hardly think it should set old Bill
Allen back in these parts: Lincoln
has shed enough blood to float the
Great Eastern, and how, much nearer
the end does he get2 His cry issstill
for blood. The administration stands
on tip-toe every. day., with its eyes
distended andits arms stretched forth
calling on the American people for
more blood and more money. And
their preachersAthose Chicago
priests that went to Detroit to get
lincoln to bite the forbidden fruit,
toeomniit the first act, the initial sin,
oy the publication Of an act emanci-
patlng the slaves-these priests, Il
would not like to have met these fell
lows; they went down cantihg and
Whining their mouths all the way
Watering fol, the blood. Of the people.
AVery one of them thought that God
MAD made it His special business to
% and beg lincoln 70 commence the
BUSINESS of numbering the American
people," seolsse s
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

BIBLE WINE.-In the recent synod
of the United Presbyterian Church
of Scotland, there was an animated,
and towards the close, very heated
debate on the old topic of "Bible
wine" involving the question of the
use of the fermented juice of the
grape forsacramental purposes. The
use of fermented wine at the Lords
Supper, it was argued by some of the
disputants, justifes its general use,
and is inconsistent with the doctrine
of total abstinence. s
Professor Calderwood, of the Uni
versity of Edinburg, took strong
ground in favor of fermented wine as
the only true Bible vine, and he car
ried his point, the synod by a decis-
i've vote refusing to sanction the use
of unfermente'l grape juice as an APP
propriate symbol of the blood OF
Christ. This action of the legisla-
ture of the Scottish Church will seem
scandalous to some of our total abst-
nence extremists, who 'nave for a
good many years found a terrible
stumbling-block in Paurs advice to
Timothy, and in the miracle Of the
Saviour at the wedding feast, when
he turned water into wine.-[N. 0.
Times.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

THE ARMED STRENGTH OF EUROPE.
"A lecture was recently delivered be-
fore the Royal United Service Institu-
ton, London, in which a British off,
Ger gave detailed account of the stan
ding armies and reserves OF all the ma
tions of Europe. He said that, looking
at the armies of Europe from every
point of view, the rapidity with which
they can be modified, fed from re-
serves, concentrated on any point and
maintained on the field, he should d.
vide them into three classes, in tho or
der Of their strength. The first class
comprised Germany, Austria, Russia
and France; tn e second Italy and
England; the third Belgium, Turkey,
Sweden aid Norway, Holland, Don
mark, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland,
Greece. There are four armies Of the
first class, two of the second, and nine
Of the third; with, in round numbers,
a strength on paper of seven and a
half millions of men and combatant
strength of five millions, with 5000
guns and million and quarter of
horses. In navies Great Britain is SUI
preme, and then come in the order of
strength France, Russia, Turkey, Aus
tria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland,
Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and
Portugal. The navies of all these have
an aggregate Of 2,O39 vessels, Of which
200 are iron clad, the whole being
manned with 100000 men and armed
with $1,000 cannons. One hundred
and ten ships of war are now being
built, and of these Sc will be armor-
plated. The expenses OF these forces
amount according to this lecturers es-
Inmates to $3.50, 100000 per annum, Of
which three.fifths go to the land forces.
The armanents of Turkey ank Austria
cost only about $3.50 year per man !;
that OF Great Britain at the most $500
a year.-[N. @. Bulletin.
!
The Town has gone through a
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28
The Crops.

The Bastrop (Morehouse) Clarien, Of
the 18th inst, says:
eff it doesn't rain within week or
ten days we are not going to be able to
continue our sweet talk about the
crops--at least in the upper portion of
the parish. In riding through that
portion of the country the other day,
we everywhere observed and heard of
the need of rain. About the Line they
will never be able to gather the cotton
they will make--if they can just get
that rain; the old corn has already
made two-thirds of an average crop,
and even drought will not prevent a
full yield from that planted on new
ground. There are other portions of
the parish, besides that we rode
through, which are suffering from tue
effects of the drouth."
The Vcrmillionville Lafayette Adj
vertiser, of the 18th inst, says:
'It is with unfeigued pleasure that
we announce to our readers that the
crops throughout the Attakapas coun-
try are full of promise. Tidiugs of the
most encouraging nature reach us daily
concerning the coming harvest. In
the parish of st. Landry the planters
rejoice over their agricultural pros
poets, from the parish Of st. Martin the
same welcome news comes to us; in
the parish of Vermillion, we are credi-
bly, informed, the oldest planters with
in its borders declare that never have
they seen the crops as good as this
year; in our own parish we would alb.
stain from any comment, as our read.
81 8 and the whole community are fully
aware that all the fields are teeming
with rich produce, long wished for.
harbingers off peace and plenty"
The Opelousas (St. Landry Courier,
Of the 18th inst, says:
eve were shown last Thursday two
very fine stalks OF sugar cane, grown
on the Poplar Grove Plantation, about
FIVE and half miles west Of 0pelousas,
one, plant cane, measuring five feet
nine and half inches stripped of its
leaves; had eight red joints; and the
other, a three-year old stubble, was
four feet eleven inches in height and
had seven red joints. Thus, it will be
seen, crops of every kind are $50 fine
as never vas"
The Columbia Herald, Of the 18th
inst, says:
"Although the weather is, and for
weeks has been, in many places too
dry for the crops, much of the corn be-
ing hopelessly bligbted, yet the gene
rallo favorable Indications of the crop
prospects in this country have impart-
ed quite a new and healthy vitality to
the business operations and prospects
of most Of our merchants, and plan
tiers, as general thing, wear smiling
and hopeful visagos."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

FIRST DAY :kss3 ,aS
First Race Cup $500 for Year Odds Emit 500
Second BacePurse $25OO Heats for ali ages Entrance $3.50
1aja8 SE;CoND DAY..
First 10000 Dash Of One Me for Ods
Second RacePre $500 Dash Quarters Of Mile For Two
Year olds. Entrance $780, s.ss a sg5fa 4s3 h48a
Third RaePnrse Heats for horses have not
trotted better than 8 minutes. Entrance $500 #e
THIRD DAY:
First Race-Pue $780, Dash of One Me Ods En $500
Heats for Year Odds Entrance
FoURTH DAY 8A
First Race-Pue $500 Hurdle over four Hurdes
For all ages Entrance $500. $500
Second Race-Parse 1926 Mile Heats for all
ssf - F'IF'IH DAY:
First RacePurse sl25 Dash Quarter For all
Entrance $500.
Second RacePu and not won during
the Meeting Entrance SIS, es #a.EI~.
bird RacePurse slsso Dash One Mile and Emit $500
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Standing By the Ohio Democracy.

os"AVA00 ~ suO VNlV OCMVV1 0Cy
1t is idle now for any man of either
party to indulge the hope that the cur
rency question may be kept out of the
contest next year. If that contest had
taken place six months ago it might
have been done, as, perhaps, it would
have been, and should have been. But
it is too late to talk about it now.
The people are aroused on the subject.
The ball is in motion, and it can not be
stopped. All over the Union there is
an increased and increasing interest in
the great movement for the rescue of
the country from the clutches of the
gold-kings. The battle is already
joined in Ohio between the party of
the people, contending for more money,
on the one side, and the party of the
Wall street monopolists and masters of
the currency, Oh the other. We must
hold up the hands of the Democracy of
Ohio in this struggle, for it is not their
struggle alone, but ours too. Let it be
made known to the patriotic people of
the West that the South is not only in
sympathy with them in striking their
bold blow against the tyranny of the
bullionists, but that she is watching
the contest with an intensity of inter-
est equal to the great stake she has
herself in the issue. The effect will be
highly favorable to our friends in Ohio.
1t will nerve their hearts and cheer
them on in the splendid fight they are
making for freedom, in another phase,
for the American people. They have
a victory awaiting them. But the
gold-kings Of all the North and East
will doubtless spend hundreds of thou
sands, ifnot, indeed, millions of dollars
in the effort to defeat them, for they
we'll know that the success of Govern
or Allen, with the platform on which
he is standing, will be inevitably fol-
lowed by larger success with SINH
lar platform in the Presidential cleo
ton. eH
We regret exceedingly to see that
there is danger of division in the Dem
ocratic- Conservative party on the cur
rency question. But it is SO, and the
way to remove it is to meet it boldly
and promptly, and dispose of it as an
issue inside our organization. And
with that view, and to that end, we
look upon the contest in Ohio as COM
ing most OPPORTUNITY, near a year in
advance Of the National Democratic
Convention. The question is fairly
submitted there; and if Governor Al
len shall be elected, as we have no
uDuht he Will be, and trlumphantly,
any opposition that may be offered to.
the adoption of the same financial pol
icy as plank in the platform of our
party for the Presidential election, will
be too feeble to awaken the slightest
as to the effect Of it in
the canvass.
All the South should send greeting
to the Democrats of Ohio and encour-
age them III their contest. The cur
rency question rs an issue in the party
is on trial there, and as it turns it car.
ries veal or woe for the Southern peo-
pie with it. We have no fears for the
result, but we want to see such a DEM
ocratic majority in Ohio as will at once
establish the financial policy of the
party for the National campaign next
year. Richmond (Ya.) Wing.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

-WHAr is the difference between
spermaceti and q schoolboy's how'll
One is the wax produced by the
whale, and the other is the wall pro-
duced by the whaeks.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

-THE misery felt by the child who
.'adn't go tothe picnic, is nothing
what Of the one who has been to it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-28

-"THIs," thought boy while being
trounced By bis papa, lis very like a
Whale.n
, 1875-03-06

IMMIGRANTS. A correspondent writing
from Minnesota, under date Of February
18th, says that for the " last nine weeks the
Thermometer has been from 80 TO e. degrees
below zero This intense cold seems to have
disgusted the writer, and he proceeds to say
that if favorable accounts can be had in re-.
lation TO the Walla Walla climate, g five
hundred families will come out in the spriag. I"
Letters Of this kind are constantly coming to
the time to answer all such inquiries The
people of California have adopted a plan in
this regard that We Of Walla Walla might
initiate to advantage. Their plan is to have
full descriptions OF the various localities writ
ten up and printed in pamphlet form. A
prospective immigrant writes to inquire, say
about the Los Angeles country, and one OF
these pamphlets is sent him. In this way he
gets the information desired. and he gets it
in snch Il shape that it can be passed around
of attracting hundreds of immigrants. To
get up pamphlet OF this character involves
an expense Gf two or three hundred dollars,
but our California friends understand the
HIaziR. "ugthing risked, nothing gained,
and 50 they not deferred by the cost. 4
little bit Of this enterprise injected into Walla
Walla would be of great advantage.
, 1875-03-06
kOOtenaf correspondence.

AAooAh-NAAs ACAI ", lot9.
EDITOR STATESMAN As the Government
mail Is closing, l drop you few items The
winter has been the most terrific, as far as
cold, that has ever been known In this re-
gion. The cold weather commenced As early
as November, and took every one by surprise.
\ number of miners could not clean up. and
everything was and Is frozen up.
The Government and miners are putting
down a shaft on Wild Hurs. Creek, under
the superinr eudence of W. w. Morrow. They
will get 10 bed rock, It IL supposed, about the
Isl OF April; this will be test OF the creek
above the old diggings, which were rich.
The new diggings GU the Columbia are not
yet fully tested. NeSsrs, Price Bros, with
a number o! men. are going up in the spring,
which speaks well for them
hear from the Columbia likes that Shaw
x AlIlby are losing some cattle; some of the
indians have lost a number already. Gal
braith's cattle are doing we'll, having been
fed so far, and thinks he will have sufficient
to carry then safely through
The Indians are not hunting much on ac-
count of the cold-no thaw. no chinook, from
the lst Of November and no thermometer TO
register the cold, u the mercury WAS frozen
solid for Ii days i'll January
BY the way, 50 more OF Krhoe's money
was founG with an Indian woman, aud Is
now in the hands Of Mr. Booth. for iieutifi-
cation.
Building is going on rapidly on the other
side Of the mountain. The Manitoba noun
I'd police have etiectually settled the whis-
key traders Yours, 4. II. :.
, 1875-03-06

Or the recent events We know OF
none more gratifying in one sense
than the election Of Andrew Johnson
to the Senate. The subject matter of
cOhgratulation is that thirty Conftd-
crate soldiers voted for Mr.. johnson
III preference 10 Two or three Conted
crate generals who were also caDdi-
dates. We are not OF those who do
not desire TO bury the past forever out
of sight, but when old passions are
agitaled and worn cut charges rciter
ated even in the Senate, i'll the pro-
longcd discussions Oh the political
temperament of the Southern people,
it IS more than satisfactory TO appeal
from the vituperatiOus Of Senators
Morton, Logan Cunkling and others
TO the patriotic actions of the men
whom they aSsaiI. In no State did
the animOSitieS OF the war reach such
a height Of violence as in Tennessee,
aud Of all Union men Andrew John,
son was the most hated. No troops
are in Tennessee, and We find ex.Con-
federates Of their own free will select
ing as their representative the man
whose chief recommendation is that
devotion to the integrity of the Union
which covers a multitude of short
comIngS.- Washington Capitat
, 1875-03-06

THE PARIS LoAN.-Paris advices state
that the subscriptions to the new loan of the
city of Paris amounted TO forty-two times
the sum required. This announcement may
appear simple aud unimportant TO the casual
reader, but it covers one of the greatest
financial events of the nineteenth CENTURY
The amount asked for by the city Of Paris
was 100000, 600 francs, but the sr.bscrip ions
reached ten thonsand fys hundred millions
of francs, equal 70 two thss.Sand one hundred
million dollars gold of our money, and four
hundred and twenty million pounds sterling,
British money. France has reason to be proud
of her high credit, and the facts above no.
-ticed could be studied with profit by people
at Washington.