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The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-11-25
How She Manages It.

els nv hat done 2" inquired .
cold-looking lady at q Chicago
millinery establishment one pleas
ant day this week. aa "a.
eyes, ma Fam, politely responded
the shopwoman, 'it will be here in
q moment" sAss.
An assistant soon brought up
the bonnet, and while the customer
was duly inspecting it the store
proprietress ventured TO inquire
"How do you like it, ma'amr
cts simply horridr" was the
reply. ~
'But it is Just - you ordsrsd
it," pleaded the maker Of head
wear.
Eyes. something as 1 ordered
was the short and sneering an
swer. ~
'I'm really sorry, but"
"Well, never mind" broke in
the buyer with set lips, whats tho
expenssa' slv'5'2
"A-b-o-u-t 81. I guess" said
the shop-womsn timidly.
The money was paid over and
the bonnet ordered up to the
house, wnsn the purchaser pranced
out into the street. and immedi-
xtely exclaimed to IN accompany.
ing lady friend
"lsn't 1t perfectly lovely?
"Yes.' replied the friend, ''its
rsvishing; but how could you talk
30 to that woman 2" ta
"ralk soy exclaimed she Of the
new bonnet; why, if / had let
her know how much / liked the
hat, that woman would certainly
have charged me $I6, but now.
you see, I've got it for SIP ai..-
The other woman ssid that she
had never thought Of that but
would profit by her friends ripe
experience, and never Ike m arti-
Gle again until after che bed bsseAt
IL
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Disposition Of the Jews in Europe

Jerusalem does not contain more
than 5000 or 5000 jews, and that
race is rather more numerous in
North Africa than in Judea. There
are scarcely any jews in Italy or
Spain, and in Great Britain they
do not form more than one in q
Thousand of the inhabitants. In
France they are in the proportion
Of four to . thousand Of the whole
population. but this comparatively
high proportion is due to the fact
that the Jews are very numerous
in the departments on the German
frontier.
In the annexed provinces of AL
SAGE and Lorraine the Jews number
40,92S out of q total population Of
1900, 900, while in Switzerland
there are only 1887 Jews to
total population of more than
$500. 1000. Germany, including
the Polish Provinces and Alsace-
Lorraine, contains no more than
512, 100 Jews; while in Austria
they number 2,316,O0O, three
Fights per centum of the whole
population. Nearly q third OF the
Austrian jews inhabit the province
OF Galicia, where they form nearly
an eight of the whole population,
and where. at the rate of increase
observed during the last twenty
years they will evantually be an
absolute majority. The 60, 00O, 900
inhabitants of Russian Europe
comprise 1928. 100 Jews, who, I'M
til the recent decree authorizing
them to reside in any part of the
empire, were confined to certain
districts in southern Russia, to
Courland and the ancient provinces
Of Poland. More than 1,500,0O0
of the Russian Jews reside i'll the
Polish provinces, and as the in
habitants of the provinces number
but l2,l13,085, they form more
than eleven per centuIn of the
whole population, outnumbsring
the Poles. properly 10 called. by
nearly 100000. The Jews are
still more numerous, proportion
ally, in the kingdom Of Poland it
self, there being $4,000, thirteen
per centum, in a total population
Of 5,706,O00. In 1875 Hamburg
contained l4,457 Jews out Of
total population Of Bot. 5O7; Berlin
1866 ont of 69s,9S1; and st.
Petersburg only 1912 out Of &c.,
88l; and ST. Petersburg only
2,6l2 out of 539,128; while in
Warsaw there were 72,716 Jews in
; total population Of 222,906.-
Their numbers have increased
since. and they now represent $50
par osntum Of the whole popuia-
ton. - s-a.-i-A.>, @21.7 - ''-.
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should hear it that instruction is
the most sacred and the most in
dispensable of duties. Hanriot
the commandment Of the forces had
been arrested in the evening, but
he was speedily released by the
agents of the Commune. The
council issued manifestoes and
DEGREES from the Common Hall
every moment. The barriers were
closed. Cannon we're posted OPP
posite the doors of the hall Of the
Convention. The quays we're
thronged. Emissaries sped to and
fro between the Jscobin Club and
the Common Hall, and between
these two centres and each of the
forty-eight sections. 1t is one OF
the inscrutable mysteries of this
deIirious night that Hsnriot did
not at once uae the force at his
command to break up the conven-
ton. There is no obvious reason
why he should not have done so.
The members of the convention
had reassembled after theirdinner,
toward seven o'clock. The hall
which had resoanded with the
shrieks and yells of the furious
gladIators of the factions all day,
now lent a lugubrious echo to the
gloomy reports which one member
after another delivered from the
tue shadow OF the tribune. To-
ward nine o'clock the members of
the two dread committees came in
panic to seek shelter among their
colleagues, ''as detected in their
peril" says an eyewitness. "as
they had been cruel and insolent
in the hour Of their supremacy"
When they heard that Hanriot had
been released, and that guns were
at their door. all gave themselves
up for lost and made ready for
death. News came that Robes
pierre had broken his arrest, and
gone to the Common Hall. Robe
SPHERE. after urgent and repeated
solicitations, had been at length
persuaded about an hour before
midnight to leave the Marie and
join his partisans of the Commune.
This was an act of revolt against
the convention, for the Marie was
a legal place of detention, and so
long as he WAS there he was within
the law. The convention, with
heroic intrepidity, declared both
Harriet and Robespierre beyond
the pale of the law. This prompt
measure was their salvation
Twelve members were instantly
named to carry the decree to all
the sections. With the scarf of
Office round their waists and .
sabre in hand they sailed forth.
Mounting horses and escorted by
attendants with faring torches,
they secured Paris, calling all
good citizens to the succor of the
convention, haranguing crowds at
the streets corners with power and
authority, and striking the imagin-
atoms of men. At midnight heavy
rain began to fall. The leaders of
the Commune, meanwhile, in full
confidence that victory was sure,
contented themselves with inces-
SAINT issue of paper DEGREES, to
each of which the convention re-
piled by q counter decree. Those
who have studied the situation
most infinitely are of opinion that
even SO late a. one O'Clock in the
morning, the Commune might have
made q successful defense, although
it had lost the opportunity which
it certainly possessed ny to ten
O'Clock OF destroying the conven-
ton. But on this occasion the
genius of instruction slumbered.
k,~ =.
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sections became more and more
distracted. One armed group
cried, Down with the conven
toni" Another armed gronp
cried, "The convention forever.
and down with the Commune {"
The two great faubourgs we're all
astir, and three battalions were
ready to march. Emissaries from
the convention actually succeeded
in persuading them-such the de-
mentia of the night-that Robe
sphere was a royalist agent. and
that the Commune was about to
deliver the little Louis from his
prison in the Temple. One body
of the communist partisans after
another was detached from it's al
egiance. The deluge of rain en-
pied the Place de Greve, and when
companies came up from the sec
lions in obedience to orders from
Hanriot and the Commune, the
silence made them suspect q trap,
and they withdrew toward the
metropolitan ;hurch or elsewhere.
Barras, whom the convention had
charged with its military defenses,
gathered together some 5000 men.
With the right instinct of man
who had studied the history of
Paris since the July Of 80, he
foresaw the advantage ofbeing the
first to make the attack. He ar
ranged his forces in two divisions.
One of them marched along the
quays to take the Common Hall in
front; the other along the Rue st.
Honore to take it IN flank. Inside
the Common Hall the, staircases
and corridors were alive with bus
Ting messengers, and those mys-
terious busybodies who are always
found lingering without purpose
ON the skirts of great historic
scenes Robospierre and the other
chiefs were in q ANAL room pre-
pairing manifestoes and signing
DEGREES. They were curiously un-
aware of the movements of the
convention. An aggressive attack
by the party of authority upon the
party of instruction was unknown
in the tradition of revolt. They
had an easy assurance that at day
Lreak their forces would be pre-
pared once more to tramp along
the familiar road westward. It was
now half-past two. Robespierre
had just signed the FIRST two letters
of his name to document before
him, when he was startled by cries
and uproar in the Place below. In
a few instants he lay stretched on
the ground. his jaw shattered with
. pistol. shot. His brother had
either fallen or leaped out IF the
window. C0uthon was hurried
over . staircase, and lay for dead.
Saint just was prisoner. Whe-
Their Robespierre was shot by an
officer of the conventional force,
or attempted to blow out his own
brains, we shall never know, any
more than we shall ever be quite
assured how Rousseau, his spir-
itual master, came to an end. The
wounded man was carried, ghast
ly sight, first to the committee Of
public safety, and then to the Con-
ciergere. where he lay in silent
stupefaction through the heat of
the summer day. As he was an
outlaw, the only legal preliminary
before his execution was to identi-
fly him. At five in the afternoon
he was raised into the cart; Cou-
thon and the younger Robespierre
lay. confused wrecks of men, at the
bottom of it; Hanriot and st. Just,
bruised, begrimed, and foul, COM
pleted the band. One who walks
r~ov,, Tho pulooa IF Iucf,Oo ovar
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|gbe Gulfa. Gbrunifle.

.rprIsHED EVERY SATURDAY. BY
NJ SWEENEY
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-05-10
Big Invention.

Lloyd, the famous map man, who made
all the maps for General Grant and the
Union army, certificates of which he pub
lished, has just invented a way of getting
a relief plate from steel so as to print
Loyds Map of American Continent
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GRAYSON COUNTY ITEMS.
News OF the County by Our RcgU-
lar Correspondence.

A severe hail, followed by a light
snow, fell over a portion of Grayson
county early on the morning of the I'd
inst: No frost. Fruit and crops I'M
injured. We had a presentiment that
Alfred Ashby jr.'s grandmother had
neglected to pick all of her geese in
due season, and consequently held back
our "Robin" until the good old lady
really did get through.
The prospect for an abundance of
mast was never better than it is,
throughout Grayson county, at the
present time, as the white oaks are
literally covered with bloom. But
then the cholera carried off the greater
number of our hogs last fall and left
but few to feast on the coming plenti-
fulness.
Caneyville is progressing at the rate
Of one building on an average every
two years. At this rate it must soon
become the rival of its more prosper
Gus sister wildwood.
Through the bloom and verdure of
the vernal May that crowns the grand
old hills of Grayson, soft warning
voice falls on the travellers ear, repeat
ing in tones of sweetest sadness, "Be-
wareI beware of the treacherous blood
thirsty wood ticks, beware !"
The following remarkable fact was
related to us by a gentleman re,
siding at Wildwood, in whose veracity
we place the mcst explicit reliance.
About two months since, having oc.
casion to visit neighbor, he observed
a hen pecking at particular place close
10 a fence. Some popularity about
the hen attracted his attention, and
while remarking on this, the fowl
dropped dead, without the least appar
ent cause. Little was thought about
this until one day last week, while
passing the same way, he observed an
other hen pecking at exactly the same
place, which brought the above men
toned occurrence back to his mind
and while thinking of it he saw the heI
he was looking at stagger and fall
where she lay perfectly motionless
Upon examination it was found tina
she had died in the same manner a
the preceding one.
A correspondent who signs the non
de plume of "Mac," writing to tn
Gruyson Journal from wildwood, says
"Some that frequent Wildwood mus
have an Unsuitable desire for whisky.
Now, being considerably interested il
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a TemDcrance Fact.

When men disagree us to facts there
is no chance for argument. Franklin
was once asked why bucket of water
would weigh no more with n fish in it,
than it would with the fish out of it.
He made answer by trying the expert
ment. The water containing the fish
did weigh more after the fish was put
in. The settlement of the fact decided
the argument.
We have heard it asserted over and
over again that licensed saloons stopped
whiSkey-drinking and prevented
drunkenness, and men have used it as
an argument that licensed saloons were
in the interest of Temperance. TWAS
said over and over again that if man
bought a quart, he would GO off, drink
it all and get drunk. For some years
there were no saloons at the County
Seat, drunken man was rarely seen,
a disturbance rarely occurred. For the
three months during which there have
been licensed saloons in Hartford, we
assert that there have been more
drunken men on the streets than in all
The previous three years. Certainly
this will not be disputed. 1t is n fact
potent to all. Those disposed to doubt
this may verify the fact by keeping a
record the coming three months. We
wish some one would mark the name
and date from now until the August
election of every man seen in Hartford
under the influence of liquor. We
hope the fact that licensed saloons
makes double yes, treble the drunken
men than there would be without such
places of resort, will not be denied.
Whether saloons make drunkenness is
a question fact and like Franklin's fish,
the argument is settled by the fact.
We believe place to stand around in
and drink, makes drunkenness. The
experience of the last three months
demonstrates the fact, so will the expe,
rience of the next three months. This
fact itself ought to set men against
saloons, what ever may be their views
regarding Temperance.
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A rascal is a rascal still,
Tho meanOst thing aliye!
PERSONALITIES.
Insertions under this head 10 cents a line.

Insertions under this head 10 cents a line.
The fascinating Miss Sallie Sway
back, of Blue Ruin, was trailing her
skirts through the mud of Caneyville
last Wednesday.
Mr.. John Crosstie, of Beatsville, was
squirting tobacco on a Wildwood stove
Friday last.
Miss Lavina Priggs, one Of ItaliulIs
fairest and most enchanting bellies, was
spelling good hash at her uncle's in
Wildwood Tuesday last.
Miss Birchenrod, the beautiful and
accomplished school teacher of district
No. 80, has accepted position in the
high school at BELGIUM, where she can
be found swinging birch or sassafras
sprouts in a week or two.
John Hopp, of Frogview, was whit.
Ting the horse-racks of Wildwood Sat.
urday last
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WE call the attention of our readers
10 the letter of r. II. Pierce on our first
page, in reference to the canvass for
criminal judge in Breckenridge county.
Mr.. Pierce diGsr- with Mr. Truman
in regard to the probable strength of
Mcssrs. Ray and Murray in Breckin-
ridge county. We will not undertake
to say which one is in error, but at that
time our fellow county man, Judge
w. F. Gregory was not announced
publicly as a candidate, but his flag is
now furled to the breeze, and he is a
live candidate, and while the friends of
Messrs. Ray and Murray are wrangling
about the vote of Breckenridge, We
would not be astonished to see our pop
ular candidate step in and bear off the
prize and lead both of them in the
vote of that county.
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HoN. GEORGE w. RAY, of Owens
boro, Hon. JOHN ALLEN MURRAY of
Cloverport, and Judge WIN. F. GREG
DRY of this place, candidates for Grim
inal Judge of this district, made speech
es here last Monday, Circuit Court
setting forth their claims to the office.
They are all worthy gentlemen, and
the district could not fail, in the cleo
ton of either of these gentlemen, to
have a man well qualified, and one
that would reflect credit upon the peo-
pie as Judge of our Criminal Court.
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THE Sunny South, published by
John II. Seals, Augusta, Ga, which
is now entering into its second year
with bright prospects, is becoming one
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States. 1t ispurely Southern paper,
and will soon be welcomed in every
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sketches and poems are of the highest
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one after reading cnpy could afford
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Col. Clint n. Baird.

Our young friend and fellow-towns-
man, c. T. Baird, has recently been
appointed Deputy Insurance Commits
sioner of this state. Clint is one of the
best business men in Kentucky, and
only needed chance to convince the
people of it, and we are glad to hear of
his being placed in a position where he
cin show his hand. We congratulate
you on your promotion, Clint, and wish
YOU abundant success in your new field
of labor.
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EDITOR HERALD.-As there seems
to be no correspondent from our little
town, l thought a line from here
would not be an intrusion. Hence
you'll pardon me, as brevity is my
mnftn. ----
Farmers in this locality are very
much annoyed about their tobacco
plants, and say as is usually the case,
that there won't be plants enough to
plant half crop. But l am of the
opinion that great many are deceived
in this respect and that there will be
a suficiency to plant an average crop.
A great many are done planting corn,
and the wheat crop looks well. Mer-
chants are having lively time, as it
requires skillful engineering and wide
awake business men TO successfully
stem the Cutting prices the merchant
is to adopt. Goods are very low.
We have two dry goods houses.
Messrs. Holbrooks Il Field seem to hold
the reins, and yield the scepter at this
writing, as they have stock well Sc
lected for our market. They will do
land Office business in their line.
We are sorry to announce that DR..
Amos Davis, young practitioner,
who has been located in Buford, for
the past two years, has taken up head
quarters at Midway, Ind. The young
people will miss the DIR. and the peo-
pie will miss him as an able man in
his profession, for one so young. We
wish him that success through life that
he so much desires.
We have had but three candidates
MS yet to visit us, Messrs. Rowe, Jones
and Kelly. Can't predict anything for
any of them at this time, unless it
would be that some one will be beaten
before they get through.
Our Centennial meeting, at Mt.
Carmel church, met yesterday, the Srd
instant. We had two splendid lee.
tures-morning and evening-mOrning
by Rev. j. s. Coleman, d. d., and in
the evening by Rev. ]. NJ. Peay. The
ladies bad an eye to the culinary de
partment, and such a dinner-can'
express it-a beautiful day withal anC
everything passed off pleasantly. w
are making all necessary arrangement
for the next Centennial-as we are to'
busy to attend this one.
If farmers have trouble with Tobacco,
bugs or flies, this will prove useful
try it: Take q pound of saltpetre ant
dissolve in water of sufficient quantity
and sprinkle your beds and you vii
efFectually destroy or drive them from
the beds.
The bachelors and cid maids, sem
centennial association, will meet a
Mt. Carmel church, Ohio county, tn
third Sunday in June, at ten O'cloc
p. NJ We contemplate a brillian
time, as it will give all fair chance
will give a full history of the associ'
ton next week. More anon,
MoDOC.
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THE KENTUCKY DEMOCRACY
Call for a State Cow entiOn TO Nom
inate an Electoral Ticket and APP
point Delegates TO the st. Louis
Convention.


Convention.
At meeting of the Democratic
State Executive and Central Commit
tees this day, held at the Office of Isaac
Caldwell, in the city of Louisville, a
convention of the Democratic party
of Kentucky was called to meet in the
city of Louisville on the 25th day of
May, 1876, at II o'clock, M, for the
purpose of nominating a Democratic
electoral ticket for Kentucky in the
Presidential election of 1876, and for
the purpose of appointing delegates to
the United States Democratic cOnven-
ton to be held at st. Louis on the 9th
day of June, 1876, and to take other
action for the organization and general
good of the party. BY resolution adopt
ed at said meeting, the county cons
mittees for the several counties in the
State are respectfully requested to give
due notice and take proper steps to hold
primary meetings of the Democratic
voters of their counties for the purpose
of appointing delegates to said conven'
ton. In order to insure full repre-
sentatiOn of the party, the several coun-
ties are requested to send one delegate
for every one hundred votes, and one
for every fraction over fifty cast for
James B. McCreary for Governor, at
the last Gubernatorial election; and
the said primary meetings are also re.
quested to name suitable persons foI
county committeeman in their respect
i've counties, and cause them to be re.
ported to said convention, or to author
lie their delegates to said convention tC
name such county committee.
The Democratic papers OfKentucky
are respectfully requested to publish
this call. ISAAC Caldwell, Chm.
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TIMESI FRY II !


lolesale or retail, or putting it on COM
ssion with druggists. or selling By sub
ents. This business is worth The at
,tion ofgood men and men OF capital.
ould you make but reasonable wages
\ 800 per month for the first three
Dnths (many make more )-you would
vertheless be establishing = business
1t would pay you largely in the end.
Agents are doing better with our Rem
y thaa anything else they ever took
IA OF. Why is III Because the Rene
does just what we say. and agents can
lrrant every bottle. No cure, no pay.
moving that we make all losses good,
ould they be called on to redeem a bot
!. agents run no risk Of loss.
EVEN SEALS or GOLDEN WONDER
put up in 81 LOO and so cent bottles. ell
antly finished IN neat and appropriate
rapPers, and packed in nice boxes, one
zen in each box.
To druggists our scale Of prices are
Arge size, 81 90 bottles. per dozen, $500;
lall size, so cent bottles, per doz-, $3.50.
We give special terms to our County
gents at such figures that they can sell
druggists and country stores at the
,oVe price and make handsome profit.
also give an