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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23
RADICAL CONGRESSIONAL CtSDi-
DATES,

L. Smith at the Shreveport ConVen-
ton, and which secured him the
nomination for Congress on the Rad
ical ticket have created quarrel by
means of which the people are likely
to know the secret history of that
body. Our own Mat, known else
where as Returning Board Wells,
publishes q letter asserting that
Smith got the nomination through
the fraud of Ebony Antoine and dead
Devices and Heating, and that Smith
had delegates carried from New Or
leans uia Galveston to represent Pa
rishes they never saw, through whose
votes he was nominated.
The story is q probable one
These Radical politicians make no
bones in confessing to the use of
fraud and any other improper means
to secure their ends. But Smith
might retort on his rival with this
question. Suppose you had been
smart enough to hire enough City
rowdies to play delegate for you, and
shipped them to Shreveport ria Gal
weston, and thereby got j. Madison
Wells nominated, would you retire
because Smith Co. were dissat-
| isfed2
The last sentence of Gov. Wells
letter is the most characteristic, the
one that reads most in keeping with
his usual methods: 81 assert without
fear of contradiction that there are
over five hundred Wings, who en-
dorsed my course during the war,
will beyond doubt cast their votes
for me-
There is not q Wing in this Parish
who would vote for Governor Wells
for any office of trust or profit. That
gallant and true band who used to
fight the Democracy in honorable
warfare would feel themselves dis
honored by such an imputation be-
ing cast on them. They are as true
allies as the Democracy has among
it's old veterans. But the ex. Cover
nor never fails to bring out his hobby
of old Whiggery to try and brighten
his opponents with, and it must be
confessed he finds some people silly
enough to echo his hopes.
The truth is there is not Wing
in the State who has been acting with
the Democratic Party since the war
who wishes to act with any other
They who are so fond of proclaiming
they are not mocrats,
are not sold line Wings" but
men without party, who did not or
could not belong to the Wings be
cause that Party was extinct before
they were voters or while they were
babies. They are men who could not
tell the cardinal differences between
the Wing or Democratic parties if
they tried, and cannot explain or
justify the grounds of prejudice
which is too silly to be combated.-
Governor Wells finds material in that
crowd to operate on, but on the old
Wing, never.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

WE are authorized to state and
make public the fact, that the stores
of the Jew merchants of Alexandria
will be closed, and transact no bust
ness, on "New Year, Tuesday and
Wednesday, September 10Th and
goth, and on Day of Atonement,
TYom Kipoorl Thursday, September
28th.n
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The Rapides Agricultural Fair
Association have secured column
of our advertising space, and have
condensed therein the many induce
mcnts, premiums, purses and diplo-
mas offered to the public through
the columns of their s'Fair Journal"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

THE Bart. Able touched her
home wharf as usual on her day, and
to keep things in the same going
style and patent regularity goes
down to-day at noon. The hot wealth
er don't bother her or her clerks,
for the DEMOCRAT was remembered
in the paper line as of old.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The true, tried and trusted De-
mocracy, the untiring opponents Of
Grantism and Kelloggism, Of Pine
vile, have assembled, have COM
muned together, and have cemented
themselves into Club. Their first
talk, or rather the minutes Of their
first step in the right direction, will
be found in our columns this morn
ing. We will vouch all day and al.
night for Pineville's Democrats.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23
The Editor of the DEMOCRAT

The Editor Of the DEMOCRAT
will be especially obliged to the Sec
retaries of the Ward meetings to
take place on next Saturday, if they
viii send him list of the Delegates
elected. They are desired for publ
cation in the next issue Of the DEMO
GRAFT, in order that the people may
read WHO will compose the Con-
yention,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The whole of last week, both
night and day, the weather has been
the very hottest Of the season, and
as we write in a cool locality the
Thermometer heats above 81.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The river keeps falling at a
steady rate, and will soon be at a
tolerable low notch. We hear, how
ever, that another rise is coming from
Fulton.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

-THANKs, as usual, to the Lotus
No. 5 on her down trip for papers,
and the r. 7. Bryarly, on her up trip.
The clerks of both these Pool-Liners
always remember the DEMOCRAT.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

MIKE HAHN has been made Boss
Registrar Of the State, has qualified
and has come down to his work in
real Radical earnest. Mike, if there
be such thing, is the most honest
and fairest Radical in Louisiana,
therefore we are rather pleased with
his appointment.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The Democrats of South Caro-
lima, in Convention assembled on the
18th list. at Columbia, nominated
Gen. Wade Hampton Tor Governor.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

"A United States soldier was shot
and dangerously wounded, few days
since, by Deputy Sheriff Collier, at
Natchitoches. Cause, the old mala-
dy, woman and wine!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

LAST Sunday night was the hot
test one of the season; as late as ten
o'clock tie ThermoWeter stood at
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

Ten half-barrels Of new Syrup,
from Coco Bend Plantation, on Bayou
Beuf, were hauled to Town on last
Saturday.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The ''Organ" tells US to remem
Der that it is the official Journal of
the War Department for this Dis
trict. Me Bull-fight!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23
SP Eel A l.!
ALEXANDRIA, L., I

ALEXANDRIA, IL, I
Aug. ID, 1876.
THE VOTERS OF THE RESPEC-
i tive Wards in the Parish, as des-
ignated in the Executive Committees
Call, to meet on the Goth day of Aug
INST 1876, will thus assemble at the
hour of ii o'clock A. M.
JOHN A. WILLIAMS,
Chairman Executive Committee.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

"A mare in Madison comfy, Ala
bama, recently gave birth at the
same time, to two foals, one horse,
and the other mule colt.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The Chicago Times sticks to it
that eight years of Grant and four
years of Hayes would make precisely
twelve years of Grantism.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

The Democratic Conservative
Party in New Orleans hold their
Parish Convention on the 18th Of
September.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

No matter how hard the times
may be, bees always cell all the hon
ey they make.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

CONGRESS adjourned on last Wed
nesday, and Grant has gone to Long
Branch,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

THE Court has purchased seye-
raj thousand new bricks-so says the
"Organ.'
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

"A TEN sTRIKE-the Democratic
majority in Alabama foots up 10000
and there vas no violence.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

JAMES G. HILL, of Boston, has
been appointed Supervising Arch.
tect Of the tgsasury.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

w. w. FARMER, of Ouchita, has
been nominated for Congress by the
Democratic Conservative CONVEX
ton, recently held in the Fifth Cor,
gressional District.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-08-23

~ luS tuO OOsCl AACue. uciC 10
now no mistake about where the
Democratic candidates stood, and
every Que admits that their platform
is certainly very far above that which
supports the gentlemen on the other
side. Every point that is discussed
is handled as only a man, and a
statesman could deal with it. The
principal effect produced will, how
ever, be beyond the confines Of our
State and outside the borders of In
diana. Our own people knew Gov.
Tilden sowe.l that it was necessary
that he should write or say any.
thing to strengthen the acquaintance.
So many false assertions had, how
ever, been made respecting the polit-
ical position of Gov. Hendricks, that
many wanted to see how the two, as
|
the party nominees, would deal with
the various subjects now demanding
attention. They are now reading
and as they read they cannot helr
becoming convinced. They recog
nize that the writer's are two states
men, who have full sense of the re
sponsibility of attempting the puri
fication of the Government, and WHIT
possess the qualifications necessar.
for the carrying out of such a work
! They find themselves irresistabl,
drawn into the ranks of the support
lers Of these statesmen: and. even 8
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21

local change of climate is probably to be re-
torIed to the influence Of the forest as a
shelter from the cold winds: 10 supply
the extraordinary demand tor italian iron
occasioned by the exclusion of English iron
during the time of Napoleon l., the furnaces
Of the valley of Bergamo were stimulated
TO greater activity. The ordinary produc-
ton Of charcoal not suf1icing to feed the
forges and furnaces, the woods were tellcd,
the copses cut before their time, and the
whole economy of the forest deranged. At
PiaZzatore there was such devastation of
the woods, and consequently such an in
creased severity Of the climate that maize
no longer ripened. An association, formed
for the purpose, effected the restoration of
the forests, and maize flourishes again i'll the
fields of PiaZzatore."
Not many months since, Prof. G. S. Sar-
gent, Director Of the Botanic Garden, and
Arnold Aboretum, of Harvard University,
published in the Report of 1875 of the Mas
sachusatts Board OF Agriculture, paper
advocating the culture of forest trees on
poor and worn out lands in that State; and
now the Massachusetts, Society for Promot-
ing Agriculture has reproduced the paper,
enlarged by directions for the planting and
care of Seeding trees, and gratuitously dis
tributed them to the public. The society
offers the following list of prizes: ST., 900 for
| the best plantation of five acres set with
larch, or Scotch or Corsican pine, not less
than 9, 200 trees to the acre; $500 for second
plantation of same; 500 for third best ;
5000 for the best plantation of five acres set
with white ash, not less than 5,OOO-.trees to
the acre and $4OO for second best planta-
ton of same. The prizes will be awarded
in 1877. A Boston citizen has offered tq
superintend the importation of the pines
and larches, which must be brought from
/ Europe. If New England has need fol
more trees and is taking steps to that end
our Western States should fail into line and
put our territory in the way OF all and any
benefits that can result from the enterprise.
Factory and Form.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21
III E POU LTRY YARD.
POULTRY ON TILE FARM.

Much room as there may be for doubt in
raising when conducted on an extended
scale, we think few will question the profit
ableness of few fowls when kept on the
farm. Their food, in great part, is made up
of gleanings of the fields, noxious insects
and waste materials from the kitchen. It is
true that when too large number of fowls
are kept on the farm, they may draw too
heavily upon the grain in the field or vege-
tables in the garden; but, the thousands of
noxious insects scratched up and picked off
frcm the plants must be placed to their
credit, which, in many instances, would
more than balance what could rightfully
be charged to the damage account. But
farm without fowls would leave the farmers
table barren of fresh eggs, broiled chickens,
and many other articles which are almost
an Indispensable adjunct to farm lite and
good living everywhere; consequently, we
look upon the birds bringing such luxuries
as worthy Of the highest consideration in
| our domestic economy. In addition to
| the usefulness of domestic fowls, they
should also rank high among the ornamental
surroundings Of a country home; for we
| can imagine nothing more beautiful than q
flock OF some Of the pure breeds roaming
over lawn or field, or floating upon the sur
| face of some sheet of water during the day,
I then flying or trudging home at nightfall
for their supper. 1t may be that there are
! man RI whom this ornamental view Of the
subject will appear more sentimental than
practical, but it is just as legitimate and I'm
/ portant as the admiration of beautiful fruit,
aowers or pictures, and the one who can
take such q view Of the raising Of fine poul.
! try, has the advantage Of the one who can
not, for he adds to his pleasures thereby. :
Iurn, NeD Yorker.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
Factory and Fern

In the township of Ryde, Canada, Mls w.
III. Brooks raised 1900 pounds of tirst-class
hops from an acre of ground, for which he
was offered 5000.
The potato crop in the valley of the Earn,
Scotland, it is said, win be the finest since
lS46. Some of the fields near Grief have
Welded from 12 to Is tons per Scotch acre of
unusually large tubers, at least two-thirds
of the crop averaging from one pound to
one and half pounds each.
At the office of Jackson & Maude, 613
Montgomery street, are some remarkable
sweet potatoes, raised at Bakersfield, Kern
county. One Of them weighs % pounds,
and another about Is pounds. Six of these
potatoes, represented to have been taken
out of the same hill, weigh lis pounds in
the aggregate.
Mr. Dinner, of Dayton, Ohio, raises 800
bushels of ounces from three -fourths OF an
acre of land. worth from two to three dol
lars per bushel.
Fine specimens of black tea, grown by
DR.. S. j. Jones, at his farm, five miles from
Thomasville, (Ga.) were recently exhibited
ut the Thomasville fair. Competent judges
who have tried it pronounce it equal to any
black tea grown in China.
| A farmer, during the present season.
| threshed l. 1874 bushels of oats, the produce
of ten acres of ground on the hill about
three miles north of Lewiston, Idaho.
| AZ
MIR. II. N. Spencer has growing in the
same field in which he produced the mani
moth pumpkin, weighing 1924 pounds, 9
grape vine planted from cutting last spring
which has made growth of thirty-five feet
in length, and which at ten inches from the
Ground measures eight inches in circuraier.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

Fruit Cakc.-2 pounds sifted -four, pounds
butter, pounds currants, pounds raj
sins, Is eggs, pound Of almond blanched
and chopped, pound of citron, 3pound OF
prepared lemon, nutmeg grated, ounce
of ground all-spice, one-fourth ounce each OF
ground cinnamon, mace, ginger. and cloves,
1 gill of brandy. Put the butter In the pan
in warm place, and work with the hand;
mix with it into smooth cream the sugar
and spices, then break in the eggs bydegrees
and stir at least twenty minutes stir in the
brandy, then the -four, work little, then
add the fruit and almonds, mix altogether
lightly. This recipe makes two cakes OF or
binary size. The cake will be very light
and quite moist il the fruit is chopped. Two
or three hours is sufficient time for baking,
when removed from the pan leave the pa
per on the cake until you wish to cut it for
the table, This cake will keep good for
year.
Graham cad.--Just before retiring lat
night, dissolve a yeast cake in teacup Of
tepid water; add fine flour, to make bat
ter: cover, and set in warm place. The
first thing in the morning, add pint Of tepid
water; one tcaspoonful Of salt; half tea
spoonful of soda; two tablespoonful Of SUI
gar; one teacup of fine flour, and Graham
-four enough to make stiff batter; put tho
mixture in bread-pan set it in warm
place until sufficiently light Bake In
moderate oven.
Miece Meat.-Four pounds OF the round OF
beef, after it is boiled and chopped eight
pounds of chopped apples; two pounds OF
chopped s,,ct; three pounds of raisins two
pounds OF sugar; one tablespoonful each
of Glove, cinnamon, allspice, and two large
nutmegs, one pint of molasses, one quart OF
cider, one and half pints OF good brandy.
Salt to taste.
/ Another "A shin of beef, boiled till very
tender, one pound of nice clear beef suet,
chopped very fine, tablespoonful OF salt.
six pounds of green apples peeled, cored
and chopped, three pounds of raisins stoned,
three of currants carefully cleaned, ons
pound of brown sugar, q cup OF maple sirup,
half pound of citron, SHREDDED, half a
pound Of candied lemon peel, quart OF
the best cider. Iustead of the cider, some
persons prefer n quart Of Madeira wine, and
a little brandy.
To. Fry Rabs;ts.-Cut them in joints, and
fry them to a nice brown IN butter; senu
J them to the table with fred parsley Or liver
/ gravy. a
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21

FArrEN1NG PouLrRY.-As the time has
arrived when farmers prepare their poultry
for market to supply the holiday demand.
the following hintmay prove useful to them
If properly fed, poultry will acquire all the
fatness needed In q fortnight, or three weeks
at most. Their diet should be corn, oat or
barley meal, scalded in milk or water, the
former preferred, as it will not only expedite
the fattcning but improve the flavor OF the
poultry. They should be fed early in the
morning, at noon and in the evening just
before going to roost. They should have
access to plentiful supply OF pure fresh
water, plenty Of gravel and fresh greens,
such as sliced cabbage, tnrnip tops, &c. If
the fowls are required to be very tat, some
trimmings OF fresh mutton suet may be
chopped up and scalded with their otliees
feed, or they may be boiled in milk alone,
and poured over the meal. This renders
the flesh tirmer than it otherwise would be.
When fit to kill feeding should be stopped
for twelve hours or more, that the intestines
may become comparatively empty.
EXTENSIVE HENNERY.-H. +. Wads-
worth, of Sonoma county, CAL, is now keep
ino 800 hens and 500 chickens, the business
proving highly remunerative. He has adopt
ed system which insures success. The
fowls are kept in separate houses, made to
accommodate so head. There is a good
range in which the fowls mix together in
the day and return to their respective roosts
nt nig,,t. The houses are made Of wood,
2oxlA, feet high at the front and slopine
| to the ground at the back, with open lattice
! work at either end for ventilation. The
roosts are movable, 6 feet long, 2 inches
| wide and inch thick, are frequently taken
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AGHIGIJ |, RAJ.



TaEE-aLANTIHG
The cutting away Of our forests has been
earried to such an extent, and the necessity
of more trees ON the surface Of the country
Is 80 obvious. taat q national society for the
promotion of forestry has been organized.
The objects Of the society are TO gather sta
tistics. preserve the forests, aud encourage
tree-planting. An examination OF map
showing the original surface Of the country
and it's forests Indicate no lack Of trees; but
when we examine tie enormous annual
consumption. it does not seem SO strange
that Attentions should be called to The subject.
From an exchange we clip the following:
"The locomotives on the railroads OF the
United States annually consume as fuel as
much wood az wouid represent Is years.
growth on Soc, 900 acres. III order to sup
ply the railroad ties used annually upon the
roads now in operation, the timber Of 80
years. growth must be removed from 6S, 600
acres of the best natural woodland. The
telegraph lines now in operation require for
repairs that at least 250.00o trees be cut an
~nually. Even the manufacture of such In
significant things as shoe pegs and matches
requires in the a@gre gate great deal of
lumber, amounting in the former case to
100000 cords Of white birch, and in the lat
ter to 230, 900 cubic feet Of the best pine.
An estimate has been made that during the
10 years between 1850 and 1860, so, ,OOO, 600
acres of forest covered land were cleared in
tl,o
or 10000 acres day for every working day
during that time. These are some of the
least-thought-of drains upon our timber sup.
ply, and yet how large they are. If we but
bring to the estimate the enormous con-
sumption of wood for fuel and timber fol
building, it will be difficult for the mind te
grasp the annual reduction of the tree cen
sus of the country
In some parts of the world forest culture
has progressed so far as to furnish valuable
data for the encouragement of those inter
ested in this country. NJ. Becqnerel is au
thority for the statement that in the valley
of the Rhone simple hedge, six feet high
will protect for about so feet.
Mr.. George P. Marsh sends home the fol
lowing from an italian journal:
''In consequence of the telling of tn
woods ON the Apprentices, the Sirocco pre-
walls greatly OH the right bank Of the Po
IN the Parmesan territory and in Lombard,
hinjures the harvests and the vineyards
sometimes even running the crops OF tn
season. To the same cause we may ascrlb
the meteorological changes in the precinct
OF Modena and Reggie. In the commune
Of the districts where formerly straw roo1
resisted the force of the wind, tiles are no.
hardly sufficient; in others, where tiles TO
merly answered for roofs, large slabs
stone are now insufficient; and in man
neighboring communes the grapes and ii
grain are often swept of by the blasts
The south and southwest winds.
The following well attested instance Of
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21

EGG HATcHIKG.-Hen eggs hatch In
from nineteen TO twenty-one days, turkeys,
from twenty-six to twenty mine days, ducks,
in twenty eight days, Guinea fowls III from
twenty-five to twenty seven days, pea fowls
in thirty days, geess in thirty to thirty-two
dnvs
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ence. This is evidently the identical field of
which 1t was said that if tenpenny nails
were sowed in the afternoon, crop of ready
made plows could be reaped the next morn
ing.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21

KEEPING EGGs.-Take butter firllin, or
any tight package, place a layer of fine salt
over the bottom into this set the eggs, large
end down, as closely as possible without
touching each other fill with salt until the
layer is covered, and then proceed as before.
Care must be taken that the salt is dry and
that it be kept so, else it will cake and make
it troublesome to get the eggs out without
breaking.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-21
NO. s.:

down, soaked, cleaned and rubbed with ker-
osene. These sheds are thoroughly coated
with limewash, occasionally mixed with
little carbolie acid. The sitting nests ARE
treated similarly. The feed consists ofbran
and shorts, wheat and oats, boiled beef
heads, chopped cabbages and corn stalks
and boiled potatoes alternated. Running
water passes through the sheds and c0ops.
Eight hundred hens consume 10 Tbs. Of wheat
and 20 lbs. of oats daily; 26 dozen Of eggs
have been gathered in one day. The secret
of success is cleanliness, variety of good
food and pure water. With these requisites
there need be no failure. Yfas