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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
"A DErRo1r boy paid his first

"A DErRo1r boy paid his first
visit to one Of the union schools, the
other day, as q scholar, and, as he
came home at night, his mother in
.quired: "Well, Henry, how do you
like going to SCHOOL," aBully, I
| saw four boys licked, one girl get her
ear pulled; and a big scholar burned
his elbow on the store. lon't
want to miss 4 day =
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
"A kings lester was once anke

"A kings jester was once asked,
"WLat kind Of a place do you think
heaven to be?" "a place. said he,
where naught but good isspoken Of
the neighbor. "Aud in what It
was again urged, sdoes its supreme
happiness consist?" 'sIn the feeling
that thai no one will SANDER me there,
and that if | have any faults it will
be SO questionable to speak Of them
that | and all will soon forget them .
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23

In this broad land has heard,
In favor of down-trodden boys 4
One solitary word? sfe
We hear enough of "woman's rights
And "rights of working men,
Of"equal rights and nations rights
But pray just tell me when =
Boys Rights were ever spoken Of?
Why, we've become aroused
To being snubbed by every one,
And sighted, and abused,
That when one is polite to us
We open wide our eyes,
And stretch them in asto1fshment
10 nearly twice their size.
Boys seldom dare to ask their frient
10 venture in the house;
1t don't come natural at all
70 creep round like mouse,
And if we should forget ourselyts
And make little noise,
Then ma or auDtic sure would say,
"Oh! my! those dreadful boys!'
The girls bang on the piano
In peace. but if the boys
, Attempt Il tune with fife and drum,
Its-.sstop that horrid noise!'
''Tllat iiorrid nose!" just think of i
70 make noise three times as bad
With everlasting scales
Insulted thus, we lose no time
| In beating q retreat;
So oft we so to romp and tear,
And scamper in the street.
No wonder that so many boys
Such wicked men become;
'Twere better far to let them have
Their games and plays at home. sd
Perhaps the text the teacher quotes
Sometimes-"Train up child"-
Means only-train the little girls
And let the boys run, wild.
But patience and the time shall COM
When we will all be men,
And when it does, rather think
Wrongs will be righted then.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
I Tax-ColiectOrs Notice
To TaX-PayerS of RaDideS Parish

VOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
4 that | have received the Tax Rulls
for the year 1875, and Licenses for the
year 1876, together with the Delin.
quent Rolls for the years 1874, 1873,
1872, 1871, 1870, aud 1869, and that
will be present at my Office in the
Court House, in the Town of Alexan-
dria, from the hours of 8 o'clock A. NJ.
to 3 o'clock P. NJ, of each day for the
purpose of receiving payment from all
persons indebted for Taxes and Liccn-
ces. ~ II. T, BURGESS,
State and Parish Tax Collector the
Parish of Rapides.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
New Workers. are we'll nigh sta

e. = - e g=
New Workers are well nigh stag
geren at gorgeous banquet at Del
monico's, recently given by a Wall
street broker as the result of a bet
with another Wall street party on
the price of Lake Shore stock. These
bets~are of daily occurrence, but as
this one involved something more
than an ordinary amount, its winning
was celebrated by banquet COR forty
two persons-the winner and loser
each inviting twenty friends. This
affair cost over 49, 900, or an average
of more than $50 for each guest
Thissrecalls an entertainment given
at Delmonico afew years ago by two
daughters of a well-known financier,
formerly a Federal oflice-holder, and
now a bank President. The occasion
was the twenty-frst birthday Of
their only brother. Having obtained
permission from their father to make
the entertainment as grand and mag
niicent as they pleased, these giddy
girls gave Delmonico carte blanche to
prepare a ball and feast for one hun
dred persons. The bill was nearly
$25, 900, and the astonished father
paid it like man.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23

E
il WAIr.-Wait, husband, before yon
wonder audibly why your wife don't
get along with the household affairs
Gas your mother did" She is doing
her best, and no woman can endure
that best to be Sighted. Remember
the long, weary nights she sat up
with the little babe that died; re-
member the love and care she be-
slowed upon you when you had that
long spell Of sickness. Do you think
she is made Of cast iron2 Wait
wait in silence and forbearance, and
the light will come back to her
eyes-the old light for the old
days.
Wait, wife, before you speak re-
proachfully to your husband when
he comes home late, weary, and ssout
of sorts.'' He worked hard for ron
all day, perhaps far into the night;
he has wrestled, hand in hand, with
care and selfshness and greed, and
all the demons that follow in the
train Of money making. Let home
be another atmosphere entirely. Let
him feel that there is one place in
the world where he can find peace
and quiet and perfect love.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
Conversation.

The fact of man being good
talker pre-supposes good audience,
and a good audience is becoming
daily more difficult to obtain. The
reason may easily he understood BY
the reader Of Boswell. johnson, we
may fairly assume, was the best of
all English takers on record. Now,
johnson was surrounded by a little
court Of familiar friends, each of
whom sustained q well understood
character. A party consisting OF
johnson, Burke, Reynolds, Garrick,
Goldsmith, and so on, was like a
company Of actors, each of whom un-
del stands the powers of all his col
leagues, and is able to cooperate to-
wards the general effect.
They could understand each other
the humorist was in no danger of be-
ing taken to speak seriously, the
man Of special information would not
have his pet subject snatched out OF
his mouth; the tender points of thu
irritable man were Thoroughly under
stood, and his friends could avoid
giving him unnecessary offanse. On
the other hand, there was sufficient
amount of variety to save the mem.
bers of the little circle from boring
each other too much. Some new
conner was always turning up who
could introduce new topics from the
world of art, or politics, or literature
or travel.
And it is on the fortunate balance
between these two elements that the
power Of producing good converse
ton depends. There should be {
nucleus Of sufficiently intimate
friends who should form, so to speak
an organic body, instead ola mere
collection Of inccilerent items, anC
yet the circulation Gifts constituent
/ parts should be rapid enough to pre-
serve certain freshness of interest
Now, the difference between the so.
ciety Of today and the society Of {
century ago is precisely that all these
little eilsiies have been swept into the
main stream
The rush of. the torrent is too FIJI
rious to allow Of the formation o
those pleasant little coteries in which
alone good conversation can DE orig
inally fosteresl. There have beef
great takers since the days o
Johnson; but men like Mcintosh
and lIacaulay seem to have beer
rather lecturers, than conversers, be
cause they could not come into tn
same close personal relations will
the crowds who were for a time .fel
low occupants of the same room
and others, who have had some tai
ent of the Theodore Hook kind, wer'
rather actors in a private theater
than, in any proper sense Of tn
word, takers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
The Democrat.
TERMS:

TIE DENoCR At is Published Week
Is, at FoUH DoLLAns per annum-
Two DoLLAHs AND FfF'rY CENTS for
six months, PAY a b LIE IN AID :
VANCE! No subscription taken
for Il less period than six months.
AoysarIsnumXrs inserted Mt the rate
If OlE DOLLAR per square for the
erst Insertion and FIFTY CENTS for
each Subsequent one.
pteur lines or less, (BaEvlER) consti-
tate square
ouru,nY Notices, Marriages, Public
Meetings, Cards of Thanks, etc., to
b. n I'D for as advertisements
rv PERSONAL CARDS, when aamis-
sihle, charged double the usual adver-
Using rates. .s.-
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
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])oetical.
BOYS RIGHTS.
by C. NJ.

I wonder now if any one
In this broad land has heard,
In favor of down-trodden boys
One solitary word?
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-02-23
AN ExrRAoRDlsARY oUrRA.eE.-
The Dewitt indicator has the FIJI

AN EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE
The Dewitt Indicator has the fol
lowing in its court report from De
Sha county, Arkansas; zone negro,
named Gabe Walker: Was indicted
for one Of the most outrageous Of
crimes. II seems that he persuaded
two other negroes to accompany him
into the back part of, the Bolton
plantation, where he. made one of
them killthe other: He then cut of
all the fingers on the left hand Of the
dead negro, put them in his pocket,
then cut out his heart, ate some of
the fat from the left side of it, and
then burned the entire heart! He
then made the third negro bury the
body. He gave as his reason for
cutting off the fingers and putting
them in his pocket, and the eating Of
the fat from the left part Of the
heart, that hereafter nothing could
hurt him-neither devil nor man!
and that he would be successful in
all future undertakings. Subse-
quently to the act the ''deyil- body
was ,' discovered, when the negro boy
whom he b, made 1!a perpetrate the crime
acknowledged how it was all done.
Walker ran away, but was subse-
quently apprehended. His case was
continued until the March term.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-12
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-12
Testim oniaIs.

Teetl m n aIb
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oficial intercourse. CHARLES MASON
Commits sioner of Patents.'
Ihave no hesitation in assurin z inventors that
they cannot employ man more competent and
trustworthy and more capable of putting their ap.
pcatlons in form TO secure for them an early and
favorable consideration at the Patent Ohlce
EDMUND BURKE,
Late Commissioner of Patents"
"Mr. r. II. EDDY has made tor me overTHIRTY
applications for Patents, having been successfuln
almost every case. Such unmistakabe proof I
grcattalent and ability on ms part leads me to
ommend all inventors to apply to him 20 procure
their patents, as they may be sure of having the
most faithful attention bestowed on their cases,
JOHN TAGGART.u
Boston Jan. l. 1876. Iva
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-29
FLASHES,

Ernest Baudel, German sculptor. died
at Donauwerth, Bavaria, yesterday.
Chas. f. Fowler, managing agont OF
the Savannah Thoater, died yesterday.
John Day. lite convict, was shot and
killed yesterday at Little Rock, Ark,
while attempting to escape from the
Penitentiary brick-yard.
The Hanoverian Provincial Diet has
unanimously adopted resolution re-
questing Prussia to remove the ssques-
tration placed on the property of Elk.
King George.
John Corcoran and j. Nc9rath, OF Chi
cago, for whose arrest in connection
with the Au Sable crooked whisky cas- @
warrants were issued on Wednesday,
gave themselves up yesterday and were
admitted to bail in 49, 500'each.
Edward Shehan, st. Joseph, NO.,
whisky "crook," who has been hiding in
New Jersey since his Indictment year
ago, appeared yesterday, plealed guilty,
and was sentenced to one year In the
Penitentiary and fine of $1,000.
A shooting affray occurred at Norton.
vile, Kansas, yesterday, between two
men named Ward Terry and L. Robin.
son, during which the latter received a
ouHot AA tAS oiue, "nACn PdSSeu uoWu
into the hip. Robinson died from the
wound, and his murderer is now In Jail.
There was grand illumination OF the
Centennial Grounds last night by means
Of magnesium lights, and colored ores,
and a grand display OF fireworks on
Georges Hill, an eminence to the north
of the Exhibition. Fiity-cent admis-
sions, 217,67S; twenty-fve-cent admis-
siona chi dram AZ TS1. tn the Iiva stock
show, 5,s2S; total cash admissions, 2b7,.
0QG
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-29
Police COurG.

Miscenaneous-C. +. Anderson, three
charges embezziement, continued to &c.
tol Sr 5; Samuel Jones, lettering, dis.
missed; Edward Norton, assault wiIa
Intent to kill, continued to Novembersl,
Jas. White, bribing witness, by jury
this afternoon; Frank. Murray, assaBIs
with intent to kill, continued to SepteR-
Der 80; NJ. Spauley, careless driving,
bail forfeited; e. Stevens, lOiteri1sx,
dismissed; Otto Marmet, Aug. Erosis
king and Il. Marmet, obstruotasE
street, continued to Septembsr sE
Samuel I. Harris, refusing to obey o..
der OF Police Com mission, coptinQed 10
October g.; d. T. Goodhue, Obstruottals
sidewalk, dismissed; q. Molster, Psc-
mitting nuisance, continued to Oct0bea
7; James Ditty, palicious cutting and
destruction OF property, continued "a
October g.; Pat. Riley, J.. q. Niles, 3. 2.
Meeker, Richard L. Wenke, obstrNcting
street, costs; Chas. Kennedy, comman
thief, 80 days, execution issued.
Assault and Battery---Chas. SchOppA
jr., Chas. Schoppel, ST., jury, Octobera
2 p. NJ; B. Kelter, costs.
Drunk and Disorderly-P. Michasls,
IS and costs; VIM. Benltes, dismissei;
Thomas Dudley, Lawrence Whalen
David FARRELL, VIM. Mcintyre, $40 eacssi
Johanna Mcnamara, I. CunningaaRs
30 days; Dennis OConnor, 10 days.
Petit Lareeny--Nellie Suler, contra
ued to Oct. 4.
Grand Larceny-James Newton, oOa
tinueu to Oct. 4.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-29
Political.

BY American Press Association to the STAR.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 70. - Hon. A. r,
Boone has been unanimously renomi.
mated by the Democrats, to represent
the First District Of Kentucky In Con-
gress.
CHICAGO, Sept. 29.-The Republicans
OF the Third Congressional District
nominated Lorsnz Brsntano for Con-
gress. William Aldrich was nominated
by the Republicans of the First District.
He is prominent business man, and
was one Of the leaders in the reform
movement last spring which worked a
revolution in the city government.
LINCOLN, NEB.. Sept. ga. o. Alb.
bott, OF Hall County, is nominated for
Lieutenant Governor. Bruno Tzschuck,
OF sarpy County, the present Secretary
Of State, was renominated for that posi-.
tlon. j. b. West0n, of Gage County, was
renominated tor Auditor Of Stale. j. G,
Mcbride, of Colfax County, was
also renominated for State Treas
urer. All the State officers were nom-
mated by acclamation. Professor s. r.
Thompson, OF Pawnee County, was nom-
mated tor superintendent OF Public III
struction.
HUDSON, N. Y, Sept. ga large
Democratic mass meeting and torch.
light procession took place here last
night.
NEWARK, Nj. Sept. 29.-T. B. Ped
die. of the firm of I. b. Peddie g. Co.,
was nominated bere to-day for Congress
from the Sixth District.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-29
The Season of Fairs.

BY American Press to the Association STAR.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 29.-The great Fair
next week promises to excel in every
respect all previous exhibitions of the
Association. The grounds have been
greatly improved, and many new build
lngs erected. The geological depart
ment has been made special feature,
and made exceedingly attractive by the
purchase Of large number of wild anil
mails, for which splendid dens and cages
have been built.
The number of exhibitors VIII be very
large, and immense crowds OF people
will throng the city throughout the week.
HUDSON, N. Y, Sept. 29.-The annual
meeting of the Columbus County A gri-
cultural and horticultural Association
closed yesterday, after three-days ses-
sion. The attendance was very large,
and the exhibition success in every
respect,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-29
Woods TheateF.

CincinnatianS in the Black Aiaza,
A private letter, just received frpu
the Black Hills,gives some interesting
accounts Of members of the Cincinnati
Expedition that remain there. It ap.
pears, so far as the writer Is abla Su
learn, that but five members Of Col. 4,
T. stones Expedition are still in tina,
Black Hills country. All the otheEa
have either returned, or have gone %
other points West.
Colonel Stone himself is in the tufn-
pike business, having with others se.
cured the building of a road from DEAD.
wood to Custer, distance OF eight
miles, and has charge Of one section OF
forty miles in length. The road is said
to be doing a good business.
LaBoiteauX and Armstrong are with.a
telegraph company experimenting tie
building OF line from Fort LARAMIE to
Custer, thence to Deadweod. They era
interested in the WORK, and both reported
doing well. Mr.. Kelley, OF New York,
another member OF the same party, is
running an express from Qayviiie 10
DeadwOod.
The remaining member is Mr.. .WbeIoek.
He had not been seen by the writer for
some time, but was understood to be ea.
gagged in the boot and shoe business
either at Custer or DeadWOOd,
The country Is reported In o thriyiug
condition and settlers coming Ia despite
all that has been said and done to dis.
them.
At Deadwood they have theater with
performance every night, and m pisteFs
has arrived and breaches twice every:
Sunday.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-29
LOCAL NEWS.

EDWARD Mccoy, little boy fourteen
years old, who lives on New street, was
taken to the Hammond-street Station on
a charge of fincorrigibility.
j. q. FIEDELDEY and dam A. Kramer
were appointed administrators, with the
will annexed, of Joseph Symonds. Per-
s0nalty, $1,000; realty, $4,000.
THE new Methodist Church. at Co.
lumbia,, will be dedicated next Sunday.
Bishop Haven will preach in the morn
ing, and W. l.. Hypes in the evening.
WEare requested by Colonel Guthrie
to announce that the tickets for the Muir
doch entertainment tonight are all
given out, and soldiers and sailors de-
string to attend must come to the Glib
son House this evening and march
around with the body.
HARRY CATLIN, proprietor of the Mint
Saloon on Race street. was cut in the
hand with knife by his former bar
keeper, James Ditty, early this morning.
Catlin was endeavoring to get the crowd
out of his place IN order to close up,
when Ditty, being refused admittance,
slashed away with his knife. A looking
glass valued at $500 was destroyed by a
bottle thrown by Ditty. The wound of
Catlin's is not serious. D!tty was ar.
rested and taken to the Third-street Sta
tion-hOuse.
THE Crispin Organization of Cincin-
natl is making strong headway. Their
meetings are largely attended by the So
Der men of the craft. Their m otto seems
to be moral and not physical force. That
they intend to deal with Justice towards
the manufacturer is evident BY their
circulars apd their a6tioas regarding
y Mr.. kilshsimer. placing 20 obstacles 10
permission to Society men to work for for
him. This augurs we'll tor their future
inharasLs