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The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21

A PHILOSOPHICAL FORECAST. 1T
was ut the market house yesterday
morning. Uncle Cuffee Parkinson,
Of Prince George S, aud Tom Slote,
of Dinwiddie, were discussing be-
tween slices of succulent water
melon, the political issues of the
day. Said Uncle Cuffee, Il amt
gwine ter vote that radical ticket
eny more" "Whyf" said Tom.
WELL said the old man, 81
dreamt I was in he'll last night"
did you see any radical officers
there?' Eyes, I did," said the
old fellow. ''hell was full of 'em,
and every officeholder had a niger
holdin' tween him spd de ire"
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21

Iced 700 awhile yit. Go home
and be content with wat yOor
feeders are a,loin. The Dimocrat
wich asks questions is lost"
And the Deekin and | went into
B,scoin 5, and af er takin a drink
or two, aud lamentin Bob InSer-
soils iuhdellty, separated. The
Deekin forgot to pay for the hkker,
and left it To be charged to me-
BascOm stopped IN the middle oi
a denunsiation nv tue Republicans
far hevin oil the stump such All
impious wretch ez Ingersoil, TO re-
mark that takin likker and gittin
out without payin for it was u Id
outrage. I think everything is
right here now. We renoo our
strength like the eagles.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Reformer.
\
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21
United States Lands.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. !
Registers Office,
Reforner.
Toledo Blade.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Registers Office, :
Naichltoches, August 81, 10
w. Jasper Blackburn, Editor Home.
Had:
SIR-In a late number of youi
valuable paper, you seem inciineo
to think that, by the late act
Congress, the railroad selections
within this Land District have re-
yerted to the United tates, and
are now subject to entry.
This IS not the case, and liz
order to satisfy those interested,
from whom l am In daily recap;
of letters on this subject, / viii
state that no new official instruc-
tons have been received at this
Office In relation to railroad selec-
tons, which are still reserved, ami
not subject to entry, either rs
homesteads or otherwise.
The Act of Congress reads as
follows: "That section 1908 of
the United States, combining the
disposal of the public lands. in
the States of Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida,
to the provisions of the homestead
law, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed; Pyotided, That the repeal
of said section shall not have the
effect to impair the right, COM
plete or inchoate of ANY home
stead settler, ami no land occu-
pied by such settler at the time
this act shall take effect, shall be
subject to entry, presumption OF
sale; And, proUided, That the
public lands affected by this act
shall be offered at public sale as
soon as practicable from time to
time, and according to the pro-
visions Of existing law, and shall,
not be subject to private entry
until they are SO offered"
My impression Is that public
lands are still subject to bone
stead entry; and the only new
feature added by the law Ii t.
throw open to prirdte entry all such
lands, after they shall have been
first offered at public sale. Rail-
road reservations are not affected
by the act, and remain withdrawn
from sale as heretofore. / remain,
sir. Respectfully yours. etc,
l.. DUPLEX, Register.
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21

n All advertisements senf 10 THIS
|O5re. when not otherwise specified. VIII
h inserted till forbid, and charged ac-
|cerdiBgiy.
q Obituary and Marriage notices OF
|sypr one square in length charged IL
ADVERTISEMENTS.
~ Transient advertisements paya-
be in advance quarterly ads. monthly
n advance: yearly ads quarterly IN AL
nance except by special CONTRACT.
II advertisements are not paid Tor
|rbea the time expires for which they
have bsen oIdered 10 h.. published, they
hall be continued. and payment eXacted
Der the full time they appeared III the
|rper.
JOB WORK must be paid for on de-
|iye5.
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21
A Plague-Stricken City.

Mr.. Alexander Sinnot, telegraph
operator in the Western Union
Telegraph Company, who was de-
tailed by the superintendent in
New Orleans to go to Savannah
and remain during the epidemic
writes on the twenty-ffth to a
relative in this city as follows;
After somewhat tedious jour
ney l reached the City of the
Dead Friday evening, feeling very
well. This is a sad place. Every
place of business is closed and the
streets deserted. There is not a
house in the city that has not been
infected with the plague. The
people think of nothing else, and
AS consequence one hears moth
ing but tales of the sick and dying
and their horrible suffering. They
all look upon me with wonder, and
are expecting me to go under all
the time. / was the only passen-
ger ON the Savannah train when
We changed cars at Millen, and mt
every station the crowds of gaping
idiots, who looked as though they
had been scared neigh INTO death,
would make remarks about the
solitary passenger, saying, Il would
be dead In a week 2 Another vic-
tim for old Jack 2 etc.; all of which
would have tendency to weaken
some folks nerves; but as / have
been thar before l gave it back to
them as fast as they sent it. /
can not say when VIII be able to
leave here. There seems to be no
hope OF the fever subsiding until
the frost, though it may be that
when the men who are nov sick
recover can be spared, or be sent
o some other plagued place." =
Washington Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21

II
| A French crit, on american
living, says: Your breakfast is
a mistake. Usually, Immediately
after you rise from your beds, you
partake Of o heavy meal Of steaks
or chops, garnished with potatoes,
followed by tree or four eggs, and
surrounded by hot rolls and buck
wheat cakes. The digestive or
gans vi a healthy person are not
now in condition to receive such a
meal; not till two or three hours
after ooe has awakened do the,
recover from the apathy which
sleep produces. III France, Ger
many, Italy, in civilized countries
IN the East, throughout the Wesi
Indies, among the English, Span
ish, and French Creoles, this law OF
our nature is recognized and re-
spected. You may be less preju-
diced against my suggestions If 1
furnish yon with illustrations from
u colony of Anylo-Saxon origin In
stead Of French Let me submit
the mode Of living among the
white inhabitants Of Barbadoes,
which is similar to that In most of
the Antilles. On rising, q cup Of
coffee and biscuit then q bath !;
then the males of the family pro-
coed to their places of business,
usually about z A. NJ, and at this
hour professional, merchants, and
bankers may be fonnd ut their
offices; ut about 10 A. III. a large
portion Of their duties for the day
are performed So much respon-
sibility is removed from their
minds that they are in u ft condi-
ton &c digest q substantial meal.
They return to their homes foi
breakfast, when they paitake of
fish and chops, accompanied with
the inevitable rice. and followed
by fruit, the whole washed down
with claret or bitter ale, and a cup
of coffee or tea after the meal. The
next and last meal for the day is
dinner. This Is usually taken be-
tween 5 and Z; and, if possible
this meal should be taken after
the day's work il overs
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21

No man can tell when q boy Of
nine 'r ten years is going to break
out in new spot A Cass farm
lad, WAC has besn noted for his
quiet demeanor and steady ways,
all at once took notion to hunt
humble bees. He armed himself
with q wi!e-mouthed bottle and
tramped many luekless stinger.
After securing them he had no
further pleasure except to see
them crawl up and down the
sides of the bottle and whack
their stingers into each other. He
was out early yesterday morning
gathering all the bees while they
were benumbed, and when he
entered the house for breakfast
had aboct thirty overgrown, wick
ed-looklng bubble bees. They
were packed into the bottle heads
and tails and other ways, and the
father catching sight Of them,
spoke up:
"See here. boy. I don't want
any more of this fooling around
after bees. After breakfast you
leave that bottle out doors, and
don't bring another bee around
his house" AAH
The boy placed the bottle be-
hind the dining-room stove. there
was gentle FIRE, and the bottle
had no cork. The family had got
through with the first cup of coffee,
when they heard something going:
"Jing-ring- -ong-long
-rong-g-g-gP
The fire warmed the bees up,
aud they left the bottle to warm
the family up. 1t was business
affair, aud the bees went III to do
heir best. The boy slid out at
The first alarm, but the old folks
ionrished their napkins until slid
ne out would have done no good.
The old gent got sting on his
eft ear and another ON his head
1t the same second, while the old
adv was punctured in the should
,r and yelled Murder!" with all
her might
"Manl-marl EN- 7" shouted the
I'D gent, wavin the butter dish
round and getting another needle
nto his neck.
Police! Police!" squealed the
I'D la.ly. diving, under the table
% q big bee settled on the lobe of
Ter ear.
1t was a very even fight for .
While, but then the man got down
ellar and she few for a bed
Dom, the ones deep bass voice
houting: "Gimme the csmphor.
3etsey! = and TIE other squeaking
'ut II you love me go for .
lOctorw
No one knows what became Of
he boy. he is reported rs mis-
ing Seated under the swsying
'ead OF some stunted thorn-tree
N the commons, he lr ks longing
y toward home. but he realizes
hat his reception viii be red-hot
Wild Data Is
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21
Nasty.
DE Exceedingly Troabiesons Qaes-
ton OF Reform.

CosFEpEIr y ROADS,
IWich is in the State Nv kentuc, r
September 10. 1876
It. takes a great deal of wear
Ind tear 10 be- u leedin Dimocrat,
more than feel | kin stansi at my
~ Of life, periicerly as Bascom
5 w1erin his hkker more and
more every day. On insutfishent
sustenanee it's impossible to watch
~ he pints and keep all the sheep
tafsly in the fold. l am longin
fw the elecshun and iGogerashen
~ that great reformer, Tllden, so
That ia the posiotfis l kin enjoy
TIE froots Nv my laber, and by
sttn my likker by the gallon in
cid nv in desultory and infrekent
links, | kin be shoor of both
auality and quantity.
Ny last trouble WIS my wust,
md 1t tux me an entire day to git
straitened. Pollock and Bigler
nd got hold of a Moo York Dun
cfafic paper, one wich I he'd been
apotin as authority, and went
nom one bar-room to another and
ed 1t to every Dimoerat in the
aage. They even penetrated
sseom's, and before I got In, he'd
lnOosed their pisen in that sakred
precinct. 1t contained long arti-
YES shown that Tilden, our stand
~ earer, wuz committed, sole
~ body, not only to hard money
70 imelit resumpshen, but that
ms q reformer NV the resorm-
nnd, goln so far as to pledge
sell never to pay dollar Nv
''u1nern war-claims, never to re-
Aonsn nigger-servitood in any
~ and never to appint to offs
but them ez wus ittid fur it,
y heh as wouldn't steel.
iaey did thisswhile [ wus out
anl1n a hundred DEMOCRATS to
0'er into Inieana to vote in the
NEST ov reform in October.
When l returned there wus trou-
was surrounded by a hun
indignant Dimocrats demand
o' me wat I wui goin to do
but ii.
am for Reform" sed Deekin
sam @but l am goin to be paid
esu sweet potatoes snd them
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21
rbt Gulfar Gbronltle.
L,r, fsgEp EVERY SATURDAY, BY
M SWEENEY
TERMS:
ADVERTISING RATES:

souare. q inch space) first Insertion,
|, ,s: each subsequent insertion 80 cts
.n ,etiops of square charged ~ y
y, .,n,re. unless otherwise aSrTed
~. cards of Personal na,uce, when
Lsn;..ible, charged at double rates.
Professional aud Business Card~,
y ope squire, $40 per year; two
Issars, sl5.OO.
C.xprpATss' ANNOUNCEMENT 80
H. cash must in every instance ac-
rsmpsny the oider'
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21
ce-rails wich Fedral pikkits

HcI eiter, Dut waul pay ioi
them theIe horses wich John Nor
gan seszed, wich he wood'ent hev
done bat for Fedral invaders,
w:ch makes the government cleer-
~ responsible for theml"
81 am for Reform" said Issaker
Gdvitt, "but wat is reform to me
# | kant be collector of this dees-
trick
Shaken NV EN- off / smiled sad
and pensive smile at the chilJ-like
inosense, and, mountin a stump,
addressed em.
My friends" 1 remarkt, does
water ever get higher than its
fountain he'd? Is a Christian ever
better taan the Ten Command
ments ? Then I bed to explain
to EN- wit the Ten Commandments
WIS. Dad you ever know a party
IL rise above the source Of its
strength? It's all very well for
this vie sheet in Moo York 10 talk
boat hard money there, for the
bioatid bondhoiders Of the Dim
ocrisy there want it; but do We :?
Not any. We want paper, and
lots NV it, and we're agoin to hev
It, What kan the East do about
resoomln Hev the Dimocrisy
eny strenth there? Jest enough
to nold the postotfises in case the
Dirnocrisy elect a President. Bat
who elects Dimocratic President?
We Nv Kentucky, Nv Virginny, NV
Maryland, and NV Georgy. Mas
sachasetts wants hard money. but
is oar beloved Tilden goin back on
Kentucky, where he hez trends,
fur the sake of Massachusetts,,
where he hezient q corporal's
guard
''And speekin Nv the payment
Nv the claims of Deekin Pogram
and Captain McPelter, how is the
government goin to refoose it
Amt we the Dimocratic party. we
and sech as we from the southern
States? Will there be q member
of Congress elected in the South
whose constityooents didn't lose
fence rales, and mules, and sweet
potatoes? All, my trends, when.
Sherman swept to the sea, he did
Mt realize wat debt he was pilin
up which his very soljers will hev
to pay when we Reformers git
control agin. Possibly had them
so'jers knowd that they'd hev to
pay for them sweet potatoes, with
the cost Nv kollecshun, they wood
ent hev gobbled so many NV 'em.
Our representatives viii be safe
on this question, and es the North
ern Dimocrats will git their wl,ack
in. they will be satisfied NV the
justis Nv the claims. Wat else
hav we to consider in the matter ?
And es to the offises, where
does Samyooel Tilden git his sup
port from in his own State /? Is it
out in Delaware county, where the
people make much of skool-hoases
and churches and sich, them twin |
destroyers of Dimocrisy? No!
Baxter street and sich is his |
slrenth. Is John Morrisey, and |
John Kelly, and Oaky Hall and
Boss Mclaughlin supportin ov
him? Metlinks they are. Hev
they experienced a change nv hart?
Hev they got SO good in Their ma
loor yeers that they won't take an
ofis, or see that Their trends hev
em? Is Tilden agoin to take his
zone from Delaware county. or
rom the cities where he gifts his
naiorities?
"Oh, We nv little faith! I am
ashamed nv 700. Don't trouble
about the spoils till 700 see the
thieves OppOsiu nv him Go home
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21
The Senate Of the Forty-6fth
Congress.

noninally of seventy-fpur MEM
bers, but there has been vacancy
for some time from Louisiana, and
the death Of Senator Caperton, of
West Virginia, reduces the actual
numoer Of Senator's at present to
seyenty-two, of whom forty-four
are Republicans, of varying de-
grees of partisanship, and twenty
eight are Democrats. The Senate
of the Forty-ffth Congress will be
Increased IN number Of members
by the two from Colorado, and as
the vacancy from Louisiana will
also be flied, and u Senator to sue
coed the late Mr.. Caperton will
also be chosen, it will have men,
bership IL seventy-six, requiring
thirty-nine to constitute a majori
ty.
OF the present members of the
| Senate, forty-six hold over for two
n more years. Twenty-seven Of
hese are Republican and nineteen
Democrats. Senators for the full
term of six years after the fourth
If March next have already been
-lected in Iowa, Kentucky, Missis
sippi, New Hampshire, Oregon.
Rhode Island, Texas aud Virginia.
Five of the retiring Senators are
Republicans and three are Demo-
Gratis. In the next Senate the
number viii be exactly reversed,
6ve of the Senators elect being
Democrats and three Republicans.
In Maine the Legislature elected
IN September will choose the
United States Senator, and Sena-
tor Blaine, who now holds by
Guher Material appointments, vii,
undoubtedly be sent to the Senat.
for the full term. The election #
a Republican Legislature in Color
ado gives the Republicans the two
Senators from the new State. Ad-
ding these two and the one from
Maine to the three Republican
Senators already chosen. the Re-
publicans have six of the new
members, the Democrats FIVE, and
he politics IF the remaining nine
yeen Senators of the result Of the
legislative elections in those States
IN which the Legislatures which
stall elect Senators have yet to be
chosen this year.
Without including these nine
teen, the Republican strength Is
thirty-three and the Dem ,cratic
Iwenty-fuur. Two of the nineteen
Senators to be elected are 30 fill
vacancies. The remaining seven
teen. eleven are Republicans and
six are Democrats. Provided the
Republicans elect but six. they
vii have "A majority In the senate;
while the Democrats, to obtain a
majority, must gain the two vacant |
seats and elect thirteen Senator's
for the fall term, or, in all, fifteen |
Of the nineteen.
The Democracy will more than
hold their own in the States in
whieh Legislatures that will elect
Senators are to be chosen. The
probability is that ten of the nine
teen will be Democrats; there is q
chance of electing thirteen, but
scarcely a possibility of electing
more. The probability is, there
fore, that the Republicans will
have forty-two and the Democrats
thirty-four members in the next
Senate, with q fair chance that
the Republicans will have only
thlrt y-nine and the Democrats
thirty-seven. In suy event there
will be an increase in the Demo-
cratic strength in the Senate over
what it is at present.-Detrod Free
Press.
De- L.. I--I~o1 E.-.-
The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1876-10-21

Paris has six hundred finger
nail doctors, scratching for hv-
ing.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-06-22
PACIFIC COAST.

San Francisco, June 21.-It is q COM
mon report among prominent Demo.
cratic politicians Of this city that Gene.
raj Hancock of Ohio. and Judge Hager Of
California, will be candidates for nomi-
nation for President and Vice President
Of the United States before the Demo.
cratic Convention at st. Louis.
The Republicans hold grand rati6ca.
ton meeting tonight ct Union Hall.
Late yesterday afternoon the body oil
an unknown man,was found on the beach
at Alameda Point. Nothing found to
indicate the identity of deceased.
PORTLAND. Ogn., June 20-evening.--
The water has risen five and half inches
since yesterday. flooding First street,
north OF Washington, and it is now go.
ing back to Second street, in Couch
addition. The water is rising above
ground as far back as Fifth street.
Gas has failed tonight and probably
there will be no more gas light until the
water recedes.
At Dalles the river rose TX inches
FROM half-pAst six last night to 8 o'clocL
this morning, and is now a foot higher
than in 1862. There is but one dwelling
house occupied on Front street. II l,al
been raining hard nearly all the after
noon.
WASHINGTON. June 2l.-The Presi
dent has sent message to the Senate
nominating Senator Morrill, of Maine t
be Secretary Of the Treasury.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-06-22

have q charmed life as il has been passed
before, but stopped BY not receiving the
Presidents signature. 1t calls for the
expenditure OF "a perfectly indefinite
amount. some placing it as high as Q
hundred millions. The Times calls at
tention to the fact that when passed by
former Congress. 1t was called Q
specimen OF Republican extravaeance.
II is understood that Vanderbilt was
very low last night and not expected to
recover.
The Times Washington special says
that the House Committee on Expendi-
lures on Public Buildings. are investi-
eating the New York postofics, several
Witnesses are already examined and
more to follow.
It is alleged that 1927, 900 have been
expended on the buildings in excess Of
the amount appropriated and this in
violation Of law. $220.000 Of this is
still due and unpaid. The parties who
furnished labor and material, are clam
orous for their pay. II is not charged
that deficiency comes from corruption.
Yesterday the California rifle team,
who are to compete in the Centennial
rifle shooting match, left Bucks hotel,
Hahoken. for Philadelphia.
The World praises the soldier bounty
bill and points with pride to the fact
that the entire south voted for the mea-
sure, as a sign that they are now loyal.
Several Democratic Congressman have
gone to St. Louis and more will follow
during the next four days.
WASHINGTON, June 2l.-Mr. New this
morning sent the President his resigua-
tion as Treasurer of the United States.
The Committee on Banking and Cur
rency. had under consideration to-day.
the bill for the repeal of the specie re.
sumption act. Two amendments will be
allowed to be offered in the house, one
for the accumulation OF coin in the trea-
sury, preparatory to the resumption of
specie payments and the other providing
for the funding of greenbacks. The
committee we're evenly divided. as to re-
porting to-day, one member being alb
sent another meeting will be held to-
| morrow.
The Senate confirmed the nomination
Of Morrill, to be Secretary of Treasury,
without the formality Of reference.
Senate-Sherman called up the House
Joint Resolution, authorizing the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to issue ten million
dollars in silver coin in exchange for
legal tender notes. He submitted an
amendment. providing that trade-dollars
shall not hereafter be legal tender and
authorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to limit the coinage thereof to such
amount as he may deem sufficient to
meet the export demand for the same,
which was agreed to. Sherman said he
thought at least twenty million dollars
should be issued. He moved to amend by
inserting that amount instead oil
ten millions, but objection was made
and he withdrew the amendment. The
Joint Resolution was then passed.
Sherman called up the Joint Reaolu'
ton to authorize the President to ap
point commissioners to attend the In
ternational Conference upon the subject
of relative value Of gold and silver coins
Passed.