The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-12-05
MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.
ALEXANDRIA,
Nov. %, 18TH

ALEXANDRIA,
Nov. %, 1871
Members met, pursuant to a call OF
the President. Present j. Levin,
B. C. Duke, I. C. Miller, ]. A. Cruik-
shank, j. H. Sullivan, B. Turner,
Carter Carr and Libanius Kennedy.
Absent-Steven White.
The President then stated the OBJ
iect of the meeting was to take into
consideration the subject of Finances
of the Board of School Directors for
the Parish of Rapides. That the
debt incurred for teachers salaries,
ETC., for the quarter ending Novem-
Der 3Oth, amounted to some $2SOO,
and as he had no official information
upon which to base any calculation
as to what would be the apportion-
ment of school funds for this Parish
for the quarter just ended, whether,
in view of these circumstances, it
would be wise and just to continue
the public schools throughout the
Parish, or to temporarily suspend the
same
DR.. Cruikshank moved that the
Public Schools throughout the Parish
be discontinued during the months
of December and January next.
Motion seconded and carried. Yeas
7; nay l. Thereupon the meeting
adjourned. j. LEVIN,
B. TURNER, President.
Secretary.
THE District Court convened
and was opened, in regular Fall term,
on Monday. The following are the
grand inquest of the Parish: Geo. L.
Wilson, Foreman; j. Fl. Caruth, B.
F. Carroll, John We'll, ]. H. Dawson,
T. Spence Smith, Frank Cassel, r.
W. Waddell, Prince A. Prothro, Robt.
Hawthorn, L. 7. Dulaney, W. R.
Hobbs, A. G. Compton, Watkins
Amber, W. L. Squires and Romeo
Herbert. This is really an excellent
and respectable Grand Jury, free OF
ignorant negroes and d--n phool
white men. Thirteen are whites and
the three colored ones are truly de-
cent, good and competent jurymen,
entirely above the average colored
juror.
CONSUMPTION CURED.-An old ply
sician, retired from active practice,
having had placed in his hands, by an
East Indian missionary, the formula
of simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of Con-
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma
aud all Throat aud Lung affections
also a positive and radical cure fol
General Debility and all nervous com.
plants, after having thoroughly tested
it's wonderful curative powers in thou.
sands of cases, feels it his duty to make
it known to his suffering fellows. The
recipe will be sent free of charge, to
all who desire it, with full directions
for preparing and successfully using
Address, with stamp, naming this pa
per, DR.. ]. c. STONE, A North Ninth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sine that "Song" to the vast and
melancholy solitude of the Sierra
Nevada forests. Sing it to the grand
and hoary headed Alps, where only
the thunders of the Avalanche re.
echoes the notes of your voice. Sing
it to the white-winged angels in the
celestial regions. But don't come
singing it around this office.-[P Puck
|
i The Republicans in the United
States Senate are dying hard, under
the little Democratic skirmishes
they are now having, but these arr
only slices of the day of judgment
that will commence on the 4th O
March, 1881.
SENATOR SHARON, whose vot,
the Republicans are SO eagerly long
, ing for, bought his seat in the Sen
, ate, paid for it with his own money
} and surely has a right now to d,
with his own property what he will
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AGAIN we desire to call particula
attention to the well-known, large an
commodious Livery Stable, situated a
the corner of Third and DeSoto streets
which is offered for sale or rent i
these columns.
PATTERSON and Conover, whoI
our Republican friends have all alon
; considered good enough to vote. fo
and with them; ought now be consid
cred good enough when they vot
against them.