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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

The New Orleans Democrat and
the Picaynne pronounce IN favor of
constitutional convention on the
single ground that the present
constitution of the State is, in. the
true sense of the word, no consti-
tuition at all. The call for the con-
vention which framed it was MIL
itary order, Il process,of calling Il
convention foreign to our theory OF
government; the men who framed
1T were not IN reality citizens OF
Louisiana, and the mass of the
people most deeply interested were
excluded FROM voting on its ratifi
cation. Upon these grounds they
consider that we have no eonstitu-
ton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19
Abolish Grant Parish"

| his Is the CRY Oi TIE AleAtuurld
Democrat, our neighhepr of tue adj
joining parish of Rapides. The
reasons it gives for the abolishing
of this plrish are weigh V and
highly creditable to. the genius
that furnished them.
'The territory and peoole' that for
merly belonged to Rapides was wrong
fully taken from her. aid now that we
get our own back again, W respectfully
bit firmly demand that it be restored
to u.s.
As Rapides parish rs very
small tract it is but proper that its
size should be increased, and as
this slicing up affair was great
wrong 1T should be condoned for,
That parish has our sympathy.
"The whole concern was ga:cmand-
cred fDr the express purpose of making
it anJRapidcs Republican in politics.
As all three of the Represents
tives of Rapides are true to De
mocracy, while Mr.. Randolph, of
Grant, is not, we see the force of
the argument.
''The people taken away from us are
good people. the hill neople we mean.
and We don't believe they ever wanted
To leave us.
Grant parish seems to have some
good people in it. But, then, they
all came from Rapides. That they
prefer Rapides is evidenced by the
hearty support they give the Off
GERS and government in Grant
pari-h.
at would harm nobody just to wine
the who'll concern ont and nat thin s
back where they re before the l;adi-
Gals concluded to make new parish for
the benefit of themselves and Willie
Calhoun"
True-it would harm nobody
but Democrats. We had never
looked at. it in that light. The
Legislature will certainly see to it.
Then the situation, record, etc,
all are Objectionable to the Demo-
crat, and it wants to see Gran t
parish abolished by the Legisla-
tuIe when it meets"
One thing puzzles MS, and that
is 10 know in what respect Alex
andria has the advantage of Colfax
IN location. Some very intelligent
persons have hazarded the opinion
that. there is not a. finer OF more
advantageous site for town on
Red river than the very spot Col
fax is located upon.
1t is noteworthy fact that YER
non and Grant parishes were all
that saved this district from Radi-
calism in the last election, and for
this reason, if no other, the parish
should be abolished.
Somebody do the work aad we will
do the talking
If our neighbor talks to no more
purpose than the foregoing, we ex-
pect to find it making respectful
but firm demands" of the Legisla-
ture for the next score of years.
1t is a matter of conjecture that
the jealousy of the natural rivalry
between the two points may have
something to do with the views OF
the Democrat
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

Owing to the length of the de-
hnquent tax list, the first and sec
ond issues of the CHRoNlcLE will be
printed on Monday. On and after
the Gath inst. Saturday will be the
regular day OF publication.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

Our thanks are due the courte-
Gus officers of that fast and elegant
Red river packet, the new Bart
Able, that stands without rival
in the Red river trade, both as to
speed and the royal manner in
which her passengers are enter
tanned.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

On the morning of Nov. Sth a
large party left New Orleans with
Capt. Cowden to inspect the route
designated for the Barataria Canal.
The party was composed Of mem
bers OF the press, engineers and
citizens, delegates from Memphis,
st. Lonis, Cincinnati and New Or
leans. This begins to look like
the champions of this canal were
III earnest in this matter, and il is
probable that the work will soon
be commenced.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

Secretary Thompson has ordered,
at the solicitation of Congressman
Ellis, a government vessel to be
placed at the disposal of the city
of New Orleans for the improve
ment of the harbor there.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

Lovefs of the noxious will be
panied to learn that they are likely
soon to have to pay more than
present prices for their imported
Havana" from Connecticut. The
biggest kind of Il strike is now III
progress among the cigar-ma kers,
and it threatens to be obstinate.
Many thousands in New York and
other large manufacturing cities
have already quit work and the
number is rapidly increasing. Two
thousand have struck in New Or
leans. This movement originated
among what are known as the ten
ement house workers in New York.
Under the "tenement" system, the
large manufacturers rent one or
two little stived-np rooms to fam
lily, all OF whose members, from five
years upward, in many cases, are
employed at cigar making. BY
charging exhorbitant rents and
paying starvation wages these
manufacturers have made a great
deal of money, and have also pre-
cipitated the present movement.
In New York, when assured ne
gotiations had been completed with
the labor companies to bring three
hundsed Cinnamon to that city
one Of the executive committee OF
the strikers said: "Then there viii
be riot; We are not going to stand
still and let the Cinnamon take
the bread from out of orr mouths /;
we will induce all workingmen in
the city to strike, because OF the
introduction Of Chinese labor,
which affects them as much as 1t
does ourselves; we will not allow
this city to be made a second Sau
Francisco, and if needs be, We shall
drive the Chinese out by force"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

Congressman Ellis has succeeded
IN having Secretary McCrary order
Major Benyaurd, of the Engineer
Corps. to remove the raft il Red
river above Shreveport, and to keep
the river open.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

A young man who was recently
married to girl after proposing
to her eighteen times, now wishes
he hadn't asked her but seventeen
times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

German papers announce the
death Of john Ernest Luther, di-
rect descendant of the Reformer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19


The Item, III speaking of th'
railroad meeting held i'll New Or
leans on the 1th inst, says it Wa,
an encouraging sign of the times
1t showed II determination to meet
the emergencies of the commercial
situation bv a prompt subscription
to complete the New Orleans and
Pacific connection with Shreveport
La, and Marshall: Tex, The ad-
dress of Mr.. j. T. Clark, vice pres
ident of the New Orleans s.. L0ngs
Chicago road, was specially perti-
nent and practical. He advised
our people to make a comparatiyeI
ly small present outlay, i'll order to
secure great and permanent ad
vantases. Notwithstanding the
process OF Squeezing which New
Orleans has undergone under late
and long msrule, lie thought the
necessary S500,000 could yet be
raised among our people.
MIR. lVheelock informed the
meeting that there were now Gao
men employed on the road; that
TIE grading was completed sixty
miles above Alexandra, after which
the work was pushed on from Al
exandria IN tho direction OF New
Orleans. At present there are hut
80 miles to be graded iu Louisiaua,
and by the time the work in Lou
lsiana is completed to the Texas
line our Texas friends will haze
formed the necessary connection
between that point and Marshall.
A thorough canvass of the city
has been decided on, and rs M
earnest of what could yet be ac-
complisLed II subscription list OPP
9ned IN the meeting wars respond
Ell TO to the amount of $1,000.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-11-19

~ All judicial advertisements
must be paid for in Advance, or
they .uiU be discontinued after the
first insertion.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06

THERE is chance for deal of troub-
lie growing out of the failure of the
County Board to do their duty III certain
cases. Mr.. r. P. Eaton has one or more
judgments against the county which
must be paid. The law provides for
the manner in which the money shall be
raised-by assessing each towE and ward
with its just proportion of the amount
which shall be collected and paid by the
County Treasurer to the holder of the
Judgment. Although the attention of
the Board was repeatedly called to the
fact that It must make provision against
this contingency, it was adjourned and
the matter is now in such shape that
Mr.. Eaton can, at the expiration Of a
certain number of days, levy upon the
court house or any other property of the
county and cause it to be scotland the
County Board Will be powerless to pre-
vent it Should the holder of the iudg-
ment forbear from doing this, there is
sure to be big bill of costs in the case,
and regard it as you viii the county
must suffer the consequences of gross
failure on the part of the Board to at
tend to matter of grave importance.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06
UNWARRANTABLE FAVORITIsM

Last Spring the County Board OF Supervisors
authorized their Clerk to obtain bids for print
ing 500 pamphlets coutaing the proceedings of
the board for 1877, the bids to specify the
amount per page for which the work would be
done When the board met this fall and up to
the second day previous to its Adjournment
there were but two bids handed in, one sent in
by us and the other by Mr.. Borcherdt. of the
Tribune, both being made to conform to the
resolution of the board, by specifying the
amount per page the work would be done for
Our bid was made on an estimate of a "a page
pamphlet, with solid nonpdreil type for table
work, and also for itemized bills which were to
be in double columns, has been customary
heretofore. Mr.. Borcherdt'S bid was made on
an estimate of 30 page pamphlet, with loaded
burgeois throughout. There was little differ
ence in the two bids, with the exception that
in ours we charged ten dollars extra for bind
ing. Neither would have exceeded eighty-five
dollars in the sum total, and either of US would
have been glad to have done the work for that
amount. But just previous to the adjourn
ment of the board, G. FL. Schmidt intimated to
the board that he could do the work cheaper,
and they permitted him to put in lump
bid at that late hour, for one hundred dollars :;
and without giving others chance to do the
same and the county will pay from fifteen to
twenty-five dollars more for the work than it
otherN Use would. By all that is fair and hon
orable, the board should have rejected Mr..
Schmidts bid, and given the work to Mr.. Bor-
cherdt, as his bid was the lowest, and conform
ed to the requirements of theresolution Of the
board.-Chfonele.
That's about so, Nash; but when you
couple Ignorance with favortism, you
can't expect justice to be done. Why,
we verify believe that not one member
of the committee that reported in favor
of giving Schmidt the work ever read
the resolution calling for bids If they
acre acquainted with the requirements
of the resolution, and awarded the con-
tract as they did, knowing that the only
proper bids to be considered were those
stating the price per page, the members
were meaner than we would ordinarily
give them credit for. If they did not
know what the resolution called for, it
shows lack of attention to business
which is criminal. T. Ostenfelt, J..
Linstedt and Ell. Gedgen constituted
the committee, and they can take either
horn of the dilemma they choose. They
must plead guilty Of contemplate favor
itism OF total disregard to their duty in
not acquainting themselves with it. AS
it is, the county will pay $25 more for
the work than we offered to do it for
but the bankrupt organ of low demo-
cracy will have received lift out of the
nancial mire which surrounds it.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06

DR.. Easton's Office and Turkish Bath
cor. Eighth aud Chicago SITS. The doctor
makes q speciality of the treatment of
consnm ption, neuralgia, rheumatism,
dropsy, diseases of the eye and all female
diseases, and uses the Bath as an auxil-
iary to medicine in the cure of diseases.
Baths for ladies from s An. to II NJ
Gents from l to PM The n1odats OPP
eyaadi of the Bath is to equalize the cir
cuiation, remove congestion, distribute
nutrition, restore and keep active all the
secretions, whether of the liver, kidneys
or skin. and drives poison from the body.
The only question Is, what diseases will
1t not cure2 Oct-1-12m
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06
LECTURE COURSE,

The first of a course Of lectures will
be delivered by Geo. c. Haddock at the
st. PauFs M. E. Church in this city, on
the evening of Tuesday, December 18th.
The speaker is one of the ablest platform
orators In the State and has a growing
reputation as lecturer, logician and
orator. His subject will be ''Spooks, %
and we feel quite sure that at his hands
the ghosts will be worsted. The course
will consist of five lectures or readings.
The second in the course will occur on
Wednesday evening, Dec. 10Th, and
will be reading by the very first elo-
cutionist in the whole country, Prof.
q. l.. Cumnock. We subjoin few of
the many notices given him by the press:
THE third entertainment of the Young Mems
Library Association was given by Prof. r. L..
Cumnock in the Acadamy of Music, last night.
The varied selections of the programme were
rendered with great power and Evolutionary
finish. The rendition of 'Horatius at the
Bridge was the finest piece of heroic elocu-
ton we ever heard.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
CUMNoCK's READINGs.-Thea cadamy of Mu-
sic was well filled last evening.
As was anticipated, the Professor made a
very judicious selection, and rendered his pieces
most excellently. His longest were placed first
on the programme, and the sentimental and
pathetic were alternated with the humorous,
giving pleasing variety to the entertainment.
Whether he read the chit-chat of the last Gal
dry not, we unaware; but his persona
tons were very effective. The meditation of
his voice was admirable his clocution being
most exemplary.
The first selection was from nicholas Nick
leby''-that part which includes most of Smik 8
history. ''Shamus OBrien; that chapter of
'Hiawatha" in which Minnie-ha-ha dies; the
charge of the Light Brigade;' Jim Sm1ey's
Frog and THE Subscription List for the Re-
pairs and Enlargement of Observation-Disclosures
Chapel" made up the list, each of winch was
received with impressive silence and emphatic
applause, as the most natural impulse of the
delighted auditors would snggest.-Aub1n ". "
Daily Advertiser.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06
COUNTY MATTERS,
Summary Of Proceedings Of the Boara
Up to Friday Morning,

TUESDAY, November Ii, 1S77.-Board
called to order at II O'Clock NJ, quorum
being present. Board adjourned till
O'Clock P. n. At the afternoon session
a number of claims were referred and
the Board adjourned till Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY, November Il, 1871
Board met. The committee On poor
made report stating that contract had
been made with DR.. Simon to attend to
the county paupers in the jail at the
rate of So per month. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, November 10, 1S77.-The
Committee on Sheriff's and Justices,
claims made report. The claims of P.
Mulholland, Sheriff, for 81, 09O13 and
$1,215.64 for board of prisoners, and
claims of S414.2 and $4,000, services,
were found correct and recommended to
be allowed. The Board then adjourned.
FRIDAY, November Is, 1S77.-Sealed
proposals for the publishing of the pro-
ceedlngs of the Board in pamphlet form
were received and referred to the com
mittee on public improvements. The
report of the county Treasurer was also
received and referred. The committee
on poor made report recommending
the allowance of number of claims.
Adjourned till Monday.
MONDAY, November 10, 1S77.-A pc
tition of citizens Of the town of Two
Rivers praying to be set off or apart
from the village of Two Rivers was re-
ceived and referred to a special com
mittee. The report of the County Clerk
was also received and referred, after
which the Board adjourned. ..
TUESDAY, November 20, 1977.-The
only business transacted was the reading
and referring OF a petition and giving
the Clerk instructions not to receive any
more claims during the session.
WEDNESDAY, November q, 1877.-A
number of petitions were presented. A
resolution allowing the Clerk to employ
an assistant to douraw cnty orders and
appropriating SO for that purpose, was
adopted. Also a resolution appointing
committee of three to investigate the
condition of the jail and the prisoners,
the number of prisoners and the amount
per week paid by the county for their
board.
The committee on general claims
made report recommending allowance
of number of claims, which was ADOPT
ed. Following claims We're allowed in
part:
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06

ENJOY LIFE.-What truly beautiful world
we live in Nature gives us grandeur OF
mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of
means of enjoyment, We can desire no better
when in perfect health but how often do the
majority OF people feel like giving it up dis
heartened. discouraged and worried out with
disease when there is no occasion for this feel
ing, as every sufferer can easily obtain salts
factory proof that Green's August Flower will
make them as free from disease as when born.
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direct
cause of seventy-f,ve per cent of such mala-
dies as billiousneSs, indigestion, sick headache,
eostiveness nervous prostration. dizziness of
tho head palpitatiOn of the heart, and other
distressing symptoms. Three doses OF August
Flower will prove its wonderful effect Sample
bottles, 70 cents. Try il.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06

THE County Board before adjourning
adopted a resolution requesting the
members of the Legislature from this
county to vote for an appropria ton to
build large addition to the Northern
Hospital for the Insane. Their action
in this respect is to be commended, for
Notwithstanding the provisions already
made for the treatment of insane persons,
the Accommodations are not ample and In
many of the jails of the state-ours
among others may be found persons
who should receive treatment at the hos
pitfalls but for whom there is no room,
our own county. in particular, having
its full quota there now. Lift is not ad-
visable to build new hospital, let the
State at least have the present hospital
buildings enlarged, which can be easily
ACCOMPLISHED
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06
WANTS TO KNow.-The following has
been received and speaks for itself

MR:EDIToR.-Why is it that in numerous
other counties in this State having greater
population than ours, the Supervisors meet on
Tuesday, transact all the business of the coun-
ty and adjourn on Saturday of the same week,
while here it requires three weeks to do the
same amount of business? This question pre-
sented itself to me upon reading that the Su-
pervisors of Grant county, larger and more
densely populated than ours, transacted all
the business before them in five days. know
there is much hard work 10 BE- done, but is
there not great deal of JslsbuSteriHg over the
equalization of taxes, and is not much time
consumed in the efforts of representatives of
the several towns to tighten their own burdens
of taxable property and throw it upon the
shoulders of their neighbors !? believe such
is the case and to some extent accounts for the
length of the session and vet it appears 10
me that much valuable time is wasted that
could be used to good advantage. outside CT the
quarreling over the equalization of taxation.
LEX.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-06

AS VIE underS tand the law, 1t restricts
the members of the County Board from
drawing pay for more than twenty days in
any one year-which is certainly giving
| time enough to transact the business of
the county. Our present board had
session in the spring and drew pay for
four days services. When they adjourn
ed on Saturday, seventeen days salary
was allowed them, which they drew
in other words, while regarding Thanks
giving as q legal holiday during which
they could not work, they neverth- 50
charged for that days services and CO..
| sequently got pay for one day more than
the law allows. This may seem small
matter to mention-(23 men and one
officer at $500 per day, making S4S. 90
but we have been led to understand that
this was reform" board and that
economy was the order of the day
Reform ie undoubtedly good thing
when someone else can be made to stand
it, but the taxpayers generally would
have been just as well satisfied, perhaps,
if that item of $46 had been saved. In
this connection we differ from the Su
pervisors in that we do not consider
| them the people the servants of
the people. There are some a0orkcrs
in the Board who would have finished
the session sooner, but they were in the
| minority and, in fact, did not lay claim
to the proud title Of 'sreformers." The
Fsreform" movement was led by a gentle
man who during the first two or three
days of the session did not present him
self in the Board at al]-but who drew
| his $500 per day all the same. OF
! course when we see such an earnest
desire on the part Of members to prac-
! tee economy we can not fail to admire
| their zeal but we should all have been
as well pleased and as ready TO accord
them full measure of praise if they
had nobly refused to accept pay for the
days they spent at work on their farms.
The best way to reform is to reform.
HfB. JaHS SCHUETTE has contracted
with Messrs. E. p. Aiiis d Co., OF Nil
waukee, for new 125 horse power en-
| CINE for the Oriental Mills. The boiler
| IS TO be taken out of the basement and
| placed in a new structure now being
| built for it, and three additional run of
stone are to DO added, thus doubling
the capacity of the mill. All the old
machinery is to be replaced by what ID
known as ''belt gearing" which will
have the double effect of giving steadier
motion and consequently making better
| -four, and enabling the engineer to stop
| any portion of the machinery without
shutting down." When all the con-
templated changes are completed there
| viii be seven run of stone on -four, one
feed, one on pearl barley and ono for
grinding plaster, making the mill one Of
the largest as well as one of the best in
| Northern Wisconsin. The new engine
is to cost So, 900 and the other improve
ments and additions some 5000 more.
/ We are pleased to note this evidence of
prosperity on the part of one of our
| most energetic business men