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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-05-02
THE SOUTH AND MR.. HAYES,

tv as TO the action Of some of the
members of the House from the
South in the organization of that
branch Of Congress. 1t is feared by
the Democrats and claimed hy Mr.
Hayes party that enough Southern
Democrats will forsake their party
and cooperate with the others to elect
Garfield, the Hayes candidate, Speak
err Of the House. The question sta
ted in more general terms is whether
! the Southern Democrats will take
AIr. Hayes word for his Southern
policy" or by a strict perseverance III
the course Of opposition hitherto so
successfully pursued in connection
with the Democrats Of the North,
force him to carry it out in accord
ance with the recognized principles
of right and justice. Upon that
question we desire to pat ourselves
on record as uncomprOmisingly OPP,
posed to any ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of that
grand old Democratic party, around
whose name there clusters so many
memories Of glorious victories and
whose record is filled with the histo
ry of so many heroic struggles to
secure the rights of the South.
In 1865 when the South, PROSTATE,
bleeding and bankrupt lay at the
mercy Of her cOnquerors and the IA
na1iciSm of the North would have
made her feel the weight Of its bate,
the Northern Democrats who had
fought Il most to man for the pre-
~crvation of the Union, when the
Union was no longer IN danger, in.
lerposed themselves rs q barrier he
tween the conquered South and the
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-05-02

--JUsT simply that the times are
dull and hard, and money as scarce
rs hens teeth, is the simple reason
why we call again on our delinquents
to come and pay up their small dues
to the DEMOCRAT.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-05-02
LOUISIANA In THE Q. S. SENATE.

Spoford and Eustis! The day of
Louisiana's freedom has come indeed
when it is the privilege Of her own
people to select two such men to re.
present her in the Senate Of the Ma
ton. Theirs are names, such as we
remember in ante bellum times when
the States chose their favored sons
for that high place, and when to be
a Senator, was second only to being
President. No better commentary
on the evil days through which we
have passed can he found than that
Louisiana had fallen so low, as to
have been represented in the United
States Senate by such men as West
and Kellogg. Bv the side of theirs
how great and how grand sound the
names of Spofford and Eustis! Both
of them are names identified with
the palmy and better days of Louisi-
ana, that Of the latter through his
father who filed with credit and
dignity a seat on our Supreme bench,
place which was also held by Judge
Spoford. The Louisiana Senatorial
delegation will compare favorably
with that of any Of the States, and
when Judge Spoford rises to address
that august Senate, one could with
out violence imagine that he sees
Cicero speaking to the Roman Sen
ate. 1t will trouble them to find any
excuse to keep him out of his seat
and once on the floor of the Senate.
there is no man in it who will &C
quit himself with more credit to his
State and more honor to himself than
Henry NJ. Spofford. Nor will we
have ever to blush for the standing
of Senator Eustis in the Senate. He
is not so well known as Judge Spot
ford, being much younger man, but
he has much ability, and fine pres
ence, and we have no fears of his not
being a worthy associate for Judge
Spoford. We are proud of our Sen
ators, and hail their election as the
harhinger ofthe return Of the lines
when the voice of Louisiana through
such noble, upright and able men,
shall have its share of influence in
the Councils of the Nation.
In the House also we will have
able and creditable Representatives
in Messrs. Gibson, Ellis, Robertson
"nd Elan, and with Spotford in the
Senate with his eloouence, and the
"silver tongued orator." Ellis, in the
House, there can be no room for fear
that our interests will not be faith
fully guarded and Our rights secured
and protected. What eloqnencc of
! the highest order, honorable names
and manly bearing can DO for us
will be done, and with such guar,
dians at the post of danger, we can
rest easy, free from any dread of fur
shr oppression an;l wrong.
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-05-02

precedent of President Grant, but
also by the bargain made for him
through his friends with the South
ern members. They carried out their
part of the bargain and if he has
now, after much hating and uncer-
tainty, at last carried out his part, it
is no more than was bought and paid
for under rather questionable circum-
stances and we certainly owe him no
gratitude for delivering the goods
which we paid for some time ago.
But Mr.. Hayes says again that he
wants t. build up respectable party
in the South. We do not sympa-
thize with him in this desire. We
have all along bad party embracing
all the clements of responsibility and
if his party in the South has been
disreputable and has brought its sup
porters into odium let him purge it
from within. We have more to hope
for and expect from steady, united
oppc sition to the Republican party
at all times and our safety is better
assured By the harmonious working
together Of the solid Democratic par
ty, North and South, than by trust
ing to barren promises that Mr..
Hayes as politician may not mean
to keep and which, if ever so willing,
he NAV he unable to keep. We are
not ready to sell our birthright for a
mess Of pottage nor are we eager to
abandon the party which has stood
BY us In our hours Of sore necessity
to go whining after strange gods in
our old age.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-05-02

PACKARD has gone to meet
Chamberlain.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24

II
We used to walk together In the twilight,
He whispering tender words sweet and low.
As down the green lanes when the dew far
ing,
And through the woodlands where the birds were
calling.
We wandered In those hours so long ago.
But now walk In purple cleaning
Adown the ianes-my love and i-ah me
The time has passed for such romantic roaming
He holds the baby while I'm getting tea.
We used to ait with lamp turned low-together,
And talk OF love and its divine effects,
When nights were long and wintry was the
weather;
Far nobler he than knight with knightly feather,
And i to him the loveliest Of my sex.
Now oft when wintry winds howl round the gable,
Immersed In smoke he pores DER gold and
stock,
The fact ignored that just across the table
The lovelest of her sex sits darning socks.
Oft when arrayed 10 suit my hero's fancy,
tripped TO meet him at his welcome call,
He looked unutterable things-his dark eye glow
ing
In fond approval at my outward showing
His taste in laces, dresses, jewele-aIl!
Now If perchance we leave the house together,
When friends invite prima donna sings,
He scans my robe (bought new fer the occason),
And foots the bills-and looks unutterable things
-Nep York World.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
{" Bijah.0

It was rather mean in the boys, but
they like Bijah and feel that he will for
give and forget. He had just commenced
sweeping out when a boy came running
around the corner and excitedly in
CURED:
where's Bijah-where's the old
MANI"
81 am here" was the deep-toned
reply. Have you discovered pug
nosed boy on somebody's doorstep?"
Here's telegram for you-charges
30 cents" said the boy, as he handed it
out.
The old man turned shade paler and
his chin began to culver as he held the
telegram between his teeth and hunted
for change. When he had raked up four
nickels and ten coppers he sat down to
open the envelope, musing:
81 know it is bad news. / dreamed
of walking in a green meadow with an
angel last night, and L thought her
breath smelled of lager and she'd lost off
her hustle. guess my sister is dead. !"
The dispatch read:
BosToN, Aug. 10, 1877.
BIJAH JoY-Mayor of this city leaves for De-
troit this morning to have a look ut your feet
Please fatten them out as big as you can.
Tom COLLINS.
He read it over three times without
stopping, and, when he finally realized
it's full significance, he slid up to the
corner to look for the boy. The boy was
half block away, waiting for an explo-
sion. They stood and looked at each
other for long minute. They were
like two statues. Neither smiled a smile.
One could have heard an omnibus drop.
Bijah at length forced CHASTITY grin and
called out:
aren't you the dear. good boy whom
I promised six figs, ten yum-yums, and
a pound of candy2"
Yepp," was the ready reply.
"Then come and get them, darling
come and feast and be happy. Oh how
/ do love boysl"
"I'll see you later. Please call at my
Office" retorted the lad.
Biiah made rush, struck an awning
with his head, knocked down some cloth
ing and fell against rack, and as he
hmped back to his den the clothier came
out and said:
"If 1 was an elephant I'd eat hay and
have regular stall in some barn. DE
trOit Free Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
A Three. Year.Old Heroine.

A remarkable feat was performed by
the little 3-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Smith, of Pelican,
Mimi, and niece of Mr.. and Mrs. S. M.
Woodwork, of Audubon. While Mrs.
Woodwork was on visit to her sister
one night, Mrs. Smith was taken alarm
ingly i'll. Mr.. Smith was away from
home at the time, and no one near the
house to render assistance save Mrs.
Woodwork and the child. Mrs. Wood
worth could not leave, so she called lit
tie Angie and asked her to go to the
house of a neighbor, three-quarters of a
mile distant, and summon assistance.
The child did as directed in an incredi-
bly, short space of time, and upon her
return with the neighbor it was found
necessary to summon a physician. 1t
was now nearly dark. and a storm brew
ing yet this brave little heroine again
took the road and went to the nearest
neighbours house, distance of one and
a fourth miles in the opposite direction
from her first trip, where she found
man to go for physician. Ere her re-
turn to her home the storm had so in
creased as to render her progress very
slow, and the vivid and constant light
ming might well have stricken terror into
the heart of many an older pedestrian !;
yet this 3-year-old child bravely and
faithfully performed her mission and re-
turned in safety. (lfinr.
Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
A Relic of Poe.

in the house of a gentleman in this
city," says the Kokomo Ind. Dispatch,
"we saw a poem written on the blank
fy-leaf of an old book. Noticing the
initials, E. A. p, at the bottom of the
poem, it Struck us that possibly we had
run across bonanza. The owner of the
book said he did not know who the au-
thor of the poem was. His grandfather,
who gave him the book containing the
verses, kept an inn in Chesterfield, near
Richmond, Va. One night, a young
man, who showed plainly the marks of
dissipation, raped at the door, asked if
he could stay all night, and was shown
to room. That was the last they saw
of him. When they went to his room
the next morning to call him to breakfast
he had gone, but had left the book, on
the fy-leaf of which he had written the
verses" The editor of the Dispatch
believes that Edgar A. Poe was the
writer of the poem, and that it has never
previously been printed. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Leonanie-angels named her;
And they took the light
OF the laughing stars and framed her
In a smile of white;
And they made her hair of gloomy
Midnight, and her eyes of bloomy
Moonshine, and they brought her mo
In the solemn night.
In a solemn night of summer,
When my heart Of gloom
Blossomed up TO greet the conner
Like "A rose in bloom;
All forebodings that distressed nae
forgot as Joy caressed me-
Lying JOY that caught and pressed me
In the arms OF doom
Only spake the little lisper
In the angel tongue;
Yet l, listening, heard her Whisper
"Songs are only snng
Here below that they may grieve you
Tales are told you to deceive you
So must Leonainie leave you
While her love is young"
Then God smiled and it was morning,
1fatchless aud supreme:
Heavens glory seemed adjoining
Earth with its esteem;
Every heart but mine seemed gifted
With the voice of prayer, and lifted
Where my Leonainie drifted
From me like dream.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
Four Hours Of Mortal Peril.

Near the site of the new Catholic col
lege, on the hill west of Omaha, well
was dug twenty years ago, and walled
with brick. The supply of water failed,
and about two weeks ago, Mr.. H. w.
Brown undertook to bore in the bottom
to gain better supply. This was done
and curbing was put in; but quicksand
was struck, and this caused falling in
ut the bottom. Accordingly Mr.. Enoch
Collins descended into the well on a rope.
Soon, however, the bricks began to cave
in around him, and he cried out to the
men above to pull him up, and be-
gan at the same time to ascend the rope
hand over hand. But he was caught by
the general caving in of the brick wall
above him, his hands still on the rope
stretched above his head. In this atti-
tude he was buried under column of
brick forty-fve feet in depth.
The struggle to save him was then be-
gun by men who were at work near by.
They were able to converse with him
even at the great depth at which he was
buried, and the work was continued
without cessation for four long hours,
until at last fifty feet of wall was taken
off, and ut about z o'clock Collins was
brought out alive, and was enabled to
walk with a firm step to coach.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
An AstOnished Legislator.

Ex-Gov. Seymour's nephew, Mr.. r..
b. Miller, has just died in Utica. While
Seymour was Governor in 1863 he gave
Mr.. Miller the Office of Pardon Clerk
an Office which he filled with efficiency
and integrity. A member of the Legis-
lature once applied for pardon for one
of his constituents, and sought to secure
favorable report from Mr. Miller. "Ill
tell you what I'll do, he said, with the
rascally bluntness of one who believes
that every man has his price; "I'll give
you hundred dollars if you'll get the
Governor to sign that pardon" Mr..
Miller stifled his indignation, and, with
quizzical smile on his face, offered to
attend to the business Immediately.
well go right in and see the Cover
nor, he said. Reaching the executive
presence, Mr.. Miller remarked, with
great show of interest, "Gov. Seymour,
this is the Hon. Nj. He is men,
Der of the Legislature, and he wants
pardon for one of his constituents. He
offers me hundred dollars if I'll get it
for him. I'll go you halves on the money
if you'll sign it - The astonished mem
Der, taking in the situation, precipitate-
lv fled
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
HE NEVER TOLD A LIE.


saw him standing In the crowd
A comedy youth, and fair
There was a br 'ghtness in his eye,
A glory In his hairl
4 saw his comrades gaze on him
His comrades standing by;
And heard them whisper each TO each:
I" He never told lie !"
1 looked in wonder on that boy,
AS he stood there, so young:
10 think that never an untruth
Was uttered by his tongue.
L thought of all the boys I'd known
Myself among the fry
And knew of mono that one could say
He never told lie !"
4 gazed upon that youth with awe
That did enchain me long;
I had not seen boy before
SO perfect and 80 strong.
And with something of regret
wished that he was L,
SO they might look AT me and say:
He never told lie."
thought of questions very hard
For boys TO answer right:
HOY did you tear those pantaloons -
"My son what caused the fight ?"
Who left the gate ajar last night?"
who bit the pumpkin pie?
What boy could answer all of these,
And never tell q lie?
took him proudly by the hand
My words Of praise were rife;
blessed the boy who never told
A falsehood in his life;
told him was proud of him
Afellow standing by
Informed me that that boy was dumb
Who never told liel
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
Milk for Gastric arrangements.

A writer in LIE Courier Medical, on
the use of milk in hot weather, states
that his attention was directed to the
subject by noting the value OF milk in
dysentery, ulcer of stomach, and various
acute and chronic gastro-intestinal affec-
tons, and he, therefore, employed milk
in the treatment of gastric arrangements
SO frequently induced by high temper
ature. In very hot weather, small
draughts of milk are found to relieve
thirst. and to render unnecessary the
drinking of many fluids, which, though
they may allay thirst, are liable to pro-
duce some disorder at the same time. A
case is cited in which, during the fear
fully hot weather of last summer, gastric
derangement was produced in the pa
tent. with great thirst and cramping
pains in the bowels; laudanum had been
taken without success, but relief fol-
lowed the administration of warm milk
a small cup every quarter of an hour
by the next day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
HAwK-EYE DOTS.

HAWK-EYE DOTS.
The song of the book keeper"
charge to keep have" ~
If you want to get malt. treated, go to
a German picnic.
"The hour the Turk lay dreaming"
about must have been about Plevna
o'clock.
An Oil City pig, if we may (and we
do, by Heaven, we do) believe the Der
rick, picked a woman's pocket. Pork
reacher!
The road-agents of the Black Hills
are all infationists. They say what the
country needs is more money, in transit.
An exchange says can Albany
man, who used to live on 10 cents day,
died wealthy" He may have died
wealthy, but we will bet money he didn't
die fat.
Nothing is so reassuring to the coun-
try and the commercial world as for sue
cessive State conventions to assemble,
and alternately "view with alarm" and
"point with pride"
1t is enough to bring tears to the eyes
of potato to see Burlington man, on
"lodge-night," brace himself up against
the office-door and try to open a postal
card to see what is in it and who it's
from.
We don't understand why it is that
constable with search warrant, looking
for whisky in temperance town, can
search for five days and never get a smell,
while dry and thirsty man in the same
town steps out of his office, walks brisk
ly away, and in three minutes is seen
emerging from an adjacent alley, wiping
his perspiring mouth with his cuffs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24

the brain favors sleep; hence digestion
tends to cause sleep, as do hot drinks,
etc., by drawing the blood supply from
the brain to the stomach. So, converse
ly, whatever tends to keep up the activ-
ity of the brain-cells and the circulation,
tends to prevent sleep; this being, there
fore, the effect of any stimulus applied
to the senses, sights, sounds, thought,
anxiety, and the like, while the opposite
tends TO favor sleep.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24

In Ohio there are three candidates for
State Offices who were born in the same
year C1S3s), in the same township, in the
same school district, all three raised in
log cabins, and educated ut the same log
school-house. They are Hon. j. F..
Lukens, Republican candidate for State
School Commissioner; Hon. J. j. Burns,
Democratic candidate for the same office;
and Hon. J. M. Dalzell (the "private J,
Republican candidate for the House OF
Representatives.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
state Of the Brain Affecting Sleep.

Direct experiments by Durham, Ham,
mond, and others show that in sleep the
brain is an@mic. This is proved, also,
indirectly, by the greater quantity of
blood which circulates in the skin and
extremities during sleep, because there
is greater radiation Of heat from the skin.
Whatever tends to abstract blood from
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24

A PERSON who was sent to prison for
marrying two wives excused himself by
saying that when he got two they fought
each other.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
WIT AND HUMOR.

Aml..E team-A gang of burglars.
A MATTER of form-Fltting dress.
THERE is no poetry in the Russian re-
verses.
HIGH art-The frescoes of church
dome. .. .frr
HYDRePHoBA is naturally superin-
duced by dog daze.
MAcKEREL lie down on gridiron and
smile Mt the weather.
BETTER to have loved a short girl than
never to have loved tall.
IT remains for the servant girls to get
up strike on the Panhandle.
WHEN you see pretty girl putting on
a postage stamp then don't you wish you
were George Washington at
AFTER boy is tired out hoeing pota-
toes nothing seems to rest him more than
to dig over few square rods OF green
sward in search of bait.
$50 YOU like your second wife better
than the first2" eyes," he said, en-
Enthusiastically, "she always puts enough
starch in my shirts to save me the trouble
of scratching my back"
THAT was scrupulous young lady in
Boston who refused to meet her lover
Justus his name was-at home, because
she had heard her minister say that JUS
tice should always be meeted out.
HOSTESS" Pray, Mr.. Prettyman, if
you neither dance, play, sing, nor con-
verse, what do you do?" Mr.. Pretty
man-"Aw, stwike gwaceful attitudes.
aw-and let the ladies long for me, aw !"
TEACHER" Define the word 'exca-
vate.'" Scholar 1t means to hollow
out" Teacher" Construct sentence
in which the word is properly used"
Scholar" The baby excavates when it
gets hurt.
A YOUNG woman from the rural dis
tricts entered dry-goods store the other
day, and asked for pair of stockings.
The clerk politely asked her what num-
Der she wore. "Why, two, you fool.
Do you think I am ceptipede, or that
/ have wooden lega"
GLOW ARE you, John" said one
friend to another meeting in the street
"I'm glad to see you" every well,
Charley" was the response. "Come and
take drink, old fellow; 'tisn't often we
meet" "That's a fact, Charley" de-
clared the other; land when we do, it's
meet and drink"
THE following clipping, written prob
ably to inculcate suitable frame of
mind in children, might we'll be serious
ly pondered by many old chronic COM
planners
When the weather is wet,
We must not fret;
When the weather is dry,
We must not cry;
When the weather is cold,
We must not scold;
When the weather is warm,
We must not storm
But be thankful together,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-08-16

WANTED ssIi "sT to o"S 5r"v'! LAND and
Goods to Dealers. $85 month, hotel and
travelling expenses paid. Nopeddling. Ad-
dress MONITOR LAMP CO., Cincinnati, O.