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MOrtgagee's sale.


Whereas. Charles ID. AFTER and Eliza NJ.
AFTER. his wife, by their certain sale mort
gage, executed and delivered to the under
signed, on the Goth day OF December, A.
ID. 1873, did, for the purpose OF securing a
certain promisory note therein mentioned,
mortgage to the undersigned the following
described premises, towit: Lots NUN
bered thirty (30) and tbirty-one 81, il
block numbered tfty-one (5D, in the city
of Cairo, Illinois and whereas, default has
been made in the payment of said note (;
now, therefore, in pursuance of the author
ity conferred by said sale mortgage, will
sell the above described premises, at pub
lie vendue, to the highest bidder. for cash
in hand, at the door of the Court House,
in the city of Cairo, Illinois, on Saturday,
February 3, A. ID. 1877; at the hour OF .
o'clock pm. Of said day, said sale to be
without redemption.
ALFRED B. Stafford, Mortgage
Green Il Gilbert, Attorneys.
January3, 1s1I-d 80 d
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"THE BOYS OF MY BOYHOOD,"
BY William Cullen BRYANT:

Charles A. Barnard, splendidiy Illustrated
1.-The Clock in the sky" by Richard A.
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Peterkins' Christmas Tree" by Lucretia
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The Christmas Holiday Number of
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
ALEXANDRIA, La.
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1877.
1.-THE Upper Warehouse.

This we'll known and favored stand,
OF the corner of Front and Beaure-
gard streets, Immediately opposite
the upper Town Wharf, is now occu-
pied and run by Edouard We'll, our
ex-Mayor and an experienced mer-
chant. 1t is his intention to carry
on a legitimate business, as formerly
pursued in that Warehouse, and
he hopes and confidently expects to
merit and receive fair share of
shipping and forwarding business.
The eligibility, convenience and com
modious room in the building, added
to the exertions and business will,
which he intends to concentrate
therein are his incentives once more
to seek a living and support at bis
old home.
His son, Ben. We'll, a young man
of good and exemplary habits, and
with excellent business capacities
will be with him and act as his CHIEF
clerk, thus offering inducements tc
the friends of the senior, as we'll as
the junior of the family, to give them
o clientele worthy of their merits.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
VALENTINES comic AND SEN
Y TIMENTAL.
FERGUSON g. SCHNACK

-JosEPH H. MADDOX, the impor-
tant witness at Washington, who has
just turned up to clinch the last nail
in Mat. Wells coffin, is we'll and ia
vorably known here, having lived in
Rapides many years before the war.
He is of the best and most honored
parentage in Maryland, is the nephew
of our esteemed and oldest citizen,
DR.. T. H. Maddox, and in early life
married Miss Laura Williams, a
daughter of the late A. P. Williams.
Mr.. Maddox, we have known long,
we'll and Familiarity and can attest In
his favor that he is a gentleman and
a man Of the strictest veracity and
honesty, and in all these coming dis
closures will prove that he is yet the
same man.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

-WhEN that magnifying glass
was placed in Kenner's hands, an
examination by it showed the frauds
in our daughter-parish, Vernon. In
precinct No. / the vote of the Hayes
electors was indicated originally by
two naughts. This Mat. Wells
changed to vote of 81. Precinct
No. Z was also indicated by two
naughts, which was changed into 81.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

his seat in the lawful House Of Re-
representatives., be it resolved by this
meeting
1. That we cordially approve OF
the action of Mr.. E. j. Barrett in
taking his seat in the lawful House
of Representatives.
2. That we request the House OF
Representatives to at once notify W.
John DeLacy and Baptiste Drew to
take their seats in the lawful body,
and that on default, they be expelled
from that body and their seats de-
clared vacant, to the end that the
Governor may order a new election
to fill this vacancy, in order that the
Parish of Rapides may have her full
complement of representation in the
General Assembly.
3. That the Secretary of this meet
ing forward copy Of these resolu'
tions to Mr.. E. j. Barrett, to W.
John DeLacy and Baptiste Drew, and
to the House of Representatives.
On motion the resolutions were
unanimously adopted.
The meeting then adjourned.
JAS. JEFFRIES,
IL. V. MARYE, President
Secretary.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
THE PARISH TAX DECISION.

We publish in full in another COL
umn the decision of the Supreme
Court lately rendered by Chief JUS
tice Manning as to the limit of the
power of the Police Juries to tax
their respective Parishes. 1t will be
,een that the decision prohibits the
levying of any Parish tax which
shall exceed four (4 mills on the
dollar, without first having had the
sanction of the tax payers of the Pa
IRISH at special election held tor
that purpose.
The point raised and decided is q
new one, and is based not only upon
the wording of the law, but upon such
a course of solid reasoning that it is
impossible to escape its force. The
Police Juries have heretofore inter
preted the restriction limiting them
to one hundred per centum of the
State tax as meaning the entire taxes
levied by the State, for Levees, In
terest and Schools as we'll as the item
of four mills called the State tax
proper. We cannot tell what will be
the effect of the decision, as some are
inclined to think that four mills toe
little for the purpose of carrying or
the Parish governments. Of one
thing we are certain, our tax bur
dened people will not object to thu
reduction and ifa proper showing cal
be made to them of the necessity TO
any particular tax in excess of thu
prescribed limit, we doubt not, they
will readily vote for the tax.
NOTWITHSTANDING AND SEN
' TIMENTAL.
FERGUSON & SCHNACF
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

AND Joe Maddox in his testi-
mony further states that Calvert
wrongly spelled say the folks here
was kind of body guard of Wells,
but it was the understanding that all
messages that came for Calvert the
wrongly spelled name) were under
stood to be for Wells. Here comes
in another important query, who is
Calvert, or C. M. Calvert (the man
with the name badly spelled) who so
suddenly rises to the Returning
Board surface? Does any body here
know him?
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
y7ALENTINES-COMIC AND SEN
Y TIMENTAL.
FERGUSON g. SCHNACK

PLENTY of uphheavings and dis
closures are maturingin this Return
ing Board muddle. For instance,
the C. M. Calvert, as Joe Maddox
has it, is not resident of New Or
leans, but was temporarily there at
ITO Customhouse street. That is, a
great many people here believe they
know he is a Rapidian, life-chum
of Mats, some little kin to him and
that the dispatches have his name
spelled a little wrong; and surely
from our standpoint we are not 60
ing to quarrel with these great many
people for so believing.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
XrALENTINES-COMIC AND SEN
Y TIMENTAL.
FERGUSON g. SCHNACK

EVERYBODY here must admit that
it required no small degree of despe
rate nerve, and open, unblushing de-
fiance of decent public sentiment, and
a gowmands appetite for small
crumbs of Mat. Wells pap, to form
and build new party on the crum.
bling and decaying carcass ofthe Re
turning Board and its seething rob-
berries and infamies! And yet, gen
tie reader, this has been done right
here in Rapides, in Alexandria.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

The New Orleans Republican
says: "The Vernon return is hair
trigger; an affair perilous only to
those who seek to profit by its
theft" Does this left handed pat
strike any one here2
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

we are authorized to mention
the fact, that the fine steamer Maria
Louise, in order to accommodate the
visitors to the Mardi Gras Festivi-
ties, will leave Alexandria on next
Saturday. This is 4S hours ahead
of her usual time.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

The galvanized ones have fairly
started on the down grade, at the &C.
cumulating frauds of their friend
and leader, Mat. Wells, Of Rapides
Parish, Louisiana.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

We believe that the composition
of the electoral tribunal does not
possess any of the characteristics,
which have disfgured the returning
boards of the South.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
The Rapides Vote.

We have before US the New Or
leans Democrat, the Official Journal
of the State, under the Nichols Gov
eminent, containing the official count
as compiled by the new Board of
Canvassers consisting of the Presi-
dent of the Senate, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives and
two State Senators. AS this vote is
carefully and honestly given to the
public, without the cheat faint Of the
Returning Board, and in the interest
of the public and the fairly elected
Parish officials, we transcribe it here
as matter of record. For Clerk of
Court, j. H. Ransdell received 1856
votes and j. G. P. Hooe 1898; for
Recorder, Mires Rosenthal received
1892 votes, and V. W. Porter 1925;
for Parish Judge, John Clements re-
ceived 1895 votes, and W. W. Whit
ting, Jr., 1893.
For Sheriff the following is the &C.
tual vote as cast and worded:
H. NJ. Robinson. .1458
Henry Robinson. ............. 246
d. C. Paul ................. 1920
David g. Paul. 46
ID. Paul. ................ Z
Paul L
And in summing up the elected
ones, the Canvassers, do not fill up
the blank for Sheriff with either can
didate as elected, seeming thereby
to indicate that no one was elected
as Sheriff. This we fail to compre-
bend, for giving each candidate the
full benefit of the votes as voted un-
der different spellings, H. M. Robin.
son is surely elected by a majority of
80 votes. Several days since he re-
ceived his commission from Cover
nor Nichols, and has qualified under
it in the past forty eight hours
The Clerk of the Court and the Re-
corder have also qualified under a
Nichols Commission, and the Parish
Judge elect intends following suit in
a few days.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
V7ALENTINES-COMIC AND SEN
Y TIMENTAL.
FERGUSON & SCHNACK

In that letter, (not registered
one) which Mat. Wells wrote to
West, he mildly informed him that
the Democrats had antied one mil.
lion of dollars, and the Republicans
expected to win they must see that
and go something better.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

WE are heartily obliged to Joe
Dodd of the Lotus No. 3, for COM
plete files of New Orleans dailies OF
Friday, both morning and evening.
He certainly understands the wants
of an editor in this important crisis.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

We are obliged to the clerks of
the steamer Texas for late New Or
leans papers, and they were the more
acceptable as our Saturdays mail
had failed and the Telegraph was
quite sick.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

The "Long Place" one Of the
best improved plantations on Bayou
Rapides, and valuable tract of land
known as the ''Benson Tract" near
this Town adjoining the Clspp-Ex.
pertinent, are advertised for sale in
this weeks issue Of the DEMoCRAr.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

III called upon to prescribe for
the Returning Board, we would ad-
wise heavy dose of hydrate of
chloral.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

THE question again comes up,
though we are in state of statu quo,
have we Sunday Law in Alexan-
dria?
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

In our compendium of all the
latest news by telegraph, we avail
ourselves of the specials of the New
Orleans Democrat, and the Press dis
patches of the Picayune and Times.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

VIM the exception Of . good,
timely Spring rain, We have been
blessed with the most beautiful
weather, in fact only such weather -
in February falls to the lot Of Louisi.
ana. It is ominous of her coming
and near redemption.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

THANKS for big bundle of pa
pers from the Bart, Able and the
Maria Louise.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

Mn. Hayes had the assurance to
say: 81 believe am honestly elec-
tedr'
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND SEN
y TIMENTAL.
FERGUSON g. SCHNACK
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-02-07
VALENTINES COMIC AND SEN
TIMENTAL,
FERGUSON & sCHNACK

AND the Col. John Pickett, just
come to the Mat. Wells surface in
the Counting Cheat, is well known
here. He was a Captain in the 2nd
La. Cavalry c. S. A., and did good
service, and was we'll liked and trust
ed by General Dick Taylor, but--in
an i'll moment he forgot his duties
and deserted to the enemy.