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Smyrna times., 1877-07-11

All babies are diminutive Casars, since
they come, they see, they conquer, some.
times by their gentle stiffness but oftener
by continued and uprourious crying in
duced by Collie, Teething, Flatulence, etc.
DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup by its gentle yet
specific influence quiets the little ones
without ever producing the least injurious
effects. Price only 25 cents per bottle.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-11
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, July III.

THE TIMES" is published every Wednesday after
noon by JOSEPH II. HoFFEcKER, Editor and Proprie-
tor, at Smyrna Delaware.
TERMS -SUBsCRIPTIoN-On year 200 in advance or
$3.50 not paid till the end of the year. No paper
discontinued until all arrears are paid-only at the
option of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate of
Seven Cents aline for the first insertions subsequent
insertions Three-and a-hafeents Aliberal discount
made to quarterly, semiannual and yearly adverti-
sers.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-11

A beautiful complexion depends upon
purity of the blood. To keep the blood
pure and healthy use DR.. Bulls Blood
Mixture.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-11

A QUEER FIx-JUDGEs ON THE BENCH
PRESENTED BY THE GRAND JURY.-Last
Saturday the Grand Jury of Baltimore
county, as they were about to be adjourned
after a three weeks session, requested the
court (Chief Judge Grason and Associate
Judge Yellott presiding) to postpone the
adjournment of the court until they could
finish an investigation into the affairs OF
the county commissioners Office in which
they were then engaged. This the court
refused and declared an adjournment at
o'clock that afternoon. Whereupon the
Grand Jury made formal presentments
against the two Judges for malfeasance in
Office in defeating their investigation by the
premature adjournment, There is greai
deal of feeling about the matter in Balti
more county. The Judges stand very higl
as lawyers and men.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-11

The Presbytery Of Newark, N. j., adop-
ted resolutions last week requesting Rev.
Mr.. See to resign his pastorate and cease
preaching the peculiar doctrine of direct
communication with God and Christian
perfection; and discontinue the holiness
meeting.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-11

1t is stated that ten members of the
United States Senate are printers by trade.
Smyrna times., 1877-07-11
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

The Presbyterian Sunday School of this
town will picnic at Fraland Beach tomor-
row.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
Sore Troubled about Stanley
Matthews.

This nonsense and treachery is
the work of Mr.. Stanley Matthews,
who, by a combination Of unlucky
circum stances, is a United States
Senator elect for Ohio. The course
of this ridiculous person has been
such as to prepare the public to be.
lieve that he is the one man in all
Ohio, we had almost said in the
whole country, who would conceive
such piece of stupid qualification.
1t seems to be in order just now to
use plain speech in respect to Mr..
Stanley Matthews. 1t has not taken
him long to prove that his abilities
are surpassed by his foibles, and
that he possesses in an eminent de-
gree the qualifications of shallow
statesman Of the first-class.
Stanley Matthews took occasion to
visit New York, and to make known
at every suitable or unsuitable op
portunity, his opinion that silver
coin was an excellent thing with
which to pay the four per centum
bonds and all other bonds; that. the
silver dollar ought to be restored
and be made full legal tender for
all debts, public and private. The
astonished merchants and brokers
began to ask themselves whether
there was any official authority,
even the remotest, for his wild
Western talk. 1t is easy to imagine
the mischief which this man would
have worked if his vagaries had not
been promptly disavowed. AS it
turned out, however, happily, but
with no thanks due to him, the un-
quiet tongue of Mr.. Stanley Mat
thews worked out q beneficial result.
The first thing the Ohio Republicans
ought to do is to make summary
end of Mr.. Stanley Matthews and
his vicious nonsense.-[New York
Evening Post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
SPECIMEN BLUE LAws.-A

SPECIMEN BLUE LAws.-A General
History of Connecticut was issued in
England in 1881. The author was
compelled to flee from Connecticut
on account of his opposition of the
Blue laws. He sent a number of
copies of it to Connecticut, but its
truthfulness was so unpalatable to
the Connecticuters that they collect
ed the copies and had them burned
by the public hangman. But truth
has an ugly habit Of rising again
even when burned to ashes. In
March last a copy of the original
work was sold at auction for $ll5.
The work is now reprinted by the
Appletons, with notes and additions
substantiating the authors state.
ments. The following are some
Blue laws pilloried in the book:
''No food or lodging shall be afEor.
ded to Quaker, Adamite, or other
Hereto.
If any person turns Quaker, he
shall be banished, and not suffered
to return under pain of death.
No Priest shall abide in the Do.
minion; he shall be banished and
suffer death on his return. Priests
may be seized by any one without a
warrant.
No one shall read Common prayer,
keep Christmas or Saints-days, make
minced pies, dance, play cards, or
play on any instrument of music
except the drum, the trumpet and
the jewsharp.
No one shall run on the Sabbath
day, or walk in his garden or else
where, except reverently to and from
meeting.
No one shall travel, cook vic
tuals, make beds, sweep house,
cut hair or shave on the Sabbath
day.
No woman shall! kiss her child on
the Sabbath or fasting day.
No one shall court maid in per.
son or by letter, without first oh.
tanning consent of her parents; 81,
penalty for the first oflense; 1Ol, for
the second; and, for the third, i'm.
prisonment during the pleasure OF
the COURT Peters History OF
Connecticut.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
HEALTHY SOli1 81 EsH
SHEnIFF'S SALE,

a. B. Coco, DANIEL GEHR, transferee
VS..
JOHN We'll.
No. 20l7-Ninth Judicial District Court
Parish of Rapides.
RY VIRTUE OF AND TO SATISFY
IL writ of Fieri Facias issued and tt
me directed in the above entitled ant
numbered suit, | have seized and vii
offer for sale at public auction, in from
of the Court House door, in the Tow
of Alexandria, La, between the hour:
prescribed by law, on
SATURDAY, the 1st day of SEPTEM.
Der, A. d. 1877,
the following described property, to-
wit -
A certain square of ground in the up.
per suburbs of the Town of Alexandria
in the Parish of Rapides, Louisiana
and numbered seventeen az on the
plat of the Town, bounded in front by
Second street, and in the rear by Third
street, and on each side above and be.
low by cross streets, with all the build,
ings and improvements thereon.
TERMs-CASH, subject to appraise,
ment. Ii. NJ. ROBINSON,
Aug. |, 1877. Sheriff.
Printers Fees 5000.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29

BY ANNIE L. JACK,

She lives within quiet home,
No model of the graces,
Unknown to cultures higher walks,
Or fashions giddy places;
A thoughtful girl, so sweet, so wise.
With earnest face and loving eyes
The farmers gentle daughter.
From morn till eve this little maid
Is busy at her labor
She sweeps an dusts the old farmhouse
And helps a poorer neighbor;
No gossip will she listen to
A merit rare / own to you-
So lives the farmers daughter.
On baking days her tiny hands
Are busy at the making;
No bread more light and sweet than hers
Was ever made by baking;
She churns the butter golden sweet,
And keeps the dairy white and neat
The farmers useful daughter.
Her garden is an Eden fair,
A-bloom with pinks and roses;
She knows the name Of every flower,
And makes some gorgeous posics !:
And corn an squash, an herbs to press,
The farmers happy daughter.
Long may she bravely smile on us
Our darling household fairy,
The queen of garden, house and lot,
And princess of the dairy
TO teach US by her pleasant way
To love the things of every day
God bless the farmers daughter.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29

"HoPE DEFERRED MAKES THE
HEART SICK. Who among US of
adult life does not know itp We see
the evidence every day; not confined
to city, town or village life, but on
the plains, savannahs and pasture
lands of the country. Anxious faces
meet US on the inland water routes,
in the cars, on legislative floors and
in the busy hives of industry. We
hear the sigh, note the sallowness,
see the restlessness, and observe the
languor of the dyspeptic. If you
wish to avoid the evils which indi.
gestion brings, and hope to become
like tree of life, use the celebrated
HOME STOMACH HTTERs,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
5 NO. 2.
Travels Of a Colored Corpse.

Sara Kimball, negress, died in
New York and needed burial. The
friends of the deceased engaged an
undertaken by the name of Quinn.
He undertook the job of laying Sara
KimbalPs dust away In Cypress Hill.
There were two carriages filed with
colored folks. Arrived at the ceme-
terry there was 90 grave dug, and the
grave was not to be dug before the
cash was paid. Quinn was in q
quandary. He was there with his
hearse and coffin and corpse and car
riages, and ascertained to his dis
may that the relatives of the depart
ed had only four dollars amongst
them. He had only five dollars in
his pocket and the accommodations
for a last resting place cost twelve
dollars cash, or no ground broken.
The baffled undertaken tried to
squeeze three dollars more out of tue
mourners; he did everything but
search them. He couldn't get an
other cent. 1t was solemn bust
ness-miles from town. Quinn then
tried to have the corpse admitted in
to the receiving vault for a day, but
this privilege required fifteen dollars.
Worse and worse. There was moth
ing left to do but to lead the funeral
caravan back to the starting point.
There was ferry to cross. The imp
of Charon on duty refused to take
the corpse across the river without q
permit from the Brooklyn board Of
health. 1t was after dark. Tho
mourners drove their carriages on
the ferry and crossed, leaving Quinn
alone with the corpse. Quinn took
counsel with the stragglers around.
Some of the by ISLANDERS advised him
to drive his hearse back to the GEM
etery and dump out the corpse at
the gate. But he feared arrest if no
did this, and rejected the counsel.
He finally drove to a district morgue
and got the thing taken of his hands
for the night. The next day Quinn
took up the corpse and his mournful
way to Cypress Hill, where he bur-
led Sara Kimball at his own ex-
pense. He was the only mouraer,
and many times during this i'm
pressive ceremony he wished the
corpse in -, we'll in some place,
the locality and limits ofwhich have
not been very clearly defined by any
of our sacred historians or geogra.
piers. He gave the corpse a good
funeral, quite as good as lie could
afford, and that bill will never be
paid until the general Weakening up,
when all standing accounts will be
made square, as Quinn believes
But he will be very careful how he
handles the next colored corpse.
-[St. Louis Republican.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29

HERE is the way poor old Nor
ton talked to the Oregon Republi-
cans:
"There Is solid South against
US. How long it will last I do not
know, but understand this is the sit.
uation to-day, and that the South
expects to WELD the sentiment as ono
voice In the approaching political
contest. 1t is important, therefore,
that the North should stand togeth-
er; that you should stand together in
the great struggle, that we shall not
lose all that we have won. We must
preserve the constitutional amend
ments; we must preserve the fruits
of the war; all our interests, both
Democrats and Republicans, are
alike. If the people of the South are
struggling for their own recupera.
ton, they care not fig for the De-
mocracy of the North. Nothing has
happened showing that they care
whit for them. They have not for
gotten that the Democracy of the
North encouraged them to go into
the rebellion, and made them believe
that they would not permit them to
remain in the Union. But they act
with the Democratic party of the
North because they have an object
The people of the South have their
own policy to carry out, their own
wrongs to redress, their own losses
to pay off. And they want to make
the Northern Democrat and Republi-
can pay for their losses, and if we
have to pay them the Northern Dem
ocrats will have to pay their share.
That will be some consolation. The
South-we have forgiven them.
They cost 100000 lives and $6,OOO,:
100000 by their crimes. There is
scarcely family in all this land in
which there is not vacant chair.
But we forgave them all that. All
we ask is that they shall be good
citizens. We claim the right to go
there, live and have our own opinions
and access to every privilege that VIC
give them when they come here.
With that we will be satisfied, and
with nothing, else"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
JOb PRINTING
81 NEATLY DONE
AT THIS OFFICE
ON MOST REASONABLE TERMS
SHEAIFF'S SALE,
CITIZENS BANK OF LoUIsIANA)

CITIZENS BANK OF LOUISIANA
VS.. , No, 2232
BOWMAN II. PETERSON.
Ninth Judicial District Court-Parish
of Rapides.
DY VIRTUE OF AND TO SATISFY
IL writ of seizure and sale issued and
to me directed in the above entitled and
numbered suit, have seized and will
offer for sale at public auction, in front
of the Court House door, i'll the Town
of Alexandria, La, between the hours
prescribed by law, on
SATURDAY, the 1st day of SEPTEM-
Der, 1877,
the following described property, to-
witt
A certain plantation situated in the
Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana,
on the right descending bank of Red
River, containing twenty-seven hun
dred acres of land, more or less, bound
ed on the upper line by lands of Messrs.
Blanchard and Wilkinson, on the lower
line by lands of DR.. Levin Luckett, and
in the rear by lands of Lamoth, Calvit
and Roberts; Said plantation being
composed of the following tracts Of
lands viz: Lots Nos '"rhirteen, ("
Fourteen" E'Fifteen, Sixteen, "Se-
venteen," Eighteen" nineteen" and
"Twenty," Of Township No. Five, Range
No. Three, West: Lot No. "One,o
Township No. Five, Range No. Two,
West: lot No. "rwenty-one," Town,
ship No. Five, North Range No. Three,
West: Lot No. ''Two," Township No.
Four, Range Three, West, together
with all the buildings and improve
ments thereon and all the rights, ways,
privileges, and appurtenances thereunto
belonging or in any wise appertaining,
being the same property acquired by
Bowman II. Peterson, by purchase
from the Citizens Bank of Louisiana.
On the following terms and condi-
lions, to-wit: $9.169 90-lOO, with in
terest and costs and five per cent. attor-
neys fees, CASH-the balance payable
in equal instruments falling due LIST
May, 1877, lst August, 1877, LIST No.
vember, 1877, LIST February, 1878, with
mortgage and vendors lien retained on
property for amount Of bid on credit,
Subject to appraisement.
II. NJ. ROBINSON,
August L, 1877. Sheriff.
Printers Fees $1,000.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
MISCELLANE OUS.

DR.. Tut has been en-.
gagged in the practice OF
medicine thirty years, ant
fora long tirncwas demon
strator of anatomy in the
Medical College Of Gc0r.
Ola, hence persons using
his Pills have the guaran.
tee that they arc prepared
on scientific principles,
and arc free from al
quackcry.
He has succeeded ir
combining in them tn,
heretofore antagonist,
qualities Of a strengthen,
MS.fnrgaHpr, nnda fW,
lying tonic.
Their first apparent CT
feet is TO increase the ap
petite by causing the foo:
to properly 4 sSimilHtr
Thus the system is nonr
ishcd, and by their toni.
action on the digestive or
gaus, regular and health,
excavations are Produce
The rapidity with .vhic
trEouS take on Ee<h
while under the influcnc,
OF these pills, OF itself in
dicatcs their adaptah;ji"
to nourish the body, an
hence their efficacy in crr
Ing nervous debility. mel
ancholy. dyspepsia, wasr
ing OF the muscles, slug
gi:hncss of the liver
chronic constipation, atr
myth To the system. SOLE
III ray Street, New York
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29

one hundred and sixty.four in.
mates Of the Connecticut State pris.
on were recently asked chow many OF
you attribute your Incarceration to
liquor" All but ten raised thei,
hands. The ten had subscribed tc
papers and failed to pay their bills
promptly.
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DEMOCRAT.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL or THE PARISH,
T Il r vi s:

THE DEMOCRAT is published Weekly at
FOUR DOLLARS per annum Two Dol
LARS and FIFTY CENTS for six mouths
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. No sub
scription taken for less period than
six months.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate
of ONE DOLLAR per square for the first
insertion and FIFTY CENTS for each
subsequent one. Eight lines or less
BREWER type) constitute square.
OBITUARY NOTICES, Marriages, Public
Meetings, Cards of Thanks, etc, to be
paid as advertisements
PERSONAL CARDS-when admissible
charged double the usual advertising
rates.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
WHEN a Nevada saloon.k eeno

WHEN Nevada saloon.keeper
was asked why he wore a two.ounce
diamond pin in his shirt front these
hard times, he replied: II use it at
night to take my medicine by, and in
times like these every little saving
of matches and oil counts"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
H O H = ~ LIE :

A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE FOR
IA sale on reasonable a
terms. in the Town of Alex f9e.As4A
andrla. Good dwelling !.siiHa
House and out houses, and s
contents OF two squares, under a good
fence and everything il good order.
For particulars and terms apply to
Dec. 6-tf. n ct Holm
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
SALE.
STATE OF LoUIsIANA,l
PARISH OF RApIDEs.}

pY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF
IL sale issued to me by the Honorable
the Parish Judge in and for the Parish
of Rapides, State of Louisiana, l, Tho
mas j. Severns, Tutor to the minors
Joseph Lee and Fannie Leona Severns,
will sell on the premises. OH SATUR-
DAY, the 10th day of SEPTEMBER,
the Real Estate of the above named mi
nors, consisting of Lot No. 3 in Square
No. 63, in the Town of Alexandria, La
TERMs-Cash on the spot.
7. j. SEVERNS,
Aug. Is, 1877. Tutor.
Printers fees $500.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
WENTWORTH
FEMALE COLLEGE
B r 0 O X II A V E N, M [ S S.,
On New Orleans, Jackson and Northern
Railroad. 12S miles from New
Orleans La

Will Reopen September rs, 1877.
Number of Teachers Observation-Disclosures IL
Number of Pupils. ..-.....-........-.2 23
Number of boarding Pupils ------..---140
Number in Music Glasses 1870
All the departments organized. Maps,
Charts and Apparatus in daily USE
Charges are low. Dress must be plain.
No extravaganza allowed. Send for Cat
alogue. II. F. JOHNSON,
Aug. 1-2m. President.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29

Senaca Falls New York; Reveille
says: at would seem that the mos,
enterprisiDg and hardest working
journalists are the most entitled tc
public favor, yet our observation
teaches us that they are the ones
who receive the least. Men who
make newspapers must spend much
of their lives in performing deeds Of
gratuity; they must come and 20 a,
the beck and call of the people; they
must air the peoples grievances al
their own cost; write up the sorrows
and joys of others as we'll as theil
own, and ever be ready to espouse
the cause and fight the battles of ev
cry aggrieved mortal in the land
The Woodworking editor labors in
season and ont to please his readers
spends sleepless nights thinking Of
editorial matter, reads paper after
paper, gathering an item here and an
item there of the latest news, con
stantly studying to suit the tastes Of
Il fastidious public; but in the end
we think, gets little thanks for his
efforts, and the smallest renumera
ton for his services. He studies t.
make his paper readable and accept.
able, and if he does so, he deserves
success, and should receive the en-.
enlargement of the public. When
people fail to appreciate the efforts
and enterprise of hard working and
intelligent journalists, they should
be deprived of the privilege of cad
ing; and when politicians and politi.
cal parties underrate or ignore prop
er and judicious editorial service
they make grievous mistake.
There is not in the whole profession
a legitimate worker who does not
pay five times over for every favor
he receives, anil there is no class oil
men that receive so little compensa.
ton for their services as the pains.
taking and laborious Journalistic
The French Exhibition of next
year, says the London World, will
have some specially attractive feat.
ures. There is to be grand central
avenue, in which the buildings allot-
ted to the various nations are to ter
inmate, the frontage of each repre-.
senting some remarkable historical
building of the country to which it is
assigned. Thus the facade of the
Belgian section will represent the
splendid Hotel de Vile of Brussels.
A cascade will flow down from the
Palace Of the Trocadero, cross the
Seine in conduits, and supply water
for the machinery of the exhibition
on the Champ de Mars. It will be
surrounded by four colossal groups
of statuary, personifying by groups
of animals the four quarters of the
world. Europe has been entrusted
to NJ. Cain, Africa to Fremiet, Asia
to Jacquemart, and America to
Rouillard.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-29
NATURES nMM REE1EnY.

1t is plant that grows in the South, and is spc
cially adapted to the of diseases OF that climate
The weekly Arizona miner., 1877-07-20
Composition on slander.

The following we are permitted to copy by the author, Miss Carrie Wilkens, young girl in her l4th year, who stood highest in composition at the close of the Prescott High School, Wednesday the 1lth inst:
 "rale bearing and idle gossipping is, un- der all circumstances, and by whomsoever indulged, most improbable and disreput- able business; but when ii assumes the form of malicious slander, it al once becomes a crime, even though the poisonous darts are so shaped that the strong arm of the law may be unable 10 protect or redress the wrongs of the one thus injured.
 But the most serious, very worst feature of islander. is that which Is invented or cir culated by one woman against another.
 Why women talk about each other Is & problem none can solve. Why do women stab their own sex so ruthlcssley-strikc so mercilesslyl Many a pure, sensitive woman has been stung to death by such injustice too often by unfounded rumor. Who that has ever traced the torrent of rumor 10 its source did not find that vivid imagination had colored it till facts and reason had been lost in the whlr2
 Sander rears its hydra-head every where, and all good pure women-andthan heaven there are many-sisdain to listen to a story against another unsupported by proof. If women would realize how pained and disap- pointed all true men are to hear too often nothing but dcprecia ion of their own sex while in their society, they would be nobler and truer women. Men, even bad men. never endorse a woman s trying to in- lure her own sex, whatever her motive may be, it matters not