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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-30

Such an exhibition of Manly Sports, fcats
OF strength, Agility and Endurance rs has
never been witnessed In the State!
1. GRAND esnsc ISnlI Match.
Winning nine Ms champions to hold Bats
anu Balls; the player making greatest
number OF runs wins host Bat and Ball.
,. Great English Cricket Match
inc most scientific game of Ball. Win
ming eleven MS champions to hold Bats
Balls and Wickcts, Greatest number of
runs. patent Spring Match Bat.
y. 4 (ircnscd Pig Whoever catches
II by the tail keeps it.
4 400 ynpd Foot Race for Sill.
YER Cup with vim rs name.
3 Match <;nmc Of 0uOits Silver
Cup.
q Climbing the Creased Pole
Silver Cup.
Z zoo yard Foot Race q Hurdles
Silver Cup.
y Match <i:smc Croumct For the
Ladies', tSl Winning as champions to
hold tho Croquet Set.
D Grand Match Foot Fall 20 play
crs. winning ten hold Balls as champions
10 The Longest Jumps best two
in three. IA Silver Cup.
IL Throwing the Slcd.c Best 3 in
., Il SILVER Cup.
IL Best Double Team On Ground
Silver Cup.
IL hest Single Team On Ground
Silver Cup.
IL Grand Sack Hcncc Silver Cup.
IL WRESTLING Match Best man in
6, Silver Cup.
BALI. At ELY HALL
In the evening, West Bros Band
During the evening II Silver Cup will be
given for the best CLOG DANCER, and one
for the hest JIG DANCER - ct Adj
mission to Ball Room.
All entries to be made on or before We'd
nesday June ~. No euterance fees required,
but those entering forfeit $500 on refusing to
play. All cups engraved. stating which prize
they are and name OF winner
Name Of Judges and Referee to be announ
ced on the ground.
Refreshment stands-Aunt Salies Cocoa
Nut Knocks, etc, on the ground Fun
AND PRIZES OPEN TO ALL
EIs EE.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-30

The best line of parasols at
Mr.. &. Fl. Curtis.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-30
CHELSEA.

CHELSEA.
Alexander Dunnett was admitted to the
bar of the Orange County Court last week
He was IL student during his preparatory
course, in the office of N, l.. Boyden, Esq, Of
Randolph.
Mr.. Arad Emerson. formerly of this town.
died at Newport, N. H., last week. His re-
mains We're brought here for burial on Mon
day the 18th inst. Funeral services were
held at the chapel, on Tuesday. He was II
years old.
W. Ii. Porter, who was under an Indictment
Tor larceny, was surrendered by his bondsman
u. Hyde last week, The court ordered the
sheriff to place him in the custody of TAILOR
Dickerman.
s There was smart frost in low places last
Saturday morning. doing however but little
damage to garden vegetables.
quintette club from St. Johnsbury, gave
concert at the Court House, last Monday
evening, for the benefit 0f the Congregation
alists church, which was well patronize, by
the citzcns.
An exciting scene occurred in tho cOul room
on Saturday forenoon. The trial of AlonZo
b. Reed was in progress, who was under in
ditement for burning buildings. The respon-
dent was on the stand testitying. when he
was suddenly seized with convulsion fit, SO
called. He was carried out of the court room
and with a team taken to his boarding house,
The court then adjourned.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-30

"A few lunches of long cigar
lighters at Is cts, a bunch.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-30

" DRlEN GREAT SHOW. The
vast caravansary Of wild animals,
trained horses, acrobats, clowns,
musicians and speciality art lists, com
posing the great consolidated en-
terprise of OBrien, sets in the
shade all exhibition enterprises of
the kind ever attempted in Ameri
Ca. This wonderful show. circus,
menagerie, acrObatic entertainment
and specially concern exhibit at
Bradford, Wednesday, June 18th
There will be two performances, tb. e
first commencing at l o'clock in the
afternoon, and the evening exhi hi.
ton will commence at Z o'clock.
The procession of immense golden
chariots, carrying three full bands
of instrumental music, aud an al.
most intermInable line of big cages.
richly adorned and containing spec.
linens of the most ferocious and
rarest wild beasts; together with
the elephants, camels and a tramp.
ling army of circus horses will be.
gin the grand parade on entering
the city at about 10 o'clock in the
forenoon.
The bands will make parades on
foot on the day of exhibition from
the principal hotels at $50 in the
evening, marching to the grounds
to furnish their superb music dur
ing the progress of the entertain.
nent. Among the wild animals to
be seen, there are some kinds of
which there is but one specimen in
he country, and this will be an adj !
nirable opportunity to study natu-
al history. The brilliant corps off
male and female riders have been
selected from among the NEST ia.
nous in the profession i'm this coun-
ry and in Europe, and the clowns
ire of conceded Origi Dality AMI,
Ugh reputation in their pecuD ar
Inc.
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POLITICAL.
The city is stirred up on the silver
question. New York is inflexibly OBJ
posed to the remoneizing of silver. and
the business world stigmatizes the max.
ing silver q legal tender as only another
form of imitation. Debts due other coun-
tries can no more be paid in silver than
they can in greenbacks, and the produc-
ton is SO enormous that still further
decline is considered certain. The city
will fight it to the death, and gold is the
only standard that is acceptable; every
member from the city will be instructed
to favor no financial scheme that looks
to making anything but gold the stand
ard of values. The cleansing of the
Custom House is going on satisfactorily.
The old suckers are mostly cleaned out
and a class of men who are willing to
work for the Government are in their
places, The Post Office, never so bad
as the Custom House, for skilled men
were necessary there, is also being shorn
of many men, and stricter discipline
and more efficiency in the service is be-
ing had. In short. there is a cleaning
up all round, which is as gratifying as
it was unexpected. The people have
that President Hayes is
dead in earnest in the matter of civil SER
vice reform, and they rejoice exceeding
ly. But it strikes the old bummers with
awful force. Those who have already
lost their heads fill the bar-rooms with
heir lamentations. 1t is a bad time for
office holders, who depend upon the
strength of sour member" sour men,
Der" isn't as great man as he was once.
The merchants report better feeling
lmong the business men of the South.
As absurd as was the howl about militia
y occupation, the removal of the troops
rom the South did have some effect in
trade in that section. The
southern people have now a certainty or
policy, and they can make their calcu-
atoms accordingly. The sentiment in
ne city is overwhelmingly in favor of
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08

EN1SHING TACKLE-A GREAT
n VARIETY. SPOON BAIT
and OTHER GOODS IN THAT
LINE. DEALERS SUPPLIED BY
HENRY ST. JOHN.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08
EjastiCe and IEcapacity.
THE TWO GREAT LESSONS TAUGHT BY
THE PENNSYLVANIA
RIOTS.

Another lesson the events of the
last few days emphasizes, and this is
that a great corporation, possessed
of boundless wealth and resources,
with its Thousand arms stretching to
the remote parts Of the land-a cor
poration that is omnipotent with
Legislatures and Governors, and ten
DERBY coddled by the judiciary-can
not, in the usefulness of its power,
pursue systematic injustice and op-
preston without experiencing a day
Of reckoning, The striking fact of
the late riots-indeed it is a fact
that people at distance will hardly
be able to appreciate-was the abso-
lutte Indifference of nineteen-twen-
tieths of our citizens to the initial
blows aimed at the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. 1t took de
cade and more ofinjustice and wrong
to every business man of Pittsburg
to bring about this condition of pub
lie sentiment. We grieve to say it,
but under no other circumstances
could the mob have worked out such
terrible result.
Another lesson, and we close for
the present, is the development the
riots have made of the stupidity, in
capacity, and in fact imbecility, of
the State government. The machl-
merry of a Mexican State could not
have done worse, and might have
done worse, and might have done
better. 1t blundered by aggravating
displays of bayonet power, when the
mob could have been Influenced or
controlled, and then, in the hour of
supreme danger, when vigor and ra-
pidity of action was the great requi-
site, it took itself out of sight. PEG
pie forgot there was such thing as
a State government in Pennsylvania.
In its earliest efforts it was sort Of
double headed concern, with at
tachments, and in its latter it had no
head at all. The sheriff of the coun-
ty seems to have lost his head, and
what little brains there is in it, early
in the troubles. The Mayor was
fussy, inefficient, and at one time
seemingly Indifferent, on a plea that
his authority had been superseded
by the State and county officials.
= Pittsburgh Post.
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DOGERS' ENGLISH TABLE
~ and POCKET CUTLERY
LADIES' SCISSORS and OTHER
FINE GOODS KEPT BY
HENRY ST. JOHN.
Another Thief who made Hayes the
Great Man he is.

LEAyENWoRTH, Kansas, July l3.-A
man who without doubt did very mach
to make Mr.. Hayes President of the
United States is now IA inmate of the
Kansas penitentiary. I refer to Major
Shatfcnberg, late United States Mar
shall OF Colorado. All will remember
the doubt which hung over the vote of
that State and the conflicting reports
which were daily sent ont by both po-
litical parties. Both sides claimed the
vote of the State, and it required the
official count to determine it's result.
Shaffenberg had been United States
Marshal for number of gears. He
was shrewd, keen, educated, intelli-
gent German. He had amassed fine
fortune, and was living in luxury and
ease, occupying magnificent residence
and grounds in the suburbs of Denver.
1t was charged in the trial of the
case that the Major had been in the
constant habit for series of years of
drawing large sums Of money from the
United States Treasury on false vouch-
ers in his capacity as United States
Marshal.
Having been arrested upon the
above charges and given bail, it was
but natural he should want to get out
of his trouble. He says he spent $780,
600 and carried the State for Hayes
and the Radical Legislature. Chatfee
was elected United States Senator, and
Immediately FASTENED to Washington
to fulfill his part of the contract; but
the fact of Shaffenberg's defalcation
had reached Washington before him.
For once at least, little vantage of a
few hundred thousand dollars on the
part of an officer could not be con-
doned.
The trial is over, and the man who
gave the three votes of Colorado to
Mr.. Hayes is in the Kansas penitentia-
ry, below Leavenworth, for two years.
Chaffee is now the United States Sem
ator for six years; and Mr.. Hayes is.
President for four years. Had Colora-
do cast her electoral vote for Tiden it
would have been different New
York Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08
Beecher on the Strike.

New YORK, July 23.-The Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's discourse yes
terday evening was upon the riot
growing out of the railroad strike. He
wanted to know what right the mem
bers of the great organizations, had to
say to any one: "You shall not work
for wages which, we refuse" They
had a right to say to the employers /:
"We will not work for you," but they
had no right to tyraunize over their
fellow men. These men have put
themselves in an attitude of tyranni-
cal opposition to all law and order, and
they could not be defended. The ne
cessities of the great railway compa-
MES demanded that there should be a
reduction of wages. There must be a
continued shrinkage until things come
back to the gold standard. 1t was
true that one dollar day was not
enough to support man and five
children. fla man would persist on
drinking beer and smoking, is not one
dollar day enough to buy bread7 Mr..
Beecher continued "Water costs no.
thing. Man cannot live by bread, it
is true, but the man who cannot live
on bread and water is not fit to live.
When man is educated away from
the power of self-denial lie is falsely
educated. A family may live on good
bread and water in the morning, and
bread at midday, and good bread and
water at night. Laughter Such
may be called the bread of aHictioh,
but it is fit that man should eat the
bread of affection"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08

WE COMMEND MIR. UAYEs.-It is
gratifying to observe that Mr.. Hayes is
determined to protect the purity of
the ballot. He refuses to pardon Ely,
n young lawyer convicted nearly a
year ago of election frauds in this city,
and sentenced by Judge Benedict to
two years imprisonment. Jay Gould's
newspaper authoritatively announces
that "Mr. Hayes will refuse to grant
all similar requests, no matter what
the excuses for attempts to corrupt the
ballot may be-"
Yes, it is gratifying to see Mr.. Hayes
thus solicitous about the purity of the
ballot. Whoever Hampers with the
ballot-box and perverts the expression
of the popular will, commits one of the
most heinous crimes possible under a
system of free government. If be
steals money or goods, he wrongs one,
or a few. If he steals votes, he steals
from thousands, perhaps from mil
lions, that which is most precious to
them. Mr.. Hayes position is sound
and just one, and we hope he will
stand firm in it.
In Louisiana, a State bordering upon
the Gulf of Mexico, four men will soon
be put on trial for crime, in nature
similar to Ely's, but in motive and in
consequences incomparably more infa-
nous. The names of these scoundrels
are Wells, Anderson, Cassanave and
Kenner. They stole the Presidency.
By conspiring against the purity of the
ballot, and carrying out their plot by
means of series of frauds, forgeries
and peljuries almost without parallel.
they deprived the rightfully elected
President of his Office, and cheated the
majority of the people of the United
States out of their right to elect the
man they preferred. If Ely's crime
fairly deserved two years. sentence,
these villainous thieves would hardly
have enough with life imprisonment.
We take it that Mr.. Hayes solicit
tude for the purity Of the ballot will
impel him to assist, by every means in
his power, the prosecution and pun
ishment of the Louisiana Returning
Board. Perhaps he has already direc-
ted Attorney General Devens, or Mr.
Evarts, to go to New Orleans to aid in
to stern justice the most con-
spicuous perpetrators of the crime he
SO properly admires.-[New York Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08
Will Reopen September 26, 1877.
ESTnAY,

T1AKEN UP AND ESTRAYED BE.
i fore me the undersigned authori-
ty, on July q, 1877, by G.. w. Bos.
we'll, Jr., ONE DARK BROWN
HORSE, both hind feet white, about
seven years old, branded on the left
shoulder N with straight mark under
it, and on the left jaw with a cross
Said horse is appraised by John Hogan
and John Perry at S25, The owner of
the said animal is hereby notified to
come forward, prove property, pay
charges and stake the said animal away
or the same will be sold according to
law. D. B. HOGAN,
Justice Of the Peace, Calcasieu Ward.
Aug. 8, 1877.
Printers fees $500.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08
Very Simple Question.

with all the great railroad commu.
nications between the East and West
interrupted, business stopped, rail.
roads crippled, and the employment OF
their facilities prohibited by angry
mobs; with millions of property lying
in ashes and vast quantities of valua,
bic freight scattered in the hands OF
pillagers and thieves, ard with the
bloody record of killed and wounded
in the riots at various points, there is
but one thing to be done. That is to
vindicate law and re-establish order
1t is no time to mince matters with tile
contemners of law and meters to riot:
no time to indulge in sympathy for the
misguided men who have, perhaps un-
Willingly, but still recklessly and Grim
inally. set this great disturbance on
foot. Nor is this the time to talk
about the provocation offered to the
strikers and the hardships and distress
to which labor has, been subjected
No provocation is sufficient for the in
auguration of such q condition of dis
order and anarchy as has resulted
from this series of strikes, and nothing
can be more obvious than the fact that
the sole safety for the present, and the
only assurance for the future depend
upon the absolute suppression of every
lawless demonstration. Any other
course would result in establishing a
precedent full of peril for the future.
Nor can it be too often repeated that
this is not a struggle between Labor
and Capital, but in fact, conspiracy
against the unemployed. The men
who talk about the hardship of reduced
wages and the title of the strikers to
public sympathy, take only a half view
OF the case. If there is to be no ad :
monstration of public or private SYM
patty in this matter, let it go out TO-
wards the poor fellows who are out of
work and looking for employment at
any wages, rather than towards those
who stand with clubs and brickbats
and pistols between them and a fair
chance. Let it be kept constantly in
mind that the meaning of all these
violent outbreaks is simply that the
few hundreds of men who have good
places and good pay should keep their
old places and have their old pay;
while the thousands out of work shall
continue to have neither place nor pay,
and be left to starve. This is the suf-
tcient answer to all attempts to justi-
fly this movement. If public sympa-
thy is to regulate this matter, let that
sympathy be exercised in the direction
of the thousands of unemployed who
are Wiling to work and violently him
dered from it.
Besides this it must be kept con.
stantly in view that the issue, as it is
now presented, is larger than any
question of political economy, or of
work and wages, or the relations of
Capital and Labor; it is now simply a
question between order and chaos, be-
low and anarchy. We cannot afford
to go off into the discussion of any
such issues, when this great one con-
fronts us, and such serious consequent
ces are involved in its settlement
The first duty of all good citizens is
the re establishment of law and order,
= N. Y. Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08

Tine Hebrew Synagogue, on
Third Street in the Second Ward, has
been undergoing thorough course
painting for the last three weeks,
and when finished will reflect much
credit on the painter, W. 0. Dammon.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08

THE Judgment of the Supreme
Court in the case of the State VS..
John B. Mccoy has been received
here, is duly recorded in the Clerks
office, and the Defendant will at once
be conveyed to Baton Rouge to ex-
patiate his sentence,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08
NOV IS THE THE TO SUBSCRIBE
~ TO THE LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT

w. Fl. VANDERBILT, the Presi
dent of the great Erie Railroad, has
given one hundred thousand dollars
to be divided pro rata, according to
wages paid, among the employees of
his Road. This is for good behav
ior during the grand strike.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08
HE State authorities of Son,l

-THE State authorities Of South
Carolina, State now il this glorious
Union, and with Governor who re.
ceived his seat without an agree.
ment, have arrested many of the
leading radicals of that State, who
were lately in power, and who like
all such everywhere in the Sorl
have been on a continued steal.
Among these is Moses, the ex-Gover-
nor, who was lodged in Jail for want
of bail several days. At last &C
counts he succeeded in finding
friends and has been released on
bail. With several others be will be
indicted and tried at the first term of
the Criminal Court. Thus far the
plea of |'agreement" or the "prom-
Use of pardon" have not been whis-
pered in their behalf
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08

The old Red River Railroad
from this Town to Lecomte, on last
Saturday, was sold at Sheriff's sale
for cash, and was bid in by its for
mer owner, Ralph S. Smith, for the
price and sum of two Thousand and
five dollars.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08
ENGLISH troops have received or.

ENGLISH troops have received or
ders to prepare for transportation.
"Their families will not accompany
them" 1t looks wonderfully like old
England is in earnest and that her in
terests are to be attended to. The
landing of one regiment of English
troops, with the avowed intention of
England to take sides with Turkey,
will at once improve the morale of the
Porte's army.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-08-08

HEAVY rain in Town Saturday.
did away with the dust, filled the els
terms, but did not cool the air.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-30
Crossing the Ocean in a Sail. Boat.

CAPT. THOMAS CRAPO, with his wife,
sailed to-day from New Bedford for Lon
don in a schooner boat of 1862 tons bur-
den, and the shortest boat in which a
passage across the Atlantic was ever at
tempted. The boat was built after the
Captains own designs. 1t is 1885 feet
on deck, 20 feet over all; length of keel
13 feet; extreme breadth, GAS feet;
breadth inside of ceiling, 6 feet; depth,
3.16 feet; draught of water, about thir-
teen inches, or, with center-board down,
D feet. She carries leg of mutton
mainsail and foresail. hosting respective
ly 10 and 10 feet, and each 8 feet
across the foot, and can hoist a square
sail when running before the wind in a
light breeze, or staysail if on the wind.
Her model is something like that of a
whale-boat, but shorter, wider and deep
er, and with more sheer, and she is en-
tirely decked over. She has two hatch
ways, and the helmsman will sit in the
after hatch. The boat is SO short that
she is expected to easily ride over any
thing but a very Gaping sea without
taking much water on deck. The after
hatch is in two parts hinged together,
and the forward half will be securely
fastened down and battened in rough
weather.
Capt. Grape will not attempt to run in
severe weather on the passage, but will
lie to, head to the wind, with drag,
whenever heavy sea is running. At
such times the fore hatch will be closed,
and the watch on deck will be in the
after hatch, prepared to duck and close
the hatch if combing wave comes down,
The boats stock of provisions, water,
etc, will weigh something over / 800
pounds, in addition to which she carries
500 pounds of iron ballast. She has not
made a trial trip, but if necessary for
adjustment of ballast will call at Woods
Hole, Vineyard Haven, or Chatham. As
fast as her water kegs are emptied they
will be reflled with salt water to keep
the boat in trim. The provisions are
mostly canned goods, and the boat car
ries small kerosene stove, which can
be used on deck in good weather She
has two cOmpasses, a quadrant, supply
of charts, and her medicine chest con
sists of twenty-five walls and a vial of ex-
tract of Golden Seal.
The tight little craft sailed off gayly,
5000 people seeing her depart with
cheers, and the yachts in the harbor fir
ing good-by guns.-Neao Bedford Dis