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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-09-05
COUNTY, oEE.lcERs.

J. ". CARrEn, District Attorney.
". N. CUPPETT, Clerk Of District Court.
THo1R J. THoNsTAD, Register Of Deeds and Ell
ofaclo County Clerk. e.
GEO. W. NAYLoR, Treasurer. sae,gs sst'g
J. @. FITzaERALD, Judge Of Probate.
r. DIXON, Sheriff.
A ARNEsos, Chairman,
W. ". PALMxk, fCo. Commissioners.
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The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-09-05

Gen. Grant is IN Scotland. On Friday
last he was presented with the freedom Of
Edenburs
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-09-05
BAKERY AND RESTAURANT
NJ II. ROBINSON

Eesps q hand and for sale for cash large stock Of
b1e0, pias, cakes, crackers, cove oysters, canned
aaOAss, kc.; also full line Of confectionery, 70.
kAseo, cigars, oranges, lemons, &c. Warm meals q
~ 'soura. ID connection with the above ne has
f;vst.c class Barber Shop.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-09-05
Land For Sale !
ON LONG TIME. By
FRED, T. DEAN, Tiptoa, 10

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$50 acres, Section al, o. "a LyoA oounty. Iexe
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1877-09-05

VerginiA passed law last winter
compelling every bar tender to purchase
an instrument 70 record every drink cold,
and on every drink thus registered the
landlord was to pay tax The dealers
learned that the register had bern rejected
IN the Patent ofice; bought up the patent
that formed the basis Of the reiectlou, and
employed lawyers to bring suits agains,
the manufacturer ofthe othor register, and
% order has been Issued restfaining The
issue Of the resister until tbe question 81
q 70 ! preliminary injunction ca " u.
guea
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16
LEGAL.
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CHERIFEsS SALE.

Wood l. Roano
va. Writ of II. fl. under IL months bond.
ti Thoa. r. Richardson,
Fourteenth District Court, Parish of Qua
- chita, State OF Louisiana.
BY virtue of n writ of fieri fAcias issued
In the above entitled cause on twelve
months bond against the defendant and f.
Gilbert, have seized and will sell at the
Court House door, ON =
SATURDAY,, l.th November. 1877,
Qt being the third Saturday of said nlonth)
the following described property, with ali
the improvements thereon. to-wit: ,,
"a tract of land situated la tho parish Of
Ouachita, ffonting on tho Ouachita river,
about ~ miles below the city of Monroe,
north and contiguous to the land owned
by Il. u. Cobb, IN section township II,
north range four east commencing At 4
point ON the cast bank of the Ouachita
river, thence running north 76IS east
1Ol 3S-lOO chains, themes north Az e~st
II 10e100 chains. thence south 76X west
u lS.l0O chains. thence north AZ east
stake on the river road, thence south IS
west five chains to the river bank, thence
down said bank to tho place of beginning:
containing between the river road and tho
river IL s5-lOO acres !; d 5O-lOO acres OF o,en
or cleared land and As 73-lOO acres OF wood
land, and containing In the aggregate $50
acres, ~ por plat and survey OF Frank
Moore, Partsh surveyor, OF date Sd Eeb,y,
Seized the property of Il. p. Richard
son, and will BIO sold to satisfy aaid writ
and costs. t 3t-,E 800. !,
Terms OF sale. cash, for what the property
will bring, without the benefit OF appraisS-
mont. l.. w. SURGHNOk.. 7'7D't
OF Coroner.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16
DIED,

At tho family residence, Ouachita parish,
November 8, 1877, in the Goth year OF her
age, Mrs. SARAH X. NOBLE, wife OF Eli
Noble, Esq.
Mrs. Noble had lived in Louisiana since
lS4l. She was born near Columbia, South
Carolina, in 1902. At Ii years of age she
joined the Methodist church, and for IS
years has been u consistent member of that
church, and devoted to its interests and
teachings. For years she has suffered
from heart disease, but bore her afiiictions
patiently and died with perfect resignation
TO the will of the Maker she had served 80
faithfully.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16
HONsTABLE's SALE.

Third Ward Magistrate's Court. Parrish of
Onachita, State OF Louisiana.
by virtue OF u writ OF II. f,s. issued In the
offer for sale at the Court House door In
the city OF Monroe, between legal hours OF
sale, ON - '-''S
seturday, 18th Of December, 1877.
the following property OF defendant, to- wit:
a lot Of ground situated In tho city of
monroe, having front of ninety feet and
ten inches on the Ouachitn river. bounded
below by ground owned and resided on by
Judge l.. r. Lnmy, bounded above by olive
street, and running back botwoen parallel
lines two hundred and ninety feet.
Ierns Of sale, cash, with tho benefit of
"ppraisemeht. JOHN II. VINSON,
" Constable.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

The Board Of Trade held meeting
Tuesday night to consider the advisa-
bility of Joining the citizens OF the
Cooley neighborhood, Morehouse par
ish, in making repairs on the road
leading from Monroe to that section. 1t
was decited to appoint a committee to
confer with the citizens of that neigh
borhood and to propose to them to pay
one-half the expense of the repairs.
Other business was transacted in exec
utive session which is withheld from
publication at the request of the board
We are pleased to see the members
keeping up their organization, the
benefits Of which, with earnestness and
wise management, must be very great
to the trade of Monroe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

Mr.. HI. q. Dobson hired fine horse
to u man named Parker to 20 to Mr..
w. III. Bakers in this parish, and sent
with him a freedman to bring the
horse back. Parker managed to keep
the horse, the freedman coming home,
saying Mr.. Parker had left hun aud
could not be found. Parker went on
with the horse as far as Little Rock
and there stabbed him, and then went
to Memphis. At Memphis he wrote
to Mr.. Baker Il rather jocular letter,
in which, after referring to his wife
and expressing great concern for her
welfare, he said that the horse of Mr..
Dobson was in Davis's stable at Little
Rock, and advised ssthe parties to pur-
sue" Parker, in his jocular vein APP
pended q postscript to the effect that he
had just attended Gen. Forests fune-
raj, and signed his name, with the
alias Claude Duval. Mr.. Dobson tele-
graphed US Wednesday, from Little
Rock, that he had recovered his horse,
aud that he would set out after Parker
yesterday. If the pursuit should prove
successful, Mr.. Parker will prove
strong candidate for the penitentiary.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

We call attention to the advertise
ment Of Mr.. p. g. Bigley who has just
commenced a business in Monroe the
character of which is fully explained
in his advertisement. Mr.. Bigley was
formerly in business in New Orleans,
the partner of our lamented friend Mr..
James McCioskey. He has come to
Monroe with a determination to en-
large its trade and offers great induce
.ments to those who desire anything in
his line. His stock of liquors, whisky
and brandy especially, he regards as
superior in quality to anything in this
market and cheaper in price, and Mr..
Bigley asks that buyers will test his
goods as severely as they may. No
better guarantee could be offered. We
trust Mr.. Bigley will be literally pat
ronized and that he will be satisfied
with his removal to Monroe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

! A bale of cotton was brought TO town
Wednesday showing ON both edges u
beautiful sample. The bale was pur-
chased at 1O4 cents. Acfoser inspection
showed that the bale was what cotton
buyers call s'plated THAT is, good
cotton packed at the top and bottom in
the press, and inferior cotton in the
middle-and the bale, thereupon, sold
tor about nine cents, or less. 1t was a
palpable fraud.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16
OnafhitA Tflfaraph.
MONROE, La, NOVEMBER ls. 1877.

The river continues to rise, and is
now open to Camden. The John Will
son, ID. Stein. and Carrie q. left New
Orleans Wednesday. The Bertha
Drummer, for Farmerville, passed up
Tuesday, and the Howard, from
Camden, down Wednesday morning
with over 800 bales.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

Judge Slack of the Parish Court de-
cided the other day that a minor could
not act as deputy sheriff. 1t has been
customary with clerks, sherif1s and
recorders in this State to have minors
act as their deputies, and their acts
have generally been accepted as bind
ing. In the case before Judge Slack
much was said on both sides and the
legal arguments were pretty full and
lengthy. The decision was adverse to
the capacity of a minor to act as deputy
sheriff, and we think the decision COR
rect. Minors are not necessarily in
competent, but the law defines what
shall be the qualifications of officers,
and these qualifications ought to apply
as we'll to the officers deputy as to the
officer himself. The deputy, at least,
while the law does not expressly pro-
vide what his qualifications shall be,
ought to be a man (not a woman) who
has reached the age of discretion.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

An Irish foot peldler left town late
the other evening with his pack aud
$45 in money. The next day he was
found with his head terribly beaten
and wandering he knew not whittier.
He was brought to town, made an affi-
davit against Jesse Modify, u freed
man at whose house he stopped for
directions, charging him with laying
in wait and robbery. Jesse, his wife
and confederate are now in Jail.
Jesse says the man was drunk and
fell on the cross-ties, but his wife's
statement, the circumstances and the
peddler's afhdavit goes to show that
Jesse was the cross-tie and the bene-
hciary of the peddler's money and
goods both of which were taken from
him. We are of the opinion that
Jesse aud all Others like him ought to
be taught q severe lesson.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

We have been shown \ very old
American silver dollar by Mr.. d. A..
Breard, Sr. It was coined in 1893, and
bears the impress of age very percept-
IDLY. 1t is the ssdollar of our fathers"
especially to Mr.. Breard, his children
and brothers, all of whom have used
it as infants in cutting their teeth, it
having been suspended from their baby
necks by q cord for that purpose. Mr..
Breard could probably get thirty times
the value of this old dollar, but he will
not part with it. Has this old coin
been the means of bringing other dol
lars in-as we were told, when a lad,
that money placed in a clock would
Gr0,0 money to it? -''.-
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16
CHERIFF'S SALE.
NJ. NJ. Bryant 81
vs.. No. fOGi.

~ n" NJ. NJ. Bryant =. n" =.
vs.. No. 1865. t,
John seymour.
state Of Louisiana, Parish OF Ouaohita,
Parish Court. 7li mt - F
by virtue of writ of fieri tsciaS issued
nom tho Honorable Parish Court, have
seized and will offer for sale at tho door OF
the Court House in the city Of Monroe.
within e. the hours prescribed 6y Law, ON b
the Following described property, to-wit !:
Tho southeast quarter Of southessst quar-
tor, Tho northwest quarter OF southeast
quarter, tho southwest quarter OF north
cast quarter, tho northeast quarter Of south
wcst quarter, and south half OF southwest
quarter OF section six, township nineteen,
drsd and forty acres more or less. ''iElF
seized as tho property Of John Seymour
and costs. t.t
Terms Of sale, cash. with the beneht OF
Nppraisoment. +..si,tts-t. 7-7T-II1 :
1t T. P.RICHARDSON, sheriff.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

Mr.. d. Steinau wishes us to announce
that he keeps fresh keg beer and also
bottled beer constantly on hand for
sale. In addition to his daily lunch,
his customers will be supplied with
pretzels and Swiss cheese. Holland
herring also furnished in any quantity.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16


The shadow of u deep affection rests
upon a. stricken household, and we
share in the grief, in the death OF Mrs.
Bette D. Mcleod, the wife of Capt.
H. w. Mcleod, who died on the 10th
instant, at the family residence, after
an illness of great physical pain lasting
nearly seven weeks. Mrs. Mcleod
was Il woman of superior excellence
one of those feminine characters whose
merits are inestimable, whose lives are
beautiful and whose deaths are Attic
tions indeed. The writer knew her
well from timid dutifu1 little girl.
She was then a model in womanly
ways, and her whole life has been but
the fultillment of the promise then
given. But if her life was such as to
command this recognition of its beau
ties, what might not be said of one,
who like her, saw and realized the
stealthy approaches of Death for days
and nights together, struggling with
fierce pain all the weary hours, and
yet faced the monster fearlessly, and
finally bid the world and friends adieu
as resignedly as if life itself were q
shadow? The power of faith and the
consciousness of a life well spent had q
notable exemplification of their virtues
in the death Of this devoted young wife
and mother. Pain could extort no
complaint and Death excite no appre-
citation of terror of what is to come, and
the poor suffering wife and mother
went to the Better Land victorious
over both. To the bereaved little
ones, husband, mother and relatives
we extend the sympathy expressed
only in tears.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

Up to Wednesday, the 18th, there
had been 304O bales Of cotton weighed
by the city weigher. Up to the Goth
Of this month last year 3167 bales were
weighed.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

We are pleased to note the enterprise
shown by Mr.. Lewis d. Allen, Jr., and
to announce his removal to the large
and cOmmodious warehouse opposite
his old stand, thus affording him ample
Office room to conduct his banking and
exchange business, and also sufficient
storage facilities to accommodate the
stock of supplies he isobliged to carry
in store here In order to facilitate the
filing Of orders promptly without
their arrival from first hands.
His business is increasing rapidly and
he seems to be supplying need long
felt in this section of the State. He
has fine stock of bagging and Grip
ties, Schafier's soap and candles, Plants
st. Louis Flour of all grades, aud is in
daily receipt OF fresh samples of staple
groceries which he can guarantee to
price to our merchants and jobbers at
figures that will defy competition. Mr..
Allen now represents some Of the lead
ing business houses North and South,
and is laying the foundations for a
establishment that will supply
the wants, in a measure, OF Monroe
and vicinity.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

Capt. Ii. T. Walshe, ITO Canal street,
New Orleans, is the acknowledged
leader in shirts and mems furnishing
goods, and we know he sells the best
Of goods at the lowest prices.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

District Court will begin in Monroe
on the Goth instant. Judge Parsons is
now holding court in Morehouse where
the people seldom go to law aud where
the lawyers are nearly always idle.
There is no inducement for Judge to
hold court there, but we hope Judge
Parsons will be reconciled when he
reaches Ouachita.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

Mr.. Emile Girod arrested young
man named Alexander Webb in this
parish last week who stands charged
with murder in Jefferson county, Ala,
and has taken him back to that State.
Webb admits the killing, but says he
acted in self-defense. It is said a
large reward is offered for his safe re-
turn. He did not appear unwilling to
go.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

Cornelius Scotia very clever old
colored man who has been doing small
business just out Of town on the De-
Siard road, died few days ago. Cor
nelius was once a patron of the TELE-
GRAPH, and paid us promptly, one of
the few freed men we have trusted who
ever has.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

The proverbial s.three white frosts
and rain" have visited this point
since Sunday. The frosts were heavy,
bringing ice, and the rain Wednesday
night was a sssoaker," accompanied by
thunder loud, long and grand. All
the incubating hens may as well retire
from their nests, and begin business
solid ground quivered, and with such a
jar no sensible hen could expect her
eggs to hatch. az
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

The list of delinquent Taxpayers
would have appeared in the TELE-
GRAPH, and we had arranged to pub
lish it, but when we came to examine
the list and the law, we decided that
the pay was inadequate, and not only
that, but uncertain, as there is no pro-
vision in the law to pay for advertising
property bought in by the State, and
we are of the opinion that the bulk OF
the sales will be of this class.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-11-16

The undersigned respectfully in forms tho
public that he has now on hand a we'll 40
iected stock OF OUacc and Household FIt,y,i-
tM's, W00de" c0Usss, Afctdlic Hu,TnI O1skeks.
CoVsn Trimmings such Handles, YyHtes
etc. Terms, Cash. store on Grand
street, near the Courthouse.
j. Il. PETERS,
Monroe, La, March IL. 1875. n28-tf T..
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-01-17
THE COLORADO QUIBBLING.

Because the Democrats in Con-
gress did foolish thing last ses-
sion, by passing an &C: to enable
Colorado to get into the Union, ism /
a good reason why they should do a
more foolish thing by trying to
keep her ont. Two years ago.
when the whole country felt that it
was safe time to chastise the Re
publicans of the Grant administra-
ton when all the States either
voted Democratic or exhibited the
worst form of staggers in the Re-
publican line, Colorado caugb. the
infection and made Ter virgin ex-
pertinent in giving decided Demo-
cratic majority. There. as else
where, the people hadn't become
suddenly enamored of Democracy,
bus in sheer cusseduess they gave
the election over to the Democrats
to run the entertainment for one
season only. On the strength of
this single Democratic majority
the Democrats assumed that Colo.
RADIO would be Democratic State
that ii would give them two Demo
cratic Senators and three Demo
cratic electors, and they assented
to the scheme of the more knowing
Republicans. passed the Colorado
enabling &C. 4ndmade her State.
As the Presidential year called ont
a full vote and drew party lines
where tie Republican majority of
the population is equal to fifty
Thousand in Pennsylvania, and the
election of Republican State adj
minis,ration, United States Sena-
tors aud Presidential Electors was
Just as natural as tba. tale from
tadpole leaves frog; and now be-
cause the Democrats have foolishly
studded their toes against the State
Of their own creation, they keep
her Representative shivering on the
outside of Congress.
Colorado was fairly admitted; her
Congressman should be in his seat,
and her electoral vote will go to
Hayes with the consent of every
fair minded member of both
Houses.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-01-17
Black Hills Veterans.

Last evening one hundred and
forty-two men OF the Fourth Artil-
lery, U. s. A., in command of
Major Campbell. passed here en-
route to San Francisco. Last
August they passed here going to
the Black Hills to fight Sitting
Bull and avenge the death of Gus
ter. Then they we're dressed in
new uniforms and every man of
them looked like a military dandy,
now nearly all of them are bronzed
from exposure, and their clothing
could scarcely be considered up to
the regulation standard. A majority
of them wore fur caps, which pro-
tected their ears from the nipping
frosts Of the Rocky Mountains.
One of them informed US that
they travelled hundreds of miles in
pursuit of Sitting Bull. but that
willy savage always managed to
keep ahead Of them or evade them
In some way or other. They were
obliged to camp ont during their
stay in the Hills, with the mercury
not unfrequently 20 degrees be
zero, and when they received orders
10 return to San Francisco there
was general rejoicing in camp
Silver State, 18th.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-01-17
A Maniac Husband.

Sunday morning the people OF Car
son were horror stricken at hearing
that "a man had been found at the
Abraham ranch, west of town, with
his throat cut. About the same time
the alarm of fire was raised, and vol
umes of smoke were seen ascending
from the neighborhood of John Baths
ranch. Deputy Sheriff Doron pro-
cured carriage and drove to the
spot Immediately, finding Patrick
McKana bound hand and foot and
bleeding from wound in the throat,
he brought him to the Sheriff's Office
where DR.. Davidson attended to the
wound.
Married infelicity seems to have
been the cause of all the trouble
Mckenna has for long time been in
the employ of the V. & T. r. r. Co,
as Zimmerman, and when sober is a
steady, industrious young fellow. 1t
appears that some time ago he mar
ried daughter of Isaac J. Abraham,
who owns ranch west OF town near
that of Mr.. John Bath. The married
life of the twain does not seem to
have been a happy one, and year
ago the wife was compelled to sue for
a divorce ON the ground of extreme
cruelty. The matter was finally set
tied by McKana paying the costs and
the pair got together again. Suisse
quentiy trouble caused Mrs. NJ. to
leave her husband and seek refuge in
her fathers house. For some time
McKann is said to have been morose
aud not like himself, and on Sunday
morning the devil seems to have Ia
ken possession of him. He closed up
the door and window of his little
house, situated north of r. M.Clarke's
and among number of small tene-
ment houses, and deliberately set fire
to the furniture in several places. lie
then went out and firmly fastened all
the outlets. making his way to his
father-in-law's ranch. Arriving there
he set the haystack on fire and also
the barn; approached the house and
commenced beating the door with an
AK. 1t seems that he cut his throat
at the time he set fire to the hay, for
when Mrs. Abrahsms rushed ont of
her room she found the man bleeding
and soon secured him. Numerous
friends of the family went to their as
sistance and succeeded in saving the
barn and most of its contents.
McKana is much better than he
could have been expected to be under
the circumstances, for he severed his
windpipe and lost an immense
amount Of blood. unfortunately he
did not cut the jugular vein, and may
yet recover. We hear that the man
had an excellent young woman for a
wife. but used her brutally.-Carson
Tribune.