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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

The MERRY DAYS OF OLD.-In
reading of the middle ages one is
ssruck by the accounts given of feats
Of strength, sc, of the actors of those
vines. The suits of armor worn,
would certainly indicate the posses
SION of greater physical strength than
Is developed by men in these latter
uays What wrought the change
aeu lived in the merry days a more
outdoor life than this advanced civ
hizatlon of ours can afford. There is
sgreater consumption of brain mat
'er' and that increased demand on
mental and physical power necessi
'Ases the use of pure vegetable,
SS,lmulant tonic, such as the Home
Stomach Bitters.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24
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Daily without Sundays, one year
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1925: less than three months, 81 a,
month.
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ESTRAY.

kSVI"I
TAKEN UP BY NJ. D. SLEET AND
L estrayed before the undersigned
authority, ONE BAY MARE. 6 years
old, Ia hands high, one hind foot
white, small star in forehead, branded
with the figure 2 10 a circle and the
letters VB under the circle and 2. APP
praised by j. j. Peacock and G.. w.
Shuey to be worth twenty-five dollars.
The owner is hereby notified to come
forward, prove property, pay charges
and take said estray away or the same
will be sold at Alexandria, on Saturday
March 10, 1877.
F. B. AMSDEN, J. P,
Jan. "a, 1877. Cotile Ward.
Printers Fees $500
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24
NOTICE.

THE SCHOOLS OF THE PARISH OF
l. Rapides are hereby discontinued for
want of funds.
All Indebtedness to date will be paid
when there are funds in the Treasury.
By order of
GEORGE Y. KELSO,
Attest: President.
E. j. BARRETT,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Board of School Directors, Rapides Par
ish, Jan. "a, 1877.
~ Gazette please copy.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24
HERE is the way the Springfield

HERE is the way the Springfield
Republican talks about our present
fix:
''The people of Louisiana are GER
tainly justified in attempting peace
full revolution against fraud, and ev-
cry true friend of the State must
hope that it will succeed. If it were
not for the electoral and State votes
being SO closel y interviewer that
Packard can hardly sink without
dragging Hayes down with him, the
controversy would speedily settle it.
self in favor of Nichols"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

THE Jersey City Herald don't
bank much on the State Militia OF
Pennsylvania:
Don Cameron has instructed the Re-
publican Legislature of Pennsylvania
to request the Governor to place the
State Militia on a "war footing."--
They were on "war footing" at one
time during the rebellion, but it re-
quired New Jersey troops to keep the
heroes of the Keystone State from be
ing run into the Delaware river by
Lees army.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

The 2lst of May next will be
celebrated by the Catholic Church in
all countries, is the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the conservation of Pope Plus
TX as a bishop.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

II A K E N OTICE
A LII OWNERS OF COWS, ~A14BA
n BEEVES OR OTHER
ANIMALS now being pas ---A
tured in the SCOTT FIELD" are hereby
notified to remove them before the LIST of
January, 1877. A. w. MCLAURINE.
Dec. 20, 1861
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

-Ex-GovERNoR Isham G.. Harris
a man of brains, honesty and consis-
tency, and a Democrat at that, has
been elected United States Senator
from Tennessee.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

III Grant is going to do any
thing, he will have to do it very
quickly, or Packard and his quorum
less Rump will go over to our side OF
the house.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

Boss Packard has issued Pro-
clamation and orders "them fellows"
to dispense. They have not done so
and "them bayonets'' are yet in
statu quo.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

Our Judicial District is in the
same fix as our State. two Judges, both
qualified; one elected by the votes of
the people, the other counted in BY "a
clerical error"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24

IT is now admitted that Hayes
is of no account, except to be count
ed in.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

4 GENTLEMAN WHO SUFFER-
"A ed for years from Nervous Debili-
ty, Premature Decay, and all the ef-
fects of youthful indiscretion will, for
the sake of suffering humanity, send
free to all who need it, the recipe and
direction for making the simple RENEE
dy by which he was cured. Sufferers
wishing to profit by the advertisers
experience can do so by addressing in
perfect confidence.
JOHN B. OGDEN,
AZ Cedar stl eet,
New York
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-24
TO CONSERVATIVES

TINE ADVERTISER, HA WING
i been permanently cured of that
dread disease, Consumption, by sim
pie remedy, is anxious to make known
to his fellow sufferers the means of
cure. To all who desire it, he will
send copy of the prescription used,
(free of charge) with the directions for
preparing and using the same, which
they will find a SURE CURE for CON-
SUMPTION, ASTHMA, BRONCHI-
tbs, &c. Parties wishing the prescrip-
ton will please address
Rev. E. A. WILSON,
1914 Penn ST., Williamsburgh, N. Y.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
Constant Love Rewarded.

A quiet wedding occurred in this vii
lage within two months, says the Mid
dleton, n. Y. Press, at which were no
guests, a mother to the bride being the
only witness to the ceremony beside
the officiating clergyman, who came
from another village. In 1862, young
gentleman, resident of this county,
who was betrothed to the lady, enlisted
in the Union army. His sweetheart
made no effort to dissuade him, and
with a breaking heart babe him adieu
and quietly buried herself in her home
with her widowed mother, the only liv-
ing member of the family besides her
self. For a while all went well, and
loving letters cheered the gallant sol
der. After the battle of Chancellors-
vile the letters suddenly ceased. Letter
after letter was written to him and his
comrades, but all that could be learned
was that after that terrible battle he was
missing. His stricken sweetheart never
entirely abandoned hope, and lived on,
hoping against hope for his return.
After many weary years her patient
troth has been rewarded and she is now
happy bride. Some time during the
fight he was taken prisoner and soon
after sent to a Southern prison,
where he was kept about a
year. He finally escaped and
reached the seaboard, where he con-
ceived the idea of personating an En-
glish sailor and getting to England on
blockade-runner. After much delay
and many disappointments, during
which his courage almost failed him, he
succeeded. He remembers sailing
through the blockading squadron. After
that all is blank. He learned after
ward that he had been taken i'll, and
soon after insane. On his arrival at
England he was taken to an insane
asylum by the Captain of the blockade
runner, where he remained until year
ago, when he was discharged cured, but
penniless. He succeeded, through the
assistance of friends in the asylum, in
obtaining a situation in a mercantile
house, where ne won the esteem of the
principals, to whom he told his story.
A leave of absence was granted him; he
came to Middletown and found his old
sweetheart, now a lady of 80, still faith
full to his memory. They were quietly
married and are now in England, where
he proposes to remain for a term OF
years. During his long absence his on
ly surviving relatives, a brother and un-
Gle, had died, and he had no ties to keep
him here, save the love of country,
which will eventually bring him and his
faithful wife back to our shores.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.


CoLD-sLAw.-Cut up half a medium
sized white cabbage in shreds; sprinkle
upon it teaspoonful of salt; then take
2 eggs, piece of butter the size of an
egg, cup of water, the same of vine
gar; beat the eggs very light; add the
water, vinegar and butter, with little
pepper and mustard, and pour over the
cabbage.
SUPERIOR CoRN-sTARCH CANE
cup of butter, of sugar, of flour, of
corn-starch, the whites of eggs well
beaten, full teaspoon of yeast powder,
cup of milk and flavor to taste. Beat
butter ard sugar to cream, then add
the other ingredients-adding the eggs
last. This is a very handsome silver
cake and to the taste delicious.
APPLE TAPIoCA PUDDING.-Soak a
teacupful of tapioca in 3 cupfuls of luke
warm water for or 6 hours, stirring
occasionally. Peel apples, cutting
them in halves and arranging them in
the bottom of the dish, empty in the
dissolved tapioca with pinch of salt;
bake hour, and eat warm with cream.
If the apples are not sweet, serve with
sugar or with hard sauce.
TEA CAKEs.-Put l pint of warm
milk into pan with pint of east and
sufficient flour (about2 pounds) to make
good thick paste. Knead it well, and
leave it to rise for couple of hours;
sweeten with 2 ounces of powdered
sugar, mix with it pound of butter,
and add eggs well beaten up. Let it
stand for hour, then divide it into
cakes and put them in tins, stand
them to rise again near the fire, then
bake in a quick oven.
BUCKwHEAT CAKES. pint of
sour milk or buttermilk, add teaspoon
full of soda, stir until it foams up; mix
in the buckwheat flour and Graham
flour by degrees and alternately, stir
ring well until there is a thick batter;
rub little butter on hot grlddle or
large frying-pan; try the batter; if it is
full of little holes it is of the right thick
ness; 2tablespoonfuls will make good
sized cake; they must be turned. Eat
with plenty of golden sirup.
WASHINGTON PIE.-Peel and cut up
about s apples, and stir them over the
fire with ounces moist sugar, 2 ounces
of butter, juice and peel of l lemon.
When the apples are quite soft, mash
them up, or put them through sieve;
stir in yelks of eggs, and bake in
pie-dish which is edged with paste.
When done put the whipped whites on
the top, ornament it with candied peel
or dried fruit, and return it to the oven
till it is nicely Drowned.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
Horrors of the Indian Famine.

The st. Louis Republican publishes
the following private letter, written by
a magistrate on the island called Paum-
beu, in India, to his brother in Mis-
souri,:
PAUMBEU, Aug. u, 1871 am so
fearfully sick of this dreadful famine;
people dying of starvation all around
and out of ones power to assist. Re-
turning from my morning ride one day
this week / found a woman in the last
stage of starvation, and although pro-
cured sage and brandy for her, the poor
creature died. l am to hold a meeting
this evening to start private congee
house to relieve the necessities of some.
Every day we give rice and money out
of our own resources, but it is heavy
drain. Rice sells at twenty-five shil-
lings bag of 164 pounds, which last
year could be bought for eight shillings,
and of course every thing is dear in
proportion in the vegetable line; but
cows and poultry, ETC., are to be bought
in the same place for nominal sums
only. The people have nothing to feed
them on, and in some places there
is actually famine of water as well
as of food. Grass is an article of i'm
portation, and pays for its convey
ance. We feed about three hundred
people daily, one meal a day only, giving
but enough to keep them alive. We can
not afford to give more, as we shall have,
probably, to feed them for four months,
perhaps longer. Last month was a
great festival time among the HindOos,
but, owing to the famine, not many
came to market, although there is a
temple here much frequented by de-
voices. Sometimes, after landing on
the shore, they roll the whole way
(eight miles) to pay their devOtions. In
one taleeg $4,000 died of starvation
in month. In our district 10000
died in May. Is it not terribleP
You can not imagine what scenes we
Indians see and hear daily. Can you
fancy woman boiling and eating her
babyP That occurred not many miles
from here only last week. When pos
sible 1 superintend the giving of the
food, and have often seen the mothers
take the children's share and eat it
themselves. l must add that | make it
up to the poor little things, when posi-
BILE, by giving them an extra allowance,
as 1 feel that only the pangs of utter
starvation would induce mother to rob
her child, for, although black in color,
they are not devoid of feeling.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
Patience.

Were there no night we could not read the
stars,
The heavens would turn into binding
glare;
Freedom is best seen through the prison bars
And rough seas make the haven passing fair
We can not measure joys but by their loss,
When blessings fade away we see them
them;
Our richest clusters grow around the cross,
And I'm the nighttime angels sing to men.
The seed must first lie buried deep in earth,
Before the lily opens to the sky;
So eight is sown," and glhdness has its birth
In the dark deeps where we can only cry.
"Life out of death is Heavens unwritten
law;
Nay, it is written in myriad forms;
The victor's palm grows on the fields of war,
And strength and beauty are the fruit OF
storms.
Come, then, my soul, be brave to do and bear
Thy life is bruised that it may be more
sweet;
The cross win soon be left, the crown Wen
wear
Nay, we will cast it at our Saviors feet.
And up among the glories never told,
Sweeter than music of the marriage-ben,
Our hands will strike the vibrant harp of gold
To the glad song He doeth all things well y
Henry Burton, in the Sunday Magazine
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
Death of an American Baroness.

The painful intelligence of the death
of Baroness Juliet B. de Lepel, former
ly Juliet B Austin, of this city, was re-
ceived by cable yesterday. She died
Saturday morning at TRENT, Austria
The deceased lady was a native of Mil
waukee, and resided here until 1867. In
that year she went to Germany with a
view of cultivsting her voice, which was
pure and strong soprano In 1871
she was married to Baron de Lepel, a
distinguished Prussian- About a year
ago her health began to fail, and since
that time she resided at TRENT for med
zeal treatment. Her illness was not re-
gafded as dangerous until within a few
weeks. She was IS years old. She had
prosecuted the study of music and the
training of her voice with marked sue
cess, and had the ability to take lead
ing place among the vocal artists
MiIUaukee Sentinel.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
A Bold and Successful Robbery.

One of the boldest robberies that has
ever occurred in this city, says the Lin
coin (Neb.) Journal, took place at the
B. & NJ. Depot shortly after noon yes
terday. Mr.. DeLee, the driver of the
U. S. Express wagon in this city, had
gone to the depot as usual, and took
from the express agent of the eastward
bound train the money package and
other articles expressed to this city, and
laid them in his wagon. The money
package he laid under the cushion on
his seat, and over the cushion he spread
or threw grain sack; he then stepped
to the door of the express car for an
other package of goods, when the en-
velope containing the money and way
bills was taken. We are not positive
whether Mr.. DeLee discovered his loss
Immediately or not; however, the rob-
berry was made known at once, when
one of our town boys pointed out a
tall man as having been seen be-
tween the express wagon and the
omnibus, which were standing side by
side at the platform. Mr.. DeLee
quickly proceeded up town and got
out a warrant for the arrest of the sup
posed thief, but before the officers could
get to the depot the train was moving
off. Mr.. Miller Immediately telegraph
ed to Waverly, Omaha and Plattsmouth
to have the man arrested. At the former
place he was arrested by the Constable
of the town, who in turn telegraphed
here that the party was captured. A
locomotive, with Marshal Carr and one
or two others, proceeded to Waverly,
where the man was turned over to the
Marshal. The prisoner gave his name
as C. D. Tiffany, and said that he was a
commercial traveller for hatters and fur
riers on Broadway, New York. He
said he had no knowledge of the rob-
berry, and took his arrest very coolly.
Upon his person was gold watch, a
ticket for Omaha, and $40 in money.
When questioned as to where ne had
stopped while in Lincoln, he said he had
taken his meals at Spencer's dining-hall,
but refused to state where he had lodged.
The messenger don't remember how
much money there was in the "run,'
but remembers distinctly that there was
one package in the lot containing 500
The prisoner will be brought before ID
G. Hull, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
tomorrow, when, we presume, the tui
facts in the case will be brought to light
In the meantime, the prisoner is resting
comfortably in the County Jail.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
Communism in Iowa.

An obscure communistic society,
called Amana, occupies tract of fertile
land near Iowa City, and has 1924
members. There are seven villages,
and in each clearinghouse sufficient
to accommodate the population OF the
village. To these all the people go to
get their meals, the hour for which IS
given by bell from central tower.
There are also laundries, where all
washing and ironing are done; SO that
no housekeeping really is done in the
families, which leaves the members to
other departments of labor, and every
member of the society has something to
do. Once in every year the executive
officers make an annuity apportionment
to each family or single individual,
which is to be for use for that year for
personal expenses. There is in every
village a store, in which all kinds OF
goods are kept, and which are delivered
to members of the society without profit; ;
record of each persons purchases )
kept, and at the end of the year TIE
amount is deducted from the annuity,
so that very little money is used. If &
member withdraws from the society,
what he put in is returned, without in
terest or increase. If member dies,
and is the head of family, his share
or interest in the society is divided
among his legal heirs and placed to their
credit on the books of the society.
There are three physicians, whose duty
it is to visit the sick. Their medicines
and teams are supplied by the society
So, also, schools are maintained:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
Harvest Hymn.

Once more the liberal year laughs out
Ger richer stores than gems or gold;
Once more with harvest song and shout
Is Natures bloodless triumph told
Our common mother rests and sings
Like Ruth among her garncred sheaves;
Her lap is fun OF goodly things,
Her brow Is bright with autumn leaves.
o favors old, yet ever newt
q blessings with the sunshine sentl
The bounty Overruns our due,
The fullness shames our discomfort.
We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom on;
We murmur, but the corn ears fill;
We choose the shadow, but the sun
That casts it shines behind us still.
God gives us with our rugged soil
The power to make il Eden fair,
And richer fruit 10 crown our toll
That summer welded islands bear.
Who murmurs at his lot to-day?
Who scOrns his native fruit and bloom,
Or signs for dainties far away,
Beside the bounteous board of home?
Thank Heaven, instead, that Freedoms arm
Can change a rocky soil 90 gold;
That brave and generous lives can warm
A cline with northern ices cold.
And by these affairs wreathed with flowers
And fields of fruits, awake again
Thanksgiving for the golden hours,
The early and the later rain.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11

get your dinner, sir l can forgive you
for every thing but supposing / could
be so shockingly ill-bred as to call any
man HEM
Jack gave feeble little laugh and
went to dinner like lamb. He has
never been jealous since; but yet Carry
never quite trusts him.
She takes remarkable care of the
scrap-basket, and has studied the type
writer SO thoroughly she can keep it in
order herself.
1T is great help, jack" she said,
the other day, half smiling; shut it
came near being disastrous present. :"
Rose Terry Cooke, in the Independent.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
CANTON. 20 the Public.

We understand there are unprineipled
groeers anA storekeepers who palm of on
on the unwary purchasers Yeast Powder in
bulk, or loose, for the genuine DooLEY's
YEAST POWDER. For the protection of
housekeepers and the public generally, we
are authorized to state that the genuine
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is sold only in cans.
Always refuse to take it except In cans, Sc
curely labeled. The fac-simile signature of
DooLEY & BROTHER, the manufacturers, Is
plainly nrinied on each label
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-11
CATARRH.
TWELVE YEARS OF SUFFERING

Gentlemen s-Aho twelve years ago. while travel
ilpg with Father kcmps Old Folks Concert Troupe a.
= tenor singer, took severe cold and was laid us
AZ Newark, N. j. This cold brought a severe at
tack OF Catarrh, which baftied with every known
remedy for four weeks without avail and was finally
Obliged to give up most desirable position and ~
turn home unable TO sing note For three years
Afterwards unable 20 sing at all The FIRST al
tack Of Cstarrh had len my nasal organs and hroas
sensitive that the slightest cold would bring on
fresh attack. leaving me Frustrated. In this way ]
continued 10 suffer. The last attack, the severest
ever had. was terrible. lsu1ered the most cxcrucie.
ing pain in my head. was hoaFse 10 be scarcel
able TO speak. and coughed necessarily. thought
lseve that had these symptoms continued without
lief thew would have rendered me sa easy victim.
when IN this distressing condition, commenced ths
use ofSAxFoRD's RADICAL CUBE FOB CArARRu. very
feIucfantly confess, had tried All the advertise
remedies without benefit The inst dose OF this wor-
derful medicine gave me the greatest relief. lt IL
hardly possible for whose head o he's, eyes ache
who can scarcely articuiats distinctly on account
the choking Accommodations In his throat. 70 reaizs
how much relief obtained from the nrst april
OF SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE. Under It's lnnuence,
both Internal and external. rapidly recovered AL
BIZ an occasional OF the remedy since have bee1
entirely free from Catarrh. for the first time In twelve
years. Respectfully yo1nrsiv zorppoox
wA1ruAn, Mass. JAM 1875.
Each package contains DR.. Sanford's Improved In
hang Tube with full directions for use In all cases:
Price, 81 90 For Gale by all Wholesale and keta!t
Druggists throughout the United states. MEEhsS =
POTTER. General Agents and Wholesale Druggists