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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18

VOLCANOES OF THE MOON.-The most
prominent instance of supposed lunar
change on the surface of the moon is that
of the crater Lime. On the northwest
quadrant of the moon, near the centre of
level tract about 430 miles in diameter,
there is bright crater called Bessel near
ly IA miles in diameter, with a circular
wall rising 4, 900 feet above theinterior, and
about 1000 feet above the surrounding
plain. Scattered over this plain are a
few small craters, some ~ miles in
diameter, with walls about 800 feet high.
Near its eastern centre an eminent seleno-
grapher named Lohrman placed dis
tinct, bright crater about five miles in
diameter, which he described as being,
after Bessel, the most conspicuous object
on this great tract of level ground. Ten
years later, our greatest selenographer,
Baron Won Nader, confirmed Lohrman's
observations, and made this crater sub
ject of special study, naming it Lime.
In the drawings of Schmidt, who was
about this time making lunar observa-
tons of this particular part of the moon,
Lime is shown as deep crater cores
ponding with the descriptions of Lohr-
man and Nader. - Popular Science
Monthly.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18
NV Barefoot Boy.
BY E. E. BROWN.

Skipping along through the narrow street
Of country village quaint and neat
With torn hat pushed from freckled face,
And every motion wave of grace;
With heart brimful of untainted JOY,
Who is more blest than my barefoot boy?
See the clouds of dust that are gathering fast
Round the little form, as it hurried past,
Hiding the delicate limbs from view
Far more than the tattered garments do.
Yet poverty cannot his peace Destroy
All! who is so rich as my barefoot boy?
Now he has mounted wayside gate,
And is shouting his call to some far off mate;
With the air of leader he issues commands,
Using for trumpet his sunburnt hands.
Now holding to view some newly bought toy
Proud as king is my barefoot buy.
Earnest of purpose, and strong of limb,
What is the pomp of the world to him.
Scarcely deigning to turn his eye
Toward the rich mans coach that is rolling
by;
Envy is powerless now to annoy
The satisfied soul of my barefoot boy.
But how will it be? Will the coming years
Ripen his hopes or increase his fears?
Will innocence yield to his lust for gold,
Till the heart grows bitter, and hard, and
cold?
Yet why should vain doubts my mind en-
ploy?
The angels have charge of my barefoot boy.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18

KEEP BUsY.-The man who has moth
ing to do is the most miserable Of beings.
If you have no regular work, do chores,
as farmers do when it rains too hard to
work in the field. In occupation we for
get our troubles, and get respite from
sorrow. The man whose mind and hands
are busy finds no time to weep and vail.
If work is slack, spend the time in read
ing. No man ever knew too much. The
hardest students in the world are the old
men who know the most.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18

CROSSING THE DANUBE.-Napoleon's
passage of the river in the face of the
Austrians before the battle of Wag-
ram is thus described by military
writer in the London Tetegraph.. "He
had prepared on the island of Lobau
a number of flat-bottomed craft and the
materials for floating bridges in canals,
which he had cut into the main stream,
keeping the boats concealed by trees and
brushwood from the enemies view.
Making feint at another point, he sent,
at 8 O'Clock in the evening, two battalions
across, who at once became engaged with
the Austrian outposts, but held their
ground till the floating bridges were
constructed over the river, there $50
yards wide, when whole corps passed
over and seized the nearest villagqe BY
II o'clock several bridges were con-
stucted, another corps was already cross
ing. and before daylight 7O,OO men had
effected their passage. The night was
very dark and there were torrents Of rain"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18

WHEN the boys we're paying ten cents
last summer for telephone with which
to amuse themselves, they did not fore
see, nor did their parents, that this was
the beginning of an institution destined
to grow into one of the wonders of the
world. Even ut this early day, the tele-
phone is the means Of communication
between distant cities, and the project is
mooted of laying it by cable under the
sea to connect us in vocal contact with
our friends on the other shore. When it
gets properly under way our words will
literally go to the worlds end.-United
Presbvteri0n.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18

THE opium-ea may reside in msla-
rious district, but he will not suffer from
miasma, or he may live in the midst Of an
epidemic of some contagious fever, but
be will be among those who escape. The
opium eater almost always dies Of opium
he survives everything to die of his ia
vorite drug.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18

IT is an erroneous, though common
impression, that the diamond is the most
valuable gem. Mr.. Streeter, one of tho
great diamond kings" of London, states
that the ruby is far more precious, and
that ruby Of five carets is worth ten
times the price of diamond of the same
weight.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-18

The Emperor of China has issued an
edict prohibiting opium smoking at the
end of three years.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
--
The Situation.

The failure to realize the homes
which our telegraphic dispatches con-
time to reitcrate, that are INDUCED
in by our friends in New Orleans,
would be, we admit, disastrous be.
You'd expression. We, however, pre-
fer, as all men, to indulge in those
pleasing faucies and roseate-hued
thoughts that arise from the last re-
naming blessings of Pandora's box,
than to look in the face the dreadful
dark of the reverse picture. One
thing is assured-we have bit one
or two days longer in which to dream :
after that we must face the consc-
queuces, be they what they may. 1t
is better than to suffer in patience
the few remaining hours that lie BE-
tween US and war or peace.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
A SQUARE MEAL FOR FIFTY
CENTS at Bu,dick's Boarding House

F THE St Louis Republican says, that
Governor Hayes presided at reli-
gieus meeting and made a brief
speech, in Cincinnati, urging chris
tian men and women to aid III sup-
pressing crime. The St Lonis jour
nal very justly remarks eff there
he greater crime than the one Hayes
proposes to- eopsummate Oh the 4th of
March, We woald like to have some
Republican brother rise and name it."
Hayes, We fear, has too much of
tic "Smiler' ColE.x composition in
his character to last long. If we are
to believe Private Dalzell, Hayes is a
"baby saint" and entirely too good
for the rudo world. Some one should
put the innocent child" in its ''little
bed"
How sjckening to decent common
sence is this maudlin gush of North
ern demagogaes.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
Planters Hotel.

L. Barbee, Fort Jcssup, La; II. A.
Hogne, Many, La; J. H. Colwell,
La; o. Shoppers, Railroad Capt.
H.. P: Gallien, Parish James Me-
Donald, Sabine, La: B. Quint, Sa-
6ine, La; J. B. Vandegar, Many, La;
Chas. A. Lesage, Railroad; Gus.
johnson, Railroad; J. +. Messi, Par
ish ; Onezjme Brosset, Parish !; c..
Castex, Parish w. j.. Collier, Parish ;
Charles Miller, Parish; A. Mayeur,
Parish NJ. Tauzin, Parish; r. House,
Red River; Mrs. G. V. Walms1ey
Tennessee; Jean Prudhom,ne, Parish;
F. Clontier, Parish !; Capt.. Sanches,
Railroad.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
Communicated


GRAND ECoRE, La, Marcel, 3, 1877.
EDITOR V1NDlcAroH-Dear Sir: We
have been thinking very seriously how
we should get before the public in our
new role, that ola FREE WAREHOUSE
business, and the various causes which
forced us to this generous act.
We have been taking in payment of
Freight and Storage bills, wood, pota-
toes, popcorn, onions, eggs, chickens,
butter, cabbages, sourkrout, labor, friend
ship, calico, secondhand clothing, corn,
skins, bug,juice, aud curs,ng, all of which
are understandable commodities, and we
were making a good cheap living, but
alas the bitter trial came. One of our
friends who had been owing us a bill of
some twelve months standing, asked us
to take a large Owl in payment We
have always made it point never to
refuse anything, ard resolved to hold of
our friend fora few days, and if We
corld find anybody out of Owl, and in
need of one, we would take it, we in
quired and advertised for a purchaser,
and finding none, concluded to open a
free business, and save our friend the
fearful sacrifice of his bird, and to have
tho public more fully appreciate our
honest endeavors to please them
Now. Mr.. Editor, we have fine stock
of the above named goods on hand and
if you will take them in payment for adj
vertising, insert the enclosed card for
thirty days, aud send order for such
goods as you need, and in the meantime
believe Us thine freely,
CHAMBERS g. BARBEE.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

THE Cincinnati Enquirer, which i
by the way getting to be the paper
Che West, isup to its knees in a bloody
war Of figures with the Commercial
of the same city on circulation.
The Enquirer has a decided advan-
tage South, in that it circulates ex
clusively among decent and homes,
people while there is scarcely a
white man or woman in the whole
South that does not thoroughly detest
the Commercial and its editorial staff
of liars.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
Newspaper Laws and Regula
tons.

I. Subscribers who do not give express
notice to the contrary, are considered
wishing to continue their subscription.
2. If subscribers order the discontinu
ance Of their periodicals, the publisher
may continue to send them until all ar
rearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their periodicals. from the otlirc to
which they art directed, they are held
responsible until they have settled their
bills, and ordered them discontinued.
a. If subscribers move to other places
without informing the publishers, and
the papers are sent to the former direc-
ton, they are held responsible,
S. The courts have decided that "rcfu-
sing to take periodicals from the office,
or removing and leaving them uncalle'l
for, is prima facie evidence of Intention
al fraud.'
s. Any person who receives newspa-
per and makes Use of it, whether he has
ordered it or not, he is held iii law to be
a subscriber.
7. If subscribers pay in advance, they
are bo1tn1 to give notice to the publish
er at the end Vf their time, if they tlO
nos~ wish to continue taking it; other
wise the publisher is authorized to send
It OH, and the subscribers will be res
ponsible until an express notice, with
payment Of all arrears, is sent to the
Publisher.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
TELECR APn|C SUMMARY.
N'lCHOLL'N Recognition
.4ssNrcd Beyond
Question.
7LOOVs to be Ordered Vest.
Packard Hat as UcH PACK
His Trap.
Troops to be Ordered Vest.
. Special to the Vinhicator. !

Special to tn" VindIcatOr.
New Orleans, Feb. 29-Thc most
positive and direct assurances says
the TimcsIof this evening, have been
received at Odd Fellows Hall that
Packard's case in Louisiana
IS UTTERLY HOPELESS,
and that within iorty-cight hours
from this, the Issue will be settled
beyond doubt or pcraAvcntnre
IN FAVOR or THE NICHOLS
GOVERNMENT.
It is expected that the status and
orders will be revoked troops or-
dcred to other quarters and the peo-
pie permitted to settle, without inter.
fearancc, the matter for themselves.
PRIVATE TELECKAMS
from many sources are most lnc0nra~
ging. Everybody here, even those
who two days since were most dis
pOndcnt, are now
CONFIDENT OF STCCESS.
Rumo1s fly thick and fast. It is
stated at this moment that the troops
are leaving the St. Louis Hotel and
Custom House, and are under orders
to move West.
New Orleans, Feb. 27.-Efforts to
delay the count defeated, and Hayes
will be inaugurated. Resolution III
the House of Representatives recog-
nizing Nichols government failed for
want of two.thirds majority. Levy
tclegrarhs Us that prospects are good
for Louisiana and leading Democrats
here expect decisive action in our
favor in the next twenty-four hours.
We are all more hopeful now than
ever. r.
Washington Feb. est is said
that President Grant will pardon ali
the ku-klux prisoners now undergo
ing imprison mcDt before he leaves the
presidential office.
Oregon vote counted for Hayes.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

Packard had himself shot at BY
some crazy fool, ia order to make p,-
litical capital North, and to coerse
the President into recognizing him at
once. President Grant saw through
the affair at once, ana Packard now
mourns the loss of Grants friendship.
Bloody shlrtism and Eliza Pinck-
ston's don't take with the North this
time of the year. It's too early OF
too late.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

Our friend Battle, of the Shreve.
port Times, is evidently demoralized
over the result of the commission.
So much for relying to a great degree
on the National Democracy Ito right
our wrongs" We feel assured, how.
ever, lie will straighten up in few
days and proceed, as the first step OF
righting our owy 'rrongs with our evn
help, to demolish the petty thief that
attempts to edit that dwelling sheet,
the Telegram.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

J. G. LEWIS, negro legislator Of
this parish, introduced in the Pack
ard caucus a resolution inquiring
why Michael Hahn consorted with
the conspirators at Odd Fellows Hall,
The caucus listened attentively to
Lewis resolve and then resolved to
--set down on Lewis which they did.
It would be well to know that Lewis
although a representative from this
parish, represents a house and lot in
town only, and that has a heavy
mortgage on it.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
List Of Arrivals at Principal Hotels.
Nalrdick'S House.

J: H. 0. Antony, Sabine, La; J.
f. Messi, Parish; f. J. Cockdeld,
parish; W. F. Pastin, VIM, L.; H.
Wyyanmski, New Orleans, La; A.
Harris, Parish, La; NJ. Franklin,
New Orleans, La; A. e. Hall, Louis.
vile, KY; Walter Rogers, New Or
leans, La; W. 5. B. Cleveland, New
Orleans, La; T. Beck, Fort Jessup,
La; H. Y. Co|tn, New Orleans, La;
John Wilson, Texas; David Renfro,
J. Mathis, South Carolina; r. C
Donovan, Parish; J. T. Sanches,
Baton Rouge, La; Mrs. Williams,
Shreveport, La.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03


We consider It the duty Of our re-
representatives. in Congress to at once
assume an attitude Of armed neutrali.
ty between the contending factions
in Consress-the Republicans and
Democrats. There is nothing in COM
mon with these people aud those of
the South. They are making the
fight, if they make any, for se1f,in.
terest and convenicDce--jt is higl.
time We shoald inject a moi}icum of
the ''mereenary" ia orr political &C.
tons. Hitherto we bave preserved
ourselves from faint of fraud or dis
honor such must and will always he
our character !; bat at the same time
the rightfnl demands of our section
must not he overlooked, and we are
in a position to require a recognition
Of our right to the help of our gov.
ernment IN great public improve
nlents, which we must use.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

To-day the wigtr Of Grant ends in
the United States. His actinR with
regard tn Nichols and Packard in
this State has. covered many Of the
former deep wounds which lie has in
flicted upon the body of this Com.
monwealth, aud he can carry with
him to his retirement ear thanks for
refusing to listen to the frantic ap-
peals of the Packard thieves in Lou
isiana,
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

Correspondence containing nc'rs Of a
general natare is solicited from this
and meighdoriny parishes The real
name Of the wri'er must oecompeny all
letters, but the aapse wiN not be pub,
k;shed uHtess 50 desired. Letters TO be
sritteu on one side Of the sheet Of pa-
per, and to contain ners Of general in
terest IN brief, crops and heather re-
ports, gossip, local happenings, de-.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

PACKARD's caucus is in a highly
dramatic state Of mind, as the Plea
yune puts it. They have passed,
"ander suspension Of the rules in
the House," a bill to punish eonspir-
aters. If the thing. could become a
law By some bocus-pokus, the very
first parties to be convicted would be
Packard and his crowd.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03
Almost a Riot.

Grave rumo1s Of a serious disturb
ance in tho Broadwe|l ne'ghborhood
of our parish reached Our city on
Wednesday morning. It seems, So
far as We can learn, that Mr.. Don
ovan, a neighboring planter to Mr.
Broadwe|l, had difficulty with a ne
glo named Henry Williams IN whicl,
the negro attempted to cut the throat
of Mr.. Donovan aud did infiict a
gastly wound with a razor. Mr..
Donovan killed tie negro, however,
and other Colorcd men to the
number of two to three hundred from
adjoining places gathered under the
leadership of bad negroes and took
violent possession of Major Broad.
wcll. plantation which they held
during the entire night.
Through the almost snperhuman
efforts of Mr. 1imon, Broadwclls man
ager, Douovan's life was saved al
though the negroes urged on by the
women, made effort after effort to
rush into the store where Donovan
was confined. Each negro vas armed
with gun or axe and Mr.. Timon, a
cool, brave gentleman, says he never
passed a night of such horror. The
men seemed more tractablc than he
women. Mr.. Timon would urge upon
them the evil that would flow from
the violence the? were attempting
and what trouble it was sure to bling
down on them, and appealed to them
as citizens to let the majesty of the
law assert itself-tbat Mr.. Donovan
should be turned over to the proper
authorities and dealt with as the law
directed ; with this, the men would
retire and consult the women who
would again urge them on to violence.
This was kept up all night, when
sufficient white forces having arrived
under ~ deputy Sheriff, the negroes
were told to dispense to their hcmes,
which they did, and Mr.. Donovan
was taken charge of and brought to
town.
The negro is a citizen and mnst
act as becomes law abiding person,
else there is serious trouble in store
for him and his in future.
With what Mr.. Donovan did, we
have nothing to say; that is left to
the courts, and any utterance of our
would only forestal1, with public opin-
ion, a proper and impartial judgement
in the case but, with this negro
mob, or attempted mob, we have
much to say. Such conduct on their
part is reprchcnsiblc and must be puf
q stop to. Every time negro is ar
rested for crime, Is killed or kills,
the same negro mob, for rescue or re.
venge, is the tag.
We have suffered these ills snth-
GENTLY and t|'v negro men in Broad
wells ueighborhood had best be very
careful IN future how they outrage
law and decency, as they did in the
Donovan matter. We have been
patient and forbeal ing with them un-
til patience and forhearance has
ceased to be a vi'tue ; they have had
time and experience enough to learn
better, if they have not profted by
that time and experience it IS no
fault of our and the "baby act" will
hardly be sufficient hereafter to con-
done the palpablc and outrageous
offense of which they have just been
guilty.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

Our Mayor is dragging up the law.
breakers, and dragging in the ducats.
Old offenders, who tfemblsd uot at
SIS and costs, now weaken in their
boots when S25 or Jug for ter days,
strikes on their startled ears. All
the fun departs from yell and street
racing when paid for at $40 the yell,
or $40 the race.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

WHILE Caesar was destroying
the liberties of his country and
enslaving his eountrymen-his
sacrifice to the Gods was con
tinuous. Hayes at one fell swoop
destroys the b.'wark Of orr liber-
ties, the sanctity Of the ballot,
and then lectures little children
upon the suppression of crime.
History repeats itself, surely.
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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

His EXCELLENCE Gov +. 7.
NICHOLS has made the following
appointments for Tax Collectors :
p. II. Cavanugh, parish of Yer.
non; j. NJ. Jennings, parish OF
VIM; J. D. Self, parish Of Sa~
bine.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

THE Mansfield Reporter, we are
panied to say, is grossly personal and
impairment when comparing this
paper and it's editor with the Tclc
gram and the man that conducts it
We have, therefore, no words to say
in reply.
The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-03-03

The average city Radical feels e.,
looks quite blue. now that veisht;e+
matters have taken the eyes of thu
world "ott' of him" Outside ola h.,
Wy thief or a ti'st-r|aSs liar, Your
country Radical is fiat faiIu,c
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