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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Parish Ceart-Parish Of Rapides.

PURSUANT TO A COMMISSION
Il and order Of sale issued from the
Parish Court, in and for. said Parish
and State, and to me directed, / will
sell at public auction, to the last and
highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, the 22nd day of JUNE,
1878,
between the hours Of 8, A. NJ. and 4 p.
NJ, the following described property
belonging to the Minors Julia Goodman
and Felix Rose, to-wit: ~
The undivided interest in certain
piece of ground situated in square No.
(3) of the Town of Alexandria, having
front Of (6) feet, more or less, on Front
street, and four and a half az feet,
more or less, on Second street, bounded
above and below by property of John
NJ. Barrett. a.stal.
Terms and Conditions of Sale, CASH.
EDOUARD WE'LL,
Nav 22*. Tutor.
l AAs'J EttsEy$. rs .
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BEAUTIFUL THoUGHr.-When the
summer of youth is slowly wasting
away on the nightiall of age, and the
shadow of the past becomes deeper,
and life wears to it's close, it ia
pleasant to look through the vista of
time upon the sorrows and facilities of
our earlier years. If We have had a
home to shelter and hearts to rejoice
with us, and friends have been. gath.
cred around onrl Preside, the rongh
places Of the wayfaring will have been
worn and smmthed away in the twi.
light of life, and many dark spots we
have passed through will grow bright
or and more beautiful. Happy, III
deed, are those whose intercourse with
the world has not changed the tone OF
their earlier feeling, or broken those
musical chords of the heart whose vi
brations are SO melodious, so tende;
40 touching in the evenings of thei'
lives.-Exchange.
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SUCCESSION 81 L B.

SUCCESSION ST L B.
S $ e Rsow or No. 10.
PROBATE DocxEr-PAR1sH CoURr-PAR-
IsH OF RAPIDEs. @
PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF
/ sale issued by the Honorable the
Judge of the Parish Court for Rapides
Parish, Louisiana, and to me directed
i'll the above Succession, commanding
me to sell for the payment of judg-
ment claim of relator, VIM. A. Vestal
I shall offer for sale at public auc-
ton, on
SATURDAY, the Goth day Of JULY,
sas7szs "A. D. 1873, EtzGy+s g7s
at II o'clock NJ, the following describ-
ed property belonging to said Success
sion, to-wit:-
The undivided half Of certain tract
of land situated In the Parish of Rap
ides, fronting on Bayou Rapides, boun-
ded below by lands Of J. r. Andrews.
and above by those of the Bonner Es-
tate, containing seven hundred and
eighty-three (7S3) arpents, more or less,
with all the buildings and improve
ments thereon.
TERMS cash, subject to appraise-
ment. n. M. ROBINSON,
June 10, 1878. Sheriff.
Printers Fees 5000. ~
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surrounded by his family and many
friends. For weeks and months Mr..
Grants health has been bad, scarcely
at any time being able to leave home,
often in bed for weeks. He has now
passed, and "the things that once knew
him, shall know him no more"
He had long looked calmly at this re-
suit, fully approaching the tendence of
his case, and he died as he had lived,
clothed with the transformations and
gentle dignity so peculiarly his own.
leaving record free from all stain, and
graced with all the best characteristics
of the true gentleman, the faithful
friend, the devoted husband, the kind
and affectionate father. His was char
acter we may we'll emulate. Would
that this world had more such. and that
the few we have like him were longer
spared us. "Death loves the shining
mark" and his unerring shaft has
stricken Stephen Grant from among us,
In the death of Stephen Grant, his
neighborhood and country at large
looses worthy and enlightened citi'
zen, who can ill be spared from among
us-and the poor truly disinterestet
friend and charitable adviser. He IL
gone, and his patriotic heart will nj
longer be affected by earthly woes.
He leaves wife and ten children, ant
a host of relatives and friends to mourn
his death. He was twice married, 81,
of his children were by his first wife
and are all married, the other four arr
minors and with their mother.
| Mr.. Grant was native of Louisiana
and died ingthe 5Sth year of his age
He was not rich, but in good circum
stances and clear of all debt. The plea
SAINT smile and friendly greeting of thi
good man, will never be seen by hi
numerous friends.
"Blest are they who slumber in the Lord
Thou too, oh my father, thon art blessed
Angels came to crown thee; at their word
Thou hast gone to share the heavenl
rest" S.
DIED:-On Monday, June 18th, 1875
in this Parish, at his home on Bayo
Rapides, CORNELIUS INNS, in til
4Sth year Of his age.
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Mattress Making

TIME UNDERSIGNED, A MAT
tress-Maker by trade and long
experience, has located in Alexandria,
and will make new Mattresses, and re-
pair old ones for ONE DOLLAR each.
He can be found, when not engaged at
private residences, on Washington St.,
at F. D. r. Morgan's. Work solicited.
June IL. DANAESCO.
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NEW THIS DAY.
= EXAMINE TIONS
Es ~ Or tEE <
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
ALEXANDRIA, La, |
June 10, 1878. (

ALEXANDRIA, La, |
June 10, 1881
TIME PUBLIC ARE RESPEC rFUL-
L. ly invited to attend the examine
lions of the Public Schools of Alexand-
ria and Pineville on the following days:
Pineville, on Monday and Tuesday,
June oath and 25th; Alexandria, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday, June
Goth, 9th and 2sth.
The Annual Address to the Schools in
Pineville will be sdeliveredsby JAS. G..
White, Esq, on Tuesday, June s25th,
and on Friday, June 2stn, Robert P.
Hunter, Esq, will deliver the First sAn-
nual Address before the Public Schools
of Alexandria. -t-fi5it +
The following gentlemen are hereby
appointed, and are requested to serve
as visiting committee, to assist in ex-
aiming the pupils and I'M warding the
prizes at the several Schools: 8 : ~
Judge Blackman, Robt. r. Hunter,
Il. j. Bowman, E. We'll Z
Rev. A. N. Ogden, ". John DeLacy,
G. w. Bolton, Rev. M. Klein, i
Geo. Washington: Ed Barrett,
X. w. Bringhnrst, j. R. Thornton,
j. M. Barrett, DR.. CIV. Laney,
JAS. r. Andrews, Ut. Marshall,
wv. A. Griffin, - Jehri De .acy,
leobt. Aaron, 3. A.. Jarreau,
4. Hardtner, "a. David,
w. w. Whittingtony Go. Watts.
JULIUS LEVIN,
President School Board Rapides Parish
i 2. TURNER. ~
Secretary. 'Ht 1S.. b
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SIR Walter Raleigh concludes
his famous history with this noble
piece of eloquence, which is held to
be one of the finest thin e in the Ian
guage. 1T is therefore death alone
that can suddenly make man to know
himself. He tells the proud and in
so.ent that they are but AFFECTS, hum
bles them at this instant, makes
them cry, complain, and repent; yea,
even to hate their forepassed happi.
ness. He takes the account Of the
rich and proves him a beggar, a max
ed beggar, which hath interest in
nothing, but in the gravel that fills
his mouth. He holds glass before
the eyes Of the most beautiful, aue
makes them see their deformity ant
rottenness, and they acknowledge it
Oh, eloquentejust and mighty death
whom none could advise thou has
persuaded; what none hath daret
thou hast done; and whom .all tn
world hath fattered thou alone has
cast out and despised. Thou has
drawn together all the far stretches
greatness, all the pride, all the Cru
city and ambition of man, and Gov
cred it all over with these two narro'
words-Hic facet.
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In MEM0RIAM.
LEEsvILLE, VERNON PAR. LA.,l
June 18th, 1873 I

EDITOR LA. DEMoCRAT-
1t is my painful duty to announce the
death of our esteemed friend and noble
citizen, STEPHEN GRANT. He passed
from this earth to meet his reward, on
Monday last, the 3rd inst, at his resi-
dence in this Parish, of Congestion,
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st. Vinccnt's
B0ARDINGSCHOO1
p
YOUNG LADIES.
CONDUCTED BY THE SISTERS OF
CHARITY AT DONALD
SONVILLE, LA.

#3s 90 SsE
THIS INSTITUTION rs LOCATED
I j in the above named healthful lit
tie village, situatedsata the Junction Of
the Mississippi River and the Bayou
Lafourche. Il Is accessible at all sea-
sous Of the year, both BY railway and
water. i:s sSy sssi
Parents win and for their daughters,
in this institution, all the facilities for
a christian and refined edacation; the
course of instruction being the same az
that pursued At ST. Joseph's Academy,
Emmittsburg, Maryland, Of which it is
a branch.
The buildings and grounds are spa.
cious and commodious. In considera-
ton of the changed condition of the
South, the terms have been reduced to
nearly half-price. .., ID,
The Academic year is divided into
two sessions of five months each--the
LIST commencing the lst of September,
the End on the LIST of February.
TERMs-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE:
Board and Tuition including Washing,
Mending, Bed and Bedding, per SEES
sion. ...........$ rs GO
Or per annum-- ....'.-.-..... lou w
French Language, per annnm.. 20 90
Tapestry, Painting, etc, extra charges.
Music at Professors prices. ri
R Books and Stationery furnished at
Current prices. #
June l9-3m.
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The following, copied from an
exchange, is little too rough for
general application, but it contains a
suggestion that might be considered
with profit by those who are imper'
vious to the advantages to be derived
from judicious employment Of prin-
ter's ink:
Shun the business man that does not
advertise. He is closer than dog tick;
he will pinch nickel until the Goddess
of Liberty faints; will sell you sand for
sugar, beans for coffee, secondhand tea
grounds from hotel slop.barrels for pure
Young Hysou tea; bnt go to the liberal
advertiser for honest goods, square deal
ings and low prices.
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IF YOU WANT A GOOD, DURABLE
and EASY RUNNING SEWING
MACHINE, BUY THE "WILSON :
FROM MOORE BIOSSAT, THE ONLY
AUTHORIZED AGENT IN RAPIDES
PARISH. OFFICE: CORNER SEC
OND and DESOTO STREETS, ALEX
ANDRIA, LA. $50
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IF YOU WANT A GOOD, DURABLE
4 and ASY-RUNNING SEWING
NJ ACHINE, BUY THE "WILSON"
FROM MOORE BIOSSAT, THE ONLY
AUTHORIZED AGENT IN RAPIDES
PARISH. OFFICE: CORNER SEC
OND and DESOrO STREETS, ALEX
ANDRIA, LA. g IS a #@ =
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CoNsUMpr1oN CURED.-An old ply
stefan, retired from active practice,
having had placed in his hands, by an
East Indian missionary, the formula
of a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure Of Con-
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma
and all Throat and Lung affections
also a positive and radical cure for
General Debility and all nervous COM
plants, after having thoroughly tested
its wonderful curative powers in thou
sands of cases, feels it his duty to make
it known to his suffering fellows. The
recipe will be sent free Of charge, to
all who desire it, with full directions
for preparing and successfully using
Address, with stamp, naming this pa
der, DR.. j. C. STONE, A North Ninth
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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State of Louisiana.
Parish OF Rapides District Court
No. 1926.

xNOs ArO<Os
LAzARD EHRsTEIN VS.. HIS CRED1ToRs.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TO
~ whom it may concern that Lazard
Ehrstein has fled in this Court, an APP
plication for a respite, under the laws
of this State relating thereto, and that
a meeting of his creditors has been or
dered to be held before Louis Y. Marye
Notary Public, in and for Rapides Par
ish, on Saturday, July Goth, A. D.,
1873. tg*aTS as ~
- By order of the Honorable
q w. F. Blackman, Judge o.
49, the Ninth judicial District
9and given under my hand
and seal of said Court, on this 18th
day of June, A. D., 1873.
,. H. RANSDELL,
.June l9-P. Fs BE-. ~ 10 3 Clerk
VunV - s.s.,- -
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,s273oo 90
Card.
PINEvILLE, La, |
June II, 1881

EDITOR DEMocRAT-
In regard to the Card published in
your paper of last week, over the names
Of three young men, ] am willing to let
the public judge between them and my
self for truth and veracity.
.I am, sir, respectfully,
JOHN BENsHooF,
Sup't National Cemetery.
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rgE INVESTIGATION

,o,rpr,ETE SUCCESS OF THE
TIE w. DEMOCRATS.
,rp11BLICANS ON THE DE-
fDA : FENSIVE.
electoral Conspiraoy-Grants Plan
TIC H for Installing Mr,
Hayes
-, ,.TTER's SCHEME FOR SECURING
THE PRESIDENCY.
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tunes and enrage against his person
the Radical leaders, who in turn alien
ated from him the masses of the party
As a consequence Hayes has no sym
patty from any quarter in his hour Of
tribulation. The masses of the Radi-
cal party are utterly Indifferent to his
fate. The leaders, at least those Of
them who are not chained by the re.
cord of their own crimes to the corpse
of the administration, rejoice in secret
at the prospect Of his downfall and
dance rigadoons of joy when they read
the gathering doom Of his advisors,
John Sherman and Stanley Matthews
whom they charge with having led
him to cut loose from the party al
large.
/ do not say that the programme
originally advised by Grant could have
been carried out. I believe Grant ad'
yised it for the purpose of getting th'
party to follow him into a policy o
military repression and despotism
with a view to breaking up the Elec
toral College altogether and getting
himself made dictator or Provisiona
President on the fourth of March, 1877
But he had sense enough to see b!
Hayes friends rejection of his adyic'
that he could not depend on sufficien
following to warrant hopes of success
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inspiring an awe and dread in the minds
of the peacc-loving portion of the in
habitants of the great cities of America.
The result of any overt acts towards COM
munism will be most disastrous to the
lab9ring population of our government,
for it will inevitably result in the over.
throw of Republican institutions, and
substitute for the present form Of our
government strong, centralized empire
or monarchy, in which the control Of the
government will be in the hands of a
few, who will exclude the many from
any participation in the affairs of State.
Of all classes of our citizens, the labor
ing man is most directly interested in
the maintenance of q republican form of
government. The capitalist can protect
himself in any form of government, and
if, at any time, he becomes dissatisfied,
he can take his effects to another land.
1t is not so with the laborer. He is 4
citizen of this country, and, of necessity,
he and his family must live here, let the
governnlshtlbe what it may. Hence, it
is of supreme Importance to him to main
tain republican institutions, and, of all
men in the land, he should be the last to
enter into any combination to produce
discord in the workings of our free insti-
tutions. Strikes and unlawful combina-
tions always injure the laborer, and the
organization which is said to be forming
will, if encouraged, deluge this country
in blood, destroy our form of government
and render the working man OF America
not as good as the peasants of England,
and very little, if any, better than the
serfs of Russia. All good men and pa
triots should combine to prevent the Or
ganization of this new party.
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The address of the Radicals to the
country concludes by an attempt to res
urrect the late war, the effects of which
our people have been endeavoring to
bury forever for the past thirteen years.
The country has had enough of unrest
and woe and destruction in consequence
of the war. 1t is over, and every patriot.
every humane man prays that it may be
forever over, never to further harrass and
distress us as a nation, or as individuals.
But the Republican party does not real
ize this fact, and hence it tries to fight
these battles over every two years. Their
course is shameful-disgusting. If the
South was ever unworthy of citizenship,
the Republican party was set of fools
or traitors to restore us to citizenship ir
the republic after the war. If it was
worthy of citizenship, then the Republi-
can party, which bestowed that citizen
ship upon us. stulti6es itself in denounc-
ing US on account of the war. The So
called rebellion was over when they
admitted us to the Union, and by their
own acts they are in honor bound to ig-
more the war in future. But honor does
not count for much with the Republican
party. Its continual mouthing about a
matter it settled according to its own
ideas is enough to condemn it with all
fair minded men.
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One of the most important bills be-
fore Congress is a proposition to grant
aid to certain companies formed for in
ternal Improvements. The aid is to be
extended by the government endorsing
the bonds of the companies, which are
to run for fifty years, and become re-
sponsible for the principal and interest,
taking as security mortgage upon the
property of the several companies, with
the proviso that no other lien is to be
created thereon, and the funds not to be
used for any other purpose, under pen
atty of from ten to twenty years impris-
onment. About ten companies are in
cluded in the bill, one of which is the
Atlantic and Great Western Canal con-
Meeting the Tennessee at Guntersville
with the Atlantic ocean at Savannah.
The whole cost will be about 1920, 0,000,-
600, which will give employment to
100000 men and $4,000 mules or horses.
This is intended as measure to revive
business prosperity, and afford work for
the thousands who are now unemployed.
If the friends of the measure will add
the Blue Ridge Railroad, and provide
that the Canal mentioned shall come by
Anderson, we think the measure would
be very good one, and would like very
much to see it adopted.
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The Radicals appreciate the fact that
the thief Otter eludes his pursuers by
himself crying "thief," thereby attract
ing attention away from himself, and with
their usual unprincipled cunning, after
having stolen the Presidency, when the
Democrats inaugurate an investigation
to expose the means by which they COM
mitted the theft, they seek to turn the
eyes of an indignant nation from their
crimes by raising the cry that the Demo-
Gratis, their pursuers, are revolutionizing
the country. The pretense is too shall
low. The common thief might as well ex-
pect to escape punishment by crying out
that it will bankrupt the State to arrees,
try and imprison him. The ways Of the
Radicals are going to be investigated,
and they had as we'll bear it patiently.
They will not have to bear such trying
ordeals much longer, for their party will
soon become too unimportant to be worth
an investigation, unless the signs of the
political times are deceptive.
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Butler and the South.

General Hemphill, of the Abbeville
Medium, wrote to General B. F. Butler
just after the big debate in Congress
about the Doorkeeper, asking him
whether he meant what he said and real
ly hated the South, or was merely talking
for political effect. General Butler, in
reply, says:
"You ask me if I hate the men of
the South. By no means, nor did ever
hate them. hated their rebellion, their
treason, their effort to break up the unity
of the country and destroy the Govern
ment, and I did everything I could to
prevent it; and until they surrendered
their arms, to punish those who engaged
in it. They were during that time the
enemies of my country, and, therefore,
my enemies. They had forfeited, ac-
cording to the law, their lives for treason
against the country; but in all Govern
mental action communities are rarely
punished; men are. But by the terms
of the surrender at Appomattox, the
Southern people were allowed to lay
down their arms, return to their homes
and live as good citizeIs. BY the acts
and proclamations of amnesty, all their
disabilities, excepting certain constitu-
tional ones, were obliterated, and they
were given all their rights. Every one
of those rights 1 respect as much as do
the rights of anybody else.
"Your letter shows you to be reason-
ing, and l assume, reasonable man.
Now, do you think I ought to prefer,
everything else being equal, for office or
place under the Government, the men
who fought against it to man who
fought for it, especially when the man
who fought for it was disabled in the
fight? Members of the House who were
in the Confederate army prefer one of
their comrades who fought with them to
one of mine who fought against them.
Do you inquire of them whether they
hate my comrade and the whole North
because they do so. I think not. Why,
then, do you inquire of me if hate the
men of the South who fought against me
because 1 prefer the men with me and
have been disabled in so doing, for
Office"
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Senator NJ. G. Butler has introduced a
resolution in the Senate providing for a
commission, consisting of two Senators,
three members of the House and three
regular army officers, of not less than
ten years service, whose duty it shall be
to examine and report as to the condition
of the regular army, and also report as
to the best and most effectual mode of
its reorganization. The sum of two
thousand dollars is appropriated by the
resolution to defray tie expenses of the
commission, and it is to report through
the President to the next Congress. This
is proper mode of approaching the re-
organization of the army, as by this re-
port Congress will be put in possession
of the facts necessary for intelligent ac-
tion upon this important subject. The
resolution should be adopted, and the
army let alone until the report of the
commission is received.
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1t is understood that the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, in the United
States Senate, will submit two reports in
the contest of Corbin VS.. Butler from
South Carolina, The majority report
will be in favor of Corbin, holding that
his election was by the rightfll State
government, and that Gen. Butler merely
holds his seat OH pri'na .facie hearing,
and can be displaced by a simple majori-
ty vote of the Senate. The minority re-
port will be favorable to Gen. Butler,
holding that he was elected by the right
full State government, and that he was
seated upon the merits of his claim, and
cannot now be disposed without a two
thirds vote. If Patterson and Connover
remain firm, as they no doubt will, Gen.
Butler will have no trouble, and if the
majority report holds Buffers seat only
to be prinaa tacie, it will be agloomy out
look for Kellogg after the 4th of next
March.