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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06

NAMES WANTED.--As the record of the
names of the soldiers in the battle of Ben
nington is quite incomplete, the Benning-
ton Battle Monument Association would
be grateful to any one who will send TO its
secretary, Charles NJ Bliss, the names and
residence of any descendant of any soldier
who fought under Stark, at Bennington,
Aug. 10th, 1777, that such soldiers names
may be engraved upon the tablets for the
monument.
The LOGGING BUSINESS Over 10000.
600 feet of spruce logs have been contract
cd for, to be delivered the coming spring,
in the upper waters of the Connecticut
River. Owing TO the scarcity of snow,
probably not more than 25,000,000 feet can
be started. The lumber companies pres
ent prospect indicates that the drives will
be started mnch earlier than usual, and
the lumber trade will be much better the
coming season than for two years past.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06

The will of the late George P. Gordon,
inventor of the famous printing press, be-
queaths a hnlf-million to relatives, including
one hundred thousand to an only daughter.
She will contest the will
Judge Sherman Page of Minnesota has
been impeached for corruption and INSIDE
meanor, and seems ceatain of conviction
by the senate, which will hold a special
session at the close of the regular one for
his trial.
Mr. William j. Buckminster, son Of the
founder of the Massachusetts Ploughman,
and for twenty-one years one of the editors
and publishers of that paper, died sudden
ly of paralysis, at his home in Maiden, on
the I'd instant. He was native of Maine
and IL graduate of Harvard college.
Gov McCreary of Kentucky called the
attention of the legislature in his annual
message TO the neglected condition of
President Taylor's grave near Louisville,
and suggested n removal of the remains to
| Frankfort and the erection of suitable
monument over them. The committee
that has been investigating the matter
does not favor the change, but bill APP
propriatng $4,000 for IL monument over
old Rough and Readys' present grave
is on its way through the Legislature.
Cornelius j. Vanderbilt, in Jail in Wash
ington city, and in asylums for the insane
elsewhere, the dupe of gamblers who
swept away the thousands on thousands of
dollars that he contrived to borrow here.
there and everywhere between the two
oceans, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, the stur-
dy old commodore, infatuated with Tennie
G. Clatin. and on the point of marrying
her, hut dissuaded by the family! Such
is the picture that the lawyers have dr. ,wn
thus far in the contest for the deceased
railroad monarch's millions.
Governor Holiday has vetoed the repu-
diation bill passed by the legislature of
Virginia, and, in manly, slraigh;for-
ward way, declares the duty of The state to
pay its debt. He tells the regulators that
the bill is 81 proclamation Of war" against
their creditors, and he will not Join in it.
lie even attemps to rouse the state pride
against the scheme by reminding Virgin
ians that the .instiG3 ind honesty OF Tine
debt have been repeatedly acknowledged,
and legislature composed Of men of the
" old regime y Indignantly spurned the
idea of reputation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06

A terrible tornado four hundred yards
wide swept through Casey county. Ky,
Saturday afternoon, doing frightful dam
age in the neighborhood of Rich Hill and
Mount Olivet, The whole of the family
of Vincent Wesley, near Rich Hill, consist
ing of himself, wife, two grown daughters
and hoy named Sloan, his nephew and
William Taylor, neighbor stopping at his
house, were killed outright Another man
named Richardson had a shoulder and col
lar bone crushed. Mrs. Wesleys body was
blown four hundred yards, and her clothing
was entirely stripped off The two daugh.
ters were carried fifty yards and found
locked in each others arms. In the vicin-
ity Of Mount Olivet, Mrs. Morgan was
killed In the village of Mount Olivet
several houses were destroyed and the re-
mainder injured, A considerable number
of horses, cattle and other stock and nearly
all the poultry in the course of the tempest
were killed. The pecuniary damage is not
less than $4,000.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06

Monday was the one hundredth anniyer-
sary of the birth of Robert Emmett, the
Irish patriot.
The silver dollar Of the fathers owes its
reconciliation to Murat LalsteaG of the
Cincinnati Commercial more than to any
other man.
1t is agreeable to find many of the lead
ing Mississippi papers, advocates of silver
themselves applauding Lamar for voting
his conviction on the silver bill.
A. w. Beard, the newly nominated col
lector of Boston, is Il native of Ludlow,
Vt, where he was born in 1925. He used
to be real poor boy. But he isn't con-
frmed yet
We wouldn't have thought that of him,
but they do say that Gov. Williams of
Indiana has discarded the blue jeans that
gave him fame, and now appears in
broadcloth.
Mr.. Edwin NJ. Bacon leaves the editor
ship of the Boston Globe to make way for
f. G. Bailey of Concord, formerly of the
Boston Herald, and the transfer of the
newspaper from its Independent position
to the democratic side in politics. Mr..
Blcon has served with credit.
REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBr-Tho re-
duction Of public debt for the month OF
February was $2,25O2 37, and for the
eight months ending Thursday, $1S,121,.
094. Compared with the same period Of
last year, this shows an increased reduc.
ton in favor of the last month of oven
$2O0,000, and for the eight months ST.
462,S92.
Kentucky is not going to re-cstablisl
the whipping-post, after all, the bill which
went through the house by so large ma
jority failing in the senate by the lieuten
ant governors casting vote. lie PLACED
his decision upon the ground that human
lily is already sufficiently degraded, anC
that he was unwilling to degrade it further
upon mere economical grounds.
Benjamin Franklin Wade died at hi
home in Ohio Saturday morning. age,
seventy-seven, His national caree
began in 1851 when he took his seat in TIN
United States senate. He was bluff
brave man and won the respect of his enc
mics us we'll as the love of his friends
Right or wrong it was always casil,
known where he stood and his life wa
another remarkable example of the rise tt
power and fame of the American "poo
boy
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06

Prejudice against color is very natural,
and yet the prettiest girl we can remember
when we were IL boy was Olive Brown.
1t has been custom in the Astor family.
says an exchange, to deposit 100000 in
the bank on the birth of n son or daughter.
That's sensible. No really well regulated
family should neglect to take tho hint and
do likewise.
a oort'in little damsel, being aggrava.
ted beyond endurance by her big brother,
fell down on her knees, and cried: 30
Lord bless my brother Tom. He lies. he
steals, he swears. All boys do; us girls
don't, Amen"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-06
AFTERNOON.

Col. A. B. FRANKLIN, chairman: The
first part of the session was given to the
consideration of maple sugar, on which
Mr.. G. NJ. Fisher read u paper-the same
we reported at the Marshfeld meeting,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

that union 30 formidable; therefore
is the secret of her vitality, and
therefore is it that, in the young and
energetic nations, in spite of all the
opposition and Misrepresentation.
sue is holding those nations and
gradually gaining hold upon them,
and no amount Of scientific investiea.
ton and no reformation, nor changes
in religion, nothing can shake the
united power of that marvellous
organization, united together nv
this supreme deciding tribunal"
Applause.
The learned bishop then closed
bis lecture by 3 magnificent defence
of the exalting use Of the arts in the
ceremonial, which I would like to
give did / not know that the quota.
tious I have already made trespass
largely upon your valuable space.
The lecture produced a profound
impression, and is to-day the talk Of
the city. j. W. K.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09
Our Agents.
ALEXANDRIA, La
we are glad again to hear til

we are glad again to hear the
good old party slogan in the atmos-
phere of the Crescent City. Our
namesake's guerdon has again been
graced with victory. Charlie Cava-
nae, one of the City Administrators,
and withal true Democrat, recently
moved shat as the New Orleans
Democrat was the official journal of
the State, and was the organ of the
party, he as party man, offered a
resolution that the contract for the
City printing be awarded to the
Democrat at 20 cents per square. -
We like such music these times, and
once more congratulate our name
sake. r
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

AND Bossier too-she joins the
Democratic legions, and on last Sat-
urday elected John c. Vance, Demo
crat, to the Legislature, to fill the
unexpired term of a dead Radical.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

LESS whiskey drinking in Alex
andria, the past Holidays, than ever.
Temperance is gaining steady hold
here, and we hope soon to chronicle
the death of John Barleycorn.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

JIM BLAINE, of Maine, Is now
refugee to the Arkansas Hot Springs,
and after recruiting there, like Nor
ton of oil, will wave the ensanguined
underwear with more energy than
ever. a-
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

The Pope has given his author
ity to Cardinal Manning to negotiate
with England for the removal of GER,
tain difficulties, which delay the re-
establishment of the Roman hierar-
chy in Scotland.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

--THEY are pressing hard now a
days the Presidents of breaking
banks. 7. G.. Lambert, late Presi-
dent of one of these swindles, in New
York, has just been sentenced FIVE
years to the Penitentiary for swear
ing falsely to an annual report.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

WE are thankful to W. J. De
Lady for sending the DEMOCRAT
bundle of well-selected and readable
newspapers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

The Legislature of Louisiana
assembled on last Monday, and as
yet we have no tidings whatever
Of its doings.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

BUSINESS In Town continues Ian
guild for ls7S-fve stores on Front
closed, and for rent.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

THANKS as usual, for the latest
papers, to the clerks of the steamer
Bart. Able.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

THE bloody shirt faction are
still bounding Mr.. Hayes, and seem
bent on taking his scalp.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

The Pope has imposed the
palium upon DR.. O'Conuell, Procura-
tor for the Archbishop of Baltimore.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

KELLOGG, the sneak thief of
Louisiana radicalism, has been on
short visit to New Orleans.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

THE District Court, Jury Term,
meets in Grant Parish, on Monday
next.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

In the next thirty or forty days,
in this Town, at the Exchange Hall,
Rapides Encampment No. 7, Knights
of Temperance, will give Dramatic
Performance, for the benefit of thei,
Order.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

we owe thanks to the C. H.
Durfse for scant package of papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

L\EW DOZEN OLD RYE SEVEN
Il YEARS OLD. PRICE &1.5O PER
BOTTLE. FOR SALE BY
HENRY ST. JOHN
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

THE trees will not turn over a
new leaf till Spring.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

They are now making type of
hardened glass in Paris.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

The clerks of the La Belle have
furnished this office With late papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

Our Packet reached her moor
ings here, at early breakfast Mon
day, but with a moderately poor up
freight. Her down trip, however,
made up for this up.scarcity. Here
is how it footed up: 1859 bales cot
ton, 1925 sacks cotton seed, Is sacks
seed cotton, IA hogsheads sugar, III
barrels and 2 half barrels molasses
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

AN awful trio-Poverty, Lazi-
ness aud Pride.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

-CAprA1x B. T. WALsHE, No. 1lO
Canal Street, New Orleans, is the &C.
knowledged leader in Shirts and
Mems Furnishing Goods, and We
know he sells the best OF goods ct
lowest prices.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

BE particular in reading, 10 ssls
issus. the loss ef 4 natS Of hAae.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

The Parish Ferry at Monette's
Ferry, in Natchitoches Parish, is
also one of the patent epidemical
nuisances, which the travelling pub.
lie find imposed on them, and
through which they still suffer. AS
a recent proof of this, we will state
that Van Amburgh's train of wag
ons, cages and hacks, in crossing
there, were delayed fully twenty
hours, saw sixteen his while per.
forming the hercu.ean labor, and &C.
tually lost, by drowning, their hyena.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

Our columns, for the past four
or five issues, have been hard up for
usual editorial matter. In that time
paying ads. have flushed US, our an
nual Prospectuses have been insert
ed, and then we consider we are al
ways entitled to spree rest from
our birth day, December 14th, till
the eighth of January. These, with
their glories, free Of headache, have
passed with this issue, and now we
intend to come down to our usual
work.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

The following is a list Of the Of.
ficers of Rapides Encampment No, Z,
Knights Of Temperance, elected on
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

of the fine arts, the Catholic is led
captive, a willing captive if you
please, by her love of the beautiful.
He is no longer reasonable. He
is the slave of this sentinentalism.
1t is not reason that speaks, but i'm
agination, but sentiment, and he is
made the slave, the complacent slave
if you please, the happy slave if you
please, the slave of the church and
no longer using the reason that God
gave him. Again it is urged that
the church degrades religion because
tn. great object of religion is God,
and any power that places upon the
eternal throne any object but God
and offers to that creature any wor-
ship is degrading religion because it
is degrading the object of all relig-
ion; and the church, by her devotion
to the Blessed Virgin, to saints and
angels, by even her devotion to imam.
innate objects, pictures, relics, etc.,
substitutes something for religious
worship, which is not God, and there.
fore degrades reason. And finally
she demoralizes the individual and
the public conscience, because che
teaches the doctrine that man NAV
hold the place of God; man may
be the judge of the conscience Of an.
other; man may forgive sins as be
pleases, and because of this fatal ia.
cility of forgiving, the horror for sin
must be lessened. A man may sin
and go to this tribunal, and have for.
giveness of sins extended to him,
and 60 away and sin again and be
forgiven. Here is a man like him.
self, a sinner like himself, who has
this tremendous power to forgive
sins, therefore the individual con
science must be demoralized aud the
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

home, and where we know you to
have been loved and honored, has
not been able to confine your reputa-
ton as devoted Priest to her own
borders, and we know of you so we'll
and so favorably that we have no
fears iu submitting ourselves to your
guidance and fatherly care. I am
sure that | can promise tor these
Church members around you, that
all your efforts for the good of the
Church shall be seconded by their
most earnest endeavors to make your
burdens as light as may be, and
knowing them as do, I feel that
do not speak too strongly, when I
say that they will take pride in
yielding ready obedience to such
directions as you may find it neces-
sary to give for either their temporal
or spiritual welfare.
In times as troub.ous as these,
when all the world seems to 60
wrong when "war and rumors of
war" are threatening the peace of
every civilized nation; when schism,
doubt and heresy are rampant; when
vice and error are sapping the foun-
dations of civilization itself; when
falsehood, arrayed in the comely
garments of the world stalks forth
into the broad light of day and chal-
lenges gentle truth to mortal COM
bat; when the elements seem to be
in league With the furies and the
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-01-09

ASsASS eSFSA"
Nor is it true, ladies and gentle.
men, that the church enslaves reason
by keeping from reason a means Of
forming judgment. She does not
hide the Scriptures from the people;
she was the guardian Of the Scrip
lures from the beginning. Her
monds of old most industriously
translated them. To them, humanity
speaking, We owe their preservation
as we owe the preservation of the
classics. She is their GUARDIAN
She does not, indeed, always approve
Of scattering the Old Testament With
some Of its passages concerning un-
natural crimes, ETC., amongst chill
dren, but she does not, and never
did, forbid the people. to read the
Word of God. She condemns spuri
Gus editions of the Scriptures. She
had to protect those oracles Of God
from corruption, but never did she
hide them from the people; on the
contrary, she recommends her chill
dren to read them as is evident, as
you will see in many of the Catholic
Bibles which are for sale in our book
stores. In every Catholic book store
there are many editions of the Bible
of various sizes, and there are re-.
commentators to read them, and in
many Of those Bibles there is a let.
ter from Pope Pins VI to the Most
Reverend Anthony Martini, Arch.
bishop of Florence, on his transla-
ton of the Holy Bible into Italian.
The Pope says: Beloved son, at a
time when a vast number of books
which most grossly attack the Cath
Ollie religion are circulated even
among the unlearned to the great
danger Of souls, you judge exceed.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-08-28

Austrias difficulties in taking pos
session Of Bosnia and Herzegovina are
considerable. 1t is reported that some
of the Sclavic regiments of Austria are
greatly discontented and disaffected.
Tho Hungarian portion of the empire
passionatcly hates the annexation OF
Bosnia, because il will increase the
Sclavic power in the Government. The
Hungarians were all through the war
friendly to the Turks and opposed to
the dismemberment of the Turkish
Empire, and the Hungarians usually
form a powerful and commanding in
fluenco on the policy Of the Empire.
They will now be decidedly in the mi.
nority when Bosnia and Herzegovina
are consolidated The Sclavs object Ia
the forciblo kindred. Thus Austria
has to face the objections at home as
well as the fierce resistance which the
natives are making to being gathered
in. All this emphasizes the fact thai
the international divvy and great gam,
is attended with its pains as we'll rs II,
pleasures Austria will, in short, pay
heavily for those provinces, which sh'
hoped TO get for nothing.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-08-28
SheriTs Sale.

Dy virtue Of writs Of Lerari Faeias, issued
I'D out OF the Court Of Common Pleas Of Clear.
held county, and to me directed, thore will
be exposed to public sale, at the Court House
In the borough Of clearbeld, on Thursday, tn,
18th day Of September, 1878, at o'clock, p. IN &,
the following described real estate. to wit;
A certain lot Of ground situate In the borough
Of 0scsola, ciesrheld county, Pa, bounded "a
described - folloysi Beginning st tha cOrosr Of
Curtin street and Acsharnsn alley; thence along
said street south % degrees east 20 feet, ihene,
north Is degrees cas-, $40 feet thence north Q.
degrees west 90 feet; thence south 2s degrcei
west $40 feet TO the place Of beginning, havin
thereon erected . large two-story frame house
used a. . store house, and a dwelling house, a
small stable and other outbuildings. seiled
taken In execution and to be sold as the property
Of George Boalch.
Also, all that certain lot Of ground situate In
the plot commonly called Chester Hill, 10 Decatur
TO ownship, Clearhcll county, Pa, and known IA
the plot as lot No. 81, and bounded on the north
east by Gertrude street, on the south-eas by lol
No. IS, on the southwest by an alley, and on III,
northwest BY lot No. IS, being aud containing
90 feet front and !. feet deep, and having there
on . frame dwelling house, stable, and othel
Improvements. Seized, taken In execution and /,
be sold ~ the property Of Joseph Denning.
Also, all that certain lot or parcel Of ground
described a. follows; Beginning at . post corner
Of lot Of ground Of q. N. feighler, sad on the
Philipfburg and 0sceola road 50 2.le perchcs
from the west bAnk Of MoshAnnon crsek thence
BY feighlers lot south IS degrees east tn the line
Of I. a O. Railroad; thence by said road 10 .
post corner Of an alley the north boandary Of III.
plot Of said Chester Hill thsnee BY said alley :,
the line Of the Philipsbarg and 0sceola Road
thence ~ ssid road to Plaee Of beginning. ssired