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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05
The Little Folks Column.
Counting the Fingers.

Davy. dear, your fingers hold;
Listen till my story's told.
Thumbs rogue, and whispers" Come
Let US steal the sweets" says Thumb
Straight First Finger bends to hear:
She's rogue when Thumb is near.
Second Finger says: "lll gol
Cries Third Finger: Count me too"
Little Finger stands alone
Says: THE sweets are not our own"
Thumb says: Let no finger say
Where the sweets have gone to-day"
First Finger cries out /: "No,
Not word from ME shall GO
Second Finger shakes her head;
She would suffer death instead"
Third Finger is full of fear
Lest the marks of guilt appear.
Little Finger cries: ''For shame!
| shall tell where lies the'biame-
"If we are all made to smart,
With the rest I'll bear'my part
And l think, through and through,
Little Fingers right. Don't you?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05
On Smoking.

Now, look here, you Tom, or
Dick, or Harry, Oh Ned, l don't
know you personally, of course. l
wish l did! But L know some
thing about you, for it wasn't very
long ago that | was boy myself.
l know that you, or at least two
thirds of you-smoke! am sure
you will agree with me that it is as
filthy, unnecessary and ridiculous
a practice as civilized people ever
learned of savages. Now, will you
please look up from this page a
moment and listen to me?
/ want you to make pledge
with yourselves, just as Royal and
Archbishop did, that if you smoke
between now and next year at this
time you will pay yourselves off
for it, ecer'y time, by making your
selves do something that won't be
at all pleasant or easy to do.
l don't mean, necessarily any
such thing as going up hill back
wards on your hands and krees,
or pointing at an invisible donkey
on the church steeple. / can't say
l think that would be very smart,
though, after all. it would be a
pretty effectual thing to put in a
pledge. Just pledge yourselves
that. if yon smoke again you will
deny yourselves in some way; that
you won't play marbles for six
months; that you won't go to the
next circus, or buy a new knife, or
go hunting this winter. Ii you
will brighten yourself III some such
way as this into leaving off smok-
ing. you may take my word for it,
you will enjoy the yourself ten
times as much as You otherwise
would, beside you WI not destroy
your health.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05

A Lecture on the Nature, Treatment,
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05

TT can make money faster at work for
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not required; We will start you. sl2 per
day at home made by the-industrious =
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everywhere. to work for us. Now is the
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05

Nurse-"Did you put that nasty
mud on the front doorstep, Master
Charles ?"
Master Charles-"No. nurse"
Nurse (artfully) = But l saw
you from the window"
Charles (more artfuIly) - "That
you didn't, for | looked up at all
the windows before did it,"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05
c. d. GILMORE, -----....A.A A. THOMAS,
Late Register Mt
Kirwin, Kansas.
GILMORE &c CO.,
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05
Number Thirteen.

Each Of the district judges shall re-
ceiye salary, to be fixed by law, which,
except in the parish of Orleans, shall
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-05

Strike out the first part .
of the constitution Of 1865 ~ 49,
"a university shall be est x-iIll
maintained in the city Of
1t shall be composed Of . ~, - :
and collegiate department -
appropriate faculties. Ins q y
sembly shall provide oy
ganization and main;ainanens :
sert: 1.-The university sns1 NJ
tanned. 1t shall be comp0s'ss. ~
a medical and an scadem'o1 ~
and such other departmeu. VI =
established by Law, escn - n
pirate faculties; prcriass -, 4
and medical department. A W i
ICED shall continue IN tns
Orleans, and the acsdem'ex "
departments may be i0c~
in the State
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G. d. GILMORE,
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III LECTURE
YOUNG MEN.
Price, Sir Cents.

r. Just Published, IN a Sealed Enrelope
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
Mr.. Cox on Fraud.

There has been a great deal of talk
in the newspapers about Sam Cox's
raking little speech in the House of
Representatives on Friday last, in
which he plainly denounced Ruther-
ford b. Hayes as fraud.
The point of it all is that Mr.. Cox is
accused of using language that under
the circumstances might be called un-
parliamentary and improper; but no.
body, not even the most severe in his
judgment respecting the question of
official pOliteness, has gone so far as to
say that Mr.. CoX's words were un-
true,
Thus there is universal agreement
that Hayes is fraud. He got the
Presidency by fraud; he has admins
tered it fraudulently; and there is
nothing true, manly or noble about
him.
Mr.. CoXis little remark was like a
mimic bullet fired from a rifle. Its
range was great, its accuracy unim-
peachable, and its wound deadly. For
frankly stating such public fact he
deserves thanks.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15

the Democrats steadily denied-the
| latter had applied to the Supreme
| Court for two separate iniunctions
| against the board, one to restrain them
from going behind the returns in the
case of the State, and the other to ac-
complish the same purpose IN refer
enca to the Presidential contest. In
each case the court had granted pre-
liminary injunctions, copies of which
had been served on every member of
the board. The counsel of record for
the latter were ID. Il. Corbin, r. b.
Elliott, the negro ex-COngreSSman,
and the Judge Dewey above referred
to. But the real power behind the
scenes was the Judge Cartier from
Washington, who kept up constant
telegraphic communication with the
national authorities in that city.
Chamberlain also spent days and
nights in earnest consultation with
the board and their counsel.
The party of conspiratOrs who had
assembled in the office of the Secreta-
ry of State proceeded to open and veri-
fy the returns, and it was found that
Tilden had { carried the State by
over one thousand majority of strictly
legal votes.
Il result must be reversed, and to eff
feet this the returns of several Repub-
lican counties were tampered with, SO
as to increase the majOrities which
they had really given to Hayes and
and Wheeler. The figuring was done
by Hayne, CardOza, Stone, Dunn and
Cartier, and the alteration of the re-
turns was achieved by Dunn alone,
who has since been heard to say in
WashingtOn-while there as an appli-
cant for the Charleston Collectorship
of CustOms-that it was his right hand
which had saved South Carolina for
Hayes, and that he could prove it by
Judge Cartier.
a moderately prominent and
worthy Republican living in Column
bia has in his possession one of the
pages of paper on which the figuring
was done, all the characters of which,
with the names of the counties, are in
one of the members of the board. The
returns from Charleston, Georgetown
and Darlington counties were the ones
which were tampered with, and in
which sufficient votes were altered to
give the State to Hayes.
AS soon as the Investigating Com
mittee began its session in Columbia,
Dunn, Hayne and Stone fled the State,
and have never since returned there,
from remarks which have re-
Gently been made by some of Dunn's
warmest and most immediate friends,
/ think he is just now in such frame
of mind (after losing the Charleston
Collectorship, to which he thought
himself entitled) as to induce him to
tell the truth, and to cleanse the
White House from the presence of a
usurper. f. J. MOSES.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
A Romance from Far Alaska.
Portland Transcript

A young man who was in Alaska
some four years ago, fell in love with
the only young lady on the island, a
girl of fifteen, who was possessed of
extraordinary beauty, and whose hair
fell below her knees. But he was un-
able to communicate "the old, old
story' to her, for she did not under
stand q word of English, nor did he
speak Russian. In this dilemma the
arrival of the priest on his once
in-two-years visit was a GOd-send, and
to him he made known his love. The
priest knowing the young man to he
possessed of a high character. and a
fair fortune, thought it was lucky
chance for the young lady to escape
from life of such isolation, and he
willingly persuaded the girls mother
(her father was dead to consent to the
match, but the young lady herself was
not to be persuaded. She argued that
she had never spoken to the Young
man who expressed such desire to
become her husband, had only seen him
twice, and he had been ON the island
only forty-eight days; but her obiec-
tions We're -oVerruled; and the mar
-riage took place. Afterliving in Alas
ka for several mon tbs, the young man
brought his bride to his home in
! Cleveland, Ohio. She was astonished
at the fashions she saw, and declared
that nothing would induce her to wear
her hair otherwise than flowing-as
she had always worn it, But before
twenty-four hours had passed her
mother-in-law had persuaded her TO
try the effect of braills around her
broad and shapely head, and now she
dresses as much in the fashion as any
lady III Cleveland. Last year her hus-
band went to Alaska again, and
brought home her young sister, who
is eleven ypars Of age, and promises
to be as beautiful as the elder. The
mother, hereft of both of her children,
still clings to her home ON one of the
islands of Alaska,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15

Lying supplies those who are adj
dicted to it with plausible excuse for
every crime, and a supposed shelter
from every punishment IT tempts
them to rush into danger from the
mere expectation of impunity; and:
when praoticcd with frequent success,
it teaches them to confound the grad
ations of guilt from the effects OF
which there is in their imaginatioHs,
at least one sure and common
protection. 1t corrupts the early sim
plicity of youth; it blasts the fairest
blossoms of genius; and will most
surely cqunteract every effort by
which We may hope To improve the
talents and mature the virtues OF
those whom it infects.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15

The Gar and Sultan embrace eash
other after their long struggle The
Sultan sends a dispatch of congratuIa-
ton to his Russian Majesty on the
twenty-third anniversary of his ac-
cessioil To the throne, and the Gar
sends dispatch OF thanks to his Tur-
kish Majesty. The Sultan expresses a
desire for friendly relations with the
Car, and the Gar perceives presage
of permanently gogd relations with
the Sultan. This is Very.hne, indeed,
under the circumstances The work
of removing the distractions in the
Danube begins to-day. There is a
project fop ths immediate annexation
to Austria of the Turkish proVlnces of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fhe out
look all over Europe is said to he pa
cific,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
IL. s..
Gov 'ment Claim Agency

Now is the time to file Your Claims or
Rounty, Arrears and Pay, Pension and Ar
,.,.ars Mar of 1872 and 1881. All Claims for
i'rooertv taken by the Federal army during
HE late war, and carrying the Mail before
- yvor coliectedwith the usual dispatch.
peTsons from a distance can communicate
Min the euudsrsigned- All business attend
ed TO prom nplly. Omce-under Herald and
SJatI no ~ Sorth Main Street.
~ hsIa,rcb IG-77-Iy, ]. L. WILSON.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
Inahte the Presidency.
From the Phlladelphia Times.l

1t is becoming apparent to a great
many persons that Mr.. Southland
ought to get his triple Presidential bill
through as.sOon as possible. With three
Presidents we could probably afford
one to do little but tell folks how very
cheerful and contented he feels.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
Old Hat Jokes.
TFrom the New Orleans Times.

From the New Orleans Times.I
The Washington Post, in a fit OF
hilarity, ridiculed Senator Conover's
hat, and the next day the Post receiv-
ed from a halter bill for s. hat for
the Senator. The Post man paid the
bill, but it is fair to presume he won't
joke any more about old hats.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
Bound for a Good Time.
| From the Boston Post ]

Under carpet-bag rule the South
Carolina Legislature bought 212 clocks
for the State-hOuse during one session.
They were bound to have good time
if they didn't lay--up a cent.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
Where's that Message?

From the Cincinnati Times
What has become of the Civil Ser
vice reform message?
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
Take of those Boots.

From the Boston Post.l
Hayes has worn Sammy Tilden's
boots just year. They're beginning
to pinch O.. .- r =
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
Quite Possible.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sum-
The friends of William K. Rogers
aver that he is an ADLER man than
Rutherford B. Hayes. 1t is quite pos
sible.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
TIME FOR HIS OWN FLIGHT.

Officers were sent after the peddler,
and next day he was arrested, exam
ined and committed for trial as the
murderer of Mr.. Bell. When the
trial came on the peddler whose
name was found to be Abram Lewis,
told most extraordinary and, as was
then generally believed, artful story.
Before this, however, additional testi-
mOny of a most startling nature was
produced for the prosecution. In the
peddler's box, in which he ecarricd the
goods which he offered for sale, was
found small parcel containing ten
shillings, the wrapper being the
piece of a newspaper. In the farmers
pocket was found the newspaper from
which the piece used as wrapper had
been torn. 1t fitted exactly. The
hostler of the inn at Norwich, at
which the farmer stopped on the day
he was murdered,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15

- AN IMPORTANT FACT no REBATE.
Between six and ten o'clock the same
night, the pedlar called at the farmers
house and informed Mrs. Bell and her
daughter that Mr. Bell had sent him
with message that he had forgotten
some important business, and had
returned to Norwich, and that prOba-
bly, he would not return home until
next morning. These facts clearly
pointed to the pedlar rs the guilty
man. After numbering and robbing
the farmer he concOcted the plan of
pretending to be a messenger from
him with the view of relieving his
family from all fears at his prolonged
absence, thus securing
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15


In
Of
Will
is dc2I7Lt
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HER.

The report annoyed her cOnsidera-
bly,, and when Wilson at length
showed, by his conduct and words,
that he entertained hopes of winning
her for a bride, ,sherep9lsed him within
dignation. He bore her rehuffs for
some time without complaining. At
length, one Sunday, when Miss Bell
was returning from church alone, he
followed hcrand entered into conversa-
ton with her. After a few common
place remarks, he spoke out boldly,
and asked her to become his wife. She
was greatly annoyed, and told him
fatty and finally that she not only
did not love him, but that she posi-
lively disliked him. Wilson, who had
hitherto
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
WORN A MASK

in her presence, threw off his assumed
gentleness, and addressed her in coarse
and angy invective. Miss Bell, who
was girl of some courage, gave him
her mind freely. Carried away with
passion, he exclaimed:
81 suppose you hope to marry
Squire Rcdmayne. He is fool if he
has anything to say to you,
This remark utterly astonished Miss
Bell, as she was not aware that any
one outside of the family knew that
Mr.. Redmayne had ever entertained
any desire to make her his wife. She
quickened her steps and fastened
home. She told her mother of her in
terview with Wilson, and of the re-
mark he had made concerning Mr..
RedmaVne.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
THE PRINTS OF NAKED FEET.

These latter were traced along the
road leading from Norwich, for about
"a quarter of mile, to a stone by the
roadside. Here they ceased land it was
supposed that the murderer had sat
upon the stone and put his boots on.
Between the stone and the hedge Mr..
Bells hat was found.
1t was evident that, after commit
ting the crime,
THE ASSASSIN HAD VISITED THE INN.
Inquiry showed that Mr.. Bel quit
ted Norwich about seven O'Clock in
the evening to walk home, a distance
of about three miles. The probability
was, therefore, that he was murdered
between eight and nine o'clock, while
it was still daylight. About ten
O'Clock the same night Il Jewish sPed-
lar called at the inn, in the yard of
which the hat-Iining had been found.
He wore long boots and corduroy
trowsers. He ate Il little bread and
cheese, drank a glass of ale and quit
ted the place, remarking that he had
a long Journey before daylight. ThE
was ali that was known about him at
the inn, but the wife and daughter of
the murdered man had - r.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
TIE BODY IN A DITCH,

and, recognizing the farmer, notified
his family, which consisted of wife
and one daughter. The proper author
flies were summoned, and careful
examination was begun. Mr.. Bells
skull was cut in two places from the
blows of a blunt weapon, and there
was one stab wound in his heart and
another in his throat. In the mud
near by were the marks of Mr.. Bells
boots and of the bare feet of another
party. Lying in the ditch large
iackknife was found with which the
stab wounds had been inflicted. The
marks of Mr.. Bells boots were visible
from the road up to where the body
lay, as were also
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
MOTHER ANDDAUGHTER

Conversed long and seriously on the
subject. Mr.. Redmayne had met Miss
Bell but once before her fathers
death. The day on which her father
was murdered Mr.. Redmayne dined
at the inn in Norwich with him, and
before he left handed him a letter, ask
ing him to read it and send him an
answer in day or or two. That let
ter, along with 81, 800 of gold, silver
and notes, was taken from Bells body
by the assassin. After the funeral
Mr.. Redmayne had told Mrs. Bell
about the letter and that it contained,
a request to be allowed to pay atten-
tions to Mr.. Bells daughter. Mrs.
Bell, in reply, had at her daughters
request, asked Mr.. Redmayne to al
low the matter to be in allegiance a
twelvemonth. He had promised to do
SO, and had never been to the house
since. e--
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
INNOCENT NAN HUNG.


The case which is about to be narat-
ted has few parallels. More than a
dozen suspicious circumstances point
ed to the guilt of the persons accused,
and one fact doyetailed into another
with the utmost neatness and accura-
cy.
On the 5th of June, 1920, Mr.. Rob-
ert Bell, q farmer residing in the
of Norwich England,
was found murdered and robbed in a
by-road leading from the highway to
his house. Two labOrers going at
dayb to a small coppice near by,
saw 81
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WILSON WAS LODGED IN JAIL.

The story of his having fallen heir
to property was soon exploded, and
the testimony of two persons showed
that OH the night of the murder he
was absent from the inn. The land
lord himself testified that he let him
in between eleven and twelve o'clock
that night, and that he was muffed
up and disguised. But still there was
something wanting to bring home to
him the crime of which he was sus-
pected. His trunks was carefully
searched, and the letter written by Mr.
Redmayne, and handed To Mr.. Bell
OH the very day he was murdered, was
found at the bottom of one of them.
Wilson was committed for trial, and
that very night strangled himself, in
his cell, with his suspender.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
IDENTIFIED THE PEDDLER

IDENTIFIED THE PEDDLER
as having been in the inn yard on the
day in question, and as having asked
a number of questions about the far
mer. The hOstler also swOre that the
knife found by the dead man belonged
to the peddleP. He knewit from the
fact of the peddler's having
lent it to him that very day to bore a
hole in a strap of harness he was fix
ing. None of the money which the
farmer was known to have had about
him was found on the peddler, but it
was supposed that he had hidden it
somewhere before he was arrested.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
CI1r A vERY REsPEcrARLE FIGrRE.

After consulting with the landlord
he leased n small farm adjoining that
owned and cultivated by the widow
of the murdered farmer Bell. He pur-
chased suitable stock and devoted
himself diligently to the cultivation
of his land. He was a regular attend
ant at the parish church for the first
six months of his residence, but after
that he began to attend the Metho-
dist Chapel, where Mrs. Bell and her
daughter wOrshiped. He soon form
ed the acquaintance of these two Ia
dies, and, though they never gave
him any encouragement, called re-
peatedly at their house.
Miss Bell was a fair, pretty girl of
twenty years, and it was rumOred that
WILSON WAS PAYING HIS COURT TO
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-15
A STARTLING QUESTION.

How did Wilson know that Red
mayne was any thing to her?
Mrs. Bell sent for Mr.. Redmayne
and told him the remarkable circilm-
stance. He sOlemnly declared he had
never let a hint of the matter drop to
any One-not even his own family.
On returning home Mr.. Redmayne
carefully read over the testimony given
on Lewis trial. One fact struck him
like flash of lightning. Lewis SOL
emnly averred that he had lent his
knife to Wilson the day of the muir
der, and that Wilson had not return
ed it.
Mr.. Redmayne laid the whole mat
ter before his lawyer, and before a
week was over
wilson WAS IOnGEn IN TAIT