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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

A pious Catholic trooper, very
mnch inebriated, is striving to
Chamber iuto the saddle, at every
effort calling on as amt. "Saint
Peter, to my aid," he hiccups;
"~aint Paul, lend me hand
amt Fidelis of Sigmaringen, mar
tyr, boost fellow up!" With
mighty effort he throws himself
into the saddle and rolls off on the
ether side of the horse. "Not all
together, d-n you! One was
enough" yells the pious trooper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08
Market Report.
{ Corrected 'eeekly by the New Orleans Mar
ket Report

Corrected ,eeekly by the Ne,v Orleans Mar
ket Report
+ COTTON-Low Ordinary, 81; Ordina-
ry,9s; Good Ordinary 81; Low NIiddling
l04, Middling IL: Good Middling III;
Middling Fair l24.
SUGAR-Common 6@64; Prime ga
So; Choice 5G9S4; Yellow Clarified S}G3
st, White $685..
MOLASSES- Choice .40fG42: Strictly
Prime 3G@3S; Prime 30(932; Fair 25(S,
2S; Common 20@23; Centrifugal 2O@25.
MESS PORK-SS 1909 25.
Shoulders A, clear rib sides
81, clear sides 5F(d5a.
DRY SALT MEAT-Lpose and packed
35(13f; shoulders, loose, 4.
HAMS = Choice Sugar-curcd 61G6f;
Plain canvassed and uncanvassed 10
II.
LARD-Refined tierce 74G75; pack
ers' tierce z; kettle z: refined kegs II
G97A; packers kegs S(9S4..
FLOUR Fancy choice So e7@sG 25;
family 50 50(9S5 75 ;trebles, low to choice,
81 1896; double extra 81 25(a 81 80;
sin.,ie extra 81 25; superfne 81 GOO;
fine SO 5oC93 rs.
CORN MEAL--Good to choice 81 so
SO 60.
PoTAToES-1 75ct9s2 10 per Dbl.
ONIoNs-S2 5O@s2 rs per Dbl. for
red and yellow.
RICE-Choiee u, prime 6IGe2. good
6s@64, fair 54@96, ordinary 81 a54, com
mon'5(g5i, NO. 2 44944.
APPLES-None in market.
ORANGEs-ss(GSs none in market.
POULTRY-Old chickens s4@s4 so,
young So 509S3, ducks 50, geese 81.
turkeys Sl6@ sig per dozen.
Western 10@12, Creole 120
l5c per dozen.
understanding to quality 5(a9c.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

that there may be no mlsun-
.J;nps and disappointments when
e.. sor such matters arrives we
= = in advance that no candldHte's
n he announced in the CHRoNI-
The same is paid for in adj
.,s no communication or call
,'a,didates will be inserted unless ae-
''s ,'ai by the money to pay for the
!, the rate of ten cents per line
= .ucb communications. This rule
~ he deviated from IN any in
:, upder any circumstances, and
sill avoid any unpleasant mis-
',,,,.udipr with us by bearing this
h d uind.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08
SKERIFFS SALE.
Parish Court, Parish Of Grant, State
of Louisiana.


A. G. Lewis VS.. F. Z. Braizel--No. 544.
DY virtue of writ of fieri facias, to
ID me directed, in the above numbered
and entitled suit, have seized aud will
offer for sale, ON
SATURDAY, the 18th day of June. A.
ID. 1878,
in front of the court house door, be-
tween the hours of IL NJ. and o'clock
p. NJ. of said day, the following de-
scribed property, seized as the property
of the defendant III the above numbered
and entitled suit, to-wit:
A tract of land. being situated on the
north side of Red River, containing one
hundred and and twenty acres, and
being the southwest quarter of the
southwest quarter of section No. 5, in
township six north, range two west.
containing thirty-nine and ninety-fve
-hundredth acres ;, also, the north
half of the southwest quarter of Sec
ton No. 5, in township six north, range
two west, containing seventy-nine aud
eighty-nine one-hundredth acres.
Terms of Sale--Cash, with the benefit
of appraisement.
CHAS. X. NUGENT,
Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Colfax, Grant parish,
La, May s, a. ID. 1873. my1l-6t
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

-Four men, two women and five
children arrived ut Castle Garden
recently from Montier, Switzerland,
and a letter was received by the
Emigration Commissioners from
j. II. Fastnacht, of Monitor saying
that the emigrants had been sent
away by the Swiss authorities be-
cause they were unwilling to work
and troublesome. The emigrants
themselves admit that their pas
sage money was paid by the au-
thorities, but say that they have
money orders sufficient to carry
them to their destinations, in Vir-
ginia and Iowa. The matter viii
be investigated, the united States
not desiring to be constituted a
refuge for the panpers OF other
governments.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

CLERKS OFFICE, CoLFAx, La, Z
May 6, A. ID. 1879.
Re it known that on this. the 9th day
of May. A. ID. 1878, we, Thomas Hick-
man, A. b. Comfy, Matthew Nugcut, Jr.,
and IL. G. Walker, clerk of the district
court, i'll and for the parish of Grant,
and eN otficio member of said commits
sion, did meet in the conrt house. in the
town of Colfax, and did then and there
proceed to draw from the general yenire
Box the names Of those VINO are to serve
as Jurors at the ensuing July term of
the Ninth Judicial District Court, in and
for the parish aforesaid, rs follows, to-
WIT:
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lNCENDIARISM |!
The Grant Parish Court House
Burned---Aii the Parish
Records Destroyed.

|
at about half past IL o'clock. the
citizens Of Colfax were startled Out
OF their slumbers by the dreadful
cry OF "ireT Upon reaching theil
doors they were Mortified to find
the very heavens lighted up with a
blaze of the first magnitude. In
vestlgation revealed the fact that
the entire set of wooden buildings
comprising the residence, store.
drinking and billiard saloons OF
MIR. l.. E. Tory and the court house
were one mass of lurid fame.
The fire, which was undoubtedly
the work, of an incendiary, orig
mated In the court house, in the
| clerks Office, and seems to have
been created by the free use of
coal oil, as it spread like wilk fire.
and was about five minutes in en-
veloping all the adjoining build
ings, and, had it not been for the
fortunate direction of the wind ut
the time, would have communi
Gated itself to the stores of AIessrs
Kraft, Gray, and Mumford. The
wind all the while blew steadily
from oouthwesterly direction.
A few minutes before the fire
MIR. TOrry's sister says she heard
some one in the court house. but
thought nothing of it, until becoln-
ing alarmed at what she knew
to be the noise and roaring of fire,
she called to her brother, saving
she believed the house was on fire
Mr.. Tory Jumped to his feet in
moment, and Immediately realized
the fact that the lives of all were
III danger, and only tried to save
his family, consisting of his wife,
1--WE children. one a month old
babe, aud his sister. In the store
slept Mr., Casey, with his little son
some four years old. The inmates
bad barely time TO escape, without
saving anything, the most Of them
with nothing but their night
clothes. All IN the world that Mr..
Tory saved was a single mattress,
two pillows, pair Of sheets, a !
spread and four chairs, everything
being reduced to ashes. Mr.. Casey
saved his trunk, but lost his little |
boys trunk and his own shoes.
Nothing was saved FROM the
court house, as thai building was
completely enveloped in flames
when the fire was discovered, coal
oil seeming to have been strewn
all through the court room and in
the clerk IS Office All bonds, mar
riage licenses, official blanks, the
parish seal, together with @bout a
dozen appearance bonds, and
twenty-five indictments found by
the last Grand Jury, are lost. 1t |
is thought that the object of the
incendiary was TO get rid of some
Of the last named. On the morn
ing after the FIRE three fresh tracks
Of persons who seemed to have
been walking on their toes were
discovered leading from the court
house through corntfeld adjoin-
ng. On following them up for
distance they were found to lead
n close proximity to three negroes,
llolden White, Horace White and
James Monroe, who were impli- 3
:ated in the breaking OF MIR. A. A.
Deans store last fall, and admitted :
o bail at the last term of the Dis
rict Court. They were all three Z
rrested and confined in Jail. .
Four man two Woman and five =
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

lie public school was opened at
sPAce last Monday, with MIR.
u GrOw. the old-time teacher,
the birch, and other
= n'tructing the young idea in
'SHect way to shoot.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

6n Niles is entitled tn thanks
] be eiheient a.! he rendered in
bang up tie parties supposed
have fred the court house.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

a,an glad to learn that Miss
Pee Lee has secured a school in
bills. She is well qualified to
30, and viii be liked by the
sEOns and scholars.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

That has become of our Mont
.usry correspondent? We would
4 TO bear from him.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

H. John Gray has laid in u
% Of ice for the summer. He
wy : what is palatable and invig-
4 We advise all to keep
Y nom him if they desire to
'a'lear Of temptation.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

Ne corn crop Of this parish is
lsij well hid BIZ, While the cot
! IS coming on finely. and blooms
Is,plphiiinl On NIL sides.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

Nr letter boasts of watermelons
shve as a mans head, one being
W eight inches in diameter. IL
h one ahead of him ?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

There Is more chess playing and
! york done in Colfax than any
AR plsce of It's size in the State.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

Or Police Jury are to meet on
Eaasy. Give us something red
d gentlemen, and don't wait for
tags TO cool down.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

IL ~ Wednesday Mr.. A. A.
& ,'a left Colfax, in an iron
alexandria. This is the
~ UP OF the kind that he has
\, 81 a. he proposes to take
''g down. y
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

''a' mas become of that Sun
ssl0Ol that it was proposed to
'Aas a few weeks ago9 The
,-1 Tor an interesting school
.'' VINO will take a hand and
'" start the good work?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

rar independent boat, after
Ling three or four trips, has
.,,ieuly quit. What is the mat
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

sor is a good time to come tp
Ii your subscriptions.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

! =, s'snflemanly clerks of the
u. aessrs. Hamilton and
4. . oase our thanks for a file
'eans papers. The Bart
4. uO' only the finest as well
4. '''sS, boat on Red river, but
n,,... .'ealt aiso'of having the
'''h'hsr to it all. '''''''
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08

ID ,s handed a sweet potato
ku,ss lacrOiz yesterday, that
| NJ !. W inches in circumfer.
|a,.a u. sane in length, which
an. uiS year He had two
|Ateb : a T, e size, and says that
! h;nsia ll of them. The va
I,,lla, .p0rfed, has a pink skin
u pa.s' an-like meat. Where
''''n Of July potatoes /?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08
NOT ICE

The members Of the Parish Executive
Committee, of each ward, are requested
to hol ward meetings on Saturday, the
I'D day Of June, for the purpose of
electing members for a new Parish Ex-
eeutiye Committee, and for said mem
beers so elected to meet at Colfax, Oh
MONDAY. the First day of July, TO re-
A. l. GROW.
Ch'm'n Parish Tx. Committee.
THCs, HICKMAN, Secretary. Gel
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08
FOR. SALE.

A TRACT OF RED RIVER BOTTOM
~ LAND, containing about One Hun
dred Acres. we'll improved, one Frame
Dwelling and iree Frame Houses for
tenants lall new. a new gin and horse
power, just suited to the place. Sixty
acres under fence and in cultivation.
Possession given when cotton is GIN
ned. For particulars apply on the prem
ises, on the Darro, near Red River.
Grant parish. Respectfully.
m1S-tjy15 GEO. S. JOHNSTON. f,
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Al Judicial advertisements
!, mid for IN Advance, or
N NJ discontinued otter The
y i.srtiOn.'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08
loFFIcIM-]
LIST OF JURORS
Drawn to Serve at the Next July Term
of the District Court,

CLERKS OFFICE, CoLFAx, La, Z
May 6, A. ID. 1873. {
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-11
Recent Publications.

G. 2. Patnam's Sons, New York, have en-.
tered upon the publication Of series of vol
umes under the general title "Current Discus
sion'' made up from the chief English essays
on questions of the time. The series will be q
collection Of important and representative
papers from recent English periodicals. The
modern magazine paper, appealing as it does to
great body of intelligent observers, has be.
come the recognized vehicle of the best thought
and discussion of the time, and in its pages is
to be found the most earnest and fruitful de-
bate upon all the questions which command
the public attention. A judicious selection
from the more notable of these papers would
seem to be compilation of value and real
acquisition to the general stock of knowledge.
Such compilation is that undertaken by the
New York publishing house. The first vol
ume, devoted to international politics. is
certainly collection of great and permanent
interest, containing the opinions of the leaders
OF English thought upon matters which are
engrossing the attention of the world. The
volume opens with the striking description of
the Russian, the TURK, and the Bulgarian, by
Archibald Forbes, the most famous newspaper
correspondent 10 the world. The volume
naturally enough gives much of its space to
the Eastern question. 1t contains Mr.. Glad
stones essay on Montenegro; the remarkable
review OF the history of Turkey since 1852 by
the Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (the Sir
Stratford Canning who played so conspicuous
part IN the negotiations preceding the Crimean
war;; the impassionsd denunciation of the
Turk contributed to the Contemporary by that
most brilliant of partisans, Edward A. Free
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-11

1T may be of interest to students OF French
to know that the seventh edition of the die
tionary of the French Academy, the first is
sued since 1885, contains twenty-five hum
dred new words, and suppresses about four
hundred old ones. There are some changes
in spelling. The second "n" in consonnance
and like words. and the second ash" in
phthisie and other words derived from the
Greek are struck out. Here, where we so
readily coin new words, there will be some
amusement at the reluctance of the French
to accept neologisms. The charge of Anglo
mania is brought against the Academy, and
it is censured because 1t has sanctioned such
English words as miss, mistress, derby flor
norse-race), tramway (which takes the place
of the cumbrous expression le chensin de fer
anaericain) naacadan 1.-THE pavement) tunnel,
telegramne, steamer (which Victor Hugo
makes to rhyme with mer) and acater-closet
pronounced ''vattaireklossay" with which
Victor Hugo has also enriched the language.
There is, too, much complaint in regard to
the arbitrary use of the hyphen. 1t is asked
why if we write contredanse and contredire
we should write contre-coup and contre-poids.
Much satisfaction however is expressed over
the change from the acute accent to the
grave in words like siege, priuilege, and cor
tege. On the other hand there is much ridi-
cule because chronologiquement, which ap.
peared in the preface to the sixth edition, is
not found in the dictionary itself; and there is
some astonishment that actualite, supposed
to be peculiarly French, is rejected. Among
other new words are absolutisme, socialisme,
contratisation, tederalisme, maonopoliser, and
naitrailIeuse, words which have proved rather
costly to the French people.
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-11

"The uery man OF all others nho has the
deepest interest in sound currency, and
avh0 suffers most By miSchieroas legislation in
money matters, is the man avho earns his dai-
Ey bread By his daily toll. A deprecated cur
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling betsceen morning and noon, and fal.
ling still loper betaceen noon and night, these
things constitute the oery harvest time Of spec
uIators, and Of the schole race Of those aUeo are
at once idle and crafty. 4 disor-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
eoils. NundeYneines the uirtues necessaryfor
the support Of the social system, and encour.
ages propensities destructive to its hnppiness
1t acars against industry, tragality and econ
omy, and it fosters the eeil spirits of e1trav-
agance and. speculation. Of all the contri-
uances for cheating the laboring classes of
mankind, none has been more efectual than
that achich deludes them aoith paper money.
This Is the most efectual Of intentions to fer
tilize the rich man s fields By the sceat of the
poor mans bro,u. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessiue taxation, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared aoith
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
mitted By deprecated paper. ."-Daniel
Webster,
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-11
Magazine Notices.

The Mdy-June number of the North AMER
icdn Reoieoo is filled with matter of current
interest. We have had occasion already to
dwell at some length upon one or two of the
topics treated in its pages, aud shall find it
necessary to discuss two more at least of its arti
cles, those by the Wisconsin Senator's The mum.
ber opens with one of these, Senator Howe's
reply to Mr.. George W. Julian's recent paper
with the rather startling title SIS the Repub-
lican Party in its Death Struggle?" Mr.. Howe
opnes that it is not, an opinion in which both
the friends and the foes of the party will ere
long be forced to join Hs at least is not NOR
ibund, and deals ths s,olding renegade many
doughty blows. The collection of mistate-
ments which Mr. Julian, man who left the
party for the party's good, presents under the
misleading label, 'history." is examined and
its falsity thoroughly exposed. The other
Wisconsin Senator, Mr.. Cameron, has paper
bearing the title "The Irrepressible Conflict
Undecided" which must bs very unpalatable
to those men who seek to suppress the truth in
the interest of ''concliation." 1t points out
the dangers of Southern control, and shows
that the safety Of the republic lies In the con-
tinued supremacy of the Republican party.
An article, remarkable for its baseless as
sumptons and illogical arguments, is furnished
by Mr.. j. Dee on the Chinese question. Mr..
Deeis greatly troubled by the apprehension of a
htidal wave of Mongolian immigration" which
will, he thinks, sweep US al away, and he sees
Destruction and Death coming in the guise of a
Chinese laundry-man. The Parsee Merchant
of the World newspaper, Mr.. J.. S. Moore,
writes of our commercial relations with France,
Gen. Garfield continues his series of papers
upon the United States Army. The Rev. o.
B. rockingham and the Rev. T. w. Chambers
discuss the dogma of total depravity, dis
cussion as fruitless as such disputes usually are
Mr.. Edison discourses, in a paper which we
ave already revie wed at some length, of the
phonograph and its future. DR.. McCosh, who
perhaps presents the best living illustration of
the difference between theory and practice, tells
US how colleges should be governed, but forgets
to tell why the Princeton student makes a per-
ipatstic armory of himself. The article of the
number which will be read long aft:r the others
are entirely forgotten, is that by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, "Fhe Sovereignty of Ethics" very
hopeful in its tone and leading to the conclu-
sion that all the tendencies of man and nature
ara toward good. Its compact thought and
brilliant illustration can only be indicated in a
brief newspaper notice.
The Portland daily press., 1878-05-11

and great Inconvenience was suffered BY those
who wished to travel through the country or
to remit money to distant parts. The pres
ent system is largely preferable to any VIII lch
preceded 1t, but no one will maintain that
absolute perfection has yet been attained, an d
there will be no serious objection to remodel.
ling the system when the time shall come
around. So that the Greenbackers are thun-
dering against an opposition which doesn't
exist. They fairly parallel Don Quixote's
celebrated charge with lance in rest against
the windmill. The banking system will be
modified without quarrel or fuss; only every
body with an ounce of brains will deprecate a
return to the vicious old state bank system.
As for the substitution of greenbacks for
national bank notes there is no serious objec-
ton. prooided that the greenbacks shall be
redeemable in gold and shall not be issued in
such quantities as to become irredeemable
and deprecated in value. We are all Green
hackers; only the hard money folks want a
good, honest greenback which shall be worth
what it purports and the soft money people
want bad and dishonest greenback which
will be variable in value and will bring inf
mite disturbance, disaster and dishonor in its
train.