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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-26

Lecture en- the Nature. Treatment,
and Radical GU OF Seminal Weakness,
or Spermatorfhea, induced by selfabuse,
Involuntary emissions, impotency, nerv-
Gus debility. and impedirnents to mar
iiage generally; Consumption, Epilepsy,
AID Fi,s: Mental and Physical inca
paeity, .tc By K"BEgT J. CULyERwELL,
al D., ast4or of lie screen Book, etc
The wurld-rrnow.sel author, in this
most admii atle Lecture, clearly proves
from his own experience that the awful
cons qnences OF Self Abnse may be eff
fectually removed without medicine,
and without dng-ro 5 surgical opera
tons, iousle>, inst uments, Rugs, or
cordia >; pointing out Il mode OF cure at
oace certain aud elIcct al, by which
every sufferer, 10 ma ter what his con-
ditto may lie, may cure himself cheapiy,
piivat ly and a.iically.
~ This Lccfare wiH prone boon TO thou
sal,ds aud thousands.
Sent under seal. in plaiu envelope, to
any address, postpaid on rec, ipt OF six
cents or two postage stamps. Address
THE CULyERWELL MEDICAL Co,
Al Anu street, New York Post Office;
Box 4jS6. d29'77
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
OFFICIAL
To the Qualified Electors Of the State
Of Louisiana.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, !
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, July IL. 1878.

Es A
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, July IL, 1878.
In pursuance of article l47 of the con-
stitution of this State, publication is
hereby given to the voters of this State
Of the proposed amendments to the con
stituti0n Of this State, agreed to by two
thirds of the members elected to each
house Of the General Assembly, at ITS
session Of 1878, and which are required
to be published, three months before the
before the next general election for Rep
resentatives to the General Assembly
in at least one newspaper IN every
parish of this State, in winch news
paper shall be published. said amend
ments appear more fully in acts Nos. Is
and "a If the regular session OF the Gem
eral ASSEMBLY of 1873, and in act No. IL
Of the extra session If the General As
sembly Of 1873. which are officia ~ pub
lished for the information of the voters,
and which will be submitted to the i,eo
pie ut the next general election. to be
held or the fifth day of November (next)
1878, in sucn manner and form tn 1t the
people may vote for or against cacl
separately. and il maj 'ri-
ty of the votes at said election shall APP
prove and ratify all or either If said
amendments, the same shall become
part Of the constitution
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary of State.
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a Solemn Warming.
Keokuk Constitution ]

A gentleman who takes and pays
for his paper. entered his place of
business the other evening and found
man who never spends five cents
for newspaper, reading the one lett
at the store, az usual. The mer-
chant didn't ask for his paper, bnt
sat down and concluded to time the
man and see how long it would be
before he got possession of what was
his own. The sponge red the local,
then the telegraph, then the editorial
and afterwards the miscellany. He
had consumed nearly AN hour by this
time. when he turned to read the
advertisements. Ii was too much.
and the merchant put a keg of gun
powder beneath him, laid train,
fired it, and blew tie sponge nearer
to heaven than lac could possibly
have reached by his own exertions.
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can make money faster ut work for
u Us than al anything else. Capital is
not req aired; we VII start you Sly per
day at home made by the industrious. -
Men. women, boys and girls wanted
everywhere. to work for US. Now is the
time. Costly outh and terms tree. Adj
dress TRUE Il co. Augusta. Maine.
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IS due to justice.
| z. That we regard with serious
dissatisfaction the Indifference and
opposition of the members of Con-
gress to system Of internal I'M
provement to develop the indus
tries and restore the prosperity uf
the Southern and Southwestern
States, and we urge our Senators
and Representatives to Use their
utmost endeayor to secure such
unity of action as will lead to the
speedy completion, by the aid of
the National Government, OF the
Texas and Pacific ka,lroad on ur
near the 32d parallel of latitude,
and system of levees h protect
the alluylal lands of the Valley OF
the Mississippi from overflow, and
Of navigation adequate to the wants
of commerce, which IN, assures are
national in character and beyond
the control of the respective State
governments.
s. That we cordially endorse the
memorial of tie Chamber of Com
MERGE of New Orleans to Congress
III hehalf of the South American
and Brazilian steamship line, call
ing upon our. representatives III
Congress to urge for said llne the
a al
subsidy IN such amount as has
been called for 10 enable them to
open this trade of such great and
valuable impo lance to the West
aud South, making II new highway
for the exit and sale Of our sur
plus grain, -four aud other pro-
ducts, and bringlng III return the
articles and products of south
America, of which alone coffee Is IA
trade OF much interest to this State.
y. The Democratic party OF Lou
islana demand that the national
banking system be abolished anu
national hank notes retired, an lieu
thereof the tiorernmem yf the United
STATES shall issue az equal amount "
treasury notes, commonly knoaca as
greenbacks, and we also demand the
unconditional and immediate re-
peal of the resumption act, and ale
unalterably opposed to tire rulnous
policy p,rsued by the Repnblicai;
party, whereby the volume Of the
currency has been contracted far
below the the business require
ments of the country, and failures,
depression uf business and pauper
wages have been entii!ed. We de-
mand the repeal of all laws im
posing tax upon the circulation
of State banks, aud that United
States treasury notes shall be maize
receivable fol-. all dues, public ana
private, including custom duties;
that II IS the sense OF this cOnven-
ton that all bonds aud obligations
of the national government should
be paid in the legal tender green
back notes of the United States,
except where it is otherwise provi-
ded in the original law under which
they were issued. We further de-
mand the repeal of al laws passed
subsequent To the original law ere
ating the public debt by which the
obligations Of the contract have
been made more oDerous,
10. That it is the sease ami
judgment Of this convention that
the Legislature Of this State, at
its next session, should provide for
the calling and assembling Of a
convention, ut the earliest practi
cable time thereafter, to frame and
establish II new Constitution OF the
State of Louisiana.
III. That while favoring q call
for a constitutional convention, it
is not purposed to displace or III
terfere with the incumbent officials
of the State government.
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The good man slammeth the gate
and bangeth the front door and
maketh noise, for his heart is with
out guile and he feareth not the
grievous words of his wife; bat the
naughty man shutteth the gate soft
~ and stealeth up stairs in bis stock
iEg feet and stnmbleth over the
rocking chair, and the last condition
of that man is worse than the first.
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Nothing can exceed the intense az
lection which a girl deals out to her
father for day or two beEre the
time when she's going TO ask for a
new dress.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-26

The miser who boarded his money
In n vase said he did it because he
believed in the saying, "Urn your
money before you spend it."
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c. ID. GILMORE,

GlLM()hE & CO.,
G29 f. ST.. IVASHINGTON, ID. C.
WILL PROSECUTE BEFORE THE
General Land Office. Office of Indian AZ
fairs, Department of the Interior, the
Court of Claims. aud United States SUI
preme Cont, Claims of all kinds arising
urder laws COVE ming the disposal of
Public Land, or tie adjustment of
frenci. spanish and Mexican Grants. or
other Private land Claims. special at
tention given TO cases involving Title to
Grant Lands and Mining Claims. Land
Warrants and Land Scrip bought. Cash
p,id for Spldier.' Additional Homestead
Rignts Send stamp Tor circular Of in
st'uctions. Tnree stamps TO pay postage
If you want full SET of blanks and in
structions. n3-ly
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coNsrlTuJNAAl Allfsss,

.-,, Q01H&1.L
o~n WatrAat, snd xAiek i!e
Increased nor Diminished ~
~, .r% 1rv u otne e.. He nass = -
/. .ne oni'ed states, oves thss
.y-ave, ana nave resided eA
ana pract'ced law therein q
~ s"o years next precedih,
, ne Juuges Q. the distnes ~
, ,'oi1 s'lslr once for u ~
years. "a Inc parish Of o. I
nua' salary ot the distria
i'o' e.ceea nve thousAsd ~
NC alr a. above PROVIDED.
lSs1iAe OUT article eiRhtv ~,
Nnm6er FSr,,...
In lieu Of the of,;co - -
established bv .rt;ss S =. eIl1
constitution at Ives A, ~
elected, BY the OMAHA 'es'a y
parish, a states st,c,.' so!l'od
shall be a citizen ~ ny ~
and who shall havs ~ osael {
the State. and . ~
licensed attorney Al a.
TWO years. He shall 49,
from the State Of not less ~
more .han seven hundred ~.
mum. to be provided b. -,
basis OF representation i ~
Representatives, aud uavsIf
ON nis own warrant IL S.nI
.feio attorney Ut tue pariS ~
s.'ci salary thercfrom = msv
tue pafochial autholtien -
seven hundred dollars pef 49,
- ,.,,., ha ~, recslvs saek ~
of New Orleans ~ = 'sx:
sbsll receive sr.h 'Ae oes's
th,. CITY. in aaj;,;. 49,
proyid "a. mn nav =. = ts ~ sQ&
lie sua.I b. ei..c,sS
with tM, ;ndyss ~ - ~
aud snail, no,S al "a: e 4
four yeas Ss WE
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r, go. ''Fs
In every easy vherc the ju,ln :.
fec'sei' aud when lie = hot :
Al ereSted III tae matters u g.
DC slia'i se.scs a lawyer. haviar = |.
essafy quaiiacassons reqnssud \ Z
VI ms co.s't' " III : GU ra,a: y
general asssmpiy shsh ]sy61e 4 \
i"r Tine tsiai of those cases u a ?
Juuse may ~ personally ihl&s1I
"ne ne may Dc aostst " fe1t>1e,
totftHe out article ninst}.
Nsmhr !Sixie<.
In ortier 70 n,.,v,a. y. u. e.
meat oi Inc Judicia sysleu ~ ?
the evil, of AM i,,fc,..,,,,,,,.- I \. =
ordained b, ru.. ,,.,,,,I. III 49,.
rirst-That tho peu.r,l q
whr.h meets the tir.t douass 1 r.
or 'uA''. :" accofaanee ~ a
so."s ''uenu'nen's' imncoo -
VIC. .. 'ne s'ass, "nd prov'ds =
'-os VI oi1ia', aua ~
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s.re sna'i nave aesed =
uo'eiheI snHia ~ ptoc'Aaees1 q
e'eo'i u ioi Ihsl'css " we ~ -
PARISH, except tns psn.e 9
NH" ". "'se'"t y'ugees " - ~
ca Created .s. oy tue redis's'etasF =, {
taken rrcul the Existing jud. ~ ||1
and I r. S,ste ntt,rnoys. u ~ =
vidc,i, except in the peri6h 4 q
where tie uislrlct astor.s, fxll6
ssial. be Safe attorney. II M
shall be held ", tbs ranc d>5 ~
oils liie state, which day sknt - ~
.u.'ll .'xty nor more than nlns
Of tic o.ncrr = :, elected 4 ~
small expire at I . .uusral
iooo and tho hinitatn'n -
-. -. a.
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Nxmbcr Thirtoe,,.

Each Of the district judges shall r.
ceive salary. to be fixed by Law, whic.,
except III the parish Of O.leans, sh II.
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The Lisutenant Governor shall re.
ceive q salary which shall be double
that of member If tbs general ssss.a-
bly, (ktrike out article fifty-sevel.l
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The governor shall receive salary o.
seven thousand dollars per xunum, pay
able quarterly, on his own warrant.
tStiike ont article iisty-six
Nur,k.- &C.,.
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IL LECTURE
YOUNG MEN.
Price, Sic Cents.

e Just Published, in Sealed Enrelope.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20
Magazine Notices.

The October number of Harpers Magazine
promises good entertainment to all classes of
readers. The two serial novels by Black and
Hardy will take the first place in the minds of
the thousands of readers who are following
these stories from month to month with intense
interest An equally numerous class of read
ers, who prefer the marvellous details of actual
heroism to even the most mastery creations of
the Imagination, will turn to John Russell
Young's terse and thrilling story of Stanley's
journey through The Dark Continent, one of
the illustrated articles in this number.
A novelty in the way of illustration, peculiar
to Harper, is another reproduction OF an old
time poem, Ye Bellman, by Robert Herrick,
making page-picture in Abbey's most charac-
teristic style. The three short stories are
Three Thunderbolts. a humorous Southern
character-sketch by Lizzie w. Champney, with
two powerful illustrations by Reinhart, The
Western Ginevra by Edward Everett Hale,
and Little Miss Mouse and her Mar
velous Scholar by the author Of Colonel
Dunwoodie, Millionaire. Adonais, by Will
Wallace Harvey is an illustrated poem.
Besides the illustrated contributions already
mentioned, there are five of descriptive char
acter. each Of which has special interest. The
first of these, and opening the number, is a
graphic description of scientifically conducted
stock and butter farm in New England. An
other, contributed by s. M. Byers, our consul
at Zurich, is devoted to the celebrated ST. Got
hard Tunnel. now in process of construction be-
meath the Alps. Still another describes, with
quaint illustrations, Japanese mission-school.
OF more distinctively summer character are
the articles on New York in Summer and
Around the Peconics Butter Stores in Paris
by Marie Rowland, is an interesting sketch,
fitly supplementing the article on Echo Farm;
and In a Jewish Bookstore, by M. L. Marks,
introduces the reader to some unfamiliar char
acters, as well as some very novel information.
Ut the illustrated poems, Meeting is render
ing from the Spanish, by Helen S. Conant; and
Discord is sonnet, from the pen Of Richard
Reale. The Editors Easy Chair treats Of some
especially timely TOPICS and the other editori-
al summaries are, as usual, well sustained.
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The Sort Of Apostle Roussea u Wa s.

His private life-which he took care to make
public, even from the Forum to the Lupanar,
in his abominable Confessions-was one con-
tinued and shameless scandal He was en-
dowed with robust constitution; he had re.
ceived an excellent education; he could be,
when he liked, indefatigably Industrious; but
he elected to begin his career as the hired
cicisbeo of married woman whose frailties he
publicly exposed while she was still alive.
Tom Jones' relations with Lady Ballaston were
disgraceful enough; but the paid lover of Nine.
de Warrens never had the grace to love Sophy
Western. He seems to have loved nobody but
the vulgar and inconstant shrew Therese; and
his offspring he sent to the foundling asylum.
1t was from choice and not from nee assity that
he was vagabond and mendicant, "always
anxious for the morrow" soften in straits for
a subsistence" that he chose to wear waistcoats
made from Nine. d'Epinay's oast-off flannel
petticoats; and that he died pensioner on the
bounty of the princely proprietor of Ermon.
vile. He had been q diplomatist; the opera
would have welcomed him as q composer;
booksellers would have eagerly competed to pay
him large prices for his works, but be loftily
disdained to accept remuneration from pubislh-
ers, nd affected to earn his bread by copying
music for that aristocracy whose influence he
was continually undermining. The pay of the
copyist amounted substantially to about louis
per quaver, since he was not above receiving
handsome honorariums from great ladies for
scoring concertos and operettas. As for his
"ardent friendships, he quarreled with Grimm
and he quarreled with Hume. He bit nearly
every hand that fed him, and the detestation
which is awakened by the perusal of his squalid
story can only be mitigated by the reflection
that he was to very great extent in
sane. That this half crazy egotist had his lu-
cid intervals-and magnificent intervals they
were-is undeniable. In pure, nervous and in
cisive French, which has rarely been equalled,
and never surpassed, he wrote amid mass of
literature now seldom perused, but in its nearly
every page, from literary point of view richly
deserving perusal. three books that posterity
will not willingly let die, namely, the Contrat
Social; Julie: on la Nouvelle Heloise, and
Emile; ou de pEducation. Two of these works
did and continue to do infinite harm. The
first was the precursor and the provocative of
those distorted ideas Of equality and fraternity
which have worked unutterable woe to man.
kind, and which have caused torrents of human
blood to flow; the second was the forerunner
and the examplar of all the adulterous ro-
mances which have disgraced, and which yet
disgrace, French literature. OF Emile it may
be canddly confessed that it can be qualified
as a strictly moral and, to some extent, philo-
sophical book very far in advance of its age
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

ANEcDoTE and application by the Chica-
60 Tribune: The Democracy Of Maine are
in pretty much the same condition as the
Ohio boy who took out a very young bull
pup to train i'll killing woodchucks. The
pup was "willln" and Immediately disap.
peared down the hole to be killed by the
woodchuck. The boy watched the hole for
half day and then went off with sigh, and
the remark that she guessed there had been
death in the family" The Bourbon pup
was also willing in Maine, and disappeared
down the hole made by the Fiatists. As he
doesn't come cut again, they begin to sus-
pect that "there has been death in the
family"
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PROPOSALS.
ProposaIs for Green Corn.


OFFICE CoMMIssARY OF SUBSISTENCE, U. S. ARMY,
159 HIGH ST., BOSTON. MASS,
Sept. 10, 1878.
CSEALED Proposals, in duplicate. will hs received
y at this office until SATURDAY, Sept. 81, 1873,
at Ii o'clock A. M. at which hour the bids Will %
opened, for furnishing to the U. S. Subsistence Dep''
Thirty-six thousand $4,000 ib' cans
Green Corn,
or any portion of that amount to be delivered at
the Subsistence storehouse in Boston or New YORK.
Onethird a. to be delivered in the month OF Septem
Der, and the remainder during the month OF octo-
ber, 1878.
Samples of not less than six cans must accompany
proposals Only the best quality of Corn will be
contracted for and the right reserved to reject any
all bids The corn accepted will, when delivered,
be subject to rigid Inspection and the contractor re-
qured to furnish free of COST such number of cans
as may be expected in samplng. Cases to be
strapped with iron.
Bidders invited to be present at the opening Of
the bids Proposals to be addressed to the under
signed and endorsed Proposals for Green Corn.''
CHARLES MCCLURE, Capt. & c. S.
sep13 d5tF,S W ,Th&F
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THE Hartford CourGnt thinks some of the
Democrats incline to the belief that Green
backism is like small pox, and that if they
suffer themselves to be innoculated with a
little of the virus they will be saved from the
disease in its worst form. Innoculation was
tried in Maine, ,and the result is a Democratic
corpse. Let Connecticut Democrats take
warning.
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REFERRING to the Maine election Senator
Bayard writes to friend in New York city,
"The struggle is in reality for the life of prop
erty in all its forms of credit; and if prom
ise can be absolutely and finally discharged
by promise there will never be perform
ance, and SO ends the abric of credit in all its
forms and in all its results of accumulation"
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KEARNEY during his speech on the Com
mon Wednesday occasionally refreshed him.
self with pulls at bottle Of seltzer, much to
the disgust of some of the crowd, and one
man cried out ''Pass it round; don't be a
hog; that amt communism and the Shiny
imps and midnight assassins and college con-
sumptives that were gathered round the
speaker, actually cheered.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-09-20

THE Maine STANDARD exhibits every indi.
cation Of willingness to surrender, and
throws out this hint: "While the Democrats
would personally prefer the election of Garce-
lon, we are by no means certain that it will
not be for the best interests Of the party to
have Mr.. Smith succeed. Consolidation may
be more easily accomplished another year in
that event."
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The State Democrat is yearning to have
the Democracy swallowed up by the Green
hackers. 1t says: 1t only remains now for
the Democrats and Nationals to form new
organization. We have never favored form
ing new parties by combining factions, but
when an old party becomes partially broken
up new organization becomes matter Of
npnasaitu
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The Boston Post significantly remarks
that ''the hour has struck when sterner
thoughts must take possession of the public
mind, when considerations of party fealty
must be adjourned to those OF common
security, and the upheaval of the social as
well as the financial fabric by the leverage of
ambition, passion, impatience and current
suffering combined must be resisted by the
compact union of every element, every indu.
ence and every force that go to make up the
social and political State. Once suffer this
dangerous temper, as just exhibited, to gain
a foothold in Massachusetts, and to faunt in
the face of the country the certificate of reg
ularity which this Commonwealth is now
asked to grant, and we shall see such gath
ering peril in the heavens as no war for
slavery ever precipitated, threatening the out
works and foundations together with COM
mon and irretrievable ruin. Public credit
would 60 down before such storm, and
national unity and existence would follow.
A Republic that has been for full century
the beacon light of the world for Liberty would
disappear in darkness that would still not be
dark enough to extinguish the record of its
disgrace.''
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PROPOSALS

For Dredging and Removing sunkeu
Led2es at the Gut" opposite Bath,
in Back River, Maine.
DROPOSALS will be received at the office of the
l. undersigned in Portland, Maine, until O'Clock
P. m. on Saturday, the 2sth instant. for about
$4,000 cubic yards of Dredging. and for the re-
moval of about 200 cubic yards of sunken Ledges.
Specifications and further information will be fur
nished to bidders on their applying to the undersgn-
ed at his Office in No. 4533 Congress Street, Portland,
Me.
Proposals accompanied by the requisite guaranty,
must be made in duplicate, printed forms, which
will be furnished application at this Office; and,
when transmitted they must be SO indorsed on the
sealed envelope to indicate before being opened,
the particular work bid for.
The undersigned reserves the right to reject all bids
which in his opinion are not reasonable; also the bid
Of any person known to the Department as "fail-
ing contractor" or of any other person who in his
belief will not faithfully satisfactorily and prompt
ly perform the contract.
GEO. THOM,
U. S. Engineers Office, Lieut.. Col. of Engineers,
Portland Me, Sep IL, 1878. Byt. Brig Gen. U. S. A.
sel6 d6t
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The moon-eyed lepers of San Francisco
have raised 81 200 for the yellow fever suffer-
ers. Where is Kearney that he does not de-
nounce this fresh outrage?