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MISCELLANEOUS.
succession Sale.
=, S seTe.I Wr OF No. -297.

nA 1eFnls I. WELLS Ell No. 297.
Probate Docket-Parish onrt-Par-
ish ofRapides-Stateo of Louisiana.
PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF
/ Sale issued and to me directed 10y
the Honorable, the Parish Judge of the
Parish of Rapides, State of Louisiana,
in the above numbered and entitled
Slccession, commanding me to sell
: for the payment of debts, and for Cash
and according to law, the following
described property belonging to the
Succession of Martha l.. Wells, ! shall
offer TOR sale at Public Auction, in
front of the Court House door, Alex
audria, La, between the hours pre-
scrihed by law, on
SATURDAY, the 9th day of APRIL,
A. D. 1873,
the following described property, to-
wit:
v A certain piece or parcel Of ground
situated, lying and being in the Parish
.nf Rapiiles, on Bayou B9ntf. being the
undivided one half of the Hatch
Dent" tract of the Wellswood Planta-
.tipu, containing four hundred (40O)
acres of land
Terms-CASH, subject to appraise-
nient H. NJ. ROBINSON,
Sheriff and ex 0ffici0 Anctluneer.
Msrch 6, 1873.
lrintei's Fees 80.
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GUBscRIBE FOR
~ THE DEMOCRAT

A correspondent of the Cincin.
natl Commercial says: "a curious
study is the consideration Of the
kind of men who fascinate women
| have known q man, a fellow with
the head and hair Of tramp, and
the dress of a doctor with a lean
practice, a person who wriggled like
a snake when he walked, and had d
clammy hand, yet this person was
perfect lady killer. One girl was be-
trothed to him for three years, and
then he Tilted her for q new fame
The new love affair ended with q
tragedy, for when in turn lie shook
the new love of, the restless, grief
stricken girl ended her troubles for
ever in a neighboring river. There
were other women who loved the fell
low almost as desperately, although
they consoled themselves much more
easily"
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"JeSs So"

SIS your name Goodnuf2" asked
His Honor of the last man.
mo, sir-it's Goodhue, sir.''
Good enough. Do you know why
you are here2'
81 do, sir-jess so, sir. l came
here because was little off,"
"Yes, off your feet and lying on
the walk"
"Jess so, sir-presume I was tired,
sir"
$50 is a wagon wheel tired, Mr..
Goodbue. You were very drunk, sir,
and when the officer found you you
couldn't speak,"
'Did try to, sir?"
"And I ought to fine you ten dol
lars, Mr.. Goodhue.'
"les, sir-jess so, SIR
"But might let you get out of
town fyou could travel fast enough
Jess 50, sir-how fast?''
Ten miles an hour"
jess so, sir-my common gait is
tItlrty. SIR
.
We'll, strike that gait, and if you
IRE tempted to look behind just re-
member Lots wife"
Il will. sir-jess so, strand Lots
horses and cattle and sheep and hogs
and-and-!'
The boys said that he moved of
at exactly forty miles an hour, with
the snow smoking under his heels
Il Detroit Free Press.
c-R ~ Ns----- p
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Bulldog vs.. Wildcat.

A recherche audience, embodying
many of the most heightened and
chivalric residents Of New Orleans,
yesterday assembled at Chevaley's
cockpit to witness novel contro-
versy between female dog of the
genus Taurus, vulgarly known as the
bull-bitch Maght, and ferocious
wild cat.
The scene of this feminine en-.
counter was large wire csge, placed
i'll the center Of the pit, and Surround
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-03-20

AN ingenious water faucet,
through which water is drawn as
cold as ice, is the invention Of a
Californian. Boiling water placed
in any receptacle and allowed to run
through. will be found cool and fit to
drink. The faucet contains numer
GUS small tubes enclosed in larger
ones, and between theoutside of one
and the inside of the other certain
chemicals are plsced which produce
the desired effect.
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he debasement of the Constitution
nd the laws, and the cowardice of
he American. people, with the su
nremest political crime of this or
my other time.
We do not know what Governor
Nichols intends to do in the Ander-
son case. We have never heard a
word from him to indicate whether
he intended to pardon him or not
The Governor has maintained dig
nIfied and proper silence on the sub.
iect, which all the mud singing of
the Administration and the Repub!i-
can press has not forced him to
break. This we do know, however:
If he ever had any idea of pardoning
Anderson he certainly intends to do
so simply es an act Of Cancellation,
for Governor Nichols knows that
Anderson deserves the Penitentiary
as we'll as did the jury which pro,
nounced the verdict of guilty. But
to pardon Anderson now would be,
it seems to US, an acceptance of the
insult the President has imposed
upon the State.
If Mr.. Hayes believed Anderson
innocent, he certainly ought 10 have
had respect enough for the judiciary
of the State to remove him from Of
fee until Governor Nichols had par
doned him. Common decency de-
manded this. II is a respect which
even the decision of a Police Court
of a wild territory ought to have
commanded, to say nothing of the
judgment of the highest criminal
Court in a great city of a sovereign
State. But Mr.. Hayes refuses to &C
cord it to the Courts of Louisiana.
He spurns our Courts with his feet,
slaps the sovereignty Of the State in
the face, and makes the people of
Louisiana the object of the ridicule
and abuse of the whole country
Mr.. Hayes may retain our convicted
felons in the Federal Offices in New
Orleans, but we trust the Governor
will not pardon them TO prey again
upon scciety.-[ New Orleans Dem
ocrat.
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A GENTLE WORD Is NEVER LOST.

A gentle word is never lost
Oh, never then refuse one;l -.s
1t cheers the heart when tempest-toss'd
And iuhs.the cares that bruse one
1t scatters sunshine DER our way,
And turns our thorns to roses;
1T changes weary nightSto day,
Aud hope and love diseloses.
a gentle word is never lost
Thy fallen brother needs it;
How easy and how small the cost
with peace and comfort speed it;
Then drive the shadow from thy cheek
A smile can well replace it;
Our voice is music when we speak,
With gentle words to grace it.
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H. ALEXANDRIA, La. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 90 1873


ing he had been sIgnaIed. Lo.
there was no train there. Every
thing was as quiet as the grave
The man heard his instrument click
ing away, and leaning his ear agains,
the window he caught these words
as they went through to D.
For Gods sake, switch the Eas
tern express off quickw Engineer
on the Western express crazy drunk,
and running mile a minute!'
The operator signaled US at once.
We had left D. nine miles away,
and the message couldn't have caught
us anywhere except at Parto. Six
miles farther down was the long
switch. 1t was time we were there,
lacking one minute. We lost two or
three minutes in understanding the
situation and in consulting, aud had
just got ready to switch in where we
were when the head light of the other
train came into view. Great Heav
ems! but how that train was flying.
The bell<was ringing, sparks flying
and the whistle screaming, a ID not a
man of us could raise hand. We
stood there on the main track, spell
"ound as it were. There wouldn't
have been time, anyhow, either to
have switched in or got the passeu-
gers out. 1t wasn't over sixty sec
onds before that train was upon US.
prayed to God for breath or two
and then shut my eyes, and waited
for death, for l hadn't the strength
to get out of the cab"
well, sir, God's mercy was reveal
ed again. Forty rods above us that
locomotive jumped the track and was
piled into the ditch in an. awful mass.
Some Of the coaches were considera-
bly, smashed, and some of the people
badly injured, but no one was killed,
and of course our train escaped en-
tirely. Satan must have cared for
hig Tom, the other engineer. He
didn't get a brnise, but was up and
across the fields like deer scream
ing and shrieking like mad tiger
1t took five men men to bind him
after lie was run down, and to-day he
is the worst lunatic in the State"
Tom was good fellow" contin-
ned the engineer after pause, "and
he used to take his glass pretty reg
nlarly. | never saw him drunk, hut
liquor kept working away on his
nerves till at last the tremens caught
him wi Ell he had hundred and fifty
lives behind the engine. He broke
out all of sudden. The fireman
was thrown off the engine, all steam
turned on, an. then Tom danced and
screamed and carried on like fend.
He'd have made awful work, sir.
hut for Gods mercy. I'm trembling
get over the way he came down for
US, and I'll never think of it without
my cart jumping for my throat.
Nobody asked me 20 sign the pledge,
but | wanted my name there. One
such night on the road has turned
me against Intoxicating drinks, and
now that I've got this red ribbon on,
| can talk to the boys with a better
faction is raving, as / told you,
and the doctors say he'll never get
his reason again. Good night, sir
my train goes in ten minutes.
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F. j. MOSES TELLS How SOUTH
CAROLINA WAS COUNTED FOR HAYES.
After giving various antecedent
details, the relator states: The party
of conspirators who had assembled
in the office of the Secretary of State
proceeded TO open and verify the re-
turns, and it was found that Tilden
had carried the State by over one
thousand majority of strictly legal
votes. At once it was determined
that such result must be reversed,
and to effect this the returns of seve-
raj Republican counties were tam
pered with, so as to increase the ma.
jorities which they had really given
to Hayes and Wheeler. The fgu-
ring was done by Hayne, CORDOBA,
Stone, Dunn and Carter, and the al
iteration of the returns was achieved
by Dunn alone, who has since been
heard to say in Washington-while
there as an applicant for the Charles
ton Collectorship of Customs-that
lit was his right hand which had
saved South Carolina for Hayes, and
that he could prove it by Judge Car
ter. A moderately prominent and
worthy Republican living in Colum-
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 the handwriting Of F. L. Cardoza,
one of the members of the Board
The returns from Charleston,
Georgetown and Darlington counties
we're the ones which were tempered
with, and in which sufficient votes
were altered to give the State to
Hayes. AS soon as the Investiga-
ting Committee began its sessions in
Columbia, Damn, Hayne and Stone
fed the State, and have never since
returned there, although from re.
marks which have been recently
made by some of Dunn's warmes,
and most immediate friends, I think
he is just now in such frame OIL
mind CATER losing the Charleston
collectorship, to which he though,
himself entitled as TO induce him, tc
tell the truth, and to help to cleanse
the White House from the presence
of a fraudulent usurper.
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sherifs Sale.
J. W. GoKpoN poR Use OF R. j. Bowman
VS..
SUCCESSION OF GovAN WILLIAMS

No. 300.
PtGIsH torRT - PARISH OF RiPIDEs
gtY VIRTUE OF AND TO SATISFY
& * writ OF Seizure and Sale issue;!
aaa Ia ne directed in the above riti-
tied and numbered suit, | have seized
and vii nffer for sale at Public AUG
tiou IN trout of the Courthouse donl in
'he 'foan of Alexandria, In , hetW cen
the hnnrS prescribed nv law, on
SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH, A. D.,
1879,
the fo!lnwing described property, to-
wit.
a certain tract or parcel of land
aituated, lying aud being in the
Parish of -Rapides and State of leu
isians, and containing the qaan
tity of six hundred (6D0 acres
;1ore or less, and being parts of Sec.
tion ten (lO) and fifteen (l5) in Tom
ahip three (;) North Range thee f3j
West, h'upded North Ivy Section ten
(I0}, East bv Section eleven HD and
fourteen O4) South ofRed River.
Terms cash, sabject to appraise-
Incnt. H. NJ. ROBINSON,
March 6, 1873. Sheriff.
Printers Fees 80.
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--MArRrMoNY among deaf mutes
has always been painted a halcyon
state, but we mustn't always take ev~
erything for granted. An Indiana
deaf mute returned home from Lafa-
yette recently in the night. His
deaf mute wife, not expecting him to
be back before the next day, was not
on the lookout for him, and the poor
fellow, after hammering with might
and main at the door for ever so
long, was at length forced to make
the doorstep his bed aud remain out
aIl night.
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mo. 81.

ling, a refined and intelligent gather
ing peered in with eager expecta.
TONS.
/ The fsline,is described as an gani-
mai Of. magnificent proportions it's
aggregate flesh, bone, muscle aud sill
ken coat weighing forty pounds.
After a few prelininafies it dill
not seem so ferocious a wild cat as at
the first blush many, imagined.
When at three o'clock the cage
was opened, and the canine entered
With the fretful air of an irate moth
erin-law, the wild eyed daughter Of
the forest commenced series of ex-
traordinary gyrations, leaping from
one side Of the cage to the other with
an agility which could by domestic
Tabby be initiated with great advan.
tage. This unterrified shrieker os
tensibly apprehended business"
A grim ferocity in the lower jaw Of
her less less graceful opponent, and
an inordinate length -of white fang
protruding over upper lip suggested
possible disaster in close proximity.
Evidently in the opinion of the Wild
cat the cage was overcrowded, and
had feline tastes been consulted she
would have gladly manifested con-
viction that her room was more
agreeable than her company.
No such amicable adjustment Of
the impending Misrepresentation APP
peared to be contemplated by the Sc
ect audience. .a.f
Heretofore confident belief in ost
tensible ferocity somewhat abated,
but a majority having come there to
see fight, to that extent had rep
utation to sustain, and would have
seenit, whatever happened to bethe
consequences
These repeated leaps were reward
ed on the part ofthe intruder by sew.
eral wild dives, such as a high ten.
.pered mother might make into q
crowd of uproarious tatterdemalions,
but, as invariably the case with the
mother, somebody is eventually
caught by the throat, and this time
it happened to be the wildcat.
Very naturally, discovering herself
driven to the wall, this silk.coated
daughter of the woods found in re-
sistance no other alternative. There
was brief struggle, but in this iu-
stance slight proved Mt match for
brute strength. The cimeter of Sa4
ladin succumbed to the battle-ax Of
Richard, and in trice the more
agile beast was on her back in the
clutch of her burly conqueror. Then
commenced a scratching match which
would have been viewed with wonder
and respectful admiration by the en-
tire feminine sex.
How much blood and gore reward
ed those frantic talons it is impossi-
BILE to estimate, but the power to do
also implied ,the power to endure,
and in the course of ten minutes the
vice.like grip had ostensibly extin-
guished all evidence OF animatiou.-
Naturally, in that heightened assem-
blage, a bull slut that had whipped
wild cat was Immediately metamor-
phosed into lioness, and if some
modern Ovid do not write a fable in
her memory it will be from no lack of
appreciation of the achievement.
IN. 0. Times. Sc
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ShfriHsS Sale,
/. c. MILLER g. Co.,
va. No. -
A. c.. COMPTON.

A~G. COMPTON.
Justices Court Parish of Rapides.
DY VIRTUE OF AND TO SATISFY
ID o writ of Fieri Facias issued aud
to me directed in the above entitled
and numbered suit, have seized and
will offer for sale at Public Auction in
front of the Court House door, in the
Town Of Alexandria, La, between the
hours prescribed by law, on
SATURDAY, MARCH Both, A. D.,
1878,
the following described property, to-
wit
One Grey HORSE, Saddle and Bride.
Seized as the property of the defend
ant herein.
Terms, CASH-Subject to appraise-
ment, II. NJ. ROBINSON.
March 10, 1873. --...e-ss-. =---. Sheriff.
Printers Fees ST..
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STORY OF THE ENGINEER.

| can't stay longI'
1t was a red ribbon meeting, ant
The man was a locomotive engineer
hronzed and strong, and having eye.
full of determination. He signed hi:
name in a bold, plain hand, tied .
red ribbon in his hutton hole, and al
he lett the hall he said:
Gas the Lord looks down upon me
III never touch liquor again!"
Have you been a hard drinker?'
Queried man who walked beside
The engineer.
mo. Fact is, / was never drunk
in my life. I've swallowed consider
able whiskey, bnt I've never wen,
far enough to get drunk. | shouldn't
miss it or be the worse off for an
hour if all the Intoxicating drink in
the world was drained into the
ocean"
''Bat you seemed eager to sign the
pledge
''So was, and III keep it through,
thick and thin, and talk temperance
to every man on the road"
"Yon must have strong reasons?''
well, you II walk down to the
depot I'll tell you story on the way
1t hasn't been in the papers, and only
few Of us know the facts. You
know ran the night express on The
B road. We always have al
least iwo a!eepers and Il coach, and
sometimes we have as many as two
hundred passengers. It's q good
ro1d. icrrl as a floor and pretty
strai.EiIt though there is bad spo,
or two. TIE mint express has the
right o way, ANA We make fast time.
Its no rare thing for us to skim
along at the rate of fifty miles, and
We rarely 90 below thirty. One
ulEht we pulled out of Detroit with
two sleepers, two coaches, and bag
gage and mail cars. Nearly all the
herths in both sleepers were full, and
most of the seats in the coaches were
occupied. 1t was. dark night
threatening all the time to rain, and
a lonesome wind whistled around the
cab as we left the city behind. We
were seventeen minutes late, and that
meant fast time all the way
through"
well, he continued after mo.
nent, Everything ran along all
right up to midnight. The main
track was kept clear for US, the en-
CINE was in good spirits, and we rar
to D as smooth as you please
The express coming east should
meet us fifteen miles west of D
but the operator at the station had
failed to receive his usual report
from below. That was strange, and
vet it was not, and after little con.
sultation the conductor sent me
ahead. We were to keep the main
track, while the other train would
run in on the side track. Night after
night our time had been so close tina,
We did not keep them waiting over
Two minutes, and were generally in
sight when they switched in.''
"When we left D. we went
ahead at rafting speed, fully be-
lieving that the other train would be
on time. Nine miles from D. is
the village of Parto. There is tel
egraph station there, but the opera
tor has no night work. He closed
i r
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The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-13
Our Export Grade.

The New York correspondent OF the Phi'adel-
phia Ledger writes under date OF the eth inst.
How unsatisfactory soever trade may be in
other respects. there can be no question as to
the brisknes of our export commerce. In proof
of which 1t need only be stated that the Custom.
House returns of the outward manifests from
this port for the week ending o-day, show the
enormous aggregate Of ss.la7.765. This is tho
heaviest business for any one week for many
years. Upwards of 81. 800 900 Of this merchandise
was shipped to. Liverpool alone, consisting
chiefly Of hreadatntfs. provisions and dairy
products. The cotton was valued at $500, o2o
wheat ss4s $50; corn. sas. 900; cheese, SSH $50
beef. ss1 ,74s: canned goods. s59.el2, The Caste-
shipments, at custom house valuation of
sss. 600. The shipments to Havre. Hamburg.
Bremen and Amsterdam are also unusually
large. With our exports continuing at anything
like this volume. it will he uphill work to get up
o bull movement in gold. for the present. at
least. whatever may be the operation Of the
silver bill in the future.
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The Whaling business.

Among the last pursuits to feel the effect of
the panic of 1879 says the Boston Transcript,
was the whaling business. which formerly made
the fortunes of New Bedford. 1t was not until
1875 that the price of oil began to fall. but since
then 1t has declined steadily. until 1t has finally
struck bottom at 81 o3 per gallon for sperm and
so and 60 cents per gallon for right oil. This
decrease in price has been brought about.
mainly. by the shutting down Of manufactures
throughout the country. causing, of course. q
great falling off in the demand. In spite of
these low prices. which are far below the cost
of catching although the high price of bone
still makes right whaling more or less prof
liable, merchants are growing more hope
full. and the fleet has been increased
from 16s to 1877 vessels. in order to meet the
larger demand which they are confident Of hav-
ing as soon as the business of the country be-
comes more settled. The tendency at present
is to keep the vessels nearer home. the advan-
fage of this conrse being to reduce expenses
and to have the oil where 1t can be reached
more quickly. Consequently this year finds
the greater part of the fleet in the north and
south Atlantic, the richer grounds Of the west
ern Pacific and Sooloo sea being en- irey de-
serted. The Arctic feet now numbers but twenty
vessels; against lee in 1868. As these fgu'e
show. this branch OF whaling Is being gradually
abandoned, the dangers attending 1t being so
great that insurance companies refuse to take
risks upon vessels engaged in it. 1t is not I'M
likely that the next considerable disaster will SO
reduce the fleet and damp the ardor of ship
owners that whaling in that ocean will be yir-
Sually discontinued