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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

-"UN1rED we stand, divided we
fall" comes in now. Perkins, the
Republican candidate for Governor
of California, lacks just 23,15s votes
of being the choice of majority OF
the voters, the entire poll being a
fraction over 100000. Garry this
practice out here, like some would
have it, where would our party be in
December This calls for sealed an
swers.,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

You, young men of Town, who
are now of age or will be before De
cember 2, 1879, 60 to Major Watts
office and register. Do it at once
and don't procrastinate the matter q
single moment.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

We owe thanks to the clerks of
the Bonnie Lee for file of newspa-
pers, bat we failed to receive, this
week, our package of Eastern and
Western papers, sent us by the Pool
line twice q week regularly.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

we are quite certain that the
Everlasting wishy-food" of lauda-
tion bestowed on Gen. Ogden by
some journals, coupled with insinua-
lions at Lieut.. Gov. Wiltz are not
grateful TO the decent public, but are
disagreeable, if not actually often
sive, to the common sense of Gene
raj Ogden himself.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

REGISTRATION opens in Alexan-
andria to-day, will continue here for
at least ten days, and then due no.
tice will be given Of the time in the
country at the various Precincts
The Registrar, Major Watts, is an
efficient and plain-duty official and
will give all. a fair chance and ample
time to enfranchise themselves.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01
CORRESPONDENCE.

ALEXANDRIA, La,
Sept. 20, 1879. s
Mr.. Editor
You will oblige me by publishing the
following correspondence.
Respectfully,
R. j. BOWMAN.
LoYD's BRIDGE, I
Sept. "a, 1879. {
r. j. Bo,oman, Esq.,, Alexandria,
Dear Sir-A report is in circulation
here that in 1876 you sent Radical
tickets to certain parties near Cheney
vile for distribution Mt that poll
Your friends want to know if the re-
port is true. Please answer before the
Ward meetings come off.
Yours very truly,
E. C. HERBERT.
ALEXANDRIA, La,
Sept. %, 1879. {
E. G. Herbert, Esq,-
Dear Sir-Your letter of the oath
has been received, and thinking that
my friends and others who have heard
the report that / had, in 1876, sent
Radical tickets to any one for distribu-
ton may be more informed through
the DEMOCRAT than by q private let
ter to you, have adopted this mode Of
answering it. The report, like most
reports gotten up for political purpo-
SEES, is an absolute falsehood. In 1876
there was an independent Democratic
ticket differing from the regular ticket
in its candidates for District Judge,
Parish Judge and Clerk. The respec-
tive candidates for those offices upon
the regular ticket were Judge Black
man, W. w. Wilmington, Jr., and
Captain Hooe; upon the Independent
ticket r. A. Hunter, John Clements
and J. H. Ransdell. It is we'll known
that / supported and voted the latter
ticket, and I sent some of them to q
gentleman below Cheney vile for dis
tribution. The gentleman to whom |
sent these tickets, will verify what
have stated, aud it ia out of this that
the report that I sent Radical tickets
to a certain person for distribution has
been manufactured. At least so Dem
ecrats in Alexandra, and $50 in other
portions of the Parish voted this Inde-
pendent ticket, as shown by the di-
unfinished vote of the candidate for
District Judge on the regular Demo-
cratic ticket, his vote being from $50
to 400 votes less than that of Captain
Jetfries and DR.. Clark. l presume the
one hundred and fifty or two hundred
Democrats who voted this Indepen-
dent ticket will be surprised to learn
that they voted the Radical ticket in
1876.
This species of misrepresentation is
the counterpart to that species of false
hood and misrepresentation Of us in
the North which we term the "bloody
shirt"-an appeal to passion and pre-
|jndice of a bitter past, with the hope
of sitting the voice of reason and com
mon sense. Radicalism in this Judi.
cial District, if not in Louisiana, ia
dead without the hope of resurrection,
and in establishing our government
under our new Constitution, and es
pecially our Judiciary, let Us not ac-
cept as our guide the counterpart Of
those passions and prejudices by which
RatIicalism misruled Louisiana for ton
years, but let us adopt the wise old
Democratic inquiry of BY gone days
els he honest Z Is he competent Il
lia walk in life such as to command
the respect and confidence Of the CON-
munity in which he lives I" If these
be- made the tests of every aspirant ia
Office, we will be again blessed with a
true Democratic government
Yonrs respectfully,
II. j. BOWMAN.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01
The Chicago Times has issue

THE Chicago Times has issued
the largest legitimate newspaper ever
published probably in the world.
This consisted of a sextuple sheet
and 1872 solid columns of reading,
enough by excluding other matter,
to interest a reader fully three days.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

COURAGE, true moral courage, is
what every man and woman ought to
possess. If you do a wrong, have
the courage to confess your error,
amends to the wronged. Brute cou.
rage and readiness to back up your
wrong by showing fight, is nothing
but what every beast is capable Of
doing. Be morally courageous.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

GRANT is once more on Ameri.
can soil, and he has been received
at San Francisco, from japan, and
the Occident, with great pageant
like a hippodrome.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

Now is the time to send in your
orders for the White, Peerless and
Stewart Machines, sold cheaper than
ever by Ferguson and Schnack.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

SOAP recipe for making % GAL
Ions good Soap, for sale by VIM. l..
Vale.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

The genuine C. c. G. Budwciser
Beer, Is cents per bottle, at Gustave
Gehr's.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

WANTED.-Another ISM or osophy
with which to put fools and knaves
at the head, and true Democrats at
the tail of the Democratic Conserya-
tive party of Rapides.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

Smoke BIackwelPs Durham To
bacco. Hustmyre keeps the genu-
inc article.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

SEND in your orders for White
and Peerless Sewing Machines to
Ferguson and Schnack.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01
Ie to enfranchise themselves.

The DEMOCRAT is in early luck,
and has to acknowledge from Sam, of
Sans, the first can of fresh oysters,
and from Doctors A. j. B. Racial,
the first wild-pigeon of the season.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01
Our Agents.
ALEXANDRIA. La:
WEDNESDAY,......OCT l, 1879
ALEXANDRIA, La,
Oct. !, 1879.

TO Editor Democrat
have the honor of announcing my.
self candidate for reelection to the
Office of District Clerk of Rapides Par
ish, subject to the votes of all the peo-
pie. I appeal to my official record of
the past four years in support of my
fitness for said Office.
JAMES Fl. RANSDELL.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

--FREsH bread every morning at
M. O'Shee's.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01
-~9e-~~~-

Try one of Gustave Gehr's Five
cents cigars.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

A man died Of liver complaint One
dollars worth Of "BLACK DRAUGHT"
would have saved his life. =
For sole by Z. C. TAFT.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

Query: Why will people suffer with
indigestion when "BLACK -DRAU6HT"
will cure them?
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

BE- up and doing-Time waits
on no one.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

Georgians chew "BLACK-DRAUGHT"
instead of tobacco.
For sale by E. C. TAFT.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

ALEXANDRIA. La, !
Sept. 20, 1879. :
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-10-01

confidence of all classes of the cOmmu-
| nifty. He had not served long as pres
ident of the Board Of Aldermen, when
he was nominated-in the same year
l869-by the Democratic Convention
for Mayor Of the city.
Bat at the time this nomination was
made a Radical Legislature was in
session, and, to prevent the election
of Mr.. Wilt, that body gave the coun-
try one of those examples Of the utter
defiance of law which characterized
the rule Of Radicalism in this State,
and passed a high handed act postpo.
ming the election. In the following
year Mr.. Wiltz was again the nominee
for Mayor, and in the election Of that
year he Overwhelmingly defeated
Flanders, the Republican candidate
but the Returning Board counted
Wiltz ont and Flanders in.
In 1872 the Democrats again nomi.
mated their popular and 1esolute young
leader for Mayor, and again he wal
elected. The Radical authorities re-
fused him his commission. Flanders
the bogus Mayor, displayed dogsisl
disposition to hold on to- the Office
Mr.. Wilt determined not to be agar
defrauded or to permit the people tt
be cheated ont of the mayoralty, ant
without any commission whatever, AMI
claiming title solely through the legal
~ expressed will Of the people, Ii,
proceeded with his Administrators t.
the City Hall, entered the Mayors Of
fee, and after formally and perempto
rily demanding the exit of Flanders
aud being refused, he gave that wor
thy five minutes in which to abdicat
the functions he had usurped and he'll,
by fraud, Flanders adopted the wises
and most moderate course, aud retire,
under protest, leaving the rightfu
Mayor in possession.
Whom tho Legislature Of 1875 Assem-
bled in the old St. Louis Hotel it wa
under the CLEAN Of Federal bayonets
, Federal artillery was trained upon tn
street; regiments of Federal troop
|, surrounded the capitol building, an
Federal gunboats, with open portfolio
, and shotted guns, lay in front of til
city. The entrances to the Stat
House, save one side door, had bee
barrcaded by Kellogg's orders and n
one was permitted to enter without
card of admission from an officer of Il,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

we understand that Hon. N. \, i.ucc,
Of Waldo, will be q candidate tor the po-
sltion ot superintendent Of Common
schools Mr. Luce was the chief Clerk
in the department Of education, several
Years, and was appointed superintendent
just before the greenback administration
came into power, holding the office only
about three months. He is probably
without a superiorin the state as to quail
itication for the position. During the
late campaign he took the stump in Wal
do County, and did excellent service for
the republican cause. kcnnebec Jour
ual
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

At meeting OF the Knox County Bar Associa-
tcn, the following officers were elected a s
Rice Prest.; K oimonton Vice Pres q. NJ.
Hicks, Secretary and Treasurer; 4. p. Gould. A.
5. Rice and d. \ Mortland, Committee Oh Library
L. Z. Starrett Librarian.
A meeting of the citizens of Mechanic Falls was
held Saturday last to consider the feasibility Of
building railroad from that place to Gray dis
lance of twenty miles This road. if built will
connect the Rumtord Falls d Buckield Railway
at Mechanic Falls with the Maine Central Railway
at Gray, thus opening direct route and also a
competing road from that village and Portland
with the Grand Trunk Railway
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25
Shall We Have a Queen ?

in discussing the probabilities Of the
| Presidential election next year. and re-
viewing the claims, anteccdcnts and abil-
| tiles, respectively, Of the several leading
candidates, there appears to have been
an important omission. We are remind
ed of this by the receipt Of copy Of Il
London wccklynewspaper, The American
Traveller, containing a photographic por-
trait Of fine looking woman, beneath
which is inscribed the legend, "Nictoria
| c. Woodhall Candidate for President OF
| the United States" Nearly a page Of
the Traveller, which declares itself to
be "Thc Special American Organ I'LL
Europe" is devoted to cuIogizing Mrs.
Woodhall who. IN the way. was known
as Woodruff before She left this country
to take up her abode in London as pre-
! liminary to becoming 4 Presidential can
didate in 1850. The Traveller says:
In the next Presidential campaign the world Will
behold the pleasing spectacle OF a woman entering
tue lSl as All elSfDle candidate lot lut greatest
and most honorable position which the nation can
bestow. During the last half century there have
been many great women but no one till now could
be safely advanced a suitable Presidential can
dldate. No other woman is 50 deservcdiy crlc
brated as Mrs oUdhalI, and no person per
| haps, man woman, is we'll capable OF per
forming the duties If the office in when Shp will
shortly enter the great political arena To capture
This is a fair sample of the Travellers
article, which fully cNhauSts the yocab-
ulalY of praise in its attempts t. eNDlt
this pcttcoated Presidential candidate.
After reviewing her career as dbaukcr, I'm
editor and a lecturer the Traveller thinks
it is not to be wondered at THAT the pco-
pie Of the nitcd States arc anxious uud
willing to lavish upon her the highest
honor they can bcstoW and elect her lS a
candidate for the Presidency" We con
teS~ to have been in ignorance heretofore
of the anxiety ana Willingness VI the
American people 10 lavish honors upon
MrsW oodhall but VIZ bow. NJ COURSE
to the superior knowledge Of the Special
American Organ HI l.urop" A. tor
elccting Mis-. WoodhaIl us candidate,
She seems to have spared the American
people that trouble by clccting herself.
But more startling information is couNcy-
cd III what purports to be Hi extract
from the London Christian | MON. which
is alleged to Say Of Mrs WoadhalI "Wr
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

The Prog. Age admiringly quotes acup-
let from Goldsmith
II fares that land TO Fastening ills prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men decay
and makes political application in re
spect to Grccnbackism The Christening
ills" are not coming 50 fast as they were,
having been retarded by the recent cleo
ton. Neither does our neghbor find that
''wealth accumulates" to an alarming ex-
tent in the newspaper business. If the
same authority has personal knowledge
that "men decay well, it won't be dis
puted
The editor of the Prog. Age has follow
ed Nebuchadnezzar, and gone to grass.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

Scion Chase evidently thinks Salt River
is in Connecticut He has gone to the
Nutmeg State with ''them steers
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

The September number of Brentano's Aquatic
Monthly and Sporting Magazine completes the
first volume Of the present series, and with the
October number, which begins a volume, the
price will be reduced to s. year This magazine
is handsomely printed, and is an authority on, as
well a complete record Of all pastimes by field
and water. 1t deserves handsome patronage
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

1t would b. fur t. assume that tile
Democratic party Of Maine Which cast
90, i23 votes foI john c. Talbot in 1876.
has dWndltd doNn To the tcw hundred
votes east this year for Hon. Biom Brad
bury: but if We ada To the votes east fOr
Mr.. bradbury those cast for DR.. Garcclon
We have only a little over twcnty-one
Thousand voters, or about one third Of
the Democratic strength in 1876. The
leaders who have brought the fortunes
Of the Democratic party Of Maine to this
loW cbb haze pretty ettectuallv DESTROYED
lis future usefulness. In most Of the
counties the organization has been aban-
doned. The Greenbackers declare that
they Shall retain their organization. and
the Democrats who cast their lot with
the tat money party will probably con
tiuue to follow its now waning fortunes
\ softly time they will have Of it. The
attempt to restore the Democratic party
to its former strength and prestige by Il
return to the -honorcd financial prin-
ciples 50 WickcdIy abandoned, could hard
y be successful: certainly not under the
present leaders, in whom no one can or
would haze any confidence. They are
as bankrupt i'll reputation as the party
has become in numbers under their man
agemcnt.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

A frog was found on the top of Cambridge
(Mass) church steeple 1870 feet above the ground
the other day
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

1t is said that the friends Of Hon. J. L..
Smith, the greenback candidate for gov
ernor, will push him for Congress in place
Of Dr. George ". Ladd, the present dem
ocratic greenback member. This will be
very pleasant news for Ladd.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

The session Of the renobscot Musical
Association opened auopiciously Ut Ban
gor Oh Tuesday last.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

Ance piece OF detective Work has been
successfully ACCOMPLISHED by WI h
Squirting t. :. Detective Ior the Post OK
ticc Department. On the uirht uf tn Nh
inst. the Post Otiiccat Castine was brolzrn
into and a LARGE pumbpl. Of letters torn
open from which small sums NJ mnnnv
were extracted. TIE thief aIso srcnrn1
quite in amount in STAMPS and slammed
envelopes. Col. >purljnr III once snf III
work IL find the cuIprit. After oc,fino
all the facts obtainablc. and these wrIe
ycg1 iew. I'LL succeeded In FOLLOWING III,
clcW to the house occuDjrd by Eda3r r
Pond and finally obtained from lin 4
confession of quilt ana i return u most If
the money. stamps and STAMPED cnvrloncs
taken. Pond was brought to thjs tjIy
Thursday, ana Friday was arraioppd M
fore Judge WisWcll. who bound him ovnr
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

Autumn leaves when winter comes
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

Fogg and Blood have gone to Massa-
chusetts to help Butler. \ singular com
binaton.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

The Manchester, y. II. Mirror suggests
that ''the Boston Herald and Globe should
employ an embalmer and set him to work
upon their special spondents WHO
have been in Maine during the lastmonth. "
1t also wittily remarks that ''young men
who could travel through that state a
month and find nothing but signs Of Re
publican defeat ought to be preserved,
and the sooner they are shelved As mum
mics the better
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-09-25

The Legislature of Georgia Hills iust
passed a severe tramp law. 1t is Mainc's
tun now.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-13
OLDLErTERx.

Never burn kindly written letters /;
it il 30 pleasant to read them over
when the ink is brown, the paper yell
low with age, and the gentle hands
that traced the friendly words are
folded oyer the hearts that prompted
them under the green sod. Above all
meyer bufn love-letters. To read
them in after years is like rssurrec-
ton of ones youth. The elderly spin
ster finds in the impassioned offer che
foolishly rejected, twenty years ago, 9
fountain of freiuvenescence. GlanciDg
over it she realizes that she was once q
belle and . beauty, and beholds her
former life in . mirror much more
congenial to her tastes than the one
that confronts her in her dressing
room. The widow, indeed, derives >
most sweet and solemn consolation
from letters of the beloved one who
has journsyed before her to the far-off
land from which there comes no mes
sage, and where she hopes, one day, to
join him.
No photographs can SO Yividly recall
to the memory Of the mother the ten
derness and devotion of the children
who have left at tho call of Heaven,
as the epistolsry outpourings Of that
love. The letter of . true son or
daughter to q true mother is some
thing better than an image of the fea-
lures /; it is . reflex of the writer's soul
Keep all loving letters. Burn only
the harsh ones, and, in burning them,
forgive and forget them.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-13

As we had heard nothing for q long
time about the invention by which
glass was deprived of its brittleness,
We concluded that it was one of the
ephemeral discoveries so frequent of
late years, and dismissed it from our
mind. We now find something more
surprising in the glass line. The De-
troit Free Press has had translated for
the use of its readers, from a German
paper, the following particulars of the
new process of making clothes out of
glass: At Gnadenfrel the artist and
glass spinner, A. Frenge1, Of Vienna,
has established his glass business, offer
ing carpets, cuffs, collars, wells, ETC., of
glass. He not only spins, but also
weayes glass before the eyes of the
people. The otherwise brittle glass he
changes into pliable threads and uses
them for making good, warm clothing.
1tsounds like q myth, but Mr.. Prem.
gel introduces certain Ingredients,
which are his secret, and thereby
changes the entire nature OF the glass.
He has just finished q white, curly
glass muff for Lady in st. Peters
burg he charges forty thalers, (thirty
doparD for them. Also, ladies' hats,
of slaas, with glass feathers. A re-
markable feature of this glass material
is that it is lighter than feathers.
Wool made of glass can not be distin-
guished from the genuine article. Mr..
Prsngelss glass Inventions are some
thing SO extraordinary and useful for
clothing, etc., as glass is . non-con-
ductor, that it will probably cause an
entire revolution in dress material. "a
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-13
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS FOR 1870

RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS FOR 1879
Following are the dates of the vari-
ous religious festival days for the en-.
suipg year: EICSEF5SS i.
Septuagersma, Sunday, February
9th ts. trn.s e't. 'f ID . ia-l-r- it-.-f -t tttTs
~'AA' Ic.tj shJ - fHuJ nai3--i.N fali I
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Sunday
February 23d. = a.7. ,ra,-5 t.- 70. =
Ash Wednesday, February 26th.
First Sunday in Lent, March I'd.
Palm Sunday, April 9th. = 80" =
Good Friday, April 11th.- At isT.. -.
Easter Sunday, April 18th. 'i..',' r9,s,.; f.
Low Sunday, April 20th.. -.
Rogation Sunday, May 18th. - =
Ascension Day, Thursday, May 22d,
Pentecost-Whit Sunday-June lst'
Trinity Sunday, June 9Th. f<i9to
Corpus Christi, Thursday, June 18th
| First Sunday in Advent, November
3Oth. :-''. 'i 's','.if '' '
Christmas Day, Thursday, Decem.
Der 25th. -e: q i.es.te.ii s i s...