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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04
Ragland Sale and Feed Stable
Boarding House and Feed Stable

IF you want good and cheap aeec% Dn91c
/ tons. 90 to BOAZMAN's BOARDING.
HOUSE and FEED STABLES. corner OF
Spring and Travis streets, Shreveport, La
WIN. BOAZMAN, Proprietor,
Dec. IS, 1873. iS'"'n
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04
MINDEN HOTEL.

THE travelling public and regular board i,o
err will find this house as eomfoItaole
and we'll supplied as the resources ana con Ts.
dition of IKE country will permit Inc
cbary,s are very reasonable. The stage
Stand is kept at this Hotel. nou
have also attached to my note ny
and connections Stable, well supplied WIN
proyender aud water. and 9 good ostier al
WAYS on hand TO attend to stock
The travelling public Will do well 70 CIV
me n call. A y. hEiNVAbS'
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04

Professional and business cards, of ten
line. or less in length, So per annum; for
ak months. 80; for three. months, 81
Business advertisements of greater length
will be inserted at above rates.
Legal advertisements will be charged AT
legal rates, where fixed hy law; otherwise
as special rates as published above.
II Sp,cial notices 20 cents per line.
Funeral notices of less than TIA lines.
and marriage aud rcligiou, notices t44-l'Ft'.d
gratis.
Job-vork executed in the ncatest style,
aud at reasonable prices.
August y, l-77.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04
Saying DisagreeabIe Things.

No class of people can iuflict such
,nartyrdom Oh their associates as
those who are given to the habit OF
reminding others of their failings
or peculiarities. You are never
safe with such a person. When
Won have done yonr very best TO
please. and are feeling kindly ana
pleasantly, out will pop some bitter
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04

Mr.. Stephens has many stories
to tell of negroes, and one is OF IA
nous cotton and chicken depreda-
tor, who since the war met the eX-
Vice President in the road. "Well,
Thomas was the kindly salutation,
III was sorry 10 hear that you had
been in trouble about Mrs. Trips
Chickens ayes Mars. Alec, dune
quit all dat now" said the negro.
very penitently. "How many did
Won tave before you stoppedf' AK
ed Mr.. Stephens. 81 tuck all she
had was the perfectly innocent 10
ply.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04

Terms Of Advertising:
One square, of one inch in space OF less,
hrst insertion, 81 20; each additional inser-
tier, 50 cents.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04

Strawberry Shortcake.-A piece
of butter the size of an egg chop
ped thoroughly through 2 cupfuls
of -four; a pinch of salt, 2 teaspoon:
fuls of baking.powder, 1 cupful OF
sweet milk; handle ~ little - pos-
sible.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04

last alone aud friendless-as he de
serves TO be.-DemOrests Monthly.
A Remarkable Oream-lts Results.
A colored inmate of the Parkers-
berg, w. Va, poolhonse, about
twenty. one years of age, has betray
ed symptoms of hydrophobia for
several years. At the age of nine
years he was bitten in the hand by
u dog, which was afterward killed
on suspicion that it was mad.
In the course of time the cOlored
man, who is also cripple in both
legs, became an inmate of the poor.
house. At times he seemed to be in
sound health and unimpaired men.
tai faculties, perhaps tor several
days. Then suddenly he would feel
an itching sensation in the palm of
the right hand, which would rapid.
~ ascend the right arm, affecting
mcsial and cutancous nerves, until
the whole of the side would be af-
fpcted. Usually he would inform
his keepers, who would confine him
in his cell, a strong room from which
it was impossible for him to escape.
He would soon begin to froth Mt the
mouth, growl, whine. bark and snap
at anything within his reach, occa-
sionally tearing his own flesh with
| his teeth aud nails.
4 During these rabid spells his eyes
would turn in his head, he would
/ display the ferocity of Il wild beast
upon the approach of any one, aud
would become frantic at the sight
of water. These actions had been
of regular occurrence until one
morning, a short time ago, awaken.
ing from deep sleep of pl ysical
exhaustion, the unfortunate man
called Mr.. Joseph Cook, the super
/ intendent, to his cell. and told him
/ that he had seen man in a dream
who informed him that il he would
gather IA certain weed which grew
on certain part of the farm (dcs
cribing spot where he said he had
never been, and even the identical
spot in which the weed grew he
would recover entirely from bis dis
ease.
Mr.. Cook ridiculed the idea az
the elnanation Of diseased min,
caused by an affection of the ner
vous system; but the cOlored mar
strenuously adhered to the belief
that il would cure him. At length
to yet rid of his opportunities, hi
was taken in wagon to pom
near the spot indicated and lifted
out. He crawled directly to thu
place; which was exactly as he DIES
, cribcd it. There he found small
clump of weeds, which he declare
, TO be the weed which he saw in hl
, dream. He pulled it up and mast
Gated leaves aud stalk as he wa
taken 10 his room in the poorhous,
, Some eight or ten days have elaps
ed, and the spasms and rabid fits
which had been of almost daily OK
currence, have altogether ceased
and he declares himself entirely RI
, covered.
0 His physicians say that there ]
0 no doubt that he was afflicted wit
r hydrophobia, and that his cure
n apparently genuine. They tried !
!. vain to ascertain the name OF I'll
r weed. but as there was only sol
!. tary clump of it, and the negro al
;. the whole of that. the chances al
g that this cure for hydrOphobia WI
@ still remain u mystery in mater
d medica. Still these medical genti
men have one basis of hope in n
n fact that a minute fragment OF chic
q weed genera stillaria) was found
IF the wagon just after the negro WI
II lifted out on his return.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-06-04

1t is said that Ooa. TesA a:
Scott, of Penn, has . salary q
AlOO, 900 AZ President Of seven rsai.
roads. The Peuusylvanis Ceotra
pays about one-fourth OF the
amount. -
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
Proclamation Against Squatters.
By the President of the United Stat

By the President of the United States of
America, Proclamation:
Whereas, 1t has become known to me
that certain evil disposed persons have
within the territory and jurisdiction of the
United States begun and set on foot prep
arations for organized and forcib1e posses.
sion of and settlement upon lands of what Is
known as Indian Territory, west of the State
of Arkansas, which Territory is designated,
recognized and described by treaties and laws
of the United States and by the executive
authorities as the Indian country
and as such is only subject to occupation by
Indian tribes, officers of the Indian Depart
ment, military posts and such persons as
may be privileged to reside and ,rade therein
under the intercourse laws of the United
States; and.
Whereas, Those laws provide for the re.
moval of persons residing and trading
therein without express permission of the
Indian Department and agents, AND also OF
all persons whom such agents may deem i'm
proper persons TO reside in the Indian coun
Now, therefore, for the purpose of prop
erly protecting the interests of Indian Ma
tions and tribes, as well as of the United
States in said In iian Territory, and of duly
enforcing the laws governing the same,
1, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the
United States, do admonish and warn all
such persons intending or preparing to re-
move on said lands, or into said Territory,
without permission of the proper agent of
the Indian Department, against any attempt
to remove or settle upon any of the lands
of said Territory; do further warn and
notify any and all such persons who
may so offend that they will be
speedily and Immediately removed
therefrom by the agent, according to laws
made and provided; and, if necessary, the
aid and assistance of the military forces of
the United States will be invoked to carry
into proper execution the laws of the United
States herein referred to.
In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto
set my hand, and caused the seal of the
| United States to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington this Goth
day of April, in the year of our Lord one
| thousand eight hundred and seventy.nine,
| and of the independence of the United
| States one hundred and third.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
By the President: WIN. M. EvARTs, secre.
tary of State.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
THE PERIL OFRUSsTA.

The New York Commercial, in review
ing recent cable dispatches concerning
Russian affairs, says that they present
picture of the present condition of Eu-
rope still worse than that represented
in former kilograms received since the
attempted assassination of the Gar.
The Muscovite Empire, that representa-
tion par excellence of autocracy and of
the repressive of the popular classes, is
tottering on its base, assaulted as it is
from every side. We are sure that the
Gar does not care half as much about
the Nihilists as he does about the revolt
of his formerly faithful Cossacks.
Twenty thousand of the latter are in
open rebellion, and wholesale uprising
of all the villages which used to furn-
ish those splendid sotnias or squadrons
of fcavalry, so ably used by the Russian
Governors against the foes of Czarism at
home and abroad, threatens to deprive
the st. Petersburg Government of its
principal force. The Don Cossacks re-
fuse to pay their taxes, on the grounds
that they had to take part in the recent
campaign in Turkey. Sanguinary col
lisions have taken place. and the Cos
sacks, in an engagement which lasted
two days and night at Petroskata, al
most completely annihilated regiment
of Russian infantry. On the other hand,
the reign of terror fnaugurated by the
Nihilists continues to prevail; every day
new murders are committed with the ut
most impunity; high Russian official
has Just been shot dead by beautiful
young lady in the midst of bali. It
seems evident to the London papers that
the Cars Government, through It's tur-
pitude and its ferocity, is endangering
The peace of Europe by melting Nihil.
istSocialistic revolution, which can
sweep the western part of the continent
exactly as in the fifth century the
Huns, Vandals, and other barbar.
ians," coming from the same countries
around the Voiga, swept away the
Roman civilization. The British press
is, therefore, writing down Alexander
ii and the whole fabric of Russian Gov
ernment, which Alexander II himself
seems to abandon to its fate, sinc'
he is preparing with all haste to go t.
Livadia, at theextremity of his empire
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01

man lying bleeding and helpless from
a severe fall in the streets of Moscow or
st. Petersburg without any one daring
to assist him. To what an extent this
curious tyranny is carried may be judged
from a single instance. An English
gentleman residing at Peterhof, coast
town about sixteen miles from st. Peters
burg, one morning found his Russian
groom hanging by the neck in the stable,
and cut him down at once, just in time
to save his life. The next day he re-
oeived visit from the local Inspector
of Police, who, far from commencing
his prompt humanity, vehemently
abused him for daring to transgress the
law. The Englishman heard him to tine
end without a word, and then said
quietly: "Well, Mr.. Inspector, Pm ex-
tremeIy sorry to have done anything,
but I'll make all the amends in my
power. If find you hanging anywhere,
I pledge you my honor l won't cut you
down.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
A Famous Legal Battle Ended.

The Baltimore Sun says the Circuit
Court of Cecil County, Nd, has just
decided case which has been on the
docket for seventeen years, during
which time it was tried several times
without result. The contest was over
an acre of ground, part of tract called
Mount Ararat," on the eastern bank
of the Susquehanna.' There were two
suits, instituted in 1862, known as the
Brown and Heskart ejectment cases,
Isaac Brown being the plaintiff, and
Jacob Tome and the Philadelphia, Will
mington & Baltimore Railroad Com
pany the defendants. The leading at
torneys of the Cecil and Hartford bars
have been employed in the case at one
time and another, and. the expenses
have been in excess perhaps OF hum
dred such acres. The railroad occupied
the land by virtue of an act of the
Legislature, passed in 1858, for the con-
struction of the Port Deposit branch.
When taken in possession the, ground
was covered by water, and the railroad
converted it into solid land by filling up.
The claimants contended that the ad-
f'dition was the result of accretion, and
belonged to the owner of the land to
which it was added. On Monday last
verdict for the plaintiff was rendered
The Cecil Wing says: Here upon this
barren acre, so fercely fought over, was
located at the mouth of Heron Run, the
cave of George Talbot, when he tool
refuge from the vengeance of the Vir
ginia Governor, after the killing Of
Rousby, in 1864; and upon this lonely
spot it was that the barking of his little
dog, his sole companion, betrayed hin
to his pursuers. Here, too, it was upor
the cliffs of Mount Ararat that the fal
cons of that same George Talbot wer.
to be seen long after their master hae
disappeared, not only from these hills
but from the history of the colony"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
How to Make Cologne Water Easily
and Cheaply at Home.
New York Chemist j

The only perfume which never seems
to offend any one, and which leaves no
unpleasant twang behind it. is that of
Cologne water, which stimulates while
it soothes the senses, and suggests
pleasant wholesom. ness, instead OF any
sickish sweetness, as the best of the ex-
tracts and essences and bouquets are apt
to do. We do not mean, of course, the
common Cologne water of the druggists,
which is usually very much worse than
none at all, and won't to leave, after dry
ing, the smell of burned sugar where it
has been used often, as it is made of the
poorest spirit, and necessarily without
subsequent distllation, without regard
to the fact that it requires the strongest
the combined oils properly where the
process of distillation is not used. In
deed with no trouble at all, any one can
make in his own store-room better
article of Cologne than that which is
usually bought, by thoroughly dissoiv-
ing fluid dram of the oil of bergamot,
orange and rosemary each with half q
dram of nerei and q pint of rectified
spirit. As good as can be made out OF
Cologne itself, however, is also quite as
comfortably prepared at home as at the
chemists at so much less than the
| chemists prices that one feels warranted
in using it freely, simply by mixing
with one pint of rectitied spirit two
fluid drains each of the oils of bergamo
and lemon, one of the oil of orange
and half as much of that of rosemary
together with three-quarters of dram
of nereli and four drops each of the es
sences of ambergris and musk. If this i
subsequently distilled it makes wha
may be called perfect Cologne, but i
becomes exceedingly fine by being KEEP
tightly stopped for two or three months
to ripen and mellow before use.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
Fish Culture.

The Fish Commissioners of West
Virginia, Messrs. John w. Harris, H.
B. Miller, and G. s. White, have pub
lished their report for the years 1877 and
1878, and present a statement of what
they have accomplished during the
period mentioned. The amount of
money at their command was small, but
they have made a iudicious use of it in
erecting Matching house; and Cali
fornia salmon, landlocked salmon,
trout, anS other useful food fishes have
been hatci.e ed out and distributed
throughout the State. There is reason
to believe that, before many years, a
vast Improvement will have been made
in the fisheries of West Virginia. thus
adding materially to the resources of
that commonwealth.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
Northwest PASSAGE.

If Arctic explorers have not discov-
cred practical Northwest passage
whales have, as is shown by the fact that
whales have been captured in the North
Pacific having harpoons that were
thrown into them on the other side of
the continent. Capt. Bauldry, of the
Helen Mar, of San Francisco, has taken
whale having in it a large flint har-
poon, supposed to have been put in by
natives of Cape Bathurst, or the regions
beyond the mouth of the Mackenzie
river, because the natives living to the
westward of that river never use such
weapons, but always bone or iron. A
more positive evidence is found in the
fact that the Captain of the Adeline
Gibbs took a whale in the Arctic with
an iron in it which had Aeen thrown the
same season in Hudson bay. This is
known to be the case, because the iron
bore the mark of ship at the time en-
gagged in whaling in the bay.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
Photographs Taken at Midnight.

The account of the successful trial, or
rather use, of the Brush electric light at
the thread mills of the Willimantic
Company is still, no doubt, remem-
bered by the readers of the CoXra,at.
The great mule room," about 24O feet
long, is made as light with four of the
electric burners as it was by nearly 100
gas burners. It was mentioned at the
time of the visit to Willimantic that the
electric light is similar to sunlight and
that in its rays the fine distinctions in
the shades Of color are as truly made as
in the day time. A further illustration
of this identity between the electric and
the sun lights is furnished by the enter
prise of the managers of the Whitman
tic Company in an interesting way.
They have sent to this office photo
graph of the winding-room rs it ap-
peared with the electric lights at work,
and the photograph was taken at mid
night by the electric light, thus proving
that the sun is no longer needed in the
picture business. The photographs,
taken by Isaac White, of this city, are
clear and would be creditable to day
work.-Harford Coaraalt.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
to Shoot Edwin Booth on the
Stage.

At Chicago, McVicker's Theater, few
nights ago, was visited by rather small
audience, who came to be entertained by
the Shakspearean actor, Edwin Booth, and
who were highly entertained by another
actor not down on the bills. He brought
the house not down, but up standing. This
person reioices in the name Of Mark Gray.
In plain Bnglish, he shot three times at
Booth, once missing fire an d twice missing
the object of his aim. The play was Rich
ard l." Near the finish of the last act, when
Booth sat in the glare of calcium
light, with all other lights turned down,
and engaging in the soliloquy, he sat lit
tie to the right of the center of the stage,
with the prison on one side, and the cottage
nearly on level with him in the first
balcony, and some thirty feet distant, the
pistol concealed in his sleeve, and in his
left hand copy of the play, which he had
evidently been following with the dire
purpose of firing only at the right time.
When the Grst shot rang out there was a
dead silence. Booth did not stir, but ss a
its way through piece of board in the cot
tage, an inch in thickness, Booth quietly
rose and went toward the wing.
A rush was Immediately made for Gray,
and, as there seemed to be some doubt
| which was the man, Booth again stepped
out, pointed directly at him, and saw him
taken into custody.
All this time there was q wild uproar in
the house, and shouts of "Throw him
over!" Hang him !''" Pitch him out the
window !" and the like were audible. He
was, however, speedily hustled of to the
station and locked mp.
The mans story is, that he belongs in
Keokuk, but has been travelling for a st.
Louis dry good house; that about three
years ago Booth wronged friend of his
whether lady or gentleman he does moi
state, and that becoming cognizant
of the wrong about two and one-hali
years ago, he determined to avenge it. He
has only met Booth once since that time
and then it was on the streets of st. Louis
and he was not prepared. He says he fired
directly at the tragedian and wonders
greatly that he missed. He regrets hit
failure even more than he wonders at it
He is generally regarded as crazy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
FOkElGN SUMMARY.

DONALD, Curries Co.. proprietors
of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal line of
steamers, received telegram dated Cape
st. Vincent, April %, which says: "Col-
onel Woods column has been attacked near
Luneberg, by large number of Zulus. The
enemy was repulsed with great loss /;
British loss, seven officers and four hundred
men. The troops fought gallantly, but ap-
pear to have been taken by surprise"
A CABLE dispatch from London contains,
in condensed form, all the sad predictions
and comments which, for the last year,
have been made by the English press con-
cerning the collapse of British commerce.
1t states that En- sland's foreign trade is in
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01

as unsound a state as her commercial and
manufacturing interests, and all this, es-
pecially the practical abandonment of the
China trade by the English, on account of
American opposition and enterprise"
which have entirely killed English rivalry
in that part of the world.
ONE hundred and twenty Alsatians have
LETT Havre for America, and considerable
exodus is proceeding around Basle, especi.
ally of peasants and lace makers. The Paris
Patrie, commenting on the arrival at the
st. Lazare Depot of the Havre Railroad of a
large number of emigrauts bound to the
United States, laments the emigration for
the sake of France and Swi zerland, for it
noticed that the emigrants were clean, ro-
bust, and in possession of some means.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
A nISSYLIABLE TRAGEDY.
Didu,t. Know Who to Apologize to.

David Crockett once visited a menage-
rie at Washington, and, pausing a
moment before a particularly hideous
monkey, exclaimed: What a resem-
blance to the Hon. Mr.. XII" The words
we're scarcely spoken when he turned
and, to his great astonishment, saw
standing at his side the very man whom
he had complimented. 4 beg your
pardon" said the gallant Colonel; l
would not have made the remark had 1
known you were near me. and am ready to
make the most humble apology for my
objectionable rudeness; but'-looking
first at the insulted member OF Con-
gress, whose face was anything but
lovely, and then at the animal compared
to him" haug it if ! can tell whether
/ ought to apologize to you or to the
monkeyi"