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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-29

Editor Chronicle:

Editor Chronicle: ~
l have seen your issue of Nov. 9Th,
containing letter from Right Seeker
and one from H. M. Raglan, but fail
to see the application Of either.
The subject we have mooted has
occupied the attention of Christians
and statesmen in all times, and de-
cisions without number are on record
to show that the purest and best Of
both have always epjoined q strict
performance Of our duty to our coun-
try in the same paragraph With duty
to our God. 1t is not pertinent to
consider our government and times
in any manner similar to the times
in the earlier centuries, when the
texts were written az advice to the
then Christian individuals. At that
time the State and Catholic church
were one. and it was arrayed against
the religion from which Protestant
ism sprang, and these words were
spoken TO keep down local troubles
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-29

Cotton ruled at from II 10 II /
cents in New Orleans last Saturday.
I'D there is every indication that it
will continue to sen & = good i not
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-29

q Loicer Prices than can be
''sHd al any other establishment
In Neso Orleans.
NV vii be found the names Of :
: ns leading Cooking Stoves with
"a pusss, via:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-29

For District Attorney We want a
man skilled in ferreting ont crime.
therefore vote for Hunter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-29

Anna WEEK in your own town,
Nh II and no capital riskcd. You can
VU w give the business trial without
ont expense. The best opportunity ever
offered for those willing to work. You
should try nothing else until You see for
Yourself what you can do ut the business
we offer. No room to explain here You
can devote all your time or only your
spare time to the business, and make great
pay for every hour that you work. Women
make az much as men. Send for special
private terms and particulars, which We
bard times while you have such q chance.
Address H. HALLETT e. CO.,
jy5-1y Portland, Maine
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16

man, Through the head, and then, after in
effectually swapping the revolver at his
own head, cut his throat from ear
to ear with knife. The two men had
some words regarding piece of work in
hand, which resulted in the foreman giving
I Sem the lie. In a moment of passion Sem
resented the insult by a deed of blood, the
enormity Of which seems to have flashed
upon him a moment later and caused him
to take his own life. Both men leave fami-
lies, Sem a wife and five children and En-
gelman wife and one child.
! The steamship Louis Davis, from
Antwerp for Naples, was wrecked during a
| fog off Ushant, France. Twenty-one per-
! sons were drowned.
One hundred and thirty Sheffield cut
lers with their families arrived at New York
| on the 9Th, and 500 German and English
cutters are expected later. The Sheffield
men say there arc $1,000 men at home to do
ltlss work of6,OOO. 4:sittA ~ ."
~Chatenois, near Strasburg, has been
haltdaeuoyedby nres Two thousand peas.
ants are homeless. q.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided to remit all fines and penalties in
CURED by the Memphis and st. Louis Pack
ct Co., by carrying excess of passengers
during the exodus Of colored people.
Charles Ballet, livery stable keeper
at Middletown, O., on the 9th, shot and killed
his wife and Immediately afterwards placed
the revolver to his own head and fred, dying
instantly. Ballet was a drunkard, and his
wife had petitioned for q divorce, which an
gered him, and causedsthe tragedy.
The Exchange Bank of Montreal
closed its doors on the It'll. 1t is believed
thatafter paying all liabilities, stockholders
will receive about 80 per cent. on their in
vestments- .0-a t.75 u
. A National Bankers, Convention was
held at Saratoga, N. Y, commencing on the
9Th. There was a large attendance.
Jacques Handline was hanged at San
Antonio, Texas, on the Sth, for the murder
Of Peter Maddox, in February, 1878. Hand
line was \ native of Illinois, where his IA
Their Ia said to be now living. He protested
his innocence of the crime up to the last
moment. i F" E54
y The steamer Iron Valley exploded her
boilers at New Cumberland, W. Va, about
3o miles above Wheeling, on the Ohio River,
on the evening of the 9th, and sank In deep
water inside Of five minutes. The names of
the killed or lost are Thomas Prince, Clerk,
son Of the Captain. Wise, Pilot, and Mr..
Prosser.
Disastrous CONGREGATIONS have occur
red st ssrs3evo~ and-fSfsch.- the former
city 10000 persons are rendered homeless.
There arg no funds at present in the
Kentucky State Treasury, and the Auditor
gives notice thxt he shall refuse to audit all !
claims until the Treasury 10 replenisbed.i
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16
Window Vines.

A New York Tribune correspondent
sends that paper the following ARTICLES,
which will be grateful to many of our
readers:
The ivy is well enough. but usurps too
much attention as window vine. Let
me suggest few more easily but not
ordinarily grown. One of the most
novel and beautiful for cool conserv.
atory is the Philodendron. This is a
rampant grower, with grand tropical
aspect, and does well wherever the ivy,
the wax plant or smilax will grow. Set
it on a high shelf and train it as curl
ing vine. It will not support itself, its
nature being to grow as its name indi-
Gates, that is, as tree-lover, inserting
its roots into the crevices Of the bark. L
have one with about 20 feet of growth
which has grown in a 14-inch pot with
out shifting for six years. have never
seen this vine in fruit, except in MIR.
Shaw's greenhouse in st. Louis; SO that
1 can not be sure that an ordinary con-
servatory or window will bring it to
that degree of perfection; but the leaf
is enough, being large, glossy and semi
parted.
The Clerodendron Balfourii is also
easily grown, and is a marvel of beauty.
1t must rest during cool weather when
grown in moderate temperature. At
that time do not water it at all, or but
very slightly. Its verbena-like bios
SONS bursting out of a ball of snow give
the most remarkable contrast of color
easily found. The clerodendron has the
advantage of blooming well in winter.
Feed it literally.
The Passion-fow ought to rank very
high with every one. 1t is lovely in
bloom and unique in foliage. Cerulea
Decaisneana and trifasciata are very fine
for indoors. Be careful not to over
water them and they will cause very lit
tie trouble.
Tropeolums rank as excellent for
windows if grown near the glass. They
invariably prefer coarse and poor soil,
and must be trusted to cover only
moderate space. They are very con-
venient for easy handling. The fire.
quence of the blossoms is always refresh
ing.
Another vine of modest size and ex-
ouisits foliage is the Cissus Discolor.
In very cool windows and conservato-
ries neither this nor the clerodendron
will be of much winter use. Set them
away till warm weather, keeping nearly
dry. They will then shoot out with great
rapidity. In warm rooms they will
grow all winter.
The Cobea Scandens, with its fine
bell shaped flowers, is noble vine
where there is room for its rampant will
to spread itself. 1t is luxurious and no
ut all troublesome. Give it heat and
a plenty of water and it will take good
care of itself, festooning not only the
windows, but the whole room.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16
WIT AND WISDOM.

MANY lightning-rod-agent has been
known to strike twice in the same place.
IT is the eat more than the heat that
overcomes people these days, thinks the
Boston Transcript.
To dyspeptic: We believe all the
recognized medical authorities agree
that you can not impart tone to the
stomach by swallowing a jewsharp.--
Albany EUeni,ag Journal.
OF THE tiny little ants,
How they Chamber up your pants
At the picnic meath the willows in the glen
How they seem to take delight in
Tho obnoxious sport of bitfn'
Indefensible and modest gentlemeni
ACCORDING to the New York Post,
George Alfred Townsend tells of min
eral spring in that State that is SO strong
1y impregnated with iron that farmers
horses who drink of its waters never re-
quire to be shod.
THEY don't churn as they used to,
with a dasher whose every working
turns ones spine completely around.
They oschlate. The oscillator works
like pendulum, and when there is no
cream in the ohurn the baby can ride
there at its pleasure. Nesos.
A YOUNG man seems to be nearer full
filling the law and the prophets when
he walks along the street helping his
wife trundle their baby-wagon than
when he strolls out in bachelor freedom
grinning at the girls and carrying a dog
headed cane under his arm.-Steu6e,s-
vizze Herald.
A GOOD deal of satisfaction is ex-
pressed here over the fate of DR.. Spen-
Ger, a dentist, recently shot dead for
kissing a woman in Mississippi while
she was under the influence of ether.
Women want to know it when they are
kissed, and the fool who does not ap-
preciate the fact ought to die.-Stih-
yater (Minn.) Zimmerman.
BosroN Transcript art note: "Upon
the fence Of the Lindley Murray School
is to be seen portrait bust, Individually
an old master (of the schooD done in
chalk. We understand that the artist
was abundantly awarded for his labors.
He intended adding his portrait, but
found it inconvenfent to Sit"
THE freaks of absent-minded men are
often ludicrous, but q Holyoke, (Mass.)
man is entitled to the premium, says the
Willimantic Conn., journal. He came
down to this vicinity the other day to
visit his wife's grave. but when near
the spot happened to meet an old friend,
became engaged in conversation, and at
its close went away without looking at
the grave. A day or two afterward he
the object of his mission
and came back and succeeded in carry
ing out his intentions.
SEVERAL thousand people besides the
Cincinnati Commercial, would like an
answer, return mail, to this brace Of
rhymed questions:
Dost know some pastoral vale,
Some fragrant. f1owery dale,
Some quiet, lovely spot,
Some sweet, secluded cot,
Ger which the vines do creep.
Where they'll board a fellow cheap?
Can any one describe to me
Some cool, green island in the sea,
Where can revel on the deep,
And eat and drink, and smoke and sleep.
And while the summer months away,
And have no hotel bill to pay?
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A whole family, consisting of E. P.
Lesuere, wife and two children, were struck
BY lightning st Rochester, Mimi, on the
night of the Sd. The wife and children are
dead. and Lesuere viii probably die. =7:'o
Henry Hoosten was instantly killed
and Joseph Graham seriously injured by the
explosion Of . threshing machine engine ON
Graham's farm, nine miles northeast Of
Greensburg, Ind, on the 4th.
John Thomas, Mary Hansen and
Frank De Lucca were drowned in the Mis-
sissippi above La Crosse, via, ON the night
of the Sd, while returning from a picnic
party.
Pierre Gop1reau, acconpanied by two
ladies, Rose Martin Ind Ceiins NORM, all
French, of Lewiston, Me-, were returning
from . wedding on the hight of the 4th,
when their carriage was struck by train at
the Lisbon crossing and all three were in
stantly killed. ...t.
L A. family named Monette, consisting
Of seven PERSONS, Of Port Neuf, Quebec,
were, poisoned from eating bread which had
been standing In the same place with Paris
green. Three are dead. lE:iso vs..,,g
The town Of Volcano, in the oil dis
triet Of West Virginia, WAS totally destroy
ed by fre-on the morning Of tha 4th. The
.fauss spnesd rapidly. md xe1cking some
oil tanD,ehcy caught fire and bursted, the
burning on running through the streets set
ting IRE to every thing as It passed, trans
forming the streets into;a lake o. fire. In
cendiarism Is charged.
Five persons were killed 4nd IL seri-
ously and 40 slightly injured by a railway
accident. between Nancy and vezelise,
France, ON the 4th. .,;-.ss ~et
An attempt was made on the 4th, in
the New Orleans Custom house, to assas-
sinate Collector Badger. A one-legged ex-
Federal soldier, named VIM. A. Brown,
placed . pistol In close proximityto Badgers
head snd fired. The ball missed its aim,
Notwithstanding Badger was SO close as to
be scorched by the burning powder. Brown
gives as reason for the shooting that
Badger had failed to give him q position in
the Custom-house, as promised. He says,
however, that he only meant to scare him.
He was sent to Jail. -sa-asi.. t.,..-a
Kentucky's wheat crop is immense,
but her corn crop is considerably below the
average. Tobacco has been unfavorably at.
fected by drouth and will fall IS per cent.
short of an average crop. Peaches are q to-
tai failure and apples scarce, but the pear
crop IL splendid. o 81 s,i1, o.. ~. !.
Four unknown men, supposed to be-
long to q gang Of desperadoes In the Indian
Territory, rode into Coaeyvflle, Kan, on the
I'd, robbed the Post-ofiice and committed
other depredations. The citizens resi- ted,
one Of whom, named Fitzpatrick, was kill
ed; another, named Roberts, was wounded.
The robbers then left, and shortly after a
detachment Of United States troops started
in pursuit, but at last accounts had made no
arrests.
At Chicago, on the 9Th, Solomon
Sem, partner In the firm of schills, Cross
man 4 Sem, iron founders, 81 Polk Street,
shot the foreman Of the firm, Conrad Engel.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16

"What do wantp" said her Captain,
very short, crusty, important and Brit
ish.
al want nothing" was my reply,
for 1 felt could play dignity as well as
he
"What do you mean then by stop
ping us?" said the Englishman short
"Do you know where you arep"
asked.
Certainly do"
Where are you then?"
"I'm off the lightship."
"No you are not. And if you keep
on your present course fifteen minutes
longer you'll find the broadside of Amer
lea at Squan Beach"
"He followed us up towards the light
ship, where we soon lost sight of him.
So much for that affair. Afterwards
another boat of the same line outward
bound, aid in gross violation of mari
time regulations, came so nesr running
into me that her foreyard just clear
swung of our after flagstaff. That was
the same day she had managed to run
into two other vessels and drown some
people. So wrote an account of these
several occurrences to the agent of the
company. That gentleman was sorely
offended because the information did not
come through official sources; that is,
through the Office of our company. It
was presuming in the Captain of an
American coasting steamer to give in
formation which might in future be the
means of saving many lives and millions
worth of property. However, 1 shall
not trouble them again. When next
see an English steamer making for
Squan Beach with Captain on her quar-
ter deck SO full of pomposity and con-
ceit that he deems it beneath him to
thank me for saving the vessel of a COM
pany which can only receive informa-
ton of the most vital importance to
them unless it comes officially I shall
let them all severely alone. Keep her
Nothe-east, sir.''
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16
PERSONAL AND Political.

~ r. - e. .
| The Congressional Labor Committee
the I'd and have now gone to San Francisco.
GOLDSMITH, Comptroller General OF
the State of Georgia, has been impeached
for alleged malfeasance in Office. His friends
claim that It isa caseof petsssution.
CHARLES ,EHCHrER, the actor, died
ut his farm ut Riohland Center, Pa, on the
4th, aged 81 "a .ss-ss7il ss-8s
REV. VII. H. MURRAY, the sporting
parson, is bankrupt, and his creditors have
seized his yacht, all Of his trotting horses
and such other property as they could get
hold off, - = ~ - L
The Oldest ex-member of Congress
now living is the Hon. Pefeg sprague, who
represented the Kennebec DistrictS Maine,
81 year, ago-1S25 TO 1874 He was also q
Senator from Maine from 1890 1885, andis
the oldest ex-member of the Senate now
living. Judge Sprague isnow residing in
Boston, At the greatly advanced age Of 81
years. s,,.rs-,.r.tr. -
THREE OF Brigham Young's execu-
tors, Cannon, Darlington, and Brigham
Young, Dr., were consigned to the Salt Lake
Penitentisry for contempt Of court in. refus-
ing to obey the order to turn over the prop
,erty in their possession.k arr
INFANTA MARIE DEL Pillar, second
sister Of the King Of spain, n dead. II
JUDGE ROBERT FERRELL is the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in the First
California District. - -xaGf r. 4
KEITH JOHNSON, leader of an English
SON, his assistants viii continue the investf-
cations on Lake Nyassa. ~ ST
!. CEPrAIN CHARLES B. CHURCH of
Memphis, q well known river man, died of
paralysis, on the 4th, at Blount Springs,
Ala. = lsi = u II 4 AZtILIE - /
"A CADDo L T.) special q the 9Th
says: Ex-Tseasurer Bushyhead has been /,
elected Chtef Of the Cherokee Nationi by q,
majority Of 400. Nearly all Of the National
Liberal party was also elected by majorities
ranging from 1O0to $50.
THE Maryland Democratic State Con-
vsntios, held on the 7th, n6mhAtsd William
T. Hamilton for Governor. -
DR.. NIwMAN HALL the celebrated
p1gRg1tisnaI q Lpnien, has just
obtained q divorce froms his wife, on. the
ground Of the latter's infidelity. Richard
son, stable-keeper, wss the correspondent
In the case. . - =
The New Orleans Den,ocsr-at says that
the reprtsof-the vslss ef the bequest by
Mrs. Dorsey to Jefferson Davis have been
absurdly extravsgant, and that n will not
exceed $4,000 - ,'S'--- 7; - Tii''
FATHER VAN DE MooBTKL, well
known Jesuit priest Of Chicago, formerly Of
St. Louis, has game over to the Episcopalisns.
THE Emperors of Germany and Aus
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16

A MEMBER of a railway surveying
party in Washington Territory visited
the famous Indian Chief Moses, and
writes of him: "Moses is the only In
dian Chief have ever seen (and have
seen dozens of them) that is not fraud
He has brains. He is gentleman in
his manners. He has large property
in cattle and horses; and when he trav-
els he has two servants with him TO sad
die his horse, to cook for him and to
spread his blankets. He enjoys the I'M
bounded confidence and respect of the
most civilized and courageous Indians
on the continent. Born a warrior and
chief, he had intelligence enough not to
risk a useless war with whites if he could
avert it. He dreaded war on account of
its waste and the certain destruction Of
what he loved which it involved. He
told me he would never again fight the
whites unless the Indian agents tried to
force him into a reservation. 'Then.'
with a quick blazing of his eyes, then I
will fight. l had rather die than go.
My people had rather.die than co."
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16

THE scarcity of young men at the
summer resorts, says the truthful Bos-
ton Post, makes what few are there very
Independent. To bring them to a re-
alizing sense of their unimportance, the
girls occasionally get up a berrying ex-
petition which no gentlemen are under
any consideration allowed to attend.
They start off in high spirits, but on ar
irving at the berry field discover that it
is used as place to pasture that fierce
beast of prey, the COW. This prevents
their entering the field, and after con-
sultation they decide to retrace their
steps, but find their path barred by an
other ferocious enemy of their race in
the shape Of stray horse. And they
have to get up on the fence and climb
past him and then get down and run
for their lives, and their dresses get torn
and they have an awful time, and when
they fiually arrive home, they unau-
imously decide that those fellows were
just as horrid as they could be to let
them roam about so unprotected.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16

THERE is a rosebush in Los Angeles,
Cal, which has borne over 5000 roses
during the present season.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16
Science in the Sanctuary.

Sermons by telephone are among the
newest extras added to the accommoda-
ton of current religion. The method
is to place the transmitter or micro
phone inside the pulpit, or else plumply
on the desk, whence a wire takes the
discourse and, for that matter, the
prayers, hymns, and all other services
to the house of the invalid or indis-
posed person, who can not attend, but
desires the words of his Cor, more like
ly, her) favorite preacher. On one oc-
casion, by way of experiment, service
was telephoned from the Square Con-
gregational Church, Halifax, England,
to Manchester, distance, by wire, of
SO miles. For an ordinary parish,
therefore, the telephone is an entirely
practicable institution. To be sure, it
may somewhat distract the devotion of
a congregation, and the abandon of a
preacher, to see scientific instrument
before him, for bottling and retailing
sounds; still, we become accustomed to
the ear trumpet which is sometimes
brought to bear just out of range of the
preachers gestures. But though the
new sensation of mingling the service
of the sanctuary with an experiment in
science may for time give popularity
to the pulpit telephone, and cause even
some who might go to church to gather
instead at the other end of the wire, this
latter result will hardly last after curl
osity is once appeased. There are
pleasures of sight as well as sound to
the occupants of pews, and advantages
of actual presence that can not be du
plicated by telephone.-N Y. Sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16

MAMMA" asked little girl, "why
is it they sing in church Wen dine no
more,' and then go right home and
dinepn
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-16

IT il semi-oficially reported from
Washington that through the investi-
cations Of United States Consuls the
State Department has received some in
teresting and valuable information as
to the condition Of the workingmen of
Europe a. compared with that Of their
brethren in the United States. These
reports show that labor in Ameri-
ca is paid wages double those which
prevail in England. France, Belgium
and Denmark; three times the rates in
Germany, Italy, and Spain; and four
times what the workingmen of the
Netherlands receive; while the cost of
living Is less in the United States than
in any part of Europe.