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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It is not life to live for ones self alone
A silent school-house makes noisy

It Is not life to live for ones sell alone
A silent school-house makes noisy
bar-room.
Principal features of convention
The eyes and nose.-OttGaoa Rep1ossca's
Minneapolis is sending off 5000 bar
rels of flour day, and the city has SO,
600 inhabitants.
A Missouri doctor paid o patient 402
visits and squared the bill for q barrel
of cider and load of bricks.
It is a fact that many fellow has
learned through experience that
woman is never merciful to q timid man.
Waterloo Observer.
Bancroft. the historian, makes 50
many corrections in his proofs that the
alterations cost more than the original
expense of composition.
The Boston Courier discovers that
when two Young men meet they address
each other as "old man, and that when
two old fellows meet they, say my
boy"
Of the sixty fast horses owned by
Bonner fifteen have trotted in 2:20 or
better, and two of them, Rarus and
Edwin Forest), have trotted q mile in
2:ll4.
England has no merino sheep, except
in her colonies; Russia has 1900. 600
merinos, France {, ,O00, 900. The merinos
and grades in the United States exceed
25, ZOO, co.,
Fast young men, like fast horses, have
records. Those of the former are kept
at the police court and some Of them
can show a gait that would make Rarus
feel like dray.horse. .-Keokas Gate
CITY.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on tho
| lea,
Now fades the fly, the gnat, and all the
| rest;
Now walks the street, oh, painful sight to see,
The man whose winter ulster shrouds mis-
summer vest. -Hawkeye.
The vasp feeds on the hollow peach,
And the thistle down is blowing, blowing; !,
The fern is dead, and the morning red
In the eastern cloud is glowing.
The holly-oak staff is broken in two.
And the weed-nres are all flaring;
Time is shaking the sluggish sands,
And the year, the year is wearing.
The peculiar pepDles KnoW1 III Auo
tralia US the travelling stones have long
been regarded as great curiosities. Simi-
lar ones have Just been discovered in
Nevada, almost round in shape, and as
large as q walnut. The cause of these
stones rolling to common point from
distances of three or four feet is the
loadstone or magnetic iron ore OF which
they are composed.
An energetic grill the southern part
If France heard that q gay youth had
been slandering her. She came up BE-
hind him while he was walking with
his sweetheart and threw vitriol into
his face, destroying his eyesight and
spoiling the beauty OF his pretty com
panion. Everybody sympathized with
her and she was acquitted, although
confessing that she had meditated the
deed for two years.
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l,imekiIn Club Meteorology.

The committee on atmospheric lnhp.
ences announced that they were reaay
with report. and, leave being gss11lee ggan,eu.
st,1 st,7,cted led report @ regarding the coming
winter. The committee had been guided es5!
entirely by signs, and their reasons ior
predicting hard winter were: ,
First-The thickness Of the Ssr e0.ner. M oSer
coats pawned. ox % oet
Third-The anxiety OF women to get
Fourth-The way the frogs have gone
FitthrThe heeitancy with which
Young men climb out of bed IN TIE
morning. ,..,- - do,
fights to be observed by man VII"
keeps his eyes open. s,od.,rd
the chairman sat down with sign OF
relief f.-Detroh Free Press.
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The Chinese as Cunning Smuggiers'

A new Chinese trick has been discoV-
cred not long since, on thel arrival OF 2
vessel from Honolulu, containing severai
cases of shoes that had been sinppea 70
that port by some Chinese house in san
Francisco. and sent back condemned by
the consignees, the custom house officials .,a s
were curious to know the cause, and TINS
curiosity prompted them to open II, the
cases. when an ingenious plan was a,st nst
covered to smugyle opium into that p99r,s5 pc :
through the heels Of the o con aemneu annaared
] natural and properly made, but by rull.
ing i out nail or two, and removing one e
thickness M of leather, hole occupying
rasuiy'th nearly the whole size of the heel, was
found, into which opium had been placed lace
to introduce into the Hawaiian Market a Iart
The "condemned business was part
Of the programme, and the shoes were
returned evidently to be reloaded ana
forwarded again to that port.
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WnIl.llirpcfPd.

A letter, addressed rs below, was SEM m
to the New Hf ven postof1ice, one OF the
localities where Postmaster-General
KEYS misdirection order" was a pc
culiar Injustice:
Mr.. Enos A. Hale,
Assistant Postmaster,
$50 Orchard street,
New Haven.
City of New Haven,
Town of New Haven,
County of New Haven,
State of Connecticut,
United States of America,
Western continent,
Planet earth,
Solar system.
Universe.
Indianapolis Neas
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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. G. BENET.
Exactly. We had wind-storm on
Mr.. Cleverly's wedding day. You have
the newspapers here; you must have

|
Mr.. Cleverly's wedding day. You hav'
the newspapers here; you must hav'
read of it?"
81 read nothing here; have beer
composing a satire on justice instead:
did not know Cleverly was married."
"Nop" 1t was furious gale, and thu
old elm that stood near the Church O.
the Heavenly Mamma broke beneath it
A splinter struck Mr.. Cleverly as ht
passed from the carriage to the church
door. It proved his death-blow."
"Poor fellow! On his wedding day,
too! But what has that to do with me
or the bonds?"
"Mr. Cleverly was our teller, you re.
member. Yesterday the bonds were
found among his personal effects. That
is ALL"
"That is a good DEAL" said Clement,
a new color flushing his face. II should
not have thought it of Cleverly. How
ever, let US speak no ill of the dead. On
going to marry?"
"Miss Theodore Gray"
"Miss Theodore Gray! My Doran'
he cried. The cloud that had lifted for
space dropped again over Clement,
and he walked out of prison more hope
less and heartless than he had entered.
He asked no questions; he did not seek
Dora. The captain of the Swan, about
to sail for the Indies, had fallen ill, and
he accepted the situation without mo-
ment's hesitation.
On the homeward voyage he put about
to relieve shipwrecked crew. You'll
never catch me at sea again" one of the
rescued confided to Captain Smithers'
mate when she had gotten to rights on
board the Swan. Between seasickness
and shipwreck, it's no joke. You see,
the doctor prescribed voyage for my
niece; love affair. you know-lowered
her system. wonder if shipwreck is a
tonic? Save us! who is that? The
captain? Why, man alive! it's Clement
Smithers! Dora! Dora! there was a
Providence in our being wrecked, after
ALL Goodness! what's the matter with
the girlp Captain Smithers, don't you
know old friends? Won't you 60 to
Dora' She looks as if she were going
to faint"
And Captain Smithers went.-Rarpsr's
BdalT.
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A Legend OF Harvest.

So long ago that history pays
No heed nor record OF how long,
Back in the lovely dreamy days,
The days OF story and ct song.
Before the world had crowded grown,
While wrong on earth was hard to find,
And halt the earth had never known
The forms and faces OF mankind.
When Just as now the years would keep
Their terms Of SHOWS and suns and showers
1t CHANGED that summer dropt asleep,
One morning, in q field OF flowers.
And while the warm weeks came and fled,
In all their tender wealth of charm,
She slept, with beauteous golden head
Laid softly on her weary arm,
She did not hear the waving trees,
The warbling brook she did not hear,
Nor yet the yelvet-coated bees
That doomed about her rosy ear.
In many yellow breezy mass,
= The rich wheat ripened tar away,
And glitteriDg on the fragrant grass,
Her silver sickle idly lay.
But then at last, one noontide hour,
A gorgeous moth, while lowering by,
Mistook her sweet mouth for flower,
And summer walked, with startled cry.
She rose, in anxious wonder, now,
To gaze upon the heightened whe,t,
And saw ITS plenteous tassels bow
Dead-ripe below the sultry heat.
Halt crazed, she wandered east and west,
Amid the peaceful spacious cline,
Until at length, with painting breast,
She stood before old father time.
With tears of shame she told him all,
While pointing to the wheat unknown,
And said: "What power shall make it fall
Ere autumns bitter winds have blown"
Then father time, with laughter gay,
Bowed all his frame, and crooked his knees,
And tossed his white beard like the spray
That crowns the crests OF wintry seas.
ooh, daughter, cheer your heart" he cried;
"The wheat shall fall ere falls the night.
We two shall NOW it, side by side,
And reap it in the stars pale Light ~
So summer cleared her brow Of gloom,
And forth with father time she went,
And, haggard age by youth in bloom,
Above the tawny wheat they bent.
Ere fall Of night the harvest fell;
But since that season, fair and blithe,
As ancient annals love to tell,
Old father time has borne scythe!
-. Edgar Faucet, in 81. .NTcholas.
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The Japfese government has in i!e
service eighty Englishmen, thirty,o.S
Americans, thirty Frenchmen. eighteen
Germans, seven Dutchmen, four ltai-
ians, three Swiss, three Chinese, two
Austrians, two Portuguese and one Rus
sian, making lsl foreigners.
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Farmers are just now laying in their
winters fuel, and the more grown up
daughters, the bigger tho wood.pile.
Allowance must be made for sparks
Midtlieto,yn Transcript.
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There is an oak tree near Raleigh,
N. c., which, at the suns merid..
ian, covers with shade a space Of
nine thousand feet. It would afford
shelter for 1850 men.
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A Talk with the Man in the CaRo-How =
Masteryis Obtained over the Monarchs
of the FieId-A Very Easy Business
Experiences and Thrilling Stories-.
The Fascinations OF It.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-14

The anti-Chinese bill which passed
Congress the other day provides that
no master of vessel, owned by any
citizen of the United States, shall take
on board, at any foreign port, any
number of Chinese exceeding ten, with
the intention of bringing them to the
United States, under penalty of one
hundred dollars for each passenger in
excess of ten. This law is in direct
conflict with the Burlingame treaty,
which provides for free migration and
emigration of citizens of China and the
United States from one country to the
other for purposes of curiosity, trade or
as permanent residents.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-14

One of the oldest banking corpora
tions, as well as the most successful, is
the Bank of England. 1t will be 1856
years old next July. It was first incor-
porated by William Patterson, a Scotch
man, as a joint stock company, with a
capital of $4,000, 900. The charter was
granted for eleven years, and has been
from time to time renewed. Its present
business is immense. For u while the
business was done in one room now
the bank occupies large building in
Threadneedle street, and employs some
500 men. Nothing less than s5 note
is ever issued, and no note is issued
the second time. The average amount
of notes in circulation is s25,OO0,OOO.
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Contrary to expectation, the speeches
made i'll the House last Saturday by
Messrs. Hooker, Chalmers and Sing
Teton, in reply to General Bragg's i'm
putations, were we'll intoned, sensible
and goodhumored. The debate, upon
the whole, placed the South in good
light. This having been attended to
it is to be hoped that no more time
will be wasted in oratorical frivolity,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-14

This is the way it is played A man
past the prime of life, poorly dressed
and having a mournful culver In his
voice, takes two old oyster cans, partly
fills them with sand, does them up in
neat shape, and selecting house, he
calls the lady to the door and says,
"Madan, Pm old and poor, but I'm
not n thief. 1 found these oyster cans
on the street, and won't you be good
enough to keep them till the owner
calls ?'' "Why, the owner may never
CALL" replies the lady. "That's so;
but Pm not able to buy milk and
crackers, even if 1 had oysters; you'd
better keep 'em awhile, anyhow; if
no one comes the cans are yours"
Sometimes tho old man makes quar-
ter, and sometimes only II bite to eat.
The owner does not arrive, and the
family prepares for fried oysters for
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-14

The idea of compromising public
debts seems to be moving steadily on.
Every day we hear OF more States,
counties and cities proposing COM
promise of their debts and threatening
if it is not agreed to by the bondhold-
ers to cease paying interest altogether.
The Legislature OF Kansas has Just
granted this privilege of compromising
to a dozen counties of that State, and
now Springfield, the capital of Illinois,
has entered the field and is Offering its
creditors forty cents ON the dollar. The
New York papers have almost ceased
to attack the South and West on this
point, as the compromise idea has in
vaded even the Empire State and quite
a number of its counties and towns are
offering their creditors so per cent. on
the dollar.
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EDUCATIONAL
EDUCATIONAL.
r OUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
AND
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
COLLEGE,
BATON ROUGE, La,


Is now in successful operation, with good
session begins g BY law, October s and
ends July 4.
Fucilities for Int,uction-very good: an
sors-the number expected soon to DO in
creased; much philosophical and chemical
apparatus; good appliances for instruction
IN Engineering; large museums OF Natural
History; library of fourteen thousand
volumes: and good equipment of small
Efforts are also making to get in readiness
for which l2e acres Of good land have been
secured.
Course of Study embraces wide field of
literature and science; and parents will
select ss,Gs the the studies which they may wish
cises are ranked as studies, only obligatory
on the cadets who are CHARTERED in the
other students, Who board , in Baton Rouge.
To become t<student" or "cadet,o is option
al xdsa;t the parent rent, TO-, - o,,
youths not under fourteen years of age,
who are proficient in the branches IT u
ter at any time during the session, and be
dents may be residents Of other States.
be received until the Legislature makes an
appropriation to pay their expenses.
and apparatus are absolutely free. STU
Rouge for about $15 Il month; and those
who form ''messes' can maintain them
selves for SO to 50 month.
Expenses for a Military Caelct.-Fixed ex-
want attendance, sl2; washing and mend
ing, % SO; fuel and lights, SO cents; medical
attendance, 81; total, SIG; or for the session
of nine months $144; or at that rate for part
Of session. Payable monthly in advance.
Contingent expenses per session-estima-
ted-.uniform clothing. $47; text books and
and contingencies, IS total, $72. Payable
$4s on entrance, balance S24 january l. In
cadets will be charged only for the time OF
attendance, except that there will be no re-
mission of fees for tho last two months OF
the session.
Location healthy, and desirable for doll
cate youths who may not be able to stand
q colder climate.
For further information, address
D. Il. BOYD. President.
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supper. When the paper is torn of
some folks laugh and some don't. Some
say they will hunt over every rod of
ground in the United States until they
find the old man and make him eat
the last grain Of sand and the cans to
boot.
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OF THE CONSTITUTION.
rSabiue Southern.1

lSabine Southern.1
In Article II. of the present Con-
stitutiOn is contained clause which
reads thus:
"The citizens of the State owe alle-
glance to the United States, end this
allegiance is paramount to that which
they owe the State.'
The board and unqualified manner
in which this clause is asserted is Fed
eralism with q vengeance, and not only
in conflict with some of the most sacred
rights of the States, but involves a
political absurdity under the peculiar
form Of our government. It is a polfti-
cal sOlecism to recognize conflict In
the allegiance of a citizen of State,
between that of his own State and that
of the United States. This allegiance
can never be otherwise than correlative
and not paramount to one or the other
of the two governments. 1t is the
Union of the States, under a common
constitution, which forms the distinct
and greater political unit which that
constitution designates as the United
States, and makes of the people and
States which compose it, one people
and one country.
In this Union Of political States, un-
der the common constitution, there is a
VIGIL u0uS1oSOVA Ol6t1uCIlO0 between
the internal and external sovereignty
Of each. The internal sovereignty of q
State relates to whatever peculiarly
concerns itself, its preservation, self
government and domain. It's external
sovereignty relates to affairs In which
others, with itself, are equally inter-
ested. In the exercise of the one its
powers are unlimited, while Ia the ex-
ercise of the other it must be controlled
by the compact agreed upon--that is
the Constitution of the United States.
Thus it is evident that our allegiance
is due equally and correlatively to the
State and the general government, in
which their respective powers of inter-
nal and external sovereignty are exer-
cised over their citizens.
This principle, as embodied in this
clause of the Constitution of 1868, had
its origin during the late war, and has
been cherished and upheld by the
Radical party with view of ultimately
consolidating and centralizing the gov
eminent by the destruction of the rights
and powers of the States. This clause
of our Constitution was not touched or
alluded to by the amendments SUBJ
mitted to the people by the Legislature
of 1877, which, taken in connection
with many other odious features In
that instrument, was not reached by
these amendments, that induced our
opposition to them, and the favoring
of a Convention for this purpose.
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st. Louis has been using pennies for
about year, and everybody likes
them, the rich quite as much as the
poor. 1t is much more thrifty than
wasting nickle on something that is
worth but penny.
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There Is already much talk of going
to New Orleans to attend the Mardi
Gras festivities at that place. North
Louisiana spends enough money in
that direction annually, to enable us to
have a celebration of that nature at
Shreveport, which would vie with any
in the South outside of New Orleans
Shreveport Standard.
AS means of relief, why not try a
quarantine-as far east as the Ouachita
and rs far south as Coushatta?
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The Boston Post gives this warning
to Northern Democrats: "Gen. Bragg,
of Wisconsin, cracks his whip too often
and too loud. II the Democratic party
has to choose between the one hundred
and thirty eight votes of the solid South
and the five occasionally obtained from
wisconsin, the five will have to CO."
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-14

The decision in favor of the heirs OF
Gen. Lee in the Arlington election suit
will probably constrain Congress to
pass the bill introduced by Senator
Johnston, of Virginia, to buy the
Arlington property. This is all the
claimants desire-simply to establish
their property rights, and then be
content to have the government pay a
fair equivalent for the ground occupied.
The case has been appealed by the
United States to tho supreme court,
but the attorney general is of the opin-
ion that the decisisn of the lower court
will be allowed to stand.
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The town of Sparta was aroused,
some time ago, as we learn from a
letter from B. p. Edwards, Esq, to
Judge Ray, by the burglarious entering
of the residence of Hon. T. J. High
tower, and the stealing of a large sum
of money, in gold and currency. The
letter further states that the burglar
had not been apprehended, and that
his identity was unknown.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

V1ck's
FLOWER AND EGETABLE SEEDS
Are planted by q million people in Amer
lea. See
Pick's Cutalog,te-30O illustrations, only
cents.
Tick's Illustrated Monthly Adgdsinc-S2
pages, fine Illustrations, and colored plate
in each number. Price, S1.25 IL year; five
copies for IS.
Pick's Flower and Vegetable Gaa'dcn-50
cents in paper covers with elegant cloth
covers, 81.
All my publications are printed III Eng
lisll and German
Address. JAMES WICK,
Rochester, n. y.
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MEETING: OF PARISH
SCHOOL BOARD.
A meeting of the Directors of the Public
Schools of Ouachita Parish is hereby called
for Saturday, the 18th instant. A full atten-
dance is desired, as business OF importance
will be brought before the Board.
FIR. ENDOM,
President Board of Directors.
Monroe, Feb. 6. 1879. ct
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The population of Texas is estimated
at 1, $3.50, 000.
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COUTaERN CARRIAGE FACTORY.
known that he il now as we'll prepared az
before the war, IL not better, to do all kinds
Of work, either In
Misunderstanding or Repairing
CARRIAGES, BU0GIES, HACKS, ETC.
Ready made work kept ON hand speci-
mems OF which may be seen by calling at the
Factory. He will also carry ON q general
Blacksmith shop, arranged to do all Kinds of
blaclksmithing. Terms reasonable.
January 1, 1879. FIR. ENDOM.
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MONROE BAKERY
DESIARD STREET,
II. PETZOLD, Proprietor.
Families supplied with bread made of the
best -four. Cakes of every kind kept for
sale, or made to order.
FANCY GROCERIES, TOBACCO, CIGARS,
Fruits, 0onfeetions, &C.,
Kept in stock aud will be sold at the lowest
market price. October 6, 1877. 1Y
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-02-14

AS yet the Auditors report, aud
that of tho Superintendent of Public
Education, has not been sent us-we
want and need them both, and hope
some kind friend will hurry these doc
uments on.-Alerontl'in Democrat.
The Senator and Representatives
from this parish were very attentive
(?) to tho Advocate during the session
of the legislature, now happily over,
and the Advocate remembers them
therefore,. R. Advocate.
Extend us your hands, dear brethren.
We received only one paper during
the legislative session-a copy of the
Democrat. And yet have you OBJ
served that the House voted to pay
the paid reporters of the great dailies
800 each? Trace, if you please, the
between these two sugges-
lions.
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Landreth's garden seeds at Rills'
Bookstore.
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Tor sALE-CASH OR CREDIT
Mules and wagons; steam engine go
horse power), boiler, smOkestaclS, pumps,
heater. piping, shafting, pulleys, betting !;
circular saw mill, bull-wheel, carry-log !;
Eagle cotton gin, 80 saws corn mill FELTON,
corn, shuck and cob mill for grinding feed
for live stock. w. w. FARMER,
22-3t Monroe, La.