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A dancing idiot. ten year, of age.
is resident of Indianapolis. Ever
since bis birth he has been going
through the motion of a waltz to
silent music. He is never still in
his waking hours. His mother had
danced to excess at u ball just be-
fUre he Was born.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-22

Au agricultural paper tells "How
to Dress a Hog" We know how
TO dress hog. Give him cane,
stove pipe hat and pair Of eye
glasses. After that he will try to
pass for ! man. But pshaw!
hoy will be = hog. no matter how
be may be dressed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-22

There was tide in the affairs
OF Noah. taken at the food, which
did not lead on to glorious fortune,
though the patri ark managed to
keep bis head above water, and
save the only complete collection
OF wild and trained animals in the
world"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-22
Heating and
Cooking Stoves

"F ALL SIZES,
d"d al Lo,Urr I'r.ces than can b.
fuund a, arg Mirr establishment
a. Nr,C Oiieans
Below viii be found the names of a
few Of the Lad ny Cooking Stoves. witi.
sizes a ir.crs, VIZ:
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YARD OFFICERS.

'AhD OfFICERS.
smL-Police Juror, Thomas John.
s'cs Of the Peace. Lorenzo
CONSTABLE, o. ]. Butler.
1-S. B. Shackelto. d, Mayor:
S,ow Magistrates; B. ii. Lacroix'
aAPolice Juror, J. B. Lewis.
~ me Peace, John P. .Hadnoi:
-. .ss John Anthony.
Ms.Police Juror. Joshua Kemr:
s' =, o. he Peace, Robert Lacroix:
80 Thomas WAGNER.
Erolics Juror, n. Nugent. ir. !:
= 70 sae Peace, ). Y. LacroiA; Con-
- = :. Juror, ] NJ. Brian:
~ y = me q Peace. Y. x. Kugent; Con.
ss-Police Juror, B Chelette.
" ~ = me Peace, =. L Craig; Con,
40 aI- .ol Juror. s. c. Curry.
IN i " ne Peace, s. C. Curry. Con-.
~ IISSAlsr-H. V. Mccain. Mavor.
IN a''dy' Magistrate; Il. {. Rogers
SCHOOL BOARD.
~. u01 ~ President; A. L. Grow.
6m ~ ~. y. Deal, Secretary; N. N.
aC y 'S Sin Kemp. J. P. LIncecnm
~ Gillett, members.
H.. LODGES
sas;...iiis Lodge No. los Regular
ID IDIOT .'yns frst aud third Sunda,s
kH NTH sr. Officers--A. L. G;row
tI / uahlght, = "; J. W. Garrett.
sas~ sSor,ntine. Treasu or, ". l.. |
scslIo,ose cIetary; A. Powell, \ %:
axn.ras' /! D; B: Builitt, Ty er.
sSies,;y Lodge No. 1863 r r,,lar |
e,As s"u hrsr Saturdays on or |
a-H. " noon of each month. |
hsT. va, ian Nee ain, " NJ; &. N.
ssss' = thos 7. shuma,e, J v: d.
s&wr' q y DAVID Hardy Secretary:
.s =. y y . J. Mccain, J D; W. - y
Mis-: Marshall; David H.
Payne, Chaplain.
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Solid Silver. and
Plated Ware.
D.A ,OND INGS. Gu .TlR AND
|. Sd TAFT.
Gents Ia kdat Gult Watches from
Is q Si5U ,ac
ia.i Il ~arat Gold Watches from
,35 10 Sl25 each.
Ladies' y, aud c ,atali "hains.
GINS So i'll Gold urb &. aim.
go F4NI WAT HE'S rel,a red and
ENGRAVING ily tx ell cd.
TOYS. TOYS! in any quantity.
Se.ld for Price Liss.
PECTACLES,
EYEGLASSES,
Toilet SOAP,
PLRfUMERl
FoaEIaS AND AlEs.cAS
G u L l. H. Il Y
Pistols.
Guns and
Cartridges,
TOYS, FANCY GOODS AMO NOTIONS
AGENTS FOR
THE SINGER SEWING MACHINE
1Will deliver them al Colfax, at /
New Orleans prices.
Send your Orders on Mail
~ RD0f.
m9-ly ALEX NDRIi. La.
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When your wife falls asleep BY
the firs, take the tongs and poker.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-22

Most peoples compassion il
worse than their indifference.
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a. GOODWIN,
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PARISH SCRIP FOR SALE!

Parties desiring to purchase Parish
Scrip to pay thrir taxes are requested
to call o. H. G. GOODWIN.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22

burg, New York; Thomas johnson,
New York: John Jones, Poughkeep-
sic, New York; Frank Vincent,
Tarrytown, New York S. w. Kirk
patrick, Culleoka, Tenn; Jacob u.
Green, Pennsylvania j. M. Haynes,
Murfreesboro, Tenn; James Alex
ander, Gallatin, Tenn; John
Palmer, Lebanon, Tenn; A. w.
Brockaway, Cashier Brownsville
Savings Bank, Brownsville, Tenn;
J. G. M. Rankin, Belle Nina, Ala;
z. A. Storrs, Connecticut; Col. W.
B. Reese, Nashville, Tenn, and
Judge Turley, Franklin, Tenn;
Benjamin W. Bedford, Horn Lake,
Miss; J. S. Barrett, Louisville,
Ky; Clay Stacker, GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, and others representing New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, Alabama, Connect
cut, Tennessee and Mississippi.
Acceptanees are continually COM
ing to the Governor. There is no
room new to doubt that, as Mr..
Manning says in his letter to the
Governor, the settlement will be ac-
ceptable to a large majority of the
bondholders.
In this connection it is proper to
state that the amount represented
by the figures contained in Gov.
Porter's message to the extra ses-
sion in 1877 as willing to accept
the sixty cents proposition was
$2,741,000. The sixty cents propo-
sition made to the present Legisla-
ture was made by a meeting in the
city of New York, which suppressed
the amount it represented because,
as they admitted, "the paucity of
the holdings represented would
greatly iniure the movement"
This proposition has the sane
ton of a much larger number and a
much larger amount than ever
agreed to either of the other propo-
sitions, and upon this information
the Governor issued his proclama~
ton. Let all the friends of a set
Element now set themselves ear
nestly about the work of securing
its ratification by the people, and
in a few years the disasters the
has brought upon Tennes-
see will be retrieved by the pross
perity and progress of our State
and people.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22

County, the people of which were
strongly opposed to secession.
At first be opposed secession
but it was soon asceTtained that
majority of the convention fa-
vored it. but before passing the ordi-
nance of secession il was discussed in
private circles who should be elected
to the Provisional Congress OF the
Confederate States, in case the state
seeded. Mr., HIPS name belL sug-
gested in that connection, he Immedl.
atelv abandoned his Union allies, ana
noted T;oy. and signed the ordnance OF
secession, and a few days afterward he
was rewarded by being elected TO Con-
gress by the convention. By voting
for the ordinance of secession he be-
trsyed the people of Troup County,
whose voice was against secession for
the causes then existing.
"After his election to the Provis-
iOnal Congress of the Confederacy,
and while he was still q member of
the Secession Convention, Hill made a
speech TO the people, in which he
said:
1.-THE North would not fight.
There would not be no war. But if
the North should be so foolish as to go
into the contest. there never was s.
people on the face of the 0aTth so well
prepared for it as we were. 1t should
be an aggressive war. The war should
be carried into Africa, and aChen the
cities of the North 1CCre laid in ashes,
and the country devastated and laid
waste, then we should find the people
of the North were the ones to ask for
terms and sue for peace
HE pictured the rising Of the new
COnfedeTacy, and went on to say that
while this became more compact and
secure; disintegratiOn would come as
sure as fate upon the old Union, and
they would seek entrance into the
Confederacy. And he very graciously
added, If they came humbly enough
as 'heweTs of wood and drawers of
water. they might come
In No. Of his articles, Gov. Brown
says:
" During the war, when call was
made upon the people not subject TO
to volunteer and organ
iZe for home defense, when it was
doubtful whether they would be called
cut for active service, Mr.. Hill made
a speech in Lagrange, Ga, and en-
cOuTaged all to volunteer, and, as q
means of giving force to his appeals,
and Of showing his own patriotic de-
VOtiOn to the cause, he enrolled as
private in one of the companies being
and pledged himself to go if
they were called out. Soon afterward,
upon the advance of the Federal army,
the com paDy was ordered to the field
for active service, and Mr.. Hill not
being one Of the 'dupes who showed
q will TO lose blood backed out and
refused to go. The reason reported at
the time, as given by him for his refu
sal, was that he was g Confederate
Senator drawing a salary, and that
while in this condition il would be
unconstitutional for him to draw the
pay of private soldier. so it appears
he present is not the only occasion
when Mr.. Hills motto has been to
stand by the Constitution IS his only
safety"
1t was not the "viIe guns" but the
Constitution which prevented Hill
rom becoming soldier.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22
OUR STATE DEBT.
How Much Of it is Represented by
those Willing to Accept the
504 Proposition.
Nashville \ merican May 10Th.

NdSNFllle y nGIlcaD May ZULl.
We have examined the accept
ances in the hands of the Governor
npon which his action was based in
ordering the election, and they are
of the most satisfactory character.
The written acceptances returned to
the Governor by the Commissioners,
the responses received in answer to
the circular they sent out from New
York, and the voluntary and I'M
solicited acceptances made directly
to the Governor, aggregate an &C
ceptance of little less than five
millions of dollars, probably more,
as some Of the parties do not state
the amount Of bonds held. The
Governor has received assurances
entirely satisfactory to him that a
majority of the bondholders will
promptly fund under the law.Among
the acceptors are such men as F. D.
Tappan, President of the Gal
latin National Bank of New
York, and President of the New
York Clearinghouse Association,
the latter being the source from
which the original sixty cents propo-
sition originated; Charles NJ. Fry,
President of the Bank of New
York, one of the oldest and best
banking houses in New York; Mr..
Fry also presided over the last
bondholders' convention in New
York, by which the sixty cents
proposition was renewed to the
present Legislature; Gen. Roger
A. Pryor who came to Tennessee as
the representative of the sixty cents
proposition; John B. Manning,
who represented 100000 in the
sixty cents proposition as reported
in Gov. Porter's message to the
extra session of 1877; Inman,
Swami & Co., whose letter to Gov.
Porter appears in his second mes
sage at the same session of the Leg
islature, Elk Norton, of Elk Norton &
Co., bankers; ]. L. McAUley, a large
holder of bonds; III. l.. Horton &
Co., prominent bankers and brokers;
Hallgarten & Co., one of the most
prominent firms among the bankers
of New York; P. G. Calhoun,
President of the Fourth National
Bank of New York, one of the
richest banking firms in the United
States, w. II. Hays, President of
the Bank of the State of New
York, another of the celebrated
banks of the city; A. Iselin & Co.,
bankers, who are very large holders
OF Tennessee bonds; L. D. Alexan-
der & Co., well known bankers;
Amos Young, Pearl & Co., Stout &
Thayer, Levy & Borg, prominent
bankers and brokers; Stephen
Crowell, President Phoenix Insur-
ance Company; John S. Townsend,
a large holder of Tennessee bonds,
of POughkeepsie, New York; j.
Green, Jr., of Wappinger's Falls,
New York; John Sherwood, of New
York; Henry Randall, of Newburg,
New York; G. Langdon, of Elmira,
New York; John DOugherty, New.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22
HAIR DRESSING,
PROVERBS.

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blood, liver and kidneys are healthy, and
Hop Bitters keep them So"
1.-THE greatest nourishing tonic, appe-
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Hop Bitters."
g" 1t is impossible to remain long sick
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Remember, Hop Bitters never does
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"Quiet nerves and balmy sleep in Hop
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"No health with inactive liver and
urinary organs without Hop Bitters.'
Try Hop Cough Cure and Pain Relief
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22
THURSDAY, MAY q. 1879.

WHAT has become of the new
issue cases? Gov. Marks trans
cended his constitutional power
some time ago and appointed Sena-
tors Savage and Wilson to repre>
sent the State in them, and ex-
ceeded the bounds of propriety in
paying them a fee of one thousand
dollars out of the public Treasury in
advance. Afterwards he gave Jerry
Black q fee of one thousand dollars
in the same case. We have heard
of no suits yet, and the distin-
guished lawyers have had no oppOr-
tunity to earn their fat fees.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22

QUITE a number of county con-
Yentions have been held in Ohio to
appoint delegates to the Republi-
can Gubernatorial Convention,
which IS to be held next month.
The indications thus far are that
Judge Taft will 60 before the cons
yention with more positive strength
than any other man. If Judge
Taft should receive the nomination,
which at this time is equivalent to
an election, he will make Ohio an
able Chief Magistrate. He is pop
ular, and would command the full
strength of his party.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-22
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1879.
Notices Of the Press.
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1879.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-27
Administrators s aEe.

In the matter Of the estate of Francis Byron
late Of Wood County. Wisconsin, deceased
In Pursuance and by virtue of an order 0
license for the sale of lands of said estate,
day of Sc rtember, 1. D. 1878, by the coInf-
Judge of said Wood couaty, Wisconsin: Grant
ing unto the undersigned administrators of sail
tate belonging to said estate lying In the com
ties of Wood, Portage, Lincoln. Taylor, Mara
then and 0conto, Wisconsin, or so much thereo Of
as shall be sufficient to pay the debts OF slid
estate.
Notice is therefore hereby given that I will
expose for sale at Public auction at the Front
door Of the First National Gank of the city of
on the Goth day of April 1879. commencin. at
? o'clock in the afternoon of that day-and sell
to the highest bidder for cash. all OF the right.
tiEe spd interest which the said Francis iron,
deceased had at e time of his death of in and
to the following described lands situate in said
Lincoln and OcontO counties. wit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-27
w hat is a SIlyster2

The Central Law Journal, published
at St. Louis, recently invited
information on the origin and true sig
niGcance of the word shyster, and got
replies. from several correspondents
One writing from La Crosse, Wis.
says:
'Shyster' is etymologically derived
sfrom the German word 'schuster, a
.eobbler, and grew into use in New
York city from the practices of certain
attorneys Of lower class, and others
not attorneys, hanging around the
'Tombs. the city criminal court, pick
ing up the eases of prisoners, and tax
ing the prisoners money on their per-
ons for real or pretended legal services.
From that the meaning grew to apply
SO all lawyers or practitioners in the
lower courts. whose practices are dis
reputable.
Another correspondent. writing
from Chicago, says:
The term 'shyster' is probably a
variation of the word SHEER which
signifies mean man. humbug. a
worthless person, one who will not
work. Dufer has a general application
to a worthless .fcliow, or chea: of any
Kind. The word 'shyster' as applied to
persons of the legal fraternity, may be
said to signify that he is low and mean
in practice, or is worthless humbug.
Its special application IS to~sReh as
are shy of the higher courts and even
handed practice, and wko resort to evil
practices to accomplish their ends,
either in stirring up litigation or
thwarting justice, as by bribery, pack
ing juries. procuring straw bail, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-03-27

One day Billy, that's my brother,
he and Sammy Doppy was playing by
a mud hole. and Billy said
"Now, Sammy, less play we was a
barnyard you be the PIC and lay
down and woller, and I'll be bull
and boiler Ike everything"
So they got down on their hans and
nees, and Sammy he went for the mud
and wollered, while Billy he bellered
like distant thunder Bimc-by Sam
my he came out muddy-you never
saw such a muddy little Teller and he
said
''Now you be pig and let me heller. Il
But Billy he said +:
Il ain t very good pig before din,
ner, and it'll be time huff for you to
heller wen yer ma sees yurs close. "