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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29
the Jury was as follows.

From which it will be seen that
Judge Raglan has clear majority
of 16. The Grant parish Return
ing Board gave Raglan rs majority
and the discrepancy between the
two (ten) can easily be accounted
for from the fact that the experts
threw ont some ten or twelve votes
for Raglan.
We kindly suggest that onr Alex
ahdria friends keep an eye on
Brother Conuelley, for bis insanity
may not manifest itself IN as mild
a form next time.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29
GOOD W YN'S
EUREKA YEAST POWDER,
MANUFACTURED IN
NEW ORLEANS, In.

1t is regarded by many experienced
honsekeepers as not only good, but the
very best thing Of the kind they have
ever tried Only give this
HOME PRODUCTION
a fair trial. and you will hardly fail to
patropize it.
1t is pure, excellent and healthful
preparation and IL so pronounced by
Drs. VIM. g. austin, G. j. Bickham and
J. J. Lyons, OF New Orleans, who have
examined the recipe for making it.
To THE LADY OF THE HousEHoLn.-
As it is the special province Of house
keepers, practically, 70 test articles in
the culinary line, and 10 Judge of their
merits, yonr attention is respe ctfully in
vi'ed to the EUREKA YEAST POW.
DER.
All Of the leading family grocers of
New Orleans deal in in it.
p. NJ. GOODWIN, Manufacturer,
% Constance Street.
New Orleans, La.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

An exchange says if any man
asks you why the times are SO hard
and no money in the country, let
him answer in the fact that seed
oats, potatoes and onions are all
brought from the Nor,her States;
that axe-handles, hoehandles,
names, single-trees and plows are
ali imported from the prosperous
regions beyound Mason and Dix
on q line.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

The banks of New Orleans have
just gone through financial "run,' >
aud the excitement among small
small depositors was very great.
A call was made on the reserve
fun i'll New York aud some of the
banks pulled through, but three
of them broke, and now hundreds
of poor people have to suffer the
consequences.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29
AGENTS.
REFORM MEASURES.

The following are among the
many propositions that are made
by the State press for the consid-
Grafton of the constitutional con-
vention:
l. Biennial sessions of the Leg
islature.
2. Reduce the salaries of all State
officials twenty per cent
3. Abolish the Office of regis
trar. making the poll tax receipt
the certificate of suffrage.
4. Abolish district courts and
the Office Of district attorney.
5. Abolish the Office of tax COL
lector and transfer his duties to
the sheriff.
6. Make the judiciary appointive
and for period of not less than
six years.
z. Fix the rate Of compensation
for members Of the General As
sembly at four dollars a day, and
no mileage.
8. Reduce the salaries of judges
of the Supreme Court to $4,000.
8. Abolish all unnecessary mo-
nopolies and prohibit the creation
of new ones.
10. Scale the public debt and re-
duce the interest to 4 per cent.
IL. Abolish the license system
entirely.
IL. Do away with frequent cleo
tions, and let them be held only
once every four years.
Ii. Let no debt be created by
the State exceeding 100000, with
out the proposition being first sub
mitted to the people.
IA. Let no person be permitted
to vote unless he produces his tax
receipt in full.
Is. Let no absolute lien be re-
tanned by the vendor upon all
property. real and personal, until
purchase money is paid.
16. Provide for a liberal system
of public education.
II. Let the pardoning power be
exercised upon the recommends
ton OF three or four prominent
State officers.
Is. Let all capital in this State
invested in manufactures be ex-
empt from taxation for period Of
five years.
10. Let stringent measures be
adopted to prevent the corrupt sys-
tenn Of lobbying.
20. Decrease she expense of gov
eminent. abolish some Offices and
consolidate others.
II. Let the attainment of legal
rights be cheap and expeditions
Increase the jurisdiction of justices
Of the peace, giving them the au-
thority to fine and imprison in the
parish Jail for all offenses under
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29
Mark This /!

Persons receiving the CHRONICLE
with this article marked wal know
that their subscription has expired,
and that unless they come forward
and settle mp and renew it their
paper will be stopped.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

ua,te pretsnderss Whyaon'tyau
lot them select their representa-
tiyes. just as their Democratic
neighbors and only true friends do9
Why DO you try to keep them in
continual state Of hostility toward
the whites, and ill their minds
with thoughts Of incediarism and
assassination by senseless twaddleP
You say, "they pay their taxes.
How much taxes do they pay ?
Enough to warrant the subversion
of civilization. We risk the asser-
ton that they do not pay one
twentieth of all the taxes in this
State. As far as numbers are con-
cerned, in Grant parish the whites
outnumber them more than hun
dred voters, thus doubly emitting
them to govern and control parish
affairs, by right of wealth and in
telligence and numerical strength,
and they ,cill do it, the informed
ding of our busybody neighbor to
the contrary Notwithstanding
Your communistic doctrine might
have met better favor a few years
ago, but it won't do now. Even
superiority of numbers happens
to be on the Democratic side in
this case.
That NEGRO exodus" idea is also
q bright one, brother Connelley;
but you will find truer and much
better statement of the case in an
article from the Louisville Courier
Journal. which we published else
where. Nobody in Louisiana is
alarmed at the exit of the negro,
except the independents" They
fear to have their supporters desert
them in their hour OF dire ex-
tremity. The exodus of such he
groes as GO to make up the class
that are dissatisfied aud struck
with the emigation fever are of lit
tie use to any community, aud are
a good radiance in most instances.
Their places can and will be speed
lily filed by immigrants who will
take an interest in themselves and
the country. 1t is bosh to talk
about the negroes not being pro-
tected They are protected and en-
Joy more personal safety right now
than they ever did; but they are
not allowed to run riot and get
themselves aud others into trou-
ole, as was the case ten years back,
and if it were not for few ''inde-
pendents," so-called, who, ''just
for the sake of office" annoy and
alarm them by working upon their
ignorance and prejudice, those
who "desert their sweet sunny
homes" would be few and far be-
tween.
Connelley again. Hear him:
Mr.. H. Mcknight was elected in
1873 Parish Judge of Grant parish;
the colored people helped to elect
him, but the Grant Returning board
paid no attention to the number of
votes cast at the election; so this
self-organized concern destroyed the
talley sheets and made up the re-
turns to defeat Mr.. Mcknight. The
case went to court, and when the
boxes were opened and votes count
eel, Mcknight had majority of
tbirty-fye over Raglan.
The court appointed experts to
count "the votes in the boxes" for
Raglan and Mcknight, and their
tabulated statement as submitted
on oath and shown in evidence to
the jury was as follows.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

Tie election for delegates to the
constitutional convention was quiet
throughout the State, and only
about half the usual number of
votes were polled. The Democrats
were generally successful, and so
far as heard from have elected
three fourths of the delegates.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29
PARISH SCRIP FOR SAlEl

Parties desiring to purchase Parish
Scrip to pay thsar taxes are requested
Nv call o.. H. q. GUODWYx.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

A semi-weekly line of steamships
has been established between New
Orleans and New York to meet
increased trade demands.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

Tue extra session of Congress
convened on the 18th, and MIR.
Randall was reelected to the
speakership. EN
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

A good place to get husband
BY the ear.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-03-29

D~ Positively not to be Undersold
in Grant Parish. mh22
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09
Home

Home" wrote Lady Bulwer, long
ago, Home: place to keep wife aud
children in. MuttOu-chOps: food for
ditto" Many wife of to-day must
smile a little bitterly over this defini-
tion which the Euglish lady, in her Bit
teruess, gave OF the word; for there are
many men who actually regard home
as place where those iucumbrauces
are 90 be slowed away, and where they
themselves simply -leepaud take break
fast. do not alIud-. TO Overworked men
vino have no time TO rest, hut to those
with ample means, whose business
hours are from say ten TO three, and
who have no good reason for leaving
the women they have bound fast by
means ot the marriage ceremony, to
spend their time much more desolately
than any widow OF spiuster ever spends
hers.
Alas. for the poor wife whose hus-
bandr having caught her in the matri-
monial moose, simply cages aud feeds
her; who dimes at his club ana goes To
the opera afterwaTd with his friends;
whose amusements are not of the sort
to be shared with his wife, and who sell
dom spends an hour in her society, save
when too much dissipation has given
[
tinn, and he desires TO growl at some.
body He may give her rich clothes
and a fine house, bat he has only par
TALLY kept the promise made at the
altar. He has endowed her with his
worldly goods, but he cannot be said to
love, cherish and protect her. The wife
Of the wOrkingmau who comes home To
her after his long days labor, and who
Is glad TO walk out with her on hoIi-
days, dragging the baby wagonand car
rying the next youngest child, is a far
happier woman.
An. home Is place TO live in, a place
that should not be deserted forany other
by either wife or husband; and a wife is
not well-dressed house-keeper. bni
the partner Of her husbands life: auG
when you said 10 this woman. '.WHI
you marry meP' you meant, or should
hare meant, "Shall our two lives be-
come one? Shall our cares, our Joys
aud our sorrows mingle? ? VIII you
I help me? Shall I help you? And
snail we part as little as we can until
death parts US ."
Many a lonely heart beats within the
/ bosom of a wife, aud many womani
I too Prond TO utter reprOaches, bears the
strange solitude and neglect 10 which
some men consign their wives-ln a
blind depth of selfishness impossible to
women-often absolutely ignorant OF
their own deeds -Wary Kyle Dallas,
/ IA NetU York Ledger.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

RUFFs DO our fair readers know for
what the Spanish ruff was used at the
outset2 To conceal the yellow throat Of
the Queen Of Navarro, and to hide a scar
on Henry HIS neck Books have been
written about the ruff, auathemas hnrled
At its wearers-yes, even murders COM
United with its aid, if contemporary
scandal mougers are to be believed.
Have not Catherine of Medicis' detract-
ors accused her openly that she poisoned
Queen Jeanne Of Navarro by perfumed
ruff, and persuaded the Duke Of Aleu-
c0u 20 get rid of his brother Henry by
having him scratched with poisoned
ruff pin.
There were Spanish ruffs and Medicis
ruffs; single, double, triple piled, and
dspdalian rufis Of cambric; ruffs Of la awn,
fluted aud straight, embroidered and
edged with gold, silver, pearls aud pre-
ciOus stones; ruffs OF cut-work, rufi- Of
bone, lace, etc The Spanish ruff came
first 10 England under Henry VIII, aud
was made of cambric, lawn, or simple
linen, a fluted RUG of moderate dipen-
sions encircling the neck, and worn by
men and women, high and low.
.' Every peasant hath his stately bandes, and
MonstTous rufTes. how costly soevcr tney he.'
The size gradually increased; one ring
was piled op the other, costly insertions
and edgings Of Reticella and Flemish
lace introduced. French and English
courtiers Wed with eack other who
should wear the largest ruff. y third o
an ell was its depth under Catherine o
/ Medicis aud Henry Ill; butIn Enelan,
/ they wore their rutls quarter OF "a yart
deep in Elizabeth's time.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

a LAKE OF FIRE.-Mrs. Brassev, an
English woman who accompanied her
husband i'm recent yacht voyage
around the world, thus describes the
crater Of the great Sandwich Island
volcano. Kilauea: 1--WE were standing
on the extreme edge of precipice,
overhanging a lake of molten hTe one
hundred feet below US, and nearly mile
across. Dashing against the clius on
the opposite side, with noise Ike tilf
roar Of "A stormy ocean, waves OF hlo'd-
red, fiery, liquid lava hurled their uii-
lows upon an iron-bound headland, ana
then rushed up the face Of the cliiis 90
toss their CORY spray high iu Tie All
The restless, heaving lake boiled and
bubbled, never remaining the same ioi
two minutes together. Ihert
was an island on one side Of the lake
which the fiery waves seemed to at
laek increasingly with relentless fury
~ as II bent on hurting it from its base
Cu the other side was h large cavern
INTO which the burning mass rushed
win a loud Toar, breaking down in IL,
l.n petuous' headlong career the giganti,
s.a'aeti'es That overhung the mouth %
Tue cave, and fiinging up the liouiC
material Tor the formation of new ones
IL was All terribly grand, magnificent,
sublimei but no words could arieouatelI
describe such seene.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

you turned up your nose at the idea Of
living in the country" said Grace, lit
tie pettishly, for in truth she was sorely
disappointed over the bursting Of all
her magnificent air castles.
Alonzo did not reply, nor indeed did
he appear to take any notice Of her
querulous reminders. She was his wife
now, aud it mattered little to him if
she did fret, seeing he had all the ad-
vantage
"How soon do you propose to begin
with the building:" asked Grace, after
a long pause, as they halted upon a
gentle rise, which she finally decided
/ TO choose As a location.
81 can't tell exactly, Oracle dear.
It would be very hard for me to tear
myself away from you for sufficient
length Of time to order the necessary
materials" be avowed, with a melting
smile which Grace was certainly to be
pardoned for enjoying, 80 very bewitch-
I ing wasit.
"Then, dear, let me go with you.
can go wherever you eau"
"But it wouldn't be at all ladylike
for you to seem to take 30 much inter-
est in my affairs, darling. Now that
you are my wife, you must trust me to
manage my own business"
"And am to have no will OF my own
about anything ?"
"Oh, certainly. Ladies always have
q will Of their own, my dear. But
mean that you must not expect to in
terest yourself too much about business
matters. My mother has never known
/ anything at all about my fathers pc
cuniary affairs. II is his delight 10
shield her from every annoyance, and
he keeps her in blissful ignorance Of all
his financial perplexities."
"Then Alonzo, you will pardon me,
dear, but be doesn't do right, either by
I your mother or himself. I'll warrant
he'd not get OF that way if he had ne
for a wife. ] consider it a wife's duty
TO be a helpmate for her husband in
everything. II / ha1 thought to sink
TO the level Of either dollship or drudg-
cry on your hands, / should never have
consented to marry at ALL"
(Which is just the same As saying
that you do not trust me a. a wife
should trust her husband"
Alonzo's air was that Of an aggrieved
and injured man now, and Grace some
how felt that she had been unreasoua-
big self-assertine.
''Be il asyou say, my dear" she said,
with an air Of resignation. Though l
don't feel satisfied. because everything
is turning out so differently from what
I had anticipated. ! can't help feeling
as though you bad caught me through
false appearances. Aud yet, wouldn't
wrong you for my life"
Perhaps il was well for Grace that the
clatter Of her horses hoofs upon the
tlinty road which they had now reached
on their way hons ward, prevented her
husband from hearing this last remark
For certainly trouble was coming "a
them in another shape quite soon
enough, and there was no need of hei
aggravating matters by raising AN incip
lent quarrel over their pecuniary con
Germs.
ITO be continued
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

\ Franklin county, North Carolina,
man, who is 80 years old, Is said never
To have heard a sermon, never read a
chapter in the Bible, never fired a gun,
and never saw a white couple married.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

An old granger who came into town
TO purchase a piano for his daughter,
asked the agent if he hadu't one with a
handle in the end, so we can all give il
a turn once in whilew
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

Year after year there is reported from
the patent office an excess Of receipts
over total expenditures, until surplus
Of considerably over $1,000, 600 has ae-
cumulated.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

These are hard times; but for all that.
mp In Milford, New Hampshire, they
advertise church suppers at ten cents,
and beg their patrons to "please come
hungry"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

It takes light eight minutes to come
from the sun, but it must have required
$4,000 years for it to come from the fat
thest visible stars.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

Divorce is on the increase in Yer
mont. the number of divorce cases in
1877 being two to every thirty marriages.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09
Gbe new aort5~e5t.

A Journal for the People.
Devoted 10 the Interests OF Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
Of the Masses.
correspondents writing over assumed sigma
infes must make known their names 10 the
Editor, or no attention win be given 10 their
communication.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-09

Honesty is the best policeman.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-03-06

Hklw 70 Mrrp 4 BABY.-First, man
must have one to take care Of. II isn't
every one who yon know that Is furtn-
nals enough 10 bare one, and when be
does bis wile Is aIway wanting 20 Fun
over 10 9 neigtboF's only Eve minutes.
and be has 70 attend ID The baby
Sometimes she csfesses him, and Of
tener she says slernIy:
John. take good care Of tue child
tilI Fef0rn."
You want 10 demonstrate but cannot
pluch up courage while that awful t.
inaie,a eye Is upon vous 50 YOU pfu-
IDENTIFY refrain, and inefely remark:
"Do not stay long, my dear"
She Is scarcely out Of sight when the
luckless babe opens lis eyes, and It's
mouth, also. and emils q ven which
causes the cat to bounce out Of the door
as If something bad stung II. You tim
idly lift the cherub and sing an opera
tic air; he does not appreciate 1t, but
yells the louder.
You try to bribe him with bit OF su-
gar; not bit Of use;; be spits Il out
You get wrothy, and shake him.
He stops second, and you venture
another; when, good heavens he sets
up such 4 roar that the passers-by look
up m establishment. You feel despe-
rate. your hair stands on end, and the
perspiraiion oozes out of every pore as
the agonizing thought comes over you.
what if that luckless child should have
fit!
You try baby talk: but "littY hity
amby" has no effect, Tor he stretches as
If redhot poker had been laid on his
spine, and still he yells. You are afraid
the neighborhood will be alarmed, and
give him your gold watch as a last re-
source, Just in time to save your whis-
kers; though he throws down a handful
OF your cherished Inoustaehe TO take the
watch, and you thankfully find an easy
chair to rest your aching limbs, when
down comes the costly watch on the
floor, and the cause OF all the trouble
breaks into an ear-splitting roar, and
you set your teeth and prepare TO ad-
minister personal chastisement, when
in rushes the happy woman known as
your wife, snatches the long-sufering
child from your willing arms, and sit
ting down, stills IL by magic, while you
gaze nourniully at the remains Of your
watch and cherished mustache, and
mutterIng a malediction on baby kind
in general. and on the image of his faith
er in particular, VOW never 10 take care
cf bady-uniil the next time.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-03-06

q We 1ET - - h1& 3 !
TIE conference meeting through e last,
To see she Esfr cone tripping past.
Like snowbirds, wilIing to h. mated.
And one. shs blusnsa aud took my armi
AHd started toward ihe Maple hrm,
Along kind Of lovers byway.
ThsNh0w was misp beneAEh Cur Set,
By ho0d sad fippet sheltered sweet,
her face with youtA and health wns heaminM.
TIE lifiie hand eei4Ede taF i<sE-~
g. zfNlNzfk r. fNn NAes1 ~. aeNl8l
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1879-03-06

A PRfxTsR's BLtNpxR.--Napoleon
IG j. one Of the fainlest 0f 6gures IL
Freaeh history. In point Of fact, be
never reIgned and was uexer Fecog-
nized by that tile save once--by the
executive committee Of the chambers
before The accession of Louis XVIII.
He vas known as TIE King of Rome
and lasterly as the Duke of Reiehsiadt.
Ills life, after the six years OF royal ba-
byhood IN the TuiIefies, wss spent In
Austria with his mothers family.
In 1882, at the age oitwenty-one. he
died nt Schouhurn. many said Of poison.
a weak and e1eminale creature i was
absurd 10 give HIM place among the
reigning fnonarchs Of France. When
the Second Empire was established
many wondered at the title assumed BY
the Emperor Napoleon Ill.," Il was
explained then that he desired 10 be
considered a sovereign by legitimate
heredity and had thus recognized the
claim Of his cousin, as that Of the poor
prince IN the Temple was recognized
by the BouFbons after the restoration.
But IL appears now that, upon the au.
thority Of the historian Kinglske. that
the intention Of Louis Napoleon was to
call himself simply Napoleon, and that
a printers blunder was responsible for
the change. Just before the coup d
efat minister Of the Home Office, busy
preparing provincial sentiment, wrote
"Que Ie mot d'ordre soft Vive Napo-
leon l!!' The printer took the excla-
nations for "IIl," and so the proclama-
ton went out, was copied BY the press
aud Incorporated in public speech. II
was no time for explanations, 0nd SO
the nephew Of his uncle adopted the
title Utica Herald.