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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

Old John Nicholas informed
our "devil'' on Monday, that on the
first Sunday of September, he would
sdipn fifteen more Of EN-.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

The aged couple who married
for the purpose of scratching each
others backs, are said to be perfectly
contented.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20
W. have ON hand q stalk OF SUI

We have on hand stalk OF SUI
oar cane with eleven red joints, sent
to US by on unknown planter from
BAYOU Robert or Bayou Boeuf. 1t
Voc handed to one of sour boys,
and the name of the donor was not
given.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20
Toke"R, AcK- DRAUGHT and you will
never be bilious.
For sale by E. G. TAFT.


AHEAD OF ALL.-W William Hust'
myre has distanced the expected
quarantine this season, and II this
commercial reporter be not much
mistaken, he has dashed the red lag
in many merchants face. 10 bring
this local and special to a compea-
dunn focus, and that his customers
NAV understand it in its plain, unmls
taken bearings, let us tell them that
on the 18th Of this month OF August
1879, he received and has no"
opened and marked, his entire Fai
stock of dry goods, kearseys' ian
nels; boots shoes, hats, caps hosiery
and notions. These, with an I'M
mense stock Of groceries, he offer
and will sell reasonable, and at Ill
usual margin of profits. Hels rear
at all times to purchase cverytmh
country people bring to this mafSe'
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

-PoL1r1c1ANs are beginning to oe
pollte-they smile at you and extend
the hand, but owing to the tightness
of the money market, seldom say:
Come. let's take drink!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

-TuE National Greenbackers have
embodied in their platform the gran
ting of pensions to the soldiers OF
the Mexican and Florida wars. Let
the other parties in their platforms
follow suit, and then, may be the
nensions will come.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

-TnE grist mills on last Saturday
done a good business. The hummlng
of the mills and the footing OF the
whistles, made things quite lively
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

THE genuine c. c. G. Budwelser
Beer, Is cents per bottle, at Gustaye
Gehr's.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

ctpoRTsMEN, ATTENTION! - COM
y PLETE OUTFITS, at o,-,c
FERGUSON 81 SCHNACks
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

Poor Roscoe Conkling has been
intimidated again; this time how
ever by southern pop-gun IN tue
hands of a damn phool Yankee.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

TIE greatest nourishing tonlcs,
appetizers, strengtheners and cura-
tives ON earth-Dr. st. Johns Bit
tiers of all brands, and guaranteed
pure.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

Plenty of coons and opossums
in the woods. Fine fun hunting.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20
rrnNpcDAY AUG 20, 1879. |
REDUCTION

--FREsu bread every morning at
M. O'Shee's.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

ON Saturday, about noon, three
duskv sons of Ham, on their Arabic
steeds, moved up Third street. al a !.
2:4o rate, endangeriug the lives oil
children, of which commodity the
First Ward can boast quite a goodiy
number.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

The Bayou bank affords fine
crazing for the stock Of the Town.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

III cotton is king, is not sugar
queen?
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-20

TAKE O. chance in I. c. Mlllers
Grand Rafllo-only 81. 1t will GER
LaiuIy pay YOU
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04
PerilS OF Mountain RailrOading.

The railroad accident which occurred
on Meta Mountain Friday, by which Pat
. McCool lost his life, and which resulted
in the demolition of several freight ears
and Il caboo>e, was very singular one.
As stated in the Tribunc by special dis
patch the following morning, the train
was cut at the little station at Sangre de
| CriSto Creek, on the west side of the
Sangre de Cristo Range, being too
heavy for the engine to take up the
grade. The first half was switched on
/ the summit and the engine started to re-
turn for the purpose of bringing up the
rear cars. As the engine started back,
/ the forward gear eccentric broke, total
" disabling the left side, while the strain
on the machinery threw the litter on the
right side out of shape, thus putting the
locomotive entirely beyond the control
of the engineer. There was nothing to
control it by. Realizing at once the inn
pending danger, the engineer told the
| fireman and brakemen to jump off, and
began to whistle off-brakes to the con-
ductor and brakeman ON the train down
the mountain. The engine was then
about three-quarterS of a mile from the
rear part of the train, its rate of speed
| in descending increasing every moment.
/ The men below did not understand the
| signal, and it was not till the engine
was within one-quarter of q mile
from the cars that the danger
was observed. The conductor hur-
ried the passengers out of the caboose
and let off the brakes? All the persons
on the train got off except Il drunken Ia
borer named Pat McCool. He refused
to move, and there was no time to do so
by force, so the caboose and cars, the
brakes being let loose, darted down the
mountain, pursued by the flying engine.
Behind the cabOOse and of course i'll
front of the train as it shot down the
mountain, were two hand-cars. Going
around the curve at Sangre de CriStO
tank, the grade being 2l7 feet to the
mile and the momentum very rapid, the
hand-cars left the track and ditched the
caboose, the freight cars pushing hard
behind, swinging the caboose around
and passing by going into the ditch be-
yond and on the other side. This left
the caboose half on the track and only
partly on its side. The engine came
tearing along at terrible speed, and,
when about forty yards from the ca
boose, the engineer jumped off, followed
by the fireman and brakenien, who un-
til then refused to leave him. just at
this moment the drunken laborer came
staggering out on the rear platform of
the caboose and was crushed between
the engine and caboose into an almost
mrecognizable mass. There does not
appear any reason why the engineer or
other men on the train should be held in
any wise responsible for the accident
Denver Tribune.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04
The Scientific Execution of Criminals.

Some German writers have long dis
cussed the evil influences of public ex-
ecutions, which possess the fascination
of a sensational show to the ignorant
masses, and demoralize with the brutal
ity of the method of death The gar
rote, the grillotine and many other inn
provements have received due consider
alton, but the sentimentalsts have at last
concluded that solemn killing by cleo
tricity is the proper thing. The presen
plan merely eXpiates one murder by
making the eXecutioner do another, but
the electricity can be made to do the
thing cOnscientiously ly and " officially"
The walls Of the room shall be draped
in black, and the windows somberly
curtained, in order to exclude all light.
The only articles of furniture in the
apartment shall be the judges desk and
an armchair. In the middle of the
room shall be an iron figure of Justice,
with her scales and sword. This effigy
shall have, in place Of bowels, as pow
erful an electric battery as may be nee
essaly. The battery shall be connected
with the armchair, and governed by a
mechanism in connection with the scales.
The scene shall be lighted by single
torch burning on the judges desk.
The only persons admitted to the exc
cution shall be the Judge, jury and other
officials concerned in the condemnation
of the victim. That the person shall be
brought in and seated in the chair, to
which he shall be manacled immovably.
Then the Judge shall read the story of
his crime to him and reiterate his sem
tence. This performed, he shall break
rod of Office and toss it into Justices
balance.
The scales shall be weighed down by
this, and the electric current thus set in
circulation. As the balance descends
the judge shall entinguish the torch, sig
nifying that he thus puts out the victims
life.
Thus the criminal will expire in dread
full darkness, without chance of the
sort of sympathy which so often adorns
the scaffold. 1t will be as solemn and
awful as the doom Of implement that
the church inflicted on recusant nuns.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04
School and Church.


The Tennessee University at Knox
vile is about to have endowed Il chair
of athletics and gymnastics.
1t is stated that One-fOurth of the
Congregational ministers in Vermont
are without pastoral charge.
The Jewish temple in VickSburg,
Miss, has been offered to the BaptiStS
of that city until they are able to rebuild
their church, recently destroyed by fire.
The Chicago Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church, of which the Rev. CnaS.
A. Everest is pastor, has paid off its en-
tire debt of 100000
The "Rev." Ann Oliver is said to
be one of the most attractive pulpit ora
tors in Brooklyn. She is about % years
of age-tall, slim, dark, not pretty, but
exceedingly graceful.
The national teaching of drawing
in Paris has now been definitely agreed
upon. The city proposes to open lee
lures on art, and there are to be 152
schools for boys, 3S for girls, A classes
for adults, schools for men and for
women.
"A correspondent of the st. Paul
PiOneer-PreSS has been visiting the RO-
man Catholic colonies of Minnesota, and
he reports them in a fiourishing cOndi-
ton. There are 405 colonies in the
State, the oldest being Rochester, which
was established a dozen years ago.
Mr.. w. E. Forster complains that
the English schools above elementary
schools, especially for girls, are in sad
condition, and adds that America has in
many respects an advantage over Eng
land in point of education, and par
ticularly with regard to girls schools.
The faculty of the State University
Of Michigan has resolved that drinking,
gaming and frequenting houses Of i'll
fame do not constitute portions of a
University course, and have notified sew
eral scholars who last year devoted
much time to those branches that they
need not return to their alma mater.
Mrs. Thomas, of Philadelphia a
lady more than so years old, has built a
neat stone church in Kane, Pa, at a cost
of $4,000, and presented it to the Pres
byterian congregation there. The old
lady each year, says the Titusville Pa.)
Herald, spends part of her large in
come in building a church somewhere in
the country.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04
Foreign Notes.

King Alfonso has been thrown from
his carriage and had his arm broken.
Prince Bismarck's medical advisers
have advised him to pass the autumn in
an English watering-place.
AT length there seems to be some
prospect that an end will be put to
duelling in the German universities,
The authorities at Leipzig have made a
formal prohibition of these encounters,
and provided for fining innkeepers who
permit them on their premises.
Some of the victims of the Glasgow
Bank swindle pine and die, and the
papers occasionally refer to those who
have gone to an untimely grave. R.
Callwell, of Inverness, was a year ago
worth $3.50, ,OOO His thirty shares in the
bank made him penniless at 20 years of
age, and he was lately found dead in his
bed
-Ismail Pasha, the deposed Khedive,
wants to return to Egypt and reside, and
a demand for permission has been made
in his behalf by the Sultan. England
and France have word to say about
that, and no answer to the demand will
be returned by the present Khedive un-
til those Governments have been heard
from.
The story goes in London, on what
claims to be authority, that Mrs. Lang
try, one of the professional beauties, de-
rives much, if not most, of her personal
expenses from large commission from
the sale of her photographs. Some of
her admirers and friends justify This,
and her husband, who is delighted at her
social success and is poor, does not OBJ
ject.
The pay of Bismarck from all
sources, both as Prussian Minister and
as Chancellor of the empire, is only
S13,500. The highest salary of a Prus-
sian Cabinet Minister is $4,000. Pen
sions are on the same moderate scale,
the pension amounting to as many eight
ieths of the salary which was being re-
ceived at the time of retirement as there
have been years spent in the service of
the State. Ten years are added to the
record of service in all cases where mis-
conduct has not called for censure. But
where the salary exceeds $4,000, only
the half of such excess is taken into ac-
count.
Next after white dresses gingham
suits are the popular attire at the sum-
mer resorts. Those of gray-blue in
stripes, bars, or plaids, are most seen,
and are usually trimmed with many ruff
fes of the gingham, and with the coarse
figured effective wash laces known as
Byzantine, Russian, etc. Many of these
have the belted round waist that has
been restored to favor, and the long,
round overskirt that continues to be
worn, season after season, no matter
what novelties are introduced. The
ginghams of mixed pink and blue are
still very stylish, and are worn both by
blondes and brunettes. Color runs riot
in these dresses, and the more quaint
the contrast the better young ladies like
it. One of the prettiest suits is of brown
plaid gingham, with trimmings of pink
batiste knife-plaitings edged with mar
row Breton edging.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04
ITEMS Or INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-AleXandre HeSse, an eminent
French historical and portrait painter,
is dead, aged -.
Anna Dickinson will make a second
venture aS an actress next month, ap-
pearing in San Francisco, in play Of
her own writing.
Boston has a "Library Delivery Com
pany.n which, for five cents volume,
will draw for its patrons books from the
Public Library and the Athenaum, and
return them to those institutions at the
proper time.
The Old Testament is being printed
in Aneityumese, the language Of the
most southerly of the New Hebrides
group, the expense having been met by
the natives. The British and Foreign
Bible Society is doing the work.
1t is said that Charles Reade, the
novelist, keeps two secretaries at work
reading and clipping murders, poison
mos. accidents, robbelies and other
"unco moWnful tales" which furnish
him with the hint or substance for his
stories and plays.
--Fechter, the actor, was of cOsmO-
politan lineage-one grandfather Ger
man, the other an Italian, his mother
born in Flanders, his father in France,
and he himself in London. He madeh is
three signal successes in three Ian
guages.
The Pope has intrusted Cardinal
Hergenrother with the reorganization of
the Papal archives at the Vatican, 50 as
to make them more accessible for his
torical research. The Cardinal has al
so been authorized to prepare interest
ing documents for publication.
lit has been commonly said that the
cold water poem, "The Old Oaken
Bucket" was inspired by glass of
brandy A writer in the Boston Herald
afilms the truth of the story, and tells
it as a personal recollection. Samuel
Woodworth, the author, was printer,
and was employed in an office in Cham
bers Street, New York. One day he
dropped into Mallory's barroom, in
Franklin Street, to get some brandy and
water. The liquor was excellent, and
WoodwOrth remarked that it was supe-
rior to any thing he ever tasted. "No,n
said comrade, "there was one thing
that you and l used to think far sur
! passed this in the way of drinking -
"What was that?n asked Woodwork,
obviously. "Fresh spring water that
4 we used to drink from the old oaken
I bucket that hung in the well, after our
return from the hay field on sultry
\ day in summer" The rhythm of the
! 2hrase, "The old oaken bucket that
n hung in the WE'LL" struck Woodwork
4 lat once, and the picture of the well at
y his boyhood home came TO his mind.
ii Within a few hours he had completed
E the poem.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04
Science and Industry.

An oatmeal company has been in
tcorporated at Muscatine, Iowa, and a
mill will soon be in operation.
y h-The English Pathological Society
expects to complete new dictionary of
d,She English language by 1890
OI The annual tobacco crop of the
United States is about 100000, 900
bounds, two-thirds of which is exported.
n california shipped to New York
last year S24,1S gallons of wine and
sr ,449 gallons of brandy, the produce of
,tr he vineyards.
NJ Mr. L. S. Crozier, formerly of Mar
| Pilles, France, and the wealthy cultiva-
,ut ,r Of mulberry trees and silk worms at
, ailkville, Kan, proposes, it is said, to
4 Jitroduce the industry in West Felici-
NINA, La.
cFG AN iron floating dock is being con-
tepb ructed at Dantzic, of which the total
on eight will be 100000 kilogrammes.
an will hold the largest vessels of the
'erman Navy, and is to be completed
ce % the course of next year.
the One of the largest rolling-mills
St' 0ut Baltimore has resumed the manu-
H. 'ture of iron rails. This mill has been
oou sed for three years. 1t will employ
II Tween 800 and 400 men. 1t has large
ot~ lers for both iron and steel rails.
~ w. r.- -Looking-glasses are silvered, as it is
4 4be led, BY the following process: A sheet
:. Nanfoil is placed very smoothly on a
u ie or stone, and the foil is then flood
,,;d ,o withlmercury. The glass is laid up
im itr It msuch way as to expel air bub-
~! :ort and heavy weights are laid on the
IliV y bo,r = So he weights press out the super
j ,diup US mercury, and what remains forms
llo% oant amalgam with the tin, which ad-
'e'' Ito the back of the glass.
,es gdLiechtenstein is, according to the
may clples of international law, at war
,s succ Prussia; but the fact is generally
least Dlooked, possibly because Liechten-
f durD has only 5000 inhabitants and no
these although she retains her parlia-
&c hand and has governing Prince, John
ow Of In the war of 1866, like many other
w German States, Leichtenstein sided
- Austria. At the end of the war,
,tritS Iit5eSiafea.ssttein alone was neither annexed
' vVt Hidt ompelled to sign a treaty of peace,
{" ~ NM Prlnce John III. is nominally the
R@ ofthe Prussian King, but he visits
'nu 81. ritl peaceably.
SETS " s4|0+4
storian me protective tariff that it is pro-
in cav 70 70 ievy on American lard and ba-
,on a Imported into Germany is causing
for " protestation there. These articles
+hinE sumption have been sold there at
! armed Ierably lower prices than the do
: t Of hir' articles, greatly to the rejoicing
I - poorer classes, of whom many
;s A pe hard to live at all. Even the
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04

For two long hours he hardly held
his eyes off the ponderous machinery,
but at last he was ready to 60. Taking
one last look, he walked up to the engi-
neer and said: "Say, mister, this ere
injun runs by steam, doesn'titP" "Why,
Of COURSE" was the answer. "Well, L
thought 50 mOre'n half an hour ago."
continued the man, "but it's Just as
well to be sure about these things. There
are 50 many wind-mills nowadays that
one can't be certain of nothing ."-Hud-
son IN. Y. Register.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04

Last year 19,668,OOO packages of
tomatoes were put up in the United
States. Their value was 81 100000. OF
these Maryland furnished 6,840,OOO
packages; New Jersey, $4,000; Della
ware, 1 1884 900; New York, 1856, 900;
Massachusetts, 96O,000 Pennsylvania,
1872 900; Pacific Coast, 100000; West
ern and other States, 100000 pack
aces
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04

The women in Kansas vote at the
school elections. At recent election at
Usage City one woman went up to vote,
but before she got through telling the
Judges what time her Willie had with
the scarlet fever when he was only 2
years old, it was time to close the polls
and she had forgotten to deposit her bal
lot. t.-BurdeHe.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04

farmers are said to sell their pigs alive,
and to buy the imported product. The
proposed duty will thus fall directlyupon
the poorer classes, and since lard and
pork form considerable part of their
diet, will be more oppressive than SIM
liar duty upon almost any other article
of food.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04

Secretary Thompson, having learned
how to furl the bobstay Of man-of-war,
is going to make the Navy something to
be proud of, which it hasn't been since
they tore down the tattered ensign of the
old Constitution - Graphic.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04

Tell not your secrets in a corn-ield /;
it has thousands of Chicago Jour-
nal. Kiss not your girl in potato-field ;
it has myriads Of eyes ChicagQ Tribune.
Sharp County record., 1879-09-04

Parton co3Tis,rt 3aist
[f ! iilo''veriGsS''c IN erica Oh nv +
EidTitioanal ma anu .at. assii
Which he e;ssteo'riap: se'I q
n guilty y..,an IN a 1
'WlaashilngtOff fol- ! :
|Ir"' "Ps11 "PPssrtosn, osn,tIh1ne5 thll'55.
. is only y,at lt'1 Of hi
Tay |Pp,Tt that hat vin''
, 1879-08-14
CIVIL DAMAGE LAW.

The following is the text of the
Civil Damage Law, as passed at the
late session of che Massachusetts,
legislature:
SECTION l. Every husband, wife,
child, parent, guardian, employer, or
o,her person, who shall be injured in
person or property, or means of sup
port, by any intoxicated person, or
in consequence Of the intoxication,
hsbitual or otherwise, of any person,
shall have a right Of action in his or
her own name, severally or jointly,
againt any person or persons who
shall, by selling or giving intoxicat-
ing liquors, have caused the intoxi-
cation, in whole or in part, of such
person; and any person or persons
owning, renting, leasing, or permit
ting the occupation of, any building
or premises, and having knowledge
that intoxicating liquors are to bs
sold therein, or who have leased the
same for other purposes, shall know.
ingly permit therein the sale of any
intoxicating liquors, shall, ifany such
liquors sold or given therein have
caused, in whole or in part, the in
toxication of any person, be liable,
severally or jointly, with the person
or persons selling orgiving intoxicat.
ting liquors as aforesaid, for all
damages sustained, and the same
may be recovered in an action of
tort; provided, however, that no
owner or lessor of any building or
premises held under lease at the
date of the passage of this act, shall
be liable, under the provisions of this
act, for any damage resulting from
the lawful sale or giving away Of
spirituous or intoxicating liquors on
said said premises during the term
of such lease. A married woman
may bring such action in her own
name, and sll damages recovered by
her shall inure to her separate use;
aud all damages recovered by mi.
nor, under this act, said be paid,
either to such minor, or to such per-
son in trust for him, and on such
terms as the court may direct. In
case Of the death of either party, the
action, and right of action, shall sur.
vive to or against his executor or
administrator.
SEC. 2. No license for the sale Of
intoxicating liquors shall hereafter
be granted without the consent, in
writing, of the owner OF lessor Of
the building or premises upon which
the business is to be conducted; and
the paper containing said written
consent shall be kept on file by the
city or town in which said license is
issued.
SEC. 8. Any owner or lessor Of
real estate who shall pay any money
ON account of his liability incurred
under this act for any act Of his ten.
ant, may, in an action of contract,
recover Of said tenant the money SO
paid.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect
upon its passage.
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