The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-08-04
ALEXANDRIA, LA.,)
july 81. 1880.

Df IesOluttoi VI thSs Sou'Sh''"'
held in Alexandria, on the 10Th of
July, 1879, for the purpose of OBJ
tanning lower Tariff of Freight, etc.
The President was "authorized to call
together the Delegates Of said Con-
vention at any time the agreement
was not faithfully carried out" and
as the agreement then entered into
by citizens of the four Parishes com
prising the Grand Ecore trade, with
the Red River Transportation Com
pany has expired, and said Company
without notice or reason have gone
back to former card rates, SAY those
of 1878, which were then consider
ed oaerous, and are still so consider
ed, I hereby request the former Del
egates, together with as many more
as may be sent from all the Parishes
interested, to assemble in Conven-
ton at Alexandria, on Thursday,
August 10Th, for the purpose of re-
ceiving bids and making arrange
ments for the transportation of our
freight at reduced rates. Owners of
steamboats, are invited TO be present,
as zoe mean business.
JOS. II. HYNSON,
Pres't. Convention.
w Natcllitoches Vindicator, Sabine
Index, Colfax Chronicle and Marksville
papers please copy.
Col. Henry B. Hays, of Penn.
sylvania, who served with distinc,
ton in the Federal army during the
late war, was at one time Secretary
of the American Legation at Copen
kagen, and a Republican since the
organization of the party, is the lat
est important accession to the Han
cock ranks. Col. Hays is one Of The
wealthiest of the bituminous coal op.
orators, and in times past has con-
tributed largely of his means to in.
sure Republican success. He an
nounces now that he will do still
more to aid in Hancock's election
A Pittsburg dispatch to the Cincin.
natl Enquirer says of Col. Hays:
ellis change of political faith will
have great effect upon thousands
of coal miners, who have always
looked up to him as leader and
guide in matters political. The an
nouncement of his allegiance to Gen.
Hancock fell like a chilling frost on
the Republican party here, and as he
| is a man of irreproachable record
and commands the respect of all
classes, they have not presumed to
express any opinion in the matter,
but are waiting alphabetically TO see
who the next convert viii be-
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The ARMY WoRM.--Destractio@ Of
Crops. --PITTsBURG, Pa, July &c.
The army worm has reached this
section. Countless thousands of the
pests invaded fve-acre corn field Of
Jacob Hartman in the eastern sub
urbs on Saturday, and the stalks
have been denuded of leaves and
riddled with small holes until the
field is a barren waste. Mr.. Hart
man says that they look like an or.
binary vegetable worm, only of a
blacklsh hue. Most of them are
about two inches long, but there are
others both larger and smaller than
that. They have a shiny appear
ance, and have small light spots
here and there, besides two yellow
spots on each side of the head. An
old German gardener says these
spots are the shoulder straps, and
every worm is an officer by right Of
birth. They are extending the in
vasion into the neighboring farms,
and seem to be moving Westward.
They are making clean sweep.
--[Cincinnati Enquirer.
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-HEAR John W. Forney again :
"May the next quarter of century
crown Democratic deliberations with
better results than that which has
passed! And if we may trust the
omens the future is full of hope.
There is not the slightest induce
ment for unfair dealing. If there is
any temptation in the path of Gene
raj Hancock, it is the joyous tempta.
ton of doing his best. can recall
no candidate within the last hall
century who entered upon SO happy
a career, who possessed more com.
prehensive confidence among the
people, who was clothed with such
magnificent opportunities, and, a,
the same time, had so fully the re.