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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MERCHANTS "HA*FHoAr AND
TRANSFER COMPANY.
Reduced Rates Of Storage.

Owing to a large increase of our capacity
for storing and handling FreiGhts and Cot
ton, we beg leave to call your attention to
our greatly reduced rates for Storage.
All freight consigned to the care of our
Mr.. w. Il. REDwICK, Agent at Monroe, La.
or to Capt. f. B. CRYER, at Trenton, La.
will be charged Storage at the rate of 10
20 days; for each succeeding 20 days. one
half the rate for the first 20 days will be
added. On Hour, meal, potatoes. onions,
fruits, rice, beans. crackers, and all dry
barrels cents per barrel.
On pork, beer, mackerel, sugar, lime, CO.
ment. vinegar, krout, bacon and hams, and
all wet barrels. ~ cents per barrel.
barrel; bacon and sugar in casks 80 conts
per cask. All other articles not mentioned
will be charged in the same proportion.
For shipping cotton Is cents per bale.
Freights consigned to our care to be for
waried by the Cryer Line of steamers to
Bayous Bartholomew, D'Arbonne and Sa-
line river, will be stored free Of charge.
ST. Louis to all landings on Bayous Bar
tholomew, D'Arbonne and Saline river as
high as navigation, and to all landings
tho Ouachita river above Monroe as high as
the mouth ofSaIine river. by w. b. Russell,
Agent, via the Delta route to Monroe.
All freights consigned to us are unioaded
from the cars and steamboats, into our
warehouse aud wharf-bost. thereby avoid
ing the rough handling and expense Incl
dental to drayage.
Our Mr.. RENWIcK will always be on hand
to give his personal attention TO business
f. b. CRYER, Proprietor.
w. p. RESwIcK, Agent.
Monroe, La, May Is, 1880. mss:
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

stead of silently finding their way to
public inspection, they have produced
upon the mind OF said editor kind of
chaotic distraction which we certainly
never intended.
We do not like to yield to the sug-
gestion that his mental receptivity
must be temporarily abnormal, es-
pecially since almost anything that
smacked of "rotation'' was quickly
heralded, and anything Vice veyso was
as astutely apprehended, heretofore !;
and as our expressed feelings cores
pended with the latter, we never had
the remotest idea that the task of su-
perogatton would be resorted to by
him. We are arrogant to the extent,
that In directness of language, (for the
purpose OF endeavoring to impress a
recognition of valuable services upon
the part Of some Of our congressional
representatives, we were far from en-
tertng into the meshes of verbal obli-
guilty. Without saying more, we beg
leave to cite said editor to the leading
editorial of the Bulletin of the 18th
inst, in which 1t vindicates its theory
of ssrotation" by showing there is
looming Up wholesale attempt to
supplant quite q number Of our con-
gressional representatives. Will he
not explain Ito himselD the meaning
of this corroborative testimony OF
widespread detection, as applicable
to his position, and when done, we
think he can then see stthe beam that
Is In his brothers. eye"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

pardon, stands In precisely the same
condition as he does when q bill is be.
fore him that has passed the General
Assembly, and furthermore, that the
Governor will not reject either without
good reasons for SO doing.
In this connection 1t is to be re-
marked that it is difRcult to observe
the difference In the responsibility
which attaches to the Judge or Attor.
ney General who recommend the par.
don, or the executive officer who is.
Stlea It.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
THE CATALPA.

AS was the case last year, but for the
first time we remember, the caterpil-
lars are stripping the catalpas In town
of their leaves, some of which are as
bare as in winter. The insect preys
upon no other tree; is about one and
a half inches In length very black ON
the back, with saffron stripes along the
sides, and withal very pretty bird TO
look at. The food it feeds upon will
not be missed, aud we take it that the
hardy catalpas will soon be spreading
a second crop of broad leaves to the
sun.
This reminds US that we noticed
some time ago that the Iron Mountain
Railroad Company, which already
owns fine timber lands, has contracted
with firm who engage to plant
Que hundred acres with Western catal-
pa as an experiment.. They do this
because catalpa ties have stood on
their road, entirely unaffected by de-
cay, during the past twelve years, and
because these trees are SO valued by
farmers for fences that the railroad can
get no supply in Missouri.
Here is something that may be
turned to good account by our
farmers. We know of our own ex-
perience that the catalpa is not liable
to rot, but will last generation ;
neither will the wood ant attack it, as
is the case with pine aud other kinds
of timber. 1t Is a rapid, hardy grower,
and will survive the severest injuries
or pruning. The Pargoud avenue just
below town, where there are two par
allel rows of these trees nearly a half
mile in length, planted at exact inter-
walls and serving as posts for two
fences, will be remembered by all who
have Travelled the river road at any
time during the past thirty years, or
more, as being not only novel and
beautiful, but as having the substan-
tial merit of permanency. And who
that has not passed beneath the cool
shade of these trees in the heat of sum-
mer has not blessed the memory of
Hypolite Pargoud? The appearance
Of an enemy need not deter any one
from planting the catalpa, should he
be 80 inclined, as the trees in this ave-
nue. are as vigorous and green today
as they were twenty years ago, not
withstanding insects, and severe an
nuai pruning to the extent of bring
ing each tree within the small limit of
a single stem about eighteen feet in
hight.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
w., y. + p. RAILROAD.

The letting of work on the railroad
west of this has been postponed, by Or
der of President Richardson; beyond
the 5th proximo, the date fixed for
opening bids. This postponement, we
are assured, will be brief, and timely
notice will be given when the letting
will take place. Tho postponement is
due, II we surmise correctly, to delay in
getting tho company's bonds printed
and put upon the market.
During the present week the COM
pany has had recorded here a first
mortgage upon all of its property for
%, 800, 900 In favor of the farmers Loan
and Trust Company, of New York, as
trustees, TO secure the payment of that
amount of 7 per cent bonds, to be is
sued as soon as received from the prin-
ter and properly signed. President
Richardson expects to 60 North in a
few days to set the financial driving
wheels in motion.
The surveying party is now engaged
In making the levels and placing the
stations on the line out to Calhoun's, 10
miles from the river. The survey will
be continued west, without interruption.
The letting Of building the bridge
across the Ouachita will DO made about
the time the contracts for construction
of the road are made, and, possibly,
sooner, as we are informed by General
Manager Green. from whom we have
obtained the foregoing facts.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

The editor of the Bulletin seems to
be much exercised over a "long-winded
article' of ours headed Congressional
Meetings. Says he: eff anybody can
find any reference to anything In it
why let him find it." The piece
should have been headed, "Coneres-
sional Musings" but as it is, de iufe-
a'io,id,.s re6us, non disputa,,tl,tn,.
Our explanation should be withheld,
since it is not our province to enter the
lists of controversy, especially in the
columns of newspapers, but rs the ar
ticlc referred to has such obtuseness
to the editor of the Bulletin, for his
satisfaction, we beg leave to explain.
We premise, however, what we have
to say by expressing surprise at his
seeming hebetu(le, since upon the prin-
ciple of "rotation'' he seems to have
"set up his everlasting rest" or at least
until the next congressional conven-
tions meet, and we inferred as q ne
cessary consequence, that any opposi-
ton thereunto would hardly escape
the "grape and canister'' of his able
pen. However, it was far from our
purpose to Hmeasure lances'' with any
ono upon a question of this sort, but
yielded to the suggestion, which the
surrounding political aspect presented,
in order to give expression to a senti-
ment that assuredty prevails here,
that we should honor those who are
deserving of all honor for their service
in the Congress of the United States,
and that in that category could be
named some of the present incum-
bents.
We were we'll aware that these ideas
were at variance with the expressed sem
ments OF the Bulletin, and we endeav-
ored to put them as mildly as possible,
lest we might expose ourselves to his
tripodial battery, but we find that in
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

We learn from the Picayunc that
specimen packages of the silver bear
ing earth, found in the Sicily Island
Hills, near the Ouachita, have been
sent to that city for analysis. The sill
yer has been found in iron pyrites, a
sulphuret Of iron; small quantity
assaycd by Mr.. John Henry yielded
the precious metal at the rate of forty
ounces per ton, but other specimens
were not so rich. 1t IS, therefore, ques-
tionable whether the deposit can be
worked to advantage. In this connec-
ton it may be stated that rich lead de-
posits have been discovered on Red
river,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

The crops in this secti on, both corn
and cotton, and hill and river, are re-
ported better than they have been
known TO be for several years. They
are well advanced, vigorous, and well
worked, and the seasons are just right.
But it ia we'll not to he too sanguine.
1t ia not too late for u serious drouth,
and many old planters shake their
hoary locks ominously when the
cotton caterpillar Is mentioned.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
THE ROAD ACROSS THE LINE.

We direct attention to an interesting
article from the New Orleans Times, to
be found elsewhere, in reference to the
proposed railroad from this place to
Monticello.
Judge Garrett is now canvassing this
parish in the interest of this road, and
a petition to the City Council of Mon
roe is In circulation, asking that body
to COLL an election of the property
holders of the city for the purpose of
voting upon the levying of special
tax in hid of the road.
The Camden Beacon, of the 22nd,
Says: ... ..
The completion Of the railroad from
Gurtlon on the Iron Mountain, to Cam
den, seems to be fixed fact. On with
the boom.
The enterprise noticed by the Bea-
con is closely connected with the road
TO Monticello, and its early completion
affords an additional reason for build
ing the road to Monticello. The in
ducements are all, VIC may say, Oh the
side of liberal aid and n speedy start
toward constructing that road, and no
one place and no people have deeper
interest in the matter than the bust
ness men and owners of real estate in
Monroe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

The Rev. 8. c. Lee, of the Baptist
Messenger, was in town Wednesday,
on bis return from New Orleans
where he purchased ii press and an en-
tire new outfit for his paper which he
will soon issue as weekly.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

DIR. r.. ID. Whyte, a physician of no
ordinary culture and ability died on
the 10th inst. A life spent in devotion
to his calling, aud one that merited
and cemented the affection which was
universally bestowed upon him by ali
with whom he had to do, was his
richest reward, and the memory of this
good physician, will linger for many
years as household word among
the people of this community.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

Tho st. Francis Belle departs for
Bayou Bartholomew Thursday with
a good load. This dashing boat can
splash water as fast as the best of her
size. This fact is only to be tested, to
be accepted.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
+. WETZEI.,
Dealer in all kinds of
HOU S EHOLD FURNITU f.

COFFINs', COFFIN TRIMMINGS. &c.
Furniture repaired, or made to order, and
satisfaction guaranteed. All orders for
Furniture promptly attended to. Collins
supplied at short notice, with services of
undertaken, If desired.
have also on hand full stock of
Children's Carriages, which I offer for
sale at low prices.
Store and shop on Grand street, opposite
McFee's drug store. An inspection Of our
work and furniture is respectfully invited.
January I, 1880. Nv
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
COFFINS AND COFFIN TRIMMINGS
METALLIC BURIAL CASES.

Services of Undertaken and preserving
dead bodies with. embalming fluids furn-
ished if desired. Ali orders promptly at
tended to. Terms, reasonable.
Store on Grand street, near the Court
house.
Monroe. La, March Is. 1878. n26-tf
NEW ALHAMBRA RESTAURANT
Has been removed to the corner Of st.
John and st. Ann street, in the rear OF B.
Rills' book store, where I will be found at
all hours. ready to serve my old customers
leans and this market can afford.
Oysters in every Style;
Fish, Crabs,
shrimp, Game,
And everything else to be found in .
FTRST-CLASS RESTAURANT.
who call upon me and guarantee the best
attention.
&C. ENssM1NGER.
Monroe, October E. 1877.
SAM KUHN
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DEALER IN
LIQUORS, TOBACCO, CIGARS, &C.,
Has removed to the new building of H.
Meyer On DeSiard street.
His entire stock of Dry Goods, Boots.
Shoes and Cents Furnishing Goods is now
The finest qualities of
LIQUORS AND WINES
Monroe, La. September 5. 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

To the complimentary allusion which
the river correspondent Of the TELE.
GRAPH made US, we doff our hat and
bend our head In betting recognition,
but we beg to say that the nondescript
"machine" which he so facetiously
employs in "cranking' out a few fus-
tian verses dedicatory to us belongs to
a kind sal generis, since the cylinder
has to explain that the "ma.
chimes" vibrations are sarcasm or a
s'bit of it," We were inclined to laud
his epigrammatical wit, if he had not
destroyed its inferred rhetorical terse-
ness by naming tho figurative intent
of his machine, and are 10th to think
| that he would desire to violate the ele-
ments of criticism to such an extent
AS tC use such pungent method as
sarcasm, but rather irony-especiaily,
since we can exclaim, like ssGertrude in
Hamlet -
"What have done that thou shouldst wag
Thy tongue in noise SO rude against me?'
for We have never mentioned the
words Rosa b. but once and that in.
ctueHtasIy, afiA tkNt cru size Hsau beCotues
as ssdashing" as she is. If this cores
pondent shall continue 10 'sgrind" his
unrepaired machine to the extent of
turning out sarcastic det3icatory verses
we pray him,
"Speak no more,"
until his "machine' shall undergo
such repairs as will relieve it of its dis
cordant sounds, and its chords shall be
attuned to respond to milder methods
of displaying his witticisms.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

Capt. Cryer has perfected arrange.
ments whereby through rates of traus'
portation will be granted from st.
Louis TO points ON the D'Abonne by
his line. This contract is with the v.
s. & p. Railroad and boats from st.
Louis to Delta.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

The steamer Willie arrived Sunday
from Bayou Bartholomew and leaves
Monday or Tuesday with full load for
Farmerville and intermediate landings.
She's what the b. B. C.'s call a regular
daisy-cutter. a.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
TRENTON ITEMS.
BY "cHARLr CHRISTOPHER"

Ben Duncan having repaired his
skiff, will continue to convey passen-
gers to and from Monroe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28
PETERS 8,

f. PETERS,
DEALER IN
FURNITURE Il WINDOW SHADES,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-05-28

The Hanna arrived Saturday with q
good trip-the local and re.slAipping
freight as per bills at the Trenton
Office amounting to the net SUM OF
S6, 6s1 SO. Beat that II you can along
the liue
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-05-21
AN oPEExNo.--
AMONG THE LADIES

The brilliant, fascinating
tints Of Complexion for which
ladies strive arc chiefly arti.
fetal. and all who will take the
trouble may secure. them.
These rOSeatc, bewitclling hues
follow the use Of Hagan's Mag
nOlia Balm-a delicate, HARM
less and always reliable article.
Sold by all druggists.
The Magnolia Balm conceals
every blemish, removes Sal
lOwness, Tan, Redncss, Erup-
tiOns, all evidences Of excite
ment and every imperiectiOn.
Its effects arc immediate and
so natural that TO human being
can detect its apple stion.
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weekly Kennebec Journal,

p.lisbed every Wednesday morning, IL the largest
in the State, containing news, political
s.ss %U agricultural and scieatic matter tales, poetry,
uusiotes household matter, markets, &c., &c.
T.rus AZ Der annum in GdrGnce.
1.an.;sSt Advertisements, $500 per inch tos nrst
IA cents Der week for each subsequent insssti0n.
svecal Notices. $50 per inch for first week; 50
Notices, in reading columns, 70 cents Per
.s Sor dt Insertion 10 cents er line for each sub
s.anenf insertion.
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SHAKERS
SARSAPARILLA

Prcpared bv the Canterbury ShaAers from the roots
Sarsaparilla, Dandelioh, Yellow Dock, Mandrake,
Black COhosh, Gargct, Indian Hemp and the berries
of Juniper and Cubeb, united with Iodde OF Potas
siusn made by the Society.
Ii was the first as well as IL is best and purcst ot
strengthening and purifying medicines called Sars',-
parilla being totally unlike all Others in the variety,
quality and quantity of its precious properties. IL
clcanses the blood OF impurities and drives out scrof
ulous humors. 1t eNcites the appetite regulates the
stomach and bowels, increases the flesh. prevents
weakness and degeneration Of the liver kidneys NJ
urinary organs. Ii is mothers remedy, regulating
and strengthening the maternal functions. 1t puri
fies the female system of lucrative weaknesses and
debilitatng humors in children and youth. II is
truly wonderful IN nervous and general debility,
emacaton and dropsv. II expels the cause of rhcu-
maism and goui, and inv ariaby relieves asthma. II
has been publicly recommended by Drs. Valentine
best and purest Sarsapara extends over period of
fifty years.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. 10 1850.
n. A. BRIGGS Dear Sir,Aln reply TO your letter
ofthe 18th asking my opinion of Corbett's Sarsa-
pariIla Syrup and the number of years have sold it,
would say it is OF the first popular and reliable
proprietary remedies can call to mind, as | enter
ed upon my apprenticeship ip the drug business
thirty five Ii has always been considered
one of the standard remedies and important TO
keep in stock as paragoric or hive syrup
Yours truly
VI. ". WHITNEY, Druggist
II iswarranted genuine when bearing the signature
of Thos. Corbctt, its inventor.
Inquire for Corbett's Shaker Sarsaparilla.
In behalf of the Society,
NICHOLAS a; BRIGGS, Trustees.
SHAKER VILLAGE, n. H., Jan, !, 1ss0.
apr2tT&F&w1m
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-12-09
A Valuable Bible,

A Norwich, Ct, dispatch to the New
York Sun contains the copy of an adver-
tisement in the Windham County Tran
script offering reward of $500 in cash
for the recovery of the Bible of Mary Ste
vens of Canterbury, ct. The adver
tisement is the key to romance, which
may be briefly told. The Mary Ste
vens referred to was beautiful and ac-
complished daughter of Lord John Town
ley of Lancashire, Eng. She was born IN
1877, and while yet young maiden she
eloped with a man named Williams. Lit
tie is known of his history, but it is pro-
bable that his family was of lower social
standing than the Townleys, inasmuch as
the bitter Opposition of the latter to the
marriage of Mary and her-lover led to
the elopement. To elude pursuit, when
they quit England, they assumed the
name of Stevens. Mrs. Stevens took her
mothers tamilyiBible with her, which con-
tanned complete family record. They
settled in Windham county, Connecticut.
Nine children were born to them. Soon
after the birth of the last child Stevens
deserted his wife, taking with him the
family Bible. Just before her death Mrs.
Stevens acquitted her youngest daughter
with the family history. Stevens died in
Pomfret, Windham County, in 1901, and
anxious search is now being made for
the Bible, which, it is supposed, he had
in his possession at the time of his death.
1t contains evidence (which will establish
the claims of the heirs of Mary Tewnley,
his wife, to an estate estimated at
100,O0O,000. Undoubtedly the Bible
is slowed away in some attic in eastern
Connecticut
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-12-09
WEEKLY CASUALLY RECORD.

Mrs. Littlefeld Of East Stoughton
Mass, Nov. 2s, poisoned her husband and son.
The latter died, and on the morning of Nov.
30, she shot herself. Insane. Is
John A. Miller,a young man employed
at the Piow Works at st. Paul, Minn., had his
right hand SO mangled by buzz saw, Dec. 2,
as to make amputation necessary
Floods are causing much damage in
the counties of Derbyshire, Warnickshire
Nottinghampshire and Worcestershire, Eng
land, and the waters of the Thames are rising
rapidly.
John Cunningham, an employe of the
Chicago, 81. Paul & Minneapolis railway,
while engaged in switching cars in the st.
paul yards, slipped and fell on the track, the
engine wheels passing over his right leg, ne.
cessitating amputation below the knee.
VIM. e. Brockway, accused Of being
concerned in counterfeiting $4,000 worth Of
government bonds, was discharged the 29th,
upon his recogmzance of 5000, upon return
of the plates from which the bonds are print
ed. 1t is the general supposition that the
prosecution viii not now be pushed.
A fire occurred at West Point, the goth,
which destroyed the extensive wharyes and
sheds Of the Richmond, York River & Chese.
peake railroad company and the company,s
steamer Shirley; also the hetelegraph and freight
offices, and all freight on the wharves, includ
ing 1900 bales of cotton. Loss estimated ai
$25OOOO. $50 .eef9
A fire in the Jacoby block corner Of
Nicollet ave. and Third streets, Minneapolis
Minn., the morning Of the 2sth, resulted In
loss, principally by water, OF about $43 ,OOG
covered by $4,000 of insurance. The princi
pal sufferers were w. 81. Jacoby, photograph
gallery and owner Of the building; Geo. M
Wolff 4 Co., dry goods; Harris & Levi, dry
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-12-09
The Largest Island.

1t has hitherto been the custom of
geographers to give the palm to Borneo
as the largest island in the world, but
this is decidedly an error. A careful
estimate, founded ON the most recent
maps, shows that New Guinea is consid-
erably the larger, and must for the
future be accorded the first place. In
shape, this island differs greatly from
Borneo, being irregular, and much ex-
tended in north-northwest and south
southeast direction, so that its greatest
length is little short of 1900 miles, a
distance as great as the whole width of
Australia from Adelaide to Port Darwin,
or of Europe from London to CONSTANT
nople. Its greatest width is 40 miles;
and, emitting the great peninsulas which
form its two extremities, the central
mass is about 700 miles long, with an
average width of $40 miles-a country
about the size of the Australian empire,
and, with the exception of the course Of
one large river, an absolute blank upon
our maps.