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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
FOR CONGRESS, 9TH DISTRICT:
GEN. j. FLOYD KING,
oE CoNCoRDIA.
OUR PLArFoRn.
OE CoNCORDIA.

(Extract from Leading Editorial "Ouach-
ita Telegraph OF May s, 1851
Let the Democratic Convention ,s0ni-
nate WINFIELD s. HANCOCK, one of
the by0sess and sa0bLest Of Es0e,ul Gen
erals, as sceW as most successful, and then
haze the Radical ticket defeated from.
the cord, Go! Hancock can carry Penn
sylu0,aiu and NeaD York beyond doubt,
and put some good aOeste,2e man on the
ticket for Vice President and the game
is sO0,s. November a0iX then telI such q
tale in taUor Of Democracy and s'ep,.bzi-
can institutions as this country ,aerer
heard or dreamed Of before. HANCOCK
Is a General and proficient in his ca1.
ing, beside aultich he has sIao,on that he is
a statesman and q true American auho is
im6ased aoith the deepest CONNECTIONS of
the purity and superiority Of true
Democratic form of government. He is
pre- ensine,.tty the representative General
and man Of the times, upon whose ideas
Of restoration the Union must be recon.
stv,ected, 0thers0ise dissolution aciW be a
success, IN spite Of congressional enact.
nse,sks, treasure anal alt tie 610od split to
defeat IL.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

Lieut.. Gov. McEnery, returning
from his brief visit to Tennessee Ella
New Orleans, reached home the past
week accompanied by Mrs. McEnery
aud the infant Executive Of the nurse
ry, and his numerous friends and
clients now find him buckl led down in
his Office diving into the law books,
prying into old papers, or furnishing
Specimens OF his artistic penmanship to
correspondents, brother attorneys, or
officers of the Court, We have before
spoken In terms of commentator not
uncertain, nor, as we thought, unde-
served, of McEnery's course as Acting
Governor, and have only now to say
that we are pleased to see him and In
the possession of robust health and a
keen relish for the repose and elbow
room of rural life. We shall expect,
however, to gee tue Lieutenant Gov
ernor put his guns In training, and
shortly add a resoundfng echo to tho
Hancock boom North aud West.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
TRENTON ITEMS.

Remember the ward meeting Satur-
day.
Protracted meeting commences mex
Wednesday.
The weather is charming now in
every way. Sickness will soon abate.
The Pagan left here Saturday with
1874 bales cotton the Rosa b. with 80
bales.
Receipts of cotton at Upper Ware
house for September, 1879, 1917 bales !;
receipts to date, $50 bales. There's the
difference.
Mr.. Parker Is now general superin-
tendent and engineer of his hack line
from Trenton to Monroe, and we notice
quicker trips than heretofore.
Messrs. Moore & Rabun have treated
the front Of their store house to coat
Of bright red paint, which looks quite
attractive. This firm Is popular in
trade, and will now he "red-hot" for
business.
The paint brush IS being used brisk.
~ all over the town, apparently, and
II q newcomer We're to tohserve" he
would be impressed that Trenton was
determined to enjoy a new lease upon
"dubions" life.
Let there be a full attendance of all
of the voters of ward s, Saturday, 10
O'Clock, am.
CHARIT CHRISrOPHER.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

A contemporary pithily puts the ne
cessity for Democratic organization in
a single brief sentence. It says "1Ne
Republican party is ul,cays organized"
And the same paper, the Webster Tri-
bune, adds, referring to the Republic
cans: "They never disband. They
are now holding their secret meetings
at midnight. These late hours al
preaching mean something's" Indeed
they do, and our brother Of the Tribune
Is right In laundering into the ears o
the people the stupendous folly OF in
action.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

Cant the mails be brought from the
depot and distributed more on the .sex-
pedite" planf The sun may be haitian
hour above the horizon when the train
comes hurrying In, and yet 1t Is often
the case that it is pitch dark before
the weary waiting crowd at the post
office receives the welcome words, "the
mail is open.'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

Have your name enrolled on the
voters list of freemen, aud cast your
first ballot, young man, for Winfield
8. Hancock, no matter II you are forced
to swim bayous to get to the polls.
You can, then, proudly refer to your
maiden vote all through life.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

According to the Abbeville Merid-
ional, Mr.. Acklen presented himself
before the Morgan City congressional
convention "with two big six shooters
and an eighteen-inch Bowie knife
strapped to him." Aud then bolted :?
Fiddle.sticks!
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
+ II. w ETZEl.,

7 r. WErzEA'
Dealer in all kinds of
HOU S T. III O l. ID F. U r. N 1T u II f.,
COFFINS, COFFIN TRIMMINGS, &c.
Furniture repaired, made to order, and
satisfaction guaranteed. All orders for
Furniture promptly attended to. Collins
supplied at short notice, with services of
undertaker, it desired.
l have also on hand full stock Of
Children's Carriages, which ! offer for
sale at low prices.
Store and shop on Grand street, opposite
McFee's drng store. An inspection of our
work and furniture is respectfully invited.
January l, 1850. 1y
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
JUDGE scuENCK INVOKED.

JUDGE sCuENCK INVOKED.
Acorrespondent of the Monroe Bulle-
tin, who signs "John Davis" to his
presumably, because
he intends to get away with the "pot,')
squares himself for q set-to with the
Courts of Appeal, and proposes to give
his "reasons for the total humiliation,
the total destruction, and total obliv-
ion of this court from the memory OF
men," AS spectator, we are ready.
The task assumed by Mr.. Davis
would not be quite SO difficult, we
think, or indeed, necessary, were he to
renounce his purpose altogether, and
let the Courts of Appeal run down of
themselves. They seem to be very
harmless arrangements, though some
what expensive, which Is a matter of
no consequence, as Judge Toots was
wont to say, in Louisiana, aud they at
least serve the useful purpose of filling
the hungry hiatus between the Dis
trict and Supreme Courts. In addition,
the Circuit Courts are strikingly orna-
mental, very much like bazars, the
character of which Eastern galleries of
art is, of course, familiar to all we'll
read attorneys, and even to those nof
so we'll read, a class very rare,-and
as they revolve around their circuits,
excitement is localized and the latent
get-up-andg go Of the several bars Is
aroused and stimulated to activity by
the display. And then the Court Is a
study. 1t never comes or goes, we do
not nurse it In thought, and it is a
newspaper mans delight to watch,
through the local press, the Courts
progress from shire town to shire town
and hear the lawyers praise the learn
ing and prescience of their Honors,
under the tones of rules evolved for
their guidance.
Besides, Mr.. Davis little recks the
dimensions and risk of his under
taking. The Courts of Appeal are not
| to be written down, unless there be a
corner made on ink and paper. 1t was
a mistaken notion that the Circuit
Judges would have no leisure, but
would be kept constantly going from
Court to Court, with barely time to
stop by the roadside, and that, hence,
none but young athletes could undergo
the fatigue and enormous labor of
Circuit Judge.
They have leisure and fried eggs in
super-abundance, and, what their chal-
lenger may ascertain should he madly
persist in his sanguinary purpose, the
Circuit Judges, or some of them, are
not without the wind necessary to car
~ them through discussion of any
length and at rafting rate of speed.
| t:The total oblivion of this Court from
the memory of men," is, we are in
clined very seriously to set down, an
imposstbility, and, withal, impractical
bic. Non constat, when Mr.. Davis,
himself, purposes to embalm it in
memory and erect an obelisk or pyra-
mid on the cnsanguihed plain conse-
Grated to judicial extravaganza. Mr..
Davis had better take. on a full cargo
of oxygen in starting, and set forth
with a reconstructed plan for mighty
long game, in which, we rather sus-
pect, contrary to tho laws laid down in
Schenck, John Davis will not be the
ultimate and sole winner.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

If you have changed election pre-
cincts since last election--goae from
one ward TO another,-see the Regis
trar and have the proper entry made in
the polling book. Electors can vote
only In the precincts in which they
live and are registered.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
reduce Dealers and Manufacturers
Agents,
GRAND STREET, MONROE, LA.

Flour, Meal, Pork, Oats, Corn, Bran,
Hay, Wagons, Lime, Cement, Coal, &c. !,
kept constantly on hand for sale.
Orders for all kinds of merchandize tilleI
at Manuiict urcrs' prices.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS.
uOMER MALE COLLEGE.

The Invent " First Session will begin the
FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.
Address X. a. SMITH, President.
July TO- 1889.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

! York City, whore, fortified not 80 much
by guns as by his magnificent bearing,
he commands and receives the conf
dence aud admiration of whole peo-
pie, he, the meanwhile, occupied with
the duties of Il subaltern in the army,
and in solving, as a subordinate though
trying responsibility, how best to
| serve those who have imposed a great
civic burthen upon his shoulders. Work
! ing, we cannot conjecture how pain
fully in this straightforward Of conflict
ing charges, this man of modest mien
aud small experience in politics, has
led host of followers, many of them
gray-headed in political strategy and
| almost imperious In their seifsuf-
snfficiency, gradually up the political
| incline leading to the White House,
! and has yet to commit his first blum
der, or even to lose n single follower
enlisted under his banner. For good
reason, therefore, we say that the sup.
port of Hancock comes right handed,
and that none of his supporters will he
lost! With the unerring precision ofat-
traction, all the political perpendicu-
lars gravitate to theirs and the whole
cpuntry'S Snee,ly reGlenDtiOn
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

4. FVfECEEFI,
r. l Il r. T. X O q Il w A Il T. ii O u S T. .
Prompt attention given to consignments
Of goods to his care. Charges reasonable
Monroe, La, Feb. 20, 1850. MA
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-01

son, commissioners j. p. Hampton;
clerk.
WARD2.
Precinct 8, Colony schoolhouse-A.
HI. Scriber, John b. Puclkett and w.
D. Wimberly, commissioners F. E.
Bowman, clerk.
wARD3.
Precinct 4, Ice House, Monroe-J. s.
Ray, w. p. Renwick, j. M. Breard,
commissioners; Sigmund Meyer, clerk.
Precinct 5, Court House, Monroe.
Fl. Dinkgrave, p. Trouard, Leon Ger
son, com missioners Jos. II. McCor-
mick, clerk.
Precinct g, Logtown-Fiihioi Wat
kins, John S. Faulk, b. w. Williams,
commissioners; Albert Bowman, clerk.
WARD s.
Precinct 7, Trenton-Abe Calm, s.
Dickerson, Robert Hardy, commission
ers c. f. Bynum, clerk.
wARD7.
Precinct s, Forksville-J. A. Gov
ington, A. w. Sheppard, s. N. Camp,
l.. F.. McClendon,
clerk.
WARD !.
Precinct 9, Cadeville-L. s. Mitchell.
c. HI. Rogers, Robert Hughes, com,
missioners w. II. Coats, clerk.
WARDS.
Precinct 10, Mt. Vernon Churchill.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
A Little Girls Sad Fate.

A little girl recently lost her life in q
strange manner when on her way to
school. While crossing the railroad
track at Whitehall Station her foot got
caught between plank and the rail,
and she was unable to extricate herself
Her broth er, who was with her, tried. to
help her out of her perllous position, but
did not succeed. To add to the horror of
her position, passenger train No. l, due
at Allentown at 8 AZ A. NJ, came thun-
dering along, and the little girl, notwith-
standing the frantic efforts she and the
boy made to free her, was held as in
wise with a horrible death staring her in
the face. AS the train approached she
made last desperate struggle to disen-
gage herself, and the boy pulled and
tugged at her, but all to no purpose.
She realized the impending danger and
laid down with her head from the track
and both legs across the rail. The train
came along and cut off both legs, one at
the knee and the other at the ankle.
She died in about five minutes after suf-
fering great agony. The brother did all
in his power to save her life, but his he
roic efforts availed nothing. Had it not
been for gentleman who hastened to
the rescue of the girl and pushed the
boy off the track two lives would have
been lost. The engineer did all in his
power to stop the train, but the speed
was too great to be checked in time to
avoid the accident. The Coroner held
an inquest this afternoon and rendered
verdict of accidental death.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
Heavy Bond Robbery.

Fourteen one thousand dollar bonds
were stolen yesterday afternoon from the
Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany's building, Chestnut street, below
Fourth. Treasurer Brown states that
he had completed the entry of the bonds
and had placed them in an envelope to be
put away in his safe, when man enter
ed the office and inquired of him what
four per cent. government bonds were
worth. Mr.. Brown made an examina-
tion and found there were no quotations.
He told the individual, and then the lat
ter said, "Well, guess I'll have to go to
the Board of Brokers'" He then left the
building. A few seconds after his depar-
ture Mr.. Brown missed the envelope con-
tanning the bonds. He inquired of Mr..
Cochran, the President, whose desk is in
an adjoining room, but commands o
view of the treasurer's desk, whether he
had taken the bonds. He received neg
ative response, and then it was discover
ed that the bonds had been adroitly alb
stracted. The stolen bonds are six per
per cent gold mortgage coupon bonds of
the Crane Iron Company, Nos. 10, 20,
81, %, %, "a, 63S, $50, GAO, GAL, 642, 643
and 644, of 81 900 each, making in all
$4,000. The bonds were held by the
Garantee Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany as collateral. Notice has been
given that they have been stolen, and
are therefore not negotiable. The North
american, of the 3rd inst.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
How to Stop a Paper.


The following from one of our ex-
changes SO fully and clearly expresses
our view upon the subject, that we copy
1t with comment:
"You have an undoubted right to stop
newspaper whenever you are disposed,
upon paying all arrearages. DO not hes
itate to do so on account of any ten
derness of feeling for the editor. Don't
you suppose he would stop buying sugar
of you, or meat, clothing, dry goods,
etc., etc., If he thought he was not get
ting his moneys worth ! And when
you discontinue your paper, do SO man.
fully. Don't be so pitiful as to throw it
back to the postmaster with contempt
uous, {" 1 don't want 1t any longer j"
and have refused" written on the
margin, and have the paper returned to
the editor. No gentleman ever stopped
a paper in that way, no matter If his
head is covered with gray hairs that
should be honorable. If you do not
wish longer to receive newspaper,
write note to the editor like a man
saying so-and be sure that arrearages
are paid. This is the way to stop a
paper"
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10

three children served as loyal subjects
Wells and wife having jointly become
insane, and their insanity having taken
this form.
1t appears that ls,recently became
heir to small share of $4,000 Inherit
ance, and the prospect of getting this
small share of small fortune upset his
reason his wife subsequently, following
him in his strange hallucination. The
affliction came suddenly ,butit is thought
1t will succumb to treatment, in the wo-
man g case at least. Wells is violent and
has to be guarded.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
Miscellaneous News Items.

USy- One hundred thousand dollars is the
small sum of money named for furnishing
one of the new Vanderbilt mansions iu
New York.
Ny- Edward Neil, anewsboy, while pass
ing through train of cars on Tuesday
morning, near Englshville, New Jersey,
was blown from the platform and killed.
eg9A Young girl at Sandy Hill, N. Y, ran
into the office of an old lawyer, kissed him
and said that she accepted his offer of mar
riage, though he hadn't made any. She
had gone crazy.
NEWARK, N. j., February 3.--Charles
Decker, hardware merchant, committed
suicide last night by blowing his head off
with cannon improvised from hollow
block of iron.
GE- Count Massena, a son of Napoleons
Field Marshal Massena, died in the poor
house at Salt Lake City few days ago. In
an obituary of this man the Salt Lake Iri-
6une ascribes his low end to career of
meanness and rapacity such as marked his
more notorious fathers life. The wife of
the deceased is now domestic in a Salt
Lake family.
sB- RANDOLPH, N. Y, has been the
scene of romance which, in point of faith
fulness on the part of the woman, is equal
to that of Longfellow's Evangeline. -
Miss Betsy Knight who died few days
ago at the age of So years, was in her girl
hood betrothed to young man in Ohio,
and shortly before the day for the nuptials
he died. Miss Knight refused to believe it,
and remained faithful to him all these years
in the hope that he would return and claim
her.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 3.-The Milwaukee
county hospital, located on the county farm,
in the town of Wauwatosa, was destroyed
by fire at an early hour this morning. The
account books being burned the exact
number of inmates is not known, but it is
supposed to have been over sixty. Thirty
were carried out, and others made their
escape. Two bodies have been recovered--
one that of Christian Nelson, the other not
known. The walls partially fell in, and it
is thought that there are several bodies yet
among the ruins. The loss is about $52,-
900. The origin of the fire was supposed
to be defective fiue.
EB- Thurlow Weed says he is Jay Gould's
philanthropic adviser. "Whenever a really
deserving charity is brought to my atten-
tion 1 explain it to Mr.. Gould. He always
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
A Peculiar Court Scene.


In Washington last week scene
which has never had parallel in the
world was witnessed in the red chamber
of the Supreme Court of the United
States. Upon the assembling of the
court, Washington attorney arose, and
made the motion for the admission of
Ex-Governor Joel Parker of New Jersey,
to practice before that august tribunal.
This was granted. To the surprise of
the Judge and the spectators, the fa-
nous female lawyer Mrs. Bella Lock
wood made a similar motion on behalf
of keen but mahogany -complexioned
attorney from Alabama. This also was
granted, and then the old war Governor
of the Jerseys, the war hoss of the De-
mocracy, and probable Presidential
candidate, stood side by side with the
imam and brother" and took the solemn
oath. 1t was scene worthy of an ar
lists pencil-a combination of woman 8
rights, the Fifteenth Amendment and
iron-clad Democracy. Ex-Governor
Parker was immensely tickled with the
incident, and speaks of it as embodying
the liberality of the age, which it unequiv-
ocally does. The colored lawyer was the
first one ever admitted to practice before
the Supreme Court.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
The"HeraId"IrIsh Fund.

The New York =" Herald" prints a
detailed statement of the distress In Ire
land, giving in tabular form, County,
town and parish and number of suffer-
ing in each parish. 1t appeals for funds
to be distributed by its own committee
In Ireland, promising that every dollar
shall go to relieve actual want, and will
print in full names and residences of all
donors and give detail statement of
how the money is expended. 1t heads
this 'Herald Relief Fund" with a sub
scription itself of One Hundred Thou
sand Dollars
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
A Strange Story.

louisville, Feb. 2.-About two weeks
ago little boy in one of the public
schools at this place Mortified the teacher
by remarking that he knew of a new
way to kill babies. Being asked what
the new method was, he replied: "Pitch
it around and catch it like ball, add
ing that he had seen two women doing
this on Guinea Hill, disreputable quar-
ter of the town. The story was placed
in the hands of the police, but for several
days it could not be traced, and the i'm
preston was gaining ground that the
boy had been indulging his Imagination,
when clue was struck which led to the
arrest, on Saturday, of young woman
named Mary Newman on charge of
infanticide. The woman was commit
ed to prison to await hearing, and the
affair was kept quiet; but the principal
facts leaked out to-day. So far as can be
learned, they are as follows: Mary New
man, a girl of 1S, came here from Phila-
delphia, three or four months ago, and
took lodging with a notorious couple
named Seitzinger, living on Guinea Hill.
She said she had been sent here by a
wealthy Philadelphia gentleman, whose
name she refused TO give. Though
SO young she drank heavily; seemed to
have little sense of moral responsibility
and frequently threatened that if her
child was born alive it should not live
long. On Christmas day the child was
born, and several days afterward, when
the mother had regained strength enough
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10

THE REPUBLICAN State Convention
which met in Harrisburg, completed its
task and adjourned on Wednesday.
A resolution instructing the delegates
to the National Convention to vote for
Grant, and to vote as a unit, was passed
by vote of 1873 to 113. John A. Lemon,
of Blair county, was nominated for Aud
itor General, and Henry Green for JUS
tice of the Supreme Court
The effect of the resolution on the
presidential question, is looked at, ac-
cording to the prejudice of the person.
The Blain men are not much scared and
the Grant men are not very jubilant,
though as a general thing, all except
those favoring the Grant movement
and some of them even think ita great
error to instruct at this early day for
any one. 1t is evident that Grant has
no chance of being Presidential candi-
date by unanimous choice, and he has
several times stated he would not accept
nomination except it was so offered.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10

TO carry out her flendish threats, she and
another woman took the child's life as
the boy describes by tossing 1t from one
to the other until the rough handling
killed 1t. Seitzinger then took 1t away
and buried 1t. This is the story told by
the neighbors. Mary was drunk when
arrested, and said she was guilty, but did
not seem to know what the word meant.
She, however, accused the other woman
of helping her. This one has not yet been
arrested, and her name is, therefore,
withheld. A thorough investigation
will be had as soon as possible.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-02-10
The Maine Legislature.

AUGUSTA, Me-, February 3,-In the
house an order was passed that the COM
mittee on the alleged bribery of MEM
bers of this house shall be instructed to
proceed at once with the investigation,
and report as soon as possible. 1t was
also ordered that the judiciary commit
tee inquire as to the advisability of
amending the constitution of the state
so that the right of suffrage shall be linn
tied to those who are able to read and
write the English language.