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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-22

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1.-THE rumor
was current this morning, despite the
Sentinel's denial, that a committee wait
ed upon Mr.. Hendricks at the Oates
house last night to solicit him to accept
the second place on the ticket in case it
was rendered him. Mrs. Hendricks is
said to have received the delegation
with the remark that tif Thomas was
not good enough for the first place he
was certainly too good for the second. p
With this they were compelled to return
without the promise they sought.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

The New Orleans Item thus notices
the death of u citizen of that city we'll
known TO many of the readers of this
paper:
Genial, bluff, jolly Dan Hiclok hay
ing arrived at the ripe age of three score
years and ten, quietly shuffled off the
mortal coil and on buoyant wing his
spirit returned to "God who gave it,"
a little more than third of century
ago he came to this city aud for sever
al years thereafter, was captain of
steamboat running between this city
and Cincinnati. He then abandoned
steamboating, and, concluding that he
had the qualifications necessary TO
keep hotel, entered on that business.
His establishment at the lake end of
the new shell road became famous, not
only for its bibulous and substantial
entertainments,i but fors the wit and
humor of the host. Dan was n fellow
of Infinite comieality and could tell a
story which would set whole bar
room in roar. When the war came
on Dams occupation at the Lake End
was gone, and he retired for time
into private life. Subsequently he
purchased the CarrolIton Hotel with
its beautiful garden; but when his
hopes Were highest he was stricken
with paralysis and ever SINCE he has
been an invalid, though HE loved a
joke as wellas ever. Peace toSthe ashes
of Jolly old Capt. Dan!
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10
THE plEpMoNr AND ARLINGTON.

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 1.-The failure
of the Piedmont and Arlington Life
Insurance Company was announced
this morning. An assignment of all
its personal and real property has been
made to Angus r.. Blaley, trustee, for
the benefit of the policy-holders. The
company has been embarrassed for
some time, but the immediate cause of
suspension was the extraordinary NOR
tality among the policy holders this
year, and the pressure in courts by the
holders of these claims for Judgment
against the company. No exact esti.
mate of the liabilities can be made
until the actuary has examined each
policy and reported. An estimate of
the assets is now being made, but will
not be completed for several days. A
circular to the policy-holders, giving
them full and accurate information as
to the condition of the company will
soon thereafter convene them to decide
whether they will reorganize the COM
pany or take steps to reinsure their
risks out of the net assets which may
be realized under the deed.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10
ssFREQuENTLY QUOTED,

The Vicksburg Herald and New Or
leans Times are pleased, and mutually,
no doubt, that they are the most FREE
quently quotedby Northern journals of
any Of the Southern papers. We shall
concede that such is the fact but what.
does that signify The Oklahoma States
was but recently more extensively
quoted than bothSthe Herald and tho
Times. And the States, we bolievc,
is dead.
The little thrift that may follow quo.
tations, our contemporaries should en-
joy, and we hope they will. There is,
however, a reserve Journalistic force,
not quotable up North, which will, it
is believed, survive the frowns of
Northern newspapers. IT is composed
of home journals Live Southern news
papers; and our own people love
them. The right Of our contemporaries
to have theirarticles copied sup North"
is not denied. We have that right
also. The difference between us is but
Slight /; their articles are copied, while
ours are not, and the distinction is
theirs. Let US suggest, however, to
the Herald and the Times, the better to
reach their readers and admirers, that
they move North where they are ap.
preciated.e These dull, stupid South.
IRONS are. wanting in the fine percep.
tive faculties for which our cotem.
poraries are so industrionsly published
They appear to be laundering in g
yacuutn-howling on the desert air
in this Southern country. They have
talent, no doubt, but it is not appre
ciated down South, where there is {
lack of mind, and where there is nj
appreciable sense of "forgetery.,
Here, we plod on, it our cotenlporarie.
please, and pray that lightning may
not strike US. Our simple minds may
be turned to the past-and we have
past, of which we, happily, are proud
fools as we may be-and we hav,
some crude ideas of hereafter. w,
are not in need, it appears, of mission
4 aries of the Herald and Times order O
propagandists. Their proper field is il
the ice foes. Let them seek the New
York Herald's lost vessel.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

of Ouachita parish, that two hundred
and thirty-one dollars are hereby APP
propriated to pay the clerks, commits
sioners and deputy sherifH for services
at an election held on Tuesday, No
vember 2, 1880, as follows.
For clerks three dollars.
g Commissioners four dollars each. 4
" Deputy sherifs, six dollars each.
The Clerk of the Police Jury, is
authorized 10 issue warrants in accor-
dance herewith, when there is money
in the Treasury.
Adopted December 6, 1880.
- w. G. KENNEDY, President,
john e. HANNA, Clerk p. j.
ORDINANCE NO. 42G.
Appropriating money to repair the
leyees and build bridge across
Bayou Chenerre, on the Natchi-
toches road, and appointing commits
sioners to contract for and receive
said work after completion.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury,
that one hundred dollars or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated to build bridge and re-
pair the levees on the Bayou Chenerre,
where the Natchitoches road crosses
said bayou, and that I. IT. Burnum,
Geo. w. Bolton and S. N. Camp are
appointed commissioners to contract
! for said work with the lowest bidder
receive the same after completion. and
draw warrant when there is money in
the Treasury.
Adopted December 6, 1880.
w. q. KENNEDY, President.
| JOHN E. HANNA, Clerk p. J.
ORDINANCE NO. 427.
| A authorizing the President of the Police
i Jury to sell the lease of the Chou
| drant ferry on the Arkansas road,
! for term of four years at public
/ auction, and fixing special rates for
crossing on said ferry.
| Section l.. Be it ordained by the
Police Jury of Ouachita parish, That
w. G. Kennedy, President of the
Police Jury of this parish, be and he
4 is hereby authorized to advertise and
lsell the lease Of the ferry across the
Choudrant on the Arkansas road, TO
the last and highest bidder for term
of four years, said sale to take place
on Saturday, January 1, 1851, and said
lease to begin on January 1, 1881, and
end December 81, 1884.
Section 2. Be it further ordained
ETC., That the purchaser of said lease
shall be entitled to charge the rates for
crossing at said ferry, as now fixed by
law for the ferries in this parish, ex-
cept in cases of where wagons bring
produce to be sold in this parish he
shall charge as follows
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10
LOUlslANA's VOTE.

official Tnbulation of the Vote for
Presiden:ial Electors.
Garfield
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

The hotel in Delta kept by Mrs,
Porterfeld, was destroyed by Gre on
the night Of the 9Th inst, with all the
furniture therein. A stranger, stopping
at the hotel and supposed to be on his
way co Monroe, perished In the flames.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

Section 8. Be It further ordained,
etc., That all ordinances, or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith are re-
pealed, and that this ordinance shall
take effect from and after January 1,
1881.
Approved, December G, 1880.
VIC. KENNEDY, President,
JOHN e. HANNA, Clerk p. j.
The Police Jury adjourned to 10 a.
M, Monday, January 3, 1881.
w. j. KENNEDY, President.
JOHN e. HANNA, Clerk z. j.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

The following ordinances were in
troduced, read the first time, the
second time by their titles, the rules
were suspended and after Il third read
ing adopted.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

Hancocls's maj q, o7s.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

Ohio has candidates for dozen
Scholarships and only one seat to offer
them.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10

Recommending the adoption of this
estimate and its publication according
to law, we have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
u. MILLSAPS,
A. ID. RUSSELL,
a. MYATT,
Committee.
The following ordinances were in
troduced, read the first time, the
were suspended and after Il third read
ing adopted.
ORDINANCE NO. 1923.
Appropriatipg money for charitable
purposes.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury of
Ouachita parish, that the amounts set
opposite the names of the paupers
mentioned below are hereby appropri-
ated to theif support for the months of
January, February aud March, 1881.
Nancy Madison, 10 be drawn by Vim.
John McCane, to DO drawn by w. T.
Oaks; $500.
Mary Ann Payne, to be drawn by w. J.
Thos. Sims, to be drawn by J. "A. Coving-
ton; $500.
$500.
Catherine shillcrs, to,b, drawn by John
Hendricks $500.
Chloe Richardson, to be drawn by
Jethro Moore $500.
Adopted December 9th, 1880.
w. G.. KENNEDY, President.
JOHN e. HANNA, Clerk u. j.
ORDINANCE NO. 42i.
Appropriating money to pay the claims
against the Parish of Ouachita, as al
lowed by the committee on claims
at the December 1850 session of the
Police Jury.
BE it ordained by the Police jury of
Ouachita parish, That one thousand
and seventy six and 19-100 dollars
i (Sloz6, 19), or SO much thereof as may
be necessary is hereby appropriated to
pay the claims against Ouachita par
ish, as allowed by the committee on
claims ut the December, 1850 session.
Adopted December 9th, 1880.
w. G. KENNEDY, President,
JOHN E. HANNA, Clerk p. j.
ORDINANCE NO. 425.
Appropriating money to pay the
clerks, commissioners and deputy
sherifs, for services at an election
held Tuesday, November =, 1850.
Be it ordained by the Police Jury
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10
POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS,
forF1oIAL.l
PARISH OF OuAcnITA, !

PARISH OF OUAcHITA, / 4
MONROE, La, December 6, 1880.
The Police Jury met at the Court
house persuant to adjournment.
Present-W. G. Kennedy, President;
"a. d. Russell, J. w. Scarborough, F.
III. Cam, U. Millsaps, w. w. Patrick,
w. G.. Dunn and A. Myatt. Absent
b. Il. Thomas.
The minutes of last meeting read
and approved.
President Kennedy reported the bel
fry in Courthouse square repaired to
the amount oftwenty dollars and that
he had drawn warrant for the
amount.
Mr.. Cam requested to he absent and
on motion the President appointed w.
q. Dunn TO act in his place on the
claims committee.
On motion of Mr.. Millsaps the Pres
dent is authorized to advertise for sale
the ferry across the Choudrant, on the
Arkansas road for four years, and the
Ouachita City ferry for two years.
The President appointed Messrs Rus
sell, Nillsaps and Wyatt committee
to prepare an estimate of expenses for
| the year 1881.
| MONROE, OUACHITA PARISH, LA.
| December 6, 1880. J
| TO the President and members of the
Police Jury of Ouachita parish.
4 Gentlemen We, the undersigned
Icommittee appointed to prepare an
estimate of expenses for the year 1881,
beg leave to call your attention to the
following statement
For expenses of courts and crmi-
nal prosecutions, comprising Sher-
iff7s fees, etc.,. .OC
Feeding prisoners ....... 5OO.0C
! Prisoners to peEetentiary... ......... zoo. 0(
i Witness claims 25O.O(
| District Attorney fees........ ......... 2OO.0(
Salaries of Clerk of Police jury. :. $50 .0t
Il g g Parish Tceasurer....... 250.0(
Justices of Peace........ ..............-. 200.Ct
Constable.-.... .... 10000
Grand and Jecit Jurors 135OOt
Police Jurors. ..................... 3500t
II Coroner and Coroners.. 3O0.Ot
Public schools..... 170O on
Roads and Bridges..... ........... 1900
Printing ........................ $4,000
Charitable purposes Observation-Disclosures. 5OOOt
/ Repairs on public buildings. 800. 250Ot
Mescellaneous expenses........ 2500t
Il Total. ........Slo, 700O
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-10
J. r. MUIR, Proprietor.

Having purchased the interest OF the sue
cession of III. NJ. Bry, deceased, the under
comes sole proprietor of the Monroe City
Steam Saw and Planning Mill, and viii
lumber, pine or cypress, planning, making
shingles, &C., to pc furnished, on short
notice. in any quantities desired. A large
lot of superior, timber, both pine and
cypress. on hand. Prices to suit the times.
Address orders to J. X. MUIR,
p. .. Box 81.
Monroe, September, 20, 1850.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-25
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST s5.

and for the people-liberty to speak, liberty to
vote as one chooses without lear or molesta-
ton. Such is not the case in Mississippi and
other Southern States under so-called Demo
cratic rule.
Liberty there means to vote the So-called
Democratic ticket and none other; hence
arises the question, Does the Democratic party
represent the Democracy? The verdict can be
no other than decided No! Ii honest North
ern Democrats can be made to see this question
as it presents itself TO me, Garfield and Arthur
will carry every Northern State and be tri-
umphantly elected.
The Republican party with its glorious rec
ord, has made mistakes. What party has not?
The almost endless detail in Carving out the
spirit Of the laws, makes it necessary to employ
a large force OF men, some of whom have been
proven to be bad men-men who have prosti-
tuted their high calling for their own personal
aggrandizement-butt the party has survived,
because the principles upon which it is founded
of the Republican party is to weed out the
bad and to preserve the good, and the party
that strives SO do this, and strives to protect
Its rich and its poor, its high and its low, its
white and its black, will rule the republic so
long as the people are true to constitutional
liberty.
With regard to the third question would
say briefly, the presumption is from all the
facts connected with their state government.
that there is not southern State, except, per-
maps the States on their northern boundaries
tnat nave democratic state. government in
the sense of true Interpretation of that word
democracy means liberty, and if any portion
OF the people of any State are politically de-
prived OF their liberty to speak, write or vote
as their conscience dictates then their respec-
tive state governments, when called demo-
cratic, are libels ON the name and are not what
they profess. d. PLATT.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-25
MINOR TEI.EGRAMs

Trainer, who shot Smith Waite on the pro-
peller at Buffalo, was. captured in Canada yes
terday.
Gen. Joseph E. Wheeler has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the Sth Ala
bama district.
Three Littlefeld brothers were killed in
difficulty Saturday at Leesville, Texas.
George S. Gotham was found dead in the
stable of E. L. Chapman YESTERDAY morning AFT
Epping. The body was covered with blood
and blood was also found in the rear of Chan
mans saloon, a few feet distant, which indi.
Gates foul play
The Republican State Committee of New
York nominated Judge J. Fogler, the present
presiding officer of the court of appeals, for
Chief Judge.
Parties from the west report that Victoria 8
Indians whipped Grierson instead of being
whipped and are now in Mexico
The first bale of the new crop of North
Carolina cotton was sold in New Yerk yester-
day at auction for Is cents a pound. The
grade was strict low middling to middling.
Arthur Brubo, aged II, was drowned in a
well at Suncook, N H., yesterday
Mrs. Corbett, widow, committed suicide at
Milford, Mass, yesterday by hanging.
Willie Talbot, aged s, was drowned at Fitch
burg, Mass, yesterday while bathing.
A young Brooklyn lady committed suicide
by jumping overheard from the steamship
Arizona in the Irish channel
President Hayes leaves for the Pacific coast
thursday to be gone till November.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-25
Death of Gen. Albert !. Mvar

BUFFALO, Aug. M.-Gen. Albert j. Myer
chief OF the signal service, died this morning
The immediate cause of Gen. Myers death
was Bright's disease of the kidneys together
Win chronic heart disease from which he had
suffered for some years. He leaves wife and
six children.
WASHINGTON, Aug. M-A general order
with reference to the death of Brigadier
General Albert j. Myer, chief signal officer
will be issned from the War Department to.
morrow General Thomas 81. Ruger is prom
mehtiy mentioned in connection with the
vacancy caused by General Myers death.
Gen. A. j. Myer was native of Newburg,
N. Y, was born Sept 20, 1898, and graduated
at Geneva College in 1S47. Subsequently he
studied medicine, graduating at the University
OF Buffalo in 1851. Three years later he was
appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United
States army. During the war he served as
Chief Signal officer of the army, holding the
rank OF Major until March, 1868, when he was
promoted to be Colonel. For meritorious
services during this period he was breveted
Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and Brigadier
General. In July, 1864, he ceased to be Chief
OF the Signal Service, but resumed the post in
July, 1866, and was charged in 1870 with the
duty of taking meteorological observations at
the military stations and other points in the
interior of the continent, and giving notice by
telegraph Or signals Of the approach and force
OF storms Under his direction the Signal
Service has become of great value to COM
MERGE and agriculture. Gen. Myer was the
author of "Manual of Signals for the United
States Army and Navy" published in 1868.
By an act passed by Congress at its late session
he received the full rank of Brigadier General
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-25
NEW YORK.
Search for a Southern

Search fora Southern Merchant.
New YORK, Aug. 24.-The police are search
ing for John M. Benson, a merchant of Mont
gomery, Ala, here ON business, and who has
disappeared. He appeared out of his mind vt
times, grief at the death of a favorte sister
being the cause assigned.
Hotel Sued for Breach of Contract.
The Brooklyn Thirteenth regiment has sued
the Rockaway Hotel Company for $4,000
damages for failure to carry out a contract to
supply food to that command while encamped
on the beach. Dodsworth's band also sues for
$4,000 damages for breach of contract.
The Alliger Bond Case.
The examination of the Alliger case was
resumed today, when Owen O'Connor was
called to the stand for the defence. He de-
tailed the manner in which the bonds were
stolen from him. Witness had known Alliger
for years; never did and does not now suspect
him Of stealing the securities; would not have
sworn that that he suspected him had he been
aware OF the nature of the affidavit when he
signed it. Considerable time was lost in pre-
pairing the affidavit of Mr.. Sherwood, whose
securities were stolen from the Westport
Comm Bank, owing to the Discrimination of
cashier Jordan of the Third National Bank of
this city to give corroborative testimony.
After some further testimony had been TAX
en-, counsel moved for Alligers discharge on
the ground that the charge had not been sus-
tanned, and motion was also made for reduc-
ton OF bail. Both were denied. The charge
preferred by Merritt Trimble was then heard.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-08-25
(Albany Journal].
The Ripened Fruit of Renublican
Administration.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-THE Northwestern Jrr,,or
exnrsssaS hI;s met yesterday The generally
= nourish1ng condition and the demand for Timber
This year greater than ever BEFORE "e'
This is the general verdict in regard to every
department OF trade. Thousands of men are
doing q hourlshing business to-day who would
have been beggared if the insane financial
policy OF the Democratic party had Succeeded
The business condition of the country for
twenty years to come hung upon the currency
issue OF Tour years ago. If resumption had
failed, the then ruinous panic Womb have
bankrupted not its thousands but its tens of
thousands. ' "a
The Republican administration in 1874. de.
clared an early resumption possible, and Re-
puoncan congress made provision for it, Our
most Sagacious f1nanciers agreed with Secre-
tary Sherman that nothing else would Mace
the business OF the country upon a solid foun-
dalton. Ao"n-
But this the Democratic party denied What
they demanded was expansion not resumntion
more irredeemable currency and not mere1v
sufficient amount of currency to meet the
exigencies OF commerce and the demands of
trade. VI
So infatuated were they that they took
square ground against resumption. and. in
their National Convention, demanded the re-
peal OF the law which fixed day upon which
our currency should be made redeemable i'm
coin and be brought up to par in every COM
mercial country in the world
They were moved to make this suic;dal do
mand, not to benefit the country but to secnre
votes. The honor of the Nation and the best
good of the people was nothing to them if thew
could secure few Presidential electors Nv
catering to the fallacies of the men who fool.
ish!y believed that nothing was needful to
make every man rich but an illimitable issue
OF an irredeemable currency.
But the men who had the sagacity to pro-
pose resumption had the courage to CONSUME
mate it. AT the hazard of defeat thew held on
to their righteous purpose; and they had their
reward. They were not defeated and resumn.
tion was accomplished.
And the country and the people are now
reaping the fruit of this sagacity and courage.
With redeenable currency came Condolences
and hope. Business instantly revived Evarv
department. OF industry became instinct with
life; and to-day the country is rejoicing in
sonnder and healthier prosperity than it has
enjoyed for twenty lars ''''
1t would have been far different if the Dam
ocratic leaders had had their wav. There
would have been no resumption; no sound chr
rency; no restored confidence; no revival of
trade; no limitless demand for labor: fewer
happy homes, and future as dark as it is now
luminous. ~ 40 ~"
Friends! Let US act like sensible men.
Judge party by what it has ACCOMPLISHED
and place the heel of condemnation upon those
who did their utmost to prevent the consum.
nation OF the series of measures which have
resulted thus happily for the country and the