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level-headed woman, who gave
some good advice to her sable
audiences.
Judge II. M. Spoffard, of New
Orleans, died last Saturday at
Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania.
His death relieves Kellogg of the
uncertainty of retaining his seat
in the U. S. Senate.
A man by the name of Mix
was savagely murdered the other
day in New Orleans by three
brothers whose sister Mix had
'airted' With. The names OF
the murderers is Defiance.
The revenue officers arrested
a New Orleans merchant the
other day for wholesaling whisky
under a retail license. The mer-
chant is one of the largest deal
ers in the city:
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SUCCESSION SALE,
STATE OF LOUIsIANA-6th Dist,

STATE OF LOUIsIANA-6th District
Court, Parish of Morehouse. Success
sion of D. w. Noteworthy, decd
BY virtue Of an order Of sale, issued
from said court, and to me directed MS
tutrix and rs such administering the sue
cession of d. w. Noteworthy, decd, I
will, on
SATURDAY, 25th September, 1880,
offer for sale, at the door of the court
house, said parish, at pnblic auction, to
the highest bidder. between the hours
prescribed by law, the following de-
scribed property belonging to said sue
ccssion viz: "a feet off the south side
of the north half of lot 4, and 81 feet off
the south side of the north half of lot
No 5 in block No in the town of Bas-
trop, fronting "a feet on Washington
street by 100 feet back between parallel
lines, being same lot on which formerly
stood stopehouse of ID. w. Noteworthy,
Terms of sale-Cash, at not less than
inventoried appraisement.
G. NOTEWORTHY, Tutrix.
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Hamburg High School |
II I T..
A. B. PETTIss, Secretary.

This school, inferior to none, and sur
passed by none, in the real work of edu-
cation, will beg its fourth scholastic
year on Monday, Sept. IL, 1850.
We now have such facilities for train
ing both boys and girls, as but few
schools enjoy; long experience, new
house, with elegant furniture, including
new pianos, and an undivided mind and
devotion to our business.
All parties having children to be sol.
idly educated with MONEY TO PAY FOR
THEIR EDUCATION, are invited to try us.
Two hundred and fifteen dollars, one
half on entering and remainder Febru-
airy, 1881, will pay all school expense,
for one year, except in Case of m,lsic pu-
pills, whose tuition is $50 more.
Boys and girls both can be boarded in
the house of the Prir cipal. Circulars.
with further particulars, sent Oh lppli-
cation to, ID. G. i. CONNERLY.
Aug Ia, 80. Hamburg, Ark.
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PROCLAMATION.
MAYORS OFFICE, BAsTRoP, La, }
August 2lst, 1880. {

MA ioh . of ieE. bAsTRoP, LA, !
August Dist, 1880.
Whereas, under Act No. 10 of the
| General Assembly of the State of Louis.
| lana of 1880, one-third of the tax PAYERS
of the town of Bastrop have potioned
the municipal authorities of said town
tor certain amendments to the present
charter OF said town, said amendments
being fully and specifically set forth in
ordinance No. 6 of the town of Bastrop
adopted 9th day of July, 1880, and hav-
ing been published in the Morehouse
Clarion, a newspaper published in said
town: and
Whereas, The council of the town of
Bastrop adopted ordinance No. 6 order
ing special election to be- held in the
town of Bastrop, the court house in
said town, being fixed as the polling
place, on the 18th day of August, 1856
for the purpose of taking tie sense Of
the duly qualified electors of said town
upon the question as to whether they
are willing to adopt the proposed amend
ments to the present charter nf the town
of Bastrop, contained in said ordinance
No. 6.
Now, therefore, I, Samuel II. Stivers.
Mayor OF the town of Bastrop, do hereby
proclaim to the people of said town that
said election as petitioned for and or
dered by said ordinance No. g. was held
ct the court house in the town of Bas-
trop, on the 18th day of August, 1880,
and that the said amendments were, in
accordance with ordinance No + adopted
and ratified by the qualified voters of
said town, there being majority of
tifty-four votes in favor of the adoption
of the said amendments of the votes cast.
/ therefore the said amendments have
become law and a art of the charter of
the town of Bastrop, in accordance with
said Act No. TO-
S, Fl sTIVERs, Mayor.
A u pIrrrTIcc
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Post Office
for the week ending Thursday
at noon:
Warren Adwill, Mrs. E. NJ
Bird, Richard Bailey, G W. Ben
nett, Caroline Birch, Wilson
Burch, March Davis, Ms Edna
Hearks, Henry Hopkins, John
Haman, Mrs Fannie Harvill, FL
FL Hunter, Lawrence Lambert,
Mrs Mary Mitchell, Wiley Math-
ews, Miss Huldey Moore, Fed
Montgomery, Mrs. Mary Pessey,
Peter Ray, Harry Robbins, Jno.
Ray, Mrs Bette Rogers, David
Reeves, Allen Smith, Mrs. Wilma
Simms, Henry Tolson, Washing
ton Wilson, Durham Williams,
A Willis, Miss Juba Wither-
spoon.
J. M. TURPIN, P, M.
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tai. Let them say what money
loaned is worth.
Never will prosperity smile
upon the producer unit! he learns
to assert his independence OF the
Spectator. No man under Gods
broad sky can make money at
the exhorbitant rates OF profit
that dealers now impose upon
credit customers, and no dealer
on Gods green earth can make
money and prosper so long as
his patrons study so assiduously
to swindle him out of his goods.
What, then, is the remedy ?
Abolish the credit system
Then, and not till then, will the
co,nucopia which rightfully be-
s Ionss to the South be entirely
Let's ignore the credit system.
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The New York Tribune dances
to the same inconsistent tune.
I, "eats crow with a Tanner
like avidity and thinks that the
perpetuation of our institutions
depends upon the election of him
whom it accused Of perjury in
1873. 20, consistency, thou art
iewel" hot found in the Re-
publican party. No wonder that
so many Republicans have aban-
doned the Garfield ship and are
now working for the Soldier
Statesman"
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NOTICE !!
REVISION OF REGISTRATION I

In compliance with section 39, Act
1913, of the General Assembly, of Louis
lana, and approved April TO- 1880, will
opep the books for registration of voters,
who have come Of age since last regis
tration, or by any other means become
voters of the parish of Morehouse, at the
court house, in Bastrop, on WEDNES
DAY, the LIST day of September, and will
remain in said town for said purpose,
until Monday, the 18th day of SepJem-
Der, after which time | will visit the
several polling places in said parish, for
the convenience of those who are desir
Gus of registering, and will attend as
follows:
Polling place, ward No. /, Monday, Sep
TENDER IL.
Polling place, ward No. 2, Tuesday, Sep
TENDER Ii.
Polling place, ward No. 9, Wednesday,
Sept. Ia.
Polling place, ward No. 10, Thursday
and Friday, Sept. Is and l6.
Polling place, ward No. 7, Saturday,
September II.
Polling place, ward No. 3, Monday, Sep"
TENDER 49,
Polling place, ward No. 8, Tuesday and
Wednesday, Sept. 90 and 81
Polling place, ward No. 5, Thursday
Friday, Saturday, Sept. %, %, and "a:
Polling place, ward No. 8, Monday and
Tuesday September 26 and a.
The books will remain open IN Bastfop
until November LIST, 1880 Those regis
tered voters who have changed tneir
ward of residence since last registration
will please give notice and have the
same noted on poll book.
T. G.. BRIGHAM, Registrar
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A ''Henpecked" Husband.

There is no class of beings more
to be pitied than that which falls in
the ranks of 'henpecked" hus-
bands. Being, by nature, SYM
pathetic creature, our heart has
been, from early youth, drawn out
toward the unfortunate husband
that is forced to bow in humble
acquiescence to the unreasonable
whims of an unreasonable wife.
We have often watched the writings
and squirmings of a 'henpecked"
husband beneath the whitening re-
| Dukes of an incensed wife, with
tears in our eyes as big as crab
apples, and we have earnestly wished
that the poor fellow could lie quietly
down and peacefully breathe his
life away. The agony Of horror
depicted ON such a mans brow is
awful to contemplate. His features
betoken misery Of the deepest hue.
His vissage indicates the most in
tense pangs of troubled mind.
His gait is weak and uncertain, and
his expressions are shy and hitched.
The poor wretch never speaks until
assent is given by his queenly
spouse and then his voice is hoarse
and full of nervous jerks.
The ''henpecked" husband dis
closes his misery most thoroughly
when away from home. Then it is
that he contrives to keep concealed
every step that he takes and every
drink that he swallows. His eyes
dance in their sockets like sunbeams
in a frog-pond. Like Gagged fawn,
he starts at every football that meets
his anxious ear. He begs his friends
and comrades never to breathe what
he said or did where his wife will
hear of it. His whole existence
seems to be swallowed up, in one
studied purpose to avoid any act
that might arouse the ire of his
exacting wife. Let him decide to
have ''little social game with the
boys every door and window
must be barred and profound Sc
crecy sworn to by every one pres
ent. In short, the life of "hen-
pecked" husband is one of the most
yigilant, as well as the most anxious
that ever man lived. We feel sorry
for him. Our sympathetic nature
is overwhelmed when we behold his
awful condition, and we shall ever
be ready to extend to such an I'M
fortunate being the warm grip of
sincere coincidence and never speak
of him but to PRAISE him in the
presence of his wife.
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New Advertisements.
NO ICE.

STATE OF LOUISIANA-Parisb &c
Mnrehouse, 9th District Court. Sue.
cession of E. B. Pickett, decd.
Whereas, s. H. Pickett, Curator Of
the succession of E. B. Pickett, deceas-
ed, has filed in the office of the Clerk of
SAID court final account of said estate,
Now, therefore, unless opposition is
made and filed in my Office within ten
days from this date, said account will be-
approved and homologated i'll all its
parts.
Witness the Hon. j. Harvey Brigham.
Judge OF said Court, and the seal thereof
this 10Th day of August, 1880.
f. w. ROSS, Clerk,
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BURIED ALIVE.

Last Saturday DICK Butcher
a we'll known darkey of this par
ish, went down in we'll neal
town to clean it out. While
hammeriDg on some Of the shat
tered curbing, the walls above
him gave way and he was in
stantly buried beneath 20 feet o.
! treacherous sand. The report
Of his horrible death created
great excitement in town. Some
of our leading citizens undertook
at once to have him unea1thed.
It was found, upon examination,
necessary to recurb the we'll in
order to protect the digger from
the same doom that befell
Butcher. The services OF COL
ored man were secured and be
went to work. He dug and
curbed all Saturday night and
all day Sunday. Sunday even
ing the wall began to cave above
him and he abandoned the job.
Monday it was determined to
place the work in the hands of a
white man. Mr.. Mcmillan, of
Gum Swamp, was employed, and
on Wednesday morning he fas
tened a rope around the neck of
the buried man and had him
drawn to the surface. When
found, Butcher was in a sitting
posture with his arms uplifted.
The supposition is that the pom
derous pile of sand that fell upon
him, crushed him down and kill
ed him at once,
Butcher was a good old negro.
He was polite, accommodating,
and very Industrious. Through
his courtesy aud pleasant man
ners he had managed to secure
the good will Of every white man
that knew him The only great
fault that Dick had was his IN
comfortable thirst for stroug
drink. He drank to drunken
ness whenever and whel ever he
could get whisky, and we have
but little doubt that, had he
been sober, to-day he wonld be
alive. His friends demonstrated
with him when he went into the
fatal we'll, and, had he not been
drinking, he never would have
goue down.
We know of no darkey that
would be SO keenly missed as Is
Dick Butcher. He was more
than seventy years old.
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WHAT WE NE Ed.

Hoe handles each rs cents.
Clivices each rs cents.
Lap rings 10 cents.
Very best Sweeps SIS SO.
Sweep blades IS cents.
Plow points rs to IS cents.
Boys iron axle wagons, with ca
pacity 100 to 200 lbs. S. to 81 so.
Nice buggy for the baby SO.
First class single-barrel breech-
loading shot gun s15-guaranteed.
A good no-top buggy SIT so.
A good top buggy 500; cheaper
kind $S5.
ALI of the above, and whatever
else you need, can be found at
HANDY'S, without going any
further, and at prices that compete
with many larges places than Bas-
trop. Call ON him and he will
prove it to you.
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'STRAYED.

From the undersigned, miles north
east of Bastrop, three oxen, two red
ones and one black one. The black one
has two WIS cut on his left horn; one of
the red ones left eye is out, branded b.
S. reward. f. f. BRIGHAM.
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-08-27
REPUBLICAN INCONSISTENCY.

It requires very little reflection
upon the part of newspaper
readers TO detect the glazing in
consistency which has charac
terized the actions Of the Repub'
lican party, and especially the
action of the Chicago convention
which placed before the country
James A. Garfield for President
We have contendel all the time
that Garfeld's nomination was
an accident. But that fact does
not explain away the reason Of
the gross inconsistency which
peculiarly belongs to Republi-
cans. 1t is only necessary to
take an excursion through the
files of leading Republican jour
nails, published in 1873 and 1874,
to discover how utterly incon-
sistent those very papers are
when they to-day support for the
Presidency the man whom they
then branded as o. perjurer and
a bribe-taker. The great dailies
OF New York and Chicago, dur
ing the period of Garield's ex-
posure before the committee ap-
pointed by Congress to investi-
gate his "crookedness" IN the
Credit Mobilier fraud, heaped
slanderous and acrimonious cpl
thets upon him Of the fercest
character. The New York Tri-
bune pronounced Garfield, in
1878, tricky, debased politician
unworthy of the confidence of
any people. The Chicago Tri-
bune branded him with the foul
est charges that ever stained the
character Of a public man. The
Inter- Ocean looked into his
heart and discovered nothing
but rottenness aud depraved
meanness. Even the day before
Garfeld's nomination, the Inter-
Ocean spoke sneeringly and de-
risively of the mention of his
name for such a position as Pres
)ident Of this great nation. The
idea at that time seemed to over
whelm that journal with un-
speakable disgust. Scores OF
other leading Republican papers,
that are now supporting Garfield,
have on file copies which abound
with denunciations Of their
candidate. During the years
1874, Garfield was classed
with Colfax; now be ranks, in |
the minds OF those who then
him, as a peer Of any
American statesman that ever
lived. Then he was called a
now he stands in the
shoes of great statesman. Then
be defrauded the people of their
now he wants their votes.
Then he was a liar; now he is q
saint. What a revolution! And
now it was brought about! The
Republicans who assailed the
of Garfield in 1873, had
title idea that they would be
allied upon to support him for
President in 1880. But then
hey can do so. The Inter. Ocean,
ne Of the most deadly enemies
hat Garfield ever had, pulls off
Is coat now and says that he is
be "purest and most Influential
IAN in the Nation" "a big N:
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Some youngsters bet on a
sharper's tricks the other day in
Colfax, lost their money and
then made him give it back by a
process OF genuine bulldozing.
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For Congress, Fifth District,
!. FLOYD KING,
OFFICIAL DIRECTORF.

Sixth Judicial Observation-Disclosures and
West Carroll. J. Harvey Brigham
Judge; Ed F. Newman, Dist. Atty
Morehouse-Jury terms-F'irst Mon
day in February and September. CT
vii terms-Second Monday in May and
December.
Thos. W. Williams, Representative.
w. P. Douglass, Sheriff, and ex-offieio
Tax Collector.
E. w. Ross, Clerk and ex-officio Record
er of mortgages, etc.
VIM. B. Taylor, Coroner.
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The Herald says that on ac-
count of big rains and hungry
worms not more than half a crop
of cotton will be made in Cald-
we'll,
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-08-27

Groceries of all kinds in quanti-
ties to suit cheap for cash at Leo
pold's.
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THE CREDIT SYSTEM.

|
people, than the credit system
Since the war the credit system
has been a curse to the South
There is a fascination and {
deception connected with
such a principle of purchas
ing. The colored people, who
were turned loose after the wal
destitute and penniless, through
the kindness Of their former
owners, bought such things as
they absolutely needed with the
promise that they acould pay for
them. This newly emancipated
race soon learned to abuse the
confidence which white people
had reposed in them by calling
for more than they had any
visible or reasonable means of
ever paying for. The conse-
quence is that thousands of
them soon fell behind thereby
destroying all the faith that the
white race had placed in them
as debt-payiDg people. Then
came about the abominable de-
fusion of legislating for the pro-
lection OF the creditor. Law
making bodies set their wise (?)
heads together to establish some
code whereby the debtor would
be bound to pay for what he had
bought. The consequence was
that debtors went to work faith
fully to out-wit those who had
no confidence in their honesty.
The debtor, Or rather, the indi-
gent class of people, determined
"to beat" if possible. Hence,
there arose between the pro-
Queer and Spectator in the
South a feeling of antagonism
which has resulted detrimentally
to both.
The fact is, the credit system
should be entirely ignored. I'm
til our peopIe-the laboring
class-learn to "pay as they go"
there will be two warringI ele-
mentsin our country.
Let us sac for a moment. The
co.ored race OF the South, and
especially of this parish, are the
principal producers. They are,
and have been, since the war,
the bone and sinew of this coun-
try. They are an Ignorant race,
and, from education received
at the hands of the Republican
party since their emancipation,
they are a peculiar and decep.
tive race. They have been taught
to consider the white man of the
South as their implacable enemy. |
Therefore, they set to work to
"clean him up" Their inferior
wisdom and judgment failed to
cope with the white man. He
knows their treachery. He knows
bow anxious they are to "wind
him up" He has learned to
swatch as we'll as trust" He has
learned to bind the credit pur-
class in Chains that are
both CALLING and ruinons. He
heaps upon them an overwhelm-
ng burden of percentage in Or
Ter to "save hiuself." Thus it
8 that both buyer and seller are
1t War, neither trusting the
other. Il
The abolition Of the credit
system is the only way to inaug-
1rate a feeling of harmony and
confidence among the two
southern classes-the producing
md specializing classes. The ,
armers can live for one year- {
lard, though, it may be-with- ,
'ut buying on credit. At the ex-
'iration of that year let them
'ay as they go. Let them be {
ulers of prices. Let them say
ow much profit a merchant I
aay make on his invested capt. ,
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last week.
The Telegraph complains of th'
scarcity of clerical force in thu
post office at Monroe.
It will require 100000 bricks
to build the bridge across thu
Ouachita river at Monroe.
The total population of Ascen
sion parish is 1888. The in
crease since 1870 is 5,31l.
The census counters found ir
Bossier parish 1920 people. Ir
1870 it had 1860 folks.
1t the worms do not attack the
crop cotton will be as good in
Richland this year as last.
Since its editor has been sick,
the Richland Beacon looks as il
1t was in bad health.
Peaches are scarce in Natchi-
toches, but watermelons By the
million,
There is pumpkin vine in
Clinton which covers space of
ground eighteen by forty feet.
Cotton picking has commenced
in dead earnest in East Fell
ciana parish. =.
No cotton worms have vet
been seen in Poinle Coupee par
ish.
The people of East Feliciana
parish support handsomely two
live newspapers.
Bossier parish produced the
first bale of new cotton received
at Shreveport this year.
Farmers are gathering corn
now in the upper portion Of AS
cepsion parish, and the yield is
said to be enormous.
The people of Webster parish
refused by a large vote to be
taxed five mills on the dollar to
build new jail.
The enterprising people of
Bellevue have organized "Loaf.
er's Club" which requires an
initiation fee of rs cents.
The Police Jury of Concor-
dia parish have levied a tax of
twenty mills on the dollar for
leyee purposes.
Devilish boys amuse them
selves at night by discharging
their pistols in the streets of
Colfax.
The sanctum of the Bossier
Banner man is the home of a
contemplate fly, which renders
the editor miserable beyond all
description.
The recent heavy rains in
Tensas parish have caused one
bird of the cotton to rot. The
worms are now making a vora-
;lous war on the crop, and plan
ers are "down in tie mouth"
Two colored boys went rabbit
lunting the other day in Ascen.
ion parish, when the gun of one |
accidentally discharged a load of
hot into the stomach of the |
'ther, fatally wounding him.
Powell and Thomas will be
lung in the parish of st. James |
N the Sd of September for the
aurder of one Gaudet. The
|eath-warrants have been signed
y Acting Governor McEnery.
A colored woman from Hsyti
as been delivering lectures 10
on the Negro. She
) represented as an intelligent,
The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-08-27

~ Watches So to 81. Reyolyers~zz9EaN>
t%zA $50 Over 100 latest Novelties 1A&A
T. III .g,t Is Wan,sr sosappiyCo Nashville TN y
The daily gazette., 1880-08-13
BAT SHOOTING.

San Francisco, to which the nation is
indebted for various brilliant Improve
ments upon old ways of doing uthings,
has just been enjoying some competitive
bat shooting. There are many good
points about bat shooting-one being
that the animals are 50 erfatic ih their
movements in the air that any marks
man who can make a record on them is
quite sure to be able to bit anything, else
that flies. Besides, bats are not like
game, protected by any law. 4 They are
neither useful nor ornamental, and they
have au exasperatinga way of entering
lighted rooms, tapping aimlessly about,
frightening women and children and a.
nally darting into whatever ozark object
they can distinguish, careless. whether it
is an antique vase to be upset aud bro
ken or an elaborate head of hair to be
scratched into confusion, Even Mr..
Bergh could hardly object to bat shoot
ing, for, in addition to the ANIMAL 's utter
uselessness, the chances are aboutiten to
one that marksmen will not hit the bat
at all Herald 2 M iH3l