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The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02
Notice of Election.
SHEKIFF's OFFICE.

sHEKIFF's OFFICE, !
Bastrop La, Sept. oath, 1880.
In compliance with the laws Of Louis
lana, and in accordance with IL proca-
nation of the acting Governor Of the
State of Louisiana, notice is hereby
that an election will be held ON Tues
| day, the ID day of November. 1880, at
the different polling places Of Morehouss
| parish.
At which election there are to bt
| chosen by the qualified voters of More.
house parish by general ticket. Collectors
of President and Vice President, two Of
| whom shall be for the state at large and
six for the several electoral districts
OF the state, fo-wit:
One elector for the First District. COM
posed of the parishes of Plaquemines and
St Bernard and of the third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh, eight, ninth and fifteenth
wards Of the city of New Orleans.
One Elector fol the I'd District, com.
posed of the first, second, tenth, eleventh,
Twelfth, thiI tenth, fourteen tn, sixteenth
and seventh wards of the city of New
Orleans, and of the parishes of Jefferson,
St Charles Saint John the Baptist and
Saint James.
One Elector for Third District COM
posed OF the parishes of Ascension, AS
sumption, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberville,
Lafayette, Lafourche, saint Martin,
Terrebonne, Vermillien and Iberia.
One ElectOr for the Fourth District
composed of the parishes of Bienville,
Bossier, Caddo. DeSoto, Grant, Natehi-
toches, Rapides, Red River, Winn and
Sabine.
One Elector for the Fifth District,
composed of the parishes of Concorda,
Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, East
Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln,
Madison, West Carroll. Morehouse, QUA
chita, Richland, Tensas and Union.
One Elector for the 9th District, COM
posed of the parishes of Avoyelles, East
Baton Rouge, West Baten Rouge, East
Feliciana, West Feliciana, Livingston,
Pointe Coupee, Saint Landry, Saint
Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington.
And also for one Representative In
congress to represent the Fifth congress.
ional District of the state of Louisiana
in the Forty seventh congress OF the
United States for the term Of two years,
to date from the 4th day ofMarch, A. D.
1881, said District composed of the FOL
lowing parishes, Concordia, Caldwell
Claiborne, Catalonia, East Carroll,
West Carroll franklin, Jackson, Lincoln,
Morehouse, Ouaehita, Richland, Iensas
and Union.
The election will be held from7 A. N.
until 6 o'clock P. NJ.
And do hereby direct all commission
ers, and other officers, to hold said cleo
L. Il 81 IN
manner and form provided for BY e1is'
ting laws.
Witness my hand and signature. ON
cially this oath day Of September, l5oo.
w. P. DOUGLASS, Sheriff.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

A SAD CAsE,-Last autumn
when the Kansas fever was at its
height in this and adjoining par
ishes. a party of colored folks
left this vicinity for the "prom-
ised land" Among them was
"Aunt julia" one of the most
efficient, trusty and industrious
of her race. Since her husbands
death, a few years ago, she had,
by rigid economy, accumulated
quite a snug sum of money which
with all other necessaries, gave
her the promise of comfort in the
future:
But the emissaries of Radical
ism found in "Aunt Julia" An
easy prey 10 their designs. Kan
sas, as pictured by them, was q
paradise, the allurements of
which were sufficient TO cause
her to dispose of everything that
could be converted into cash,
and, against the pleadings of her
relatives, to leave with the crowd
for the happy land" She never
reached the proposed destination.
When nearing the journeys end
she was knocked in the head by
some of hel companions, robbed
of all she had, and left for dead
on the wayside. How or by
whom she was found is not known
but her first return to q SEM
blance of intelligence was to find
herself in the streets of st. Louis
destitute, decrepit and in rags.
After several weeks, during which
time she had wandered around
the city, subsisting on the char
ity of passers-by, she was recog-
nized by former acquaintance,
and kindly cared for until, not
long since YVES brought back by
her son (Sam Lee, we'll known
throughout this parish) who had
learned Of his mothers circum-
stances from the friend who had
found her. There is bat little
else to relate. Sam Lee was
forced to dispose of everything he
possessed in order to bring his
mother home. bnt though she is
again among her friends, she
knows them not; the cruel blow
she received at the hands of the
robbers has not only deprived
her of reason, but life is slowly
ebbing away-another victim of
Radical infamy:-[L ivingstoniar:
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02
LITE rEH.S ITEMS.

Senator Hoar, tho shrewd
Massachusetts, politician is in
very feeble health.
The Hancock boom boometh
the more lively as the weather
groweth cooler all over the
great North.
The cotton yield around Stark
Vile, Miss, will be about bale
to five acres. That looks like a
crop of 100000 bales.
Mississippi's gifted orator, l..
@. G. Lamar, is doing noble work
on the stump in Indiana for
Hancock. When Lamar speaks,
the multitude listen with capture.
There is more idle money on
deposit in the National Banks
than has ever been before, and
rates of interest were never
known to be so low as now.
The people of Sheridan, Phil
lips and other counties of Kan
sas are actually suffering for food
on account of the failure in the
wheat crop last Summer. The
reports from those counties are
appalling.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02
TAX NOTICE.
STATE OF LOUISIANA - Parish Of

STATE OF LOUISIANA - Parish Of
West Carroll Tax COLLECTORS Office,
September 18th, 1880.
Notice is hereby given that the tax
rolls for the year 1850 are now on file in
my Office, and in the Clerks office of the
said parish, and that the Taxes are now
due, and they will become delinquent on
the 3lst day Of December, and will draw
eight per cent per annum interest from
said date until sold in accordance with
Article 2lO Of the Constitution of the
State Of louisiana
w. W BRADLEY.
Sheriff and Tax Collector Parish of West
Carroll. oct2-2t
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The bad weather that we have
had for the last two months
seems to have had as bad an eff
feet upon some of the Louisiana
editors as it has had On the
crops. At all events some of
our quill drivers are snortins
and cavorting, and paving the
dust in a manner that indica es
a very disturbed and excited
state of the mind. It would
seem that some of them are
thirsting for blood, and nothing
but blood will ever satiate their
fiery Indignation. Lanier wants
to battle his hands in the blood
of Jastremski, and the "gifted
editor of the Picayune anguish
es for the gore Of the Democrat,
while Connolly, of Alexandria
calls Goodwyn, Of Colfax, a id
liar. .-..@
All of these things excite a
naturally timid mind-like ours.
When we read such threats our
blood runs cold, and our sleep is
disturbed by horrible dreams
dreams of terror, of conflict, Of
cleaning swords, of flashing
knives, unerring pistol balls, yea,
even of rivers of blood and
means of dying editors. We fire.
quently lay aside an exchange
and mop the tears from our eyes,
wishing that we could persuade
our brethren to keep cool.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The police of New Orleans
picked up last Sunday a genuine
modem philosopher whose name
is Cicero Alcibiades Smith, and
whose condition was that of a
man hanging to a lamp-post.
The philosophical theorist plank
ed up a ten for the privilege of
getting drunk.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The editor of the Morgan City
Free Press has his nocturnal
slumbers disturbed by gang of
shouting church-goers, who meet
near bis residence. Those
shouters are the means of rails
ing the ire OF the editors wife
who takes revenge by inficting
healthy spanks upon the "latter
end" of the little editor.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The National Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee have decided
to concentrate all of it's influence
in Ohio and Indiana iu order to
carry those States in October.
If the Democracy win in that
election the Presidential race
will be virtually settled.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02
For Congress. Fifth District,
T FLOYD KING,
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

Sixth Judicial observation-disclosures and
West Carroll. J. Harvey Brigham,
Judge; Ed f. Newman, Dist. Atty
Morehouse-Jury terms-First Mon
day in February and September. CT
vii terms-Second Monday in May and
December.
Thos. w. Williams, Representative.
w. p Dougsass, shstiff, and ex-officio
Tax Collector.
e. w. Ross, Clerk and ex-officio Record
er Of mortgages, etc.
VIM. B. Taylor, Coroner.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

A mechanic was accidentally
caught in the machinery of a
rolling mill in ST. Louis last
week and was whirled round at
the rate Of $50 revolutions per
minute for three minutes. When
he was extricated he was con-
sidered dead, but by the prompt
application of some restoratives
he was soon revived, and is now
all right.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

It is now a settled fact that
We are to have a press conven-
tion.-[Covington Farmer.
Wonder if Lanier and JAS
tremski will be there? Ii so We
shall stay away-we are altered
of 'em.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

John Kelly, the great New
York politician, says the popular
majority in that State for Han
cock and English will be at least
fifty thousand votes in Novem,
Der.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The Democracy of Virginia are
hopelessly and shamefully d.
vided. The split grew out Of a
proposition to settle the debt
question of that State. 1t is to
be hoped. however, that theolo-
cal discussions will not 80 madly
blind the people Of the Old Do
minion as to let its electoral
vote slip intolthe hands of Gar
field. If they do Hancock's de-
feat will be laid at the doors of
the stubborn Virginians.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The members of the Parish Ex-
ecutiye Committee will meet at the
court house next Wednesday. Very
important business.
20. Leavel, Chairman.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The date Of the public:debate has
been changed to Oct. 18th on ac-
count of the continuation of Court.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

Shreveport has an ice factory
which supplies the:speople, with
ice at a cent and half per
pound. With a small outlay
Bastrop could be supplied with
that great summer luxury, and
the owners could make big
money. Who will have an ice
factory here next summe
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

is approaching rapidly, and 1t IS
natural that people should be
anxious as to the prospects
ahead. The question is not I'M
frequently propounded us as to
the outlook. While there is not
that open, active interest taken
in the campaign that We are &C.
customed to see among the peo-
pie of this parish, yet every
thinking man is anxious and So
licitous.
It has been stated through
these columns repeatedly that
the Democracy have pure, able
and popular leader. Upon that
fact strong hopes have been
founded for success. The cam
paign upon the part of the Dem
acratic party has been very
wisely and properly conducted
upon an aggre ssive principle.
On the other hand the Republi-
cans have been forced to act
from the outset upon the defen-
sive. Our candidate is ire
proachable ; theirs is stencil in
the nostrils of all right-thinking,
unpreiudiced men. Ours has
shown adevotion to untrammeled
liberty and un.eAish honesty in
every station of public slife !;
theirs has displayed a cunning,
tricky, ayaricious, nnpatriotic
principle whenever and wherever
opportunity offered. Ours ex-
pressed a desire-and acted in
accordance with ito bury and
forget the war, when the war
was over ; theirs has been equal
ly rs diligent in kindling the en-
bers of strife and blowing the
smoke Of those embers into the
eyes and nostrils of a people
who long since confessed their
errors and submitted to "the
powers that be-" Ours is mag
unanimous, spotless hero and pa
triot; theirs is q base, corrupt,
dishonest, far-seeing political
trickster.
It would seem, then, with such
a contrast in the two men placed
before the people of this country
for such an exalted position, that
the Democracy have decidedly
the advantage. 1t would seem,
| at first sight, that our candidate
| will have an "easy walk over"
But not SO. The party, whose
candidate Garfield is, realizes
the fact that his defeat in No
vember means the humiliation
and eternal destruction of that
party. His unconstitutional he
is obnoxious to thousands OF
honest Republicans-means a
perpetuation of Republican do
| minion. Hence, it is not difficult
to understand the reason of the
gigantic efforts that are being
made to succeed in November.
Neither is it strange that the
Democracy are so sanguine OF
success. One party is banking
Upon the intrinsic merit OF their
candidate, and the other, like the
tabled Florida fool who was dig
ging heroically for. the'gopher, is
banking upon the necessity Of
obtaining SO rich asprize.
If We are to judge, however,
from the revolution that has
taken place among hundreds of
leading Repu blicans North since
his nomination, we cannot but
conclude that Hancock stands
the better chance for success.
Influential Republicans, who
supported Hayes in 1876, refuse
to support Garfield now. Able
journalists, whose pens have
heretofore blazed out q path for
Republican candidates, are now
hewing the road for the gallant
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

The Vicksburg Herald Com
pany propose to issue a man.
moth edition of that journal on
the first day Of October. There
is no daily newspaper in the
South gotten up in . nescsier
style than the Herald. It's edi-
torials are vigorous and consery-
alive, while its localsare always
pithy, pointed and entertaining.
To peruse the "Great Conscien-
tious" daily is an exquisite plea
sure.
Go to Heller & Turner's for
L IL u
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

Quart, and half gallon queen pre-
serve jars, the best manufactured, at
tt. Sehuster & Silbernagel's.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

0udil wy . "ASA AirSoA -1AOct"
ers give The New Orleans police
world Of trouble.
Cotton is rotting and sprouting
in the fields of West Feliciana
parish.
The population of Richland
parish is 1927, an increase of
1926 since 1870.
The Sentinel complains of a
vast amount of sickness in Lin
coin parish.
The Republican says there is
a great deal of fatal sickness in
East Carroll.
A COW was killed in Opelousas
the other day because she was
thought to have hydrophobia "
Two little rogues, aged 7 and
16, We're locked up in the Jail of
Natchitoches the other day for
burglary.
All the deer seem to have
taken their final departure from
Lincoln parish. Guess they have
all gone to Booster,
The corn, pea and potato crops
of Union parish are unusually
large, but the cotton crop is q
failure.
A cigar peddler was nabbed
by a q. 8, official in New Or
leans the other day for trafficing
without the requisite license.
A man by the name of Sanders
is in jail in Winnsboro, accused
of killing O'Conner, whose death
we mentioned last week.
A newborn white babe1 was
found floating in a New Orleans
ditch last Sunday. Strenuous
efforts are being made to find
the author of so inhuman a crime.
The Tensas Journal boastingly
says there ore no delinquent tax
payers in that parish, and brags
on the financial condition OF the
people. ......-. .-...
The Sabine Index calls Con-
nelly's Radical sheet-We the
People-"We the Peep" A bet
ter name would be "We the
Piper" T.
| Harry Hyams, Of the Sugar
Planter, refuses to be President
of the Press Convention. You
should be more considerate,
Uncle Henry.
E. John Ellis, the "silver
tongued orator Of Louisiana"
was renominated., for Congress
from the second district the
other day. . ...
For genuine devilishness and
simon-pure cussedness. the boys
of Colfax are entitled to the
medal--it should be a good
tough cowhide: -
A venerable Methodist preach
or, r. e. johnson, died in Frank
| lin parish last week. He was
eighty-six years old, and had
been connected with his church
for seventy years.
A cotton stalk is on exhibition
in Clinton, which has upon it one
hundred and eighty-four grown
hollis. It grew in East Feliciana
parish on Mr.. Rawley's planta.
ton. .
The stage running between
Vienna and Shreveport, turned
over in Cypress Greek last week,
throwing a young lady head-long
into the stream. It was by the
greatest efforts Of the driver that
her life was saved. The mail
was lost. - as@l 5lsa 49,
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

Choice apples are selling in
Monroe at twenty cents per
dozen.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02
COTTON In NEW ORLEANS.

New ORLEANS, Sept. 28.-Coy
ton easy, with sales of 3 500 bales.
Ordinary, &c; good ordinary,
109c; low middling, lie; middling
l1ac; good middling;; l1gc; mid
ding fair, 12ac. Receipts: net,
Att bales; gross, 4,551. Ex-
potts: to Great Britain 1000
bales.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

Chewing tobacco and cigars OF
ell grades at Emblng's Bakery.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02
HATS

For ladies, gentlemen, boys and
children, in endless variety, at
If. Schuster & Silbernagel's.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-10-02

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sEs Khstit,EiTl,dpr Without, ,Basting.s.

n, H,viissw1ovsr1anez .xsllass.; =;
Il viii sew over seamsIn any gar%onty yvIthoa,t,
making long or short stitches, breaking OF thread
orpucEerins the lining Ct the goods at the seam
10 run the machine and to guide the work'r "
point which no other machine possessesss,
.Itist the only practical machine tor hemming
bias alpacas, ponlins. muslins, and other similar
Goods @ Without bastng, and 1t is the only machine
N the world that will turn q wide hem across the
snd Of sheet without fulling the under or upper,
Il Viii turn hem and sew in fold at one oper.
il VIM do telling, bias or straight. on any cotton
or woolen goods.
II will bind dress goods with the same or Other,
material, either scallops, points, squares sGr
Bind folds without showing the stitches, and
Il VIII put on dress braid and sew in' facing
and bissfold at one operation, without drawing
either dress. braid Or SKIRT and without showing
F0i5 bias Trimming and sew on at c:;-:pera-
MA Make 8 miliners folas VII, different cOlors and
piece, Of goods at one operation and sew on al the
S twill HIS sew in Sleeve covering aTcoraEindl
stitching It into the seam at the same time;s
Itwilfgather without sewing o".~lt will gather
On aather SetWeen swo bands showing
stitches on the right side, at one operation
II will make and sew q ruffle on any part OF q
dress skirt, and sew on bias fold for heading at
one operation, showing the stitches ON the right
aide. -------'''S'""'
ItwIl gather and sew on band with piping
between rufiie and band, at one operation. 4
II will sew band and rufle on dress skirt,
stitching in piping at head of band, at one oper-
alton.
Itwm make plated trimming either straight
or scalloped.
straight and sew on a band, and edge stitch the
band, at one operation.
II will, with one operation for each variety
without bastng, execute 20 practical varieties ot
ruffing, being twelve more than CO.. be produced
on any other machine with the glno number OF
operations.
MdRas not change length of stitch on: scroll
itsers from lace to leather without changing
stitch or tension.
Every machine Is warranted for Ave years ana
will be- kept IN repairs free Of expense to the pur.
chaser FOR SALE BY=--- -
HAIR MAN,
Apr "a Agent.
Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-17
THE "CURRENT MONEY" CASE.

The opinion of Judge Pearre in the
suit of Shaffer & Mum VS.. Union
Mining company, brought to test the
validity of chap, 279, Acts of 1880,
commonly called the Current Money
Act" was filled Tuesday. The opin-
ion decides that the Act of 1880 pro-
hibiting companies from paying their
men except in cash is not obnoxius to
constitutional objections either under
the State Constitution or under the
provisions of the 18th amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.
1t is not special law within the
meaning of the constitutional inhibi-
ton of special laws where general
laws are applicable. The provisions
Of the Constitution prohibits srecisl
legislation in regard to persons, and
rot classes of persons or corporations.
The Legislature may find law prop
er in regard to certain classes of cor
porations and not as to others. The
effect Of this law is to prevent corpo.
rations from getting the benefit OF
the set off. The Legislature had
the power to do this.
The Act is constitutional whether
considered as police regulation or
as an exercise of the reserved power
of the Legislature to alter or amend
the company's charter. 1t may well
be doubted whether the company had
any poaUer under its charter to enter
into such a contract, even prior to
this Act. To do 80 was to convert
the company into collecting agent
which was line of business not con-
templated by its chartor. Corpora
tions have no powers except those es-
pecially granted by their charters, or
necessarily incident to the business
they are authorized by their charters
to conduct. Whether wages or any
chooses IN action shall be assignable at
all is matter Of legislative discretion
At common law they are not assigna-
BILE. Public policy may require that
the company should pay in cash and
not in merchandise. Of this the Leg
islature is the sole Judge.
Judgment for these reasons waf
entered in favor Of the defendant.
An appeal has been taken from
this decision, Cumberland News.
Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-17
OUR CORRESPONDENCE.
COMPANY STORES" AND THE
"CURRENT MONEY ACT.n

Mr.. Editor :-"Fair Show" was de-
lighted last week when he read in the
JOURNAL that Judge Pearre had de-
cided the Current Money Act" con-
stitutional. He come to the conclu-
sion Tuesday to hold bonfire, but
just before he applied the match a
fellow came along and remarked that
"Shaffer G. Mum have appealed to
the biggest Court in the State"
"Then," said I, "The Union Mining
Company has appealed, too. This is
the most amicable suit on record
Plaintiff and defendant go right along
together. Heads win, tails you
lose, is the game. If the plaintiffs
had won the defendants would have
reioiced with them; but as they lost
they weep, and wall, and gnash teeth
together"
am pretty well satisfied that the
high Court will decide justlike Judge
Pearre did. From what I saw of the
latter's opinion in the Ne,os the
Judge took pretty much the same
grounds 1 did all along. Does he re-
ceive the JOURNAL? He does; but
our correspondent will doubtless dc
both the Judge and himself an in
justice by intimating that anything
but close scrutiny of the law and
careful study of its bearings had tc
do with the makeup of this opinion
Hence, we have just here stricken out
the views Fair Show" claims the
Judge "has confirmed and endorsed
ED.
So, dear Editor, I always believed
I was right. Since Judge Pearre'l
decision / know it. | did not study
Parsons for nothing.
I have put off the bonfire until
hear from the Court of Appeals, but
I will be able by that time to make il
bigger.
l see some Homecoming chap il
troubled all over about my bad gram
mar. / admit it all, but for my life
couldn't tell where it's good or bad
I go by habit of talking and by sound
I don't know nothing about grammar
or the rules of composition. But
do know that the company store
system" is illegal, and Judge Pearr'
says it always has been. So, dry W
on grammar, Teacher.
FAIR SHOW.