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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT .
IN. o. Picayunc.1

't.'--'' ." IN. o. Picayunc.1 iJ''s -i'ii
The coming season will probably
serve to fully develop the merits of the
Clement attachment, and prove it's
great value. A number Of these mills
are being erected in various parts Of
the cotton States, and from the iopin-
Ions expressed by competent persons
who have examined into-their merits,
a tair trial will insure their general
adoption. So well adapted to this Sec
tiOn, since they require no skilled Ia
bor, and affording employment to girls
and women, they will ere many years
accomplish a revolution In tho cotton
business. 49, -'5-.t "E.i a.ua.- ut Gosi.a
The Westminster Clement Attach
ment Company, composed of farmers,
though run in great part with second
hand machinery, cleared last year 40
per cent. on the Investment. i'f 80
In answer to Inquiries as to the cost
of these machines, Mr.. T.. l.. Whitfield,
Sr., writes to tho Planters Journal,
stating that it is difficult to give tho
exact cost of each piece of machinery
in a new process cotton factory. IIe
says, however, that tho cleanser OF
seed cotton costs $75, and will cleanse
enough cotton for ten cards and at
tachments. The attachment, with feed
table, chute traverse and stop motion
costs, at the shop OF j. ID. Milburn,
Memphis, Tenn., $500, and the small
drawing and cam motion cost $75 at
the Bridesburg Manufacturing Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pa. Tho royalty
On each attachment is at present $3.50.
The Bridesburg Manufacturing Com
pany will, when requested, give exact
cost Of all the machinery In any given
size new process mill. H.' ".N a. -H"
A one card mill can be driven by 9
seven horse power engine, and requires
seven operatives, all women and girls
to convert ESQ TO 675 pounds of seed
cotton per day into 100 to 1875 pound.
of yarn. "' '..H,.'. ..: 80. ..''i fs'r.'' f''
1t is estimated that every attach
ment will require $1,000 invested IL
permanent machinery, houses, etc.
and 5000 for working capital. To con
vert 12O bales into yarn would there
fore require an outlay of 100000. II
spin the entire cotton production o.
Louisiana would require something
like $50, ,OOO, 900 of capital. Where there
is water power and buildings not need
ed for other purposes tho Investment Is
reduced. .sTI b.. .Eed .,t.s u.4 ,......
Where the profits are SO large, CAPT
tal will be tempted into tho business,
and cooperative mills will spring up,
becoming the nucleus for larger estab-
lishments. r.s...r. ta. .a3ttg..f % ,lE
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
John H. Dinlkxroye.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, MONROE, LA.
IL Office opposite Court House. Practices
in all the Courts Of North Louisiana; also
in tho Supreme Court of tho State and the
Federal Courts. All claims, including cot
ton claims, will receive prompt attention.
Land Oflicc and Pension matters attended
to. March %, 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
No. G9l.

No. G91. AN ACT
To provide substantial artificial limbs
for the citizens of this State who lost
limb or limbs in the military SER
vice OF the Confederate States.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisi-
ana, That the following sums, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, be
and are hereby appropriated out of the
funds hereinafter named, to be paid
from the revenues of the years named,
to supply the citizens of the State who
lost limb or limbs in the military
service of the Confederate States with
substantial artificial limbs; said funds
to be paid out and distributed as here
matter directed:
Out of the general fund of 1880 the
sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,-
OO0).
Out of the general fund of 1881, the
sum of eight thousand dollars $4,000.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That the list of those entitled to the
benefits of this act now in course of
preparation by the special committee
of the House of Representatives, on
stReliefs and for supplying disabled
soldiers with artificial limbs," after it
shall have been reported to the House
and been approved and adopted by
the same, shall be forwarded to the
Adjutant General of the State, who
shall file 1t among the army records of
this State; and said list shall be his
guide rs to the number and kind of
artificial limbs to be supplied by the
State. ,....r ...s r-...-
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc.,
That the Adjutant General of the State,
49, 50
hereby authorized and empowered to
contract for the manufacture of said
limbs in the city of New Orleans, to
place the manufacturer under bond in
sum not less than three times the
amount of the contract price tor each
limb, said bond to be made payable to
tho Governor of the State, and to be
conditioned that all work given him
under the contract shall be promptly
dispatched, and that all work turned
out by him under the contract shall be
substantial and first.cfass in every par
ticular. The Adjutant General is fur
ther empowered, under the direction
of the Governor, to adopt all rules and
regulations that may be necessary tc
carry out the provisions of this act; he
may appoint an inspector of artificial
limbs, if he thinks such an officer in.
dlSpcnSable, ana prescribe MS uutles
and allow him compensation, not tc
exceed one hundred dollars per annum
to be paid out of this appropriation, or
his own warrant.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc.
That the manufacturer shall take thu
receipt of each beneficiary for the worl
3 turned over by him, and said receipt
: with the contract price indorsed there
a o,, bx, tho Adiutant General and an
8 proved by the Adjutant General, shal
:. be the voucher of the Auditor of Pub
r lie Accounts for the warrant, which h
shall issue on its presentation, ON tn
: Treasurer for amount Of contract pric
Endorsed in favor of the manufacture
against the general fund Of the year
n which the work is done.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc
). That in case any one OF the beneficit
ries under this act shall consider thf
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
DentiStfY.

DE.S.L. BRACEY, Dentist, respectfully
y offers his professional services to the
citizens of Monroe and surrounding coun-
try. Having an experience of fourteen
years in the practice, he feels confident OF
giving satisfaction i'll all branches OF his
profession. Is willing to warrant all work.
office at residence on Jackson street, near
the Female Academy, Monroe, La.
v7-marl6:ly
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16

More than three quarters of n cen
tury has passed since Johnson's Ano-
dync Liniment was invented, and 1t is
to-day the most widely known as we'll
rs tho most valuable internal and ex-
ternal remedy in the world. No FAM
lily should be without 1t day. .,..
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
DENTISTRY!

Painless extraction of teeth by tho aid
of nitrous oxide gas, administered by DIR.
d. Beatty, dentist of 25 years experience,
and can refer to work of twenty years
standing in Monroe. Office over Bank,
west room.
Monroe, La, Jan. 2, 1850. tt
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
MONROE FERRY.

Ferriage at the Monroe ferry, on sun
days, for carriages and buggies, has been
fixed at half rates.
Pleasure skiffs kept for hire at all times.
II. J. LARkIN.
Monroe, Jan. 80, 1880. If lessee.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
Dr. r.T.P. Richardson

"AS resumed tho practice of Medicine.
III He may be found, when not profes-
siOfially engaged, at Moore's drug store
during the day and at his residence at all
other hours. Monroe, Feb. 6, 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
l. RICHARDSON. s.. d. M'I1NERY
J. $. YOUNG.
Richardson. McEnCrY & Young,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Monroe, La,
n will practice in all the parishes OF
North Louisiana, tho Supreme Court of tho
state, the Federal Courts, and in the Land
Office Department of the General Govern
ment. January IL, 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
p. SrUBBS. TALBOT STILLAMAN'
Stubbs Il Stillm0n,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Monroe, La,
~ will practice in tho Parishes Q.
OmacAit1, N0reAoaese, 1ctc11tasl and Etxsss&ki7s
and in the Federal Courts. Will take
claims for collection in all other parishes in
same in connection with attorneys residing
there. March Z, 1879. 1y
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
A BACHELOR OF HEARTS.

The Picayune having recommended
tho school teachers TO overcome Mr..
farmers objection tothcir bill Of relief
by proceeding to the Legislature and
proposing to marry him outright, that
distinguished representative bachelor,
and Representative of Louisiana, has
become somewhat alarmed, but DC
clares that, If the alternative is presented
to him of marriage or voting against
his sconvictfons on point tofconstitutionat
law, the constitution must go to the
wall. We do not hesitate to dehounce
this declaration ns ungallant, and trust
the ladies will take dire vengeance on
this crusty bachelor, who seems to glory
In his lonely and unpatriotic condition.
~ q. DcnaoCrut. ........ I'D.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
JOHN CALDERwOOD.

Practitioners in Medicine and Surgery.
Office on Grand street, in rear of q. w.
McFee's Drug Store, and opposite J. w.
Smiths carriage shop.
January %, 1880. n2O:fy
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16

A freedman was Killed by q boiler cX-
plosion In Cincinnati, and his mont,-
ment bears this inscription; "Sacred to
the memory Of our'steemed friend.n
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16

c. j.. BOATNER. Il NJ. J. L1DDELL.
BOatner & Lilslell,
4 IrORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT
n Law, Monroe, La, will practice in all
the Parishes of North Louisiana, in the
Supreme Court at Monroe, the Federal
Courts, and in the Land Office Department
of the General Government.
Office fronting northeast cornor of public
square. January 3, 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS.
IN, O, Delnotcrat.l

k&Ns We A0AAAOCA0Ssl
The, select committee appointed by
the United States Senate to investigate
the frauds perpetrated during the last
Presidential election, have In the course
of their examinations discovered what
lie at large, that the statute of 1876 re-
latfng to the subject Of levying political
assessments upon the employees of the
government was practically dead
letter and had never been observed.
The assessments instead of decreasing
have largely increased, and though the
imperative demands have ceased, and
clerks and other ofnclals are no longer
ordered to subscribe, yet the method
substituted for the old Is none the less
effective, and the unfortunate and help
less employe h forced to subscribe rNol.
s,atasi2y or may prepare to pack up and
seek for employment In other fields
and pastures new.
Every Radical administration has
resorted to this shameful system of
blackmailing the employees in the, vari-
!ous departments of the government.
and Mr.. Hayes, with all his high
sounding professions Of honesty and
civil service reform, has permitted this
robbery to go on, nor lifted his voice
or finger to prevent it. In the election
of 1873 tho Republican National Com
mittee managed, by sending duly ac-
credited agents into every executive
department in the United States, to
wheedIe or extort from the Off.
cials and clerks the sum of $685. 900 fol-
campaign purposes, and it is reasonable
to assume that at least double that sum
was squeezed from the same cheerful
givers during the Presidential struggle
of 1876 -
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16

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missible-will bo charged double our regu-
lar advertising rates. .--'.-
Obituary and Marriage notices will bc
charged as advertisements.
Any person sending us five new cash SUBJ
scribers, at the same post-office, will be en-
titled to a copy of THE TELEaRAP gratis
for ono year.
ADVERTISING REG
Transient advertisements must be paid
for in odVamce.
All advertisements sent to this Office
when not otherwise ordered, will be in
serted ''till forbid" and charged accordingly.
editorial business notices will bo made,
free of charge, of all advertisements ordered
in the paper; for other editorial notices a
ehurlse of % cents per line will be made.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
Drs. CalderwOOd g. Ably,

THOS. Y. AIRY.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16

Joseph f. Johnston,
A TTORNEY AT Law, MONROE, La,
n will practice in all the Courts of tho
Fourteenth Judicial District and in tho
Supreme Court of tho State.
January 25, 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16
BAKER Il sTROTHER,

A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Monroe La
n Will practice law in North Louisiana
before the Supreme Court at Monroe, Fed
eral Courts of Louisiana, Cnurt of Claims
and Supreme Court of the United States al
Washington City.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-04-16

John Il. Lullelin2.
T1ORNEY AT LAW, Monroe. La, will
II practice in the State and Federal Courts
in Louisiana, and in tho Supreme Court at
Washington City. IL
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-16
Effects of Colorado Climate.
Denver (Col.) Great West.

II
1t is a singular fact that almost
everybody loses flesh on coming
here from the east. The average
loss of weight sustained is about
one-eighth. For instance, in the
course of two or three months 200
pound man loses twenty-five pounds
and becomes a 175-pOunder. This
is due to the high altitude of Den
vera mile above the sea--to the
dry and light atmosphere, to the
scarcity OF vegetation and to the
comparative abundance of oxygen,
which consumes the tissues and
taxes the vital functions to a greater
extent than on lower attitudes.
Higher up it is much worse than
here. At Leadville, for instance,
which is two miles above the sea
level, the diminution in weight
does not generally fall short of a
sixth or seventh, and it takes place
much more rapidly than here. In
that high altitude, too, lung diseases,
such as pneumonia, very frequently
set in, and they prove fatal in about
thirty per eentum of the cases at
tackled. But very few dogs, except
hounds, can live in Leadville, and
no cats survive there. In Denver,
however, we have multitude of
both dogs and cats, and they appear
to experience no special difficulty
about living and getting fat. Yet
it is a noticeable fact that animals
and men lose a share of their
strength after coming here. After
being here two or three months
their muscular power is not near so
great as in the east. Nor can they
endure so much hard work. Eight
hours of continuous labor does more
to exhaust and PROSTATE man here
than ten hours in Illinois or Wis
consin. And when worn out and |
Frustrated feeling of lassitude and |
drowsiness that it is very difficult to |
dispel comes over one. In such in
stances many hours of rest are |
requisite to repair and rebuild the |
wasted energies. Mental labor is |
even more exhausting than physi-
al labor for eight or ten hours day, |
and experience therefrOm no spe-
cially evil effects; but let mental
labor be pursued with the like
and the nervous system
becomes weakened and irritable.
In time the physical powers become
and weakened by sym
pathy and by the strain upon them
to supply the brain waste. These
facts are more noticeable in the case
of newcomers than of those who
have lived for year or more at
high attitudes. Persons AID ami
mails thoroughly acclimated do not
these drawbacks. In
deed these could not look better
than they appear here.
The great difficulty is in getting ac-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-16
STORY About Artcnas vVara.

There are yet living in Pottsville,
Pa, several gentlemen who never
hear the name of Artemus Ward
without a smiling recollection of a
pleasant night spent with that droll
genius. In the winter of one OF the
earlier years of the war Artemus
Ward w;tS advertised to deliver his
famous lecture ON the Mormons in
the town hall at PottsviIle. Much
curiosity was excited by the an
nOuncement of his coming, and
there was every reason to expect
that the hall would be crowded on
the evening Of the lecture. But one
OF he fierceSt tSnOw-Storns that ever
visited the town ragged without in
termission all day, and the night
was wildly stormy when the lee
turer was driven to the hall. He
found awaiting him there only five
men who had defied the storm. Ad
vancing to the front of the stage,
and beckoning with his finger as If
to a single individual, Artemus said,
in an ordinary conversational tone,
"Come up closer" Not knowing
precisely what to do, the audience
of five compromised with their en-
barrassment by doing nothing. Ar
temus changed his tone to that
used by one who wishes to coax,
and said: "PIease come up closer
and be sociable; I want to speak to
you about little matter / have
thought OFF,
Having succeeded in getting his
audience to move up nearer the
stage, the humorist said: ST move /
that we do not have any lecture
here this evening, and I propose
instead that we adjourn to the
restaurant beneath and have a good
time" He then put the motion,
voted on it himself, declared it car
ried, and, to give no appeal from
the chair, at once led the way to the
restaurant. There he introduced
himself to his intended auditors,
and spent several hours in their
richly compensating
them for disappointment in the
matter of the lecture by the wit and
numor of the stories and anecdotes
number that he told. And
hat is how Artemus Ward lectured
n Pottsville.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-16
A Great Apple year.

In 1873, when apples were unusu-
ally plentiful, $4,000 barrels full
were sent abroad, but IL is calcu-
lated that this year no less than
100000 barrels will be shipped to
Europe, where the crop Is said 10 be
almost an entire failure. This Of
course gives American shippers an
open market, and will result, as has
been stated, ia the shipment Of half
million barrels of the fruit. The
prices realized in Europe, too, are
double what can be obtained here;
so that it can readily be understood
how important a part the European
markets play in the fruit trade. A
significant feature of the shipments
is the fact that many of them are
made from Montreal, where the
freight rates are so much lower than
in New York that money can be
saved by senliing American apples
there to be shipped abroad.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-16
Roninl.ce. ices Of a srsas storm.


Sixiy-five years ago. on Septem-
Der -, 1915, The great gale swept up
NarHgansett Bay and OVERWHELMED
/ our ancient town in its fnfy and
desola'i0n. Ihe annals OF the gale
/ still remaio, but only here and there
u a survivor who at the ago of f0ur-
score PRESERVES the memory Of rs
fearful ravages, and the suffering by
which It was followed. five should
tell the tale now, on this pleasant
morning, as I'VE have heard il from
aged lips and read 1t in the chroni-
cles Of the time, it would seem like
a creation Of an excited Imagination
and the wilderness Of rOmance. It
would be difficult for readers now
to believe that these peaceful ele-
ments with which we are surround
ed could have been cOnvulsed with
rage and destruction, that these
whispering winds should have ris-
en- into hurricanes and the placid
waters of the bay into mountain
OF seas But houses were broken
and crushed into fragments, the
bridge was swept away and thirty
vessels, large and small, Indiamen
and coasters, were stranded IN the
cove under the brow Of Smiths
Hill. The story of the great gale is
no fiction, however Incredible Il
may seem that it occurred just at
these dates ofpleasant days. Itwas
a "liner," everybody said. Thank
God we have passed the cline" this
year with out any commotion or ex-
citement in earth or sky, and under
the brightest and cheerfulest iniiu-
ences OF natulre.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-16
329.
Chicago Times.

The three hundred and twenty
nine ($32)-the amount Of one ofthe
presidential candidates loans from
Oakes Ames) is running through
the country like wildIire. 1t broke
out first at Bourbon, Indiana leap
ed thence to Washington thence to
New York and New England, and
will infect the wholenOrth. Every
where the mystic figures spring into
being like magic they become liter
ally the handwriting on the wall.
All the Irish Americans who sat
down to save their country at Sara
taga had 1929 in gigantic chalk
marks staring at them from their
desks. All through the New Eng
land towns 1929 is marked on the
sidewalks and fences, People go to
rest at night never dreaming what
is before them, and In the morning
their eyes light upon 1929 chalked
evry where. The houses of republi-
can politicians have been covered
with the sign. Democratic politi-
clans make their bets$329. Portraits
of Garfield are decorated with 329.
Public buildings are 50 blazoned.
The mischief craze is rising, and will
probably not stop until, like the
epizotic, it spends itself upon the
Pacific coast.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-16
WHOLE NO. 2,342.



Maggie has been on the stage fol
thirty years. She acknowledges e
fOrty-three, AID as she has made a
great deal of money people wonder
why she does not retire. The truth
is TINT she is not MS rich rs she WAS,
and her work now Is for her chil-
drens Some years ago her husband
Paddock bought the Forest Place at
Long Branch, paying seventy-hve
thousand dollars therefor, forty
thousand dollars of which was cash
down. Time ran on and interest
and taxes with it, but the little
comedienne is in no sense a business
woman, aud so left every thing to
her husband. One day the remain
ing thirty-fve thousand fell due
and could not be met. The place
was sold on mortgage, and brought
her less than her first payment, and
she awOke to realization of the
fact that she had a hard time before
her, and SO the little woman is on
the stage yet.
Maggie Mitchell, since her first
great success in New York, nineteen
years ago, has been Il carryall for
her entire family. She feeds, lodg-
es and clothes them. She has an
old father, between seventy and
eighty, who is veritable "Old
Eccles," and the only way he can
be kept from giving away to his
weakness lies in locking him up
and feeding him on regular rations
of wiskey.
In spite the familiarity with her
plays and acting Maggie Mitchell is
still one of the great paying stars of
the stage. She makes money con-
and everywhere, and she
deserves to. She has created a
school in acting, and she is beyond
Few women have Civ
en- as great pleasure to the public.