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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04
In Berkshire County, Massachusetts,

In Berkshire County, Massachusetts,
a family of sparrows took possession of
a house which martins had used the
season before. One day the martins
came, and, finding their quarters occu-
pied, began fight for possession. The
fight ended in victory for the martins,
who drove the sparrows away and
turned their nests out on the ground.
Next day the sparrows returned, strong
ly reinforced, and renewed the battle.
This time they were the victors, and the
martins were driven away. But on the
following day the martins returned with
abundant reinforcements, and once more
the conflict was renewed. This time It
lasted all day with great fury, and at
night the battle was drawn one. At
this stage of affairs a compromise was
effected. The martin house is in two
stories, and, as if by mutual agreement,
the martins took one story and the
sparrows the other. On the following
morning both tribes began building
their nests in their respective stories,
where they have continued to dwell
peaceablY ever since.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04
OYSTERS

Ii you are In need Of Stove Re-
pairs call on King & Dagss and they
will ct you out.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04
Where the Profit Is.

A German gentleman who keeps q
lager beer shop treated himself to
days vacation, leaving his son In charge
of s'ter piziness" and keg Of beer.
On his return he found the keg empty,
and addressed his son as follows: "How
IL dis, Yaeob, dat you make me only
one dollar and dirty cents for dose keg
of beer? Show me how you draws der
beer" Yawcob took. the glass and
drew 1t nearly full Of beer, with bnt
the least margin of froth; when the
old gentleman, seizing his hand, said !:
"You make dose glasses stand higher
down from the keg, Yawcob; der profit
in the peer pizzipess is In der pubbles." /"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04

A fellow stopped at hotel at Niagara
Falls, and on settling his bill the land
lord charged him 81 day for five days.
"Didn't you make mistake?" said the
fellow. "No," said the landlord.
"You did," retorted the wiry looking
fellow. "You thought you got all the
money l had, but you are mistaken. l
have whole purse full In another
Docket."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04

Jno. Dages & Co. now have the
largest and cheapest line Of staple
Wool and Fur Hats in the city.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04

Don't fail to call at ERssriNe's
Reliable Jewelry Store. where you
can find a full assortment Of
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, SiIverware
and Spectacles.
Oct. IA, 1880.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04
New for Gen.
tlemen.

BRANDYBERRY has now on
hand new and complete line OF
everything in the way Of Cents
wear-embracing everything from a
Neck Tie to a full Suit Of Clothes.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04
tits af this Season that
HARMlSON'S
New York Store.
ON SECOND STREET,

Is crowded overowng with everything the people need and
go at prices that attempt to match.
this Heau
dtacheGb lessons learned it as
fest them cut Carpets
sotoa ;ngadag d e Carp
from
them nomO t Two
kSoere Pa
ongood,b b npi Ia system dt cd
Nemaked price
We uygodsC i
same
dthoughthe tor ty
has
sevnce o
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-11-04

A little black-and-white King Charles
was one day lying on the rug in the
drawing-room of a house in Essex,
when the master came in, having just
paid its tax. He said: 81 have just paid
that dogs tax" and, looking at it with
very severe expression, added, Sand
he's not worth his taxi The little dog
immediately got up, and, with crest
fallen appearance, put its tail between
its legs aud left the room 1t was never
seen afterward, nor was it ever heard OF
again, although inquiries were made at
the time in every direction.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

grand and petit jurles shall be drawn,
summoned and impaueled In the man.
ner provided by law on that subject !;
provided, that the district judges
OF the several districts may provide
for other jury terms in any parish,
when in their discretion it may be re-
quired.
SEC. 6. Be 1t further enacted, etc.,
That all laws in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
ROBERT N. OGDEN.
Speaker of the House of Representa-.
tivcs.
s. ID. MCEN cry,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate.
Approved February 20, 1880.
LOUIS A. Witt,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy: ~
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary of State.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Mr.. Jerome Bayou, the Oldest editor
in New Orleans, having been editor of
the Bee more than forty years ago,
and subsequently of the Louisianias
and the Courier, died on tho 18th inst,
in that city, in the I'D year of his age.
Shreveport Standard.
If we are not in error, Mr.. Bayou
was translating clerk of the State SEN
ate in 1867 when the writer was one of
the enrolling clerks, and the only one
who could not speak French. Mr..
Bayon was extremely loyal to his
mother tongue, and, although rapid
translator of English into French,
would seldom talk in English. Nearly
all the conversation among the clerks
was in the French language, and the
writer felt, of course, very lonely. We
presume it is changed now, and that
conversation goes on among tho clerks
mainly in English, inteaspersed here
and there with French and the ire
prcasibfe cigarette.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

We have received n copy of the
Topeka (Kan.) Herald, "the only col
ored journal in Kansas" with request
to exchange. We comply. Judging
from the annexed paragraph in the
Herald, we infer that our ex-represent-
alive, Anthony Overton, who lately
emigrated to Kansas, is keeping first.
class hotel in Topeka: .
Mr.. Mason, a boarder at the Overton
House, got into a dispute with gen.
tlenan from Mississippi, opposed to
Grants denomination, which came
near resulting fatally to tho gent from
Mississippi. Mr.. Mason being Grant
man and in favor of the Convention of
Colored Men, attempted to shoot We
Mississippian, and would have sue
ceeded had not his little gun hung fire.
Overton's old hotel in Monroe is for
sale. .r.- -...4. -.,.5
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
AN ACT
No. ~

No. II AN ACT
To fix the first terms of the district
courts under the constitution of
1879, and to regulate the fixing, by
the district judges, of subsequent
terms.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Loui-
siana, That the first term of each of the
twenty six judicial district courts shall
begin on tho first Monday in April,
1880, in that parish of each respective
district which is named first in article
los of the constitution.
SEC. .. Be it further enacted, etc,
That tho district judges of each district
shall, by order in open court, fix the
subsequent terms Of the court, and
shall cause the order to be entered on
the minutes, and copy thereof shall
be sent to the clerk of the district court
i'll each parish, aud shall be by him
recorded in the minute book of the
court and shall be posted on the door
of the courthouse but in the parish
of Cameron, in the Fourteenth Judicial
District, the jury term, as provided
for in article III of the constitution of
1879, shall be held in July of each
year, and the civil term therein pro-
vided for shall be held in December Of
each year. -ur .
SEC. 3. BE it further enacted, etc,
That in each district composed of only
one parish (the parish of Orleans ex-
cepted) the district judge shall fix at
least six terms of court in such parish Of
each calendar year, which shall begin
on days ut least six weeks apart, and
in each of the other districts the dis
trict Judge shall fix ut least four terms
of court in each parish Except in the
parish Of Cameron, in which parish
there shall be fixed not less than two
terms of court) for each calendar year,
which in each district composed of
two parishes shall begin on days at
least four weeks apart, and in districts
composed of three or more parishes
shall begin on days at least three weeks
apart. s-lnls
Sic. 1. Be it further enacted, etc,
That each district Judge shall fix the
term of the court in such manner that
no term thereof in any parish shall con-
aict with any term of either the
Supreme Court or Circuit Court in
the same parish as now fixed.
SEC. 5. BE it further enacted, etc,
That the first term of the district court
in each parish, and each alternate term
therein, shall be a jury term, at which
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Some months ago the TELEGRAPH
had something to say about Congress
man Acklen. 1t was to the effect that
Mr.. Acklen was consuming too much
of the time of tho Geographic press
agents, too many type and too much
printers ink to make it profitable for
the newspapers. Newspaper men like
sensations, and tho reason is, that
newspaper readers like sensations.
But Mr.. Acklen played out as a sensa-
ton some time agO-got to be a drag
on the market, as it were. And yet,
here is Mr.. Ackien again, wanting an
investigation, because of some Nfcara-
qua claims he had in charge and some
report made to the House of Represen-
tatives, which does not appear, as a
matter of fact, ever to have been made.
II Louisiana has any claims upon
of her gallant SONS. The claims in
question are predtcated, however, up
on dollars and cents, and with this we
have nothing whatever TO do. What
we are troubled about Is Mr.. Acklen's
troubles. He appears to have over
reached himself-to have waded out
into water over his head. Hence, we
suppose, he requires an Investigation
merely to see If there are any raging
pillows handy. We do not want to
see Ackien drowned; but good cool
ing shower bath might not hurt MIR.
Acklen.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Noticing the many idle men in Au.
gusta, Ga, who complain that they
cannot get work, the Consfitutionnlisl
advises them to go into the country
saying:
"There il demand for labor. Nc
man need starve in this section of oul
country, unless his pride prevents him
from working in the field. Pride and
laziness keep hundreds of able-bodicd
men out of the fields in Georgia and
other States"
This is equally true of New Orleans
and other cities in this State, and
until these men arc taught that field
labor is not only no disgrace but hon.
orable just so long will our streets and
highways be infested with tramps and
toafers.-A6beriHe Aeyidiouul.
Our sprightly contemporary does not,
OF course, intend that his remarks
should apply to Monroe. Up here,
people don't need to work. 1t is un-
profitable, but along down the coast
there is no doubt a necessity for daily
toll, Just as there Is on all barren,
sterile plains. Coming higher up
about the 32nd parallel-people roll in
iuxuries, and have to take anti-fat,
even without doing a hates turn. If
this Intelligence gets out-and we are
Trying to bury 1t In the TELEanAp11
we shall expect to see, the healthiest
N'no Oh . healthy emigration this way
from South Louisiana. And CARVING
Out our hidden purpose, we may add
that we have never known a man
emigrating from South to North Lou.
isiana who did not grow rich. Or,
which Is the same thing, he would
accept an Office, If rendered him, jus,
like one of our aborigines. Neithe,
riches nor office ever go a.begging uI
here work may, and does, and 70,
the simple reason, that, like the
whoopingfcough, 1t is not wanted.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Inc rev Orleans Democrat wont let
the Picayune alone. One of the subli-
NEST things in nature is the Picayuue's
indiherence. Touching the Democrat
under the goatee, the old lady of Ca,np
street matronly remarks, Ta.ta,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
LAWS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Resu,ar scs.loa of 1850.
ANACT

49,
No. 81 AN ACT
To fix the time and places for holding
sessions of the Supreme Court of
the Stateiof Louisiana.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the
General Assembly Of the State of Louis
lana, That the Supreme Court shall
hold its sessions in the city of New
Orleans from the first Monday in the
month OF November to the end of
the month of May in each and every
year.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc,
That the Supreme Court shall hold
sessions in the city of Monroe, to COM
mence on the first Monday in June in
each and every year. 't j 'd.-'ia
SEC. s. That all appeals, returnable
by law to tho Supreme Court, from
the parishes OF Caldwell, Catahoula,
Richland, MOrehouse and West Carroll
shall be made returnable to said court
at Monroe on the first Monday in June,
and ali appeals from the parishes of
VIM, Claiborne, Union, Lincoln,
jackson, Ouachita and Franklin shall
be made returnable to the Supreme
Court atsaid. city of Monroe on the
second Monday In June. 's.' iaa s-i.''
SEC. 4. The Supreme Court shall
hold sessions in the town of Opelousas,
to commence on the first Monday in
the month of July, in each and every
year. ~" ..-5
SEC. s. That all appeals, returnable
by law to the Supreme Court, from the
parishes of st. Landry, Calcasieu, Cam
erou, .Vermilllon, Lafayette, iberia,
st. Mary and st. Martin shall be made
returnable to the Supreme Court at
Opelousas on the first Monday in the
month of July. ~ 70.
SEC. 6. The Supreme Court shall hold
sessions In the city of Shreveport, to
commence on the second Monday in
October, annually.
SECT That all appeals, returnable
by law to the Supreme Court, from the
parishes of Caddo, Bossier, Webster
Bienville, De Soto, shall be made
returnable to the Supreme Court at the
city of Shreveport on the second Mon
day In October annually.
Sec. 8. That all appeals which may
be granted to said court before the
passage of this act shall in no manner
be prejudiced by the change in the re-
turn day. 2e A..
SEC. 9. That all appeals to the Su-
preme Court from the parishes of
Caduo, Booster, Webster, Bienvllle,
De Soto, which may be pending in the
Supreme Court of the State on the first
Monday of April, A. ID. 1880, shall be
at once transferred to said court at the
city of Shreveport, for trial and dcci-
sion according to law.
Sec. 10. That the returns for the ap-
peals from all other parishes not herein
mentioned shall remain as established
by existing laws. '
SEC. II. That all acts and parts OF
acts in conflict or inconsistent with this
act be and tho same are hereby re-
pealed. 'si'i "
r. N. OG DEN,
Speaker of the House of Representa-.
tives.
# s. ID. MCEN cry,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF
the Senate. s.
Approved February 20, 1880.
,'si Pc: 49,. LOUIS A. WILTZ,
Governor Of the State OF Louisiana.
A true copy:
WILL. A. STRONG,
Secretary of State.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

We see that joint committee of the
two houses of the Legislature, headed
by Col. Tom Green Davidson and ac-
companied by Hon. Duncan F. Ken
ner, have been inspecting the New
Canal in the parish Of Orleans.
That's ALL
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Our esteemed cotemporary ON De-
siard street says:
United States currency is now the
medium Of value Ia all transactions
aud q legal tender for debt or Obltga-
lions.
United States currency Is not, as
stated by our cotemporaTy, ga legal
tender for debt or obligations" ssCur-
rency'' includes National bank notes.
They are retlcemable, 1t Is true, by the
General Government, and the holder
is secure, but they are not legal ten
ders. United States treasury notes
what are called greenbacks-are legal
tenders ssfor all debts, public and pri-
vate, except duties on imports and In
terest on the public debt,'' and these
are the only legal tenders, coin ex-
cepted. 1t is to remove this sanctity
as legal tenders that Senator Bayard
introduced his celebrated joint rcsolu-
ton, and upon which he made his re-
cent speech in the Senate. The reso-
luton Is worth copying:
Joint resolution in relation to United
States notes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
from and after the passage of this reso-
luton all United States notes shall be
receivable for all dues to the United
States excepting duties on imports,
and shall not be otherwise a legal ten
der; and any of said notes hereafter re-
issued shall bear this superscriptfon.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

r. RICHARDSON. SD. Nl'ENERY.
J. $. YOUNG.
Richardson. McEneryA Young,
4 TTORNEYs, AT LAW, Monroe, La,
~ will practice in all the parishes OF
state, the Federal Courts, and in the Land
Office Department of tho General Govern
ment. January 11,>1S79.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
APPEALING 70 THE CHAIR.

We do not blame Speaker Ogden at
all for carrying a pistol to call the
House to order. IF we are in Or
der, we suggest to the Speaker
that he had better read John
Phoenix on parliamentary law, and
especially that chapter referring to
mule howitzers. iInaugurate that style
Of gavcls in the House, and the order
will be uproarous- much more so than
we are gratified to hear It is and has
been. This age demands progress
straight-out, aud We must have 1t.
We thought that Speakers had
learned better than to carry small arms;
bat q hip pocket lone Of our reforms
probably yawned, like an aching
void, to be filed. How much more
useful and delicious would be mule
with a howitzer on his back, standing
alongside the Speaker; and how very
convenient, too! Tickle me, and I
bray. There is no braying in the
House, we know, aud for that reason,
a mule with a wcll-regulated voice, CIV
Ing out a sonorOus song occasionally,
would be extremely enlivening, like a
cheerful song on long march. Should
the House become too disorderly,
Speaker Ogden could touch off the
howitzer, aud thus call the gentleman
to order, without a moments delay.
Some of the supernumeraries- a
member, of course-could at once re-
load the howitzer, and the ambu-
lance corps would carry off the dead
and wounded. The mule would be
always loaded, and very ready. Speaker
Ogden, dispensing with the gavel,
would only have to touch the mule,
and he would rap the whole House
down, even to the foundations thereof.
We rise, with all due respect to the
colored Legislators, to this particular
point of order. We may never make
another one, ssscusing out" that we are
not to be the mule. @
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Mr.. 8. M. McCranie has purchased
the Webster Tribune, and assumed en-
tire control last week. He has asso-
clated with him In the editorial depart
ment @. e. Mcdonald, Esq. Mr.. Nc
Cranie is no novice in journalism, and
besides considerable experience, he
brings with it marked ability. Mr..
Mcdonald is well known for his capac-
ity. The Tribune will therefore sus-
tain Its character as an interesting
journal. -1Ein0zea Democrat. =
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
TON PRINTING
NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THIS OFFICE.
NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE AT NEW ORLEANS, La,
January 23, 1850.

LAND OFFICE AT NEW ORLEANS, La,
january Is, 1850.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
ton to make final proof in support of his
expiration of thirty days from the date OF
this notice, viz: Mac. A. vinson, of Ouach-
ita parish: La, who makes Homestead APP
plication No. 37S, for the northwest quarter
of northwest quarter sec Is. township 10
north range east, Monroe District, La,
and names the following AS his witnesses,
viz: r. J. Furniss and j. b. Lewis, both of
Ouachita parish, La.
W. NJ. BURwELL, Register.
no2l:5t
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
THE CLEMENT ATTACHMENT.
WINDSOR, N. G., Oct. 1. 1879

Yours of the eighteenth of September
received and contents noted. We are
running two Clement attachments. We
have been running about three
months. ,
The. attachments cost $500 each.
We are running 612 spindles, costing, at
Bridesburg, Pa. 50 per spindle. Two
top fiat cards cost 1926 each; card CLOTH
ing $50; one drawing frame, six deliv-
cries, six into one, 5000; one block list
speeder, $3.50; two reels, forty spindles
each, $3.50; one cotton cleaner, $72.
Fifteen-horse power is sufficient to run
the above machinery. We use 1000
pounds of seed cotton per day, and
make an average of 800 pounds of yarn
daily. We work ten maidstone engi-
neer at 81 per day; one foreman, 81:
four girls at so cents, and four girls at
fourths of q cord of wood per day at
1926 per cord. Our mill nets us from IS
to $40 per day. We get from 16 to II
cents per pound for our yarn. We sell
in Norfolk, Va, Baltimore, Md, and
and New York.
The new process has an advantage Of
half over the old. We dispense with
the int-rooln and all the machinery
used therein. We do three times as
much work on our card as can be
done on the same card in the old
process. The cotton is never allowed
to fly or leave the machine until it
passes off into silver, or continuous
roll, into revolving can. The profits
are more than double that OF the old
process. We only use four machines
from the field to make perfect thread
Except the cotton cleaner, which can
be dispensed witty. There are about
ten machines in the old process, taking
the cotton in the seed.
We run by steam, and think it
cheaper than water, everything con-
sidered. The more attachments or the
larger your mill the greater will be your
profits, as the expense does not increase
in proportion. The main object is to
find out how much seed cotton you can
get, and build your mill accordingly.
Ono great beauty in the Clement attach
ment is that you can build on a very
small scale and make it profitable, and
another is that the Northern people
cannot utilize it because they can't get
seed cotton, and therefore they are
down on it and doing all they can
against it. We sell our seed at eight
cents per bushel to the farmers.
Our machinery is all new and of the
latest and best improved. Second
hand machinery can be bought for
half the money, and cheaper class of
new machinery can be bought, but 1
always prefer the best, if it costs a
little more. Bridesburg Manufacturing
Company, No. 60 North Front street,
Philadelphia, Penn, is the address of
the firm that 1 bought our machinery
from.
Any information that can give you
in the future will be done with pleas
ure. I hope to live to see the day
when every pound of cotton raised in
the South will bc manufactured in the
South: then we will become a pros
porous people. We have labored long
enough to enrich the North, and now
it is time our eyes We're opened to- our
own interest. Let me know what
success you meet with.
Very respectfully,
G. Il. HARDEN.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
TO THE PUBLIC.

Having purchased from w. H. Wright,
Esq, his stock of merchandise. etc., and
desiring to continue the business by him
established. most respectfully ask at your
age extended to him.
The business will be under the manage
ment of J: 7. McConaughy, ESD, who is
efficient business man. - -
Monroe, La, Feb. q, 1880. ',lE 'n25
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Our "coast" exchanges have been
complaining terribly about the New
Orleans daily mails. We have noticed,
in all that has been said, but one feel
ing, heart-wrung compliment. The
Iberville South has it--thus:
If all the steamers attempting to
carry the daily mail were as good as
the "Kittie Nye" the daily mail SER
vice might prove a success.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Now hero is something really good
from the Picayune paragrapher-one
OF the finest snatcEes we ever saw:
: Shakspere is being translated into
Icelandic, which is too cold for ssRomeo
and Juliet"
Poor, poor brain! why torment us
thus? Fill up gourd, germinate
seed for squash, place yourself in the
head of n toad, or II mules delicate
heel-do any thing, except to suggest
ssShakspere now being translated"