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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
BAYOU MAxCHAc.

we understand that a party OF U.
s. Surveyors nre taking the levers OF
Bayou Mancllac with the view OF re-
porting upon tho feasibility of opening
this natural canal to steamers plying
the Mississippi.
BY a systom of locks, it is believed
that the rich timber region accessible
through tho Manchac, might be open
ed to the markets of the coast and the
upper Mississippi. Steamers that can
not now reach this splendid region
could easily enter it through this
Bayou.
Through the Manchac, Lake Point
chartrain and the Gulf coast would be
within a few hours travel of this city,
and an immense lumber trade de-
veloped that would render very valu-
able, lands on the shores OF tho East
Louisiana parishes, that are worth lit
tie or nothing at present.
We hope this important matter will
not escape the attention of the Mis-
sissippi River n.-Baton
Rouge Gupit0lidn. a-
This insignificant and tortuous
stream cannot be made navigable eX
cept by the expenditure Of thousands
upon thousands of dollars by the Gen
eral Government, and without a
shadow of a qwid lso quo to justify
such a work. Besides, the opening of
this bayou means the destruction of the
drainage of all the beautiful and pro.
ductive plantations from the foot of the
Capitol Hill to the lower limit of the
Parish of Ibetville, involving the COM
plete ruin ofall the landowners of that
section. We therefore enter our earn
est protest against this projected work
and In doing so we believe that we are
lechoing the sentiments of nine.tent his
of the inhabitants of Iber vile, at any
rate.-Z6e5.UiIIe South.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

From citizens Of Madison parish,
who are just from Mi!Iikcns' bend, we
learn that Their, is u perfect stampede
at that place caused by the rapidly
caving bank ; the store houses and
dwellings Of every one is being moved
back from the river front. The water
is over the track of the Wick Sblr.s
Shreveport and Pacific railroad in sew
eral places, at some points twelve to
fifteen inches. With the present pros
poets of more water coming the out
look for our frscnds across the river is
not pleasant one Pici.SG,h:y GDUs.
33erciOi.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
DR. W. A. THOMPSON,

2ll CANAL ST.. NEW ORLEANS.
PILES. FISTULA and FISSURE
Cured without tho use OF tho
KNIFE. LIG AZURE cAUSTIC,
Free from pain, danger or loss of time
from business.
These Diseases Receive Special Attcn-
ton and Cures Guaranteed.
Epilepsy Fits treat ed with wonderful
success, AS all cases arc carefully examined
and none taken but those offering good
lmpotency, Spermatorrhca and Sexual
nebiity, treated by medicine alone, has
heretofore proved useless and even injuri-
Gus. Ihey do no good, is the universal tes-
ands lave 'sdoctored" for these complaints,
their constitutions together, but the Doctor
combines medical treatment with electric
ity,the electricity being generated by Il
use, and by these means insures success.
Constipation, tho bane of so many lives
cured by simple cthod, with little or no
Diseases of women treated by electricity,
without pain or exposure.
Structure ofthe Urethra and Rectum cured
without Il surgical operation and without
pain; Tape Worm, Diseases of the Kidneys.
bladder. Private Diseases. Rheumatism,
Neuralgia. Nervous and Sick Headache,
Asthma, Weak, Painful and Sore Eyes,
Noise in the Ears, all Skin Diseases, scrof,
ula, Tumors, Loss of Voice, ETC.. success
fully treated by improved remedies.
Letters of inquiry must be accompanied
with stamp for reply.
N. b. No names made public without the
written consent Of the parties.
The following names may be referred to:
NEW ORLEANS TESTIMONIALS.
Capt. MAN BLANCHARD, Piles.
JAS. WALLBILLECH, Supt. johnson
Boundary, Rheumatism.
l.. II. PATTERSON, Pilot Stmr. agaIl,
Piles.
MAX BEER, 1913 Canal ST rect, Neuralgia.
MRs. MILLER: corner Jackson and Lib
e. DILL, Morgan Railroad, Tape Worm.
THOS. ROBINSON, 10 Cont street, Piles.
JACOB BLUM, Baronne street. Piles.
Capt. PHARR, Morgan City, Loss OF
Voice.
LEO wOLFsON, Graphs Bluff, La. Piles.
Col. w. O'NEAL, Covington, Ky, Fistula
| w. +. BROCK, Goodman, Miss, Piles.
J. Il. SWIM, Main street, Cincinnati, Els
sure.
+; WoLE, Pert Hickey, La, Piles.
BYRON EASTMAN, Mercer, Ky, Stric-
J. b. ROSS. Ben Lomond, Miss, Piles.
JAS. ALDt1ClI, Covington, Ky, Dia-
betes.
4. FSEIDIEIM, Bastrop, La, Piles.
cinrati, Catarrh.
J. II. HAWKINS, Mason, Tenn, Dis
charge from the Ear.
J. -: WILSON, Alton, Ky. Epilepsy.
q: ID. HICkERSON, Vicksburg, Miss,
J. r.. WARREN, Carrollton, Tenn, Bron-
clitis.
III. ssHIPP, Owen, Ky, Scrofrla
Office hours from \. NJ. t" i =. NJ
Dec. ;, lSs0.--Sm.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
A 'C'rENTION
TA7 mi IL - {:

Parties wanting Browns Fertilizer Dis
Brown, patentee, at the following prices:
Two to fonr horse farmer. $40 90
-Four to six horse farmer. II 90
Larger SiEe............. 10 GU
Farm rights are sold under special contract
one machine furnished and the purchaser
will have the privilege of akinS and using
many machines as he may need in cult
waiting the particular land described in the
contract.
Also Cooks patent cotton planter, to he
seen at j. j.. WotZel's, price $40.
l'cb'y 4. ID. c. BROWN.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
I ANGDON EISIES.
DANIEL w. LANGDON, Proprietary.
\ purely Southern establishment. Found
ed by Hon. G. G. I4an.slon. Tweniy-Seven
wears in existence.


ed by Hon. &. G. Lan.sdon. Tweniy-seven
years in existence.
The stock of Fruit and Ornamental Trees
and flowering Shru lbs, pecul iarly adapted
to the South, is ample and in ii ne condition,
and the assortment is complete in all de.
partmcntS, viz:
finH 7rces-Apple,' Peach, Pear, Plum,
varieties.
NMt-Beo,'ing Tt'ccs-Pccan, Chestnut, Eng
lish Walnut, Almond, and others.
Grape Vines, Strawberries, Blackbcrries,
Raspbcrries, Pomcgranate, etc. Roses,
C:,mclia, Japonicas. Cape essam ines. Sweet
Olive, Magnolia FraScati, and other tlowery
shrubs; Magnolia, Arborvitocs: Chinese
Pine, and other Evergro ems. or Green
house and bedding Plants, full and com
plcte line.
Prices reduced to suit tho times, and as
low us good stock can be sold.
Descriptive catalogue scnt receipt of
three c-nts to pay postage.
Address, J. NJ. TIN DEL Agent,
Trenton, La.
Refers to Capt. w. p. Rcnwicl ana Mr..
Jno. DraEo, Monroe.
September 10, 1850. On.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
The Albany Argus has received the

The Albany Argus has received the
following
MONTREAL, March >, 1881.
To the Editor OF tho Albany Argus
The spring will be fairly early, hot
and dry, and the midsummer cool and
wet. Thc autumn promises to be
open, dry and fine. There is likely to
be Il great deal of sick ness during the
year, but the wcathcr-nNcept in Il few
isolated scctions-will be favorable to
agricultural pursuits. The winter of
1882 bids fair to be open and generally
mild, with but few, and those short
lived storm periods.
HENRY G. NENNOR
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

n contemporary hits the nail on the
head when he says that ono class of
men in our country do more gratuitous
work than the publishers Of our coun-
try newspapers and none receive less
thanks for what they do. People have
no moro right to ask and expect space
in the columns of a newspaper without
paying for it than they have to ask a
merchant to give them Il bundle of dry
goods or a package of groceries free of
charge.'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

A boy once asked DIR. Burgess, the
preacher, il he would have light?
mo, child, said the Doctor. Il am one
of the lights of tho world Il wish
then,' replied the boy, you were
hung up at the end OF our alley, for
its devilish dark one!'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

Corn is coming up every where.
The crop will not be as early this year
as usual, but the season is favorable
for Il good stand. Some Of the bold
farmers have pat in little cotton.
We learn that tho seed cane is in fine
condition and that the rattoOnS
promise we'll. AS . severe to be
followed by Il good crop year, we trust
1881 will be no exception to the rule.
following as it docs tho scvcrcSt winter
we have ever experienced. Mt'L.S-
WiWe BtHictiR.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

We are informed by the Hon, Geo.
G. Benham that he intends, at an early
day to lay Il narrow guage railroad track
from his Longwood plantation on the
Mississippi river, to one of his stores
on old river, Il distance ofthrce or four
miles. This will be done for the pur-
pose OF facilitating the shipment of 4
large quantity of cotton and seed that
is annually prevented from going to
market on account of bad roads. lIc
thinks that between 5000 and 5000
bales OF cotton will come over the road
yearly, besides Il large quantity of cot
ton seed. This will make Longwoou a
shipping point ofimportancc, and may,
possibly, be the means of building Il
town there of some magniturcd. Provi-
dcncc had, therefore, look to her lau-
rcls and loose no time in building our
road to the hills. The hills oncc reach
cd the extension to Hamburg is an as
surcd fact. Let there b. u full meeting
of the directory on the first of April, to
the end that work be commenced on
the road Immediately Pyori-
dGyace UclTtid.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
LEGAL.
r IST OF JURORS.

State of Louisiana, Parish of Ouacliita.
Clerks Office, 9Th Judicial District Court.
BE it known, that on this tho 5th day Of
January, 1881, the undersigned members
said l parish, and being a quorum rum thereof,
by virtue of the provisions of the law, have
this day met at. the Clerks Office of said
parish, for the purpose Of drawing jury to
serve at tho April term Of tho Fifth Dis
trict Court, ordered by law to be holden
in and for the Parish of Ouachita, on the
having supplemented the general venire to
the original number OF three hundred
names, j. A. Covington ono OF the commits
sioners, proceeded to draw fifty ballots, con-
tanning the names of fifty PERSONS from the
general venire box to sci We AS jurors for the
first week of said term OF Court, as follows
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

The Wisconsin Assembly defeated,
by a majority of eight, resolution
placing in the State Constitution pro.
hibition of the manufacture and sale of
oNicatinG liquors.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
LOUIS HALL. LOUIS COOK.
SPORTSMEN'S EMPORIUM.
HALL & COOK,

No. 24 st. Charles Street, NEW ORLEANS
Dealers in
GUNS, RIFLES, PISTOLS, SPORTING
and FISHING TACKLE of every
Description, POWDER, SHOT, SHELLS
and FINED AMMUNITION of all kinds.
The Repairing department is under the
personal supervision of Mr.. Louis Cook.
Guns rc-bored to shoot close.
Manufactures of Hard Rubber Duck
Calls-supcriort to anything ever used.
n. Authors Fishing Lines Il Speciality.
Wholesale Agents for McDaniel's Rust
Preveutcr. Agents for the Baker Gun.
Mail orders particularly attended to.
l.. .. Box ?37 sop. lily.
GEO. a. SrYKER. JOE d. wlMEERIY.
CrNiIEEt y WIMBERLY.
RECEIVING AND FORWARDING
MERCHANTS,
POINT PLEASANT, LA.
10y Dealers in Staple Groceries. Western
Produce. r!antati ion Supplies, .vr., &c. \
liberal share OF the public PATRONAGE is
solicited, and satisfaction gunrant eed.
Feb. |, lSSl. SIN.
Tl.Os. -. Benton,
4 TTORSET At LAW.
MONROE, LA.
Once with Richardson 4 Mct|~ ~
secretary n23
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
AN IMMENSE VESSEL.

The new Anchor Line steamship
Furnessia, which is tho largest steam
or that came to the port of New York
except the Great Eastern, arrived
there Wednesday,. She is an iron
screw vessel of $500 tons displacement
when drawing 2G feet of water, AS feet
in length, Az feet beam, and 3l4 feet
depth of hold. She is fitted through
out with the latest appliances for COM
fort, eXtinguishing fire and saving
life. The Stute-roonis are on tho main
and upper decks. The lower saloon,
on the main and upper deck, is used
as Il dining hall. The upper saloon is
furnished with Il piano. There are
accommodations for 242 first cabin, 80
second cabin and 100 steeragers. The
engines are of dircct-acting compound
system, of $500 horsepower, and the
estimated speed is IG knots an hour,
the propelling power being eXacteti by
Il screw 2O4 feet in diameter.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
Dentistry.

nR. ST.. BHhCEY, Dentist, respectfully
IL otlcrshs professional services to the
citizens of Monroe and surrounding ce:,''-
try. Having an experience of foU@n--
years in the practice he feels coniijica ale
giving satisfaction in all branches of ms,
profession. Is willing to warrant all work
Otlica ut residence on Jackson street near
the Female Academy, Monroe. La.
VT-marl6:1y
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
TIE FUTURE OF COTTON.
New Orleans TinIcs.1


Tho steady declining tendencies in
cotton hitherto has brought the trade
to stand where the feeling is unset
tied as to whether a point has not been
reached in the decline when a reaction
may be reasonably expected. Mani
testify the staple cannot forever be kept
on the downward grade. OF course it
is impossible for any person to know
that bottom has been reached but as
there is an approximation to limit
in that direction it may at any time
become important for operators to
determine in what manner they can
operate to the best advantage when the
change does take place.
1t is II prominent fact that much OF
the cotton on sale grades very low,
with prices in some instances touch
ing &c. We hear of frequent trans
actionsat prices ranging from 5a7c. II
it be assumed that a reaction in the
market is to take place on what styles
of cotton will the improvement be
greatest ? Will it be on good or poor
staples? Our information leads us to
believe that the late depression in the
market has been relatively greater on
inferior than on good cotton. This
would reasonably justify belief that
when reaction does come it will be
most marked on those cottons which
have been most depressed.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

Ladies, call and examine Mrs. II.
Hollands stock of new Spring hats
just received.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

And the same commissioners, in the pres
| encc of tho others, proceeded to draw
thirty additional ballots, with tho names
| of persons thereon, for service for Tho third
week, as follows
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
CINCINNATI, Q.

CINCINNATI, Q.
This COMPANY have just finished COM
plctc shops with every facility of the latest
improved machinery, and are prepared to
mama inrturc
SfASpAEp TRADE VEHICLES,
Si','iI AZ
FARM WAGONS,
SPRING WAGONS,
PLATFORM WAGONS,
LUDLOW SPRING WAGON
FARMERS TWO SEATED CARRIAGES
STANp.\RD TRADE EUGGIES.
ElIIE ANT BRi2WSTEE EIrCGS,
ETC, ETC.
Send for designs and Prices, to
ROBINSON WAGON Co,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

The trustees of the charity of Peter
l.athon, once 4 bcggar of Mawdsley,
near Preston, England, report that the
property, which originally cost Il few
hundreds, is now worth about ESQ, 900.
Ono block had recently been sold for
seS7 900, the fabulous advance in value
being owing to the discovery of coal on
the land. Lathom left the land for
the benefit of the thirteen townships
through which he had begged, to keep
and apprentice four lads, to further
education, and other phiIauthropic
uses.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

Referring to the Press Association of
this State, the editor OF the Sugar
Bowl (of this State also) delivers the
following opinion
This body convened in New Orleans,
this week, and although VIC were in
that city at the time we did not attend
During Il long journalistic career we
have observed that such organizations
do but little if any good, and hence we
concluded our time would be better
spent attending to our private affairs.
I is to be regretted that the editor of
the Sugar Bowl could not attend the
meetings of the Press Association, his
private affairs not permitting. We
may mistake the purpose of the Press
organization, but it is possible that the
editor OF the Sugar Bowl may be mis-
taken also. His private affairs con-
Germ him, as they do all of us, but it is
not by rafting and cutting Threats 4
newspaper is to elevate journalism.
The experience of the editor of the
Sugar.. Bowl, who is in himself the
editor of two papers, would be valua~
bic to the Press Association.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

And the law providing in the same man
ner for the drawing of a jury for the second
and third weeks, the Same commissioner,
in the presence OF the others, proceeded to
draw thirty additional ballots with the
names of persons thereon, for service for
the second fp1ln1yS
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

The Worlds Fair ut New York for
1888 seems likely TO be Il failure, not
withstanding the fact that Gen.
Grant is president of the company
having tho matter in charge. At Il
recent meeting of the executive COM
mittee the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved. That the members of
the commission and executive and
finance committees agree to complete
the first one hundred thousand dollars,
either by personal subscription or by
subscriptions which they may obtain
from others by the fifteenth of April,
on condition that transportation COM
panics subscribe to the capital stock one
hundred thousand dollars, and that
ctizcns of New York not represented
by the companies, and not connected
with the commission, and other than
subscribers not on the books, will sub
scribe one hundred thousand dollars.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

We are steady believer in high
ultimate destiny of the human race,
| (you can call it pcrfcctibility rather
than have any squabble about terms, J
| from the fact, that all the real knowl.
edge that humanity needs for a per-
feet social organization is so much
nearer attainment than people ina
gine. All philosophy is whirling in
concentric orbits around two central
ideas, the uniiication of man, and tho
simplifcation of science. These orbits
are contracting every day, as human
thought eXhnusts all the bewildering
novelties, that lead it Off into Il tan
gent. So certain is This principle, that
it has now got to the point where it
affords Il test Of the validity of Il theory.
Truth is simple, and it is only the
easily COMPREHENSIVE, that is true.
From Aristotle till now, it has been
the Enthusiastically learned, who have
got involved in the mesher of error
BATON Rouge -Adrocutc.
We are reading what you say, Colo
mel.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-25

And I. tho undersigned clerk, during the
said drawings, made the lists and records
| thereof as above set forth, the ballots for the
several weeks were placed separately i'll en-
velopes, fifty for the first week, thirty for
the second week, and thirty for tho third
week, and labeled, sealed and endorsed ac-
cordnG to law.
The said envelopes containing said bal
lots were placed in the jury box, and after
the same was locked and scaled, delivered
unto the custody of said clerk.
In faith whereof, we severally sign our
names, this date above written and in
presence OF witnesses.
JNO. w. SCARBOROUGH,
d. EAULk,
J. y. CONINGTON,
AUSTIN GREEN, Clerk d. G.
Commissioners.
Witnesses:
FRANCIS a. HALL.
JOHN l.. NINSON.
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-07-02
To Our Readers.

After Six Months continued success
the "Rugbeian has made it's bow as
Monthly and reappears in its present form.
The steady increase of Settlers with the
large augmentation Of interests, both local
and foreign, that this necessarily implies
has rendered this change both possible
and advisiMe.
Rugby is no longer the backwoods
habitation of few determined Pioneers;
but small Town-aye To,cn-with busy,
pushing, business men who want to know,
and must know, at least once week what
is going on in the world around them.
With the growth Of the place, the in
terests have become more conflicting; the
circles wider; and some means Of guiding
and assisting Public Opinion and facilita-
ting the ventilation Of Private Grievances
has been the necessary outcrop Of this very
growth.
It will ever be our earnest determination
to forward the interests of the Colony by
every legitimate means in our power and
whatever initiates against that success,
no matter from what quarter it comes,
will meet with outspoken opposition from
us.
Individual troubles and complaints will
meet with ready sympathy, and what is
far more important, ample opportunity
for being well aired.
For our own part let us say that it will
ever be our hearty endeavour to stand up
manfully for all that is pure and holy
all that is honest and true-while we shall
fight vigorously and increasingly against
the evil and malice that must and will
exist, to a greater or less degree, in all
communities.
And now with trembling feet and out
stretched hands, we start to follow our
new venture into the dim impenetrable
future; but buoyed up by strength
greater than our own that ever whispers
softly " Shoulder to Shoulder "Upward
and Onward"
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-07-02

In the ill-natured twaddle about Rugby
that recently appeared in the Cincinnati
Gazette, were some remarks written with
the apparent object of interrupting the
present harmony between our English and
American fellow-townsmen. The exis-
tence of any discord is fully disproyed by
The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-07-02

AS RUGBY grows and thriyes the G..1'-
tion of the amount of capital require {
making successful start as y far
there is agitating the minds of man. ~
tending settlers, and some solution of
all-important problem has become Il
essential necessity.
Some little time ago an article !,
published in the Monthly Rugbc.au
naming the sum of $500 as a very \
amount with which to start in this dist !.
of the country. The reputed authtr u
this statement declares that the view !,
then expressed on the subject were n,.
correctly stated; but, be that as it il. !,
there is not. the slightest doubt that
sum named was totally inadequate, (. !
the sooner the question is fairly ;i
impartially ventilated the better it VI ,
for all concerned.
Careful inquiry amongst the has
working portion of the community, ~ |
steady observation of the results of ti, !
labors, individually points out that s. : f,
$4,000 sterling) is the sum on VIII
young Englishman might start farmin
Rugby or its vicinity with fair ch. d
of ultimate success.
As general statements and sweep n,
assertions are, however, always danger ~
it has been considered advisable to ii, .
a tabulated statement Of the exact H..
quirements of those taking up lan.l
this part Of the United States. Let i
however, be fully understood that t.
figures have been drawn up to meet
requirements Of the ordinary class
settler that is coming out (and it is
class for which the Board Of Aid L.
catering), namely, the sons Of Eng
gentlemen - men who have not ! =.
accustomed to hard daily labour and H.
a good deal Of experience to gain, but a
willing to put their shoulder to the WI.
in true, hearty English fashion.
With these few PREDATORY remarks !
our readers now con the figures gi,,.
below