The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-09-24
THE PRESIDENTS DEATH.
A DAY or GLOON IN hAlCHlYoCHES.
BUSINESS ENTIRELY SUSPENDED.
OFFICES AND STORES cL0c-0,
18th JUDIsIAL DIST COURT IDUOURXS.
OFFICES AND STORES cLoc=c.
18th JUDl;IAL DIST COURT ADU0rRNS.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE BAR.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE BAR.
MAYORS PROCLAMATION.
Last Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock tn
following telegram was sent to the PEG
PIES VlCDlCATOR Office:
MlNDEN, Sept. 20, 1881.
The President died at lO:35 o'clock, las
night. GEO. ENGLISH.
Immediately upon receipt Of this tele
gram the news spread from lip to lip. will
lightning rapiGity and there was univer
sal teelirg Of sorrow manifested, and {
deep gloom settled upon the city.
The It'll Judicial District Conrt, Judge
D. Pierson presiding, was in session when
the news reached tins city. The Court
Immediately adjourned and the following
proceedings took place: Ibis
EXTRACT FROM MINUTES DISTRICT COURT
Tuesday, Sept. Goth, 1s3O.-The Hon
orable, the 18th District Court, in and fol
the parish of Natclitoches, was opened al
9 O'Clock q. M, pursuant to adjournment
Hon. David Person, District Judge,
presiding.
The following resolutions were present.
ell by Hon. w. II. Jack, in behalf of the
bar, and were by the court ordered spread
upon the minutes, as follows:
WHEREAS, information of the death OF
his Excellency, JAMES A. CARRIED, Prcsi-
dent Of the United States, has just been
announced in open Court by W. II. Jack,
of the Natchitocles Bar, and
Whereas, the undersigned, have been
appointed Il committee to draft and pre-
sent resolutions suitable to the sad occa
stoned, therefore be it
. Resolved, by the Members of the Natchi-
toches Bar, and visiting attorneys, in at
tendance that we do hereby regard and
recognize his loss as a great national cal
alnity, and take the occasion to express,
upon our part, aud the people at large,
our profound sorrow over the untimely
fate ofthis illustrions Chief Magistrate, in
whom our people at large entertained such
unlimited confidence and respect.
Bel. further Resolved, That out of respect
to the memory Of TIP deceased, the Hon.
d. Pierson, District Judge, concurring,
that this Court do now adjourn until to-
IN rrow morning at ten o'clock.
(Signed.) w. II. JACK,
C. CHAPLIN,
l.. B. WATKINS.
Court thereupon adjourned until to-
morrow morning at 10 O'clock.
/ certify the above to be a correct--a
true extract from the Minutes of the 18th
District Court. JNO. A. BARLOW,
by. Clerk.
In the meantime Acting Mayor A. Du-
cournau, placed the following request in
the hands of Chief of Police w. Grenaux
PROCLAMATION.
NArcnlrocHEs, Sept. 20, 1871.
WHEREAS, q great national calamity
has befallen the people Of the United
States of America, in the death of their
beloved President, JAMES A. CARRIED,
who died at 10 o'clock p. IN, yesterday,
therefore
Be it proclaimed, That in token Of our
great respect far our deceased President,
and our heartfelt sorrow at his death, it
is the desire of the Mayor and City Coun-
Gil of Natchitoches, that all public offices
and all places of business generally, be
closed and remain closed during the day.
Aud all good citizens are hereby requested
to comply with the desire herein express
ell. j. A. DUCOURNAU, Jr.,
Acting Mayor.
The request was promptly compiled
with by every business house in the city,
and in an incredibly short space Of time
every store, shop, saloon and Office was
closed and for u few moments the citizens
in groups and discussed the ma
TONS calamity in low tones and with sor
row cloudsd faces. At the INDICATOR
office the national colors were hung out
lraped h mourning,
At le o'clock the church bells began to
toll, proclaiming DER the saddened city,
The sorrow which had come like midnight
pail, over the land. At intervals, during
the afternoon, the death-knell was rung
at various churches, and guns were fired
by squad Of citizens.
The streets were almost entirely desert
ed and the gloom of the National calamity
pvershadowed every brow and permeatcd
every household, and there was mourning
deep and sincere throughout the city. The
people felt and reslizsd that great, no.
BILE and gppd man, q stlAsa and 4 pa
triot, the true friend ofa mighty nation
had passed from time into eternity, and
ike Rachael Of old, they lifted up their
voices and wept aud refused to be cpm-
Eorted, for the Chieftain Of their choice
vas no more. Far away, in a distant
State his lifeless remains repose in the
Embrace ofthe pale rider whose steed is
Death, while a nation is bowed in sorrow,
rom the Gulfto the 81. Lawrence, and
rom the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
Gov. Thos. A. HENDRICKS of Indiana in
he October number Of the North Ameri.
AN Rerie.r rather Insists that the ''tariff
question: should be withdrawn from pol
tics and "religated to business If this |
q second edition Of democratic brains on
hat serious question, the first being poor
1ANcocK's "locap religation, God help