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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
Pigeon Shooting.

Dan Pelter and 10 Joslin took consid-
cradle pride in their workmanship. They
made bet last Thursday in the follow
ing terms, viz:
"A pigeon is to be let loose and Pelter
is to hit it with rife shot on the wing.
II the next pigeon let loose is shot in the
same manner and hit in the same way
by Joslin. then Joslin wins; il not, then
Joslin loses.''
Both fired and both missed the bird
entirely. Referee decided as follows,
viz:
1. As Dan Pelter has missed he has
lost his money.
2. As Joslin did not hit in the same
spot he has also lost his money.
.. There being, therefore, no proper
claimant for the money it is treasure
trove,' and the stakeholder may keep it
indefinitely.
The stakeholder invested the money
in circus tickets for the club, and now
Pelter and Joslin are both opposed to
gambling in pigeons Detroit Free
Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
A Righteous Judgmen

No more righteous Judgment ever
happened to political party in this coun-
try than the overwhelming defeat of
the Republican party in Ohio. Nor was
It the work of the "free whisky and no
Sunday Democracy of the cities, as
Calico Foster, with the instinct OF q
demas,ogue and the arts of practiced
liar, characterized what is now the DOM
inant party of Ohio. The whole State
took hand in the rebuke-the farmers
IS we'll as the village and city people, and
they made thorough bit of work of it.
The "Do Sunday and free whisky"
idea injected into the canvass by Foster
was a close imitation of the "no
popery' and "the common schools in
danger" yawp, invented few years
ago on the eve of election to save
fraudulent Hayes and defeat Governor
Allen. 1t succeeded then, aud raised a
broad laugh everywhere at the guilt
bility of the voters.
That Fosters humbug and cant about
temperance, taxation and Sunday OBJ
servance was turned into an engine of
humiliating defeat, shows the politi-
clans cannot play this sort of a trick a
second time on once deluded voters.
The Republicans in the latter days of the
canvass publicly admitted the sham of
sheir whole plan of campaign. While
Foster in the rural districts was pleading
pr the votes of temperance Democrats
and Prohibitionists, John Sherman was
on mission to the brewers and saloon
keepers of Cincinnati, and in public
speeches repudiated the issues Foster
said were the vital ones of the canvass.
There was very likely private under
standing between these tricksters.
The defeat of the Republican party of
Ohio, under the circumstances, is a
powerful disinfectant applied to humbug
and thickness in politics garnished with
the hypocrisy of tlatulent morality.
The Gazette should dry its tears and
prepare itself for the next quadrille.
But mere disgust at the tortuous
course of such politicians as Foster and
Sherman does not altogether account
for the Ohio uprising. It is the State of
Garfield, and Ohio Republicans are not
specially enthusiastic over the Guiteau-
made Arthur Administration. with its
low political jobbery. championship of
the boss principle, and enforcement of
pol teal matchmaking. The extrava-
gance of late Congress, and the bargain
ing of the Ohio Speaker, were directly
in issue in the election Of Representa-
tives. and the verdict is about all that
could be desired. Pittsburgh Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
1t Passeth all Anticipation.

The result i'm Ohio passcth all antici-
patton. 1t is true that the Democrats
claimed the State. There were good
reasons why they should win it. The
leaders of our party wore confident Of
a decided victory during the campaign.
and down to the hour at which it closed
Governor Foster and the Republicans
were equally confident, and we awaited
the result. not without serious fear that
we might be disappointed in State
which had SO often disappointed us be.
fore. A victory for our cause and party
was hoped for, but we doubt if even our
sanguine friend John G. Thompson
himself believed that it was possible to
reverse the old Republican majorit es
and carry Ohio by such an avalanche as
has undoubtedly placed that great GEN.
trail and controlling State safely and Sc
curely in the column of Democratic
States for 1884, and for all the future.
The Germans of Ohio have redeemed
Ohio. They have deserted the Repub-
Iican party. They have joined the DEM
ocratic party. They have come to stay.
They have got home again. After twenty
years wandering after false gods and
under the lead of false prophets they
have como back to the party which gave
them political freedom long years ago in
the United States, and which is alone
able and willing to give them personal
freedom. The old issues of slavery and
the war are dead and buried. The Ger
mans found the party to which they gave
power in the States and in the coun-
try. ready to strike down their personal
rights and social privileges. There was
only one power in the land that could
withstand the wcll-directed assault.
That power was the Democratic party
which, like Providence, is always the
same, yesterday, to-day and forever"
The issue in Ohio was square and open
one. The Republican party in that
State, as it had rightly thought itself in
Iowa and Kansas, thought it was strong
enough to strike for sumptuary and
Sunday laws, and in this way deal a
blow at the particular element of the
population of the State that would suf-
fer most from it. The issue was in
some measure disguised under spec Gus
pleas, but it was there all the same. and
the German people saw and dealt with
it in their own way, as they will do in
other States. The Shermans. and the
Fosters, and the Butterworths, and the
Halsteads can hang their broken harp on
the bending willows in Ohio. And this
is the real meaning of the glorious tri-
umph in that State. -Omaha Herald.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The United States spend $4,000
900 . year upon education.
The 200th anniversary of the intro
duction of Presbyterianism into America
will be celebrated next year.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Brooklyn issues q little paper
called the Weekly Bulletin, giving ac-
count of the work done during the
week.
Henry Willard, the President of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, has offered to
endow Oregon University with $50. 200
if the State will increase its annual Leg
islative allowance from 81, 500 toss, 900.
MIR. George L. Seney recently sent
Miss Rutherford his check for $1,000 to
educate ten girls at the Lucy Cobb In
stitute In Athens, Ga, and Miss Ruther-
ford has made it cover fifteen scholar
ships for young girls from that town and
other places.--M T. Herald.
The closing sentence of the Rev.
Newman Smyth's first sermon as pastor
at New Haven, Conn.,, was the Scripture
passage: /" Arise, let us 60 hence" The
wfose ro,;r;ou. sdrcst;or see~s r. have
been 'reciscted rendered the words:
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
HubbelI to tie Front.

Hubbell, whose trademark Is Jay.
and who is the assessor in ordinary to
the Republican party, is really . de-
worked in helping his party out of tight
places in various parts of the country,
especially Maine, and in preparing the
sinews of war for grand advance all
along the line, that he has only recently
had time to emerge from his inperson-
atty and give the country some strik-
ing illustrations of what a naive, win
some, childlike and confidential fellow
he can be when he tries. We cannot
say we should care to have Mr.. Hubbell
member of the Democratic party. He
is almost too impulsiye; but the way in
which he gallops around upsetting the
sober statues in the Republican party
is as good as a circus to the disinterest-
ed beholder. Hubbell enters into the
spirit of an interview splendidly. He
keeps nothing back for conscience's
sake, and very little even for decency's
sake. He-will acknowledge all that is
charged against him, and then volun-
teer admissions which put the original
Indictment to the blush. OF course
the interviewer loves such mamie
can't help it. But Hubbell also writes
with the same tempestuous ardor with
which he talks. he has issued. in the
name of the Congressional Committee
and the Republican party, a campaign
textbook, which 10 really one of
the most finished compilations of
billingsgate' ever given to the coun-
try, and will, we doubt not, supply
to the Republican party in its pres,
emit condition, want long felt. We in
fer that Mr.. Hubbell does not entirely
approve Of certain gentlemen within his
own party. For instance he refers to
George William Curtis as q, "bulldozer,
"wilful libeller." .sballot-box suffer-"
..hypocrite," ssfriend of the Southern
oligarchy, IA Joseph Surface" "a
Bots Guilbert'' anda '.Front de Beuf, ;"
denounces all Civil-seryice Reformers as
noodles, and ascribes the passage Of
the act forbidding assessments to con-
spiracy of Confederate Brigsdiers. As
this great politico- literary achievement
is called a text book and comes from the
Congressional Committee with its en-
dorsement, as we have q right to sup
pose, we must. infer that. these senti-
ments, of which we have given q few
specimens, are the particular teachings
which the Republican party wants dis
seminated just at this time. Happy is
this '.grand old party Of moral ideas
in having such an active and enthusi-
astic agent as the untiring Hubbell to do
its viii. The Republican campaign
textbook viii be a.great work to put
into the hands of the young. especially
the young Repubr can, and we may ex-
pect to see its moral effect soon visible
in the enriched vocabulary of the small
boy whose mind is peculiarly suscepti-
bic to the graphic ideas which the teach
ings OF the campaign textbook, edited by
Hubbell, Endorsed by the Congressional
Committee and supported by the Repub.
licanl party, suggests.-Boston Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
HER MAJESTY CHRISTINE.

am seventy, gray and staid;
love well little maid,
And she rules me like queen.
She has such royal way.
whatsoever she may say,
i am eager to obey
Her small Majesty Christine.
She has robes of wondrous white,
She has sashes gay and bright,
Lace and ribbon for a queen;
Golden crown is not so fair
As her crown of golden hair.
An. what maiden can compare
With her Majesty Christine!
have seventy summers told;
She's exactly five years old;
Promptly still obcys mamma,
But no one has ever seen
Such slave to any queen
As ] am to sweet Christine
When she calls me grandpapa-
Mary A. Barr, IN HdTpcr's Weekly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
"A Detroit bow who was born blinf

"A Detroit boy who was born blind
nine years ago, and upon whom a. sue
cessful operation for restoring sight was
performed two years ago, has developed
into something of a musical progidy.
For instance, If he hears a dog bark he
tells in what KEY he barks, and in the
same way designates the rumbling of q
wagon and all other ordinary noises.
The other day he visited his fathers
shops. and upon his return home repro
drced upon the organ, and with remark
able effect, the tones of planning mill in
operation. Detroit Post.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

Judge Allen, of Boston. called up
lawyer in Cpen court and compelled him
to refund fee of twenty-five dollars
from poor woman whose case he had
utterly neglected
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

"A gypsy fortune-teller got hold Of a
base ballplayer's hand the other day,
and attempted to map out his future.
She concluded that new world would
have to be made to furnish the checkered
career in store for him. - Boston Posi-.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

An amusing anecdote ID related of
M. de Lesseps. One of his little ones
had boil at the fingers end; arrived
at maturity, papa undertook to pierce
it. .sHow you trembler' said Mime. de
Lesseps. afraid Of the improvised sur
geon's experiment. .'Tremble! I
iremble at piercing tester; ], who
have pierced an isthmusP' - French
Paper.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
--Stonewall Jackson's ARMY

--Stonewall Jackson's army horse.
called Little Sorrel, is twenty-six years
of age, and is still kindly cared for by
General yackson's father-in-law, DR..
Morrison, of Lincoln County, North
Carolina 1t is the horse on which Gen.
eral jackson received his death wound.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

The loss of weight in gold coin was
shown the other day at st. Louis. when
lot to the face value of $500. 600 was
weighed and found to be $500 short in
weight value
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

"A Texas paper says that State will
average two killings per dsv the year
round.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

The people of Berlin have eaten
over 5000 horses this year and their
appetite for more is said TO be keen.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

lcss II tina" and so forth. 1t is now in
order for all: the Government party
organs to predicate luminous opinions
on imaginary premises preceded by
eff"
If the beer-drinking electors had not
been alienated by Governor Foster and
Deacon Richard Smith, then. in the
opinion of Mr.. Murat Halstead, the
Government party would not have been
disastrously beaten in Ohio. Yea, veri-
ly. ..the whole trouble was Matched by
meddling'' temperance fanatics, "who
would at another time impale the party
on the issue of woman suffrage, If moth
ing better could be found"
If Congress had not voted extrava-
giant appropriations for party jobbery.
then, in the opinion of Deacon Richard
Smith, the Government party would
have been victorious. Alas! 1T was
uphill work to explain the reckless APP
preparations and the failure to reduC Q
taxation"
If the party had not been loaded with
Star-route thievery beyond its carving
power, then, in the opinion of Mr..
Swayne, M. c., the outcome would have
been different. But, Robson and the
Star-route thieves were enough to sink
any party"
If the machine had not been badly
managed. If the bosses had not been di-
vided against themselves. If the cham
pions of the grog-shops had not all vot-
ed for the opposition candidates, il the
Government party whippers-in had
brought in as many Lish as they were
expected to. If the conditions had been
different in these and divers other par
ticulars, then, in the opinion of Gov
ernor Foster, the result would have been
different. vn y
And If the Government of Mr.. Arthur
had not become offensive to the National
conscience, then, in the opinion of Mr..
T. C. Nichols, the Government party
would have been stronger in. Ohio.
1.-THE result proves that an unpopular
Administration will sink any party
Chicago Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02


"A Cincinnati society reporter has
mysteriously disappeared, and foul play is
suspected, although it is possible that he
is b ding somewhere in the Rocky Noun
tains, as he was well supplied with rail-
road passes. His last article was an &C
count of the marriage of q pork packers
daughter, in which report he used the
term ''swell wedding" 1t came out in
the papers 'swill wedding" Phil. Nescs
"A gun-shot-wounded patient in .
Philadelphia hospital was convalescent
until there was put into the cot next to
his delirious man, whose rawlings were
really terrifying. In one of his par
oxysms the maniac rose in his bed and
SO alarmed the bullet-wounded man
that his wound began to bleed afresh.
and within q few minutes he was dead.
IL philadelphia Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-13
Length OF Farmers Lives.

From a careful investigation of the
question of health of the farmers Of
Massachusetts,, rs made few years
since, under the direction of the
State Board of Health, and giving the
sicians practicing in different agricult-
ural districts, it was found that farmers
are the longest lived of any class. In
the thirty-seventh annual registration
report of Massachusetts, is given the
average age at death, for the past
thirty-tive years, of citizens of the State
who were engaged in each of the fol-
lowing occupations, and who were over
20 years of age:
All classes and occupations, Bib !;
cultivators of the earth, 65.57; active
mechanics abroad, 53.05; professional
men, 51.27; merchants, fnanciers,
agents, etc, 1906; active mechanics in
shops, 1877; laborers, no special trades,
1871; employees on the ocean, AZ Is;
inactive mechanics in shops, A. 45; fe-
males, 1912; factors laboring abroad,
81. A.
This table shows that the farmer lives
over fourteen years longer than the
average person, and over twelve years
longer than the class next below him in
longevity, and fourteen years longer
than the professional man. But it does
not follow that farmers wives and chill
dren are longer lived than those of men
of other callings, for farmers wives are
too often brought under influences tend
ing to shorten life. The science and art
of sanitation, which are doing so much
to prolong human life, should especially
brighten the farmers home Early
deaths everywhere diminish as the
science of sanitation advances. In
Geneva, Switzerland, the statistics
show that the average length of life in
that city in the sixteenth century was
21.2l years; in the seventeenth, 1857 !;
in the first half of the eighteenth
27.75; in the last half, 1925; while to-
day it is about 43 years. This progress
will surely continue as men study the
causes of disease and the means of pre-
venting it.-Nelc England Farmer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-13
Remembered.

The Kentuokians tell with keen zest
even now many anecdotes illustrative Of
the kind heart and fine courtesy of
their old idol, Henry Clay. The follow
ing we do not remember to have seen in
print.
On one occasion, when young man,
Clay was travelling up the Ohio on
small steamboat. He was taken sick
with violent cramps and colo. An old
colored woman who was on board took
charge of him, administered medicine,
etc, and nursed him faithfully until the
boat touched at Wheeling, where he
could be put under physicians care.
Ten years afterward Clay, then at
the zenith of his fame, was making a
political speech in Louisville, from the
steps of public building. The square
was crowded with men, while line of
black faces fenced them in. In the
cheers that rose when the orator had
finished shrill voice was heard:
God bress Mars Henry"
Mr.. Clay, who was surrounded by his
eager friends, paused
a moment, gentleman. 1 think L
hear the voice of woman who was
very kind to me-" glancing around
searchingly. There That old mann
my on the edge of the crowd. L should
like to see her"
He stepped down into the street, and
way was eagerly made for the old wom-
an, who was brought up to shake
hands with the great man. IL was the
proudest moment of her life, and the
happiest. But Mr.. Clay was not salts
fed with comforting this simple pleasure.
He procured situations for her husband
and sons, which enabled her to spend
her remaining years in comfort.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-13
He Wasn't Her Pa.

A young lady went to the depot to
meet her father As the train came In
she saw middle-aged man who re-
sembled her paternal relative, and she
rushed into his arms, cuddled down in
his bosom, kissed him In the mouth, on
the ear, on the cheek, on the chin, on
the eyes, and almost everywhere It
was not her father, but middle-aged
drummer for n tobacco house. He took
a long breath and looked around at
some other drummers, and winked as
much as to say, "Oh, I'm such duke!"
OF course this scene could not last al
ways, though he wished that it could.
After an unusually able-bodied hug she
looked up in the drummer's face and
said you are not my pal" He said
probably she was right, as he had only
been on the route eleven years. She
asked his pardon, and he told her not to
mention it; we public men should al
ways hold ourselves in readiness to
hold up those who are weak. She
smiled sweet, sad, blushing smile, and
went ont into the wide world, and the
drummer walked to the hotel with the
other drummers, twenty kisses and six
hugs ahead of the game. They asked
him if it didn't make him feel ashamed
to have such mistake made, and he
said no, it was all right. He said, of
course, it might look queer, but those
things occurred very often with him,
as they would occur with any tine-look
ing man. Besides, the girl probably
enjoyed it. Then they asked him why
he did not wear his diamond breast-pin
on such trying occasions. He looked at
his shirt-front and it was gone. While
he had allowed her to chew around his
face she had burgled his shirt. He
tainted, and when they brought him to,
he said: "Tell my family that / died
with my face to the foel" The girl, oh,
where was she? She was at pawn-shop
with the diamond. There should be
law passed to protect this very useful
class of our people from the mistakes of
designing girls Hotel World.