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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
CHERIFF'S SALE.

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State of Louisiana, Parish of Ouachita, Fifth
District Court.
Kfeffer & Gardner
vs.. mo. 1884.
Sholars & Mccormick,
By virtue of an order of sale issued by
the Honorable Fifth District Court, in and
for the Parish of Ouachita, and to mo di-
rected in the above entitled suit, will soil
at public auction at the store house on De-
Siard street, Qately occupied by Sholars e.
McCormick), in the city of Monroe, L., on
Saturday, 9Th day of April, 1882,
(and from day to day thereafter until all of
said property is sold) all tho property at
tacl,ed in the above entitled and numbered
cause, except the notes: accounts and mer-
camille books.
Terms of sale, cash.
mch25. J. f. MCGUIRE, Sheriff.
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River News.

The Hanna Blanks, Capt. J. W..
Blanks in command, left at noon
Thursday having in tow six Of the
bargcs loaded with slaves which have
been tied up at the bank opposite town
for several days. For landing the
barges at New Orleans the Blanks is
to receive 81 200, Il very fair compcnsa-
ton, perhaps, but one that involves
considerable risk ut the present high
stage Of the water.
The landing at Marie Saline is re.
ported in such a bad condition and the
warehouse so cranky that consignmcnts
of freights have to be made at other
points.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

OF the thousands and thousands of
people in this State who read newspa-
pcrs, there are very few, we suspect,
who reflect that the publisher is as Sc
riously injured by the prevailing floods
as man in almost any other business.
His columns are eagerly read, and his
energy possibly commended, but it is
painfully apparent to the newspaper
man that while his expenses go on as
in prosperous times, his patrons are
withholding, either from necessity, or
from some reason always really in times
of overflow, the rations requisite to
keep the printer from starvation.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

About two months ago we went up
the road and round the bend, and saw
the game Of craps played, on Sunday,
by crowd of negroes, and at that time
we're innocent enough to suppose that
Little Joe Z, IL, and craps generally be-
longed exclusively to colored sports,
but we have been deceived. The
game is all over town. While folks
dressed in fine clothes carry q pair of
dice in their pockets, and salute each
other with the startling inquiry: "Will
you shoot?" Providence has an unen-
viable reputation for shooting, and
irregularities of all kinds, and now
shooting dice is all the rage. Negroes
have been credited with a passion to
initiate the white folks, but now the
thing is reversed, the white folks are
initiating the negroes, and the idle,
loafing, gambling element of them at
that. Craps for a nickel, a dime, a
an innocent enough game, and what iu
sporting parlance is called sta straight
thing" still it does not look we'll, even
these dull times, to see business men
throwing too small pieces of spotted
bones across the counter and eagerly
kissing between their teeth Four and
Three, Craps! and then grab for a
nickel. The restless, reckless spirit
which is being engendered by the dull
times and gloomy outlook should be
curbed, because it might lead to a don't
care-ativeness that will do much dam
age in the future. If it will exhaust
itself in nickel, Niger craps, there will
not be much harm done.-Lxke Provi
Cle,2ce Herald.
There is such a game played here,
but it is confined exclusively to the ne.
groes, for whom the game seems to
have an irresistible fascination.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
FOR SALE.
THE BEST REAL ESTATE INVEST
MENT IN NORTH LOUISIANA.

MENI IN NOltTIl LOU ISIANA.
I OFFER FOR SALE "STOWED AWAY''
tho plantation tract of tho late DIR. Gilman
NJ. Peck. decd of Kichiand parish. Tho
tract contains $50 acres of land, 80 acres in
cultivation and so an old deadening now be-
ing cleared up. This tract Is located across
the neck of n large bend of Rmuff river,
one milo across and is known to be the best
Monroe the river is navigabie six months
This tract has three advantages over any
tract situated on tho mississippi river, viz:
1t Is entirely aboyc any overflow. has no
caving banks and no leveo taxes. Tho
cleared land produces ono and IL half bales
to tho acre, and rents for sl.5o per acre an
always command 1t ; soil black mould,
| mixed with u little sand growth, ash,
gum, dogwood, oak, hickory, pawpau,
grape vino, otc. Range ine, game and fish
| in abundance, waiting for the frying pan.
Tho projected Il. X. from AIoxandrih to
southwest Arkansas will pass by this place.
I'm. PECK,
Attorney in Fact, Sicily Island.
| Reference: Judge NJ. j. Liddell, Mon
| roo, La
N. B.--This place has u fine cypress
| break and mil scat for water powder.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
Government Supplies,

SS1HpAASSSs
Lieutenant Knower was in charge of
quantity of government supplies sent
from New Orleans on the st. John,
which he. distributed along the river
below as far up as Logtown. Fifteen
days rations were left at Cuba and also
at Logtown, consisting, al each point,
of fifteen barrels of flour, fifteen barrels
of meal and 5000 pounds of bacon. At
WaverIy, just below the parish line,
thirty barrels of meal and flour, each,
and 6O0O pounds of bacon were put off
for the needy. The John Hanna, on
her last trip up, left at Monroe three
boxes of bacon, five barrels of meVd and
three barrels of flour, which the State
agent, Mr.. Surghnor, is distributing to
those most in want. A further con-
signment is promised for this place and
Trenton.
Itshould be generally understood that
the supplies sent to Louisiana are sent
for the relief of those only who are suf-
ferers from the overflow, and not to the
needy from any other cause, such being
the purpose and intent of Congress in
making the appropriations with which
the supplies have been purchased.
There are others, no doubt, who are in
want of supplies, and it may seem that
the blessings of government do not fall
upon all alike, but the drouth of last
summer was common to hills and
swamp, while the overflow is not. The
aid extended by the government is moi
but the devastation and ruin, for awhile,
caused by the unprecedented high
water.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
Special Telegram to tho Telegraph

Special Telegram to tho Telegraph
WASHINGTON, March General
King, of Louisiana, was present to-day
before Committee on Appropriations,
urging the necessity for the $500, 700
additional, called for by his resolution
yesterday, for the relief of sufferers in
the Mississippi valley. He numbers
those needing relief at two hundred
thousand. He showed from statements
of the Secretary Of War that the $780,
900 yesterday would not last more than
eight days. Gen. Gilmore and Capt.
Eads addressed the Committee on
Commerce this morning on the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river,
both taking strongest ground for levees
on the highest scale and explained that
when outlets would reduce permanent
~ the flood level OF clear water streams
yet in rivers that carry sediment like
the Mississippi, outlets only had the
effect of temporary relief from the fact
that they lessened the velocity of the
current below, thereby causing the sed-
iment to drop and form bars or dams
across the streams. Hon. r. L. Glib
son, J. Floyd King, Z. w. Robisnson,
Col. Percy and others were present.
Much Interest was manifested.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

The Webster Tribune states the U.
S. Signal Service has shipped to Min.
den complete set of instruments for
the purpose of establishing signal
station there. The telegraph operator
will be instructed how to make obser-
vations and will attend to the duties of
the station. We have often claimed
that station should be established at
this point for the benefit especially of
farmers, and we again take occasion to
press the matter upon the attention of
Senators and Representatives in Con-
grcsS.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

Marksville Bulletin A colored man
was assessed at Eola last week. His
only property consists OF seven dogs.
As our assessor taxes dogs at S. per
head, this darkey will have quite a tax
to pay. And for what? To feed and
keep worthless dogs that depredate
upon other peoples property.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

The Natchitoches TIndicato,' has no
authority for placing the Sugar Planter
in the list of journals engaging in lib
eralizing the Democratic party of this
State-the future can only speak for
itself. True, we have admitted to our
columns series of articles laboring to
that end, but they were from the pen
of a resident friend, an ardent Demo-
crat and a prominent citizen, but we
do not endorse his views-certainly not
in their entirety. The press must be
free to publish views and opinions of
all men, or it is only q muzzled con-
Germ unworthy the confidence and sup
port of all good citizens. We have
not enlisted under the banners of e.
John Ellis-at least not to our know
ledge. So, a little justice, good friend,
Cosgrove !-tSttgas' Plant.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
CUCCESSION NOTICE.

Fifth District Court, Parish of Ouachita
No. 1882.
Succession of Temple Il. Hall.
Notice is hereby given to the creditors of
this estate, and to all other persons herein
interested, to show cause within ten days
from the present sent. notification, If any they
Austin Green, Curator, should not be up
proved and homologated, and the funds
distributed in accordance herewith.
BY order OF the Court.
AUSTIN GREEN, Clerk.
Monroe, La, March Is, 1882.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

Coal oil is said to be preventive
of the bore which so often Injuries the
fig tree, as it kills the Larvae and drives
the beetle away.
And our experience is that coal oil
will kill the tree, too, especially when
applied to the roots.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
PUBLIC LIBRA RY i!
YOUNG CkoTHOliC FRIENDS SOCiETY'S LIBRARY

The Young Catholic Friends Society have
tho pleasure to announce to tho public that
they arc now prepared to supply tho citi-
zens of Monroe and vicinity with good
reading matter. They hnve established u
in their hall and for tho sum OF Five Cents
any person can got a book with tho privi-
logo of keeping 1t ono month.
HALL OPEN EVERY SUNDAY.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
For the Telegraph
THE MANY.MANSIONED HOUSE.

u the 1elcEraph.l
THE MANY.MANSlONE HOUSE.
Through this God-built universe,
OF seas and skies, stars and suns,
Gods nlany-mansioned house,
Our thought in wonder runs.
It's palace walls are high,
AS Gods eternal throne;
Above the bending sky,
Where God is only known.
Its doorways high and wide,
Through which the comet runs;
Clustered worlds through them glide,
And myriad burning suns.
Its windows, high as lights
Eternal burning source;
Ope for the dazzling flights
OF meteors in their course.
Its garnished storied rooms,
With walls of gold inlaid;
Dwellings Of angels, plumed
In beauty, heaven-made.
Its arching roof and dome,
Bespeak enduring strength
These mansions are our home.
When victory 3 won at length.
Inspired by the prospect grand,
We meet the foe-the battle fight;
Aud on times dark neck of land,
Contending, win the fields of light.
Crowns Well wear of joyous praise,
And robes all spot1ess pure;
The victor's song forever raise
From sin and death secure!
REcTUs.
Monroe, La, March, 1882,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

The vernal equinox was observed
here by unusual peals of thunder, wind
and rain, none of which did any dam
age. Since Tuesday morning there has
been no rain, about as long dry spell
as we have had since January 4th.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

The fruit crop this year gives promise
of splendid yield. And it is high
time, since we have had to chronicle
three successive failures. Plums are
now as large as a wren's egg. Where
the overflow has had sway, however,
all the fruit trees will no doubt die.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
HOW TO BUILD LEvEEs.

Nearly all the levees built in this
parish within the last six years are too
low and are now being raised. We are
of the opinion that all our levees should
be built five feet above the high water
mark of 1874, and If we allow two feet
for shrinkage, we would still have a
margin of three feet, sufficient barrier
to confine the Mississippi within its
channel. They should also have more
crest, not less than from ten feet to
twenty-five feet, with long and gentle
slope toward the river so as to prevent
their washing by the waves caused
either by the winds or steamboats,. Had
these proportions or something like
them been observed by our engineers,
we would to-day be perfectly safe from
the encroachments of the great Father
of Waters, which threatens not only
our crops but our lives.-Z1ervil1e South.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

The river has fallen twelve inches al
Nth. The overflow east as far as Delhi
is receding at the rate of an inch in "a
hours.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
w. w. Farmer
COUNSELLOR IN LAW AND EQUITY,
Attorney at Law & Solicitor in Chanccry,

Att'Fnoy Ut ~ U '7'
MONROE, oUACHITA PARISH, LouIsIANA,
Has resumed his profession as Counselor,
to which no will devote careful attention;
and will invariably require payment for his
adpice. Has also resumed his Profession :,s
Attorney and Solicitor; and will practice in
tho United States District, Circuit and SH-
preme Courts, and in the State District,
Circuit and Supreme Courts; in all classes
of cases, law, equity, probate, criminal and
bankruptcy. "a new Jnnhrupt inW will DO
adopted in 1922 viii make tho maintcn-
ance of pdttd and the annulmen of Wcyk
tax titles q specially. WIN devote his per-
sonal attention to his cases and all his time
to his profession, AS his sole business, to tho
exclusion OF all other occupations; and can
not DO engaged or retained in any case with
| out q fee. Office at his residence.
August Is, 1881.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

The Rapides Express says that a lit.
tie boy, one of a party out deer hunt
ing, killed three deer at one shot, the
other day, near Pineville in that parish.
With such boys hunting them, and
with water drowning them and the
gnats running them so wild that they
become tame, the poor deer have the
buf1alo's future just ahead of them.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
nor SALE CHEAP!
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Succession Of Henry w. Oneil,

Succession OF Henry w. Oneil,
Fifth District Court, Parish of Ouachita.
Notice is hereby given to the creditors OF
this estate, and to all other persons herein
Interested to show cause within ten days
have or can, why the account presented by
A. n. Scriber, curator, should not DO ap-
proved and homologated, and the funds
distributed in accordance herewith.
BY order of the Court;
AUSTIN GREEN, Clerk.
Monroe, La, March II. 1882.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

For the non-appearance of several
items prepared for this weeks paper,
and for whatever else may seem as it
ought not to be, we have to offer the
explanation that one-half of our Office
force is not effective by reason of sick
ness,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

Mr.. Ennemoser, Clerk of the United
States Court, gives notice that there
will be no term Of that Court in April
in Monroe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
NOTICE
TO CITY LICENSE PAYE Frs!

have this day received from the CITY
'rreas,lrer blank licenses on all Trades,
Occupations and Professions for the year
1882 said licenses are now duo and II not
poid on or before the LIST day of April, 1882,
they become delinquent.
JOHN b. GARRETSON,
City Tax Collector.
Monroe, La, March 2, 1882.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

Sunday, the 9th of April, will be
Easter Sunday, and about that time
experienced observers of the weather
usually fear a killing frost. Professors
Tice, Venor and Devoe, the weather
seers, have so completely lost their
reckoning of late that their opinions
are not considered worth "a hooter''
whatever that may be-and we have
not consulted them
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T 5. CARSON,
ARCHITECT AND BUILDER.
MONROE, LA.
Plans, Specifications and Quantities fur
nished at reasonable terms on application,
either in person or by letter, addressed as
above. March Is, 18s2,-m.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25

Two prominent planters near Bren.
ham, Texas, state that they had raised
heavy crops of cotton prior to the late
war on lands planted the first week in
July. Even corn can be sown in July
along the Ouachita, which cut and
cured properly will make excellent
forage, but it is not likely to mature
On account of the bud worm.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-25
The Game of Craps.

Monroe, La, March, 1882.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-06-22

fix pump when it chokes? Can you
make two or three boxes for the shade
trees you planted on the sidewalk, if you
knew how to plant them? Can you do
anything about the house that Con Regain
can? My dear boy, you see why Nora
Mulligan will have none of you she wants
higher type of true manhood. You ex-
pect to hire men to do all the mans
work about the house, but you want your
wife to do everything that any woman
can do. Believe me, my dear son, nine
tenths of the girls who play the piano
and sing SO charmingly, who you in your
limited knowledge set down as mere
butterflies of fashion," are better fitted
for wives than you are for husband.
The girls know more about these things
than you do. If you want to marry q
first-class cook and experienced house
keeper, do your counting in an lntelli-
gence office. But if you want wife,
marry the girl you love, with dimpled
hands and face like the sunlight, and her
love will teach her all these things, my
boy, long before you have learned one
half Of your own lesson.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-06-22

There is in almost all human beings
an at least occasional desire to hear or
read something startling or horrible.
What is bad is noised about; and news
papers and social circles find much to
say about it; but goodness goes like the
sunshine, quietly through the world. In
order to give my readers something
startling, I will narrate to them true,
yet horrible tale.
Snakes, in Brazil, as in all tropical
countries, grow to an enormous size, and
have great muscular strength; it is sci.
dom that you hear of one attacking a
man, and the natives are generally will
ing to encounter the largest. There was
an exception in the case of Ascencao Ig-
nacio do Silva. He was quiet, peace
able person, beloved and respected by
all who knew him. It is customary in
that summary land for those living near
streams to battle in their margin, and
numerous little dressing rooms are seen
on the banks rudely constructed for
the purpose. One Sabbath morning,
when the clear sky was beginning to be
inviting, Ascencao, who. with his wife
and little son Ia boy of five summers) /,
lived on the banks of the beautiful Rio
N, requested his wife to bring the
boy and they would go and battle. When
they reached the stream Ascencao took
the child hand, requesting Phillipa to
take the other and enter. Phillipa
stopped, and pulling the child back
pointed to large snake that was swim
ming down the river towards them. He
laughed at her fears and plunged into
the waves, Philippa watching with ner-
vous dread. Presently Ascencoa gave a
terrible scream and sprang high into the
air, when, oh, horrible! there was his
manly form completely entwined by
the fierce monster he had encountered,
its head above his, with its great mouth
open, and its tongue out as If defying
resistance.
The eyes of the unfortunate man APP
peared almost projecting from their
sockets; his hands we're extended
toward PhilIipa, as if for aid. The poor
woman screamed in agony for help. Her
husband quickly disappeared. Once
again he arose, but this time there was
no sound, he sank. and Phillipa noticed
Q disturbed state of the waters for few
moments. Then all was apparently over
the great ripping stream flowed on, with
only Q crimson streak on its silvery
foam, showing where q life had gone out
forever.
All efforts to recover the body proved
unava;ling. Ascencao had been crushed
by the loathsome object he had scorned,
and there is no doubt that had he been
prepared for the attack he would have
conquered; but being off his guard and
unarmed, he could give no resistance
His poor widow and orphan still live
upon the bank of the Rio N-to point
out the spot, and tell the story.
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A Testimonial to Deserving Artist

w. Fl. TowNE, San Francisco Gallery,
corner of First and Morrison streets,
Portland, Oregon.-We, the undersigned
members Of the Standard Minstrels and
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OREGON TO MAssACn Us Errs.

city. read in Massachusetts paper that Hon.
Charles R. Ladd. auditor Of that state, aficted
with an incursble kidney disease, and had been
obliged to give mp work and return to his home.
They Immediately sent him box of their celebrated
Oregon Kidney Tea. and from time to time sent him
other boxes. few days ago they received from
him the following letter:
COMMONWEALTH OF MAsaAoHUsErTs,
Auditors Dept. Boston, Nov IL, 1881.
Messrs. Hodge, Davis Co.: Dear Sirs-I have no
hesitation in saying that have been much benefited
by the use Of the Oregon Kidney Tea q remedy for
akidney difficulty which has troubled me for six
eight years. can heartily recommend 1t to those
who similarly afflicted as q safe and agreeable
remedy. shall test its virtues further. for have
great faith IN 1t specific for many diseases of
the kidneys. Respectfully yours.
CHAS. r. LADD,
The original of this letter be by calling
"a Messrs. Hodge. Davis 4 Co., Portland. Oregon,
and the Oregon Kidney Tea can be bought OF any
druggist or dealer, in Oregon Washington. Price
81 per box