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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-10-07

The above eighty names we're written on
separate pieces of paper, and by the COM
missioners, together with the clerk, the
first fifty names were placed in an envel-
on and sealed and Endorsed on the same
aJurors drawn for the first week Of the
November term Of the District Court" aud
the last thirty names drawn were also
placed in q separate envelop by the said
Jury Commissioners and the clerk of the
court, sealed and marked Jurors for the
second week of the November term of the
District Court and said envelopes were
then placed in the jury box which was
sealei. locked and placed in the custody of
s. B. Shackelford, clerk of the district
court, for use at the next term OF the
court
And this is our process verbal OF the
drawing OF the jury to serve at the No
yember term Of the 18th Judicial District
CONT in and for the parish of Grant, State
Of Iouisiana, in witness whereof we have
hereto set our hands on this the S0th day
Of September, A. d. l5e2.
L. q. RANDOLPH
JAS. b. WILMUT,
H.(x) MCKNIGHT,
his mark
Jury Commissioners
8. B. SHACKELFORr,
Clerk 10Th Dist. Court and Ex-ofic1o Jury
Commissioner.
Filed September goth. 1882.
S. B. SHACKELFORD, Clerk.
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(oFFIcIAL.
LIST OF JURORS
Drawn to Serve at the Term Of the District
Court to be Held on the 2lst Day
Of November. A. d. 1882.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, |
PARISH OF GRANT. \

STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF GRANT.
BE IT KNOWN AND REMEMBERED,
that we the undersigned Jury Commits
sioners Of the parish of Grant, duly APP
pointed and qualified according to law,
met this day in the Clerks office. in the
court house, in said parish, to draw . jury
to serve at the next term of District Court,
to be held on the third Tuesday of Noyem-
Der. 1881
The clerk Of the court, s. B Shackelford,
then furnished the Jury Commissioners
with list of the Jurors who had served
at the last term of the district court, when
the Jury Commissioners, with the assist
ence of the clerk of district court and err
odicio member of the Jury Commission
ers. proceeded to open the general We
nire box, and after revising the same by
striking from the list and taking from the
box the names of all those who had remov-
ed from the parish died, ETC.. then proceed-
ed to replace like number of names in
the said venire box. taken from the Regis
tration Books of said parish so as TO sup
plelnent the number of names taken from
the general venire box to its original num-
Der, three hundred, when Mr.. Howard Nc
Knight drew from the general venire box,
in the presence of the undersigned COM
missioners, one at q time, the following
fifty names to serve as Jurors for the first
week of said November term Of said court,
tO-Wit:
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The impcster, T. +. Ball. who some
time ago imposed upon the good
people Of Bethel Baptist church. Of
this parish. BY playing preacher on
them, is now reported to be travelling
in the parishes along the Mississippi
river. His lay now is in the deaf and
dunn business. We warn the people
in that section Of the State against
this rascal. He is about Eve feet ten
inches high. fair. rudy complexion.
blue eyes and sandy hair.
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COTTON
PROVISIONS.

PROVISIONS.
MESS PORK .25.
DRY SALT MEAT Packed shoulders
l0tc, loose 3@4c lower.
BACON-Shonlders l1}c, clear rib sides
l64c, long clear 1910
LARD-Refined in tierces 1880, refined
in kegs 1899, refined in buckets 135c.
HAMS-Choice new canvas sugar-cured
l74(9lz2c, plain lS914c. ordinary to me-
dunn ll912. 1aeH
BEEF-Choice family mess beef sl7@
1850 in bbls, s950@I0.50 in half bbls,
medium and ordinary mess beet in bbls
sl5(9l5.50. Fulton market Sl3@l325 y
half Dbl.
FLOUR-s5 25@7 25.
CORN MEAL-$3 50(3,3.75.
OOFFEE-Or Ordinary Rio 81, fair Ole.
good l04 prime 1886.
RICE-uommon 4sc. ordinary 45c, good
81. prime &c, choice &c.
SUGAR-Prine &c., choice SIC, yellow
clarified SIC, choice white 999tc.
MOLASSES - Choice 55c, prime Soc,
fair 45c, common 35(940c.
BUTTER-18@c35, as to quality.
CHEESE-9@12c, as to quality.
IRISH POTATOES 81 5D02.75.
SWEET POTATOES-S1.75.
ONIONS 50@20 90,
Woodbury. lO(@15c n ID. Louisiana
clear 22@29c, clear lake 24(925c.
COUNTRY HIDES Green salted 7(974c
dry flint 100 i2lc, dry sailed lucille per ID
damaged green hides &c of, damaged dry
&c of.
PELTS-C Choice sheep GOA 4Oc, goat lo@
25c, coon 5(910c, mink 109l2}c. beaver
50@1.00, otter $2.00(95.00
TALLOW-7(9c n for country.
HONEY-Is quoted at 50@75c gallon.
strained. -
BEEsWAX-Prime yellow 20@21c u ID.
CArrLE-First quality 72 head $22@26,
second quality s15916. common and old
cows S9@14.
CALVES First quality y head 5000,
second quality y head s5.50@7.
BAGGING-14 ID &c y yard, 2 n l0c,
2A-ib lie; baliug Irvine i3c y ID.
TEES-According to patents, $1.50 net
bundle in round lots, SLIGO in job lots
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A grand railroad excursion is ad-
vArtised to leave Alexandria for New
Orleans on Saturday, Oct l4th, and
return on Tuesday, 18th. The fare
for the round trip. TO New Orleans
and back to AIexandris). viii be Eve
dollars. Here is . chance for those
of our citizens who care to see the
city and. the country intermediate, At
. small outlay Of money.
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For Congress Fourth District
N. G. BLANCHARD
OF Caddo Parish.


Pubic SPEAKING. The Hon. N. C.
Blanchard will address the citizens OF
Grant parish at Colfax on Thursday.
October 10th. A number of other
speakers will be invited to be present
at that time. who will also speak
upon subjects Of interest. Our Con-
gressional Representative is pleas
ing talker, and the account of his
stewardship will doubtless be worth
hearing. Come one, come all. From
Colfax Mr.. Blanchard viii go to
Winfield. wherp he will address the
citizens of VIM parish at IL NJ. Sat-
urday, October 2lst
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mo. AZ.


In " AAAcs A0zHOc1@t'J
The Social Science Association Of
America, which met at Saratoga re-
Gently. discussed the question of
drunkenness and it's cure and pre-
vention. As to the amount of evil,
moral physical and industrial, work
ed by it. all the delegates were agreed,
and their speeches might serve as
orations for prohibition campaign !;
bat just how to prevent drunkenness.
was = question on which there was q
wide Diversity Of opinion.
A large and important faction Of
the association. constituting perhaps
majority OF It and including such
distinguished gentlemen in the world
OF science and religion as Prof Fran
cas- Wayland and Rev. s. Iren@us
Prime. OF the New York Observer.
held the advanced doctrine that
drunkenness was crime aud not q
2 disease, and that It ought to be
punished severely, Prot. Wayland
ranked 1t with murder in the second
degree tour manslaughter). and sug-
gested imprisonment for life e. the
proper punishment for the habitual
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FABLE OF THE BEAR AND Fox.-A Bear
boosted of bis love for man, saying that he
never worried or disturbed him when dead.
The fox observed with . smile, Il should
have thought more of your profession Il
you never ate him alive Moral Better
save q man from dying. than save him
when dead. How true Of man is that max
i'm to this day. Men and women, here,
there. everywhere, deplore and lament
death-bed scenes, yet pay SO little atten-
ton to each Others welfare during life.
All tears after death, but no smiles before.
The health of wives and daughters is shat
tered, and their lives imperiled by some
chronic female complaint, which is per-
mitted to continue uutil the whole consti-
tion is broke down. Don't procrastinate
until these poor creaturrs are dead but 70
to work Roar and work continuously until
they are cured. DR. Dromgoole's English
Female Bitters h the remedy. II ID nsv-
er-failing female regulator and iron tonic,
acting promptly and pleasantly.
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If it was not for the wonderful
plenty produced by Southern soil the
negroes would have nearly all starved
to death long ago. "They have vir-
tusIly quit the fields and taken to
politics and preaching. while the
fields are growing weeds" is the de-
liberate opinion Of Northern phi
losopher, based upon . personal OBJ
servation. He is not far from right
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The Baton Rouge Capitolian -Ad

The Baton Rouge Capitolian-A d-
vocate will issue an extra large edi-
ton on the 18th of December. the
proceeds from the sale of which it
proposes to give to its printers for
Christmas money. This il doing the
handsome thing by the boys. and il
those comps don't have . good time
it will be no fault Of the proprietors.
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Take care Of your Ljcus- A great numbtE
Of the diseases to which msnkind are lia-
able arise from disordere<l condition Of this
organ. Keep il in . sound and healthy
condition and you can defy disease Prick
" Ash Bjtters are especially adapted for
which oct ON the LAYER, giving It tone and
strength to withstand malaria.
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Gen Nichols is proposed as Mayor
of New Orleans. Wonder II this is
not dodge to get him out Of the
next gubernatorial contest?
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ttpaa week in your own town. IS Ont
DOOht free No risk. Everything new.
Capital not required. We viii furnish you
everything. Many are making fortunes
Ladies' make as much as men. and boys
aud girls make great pay. Reader, il yon
want a business nj which yoa eau make
great pay all the time you work, write for
particulars II. HALLETT 4 Co.,
janl4-ly Portland, Maine.
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Arab has one cancellation. En-
gland is left with those 500 Kentucky
mules on her hands 10 manage.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
NoTIcE.
Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish Of
Grant.

Greed, No 20, Probate Docket.
CoIAAx, La. Sept. "a, 1882.
All parties indebted to the late w. H.
Greed are requested to settle same with
the undersigned or her attorney, j. G.
Wickliffe. Colfax, La. All persons having
claims against said succession will present
the same to ]. C. Wickliffe, attorney for
MELISSA j. CREED,
Admx. Of VIM. H. Greed, deceased.
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Anrelius G. Hargis having filed his petit
ton applying to be appointed administrnr
tor of the above succession, all persons are
hereby notified, that, unless opposition
thereto is filed in my Office within ten days
from the date hereof, said application will
be granted. -
Given under my official hand and seal
this 30th day of September A. d. 1882.
S. b. SHACKELFORD,
Clerk 18th Dist Court, Parish of Grant.
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NoTIcE.

In the succession of Mathew NJ Swafford,
deceased, No. %. Probate Docket--l2th
District Court, Parish of Grant.
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for the second week of said November
term
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-04-07

trouble suggests he be paid BY taking
the fare of the next two passengers Who
got IN, and by that way he will be the
loser of a penny only THIS plan is dis
-eusscd, and finally Submitted to the
driver, who giving if his approbati0ps
they once more settle down to- wait the
unconscious liquidation Of the debt:
Pretty soon they get in togSeker, l3dy
and . gentleman. Dat Of his pocket
comes the six cents and he.stafts for the
box Here our fietd jumps up, $ld
extending shis hand takes the f{s6s
which, to the gendenal' Sz2zi ishm4nt,.
he puts, not into the box but into the
hand of his friend.s - s@'sT'zs -
The newcomer looks fasles moment
.dumbfounded, then stziding over,
catches him by the collar, excideiiy
circulating: Here, nome of that!
That game. is too Old to go down. just
hand that money overr' ssass
At this crisis the lethargica apathy Of
despair settles upon the unfortunate
victim Of politeness, and he neither
moves or utters sound. The young
Lady and the newspaper man here start
forward as champions, and with the aid
of the driver, who is called to- testify as
60 the perfect honesty Of all persons con-
.ccrned, an understanding Is at length
reached, and the little farce of 90 Much
Ado About Nothing comes to an end.
It is safe to say more uncomfor-
table car load of passengers have seldom
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g}{Hl{2,ssldiiI
ASKING WHY.

a
The very oldest boy know
Is Robin Adair, with his head Of TOW,
And his brave. bright eyee Yee - lucs
For thia very strange boy = eskimo Why. , 4
From tEe Sine tat n3ofnige peilf1 TIE Sk4
Tilitheoleep1e8 GtA1s 10ok out onA1gh:
WHY does Jacks kite stay M in the sky7
1t has no wings, and yet Il can hy-
And sister says wishes 60 Just % high.
Why 10 oatmeal healthy and candy s5ods AtA
Is it always naughty to do as you would?
And would you be an meel you couos d
This rose was bud, and why did It BURST q
This bird was an egg, and which came INST
The egg or the bird? and how was It nursed?
What is the wind? and where does It stay:
When it bushes itself and cre0p5 away3 MO
Is it crying or singing? and what does it sayf
why does the sun sleep back Of the trees
At home when in summer he takes his ease
All nightin the rocking bed Of the seass
why Il Il bad fodr BOYS to nxhtf Oh asle
And for soldiermen SO brave and right?
Why do love yOa best at nisht2 II llH
Why do the oaks and elms stand tail. 80
And the apple trees do the work for all
With their gnarled old branches ready to fall?
Why does great, strong gentleman ride
In q carriage, pretty, and soft and wide.
And tired old w0lnar walk by the side?
All! Robin, I'll neither laugh nor cry;
But I'll tell you a secret, deep and high:
The grown-up children keep asking why.
And the answers are somewhere safe and fair
Beyond the stars and the star!tt air
For men and women and Robin Adair.
A-FdnRte f. Robinson, Ia WIls Aar0ke.
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A Camel Race.

In the interior of Australia camels have
for some time past been used as beasts
of burden. The Australian, however, IL
not only q good man of business, but .
keen sportsman as well, and especially
fond of race meeting. Thus it came
about the other day that on the arrival
at Thargomindah of a troop of eighteen
.camels laden with merchandise some Of
the enterprising townsmen arranged for
q race between five of the fleetest of the
|" ships Of the DESERT They were rid
den BY light weights two of them being
Jockeys well known to the sporting pub
lie in the neighboring township q Will
,cannia-and the only stipulation made
was that the prize of fifteen pounds
Should be handed over by the winner q
the trustees of the fund for fencing tn
cemetery! A level start was effected.
but the camel ridden by one Bond made
all the running, and won in q s.canter''
by four lengths. One Of the ssships'' -
reported to have laid down at the back Of
the course. and, his steering gear get
ting out of order,', he could not be pilot
ed straight afterward. Thus not only
is Thargomindah entitled to the credit,
If any, Of having promoted the first cam
ell Trace in Australia, but also to the ex..
ceptional credit of having devoted
racing stakes to praiseworthy object
The Colonies and india.
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FlOgging An Indian.

One rainy afternoon, five or six Oregon
pioneers were seated around rusty old
Stove, gossiping about old times. One
of them told the story of q first settler Of
CORVALLIS, Benton County, who came
into the country. about ,1845. There
were plenty of Indians in the valley Kick
I-tats and Calapooyas, and only two or
three white families. The old man used
to leave home for a week at time to
work in Oregon City. He had to walk
the sixty miles there and back and pack
four and bacon on his back, = bii6s
'Did the Indians show themselves at
the cabin while he was gone?''
"Once a pack of them went to the
cabin and were very saucy, finding only
the old lady at home. They crowded
into the house and began to help them
selves to whatever they could lay their
hands upon, but the old lady took the
ak and made them clear out. e'a
"When the old man came home she
told him about it. He kept out of sight,
and in day or two back came the In.
dams. The redskin they called the
Chief came into the cabin and began to
lay hold of anything he fancied. Then
the old man walked quietly into the
doorway with his rifle on his arm. He
looked the Chief up and down, and then
said to his wife: sd 81 r.-~
"'Do you see that bunch of twigs
over the fire-place? You take them and
90 through that fellow while the twigs
hold togetherr f Sa-7sI
..He then made step toward the In
dian, and said: = You raise . finger
against that woman, and I'll take you
in hand.
1.-The old lady took the twigs and
used them Justify on the Indians back.
She actually beat him around the house
until there wasn't . whole twig In the
bunch.
:" You should have seen the crowd Of
wenty or thirty Indians standing there.
fairly in ecstasies of laughter to see the
white squaw fog the chief. He made
the quickest time on record back to their
camp as soon Is she let him go, and that
crowd never bothered that cabin again. "
-HosstHs Companion. ..s4 =. -.
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lsfIfNflIT Nh IL 7
Neblesse Ohl!lse.

Il has been said that Il yeu wish "a
learn whether caste survives in any
given country you should look to is
usagess Of marriage. Now, tho 1f1l
cause Of the isolation Of the titled classes
il France nc is their practice in q marrying ~
among themselves. Marriages with the
rest OF the nation are very fare and IL
ways of one kind-the son Of nohle
marries sometimes, the daughter OF .
man of the other classes, the daughter
of such q man marries a9nOble almost
never. And to the isolation caused by
non-intermarriage is added the social
isolation produced BY special pursuits.
Nothing seems more capricious to . for
eign observer than the choice of profess
sions and employments by the sons of .
Legitimist family. The Legitimist
will go into the army, and he will take q
small clerkship in the Office of railway
company But he will only serve the
Government in certain special capaci-
tiss, and he will have nothing to do with
trade. These prejudices do not exclude
considerable virtues and, considerable
services to French society. The titled
land owners Of France, who still hold q
much larger portion of the soil than is
commonly supposed in this country, have
been the great improvers of French agri-
culture, and much Of the development
of the enormous natural wealth of France
is attributable to them. Their private
virtues have been .deposed to by great
authorities. The late Mr.. j. S. Mill,
who lived much in France, is known to
have had very high opinion of his Le-l
gitimist neighbors, and even to have
gone the length of saying that, if you
wanted to find Frenchman who habit
ually spoke the. truth and was honest in
all his dealings, you should search for
q Legitimist noble. But all this has in
variably been coupled with great ignor-
ance and strong prejudices. The insane
speculation of many months is best ex-
pressed by the repressed energy of Q
class voluntarily excluding itself from .
large field Of employment and by its ig4
norant contempt for regular and honest
trade. 1t cannot exactly be said Of
French noble that he cannot dig, to beg
he is ashamed. The fact is that, if very
poor, he would willingly dig or live on
the charity of his relatives. But moth
ing would induce him to mix himself
with the usual occupations of the bour-
geoise. Unfortunately for himself, though
he may not trade, he does not derogate
from his position by traficing in the
stock and shares which ought to repre-
sent trade. If these ladies and gentle
men had once understood that the con-
slant buying of shares could no more 60
on indefinitely than the constant pur-
chase Of shoes, stockings OF furniture for
resale at profit, they might have es-
capped their present misfortunes. Pail
Mall Gazette. ... go .......t9
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wascharxedon rs ehbio1Sotf he flssl
in NJ the spaces around and betweea
hie msshnprX Nitf lsqpea1a sNickinG.
He bought two chandeliers for 80 . :
tribute 70 the character at the Peruvian
officials. intending to present them = tAe
President and Vice President, - . brlbe
for the monopoly Of supplying them with
oil and lamps for twenty years. But
Sanford was ct Lima nine days aAead II
him, and got from the Peruvian LeRis-
lature what Hevener hoped to hibe from
the Executive. 90 did not give those
chandeliers to the President and Viee
President, y hesays, 4 but sold them fol
$780," His lamp speculation was very
profitable. A lamp, bought in New York
for sixty or seventy.five cents, retailed
at Lima at @15 or $40. In two months
he persuaded the Legislature to ANIMAL
Sanford's privilege, bought him out for
$20O, 600 and had control of the entire
cod oil business Of Tho country. He Il
five cities, had seven retail lamp stores,
ran his mill and was filing contracts and
oilzcans day and night, right aud left. re
In1864 tsthe Spaniards came sweeping
down to Peru, whaling everything right
and left" An American engineer and
himself took q contract to build . ram.
They covered an old war vessel with rail-
road iron, and although Hevener never
saw q cannon except Is they lay around
the forts, he made up his mind he could
rifle a cannon. as well as the next man.
He took the smooth bores, rifled them,
land that old ram just walked out
among them Spaniards and walloped the
life out of them right in the harbor.'
There are still due him $50, 600 on this
contract, but this sis only trife." .
After this he bought Cochet's claim
from Cochet's son outright and Landreau
got s., 0O0, 900 assigned him on his claims,
but he was never paid penny. In 1870
the Government hired an assassin to kin
Landreau, and one morning he was found
lying on his doorstep, his skull fractured
and q knife wound in his hip. He did
not die, but when excited he "cuts up
just like that fellow Guiteau.' IussG ;
Among other schemes Hevener under
took was an elevated wire railroad across
400 miles of desert to the nitre deposits.
which are brought on the backs of mules.
He built nineteen miles at cost of $40,-
600, but the muleteers, jealous of ma
chinery, destroyed it all in a single night.
Subsequently company of Frenchmen
spent 81, 685, 900 in building pipe line
to pump the nitre in liquid form. The
experiment succeeded. They pumped
three hours and then stopped to mend q
belt. The liquid nitrate CONCEALED, and
no power could ever get dow through
those pipes again. They picked up their
baggage and walked away. The pipes
are there now. siIu8 lt9uiqeseE sE1s 4
Mr.. Heveneri is remarkable specimen
of the American money-making adven-
turer, who has scarcely his parallel even
in the wonderful Sinbad and the caravan
merchants of the Arabian Nights.-Ds-
troI Free Press. a.
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been thrown together And - our
friend left the scene Of 80 much misery
to his credit, be it said, with N I'M
perturbable OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sagely
msde thrse resolntisnsss Neverg ezcepe
under the most pressing circumstances.
to act as conductor; secondly. no matter
how sure he may feel of the value OF .
coin, to examine Il on an sides before
dropping it into tho box, and lastly.
never under any circumstances To- ses
foot again in q three-cent bob-taiI car.
- Washington Post.