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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-23

The last circus that visited our
city is now quartered in the Fair
grounds at Columbia, S. c., under
the special care of the sheriff.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-23

An excursion train will be run
from this city to Concord on next
Thursday by the Good Samaritans.
The fare is 81 for the round trip.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-23

Superior Court adjourned last
Saturday noon after session OF
three weeks.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17

The light hurt my eyes and l took a
seat vacated near the front. Young Mr..
Hog and his sweetheart sat behind me,
and in calm defiance of public opinion
the male Rugged the female during the
entire performance. They also talked,
as it may be of interest to other offenders
I'll give some of their pretty prattle:
"Have another peppermint"
"Yes."
"Say; now you see that table. Pretty
soon those two1l sit down to it, and that
tall fellow he'll tell 'em to get up; and
then the girl who's got the boy1l come
in and jump right out the window.
There he comes now. That amt his real
voice, though"
Whats his name?"
81 don't know; but he's the Quaker,
and when he swears he says, Hold on,
Quaker You wait; it's awful funny.
"There comes the girl"
Eyes now you see. There, didn't
tell you? She's jumped right on the ice.
Hear the dogs? They'll pull the cur
tains back in minute and you'll see the
girl and boy on the cake of ice and the
dogs will bark and raise Cain. There,
did't 1 tell you'll"
"Ohl what big docs. Will they
bite?"
"Bitel They would if they wasn't held
back. See their muzzles? Hear 'em
bark. Tell you it wouldn't be very
funny if it was real, would it?"
mo. What are they going to do now?'
squinted around, and was on the point
of suggesting that perhaps it would be as
we'll to allow the actors and other don.
keys to tell the story in their own way,
but Just then the male dog gave the lady
so perceptible Q squeeze that didn't
have the heart to say one word.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17
The Dry Goods Clerk.

The dry goods clerk is young man
who is paid $3.50 q week to stand be-
hind counter and sell dry goods. If
he can conceal his real feelings, and be
polite to old ladies who ask for samples
OF seventeen different pieces of calico,
his employers sometimes increase his
weekly pay to fifteen dollars. Five dol
lars goes for board; the other ten he in
vests in clothes, hair oil. and the hire of
a buggy on Sunday. He wears his hair
pasted down on his forehead in a half
circle, and is the proprietor of sweet
smile, which spreads all across his coun-
tenance and difuses itself ovefthe whole
establishment when the uptown young
ladies call to get ribbon matched. He
assures these young ladies that it is mo
trouble to show goods" he is respect
fully deferential to matrons with mar
riageable daughters; is charmingly
familiar with country customers, and
digni6ed and uncommittal with male
purchasers who forget whether it was
four yards of blue insertion or quart of
foulard nainsook doublewidth striped
hose that they were told to get.
The dry goods clerk wears a seal ring
and gorgeous expanse of shirt cuff.
When a customer has got all he has or
dered, the clerk says, Anything else?''
and then in very affluent voice, shouts
"Cashr' When he returns the custo-
mer's change he again says Anything
else?" Why he says it we cannot under
stand, as no one has ever known the
query to canse customer to purchase
even an additional shirt button.
After the store is closed in the even
ing, the dry goods clerk refreshes him
self by rolling up the pieces of goods
that, in the course of business, he has
opened during the day. and in discuss
ing the financial and social standing
and the imperfections of character Of
the old ladies who have an Unsuitable
craving for samples, but who never buy
anything.
The dry goods clerk lives in board,
| ing house, in an Sx10 room that has a
small window opening on the back yard
through which the dying echoes of the
smell of cooked Goldfish balls may be
distinctly heard as they gently float from
the kitchen on the evening breeze. His
ambition in life is to marry some girl
whose.father will set him up in business,
or be drummer Siftings.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17

samuel F. Jones, you we're drunk
and disorderly last night" exclaimed
Justice Patterson, in. the Tombs Police
court recently. "What have you to
say?"
II was at picnic, your Honor" said
Jones, land felt dizzy from dancing.
but was not drunk"
Then the policeman does not tell the
truth. queried his Honor.
II know I was not drunk" replied
Jones.
You we're here before. JONES'" re-
piled the court; your face looks IA
miliar."
Eyes, air" said sones. II was here
before"
"What were you charged with?" in
quired tho court.
Singing my own SONGS" said Jones.
"Oh, yes" remarked you Honor;
'sbut they were terrible ones the worst
I ever heard. What was done with
youl"
"Yeu fined me e5 the last time." re-
piled Jones.
"Wsli, tho same fipe will answer in
this 60, aid Justice Pattsrson. "Yos
us paii his 10, and with sorrowful
taoe. vailed out q he court-roon.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17

the editors hand, which he shook almost
gleefully.
"You have done me great favor he
exclaimed, "a great favor-and 1 shall
not forget itp'
sit bothers you to be sure your money
is safe" suppose, sir?' said the editor,
with that respect in tone and manner
which every independent man instinct
lively assumes when addressing wealthy
man.
"Well-er-no. not just yet. The
fact is, he cried with a burst of conf
dence, I'm about to change my manner
of life. I'm fifty five to-day, and I've
formed q resolution that hencefortb
shall save my money instead of spend
ing it, as have done from my youth up,
and have suffered considerable anxiety
about where to put my money when L
get it. In point of fact am just now
excessively hard up, and if you could
oblige me, sir.with a loan of dollar
until 1 am started on my new career,
you would lay me under a heavy obliga-
ton
The editor staggered toward the club
in the corner, but when he turned he
was alone. -Virginia City Chronicle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17
An Anxious capitalist.

II came to ask" began a little old
man in a whisper, looking as if fearful
of being overheard, and drawing his
chair close up to the editor, ''if you
know anything of the condition of the
Nevada BankY'
mo special information" replied the
editor.
"Then you think it solvent-perfectly
solvent ?" demanded the little man, with
intense eagerness.
Certainly"
might ask what its capital is-its
paid up capital ?"
"Three millions, I believe" said the
editor, beginning to wonder what man
ner Of man had foated against him.
and" continued the man in black.
Juggling in nervous excitement at hrs
thin and struggling iron-gray beard,
whats the Nevada Banks reserve
its ieserve--that's what l want to find
out?'
"Four millions, 1 think"
"And how is it invested--how is It in
vested ?" He fairly gulped with eager.
ness rs he glued his eyes upon those OF
the editor and awaited the reply.
"In United States bonds"
'sAh, he said, with great sigh Of re-
lief, i'm glad Of that. Then"-here
he looked all around 10 make sure there
we're no listsners- ''then You think :
man could safely intrust his money 70
itr
why, certainly. There's no aafer
bank in The world. II has unliuitsd
backing"
ne iitlls old nan oAucklsd, and took
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17
1cebergian, but by pre-


is pool. oplthey will travel incog. My
arrange see that they are conveyed
>, agentest secret manner They will
It'll in tleavy dark wells and play the role
we we5yptian refugees; and when they
a ose here will be conveyed in haste
,b their sumptuous quarters without
1elay.'
"But." interrupted the reporter, "you
are not quite ready yet to receive them. "
Il know it," said madame; 'but you
will see by this note, which received
yesterday from one of our merchant
princes, that $4,000 worth of the most
elaborate and costly furniture have al
ready been ordered, and will be put i'll
inside of twenty-four hours. And from
this letter you will perceive that the
proprietor of the mysterious house on
New Bedford point offers to put in $10,-
600 worth of anything needed if I will
guarantee to let my Circassian beauties
visit him during the month Of August
as that's the time the wealthy men
patrons come on from New York. Why"
said madame, warming up, "is takes $500
to cross the threshold of that house, and
$1,000 to mount single flight of stairs.
mean, of course, to enjoy the hospital
tiles of the house-straw and ice
cream, ETC., etc"
Although the reporter had been smil-
ing for the last half hour, yet he could
not refrain from smiling again at the
mention of strawberr es and cream.
'But do you intend to accept the lat
ter offer?"
81 do not; at any rate not just now,
although it is very tempting offer.
Like Mrs. Daniel Webster, I desire to
keep our own at home. There is too
much of this going off to New York on
business-solely because there has not
been the proper kind of attraction in
Boston,"
$50, them" said the reporter, "you
feel that you will be able to offer suffi-
cient inducement to restrain this emigra-
ton feeling ?"
81 certainly do--and that will prove
the correctness of what l say; only,
everything will be in keeping with the
business of clairvoyant and test me-
dunn"
"That u.s." said the reporter, getting
somewhat funny from the effects OF
frequent libations, "your mediums will
test the good. nature of your male Wis
ltors ?"
Just then the bell rang, and wagon.
load of the most superb furniture backed
up to the door, followed by light
wagon we'll filed with packages.
This caused
A fash ofjoy
To sparkle in madame's eye
And turning to the reporter she said
"Call again; I'll see you later-but don I
you give this information to soul till
it's published in the Express. y Boston
Saturday Evening Express.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17
Best He C0ull Do.

1t was Michigan man riding through
West Virginia ON horseback, and one af-
ternoon as he came along to a settlers
cabin on the mountain road he asked of
man leaning over the gate:
"Can you tell me how lar it is to the
town ahead?"
81 reckon kin, stranger You'll have
to peg along fur about nine miles yit."
but it is nearly dark. Is there no
tavern on the road ?"
"Never heard of any, and I've backed
nv corn meal over this road risinstwenty
years"
But perhaps I could put up some
where's p
"P'raps ye could. There's Steve Tay-
lor's down about four miles, but he'd
beat We blind ON old sledge. There's
Nose Smith, mile higher. hut Nose
would feel offended if ye didn't trade
him that boss for a stub-tailed mule.
Might put up at Green's, but there's lots
of rattlesnakes around his place. Kur-
mel johnson is down about six miles, but
the Kurnel would turn We all out doors
at midnight il he found that ye didn't
vote his way"
"But what am / to do?"
"Waal, Tn q squar' man, stranger and
the best kin do Is to AK We to stop here
with me, an to tell We beforehand that if
ye ar awakened in the night by shingles
being tipped of and logs pulled down it
won't be an avalanche nor cyclone, but
only me an the old woman q trying for
the two hundredth time since the war to
see who handles the money when sell
two coon skins fur dollar"
II guess Ill go one" fsltered the
rider.
"Ke-rect, strangerl The last man who
stopped here said he wished he'd have
run the chances with the snakes down at
Green's, an gin him my hand when he
rode OF. I'm squar' up and down, as l
told We, and Green's is the third cabin
ON this side arter ye cross the creek"
One of grandmother's wise ways was to
keep = cup Of alum water always close at
hand; il usually stood on the window
sill, beside her work basket Cut fingers
and bruises Of AL kinds. il wrapped in
cloth wrapped in the alum water. healed
With = zapidity that was truly wonderful.
This isso sinpls aremedy that it Is worth
ehils 70 know about Il.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17
HOW EsihetIc Boston ssCuItchaw, /,
supplied WITH "DiversOns.o

furnishing one of our reporters with
tne necessary number of dollars, we
started him off day or two ago on
tour among the clairvoyants. Althouob
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-01-28
District Court.

The ordinary term Of the district
court in and for Grant parish was
begun last Tuesday, Judge A. Barbin
presiding. Owing to the inclement
weather and the unfinished state of
the new court honse but little bust
mess was transacted during the first
days, and since then the time of the
court has been taken up BY two or
tree upimpo-tant cases which we de-
fer mentioning until next week. We
are pleased to see the Judge using
his best endeavors to get through as
much business as possible by open
ing court early and continuing until
after dark nearly every day. The
attorneys in attendance are W. F..
Blackman, H. L. Daigre, r. H. Hun
ter and E. g. Hunter, of Alexandria,
T. H. Thorpe, of Marksville. and our
resident bar, composed of w. l..
Richardson, NJ f. Machen and J. c.
Wickliffe.
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ASSESSORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that will be at
the following places, at the time designa-
ted, for the purpose of assessing the tax.
payers of Grant parish
At Fredieu's precinct, ward 6, on Feb
LIST, I'd aud Sd
At Montgomery. ward Z, on Feb. 9th, 7th
and 9Th.
At Iatt church precinct, ward !, Feb. 9th,
10th and 18th.
At Mrs. Taylol's precinct, ward 9, Feb.
18th, 18th and 18th.
At Satcher's precinct, Big Creek, ward 8,
Feb. Dist, 22d and 23d.
At Days Mill precinct, ward 4, Feb. 9th,
28th and March LIST.
At union precinct, ward S, March I'd, Sd
and 4th.
At Colfax precinct, ward /, March 9th,
9TH and 9th
At Deans store, ward /. Saturday, March
18th.
Persons wishing to have their property
assessed at its proper valuation will meet
me at the times and places above mem
toned. w. p HICKMAN,
Assessor and Registrar OF Grant Parish.
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SHERIFF's SALE.
In the matter of the succession Of John
Waddell VS.. Alfred Waddell "A.
Late Parish Court, now in the Fourth Ju-
dicial District Court, Parish Of Winn,
State of Louisiana.

By virture of and to satisfy writ Of IL
fa.. issued and to me directed in the above
entitled and numbered suit, have seized
and will offer for sale. at public action, III
front of the court house door, ia the town
of Coliax Louisiana. within the hours pre-
scribed by law, on
SATURDAY, the 4th day of February, A
d. 1852
the following described property, seized a.
the property of the defendant, to-wit:
certain tract Of land with all the bnild-
ings and improvements thereon, situated
ON the north side of Red river on bayou
Nantachie and running due north to the
section line dividing SECTIONS = aid 5,
thence east along said line far enough ss
as to enlb ace 100 acres running dne south
to Nantachie, and thence along said stream
to the place Of beginning, and being IN
section No. 8, township north, range 5
west
Terms of sale-Cash with benefit of APP
praisement- &. H. TEAL, Sheriff.
Sheliffs Office, Dec 26, 1881 d3l-5t
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A Bees Sting is only one-fourth of an
inch long. A very small and insignificant
thing, yet it leaves warm impression of
about two feet, and there's nothing stingy
about the sensation either. A certain mer-
chants wife danced to late hour one
night-became overheated, and returned
home in thin dress. Next morning she
had severe headache and general pain and
ached in her bones and joints She and
her husband considered it trivial affair,
and thought of no serious result The next
few days she became much worse and a
doctor was called in. He failed to find out
the cause of suffering, and only prescribed
for the fever and headache. She recover
ed only after two years suffering. and was
then cured by the use of DR.. DromgooPs
English Female Bitters. One bottle OF this
wonderful female regulator would have
cured her during the first few days.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-01-28

MONTGOMERY, La, Jan. %, 1892.
Editor Chronicle
Dear Sir-Some days ago saw pub
lished in the City Item and Times
Democrat, and later in the VindicatOr,
under the heading of Legislators Mil
age,n list of names of members who
received miiage for the second extra
session, which commenced Dec. 26, and
as nv name is included in the list, and
my constituents not knowing how it
came there, deem 1t prudent on my
part, and justice to those who elected
me to the honorable position | occupy,
to make, through your columns, a brief
statement of the facts as they really
occurred and now exist.
Several days before the expiration
of the extra session referred to, was
called home on account of the .cOndi-
ton of my family requiring my imme :.
date attention. Before leaving the
city, however, authorized my friend,
DIR. X. K. jackson, Representative from
Natchitoches, to collect the amount due
me for said extra session, and, as did
not specially instruct him as to the
milage, he, not knowing my wishes in
the matter, made out a voucher incla-
ding same, and collected it. On his
return home after final adjournment,
he paid the amount over to me, which
/ Immediately enclosed to Col. X. N.
Ogden, Speaker of the House, with in
structions to pay the amount over to
the treasurer, taking his receipt for
same. Knowing, as l did, that the
Governor convened the second extra
session Immediately after the close of
the first, in order to save the expense
of members going home and returning.
AS member of the house commmit-
tee on contingent expenses, opposed
the making of any appropriation Tor
milage, considering it unjust and I'M
wise in the extreme to appropriate the
peoples money to pay that which was
not really earned. Notwithstanding the
opposition of some of the members of
the committee, the appropriation was
reported, including milage, and passed
both houses and became law. But,
from remarks of members of the house
both in private and public, it did not
occur to me for moment that any
member would receive his milage, ex-
cept those who lived near enough to
60 home and return during the short
interim.
/ hope this brief explanation of my
action, in regard to what is styled the
'milage grab will set at naught all
erroneous impressions that may have
been made on the minds of the public
by the several publications, SO far as
am concerned. Had been present to
have made out my own voucher, my
name would have been recorded from
the start with those who refused to
accept the constructive milage.
Respectfully, II. V. MCCAIN.
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Twelfth Judicial District Court Parish o.
Grant, State Of Louisiana.

BY virtue of and to satisfy writ of fieri
facias, issued and to me directed, in the
above entitled and numbered suit. I have
seized and will offer for sale, at public
auction, in front of the court house door,
in the town of Colfax, La, between the
hours prescribed by law, on
SATURDAY. January %, A. D. 1882,
the following described property. seized as
the properly of the defendant, to-wit:
The Judgment in suit No. 80 on the
docket Of the First Justices Court in and
for Grant parish, entitled "Jno. Il, Gray
VS.. Isaac Williams for the sam of Sixty
Dollars with = per cent interest from the
18th day of March, 1879; and also the
Judgment in suit No. ON same docket
entitled Isaac Williams VS.. Jno. X. Gray
for the sum of $40 against plaintiff.
Terms of sale-Cash ON the spot. with
the benefit of appraisement.
jl4-3t e. h. TEAL. Sheriff.
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Mothers /! Mothers /! !! Mothers

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by q sick child suffering and
crying with the excruciating pain Of cut
ting teeth Ii SO, go at once and get q
bottle of Mrs. WINsLOw's SOOTHING SYRUP.
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately-depend upon it; there is no
mistake about it. There IL not mother
on earth who has ever used it, who will
not tell you at once that it will regulate
the bowels. and give rest to the mother,
and relieve the health of the child. opera
ting like magic. 1t is perfectly safe to use
in all cases, and pleasant to the taste, and
is the prescription Of one of the oldest and
best female physicians and nurses in the
United States. Sold everywhere at Is
cents bottle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-01-28

A Cough, Cold Or SORE THROAT should
be stopped. Neglect frequently results in
an iHcara6le Lung disoase or Consumption
BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs does not dis
order the stomach like cough syrups and
balsaIns, but acts directly on the inflamed
parts, allaying irritation, gives relief in
Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs. Catarrh, and
the Throat Troubles which Singers, and
Public Speakers are subject to. For thirty
years Browns Bronchial Troches have
been recommended by physicians, and have
always given perfect satisfaction. Having
been tested by wide and constant use for
nearly an entire generation, they have at
tanned well-merited rank among the few
staple remedies of the age. Sold at 8
cents box everywhere.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-01-28

The Alexandria State Central Elk
press, speaking of the decade OF
progress which is beginning for Lou
isiana, says that the young men OF
the country, if they do not wish to be
laggards, and would retain their pat
rimony and the honorable position
in the new regime which their faith
ers held in the old, must make a
quick and radical change. The grog-
shops. card tables and INDECENT hab-
it's must be abandoned"
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By virtue of aud to satisfy writ of fl.
ia, issued and to me directed. in the above
entitled and numbered suit. / have seized
and will offer for sale. mt public auction, in
front of the court house door, in the town
of Colfax, Louisiana, be ween the hours
prescribed by law, on
TATURDAY, Feb. Is, A d 1852.
The following described properly. se;z. d
rs ne property OF the Plaintiff to-wit:
One Bay Maze.
Terms-Cash with benefit ot appraiss-
inent Q. H. ZEAL. Sheriff
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Moses Bloom, Agent, va. Ernest vallery-
No. 2545.
Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish I
Rapides, State of Louisiana.

By virtue of and TO satisfy q writ of d.
ia issued and to me directed in the above
entitled and numbered suit, l have seized
and will offer for sale, at Public Auction
in front of the court house door, IN the
town Of Colfax, between the hours pre-
scribed by law. on
SATURDAY, March 4, A. d. 1882,
The following described property, seized as
the property of the Defendant, to wit:
The undiv ided one-half interest in and
to 300 6O-lOO acres of land, being the
west half Of the southeast quarter aud the
st half of section twenty three, town
ship seven north, range four west, situated
in Grant parish, Louisiana.
Terms Of sale Cash on the spot with
benefit of appraisment.
G. H. TEAL, Sheriff.
Colfax. La, Jan. l6, 1892. j2l-6t.
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We have sent on petition to Con-
gresham Blanchard. signed by about
sixty citizens, to have the Black Greek
mail route continued five miles fur
ther, so as to intersect the Alexan-
dria and WINFIELD route at Cotton
burg post office. 1t is q relief to
know that this long wanted connec-
ton is to be made at last.