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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28

The following circular has been issued
from tho Office of tho general manager
of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific road
CINC1NNATI, October 20, 1882.
DEAR SIE.-I beg to advise you that
tho duties of Mr.. I, Hardy, Who'll is the
freight and ticket agent of the Nicks-
burg and Meridian, have been extended
to the Nicksburg, Shreveport and Paci-
tic division, in connection with which
latter road he will assume the same
functions as with the Nicksburs and
Meridian railroad. Mr.. Hardy's head
quarter will be at Nicllsburg.
Yours truly,
JOHN SCorr, General Manager.
1t is not believed that the appoint
ment of Mr.. Hardy at Nicksburg as
freight agent for the ", S. & p. rail
way forbids the appointment of local
sub-agent ut Monroe. 1t certainly
should not.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
STRAYED.

A WHITE BULL SLUT, WITH VEL
low marks, and in bad condition. has stray
cd from her owner and is now in my pos
session. The owner is notified to take her
away. II. HABlisNAN.
Monroe. October p, 1882.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28
LIST OF JURORS.

Following is /. list of the jurors drawn
for the term OF The District Court beginning
the last Monday of November:
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28
WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE
StaUnton, Virginia.

Opens September goth, 1882 one OF the
FIRST SCHOOLS FOR YOUNG LADIES IN THE
UNITED STATES. Surroundings beautiful.
Climate unsurpassed. Pupils from eighteen
States. TERMS AMONG THE BEST IN
THE UNION. Board, Washing, Englisir
Course, Latin, French, German. Iustru-
mental Music, Etc, for Scholastic year
from. September to Junc--S23S. For Cat
aloGueS write to
REV. VIM. \. HARRIS, d. d.
juS-tf Prcs't, Srauntou, Va
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28
CENTENARY CGLLEGE.


Next session begins the FIRST MONDAY
in SEPTEMBER, lSS2. Two Professors have
been recently added to the Faculty. The
entire expense, per session, for BOARD and
TUITION need not exceed Sl44 i'll the Pre-
paritory and Sl64 in the College Depart
ment. Send for Catalogue
u. NJ. RUSH,
August 5, lSS2.-tf President.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28
DAVID L. BOYD, PRINCIPAL.

Ably Assisted in tho Academic Department
by Graduates of tho University of Nir-
Einia. and by Il competent Officer
i'll the Military Department.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28

MADISON COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
Near Rnpidan Station, Virginia.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28

T111eENTON IESTITirE.
He. -. %NIss'Es- a. NJ, Principal.
Opens 18th September next. to continue to
30. June, lSS::.
TRENTON, LA.
yJIIION.
Practical and Thorougll-EngIish and
Classical.
First Section. per four weeks
ScccilI 4
Due third Monday of each month.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-10-28

Died. October 22nd, 1852, WILLIE, Oldest son
of DR. M. l.. Bow man and Cora Davidson:
aged IL years, month and % days.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10

A Chinaman died soon after his mar.
rage with a young and lovely woman.
As he was dying the wife was loud in
her protestations OF grief and her de-
termination not to marry again. The
husband was not unreasonable; he only
asked that ii she did take another spouse
she would wait till the earth upon his
grave was dry. He diedand MAS buried.
and many a. young and handsome
bachelor Of the Province Of Shantuns
MAS present at his funeral. She listened
to no sutton. for woman's heart is ten
der, and she could not so soon forget
the lost one. Daily she stole to his
grave. She wept. but no tear fell upon
the soil. she took good care of that. At
last. after few days, Chwangtsze hap
pened to pass. and saw her tanning. not
herself. but the damp earth. He asked
the reason. She told him of her hus-
bands last request. and begged him 70
assist her. and there they sat to fan
away the moisture; the grave was 20
long a-drying!-7emple Bar.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10
IN UNROMANTYC VERSE.

We were walking in the moonl ght
While the leaves were all a-quiver.
With the signing breeze that swept the trees
And the branches through all wet with dew,
And the fre-tiies ia the June night
Were dancing ON the river;
But earth's treasure
Brought no pleasure.
And the pain did not depart,
Though no grief was at my heart.
When l told him NV condition.
The handsome young physician
Told me the reason that the brceZes made me
SILVER
Was because was afflicted with very torpid
liver.
-(bfix-
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10
A Swim for Life in a Canyon.

A correspondent of the Phoebe Record.
writing from Ell Dorado Canyon, New,
SAYS: "Another of our old-timers has
been swallowed up by the treacherous
Colorado. Barney Coleman and Ben
jamin Gooch, accompanied by two In
dians. started up the river last Friday
morning in skiff for the purpose OF
catching driftwood. After reaching a
point between twelve anil fifteen miles
up the river the boat. becoming I'M
manageable, was drawn into an eddy
and disappeared in al instant. The
skiff ut the time was near a steep cliff
of rocks. whose walls were two hun
bred feet in height, and the Indians,
observing that the eddy was about swal-
lowing the boat and crew. Jumped out
and chung to the rocks, and GoOch en-
deavored to do the same thing after
them. He secured a slight hold to the
perpendicular side of the cliff, clung to
il only for a moment, then fell into the
water and was seen no more. Coleman
sprang from the stern Of the skiff out in
to the river and got beyond the eddy.
where he watched for the appearance
of the boat. He had not long to wait,
but it seemed to him ages. when he
caught sight of it, bottom upward. a
few yards down the river. when he swan
after it. overtaking and clinging to it.
In this condition, for three miles. he
went shooting past rocks, plOughing
through breakers, and whirling about
in eddies. when he came face to face to
one of those roaring rapids and treach-
erous eddies so numerous and so dread
full in the Colorado. There was no time
TO lose. Another chance between life
and death. and that chance. perhaps,
was the only one in u thousand. The
resolution was formed one moment and
executed the next. The skiif was in
the midst Of the rapids. standing ON end;
another breaker and over it went. This
was an indescribable moment to Cole
man, whose sole reliance had deserted
him, as he felt prisonerin the hands of
death; and though he had scarcely
known his strength before. here was a
despeSate opportunity for lis test. and he
says that he felt that he was mere
straw ut the mercy OF wave one
second and an eddy the next.
Here was waged fierce and pro-
tl1Ntcu uSSic IoT ilit uttNtcu u pow
erful man and skill!ul swimmer, weigh
ing 225 pounds, and fiIst whirlpool
and then a rapid, whose force and size
and danger can never be realized ex-
cept by the man whose life was
trembling in the balance; but courage
and human strength at last prevailed.
and the brave man swan on over
rapids and through whirlpools for the
distance OF three Of as perilous miles
as were probably ever won by man.
Who can imagine his feelings as he
reached in safety and crawled upon the
river bank, where he lay for some time
completely exhausted? As soon as he
had regained sufficient strength Cole
man set out for the canyon. and. shoeless
and naked. after tramp of six miles
over the barren, rocky mountains and
through deep canyons of burning sands
in the heat of broiling sun. he ar
rived. his feet bleeding and fearfully
lacerated by the sharp rocks.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10

l7O6 took to gold-making in public and
died in. the Bastille after humbugging
the Bishop of Senes; Albert Aluys. who
took in the Duke of Richelieu; that de-
lightfnl humhug, the Count of Saint
German; and finally his friend and sue
cessor, Cagliostro. !. World.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10

The following story is told in Mot
ley's i" Oxford "Reminiscences A farm
ers will was presented for probate (it
was in old days. to an archdeacon dur
ing his visitation. He found name
scratched out. The widow stepped for
ward and explained: 81 tells you how
he be. sir. When we comes to look into
the will. we zee $50 left to John Wheel
er. What's he got to do with our
masters money!? says !. So l gets y
knife AMI us scratches him CUT, and
that's just how he be, SIR"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10

"A Philadelphia msnfuamaker i'm
prudently announces that she makes
her dresses fire-proof, not realizing that
her customers wish toilets to attract
rather than to repel their flames
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-08-10

Why are farmers ike fowls? Be-
cause neither win get full crops with
out industry.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01
Spread OF COLONIZATION.

The French appear to believe that people
can learn TO colonize as they can learn to
make shoes. Their past experience hardly
justifes the theory, but they are resolved TO
try it. AS savages have no rights the white
Christian ia bound TO respect, Africa is 10 be
pounced upon By any country that desires to
carry civilization, rum, Christianity, and
extinction among the benighied Africans.
Already the process Of dividing off the
country and appropriating il wholesale is
commencing, and in the course OF some years
the dissemination of civilization and true
religion will be seen selling by the acre or
the hectare, farm lots and blocks for cities
in choice valleys and favorable town spots,
where his foot to-day has never trod or his
eye gazed. "One murder makes william,
millions hero;" to take horse constitutes
a thief, to appropriate the whole country in
which he feeds is respectable land spec
ulation, so respectable that govern
ments and sovereignties engage in
the business. So France is taking
steps preliminary to occupying the territory
the sdventurer Brazza has bamboozled poor
unsuspecting Chief, or King, Matoke into
granting on the banks of the Congo. While
this district is getting ready, the same
power, although its people show little dis.
position to emigrate, is pushing sharper
measures along the Niger. The French are
about to send 600 Morocco natives from AL.
giers, 800 Senegal negroes, 200 or 800 Kroh
men, eighty French engineers, with guides
and others, but no settling emigrants, t.
commence railway that is to connect the
Senegal with the Niger. A column of sol
diers under Col. Desbordes is TO plant the
French flag on the Niger and put up two
forts. Poor Africans! Little do they thinl
what they will have to suffer from the Eu
ropean soldiery in the days that lie before
them. This and the Congo occupation are
only two among other colonization schemes
France is preparing. As the French are
poor colonisla the settlements will be mere
trading posts, that will set the natives tC
work and then appropriate the fruits of lheil
toll, while the priests will baptize the native
babies, and all France will rejoice at the
manner in which it is spreading abroad th'
blessings of the Christian religion. The
Germans, who make excellent immigrants
but have never settled colony of their oyn
are going also into that business. Polynesia
with its soft skies and paradisaical climate
is the first place likely to be selected, then
spot or two in South America. That the
Germans would be successful colonists can
not be doubted, but if the German govern
mani undarf axes IN arouira terriforv and
settle colonies on this continent, are we &c
allow such an infraction of the Monroe doc
trine? There may be trouble preparing fo
us if Germany, undertaking to aid the pioui
work of spreading civilization and Chria
tianity, should take possession of districts VI
Lo,.o tabooaI
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01
MANUFACTURING STATISTICS.
The Advance Made Since 1870 in In
crease Of Capital and Employees.

WASHINGTON, November 30.-The manu-
featuring statistics of the country for 1880
as compared with those for 1870 are repiete
with revelations. The factories seem TO
have undergone q relative decrease as TO
number, good increase as TO capital, a
similar increase as 10 operatives, relative
decrease as to wages, an increase IN the cost
of materials, general and great cheapenlDg
of products, and decided decrease of profits.
In 1870 there was one factory to every 15S
people, in 1850 one TO every 1877. In 1870
the average number OF hands per factory
was eight, in 1880 it was eleven. In 1870 the
ayersgs capital per factory was $500; in
1880 il was SlI 900. The average wages per
operative was, in 1870, 1877, against S346 in
1880 1t should be remembered that the
preceding and the following figures are sub
iect TO a certain correction from the fact
that the currency, in which the facts for
1870 are computed, was worth, during the
year reported, bat from seVeniy-two to
niuety cents on the dollar-eighty-two cents
being 8 fair average. The product, Includ-
inc raw material, OF the average workma n
was worth $1,000 in 1870, against 1880
in 1880; but the quantity produced was very
much larger in 1880 than il was ten years
before. If the value OF materials, the
wages and twenty per cent OF the capital
invested be deducted from the returned value
Of the manufactured product, the surplus
for work, insurance, risks and profits was
tventy-six per cent. in 1870, against sixteen
| ner cent. in 1880, or S2l5S per factory ID
TS7O against $500 in 1850. One inference il
inst. namely, that the risks OF labor have
moi become 50 intensified as have those o.
capital. Labor siill flourishes, while manu-
| featuring meets With increasing obstacles
including the fact that its market does no
| increase as rapidly as does productive work
| The relief, then, Is either in curtailing pro
| a,ctinr or In npening foreign markeis.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01

paying eight and half cents pound for il
at the works. Cutting at wrong time,
want OF care in keeping away immature
plants from the crushing, unskilliul hand
ling and erroneous methods OF attempted
IN manufacture, have been the causes of the
failures that have bsffled numerous attempts.
Success, however, can now be commanded
Rapid handling after cutting, lime juice and
6lterins through bone-black, are the great
secrets Of the true method. As we import
nearly $l00,000,O00 worth of sugar yearly,
it has become well worth the attention of
our Southern farmers TO ascer ain what can
be done 10 add another valuable article TO
their products. With our fine climate and
warm sun, if the Northern farmer can make
money out OF growing sorghum, the South
ern one ought to make still greater profits
The growth of sorghum would alss give a
good alternative crop with cotton, as its
effect on the soil is recuperative.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01
THE TEA TRADE.
Jobbers and Importers Unite I'm Depre-
eating the Auction System.

New York, November 30.-The members
of the tea trade are making all sorts of e--
plantations TO fit the present confused state of
their business, but all agree that things are
not as they should be. The importers COM
plain that the jobbers, instead OF keeping to
their own sphere aud taking the invoices
from the hands of the importers and holding
them TO meet the demands of retail dealers,
have gradually insisted upon cutting down
their purchases until the importers, finding
that their invoices remained on their
hands, were forced to send them
to the auction room for disposal at any
price. These sales were unreserved, and
permitted great many retailers to come in
to secure such lots as they wished, and when
good judgment was shown in selection some
of the retailers did very profitable BUSH
ness. The jobbers saw their business clip
ping away and as retaliatory measure
formed league not to buy at the auction
sales. The importers claim that it will make
40 difference 10 them, since unless the job
bers become direct buyers from the import
ers the auction sales will go on, with plenty
of buyers, and that the prices obtained at
the auction rooms will scale down the price
in spite of all the efforts of jobbers and i'm
porters 10 keep it up. Tea prices are now
very low, too low 10 afford a profit which
will satisfy many men who went into the
sisted on panic profit on all their dealings
The English syndicate, having shipping
houses at the China and Japan ports, has
made a specially of sending out cheap
grades Of tea for consumption in the Ameri-
can market. Such grades of tea as find q
ready sale here would not be permitted tc
pass the English import inspectors, who
open every chest and sample the tea, and
under the sewerage act" seize all low grade
teas and burn them up. Instead
therefore, of sending this rubbish
to England, the English syndicate con
sign it to the American market, where it i,
placed upon the trade by means of auction
sales. The importers insist that if the Job
bers will stand by them and take the i'm
portations as they arrive, by private sale
they in turn will cease sending to the auc
ton room, and that BY a severe system o
being let alone the English syndicate will
find no market for their importations, anC
that whether they 90 from the auction bloch
at five or fifteen cents per pound, the rest o
the market will not be affected. For the
jobbers to make an agreement not to buy a
auction, and yet neglect TO 90 back to hi
old practice OF negotiating private sale
with .he importers, this latter class insi.t
will not meet the difficulty.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01
Terrible noDn,.C -.~eav

CoRINsA, NJ, November 30.-This after
noon North Newport was artled by hear
ing three pistol shots in rapid succession,
and shortly aterward horse attached to .
carriage rae inio the yard Of John Dodge.
In the carrisse Mis- Nellie Priiay,of North
Newport, Lar dying, shot in the left temple.
Charles CroEeH jumped from the carriage
and dropped before reaching the house.
CroWeli hada bullet hole in the right tenn
pie. They we're carried in.o Dodge's house,
and both died inside of twenty minutes.
They were inseusible when found, and did
not recover consciousness Crowell called al
the schoolhouse in St. Adams where Mics
Prillay was teaching 10 take her home in
North Newport to spend Thanksgiving, but
beyond this nothing il known. Crowell had
been suitor Tor the hand of Miss PriAay,
but, owing to some cause, she did not regard
his suit favorably. tbs supposed that he
again urged her TO marry hun, and upon
her refusal to do 30, he shot her and then
himself.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01
IL EENIPNIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1889
A LESSON roR LErrER.mArLEKs.

The APPEAL has received a solid pam
phlet Of 12S psges, two columns on page,
the whole comprising a catalogue Of articles
accumulated at the dead-leiter Office. They
had been sent by mail, and through want Of
care on the part of the senders in nearly
all instances, could not be delivered. This
immense lot Of goods is to be sold by auc-
lion in Washington; the raIe begins on Mon
day, December 4ih. Almost everything that
by ingenuity could be wrapped up into
package are 10 be found in this formidable
list. Articles for the use of women and
children are especially numerous. Here are
bangs, false teeth, tides, dress patterns,
switches, feathers, corsets, skirts, wigs, pads,
plasters, combs, brushes, chromos, photo
graphs, caps, thermometers, tghts, music,
stockings, canes, jewelry, watches, studs,
shirts, puzzles, coins, bank notes, books with
out end, crosses and brio d-brde, altogether
an heterogeneous mass of the useful, the
beautiful, the absurd aud the pious. The
sale of uncalled-for express goods is often
exciting and sometimes comical, but this sale
at Washington will Guido all predecessors,
and will pay the lover of amusement TO go 10
the capital to attend it. Many Of those who
will not attend the sale may draw useful
lesson from it. Why should there be all the
disappointment and perplexity and loss we
here see incurred? Simply, in nearly all
cases, from the carelessness or ignorance Of
senders Attention TO few necessary pre-
cautions would have secured the delivery or
return OF just nine of every ten of these
stray articles. First, it. is permitted the
sender to write his name and address on the
envelope, then on the payment of the return
postage each sender would have received his
own again; second, except in the case of a
single book, no package must weigh over four
pounds; third, limits of size and weight for
articles going abroad differ for different
countries; fourth, The postofice people
should be inquired of in cases of doubt, be-
fore mailing. After the sale, any person
discovering that an article belonging to him
was sold, can, on proof, receive whatever
sum it brought at the auction. Readers
should profit by the inform alton here given.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-01
why Mrs. Lanxtry rs beautiful.

Sarony's portraits of Mrs. Lapgtry do not
do her justice. The charm OF this lady is
10 her graceful tarns of the head and her
movements, added to her exquisite complex
ion. Why is it that she is unique? The
true answer seems to be that given by her a
few evenings ago, when che said, 81 WAS the
only sister of six big brothers, and would
you believe il, shared all of their outdoor
sports" She recently said in respect to the
criticism Of her feet being larger than the
American type of pedal beauty, that she had
walked more miles over Jersey moors and
lanes than gentlemen of America had walked
yards, and that she had accordingly tue feet
and health to prove il. She often expresses
her love for outdoor life, and if she stays
here next summer she will show come of the
dilettant yachtsmen OF the New York Yacht
Club that she can sail yacht like an expert.
GLOW do you suppose she kept her complex
ion?" said a woman 10 lady friend behind
her fan at reception few evenings ago.
Mrs. Langtry was Just then giving the an
swer by telling how nearly all of her life
was in the open air vixen she lived in Jersey.
Her father, Dean LIE Breton, is he Oldest dean
in the Church of England, and ia at the head
of the ecclesiastics in Jersey. Nearly all
of her ancestors have been deans, aud
they all belong 10 the ancient family of LIE
Bfetons. She says ingeuiously that she was
more boy than girl in her early days, and
sue cNiucutiy Is Dil sorry IL. one
is equally frank about her appearance upon
the stage. When she married her husband
had an estate in Ireland that yielded $4,000
year, but the troubles there reduced his
revenues so much thai they scarcely smouut
TO $500 a year now. Mira. Langtry found
that her husband had no tact at economzing,
and being tired OF the roll of a charity
friend, she determined TO. go upon the stage,
her husband giving his permission on the
condition that all of her earnings should be
her own. She is good-hearted sort of a
woman, responsive to kindness, sensitive to
rudeness and wholly disciplined to the finan-
cial advantage of obeying her manager.
Mrs. Langtry speaks French and also the
Jersey patois. Her voice at times suggests
Scotland, but this is not strange, for she says
she learned to talk at the knee of her mother,
who is a Scotch woman. she was introduced
into London society through Lord Ranelagh,
fsther-in-law of her brother, Clement LIE
Breton, London barrister, aud il was por-
trait OF her by Frank Miles which Prince
Leopold purchased that made her pet as
the Jersey Lily.