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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20

Owing to the copyright laws, most of
the cheap books are by English and
French authors with foreign scenes and
customs, and those who have read them
steadily for the past few years are grow
ing Just little tired and want something
American.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20

any one else in the world. How differ
ent from the old Christmas-eves in the
country, where royal fires reared Oh
every hearth, and everybody WIS kin to
everybody else, before SO many Of them
died, or left the dear, peaceful, stupid old
Hollow-and among them. And now
there is scarcely one LETT who would
know me-only Aunt Nancy Dawson,
who would have been my aunt really
now, if Ben and | could have kept our
tempers till the wedding-day. All, well
he has forgotten me, but Aunt Nancy
might be glad to see Inc, and-yes, a
dollar and half will take me to the
Hollow. I'll 90. The room Is mine 20.
night, and sufficient until the day is the
evil thereof will trust in the Father
of the fatherless, who leads us on by
paths we know not Of"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20

When an obituary notice end, ! N I
further seek his frailties to dlsslo ~. I
| means, whisky killed hlm.-i'1'
Siftings.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20
.CHELOR BRINDLE'S CHRISTMAS,
BY HATTIE WHITNEY
BY HATTIE WHITNEY

.stBe merry now. be merry HON
With ioy bring In the holly tcUga:
With song and fees, aud smiling brow
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20

J.. L. Trowbridgei is vivacious and hand
some.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20
written for this Paper.
F0RSAKEN.
e 2 HEEDE

The following is suggested by an
item which went the rounds Of the
Eastern press, to the effect that
Young girl, who, ruined and de-
serted by her lover, wandered TO
the residence where he was wont
10 spend his evenings, and vas
found dead On Christmas morning
beside The iron railing outside the
paricr window
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20

ACHELOR BRINDLE gives
b Tie half-bnrned log in the
4 fireplace q kick that sends
4 the red sparks flying, and
4 wonders crusdly where that
gbit Of rhyme strung On a
s,shalfforgotten fragment Of
.meI1dy, comes from and
u how It happens 70 cbant IL
self to him 20 persistently
tonight. II is a dismal
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-12-20

to take the ten O'Clock train, and had
lust taken her pockct-book out of the
drawer when she was called downstairs
to see poor woman who had come
begging for some clothes for her hus-
| band.
"Come right up stairs, Mrs. Slack"
said Grandma. II don't have many ap-
plications for mems things, so l guess
there's a coat of Mr.. Grants put away in
the camphor chest. and maybe vest OF
SO: you sit right down by the fire whilst
90 up to the garnet and look
1t TODD Grandma some time to find
the clothes under all the shawls and
blankets in the chest, and when she had
given them to Mrs. Slack she had to
hurry to the station with her daughter
and the cars being on the track they did
not stop to get tickets but were barely in
time to find seats when the train rolled
off.
The conductor came around in few
minutes and Grandma put her hand il
her pocket, suddenly turned pale, open
ed her big satchel and tnrned out all il
contents, stood up and shook her dress
looked on the floor, and when Mrs
w mite Salu III dulhZcL1clll, WudI ID III
matter mother?" she answered CURLY
"I've lost my pocket-book."
"Was it in your pocket ?" asked Maria
Eyes; as least s'pose so Icertainly
took it out of my drawer, for l noticed
, how heavy twas that new cashier gav'
me gold for most of it, you see"
you'd have known then if you drop
ped it on the way, mother"
II should think so: any way l can
go to Boston without it We may as wei
stop at the next station and go back"
r So back they went; asked at the tick
ct Office if any such thing had been pick
ed up on the platform, and leaving
description of it, went rather forlornl
e back to the house. Here upturning {
everything took place; drawers wer
emptied, cupboards ransacked, trunk
:. explored, even the camphor chest exam
ined to its depths, and everything in
shaken out.
, 1882-01-18
w g Ia 70 q o "a .
(EEOR the NDcctNiOr.

1t is possible that England will be in
voIved in this Tunis scandal. The "Com-
pagnie Marseillaise,' a financing company,
bought Khaireddin Pasha'S estate, the
Eufda 49,. bigger than MiddleseH"-for
kI00,0 COG. Thereup0n, NJ. Levy, a Maltese
Jew. acting as agent for another knot OF
spectators, claimed the property at hat
price. alleging. what is we believe, true,
that by MOhamedan law, a neXt-d0or
neighbour has always a right OF pre-emp-
ton at the price offered. NJ. Levy was
placed by the Government in possession.
The Compagnie Marseillaise never, how
ever, Welding its claim; it convinced NJ.
Roustan, and N. Levy was on Thursday
diSpossessed by armed force. 1t is quite
conceivable that the Maltese is in the
wrOngand quite certain that the FrenchCOm-
pany desire no injury to British subjects,
butStill theincidentiS most unpleasant. 1t
Will not only force Lord Granville to write
a polite despatch, sure to hurt somebody,
but it reveals the impOsSibillty OF tolera-
ting the existing state Of affairs III Tunis.
MUsSuIman injustice is there aggravated
by French efficiency and logic. Under the
native regime, the litigants would have
used bri bes under the present one, they
use bayOnets.
A CLEAN of light has appeared in Ire
land. Throughout the present Sessions,
Juries have shown some readiness to con-
Wet, and this even in agrarian cases. In
one case of intimidation, seven prisoners
were found guilty, and in another case
fourteen. The Judges, while giving very
severe sentences on all convicted, incline,
we perceive, to reward. a plea of guilty by
distinct and large remissioDs of penalty.
This plea, they say, in the present circum-
stances of the country, furnishes distinct
help to the administration of the law.
That is true, but it will be needful to take
care that the remissions are not SO large
, 1882-01-18
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that a suspected man may think the GER
tainty of six months imprisonment better
than the chance of FIVE years penal servi-
tude. 1t is believed that the altered tone
of the juries is due to impatience of the
intimidation practiSed on farmers, and it
is certain that it will have the most direct
effect in diminishing outrages. Even the
chance of ten years penal servitude for
breaking a law adds greatly to the general
respect for it. The Government, at the
same time, rather increases than relaxes
it's energy, having this week sci zed the
Land League organ, United ireland, and
arrested its sub-editor and manager. The
charges against the paper are Indictment
to pay no rent, and sedition.
, 1882-01-18
BekjendtgjoYelse

ZIP ANLEDNING at at en- paa al
% gangne Kj0bmand og Planter
VIM. MOORE 90 efterlevende Enke
Fru E. w. MooRE's Fallitbo den
2den December f. A. afsagt Deci-
sion angaaende ? Fordringer, som
st. Thom@ Bank og st. Thome
Banks Agentsllab havde forlangt
betalt paa Boct forud for andre
Fordringer, err indanket til den
kongelige vestindisko Landsoyerret,
indkaldes Creditorerne til at give
Mode paa Boet Fredagen den lode
Februar f0rstkommende, Eftermid-
dag III. [.
Fredcriksteds Skifteret den 9do
Januar 1882.
r.. PETERSEN.
, 1882-01-18

President Arthur directed Mr.. Blaine,
before his retirement, to explain to Chill
and Peru that he did not intend to use
force to compel them TO come to terms.
Accordingly on N0vember,22nd. Mr. Blaine
addressed to Mr.. Hurlbut, the American
Minister in Chilli, a despatch, severely cen
Surfing him for having gone too far. "While
the United States would unquoStlonably
regard with diSfayOur the imperlOuS an
nexation of Peruvian territory as a right
Of c~OnqueSt,n they =" could not refuse to
recognize that such an annexation might
become d necessary condition, III a final
treaty of Deace.n The United States " did
not recognise S. Calderon because of his
resolve never to cede Peruvian territory"
The United States only " desire to restore
to the suffering people of Peru the benefits
Of a well-ordered government,' and the
American Foreign Office, therefore, while
not dismisSing Mr.. Hurlbut, supersedes
him by a special mission. 1t is believed
that this action of the President has been
greatly promoted by the annoyance ex.
pressed throughout the Union at the con-
tents of Mr.. Blaine's first despatch. The
universal feeling appears to be that the
Union has no need to GO in search Of ad-
ventures, and should keep out of South
American Squabbles,
The efforts to discover the body of the
late Earl of Crawford have entirely failed,
and it is believed that the family will very
soon give up the search. they wish it
TO be known, it is stated, that they are
certain the body did come home, and was
laid in the vault. The entire fa&are to
obtain any evidence whatever, though SUBJ
ordinate agents familiar with the grounds
must have been employed to open tlee tomb,
s St ny. II IL leI latest st'd thsole rs" started TT d s is that
the abstraction was the Work of some me-
dical studefts, anxious to ascertain the
latest metlsods of embalming, in which
Italy far surpasses ell other countries.
, 1882-01-18

An accident which occurred on the
NOrth-London Railway on Saturday has
created much interest in London. The
place was between Canonbury and Fins
bury Park, in the tunnel under Highbury
which is always a scene Of excessive traffic,
the trains being rarely four minutes be-
hind each other. a little before nine am.
a train was passed on from Finsbury Park
to C~anonbury, but stopped by signal at
the southern end of the tunnel Every
train should have been stopped, too, but
the signals went wrong, and a second train
came up, and also stopped in the tunnel,
doingno injury. Athirdtrain, however, came
o n and daShedintO the second doing damage,
but not killing anybody and then at last
came a fourth train, which "teleScOpeG"
can. Q in the third, train, killed five
passenger. vounded Fl teen serious ly, and
injured slight some fifty more. The gem
eral cause of the accident, which might
happen on any suburban line any day, was
the overwhelming amount of traffic, which
hewilders the employees, and renders all
precautions comparatively useless, but the
immediate cause was the state of the sig
nails. The precise mischief remains to be
ascertainel, but it is certain that one sig
mailman did not understand tile system,
and had TO consult his book ; and that an
other, II. Hill, deposed before Colonel
YolIand that the electric repeater in his
signal-box for the distant up-signal ~yas
out of order, and that he had not even
reported the fact. Nothing but the abso'
Lutte block system, working automatically,
will make these suburban lines decently
safe; but they ought, besides, to pc
doubled. =.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-06

The New York Times is not alto.
gether satisfied with the way that
the star route thieves are treated. 1t
wants the work prosecuted with more
vigor and hearty determination
"There has never been since the days
of the Tweed ring" it adds, "a gang
of public plupdercrs possessed of so
large a stock of impudence as this
which has plundered the government
by means of mail letting and con-
tracts. To encourage these men is
to revive their oldtime arrogance
How cheerfClly they now carry them
selves may be judged from the fact
that Brady dimes an assistant secre
tary of the treasury and several con-
gressmen, and ex senator Dorsey
blithely HES him away to the ranges
of New Mexico to grow up with the
cattle"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. G.,
Anril Z 1880
April, 3, 1882.

AprAi, d, 1907.
It would be strange ifthe character
of the present Congress and the posi-
ton of the majority party therein
were not clearly understood over the
country by this time. From what
has occurred within the last two
weeks it may be learned that no hope
need be entertained of a reduction of
cur excessive internal evenu taxes
at the hands of the party now in pow
err. In nearly every State in the Un
ion large bodies of workingmen are
clamoring for higher wages and com
planning that they find it impossible
to live. If they will look below the
surface they will discover that the
chief cause Of their distress lies in
the Ubiquitous tariff which compels
them to pay double for more than
one-half the necessaries of life. A
p~rohibitory tariff is maintained
against our imports for The benefit of
capitalists and manufacturers, while
at home war taxes are continued in
a time of peace that capital may reap
unprecedented profits and that the
taxes wrung from the people may be
divided among the lobbyists and sub
sidy-seek,r rs who are darkening the
walls of the Capitol. This policy of
maintaining a needless revenue
leaves an enormous surplus in the
Treasury, and that is what the job
bers who have always been a part of
the Republican party are aiming at.
Able statesmen are sitting up nights
to devise ways and means Of getting
rid of that surplus. Patriotic indi.
riduals are sitting up nights to show
them how and where to do it. The
combination have succeeded. so tar
admirably, and from the indications
there wont be any surplus to speak
of at the close ofthis Congress. The
Senate has added a couple of millions
on the Post Office Appropriation bill,
reported favorably on u grand ocean
steamship subsidy scheme, offered
$50, DOC 600 to Capt, Eads, restored
the ranking privilege, projected an
extensive steel clad navy, and raised
certain classes of pensions. There
is nc deception about this. If there
was any doubt as to the reckless
character of this Congress, it should
be silenced in the 40 to Is vote on
the restoration of the ranking priv.
ilege. 1t earliest us hack to the hal
cyon days of the Credit Mobilier per-
iod when the public revenues were
divided up between sherry and cham
pagne.~
There seems to be a strange fatal
ity connected with our National Ii
brary. For several years measures
shave been pending to provide a place
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-06

The more the investigating Com
mittee pushed the bribery business
the more Infamous it appeared. 1t
has always been the boast of, Ohio
that her legislatures, while no great
shakes perhaps in the way of intelli-
gence or ability were at least honest,
and that no great Legislative scandal
has ever dlsgraced the State. The
boast car be made no longer. It has
remained for the Republican party
to produce a legislature that is not
imbecile but as venal and shameless
ly corrupt as those of New York or
Pennsylvania.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-06

More small stealings in the treas
ury under joan Sherman been found
out-newspapers and magazines fur
nished to John and paid for out of
the contingent fund, charged up as
stationery. OF course, John did not
know of this. John is q sweet and
guileless soul, upon whom bad men
put up wicked jobs. 1t is funny how
so innocent q man as John Sherman
claims to be should have got SO
wealthy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-06

for it, but somehow nothing is ever
done. Talk about a building began
about rs years ago. In a copy OF
the Washington Gazette dated De-
cember s, 1917, l find an article on
the L. brary in which, after referring
to the appointment of a committee
by Congress, the editor says:
1--WE are disposed to indulge a hope
that this committee will be more ac-
tive than the former, and that, as
literary men, they will not neglect
the interests of this establish ment.
To coop the Library of the United
States in a garnet is degrading both
to literature and the Nation, and we
trust that Congress will see the ne
cessity Of. erecting a building for its
accommodation near the Capitol
TO foster and encourage this estab-
lishment would, we doubt not, be
gratifying to the Nation, and we are
sure liberality could not be better
bestowed on any other object"
Ifsople medium nov OF earth could
communicate with the spirit Of Mr..
Elliot, then editor of the Gazette, he
might be gently informed that the
hope he INDUCED has proven q for
lorn one; that the Intervening years
have contributed very little to the
wisdom or National pride ofthe Con
gresham; that the National Library
still occupies a garnet as il did sixty
five years ago, and is likely to rems>in
in its present state ofRarrowA4 .
ness owing to the SUCCESSFUL m
ference of a certain lobbyist who is
interested in the Capitol extension
scheme scheme to ruin the build.
ing by an attempt to raise the dome
and add another story to its central
, portion. The almost useless condi
tion of this vast collection of nearly
half million volumes is daily forced
upon the observation of Congress
men, yet their "liberality" and Ma
} tional pride" do not incite them tt
/ decisive measures.
, Some of our Washington working
, men who undertook to serenade Gen
Grant during his late visit here are
entitled to the sympathy of all gooc
5 people who feel that the age of arts
tocracy is past. These workingmen
of whom about 800 are employed a
the Navy Yard, took it into thei
heads that because Gen. Grant fa
vortd the eight hour law, enacted
D while he a President, he must sym
pathize with them, and therefor,
they would serenade him and get
speech of encouragement: So alonl
| they came, marching to martial mu
. sic and under torches. whereof tn
! glare revealed the proud features o
!. the American citizen. Their mar
shals, who were horny-handed cl,rki
. in the Government service, led til,
free-born serenaders before Gen
i Grant; but instead of warmly press
. ing each palm, that great persol
snubbed them in a what the-devil
are you-kere for tone of voice, Will,
r Mr.. Arthur fled to the back part o
y the building. Thus rebuffed the poo
workingmen sought Mr.. Brewster
q whose reception also was cool; the
the procession flied over TO Colone
Il Ingersolrs house. to learn that it
owner was out; finally the band play
,r ed before Senator Logan's residence
II which also was empty as to its heac
!, In fact, the sons OF toll met wit
nothing warm until they disbande
at a place where warth is unbottle
1T at so mucha-elass. PHoNo..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-06


1t is a stock gag with the Repub
lican papers that Democrats are pc
culiarly given over to the recreation
that turks in the still and the wine
cup; but it ~transpires that that Re-
publico Presbyterian state arkansas
has more dram shops than the Dem.
ocratic state of South Carolina. The
statistics Of the internal revenue bu
reau for last year return 1872 licens-
ed saloons for the sale. of spirits in
Kansas greater number than is
returned for South Carolina. There
is. it appears, one dram shop in Kan
sas to every S97 persons; in South
Carolina, one to every 90 persons.
The comparison may be contir ued.
Arkansas has one saloon % every
558 inhabitants; Massachusetts one
20 every 256 inhabitants; Ohio has a
saloon 223 souls. We may
be mistaken, but we can't help think
ing that just as likely as not this
joke has seen its day. The Repub-
%licans are generally willing to drop
a joke when the laugh is turned on
themselves.-Pldin Dealer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-06
REPUBLICAN PARTY PROS.
PEdvTS.

Republican newspapers are very
industrious in pointing out the symp-
toms of discord in the ranks of the
Democratic party, especially in the
South. This sort of party tactics is
resorted to as a sort of counter irri
tant. There is evidence enough that
the Republican party is held togeth-
er by nothing but the cohesive pow
er Of public plumber. This may at
any time prove to be only a rope of
sand. Strong as it has proven dur
ing the venal period of republican
rule, it is a bond OF union which al
ways has in it the seeds gifts own
dissolution. The financial theories
of The Republican party of the East,
if reduced to practice, or pressed to
the point of giving them real vitality,
will inevitably drive the States of the
Pacific slope and also Colorado into
the Democratic fold. The Republi-
can majority in those States, if it ex-
lists at all, is very doubtful. And
yet the Republican party weakened
by the loss of them, would be in o
minority. Belford, Of Colorado, has
been openly rebellious throughout
the present session. And the Ian
guage of Senator Teller, of the same
State, recently uttered in the Senate,
is full of significance. After saying
the present tariff is not the tariff the
people demand, and condemning the
policy that would sstrike out Of ex
istence one half of the money ofthe
world that men holding the securities
might have a better and stronger
grip upon the people who hold the
money and who pay the taxes in this
country" he said: "Mr. President,
l was educated in the Democratic
party, and when it failed to represent
my sentiments I had the courage to
get out of it, and l propose upon this
question to represent myself and not
allow the Republican party to be put
in a position of misrepresenting the
wishes Of the great people of the
West and South"
The slumEerng hatred of the anti
third termers may be stirred into
activity at any moment. The Stall
wart element have the advantageous
now in the possession of the execu-
tive branch of the government, with
all its patronage. but this serves only
to intensity the jealousy and disap-
pointment of the defeated faction
COnkiino and Robertson menace the
harmony of the party in New York,
and the fierce waf which is now made
on Blaine notonly endangers the sue
cess Of the party in Maine, but is an
ominous sign of general unhappiness
among the faithful.
Even the South, which is looked
upon as so promising a Republican
recruiting ground, presents its diff
ficulties. Such Republicans as are
there will prove themselves of a sin
gularly meek and self sacrificing kind
ifthey shall consent to the entire i'm
notation of their interests ard total
sequ9stration Of Federal patronage,
which they regard as rightfully
theirs. They We're tractahle in Vir
ginia under a great pressure, but it
will be a marvel if they view with
enthusiasm the purchase of unprin,
cipled and half hearted Republican
allies with honors, trusts and patron
age which have always and every
where been regarded as the guerdon
ofparty fidelity. They will begin TO
ask where the advantage to them