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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

A rolling pin is not aesthetic,
A dish-rag scarcely is divine,
A squalling kid is not pathetic,
A dirty floor not leonine;
A drudging life is not supernal,
Bad -four is not daffodil.
The weather is MT always vernal,
We have not mixed the good and i'll
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

APPLICATIONS for tickets to the
Guiteau hanging are arriving in
Washington from all parts Of the
country, but the exhibition is likely
to'be private.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

-"Ble" Heyman will sell you Dry
Goods, Dress Goods, Trimmings, No
tons, ETC., cheaper than they can be
bought elsewhere. Give him a trial
at once.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

SOCIETY BELLEs.-On account of
its remarkable delicate and lasting
fragrance society bellies are loud in
their praises of FIoreston Cologne.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

PLAIN, tight fitting bodices, full
panier Of tablier draperies, and much
trimmed skirts are the rule for
Spring suits of light WOODEN suits.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

STATE Senator L. M. Mutt died
at his residence in Shreveport on
Wednesday, March %. He was a
lawyer by profession and served as a
gallant officer in the Confederate
army.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29


THE FLooD.--GooD NEws.--Tbe
water is falling rapidly from St.
Louis down. Land appears in many
places where none has been seen 70,
weeks. The planters in Yazoo Val
ley are expecting to commence work
in few days. On Louisiana side
OF river, however, many days mus,
pass before there is any great subsi.
dence of the water. The waters
above have still to flow over our
lands before they reach the Gulf
The last to feel the force of the food
Louisiana will be the last State to
get rid of the surplus waters. If,
however, there should be no furthur
rise above, it is only question of q
few days for the mighty river to
empty the vast surplus Of water into
the Gulf.
The volume of water passing down
daily is SO great as to defy computa-
ton, and the gulf and ocean will
soon swallow the food, and the fer.
tile soil will again appear above
WATER New Orleans Advance.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

Hon. N. c. Blanchard has our
thanks for copies Of the Congress.
ional Record.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

l
ALPHABET or W1sDoM. - Attend
carefully to the details Of your bust
ness.
Be prompt in all things.
I. Consider well, and then decide
positively.
! Dare to do right, aud fssr. to d.
wrong.
Endure trisls patiently.
Fight life's battle bravely and
maniully.
Go not into the society Of the Vi
cious.
Hold integrity sacred.
lnjure not anotber's reputation .,
business.
Join hands with the v!rLoous.
Keep yous mind free from evil
thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
| Make few intimate acqnainsancss.
Never try to appear what you are
not. .h
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity Of Z
friend.
Respect the counsel Of ysur pa.
rents.
Sacrifice money rather than prin-
cipal.
Touch not, taste not, handle rot
Intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure hours for i'm
|provement.
Yield not to Encouragement.
Zealously labor for the right.
And success will attend your faith
full efforts.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

The power to do great things
generally arises from the willingness
to do small things.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29
WEDNESDAY,. MARCH 80, 1882

III the memory of an injury is
cherished it is not forgiven.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29
L0NGFELLoW.

Wherever the English language is
spoken, and perhaps It is not too
much to say, throughout the civil
lied world, there will be mourning
to-day for the death Of Henry Wads-
worth Lougfellow.
Even as the great poet wrote for
no race and no. people but for hu-
manity, so the great heart Of human
lity, irrespective of nationalties, will
throb With sorrow when the tidings
Of his death are heard. Every Anne
rican will feel in the death Of this
great hearted, pure and noble man a
sense of personal bereavement; and
in England, where his works are per-
haps as familiar and as much ad
mired as in this country, he will be
mourned as il he had been one Of
their own cherished poets.
The spotless purity Of his life is
reflected in everything he ever wrote,
and We can think Of no line of his.
chat, dying, he could have wished to
change. The peculiar charm of his
poems consists in their sweetness
and refinement Of the thoughts CT
pressed in their perfect lucidity and
freedom from anything like obscur-
ity. He wrote so that even little
children might understand and en-
Joy his works, and there is hardly q
household In all Christendom in
which his simple but grand "Psalm
Of Life'' is not 40 familiar as the
Lords prayer.
He was Northern man, but there
will nowhere be more sincere sorrow
for his death than in the South, for
nowhere was his genius held In high
er esteem, and nowhere was the
beauty Of bis daily life more ad-
mired.
He had lived long and dies after
having won the respect Of the whole
world. He has earned for himself
with his magical pen a name which
shall live long after the names Of
the greatest potentates Of the earth
shall have been forgotten. The
footsteps he has left In the "sands
LOT time shall never be efaced, but
remain to guide and give heart Of
hope TO humanity forever. We shall
take occasion to write more at length
of this national bereavement-to
speak more fully Of the life-work Of
this greatest American poet-[New
Orleans Times Democrat, March Is.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29
A FEATHER IN OUR CAP.

Now THAT the water is falling and
has already fallen so much as to in
sure our safety, We are eengratula.
ting ourselves on our happy escape
from the many evils and great suf-
fering endured by almost all the 9th
er alluvial Parishes of this State,
and the river counties of Tennessee,
Arkansas and Mississippi. Our es-
cape was 80 narrow as to teach US
sympathy for their distress.
Lands like ours which have pro.
ven themselves to be above overflow
in this exceptionally high water
ought to have doubled their value
from that circumstance alone. No
country on earth can show more pro-
ductive lands or a more healthy eli
mate shan ours, and we expect to see
a large immigration from the over
flowed districts. We can offer every
inducement to those desiring a
change of location, and our people
will welcome all who come With open
arms. This Town also with ito
railroad and steamboat communities
ton with the world must be a desir
able place for the location Of facto-
ries and workshops of all kinds, and
We have every reason to predict for
our Town and Parish a glorious fu
ture. Already the increase Of pros
perity is to be seen on all Sides
We have stuck large sized feather
in our cap and we propose to crow
CONDOLENCES. - We notice that
some Of our exchanges are noting
singular condolences, one Of them
remarking that former resident re.
turning after an absence of thirty
years, found them building a marke,
house as they were doing when he
left. Another remarks the singula,
fact that the same man who had the
contract for hauling the sand fifty
years before had secured the contrac,
for hauling sand for the new Court
House.
That is nothing to the case Of Mr.,
Josephus Simpkins, who has Just te
turned TO this Town from Australia
where be has been residing for sew.
enty-three years, eight months and
eleven days, and who remarked when
be set down to breakfast that they
had given him the identical beef
steak ne left unfinished, by reason Of
it's toughness, the morning he left
here, three-quarters of century ago
Mr.. Simpkins remarks also as mos,
singular coincidence that it is now a,
it was then, the habit Of the gentle
men when they have invited q
crowd to 'sm;le" st their expense tc
say "them's mine." We took occa.
sion to interview Mr.. Simpk,ns as &c
any editorial condolences that nigh,
have come under his observation anG
he tells Us that he does not remark
any except that the editors nova.
days always tell the truth as they did
in his younger days.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29

II
A GooD TAX LAw.-Rhode Island
has Tax law which seems to hav.
some qualities that recommen it tc
the attention of legislators of other
States. 1t has increased the assess
ment-roll nearly SO per cent in 9
single year. Its chief proviso is one
that compels every owner OF proper.
ty to make q return under oath OF
the amount of bonds, stocks, mort
cages, and other personal property
held eby him, and the penalty for
evasion or falsifications is the impo.
sition of a double tax. Public senti.
ment in the little State seems to be
strong enough to compel the strict
enforcement of the law, and it has
been forcible enough to compel the
indictment Of the Assessors of two
towns for having failed to do their
duty.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-03-29
MIXED POLITICS.

That there is on foot q movement
to organize new party in this State
there can be no doubt. The move
ment is not to be called new party,
but according to it's advocates, it 10
intended to "liberalize'' the Demo.
cratic party and to put down fraud
at the ballot box. This paper has
mot failed in the past to express in
forcible language its disapprobatioD
Of fraud in elections and on this is.
sue there can be no difference of
opinion nor contest amongst honest
men anywhere. To prove that frauds
have been committed is to show that
great wrong has been done and
that a blow has been struck at the
very foundation stone of all our civil
liberty. To say that frauds should
not be committed and that If at
tempted they should be frowned up
on and the perpetrators brought to
punishment, lie to express an axiom
attic truth.
Undertaking." the Democratic par
ty in any other way than inside the
ranks Of that party itself is, howev-
er, very different thing. Agitation
within the ranks and opposition from
without, are two wholly dissimilar
methods. The speciousness Of the
pretext does not effect the result, il
the fight is to be made upon the
Democratic party from the outside,
and if the end in view is the defeat
Of that party. II "liberalizing''
means humiliation Of tho old and s
substitution OF new parry, then We
declare in favor of the old with oil
its faults-if faults it have, and We
are free to confess that it has made
some mistakes. The traditions OF
our past bind US to the old party
whose flag this paper has upheld for
more than third OF century, and
we are as ready now as We have ever
been to do battle for it's cause and to
meet with undaunted front all foes
who attack it from without. We
have not so soon forgotten the recent
past as to wish to scuttle the good
ship that brought US safely out Of .
sea Of troubles, and We prefer to
stand by the true and tried friends
of the past and have them stand By
us, rather than putour fate in the
hands Of unskillful pilots, however
fair be the promises they make. We
know, TOO, the company We are ex
pected to keep in the old camp, and
when danger threatens we know that
we can trust our companions In arms
but if We desert and 60 over to the
court Of the "friendly enemy We are
afraid that We might not like the as
sociations. Indeed, We suspect that
we should find over there very many
Of those with whom we had crossed
swords in the past and We could
hardly expect cordial relations
When the roll is called count us on
the side of the old Democratic party.
A GOOD TAX LAw.-Rhode Island
has a Tax law which seems to have
some qualities that recommend it to
the attention Of legislators of other
States. 1t has increased the assess.
ILL
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-17
al Yonnp Rear Hnnter.


Mr. Sampson has number of sheep grazing
on Swift Creek, Trinity County, and, knowing
the abeailties of this climate in summer. re-
moved his family to that place. One evening
last week his son and daughter, aged respect
lively ten and eight years, went down 70 drive
the sheep into camp, and found them only
short distance away, homeward bound, with
large bear following closely in their wake.
The boy told his sister to crouch down and
hide in the bush, and ne did likewise. When
the bear came along the boy fired several
shots at him with revolver which he had.
Hearing the shots and not knowing what they
meant, Mr.. Sampson left camp I'm hurry to
see what occasioned the shooting, aud soon
came in sight of his children and the dogs
rushing excited1y down the hillside on the
trail of the bear The boy yelled that he had
hit him, and to come quick or they would lose
him. Sampson joined the chase and followed
the trail by the blood until 1t became too dark
to see. Next morning he went ont again and
found the bear dead only ashort distance from
where they gave up the chase the evening be-
fore. The boy had shot him through the body,
just back of the TYtnity lCdg.J Jour
1l0E
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-17
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

AGENERAL order from headquarters
of the army provides for reciprocal cross
ing of the international boundary line by
troops Of the United States and Mexico in
pursuit of hostile Indians.
N. w. CLAYTON, Territorial Auditor,
committed murderous assault upon J. NJ.
Goodwin, Tribune reporter, in Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 10th. Clayton is said to
have recently gone to polygamy, and after
careful investigation the facts were pub
hshed. Visiting the Tribune Office, he de-
MED the poygamy, but admitted he had
left his wife, though still supporting her.
He undertook to explain his connection
with the second as Of a purely friendly and
business character, and invited Goodwin to
call on Mrs. Clayton No. 1 and get her
statement. The reporter went to see her,
but hardly got into the house when Clayton,
in a furious rage, tried to draw pistol,
threatening to kill him, and probably would
have carried the threat into execution had
not friend interfered while Mrs. Clayton
hurried Goodwin away.
"a MOB of twenty-five men, near Lam
pasas, Texas, the other night captured
George Porter, who was found in possession
Of horse supposed TO be stolen His body
was riddled with bullets and left on the
roadside. ssf ia
A PREMATURE explosion at Cornwall
N Y, on the 10Th. killed four negro track
layers and wounded several others
In collision on the 1. B. & W. R.,
near Springfield, O., on the 10th, COnduc-
tor JAS. RfcNary, was killed and brakeman
and engineer seriously injured. number
Of passengers were severely shaken.
JAMES DOYLE, aged IA, was shot dead
by John Mcguire In New York City on the
10th. Mcguire is q dog-eateher. and Doyle
and other boys stoned him while he was
gathering up their pets. The murderer es-
capped.
BANNoCK indians attacked party
of hunters in the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
the other day. J. B. Bruner, Thomas Ray,
and Samuel Newton were Killed,
PAUL ToLLNER, q Chicago machinist,
shot and killed his wife on the 10th and then
committed suicide. Frequent quarrels
marred the peace Of the family, and the
tragedy was brought shout by a fiat refusal
on the part of the wife to obey her hus-
band.
w. T. CAMPBELL and VIM. Swishers
charged with participating in the recent at
tempt to lynch Holmes, 3 negro arrested for
assaulting a child, at PomeroY. Ohie, re-
fused 10 give bail and went to jail. The
Sheriff has been obliged to arm twenty live
men to prevent rescue.
| WM. NJ. WADLEY, President OF the
Georgia Central Railroad, dropped dead in
Saratoga, n. V, on the 10th. He was 6S
Years Of age.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-17
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A man gathers wisdom by financial
loss. Like razor, he is sharper for be-
ing strapped.
Here is suggestion which may do
you gOOd:--lf every man will mend ono
we shall all be mended.
If you heed the insults Of an enemy
you are but his equal, and yet the way
TO stop his insults is TO pound him until
he whoops for mercy Detroit Free
Press
You do not deal death-blow to tha
Darwinian theory by sayings "Man
descended from the monkey, but what
did the monkey descend frOmP' The
monkey descended from the tree
The thing now for city girls rusti-
eating in the country is TO white mina-
ture hay racks out Of white wood and
send them to their admirers in town.
This probably signifies: "Coinc and
make hay while the sun shines. :" "- Cht-
cdgo Times
--Neighbor's pretty daughter; ''How
much is this a yardP'' Draper's SOIL
desperate spoons on hers--"Only ono
kiss" g. II it's 50 cheap / will take
three yards. and grandma will pay you"
He now sings
Thou art so near, ana yet 40 far.
But It's Won0ariui how cute you are.
e -" Somebody bas left on our desk n
poem addressed to Lillian. We shall
not publish II. Not that il ism pretty
Lillian. This poet makes her out as
delicious. II she isn't, we don't want
to spread broadcast a wrong impression
of her; and If she is, Wen do the poetry
writing about her ourselL - -BostOs
Post.
IT," DO we love old music" BertaP
Oh, indeed we DO. That u the kind we
love. There Is a piano next door that
is now in the ninety-seyenih year Of its
age, and IL has the asthma 40 bad you
can't hear it ten feet away from tho
keyboard. And compared with the
loud-sounding thrce-year old gcross tho
way, the antique Is an angels whisper.
Huntington HaOkege. lan .ff
"A new fashion. in earrings copies
the styles worn by Cleopatra who biz
herself with an asp. and died before the
war. When Cleo. dressed 20 mash
Antony she wore pair Of earrings
which cost over half million dollars.
If this is the style now introduced, more
than one editor's wife will have TO
worry along another year without pair
OF Cleopatra earrings NOrTistcOn
Herald.
The prevailing styles Of dog for
this season will not be changed in any
marked degree. The window brush
dog continues 10 continue in favor
among young women who have been
crossed in love aud have The dyspepsia
A fayOrite style Of dog has a princess
nose, and is trimmed with an ostrich
plume tail tightly eurled over the polo
naise The Prince-Albert cutaway
sausage dog is not used In warm
weather City dogs that undertake %
depopulaie the country fields Of the or
nate and festive bull viii BE- Qored.
Shaggy dogs will be worn with the hair
bouiiant around the neck, plain about
the waist and pOionaise, and a pOmpa-
dour tail.--BrookiyJl Eagte.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-17


We caught, cured and consumed
SOC, 900, 600 worth OF fish In 1881.
1T Is estimated that 600. 600 acres OF
Northern soil arc given up TO tobacco
and that the crop win reach $40. .OOO,-
600 or 500, 600, ,000.--M H. Graphic.
1t is estimated that there are, in
round numbers, I 900. 600 employees Of
the United States railroads, about one
thirty-second Of the population Of hfty
millions.
"A Great Northern Railroad train,
with an ei9ht-feet single driver outside
cylinder engine, lately ran from Leeds
to London, 1865 miles, in exactly three
hours-sixty-two miles an hour.
Upward Of 19, 600 600 letters and
postal-cards are posted daily in the
world; 3.41S, 600, 600 letters are annual
ly distributed i'm Europe. 1,2l6, 600, 600
in America, 76, 900. 600 in Asia, SO, O00,-
600 in Austria and 1900, 900 in Africa.
The value of the hay crop In New
England, according to the statistcian of
the Agricultural Department nc Wash
ington, is as follows; Maine, SIC, 1885,
740; Mas sachusetts, S15. 83l ,456; YER
mont S12,293, LIZ; Connecticut, 8l2.-
100, 800; New Hampshire, $T 925, 255;
Rhode Island, $l,725,2f0. Total, S66,-
Ss3, ,604
--Ohio ranks rs the third State ia tho
Union in the production of maple sugar.
Syrup is now the most profitable branch
of the business, and last year there was
a most decided increase in It's produo-
ton. Most of it is shipped TO Eastern
cities Ohio produced last year bo-
tween 400, 600 and 500 GOO gallons of
SYRUP, and over 5000, 600 pounds Of
sugar. The product of the season OF
1882 will be about the same,
The total number of journals pub
lished in France is 1922, being ,343 i'm
Paris and 1929 IN the provinces. OF
the former it is surprising to find that
the most numerous class Is financial,
209; then medical, 97 illustrated, 49,
fashions, 81; political n; law, 64;
Catholic, 64s science, 4l; literature. 30s
and art. 9. The provincial papers are
thus classified according NJ their politics:
Republican, 615; Legitimist, 177; Or
leanist, 146; religious, 108; Bonapartist,
100. IN y SIN.
The worlds production OF lead is
about 440, 900 tons. The estimate for
Europe is as follows; Spain, 12O, 900;
Germany. 10000; England. 67, 900;
France, 10000; Italy, 10000; Greece,
5000; Belgium, 5000; Austria, 5000;
Russia, $4,000; making total Of 326,
500 meter tons. The product OF the
United States is estimated at 10000
tons. This places the United States the
second ore producing country in tho
world. Spain leads MS only in the
amount of 10, 900 tops, and has been
rapidly declining for the past few years.
We are now consumers OF about ono
fourth OF the worlds lead product, and
bid fair by another year TO take rank as
the first, and capable Of furnishing
surplus to the foreign markets.