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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-24
A REIGN OF TERROR.
A F'iend Loose in a New Mexican Town
A Desperate with Seven Lives to Account
For-The Bird Gagged.
SoCoRRo, N. NJ, Nov. IA.

SoCoRRo, N. NJ, Nov. H.
This town has been in a state Of excite
ment for week, when at any hour the
worst phase of Western life might be ex--
pected Joel Fowler, q man who has killed
seven of his fellow-beings and gone unpun--
ished, has at last been brought to justice.
He sold his cattle ranch last week for $685.
500 cash and with his friends took in the
town. In liquor he is a very demon, and it.
was not long before, revolver in hand, he
terrorized the town. At last toward morn
ing he went to hotel and proceeded to-
make every one he met dance or sing. A
friend named Cole and two others tried to
disarm him, and in SO doing he drew knife
and stabbed him to the heart. At once the.
people became infuriated, and there was
every indication that lynching would fol-
low. The prominent citizens organized
into committee and guarded the Jail. A
strange state of circumstances arose:
There was one party Of men who were sus-
pected of an attempt to release the culprit;
a second that were anxious to lynch
him, and the third, which prevailed.
to protect him in a fair trial. Fowler was.
examined before Justice Beal and bound.
over without bail for his appearance next
Monday before the Grand Jury.
A new warrantwas served on Fowler and.
his cousin John Barns last Monday charg-,
ing them with the murder of Pony Deal and
Butcherknife Billtwo months ago at Alamo
ranch. Witnesses were brought in to-day,
whose testimony shows that this was one OF
the most cold-biooded murders ever COM
mtted in this countr,,- of desperate crimes.
The circumstances will be developed to-
morrow in the examination before the JUS
tice. This last warrant broke the firInness-
of Fowler. Last night in jail, he wept like
child, even prayed and called for a re-
volver that he might commit self-destruc-
ton.
The city has been placed under martial
law by the Governor to prevent disorder.
but the public mind is at lever heat and ap-
prehension is alive lest scenes of blood
shed transpire.
Fowler is small man but as strong as a
giant. His instinct is to kill. While in
White Oaks three years ago he killed threee
| men. He murdered one at Georgetown two
years ago. In August last he killed two.
men at Alamo ranch His skill in handling
weapons is marvellous. It was seldom he
drank, but on such occasions he became g.
very fend.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-24

Two boys prove to be the highway
men who fatally shot Milwaukee (Wis.)
car-driver in an attempt to rob him re-
Gently. They have been addicted to read
ing dime novels. They have been arrested
and confessed.
A BERLIN dispatch says the German
Government proposes to build fifty topedo
boats.
A PApAL NuNc1o for the United
States is suggested by the American
Bishops.
The Lawrence (Mass.) cotton mills
are beginning to curtail production.
The consular service of the United
States pays its own way and turns over a
small surplus to the Treasury.
CONSIDERABLE excitement prevailed
on the 18th in the oil market. Sales reached
,00o5barrels.
DURING the season just closing re-
ceipts of Lake Superior iron ore at Cleve-
land fell off sixty per cent.
On the 10Th the General Missionary
Conference of the Reformed Church of
America closed its sessions in Philadel.
phia.
On the 18th a Prussian who lately ar
rived in Cleveland, o., killed himself by
drinking fifteen glasses of whisky in fifteen
minutes.
A LARGE consignment of imported
Jersey cattle were sold at auction in Phila-
delphia on the 10th at an average of ninety
dollars head.
For ten months past the exports OF
breadstuffs were $145,0s2. 034, being about
$5,0o0,0 900 less than for the corresponding
time last year.
A PROMISE has been made by the
Austrian Minister to try and secure the
electrical display of the Vienna EXPOSE
ton for the New Orleans Exhibition next
year.
In Chicago on the 10Th a meeting OF
stock men took action to enlist the Govern
ment in further efforts to prevent the spread
of contagious diseases among cattle.
On December II the National Reform
Association, which has for its object the
amendment of the Federal Constitution SO
as to express the Nations homage to God,
meets i'll Cleveland,O.
The late Manager of the Union Bank
of Birmingham, Eng, John Alfred Burgan,
convicted of forging bills of exchange and
falsyfying accounts, was sentenced on the
the 10Th to fifteen years Imprisonment.
In his estimates, which have been
submitted to the Treasury Department., The
| Secretary of War recommends the appro-
| priation of 100000 to be expended on
| river and harbor improvements during the
| coming fiscal year. This is only SOS, 900. oo0
less than the engineers estimates of what
could profitably be spent during the year
| on the works now in progress.
THE Secretary of the Interior has rem
dered an important decision in reply to a
| question of the Commissioner of Pensions
asking for proper and uniform construc-
| ton of the Revised Statutes concerning
pensions to dependent mothers. The Sec.
rotary maintains that If son was minor
the father was entitled to his services, OF
| if not living the mother was SO entitled
and therefore dependent father OF mother
/ should be allowed a pension.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-24
On the 18th several large buildings

On the 18th several large buildings
burned at Charleston, S. C. Nine persons
had to jump from the third story of VIII
bur's clothing factory. Two were killed
and the rest badly hurt. Two girls are sup
posed to have been burned.
On the 18th, in a collision on the
West Shore Railroad, near Troy, N. y,
John Schermer was killed and several
other persons were seriously injured.
SEVEN business squares burned at
Shenandoah, Pa, on the 10Th, including the
United States Hotel, Odd Fellows Hall, and
Opera-house. The loss is nearly 81, 100000,
and go families were rendered homeless.
On the 18th Slemmer's Oil Works
burned at Norristown, Pa; loss, $4,000.
On the West Shore Road a construc-
ton train went down an embankment near
Rochester, N. Y, on the 18th. A number
of workmen were badly hurt.
On the morning of the 18th eight
buildings burned at Duluth, MINI. One life
was lost.
AN entire business block was burned
on the 18th at Shelbyville, Ind.
FIRE caused loss to the amount OF
$500, 900 among the freight warehouses at
Norfolk, Va, on the l4th.
On the 14th, by the burning OF the
Norton Iron Works at Ashland, KY, 200
hands were thrown out of employment.
Loss, 100000; insurance $4,000.
On the 14th an explosion occurred at
the Eagle Hill colliery, Pottsville, Pa, and
Michael Kelly and Robert Kennedy were
instantly killed. boy named Heating
was badly hurt. The accident was caused
by an accumulation of sulphur in the
workings.
DURING high gale on the 10th two
large lumber yards burned at Oshkosh,
Wis. For time large part OF the city
was threatened.
A CYCLONE recently swept over Ok
ford and Franklin Counties, Me-, and de-
stroyed barns, cattle and farm property to
the amount of S150,000.
On the 18th Lee Hirsch, clothier OF
| Terre Haute, Ind, who failed recently, was
arrested on reauisition from the Gov
ernor of Ohio for obtaining goods under
false pretenses from Herzog & Co., OF Gin
cinnati.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

A PARIS dispatch says Rear-Admiral
Planauet has been ordered to the command
of the French feet in the Pacific.
In the Poole murder case in Dublin
no witnesses were called for the defense.
The jury disagreed.
1t is found that the iron columns of
the Wisconsin State-house were SO weaken
ed by flaws on the inner surface as to be
worthless. Hence the recent catastrophe.
On the 18th the New York police
found large assortment of tools and trac-
ing paper in trunk concealed in room
on Division Street lately occupied by
Brocxway, the counterfeiter.
A HEAVY list of wrecks on the lakes
has resulted from the recent gales.
HOWARD BYRD, a colored man has
been sentenced to be hanged December 10,
for the murder of his wife, at Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
THE French reinforcements are re-
ported to have landed at Hal Phong, and
Admiral Courbet's first attack will be
made on Sontag and Hunghoa.
On the 18th the anniversary of the
birth Of Luther was celebrated in the Acad-
envy of Music in New York by the United
States Evangelical Alliance.
In the Fillmore will case, on trial in
Buffalo, N. Y, ON the 18th, Rev. John Cor
don, D. D., renowned legacy of 500 in
order to testify. He declared Mrs. Fill
more, who made the disputed will, in his
opinion, perfectly sane.
On the 18th three days convention
of the National Academy of Science began
at New Haven, Conn. Prof. Marsh made
the address of welcome.
AT QUEBEC they have very cold
weather and good sleighing.
Ir has been decided to shut down the
nail mills for five weeks from December
%
PREPARATIONS for the O'Donnell trial
in London, Eng, are nearly completed.
On the 18th Kirker, the embezzling
cashier of Ironton, O., was held for trial.
For the past year the net earnings of
$2,629, Ats.
IT is reported that the auditors Of a
number Of Western railroads have agreed
upon new system of accounting.
AN investigation has been ordered by
Secretary FoIger of the charges that Chi
nese immigrants are unlawfully evading
the immigration act.
The disbursements by the Railway
Conductors Benefit Association last year
aggregated forty-fve thousand dollars.
/ On the 18th the company Of visitors
from Chihuahua arrived in st. Louis, Mo-,
and were handsomely entertained accord
ing to programme.
IT was rumored in Cairo on the 18th
that another detachment of Egyp tian troops
had been routed near Tokar.
The Eastern trunk lines, in order to
overcome the ticket scalpers, will hereafter
sell tickets no further West than Chicago
and st. Louis.
THERE have just been completed at
Hartford, Conn.,, two machine guns for
General Grant as presents to the Viceroy
of China and the Mikado of Japan. The
| guns are an improvement over the gun once
known as the Gardner gun. Guns of the
model after which they are made have d
Government record Of sos shots a minute,
and have been fired at the rate Of 700 shots
minute and 5000 shots in thirteen minutes
twenty -six-seconds.
On December the Cleveland rolling
mill will shut down. Z
REINFoRCEMENTs are to be sent to
the French squadron in Chinese waters.
On the 18th the military were called
out to quell riot in Kief Russia.
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plank in the constitution of the order, are
now engaged in the organization of a new
secret political society of wOrSingmen. John
Rodgers, of Altoona, has visited Johnstown
and vicinity in the interest of the new move
ment, which is said to have been started in
Maryland. The intention, it is asserted, is
not to form new political party, but simply
to throw the solid vote of the membership to
snch candidates of the old parties as
will pledge themselves to carry out,
if elected, the principles OF the
order. In speaking of the new
order Mr.. Powderly, of Scran-
ton, said that it is com posed of cranks,
dissatisfied Knights and political tricksters.
In answer to this charge, Mr.. Rodgers says
the reason that the Mayor opposes the new
movement is because it will deprive him OF
the lucrative and influential position he now
holds as the head of the Knights
There are now 175 men throughout the
country drawing princely salaries from the
treasury of the Knights OF Labor" said Mr..
Rodgers, ''and they all fear officially the con-
sequences of this new movement"
A very small percentage OF the members
of the Knights derive any benefit from the
organization. II is declared by those who
are engaged in the move that the new organ
izaton will greatly impair the strength of
the Knights of Labor.
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Washington Special.

Washington Special.
A funny story is going the rounds here at
the expense of Washington's millionaire and
philanthropist, w. w. Corcoran. Ii appears
that Mr.. Corcoran chartered special car
for self and party" to take them to White
Sulphur Springs; paying $50 When the car
was switched off from the Midland road at
Charlottesville to the Chesapeake road the
new conductor came around for tickets Mr.
Corcoran refused to pay on the ground that
he had chartered the car for the Springs
The conductor explained that the Pennsyl-
vania road had no control over that line, and
unless $50 was forthcoming he would have
to side-track the car.
II will not pay another cent" said Mr.
Corcoran, who would have said the same if
the amount had been eighty cents, land l
will spenda million dollars before l will be
imposed on in this manner"
Who are you anyhow asked the con-
ductor.
wv. w. Corcoran, of Washington, sir"
was the stately reply of the great twenty
times millionaire
We'll, sir" was the rejolnder, "if you are
Mr. Corcoran, you can better afford to spend
81, 900, 600 than l can to lose my place. He
said he would telegraph his manager, how
ever for instructions. At the next station
the reply came indorsing the conductor
This was shown Mr.. Corcoran, and he was
further informed that the car would be side
tracked right there in the woods unless the
fare was paid. The millionaire growled and
swore and threatened, and paid the money
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A NATIONAL CRISIS.
a Dramatic Scene Attendant on the Placing
of the Loan of 1861.

vi the ADfth VI looAs
John D. Sherwood, in EnRlewood On. j. Standard.
Secretary Chase, with the dignity which
belonged to his noble presence, gave the con-
ference very lucid, frank and mastery ex-
position of the crisis in its national aspects,
ana the pressing need of the government for
money, explaining the act of Congress author
izing the loan. The wise old heads listened,
bowed in thought and grave apprehension.
Naturally timid as are men of experience in
trusted with weighty responsibilities, and
naturally conservative even to an excess of
caution under new and untried circumstan-
ces, they skrank, as was not unnatural, from
the assumption OF powers which. from the
standpoint of average human foresight,
might involve their institutions in bank
ruptcy. AT least the situation was novel
the present clouded with doubt and the flu
ture unilluminated by any light from the
past. The weighty words of the Secretary
brooded over their spirits, and they sat in a
silence at first awkward and then appalling
until a heavy gloom seemed to settle down
and paralyze the entire assembly. At that
moment sprang up the youthful
looking and animated figure of
Mr.. Coe, his cheering and ringing tones at
once arresting attention and lifting the
bowed heads of his fellow bankers. II
move,' said he, that we take this loan 1t
is not merely the dictate Of patriotism, high
as is this impulse 1t is not merely that OF
wisdom, which is sometimes greater than
prudence and caution. 1t is simply a com
manding necessity-the instinct of sef-pres-
ervation-which exacts it. In the question
of the existence of our government is in
volved our own. Without a government
banks cannot exist, property is without
value. Existence itself is undesirable. Let
the hordes of the Confederacy enter
Washington and establish a slave con-
federation, and New York, Philadelphia and
Boston become again mere trading ports-in-
significant villages Let this free government
go down, and (taking from his pockets few
cents would not give these coppers for all
your banks, your bank buildings, and bank
capital. l would not give five-cent piece
for the American Exchange Bank with its
$5,0 900 of capital. Gentlemen, you must
take this loan. Either take the loan or bar
barisml'
All heads were raised in sympathetic ad-
miration. All eyes sparkled with the ardor
and glow of the suddenly inspired orator.
The loan was unanimously voted, and the
government supplied with the means to be-
gin the war for the Union. All honor, then,
l say. to George S. Coe. Ii no monument in
broDze or marble in any of our cities COM
mGmorates his patriotic services let history
at least keep the record, and cherish the
name of the man whose promptness and
courage, in the hour when mems hearts
were failing them" did so much to restore
confidence and to save the country"
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The hands, of certain STRIKERS" and
''neeers" in Indianapolis and was never
used for the purposes intended. Contribu-
tions from other Northern States could not
be obtained. Applications in such quarters
were met with the unfeelng response that
the Democratic candidate for Vice president
lived in Indiana; that he had greater inter-
est than any other man living in the success
of the Democratic State ticket; that he was
nominated with the understanding that he
would not only be cheerful but very lib
eral giver from the two millions which he
was reputed to possess; that applications for
pecuniary aid to carry Indiana should, there
fore, be made to him. They were made with
a diligence and frequency which so exasper-
ated him that he did actually contribute,
from first to last, about $12500 The contri-
buttons OF Landers footed up about So. 500.
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INDIGNATIoN AT THE CORNERS.


purpose OF DenouncinS Dorsey
Nasby's report of Proceedings.
The meetin-house wuz lifted with candles,
ez yoosual, and the Corners turned out ez NV
yore. took my sect in the pulpit ez ex
offisho cheerman, and Issaker Gavitt, bein ez
he kin write, is HUI electid secretary.
To be prepared, | ned in my pokkit se-
ries NV preamble and resolooshens witch
he'd drawd up, eZ follows:
Whereas Stephen W Dorsey. actin for the
Republican party IN $780, went into the State
Nv lnjeany and bought up Dimekratic voters for
- mead, thereby kerryn that State for Gar.
field instid NV lettin 1t 90 materially for Hancock;
and.
"Whereas, Corrupshen In elecshuns is sub
versive NV Republican institutions; therefore,
be IL
Resolved, That the Democrisy NV the Cor.
ners enter Their sOllum protest agin any party
witch buys DimooraIs, and holds to tho bleef that
no SIGN party rs IS NJ 10 oe entrusted with power
"Resolved, That the Republic ans must go.
1 opened the exercises by remarkin that
recent disclosures NV the corrupshen in the
Republican party wuZ NV a caracter to alarm
every man witch believed in pure govern
ment-a government by the people, for the
people, and NV the people. When men Good
delibritly take 100000 and buy up voters
the republik WIZ in danger, and the shreek
NV freedom mite be reasonably expected in
the immejt filcher When a man goes into
a State with S400, 900, and kerries that State
by buvin up voters at 81 head, freedom not
only ought to shrek, but her squawk shood
be vigurus and heerd all over the land.
Joe Bigler then riz and wantid speciica-
shens. When wuz this done and by whom?
l replied that it is charged that Stephen
w. Dorsey, in 1880, when Garfield wuz the
Republican candidate, and Hancock was the
Dimekratic, went into the State nv In]eany
and corruptly bought up yenal voters at 50
head which kerred the State for Garfield.
'Sch infamous corrupshen," continnered,
"wuz enuff to make the very blood bile in
the vanes Nv every Dimekrat."
May L ask" replied josef wat perkul-
yer style of voters the corrupt Stephen cor
ruptly bought up at So per head?''
wat kind Nv voters was corrupted? Why,
the Dimocrisy NV course. And permit me to
say sir that spectacle NV a man goin' into
a Dinekratic State buyn' up Dimekrats at
81 head is one kalkilated To-
Deekin Pogram remarked that the spekti-
ke was indeed terrble-he didn't think 81
wuz enuff for an able-bodied Dimekrat
They shood hev demanded not less than
$3.50
Then 1 continyood
"Wat we are met to consider is this:
Stephen w. Dorsey, minyun NV the Re-
publikiu party, took $4000 900 i'll money ali
in So notes. and went into Injeany, and
bought Dimekratic votes enuff to kerry the
State and paid for EN-. He"
Then there wuz scene NV indescribable
confooshun. The awjenoe riz to their feet
ez one man and yelled, "Rah for Dorsey"
l didn't present my resolooshens. 1t
wasn't the stile of awjence for that pertikler
kind.
mt N
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A Discriminating Notice.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.


George William Curtis. young man who
paints plaques and does fine embroidery work
in the East, also made a powerful address
this week on civilseryce reform. This con-
certed action on the part of the esteemed re-
formers is for the purpose of hoodwnking
Congress so as to get their hands into the
treasury long enough to get the looked for
appropriation. There will be few men in
the next Congress who can distinguish be-
tween a bastard boom and the legitimate
article, and it may not be such a dreadfuly
easy task to go through Uncle Sam in behalf
of John Bull.
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A Call for Pedestrians.

MILWAUKEE, SentineI
There ought to be a limit to the delay to
which kilograms are subject. A brief mes
sage was filed at the Kiibourne City Office
early on Monday morning addressed to a
Milwaukee gentleman, and it has not
reached its destination at this writing How
ever difficult ii may be to employ operators.
it is not impossible to obtain pedestrians.
The Western Union can hire men to walk
down from Kilbourn with messages and have
them here within sixty hours.
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The New South.

II
Any one who doubts that the South is on
the high road to prosperity and getting itc
pay as it goes along should consider the con-
diton of the State OF Alabama. Before the
war Alabama raised a great deal OF cotton
and not much of anything else now she pro-
duces much corn, beats some Northern States
in the production OF oats, finds profits in
pork and wool and has pleasing assortment
of mines and mills. In spite of all this, how.
ever, she raises about 90 per cent. more of
cotton than she did ten years ago.
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Mrs. WinslOw's soothing Syrup should always
he used when children arD cutting teeth. t. re-
lieves the little sufferer at once: it produces
natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child from
pain, aud the little cnerub awakes as "Ortght Rs
button" 1t Is very pleasant TO taste. 1t
soothes the child, sofTens the gums. alays ali
pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels. and is
The hest known remedy for diarrhOea, whether
arising from tsething ar other causes, Twenty
five cents a bottle.
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A WORD TO THE WISE.

DON'T BE sKEPTICAL. REASON TEACHES
AND EXPERIENCE CONFIRMS THAT TAR
RANTS SETTER APERIENT Is AN INYAIlT-
ABLE REMEDY FOR ANY AND ALL DISOR-
DkRS OF THE STOMACH, LIVER AND BOWELS
A TEASPOONFUL IN A GLASS OF WATER
EVERY MORNING, BEFORE EATING, Is NOR
ONLY EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL BUT A
PROTECTION AGAINST DISEASE WHICH NO
ONE CAN AFFORD TO DISREGARD. FOR SALE
BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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Behold the Decline.


Chicago Herald.
General Beauregard says he observes with
grief "a gradual decline in the negro race"
All, yes; they decline to invest in the Lousi-
ana lottery. Perhaps the General may have
observed "A similar decline i'll the Postoffice
Department
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BRIGHT eyes, regular features. and a graceful
figure, fail To produce tn cir due effect il the
pleXion is defaced with pimples or blotches, or
the SKIN is rough or harsh. To remedy these
defects use CLAIMS sulphur 5eap
Hills Hair Dye restores the tinge Of youth to
prnv lnrKs
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Politics in the Organization.

Philadelphia Times.
1t is asserted that those members of the
Knights of Labor who have battled unavail-
ingly for the introduction of political