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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25
SMALLPOX
and
FITTING Of Small
Pox PREVENTED

Amember ofmy fam
lily was taken with
Smallpox. ! used the
Fluid; the patient was
not delirious, was not
pitted, and was about
the house again in three
weeks, and no others
had it. }. w. PARK.
INsoN, Philadelphia.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25
STATE TAX SALES
MOVABLE PROPERTY.
The State Of Louisiana Us. Delinquent
Tax Debtors, Parish of Rap
ides, 18th Judicial Dis.
trict, Louisi-
ana.

DY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY
ID vested in me by the Constitution
and laws of the State Of Louisiana, /
will sell at the principal front door at
the Court House, in which the Civil
District Court of said Parish is held,
within the legal hours for judicial
sales, beginning at eleven o'clock A.
NJ, on
SATURDAY, the 2sth day of APRIL,
A. D. 1883,
and continuing on Monday and each
succeeding day until said sales are COM
p.eted, all property on which taxes are
now due to the State of Louisiana, to
enforce collection of all the taxes
assessed in the year 1882. together
with interest thereon from the thirty.
first day Of December, A. D. 1882,
until paid and all costs. The names
of said delinquent tax payers, the
amount of taxes due by each on the
assessment of said year, and the
property assessed to each to be Of
cred for sale are as follows, to-wit -
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25

Feveredand SickPer-
sons refreshed and
Bed Sores prevent
cd by bathing with
Darbys Fluid.
Impure Air made
harmless and purified.
For Sore Throat it is a
sure cure.
Contagion destroyed.
For Frosted Feet,
Chilblains, Piles,
Chnfngs, etc.
rheumatism cured.
Soft White Complex
ions secured by its use.
Ship Fever prevented.
To purify the Breath,
cleanse the Teeth,
it can't be surpassed.
Catarrh relieved and
cured.
Erysipelas cured.
extraordinarily.
Scars prevented.
Dysentery cured.
Wounds healed rapidly.
Scurvy cured.
An Antidote for Animal
Or Vegetable Poisons,
Stings, etc.
I used the Fluid during
our present affection with
Scarlet Fever with de-
cided advantage. 1t is
indispensable to the sick
room. WV. F. SAND
FORD, Eyrie, Ala.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25
MZLZ/NER !.
.AZScEZZ.AVEOU.S.

II ELY, P, Contractor, Builder and
IN Undertaken, corner Lee and Fifth
streets. A fine Hearse and full as
sortment of Metallic and Rosewood cof-
fms always on hand.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25
NOTICE..
State of Louisiana, Parish of Rapides,
District Court.
N L MnGINNIs

State OF Louisiana, Parish OF Rapides,
District Court.
N. L. McG1NNIs}
VS., No. 2s46.
HIS CREDITORS.
ITO ALL WHOM ITDOTHOR MAY
L concern, take notice that the
Plaintiff herein has made application
to the aforesaid Court for a respite of
eight, ten and twelve months, and
that n meeting of his Creditors has
been ordered to be held at the Office of
James Andrews, Notary Public, in the
Town of Alexandria, Parish of Rap.
ides, Louisiana, on Thursday, the Sd
day of May, A. D. 1888, for the pur.
pose of having the creditors prove
their claims and determine whether or
not the respite shall not he granted.
By order of the Court.
@w Given under my hand
a sssSA and seaPof Office on this I'd
~ F.S. FLOWER,
April 4, 1883. Deputy Clerk.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25
DEMOCRAT
TERMS:

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at Two DOLLARS and FIFTY CENTS per
annum ONE DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS
for six months - PAYABLE IN AID
VANCE.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate
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INSERTION and FIFTY CENTS for each
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(brsvier type) constitute square.
OBFTUARYNOTICES. Marriages. Public
Mestings, Cards Of Thanks, etc, to be
psid a. advertisements
PERSONAL CARDS-when admissible
charged double the usual advertising
rates.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25
| Diphtheria
/ Prevented.

The physicians here
use Darbys Fluid very
successfully in the treat.
nent Of Diphtheria.
A. SroLLRNwBRck,
Greensboro. Ala.
letter dried UP.
Cholera prevented.
Ulcers purified and
healed.
In cases OfDeah il
should be used about
the corpse 1T viii
prevent any unpleas.
ant smell.
The eminent PLY.
sician, j. MARION
SIMS, NJ. d., New
York, says: II am
convinced Prof. Darbys
Prophylactic Fluid is a
valuable disinfectant."
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-04-25

MISCELLANEOUS.
DANbYS
PROPHYLACT|C
FLUID.
A Household Article for Universal
Family Use.
For Scarlet and
typhoid EeverS,
Diphtheria, Sail.
walton, liberated
Throat, Small
pnr. MaoalaR and
Eradicates
MALARIA.

all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on
never been known to spread ~herc the Fluid was
used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after
black volnit had taken place. The worst
c.ses oS D;phtheria Weld IN Il
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
asphalt in Mexico.

1t may be OF interest to the American
public TO know that among the natural
products of Mexico-with which country
we may anticipate In the near future
very close commercial relations the ar
ticle OF asphaltum is evidently destined
70 hold no uncomfortable rank. 1t may
be of most importa nee to MexIcans.
however. If it can be utilized-as it is
said it cantor fuel purposes. There is
reported TO be exhaustless deposits of
this material on the bank of the
Tnamesi river in the State of Tamauli-
pas, about 60 miles above Tsmpico, con-
tanning an insignificant percentage OF
foreign matter, and which may be
reached by hight draft boats, and with
proper methods of exploitation may
be put on beard OF vessels that may en-
ter the port of Tampico at cost OF from
So TO Sl0 per ton OF 2,00J pounds. In
toe State OF Vera Cruz, near the village
OF Moloacan, few leagues distant from
the nayigabie River of Coatzacoalcos,
there is an immense deposit of asphalt
tum, which in some poins is found
pure, and IN others more or less mingled
with rock salt and saltpetre. 1t was
visited Ill 1874 by a learned German
traveller, DR.. Hechler, who thus de-
scrIbes Ii: ''Ihe deposit to which L re-
fer is Lot more than a league in direct
line from Moloacan, although by the
winding road the distance is over three
leagues. The salt mine as 1t Is popu-
larry called here, Is an isolated spur
branching off from the main ridge or
cordillera. The mountain is from 1000
10 12O0 feet in height, and with base
OF from 3, TO 4 miles IN extent, shaped
conicllIy, and cracked by earthquakes;
ON Its slopes are fourd a number of pits,
some cold and still, others seething and
bubbling with noise and sitting Odor
These pits would appear to have cav.
erEoas connection with the internal fires
of the mountain, which, as indicated
by the external heat and frequent
subterranean noise. doubtless contains
vast masses OF material IN q state o
combustion. Tae whole adjacent sur
lace consists of asphaltum. partly soli(
and partly liquid, and more or less mix
ed with rock. SO extensive are thes.
beds that tine supply may be considerel
inexhaustible, In some places the seeth
ing pits still continue to eject masses o
asphaltum in liquid state. The Indianl
call 1t Chapopote. 1t may be that thi
mountain Will one day sink, and Its sit
be occupied by lake of asphaltum, Iik
the historic Dead Sea OF the holy Land /.
There are also extensive beds OF asphal
tum in the State OF Chiapas. on tine up
per waters of the Grialva river, whic
! has Its course through the State of Ta
basco, and empties into the Nsxica
iGulf near F'rontera.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
THE INCONSISTENT HEART

The valley was bathed in glory this morn
ing,
For high DER the mountain tons buno III.
bright sun;
The fragrant winds bore the notes of ,,,a
soncSters
In through my easement, in soft LIQUID rims
But cut in the garden some one was b,,,,
ming
\ plaintive strain of the Miserere:
And | hid my face in my downy pillow
While my heart re-ecLoed the minor key
Down DER the heather, where gowans Were
bending,
l walked, while the bells rang a musical
chime;
The harebells blossomed; this world was an
The brooklets were purling a musical
rhyme,
But my wayward heart went back to the
morning,
To the quivering voice and the minor kew
The wonderful depths of the passionate
-sorrOw
And the wailing cry of the Miserere.
l still heard the birds with their elear-voiced
music,
And the warm sun still smiled with radi-
ant light;
The soft blue mists that the mountain en-
shrouded
Like a tieecy veil hid the cliffs from my
sight,
All the world was as fair as dream of
heaven
And my life was rs sweet as a life could be:
But somehow my wayward heart kept re-
peating
The sorrowful wall of the Miserere.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
Tne Biue-Grass Country

The blue-glaSs country is reached by
traversing Central Virginia and Ken
lucky along the line of the picturesque
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, unless,
indeed one prefers the swift and solid
Pennsylvania route to Cincinnati, and
drops down TO it from the north. On
this particular journey, at any rate,
it was reached past the battle-fields and
springs of Virginia, and up and down
the long slopes of the Blue Ridge and
gorges of the Greenl 1ier and Kanawha,
in the wilder Alleghanies. 1t is found
TO be little cluster of peculiarly ia
vored counties in the centre of the
State. Marked out on the map, it is like
the kernel, of which Kentucky is the
nut; or like one of those pockets Of
precious metals happened upon by
miners in their researches. The soil is
of a rich fertility, the surface charm
ingIy undulating. Poverty seems abol
ished. On every hand are evidences of
thrift corresponding with the genial
bounty of nature. \ leading crop in
times past has been hemp, and land
that will grow hemp will grow anything.
This is being more and more with
drawn in favor of stock raising ex-
clusively, but the tall stacks of hemp,
in shape like Zulu wigwams, still
plentifully dot the landscape.
One drops into horse talk immediate
ly on alighting from the train at Lex
ington, and does not emerge from it
again till he takes his departure. II is
the one subject always in order. Each
successive proprietor, as he tucks you
into his wagon, If you will go with him
and if you will go with him there is
no limit to the courtesy he will show
you-declares that now, after having
seen animals more or less well in their
way, he proposes to show you horse.
Fortunately there are many kinds of
perfection. He may have the best
horse or colt of a certain age, the one
which has made the best single heat
or fourth heat, or quarter of mile,
or average at all distances, or the best
stallion, or broodmare, or the one which
has done some of these things at priv
ate if not public trials. Each one has
at any rate, the colt which is going t.
be the great horse of the world. This
is an amiable vanity easily pardoned
and the enthusiasm is rather catching
A mans stock is greatly to his credit
and standing in this section while h,
lives, and when he dies is printed
prominently among the list of hi
virtues.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
The Trade Dollar.

The trade dollar is an Infidel coin-it
has no redeemer.
1t is like dude because it is lacking
in cents.
It's like drunkard because it don't
pass at par.
1t is like a boy when his father is
thrashing him, because it's below par.
1t is like laundry, it belongs to the
Chinese trade.
1t is like sluggish stream-it will
not pass current.
1t is like a canvasser, it tries to ap-
peaT honest while it bears lie on its
face.
1t is like a lawyers cheek-it is not
a legal tender.
1t is like corner stone deposits, it's
base coin.
It's like a POLITICIANS promise-only
taken at a discount.
1t is like a julep-it needs the mint
to make it good.
IL is like dOctOr-the less you have
do with it the better you are off.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03

John had carriage at the parsonage
waiting to take them away.
What extravagance!' cried Joanna.
This is bad beginning"
"One isn't married every days aid
John, laughing. 81 am going to take
you TO the house of my dearest friend,
JOANNA
The carriage stopped in front of a
dwelling that was shrouded in darkness.
John took key from his pocket and
opened the door himself.
My friend is away" he said. 81
have the entree of his house III his
absence.''
Taking a match from his pocket, he
lit the gas in the hall and ran lightly
up stairs.
Joanna followed III amazement. She
had expected to enter a humble home,
but she found herself in a perfect palace
of luxury.
John lit the gas up stairs. When
she entered the room he had thrown
open, he stood in the middle of the
floor with his face all aglow.
"IO Ou like it?'' he Queried, as he
noted the wonder and delight pictured
upon her face. Joanna, l have de-
ceived you. This is the Queen Anne
cottage opposite your aunt 's-this is my
house-your house, darling; our homel
L am not the poor carpenter you thought
me, Joanna. L am j. NJ. Ware,
architect and designer, if You please. :"
Joanna could not say word.
Il wanted to see now things We're
going on, and so l came here III person.
But ] knew that the men would put
their best feet foremost if | came to
watch them, SO L Just appeared on the
scene as new workman, and they
never guessed who l was. L did not
intend to deceive you. At first was
too i'll to explain. Afterwards, Joanna,
when l learned to love you-and L
learned that very soon, dear, | wanted
to win you for my own very self, and
SO L let you think me nothing but a
poor carpenter, whereas L am rich, my
darling, rich in every way, and, please
God, you will never regret your
choice"
lit would take long time to tell
what Joanna said, but Mrs. Mowry
never said IA word. What could she
say?
John and Joanna are perfectly happy
in their beautiful home. 1t is love i'll
a cottage, and there's great deal of
love i'll it.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
Give Your Wife a Vacation.

She needs one. Little cares are hard
er to be born than great responsibilities;
and she has many more little cares than
her husband, and sometimes as great re-
sponsibilitieS. Who needs a vacation if
she does not? And she cannot get it at
home. The more quiet and reStful the
home is to you, the more evidence that
it is a care, if not a burden, to her. If
you see no friction, it Is because she is
so skilflil an engineer. If You see no
machinery, it is because she makes it
run so smoothly.
1t is true that it is always difficult to
make a wife and mother take vaca-
ton. The better the wife and mother
she is, the greater is the difficulty. She
thinks that no one can take care of the
house as she can. And she is right.
She is sure that no man can take her
place in the care of the children. Right
again. Nevertheless, she needs her
vacation; and she will be q better
housekeeper and better mother for a
weeks rest. The house will value hel
more for a weeks abdication of hel
throne. Her children will appreciate
ber better for a weeks laying down OF
her scepter. Is she sometimes irritable'
She is tired. Is she sometimes depress
ed and gloomy? She is Over-worked
and over-worried. Send her off, ol
take her off, where she can sleep with
out one ear open to hear the children
uneasily tossing i'll their sleep; wher,
she can sit down to a table that vii
present some unexpected dishes to her
where her night will be without cares
Such vacation will take the tired lool
out of her eyes and put the old ligh
back again; it will give the ripping
merriment of girlhOOd to her laugh
elasticity to her step, color to her cheek
Woman's power of recuperation is won
derful, if it has half chance. Try tn
experiment. Why not?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
The Chinese in New YORK.

''How many Chinese are there in
New York; asked a reporter of an Of
ficer of the Chinese Consulate recently
established here.
I'VE are now engaged in making a
list of Chinese in New York, which
will tell the exact number. At present
l can only say that we estimate the
number at three thousand.
Are there any women among them?"
Il am told that one Chinese woman
lives here, somewhere on Sixth avenue.
You know that most if not all of the
men come here from San Francisco.
This trip, with the ocean voyage to
California, is rather expensive to the
average Chinaman, and would be more
so, of course, if he brought his family.
Besides, the larger number expect to
return to China"
What are the upations OF these
three thousand?"
Most of them are laundrymen, some
cigar-makers and the rest petty mer-
chants. There is, however, a firm in
broadway, opposite Astor Place, which
imports bric-a-brac, &c. There are no
Chinese importers Of teas that know
Of"
"Where do they get the names of
Lee 'Sing,' Lung &cI" pursued
the reporter.
''Oh those simply represent certain
Chinese sounds. can give you Curl
Gus fact or two about their names.
One is that, by an old custom iii China,
a man has one name in business
and another in his private life. The
other fact is that their names CORES
ponding to the English John, Tom, &c,
follow, not precede the family name.
Some, however, have adopted the
English way.'
"How much intercourse is there be-
tween the Chinese and japanese here?''
None whatever. You may be
interested in learning that though the
two nations use the same characters
for writing, one cannot understand the
spoken Language of the other. The
Japanese here number about foul
hundred.
lis not the language very difficult to
acquire?"
Extremely so, there being, for in
stance, seven thousand letters, each
having four sounds"
''Do the Chinese have any religion:
or joss-hOuses herel'
There isn't any in this city, but
| believe there is one in New Jersey IL
connection with large laundry cas-
of cleanliness next no godliness, ,yol
Sae =
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
Phenomenal Horse-FIesh.

The sporting fraternity at Indiana
polls is in a ferment over new
Indiana horse that promises to out
trot any HooSier hOrSe-hesh on the
track; in fact, has already done
so. This new and valuable animal
is six year old brown stallion, and he
comes from Noblesville. His owner,
John Martin, is a wagon-smith of that
place, and suddenly iii.ds himself in the
possession of fortune. n few days
|ago ID. r. Brown, of this city, saw the
horse trot and offered five thousand dol
lars cash for him. 1t was the first time
that the owner realized that he had the
best horse ON the Indiana turf, but he
knew a good thing when it was pointed
out, and since Browns offer 81 900, So
600 and now $40, 900 have been planked
down in vain before Martins eyes. The
history and training or the horse will
almost cause revolution in the jockey
business. Six years ago Martin reluct-
antly accepted an old mare in pay for
some work done From this unpromis-
ing nag the colt IN question was foaled.
Martin sold the mare for 500, and for
several years has been driving the colt
to a buggy in his daily business. All
this while he stabbed the animal in
rickety old shed, and in many ways
showed that he did not know what sort
of oiled lightning he was stabling. A
few turns, privately, on race track led
Martin to believe that he might venture
to enter a county fair with some promise
of success; but when he applied at No
blesyille and elsewhere he was hOoted
out. Last week he was admitted to a
county fair in northern Indiana, and to
everybOdy's surprise captured the prize
with ease. Last week, there being no
body to enter the Noblesville race,
Martin was told that if he could beat
2, 30 with his old brute he might have
the stake. Without any preparation he
drove into the ring and accomplished Il
mile in 2,24.
Horsemen say this phenomenal horse
can make 2, 16 without an effort. Par
ties in this city already have a 5000
bet that he will beat Hare's MambrinO
with 2,16 record-at the coming
Louisville races. Martin has been US
ing the horse carelessly, and he has
lust grOwed" into what he is. 1t is
doubtful if he ever was sponged or pet
ted or jockeyed. When heated he has
been tied up in fence corner and left
to cool off, and yet has fiourished, and
to-day is believed to be the best horse in
Indiana. DR.. Brown, learning the his
tory of the horse, went up to Mobiles
vile, hunted out the old mare which
foaled the horse, bought her for Sl00,
and two days later, on the reputation of
her son, sold her for 5000.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
Eyes and Ears.

DR.. Conner contributes an article with
this title to western paper, which thus
concludes:
To sum up what we have suggested, in
PLAN propositions, the best eyeslght and
hearing can be obtained and maintained
by
l. By acting as If the eyesIght and hear
ing were of more importance than any
other thing oa earth.
2. BY having every child's eyes and
ears carefully examined by an expert be-
fore 1t is gwen specific tasks to perform,
calling for the full exercise of healthy eyes.
If the eye or ear be found defective, then
by grading the tasks according to the ma
turc OF the defect.
8. BY rever using the eye or the ear
when such use causes pain in either organ
or in the head.
1. BY never using the eye when 1t is
Iimperfectly supplied with good blood, as
before breakfast, when utterly exhausted,
after a severe illness. etc.
B. BY never using the eyes for close work
in an imperfect hight, as in early morning
or evening twilight, by very distant or
weak light, far from the window, on
dark day, etc.
6. BY utterly avoiding the use of tobacco
and alcohol, except for medicinal pur Z.
poses.
z. By always cherishing cheerful habit
of thought and feeling toward all persons
and all events.
s. BY avoiding all such injuries to the
ears as result from slspping, pulling, and
| very loud and sudden noises.
Q. BY keeping out of the external ear
all things smaller than the forefnger, or
suffer than towel or handkerchief.
10. BY keeping out OF the ear all oils,
all soaps, all cold water, and everything
else recommended by sympathizing but
mistaken friends; especially never apply a
poultice to the ear for the reiIef of pain.
Dry heat will do all that moist heat can TO
relieve, and will be free from the danger
Of absolutely destroying the membrane
tympana.
IL. All running ears must be cured at
the earliest possible moment, al the peril
not only of the hearing, but that also of
the life.
II. By needing the warning given by
redness of the eyellds and Of the white of
the eye, By pain In or about the eyes or
ears, by the continuance OF indistlnct vision
for any considerable time, CT of imperfect
hearing, by the continuance of frontal
headache after usual remedies have failed
to relieve il.
13. BY regarding the eyes and ears as
simply part of very Complex system OF
appsratuses, the best health of all being
absolutely needful for the best health OF
each.
IA. By remembering that we do not Sc,
with the eye or hear with the ear, but viii
the brain. Hence, after the brain is ex
hausted. 1t is impossible to really see or hear
Hence, the utter absurdIty as well as th'
perniciousness of any endeavor TO see o
hear after tie brain has become exhausted
4 Especially Is this true Of young and gro y
+ Jag brains. here, too, it is needful to re
s member that the normal brain continue
Ito grow until about the age OF forty.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
Barefooted CIaies.

Attention has been called anew III
Paris to the order OF the Barefooted
Clares. There are eighteen of these
nuns. and fourteen are under twenty
two years OF age. They go barefoot on
the cod stone flooring; they never warm
themselves at a fire, even the kitchen fire
bling placed beyond their access; they
eat meat only on Christmas Day; they
sleep on narrow board; they must
spend ten hours every day upon their
knees. and they are only allowed tospeaA
to one another on rare occasions.