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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-03-21

VIZ C. McGfMsEY, ATTORNEY
we at Eaw andSJnstice aof the
Pence, Alexandria Ward. viii prac-
lice in the Courts of the 18th Judicial
District and in the Supreme Court of
the Stale, Office on Murray street,
between Second and Third sts., Alex
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-03-21
THIS DAY.
rsngen,ent Of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.

r@ngeHent0 q I1Eef, 150Wels and hldReys.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER.
.sGsB bad Breath sPaip,in thelSide, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shouldcyblade. mistaken for
oSsneraiy scostye sometimes alternating with Lax
The head is troubled with pain lis, dull and heavy,
with Considerable loss Of memory, accompanied
with painful sensation leaving ,,nelone something
which ought .ohaye been donsia slight, drycough
mistaken for consumption; 1.-THE patient complains
Of WEAKNESS and debility: yous .easily s.tIed
iteet cold or burning, sometimes prckly sensation
Of ,he skin exists; spirits lo~and Respondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene-
hea!. yet one can hardly summon up fortitldes to
try TIN fact, d.strusts every remedy. Several
OF the abpye symptoms attendihe disease but cases
have occurred when but few OF then, existed, yer
examination after death has shown the Liver ID
have been extensively dcranged,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-03-21
BUSLAESSDTRECTORY
PROFESS/ON.d[,

DLACKNAN, w. F Attasney and
ID Counsellor at law. Office JON
Washington street, near Court.house.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-03-21
al OFFICIAL. W
PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL
ALExANDR1A. LA.,1
:. March 6, 1883. :

.
On motion of j. j. iPeterman. -tlle
clause Of, the License Ordinance refer.
ing to the retail of meats by .hawkers,
was recoasidered, and on motion of
Councilman McGinnis the clause above
referred to. was amended by substitn-
ting the preyiso of the State license
law .asfolloWs: ues rel ,af,s y
Provided - that, no license, shall be
required for the retail Of meats unless
the stock in trade exceeds the value Of
ten (5lO) dollars. II, II. ). ,ys - :.
49, Ts+iA ~" aa*,S hshs
saf ~ e7s's3W. C. McGIMSEY, s.!
!. JONAS RosENrHaL, Mayor.
@@" Secretary pro tenn. x IL
- .''s e4.Ga Y ALEXANDRIA ,LA, !
..,...-.,......-. MarchES, 1884,
49, a.. = --s - a. 4., T. 4
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-03-21
FORtRENTLCHEAP!

A. B. RACIAL, ,fs, Mayo
go en- Secretary. y tits
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-03-21
FOOD CROP Us. COTTON.
=. -, Z - ~ zsa6
(Shrnyenort T,mae

l$. " nave several Times amour edi-
ttorial capacity 'in years past;staken
similar position TO that taken by the
Memphis Cation Exchange, referred
to in the following article from The
Times, ! Democrat '4 . g 2Itqis4a delicate
question: to handle butt after all, the
newspapers owe it to themselves to
Foffer good l,. advice aua + il is not fol-
lowed athe farmers. shaye. nos ne to
h!ame but themselves 81 I,2
The circular issued BY TIE Cotton
merchants of'st:sLouis, aasising the
planters Of the South 10 devote less
acreage, to- cotton and more to food
tctops,rhas been made thessubject of
q warm and animated discussion in
the Memphis Cotton Exchange
Tie views of the circular, were at
first accepted and Endorsed, and ap-
proved, but, upon"ttlez matter being
called mp again and, RECONSTRUCTED, an
entirely different view was taken of
the case. jaad''a H9"l@ }gs sss
Il was argued, for instance, that
the doctripe promulgated blythe St.
Louis factors, that the South pro-
,'ncea ans excessive cotton .crep and
thereby broke down the price of the
,stapl was by. no means,g novel or
original. This doctrine, had been
preached Throughout the South for
ten years, and by none more ear
nestly than tbe merchants and press
OF Memphis. Instead, However, of
fhavilgl theaiesireii effect ofreaucing
the excessive cotton yleldrsef the
country il had exactly the contrary
effect. ,Tle newspapers at. the be-
ginning Of the plapsing, season called
on each planter to, put in less cotton
and more corn-skowing atiht the
price q, cotton would range higher
in consequence. and that 4, 600, OO0
bale crop at fifteen cents aSspound
was worth more than "a &, O0O, 900
bale crep at ten ceuts, asst costs less
to, produce and yet yielded tho same
amount. saaa& I e ,gss1~.-
/ ibis advise was /, so, good that
every planter naturally, CONCLUDED
This neighbor would follow 1t, and
that the crop the next seasenswould
be small, and the price. ofstbeistaple
would consequently be high; and he
therefore, made his cotton. acreage
|aslarge as he possibly coulda cult
vate, in ordersto take advantage of
this prospective high price, and
what he did every other planter did,
and the result was a bigger crop
than ever. This had been the re-
suit often years. experience in prea-
ching she doctrine ofstiie Str Louis
factors; and whenever theapress had
been most gearnestsin this matter,
the biggest cotton .'ts q e'ap iss been
For these reasons the, Memphis
Cotton Exchange dill 'nnSnim ously
agree that, while they 'tHeroughlv
eoincided in the views lexpr@sed by
the st. Louis .merch ants, tie pro-
mnlgat OF or pubic Endorsement Of
those views would haye an ep!nsi.e
effect and cause more cotton tan
ever to he ,planted. .sA
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25

The closing moments Of the old year
had arrived. Laurel Hill Cemetery was
wrapped in the darkness of the night,
and a heavy fog hung over the stately
piles of marble which mark the resting
places of the distinguished dead, OBJ
scuring them from view. Suddenly the
quiet was broken by the tollIng bells and
the shrieks Of locomotive whistles. AL
most simultaneously with these tokens
of respect to the cyptilg year q bright
silvery light flashed over a corner of the
city OF the dead. 4 moment lister and
all was darN.ess again. Then tree flashes
followed each 0thar IN quick succession.
Presently the din was increased ten fold,
spreading the news that the new year
had come. Again the weird light reap
peared. Its rays encircled a vault. The
iron doors " re open, ana over the heads
of the group Of people who stood in the
entrance, a double row Of shelves, nearly
every one occupied by a coffin, could be
seen. The group comprised five gentle
men aud Q lady, all attired in deepest
mourning.
"Another year gone and a new II in
its place, said the lady, in q low, must
cal voice, az she gazed pensiyely at the
coffin on the third lower shelf to the
left.
zone more year. responded the gen.
tleman nearest her. ''and we are ell here.
How many viii be left at the next APP
pointment.
The members of the group looked at
each other IN silence, and then again di-
rected their chances to the interior Of
the vault. For the next five minutes
they stood in this attitude, m~otionless.
Then the possessor of the musical voice
remarked, as she drew her watch from
its hiding place. TEN minutes after
tweiye-our mission is ended"
With a last LOOK at the colin, the group
moved slowly away and entered the
carriages which had been waiting at the
gateway, the g%raye-keeper. who had
been waiting at a respectful distance,
swung the iron doors and fastened the
lock. the light was extinguished, and all
was gloom.
There is a peculiar story back of the
scene which was thus enacted in the
early minutes of 1882. Back in the '70's
there died IN this city a gentleman who
was as distinguished for his peculiari-
It's % IE WIS lSGoNntH 11T Ills W6ailu
and good deeds. When his viii was
found that he had laid q sacred injunc-
ton on his children that so long as they
remained alive they should see the old
year cut aud the new one in at the foot
Of his coffin. Ten years nave passed
away and the injunction has not once
been forgotten, although the little group
Of Saturday night looked upon the
caskets which contained the remains Of
four of their family who had in rs many
years followed the father to his long
home. The others are now widely scat,
tered. Some Of them are located in
Vermont; SONS remain in this city, while
one has eTnigrated so far away as Ne.
braska, but at the close of every yea
they journey to this city and hold then
family reunion in the presence of the
dead and under the glare Of the calcium
lights.-PhacaeLHaia Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
A New Find.

1--WE had better understand each
other" he said d~eprecatingly, as he
shambled into the editorial room, .'be-
fore we begin. I'm a book agent!'
Unmindful of the groans that met this
statement, he went on:
''i'm not "a white haired philanthro-
pist from New Haven, who has come
south through sympathy for your
stricken people. I'm a fair, square,
~bald-headed book agent
Encouraged by the reception Of this
frank avowal, he took his seat, and
dropping his feet in Il waste-basket, said:
"lm not a retired clergyman, who
seeks to scatter religious instruction,
while he builds up his WORKOUT frame
in your balmy cline. I'm not an apOs-
tie of art who has consented to seek
your benighted region, and educate your
people by part'g with few picture books
IN parts. I'm not a temperance lecturer
from Bangor, who pays expenses by
dispOSing of literature on commission,
while he regcnerates the rum-sucker.
I'm not of all these, nor either. I'm an
unmoditied book agent, with non of the
corners rounded, running on cheek, in
pursuit of tin"
Here's candor, at least" remarked
the young man who writes puils for the
hardware stores.
Yes, candor at best. I'm not a
gilded sham. You don't pick me up for
IL prince in disguise, or art or mortality
going incog. / do not fly the skull and
cross-bones hid behind a holiday fac
till / have grappled and boarded you.
Eve got the regular old deaths head
nailed to the mast, and I'm u pirate
from keel to center-board. and if YOU
don't want that sort of company, blow
me out of the water
He had a whole force on deck at this
point.
I've got no otf-hand preamble to my
bloody work. do not lead you through
bilowery paths or to where | have got
the trap sprung. | do not beguile with
anecdote, inspire with %eloquence, soothe
with persuasion, or pique with local
gossip. was not directed to you as q
leader of culture, or a person who would
be likely to buy. | won't show you a
list of heightened decoys, who have put
their names down to get rid of me and
to draw you in. | don't show the work
| am selling, and I've never been able
to learn the idiots soliloqy that explains
the pictures
Here he paused, while the manager
called for the cash boy.
That's about the size of me and my
business. The books right here-fifty
parts, so cents a part, plenty o pictures
and big type for the reading, written by
sOmphodV or other. and means $40 cleal
money to me every time work n off
DO you take, or do | go?"
BY this time eleven copies Of the frs
part were ordered, and the ''elevei
able resumed their work, while the of
fee boy indites this tribute to a mai
who amt ashamed of his little racket
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
Keeping Her Safe.

Pretty Marian Elmorc, the actress. is
under engagement not to marry for five
years. Billy Hayden, her manager,
says: "When / agreed to star her five
years and pay her Sl00 per week and
20 per cent. of the profits, | made her
go into writing not to marry during the
engagement"
"Why did you tic her up this way?:''
because actresses lose their hearts
more madly and more absurdIy than
any other women in the world, and
marrying nearly always spoils them.
I've had more actresses ruined by hus-
bands than all other ways put together.
Miss Elmore is clearing $4,000 a year,
and in five years-she will then be "a
she can marry and quit the stage.
But she can't think Of love till her time
is up. Many young actresses are bound
up in the same kind of a contract, and
held to It strictly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
Sncetatars at Fires.

There Is q fascination in running to
fires. Hardly a man or boy lives who
has not at some time been moved to en-.
thusiasm by the sound of an alarm 0,
by the prospect Of standing within easv
reach of a burning building. In going
TO a fire the chance attendants do moi
contemplate helping the people whose
houses or goods may be in danger oil
combustion. They want to see the
spectacle, and to this end they are will.
ing to put themselves to much incon.
v~enience. They viii stand in a con.
dition Of condensed pack to which the
state OF the most crowded street car il
by comparison elegant olbow-room.
They will content TO be pushed by
policemen, run into by iire-engines
robbed by piekpockets or forced inte
cutters OF running water. Sometimes
all this becomes a very expensive mode
Of sightseeing. A notable instance O.
disappointment in this respect occurred
at a New York fire. A large party Of
spectators had been crowded into q very
narrow street in such a manner that they
could not by any possibility have en-
joyed a view Of the blaze unless pro
vided with spy glasses so constructed az
to admit of looking around corners
While stretching their necks in order tt
try to overcome this untoward condition
of affairs q very large hose suddenly
burst in their midst. The water wai
Immediately distributed over the by
ISLANDERS in liberal p%rofusion. Their re
treat WAS precipitatc. One of the resultl
Of this Watering Of the people will b.
that some Of the watered ones will for
ever hereafter abandon the practice o
going to fires in the capacity of specta
tors where they are not needed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
Ben Couldn't Sion.

IL was = very long hill; and Ben's
grandmother lived ut the foot of 1t; and
Ben's uncle Peter lived at the top of it.,
and Ben's mother in n little house half
way between.
Cant | slide down and see grand
MAJ asked Ben, one morning bright
and early.
NO" answered his mother; Il want
you to bring in some wood, pretty
SOON
But she said he might COUP to Uncle
Peters and Slide home once if he want
ed to.
The snow was deep and piled oven
the stone walls, and there was a good
crust. Ben got ON his sled at Uncle
Peters door, and gave himself n little
push, and how he did 90! Straight
down across pasture and hay fields. and
yes. right past his own mother
house, down, down to grandma's door
where grandma herself was standing,
with her apron owe her head, feeding
the hens. Come in said she, beam,
ing al him. Its doughnut day Benny
Ben could feel the tears starting. a
! can't, grandma" said he. "Mothel
said couldn't come down this morning
but went up to Uncle Peters to slide
and Icouldn't stop. SO l ca-an't com,
i'm
That's a good boy" said grandma
and she watched him trudge away
again.
Not more than an hour afterward,
somebody going by up the hin left
little paper bag full of puffy doughnut
at the door for Ben. Where do yol
suppose they came from?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
Poor Practices.

1t is poor practice for Il farmer to
dig and clear up fifty acres of land at
u cost of $4,000, and then in the third
year surrender about one-fifth of it tC
the briars, bramblcs and oX-eye daisies.
Poor practice to half manure, halt
pillow, half seed and half cultivate q
field, and then harvest from it less tnan
half Il crop.
10 keep two inferior, scrawny, scrub
COWS for dairy purposes, that give less
milk than good one, and consume
more feed than three.
10 purchase in town 500 loads of
livcry-stable manure, and suffer GOO of
better homemade manure to run to
waste.
To attempt to fatten three hogs into
l,2Q0 pounds of pork, on just as mucl
feed rs would keep two nicely growing.
To house up q thousand bushels O
grain, waiting for n rise. till one-tentt
has gone to feed rats and mice, and the
remainder smells like the essence O
rat, and the price is down 40 per cent
To keep two fancy five hundred dol
lar carriage horses, and pay six dollar:
a day for 4 team to pillow.
TO hang around the tavern of the
neighboring town, when you ought tC
be ut work on your farm.-Americal
Farmer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25

The Rev. Mr.. - was one of the
mos bashlul men in the profession.
and was constantly getting INTO scrapes
through his nervous mistakes. At one
time he rose in his pulpit to give out the
hymn, This world is sail a fleeing
show" and after clearing his throat he
struck a high pitch of voice and began
%solemnly:
This world IS all a fleeing SHOE
Everybody smiled except the Dea-
ICONS. and the minister was covered with
confusion as he began again;
This world isall a shouting aow.'
This only made matters worse. and
the unhappy man cleared his throat
Will tremendous force, and began once
again;
This world is all a floating she"
Then he slammed the hymn-book
down, and, wiping his clammy brow,
said:
Brethren, for some reason I cannot
read that hymn rs it should be read.
We win omit it, and the choir will please
sing the grand old lines beginning:
just as | am, without one lea.''
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
Rolled Oil For the P0sfs.

A writer in an exchange says: II
discovered many years ago that wood
could be made to last longer than iron
in the ground, but thought the process
so simple that it was not well to make
a stir about it. | would as soon have
poplar, Eastwood or ash as any other
kind of timber for fence posts. / have
taken out Eastwood posts after having
been set seven years that were as sound
when taken out as when first put IN
the ground. Time and weather SEEM
ed to have no effect on them. The
posts a be prepared for less than two
cents a piece. This is the recipe: Take
boiled linseed oil and stir in pulyerized
coal to the consistency of paint. Put
a coat OF this over the timber. and
there is not n man that will live to see
it rot"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
Mixed Prices.

Beer is 81 cents aglass in Monterey,
Mexico.
Coal is down at $l5 a ton at Win
nipeg, Manitoba.
Eggs are $50 a dozen in the Baker
district Montana.
Fat Wild ducks are Sold AT , cents
apiece at Lake Charles, La.
At Lumpkin, Ga. sweet potatoes sell
for only % cents a bushCl.
Butter is scarce at 81 a pound in
some Of the Montana mining towns.
At Marshfield, Mo, wood is ~ a
cord; at Winnipeg it is quoted at $14
4 cord.
AT Greensboro, n. c., graye-robbers
ask $40 for every corpse in tolerably
good condition.
IL takes so dollars to buy 100 pound
OF flour in the Baker mining district of
Montana.
While butter is only 20 cents Il pound
in Marshtield. Mo. the dealers ask IS
cents a pound for it at Butte, II. T.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
A Sinwular GYnSY Tribe.

A wandering tribe, which has caused
some curiosity in Madras, may possibly
be identified with a singular class Of
Gypsies known by the name OF Mayadds,
who visited Lahore in 1868, and a GU
rious and interesting account Of whom is
published in a memorandum written by
DIR. Leitner, and printed by the Puniab
Government. In that year q large
crowd of them arrived ON foot and in
carts from ~Afghanistan, and encamped
for some little time in this place. They
spoke q peculiar jargon among them
selves, though when within earshot Of
Europeans and Indians they spoke Per-
sian. At first, it seems, there was a
difficulty in Identifying even their place
of abode, but officers from various parts
of India affirmed hat the noisy and
quarrelsome strangers were in the way
Of passing periodically between this
country and Central Asia, and that they
had an unpleasant habit of looting vii
lagos on their route. Mayadds were al
ways armed IN reaching the Indian from
tier, a fact for which they accounted by
saying that they were Shiahs, whom,
as every Il knows, their Sunni co-relig-
1onlsts sometimes sell as slaves. "When,"
says DR.. Leitner, 81 visited their en-
campment their frantic gesticulations
and the hurting Of children by one
oma to another in order to emphasize
her rage, reminded me of q scene re-
corded in my account of the Gypsies of
Turkey when a case was decided in favor
Of that side in a tribunal contention
which could dance most obscenely and
use the strongest expressions while adj
yocatiDg their own cause" Others of
the same tribe appear to have visited
Lahore in 1870. Their Central Asiatic
home is said to be Khorasan, and it
seems that their journey from one coun-
try to the other and back extends over
many years. Apartial vocabulary of the
dialect Of thieves Latin used by the
Mayadds has, we believe, been compiled
by DR.. Leitner and Military
Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
The First Rebel Flags.

Concerning the battle-hag of the Con
federacy, Carlton McCarthy's book
upon Soldiers Life speaks as fol
lows: ''rhe first three Gags received
were made of ladies' dresses by the
Misses Carey, Of Baltimore and Alex
andria, at their residence and at the
residences of friends, as soon as they
got description of the design adopted.
One of the Misses Carey sent the flag
she made to General B~eauregard.
General Beauregard sent the flag he re
ceiyed at nee to New Orleans for safe
keeping. After the fall of New Orleans,
Mrs. Beauregard sent the flag by a
Spanish man .of-war, then lying in the
river opposite New Orleans, to Cubal
where ii remained till the close Of the
war, when it was returned to Genera.
Beauregard, who presented it for safe
keeping to the Washington Artillery, of
New Orleans.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
There's nothing half 50 sweet in lif
A. loves yOuup dream.

Bessie and be living in great harmony,
and Moore makes frequent mention of
her in his letters, always speaking of
her in the tenderest manner She. how
ever, went into society. and feeling SEN
|sitively the difference between the rank
her husbands talents claimed and her
own lower caste, she passed her life in
retirement. Moore speaks in N of
his letters to his mother of ''Bessie's'
democratic pride" She would not be
patronized. and fell back on the dig
nifty of her own character, Moore was .
general ~favorite in the highest circles,
and rs his wife wished him to enjoy the
best social advantages, he mingled
among a class into which she never en-
tered. She ministered faithfully to his
declining years, and eventually received
hat honor as the widow Of Thomas
Moore which had been withheld when
she was his wife. Garrick wife also
survived him, but her widowhood was
one of unusually prolonged character.
The great player was but little past 60
at the time of his death, but his wife
reached 30, having survived her hus-
band thirty years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
Keen IL Warm.

See if you cannot arrange to have the
horses bride Kept in 4 warm place in
the house, or else on cold, frosty DAYS
have the bits warmed before they are
put into his mouth. A cold. frosty bit
will take the skin off his tongue, and
perhaps make it painful to.eat ANYTHING
for q week. Dumb ARimals.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-25
The Magnetic Needle.

A condensed explanation in regard "a
the needle pointing to the northward and
southwark is as follows The magnetic
poles OF the earth do not coincide wifi
the geographical poles. The axis d
rotation makes an angle Of about 23(
with q line joining the former. The
northern magnetic pole is at present
near the Arctic circle, on the meridian o,
Omaha. Hence the needle does moi
everywhere point to the Astronomical
north, and is constantly variable within
certain limits. At San Francisco Il
points about seventeen degrees to the
east Of north, and at Calais, Me. as
much to the west. At the northern
magnetic pole, a balanced needle points
with its north end downward in a plumb
line. At San Francisco it dips about
sixty-three degrees, and at the southern
magnetic pole the south end points
directly down. The attraction OF the
earth upon q magnetic needle at its sur.
face is of about the same force as that OF
a hard steel magnet, forty inches long.
strongly m gnetized, at a distance Of one
foot. The foregoing is the accepted ex-
PLANTATION Of the fact that the needle
points to the northward and southwark.
OF course, no ultimate reason can be
given for this natural fact, any more than
for any other observed fact in nature"