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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

A REFORMED BURGLAR.
he BECOMES SUPERINTENDENT OF A
RANCH AT $500 A MONTH.

he BECOMES SUPERINTENDENT OF A
RANCH AT $500 A MONTH.
''Is the criminal reporter iu?"
ayes. What do you want?''
"You have forgotten me, ! sup
pose?'
"No. sir, I haven't. You are Bill
Moles, who helped crack the safe in
Day s Dukes grocery on Woodward
avenue in 1867, and you got five
years for it. What do yon want?"
Il want to talk with you. I've
come good deal over thousand
miles to see You and one other per-
son. Do you remember the time
when l was convicted over in the
Recorders Court in the old City
Hal!2"
"Ycs.'
ssDo you remember what you
wrote about me in the Free Press
the next morning.
"No?"
"You wrote; 'Myles doesn't look
like criminal, but his Identification
was complete. 1t is his first offence
and be will regret it for five years
at least I read that in the Free
Press the next morning as I was
being taken to Jackson, and those
words, "Myles doesn't look like a
criminal made a deep impression
upon me, probably for the reason
THAT I bad not heard kind word for
a long time before. I cut those
words out and pasted them up in my
cell. | have come here to-day to
thank you Tor writing them.'
"Wbyr
Because they helped me to be-
come an honest man."
"As an honest man, what are you
doing to earn LIVELIHOOD" in
quired the reporter.
"When I came to Detroit in 1865,
my mother had just died, and my
father had been dead many years.
1t doesn't master what part of the
East I came from. After mother
died l sold everything we owned
and came West, locating here in De-
troit. l got work in store, and
was getting along nicely when /
made" the acquaintance Of Charley
Jones. In those days be was the
gayest boy in the business. Inside
of six months, be had taught me all
tie ropes in town. l lost my situa-
ton in the store, ran through my
money, and when he proposed to
crack that safe was ready for it.
You know all about that. 'Regre,
it, You never wrote anything truer
than that in your life. My God
how I did suffer in that prison
Long before my time was out, and
only served three years and ten
months, | made up my mind tc
square the box, and l was neye,
happier in my life than when
walked out of that prison. Tha,
was in the spring of 1871. I wen
to Chicago, and from there to St
Louis. l got work in wholesal,
grocery store, changing my name
shan t tell you what it is now, fo
III not give you a chance to give N,
away-and worked hard. Tb,
| boss took fancy to me, and fv
years ago be sent me up into Eevad
to look after cattle ranch he an,
his brother owned up in there. Tia
suited me, and I became herder
and now | am superintendent of th
ranch and get $500 a month.
came down to St. Louis on bushes
a month rgo, and thought I'd tax
a run up here and see Detroit ono
more. Pm going back to night
Good-by old fellow! You did me
good turn, and I'll never forgot it..
Il Detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23
mo. 50
AMERICAN SOCIETY.

AWcLiCan soc!eIy, US NOW CaEEleu
on, is mai4tained solely for the ben
eft of you fg girls, and is generally
little better than a marriage mart
TIE parents launch their offspring as
we'll as possible, and display their
wares TO the greatest advantage, hut
the business of the market is carried
on chiefly by the young girls them
selves, instead of by their mothers,
as in England and Europe. There
is no special objection to this method
of transacting the business, but it is
preposterous that young girls and
their affairs should overshadow and
shut out everything aud everybody
else. The result of this absorption
in one class and one pursuit is that
American society is often insuAera-
bly, dull and flat. 1t is made up too
exclusively of ignorant girls and
their attendant boys. Half the edu-
cation of a cultivated woman is Of
course that which is derived from
society and from the world; Landyet
American society is almost wholly
given up to the business of enter
tanning and marrying those who are
necessarily wholly destitute of such
an education. Another effect Of the
prevalence of social principles of this
description is the supremacy of that
most rustic and unattractive of hab-
Tits, the pairing system, which con-
verts society iuto vast aggregation
of tete-a-tetes. This prevails all over
the world to greater or mss extent,
but it should never reign supreme.
The upshot of the whole thing
with us is to drive out of society
nearly all married people-for mar
rage under such system is des-
tructive of social value; nearly all
unmarried women over twenty Eve,
who are thought to have overstayed
their market; aud, finally, consid-
cradle portion Of the unmarried men
Of thirty and upward. In other
words, except at few large balls
and receptions, all the best and most
intelligent part Of society is usually
lacking. 1t has been pushed aside,
and is obliged to find all it's social
amusement in small ,coteries of its
own. This retirement is of course
voluntary, because the pairing sys--
TEN ruins generally society, sand
makes it, in fact, impossible in the
best and truest sense. A clever
young Englishman not long ago ex-
pressed his surprise at the fact that
whenever he asked who lady Of a
certain age, as the French say, might
be, he was invariably told, not that
she was Mrs. Blank, but that she was
the mother of Miss Blank. The
girl, like the boy, is properly the
most Insignificant member ST socie-
ty. When young man goes forth
into the world, he starts at the bot
tom Of the ladder and works his way
up. The same rule should apply to
the young women in society. They
have their place, and it is an impor-
tant one; but they should not start
in social life at the top, aud then
slowly descend. Such a system is
against every law of nature or of'art,
land with its concomitant of unirer-
sal tets a.tetes make really attractive
general society Impossible. We
plnce the social pyramid upon its
apex instead Of upon it's base, and
then wonder that it is poor, totter.
ing and unlovely objcct.-[The At
lantic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23
What Thirteen Women Had to say
Over 8 Fallen Horse.

pied seats in a street car coming
down town on Sunday. The old Con-
ductor was just telling how half
dozen Of the boys had retired with
fortunes after an experience Of only
two wears on the line when the driver
wound up his brake and brought the
car up with jerk. The Old Con-
ductor showed up his sleeves, forced
his hat down hard on the'back of his
head, cleared the back platform with
bound, and ran up forward to sea
what was up. All the women inside
the car jumped to their feet, and
then the entertainment began.
why, it's poor horse" exclaim-
ed one woman, looking around at the
others.
$50 it is" said another, "and he's
fallen down hole"
"Poor thing! and the cart has run
over him too"
| "Yes, and he's fallen down hole
they'll fud u hard time getting him
up"
mo, he hasn't fallen down hole.
He's fallen down, and that's ALL"
COB, the poor horse. I wonder il
he's hurt"
II do believe he's dead"
mo, he lent dead. Just see him
wag his tail"
"Why don't the men back the cart
of OF him2
"They can't; don't you see he's
fallen on the shaft?"
II never did see such lazy set OF
men. Why don't they do something's
just wish / was a man."
"Why don't they cut the harnessf
Did you ever3"
81 don't believe single one OF
them has got knife. Oh, hear til at
conductor swearp'
Then there was peace in the car
for moment. The harness was un-
buckied and the Old Conductor and
half-a- dozen men seized tina cart and
rolled it of the track. The women
watched all this in silence, and the
solitary man in the corner went to
sleep. Then they broke out again
"Well, they have done it at last. "
''Oh, just see that man kick that
poor, poor horse. Isn't it just too
brutal for anything?'
II do believe he's dead. They
can't make him stir one Bit"
"They will kick his ribs in just as
sure"
"See that awful man with the
whip. I just wish the poor horse
would bite him.
"There, now he is getting up
Well, did you ever see such look
ing thing2 l do believe he was toe
weak to stand.'
i "Why, you can almost see through
him."
"They oughtn't to let such look
ing horse as that out. He's enongt
to scare people"
T "Well; if I'd known he was such ,
shadow as that would not have beer
wasting my sympathy-
| Just then the Old Conductor ran!
the bell and the car started off dow
the street with q rush. The man il
, the corner woke up and the womer
settled down in their seats an,
watched the horse until be had bee
left behind out Of sight, Philadel
phia Times
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

TELLY, P, Contractor, Builder and
IN Undertaken, corner Lee and Fifth
streets. A fine Hearse and full as
sortment of Metallic and Rosewood cof-
fns always on hand.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

THE FOLLOWING LETTERS TELL THEIR OWN
STORY.
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II. S. Gossens,
.I.cnh trvinv

II. S. Gossens,
Jacob Irving.
The Mayor having suggested to the
Council that the tax ordinance adopt
ed at the last session was not equal
and uniform as required by law, for
the reason that personal property was
not embraced in said ordinance, it was,
on motion of Councilman McGiRnis,
Resolved. That the ordinance pass
ed at the last session of the Council
laying a Corporation tax of eight mills
upon all taxable real estate in the City
of Alexandria for the year 1883 be re-
considered, and in lieu of said ordi-
nance it was, on motion of Council
man McGinnis, ordained as followss:-
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Board Of Aldermen of the City ofAlex-
an.lria, La, in special session conven-
ed, on this the 9th day of May, A. D..
1893. That II tax of six (6) mills on the
dollar he levied, for Corporation pur-
poses, for the year 1883, upon all taxa.
BILE property. real and personal, within
the Corporation of Alexandria.
Be it further ordained, etc., That
this ordinance sha' tate effect from
aud after it's PRONUNCIATION.
Approved:
w. C. McGIMSEY,
Jonas RosENTHAL, Mayor.
Secty. pro tenn.
On motion it was
Resolved, That the tax ordinance
concerning dogs going at large upon
the streets of Alexandria, passed at
the last session of the Council, bere
considered, and on motion of the
Councilman of the Third Ward it was
ordained that the owners Of all dogs
running at large upon the streets OF
Alexandria are hereby required to
purchase from the City MARSHALL col
lars for said dogs, for which the price
of two (S2) dollars for each collar shall
be charged by the Marshall, and the
said Marshall is required to kill OIL
cause to be killed all dogs found or
the streets without such collars afte1
due PRONUNCIATION of this ordinance
Approved:
w. G. McGIMSEY,
Jonas RosENTHAL, Mayor.
Secty. pro TEN.
On motion it was
Resolved, That the committee or
water tanks appointed by the Mayo
at the last session of the Council b
empowered, without further instruc
ton from the Council, to contract fo
the building of the said tanks, and tt
proceed with said work at once.
There being no other business sub
mitted the Council adjourned.
w. G.. Mc(sIMSEY,
JONAS RosENrHAL, Mayor.
Secty. pro tenn.
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.3kZScELLANEOUS US.

CULLEN & ROGERS, Receiving,
" Forwarding and Commission Mer-
chants. Dealers in Coal, Lime, Ce'
ment, Hay, Oats and Bran. The high
est market price paid for cotton seed.
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TERGUSON & SCHNACK, Practi-
Il cal Watchmakers and jewelers.
and dealers in Fine Watches, solid
Gold .Jewelrv, Silverwarp, Specta"Ies
and Fancy Goods. Notions, Guns, Pts
tolls, etc. Front street.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

III n. BIOSSAT. Matchmaker and
l Jeweler, and dealer in Watches,
Clocks. etc. Second Street, near the
Pnst-Office.
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NZLZINER 4.


TEIGER, MRS. c., Second Street
VI Milliner and Dressmaker; Bon
nets and Hats, superb assortment.
Ribbons, laces, etc. Dress making a
speciality.
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"C.LINTON, Iowa.

'CLlNTON, IOWA.
April 30, 1881 :
~ wish you would send me a spring
for the VIM. ElIery Watch :" BY the
way this Eilery is watch l sold ia
yonr Screw Bezel Case to farmer last
fall. The first of January he lost the
watch in the woods, and found it this
week in about one foot of water. 1t
had lain three months and over in snow
and water, with but slight injury to
the watch--only hair-spring.
G.. S. RAYMOND"
The above were very severe tests,
and demonstrate beyond a doubt, that
for any reasonable length of time dur
ing Which watch might be under wa
ter it would receive no injury what.
ever.
We make these cases in both gold
and silver, and as a PERFECTLY
DUST PROOF STEM WINDING
WATCH CASE, CHALLENGE THE
WORLD TO PRODUCE ITS EQUAL.
e For Sale by all First Glass Jesceters
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7IFWaRE, Ere.

~>-~-@>'~- ~
NEILLER. 7. c., dealer in Cooking
Wa and Heating stoves. House Fur
nishing Goods of every description on
hand. Tinware, wholesale and retail,
at city prices. Stoves from sl4 to sos.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23
T. D. FOSTER
DR1 coos d. GROcERZE,s.

TUSTMYRE, W., sign of the "Big
II Red Plow," corner of Second and
Jackson streets, dealer in Dry Goods,
Groceries, Boots, Shoes. Hats, etc.
Highest market price paid for cotton.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

MORT P. HUNTER, Attorney and
II Counsellor at Law. Office in the
Henson building, Front Street.
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DRU Il VI .NE'DZcLN'E.S.

. CT. JOHN, HENRY, Chymist and
- Druggist. All medicines gnaran-
teed fresh and pure. Fancy and toilet
articles. Landreth's Garden seed kept
n stock.
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PROCEEDINGS o. THE CITY COUNCIL,
ALEXANDRIA, Lax
Nav 9, 1883.

ALEXANDRIA, LA, I
May 9, 1883.
Pursuant to call of the Mayor the
City Council of Alexandria, assembled
at the Mayors Office at IL o'clock NJ.
for the purpose of reconsidering the
tax ordinances passed at tue last ses-
sion of the Council, on the 7th inst.
Present
w. C. McGimsey, Mayor,
j. J. Peter,nan,
N. L. McGinnis,
Jonas Rosenthal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

TOHN CASSON, Physician and Sur
j ceon. Office at residence, head of
Beauregara street.
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VIZ c. McGIMSEY. ATTORNEY
w at Law and Justice of the
Peace, Alexandria Ward. Will prac-
tice in the Courts of the 10Th Judicial
District and in the Supreme Court of
the State. Office on Murray street,
between Second and Third sts., Alex
andria, La.
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Z RAINIER, john, Carpenter and I'm
IN dertaker, corner of Fourth and
Scott Streets. Keeps on hand Metal
lie and Rosewood Burial Cases and
Plain Collins, also Fine Hearse. Or
ders from the country respectfully So
iicited aud promptly attended to.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23
SMALLPOX
and
FITTING of Small
Pox PREVENTED

Pox PREVENTED
A member of my fam
lily was taken with
Small pox. l 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. j. w. PARK.
INsoN. PHILADELPHIA
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
pROREsSTOjp:4Z.

DLACKNAN. w. F.. Attorney and
Is Counsellor at Law. Office on
Washington street, near Conrt house.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
DARBYS
pR0pHYLACTIC
FLUID.
A Household Article for Universal
Family Use.

For Scarlet and
Typhoid Fevers,
Diphtheria, Sail
vation, liberated
Sore Throat, Small
Pox, Measles, and
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

Composed OF the following frst-class
steamers:
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Erad;catas
MALARIA.

all Contagious Diseases. Persons waiting on
never been known to spread where the Fluid was
used Yellow Fever has been cured with it after
black yomit had taken place. The worst
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-05-23

W42cHE.s, III W'ELR ]: b7C.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-28
No. s Court street. Memphis.

his residence, No. 400 Court street ex-
tended.
Suit for $500 damages was brought be-
fore Justice Moffat yesterday evening
against the Cons Millar, by John Black,
alias "Sugar Foot" Il r~Oustabout who had
hts ankle sprained Sunday by the shifting
of the stageplank. The ease was dismissed,
and Sugar Foot" was sean shortly after
ward looking for the Marine Hospital.
Chairman Smith Yesterday received
the following phonetic note: HWil YOU
be 60 kind too Delevere this noat too -
- i have rGat him 3 litters and have
reeeYet no ansua, mahy j have not De
reektet them RIGHT SO Mr. -- told me
too right them 10 your care, and ne would
git it if you would be 50 kind rs To-day, i
would be verey mulch alblige."
Cheap excursion rates are offered by
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad from
Louisville to Washington and Louisville to
Old Point Comfort, as shown by Mr.. Sam
Wells, posting agent. The cost 6f : sound
trip ticket from Memphis to New York is
$39 25, This ineiud6s meals and staterooms
on steamers from Sewpof, News to New
York. The old rate was S43 49,.
OF twenty-sevcn t,adpers treated at the
city dispensary Monday, twenty were from
the government works along hcr river and
fyorD the railroads. The secretary OF the
Board Of Health, DR.. Purcell, has more OF
this kind of work TO DO now han ever be-
fore. Those who cali Oh him for medical
treatment are nearly all citizens Of other
places, temporarily employed on some of
the works going on about the city.
John Greer, colored, deserves a medal.
While he was walking along fernando
street last night, he sa~ e nan get upfrom
where he sat on the steps OF tiaG church,
on the corner of Linden street, and walk Oft
with something in his hand. Greer, when
he arrived at the church, stumbled over
something on the pavement, aiId on exam
ination found il to be a box marked w"
containing twenty pals of lard. 1t was
taken to IA Main street. where it awaits
an
-Four of the employees Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company who went out
with the balance of the Brotherhood have
resumed work, They are Paoli, Walker,
~SIr,-C'arty and Ben Howard. Messrs.
Graves. DDo5','arty and &. H9SQrd have re-
sumed work at the Exchanges and is.9ker-
age Association. Steger 10 nos" ~ w2fh III
the Chesapeake and Ohio telesFauhihs'
James Jones has secured Il position i.
train-dispatcher at jackson, Tenn, and
Sigler is secretary of the Pool Association.
The remaining three have gone elsewhere.
The baseball record for last week
shows he games lost and won bv the
American League Association to be as fol-
lows: Athletics won 80, lost IS; BaIti-
mores won %, lost 50; Cincinnatis won AZ,
lost 30; Columbus won %, lost 50; Louis
vllles won Al, lost So. Metropolitans won
30, lost A; Pittsburgs won %, lost %; st.
Louis won 50, lost %. The score of the
League was as follows: Bostons won 43.
lost 81; Buffalos won 70, lost 50; Chicagos
o A, lost "a; Clevelands won Is, lost
30; New Yorks won 80, lost ~; Philadel-
phias won II, lost "a; Providence won
A, lost 80. Three hundred and five anne
were played by the American Association
and 81 by the League.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-28
POLICE

WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY MORNING IN
THE POLICE COURT.
George Mountain enjoyed q 5-dollar
drunk Sunday.
Joe Levy, white, was fined > dollars for
slapping a boy several Years younger than
himself.
Albert Frazer, white, was too fresh with
his buggy Sunday, for which he Haid j
dollars.
Annie Caldwell and Mollie Morgan, both
colofpd, were fRed5 dollars each for va
grancy.
Charles Zimmrer delivered a load of
beer on Sunday, for which he was assessed
% dollars.
Thomas Taylor, colored, ungallantly
cnrse,i u couple of the sisters of his own
race Sunday; 5 dollaIs.
Ben Marsh was fined ) dollars and John
Gibson 10 dollars for the little scrap
they INDUCED In Saturday.
The order concerning female saloon-loaf-
ers il having good effect. Something less
than n dozen were pulled Saturday and
sunday.
Charles FitzsimmOEs hardly gets out et
one scrape before he is into another. There
is a tough charge against him to be inves-
tigated to-day.
~Seventy-five dollars and thirty cents
the fractional currency being a cQmpro-
mise OF one OF the plain drunks-was the
yield OF yesterdays churnilg.
George Stevensos white, up for drunk,
looked more like 3 chronic hospital bum,
and he took advantagc0 ut the Suggestion TO
plead sickness, and was let go provided las
would go.
Charles Troglio, who keeps a Saloon on
upper Main street, kept open Sunday,
telling the otticefs he had rather put up
100 dollars than close thai day: The Court
fined him so dollars.
W. II. Craig and James Carroll, two Qt
the visitors from Ripley Sunday, got into
and fined , dollars each. The fine was
afterward hold Up to allow them to 20
home.
Fred Huhn has thrown up all ,he hon
ors, cmoiaments and perquisites OF pound
keeper. He gays anyhady else who wishes
to win fame by becoming the tesPised Of
all his fellow-creatures may succeed hiii
without mourning his displeasure.
John O'Brien end Mrs. Fitzpatrick are
still at cross purposes ahpnt their house,
which the Board Of Health wants put in a
sanitary condition. They were fined 10 dol
a rs each yesterday, and given ten day.
o niger to comply with the orders,
Ed Rich and Thomas Man were stagger
ing around Saturday night With more
money than discretion, when luckily OH
Ger Koran came across them and laid then
away in the stdtionhouse. One had g
dollars and the other s 3nllars-mostly il
silver, which ~2s returned to them whei
sober enough to receive it; and they gav'
up their little = dollars for the plain drunk
they enjoyed without a murpuT.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-28
PERSONALS.


J. w. Falls and wife left last night for
Louisville.
M. r. Cruger left Sunday morning for
New York.
j. II. Rice and wife left last night for
Harrodsburg, KY.
Miss Maggie Jones left for Iuka, Friday
night, to spend several weeks.
c. c. Walton and wife left ria the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, last night, for
Richmond, Va. f
Miss Clara Conway will be at GO Madi-
son street every morning of this week,
from 10 to l O'Clock.
Miss Annie Nolan left last night ria the
Louisville and Nashville railroad for Louis
vile and Cincinnati.
Ed Becker, of the firm OF T.. +. Becker.
left for st. Louis ria the Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern railroad.
Maj. John Hughes, who has been quite
sick for some time, is rapidly recovering
and will be out in a few days.
II. Morris, OF II. Morris 4 Bros, left for
st. Louis this morning RIA the Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern railroad.
NJ. Davis, of Adler & Bro, left for st.
Louis this morning ria the Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern railroad.
7. G.. Walcott left for Natural Bridge,
Va, this morning, ria the Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern railroad.