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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

When / first went into the country
near the Bay of Natal, things were very
different from what they are now; there
were not nearly SO many Caffres in the
country, and there were no white men
except our own party of " Mensch.'
Game was in plenty; bucks and Glands
were on the hills where Pietermaritz-
burg now stands; elephants browsed at
Eusdorrs; hippopotami swarmed along
the banks Of the Umganie and in the
Sea-Cow Lake, and many y monster
which has now sought more secure
retreats was then to be seen in the neigh
borhood of the bay.
built myself . beehive-shaped hut
like one of the Caffres, ON the open
ground near the Umbilo, and cultivated
a little piece Of ground near it, but hav-
ing span of five oxen and wagon /
did not care to remain quiet in one spot.
To trek and to shoot and trek again was
what always liked. Those men who
ike being shut up in your houses or
towns scarcely know what it is to
live. Give me fine open plain, a good
horse under me, fifty miles of turf all
around and then feel free.
Well. had lived about three weeks
near the Umbilo when my Hottentot
Plache came one day to me in great
fright and told me that he had seen s.the
biggest snake that ever was;- that 1t had
crossed the Umbilo River and had en-
entered some long reeds about half
mile from my hut He said that the
snake Is head was on one side while the
tail Was nm the ofbor eide -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

Villains enough escape the law $ pur-
suit to destroy all possible excuse for
affording the laws protection to any
more. Certain dishonest practices
downright robbing in fact, carried on
under the sham and semblance of trade,
can manage to run for long time in
some large cities without interference,
and apparently with the direct con-
nivance of the officers of the law. 1t is
due to this that the ''PetepFunk" shops
and mock-auctions still survive. A let
ter from q correspondent to the Cincin-
matt Enquirer sketches recent inside
view of one of the New York mock
auctions:
A red flag and the gabble of an auc-
tioneer drew my attention to small
store on my return to Chatham Square.
entered what was intended to be mis-
taken for bankrupt cigar concern.
Several showcases were piled promis-
cously on boxes and some smokers
utensils were tumbled on the shelf
A burly fellow scrutinized me covert
" as walked in. He was at the same
time excluding some women of kind
which were thronging the street. The
place was full of men, among whom
were number Of stool-pigeons, for
this sale was a fraud.
One of the swindlers told me his
regular lie, which was that the sheriff
had seized the stock and was shame
fully sacrificing it. Then he pretended
to buy twelve boxes for six dollars, in
the expectation that / would bid the
same for the next lot. II had done
SO, would have found that was buy
ing dozen at six dollars apiece, and
could take my choice between losing
that sum or seventy-two dollars.
made some casual remark about the
Stiffness Of anybody who would permit
himself to be fooled by SO transparent a
trick. That aroused bad feeling and
was loudly blackgnarded out Of the
place.
"You had better not make any
trouble in there said q policeman,
whom / had encountered before.
"You had better stop their swindling, y
I replied.
Look here'' and he scowled as he
toyed with his club, Il don't allow no
man to tell me my biz.
His .sbiz'' was to protect that mock
auction.
The base ingenuity Of these men is
seen in the bubble by which they ex-
pect to escape prosecution, even if any
one should invoke the law against them.
Twelve boxes for six dollars may
mean Twelve boxes for six dollars
apiece 1t is like the meanness of the
slanderer. who succeeds in getting a
resiling article into print against some
member Of society, and lodges punish
menf by writing blank or an initial
| instead Of the persons real name
Though everybody is morally certain
whom he means. he can say he meant
somebody else ToHtk'f (0nponton.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

ton without ceremony, and had been
probably much irritated at my sudden
Intrusion upon him. l never wish to
have such another battle, for although
should not be afraid of the result, still
the thoughts which come upon us after
wards are not pleasant. Man has an
instructive horror of serpents, and when
dreamed, for many night afterwards,
it was usually about snake, or some
other horrid reptile, which had hold OF
me.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02
Two Singers.


General Joe Wilson and Colonel
Clifton Bell met in Colonel Tom Null
queens Boudoir yesterday and ex-
changed the compliments of the season.
Each was stepping higher than blind
horse.
Good morning, Colonel Bell" said
General Wilson; show is your daughter
this morning?"
pretty well, thank you," replied
Colonel Bell; s'she had slight attack
last night, but she rallied towards
morning, and when left the house an
hour or two ago she was playing the
piano as clipper and natural-like as
ever
II am glad to hear it, said General
Wilson, and, by the way, / would be
very much pleased to have your daugh-
ter call upon my daughter and practice
duets with her. We have a fine collec-
ton of Chopin's Etudes and Mendels-
sohn's Songs Without Words. Has
your daughter decided talent for
music?"
Il think she has," answered Colonel
Bell. '.In fact, feel safe in positively
asserting that she has. Her pencbant
for vocal music is very marked. i have
lain awake at night on numerous occa-
sions to hear her sing, and to me her
voice is the sweetest i ever heard. !"
my daughter, too, has a beautiful
voice. said General Wilson. With the
advantages / contemplate giving her
she will make a great cantatrice. There
can be nothing finer than her upper
register at two o'clock in the morning
when she executes an aria about her
bottle of warm milk.
| "Ah,r said Colonel Bell. with an in
credulous smile, s.you should hear my
daughter MARBLE and trill on the G cleft,
one time and three motions, when there
| is pin sticking her,
"These girls are wonderful beings,
observed General Wilson, philosophi-
cally.
They are, indeed, replied Colonel
Bell.
:. Are you ever harrassed,' inquired
General Wilson, by the fear that your
daughters head is going to fall off:
Frequently, when am holding and Ca
ressing my Josephine, her head rolls
about in a manner that inspires me with
a dread lest it fall off its neck.
THAT doesn't bother me so much,
said Colonel Bell, as the complexion
which my daughter has. So far from
inheriting the clear, fair complexion Of
her parents, she has y. dreadfully red
skin, and looks as if she had acquired
even at her tender age, habits Of intern
peraDce. 1t worries me q good deal. '
30. that'll be all right in time, ex
planned General Wilson; they'r all thai
way at first They bleach them out a.
they get older. My daughter used t
he so, but she's as fair as q lily now. '
Al am greatly relieved to hear you
speak SO encouragingly," said Colone
Bell. 1.-THE truth is know very LITTLE
about girls; my daughter is only abou
a week old, ~
lis that air. exclaimed Genera
Wilson. Why. you have heap t.
learn yet. My daughter will be a yea
old next September. Detroit Ere
HrGQQ
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

It is difficult to imagine how Presi-
dent Arthur could make his Administra-
ton more odious than by the appoint
mcnt as Possmaster-G General of Chaun-
cey /. Filley, of St. Louis, one of the
most abandoned political machinists in
the country unless it be the promotion
of Assistant Postmaster General Hatton,
who, to Filley's shamelessness as ma
chine man, adds an impudence Of his
own in employing the United States
mails and the United States Postoffice
Department in pushing the fortunes of
his own newspapers. Hatton has been
and is the servile tool of the worst po-
litical elements Of his party. He is an
INSCRIPTIONS Stalwart as well as .
greedy seh-sekeer, who never hesitates
to use the machinery OF his department
to puff, extend and assist the circulation
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

All other remedies having failed.
~. o.sss = rov, trsst;rg her swoiler
Iree With emerald isle
n.rs- h..as co,,,,cr ~ NOR.
800. P esSs =. "a ' Th;ncs" ,.rh,ch p,,.-
ss;.i.s !. u -, s.siI.,t - sa,t Ia
se.a.s . s ' e -ssay.;s. So - ~. r.4,ss-.as1
= , 80
nounces badness contagious. Inns VIII
'uInlsn ano..'er sAcuse -, -. s'o ou
men g Say away iroln emu TN A'c''o''
Frce fress.
When 9 man says ne oeleyes the
whole world to be made up o. knaves
T Is generally because nc mas oeen IN
the business himself ana doesn't want
" known.-H' 4. ae'asu'
-" u the howiing OF = do& always
followed BY deathr asked . little girl
OF her father. moi always my dear;
sometimes the man that shoots at the
dog misses him' was the parents re-
ply.
PA, is It right to call man born
in Poland = Poler" .'Of course, my
child. "Well, then, 1t = man Is born
in Holland. is ne Hole?" Tut! tut!
IN answer no more OF your SHY ques-
tons.
Deaths by violence average over
10000 year in Russia, there being an
averages OF ten murders : day. About
1,26O are frozen to death every year.
And yet with all these advantages Rus
sian newspapers ARE stupid -Bosfofs
Post
-ss How do you Nike my dinp" said
young Brown, speaking. to his most
cherished girl, and referring to new
cameo scarf pin. 90" said she. " Is
it pinP In0ticed it but l thought it
was = bit Of salad dropped on your tie,
and was going to call your attention
to il.
-" What number do you wear?'' in
ouired the halter. "Well, Z" replied the
member Of Congress, who sometimes
told the truth when not interested in any
bill that w6s being passed, /" last night
[ wore seven and an eight, hut l was up
All nirht with the boys and this morn
inc nv head feels rs though it would
re6uire : hat about as large IS an UNI
brells.n
Had Int not beert. s.Tb.t
d.nchfer ~ 'Souire Finch e : mighty
ser3siooiino little fairy. Isn't ne pS
s.Ym,,re rieht she is!'' II understand
| she's n tbe market, too every
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

The Republican party is . peculiarly
happy organization. This verdict is not
based upon an abstract theory but has
its foundation on the well-settled prin-
ciple that busy minds afford fruitful
field to cultivate contentment. 1t is
well established fact that constant oc-
cupation drives off the spirit of restless
ness, and light labor serves to reinvig-
crate the tired senses. The maxims,
verified as they are by the test of time,
are sufficient to prove the first PROPOSE
ton, If the other conditions can be
established. OF course, literally speak
ing, some difficulty might be met in this
particular. The party collectively can
not be said to have q mind, and in the
light of recent history there is ample
room to question whether the members
of it individually are better provided.
But in order that measure of amiabil-
ity may be preserved 1t is safe to assume
that they are thus endowed. though the
strength or weakness Of the substance
may be properly left to conjecture.
This much being conceded, it requires
little reasoning to prove that the grand
old party must be as happy as clam al
high tide. At least its hands and minds
are constantly employed. Itcan not b
truthfully asserted that the labor is al
WAYS light, for experience proves that
the task imposed is sometimes much too
burdensome to be borne by the feeble
structure upon which it falls. But it is
willing service, and that is some
thing. Persistence IL another ruling
characteristic that gives flavor of con-
tentment to the lab0rers. When defeat
is the harvest of the effort, the result is
accepted with undisturbed equanimity
and q new start taken in the battle
against adverse circumstances. If VIC
tory spreads her wings over the work in
hand, the harvest of his triumph is ac-
cepted with benignant satisfaction. In
either event the fight is pressed forward
to its contamination.
During recent years the labor has had
the spice of variety to give zest to its
prosecution. First and most important
in the catalogue of effort has been q
universal ambition to plumber the peo-
pie. In this there has been developed
charming unanimity of purpose on
the part of the grand old party. Old
schemes have been worked over assidu-
ously, and new plans invented with
amazing rapidity. But these labors are
onerous and exhausting. 1t is fortu-
nate, therefore, that a change of tasks
affords diversion, and that there is al
ways at hand q fertile soil into
which the tired laborer may plunge.
This limitless arena is the field
- lo~1~x~ uo~,~,ov.;-sc< e IL
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02
KALsTROM's WIFE.


'sThe sun Is bright, the sky is clear,
The wind blows soft and free;
Go thou ashore" said she.
ssKeep thou the watch, then, wife of mine;
Farewell, farewell he cried.
Across the waters wide.
The shining hours ran on apace,
TIN day was almost done;
Put out the suiien sun.
Brave Kalstrom gave moan;
His Young wife watched alone.
Three times his trusty boat he launched,
with strong, determined hands;
IIpon the treacherous sands.
But as with straining eyes he gazed,
Clear shining like a star,
81 StreameS steadily Ui "a, and far i
Day dawned tiay waued but DER the lake
Still swept the furious blast
az lion lon ca cared st last SI"s - "s''o'"
snow. nv Won heayeus!" he cried. mot here
Another night ri tarry:
And bread to Lisa carryv'
I'm in the lonely lighthouse tower
Pale Lisa PRAYED and wept; -.
The mad white surree leapt. rs
n weary witch, q iolef,1l daysf
o main of heart and limb!
Upon the worlds wide rim
She saw a little dancing fjeckl
Was il a boat? "A boat?
Dear God, on those wild, bowling waves,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

vast community of this Nation to halt
the other afternoon because an old and
respected gentleman was being burien
at Green Bay. To promote this Hattod
to the head of the Department. would
make Arthur unpopular with every.
body but the worst and most malignant
Of the s'machinists. Detroit Free
Press
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

The white men OF Virginia are by
natural instinct Democrats. ny the
law OF sympathy they are bound
together TO oppose hePuDhcan DONNA
ton, Boss corruption ana one-man
power: Mahone mas always asplred 70
be dictator absolute. he was for
time the dictator q o railroad company
but hrs corruption was discovered tnere'
ana ne nad 70 leave the railroad pusi-
ness IN disgrace. ne attempted 70 Pc
come the Dictator OF the Democratic
party, put the democrats refusing n
surrender their snip INTO the nands o.
so treacnefous : neimsman, ne turned
traitor ana organized renegade parry,
protesting 10 those OF ms followers VINO
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-02

"A few days ago laborer who had
been employed All winter in digging up
frozen water pipes in the streets Of Dem
yer died, and then it was discovered.
by examining the contents Of the trunk
in the room he had occupied alone, that
be was man who, twelve or fifteen
years ago, was = popular preacher
whose name was known a. . household
word throughout the land
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

Hon. Geo. F. Edmupds, who sue
ceeds Senator Davis as president of
the senate, is a native of Vermont
He was born in 1928. After several
years of study in the public schools,
he was placed in charge of a
private tutor, and instructed in the
higher branches. Shortly after at
tanning his majority he was admit
ted to the bar, and made such a
favorable impression that at the
age of twenty-six he vas elected to
the lower branch of the state legIs-
lature, and served five years, three
of them as speaker. In 1861, he
was called to the senate, and acted
as speaker pro tempore. His SER
vices in the Legislature brought him
prominently before the people, and
upon the death of Senator Foote he
was appointed to the United States
Senate taking his seat April 3, 1865.
The legislature elected him to serve
the rest ofthe term ending on March
4, 1889 and has been re elected three
times in succession. In 1876 he
served as a member of the electoral
commission.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08

Since it is understood the issue of
the new nickel is to be stopped,t their
limited circulation in Knoxville has
already, placed them at a premium,
which is readily given by curiosity
hunter. The omission of the word
cents OH the new nickel was at
least IA strange oversight. There is
nothing appears on it to indicate its
value except the W while section
3,5i7 Of the revised statutes pres
cribes that ga designation of the
value of a COIN shall appear on it.
Secretary Folger, the New York
Herald says, considers the omission
a fatal u in law, and Treasurer
Cliff lar is waiting instructions hes
fore filling any orders for the new
piece. w neither the difficulty cal be
satisfactorily remedied by stamping
the word cents on the coin already
struck off, or only by a new coinage
is a question that does not yet ap-
peal to be settled.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
THE LAST DAY OF THE FORTY
SEVENTH CONGRESS.

Washington, March 4.-The
President reached tine capitol about
nine o'clock and occupied the Pres
ident's room near the Senate CHAINS
Der for the purpose of examining
and signing bills. At 2:30 O'Clock
this morning the tax and tariff bills
we're signed by the presiding officers
of both houses and a few minutes
later was signed by the President
and it is now the law.
AT Ills a.. m. the Senate vent
into executive session, and when
the doors we're reopened the ship
ping bill was taken up. Several
private bills wer passed, and at
2:4O another executive session was
held.
At precisely noon, the President
pro. TEN. declared the Senate. adj
journed without a day.
In the House several attempts
were made to get rid of the dead
lock upon the vote by which the
previous question was ordered on
the South Carolina election case,
but on every motion to reconsider
the Democrats refrained from vo>
ting and no quorum resulted.
At a little after FIVE O'Clock an
other unsuccessful roll cali ON the
South Carolina election case, the
members settled down to fun. ,
Sleeping members became targets
for paper-balls and copies of old
bills, which were hurled at them
from all directions, and many a nap
was uncerimoniously disturbed as
the morning hour approached.
At 1855 the committee to wait
upon the President reported that he
had no further communication to
make, and Speaker Keifer made a
brief farewell address. thanking the
House for its vote of thanks and
each member for the kindness and
courtesy which all had shown him
during his occupancy of the chair.
He then declared the House adj
journed sine die.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
NEWS AND NOTES.

Small pox; is steadily abating in
Baltimore
Chas. B. Leton, editor of the New
OPleaus Bee,,i is dead.
The Society of the Red Cross. at
New Orleans, has. raised and fOr>
warded to the food suffers 81 900.
Swift, OF the Warner observatory,
has discovered another comet, ma
king the eighth discovered by him.
An abundance of money is forth
coming for the defence of the pris-
oiers charged with the Phoenix
park murders.
The governor of Alabama has
signed the ball appropriating an
additional hundred Thousand dol
lars for public school purposes.
The consideration Of the proposed
commercial treaty with Mexico has
been postponed until December.
The bill to abolish compulsory pi>
lotage was indefinitely post
poned by the house committee on
lleTCe'
The, NewEYork senate has passed a
bill compelling the telegraph, tele-
phone and electric light companies
to lay their wires under the ground.
The smallpox has broken out at
Johnsonville, on the Tennessee river,
and many other of the smaller towns
in this part of'the State are afflicted
with the dreadful disorder.
: The New York Morning Journal,
which was started ouly three months
ago, has attained a circulation of
10000 copies. 1t is sold at n cent
per copy.
The bill to restore Gen. Fitz-John
Porter and place Gen. Grant on the
retired list haye been left undecided
by the house Committee on military
affairs. -,
The pretty and intelligent daugh>
ter of the President of a college at
Riceville, on The East Tennessee, Va.
End Georgia railroad, has been ruined
by a wealthy young man living in
the same community. The fellow
skipped for the WeSt.-GaZette.
The New York Central & Hudson
River railroad has paid $4,000 to
Mary: Daniels,a passenger who was
in the terrible accident at Spuyten
Duyvfl, and $40, 600 to A. B. Valen-
tine, whose son, Park Valentine, and
bride, were killed at the same time
and place.
Alderman John Mccoy and ex-
Mayor Payne, of Knoxville, are
among the champion shots OF
Knoxville They killed fifty-Gve
ducks on the river the other day,
which is claimed as a better show
ing for the number Of shots fired
than the record made in the
recent bird shooting match between
Carver and Bogardus. at louisville.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-03-08
THE NORTH cAR0LIRIANS.

We see by the Asheville papers
that the North Carolinians are alive
to the railroad connection on the
State line adjoining Unicoi county.
The project is considered a most
feasible one.
A correspondent of the Asheville
Citizen, who has been over the pro-
posed route, as he says one hundred
times, lays it down as follows:
Let Us begin at Asheville with our
railroad survey, Il have not seen MIR.
Byrd's bill as YETI and run North to
Weaverville, a distance of 8 miles.
This section has already been sur
veyed by Col. Coleman, there being
no sort of difficulty in reaching this
point. Thence to the Forks of Ivy,
10 miles; being nearly the same attl-
tude as Weaverville, and nearly level
grade. Then up Little Ivy with a
very gradual ascent for 10 miles to
Ivy Gap; through which you can
pass with a 60 feet cut, then down
Bald Creek with a very light grade,
5 miles to Carney river, thence up the
river, 1 mile to Wilson's branch;
thence up that stream, one-half mile
through a natural cut of 100 feet,
(intended for a railroad) with an arti-
fcal cut Of only 40 feet, on to the
head-waters of Jacks creek. Then
down that almost level stream, 10
miles to Toe river. Here we halt.
Thence it is only a short distance
to the State Line.
The editor Of the Citizen says:
Among the new railroad projects,
now engaging the attention of the
public, is that Of a line from Ashe-
Vile via Weaverville, Forks of Ivy
Little Ivy Gap, and down Cane or
Toe River to the State line, where it
will connect with the Tennessee, Iron
Mountain line and thence to Jones'
boro, and pass through Pond Gap in
the Cumberland mountains. This is
a much needed line. 1t would cor-
tribute largely to the development of
Yancy. Mitchell and Southeastern
part Of Madison counties.