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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-14

Austrian Tell. Killed by bullet In the
forehead
At the end of the engagement Colonel
de Valmont, returning to camp, passed
over the scene of the conflict. The
body of the Lieutenant still lay there.
on its back. A thin trickle of blood
marked the spot of the bullet-wound.
The face of the young officer was as
calm and placid as child asleep. De
Valmont gazed at him with profound
emotion. A few yards off some dis
mounted men were guarding Austrian
prisoners, among whom was an officer
of Albrecht's Hussa1s. Pointing to the
dead body the Colonel asked:
''Sir. can you tell me the name of that
brave fellow?"
Karl Gottfried," was the answer. .
One month after the peace of Villa
franco, Eugene de Valmont returned to
Paris with the army of Italy, where he
found the following letter awaiting his
arrival:
Ny DEAR Old FRIEND: You know that
am still at the Military Hospital here where
shall remain until all our wounded are re-
moved. They brought in the other day sew
eral marauders caught BY our men rifiing the
dead, and on some of them who tried to
escape they fred Among them was an old
for her, as she was on the point of death.
l offered my services to dress her wound, and
judge of my amazement when i heard her
say; You don't remember me, DR.: Brisac
features of the woman | recognized your
former acquaintance in Algiers. By what
series OF misfortunes she came to be a
despoiler of the dead 1 shall not attempt to
explain. Enough to know that before dying
she allowed the priest to communicate part
OF her confession, and, as l have for long
thought, she il was who stole Lucien at Mar
settles.
After a host of adventures, which ! shall
tell you later on, poverty compelled her to
! abandon the child at Vienna. She left 1t to
the charity of the landlord where she lodged
No. 70 Rosenstrasse-an and never heard of the
boy after. This address will give you some
trace. Apply at once to the Austrian EN-
bassy. Tout a TOT. BRIsAC.
Mad with joy, the Colonel ran to the
Embassy and explained the object of
his mission. For a fortnight after,
which seemed to him a lifetime, he
lived in fever of suspense, and was
going to bed one night when his valet
brought him an official letter, with a
large red seal bearing the Austro-Hun-
garian arms. He read as follows:
MONSIEUR LIE COMrE: / am instructed by
the Minister for Foreign Affairs to inf0rm
you, in answer TO your inquiries, that the
child abandoned in Vienna, at the address
given, on the Goth September, 1876, was
adopted by benevolent gentleman. He was
educated at the Military School of Olmutz,
which he left last year with the rank of sub
Lieutenant. Posted TO S. A. T.. the Archduke
Albrecht' 8 regiment of Hussars he was killed
at the battle Of Solferino He bore the name
of his adopted father, Karl Gottfried.
One hour afterwards the valet entered
the Coloners room, and found him sit
ting in his chair. His face was deadly
white. His eyes, dilated and immov-
able, were fixed upon the fatal letter.
The servant touched him lightly on
the shoulder, and his master dropped
mOtionless ON the floor.
He was dead london Society.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-06-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Nearly one-fif.a of all the children
in Providence, r. l., of school age, ana
not attend school q single day during
the year 1883.
Alfred Smith, of Newport, has pre-
sented to the Claiming Church in that
CITY, as q memorial to his wife, the es-
tate No. 90 KEY Street, to be used as
parsonage. 1t is worth about $4,000.
~ Y. Times.
I'm Denmark, Bishop Martensen re-
Gently examined and ordained two
Young Esquimaux. who will engage in
missionary work in Greenland under
the auspices of the State Church OF
Denmark.
10 the question: .Why did Satan
make his approach to Eve and not to
Adam?'' religious paper answers: IL
may have been because Satan knew that
the influence of Eve would be his best
help in conquering Adam. Wives are
apt to be the most potent pleaders with
their husbands.
1t is gratifying to know that the
Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia
did not lose anything by its refusal to
charity ball. The manager of the in
stitution stood for principle. Their
church pronounced dancing wrong,
and they would not accept money that
had any suspicion of ilfegitimacy about
it, and an admirer of this spirit has
sent the hospital check for $4,000 to
make up the loss. Chicago Is,cr-
Ocean.
The public schools, let it be remenl-
bered, send very few out of the largo
number of criminals in our penitenti-
aries Most of them have no education.
Very few have had thorough public
school education. The average Stats
tics of the United States show that out
of the small per cent. of the people I'M
able to read and write come about one
third of the criminals, and of the re-
manning two thirds only one in
higher branches Journal of Educa-
ton.
-"In the Cabinet circle all religions
meet" says the Washington CORES
pendent of the St. Louis Globe Demo
crat. 1.-The President is High
Church Episcopalian. although his
father was a Baptist preacher, and his
sisters are all members of that church.
Secretary Folger is q Presbyterian, and
sits with the pastors family in the
New York Avenue Church, where Sec
Rotary Frelinghuysen and his family.
and Postmaster-General Gresham and
his family also attend. Secretary Lin
coin, like his father, is Presbyterian.
but his wife is from strong Methodist
family, and they generally attend that
church. Secretary Chandler and his
family go to the Unitarian Church, and
are of the advanced and liberal think
ers Of that body. Attorney-General
Brewster and his wife always worship
at the Epiphany, the largest and most
fashionable of the Low-Church Episco-
pal congregations. Secretary Teller
and his wife are very devout Metho-
dists."
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A Good Deal Of IIl-Feeling.

The struggle for committed delega-
lions to the Chicago Republican Con-
vention is developing good deal Of
ill-feeling. The ground In New York
is being actively and thoroughly
worked by the partisans of the Presi-
dent. 1t is rather early for the work
to begin, but the case is urgent. Mr..
Arthur courts the nomination, and the
support OF his own State is an absolute
prerequisite to his securing it. He must
be backed by New York If he is to pre-
sent himself at Chicago with any
chance of success, and this explains the
early efforts of his friends to secure a
pledged delegation in that State. And
it is complained that they are not work
ing fairly that they are stealing the
delegations. The delegates to Chicago
are to be chosen by Congressional dis
tricts, and it is said the Arthur parti-
sans are attempting to prevent district
conventions from being held, and to
have their work done at Utica
at the time the State Convention
is held. They are also decoying
prominent Half-breeds into the
support of Arthur by tie tempting
offer of Federal offices. Some of these
have already been cntrappcd according
to the Times. MANY who stand high
in the estimation of that wing of the
party" says that paper, shave been
caught. They have been promised Of
fees of emolument and trust in the Ter
ritories, and in return they are to be-
tray their districts by secretly produc-
ing the election Of delegates who viii
vote for Arthur at Chicago" 1t is as
serted that the popular Republican feel
ing in New York is against the Presi-
dent; that the Stalwarts are in . major
ity and have been ever since the sum-
mer of 1881; that the Half-breeds win
control the districts; that downright
thievery alone can procure Arthur votes
from them at Chicago" and therefore
the friends of the President are attempt
ing to bride the leading Half-breeds
with offers of Federal patronage. II
this sketch, drawn by . Republican for
Republican paper, is fair picture Of
what is going on in the party, now,
what may we not expect when the crisis
of the struggle is reached.-lx. Louis
Republican.
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A Touching Statement.

president Arthur secures the vote
of Lou siana in the June convention,
says guileless innocent of the Repub-
lican persuasion, "because his policy
has been so honest. wise and moderate
as to conciliate the discordant elements
which distracted the country during the
early part of his term"
This-is indeed touching. The thought
Of the Louisiana Republicans rallying
spontaneously to testify to their admira-
ton for Arthur and his "honest, wise
and moderate policy" is calculated to
stir the deepest emotions of the trusting
partisan heart and irradiate the politi-
cal horizon with a golden CLEAN Of hope
and trust in a coming millennium.
Unfortunately, however. there is no
excuse for indulgence in SO enhancing
a vision. President Arthur's attain
ment of the Louisiana vote bears no
such golden-tinted. rainbow-hued sig
nificance. It isdue wholly and solely
to the machine and is really about
as disreputable piece of business as
the President has ever permitted his
name to be mixed up with.
At the head of the list of delegates Is
William Pitt Kellogg. who is under in
dictment for alleged completely in the
Star-route frauds, and whose immunity
from prosecution Is widely attributed to
the unwillingness of Arthur's Admins
tration to go to the bottom of those
frauds. His three associates as dele
gates-at-large are Federal office-hold-
ers, indebted to Arthur for their posi-.
tons as Collector, Surveyor and Naval
Officer of the port of New Orleans.
And of the other delegates, twelve in
number. it is currently stated that all
but two are also Federal ofiice-hoIders.
A delegation SO constituted does not
mean intelligent unsought approval of
President Arthur or Of bis policy It
means q convention manipulated in his
interests and carried by the same dis
reputable means to which the "ma-
chine has always resorted in such
cases.
1t means something more. 1t means
= fragrant disregard in President
Arthur's interest. BY men officially re-
sponsible 70 him as the Executive head
of the Government, of the Executive
order which forbids Federal officers to
take part in the management of political
organization or caucuses. That order
was undoubtedly violated in the organi-
zation Of the Louisiana convention. II
viii be violated again il the Federal
officials chosen by that convention sit
as delegates 1T Chicago. It 10 Presi-
dent Arthur's duty to punish the dis
obedience already shown. It Is his
duty to prevent any further disobedi-
ence. But there is not the slightest
reason to believe he wili do either.-De-
troit Free Press. IS
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

81 could make fortune If had u
little capital" say numerous young
men, but it never occurs to them to
90 to work and earn the aforesaid
capital.
-sAh!' sighed Brown, ''this life is
full of disappointments." Eyes, re-
piled Fogg, glancing significantly at
Mrs. F., 'and some disappointments
are full of life. "-Boston Post.
"A Virgins girl married a tramp,
who turned out to be a duke. We've
no pity for her. She should have
known what he was before she married
him.--B0st0n Post.
How woman always does up
newspaper she sends to friend, so
that 1t looks like well stuffed pillow,
is something that no man Is woman
enough to understand.
"A Williamsport youth sent fifty
cents TO q New York firm to learn how
to keep from swearing, and received in
reply: sDOn't open your mouth" he
has sworn ever SINCE Wiilianssport
pa Grit.
An Austin man, who has Just got
out book OF poems, met Gilhooly and
the following proceedings were had:
Ibid you read my new bookp'' 20,
yes; read it." ''How did you like it?"
my dear sir. assure you that laid it
aside with a great deal of pleasure. -
Teras Sifliegs.
w. H. Vanderbilt says he never
picks up newspaper that he doesn't
see something dlsagreeable in it about
himself. Lend us a half-dollar, old
fellow. There's nothing disagreeable
about that. We might have asked for
dollar and . half, but this paper is
dissimilar, 50 to speak. Mcrchan,
Traveller.
On the wedding tour: s.Don't sit so
near the window, darling that we may
have the carriage all to ourselves, for
there is somebody sure to get in if. he
sees your pretty face" Thirty years
later: "Move up to the window, old
woman, so we can have the compart
ment to ourselves; you will brighten all
the other passengers away, you know"
Detroit Post.
"A clergyman's daughter, looking
over the MSS. left by her father in his
study, chanced upon the following
sentence: ''ilove to look upon a young
man. There Is hidden potency con-
cealed within his breast which charms
and pains me-" She sat down and
blushingly added: '.Them's my septi-
ments exactly, papa-all but the pains"
Exchange.
Statistics show that there are at
least II. 600 men who can neither play
football nor assist an Objectionable Wis
itor to alight from the front stoop."
said sad-cyed Brooklyn bachelor.
what Is the matter with them?"
asked his friend.
They ere one-legged," was tho
cheerful reply.--N Y. Journal.
lis your sister at home?'' asked
st Louis young gentleman of the little
brother who answered the bell.
"Yes, she's home," said the boy;
''we're goin' to have cocoanut pies for
dinner tomorrow, and she's out in the
kitchen helpin' mother make EN-"
Indeed" replied the young man.
evidently very much pleased, land what
part Of the pie does your sister make?''
sShe cracks the cocoanuts with her
teetb, r. Filadelnhia Call.
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Why Blaine Cannot Win.

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II Is now conceaeu 'na' Dla.ao
the race ior tne On'eaSo nol n.s.u.s
anu 10 "orA.nS ""y anu n'sn ~ W 0~f'"~
the convention.
Inns Is no surprise 70 US A.
weeks ago we Pois'eu ou. 'n"S S.v
contest hao narrowed aown )" n n'.;ma
anu oiainc, sna NO" .ne .Snso
"poom mas oegun "A earn ns',;.s nus
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candioacy can uiSceileve no lonSe,
AS canuuate; ~ ~ouIu Dc I ps.:nss
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any osner WE" r .nan io. p,s;ua Ia /.
an LOW. ~ 40, '' :
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s'.Tnk'n was 20 sos0s. -, 80,
ms S'leng,n was en'lleiS nls u~.,
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A HOOsier Genius.

Richmond, Ind, has an untutored
mind which Is capable of astonishing
results in a mathematical way. A boy
who will not be six years old until next
May outranks in mental arithmetic
pupils thrice his years and well up in
the higher branches. 1t is Master
George Rowland Price, whose father,
M. l.. Price, carpenter, works for
Oliver Yates, and, like his wife and his
other children, has never manifested
any rare mental requirements, although
the family are people of average attain
mcnts. One morning last fall the boy
came down stairs and asked, "How
much are twice and 1?" His father
replied that there was no such thing,
whereupon the lad rejoined: Yes
there is; 2 twice and make g." From
that on to the holidays he was constantly
stumbling on to something of the kind,
which perplexed his parents, as they
had taken no pains to instruct him, and
they could not understand where he
got his ideas from. With the coming
of the holidays, however, his mind be-
came engrossed with more childish
things, and he for q time abandoned
his mathematical problems, but subse-
quently resuming them, he has latterly
developed into a mental marvel.
Perhaps if you ask him how much forty
times eighty are, he will reply. Two
thousand and twenty sixties over" but
he generally gives the correct answer
in one total, and does it apparently
with as little thought and as promptly
as he would tell you his name. And
while he does not deal in fractions, he
computes odd numbers just as readily
as he does even ones, whether the
example be in addition, subtraction, or
multiplication. A fellow-workman of
his father said: "Rowly, 1 have Al
cents and Your father gives me z, then
l give you 9; how many have / left?"
Thirty nine" he replied as quick as a
flash, and the man said: II am A
years old; how many weeks is that?"
He just as promptly responded, "2, 28S. !"
Instead of having massive head and q
dwarfed body, as is general in such
individuals, he is very evenly proper
toned for boy, weighing about 40
pounds, and his extra breadth of fore
head would hardly be noticeable were
one not appraised Of his characteristic.
In habits he is older than his years, re-
manning with his parents instead of
taking to children's sports, and often
saying to neighbor children when they
come to play with him: "You had
better go home; mother has enough
kids of her own to bother her." In
fact, he is precocious in every way, but
only phenomenal in mathematics. -
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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1T is a significant fact. according I

1T is significant fact, according to
a New York criminal lawyer, that
among all the nations of the world
whose people have made the United
States their home. it may be exception
ally recorded Of the Japanese that no
one has yet been convicted of criminal
offense in an American court
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"A clear case Of hydrophobia has re-
Gently resulted in the death of g re-
spected lady residing at Marshvillc, N.
Y. Several years ago she was bitten
by dog. A few days ago she was
taken with fits. aud. it is said, went
from Que into another. suffering horri-
BILE sguny until death relieved her.
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One of the white elephants i'm.

One of the white. elephants i'm
ported TO this country by showmen this
year is thus described: The color OF
his skin is light gray, except about the
ears and along the belly, where it is a
clear, light pink. Compared with
other elephants his skin is remarkably
smooth and soft, and shows evidence
of great care. His toe-nails are as
white as ivory, and the tips Of 3 pair Of
little tusks peep from the corners of his
mouth. A scanty growth of black hair
covers his ash-colored body. and his
tail, which is unusually long, looks
very much like black-snake whip
". y Herald
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Dead heroes on field of snow;
One lonely heart that, beating slow,
Yet dreams of home,
Where golden fruits are on the bough,
And all the woods are crimson now,
The last Of that high hearted band
Keeps vigil in that bitter land;
And, crowned with tbOrns of frost and pain,
Lives Ger his boyhood days again:
And In his drear death-watch uplfts
His gaze, and sees beyond the drifts,
The iceberg tall. a crystal gate,
By which his risen comrades wait,
Not weak and worn like men who died,
But robed. and crowned, and glorified.
Familiar voices greet his ear:
The lips that love him call him dear:
Frost-fower and thorn that bound his head
Melt of, and 1t is wreathed instead
With lilies of the pure-in-heart,
His icy garments fall apart;
The pain, and toll, and danger passed,
The long death-watch Is done at last
He stands form of living light,
He joins his comrades in their fight.
They pass the sward set in the skies,
No waste white deserts now to roam,
They upward. upward, upward rise.
And win the gates of Paradise
o, welcome home!
Minnie HpiiJ in The Manhattan.
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THE ARCTIC WATCH.

4.
Behold upon the frozen foam, -.
A little vessel far from home,
The yacht Jeanette.
The polar star above her lies.
A sward of light set in the skies;
The Arctic wave is on her deck,
And Hope has left the broken wreck.
Bereft of all things else but Fate,
And sinking, sinking, sinking yet,
Behold her lying desoiate,
The lost Jeannettci
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-11
what Preaching DID.

Angus M. Cannon. Jr., after reading in
the Salt Lake Tribune his fathers sermon
delivered on Sunday night last at = ward
Westinghouse concluded to brace mp once
more, Accordingly, he has smoothed oyei
the difficulties with his wife, and she will
now withdraw the divorce proceedings in'
stituted against him in the District Court
The again happy couple have, since Tues
day, taken up their abode with Angus M,
Cannon. ST., on First South street, be.
tween First and Second West streets, and
when young Angus gets ready to have an
other good time with the boys. and the old
lady objects, he will just look her straight
in the eve and say-well, never mind what
he will say; it would hardly do to print /,
in a family newspaper.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-11
WILL Nor sUPPo.T BLAINE.

The New York Times, which by unan-
imous. consent has long been accorded
the position of the leading Republican
paper of the country, will not support
Blaine for President. 1t says:
The Republican voter this year viii
inspect his candidate with a coldly criti-
cal eye. Not the Republican voter who
shouts out, 1--WE want our Jim OF
Maine" mol he who pants to brand
all others not of his mind, for such never
think and have nc eyes, but the Republl-
can voter whose decision makes a wide
difference between the majority and mi
nority, between success and failure
those voters, depend upon it, will not
support James G. Blaine. Honest and
independent newspapers, whose opinions
are worth needing, and are needed, will
not support him, for the great majority
believe he is unworthy to be President
of the United States, and his OWN acts
and words justify their belief. He is a
shallow, small American. We have ten
thousand men who would make better,
safer Presidents than Blaine.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-11

Choice Goods.

P. N. Hansen has received during the
last week a large and selected stock OF
fancy and staple groceries, consisting OF
Clough's uncovered hams and bacon,
choice mess pig pork, pickles put up in
pure wine vinegar, imported Swiss and
Limburger cheese, maple sugar and
syrups; also, a fine assortment OF lunch
goods; Thurber's celebrated New York
homeless Goldfish in small boxes for fam
liz use, Turbers's mixed bird seeds, the
finest assortment in the market. he
is also constantly receiving choice ranch
butter from the best diaries in the sur
rounding country. His motto is always
to try md get the best goods 10 be bad
in the market, regardless Of cost price.
aud sells them in most instances az low
as inferior goods are sold by c0mpeti.
tors. 1t is well worth the trouble for
any housekeeper to examine the goods
and compare quality and prices before
purchasing elsewhere.