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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-01-09
Saving Seed.

Every farmer can do much to i'm.
prove his crops by carefully selecting
his seed. This is a we'll known fact.
but it is too infrequently acted on. 1t
1t may not be practicable ror the far
mer in the case of the small grains to
select individual ears and preserve
them for seed, but if plats of the best
filled and strongest growing grain
were selected and threshed separately
from the wheat, oat or barley field, no
one will deny that much Improvement
might be made in these crops with
very little trouble or expense. There
are other crops of which it is easy to
select the best individual specimens,
the choicest ears of corn, or potatoes
from the best and most productive
hills. The best time to do this is at
harvest. AS the potatoes are dug, the
best specimens of the finest hills can
be readily preserved, and the trouble
Will be an hundred fold repaid in more
abundant yield. The best time to Sc
cure seed corn is when it is being cut
select such ears as you desire and
keep them where they will not freeze
till perfectly dry, and if they are new
er exposed to cold below freezing no
harm will be done. 1t is good plan
10 put aside grain suitable for seed,
little more than Will be needed. It is
much better than to run around the
neighborhood after seed oats or barley
or buckwheat when it is time to SOW
them, and generally at much less ex-
pense. 1t is bat little trouble to save
many garden and flower seeds, and
will not only save many five-cent pa
pers OF seeds, but perhaps disappoint-
ment' Besides the best can be select
Ell true to name and sure to grow
Even II the money saving is small. the
convenience and satisfaction will he
large Exchange.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-01-09
" TRUTH STRANGER THAN FIG
TON"
A SCENE IN WASHINGTON-WHA THE
CHANGES OF TINE BRING
ABOUT.

Twenty years ago IN th1s CITY lady
was married to an army officer, and a
year afterward a plump girl baby
blessed the union. Major w. and his
wife subsequently quarreled and part
ed, Mrs. w. taking the child with her
to San Francisco, where after a few
years she secured divorce, and after
ward.married Mr.. B. in 4he "Goldon
City," Her second husband died in
the course Of time, and about year or
two since she made her way back to
this city, with her daughter, who had
grown to beautiful womanhood, and
secured position in one of the depart
ments.
Wajor. w. left Washington shortly
after his separation from his wife. He
was mustered out of the service, settled
down in Western city and married
again.
The whirlgig of time brought him
to the national capital, where he be-
came q government clerk. This was
some time before the arrival of his first
wife. Time had dealt gently with
both of them, the ear-marks of the de-
stroyer telling more plainly on the
major by slight stoop in the Shout
ders and plenty sprinkling of gray
hairs.
One day not long since the Major
passed his first wife on Pennsylvania
avenue in company with a pretty
young lady. He had not heard from
her for fifteen years, and knew nothing
Of her whereabouts during that time.
She knew him, but did not care to rec
ognize him, for she had not known of
his life since they parted. The Major
looked long and wistfully at the former
partner of his bosom, who, though
slightly aged, bore pleasing traces of
her former beauty, and the thought
struck him as he looked at her beauti-
full companion, "This is my daughter"
After search of some weeks he dis
covered that his former wife and
daughter resided on Capitol Hill. He
addressed them letter; the wife did
not respond, but allowed her daughter
to do so. The latter met her father
by appointment, away from her moth
ers home. The meeting is. said to
have been an affecting one. Since
that time the Major has showered up
on his long-lost girl not only his pa
rental love, but rare and interesting
gifts, and the twain can be seen to-
gether on Pennsylvania avenue any
fair day, mixing with the promenaders.
The daughter still lives with her moth
er, who does not speak to, and has
made no sign to, one whom she once
loved, and who did not treat her kind
ly, she alleges, in "auid laug synee."
The reality of the above story sur
passes the romances we see from week
too week upon the dramatic stage, and
only reminds us of the old, truism that
"Truth is stranger than fiction"
i Washington Gazette.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-01-09
JUDGMENT.
ApEL1NE G. DowTY,
Wife,
vs.. mo. 1921.
SAMUEL A. DowTY,
Husband.
Twelfth Judicial District Court, Rap
ides Parish. October Term,
A. D. 1888.
JUDGMENT.

| IA ~, 1000
The State of Louisiana,
THIS CAUSE BEING CALLED FOR
l. trial pursuant to previous assign
meut and trial had, and by reason of the
law and the evidence being in favor of
| the Plaintiff and against the Defendant,
it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that
the community of acquets and gains
heretofore existing between the said
Plaintiff, Mrs. Adeline C. Dowty, and
the said Defendant, Samuel A. Dowty,
her husband, be and the same is here
5y forever dissolved, and the Plaintiff
be and she is hereby forever authorized
to take and have the sole and exclusive
control of her paraphernal property.
1t is further ordered, adjudgeu and
decreed that said Plaintiff do have and
recover of the Defendant the sum OF
five thousand three hundred and twen-
ty-nine 60-l00 ($5329. SOY dollars, with
i've per centum per annum interest on
two thousand six hundred and forty
five and l0-lO0 ($2645. 10y dollars thereof
from October 9th, 1869, and a like rate
of interest on six hundred and fifty
(S6o0) dollars thereof from January LIST,
100. diiu d lihe Tdte vi interest on LUlc-
ty-four and $1,000 (s34.5O) dollars there
OF from January LIST, 1881, and a like
rate OF interest on two thousand ($2OOO) |
dollars thereof from July 9TH, 1882, aud
costs of this suit.
1t is further ordered and decreed that |
Plaintiffs mortgage operating in aud
upon all the property of Defendant be
and the same is hereby recognized and
made eAecutory.
Thus done, read and signed in open
Court on this the 10Th day of Noyem-
Der, A, D. 1883
w. F. BLACKMAN,
Judge Twelfth Judicial District La.
Filed Nov. Goth, 1888.
G. l.. RANsDELL,
Deputy Clerk.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF RAPIDEs.}
hereby certify that the above and
is true and correct COPY of
The original on file and of record in this
office.
- Witness my official sigma
s ture and seal on this Novem-
saS$I Der 26th, 1883.
c. l.. RANsDELL,
Dec. l9-3t. Dy. Clerk.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-01-09
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.

NEW ORLEANs-Daily. Arrives at
800 P. NJ by train, departs at 5:35 A.
NJ. by train.
NATcHITocHEs AND SHREVEPORT
Daily. Arrives at 6 P. NJ, by stage;
departs at 9 A. NJ. by stage.
WAsHINGTON-Via Bismarck. Babbs
B:idge, etc., Semiareekly. Arrives on
Tuesdays and Saturdays at A. NJ.
departs Mondays and Fridays at Z
P. M.
LEEsvILLE-Semi ,reekly. Due every
Monday and Thursday at 6 o'clock
P. NJ, departs every Tuesday aud
Friday at o'clock A. M.
HARRIsoNBURG-Semi 'reekly. Due ev-
cry Monday and Thursday at E
o'clock NJ. departs every Monday
and Thursday at 6 O'Clock P. NJ.
WINFIELD Weekly. Dne every Tues
day at 10 O'Clock NJ, departs every
Tuesday at o'clock P. NJ.
r A L L r O A . s :.
TIME TABLE OF THE NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC
GOING EAST.
No. 402, Mail and Express 1913 P. NJ
No. 4l0, Freight. .......... .9:52 P. NJ
GOING WEST.
No. 401, Mail and Express, 12:43 A. M
No 400, Freight. ..2:l5 A. NJ
Arrive at New Orleans. .......S A. NJ
Leave New Orleans. .12:l5 p. NJ
TINE TABLE MORGAN's LOUISA AND TEXAS
ARRIVE
No. !, Mail and Express, .6:35 P. NJ
No. 9, Freight, ........... 1886 P. NJ
DEPART.
No. 2, Mail and Express. .4:54 A. N
No. 10, Freight. .5:5l A. NJ
Arrive at New Orleans. 80. $40 P. NJ
Depart from New Orleans. ..S A. NJ
Tickets on sale to al points East and
South East. G. W. MORTON, Agt.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-01-09

CAPT. John Johnston, who COM
manded the Washington, the first Am
erlcan steamship to make regular trips
to Europe, died on Thursday night
last in Brooklyn, in his sixty-sixth
year. He served as harbor master for
several years under Governor Dix
For rescuing a number of British sail
ors from a wreck, he received a tele-
scope from Queen Victoria and gold
medal from the Royal Humane So.
eiety.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-01-09
Doctor
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j. B. ASHLEY,
/. c. MILLER,
JOHN A. WILLIAMS.
GEO. o. WATTS,
Clerk and ex-officio Member of jury
Commission.
A true copy:
GEO. 0. Warts,
Clerk.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-01-09
; .: 4; !: y; ::
n E M b Em Secure Healthy
f. 81 VI "a Haction to the Liver
Es4a - u NEas u ssand relieve all bill.
Purely Vegetable; 10 Gripping. Price 2. All puopis,a
JURY LIST.

State Of Louisiana, }
Parish Of Rapides. {
DE IT KNOWN AND REMEM-
- bered that on this the 9th day of
November, A. D. 1889, that we the un-
dersisn Jury Commissioners, duly
appointed and sworn as the law di.
reefs, together with George O. Watts,
Clerk Of the 10Th Judicial District
Court in and for the said Parish and
State, and ex officio member of said
Jury Commission, who was also sworn,
did meet in the Clerks office in the
Court House, Town of Alexandria, in
obedience to an order of he Honora
bles w. F. Blackman apd Aristides
Burhin, judges of said District Court,
of date the gath day of October, A. d.
1883, end did then and there proceed
10 draw from the General Venire Box
the names of thirty (30) qualified cleo.
tors to serve as special jurors at the
Oldinary Term of the District Court,
and service of said jurors to begin on
the I'd Monday and the 18th day oil
the term of said Courr, in January, A.
d. 1884, said order of said Judges be-
ing in accordance with Act No.-35 of
the General Assembly of the State of
nnisiapo No,.l r~.l ION |
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
4 Robbers ROOst.

A robbers roost was discovered by Mr.
and Mrs. James Guthrie, of Denver, re-
Gently, in gulch near Webster, Col. Re-
turning from visit to their daughter,
whose home is at Grant Station, they
lost their way. They travelled until
after nightfall before they found a cabin.
In it was rude table, some chairs, a
large open stove, and good supply of
fuel, and on shelf were six loaded re-
volvers. several cartridge belts filled
with ammunition, and three pairs of
spurs. Mr.. Guthrie stabbed his horses in
the dark, and re-entered the cabin and
fastened the heavy door with huge bolt
that fitted into slots in the logs. At
about midnight Mr.. and Mrs. Guthrie
were awaked by sounds outside. A man
said: Il wonder who is there! Shall
we force the door?" The answer was:
"'Taint no use; that door will stand as
long as the cabin itself" Then the
voices faded away. Mr.. Guthrie lay until
long after daybreak ere he ventured out.
Then, on going to harness his horses by
daylight, he found in the barn six mail
bags that had been opened, and other
evidences of highwaymen's operations.
The United States officials are searching
for the robbers. Rocky Mountain NeaCs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
Crushed Under Seventy Tons of Steel.

PITTSBURGH, PA, Jan. 81.
An accident that resulted in the instant
death of two men and the fatal injury of
another occurred this afternoon at the Lin.
den street works in the Twenty-third Ward.
Thos. Liney, John Butler and John Roach,
laborers, were at work on platform load
ing bars of steel, known as fiSh-plate, on
car on siding. The platform was en- feet
high and supported seventy tons OF metal.
Without moments warning the timbers
supporting one side gave way and the
platform toppled over. The accident
was 70 unexpected that the men
had no time to save themselves,
but went down with the wreck,
and were buried under the mass of steel.
A long time was consumed in removing
the immense weight, and when the unfor.
Inmates were extricated two Butler and
Liney) were found to be crushed almost
beyond recognition. Roach seemed to nave
escaped serious injury, and much to the
surprise of everyt o iy was able to walk to
his clearinghouse unaided. This evening,
however, he complained of severe internal
pains, and at last accounts was not expect
ed to recover. The platform has often been
more heavily loaded than to-day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A giantess. named Ann Dunn died
In London few days ago, aged thirty
uihe. She weighed nearly 500 pounds,
was nearly nine feet high and meas
nred round the shoulders over three
feet.
"A tower nearly one hundred feet
in height is to be erected near Bolton
Abbey as a memorial of the late Lord
Frederick Cavendish.
Mrs. Jane Brown has organized, in
Paris, meetings composed wholly of
French ladies for the study of Shak-
speare.
The authorities at Saint Giles, in
Belgium, have supplied the police on
night duty with cloth boots having In
dia rubber soles. With these boots the
police are so perfectly noiseless that they
are at least placed on footing of equal
advantage with burglars.
According to the last official report
of the Imperial German Post-office there
were within the imperial postal terri
tory (Which does not include Bavaria
or Wurtemberg) thirty-six cities and
towns in which the telephone was in
full operation.
Some interesting figures as to the
cost of operas and ballets produced in
Paris are given. IL Africaine" cost
some $50, 900; "Le Prophetic, S4j, S9j;
"Robert lie Diable," S3S, 900; .'Faust,"
$4,000. The cost of "Aida" was $40,
500; "Francoise de Romini,n $500;
ale Tribut de Zamora," $50, 400.
The Mackonochie case in England
has come to an end at last, after sixteen
years litigation. Mr.. Mackonochie
resigns his living in obedience to the
order of the court. The Church Times
bitterly denounces the prosecution. and
maintains that the peace brought about
by the late Archbishop of Canterbury on
his death-bed has proved to be only a
brief truce.
They are exhibiting in London a
Neapolltan lady of twenty-five, Signora
Vanatelli, as near parody of the living
skeleton as is possible to look at. She
is about middle height, with Ratchet
edged face, ridged with a nose large
enough for Goliath. This is her great
feature, and suggests that she has run
into proboscis as the Thibet sheep run
into tail. She might be packed in a
section of water pipe. She is shaped
from shoulder to toe like four-square
timber joist. The ex hibitors say it is
necessary to stuff her ankle boots with
cotton wool to keep the bones from slip
ping or grating at the joints.
The claim of Hebrew gentleman
to be exempted from serving on a Cor
oner's Jury on the ground of his being
descendant or Aaron, the high priest,
and forbidden in that character to ap-
proach dead body, seems a strange
one to advance, and so many years have
passed since Aaron's death that the fact
of being directly descendant from him
must in the present day be difficult to
establish. Nevertheless, the st James
Gazette cites the case of MIR. Lewis Da-
vid Cohen. who was fined five times for
refusing to ''enter unto a corpse" on
that ground, and who at last appealed
to the Magistrate at Quarter Sessions,
who, after hearing the evidence and re-
ceiving the written testimony of the
rabbi as TO the Aaronic descent, has Or
dered the remission of the fines.
q
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
A Home that q LabOrer Made Comfort.
able Mt Small Cost.

In the little dock at the foot of one of
the streets leading to the East River lies
an old canal boat. 1t was tOwed there
some time ago, and was hauled stern
first out of the water at some very high
tide, and there LETT to rot away. Its
bow, which projected into the water
short distance at high tide, has been
broken away by the ice, leaving about
two-thirds of the old hulk intact. Its
old floors and walls are weather-beaten
and black with the deposits of the ris-
ing and falling water. A heavy timber
stanchion has been placed on the old
floor near the broken end of the deck
as support to keep that part OF the
deck from sagging. Above, and just at
the forward end of the old cabin, new
house has been built, and it is now &C.
cupied by the builder as a home. The
outside measurements of the house are
about 12X2O feet on the deck, by % feet
high at one end and g. at the other.
The highest end is toward the shore.
At the side is an ordinary glass-topped
door, There is window at each end
one on the side opposite the door,
and another further along toward the
water on the same side of the house. A
bit of stove-pipe runs through the tin
roof. Inside a partition divides the
house into two rooms, one of which is
the living room and the other a bed
room. The larger room is about twelve
feet square.
If you won't print my name, nor
tell them just where l live, I'll tell you
oil Oh q =,
young Irish laborer. II had been liv-
ing in a rear tenement down town,
where had two rooms, and paid eight
dollars month in advance for them.
One Sunday l was up here to see a
friend of mine, who lives in small
house on the rock beyond Third avenue
and we came down this way fora bit of
walk. When l saw the old boat here
l said to myself, and then to my friend:
What a fine place to build house,
sure My friend was bit of car
penter, for he has been tending mason
this ten years, and so have /, for TIE
matter of that. So we got man who
was good at figures to tell lis just how
much lumber we wanted and what kind
to get. Then | took his bill to sec
ond-hand undergrad over in Seven
teenth street, and this is what l got:
Siding, 400 feet; roof-boards. $50: ceiling and
the partit on, so; six twelve-foot and eight
ten-foot and six eight-foot joists each two
by three inches large. for frame, in all i.330
feet of lumber. at So per 100, $3.50
One outside and one inside door, COM
pete with locks, hinges and screws. 2 IS
Old tin-roofing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
Nails 100
The stanchiOns to hold up the deck. 20
Total 1888 50
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
A Conductor Stabbed by a Crazy Passen.
SPARTANBURG. s. c., Jan. 81.

SPARTANBCRG, =. u, Jan 81.
Captain John Moore, conductor on the
Chester & Cheraw Railroad, was passing
through car taking up tickets and was in
the act of punching ticket when he heard
some one exclaim, "Don't do tina, ~ and
turning, was stabbed in the left breast
above the heart by DIR. 7. d. Marion, a
practicing physician of Richburg. The as
sault was apparently without motive, and
the only way it can be accounted for is on
the supposition that DIR. Marion was crazy.
When the Doctor saw that he was foiled,
in his crazy frenzy he went to slashing
the seats with his knife. Shortly after the
Doctor and the conductor again met on the
platform of a car, when another assault
was made, and the conductor was about to
pull the trigger of his revolver on the mad.
man when his arm was staid by Rev. Frank
Hallam, Episcopal clergyman who hap
pened to step upon the platform at the
time The conductors wounds are painful
but not serious.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

The Office held by the Kidneys is one Of
Importance. They act as natures sluice.
way to carry of the extra liquids from the
system and with them the impurities, both
those that are taken into the stomach and
those that are formed in the blood. Any
clogging or inaction of these organs is
therefore important. Kidney Wort is Ma
lures efficient assistant in keeping the kid
neys in good working order, strengthening
them and inducing healthy action. If you
would get well and keep well, take Kidney.
Wort.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

David Kemlo, of Brooklyn, had a
narrow escape from death by shooting
recently. His brother-in-law shot at
him, but the bullet passed through the
collar of his coat, struck his collar but
ton, shattering it in pieces, and then
dropped down between his vest and
shirt--Brooklyn Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

Two MONTHS ago my attention was called
to the case of a woman afflicted with a cam
Ger on her shoulder at least inches in cir
conference, angry, painful, and giving the
patient no rest day or night for months.
| obtained a supply of Swift's Specific for
her. She has taken bottles, and the ulcer
is entirely healed up, only a very small
scab remaining, and her health is better than
for 8 years past seems to be perfectly cured.
REV. JESSE II. CAMPBELL, Columbus, Ga.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
The FriWdo,

Mr.. R. 7. Bentley, member of the est.
mable community Of Quakers at Sandy
Springs, Nd, says he was severely affected
by rheumatism in his right hand. Mr..
Bentley applied st. Jacobs Oil, the great
pain-cure, and by its continued use, in .
short time, was completely cured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

CATARRH AND HAY FEvER.-For twenty
years was a sufferer from Catarrh Of the
head and throat in a very aggravated
form, and during the summer with Hay
Fever. procured a bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm and after few applications received
decided bepefit-was cured by one bottle.
Have had no return of the complaint.
CHARLOTTE PARKER, Waverly, N. Y.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
Prominent Butter Makers.

There is no dissent from the decision of
candid and capable dairymen, that the I'M
proved Butter Color of Wells, Richardson
& Co., Burlington, VT, is the best in the
world. Such men as A. w. Cheever, Of
Massachusetts, E. d. Mason, Vermont,
Francis A. Hoffman, Wisconsin, use it,
and recommend it as superior to all others.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08

Chancellor Byrd, of Trenton, N.
j. granted divorce recently for good
causes, but ruled that wife's being
Rugged and kissed by another man was
not sufficient oause.-N. Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-08
A Messenger OF Health.

Sent free to sufferers from nervous,
chronic and blood diseases, brain and heart
affections, nervous debility, etc. 1t tells of
wonderful cures effected by DR.. Scott's Coca,
Beef and Iron, with Phosphorus. Sold by
druggists; 81. DR.. Scott, Kansas City, Mo.