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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-09-30

FRIDAY there occurred four
miles West Of Alexandria, Ky, a.
case of maternity the most remark
able in lhe history Of American OBJ
stetrics. The mother, young girl
named Rena Freeman, was born
March 5th, 1878, and is therefore
eleven years and six months old.
She is small in stature, being about
4 feet, eight inches in height, and
weighing about ninety pounds, and
is a child in everything but expe-
rience. After her confinement she
acknowledged that she had been
seduced by her brother-in law, Ross
johnson, a burly negro, aged about
thirty, and the father Of two chill
dren. When taxed with the Sc
| 81
duction Of Lis sister, n-law he did
not deny the charge. Her accou-
cher, DR.. T. s. Orr, says the case
is without a parallel in the medical
history of this country. He had
considerable difficulty with the pa
tient, the infants size and weight,
10 pounds necessitating the opera
ton of craniotomy.- Enquirer.
-OrF1cgR to timid soldier
"Why, Pat, you are surely not GO
ing to be coward !"
"Pat-Why, sure, I'd rather be
a coward for FIVE minutes than
corpse for the rest Of my life"
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of choice and seasonable styles in
nobby suits and general outfttings
of the most attractive description
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many shares of stock in Water or
Gas Light Companies, will find
my establishment just at present a
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-09-30
EAGLE DRUG STORE I
Proposals for Improving Bayous
Bartholomew, D'Arbonne and
Boeuf, and Tensas River,
and Bayou Macon, La
United States Engineers Office, J
VIcKsBURG, MISS,

September 20, 1884,
OEALED PROPOSALS, IN TRI-
ID plicate, will be received at this
office until IL o'clock, noon, Octo-
Der IL, 1884, for improving one or
more of the following rivers and
bay0us, viz >.
Bayou Bartholomew, La, amount
appropriated $4,000; Bayou D'Ar-
bonnie, La, from Mouth to STEMS
Bluff, amount appropriated $4,000;
Bayou Bocuf, La, amount appropri-
ated $4,000; fensas River and Ba-
you Macon, La, amount appropri-
ated $4,000.
Specifications, forms of proposals,
and other Information will be fur
nished on application to this office.
1t is requested that all those desi-
ring to bid, call at this Office and
examine charts of surveys and re-
ports of examinations, upon which
specifications are based.
The U. S. reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
ERIC BERGLAND,
Sept. 30-2t Captain of Engineers.
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prices that carry out to the letter
our claim as being always the Co.
Ahead, Reliable, One Price Cloth
ing Establishment Of Alexandra,
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My store is the headquarters for ev-
cry article of raiment worn by the
rising generation in the way of
CLOTHING, HATS or FUR
NISHING GOODS, is an acknow-
lodged fact. 1t is also very we'll
known that any
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-09-30
Did Blaine Lie?

1. On April "a, 1876, Blaine
said on the floor of Congress: "In-
stead of receiving bonds of the Lit
tie Rock and Fort Smith road as a
gratuity, | never had one except at
the regular market price," A few
days later he,rcnewed this statement
under oath. The Mulligan letters
show that he received $l04,o00 in
Little Rock and Fort Smith bonds
for which he never paid one cent.
2. April "a, 1876, he said: "1'o-
ward the close of 1868 company Of
Boston gentlemen undertook the
construction" of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith road. On June 4, 1876,
he said: "The gentlemen in Boston
did not have anything to do with
the road for nearly three or four
months after" April 80, 1869. The
Mulligan letters show that the lat
ter statement could not be true.
8. On April "a, 1876, he said:
II never had any transactions of
any kind with Thomas A. Scott
concerning bonds Of the Little Rock
and Fort Smith road, OF the bonds
Of any other railroad, or any bust
ness in any way connected with
railroads, directly or Indirectly, i'm
mediately or remotely" The Null
ligan letters show that he sold Scott
Little Rock bonds to the par value
Of -s15o,ooO. When our friends
have cracked these nuts we shall Of
fer them some more. = Chicago
Herald.
The great remedy for rattle
snakes bite at Long Eddy, N. Y,
was learned eighty years ago from
half-breed Indian by Joseph Geer,
the first settler. 1t is as follows:
Apply to the wound a poultice Of
one-half each of common salt and
indigo, mixed with cold water, and
renew every two hours. Eat freely
of the leaves, or drink often of a
tea made from them, Of a variety Of
blue violet commonly known as the
w-leaved violet ". Sagittala).
If the bite be upon o leg or an arm,
bind the leaves in a circle around
it, above and just beyond the swell
ing. Moisten with cold water as
often as they get dry from the fever
created by the poison, and renew
two or three times a day.
@----- ---
1T is said that Blaine has be-
come Disguised with the way Chair
man Jones manages the campaign,
and will take hold of the lines him
self. Blaine says Jones is too 'spe-
nurions" and slow to suit him. AS
the party has failedIto furnish Jones
with the necessary funds to make
the campaign brilliant and
"dashing" one, we don't see any
just ground for the charge Of penu-
robustness, unless it was expected
that Jones was to furnish the "soap"
himself in exchange for the honor
of being made chairman Of the ma
tional committee. Exchange.
The advocates Of prohibition
need have no fears Of Prickly Ash
Bitters, as it is medicine, and by
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DO Y

no matter whether his father fol-
lows the humble though honorable
occupation Of carrying the bod or
draws princely salary from the
Government, or the happy possessor
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. AT III m z S

PROCURED. Send for Pamphlet
andReferences. Seward A. Hasel-
tine, Solicitor of American and For
eign Patents and Attorney in Pa
tent coses. Associate at Washing
ton, D. G. Springfield, Missouri.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13

Sugar-cane was unknown to the An.
cient Mexicans, who make syrup from
honey and maguey juice, and sugar
from c0Tnstalks-much after the man
ner sc extensively experimental upon OF
late i'll the United States. Sugar-cane
was introduced. by the Spaniards from
the Canary Islands-irst to Santo Do
mingo, thence to Cuba, and soon after,
by natural sequence, to Mexico. The
first sugar-canes were planted in this
country in 1920 by Don Pedro de
Athena. The first cylinders were coH-
structed by Gonzalo de Velosa. The
first sugar-mills, used at that time by
the Spaniards, were worked by hy-
draulic wheels, and not as now, by
horses. Baron Humboldt, who exam
| ined the will OF Eortez, tells US that the
conqueror left several hourishing sugar
plantations near Cuyoacan, in the valley
of Mexico, where now lowing, it is sup
| posed, to the cutting down of the trees)
the cold is too great for one to grow.
The hacienda of Atlacamuico, like
many others, in Mexico, Is a little king
dom within itself, quite independent Of
all the world. Its fort-like walls are
SLlullR cuOIRn W oJd1u oICSCof Va
within them are buildings enough to
form a respectable village. Besides
the usual number, hacienda adds a
house for boiling sugar, whose furnaces
laze night and day a house with ma
chinery for extracting the juice of the
cane, refining rooms, drying sheds, ETC.,
all on the largest and most generous
scale. This being also a coffee planta-
ton, theIe is a great mill for separating
the beans from the chat, sheds in which
the coffee is dried and assorted, and a
distlllery where aguardiente (rum) is
made from the refuse of the sugar mills.
Men, poems and horses are counted by
the hundreds here, and the owner Is alb
selute monarch of all lie surveys. Be-
sides fields of sugar-cane stretching
away as far as the eye can reach, are
coffee groves containinN fifty thousand
young and vigorous plants; plains upon
which unnumbered horses and cattle
range, beside miles Of u~ncultivated land
where deer, quail and other small game
find a happy hunting ground" About
eighteen miles from Cuernavala are the
temple and fortress of Xochicalco, one
of the most remarkable ruins In Mexico,
They lie upon u rocky eminence almost
a league in circumference, which is cut
into regular terraces faced with stone.
The temple on its summit is seventy-hve
by sixty three feet in area, of hewn
granite, beautifully sculptured and was
constructed in the usual pyramidal-ter-
raced form. But, sad to say this tenn
pie of unknown gods, where pagan
Driests performed their sacrifices, las
been desecrated by modern vandals, and
is used as a sugar factory. In this ia
vored region ~everybody's thoughts turn
to sugar-making, as naturally as spooks
fly upward. 1t Is asserted that here
crops may be- reaped within a year af-
ter the cuttings are planted.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13

A great many cannot see why it is
they do not take a cold when exposed
in cold winds and ram. The fact is,
and it ought to be more generally
understood, that nearly every cold Is
contracted indoors, and is not directly
due to the cold outside, but to the heat
inside. A man will go to bed at night
feeling as we'll as usual and get up in
the morning with a royal cold. He
e picking around in search OF cracks
and keyholes and tiny drafts. Weather
strips are procured and the house made
as tight as a fruit can. In a few days
more the whole family has colds.
Let a man go home tired or eXhaus-
ted. eat a full supper of starchy and
vegetable food, occupy his mind lnten-
tly for a while, go to bed in a warm,
close room, and if he doesn't have a
cold In the morning it will be a wonder,
A drink of whiskey or a glass or two OF
beer before supper will facilitate mat
tiers very much.
People swallow more colds down
their threats than they inhale or receive
from contact with the air, nc matter
how cold or chilly Ii may DE. Plain,
hearty suppers are gool &c go to bed on,
and are far more condtotiv to refresh
ing sleep than a glass Of beer or a dose
OF choral. In the estimation of a
great many this statement ID rank
heresy, but in the light Of science,
common sense and experience it is gos-
pei truth.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13
The sedan Chair.

The sedan chair seems to have origin
ated in England, and was brought from
London to Paris by NJ. de Monbrun in
the time of Louis XII. After the fire
Of London, in 1866, the streets were
impossible, and 80 people of quality
went on their business or pleasure in
sedan chairs. They became in time
such a nuisance as to obstruct the high
ways. Sedan chars continued in use
In Paris up to the time of the Revolu-
ton, aud possibly longer in the provin-
ces. When the Duchess OF Nemours
went in state from the French capital
10 her prlncipality of Neufchatel she
undertook a journey Of twelve days in
a sedan chair, and her august person
was ''toted" by relays of carriers, forty
in number. 1t was thought to enhance
the high quality Of the person in the
chair to nave what was called an aboy-
eur, OF bowler. He kept some distance
in the lead and cried out: make room
for Madame la Marquise. or MADAME
la Presidential" In the musee Of the
Trlanon several sedan chairs have been
preserved. Nine, de Polignac, to COM
memorate a French naval victory, had
a mast and sail rugged on her chair and
so paraded Paris.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13
Lightning Rods.

A hghtning-conductor consists essen
TALLY of a long piece of metal, pointed
at the end, whose business it is, not so
much las most people imagire) to carry
off the flash of lightning harmlessly,
should it happen to strike the house to
which the conductor is attached, but
rather to prevent the occurrence Of a
flash at all, by gradually and gently
drawing off the electricity as fast as it
gathers, before 1t has had time to col
lect in sufficient force for a destructive
discharge. 1t resembles in effect an
overflow pipe, which drains off the sur
plus water Of a pond as soon as 1t runs
In, in such a manner as TO prevent the
possibility of an inundatiou, which
might occur if the water were allowed
to collect in force behind a dam or EN-
bankment. Ii is a food gate, not a
moat: 1t carries away the electricity
of the air gu city to the ground, without
allowing it to gather in sufficient
amount to produce a fash Of lightning.
1t might thus be better called a light
ning-preventor than a lightning. con-
ductor; it conducts electricity, but pre-
vents lightning. At first, all lightning
rods used to be made with knobs on
the top, and then the electricity used to
collect at the surface until the electric
force was sufficient to cause a spark.
In those happy days, you had the plea
sure of seeing that the lightning was
actually being drawn off from your
neighborhood piecemeal. Knobs, it
was held, must be the best things, be-
cause you could incontestably see the
sparks striking them with your eyes.
But as time went on, electricians dis
covered that if you fixed a fine metal
point to the conductor of an electric
machine it was impossible to get up any
appreciate change, because the electro
city kept always leaking out by means
of the point. Then 1t was seer that if
you made your lightning-Tods pointed
at the end, you would be able in the
same way TO disslpate your electricity
before 1t ever had time to come to a
head in the shape Of lightning. From
that moment the thunderbolt was safely
dead and buried. 1t was urged, indeed
that the attempt thus to rob Heaven Of
its thunders was wicked and impiousi
but the common sense of mankind re-
fused to believe that absolute ompipO-
tence could be sensibly deded by twenty
yards Of cylindrical iron tubing.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13
VOLUME VII.
PATIENT WITH THE LIVING.

Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone
Beyond earth's weary labor,
When small shall be our need Of grace
From comrade or from neighbor,
Passed all the strife, the toll, the care,
And done with all the signing,
What tender truth shall we have gained
Alas, by simply dying.
Then lips too chary OF their praise
Will tell our merits over,
And eyes too swift our faults 10 see
Shall no defect discover.
Then hands that would not lift q stone
Where stones were thick to cumber
Our steep hill-path, will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.
Sweet friend, perchanee both thou and l,
Ere love is past forgiviug,
should take the earnest lesson home
Be patient with the living.
To-dny's depressed rebuke may save
Our binding tears tomorrow;
Then patience-e'en when keenest edge
May whet a nameless sorrow.
'Tis easy to be gentle when
Deaths silence shames our clamor,
And easy to discern the best
Through memory's mystic glamour
But wise it were for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiving,
To take the tender lesson home
BE patient with the living.
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Daughters.

Every mother ought TO teach her
laughter practically how to keep her
house in order; how to make bread and
10 all kinds of cooking; how to econo-
mize so as to make a little 90 a great
way; how to spread an air of neatness
and comfort over her household; how
10 make and mend her husbands
clothes; in a word, how TO be a good
housekeeper. Then, if she has no do
mestics, She can make her family happy
without them; if she has domestics,
she a ~effectually teach them to do
things as they ought to be done, and
make them obey her. She can then
direct her domestic affairs, and be mis-
tress of her own house; which, sad to
say, too many In these times are not.
Domestics o ascertain whether their
mistress knows how TO do things, and
if she does not they have her in their
power, and almost always take advan-
tage of II. But do not get the false
notion that the domestic virtues of a
woman preclude the highest and most
accomplished education, Some Of the
most intelligent, refined and finished
lanes u tic land lave been the most
excellent house, spera
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13

. the child, who was placid himself witt
the shadow of coming peace.
Doctor Steane. tell pe there is hope
there must be hope T! appealed my
husband to the physician, who stood al
tho foot of the bed. =
I'm not afraid, papa dear" said
Willie family, as Doctor Steane sadly
shook his head.
but / cannot-I cannot let you 60.
my poor little boy 7"
A solemn silence fell over US, broken
only by my husbands sobs my OWL
heart was too fun to find relief in tears.
| started cOnYulsiyely when at the last
there came a great cry, "My mammal
and the little arms were stretched
towards me. How could | eve have
wilfully put away my boys tendernessi
Just then | would at any cost have pur-
chased a renewal of our term Of love.
Tue rest is all to me as a dreams
vision of frightened faces, morning
shadows s~uperseding the candlelight,
and a little figure calm as the flowers
on which the sun was rising-an indis.
tinct memory of stifled sobs, agitated
whispers, a baby's cries, and through 1t
a boys clear voice family recalling his
daily prayer.
| knew | was forgiven rs 1 stood in
the stiffness of the solemn and
tenderly looked my last at him who
would so soon be removed from our
sight. The heavenly calm Of little
Willie's face spoke peace to my trou.
bled soul ; the love that had given him
rest held pardon too for ne. l could
not bear to remain there long /; one
mothers kiss l gave him-a parting
kiss that refused to part-and then |
left him as before, with the pure white
roses strewn around him and the lilies
on his breast. And my husband, who
had followed me in unperceived. took
me in his arms with a fondness that
hand a new element in it.
Dear love-" said he, pressing his
lips to mine, 81 have learnt all now
and what remains untold / read IN his
eyes that morning Is he looked upon
you. Heaven reward y u, my Mill.
cent ~
| put down my head upon his shoul.
der and cried there for the first time
since our sorrow-cTied out all the feel.
ings | had no words to tell.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13

A mucttage which seems to keep for
a very long time is prepared by precipi-
tating dissolved gum with strong alco-
hol, expressing and drying, The mass
is perfectly white, and easily soluble in
water.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13
Innocence io like polished arnior, ii
adorns and defends.

In THE FIsAsoIAn EsEE. "HoW did
you like thGt hymnf'
(Which onaf"
"'Why the last one that wee asDg,
Ninety aud Nine"
II thiAs - ~ name tndsesses. Mss
1t "a bels~ csr
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-13

s sansalssa more dsfing the au.
Ja4 aa = atasE times according to
: HA ~ea42Qanasf
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-06
Was EGriy Man n Savage

1t ;s wonderful thing how absolute is
the silence Of our race on their own early
history. Putting aside, of course, the
Scripture narrative, which is of much
later date, no whisper comes to US out of
the depths of time from man himself to
tell US of his own origin, or of his early
history: Some people say that this was
natural enough because man was at first
o savage. But I must frankly confess
that do not believe that theory. There
Is another way of accounting for it-on
the supposition that man, in the ckila.
hood Of his race was as we are in our in
dividual childhood, and was possessed of
that blessed conscientiousness of self
which is the charm of childhood.
It does not occur to q child TO write q
diary c: his o~n existence. But let no
one tell me that man was a savage when
] know that the inventions of ea:ly man
were infinitely more important than those
Of later days, of which we are 80 proud.
The man who drew the frat spark of fire
was fas greater inventor than the man
who drew the frst spark of electricity.
Look again, at the invention, which
must have been tho result of many pro.
ceeses, by which certain natural grasses
were gradually made to produce those
crops upon which we all depend-those
cereals which are the staple of human
consumption all over the globe. We
must get sone other explanation of tho
silence of man than that he was o saw.
age.-G Good Words.
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A Hard Wind.

Old Peter H lived in a one. story
wooden house of not very extensive di.
mensions, and when subjected to the
force of one of those hurricanes so nu-
merous Of late years at the West, its
powers of resistance we're insufficient to
Withstand 80 great pressure, and it
yielded the point without struggle
however, 1t was not upset, nor torn to
pieces, but merely moved few rods. In
the course of the journey the stove was
upset and the Gre split out, and the
danger of coniagratioh was imminent.
Old Peter was too much excited to notice
the removal of his house, and seeing the
necessity Of Immediately applying water
to the burning embers on the floor, he
seized bucket and darted out behind
the house. when great was his astonish.
ment to find all the traces of his well
obliterated. After looking In blank
astonishment moment, he called out to
his wife:
Sarah, I'll be blamed If the wind has
not blown the we'll clear out of the lot r.
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among the horses and carriages. In
front of the mosques arc slanting stones,
on which the bodies are rested while the
priests and mourners go in to pray. This
finished, the march is resumed until the
grave is reached. All except the mourn.
ers laugh and gossip and poke fun at the
bearers for their awkwardness in lowering
the corpse. One of the latter jumps into
the grave and arrangcs the body, and
when he has scramble out the dggers
begin filling in the dirt and the party
goes away. There is no further show of
sentimect, and after the erection of p
headstone. little care is there whether
the worms o. the dogs lunch on the de.
parted. Being futalists, they know he is
either in torment or in glory, and while
certain that the same fate must come to
them in time, they don't want to be both.
cred with the thought before it comes
and so endeavor to forget tho dead and
death as quickly and completely as posi-.
bile
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AN Historic Mule.

There has been much controversy
about the cer:uro &C Fort Pillow by
General Forest. It will remembered
that Forest for long time was charged
with killing the criored federal defenders
after they surrendered. This charge has
been disproved and Forests humanity
fnlly vindicated, but the. explanation of
the matter forms one of the most quizi-
cal and grotesque incidents of any war.
The most remarkable quality Of For.
ests military character was his disposi-
ton to push his victories to their fullest
fruition. He never let up OH defeated
foe while his men had strength to pur..
sue, or there was man to light. He hit
O retreating foe as long as he had
strength or there was q foe to strike.
1t was this spirit that caused a miscon.
ception OF IS conduct at Fort Pillow.
The flag wa. not lowered when the fort
was intended to be surrendered, and the
firing war kept up under the mistaken
idea that the garrison was resisting. And
1t Is curious instance of the blending
OF tie ridiculous with the tragic, show
ing how grand historic fact can merge
into farce, that the flag at Fort Pillow
was finally lowered by mule getting
tangled in the rope and breaking il.
Forrest is known to have credited this
strange story. In the generalization of
defeat the leaders being killed, no one
had the presence of mind to draw down
the symbol Of defiance, and as the flag
still foated, the token of resistance, For.
est kept his men firing until the historic
mule blundered the flag unintent;oaally
down and stopped the further bloodahed,
which. the confederates were perpetrating
under an honest Misunderstanding that
the federals were still fighting. .'S