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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

The old st. Louis Hotel in New
Orleans is being fitted up in grand
style. 1t will be opened in Oc-
tober.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

Mr.. ". =. Harper from the {. ;.
Il. r.. is conductor ON the V. :. Il
r., during the absence Of Mr..
Fleming.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

The Texas prairie dogs are mi
grating cast, andeastcrn Texas is
threatened with prairie dogplaguc
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

The French have opened the
war in Tonquin by the lombard
ment and capture of Kelmg.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

There are in Texas, eighteen
Exposition Societies, composed OF
ladies.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

Tilden contemplates a yacht
cruise this winter.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

They are picking cotton in Pointe
Coupee Parish.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

Wcstmont the PAGER made q
mile. in 2.01-3-4
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

The cholera has reached Eng
land and is spreading there.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

North Italy, ships between fifty
and sixty tons of eggs daily.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

Gen. Butler will be GO years old
in November.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

By order of Police Jury am directed to urge upon
Won the importance having exhibit from this Parish Tor The
Womcn Department Of the Exposition There has been or
pnzed club in Talua this object and this club has invited
all the ladies Parish the movement 1t Will be Tor
the ladies decide the character OF the exhibit ana hy
can best determine that 10y themselves The
Jury merely requests to interest yourselves Ill the matter
feeling assured attained the exhibit will be forthcoming
The skill Of the ladies of this Parish unqueoned and they
determine Madison shall be represented our branch oil inc woman
Department which visitors shall nger and TO "ih
after wears with profit we'll as pleasure
By order of the Board
r. C. WEIGIlTMAN, Clerk P. j.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

Miss Amanda K. Stone, has the
making Of the Bossier section OF
the quilt, for the Exposition.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

steel horse collars are late in
vention.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

Ohio is liable to go Democratic.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

Pittsburg has cremation soei-
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-16

A bad trophy-atrophy,
The Mineral argus., 1884-07-10

and modest little presents were begin
ming to be sent in from friends and
neighbors.
'Here's my present" said Uncle
Cuthbert, walking in one C2y u tos-
| sing a little box of carved wood into
Lizzy's lap. II cut out those wooden
flowers myself, when l was in Califor-
MIA"
"WelI, but open it; it's lined beauti-
fully" said the old man..
Lizzy obeyed.
"Why, there's a parchment chart in
it, Uncle, cried the astOnished Clarence,
who was leaning over Llzzy's shoulder.
"Of course there is-a deed making
over $50, 900 to Lizzy Eldon the day OF
her marriage" answered Uncle Cuth-
bert. dryly, "and I've got Just another
one for you at home, Clarence, my boy!
Aha! The old uncle was not so poverty
stricken after all. You mustn't think
my young lady" he added, turning alb
ruptly to Rosa, "that gold isn't gold be-
cause it's a trihe furnished and rusty.
Appearances aren't anything in this
world!"
And so Clarence and Lizzy began the
world with the fairest of prospects, and
true love enough to float the barque OF
life into the sweetest haven.
Rosa Eldon was some what chagrinned
in her secret soul, but she wisely kept
her feelings to herself, and Old Uncle
Cuthbert was quite satisfied with the
choice his nephew had made.
"She's worth twice a hundred thou
sand dollars in her own sweet self, Clar-
ence," he said, confdentially, to Mr..
Hyde, junior.
The Mineral argus., 1884-07-10
HIS DUTY FIRST.
After that Retaliation for Insults ana An
noyances.


A lady living on Harrison avenue,
Boston, neal the Albany bridge, is the
owner of a very large and intelligent
Newfoundland dog. He is a faithful,
animal, and has been trained to run on
errands and fetch up wood and coal,
which duties he PERFORMS as faithfully
as a human being. Yesterday morning
she wrote an order for her dinner, and
placing a silver coin inside the paper
put them in a basket, and giving it to
the dog sent him out to the market.
He was returning with his purchase
when a gang of corner loafers called up
a few idle ours and set them on him fol
sake of seeing what he would do.
They barked and yelped and howled
around him, biting his legs and TANKS
until the blood came in places; but with
the exception of occasionally striking
at his annoyers with his feet when they
came close in front of him, the New
foundland paid no attention to his dis
agreeable companions until he
had arrived home and placed
the basket on the house steps.
After whining and scratching for a few
minutes he was relieved of mis- charge
by his mistress coming to the door. As
soon as the basket was taken from him
he turned upon his heel and walked
back leisurely with his hands in his
pockets, apparently for the sole pur-
pose of inspecting the weather. Arriv-
ing in the midst of his late antagonists
he sauntered upon one of themin a pat
ronizing sort of way, and taking him
into his capacious jaws nipped him
until there wasn't a yell left inside him,
and then threw him against the side of
a building. BY the time this was
accomplished the other ours had taken
the hint and begun to evaeuate the side
walk in an undignified manner. But
the Newfoundland was after them in
earnest. Selling one by the nape Of
the neck he threw him across the bridge,
another was hurled through al open
doorway, a third was cornered at the
door of his W residence and whipped
into submission, and in this manner the
avenger pursued his task until the last
one had been thoroughly chastised.
Then the master of the field went home
as quietly as he had come, and, after
dressing his wounds by the most approx
ed methods of canine surgery, composed
himself for sleep.-Boston Globe.
The Mineral argus., 1884-07-10
Killed by a Hog.
From the Philadelphia Times.


Henry Ward who lived at the corner
Of Moyamensing and Snyder avenues,
met his death in a horrible form recent
ly. For some months past he had had
in his possession a large hog, which
was, during the daytime, allowed to
run in the back yard. During the night
it was kept in a pen in the northeastern
corner of the yard. Some days ago the
hog developed an ugly disposition, and
protested by vicious grunts its aversion
to confinement. Several times 1t
turned on its owner while being driven
to its pen, and had to be subdued with
a club. Yesterday the animal became
unusually vicious and attacked every
one who came near. A dog that was
set on the brute in the hope that he
would drive it to the pen was routed
and narrowly escaped death by scaling
a five-foot picket fence.
Mr.. Ward returned home at 2 o'clock
and undertook to drive the hog into its
pen. The beast trotted sullenly ahead
until within a few feet ofthe gate, when
it turned, and, with a vicious snort
charged on its owner. The man tried
to beat it of, with a.stick, but was over.
powered in an instant. The hog reared
itself off its hind feet, and, throwing it:
weight against the man, bore him to the
| earth. 1t then sprang on him, anC
with its front hoofs drawn closely to
gether, and before the PROSTATE maj
could recover his footing the hog haC
made a CHASTITY wound in his abdomen
with its teeth. The wounded man wa
soon rescued by some neighbors, bu
bled TO death before medical assistanc,
arrived. The hog was killed with an ak
The Mineral argus., 1884-07-10

in the sitting-room with their books.
there was a sense of dreary loss, and
Mrs. Skinner sat with the Bible open
on her lap, and wondered why he had
gone out and remembered that he had
looked queer.
1t was in c%onsonance with her habits
of living that she got up in the middle
of these speculations to catch o wander.
ing and belated fly and induce him to
be annihilated.
"Strangei" she said, as it grew dark.
"I1l take the children and go down to
his mothers and see if he is there, and
if he is, I'll just give him a piece of my
mind"
But he was not there, and his moth
err said Lot had looked badly the last
time she saw him, and she thought he
seemed worried; hoped it wasn't bust
ness troubles.
No. it wasn't business troubles; Mrs.
Skinner knew that, and began to Won
der if she had cleaned her husband out
of his mind. 1t came over her with
sudden force that she had been in the
habit of driving him from pillar to post
at railroad speed and at the end of a
broom or dust brush. He actually
found no rest for the sole Of his foot in
his own house. 1t might have worked
upon his nervous system until he had
become suddenly insane. Horrible
thought He might have committed
suicide.
She hurried home with the children.
All was gloom. She went to his bureau
to look for his razor. 1t was the only
fire arms he possessed-it was gonel
Then Mrs. Skinner broke down and
cried, and it was indeed a scene of des-
o~lation, when suddenly the door of that
horrible parlor opened, and an appar-
ition-no, it was Mr.. Skinner himself
stood before them looking very sheep
ish.
"Ioverslept myself, " he saidin a meek,
apologize tone, looking at the clock.
81 should say you did, answered his
wife, land the dinner is all eaten up,
but I'll fix you up something NICE" and
she went out taking the children with
her.
How much of it Mr.. Skinner ever
knew it is impossible to say, but there
was an immediate and satisfactory
| change that at first amazed and then
delighted him. He could lay down
anywhere when he was tired and his
wife would throw a shawl over him,
and leave him in peace. He has ven
been seen to lie down on the sofa in the
parlor where he took his Rip Van Win
kle sleep and nobody disturbed him.
Mrs. Skinner was at heart a woman OF
sense, and when she relied that n
hair of that grizzlv-gray head was
worth more than all the pillow shams
in the world to her, she put the last
one away in the company Of a demented
assortment of superfuous tides. And
they are really and truly, and not in
any geological sense, a ''happy family"
now.
The Mineral argus., 1884-07-10
cAssIUs cLAx's CIRCUS.
ANoted Man who, in Retirement, watch
es His Skipping Lambs.


es His Skipping Lambs.
Lexington Letter in the Cincinnati Commercial
Cassius M. Clay's home is near Fox
town, twenty miles east of Lexington.
To a visitor the other evening Mr.. Clay
said "Tell me what's going on, for Tn
out of politics now. I'm here almost
alone-no, I'm not alone, for l have my
sheep, cattle dogs, birds, flowers, and
books. And, by the way, 1 am writing
a book-my memoirs" 1t was q beauti-
full evening and the scene was one of
peace. Forest and orchard trees and
shrubs surround the house, or mansion,
for such it really is. To the west Is a
sweep of "blue grass" At the east side
are lowlands, from which came the tink-
ling of sheep bells. 81 have four hun
dred Southdowns," said farmer Clay,
my father used to be a great merino
sheep-raiser, but | prefer Southdowns.
You city people might think it curious
when l say that my sheep give me a
great deal of comfort. To my mind, no
landscape is complete without some
Southdown distributed about. In Eng
land, and in the East here,
they are placed in the public
parks as ornaments. The South
downs are to sheep what the Short
horns are to cattle. / have great fun
watching the lambs. Upon my word, /
think the little rascals know Ienioy their
gambols. Over yonder is a circular de-
preston in the pasture, out of which
was taken before l was born the clay
for the bricks for the house here. Well,
1 go there every day to watch the lambs
run races. It's aperfect circus. Some
times I have to hold my sides laughing
to see them painting and catching their
second wind and then go tearing
around the ring again"
We sat before an old fashioned wood
fire. The logs cracked and blazed on
a eapacious hearth, which was guarded
on each side by a tall brass ''dog."
Lying on the table was Q thick bundle
of manuscript. al have finished writ
ing" Mr.. Clay said, catching a look OF
inquiry on nv face, and am now nego-
tiating with the Harpers for the publ
cation Of the memoirs. They publlshed
my other book, edited by Horace tree
ley. The events there treated were only
up to 1848. The present Memoirs VIII
be in two volumes they will include the
gist of the matter in the book prepared
by Mr.. Greeley, and will come down TO
when l retired from the active discus
sion of politics." Pointing TO box full
Of letters, he said he was going to try
to have all of them published; he had
"boiled them down" as much as posi-
BILE. but was even now afraid he had too
many. "There are letters in that box,
Mr.. Clay went on to say, from every
prominent man in the United States.
Then Mr.. Clay talked for more man
an hour of what they contained and what
he was going to write.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-30
sHoTBY Al DAUGHTERS LOVER.
A Fathers Attempt to Prevent the
Meetings of the Couple.

A Fathers Attempt to Prevent the
Meetings of the Couple.
Irving j. Mills, prominent young man
of Pocomoke City, Somerset county, Md,
says a Baltimore special of July q, yes
terday shot and killed Thomas j. Davis,
the father of the young lady to whom he
had been paying attentions. Mrs. Mary
N. Ross, the daughter of her lovers vic
tim, is handsome widow, "A years of age.
Her husband died two years ago. Some
months since she became acquainted
with Mills, a dashIng young man,
good looking, and one of the lead
ing society men of the place. Her
father formed as great dislike as she
did liking for the young man. When
Mills began to pay regular visits to the
Davis home the father counseled his
daughter not to keep the young mans
company, but it seems she did as most
lovers do-evaded the parental surveil-
lance by meeting her lover clandestinely
The father, after forbidding the young
man the house, continued to upbraid his
daughter whenever he heard of her meet
ing Mills.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Ross met
Mills on the road near PocomOke. He
asked her to take a ride. She entered his
DugEy. anu Lu69 SbdAbSu db q tlNGly IdtS
down the road. Just as they were about
to cross the bridge the young woman's
father stepped out of the house Of Mr..
Dickinson, a friend, and, running out on
the road, caught hold of the horse in a
threatening manner, making some angry
remark to Mills. The latter GSdered the
old gentleman to take his b S off his
horse. Davis refused. The ext in
slant there was a sharp report, and
Mrs. Ross beheld her father lying in
the road, dying. Turning to her lover she
tried to wrest the pistol from his hand,
but. as witnesses declare, he leaped from
the buggy, and was about to shoot again,
when Mrs. Ross succeeded in getting the
weapon away from him. The young wo-
man then tainted. The father died in a
few minutes. Mills gave himself up to
the authorities, and says he killed Davis
in self-defense. Mrs. Ross is craZed with
grief, and is closely watched for fear she
will attempt to take her life.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-30
The New shipping Act.

The new shipping act, known as the
Dingley act, which went into operation
July 1. is being subjected to a good deal
of criticism. Among ship owners and
agents its main features are approved.
They, however, express the opinion that
it will have to be amended in some re-
spects before it will be generally salts
factory. The provision that attracts the
most attention is that which prohibits
the payment of advance wages to sea
men. The penalty for violating this pro-
vision is severe. 1t makes such payment
a misdemeanOr, and the punishment is
fine equal to four times the amount ad-
vanced, or Imprisonment for six
months. Whaling vessels are eX-
cepted from this provision; and
seamen may also provide for an
allotment Of their wages to their wives,
mothers or other relatives. The purpose
OF this section of the act is to protect sea-
men against those who make it bdsi-
ness to supply ships with sesmen, and
who generally get the first months wages
that it has been customary to advance.
1t often happens that seaman is not
only shipped to port where he does not
want to 90, but that more than his first
months pay is taken by those who have
no right to it. The new system inaugu-
rated 10y the act will prove beneficent to
seamen, but it will be some
time before it will work smooth
". 1t is yet imperfectly understood
by them, and a good many of them object
to it. The protective features of the act
cover the interests of seamen at foreign
as well as at home ports. There is one
point, however, which Congress appears
to have overlooked. A master Of a vessel
may discharge his crew in a foreign port
without cause, and hire another crew.
A few days ago the crew of a steamship
about sailing from Philadelphia for Liv-
erpOOl refused to go on board the vessel
until the agents entered into an agree
ment that they should be retained
for the round trip. Their point
was that there was nothing to
prevent the master from discharging
them in Liverpool and hiring a crew of
English seamen for less wages. The
agents of the vessel were compelled to
aceede to the terms Of the seamen. The
Dingley act is an experiment to certain
extent, and it will require year or more
to determine exactly what changes are
necessary to render it more satisfactory.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A COMPANY has been formed to lay cable
between Brazil and New Orleans via st.
Thomas to connect with the Bennett-Maekay
cable.
THERE will be no hunts at Newport this
season, and even polo has, to a great extent,
lost its popularity. Yachting is now the
reigning craze there.
FIRST come the missionaries, then the
consuls, and after them the armies" said
King Theodore, of Abyssinia, some years ago
TO a French traveller, explaining his aOhor-
renee of explorers and missionaries.
THE Washington Star informs an inquirer
that the President is paid his salary by the
United states Treasurer's draft, issued on the
warrant of the Secretary Of the Treasury,
based on an account audited by the First
Auditor and First Comptroller OF the Treas
ury.
! THERFzis a Chinese band on exhibition in
London of which it is SAID that their music is
so excruciating that they play for only two
minutes at time, heing limited by sand
glass. When they begin it is as if all the
dishes and saucers in the establishment were
being smashed at once. When they END win
a great flourish the sensation is as of terrific
railway accident.
AT this time, when cut flowers fade so soon,
it is wei to know that if a small bit Of the
stem is cut of and the end immersed in very
hot water the flower will frequently revive
and resume its beauty. Colored flowers are
more easily rejuvenated than white ones,
which are apt to turn yellow. For preserving
flowers IN water, finely pulverized charcoal
should be put into the vase at this season.
The finest private ship in the world. Will
liam Astor's Nourmahal, is nearly as large as
some of those ocean steamers which first
began trans tlantic navigation. She is built
OF steel, and her length is 232 feet, her breadth
so feet. and depth 20 feet. Her engine Is l,40O
horse power and her supply OF fresh water Is
1880 gallons. To this is added an ice machine
which will make 500 pounds per day. The
finish of the saloon is in the finest possible
style.
THE st. Louis Republican, while concedlng
the apparent decadence of American Tiiemen
since modern breech loading arms came into
general use vet claims that 'sall along the
frontiers and all through the South and West
there are plenty Of riflemen still. They may
not devote so much time to hunting as former
" but that is due very largely to the fact that
the Introduction of diversified industries has
given them something else to amuse them
selves with"
THE divorce Of the Grand Duke Of Hesse
has been rushed through the Court Of Darn
stadt BY sort Of coup d'etat. One day Il was
not even decided which judge was to hear
the case: the next, all difficulties were over
come and the marriage was annulleo AFTER
technical discussion OF half an hour. Inc
fact was that the Grand Duke vowed that ne
would not return 70 Darmstadt from sliesla
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-30

The irrepressible Capt. Paine and his
followers have been removed from the In
dian Territory. They have been taken to
Fort Smith and placed in charge Of the
United States Marshal. 1t is announced
that all the improvements that the Paine
settlers made in the Territory will be de-
strOyed. Paine ought now 10 be satisfied.
He Will probably be tried for trespassing
on the lands Of the Territory. A trial, he
claims, is what he wants, and what he
has been wanting for a long time. He
wants the question, whether or not the
Indians have the exclusive right to in
habit the Territory, settled.
He claims to have consulted the best
legal talent of the country, and to have
been advised that the government has no
right TO drive him or anybody else out of
the Territory who wants to make home
there. 1t may be that he has been cor
rectly advised. If he has, and he can get
the question he wants determined fairly
before the courts, he may be able to show
that instead Of being a trespasser he is a
prosecuted man. If his point should be
sustained the Territory would at
once be open to white settlement.
1t is a beautiful country. The soil is rich
and the climate is superb. 1t would be
settled rapidly. The Indians do not &C.
cupy one-tenth part of it. 1t is now a
resort for criminals from Texas, Missouri
and Kansas. 1t is desirable, of course,
that treaties with the Indians should be
respected, but no one viii deny that it
would be advantageous, from almost
every point of view, to have the Territory
opened to white settlement.