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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26
ADVICE TO MorHERs.-Are you

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disturbed at night and broken Of
your rest by sick child suffering
and crying with pain of cutting
teeth9 If SO, send at once and get
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Syrup for Children 1eething. Its
value is incalculable. It will re-
Eeve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately. Depend upon it, moth
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regulates the stomach and bowels,
cures wind collie, softens the gums,
reduces inflammation, and gives
tone and energy to the whole sys-
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to the taste, and is the prescription
of one of the Oldest and best female
nurses and physicians in the United
States, and is for sale by all drug
gists throughout the world. Price
25 cents a bottle.
JOB Printing neatly executed
at this Office.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

The cotton picking season is
near at hand. Soon the Town will
be depopulated of a numerous gang
of struggling loafng negroes, who
will go to work in the fields, and
thus earn an honest dollar.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

Mr.. M. G. Mosely, of the law
firm of Hunter, Moseley Il Hert-
zog, returned home on Sunday
night from Washington, La, where
he hal been on q visit to his bro
ther who resides there.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26
Parish Executive Committee

j. G. White, F. seip,
Jonas Rosenthal, r, P. Hunter,
Jas Andrews, W. E. Taylor
j. G. P. Hooe, Ben. Turner,
&. w. Bolton, Jas. P. Hickman,
J. l.. Connella, B. M. Hayes,
n. r. Roberts, r. B. Smith,
Jos. Meeker, John Phillips,
Oscar Barnidge, S. D. Williams,
Crawford Smith, N. L. McGinnis,
j. L. Blackwell, Lewis Texada,
f. A. Blanchard, R. L. Luckett,
w. G. James, VIM. Harris,
A. E. Watson, Willie French,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26
ALEXANDRIA, LA, !
Aug. 25, 's4. {

aug Sc, Or
Teachers appointed by the Board
of School Directors, who have not
yet been examined by Special Com
mittee appointed to examine can
didates for Teacherships, are here
by notified to appear before said
Committee at Alexandria, La,
forthwith, in order to obtsin csrtifi-.
Gates of qualification previous to
entering into discharge of their
duties. JONAS RosENTHAL,
President Parish Board Of School
Directors.
CHAs. OWEN, Secretary.
THE "Frierds of Education"
of Cheneyville, in this Parish, a
regular chartered corporation, with
Sam Blum President, w. P. Ford,
Vice President, S. Tanner, Sec'y,
and D. Levy, Treasurer, have re-
Gently had built at Cheneyville, q
magnificent two-story school house
near the Episcopal Church, costing
$1,000. w H. Robert, is the bull
der. The Ladies Educational So
ciety of that place deserve both
praise and thanks for the liberal
manner in which they hsve contri-
buted to the above named enter
prise. By different sorts Of amuse-
ments they have gathered together
nearly $500, all Of which is to be
expended on the school house.
ADJ kinds Of Job Printing
executed at the DEMOCRAT Office
with neatness and dispatch.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26
Mr.. G. G.. Halle. Assessor and


Mr.. G. G.. Halle, Assessor and
Parish Surveyor of Pointe Coupee,
and father of Mrs. Walter X. John
son, Of this place, is expected here
on visit. A leave Of absence has
been granted him by the Governor.
BY the refusal of DR.. J. T.
Cruikshank to act as a member of
the Parish School Board, a vacan-
cy will be occasioned. Those YES
ted with the proper authority should
take steps at once to fill this APP
poiutment, which is important.
The following named gentle
men were appointed by the School
Board as special committee to ex-
anime all candidates for teacher
ships in the schools of this Parish !:
JAS. r. Waters, A. W. Pardee, G..
0. Watts, Chas. Owen and John
j. Ferguson.
In the RAILROAD Racket" col
umn of the Times Democrat of the
23d we find an item to the effect
that the Morgan train will resume
trips to this place, the first train
leaving New Orleans this morning
at 7:I5 o'clock and arrive here this
evening at 7:20.
Prince Prothro, who works
on the Andrews. place on Bayou
Rapides, is again entitled to the
blue ribbon, for having brought Eto
Town on Friday last, the first bale
of this years cotton. It weighed
535 pounds and was sold to "Big'
Heyman, on Front Street. Prince
brought the first bale to Alexan-
d.ia last year.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

Oscar. Barnidge, S. D. Williams,
Crawford Smith, N. L. McGinnis,
j. L. Blackwell, Lewis Texada,
f. A. Blanchard, r. L. Luckett,
w. G. James, VIM. Harris,
A. Il. Watson, Willie French,
esnazeWsz.s..xzrsszznsssz
Town and Parish News.
River still tumblin' down.
The Police Jury is in session
'equalizing assessments. g."
-
The Nameless and Crescents
had a match game at Cheneyville
on Sunday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucien Jarreau
will shortly leave for New Orleans,
where they expect to permanently
reside.
"A CAMP Meeting will be held
on Bayou Flaggon, near the bridge,
commencing on Sunday, Septem-
Der 18th.
Mr.. e. Rey has moved his
family to the residence next to his
bakery, corner of Third and Beau
regard streets.
Only one Mass will be cele-
brated in st. Francis Xavier's
Catholic Church on Sunday next,
at $50 o'clock.
MISS Aggie Clements and Mr.
l.. ?. Wilmington were both re-
ported as being much improved
on yesterday.
Nh. Edgar Hilton, who was
reported as being in dying condi-
ton on Sunday, is now considered
out of danger.
VIZ publish in to-day's issue
q full list of appointments of tea
cheers made by the School Board
on Saturday last,
Mr.. Mike Paul, who has been
sojourning in the Pipewoods for the
past ten days, returned to Town on
yesterday morning.
"A Soc1ABLE will be given
this evening at Turner'S Hall, in
Pineville, by the members of Mt
Oliyet Chapel Guild. Admission,
ten cents.
Mass will be celebrated in St.
Francis Xavier's Catholic Church
tomorrow and Friday morning for
the repose of the soul of the late
Rev. Father Jerome Bres.
We are pleased to note the
improved condition in health Of our
fellow-eitizen, Judge NJ. Ryan, who
for the last ten days has been con.
fined to his room with sickness.
In a Base Ball match at Che
NEVILLE on Friday, between the
Nameless and Morgan line, the
latter club IVES badly beaten by a
score of SO to 8, and that too in
seven innings.
Mr., M. G. Mosely, of the law
firm of Hunter, Moseley Il Hert-
zog, returned home on Sunday
night from Washington, La, where
L.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

in Base BAH match at Che
NEVILLE on Friday, between the
Nameless and Morgan line, the
latter club IVES badly beaten by a
score of So to 9, and that too in
seven innings.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

The Nameless and Crescents
had a match game at Cheneyville
on Sunday last.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Lucien Jarreau
will shortly leave for New Orleans,
where they expect to permanently
reside.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

REDUCED rates have been OBJ
tanned on the T. and P. R. R., for
the Natchitoclles District Camp
Meeting which opens at the above
named place on the 28th inst, and
will be under the supervision of
Rev. II. j. Wright and Rev. S.
Duncan. Fare from Alexandria
to Provencal and return, s2.10;
from Provencal to Natchitoches
and return, by hack, $3.50.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26
Town and Parish News

RIVER still a tumblin' down.
The Police Jury is in session
"equalizing assessments
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

We are pleased to note the
improved condition in health Of our
fellow-citizen, Judge NJ. Ryan, who
for the last ten days has been con-
fined to his room with sickness.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

"A CAMP Meeting will be held
on Bayou Flaggon, near the bridge,
commencing on Sunday, Septem-
Der 18th.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

Mr.. e. Rey has moved his
family to the residence next to his
bakery, corner of Third and Beau
regard streets.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

Mass will be celebrated in St..
Francis Xavier's Catholic Church
tomorrow and Friday morning for
the repose of the soul of the late
Rev. Father Jerome Bres.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

Mn. Mike Paul, who has been
sojourning in the Pipewoods for the
past ten days, returned to Town on
Yesterday morning.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

Only one Mass will be cele-
brated in st. Francis Xavier's
Catholic Church on Sunday next,
at $3.50 o'clock.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

MISS Aggie Clements and Mr..
l.. 2. Wilmington were both re-
ported as being much improved
on yesterday.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

"A SocIABLE will be given
this evening at Turner's Hall, in
Pineville, by the members of Mt.
Olivet Chapel Guild. Admission,
ten cents.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-26

We publish in to-day's issue
full list of appointments of tea
cheers made by the School Board
on Saturday last.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19

An enterprising Frenchman has To-
Gated in Chicago and opened up a dim
pie factory. Now good many people
don't know what dimple factory is.
1t is a place where any one can go and
have dimples made anywhere they may
want them. How the Freshman will
ever manage to build dimples on the
average Chicago cheek is a problem
that no one has yet been able to salts
factorily settle. Nothing short of a
hard cold chisel and a sledge-hammer
will have any effect whatever, and that
is only discernable under a powerful
magnifying glass. That Frenchman
must have a good deal of pluck and
patience to have opened dimple fac
tory in Chicago. Peck'S Sun.
The wood pavement being put
down in Paris is United States patent,
N Y Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
Temperance AflOat.

There is no place in which the bless
ings of Temperance are productive of
more good than on board the floating
carriers of the Atlantic The latest adj
vance made in Temperance afoat is
that on board the Allans' steamer Mes
torian, commanded by Captain James.
1t appears that while on the voyage
from Glasgow to Quebec the ships
company and others came together
and formed an association with the
following as the chief plank in their
constitution: 'The undersigned, form
ing a society on board the Allan
line steamship HISTORIAN, commanded
by Captain James, this 2Sth day of
April, while on a voyage from Glasgow
to Quebec, in latitude forty-five degrees
north, longitude lifty-siX degrees west,
do hereby agree to abstain from all in
toXicating liquor as beverage, and
pledge ourselves to discountenance its
use in the community" ''Hurrah for
the HISTORIAN Temperance Society," is
the shout that will 60 up from the
Temperance hearts who read this; and
Captain James will be congratulated on
all sides that he carries on board q
Temperance association. A cold water
navy should indeed rule the waves. In
face of danger level heads, are the sea-
mems best aments.-MO7ltreak W.T.
ness
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
Before Breakfast.

"Ivanhoff," said the Gar this morn
ing, as he rolled out of his patent Nihi-
list-proof sleeping safe and felt to see
if any nitrO-glycerine had been put in
the toes of his boots, chow many pOis-
oned letters came by the six a. m.
mail?''
''Ninety-seven, your Most Illustrious
Highness.
"Have the police discovered any plans
to blow up the palace?"
'Only twelve up to daybreak, Su-
preme Ruler"
"H'm, things are getting safer. How
many men with bombs have been ar
rested about the royal quarters?''
''But seventeen, Mighty Lord of ST.
IBERIA"
"And how about the conspiracies OF
students to assassinate me?"
'All the students in the Empire have
been exiled, O Arbitrator of the Desti-
MES of Mankind
Good. Have any of the cooks been
found putting arsenic in my foodP'
"Only little scullion boy this morn
ing, and he don't count, Master of the
World and of the Sideral System"
"Have any of my confidential attend
ants been found to be high cockalorums
in the ranks of the Nihilists Pr
''Only a few this morning, hardly
worth mentioning, Exalted Emperor
and Emperor of all the Russias."
''Better yet. Ivanhotf, does the tele-
graph tell of any new uprisings in diff
ferent parts of the Empire ?''
"There are but three minor rebel
lions, and couple of Jewish massacres
reported this morning, not enough to
cause a second thought, o Originator
of all that is Good and Benefcent."
"Well, if this is the state Of affairs, l
think may venture to get up. Ivan
hoff, telephone for five regiments to fill
the corridors of the palace, and when
they come you may unlock the combi-
nation of my sleeping safe. For break
fast will have eggs boiled in the shell;
they are safest; and see that the cook
who prepares them is made to break
fast on a portion of them. All, by the
way, order that services of praise be
held in all the churches for the unpre-
cedented peace and quietness that pre-
walls in the Empire. How my people
love men'
"'Tis done, Grand Mogul of the
Earth and Planets. ~ Cincinnati Times
SfnT
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
A Good Name is Money.

A farmers name has % commercial
value as well as that of the merchant.
If every man who grows bushel of
fruit, makes pound of butter or
cheese, or who, in fact, is to have any
product for home or distant market,
will resolve that he will this year pack
his stuff in the neatest possible form,
pack only the best, and properly brand
the packages, he may be sure that he
is laying the foundation of good
name which will be worth many dollars
to him in the future. Let it be remem-
bered that the honest commission man
has the same interest in procuring top
market prices as has the producer,
whose goods he handles, He, there
fore, prefers to deal with honest con-
signers, intelligent enough to put up
only the best, and in the most approved
manner When he secures patron of
this kind he takes extra pains to sell to
the best advantage. He trades on the
name. The name is money to him as
well as to its owner. Honest commits
sion men are not phenomenal. Parker
Earle, President of the Mississippi Val
ley Horticultural Society, in his ad-
dress before that body last winter, said:
81 have had something to do with com
mission fruit merchants for nearly a
quarter of century, having done bust
ness with over one hundred and fifty
of them in some eighty cities of twenty
States and Provinces, without ever
having consciously been cheated out Of
q dollar in all that acquaintance II
may be set down as a fact, therefore
that the producer who has determined
to establish a good name, if merely
for the money there is in it, can secure
a powerful ally in the man whom he
chooses to handle his products, if thai
man has an equal care for the money
value OF his own good name. Sell The
best; put it in the best marketable
form, label it so that every purchaser
will know exactly from whom it came
and the rest-the proft-will be forth
coming Prairie Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
The COrnlce.

The famous Ccrnice really begins at
Marseilles, behind the harbor and the
ports, the "Chemin de Cornice" being
the favOrite drive of the Marseilles citi-
zens of Sunday Truly no city in the
world -Constantinople, Naples, or Pal
ermo not eXcepted-can boast of a
more grandly beautiful promenade.
Rocks to the left, mountains in the
middle distance, rocky islands crowned
with castles to seaward on the right,
with q succession of sheltered bays and
rugged promontories, each turn dis
closing some new and enchanting sur
prise, while the country houses cling to
creviceS in the cliffs, in their settings of
orange groves and gay flower gardens,
and the blooming creepers of Africa
have been everywhere acclimatized
were hard labor can find them footing
of soil. Above are the azure skies, far
beneath is the limpid sea. 1t is a de-
lightful drive for once in way; it is an
odd medley of suburbs with what
should be savage solitudes; and the
picturesque strip of coast has been
coquettishly Cockneyied. From under
the dusty bare trellisingof drinking
booth YOU look out on the barren
mountains and the broad expanse of
the sea; while creek that might con-
tain rock baths and firing cave for
the sea nymphs or the sirens has been
turned into a popular ''Oyster reserve, "
and has christened itself the "Renom-
NEE de Bouillabaisse. This spring,
when we walked along that road, ii
CHANGED to be the last day of the car
nival, and the sight was one to be long
remembered. All Marseilles appeared
to have focked out. For two miles al
least along the winding lodges of the
Cornice, and rs many more along the
broad Boulevard of the Prado, which
leads inland at right angles and back
again to the town, was one dense mass
of closely packed vehicles and human
beings. Specimens of all ranks were
to be seen on wheels, from the
wives and daughters of wealthy mer
chants, in their well-appointed equip
ages, to clamorous females in the over
crowded carts of costermongers, char
coal vendors and fishermen. There
was every style of costume, from
Partisan toilets to the glaring cotton'
and the turbans of Barcelona handker
chiefs, knotted careessly round shaggy
and swarthy locks. The mob was good
humored, though, very noisy, and j
there was any drunkenness, it wa
Shelly among the foreign mariners, whit
might have represented each port from
the Baltic to the Black Sea- Black
aO0od'S Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
Crime EXPOSED.

| Only few months ago the papers
gave an instance of the acuteness of a
French detective. A man had muir
dered his female companion and buried
| her body in cellar. The corpse was
| discovered and the man then said that
the woman had killed herself by falling
| down stairs, and that he had buried
her secretly fearing to be accused of
| her death. He asserted that this ''ac-
cident' took place in the autumn, in
October. The detective observed the
traces of smoke on the ceiling. "You
had candle when you buried the
body" he remarked, and was answered
in the affirmative. "And you say YOU
only entered this cellar on that one day
in October?" The suspected man
again averred it. 'You are speaking
| falsely" retorted the detective, and
showed the murderer, between the
crevices of the ceiling, the half con-
sumed Larvae of certain insects which
only lay in the spring, and which had
been burnt by his candle at the time
when he had actually buried his victim.
How often has a clever forgery been
detected by some keen observer who
noted some very trifiing oversight in
the skillful fraud. Forged wills have
been found out from the water mark of
the paper not tallying with their date
There is story of q false will being
once propOunded in q French court,
and the forgery was so skillful that it
appeared impossible to deny the docu-
ment's authenticity, though certain
circumstances caused its genuiueness
to be suspected. 1t was drawn. not on
ordinary paper, but on the back of
map of France professedly over a CEN
fury old. The name of the publisher
of the map was in the corner, together
with the date, and the words, "Geog-
rapher to the King" Though the rel
atives who were injured by the will felt
convinced that fraud was being prac-
ticed upon them, redress seemed hope
less. But clever lawyer discovered
that, at the time Of the supposed pub
| LEGATION of the map, the dignity of
"GeOgrapher to the King had not
been conferred upon the map maker.
| The name was correct, that of we'll
known publisher of charts in his day,
and he had been permitted to assume
the title the forger had added, but not
till some years after the date of the
forged map. Investigations clearly
proved that the geographer never as
sumed the title till it was legally con-
ferred upon him, and never afterward
published map without adding it;
the map, as well as the will written
upon its back, was a forgery, detected
by an observer of unusual acuteness.-
| London Standard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
CraZed BY Drink.
TRAGIC END OF A DEBAUCH.

TRAGIC END OF A DEBAUCH.
Charles Leist. aged sixty, Baltimore,
had been on a drunken spree steadily
for several days, and became ravino
mad from its effects. He constantly
cursed and threatened his wife and
child. After night of terror Mrs.
Leist applied for warrant for her hus.
bands arrest. The wife, accompanied
by an officer, then returned to her
home. The husband was still raving,
but when Officer Brisco presented the
warrant he asked the officer to wait for
few minutes while he went upstairs
and changed his clothes. The officer
granted his request and remained down
stairs several minutes, when, suspect
ing that his desire to change his cloth
ing might be ruse to elude arrest, he
started upstairs to watch him. Upon
reaching the topmost flight he saw the
the man lying on the floor with horri-
bic cash two inches in length across his
throat and razor, with which the deed
had been done, lying by his side covered
with blood. The wound was bleeding
freely and the eyes of the man looked
wild and staring.
Still to drunk to realize his danger, and
evidently too weak from exhaustion to
talk, the victim uttered low, gurgling
noise, as though in the last agonies OF
death.
A few hours later he died. He leaves
a wife and one child in destitute circum-
stances.
HORRIBLE RESULT OF A DARKROOM JOKE.
Hansell, Allen and Sullivan, young
and well-to-do men, utter strangers to
each other, met in Boston bar-room
and became acquainted and ioyial over
several glasses of whisky each. Allen
laid money on the counter, Hansell
playfully put his hand on it, and Sulli-
van iokingly accused him of stealing it.
Il must shoot you," said Allen, pulling
out revolver and pointing it at Sulli-
van, but it failed to 90 Off; he tried it
again, this time firing at Hansell Han
sell fell dead. This half sobered Allen,
who started for the door brandishing
the revolver in the faces of two men
who would otherwise have barred his
escape. Allen is in jail awaiting trial,
and still having cause to be thankful
that it is the blood of only one man that
is on his hands, instead of three or
more, as his six-chambered loaded re-
volver was as little responsible as his
bemuddled brain and unsteady hand
Irish World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19

Hold on your course, you are filing up
With the wine of the wrath of God, your cup
And the fiends exult in their homes below,
As you deepen the pangs of human woe.
Long will it be, if have my way,
Ere the night of death shall close your day,
For to pamper your lust for the giittering pelf
You rival in mischief the devil himself
No more said the fiend, for clear and high
Rang out on the air the watchman's cry;
With choking sob and a half formed scream
The grog-seller walked, it was all IA dream.
His grizzly guest with his horns had flown,
The lamp was out and the fire was gone,
And sad and silent his bed he sought
And long Of the wondrous vision thought.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
The following complaints confined
Smith To his bed for q week.

ELIZA BLAKENY, whose husband was
once a prosperous shoe manufacturer
in Cincinnati, has obtained Judgment for
$4,000 against a saloonkeeper for re.
ducing Blakeny to the state OF drunk.
en- brute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19

"A San Francisco newspaper re-
porter is to marry a lady worth $4,000,
900. Newspaper men do not seem to
care for money. Boston Post