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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-25

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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-25
DIR L F. .

Incorporate.
Get out your overcoat.
Get your stoves ready.
Warm weather this week.
Circuit Court meets Monday.
King is said to be losing ground.
Mosquito bars can soon be taken
down.
District Court assemblies Mon
day week.
Cisterns will soon do to use as
cider presses.
The cotton picking season is
drawing to a close.
Fires have been decidedly pleas
ant tho last few days.
Rain is on the way from the
North and will soon be here.
Morey's candidacy amounts to
nothing in Madison Parish.
Wanted: that petition to the
Police Jury about the Jail lot.
Boatner speaks at Tallulah Nov.
8, the day..before the election.
1t is said the King men are levy.
ing assessments in Madison Parish
If you have not secured your
winter wood you had better do so.
As no one else will do it, the
TIxEs suggests, that King with.
draw, for the sake of harmony.
Total cotton shipped up TO Fri.
day from Tallulah AS bales. This
is the third week Of shipments.
Two of the bridges built by Maj
Waddill have had no approaches
made to them. The road overseers
should not put this matter off toe
long.
tits said passenger trains will
be run on this road on the first Of
next month, but you can't depend
on anything you hear about this
road.
Mr.. McGinty has done about all
the work he can do on the Bend
levee until il rains, or until the
State Engineers stake out more
levee lines for him.
Governor Hawkins has been ap'
pointed Commissioner for the Col
ored Exhibit, for Madison Parish
and will be pleased to furnish any
information on Exposition matters
desired.
The railroad company should
put in good shape, the wagon ap'
proaches to the platform here. A,
they are now, q loaded wagon
stands a good chance of being
broken to pieces, when it is driven
up to the platform.
The TINES Office received q
pleasant call ffon Mr.. w. A. Bat
taile, ON Thursday. Mr.. Battaile
is the General Representative Of
the Times Democrat, and is making
trip through this section, in the
interest of his paper.
Mr.. Boatner will speak at Tallu'
lab, November 8, Monday week
Last timo he spoke the KING mer
stayed away, and the Boatner mer
having been told he was not going
to speak, did the same. All the
King men who can be convinced
by facts and reason, had better
stay away this time too.
The petition to GAe Police Jury
in the matter of a lot for the Jai
and Court House was not present
ed to the Police Jury by Mr.
Cochran because it contained som'
reflections Oh that body. Thu
TINES will publish the petition i
given a chance. More, . reas0na
bic reward will be paid by TIT
TINES for the petition. including
the signatures. or for a certified
copy lit. Ss
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-25
Subscribe for the TINES.
NOTICE.

I hereby cautien the residents
of Tallulah, and vicinity, against
purchasing fresh pork, from ire
sponsible parties, as 1 have given
my hogs strychnine for their
health. JOHN L. WILSON.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-25
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.

NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
On and after the Goth of October,
the law will be rigidly enforced, in
the collection of taxes on personal
property.
H. B. HOLMES,
Sheriff and Ext ficio Tax Collector.
Parish Of Madison.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-25

Parish School Board.
Mcclellan, President; W. B.King,
J, G Clarke, W, II, Harvey, A. C,
Monette, Ssc'y.
Justices of the Peace.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-25
Local Mail.

Mail from Ashwood, New Carthage.
King and Cape, arrives Mondays, We'd
nesdays and Fridays, at 1880 am, and
leaves at $50 pm. Of same days.
Mail from Omega and Millikens Bend
arrives Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day at IL a.m., and leaves at pm. of
Same days.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-25
Terms Of Court.

Madison-Jury Term-lst Mondays
in January and June. Civil term-lst
Mondays in April and November.
East Carroll-Jury term-lst Mondays
in July and December. Civil term-lst
Mondays in May and October.
OCH Ca nlnrinl ~; afr.rk
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
PIasterlng in Early Times.

The use of plaster, or "plaister, as
it was formerly called, is of early date,
even in the British islands, in connec-
ton with domestic architecture. Long
before lime plaster came into general
use, a tenacious clay or sticky and
unctuous earth was employed when
procurable, and, in its absence, what
ever clay or mixture OF mud and earth
produced the most binding material.
The rudest and coarsest forms of daub-
ing or plastering in the British Isles
were those structures erected of wattles
and daubed over with clay to keep out
the cold. This kind of domestic build
ings was common in Ireland in the time
of Henry IL. From necessity or in con-
formity to the fashion of that country
the English monarch erected. accord
ing to Roger Hovenden, Royal pal
ace with uncommon elegance of
smoothed wattles in 1172, and in such
buildings his Ma esty with the Kings
and Princes of Ireland solemnized the
festival of Christmas. The De, onshire
'cob," class of building not yet ex-
tinct, is fair illustration of the anc ent
fashion of daubing or plastering prao-
tced in this country for long centuries.
In the thirteenth and fourteenth cent
uries in this country the plasterers
proper and the daubers formed two dis
tinct classes of building workmen, and
their wages, like the wages of other
operatives, were subject to certain regu-
lations summer and winter. The
daubers were simply the layers on OF a
mixture of straw and mud to frame
work of timber. The plasterers in Lon
don in the twenty-fourth Edward III.
u35O) were bound to take no more for
their working day between the feasts
of Easter and St Michael than Cd,
without victuals or drink, and for the
remainder of the year Sd. Upon feast
days. when they did not work, they
took moth ng.-London Builder.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
Mexican Policemen and Lanterns.l

One never tires of the street scenes of
this strange city. They combine the
commonplace, the pathetic and the lu-
dicrous, while, in TIE eyes of strangers.
the novel overshadows everything else.
On my first evening, a friend besought
me to 90 to the "zocala," in the plaza,
to hear the band and see the crowd.
We started in company, and at the first
corner brought up before a lantern on
the ground, exactly in the center of the
intersecting streets. What is that
forp" was the natural inquiry. THAT
lantern? Oh, that's policeman lam
tern. II shows that he is ], his place.
Yes," looking around, "there he is be-
hind that lamppost. If he stirs SO much
as to walk UP to the middle OF the
block he must take the light with him.
Roundsinen are always on the watch,
and if lantern OF man is gone there is
trouble" Further observation showed
that this explanation was correct. Every
four corners had its lantern exactly in
the center, and every lantern its police
man. Standing in the middle of the
roadway, long line of lights appeared,
stretching away to the four quarters OF
the compass. The streets of Mexico are
American, in that they cross each other
exactly at right angles. though Euro
pean, in that each square has its indi-
vidual name. The main thoroughfare,
from the plaza to the ALI eda, has as
many names as blocks in Il e third of a
mile between the lturbide Hotel and the
plaza, and doubtless as large a number
off in the other direc lion. .-Me1tcGn
Cor. 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20

The following incident took place re-
Gently on Massachusetts railroad not
many miles from Boston. Several ladies
entered the car at one of the many stop
ping places and all obtained seats ex-
cept one. A middle-aged, well-dressed
gentleman, who looked as if he might
be bank President, (not in an invid-
uous sense), arose and politely offered
the latter his seat. The lady (?l
dropped into it without so much as an
inclination of the head or a simple
''thank you" The gentleman was evil
IDENTIFY indignant. He gazed at the lady
a moment, and then, stepping up to her,
said: 81 beg your pardon. pointing
at the same time to the back of the seat
as if he had left something in it. The
lady arose and the gentleman coolly
dropped into the seat, took out his pa
per and commenced to read. A litter
ran around the car, and it was the
unanimous pinion of the lookers-on
that the lady had been treated no worse
than she deserved. She remained
standing for sometime in evident en-
barrassment. but nobody offered her a
seat. and at the next station she moved
into another car.-Boston Herald.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
Cashing's Railroad.

Joe Cushing" said railroad man
to Gio6e- Democrat reporter yesterday,
''used to own mill on a certain rail
way up in New Hampshire, and it was
an almighty big mill, too. Well. the
railroad got to squeezing Joe pretty
hard. They told him he'd got to ship
over their line or shut up his mill, and
they proposed to charge him any rate
they wanted to. At last Joe couldn't
stand it any longer. There was another
railroad six miles away, and one day
ne went to see the general manager of
the other line, and offered to build
road cross lots from his mill if he was
guaranteed certain reasonable charges
for all time to come. His offer was ac-
copied, and inside of twenty-foar hours
Joe had five hundred men at work shoy-
cling down hills, filling up valleys.
bridging streams and laying rails aud
ties. The officials of the road that had
been putting tie blocks to him went to
SEQ him, and offered to carry his stuff
for the cost of transportation If he would
abandon his project, but Joe promptly
refused them. In few months he had
his road completed, and be has been
using it ever since.
Now, the fun of the thing is that as
soon as everything was in working or
der Joe went to Boston and had lot of
printing done, and before many days
every railroad official in America re-
ceived an elegantly engraved annual
pass, inclosed in neatly printed circu-
lar. Thu front of the pass read as fol-
lows
"1SsL JOE CUsHINa's ROAD. 1881. Pass
Mr.. ----- until Dec 81, 1881, unless other
wise ordered.
mo. JOE CUSHING, President
"On the back was printed this unique
sentence: This pass is not transferable.
The person accepting and using it
thereby assumes the right to travel and
transport baggage over this road when
ever he pleases, and at the risk of Joe
Gushing, who will be financ ally re.
sponsible for all damage to person or
property incurred while so travelling
"The circular was headed by a map
of the road showing the location of the
mill and the length of the line. 1t said
in substance: My road is only six
miles long, but it is perfectly solvent,
pays all its interest charges and taxes,
and is first-class property in every re-
spect. | herewith send you en annual
pass, and invite you to use my line at
any and all times at my own risk. If
you should see fit to extend TO me in
return the courtesy of an annual pass
over your road l shall greatly appreci-
ate it.
"Well, sir, the mans cheek was so
enormous that the officials of nearly
every road in America laugh over the
thing and send him pass, and l hear
of him every now and then in different
places all over the country using his
| ANNALS IS. Louis Globe Demo rat.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
In British Guinea Forests.

In the forests the monkeys are the
lords, the horrible snakes alone disput-
ing with them the dominion of the
wooded world. For the most part they
live on the tops of the loftiest trees,
where they are tolerably safe, except
from tho hunters gun and Indians ar
low. As one glides along tn, thickly-
shrubbed banks among the streams in
noiseless canoes they chatt { and
jump from limb to limb, follow
ing for miles. There are mon
keys of all sorts-howling monkeys,
weeping monkeys, preaching monkeys,
sp' der, fox-tailed and squirrel monkeys,
with all sorts of faces, boards and an
ties. There are vampires, or winged
bats, that suck the blood of the traveller,
and cool his fevered slumber with the
tapping of their wings. There arc wild
dogs th; live on crabs, and skunks with
an odor SO fetid that they drive off all
enemies. Tiger-cats climb the enor-
mously large trees in the suburbs of the
city, and jaguars lie in wait over pools
and spring to snatch up thirsty pigs
coming to drink, or eat up the baby
swinging in the hammock. There are
oh hC-ot.'oAS 9h.1V "a 'oAJ uSiy "hCu PtO
voked, and in the waters the huge, i'll
shapen sea-cow, and sharks twenty feet
long. The varieties of snakes are nu-
merous. The boa-constrictors, called
the bush-masters, are of enormous size,
and their contests for supremacy with
the ferocious black alligators are terri
BILE. Eels arc four feet long, and big
black beetles nibble the toes of the
sleeping maiden. In the rainy season
large crickets alight on the hands and
face and iniame the skin, while ants
enter your room and sometimes sting
venomously. Sand-fies, SO small as to
escape detection, bother one. and mos
quitoes and flies are buzzing every
where. Oh. it's just the country for the
man who wants to study natural history.
Cor. Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
The Young Man Left.

A young man from Boston, who has
been boarding in one of the Vermont
hillside towns since the first of June,
threw his landlady's daughter into a
terrible futter the other day by inquir-
ing:
"Ah-Jennie, how would you like to
go to Boston to live"
Jennie was hulling field strawberries
at the time, and her cheeks turned red
der than her finger tips. Casting down
her sweet blue eyes, and nervously
clutching the corner Of her apron, she
murmured:
"Oh, Mr.. George! Surely you can t
mean
Yes, I do, Jennie. I know you
would just suit mother to a T; and then,
you are SO lady-like, and you do bake
beans beautifully"
"Oh, George! II really don't
know what to say. IL am 50 young,
and-and beside, you haven't really
asked me yet.
Haven't l. why, what more could
say? Oh, yes! you want to know the
other side of the bargain, of course"
Yes. George, IL really do"
Well, I'll tell you, Jennie. ] think
l am perfectly safe in offering you $3.50
a week and every other Sunday out"
The down stage stopped at the farm
house for the young man the very next
morning. Boston Herald.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
lie Was Up On Horses.

II keep my eyes and ears open all
the while when ] am travelling. l do"
remarked garrulous passenger by way
of explanation of the great fund Of in
formation which he had occupied a
solid hour in giving up to his not over
patient companions. "And your
mouth, too." observed a tired listener.
so to voce. Nothing escapes me"
continued the talkat We man. not hear
ing the others remark; II never had
the advantage Of schooling. / don't
take much stock in education, nohow. !
believe in man keeping his eyes open,
learning for himself by observation.
Now there's horse-I know all about
a horse, from tooth to tail, an | never
studied none oyer Biographies nor natur-
al histories, either. / know $50 you
know all about horse, do you?" in
CURED another listener, with demure
ar which gave promise of a ''cateh.' -
Eyes, in Iced; know all about EN-.
There air no question about boss |
studied 'em for twenty years, an that S
wuth more n all the books in creation.
/" Am glad to meet you. ar, )" in
terrupted the demure one. There's a
point L m in doubt about, and perhaps
you can settle it. Why is it when a
horse goes away from home he goes
along tending to his business, annoy
ing no one and attract ng no attention,
while Just as soon as a jackass gets
away from home be goes to wagging
his ears, braying and giving himself
away"'
The know-it-all man suddenly re-
membered that his wife was waiting
for him in the next car. Chicago Her.
aid
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Biblical Jews" is the name of new
and growing sect in Russia. They have,
renounced the Talmud, and are dill
gently studying the Old Testament.
Rev. DR.. j. P. Newman wants the
time to come when clergyman will be
able to go from one church to another
without being suspected of having
changed his faith. Chicago Herald.
The Salvation Army has 749 corps
at home and 191 abroad; 444 corps of
children. In Great Britain and Ireland
it has $40 buildings with seating cspae-
ity for $50, 600, and buildings abroad
with capacity for 1870, 900 sittings. Thir-
teen languages are used in their meet
ings. IN. Y. Tribune.
Last year the women of the United
States gave $500, 900 toward Christian
izing the heather. OF this large sum
Presbyterian women gave nearly $500, :.
900; Baptist women, $156. .O00; Congre-
gational women, $130.O00; Northern
Methodist women, $10s, 600; Southern
Methodist women, S25, 900. Chicago
Times.
During the last year the Catholic,
Total Abstinence Union of Philadelphia
attended the arrival of 79 steamers, re-
lfeved 705 destitute immigrants and gave
advice and information to over $500
persons at the wharf, and procured en-
ployment for 191 girls and 80 men, and
expended in relief 1896. IL. - PitG-
delphta Press.
Why not make the school-houses
pleasant and comfortable places of
gathering for the children Has any
one of middle age forgotten the hard
back-seat experience of their youth,
and the bare, dirty, spit ball-eoyered
walls? Why not have few tasty
flower-beds about the grounds contain
ing beautiful flowers, shade trees. etc.
Let the school building of the future be
beautiful, but not extravagant; attrac-
tive, but not gaudy.-C Cleveland Leader.
Nothing does SO much harm to
boys said an old public school-teacher
yesterday, as letting them rue wild in
the city during summer vacation. The
very best boys are demoralized by it. If
they could only spend few hours each
day learning some industrial art it
would be much better in the end for
them and for the community. Many
promising boys are ruined by one sum-
mer vacation in the city. The same
may be said of girls, though, as rule,
they are taken better care f"-Phttd-
detphta Times
An exchange discourses on the dis
comforts and diseases resulting from the
bad ventilation Of churches, and makes
the following good suggestions: '.First-
of tho n ohuroh ko wolf oirod boFo,.o o,,d
a ter each service, thus giving supply
of fresh air to begin on. Second-While
the churches in summer are closed one
or more months let ventilators be first
thought of when repairs are contem-
plated. Third-Let the physicians in
our churches interest themselves in this
matter, and pour little wholesome in
formation into the sexton's brains
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Milk sells at Waco, Tex, at four
cents gallon.
California ostrich eggs are only
81, 200 dozen.
There are II 100000 people within
q radius of 800 miles of Louisville, Ky.
The births in Spain during 1883
numbered 453, 900, and the deaths 49,
900.
1t is estimated that the yield of ap-
pies in Western New York will be 1, ,0O0,-
O00 barrels.
Canada exported last year 81, 705.-
817 worth of butter and Sc, ,451 $50
worth of cheese.
The thirty-eight States of the Union
contain 2,299 counties. Texas leads Off
with 151, and Georgia follows with 1877.
) "A ffty-one pound watermelon and q
one pound tomato are what fernando
County, Florida. has done this season.
Steel rails are now going off in
large lots ct $50 per ton, the lowest
price ever known for them. Chicago
Journal.
The mortality of the whole globe
has been computed by a continental
publication at the following figures:
Sixty-seYen per minute, 81, 100 per dom
and '35, 639, ,835 per annum; whereas the
births are 36,792. 900 per annum, 100,-
600 per diem and 70 per minute.
A New York dealer says he last
year sold 10 J, 600 canary birds, most of
which came from the Hartz mountains,
in Germany. A good canary is sold for
$3; choice specimens sometimes bring
SO. Mocking-birds sell for S25 and
upward. Parrots are worth from $50
to $100.-N T. Sun.
Germany now produces from beets
alone nearly twice as much sugar as
the island of Cuba does from its cane
| fields. Last year the product was 925,
900 tons: this year it will probably ex-
| the home demand SAG, 800 tons were ex-
ported. Y. Examiner.
The daily product of paper al
Holyoke, Mass, is closely estimated al
| the enormous amount of 1T tons. A
large part of the product is fine writing
and book papers. More than $5, 600, ,0W
| is invested in the business, which gives
| employment to between four thousand
and five thousand hands. Boston Her.
| AID.
The total number of negroes In the
United States is estimated at 6, 900, 900,
or one-eighth OF the entire population.
Only seven Northern States have a
higher colored population than 10000,
and of these the highest is Pennsyl-
vania, with $4,000. Tie census indi,
Gated the fact that the white population
doubles itself in every twenty-five
years, while the negro does SO in every
twenty years. From these figures 9
writer in the North american RevielU
making allowance for foreign and
Northern immigration, concludes thai
in one hundred years the negroes il
every Southern State will be double the
| number of whites.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-20
A FIREMAN'S LUCK.
Engineer Crockett Draws $4,000 In
the Louisiana Lottery.

81 don't believe it, was the reply of
engineer Frank Crockett of steamer IL of
the fire department of this city, when he
was aroused from his sleep the other night
by brother fireman, who breathlessly
informed him that he had won SIS 900 in
the Louisiana State Lottery in the draw
ing of the 18th inst. what's more l
won't believe it until have had positive
proof.
Supposing should advance you 800
you believe it then ?" asked his eomrade.
q Yes, might"
The fireman went out and procured the
800 and handed it to Crockett, who for
the first time began to realize his great
good luck. Then, in the language of a
friend, she got up, dressed himself and
tried to stand on his head in the corner. "
" Crockett never had $500 at one time
before this lucky strike,'' said another
fireman to the reporter, To be sure he
gets $40 month as engineer, but he
isn't much of hand at saving. The
ticket that won the money was No. 6S,-
$50, and it captured one-ffth of the first
capital prize..of $4,000.
Has Crockett received his money
YETI"
eyes; but, strange to say, he still
sticks to his job. We all thought il
would paralyze him when he heard the
news, but it didn't. He isn't man who
drinks or CANDLES to any great extent
He is about 35 years of age and married
l heard that he intends to go back to New
Jersey, where he came from, and buy 8
farm and settle down."
Crockett was interviewed, but nc
amount of questioning could make hin
say anything further than that he
didn't care for notoriety," and that he
didn't want anything published abou
the matter"
No. 68, $50 was the first ticket Crockett
ever bought in any lottery and his for
tunate experience adds another scrap tt
the history of lucky lottery players il
this city.-San Francisco (Cal.) Chron
&cIp. NOU. 26.