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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
Let's All Get One.

Mr.. William Aston s yacht Nour-
mahal, which is expectedto eclipse
anything afoat, and which is to
cost s35O,OOO, will be launched
from the yard of Messrs. Harlan &
Hollingsworth, at Wilmington, the
middle of the present month. The
Nourmahal is to be a novelty in
one way. 1t is to be built entirely
of steel, and the requirements are
that it shall be fully as well equip
ped for the sea as the best of the
ocean steamers. The hull and the
frame are of steel, the deck beams
are of steel, and even the deck it.
self is to be made of the same ma
terial. Steel will be used for the
houses as high as the windows.
The Nourmahal promises beauti-
full model. The deck length is 227
feet and few inches. The breadth
of beam is 80 feet and the depth of
hold 1877 ID. Speed is to be less
of an object than safety and COM
fort. The two engines can be
worked to the extent of 400 horse
power, but only twelve knots an
hour is expected from ordinary
pressure, which can be increased
to fourteen if necessary. The
yacht is to be bark-rigged, and will
spread something like 1000 square
feet of canvas to the breeze. There
will be more room in the Nourma-
hal than in the Atalanta. tits ex-
pected that the yacht will do well
under canvas. The tall foremost,
raking aft, will float pennant 109
feet above the deck. Electric bells
from all the forward cabins and
state-roams will summon attend
ants, and the electric light will be
used in every portion of the yacht.
She is to be ready for a cruise by
the middle of July.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
POOR PARAGRAPHERS.

The following notes of speech
recently delivered in Dublin are
not without interest. Speaking on
the much vexed Irish question. the
speaker said: "The country is
over-run by absentee landlords,'
and after a magnificent peroration,
delivered from the tub on which
he was standing, he said: 81 tell
you the cup of old Ireland's mise
nv is overfowing; aye and it's not
full yet"
This joke appeared in the Times
Democrat, the Commercial-Herald
and is going the rounds of the coun-
try press. Before it goes any fur
Their the TINES has to say that
there is in this office an old scrap
book in which is this same old joke.
The Irish orator who originally
gave utterance to it has been dead
at least 100 years, and most likely
several hundred, and yet here it is
given as new. Are the paragraph
ers running out of ammunition?
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26

The Commercial Herald, OF
Nicksburg, promised its readers in
the issue of Tuesday, 18th, to give
them some interesting information
concerning the Roundaway, Brushy
and Vidal country, but it didn't.
What's the matter? Was the
special correspondent unable to
come to time?
S. f. Blum certified to his being
here by inviting the boys to an
opening last Saturday, where, in
addition to substantial spread, he
demonstrated his ability to concoct
the various mixtures INDUCED in
by the bibulously inclined. If you
don't think he knows how 60 try
him, and be convinced.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
Charles Reade.

A cable dispatch Of April 11th
announced the death of Charles
Rcade on the afternoon of that day.
His death was not entirely unlock
ed for, as he had been out of health
for several years, and only recent
ly his symptoms becoming so
alarming he was send back home
from the south of France, so that
he might breathe his last upon En-
glish soil.
"Charles Reade," according to a
recent sketch, "was born in 1914,
the son of an English country gen.
tleman, in as enviable social pos
ition as can we'll be conceived. His
boyhood was both robust and stud
ious, the right preparation for a life
of astonishing intellectual results.
He was educated at Magdalen Hall,
Oxford. After graduation he read
law, and gained a Vinerian fellow
ship at the University of Oxford in
1912. A year later he was called
to the bar.
While Mr.. Reade's chief distinc-
ton has been won in the fields of
fancy, his voice has been not un-
frequently heard on social and po-
litical questions. His novels,
moreover-some more particularly
than others-have dealt with abuses
and strongly suggested the neces-
sity of reform. In 1T Is Never
Too Late to Mend for example,
published in 1856, the atrocities of
prison discipline, as then admins
tered, were dealt with in most
powerful manner.
Charles Reade began his long list
of successes as a novelist with Peg
Woffington,' published in 1858, a
work which evidenced the manly
sympathy, independence and lib
eral views of the author, while evil
dencing mastery in style, construc-
ton and imaginative power. In
the same year he produced Chris
tie Johnstone.' 1T Is Never Too
Late to Mend appeared in 1856;
White Lies the next year after
ward. Of his remaining works,
Griffith Gaunt,' Love Me Little,
Love Me Long, Hard CASH and
Put Yourself in His Place are,
perhaps, the most talked about;
but 'The Cloister and the Hearth, ,
produced in 1861, is regarded by
the best judges as his ablest pro-
duction. This sketch would be in
complete without the mention OF
Mr.. Reade as a dramatist. In
1S43 he wrote Gold which was
succeeded in 1S47 by three other
plays, but the pillars of his fame
are his powerful novels. IT'D.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
Didn't Go.

~ say, Mr.. Railroad man." re-
marked a determined looking wo-
man, as she entered the Petaluma
station, the other day. "Where's
the man that pays damages to
widows and orphans.
"Have you a judgment against
the company" said the pasteboard
dispenser.
"I've got my own judgment that
this concern owes me about 5000
hard John dollars. My husband
fell off your draw-bridge out here
while duck shooting last Tuesday,
and thought I'd just drop in and
settle on my way home from the
cemetery. Show me the man with
the sack"
"Did the train run over the de-
ceased?"
"Run over him-of course not
suppose he was a snail. He was
kicked off the bridge by Tom
Thompson's old goose gun and
broke his neck.
"I'm afraid, madam" said the
urbane dispenser of stopovers,
"that your claim has not the prop
er legal elements to warrant its adj
Indication"
"Talk California, young man, -
said the widow.
81 mean that duck shooting &C
cidents don't CO."
"Don't eh? And I've got to turn
to and pick hops this winter to sup
port the family, have II"
CLOCKS that way, I'm afraid"
"Oh, it does, does it," screamed
the indignant relict. "That just
settles your hash. I'll just sell
Henry's old clothes and his point.
or dog, and start an anti-monopoly
paper down at Shang Landing right
away. If l don't make your rotten
old thieving corporation get up and
howl before Pm through, it'll be fun
ny. Tell old Croker to look out
for himself" and upsetting thu
water cooler with a vicious jab o
her umbrella, the female Kearney
switched out.-California paper.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
How Leopold Died.

Despite the painfully fulsome
and the ridicuously prolix articles
about the Duke Of albany, the
truth with regard to the circum-
stances ofhis death is creeping out.
1t is now universally acknowledge
ed that the Prince is dead because
he was allowed, for the first time
in his life, to 60 out on a spree.
Intoxicated with his unusual free
dom, and accustomed all his life to
revolt against the idea that he was
an invalid, he lived as fast as he
could, danced furiously, stopped
up all night, drank pretty freely,
and so brought on a fatal fit of that
epilepsy from which he suffered all
his life. Labourchere, in Truth,
is..the onlyjournalist who tells even
little of the real facts, and he
goes so far as to express regret that
the sickly prince was ever allowed
to marry.
Society is quietly laughing in its
sleeves over the ostentatiOus woe
of the Prince of Wales, as it is no.
torious that he rather disliked his
brother. The members of the
Government displayed a certain
inclination to ride on the tide OF
popular emotion by proposing an
allowance to the one child of the
Duke already in existence and to a
second which is coming, but they
were warned by some of their Rad.
cal supporters that such a proposal
would be resisted to the death ant
the nation would be aroused to rea
alarm by the prospect of allowance
to the numerous tribe of tn,
Queens grandchildren. 1t wa:
also pointed out that the Princes
had an allowance of $1,000 a year
which, for an absolutely pennies
German girl, was not bad.
The newspapers, meantime, con
tinue to supply food for curious re
Election on the extraordinary char
acteristics of English journalism
A live controversy has gone on a
to whether the Queen did or di,
not fall in a faint when sh
first heard the news. One report
err, in want of additional details
described at length the tears of tn
flunkies and the maidservants @
the Princess's household. In short
the chief moral of the episode i
the completeness with which a 81
lent treaty of universal hycocris.
can be carried out by the Englis
press.-London Cablegram to \
! Y. Sun.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
Was Willing.

Gen. Forrest was once approach
ed by an Arkansaw man, who ask
ed.
General, when do you reckin'
we're going to get something to
eat?"
"Eatl" exclaimed the General;
did you join the army merely to
get something to eat?"
"Wall that's about the size of
it?"
"Here," calling an officer, "give
this man something to eat, and
then have him shot"
The officer understood the joke,
and replied:
GAIL right, General"
The Arkansaw man, exhibiting
no alarm, said:
"Bile me a ham, cap'n, stew up
a couple o. chickens, bake two or
three hoe-cakes, fetch a gallon O.
butter-milk, and load yer guns.
With SIGH inducements, the man
what wouldn't be willin' to die is a
blame fool"
A hearty meal was prepared for
the soldier, but he still lives
Arkansaw Traveller.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
East Carroll.

The vote in East Carroll was for
McEnery 702, for Stevenson 1915.
The rest of the ticket is carried by
a large majority with the exception
of Clerk, for which office, VIM.
Rous, independent candidate, was
elected.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26

And now the Texas Siftings picks
up that old telegram to the New
York Times about the corner on
tickets; and E. A. Burke having
bought up all the tickets, and gets
the political jim-jams. Having
moved to New York the Siftings
has apparently secured another
mesh through which to sift so as
to suit its Northern readers.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
TO ADVERTISERS.

The attention of all who have any
thing to sell is called to the unusually
good medium offered by the TIMES.
The whole outfit of this paper is en-
tirely new, type and all, and clear and
readable impression is more probable
than if the material was old and worn.
The TINES is assured of an extensive
circulation in Madison parish and it
will also have its readers in the parish
es adjoining. Houses calling them
selves business houses that do not
want custom, are not expected to adver-
tise, but all firms and individuals who
really have anything to dispose OF are
cordially invited to lay the matter be-
fore the readers of the MADISON TIMES.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
SHERIFF'S SALE.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Madison,
Sth District Court.

AUGUST BERxnEIM & BAUER VS.. +. G..
PEALE.-No. $50.
DY virtue of an order of sale to me
ID directed from the Honorable +.
J. Delony, Judge of the Eighth Dis
trict Court for the parish of Madi-
son aforesaid in the above entitled
cause, l will proceed to sell, at public
auction, at the door of the Courthouse
in the town of Tallulah, in Madison
parish, Louisiana, on
The First Saturday, the Sd day
of May, A. d., 1884.
between the hours prescribed by lag,
all the right, title and interest of +. g..
Peale in and to the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
All the stock Of Dry Goods, Groceries,
Wares, Merchandise, ETC.. Also one
Water Tank. Also unexpired lease Of
Storehouse, and one wagon; set Books
and Accounts, seized in the above suit.
Terms of sale-Cash with the benefit
of appraisement.
f.. DENNIS, Sheriff.
Per w. II. MCFARLAND, Dp'y.
Sheriff7s Office. Tallulah. April 10. 1884.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
Figaro of April 10Th comes to Il

Figaro of April 10Th comes to the
TINES this week with the trouba-
dor free from color as is the scroll
on which is the word Figaro. The
issue of the week before had both
touched up with color, which de-
parture was not an improvement,
and the return to the original is
decidedly commendable. You ought
to subscribe for it. 1t is superior
to Puck.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26

Watterson is getting it from all
sides. The Atlanta Constitution
rakes him down. Henri will get
off another 9 I'm. editorial the first
thing everybody knows.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
SIGNAL SERVICE:REPORT.
Stage OF Rivers.
WARD DEPARTMENT,

WAR DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICE,
April "a, pm, Washington time. J
The following observations were taken
at the same moment of time at all the
stations named.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
ID II L FIT

DIR lift.
Save me from my friends.
Who said anything about crops?
How they scattered out on Mon
day!
Now wasn't that red circular
thin?
The mules can rest now, working
crops.
Now we can talk about the water
again.
Now suppose you give the crops
achance.
Have you seen the pretty red
circular?
Who goes on record as the first
kicker?
Which ticket is called the mulat-
to ticket now2
Put..not your trust in-the oppo-
si.ion candidates.
How are you anti-regulars going
to call yourselves?
Send any news from your neigh
borhood to the TINES.
The regulars never bobbled and
they threw no one overheard.
The solid opposition tumbled all
ito pieces on the eve of election.
SkilIs are no longer..in. demand,
and can probably be bought cheap.
Those poor darkics who expected
to draw five dollars on election
day and only got one, must have
been disappointed.
It's not at all surprising that
the getter-up of the red circular
was ashamed to sign it.
Has any one man seen all the
tickets put out by the anything-to-
beat the regulars party.
The East Carroll Citizen and the
Madison Journal have gotten up a
mutual admiration society.
The advocates ofthe white mans
ticket weakened at the last moment
as witness the red circular.
Monday was rather late to get in
the tickets, and the boys had to
hustle to get them distributed.
Now wasn't that a nice lot OF
tickets put out for the election?
Anything to beat the regulars was
the idea.
= Thanks to Hon. j. Floyd King
for a copy of the Congressional
Record received the day before the
election.
The celebrated speech of Grant
on his Southern tour is now appro-
pirate, "the wars over, let's all
take drink"
All argument concerning steam
whistles are brought to an abrupt
close when the J. HI. Williams
turns her whistle loose.
The much misrepresented
Holmes was the only candidate fol
Sheriff after all who only got out
one ticket and stuck to it.
The candidates should be com
PEELED to repair the roads. They
and their strikers have put the
roads in a terrible condition.
The most popular cry up to las
Tuesday morning among the oppo
sition was 81 don't care what be
comes of the balance of the ticket
so / get elected"
Harmony, peace, white mans
ticket, the only true Democrats, al
the old gags have gone, vanished
and in their stead arose, anything
to beat the regulars.
The boot labelled greed for offic,
appears to have been on the othe1
leg, if the means resorted to to oh
tain Office can be taken as GOO
grounds for forming an opinion.
In ordering goods from any @
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26

A Signal Service station has been
established at Helena.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26

Subscribe for the TINES 81 a
year.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
THE ELECTION RETURNS.

McEnery is elected Governor by
10000 majority.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
PARISH TICKET.
REPRESENTATIVES.


i erger.. liz D
JUSTICES OF TIE PEACE AND CONsTA-
BLES.
Elected.
1sT WARD.
RI. Carpenter, J. p; Geo. Finney,
Constable.
WARD.
P.J. Watson, J.P.;C. W. Smith, Con-
stable.
Sd WARD.
ii. r. Herd, J. p; G. r. Murchison,
Constable.
4TH WARD.
CT Gilpin, J. P; Felix Evans, Con-
stable.
9TH WARD.
NC. Atkins, J. p; E. N. Williams,
Constable.
9Th WARD.
W. H. Dixon, J. p; Nick Jackson,
Constable.
7TH WARD.
Jas. Davis, j, P; Dennis Davis, Con
stable.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26

MILO MAIZE.

MILO MAIZE.
T HAVE one barrel of the seed of
l. emilio Maize" Any Of my planting
friends can get some Of these seed free
Of cost. l would like to see Milo
Maize planted largely. 1t has proven N
good thing with me.
JAS. A. STONE.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26

Parish School Board.
A.. l.. Slack, President; w. B. King,
A. j. Sewer, A. &. MOnette and W. H..
Harvey.
Justices of the Peace.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-04-26
MADISON TIMES
SATURDAY. APRIL 26.

Time Tablc--V., s. * l.. Railroad.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-12-22
A Grand Railway Line.

But few years ago the now famous
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railway had its inception and start in
the head and hands of Colonel II. W.
Pierce, of Boston, backed by few clear
headed and far sighted men who all
possessed great faith in the future pos
sibilities of the great and rapid growth
and development of Western Texas.
So fully has their faith and work been
justified, that the road, started at Harris
burg in 1854, and completed to San Anto-
MO In 1877, and encouraged by great sue
cess and constantly increasing business,
has been extended west to FL Paso,
where 1t connects with the Mexican Cen
trail, running to the City of Mexico, and
the Southern Pacific running through
Arizona, New Mexico and California to
San Francisco. 1t also extends through
to New Orleans, with all roads running
North and East. Speed, safety and COM
fort is the motto of this road. All
through trains have fine sleeping and
buffet cars, and with but one change
from San Francisco to New Orleans, at
which city choice of routes Ia offered
to all the great centres Of the North and
East.
The San Antonio office Is at 2s5 Com
MERGE street, in Kampmann's building,
where all information can be had from
the genial agent, Mr.. ii. c.. Archer. or
the city passenger agent, Mr.. Charles N.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-12-22

himself and most Of his people killed,
twenty-four prisoners taken and sent to
the Commanding General at Chihuahua.
In 1906, from thousand to fifteen hun
dred militia from the provinces of Nueva
Leon and New Santander were united
at San Antonio under the command of
Colonel Don Simon de Herrera and of
the political and military Governor of
the Province of Texas, Don Manuel
Salcedo. Detachments of cavalry were
placed In the town of Nacogdoches,
and the crossing of Atascosito,
Trinity river, Colorado, San Mar
cos and Guadaloupe. Orders were
also sent by the Viceroy to rebuild the
old fort of Los Adaes, abandoned in 1863,
and only % miles distant from Nachi-
toohes.
In lS0S the people of this city were
very much surprised on the morning of
the Sth of September to see a French
General in full uniform enter their city.
Ii was Gen. Octariano D'Alvimar, who
was sent to Mexico to organize and COM
mand the army under the future Vice
roy of Napoleon the Great, Marquis of
ST. Simon. General D'Alvimar was made
prisoner by order of Governor Cordero
and was sent to Mexico.
In 1911 revolution took place in San
hH'ohlo, htaaSu W thpluln bOii juan
Bantista Casas, January -, all the
garrison pronounced in favor of Hildal-
COS revolution, and made prisoners
fourteen Spaniard officers. (1he same
that were afterwards executed by orders
of Lara
In ISL, n contra revolution to re-es-
tablish Spanish rule took place In San
Antonio, headed by the sub-deacon
Iambrano, on the Sd of March, 1911.
Captain Casas, loaded with chains and
sent to Monclova for trial
In 1872, information being received
that the expedition of Gutierrez de Lara
better known as the Mayer expedition
mad invaded Texas. The two Govern
ors, Colonel Don Simon de Herrera and
Colonel Salcedo, at the head of $50 men,
marched to the Preside of Goliad, where
they besieged Lara's rebel army for
nearly three months, during which per-
iod they had twenty-three fights or en-
gagements. About the end of March
the royal troops of Herrera and Salcedo
raised the siege and retired to BeXar.
After the battle of the Rosilo where the
royal troops suffered defeat. The
Spanish officers surrendered the city of
san Antonio to the rebel army; this
event took place on March 80, 1913
In 1913, on the LIST of April, the Re-
publican army entered San Antonio,
and General Gutierrez de Lara organized
the Republican Government. On the Sd
of the same month the fourteen Spanish
officers who had surrendered to Lara,
were butchered in cold blood, among
them Governor Simon de Herrera and
Manuel Salcedo.
In 1913 Colonel Ignaoio Elizondo, in
command of Monclova, the same that
had captured the lender of the reyolu-
ton, Padre llidalgo, and his retinue at
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-12-22

Verde, creek west of the Nueces river,
he was Joined by the rest of Elizondo's
routed army. Arriving at place called
la Positos, and by Others Raneheras,
he sent a reconisance to find out the
whereabouts of the enemy. His scout
soon reported that the insurgents ar
my, under the command of Alvarez de
Toledo, had sailed out of Bexar to give
him battle.
The great battle of the Medina, details
of which are too long to relate here,
took place on the 10Th of August, and re-
suited in the complete destruction of the
insurgent forces.
On the Goth, Elizondo entered Bexar
with his advance guard, and on the I'D
of the same month General Arredondo
made his triumphal entry into San An
tonic. The result of this celebrated bat
tie was to clear the internal provinces
and Texas of all insurgent forces and
return them to the kingly rule of the
Spanish crown.
In 1914, the only good done by Are
dondo's troops while occupying Bexar
was to have on several occasions chas-
tised severely the COmanches and other
tribes of Indians under the command OF
Colonel Don Benito Arnunan.
Under the Imperial Government OF
lturbide, Colonel Don Jose Felix-Tres-
Palacios, was appointed Governor of
Texas. Passing over the battle field
where he found the bones of the fallen
insurgents bleaching on the ground, he
caused them to be buried, and had the
following inscription to be placed upon
their graves:
"Here lies the brave Mexicans
Who, following Leonidas' example,
Sacrificed their fortunes and lives
Struggling to the last against tyrants."
General Don Juan Nepomuoeno Al
monte, who was sent to Texas by the
Mexican Government to report upon the
state of the country in 1884. put down
the population of San Antonio In 1906 at
5000, and in 1884 at 2i00 inhabitants.
In 1885, as soon as General Burleson
assumed command Of the Texan army
before San Antonio, the operations were
carried on with more energy, said dis
tinguished Mexican officer. Our space
does not permit MS to relate that men,
orable siege, which ended so gloriously
for the Texan army in the surrender OF
the city of San Antonio by the Com
handing Mexican General, Don Martin
Poerferto de Cos, on the 18th of Deem
Der, 1888. He was permitted TO return
with the honors of war to the west side
of the Rio Grande.
In 1886, the invasion of Texas took
place by the Mexican army, under the
command of General Don Antonio Lopez
de Santa Anna, consisting OF 60l9 men
of all arms and 81 pieces of artillery OF
various calibre. The subsistence and
ammunition were carried on the backs
of $500 pack mules, 80 four-wheel wagons
and 200 Mexican OK carts. This small
army was followed by host OF women
vendors and settlers and spectators