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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-04-29
FIRE DepQytnleNt.

MOnCn.
Fire Department.
Alexandria Fire Depaitment-E.
G. Hunter, Chief; Jacob Geiger, AS
sistant Chief; Fl. S. Gossens, Presi-
dent; NJ. Klein, Vice. President; J.
c. Ryan, Secty; Chas. Walking,
Treasurer. Meets on last Saturday
of March of each year. The Board
of Delegates meets on the fourth
Thursday of January, April, July
and October.
Pacific Fire Co. No. Jas. An
drews, President; NJ. Bloom, Vice
President; E. J. Sullivan, Secty;
J. M. Hetherwick, Treasurer; John
J. Ferguson, Foreman; Jonas Ro-
senthal, lst Assistant; VIM. Rexer,
I'd Assistant; Sam Fellows, Engi-
neer; Chas. Goldenberg, Steward.
Meets the first Wednesday of each
month. II
/ Stonewall Hook and Ladder Co.
No. III. S. Gossens, President;
Jacob Haynes, Vice President; F.
Scheu, Secretary; A. Weinberg,
Treasurer; D. c. Paul, Foreman; H.
Williams, lat Assistant; Geo. +.
Smith, I'd Assistant, A. B. Rachal,
Custodian. Meets first Monday of
each month.
Miscellaneous. .,s
Rod and Gun Club - John W.
Prescott, President; E. B. Pendle-
ton, First Vice President; e. G.
Hunter, I'd Vice President; j. R.
Thornton, Secretary; L. B. Bay
nard, Treasurer. Meets quarterly.
Shooting match monthly. Board of
Directors-C. A. Scuack. S. Selma
linski s. Cullen, Geo. R. Waters,
r. w. Bringhurst.
Rapides Medical and Surgical AS
sociation-J. s. Fish, President; S.
Gordon, Vice President; Julius A.
Johnston, Secty. and Treasurer;
John Casson, Corresponding Secre-
tary. Meets last Saturday of each
month
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-04-29

rapidity until they totally change
its character, and make it unable
to support healthful life. And this
happens with persons and animals
alike who use impure water. Just
now when the soil is filled with the
impurities gathered on the surface
during the winter, and springs and
wells are fouled by them, is time
when the greatestprecaution should
be exercised.-|Ex.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-04-29
Ague Cure

Is purely vegetable bitter and powerful
tonic, and is Warranted a speedy and GER
tain cure for Fever and Ague, Chills
and Fever, Intermittent or Chill
Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague,
Periodical or Bilious Fever, and all
malarial disorders. In miasmatic dis
tricts, the rapid pulse, coated tongue,
thirst, lassitude, loss of appetite, pain in
the back and loins, and GOODNESS of the
spine and extremities, are only premoni-
tons OF severer symptoms which termin-
ate in the ague paroXysm, succeeded by
high fever and profuse perspiration.
1t is startling fact, that qr,inine, ar
senic, and other poisonous minerals form
the basis of most of the Fever and Ague
Preparations, "Specifcs," "Syrups,"
and "Tonics," in the market. The prep
arations made from these mineral poisons,
although they are palatable, and may
break the chill, do not cure, but leave the
1nalarial and their own drug poison in
the system, producing quinism, dizziness,
ringing in the ears, headache, vertigo, and
other disorders more formidable than
the disease they were intended to cure,
AYERS AGUE CURE thoroughly eradicates
these noxious poisons from the system,
and always cures the severest cases. 1t
contains no guinine, mineral, or any thing
that could injure the most delicate pa
tient; and its browning excellence, above
its certainty to cure, is that it leaves the
system as free from disease as before the
attack.
For Liver Complaints, AYERS AauE
CURE, by direct action on the liver and
hillary aDDaratuS drives out the nelson's
which produce these complaints, and
stimulates the system to a vigorous,
healthy condition.
We warrant it when taken according
to directions. -
Prepared by Dr.. J. C. Aver & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
Lowell, Mass. - Il
GOLD BIZ AL DRUGGISTS EvERYwHxRI.
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No scrofula can be SO deep
seated, no sore SO stubborn, but that.
Ayers Sarsaparilla will be found
helpful. 1t will effcta cure, if cnre
be possible.
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THE DANGER FROM IMPURE
WATER.

| ~ Az ooP0oi"AAJ Az AuAoA N'otiAoeo
that danger from bad water is most
prevalent, for there the long estab-
lished cesspool and barnyard are in
close contiguity to the we'll which
supplies the family with drink
After a certain lapse Of time the
water can scarcely fail to become
polluted, and then follows sudden
and mysterious attacks Of scarlet
fever, diptheria, chills, intermittent
and other fevers, which are so often
directly Or indirectly fatal to the
household. Not less serious to the
domestic animals are the swampy
ponds, the stagnant bitches, streams
POLLUTED with drainage or springs
covered with scum and flowing
through rank vegetation. Water
from such sources becomes fouled
with excrement and filled with in
fusorial germs. The excrement
from diseased animal infects all
its comrades, and if the water flows
in a stream it may carry the infec-
ton to farms many miles distant.
1t is in this manner that the preva-
lent disease among hogs, known as
! cholera, but which is really intesti-
nal fever arising from blood pois-
oning, has been carried from a sick
herd down q stream to sicken every
herd for many miles along its
course, and cattle drinking at the
stream have also been stricken with
a disease of a similar type by the
poisoned water. But a more wide
spread source of danger exists upon
nearly every farm at the season
when cattle drink from half dry
ponds and streams. Let us stop to
examine a drop of water from such
a source. We take a drop from
near some rank vegetation that is
covered with brown or green slime
or from the yellowish brown fiocks
which cover the bottom or remain
suspended in the water. Under the
microscope this water is seen to be
filled with active life.
Scores Of round star-pointed bod
les go sailing about, rotating rapid
ly as they go, passing through and
among crowds oflong eel or serpent
like bodies, or others having the
appearance Of tape worms, with
masses of organized living forms
Of the strangest and most surprising
character. Here in a single drop
of water are thousands of living
bodies, which grow and increase so
rapidly that the generation, birth
and Independent existence of one Of
them can occur during an hours ex-
animation. All these are forms of
life which have surpring power of
reproduction; so that the effect of
this water into the stomach of an
animal is to fill its blood with myr-
lads of constantly reproductive
germs, which sap its vitality at the
fount and tax all its powers of re-
sistance. If the animal is robust
and in fnll health it may resist this
draft upon its vitality, and it may
even be able to turn the table upon
its assailants, and by the very Wig
or Of its vital force destroy them
end free itself from their presence.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-04-29
BENEFITS OF INTEMPERANCE

The temperance question has
been SO thoroughly threshed out Of
late that it scarcely seems possible
to find a new argument on the one
side or the other. But a certain DR..
Troth, of Perth, Scotland, recently
delivered lecture in which he adj
vances some exceedingly original
propositions:
"The drinking Of alcoholic beve-
RACES is necessary evil, and is not
likely ever to be discountenanced.
1t is like cholera, the plague or war
one of the wise dispensations Of
Providence for preventing an undue
increase of mankind. 1t prevents
the accumulation Of all the proper
ty of the nation in the hands of a
few. By its means tile
son scatters the savings of his faith
ere lifetime iu a few months, ena--
bling another man to fill his posi-
ton, creates a class Of drunken
tradesmen to neglect their business
so that enegetic men may succeed
where they fail In
short, is benefits benefits directly or
indirectly everybody but those who
drink it, and ifthey are fools enough
to sacrifice themselves and their
families for the good of the sober
and industrious, why should we in
terfere with them Z"
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CARDS.

A NDREWS e. FOSTER, (James
n Andrews, T. D. Foster,) At
torneys at Law. Office, corner Of
Second and Washington streets, Os-
borr building. s--..
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NASSON, John, Physician and
" Surgeon. Office at residence,
at the head of Beauregard street.
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rUNTER, MOSELEY Il HERT-
Ii z"g, Attorneys at Law. Office
on Front street, between Murray
and Johnston.
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Amber, NJ E; P. H. Osborn, X of R
and S; VIM. Mcclellan, G; James
Madison, 0 G; F. L. Porter, NJ A..
Meets LIST aud Sd Monday of each
month.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-04-29

The BEAUTY OF THE BIS
MARcKs.-There is pretty legend
in connection with the Bismarck
family which goes to show how the
oak leaves adjoining the Bismarck
shield were bdded to the clover
and the nettle leves. 1t runs as
follows: Many years ago there was
a lovely maiden, Gertrude Won Bis
marck. Numbers of noble knights
and courtiers sought her hand and
heart, but she was, by her own con-
consent and her fathers wish, be-
trothed to a cousin, a noble and
princely youth. Ono day there
came to the castle, where the beaar
tiful Gertrude lived, prince Of the
Wenden, with 100 horsemen, to try,
and win her. She courteonsly, but
firmly, refused him. The prince
was greatly enraged, and, melted
by her great lovelines determined
to gain her; so he called his warri-
ors and said he would break the
clover leaf (Gertrude) with his own
hand. On the same day he assail-
ed the castle, which was but weak
ly defended. The castelar, was
soon overcome, and the Wenden
entered the caatle and then the
maiden's chamber. ri come to.
break you in, you golden clover
leaf. You don't sting like singing
nettles. Glover does not sting" he
said, and with that he put his arm
around her. A moment more he
withdrew it, crying out l'"Mercy Z"
Gertrude held a dagger over him
then stuck it in his heart, saying,
"The nettle stings hard whoever
will break or touch Bismarck's gol-
den clover" Since then the Bis
marck shield wears the old leaves
as 8 sign of crown Of victory.
-[Lond0n Truth. iS''.'
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17
Called and ''sweenied" Shoulders.

To prevent CALLING OF the shoulders,
provide a collar that fits properly. Ii
there are places on the shoulder, partic-
ularly liable to be CALLED, the stuffing of
the collar at corresponding places should
be removed, or proper pads used to
avoid pressure on the tender places.
Wasting of the muscles of the shoulder,
as we'll as bruises and gals, are also pro-
duced by hardness OF the collar, even
some new collars are often as solid as
wood. To compel young horses, not
used to work, with shoulders and skin
yet tender, to pull in such collars, I'M
evenly and in fits and starts, as they do,
with perspiration and dirt often remain
ing from day to day, is almost sure to
result iniuriously. tits unreasonable to
expect a young horse, under such cir
cumstances, to perform the labor of
thoroughly broken and older horses
and it is cruel to do so, even though ''we
need their work badly in the field" The
heat and inflammation of the parts con-
sequent upon calling, can never be re-
duced while working the animal. Rest
with cooling applications, or liberty on
pasture until all fever and tenderness
has subsidized, are necessary before any.
thing can be done to remedy the wasting
or sweeny often complained of, and mo-
until then should stimulants be applied
to the shoulders, such as portion o
equal parts of oil of camphor, tinctur,
OF cantharades and tincture of iodine
which may be applied once daily, sha
king the mixture before application
Pr lirie Farmer.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17
AMBER, MARVIN & STOCKTON,
Bankers,


Organized in 1870 by Mr. G Amber, and gen.
orally known as Amblers Bank
Transacts general banking business. De.
posits received. Discounts made and Elk.
change bought and sold on most favorable
promptly RENTED.
espondents-Importers Traders Ma.
tional Bank, New York; Merchants National
Rank, Savannah, Ga.
Resident Correspondents of Brown Bros &
Co, Drexel, Morgan & Co, Jas G Kings Sons
KOuntze Bros, New York, and other prcmi-
nent Misunderstanding Letters of Credit. lS2 If
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17
Celery Growing.

In her prize essay on celery, in Wick S
Magazine, Mrs. G. II. Root, of Ripon,
Wis, recommends the following method
of preparing for and cultivating the crop
J.. Send where you will be sure to get
good seed.
,. Prepare seed beed out of OF doors
in a sheltering situation. You will get
yaur plants early enough by so doing, for
they grow much faster and are stronger
than when in hot bed.
3. Sprinkle the bed often to keep it
moist, and when the young plants are
about three inches high transplant them
into rows, putting them about three
inches apart and the rows about one foot
from each other.
4. When the plants have become
stocky, have a trench dug about one foot
deep, put into it equal parts OF wood
ashes and good rich dressing, and rich
black soil and mix all to gether with a
hoe
5. Set the plants about five inches
apart, and be sure to straighten out the
roots and press the earth firmly about
them.
g. Sprinkle the roots enough to keep
them fresh until they are firm in their
places, and then give rhem all the water
you have mind to, the more the better.
Z. When they have made growth
nough to cause the barnches to lie over
hill up enough to hold the
stalks erect Continue the killing pro-
cess at intervals of two weeks, all sum
mer, being careful to do it when the
weather is dry, and in the afternoon
when the dew is off. Be sure, when
killing, to hold the stalks together, to
prevent the soil from getting into the
heart of the plants.
s. Such portion as you wish for early
celery, bank to the top by the first of
for winter use bank to the
top from the first to the middle of Oc-
tober.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17
French Treatment Of Foot Rot.

Foot rot in sheep, as is well known, is
an inflammation of the whole hoof, ac-
companied by the formation of blisters
which break and become ulcers, dis
charging fetid matter. Unusually appears
in the four-feet first, and sheep are seen
to favor these, often to the extent of
grazing upon their knees, they should
be looked to at once. In France the
milk of lime has been found useful in
preventing the spread OF the disease and
for the cure OF mild cases. shallow
tanks or trays are placed at the door of
the sheep barn, and the animals, as they
80 out or in, battle their feet in the
liquid. These tanks are about ten feet
long, and of width suited to the doors,
The sidesare four inches high, and there
are stripes nailed cross-wise on the bot
tom to prevent the animals from slip
ping as they pass through the liquid.
Jumps of quick-lime are placed in these
tanks, which, on the addition of water,
slake, fall to pieces, and mixing with
water form the milk OF lime, which is
another name for whitewash. Ii the
sheep on coming out bring litter with
them, this should be removed from the
tanks by means OF rake. Where the
disease has established ITSELF the sheep
must be treated individually. The dis
eased horn ofthe hoof must be cut away
with sharp knife, and all ulcers cleans
ed. A concentrated solution of sulphate
of copper (blue vitrol or blue stone), or
custic ointment of some kind should be
applied.
a favorite ointment for this disease
consists Of
Finely powdered blue vitriol. pound.
Finely powdered verdigris. :, pound.
Linseed oil. pint.
Pine tar. l quart.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17
Smoked Mullet.

Those who have never eaten any Of
these delightful fish, smoked with the
dry boughs of button-wood trees, have
missed one of the greatest delicacies of
the Southern sea-coast. 1t combines the
flavor of the finest fresh salmon, with
taste of the jerked beef of the up
country. During the mullet season,
when they are fat and aforementioned,
is the time for smoking them. They are
better when fresh from the smoke-house,
but when week old can be made quite
palatable, by setting them in the hot
oven of the cooking-stove few minutes.
They should not be peeled of the skin,
until taken to the table to eat, as they
are kept more moist and the flavor and
oil are retained by the skin.
\ nice dish of fish salad can be made
by using the bits OF smoked fish, we'll
scraped off from the skin; use the dry
er portions with any cold fresh fish that
may be left over, all well picked to
pieces, having twice the quantity of
fresh fish. For a salad dressing, take
two spoonsful OF olive oil, or butter, and
put into a pan with a small tea-cupful OF
vinegar, a half teaspoonfIl OF mustard, a
pinch of black pepper and of salt; when
it boils up have the yolk of an egg well
beaten, pour in, stir briskly minute,
and allow to cool before pouring over
salads; this makes the queen Of salads
and saves the cold bits.
| LITTLE HOUSEKEEPER.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17
Raising Radishes.

The following is my method ofraising
radishes, and which find to be the best
way. / know that most of my neighbors
have much difficulty in getting good rad
ishes, and formerly ! also did they were
tough, stringy and wormy, utterly unfit
to eat. Now | never fail to get them
sound and crisp. Radishes require to be
grown quickly in order to have them
tender. | select piece of ground in a
corner OF the garden for this crop, and
keep it specially for that purpose. use
unleached wood ashes, putting them on
the ground two or more inches in depth,
and dig them we'll under to throughly
mix them with the soil, which is sandy /;
when it is thoroughly worked / sow the
seed. first marking rows with the back of
q rake, from is to is inches apart. After
sowing, the seed is covered with the
teeth Of the rake. | add ashes to the
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bed every year and find that it keeps
them free from the worms. No manure
is required; splendid radishes are raised
in this way. l never knew this process
of raising radishes to be recommended,
and you are at liberty to publish tt.
c., London, Ont.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17

After several ballots, one of the num-
Der was nominated. snow, then we've
got to elect him." said little fellow
that's the way to do it, amt it ~ ''No,"
was the reply Of the older boy; "some
of you has got to bolt first and fling mud
at him. Then We'll go on and elect him.
-.SomeruiHe Journal.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17
Pennsylvania Roofing Slate.

This excellent roofing material is now be.
quarries, and we are prepared to supply
builders and others promptly. Special ar
engagements in regard to freight enables us to
furnish the best roofing slate at prices very
little more than shingles, thus securing abso-
lutte protection from fire and an excellent
supply OF purest cistern water Orders re-
celved by +. w. IIlTCHINGS, where samples
can be seen, or Il. NJ SHOUSE.
Agent Pennsylvania Slate Roofing Co.
55O'554 Jacksonville, Fla.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
To the Orange Growers of DGLand and
80 3 IiCinitY.N w lGM.

On the first Thursday in October n meeting
of those who have orange crops for sale will
he held at the Office of the FLORIDA AGRICTL-
TURIsT, to make united arrangements for the
disposal of the crops Purchasers of orange
crops are invitedt0 attend. 329-33I
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-17

"Boys, let's nominate candidate for
president" said small boy to his com
panions the other day, after they had
tired of playing polo. "All right, was
the response of the delighted urchins.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-09-09

Thursday afternoon, Mr.. Gcrkc was
invited hy friend to spend the
night ut Waikiki and accepted the
invitation. After locking up his
own house he left the young man
there to sleep in another house on
the premises. Mr. Gcrkc returned
the following morning early, and
after breakfast went TO the parlor to
get something. As soon rs Grant
saw this he put on his coat and
shoes and bolted. Mr.. Gcrke fol-
lowed and caught him, and after n
struggle overpowered him and took
him to the Station-lIouse. 1t APP
pears an entrance was effected by
cutting the sash of the window and
removing the springs. He got away
with $40 in cash, 6 small bottles of
whiskey and of claret. The miss
ing property was found concealed
on the premises under some banana
leaves, except the cash and 2 bottles
of whiskey. a number of holes
were burnt in the mating of one of
the bedrooms. Grant had been un-
der police surveillance for some
months past. On Saturday morning
he was brought up and pleaded
guilty, and sentenced to . months
Imprisonment and fined SO and
costs of Court.
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given mp TO the Government under
penalty Of fine, which goes TO the
informcr; that any person having q
Caccrist in hiding, sick or well, must
notify the authorities Of the fact,
and that all persons found wearing
arms in the street without leave of
the Government shall be treated rs
Monteneros, and punished accord
ing to military laws.
Whispers are afoat in San Fran
cisco that parties there have in view
the fitting out Of q privatecring cX-
pedition to prey, under authority of
letters of marque from the French
Government, upon Chinese COM
merce. The Chinese Consul in San
Francisco does not think the Ameri-
can Government will permit the fit
ting out of any such expedition, rs
it might get the nation into unpleas-
ant complications with China.
The bark Thomas II. Pope, which
left San Francisco for the North at
the end of last June as tender to the
Arctic steam whalers, returned on
the 30th of August. She brought
30,379 gallons of whale oil, 4Sl
bundles of whale-bone and z pack
ages of walrus ivory. Letters brought
by her from several whalers report
whales plentiful but hard to get.
Surgeon Woodward, of the United
States Army, one of Garfeld's ply.
sicians, died lately by his own hand,
during mental depression caused by
over-application.
General Butler, paper money and
independent labor candidate, began
stumping in Michigan, Sept. 1st.
The New York World has given
Ben's Southern war record, making
out that his troops did more plunder-
ing than anything else, and that the
General got a fortune of two millions
out of the booty in a few months.
a delegate to the Irish League
Convention has said that the League
would not take any side in American
politics.