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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14
State of Louisiana. Parish of Madison
Sth District Court-No. $50 Probate.

SUCCESSION OF JOHN EXPERT, deceased.
NTHEREAS, Henry VI. Floyd has
w presented to said Court, his final
account as administrator Of said sue
cessions, win his petition praying that
said account be approved, confirmed
and homologated (after due notice. and
he be. discharged with judgement a.
prayed for.
Now therefore, all persons are
required to show cause, if any taey
have, within ten days from the date
hereof, why the prayer Of the petition
er should not be granted.
Witness the Honorable E.. Delony,
Judge of said Court, and the official
seal thereof, this 18th day Of May, A
ID. 1884.
+. NJ. DAWSON, Dp'y Clerk.
A true copy attest.
F. NJ. DAWSON, Dp'y Clerk.
May 81, st.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14
H0uCE.

TAILuLAH, La, May 81, 1884.
The assessments for the yess
1854, are now ready for inspection,
and correction. All parties desir.
ing TO investigate their assessments
are notified to do so within thu
next thirty days.
J. Fl. GrLFoIL,
Assessor.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14

The following ELECTORAL votes are alb
solutely certain 10 be cast Ior Blaine
and Logan in any event whatever. no
matter who is:nominsted or what the
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14
POSTPONED SHERIEF'S SALE.
State ofIIOuistans, Parish OF Madison
9Th District Court.

August BERNuEIN 4 Bauer vs. +. G..
PEALR.-NO. $50.
DY virtue of an order Of sale to me
ID directed from thu Honorable +. J.
Delony. Judge. Of the Eighth District
Court for the parish Of Madison afore-
said in the above entitled cause,
will proceed to sell, at public auction. at
the door Of the Courthouse in the town
Of Tallu!ah, in Madison parish, Louisi-
ana, on
The Third Saturday, the 31st
day of June, A. d. 1854,
between the hours prescribed by ls1,
oil the right, title and interest Of E. q.
Peale in and 10 the following described
property, tO-wit:
All the stock Of Dry Goods, Groceries,
Wares, Merchandise, Medicines, etc
Also ono Water Tank. Also unexpired
lease Of Storehouse, and one wagon; sci
Books and Accounts, seised in the above
suit.
Terms Of sale-Cash with the benefi,
Of appraisement,
f. 8. DENNIS, Sheriff.
Per W. H. MCFARLAND. Dp'y.
Sherif's Office. Tallulah. May "a. 1884
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14
SATURDAY, JUNE II,
IL L T. +.

Incorporate.
The crops are growing.
Keep every pillow going.
Slack water navigation.
summer has come at last.
Gpats are on their last leg.
How do you like the ticket.
Ice will soon be necessity.
The levees will soon be worked
Buy your drugs Of Fulton NJ. Mc
Rae.
Will somebody please take up
few mules?
Croakers are no less noisy than
formerly.
What's the matter with the slack
water men?
Court adjourned Saturday. 1t
was civil term.
See the ice notice in another col
pmn. Do you want any?
Measles in the neiglrborhOod Of
Milliken's Bend.
The bill to establish the Shrcve-
port Lottery Co., failed:
There arc rumors of new store
&c be started in Tallulah.
The TINES is in possession Of an
egg with curly tail.
The building association failed to
meet.
Did you register that letter with
the price of your subscription in it.
OFT I thosghf you said some.
thing about the Exposition.
The police jury will meet and
organise Monday:
Th>ss is good bullfrog shooting
alosg he bayou.
Conductor Fleming looks JUS
like he did last winter.
W.R. Wadsworth IL back at Debts
sgain.
Mr.. Murphy will now sell you
ticket to any point on the road.
The new parish officers have
about all qualified. Toe the mark
The first through train from th'
wes. came through on Thursday.
Concordia has produced cotton
bloom. Why don't Madison spssl
upf
What kind of weather do yo'
call this we have been having thi
weskf
The closing of the Davis crevass
has been abandoned. Funds wer
not forthcoming.
A new engine and lot Of car
have been transferred across tn
river from Vicksburg.
There is yet twelve miles O
track to lay before the road is com
pleted to Shreveport.
If you don't advertise how d
you expect anyone to know 20
have anything TO sell.
The trains are now running Of
about the same schedule az befor
the overflow, SEQ the new tim
table.
gicksburg fears malaria, an
properly, on account Of the mu
ssnk in front of town yet they tai
about the swamps.
When you come to town, it won
take you more than three minute
10 come across to the TINES ofiit
and pay your sub scription.
The publication Of the was'
news viii be discontinued unit
next year unless the June ris
should prove dangerous.
Just about the time The tFansf
boat. is put in between Delta "
rHRsburg, Shreveport will bein
condition to seek the trade OF Ma
ison.parish. ~~t
Mr.. E. A. Adams has left Madist
Parish andgone to Roscneath fas'
county, Miss, TO engage in bus
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14

Local Hal.
Mail non Ashvood, New CaTthaee.
King and Cape, arrives Mondays, Wed.
nssdayu and Fridays, &c 1l:aO an, and
leaves at 80 pm. Of sane days.
Nail from Omega and MiiiIkene Bend
arrives Monday, Wednesday and Fri.
day q II an. and leaves At 2 pm. OF
]. II. HILBERT. p M.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14

Parish School Board.
Al. Slack, President; W. r. King,
A. J. Sewer, A. c. Monette aud W. Il.
Harvey.
Justices of the Peace,
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14

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.
0SyL g<~ofo~:nl nisfrief
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14
SUCCESSION NOTICE.

Miscellaneous Advertisement
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14

Total, seven States. 49,. .......92
The following electoral votes will cerf
tainly he cast for Blaine and Logan il
the Democratic platform is "a tariff for
revenue only"
Indiana. ................... ...lo
New York. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14

~ sHsm~e. The WseAss1A - U4nDA -
asssAaas Che unna1Gs~gs-Osa - ssuD
srssaaAsoh - nso1sos - ~ nA
Osn 90
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14

Our design in setting forth tine mat
ter in this form il to show clearly how
the Democratic party has il in its pow
er to elect Blaine and Logan. -Picayune.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
sK1mMINe THE SURFACE.

On the first page will be found an arti-
Gle from.the pen of Judge Cooley, of
Michigan. 1t appeared in the North
American Review under the head, la
Dor and Capital Before the Law and
only the latter two-thirds is given in THE
ENQUIRER, because the othes part of it
has no special bearing on the question.
Mr.. Cooley has discovered that there
is something wrong with the present
system, but he admits that he does not
know just what.lt is,> when he fails to
offer remedy. The nearest approach
he makes to a solution are the references
made to the beneficial results of feo-oper-
alton in production and arbitration be-
tween employers and employees, but he
only Skins over these points, because
his intelligence mustteach him that the
co operation and arbitration must be
general, governmental, to be effective and
permanent and that looks too much like
Socialism for the judge to favor it all at
once. He seems to fear the growing i'm.
portance of organized labor, because it is
liable to play prominent part IN the
management of public affairs, which
threatens disaster" 80
Why labor should not control the
management of public affairs, the judge
does not say, and he fails to grasp the
idea that all interests should be ANAL
gamated in such control.
1t is not bad sign, however, that this
question is forcing a consideration out of
the upper ten' professional people, and
it will only be short time until they
are forced to do more than merely skim
the surface for cure for the thousand
ills of the present system.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13

been reducsd Is Pei cent within the pass
four montHs, and the sum NOW peid i
equal to 50 per cent Of the cost Of the
building. could afve . Thousand exam
pleso the robbery prsctieed by the land
lords of this city, bat it is not necessary.
l mention the one with which / am
sorely familiar.
What / want to get at, is what are we
going to do about it, The landlords are
combined, and it does no good to threaten
70 vacate and move into another house.
Threats win not avail !; you must do
something.
What kind of an idea would it be to
form league to deal with the subject?
It is necessary to make an organised
effort IN this direction, and the first step
should be the organization of the tenants.
Let us have your views on the subject
send them into this Office, and all Of you
who are in favor Of forming an Anti
High. Rent society send in your names.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
sowing THE TEMPEST.

Reports of this week are more discour-
aging, if possible, than before. Cuts
lockouts and strikes fill the air in all the
industrial centers, and capitalism has
thrown mercy, charity, humanity to the
winds. Thousands are being daily cast
out upon the world without the means
of combating hunger or the fierce eie-
ments of winter in full blast.
Mutterings of discomfort are becoming
howls of pain and will soon. unless
checked, take the nature OF shrieks Of
revenge. And amidst all this, the greedy
capitalists keep straight on in the work
OF crushing the producers into the dust.
Rapacity has dethroned Reason, and lust
for gain has blinded the eyes to the
awful consequence of two millions OF
wretched and reckless people crying for
bread or blood
Congress is in session, but not word
has vet been said concerning the awful
state of affairs which must be PLAIN to
every one. The power lies with the
national legislature to avert the calamity
which threatens, but they are careless
or heartless, and invite the whirlwind.
1t will come, and that very soon.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
ANNIVERSARY.

This issue of The FNaUIRER closes its
second year. Next Tuesday, the six.
teenth, will be thesecond anniversary 0;
its birth. The volume is not changed
with this nu mber, because l have con-
sidered it W ell to open the new volume
with the first issue in 1885, and thereafter
have the papers years agree with the
calendar year. This arrangement, l
think, will prove satisfactory to both
publisher and subscribers.
1t is not necessary at this time to re.
view the past two years, to drag out to
public scrutiny the trials and suffering
which have been necessary to maintain
paper IN the interest of the working
people and devoted to the; cause Of
humanity; suficeit to say that there has
been crowded for me into the past
twenSy-four months the experience Of a
lifetime. I have been discouraged and
disheartened many times, but: there has
always been something within me that
bouyed me up and over the disconsolate
period; but i have so far looked in vain
for q time W hen / should not be haunte
by the fear that l should have to sus,
pend the pa per.
Friends of the cause, the future of the
paper is in your hands. If you so will
it can be made the most influential pub.
lication in this section of the country
and no one need be worked to death
I leave it with you.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
THE MINERS.

A perusal, of the weekly report of the
executive secretary will show the pres.
ent status of the coal miners STRIFE in
this state and New Mexico. The miners
are still willing and anxious for an annie
able adjustment of present difficulties,
bat are as equally determined to resist
tyranny and oppression. i
The situation in the various camps is
little changed since the last report, with
the sad exception of increased want at
Coal Creek. The men of Coal Greek
have stood out nobly against priyation
want and the overtures of wrong-seeine
men, and whether they win or lose in
the struggle they have won for them
selves the title of heroes in the cause o.
labor.
The prospects for victory are bright
ening daily, and if hunger does not Do
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
ExroRT1e,sArE RENTS.

The ENQUIRER has more than once
called attention to The high rents charged
by the landlords of this city, and called
upon. the tenants to take some steps look
ing to q reductionsef the extortionate
charges, and modification of the tyran-
nical rules enforced blythe landlords
and their agents. But so far nothing has
been done.
1t is true there has been slight reduc-
tionin rents within the past six months,
owing to tile over-supply of houses and
rooms, but still the prices charged for all
kinds of houses are from two to three
times as high as they should be, and un-
less something is shortly done the city
will be ban nkrupt.
There are othel interests besides the
tenants at stake In this matter the well
fare of the community Is threatened.
No pee pile can pay the rents which are
demanded in Denver and prosper. Ii
has been shown that no community can
pay. per- cent interest and prosper
Rents are species OF interest, and upon
that understanding I rebel against the
extortion practiced in this city.
The average rellt in this city is equa
to IS per cent on the cost of the prop
city, md lin many cases much higher
hs rent on TEE ENouIRzR Office ha'
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
SLEEPING,

At S:45 p. m. on Saturday, November
%, at the residence of Burnette G. Has
kell, San Francisco, Andrew J. Stark
weather breathed his last, and departed
from a land which has been made the
better by his sojourn in it..
: Comrade Starkweather was for many
wears a leading worker in the cause of
labor,oh the Pacific coast, and his fami-
liar form and voice will be sorely missed
from the see mes which have been bright
ened by bis presence.
: Deceased was 46 years of age and was
q native ofSNew York. He had been a
victim Of the fell disease of consumption
for some time and his death was caused
by it together with troubles of the heart
A short sketch of the deceased has
been taken from the San Francisco Star
for this issue of THE ENQUIRER, but full
obituary and history of his llfe's work
will appear in future issue from the
pen of Comrade E.askell. =
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
AaREAT Loss.

The San Francisco Truth was not issued
in November, but about the first of this
week joint number for November and
December was sent out. The explana.
tionfor failure to issue in November con-
tains the sad news that the magazine is
liable to suspend publication entirely,
because of lack of financial support.
The editor. however, calls upon his
friends once more to rally, and there is a
bare hope that something may yet be
done to spare to the cause this able and
fearless champion of the peoples rights.
But he sorrowfully admits that the
chances are remote.
The suspension of Truth, if it takes
place, will be blow to the cause, and a
sad commentary upon the appreciation
and intelligence of the masses for which
it labored. It has been the most adj
vanced publication in the country, and
It's heroic editor, Burnette G. Haskell,
has sacrificed his all to the cause. What
i - = s = + y =
he has done is not lost, and never can
be. In the years to come, men, women
and children will rise up and call him
blessed for the good work be has done !;
thousands will trace their education in
the true principles to the mastery prod
ucts of his active brain and sympathetic
heart, and the cause of humanity will
always be the brighter and the stronger
for his devotion to it.
Comrade Haskell is young man and
is composed of a, metal thas will not con-
tain defeat, or be rusted by the dampen-
ing influence of misfortune; he will be
found in the harness, working, thinking
and writing for the emancipation of the
ensIayed poor while life lasts. If called
upon to pass through the defeat of his
pet enterprise, he will come forth
the brighter and Drawer from his suffer
ings, and will buckle on his armor afresh
for the battle which is upon US. =
THE ENQUIRER has consoled with Truth
in the troubles of the past two years, and
been consoled by it; in fact, this paper
has been the adopted brother of Truth,
and the blow will fall. heavily in this
Office if the portent of the present is
realized in the future. The sorrow will
be none the less because the editor of
this paper is continually in a struggle
which threatens him with a fate like
that which Comrade Haskell fears hangs
over him. ,a
I,hope to have better news on this sub
ject for my readers next week, but let US
be prepared for the worst, and resolved
to make the successes of the future a
full recompense for the mistakes of the
past.
Next weeks ENQUIRER will contain
some interesting extracts from the cur
rent number of Truth.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
Attention Is called to Wright's card
Revolutionary Agitation.

CHICAGO, Dec. il.-At a meeting Of the
Socialists last night a speaker named
Griffin declared that the workingman
must be inclted to absolute resistance,
and that all monopolists we're enemies
to the country, and ought to be hung,
Criminal laws were unnecessary, and
peace and order could be better sus.
tanned if they we're abolished. Famine
was the result, of over-production and
not of poor crops. The only way to stop
it was to pay nothing, receive pay for
nothing, take everything and without
price. Other speakers followed in the
same strain. -
sr. PETERSBURG, Dec 11.-Twelve Nj,
hilists were captured last night. They
were holding meeting in restaurant
under the guise of ball. Important
documents fell into police hands. -
AT Retchitza, town of 5000 people,
ON the Duieper, a subterranean passage
has been discovered under the tax re-
ceiver's Office, which contained 8O,OOV
rouhles
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13

THr Chicago Tribune commenting edi-
torially on the THANKSGIVING parade
Of the idle and discontented workmen
of that city, SAID, These men on an aver
age drink up two or three turkeys in .
week. Why should they prefer whisky
to turkey r. This is the stereotvped
argument of Joe Medill. editor Of the
Tribune. against the cries of the poor.
''The improvidence Of the workingmsn"
is his pet expression. It is not the
workin9man who is addicted to the use
of strong drink that is objecting to the
injustice of present systems; it is the
man who keeps his mind clear and who
sees what is going on around him. Joe
Medill knows that one of the strongest
aids to the iniquitous system he upholds
is whisky, and he lies if he denies it.
At the same time, someone might ask
why the workers are not as much en-
titled as are the rich idlers to both tur-
key and whisky, if they want them.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13

THE ibune-Republican has been
fair on the miners strike upuntil Friday
morning, the principal feature Of it's fair
ness being its silence editorially on the
subject; but on Friday morning it con-
tanned an editorial which entirely upset
its previous record. tits too late for a
lengthy reply in this weeks paper, but I
want to call attention to few of its in
consistencies. It says the miners should
go to work because there is no coal with
which to run the industries OF the state,
and freights are too high to get coal from
other parts Nota word against the ex-
tortion of the high-rate companies,
which are the same that want the men
to work at low rates. The Republican
expresses great sympathy with the
miners and their families, but would
have them submit to the tyranny and
oppression of the bosses" for the sake
of harmony. He'll and the Palace
theator are full of such "harmony.o A
business Industry built upon the lib
critics of the best citizens of the state
might suit the Republican, but it don't
suit man who loves freedom. The
miners have made every possible effort
to settle the present trouble and get the
mines at work, nothing short of serfdom
will be accepted by the autocratic man
ayers. The miners have offered compro-
misses enough they should 60 no further
though every smelter. mill andresidenee
in this state becomes as cold as a grave.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
Pleasure Ahead.

A grand ball will be given at the Gil
man house, IN Como, on Christmas
eve Wednesday, December "a, by Bu.
chanan Assembly 3453 K. of Z. and
Como Lodge No.17 A, 0. o. w. A fine
time is anticipated, as the members of
each society are working unsparingly to
make the joint entertainment grand
success. The music viii be furnished by
Prof. ]. J. nutton's excellent band and
fine supper will be served, at $3.50 per
couple. The price of tickets to the ball
is 81. There's pleasure ahead for the
Comoites. t 49,, -
The Labor enquirer., 1884-12-13
mon, there would have been no Rsvo.

luton.
The thoughtful and serious il this
counrry ask simple justice and would not
harm hair Of their heads if it were pos
sible. But the thinker cannot always
keep desperate and starving people
in check, and when once they oyerleap
the bounds Of prudence it will be likethe
onward, sweep of the ocean. Irresistible
and destructive.
The possessors Of our creations had
best heed the bishops warning. Just
what power prayer may have it is i'm
possible to estimate no Doubt its efficacy
is unlimited; but alms-giving will
surely quiet the ominous mutterings the
bishop has heard. A hungry man will
be thankful if vou hand him loaf even
though it is rightfully his own. If you
do not crowd the american citizen too
far he will let you have your own wav
rather than quarrel with you, and hawill
very probably not notice the lnconsist-
ency of country too full Of wealth while
thousands are hungry, pennies and
idle
This. for time, but not long. The old,
old system Of competition, profits and
wages is worn out and will not do for the
new civilization, ushered in when the
power Of steam was discovered.
The waaes system leaves the masses OF
the people no possible means of procur.
ing the necessaries oflife except by hard
and continuous toll while the improve
#ments of the age ara every day making
this toll less in demand. What is man
to do? Evidently we have progressed
beyond the point where any man should
labor more than three or four hours a
day, but we do not know enough to ad.
just our systems to the new condition.
There never was time when so many
men all over the world were out of EN-.
ployment and IN want, and yet the world
was never SO full of good things.
Rufus Hatch says we have produced
enough to last two wears, ifthere is moth.
ing more made, and yet the producers
must live on air and wait till the fertu.
nate ones have consumed their produc
tons before there is any thing for them
and this state of things must recur again
and again, for some one else has said il
is possible for us to produce enough in
six months to last us three years. What
possible chance for life. for the masses, is
there in continuation of the present
system? None whatever. The wages
system is forever PLAYED out" We must
adjust ourselves to new state of things
or the whole world must die,
Prayer and charity may ward off the
impending change, but as basic princi
Plies on. which to build new structure oi
society, they are of no use.
We want Justice, not Charity Wisdom
in adjusting human relations rather thar
Prayer. LIZZIE M. SwANK.
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