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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-17
COLFAX, GRANT PARISH, La. SATURDAY, MAY II, 1884,

W. Denton. Edward Berry. Felix
Bullitt, T. d. Bogus, Jesse. Freds-
rick, W. H. Voluntine, Vim. Thomas.
The jury was . fair, representative
jury, and included nine white men
and three colored ones.
After the indictment had been
read to the jury, the State called, a.
it's. frat witness, George Miles. col
ored boy, about fifteen years of age,
who testified, in substance, as fol-
lows: "About sun-dovn on last
Wednesday evening / was driving
my calves up near the Five Oaks. !
saw Frank 81. Page coming down the
road from Colfax towards the Five
Oaks. He appeared to b ON his
way home At the same time / saw
Wilson Sanders riding in . gallop
across the open pasture from the
Toro woods towards the Five Oaks.
Sanders rode up to the little house ct
the Five Oaks and hitched his horse
to the fence, and then ran and hid
behind . patch Of briers about two
hundred yards from the house. and
along side the road. / was still driv-
ing up my calves. By this time I
had got behind and right up to the
house. I heard the sound Of . lick
and heard Page grunt. I jumped up
on the gallery Of the house and saw
Page down in the road by the brier
patch and Wilson Sanders standing
straddle Of him beating him. ] ran
of to where Andy Harris was sitting
on his bars, about four hundred
yards of, and told him to come quick
that Uncle Wilson had Page down
beating him. Uncle Andy and / ran
back to the brier patch. We found
Wilson there, but could not see any
thing Of Page. Uncle Andy walked
around the brier patch and found
Pages body lying in the patch. He
asked Wilson what he killed Page
for. Wilson said Page had told him
he was going 70 send him to the PEN
itentiary. Wilson made Uncle Andy
and me promise that we would not
tell on him."
The cross-examination elected
nothing new and failed to make him
contradict himself in the least.
Andy Harris, q colored man about
sixty years Of age, was next called
and testified, in substance, Is follows:
II wss setting on my bars. about
four hundred yards from the Five
Oaks. on last Wednesday about sun
down whom George Niles ran up and
told me that Wilson Sanders was
beating Mr.. Page. We ran up to
where Wilson was As We came up
to the Five Oaks I saw Wilson pick
up some bricks near the house and
hurry of towards the brier patch.
] called to him to stop, I wanted to
see him. He ran faster. ! saw him
catch mp something and run around
the patch with it. When came up
he had . brick in one hand and the
other one in his pocket He made
ont like he was looking for something.
I asked him what he was looking in
the briers for. He said . rabbit
1 walked around the patch and found
Page lying there, with his heels ur
in the briers, and one boot of. Page
was still breathing. I called him
Eve or six times. He made no an
swer. I asked Wilson what he killed
Page for. He told me not to talk q
loud. Iaaked him again. He asked
me il / would toll on him. / VA
scared Of him and told him no. HI
then said that Page was witness
against him, and had told him tha1
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Eve or six times. He made no an
swer. / asked Wilson what he killed
Page for. He told me not to talk 90
loud. Iasked him again. He asked
me il I would toll on him. / was
scared of him and told him no. he
then said that Page was . witness
against him, and had told him that
he was going TO send him to the
penitentisry, and he had killed him.
/ LEFT to get my horse to come to
ColfAx. At my gate ! met Mr.. Hun
ter and told him what had happened
I then got my horse and came te
CoIfax."
The cross examination brought ouI
nothing new.
G. II. Teal wa8 next sworn and tes.
tilted a. follows Il am sheriff o.
Grant On Wednesday night ]
started out in pursuit Of Sanders .,
soon az Mr.. Hunter. came to Colfax
Harve williamson and John Greco
were with me. We rode rapidly T.
the scene Of the murder. After ex
aiming the spot to End him VI
started OF, when hearing noise be
hind me, ] turned and saw hin
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Something Cheering to Know.

Olaf Rygh, the Norwegian llerodotus,
tells us that when the old IarcSarks felt
the approach of their end they robbed
death of its sting by drifting out to sea
in a scuttled or burning boat, and thus
expired, screaming the wild battle
songs of their tribe" The Roman gladi-
ators shouted and laughed aloud while
their wounds were being dressed. 4
scalded child sobs and gasps for a thera-
p%culical purpose; instinct teaches it the
rcadicst way to bcnumb the feeling of
pain.
The physiological rationale of all this
Is that rapid breathing is an an;usthctic.
In q paper read before the Philadelphia
Medical society, May -, 1880, DR.. W.
a. Bonwill ascribes that effect to the in
flucncc of the surplus oxygen which is
thus forced upon the lungs, just as by
the Inhalation of nitrous oxide gas,
which is composed of the same element
as common air, but with a larger proper
ton of oxygen, and mentions a large va
ricty of cases in his W practice where
rapid breathing produced all the essen
tial effects of chemical pain-obtundcr,
without appreciably diminishing the
consciousness of the patient. Persons
who object to the use of chloroform (pcr-
haps from an instructive dread that in
their case ether slumber might prove a
sleep that knows no waking) can be-
numb their nerves during the progress
of IL surgical operation by gasping as
rapidly as possible.
Zone Of the most remarkable proofs
of it's efficacy" says DR.. Bonwill, 'was
the case of a boy of eleven years of age,
for whom | had to extract the upper and
lower first permanent molars on both
sides. lie brcathcd rapidly for nearly Il
minute. when | removed in about twenty
seconds all four of the teeth. lie de-
cIared there was no pain, and We needed
no such assertion, for there was not the
slightest indication that he was under
going a severe operation ."-P1p"I" S4-
ence Monthly.
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Bees Hiying in n Stove.

Miss NaIhc Case, principal of La Sierra
public school, in this county. is RESPONSE
bic for the following bee story: Recently
on opening the stove. in which there had
been no fire for several days, she was
surprised to find hat a colony of bees
had taken possession of it and had conf
mcnccd to make honcycomb. 10 get
into the stove the bees had come down
the chimney and pipe, making the turn
of two elbows before reaching the bot
tom. The bees. on being disturbed in
their wo k, attacked the pupils vigor-
ously and drove them out of the school
house. The schoolmistrcss escaped in
jury by tanning the bees industriously
with her pocket handkerchief. The bees
were at last thoroughly subdued, being
smoked out and killed.-Sam Brnardino
(Cal.) IHder.
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Living With a Bullet in His Brain.

Doctor W. P. Hartford, of Bcctown,
Wis, sends us the history of Il somewhat
rare case. a young man. aged thirty,
was shot in the face. receiving the full
charge of a shotgun at Il distance of tif-
teen yards. His head was struck with
seven No. 3 shot and two bullets. Doc
tor Hartford writes: Zone bullet pcnc-
trated the frontal bone three-fourths of
an inch above the right ~supraolbital
ridge, and l think it passed nearly if not
quite through the brain; it cut n clean
hole through the bone. We prohcd the
wound about an inch and a half; it went
straight into the brain. and there was
some Of the brain substance on the
ground where he fell when shot. There
was another bullet wound just under the
right eye that penetrated for about an
inch. The course OF the bullets was from
right to left. The patient was uncon-
scious, and then somewhat dclirious for
a few days. lie finally recovered en-
tircly, except for a feeling OF numbncss
in the right hand and lcg."--New York
Wq{iruL pcfDrd.
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A COngressman'S War Story.

Congressman Blackburn. of Kentucky,
told this story to L knot of listeners in
Washington:
Did | ever tell YOU a funny thing
that happened to me during the war.
Well, it was in this way: -Four days be-
fore | went to the front with my regi-
mcnt We had Il little girl baby. She is
now grown, and you always see her with
me at any social gathering. Well, in
our army, the furloughs came very rare
~. When we got into line there was no
great chance for il man to get home. 1t
was about three years attcrward that 4
few of us were one night going down
the Mississippi on a river steamer. |
had been sick. and was returning to my
command. but pretty well broken up,
even then. As for money, we did not
have any, and the night was hot, as |
laid down on the deck, my throat almost
parched with thirst. Pretty soon a
little girl came along with Il big glass of
lemonade. tell you it looked good to
me. She saw me cyeing it, stopped a
minute, looked doubtfully at me and
finally came up to my side. You look as
if YOU wanted something to drink she
said, and offered me the glass. 1t was
not quite the square thing to do, but |
took it and handed it back to her empty.
1t was like nectar to me. Then | thanked
the little creature and sent her away.
Soon after, just like every child, she
came back leading her mother to sec
the poor soldier. BY Jupiter! it was my
wife, and the girl was the baby whom |
had last seen as Il baby just born. You
can imagine the reunion. They were
with my brothers family and happened
to be going down the river. That was
the only time during the four years
fighting that l saw my wife and baby,
and under these circumstances what
would ever forget it!'
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ONE MODERN TERRQl
Increasing in Frequency and pang9 r..
What Can be Done to Stop }snt
Progress Of Kidney and biaqae'
0omn1o;ntse -

There Is no more agonizing class OF III r.
and none more certain mot to get ~
SELF than the disorders Of the hdneys -
bladder. Physicians too frequently ian W
recognize what they are, and even II slu%
inQ them, lack the skill for their proper t leaJ
ment. So that they are liable to ioe an9msu
to progress until they are almost unenaur
BILE. and their victims are made TO uloeiSo
the most frightful ~tortures Of q surgical SPsn.d,
alton. The only medicine that does aho ~
speedy relief and permanent cure OF sucn "a.
ect;on Is DR.. DAVID KENNEDY
VORITE REMEDY lot Rond0YSS ~: -.
It is not a mere soother, tsmporarfY
but by its alternative action purifes the oiooua
restores a healthful condition to the diseased
organs, and even dissolves and causes tne e1-
pulsion of gravel and stone from the klopeys
and bladder. The testimony Of hundreds WIG
have been cured by it vouches for this. II
YOU have weakness, or pain in the back over
the kidneys, or II your urine is dark coloIeo,
do not delay treatment for a single day, p ~
hasten at once to arrest the progress OF nns
disease BY the use Of DIR. kENNEDf,s
FAVORiTE REMEDY. DR.: kennedy a.
sures the public, by a reputation whlcn rs
cannot afford to forfeit or imperi!, d tne
FAVORITE REMEDY does inyigorate tne
blood, cures liver, kidney and bladder com
plants, as well as those diseases ana weak
nessas peculiar to females. -
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HEALTH HINTS.

Fora sore chest, apply, upon retiring,
hops saturated with vinegar till re-
lieved.
In a case of sleeplcssness, induce mus
cular fatigue by walking, and refreshing
sleep will follow.
A change of diet, air and habitation,
with a vegetable tonic and blood puri-
fer. will cure all durable cases of cancer
When dining, have some cheerful con-
vcrsation. 1t is not only a powerful APP
petizer, but it is also an ad juvant to
stomachal digestion.
Some people prefer hot lemonade to
the usual form, but it is only recently
that we have seen it recommended in
diarrhna, says the Scientific american. DR..
Vigouroux recommends a glass of hot
lemonade every hour, or half hour, as an
easy, agreeable, and efficient treatment OF
diarrh9a.
A writer in the Medical Times ami
Gazette recommends the use of hot milk
rs q restorative. Milk when heated
above 100 F. loses its sweetness and den
sity, but has a most beneficial influence
owe mind and body when exhausted by
labor or mental strain. Its effects are
more i~nvigorating and enduring than
those of alcoholic stlmulants.
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How She Pits on Her Shoes.

When q woman has Il new pair OF
shoes sent home she performs altogether
different from q man. She never shoves
her toes into them and yanks and hauls
until she is red in the face and all out of
breath. and then goes stamping and
kicking around, but pulls them on part
way carefully, witches them off again to
take IL last look and see if she has got
the right one, pulls them on again. looks
at them drcamily, says they IRE just
right, then takes another look. stops sud-
denly to smooth out the wrinkle, twists
around and surveys them sideways, cx-
claims: "Mcrcy, how loose they are"
Looks at them again square in front,
works her feet around so they won't hurt
her quite so much, takes them of, looks
at the heels, the toe, the bottom, and
then inside, puts them on again, walks
up and down the oom once or twice,
remarks to her better-half that she won't
have them at any p,ice, tits down the
mirror so she can see how they look,
turns in every possible direction, and
nearly dislocates her neck trying to see
how they look from that way, backs off,
steps up again, takes thirty or forty fare
well looks, says they make her feet look
awful big and will never do in the world,
puts them off and on three or four times
more, asks her husband what he thinks
about it, and pays no attention TO what
he says, goes through it again, and
finally says she will take them. 1t is q
very simple matter, indeed Chicago
Tribune.
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The Oririn of Dixie.

On a Saturday night in 1859, when
Dan Emmett was a member of Brvant's
MINISTRIES, New York, Dan Bryant came
to him and said: Dan, can't 0 get up
a walk around' ! want something new
and lively for Monday night" Dan went
to work. and by Sunday afternoon he had
the words commencing, II wish | was in
Dixie" This expression was not South
ern. but appeared among the circus
people Of the North. In early fall, when
nipping flosts would overtake the tented
wanderers, the boys woald think Of the
warmth of the South, and the common
expression would be: "Well, I wish !
was in Dixie" This gave the catch-linc,
and the rest of the song was original.
On Monday morning it was rehearsed
and highly commended, and at night a
crowded house caught up the refrain and
half of them went h,me singing Dixie.
The song became the rage. and W. W. New
combs, Buckley's MINISTRIES and others
gave Dan IS each for the privilege of
using it. Mr.. Werlean wrote to Emmett
to secure the copyright; but, without
waiting for a reply, published it with
words by a Mr.. Peters. Pond, of New
York, secured it from Emmett for 5000;
but Werlean sold thousands of copies
without giving him a nickel. Not only
was Emmett robbed of the profits of his
song, but the authorship of it was dis
puted. Will S. Hayes claimed it as his
own. Pond brought the matter before a
music publishers convention, and settled
the authorship; but Dan reaped no bcne-
from this tardy justice. Oakland
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Amusing DuelS.

During the progress of the duel be-
tween Senator William VI. Gw!n and
Representative J. W. McCorkic, in 1888,
SAYS the san Francisco AAa- California, a
poor donkey nearly half a mile away was
Shot dcad-and the donkey was not even
a spectator. Stcrnc once fought q duel
about a goose, and Raleigh one concern
ing u tavern bill. An 1rishman once
challenged an Englishman because the
latter declared that anchovies did not
grow on trees. a member Of Louis
XVIII.'s body-guard challenged three
men in one day-one because he had
stared mt him, another because he had
looked at HIM askew, and the third on &C
count of his passing him by without
looking at him at all. A Liverpool sea
captain was once challenged and named
harpoons as weapons. A Frenchman who
had been called out named twenty-four
loaves of ''sicge-bread'-''we will cat
against each other" he said, until n
of us shall die: for one of us is sure to
die" Many who have received chal-
lenges have accepted and named horse
whips or cowhidcs. Two Tennessee edi-
tors, who had long quarreled, repaired to
the field to fight, but settled their diff
Guilty after firing one shot, by agreeing to
merge their papers into one concern and.
enter into partnership with each other,
which they carried into effect after their
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WISE WORDS.

There is always q spot in our sunshine;
it is the shadow OF ourselves.
Nothing present is so barren but that
there are fertile fields beyond.
Have the courage to prefer comfort and
propriety to fashion in all things.
Of all the things that man possesses,
woman alone takes pleasure in being pos
sessed.
There are no persons more solicltous
about the preservation of rank than those
who have no rank at all.
To look forward proftably we must
look back. Experience of the past IS
the best light for the future.
Silence never shows itself to so great
an advantage rs when it is made to reply
to calumny and defamation.
If we did but know how little some en-.
10y the things they possess. there would
not be much envy iii the world.
Every effort is made in forming matri'
monial alliances to reconcile matters lie:
lating to fortune, but very little is paid
to the congcnialty of dispositions, or tc
the accordance of hearts.
There are moments when OH passion:
speak and decide for lis, and we seen
to stand by and wonder. They carry il
them an inspiration of crime, that II
one instant does the work of long pre-
meditation.
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JOHNS WIFE.

A young wife stood with her hand on her
broom,
And looked around the little room.
"Nothing but toll forever" she said,
"From early morn till the light has fled.
II you only were a merchant, now,
We need not live by the sweat Of our brow"
Pegging away, spoke Shoemaker John:
"We ne'er see well what we're standing n
A lady stood by her husbands chair,
And quietly passed her hand DER his hair.
"You never have time for me now" she said
And a tear-drop fell on the low bent head.
III we were only rich, my dear,
With nothing to do from year to year
But amuse each other-oh, dear me!
What a happy woman I should BEL"
Looking up from his ledger, spoke Merchant
John,
"We ne'er see we'll what we're standing on
A stately form, in velvet dressed,
A diamond cleaning on her breast,
"Nothing but toll for fashion," she said,
It'll I sometimes wish that I were dead;
If I might cast this wealth aside,
And be once more the poor mans bride!'
From his easy chair spoke Gentleman John:
eve ne'er see well what we're standing on.
Emma Busset.
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Commitments for the Ladies'.

In some cities of the republic, says a
MEXICAN letter to the New York Graphic,
q curious habit prevails of compliment.
ing unknown ladies on the street. Of
course, the lady is accompanied by father,
brother, mother, or duenna, and it IS
considered by all parties quite proper for
the passing admirer to say: Glow pretty
she isn or "What a dainty hand" or
"What fine eyes" or "What q lovely
foot!" Then the object of admiration
turns and says to the stranger with her
sweetest smile: "Mille gracias, senor!"
CA thousand thanks.) l know gentle
men who have tried this with distin.
puished success. have performed
the feat myself, for I am naturally nerv-
ous.
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A Cool Beggar,

Some beggers have a vulnerable point
left somewhere in them, or a certain
limit of impudencc that stops them a
little short of actual insult; but with the
| feliaheen Arabs begging is a constitutional
passion or hereditary trait, rendering them
as innocent OF all sense of the proprietics
of time and place and mutual relation MS
their skins arc of soap and water. Do
them a kindness, and they expect you to
pay them for giving YOU the opportun-
ity, like Dickens Herold ShinpoIc, the
compliment dead beat" who prided
himself on being a cause of benevolencc
to other men. A we'll known traveller in
Egypt gives several illustrations Of this
travesty of gratitude, Of which the fol-
lowing is one:
1t is useless to resist the impression
that this demand for b%ucksheesh (money)
is instructive in the Arab character. It
is the first word the children utter. 1t is
the last on the lips of the dying man, if
the vision of a foreigner crosses his fail
ing sight. Doctor Abbot vouchcs for
the fact that hc attended an Arab in a
lOllH duu SC'ClC olSAiSo, ahu Sui/t ALA
When the man was we'll he called on
the doctor, as the worthy physician
supposed for the purpose Of express
ing his gratitude for visits that
had been made twice a day for amonth.
That he had nothing but gratitude to
give, the doctor we'll knew.
II am WELL" said the man.
"Yes-I am glad to see it-you are
WE'LL"
II am WE'LL" repeated the Arab.
eyes, so l see; thank God for it,"
said the doctor.
"Yes-but-isn't there anything more?
You see l am we'll"
"Certainly, l see you are we'll; and
you have had a hard time of it. Go to
work now, and keep we'll"
but isn't there anything morc!"
"More, morc-what mOre::"
"Buckshccsh?"
"For what?"
"For the experience you've had in
curing me-" -,
II had cured him for nothing, and
paid for his medicines, and the dog came
to me for buckshecsh," said the doctor.
Nor was this q solitary instance in his
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Flowers as National Symbols.

In other countries beside England
flowers have not lacked their followers.
''Chargc for the golden lilies" was ever
a potent war cry among the chivalry Of
France. The Giglio BIanco of Florence,
in its days of evanesccnt greatness, the
red and white lilies, more bloody wen
than the English roses, Of the Guclphs
and Ghibclincs, the linden of Prussia, the
mignonctte of Saxony, and the appropri-
ate sugar maple Of Canada, are all badges
of more or less universal acceptance,
while the violet has been the selected
-mpol of the two mightiest empires the
sd .watseen--thc autocracy of the
Versal 49,. anuleon and the uni.
! elen' --aturc in an