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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-29
Big Fro I'm Panama - piundcrers
Killed.

PANAMA, April 2S.-A terrible fire ragged
here from IL O'Clock last night to
o'clock this morning. There was no water
available with which to eXtinguish the
flames. and the market and two blocks OF
houses were totally destroyed. The loss is
estimated at Slj0,000. How the fire started
is not known. During its progress n large
mob OF men, n portion Of them armed with
revolvers and machetes, did considerable
plundering, and many OF them became in
tOXicated. The soldiers were called ont
and quarrelled among themselves; when
the owners OF the burning property fired
upon the plundercrs, killing several OF
them.
LQter.-Thc ruins were still burning at
ppm. The damage is now estimated at
$500. 900. Some houses were demolished
TO check the progress OF the flames. During
the early part OF the fire there was perfect
fusilade OF Chinese crackers and OCCASION
ally heavy explosions. Most OF the build
ings burned were wooden structures.
Nearly all contained stores OF petroleum
and spirits and gunpowder in considera-
bic quantities. 1t is said that one soldier
was shot dead by IN officer for disobeying
orders. An Italian fell into the flames and
was consumed. The Hamburg insurance
offices are the chief losers. The natives
are busily eng ged in searching for trea-
sure among the d(briS. The Chinese resi-
dents suffered heavily.
Incendiary Blaze I'm Pennsylvania.
SELINsGROvE. PENN. April 28.-An in.
cendiary fire last night destroyed several
stores and stables. causing loss OF $4,000.
The incendiares had cut the rope OF the
irc-alarm bell, and the alarm was much
DELAYED. Many robberies were committed
during the confusion.
Reward for Incendiaries.
FALL RIVER, MASS, April 2S.-Ihe
Sycamore Manufacturing Company offers
81. 900 reward for the incendiarics who set
fire to Mill No. Thursday night last.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-29
p,rT,vopE LIVESTOCK MARKET.

BALTIMORE, April 2S.-}ect cattle SO" anu
S5-5c.; 6rsl quality. 5Gp5sc.; medium, i@4tcc.;
ordinary, 3 ,d4c.: most sales, 10 6sc; receipts,
400 head sales, 696 head. Swine-fair supply
anJ generally slow demand: receipts, As 2 head;
GmotstiOns, 7Msc. Receipts Of sheep and lambs
1'7sI head: quoL3tlons-sLeep, 3@Gkc.; lambs'
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-29
Incendiary Blaze I'm Pennsylvania.
Reward for Incendiaries.

FALL RIVER, MASS, April 2S.-The
Sycamore Manufacturing Company offers
$4,000 reward for the incendiaric> who set
fire to Mill No. Thursday night last.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-04-29


The State Department is protesting
against the reductions made in the consul
lar and diplomatic bill. 1t specially Cd
iects to the reduction made in the Russian
mission.
Ninety females, who have completed the
work Of cancelling revenue stamps, were
discharged to-day.
The work on the Washington monu,
ment was resumed to-day at heisoI Oh
40 feet. Stone is already prepared 10 con-
plete it 10 40 feet. $1,000,
Government receipts to-day inte'h'i
revenue, $926, SAT: customs, $3.50, IOO'
Judge Reagan was better to-day, anu .n'
prospect OF his recovery improves hourly
Lieutenant +. V. Abbott, Corps OF En-
gineers, United States Army, has inaue n's
report upon the survey Just compie,eo %
the boundary between Virginia anu May
land.
The chief OF the Bureau OF Statisucs oo
Inmates that the tariff act OF 1888 aNeraseu
areducuoD on imports OF 9 per cent do W.
loren. .u .,o,
The consular and diplomatic bill aDoi,
lshed the consul-generalship at Madrid anu
the consulsbip al Honalula. IL increases
Colonel Mosby's salary at Hong Kong ~
$1,000. ID.
MIR. Samuel Reynolds, OF Lancaster, ra'
has been appointed special counsel 70 Us
sist The Government In the Kellogg trial.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09
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land, Maine.
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THE DEMOCRAT.
TERMS:

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ST. JOHNS
VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS

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III UNTER, MOSELEY & IiERT-
IL z"g, Att"iness,at Law. Office
en Front street, between Murray
xnd Jolus,un.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09

ENGINE AND Saw MILL roR
.SALE.-Engine IA inch cylinder.
three feet stroke; two boilers. 40
inches, "a feet long. Lee &.Lsyit.
Saw Aill. Iron frame, top saw & 4.
p. tScHMAL1HsKI.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09

HAsSON, John, Physician and
" Surgeon. Office at residence,
1T the head of Branregard street.
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CARDS.

4 SDREWS & FOSTER, flames
n Andrews, # y. Fuster,) At.
torneys at Law. Office, corner of
Second aud Washington streets, Os-
horL building.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09
zAI11zAANDrNIF l4A AUGUST 8, 1884 NO 96
COTTON PICKING BY MACH1.
merry.

l have'seen the new cotton pick
er. While at sumpter l was inyi
, ted to walk out to Mr.. Mason,
work shop, and l went. Mr.. Ma
son is a bright, intelligent man
about thirty years old. He show.
you everything, and tells you wha,
!. no thinks of doing what he has no,
done. He gave me one Of the lit.
tie revolving tubes that pick the
cotton from the hollis. 1t is seven
inches long and about one and one.
fourth inches in diameter. This
little thing is the inuention. All
the rest of the contrivance is to put
1t In motion. -Four dozen of them
will be working at once on a cot
ton stock, and if there is any cotton
open they will find it. There are
two upright cylinders three feet
feet high that straddle a cotton row
like a sulky pillow straddles row
OF corn and these little tubes re-
volve horizontally in the cylinders.
They turn round and round rapid
ly. The cylinders revolve on their
axis and these tubes reyolve on
theirs as they follow the cylinders
round and round. They are sure
to tonch every boil, and if the cot
ton has opened and swells out a
fraction of an inch the little deli.
cate points Of the pickers get it and
roll it all out in an instant, and by
a reversed motion unload it on a |
platform, and from there it is car.
ried up and put in sack, and
packed until it is full. Horse-pow-
er pulls the machine along the row.
The machine weighs 300 pounds.
Some OF them are made for three.
feet cotton, some for four and some
for five. | saw the little spindles
set to work on cotton bolls half
open, and they left nothing, and
yet they will revolve in your hand
and not hurt you or prick you
There are three hundred sharp
points on each spindle. They are
nst under the surface, and will
catch the lint but not catch your
1esb, or the leaves or the stems.
The imperfect machine Of last year
picked 800 pounds an hour. The
perfect machine which he has now
$ expected to pick 600 pounds an
'our. | was Illuminating over this
lew mode dc of picking cotton; and to
ny mind it is going to work a rev.
tuition in our farming Atlanta /,
Constitution. !;
The Oldest and largest tree in ,
he world is a chestnut, near the
GOT of Mount Aetna. tits hollow,
nd large enough to admit two car
iiages driving abreast through it.
The circumference of the main
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09
TIE TEXAS AND pAc1r1c.

ouperlntendent Warder Cum
mings, of the Texas and Pacific
road, telegraphed yesterday 10
Ticket Agent Graham that the
first through train from New Orleaa
to Shreveport would leave here on
Sunday, the 10th Of August. The
force OF men employed in building
the trestlo across Davis crevasse
has been increased, and in conse-
quence the work is almost complet-
cd. Mr.. w. W. Finlay, assistant
general freight agent Of the road, Is
now receiving shipments Of through
freight, and the clerks Of HE depart,
ment are buckling down to busi-
ness with the same order that char
acterized their work previous to tho
Davis crevasse. In connection
With the freight department Of the
Texas and Pacific road, it would be
well to mention the fact that there
is well-founded rumor to the effect
that Mr.. w. W. Finley will in the
course of q short time be promoted
to the position Of general freight
agent Mr.. Finley is one Of the
ablest railroad officials in this. city,
and he is justly entitled to any pro-
motion that he might receive.
Hines Democat. < s
The Democratic State Central
Committee Of Louisiana have is-
sued SUI call for . meeting for the
instant, to be held at
Odd Fellows Hall, in New Orleans,
to which are invited the Presidsn-
tial Electors, Chairman Of Con
gressional District Committees, the
President Of the Parish Committee
Of Orleans, the presidents of ward
clubs and the editors Of Democratic
newspapers. The conference is
deemed essential to secure com.
bined |and vigorous action in CON
Quoting the political campaign in
Louisiana in favor of Cleveland
md Hendricks and the several
Democratic nominees for Congress.
Nor1cE-A Mass Meeting of tho
Democratic voters of the Parish Of
sapides, is hereby called to meet
p the City Of Alexandra, on We'd
'eeday, the 18th Of August, 1884,
OF the purpose Of selecting dele
'ates to represent the Parish Of !
sapides in the Congressional Con,
'ention to be held in the City Of
on August esth. TN
er the apportionment adopted by
ne Congressional Committee, Rap,
des will send nine delegates.
:. +, SEP,
ice Chairman Parish Executive
Committee.
Mn. Henry Demas, Of the Par.
sh Of St. John the Baptist, has
written to the Times emocnaf that
he people Of that section are some
What excited over . curious freak
+ nature, in the shape of q colt with
tut two hind legs, born in that s
on Sunday night, Of
mare owned by q colored man,
famed Henry Taylor. 1t livedbpt
wenty-four hours. The colt has
'een stuffed and will be- on exhi
'it!on at the Cotton Centennial.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09
TWO LEPERS ON EXHIBITION.
A FRISCO DocToR's AEr1-cH1NEsE
MISSION.
1Tavelimg about the Country With
Iico Lepers in a Cat
tie CIR.

CHICAGO, July ls.-Dr. C. {
ODonnell, on San Francisco, tn
gentleman who is here on an anti
Chinese mission, lectured to abou
1880 people on the lake front Sun
day afternoon. The doctor is &C
compauied by two Chinese lepers
whom he proposes to exhibit as al
ILLUSTRATION of the horrors of lepros,
and the dangers menancing the
people from association with a race
which the doctor claims has IMPORT.
ed the disease. He did not have
the lepers with him, but promises to
bring them out of the eattle-car in
which they came from San Francis
CO. and where they are still Gagged,
ana noid them up to public gaze.
The doctor is an ardent advocate of
the prevention of Chinese immigra-
ton, and warns the country that it
is counting a fearful death for its
people in permitting leprous race
4 IT,
to remain among them. In CONVEX
satlon with a reporter, the doctor
said: 1t seems like curious way of
propagating information to thus
make an exhibition of lcpers, but
we people of California are in CIR.
nest about this thing, and will leave
no means untrieduntil we awaken
the people Of the east to a true
sense of the horrible peril which
threatens US in the presence of the
Chinese. There are to-day 1000
lepers in San Franciso, and the dis
ease is rapidly spreading. 1tattacks
all ages and all nationalities; no one
is safe from it. The spread Of the
disease has ALWAYS followed Chinese
Immigration, and We feel that we
must either fight it now or else have
It deyastate our fair country, and
california is too fair a country, to
give up without a struggle"
what remedy do You propose I"
THE utter extinction of the Chi
,ese immigration by the passage of
trict laws. The present one is in
'perative, as it allows merchants
md students to land, and 5000
merchants and students have Ian.
led in San Francisco in the last
month";"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09

ADVICE TO MorHERs.-Are Won
disturbed at night and broken of
your rest by sick child suffering
and crying with pain of cutting
teethf If so, send at once and get
a bottle of Mrs. Wmslo,'s Soothing
Syrup tr Children Tsethimg, Its
value is incalculable. It will re-
lieve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately. Depend upon it, moth
ers, there is no mistake about it.
1t cures dysentery and diarrhea,
regulates the stomach and bowels,
cures wind collie, softens the gums,
reduces inflammation, and gives
tone and energy to the whole sys-
TEN. Mrs. Winslosos,s Soothing ST.
rwp for Children 1setting is pleasant
to the taste, and is the prescription
Of one of the oldestand best female
nurses and physicians in the United
States, and is for sale by all drug
gists throughout the world. Price
rs cents q bottle.
-APoLLINAR1s Mineral Water
at the EARLE Drurt Store.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-08-09

The Oldest and largest tree in
the world is a chestnut, near the
foot Of Mount Aetna. tits hollow,
and large enough to admit two car
riages driving abreast through It.
The circumference of the main
trunk is 2l2 feet. The Grizzly
Giant, monarch of the Mariposa
Grove measures ninety-two feet.
II Exchange.
Some how this tree story re-
minds us of one that q man once
told about a big cannon at Gibral.
tar. He said he drove a six-horse
team and wagon into the muzzle.
There Was a general protest, when
q heretofore quiet individual in the
corner remarked: 'Fact, gentle
men, I was in it with q horse and
buggy at the time and drove out
the touch hole to let him turn
around. '-(shreveport Times.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-18
Among the ChickaSaws.

A letter from the Indian Territory
says: The Chickasaws have no written
language of their own, but have adopted
that of the Choctaws, which uses the Ro-
man alphabet. The Old Testament
scriptures have been translated into Choc-
taw, too, and including the second book
OF Kings, and the translato,s are now en-
gagged in translating the book of Psalms.
The translation to the end of the Penta-
touch has been in print for several wears,
and the translators are only waiting to
see the new revision of the Bible to send
the remainder of their unfinished work
to the printer This they expect to ds
by November, at the latest
1t will doubtless surprise many readers
to learn that the negroes greatly outnum-
Der the Indians in the Chickasaw nation.
The Cherokecs, Choctaws, Creeks,
Chickasaws and Seminoles were all
slave-holding tribes before the war, and
held larger number of slaves than was
generally supposed By the treaties
made with these tribes in 1866,
the freedom of the negro was guaran,
teed in each, and political equal
ity was to be conferred upon them
on certain conditions and for certain
considerations. The Cherokees refused
to admit the freedmen and the Delawares
20 share in the $500, 600 appropriation
made to the tribe by Congress last year.
This will lead to a complete examina-
ton into the whole matter and the
probable elevation of both to the full
and unquestioned right of complete
citizenship. The Choctaws have lately
conceded full citizenship rights to the
freedmen in their nation. 1t is under
stood that the Greeks have accorded the
rights of citizenship to negroes ever since
the war. The Chickasaws alone stand
ont
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-18
or have disowned her, owing to their dis
covery of her fondness for liquor.
The Lethargy of Oriental Life.

General Loring, in his book, "Confed.
crate Soldier in Egypt" says: "Society
among the inmates of the harem means
simply smoking cigarettes and pipes, and
the mos trivial amuscmcnts. Instead Of
the spar. ling conversation and pleasant
music with which the .cXes reciprocallv
entertain each other among Western
people, horrible scream ngs, the monot
onous noise of drums, and the clang of
tamborines are here the solace of woman
in her hours of ease. The boosted lux
ury Of the palaces offers in its isolation
no attraction to refined nature. This
life makes people prematurely old; q
man of fifty is wrinkled and superanu-
ated, and woman OF thirty has passed
her meridian. Noon works unless COM
PEELED to it, as tranquility of mind and
person best pleases the Oriental taste.
They ignore the passage of time, which
never disturbs them with the cry of bulk
rah tomorrow; yet people write of the
Vaccinations of Eastern life. 1t may be
the climate, with its sunny sky and the
quickening air of the desert or possibly
the stagnation of existence which deludes
them. 1t cannot be the effort of think
ing or of feeling that awakens pleasing
impressions. for there is nothing here
that does not clash with every sentiment
habit and custom of intellectual life.
Society is the isolation of a prison,
though the captives are surrounded by
numbers of people. The philosopher re-
siding in the East is forced to mediate
bitterly upon the waste of humanity
around him. Only an anchorite whose
religious duty consists in counting beads
could be charmed with such monotony
and silence. The man of energy and
thought would think it a cruel punish
ment to be forced to undergo the ordeal
of intellectual stagnation amid people
whose ignorance and Incidence hll their
minds with egotism, obstinacy and self
importance. 1t is a common thing for
Egyptians who have been educated by
order of the government in the best col.
leges in Europe to come back to Eastern
life and Immediately throw away their
books, abandon intercourse with intelli-
gent foreigners, shut themselves in q
harem among ignorant women and there
end their existence. This is probably
what they mean when they say that lin
their education of mind they do not
neglect the heart An Eastern man will
sit for hours inhaling the perfume of
sweet flower and enjoying the music of a
fountain (murmuring at the time a chap
ter in the Koran, without stopping to
understand its meaning) and the beauti-
full objects of nature which Allah has
spread before him. lie enjoys to-day
but never thinks of preserving objects
which please him in sculpture or paint
ing, however dear to him, for the sake
of the pleasure they might give in the
future. This their writers call life rich
in sensations
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-18
Much Ado About q Penny.

A penny will make quite stir in the
accounts of bankers and business men
sometimes. In closing the accounts of
the National Broadway bank, some years
ago, draft was drawn by Treasurer
Spinner for the balance in the bank,
amounting to $lS, $50. 10, which was hon
ored, and in the letter of transmittal the
bank cashier notified the treasury that
there was still due the government the
sum of one cent. An examination of the
ledgers and cash accounts was instituted,
and the error was discovered. The
amount should have been SIS, 450. II.
Forthwith, Treasurer Spinner notified
the cashier that he could forward the
amount. A press copy of the letter was
made and proper record of it kept. In
due time the bank responded, inclosing
a draft for one cent, the transfer being
made without disturbing the financial
circles. The necessary records were made
in half-a-dozen books, the proper indorse-
ments obtained, and the money drawn
and deposited to the credit of the proper
fund
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-18
How 10 Grow Fine Celery.

Mrs. II. NJ. Crider, in little work on
celery raising, says:
How to grow fine celery, and especial
ly how to secure good crop, has been a
problem to market gardeners and anna
teurs.
A careful study of the columns of ag-
ricultural journals and newspapers re-
vealed the fact that celery was generally
regarded as an uncertain crop, and was
supposed to depend upon the season, or
upon certain qualities of the soil, and
was liable to be destroyed at any period
of its growth by rust CT blight.
The supposed medicinal virtues of the
plant and the desire to have it fresh for
the table induced me to attempt its cul-
ture. | soon made the experience that
Others had made, and found my plants
dwindling and dying from some unknown
cause. ] applied myself to the study of
authorities on celery culture, and used
all the prescribed remedies. I shaded
the plants from the too ardent rays of the
sun. l watered only in the evening. l
abstained from handling the leaves when
wet. Iapplied the approved fertilizers,
and | tried to do without them. | scru-
tinted the leaves with a magnifying glass,
and even examined portions of them
under the microscope in search of preda-
tory insects, but could discover moth
ing. They had the appearance simply
of being scorchel. Meanwhile the
plants withercd and pincd, and seemed
ready to perish.
Pondering the matter one day at high
noon, with the thermometer in the nine
ties and the plants dropping sadly, it &C.
CURED TO me that on days like this had
wandered in the meadows, and along the
water-courses on botanizing expeditions,
and had seen plants of this family rearing
their green luXurant heads to the height
of five feet remembered the soft and
yielding ground, and the muddy boots
that told of soil thoroughly saturated
with water. Here then was the secret of
this languishing. God had placed this
bibulous and water loving plant in the
marshes where It might draw constant re-
freshment and nourishment for its succu-
lent columns. Wet feet was the condi-
ton of health for celery, and the "water-
cure" the specific for the ills it was heir
to. Upon this theory | acted. The trench
was quickly filled with water, and was
not thereafter allowed TO become dry. |
had the satisfaction of seeing the plants
revive and flourish. Never a spot of rust
appeared upon the bright green leaves
that were quickly formed and expanded
The plants made growth of three feet
in length and of corresponding thickness,
and have never failed since to have a
good crop. Nor have heard of a single
instance of failure where this plan was
pursued.