The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-05-31

the ball was as complete success a.
could have been wished for.
As we have already remarked. the
election of o. s. Senator and judges
of circuit courts were the all absorb
ing topics. On Thursday night the
election of Senator was decided in
the Democratic caucus by the follow
ing vote: j. B. Eustis So, B. +.
Jonas SO, T. G. Manning 4, and Mr..
Eustis having received a majority of
all the votes cast was declared to be
the choice of the caucus for U. s.
Senator. The selection of circuit
judges was equally exciting. and the
result of the caucus on Friday night
gives as the following: For Judge,
first circuit, A. B. George; second
circuit. A. A. Gunby; third circuit,
John Clegg; fourth circuit. s. J..
Powell; fifth circuit, H. D. Smith;
sixth circuit, Frank McGloin. The
citizens Of our section will feel sadly
disappointed to know that Judge
Irion has been defeated as judge of
the third circuit. Mr.. Clegg, we I'M
derstand, is an able lawyer and fully
competent to make a good judge.
Let us hope he may prove . worthy
successor to the man who has won
our confidence and esteem.
One of the peculiarities of the
Democratic caucus that. strikes this
writer as extremity ridiculous, is that
W. P. Guynes should be permitted
to occupy q seat in the Democratic
caucus. The idea of q man who was
nominated rs q Republican, who has
never claimed to be any thing but .
Republican, and who. If elected at
all. was elected by Republican votes
over the Democratic party nominee.
taking part in Democratic caucns.
will strike the good people of Grant
parish AZ the hugest joke of the sea-
son. However. it may be that Mr..
Guynes considers himself as q sort
of proxy for the Democratic member
elect, by whom he expects to be
"ousted" before the close of the ses-
sion, and be is merely conducting
himself as he thinks will meet with
the approval of his successor. 1t is
hardly worth while to add that he
has failed in several particulars ac-
cording to the views Of your humble
scribe. At any rate. we protest in
in the name of the Democracy of the
parish Of Grant that be had no right
to seat in the Democratic caucus,
and in casting his vote for Eustis or
Jonas he has stulti6ed himself in the
eyes of the Republicans who placed
him in nomination.
During our two weeks stay 10 Ba-
ton Rouge we became impressed with
the idea that number Of our Legis-
lators consider their term IN the As
sembly a. kind Of frolic. sort Of
holiday from business cares, as il
were. At noon Of each Friday q mo-
ton to adjourn until IL m. Monday
is carried with great unsnimity, and
during the interim about half Vt the
members take . flying trip to New
Orleans a. sort of relaxation from
their arduous duties.
On the trip down and returning
we noticed quite . number Of silver
bricks at the railroad depot in Alex
andria They are about twice the
size and nearly the same shape az q
tailor's goose, and, we are told, are
valued at $1o4O each. There were
about thirty in the first lot and forty
in the second - in all. say $12.S0O,
About one hundred of these bricks
pass through Alexandra every week,
on the way from the silver mines Of
Nevada and Colorado to the Mint in
New Orleans. From the careless
way in which they are tumbled abou'
it is hard for one to realize that each
possesses an intrinsic value OF more
than . thousand dollars.
NorIcE--In another column will
be found an article in which al