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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

MIR. G. H. Harvill comes to the
front this week, and, after knocking
4 few splinters from "Pine Knot"
gravely informs the public that 1--WE
have set out to move the court house
to the center. and We are going to do
it." 1t is the great America privi-
iege of our friend to make tH trial,
but there is no need to grow cited
over the matter and work up pnec-
essary local prejudice. "PineKnot"
is pine woods man, and there is not
an intimarion in his effusion that can
be construed into an attack upon the
honor and intellect of the hill people.
/. was more personal toward Mr..
Harvill than it should have been,
perhaps. bot could not be called an
attsck upon the community at large
unless Mr.. HI. claims to represent the
hills in his own person.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

Pay for your CHsoslc1z
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

G. G. Nash, merchant Colfsx, La,
can always be relied upon. not only
to carry in stock the best of every
thing, but to secure the Agency for
such articles as have we'll known
merit, and are popular with the PEG
pie. thereby sustaining the reputa-
ton Of being always enterprisiDg,
and over reliable. Having secured
the Agency for the celebrated Dr.
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, will sell it on positive guaran-
tee. 1t will surely cure any and
every affection Of Throat, Lungs,
and Chest, and to show our conf
dence. We invite you to call and get
q Trial Bottle Free.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

Mrs. n. RodneF, OF Memphis. says
OF LA. Creole Hair Restorer:" II
have used it myself and furnished
my customers with many dozen bot
ties. 1t stops the hair falling ont,
restores it's original color and does
not stain the skin or soil the clothing.
It lie Q delightful dressing. cures dis
eases of the scalp and keeps the hair
free from dandrutf. In Q word. It
SCENE to be natures remedy for sup-
plying the wants and losa Of vitality
in the human hair. Ny customers
are delighted" For sale by drug
gists. Prepared by the Mansfield
Medicine Co, Memphis, Tenn, who
also manufacture the celebrated
magic Arnioa Liniment." "Hunga-
rian Balsam for the lungs" and
"Msns6eld's Chill and Fever Tonic. :"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

y ~ a 49,
Nr. Nathias Doll. bueiness place Ma
a North Pe1er. etreet. reoidence Rovi
s;Seet befween Jeanne and Bareholomsw.
Nsw Ohm. kss Been ! most intenss
sufferer from Kidney trouble (diabstes) Tor
the last Elk long and weary years. He
said 10 ~: Even earlier than that fire.
oueutiy suffered from pain IN the back.
md frequent making q watsr. but ave h
no thought until about the fizno stated.
vi,en re slmost constant desire % make
ve1cr became uncomfortable. Ths pain in
de back. and sometimes in the legs, made
ne 90 lame 1t times that could scarcely
walk. consulted one Of the best doctors
in this city. and IVES under his constant
treatment for one entire year without de-
irving the least benefit / then consulted
from time to time, during the Last Ave or
six wears, six other physicians, each ono
standing in the front r6hk of the medical
professjon in New Or3onus. and though I
sometimes vas . little relieved q soms
excruciating suffering, etupon the whole
I vas not only no better, but In many re-
spects nnuch worse. MyIimbs became 90
swollen and core that / could not cross
my legs when sitting on chair-all OF
vkick' thev aid. va csused bv diabetes.
I then tried come hiehlv Landed patent
medicine. But they al turned out TO be
humbuea. I had 4iveu M III hopes q
ever setting relief. mach he's being cured.
vheo I noticed IN the papers come won.
deriul eures that PEsUNA had made IN
this city, - prescribed BY DR.. Hartman.
giving The name ana address o. eacn per-
son ueaseo; ! Sa2c - - ~ -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

A destructive storm prevailed along
the Atlantic coast from Connecticut
to Florida. The storm seems to have
been most severe in the region of
Charleston, s. c.. and it is said one
fourth of the buildings of that city
were unroofed or blown down. The
destruction to the shipping and to
many points along the sea coast it is
feared has been appalling.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

The recent capture of Maxwell in
Newzealand, and Aufdemortin Mexico
speaks well for the detective service
of the United States. A few years
ago such q feat was looked upon as
marvellous, but now it is expected as
. matter Of course, and when they
fail to capture their men detectives
are looked upon as deficient in skill.
The resources and strategy of the
detective of to-day is something won
derful, and woe betide the hapless
criminal that gets one of these
sieuth. hounds on his trail.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

All the inhabitants Of the upper
portion of town. turned out one
evening last week to assist in killing
monster alligator that made his
appearance at the ferry in front of
town. After . number Of charges Of
big and little shot had been emptied
at short range, into various portions
of bis body, be came to the bank
and was terociously attacked BY Mr..
j. T. johnson. who used, with deadly
effect . large Ak. After the alligator
was killed he was brought out on dry
land and measured and weighed.
His length. by actual measurement.
was "a feet from tip to tip. and be
weighed 1884 pounds. II any of our
brethren OF the press doubt this
story, We will knock OF the BAN
pound. Democrats Review.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

A special from Homer to the N. o.
States says: Cotton is still growing
and will be . good crop unless there
is too much shedding, and too many
bolls FORM" The average CORES
pendent aud proof reader on city
dailies could discount Horace Greedy
telling what they don't know about
farming.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-29

The Kxposis ON next winter u tObe
grauder than that of lest season. S
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

RoBr. G. PENN is to be hanged ct Halle
hurst, Miss, on the 18th of April, for the
murder of r. B. Rials.
A FREIGHT rate war between Southern
lines was inaugurated at Nashville, Tenn,
on the 9th. The fight will be made on
Eastern business. The Western and At
lantic has cut the rate q per cent, and it is
said will go lower. 1t is expected, of
course, that the competing lines will meet
the cut A bitter war will be waged.
WILLIAM Morrow was sentenced on the
7th by the Supreme Court Of Tennessee to
be hanged on the 18th day Of April, 1885,
for the murder of Dick Overton, in August,
1883.
THE residence Of Mrs. Jane Snophs at
Pennington, Miss, was burned on the
night of the Sth while the lady was at
church. Three boys, the oldest eleven years
old, perished in the flames.
THREE colored children were burned to
death at Durant, Miss, on the night of the
9th. Their parents locked them up in the
house while they attended a log-rolling.
Two white boys were badly burned while
trying to release the burning children.
IT is reported that Senator Bridges, Of
the Illinois Legislature, is failing fast, and
death is expected at any moment. Bridges
is Democrat, and his death would be an
offset to that of Representative Logan, Re-
publican, making the Legislature a tie
again on joint ballot.
EX-SENATOR WALKER has entered the
race for the Arkansas Senatorship made
vacant by the resignation of U. S. Attorney
General Garland.
JIG. HUDGINs, member of the Arkan.
sas Legislature from Polk county, who was
arrested at Little Rock on the 10th on
reauisition from Georgia on the charge OF
arson, and temporarily released by the
Governor withdrawing the warrant, ap
peared in the House the next morning as
usual, but shortly before the adjournment
OF the morning session left the capitol,
jumped into q buggy and drove out Of the
city. The Sheriff was notified and posse
is in pursuit.
A CYCLONE struck the north bound freight
on the Texas Central, on the 11th, six
miles south of Van Alstyne, Tex. Five
cars were blown completely off the track,
including the cabosse. No one is reported
injured. A
On the evening of the 11th ]. D. White, q
passenger on the East Tennessee train was
killed few miles east Of Knoxville, Tenn.
The train was crossing covered bridge,
when White put his head out of the car
window and was crushed against the tim
bers of the bridge. White was twenty zone
years old. He lived in upper East Tennes-
see,
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14
xLvHITH CONGRESS.

49,
TIE Senate remained in session Ali Of
the night OF the Sd and the conference COM
mittees were kept busy on the appropria-
tion bills. The substitute river and harbor
Dill was considered the morning OF the 4th.
put ~ there seemed to be little chance of a
satisfactory solution a motion was finally
made and carried to lay the bill on the table,
the Dill to place General Grant on the re-
tired list and to restore him to his
former rank with full pay was passed.
AAFeGo1Rtion@s Of thanks to Me- ed
munds, the President of the Senate, pro
eempO{ss waq qNnAnimously adopted and
shat ge4ek0m2h made appr6priate remarks.
.AARgaH Ee&ufar appropriations bftis we're
dfstQAe6 ~ -hr Herissc:ss = as ssNurn IN as
vIcerrestdent and the Senate of the Forty
eighth Congress was declared adjourned
sine Die. The extra session was called, Mr.
hendricks In the chair, the new Senate re-
naming in session but q short while......
The House also held an all night session,
and managed to adjust all differences with
the Senate on the appropriation bills. In the
early morning session Mr.. Randall moved q
suspension of the rules for the passage of the
Grant retirement bill. The contested election
case of Frederick VS.. Wilson Uowa) was
pending, and an agreement was entered
into by which Republicans allowed the lat
ter to come to vote THE Democrats would
support the Grant bill. Mr.. Frederick Demo
crat) was awarded the seat, and the Grant
bill was passed amid deafening cheers
Resolutions of thanks to Speaker Carlisle
were unanimously adopted and the Speaker
made an eloquent closing address before de-
claring the adjournment.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14

: -7ll ~ HUNTSVILLE, ALA. sATU RDAY MARCH A. 1885

+ THE hearing of the case of Cunningham
and burton, the dynamiters, was resumed
at London on the 9th.
The retiring Attorney General present.
ed Mr. Garland, his successor, to the Su-
preme Court on the 9th.
The visible supply of wheat on the 9th
was S,5S5, 5,675 bushels; corn, 6,447, 942 BUSH
els; oats, 2,366, ,S6S bushels.
The Methodist churches of Chicago ap-
pointed Sunday, the 18th, a day of special
Prayer for. General Grant.
The indlca tionsfor good sprisg trade
ameu9 the sPlS@bssSA 1i-un manufacturers
are said to be more favorable.
PRESIDENT BARRIos has issued decree
proclaiming union of Central America
as ONE republic, and has assumed supreme
mil ftary command.
IHE annual report Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Road shows gross
eerning Of $23, ,47O, ,99S. IS for 1884.
GENERAL WoLsELEY held a general re-
view of the Nile expeditionary force at
Korti on the 9th and complimented the
troops for their heroism and fortitude.
I MICHAEL MCENTREE, a young man of
twenty -four, jumped in the river at New
York on the 9th, with suicidal intent.
| He changed his mind and was rescued.
The harness shop Of Hayden & Bird,
! prison contractors, burned at Auburn, N.
| Y, on the 9th, causing loss of $50, 900.
| WHILE on the roof of the Gibson House
| at Cincinnati, O., on the 9th, Joseph Bohl-
| man caaght hold of an electric light wire
| and was instantly killed by the shock.
STEUBENvILLE, O., was visited by con-
I migration on the 9th, which destroyed
| many business houses, the United States
Hotel, and caused loss of life besides.
IT looks as though Paddy Ryan had a
| springs business on hand, Burke and
Sullivan both having accepted his chal-
lenge and covered his forfeit.
Mr.. BAYARD has offered the position of
Assistant Secretary of State to Mr.. John
Cadwallader, of Philadelphia.
The coal miners strike inaugurated in
the Pittsburgh pa district promises to
be the most stubborn of its kind ever
commenced in Pennsylvania. Seven
eighths Of the $4,000 miners are already
out.
In the Senate on the 9th Mr.. Van Wyck
made grave charges against the action of
! the Interior Department under the Arthur
duullulStTdtlOu Ill TolcTeuCo 10 buo 'Dack-
bone" land grant of Louisisna. Mr.. Teller
defended the department and his action as
the Secretary, accusing Mr.. Van Wyck of
| seeking glory and notoriety as the alleged
| friend of the people.
| THE Lord Chamberlain has prohibited
| the repres entation in London of Sardou's
Theodore, in which Sarah Bernhar DIT
| played the leading part.
| THE court-martial for the trial of Medi-
| cal Director and ex-Surgeon General
Phillips Wales, has adjourned until April
| 14th.
| COLONEL NELSON II. DAVIS located at
| Chicago, who is next in rank to General
Sackett, will succeed the latter, and upon
assn ming the duties of senior Inspector
General of the army will take the rank of
| Brigadier General.
| FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
CROSBY resigned on the 9th, and the
resignation was accepted.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14
NUMBER II.

headed ancestors, was ,gradunf-:;i .rom the
Wisconsin State University Ia 1888. at the age
of eighteen. Two years later he won his de-
gree of IL. ID. in the Albany Law Scool, and
was admitted the same year to practice in
the supreme Courts of New York and Wis.,
consin, and began the active practice
OF his profession at Madison, Wis.,
swinging his -shingle- to the breeze on.
his twentieth birthday, the 18th OF.
July, 1860. In 1862 the war spirit overcane
him, he raised Company A, which elected him
Captain, and the 25th of August was Eus-
tered into the Twenty third Regiment of Wis.
consin Volunteer Infantry, On returning
from the war Colonel Villas resumed the prac-
tice of his profession In Madison, in which he
has been remarkably successful throughout.
The Sd of January, 1866, he was married to
Miss Anna Matilda, daughter of DR.. William
H. Fox, of the village of Oregon, Wis, one
of the pioneer physicians of Dane County,
and q gentleman of much wealth and high
reputation. Colonel and Mrs Villas have
three children now living. In addition to his
large and lucrative law practice, Colonel
Villas fills and has filled several positions OF
public trust. He is one of the Professors Of
Law in the Wisconsin State University Law
School, being regular lecturer on practice,
pleadingS and evidence. He was for some
years Trustee of the Wisconsin State Sol
diers' Orphan Asylum and Secretary of the
Board. He was one of the three leading at
torneys appointed to revise the statutes OF
Wisconsin in 1878, and personally supern-
tended the publication of the revision. He
is one of the most active members of the
Wisconsin Board OF State University Re-
gents.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14
THOMAS F. BAYARD,

Mr.. Bayard is the oldest in continuous serv
ice of the Democratic Senators. He is now
serving his third term and has been Sena-
tor for sixteen years He succeeded his
father. He Is the third in direct line In his
family in the Senate. He will be fifty seven
years Of age the 29th of October, but does
not look day over fifty. He is very tall,
with good, well -flled-o out figure, although
he is by no means stout He has the fresh
color OF a man who lives plainly and simply,
and the alert look of young man of
twenty five, His face is inclined to be long,
while his features are angular. His fore
head is broad and high and projects well over
pair of keen blue eyes, His nose is a large
Roman. His face is smooth shaven leaving
bare his pointed chin and squarely lined
jaws. He has very even, white teeth, which
might well be the envy of man thirty years
younger than he He always dressed with
great neatness, and is as careful in the selec-
ton of his gloves and boots as the most fash
ionable young man. He is q man Of very
pure private record and one of the highest
minded men in public life. He has mod
crate fortune of $l50,000 to 100000. This
Is the result of the natural increase of the
inheritance left him by his father He has
two daughters and three sons, who are
grown. One of his sons is now engaged in
teaching country school in Maryland. Mr.
Bayard was born at Wilmington Del. He re-
ceived his education at the Flushing School,
which was high school of good standing.
He had no collegiate education He was
early destined for mercantile pursuits, but
he preferred the law. He was admitted to
the bar in lS5l He continued to remain in
Wilmington in the practice of his profess
sion, with the exception of two years-lS55
and lS56-when he went to Philadelphia. He
was not pleased with the result OF his exper-
iment, and returned at the end of the two
years to Wilmington. The only office that
lie ever held before he was elected to the
Senate in 1869 was the office of District At
torney of Delaware, which office he held
from 1858 to 1854. He was ranked as one of
the best lawyers of Delaware. He is one of
the most regular of Senators in his attend
ance upon the sessions of the Senate. There
is no debate so dull as to drive out Mr.. Bay.
ard. He is one of the Senators who are
nearly always to be foune in their seats and
he listens carefully to a great many very
dry speeches. He is one of the best in
formed Senators in the body about every
thing relating to its rules and methods of
doing business
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14
THE ADMINISTRATION.
Composition Of President Cleve-
lands Cabinet.
Brief Biographical Sketches Of the Gentle
men Whom President Cleveland Has
Placed at the Heads of the De- T
partmentS

On the 9th inst. President Cleveland sent to
the Senate the names of the following gen.
tleman as members of his Cabinet
Secretary Of State-Thomas f. Bayard, of
Delaware.
Secretary Of the Tredsury-Daniel Manning,
OF New York.
Secretary Of the Interior-L. O. @. Lamar, OF
Mississippi.
Secretary Of Wdr-W. G. Endicott, of Massa-
chusetts.
Secretary the Nary-Willam G. Whitney,
of New York
Postmaster Generally. F. Villas, of Wiscon-
sin.
Attorney -Generdl-Augustus H. Garland of
Arkansas.
We are indebted to the Chicago Tribune for
the following cuts and brief biographical
sketches:
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14

william Freemen Villas is descended from
an old English family. The name was origi-
nally yilliers, away back in the heraldc rec
ords of the time of Henry ILL.,, but corrup-
tions of pronunciation and spelling have
brought the patronymic down through a
Vilers. villas, vilas-till Peter, the eighteen
century ancestor of our subject, dubbed
himself simply Villas in the fifth generation
from the ancestral Peter He was born in
Chelsea, Orange County, vt. july 9, 1S40 His
father, Judge Levi B. Villas, was member OF
the Vermont Legislature at the time and one
of the prominent old school Democratic pol
itieians of the Green Mountain State. William
F., who inherits so many sterling traits,
physical and mental, from his sturdy, hard
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14

Mr.. Garland was educated at St. Mary,s
and St. Joseph's College in Kentucky He
was ADMITTED to the practice of law in 1853 in
Washington, Ark. In 1856 he went to Little
Rock. He was a member OF the state Con.
vention in 1861 that passed the ordinance OF
secession. Later in that year he was electeo
a member of the Provisional Congress OF tno
Confederacy that met at Montgomery, A!a-
He after that made member OF the
Lower House of the Confederate Congress
when it met at Richmond. Garland was
later a member OF the Confederate Senate,
and was in that body at the time the Rebel
lion closed. His people in lSS7 elected nun nun
to the United States Senate He was refused
admission there because the State was not
then regularly admitted back in the Union
He made a National reputation by raising
the constitutionality of the law requiring
lawyers to take the test oath before being
permitted to practice in the United states
Courts. He won his case. and followed the
practice of law until 1874. He was elected
Governor of Arkansas. and by his great cool
ness and Judgment was influential IN settiing
the disputes in that State az to which rae
tion should control the state Government.
He was elected to the United States Senate
in 1876, succeeding Powell Clayton. he was
reelected in 1883.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14

Mr.. Lamar Is forty nine years of age. He
is one of the scholars of the South and has
had, probably. wider range of experience
than any of his Southern associates. He is
a native of Georgia, and is related to the
family of Howell Cobb and other equally
in Congress a short time before the war, but
he made no particular mark then. His eu-
logy OF Charles sumner gave him instantly
a National reputation. Mr.. Lamar was edu-
Gated at Oxford Ca, and graduated at En-
ory College in that State. He studied law at
Macon, Ga, and was admitted to the bar in
1871. He soon afterward removed to Oxford,
Here he has been lawyer, planter and pro-
fessor during long term of years. He was
first Professor of Mathematics, and after the
war was Professor of Political Economy and
Social Science. From 1867 until his election
to the Forty third Congress he was Profes-
sor of Law. He only served part of the
Forty fourth Congress, when he was elected
lion he as, until 1865, Lieutenant-C Colonel
in Mississippi regiment. In that year he
was sent as the Minister of the Confederate
Government to Russia. Mr.. Lamar is wild
over and has no fortune outside OF his Of
ficial salary. He lives very quietly lie IS
a man slightly above five feet ten, with
a large we'll rounded figure. His head is
large and thickly covered with grayish-
brown hair which falls In straight parallels
upon each side of his face into long roll,
which curls in at the back of his neck. His
forehead is high and narrow. His eyes are
brown and deeply set. His nose is
straight. The lower part of his face Is hid
den by a sweeping long moustache and
heavy chin whiskers. His complexion is
very sallow. He has the contemplative air
of d student, and is fond Of solitude and re-
Election.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14


Mr.. Manning, the appontee for Secretary
of the Treasury, was born in Albany in 1881:
His father died a few years after his birth,
leaving his widow, son and daughter unpro-
vided for. When nine years of age Dan be-
gan to earn his own living as an errand-b boy
in the argus office, and it was there that he
acquired all his education and experience.
Mr.. William j. Cassidy, the owner of the dr.
gus, was not slow in discovering the peculiar
talents of his errand- boy, and made him re-
porter before he was fifteen years old. Man.
ming acquired in this position an extensive ac-
quaintance with public men, as the Argus office
was then the headquarters of the Northern
Democracy. All through the war be reported
the proceedings of the New York Senate, and
also all political conventions of Importance
held in the State of New York. At the death of
Cassidy in 1871, Manning became the manager
OF the Argus Company, and improved Its
business facilities in a skllful manner. He
also took an active part in the management
of the Commercial National Bank. At pres
ent Manning has Withdrawn from the active
management of the Argus, and devotes him
National Bank, OF which he has been Presi-
dent for several years. Born a Catholic, he
gradually drifted into the Episcopal Church,
of which his first wife was a member, and
both of his sons, who hold important posi-
tions on the Argus, belong to this denomina-
ton. His daughter, however, has remained
a Catholic. His first wife died about four
years ago. and about three months ago he
ventured again onto the sea of matrimony,
leading to the altar Miss Fryer, the only
daughter of an Albany dry goods prince, and
thereby obtained more prominent position
in society.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-14

THE display of fireworks at Washington
The evening of the 4th is said to have ex-
celled anything of the kind ever attempt
ID in this country.