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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
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Spring has arrived.
Gardens are booming.
Buffalo gnats are here.
Don't you want wire fence?
Who has any young chickens2
Yellow corn is better than white.
The Exposition is still going on.
Now is the time to advertise gnat
oil.
March winds were around this
week.
Flowing was the order Of the day:
this week.
Cool sharp nights the beginning
of the week.
Subscribe for the TIMES, and do
it right off.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beer, returned from
the Exposition Wednesday.
Stock up with gnat oil, Fulton
NJ. McRae has it, see his tad"
Capt. John B. Stone, returned
from Monroe the first of the week.
Did you ever hear cannon roar ?
No, but have heard building
boom.
There will be an eclipse of the
sun on Monday, but it is not visible
here.
You will get more information
concerning the cuts of wire fences,
next week.
There is a general cry all over
the land for cheap rates to the Ex-
position.
1t is reported in Vicksburg that
the streets of Delta are being used
as farms.
The advertisements on the out
side of this paper are not guaran-
teed to be reliable.
Any one sending five subscrip-
tons to the TINES, shall have a
copy free, for one year.
1t takes over week to get coaI
here after it is ordered from Vicks-
bur g, and then you don't get it.
The obstruction policy appears
to be about the only policy left TO
the friends of the Mississippi river
Capt. III. B. Holmes is improv
ing his place. He has enclosed {
building lot, and has set out mum
Der of fruit trees.
After gallant struggle of man!
years, the friends of the Mississippi
are routed, horse, foot and dragons
Make new alliances.
Two passenger trains on the
Queen and Crescent road, collideC
this week. On one of them was
John Scott, General Manager. He
was not hurt.
Mr.. NJ. Van Os and family, ex.
pect about the first of April, tC
leave for Europe, where they will
spend the summer, visiting rela'
tives and friends
Mr.. R. T. Felt Of Delta, has lef
Madison Parish, and will make his
future home in New York City
His many friends in the parish
while regretting his absence, wish
him success IN his new home.
A splendid chance to make a croI
is offered on the Dallas plantation
The plantation is on the west banl
of Bayou Tensas, the finest cottol
land in the world. There is rail
road station on the place, plenty o
new cabins a barbed wire fenc
surrounds the place; it is vel
ditched, and there being no likeli
hood of an overflow, a crop is dea
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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
Thought He Gave Up Everything.

Henry Willard is living quietly
at Berlin. He severed the last re-
maing tie that bound him to
America only a short time ago by
resigning the position of president
of the Oregon and California Rail-
way. When his blind pool was in
full swing and the Willard stocks
were at their highest figures he was
worth, on paper, 100000. His
fall was tremendous and the wreck
was complete. Out of the chaos
he saved 500, 900, and that repre-
sents the fortune he took to Berlin
to settle down on.-T-D.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
Stage OF Rivers.
WAR DEPARTMENT.

OFFICE Chief SIGNAL OFFICE,
March l., ppm, Washington time.
The following observations were taken
al the same moment of time at all the
stations named.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
She Boosted Too Soon.

A lady who had boosted highly
at dinner party of her little dar-
ling, addressed him thus: "Char-
lie, my dear, wont you have some
beans ?" "No," was the illman-
nered reply of the petulant cherub,
"No!" exclaimed the astonished
mother, "no what % "No beans. "
Elk.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
ORDER.
SHERIFF. SALE.
State of Louisiana, Parish of
Madison, Sth District Court.

Mrs. AMANDA L. PACK
VS.. No. 632.
VIM. B. PACK, ct ais.
DY WRITE OF A COMMISSION
ID of sale for purposes of partition to
me directed from the Honorable Eighth
Judicial District Court for the Parish
of Madison aforesaid, in the above en-
titled cause, | viii proceed to sell at
public auction, at the door of the Court
House in the town of Tallulah, in Mad
ison Parish, Louisiana, on the third
Saturday the 1 Sth day of April,
A. ID. 1885,
between the hours prescribed by law,
all the right, title and interest OF Mrs.
Amanda l.. Pack, and of VIM. b. Pack,
ct ais, in and to the following described
property, tO-wit: The south least frac-
tional quarter least of Tensas river in
section No. twenty COY the southwest
quarter of section No. twenty one (2l, }
and the north half of section, and the
north half of south half Of section No.
twenty-eight (28), all in township No.
seventeen az, north, range No. eleven
(1D east, in the Parish OF Madison,
State of Louisiana, and containing In
the aggregate, Six Hundred and Eighty
Seven acres, more or less, seized In The
above suit.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash with the
benefit of appraisement
II. B. HOLMES. Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Tallulah, La, 18th
March 1885. ct.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14

LETTERS
Remaining in Post Office at Tallulah,
La, March 9TH 1885.
Jas. B. Askew, John Atkinson,
Ned Adams, Mrs. Polly Brown,
J.J. Brown, Mrs. Jane Grippeson
John Howard, p. NJ. January,
Robert Jenkins, VIM. Lowery,
f. L. McGhee, Emma Asbery,
David Reed, Miss Alice Rick,
Nat Retainer, John Sanders, Bridge
Sarah Wilson, Gang No. 2.
Mrs. Jennie Wooden,
Mrs. Sarah Williams,
Mrs. Caroline Wilson,
Mrs r, c. Winslow.
Persons calling for letters in this list
will please say advertised"
j. NJ. HEBERT, II. NJ.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
NOTICE.

The Parish Licenses for the year
1885, are now ready for issue. All
parties required by law to take out
licenses, are notified to come and
get same, and thereby avoid pen
allies. II. B. HOLMES,
Sheriff & Tax Collector.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14

Parish School Board.
S.B.McClellan, President; W .B.King,
J. G Clarke, w. ii. Harvey, John J.
Erwin, Sol. Fried, A. L. Slack, w. l.,
Sharkey, A. &C. Monette, Sec'y.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway Company.
ON AND AFTER DECEMBER l4PH

THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE WlLL BIZ OPERATED TO WIT:
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14

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.
25th Senatorial District.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-03-14
Justices of the Peace.
NOTICE.

All bills approved by the Police
Jury, for the year 1884, can now
be paid on demand:
r. G. WEIGHTMAN.
Clerk p. J.
The National tribune., 1885-07-30
TRIBUNETS.

A truth-loving correspondent who saw Gov.
Albeit in bathing suit is compelled to admit
that the Chief Magistrate of New Jersey is an
awfully bow-legged man.
Geo. W. Smalley describes the Marquis of
Caux, PATHS cast-of husband, as "the most
thoroughly sharp, selfish, good for nothing
loafer that he knows" The Marquis does not
any longer set up to be beau. White hairs
are not picked carefully from his head, whis-
kers and mustache, or dye applied to hide them
His eyes stand out with fairness, and fold of
adipose flesh rises above his shirt collar at the
back of the neck. The chin is double, and the
whole air of the man gives one the idea of a
sensualist. He is not extremely corpulent, be-
cause he takes care to keep down excessive
adiposity. But he is as prosaie as horse
jockey, and looks a horsey" man. There is
report that a fool of an American widow,
who is crazy for title, is about to take up the
Marquis as husband.
Life: Mrs. Beacon, from Boston: "This is
good weather for repentance. Mr.. Follibud. 1t
ought to give you realizing sense of your
future.
The National tribune., 1885-07-30
RECENT LITERATURE.

A NEW ENGLAND CONSCIENCE. BY Belle C
Greene. Published by G. 2. Punam's Sons New
York. For sale by Brentano, Washington, D. O..
Price, 81.
This is another Of the bright, charming sto-
ries the Messrs. Putnams are noted for bring
ing out, and which amuse and crafty while
they arouse thought.
Magazines.
Lippineott's Magasine-Co Contents: On This
Side; Our Vile; The Primitive Couple; Pro-
baton; The Pioneers of the Southwest; A
Pleasant Spirit; Fishing in Elk River; On a
Noble Character MARRIED by Littleness; The
Scottish Crofters; My Friend George Randall !;
The WOOdthrush at Sunset; A Forest Beauty;
Our Monthly Gossip; Literature of the Day.
OgiIries Popular Reading No. 20, contains the
following stories: A Dark Inheritance, by Mary
Cecil Hay; His Secret by M. E. Braddon
The Withered Leaf, by Ouida; Clouds and
Sunshine, by Cbas. Reade; The Little Earl, by
Ouida; The Diary of Minister'S Wife, by A.
M. Brown. The frontispiece this month is, as
usual, very pretty.
Peterson's Magazine for August = Contents:
The Silver Neon; A Gossip About Gloves; A
Reveris; The Passway of Peril; The Land of
By-and-B Bye; For the Envious; A Letter from
Homo; Octavia's Prayer; One Soweth and An
other Reapeth; Good Intentions; A Chapter
Twice Read; The Old Man from Gloucester;
Beside the Brook; In Berkeley Square; Betsey
Hawkins in the City; The Willertons; Parted.
The North american Repiew.-Contents: Can
Cholera be Averted; The Animal Soul; A Pro-
fame View of the Sanctum; Temperance Re-
form Statistics; The Price of Gas The Spolia-
ton of the Public Lands; Comments.
The National tribune., 1885-07-30

for other graves, and had Grant been buried
there it would have become such ceme-
terry as we have imagined. The third prop
osition was to bury him at Arlington. There
was much to be said in favor of this. Sur
rounded by $4,000 of the soldiers who fell in
the battles of the Army Of the Potomac, his
grave would have been fifty guarded and
hallowed.
There is absolutely nothing to recommend
the interment in Central Park. 1t is pre-
eminently place of pleasure-making, gaiety
and curiosity seeking. A tomb erected there
will simply be an object of interest to visit
ors, and compete in attractiveness with the
geological garden and Cleopatra's needle.
The Indifference of the people of New York
to the proper erection of the Bartholdi
statue shows us how little we can expect
from them in the way Of providing tomb
suitable to our illustrious dead. Nor can
they hope for contributions from the country
at large to provide fitting mausoleum.
The people will so little approve of the in
terment at that place that they cannot be
induced to subscribe money merely for the
purpose Of enhancing the attractiveness Of
New York's great park. Strong efforts are
being made to alter the choice of burying
place, and The NATIONAL TRIBUNE fer
vently hopes that they may be successful
The National tribune., 1885-07-30
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Whoever sends us 10 new names and So will
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Veterans Rights In New York.

To THE EDITOR: see by this mornings
papers of the meeting between the veterans
and the State Civil Service Board at the New
York Hotel yesterday to decide the most in
portant question, to my mind, that has come
before the public since the organization of the
GAR, namely, the rights of veterans under
State laws for municipal appointments.
Too much praise cannot be given to that
steam-engine of the GAR, of Brooklyn, Kings
Co.,-Edward A. Dubey,-for being the first to
take this matter in hand The GAR. is in
debted to this comrade for the uDselfsh zeal
he is taking in the Order throughout the
country and the grand success he is meeting
with. We hope We may see more like him
come to light and make move in the same
direction. The matter is now in the hands of
Veterans Rights Union, with JOS w. Kay. a
man that knows no such word as fail. With
him and his associates we may write on our
banners Victory" as they will leave no stone
unturned but they will eventually succeed
Col. w. Fl. WILDER, New York, July 10.
The National tribune., 1885-07-30
OHIO POLITICS.

There is much more politics to the acre
in Ohio than anywhere else in our beloved
country, nd this Falls campaign promises to
be even more than ordinarily exciting. The
temperance question, which is more seri-
GUS problem in Ohio than anywhere else,
and which has been the controlling factor in
several elections recently, will enter into
this one to greater extent than ut any
previous time. In brief, the history of the
temperance agitation in Ohio is this The
Constitution adopted in 1851 contained this
clause: "No licenses shall be issued for the
sale Of intoxicating liquors, but the Legis-
lature may provide against the evils result
ing from the sale thereof" The adoption of
this clause of the Constitution was followed
by very stringent temperance legislation,
which, if enforced, would have efectually pro-
hibited the sale of intoxicating liquors other
than ale, beer and native wines but, as is
usually the case, the legislation was not en-
forced, and it fell into greater disrepute
until it became dead letter, and saloon
keeping was practically as free and undis-
turbed as the sale of dry goods and boots and
shoes. In 1880 there were about $4,000
saloons in the State, or one to every 225
people. The necessity Of some remedial
legislation was apparent to all, but the diff
Guilty was as to what this should be. The
constitutional provision prevented the intro
duction of any license system, and another
constitutional provision, to the effect that all
taxation should be equal, prevented special
tax being laid on saloons After several
efforts the Legislature of Ohio, which then
had Republican majority, passed in 1888
what was known as the Scott Law, which
imposed tax of 5000 on every place where
intoxicating liquors were sold. This, it was
thought, was so framed that it would avoid
both the anti-license and the equality of
taxation clauses.
AS it came down very heavily on the
saloon-keepers it created no little resent
ment, which took the form of an organized
bolt of the Germans from the Republican
party and the election that Fall of Hon.
George Hoadly, the attorney of the State
Liquor Dealers Association, as Governor.
The next year the Germans went farther,
and with their assistance the Democrats
elected majority of the Legislature and
of the Supreme Court There was distinct
pledge made that if the Democrats were
successful the odious Scott Law should be
repealed, but during the campaign the Pro
hibitionists became excited over the matter
and made non-partisan canvass of the
State in favor of the Second Amendment,
which prohibited the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liquors in the State, and
such was the disgust Of the people at
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OBITUARY.


MCGREyAL.-Recently, at Grand Junction, Iowa,
Michael McCireyal. He was Captain of Co. E, 93d
Ind. and performed gallant service for the Union.
At the time of his death he was q member of III. o.
johnson Post, No. 152.
DARRABEE-At Oneida, Kan, July %, David III.
Darrabee, Co. II, 4th Iowa Cav. He was COM
rade of Oneida Post, No.l63
GRANT-At Mt. McGregor, N. Y, July %, In the
Gath year of his age, Gen. U. s. Grant.
BILL.-At the home of his father-in-law. Mt Yon-
kers N. " July q, Lieut.. j. H. Bill, Surgeon
u s. A., for the past % years. For several years
he has been stationed in New York, as member
of the u. S. A. Examining Board.
McDoUGALL.--At Berryville, Va, July Is. Brevet
Brig.-G Charles McDougali, Assistant Medical
Purveyor, U. s. A., retired. Gen. McDougall en-
tered the service in 1882 as Assistant Surgeon.
RoBERTs.-On Thursday last Brig. Gen. Samuel
Roberts died suddenly in Brooklyn. He went to
the front as Colonel of the 139th N. Y, and earned
the rank of Brigadier-General by gallant service.
He was in command Mt Richmond after its fall. He
was at one time Postmaster of Brooklyn.
The National tribune., 1885-07-30

great deal of the "reminiscences of Lincoln
now running through the papers is pretty poor
stuff The men now living who came in con-
tact with the great War President do not seem
30 remember much that is worth remembering
There are, however, occasional grains of wheat
that repay reading through columns of chaff as,
for example the following anecdote by Hon.
Lawrence Weldon:
In 1862 the people of New York City were appre-
bensye of bombardment by some of the Confed-
crate cruisers public meetings were held 10 express
the gravity of the situation and to induce the Gov
eminent To do something by way of permanently
protecting the city. In contamination of that pur-
pose a delegation Of 50 gentlemen, representing in
their own right 500, 000000, was selected to visit
Washington and have an interview with the Pres
dent and induce him to detail gunboat to protect
the city. The committee requested gentleman
then staying in Washington to arrange with the
President a time when he could see them
Mr.. Lincoln seemed 80 be much puzzled what to
say or do, and remarked to the gentleman who was
arranging as to the interview: Il have no gunboats
or ships of that be spared from active serv
lee, but, inasmuch as they have come to see me, L
shall have 10 them and get along IS best can !"
The committee called at the appointed time, and
were introduced as gentlemen representing $780,
oo0.oOo in their own right" The Chairman of the
President for protection and remarked that they
represented the wealth of the city, lone hundred
millions in their own right" Mr.. Lincoln heard
them attentively, evidently impressed with tho
Hundred millions" and replied as follows:
Gentlemen, am by the Constitution Com
rnandcr-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the
United States, and, matter Of law, can order
anything done that is practicable to be done; but
q matter of fact, am not in command of the
gupboats or ships of war as a matter OF fact do
not know exactly where they are but presume
they arc actively engaged 1t is impossible for me
Ia the condition of things to furnish you gunboat
The credit of tile Government is at a very low ebb
GreenbacSs are not worth more than 40 or so cents
On the dollar, and in this condition of things If I
was worth half as much you. gentlemen, are
represented to be, and as badly frightened as you
Seem 10 be, would build gunboat and give il to
the Government"
The gentleman who accompanied the Delegation
says he never saw one hundred millions sink TO
such insignificant proportions the Committee
yccrossed the threshold of the White House sadder
but wiser men. They had learned that money as
well as muscle was factor Of war.
The National tribune., 1885-07-30
SAN FRANCISCO.
Past Commander-in-Chief Kountz's Views as to
the Attendance ON the Encampment.


Past COMMANDMENTS Chief Kountz was in the
city last week attending the meeting of the
Committee on Veterans Rights. A NATIONAL
TRIBUNE emissary meeting him, the talk
drifted to the Encampment next year at San
Francisco.
"You ask me how about California ?" said
Gen. Kountz "Letme say to you, the recep-
ton that awaits those who will visit California
next year will far surpass any that has yet
been given the Grand Army of the Republic.
An opportunity to visit this paradise of America
under similar circumstances will never again
occur. While the reputation of those great
hearted Californians for generosity and hespi-
tally is everywhere recognized, tell you in
the princely manner in which they will enter
tain the comrades who will visit the Golden
State they are going to double-discount their
own record, if such thing is possible. have
made the trip through the Wonderland of the
West. and know something of the grand treat
in store for those who go. The entire journey
will be an ovation, for the West is full of old
soldiers whose hearts already rejoice in antici-
patton of the opportunity to meet many of
those with whom they stood shoulder to Shout
der during those ever-memorable days from
1861 to 1865, and they will meet and greet the
boys all along the line.
81 wish every soldier who battled to save the
Republic might have the privilege of visiting
the great West and taste the magnificent hos
pitality of our comrades on the golden shore.
"Do / think many will attend the Encamp-
ment?
"Yes; confidently believe it will be one of
the largest in our history. We have already
enough pledged to go from Forsyth Post, To-
ledo to fill one car, and if the rate is fixed at
$50 for the round trip, as think it will be. /
should not be surprised if we have two cars
from Toledo"
"At what time of the year ought the En-
campment to be heidi"
81 should say in the month of May, by all
means; first, because the comrades want the
Encampment at that time, and also because it
is the very best month in the year to see Cali
fornia in all its grandeur; and besides, it is
more convenient month than June"
The National tribune., 1885-07-30

Among the almost numberless uses and new
applications which are constantly being made
of electricity, none are more important and in
teresting than its wonderful efficacy as a eura-
tive agent The AETNA Battery, advertised in
another column. by the action of electricity
which it produces upon the substances con-
tanned in it, produces an electro chemie vapor
which, when brought in contact with the deli
cato membranes of the eye, or Innings OF the
nasal cavities by exciting the nerves, causes an
increased circulation of blood in the parts and
thus streng mems and restores them to a healthy
condition. As remedy for weakness and dis
eases of the eye, cold in the head, headache and
catarrh, the numerous testimonials of most re-
spectacle and well known persons to the eff
cacy of AETNA are very convincing, and to the
afflicted are certainly worthy Of Investigation.