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The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
May-;iay Festival.

The following is the programme
for the May day festival Of ,lr Far
mervilie Sunday Schools, to be had
OH the first of May.
The superintendent, teachers
and pupils Of both schools, tCgeth-
en- with al! the children in Gown
who VIII JOIN us, will meet at the
Baptist church at 10 o'clock \. H..
and will there form a procession
and march to The grove Se!ert"d'
The exercises wiltbe as follows:
1-Song by the choir.
2-Praycr by-
3-Sons by he children, "Wel-
come to May
4-Specch 10y J. ID. Everett,
Esq.
5-S"ns by the choir, "Summes
Land"
G-"May Shout "by the children.
7-Speech 10y Prof. Il. b. Daw-
kins.
S-"NIay Song" by the chill
drcn.
After the exercises are over there
will be dinner on the g,Onnd.
The entire town and community
are invited to participate IN the
festival, aud we hope all will Ell
.ieavor to make it Il day Of glad
some pleasure. I. &. LEWIS,
j. n. RAMSEY,
superintendent.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

There is no use of Disgusting the
fact longer. Farmerville must have
enterprise and pnblio spirit among
her monied men or the position Of
| an insignificant tlli.I-rate town is
her fate for all time to come. Life
and activity must he injected by
the financial element or no hope
can brighten her future horizon,
A refusal to benefit themselves be
cause, perchance, it might benefit
others is Il motive unworthy citi
zenS, and one we would not aScribe
to the actiOn,-or rather MONACO
tion-of onr capitalists, but in
looking at the great good to the
entire community that would
attend the investment of Il few
thousand dollars in manufactures,
the idea forcibIy suggests itself.
A cotton factory would Dc protita
bic; an oil mill il this region ought
to pay as well as at other points.
and indeed there are hundred
WAYS Of infusing lift-blood into the
now sluggish arteries of business.
Will some enterprising spirits give
thi., matter attention.. or Shall we
settle down in the conviction that
such Il thing as progress is an i'm
possibility?
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
I K5slg az Booster

Melton Allen. . negro employed
On ths Red Chute plantation in
Bossier parish, suspecting an init.
Macy between his wife and one
Ben Jones, COL, arme,l himself
with : shot gun loaled with slugs
0flead nred on the amorous Jones,
killing him almost instantly. Allen
then pursned his fleeing wife and
struck her several blows on the
head With his gun with such force
- 10 beek the stock in two. The
blown indicted were heard by q
negro Who lives nearly opposite
70 tho house which was occupied
By Allen. The gentlemen III
chafge Of the plantation were awak-
epell and on reaching the house
thay fosnd Jones' body stretched
~ to Aoor and Aliens wife OH
~ outside nsarly dead. She was
e11e1ded % pComptly bat was un-.
co6eiong and never uttered q word
ulstfl ~ O'Clock I. M, yesterday.
13ae NnnMlls ne ssported very Sc
Iioo 1lnn VA arrested near
HI Uhafe i,ya young gentleman
~ ND until the appearance Of q
CONSTABLE,
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
Conn sas sgsliCllfeH.
(fOr the HoSrE ADVOCATE.

MIR. EDITOR:-I desire Il small
space in the columns of your most
excellent paper to pen a few
thoughts on the mercies and good.
ness of God which have been made
manifest to a fallen race through
the death and sutleringS of the
Los Jesus Christ.
| presume that almost al! men
of reflection who belong to the
school of Christ, have united in
this cOncluSiOn-tl,at God is good
that lie wills the happiness of all
whom He has made; that the plan
of His paternal kin,ineSS is bound
less and immortal as His nature;
and that the education of the soul
of man, for "A world OF everlastin.
love and Harmony, for the society
Of Heavenly ainds, for commune
ion Nth God Himself, is the great.
the glorious end Tor which this
world wa> created. More especially
is it the Object of the diSpensation
OF Christianity that to us for this
high destination; faith and hope to
enlightrn and animate our views
aud endeavorS; humility to discern
our faults; penitience to heal our
spiritual maladies; love to unite us
to our brethren; devotedness TO cur
Heavenly Father to conduct us
through every path Of duty, and
resignation to enable us to improve
varied events of life, are all IL like
inculcated 10y reason, 10y prayer,
by self examination. and the study
Of our S;tvior's life, by daily exer-
else and improvement in all that
is just and lovely, and praise
worthy. We are to seek, and, ac-
cOrding to our faithfllness and as.
Siduity, may hope to attain, peace
which the world cannot give aud
''joy which en1ureth forever;"
that, together with these vital and
universal stamina Of the Christian
character, various un!ountled, and,
separately considered, 2erniciouS
notions should have been left stand.
ing, or should have sprung up
amongst that diversity of sectS,
into which the Christian world
separated, on emerging from 20.
piSli darkness.
Christians should provoke mu-
tual candor and generous emula-
tons to excite stronger attachment
to those grand principals, in which
all good men might join harmoni.
Ously Oh earth as we cannot doubt
they will in the choir Of celestial
spirits; when they shall come from
the East and the West, the North
and the South, and sit down to
gether in the Kingdom of their
Father. Yours Truly,
w. c. G..
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

The appropriation of 5000 for
the return Of the Liberty Bell is in
accord with much Of the financial
work done by the Council. With
npey 90 sadly needed for the pur-
Of street cleaning and the
ment Of the public servants
such unnecessary extravaganza will
rather belittle onr city than com.
mend 1t either ut home or abroad.
Picayune.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
NOTICE..

All persons who desire to teach in. The
public schools Of Union parish are here
by notified to present themselves. fer ex-
animation, ut the Academy in Farmer
vile, May 2, l 5. Certificates hereto
fcre issued by the Board have been an
nlilled. No contracts will be mace with
teachers, unless they arc in possession OF
certificates
BY order of the School Board.
II. b. DAwKINS,
BENZ. TAYLOR, Committee.
Il 24-3t.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
State V'eaCs.

IO,cn Talk: Two of Mr.. Martin
Dunham's best COWS were killed
night before last by lightning.
The Arcadia Advance reflective
" remarks: "a dog fight often
attracts more attention than a
pretty woman
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

Richard King, the cattle king of
the United States, died at San An.
TONIC last week, with what phvsi-
clalls call cancer, Of the stomach.
He Was the owner of IL ! 200, 600
acre ranch over which browsed 80,
OOO head Of cattle.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

The financial difficulties Of Mr..
q. Gill, of Homer, have been ami
cably arranged with his creditors
and he has gone to New Orleans
TO lay in a stock of new goods.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

"When I was a young man was
always in a hurry to hold the big
end of the log and do Ill the lifting.
Now l Am old l seize the small end
and do all the grunting."-Josh
Billings.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
The HOMllriHe near Shiloh

The killing of Mr.. w. ?. Mabry
near Shiloh, of which mention wa.
made last week has caused qrl.t
"A breeze of excitement. On Thurs
! day last w. G. Henderson anC
| Walter FergerSon were arrested
and two others-Calvm Skinner
and Jack Melton-haye since been
! taken in custody charged with
completely in the killing.
On Wednesday last all of the
accused had a preliminary hearing
before Judge Young and the fol
loving 1sa synopsis of the evi.
lence adduced.
One Ofthe accused-Jack Melton
made the subjoined voluntary safe
ment:
On the 10Th of April | saw W.
&. Henderson as Pisgah church; he
said that lie wanted to see me on
particular business and I went to
his house Tuesday night. He
asked me i'll would 80 with a crowd
to whip the negro woman Caroline.
| told him that | might. When /
went into the honse | found Wal
ter Fergerson and Calvin Skinner
there. | asked Henderson if that
was the crowd; he replied that it
was. | at first refused to go with
them and started to Mr.. Benefits,
but they begged me to go with
them. When we reached Caro-
lines house We walked up into the
yard and Skinner called to the old
negro to open the door. She asked
who it was ? She commenced hal
'ooing and opening the door, ran
ont by us. When they caught
her, Skinner led hel back to the
house. We were all standing talk
ing to her, when thought heard
some person coming. ! stepped
around the house to see what it
was and Skinner ran back some
thing near so yards towards Mr..
Mabry's house. l heard some one
call ont ''stop," and then heard
the report of pistol. Skinner
came back to where we were and
said that he had shot, and stated
that he guessed that he had hit
old man Mabry. / asked him if
he shot at him He replied, mo,
[ did it accidentally
Mr.. Mabry was my best friend,
and when went there, l had no
intention of harming him.
The negro wOman-Caloline
Simle::, being sworn. said:
l live at MIR. w. =. Mabry's. On
the night of the homicide and IN,
two little boys, and two small
grandchildren were asleep in my
house. Late in the night MIR.
Henderson, Mr.. Fergerson and
others came to my house. Mr..
Henderson called me-Iiived with
him Henderson, last year and
recognized his volce-he said he
wanted to talk with me. Ibecame
frightened, jumped up, put on my
dress and ran out Of the hOnsc. l
ran some 80 yards from the house
aud fell. Mr.. Fergerson met me
there and struck me on the head
with a small stick. Fergerson,
Henderson and two other men
hen carried me back near the
house. All of them were armed |
nth pistols. Henderson struck |
he in the eye with a pistol. A
ew minutes afterward Mr.. Mabry
,ame up and halloocd out:
aeighO! What is the matter?
What are you doing there? Hen
lersOn then turned me loose and
an back in that direction. Some
me exclaimed, "Old Mabry has
ome.'~ | then heard two pistol
h0ts, after which they all ran off
. the woods. ] went to Mr.. Ma
'ry's.
On cross examination, witness
tated as follws: / saw four men
nd first learned of the presence of
If. Henderson and MIR. Fergerson
y hearing their names called.
Tie moon was not shining that
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
Land Warrant For Sale.

The undersigned offers fer site a Land
Warrant tor t. location If 100 acres Oh
land. This warrant can be used for the
entry of one hundred ant. sixty acres o!
any public lands belonging 70 the Unitr
States For TENS, apply at this office,
or to j. i. HOI. STEAD.
EalGton, La.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

The Governor effers a reward! of
$500 for the discovery and. arrest
Of the parties who set fire to the
Abbeville courthouse.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

England has backed down and
there will be no powder and bail
monkeying with the great ugly
northern lion.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

The United Safes Grand jury in
session at Monroe reported thirty
four indictments last Saturday
morning.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01
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The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-01

have opened up business Main Street, in the town
of Farmervle, La and my object supply the public WITH
superior article of-FAMILY GROCERIES-att the louxa
rates. Call and examine my stock.
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23
THE ST4UV TO- CIR AIN AND
PRODUCE MARK Ell.

Bus ness IN grain and produce 10 Staun-
ton. the past week. has been restricted
only 10y the lin tied offerings. The demand
has been good, and prices continue to hold
fully up to the advance heretofore noticed;
but farmers are generally holding their
grain with the hope of yet realizing still
better figures Since the beginning of the
month the advance has been on -four 25c.,
wheat &c., corn &C., oats SC. The advance
has been general over the whole country,
and the feeling is strong everywhere. Hay
is one dollar per ton higher. The best
price yet obtained in Staunton was paid
this week, for the crop raised on the farm
of Mr.. Robt. W. Burke. (the old J. Wayt
Bell place., Sc tons of choice timothy sold
to Mr.. J. W. Todd, at $13. so. The demand
for this quality of hay exceeds the supply,
and competition among buyers is very
lively.
Our farmers are free buyers of corn,
showing that rather an unusual number
of fat cattle are being fed, Oats are al
ready in demand for seed.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23
PRICES FOR GRAIN AND THE
TARIFF

Editor american Ezeuator and Gram Trade ::
I want it to go on record that in this, the
year of grace 1884, under high protective
tariff, corn sells at IL cents per bushel in Ne
braska and wheat at from 25 to so cents. For
years the tariff fanatics have CHILLED the farm
ers by pointing to the low prices which grain
Gin exceptional years. brought under low
tariff. Now, let the present range of prices
stand for all time as a refutation of this much
worn, because much used argument. If corn
and wheat were ever any cheaper. under low
tariff or no tariff than they are at present, the
circumstance has escaped by recollection.
Yours respectfully, No TARIFF.
Now how can the people ever expect to
know anything about the operations of
tariff while such stuff as this put before
them as information ? In 1851 under the
nearest tariff to free trade the country
even had, corn sold in Illinois at eight
cents bushel to-day the Chicago quota
tiors IS thirty seven and half cents, and
this year of 1884 is an exceptional year
for low price of wheat and corn; for in
tWnDty years the market FOR both was
never so low as it was in December last.
In D4kota by steam and gang plows they
can raise wheat at a cost of thirty cents a
bnshel. What sort Of tariff, high or low,
can make good wheat market in dull f.
nancisl times against such a composition as
this A busy world. making money, pays
good prices, anyhow fair prices, out an
idle world with business stopped and
money locked up, buvs as little and pays
as little as it can. How little remunela
tive is all this talk now that even free
trade England is at dead stand, with he
of idle workmen consuming
little and making nothing. We are in this
midst of commercial depression which
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23
contributions made to the erection of the

contributions made to the erection of the
building.
At the Parsonage at Orange C. H.. Va,
Tuesday night, Miss Lizzie Thomas, a young
ady from Atlanta, Ca, was reading some let
tiers and throwing them into the fire. One,
burning, rolled under her dress and her cloth
ing famed up. In her fright she ran into a
closet and closed the door behind her. Before
she could be gotten out her entire clothing
was burnt off. She died the next evening a
few hours before her father, who was tele-
graphed for, arrived.
In Crabbottom, Highland county, last week,
in the sale of the Solomon Flesher estate, 254
acres brought $75 an acre, and % acres
brought $I36 per acre. The Highland ere
corder" points with pride, as it has good
right to, to this sale, and asks if Augusta can
match iii? Hardly, we think; the Bush land
near Waynesboro at $50, is the highest sale in
this county for generation past.
The venerable Dr. Theodorick Pryor of Not
toway, last Sunday celebrated his 92d birthday
and preached his semi-centennial sermon.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23

It themsylvesI It was but last week that
New York merchants were appealing to-
their State Railroad Commissioners
against some of VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt's long
and short haul rates, when he appeared by
counsel. His counsel said: "WhaG IS
needed is the appointment of a national
commission having powers similar to
those of the New York and Massachusetts
boards. If the idiots at Washington would
establish such board much could be done
to rectify whatever grievances exist, ana
which are conceded" And the eminent
counsel stated what was true.
One thing is certain. that sooner or
later it must be settled between the peo-
pie and the roads, as to who is master. 1t
will not do for Senators to try and stave
off the day by suggestions of popular
clamor" or cOntemptuous reference to the
''granger cry" More than seventy five
per cent. of all the trade Of the United
States is inter State commerce. In the
carriage of this commerce the railroads
have rights as we'll as the people and both
should be equally protected. But as far as
we can see the Reagan bill interferes with
no right of the railroad as common car
rier. 1t may fix its own price for freight,
but it must deal fairly and equally In the
matter with all men and all localities.
1t must not use its chartered RICH is
to break down this locality and build up
that. This is what the people demand
and the railroad interest resists. 1t may be
called popular clamor, but it cannot be
silenced. If the railroads and their friends
are wise they will regard it as someth ing
more than clamor-as the expression OF
people who have long borne with what
they believe to be wrongs, with what their
daily experience tells them are wrongs,
and with what the popular body Of tn
national congress has, by large majority,
decided are wrongs. and must b. rignted.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23
The GAS QUESTION.

The question of cheaper gas is one in
which a number-we are sorry to say
decreasing number of gas consumers
is interested, but we take it that there
is no occasion for a heated war over it,
Both the people and the Gas Company had
better take business view of the matter.
That the profits of the latter are not as
magnificent as the popular idea of them,
is quite certain, but that hardly enters
the discussion now. The present rate is
50 so a thousand and added to this is q
charge of Is cents month for the use of
the metres. The public feeling of Staun-
ton is clearly and very deliberately against
paying so much. Their council, whom
thew elect. seems to be in full sympathy
with them and has gone so far az to adver-
tlse for bids to furnish the city the neces-
sary apparatus for manufacturing gas
The public discomfort has been noised
abroad and an agent of an Electric Light
Company is on hand with another bid to
furnish light These facts should operate
on the Gas company to give the lowest
figure to the public at which they can
afford to manufacture. 1t is useless to
hide the fact that high rate has driven
many consumers off. Some of our bust
ness houses, saloons and hotels have either
discontinued it altogether or reduced the
use of it to so few lights that they do not
help the company much. Let the com
pany do as any other business enterprise
does try lower price, say $l.75 as an
experiment, as that seems to be the pop.
ular price just now. If the experiment
fails, they will not find the consumers I'M
reasonable, but if they do not meet the
popular demand ia some way there is little
doubt that the city gas works will be built.
AS for the comparative merits of municipal
or cooperative control of either water or
light we think the former is infinitely
preferable, being much easier reached and
controlled by the citizens; nevertheless we
cannot ignore the fact that the present
Gas company is composed of cur own
cit,zens, who, after the municipality re-
fused to undertake the work, put their
own none, in it, and should they give the
same rates that could be given by CITY
~ works or, indeed, if they got reason
ably close to- them, we should oppose
erecting competition which would des-
tsoy their investment i'll few months.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23

Just as much as the ordinances of seces-
sion are things of the past, and they take
him in to the current of affairs of this day
just as little as they do those ordinances.
They think of him as no more traitor
to the government than they we're, but as
leader of a great civil war between the
States in which the weakest side came out
loser. But they view with satisfaction the
fact that whenever war recollections are
brought up to be aired in the National
Congress 1t is by the Republicans. That
constancy to bitterness, that loyalty to
hatred, that absorbing devotion to Sec
tionalism, that incapacity to understa nd
the progress of the world, that infidelity
to the belief that the wounds of Republic
can heal as we'll as bleed, that permeating,
satur' ting Bourbonism evidenced TO the
world by the Republican leaders in this
especially the Southern portion of it, its
faith that the Republican party has gone
out forever and that its star has set for
all eternity. 1t is most comforting as
surance to the South that 1t Is to be gov
erned no more by sectional organization;
that hereafter there is to be a NATION;
that men may plan great enterprises and
may set the house of the South in order
to meet the flood of prosperity which time
is pregnant with. with the ceroain knowl-
edge that the machinery of the National
government will no longer be used against
it and that the new Administration that
is TO come, in Washington, will not be
one whose first duty TO the Republic will
be to overhaul Confederate records for
materials with which to befoul its own
nest-to lnpeach the loyalty Of one-third
of its citizens. Every such occurrence IS
that in the Senate only serves to gladden
the country by an insight into what it
escaped from by the November election.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23
,oels [poles] as will fence in 100 acres more or

poels [poles] as will fence in 100 acres more or
less"
An Indiana man wrote for "a pair of old
mules that the government don't want
any more" He added: ''If you gittem let
me no, and I'll send fur EN- rite away"
Ben LIE Feore, of Ohio, who sends re
seeds to his constituents than any two men in
Congress, received letter asking for ''tamitto
and sparigus ceads." 1t is almost needless to
add that these were sent by return mail.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-01-23

William Maxwell Evarts is lucky man.
He defended A ndrew Johnson before the
impeachment court and was made his At
torney General in return. He defended
Hayes before the Electoral Commission
and Hayes made him his secretary of
State. He made one speech for the Re-
publican purity to save New York and now
that party has elected him U. S. Senator.