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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
Choiera's Alarminu increasa

MADRID, August 8. There were 4,232
new cases OF cholera and 1861 deaths
throughout Spsip YeeserdAy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
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: q. S. GRANT, :
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Died July %, 1885.

The casket was placed in a cedar box OF
one and one-half inch material before being
placed in the steel case,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

The present coal beds of the world
will be exhausted in 1880 years.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13

treat. With a spontaneity that told Of
their reverence every man raised his hat as
the first horse came abreast Of him, and re-
mained uncovered until the body passed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-08-13
The Debt Statement.

WASHINGTON, D. c., August 1.-The fol-
lowing is the public debt statement for the
month of July: !
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
Police jury.

Parish School Board.
S.B.McClellan, President; W.B.king,
J. q CLARKE, W. II. Harvey, John J.
Erwin, Sol. Fried, A. J.. Slack, W. L..
Sharkey, \. G. Monette, Sec'y.
Justices Of the Peace.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
MILLIKEN's BEND, La.
Jan. "a 1855


Jan. "a 1885.
Hon. Z. S. Dennis:
President Police Jury, Of Madison
Parish, Tallulah, La
DEAR SIR:-A letter received by
me, from Mr.. Smythe, reporting
survey for new levee at Omega,
stated that he saw no material dam
age there since August last; and |
have therefore visited the locality
to-day, and as a result have adj
dressed to John McGinty, contract
or, a letter of which a copy is en-
closed, and which I trust, suili-
GENTLY explains itself.
OF course ] may be mistaken in
my conclusions, but my deliberate
conviction is, that there are many
other places in this district where
the apparent danger is greater, and
where the amount that the proposed
levee at Omega would cost, might
be most profitably expended.
If in the judgment Of the paro-
eial authorities a new levec at
Omega, now appears absolutely
required, I trust the work viii be
undertaken by the Parish, as, with
my present views Of the situation,
there, | cannot think it right or
proper, that the limited funds Of
the State, and lcycc district should
he drawn upon for work that APP
peared to me and other members OF
the Board Of State Engineers, OF
such doubtful utility.
Very Respectfully, &c,
HENRY B. RICHARDSON,
Chief State Engineer,
MILLIKEN's BEND, La.
Jan. 81, 1885
John McGinty, Esq.
Contractor &c, Present:
DEAR SIR From an examina.
ton made this day of the levee
near Omega, and of the line as re.
Gently laid out and proposed to be
built by you under contract to con.
struct the "Omega Levee." | con.
cluded the work as proposed is not
such as should be now undertaken
by the State-I also observe that
work has not yet been begun there
You are therefore instructed not
not to break ground there, or TO dc
any work under said contract, foI
the construction of the Omcga
Levee, without further order anG
directions from the Board of State
Engineers.
Very Respectfully, &c.
(Signed.) HENRY B. RICHARDSON,
Chief State Engineer
Also the following letter:
OMEGA, Madison Parish, La.
February 5, 1885
To the Honorable Police Jury o
Madison Parish.
GENTLEMEN:-At the request o
several citizens of Omega and vi
cinity, 1 will report that l have to
day personally inspected the Gavin!
bank at the angle of the levee, ;
short distance below said place
and deem the situation unsafe
Soundings taken to-day under m.
direction show that the bluff banl
of river lies at minimum distanc
of about one hundred and twenty
feet, but sink from six 60 +
eight 81 feet deep, and abou
twenty (20) feet wide, has very re
Gently occurred, and extends t
within forty (40) feet c
the base of the levee. ALTHOUGH
! the superlatively uncertain habit
of our river caving may Away
leave room for doubt of danger, tn
probabilities are strongly agains
the security of the levee for ST
months. The eddy currents bclo,
"Stumpy Point" are evidently tn
cause of this recent caving, an
the danger continually increases
/ write to urge this matter upo
your attention in time to take pro
tectiye measures yourselves, or {
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
ID II / T.

Omega makes a break for the
Exposition next week.
II is said railroad fares will be
reduced after Mardi Gras.
The Exposition is taking in more
money than it pays out, now.
Tallulah sent a large delegation
to the Exposition this week.
The clearing up of the wreck east
ofTallulah was completed Monday.
One of the chief attractions of
Talluiah, is, it has no brass band.
The apportionment ofthe School
fund gives Madison parish $780,
10.
The Lake One Saw Mill is send
ing considerable lumber to Tallu-
lah.
Monday night was cold enough to
make ice three inches thick, in
buckets.
May be you have not heard it,
but JOB WORK of all kinds is done
at this office.
Ladies kissing each other, is said
to be going out of fashion. Too
much waste.
The lawyers have all gone to
New Orleans, to attend the SUI
preme Court.
Miss Eva Trezevant of Delhi, was
visitor to her uncle, DR.. Geo. 7.
Trezevant this week.
The sad news Of the death ofMrs
PIP. Bruce, on Thursday, was re-
ceived yesterday afternoon.
Missouri raised u, 100000 bushels
of corn last year, the largest crop
ever raised in the State.
The mosquito is strictly business.
He was around with his little bill,
about the first of the month.
The west bound freight train met
with an accident Tuesday, and the
east bound freight ran off twice
Wednesday.
When the construction engine
whistle blows, the TINES chickens
think it is meal being mixed IN q
tin pan, and come running.
The effects of the Diamond Is
land break, were plainly seen last
week. Canal Bayou swamp had
considerable water in it, from that
break.
To those BARRIERS who use dull
razors we would recommend the
grindstone, for if BARRIERS get to
Heaven at all, it will be by "close
shave. "-Mounter.
The clerk of the weather must
have thought it was spring last
week, for he turned the March
winds loose, to the tune of cover
the hills, and far away.
1t would be a good idea to estab.
lish another signal office at Helena,
Ark. We might then get river
report, one office there is not
enough, as we seldom get report
The Duckport neighborhod, have
few idle plows. Last week ground
was turned over, at cheering rate
Mr.. Boney had % double teams
going. Don't be afraid to turn il
over.
The news of the fall of Khartoun
would have been in last weeks pa
per If the mails had not have gotter
tangled. The papers containing i
should have arrived here Friday
but did not do so.
The engine of the wrecking trair
that came to Tallulah Saturday last
had a whistle that delighted thu
souls of the children, and the soul
also, of the engineer, if one cal
Judge by the way he blew it.
The East Carroll Democrat o
Jan. 81 was received here Feb, 6
There is something wrong with tn
mails. There is no use sending tn
mail from Lake Providence vi
New Orleans and Galveston.
The TINES is in receipt of Vol
], No. !, of the Bienville New Era
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
THERMOMETER RECORD.

Below high water Of 1874.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT,
Stage of Rivers.
WAR; PAETNEST.

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICE,
Feb, 1912 pm. Washington time
The following observations were taken
at the same moment Of time at all the
stations named.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
Nos. & 2 Take dinner at Rayville
TRAINS RUNDAILY,

Passenger trains will wait for each
other at Passing Places THIRTY MINUTES,
and then proceed, running THIRTY Mix
UTEs behind timo until opposing tram
is passed.
n. B.-Trains will be run by tho Goth
Meridian or New Orleans time.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14

POLICE JURY
OFF ICLAL.

MoNnAY, February ., 1885.
The Board met III called meet
ing, PRESUMPTION. Z. 5. Dennis,
President, and Messrs. Erwin, Sc
vicr and Richardson. The follow
ing petition was read by the Clerk:
To the Honorable, the Pre- sident
of the Police Jury Parish of Mad
ison.
We the undersigned Freeholdcrs
of your Parish, respectfully repre-
sent that the action Of Maj. Rich
ardson in refusing to allow the
Omega Runaround to be built at
the expense of the State renders
some action in the premises by the
Police Jury necessary. Therefore
we pray that you call special
meeting of the Police Jury at the
earliest practicable day.
ECDpU-.Dy . 1SSS
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
Members of Congress.

Court of Appeals-Second Circuit.
Judges. II. P. Clinton and A. A. Gunby
Clerk. .............. Francis NJ: Dawson
Madison-Fourth Mondays in March
and October.
District Court-Sth Judicial District
Composed of the parishes of Madison
and East Carroll.
T.. }. Delony .................. uuSc
Joseph +. Ransdell. District Attorney
Francis II. Dawson ...............O iefk
Terms Of Court.
Madison-Jury Term--.lst Mondays
in Toruory and lime. Civil term--Ist
Mondays in April and November.
East Carroll-Jury term-lst MONDAYS
in July and December; Civil term--Ist
Mondays in May and October.
18th Senatorial District.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-02-14
Louisville, New Orleans aud Texas Railway Company.
ON AND AFTER DECEMBER l4TH,


THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE WILL BE OPERATED T0-WIT
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FRAUDS,
How Indian Graves Are Fabricated to
Order.

How Indian Graves Are Fabricated to
Order.
To discover an Indian grave is, of
course, red-letter day for the arch &C.
Ologist. Now, Indian graves are manu-
tactwed to order, it would appear. At
least The following recently occurred in
New Jersey: A Philadelphia Flint Jack
secured a half-decayed skeleton from a
Potter's field in the vicinity, and placed
it in shallow excavation on the vast
ing bank of a creek in New Jersey,
where Indian relics were frequently
found. With it he placed steatite to-
bacco-pipe of his own make. u seattle
carving of an eagles head, and beads;
with these were thrown numbers of gen.
uine arrow-heads and fragments of pot
terry. The earth was blackensd with
powdered charcoal. This ''plant" was
made in November, and, in the follow
ing March, during the prevalence of
high waters and local freshets, he an
nOunced to an enthusiastic collector that
and offered to take him thither for fifty
dollars, the money to be paid If the
search proved successful, which of
course it did. The Uranium of that Phil
adelphia pauper passed through several
craniologists' hands. and was grsvely
remarked upon as of unusual interest,
as it was a marked doliehocephaiic skull.
whereas the Delaware Indians were
bradhycephahc!Dr. Chevies c. AbbOt,
in Popular Science Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
The Stables in Summer.

With summer stables the great fact
seems to be in the matter of ventilation,
and the close barn in the morning is Of
ten filed with the fumes of pungent
ammonia and the odors Of the floor.
Horses and cattle are not near so liable
o be frozen in the winter as they are of
,elng stifled with foul air in the sum-
ner. There are many farmers who
yep stables scrupulousiy clean at all
-easons, and others make spasmodic sf-
orts to do so by using great quantities
# lime, plaster and like maternal to alb
serb and xiii bad smells. OF all ma
terial dry sand or dust is best, as the
-austic properties of lime gre absent
md there can be no possible damage
lone 60 the flesh of the animals. An
incleaned stable floor in summer soon
becomes the breeding place Of innymer-
,b1e flies and generating source Of i'm
purity. Keep the stable aooYs open or
,uild rack doors and allow an abund-
nee of free pure air for the stock
IereIand PGiaStoler.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
WIT AND WISDOM.

If homes were made brighter and
happier there would be less attraction
on the streets for young people.-N T.
Tribune.
"A new novel soon to appear will be
entitled "a Superior Woman" We
all know her. She married some other
fellow. They always do.-M T.
Graphic.
The best way to secure downright
horseshoe luck is to keep your eyes
open and grasp the opportunity before
it turns the cOrner.-Chicago Ledger.
"A little grammar is dangerous
thing. johnny. be a good boy and l
will take you to the circus next veal"
Take me now, pa. The circus is in tie
present tents. ~ Y Independent
81 don't think it necessary for that
man Crags to hobble around on those
clumsy crutcbes." '.Why, the poor
fellow has one leg six inches shorter
than it ought to be-" II know that.
but Gen. Sheridan has both legs eight
inches shorter than they ought to be.
and he takes only his staff when he gOe,
out - Chicago Tribune.
Our homes are what we make them.
We can't quell domestic riot or put
quietus to family jars by simply hang.
ing up a green worsted motto of ..God
bless our home" Neither can we sup
port our families by suspending the
other popular motto, The Lord will
provide" 1t is honest toll that makes
the kettle boil.-Boston transcript.
Say, Bob, you're out with Miss
Parsons, amt you?" "Yes, joe
what happened?' "Sbe's expert.
menting too lavishlv." Experiment.
ing, What at?' Trying to curt
freckles BY eating ice-cream. well,
what ought you to care?' ''Oh, don't,
providing it's at some other fellows ex-
pense. 1t was costing me dollar aad
a half freckle. "-Phiiodeiphia Call.
A Misunderstanding.-'I wonde;
what is the reason We have to import
celery from the North?' asked Colonel
Spilkins Of Gus de Smith. II suppose
it is because We don't have any cellars
down here" replied Gus de Smith, who
doesn't know any better. IF there ere
buyers, there will be plenty of Sellers"
observed Colonel Spilkins, whose mind
runs on business, and Who does not
know yet that he has made a good joke
Texas STtings.
A tall woman with q red face and
manner walked into an up
town bank few DAYS ago and presented
e check. mo good. madam" said the
teller briefly, ..the check is notindossed-
Never mind that, said the applicant for
cash. Its all right; he's my husband"
1T makes no difference We must
have his own signature. even If he is
your husband" "Well. you give me .
pen and I'll sign his name, Just want
YOU TO know, young man. that he's .
mighty silent partner To our combina-
ton and I'm the bossr'-Ne,1 York Trib-
,t7le.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
Forsaken.

..Matilda" he exclaimed. the per-
spfration irrigating the rootlets of his
tawny locks. Matilda! love you"
Henry" she replied, clubbing with
her fan the mosquito who was dining of
her damask cheek, Henry, it does you
credit"
And" resumed Henry with his
voice far below the middle stud of his
immaculate shirt-front; land do you.
Matilda-do you-er love me?"
mo. Henry" replied Matilda, with a
Christian-humility and resigned-to-my-
lot frankness; mo, Henry, l do not love
you. but / esteem you as "a"
.'Oh, stew that" vociforated Henry,
.'nono o. your esteem you as brother;
that's too hoary chestnut for me-"
And Henry on that same hour the lady
forsook. True. he had to; but, never
you mind, he forsook her all the same.
-Boston Transcript.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL


Geography Is not considered Of sufy
fcient importance by educators in Swe.
den to have 1t taught in the schools.
The Chautauqua University. which
iscOnducted on the correspondence plan.
has now 10000 students.-Bafalo Ez.
press.
The timber work of the domes Of
the Church of st. Mark, at Venice. is
more than $40 years old. and is still in
good state.
1t is one of the proudest boasts a
Washington that its outfit of public
school buildings is better than chat Of
any other city in this or any other coun-
Washingtsn Post.
Three new Quaker missionaries
are reported to have arrived safely at
the capital of Madagascar. and second
doctor has been appointed to assist DR..
Fox in the medical mission there.
Many English clergymen are suffer-
ing severely from loss in the revenue Of
their parishes. In four benefces in one
srchdeaconry in the diocese of Peter
borough. the aggregate income has fallen
from $4,000 to 1000.
I'm the University of Glasgow q.
scholarship of the value of S3.O95 has
been established by the Adelaide Street
Baptist Church, Glasgow, for the aid
of Baptist students. 1t Is called the
James Paterson Bursary, after former
pastor.
The report Of the Board of Educa-
ton of New York City for the past year
shows an expenditure of "a. 616,S 41, an
average daily attendance of 139, $50, and
the cost per capita of this attendance,
S29.61. The number of teachers en-
ployed was 3,603. The twenty-eight
evening schools had an average nightly
attendance of S.0O4.-N Y. Tribune.
We haye seen the school advance
to q public and free system; in place
of the ignorant pedant who boarded
round and taught the whole family out
of one book, we have full graded schools
in backwoods districts where the schol-
airs are so few that each Pupil has to in
himself make two grades, in order to
have enough pupils to 60 round among
all the grades.-The Patrol
The Springfield (Mass) Union says:
"The proposition to levy State tax
for the purpose of schools will fill tho
hill towns with Joy. There is princi-
pie of justice in it. The State eOmpels
every town to maintain schools; yet the
ability of towns to do this is very I'M
equal. Some towns are the favorite
residences of rich men and others are
deserted by enterprising sons as soon as
the law allows"
1t is interesting to know that one at
least of the best traditions of classical
Greece has lasted down to these latter
days. This is the readiness of rich citi-
zens to perform public services at their
private expense. The University at
Athens boasts an endowment at this
moment of more than S12,OO.00O.
There is hospital at Athens. too, en-
tertaining more than a hundred aged
brothers which was founded by single
wealthy Greek citizen.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
CANVAS DRESSES.
A Peculiarly Appropriate Article Of At.
tire for Warm Weather.

A Peculiarly Appropriate Article Of At.
tire for Warm Weather.
The most expensive travelling dresse.
are those made of the fashionable WOO
canvas with square meshes in plair
color for the waist and drapery. with
the skirt of still more costly fabric
the canvas striped with velvet or with
watered silk. Ecru. brown. reseda, anG
blue are the choice colors in these dresses
and their trimmings are also velvet
and wool lace. A silk waist lining anC
foundation skirt are necessary for thi;
transparent goods, and the object is t6
dispose the thinner fabric in long line:
without fiounces, and to add watereG
silk or velvet for the vest or drapery.
Dark blue canvas made up with merely
a vest and some panels of watered silk
makes stylish and quiet dress fol
travelling. Brides and fashionable young
matrons choose the ecru canvas with
revers and sash bows of garnet velvet,
and long drapery of the plain canvas
on skirt of the same stripped with mar
row lines of brown. red, and blue vel
vet. This striped fabric is also effective
ly used as a revers on one side of the
apron overskirt, turning back mar
rowly in the middle of the front, and
widening as it goes upward to the belt:
there may also be straight revers OF
the stripes laid over on the back drapery
on the side next that On the apron. A
hong panel of velvet is seen upon plaiT
canvas skirts, and sometimes there art
fOunces of plain canvas (though this Is
opposite to the rule) on which are rowa
of velvet or of satin ribbon. Ponges
dresses are also made in the styles
used for canvas, and are trimmed with
spen-worked embroidery of the same
shade, and dark red or brown velvet.
For short Journeys in warm weather.
when it may be safe to travel without o
wool dress. the dark Chamberys and
yinghams viii; be used. The tucked
basque, a skirt tucked lengthwise in
front, and a short apron with deep
bisck drapery that covers the entire
back of the foundation skirt, is simple
ano good model for these dresses. Darb
embroidery done on the material may
be used as frill on the apron and &c
trim the basque. -Hayper's Bazar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
A POPULAR ERROR.

.Stufing a Cold and starving a Fever. >
In some parts of our country the fol-
lowing has been apopular MAXIM stuff
(feed) cold and starve fever. !"
There is good degree of sense in this.
so far as it relates to fevers, though in
the usual absence of an appetite in de-
cided fevers. there is not much neces-
sity for any advice in this regard. when
the patient is allowed to follow his or
her own promptings and inclinations.
In violent fever all thoughts of food
are unpleasant, while water is in almost
constant demand. as prominent means
of abating fever, restoring the system to
its normal state. Nature always points
in the right direction, and if all of the
teachers OF medical science would study
nature more and theories less, their pa
tients would be vastly improved. 1t is
scarcely possible to give advice more
unwisely, than to recommend gluttOny
in the case of a cold. By cold is meant
such closing of the pores of the skin,
computed at 1000. 900. that the waste
and poisonous decayed matters of the
body, which should promptly escape as
a means of avoiding disease. are re-
tanned. producing various forms of COM
motion, disturbance and disease. As
there is an intimate sympathy between
the skin and the internal organs, par
ticularly the lungs, these are then COM
PEELED to perform q part of the labor of
the skin. in addition to their appropri-
ate duties.
In other words, this gluttony imposes
additional tolls, and that at time when
these organs are not in condition to
perform tn, m, which must result in
more or less disturbance. As legitimate
results of this cold, the heat of the body
is increased. the pulse more rapid, the
digestive powers diminished. or sus-
pended, which last fact is sufficient to
discourage all such unphysiological ad-
vice. On the contrary it is unwise in
any form of disease, particularly when
the appetite is more or less impaired.
to increase the tamUunt of food taken,
as the appetite ordinarily indicates the
amount of food demanded. On the APP
proach of any disturbance. any symp-
tom of disease. it is judicions to d.
minish the amount of food, particularly
when the appetite begins to flag, sure
evidence that digestive power is dimin-
ished, that the organs of digestion are
unable to perform their usual labors.
Appropriate fasting and water-drinking,
in nine cases out of ten, will be sufficient
to ward off an attack of disease, if rest
and quiet are added.-GOtdefl Rute.