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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04
GAMBLING IN NEW ORLEANS.
The Prevalence of the Vice in the Chiei
Southern City.

The Prevalence OF the Vice In the Chiei
Southern City.
I The publicity with which gambling
Is carried on is one of the peculiar char
acteristics of the city. There are seven
ty-five gambling houses within block
of the intersection of st. Charles and
Canal Streets, and they thrive all over.
the city. Many of these are large
gilded dens conducted with the same
openness as any legitimate business.
City officials and policemen can be seen
in these Illegal resorts at almost any
hour of the day or night. The laws
against gambling are about as strict as
in New York, but they are dead letter.
On the contrary, one source of the CITY
revenue is from what is called the Gam
blers' Fund. Each gambling house is
required to pay so much month to
the Mayor, according to an extra legal
arrangement maintained by common
consent. Failure to pay is followed
by an enforcement of the law clos
ing the house of the refractory pro-
prietor, At least such is the theory on
which the fund is conducted. 1t is sup
posed to be applied to the maintenance
of the almshouse. But there is no pub
lie accounting, and in the hands of a
ring of corrupt politicians it is easy to
guess what that means. Proprietors of
gambling houses generally have polit-
cal Influence, and doubtless many of
them pay nothing for the privilege of
running their dens of vice night and
day, Sundays included. Outsiders are
not allowed to come here and share in
the profits.
The spirit of gambling rules the city.
In the windows Of cigar shops, news
stands and such places are displayed
for sale the tickets Of the Louisiana
Lottery Company. for selling which
large commissions are paid. On DAYS
when drawing takes place the news
papers have an extra sale, and much
excitement is shown among the poorer
people who can least afford to be
stripped of their small earnings. This
lottery company has fine building
here, but the chief proprietors live in
luxury in New York and elsewhere.
They are said to contribute $4,000
year to an asylum, which is all they paw
for the privilege of enticing the people Of
the country to throw away hundreds OF
thousands of dollars annually. The
city runs its finances on the lottery sys-
tenn. Its bonds are distributed into
series, which are placed in wheel, and
the lucky numbers draw prizes every
three months.-M D. Cor. NJ Y. Trio
W'ss.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04
FARM AND FIRESlDE.

"A little air-siacked lime sprinkled
over the potatoes in the cellar will tend
to prevent rot and purify the air of the
cellar.-Troy Times.
Milk cans should be kept clean. 1t
is fully as important as keeping the
milk clean, or rather the one depends
upon the other.
Among all the products of the
country, the meat product stands first,
then comes corn; third, wheat; fourth,
hay; fifth, dairy products; sixth, cotton.
Albany Journal.
Pay close attention to little things
on the farm. This is where many farm
ers make mistake, in neglecting what
they consider the little things Western
Rural.
"A nurseryman asserts that apple
trees which have straight and upright
tops have roots of a similar character,
and that those which have low and
spreading tops have bushy roots. Even
the color and peculiar markings of the
bark of some varieties extend to the
roots. The nurserymani is therefore able
to distinguish several varieties by their
roots alone Cleveland Leader.
"A cream pie made after this rule is
an Improvement upon the old-time So
called cream pie: Make rich custard;
if possible use cream, but if not use rich
milk and some cream with it; bake this
in puff paste; while it is baking whip
a coffee-cupful of thick, sweet cream
till it is as light as can be, and when
the pie is taken from the oven put the
whipped cream ON the top.-Boston
Globe.
1t requires just so much grain and
hay to maintain the animals life, and
very small quantity over that amount
will keep up the flow of milk, so that in
fact the feed it can be made to eat over
what is necessary to keep up the an
imars life and health, if of the right
kind, is turned into milk, and conse-
quently is clear gain. With this fact
before us we should give the cows a
liberal allowance of the milk-producing
foods, such as carrots, beets, turnips,
bran, Chicago Times.
When churning keep the tempera,
ture between fifty-five and sixty-four
degrees, according as experience die
tates. Stop churning when the butter
is in granules about the size of wheat
kernels. Draw off the buttermilk and
wash in brine until the water runs off
clear, as brine coagulates the cheesy
matter, which dissolves and is then
washed out. Use none but the best
dairy salt when sailing. When packing
use firkins, set in cool place and keep
the butter covered with brine.-Sauan-
nah NeDs.
The farmer who takes pains to
''make up" the bed for his cow or his
horse gains many times the cost of the
labor in SO doing If all material is
passed through the cutter previous to
being used for bedding it not only adds
to the comfort of the animals, but
assists in the matter of cleanliness by
reason of its great power of absorption.
For this reason sawdust is becoming a
favorite, as its fineness not only admits
of its being handled easily, well spread
in the Stall and promptly removed, but
after having absorbed the liquid flows
of the stall, still readily mixes with the
matter in the manure heap.-M Y.
Times
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04
KILLING CATTLE AND HOGS.
The Improved Methods Employed by Prac-
ticed Butchers.

The Improved Methods Employed by Prac-
ticed Butchers.
The killing of cattle is usually at
tended with an altogether unnecessary
degree of cruelty. Not infrequently a
number of heavy blows upon the fore
head of beast fails to even stun it, but
every one of the blows inflicts needless
suffering. DIR. Phares relates case
which illustrates this: 'sAn old polled
beef-animal was tied and received many
heavy blows in the face from heavy
AK welded by athletic arms of several
parties in succession without bringing
him down. A slender, feeble man, dis
gusted at the awkward cruelties prac-
ticed, seized the implement and with a
light blow downward and forward just
back of the head deprived the animal of
feeling and life as completely and in
stantly as though thunderbolt had
passed through the brain. The gaping
crowd that had assembled looked in
blank amazement as if themselves
thunderstruck."
The cause of the instant death of the
animal was that the blow was struck in
the right place and in the right direc-
ton to reach the ''vital knot" which is
that bit of gray matter found where the
brain is contracted to pass from the
skull into the backbone. A slight cut
or blow, or a single electric spark
touching this causes instant death of
all parts of the animal. In some of the
larger slaughter-houses in Chicago this
medulia oblongata is reached by the
sharp point of heavy steel lance, given
by man who walks along plank over
the heads of the cattle as they await
death in the narrow stalls. This man
seldom misses blow, so expert has he
become by much practice, but with a
single light touch of the steel puts an
instantaneous end to all sensation in the
beast.
In other houses rifle is carried by
the man on the plank over the stalls.
A bullet from this enters the brain,
tearing its way downward and instantly
destroying life in that organ. There
can be no suffering; death is as sudden
and complete as though lightning had
struck the brain. These plans have
been in common use in these houses for
years, and have been often described in
American as well as in foreign news
papers; yet now and again come from
abroad accounts of elaborate expert
ments and inventions designed to ac-
complish what has been so long done
here easily and economically.
Killing hogs as usually done on the
farm is also disagreeable noisy and
dirty work. A few men who think have
been in the habit of putting rife-ball
into the brain and Immediately after
ward thrusting knife into the heart of
the hog, the same thrust cutting the
jugular vein. There is no catching the
doomed porker by filthy hind leg and
holding the kicking victim while ear
splitting squeals tell all the folk in the
next ten counties that there is to be
spare-rib for supper, and the free feet
throw profusion of mud and blood into
the face of the perspiring and profane
holder.-G CHICAGO Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

A good story comes from boys board
ing -school in Jersey" The diet was
monotonous and constipating, and the
learned Principal decided to introduce
some old-style physic in the apple-sauce,
and await the happy results. One bright
lad, the smartest in school, discovered the
secret mine in his sauce, and pushing
back his plate, shouted to the pedagogue:
No physic, sir, in mine. My dad told me
to use nuthin' but DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Purgative Pellets and they are doing their
and purely vegetable.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

"HELLow we heard one man say to an
other, the other day. 81 didn't know you
at first, why! you look ten years younger
than you did when l saw you last"
You know used to be under the weather
all the time and gave up expecting to be
any better. The doctor said had con-
sumption. was terribly weak, had night
sweats, cough, no appetite, and lost flesh.
l saw DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry advertised and thought it would do no
harm if it did no good. It has cured me. I
am new man because am a well one."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

Mr.. r. T. Bentley, member of the esti.
mable community of Quakers at Sandy
Springs, Nd, says he was severely affected
by rheumatism in his right hand. Mr..
Bentley applied st. Jacobs Oil, the great
pain-cure, and by its continued use, in
short time, was completely cured.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

IT'S no secret nostrum. We speak Of DR..
Pierce's Extract Of Smart W. ed, composed
of best French Brandy, Smart-Weed, ia
maica Ginger and Camphor Water. 1t
cures cholera morbus, collie or cramps in
stomach, diarrh9a, dysentery or bloody
flux, and breaks up colds, fevers and in
fammatory attacks.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

THE COMBINATION OF INGREDIENTS used
in making BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs
is such as to give the best possible effect
with safety. They are the best remedy in
use for Coughs and Throat Diseases.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

"A human jaw-bone of great size,
full of sound teeth, and other human
bones were found recently at depth of
sixty feet in a limestone quarry near
Centersville. Ga.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

PIXIES TooTHAcHE DROPS cure in l minute sc.
Gicnns Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. Csc.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

If gas man were to write poetry, would
his meter be correct?-LouisUilie Courier
Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

SAFE, sure, cure. 10 bad effects, No
poisons in Red Star Cough Cure.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

A SUBSTITUTE for rubber-The ordinary
conscience. $50
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

THOSE who employ the plumber must nav
the piper.-Boston Budget.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

II afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell 1t. &c
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

A STRAIN Of music-tightening the
strings of q violin.-Eratic Enrique.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

THE editor frequently has to fight for his
writes.-lMerchdnt Traveller.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04
ono Physic. Sir. in Nine"

Song of the young women at this season
III feel like one for sacque in"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04
Young Men. Read This.

Cold daze-Benumbed with the frost-
Merchant Traveller.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-04-04

For q years I wss A.
fiicted with catarrh.
For two months at .
time confined to my
room. l tried Ely's
Cream Balm and from
the flrst found relief.
It's the best remedy I
ever tried W. G.
MATHEWS, Justice OF
the Peace, Shenan-
doah. Iowa
Ely'sCream Balm for
cafarrh Is In most cases
q perfect cure.-PEcK
BIOS. ggfsts.
Grand Rapids. Mich
Cream Balm 10 q
remedy based upon 9
correct diagnosis OF
this disease and can be
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ct druggists; Qcts By
Y By mail 10 cts. Eli
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n Wn6n Treated and cured without the knife.
I.hMI.tH Book on treatment sent free. Address
V0NO0As F.L.POND, N. d., Aurora, Kane COLL
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m r IN Wfgsf Wares sent co d anywhere. Whole
ksale & Retail Price list free Goods guaran-
uu49fuutced. B.C.SrREHI- l57 Wabash Az Chicago
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tAnc0 A MONTH. Agents Wanted. sc hess
XxnvI selling articles in The world. sample FhE1s
WkOU Address JAY BRONSON. DETROIT. NICE
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mall Registered Sample bottle by man 10 Gu III
BDos- Druggists. owego. MI.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

CMEWIEF'8 BALE.-Notice IL hereby given
- that by virtue of certain writ Of Transcripts nerf
(acids issued out Of aud under the seal Of the cir
cult court for the county OF Van Buren,, aud to me
directed and delivered bearing date the 10th day OF
May, A. ID. 1885, wherein David y. Ollie Is plaintiff
and Catharine Cheeseman Is defendant, did, on
the 10th day of May, A. ID. 1885, levy upon and
seize all the right, title and interest OF the said
Catharine Cheeseman In and to the following des-
cribed real estate, situate In the county OF Van
Buren, and state Of Michigan, to-wit:
Lot number ten (lt) of the subdivision OF the
Armstrong estate, as made and set of by the COM
missioners of said estate TO Elma Armstrong, be
ing situate that part of the southwest quarter
OF section twenty-eight (2s In town three 90 south
of range thirteen (l3) west, Van Buren, county,
Michigan, containing six 90 acres, more or less.
Also. lot number eleven III OF the subdivision OF
the Armstrong estate. as set on by the commits
sioners to II. A. Armstrong, situate on the south
west quarter OF section twenty-eight [2sl In town
Buren, county, Michigan, containing six 6l acres,
more or less. Also, all that certain piece OF land
situate In the counsy Of Van Buren, and state OF
Michigan, and known aud described as the Arm
strong homestead, In the north part of the north
west quarter of section thirty-three 1888 In town
three [3l south of range thirteen rs west, con-
tanning seventeen III acres, more or less; which
said lands and premises, or 30 much thereof as
may be sufficient to satisfy said execution and all
legal COSTS shall expose for sale, and sell at
public auction, yendue, to the highest bidder as
the law directs at the front door of the court house.
the village of Paw Paw, In said county of Van Euren,
said court house being the place OF holding the cir
cult court In and for said county, Saturday the
18th day of September A. d. 1885, at the hour OF one
O'Clock In the afternoon of said day.
s4t7o90 JOHN @. TODD. Sheriff.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
Drinking Mineral Waters,

Up to the beginning of the eighteenth
century it was the rule at Karisbad to
subject the patient to course of vio-
lent purgatives. Then the patient
drank mineral waters for seven days,
bathing for the next seven without
drinking the water. The water-drink-
ing was more serious matter. DIR.
hoffman,, writing in 1765, says that
no more than fifteen to eighteen glasses
should be drunk the first day, but that
later on the number should be increased
to thirty, and, in certain cases, to forty
glasses. DIR. Tilling, writing in 1856,
records that he himself drank from fif-
ty to sixty glasses in the course of two
hours. DIR. Sangrado never prescribed
warm water on more extensive scale,
and the puzzle is how the patients
managed to swallow and retain these
large quantities Of warm mineral wa
tiers. 1 have read that the natives Of
the Qneen Charlotte Islands try to
cure themselves of ailments by drink
ing n bucket or two of sea water; but,
then, they never expect to retain so
much water long in their stomachs,
whereas the patents at Karisbad did
not drink large doses of water in order
to make themselves sick. The expla-
nation is that they drank so many
glasses OF water In warm room, and
that much of it passed off in perspira-
ton, Just as in the case of water drunk
in u Turkish bath. Indeed. the pa
tients were expressly ordered to re-
main quiet, so as to perspire the more
freely. DR.. David Becher, one of the
leading physicians of his day, set him
self in 1777 TO oppose the old custom,
insisting that the preferable method of
taking the waters was at the springs.
He was laughed at and denounced as
an innovator by the admirers of the
ancient ways; yet his views and advice
prevailed and were followed in the
end. 1t may be noticed in passing that
not only human beings we're enjoined
to use the waters for their health's
sake, but that the virtues of these wa
tiers were supposed to be as advantage
Gus to the lower animals. The "Muhl-
brunn," which is now favorite one
with water-drinkers, was long used ex-
clusively "a bath for sick horses,
dogs, and cattle. While this practice
has long been abandoned here, it has
been revived in the far west of North
America. Major Shepherd states in
his "Prairie Experiences" that "some
men put their sheep through the ma
tural mineral waters which abound in
the West. Each farmer will swear by
his on particular spring. 1t cures the
scab in sheep, removes corns, and rheu-
matism in men, and is eflicacious uni
versally. "-Nineteenh Century.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

Il vas the Oldest correspondent On
Newspaper row who was talking. The
subject was Conkling. Said he: "Ros-
coe Conkling was once one Of the
pleasantest and most sociable fellows
In Congress. He was great friend of
the newspaper correspondents, and
night after night he used to drop into
our Offices and gossip and chat and tell
stories Many q good piece Of news we
used to get from him, and in those days
we all liked to say q good thing for
him. He was better looking man in
those days, and he had lines in his
countenance which have since disap
peared. He looked like man that
lived free from care and who loved his
fellow-men. There was no habitual
sneer upon his face, and he did not
look upon the world and US as his enc
mics. remember when his face be-
gan to change. 1t was Mt the time of
the confirmation of the treaty of Wash
ington. Ramsdell and Young were i'm
prisoned for refusing to tell where they
got certain information in regard to it,
and Conkling incurred the enmity of
the press by denouncing them. and by
telling lie IN open Senate when the
Senators and correspondents knew that
it was lie. OF course we defended
ourselves, and Immediately the ,untry
rang with Conkling's falsits IN he was
denounced as badly as Keller, hiring
the last Congress. This treatment
turned the milk of human kindres, in
Roscoe's soul to gall. He ar IN. as
sumed the domineering air la. since
retained, and the she h he
tried to show his nd r ~ ~ Ivy
day into his hands M. =. 4, be-
came part of his feature :, face
is an index of the son :. es
with the chanr of the { ,nk-
ling's countenance is the ~ II OF the
workings Of this great law 81 ha.ure -
Washing ton Correspondent Cleveland
Leader.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
Lighting by ELECTRICITY.

1t is not at all improbable that long
before Franklin drew electricity from
the clouds with the aid of his kite and
string, more than one devotee of science
speculated upon the possibility of util-
izing lightning as a substitute for the
light of the sun. Viewed in its natural
state as it flashes from the heavens on
the darkest night, with sufficient bril-
liancy to illuminate q large area with
almost midday light, it is easy to be-
heve that the ancients, if they ever i'm
agined such thing as the possibility
of making captive such force won
dered how lightning flashes could be
employed to take the place of their
lamps, rather than how they could be
gathered and transformed into motive
power, or q means Of conveying intelli-
gence long distances with almost the
rapidity OF thought Still, electricity
had been II valued servant to mankind
more than half century before its first
attribute-that of light-was enslaved.
Now, electricity, under certain condi-
tions, is a cheaper light than gas. and
every year it is made cheaper and cas-
Ter Of management through the constant
improvement in the methods whereby
it is generated and applied. There are
now in use probably half dozen differ
ent dynamo machines for the produc-
ton of current sufficiently strong to
be utilized for Illuminating purposes.
In the patent Office at Washington at
the present moment are models of i'm
provments in the various machines in
use which will render them more dura-
BILE and diminish the amount of power
required to produce given candle
power. On the authority of competent
judges, the day is not far distant when
every dwelling and store and factory
of medium-sized towns will be fur
nished with electric light at cost not
exceeding the price of gas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
Conflicts with the Theories.

Every now and then facts come to
light which seem to conflict strangely
with the theories of the doctors. For
instance, at Howdon, dirty, desolate
village on Tyneside, boy was born
who, at the time Of his birth, had four
grandparents and five great-grand-
parents alive, each of whom was in ac-
tive work, earning his or her own liveli-
hood. Yet the village where these hale
and hearty grandsires and granddames
live and flourish is one of the most I'M
sanitary in England. Open sewers run
down the center of some of the streets.
Until few years ago the water supply
was from some shallow we'll. Only one
solitary scavenger is employed on half
time for cleansing. repairing, and main
tanning oil the streets. Houses have
been condemned wholesale as unfit
for human habitation. to the intense
disgust of the people. Yet, notwith-
standing all these adverse conditions,
these families live and thrive vigorous
ly.-PaU Mall Gazette.