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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-04-11
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Sherif's Sale.

JOHN TAYLOR HuNrER)
VS.. No, 3ll4,
MRS. MARTHA l.. BIossAT)
Twelfth Judicial District Court, Pa
rish of Rapides, Lou
isiana.
By virtue of a writ of fieri facias is
sued in the above entitled and num-
bered suit and to me directed, | have
seized and will offer for sale to the
last and highest bidder for cash, at
public auction, at the Eden planta-
ton on which the property seized is
now kept, in Rapides Parish, Lou
iSiana, on
SATURDAY, the 18th day of APRIL.
A D. 1856,
the following described property,
to-wit 80 :,
Eight bales of cotton, ginned and
pressed,
One bay mare mule,
One sorrel mare mule,
One brown mare mule,
One brown horse mule.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash. subject to
D. c. PAUL,
Mch 21-tds. Sheriff.
NASSON, John, Physician and
. Surgeon. Office at reaidanca.
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During recess of Board warrants
were issued in payment of follow
ing approved accounts taken up by
Collector in payment Of licenses,
taxes, ETC.:
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-04-11
ALEXANDRIA, La, !
April Z, 1885. {

1891 20
During recess of Board warrants
were issued in payment of follow
ing approved accounts taken up by
Collector in payment of licenses,
taxes, ETC.:
NJ. W. Calvit, salary and
incidental expenses to
! March 1st. .......... S64 33
Pat. O'Connor, work on
drainage ditch. ........ 30 90
DEMOCRAT, PRINTING!. IL so
W. G. McGimsey, part sal
airy Sept. 1854. s 90
Geiger and Cullen, part
payment money advanc-
ed to lahorers on levee. 10 90
Jno. S Sullivan, part pay
ment for repairs on his
wharf. ............... Al 20
Pacific Fire Co., part En-
gineers salary for Jan
uary, 'S5 ............. 4 90
j. Levin, lumber ........ 6 SO
Cullen & Rogers, part pay.
ment for building upper
wharf -. ........ -. 60 90
1886 SO
The following bills were read,
approved and made receivable for
all dues to the Corporation:
Thos. Crawley, Mayor, sal
airy for March. 49,. $40 90
NJ. W. Calvit, salary and
incidental expenses for
March es 80
Pacific Fire Co. Engineers
salary for March ...... IS 90
A. B. Racial, Secretary's
salary to April /, 1855. Is 90.
Stonewall Hook and Lad
der Co., Custodian's sal
airy to April l, 1885,. Is 90.
DEMOCRAT, printing. 8 90
julius Levin, printing. 16 81
Newton Laney, drayage ;. IS
$21S OF
Warrants were issued in pay
ment Of the following accounts:
Thos. Crawley, money ad-
vanced for repairing tie
road, on Lee street. go. Sal 20s
Geiger 4 Cullen, balance
due, money advanced to
laborers on levee. 500. l3 ISL
M $54 IS
A warrant was issued lat last
meeting) to Messrs. Geiger and
Cullen for $1,000, part payment Of
money advanced to pay laborers on
levee.
During the recess of the Board
an approved account was issued TO-
Mr. n r. Rnu;11o&%o e.. o. q m g.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
PALATKA, FLA, APRIL 10, 1855.
During the campaign the unpleas-

During the campaign the unpleas-
ant duty devolved upon US, and we
gave the record Of one James E.
Alexander who had lately settled in
Enterprise and claimed to be dem
ocrat while opposing Perry. The
Jacksonville Herald now informs Us
that he is in Jail, and thereby fur
nishes a fitting climax to the revela-
tons which followed him to Florida
from Tennessee and Kentucky. The
mills of God, etc.
We wonder if the Times-Union
wishes to quote any more charges
from the immaculate Alexander who
was once editor OF the Enterprise
Herald !?
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
The Evolution Of God .

n. Y. Herald.
Last Monday we took occasion to re-
fer editorially to the sermon preached
the day before, in which Rev. r. Heber
Newton developed some original and
very Thoughtful impressions regarding
the evolution of man. Yesterday Mr..
Beecher spoke upon the current and an
cient ideas of the Christian God, and
signified something of the nature Of
evolution in that connection. If there
is any law that would seem to be abso-
lute and Interchangeable it is the law Of
restlessness and of change. Nothing re-
mains. The startling fact of the lack of
permanence, which is an actual signi-
ficant and demonstration of exist ence, if
traceable in every other element of crea-
ton, has hitherto been supposed to con
clude with the accession of the Creator.
Yet there is nothing unreasonable in Dir.
Beecher's position his conception Of the
| Deity, that he possesses feelings-emo-
| tons that rise, fall and fuctuate. Into
the pure and reasonable idea of tbs Al
mighty which was preached by Christ
and the disciples, the ''schoolmen of the
medieval period" says Mr.. Beecher,
''put devilishness" there IS very
little doubt of it. Decidedly their inter
probation or presentation of the Deity
had an i'll effect upon the progress OF
Christianity. and may be justly consid-
cred to have been the cause of the diyis-
ion into sects. and dogmas which has
since so perplexed honest seekers after
religion. There are very few persons
who would not prefer the God indicated
| BY Nr. Beecher's conception to that Of
| Calvin or even the trayesty portrayed
by Col. Ingersoll.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
OUR CREEPING FRIENDS,

One Of our valued correspondents
is anxious to speak word for the
friends whom we habitually murder
from mistaken regard for our per-
sonal safety. In Florida where in
sect and animal life is so abundant,
there is special reason for exercising
some thought before we indulge in
reckless slaughter. One reason nox-
ious snakes are so scarce, may be
found in the number of their uatu-
raj enemies which are absolutely
incapable of injuring us. The same
authority which now asks hearing
for the despised and dreaded "mule-
killer" spoke lately for the black
snake. One Of our deadlieot foes is
the moccasin, and these are few in
the land because thousands are an
nually destroyed by little alligators,
catfish and garfish. Lately we found
one two feet long in the stomach of
a large black bass The deer and
razor-back hog destroys the rattle
snake. Under the guns of the taxi
dentists assistants the little birds
who slaughter the creeping pests are
rapidly disappearing, and then we
must fight some varieties of insects
as we did the Seminole. The pre-
JUDGED tourist will prepare for his
nights rest by killing every creep
ing thing near, whereas if he knew
enough he might feel safe from his
foes in the presence of his little
friends. A gentleman complained
of an insect on his trees, and We
found he had employed q man tc
kill the deadly enemy of the pest
which was running his grove,
Nature usually provides some Sc
curity for its children against natu
raj enemies, and therefore the beings
we should dread we rarely notice
But our friends are plainly to b,
seen, and it is upon these that ig
norance usually sets the cruel heel
The large soldier ant will do NOR
to destroy the insects we shout,
dread than twenty men, yet we hay
known those who should have bette
sense to blow up its nests with pow
der, fill its houses with corrosiv
subhmate, and dread its appearance
when it came to clear the house o
reaches and scorpions or eat tn
scraps which were generating pc
= sonous gases
We must gain peace and subdu
nature by encouraging our friend
as well as fighting our enemies. w
can do more by directing natur:
forces in a given channel than b
attempting to bend them to al
solnte slavery She will furnish til
power if man viii DO the thinkin.
Her noxious powers viii be held i
strict subsection TO the kindly force
if man throws the might of his biai
and hand, properly directed, int
the conflict. Not all of our be,
friends are most pleasing to ii
sight, There is no reason to belle,
that our standard of beauty was il
tended TO run throughout creation
and the Greek was much mistake
when he taught that the beautifr
was of course the good Let know
edge, not the eye, guide us in deci,
ing between our friends and enemie
but above all quit killing indiscrir
inately.
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Address,
THE TT1T rs.
Times Building, PnIIa.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
PEACE AND ORDER

fOiH our alS1Ai5b @tt@34-N3 ~
learn that the criminal docket for
this term shows most satisfactory I
state of things in Putnam. Dming
period of high political excite
ment attending contest which
arrayed the two races almost solidly
against each other, and when our
usual crowd of winter visitors has
been in great measure replaced by
worxmen attracted from all parts Of
The country to aid in rebuilding our
town, there are only three eases to
occupy the attention Of the Hon.
States Attorney. Can another coun-
ty in all the union furnish more IN
dubitable proof of peaceable and
contented community ? This too
when the press at a distance was fill
ed with accounts of imaginary riots
in an unknown Palatka and recount
ed the march of troops whereof we
know nothing
Our town is rapidly growing, and
with proper care it will continue to
grow as rapidly for years to come.
It rests with us to furnish adequate
protection for person and property
that our prosperity may continue In
our town this must he secured by
the new administration which repla-
ces the one to which our town will
always remain indebted The new
officers have the capacity and will
have the opportunity to do far more
for the public than those they re-
place Gradually the restrictions
which now hamper our onward
march will be removed and with the
new order of things taxation will be-
come better adjusted, and the asses
ment commensurate with our needs
Then our officials can act where
their predecessors could only plan.
and when this good time comes We
must strike hands with all who work
for the common veal, and stand
shoulder to shoulder for Palatka an6
her future.
Our situation will do much; it re
mains that our citizens do their part
, and no doubt will remain as to ou
, future. The partisan who allow
his zeal to interfere with the inter
( ests of the Gem City is living at thu
5 wrong time; the business man whit
! neglects his opportunity must b
left behind, and The citizen who hes
itates when work for the public !
! needed must be considered unwoE
f thy of his place in a growing com
/ munity.
Thoroughly beaten as we arc
with our candidate overwhelmed b,
5 majority of thirty-two when h
Q should have won by a majority 0
9 eighty, we can but congratulate
. ourselves that the winners are a
: thoroughly identified with our city
5 that they are all so we'll qualitie
) that no plea of incompeteney ca
Y avail if they are found wanting, an
IS that they now seem honestly desi
g Gus of continuing the good wor
d begun by their opponents. Their
e fore we shall wait and hope, trvs
o ing earnestly that our fears shall |
st groundless and longing to join
any good work honestly propose
o. for the welfare of our city and Il
J. advancement of our public interest
IS We cannot but be very proud th.
Q the change has been effected wit
"a out disorder and unattended even |
=. an unusual number of DRINKS in Il
j mayors court.
-------.--------->------
10 The Evolution of God.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
THE DAILY NEW S.
REM. HARRISON, Editor.

Ting DAILY NEWS is published every morn
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a month Sl50 for three months, S250 Tor SIX
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THE WEEKLY NEWS is an S-page 4S-c0ltltnh
tlaDrr published every Saturday, containing
ali the news OF the week, local and general. II
IL the largest and handsomest weekly paper
published in Florida, and will be mailed post
aye free for 81 year, or % cents foF SIX
months. Specimen copies free 70 any iddfess-
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ditionnI insertion. Special notices 10 cents per
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mcnts. r., - .,+o
nt-arv month Local advertisements due al
the expiration of the time for which they are
inserted.
money-order or registere Ietter.
Address.
w. w. RANDALL.
BUSINESS MANAGER,
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
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THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES

Aims to cover the whole field Of progressive
journalism. No subject is too great for it to
discuss intelEgently and without bias, and
none Sc insignificant as to escape its notice.
1t lays the world tributary to its wants. and
everywhere its agents may be found, alert
to gather the particulars Of all passing events
and send them by telegraph up TO the last mo-
meut of going to press. 1t is a brief and alb
strac6 chronicle of the time and contains all
that is worth knowing in the history Of the
world for the past tWenty-fOur years.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
Florida & western Ry
Waycross short Line.

al trains Of this road are run by Central
t90tE2l Meridian time which is g minute
slower than Jacksonville time.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS.

ON and after Sunday, Novembe~ 2, 1884,
~ Passenger Trains will leave and arrive as
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

NtiLite1AtAiiE at JtitttdHOOcHGS with ICi4sdCO-
10 and Atlantic Railroad daily for Pensacola.
Mobile, New Orleans Texas and all transmits
sissippi points. Passengers for Brunswick take
this train, arriving at Brunswick via B. s. W.
Railway at 12:45 D. M
Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars Waycross
to Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS

TuII1nan FaIaCe Sleeping Cars, JacksOnTlIIe
to Louisville via Townsville.
Pullman Buffet and Sleeping Cars Jackson
vile to Washington, ID. C. Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars Gainesville to Savannah. Con-
necti0ns at Montgomery with Louisville and
Nashville Railroad for New Orleans and TIE xas
points and the West and the Northwest. At
Savannah with Central Railroad of Georgia
for all points West and Northwest Charleston
and SaySnnah Railway for all points North
with steamships for New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Baltimore. At Charleston with
steamships for New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore,
Through tickets sold to all points by Rail
and Steamship connections and Baggage
Checked through. Also Sleeping Car berths
and sections secured at Company's Office in
AstOr's Building, 81 Bay street, and at Depot
Ticket Office, and on board Peoples Line
Steamers I'll. b. Plant, Margaret, ChattahOo-
chez and Jennie Lane
JAS. l.. TAYLOR,
General Passenger Agent
A. NJ IVES 4 rent
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

REGISTERED AT THE PALATKA Posi- OFFICE
AS SECoND-CLAss MAIL MATTKR.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
H. j. CAMPBELL,
ARCHITECT & CIVIL ENGINEER
Plans, Specifications,
Superintendent and Estimates
For all Kinds of Buildings.

Surveys, plans and estimates made for all
kinds of civil engineering, canals, docks, ter
minal facilities for railroads. water works,
sewerage, irrigation. drainage, river and har-
Dor improvements, and landscape gardening.
mapping off town sites. Barometric levels and
flying reconnaissance taken. Properties and
proposed work examined and reported on for
nOn-residents. Office in Griffn's Brick Block,
Palatka, Fla.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

JACKSONVILLE EXPRESS

Pullman Hotel and Sleeping Cars via Way
cross and Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, via
Jesup, Jacksonville to Cincinnati. COnnec-
tons at Atlanta with Western and Atlantic
and East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroads for all points West and Northwest.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

Headquarters and yard at Palatka. Office
corner Water and Madison Streets. Having
our own tug-bOat and lighter enables us 70 de-
liver lumber up or down the river m Ost EaII-
tageously to purchasers. We challenge adj
yectitious trade. Promptness and dispatch
considered. Guaranteeing satisfaction spc-
cialty.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
TROPICAL H0TEL&RESTEURaHT

Times BuIIdirlg, PhI1a.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-12-12
After the Prohibition Contest.

The past week has been the
most exciting one in the history
of Atlanta. The country has been
notified of the success of prohibi.
ton, and the scenes connected
with the election. Next day en-.
thusiam gave way to soDer thougt.
1t was at once recognized that
while an enemy had been driven
out of the city there would remain
large population thrown out Of
business, and some establishments
badly crippled. The Prohibition.
ists at ence began to cOunteract
this by creating an increase in
business matters which would of.
set such depression. One Of these
plans was the revival of the Geor
gia Midland Railroad scheme A
subscription of $4,000 would
bring this road TO Atlanta, furnish.
ing business for several hundred
people. One little knot subscrlb..
cd $4,000, and subscription list
was started to raise the balance.
Telegrams were received during
the three following days, from
temperance capitalists throughout
the Union, asking for Investments
IN business and real estate. The
Anti Prohibitionists meanwhile
began TO canvass the question o'
! contest. 1t wal understood tha
they were backed In this by 10
} seph Il. Brown. Attorneys hav'
been engaged, and it looks as |
! trouble might result on that score
The Constitution, which has beel
neutral, in the contest, urge
. that IL be abandoned, and that tn,
! local option law be given fai
, test. II |. Kimball, of the Kim
ball House, declared for prollibi
, ton Tuesday night. He said tina
the hotel was not built as gor
, geous setting for u bar room ant
, that the hostelry is not Dependent
on the sale of liquor for financia
! success State Ledger.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-12-12

is not known, and perhaps will
never be known, in the case Of
the eminent sufferer, Gen. Grant.
A month or so ago a st. Louis
doctor declared, in an interview
not generally published, that in
stead Of a blessing a very devil
had been let lOose. lie spoke Of
it as a drug which, used for q brief
time, established a habit and sap.
ped the moral nature Of every
virtue, leaving man a brute aud a
fend.
The case of a Chicago doctor,
who has destroyed himself and his
family experimenting with the
drug goes far to sustain the con.
clusion reached by the st. Louis
doctor. 1t is a story of plain facts.
Whether the drug inspires the
positive passion and makes man
an active devil, or merely saps the
moral foundation aud leaves him
shorn of manly moral power and
virtues and negatively a wreck,
may be yet undetermined. 1t will
probably be found in that respect
like other agencies of the kind,
operating upon different men diff.
ferent ways.
But it is probably the case this
new agent is not of the devil but
simply like the rest of heavens
gifts to mana fend when abused
and u benehcent agent when used
wisely under the guidance ofsound
human judgement aud for wise
ends.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-12-12
ONLY COT His DESERTS.

Montreal, Dec. 1.-The defense
of the Dominion government on
the execution of Riel 10 published.
The document. which covers five
columns, is in the shape of a re.
port to the privy council by the
minister of justice, Sir Alexander
Campbell, and reviews the wholo
subject in an exhaustive manner,
showing that, according TO the
authority Of the Roman Catholic
Church in the northwest, Riel was
not entitled to any sympathy. His
motives were purely mercenary,
he being willing at any moment to
sell out the Metis for few thous.
and dollars. The question of his
sanity is satisfactorily settled.
The report concludes as follows
"Guilty of high treason for sec.
0nd time, he had no more claim
to the indulgence, which ii has
been tho habit to accord to politi
cal offenders. But that is not the
most revolving part of his crime.
No one denies that ii was he who
raised the Indian tribes of the
northwest, aud that he had been
the direct cause of the frightful
massacre of q number of persons,
among whom two Catholic mis-.
sionaries have persisted, victims
to savage barbarlty. Ask all the
priests, all the half breeds of the
northwest, who is tho murderer
of Fathers Tafard and Laware.
hand, and they will Ill reply,
'Rielw He alone had been able
to persuade the Indian tribes to
rise, and he is responsible solely
and chiefly for the murders which
the rising has caused. Now, to
raise the Indians ls regarded by
every government which has them
under its control AS a crime which
deserves death, for it is a crime
against all the laws of humanity,
Indian warfare being a war of ex
termination, without quarter, with.
out mercy for defenssless people,
for women and children. 1t is
the greatest possible outrage Oh
civilization and a crime which falls
outside the class of political of
fenses.