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The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

An interesting incident, illus
tratlve Of the feeling of the whites
ior their former slaves, is furnish
ed IN Atlanta. The Constitution
Of that city says: "On the nre,.
misses Of Senator Brown lives an
invalid female servant whose
health failed while she was in the
service OF his family. She requires
tne daily treatment ola physician.
who is paid by the Senator to at.
tend her. It is necessary for her
70 60 to the doctors Office every
day. Regularly every morninn
senator Browns carriage drives
70 the door Of the cottage which is
allotted to the invalid negro woman
she IS assisted into it by the Sen
ator's coachman and is driven to
see the doctor. In front of his
ONCE the carriage waits until the
daily consultation is concluded.
and then the woman is carried
home, The suffering of the me-
groes in the South has never ref
been adequately portrayed
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

Il }Ul WcHlG seek tie first av9Hu'
70 The hearts Of Your .ailiIy. bH,.H
l!fy .}our home o% putting III tan
gihe shape, with your own hands.
the high morni impulses OF ycnr
life. Nora, sentiments. beautifully
ini;iit' by {; l,andlvolli, made Itself
attractive. through Il sweet lifc
consecrattI to God and the nurture
OF his charge, tell Of the hopes and
purpose, and character Of her
whose blessed influence perva'ics
the home. These are but mile
stones on the way she would lead
her little ones 10 duty and to God.
Plant them in the home as the
limits Of life, ana in daily devotion
to duty find the higher beauty, OF
which these are o,,ly lie sign,in the
blessed influences they make III
life he Of he Young.
Pictures, made by IL mothers own
hand selected under her careful
discretion, rs the amh0.liment OF u
sentiment, a purpose or an 80: .
serve not only a3 an invitation to
good, but d great rebukc to evil.
ohrUbbcry and trees, flowers and
fruits, all bring us close to God and
his purposes, and when, us b&auti,
FIJI ornaments, they adorn TIE
home, they arc but serving the
mission upon which His goodness
has sent them. Mothers lead out
the little ones, with hands and
hearts to join you in the work of
making home beautiful and happy.
Help their little hearts to duty and
their little hands to service. that
home may be the best Of all the
earth to love in youth, and tie
sweetest to remember in the years
that are to com".-SGathc,R Culti-
rGt0r.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23
Beautify Your Homes.

The appearances about the home
have much to do with the charac.
ter of it's inmates. Not so much
that they serve as an index to the
opinions and feelings, but that the
surroundings actually have much
to do in molding the character and
making the sentiments Of the
young. Cultured refinement is diff
ficult in the schools, When the home
is rude and, on al, sides, coarseness
shocks the finer sensibilities of Il e
soul. Women, as wives and moth
ers, carry this responsibility in life,
and home is what woman makes it
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23
SUCCESSION SALE.

Succession Of John Beardoa, decd.
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Unor.
I DI virtue Of an order of sale issued by
4 , the Hon parish Court of Union par
isii, La.,-slaIe Jany. 2lst, 1374-to me
directed, l will on
saturday, November 18th 1883,
Between the hours of 10 o'clock Il. M.
and , o'clock ?. III. on said day at the
Court house door in the town of Farmer.
vile, La, offer for sale to the last and
highest bidder the undivided one-half in
terest in the following described tract or
parcel of land: The North ! Of Sec %. in
Township 81. Range 3 east situated in
the parish Of Union; La, and inventory AS
the property OF said suctc SIGN,
Terms OF Sale. Cash, at not less than
the appralsmcnt.
j. p. MONTGOMERY
Administrators
Farmerville La, Oct. 9th 1885.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

r!r. Curry. Elipister to span
WAS educated tor the profession OF
law. and served in the Thirty h1!h'
and rhirty-siN. Congresses as
q member from Alabama. during
The war he was u member OF the
Confederate Congress. After me
war lie abandoned politics and has
since devoted hi mselt to educ"
t;oual interests and the C.iurch.
He was for two years president OF
the Howard College in Alabama
and is at present agent OF the
Peabody fund for the South. lie
is a minister of the Baptist Church,
and thoroughly educated and
highly accomplished gentleman.
At recent session OF the Pea
body educational fund trustees the
election for officers for the ensuing
year resulted as follows: Hon
Roht. Winthrop, president; ex-
ec1tiyc committee, >Icssrs. y. II.
Stewart, o. Virginia; Win. II. Ev-
arts, of New York; Morrison y.
Waite. Of Washington; Jronas =,
Manning, Of Louisiana; y. :! For
Ter, OF Tennessee.
Finance Comnlittcc-Wm. N.
Ilyarts. Hamilton Fish, n. L.
Waite, Col. j. Lyman and An
tholiv Du,al, Of Philadelphia.
j. pierrepont Morgan was chosen
treasurer. Hon. Samuel 4. Green.
Of Boston, WAS authorized to act
as general agent Of the board III
place ct Hon. J. j. Curry. who
has been appointed minister to
Spain.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23
EHILQH ACADEMY.
TO-
UILL REOPEN ON THE 7TU OF
SEPT, 1855.

This School is located at Shiloh. La. in
the midst ola prosperous and energetic
community thoroughly alive to education
al interests. The moral surroundings arc
good; ut the late election OH the License
question the community was almost solid
for Prohibition, and this verdict is s.rictjy
enforced, thus removing one source of an
prehension which parents have for their
boys when from home.
The Scholastic year will consist of ten
months divided into two sessions of five
months each. Students will be received
at any time and charged from time of en-
teIance until the close of the session in
which they entered. The rates of tuition
are $500 $500 $500 per month.
Boald can be had at from s.. 90 to $1,000
per month. For further particulars Adj
dress:
L. NJ. CORY, Principal,
or Rev, J. p. EVERETT.
President Board of Trustt es
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

on Or before Wcdncs lay mornings, if the
writer's desire to have them appear in the
first issue after they are received; and
advertisements be handed in by Thursday
niorningss
In writing for the press always be
brief and to the point,
If youstake tlle paper from the post
Office to which it is directed you can be re
quired to pay for it, whether you are q
egular subscriber Or not.
TO Cards of q personal haracter-when
admissible-will be charged double our
egular advertising rates.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

0nafies. +. Oiney, Assistant
postmaster at Clarksburg, W, Va.
nad q rival in the affections of a
young lady and could not -gesist
the temptation of opening their
letters and informing himself of
his rivals progress. A warrant
mas been issued for his arrest.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23
----------------- x o. -
STATE III. us.

The infant son of lie editor of
the RustoE Ca'iyrapt craYles! into
a fire an'! WIS severely burned be-
| fore being discovered.
An al'ig ator ten feet long, with
two well developed heads, was
captured in Bayou LAcacAe, Ter
rebonue parish.
Abbeville Meridlonal: Eighty
five thousand pounds Of cotton, in
seed, was brought to town last
Saturday, and the cash was paid
for same.
Lake Charles Commercial: One
of our merchants received, this
week, an order from Washington
Territory, for ten pounds smoking
tobacco, which he filled and ship
ped by mail to that far of region.
Score one for Lake Charles.
Morgan City Review:
A woman in this place dreamed
that lottery ticket numbered
1878 i'll burning figures had been
presented to her. Next morning
she sent to purchase the number,
but could not find it. At last
Thursdays drawing the number
won $4,000.
The popular Poplar Bluff has un
decgone a thorough course of re-
pairs and will be ready for the first
rise in the river. We understand
that Messrs. Rabun and Drummer
are having another boat built for
the up trade which they propose
to control. Tho new boat will be
ready for the opening Of business
-iMONrOc Bulletin.
The colored people of Rapides
parish held an enthusiastic meet,
ing, last week, at Alexandria in
the interest of the North, South
and Central American Exposition.
Several speeches were made to an
attentive audience Of more than
800 persons. 1t is said that the
Exposition will without doubt re-
ceive large and fine display from
the colored citizens of that parish.
Bossier Banner: A bitter feel
ing prevails in Morehouse and
Tangipohoa parishes between the
2roAibitionists and the anti-pro-
hibitiOnists.
Prescription: Soak the bitter
feelings in "Bitters'-of medicinal
virtues-and thereby transform
them to better feelings.
Natchitoches Review: There
have been but four homicides in
this parish this year. In every
case the victim and the assailant
we're under the influence Of liq-
uor.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

In newly settled town inDa
kota, where marrjageable men are
plenteous, AMI manageable girls
scarce, there have been seventeen
girls born out Of eighteen births.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

Senator Eustis is said to be in
New York now to secure the insert
ion Of anti civil service plank in
tue platform. We wish him we'll,
for greater fraud never existed
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

On the 9th instant sixty conyicts
ut work on a railroad in Texas
raised q howl and made a break
1or liberty. The guards fred upon
them as they ran, killing and
wouuding %. The remainder es-
capped.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

Washington Society is excited
to some extent about an unpleas
antness existing in the married re-
lations of Mrs. Nellie Grant -Sar-
tOris and her husband
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

AN Omaha woman ha S three i,us
bands living, and was photographs
ed recently with the two first on
each side and the latest incunben +
Just back of her chair.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

81. w. Shaw, better known as
Josh Billings, died Oct. II, at the
Del Monte Hotel, Monterey, Cal,
of apoplexy.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

Mr.. Cleveland is now the heavi-
est President that has ever occu
pied the White House, weighing
almost 800 pounds
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23
friday Octob er- % 1885

Gen. Longstrcet is keeping a
hotel at Gainesville, Georgia.
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23
G.,'aMcs''s ossssy sssE<ts: s.s
Session..

Ti:e origii:al verdict l3ot c:s.insed
The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-10-23

TIE IDA NUCSTER SUICIDE.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
in COURT.
The Would-be Mrs. Senator Sharon AZ"
Like q Crank.

The Would-be Mrs. Senator Sharon AZ"
Like a Crank.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 5.-The woman
who, by the grace Of the Superior eou'
calls herself Mrs. Sharon, wife of the ln
lionaire ex-senator, Gre ated a sensation IL
the United States building on Monday Az
examination was taking place before 'S
Master in Chancery with closed doors ~
garding certain documents in the celeolaNs
divorce case of the ex-senator. Wlll''
Stewart, counsel for Sharon, was coluus,
ing the examination, when Mrs. Sharon Sa
denly opened a satchel and drawing l",'s
from a small revolver flourished it ovel ~,
head eXclaiming: ''Tm bound to klll y,
some time and I might as we'll do 1t now ,ao
Stewart bounded into the corridor anu Lave w.
to the United States Marshal's office 10 law
her arrested. u.,,;
Ex-Judge Evans, another OF Silal~ny
counsel, appealed to the Master in Cha anrsh
for protection of his conferee, when ar 81 At
now frantic with rage, pointed a pls ''n,od,
him saying: '.Do you want to De I k,Ns At,
too?" She was then disarmed BY tn poo,ne
taches of the court and made her es .iar.
from the building before the Deputy IN Il
shall arrived. No arrest has been llaat, de-
is the general impression that the receis re.
cision of the Supreme Court grantlns and
hearing has made the woman despeIa.0 heel
partially insane, as she has recently and
prowling around Sharon's private oil '",ired
has even gone into the Office ana lll aqrntry
for the Senator. Sharon is at hls c so",e to
seat in Belmont and not likely to co"'
the city at present.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
FOREIGN.

STORMS of great violence swept over the
northern and central parts of Spain on the
I'd. Many persons were said to haye been
killed.
II was announced from Brussels on the
Sd that England had consented to let the
Zulicar question be settled by the Anglo
Russian Boundary Commission.
BEFORE his death the Mehdi designated
four chiefs to continue the war in the Sou
dan, and set aside 90, 100000 piastres to-
ward defraying the expenses.
A TERRIBLE earthquake prevailed on
the BID in Belvoodsk, Suluk and Bisheerzek,
in Asiatic Russia. Fifty-four persons
were reported to have been killed and six
ty.four injured by the sinking of a church
at Belvoodsk.
The Grant memorial services in West.
minister Abbey, London, on the 4th, are
described as having been of a very impos-
ing nature. Canon Farrar preached the
funeral sermon. Many distinguished En-
glishmen and Americans were present.
The Venezuelan rebellion had been sup
pressed on the 4th. 1t lasted only a month.
GERMAN papers of the 4th charge that
France only awaited q favorable oppor-
tunity to attack the Empire. There was
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
LATER NEWS.

In all sections of the United States UNI
precedented honors were paid on the Sth
20 the memory of General Grant. The
funeral pageant in New York was the most
imposing ever witnessed in the United
States, or perhaps in the world. 1t was
after five O'Clock in the evening when the
funeral-car reached the place of sepulcher
in Riverside Park, where the remains were
entombed with impressive ceremonies.
b President, Vice-President, members OF
the Cabinet, Judges of the Supreme Court,
Senators, Representatives, ex-Presidents,
Governors of States and Foreign Min
listers were among the distinguished per-
sons who participated in the demonstra-
ton. The entire city was clothed in the
emblems OF mourning, and the m%ultitudes
which viewed the pagent defied computa-
ton. In all the leading cities of the United
States, n in hundreds of towns and VIII
lagos, similar tributes were paid to the
memory of the illustrious dead. The
American legations abroad were closed
during the day, and memorial services
were held in Paris, the City of Mexico and
other foreign capitals.
A FIRE on the Sth destroyed the Webster
block at Manchester, N. H., seven of the
inmates perishing in the flames.
/. DURING a storm the,s other evening a
farmhouse near Rock Rapids, Ia, was
struck by lightning, and the five inmates,
John Mcclure, wife and three children.
were killed.
A RECENT flood in the province of Can
ton, China, caused by the bursting of EN-.
bankments, inundated an extensive terri
tory, sweeping away a number of villages
and involving the loss of ten thousand
lives. The rice II silk crops were almost
ruined, and a vast amount of property was
destroyed.
THERE were 211 business failures tn the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ..ended on the 7th, against 100 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, Al; New
England States, 80; Western, SO; South
ern, 90; Pacific States and Territories, 81;
Canada, 10.
THERE were 1882 new cases of cholera
and 1859 deaths in Spain on the sth.
A BOAT in which five persons were at
tempting to cross the Columbia River in
Oregon was swept over the Cascade
Rapids on the Sth, md all the occupants
were drowned.
THREE persons were. killed and two
fatally injured in q recent wreck on the
Cincinnati & Great Eastern Railroad.
THE exchanges at t~wenty-six leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the Sth aggregated
$717, 752, 1903, against $735, 912 $40 the previ-
GUS week. AS compared with the corre-
spending period of 1884, the falling of
mounts to 1863 per cent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A MOVEMENT was on foot on the Sd for
the erection of a monument in honor of
General Grant on the Fort Leavenworth
(Kan.) Military Reservation.
AN election held in the Cherokee Nation
on the Sd for members of the Legislature
resulted in q choice of In equal number
by the "Downing" and National" par
ties, the independents" holding the bal
ance of power.
THE Jewish citizens of New York pro-
posed on the Sd to erect a monument to
Sir Moses Montefiore in Central Park.
A LIGHT vote was polled in the Kentucky
State election on the Sd. The results, pub
lished On the 4th, Indicated the election of
Tate (Dem.) for State Treasurer by a fair
majority. The Constitutional Convention
plan was defeated.
FUNERAL services over the remains OF
General Grant were conducted on the
4th at Mount MacGregor by Rev. DR..
Newman in the presence of the family
and a throng of mourners which in
Guided many people distinguished in
civil and military life. The passage
south of the train on which the body
was conveyed to Albany called out thou
sands of sympathizing spectators all along
the line. The remains were temporarily
| placed in the Capitol Building at Albany,
and between four in the afternoon and
midnight nearly $4,000 people took a fare
well look at the familiar features of the
General.
THE resignation of DIR. Galusha Ander
derson as President of the Chicago Uni
versity was presented and accepted on the
9th. Nearly a years salary was due him.
The Executive Committee of the Foreign
Missionary Board of the African NJ. E.
Church met at Richmond, Ind, on the
9Th. Bishop Shorter presided. Rev. J. H.
Buchner was appointed to work ut Port au
Prince, and Rev. III. Mays at San Do
mingo.
FREDERICK R. CoNDERr, of New York,
and Marcus A. Hanna, of Cleveland, O.,
were on the 9TH appointed Government
Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad,
vice Francis Herman and L. B. Harrison,
declined.
THE State Department was on the 9th in
receipt of advices from MI. Lee, Secretary
of the American Legation at Vienna, say
ing that the Austrian Government has
positively refused to receive Mr.. Kelly as
United States Minister.
The remains of General Grant lay in
state at the New York City Hall on the
9Th, and were viewed by owe $50, 900 peo-
pie.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-28

struggle ensued, In which DR.. Boyer was
fatally wounded, after which the mailman
swallowed poison and cut his own throat,
dying several hours later.
PLEURo.PNEUMoNIA had broken out OF
the 9th in q herd of thoroughbred Holstein
cattle at Port Richmond, Staten Island,
and was spreading rapidly. The herds
affected would probably bel quarantined.
The price of salt was on the 9Th adj
vanced by the manufacturers to eighty
cents a barrel, owing to the recent Bay
City (Mich.) strike.
NEAR ~Spartansburg, N. c., a passenger
train of the Air Line was derailed on the
9th by the turning over of n rail. One
coach and two sleepers were sent rolling
down an embankment. The conductor of
the train was killed and seven passengers
fatally injured.
loWA'S new census, completed on the
9th, showed u total population of 100000,
against 1,G24,615 in 1850.
AN explosion of gasoline occurred in a
provision store at Germantown, Pa, on
the 9th, and three men named Ref, Richer
and Gauzert received burns from which
they died the same day, while the case of q
fourth victim, Kratz, aged seventy -four,
was hopeless.
FORTY shots were fired at a disturbance
at ~Prestonburg, KY, recently, during
which Proctor Arnett was killed, Lee Pat
rick fatally wounded, and wv others in.
jured. All the parties were colored.
A passed down Loup Valley,
Neb., on the 9th, which nearly wrecked
the town of Ord. Buildings were blown
down, crops demolished and general de.
~struction extended for a great distance.
A LARGE crowd assembled on the 9Th
from Appomattox Court House and draped
in mourning the house in which Generals
Grant and Lee signed the terms of sur
render in 1866. The draping will re.
main thirty days out of respect to Genera.
Grant.
A NEW railroad bridge across the Ohio
River at Henderson, KY, costing s., 900 900
was formally opened to traffic on the 9Th.
A MOB which surrounded the house of al
unpopular citizen of Eureka Springs. Ark.
named Young, on the 9th, was fired upol
from within by Young's son, and retired
with three men wounded, two of whom
would die.
JOHN c. BRADY was murdered in hi:
house on the 9th at Scottsburg, Ind, b,
an unknown burglar.
CARPIE BAREHEAD, a young member o
the Greek Nation, who had committed sew
eral murders, was executed at Eufaula
L. T., on the 9th, by being shot to dealt
while seated on his coffin.
WILLIAM PARKS, an Amherst Count,
(Va.) negro, was arrested on the 9th TO
starving four of his children to death
Parks, who is a widower, wanted to MARI.
again, and the woman he aspired to wi
refused to accept him while his children
lived.
NEWS was received at San Francisco O.
the 9Th that the bark Napoleon, of New
Bedford, had been crushed in the ice il
the Arctic. Twenty two lives were lost.