The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-03-24
WEEKLY.
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE
TOWN.
Our Agents.
Taos. Mcintyre, .......New Orleans
Daucby & Co.. New York
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N. W. Aver & Son.. Philadelphia
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Dom Pedro's son is visiting New
Orleans.
THE railroad strike still contin.
ues. Both sides are holding ont we'll
The Natchez tri-weekly Banner
has been received at this Office. We
exchange with pleasure.
ALL the orange trees in Cameron
Parish were killed by the January
freeze. How many were there'
Nh. L. " Gremilliong Clerk oil
The District Court of Avoyelles, died
at his home i'll Marksville on Friday
last. He was so wears of age.
Church building is all the rs e
at Lake Charles. AS one of the Jour
mails of that thriving place puts lit
will soon be city os churches.
MAY goth is the day appointed
by the Governor for the holding of the
special election in the Second Con.
gressional District, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. Michael
Hahn.
III is worth remembering that no
body enjoys the incest surroundings il
in bad health. There are miserable
people about to-day with one foot in
the grave, to whom a bottle of Par
ker's Tonic would do more good thar
all the doctors and medicines they
have ever used.
The Baton Rouge Capitolian Of
the goth inst. contains the names oil
the physicians of Rapides Parish
whose names are registered by the
Secretary of the State Board of Health
They number twenty-four. Of the
other parishes Grant has thirteen
Avoyelles twenty, VIM fourteen, and
Vernon two.
JUST WHAT THEY ALL Say
Hon. d. D. Haynie, of Salem, Ills,
says he uses DR.. Bosanko's Cough and
Lung Syrup in his family with the
most satisfactory results, in all cases
of Coughs, Colds and Group, and rec
ommends it in particular for the little
ones. Sample bottles free at jacob
Geigers Drug Store.
We are glad to see that the re-
cent killing of negroes by gang Of
white at Carrollton, Miss, is con,
demned on all sides by the more sober
thinking of our newspapers. Such at.
fairs are an injury to any civilized
country. We have laws as YET, in the
United States, and to see to theiI
enforcement is the duty of every citi,
zen.
How soon are we forgotten after
death. Yes, too soon. Take the case
the other day. A man dies-he held
an official place-was Congressman
from Louisiana-the news had hardly
been telegraphed, when 10! and be-
hold some ten or fifteen aspirants are
after his place. This is patriotism
with big "P"-and some other mix
ture combined.
WHEN a party is charivareed il
Vernon Parish and he shows that ht
doesn't like it, the cbarivareers wal
till he leaves home and then they fir
into his house with shot guns. Thit
was done in that section the other day
and came near resulting seriously, Al
the children of the couple charivareee
were in the house when it was FREE
upon. Luckily none were hurt.
The following is the syllabus o
the decision rendered last week in tn
case of Celia Williams VS.. Denis Nc
Mapus, by the Supreme Court:
In an action in damages for SANDER tn
only possible defenses are: Either Il dc
NAL, or justification, or confession I'LL
der mitigating circumstances. There
in law no such thing as Il halfway justif
cation An answer which contains a
these defenscs .equivocates and is incor