The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-05-16
ED,TeR,AL NOTES.

will resign.
Chattanooga turned out her frat steel
nails yesterday, and proposes to make
5000 per week. They will be used 70
coffin the Morrison bill.
Natchez Is preparing, now that she
has been successful In organizing a
Compress Company, to organize a.
Board OF Trade.
The Vicksburg Herald is Of the
opinion that Jefferson Davis speaks
out with the ffankness Of u Sau,herner
who has no hope ot an office.
The damaged skull Uf hospitable
negro is reminder OF the wholesome
advice of the Conference Of Charities
nol to give direct aid to bPggars aud
tramPs.
The recovery Of Secretary Manning
has disappointed large number Of
patriots who had brushed their front
.ir carefully and got til. mselves In
readiness to walk riga; into his ID.
Greece has put her pistol back Into
her hip pocket, but.sthe European
powers ire Of the uf,ttsion,that she will
soon be caught iinurishing It again and
declaring thar she weighs Il ton aHd
smells like wolf.
A stage robbery was com",itted
Saturday between Georgetown aud
Silver City. Wells, Fargo 4 Co.'s
strong box was broken open and $1,000
taken out. Four shots were fired ut
the driver, but he IL still alive.
The close watch kept by the aurhorf-
ties in Maine to prevent the sale OF
ssshort" or small Holsters has given rise
to new industry. Last fall firm
| bought lot of small Holsters and put
them in a forty-acre pond in cove.
at Vinal Haven. They were fed
literally through the winter on fish
heads and like food, and now weigh
from two to six pounds each, and bring
$40 a hundred pounds in tho Boston
market.
People who do not understand fully
the extensiveness of advertising asAow
carried on in America, will read with
wonder and amazement that Phtli-
delphia firm on Friday, April 9th.,
made contract with a printing house
company for the printing of forty
million thirty-two-pSge pamphlets and
four hundred million of page circulars,
the contract price being $500, 600. These
facts, cleaned from the Journalist,
show to what extent advertising has
attained.
Captain John II. Roots, who com-
| manded the steamer Lizzie Hopkins,
which steamboat piled the Ouachita
and Red rivers from 1866 to 1870, was
shot aud killed by James Haywood for
giving testimony in the County Conn
missioneis Court of Marion county
Texas. He was son in law of Judge
Rogers who married the widow of
Judge Ochittree, mother Of Tom Ochii-
tree. The shooting occurred at Jelfers
son, Texas.
AT meeting of the police jury ot
East Carroll parish held Tuesday last
one thousand dollars was appropriated
to assist in building n protection levee
at Raleigh or Salem. A force of men
have already been put to work on 1t.
This last appropriation makes $4,000
which has been appropriated for this
levea and this amount it is thought
will be amply sufficient TO complete
the work.
1t is demonstrated by the wells
know II sta,istician, Edward Atkinson,
that while there has been material
dc crease in the profits which capital
secured from The general product of the
country in the last twenty years,
wages of all kinds have increased, and
are now ut least 25 per cent higher
than they were in 1865. This is one
of those very simple aud yet very im-
portant facts which the average labor
agitator either cannot or will not
recoguize.-S. Louis Globe Democrat.
The death warrant for the execution
of Dennis Boyd, who it will be remem-
bered murdered an Israelite by the
name of David Haas at the latter's
store near Benton, Bossier parish, on
the 24th of December, christmas eve,)
1884, has been signed by Gnvernor
McEuery and the execution of the
sentence OF the law, which condemned
him to be hung by the neck until dead
has been fixed for Friday June 11th.
Boyd now languishos in the Caddo
Jail.
The Grand Lodge, l. o. .. Il. and
Grand Encampment of the State oi
Mississippi which met at Port Gibson,
last week was represented by 20 dele
gates and eleven encampments by
eleven delegates and elected the fol-
lowing officers: John Rowzee, 0
Pontotoc, G. G., p: f. Bonelli, O