The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-11-03

recently In Shreveport, Will be rebuilt as
soon as the insurance claims are adjusted
This is good enough, and shows up the
Shreveporters in grand style.
GEN. Il. Il. SHINES, OF the General
Land Office at Washington, D. c., has
sent the DEMOCRAT the Annual Report OF
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office for the year 1886, for which we
return thanks.
--Ir is rumored THAI DR.. Carver, the
great shot, who is with Coles circus, will
visit the Fair Grounds on the second day
of the fair and take part in the live black
bird shooting matches. DR.. Carver will
shoot with rifle, while his contestants
will use shotguns.-[Shreveport Times.
The two Johns, Sherman and Logan
should forget old scores and fall on each
others neck and weep. Blaine is way
ahead i'll the race fer the Republican NOM
nation and they are getting nothing but
his dust. They can in 1888, however, be
on hand and help bury him.-[States.
THE report that Virgins is sick with
brain fever will not be credited by any
one who has ever heard of the Canadian
weather fraud. If the report had come
that he was suffering with "botts" or any
disease peculiar to the jackass it would
have been received without the least hes
itation.-[N. O. States.
Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart, widow of
the late millionaire merchant, A. r. Ste
wart, died suddenly OH the morning of
the 25th ult., at hsr residence corner of
Thirty Fourth street and Fifth Avenue,
New York City. She was 81 years old,
being born in 1902. She was married in
1923. She left no children.
WE hear that some of our parishion-
ers who own idle acres of land intend to
start G. movement on foot to induce the
people of the drouth-stricken counties of
Texas to come here and locate. This de-
termination was suggested by the an
nonnccment that the people of those coun-
ties were preparing to send representa-
tive to California to look for suitable To-
cations for Observation-Disclosures
-THE. Louisiana State Prohibition Con-
vention met at Minden, on Tuesday of
last week, October 26th. The following
officers were elected: President, Col. A.
G. Mitchell; Secretary, Prof. w. III. Bris-
tol; Asst Scc'y, Rev. j. w. Medlock !;
Fice-Presidents, l.. N. Kidd, l.. S. We'd
ney, +. c. Hodges, Hon. j. j. Carter, II.
P. Wells, t. P. Fullilove, A. T. Nelson.
The next Convention will be held in Alex
andria, July 18th, 1885,
LATHAM, Alexander & Co., Bankers,
New York City, have sent US an elegant
bound volume of the "Cotton Movement
and Fluctuations" of the United States,
which is, to say the least, invaluable. As
reference book it cannot be excelled,
and should be in the hands of every mer-
chant and cotton buyer. For II years
previous they have issued tho work gra-
tnitOusly, but the demand for it has be-
come so great that to make the further
complimentary issue of it would entail
an expense greater than they are willing
to bear. The price fixed is two dollars
per copy, which is none too much, when
its value is considered
MINISTER Manning, in presenting his
credentials to President Diaz yesterday,
made neat little speech, in which the
friendly sentiments of the United States
toward the sister Republic were dilated
upon, and the reciprocation of those SEN
ments by Mexican taken for granted
The new Minister expressed his desire to
foster the spirit of amity and goodfellow-
ship now prevailing, and to promote and
deyelope the trade relations of the tive
Republics. He recognized in contIguity
OF frontier an almost necessary source of
alteration, but he yentured the conyic-
uon that in the prompt redress of wrongs
and in the removal of any law or custom
ttnlins toward discord perfect good will
between the two countries could be Sc
cured.-[N. o. States Oct. 27th
GEN, John III. Rice, Vice President of
the N. o. ~, & F. S. R. R., arrived here
Sunday, and left to-day for points in Lou