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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-16

A lot of.new drugs has just been
received at A. A. Deans, Colfax,
which Buck proposes to sell cheap
or than ever known before. For
instance, Powers & Weightman's
quinine at $1Il0 an ounce, and all
other drugs in proportion.
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Tax Collectors Notice.

CoIFAx, la. Sept. l, 1886.
Notice is hereby given That the tax rolls
for the Parish of GIANT for the year l5~6.
are now on file in my Office. and all taxes
are now due. Taxes on movable property
become delinquent Oct. lst. AID those on
immoval'le property become Delinquent
january 1st. and casts begin to accrue
from these dates. PHILIP GOODE,
Sheriff and ex-officio.Tax Collector of the
Z Parish of Grant.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-16

The bridges across Darro and
Boggy Bayous are under Roadway
and will be- completed in a short
while. The police jury has extern
ded the time allowed for the bull
ding of the bridge across Bayou
DeGap for twelve months.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-16

Messrs. Vaughn Rhorer and He
man Smith are arranging for a tilt
Ing tournament, to be ran near
FAirmount on the 27tKof this
month, for a fine English saddle
and bride. The Colfax boys have
entered the lists and set up their
posts and rings, and every morning
and afternoon finds some of them
exercising their skill in spearing
rings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-16

Cadet L. L. Hooe, lately gradu-
ated at the La State University,
has been passing the week as the
guest of Deputy J. M. Rhorer, Jr.
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The affthIp @ifawnne

This mammoth sixteen paoD Ynoog
il the best and oheSpe6t WoehlE.
paper published in the South. Inc con-
densed form it contains al tho news az
tho week. the cream Of al literary mat
ter and the best special features Of the
Sunday Issue. with an important AGRI-
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT, conducted by,
DANIEL DENNETTs and the LATEsrMAR-
KET REPORTS. The Weekly il published
EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. AMI
reaches all subscribers for Sunday
reading. t 90 iif4a
$40, 900 worth Of nsefa1 and.
ornamental articles for ladies
and gentlemen, girls- and
boys, are offered TO MI who
VIII get subscribers for the
Weekly P1cayune. Lists cf
these valuable presents win
be sent to any address. =
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will he at the following, named places
on the days specified for the purpose of
registering. Al who have not prey iouslv.
re8istored, or wish their polling places
changed. will meet me It the following
appointments: h
Ward !. Coltsx. Sept I. 2, 3 and q
I, Fairmcunt, Sept 0. xgaa alls ~
= 2, BaeSlad, Sept, u. z seN q -
= z Brusess lIilI. tsept.s. rod -
-5s. 9, Tmcyss, Svpt. 10 esE dlaif
!" 3. 6atcher's. Sept. Is,
4 Das's Aiill, SEPT. ~. :
$, Union, Septs Is. 81 .aS
R'5ts" Z, htt, Sept II, $500
- montgomery, Sept, 90. i -. s
s, Frcflicn's, sept. 81. 81, ~ ( :,
Aud at Celfnx from Nov. 1T 10 6tl, in
elusive. W.B. GARRETT ~
g Assessor and Brgistrar Grant Parrish.
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LodAL Do T 8.
DR.. M. A. Dunn expects to move
his family from Nantachie 70 Boyce
within the next week.

Mr.. j. c. Goulden has our thanks
for an invitation TO- attend q dance
at his residence IN Alexandria on
the 18th inst. -
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'NOTICE.

The Legals Partnership heretofore exist
ing betweep he Undersigned, under the
firm name Of Wickliffe s. Wickliife, Is
this. day dissolved by mutual; consenf.
Either party is authorized to sign in
liquidation. JNO. q. WIGkLIFFE, 3
G. A. WlCKLIFFE.
E Colfax, La, Sept. %. LAG. :
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Market Report.

corrected every Thursday By the New Orleans
market quotations. Country merchants have TO
pay from to per cent advance on the ruline
prices in the New Orleans Exchanged
, 1886-11-10

A merchant of Athens was recently
captured by Greek brigands who carried
him off to the mountains, whence he
wrote = letter to his wife recounting his
misfortunes, and containing the follow
ing most important passage: My ran
som is fixed at 1000 drachmas; if the
brigands do not receive this sum by the
18th inst. they will cut off my nose; the
10th my ears; the nth my upper lip; the
18th my lower lip, and the 10Th, if the
money is not forthcoming, they will kill
me" The poor woman used her best
efforts to procure the required amount,
but it was not until the evening of the
18th that she had managed to scrape to-
gether the /, 900 drachmas for her hus-
bands ransom. She then said to a neigh.
Dor: MY husband must look n perfect
fright by this time. | think l will
keep the 1000 drachmas to make a bet
ter match.-Le Figaro.
, 1886-11-10

The condition of the peon laborer of
this country, much as it needs to be i'm
proved, compares favorably with hun
dreds of thousands of European toilers.
a German twig broom maker, by con-
slant labor, earns a daily wage of 10
cents, of which - must go for food, the
items being bread, 3 cents; coffee and
sugar, . cents; beer, . cents; potatoes
and saurkraut, 3 cents, and all other
food 3 cents. His yearly expenditure
for clothing is a trile over 81. And
this man, it should be borne in mind,
works in a climate of rigorous winters,
necessitatinS warm clothing and secure
shelter. Comparing his lot with that of
II pcon in the ~hot-country states, We can
see no reason FOR lamenting the condi-
ton of the Mexican laborer. Mexican
l~luuuclpr.
, 1886-11-10

Not a dozen people in this city could
guess what was in a little cigar box that
William A. Atkins, of P~rovincetown,
Cape Cod, had under his arm when he
was here. If you saw it on the sidewalk
you would take particular pains to pass
it by, but you would pass by a small
fortune. The yellow and unpleasant
looking and unpleasant-smelling stuff is
ambergris of the best quality, and it is
worth more per ounce than gold. 1t is
found only in the intestines of a de
ceased whale, and is used in the manu-
facture of fine %colognes.
But one vessel this season has reported
n find of this sort, and that is the
schooner Antarctic, of Proviucetown. A
whale that she killed in SAM bay, West
Indies. last April, yielded thirty pounds
of ambergris, and it has just arrived
home. 1t is worth nearly $4,000, and
is of more value than all the oil the YES
sci has on board. Mr.. Atkins, who is
the owner of the Antartic and is at the
head of the whaling industry of Cape
Cod, had II sample of it in his cigar
box. As no other ambergris is likely to
be brought home this year he has n cor
ner on the market. New York Market
,Journal
, 1886-11-10

NJ. de Quatrefages, the naturalist, has
examined areal phenomenon, "A Proven
cal of thirty, named Simeon Aiguier,
who had been presented by DIR. Trenes.
Aiguier, thanks to his peculiar system
of muscles and nerves, can transform
himself in most %wondrous fashion. lie
has very properly dubbed himself
"L1iomme-Protoe." At one moment,
assuming the rigidity Of a statue, his
body may be struck sharply, the blows
falling as on a block of stone. At an
other he moves his intestines from above
and below and right to left into the
form of a large football and projects it
forward, which gives him the appear
ancc of n colossally stout parsonage. lie
then withdraws it into the thorax open
ing like n cage, and the hollow look of
his body Immediately reminds one of a
skeleton. Aiguier successfully initiates
IA man subjected to the fortunes of the
rack, as also a man hanging himself,
and assumes n strikingly cadaveric look.
What most astonished NJ. de Quatrefages
was the %stoppage of the circulation of
the blood, now on the left and now on
the right side, which was effected by
muscular contraction. - Boston Tran
script.
, 1886-11-10

Dr. Frcire, who claims to have dis
covered the microbe of the disease yell
low fever, and a method Of incubation
to prevent its ravages, is reported to
have performed the operation upon 1000
persons living in localities where yellow
fever is prevailing in n most malignant
form. OF this large number but eight
have died. During the same period some
5000 uninocculated persons have sue
cumbed to the fever. Should the bill to
enfore incubation in Brazil obtain n
place in the statutes, these claims of
froire will be subjected to rigid investi-
cation by the best American experts,
and, if s~ubstantiated, doubtless be the
means of Introducing his system, or a
modification of it, into the United States,
whenever yellow fever shall again APP
pear in epidemic form.-Frank L%eslie's.
, 1886-11-10

These old women-most of them have
grown gray in the service, although a
few are still middle-aged and active
fly upon the theatrcgocr, poster him to
yield up his hat or his lady's wraps.
shove a wretchcd wooden footstool
under his companions feet. and liter
ally whine until he puts his hand in his
pocket and rewards their zeal. II they
realize that no fee is forthcoming, they
leave the stranger to grope for his seat
and all but slam the door in his face
when he wanders forth during the
waits.
When the audience is seated the ouv-
rcuscs lock it in, and, forming a row in
the lobby like SO many ancient birds on
= branch, keep up a fire of small talk
that often prevents people on the rear
rows of the parquci and balcony from
hearing the actors on the stage.-Cor.
New FORK Times.
, 1886-11-10

physicians rightly characterize constl-
patton as an obstinate impedimcnt to the
welfare of the body, The performance OF
the more important functions, such as di-
gcstion, hillary secretion, and an active
circulation of the blood, arc interrupted
by it in a greater or less degree, as the
development of the complaint is incipient
or mature. Not at once, of course, but
with reasonable promptitude, Hostctter's
Stomach Bitters will remove every symp-
tom to which it gives rise, as well as the
minor maladies that spring from it, among
them indigestion and chronic biliousncss.
From drenching cathartics ii is vain to
hope for permanent benefit, and there are
few ~nergatives that are not violent and
profuse in their operation. Blue pill and
calomel are designed to act upon the liver
only, and taken frequently are pernicious
to health. The Bitters produce relaxa-
ton of the bowels without pain, and a
renewal of their regularity. 1t also con-
quers fever and aguc, rheumatism, ncu-
ralgia and inactivity of the kidneys.
Mining Location Notices at Leader Office
, 1886-11-10

4Say, mister, buy some?r said a little
urchin, darling out from behind one Of
the stone divinities in the Garden of the
Gods, and almost startling n piebald
broncho into Mysteries.
what have you for sale;7 | in
quired.
"These yere," replied the small sales
man, holding up a tin pail.
white currants?7
"Yes, filed with honey" was the N
swcr.
The bottom of the pail was covered
with small objects that certainly resem-
bled amber c%urrants, and as the genius
of the garden lifted up one and dropped
it into his c%apacious mouth with a
smack of his lips, it was evident that
the what is-its were good.
"A penny a piece continued the
boy.
Great Scott: they're alive, exclaimed
the judge, as some of the currants be-
gan to squirn.
Course they are said the boy. "You
didn't 'spose I'd sell dead ones; ! Jest
dug EN- owe yonder."
In short, we had struck the famous
honey ant of the Garden of the Gods,
and the famous dainty of the gourmets
of old Mexico, where in some places
these ants, the wonders of science, are
served alive and kicking on n silver
salver for the delectation of the dark
eyed cpicures.
The iden of taking the body of an alb
normally large ant in the foreiingers
and biting off the abdomen in a lcis-
urely way Mt dessert, as one would a
cherry, is not of a nature to become ex-
tremely popular in the east. But il the
idea is disagreeable it must be confessed
that it is soon overcome, as the honey
ant is n bonnie bouche, and once eaten a
hankering is established that continues.
Cor. Now York Post.
, 1886-11-10

Is n very prevalent and exceedingly dis
agreeable disease, liable, if neglected, to
develop into serious consumption. Being
a constitutional disease, it requires a con
stitutional remedy like Hoods Sarsarpa-
rilla. which. acting through the blood,
reaches every part Of the system, cffecting
"A radical and permanent cure of catarrh III
even most severe forms, Made only by
c. !. Hood Il Co., Lowell, Mass.
, 1886-11-10

Not only have locomotive cylinder
diamaters increased within the past few
years. but prcssuros also have aug.
mcntcl They have risen from l9C
pounds, which WAS considered high not
SO long ago, to 80 pounds, and in some
boilers 10 pounds a., now carried.
Thcse things all mean more weight. bc-
cause the boiler must be heavier, ma all
parts of the engine must be- increased in
dimensions to bear the additional strain.
Under such circumstance the constant
increase in the weight of locomotives is
lat natural. iron Age.
, 1886-11-10

The Alleghenians are a frugal folk.
A Pittsburg man advertised for n cook,
and received this note from a citizen OF
Allegheny: Dear Sir: l have seen you
advertisement for a cook for three days
in the papers. When you get what yor
want, please send the rest of the girls to
me, as | don't care 10 advertise. New
York Sun.
, 1886-11-10

People who find it hard to wake up"
in the morning. and accomplish it only
after much struggling, yawning and
partial relapses, will find the difficulty
disappear upon having their room well
ventilated during the night.-Our Com-
try Home.
, 1886-11-10

The Soils Cigar Co. of Denver import
their tobacco direct from Cuba in air tight
packages. Their Cigars are always fresh
and have the genuine Cuban flavor. No
artificial flavor. Once tried, ever used.
Ask for Soils Cigars. Sold byal dealers
, 1886-11-10

Is a constitutional disease, caused by scfofu-
lous faint In the blood. Hoods %Sarsaparilla,
being a constitutional remedy, purihes tho
blood, builds up the whole system, and per-
manently cures catarrh. Thousands OF people
who suffered severely with this dlsagreeablc
disease, testify with pleasure that catarrh
, 1886-11-10
MaAseN's. RloOd E nlmed Is the ae. only

HIW0W NFTHFUy EUuTNI-
toel ltisa p%ositive cure for Ulcers, Erup-
fi|nngorS yphilitic Poisoning. II purilics tho
whole system, ard bAnishes all Rheumatic
and Neuralgia pains. We guarantee it.
Pearso 4 McGill, Druggists.
, 1886-11-10

When Emperor William travels about
ms domain he is always accompanied 10y
three our phyaicians.
, 1886-11-10

l.. w. Bull, Of Concord, Mass, who
originated the Concord grape in 1919,
still nourishes in his vineyard in that
town.
, 1886-11-10
The Democratic Leader.
BY THE LEADER PRINTING COMPANY.
nsrABLrsMHD ise;


Rnfsred al The Posi- oH1cc. Cnryenn', BUo-
aiinO. for fermentation through ne mptS as
second .inSs matter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-01

Bruce. by head, the Duke of Fordland's
tilly, Hope, being second; Gen. Owen
Williams colt, Vatican, bad third. There
were nine starters. The race for Earl Spen-
GERS plate of 5000 was won easily by Mr.
Lefore's 4-year-old colt. Present Times !;
Baron de Rothschild's 3-year-old filly, Pru-
dence, second, a neck ahead of j. Hankary's
5,,year-old colt, Dry Fly, third. There were
eleven starters.
Sealing Steamer Lest.
HALIFAX IN. 81, March 3lst.-Advices
from st. Johns, n F., state that the sealing
steamer Kesolute was wrecked last Satur-
day on Ireland Rock, eastward of Fago
Island. The vessel went on the rocks, and
foundered twenty minutes after. The
crew OF thilty-tiye men escaped in the boats
Just before she went down. They reached
the coastlng steamer Mastiff. aud were re-
ceived on board. It was then discovered
that three harpooners-McGla George
and Phiilips-were missing, and they are
supposed to lie lost.
Labor Demanded.
ST. JOINS Newfoundland, March 31st.-
rot occurred here last evening when a
mob, demanding labor and railroad exter-
sion, assembled around the Parliament
building with flags, stormed the Assembly
House, routed the police and broke into
the Council chamber, planting their ban
ner on the table of the House
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

\ London dispatch announces the death
OF Baron Penrhyn.
It is reported that Greece will mobilize
the National Guards.
Chamberlain and Treveivan are prepar-
ing plan OF open hostility TO Gladstone.
Fonr or five thousand persons were
thrown out of employment by the fire at
Key West, Fla.
The Senators are indignant because the
proceedings of executive sessions have
been revealed to the press.
Strait of Minnesota and Oates of Ala
! oalha nave cbamploned the cause Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad in Congress-.
The Morrow bill and the Belmont reso-
lutions have been referred back to the Sub.
committee OF the House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
President Kendricl of Vassar College
says that there has been a number of COM
plants among students of losses of money
and other articles, but no one has been eX
+ PEELED for theft.
The Manchester Eng Chamber of Com
nlerce mas adopted resolutions expressing
| the desirabiiity OF the appointment of q
royal commission to investigate the gold
| and silver question.
- - NloIlhcH ltIil Tie SO-calieQ cOnceS-
sion which Eads obtained from the Mex
lean Government is a one-sided affair fnII
OF determinations against the United
States and in favor Of Mexico
dozen boys. arrested in Cincinnati for
throwing stones, Were sentenced by the
Court to be spanked by their fathers. and
were ordered to be present in the Police
Court next Tuesday to report if the order
had been executed.
The New York Suns London snecial
says Barnum's new elephant. Alice. the
consort of the late Jumbo. was fettered at
the ZOO to-day, preparatory to shipping
her to America. A large force of workmen
We're occupied several hours in moving her
hundred yards.
al. Bennett was shot and instantly killed
IN Memphis, about noon yesterday, by
Laura May Porter, who came there from
CINCINNATI two years ago. and was known
among the demi-monde as Ida Reed. Ben
nett was travelling salesman and widely
known. The couple had been living TO-
gether for several years.
Friends of Frederick r. Nourse. Treas
urer OF the Oregon Railway and Naviea-
ton Company, are worried over his disap-
pearance in England three weeks ago. lie
sailed for Europe in the middle of Febru-
AIRY, intending 10 return by the next
steamer: He has not been heard from
since; His friends are uncertain as to
whether he has been foully dealt with or is
sick. He is relation of Secretary Endi-
colt.
The DEGREES of the Baltimore Plenary
Council after praising temperance and
total abstinence, say, in regard to the liquor
traffic: We warn our faithful people
who sell Intoxicating liquors to consider bv
now many serious dangers their business,
although not unlawful in itself. is sur
rounded. If they can let them choose a
more honorable way of making living :;
but, if they cannot, let them not sell drink
TO the young, nor to those who they fore
see Will abuse drink. Let them keep their
saloons closed on Sunday, and at no, time
let them allow blasphemy within the walls
of their taverns."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-01

LEGEND OF LOST MINE-The legend
OF lost mine has given TO Bald Mountain.
IN Placer county, fascinating interest for
proSpectors. The tradition is that early in
the sos three men disappeared from an
Immigrant party coming over the old Gap
trail. Search for them was without avail
and they Were reported dead Where or
show they hibernated no one knows, but
the following spring, ragged, shoeless
and totally demoralized, they filed
into Michigan Bluff Their blankets had
been converted into sacks, and with
them they brought dust to the amount of
$4,000 or Sl5 GOO. Spending but a single
night within the confines of civilization.
and giving no information as to the loca-
ton of their large claim, they were fol-
lowed on their return trip, and a few weeks
later their murdered bodies were found in
one OF he dreary canyons that scar the face
OF the desolate peak. Since then many
man has sought the lost mine, but appa-
rently its immunity is as certain as that of
the treasure of Captain Kidd.-[S. f. Sun
day World
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THE "GALT GAZETTE
EVERYBODY WANTS ITI

NNHE "GAZETTE' Is ONE OF THE BEST
i Country Papers in California and the Test
advertising medium for Sacramento Merchants
and Business Men to patTonize. II is published
in the heart of the richest grain producing
sections IN the state, and circula;es largely in
Sacramento, San Joaquin, Amador. I'll Dorado
and Cslaveras Counties. 10 secure the trade of
these five counties by advertising, no better or
cheaper medium than the " GAZkTTE'' can be
found.
~ The "GAZETTE' is published every
Saturday. MEACHAM d CAMPBELL. Prop's
fnlSff
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-01

A SINGULAR STATEMENT.-During the
past twenty years J. J. Moore, Under
Sheriff of this county. has been partially
deaf. OF late years the infirmity mad been
getting worse, and had become so bad that
in order to make him hear in conversation
the person speaking would have to shout
loudly. Last Sunday Mr.. Moore directed
his wife TO take syringe and inject warm
water, containing bi-carbonate ofsoda. into
his ear. Mrs. Moore then continued the
application for about half an hour, when
Mr.. Moore felt something give way in
side of his ear; few more injections were
made, when a lump of matter about the
size OF grain of corn was brought in
sight, and Mrs. Moore removed it with
hair-pin. The same treatment was then
applied to the other ear, and with pre-
cisely the same result. Mr. Moore can now
hear almost as well as he ever did, and is
very happy in consequence-[InyoI Inde-
pendent
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Frightfnl Result of Petroleum Ex-
pIosiOn.

plosion.
loNDoS, March 3lst-An explosion of
petroleum occurred to-day on board yes
sci at Baku, Russia The vessel was
wrecked, and the entire crew OF thirteen
persons perished.
Affairs in Greece.
New YORK. March 31st.-An Athens
cable says: April 9Th is the anniversary
Of the independence of Greece, and it is
believed that that day Will be selected by
the Chamber to declare war. Russian Off
GERS lately in Suda Bay say that at the first
hostile intimation, the allied fleet are ex-
pected to institute blockade, while the
Turkish army of 100000 men will march
on the Greeks, numbering 10000 of almost
unframed men, and will try invasive con-
clusions. War is imminent.
The Russian Minister.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 3lst.-M. De
Struye, the Russian Minister to the
United States, started for Washington to-
day.
The English Turf.
LONDON March 3lst.-The Northampton
and Sydney Hunt spring meeting began
yesterday. The race for the Althorp Park
stakes, for 2-year-olds, was won by Baron
de Rothschild's colt, by Hermit out Of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-01

A prosperous farmer of OwingsyiIle. KY,
well-preserved widower of over 80, has
two sons, who were both in love with the
same girl. She found difficulty in deciding
which to take, and the old man solved the
problem by sending the boys off on bust
ness and marrying the girl himself while
they were away.