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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-12
HE is INDICATED.

The Passage of the Post-ofice Appropri-
alton Bill Sufficient Answer to Mo-
nopoly,, Attacks, upon the Postmaster
General.
Ever since Mr.. Villas refused to yield
to the insolent demands of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company to hand over
the mail subsidy which they had Sc
persistently lobbied for at the last Con-
gress, he has been the object of fierce
and unreasoning attack. Not only
that swash-buckler organ of rabid Re-
publicanism, the New York Tribune,
but newspapers which should know
better, have assailed the Postmaster
General for what they were led to be-
lieve by the disappointed lobbyists was
a blow against American shipping
interests. "o = - ..' pts .Nf's..2
= Mr.. Villas complied with the full re-
quirements of the law. There was no
mandatory clause in it, obliging him to
submit to the demands of the Pacific
Mail Company, and his action in resist
ing the bulldozing course of that mo-
nopoly has been sustained by public
sentiment His exhaustive explana-
ton Of the question in his annual re-
port convinced every fair-minded read
er of the wisdom and prudence that
governed his action. "59 @at
The passage of the Post-office Appro-
priations bill in the House of Repre-
sentatives is a striking vindication Of
the course pursued by Mr.. Villas. The
| wise discretion he had exercised was
| eloquently explained by Messrs. Hol-
man and Randall. That remarkable
specimen of New Jersey statesman
ship, William Walter Phelps, made a
most amusing misstatement of the
question between Mr.. Villas and the
subsidy grabbers, bringing in entirely
irrelevant subjects, from the Presiden-
tial succession to the silver question.
He made no effort to explain away the
discretionary power left to the Post
master-G General by the very bill about
which he talked SO glibly and he was
suggestively silent on the des-
perate efforts made by the sub
sidy lobby and the manipulation
of the Conference Committee. The
Pacific Mail Company was evidently
disheartened this time and abandoned
the field to Mr.. Phelps, who was any
thing but comfortable in his isolation.
The subsidy lobby in Washington have
discovered that this is not the kind Of
Administration calculated to give them
! any consolation and that the temper Of
the House was decidedly against them.
! Even Mr.. Bingham, of Pennsylvania,
was forced to acknowledge that the
Post-ofice bill without q subsidy was
the best reported in his experience as
a member of the House in period OF
\ eight years. 1t now remains to be seer
what disposition will be made Of the
! bill by the Senate. If that body at,
tempt to load it down with objection
able amendments it will find more op
position in the House than was encoun
tered last year.-Atbany argus.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-12
PRESIDENTIAL, SUPPORT,

There Has Been Nothing In the Present
Administration to Drive the People
From lt-Mr. Cleveland VIII Not Trim.
Were the President as versatile in
making political changes of base as the
correspondents and other. interested
parties are in making them ifog him,
he would not have time to give that
assiduousI attention to the great inter-,
ests of the country, that has 50 con.
spicuously marked his very, successful
Administration. He has been recently
credited in some quarters, with put-
pose to pursue a ''poGcy' that would
s.unite the party" This idea il based
upon the assumption that certain Re-
publican gains in various city and town
elections Indicate division and disrup-
ton, and it is limited by some of the
malcontents, that unless Mr.. Cleveland
does something startling, and does i,
pretty soon, the next National House
Of Representatives will be wrested from
Democratic control. .,.y ID, .,......., ..s,
That is something for the Democrat.
ic party to guard against if possible.
But we do not believe that much as
the President would regret such re-
suit of the fall elections, he accepts the
responsibility for the danger, or, in
tends to do any sail-trimming or pipe.
laying to meet it,. He has conducted
the Administration with a strong hand,
| a wise brain and an honest heart. He
has shown the people, of the country
! that change Of Administration was
not thing to be dreaded, but some.
thing to be welcomed. He has proved
| that the great National trust. reposed in
him is as absolutely safe as it has been
under any Administration ever in
power. He has run the Government
with greater efficiency and economy
than any of his recent predecessors
He has been ready to correct errors
when he has made them, but when con
WINGED that he was right he has beer
as firm as the great monument tina
towers the giant structure Of the Cap
ital city: There is certainly nothing
in all this to disaffect the people O
drive his party from his support.-Bos
ton Statesman. }ae s., .#s...f 4. 49,. r..sl., 81,
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VOL. XLII.-NO. 1.
+ P,TA AND poiNT.

ia man can not get along in the
world! without q fair allowance Of
cheek There are times when q pre-
ponderance of chin will serve him as
we'll N. r Independent. --,.....,...-..,----,
Alta cheap restaurant: evil you
have a twenty-five cent dinner, sir, or a
thirty-fve cent one?" "What is the diff
ference between the two?" ''Ten cents.
sir. ~ Chicago Mail. ,s..t. pur-
"A lawyer of large experience and
some observation defines the art OF CIV
ilization as getting your neighbours
money out of his pocket and into. your
own without making yourself amenable
to the law.-M'Y. Telegram. = .,,,t -
A Washington correspondent who
refuses to share small bits of news With
his fellow-correspondent, is appropri-
ately called an item miser,-lP1i1esburgh
Telegraph.
.s--"What and When to Eat" is the
title of an. exchange. The "when'
never gave US any trouble in our eating,
but we have been compelled to do a
sight of diminishing after the ''what "
Burlington Hawkeye.e E.ai 1857 g fe.
The impudence of: these poets is
alarming. One of them has the cheek
to complain because the Chicago 1rib-
me misplaced part Of his poem, get
ting it under the head of 1.-The Pork
Market. "-Teras Syttngs.
A black cat, we are told, brings
good luck. "A man at Pinedale who
owned "a black cat for nine years had
such good luck that he spent the last
years of his life in idleness and had lltis
board paid by the county. He died in
the almshouse.- No1Tisto,on Herald. g,,e
Female Reinsurance agents ought
| to do good business. Almost any man
would be impressed with the uncertainty
of life when one of them began to talk.
aud, if he had any prudence whatever,
would insure himself right away against
immediate Some'Utlte Jour.
| nat. .y 4set e. sE.s,asf.i. ~ ri 7;1--
! -Edith-Aunt Hannah, there's some-
thing can't understand. You are al
| ways talking about Mrs, B. and yet you
continue to call on her once or twice a
week. Aunt Hannah--Ofeourse, Edith.
You wouldn't have me for ever repeat
ing the same things against her, 1only
! call upon her to get fresh evidence OF
her disagreeableness.-N. 2. Telegram
Yes, my son, it is true that molasses
catches more flies than doth vinegar,
But it is also true that as a rule you
don't want to catch flies; you want to
| drive them away. Argyll; don't smear
Yourself with molasses when YOU are LA
BILE to be exposed to flies. There is only
one kind of flies you want to catch, and
| molasses isn't sweet enough nor sticky
enough for that. Time flies, my son;
! time flies.-Burdette. -rrat %Giajo. f,'01
1 civilian, dear. Mrs. Smith has never
received that letter Of mine which gave
| you to mail a month ago. You posted
4 L, didn't your" d1."Why;3 OF course, I
did, my love-" II And far down insthe
most sulphurous corner of the internal
regions a, chorus, Of red-legged fiends
blew pman Of joy on B-aat comets as
they heated to incandescence q brim-
tone pit labelled Reserved for William
w. Jones. IN. Y. Herald. iii.
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Electric Rat Cremation.

A rat, while attempting to escape from
human enemies in the electric light
station in Reading, Pa, a few weeks
ago, jumped directly to the floor on to
one of the brushes and was thrown back
to the ground. He lay motionless, APP
parently and certainly dead, but with
out even hair burned. One of the EN-
ployes was sent with shovel to gather
It up, but as soon astthe shovel touched
it the rat fell to dust, with little cloud
of particles rising from the place where
its body had seemingly lain. There was
no vestige of hair, flesh or bones res
manning. tits not generally known,
probably. that Prof. Wood, Of the Fuller
Wood american Electric) Company,
cremated rat by electricity some foul
years ago-Electrieal RevseD,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-12
CHINESE, THEATERS.

The Peculiarities Of One of the Oldest In
ID, stitutions of the Celestial Empire, re-
In China, where every thing is old,
the stage is one of the Oldest and most
popular Of Institutions. It is recognized
as moral agency, and it is kept from
backsliding by edicts the most rigorous
in intention, the most respectable in
quality;. its drama fills some thousands,
of volumes; it has its laws, its, conyen-'
tons, its traditions, its genres, its type,
for all the world like the great theaters
of the West. AS in Japan to-day, as in
seventeenth-century France and jacob
can England, its servants are outcasts
and celebrities at, once. 1t, is the
thing for high-toned Mandarlns
and persons OF consideration
to have lighthouses of their own Gas
was the fashion in France of Pompadour
and Nine. de Maine) and to treat their
guests to after-dinner performances by
companies specially engaged; while as for
stroIlers playing for, the million, the
Flowery Land may fairly be said to
iI0cIl WIFI Gucll. IL COolo usuio VI nun
ing to manage travelling theater, we
are told.d Given a few boards, bamboos
for columns, mats for matching, Q
painted cloth or, two for wings and
background, as many benches as your
space will hold, and by the ways:de, or
in corner of the city square, the
house can be run up in "a couple OF
hours. The denlzens of the
quarter subscribe; the local Man
DARN assists, and straightway
the theater., is in full working order.
Costumes, scenery, appointments--to
all these luxuries the Chinese is pro-
foundry Indifferent He asks no more
than good play and half dozen ac-
tors; that much is enough for him.
He has, says General Tcheng, the true
sentiment of the stage, the right play
goer's instinct and capacity; he is in
terested not in spectacle, but in drama
| and in histrionics; he supplies the nee.
essary Illusion from within, and to him
those, European theaters, where moth
ling has been forgotten save the acting
and the play, would seem a WEAKNESS
and a ckery.-saturday Reutew.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-12
THE HOUSE, IN 1883.
A Forecast Of the Result Of tho Next,
Congressional Elections.

+ Under ordinary circumstances the
majority Of the House Of Representa-!
tives will be Democratic, as it has been
at every election since 1872, save one,
and as it would then. have been had
the districts been arranged as they
now are in the several States. s.,4-..,-.-,
During this time the Southern States
have sent at each election practically
the same number of Democratic Repre-
sentatives;a except that the Missouri
Democrats in 1880 lost several districts
through q Greenback-Republican al
lance. Decided political, changes
have been confined mainly to the,
Northern States, and the disastrous ef.
fects were felt only by Republicans.
The Democrats, sure of more than one
hundred Southern members without
any considerable expense Of time OK.
money, found it no very difficult mat
ter to secure a sufficient number from
the Northern States to give them ma
jority, which, in such Years as 1874
and 1882, ran we'll into the seventies. Z
The present House has 1874 Democrat.
10 members, of whom l08 are from the
South, 80 from the East and A from
the West, considering all the late slave
States the South, New England. New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
the East, and the rest of the States the
West. The dividing line between par
ties runs now-as it. has for years
East and West, the Democrats carry.
ing the House because their members
from the North outnumber the Repub.
lican members from the South. For
| merly this same line was drawn in. all
important votes in Congress. Latter.
ly, however, and especially now, the
line is purely imaginary, and, if drawn
at all, IS rather North and South than
East and West, thus tending to divide
both parties, instead of welding togeth-
er the discordant elements in each.
| It is this fact which makes sagacioua
politicians of both parties ,apprehensive
of the result of the coming Congress.
sional elections. Democrats suffer
from no monopoly of the prevailing
uneasiness. However serious the dis
satisfaction may be in the Democratic
party, Republicans are no less oon'
cerned. The only consolation they
/ have lies in their confidence that fol
oace in this generation they are moi
the only party liable to be hit by q
! political cyclone. - WASHINGTON Post. ~
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Not a Politician.

There is not so much talk in political
circles as there was few weeks ago,
about the Presidents failure as a party
leader. The President was not poll.
tician, in the ordinary sense Of thu
word, before he entered the White
House, and he has not developed much
of the politicians talent since he has
been there. The management Of the
Government is to him a business mat.
ter. He would like to transact the at.
fairs of the people in the executive Of.
flee as he attended to the Interests of q
client in Buffalo before he became the
President of the United States. He
does not take to the dicker and trade
Of politics as practiced by many of the
gentlemen in Congress. The talk
about his want Of leadership originated
in two different quarters. 1t largely
came from men with whom he had re.
fused to enter into small political bar.
gains for their private benefit. This
is the trouble with many Of tho mem.
bers of Congress. They are uncertain
about their reelection. They are
plagued by importunate constituents,
who look. to them to secure consulshipa
and other fat places. They are both.
cred by competitors who are ready to
seize on every fact that can be used to
their disadvantage, and who carefully
stir up disafections against them al
home. They want the President to
turn over to them the patronage Of
their respective localities. The Presi.
dent will not do it, and his refusal il
called "a lack of leadership."-Boston
Herald. ,3 o. Z, s,s-s4 esf.,3?,. Be-
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THE LAWYERS WoOlNG.

Il have an Attachment for yon,";
The lawyer told Ethel one night, fS
"And for your affections, fSue- - .
MY Case is OF love at first sight. = -.
'And in my best Suit have come
To Court-but," the lawyer low spoke,
81 sit by your stove very dumb
And burn your pas Blackstone and Coke.
"My FOolscap wear like Ounce
haven't the courage to Plead,
And life will be Brief if this once
You don't take the viii for the Deed"
"Consider I've popped and Decide ~ ...
If you will Retain me or not;
o, Judge how lover is Tried
Who can not Appeal from his lot,
'Tm told, sir, you stand at the Bar a
And Cross Questions ask" said the maid,
sand make people Swear, and you are
Too Fee Bill to live, I'm afraid"
40, miss, I Object and take @-@'sz-..=
Exceptions 10 all that you say
A Motion to go / shall make
If You do not grant me Stay" D.
swell, then, I won't Witness you woe"
She said, land my words withdraw
III Try you be Cause, Sir, I know
Your need Of mother-in Law"
II. G. Dodge, in GoodaPs Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-12

The above programme, ngidlyadhered to
throughout the year. does not show that
the Kings bed is one of roses. One has,
little idea, unless told, as l have been,
of the manifold duties resting upon him.
There is brilliancy, no doubt, but it is
coupled with misery and unhappiness,
over which the ,shroud of secrecy hangs,
compared with which the .humblest cot
is a paradise. R. j. Mooney, IN Chicago
NeWs. .Er-- al
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"A San Francisco woman asks for a
divorce on the ground that her husband
dyed his hair with offensive and bad
odored compounds, Sap FrQncisos
Chronicle,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-12

Senator Edmunds feels that ha
is as great failure in leadership ~
Jones is at counting that Detroit girl
alta California,
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Oyster Finan ceS.

Comptroller Turner, in compliance with
an order, has submitted to the House 4 state.
ment of the receipts from oyster vessel licenses.
The report shows that for the last fiscal year
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license per ton, reaiiz d $40. 7o4 II. The tom
mage this year is less than that Of last year,
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1877 70. The revenue is far less than the ordi-
nary cost of the service. For 1885 the expenses
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10 s. the revenue will not exceed $25 900 or
$1,000, AMI there will be an annual deficit Of
$4,000. In compliance with an order passed
BY the House. Comptroller Turner has also
fur nished a statement Of the cost incurred in
the support of each Of the vessels and steamers
engaged in the State fishery force for the past
two years. The total cost foots up SlO6. &c.,
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