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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

Mr.. G. w. Batiell, q travelling
man. representing Messrs. S Collins
Son 81 Co., printing inks, after suffer-
ing intensely for two OF three days
with lameness of the shoulders and
back, completely cured it with two
applications of Chamherlain's Pain
Balm. 1t cures lameuess and rheu-
matism when all other treatment fails.
Guaranteed aud sold by Jacob Geiger'
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

-SUMMER has come and summer
good are needed. The finest Lawns,
Tarltens, Nainsooks, Cambrics and
Misins are to be had at Bauer and
Wells. Everybody knows where they
are located.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

Our Gents Furnishing Goods
Department will be found veil stock.
cd, aud for a really fine shirt give our
"paragou' a trial. Only one dollar
each. Bauer Il We'll.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

SERGE and Foxer Shoes.-Hav-
ing purchased in very large quantities
we will offer fine three thread serge
shoe at 80 cents pair. An unequal
I'd bargain. Bauer & We'll,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

AN endless variety Of Straw Hats
at Jonas Killers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18
M1 MIL 7 l 1zRsYz
F:uney Goods Store!
10 show the Ladies and Public VERY Low PRICES have
marked $4,000 stock of Goods, give the prices
goods, and few of the many
articles l have fer sale:
Dress Goods all kinds splendid line white
,, ~ Al,oyer Iuskng from so cents to IS
a : a at yard.
I5centja
Ucentsay
satens all and
Silver Lake Batste from 10 to 124
Cheese Cloth, o 4ccntsay
piece
Mosquito Bars. 100 inches, 3piy, $3.50
Towels
S!esa, all shades,
Book Muslin Wiggn
white 81 Ileton
P. D. CoRsETs, $500 to $500 EACH.

Cets D. Corset EACH French sacens 81 each
Conne Cosets $3.50 each. Cheaper Corsets for Ladies'
Also Corse for Misses and Children.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

No other business being submitted,
on motion the Board adjourned to
meet in regular session on Monday,
May 9TH, 1888, at 4 o'clock D. m.
THOS. CRAWLEY,
"A. b. RACIAL, Mayor
Secretary.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

On said day Of sale I will sell such por
tons of said property as each debtor will
point out, and in case the debtor shall not
point out sufficient property, ! will at
once and without delay sell the least
quantity of said property of any debtor
which any bidder will buy for the amount
of the taxes, interest and costs due by the
said debtor. The. sxle will be without
appraisenient, for cash in legal tender
money of the United States.
NJ. w. CALVIT,
Tax Collector of City of Alexandria, La.
April Is, 18S8-tds.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18
PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL

ALEXANDRIA, LA,
April 2, 1858. (
The City Council met this day at
o'clock p. III.
Present:
Ihos. Crawley, Mayor,
II. S. Gossens,
+. J. Sullivan,
N. L. McGinuis,
Jonas Rosentla.
Abscut-Jacob Irving.
The following ordinance being Of
fere,l, was, on motion, unanimously
BE it Ordained Ivy the Mayor and
Board Of Aldermen Of the City of
Alexandra, La, in regular session
convened, on this the I'd day of April,
\. ID. lSSS-That a tax of six ~
mills on the dollar be and is hereby
levied for Corporation purposes for the
year 1855, upon all taxable property,
real and personal, within the Corpora.
ton Of Alexandria, La.
Be it further ordained, etc, That this
Ordinance shall take effect from and
after its PRONUNCIATION.
THoS. CRAwLEY,
a. B. RACIAL, Mayor.
Secretary.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1888-04-18

10y VIRTUE IoF TIE AUTHORITY
~ vested III le4 by. tue Constitution and
laws of the a ssf 1 ,aisiana and Ordi-
names OF the of Alexandria, La, |
VIII sell ut 1lH gMay,ir;s olice, in which
the Mayors Cow Is he Il, within the le
gal hours tor lavRfal 81 ss, beginning at
~. 2GttNlay ofMAY. A n.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
Wise Men Change. Fools Don't,

1t is quite true as stated in the
Press that The TinleS earnestly oppos-
ed free wool in 1886. 1t did so because
in its sincere desile to support the
protection of our industries it follow
ed the united public uterances Of the
woolen manufacturers of that day.
1t was not until the Mills bill pro-
posed to make free wool and thus re-
peal tax of Al per cent. in the raw
materials of our wooden manufacturers
and reduce the tariff on woolens from
6S per cent. to 40 per cent. that the
woolen manufacturers began to whis-
per the truth and confess that free
wool is necessity to the success Of our
woolen industries.
The woolen manufacturers, as a
rule, concealed the truth and public
ly denied it to Congress and to the
country, because they feared that a
demand from them for free wool
would recoil upon them by the re-
moval of protection from woolen pro-
ducts
When the issue was renewed in the
present Congress The Times sought
information on the subject only from
Republican woolen manufacturers
and they, with one accord, confessed
that free wool was essential to thesuc-
cess Of our wooden industries and to
enable them to supply our home mar
ket but all, with like accord, refused
to let the truth go before the public a
coming from them, fearing retaliation
upon manufactured goods.
In like manner every Republican
iron manufacturer privately declared
that iron ores ought to be free, as for.
eign ores are necessity to multiply
the use OF our domestic ores, but in
like manner, they did not dare to say
SO publicly. The same answers came
from Republican cordage manufact
urers in favor of free hemp from Re
publican bituminous coal operators ir
favor Of free coal; from Republican
builders in favor of free lumber from
Republican tin dealers in favor of free
tin and all had sealed lips for the
public on the subject.
These Republican protectionists
speaking for their respective lines o
business, all sincerely desire free raw
materials, and all are terYorized int
silence because they fear the power o
monopoly trusts and combines Il
crush any honest industry that cross
es their path. Thus taught by on
legitimate industries the necessity TO
free wool and raw materials, tn
Times has the courage to state tn
truth and when the political necessi
ties OF the campaign are over, tn
manufacturers will themselves speal
out in accord with The Times to.da,
and thank it for its honesty and feal
lessness.
The Times is wise enough to be cor
WINGED of error and it is bold enoug
to change its views-two things tina
dependent party organs and fools nev
er attempt.-Philodelphid Times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
The E'HOme Market" Cry.

Now that the tariff is discussed on
every street corner and country store
there is renewal Of the protectionist
cry for "home MARKET" ave want
the horne Market" they say, and they
have "home market" clubs and socie-
ties to preach higher duties and pro-
test against lower tariff taxes.
A tariff duty is a tax. When a
"home market" protectionist demands
higher duty or opposes a lower he
simply asks that a taxshall be increas-
ed, or at least not diminished. II any
body who pays taxes likes it, and pre-
fers to pay more taxes rather shan less
that's his business, and he has right
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
4 UNIVERSITY FOR THE NEW SOUTH.
Technical and Scientific Edu-
cation, as we'll as Classical
and Literary.

The people of the South have always
been conservative in educational matters,
as in everything else. While we have
needed practically trained men to culti-
vate our neglected acres, open up our
mines and chain our water-powers to
machines for manufacturing our crude
products, our colleges have long clung
to the old classical curriculum and per-
sisted in educating boys in the methods
of dead era. The schools which filed
the South with race of orators, literary
men and politicians, scarcely ever
equalled, are not the schools to train the
great engineers, manufacturers and bust
ness men which we need to-day.
At last we see indications that the
school men are waking up to the de-
mands of the times and to their oppor-
tunities. A number of our colleges have
recently established schools of mechan-
ical engineering and laboratories of sci
ence, and we expect soon to see them all
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
BRIEF AND READABLE.
A Collection Of Paragraphs Taken
From Exchanges.

The Oxford English dictionary
shows that there are $4,000 words in
surrent use beginning with the letters
A. and B.
After an expenditure of three-quar-
ters of a million OF dollars for ma
chinery and prospecting, Egypt has
abandoned the search for petroleum.
There are about $4,000 commercial
travellers in the United States to-day,
and the old Bohemian, drinking type
IS also extinct. Keen competition has
done it.
The late Eugene Rimmel, the Lon.
pom periumer, was worth $100,000,000
The secret of his success was that
he devoted as much attention to
making scents as he did to making
dollars.
Ex-senator Fair, who gave $4,000
600 to his wife after she obtained hel
divorce, is said to spend a miserable
life with the millions he retained, in
consequence of his inability to obtain
reconciliation with her.
Every year writer's in this country
use or lose 1O0O00,00O steel pens
Comparatively few of these are i'm
ported now, and those who buy for
eign-made pens pay more and get 8
poorer article than if they bought the
American.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
THE LOCATION

of the University is unsurpassed for
healthfulness and beauty. It is in the
mountains, at Knoxville, and eleven hun
dred feet above the sea. Its ten large
buildings are located in a beautiful
campus of fifty acres, covering a high
hill, and command beautiful view of
the valley of the Tennessee river from
the Smokes to the Cumberland noun
tains. The drainage and sanitary condi-
tions are as perfect as can be.
THE DISCIPLINE
is OIL the military plan, and is strict and
thorough. The drill, which is not al
lowed to take up too much time, is
excellent exercise for growing boys. The
dress coat corresponds exactly to the
West Point dress coat, and consists of a
trim, swallow tailed coat of gray cloth
braided and decorated with the bright,
round brass buttons, which all girls are
said to love so we'll.
THREE NEW BUILDINGS
have been erected recently. The old
buildings, containing the chapel, library.
lecture rooms ofth literary department,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

scientific educatioa; and, thirdly, to
establish better system of government.
They commenced by clccting DR.. Charles
w. Dabney, j., then Director of the
North Carolina Experiment Station,
President of the University, and giving
him the power TO propose measures and
nominate men.
After the different schools were fixed,
specialists were sought for to take
charge of them regardless of whence
they came, their politics, church, family
or anything, except character and the
illness to do the special work,
The Faculty is now complete. 1t is
omposed of eighteen Professors and
Instructors, selected from all the leading
Universities and many of the States, from
Maine to Mississippi. Our space will
not suffice to name them, but each Pro-
fessor is an eminent specialist of cstab-
i.shed reputation.
There are seven courses of study
adapted to the times, as follows Course
in General Sciences, Course in Latin
aud Sciences. Course in Agriculture, and
Course in Civil Engineering, Mechan.
ical Engineering Chemistry aud Mining
Engineering each.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
A Beautiful Seal Skin Cloak

is a becoming garment to a lady. II
she has an elastic step, an air OF grace
and modesty, and the glow of health
on her cheek, she will always COM
maud admiration. Without these,
no woman can appear to advantage.
With sickly countenance, painful
gait, and listless air, she is an object
of pity. How many American wo-
men daily drag out wretched exist
ence, ignorant of the blessing of per-
feet health! All her weaknesses can
be cured by DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription, the great specific for prolap-
sus, leucorrhea, liberation and unnat-
ural discharges. The only medicine
sold by druggists, under a positive
guarantee of giving satisfaction, OF
money refunded. Read guarantee
printed on its wrapper.
DR.. Pierce's Pellets, or Anti-bill0u'
Granules; in vials, % cents; one {
dose.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
ESon'G Experiment.

You cannot afford to waste time in
experimenting when your lungs are
in danger. Consumption always
seems, at first only a cold. Do not
permit any dealer to impose upon you
with some cheap imitation of DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and colds, but be sure
You get the genuine. Because he can
make more profit he may tell you he
has something just as good, or just
the same. Don't be deceived, but in
sist upon getting DIR. Kings New Dis
covery, which is guaranteed to give
relief in all Throat, Lung and Chest
affections. Trial bottles free at DR..
MeFerrin's Drug Store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

reading room, society halls, dormitories,
etc, have been thoroughly repaired.
The Stewards Hall has beeu re arrang-
ed and furnished with the most improv-
ed cooking apparatus.
The new Agricultural and Natural His
tory building (see engraving) will be oc-
cupied by the schools of Agriculture, Bot
any, Biology and Zoology. The instru-
ments and apparatus for these laborato-
ries have becn1purchased by represent
ativc of the university in Germany. The
Tennessee Agricultural Experimental
Station, established here by the Govern
ment, adds many scientific attractions.
The new building of the Mechanical
Department is eighty-fve feet, with a
wing for boiler-house and forge shops.
The building will be completely equipped
with boiler, engine, forges, machine
tools, benches, drawing tables, etc,
ADMISSION.
The University of Tennessee Is open
to all young men who are properly pre-
pared, can show a good character and
are over IS years of age. State students
can get appointments up to certain
number, from each county, district, and
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

world Of any consequence, except the
United States, has wool on the free
list.
The position that the republican
party has taken makes il well for the
country, as it seems to me that it
should not have the control OF the
government for the next four years
ARTHUR II. LYMAN.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

march up abreast with Southern i'm
provemelt in other departments.
The University of Tennessee has un-
dergone a great revolution in this
respect, one which places it at once in
the front rank, if not ahead of, other
Southern colleges. The opening at this
Universe of extensive, independent
Laboratories for Biology, Botany and Me-
chanicil ~, .:neeriny, each splendidly
equippe with the b It apparatus and
machine AL directed ly skilled special
lists, ila.A, a change which is gratifying
A, NEW FACULTY.
The Boari of Trustees of the Univer.
sity of Tennessee started to work on 6
new plan about year ago and have noW
completely recognized their Faculty
Their leading ideas appear to have been
First, to make the institution a State
University in fact, as we'll as i'll name, tc
delocalizc it and make it an institution
which all the people Of Tennessee could
feel was their own, University for Wes'
Tennessee and Middle Tennessee just a:
much as for East Tennessee; secondly
to introduce, in compliance with the
laws establishing it, more technical anc
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

city in the State; each Representative
can appoint three and each Senator two
young men from their county or district
to cadet-ships. County and City Super
intendents Of Public Schools are requir-
ed to examine and recommend candi-
dates. The President of the University
is also authorized to appoint worthy
young men. Those interested should
address the President at Knoxville, Tenn.
EXPENSES.
Students holding the appointments
pay no registration or tuition fees; for
other students and students from beyond
the confines of the State, the fees amount
to $1,000 for each term.
The total expense of State student
boarding at the Stewards Hall for q fEili
session of ten months need not exceed
$1,000; this includes everything that he
needs. For students living in the. pri-
vate mess $4,000 is enough; for students
paying fees, $4,000 for ten mouths.
The next session begins the first Thurs
day in September; entrance examina-
tions on the Monday previous. There Is
every Indication that It will be prosper
GUS and successful year.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

According to a girl at Long Branch
the following is sure receipt for an
awiully good time: Take an old
horse and blackboard, invite two 9th.
er girls, dress up in striking costume
and drive back into the country tc
some quit village and paint the town
red" The latter consists in such wild
revelry as ra;ding ice cream saloons
getting pictures taken, singlino glees
in the streets, driving recklessly ant
mystifylng people with absurd ques
tons.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Gergia railroad company on the 10th
let one Of the largest contracts for cars
that has ever been given to one firm
by any Southern road The contract
is for three hundred fiat and coal cars,
and was awarded to the Southern car
works, at Chattanooga. The Times
says the contract does not specify the
time the cars are to be delivered, but
it will probably be within Stwelve
months.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
Very respectfully yours,
G. III. DEMPWoLF,
your reader
York, Pa July 16, 1888

York, Pa, July 16, 1888.
Our people usually get their for
eign sugars cheaper than do the con-
tries from which it is imported to us
for the reason that it is heavily taxed
at home and that tax is rebated on
export sugars. If we made sugars
II we made sugar free, France, Ger
many and Spain would impose the
tax on exported sugar, and it would
destroy our sugar growers without
benefting consumers.-ED TINES
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02

The new clock just placed in the tow
Of the Glasgow University is tremen.
dious affair The main wheels OF the
striking and quarter trains are twenty
inches in diameter. The weight of
the hammer that strikes the hour is
100 pounds, and is lifted ten inches.
There is an automatic apparatus at
tached to the clock which stops the
quarter peals at night aud starts them
in the morning. The penduem is Of
zinc and iron, to counternct infuen.
ceso tempture. The bob Of the pen
dulum is cylindrical and Weighs 30OC
pounds, and the beat is one and 3
half seconds.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
;. S. SIEGER.
Bethlehem, July 19, 1888.

Rice and sugar are important home
industries and are almost wholly labor
in their production, while wool en-
ploys practically no labor. The pre-
sent tax on cleaned rice is 113 per
cent, and the Mills bill reduces it to
96 per cent, The present tax on su-
gar is "a per cent, and the Mills bill
reduces it to GO per cent. Rice and
sugar are protected just as potatoes
are protected in both the present tar
if and the Mills bill, because labor en-
ters largely into their production. i
Ed TIMES.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
j. S. BOYER,
1112 South Fifteenth street,

The present average tax on wool
en- goods is 6S per cent. The Mills
bill admits the raw materialsfree (now
taxed Al per cent) and reduces the
tax on woolens to 40 per cent.-ED
TIMES.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
The Wool Issue in a Nutshell.

Ine WOOL issue IN u NutSheIl'
The Chicago Tribune, the ablest re-
publican journal of the West and
supporter of Harrison, in an editorial
commencing the action of the House
in sustaining free wool, thus clearly
presents the whole question in II anut-
shell:
The present average protection on
wooden manufactures is 6S per cent,
while on raw wool they have to pay
but Al per cent, the manufacturers
actual protection being the difference
between 68 and 41per cent-27 per cent
But the Mills bill, while it puts raw
wool on the free list, advances the ay-
erage duty on manufactured woolens
from 27 to 40 per cent, and thus gives
the manufacturers 13 per cent more
protection than they have under the
present law.
This is the reason the woolen man
ufacturers, while protesting as in duty
bound against the lowering OF any
tariff duties, gave the wink to the
Democratic Congressmen to put wool
on the free list. If the wooden manu-
facturers had been opposed to the free
wool provision and had attacked it
with their united strength it would
have been crushed under heavy adj
verse majority.
There is not wooden manufactur-
er in the United States who does not
know that the Mills bill, with free
wool, gives our woolen industries vast
ly better protection than the present
tariff that extortionately taxes con.
sumers without protecting either cap
ital or labor.
There is not Il wooden manufacturer
in the United States who does know
that with the Mills bill substituted for
the present tariff, the woDlen Indus
try would at once supply our whole
home market, instead OF allowing
Europe to supply within small frac-
ton OF one of the woolens we consume.
There is not a wooden manufacturer
in the United States who does not
know that, with the Mills bill law,
our woolen employers would double
their employment of home labor /;
pay labor better wages pay larger
profits to capital, and relieve the wool
en- consumers of the country-which
embrace the whole people-of at least
$120,000,000 annually for the necessa.
ries of life.
There is not an intelligent citizen in
the United States who does not know
that there is practically no labor in
sheep-growing, while the cost of the
manufacture of woolens is larger Ia
bor, There is no protection to labor
in taxing wool, while there is positive
and practical protection to labor il
taxing woolens; but they should moi
be taxed 68 per cent. and then give
Europe half the labor Of their produc
tion as is the case under the presen
. tariff.
The people want protection 70
, home labor and they will gladly pro
tect the woolen industries to enable i
to supply its entire home market ant
pay liberal wages to labor; but the,
. will not tax themselves % per cent
: extra to protect wool that is not tn
product OF labor and at the same tim
!, give European mills and foreign la
? Dor one'half our home market 70
woolens.
The Republican oracle of the Yves
v states the wool issue in nutshell
n Who will dispute it?-Philade1phi,
n Times.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
The Tax on WOOlens.
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
In the fifth paragraph OF your artic
ls headed Tariff Correction, you say
"Our people are taxed about 60 pei
cent, for their woolen goods" Please
say what the tax would be under the
Mills bill, and oblige
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
Rice, Sugar and Wool.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Why should wool be free and high
tariff on rice and sugar? Please an
swer in the Times of Saturday.
Yours, etc,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
The Duty on Sugar.
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To IIIV EuIVUI UI He IIHES.
Can you give more satisfactory
explanation than that Of Speaker
Carlisle, reprinted in last Saturday s
Times, why it is proposed in the Mills
bill to retain the duty on sugar.
Your answer will oblige number Of
your readers.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
Are Potatoes Free.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Is it true that the Mills bill repeals
the duty on foreign potatoes? 1t is so
stated by some OF our politicians.
Yours. etc.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-08-02
JOHN JACOBS
YOnrS.R ct

JOHN JACOBS.
Philadelphia, July 20, 1883.
mo. The Mills bill does not change
the present tariff Of Is cents per bush.
el on foreign potatoes. 1t has not re.
duced tariff duties on any important
agricultural products beyond rice and
sugar.-ED TIMES.