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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

THH most potent remedies for the cure Of
disease have been discovered by accident
The first dose Of DIR. Shallenberger's Anti
dote for Malaria was given, as an expert
mont to IN old lady almost dying from the
effects Of Malaria, on whom Quinine acted
~ . poison. One d0ss cured her; and .
single dose has cured thousands since. It
IL the only known Antidote for the poison
Of Malaria Sold by Druggists.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

There are several cogent reasons why the
medical profession recommend and the pub
above the ordinary cathartlcs. It does not
dreuch and weaken the bowels, but assists
rather than forces nature to act; it is botan-
ic and safe; its action is never preceded by
an internal earthquake like that produced
by . drastic purgative. For thirty-five
years past 1t has been household remedy
for liver, stomach and kidney troubles,
malaria and rheumatism.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

A CHINESE leper was discovered In the
Sacramento Jail recently. He had been
sent there from Folsom for refusing to pay
poll tai.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

Oregon, the Paradise Of Farmers.
Mild, eQuahle climate, certain and abundant
In the world. Fuiiinformation free. Address
Oregon Immigration Board, Portland, Oregon
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

AMoHe the degrees conferred by Prince
ton College ut its recent commencement
was that Of Doctor Of Laws upon President
Harrison
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

THB cultivation Of pineapples 10 rapidly
extending TO Southern Florida One grower
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

"A gorilla in the Bombay geological
gardens takes q bar of iron two
inches thick and bends it double in his
hands, and with one bite of his teeth
he shivers mahogany knot into match
wood
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

II has been found necessary to turn the
City Hall ct Walla Walla, W. r., into tenn
porsry home for immigrants, the rush int
the Territory II 20 great
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

BEAUTY married by bad complexion may
be restored by Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hif's Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

IT is no longer necessary to take blue pills
to rouse the liver to action. Carriers Little
Liver Pills are much better. Don't forget this.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

TIE Indiana Supreme Court lately decid-
ed that shaving on Sunday Is not work e
necessity.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

For Constipation or Sick Headache, use
Dr.; Pierce's Pellets; Purely vegeta BILE. One
dose.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

THRRB il plan on foot to erect in New
York great mausoleum capable Of holding
the remains Of 5000 people.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

RRADY-MADE underclothing can be bought
today for about the price Of making it
twenty years ago.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

TIM highest ambition Of . Chinaman ID
10 have . nice cofin and . ine funeral.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

Wa recommend ''Tansilrs Punch'' Cigar.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21
a Fair Trial

OF Hoods earsapAriIla will convince any reason
able pers0n that It does possess great medicinal
merit We do not claim that every bottle will 80
comp1ish miracle. but We do know that nearly ev-
cry bottle. taken according to directions. does pro-
duce positive be- ent Its peculiar curative power
10 shown By many remarkable cures.
II was run down from close application 70 WORK,
but Wa told had malaria and was dossd with
Quinine ETC.. which was useless decided 70 take
Hoods Ssrsaparilln and am now feeling strong and
cheerful feel satisned u will benent any who
dive IL . fair trial." w. b. BEAMsH. "a Spring
Street, New York City.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold BY ali druggists. q; six for g. Prepared only
By @. HOOD CO.. lowell. Mass.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21
Our Girls.
Kitty 4 witty.
Latte Is cute and smsn;
Irene 10 . queen.
Dianthe is wealthy.
-. bertha is healthy.

xetIccs neatn Keeps her rosy And "a
diant. beautiful and blooming, sensible and
sweet It ID secured by wholesome habits
and the use OF DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
s'taies the cake" The only guaranteed cure
for those distressing ailments peculiar to
women Satisfaction or your money re-
turned.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-09-21

TO step across the street to the Office of
Esquire Williams. We obeyed the re-
quest. and were at once served with q
warrant charging US with keeping
bales Of hay on the sidewalk in front
of the Kicker Office to the detriment of
pedestrians. As is we'll known, we
run grocery. feed store. harness shop.
bazaar and music house in connection
with the Kicker, and the hay was out
for sign. We were tried. convicted
and fined nine dollars-the grossest
outrage ever perpetrated in the name
Of law. We shall bide our time. That
is. we shall begin next week and show
Squire Williams up as drunkard.
dead-beat, absconder. embezzler and
perjurer, and if we can't drive him out
of the country in six weeks we will
forfeit lung. The man who made the
complaint did it to get even with us
for refusing to lend him our only but
, ton-behind shirt. From this out he Is
marked man. We will begin on him
next week. and we'll bet ten to one he
hangs himself inside of . mouth
Detroit Free Press
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02
No. OF pairs Tot'l No. ofbirdS
ears. Breeding. Resulting

According to this computation venerable
| pair of sparrows, might, on the occasion of
their tin wedding, call about the family altar
more than two hundred and seventy. five bill
lions of children and grand children. Is it
any wonder that these little fighters domi-
nate our streets and lanes?
Now what of the character of this nation
dominating bird? The government scien-
lists find that it is very bad. The weight of
testimony is overwhelmingly in support of
the assertions that he Is q fierce and impla-
cable foe of the native birds and finally that
he is of little account as an insect DESTROYER.
because he is not an habitual insect eater
and seldom causes any appreciable diminu
ton in the numbers of any species of inju-
rious insect. The government ornithologists
view the bird as serious pest. and recon-
mend the repeal of all laws affording protec-
tion to the sparrows, the enactment of laws
legalizing the Killing of them at all times,
the punishment by fine of all persons
found feeding or sheltering them,
the enactment of laws protecting the
Great Northern shrike, or Butcher bird, the
sparrow hawk and the scr-e,h owl, birds
that frey upon the sparrow; and the ap-
puintment of officers whose particular duty
1t shall be TO destroy the sparrows in cities
aud villages where firearms cannot be used.
Several States have moved against the spar
rows Michigan pays bounty OF cent
head; New York makes it misdemeanor to
give them aid or COMFORT; and the govern
ment ornithologist enumerates Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio as STATES wlere the laws
give them mo protection. He might have
enumerated also Maine, where by the bill in
troduced by Senator Libby and passed by
the last Legislature, the English sparrow
was stricken from the list of protected birds.
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

Delagoa Bay is the most important harbor
on the east coast of Africa. 1t lies directly
east OF Pretoria. Some time ago a syndicate
OF English and American capitalists project
ed railroad between these two points, and
as large part of the line would run through
Portuguese territory it became necessary to
get concession from that government.
This was obtained, and the building of the
road begun. All but four miles have been
completed, and now suddenly Portugal re-
vokeS the concession and seizes the railroad.
Portugal attempts to justify the act on the
ground that the syndicate has not fulfilled
all the conditions, though its precise delin-
quencies are not specified. Inasmuch as
the road has been built entirely with the
money of the syndicate. and the Portuguese
government has not contributed cent the
act OF the latter looks little better than steal
ing. The syndicate has appealed to the
English government. aud the affair mas be-
come the subject of diplomatic correspon-
dence between Great Britain and Portugal
British war vessel has been sent to the
Bay, and very likely an American vessel will
go too.
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02
COPARTNERsHIP NOTICES.
COparfnership Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that Seth G. Dyer re-
~ tires from the firm Of s. G. Dyer & Co. from
this date. SETH @. DYER
JAMES Il. MARRETT
JAMES III. DYER.
The undersigned will continue the business of
the late firm under the firm name OF s. O. Dyer &
Co. JAMES Il. MARRETT.
JAMES ii. DYER.
Portland, July l, 1885, jy1dlws
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

The English Sparrow and HIS FOES.
The little English sparrow, passer dOmes-
hcus as the scientists call him, has fairly
earned the renown of being the Cossack
of the bird kingdom. No bird ever received
so much notice. About two years ago the
PRESS chronicled his conquest of Maine
from Kittery to Fort Kent; last winter the
grave and reverend Senate of tire State sat
In judgment of his crimes, and decided
against him and now the Secretary of Agri-
culture, who is called Uncle Jerry and is
therefore presumably kind-hearted and
friendly to all decent birds, issues q big
book of nearly 400 pages in which many bad
things and very few good things are said of
the sparrow. All the facts which the scien-
fists of Uncle Jerry's department have been
able to find out, show that the little fellow
is as smart and enterprising as he is wicked.
In only one respect has he ever given his en-
emies an opportunity to call him slow. He
was late in arriving in this country,
not coming until 1850, when most other En-
glsh institutions had become fully estab-
lished. The first colony came to Brooklyn,
but the second came to our own city in 1854.
The pdSSer dOneSticus was at first an honor
ed guest, and was treated much as English
lords are treated nowadays on our shores
This being great continent he was rare
guest and was honored as such
for about twenty years, until 1870. Then
his kind began to be more numerous, and it
gradually dawned upon the American people
that the English sparrow had embarked on
such scheme of continental conquest as
bird never attempted before. The bounds
of his conquests have been approximately
measured by the scientists of the agricul-
tural department, and they give them to US
as follows:
From 1870 to 1875 the sparrow tribe spread
over 500 square miles.
From 1875 to1s8oit spread over $40 square
miles
In The year 1886 it spread over 5lG,5oo square
In The total Of 10 years it spread over total o
more than million square miles.
In the last year iof which the scientists
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

In an editorial paragraph in yesterdays
hennebec Journal the Hon. John L., Stevens
recently appointed minister to Hawaii, an
nounees that his connection with that paper
Is closed Mr.. Stevens first became connect.
ed with the paper in 1855 and for fourteen
years thereafter. during the cventful period
oil the war. was at the helm. His last con-
nectlon dates from 1887. Mr. Steyens's with
drawal will be severe loss to the paper.
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

have record, the year 1886, the sparrow had
established his lordly domination in thirty
five States and ten territories. The extent
of this conquest is simply amazing at FIRST
sight. but ceases to be so when the scientists
tell of the other amazing things they have
found out abont the sparrow. The fecundi-
ty of these birds is astounding. 1t is no I'M
usual thing in the latitude of New York for
single pair of sparrows to rear twenty or
thirty young in the course of year. The
tremendous possibilities that may result
from such fecundity is shown by this reca-
pitulation Of the government scientists:
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

A residence in Hayli at the present time
eau hardly be pleasant or profitable. In ac-
cepting ,the Office of consul general of the
United States in that republic, we should
'ay that the Hon. Frederick Douglass had
conferred favor upon his country rather
than received one
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

The Impression which has gone out that
the Governor has pardoned DR.. Irish, Lew
iston rumseller whom Judge Foster sentenced
to six months imprisonment, is erroneous.
The council recommended II pardon, but the
Governor has not yet granted it. A strong
protest will 90 from Lewiston against the
proposed clemency. The matter was dis
cussel at temperance meeting in that city
Sunday sn1 the general feeling was voiced
by Mr. n III. Pulsifer, who contended that
lrlShs sentence was not excessive aud that
his pardon would be "a great mistake and
injury to the enforcement of the law"
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

How the Charleston jury arrived at the
conclusion that Dr. Mellow, who shot Capt.
Dawson of the Charleston News, was not
guilty OF murder it is difficult to imagine.
To be sure Mellow claimed that the shooting
was done in self defense, but the testimony
10 support of this theory was exceedingly
ninisy. The colored people of Charleston were
very strongly prejudced against Dawson on
account OF some articles which he wrote for
his newspaper in relation to them, and per-
maps therefore the colored half of the Jury
gave more credence to McDoN's story than
they otherwise would have done. But the
white half wee unprejudiced, yet they Joined
In the verdict. At this distance McDow,s
arqnittal appears like very serious miscar-
riage of justice.
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02
THE PRESS.
ESDAy MORNING. july ..

We do not read anonymous letters and commu
nlcations. The name and address of the writer
are III all eases Indispensable not necessarily for
pnollca'lon but as guarantee Of good faith.
we cannot undertake Ia return or preserve
caninnniea inns thar are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02

1t seems a little odd that there should be
any difference of opinion as to the .ropriety
OF police officers making raid upon rumshops
IN this State and Selling liquor therein. We
had supposed that nobody questioned the
propriety of such action under our law. but
that the only difference of opinion was about
the wisdom of the law itself. The fact
however. is otherwise. The other day the
Bangor notice began to make seizures at the
Bangor LIQUOR shops, and the Wing spoke
words OF approval. Whcreupon the Com
mercal takes the ground that these words
OF approval are equivalent to an impeacb-
ment of the intelligence of New Hampshire,
Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. That is
because the majority of the people of those
States did not believe in Incorporating pro-
hiDitlon in tho constitution it is an affront
to their intelligence to commend Maine
officer for enforcing a law enacted by the
legislature Of Maine. The Commercial is
not often guilty of talking such nonsense
as that.
The Portland daily press., 1889-07-02


While the positions held by the different
commands of the Union army at Gettysburg
are now nearly all marked, so it is possible
to determine almost the exact spot where
each regiment fought in that great contest,
no attempt has yet been made to mark the
Confederate lines. and the visitor must de-
pend entirely upon his imagination to locate
them. 1t is historically of great Importance
that this defect be remedied before it is too
late Reliance upon Confederate officers or
soldiers to do this work would be almost use-
less, for the veteran organizations have not
been kept up in the South, and there could
be no concert of action, and the officers are
scattered all over the world If the work is
to be done at all it must be done by Col.
John Is. Bachelor, the historian of the bat
tie, who alone possesses the necessary data.
Col Bachelor began to sketch the battlefield
while the dead were lying on it, and on his
drawing wounded Confederate soldiers in
the hospital marked the positions of the COM
mands to which they belonged before the
scene had faded from their memories Col.
Bachelor believes he can accomplish the
work, but it will involve the expenditure of
great deal of time and labor, and therefore
be attended with considerable expense. If
done at all it must be done soon, for Col.
Bachelors age admonishes him that there
are not many years of active labor before
him. He has frequently been urged by
prominent officers who participated in the
battle to apply to Congress for an appropri-
alton for this work, but has been unwilling to
act except with the approval OF practically
all the surviving officers of the Union army.
He has now addressed to these officers cir
cular setting forth the above: facts, and ask
Ing their opinion as to the propriety of seek
ing aid from Congress. As far as received
the replies are unanimously in favor of the
application.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-10
Ca''le Flashes.

TuE health Of John B light, the English
Statesman, continues to improve.
Mn GLADSTONE says he can quote from
memory any page of Homer OF which the
frat line is given 20 him.
QUEENSLAND has the richest mine in
the world and the sole owner has been
offered $19,O00,ooO for it.
ST PETERSBURG Two Italian engineer
Off lers, dtsa ui-ed a. stone masons, have
been arrested az Ivan Corod. Plans of
Russian fortresses were found in their
possession.
BFLoRADE, -Four Radical members CT
the Chamber OF Deputies have been ar
rested on suspicion of being implicated
in a conspiracy against King Milan.
THs King OF Italy, In New Tears ad
DIRE. s. expressed the opinion that the
peace of Europe is assured for the year
1889.
THE City of Mexico ia full of tramps,
and the anti American papers satiricslly
refer to them as "prominent Americans
visiting the Capital"
THERE are one hundred and twenty
priests who have signed a protest against
the i'm prisonment OF Father Kennedy,
found guilty of attending suppressed
meetings of branches of the Irish Nation
al league.
DuRLIS --Peasants IN the vicinity of
DsntenaRhy aud Farakalgh have armed
themselves, fortified their houses, des-
troyed byidgee, and blocked roads IN
readiness 70 resist evictions which will
DO attempted 10 morrow. The Police on
6uty IA the region marcn with difficulty,
and the appearance OF the DISTRICTS that
OF a country where var is going on.
commissary wagon was lost to-day while
crossing temporary bridge.
QUEENSTOWN. Kuhn, who was arrested
on the Steamer Lord Cough, when she
reached here from Philadelphia, on the
charge of having murdered William
Christen in Pfimrose, Wis, was arraigned
before She Queenstown magistrate to day.
The prisoner deele red that he knew moth
ing OF the murder and said he did not
,bieot TO returning TO Wisconsin, but he
fought his arrest WAS al unmerited
sgraGe He was not fleeing from jus
lice, bat was opeuly reiurning 10 his
country. He is native of Langenthai,
Switzerland. He was remanded pending
the production OF proof sufficient TO war
rant his extraditiou.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-10
News in SSriei.

SMALLPOX has brokeo out at Howell,
Mich, and business is entirely sus-
pended
BosroN sent $1,000 worth of Christ
mas gifts to Ireland, nearly all coutribu-
ted 10y the servant girls.
Francis Murray pursuade1 over 5000
peop'e in indianapolis to take the pledge
IN one month.
A LONDON paper says there are still
twenty three islands in the Pacific ocean
which no nation has set up claim to.
A TRADE school for eolored boys and
girls is 10 be opened in Philadelphia
shortly. The boys will be taught car
pentering and the girls dressmakiug.
TBr Cleveland Plain Dealer is prepared
to see spectacle makers grow rich out of
the next generation, "a 80 many school
ehi dren Sre obliged to wear glasses.
A oREAr deal OF the English holly in the
market, over which the syndicate poets
10 into eetasies this season of the year,
Ia really grown in New Jersey swsmps.
a ROME dispatch says that the pope
has received MIR. ChGs. A. Dana, of the
sur. The New York Graphic Is only
surprised to hear that It was not Mr..
Daoa who received the pope.
IN TtoSAL convention Of colored Cath
olics Was held in Washington Tuesday
Father Taltou, OF Quincy H., the only
eolorpd Catholic priest IN the United
Statos, cell DRAFTED sole mu high mass, anc
Cardinal G. bbons preached the sermon.
INuItNApoLIs.-A daring and successful
robbery occurred in the moRey order
department OF the Indianapolis Postotict
81 1880 on Monday. johnson, chief of
the money RIDER division, was persuaded
90 90 ont 20 the sidewalk 10 see man 10
a suggy White he was out another mat
entered and hA,d his pockets with green
backs to the amount Of So 500,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-10
The Cnrse of The Poppy.
$6i5,50iO0

The sallow complexion of the people of
China, their emaciatsd forms and languid
movements attract our attention every
where along the river. | do not see
be autiful face or figure, nor a rosy cheek;
a dead leaden color ~ on all faces, old and
young, male aud female. / look at the
broad, swift river, | feel the cool, clear
breeze, | gaze at the high green hills, the
flowing rivulets and the wide spreading
trees oyerhanginR the hamlets, Upon
the mountain sides are houses and hun
dreds of workmen; approach those busy
laborers aud you will see this Geathlike
pallor on all faces.
The climate Sc, ms the acme of perfec-
tioa-a long, pleasant GUNNER, with a
cool, agreeable autumn ana bracing win
ter; yet there is want OF energy and
life among the people There is plenty
of food, and of excellent quality for
China-rice, wheat, millet, peas, beans,
corn, oils and fruits OF many varieties
all within the means OF the humblest la
borer.
/ snter large field near a hamlet, by
the side of luxuriant growth of ripenipg
wheat. The field Is clean, not weed
visible but close together aud four feet
high stand stalks with large, dry heads,
brown and decaying now, for their bright
flowers faded a month ago. These de-
oay ing stalks speali they tell me why the
death pallor Is upon all faces, from the
shriveled form OF age to the bowlegged
child sitting in the cottage door. A Sc
duc,ive viper, curse of millions!. Who
shall dare to stand up in the presence of
this fast fading, degenerating people say
the evil is not wIdes pread aud fatal.
Traverse the fairest portions of the
provinces; not the cities alone, but the
quiet, out of the way places are saturated
aud besmeared with black paste, even to
the GODS Western China