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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-20

MIR. j. ii. O'Neil, who rides the
mail from Alexandra to White Sui
phnr Springs, was overhauled on Mon
day, the 18th inst, by two tramps at
Flaggon bridge, about six miles north
Of Pineville, and robbed of S73. The
mail sack was not touched.
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BUY FROM
BAUER & WE'LL,
LEADERS OF LOW PRICES.
--~~~-c~~-O~~~~~~~-

For Begging, Ties and Irvine,
go to Jonas Hitler. He keeps the
best assortment of general merchan-
dise In the Parish, and his prices are
the lowest. Call on him and be con-
WINGED of what we say.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-20
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria
When she was o Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
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TIorgan'e La, & Texas R. r.:
Arrives at Alexandria. $50. GOO p. m
Leaves A ,exandria. ....... 800 a. m
- Fi4et-cl fare from Alexand-
ria to New Orleans, by either of the
above ns,led roads, costs S6.S5. FL
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-20

~ Incorporated by the Legislature
for Educational and Charitable purposes,
and its franchise made a part of the pres
ent State Constitution, in 1879, by an over
whelming popular vote.
y IT'S GRAND EXTRAORDINARY
DRAWINGS take place Semi-Annually,
Dune and December,) and its GRAM
SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS take
place in each of the other ten months in
the year, and are all drawn in public,a at
the Academy Of Music. New Orleans, La.
We do hereby certify that ,ce supervise the
arrangements for all the monthly and semi
annual drawings of the La. State Lottery
Company, and IN person manage and control
the Drawings themselves, aud that the same
are conducted with honesty, fairness, and IN
good faith to,card all parties, and 'ce author
ize the Company to use this certificate, 'cith
fac simile Of orr signatures attached, IN its
advertisements.
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Tulane University
OF LOUISIANA.
T,ULANE COLLEGE HAS FOUR PAR
i allel courses
Classical, Literary, Scientific, Engineering,

leading to the degree of A. B. or B. S.
Classical, Literary and Scientific, Mechan-
ical, with Manual Training School, and
prepares for Business orCollege. The IL.
Sophie Newcomb Memorial College offers
facilities for higher education OF Young
Women, with Il preparatory department.
Next Annual Session begins October LIST,
1890. Medical College opens Monday,
October Goth. Law Department., Mon
day, November 18th.
~ Catalogues containing full informa-
ton may be had upon application to the
Secretary of the University
WM. PRESTON JOHNSTON,
President of University.
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DR.. r. l. RANDOLPH,
Office and Residence, FRONT street.
LA

u Calls will be answered in the city
or country. Jan 80.
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New crop of Landreth's Turnip
Seed at the Phoenix Drug Store.

See the advertisement of Mr.. M.
w. Calvit, to be found in another col
unn Of o.day's issue.
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8, 1874 prizes amounting to-. Isl, G5i, 900
AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE.
" For Club Rates, or any further in
formation desired, write legiblv I" the
undersigned, clearly stat;n. your lesi-
dence, with State. County, Street and
Number. More rapid return mail delive-
ry will be ASSURED by your enclosing an
envelope bearing your full address.
IMPORTANT.
All ordinary letters containing Postal
Notes, Money Orders issued by all Express
Companies or New York Exchange.
Addressed
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La
Address registered letters containing
Currency to New Orleans National Bank,
New Orleans, La.
"REMEMBER, that the payment of
prizes is guaranteed by four National
Banks, of New Orleans, and the Tickets
are signed by the President of an Institu-
ton, whose chartered rights are recog-
nized in the highest Courts; therefore,
beware of all limitations or anonymous
schemes.
| REMEMBER that the present Charter
of the La. State Lottery Co., which the
SUPREME COURT OF THE u. S has
decided to be a CONTRACT with the
State of Louisiana and part of the Con-
stitu,ion of the State, DOES NOT EX-
PIRE UNTIL THE FIRST OF JANUA-
RY, 1895. The Legislature of Louisiana,
which adjourned on the 10th Of July of
this year, has ordered an AMENDMENT
to the Constitution of the State to be SUBJ
mitted to tue people at an election in
1892 which will carry the Charter of the
| LOUISIANA LOTTERY COMPANY up
to the year NINETEEN HUNDRED AND
NINETEEN.
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Our Agents.
II IME TABLE

Texas and Pacific Railroad:
For Marshall:
Leave Alexandria. ........ ABS Pm
For NeW Orleans.
Leave Alexandria. .10:35 a. IN
Arrives in New Orleans 700 p. N
Leaves New Orleans .S:45 a. m
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ARTICLE Ill,

The objects and purposes of this corpo-
ration shall be to publish a daily newspa-
per in the city of Alexandria, to be styled
the alexandria Daily Tines" and to do
job printing and all work appertaining to a
printing and publishing establishment in
all it's branches,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-08-20

BAUER &c WE'LL
For Cheap Goods.
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Notary Public.
I, the undersigned Recorder of Mortga-
ges, in and for the parish of Orleans,
State of Louisiana, do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing act of iucorpora-
ton of the alexandria Publishing Com.
pany, Limited" was this day duly record
ed id my Office in Book 395, folio =.
New Orleans, July IL, 1850.
SEAL
lsigned:). VI. JoUBERr, Dep. R. NJ.
/, the undersigned Notary, do hereby
certify the foregoing and within to be IA
true and correct copy of the original act
of incorporation eff the alexandria Pub
fishing Company, Limited" together with
the certificate Of the Recorder of Mortga-
ges thereto appended, on file and of re-
cord in my Office.
In faith whereof hereunto set my hand
and seal this 18th day of July, 1890.
[SEAL]
(Signed3 j. BENDRNAGEL.
Notary Public.
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LATER NEWS.

THE Senate Committee on Relations with
Canada closed its session at New York city
after taking testimony from several Glouces-
ter fishermen.
GEoRGEP. SMITH, age sixtytwo watch
man at the Massachusetts, State Prison, com
mitted suicide in Boston by shooting himself
with a revolver. He was temporarily insane
from an attack of ia Grippe
FIRE in five story silk manufactory on
West Fifty-seeond street, New York city,
gave large force of firemen a hard two
hours fight and caused 1925, 600 damages.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever has broker
out at Reading, Penn, in consequence OF the
pollution of the streams by dead cattle that
have died of contagious disease prevailing
in the vicinity of that city.
Two passenger trains on the Pan Handle
Railroad collided near Kokomo, Ind. Both
engineers were killed and the cars were
burned.
WHILE four little boys, aged between six
and eight years, were playing under the edge
of a sand bank in Jackson, Tenn, the bank
caved in, burying them under about ten feet
of sand Before they could be rescued life
was extinct.
THE cook shanty of Canfelds Lumber
Company, six miles from Luther, Mich.
caught fire and two cooks, named S. Hanson
and Louis Gust, were fatally burned.
ALEcK EAsTERL1NG was shot dead while
sitting in his room at Darlington County, S.
C. The assassin escaped. George Windham
and Robert Candy of the same place quar-
relied while riding in a wagon. Windham
stabbed Candy to death.
THE boiler at the sawmill of Wyatt Will
Jams, near Carmi, ILL.,, exploded, killing John
Moore and Sam Cozart and injuring two
others.
THE first colored State fair ever held in
South Carolina has been opened at Colum-
bia.
THE International Marine Conference
finished its work and adjourned sine die.
PRESIDENT HARRISON held brilliant re-
ception at the White House on New Years
Day.
The influenza has made its appearance in
London. A number Of the employees of the
Government offices have been attacked by
the disease.
ANOTHER Nihilist plot against the Car of
Russia has been discovered.
THE Government of San Salvador has
gained an important victory over the Revo-
lutionists.
THE Palace of Laeken, near Brussels,
Belgium, has been destroyed by fire. Nile.
Drancourt, the Princess Clementine's gov
e1ness was suffocated to death.
GEORGE HEAD and William Mcclure were
killed and William J. Coulter and Richard
Heath were badly injured, by seven tons of
iron, which they were weighing, falling on
them at the Ontario rolling mills Toronto,
Canada.
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VICTIMS OF THE FLAMES.
An Awful. Tragedy in a Michi-
gan Town.
Ten Members of a Family Of
Twelve Lose Their Lives.

A fire at Hurontown, near Houghton,
Mich, early in the morning, destroyed the
residences of Nicholas Grass, who with his
wife and eight children and young lady
visitor were burned to death.
The names Of the victims were Nicholas
Grass, aged hfty-five; his wife, Mary, aged
forty-seven; Kate, John, Antoine, Mary,
Ii izie, Joseph, Michael and Lena Grass and
Lena Erb who was visiting from Lake Lon
don, Mich.
Nicholas Grass and his wife returned home
at late hour from an old peoples festival,
being preceded but short time by their son,
Theodore, who worked in steel mill. About
four o'clock Theodore and his brother Nicho-
j who were sleeping together, heard
screams coming from the room occupied by
their sisters, and jumping up made their way
into the hall, which they found filed with
flames and smoke. Being unable to reach
their sisters they broke out window and
jumped to the ground, clothed only in their
night robes.
Being unable to render assistance to the
other members of the family they hurried to
neighbor's and sounded the alarm. A bliz-
zard was prevailing at the time, and the
arrived at the Grass house the fire had near
ly burned itself out, and it was apparent
that nons of the inmates had escaped
As soon as the embers had cooled search
ers were set at work, who soon brought to
light lot of charred bones in the cellar, be-
ing all that remained of the victims.
Grass was farmer in moderate circum-
stances and had an interesting family, the
son Theodore, who escaped, being just over
age. Nicholas. the other survivor, is nine
teen, and the others ranged below that.
tipat tad 10
though probably from an overheated stove,
as the weather was cold and fires were kept
burning in two stoves all night. Theodore
says he did not look at the stoves when he
came home, but went at once to bed, being
very tired.
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BOYS STIFLED BY SMOKE
A New Years Horror ut a London
Pauper School.

The boys section of the paupers' school in
the district of Forest Gate, London, took
fire in the night while the inmates were
asleep and was burned with terrible re-
suits, twenty-si1 of the boys who were
III the upper stories being suffocated before
they could be resc ed. Fifty-eight other
boys were safely taken from the burning
building amid terrible excitement. Two of
the matrons of the institution escaped by
sliding down the water pipes. Several OF
the boys escaped in the same way. The su-
perintendent Of the chool repeatedly rushed
through the flames and brought out num-.
ber of inmates There were 600 persons i'll
the institution.
The bodies of those who were suffocated
were carried to the main hall OF the build
ing, which was still profusely decors ted with
Christmas greens.
The fire was caused by an overheated stt~e.
The female department., in which were 25t
girls, was not touched by fire.
Further reports of the fire show that it
originated in a clothing room beneath the
boys dormitory. The smo,e AMI flames is
suing from the stove flue alarmed those
sleeping on the top floor and they made
their escape The fire engines were
promptly on the spot. the employees of
an adjacent railway station rushed tc
the scene and rendered valuable assistance.
The cries of the boys who We're unable to es-
cape were terrible The bodies of two boys
were badly burned. bat it is believed that
they We're sufTocated before they were
burned. The ages Of the dead range from
seven to twelve years.
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| fumes of coal gas from a stove in their bed

fumes of coal gas from stove in their bed
room.
WHILE six young men were sleighing along
the Frazer River road in British Columbia
tree fell across the sleigh, killing four OF the
occupants and the horses.
The Chicago, flagship of the American
squadron at Lisbon, Portugal, was visited
and inspected by Senior FREDERICK Ressano
Garcia, Secretary of the Portuguese Navy
A REVOLUTION has broken out in San Sal
vador The Government has sent about
5000 men to suppress it.
THE ex-Empress of Brazil, wife of the ex
lied Dom Pedro, died at Oporto, Portugal.
DURING a fog on the River Clyde, Scot
land, the steamer Ovington came into coils
ion with the steamer Queen Victoria and the
former sank Five persons were drowned.
CARLOS L has been proclaimed King OF
Portugal, at Lisbon.
Two French missionaries and their escort
of eight Greeks have been murdered by ma
tives in East Africa.
Mr.. GLADSTONE received 200 kilograms
and 500 letters congratuiating him upon hiss
eiohtieth birthday The earliest telegram to
arrive was from the Prince and Princess Of
Wales.
In escaping from burning building at Ha-
vana, Cuba, twenty-five firemen were Sc
riously injured.
EXPLORER HENRY NJ. STANLEY sailed from
Zanzibar on his return voyage to Europe.
AT bull fight at Villa Lerdo, in the City OF
Mexico, the amphitheatre fell and nearly one
hundred persons were injured, several fatally
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Pinto was at that date an officer in the ser
vice of his native country, Portugal, and had
for some years been employed in the Portu-
guese colonies Of Western Africa. His expe-
dition was fitted out conformity by his Gov
ernment and the LisbonGe Geographical Society.
1t occupied three months. On his return to
Lisbon he was received with evidences OF
great esteem by the King and was the object
Sf popular adulation in all quarters.
In a series of public lectures and in
an extended published journal Of his
travels he described the many strange
and interesting places and scenes he had
encountered in his arduous and danger
GUS Journey, and he- brought home large
and valuable collections Of plant and animal
life. He described the sources Of four great
rivers heretofore unknown. His discovery
of the River Coando, navigable for GOO miles
and flowing into the Zambesi, alone placed
Major Pinto in the rank of the great African
explorers His escort on this long and haz-
ardous journey was composed Of men belong
ing to q tribe of cannibals. OF the eighty
men who stated with him only eight survived
the hardships Of the weary march and
reached with him the eastern coast.
On the basis of the discoveries OF Pinto the
Portuguese Government has since 1879 laid
claim to q wide tract Of African territory,
including Mozambique on the eastern coast
and the Shire River district, IN which me
Portuguese engineer, Castilloes, has recently
undertaken 10 survey the route for a rail-
road, which enterprise met with resistance
from the Makolalo natives and led to the re-
Gently reported battle between the blacks
and the Portuguese forces under Pinto. A
portion of the territory claimed by Portugal
Is also claimed by the British, and the mat
ter NAV lead to all important conflict be-
tween the two European Powers.
In 1884 Serpa Pinto made another journey
of exploration in Southern Africa, the re-
suits Of which fully entitled him to the title
of the Portuguese Stanley: Following his
discoveries the Portuguese have established
and Shire Rivers and opened large and
prosperous trading establishment.
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Washington.

THE State Department is informed of the
death of Robert J. Stevens, United States
Consul at Victoria. British Columbia.
DURING the eleven months ended Novem-
Der 80, lSS9 the number of immigrants to
this country was 407, 237, against 49S, 591 in
the same period in 1855.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and party visited
Lower Brandon, on the st. James River, Va,
the home of his ancestors.
THE annual meeting of the American
Historical Association began i'll Washing
ton.
A CIRCULAR offering a reward of $4,000 for
the apprehension of Silcott, the defaulting
cashier of the Sergeant-at-Arms' office of the
House of Representatives, has been sent to
the various police headquarters throughout
the country. Attached to the circular is Il
portrait of the defaulter.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

Two Young men, John P. Jones and
William H. Palmer, of Bangor, Penn, were
found dead in a room at the Pacific Hotel at
Bethlehem. Penn They had blown out the
gas.
A SEVERE storm and gale which prevailed
over large territory in New IorH, New
jersey and Connecticut caused two deaths
and injured five persons. The highest Velo-
city of the wind was tifty-eight miles all
hour. A cold wave followed.
THE announcement was made that the
Erie Railroad mines. near Scranton, Fenn.,
would close down; also fifteen of the Della
ware and Hudson and other mines, causing
ideness for II. .0O0 men.
Two old ladies, who lived by themselves
near Syracuse. n. Y, were found asphyxiated
by coal gas One of them was dead and the
other in a dying condition.
A THIN and withered man named Simon
Spohn. aged sixty years, poorly clad and
hungry-looking. stopped to pick coal on the
railroad track at Reading, Penn, when
train came along and cut off both his legs,
and he died in few hours later
AT McGarveys Station on the Pennsyl-
vania road sixteen freight cars and four
engines were wrecked. Fireman Charles
English, of Altoona, Penn, was so badly in
jured thathe died in the hospital.
The Russian influenza is said to have ap.
peared in Boston, Rochester, Baltimore and
other cities In Boston the Hollis Street
Theatre was closed because of the illness OF
two actresses.
ALEXANDER BECK & SoN, carpet manu-
facturers of Philadelphia have assigned,
with liabilities estimated at S130, 600 and as
sets of 100000.
The General Term of the New York Su-
preme Court at Rochester, in the case OF
kemmler, the murderer condemned to death
under the new State law providing for the
execution of criminals by electricity, decides
the law to be constitutional.
THE international Copyright League held
its annual meeting in Boston.
THREE car loads of Pinkerton detectives
have gone to Watson, a mining town SIX
miles from Punxsutawney, Penn, where it
is said trouble is feared from the striking
miners.
ALFRED E. BEMIs, aged about fifty, Of
Marlboro, Mass, was instantly killed by
beam falling on his head while at work in the
barn of Daniel Hayden.
JOHN DANvER, alias New York Slim, of
Dubois. Penn, was shot by Constable George
W. Wiley in York, PENN, and almost in
stantly killed. Danver was endeayoring to
escape after being under arrest.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MARX TwA1N's income is said to be $50, 0G
per annum.
REPRESENTATIVE BULLOCK, Of Florida,
ls the father of a family of thirteen chill
iren.
SENATOR GEORGE, Of Mississippi, Joined
tho Baptist Church before he left home for
Washington.
COUNT Won MuLTKE, the hero of hum
ired pitched battles, has been prostrated by
the influenza.
THE King of Italy has renounced his cigars
and substituted for them toothpicks filled
with camphor.
GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER weighs 215
pounds, and is a vigorous man yet, in spite of
his advancing years.
HENRY GEORGE, the single tax agitator,
announces that he expects to sail for Aus
ralia on February S.
CONGRESSMAN TURNER, Of New York, the
ex-iceman, is man of stalwart build, with
bushy, brown mustache.
CHARLES CRAMP, the ship builder, says
that his firm can build all Of the new United
States war ships in five years.
Mr.. STEAD, the former editor of the Lon
don Pail Mall Gazette, thinks that Cardinal
Parvechi will be the next Pope.
EDMOND YATES, editor Of the London
World, confirms the story that the Prince Of
Wales is dying of Bright's disease.
GEORGE W. CHILDs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, is fond Of collecting authors manu-
scripts and the letters of great men.
The youngest member of the present
House of Representatives is Mr.. Strick-
bridge, of Maryland -thirty-three years.
SENATOR ALLIsoN's engagement to Miss
Theresa Stoughton, a niece Of Senator Hale,
is announced and the wedding will occur
soon.
w. CLARK RUSSELL, the marine novelist,
who is now hopelessly crippled by rheuma-
tism, spends most Of his time in wheeled
chair.
PROFESSOR VoLCKMANN. the famous sur.
geon, who recently died at Halle, Germany,
introduced the antiseptic system of treating
wounds.
The Emperor Williams ear is troublesome
again. 1thas recently grown worse. He is
under treatment all the time and is in con-
slant pain.
The Rev. Lester L. Potter, of Hartford
Conn.,, has won prize of $400 for the best
translation into English verse of the
"Prometheus" of IEschylus.
THE Connecticut Historical Society will
ask Congress to appropriate money for bring
ing back the body of Joel Barlow, the poet
and diplomat. who is buried in Poland.
SENATOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky, wears
broaibrim sombrero that is said to make
him look more like cowboy than a man
who has spent half a lifetime in Congress.
PROFESSOR PAoL1 BosELLI, Minister of
Public Instruction in Italy, has appointed
committee to select the model of the statue to
be erected to Christopher Columbus in New
York city in 1892.
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Foreign.

THE Provisional Government of Brazil
has deere ed that traitors to the Republic shall
be tried by a military tribunal.
THE United States Steamer Enterprise
arrived at Gibraltar She had several cases
of influenza on board and was quarantined.
She did not wait to enter, therefore, but
proceeded westward.
DESPITE the orders issued by the Govern
ment prohibiting the holding of meetings by
the Salvation Army in Switzerland, mem.
bers of that organization continue to hold
open-air meetings in Geneva. The authori-
ties have decided to adopt rigorous measures
to suppress these gatherings.
THE town of Ac Reale, in Sicily, has
been shaken by an earthquake. Several
houses collapsed and many persons were
buried under the ruins.
THE University at Odessa, Russia, has
been closed owing to the discovery of the
fact that number of the students were
Nihilists and were actively engaged in
spreading their propaganda.
The members of an entire family have
been sufocated in Waldan, Silesia by the