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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

That was a frank and manly
ntterance of Mayor CaPP, Memphis,
when be said to President Harrison
"This is restored, harmonious aud
understandable nation. Oblivious as
to the fact whether you are identified
with one or the other of the great ua.
tional parties our people unite with
one heart and one voice in IGNORING
you as the official head of our COM
mon country. In dealing with the
greatest problem thas ever confronted
any people, it is our habit and our
intention to be just and law abiding,
whilst atthe same time with au instinct
Mr.. President, which peryades our
race, the paramount aim is to guard our
social purity, preserve our civilization,
and maintain Caucasian prestige aud
supremacy.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
Specimen Gases.

S. Fl. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with Neuralgiaand Rheumatism,
his Stomach was disordered, his Liver
was affected to an alarming degree. appe-
tite fell away, and he was terribly reduced
in flesh and strength. Three bottles of
Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, H., had
running sore on his leg of eight years,
standing. Used three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklens Ar
Mica Salve and his leg is sound and well.
John Speaker, Catawba, o., had fvc large
Fever torres on his Icy, doctors said he was
lncurable. One bottle Electric Bitters
and one box Bucklcn's Arnica Salve cured
him entirely. Sold hy Eagle drug store.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

The Opelousas Courier says that
Judge Il. Falk has contracted with
the John NJ, Ware we'll company Of
st. Landry parish, to bore for coal oil
and coal on his property, the discov-
cry of which was made some days
ago. Each of the parties to the con-
tract are to share the proceed equally,
while the we'll company defrays all
expenses. Work will begin with
steam machinery in about two weeks.
Mr.. Ware is now engaged in boring
an artosian we'll in the courthouse
square here.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
The largest Pythian in the world

The largest Pythian in the world
is Knight John Hanson Craig, a mem
Der of Adhearant lodge, No. l24,
Philadelphia, Pa. lie was born in
Iowa City, Ia, in 1857. At his birth
he weighed II pounds, at IL months
76 pounds, at l3 years 4o5 pounds, at
rs years 1862 pounds; present weight
9o7 pounds; is feet inches high
and takes forty-one yards of cloth for
suit of clothes. His father weighed
lis pounds, his mother lO2 pounds.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

The St. Louis Republic has ar
ranged to defray the expenses Of 4
tour through Europe and the Holy
Land for the minister or priest of that
city whose popularity is shown by the
greatest number of ballots cast. Rev.
John Matthews, who at one time was
the pastor of the Felicity Methodist
Episcopal Church of this city but now
one of the most influential ministers
of the gospel in st. Louis, is leading
the vote, and the indications are that
he will be the victor in the contest.
= Exchange.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
R: No WI.

Prof. Ad. Hovelle, the Pho
tograpler, has moved his
Gallery to the Goulden Bull
ding, on Front street. Will
keep in stock a full line Of
Artists Materials, Mould
ings, Frames, Etc. For one
week, Cabinet Photos at
$3.50 per doz.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
HISTORY KNOCKS OUT PROPHECY

Worse than that, sir-when you have
an institution that goes openly before
the Legislature ard seeks to bride it,
that in less than ten years after its re-
charter will carry in its pocket every
Governor in the State, remove every
honest Judge from the bench, and pat
heir men in .he places to do their bid
ding, what then will Louisiana be worth2
-TDr. Palmer at tie Grand Opera House.
Past experience being the best
standard by which to Judge of future
events, let us see how many Govern
ors the Lottery Company has con-
trolled during the twenty-five years
of its existence. Warmoth was Gov
ernor when the measure passed, and
if the lottery had hin Sin its pocket"
then he seems to have gotten out, for
he is to-day the recognized head OF
the Harrison administration forces in
this State and is riding the anti hob
hy-horse with as much vigor as any
one excepting, always. DIR. Palmer
|.imself Opposition to the proposed
revenue amendment was the chief
plank in the platform on which the
Collector was recently defeated for
Congress and he certainly received no
help in that fight from the friends of
the lottery revenue measure.
Kellogg was the next Governor,
and the Lottery could not have had
him very deep Gin its pocket" for
when the great struggle came be-
tween the Republican organization
that had been bolstered up by Fede-
raj bayonets and the government
elected by the people and headed by
Nichols, both money and what infn-
ence the Lottery Company possessed
was thrown on the side of the people
of the State, and the Nichols govern
ment, largely through its contribu-
tons, became finally firmly installed.
The lamented Wilt succeeded Nj
cholls and in all the vituperation that
has been hurled by the anti press and
orators at their opponents they have
never said anght that in any way con-
nected that popular executive with
the lottery,
Judge McEnery was the next in
line, and he could not have been car
ried Gin It's pocket" for the ants do
not fall in season and out, to quote
utterances of his antagonis,ic to the
lottery.
The next great fight for party SUI
premacy was between factions headed
respectively by McEnery and Mich
oils, and when the decision was so I'M
certain that the result trembled in the
balance, the Lottery again assisted in
turning the tide in favor of Nichols.
1t will thus be seen that Governor
Nichols and his following have been
the beneticiaries on the only two oc-
casions when the Lottery Company
has taken hand in gnbernatorial
contests, aud DR.. Palmer will hardly
charge that these shining "moralists"
are carried Gin the pocket of that
company.
Therefore, as the lottery has con-
trolled no Executive in the past TWEEN
ty two years, by what process of rea-
Soning does DR.. Palmer arrive at the
conclusion that in ten years another
lottery company will control not only
all the Governors but the Judges as
we'll.
The facts Of the past would not
seem to bear out the doctors direful
fancies of the future. - City Item.
Consumption Cured.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

News of the cyclone at Baton
Rouge, on Monday, and the subse-
quent blowing down of the Penitcn-
tiary, with the death of several con
victs, and the wonnding of others,
was received here on Monday at noon.
The cyclone struck Baton Rouge at
$50 in the morning, aud besides work
ing injury as noted above played sad
havoc with other buildings in the
Town. None of the prisoners serv-
ing sentence from this Parish were
killed; Marion Perkins aud John r.
Boland we're wounded. 1t is cstima-
ted that the damages to property will
exceed $50, 600.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

The issue of standard silver dol
lars from the minis during the week
ended June 81 amounted to s373, 0l9.
The Issue during the corresponding
period of last year was $452,760.
Shipments offractonal silver coin since
the lst instant amounted to 81 ,06l,5ll.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
OFFICI- JOU RIM AL
ar II
OUR:AGENTs /:
Miles Nerve and@Liver Pills

Act on new principle-regulating
the liver, stomach and bowels through
tie meyges. A new discovery. DR..
Miles Pills speedily cure biliousness,
bad taste, torpid liver, piles, constipa-
ton. Unequaled for men, women,
children. Smallest, mildest, surest
so doses, 25 cents. Samples free at
Jacob Geiger's Eagle drug store.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
Concordia Seminal

The Concordia Sentinel, while
holding the Hon. 0. B. Steele in high
esteem, stands steadfastly by S. D..
McEnery for Governor, and is not by
any means willing to take no for an
answer from him.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
A Commendable Move.


Some patriotically inclined either
has inangurated a most commendablt
move in the direction Of fraternizatiol
between the veterans of the last war
1t is the formationssof a military com
pany of one hundred men, fifty ex
Federal and fifty ex-Confederate sol
diers. They are to be uniformed, the
Federals in blue, the Confederates in
gray. They are to alternate in ranks
"reb" and "yauk,,o and their off
GERS from captain down are to be, al.
ternately, a soldier from either side
They are all to be five feet ten inches
tall or over, six footers being given
the preference. This remarkable com.
pany is being organized in Kansas
City, No, and the effort is meeting
with great success already some fifty
odd members have been enrolled, off.
GERS have been chosen and the muster
roll swells each day. The company
proposes to attend the Worlds Fail
in Chicago in body, where it will
be the observed of all observers.
The bitterness OF the war has long
since died out except npon the part
of those who have done all theil
fighting since the surrender. The
men who carried muskets on both
sides learned to have hearty respect,
each for the others, before the war
was over, and when they quit, they
quit. Then it was that the bloody
shirt howlers enlisted and proceeded
to do their share of the fighting. II
the soldiers of either side had no bet
ter material to contend with than the
men who have been fonenting strife
between the two sections since the
war closed, the civil war would not
have lasted thirty days.
But it is over, and the old soldiers
know it; and they propose to let the
world know that they know it; and
they have adopted very happy
means to that end. The idea of
these Kansas City veterans is a most
excellent one, and we commend it to
all Old soldiers everywhere as one
worthy of emulation. There is scarce
~ a city of the Union where one or
more companies upon this plan could
not be organized, and it would be a
idea to try it. An encampment of a
regiment of such companies at the
Worlds Fair would be an object les
son on differentiation that would be
worth to this country many times
what it would cost to hold it. And
every company from another city that
would join such an encampment would
add twice as mnoh to its value. One
such company from one city would
show how the old soldiers in that city
felt; bat twenty sneh companies from
twenty different cities would show that
that feeling was general. We have
the material here in New Orleans. -
Who will take the iniatative to such
an organization - New Delta.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

Hannibal Hamlin, ex Vice Presi-
dent of the United States and OK q. S.
Senator, died suddenly at his club at
Bangor Maine, at Sis o'clock Satur,
day night.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

Gov. Nichols has appointed O..
6. Richard a member of the Board Of
Commissioners of the Red River,
Atchafalaya and Bayou Boeuf Levee
District, vice 9. W. Ward resigned
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
The New Cred River" Line.

The successors of the Red River
and Coast Line was formed yesterday,
and styled the cred River Line" with
the following stockholders: W. T.
Scovell, We. Dillon, Geo. L. White,
Geo. W. Rea, G. G. Kouns, Il. j.
BIinker, Chas. W. Drown, Chas. ?.
Truslow, S. n. Kerley, O. T. Brinkcr,
B. D. Wood, Noah W. Longshore,
B. N. Menge and Wood, Sclneidau
1t TO. The new company has pur-
chased the entire plant of the old
line, and will take possession to-day.
The price paid was the amount agreed
upon at the stockholders meeting of
the old line held on the 18th of last
month, at which meeting it was agreed
to go into liquidation. The new com
pany has capital stock of 100000,
represented by 1906 shares Of $50 each,
and its first Board of Directors is com
posed of Capt. Chas. P. Truslow, w.
L. Scovell, Geo. ". Rea, Chas. W.
Drown, II. j. Brinker, and Messrs.
S. N. Kerley and Neah W. Longshore,
who have been elected to serve until
the LIST day of May, 1892. The Off
GERS of the company are the old relia.
bles, who have served in their. like
positions since the formation of the
old line in 1882, and are Capt. Chas
? Traslow, president; Capt. Chss. w.
Drown, traffic manager and treasurer
and Capt. Geo. G. Hamilton, secretary
The new line owns the following first
class steamers. Valley Qneen, Gar.
land, Hallette, John D. scully, Ma,
f. Dortch and New Haven, which are
all in tip top order. The Valley
Queen, now out on trip, is under the
old line auspices, and is the last o.
the old concern, and upon arrival will
start out for the new company. Capt
Thornton E. Jacobs, has been ap
pointed general freight agent a
Shreveport, S. Cullen at Alexandria
and Mr. Fred Wilson, at Consbatta
The hope is generally expressed
that the new company will be as sue
cessful as the stockholders anticipate
and desire. tits thoroughly equipped
to give a satisfactory service to it,
patrons, and will doubtless prove thu
most popular line ener run on. of this
city, rimes-Democrat of July LIST
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The following named sugar plan
tiers of Rapides Parish have flee
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08

The following named sugar plan
tiers of Rapides Parish have filed
their applications at the Custom House
lin New Orleans for sugar hounties
j. II Meeker 100000 pounds; a.
W. MeLaurine 1876, 900 pounds S. S.
Pearce Csc, pounds; E. V. Weems,
| 100000; Wheadon & Weems, $780,
coo; l. A Garnai, 100000.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-08
Terms areas follows-Payable in advance
Board, Tuition and Washing. per

This Institution offers every advantage
to Young ladies who desire to receive u
good and solid education.
The course of study is thorough and
extensive, comprising all the English
branches, German, French, Vocal and
instrumental Music, Drawing, Painting,
the General Principles of Bookkeeping,
Plain Sewing and every variety Of Fan
cy work.
Pupils of all denominations are receiv-
cd, aud while the utmost care is taken in
the religions instruction Of tho children
OF Catholic parents, there is no influence
exercised over the religious opinions of
others; but for the sake of order, al the
pupils are required to attend the religious
exercises With decoTnnl.
The Scholastic year is divided into two
sessions of five months each. The first
session begins with the first day Of Sep
TENDER, and the second with the first day
of February.
Address, SISTER SUPERIOR,
Alexandria, La.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26
CHICAGo,s GREAT FAIR.

The Worlds Fair at Chicago is growing
healthily, and when it comes to its ma
jority in 1898 there is hardly any doubt
that it will be creditable alike to the city
and the nation. OF course, Pittsburgers
are interested in the success of this great
undertaking, and they will appreciate the
disinterested description of the Exposition
site which THE DISPATCH publishes TO-
day. Some idea of the magnitude Of the
work, and of its conditions, may be gained
from this article
1t is clear that the site at least is pretty
nearly all that could be desired. Proba-
bly, no previous International Exposition
has had such an advantage Gus setting of
water and land as that assured to the Chi
cago Fair. Perhaps mistakes have been
made in the preliminary work, and no
doubt some money and time have been
wasted in the preparation of the site, but
now the buildings are rising in due order
and the general outlook is bright. In this
happy outcome Pittsburg will rejoice as
heartily as anyone. And we understand
that in other ways, financially. for in
stance, the enterprise is in good shape, as
THE DIsPATCH's correspondence will
make plain in due time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26
ENGLISH FISCAL CHANGER

One of the developments promised in
English politics concerns America deeply.
The effect of the Mckinley tariff upon
British exports has already shown itself.
Nearly all British manufacturing indus
tries are depressed, especially those in the
tinplate and textile trades. The prospect
for the British manufacturer is not cheer
ful; still less so for the British workman.
Next year the French intend, upon the
abTogatiOm of existing treaties with En-
gland, to impose heavy protective duties
upon British goods The walls of protec-
tion are being raised in other continental
countries. For the time the English
manufacturer hopes to hold his trade by
reducing wages. This has been done in
numberless cases in Sheffield, Leeds, Man.
chester, and other manufacturing centers.
Naturally this does not satisfy the work
ingman who has already begun to doubt
the virtue of the British economic
system. At this moment poll
teal power is more in the
hands OF the British workman than ever
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26
HEALTH HAS A BETTER CHANCE

1t is comforting to know upon the au-
thority of Sir Joseph Fayrer, the eminent
English physician and scientist, that pre-
ventive medicine has made great progress
in this century and promises if it cannot
eXterminate zymotic disease, it can make
the soil upon which its seed is sown so in
hospitable as to render it sterile. Roughly
speaking it has been ascertained that of
all the mortality in civilized communities
wi@&'1 the temperate zone a quarter is
caused by preventable disease.
1t is clear, so the great doctors of the
world agree, that the death rate of large
communities may be reduced much below
that at which it has been wont to stand,
that the average duration of life may be
made to approximate nearer to the al
lotted four-score, and that the conditions
OF living may be greatly ameliorated The
chief obstacles to improvement have been
ignorance and want of belief A better
knowledge of the laws of life and health,
more rational comprehension of the ma
ture and causes of disease, are gradually
but surely entailing improvement in the
conditions of living and in the value of
life, and the diminution and mitigation, if
not extinction, of morbid conditions
which have in past times proved so in
furious or destructive to life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26
PROSPEROUS TIMES INDEED,

The reports of the commercial agencies
and the current market returns generally
show that the movement in all trades
toward more prosperous times is almost
uniformly maintained. In the iron and
steel trade the impressionsthat bottom has
been reached and that the steadily in
creasing demand in most lines must result
in better prices, is very general. The ex-
traordinary increase in the export of
wheat and flour, as compared with recent
years, continues, although some slight
falling off from last week is
noted. Gold is beginning to return in
large quantities to this country, and there
is no sign of the prophesied unloading of
American securities by foreign holders.
Taking all things together the outlook is
as good as ever.
1t is worth noticing as a small but COM
forting fact for consumers that never
have prices of food products and the
necessities of life been lower than they
are this fall A glance at the market
price lists will convince the most despond-
ent pessimist of the truth of this asser-
ton. Fruits, vegetables and everything
that goes upon the table are cheaper than
they have been for years. 1t is a season
Of peace and plenty surely.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26

10 Ine TQlCOr Oh Inc DlSpatcn:
have been requested to notice your reply
to Eden's query in the issue Of the 4th in
slant. He asks: "When and by whom was
the first glass made in Pittsburgh" Your
reply is: "The glass business was first estab-
lished here in 1887 by Albert Gallatin." This
is certainly incorrect. Strictly speaking
the first glass made in Pittsburg was by
George Robinson and Edward EnseH in q
glass works where the old depot of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad stood at the south
east corner of Water and Grant streets: the
glass works was erected in the fall of 1907,
glass has not been preserved.
The first glass made west of the mount
aims was bv Craig O'Hara in 1897, in the
glass works which is still standing below
the south end of the Point Suspension
bridge, at that time not in Pittsburg- There
can be no question about this. Anyone in
terested in the matter will find q correct
history of the glass business, not only west
of the mountains, but in the United States,
in the very able and valuable report on the
manufacture of glass by Joseph d. Weeks,
Special Agent of the Census Office.
Where you got your authority for your
reply know not, but you have been misled
in every particular. The date, 1887, is ten
years too early and is probably typo
graphical error. The Gallatin Glass Works
was not in Pittsburg, but ut New Geneva,
Fayette county. ISAAC CRAIG.
ALLEGHENY, September Is.
[Glazier's "Peculiarites Of American
Cities" page 337, was the authority for the
answer.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-26
MORTGAGES FOR THE WEST.
Capital Again Looking That Way for Profit
able Investment.

Capital Again Looking That Way for Profit
able Investment.
Chicago Inter Ocean.l
Capital again is looking with favor on
Western farm investments. 1t has become
convinced that the sober second thought of
the people of Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska
has discerned and repudiated the fallacies
of the Sockless Simpsons. Had that which
these gentlemen affirmed been proven to be
true. capital would have Stunned North
western farms, for who would lend money
on security that he knew to be worth less
than the loan? Or if the people had re-
solved to follow the advice of the dema-
gogues and to repudiate their debts, capital
would shun the Northwest as q plague spot.
For who will loan to men that boast of their
dishonesty?
Knowing the people of the Northwest
pretty well, we believe that had times been
as hard and farming as profltless as those
well paid walking delegates of discomfort,
Simpson and Peffer affirm them to be- the
farm debts still would have been paid,
though slowly perhaps. Kansas is not a
State that was settled by dishonest men who
have begotten dishonest children. But now
that the brief season of agricultural de-
preston is over, now that crops are large
and the prices of what farmers have to sell
high, and the prices of what they have to
buy reasonable; money will rush faster than
ever before toward Western investments.
What will be the result? More acres OF wild
land will be converted to farm use, more i'm
provements will be made on old farms, more
houses will be built more stock purchased,
a. d the farm Indebtedness of the State will
be increased, but the power of paying debts
will be increased in yet greater proportion.
For capital loves q money-making debtor,
and shuDs O shiftless borrower. When
money seeks investment on Southern farms,
then and not till then the South will be as
prosperous as the West. The West is likely
to have u new crop of mortgages, not be-
cause it is "the poor West" but because it is
the rich West