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Substantial and Neat Work.

The steel cages in the new brick
Jail for Grant parish have been put
in place and neatly painted by Mr..
Il. P. ii. Baden, the contractor,
who is a fine machinist and skillful
and conscientious worker in metals,
and all the necessary arrangements
for ventilation, drainage and gen.
eral sanitation are about compile
ted. An improved basket-door has
has been placed in the main en-
trance to the prison room for safe
ty and protection to the jailer. A
tank is placed at proper elevation
to furnish plenty of water by sup
ply bids to the wash basin and sink,
and altogether we have neat and
comfortable Jail. The work is en-
tirely creditable to the contractor,
Mr.. Baden, who has used the best
Bessemer steel throughout, such as
no criminal could hope to break or
cut, unless supplied with the most
improved tools by outside abettor.
While the cages made by Mr..
Baden are perfectly safe, the great
objection to the Jail structure is
it is built out of inferior brick and
mortar, that almost any determin-
ed criminal could pick through and
escape. This will necessitate plac-
ing all persons charged with serious
crimes in the steel cages, like so
many animals. The suggestion is
made tfat the entire brick wall
should be covered with sheets of
steel, which will cost from $500 to
500, according to the thickness of
the steel sheets used for this pur-
pose. This would allow ordinary
prisoners more freedom and would
make the building not only COM
Portable but ABSOLUTELY safe in all
particulars. If this single defect
is provided against Grant will have
as good and substantial quarters
for her prisoners as any parish in
the State.
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GEoRaETowN, La, March 2.

UEOhoBIOWNs 1<a.s m0rcn z, lo8J,
Editor Tovn Talk:
I ask a little space in your most
excellent paper, to answer a charge
made against me by the Colfax
New Era, of Feb. 23rd, wherein 1t
declares that last year / ran Pat
Duke with shot gun. The state
ment is wholly untrue and without
any foundation in fact. The whole
production is a libel.
We have in Ward 5, Grant par
ish, as good citizens as any ward in
the parish, and we are not respon-
sible because railroad runs
through our midst, and cutthroats,
murderers and robbers infest the
same.
After Pat Duke first broke away,
Mr.. j. Clark, the officer, spoke to
my son I. M. Bradford, and asked
him if he could get help to arrest
him. My son told the officer that
he could get one hundred men i'm
medlately II needed.
l am informed that Pat Duke
was at the postoffice at Georgetown
on last Monday. He has never
been arrested.
/ was raised in this State, and
educated at Jackson college. On
the 28th of last month / was Is
years of age. I have endeavored
to serve my God and my country.
/ inhaled Democracy from my
mothers breast, and for the last
50 years have cast my ballot ac-
cordingly, and if / eliminated N.Y.
self by voting for Murphy j. Fos-
ter, a Democrat, ] plead guilty to
the charge.
/ have never been in law only in
self defense. / am at present, and
have been heretofore, bounded by
INSCRIPTIONS adventures, to rob
me of what me and my children
have dug up out of the ground.
l call upon the good people of
my country for protection.
CoLFAx CHRONICLE will please
publish this. JAS. A. BRADFORD.
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Hog and Hominy at Home.
ICor. Gibbeland Gazette


"a great deal is being said
through the papers and by the far
mers, about planting food crops
and the advantages resulting there
from. I wish to give the history
of two farmers of this neighbor-
hood and hope that it will not fail
to carry a lesson to all farmers of
North Louisiana.
The gentlemen referred to came
here thirteen year ago from Ala
bama. They bought peice of
land, old and worn out, and, said
to be too poor to sprout COW peas.
When they had bought their stock
and supplies, they found them
selves 81, 900 in debt. They have
remained on the same place until
the present time.
One of them now has in his crib
/ 200 bushels of corn; has killed
5000 pounds of pork; has bought
and paid for another farm, giving
$500 and has under his sheds forty
six bales of cotton unsold.
The other has 81, 600 at interest,
800 bushels of corn In his crib,
thirty bales of cotton under his
sheds and has killed little over
1000 pounds of pork. Both run
four plows. Now a few words as
to their method of farming by
which they have become so success
full. In the fall they plant a large
crop of oats; when cut off they pas
ture short time and plant the
ground in speckled peas. In the
spring they plant enough ground
in corn, SO that if it should be
bad year, they will make enough
to feed their mules and fatten their
meat. They plant also cane, pota-
toes and goober peas, and a small
portion of their entire crop in cot
ton. They claim that the meat and
corn they sell are amply sufficient
to pay all expenses and the cotton
a surplus. Five-cent cotton does
not effect them, as they have unsold
nearly all the cotton they have
raised for two or three years.
Liberty Hill. La. xxx.
The above from the Shreveport
Times from this place, show the
results of raising food crops. If
this mode of farming were univer-
sally practiced by our farmers all
over North Louisiana, within five
years our people would be rich
and happy. We can raise all the
corn we want - and with corn we
can raise hogs and we can have
just as large hogs here with a little
pains and trouble as anywhere in
the world. One of our neigbors
this season killed two hogs, one of
which weighed 4O8 pounds and the
other 1913. Another neighbor kill
ed one, that at eighteen mouths
old weighed 262 pounds, and both
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Guaranteed Cure for La Grippe.

We authorize our advertised drug
gist to sell yOu DR.. Kings New Dis
cOvery for consumption, coughs and
colds, npoD this condition. If you are
afflicted with La Grippe and will use
this remedy according to directions,
giving it a fair trial, and experience M
benefit, you may return the bottle and
have your money refunded. We make
this offer, because of the wonderful
success of DR.. Kings new discovery
during last seasons epidemic. Have
heard of no case in which it failed.
Try it. Trial bottle free at C. C. NASH
store. Large size Soc and 81. 2
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The people Of Louisiana just
now are proceeding under the
united motto: "We want people
to come among US and bring more
money and enterprise" Grant
seems to be the single exception
among the parishes favoring i'm
migration, at least it is the only
one where any considerable frac-
ton Of the people can be found to
join in the damaging statement.
1--WE find it impossible to secure
justice and an enforcement of the
laws of this State in this parish"
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B. TURNER
-DEALER m
General Merchandise
PimeviuIe, In.

f1mevDuucs Lac
Has just received Full Stock Of Fall
and Winter Goods, which is to be sold at
a small margin above cost for cash.
The public are invited to call and exam.
inc his large and we'll selected stock OF
DRY GOODS,
consisting of Dress Goods and Trimmings,
Fancy Goods, White Goods, Ladies' fine
Hosiery, all styles and grades, F1anels
and Watorproofs, Linseys, Cassimeres aud
Diagonals, Bedford cords. etc.. and full
lines of Gloves, Embroidery, etc.
Mems and Boys Hats. and Ladies' Trim
med Hats.
A large stock of Boys and Menss CLO-
THING. Special bargains are offered in
Boys and Mems JEANS Clothing, which
were bought at . sacrifice.
A fine assortment of Boots and Shoes,
Saddlery, Crockery. Hardware, Groceries.
Plantation Supplies, TRUNKS. Valises,
Towers celebrated Fish Brand" Of Slick.
ers, and FURNITURE.
Agent for the Dupont Gun Powder, the
oldest and best in America.
Keeps on hand the Celebrated MrLRuRN
WAGONS, the best in the world.
Highest market price paid for Cotton.
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Unnecessary Agitation.
GRANT PARISH. La, March Il, 1883.

s~@-~~'.@s
Editor Collar ChroRicle:
notice Of late that the national Dem
ocracy is taking charge of national legis-
lation. The U. S. Senate has appointed
Democratic majorities on all the impor-
tant committees. and ut the same time
gives the Populites chance to show
their hands, as each of the four Popu-
ites have been made chairman of some
important Senatorial committee. So, il
there is anything in that party they will
have chance to bring it out in the next
four years. think this is right to give
them a fair chance.
am sorry that our Populites here in
Grant cannot see their opportunity and
profit by it, but they seem to be too ven-
emous. and ALWAYS overshoot the mark
take spring and snap at everything in
reach and out OF reach. They make a
great bug bear out of the difference in
the bids for the public printing of the
parish. wonder il any Of them have
ever made a calculation to see what deci-
NAL would represent his pro rata of that
S176. know that quite number of
them pay only poll tax. OF course they
know that does not figure in the case, for
all Of the poll tax goes into the school
fund, and no parish officer gets one cent
of it, except the sheriff, who gets five per
cent for collecting.
l am told they are preparing case for
the court. and after that they propose to
use their shot guns. This part / don't
like. but suppose they must have their
way. suppose also that they are going
to regulate the law and its enforcement,
az they have appointed law and order
committee. OF course If this is properly
and fairly carried out, it might do some
good: but l am afraid it may turn out
like other regulating committees, and
hence l always prefer to let the law take
its own course, and let it be administer
ed by those who are duly authorized.
The White Caps of Avoyelles and Mis-
sissippi lately did themselves and the
State great deal of harm. and many of
them are still in trouble on account of
their illegal and unlawful actions.
Well. | may write again, but for the
present remain, yours truly,
ROUND A. BoUT.
We think our correspondent is little
unnecessarily agitated as to the likely
hood of the good citizens of Grant going
into violent measures, to remedy either
real or fancied wrong. They mean to
use ballots instead Of bullets. if they are
not able to carry their point by law. An
allowance must be made for the orator.
cal fervor of Jealous speakers. -ED]
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A large number of cases were
passed upon by the Supreme Court
sitting in New Orleans last Monday,
twenty-seven in all. Among them
there was but one from Grant par
ish, that of G. II. Starns ct al VS..
Lavenia Hadnot ct al, appealed by
plaintiffs. Judgment affirmed and
case remanded to the district court
for further proceeding at appel
lants' cost.
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A Mighty Bridge.

Where the New Orleans bridge
is to be built, the river is over
half a mile wide, and its depth
over 100 feet, with current of
about four miles per hour. The
bed of the river, so we learn, is
composed of alternate strata of
sand and clay. The main channel
span will be 1000 feet wide in the
clear, and IS feet above high water
mark. This is known to be the
highest on record. The founda-
ton, we are informed will pene-
trate the bed of the river fully $50
feet, 80 as to reach solid bottom,
to support the structure. Caissons
are to be used in the building Of
the foundation and piers. The
bridge proper will be about 100
feet high, and from the bottom of
the foundation to the apex of the
superstructure will be about, $50
feet. The grade descending on the
other side of the bridge to the
level of the railroad tracks will be
Il per cent, or eighty feet per
mile. The steel structure will ex-
tend on each side until a height
of ten feet is reached. There will
be q continuous steel structure
nearly II, 900 feet long, aud will be
considered the longest in the world,
The estimated cost of the struc-
ture will be about So, 100000.
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mo. 49,.

of these gentlemen say that these
large hogs were not as much troub
lie to them, by half, as the cotton
would have been that it would hay
taken to pay for the same amount
of pork. The results, where ever
they have been half way tried, are
largely IN favor of the Southern
farmer, and it does look as though
the time has certainly come when
we must cut loose from SO much
cotton. In the language of Tom
Ochiltree. Eve must raise more
hog and hominy and less HI to
the acre" if we expect to ever sue
ceed. Xxx. A.
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NOTICE.

Fourth Judicial District court Parish Of
Grant, State of Louisiana
In the matter of the Succession of Wash
Brandon, Deceased. No.
Notice is hereby given that Lucy Bran
don. Administrative of the above success
sion. has this day fled her final account
in same, and that unless opposition il
made thereto in ten days from the date
hereof, same will be homologated and
made the judgment of this court.
This March 3, 1893.
W. L. SFACKELFORD.
Clerk Of Dist. Court.
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For Sale or Rent.

The House and Lot in Colfax, known as
the Thorpe Residence. Office on premises,
good Garden, Barn, Out Houses, etc.
For particulars apply to
ANDREW THORPE. Alexandria, La,
or C. d. KEMP. Colfax. La.
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Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains.
cOrns, and all other skin eruptions, and
positively cures piles, or no pay re-
quired. tits guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refuded. Price
Csc per box. For sale by c. {. Nash.
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Il have used Ayers Hair Vigor
for number of years, and it has
always given me satisfaction. 1t
is an excellent dressing, prevents
the hair from turning gray, insures
its vigorous growth, and keeps the
scalp white and clean" Mary A.
jackson, Salem, Mass.
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March to search" is the old
adage. It searches out any weak
ness of the system, resulting from
impure blood. Those who use
Ayers Sarsaparilla find March no
more searching or even disagree
able than any other month. This
medicine is a wonderful invigora-
tor.
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All beginners succeed grandly, and more than
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M. F. MACHEN,
Attorney : at Law, Notary Public
and Real Estate Agent,

Lands bought and sold. taxes paid. and
all Notsrial work executed with neatness
and dispatch. at ''live and let live prices.
business. Give him trial aud he will be
sure to please you. Office in Post Office
Building. Montgomery, La. au-2O
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|Colfax High School.


The Trustees Of the Colfax High School
for Males snd Females take pleasure in
announcing to tho public that the first
Ten Months Session Of this school will
begin on the Second Monday of Septem-
Der. 1892 No pains will he spared to
make it first-class High School.
RATES OF TUITION.
Urinary rIn.1 Department q g Per month
Collegiate $50
Music. Vocal and Instrumental 80
Incidental fee. Is cents per session.
Good board can he obtained on reasona-
BILE terms Two hotels in town, and sew
elal private boarding houses in town and
vicinity will board cheap. Those having
children to educate should send them in
and give MS q fair trial. We are in the
race to stay.
j. +. KELLY, NJ D., President.
w. L. RICHARDSON.
Secretary Board of Trustees.
COlfax, La, Aug. 10, 1892.
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Official advertisements 81 per square for
first insertion; each subsequent pablica-
ton 81 cents per square.
Brief communications upon subjects of
public interest solicited, but no attention
Will be paid to anonymous writer's.
Address: CHRONICLE, C0lfax, La.
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II YOUR BACK ACHES

n YOUR BACK ACHES
Or you are all worn ont. really good for nothing
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS.
II Will cure you. and give good appetite. Sold
~ all dealers in medicine.
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Fashionable Millinery.
Mrs. c.. e. Charleville.
BOYCE, LOUISIANA.

BOYCE, LOUISIANA,
Having been engaged specially with
Millinery business for some time respect
fully solicits patronage from the ladies' of
Grant parish. Send her your orders for
anything in the millinery line.
Will take pleasure in buying, fitting and
selecting all articles of dress goods and
fancy fin nishings for ladies.
Satisfaction guaranteed. jan $3.50
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The Oak Grove Meeting.

The meeting at Oak Grove on
last Saturday was attended by
about $50 persons all told, a num-
Der of them being present only out
of curiosity. It was in the main a
Populite movement, Messrs. H. l..
Brian and Berrian Bailey, of the
Comrade, having come over the
line from VIM to take a hand in
the affairs of Grant parish, and
help to swell the meeting in num-
beers. A series of resolutions were
passed, setting forth the astound-
ingly new, and rather Incorporate,
unfair and injurious statement,
that ave find it almost impossible
to secure an equal dispensation of
justice and a proper enforcement of
the laws of this State in this par
ish." It was resolved to organize
a law and order league, ''to enforce
the laws of our State" The action
of the police jury was condemned
for awarding, the parish printing
to the CHRONICLE, and a subscrip-
ton raised to employ an attorney
to sue the police jury and have the
contract cancelled. A committee
of fourteen was appointed to vir-
tually take charge of parish affairs,
report cases to the grand jury, ex-
anime the police jury proceedings,
the clerk and sheriff's Office, assess
ment rolls, parish treasurer's re-
port and statements, proceedings
of the school board" and in fact
to do that which it is the duty as
well as the privilege of any and
all good citizens to do.
Bro. Brian, of the Winfield
Comrade, in his last issue ingen-
iously admits that nothing crimi-
nal has yet been done in the matter
of paying interest on the State
bonds, but then it might be, and he
is going to watch to see that it
isn't! He Jugs in, as usual, an
irrelevant allusion to 'the swag
he (we) get out of the hard earned
money of the taxpayers of Grant
parish" Well, the difference be-
tween our "swag" and Bro. Brian's,
is that we labor and return a value
received, that has been approved by
six different police juries, and did
not prevaricate to get it, whereas
Bro. Brian signed an affidavit that
was very questionable as to vera
city. and drew from the State $50
for travelling expenses, when every
body knows half the amount was
more than ample.
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GS-Jadicat Advertisements must be paid
for IN adrance. or they Wiu be discontinued
after the first insertion.
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G. III. MCKNIGHT.

Parish Surveyor.
Will run lines on short notice. and is
fully prepared to locate Homesteads for
Settlers. Tvs
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THE NEWS IN GENERAL.

A hot sun aud high winds are playing
havoc with Minnesota wheat fields
e. H. Todd, a wealthy carriage manu-
facturer of Quincy, Ill, committed suicide
Balloonist @. F. Craig fell 300 feet at
Celina, o., and will die His parachute
was bad
The Pennsylvania democratic state con
vention will be held in Harrisburg on Sep
tember 49,
Balky horses drowned Mrs P. T. Harris
and daughter in the Rio Grande river
near Del Norte, Col
Fire following a lightning stroke wiped
out the house of r. R. Bunker and two
cottages at Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. DR. Clark, president of the Chris
tian Endeavor Society, has reached New
York after a ndthe-world trip.
Samuel Basnel and Joseph Bradley were
struck by a train near Bement, Ill. Basnel
was killed and Bradley fatally injured,
Poison in lunch prostrated seven mem
bers of the family of Conrad Lennig, an
| Omaha tailor, and one daughter has died
James McCabo, Philadelphian, has
been arrested at Port Deposit, Md, fol
stealing Ii. Bream's horse and buggy in
| Baltimore.
Colonel S. P. Rose, a prominent lawyer
of Denver, Col, whose family is on thC
ocean returning from a European trip, ac.
! cdentally shot and killed himself whilI
| hunting for a supposed burglar
! Commissions have been issued from Har
risburg to Walter Briggs, as first lieuten
ant, Company Il, Thirteenth Regiment
and Edmond Nelson Carpenter, inspector
Of rifle practice, Ninth regiment.
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Centre and White SITS.
DEDTTION
I,AKEsIDB PARK.

Dates Booked for This Season at This
Popular Resort.
Tho following is list of the dates secured
snd the names Of the societies;
June 29.--Tamaqua Social Club.
July 4.-Tamaqua orchestra.
July 11.-Columbia Hose & S. f. E. Co.,
Shenandoah; anniversary.
July I'm. E. Sunday school, Mahanoy
Oty.
July 13.-Presbyterian Sunday school,
Nahsnoy City.
July 15.--M. E. Sunday school, Giberton
July 19.-Philopatrian Club, shamolSin.
July 2O-M E., P. NJ, Welsh Baptist and
lutheran Sunday schools, Girardville.
July 25.-Methodist Episcopa Sunday
school, Shenandoah.
July 25 to Aug. 3-Evangelical camp meet
ing.
July 26.-Wm. Penn Sunday school.
July 27.-welsh Congrogationalist, Maha-
noy City.
July 2s.-M. E. Sunday school, Ashland.
July 29.--P. NJ Sunday school, Gilberton.
August Camp A, P. o. r. A., Mahanoy
City.
August 2.--German Lutheran school, Nah
anoy City.
August 3.-English Baptist s. school, shen-
andoah.
August 4.-Primitive Methodist s. school,
Shenandoah.
August alpha Social Society, shamokin.
August s-M. E. Sunday school, Mahanoy
Plane.
August 9.-Trinity Reformed and Presby-
terian Sunday schools, Shenandoah.
August O.-Evangelical Sunday school
NAhanoy City.
Aug. 15-Lakeside Musicale, Grant Band
August 17.-St. James Lutheran Sunday
school, Ashland.
August 24.-German Reformed Sunday
school, Mahanoy City.
Sept. 4-St. Michaels Society of the county