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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-06
For A.nanIt to Mnrder

William Stoner, colored laborer who /.
cnsrsei with having fired upon A.. Brad
ford. also colored. early yesterday morniny
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DON'T BUY
PIANO on ORGAN

\ cheap piano for SS25. when you can get ,
5000 one OF c. Grunewald for s275.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-06

G. Janke & Co. 60s Main street.-Up-
risht piano, used only few months. good
as new, cheap for cash.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-06

Charles chadiek OF Whistler, Ala, ar
rived on the eastbound southern Pacific
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THE DEATH ROLL.

The sad news reached here yesterday OF,
the death at Trinity OF Mrs, Walker, FOR
merly Miss Eta lnmau of this cry. one OF
The Post Sirls who Won scholarship at
Lexington College. Tie Post regrets very
much 20 be called upon TO make the an,
nounccmcnt of Mrs, Walkers death.
Mrs, Cornelia Rotge, widow OF John
Rotge, died a. l0;45 yesterday morning, in
the 9th year of her age. She was buried
at o'clock from the family residence W.
l. Preston avenue. the iuterment being in
the German cemetery.
Following wore the pail bearers John
l.atreyte Theo, LamotN Simon Roos, r. C.
CODY G. Elsele, Charles Wagner, John
pelhorn and John Vegle
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A ROUND TRIP TICKET

Gas cooking stoves ana hot piates fos
sale by Houston Gas Light Co
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Patronise c. GrnAuld when you want
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Some Gni,estonInns WIN Come.

Galveston, Texas, December 4.---While
there Is not as wide or as deep an interest
"SpSyed IN GALVESTON In the Fruit.
Flower ana Vegetable Festival as The
promoters Of the Festival would desire
or broad minded persons hoped for, there
nevertheless, WIN be a fair representation
from this city at the big show The news
papers are doing their part to enlist the
support OF tho Galveston public aud IL
.ho w~l'her remains fair thu excursion
ttatns from Galveston TO Houston viii,
De well patronzed during fair week.
FESTIVAL NOTES
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17

healthy babies. Weak women sometimes
have healthy babies, but the chances are
against it. Every woman can have
healthy, happy children il she will take
proper care Of herself. DR.. Pierce's Fa
vorite PRESCRIPTION is what she needs. II
cures the weaknesses and diseases peclll
lar to women. It makes perfect women
Of therl-wotreii capable of maternity.
It's use oayiates the dreaded, and gener.
ally useless, physicians examinations !"
ard stereotyped "local treatments. 1t is
the only medicine for women sold by
druggists, devised by regularly e,lu.
Gated, experienced, and skillful specialist
in these Diseases and its sale exceeds tie
combined sales of all other medicines al.
vertised for this class of maladies. Taken
during the period Of pregnancy, it pre-.
pares the whole wo1nanly organism FOL
its time of trial and danger. 1t practi.
cally does away with the danger and witt
nearly all of the pain.
Women who care to know oil Ibout the " Fa
vorite Prescription" and ell about their owr
physical being, aud the best way to take care oil
1t, should send 81 one-cent stamps to pay for tht
mailing only of free copy of DR.. pierce,s grea
1908 page illustrated Common Sense Medical Al
wiser Worlds Dispensary Medical Association
No. 653 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
THE SQUIRRELS ROAD.

It zigzags through the pastures brown
And climbs old Pine hill to its crown.
With rf.l1y broken stake and rail
And gap3 where beds Of Ivy trail.
In hollows Of its messy top
The pine cone and the acorn drop,
While here and there aloft Is seen
A t!mid, waving plume of green,
Who're sonio Shy seed hes taken hold,
With slender roots, in moss and mold.
The squirrel on his freerent trips,
With corn and mast between his lips,
Giides in and out from rlil to rail,
With cars erect and bushy rail.
Sometimes he stops, his spoil laid by,
TO frisk and chatter ulerriiy
Or wash his little ellin face,
With many nod and queer grimace.
Anon he scolds passing crow
That stirs the pine boughs, skimming low
Or scurries like frightened thief
At shadow of falling leaf
All day along his fence top road
He bears his harvest, load by load
Tho acorn with its little hnt;
The buttcrnut, egg shaped and fat;
The farmers corn from shock and vain,
Cheek pouches full of lesser grain:
Three cornered beechnuts thin Of she'll;
The chestnut, buried and armore3 we'll,
Ard wanuts with their tight green coats
Close buttoncd round their slender throats.
A busy little workman he,
Who loves his task, yet labors free,
Stops when he wills to frisk and bark
And never drudges after dark.
love to hear his chirring cry
When rosy sunrise stains the sky
And see him flashing to his toll
While early frost elcrusts the coil.
With tail above his back, he sails
Along the angles OF the rails,
Content to gain two rods in three
And have sure highway from his tree.
Dear is the old time squirrel way,
Paved with its moss and lichens gray,
Tho struggling fence that girds the hill
And wand.rs through the pine woods still
loved it in my bcyhood time,
lovo it in my manhood's prime.
fain would go today and lie
Ard watch the squirrels zigzag by.
fumes Buci,ha:n in Youth s Companion.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
Dangers of The Gil

Tie greatest danger from La.
Grippe is of its resulting in pneu
monia. If reasonable care is used,
however. and Cllamberlain's Cough
Remedy taken, all danger will be
avoided. Among the tens of
thousands who have used this rem
eay for III grippe, we have yet to
learn Of, single case having result
Ell in pneumo,lia. which shows con
c!usively that this remedy is a Ger.
tain preventive of that dread dis.
ease. 1t will effect permanent
cure III less time than any other
treatment. The 20 and 80 cent
sizes for sale by Phoenix Drug
Store.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
From Cripple Creek.

After the big fire in Cripple
Creek, | took very severe cold
and tried many remedies without
help, the cold only becoming more
settled. After using three small
bottles of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, both the cough and cold
left me, and in this high altitude
it takes meritorious cough rene.
dy to do any good.-G., b. Hend.
erson, editor Daily Advertiser. Fol-
sale by Phoenix Drug Store.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17

Transient advertisements SLIGO Per
square for first insertion, 30 cents for
each subsequent insertion.
All advertisements of a political ma
ture must be paid for in advance.
All notices of IA personal character will
be charged for at the rate Of 10 cents
per line.
Marriage and obituary notices, not ex-
cesding ten lines, will he published free ;
exceeding ten lines, will he charged at
regular rates.
Personal cards, double regular rates.
Communications solicited bnt we dis
claim any responsibility for the views OF
correspondents. All communications
must be sent in by Saturday, otherwise
they will have to lie over for next issue.
Correspondents must invariably send
us their real as we'll % assumed names.
A failure to comply with this rule will
consign all such communications to the
waste basket.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
provoking WAYS of African Natives.

When | arrived at the Luapula,
the natives were afraid. They heard
my rife yesterday as I was hunting
and thought war had come. sue
oeeded in making friends. The ma
tives are very provoking at times.
They are overbearing when they
have On opportunity to thwart you
or humbue you. In crossing rivers
in their canoes they get pay before
hand, take some of your loads, then
stay in midstream and demand more
pay. The tact and patience exercised
by a white traveller are the only
things which save many row.
"Glave In the Heart of Africa" in
Century.
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From Cripple Creek.

After the big fire in Cripple
Creek. l took a very severe cold
and tried many remedies without
help, the cold only becoming more
settled. After using three small
bottles of Chanberlaln's Cough
Remedy, both the congh and cold
left me, aud in this high altitude
it takes a meritorious cough RENE.
dy to do any good. &c. B. Hender-
son, editor Daily Advertiser. For
sale by Phoenix Drug Store.
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8. THE SKIRTS OF cHAFcE, by
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10. ANTHONY KENT, by Charles
II. AN ECLIPSE soF VIRTUE, by
Champion Bissell.
u. AN UNsPEAKABLE SIREN, by
John Gilliat.
IS. THAT DREADFUL WOMAN, by
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IA. A DEAL IN DENVER, by Gilmer
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Is. WHY SAYS GLADYS, by David
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Il. A MARRIAGE FOR HATE, by Ha-
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81. HER STRANGE EXPERIMENT,
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
Uncle Sans Many Lighthouses.

All the light stations OF the United
States arc grouped in 16 inspection
districts, to each of which is assign
ed an army officer ns engineer and
an officer Of the navy as inspector.
Eight of these districts are allotted
to tic Atlantic and gulf coasts; the
ninth, tenth and eleventh cover the
great lakes; the twelfth and thir-
teenth extend from southern Cali
fornia to Alaska, while tho remain
ing three embrace all navigable wa
ters of the Mississippi valley, Oh
which are displayed some l, 400 stake
Or post lights. There are about $50
light stations on the Pacific coast,
about S55 On the great lakes and
about $50 in the eastern districts, or
between 2,6oO and 2,7CO in all. 1t is
impossible to state the exact num-
Der, as new stations are constantly
being established. Of all these the
oldest is Boston light, On Little
Brewster island, in Boston harbor,
which was established in 1915 and
last rebuilt in 1850. The next oldest
is on Brant point, at the entrance to
Nantucket harbor, which was estab-
lished in 1915 and last rebuilt in
1856; while the third in point of
age is tho Gurnet, off Plymouth, es-
tablished in 17G9.--Kirk E1anroe in
Scriblers s.
Might Have Averted the Civil Var.
Ex-President Harrison, in writing
of the interior department and
the distribution of public land in
Ladies Home Journal, says: I'm 1862
tho policy Ct giving to actual set
tiers thereon quarter section (160
acres) Of tho public land where the
lands were rated at s1.25 per acre,
or 80 acres where the lands were
rated at $3.50 per acre, was adopted
by congress. The settler is required
to make affidavit that the land is en-
tered for his own use as q homo
stead, and tho patent does not issue
to him until he has resided upon
and cultivated the land for five
years. In the case of soldiers and
sailors tho time served in the army
or navy, and in the case of those
discharged for wounds or disability,
the whole term of enlistment may
be deducted from the five years res
idenoe required, but at least one
years residence is required in such
cases. It was a wise and benefoent
law, and if it had come 20 years be.
fore would probably have settled the
! question of the extension of slavery
without any further help from our
statesmen.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17

Charles of England was styled
the Martyr from the manner of his
death. The same title was given to
Edward, martyr of England; to
Louis XVI of France, and the same
title was given to Edward, martyr
of Martin I, pope of Rome.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
where to Hide Your Money,

1.-THE best place, remarked Uncle
Allen Sparks, in which to conceal
your money from burglars before
retiring for the night is good bank.
The concealment should be effected
not later than 3 o'clock p. m. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
bathing the

Bathing the
baby is one of the
joys Of young
motherhood. The
baby's bath Il
t b e p1easantes'
fea ture of the
day. This, O.
course, on ~
when the baby
and the mother
are both healthy.
Not much pleas
ire can be gotter
out Of bathing 6
peevish, sickly
fretful baby. If
the mother isn'l
healthy, she can
not get m II C b
pleasure out OF
a n y t h i n G
Healthy mothers.
who are careful.
n wayS have
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
General Csssius NJ. Clay and His
Child WIFE.

W HlTE HALL: NY, rep, 1870
One mile and Il half west of this
post office stands the 100000 man
sion of General Cassins Marcellus
Clay, the great abolitiorist, who
fought a duel with Robert Wick
life, killed 81 Turner, carved Will
Brown into an invalid for life with
the same weapon, served through
the Mexican war with distinction
and acted as President Linculn's
Minister to Russia during the war
OF the rebellion. The General
named it "WLite HAIL." and
through the courtesy of VIII
Brown, a son of the man he SO
badly wounded, he succeeded in
having this post office named after
his famous home.
Tho house was built while lie
was Minister to Russia and is one
OF the largest and most coiamodi
Gus residences in Kentucky. The
drawing room is by far the largest
south of Mason and Dixon's line,
and ON its walls are hung some Of
the choicest paintings by the most
noted Russian, European and Am
erican artists.
1t is here that the venerable
general is living with his child
wife, Dora Richardson, for whose
benefit he is trying to get a pen
sion from the United States gov
eminent. His friend, Senator Lind.
say, few days ago introduced a
bill in congress to give General
Clay 800 a month in consider:,-
ton of his services as a Mexican
soldier. Although General Clay
has been importuned frequently to
apply for a pension he has stead.
lastly declined to do so. He owned
nearly 1000 acres of the finest land
i'll Madison county, and when his
first wife, who was u Miss War
field, of Lexington, secured a Iii.
vorce from him he divided the land
among his Children. But he col
lects a nominal rent from each of
the farms and the home place, in.
Guiding "White Hail." he reserved
for his own use. Itcontains about
$50 acres. A portion of it is in
grass Oh which the general raises
the finest Southdown sheep in
America. Each fall he ships his
mutton to eastern markets, and OIL
several occasions he has sent nut.
ton to England to grace the queens
table.
General Clay was sued for di.
vorce by his first wife because he
brought home with him from the
court of st. Petersburgsa Russian
woman who had borne him a sor
that he called Launey Clay. AL
| though he sent the woman back tt
Russia, Mrs. Clay's wrath was moi
appeased and she filed one of The
most salacious petitions in a Ken
tnckJ divorce suit. General Clay
| threatened to file a counter petition
equally as sensational, but Mrs
Clay was finally persuaded by the
late Madison G. johnson and othel
prominent Kentucky lawyers te
withdraw her first petition and
and substitute one milder in toue
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
More Teachers, Fewer Pedago,
CUES.

More Teachers, Fewc. Pedago.
CUES.
The President of the Indiana
State Normal School says in his
annual report to the Governor
that the State is suffering from
"surplus Of teachers"
The observation furnishes occa-
sion for remarking that the suffer
ing is not confined to Indiana. 1t
is also pertinent to observe tho suf-
fering entailed by the overproduct-
ion of the pedagogic factories is
not felt by the schools alone, but
by the members Of the teaching
profession.
The fact of the matter is the
schools are lnenaced by All over
production Of pedagogues rather
than teachers. For the last twenty
years normal schools of every de
scription have had a mushroom
growth all over the west. The
sons and daughters of farmers
have been daZzled by the tempt
ing advertisements and alluring
''annuals" Of ''normai" and "ousi-
ness" colleges to 1orsake the bucol-
ic solitudes and the rural domestic
irudgery and allow these pedagog
ic machines to convert them luto
fnllsfsdged instructors capable Of
commanding u large salary in the
public schools. Some of these con-
Germs boast of their ability to take
raw aud callow maiden from the
village or farm and transform her
Into a finished school teacher in six
or eight months.
Tue normal schools have been
turning out this product in large
and increasing numbers for twenty
years or more, until there are in
each state several thousand So
called 'steachers" who are unable
| to secure positions. For every va.
cancy that occurs from fifty to Il
hundred applications are filed.
Among these are doubtless many
teachers who have received adj
equate professional training in adj
dition to more advanced prepare.
ton in high schools and academies.
But their opportunities for employ
ment ale curtailed by the repre-
hensible tendency of school boards
to yield to the pressure of oyerpro.
duction and employ a cheaper
grade Of teachers.
The remedy for all this is the in.
sistence upon higher and broad
er scholarship on the part Of tea
cheers who seek positions in the
public schools. Such institutions
as State Normal Schools that are
supported by the State should con
fer diplomas only upon those who
have demonstrated marked natu.
raj aptitude for the work, whose
attachments represent wide culture
and who intend to make teaching
T life profession instead Of a'step
ping stone to some other calling
! AS for the "Dormal schools" thai
are run purely for commercial
purposes and which draw theil
support from those who are led Il
believe that teaching affords allur
ing opportunities for leisure ant
enrichment, thoy should be placed
{ under State regulation and mad,
to conform to certain fixed stan
dards before issuing diplomas
~ Chicago Times-Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
DOCTOR B. 7. AIOsELEY

Can be found at his Office, Albert's Store,
Cup stairs) during the day. At night, at
his residence, Sgreen hoase) corner Fifth
and Casson Streets.
p Responds promptly to calls, day OF
night.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
Griffin Boarding House.

If you want to be treated right
when in Alexandria, go to the
Griffin Boarding House.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17

4 z" Yon do not receive Your paper reg
ia ularly, either by mail or carrier.
please notify rs Immediately.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17

IF" You wish your paper discontinued,
| = notify us at once, without calling
upon the Post Master, to dis
e,.arge this unpleasant duty for you.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17

ST.. L. I. NJ & Sill. C. a. &. II.
No. 22l Arrives. .1l:l5 a. III
No. 222 Departs. ...............4: 30 4. Il,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-17
ALEXANDRIA LA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH II. 1897

The general then made no fight
against Mrs. Clay, and the petition
for absolute divorce was granted.
In tie meantime the Russian Won
an had died shortly after return
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES.

The Mackihaw Railroad was sold at
Van Vert, Ohio, this afternoon, to
Senator Calvin S. Brice. The consid-
Grafton was one million dollars.
Frank, otherwise known as Bi1, Eli
son, who was sentenced three years
and seven months ago for assaulting
broker VIM. Henriques, walked out of
Sing Sing at 8 o'clock this morning a
free man.
w. G.. Stuart, residing in East Oak
land, Cal, who had been for several
years chief clerk of the auditing depart
ment of Wells Fargo & Co., ia missing
and is believed to have committed sui
eide. He wrote q letter yesterday from
his Office stating in it that he was short
$40 and had decided to make away
with himself.
Judge John L. Sweat, of the Supreme Court
bench OF Georgia, will be called upon next
Monday 70 answer grave charge of personal
morals preliminary, perhaps, to impeachment
proceedings before the Senate of tho State
His impeachment is demanded and his con-
duct with bis pretty typewriter is being in.
vestigated.
A revere snow storm set in at Chicago last
evening and q strong wind is blowing from
the west. On account of the snow storm west
Of there, all trains from the northwest are
from half TO one and a.half hours late.
The Farmers and Planters Bank Of Balti-
more will be in no wise impaired by the defal-
cstion of Richard Cornelius, the cashier, who
committed suicide yesterday afternoon.
Chris. Schauer. jr, treasurer Of the National
Bank for Savings, located in Allegheny Pa,
WAS found dead, hanging, in the Allegheny
Gymnasium this morning.
Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, and
widely known died in Boston to day.
The new White Star Line steamer Delphic
was launched in the Belfast yards this after.
noon.
J.E. Coles large tobacco dealer Of Win.
ston, N. C., assigned to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Rev. Father j. B. White, of North
Carolina, died at st. Nincent's Hospital,
Norfolk yesterday.
The steamship Samoa is loading at
Newport News with six thousand tons
of grain for Antwerp.
Major Samuel Griffin has been APP
pointed receiver of the Commercial
National Bank at Roanoke.
Alderman J. T. Mountcastle, of Mar
shall Ward, Richmond, died on Satur.
day after au operation for appendicitis.
Mr.. G. Russell Wyatt, for number
of years the treasurer of the Richmond
Theatre, died yesterday of pneumonia.
Miss Bessie X. Pendleton, daughter
of Captain William B Pendleton, Of
Louisa county, died on Saturday uneX-
pectedly Of pneumonia at the residence
of DIR. J. B. Anderson, OF Inez.
Burglars. at go o'clock yesterday
morning, blew open the safe of w. d.
Boyett, merchant, in Suffolk, and
secured $l72. The explosion was heard
by several persons, who thought it was
| thunder.
The body of a young man answering
the description of Eddie Carneal, who
suddenly and mysteriously disappeared
from his home in Spotsylvsnia county
last week, was found on the railroad
track near Ashland. yesterday.
Mr.. Samuel Garland Payne, son of
the late Mosby H. Payne, died in
Lynchburg at the residence of his great
aunt, Mrs. Mary Lightfoot Garland,
Sunday night, aged eighteen years. He
was the last member of the family.
Yes erday Gov. O'Ferrall issued COM
missions to Col. Granville Gaines, of
Warrenton; Mr.. Richard Wake, of
Norfolk, and Mr. H. T. Parrish, of Roa-
noke, as board of visitors to the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, to serve for a
term of three years, commencing Jam
uary l, 1897.
Gen. William P. Craighll, chief of
engineers of the United States army,
who will retire owing to age limit on
July l, is spoken of as q probable sue
cessor to Gen. G. w. G. Lee as the
president of Washington and Lee Uni
versity, at Lexington. General Craig
hill resides at present in Washington.
The Richmond Common Council last
night passed over Mayor Taylor's veto
the ordinance cutting down the salaries
of Engineer w. E. Cutshaw and his
assistants and of Superintendent of Gas
Works Knowles. Mayor Taylor gave
as reason for refusing to approve this
measure, first, that it was not passed
By two-thirds vote, as required, and
again, that in cutting down the ex-
penses of the city only few officers
had been selected. The mayor main
tans that the scheme of retrenchment
should have been presented before any
action was taken. The measure now
goes to the Board of Aldermen.