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S!rflmYE YuN NEE D NE W' rRING SLUT! THE,.EONE_ OF LAST_ YEAR IS WOINO U..T.. I r AI1 /1 NflMA T OME flAKO 1tea DEMO CRAT. OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE TOWN AND PARISH. HENRY L. BIOSSAT,.BiSINESS IANAGER AGENTS: Thos. Mcfntyre....N.ew Orleans, La J. Curtis Waldo ..... Nelson Chesman & Co...St. T.onis, IMo S. M3. lettecrgill & Co., .....New York Geo. P. Rowell & Co.,...... ALEXANDRIAL. ,L. WEDNESDAY,..... MAeRCH 1, 1882 IOTICE. R ELIGIOUS bERVICES WILL BE held at the Methodist Church in Alexandlia, on the second and fourth Sundays of each month nt 11 o'clock. J. M. JOHNSTON, Feb's 22. Pastor. -HELENA, Ark., is completely sub. merged. -THE Pyrotechnical works, Ches ter, Pa., exploded on the 17th, shat tering the buildirg and killing fif teen people. -HAVERHILL, Mass., has been al most tafolly destroyed by fire. Two thousand workmen were thrown out of employment. -THe total number of periodidals 4newspa tihrough out t -e'~frd is estimated at 37,274, with "n aggregate circulation of 116,000,000,000. -----o- -2c-rz -DEAR girls, whenefr a young mai gets so soft he can be dipped up with a spoon, the best thing for you to do is to dip him up and pour him over the back fence. -Ml . John Kelly had no occasion' to go to Florida for his lhealth. The f defeat of the anti-Taiolmany men at Albany shows that he was healthy enough.--[Chicago Times. --""WHAT a change," exclaims the novelist Roe, "one little woman can ake is a man's life!" Exactly, nd what a heap of "change" she rea uires while doing it.-[New York ews. - - *----1, - . B. Scales, one ofthe old T'rexas veterans, and one of the signers of the declaration of inde pendence of Texas, died in Weimer, on the 22d uit., at the age of eighty five years. 4/-A CONSOLIDATION Of the Iron mills of St. Louis has been effected, with a capital of $5,000,000. The number of new railroads in construe tion in the West makes an active de mand for them. -A MODEST headstone with the words "Mrs. Surratt" has been plac. ed over the grave of Mrs. Surratt, in Moq. '. Olivet Cemetery, Wa-hing City. The grave was formerly arked save by the corner stoe the lot. THE ' n woe of Western ing wns are illustrated by the t t in Tuscarora, Nevada, late a good house of five rooms, all rnished-a good house and good iture, was sold for $90. Anoth house of as many rooms changed nds for $30. The trouble is that e miners have nearly all left the ace. -O' seven new Cardinals to be created at the next consistory, three oly are Italians, although there are ve Italian vacancies. The Pope is willing, to have more Cardinals tin Rome than those actively art in the government of the rch as holders of offices. This is a part of his policy of getting rid all sinecures. MI NENws.- Hop Bitters, which ver~sed in oefeolumons, are a rte fI ague, biliousness and comtilaints. Those who use say they cannot be too highly ommended. Those atflicted should them a fair trial, and will be hereby enthusiastic in the of their curative qualities. and Argus. raFsRs A SICK PI:Rso,-:-Add twenty drops of I)arbys Pro tice Fluid to a quart of water, thing. It will give the skin a pleasant and refreshing feeling lispel the odor that fever and "ration leaves on the body. A quantity of the Fluid sprin ver anything, place or vessel here is Putresc~eo destroys the germ of at *gimal or poison. New York lTimes says: Is < e credit system are to be understood in SCOMMUNICATED. . TIlE DEMIOCRACY OF LOUISIANA. r gEroaR DSIOCRAT- ., That a very great responsibility rests upon the Democratic pa ty of this State no one will question, and NN upon a proper appreciation and a -bthorough comprehension of Lthis rep ER ponsibility depends the integrity and perpetuity of the-patly. There is a strong tendency manifested in a good La many of the Southern States to fol low the example of Virginia. This rkl is to be deplored by every true _ friend, not only of the South, but'the entire country;-because this posi tion places a political organisation 82 in full affliaition wilh the stalwart ring of the Republican party, and I do not think any sincere Democratis 3E willing to say that this is desirable, and every effort should he madp to k. prevent it. We have experienced and feltwhat this partdwill do to maintain supre. b. macy. The solid, true and honest element in great political parties never abandons its linie of action and s faith without some good cause or reason. It therefore becomes the f- dutyothe Democracy to adopt and pursue such a policy as will make it I- he interest of every patriot and good ri citizen to actkwithlit. '"Te Democ a racy of this State is not entirely blameless for this tendency to create an independent organization, and it is behooves thei leaders of the-party to i- evince to the world that they are ab t, solutely sincere in considering and )f protecting the rights and privileges of every member of the State. The dlisiutegration of a political party is generally caused by the want of fi U delity to principle and elevated com prehensive statesmanship. The late Senatorial contest in N~w York is a signal illustration of the truth of the if above remark. e The true policy of the Democratic At party at this time is to cousnitute it y self the special chbampion of reform and progress, improvement, develop menti and the material interest of the country. Let us cultivate the friend ship and good will of all those who 'are able to assist us Let tihe dead past bury its dead. It is a matter of indfffereuce who has the powerif it c protects me. By an elevated system , of legi lation capital can be induced t e to invest. in some of the many enter- I prises now existing in thi6 State. Stand rigidly by every proper obli t gation of the State and let the own era of money be thoroughly informed how it can be profitably invested, and rest assured that it will come ý here and that speedily. The int - e est, prosperity and advancemei, of the citizens of a State shouldie the bed-rock and corner-ston a politi cal combination. ,. e We have a magnificent future be fore us if were only wise and in Stelligenti~ improve the opportunities lheld~ut to us. " e shall certainly fail to realize Sthe grent benefits now nearly within our grasp if we permit personal or ring politics to blight and mar our a prospeets. Let us evince a cordial e and magnanimous spirit, with due Sregard to the welfare of all, and shape e I the politics of .the country for the 3l improvement, advancement and pro tection of every citizen of the com- r I monwealth, and our: milennial sun will dawn. SToNEWALL. PRrzEs WON AND PAID.-The last monthly drawing of the Louisiana.' a State Lottery resulted in prizes to e the following parties: Herman Hart e gen, New York city, one-half of first e s capital prize of thirty thousand dol s lars; Michael Doyle, New York city, a ? one half of first capital prizb of thir. t Sty thousand dollars; T. J. Bush and a Co., of Mobile, Ala., one-half of sec I ond capital prize of ten thousand dollars; M. Michaells and Henry Hamilton, Chicago, Ill., one half each of third capital prize of five thou sand dollars, and James A. Cohen, New York City, and Edgar A. Kir ley, Newark, N. J., one.hbal each of fourth capital prize of twenty-five hundred dollars. The amounts for these prizes have all been paid at the office of the company. --T'ai following are the arrivals at P the Exchange Hotel for the week V ending February 28th: J. R. Kenne- ir dy, G. B. Frye, St. Louis, Mo: J. B. Ellwell, Marshall, Texas; Frank Ried, Grand Rapids, Mich; R. D.w Apperson, Little Rock Ark; JamesN J. tHart, Washington, D. C; Gee. W. N Dudlev. New Orleans; J. R. Rosen- w field, Centralia, Ill; C. E. Staley, St. Louis; P. T. Sublett, A. B. Stephens and wife, St. Louia; Gee. H. Wirg- b liehl, Chatanooga, 'Tenn; Wmin. Au derson, Texas; S. J. Eddy, Shreve- w -ott, La. - IloI:TUARY ( Fe'lruary, A ialta-kV ... TE COMING FLOODS. , I. The situatiop of the Mississippi delta is undoubtedly very critical ' to-day, but it, may not be so danger ous as, many apprehend. We -are d not yet quite ready to hoist the a white flagsover the lower districts subjects to inundation, and raise the cry of suffering and loss. a The situation,is a gloomy one, at first view, so far as the prospects pf heavy floods coming' into the Lower s Mississippi are coocerned, .but it e must he borne jn Ipind .that these e freshets in the upper Mississippi anfi Ohio mays prove merely as Aidal waves, that will be. swallowed up in the great strear that has so long drained a continent from Cairo down. 8 It is very true that"'for a very long stretch below the upper bluffs, and U just above the delta proper, the river has already outspread its natural t banks, and spread over the bottoms, destroying more or less property. There have been also breaks lower (down that damage neighborhoods. But. the lands now afflicted with inti dation'have forty dbys in which to plant a staple crop. If the waters recede within a month *he inhabi tants of those districts -haae ample timeto plow, and'seed, and grow a crop. If these waters coming don fro above are ontif-freshets, the bed oT the great Father of Wateragnay &sl5 thin the draft upth It and carry them down to the sea swiftly 'enougti to relieve anxiety in th.i ple prop er. A~rapid rise is the Upper Mis. sissilppi from ralifal!s may' not prove as disastious sa"s the Mudden melting of millions of acres of ice and snow.' We take'this view, therefore, that, while the situation is critical, it does not warrant such gloomy forebodings as- have been indulged in, in some quarters, at' least. It surely does net call for a great wail just now. The broad and deep bed of the Lower Mississippi, which tells the story of its great capacity here, where the guage is marked up by i inches; and not by feet, ought to give us some encouragement,. Once in a long lapse of yeari there comes .a conjunction of floods that overwhelm all natural barrides, bpt, these are rare exceptionsy and not to be foreshadowed. The breaks that have occurred thus far in the Mississippi below Cairo are not-very serious.' The I ivesterg·iinlvial districts below Mem phial1ave been practically unprotec -td since the war. a Upper Missis sippi has not, reared the necessary structures of late years to mpeet even ordinary emergencies. In our own State the sum raised to meet the requirements in the upper districts has not been sufficient, at least for dispensation under waste fnl Government' auspices. The 'le-a vees that have broken, fortunately, let the floods through into outlets' tlhai send them back into the main stream, or to the Gulf by the Atchara laya. . + On the lower delta, protected by the levees to the west, a visit line of earthworks, insuringtbe sirgar lands from overflow, the great district where a crevasse mbans irretrievable ruin to many thousands, we have yet to stand the shock. The mightyI earthworks whic protect these dis t;irjts are substantially built and watched with jealous care. The people in these districs should, and we feel assured will,take every precaution to avert calamity. They understand their peril, and are not in the habit of waiting upon 1 the calls of a feeble and impoverished State Government.-[New Orleans c Plcayune. ' I Spring Clothing, . ' Spring Clothing, SSpring Clothing, At "Big" Heyman'e, At "Big" Heyman's, ' At "Big" HBeyman's, On front Street. S On Front Street. On Front Street. L A 20.06 BIBLE PaRIZs.-TiIO pub lisbhers of Rutledge's Monthly in the a prize puzzle department of their a Monthly for Mardf offer the follow- a oing easy way for some one to make a $20.00. 'o the person telling us a which is theilongest verse 'in the h New Testament Scriptures (not the New Revision) by March 10th, 1882 we will give $20.00 in gold as a prize. Should two or more correct answer. be.received the prize will be divided. ti .rhe money will be forwarded to the i winner March 15th, 1882. Those f who try for the prize' must s'ind 20 ft *ts, in silver(no postage stampttak. C with thegi answer, fdr *'hich ill rec~ive the April nd~ldl eF thly, "a which' will be ' e naine and address of thbi'prize; with the h heretf'Cit this outn, fe '0.00 to you. Ad- P ithing Compaa i -I__ TWO WOMEN. pi Mrs.'Scoville, the unhapp side>eo al G',jteau aa , has a le , e r 0 1i r-. 'gony and tears t. ?its. arfield ap. re ealiapg to he .widow for. a Wtord of Ie mercy if not of sympathy rthe coz demuned assassin. It is: tfed in the pLt apers that' Dirs. Garfel declared to Ae read the letter, declaring that she did not desire to be dragged again before at the public in connection with Guiteau of and desired only to be left alone with er her sorrow. it We trust for the glory of true wo manhood that, Mrs. Garfield has been Si ode- respect 'misrepresented. That site does not wish to be again jnade .a theme of newspaper discussion d com n went is creditable to her sense of pro. g p-riety. But we should be sorry to be n. coriiuced that she had turned a deaf ig ear to the pleadings -for sympathy of id that other sorrowing andu in all likeli er hood, far more sorrowing and suffer al ing woman. S ri : We haye read ,Mrs. Seoville's patbet ic letter. Every line of it appeare'to rhave been writ in blood drsawr from a tortured heart. It does not, indeed, possess the graces of rhetoric; perhaps it is not in every passag, h strictly grammatical; it is not. in an 's sense a logical argument in defense ol I- Gultean's crime nor a fine pieesof lit Le erary work.' But it possesses a vigor a and power unknown to the most cor reef compositions, a force that strikes as dumb, an eloquence which is never heard save from out ofthrilepths, and which forces us to answer onlyv~rith tears. :It is a wail of woe, the last des palinring ~'of a crushed and bruised eart,: uttered in the very dust and hes of humiliation and misery-a cry that forces unon us the conviction of th' necessity.of a Christ with power to a console and. lift up, greater than hu e minanity possesses. It does not seem possible that Mrs. , Garfield has turned away from the ap a peal of this strioken heart. No one could expect her to utter a word or lift a finger to save the assassin of bhr hus band from the doom he merits; no one could expect her to el sympathy in that directions Bat- for this woman, more sorely smitten than herself, she a must have sent a word of consolation. The awful tragedy which has spread it tdark wings over. these two wo~en a has not shut out from the widow all the light-of heaven, nor any of the ten 'derness of human sympathy. Lords Sand ladies, princes and throned kings and 'queens have poured into her rung heart the balm of consolation. A mighty republic sorrows with her and encompasses her with love and i eympathy; the Christian world has - jTiid away her tears; her countrymen have made he, rich and Congress has "violated the Constitution, I:ws and precedents of the land to add to her store, and finally and above all, she has an honored and illultrious memo ry-tor'eCerish in- her passage, through life and-to bequeath to the child-en of her slaughtered husband. How is it with the woman who has ventured, r through all this greatness and splendor fot a word-a sinnle word-on mercy t Not a ray of light surrounds her. Not a sympathetic voice has dared to whis per in her ear a word of consolation; in Sdefending her brother against the world, her husband has .beeu impover ished andAas now a hbostile worldtto fight for bread; the prets, the people and the worldtl are crying for her bro ther's blood;p all her race is despised andlperecatei3d whiile her ears are dis- tracted with tlie language of hatred Sand derision, the.scalttld slowly rears itsa f before huey es. Darkness, mis t ery, sorroW-atter wretchedness-eur r rounds her; there is light and hope no where on earin; a memplg covered Swith infamy and scorned of mankin she must carry to the grave. An this woman, with a bruised heasrt, a soul humbled in the dust, with des pairing tears has appealed 'to her sltqer woman. Has even a hearing k that appeal behtn refosed We do not be lieve it. ' We have no sympathy foa the Wet ched assassin. HIe has violatedthe laws of God and mani and' the good of society demaide that he shall suffer Ihe penalty. We think, indeed, that his execution will be of more lan common good to societykinee it must establish a prose dent that will rob the p!ea'of insanity of its murderoos powers or brand this government with the stain of murder. Butfor this poo-women, who has been loyal and faithful to her brother through the-dark path over wJich he Shas passed, we do feel te proausidras sympathy and Mr& Garfieold would not stand, in our eyes at least, the noble woman~'she has been represented to be were we assured that she had turned away from' Mrs. So ville's appeal, as has been allegBd.--T Nev Orleans Daily SCoasamption Cared., An old physician, retired from ac tive practice having had placed in his hands by an East India Missonary the - formula of a simple vegetajle remedy I for the speedy and permi~ent cureof Consumption, - Bronchitis, . Catarrh, :Asthma, and all Throat -and Lung af fections, alio""a poiitive and radical dhrt obr federil"eTilirtf'and all ner vous complaints, ~iuar having thor oughly tested its wonderful qprative powers ib thoiugands of 'ases, Teels it hisaduty to make it known to his snf. fering feilows. The recipeawith full partieculars, directiens for preparation and ase, andall :;ecessary- adlvice and instructions for successful' treatment atyoar own ie, will.ls receivedby V yod5 4art y.!.y i freesof dharge by addldsiB~ ilh(d tartp'or stairped self addressed envelope to:Da.I . E. ]JELL, 161 N. Calvert St., Baltimore Md. LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO. re B I an t Tis E ol , "otter ecr •ot on ni inr oraed bn 6h fpeople 5 y d p ro pn t Slate. n of t. t. t SIncorporated in 1863 for 25 years by the Legiilature for Educatianal and Charita ble purposea-with a Capitol of $1,009,000 e- -to which a reserved fpnda of over $550, "r 000 betaince been added.' By an over whelming popuilar vote itse ranchise was r- made a part of the present State Constitu ga tion adopted December 2, A. D. 1879. 1- d 0 e r B , a DRAWINGS o oooooooooooooooooo -. WILL TAKE PLACE MONTHLY. a. 0. Ikll I" ,, !l ;liv.I, SI OOK AT T "E POLLO 'IN I"T"I00UION: -Class C, at SNE OIEAS, TUEDAY, JAICI0 14.., 1882. 0.t and all fnture Distributions under the ,u Spervinon and management of Gens G. iu u I CAPI A P. IZ .- $30,000 . S " . ..D..P 5.000 2 PRIESE OF 50 5,000 5 1 000. 5,000 20 " 500...... 10,000 100 " 100...,...001) 500 . . . ......... [000 10...... 10,000 ArrnoxitMaroN PEIZES : 9 Approximation Prizes $300 $2,700 " " 200 J,800j 9 " " 100 9,00 1857 Prizes, amonna~g to....$Li10,400 Application for rates to cllub's lonld be iat I ntodhe iflkoftho Cpmpany Write for inforwmation or send orders to ( M. A.DAtUPHIN, 1 New Orleans, La. J' IUs I4 BUILDINO yATERIAL1 S-AGEN ". W a t e r MM l0 a `, tchiaode an dJew - -DEAL EIN, . #. WATCHES, CLOGS, J-WELRY, T -- snd -. FANCY GOx,. SPECTACLES A 5s8 l.iL-Tr. US SE Watches, Cloc ancd Jewelry repaired b , a £ S ad Fii:' hed "'Work:: S, as - tion Guaranteed in respect. OE D00 9 £oW EAGLE DiL A EXAJNDTA, UI ý. T .._ot RY,- FAIIO 'AzThrlLES,. (, :,J THE PRE(TN BUSINESS R T lug, that tie ingredients of the prescription be .ho y, . n, tee most palatable form,t he ne of the "purnrt d mott -aiui el efn that the physician may depend u ithe efficiency and.t " eta; and Ienllu e ethertheoye ndr the jI the constant obsectanieitf tdelay e1Iltbxe merilnte dt tion business, This deparment will b eongIucted o BEND TO HENRY 8T,$DHfOB' WARAANTED FRESH! -AND JUST ARR4VE.D S--FOR SALE BY Henry St.John, FRONT STREET. POTATOES - FOR- PLA 1N TI NG ! Choice Variet~t FOR SALE BY Henry St. John. Joel Roy r Co, for. UI 6 Wallansm, tnsafre'. neraf M. C Iit-f 2J Court, Parish of pides, .,i BY VIRTUE OF AND TO SASISFY ) a writ of Fleiri'Faelase r to me direted in the above'tblt and numbered suit 'I lisavseeuasa will oelr foAale ea pabtieeltfeikf ia front of the Court Houaedoor,) labt Town of Alexandrhia,tL,betweenthe boars presoribed'by lw, on SATURDAY, the4tiih 4ay. of l(41CI1 the following descrtbel .propeitiy, - Aertg n tract or a ' . ,noted iln" the parish ob r qb'. right descending banl o e. about two. miles below the Tou Alxandri, bou0nded 4bgv, of Bringbaret, in' : A. Cockerille, contaleing,p:4 ,1 4 pod twenty eight and one-ha.l (12) acres, more or less, with all the build inp and improvements sitoated tlihreons . . Terws--_ASa,.euqject to appraise. meat. D. C. PAUL, Feb'y 1, tda Ser wcoand Of ti Yo~#.of A. Can be tfotfhil at theb angthi fEro4 fro, 8 to 1)o'leet,'Aloek, A _- u I to 2 o'clock, .3C i