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STI- W.WORLD IS 'GOVERNED TOO MUCHI. VOL. 37. ALEXANDRIA, LA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1882. 1NO. 36. . . - . . . . . . . I . . . l II aI p DEMOCORAT. TERM": THE DEMOCRAT ib pnbli hed Weekly at Two DocILAU aendl FrlrrY CEINTS per annamr-Og DOLLAR and FIFTY CENTS for six months - PAYABLE IN AD VANCE. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the rate ofOvs DOLLr. per sqnare for the first inusertion and FIrrT CPNTS for each snbieqetent onb. 'Ten lines or less (brevier type) enostitute a alunare; ORITUARY NOT[CE, Marriages, Public Meetings, Cards of Thanks, etc., to be paid as advertisements. PK~O)NAL CAItI).--when :edmissable oh:rgedl dontle the usnalad lvertising rates. BUSI.NFTESS DT)I 'CTORY. ALEXANDRIA, BLWtCK'AN, W. F., Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on De 8oto Street, between First and Second. TAS. ANDREWS, Attorney-at-Law "p and Notary Public. Office on De. Soto street, between First and Second. I A.& RORT P. HUNTER, At torneys and Counsellors at Law. Front street. rOHN CASSON, Physician and Sur eI geon. Office at residence, head of Besuregard street. l DU PRE, Physician and Surgeon "IJ Special attention given to disea ss. Women and Children. Office at sl Johastoo street, between lad Third ste., Alexandria, La. f 00GD8 .E GfOCBWIR8. MYRE W., sign of the "Big led Plow, corner of Second and Jackson streets, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, etc. Highest market price paid for cotton. DOSENTRAL, J., corner of Second sL and Murray streets, dealer in Dry Gelds, Greeeries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, 'Vsps, and General Plantation Goods. G CGB* 8, L1QO1 VI8, liTC. U ALLERY, E., Front Street, oppo. V site Ferry Lauding, Dealer in Choie Wines, Liquors and Imported €.Ip in of "Help Me Through #Zf ?ArBS,, .TA rR1A r, IIs . FEBGUSON & SCHNACK, Practi 01,Watchmaker. and Jewelers .a i in IFine Watches,. solid (*Dw' elry, Silverware, Spectacles ald Fancy Goods. Notions, Guns, Pis tols, etc. Front street. T M. BIOSSAT, Watchmaker and . Jeweler, and dealer in Watches, Clocks, etc. Second Street, opposite Town Hall. RTCUGS . f ND .MKBFICINZB. ST. JOHN, HENRY, Chymist and SDruggist. All medicines guaran teed fresh and pare. Fancy and toilet articles. Landreth's Garden seed kept in stock. 580rYE8, .7NWA fB, .7C. IILLER, I. C., dealer Cn Cooking ;Y ' and Heating stover. House a r si:hing foods of every description on band. Tinwam re, wholesale and retail, ~,tcity prices. Stove' from $14 to $65. ."K1LL.ZLI. EA." .: fIIGE R, MRS. C., Third Street .. Milliner and Dressmaker; Bon , sad Hat, a superb assortment. Ribbons, laces, etc. Drese-muking a specialty. t ITANLEY, MRS. A. C., Fashlionable (:C Millinery and Dress making. Cut ting and fitting dlone to order. Also Dry Goods and Notions. .ýISCEHLL1.AVBO US. CIULLEN & ROGERS, Receiving, P Forwarding and Commission Mer chants. Dealers in Coal, Lime, Ce ,penst, Hay, Oats and Bran. The high Smarket !tice paid for cotton seed. 'ELLY, P., Contractor, Builder and KL Undertaker, corner Lee and Fifth streets. A One Hearse and a full as sortment of Metallic and Rosewood eof ias always on hand. : i'ARIS, JOHNNIE, Wheelwright ]i .L and Blacksmith. Shop corner of Fourth and Murray streets. Work exeeouted with dispatch, on reasonable ssms, for cash. GET YOUR Job Prioting done at Sthe Louisaana Democrat offie, Seeroer of Second and Jackson Streets. Prices cheap for Cash. "ULIUS LEVIN, dealer in Lumber sad Building m;aterial. Choice iamy Groceries. Second street, op* poite Town Hall. *. I)ALPH WALTER, Second gtreet, [near DeSoto. Manufacturer of MIsa s8addles, Bridlcs, etc. Satia ftion gunaranteed .OHN WERNER, Front Street. ... Taller. Suits made to order; a .,fst It guaranted. The very latest e'j. Terms, Cheap for Cash. , MER, John., Carpenter and Un 5[..dertaker, corner of Fourth and Sireets. Keeps on hand Metal i c sg Rosewood Burial Cases andR 'P il Oofon, al:o a Fine Hearse. OrF d ets from the coun'ry respectfully aso relted and promptly attended to. PINEVILLE. TBURNER, Ben., Dealer in General . Merchandise, suech as Dry Goods, .; eeeries, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps. *; ]af. JULIUS A. JOHNSTON IS A- . now permanently loebted in Pine ·/. yile, Oice on corner below Turner's . irick building. TOWN. EXCELSIOR LIVERY, F'E ED i SALE Sm and STAGIE STAB LE Jackssm, Beeween Y and d Sd 8ts., ,'LEXANO"IA, LA. MeGINNIS& ARMSTRONG PROPRIETORS IHOIRSES, HACECS and BUGGIES for hire at LOW RATES, and at ai-y time, night or day. N. L. MCGINNIS Keeps on hand for sale, BUGGIES, HARB NESS, BUGGY and WAGON MATERIAL, and is prepar ed to Repair Buggies, Wagons and do a GENERAL BLACKSMITH and WOODWORK BUSI NESS. SHOP ON BEAUREGARD STREET. CALL AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES! PRICES AS LOW AS CAN BE HAD 4 ANYWHERE ECLIPSE STABLE, NELS TAYLOR, PROPRIETOII. Third St. BETWEEN DESOTO & MURRAY. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES and HORSES TO LET. IOESES KEPT BY DAY, WEEK or MONTI. TIHE STABLE IS THIE LARGEST and MOST COM FORTABLE IN THE STAT'E. WILL RENT STALLS BY DAY or WEEK FOR HORSES. Horses, Cariages; Buggies AND HARNESS ALWAYS ON HAND FOR SALE. DR. A.RAClAL, SURGEON DENTIST Third St., Between JackseoS and Beauregard, ALEXANDRIA, LA. Teeth extracted without pain. Fill ings inserted with care. Arti fioial teeth made to order, and a .¶urnn Work done at New Orleans prices for CASH ONLY. ST. JOHN'S IMPRO)VED CARBOLIC SALVE ! wtI. cune IT¥FErn tions and 8ore.4, Mosqnito Bites, .ound , Burn . Cuts, Ete. I will warrant thi. preparation to contain pure Carbolic Acid. PRICE....25CiL'TS A BOX. apPlY %9 Hc;B ~jTl, JQtI~ NEW TO-DAY. TO THE LADIES! MILLINERY ESTAB'MNT -AND VARIETY STORE! Mrs. N. L. SMITH, - Preprlefress -'CORNNER OF Third and Jolnlston Streets, ALEXANDRIA, LA. Dress-making a Specialty I ALSO STAMPING ! Dry Goods, Ready Clothing, for La dies and Children, Fancy Arti cles, Notions, Zephyr Worsted Hosiery, Ribbons, Flow ers and every Variety of Fancy Articles. W LADIES' HATS TRIMMED. ,l Agent for the Perfect Fitting Domes tic Patterns. The Ladies are invi ted to call. Open 16rthe Season of 1882 TaHp EXCHANGE HOTEL. RE-FURNISHED AND REPAIRED. Board and Lodging, by the Day, Week, or month, on the most reason. able terms, etc. MEALS AT ALL BOOURS O0 TIB DAY. Commercid travellers will find this the most convenient place in town, as it is centrally located. The table always supplied WITH THE BLT THE MARKET AFFORDS. FRENCH, & HYNSON. Prop's HENRY ST. JOHN, • ALEXANDRIA, LA, KEEPS DRUGS of the BE ,T 'UMALI TY ONLY; BUYS R~CA;ARD LESS OF COST TO BHAVE TH E BEST! IN STOCK FOR SALE;SCHOOL BOOKS, PAPERS aud OFFICE MATERIALi Patent or Proprietory Medi cines, Table and Pocket Cutlery. : PERrMS;~8 AND A- LARGE VARIETY OF FANCY AND USEFUL ARTICLES. tgiiSC T CY ICE Co. -AND O Dealers in Natural Ice. Country Orders for Ice packed' in Sacks Tierees and Hogsheads, prompt ly filled. Packing aad Drayage FREE. OFFICE-71,73 SOUTH FRONTSTREE r New ORL.aeS, LA. NOTICEOFSPECIAL LEGISLATION I'N ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 48 Sof the Constitution of the State of Louisiana, notice is hereby given that we will apply to the'StateLegislature, which convenes in May, 1882, for the extension of the charter of the Bayou Rapides Navi gation Company, which Charter was granted by Act No. 27 ef the Legislature of the State of Louisiana, approved Feb rurrvy 17th, 1860. see pages 20 and 21, Acts of 1860, and which Charter wastransferred to Joseph Bonillotte and his aseociatec by Act No. 86 of the Legislature of the 8tate of Louisiana, approved March 6tb, 1869. See pages 86 and 87, Acts of 1869. JOSEPH BOUILLIOTTE, L. V. MARYE, 8. CULLEN. Moel 29-St. B. W. BRINGHURST. READY MIXED PAINTS IN ONE POUND CANS And UPWARDS FOR SALE. APPLY TO .E. 'l ;TOEN. W GIVEN AWAY. Zimmenrman Fruit Dryer New md fL*.e Tarn, ZIEEUAN tu lT DRYER CO., Cincnnati, O. OPIUMnT-'. ~Hou Cyorn~t"Itr s114r 4 KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP. Young man, as you travel this mun dane sphere, You will find many things exceedingly queer, That often. will cause you to open your eyes In a manner expressive of the greatest surprise. When you arouse from a golden dream, And discover that things are not what they seem; If fickle Miss Fortune should give you the slip, Look her square in the face with a stiff upper lip. If folks pass you by with a cynical sneer, Because in fine clothes you cannot ap pear, Never be cast down by trifles like that, 'Though ragged your jacket and napless your hat If your heart is all right, and level your head. Supposing that you can show "nary a red ;" They have dollars, you sense, and that's the best grip; Meet them square in the face with a stiff upper lip. If your girl should forsake you for some other fellow. Don't act like a calf and foolishly bel low; For girls handle their cards with a gambler's art, Of playing the deuce with a fellow's poor heart; Let them play a lone hand awhile at the game If It's diamonds they seek, let them work for the same. There are as good fish in the sea as ever did nip, Your luck may yet turn-keeg a stiff upper lip. So, my boy, when you buffet the wind and the wave, Remember life's voyage should ever be brave, Tho' tempests may gather and breakers may roll, Kep your boat in deep water, look out for the shoal; When the waves are dark look aloft to the stars; If the vessel is wrecked, why cling to the spars; Heed the old maxim, "Don't give up the ship" Whose anchor is hope-keep a stiff up per lip. THE PRAYER BOOR To the Editoref the New Orican Denes-: Democrat: .From an Essay on the Prayer Book, which I find in a volume entl tied "Among My Books," written by Mr. Reed, of Philadelphia, and pub lished by Messrs. E. J. Hale & Soo, of New York, in 1871, I make the fol lowing extracts:- - Here, then, is a little book of scarcely 200 pages, of perfect Eng lish, which created as English in sound, though black letter in form, more than 300 years ago, before Shakespeare's first play was printed and performed, is as fresh as if writ ten yesterday. It is not even old tashioned; and when, as here in Am erica, an attempt was made to mod ernize it, it has been damaged. Open it at random, take any prayer or exhortation, the familiar "Dearly Beloved," or the "Declar ation of Ab solution," feebly whittled away in our American imprint, and read it :doud, and observe how fresh it is. Change a word and it is hurt. There are clergymen (I knew a bishop once) who imagine they know the service by rote, and try to recite it memorita, and a sorry time their hearers have of it. The jar causel by the substitution of a new word for any one that is familia is misery. The Prayer Book of England en circles the globe and binds its Chris tian humanity together. There is no English or American man-of-war or merchantman on Whose deck, if prayer there be, it is not used, and its simple, plain, inoffensive words, breathing no intolerance, have con quered the scruples and prejudices of the most captious dissent. Look. ing at it aesthetically, the advantage, I will not say of any form, but of this form of prayer, will hardly be dlspa ted. Those who are accustomed to what is called extemporaneous pray er, which nine times out of ten, is committed to memory, and is always -with rare exceptions it has never been my good fortune to meet-more or less rambling and incoherent, a sort of hortatory address to the Alh mighty, will not question the artistic superiority of such a lithurgy. This is shown by its universal adoption on emergencies. Take for example the "Burial Service," .the grandest collocation of words In the language. When the mourners come to the churchyard and reach the grave, the familiar "I am the Resurrection and 'the Life!" or those grander words, "Man that islborn of woman bath but a short time to live, and is full of misery," rise up solemnly as if the grasy were epeaklng, or come, down gloriously, as uttered from on high. Go into a country or village church -for there is too much diffusion in large city edifices--where every one is known to every one, and all are neighbors, and listen when the cler gyman; without previous notice, at ters the solemn words: "0 Father of all mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need, look down, pity, and relieve thy sick ser vant for whom our prayers are de sired;" and every-thought turns at once to the vacant seat, and the indi vidual sufferer is known, and the si lence, as it were, speaks in -earnelt hope that the priestly prayer may be listened to; and when, at last, the dread alternative is spoken, "or else give her (I ehoore to fancy it a dy ing wife or mother,) grace so to take thy visitation that, after this painful life ended, she may dwell with thee in life everlasting," and every heart throbs in sympathy for a desolated home, and the work of prayer is done. Words, though formal, often unlock the heart. It was once the writer's lot, at the end of the cruel war, which desolated so many homes and: frustrated so many hopes and crushed so many hearts in this our land, to attend church according to the Episcopal form, in Richmond, then in ruins. The Federal author ity was restored, the "rebellion" at an end, the gsaves at Hollywood cov ered with fresh flowers, the tears for Stewart and the gallant I'egrams (Richmond's children) not dry, the Confederate President a prisoner, charged with viracious crime. The Chief Magistrate of the United States was prayed for, decorously, accord ing to the Ritual; but, when,'in the Litany, the supplication was utter ed: "That it may please Thee to pre serve all sick persons and young children, and to show Thy mercy upon all prisoners and. captives," common as the words seem, there was a thrill in every heart, a thought of the manacled captive at Fortress Monroe, tieir old friend and neigh ior, whose courage in the darkest hour had never failed-which show .ed how a familiar "form" of prayer can stir the heart. It is an old story, the sailor's bu rial a4 sea, but one that never is without its pathos, and as "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes," has its echo, never heard without a shudder, from the earth the sexton's spade scatters on the coffin, so,. from the solemn cry of the master-at-arms--"All hands to bury the dead," to the words, "We commend his body to the deep," and the shotted hammock slips with a splash into . "The vast and wandering grave," no one hears it unmoved, or fails to think the eloquence of the lithurgy unequaled. as a a ST"he'Bprial Service," for jts pray ers are few and short; wasrread over poor Moore's uncofllined remains on that dark January night, sixty years ago, at Coruanna. It was uttered over the proto-martyr of the middle colonies in the Revolution-the Ja cobite, Hugh Mgreer-in the classic ground of old Christ Church; and on the lawn at Moont Vernon, when, on the 16th of December, 1799, a little schooner anchored in the Potomac, iring its simple luate the while Washlngton sank to rest. But new er was it more picturesque than at an enemyg.grave during that same revolution. When, in the autumn of 1777, Burgoyne's army entangled it self in the fastuesse of the upper Hudsd, and disaster lowered heari. lyuronnd him and his gallant army -for such, bating his Heaplanas and kindred Indians it was-Gen. Fraser fell mortally wounded by an Ameri can rifle shot. .He lingeref, as we all know, in Madame de Riedessel's hot, where she and her children had ta. ken refuge, and died, and was buried on a hill near by. The eollection of oibera at the funeral attracted the attention of the hostile artillerists, and a sharp Are was concentrated on the spot. -Then was it that the ex hortation of the Lithurgy, "Be ye steady, unmovable,"' had a new eig nificance., One other historical illustration of my text occurS to me-the familiar aneedote of Lord (then Mr.) Den man, when acting as eouneel for Queen Caroline. Her name bei6g excluded frot the Ritual in the reg ular supplication for the royal fame. ly, as if she were past praig for, Mr. Denman, with bitter pathois, said they dared not suppless the Litany for "the desolate and op. pressed." And it was, as all know, a native born Englishman and a thorough churchman-not a semi-Puritan, like Ridley or Latimer (for the haind of the Puritan never beautified any thing,) who, at the end, created the Prayer Book. Of him the not over reverent historian of our times says, and I cannot refrain from quoting it: "No plunder of church or crown had touched the hands of Cranmer; no fibre of political intrigue, or crime, or conspiracy could be traced to the Palace of Lambes h. As the translation of the Bible bears upon it the imprint of the mind of Tyn dale, so, while the Caitrch of Eng land stands, the image of Cranmer will be seen reflected on the calm sur face of the Lithurg"." Such is the Prayer Book, Its value cannot be oveest.imated It is the safe guard of ecclesiastical discipline. It is the "cheap defense" of the Church. It is the buoy for which the pilot steers, and it shows where the anchor lies. There is scarcely a home among the educated where it is not found. Its words are familiar in every ear. Its forms hal. low our daily life. It tells, in i ceremonies, of birth, and baptism, and marriage, and death. The blush ing bride and the happy lover hear it. The mother prays from it over the cradle of her babe, and with it the child follows the parent to the grave. P. -Two young and aspiring rail road men, wiro were placed on the retired list o'ving to the consolida tion of Gould s-Southwestern roads, expressed themselves rather em phatically; and in language that shocked the feelings of a missionary who was sitting close by listening to their remarks. He stood it as long as he could, but finally he lost his' patience and walked up to the two railroad men and reprimanded him for using 1keh profane language.- "You ought to know," he saidi& conclusion, "that there are but two roads; one leading to Hell and Dam nation and the other to Joy and Sal vation; now which one would'you ra ther take?" "Well," replied one of the railroad men, after getting over his surprise in being thus addressed, "I don't I'll take-eihber, for it is ten to one that the two roads will fall Into the hands of Gould and be consolidated before I get there." The missionary made no efforts to convert the. heathen, and left dis gusted. -READ the following orders for English Female °Bitters from one Texas house: Galveston, Texas, Feb. 6th, 1881. Meseru. J. P. Dromgoole a Co., Louisville, Ky.; "Ship us one thoo sand dollars worth English Female Bitters. Thomson, George a Co." Read Again:-Galveston, Tex., April. 20, '81.-Messrs. J. P. Drom goole a Co., Louisvtille, Ky.: ,Ship one thousand dollars worth of Eu glish Female Bitters and Bailey's Saline Aperient. Thomson, George a Co." And Again:-Galveston, Tex., May 80, '81. Meser. J. P. Drom. goole a Co, Louisville, Ky. "Ship us one hundred and fifty dos. English Female Bitters. Thomson, George a Co." While these ordeis are being re eeved, others are rOlling in freom the wholesale dgs trade of the south and west, showing conclusivelythe great and incresilsg pepularity of English Female Bitters in the cure of chronie female diseases. -MAxt peroasw!ll take so med ieine until they are prostrated on p bed of sickness. This is folly. NEJ ture always calls for assistancsae when uheded to throw of ipm.rities. With our habits of life, it is neces sary to render this help. Prickly Ash Ritters will not force nature, but acts mildly and renders the as sistance required 5.] aot fail to try theam. -"BIG" Heyman will sell you Dry Goods, Press GoodsTrimmings, No tions, bte., ebesper than they can he bought elsewhere. Give hiss a trial at once. :: NIGHT IN THE COUN TEY IN MAY. .It is a popular belief that great stillness pervades the country at night. Like most popular beliefs, this one is ill founded. In reality, the country is full of noises at night -queer, out of the way noises, many of them, that do not readily admit, of an explanation. In the autumn when all manner of odd little insects talk to each other the night long, sleep sometimes' is0ditniult, and even in these comparatively still nights in May people who lie awake find I hat they have a great deal to listen. Mrs. Radcliffl and dealers In ghosts generally hays been accus tomed te make a cock crow the sig nal for their ghosts to pack up and leave, thus Impl3 ing that cock crow and day light come about the some time in the morning. Now it is true that the cocks do crow lustily just a little before sunrise, but they also crow at intervals all through the night. Country people believe firmly that they crow at the stroke of each hour between sunset and dawn. They seem to be signaling each other.' The monarch of one roost lifts up his voice, not clearly as in the daytime, but, in a drowsy fashion, showing haw sleepy he is, and announces that all is well; frqpa somewhere, not very far off, comes a re: ssuring t(sponse, and to this kewise comes an answer-and the aiswers continue .to cone in, grow ingp4inter and fainter as they pro. ceed from mo:re and more dishnt roosts, until the last, that is bheard is a mere whispered sound that floats along on the gentle night wind from some far outlying farm. Ve'y likely the crowing of the cocks dis turbs the cows, ant then thley alsi take a part in breaking the stillness. qthe night. Close proximity to as cow whosetcalf has been taken from a her is not desirable at night. Her poor heart is nearly broken and she, moans continuously. It is imposasi. ble to avoid being depressed by her grteif, and the noise she makes. is. vexatious.- But the lowing at inter-, vale of a cow Who has nothing on. her mind and just lows because she happens to feel it is not displeasing.' Cows have very sweet voices, faill of a pathetic melancholy. When soft-. tened by distance their dowing is a, gentle sound that seems a part of the night itself and harmonizes with si lence. It is -probable- that horses have bad dreams, otherwise their carryings on at night are not easy to account for. Among all domesticated animals. they are the most tenderly cared for.. Their beds are regularly made for them, and they alwdys are sure of a dry roof o*- their heads. Gene rally speaking they sleep soundly,. buitevery now and then through the. night there will come from the barn, a broadside of hollow sounds sug-. gestling thunder-the horses are stamping upon the dfloor or kicking: against the sides of their stalls. City bred people hearing this, sort of noise for the first time start up alarmed, under the impression that. burglars are using a battering ram agafnststhe back door. The nole seldbm lasts long. Perhaps horses have something on their consciencea that they are trying to shake oft by stamping and kickling-much of a piece with Jonah's fleeing into Tar skish. Dogs, of course, bark at a great rate at night. Like the cocks they answer each other-holding an imasted conversations with friends half a mileor more away. There is nothing especially interesting to hu. iaa beings in these dog talks, though the dogs evidently find In them a world of entertainmeqt; they are devoid of ali romance,- and are not melodious. Cats are very quiet in the country at night Only at rare intervals, two or three times during a summer perhaps, does the uoise of a cat-fight obtrude itaelf upon the silence of-the night. When there is a moon the cats froll de lightedly in the moonlight; skylark. ltg after leaves blowing about the gravel pathabr; jumping over each other sad Cliemselvrc generally. It would b.~e sweet boon to humanity could tows eats he tabght to abano don sinful bowling. and take'to these pastoral ways of nlanocence. Loox Hsaa, lwuus.-tMr "Big'" Heyman has just receiued all the new styles of slippers and low-quar. ter shoes for ladies,' He has mark. ed them down at bottom fignrie and defies any house in town tosell the same class of goodnsat lower prices than he will. Call and see for your self