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oUIsIaN DEMOCRA. THE WORLD IS GOVERNED TOO MUCH. VOL. 40. ALEXANDRIA, LA., MAY 6, 1885. NO. 88*. 'THilE DEMOCRAT. TERMS: The Democrat is published Semi tceekly- -Wednesdays and Satur dIis-at Two Dollars and 'if ty Cents per annum; One Dollar "and Fifty Cents for six months. Payable in advance. Advertisements inserted at the rate of One Dollar per square for the first insertion and FUily Cents for each .subsequent one. Ten lines or less ot brevier type constitute a square. Personal Cards, when admissable, tcill be charged double the usual ad vertising rates. ,RINTINGJ PRINTING NEATLY EXECUTED at THIS bFFICE. Parker's Tonic. A Pure Family Medicine That Never Intoxicates. If you are wasting away from age, dissipation or any disease or weakness and require a stimulant take Parker's Tonic at once ; it will invigorate and build you up from the first dose but will never intoxi cate. It has saved hundteds of lives, it may save yours. Ir you are a lawyer, minister or business man exhausted by mental strain or anxious cares do not take intoxicating stimulants, but, use SParker's Tonic. If you are a mechanic or farmer, 'worn out with overwork, or a mohter run down by family or household duties try Parker's Tonic. If you have Dyspepsia, Rheuma tism, Kidney or Urinary Complaints, or if you are troubled with any dis order of the lungs, bowels, blood or nerves you can be cured by Par ker's Tonic. HISCOX & CO., No. 163 William Street, New York 1 50 cents and 81 sizes, at all dealers in medicines. Great sav ing in buying the dollar sizes. MARRIAGE GUIDE O Pages. ipstratedlltasebssdglitbadi60s " u"e, Pares oevers . This o l1 Uth, sfhadstrtori,.q.zti,,ni . pditmmut IJ0nnlt cold -t fewmoo s. Robt. P. Hunter. ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, Alexandria, Louisiana. ' Will practice in the Courts of Rapides and adjoining parishes, and in the Supreme Court of Louisiana. I FREE! A RELIABLE SELF-.CURE 040t noted and successfut specialists in the U. a swi_ forth. cur of mrdlorle Address DR. WARD & CO., Louisiana Mo. t ONSUMPTION. l mseCactthatIwiltefsnlTWO BOTTLEs FRig, t51ther with a VA IUARLItTRSATISI on this disease I isnysufferer. Oiveoxprts. dI' o. ) sddr p. i D8. T. A. MLOLLM, 18l 'Pear l St., New York. M. C. MOSELEY, . Attorney - at - Law Alexandria, La. Practices in all classes of cases in all thebo Courts of the Parishes of t Rapides, Grant, N tohitoohes, Sa l'bine, St. Landry and Avoyelles. SApril 15-7. a .3e~oc·brelae ~t Sheriff's Sale. James H. Davis vs. ? No. 3065. AMrs. Martha L. Biossat No. 3065.) In the 12th Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides, Lou isiana. Br virtue of a writ of fieri facias is sued in the above entitled and num bered suit and to me directed, I have seized and will offer for sale at public auction, to the last and highest bidder, for cash, at the Eden plantation, on which the pro perty seized is now kept, in Rap ides Parish, La., on Saturday, the 9th day of May, A. D. 1885, the fallowing described property, to-wit: One (1) Sorrel Pony Horse, One (1) Black Ox, One (1) Red Ox, One (1) White Ox, One (1) Black Ox, One (1) White and Red Ox, One (1) Sorrel Mare, One (1) Bay Pony Horse. Terms of Sale-Cash, subject to appraisement. D. C. PAUL, Apl 25-tds. Sheriff. Sheriff's Sale. John Taylor Hunter vs. No. 3114. Mrs. Martha L. Biossat In the 12th Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides, Lou isiana. BY virtue of a writ of fleri facias is sued in the above entitled and num bered suit and to me directed, I have seized and will offer for sale to the last and highest bidder, for cash, at public auction, at the Eden plantation, on which the property seiized is now kept, in the Parish of Rapides, La., on Saturday, the 9th day of May, A. D. 1885, the following described property, to-wit: Two (2) Wagons, Eleven (11) Turning Plows, Two (2) Sweeps, One (1) Sweep, One (1) Cotton Opener, Three (3) Rolls Gin Belting, One (1) Mouse colored Mule. Terms of Sale-Cash, subject to appraisement. D. C. PAUL, Apl 25-tds. Sheriff. D LADIES AND gentlemen to take light, pleasant employment at their own homes (distance no ob ection; ) work sent by mail; $2 to $5 per day can be quietly made; no canvassing. Please address at once GLOBE MFG. CO., Boston, Mass., Box 5344. A. RACHAL, SURGEON DENTIST Corner Fourth and Madison 8ts., ALEXANDRIA. Teeth extracted without pain. Ar tificial teeth made to order. and a fit guaranteed. Work at New Or leans prices FOR CASH ONLY. for postage and re ceive free, a costly box of goods which will help you to more money right away than any thing else in this world. All of el ther sex, succeed from the very first tour. The broad road to fortune npens before the workers, absolute ly sure. At once address TRus & Co., .Augusta, Me. ( ASSON, Johno, Physician and LJ Surgeon. Office at residence, at the head of Beauregard street. A Lady's Opinion. Mrs. Geo. Gilbert, Bryan, 0., writes: Dai S. B. HARTMAN & Co., Colum 5 bus, Ohio: "I commenced on the fifth bottle of your PEaUNA this morning, and should just as soon think of doing rt, without my meals as without my medi cine. I have been doctoring for about four years, and kept getting worse all the time, and was just giving up in de i- spair when I got one of your books, n- "The Ills of Life." I was in bed at I the time. I read and re-read your book and felt like trying your medi cine. My folks thought there was no id use in trying anything more; I was too he far gone, and might as well make up o- my mind to die. I told them PERUNA was the medicine I needed, and I in P tended to try a bottle. It proved a success in breaking the chills, and if it 9. had not done one thing more, I would have been satisfied. But it has done more, and I feel like another person. y, Everybody that sees me is surprised to see me looking so well, as they all thought I was dying with consumption, and now my own folks have as much to say for the PERUnA as 1. I reco.n mend it to everybody I see. There were two of our neighbors in yesterday inquiring about the PERUNA. I gave the one my book to read; told her to bring it back, as I prised it very highly. The other got the name of the PERUNA to send to his son in Chicago. He is a to telegraph operator. My disease is something similar to Mrs. Mile In gram's, though nothing compared to ¶. being so bad. There was a lump raised on my collar bone, and it was a - long time before it looked like opening. The doctor said he would have to lance it in a few days, but I thought I would attend to that myself, so I put a little fly blister on it and it opened; then I put a poultice on and then salve, and . kept the salve on all the time. It got so bad and spread upon my left t shoulder, and one place under my left breast. Then there were two places on my head, one near the temple and one back of my ear, that was just dreadful. SNo tongue can tell what I suffered. My head felt so strange sometimes, I thought I was going crazy. Since I have used the PERUNA (I don't use the e salve any more) my sores healed up r right away. And oh! what a relief it is to get around without chilling and having to suffer with my sores. I feel like letting everybody know all about h it." John Ferguson, Gallitzin, Pa., writes: " Your PEBUNA is a good medicine, and we sell lots of it. Will you please send us some more 'Ills of Life,' with a , few German." COTTON LINT.-Can anything be more wonderful than a plant taking from the air its carbon and turning it into fabric to clothe the nations t And yet the same plant is at the same time drawing upon e the soil for the material of its seeds to manufacture oil and bread (meal), as well as for its reproduction. Once it only furnished clothing, but now it begins, also to supply food, and there is no telling where the utility of this wonderful plant t will end.-[Southern Trade Ga zette. SHE was a very modest girl, and c t when the observatory astronomer 4 ' said, 'Take a glance through the t telescope, miss, and you will see a Venus in all her glory," she frigid ly drew back, and replied, "No, thank you, sir; I have no desire to look at any member of my sex who dresses as she is represented I ato." t -THERE are seven sassafras oil mills in Pittsylvania county, Va. - The oil is distilled from the sassa Vfras root at thd rate of one gallon - of oil to seventy-five pounds ofa t roots, and sells for $4 a gallon for Suse in making toilet soap. S --THE largest bridge in the world crosses Lake Ponchartrain at New Orleans, and is twenty-two 1 BILL NYE'S CARVING. My carving is like my dancing. I, t is not conventional. It is ex tremely original, bold and auda t cious. I try to introduce joints where Nature did not intend to have them, and I seek to make short cuts across a fowl in a way that is productive only of chagrin, vexntion, and fragments of a hen. Man is a weak, fallible creature, and he oight not to seek to mon key with the anatomy of a fowl, or to improvise joints and apertures where they do not belong; for at such time as you think not the knife will clip, and it will trip over the celery glass and fill the bosom of a warm personal friend with gravy. To attract attention and keep up the spirits of the company, there fore, I make it a kind of business as it were, to fill the air with harm less amusement at the same time that I shod stuffing through the at mosphere and mitilate the bosom of the hen. This gives me an op portunity, occasionally, to gather up the sage, bread crumbs and giz zards out of my lap and return them to the platter without exci ting remark. A few weeks ago, on an occa sion of this kind, a cousin of mine, a young lawyer connected with the Omaho road, a young man of good parts, and whose business is to stand between the Omaha road and substantial justice, at so much a year and traveling expenses, was present. I had just said. something smart to keep the company good natured, while I asked a young lady at the other end of the table to please re turn ihe duck which I had inadver tently presented to her with the carving fork stuck in it. Every one was laughing joyously and try ing to conceal it by putting their napkins to their months, when my cousin turned to my little and said : "Bessie, haven't you got a funny papa, though?" •'Yes, indeed" said the ungrate ful, unfilial and irreverent heir ap parent to a great name. "You bet ter believe he's funny - - -- when we have company." And yet people wonder why I am not the same genial host that I used to be, and why the children do not eat at the firer table, and why there is a sound of kicking against the door of an adjoining room, and the occasional wail of a hungry child as the meal pro gresses.-[Bill Nye in Pack. -WHAT strange creatures we are, to be sure, comments an ex change:: ' "A sailor soon forgets the terrors of the sea, and ships again ere he has been ashore a month; the convict is almost certain to re turn to the prison from which he was released but a short time back, and the widow will marry the soo ond time if she gets the chance, and she usually gets the chance." He might have added the drunkard will get drunk again if he gets the chance, and if he has the "cash" he usually has the chance, "pro hibition to-the-contrary notwith standing." THE AESTHETIC NAME F014 ROLTER SKATIG.-'Can R onyi te'll m. me where the skating rink is I" ask c- ed a man on a Springfield avenue i. car of the conductor. to "The charioteer will inform you," o was the reply. e The passenger sought, the ,jehbu v by the brake and repeated the in , q'uiry. . "Wait until the postillion at-` s, taches the third horse and then I-:' will have time to answer," said the ar lynx eyed head light of the car, rei ,s ferring to the boy with the super-. ot anuated nag who is posted opposite e the court-house. r "The collosseum where theyr ii n tate on castors is just at the brow h of the aclivity," he said a moment; afterward. "I am going to iitop p there myself to revolve an hour or> - two." s "To what n" asked the passenger eyeing the victim of rinkomania; e curiously. "To revolve. Tbats' the asthetio slang for skatirg," : a caid the driver as he threw th lines to his relief and made a br r for the rink. -Tir firemen of Alexandris elo .. ° brated the anniversary of their d'i# partment on Tuesday. It is said that not a single reprbsentative" 0 the Shreveport department `ttendi N ed. This dereliction, no doubts should be ascribed to the inability of the members to -attend, ao wing partly to private bupiness, Iandtto the fact that they are all very b ' arranging for their celebration 4hi:' May 5th. The Shreveport firemesn and the people of this city ,enter-' tain the most friendly and. cordial i feelings for the Alexandria firemeiu4 who, it is hoped, will take their re venge by attending the demosttra tion on the 5th of May en masse. [Shreveport Times, 30th ult.' . -; -SoME years ago there bve~ . very old and eccentric eitiaen our midst. He was'the father of a very beautyful and bewitchinga daughter, who had many suitorb fi her hand. Finally the gitrl mat.., ried, but to the dlaatitlantibn ~.fi' the parent. Meeting his nev foeuniis son-in-law, a few mornings' .:a r ward he accosted him thu. "Well, Billie,- yon have done welj ;:. but my daughter Mary has playý-< h--l1. "-[Gwinnett (Ga.) 'Herald.i Bucklen's Arnds Salve. 4 t The Best Salve in the world f'.. Outs, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers,-Salt : Rheum, Fever 8Sres, Tetter, Chaip .; ped Hands, Chilblains Gorns,, ansi, all Skin Eruptions, and positively: cures Piles, or no pay required. ', t is guaranteed to give perfect satis faction, or money refunded. Price:' 25 cents per box. For sale .by' Jacob Geiger. Fon RNrr.r-The large and comp fortable dwelling house on TI'rdl street, lately occupied by Mr Hii' ry Heyman. Contains nine r~umsi all in good repair, LArge ia P. attached. For texs, apply t6 Hiller, at A. Heymrps sto -Jon Printing neatly ex at this oflice. Ti :.. -::