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'THE DI)EMOCRAT, PU' LISHED WED'BESDAYS and SATURDAYS i -TERMS One copY, one 3 ~ar, ............. e 51 ii n mouths,..................... I 50 Thnre months,................... 75 Wednlesday, - Nov. 25; 1 Notice. From and after this date, June 3d, the )DESOCRAT will charge five (5) cents per line for all 1ntices of charitable and church enter tainments, etc., each insertion. All other local notices will he char ged ten (10) cents per line fdr first insertion and five (5) cents per line for each shbsequent one. Death notices, less than eight (8) lines, free. Fractional lines charged as full lines. These prices will not, under any circumstances, he deviated from. To~n and Parish News. S-Corro" is still tumbling down. Let's quit planting it. -Hs-No Tea, the best tea in the market, for sale at the Red Plow store. -UP to the hour of going to p:s yesterday, MIr. B. M. Hayes -sa improving. -AFTeR a siege of sickness Mr. E. A. Biossat is convalescent. He will very shortly be himself again. -You can get better bargains at the lid Plow stare in dress goods ad dry goods than you can else _ here. -JucE .J. R. Thornton visited Judge Clegg at Lafayette during het week. He returned home on 1 ýanday. -Ray. H. C. Duncan will hold Thanksgiving service in St. ,James Episcopal Chnrch to-morrow morn ig at 11 o'clock. All are invited moattend. -Tag Hamilton Brown Shoe fo's 82.50 shoes for sale at the Red Plow store. This is the best oho for the price ever offered in ha market. -O( Friday last the Corpora. ai cash box was replenished to ith tune of $12 50. Keep on, boys, adyou'll soon bring the old town ot of debt. -A BeD spring manulactory has een started in Town. It is quite Steresting to see the springs made. he Sehea building is where the work goes on. "STLtYA Casson, an old color l Woman of our Town, aged about 5 years, was buried on Sunday. Old Sylvia was well liked by our ' _hite population. -Is the marriage license busi- I 'C Clerk of the Court Watts is saga "rip-roaring, staving busi " If things continue in the t ° way much longer he'll be ' pelled to get another book. ' ~Brr'a stop your congh while can. Bye and bye nothing I do it. It is worth heeding, Parker's Tonic is the best g known for coughs, colds, tor liver, kidney troubles and weak You risk your life in wait f Take it while there is yet t `TRE Catholics of this diocese i doubtfees be rejoiced to learn tI the Bishop will arrive by train 1 Thnrsdav night and will spend v in o;r Town. We are con We exprt.ss the wishes of the congregationu when we say he may be induced to re- tl -til Sunday. o o FR SAns- The undersigned of fers a fine lot of horses and mules for sal to tthe people of this and LYS adjoining parishes. They are well broken, of good size, and thor Sunughly acelitmated 'g'erms, cheap 1 50 for cash. Apply to BEN WEIL, Alexandria, La. -MARRIED, near Belden, Mr. Autos Day to Miss .Jane Week. 3d, A Day is made, a Week is lost, five But time should not complaiu ices For there will soon be Days ter- enough, con. To imake a Week again. iar- We have had the pleasure of at for tending many weddings among our circle of acquaintances, but this 8) caps all when we take into consid eration the amnount of time lost in rall a few moments.-[Morris Herald. y FOR RENT, 1886.-The place on m. Bayou Rapides, ten miles above Alexandria, known as the Whit T. tington place. Ahont one hundred and thirty acres cleared, a large dwelling, with out houses, six or seven cabins, and a large horse ' gin, with stand and press. Two or ed three familes of bands now on the place. Possession given immedi to ately. Rent, 8450 a year. Apply des to David T. Stafford, adjoining, or to G. MAsox GRAHAM. rr Nov. 25, 1885. le -As advertised, the famous in. Georgia Minstrels appeared at the at Exchange Hall, on Mondgy night, da and gave what we think, and what e every one else will say if they judge fairly, one of the beat performances in the minstrel line which we have ever seen in Alexandria. From ug start to finish, the entire audience, on (and the hall was'well filled) was kept in a continued roar of laugh id ter, so ludicrous were the sayings es and doings of the dnsby nigs. In *n their songs and dances the entire ed nrope are good, and it will be a hard matter to improve on them. e The Georgias ire deserving of e praise, and we heartily recommend I t them to our brethren of the press: 1 in i -WE have a good one on Bro. j Goodwin at last. We mean that hurglary case, tried in Colfax one to day last week. The judge, the de- I 8 fending lawyer and the prosecuting 7 ' State's Attorney, were all of the same opinion that the party was ii es guilty-hut the jury, (they have e t twelve, the same as in Rapides) a e, composed of the bone and sinew of I "young and chivalrons Grunt Par ish" were not. 'The law was plain, a the evidence ditto, anmd so was the r- charge. But the iju..y turned him a it loose in double quick time. Come y ` Mr. Goodwin, to use John Wick r life's langmuage, [as we have been r, toldj this heats Rapiles, and you st i. mst explain. We'll wait. HoycrrE.--O'u Friday last, at I ethe Loli luandinh on Red river, two miles below MAiutgomery on the opposite side, tu o white reshidents,a hy name James Roper and Allen SWheeler, quarrelh4d about some cot- ti Ston, whereupon the former slapped t 'the latter in the tfice. 'T'his made l Wheeler madt and I1e endeavored to , at once pull his pi$dtol, but Roper s: was too quick for him and jerked ki his out and shot his Adversary three la times. Wheeler, however, showed ht plutcked to the last, as he fired his er pistol at Roper after, receiving the third land which was supposed to v ie the fatal shot. I~opor at once n surrendered to the at thorities and is now in custody. A.1 who were a present concur in the ',opinion that the act' was purely a juttifiable one F on the part of Roper. - -T I Picayune of last Friday, es. has the following hit of news: "Tlle ad preparations for boring an artesian 11 well in Lafayette Square were conm )r- pleted last evening, and the work Rp of boring was begun by the light of an electric burner. The contract for the well was taken by the a. American Well Works Company, r. of Aurora, Ill., and its President, Mr. VM. T. Chapman, will superin tend the operation in person. It is designed to sink the shaft ys until the true artesian water shall have been reached. This is the pure water of the green sand stra turn which underlies Mississippi and this State. It may be neces' sary to go down 1200 feet or more to strike this water bearing forma tion. Mr. Frank Howard..the pub lic spirited citizen, who has offered ' to have this important work done, e pro bono publico, is determined to - solve the artesian well problem for d this city. When the well is fin e ished a drinking fountain will be - r established. A scientific gentle ae men of large experience and infor- - r rnation, remarked yesterday that it e would be of value in preserve spec i- miens of each stratum, or bed pene y trated in boring the well. j -ON the 1st of December, 1884, Capt. Murphy, of New Orleans, was assasstnated by seven men, among is whom were Patrick and Thos. Ford e brothers. They were found guilty t, of murder, the first being sentenced ýt to bet hanged and the latter sent to ' the penitenttary for twenty - five s years. Now domes Toni Ford and e confesses that he fired the fatal shot, n and he, not his brother, should suf , fer the death penalty. Very affec s ting, of course, but the Damon and Pythian business should he rever sed and both of their necks broken. -[Fort Worth Gazette. FOOD ADULTERATION. - Again a we feel it our duty to our readers, . and especially to sugar planters, to f call for .t strict enforcement of the I law against adulteration of food.. Unscrupulous men are to be found G in the city, who adulterate our Lou isiana molasses (the hest product of t the kind in the world,) and the re e sult is that the pure article cannot longer compete with the impure. This MUsT be stopped else all plan ters will have to resort to glucose, in self protection. Let the law he enforced, and prevent this disagree able necessity.-(Sugar Bowl and f Farm Journal. -Jon Printing neatly executed at this oflice. Give us a trial. New Orleans prices duplicated and N satisfaction guaranteed. Now is your time ! P -You can get a pair of good dt rubber overshoes at the Red Plow th store for 50 cents. in DIED: c· It this Town, on Wednesday, No- M vember 23d, 1885, at 3.o'clock a. se m., after a long and painful illness, ca eMas MARGARET J. ORSBORN, d. aged 78 years" hi The deceased though not a na-cr - tive has been a resident of our ' town fifty years, having removed T here in 1835. She leaves a host of. th friends, who will mourn her death. She was beloved by those who I knew her for her kind heart, and in tlt her death her two sorrowing sons to I have lost a kind and loving moth er. Peace to her ashes. -IN this Town, on Monday, No- frc vember 23, 1885, at 11 o'clock a. ab rn., AO'LPtrUS, infant son of A. an Albert, Jr. and Lizzie Hethe'rwiok, w aged 9 months. -St "Suffer little children to come un- sai Sto Me, A. For of such is the Kingdom el rtu Heaven.!" po TOWN 30DERTISEtI~I NS. 0 -. t, I-, S1agle Drru' stoxe t. . JACOB GEIGER, - Proprietor. e is selling at New Orlenns wholill ale prices to t!.e jobbing trade, and offer ing special inducemlnenls to retail bnyers. The stock consists ini part as follows: Drugs Chemicals, Paints,Stationery. School Books, Tobacco and Cigars, Liquors for medici nal purposes, Garden Seeds. Etc. Cor. Second and Murray, - - ALEXA1N'DRIA, LA SFERGJ SON & SCIIN3TCO -PI{ACTI SAL Watchmakers an'd Jewelers Largest Stock Outside of New Orleans. FRONT and .TIURR.d YSTS, ALEXA.,I DRl4D LI. JTTLIUs LEVI1N, - DEALER IN -AND - BUIIDITNG MATERIAL! AIeT FOI WATERS J~D Bl~qGlHU ST'S SAW-M11LS! CULLEN & ROGERS, General Receiving and Forwarding Merchants, ALEXANDRIA, LA. D Keeps on Hand for sale Lime, Cement, Coal, Corn Oats, Hay and Bran. Will make liberal advances on Cotton and other procjne, and will also. pay the highest market price for Cotton Seed. Agents foe the Milburn Gin and Machine Co., Memphis, Tenn. Succession of L. W. Tilden,. For Pamily Meeting, Etc. I No. 261.-Probate Docket,. 112th Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides, La. PURSUANT to a comnission and or I der of sale issued by the Honorable the Twelfth Judicial District Court in and for the Parish and State I aforesaid, in the matter of the Suec cession of L. W, Tililen for Fa'uily Meeting,. etc., commanding me to sell for the payment of debts, for cash, and in accordaece with they deliberations of the family meeting held therein, the hereinafter des cribed property, I shall offer for sale at public auction, at the front of the Court H-ouse door, iii the Town of Alexandria, La., between the hours prescribed by law, on Wednesday, the 25th day of November, A. I). 185, the following described property, to-wit.: A certain tract of land situated, lying and beizng in the Parish of Rapidies and State of Louisiana, fronting on Red river, hounded above by lands of A. Cockerille, and below by lands of Estate of L. W. Tilden, described as follows: -Start ato the lane which separates said tract from the property of Dr. A. Coekerille on the river front and run down the river front, to such a point as- that a line projected thence and running parallel to said lane anst coritsnued hack to Sandy bayou and following its rueandering, to the lane in the rear,. shall enclose and, contain within the said lines eighty acres of land, with all the hi ldinge and improvements there on, and all rights, .ways. and prvi. legesetherefnto belonging. . Terms of sale--Cash, no hid for less than twelve hundred (81200) dollars will he received~. that being the appraised value of seaidpropertv. D. C. PAUL, Sheriff and ex-officio Anuctioneer. Oct. 24'tds.. PRINi'IN JOB PRINTING NEATLY EXECUTED at THLIS OFFICE. W. O. DAMMON, Sole ýgfor Whie Bonz eonumati Head and Foot Markers, Horizon tal Tablets, Etc. 1I Also all kinds of Marble Mon uments, Head an3. Foot Stones, Slabs, and eveffy description of. Cemetery work. No extra charge for Inscriptions; Freight prepaid. ALEXANmDRIA, LA.