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D EMOCRAT. WEEKLY, OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF TlHE CITY. OUR AGENTS; Thomas McIntyre......... ...New Orleans Geo. P. Rowell & Co......ew York City Nelson Chesman & Co.....St. Louis, Mo Edwin Alden: .............Cincinnati N. W. Ayer & Son.......... Philadelphia -Buy your Dry Goods and Groce ries from Bauer & Well, the, leaders of low prices, Front street, opposite Ferry landing. STEAMBOAT Cox.i LsIoN-Wednes day night about 9 o'clock the Texas and Pacific steamer Satterlce, de scending, and Valley Queen, of the Coast line, ascending, collided near Knox Point, below this city, on Red river. The Valley Queen reached this city yesterday morning. The timbers on the larboard bow next to the cutwater were jammed in, necessi tating a heavy tarpaulin to be strap ped over the break, so that she could return return to the city. She will have to be docked to repair damages, which are dilli:ult to estime. What injury, if any, the Satterlee sustained could not be ascertained at this wri ting, nor the cause of the collision. An investigation will divulge the facts and place the responsibility where it properly belongs, if any is elicited. -[Shreveport Times. -Speaking of the Alexandria Fair Association the Lake Charles Echo lays: Last week pursuant to a call on the part of some public spirited citi zeus of Alexandria, quite a number of gentlemen assembled to deliberate up oa the organizatton of a fair associa tion. Having determined to open subrciption lists, each share to be fixed at ten dollars; $2,220 were sub scribed in the hall, and $3,120 se cured by night. The parish is to be canvassed and an association organ ized. One dollar is what the Lake Charles people must demand of the Watkins road as fare to the first fair. -The making of wooden shoes is a big industry in New Orleans, where thousands are sold and worn annually by gardeners, milkmen, market wo men and scavengers. They keep the feet dry, and are a great comfort to the women who must stand from 3 o'clock in the morning until 12 o'clock in the morning until 12 o'clock at midday on the dripping flagstones of the market places. The wooden shoemakers generally live off the French market somewhere. The style of shoe they make is French, which is daintier, lighter and prettier than the Dutch shoe. -The latest horseshoe is of paper. It is elastic and durable, and is the invention of a German. A number of thin sheets of parchment paper sata rated wiih oil and turpentine are glued together and the mass subjected to a strong hydraulic pressure. The holes for the nails are then bored, after which the shoes are trimmed ready for the market. It is said that the shoe wears in such a way that the surface is always rough, thus adapt ing it particularly to smooth pave mnluts. -The New Orleans ,States very pertinently says : A careful perusal of the remarks made by the counsel fr the defendant in the lottery man damns suit in the Supreme Court yes terday, shows very clearly that Judge White and lIon. Don Caffrey realized that they had no law to stand on, and °instead of making legal argument, in dulged in stump speeches for the pur pose of catching the applause of the g lleries., In justice to attorney-gen eral Rogers, however, it must be said that he endeavored to confine himself to the case, and with the scanty ma terial at his command made the best lbgal argument possible under the cir cumstances, but It was brushed away like a spider's net.by the law and au thorities quoted by by Messrs. Poche and Semmes. -T'he people of the United States do not want a sole silver standard and their government cannot maintain a double standard alone at the present ratios of silver and gold here and abroad. At the same time the fail ure of past prophecies of diaaster from a limited coinage should make the doctors of finance more modest in pre dicting ruin from free coilage.--[New York World. -It will be surprising if, gaining wisdom by the harsh experience of those who have gone before, the rmil lionaire of the future does not distrib ote his property before he shutfliles off this mortal' ooil, trusting nothing to lawyers and making sure of his affairs in this world before going to grapple with the ancertainties of the neit. THANKING REED. Now that the end of the session and of the Congress itself approaches, the Republicans, and especially Thomas B. Reed himself, are becoming con cerned about the vote of thanks by the House of Representatives Lo :he speaker. It has been cuitomary ever since the first Congress, for the House, in the closing hours of the session, to adopt (and always unanimously) a res olution thanking the speaker of the House for his ability, courtesy, etc, as a presiding officer. And not only has the resolution been unanimously pass ed, but it has always been offered by the minority. We are glad to say that it has always been deserved, for, heretofore, the bitterest partisan on the floor has, -in the chair, been cour teous to the members, not only of his Own side but also of the minority. Even Keifer was given the usual vote when he went out of office. But, if we are any sort of a judge of the men who compose the Democratic minority of the present House of Representa tives, the present speaker will leave the chair without the usual vote. Or if he gets it the resolution will be of fered by one of his own party friends and be passed by a strict party vote. Since he has been speaker he has vio lated almost every rule of parliamen tary courtesy and pershal politeness. We say nothing of his violations of parliamentary law and precedent. He has ruthlessly trampled upon the rights of the members of the minority, and has been personally offensive in doing so; and it is expecting a little too much of human forbearance to suppose that the gentlemen who have been insulted by this tyrant are going to thank him for doing it. Were they to do it thoy would deserve the sever est censure from their constituents. How can the Democratic members solemnly place tnemselves upon re cord as indprsing his fairness and his courtesy? Has any ruling been so outrageous that he would not resort to it? And has he not measured the law of a question solely by the needs of his party ? Has he not overturned all precedents and violated all parliamen tary traditions? Has he not, as speaker, cmntradicted what he said as a member, and delivered from the chair a ruling which he declared from the floor would be revolutionary and usurpatory ? We sincerely trust that, as Thomas B. Reed was the first speaker to destroy the character of the House of Representatives as a delib erative body, and to be personally dis courteous to members upon the floor, he will go down in history as the first to be refused a unanimous vote of thanks by the House over which he presided. He has merited this rebuke by his conduct in the chair; let him re ceive it at the hands of the men over whom he has domineered.--[Nw Or leans New Delta. -----------..iP -- q -Congressman Crisp is one of the ablest Democratlic members of the House, and the other day he saved the government the sum of $10,000 on uccount of his ability to see through a trick. It appears that in the contest ed election case of Maginnis against Alderson, of Virginia, the Republican majority on tthe elections committee reported in favor of Maginnis, but knowing that the Democrats would resist and perhaps prevent by filibus tering the unseating of Alderson, Congressmen Lacey, of Michigan, and Dalzell, of I'ennsylvania, approached Mr Crisp as the leader of the Demo cratic side and said that if the Demo crats would not indulge in any de structive tactics that they would not oust Alderson from his seat until the last day of the session. Mr. Crisp at once sawo the game and said that Con gressman Alderson had already re ceived from the government the salary of $10,000 due him as a member of Congress and he not intend to enter into an arrangement whereby an ad ditional sum of $10,000 would be paid to a man who was not entitled to a seat in the House. Dalzell and La coy no doubt realize by this time that Crisp of Georgia is not the man to seek when they want to make a bar gain to swindle the governmait.--fN. O. States. -- .C--- -Mr. Streeter, who is the caucus candidate of the Republicans in Illi nois, for the Senatorship, is boasting <f his record in the politics of that State, and the result is one of the Re publicans who refuses to be whipped into line for him by the steering com mittee of his party, declares that he should never be elected to the United States Senate unlds the people of the great State of Illinois desire to dis grace themselves. Senator Evans, and he is one of the leading politicians of the State, says that Streeter has in his life time been a member'of every party and a traitor to all ot them. Despite this f ct the three farmer members who demand reform are vo ting for himn, and this alone is su.i cient to arouse suspicion that there is a bug under the chip and that the far. mere know the color of the bug.-[N. O. States. NELLIE LEWIs CA1SNATIoN.-Thel latest and one of the best novelties for 1891 is an elegant Carnation, growing on long stems, a free bloomer with large flowers, of an exquisite shade of pink, something entirely dif. ferent from anything in Carnations. This flower is destined to become a great favorite among the florists, as the ladies prize it very highly for cor sage bouquets and decorative purpo ses generally. The endorsement of the old firm of James Nick, Roches ter, N. Y., who introduce this plant, is enough to assure the public that it is all they claim for it. The price is only 50 cents each, three for $1.25, six for $2.25, dozen $4,00; but a bet ter way would be to bend 10 cents for Vick1's Ftoral Guide and the 10 cents can be deducted from the first order forwarded for seed. - The trial of the Hennessey mur der case has developed the fact that. there is a very large number of people in this city who have conscientious scruples against the infliction of capi tal punishment, but there is a suspi. cion in the public mind that in a great many instances the scruples are born of a desire to escape jury duty on a case which will not be closed for sev eral weeks. Those persons, who de clared their opposition ta hanging a criminal, no doubt at the time of the assassination of the late Chief of Po lice, expressed the opinion that hang ing was too mild a punishment for the guilty parties, and in doing so gave utterance to their honest senti ments. The disinclination, however, to endure the physical and mental fa tigue of a long trial has, it is plain, caused quite a number of citizens to embrace every opportunity to avoid service on the jury.--[States. -Over a year ago an agitation was begun in a number of States, says the Times-Democrat; in favor of better roads. Louisiana took a hand in the discussion and declared that better roads were one of the first essentials of the State and would materially re duce the cost of transporting products to market. The matter was discussed in the papers, and some of the police juries framed road laws for the par ishes, but the agitation stopped there, and little or nothing was accomplished in the way of actual improvement. On this same subject an exchange says: The agitation should be re newed and kept up until something is accomplished. From one end of the State to the other is heard the comrn plaint of bad roads. They are worse than has ever been known. A HAPPY GATHERING.-Wednes day evening a large number of invi ted guests met together at the spacious residence of our esteemed friend, Judge E. North Cullom, to celebrate the recurring birthday of his kind, af fectionate and beloved wife. Many were the warm and heartfelt congratu lations tendered to this model couple, and equally sincere were the greet ings returned. It was a love feast which the writer will ever remember. At a late hour of the evening, the guests separated carrying with them happy recollections of the gay festiv ity.--[Opelousas Courier. -To save themselves from com plete annihilation, owing to the free molasssecs clause of the McKinley tar iff bill, the sugar boilers of Philadel-. pbia have chartered a fleet of bulk molasses carriers to ply between Cuba and Philadelphia. The craft char tered inclune both steamn and sail ves sels, and are to land in Philadelphia and New York 2,000,000 gallons of bulk molasses at the rate of two cents per gallon. Says the Herald: Thle new tariff which, in its -appl[ cation to sugar and molasses goes into effect on April 1, has put the boilers in a bad ,position, and cheap trans portation alone will save them from shutting doan. -The North Louisiana Agricultu ral Society will hold its regular meet ing Thursday, February 26, at the Agricultural hall at the North Louisi ana Experimental Station, Calhoun. The subject for discussion is "The Possibilities of the Sweet Potato Cr p in North Louisiana." 1'he annual election of officers takes place at this meeting, and a large attendance is de sired. Addie McGrath Lee, secretary. -Americans do not covet onion with their neighbors and will never favor annexation until it is sought by an overwhelming majority of Cana dians themselvee-perhaps not then. But destiny seems to have decreed the union of these countries at some not very distant day.-[Coffalo Com mercial. -Dr. McVicar, the Episcopal cler gyman who officiated at the Astor Welling wedding, received a fee of 81,000. The footman and driver of the carriage which conveyed the young couple from the bridal recep tion received each a tip of $50. Mr. C. G. McCormick, a Bunkie Citi zen, Falls Heir to 43: 0,000. The Philadelphia Call had the follow ing in its issue of. the 3d of February: News of an important decree made by the Court of Errors and Appeals at Tren ton was received in Camden this morn ing in the case of the Ocean City Associa tion, appellant, vs. Winm. McCormick. By the decision several hundred lot owners in Ocean City, the property of which is included in the decree, and which is worth close to $160,000, have become valueless. The case is decidedly an in teresting one. In 1822 Townsend Stites purchased the ground in question at a Sheriff's foreelosure sale, and then deed ed it to John Stites as trustee for Lydia McCormick and her heirs. After John Stites entered upon his trusteeship he discovered that the Sheriff's sale had been illegal as. he had not inserted the notice. of sale the statuary number of times in the newspaper. He went to the Shoriff and told him of the error and this property was readvertised and resold, this time legally. John Stites was pres ent and bought the property in for the nominal snim of $1, getting a deed in his own name. . He claimed that he owned the property and, as such owner, sold it, and finally it passed into the hands of the Ocean City Company. It was im proved, much of it sold to cottagers, and increased to twenty-fold of its original value. A year or so ago the heirs of Ly dia McCormick brought suit hi the Court Chancery for the recovery of the land, arguing that as John Stites was trustee for tha property, he was excluded by law from ~he right to purchase or speculate in it. Stites defended his action by the declaration that as the original Sheriff's sale was illegal the trust deed was also of no value, and that when he (Stites) went to the second Sheriff's sale and bid in the property for $1 he did it in the capacity of a pri cate citizen, untrammeled by any fiduciary relation to the property. The deed he received was in his own name, and therefore he owned it. The decision of the Court of Chancery, which was af firmed by the Court of Errors this morn ing, was that John Stites was a trustee and that he purchased the land in that capacity for the purpose of correcting the title. Mr. C. G. McCormick, of our town, is one of the heirs of the property won in the above suit,.and has a third interest in it. He was born in New Jersey, 1812, and lived in that State until six years of age. His parents then moved to the city of Brotherly Love, carrying with them the then youthful subject of this sketch. They lived there several years and returned to his native State, New Jersey. After spending some ) ears there, they moved to New York City, and from there to Philadelphia again. Ml. Mc Cormick by that time, being old enough to start hfe on his own account, learned the Cooper's trade. In 1833 he landed in New Orleans, where he followed his trade until 1849. In 'hat year he moved to Rapides Parish and settled near Cheney ville, at which place he resided until 1881. In 1881 he moved to this place, where he has resided since. Mr. McCor mick was married in 1844 at New Or leans to Miss Gallaway, by whom he has two living children--Mrs. J. P. Snell ings, of this place, and Mrs. J. S. Long mire, of Rapides. Mrs. McCormick was called to her long home in 1886, and was laid to rest in the Evergreen cemetery. She was an earnest member of the Chris tian.church a number of years prior to her death. Mr1 McCormick has also been a devout member of the Christian church since 1855. He has taken an active part in Sunday School affairs since living here, and is now. Superintendent of the Union Sunday School of this place. Though he has attained the unusual age of 79 years he is hale and hearty As a citizen he is beloved and respected by the entire community.-[Bunkie Blade. -It may be said without flattery that the Fifty-Second Congress has solved the problem of the surplus with great thor oughness.-[New York Times, Indepen dent. A Safe Investment. Is one which is guaranteed to bring you satisfactory results, or in case of failure a return of purchase paiee. On this safe plan you can buy from our advertised druggist a bottle of Dr. Kiag's Necw Dis covery for Co'rnmption. 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