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DEMOCRAT1,.
WEEKLY.
DIOBLEY &.('t)., - - 1'roj~riilor.
W. (. 'rOfI EY ........ ......... F itor
-What has become of billot re
forml IHas it been eclipsed or
"snowed under" by the more prom
inent issue of free silver?
-An interesting little fight has
already been inaugurated by the
"outs" against the "'ins" and the
free silver hobby horse will he rid
den by them for all it is worth, in
their patriotic efforts to expel the
"ins" fronm the ofticial citadel.
-If the Democratic; party is to
survive the silver shock, it must
reject the heretical teachings of
the false prophets, intent only on
the acquisition of office and adhere
to the time honored principles and
cardinal doctrines of pIre, genuine
and unadulterated l)emocracy, as
expounded by the immnor:al found
er, Thomuas Jetfferson.
-We are not certain whether
the failure of the Populists to cap.
ture the Memphis Silver Convein
tion is a matter of congratulation
or regret. The convention would
not have been much of a conquest,
as it was a free for all sort of mass
meeting that might have beenl
turned to any purpose. i)emo
cratic in any representative sense
it certainly was not, and its es
calpe from being avowedly Popt'
listic was very narrow. Whalitev.
er it was, there was in it so much
of the "split the Denmocratic par
ty" sentiment that it is hard to
imagine how any sincere Denim
crat can desire to have it conisil
ered as Democratic in any sense.
-[New York World.
A Blo SUIT.-Ex-Governor J.
Mladison Wells has instituted suit.
against the United States before
the Court of Claims for $400,000
alleged to be due by the govern
meut as the value of stock and
produce impresaed by the Federal
army under Gen. Banks d(uriing
its invasion of the Red River Val
ley. Mr. J. U. Doughty, of Wash
ington city, special attorney of
the department of justice and of
the Court of claims, was in Alex
andria last week taking testimony
in the case on the part of the gov
ernment. It is not likely that the
Ex-Governor will encounter any
serious difficulty in establishing
his loyalty to the Union and if his
claim is not barred by the Statute
of limitations, he should be able
to recover the value of the prop
erty actually taken from himt and
converted to the use of the army.
ADHERE TO TIIE JUDICIAL
LAST. - Some of the ill advirsed
and indiscreet friends of Judge J.
T. Watkins, of Minden, have rush
ed him into the political arena as
a candidate for Governor. Wet
have the highest respect and utn
bounded admniration for Judge
Watkins as a learned and impar
tial dispenser of justice. "A bird -
in the hand is worth two in the
bush," but his misguided friends
do not seem to know when to "let
well enough alone." 11e occup ies
an honorable and lucrative posi
tion-with the eq uivalent sal;Ir3
of that of Governor-and fior aught
we know to the contrary, has ino
formidatble competitor to-s a succes
sor to himisellt While we cnter
tain, as already inltimnated. the
most exalted opinion ot Judge
Walkinis as an upright, loearnied
and imnpartial jurist, we iolpe liut
he-remenlbering the ancient La
till n maxin, "ne su/or ultrha cricpiam"
-will conclude to "let well enough
alone" and adhere to the juldicial
last. ihia injudicious aidvisers per
sunded hiil to enter the Cogil.r
sional tour-nament against lio.
II. W. Ogden, with tihe result th;i
hle spent several hundred dollaHRs
in the pursuit of this ignis j;luns,
always in sight, but receding still
further from contact as it was up,
prolnched. The result is a nmattcr
of puiblio notoriety. Mr. Ogden
occupices the seat in Congress alnd
Judge Watkins the judicial posi
tion which hle was apparently
anLius to abdicate.
Free Pills.
Sendl your address to H. E. Itucklen &
Co., Chicago, and got a free sauiple box
of Dr. Kinlg's New Life Pille. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pIllls are easy in action andt are par iet-n
larly eflictive in the cure of Connstuitlliol
and Sick Ileadatche, For Malaria tnt
Liver troublhs they have been proved inu
valnable. They aru guaranteedt to be
perfectly frie from every deleterious u.ii.
stance :lad to be purely vegetable. Thny
do trnt weaken by their action. by giving
tone to stomat-lh iand bowels greatly in
vigorate the sysn;t-. Rtguhlar size 25c.
mpr box. 8ohi by Mrs. C. Geig,'i, Dzn~
gist.
NO SUCH TEST SHOULD BE
ItEQUItRED.
A man must be "sound on the
goose"-that is on the 16 to 1 fal
lacy-or he mlst niot expect to re
ceive the support of the silver co
hl,1rts for any otlice whatever. It
mnakes lo dillterenee that he has
rcei dei his political inspiration
fromni the perennial fountain of Jef
fe sonIian I )nncl.racy and can read
ily pass muster upon the cardinal
pr'im ilces of Cnlpacity, honesty and
etliciency; still another and more
crucial test mtust be applied to
him, before he he can be admitted
into the "fold of the faithful" and
he endorsed by the-we had al
most said himt-tallists-1G to 1 cru
saders for any office whatever.
Now, we are unable to perceive
--and we believe that we voice
the sentimnent of all others than
fanatics--just why any such test
of fralty should be exacted of a
candidate for District Judge or
indleed frlom any ole who is seek
ing the suffrages of the people for
any parochial office.
We have stome good men in this
parish, as indeed in every parish,
who should not be ostracized po
litically, because they have the
ciurage to avow their honest and
conscientious convictions in oppo
sition to the free coinage of silver.
Itf loyalty to the free coinage of
silver is to be made a sine qut non
or condition plrecedent for election
to oftie", the silver satellites may
capture all of them inl this part of
Uncle Sam's domains, but they will
find theimselvus few and far be
tween and terribly lonesome at
the general "round up."
An Infitlnous Slander.
In the National Leader of the
People's Demands last week we
liln Ithe following:
W\e are becoming more and more
;Ilarmead at the persistency and
nimagnitude (of this sound money
propaganda of Wall street. We
t',iar our people are not sufficiently
awake to its dangerous powers.
At the present time it has bought
up nearly all the independent and
Sagricultural press, besides many
rerigious and at least one temper
I ance paper.
This is one of the most gratni
tous and infamous slander we have
yet seen perpetrated by the rabid
free silver advocates. The relig
ions press and the agricultural
press of the country is always con
servative and fair in discussing
political issues, and, because, they
do not swallow the free coinage
error, forsooth, they are to be
black-guarded by the penuy-a-line
political scribblers and henchmen
of the silver kings, who having no
reasons or arguments to offer, re.
sort to wholesale vitulperation ant
abuse in order to bolster up their
waning cause.--l(Colfax Ohronicle.
-Allen W. Thurman, son of the
"old Romian," Allen G. Thurman,
who has beenl pre:laching a free sil
ver crusade-like Blackburn, of
Kentucky-has been badly dlam
aged in the collision between the
"soulnd money" and 16 to 1 free
silverites, at (Columbus, Ohio.
Notwitlhstauling the laborious ef
lirts of "the soni of his father," to
check andul replel the advancing col
umnn of t he "L0ond(i Imoney" cohorts,
hlie was ingloriously beaten in his
own holner, by the election of an
;inti-silver delegation to the State
conivention. A few nmore such po
litical " Waterloos," ought to con
ince young Allen, that while he
has assumed the discaded to t of
his venerable parent, he is inot yet
in a jpositioni to convince the Ieo
pie, that o h Allen has entirely re
linqluished the role of political
leadlership or that he is qualified
to step into the paternal shoes,
vlhenc the act of reliiquishment ac
tually takes Ilice.
-The silver wave ihas fairl?
struck these trantluil shores and it
is almost imilpossible to see two or
It'he gentlemen in Conversat iou
)I1 Oulr streets or in the storesF ,
that they are niot discussilng bi
nletallism and the unlimlited coin
;age of the pirecious wh;ite metal at
a ratio of 16 to 1. We sincerely
believe that soine of our citizens,
and intelligent ones at that, have
gone so wihi on the question as to
ibelieve that if the govelnmenrit
should put silver oni an equal foot
ing with gold, that t e anigel of
prosperilty will hover over the
land and flood the entire country
with white dollars, and all one will
have to do will be to shake the
tzlres,; and they will fall thicker
t han china berry leaves in a wind
storm after an October frost. We
caninot raccount for this wild idea
ulekss it is the effects of the gifted
tolngue of our learned Uircuit
Judge W . F. ,ackman, who has
been airing his ehxlorenee on tihe
subject pretty freely during his
sta; otf a week or so in our midst. 1
-- liarks'dle new Enterprise.
BLACKBUIRN WILL NOT SUC
CEED HIMSELF.
It must be a source of humilia
tion to Senator Joe Blackburn,
that having "stumped" the entire
State of Kentucky in the attempt
to disseminate the free silver
heresy, his herculean labors have
been more than neutralized by on
ly three speeches of Secretary
Carlisle, as is evidenced by his de
feat in his own district and the
refusal of the State convention to
incorporate a free silver plank in
its platform. Senator Blackburn
will not succeed himself. His un
wise advocacy of free silver and
denunciation of Cleveland and
Carlisle has determined the sena
atorial succession in advance, so
tar as he is individually concern
ed. The Senatorial mantle, soon
to be discarded by him, will adorn
the person of Secretary Carlisle,
if he desires the positionl again.
It not, the Legislature will prob.
ably select as his successor, either
General Buckner or Ex-Governor
M1cCieary. Senator Blackburn is
a genial companion, affaible gen
tleman and in every way entitled to
the large measure of personal pop
ularity which lie has enjoyed, but
he never was and never will be a
statesman. When he entered the
lists against such men as Carlisle,
Buckuer, McCreary and Lindsay,
it was as a contest between a Lil
liputian and Titans and his defeat
was inevitable.
A PRESIDENTIAL BOOMLET
COLLAPSED.
It seems to be a diflicult matter
to correctly "size up" Ex-Secreta
ry Whitney on the all absorbing
silver question. When he returned
from Europe, because he happened
to express the opinion that bimetal
lism was growing in favor in that
country anti the time wias not far
distant when the natiobs of conti
nental Europe would be willing to
submit the matter to the arbitra
ment of an international confer
enee, this expression was speedily
seized upon by the Populists and
so-called IDemnocratic 16 to 1 silver
enthusiasts and straightway they
started an embryotic presidential
boom in favor of Mr. Whitney.
But having since learned that
he is only a bimetallist-pure and
simple-they have "dropped him
like hot cakes from the griddle"
and the Whitney "boomlet" has
collapsed about as suddenly as it
sprang. into existence.
-The "sound mnoue3" campaign
is conducted on its merits. These
consist, as the journals state, on
the "sinews of war" furnished by
Wall street. That is a very strong
indication of who expects to be
benelitted by the gold standard.
It is evidently not the wage earn
ers and toilers.-Shreveport Times.
If Wall street is fuirnishing the
"sinews of war" for the "sound
mone~" campaign, which we deny
and challenge lroduction of the
least scintilla of proof to sustain
such an assertion, yet if it were
an actual flct, we can readily im
agine that the silver barons of the
West will contribute to the silver
campaign fund, as they are the
only ones in interest or to be ben
efitted by the adoption of free
coinage. It will certainly be of
no bentfit or advantage to the
people collectively. Is there any
good reason, why, because there
is an overproduction of silver,
that governmental aid should be
invoked to stimulate the price of
tbis article, any more than it should
ble expected or required to enact
such legislation as would have a
tendency to enhance the price of
cotton and wheat, because the sup.
ply is in excess of the demand and
these staple articles are, there
fore, not remunerative to the pro
dtucers?
-For the past decade or more.,
;s history will substantiate, the
imict miing administrations have
nal.uthcturecd Judges out of the
rIetiring Governors and vice versa.
'The people by w;ay of retaliation
want to llanufatture Governors
oult of Judges, at least it looks so
to us, since North Louisiana
wants Judge Watkins and South
Loutsiana, that is New Orleans,
wants Juldge Ellis, while middle
Louisiana, by way of a compro
nmise, wants to pun:t Judge Black
man in the coveted chair. So fr
as we are concerned we have no
choice in the matter as yet, from
the fact that before we go into the
battle w want to know just where
our leader slands and what sort of
material is backing him. \We are
nevertheless satisfied that Judge
Blackman has a host of friends in
this Parish who know that he is
eminently qualified in every partic
ular for the position and who, no
doubt, would like to see him at
the head of the next administra
tiionu.- -.lartsville ew Enter
p I11e.
A Free Silver League Organized.
Pursuant to public notice, the
friends of free silver, variously
estimated at from 150 to 200,
assembled at the Court house last
Saturday and organized a free sil
ver league.
Mr. John C. Ryan was called to
the chair and briefly stated the
object of the meeting. Messrs. H.
H. White, E. G. Hunter, Otis Col.
lins, AW. H. Roberts and W. L.
Duncan were apgoiuted a commit
tee on resolutions and permanent
organization. After the commit
tee had retired for deliberation,
Judge W. F. Blackman, in re
sponse to vociferous calls, enter
tained the assembled free silver
ites for more than an hour, in his
usually impressive and eloquent
style, with the best presentation
that human ingenuity is capable
of giving to an untenable, illogical
and fallacious issue. The Judge
was evidently in sympathetic
touch with the sentiment of his
audience, as was demonstrated by
frequent outbursts of applause,
which greeted his utterances. At
the expiration of the Judge's ad
dress, the committee returned and
reported the following resolutions
which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this organization
be known as the Bimetallic Lea
gue of Rapides Parish; that the
purposes of the organization is to
co-operate with the State Bimetal
lie League and to secure the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at
16 to 1, and independent action on
the part of the United States.
2. The officers of this League
shall be a President and one Vice
President for each ward, a Secre
tary and Treasurer, to be elected
by this meeting.
We recommend the following
preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, we believe that thor
ough organization and unity of ao
tiou among bi-metallists is neces
sary to secure the free and unlimi.
ted coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1 with gold, and we be
lieve that true bimetallism is essea
tial to the prosperity of our State
and of the United States, and we
believe that this question should
be made an issue in the election of
members of our General Assembly
. and Governor; and we believe that
thorough freedom and honesty of
elections is necessary, that the
will of the people of Louisiana
may be expressed on this subject:
Be it resolved, That we favor
the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 with
gold, by the United States, re
gardless of the action of other na
tions.
That we will view with alarm
1, and resentment any attempt that
may be made to influence our po
litical leaders or our people on this
question, by corruption or pa
' tronage.
That we favor the election to
the governorship and to the legis
lature only of declared bimetal.
lists. -
That we are in favor of ballot
I reform as proposed by the Ballot
Reform League of this State, and
I that we authorize the President of
this meeting to appoint five. dele
gates to the Ballot Reform Con
ivention, to be held in New Orleans
on July 20th proximo.
That we urge the organization
of bimnetallic leagues in each ward
Sof Rapides Parish and request
I each league to enroll its member.
Sship and urge each voter to join.
H. H. WHITE,
W. L. DUNCAN,
W. H. ROBERT,
E. G. HUNTER,
OTIS COLLINS.
A permanent organization was
then effcted by the election of
r MIr. H. H. White, as President and
3Mr. E. ii. McCormick, as Secrete
Sry and Treasurer.
After listening to interesting
and instructive addresses from
Messrs. II. B. White, Wmn. Polk
SJr., and E. G. Ilunter·, the League
adjourned subject to call of the
President.
RAIN STORM.-At 12-30 Monday
a very heavy rain storm, with
black and lowering clouds from
the South West, passed over 4Alex
andria, inflicting considerable dam
age to property. Lidibs from trees
were blown in every direction. A
few electric wires and posts were
blown down. The Methodist
Church in West Alexandria, only
recently completed, was entirely'
demolished. A dwelling house in
WVest Alexandria was blown oil'
the Ioundatllion and badlly wrecked.
The colored Oftd Fellow's Hall in
Alexandria was considerably dlam
aiged. A store house in WVest Al
eandlria belonging to .Jr. L. P.
Carter was slightly damaged. The
new public school house in West
Alexandria just finished, was also
damaged to some extent.
WORK SUSPENDED AGAIN.
Work has again been suspended
on the public building in this city.
It is the general imipression that
tile front wall-wherein occurried
the "crack," which has occasioned
so much trouble-will have to be
demolished and reconstructed
anew. It seemns to be no trouble
to construct buildings of brick and
stone twenty stories high in New
York and Chicago, but a two
story budidiug will "crack" here,
i/bfore the entire weight is put
upon it. There is gross inisman
agemeunt and inefficiency displayed
by somebody in the coustruction
of this building. Let the blame at
tach to whosever is responsible for
the defective construction.
[EXTRACT FROM PROCEEDINGS CF ¶
THE CITY COUNCIL,
JULY 1, 1895.1
CITY ORDINANCE.
On motion, the ordinance known
as the 'Bicycle Ordinance," adopt
ed April 1st, 1895, was amended
to read as follows:
That the riding of bicycles on
any of the sidewalks or pave
ments within the corporate limits,
and on the plank walks situated
within said limits, is prohibited,
and parties iiding bicycles on any
of the streets of the town must in
all cases have their machines un
tier control and give right of way
to pedestrians.
Any party or parties violating
this ordinance shall, on convic
tion before the Mayor, be fined not
less than 81 and costs nor more
than $5 and costs, and in default
of payment shall be confined in
the city lockup not less than 12
hours nor more than 48 hours.
Stewart and Jones and the sil
ver miners generally desire to es.
tablish the silver standard, and to
expel all the gold from the coun
try, because they wish to make a
market for their silver bullion.
They do not care in the least that
this will cost the laboring men of
this country from ten to twenty
billions of their earnings. Their
hired attorneys who are every
where blatant for silver monomet
allism do not care for anything ex
cept to earn their fees. There are
Dugald Dalgettys of politics who
1 will take a fee to advocate any.
thing, and who would be willing
to destroy half the wealth of the
country in order to get a bribe of
$100. These may safely be treat.
ed as Dante treated. men of the
type whom he found in his Inferno;
quadrate passa-glance at them
and go on.
But the mass of those who rally
to the silver banner care nothing
for silver nor yet for gold. What
they wish is a cheap currency.
t The silver miners and their attor
t neys tell them that the Govern
went stamp can add the fifty cents
lacking in the bullion value of the
silver dollar. They admit, and
f are pretty well strengthened in
I the belief that it can add 100 cents
as well as fifty. The winning ele
ment proposes to throw off50 per
cent. of the debts of their allies;
tihse latter, not to be outdone in
geunerosity; propose to throw off
Sth other 50 per cent.
The mining element has the
emost money, but the others have
the numbers. They look on free
silver as only a way station to ir
redeemable paper. It has leaked
t out that the Populists on the Com
.1 mittee on Resolutions at Memplhia
I compelled the othersto strike out
the words "redemption money"
8 from the platform, they being
"agin redemption." They argued
Stlhat there could be no such thing
Sas redemption money, as indeed,
there cannot be when the country
is flooded with irredeemable paper
in quantities so great as to exceed
the resources of the strongest Gov.
ernment to redeem. There was
no iredempltion for the French as.
Ssignats or the Confederate curren
f cy. These are the models which
1 the Polpulists propose for our imi
tation in establishing a currency.
The silver mining interest is in
n significant as compared with the
k other great interests of the coun
e try. The few mine owners have
cm .cumulated large fortunes, and
have a good deal of money to ex
pend in effort to induce the peo.
Splie to ruin themselves to make a
b market for silver. They look to
the advocates of cheap money to
Sheilp them out in this struggle. At
the same time the Republican con
- vention of Colorado last fall, after
R declaring for free silver at the "di
L vine ratio" of 16 to 1, denounced
B the Populists because they Prdvo
t eated paper money. But when
V the lifty-cent dollar wins the fight,
if it ever Ahould the victors would
not stop there. They would be
Swillhng to allow the miniers to coin
their silver, but they would insist
h that lithe.governmeint should issue
'"direct to the people" an unlimit
- ed supily of irredeemablet paper,
* which under their treatment would
e speedily becomnie of something like
Sthe value of the French assign:lats.
The battle for unsound money
will go on till it is squenched.
Those who imagine that thie Popi
- list animus back of the movement
I will be sati.fied with a fifty-cent
dollar are cherishing a cruel illu
sion. To the mind of a Polpulist
l any dollar with intrinsic value is
i an outrage. A fifty cent dollar is
I just half as great an infamy as a
(100-cet dollar. Of the two lie
Spref'ers the cheaper, but he would
Svastly piefer a dollar that was
1 good for piaying debts and nothing
else. If he could pay a $100,oOu
debt with tile price of a bushel of
,potatoes he would still be howling
t for more money, and complaining of
- the contraction of the currency.
SThe hunger for.cheap money is in
Ssatiable. Siiver monometallism is
- only a way station on the rodul to
Sirredeemable paper. - [Courier
Journal.
TO BOSTON, MASS., AND RE
TUIRN%
One Fare for the Round Trip, July 86,
4th, 6th and 6thll.
On account of the Fourteenth
International Convention of the
United Society of Christian En
deavor and the National Young
People' Christian Union, to be
held at Boston, Mass., July 10th
to 14th, 1893, the Texas & Pacific
Railway will place on sale July
3d, 4th, 5th and 6th, tickets to
Boston, Mass., and return at rate
of one lowest first-class limited
fare for the round trip, with final
limit for return, August 5th. Ex.- I
change orders will be drawn on
Mississippi river gateways-New
Orleans, Shreveport, Memphis and
St. Louis, on the dates named,
with final limit August 5th. Tick
ets east of these gateways, how.
ever, will be limited to July 24th
for return, with privilege of ex
tending the final limit to August
3d, by depositing the return per
tion of ticket with joint agent of
terminal lines at Boston.
If you do not wish to attelnd this
Convention, why not take advan
tage of this low rate and visit
friends or relatives in the East, or
enjoy yourielf in the mnountaiins or
at the seashore for a short time.
For further information call on
or address your nearest ticket
agent or W. A. DASHIEL,
Tiav. Pass. Agent.
GASTON MESLIER,
Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agt.,.
Dallas, Texas.
June 26-tJ5.
Old People.
Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters..
This mediciue does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey nor other intoxi
cant, but acts as a tonic and alterative.
It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels,
adding strength and giving tone to the
organs, thercby aiding Nature in the per
formnance of the functions. Electric
ltitters is an excellent appetizer and aids
digestion . Old people find it just exact
ly what they n~ed. Price fifty cents per
bottle at Mrs. C. Geiger's Drug Store.
-While we are not in the habit
of betting, we'll wager a nickel
that every one of the fellows
astride of the free silver hobby for
office, will be found with a gold
watch in his pocket. Not one of
them would carry the despised sil
ver watch, provided, he was able
to purchase a gold one.--(louisi
ana Democrat.
We are not after an office, but
are on the "free silver hobby," and
own a -gold watch "'g-celled."
D)idn't buy it. Have not owned i
$10 gold pieca in that many years
and hardly have seen that muclh,
save through the cashier's window
in a bank. Let us whisper thie se
cret-a lady friend who knew an
editor's needs, made us a present
of it-God bless her.-[Shrcveport.
Times.
We had no reference to you,
Bro. Tunnard ! but to the chronic,
perennial and perpetual office seek
or, who is always in the front rank
at the approach of every political
campaign, with his honeyed words
of advice and admonition to the
"dear peoide" and like Banqueno's
ghost, will not down, till he has
been ignominiously defeated, ei
ther in convention, primary or at
the polls. We believe that you,
like ourself, are honiest, sincere
anl conscientious in your financial
convictions and that they have
been formed after deliberate re.
o arch and exhaustive investiga
tion of the intricate subject, al
though we conceive that your con
clusions are erroneous and will be
so demonstrated by the future de
claration of the American people,
who may be deceived sometimes,
but not always.
-The rabid free silver organs
have been unanimous in ascribing
the recent financial panic, agricul
tural depression &c., to the "mon.
umental crime"t of 1873, but now
that it is universally conceded that
there isan upward tendency in
wages, increased activity in busi
ness and a griladually, but surely
returning prosperity --unless throt
tied by the free silver agitation
e0 are curious to learn to what
Impelling power they will attribute
this changed condition of affalirs.
If the calamity howlers were orig.
inally correct in their premises. they
lead them inaltly to illogical con
clusions, if not to actually convict
themn of insincere amld hlypcritical
dlealing with the pulblic. As the
"great crime" of 1873-to which
they attributedt the Iliad of woes--.
has not been rectified, they must
per force seek somle other cause
than the unfriendly disposition of
the government towards the white
metal.
POLICE JURY.--'J'b P'olice Jury
has been in session since Monday,
sitting ;ia a Board of IReviewers, to
revise and equalize assessments.
SSCHOOL BOARD. - The School
'Board will meet in regular session
next Saturday.
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14Ew ORILEANS, LA.,
June 20, 1895.
The Daily Item, City:
GiLaM&IL N-It affords me great
pleasure to acknowledge the merit
and range of the I.t's circulation.
I have been surprised at, the re
turns which my card in your paper
has brought me. Please duplicate
.my expiring contract ard oblige,
Yours truly,
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Proprietor "The Truefit" Glothiug
aud Tailoring Esiablishmenti
The above is from one of the
leading Genut? Ouloi.hie~ of the
city-a man who has grown up
with the trade of New Orleans,
and is an enLerprisitg meucnbcr of
this city's commercial circles.
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CUOSTAifLE'S SALE.
State of Louisiana-Parish of Rapide-
Justice's Court.
Mus. M. L. M.saNxlo
'V.
JOIYN JJACKlON
B Y VIRTUE OF AND TO SATISFY A
Swil of lhri facial issued by A. D.B,
IRachal, Justice of the Peace of the Alex
andria Ward'Wit apidea Parish, La., in fa
vor of Mrs. . . . Manninug and against
John Jackson, and tome directed, 1. will,
at 12 o'clock in., on
SATURDAY, the 13th day of JULY,
at the late residence of the defendant, sn
the Town of Alexandria, Parish afore
stid, oler for .ale at public auction, the
following Inovabl, property, to-wit:
One Big Dalton Sewing Machine,
Oge four-post Bodstead,
Two Small Bedsteads,
One Rocking Chair.
Terms of 3alto-.U;h i subject to ap
praisement . M. W. IAILLIO,
Constable Alexaudria Ward, iapidea Pa
riah, La.
June 26, 1895-thes.
SUCCES8iON SALE.
State of ALouisiaun-P'nrish of Rapide-
'Touth JtuIieiul Ditrict
Court.
SucCEisaoIN or S. COuT.u'€
Pol. No. 017.
ADMINIsTI:h1ION & NC.
P)URSUANT'LT TO A COMMISSION AND.
I Order o!' Sale issned from the Uoln
ofable the 10th Jdicial listrlkt Court
and to me directed as She:ritf tnd ]ItX
O()licio Auctio:eer of the Palisb of 2tap
ides, Lao., co:mw:tadi:sg and authoriziing
me to sell for the pay-ment of dets for
Cash, al't cr due advoert isanent and in ne
co, dance with law, .he berindufter doe
scribed prolperty, belonging to the Sac
cession of S. Culen, I will offer for sale
at Public Auction a the lasei and highest
biddor at the rount Door of the Court
House in the town of Alezandria. La.,
between the honas preacrilbed by law, on
SATURDAY, JULY 20TH, A.D. 1. 5,
the following described property to-wit:
The one undivided one-half Interest in
and to o. certain tract of laud lying and
adjoining the City of Alexandria in Rap
ides Parish, Louisiana and being descriu.
ed as fol!ows, viz:
Lot nmarked "'A bounded West by
Bayou Robert Road, North by Corporate
lianit of the City (,f Alexandria, East by
the Morgan Rail Road and Sooth by the
Texas and Placfillo Rail Road. Also Lot
marked "IB" bounded VWest by Morgan
Rail Road, North by property (let) which
is marked "U," East by laund of E. B.
Wheeloek and South by blotgain'r Rail
Road Sand Pit. An,d also Lot marked
"C" bounded West by Casson streea of
the City of Alexandria, North by the
centre of the Tow Ditech. East by lauds
of Cullen, Marye and Artail and lands be
longing to the heirb of Esthet Lurev and
South by the said Lot warked "B." All
three of said lots, "A," "B," and "C "
containing in the aggresgte the qnantily
of Seventy-Three and 51-100 acres (71-5)
more or less and includiig the old traec
and embankment of the Ralph bmith
Rail Road.
Terms of Sale--Casb, cubject to ap.
praisement on file, in Clerk's Ofifee.
D. T. 6TAFFORD,
Sheriff & Ex-Oficio Tax Collector, Par
ish of Rapides, La.
June 19th 1895.
PAT KELLY,
N DERTAKER
--AND DE:ALER iN
METALf(1O - and - ROSEWOOD
CI0olFI FIltN Is
811QPt
Corner Lee and Fifth its.,
ALEX ANDRIA.
IOTICE.
P UBLIC NOTICE IS iEIEIBY A
given that ti;e regder meet.
inga of Oliver Lodge Ro. 54. .
& A. M. have been ehanged lio,
the 1st andl 3d Saturdays of eseb
month,'to tihe 1st and 3d Wedieays of
G. A. STAPLE8, W. M..
