VOLUME XVII. MONROE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1882. NUMBER 80. THE TELEGRAPH: Pablished eveary atueday. AT MONROE, OUACHITA PARISH. ILA. CM. 'W T. MHOCSIaE.ALNIDT Editor and Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy, one year.......................... .4,00 One copy, six mnonths........................... 2,50 ADVANCE RATES: One copy, one year............................3..,00 Onle copy, six months ......... .................. 2,00 TARIFF OF ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at one dollar and fifty cents per square (one inch ot space or less) for the first, and seventy give cents for each subsequent insertion, for any time under one month. 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He may be found, when not profes sionally engaged, at Moore's drug store during the day, and at his residence at all other hours. Monroe, Feb. 0, 1879. R. Riehardlson. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MoaRon, LA., will practice in all the parishes of North Louisiana, the Supreme Court of the State, the Federal Courts, and in the Land Oe I)c Department of the General Govern mnet. August 18, 1881. Jamales T. IBtrother. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Monroe La. uVill practice law in North Louisiana, before the Supreme Court at Monroe, Fed eral Courts of Louisiana. Court of Claims, and Supreme Court of the United States at Washington City. JOHN CA1.DERWOOD. T90OS. Y. AlY. Drs. Calderwool at Aby, Practitioners in Medleine and Surgery. Otlice on Grand street, in rear of F. M. Mc(:'ormnick's Drug Store, and opposite D. i. ( uniJy's store. January 23, 1880. n20:ly John H. Dlnkgrave, A' "ORNEY AT LAW. MONROE, LA. Oflice opposite Court House. Practices in all the Courts of North Louisiana; also in tile Supreme Court of the State and the Federal courts. All claims, including cot ton claimns, will receive prompt attention. Land OH(lee and Pension matters attended to. March 28, 1879. Dr. S. C. Murphly, D .FIARD S1., MONROE, LA.-Having recently arranged his office with special reference to the treatment of chronic female diseases, Dr. Murphy will give particular attention to that branch of his profession. .Ai-Reters to the medical traternity of Mon roe and Trenton. June 15, 1811.-tf. Talbot Stillmanan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. MoNno, LA., will practice in the Parishes of Ouarchim,. lorehouse, Richland and Frank- lin, in time Supreme Court of the State, and in the Federal Courts. Will take claims for collection in all other parishes in Louisiana, with privilege of managing sanme lit cnlloection with attorneys residing ..here. August 18, 1881. Ct. J. OArTNRn. IM. J. I.1 DDEI.L. Boatner at liddell, ATTORNEYS I AND COUNSELORS AT Law, Monroe, La., will practice in all the Parishes of korth Louisiana, in the Supreme Court at Monroe, the Pederal Courts, and in the Land Office Department of the General Government. Otlice fronting northeast corner of public squrare. January :3, 1879. Dentistry. DIi. S.L. BRACEY, Dentist, respectfully offers his professional services to tmhe citizens of Mmonroe and surrounding coun try. Having an experience of fourteen years in the practice, he feels confident of .ivimngsatisfthetion in all branches of his i'rofiession. Is willing to warrant all work. Oflie at residenmce on Jackson street, near tie 'Female Academly, Muonroe, La. v7-nmarl6:1 y Joehn MeEnery, ATTORNEY AT LAW &n LAND AGENT, No. it Carondelet St., New Orleans. I AND BUSINESS at the Land Offices ill • New Orleans and Washington City at tenlded to. Agency for sale and purchase of Plantations, lFarm and unlimnproved I ands solicited. ;gr0Major J. (I. RHilhardson is associated w Nih .ir. MIclEnory in the land business, to which he will give his entire attention. .Tanluarly (i, 1881. WV . i'. ITrnA.. CP. H. TROtRSDA WI.. Mlillsaps &a Trousdale. ATTO(RNI :YS & COUNSELORS AT LAW alONnOlE, rO'PISIANA, ill practice in thIe courts of the Fifth l mistlrit,, Supremlme Court, anmd Federal C'olrts. Vill take clainms for collection in all tile parishes of North Louisiana, with lrivtilege of nmamagimng samme ill conneetion with resident attorneys. Office inl ST'mmnm's tllmrL(t, on WVood tmreot. Augulst 18, .181. H. H. Rausell, ATTORNIEY & COUNSELOR AT LAW, .MoNnROR, LA. PHRA(TICFS REGULARLY in the Par ishes of Ouachita, Riehland, Lincoln and C(aldwell, uand i tihe Supreme ('ourt. c 'llection of claimls prosecuted with dili gncmmme anild Ilmmom I promnptly rem itte. Man agelmelnt, sale aimml lease of real estate under takenl, anlld satisfalion garatnteed. Fees mnlonerate. Office on Wood street, in Stubb's building, Jan. 6, 188 THIE SNORER'S DOOM. 'Twas midnight, and the sleeper's lanps Were burning low and dim; One sound alone the stillness broke, One snore of wondrous vim. Now sounding in the deepest bass, Now in a baritone; Then like a locomotive's snort, Then like a dying groan. Then one by one the curtains Of each berth were drawn aside, And wrathful voices roared for peace, But all in vain they cried. An angry miner grasped a "pop," A granger seized a boot, And leaping from their bunks, t he rest Prepared to follow suIt. Then came a wild. despairiplg cry, And then a groan of pain; The noisy slumberer had been dropped From the speeding train. Then, with a sigh of deep relief, Once more they doffed their clothes, And silently resigned themselves To undisturbed repose. No more that railway fiend will break The slumbers of the just; No prayers are said, no tears are shed, O'er his unhallowed dust. AIDORING THE SUNRISE SEA. Quaint Heathen Rites of the uniL s in Roston Harbor. BosTcs, March 28.-Perhaps three centuries ago the wilderness bordering I on Massachusetts was the scene of as weird and uncanny a form of idolatry as was to-day revived here by a band of aboriginees. Six chiefs of the Zuni nation have made a pilgrimage from their home, New Mexico, to the ,"Ocean of the Sunrise," to pay homage to the god of the waters, one of their princi pal deities. For 196 years their supply of holy water from the great sea had not been replenished, and the chiefs and medicine men were sent on the long journey to propitiate the Great Spirit and implore his continued favor. They I are accompanied by Prof. Frank H. Cushing of the Smithsonian Institu tion, who some years ago went among them to study their habits and tradi tions. So fascinated did he become that to assist in his Investigations he made himself oneof them and was adopted by a chief. He participated in to-day's ceremony, and has acted as interpreter for the Zunis for the week they have been here. The savages are remarka bly fine-looking men for Indians, and they have been the objects of much in terest during their stay here. A stranger procession never appeared I hereabouts. First came several policemen, who attempted to keep the crowd In order, I and shouted loudly to it all the time to I "keep back," which, as usual, the crowd I did not do. Then came Mr. Cushing, clad In a I blue shirt of native cloth, buckskin leggings and moccasins decorated with silver buttons, crescents, and buckles, strings of beads, and shell bracelets. lie wore upon his head a bearskin cap, somewhat like Robinson Crusoe's tra ditional head-gear, with a number of feathers stuck into the side of it, and I was agreeably decorated with a streak I of black paint, which ran under both E eyes and across his noes, while a large t spot of the same appeared on each I cheek. The chiefs were drtssedl like Mr. Cushing, except that one wore gorgeous I green breeches and had a skin skull I cap on his head, while another had I breeches of a stuff resembling black º plush. All were painted in the pleas- i ing pattern above described in the case t of Mr. Cushing, except that the color I favored by one was red and by another I yellow. The effect, however, was about I the same, and in no ease entirely pleas- I Ing. The Indians wore upon their backs I their shIelds and weapons of war, and in their hands carried hollow gourds and glass vases with which to take up the sacred water. After a protracted and irregular scramble over the rocks the celebrants of the rite, followed by the Irregular mob of sightseers, reached a point where they could look eastward over the sea. Squatting on their haunches on tlhe weedy rocks, they began to chant a prayer in a low monotone, and as they chanted scattered meal from their pouches upon the sea, in four dlifferent directions, to propitiate the Gods of the North and of the South, of tle upper and of the lower regions, tile Mother of thle Ocean, and the 1ather of the I.World. The symbol of tlais strewn meal is of a road or path which the i priests mark out with it, signifying a I request that the paths in life of the sup Spliants and their children may be ifnI 'ished,"' to use the Zunl expression, or drawn out to a distant end, as we might say. As the sea rose, a number of the more venturesome members of the assembly found themselvs cut off from the shore and were obliged to wade back to the beach, while an enterprising photo grapher, who had boldly planted him self on two rocks in the very front of the kneeling Zunis and trained his camera upon them, was soaked up to his knees before'his negative was taken. The Indians, however, were much pleased with the rising tide, consider ing It a mark of especial favor on the part of the gods of the sea, and, des pite Mr. Cushing'sattempts to dissuade them from remaining, they persisted in completing their chant and petition. They even looked upon their counsel lor with some disfavor and urged him not to be faint-hearted, but to remain and see the favorable purpose of the gods. Although seeing the sea on this occasion for the first time they mani fested not the slightest alarm, but were evidently awe-struck and impressed with the majesty and power of the waters. When they came ashore out of the water they formed a circle, sitting close together, and smoked sacred cigarettes made of cane filled with consecrated tobacco. As they smoked they prayed and blew the smoke among the feath ers of the prayer sticks they carried. Then they cast the prayer sticks into the waves. Then the two head chiefs waded back into the icy water and filled their gourds and vases and went to the tents. On the way they whirled into the air sticks at the ends of thongs, making a whizzing noise. The gods were thus informed that the ceremony was finished. Another song was chant ed, reciting the good expected to result from the act of worship. The sacred meal was four times scattered west ward, the direction they must take fn returning to their own land. In addi tion to the gourds and vases, the In dians took back seven large demijohns of sea water, which will be consecrated after their return. The concluding ceremony was the initiation of Mr. Cushing into the high est order of the bow. He was taken to the shore, stripped of his head-dress, was baptized, and his hands were washed. Incantations were chanted meanwhile, and then the chief em braced him. This makes Mr. Cushing In every sense a Zuni. On his return, however, he must subject himself to several trying ordeals, one test being a fast of four days and nights. lie will then be permitted to read the sacred history of the tribe, which is expected to throw much light upon Indian his tory in America. DEATH OF A VETERAN EI)ITOIR. The Savannah News, of :March 25, comes to us in mourning on account of tbe death of its senior editor, Colonel William Tappan Thompson. From the editorial notice of this sad event we gather that Colonel Thompson was seventy years old at the time of his death, having been entitled for years past to the title of Nestor of the South ern Press. Col. Thompson engaged in newspa per work in early life. In 1850 he began the publication of the Savannah Morn ing News. Under his management and direction that paper has taken a prom inent place among the journals of the South. lie acquired a deserved repu tation as a thoughtful and prudent, yet fearless writer, and his personal heon esty and integrity were ever above I reproac,. In fine, Col. Thompson was an honor to the journalistic profession. Not only was Colonol Tlhompson a journalist, but also an author. His "Major Jones' Courtship" has been widely read, and for years found great 4 amusement throughout thlie country. Besides this, he was the author of ,Chronicles of i'ineville," r"Major Jones' Travels," and otilier sketches, the well-known fairce of ",The Live In lianll,'' andi a dtlramatiSttion of the Vicar of Wakefield, which was produced both in Irirope anal A m'rime with ,nuclh suc cess. A number of our lpeople have ipleas ant recollections of Col. Thomlnpson when hie attenled the Southern i'ress ('on vention here in 1860; wlhen the lament ed John Forsythl was the Nestor of Southern journalism, antd (ol. Thomp soe was next to him. Both were men whom the South coulm ill spare; both followed the path of duty and convic tion fearlessly; hoth now rest from their labors.--ebi¢f .Regi.ei.er THE ILLNESS AND DEATH OF UI)N FELLOW. [Boston Special the N. O. Picayune.] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the sweet poet, the gentle seholar, thegenial gentleman and admirablecltizen, whose pure thoughts embodied in verse have carried joy and peace to the hearts of millions of many nations, this after noon yielded up his life peacefully and calmly in the midst of his family. Ills gentle heart had scarcely ceased its pul sations when the sorrowed fact was made known to the deniaens of Cam bridge by seventy-fivestrokes upon the telegraph alarm bells, that being the number of his earthly years. For many months his failing health has compelled an almost complete with drawal from society, and during that period he has remained at his historic home, declining all Invitations, his thoughts centered upon his own Imme diate friends and neighbors.. His last appearance in public was on the occa sion of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Cambridge in December, 1880, when, at the morning exercise at the Sanders Theatre, he made a brief address to the children of the public schools, who, at the conclusion of the programme, clustered about him, eager to grasp his honored hand. The news of his death was entirely unexpected by the public, as his dan gerous symptoms were not generally known until Wednesday; but long be fore sunset there were numerous tokens of mourning displayed from private houses and it is probable that on the day of the funeral, which has not been definitely settled upon, the whole city will assume a funeral aspect. His first severe illnees began last Sat. urday. On that day he spent some time in walking and sitting upon the plazza, and upon his return to his room he was attacked with chills, accom panied by vomiting. All day Sunday he complained of severe stomach pains, and opiates were administered to allay the trouble and Induce sleep. His condition seemed somewhat improved until Monday, when dangerous symptoms became manifest and the family were seriously alarmed. Tuesday morning thesesymp toms assumed an aggravated form and it became evident to the household that his death was near. On Wednesday and Thursday there was a slight Im provement, there being a disposition to sleep almost continually. During the afternoon and evening of Thursday lie talked a great deal about various topics, and seemed to recover a large portion of his usual bright and cheerful disposition. Later in the night he became partially unconscious and seemed restless and uneasy. This morn ing he revived, though his talk was of a rambling nature and somewhat inco herent. This condition continued until about an hour before his death, when he again became unconscious and so continued until the last, suffering but little pain apparently. The immediate cause of death was peritonitis. All the family were present, consist ing of his three daughters-Edith (Mrs. R. H. Dana,) Alice and Anna, the sons Ernest and Charles, his nephews Wil liam and Wadsworth Longfellow of Portland, his sisters, Mrs. James Green leaf of Cambridge, and Mrs. Pierce of Portland, his brother-In-law, Thomas Appleton of Boston, and Nathan Ap pleton of Boston, and Mrs. ErnesbtLong fellow. Hle had been in bad health for one or two years, and it is believed that dur Ing his last brief Illness he had suffered but little pain. TIKE DAKOTA 0:IIEME. [New York Sun.] VAswirNwTroN, March 28.--1 Con gress passes the bill which propoces to cut Dakota Territory into two parts, and create a State out of one of these parts, it will not be done until after a hard fight. The Democrats showed an indifference respecting the early at tempt of the winter to create a senti ment favorable to the passage of the bill which was almost Incomprehensi ble. It is quite likely that the bill could have been rushed through had it bleen reported and called up early in tile session. Marvelous stories were told of the growth of the Territory. It was claimed that it had now a popu lation of 160,000, which was increasing at a rate that would give the Territory half a million people in 1890. The people were represented as being very anxious for the organization of the I lower half of the Territory into a ~State, and it was said that such organizatioo was all that was needed to develop with wonderful rapidity the remarka able resources of the Territory. But members have had time to examine some of the extraordinary statements that were made, and to learn some thing of the politieal plotting which has been magnfled; into a teat popu tar movement. It is now known that that part of the Territory from which it is proposed to create a State does not contain a population equal to the ratio of apportionment for one Representa tive in the lower House, and of this population not one in twenty cares to have the Territorial government legis lated out. The scheme is born of the desire of a few politicians to obtain power. When Mr. Windom was re-elected to the Sen ate without opposition by the declina- I tion of his predecessor, Mr. Edgerton, to be a candidate against him, Win dom made it his first business to see that Edgerton was well repaid. He I proeured Edgerton's nomination for Chief Justice of Dakota, and it was said at the time that Edgerton was I willing to take this office because he was assured that Dakota would be I admitted as a State this session, and that, with administration help, he could be returned to the Senate. A t part of the zeal that some Senators dis- I play is said to be due to the desire not only to make the Republican majority in the Senate secure, but also to have Mr. Edgerton back among them. I The Democratic members of both the House and the Senate have now come to an understanding that will I secure united action on this bill. Already it has been recommitted to Lhe Senate committee, because it had I been falsely reported as recommended E mnanimously by the committee, and ( two Democratic members said this was C a mistake. When it gets back to the Senate and into the House, it will be C nought step by step, and, as the Iepub lleans seem now determined to put it r through, it is not unlikely that a con test may be waged over it that will I greatly prolong the session. The Dem oerats believe that the people will sup-~e port them in the position that new I States are to be received only after it. ls certain that their prosperity has been such as to warrant a release from Ter ritorial jurisdiction, and their popu lation is suffilcient at least to equal the ratio of representation for one member of the lower House. TIlE MATCII MONOPOIL. A glaring, shameful Instance, says the Memphis Appeal, of the monopoly that is carried on under the pretense of protecting American labor is seen in the case of the common match used in I ?very house. One company has mo aopolized nearly anil this trade within he United States. Rich capitalists have banded together and manufac :are them, employing a capital of about t2,000,000. Should any smaller com pany attempt to rival them, they send matches among his customers reduced to any price that will make it Impossl ble for the competition to be sustained, and thus they keep the market to them selves. leside the regular trade mu sopoly they thus secure, they have an )ther source of Income. The govern ment supplies stamps for the matches it a reduced rate when large quantities c ire taken. • Bly purchasing on a large scale the company is thus able tosecure E L profit on their buying, besides the )rdinary income from their sales, and I -his supplies them with extra power to grush out rivals. American labor reaps < so advantage by the monopoly, but the I eontrary. AS this great company mo- I iopolizes the market, in case of any of their employes is not satisfied with his I wages or his usage, and wishes to leave, I eo nas nowhere else to go. The comrn pany have him at their mercy, unless I he go into some other business in which 4 lie had no experience and no practical I lualifcation. Thius the monopoly does I not only rob the public, but it makes a slave of the workman, and the monop- I alizers get their workmen at thecheap est terms to be lhad in the labor market nust the sanme as those who are not mo nopolists. I.et the reader look on the stamps affixed to the box of matches he is using and reflect that every man and woman, every merchant, farmer and laborer throughoutthe country has to pay that amount of tribute to the mnonopolists whenever a box of matches is bought. Is not this intolerable, that the industrious people in the United States, down to the very poorest,should thus be "sponged" upon to build up for tones for two-milliou-dollar capitalits? TAMMANY HALL AND ITS PRESENT PROPRIETOR.; A subscriber lyinag in ain etown, N. Y., writes to the New %'ork laun as follows: .. , "~Will you please to .tht'eYor Western inforination the origln°f 'the-i'dnany Soeety?' I 'neaa t1e', n at 9,~pf the 550eWthyether ,a, tle installation of that now myaterious Iastitotto-lIn the last century, it wa 'a ik l(ýtlt 'o ilal, or polltial eldb, 1r5it l~[ed by the leglslature at thi', ItpW OL A4ncelp tion or In.after yeals; anLtwheatt took on the name of S-t. Tamman ; also, when the society fell 'vietiE~ t6John Kelly, and Kelly blAi to tt I n the politics of the Hall. We have ben un able to find in the chronicles olf thecity of New York any history. of.Tawmany." A Sun reportse took the letter to Mr. Nelson J. Waterbury, ex-Greand Sachem of the ancient soelety,.and, requested him to give the desired Information. "The society, was quaded at the close of thelast century,"'. said Mr.. Water bury, "and the. object was. to dlfltso a r e p u b l i c a n s p i r i t l a a n t a g o n i s~a r ' o t h e Soelety of the' OCnclhpati,;"i l', was esthblished b , oticers ofthe. Aovolu tionary army, and was. 'sapposed to havearlstocratlc, not tb sity MlOn rch ical, tendencies. The intticlpalih n In the formation of the soielpty,sVi one John Mooney. I don't know,whother he was native born or not, but the first tendency of the feeling in the sbliety was American. It also prroposdat its start to be philanthropic, benoevolnt in Its scope, and, I presueme, sochaL. it was not Incorporated until the next dCeotry, not later than 1818. 1 don't klttWi that it was over called otherw it jq (The Society of Tamany, or teat Columblan Order.' That name never' hba -een dropped. "Tammapy Itall Is morole the hasno of the building In Fourteepth, utreet." ~fr. Waterbury continued.', "Thetocel ety is governed by aoenell of saitbmna consisting of 18,' seven:p f' l'ri are absolute." John gCe1Ily as Qwptq of seven sacheme, owps tbolbuUdiJsn,ab solutely, and can: turn people L. orsout as he: pleases. .V Whea Tweetl'eoilhded, Kelly saw the' plaeo ' ~t4, t ' In, took ttaseAelson, a u ;p ,up with men he could. xrely on tadoJdls will so as to control the 'aniunal elec tlons. The Bible deseribes theo bccur rence and the conditions: Vhen the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest and hlideth nonte. 'Then he saith, J will return Jsatoyny house fromn whence I came. put; and when he is come, he flndeth it empty, swept and garnished. 'Then goeth he and taketh with hinm self seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last slate of that man is worse than the first.'-41t. Matthew. "Furthermore," said Mr. Waterbury, ",if the IDemocrats n tile society wiho have not gone over to the ltepublieanrs with John Kelly would come together and agree to support thirtoon D)emo crals who don't belong to any clique or faction, but are acceptable to the whole party-men of character, lldolity, and good repute-they could elect thean sachems in spite of all John Kelly could (do, and could turn Kelly Into the street wlthlout the slightest dlifl culty." No woman of thIe wnealtller class earns a holiday more d eservedly :han Queen VictorIa. Ministers rise auld tall, and pass from active 1i llo Into enso and comparative seclusion, but thime Queen has been continuously In onlleial harness srinc 1837, and forty-five years isalong stretch for unlnterrulit&6l work. When her septuagenarian 1'rimo MIi ister was occupying his lulrt olllcilt post she was already at politician of some experience, and had distmtssesd great quesatlons with the lending mnindts of the (lay. A woman,, she began active life when men are reckoned mere school boys. "I suplpose," sal a gentleman to a former Judge'Advo calte-ceneral, ,"it Is 'a mere form, ygur submitinig t tthe Queon thlq urocedl ings of courls martial Y'" l)o. you, itndeed? 1Vell, 1 can tell y ,bl, thena timat she understands 'thi' wheole' hutlm ness na well a. I do myself." Chlarles Ihudley Warner says': "Al though there are many persolsn ii ail lands unable to pay for a paper,1 never hleard of any unable to edit one." A lIloston paper says that It never know a dletective to have a correct theory ot a murder until after the culprit was caught.