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VOLUME XXIV. MONROE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY., JUNE 8, 1889. NUMlEB 48. MONROE ADVERTISEMENTS. I. BAER & BRO., 1DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, &c. AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOO])S, NOS tO & 12 GRAND STREET, MONROE, LA., O- Respectfully Invites the public to call and be convinued that they are carrying a full and select line of the above. A New * Spring * Stock W fr every department receved daily. Prices to snit everybody. lSpecial attention to Mail Orders. I. BAIR . BRO., Nos. 10 and 12 Grand Street. Monroe. La. MEYER BRO'S-,. S Wholesale a*d Retail Dealer in V Un Gills, Bools, SisHis, &c5., Nos. 22, 24 and 26 GRAND STREET, .. o:NEOL EOE-, . - - - ,A. The attention of the Trade is called to his well selected itoclkof SPRING AND SUMMER DSODli All Lines Complete. Call and examine the stock and price of goods. I"I All mail orders tilled with care and dispatcsh. J. S. BLOCH, -Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Lilaors, Wi es, Brandics, Ales, Beer, CI'C3-.A.RS, "ETmO. Highest Cash Price Paid for Hides, Wool and Fur. CORNEIl GRAND AND DEMIARD STREETS, Monroe, Ian. No. 22 DeSIARD M. - ONROE, a STREET, LOUISIANA, e Choice Family Groceries HARDWARE, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE TINWARE AND NOVELTIES. k ------- -----*----------~·=-x=-- - ý ri I - ~YPEEiDSS S E '-IN-Tý,ES. -- b Country Produce Bought and Sold. b Goods purchased from me will be delivered FREE 'within the City Limits. y I sell the Celebrated MONOGRAM VINEGAR. Everything sold on the LIVE AND LET LIVE PLAN. Samples of Wall Paper Always on IHand. COUNTRY ORDERS SOLICITED. ti -_._-_ - a I=LL , Bookseller and Stationer. _- SPECIALTE ad SCHOOL BOOKS, GUNS, PISTOL., RIFLES, BLANK BOOKS, H ELLS CARTRIDGES. CAPS, LIBRARY, MAGAZINES AND I'APEI~ , SH0, POWDER, WADS, d PLUSH GOODS, FISHING TACKLE, 0 POETS AND OTHER WORKS, Oli, NEEDIES. &C.. 6a HOLI DAY (iOODH. Sl WING MACHINES. t. No. 15 Grand St., MONROE, LA. h )eNlIAR) STREIET, MONROE, LOUISIANA, - DEALER IN - DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS. Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Glassware, Putty, Pens, Ink, Paper, Envelopes, Lamps and Chimneys. FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCO, 11 Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal Purposes. p W. A. BAILTE. DR, T. 0. BREWER. O BAILIE & BREWER, nucces.ors to J. A, Moore and W. IT. HIarris, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DBHUG GISTS, a McFee's old Suand, (rand Street, Monroe, La.. Dealers in Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Stationery, Cigars and Tobacco, Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal Purposes. e New Stock Spring anf Summer Millinery! 'hie ulldesignled haImajst received frollm New York, New Orleans and St. l.osl i a large an .I elega lt asortllmeut tl Spring and Summer Millinery of thie latast .styles. Also a full line of TLADIESI ' TTYTDWE:'W.E.AR. to which she r pe ctfisllv inviteq the attentirl of the iladieta of sMonroe amitd ,i.lnity to1 an inspection, Stle Agemtt fI,. II. t t vIteOIm'SI F'vashiinlm t:attermt ('o. No. 11 South Grand Street, MONROE, LA. THE CONE[AUHi DISASTER. Account elan Eye-witness. A Picture to Fill the Mind with Horror. PITrrsnUG, Jite 3.-The following ,, dispatch was sent by courier from Eb enesburg, June 1, by: William Henry Smith, general manager of the Asso. elated Press, who was an eye witness of the scene in the Conemaugh Valley on the night of the terrible calamity. It reached here to-night at 'midnight: The first train which left Cinecinnati at 7 p. m. conneets with the day ex press east at Pittsburg.' This train lelt Pittsburg on time Friday morning, but was stopped for an hour at the to junction on the report of the washout. a. It had rained hard for fourteen hours, and the sides of the mountains were covered with water descending into the valley. The Conemaugh river, whose bank is followed by the Pennsylvania road for many miles, was nearly btank full. The passengers were interested in see leg hundreds of saw logs and an enor m0ons amount of driftwood shoot rap idly by as the train pursued its way. At Johnstown there was a long wall. The lower stories of many houses were submerged by the water and the in habitants were looking out of the second-story windows, Horses were standing up tto the knees t in the streets. A side track of the rail s road had been washed out. Loaded f cars were on the bridge to keep it , steady, and the huge poles of the c e Western Union Telegraph Company, , carrying fifty wires, were swaying bad- t; ly, and several soon went down. The b two sections ran through this side of Johnstown and lay here about three hours, when they were moved on to h the highest ground and placed side by ft side. The mail train was placed in the a rear of the first section and a freight a train was run on to a side track on the . bank of the Conemanghb. The report was that a bridge had at been washed out, carrying away one , track and that the other was unsafe. There was a rumor also that the reser voir at Siuth Fork was unsafe and ir might break. This made most of the O passengers uneasy and they kept a pretty good lookout for information. ri The porters on the Pullman ears- r*, maiaed at their posts and comforted at the passengers with the assurance that it the Pennsylvania Railroad Company always took care of its patrons. A- I few gentlemen and ladies quietly seat- n ed themselves,- apparently contented. p Soon the cry came that the water in t the reservoir had broken down the bar. rler and was sweeping down the val- f ley. . Instantly there was a panic and a rush for the mountain side. Children were carried and. women assisted by a few who kept cool heads. It was a race for time. There was seen the d black head of the flood, now the mon ster of destruction, whoe crest was high raised in the air and with tills in Is view the weak at FOUNDtWINGS FOR TtlHElt FIEET. f' No words can adequately describe the it terror that filled every breast, or the ti awful power maniifested by the flood. m The roundhouse had stalls for twenty three locomotives. Toere were eighteen or twenty standitng there at bh this time. There was an olillnous crash and the roundhouse anti loconiotlives it disappeared. Everything in the main track of tihe flood was lifted in the air and then swallowed up by the waters. A hlan t dred houses were swept away in a few minutes; these included tile hotel, stores and Saloons on tihe front street tesidencesadjacent. The locomotive of one of the trains was struck by a house and demolished. The side of another house stopped in front of another loco- e I motive and served as a shield. The it rear of the car of the mall train swung to around in the rearo lathe second section of the express and turned over on its r side. Three men were observed standing upon it as it floated. Vill they trust to It or the still upright Pullman car-? The coupling broke and the car moved out upon the bosom of the waters. As it would roll the men would shift their position; the situation was desperate, rn and they were given up for lost. Two at or three hardy men seized ropes anti A ran along the mountain side to give (i them atl, after it was reported that the men lied escaped over some drift. iii wood near a bank. It is believed there rs were several women inside the car. ()Of l course they were drowned. at As the fugilives ot the inoitiatitlin side witlnessed the awful tl~lvstitli lii they were movted as nIevr Itore ill! their lives. Thry were iiowelc-~ to help thlose seizod upnon by the watler-;: I the despair of those who hail ist everything except life and the waliting of tho.e wIhose relatives or fricIis who were missing lih-d their breatls with nutnerable uorrow. The rain coltilnudt t, fall 'slti-ai:ly. "I but shelteiar was Ilnot thoughttl of. V.r y it few passengers slivcd Ilatytlhintg Irolla ft the train, so stldlai" wat the I ''. ' lIut | for your lives; T irt . n ~sil:i v\oll: 11.1 I- A. .I.i .' , Many were without hats, and as their Sbaggage was left on the tirati tlhey , were without Ineals oif relieving ti thi unhappy condition. 'Tlhe i 'u'tliai Itu ,I -, ithe houses still stantling an tih,, high , ground threw them opeltn I thItlier who tad lost their all atid to the iaseng:ers on the train. Daring the height of the I flood the spebtators =ere startled by the sound of two losometive whistles , from the very rkidst of the waters. Two engiLeers -with charseteristic courage had xemalied at their post, and while there was destruetion on ev f ery hand and appareptly no escape for them they Boundedthaeir whIstles. Y This they repeated at latervals he last time with tgislmpbiat vigor as the s waters receded from tlealdes of their locomotives. By 80 Agefores of the reservoir's waters bad: been spent on the village of Conemtiugh, and the Pullman cars and locouaotsves of the second .sectoi. .emaledl unmoved. This was because of being on the high est and hardest ground.d ' The destru,. tive current of tie resrv.oir flood had passed between, that and the mountat I while the current'of'the river did not eat.it away. But the other thalna had been destroyed. A solitary locomotive was seen imbedded in the mud where the roundhouse had stood. As the greatest danger had passed, the people of oaoemiugh gave their thoughts to their uelbbors of the city Johnstown. Here 'were centered the great sterl and iron lndustries, the pride of Western Pennsylvania, the Cambria Ironworks being known ev erywhere. Here were churches, daily newspapers, banks, dry goods house, warehouses and comfortable and well built homes of 12,000 people. What was their fate? In the contemplation f, of the irresistible force of the awful flood, gathering additional mo~mentum . as it swept on toward the Gulf, It be- t came clear that the city must be de stroyed, and that unless the Inhab l tants were telegraphed notice of the breaking of the reservoir they must perish. A cry of horror went up from the o hundreds on the mountain aide, and ab few instinctively turned their steps to' a ward Johnstown. The city was de lt stroyed, all the mills, furnaces, mane factories, the banks, the residences all, all were swallowed up before the shadows of night settled upon the earth. What of the inhabitants? Who can tell with any certainly? Those who came back by daybreak said that from 5000 to 8000 had been drowned. a Our hope is that this Is exaggerated v arad hen the roll is called more will respond. a In the light of this calamity the de. o struction of Conemaugh sinks into q Insignificance. In this latter place they were bring. t ing in the dead on stretchers. How a many had been lost here, at Mineral Point end at South Fork could not be told and may never be known. There were some passengers and possibly it forty or fifty inhabitants. The loss of property is enormous. The track of is tho railroad company is certainly de stroyed for at least ten miles below South F'orrk. The destruction of Johnstown's In- W dustrics will alone reach Into the mil lions. Then to this great sum add the it value of the houses and public build ings in that city, of the villages above and below it, and some idea can be formed of the wealth obliterated by the tl.-od created by the breaking of t the reservoir. And'thls reservoir was mainalined for PI:.4lSt'ru: OF' A PIT'TdBUR CLUB. Ia Upon the mountain was suspended a al body of water, three miles long, one tt ,mile wide and seventy feat deep, for fe the recreation of a few pleasure seek era. What would happen if there ci should be a break must have been Im- n perfectly apprehended since it is said at that a bond of only $3,000,000 had been ti exacted from the club. T What are these millions to the gross dl sum for the destruction of property? it Can they restore the dead to life-or as- fr susge the grief of the bereaved? The bh question of moral responsibllity swal-. I lows up the financial as somplelely .s at the angry waters did the city of Johns town. Many exaggerated stories are current v, and these grow as often as they are a, repated. It will be many days before tr the re,al facts can be approximated. p W. HENRY SMITH. ar -..ý .. t. Juras (cordon Bennet, while at MAo- d naco jlt before his late departure for t( iE-ypt, had a quarrel with the princely hi ruler of that famous gambling resort Ir and the princeling gave orders that the it American millionaire should be excl- y, dted from the borders of the pricl- h pality. Now, as all the world knows to the palace at Monaco stands on a great ts rock overhanging the Merediterranean. h AIr. IInrnett's yacht lay at hand, and, Ii afler the quarrel, he went on board al anl ~itnt thet night steaming up and ei liwnu ill friont of the castle with the ci foghorn blowing every other minute. a 'lTheu listlurb,'d 'rince next morlning luth peIi' with his old friend, and II MI. I;.nnett returned to MIonaco. 8 .tdvice to M othe.( r -. oI M1r-. \V3i'hw' S ,tlhing Syrup 1houi l IWt3"y t)e u(ed when chlIdren hin are (ull, zg tlth,. It relicves the suf- j rl f .r'r t ' ,t,ric-, it Ipro lducC natural, quiet al dl- p hy3 rl oving the child from pain, it ail tihe little cherub awakes as a' ,bright a a; button." It is very pleas-. a ant t, tatute. It ',othes the child, soft- i h eni- tlh gum-, allays all pain, relieves ii wtu.i, regul it's the bowels, and is the 0 t,-,t kouow, remedy for diarrhcul, b whith,hr iiriSing from teethling or other - e so-,,. Twenty flve ceuts a bottle, ir Job pirintiug if all kinds neatly done at this oie. if ty ItcR LOUISIANA LANDS se Uetween Delta andl lloroe--Conaliton and Prospects of tMe Section. fVrickbnrj Commerelal Herald.] SFromn Delta opposite Vicksibrg to s* the Bayou Macon, a distane' of thlity a nine miles, the land is. a rich 'black Iotrm, perfect cotton lands, whlettich will ir perhapse be always cultivated as at present, in large planlations, and in the nature of thinblgs, will be the last home of the negro and the-mule, and a where, owing to this fact, and the in * exhaustable fertility of the soll, with I its average depth of fourteen feet, cote. ton planting would be profitable even C at a much lower price than it now brings. A section where almoet any of these crops suitable to a temperate d or saub-tropical climate can be made with profit to the producer, and which Ie now almost exclusively a cotton sec. lion, only for the reason that it Is sup " posed to pay better than ether crops, r and for the farther reason that cotton can always he turned into money p without delay, a very important con' lideration to persons who do a large f hbolness and many of whom are still it in debt, owing to the losses resulting at from overflows prior to the enactment a of the laws creiting levee districts and I providing means, and to the adoption t of the preseent levee system, which at. fords sate protection.o It took a good while for the loan v companies to ind tbls country out, but there are quite a number In the field now, and t will only be a short time ti until they dad that the security is as good as it could be either In the North s or East, and that the difference to rate of Interest is exceeeive and rests solely b on the ground that the country has been newly discovered, and like, in all sections, which are undeveloped and improving, needs money badly with which to realize on its natural resour- th1 ces, and can afford to pay more for it of than can be had in older sections. Po Coming west from Delta, thirty. It nine miles out, is the Bayou Macon or section, which is classed by surveyors as Bluff lands. It is a ridge about aev- bi ven miles wide, east and wealt, and tb running through several parishes, north lei and south, less fertile than the lands b1 on either side of it, slightly undulating bh and raising from one-half to three- 18 quarters of a bale of cotton, and twean ty-five to thirty bushels of corn per acre, made up generally of small farms, cc nearly all owned and partially oltiva. ly ted by whites. A section which raises th mote at home every year than the bl last, and Is pretty nearly self-support. m Ing, with it stock of various kinds, ht and diversified farming. While this th is the rule, there are a good many noe groes scattered in among the whites, WI some of whom own the land they pe work, and there are also some large TI places, and a large quantity of unoccu- TI pied timber lands, probably the finest co in the South, white oak, cur oak, over cup, etc. etc. Timber men stated that be the timber on this ridge is pecularly th well suited for ship timber. Next Is comes the 13oeut river country, similar 7,( to the Mississippi Valley, and theu the ba Ouachita Valley, less fertile by perhaps at one-quarter then the Mississlppi river a lands, but lighter and easier worked, and having a clay subsoil which causes wi the retention of and full benefit from pr fertilizers. to Monroe is 78 miles out on the Oua- $0 chits river, navigable eight to ten months of the year. Its population is tot about 3,500, and is expected to double the number within the next two years. th The houses within the limits of the fire $1 district are all of brick. Outside of that, some brick, but generally at frame. It is one of the prettiest and cr' best located towns in the State, and intellectually and financially a very ar strong place for its size. co This section is already beginning to co receive and will continue to derive be very great benefit from the new North and South railroad, the Houston, Cen- on tral Arkansas and Northern now in sel process of construction and which will co add greatly to the developement of all th this part of the State, running as It fot does, North and Muth of Monroe, 00 through a very fertile and heavily tim- m hered section, which, owing to Its re moteness from market, has been lay. fr( lug dormant, awaiting an outlet for ce years, and which from its location, WI healthfulness and many natural advan. of tsags, must fill up rapidly. These are co the Valley lands of Caldwell and Cata- 06 houls below, and the Ojk Itid;e, Mer Itouge, and Hiayou hIartholomew lands gl above, reasonably prosfperous now, even he cut off as they have been froum a suffi ciency of labor from immigration, li market and generally from connection co with thebo outside world. (huachita and cr4 lied rivers is the hill portion of the la 8tale, which consists of good farnm up landl, some not so good, and some good m only for tile timber of loug leaf pine. gi It s14 the implression tlhat the country TI between the ()uachita and Mlississippli m rivers will imprnlrove more ralidlly thian I any other part of the State. This oplin-. gi lion is basedl not only on its natural ee iadvanttages, but on the fact that these lt advantages will now be mnade known by means if the several railroads which t' in a short time will run through it, ti , north gand south, crossing the Vicks- ' burg, Shrevepior: & Texa, of the Q. & * C., at different points Itweenr the two b rivers, which arsonly seventy-t e, miles C apart, andti on the other t,enetli to le Ie Sderived from these roads atnd on the c fact that money is getting more plenti- I ful, and easier to get. °'!t,. there Is the Houston, easntral Aik ,. and a Northern, tow bn being fult ort'h and south rom Monoe:tbthd i 'I lay road, which isto .eros ,at paihl, nearly half way between (bp tWg4ICYl, · and which tJl.belle ed.ill be begin within the next sixty, day.,,em .lSteeeis Mlosie pI Vally 'oad, e ! lag at Ta11'u.h and runutegalong t(The t west bank of the l l rver, or nearst It, onoWhdhil elS. i Oo May 29th, at Tallil h. r4Iia t tou these three roads .wlobh ui airesiti n Immediate construction, tbhemlWo 4m party of the Union tand-Nfotwe n road left Monroe May '97th, leleid on the 28th by.a .prty :ob4lngglgpt. of-way, gonog nortbweat to iiit .she party of enlgneersJ ww opD ntliag from the other end of the line at n dea, Ark. Then the (3IhddI headed by Capt. Grast, of the az Paeific, left Alexandria on, tes Mfro Inst., by private conveyae for Mon. roe, stated to a reporter of the .atesa Democrat at Alexandria, that. tiOpeo. pie between that place and Moroe" seemed to want I raltlrold, that bhi party was going over the route, and Ii it was found practloable, would builM at once. That Gea. Rie Is etill bieas. metring away on his Natabhe and Pet Scott road, which will pap .lbeeugh thlas section, If it don't die of old .g or, explosion before the few f und e is said to have at work at' ieatea, get very far with It., TEhe ft Is, thbls is such a good country hat It Is a `pli. are to write or talk about it. All that Is needed, Is more people and behpMer money, and It ia in a fair way to be satIsfied on these points in a short time. Real estate Is active with a steady -ad healthy Increase in valtee. Let's Try Cotton flagging. To begin with let it be understood that the bagging whclb wrape a bale of cotton Is as much a part of the ex pense of raising the cotton and putting it on the market as booing or plowing or hauling ot ginning it. In 1888 the manufacturers of Jnle bagging by a comblantloi among themselves, put up the price beyond a legitimate profit. Putting the Amgeri can cotton crop at 7,000,900 balql, .be bagging to wrap It at the 1880 price of 18t cents per yard, cost the farmers $5,070,000. Against th elllegitimate profit in that combination the farmers ralid a time. ly and unanimous protest, and rather than submit proceeded to form a ops. bination of their own to use bagging made out of their own cotton. They have arranged to get this bagging at the factory for 121 cents per yard. To cover 7,000,000 bales of cotton with cotton bagging at seven verde per bale will require 49,000,000 ,yards. This at 124 cents per yard is 18,126,000. This Is only $455,000 more than Jute cost iun 1888. To meet this compeittion of cotton begging the jute manufacturers have this year cut their prices from 13 caents to 101 cents. To cover the crop of 7,000,000 bales with six yards to the bale will require 42,000,000 yards. Thia at this year's price of 10 7-8 will make a total cost of $4,007,600. The total cost of covering the crop with cotton bagging at present factory prices and allowing nothing for freight to the farm and merchant's profits, is $6,120,000. The total cost of jute at present fae tory prices Is $4,567,000. Take the latter from the former, and the difference In favor of the Jute Is $1,557,500. That is, it will cost that much more, at present prices, to wrap a 7,000,000 crop in cotton than In jute bagging. Now the question comes up, what are the incidental benefits that will compensate the farmeas for Ibis extra cost of $1,557,500 in the use of cotton bagging? 1. The manufacturers combined once and put up the price tosult them. selves. The fear of cotton bagging competition has caused them to reduce their price over $1,000,000. Remove this fear and they might jump up $2,000,. 000 or $3,000,000, or any number of millions they choose. 2. The raw material of Jute comes from foreign countries. With the ex ception of a few thousand dollars worth, it is all manufactured outside of the cotton states. Nearly the entire cost of the jute bagging, or nearly $4, 607,500 goes out of the cotton States. 3. The entire cost of the cotton bag. ging, or $6,125,000, will be kept at home in the cotton Stntes. 4. The cotton bagging will consume in its manufacture over 100,000 bales of cotton. Everything that goes to ian crease consumption, goes tosustaln and lacrease prices. 5. Expert estimates say that to manufacture the cotton bagging will give employment to 500)0 people. 'Thesuso people will all be home consu mers to ,buy the productr of the farm. 6. The manufecture of cottou bag glug will Involve the investment of several hundrei Ithousand dollars in the cotton h!ates. 7. It is a gom(,i timing for any people to supply their own wants. To supply this one will stimulate us to go to work and sapply ot..ers. S. ]ecauso cotton baggling at the beginning costs 123 cents, Is no reason why it will ('rntlnne to cost so much. i"xierience Ill the ;art will reduce the cout. Let's try thie cotton bagging.