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.WINNFIELD, LA., FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1885. NO. 43. p n i Ha il i H nan ~ i i n l • • i " ' g W :m h. ST" ?v NT P ID ..ww~~ ýesa~e4 *3 4W rr~riiaylyro rcrc~r 4 owr - - 1 %I Sm Sm. 1 4w. 3 ISI 00 *se -: s s N s, 0sa 20 a f No Mw:10 : _ NiN N fir ýMM .1,1!! Eý at SP. Y. ati ~Clr· 12 X. .4d tidaya,ýt 1 P.Y. 1Iud F itIiº t 1'.M. at $A.- X. A~w~wbamute "·PýE1F'ýAdA. a= _ I - .x Cii~!l 4 t 17 04~ ,ty S k r - v4i "'s zsa_ 'c'' 7!" .. w .ý °'. { 4 . ý+ _ MF#JRELLAYEOUS. ng Nurseries, HOMES, Cfrlbonse IPrish. La. A. -K. CLUI MAN, Pro., Desleaw s fall kiad. of Southern and cdmr atid Fruit and Ornamental Trree, Grape ViPsa, 3T7~Yse3 Shrubs. Roses. etc- - ifwi for l sale atbe Cling ymuan )Ime . Veiry easest and latent Parke, *Cbi· t~i emiq9red Lconte al s od i nny 1 r ef p e 1 e n ce sulfewy atodi, ,melte It ana hei svarlet atsIt ait he w ants' of my lgarty lli hrdj sect; lead : ate r lasoyersonal atte sshis to ar U proof of htesg done in the f·r lz a a r ,Jautagnt in Junel9-3m i isLWtIUAMS, wmý~ O~pe..BeRt ! j a ay, Eu lIwr. Tire Ipaers tor uexl.5Mwa ee; at 3. IL WUi hinVs'el d.a6 ®ea fir om~ery ride: I!a I" -stefr GisA. Jasr a Bm.' . IL 3. UANDLE. 8. T. CARD. G & Carr, 8Vs FNrrr iaI, Lauluima. ýi pper a rnulc, ' a - B :4hJ b, Groerires, l Uta, ah.ý,p4f UaedulCrecke.y, t aeeaswwVie. Jrlwipe, and PLAN'TAW S fYPL, -sý UaflR^sl aalmuublt. M& mk1 ipd Ilarb, drr~3, Malma Zvri~ 'Kq hat i lowPt~~ f~ TIe a.w Mad rga a4d complete 06MWS1 aslawI as 4hfrb w b'bpsI. PU 1. W2I `TALC1 t,~~ i_~t 1,Lý E - c- _ ~ PI, i~~ .e - ,ý - v . _L ýý :ý~ ^-_ Local Option a the Soeth. We have fequently shown, there is a strong temperance wave sweping through the South IsL now as throsug the West and North. .'e probhibition question does not force Its.Ito prominently for ward in State or a~dml politics here as In the Western States, because probhibi tion Is seldom wmade a State issue. In this section the system of local option ai most universally prevails, and a county or a portion of a county Instead of as en tire State votes for or against le. Such a system preusets Its g*a over the broad and stringelt'ai-ltqnor lawpnssed hy'e LegJlature u-saher, Iowa and elsewhere, in tha It allows ev ery community to pass on the Ilquor question. A big step was taken in the direction of local option last week by the passage of the lower house of the Georgia Legisla ture of a very stringent local option law. There was a very warm fght against it, yet It passed'y a vote ef lve to one, and there seems no reason to doubt its ulti muatly becoming a law. The Georgia bill Is more of an Iron lad one thai most of the local option laws ia force In the South. An election ean be held every two years on the ques tion of lcense or no licese. It the coun ty voted In favor of license, another elec tio can be held in two years, and still another and another; bnt whenevr k has voted for prohlbition; that ends l ,Aat ter-there are so morn elections a this point. In other words, every viL rjºof the liquor Interests is no victory at all; but one of the prohibitionists is decisive. These constant elections will worry and .naly tire out the liquor men. They must always be on the defensive, always on the alsert, for single reverse means an aillartm. In the coure of time under asuh a system as thi, the numberof pro hibition countles will grow greater aqd greater each year, until the whole State, h.very near all of It is pledged against As it is this rk is going rapidly on. In Loohisana, Texa and other Southern States acareely a day passes without some eletion of this al4, the ioting of a caon :ar .'L ' on tie sabec of lceasib liquor. There ae defeats and victories for both pastes, but it manot be denied athat the prhblutoealsts win the greater nuber of victories and are contin winning ,ew districts to their ranks. Mr. Beecher has had his picture tnl e• is full rgfnmental. He is the chaplain of the Thirteenth New York tegiment, enow to camp, ad he was taken with the net o the stalt and line o@aers. he deltht of the amp photograer knew o boueds when be secured this prie.. A pictur fc Mr. .Beecher In regimentals! porpers the artists of New Yorkt aid b#sIe ae tried to get a picture at eebapino eltbel hirteenth In niforms. Mr. Bereber also tNok his post in the dams parade sad review before the Gov. oem, rsd mnarched stuedily astnd the sait, eassyg his awue. w.t re id pre ase. The surgeon marchebd nekt to hI * adpv. hism "tips" as to his mode tij sra mu. The pator of Psarmeauh tebh i Tali; lbewet deep sigh of t*ihe it-lt all ever.-rs. i ý5t.rk a - r.- as. -oatp .dbo .Videatbg haowg D th A' CSacs witsmwkh at mrpc ' 7t beet lo his. abetee soeso" tsau het stos with a baeob ,At t"1ui get abide. a m .~ eye#. ot chbel a mmus~intia as wt-&fr biae eveqb nl -dy 4e .&ay VI. ` itfw ~ OL aretir tril IN * -r~2~t -Et 3 ~UM ; i ::; ~ l~~"pl~ara-~B u,.cJ GOLD LEAF. o Smbae l d sau s J gmat Re equ., Ia Ina Msamhetsle. If a sheet of gold leaf is held up against the light it appears to be of a vivid dark green color; this means that the light is transmitted through the leaf. When it is considered that this leaf is spiece of solid -metal, abetter idea of the extreme tenuity of thick ness of the leat can be comprehended than by any comparison of figures; nothing made by the hand of man equals it in thinness. This extreme thinness is produced by patient ham Jpin tlihusmers weighing from seve n;t twenty pounds, the lighter hammer being first used. When the tree method of this beating is under stood, the wonder expressed sometimes that gold leaf beating should not be relegated to machinery ceases; the art belongs to the highest department of human skill and judgment. Appren. toes have served a term, and have been compelled to abandon the busineet, be cause they never cuMld acqu'r the requisite skill and judgment combined neoesary to become succe.tul work men. '1 only pure gold leaf is that used by dentists for fili carious teeth. and it is called foil. It is left much thicker than the gold leaf for gilding-indeed. it could not be beaten so thin; for thin or leaf gd an alloy of silver and cop per is rleaqrod to imnpart the requisite tenseiy. Dentist's foil weighs six gras, fire, four and three per eet or leaf, according to its thlek ness. The last operation on the loaf is annealing. This h done over a char. coal fire, the leaf being laid singly in a sort of corn popper-a square recepta ele with wire bottom at the end of a handle--over which is held a similar sover to prevent the fame from carry ig the leaf away. An instant's ex posurs to the flame induces a red heat, theleaf lai on a sheet of a The aierial for gold leaf and den tist's foil is coln gold. The gold is pie. ilpitated by murntli and citric aads over a fire to separate the gold and sl ver. the copper of the alloy passing oA in the ht. The siler frorn gold coin aamonna to abodt seven peasnyweighte to eight hundred do'hatr worth otcoin -the amount usually: treal at a time. This redution and separation of the metals Is the usual method. and does ndsol eire ofeel@ de 1ripdtoa The pure gold is then melted In sand crucibles with the proper proportionsof silver and copper to produce the color .o leaf desired, very line ornamental effects being produced in Ilding with. ld of dideent shades. The fluid met al is poured into iron moulds, miaing base seven inches long ,one and an eighth inches wide and one-fourth of an inch thick. These bars are forged. like iron. between anvil and hammer, to erea the edges, and then rollkd in powertully-gean rolls to a rbbon not thicker than writing paper and one inch wide. Of course, In the rolling as in all the processes, there must be occasional annealinae. Noy comes the first aobIhe beating Thpesqp r These eq gold (ane ra eplalced in a pil alte ating with larger (f --s r Inches or orre) of .kutch'" per, a material made from a pulp of animal membrane -raw-hide, Intestines, ete.-and the outside of the nile jicelves a quare of pa t. Te hammerlng then be ,gl w~th r a seven-pounad hammer on s block e marble that rests on a oid oondaston. After one hour's beating theple lsw ai d at a re to anneal the gold a p cess relkring are, so that the katch paper be not burned. I dr hours of besting suflces taisprt uiiaary prce 188 squsar •15 o&bon treatd in ono pile. Tu PL* p rpqui tea! roel T- ., belal t squanres are peksi at ore. w itht alternates at gold met -r's skin, until the ile coaIn ash"eet The beating coctinuod with tuereaingly heaver bammers until the .nal An;shi wih the twenty-poad. tsmer. The gold-beater'sska comes fton Eagal d. and d the be4 of It--nd the Ceetat IIs-is. oade by oes family S es~rdk >Prkl.s The skin is so ibs tso be ahleas traspaandt, aa4 st i. is double, two thihkneses IIt is gueprsared fr t inhe latenise of h- ex. Reh .sheet of the -it Is eo" eacha sw id e baepack - I i be*tlm& the work of aprmdlug 4w f i !as trm thaeuler of a ar inwmard thei th e we fgth sZ * tem be istss a asda * vitas. -n Poeml - Aft- - h osh ent S-V . (. . . . 4 .:_ =iu r~r#~d?~ut~ r ,m, . . ..hlr·lW~Q . BOAS..~O' CRIMIE. Now that Aid-to-the-Chief-of Police Boasso is out of danger and on a fair way to recovery, it is time to consider what steps should be taken to punish him for the criminal act which caused his shoot ing. We quite agree with our con temporaries that justice, and se vere justice, should be meted out to him. The fact that he held a Ingh position; that he himself, ap pointed to preserve the peace and vindicate the law was its violator, is the very best of reasons why he should be punished. The matter, we understand, has been laid be fore the grand jury, which body, it is to be hoped, will find some statute covering the crime bp which Boasso accomplished the ruin of bliss Kuhne. A crime committed by a public officer, and particularly by apolice officer, cannot be too severely pun ished. It was this that made the sentiment against the Fords so strong; it is this that should award Boasso heavy punishment. Since the shooting a great many facts have come out about Boasso which show that he was ill suited to the position he held. To pip vent mistakes of this kind in fu ture it would be well to have some little overhauling of our entire po lice force, so that the bad members can be weeded out. That there are bad members on it comes out every day by the discovery of some act of outrage in an officer. The case of Officer Keany is one in point. He stood by and watched Boasso beat young Kuhn because the latter's sister had been sedu cad, never made the slightest at tmpaDti interfere in .behalf of the victim, but inally arrested him at Boasso's order for disturbing the peace-that is, being beaten by Boasso. Officers of this kind are discov ered every now and then, and sus pended or removed; but it is scarcely wise to wait for their com mission of a crime or outrage in order to discover that these otlicers are bad. It would be far betterto wake the discovery in advance and fjevent the crime. A general overhauling of the police, and a study of their records, would show not a few men unsuitedto the po sition of peace officers. l3oaeo is Scase in point. IAt us see that there ue no other Baosso'a on the force ready to break out like him on the first favorable opportuni ty.-T-.-D. SBTATE OULITICS. To ~ isas political action in a frank and open and fearless man ner in the dictate of botN and policy. It will not cladok political aim with the mnmtle of a ~ralence. Newapaperesboad not be echoing followers of public opinion, but aboad lead it, and give it tone aid direction. To rid ourselves of the accursed dmatiop of an igrorant and die laiet horde we we were fulaly jai ledia e peoyigs any and *eveir m.as in our power. Under simn laer aonditions we would be justi ed to.say in rep ting the mess res of pst years. The ditatlon required the surgeon's knife and we frely ansd itL. Bit te onditos no noS 'ez ist, sad the sa¶iw for o tremesmet is a-d t end. We are t ethe ethods 'ine ais i . theldted I -1h Ie )I Iw der o From Our Exchanges. Alexandria Democrat: The nine teenth of July, in the year of C(hrist, one thousand, eight hun dred and eigbty-tive, will be isef faceably recorded in my memory as one of the saddest dayi that have their dark shadows across my path of life. On that unhappy day, after untold suffering for six months of the severest bodily pains which were borne with a fortitude that excited the admiration of all who witnessed it, my wife, my loving and beloved wife, passed through that fearful ordeal that awaits us all. . How inexpressibly them siu"ty of the scene when conscious Ithe near approach of dissolution, but unappalled thereat with falteriung. voice she planned the order of her burial, dictated the distribution of the memorials of her love, the lit- e tie keepsakes of the heart, for friends whom she named, and final ly taking the sacrement, that holy emblem of the faith, her prpama tion for the passage of the -dark valley was complete. And prayers too, were recited, and hymns such as she most loved. to hear were chanted by soft ad gentle tones that lent a touching charm to the exercase of that sooth ing office. 'o eye was left undimmed by the irrepressible tear, save that of the expiring form before uswhot e soul, dignifed and najie , like some Alpine peak'that tdlrakhigk above the clouds and ltoes ef earth, looked calmly down eo the swelling billows of emotioa, and irradiated them with angello seet ness. With unswerving faith in the hopeful promises of the ·aiurfali thus passed away from eth, ume best friend, my only oo* and my loving wife. JoUN Cameow. Capitolian-Advocate: ijast Ba urdayat3:20a bloody :': took plac. between Hilk Jsckw; son and Jake Felds, tw .ol. N appe.rs that they were p .Ir: n 'kraps" aid diautim emr- iS. game, when HiHerr *w a pocket aknife and -7i twice; once in the i blade and once in the right side of the breast bone. Holcombe, of Jackson, ' r at once summoned and the wounded .an. It is etood that the latter womadil . dangerous, and that it willO" prove fatal. AJfter e'pt the deed Hitlery made has and is stiltr at lar. Jakeligie Mr. Steve Powe VPIs Hillery also residedrn the of Slaghter Station o te Jsaippi Valley]lroad. " :I--: . Tony Brown, a colomed who found jail life gave the keepers of dra offenders the lip onar 9th, and eapcd to a St. James parish, about below this city, was fouod wil rematnn the terml s e n t e n c ee - , ." ' ' - : (olftax d.: r nity was throwdtir a excitenmet iast report that a re ysl a attmibpt sum b rsna m inister N fotrii, to` , They were unproeedA sa ab st a h.._me ton sesomppih whatever he may have had in onher rahisiu ater From the peulr a bottle oft rstan t eeside ofth ea