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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1882.
Choice country syrup, GO c< tits
l* 1 ' « alio»- sI A. H.Mosk'.
Associate Justice Ward Hunt.
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, has resigued and hie resig
nation has been accepted by the
ington, D. C., is a thorough Demo
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The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted by the
Congressional District
tion, which assembled in
leans last Monday
Resolved, That
this convention be
by authorized and
]ioiut the usual congressional coin- ■
inittee, to consist of one member i
from each parish and two from the
district at large, which committee !
shall have full power to fix the j
time, manner, place and basis
represeutatiou for the next con - 1
gressional convention, or iu lieu'
thereof, the rules and regulations
of a primary election for the se-]
lection of a congressional candi
date. That' five members of the
committee personally or by proxy,
shall constitute a quorum for busi
ness, and that the president and
secretaries of this convention shall
be "ex-officio" chairman and sec
retaries of said committee
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Revolted, That the nomination !
made to-day by this convention
sliall be deemed binding upon the i
represented, irre
spective of any action of reappor
tionment by tlie State Legislature
bet ween this time aud the date of
the congressional election.
Resolved, Ttiat the President of
this convention he and he is here
by authorized and directed to ap-1
point ut snch time as he shall deem
wise and expedient a campaign
committee, to cousist of three from
each parisli of the district, whose
duty shall be to look after BD( ]
farther tlie interests of the party
candidate iu their respective par
ishes.
What is the matter with Natchi
toches t Auother)niysterioue open
ing has occurred, this time near
the corner of Amulet and Second
street«. A portion of the pave
meut fell into this hole which is of
considerable depth. All the water
in the ditches, running out Amulet
and down Second street, flow into
the abyss and disappear. Possibly
tiiere may be an underlying strata,
of quicksand which the constant
rains have put in motion and caused
the excavation. This is mere con
jecture however. A similar open
ing occured ou Second street some
t wo years ago, directly iu front of
the Methodist Ghurch, on hilly
ground, and this is the fourth one
of the kind of recent occurrence.
If this was a volcanic region there
might be some fears that our staid
old city would eventually disap
pear into the yawning earth. *As
it is its strange freaks are con
stantly being multiplied.—(Natchi
toches Vindicator.
Acklen has taken time by the
forelock, and secured the nomina
tion for the Third Congressional
District. In accepting it he eff'ul
ges with considerable of studied
brilliancy on the great, issues now
before the oouutry, including civil
service reform, the tariff, internal
improvements, educational mat
tars, «.te.— (N. O- City Item.
i
A lit tle girl delighted at the sing I
ing of the bobolinks, earnestly
asked lier mother, "What
him sing so sweetly—does lie eat
flowersf '
! Lake Chartes Literary Society.
On Thursday evening the Lake
President, AI. M. Singleton; Vice
Pr esident, G. A. Fournet; Secre-1
I tary, A. M. Mayo- Treasurer Dr.
Gälte Kami ' '
. _ ' .
An Executive Committee pro
tern., consisting of G. A. Fournet,
following order of exercises for
! the next meeting, which will con
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vem ' a < at the school-room of
Miss Mollir Bnrt.
T> «
j -KG-ftncr, — fiRggyest
I Debate Question:—Ought the
1 ripht of suffrage be given to wo
•
! men Î
two
names
the above duties, are omitted iu
; this publication. The omission is
! ,,a * an overs ifrht, but intentional
lor rea8ons thought, best
socie fy- E»®!' exercise, how
j wa8 ' dunn S the meeting, assigned
! Ycklcn Grain nominated « , r 31wi i
ai/Kieo Again aoMinaieo as a taudi
date from the Third Congres
sional District.
[X. O. Daily States.]
Tlie delegates of the Third Con
gressional district met at 1.1 o'clock
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son ville, presided, aud called the
m ®®tiDg to order. Mr. A. Jolet, j
®®®«}®tMy, called the roll, and a j
m0 ** 0 ® w as ra ade and adopted, to !
re °rg»uize. The election of new j
ofi°® cel '. s was then called and the
fallowing gentlemen were elected: '■
Hon. Wm Vincent, of Calcasieu
P ar isk, President; Mr. F. P. Parent !
and Mr ;. A - Jolet secretaries.
i
A motion was made and adopted i
to appoint a comittee to look into !
the credentials, and the following!
were elected :
T. Renaud, Dr. Duperier, J. P.
Gear.v, G. R. Sha w and G. Mont
gomery, after which a recess was
taken to give the committee time
I
! to jr«l >ort - .
The meeting was called to order j
i a S alu 12:15 p. ni., and Hou. J. H. i
! Ackl ®>' was unanimously nomiuat- j
as candidate for the third cou
& re881 ° ua l district.
^ co,nn >iftee of three was then
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appointed to wait on Air. Acklen,
wll ° was iu the rear office. The
j gentleman appeared and made a
?P® e ®h, touching upon the lead
I il, g subjects of the day.
A motion was made and adopt- ]
ed to publish the ]>roeeedings in ;
^ ew Orleans pajicrs, after
: which the meeting adjourned. j
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Micf for tbe Overflowed »lotrtrt. |
[Special to the Times-Democrat.] j
Washington, February 20.-The
fln.idK i« «i,,. t vr: • • •
"."'hä fr™"taoSE: ■
cress to dur n Mr To,,,.
fSJZSJä? SÄ*
Tlie Raili'oad bridge on bayou
Tortue was completed last Sat
urday; it is a strong, substantial
bridge. The road is being pushed
rapidly, and as all the difficulties
which impeded its progress have
been overcome, we may now pre
dict it« early completion to our
town. In laet the engineers say
that it will be iu running order in
Die early part of March.—[8t.
Martinsville Observer.
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the Lake 'Charles Cojiiiekci al.
Arkansas, ottered a resolution au
thorizing the Secretary of War to
issue rations to destitute people
in Southwestern Arkansas and
Northwestern Louisiana. In pri
vate conversation Dunn suid that
while the crops in Arkansas in 1881
were about 50 per ceut of the av
erage, yet in this section, now over
flowed, there were less than 25 per
cent., and that people in those
counties would have barely been
able to obtain necessaries of life
had not this new calamity of high
water overtaken them. ' He says
that under these circumstances
outside relief from some source
must be afforded or many of them
will perish. In a similar emergency
some years ago tlie government
came to tlie relief of the people of
Arkansas, Louisiana and Missis
sippi.
The Apport ionment Rill.
' The following is tlie full text of the
,
lie it enacted, etc., That, after
March 3,1883, the House of Repre
! «entatives shall he composed of
'J 825 members, to be apportioned
I among the several States os fob
tows : Alabama, 8; Arkansas. 5;
! California, G; Colorado._1; Conner
gan, 11; Minnesota. 5; Mississippi,
7; Missouri, 14; Nebraska, 3; Ne
vada, 1; New Hampshire, 2; New
Jersey, 7; New York, 34; North
Carolina, 9; Ohio, 21; Oregon. 1;
Peunsylvania, 28; Rhode Island. 2;
South Carolina, 7; Tennessee, l«h
! J®*"') f'" 011 *;. 2 ' Vir e. i,,ia '
• '' Gßt \ iiginia. 4; Wisconsin, I).
Sec. 2. That whenever a new
j tied under this apportionment the
number " ~
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mis territory, and containing, as ;
erwise have provided before tlie i
fi i«mion nf »not,
election of such Representatives
shall take place, as provided by.
law^where no change shall be here-1
liy made in the representation of
! tlte State, Representatives thereof ■
j to the A.IA,111th Congress shall,
be elected therein as now provided |
I Y X* 1*1 W 11 t bo liimilwn. on l.rk.i.il...
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«s now pro vided by law in said !
State; and if the number hereby !
provided for shall, iu any State, be j
less than it was before the change j
hereby made, then the whole nurn- j
l'® 1 ' to such State hereby provided
f° r shall be elected at large, unless ]
jl'he Legislatures of stiid States j
have provided, or shall 'otherwise
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provide, before the time fixed by i
law for fhp ..C 14 ........ t
for the next election of Itepre - 1
sentatives therein. j
All acts and parts of actsiucou
sistent herewith are hereby
pealed.
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Washington Antes.
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I THE REPUBLICANS ALREADY
, THE republicans already fig-]
j DRING ON the election
i VOTE IN 1882. ;
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J' |M '* K1 *° the times-Demoi rat.]
Washington, Feb. 17.—The ag- j
electoral vote of 1884, tin- (
'1er the new apportionment, will j
I'iti 401, 01 ' 'f J)a *i 0 t a . 1)e admitted, j
will be 201, ;
vu " /V- f - e - 1 meludmg
est A irginia, whuth are classed j
.South, will have a total ol,
] a8 ,
; ba> electoral votes, and in order
elect a President iu 1884 the
Democrats would be obliged to
hold not only the votes of those
S.tÄ'Ä
Republicans admittlialNe
Iu d i a i K W w h t™* ? l,dian *
with 15, New Jersey with nine, and
' : r k * ith *>,"!" »*
H and some of their managers
Oeliove that, with reo.oool.lot.,,
tainty, they eau count on the other
183 from the North. They must
get 17 or 18 votes from the four
doubtful Northern States or make
inroads into the South. They
claim that they will have at least
an even chance with the Demo
crats of carrying Now York, Ne
vada aud New Jersey, and more
than an even chance of carrying
Virginia with her 12electoral votes,
Tennessee with 12, and North
Carolina with lier 11. This is spo
ken of as the Republican pro
gramme for the next presidential
contest.
LANIER THROWS UP THE SPONGE.
The Louisiana contested elec
tion cases are about ended. Lanier
aud Smith had prepared memorials
asking Congress to send investi
gating committees to King's and
Robertson's districts, but Lanier
says to-night he has decided not
to file his, and it is understood
that Smith has also concluded to
give up.
A womau who carries around
milk iu Paris said a naive thiug the
other day. One of the cooks to
whom she brought milk looked
iuto the can, and remarked with
surprise: "Why, there is actually
nothing there but water!" The
woman, having satisfied herself of
the truth of the statement, said :
A
d:1
"Well, if T didn't forget to ppt in
the milk!"—[Medical Advance.
An Appalling Outlook.
[Timet«-Democrat.]
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general and threatening an innn
j dation. Altliougb the high water
of ' came early and there was every
reason to expect a decline before
the occurrence of the usual Feb-.
rnary rise, the fact is that the pre
mature floods of December and
T "-----ry did not subside, but,
rary, furnished a dan
is ft now seems, fatal
following month. Do
Hiding thus upon an already
swollen torrent, and adding to a
strain which the trail defenses of Î
the levees could, even then, scarce-1
ly resist, this last deluge from !
above promises to overthrow all |
; barriers and to wreak its angry
vengeance without mercy. From ;
.
£t. ^° u,8 ;. m * the Mississippi; from
1 Ciiiciiiiiiiti, on tlie Ohicq from
Shreveport, on the Red; from Mon- !
The whole low-lving country con
------------.....eiecwirat
; floods are unparalleled, and the
i destructive stage.
It is a season meet for sorrow
and lamentation over many mil
lions of acres of land which ought
to be as secure and productive as
■ they are now desolate. Thousands
of peopte will be ruined almost be
| youd redemption, untold values
It. I.n/I tYniiCv ««,11 I,,. J,.^i ... A ... . j
! disastrous beyond all words! The
! whole valley from Cairo down to
the month of Red river—a tract
eight hundred miles in length amt
of a width varying front one to
twenty miles—this enormous terri
tory, together with the bottoms of
the Ohio, St. Francis, Yazoo, Snn
flower, Ouachita, Black, Tensas,
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Macon and Bartholomew—not to tl
...Pf. lim. .. ,1....... ........... ...
mention a dozen smaller streams :
all this vast territory is now innn
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e> t à, Î f« ,l l «i H r " ll i 0US î' u'
tent and is destined to suffer still
weeks * WtlUU tbe " eXt
We realize it 1
no
longer attempt to lull our fears
with uplifting hopes and enoom
{aging forecast. The disaster is
; unmistakable, wholesale. Three
weeks ago, before any great harm
had been done, and when the indi
j cations pointed to the setting in
( of a clear cold spell, we hoped and
j virtually predicted that a season
j of freezing weather would look up 1
; the northern tributaries and allow ;
the torrent in the lower Mississippi
j to run out before the coming of
the next great rise. The proba- j
Demonstration has swept away j
hypothesis with rude and irresisti- !
hie strength. We are confronted
with the hideous truth,and it wore •
idle folly to repudiate it. How and
where it is to end, we frankly ad
mit our inability to conjecture.
The equation has become too gi
gantic for our puny methods of so
lution. We can but fold our hands
and await developments. One
thing we know—it is a time peeu
ecu
liarly appropriate for sorrow and
humiliation. Surrounded by sul- i
leu, angry water; their fields flood- !
ed; their live stock drowned or j
starving; their prospects gloomy
and dispiritingbeyond description,
the hapless dwellers in the alluvial
belt, from Cairo eight hundred !
miles southward, have little or
nothing to do sa ve to paee in re
yiew the melancholy panorama of
their Me - 1
a
A Priest Sacrifices His Life in Devo
tion to Duty.
New York, Feb. 21.—A Jackson,
Tenu., special says : "Father Johu
Francis Walsh, of Memphis, died
here last, night from small-pox,
contracted in Memphis." He said,
before his death, that he
the disease from an
had to guess at the location of the
dying man's eyes in anointing him. | '
Father Walsh, feeling somewhat ill
came here to see Father O'Brien L
with whom he came to Tennessee' f
from Ireland four years ago. He tj
passed through the yellow fever :
epidemic at Memphis in 1878 and
4879, aiid was the ©uly priest that
osertped having the disease.
Passage of the Anti-Po!ignmy Rill.
[Ti mes- 1 »eniorra t .1
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but few amendment*, the most ini-i
portant being Senator Brown's
J amendment, making the Election
Board of Utah non-partisan. While
not. fulfilling all the wishes of the
people, the bill will lie favorably
: received, and will doubtless ac
j complish much good. It is a note
worthy fact that upon its final pas
«age, not a Senator dared vote in
the negative. The voice of the
people had been so earnest on this
matter that it drowned the appeal
Î all d the offers of the rich Mormon
lobby.
! While not disfranchising the
Mormons—the committee hesita
ted at this, fearing that it might
be ultra constitutional—it lias sVib
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stai.tially disfranchised the polyga
mists. Those arc not only lirohib
nly proliib
jted from being sent t<
ooaru is creaxea
is to pass ou all elections.
any perjury on this oath is pun
This
it will undoubtedly pass. It is, of
coiu-s'e, önly'an initiiteTv measure*
meant to break the political power
of the Mormons in Utah. It must
be followed up, audit will be, by a
law punishing polygamV. With the
offices in Utah, the Legislature
and the courts, out of the control
.
tl i W*-. non tuuT
tro-0, 000,1100,
Our Rational Wealth.
In no other country is the accu
mulation of wealth anything like
so rapid as it is in the United States
at. the present time. Tims a sta
tistical writer estimates the annual
increase in wealth iu this country
while the anuual
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|,n u - Ut 1 C Britain is
, placed at §37(5,000,000. and in Ger
«««"'S' only $ 200 , 0 ( 10 , 0 ( 10 . The
advantages on the side of the Uni
^
1 i . J ^ leat < * x '
! estimated of value »»» tiLi®? 6 ° U y
ÏÏy
u ii„„ tLt i ♦ Ulb 'anted,
i «.honj j«i **.- ^ . 1 1 f UU ve |], a ^
1 mKiit« ;
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ill- ht,,.,,!,,.. „ i ? '
vim«-..« -t e ' 1 a l'5 . !UI< al ^
' "* ceB t0 ¥10, #-0 and «>5« per acre.
1 built* unrund hVre^sem 0 i
; source^of acm.mtdated wÄ Y
u i f ; settled countries lil-e p. *1
alK ] Germany an mlv n. o'
j vJLw.fTnl!',", ÎL^ e
j totes'* wfth Thlch th^compai^^e^
! ale llia ,i e to . wit . * o J
G rea t Britain Germany
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So, while this 1Ï ! Z' K
iinn/. nLVdv bv it J *
'
niuliialcd Coins.
T.Scientific American.]
Thc 1)irector of the Mint has an
s'"
Francisco? clLT Ä. i
ï- 1 "' u • , " u ' t, aL uuuaaeipma, San
wL *a d Kt " V ° x ' 1
,'' ft n J'tUated aud_ uuouixeut
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1 | he rate ol W P®r
««."t a 11611 p V eBeuted la
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181 " ,d .? d to , th ose
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er'sriek and exam.«! ht ^ ^ 1
re&ifitei'ttd e , x ^ re ^f'
Persons sendiuvfull »
States suhsiduLi-v «il 4, 1 '"ted
would re^v^ ^ t M°" lß
ized i ™ o t!r L » tea » tllo f
izea, »( cents per dollar of then j
face value, but, for mutilated coins !
a less amount, proportioned to th« i
deficiency iu legal weight. At the
ivalue (approximately). 70 to
' li cents.
Ust A : Masou wa8 i
f ? a - , " ror I * u Somerset coun-1
tj ", Ma "- vll 'Dd. He will be the first. | a,
h' 1laW9d ,,,a11 wba ev « r *®ïved i„
g^^yin Somerset.-Times- j
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'The 1 t.mt a , ! .
J.he Lent thing ont— Out of debt. ;
Rill.
Lake tiiftxjcr.
[Dnhuqtie Herald.]
Tlie new-found source of
in is a fi)iHrkling little E em
situated above and |,p
,....... —he Itaska It nestles
ini-i among the pines of an untie,
j ed aud wild region of Minnesota
j many miles from the nearestwhite
| settlement and jnst on the diridW
: ridge which forms the great water
j shed of North America. WJtliii
ac- j a few miles of it can be found hiki s
and streams whose waters are
' tributary to the Bed River of the
in ! North and tlie Yellowstone thus
I reaching tlie sea thousands of
miles from the mouth of the mighty
Mississippi, which flows in a trick
** ' ' "
ling brook from Lake Glazier. This
lake, discovered to be the source
of the greatest river iu flip world
by Capt. Willard Glazier, on the
22d of J uly, 1881, is about a mile
and a half in greatest diameter
and would be nearly round in shape
but fora single promontory, whose
miles
back m low, wet land, and flow into
explor
ing the shores of tlie new lake. ß„
party were glad, in
deed, to come in contact again wit It
the^'teîwèrëatùi^
-
\ Two Mite Walk Under Lake Miclti
gan.
[Scientific American.]
miles, on n tour of inspection. The.
bottom of the tunnel ut the land
end is sixty-eight feet below the
surface of the earth, aud 1he party
were let down into the great hole
at 2:15 p. m. With lighted miners'
lamps they started on tlie journey,
which was found to bo laborious
as well as uncomfortable, the wa
ter being ankle deep and the tun
nel not quite high enough to per
mit a man to walk erect. Tlie ma
sonry was found to be perfect,and
in commemoration of the trip,
which took one hour and tliirty
tive minutes, the Mayor screwed
a brass plate to the wall of the tnn
"f 1 8 »<H»0 feet from shore, bearing
inscription: "Water let iu
March 24, 1807. Pumped out Jtui
nary 18,1882. Found iu excellent
; oondition." A climb of a series of
ladders, seventy-two feet long,
brought the party, well nigh ex
hausted, to daylight at the crib.
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i As so many people want to edit
«nd know exactly how to
we propose a plan by which
all of them, or at least fifty-two a
ï®» eau be accommodated. As a
1 ® 4 <idit tl,is J»»P® r ® u ®
week, m bis turn, according to
priority of application. Let them
8öüd ia their names, aud we ' will
re « i8ter a,,d Dumber them as we
receive then# The first one will
ready to perform onr part of the
W^D.-lSt. Lgudry Demo
have oue week's notice of the time
he is to begin, and the balance can
follow sail. By this means we will
have variety, and should bring out
the best talent in the oouutry. We
are in earnest about this and are
«rat.
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A county paper properly cou
ducted deserves the cordial and
practical support of the residents
of the oountj-; and, it may here be
suggested, should be encouraged
b ; v a P un,it « al settlement of journ
ahetic liabilities. Tbe county pa
per cau 1,0 «®o*® V ®t along without
other bnameue eu*
461 |,ri " 6 ' a,,d its wditor should be
spared the disagreeable necessity,
to ° otl *" f<,,oed "P ou of call
on bis subscribers to settle
up.—[Baltimore Bun
1 i a 1 »ore r> n . _____
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' P news that we receive from
66116 6100,8 up mcely already ■
favorable as it is now, onr plau
J«® H»y expect » handsome crop
•'« ar - ^ lu ' ®«ttou planters are
a, ®p^ b «®.V »t work preparing the
«>i'f<>r the seediugiu Maid..—[St,
Observer.
. When newHpapeisatteu.pt to put
down abuse, they first show i( up.