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BASTROP, LOUISIANA,
FRIDAY, : : : FEBRUARY 20,1SS0
A. C. McMEANS
Editor.
P. SCHKOEDEK, 11- M'FAKI-IN
SOHItOIS1>RK & MoFAlUJN,
publishers
We nnclerstaud the railroad
1ms reached Monticello, and tbe
company ara debating among
themselves whether they will ex
tend it ta Camden or ?Monroe.
The decision of that |debate is
one of vital importance to the
people of this parish.vggTbe com
pany are determined to prose
cute the road farther, and the
dnection it goesjiwill no doubt
d« pend apon^the interest the
people along the two ^proposed
routes manifest. In speaking of
this enterprise^ the ^Hamburg
Times says:
We sincerely believe if the
parishes of .Morehouse and
Quachita, an 3 the counties of
Ashley and Drew would con
tribute twenty or thirty thou
sand dollars to this end, that
something could be accomplished
now. Will not some public
spirited individnali put the ball
in motion ? Now is our oppor
tunity We ought ; not tto miss
this tide.
In the name of our parish,
which, in point of fertility, is the
banner parish of the State, and
in the na"<ie of our town, which
has been languishing all winter
jn the very throes of business
stagnation for the want of trans
portation, let the people of this
parish grasp hold of that pant
ing iron horse at Monticello and
lead him £ to Bastrop, ere he
starts like lightning to Camden.
Whenever we desire a lucid
explanation of any abstruse sub
ject, we appeal to the colossal
brain of the Sentinel's editor.
His "intelligence" is a sure
guarantee of entire satisfaction
in the solution of any matter or
subject clouded in mystery.
Hence the rich literary verdure
which shines out so resplendently
in th£ columns of that great
paper. To be short, we consider
J. T. Walker as the man without
a "peer," without a rival and
without an equal on the Ameri
can couinent* In what 'particu
lar sphere we so regard him, the
readers of the Clarion —and a
few of the Sentinel—are well
aware.
But ligtan at the mighty editor
of the mightier Sentinel when he
picks us up by the seat of our
pants, lobs us down in our edi
torial chair and tells us of our
sèlf-acknowledged ignorance :
The editor of the Morehouse
Clarion was unable, last week, to
"dish up" local news for his pa
per to his entire satisfaction.
The explanation is easy. It takes
a man of some intelligence, com
bined with social qualities, to get
up locals for a country journal
To say that the editor of the
Clarion is devoid of these neces
sary requisites, would doubtless
be nearer correct than incorrect
A negro boy of ten summers
stole a horse in Clinton last week
He was caught, and, on account
of his tender age, was turned
loose unpunished. Wonder if
there are no cowhides in that
sympathetic town !
Hon. A. B. George, who was
receutly elected to the bench of
the First Circuit, is a cousiû of
Gen. George, recently elected to
the United States Senate from
Mississippi* By George! they
are both big men. '
The Patriot-Democrat thinks
Farmer's Revenue Bill one of
the best measures that has been
introduced in the Legislature.
Our contemporary is certainly
easily pleased with some things.
We are reminded occasionally
that the United States Congress
is in session at Washington. Not
from any law-making, however.
A DIVIDED PARTY.
There is nothing more obvious
to a thinking observer oi politi
cal affairs than the fact that the
Democratic par'.y is a to-day
shamefully divided against itself.
Another self-evident proposi
tion is, that in our country no
part}-can expect, with any de
gree of reason, to be in the as
cendancy as loog as there is a
lack of the most persistent unity.
The two great contending and
antagonizing political forces of
the American Union are so
equally balanced in numerical
strength that the smallest
portouiit of jmring in either party
strengthens and favors the
chances of the other for success
in the political battles which are
waged in out midst every four
years. In parties, as well as in
the Union, the familiar and pei
tinent maxim, "United we stand,
divided we fall," is equally ap
plicable. In the appropriation
of tbe wisdom of unity our polit
ical friends of the Republican
party are infinitely our superiors
The managers of the Republican
party are shrewder and more
skillful tacticians than are the
men who dictate for the Demo
cratic party. The former real
ize the imperative necessity of
bringing together a solid and a
concentrated front while tha lat
ter, by wrangling over personal
issues and "squabbling" about
matters of minor importance
imperil the prospects of their
party and thus beget a spirit of
discontent and discouragement
among the forces that should be
united.
This condition of affairs has
been the prime cause of the de
feats which the Democratic party
sustained in the national politi
cal struggles ever since the war
No party has ever made more
gigantic efforts to succeed than
has ours. Those efforts have
been made without the proper
regàrd for the importance of un
ity in action. We have been
resisting the strength of the Re
publican party like a blind man
fights fire. With all of our de
feats we persist in the same
reckless, demoralized method of
political warfare. The South
never succeeded in throwing off
the yoke of radical;tyranny until
she united her forces and pre
sented a "solid" front to her en
emies. New York last Fall fall
into the hands of the Republi
can party from a want of concert
of action upon the part of the
Democracy. In other words, a di
vided party lost a victory which
should have been won.
The same spirit of division is
cropping out all along k the line of
the Democratic ranks already
The campaign which is just
ahead of us, and which bids fair
to bo one of the most exciting
and powerful that was ever 6een
in this country, should be con
ducted upon a wise and determ
ined basis by the Democracy,
with closed and solid ranks from
one end of the line to the other.
Instead, however, we hear men
who wield a mighty influence
swearing vengeance to the party
if measures which they suggest
are not carried out.' The Cou
rier-Journal may be mentioned
as one of these brooders of dis
cord and division. That paper
has declared that if Tilden, the
old sore-head coward of New
York, is not nominated again for
the Presidency that it will use
its energies for the election of
Grant. Such a sentiment will as
surely defeat the Democracy as
the sun rises on the day of elec
tion in November. 'Tis true,
and 'tis a pity 'tis true' bat 'tis a
a fact that We have a shamefully
divided party.
The City Council of Baton
Rouge has made provisions to
raise the $35,000 promised by
that city to rebuild the State
House.
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HOW TO KILL PEOPLE.
For years the press, and pub
lic generally,-have been agitating
and dismissing the barbarous
mode wp have of taking the lives
of criminals. There is no doubt
in our miurl but that it is mor
ally right to destroy tbe mur
deier, because the great mora
code of the world declares that
it shall be done. The question,
about which so much has been
said and written is, how shall, or
how ought, the life of a flagrant
culprit be t;iken. Humanity, and
the matchless teachings of the
Savior of the world, admonish
us to drop a tear of sympatl
upon tha condition and mini«,
tune of ihe rudest aud most dia
bolical creature. Though a mau
be a fieud, thirsting for the blood
of his fellow-creature, civilization
and a hightoned moral law re
quire ti.at we deal with such a
fiend, in human form, as a hu
man. The custom of barbarity
is to mete out such measure to
the victor as lie imposed upon
the victim. Many men of to-day
claim, that ice of the boasted
civilization of the nineteenth
century are following iu the foot
steps of ignorant barbarians.
The custom of hanging crimi
nals is an ancient one. The idea
of ,; shnfflii!g off this mortal coil"
at the end of a substantial rope
begets the idea of disgrace of the
most poignant ignominy. The
man who pays to the broken* law
the penalty of his crime with a
surrender of his life, expects
nothing but shame aud disgrace
to cover his grave. It is nothing
but right that he should be bur
ied in obloquy. Such a penalty ;
bestowed by public sentiment,
doubtless restrains many a man
from the commission of name
less and heinous crimes. But
while this is the case, is it right,
is it human, to inflict upon a
helpless and doomed law-breaker
the tortuie which he suffers from
our popular system of taking
life? Cannot there be a mode
devised to execute criminals,
whereby that awful agonv of
soul, and torture of conscience,
and writhing of despair which
•are experienced just before the
"drop falls," may be obviated?
We think life, that precious
boon, iu the giving up of which
a human being pa: 3 the costliest
penalty that can be inflicted upon
him, can be taken without im
posing the horrors that fall upon
a rational man that dies at the
end of a rope. The suflering of
mind which Fuch an individual
endures, must be equal to all of
the pangs and horrors that can
be felt in a devd's bell.
The New York Herald, one of
the most progressive newspapers
in the country, has suggested
several methods in the last few
years, for the mitigating of the
terror of death by hanging.
Among the suggestions, the Her
ald has proposed prussic acid,
strychnine, carbonia oxide and
electricity, and many other pro
ducers of death, as a substitute
for that of hanging by the neck
a man whose mental agony,
when he approaches the instru
ment of death, is a hundred per
cent, more terrible than the ac
tual death he goes to meet.
All of these deadly poisons, pro
posed by the Herald, are open to
serious objections, as a means of
destroying thelife of a criminal.
The most humane method of
taking the iife of a doomed man
is that proposed by a French
physician, who is now in New
New York, Dr. Henri Nahte).
His plan is to place the criminal
ander the influence of some pow
erful anaesthetic, such as chloro
form, and while in this uncon
scious state, give him a mighty
electric shock-, or take him out
and hang him. In either case
death would be robbed of that
torture, the contemplation of
which throw » the most gigantic
irame into the most violent con
valsions. No man, who ever
witnessed the agonizing twitch
ing of a human form standing
beneath the barbarous gal low
will deny that 8 more human
method of killing people should
be adopted. Oui present system
is a rel;c of heathen cruelty
less horrifying to contemplate
than that of the keen-edged gn
lotine, beneath which thousand
of human beings died of actn
mental agony.
Let us, who boast so grandil
oquently ef,our civilization, ig
ijore the cruelty of ancient bar
barism, and learn to kill our
criminals with tenderer hands
STATE NEWS.
A, tramp stoi« a gold watch and
eighteen dollars from Hon. J. H
Stone, in Clinton last week.
Mad dogs and tramps are tor
meniing the people of East Feli
ciana.
Capt. Comstock, of Clinton
has bought the Ciintou and Port
Hudson railroad for $34,650.
The snow lay on the ground
week in Homer. It must be
awful cold over in that town.
The Richland Beacon is of
opiuion that the Bossier Banner
is stealing Mangham's thunder.
The editor ofj-the Ledger fell
on the pavement in New Orleans
the other day and broke his le
In the parish of East Feli
ciana the negroes have quit
studying Kansas aud gone to
work.
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The Courier wants Floyd m
corpojatedfio protect the ladies
of that burg from the iasnUs of
drunken ruffians.
The planters of Bienville par
ish are buying their corn to
make a crop this year. Raise
cotton aud buy corn i3 a bad
motto.
Work will begin on the Yicks
burg, Shreveport and Pacific
Railroad in April, and the roud
will be fiuished to Arcadia by
fall.
The Guardian says Ihe Mardi
Gras festivities iu Homer were
all that htartjcould wish. Homer
is "patting on city airs," you
see.
Tbe Columbia Herald has
been enlarged io a seven column
paper and picked up a "patent
inside," which looks like a great
thick swamp—so dismal.
Some low down scamp stole
a bale of cotton from the gin
house of Dr. Weatherly in Ten
sas parish, the other night. We
suppose he packed it off on his
shoulder.
Sixty thousand people attended
the Carnival in the Crescent City
on the 10th. The papers of New
Orle ins say that the display was
the most gorgeous that was ever
saen in the city.
Mangham, of the Beacon,
drives a jack plane all day, and
then wields bis mighty editorial
pen all—no, not all — but at
night. Mangham gets up a good
carpenter's paper.
The circus man is busy
throughout ihe State. We think
there has been a show in every
town in Louisiana this winter.
The big crops brought the "big"
shows down here.
Mr. C. J. Smith, of Columbia,
publishes a card in the Herald
stating most positively that he
was not drunk on the night ot
the 4th inst. Our readers will
bear this in mind, and make
their report accordingly.
The editor of the Columbia
Herald goes out to the grave
yard at midnight and sits him
self down and writes moral lec
tures, interspersed with funeral
dirges of the most plaintive
character.
Tbe New York Herald hes
given $100,000 to starving Ire- t
land.
Now Advertisements.
NOTICE.
On account of my wife's having left
m v bed ami board everybody is hereby
notified not to let lier trade on my ac
count. .J.W. M cGOWEN.
NOTICE.
The firm of Winkler & Ohle having
been dissolved, the business of repair
ing machinery, guns and pistols, making
trusses for club feet, etc., will be here
after can ied on by
feb'iU
CHAS. WINKLER.
BY
Dentistry.
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES,
DR. M. J. MASfcENGlLL.
Gold fillings from $2 to $5; silver fill
ings from si to fit; full upper aud lower
set artificial teeth $40. Extracting teeth
ü speciality. Having had my office
newly fitted up, I will take pleasure in
serving all persons wishing work in my
line.
CRYBn XJIÄTE.
FROM TRENTON TO BAYOU BAR
THOLOMEW.
Steamer
Captain K. I) MARBLE,
SAM GILBERT, Clerk.
Steamer Si. STE1JI\
Captain J. M. TINDELL, Uffi'Sy
JOHN C. ÄJREK, Clerk.
Will make regular weekly trips in the
Bayou during the entire season, connect
ing regularly at Trenton with the Mam
h ot!< sidewheel Weekly Packet FRKD
A. BLANKS, of 6(00 bales capacity. No
danger of any delays in your shipment.
Rates same as other boats and guarantee
to land freight at Pt. Pleasant THREE
DAYS from time of shipment from New
Orleans, water permitting. Freights
shipped from New Orleans Wednesday
will belauded at Point Pleasant Satur
day livening.
Steamer Willie passes Point Pleasant,
going up, Saturday eveiug; going down,
Friday morning of e ery week.
For further particulars inquire of
JOHN A. MEEK. Agent,
feb20-6m Poiut Pleasant.
of
SHERIFF'S SALE.
STATE OF LOUISIANA—Fourteenth
District. Court, parish of Morehouse
Mrs. Sarah M. Spyker vs. J. G Sau
didge, administrator, et. al.
By virtue of aa order of seizure and
sale issued by the Hon. 14tli District
Court in aud for the parish of .Morehouse
in the above entitled suit and to me di
rected as Sberiiï of said parish and State
i have seized as the property of the de
fendants and will proceed to t"îll at the
door of the court house, within the
hours prescribed by law. at puflic auc
tion, to the highest bidder, ou
SATURDAY, the 20th day of March,
1880, the following described property,
to-wit : Lot number 5, section 1, and
northwest quarter of northeast quarter
and northeast quarter of southeast quar
ter section 12, township 20, north range
four east. Lots 1, 2 and 3 and northeast,
quarter of uorthwest quarter aud south
west quarter of southeast quarter sec
tion 1, township 20, north r;iuge 4 east,
aud lot I, section 3!>, township 21. north
range! east, and south half of lot 4, sec
tion 3(>, township 21, north range i east.
Lot 7, section 11, noitheast quarter of
northwest quarter aud lot 2. section hi
and south half of northwest quarter of
section 12, southwest quar er of north
east quarter aud northwest quarter of
southeast quarter section 5, township
20, north range 4 east and northwest
quarter of northwe.-t quarter, section I,',
northeast quarter of southwest, quarter.
The southeast quarter of southwest
quarter aud the southeast quarter of
northwest quarter section 1, township
20, north range 4 east Lot 1, section
12, and southeast quarter o£ northeast
quarter, section 12, and northeast quar
ter of northwest quarter of section 12,
Southeast quarter of lot 1, suction 11,
south half of northwest quarter of sec
12. Lot 2, section 12, southwest quarter
of northeast quarter, section 12, and
northwest qnai ter of southeast quarter,
section 12, and northwest quarter of
northwest quarter of sec ion 12, north
east quarter of southwest quarter, sec
tion 1, and southeast quarter of north
west quarter section 1, township 20,
north range 4 east, south half of south
west quarter, section 3f>, east half of
southeast quarter, west half of southeast
quarter and south half of northeast quar
ter section 35, township 21, north range
4 east, west half of west half section 1,
northeast quarter of northeast quarter
aud west half of northeast quarter of
northwest quarter seotion 1, west half of
southwest quarter of southeast quarter
section 1, township 20, north range four
east. Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and east half
ofsouth west quarter of s< utheast quar
ter and east half northeast quarter of
northwest quarter, section 1, township
20. north range 4 east and the south half
of lot 5, section 36, township 21, north
range 4 east, kuovvu as the Horace M.
Polk plantation.
Also two-thirds of the following de
scribed lands: Southeast quarter of
southwest quarter, section 30, township
21, north range 5 east, southwest quar
ter of southwest quaiter of south-east
quartei of section 25 and west half of
northwest quarter, seciton 3d, township
21, north range 4 east. Lots 3 aud i,
section 31, township 21, north range 5
east, southwest quarter of southwest
quarter, sect ton 30, township 21, north
ran°je 5 east. Lots 1, 2, aud 3, the west
half. Lot No. 4 and east half of northwest
quarter sec 36 township21 north rauge4
east; the south half of lot 2, west half
of lot 5, west half of south half of north
west quarter and northwest quarter of
southwest quarter, of section 36, town
ship 21, north range 4 east, known as
Thos . I aud Thos. R. Polk place The
said two-thirds interest of said land be
ing designated as all that part of the
land last above described lying west of
the division line estublished by au act
of partition between Geo. M. and Jas
Sandidge and Bettis H. Polk on the
th day of April, 1875. All the above
lauds are situated on west bank of Bayou
Bartholomew, parish of Morehouse.
Terms of Sale—Cash with the benefit
appraisement.
WM. P. DOUGLASS,
febl3-6t Sheriff.
fur per pair,
You can buy pants at Peterkin's
U. S. MARSHAL'S SALE
Timothy B
ignition
vs. Miss. Valley V., v
Company of thn t , av
West. No. 8585. J ^outli and
In the United States Circuit
as»«*»* -»Äyi
By virtue of a wri
me directed iu the ai
1 will proceed to sell to the hi
der ou
' fieri facias, to
v,> entitled suit
'st lndl
SATURDAY, the 6th day of Marc},, 1880
at 12 o'clock .v., at the main er trance t n
the court house, in the town of lias trim
parish of Morehouse, State of Louisiana'
the following described property, wh
in township twenty-two, (22) north
range seven (7) east in land District
north of Red River. The north half of
southwest quarter, section (i>) six a ] so
in township twenty-two (22), 'north
range six (6) east, in same district Lot
eight (8) and the east, half of southeast
quarter of section one ( 1 )r Also lots 2,
aud 8, and the south-west, quarter of
the northeast quarter and the west half
of the southeast, quarte, r and the south
west quarter of section twelve (12 J Also
the southeast quarter of section eleven
(11.) Also the north half of the north
west quarter, and the southeast quarter
of the northwest quarter of section thir
teen (13). Also the southeast quarter of
the northeast quarter aud the northeast
quarter of the southeast quarter, and the
south half of the southeast quarter of
section fourteen (14). Also lots 5 and
10 and the. cast half of the southeast
quarter and the southeast quarter of the
northeast quarter ot section twenty-one,
(21.) Also the southwest quarter ami
the west half of the southeast quarter of
section twenty-two (22.) Also the west
half of the southwest quarter and the
southwest quarter of the northwest
quarter of section twenty-six (26) Also
the northwest quaiter atul the west half
of the northeast quarter and the south
east quarter of the northeast, quarter
and the north half of the south, ast quar
ter and the southwest quarter of the
southeast quarter and the east half of
the southwest, quarter and the southwest
quarter of t/ie southwest quarter of sec
tion twenty-seven (27). Also lot one
and the south half of the northwest
quarter aud the southwest quarter of the
northeast quarter and tho north half of
the northeast quarter and the southeast
quarter of the southeast quarter of see"
tion twenty-eight (28). .Also the north
east quarter of the northeast quarter of
section thirty-fcliree (33). Also the north
west quarter of the northwest quarter of
svetion thirty-four (34) iu all 24^1 69-lUtl •
acres.
Seized in the above suit. •
Terms—Cash on the spot.
UnitedStat.ee Marshal's Office, New Or
leans 20tli day of January, tc-0.
JACK WHÀKiON,
lulled States Marshal,
Hamburg Hi ;h School.
This school for bull sexes is doing
better than ever before.
Tile second half session begins MON
DAY, FEBRUARY 16th inst., and will
continue twenty weeks, or five months.
One hundred dollars [laid down will
cover all school expense, except hooks
and music, for a pupil for the time men
tioned.
People with ave:ago children and
ready money are invited to send to us;
BUI'NO OTHERS.
New furniture, nclr.diny; two fine
Pianos, will !>e ou hand the present
month I). C. B. CONNt'.RLY,
lei'6 Principal.
The Boss Coffee Pot.
PATENTED 1678 & 1870.
THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
Makes coffee in one minute equal to
the best French Dripper. Saves one
fourth the coffee. Price only 61.0». Call
and see it at the Sr. James'Hotel I. Bas
trop Lu. J.J. CUTHBERt'.
The Morehouse Nursery,
POINT PLEASAN1, La.
The undersigned is now ready to re
ceive orders for fruit treos for next fal
delivery. All trees guaranteed.
marl4 ; y JN'O. MULHOLLAND.
NOTICE. V
Is hereby given that no goods of any
kind must be sold on our account except
on authority ot a written order with
either of our signatures attached thereto.
R. H JONES,
R. H.JONES, Jr.
Bastrop, La., January 23d, 1880.
FOR SALE.
AT A VERY LOW FIGURE FOR
CASH a desirable residence in Bastrop,
with half a square of ground- Also 35
acres .'and in the limits of the corpora
tion. Appiv to
NEWTON & HALL, Atty's.
FOR SALE OR LEASE.
Modoc Plantation, on Bayou Barthol
omew. containing abont 500 acres, 160
in cultivation. Excellent houses, gin
house, press, etc. About two and a half
miles above Lind Grove in Morehouse
parish. Terms exceedingly liberal Ap
ply to Hon. James Bussey, Bastrop,
D. C. MORGAN, Agent.
NOTICE.
All parties wanting Brown's Fertilizer
Distributor will take the following
measurement of wagon: Width of bed,
outside measure; diameter of hub.
PRATT & HARRINGTON,
febl3-lm Agents.
Charles Winkler,
LOCK AND GUNSMITH,
Bastrop, Louisiana.
Will repair guns and pistols on short
notice. Satisfaction guaranteed.
FOR SALE.
Cheap for cash, a very desirable resi
dence, two blocks from the public square,
twenty acres ot laud, good garden, or
chard, etc. Apply to undersigned.
.janlC-lm H. C. WRIGHT.