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BASTROP, LOUISIANA,
FRIDAY, : : : FEBRUARY 27, 1880
A. C. McMEANS
Editor.
1$. F. S'ÜIKOEDEK, B. M'FARLIN
SCHitOEDEIl & MoFARLIN,
PUBLISHERS.
Thrt United States Las given
?200,000 to (he sufferers of Ire
l»nd.
A beautiful Indian wo^ian bas
been giving testimony in Wash
ington. Her name is "Bright
Eyes"
Senator Bayard seems to be
the most prominent Democratic
aspirant to the Presidential
chair.
The Pariiament of the Do
minion of Canada has donated
£200,000 to the starving people
of Ireland. •
É. wbite^farmer by the name
ofEevins outraged his own
daughter, a beantiful girl, in
Newman, Ga., on the 19th inst.
T J. Bolton, Jr, shot and
killed two brothers by the name
of Clarke in Vicksbnrg last week.
wis arrested.
The Annual Conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal
Cjjnrch is in session at Vicks
burg, Miss.
A million dollar fire occurred
in New £ork City last Saturday
eight. Two firemen perished in
the fiâmes.
.The Republican Convention
which meets in Chicago on the
2dof June next, will be com
posed of 756 delegates, all told.
The Republican Convention of
Texas will meet in Austin March
24th to elect delegates to the
Na ional Republican Convention
• *■ At • f
m Chicago.
Congressman W. M. Lowe, of
Alabama, is spoken of as a green
candidate for Governor for
that State in the coming August
election. Mr. Lowe is an able
and influential greenbacker, and
if he takes the stump to canvass
the State for the office of Gover
nor,, he will give the Democrats
some trouble, to say the least.
. John Hickman, one of the cat
tle kings of Colorado, du ring a
temporary fit of insanity, as
saulted several persons in a
sleeper on the Kansas Pacific
road one night last week. He
has been affiieted with similar
fits for some time, and wap on his
way to Hot Springs accompanied
by his wife, hoping to find relief
from his ailment: They took the
sleeper at Denver, and when
night came retired together in a
lower berth. About ten o'clock
Hickman raised up and com
menced pounding his wife most
unmercifully. Her screams only
made him worse! He jumped
up, drew a long knife and slashed
away at occupants in the upper
bei tbs, cutting an old Englishman
severely in the arm and side.
By this time the conductor,
whoSe name is Ward, entered
the car and Hickman rushed at
him, saying that be would kill
Ward. Ward surmised the con
dition of his assailant and by ex
ercise of rare presence of mind,
soceöeded in convincing him that
be was his friend and would help
him whip out the whole car if
necessary: By this means the
crazed man w&s quieted, and
when the brakeman handed
Ward a revolver, he leveled it at
Hickman and told him to lie
down, He obeyed and gave
hn tiaveling comrades no more
trouble daring the night, Hick
man is one of the richest men in
Colorado, He counts his cattle
by the thousand.
A 175,000 -fire ooenrred in
Bat eg ville, Arb„ oa the 21st
inst.
CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS.
Since the war people have
been very reckless in taking the
lives of their fellow men. A spir
it of thoughtlessness, engender
ed by the heat and excitement of
war times, has obtained through
out our whole country. The life
of a human being, during the
dark days of the war, was not
valued at all. A disagreement
between two men was generally
adjusted by an immediate ap
peal to the pistol.
In order to lessen the number
of crimes committed in the heat
of passion our legislators have
enacted laws prohibiting men
from concealing upon their per
sons deadly weapons. The pro
priety and necessity of such a
law no man will hesitate to en
dorse. The law, if enforced,
wocld have a salutary and a
profitable influence, and would
pievent the scores of manslaugh
ters, of which we bear almost
daily. But the law is disre
garded. People give no heed to
its requirements. Those whose
duty it is to execute the law are,
many of them, violators of that
law. Tea, the very men who
make laws for us, are gross law
breakers. To prove this last as
sertion, we reproduce a telegram
sent out from New Orleans on
the 18th inst. by the Associated
Press :
"During the session of the
House yesterday Speaker Og
den's pistol fell from his pocket,
causing it to discharge. To-day
District Attorney Finney filed
information against Ogden,
charging him with carrying con
cealed weapons."
Ogden must have surely felt
very uncomfortable when the re
port ot his pistol broke the mo
notony of that law-making body.
No doubt he earnestly wishes
no auch prohibitory law had ever
been placed upon the statutes of
the State. The position of
Ogden makes him, in our opin
ion, doubly culpable. Of all men,
they who make laws should be
the last to violate them. The
infringement of laws by the very
men who make them, engenders
a spirit of disiespect among the
masse* for those laws. Hence
our State is full of respectable
law breakers— out-laws. We find
these violators of the law among
all classes of people, from the
judge upon the bench to the
horny-fisted rustic in the field
It is high time that the law
abiding citizens of this country
pee that the exactions of this law
are enforced. Life and person
are in danger by its infringe
ment. Good and useial men of
ten meet an untimely and trag
gic death at the hands of those
who carry concealed weapons in
the positive defiance of the laws
of the land.
A negro was killed outright the
other day in this parish by an
other who had a pistol hidden
in his pocket. Had both been
observers of the law, to-day an
other man would be alive. Let
two men get into a dispute and
the first thing each does is to
dive his fist into his hip
pocket and look with desperate
defiance at bis antagonist.
In the name of bnmanity let
the offenders of this outraged
law be brought to justice. The
people demand it. Society de
mands it. The broken law whose
majesty has been impugned, in
thunder-tones demands it.
The mails for the past few weeks
have been very unregular.—[Vienna
Sentinel.
Unregular ! Are you drunk ?—
[Bastrop Clarion.
Only a we drappie in the, 'ee—
"[Carroll Conservative.
We have taken that all back,
Morgan. It was the fault of the
poor, helpless, hapless, hopeless
type-setter ! So Walker says.
Mr. Ellis is selling mules almost
as fast as lie can drive them out of
the lot. Make haste, if you want a
good mule.
Ireland aud the United States
The "Little Green Isle in the
Sea," <t"bout which so much has
been wfltten, and from which the
ancestors ot s® many of us came
and to which the hearts of the
American people cling with ten
der sympathy, is to-day the the
ater of want, of distress, of the
most terrible suffering. Ireland
is passing through the same or
deal of helpless starvation that
befell her in 1847. The bloated,
relentless land-owners and the
failure of the potato crop have
admitted to the hearth-stones of
thousands of our fellow -beings
"the wolf," whose presence
sends a thrill of horror to the
stoutest heart. In their distress
the Irish are making loud and
earnest appeals to our favored
country for succor. Ireland holds
out across the broad bosom of
the "deep and dark blue ocean"
the gaunt, bony hand of want
and begs America to stop the
mouths of her starving, dying
children. The appeal comes in
the daily mail and by the hourly
fiash of the electric cable. The
appeal comes worded with all of
the simple eloquence öf distress
ed, afflicted humanity* Aud, to
her everlasting honor, be it said,
America responds to the cries of
Ireland with all of the prodigal
liberality of a noble-hearted,
sympathetic, generous people
who feel an inseparable and a
never-dying interest for the wel
fare of that down-trodden and
grateful race who live on that
unfortunate Island. The coffers
of our people have been thrown
ajar, and bread has been dis
patched to the hungry of that
land." The rich and the poor of
these United States have heeded
to the entreaties of Ireland for
help. As in 1847, the National
Legislature of this country has
heard the cries and sent relief to
the starving of suffering human
ity. Almost every village and
hamlet in this great country
have their "Irish Relief Socie
ties," whose object is to mitigate
the sufferings of our brethien
beyond the seas. The people of
the United States are a gener
ous people! Ireland knows it
aud to our people she comes in
her dire distress. It is our duty
to help her. Humanity demanda
that we do. The ties of consan
guinity, which bind human be
ings together, demand that we
aid that people, whose country
has given to the world so many
illustrious and noble-hearted
men.
Now, while this is true (anà
no thinking man will deny it)
why is it that Bastrop, and
Morehouse parish are not awake
to the necessity of contributing
something to the cause of plead
ing Ireland ? The people of our
parish are not a stingy, heartless
people. They sympathize with
suffering humanity wherever it is
found. But still no one seems
to be aware of the condition of
our brethren on "Erin's bright
shore." This will not do. Let
us, who are rolling in the lap of
luxury and ease, awake to the
piteous behests of the Irish peo
ple. Let us get up an organiza
tion or a relief society and send
assistance to some poor, dying
starving family, who would to
day thank heaven for that which
we cast to the dogs, Who will
take a step ia this matter? We
must not treat the subject with
indifference. Ere the sun sets
some human being may die that
death the most terrible to con
template—the death of starva
tion. Ireland and the United
States expect every , man to do
his duty to that wretched people.
Let Bastrop and Morehouse do
theirs.
At a social gathering in Caxens
county, Ga., last Monday night,
two fashionable young men disa
greed, and each was stabbed to
death by the other.
'I HE FIRE FIEND.
At 11 o'clock last Monday night
a fire broke out under the flight
of stairs which Tan up on the
Outside of the Traylot- building,
situated on Jefferson street. The
alarm was given vociferously
but before assistance could be
obtained, the flames were beyond
all human control. The fire bad,
in a few minutes, enveloped the
whole building, spreading each
way—east toward the grocery
store of Mr. L. C. Dalton, and
west toward the barroom just
vacated by Mr. M. Collins. The
only thing that could be done
was to take the goods from the
stores which were being wrapt in
the- devouring flames. To this
task everybody went to work
vigorously. As Mr. Dalton's
store was joined to the Traylor
building, the fire grew so in
tensely hot that a great many
heavy goods were left to be
licked up by the consuming ele
ment. Sam's House was the
next east of Dalton's, and, before
the fire got to his saloon the
house was very nearly emptied
of its contents. In the excite
ment many of Sam's bar fixtures
were broken, but we are informed
that his loss was comparatively
small.'
The residence and shoe shop—
both under the same roof—of
Mr. Schneider furnished the next
food for the angry flumes. We
understand that Mr. Schneider's
furniture was all saved. Adjoin
ing •Schneider on the east is the
brick store of B. C. Tatum. Iu
the rear of this is the framed
residence of Mr. H. D. Yaughan.
The great question was now to
save Vaughau's dwelling and
thereby save Tatum's and Peter
kin's stores. By the almost su
perhuman efforts of a great mauy
brave men. the fire was ovet
come, and the house of Mr.
Yaughan saved. It was cer
tainly a miraculous task that
saved that house. Entirely of
wood, and standing within sis
feet of Schneiders, we do not see
how the house was ever saved
But during all this time the
fire was licking up every build
ing west of where it started, un-,
til it reached the corner of Jef
ferson and Washington streets,
where it turned north. Then
came the Norsworthy building,
occupied by Mr. Embling, who
sustained some loss, we under
stand, by breakage and stealage
of goods; next the Hall building,
occupied by Mr. Neuwirth; next
the barber shop; then the tin
shop of Mr. H. H. Sanders.
Here the flames were checked
again, after laying eleven Bas
trop buildings in ashes.
We do not know the exact loss
of any one. We understand many
were uninsured and none heavily
insured. The whole loss is
probably between $9000 and
$10,000, covered by an insurance
of, say $3500.
Thus in three short hours the
accumulations of years Of toil to
many have been swept away.. :
The tire was no doubt the work
of a fiendish incendiary, whose
object was theft and robbery.
The negroes in Tensas are
faking contracts to work by the
iùonth, refusing to stipulate a
longer time. It is thought that
many of them intend to skip out
for Kansas this spring. The
same disposition obtains among
the negroes throughout the State.
NOTICE—I will pay the cash at
a small discount, for claims against
the parish, good notes, city ac
ceptances, etc. J. S. HAN DY.
Insurance on gins, gin houses,
dwellings, etc., placed in best New
Orleans company by J. S. HANDY,
soliciting agent.
Large and fresh stock of drugs
received this week at the City Drug
Store.
Apply
200,000 brick for sale,
to H. D. Vaughan or
T. O. Leavel & Co.
STATE NEWS.
CoushatU is infested with bur
glars.
1 Shrevepcrt has given $500 to
Ireland.
New Orleans had a hundred
"thousand dollar fire last week.
The farmers of East Felioiana
parish are planting corn.
The Beacon says there is no
scarcity of labor in Eichland.
A negro hog thief died in the
parish jail Of Blchland last week.
The editor of^the Richland
Beacon has no babies to nurse,
and we feel sorry for him,
The court bouse at Vienna was
burned to the. ground on the
14th inst. All the parish books
and papers were saved.
Pneumonia is prevailing to an
alarming extent in and around
Eayville.
Mr. S. ML. McCranie has as
sumed the editorial control of
the Minden Tribune. He seems
to know bis business, and
give him a hearty welcome.
The editor of the Yienna Sen
tinel is making gigantio efforts to
inform the "whole world and the
rest of mankind" that he lives
in Lincoln parish, Louisiana
A" Sneak thief entered the
store room of H. T. Earle last
week in Winnsboro and unlaw
fully possessed himself of two
sides of bacon.
Judge Mayer has been ap
pointed postmaster at Donald
sonville in place of Mr. Wilkin
son, the present incumbent. The
Chief does not like the change,
and protests bitterly against it.
The gifted editor of the Clai
borne Guardian has returned to
Homer after an absence of live
in thn mtv H a mad« a
W66KS in tne city, ne maae a
pleasant and profitable visit toi
the Crescent City, and feels
proud (?) of our Legislature.
Some time ago we wrote an arti
ele suggestive of the fact that Grant
is the most probable candidate that
will go before the Republican Con
vention in Chicago next June.. We
further stated that we preferred to
see Grant elected to any other
Republican . The blockhead who
squibs for the Vienna Sentinel in
ferred from what we said in that
article that in a short time we would
prefer Grant to " any Democrat."
None but a dolt could have drawn
any such an inference from what
we said. So much for the Sentinel.
Now the Madison Journal, one of
the most ably edited papers in the
State, comes out and says "there is
no question but prejudice is dying
out." "Indeed, we need not go
beyond our own parish to establish
this fact." The Journal has sense
enough to know that the war is
over, and that because it acknowl
edges Grant's extraordinary abili
ties is no reason that sensible men
should accuse it of a retraction of
Democratic principles.
Last Saturday evening Char
ley Hutcheson, a negro living on
Mr, T. T. Grays place, and Jerry
Boyd, a negro living on Mr.
Douglass' place, fell out in town
and after some harsh words and
profane langoage, Jerry plunged
bia knife into the threat of Chai
ley,cutting a gash some three
inches in length. The point of
the knife reaobed the wind-pipe
and opened a hole about one
quarter of an inch.
Dr. Marable sewed up Char
ley's throat in the presence of a
huge crowd of darkies who re
fused to pursue and capture the
flying cut-throat, Jerry Boyd.
We understand that Charley is
getting well, although he will
lose the power of articulation.
Jerry has been arrested and
given pail. Whisky was the
whole cause.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi,
who was stricken with paralysis
some time ago, has again re
sumed his seat in the United
States Senate,
New Advertisements,
NOTICE.
Ou account of my wife's havimr l p f t
my bed and board everybody is herein?
notified not to let her trade on mv
count. J. W. M c GOVVEN
NOTICE.
The firm of Winkler & Ohio bavinir
been dissolved, the business of reimr
ing machinery, guns and pistols, makiufr
trusses for club feet, etc., will be here
after carried on by
feb20 CHAS. WINKLER. '
NOTICE
To the People of Morehouse Parish and
Surrounding Country:
I nave permanently located in Oak
Ridge, where I aiu prepared to do all
kinds of jewelry, watch and clock re
pairing. Also sewing machines and all
kinds of light machinery. AH work
warranted lor one year and satisfaction
guaranteed iu every particular. Leave
your work at Mr. Davis' store, or s«ud
me notice where to go to do it.
J, P. REILLY.
CFtYER LI2NTE.
FBOM TRENTON TO BAYOU BAR
THOLOMEW.
Steamer WILLIE,
Captain R. D. MARBLE,
SAM GILBERT, Clerk.
Steamer D. STEIJY,
Captain J. M TINDELL,
JOHN C. MEEK, ClerkT
Will make regular weekly trips in the
Bayou during the entire season, connect
ing regularly at Trenton with the Mam
moth sidewheel Weekly Packet ERED
A. BLANKS, of <»000 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 be lauded at Point Pleasant Satur
day evening.
Steamer Willie passes Point Pleasant,
foing up, Saturday eveing; going down,
'riday morning of e> ery week.
For further particulars inquire of
JOHN A. MEEK, Agent,
feb20 6m Point Pleasant.
* have seized as the property of the de
f eu d an 4 S au j w in p roct , et i to sell at the
(door of the court house, within the
SHERIFF'S SALE.
STATE OF LOUISIANA—Fourteenth
District Court, parish of Morehouse
Mrs. Sarah M. Spyker vs. J. G San
didge, administrator, et. .vi.
By virtue of an order of seizure and
sale issued by the Hon. 14th District
Court in an-.l for the parish of Morehouse
in the above entitled «uit and to me di
rected as Sheriff of said parish and State
hours prescribed by law, at public auc
tion, to the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, the 20th day of March,
1880, the following described property,
to-wit : Lot number 5, section 1, and
northwest quarter ot' northeast quarter
and northeast -j ' ; artel - of .southeast quar
ter section IV, township 20, north range
four east. Lots !, 2 and 3 and northeast
quarter of northwest quarter and south
west quarter of southeast quarter sec
tion 1. township 20, north range 4 east,
and lot I, section :1B, township 21, north
range 4 east, and south half ol' lot 4, sec
tion 3(5, township 21, north range 4 east.
Lot 7, section 11, northeast quarter of
northwest quar er and lot 2, section 12
and south half of north west quarter of
sectton 12, southwest quar er of north
east quarter and northwest quarter of
southeast quarter section 5, township
20, north range 4 east and northwest
quarter of north we.-t quarter, section 12,
northeast quarter of southwest, quarter.
The southeast quarter of southwest
quarter and the southeast quarter of
northwest quarter section 1, township
20, north range 4 east Lot 1, section '
12, and southeast quarter of northeast
quarter, section 12, and northeast quar
ter of northwest quarter of section 12,
Southeast quarter of lot t, section 11,
south half of northwest quarter of sec
12. Lot 2, section 12, southwest quarter
of northeast quarter, section 12, aud
northwest quaiter of southeast quarter,
section 12, and northwest quarter of
northwest quarter of section 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 36, 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 westr 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
of southwest quarter of southeast quar
ter and east half northeast quarter of
northwest qnarter. section 1, township
20, north range 4 east and the south half
of lot 5, section 36, township 21, north
range 4 east, known 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 sonth-east
quartet of section 25 and west half of
northwest quarter, seciton 36, township
21, north range 4 east. Lots 3 aud i,
section 31, township 21, north range 5
east, southwest quarter of southwest
quarter, sectton 30, township 21, north
range 5 east. Lots 1, 2, aud 3, the west
half. Lot No. 4 and east half of northwest
quarter see 36 township21 north range4
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 and Thos. R. Polk place. The
said two-thirds interest of said land be
ing designated as all that part ot the
land last above described lying west of
the division line established by aniact
of partition between Geo. M. and Jas
G. Sandidge and Bettis H. Polk on the
7th day of April, 1875. All the above
lauds are situated on west bank of Bayern
Bartholomew, parish of Morehouse.
Terms of Sale—Cash with the benefit
of appraisement.
WM. P. DOUGLASS,
febl3-6t Sherifi.