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* ml. DEVOTED TO POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, HOME INTERESTS, AND THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE COVNTRY. VOL. VI BASTROP, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 1880 NO 41. sfflowltouse Clarion. PUBLISHED" EVERY FRIDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. One vear, in advance 00 Six months " 1 2? Three month» " ~ ;) ADVERTISING RATES. Space. I 1 mo | 3 mos | 6 mos ! 1 year. 1 square. 'I squares. 4 squares. 4 column I column. Î column. r> oo 5 00 8 50 10 00 20 00 40 00 ff! 50 9 50 15 00 18 00 40 00 60 00 510 00 '20 00 15 00 30 00 •23 00 40 00 30 00 70 00 50 00 '90 00 125 00 Transient advertisements will be in serted at the rate of 1 50 per square of ten lines for the first insertion, and 7;> oent.s for each subsequent insertion PROFESSIONAL CAIIDS. Frank Waughan, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bastrop, Louisiana. Will practice in the Courts of More house and West Carroll. Special atten tion to the collection of claims by suit before the Magistrate's Courts. £f. C. JfHO RGJËJ%\ attorney at law, MONROE, La. Will (practice iu State aud Federal Courts. aprilll-y sjijisojtr B j E r »; ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bastrop, Louisiana. Office —South-east cornel' ,ot Puhljc Square. Will practice in the courts of the 14tli Judicial District composed Of the parishes of Morehouse, Ouachitaand Richland, and in the Supreme Court at Monroe. julyl9-y J Vs. BUSSE Y II". NAFF Jtusscy Jt'atr, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, .Bastrop, Louisiana. Will practice in the courts ot the Sixth Judicial District, composed of the parish» s of Morehouse and West Carroll, and n the Supreme' Court at Monroe; also in the Federal Courts. Office— East side of public square; C. NEWTON W5I.T. HALL JTewton -V It 'll. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bastrop, Louisiana. Wili practice in the courts of the 6th •liuliuiiil District, composed of the par ishes of Morehouse, and West Carroll and also iu the parishes of liiehlaud, Ouachita, Union, Franklin, Catahoula, Hud Jackson, aud in tlia Supreme Court Monroe, Louisiana. OR. F. C. (i 1", BASTKOP, I.A. Oilers l«is professional sei vices to the â eople of Bastrop and vicinity. Can be found at his residence, or at the drug store ot Dr. A. L. Bussey, when not profes onally engaged. febft-y Geo. B. Jtlarable, JI. D BASTROP, I.A. I hereby tender my professional services to the people of Bastrop and Morehouse parish. When not professionally engaged, can be found at my resideneo on 1 » mile eas ortownat night, and at the Drug Store of Dr. A. L. Bussey during the day feb9-y s. P- T3TJA.TT j ORAL SURGEON, Offers to the public his professional experience of thirty years in the above speciality for the treatment of all dis eases peculiar to the month and preser vation of its natural orjiaus, the teeth. Charges for all dental services graded by quality and character desired, to suit the times. For dental substitute*, from $15, $60. $75, $100, f'200, np to Bnatt's celebrated improvod gold plate, $350 for full sets, recommended as healthy, and to perform the functions of mastication, satisfactorily as to kind selected. Without previous arrangements, cash is invariably expected. Moved to new office, n«r the Baptist Chnrch. Dentistry. in all its branches, by DR. M. J. MASfeENGILL. Gold fillings from $2 to $5; silver fill ings from îl to $3; full upper and lower set artificial teeth £40. Extracting teeth a speciality. Having bad mv office newly fitted up, I will take pleasure in serving all persons wishing work in m'y line. COME AND SEE, Mr. A. CURTIS is offering his best brick for TEN DOLLARS PER THOU SAND. Now is the best time to repair vonr side-walks and nnder-pin your houses. Call and examine the brick. A. CURTIS A BUMMER SONG. Roly-poly honey-bee Hamming in the clover, With the green,Reaves uuder you, And the blue,sky over, Why are you so busy, pray ? _ Never still a minnte, Hovering now above a flower, Now half bured iu it ! Jaunty robin Ted-breast, Singing,loud and cheerily, From the pink-white apple treo. In the morning early, Tell me, is your merry song Just for your own pleasure, Poured from such a tiny throat Without stint or measure ? Little yellow buttercup, By the wayside smiling, Lifting up your happy face, With such sweet beguiling, Why are you so gayly clad— Cloth of gold your raiment Î Do thesuushme and the dew Look to you for payment ! Roses in the garden beds, Lillies, cool and saintly, Darling blue-eyed violets, Pausies hooded quaintly, Sweét-peds that, like butterflies, Dance the blight t>kies.under Bloom.-ve f of avour own d eligh t, Or for ourji woiider î The Life of a Far- Western Editor. We bave'' collected §55.50 cash during the past six months, and lived on that sum. We have given from fourteen to sixteen hour's la bor every day, including Sunday, each week we have printed the Bentönian. The Semi-Weékly con tained, when printed full, about twenty thousand ems, making forty thousand for the week, which is the average printer's week's work, without performing any other labor. In addition to the week's work at the case we have 1 looked after the chores of the office, made up the paper, cut and wet down the paper, washed the rollers, worked the press, put up the mails, and carried the papers. We have bought, begged or stolen the firewood, and chopped • it with a borrowed ax. We have done our- own cooking and lived on one meal and a cold lunch a day, never getting a good square one, except when a chance half-dollar fell in our way, and we would feel so rich that we would rush up to the California Hotel. We have lived on boiled beef with an occasional turnip, and not in frequently a boiled frozen potato and salt for dessert. We would then change our diet to soda crack ers and sweetened water for a few days. There is nothing so condu cive to health as frequent changes of diet. For the last week or two we have been gourmandizing on bacon: and . beans straight, with crackers steeped in weak tea. What tobacco we can not beg we buy on cie'dlt. .We have not been in bed or lain on a mattress since last May.— ^Bentéft Bentonian. A youn£-utofcfte»s in-'despair of ever teaching her idle little girl, aged 4, her letters, and thinking that perhaps the child knew more than she would admit, said: "Now, Katie, I won't tfy to teach you to day; you shall be mother, and shall teach toe my letters.'' ''May I really an»J truly be mother?" said Katie. '-'Yes, my darling." "Let's begm, then," was the re sponse. "You have been a very good child to-day and you may have a whole'holiday!" and Katie shut up the book and ran off laugh, ing. • >•> .il. - —"—: «P "Short," said a Dutchman, "you may sav> what please, 'pout' pad neighbors: i have had to vorst 1 "• .-f* >— î ■ - ... neighbors as. never vas. Mine bigs and mij^hehs" cbjme home niit dere ears split, and todder day. two of them come borne missing. How long does a widower mourn i for his wife ? A second. When Hancock was nominated the Republican! press began to attack him because he was noth ing bat a soldier and without a civil record. These attacks have done Haucock good service, for they have drawn out his record and made it quite plain that he has bad a great deal to do with civil affairs and has always been on the right side pf every great issue! His order No. 40, and his letter to the reconstruction governor of Texas, were no more creditable and striking evidences of bis ability to bandle civil af fairs than his letter to Gen. Sherman, which the constant barking of the Republican press brought into priut, The latest draft on his record is the paper he read as presiding officer of the court of inquiry, which Grant ordered when Babcock was in dicted as a member of the St. Louis whisky ring. The plan was to get the evidence out of the courts here in St. Louis and into the bands of sympathetic military comrades where it would do Babcock no harm. Hancock refused to be a party to this transparent trick and the court of inquiry did not serve Bab cock's purposes. It did put Hancock on record once more i however, as a soldier who knew just when to bow his bead obe diently to the civil authority. Hancock, as a candidate for president, represents the very antithesis of the soldier in poli tics, for his whole record shows that he is the one soldier who knows how to keep the army out of politics.—[St. Louis Republi can. Here is what a sensible old mau thinks of little boys who smoke cigarettes in the presence of ladies. We know some boys in this town guilty ot that very impolite and ungallanfc practice, and, to let them see and know what old people think of it, we publish the old man's opinion: •'I can stand being shut up in a close room with a yellow dog full of fleas or a ripe polecat in a hot house in July, but I have no earthly use for the chuckle headed young rooster who sucks smoke through a paper cigar stuffed with green walnut saw dust, and stands like a cast-iron monkey upon a street corner and squirts that smoke oat through both flues in his nose into the faces of ladies passing by. If I had an old toothless dog and he didn't have sense enough to snap at a turtle, and didn't have but forty-eight hours to live, I'd kill him if J caught him barking at one of these double-flued-nosed smoke-squirters." Dr. Foote's Health Monthly tells how people get sick : "Eating too much and too fast ; swallowing im perfectly masticated food; using too much fluid at meals ; drinking poisonous whisky and other intoxi cating drinks ; repeatedly using poison as medicines ; keeping late hours at night, and sleeping late in the morning ; wearing clothing too tight ; neglecting to wash the body sufficiently to keep the pores open ; exchanging the warm clothes worn in a warm room during the day for costumes and exposure incident to evening parties ; compressing the stomach to gratify a vain and fool ish passion for dress ; keeping up constant excitement; fretting the mind with borrowed troubles ; swal lowing quack nostrums for every , imaginary ill ; taking meals at ir I regular intervals, etc.' t ALMOST INCREDIBLE. Information from Tyro, the scene of the recent somnabulistic murder, is that over 100 person's assembled at the corner's inquest and preliminary trial. The body of Mr. Phelps found lying nearly across the foot of the bed, on the right side, his head on his right arm, with three cuts of an ax, two ot which, if not the third, were sufficient to cause instant death—one high enough on the head to reach the brain. The story of Mr. Click was that he dreamed the negroes had entered the store, as anticipated by him self and Mr. Phelps. Then fol lowed, according to his recollec tion, a bloody and terrible fight. When be awoke be wa3 fleeing down the stairs, and, gradually recovering consciousness, he re turned to the room where he and Phelpa had been sleeping, and realized at a glance the full hor ror of his deed. He at once fled screaraing^to the house of Mr, Grub, near by, aud was met by that gentleman, who was aroused by his cries. Mr. Grub said his lamentations were heart-rending, and that he told him at once that be bad killed bis best friend in bis sleep. The alarm soon be came general, and tbepeighbors collected from all quarters. They all testified that Cliok exhibited bis regret in a most violent man ner, and fiually became so ex hausted that he had to be car ried home. It was proved by both State and defendant's wit nesses that Click was a somnam bulist and nad frequently injnred his own person by jumpiug from the house window, sometimes through the glass from the sec ond story, cutting himself consid erably. He has also been known to get up aud choke some of the family, saying that the bears in Texas were after him, and then run a quarter or a half mile down near the river, and wake to find himself aloue. When he went visiting be requested his neigh bors to tie him, which tuey did. Last week he went to sleep in the room where his dead uncle lav a corpse. He suddenly arose with terrible expressions of fear, and started to seize his dead un cle. His sister and a gentleman caught bim, got him awake, and he went back to bed. Many other instances were given. The court being satisfied from the evidence that the prisoner Was not accountable for his actions while asleep, pronounced the evidence unsufficien^ whereupon Mr. Click returned to his home.— Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. The grape, apple and plum crop along the Hudson valley is abundant this season, and the probabilities are that wine wilj be made of the grape crop this Fall. Apples are a drug on the farmers' hands, and they are drying hundreds of bushels daily instead of shipping them to mar ket.' Cider is being made m large quantities. A good woman, after the death of her husband, had married the brother of the departed. She pre served, nevertheless, in her dining room, a picture of her first spouse. One day a guest at the table, no ticing the portrait, asked her if it was a member of . her family. "Yes," replied the lady, frankly, "it is the portrait of my poor brother-in-law." ■ Oa the slopes of the volcano of San Salvador, iu Central America, exists a curious inter mittent spring. It is known to the natives of the country as tho Rio Huido, or fugitive river. During seven consecutive years sufficient water flows from it to form a veritable river, when, at v fixed time, tho water suddenly disappears, and the bed of the river becomes dry aud dusty. At the end of another period of seven years the water again commences to flow from the spring. A period of flow covered the years from 18G6 to 1873, and was succeeded by a period of dryness from 1873 to 1880. In Jauuary of this year the water promptly reappeared. The phe nomenon is not new, but the length of the period of intermit tence aud its regularity are re markable in the present instance. At a recent trial in a Justice court a prominent saloonist was called as a witness. Upon being sworn, one of the attorneys in the case said: "Mr. S. where is your place of business?" "What for you ask me such foolish dings? You drinks at my blace more as a hundred dimes!'' "That has nothing to do with the case, Mr. S; state to tho jury where your place of business is." "De ahury! de shury? oh, by jimiuy ! Lfery shentleman on dis shury has a string of marks on my cel lar door, shust like a rail fence!" His Honor here interceded in be half of couusel, and in a calm aud dignified manner requested the witness to state the place of his bizziness. ''Oh excuse me, your Honor, you drinks at my place so many dimes and pays me notings. I dinks you very well knows where I keeps mine blace," Don Cameron's Support of Garfield .—Judge Shoonmaker related to me an incident that occurred at the Uuited States Hotel an evening or two ago. It was told him by a gentlemen who was present aud beard it, a per son in whose reliability the Judge says he places the utmost confidence. A little group was gathered about Don Cameron engaged in coversation with him. Some one asked him how long he would remain in Saratoga. But a short time, was his reply, for he must go back.to Pennsylvania and look after the Legislature» which he desired to see Repub lican. "An i do some good work for Garfield," put in a bystander. "What," cried the son of Simon, "for that Cambellite son of a sea-cock? No, sir not much.— Saratoga Correspondence Brook lyn Eagle. A gardener recommend^ that to keep bugs off melon and squash vines a tomato plant be set iu each hill, saying that when be followed this plan his young plants were not molested. Never be afraid of a maa who challenges you to fight a duel. He will feel all that you can feel, and more too. The man who rushes at you with a spade is the chap to look out for. Paint the inside walls of a corn house with coal tar, and it will drive weevils from the corn. It costs but a few dollars a barrel, aud a barrel will last several years in ben houses and corn houses. The Literary Tramp—A Kentucky Ro mance. A youug hid y from Texas was spending a summer in Kentucky, when she lmd a queer experience with a tramp. She was sitting out in the shade ot the yard reading Goorge Eliot's ' Mill on the Floss," when a regular, rag ged tramp, red-nosed, askod if he could get a drink of water*, Ho could. Must he go around the gate or ^'ould ho climb tho fence? Both, if ho choose to. He said "that's tho way I like to hoar people talk." She went and brought him the water and after driuking it he paused and aksod what she was reading. On boar ing its name he said: "Over rated. I never liked it. All depth or no depth, I don't know which. The novelist has tried to write a story withont a well defined plot aud has failed. Goldsmith's success as a plotless aud chaimiug writer was a bad example." "You shouldu't tear my favorite book to pieces. 1 like George Eliot aud all ber works." *'Yuu don't liko 'Mill on the Floss.' You have been nodding over it for the last half hour. You only pretend to read it because you itnagino that ia doing so you develop literary taste." "I think, sir, you are im pudent." "But truthful. Here's a book you should read," aud the tramp took from his ragged coat a tatœred copy of Button's Anatomy of Melancholy. "Dr. Johnson said that this book Was the ouly work that could induce him to get out of bed mornings sooner than his regular time of rising." "Aud that's why you like it," remarked the girl, taking the book. "If Dr, Johnson hadn't made that remark you would not find the work so charm ing." He said: "That's all right give me some more water?" She asked bim why be tramped. He said, "whisky," She said: "Why don't you quit?" Ho answered: "I will now, on ono coudition. That you will consent to be ray wife. Meet me under this treo four years from to-day." "I will," said she and she treasured up his handsome, reckless face in her momory. That was four years ago and two or three weeks since she was in tho same yard; under the same tree, when up came her tramp acquaintance, well dressed this time. They are now married.—[Unknown, but Reliable Exchange. A Harsh Retort. During the last political cam paign in Michigan, a well-known lawyer of that State was address ing an audience composed prin cipally of farmers, in Gratiot County.' In order to win the confidence of his hearers, he said: "My friends, my sympa thies have been always with tho tillers of the soil. My father was a practical tarmer, and so was my grandfather before him." I was myself 1 eared on a farm, and was, so to speak, born be tween two stalks of corn." Here tho speaker was rudely interrupted by some one in the audience, who exclaimed, "A pumpkin, by Jingo!"— [Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine. Sunflowers are recommended in (he Duchess Farmer for bean poles, planting them at a suita ble distancé in the , garden^and planting the beans around them when three or four inches liigh.