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THE COLFAX CHRONICLE. tn )nbcpenbcnt Journal, bcbotcb to ocal anb 6cncral Zhtous, `iteraturc, $ciecnc, grincuturc, etc. VOL. I. COLFAX, GRANT PAIIISII, LA.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1876. INO. 19. IED EVERY S.I'RDA).Y. IIY i. ad SWEENfEY TERMS: year, in advance..... -... 00 ntls, ........ .1 5 a. Oth, , " - .......... b ' ADVERTISING RATES: u1 Sqnre, (1 ickh apac t~) irt instrtion. .:each snlseilulint intwrtion 7 ,. I fara~tons of a square chant g lre thr a . Cardsof ai Per",al]nai'ulrc', whent issible, chargdl at dtiuhle rates. profissional and ,ii i iuss Ca.irdns, Sotie :iure, 10 pe'r yuar: twI' (o+,.r~tT-,' AsisoIrNcorXnr Sash liusti il every isut iace ac Poly the order . ju. 3 11ta. 1 il. 1 Y!ea ~------i tColumn l:0 15 5 $:3 $'4'' SAll ..ltertismlil n's sit to this orcr,when not othtr"'e l.'ecirtel. will bI inserted till forbid, and chargel ac Stliugly. IU Obitnarv and MarriaSe notice,: of anrone sqluare in lel ngh chai:gd a+, tertiaemelt . iprTrLAitnt aIldvrtisenllnts paya sla ldvance ; quarterly ;adsl. "nntlilrtly itsadvianee. yearly adl. quiarterll in allt ISr f et'ept bi rpl"ital cil&it ract. I aidvertirluells a:re ot iaid for hu'-Iie'tiuie * 'e forl wh.cli tl,.v hi brlla ,,iadr.id ito be pjilulthl, tihj Ili Cli iii, uoI. aiid .% ic lit c:,acte.t Ikthefiull ime they appparriel ii it.r "if. JOB WORK must be paid for on de Old John Horker. at Monday afternioi a house t, winging on a scaiºflld to a high building Leat t oe e alling ptitit him to corme Thinking it wax the owner the block, he dese-unded and * wiiukle-faced old chAip who Sholing anll ancient uimbiella his head. "IL your name Duke ?" inDQired old man in a ioft viic.i. "No, bir," wai the reply. "My ies Ugdlen." "There it is, you see !' cackled Stranger. "Your iname iln't becanI e it 1. Olduen. A case never came to mwy at ti. H your nltrne wai not idn it would be Duke." "Dlh y'ou wuan, to &ie me?" the paiuntr. "Nominally, yes. Di you lever any tiune to the .t;lAy it phy?" Philosophiy be li'ihtnll11 . l- i the paiilt.er. "If ynu llinI' i tme what did (li i call l it't here for?" t *lop now liul':r 0 :ulother i piet!" chukleai : e oil Ill. t Ty do yoeu iut ,v vi'xati,,in? beeawt. ~ o :e vexedl. If' aere pleasel I wotl el riilc. a go back 1,,t .+ ears to th: "I Srinciplesof . forit'viu.' I . lou'd betttr hack to t he aaylu,: .uttered the ' g "by are lun it. asylums nec- P -" asked old matn.- Use we hl., iilattie.. WLy v W have lui. t "Don't talk .," rpi.d the titer, starti to eneir the tt - g. tt by do I ' inquired the f, Sold v., er, Ila'ring the u . "i: becaise I harv t S Flo,. ot talk, antd why i'ta ni.v mv,'e fooling tI ex& ed the painter, t Sputli uld man out of SWiill back to whlat is i Sethe iee age,' a,.id tie LI - *It g on his hanl. as l meut rewiat. 'Did .&u ' -.st at you mnight hiave in Wli or valley as weBll as aI to 1mi,.l1? aInppobE vyIu had been a side-hlll? Whbat would have been l ,oulr policy?" S"Just about this!" gasped the i painler, as he got aeollar hold and jerked with all his mighit. "I sonetiues- think," said the old ,an, as lie kicked the painter x ill thie Ro, tNuelh twice in sticcessioq, 'thalt ua311. sway have decended frolu earth. I may hav been a l. ahili. you . knoll, that muu over Ste:re a glade." Sn: Tl'hre wni* a plnse for at minute. ,as Ith painter hit him on the in,, tuth. He retaliated by a left i nlier on the nose, and securing t. hi1 ,l the painter's hair. he . .eil uina .a,:ai:lst the wall, and went S -W\\h do we fight? Go back to tilhe [l.ts o)f Adatm and let us see a) i:ti IUw;Lll .i s callle to exist." ias 1,.e% were ab,aut half-way back ill . r r -ln a p; licetmaln came along , a .d c ,l:rtd tile old pbihsmophel If, Itarchecd him off. He wat. r 'orded as Jahn Htorker, and as tr-je w.ta l.lce.l m the cell, he re " \\- y this prison jug? Because , ' r, ,I r. lre j;ug iers. Let us retracu iour ; .iia i )te drift aperiod and it tli i r wLc wa, tirst incarcert'te.r e- T:e i:l;::er loOked after the old '. ,an a, iel was walked off, and gialt:g his bleeding nose another w:.pa, he said: "If that's what they call philos d ophy I'm going into traming to ti morrow aaorning!" r Scientists on Spiritualism. The Subject Dtsoussed before the British Assooiation. a At Giasgow, in the anthropo 1l lorcal shc'tion, Prof. Barret read a paper on .some phenomena asso c;iated wital the abnormal condi tl,!i of miunl. The subject was onta, however, in regard to which Stli~er had been a great change of op.)ald,l, and no better instance c;muld be given of this change of t front thtan that afforded by Dr. Ciarpeter. Prof. Barrett on one . ocai",,n t,,ok a card and put it in a book, and gave the closed vol i.rn: to a girl. She held it close t to her headl a httle behind the ear, ;al tiaela said, "I see somethingi - i,,;ii the book with red spots on t." He then asked her to cot ut the sFpcts, and she replied th:at there were five, which proved tom bre q:ite correct, for the card was the five of diamonds, and yet he º was t ie. only person in the room wr l, ,c',,lal have known what it wa... Th.i appeared to him to be a, ce'.har case of clairvoyance and the i:uporta;nt point was that ev ,er)y c'are had been taken to prevent 'tlly uilnct,aiciouS muscular action giving aun indication to the sub ject of wha;t she was being asked ahismut. In Uanother case there was a Ihtly whio was in the habit of t-llirg the time on a hunting'i w:tch i after the hands had been tuuie,1 ab, ut in all sorts of diree tians. On one occasion they 1 fatnd, as they thought, that she t was wrong. Returning the watch i to her they told her so. 8he per- '1 .ssted, however, that she was right, and on examining the watch c thley found that such was really t the case, and it was they them- i oelves who made a mistake. In fi Ihat case the thoughts of the mes- S i ierist were againa t those of his a -ahject. He had asked MIr. Mask- ,a ,l.hne, one of the cleverest con- h jarra of tae clay, and a gentle. a man who was engaged in an at- o tempt to disprove the reality of b a spiritruahlu., to see some of these in pheoaumeua with him, awl he had since received a letter from Mr. ,e blaskelyn's manager in which Id he said: "In matters of this kind your great men of science ie are more easily de lsed than the or men O, ordinary ta~lnt." q, Mr. Crtwkes, speakipg as a spir ad itualist, con ki agaiu st the a theory that people were de'uded r inuto the belief that they saw lnui festations which never occurred. i le maintained that a tr:illned ecien i Ltlic inluirer was miuch imore than Ita match for any clijutror, and that , if It were a lure matter If halil e cinauon that the trickery would nave been found out long ago. Dr. Carpenter sail tuat there o were some people who had a cu rious power of thought reading. Detective policemu, he believed, k had this power ni, a wonderhil degree, and he referred to the :I C:)Utance Kent ca.e anti others to show that the oticcr.s hit upon .r trlttU Iby iutu.,toa. As to Dr. Side, he frankly confes.,et that that gentleauni haid tlone things IauLili had alstuished hlml, andl jlst Ibefore leatving Lo:nloi he had Schallenged huim to repeiat thema in his own unale, and in tle clp.any of his owni friends, and with no d thlng bnt. his own furniture in the d room. Dr. Siade had agreed to do so, and therefore he considered him on his trial :anid refrained from sayiang more of hul at presenut. Mr. Parke Harrison referred to an American case iu which a wo man had confessed that abe had I been paid to pretend that she was a suhdium. - el The president said that this woma, u was afterwards proved to have been teiuhg taisehoods when i she hal made the pretended cuu fession. Prof. Barrett, in replying on the discissei, ciharged Dr. Carpenter , with cianIgliig his ,position. l)r. C.ripenttr denied that Le had done so, and in regard to: f ihat hadl been said about clair voyauts referred to the instance in which Sir James Sullnpson had put a 1£500 note in a case, and said he -would give it to any one who woauld tell its number, the result being that it remained unclaimed Sfur months. During this exciting incident, itev. Ra,,bt. rhompsou was seen atI the back of the platform flourish iug a bank note, and apparently offering to submit it to the test, but no attention was paid to him. The Rapides Fair. We take the following from the t Louisiana Democrat, and we are sorry that the Rapildes Fair, did not prove a success : "The Fourth Grand Fair of the c Rapidles Agricultural Fair Associa-t tlon, hal come and gone, and we I regret exeeelingli to record it as O a partial failure, and are forcedl to the he:l:sf, that oulr people are yet I ,dlead t., the irotection alnd welfare of such uindertakings as are calce lated to aid and assist them in the Strue develolpments of the material interests of ther cherished Rapidus. c lb There can be no use of our wasting words of complaint at this not ti unexpected mishap to many of us, b there is no u:se blaming any one in particular for it, for suffice it for all to know that the late Expo- n sition and Races close the career of that Association. As a friend of it from its very incipiency we have watched and fostered it with 84 all our editorial might, nor have P our personal efforts in its behalfl C been weak, but yet theL hour of its I sad detmise has come and we tend erly strew violetsand daises on its grave. But our people should know, and I we feel glad to let them know it. that the stockholders and managers are men who have not printed in their vocabulary, that evil word fMso and they are now more firmly Snsolved than ever that their beeL. tiful and valuable property shall never be deserted or turned over to base uses. The public will hear from them as soon as the temporari fogs of their fai.r pas have cleared away, aind our word for it., the man agemuent that we have followed and praised in sunshine, and whom we yet to cling to with "faith hope and charity" in this their hour of tribulations, will soon be found: equal to the emergency and the future rele6mpt!on of their most cherished hopes. We are yet for them, of them, and will cling to them now stronger than ever." Hopkins' Experiment. The inextinguishable hatred with which the people of Arizona regard the Apache Indians was excitedl by a somewhat singula, circtlunstance. Many years ago a luman named Hopkins, who was an enthesiast apon the subject of Smunsi.:, conceived an idea that the surest way of civilizing the red mann was to bring hime under the sootlhi,,g inflnenee of the divine art. Hopkins concluded that this coy)ld best be done by teansing each individual Indian to play upon so013 instrument. So) h bought about sixteen hundr ed flutes, anti startdl oT for Arizona. He settlei down alumong the Apa ches, who were Imuch plea.edl with Hopkins' scheme. So, Hopkins began to give music lessons, and in a few weeks he had all those dautes employed, and the silence of the plains was broken by a perfect cyclone of B flats and C naturals. The Indians went into the thing with enthusiasm, but the white people in the neighborhood re garded the upr tar with disgust. And that mtelodious old ass of a Hopkins used to rush out his a sixteen hundred braves upon calm t su ,mer evenings and make them I roost along on a fence and practise a their scales in unison until the hair of every white man in the L neighborhood was screeched up a on end. After a while Hopkins a educated them up to try to play t Auld Lang Syne, and the way v those aboriginal performers would p slide around among the notes and g tear up and dowc the bars, anti a uilprovise extraordinary and ap- a palling variations, would have ti made even an Italian organ-grinder a cawnnuit suicide. But Hopkins c said he felt encouraged, and so he a mached his orchestra into town a one evening for the purpose of . srentading the mayor. And when A those performers had wrestled l with that tune for about a quarter it ,if an hour the citazens formed a 8 vigilance committee and bang Hopkius, while . they shot the or-i eohestra all to atoms and made a bonfire of the flutes. Since that E tline the Apaches and Arizouians b have not been on speaking terms; vi but they hate each other fiercely. t, The cause of musical science has F not received any attention since E then from the Apaches. tl 0- --- 01 Vanderbilt's physicians have re- it ,olved to either kill or core their patient or perish in the attempt. ODly two of them have perished e: dhiu far. I1 I- How We Patornize Street Cars. Each city has its own peculiar d way of patronizing the horse-car t. compar.ies. When a Chicago mait takes the car he stands in the auid ldie of the street and clatches f 'r the railing as the thing goes by, and swinging himseif upon the gteap takes a seat. All the way 1 own town he hitches nervously r about, and half a block before his r place of business is reached, starts for the- platform, drops into the ,und, with the car under full head way, and dashes for his office, 1 In St. Louis it is different. There a nman waits on the street corner, and having brought the car to a full stop, slowly proceeds to mount. Settled in a seat, he enters into conversation with his neigh bor, and when the conductor comes r along mentions to him the number Sof the street where he wishes to alight. Arrived at the, locaaty, the conductor stops the car, anti stepping to the passenger informs him that his place is reached.-- I The passenger then bids an affec tionate adieu to the man with, whom hb has been convcrsing, and ( after shaking hands with two or ahree friends, leaves the car and Ssleepily wends his way to his e counting-room. In iudlwaukee the aim of every t man is to get his money's worth I out of the railway' company. To e this end the citizen hitches down n a block or two to meet a car, and I' riding to the end of the' track. proceds to alk backtl ts ian ioo or brewery. E In Boston a man whistles, waves his umbrella, and stands on his v head until a conductor deigns to 0 stop the car for him, gets in very weekly and behaves hke a good to Iboy. When he wants to stop he signals to the conductor, but if i that efficient person be busy, the e Boston man makes no fuss, but drops himself on the platform, and it strikes the curbstone with the tip of his nose. A Affairs in Europe have reached such a point of complicatiou that c the average mind cannot look into " them without feeling bewildered. In Turkey the wir ºuentirnent runs so high that thr.,ughoutt the length and breadth of the lrna the Ma hometans are holding war meetings and conventions, and vigorously n arming. The animosity against the Christians is growing more violent every day, and serious ap- I prehensions are entertained of a general massacre. Russia is in uI almost as bad a condition, financi ally, as Turkey, and according to the latest news, is threatened with L a finaucial cr:ash of a most serious th character. Russian Government 'L stock cannot be sold at any price and the country is being flooded with inconvertible pi:per mony. Austria is not as badly off, but her " financial ondition is critical, and it is a qualstion whether she could O sunpport the pressure of warexpens es. Germany is poor and her credit, in case of a general war would be greatly impaired if not annihilated. Englsand is doing very well now, but an interruption of her cornm muerce would very soon bring her t to the verge of bankruptcy. France is the only nation now in f Europe whose finances conl resist the brunt of war, and she is the only one who has no direct interests auvolved.-N. 0O. Democrat. v Pity is akin to love. Poetry excites pity, not aIrequently for the writer. v S LOpo.es, O~,toelr 21.-The comn cil to e hieldi by the Queen, on or onlvl,. i suillltontled to limet at u Iil:hni ,nli. "'l lfurther p'toro"gation f 'Parliamenl~ .t will then t orderend. At the rlo.., of the last session Par r lianwnt w:is p'0roriud nttil Octoiber : %), 1476u. Oil Mindiiy the proroga tion will Iw extended, probably un til Felrury next. Y The man- oitwnr Shah, carrying twenty-s.ix glts, andt reported to Im tihe fiastest vi"..iel inl tile navy, has l'eni oirderi.dl to reinthiree tihe Britishl It.e.t at lts.ika lBay. Tile I'Pot 1h:,s inliirmation that Rnsia: lhas ordlered thie unbilization of tinh cor'ps d'arlnee, which hias its headrli~ , rters at Wa\rsaw. A eli.pnt,,h frim Ielgrale to tihe Reut'er"i 'Ielegtrnt Coliit . ltntla'ds t that the Tl'urtks hirie calpt irted rschlieruv,iz :illn takmen tihe heights of Griedetini TiThe Paris corresplndtlent of tilhe 'r Tinltes intimiates that there is a Ipro lhability of Turkey throwing over hoard the protection of the powers and inegintiating directly with Russia. r Turkish statesmen think they can save IBuilgaria by granting the liber ty of the Bosplnorus to Russia. It is true Turke3 is Itunld by the treaties ti of JIr+;, to which tile freedom of the BospbloroLus is contrury., but the Srowers of Eiurie are driving Tar - key into negntiati nut with her bit terest etnemy, and the Porte may brealk tihe treaty inll despair. A dispntch to Reuter'r Telegram I Comi:LLany from0 Paris saysi: it is stated here thuat Englan.d lhas replied to Rulssia. that as site has alhiatty suiplortedi a six ientih's alminnstice she cane Iow reconeaulnltl one. of six weeks, but site will not ioppoase it. No power appearing williang to take the initiative, the question rests between Turkey ant Itussin. A sdlution cnt thls only lie look ed for at ConlstaUntinople. Dijdo matic cirrles here still hope for a pa.itic settlement. To-day's dis;patches necessitate a serious amditicatuiu 'af we vious views entertainned in regard to the Eastren iquestion by tthe confession of thi Tinies Vienna curresplondent. He was mintaiken ahout the powers which had declared their acceptatnce of the six nmonths arnnistice. Neith er Anstria, France nor Italy had notitiedi tlhe l',rte of thieir adhtesiou to thinl prIoanii, though noline had olbjected to it, Elni:uidl alonne, thetre fire, tootk tarnlnal ietitn in its favor. Th! elffect ,of thi is that all ,powers except Enginn:lndi r:tiln inll tle posi tion to irge the. Pforte to coineedle tile Rut.'.4..innl delaud. Onn the tthler hand it seetins celrtanin that ltRusiaI ila inot thie snpport of either (Gelmany or Austria 1'n the contemplatted move nilenLt agaiiinst Bulgatria. One of those strange coinciden ces that serve to imabue the minds of creldulous people with a belief in spiritualism occurred in Hart ford last week. A Dr. Langley, a nmedlinm, wan shown a lock of hair fromr the head of a hospital patient who haIl the consumptiou, and he luformed the parties who conell ted himu that nothing coldl save the consumptive: that he would die il exactly four mouths and a hall Nothing was thought of the matter untd last week, when the patient died, and it was found that he had died exactly on the day that Dr. Ltnigley predicted he would. As the patient was never informed of the prediction, he could not have been frightened into slJ ing on 'that .lay. Dr. IAngley was formerly a gambler and a fanro bank dealer, and says he qait that voccation be cause the spirite said he would never win again. A doting young father botts that his baby son is so affectionate that he sits up with his parents nearly all night, and is so tough that he seems to have no ooncep tion of fntigne or of time of day. A wonanni's hand ; How beaiti lully moulded, how fau!tless in symmetry, how soft and white and ieldiung, rand oh, how much of genutle tnemory its pressure con veys. Yet we don't like it in our hair. The m:IB well to do in this world ought to bie able to do well.