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THE BANIER-DEMOCRAT, IUsIH D VERYB SATURDAY AT LAKE PROV~DEICE. LA. D. L. MORGAN. Editor. JAMF5 N. TURNER, Pablisher and prnprietor. *IJBSCRIPTIONi: 200 PER TEAR. Saturday, - - November 4, 1893 THE BILL PASSED. The great financial fight of the ex traordinary session of the Fifty-Third Congress is over. On Wednesday the House, by a vote of 191 years to 94 nays, concurred in the Senate amend ments, and the repeal bill now goes to the President for his approval. Seven hun Ired and ninety-five people have died of yellow fever at Brunswick, Ga. A levee at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, is sixty-eight feet high, and extends a distance of four miles. The exhibits of the Worl's Fair are estimated to be worth between $100,000.000 and $150,000,000. The rimes-Democrat's relief fund for the benefit of the late storm sufferers, amounts to over $10,000. Squire Abingdon, who died in New Orleans last winter, remembered Mitchell, the prize fighter, in his will to the tune of $115,000. One of the dynamite guns built to defend the New York harbor, has thrown a projectile over three miles. All the buildings at the World's Fair were draped in mourning on Monday through respect for the late Mayor Harrison. Rev. J. R. Langston and Mrs. A. L. Gale were married in Monroe on Sunday last. The groom is seventy five years old and the bri'ie sixty-five. The tallest building in the world, is now being erected in New York. It will have eighteen stories, and will measure 350 feet from its base to- the foot of its flagstaff, Acadia parish it only six years old, and only sixteen parishes in the State have a larger assessed valua tion. A pretty good showing for the youngest parish in the State. On Friday last there was exported from New Orleans 32,067 bales of cotton, of which 4687 went to New York, and four large cargoes of 6610, 6600, 7150 and 7050, respectively to Liverpool. Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of ex-Attorney General Garland, com mitted suicide in Washington on Friday last. She was thirty-four years of age, and is thought to have been insane. Women are not allowed to vote in Michigan. The act of the Legisla ture permitting women to vote at municipal elections, wasdeclared un constitutional by the Supreme Court of that State the other day. This is se it should be. Twenty-one prisoners were shipped from New Orleans to the State pen Itentiary the other day, and after arriving, they were washed, shaved, inspected. entolled, uniformed and shipped out to one of the levee camps within two hours from the time of their arrival. W. B. Cook, sheriff of St. Tam many parish, has disappeared, after holding the office for sixteen years. He skipped out from New Orleans on Tursday last for Livingston, Gua temala. He left Cevington with the supposed intention of making his set tlement wth the State Auditor, but he made the wrong connection. Too long in office. The Times-Democrat says sixty tees of paper will be used in print lg the 8~000,000 ballots necessary for the coming election in New York State. Nine powerful presses will run night and day to print the bal lots. The ballots must be handled sixteen times and mnoved back and forth between Park place and Duane street five times. If laid out upon a floor containing 7827 square feet they would cover it six inches deep. Carter Harrison, the late Mayor ef Chicago, ex-Congressamamn, ex County Commissioner, ex-editor, eapitalist, author and traveler, and who was to wed Miss Annie Howard eof Ndew Orleans on the 7th of the present month in the Crescent City, was assassinated in Chicago on Set urday night last in hisb own residence. The assasin fired four shots. Three of the bullets took effect In Mr. Hay rimon's body, awd he died in about tern Wiausm After committing the rIms the murderer gave himeelf p, ra4 I wee. with dulotuty that Me --B 1~TI*mo13lhemg -b~l I-'- THE SENATE VOTE FOR REPEAL. TimeoDemocrat. The passage of the repeal bill by the Senate Monday will create no surprise, so assured has it been for some days past. The moment it be came known that the President would accept ns compromise the question of repeal was settled. The Demo cratic silver Senators said that they could not continue their opposition without seriousl: injuring the party, and the entire anti-repeal movement, which had seemed so strong at one time and so well intrenched that the majority showed a disposition to yield to it, came to a sudden end. The failure was more complete and sudden than had been expected. While it was evident that repeal was carried, it was thought that some of the silver men would seek to carry on a desultory and guerrilla warfare; but they did not. A few Senators threw defiance at the majority, but contented themselves with this and made no efforts to carry on the war. A number of the Senators had an nounced their intention of speaking on the silver question and there seemed to be prospects of several long if not deep speeches; but they abandoned the idea when it became evident that it was a forlorn hope, aud many of the proposed orations did not see the light. Nothing will be lost by this, for we have heard pretty much all there is to be said on the subject. A vote was reached in a very short time, and no efforts made to prevent it. The anti-repeal Senators, having made up their minds to cease their opposition, indulged in no delays or parliamentary tactics. The several amendments proposed were voted on at once; and Mon day, after a very short discussion, the great question of repeal itself was submitted and carried by a majority of eleven. This majority has been predicted for some days past, as it was impossible for any Senator to longer preserve a neutral position he had to he either for or against re peal. This may be considered as bring ing the great financial battle to an end, for while there are still some formalities to be attended to, they are, after all, merely formalities, and there can be no doubt as to the re sult. The bill, as passed by the Senate, will have to go to the House. The latter body has already passed a re peal bill, slightly different, This measure was, in face, offered simul taneously in both Houses with some few variations in its provisions, the House bill being somewhat stronger and more emphatic. It was prompt ly passed and went to the Senate for action. In the meantime that body had taken up a repeal bill of its own. This, which it passed Monday, now goes before the House. The latter might order its own act considered or it might amend the Senate one and send it back for revisal, but it will do nothing of the kind. The majori ty have made up their minds that this would cause confusion and length en out the session. The Senate bill will be, therefore, accepted and passed and go to the President for his signature. All this will takevery little time, and there is rothing to prevent Congress from carrying out its original purpose of adjourning Thursday, leaving other measures to the regular session. It has been two months and a half since it met in extra session. Con sidering the strong opposition en countered, Mr. Cleveland has done remarkably well in carrying this measure in so short a time. It re quired all his firmness and determina tion to do it; and even the Republi can papers, we see, give him credit for what he has accomplished. It looked very unpromising at one time, with all the chances against repeal. The country will secure, in a very short time, the financial legislation it demanded; and it will then be able to measure to what extent the Sher man bill was responsible for the finan cial stringency. Aside from this there can be no doubt that the fight in Congress had a most unfavorable and depressing effect on business, and that Its end will be welcomed as a great relief. The country has been recovering for some time past. The action of the Senate must hasten the improvement. IT SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOUSE. J. B. Wil(a;n, 571 Clay St., Sharps. bnrg,,Psays he will not be without Dr. King'b New Discovery for Com. smmptionCougas and Colds, that it cared his wife who wasr threatened with Pneumonia after an attack of "ULa Orippe," when various other remedies and several physicians had done her no good. Bobert Barber, of Cookaport, Pa., claims Dr. King's New Discovery has deoe him-more good than asytbilg le ever rsaed for Luaa'Trouble. NotbiIg liitk i Try it. ree Trial BOettles at~ esui , - t.rs.. Lrge bottles, 8s.. ae A Word to the Court. We desire to call attention of the Judge, District Attorney and Grand Jury at the coming November term of Court to the open. and flagrant violation of the law against riding and driving on levees in the lower part of the parish. We have it on the authority of Mr. A. J. Gibson, member of the Police Jury from the sixth ward, that this important law is constantly and openly violated in his neighborhood. The names of the offenders and witnesses to secure their conviction can doubtlessly he easily secured and the public interest requires that this matter shall receive a searching insestigation by the Grand Jury. In this very neighborhood thous ands of dollars are now being spent in raising and strengthening the levees. To what purpose is this work being done if the levees are to be ridden and driven down again. The burdens of taxation for levees are onerous enough w ithout increas ing them by destroying the works after they are completed. If people are so insane or thoughtless as not to appreciate the value of our levees or so lawless as to defy the law made for their preservation, let the court give them an education onr that point of the law. The people of the parish will ex pect vigorous action its this matter on the part of the prose,-nting at tornies at the next term of the court and we trust they will not be disappointed.-Tensas Gazette. A nice state of affairs exists in Catahoula, as the tollowing letter written by two trominlent gentlemen, Messrs. T. and J. HI. Ringgold, shows: There are here, and will arrive by Monlay, some, 60 odd honest, worthy colored people from Cata houla, who have been driven out of the pinewoods by the white caps, and they are seeking emplovyment. These people have been in our e:u ployment, off and on, for the past ten years, and we can recommend them as first-class labor in every re spect. Not a singl!e one of them has ever been accused of any crime, or been before the courts, and fully know "their place." They were simply "posted," and ordered to move off, because certain lazy white men, belonging to the bad element of that parish, knew they would do more work for less money than the white's would do. We induced these people to come to Rapides simply for her prosperity, in grati tude to them for good services, well performed, and because we think they are being outrageously treated in being ordered away from their homes for no assignable cause. In investigating the matter on a visit to the White Sulphur Springs last Wednesday, no man could give any reason other than expressed above. Messrs. Stephen and E. J. Barrett, of Pineville, have kindly given these people houses to live in, free of charge, and can give any informa tion as to their location. Arkansas Levees. Richland Beacon-News. Robert Whetstone, Esq., returned on Saturday's train fron: the Arkan sas front. From him we gather the following facts concerning the levee work. He says: The lever work that the Tensas Basin Levee Board is interested in is progressing splendidly. The Ful ton lake levee is being raised aind strengthened by Contractor Martin at the expense of our levee board. There is about 270,000 vards of new dirt to be placed in the repairs of this levee. It was originally crn structed by our board, under Presi dent Ivy in 1882. This is the best piece of work on the Missinssippi river. It is being raised mre than five feet. Mr. Martin, thIe contrac tor, ifas employed the Arkansas con victs to do, most of this work. He has 350 men at work. It will be completed within the next sixty tavrs. There is about three-fourths of a mile of the Missouri Pacific railroad bedl that extends from Ful ton lake to the compress in Arkan sas City that is in a bad condition. This work has been let out by Presi dent Gray and will be done by the convicts of Arkansas. It will be completed within sixty days. The Desha levee board will continoe this line of levee from the old ,-ompress in front of Arkanas City anid it will be strengtheined -Rid rained miore than three feet. The levees trom Arkansas City morth are all belng strengthened and raised by the United States government. T'hbe Eunice levee, that is being built by the Tensas Basin Levee Board will be completed inside of sixty days. The combined efforts of Chicot and Desha levee boards, the United States government, in connection with our levee board, has forced the pele along the Arkansas front and d Fork country to give the right of-way across the Amos bayou trom the'Possum Fork levee back to the high lands, a di'tano of twelve miles. This levee will be built at ~aoce by the Tensaa Basin Levee Bosrd, and will give the Tensas country absolutely protection from the Arkansas river. The outlook for the Tensas basin was never more promising. There is not a single levee that will pro teot said country on the front but wbat will be i first.-elaast condition a7 tketlm· of the spring water. im M l-~ahE feor ,ls, A Bloody Vendetta in Claiborne Parish. A special to the Globe-Democrat from Homer, Claiborne parish, says : The last murder in the bloodiest vendetta in modern times was coumit ted on the 20th day of August, when 'roml Kinder killed John Ferguson on the road from Homer to Trenton. For three years the fight has been on and twenty men have fallen in the conflict. There are two local papers hlere, but their editors have handled the incidents of the feud in a gingerly manner for fear, I suppose, of getting a charge of shot or a warning to leave town. Fcr that reason nothing is known of it out side of Claiborne parish. The parties from whom I gleaned the facts for this article talked under their breaths and only on condition that, their names be kept secret. They were actually afraid of the few ruffians who perpetuate the vendetta, for their blood is hot and there's no telling what they would do. Indeed. things have come to a sorry pass in Homer, the pretty parish seat of Claiborne, these late years. Long before the war it was a rich town and the plantations around it were well kept and prosperous. The master and mistress were highly respected people with big mansions and pretty daught ers and a courtly hospitality. But now there is nothing but ruins to remind one of the old regime-the siately house half tumbled down, with pigs on its veranda and decay staring out of its doors and windows. The "po' white trash" are found where the wea:tby planter once flourished and among them the feud began its sanguinary ex istence. The Ramsey and the Tuggle families 'ived not far from homer, on the I'ren ton road. The Tirirgle family consist ed of ire boys :and their mother. Of the boys Joe was the most notorious ch tr acter, and to his account is laid hie origin of the feud. He vwasstriking in appearance, more tlan 6 feet tall and well proportione.d with rather handsome features, but was dari'r and ut:Ler. pnulos in his disposition H,- lived in a hous, by himself and first grosiy offended the moral sense ,.f the com muity by openly keeping a negro mis tress. His reputation for recklessness and hot temper prevents d any interfer ence until he suddenly took a fancy to a young niece and brought her to his house to supplant the negress. Popular indignation at suc:h a proceeding was very strog, but the girl evidently loved her desperate husband, as attempts were made to induce her to leave him without success. Critical remarks catue to the ears of Joe, in connection with Billy Maddox's name as their sutor. Joe then took occasion to quarrel with Maddox about a dog, in which quarrel John Ramsey sided with Mad dot. A few days later a drummer travel ing the Trenton road came upon a dead body lying in the road with a chlarge of buckshot in his back. luvestigestion shbowed it was the corpse of Billy Mad dax, and that he hail been shot froma an ambush. Death must have been in stantaneons. as there was found clinch ed between his teeth a plum seed and some othirs in his fingers Tracks were found !e.,ding from the ambush toward Joe Tuggle's house. The State offered $1000 for the ap prehension of the murderer. John Ramsey and Tom Kinder set to work to find evidence enough to war rant the arrest of Joe Toggle. About this time Joe Gladney, a weak minded associate of Joe Tuggle. was jailed for drunkenness, and while in jail John Ramsey wrung a statement from him that Joa Tuggle hail paid him $50 to kill Billy Madda~. The authori ties would not accept this as evidence, so when Gladney sobered up he went free and told Joe Tuggle all about his interview with Ran:sey. Immedietely.after this Ramsey was shot at trom ambush, and places where some one had lain concealed were found around his house. Men dressed as wo men had been seen lurking near it. His negro cook was given a powder by Joe Tuggle and was paid to put it in Ramsey's coffee. He reported all this to the officers, but got sno assurance of protection. Finding this the case, he determined to kill Joe Tuggle on sight. Tuggle was in Homer one Satuiday afternoon and was just starting homne. When he approached the east side of the public square John Ramsey stepped from a store with a shot gun calling. "Look out Joe," and tired at him. Tuggle turned his horset and galloped back across the square and fell with a load of buckshot in his side. Ramsey pursued him an foot, firing several times, but without further effect. Ranise3 was caught "y the oficers, and it required three of them to disarm him. His gun was twisted and broken in the struggle. He was jailed but was instantly bailed out. Tuggle's wound was not serious, and he was well in a few days. Then it was ex pect+d that they would meet again and one or the other fall a victim. During the parish fair Joe and his brother Hamnp were in town, and so was John Ra.nasey. Joe was armed with a Winchester. He was crossing the square when he sighted Ra:nsey. lie called, "Lood out Jolm." and open ed on hinl. Ramsey dodged into a store and .scaped, but a dancing mas ter named Williams rceived the bullet intended for hi'u and fell to the s:de walk mortally wounded. No action was taken against Tuggle by the ofi cars of the law, because, as was evi dently the case. they stood in too great fear of them. Willi:amns was a stranger and h.l no friends, but popular sentiment at last grew so strong that the officoers entered into a padie) with the Tuggle.. Joe Tuggle consented to give himself up on promise that he would be allowed second stlory room and and be kept ender guard. But he grew weary of confinement and was bailed out on the pretext that confinement would en danger his life. The grand jury found a true bill against Hemp Tuaggle as aeeaseury to thet murder of Williams, and he was also released on bail. All was quiet unatil court convened. The first Monday of the term, brothers of the opposing factions who had al ways been on good terms with eeeh other. undertook to bring abshout a s oolatito. Tb. were Bill RamBaqSe - h Henry TbggI They went over to a s Jo. tttd 'f~iheump Tugle~;I* weiareg-s 91'aY tered into conversation and after seem- ! ingly smoothing things over, drank together until Bill Ramsey became in toxicated. They separated and the Tuggles went out the back way and Ramsey by the front door. They met again on the sidewalk, and a quarrel ensued. Bill Ramsey gaveHampTug gle the l, and Hamp struck him in the face. Bill drew his pistol and fired at Hamp striking him in the left hand. Hamp caught Bill's pistol in his wounded hand and held it to one side while he emptied his own into Bill's breast. E) e-witnesses say that Tuggle held him up after he began to fall and still poured bullets into him. • Henry Tughle got a flesh wound from Ramsey's pistol. The Ramsey faction believed the story of bringing about a reconciliationl was made up for a ruse by which to get Bill Ramsey drunk and kill him. Hamp Tuggle had a steel breast-plate made at a blacksmith shop same time before and the Ramseys say he had it on, and that accounted for Ramsey's fire being ineffective. Bill Ramsey's corpse was taken to his sister's home, and just before the hour of burial Joe Tuggle and Frank Gill were seen to secrete themselves near the road through which the funeral procession would pass, evident ly with the intention of shooting John Ramsey when he rode by. John got a warning and did not' shliow himself. John Tuggle and his intimate friend, Newt Glover, were seen going toward Tug~.le's hoime that afternoon, which people thought mea ,t some new move on the part of the Tug.ies, Next me ntug John R::mnsy's cook rusiled into the house terrified and say ing she had s.:n Joe Tuggle dodge be hind a t.ec. John Ramsey sto., around the house to rec,nnoitre and caught sight of the retreating figure of a ,r:an. He tuli and the man ran, seemingly wou,rmt d. One nigli soon af. r Joe l'uggle :ind Newt Glo\ .r awl several bf the "lug g;e factio,,a were seen to assemble ill Fr.uk (ill's b.trber ;')op. Tomn Kl der crawled Ilder the Hloo," nA over hoi:rd th top *tti', ; to kill ihe R:m He came out and told an officer what he he had heard, and asked him to crawl under as he had and satisfy himself. The guardian of. the peaee declined with thanks and said he did not care for evidence obtained that All was quiet for a few weeks, the conflicting parties in the meantime keeping out of sight and never going by the same road twice in succession. and always traveling by night. The people not mixed up in the feud went their way without fear, but every one was very chary about. expressing any opinion one way or the other, which would make them a mark for either faction. One Wednesday morning Joe Tuggle and Newt Glover appeared in town and brought a Jarge quantity of amumuni tion, saying they were going to kill ducks on the Glover plantation in the eastern part of the parish. They completed their supply about noon and started in a wagon on the road to the Glover plantation, They had gone about three miles, and were crossing Beaver Creek bridge, when they were tired on from ambush. Jie Tuggle was instantly killed by a dotbhie charge of buckshot, and his body fell forward in the wagon. Glover was also instantly killed, and dropped over the side of the wagon on the, bridge. The mules ran with the wagon to a Mr. Kinnebrew's, who found Tuggle's body in the wagon terribly mangled by the buckshot. lie went back on the road and found Newt Glover's body on the bridge. Kinnebrew dispatched a messenger to Homer for the coroner, who came and found the usual ,"blind" or ambush friom which the shots had been fired. No tracks could be traced from it in any direction. When the in quest was held on Joe Luggle's a fresh scar was found oni his left arm, calling attention to the statement of John Ramsey that he had hit the man whom he saw prowling around his house fif teen or twenty days before. These murders occured on Wednes day, and on Friday Frank Gill and Joe Clingmnan were warned to leave the parish. They tarried not but went, and their families followed soon after. Their homes are for sale fn Homer to day. With Joe Tuggle dead it was hoped the feud would end, as he was the evil spirit of the whole enterprise. His brother Haump, who killed Bill Ratqey, made overtures to John Ram sey for peace, but John suspected the treachery which had killed his brother and wouid not make any promises. At the time Joe Clingman and Frank Gill were warned to leave the parish Hamp T'uggle also received waruing. lie did not obey. He was already in hiding from the officers, and was 'sel dom seen by any one, though it was supposed he was at home every night. A few days after the warning was served his field fence was discovered on fire. Fearing a snare, Ilamp did not show himself, but sent one of his ne'.roes to extinguish the flame, , be. lievrng that even it it was a snare the negro would be .1p:red, out as the darkey ran toward t., dire he received a charge of shot in ihi hip. 'IThe other neg:oes were fnrfaid togu to his assist ance. T'he usual blind was discovered by the officers, but no trat coult ne fol lowi.d from it. For four months there was no further Soutbra'k, and at was thought the fund was enwedl. Johd Ramsey no longer came and went through by-paths under cover of darkness, but took the pubhe road and appeared to have no fear. One Saturday he paid his usual week ly visit to Homer, and about 6 o'clock jstarted home in his wagon. He was sitting on the back seat witn his brother Sam. A negro was driving and a negro girl was sitting with the driver. John had his Winchester across his knees, for he still suspected the treach ery of the Toggles. When they were nearing home a shot rang out fr,m the bushes sad then another. John fell forward in the wagon: and his negro driver, being la lne of lire, fell acroess bim--bek .dead. Ba r sprang out sad ra lato;~ h woods. 0. hearDng the soit hbe wntee aron aW'a. throwing the THE NEW PROWVIDENCEII 3t'Before you buy any lot in Providence, bp sure to eore and see us. 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For the treatment of the Liquor, Opium, Chloral and Cocaine Habits, Nervous Diseases and Tobacco Habit. by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley's Chloride of Gold Remedies t The KoeMy tremtmeat for the Liquor. Opum, Morphie and Tobcco Habits hs reosive1 thr s a dorsemeat the United atate, for use in the State sad Military Hems for dsabled voluateer sewdeU and sailors. Also the ouSial spiroval of numerous state, municipal and medical authorities. family found the mangled rerainns of John and his driver in the bottom of he wagon. The officers telegraphed for blood hounds, and on search found the regu lation blir.nd. The assassin had dis guised his footprints by nailing pieces of boards to the bottom of his shoes. The bloodhounds came, but the trail was so old when they arrived they could not follow it. It was impossible to apprehend the assassin, but the murder was believed to be this work of Hamp Tuggle. As soon as the .ln-isets could make arrangements to move theyv left the parish, and again the hope was e'tter tained that all the bad blood was emptied. Some months passed and nothing was heard of Ilatop Tuggle. ilis brother Henry was a peaceful and industrious citizen. One morning he was picking cotton in his field when a shot from the woods near by mortally wounded himn. He lived long enough to say that bhe saw Tom Kinder shoot him. Kinder got wind of the statement, and when the officers went after him he had disappeared. Soon afterMrs.Hamp Tuggle began receiving annonymous letters telling her to leave the parish or her sons would be killed. They were boys TO9 and 15 years. tier husband, Hjamp. had never been seen since the murder of John Ramtsey. Murray Tuggle. the younger son.was shot in the leg one night as he was re turning to the house from the stable. Afraid to expose her elder son to the assassin the mother mounted a planta tion mule and rode to Homer for a sur geon and offieers. The bloodhonnds were brought, but again refused to fol low the trail. Public indignation had another spasm at this outrageous attack on a boy, and the local papers printed scathing edito rials on the weakness of the Jaw. This seemed to have no t feet, as not more than three days after John Fer guson. a friend an neighbor of the Tug glee, was shot from ambush, and two letters he had on his person for Mrs. liamp Tuggle were taken. He was returning from Homer, where had called tor the Tuggle mail. It is be lieved that Tom Kinder killed him to get the letters by which he hoped to locate Ramp Tuggle. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that John Ferguson came to his death from a gun in the hands of Thomas D. Kinder. This murder occurred the last of August. Kinder is the last of the Ramsey faction, and is said to be the most cun ning. He is a dead shot and perfectly desperate. Hamp Tuggle is equally as good a shot, and. If possible, more desperate. These two men are fugitives from the law, and each stalking the other in the swamps. Sass the Shreveport Times: -,From all information that can be obtained the untorious outlaw. oem D. Kinder, is still at large in Claiborne parish. otwithstanoing the fact that the odlicers, assisted by a large ' " of citizens, anu aided by b oodbut.l. is, hane tried to run him dalwn. Wco.' than that. it is claiit.id that be not only went to his own house (which was left unguarded b% the officers) sintce be made his assault on Mr. A. K. Clingman last Saturday, but be has also been in the very towL. of ilomer on at least one occasito: snee that event. It seems to be conceded by those, who are best ifoirmed that Kinder has at no time been many miles away from his home. either before or sauce his attempt to kill Mr. Clingman. The citizens of East Carroll who are interested in the maintenance of levees, held a meeting at -Lake Providence last week and resolved to put a stop to the rafting of timber in that perish. This was an excellent move and should be followed by every parish in the 6tate interested in levees. No man or set of men should be permitted to carry on any business in this country,, the success of which detends upon the oeeurrenee of a crevasse ad Ie varos Distrctles to throh be 8talt honid unite to a the )eglsiatw dqbrr ~lrrrS I-~dp A Hand Made Cypres Cistern.. 1,000 Gallons, $16. 1,500 Gallons, $20. 200 Gallons, $26. 3000 Gallons, $86. A. RIGGS & BRO., No. 60 Perdido street, New Orleans, La. Any one purchasing $1.60 worth of our Plantation Remedies is entitled to theMemnphisAppeal-Avalanche, weekly until January 1, 1894; or $1.00 retail the Memphis Scimitar, weekly, for same legtl of time. These remedies are guaranteed to cure, or money re. funded by merchant of whom purchas ed. 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It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or nmensy refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For Sale by J. S. Guenard" JOHN WILLIAMS Undertaker. Lake Providence - - la. Keeps on hand a large aseortanett of Burial Caskets, Nlw, Plma adl Or mental Metallic Cases and Wooden Coffins Made and Trimmed to Order rapril 18-.8-1 The ClimaxReacled in the JZW3at.RT LtU2, lot only in Honesty of Gooed, oderation in Pri~es, t in the promptness with whih we sec re the aItest ape,te e. I IWhe er tohe say ds tI sad . .te oorru Jor USorl&JUL '-1I ""