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CVAtUVvil'y rnzsox jlvd astzvx keforx. Wans, of the beet intelligence ianss troex ext. MAB7AEETS MONUMENT. The movement to secure funds Chalaron, H. Bezou.

J. W. Johnson. J. A.

Dufras, J. Leefe, J. H. Lafaye, E. tributaries.

vera formfcrly the South, who to There even in thousands of the best civilization oi tne age which we live, will be without effect. uat the CommiUe Appelate by the the right, the power, erect monument to Margaret of sainted memorythe noble woman who bk Laaim Convention Think IL questioned or' the This is essentially the age oi indul propriety of th gov- Prospect for aa Adequate Apprv. deserves to go down to posterity as A Final Statement. The preliminary work of this enterprise is done. The foi inflations of a reform of our public institu lions were completed on Tuesday evening last, by the organization of the auxiliary association, whose projected office is to aid and hasten the work ernment to come to the assistance of the priatloa.

U. L'tutoJi, j. y. tiMy, G. K.

Cromtin, Hernsliem, II. C. Wflloz, S. Hemaheim, Charlrs A. Worsley, Leon Mayer, A.

Ma-Key, Mr. A. E. Heard, A. K.

inlay, J. K. Kenaud, W. Fry, D. P.

Albers, L. Craw-cour, M. J. K. Dennett, W.

Hodgson, II. W. Palfrey. J. P.

Richardson. A. 'Margaret the Good" goes on steadily gence, and when the voice oi tne civilized world is united in condemnation of any act, whether of individuals or Special to The Tim -Democrat. 1 and encouragingly. Sr, Lora, March II.

The dele fat; There would be no difficulty in rais appointed to place before Cengres the nra. BY THE IIIES-BEIOCRAT PDBLISMd CO. IXBIXSHED EACH DAY OP THE YEAS ASO WEEKLY. Subscription Terms. EY MAIL-PAYABLE lS ADVANCE, POSTAGE PBEPAXD.

DAILY 8EVES (7) PAFEBS MB WEEK. Ter annuin Clr mnntlm. eA of nations, the power does nov m. that can withstand it The Czar of Enssia, powerful as he is, and accus Eyrich, P. Werlein, A.

Baldwin, Chas. E. ing a very large fund for the purpose, if the gentlemen who have the matter in hand desired to call upon the rich for large contributions, but the main luce, Thos. Sefton, F. Stringer, Chas.

Le-Sassier, T. Woolf, M. Ja. B. Guthrie, States.

Bat another feeling is daily gaining ground- There Is a vast number of people, North as well as South, -who believe that it is government's duty to interfere in oxa behalf, and who favor the protection of our valuable property and fertile bottom lands by an effective levee system, constructed and maintained by the ational government -s of the Mississippi River Improvement Convention, held ia this eity, returned yesterday from Washington. Ja. delegate were: Gov. E. O.

Stanard, chairman; Michael McEnnis. St. Louis: tomed aa he is to have his lightest worn obeyed by his subjects, will not dare to D. Gardner, Alt Delavigne, E. Dou- meing, 41.

John T. Gibbons, J. A. Lafaye, Jos. M.

Kiee, John McCaffrey, E. T. placed officially in the hands of the Boad of Prison and Asylum Commissioner. Tie board, the ordinance creating the board, and the association, form together tie complete machinery of the scheme of reform. Nothing is left now but for the work to move on with fresh and vigorous impulse.

It is but just at this point, to lay that the consummation of these important preliminaries, is largely due to the intelligent and liberal enterprise of the pah- idea is, we believe, to have the monument which is to be reared to Margaret treat wiui eoiiwsuip ta of the free peoples of the earth, F. Eenr.er, New Orleans; Startei ast mi i Shepard, M. M. Frank, T. S.

Elder, Minnesota Logan H. Root. Ar and the words which are emiwuieu auj Wm. Martin, II. Louis Leonhard, Mrs.

a iree-wiu offering from the people, and largely from the poor people, whom she kansas; W. C. Halliday. Illinois; Judj fUree mouili nth -00 1, Tttdlntinna nt tba VSJIOUS mass mAPtiTKr. will be far more potent with oved so tenderly and to relieve whose jy earner, delivered la city at ime rates, and when desired- him than would the glittering array of 4h wjk1r 250 H.

M. Neill, Mrs. C. Holloway, Mrs. Julius Weiss, Mrs.

John Phelps, Mr. M. Frank, Mrs. J. K.

Gutheim, Henry Leverich. Geo. II- Frost, A. S. Beck, T.

E. Richmond, Jamea McConnelL R. S. Day, A. B.

Ger-non, F. E. Yuille, Jas. E. Randolph, IL V.

German armies on the frontier or His wants her ample purse waa always open. We print elsewhere a list of contributions to this fund, which now In wtuch owe It is payable to the carrier. TO KKWBt'EALEttS JJSD JHWBBOTB, SC. TXK COPT. THE COLFAX ORGAN FUST).

It may be well to state that Colfax is a flourishing little town on Bed Jiiver, a few miles above Alexandria, in this State. It is the Beat of Grant parish and became celebrated early in its career as the scene of a riot. The vast empire. Ushers of this newspaper. The work waa taken hold of by them, of eourse, as a pecuniary venture, with the conviction that it would pay.

But that is one aspect of the question in which every The Committee of Arrangements nave amounts to 81,705 25. ETVKI.T fl! rAGESJ PCB1MHK) SATURDAT extended an invitation to the ladies of Barringer, R. IL Crawford, Jas. E. Rodd.

W. B. Sommervffle. W. IL Bell.

W. T. The Glen property in New York the city, and as they are always foremost in good works, we doubt not the rr annam 50 months 75 SimralL Yicksburg. Beside these genti. nieo.

Messrs. George L. Wright, secretary of the convention, John B. Ho-rna and George H. Morgan, of the Merchants' Ex-charge, also attended the meeLnai of jj congressional committee as special repre-sentatives.

Mr. McEnni on change this morning, and was surrounded by merchants and business men anviuu learn what had been aeeomplishcd. The members of the delegation in answer questions as to what they had dore. appeared before the on commerce and the improvement of ihe sisaippi river, reamed our memorial and the proceedings of the late convection and were accorded a patient and hearing. Last Saturday we were the Senate committee on commerce.

We State was sold on the 3d for the sum citizen of New Orleans ought to regard it. It will pay. fact is that Loth the parish and town Houston, J. S. Whitaker, N.

Sinnott, Mrs. N. Sinnott S. B. Steers.

of $50,000, to satisfy the claims of certain hall will be filled with the beauty as were created during tne carpet-uag It is true that these reforms are a work creditors. CUKSEXT XOTES. well as the intellect of the community, Eev. Dr. B.

M. Palmer, Father O'Con regime, ostensibly with a view to convenience and symmetry, but really for The New York Independent paid over Mr. James Gordon Bennett, while ia nor. Hon. Tho.

J. Semmei and Percy of humanity and that many have pledged themselves to it with no other idea. But there is another and a perfectly legitimate idea self-protection. Legitimate, for humanity exercised by society ia self pro $10 a line and cable charges for Tennyson's poem. It was offered to the "Continent London recently, subscribed $1,000 to the fund for the relief of the Hebrew exiled Eoberts, will be the orators of the evening, and will eloquently give voice to the seLtiments of sympathy for the the purpose of adding to the Eepub-lican majority in the Legislature.

We need not state that the respectable people disliked the arrangement and that, for some time, unpleasantness at that price but declined. from Russia. tection, and no self-protection ot ociety is complete, or honorable, without it Prussia and Berlin are Slav words, and Mrs. Keifer, the wife of Speaker Keifer, Jews and abhorrence for their oppres Danger, loss, inhumanity each are the in consequence of the two highest officers sors which are ntertained by our people, Hunt 50 Postage Prepaid. AB correpon lance intended for the editorial epartmcnt of this paper should be addressed Editor I P.s- F.K.GC HAT." All communications concerning sub scrip-tions, advertism, or bnsiues matters should Ve addressed "Business Manager TIMES-DKo- BAT." Correspondence solicited upon all news subjects.

Prompt Information of events and news nap-yninot general Interest solicited and wiilb jiromptly compensated. Allcoinmanications Intended for publication mast be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not tor publication, but as an evidence t)f (rood faith. iiemlttanoos By draft, postoflEee money order, In regi8t-eJ tetter at risk of office. Entered at the PostoiUce at Xew Orleans as tJIOXD-CLAS prevailed. Colfax, however, has out France waa named by the Germans.

The task of keeping things straight in Europe is not any easy one. three condition that offer themselves as an lived all this. It has become reconciled simply nrsred tlie passage ot the appropriation bill asked for by the kiver Commission, and that Congress should fm nish its officers sudicien'. mean to carry out its own designs. We think that Congress is unusully well disposed toward u.

and that we shall finally obtain all the alternative to the proposed reforms. And AN APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE. of the go ernment being without takes precedence at Washington on all occasions of ceremony in social circles. to its name and to the rest of its afflic A French girl never has more than two The following telegram from Port it is a conviction not to be despised for its selfiAh side, that we can no longer afford tions generally, and has braced up, so bridesmaids, if she has any at all, but across the channel a fashionable girl Allen gives a terse description of the to speak. It has arrayed itself in paint the culpable ignorance and supine negli A number of ladies met at Steinwsy propria ton now requested, amountm t.

between and JUCMXMMO. danger now menacing one of the most gence which have thus far held back re and whitewash, spread itself out, and Hall, New York, recently for the purpose of urging the appointment of matrons in the important localities of this State from form. wouldn't think she was married unless eiht maidens, dressed all alike, accompanied her to the altar. in various ways loomed up. Beside being a parish seat, it is getting to be a the constantly increasinir volume of What has been recognized in these called upon the 1'residett and the derwv ment omeers and were everywhere rewived with great consideration.

The prospects for some congressional action in counrctioa with the improvement of ear nver are excellent." water that is pressinc against the articles and in the promoter of them, and station-houses throughout the city, to look after those of their own sex brought to or detained there- The city of Philadelphia alone has more very considerable place on its merits. The citizens are proud of it, proud of the Jew than the six New England States combined. Of these Massachusetts has what is now pin in to our prison commission and to all the friends of is that the first desideratum ia education to levees Port Alle, March 11, 1882. To L. C.

Kiever, New Orleans: court-house, the churches, the promi James K. Randall says that "the poet Os the largest, 8500, and Vermont the small MEMPHIS, T.EJIX. nent buildings and, above all, of the Mr. C. G.

Zenor has just arrived from St the work. The spirit of humanity, the car Wilde has written some verse that est share, 120. Maine has 500, New Lyceum. This Lyceum is a common Marv with $1,000. $1,000 from S.

P. Asso Tennyson might envy, especially after in Hampshire 150, Connecticut 1.492, Rhode spirit of reform, baa never been wholly wanting among us. For a quarter of a ground upon which all classes meet ciation received. He says the people of the flicting upon the world that 'rinsing of an Island 1,000, and the Maine Jewish colony is said to be poorer than any of the other and fraternize. Here the different so century much well-meant preaching and old tea-tot' called The Charge of tie QUADRUPLE SHEET.

SEW ORLEANS. MARC II 12. 1882. PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. In continence the purchase and absorption of the New Orleans 1 Unet newspaper establishment, Tub Times-Demo-cbat Las now on hend and for sale one ir Hoe Si.

six-cylinder printing interior parishes don't appreciate the situation or danger. He will 0 to the upper The Funeral of CoL Cameroa O-ppcsW tioa to th Proposed Futar Board Actios of Cottoo Seed Mill Men. Special to The Times-Democrat. I Memphis, March 11. The funeral of tli CoL John F.

Cameron took place this cieties assemble, concerts are given, praying and tract distributing ha been Heavy bnt that the man Oscar fire inhabiting New England. line of the levees by the steamer Gay, done in our prisons and municipal asylums. Wilde is contemptible." The wife of the Chinese minister lives in fairs are held and other social eruptions take place. Local poets give birth to But there they stand Neither praoticaL strict seclusion at Washington. In accord Couriers from there report everybody at work and confident of holding out.

The laborers are grumbling for fear of not being well-informed humanity nor even-handed Baltimore wants to get np a grand indus morning, from nis late residence en Madi ance with the law of etiquette in her own their productions within these classic precincts, and local orators make the trial and agricultural exposition in 9tH. justice baa ever crossed the threshold of country, she is not permitted to see any of nrfisaps. in first-class order, together paid, but the money forwarded by the Gay son street, and was largely attended. The last tribute of respect to the good eitixea and gallant soldier was tendered by the the male sex except her husband. She is affrighted echoes ring against its walls.

It proposes to solicit exhibits of interesting object ia art. science and one of them; and sentimentality still reigns in our jury-boxes and brutality in to pay for the work already done will sat Trith a full complement of material, type, the fourth wife (the other three are living But there is a want long felt in Col isfy them and make matter right again. j-tands, furniture, etc, for the pub our jails. mechanics, from every city of the country, people of all classes and both race. Aa fax, The Lyceum has no organ.

On lication of a first-claws daily newspaper Help us and we will hold the line. Have Now a new leaf is turned. Hencefor so that the show may attain a universal in China), and she, it is said, was permitted to accompany her husband on his travels because she is the youngest and comelieet of the number. bh is under 25 years of character. ward the paper of this aeries will be only imposing military display was a stnkin feature of the ceremonies, and a a tun acknowledgment of the service the dead four, eight, twelve, sixteen and twenty paces, as desired.

Also a first-class 15-horse the papers caution boats about running near shore; their waves wash over our the reports of men and women who, after occasions of a musical nature, such as the warbling of Lorena," by some swt girl graduate fresh from the Miuden Seminary on such occasions, John C. Fremont elaims to be the owner levees. C. J. Bakkow.

study and investigation, patient and bad rendered in the teld and aa aa organ powen lice Sc. engine and folding machine, both in rood order. Having no of the Island of Acantras in the harbor of At. West Baton Eonge the danger is iser of the local- militia. The Chickasaw thorough, announce what is, and what ought to be, the state of affairs, or better After a suspension of two year the Pres San Francisco.

He says he purchased it in the highest degree imminent The Guards, Porter Guards and Tennessee use whatever for said maeb'nery and material, the same will be disposed cf at very in 1848, while he wm military Governor of still, the record of changes actually effect we say, the want of an organ has produced an aching void in th bosom of every true son and daughter of Colfax. Kines, together with the MeCteiian Guards (colored), and Zouave Guards low prices. from one Francisco Temple, byterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. ia to resume operations In September next with encouraging prospects. The institution was established in 1831.

and ed in the interest of humanity and to the (colored), under command of Capt. Smm levee fronting the parish is but four inches above tho water level, while that in the rear is only. one. It is not assistance alone that the people of the advantage of society, and that he gave the, name Gate' to the harbor. STRANSrEXT NEWSPAPER POST There waa always something lacking; Carnes, as major of the battalion, escorted the remains to Elmwood, and at the con AGE.

a sort of vs-uuin, so to speak, dis The success of other communities who lave revolutionized systems no better than our force irresistibly upon us the con clusion of the service at the grave, rcL a iut of three rounds. menaced district so earnestly appeal for, has graduated 550 minister. It lost most of it endowment fund of by the war, bnt it is now believed thi can all be Persons mailing copies of The Tixes- There is one thing, we take it, a European will not admit vix that American ham but it is immediate and prompt help There waa considerable onrtosition mana closed itself. Erom the moment Colfax realized that the want of an organ was leavening its joys, poison entered the soul of Colfax and green and made np again, some $150,000 having al viction the knowledge that we are killing, where we might be curing, hundreds of insane; that wear confirming. they require.

They have for some days struggled against the encroaching Democrat will please bear in mind that a rtwo-oent stamp is required on copies of all 'editions except that of Monday, when a -one-cent stamp is sufficient. All copies sent to the postofiioe without full postage will ready been raised. It ha a fine library of fested at the meeting of the Memphis Cotton Exchange this afternoon, before the vote waa called on the proposition to eti-lish a cell board. It waa carried, however. can equal the Westphalian product.

Recently ia Hanover a German Count fined a merchant 5,000 marks for daring to put the Westphalian brand on American huns water with the energy of despair, but 21,000 volume, own valuable land ia Columbia, and has five buildings suitable for yellow melancholy went to roost upon its roof. The court-house looked shab where we might be reforming, hundred of and that these operations can offered by him for sale. ie simply thrown into the waste backet. its purpose. their means are nearly exhausted; thus they send this last earnest appeal for help over the conscious wires to their reversed.

It is proposed to reverse them. by; the whitewash fell in flakes from the once dazzling jail fence; even the It is not proposed to dispense With the VWA.TUER PROBAU1LIXIES. by a vote of 43 te 28. The total membership of the exchange ia 11L The eoUoa seed at ills of Memphis have agreed to suspend work until it is assured that planter have a sufficient supply of, eed for planting purposes. WATER TAXLXT, MISS.

Mr. Herbert Gladstone, a son of the Premier, has been black-balled by th Union punishment of crime, but to induce it brother citizens of our city. Lyceum dwindled or seemed to dwindle into the proportions of a blacksmith skillful administration, to eliminate all de At this locality, then, prompt action "For the Middle and South Atlantic States Mr. Arthur should fish over toward Judge Blatehford's aide of the pond if he basing qualities from it, and to make it "Warmer, partly cloudy weather, lower ba is imperatively Frrt dietanco of 25 miles the levee wants to catch a Supreme Jadge that will its severest aspects, aa well aa in it gen rometer, winds mostly from west to south, is stay on the hook. PkUadilpM Txmts.

followed on Sunday night by local rains. tler, reformatory and effective. The present writer passed through seriously menaced. If it hreaks at one single point the consequences The Congressional Temperance Society maintains its existence, but none of its For the Gulf States: Southeast to south-Hrest winds, fulling barometer, local rains shop. Indeed, it happened about that time that a certain luminous and eloquent statesman from a neighboring parish visited Colfax and addressed the people from the grocery gallery on the exciting subject of assessment, but citizens who had formerly hung entranced prison hist summer where everything indi may be fatal to the parish, while And partly cloudy weather.

cated a discipline far more rigorous than that of our parish Inferno yet uch members object to an invitation to dine with the President and confront his decan Club of London, on account of the rac ical tendenci.is of his father, which are not in accord with the opinions of London city circles. A sister of the young man is soon to obtain ber diploma as an M. and is now purtming her studies at Oxford. Additional evidence ia to be taken in the South by a commission appointed for that purpose in the long pending suit in the United State Court against Harrison Johnson, a special agent of the Treasury, who was sent South and collected large quanti ties of cottoniin Miwiseippi, the proceeds wide area of country will certainly be For Tennessee and the Ohio valley: inundated and an immense amount of is its effectiveness that it is given ters. Chicago Tums, Ind.

farmer, southerly to westerly winds, falling barometer, increasing cloudiness and property destroyed. statistically proven fact that 60 per cent. No Traias to tho North, for Three Day More Tho Option Give Delay Passengers. Special to The Watke Vallst, March IL All wash outs between the Tallahatchie river and New Orleans are repaired. Manager Clarke telegraphs from the Tallahatchie that it will be three or more day before trains eaa go North, and gives th passengers who are here the 'privilege ef wtat.i bag to New Orleans free' and rcdovnuni Year by year the situation Is growing upon his lightest word dow turned away in apathetic gloom, and left the bald Meanwhile, we again call the atten of it inmates never again appear on crim local rains.

worse. It is a dishonest and dishonorable system. It wrongs th taxpayers. It tion of our steamboat captains to the and reverend orator brandishing his THE OVERFLOW. necessity of keeping in the centre of chin to the unmoved air.

For many days, a large area of the the river as much as possible, and run It was evident, in fact, that Colfax of which he is alleged to have appropriated. liasissippi valley has been overflowed, must have that organ or blight would JThe great river and its numerous tnbu descend upon its prosperity. Happiness could never shake hands with Col meg slow past tho menaced points along the river bank. The swell from their boats washes over the almost submerged levee, and increases the danger ten-fold. itaries have burst the feeble barriers that vainly strove to restrain them, and millions of acres of the most productive fax again, content could never more preside over the Colfax Lyceum until Banning land in the country are covered inal records.

Under the same administration there ia a system of recommending to the criminal court the ease of such prisoners, gener- ally first offenders, as may be reasonably expeeted to reform, without punishment. Suck are put upon certain probation within proper restrictions. From October 21, 1878, to December 3i, 1879, only 2 per cent, of all arraignments were so pat upon probation but of that 2 per which comprised some 536 persons, 87 per cent, (say seven out of every eight) have done welL Such are the results to be sought by the Prisons and Asylums' Aid Association of our city. With the motives of the individual member the community need have little to do. The result is all.

One may the abhorrent void should be filled by Ah-Chee, a Chinaman who worked upon a Louisiana plantation about two years ago, ha been converted to the Christian belief and was publicly baptized in New York, on the 5th inst, by the Key. Dr. G. W. in the People's Church, Fifty-third street.

He has been studying for the ministry for several months in the college connected with the church. Some 40 Chinamen were present. wrongs all honest man. It leads men to despise honest toil. Away with the spoils system, national.

State, and municipaL LouitmU CoMrierJ mrnoi, Drm. The recent scandal with which Minister Morton's name has been associated affords evidence that it is not always wise to select rich men to represent the United States abroad, and poorer men ought not to be expected to draw on their own scanty private resources to maintain the dignity of the great nation they represent. Chicago Tribune. If the adulteration of American cotton with sand, which is being heavily complained of by the British spinners, is really done at the South, it is probably on the uieir ucxeia aeearea. or ne win pay meir board here until the passage is clear, the passengers sleeping in the Pullman sleep era and eoaehea.

The company should advise pas eogem not to come rnniil everything ia all right, as the town is full arid: provisions are getting scarce, the roads being in such a bad condition that tlie country people cannot bring in their products. The Missouri 'and Texas Railway is the same condition a th Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad. rbv the devastatine flood. Numerous a first-class double-banked organ with tox kumana and all the other desirable Jtowns, villages and plantations have We hope the merchants of New Orleans will respond with their usual readiness to this touching cry for help, but they must not forget that the necessary assistance must be prompt, must be immediate, or else it may bo extended too late.

Ibeen totally or partially destroyed by stops. Colfax recognized this as a fact about which there could be no contro She water, while in some localities, star vation and destitution menace the un fortunate inhabitants. versy, and then Colfax scratched its head and went to pondering over ways and means. The weather was unsuited It is impossible to estimate the loss Shis calamity will entail upon one of The sentence of Sergt. Mason is severe bnt jnst.

The personality of Guiteau has nothing whatever to do with the case. To Mason he was, or ought to have Wen, simply a prisoner under military guard THE TELEPHONE NUISANCE. It seems to us that the time has ar Ihe fairest agricultural resions of the consider public safety another, public principle of getting even with the manipn rived to pretest against the nuisance of republic. Thousands of head of cattle, morals another, religion but under either la tors of commercial fertilizers. The plan and protection.

A soldier could not per- standard, the proposal is that everything the telephone as it is at present worked in this city. So far from being a con The Richmond and DaavllI BaOroatt. New Yokk, March 11. A statement of the financial condition of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Com pan covering sua month ending March 13, liQ, show net earnings, estimating for the anexnired portion of the quarter at the rate of increaso already made, to be with filed charge amounting to leaving surplus of $169,870, over 4 per cent, on the company' capital stock; for the quarter, an increase of 65 pep cent, ever the corresponding quarter of last year. form a more outrageous act than thfat of -whether it be punishment, confinement or innumerable horses, mules and minor Jstock have been swept offby the destroying clement, while in one locality Mason under the circumstances.

To at to tournaments, mule races, picnics, and people were not in the mood for tombolas, concerts and the like how should the money be raised The last number of the local newspaper the Colfax Chronicle tells the story: Colfax carries tho palm when it comes to raising money to buy a church organ. A dollar is invested in poker chips, and all the winnings go into the organ fund. It i proposed to donate the organ to the Colfax Lyceum and the Episcopal Sunday school. About $16 now on hand. alone, it has been estimated that the damage to the sugar interest will reach tempt the murder of a defenseless prisoner, even though that prisoner was Guiteau, richly deserves the punishment meted out by the military court, and the prompt approval of the sentence by Gen.

Hancock will be universally applauded. the appalling quantity of 12,000 hogs- ters have been growling over the alleged large admixture of sand in these supposed promoters of vegetable growth. Philadelphia Record. I Unlike Blaine, Mr. Frelinghaysen was never a journalist.

He is ignorant, therefore, of the happy knack of putting things which waa characteristic of his immediate predecessor. When Blaine penned an official note of congratulation or condolence, it was neatly turned. In his dispatch to Lowell anent the attempt upon the royal leads. treatment shall be done according to the best art of caring for, and curing, the mentally and morally disordered. G.

W. Cable. The following persons, at the present writing, compose the membership of the association President, Wm. R. Lyman vice-presidents, Adolph Schreiber, Edgard Larue, J.

P. Davidson, M. D. treasurer, B. F.

Echleman additional members of the executive committee. Rev. J. H. Nail, D.

Perry Nugent, Wm. Hart well and D. Many villages are partially under "water, and the affrighted people have Sn some cases retreated to the roofs of their houses to get beyond the reach of Municipal Polities ia Tolodo. Ohio. Tolspo, March It.

The Democratic ecntive committee of this city decided, thi afternoon, to call a mas convention to be held in Music Uall on the 27th nominate city officers. No primary moe tin will be held, and no delegate elected. Th? convention will determine it own method of procedure. life ef England, Mr. Frelinghuysea the angry flood.

Houses have hewn torn from their foundations and borne, venience for which one should pay it is i an aggravation of so monstrous a character as to merit public denunciation. The idea of demanding money for the privilege of using a machine that is calculated to upset the nervous system of the most stolid and callous human being, and which is provocative of more profanity than forty prize fights, is extremely ridiculous not to say cheeky. The Chicago Times, not long since, losing all patience with the irritating little instrument, kicked it vigorously out, of its establishment, declaring it was more- trouble, many times over, than it was worth. Froperly arranged, the telephone could 1m made a great convenience and comfort, but the effort to economize by putting wires in cables, and the care actually clumsy. Chicago Tunes, Ind.

The New York World says "If tlie women of New York and Long Island, of New England, of Pennsylvania and of Virginia will rummage among the heirlooms in their homes their quest will be rewarded by the discovery of hithert un-suBpecte attractions for the next loan coL lection of fans. The fan ia an integral and C. Holliday, M. D. secretary, George W.

Cable; private members: lie v. Hugh M. Thompson, D. E. T.

Merrick, L. C. ALL SOKTS. with their shrieking inmates, on the losom of the current, while the scene of desolation, of destruction and de- The North Carolina Legislat Yon make a great mistake in thinking Verily the deacons and elders and vestrymen of Colfax must play a beeswax game among themselves They clearly have discovered some way of holding on to chips which the blooming innocents of New Orleans have yet to learn. Tho fund is accumulating, of coarse, but it is accumulating slowly if, after several days of hard and conscientious playing, only 16 have been lost.

We don't want to lie disrespectful to a religious, church-going community like that of Colfax, but we must say to Levy, Edw. Booth, L. II. Gardner, T. L.

Airey, C. H. Parker, Saml Simson, T. O. pair presented in the neighborhood of that the world will break all in pieces when the ovcrllow is said to beggar descrip you leave it.

It is barely possible, on the tion. Raleigh, March IL Gov. arris thinks that the Legislature will be convened ia extra session April 20, to redistrict the State. Otuer- important business will be to extend the time for funding the State debt, which expired January 1, and to appoint a railroad commission. other hand, that yon are persistently Rapier, W.

C. Raymond, T. Gilniore, T. G. Richardson, D.

O. Carriere, Conrad Kressner, V. Baudier, Wm. C. C.

Claiborne, A. J. R. Landauer, Victor Meyer, standing in the way of a better man. -Ytie Yet, while this terrible destruction is going on, while the people of almost York Herald.

every city, town and village in th Missed the mark: Connoisseur in wine L. Christ. E. L. Jeanrenaud, T.

D. Miller, II. M. Neill, T. LytL Lyon, W.

F. Haleey, Ken Mormon Camp Fstahllshod (to innocent guest) "Try a g'as of thi C. F. Hoffman, Cyrus Bussey, J. M.

Scixas, Kin' Mountain. A LB i OH. March 11. Information has niw-t important portion of the armory of the fair sex, and as it is no longer thought necessary by Americans to despise tilings of beapty because they are American, fan-painting and designing should become a profitable field for American artists, and especially for American female artists. No material," adds the World, "can rival in beauty the plain bark of the birch tree of New England for fans." The pluckiest and coolest headed woman ot the day is Mrs.

S. K. Drown, of Western, Wis. Having occasion recently to go upon the straw-covered roof of a stable, she fell through and perched upon the head of an ox feeding ia his stalL This been received here that the Mormons have A. A.

Woods. E. A- Palfrey, A. C. Hutchinson, E.

B. Wheelock, O. Hopkins, W. H. Foster, IT.

Dudley Coleman, W. C. Shepard, Charles Gayarre, R. M. Walmsley, made a lodgment near King' Mountain, in this State.

Number of country poopk are Hocking to hear them, and they have made about 50 eon verts at that point. less ma iner which the wires are permitted to fold with telegraph and other wires, makes the instrument rather one of torture than of service. A member of our staff, yesterday, wastel more than 15 minutes in a vain endeavor to communicate with an Administrator at tha City Hall, and then had to alk to the Hall to attend to the business. As at present managed. tho Coming Transit ot Preparing; for Venn.

Chateau la Rose, my friend I it ha been in my cellar for over 20 years." Innocent guest "Has it, indeed I What must it have been when it was new 1 Clear Enough First English gentleman (looking at the railroad time table) ''Bill, why do they say p. m-P Second gentleman ''That means penny a mile." First "And what does a. m. mean Second 'Why, 'ape nay a mile, of course." At a young lady's seminary recently, during an examination in history, one of the pnpils waa interrogated thus 44 Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural death "So," was the reply, "he was excommunicated by a bulk" Harvard Lampoon. sudden and peculiar mode ot "entry so those toiling deacons that if they don't loosen up their game that organ will not soon resound within the sacred confines of the Lycenm.

There has been a momentary interlude of hope such as always accompanies action, but as time goes by and the church wardens wrestle in poker with 6iich lame and impotent results, this hope will fade and fail, and leave the Colfax soul once more a prey to gloora. We sympathize with our Eed river friends in their struggle we, too, have known what it is to be heart-hungry and desolate for want of an organ; yet we must tell them that unless they change their game, introduce jack-pots, "blazes," kilters," do something to limber it, in fact, their propcct of seeing that country daily read and converse of the fearful tragedy that is yet in progress in the Mississippi valiey. arises the unpleasant reflection that all this devastation, all this loss of property, all this destitution and suffering might have Leen spared the overflowed region and its inhabitants, had Congress iLexn just in its treatment of the people of the Great Valley. A small portion of the many millions that have been annually squandered on the internal improvement of the North would have, in the course of time, built np a levee system competent to restrain the great river and its principal feeders within their natural channels. Years ago, when Clay, Webster, Calhoun and Randolph shaped the polity of the country, the levee question was often discussed.

Calhuun, by New Yoek, March IL A Hartford, Conn-, special says A conmiMwii ef sci. i 1 entisls who will come to America to ob-t serve the transit of Venus on December 6, alarmed and irritated tlie animal that he Louis Bush, John Chatfe, Wm. IL Chaffe, Herman Meader, S. W. Clark, Lloyd R.

Coleman, J. H. Kennard, W. W. Hewe, S.

S. Prentiss, F. Wing, A. C. Tebo, H.

C. Eustis, II. G. Hester, W. E.

HalL Charles J. C. Navarre, Alf. L. Lugenbuhl, L.

A. Huft, II. Ginder, W. B. Young, D.

Talmage, Mrs. M. W. Bartlett, Mrs. D.

A. Given, Mr. Laura P. Wayne, Mrs. T.

V. Coupland, Mrs. J. II. Allen, Mr.

Frederick Wing, Mrs. F. V. Hooper, Mrs. E.

B. Johnson. Mrs. Theo. Anze, Mrs.

T. II. Holmes, Mrs. J. II.

Nail, Mrs. B. D. Wood, Mrs. V.

M. Delgado, Mrs. E. J. began at once to toss and hook the intruder, neit.

will establish posts of observation at Charleston, S. C-, and in this city. until the little woman was finally dislodged. While upon the floor and being trampled, the brave Western wife, bleeding, wound ed and half-blinded as she was, mtwle a supren effort, and pluekily seizing the ox Fall River Print Works Hutting Down, "Have you seen our friend B. lately!" "Yes." "Then you must have noticed that the telephone is a nuisance of the first magnitude.

STEAMERS IN THE LAFOURCHF. Apropos of the request from Mr. E.T. Hanson, President of the Police Jury of Ascension Parish, asking Capts. Aueoin and Charlet to discontinue the trips of their boats into the Lafourche, there seems to be another side to the question.

The following open letter from a Lafourche planter will explain itself. Glen-wood, March 6, 188i To Capt. aud Capt. Charlet. of Steamers UkAk of tlie and Assumption Gentlemen I see by the Picayune of today that Mr.

Hanson, as President of the by his horns, lifted herself high enough tc catch hold of a rafter, by means of which she made good her escape, through the very hole which was the cause of her miohitp. he dyes his hair in front, but forgets to dye Fall RrvEE. Mreh II. American Printing Company has ah at' down to curtail its production, as other print work are doing tUfoug'uoat the country. Slemphis to Have a Future Board.

MewrHis. March 11. The M-mrii Cotton Exchange this afternoon resolved Wharton, Mrs. A. Baldwin, Mrs.

M. R. Palmer, Miss M- A. Wye toff, Mrs. K.

Fuhri. Mrs. T. G. Richardson.

Mrs. J. B. the back of it- ell, it only proves this. that if he is willing to deceive himself, he crgan installed in the Colfax Lyceum is dim indeed.

Wallace, Mrs. Thomas Warren, Mrs. 8. M. i not willing to deceive others.

Pari Refrigerating hams is a new ecterpris Pleasantry. which is growing in importance in Calfoi to reorganize a a joint stock compan and establish a call board for the purchase nia. It ia claimed that the nuld climate of and sale of future contracts in cotton. that section is better adapted to refr'ger THE JEWISH SYMPATHY 21EET-IXG. The mass meeting to be held on Thursday next, at Gruuewald Hall, to "Oh, mon papa," replied Mollie, "il ne faut pas dire dee chose comme ca." "Well, I didn't," said Mr.

"ay your tin? meats than the cold temperature Chicago, St. Louis and other Levy, Mrs. J. B. Vsn Horn, Mrs.

Sarah Shields, Mr. Caroline E. Merrick. Mrs. Edw.

J. Gay, Mrs. Andrew Price, Mrs. R. C.

Juden, Mrs. C. Grimes, Mrs. P. N.

Strong. Mr. R. M. Walmsley, Mr.

T. P. Devoe, J. V. Richards, C.

Von Meysen-berg, Frank Kennedy, John G. Parham, C. Wernicke, H. Melctta, C. J.

Lewis, Henry Hyman, W. S. BelL A. Brittin. IL F.

Kirkpatrick, R- Woeste, A. G. Ober, R. T. Buckner, Atwood Violett, J.

F. Middle-ton, Wm. A. Gwyn, John G. Hazard, M.

centres ia the East, The San Fraucic Call says rown Terr ncarlv tn the time ef star; Police Jury of Ascension parish, has taken it upon himself to speak for the planters of Lafourche, and request you to 'discontinue running your boats in the bayou during high water." give expression to the feelings of indignation felt by the people of this city, in common with those of the whole civilized world, at the treatment of the Jews in Eussia, will be a most interesting and impressive demonstration. In every quarter there has been the most prompt and cordial exhibition of a desire to make this meeting worthy ing thti business in San Francisco it was be -lieved that pork-packing could be 1 on only in tne winter season from A oveni-ber to March but this delusion ha bee a dispelled. It ha been experimentally declaring that the Mississippi was a national highway, cheeked the opposi-tionof his party and small sums have from time to time been voted for its Improvement. But since that memorable epoch, the question has been often debated in our National Halls of Legislature, and men's opinions are very much changed from what they were on the day that Calhoun Eaada his famous declaration. While millions upon millions have been thrown Into the muddy channels of the un-navigahle streams and brooklets of the North, or wasted on fortifications, that have sin re been pronounced useless; Lut 6mall sums have been doled out toward the improvement of our great "National Highway.

Experience has shown Jthat the several States of the Mississippi valley Are Suable to find tho necessary funds to levee the great river and its numerous As one of the planters of Lafourche I protest against the authority of Mr. Hanson to speak for me in a matter of importance like this, and in this connection would say, we cannot get along without a boat of some Warm Reception of Our 'avy In Chill, March 7. Rear-Ad miral Bales, in a communication dated Valparaiso, Chili, February 4, reports that he called on President Santa Maria, scout-panied by Capts. Belknap and McCana and his personal and was cordially received The President returned the vbut next day, accompanied by several members of "the Cabinet and high official of the army and navy. He wa received a board tba flg-hip with all the honors du on soch an orcawioa.

the yard being maj-aed and a national salute tired by the Peatacola, Alaska and Lat k.v-wanaoahisarrivaloa board and upon hi departure. The i'resident expressed warm friendship for the L'uited States on the part of the Chilian government. Admiral Balci states hi Wliel taat the vieit ef the United State naval vels to Valparaiso has done much to allay to ill feeling lately existiaa toward a by the people oi Chili. clothes were dear. But what in thunder are you talking about Can't you talk American "Oh, non, papa, je eomprend cette langu laide, mais je ne la parle plus." "What in thunder," cried Mr.

"do you mean, Mollie. by a long-laid parl-plu on prongs Here I've come all the way to Ogden with two new silk dresses for yon, bought in San Franciaeo, and you can't say thank you for 'em, I suppose, except in some infernal foreign gibberish." "You dear, darling old duck," replied Mobile, "yon can just bet I don't talk no more Paree till them dresses is worn out," and the angel hugged the old man all the way home, until she got her dresses, and then she remarked: France! je veas adore ma belle France San Francitco Newt Letter. kind, and a steamboat, I apprehend, is about the only cmft to be found to sue proven tUa? a nuld temperature more favorable to curing meat, by the refrigerating process than frosty weather, bo-cause meat, if frozen, and afterward exposed to atmospheric influence, putrtiies in a few hours. Cooling meat and extracting the animal heat the object claimed 14 and accomplished in the process of i. the nopolur idea being, untl very ce6 fully stem the rapid current now pre Keiffer, Chas.

Holland, L. B. Vienne, A. E. Bignon, P.

E. Mortimer, J. B. Lafitte, T. II.

Hunt, G. A. Williams, John Phelps, J. D. Bruns, M.

D-, F. T. Butler, Jaiae Lingan, S. B. Newman, John E.

Rodd, M. A. Baker, E. A. Burke, C.

A. Smith, Joseph Dunbar, J. A. Braselman, IL M. Verlander.

R. McMillan, R. M. Ong, S. K- Ross, R.

B. Jones, Alex. Allison, J. O. ScannelL J.

O. Bartels, D.R. Graham, Ediuoud Faroe, T. E. Sater, L.

Farnet, L. J. D'Aquin, Charles ScannelL John T. Brodnax, W. L.

Shepard, J. A. vailing, and that the whole objection to the of the occasion and of New Orleans, and the clergy as well as the laity of every denomination have heartily joined hands in the grand cause humanity. Yet no one imagines that these meetings, composed, as they have been in other great cities, and as they will be running steamers during oar high water may be -overcome by running as you did on recently, at least, that the meat waa frozen. This cooling can be done better in moderate climate, where temperature is moie easily eoctrolled and auimal heat more a-radmllj extract'1-" your last trip down and up the bayou, under a "slow bclL" Respectfully C-ao.

W. Jusas..