Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-03-04
Rumseller,s Advertisement,

Rumseler's Advertisement.
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBoRs: Having JUS
opened commodions shop for the sale O.
"iquid fire." take this early opportunity
Of informing you that, on Saturday next,
shall commence the business of making
drunkards, paupers and beggars, for the
sober, industrious and respectable portion o.
the community to support.
shall deal in familiar spirits" which
will excite men to deeds of riot robbery and
blood; and by so doing, diminish the com.
forts, augment the expenses, and endangel
the welfare Of the community.
Twill undertake, at short notice, for a
small sum, and with great expedition, to
prepare victims for the asylum, the poor
houses, the prisons: and the gallows.
will furnish an article that will increase
the amount of fatal accidents, multiply the
number Of distressing diseases, and render
those which are harmless incurable.
Twill deal in drugs which will deprive
some Of life, some of reasons, most of pro-
perty, and all of peace, which will cause
fathers to be fiends; wives, widows, children,
orphans and all mendicants.
Twill cause the rising generation to grow
up in ignorance, and prove burden and a
nuisance to the nation. er
will cause mothers to forget their suck.
ling infants; virgins, their priceless inno-
cence. .u....
I Twill corrupt the ministers of religion,
obstruct the progress of the Gospel, defle
the purity of the church; and cause tempo
raj, spiritual and eternal death; and if any
should be so impairment as to ask why |
have the audacity to bring accumulated
misery upon comparatively happy people,
my honest reply is-money.
The spirit trade is lucrative, and some
protesting Christians give it cheerful coun-
tenance. 5.s ". ~-lu- 7ear ~
have license, and if do not bring these
evils upon you, somebody else will.
live in a land of liberty. ri s.a< ,=tr
Ihave purchased the right to demolish
the character, destroy the health, shorten
the lives and ruin the souls ofthose who
choose to honor me with their custom.
pledge myself to do all have herein
promised. Those who wish any of the evils
above specified, brought upon themselves
or their dearest friends. are requested to
meet me at my bar, where will, for few
cents. furnish them with the certain means
of doing SO. ,,r... ........z,. -..--.. ~.
A BEAUTIFUL THouGHr.-We take the
following beautiful passage from an address
of Theordore Romeyn, Esq, of Detroit,
before the Literary Societies Of Rutgers
College, on our country and her claims:
o.A As in the light ofreason you look abroad
you see wealth of, profusion of goodness
in the works of Him who has strewed flowers
in the wilderness, and painted the bird and
enamelled the insect. In the simplest and
most universal OF his laws you can read this
lesson. An uneducated man dreams not Of
the constituents of the common sunlight
which now in its splendor floods the firma-
nent and the landscape He cannot COM
world results from the composite character
Of light and from the rejecting properties
Of most physical bodies. If, instead of red,
yellow and blue which the analysis Of
prism and the experiments of absorption
have shown to be its constituents, it had
been homogeneous, simple white, how
changed all would have been. The growing
corn and the ripe harvest, the blossom and
the fruit, the fresh greeaness of spring and
autumn's robe Of many colors: the house Of
the violet, the lilly ard the rose: the siIvery
loan Of the risuiet, the emerald Of the river
and the purple of the ocean, would alike be
unknown, The rainbow would have been
but paler streak in the gray sky, and dull
yapors have canopied the sun. instead of
the clouds, which.in dyes Of flaming bril-
liancy curtain his rising up and going
down. Nay. there would have been no
distinction between the bloom Of childhood,
the flush of health, and the paleness of
decay, the hectic of disease and the Gvid-
ness of death. There would have been AN
UNMARRIED, nnmeaning hue, where we now
see the changing and expressive counte-
nance, the tinted earth and the gorgeous
firmanent." 80 s.sss - 1865.