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Coacerniag that vhch has TRANSFERRED in The rorlds
history on corresponding days in past gears acith
other matter pertinent thereto, prepared expressly
for fhsTeaders Of the Double Sheet Crescent.
Brighter and more glorious, SUMMER and pleasanter
than their predecessors are the days that part the
curtains which veil US from the coming week. So
many angelic scene-shifters are they if rightly I'M
derstood ever laboring to wrest from Nature some
broader view for qualification. Their fair features
shine in an immortal youth wreathed with the same
smiles and dimpes as when first they wondering saw
the world. Let US hope that the cornucopia at their
side may pour forth an abundant fortune.
Monday, April 2s.-Sts. Vitalis, Didymus Theo-
dore and Patrcius the attera Prussan and the only
Prussian, are named for this day.
The cuckoopink, dedicated to Sts. Didymus and
Theodore, is the emblem.
During the expedition against the Pequots, in the
olden colonial times, the English discoved New Haven
Conn, which, in 1887, was settled by colony from
the Bay State, who keptths day, which happened to
be their first Sunday, under large oak tree, while
Mr. Davenport their pastor, preached to them.
In l76O NJ. Leyapproached Quebec from Montreal
with six frgates, to recapture it from the English
Gen. Murray marched out with 5000 men, and, on
this day, the battle of sserythree miles above the
city-was fought, and the English were defeated,
with loss of 1000 men. The English retreatedt to
Quebec, which place the French beseiged. An Eng
lsh squadron arrived in the middleof May, took the
French squadron, and raised the seige.
In l78s, the Convention of the State of Maryland
assented to the Constitution and Joined the American
confederation.
Tuesday, April 23-Saints Peter Robert, Hugh
and Fiachna the saints, from $50 to 1852, A. D.
The herb Robert, dedicated to St. Robert is the
flower. &"a 4
In 1779, DR.. John Ash died, whose Complete En-
gsh Dictionary, until the appearance of Todds john
son, was the best extant.
In 1922, Sir Isaac Heard, garter kng-atarms died,
aged ST. remarkable for his knowledge Of heraldry,
from the earliest times
In our own country, no great event has to be
chronicled.
Wednesdayiapril 3O.-sts. Catharine, Maximus
James and Marian, from $50 to 1880, the saints
The cowslip, dedicated to st. Catherine, is the en-
blem.
Louisiana was admitted into the Union in ISL The
name was given to the territory in honor of Louis
XIV. 1t was discovered by DeSoto in 154l. After
being owned by several European powers it was ceded
to the United States by France, in lS05 for SIS 000
on0 Several States have been formed out of what
was the old territory of Louisiana.
This day paves the way into May-the most beau
tifu of all the spring months celebrated in every
land sung by every poet. The month takes its name
from Maa, the brightest of the Pleades. The old
Ango-Saxons used to call it Trmilki, according
to one grave author for that they then began to milk
their kline three times day! Milton has an ode to-
the month, in which he speaks of
- The iowery May who. from her green lap throws
The yellow cowsip and the pale primrose.n ..
Tennyson too, sings his sweetest strains in that uni
versal ballad:
I'm to be Queen of the May.'
The references to the month are, however, too nu-
merous to be repeated, and all as gracefulr the
pleasant time of which they treat.
Thursday, May l.--Sts. Philip, James and St.
Sigismund, King of Burgundy, are the saints. The
tulip, dedicated to St. Philip; the red companion
and the red bachelors BUTTON dedicated to St. James,
are the flowers.
The observanees with which May day has been kept,
the world over, from time mmemorial, are too numer
Gus to be repeated. Every ones own reading will
suggest the May pole and the May flower, with the
Morris dance and the thousand pleasant anusements
that welcome in the breathing period of the year.
OF the events which have occurred in the month with
out accurate dates attached, within our reach we
can mention few. In l497, John Cabot, Vene-
tian by birth, sailed under the patronage of Henry
VII, and discovered a land which he termed Prima
VISTA judged to have been the island Of Newfound-
land.
In 1910, Congress passed an act excluding British
and French armed vessels from American waters.
In 1911, naval engagement occurred between the
frgate President and the British sloop-ofwar Little
Belt in which the latter had eleven killed and twenty
four wounded, and the former lost but one.
| In 1886, the New York banks suspended specie
payment and all the others followed suit. In the
same year several Creek towns and tribes joined the
Semimoles and commenced war which lasted until
the administration of Van Buren.
Friday, May a.-St. Athanasus, Patriarch OF
Alexandria, A. D. 1913, is the patron of the day. The
Charlock, dedicated to him, is the flower
In 1919, Leonardo da Venei, the painter, died
In $780, a committee from Congress visited the
army and reported to Congress that the "almy was
unpaid for five months that it seldom had more than
six days provisions inadvance aud was on several oc
casions, for sundry successive days, without meat
that the medical department adnether sugar. coffee
nor tea; wine nor spirituous liquors that every de
partment was without money, and had not even thu
shadow of credit left.
Saturday, May s.-The invention or discovery
of the Holy, Cross 32G, and st. Alexander, Pope
49, are the observances of the day.
The poetic Narcisso, dedicated to the invention 0
the Cross, is the flower
The invention of the Cross, explained by com
mentator to signify the fndngof the Cross, belongs
as festival to both the English and Romsh churches
| In 1916, Florida was admitted into the Union.
Sunday, May 4.-St. Monica, 3S7, and st. Go
dard 1886, are the patron saints.
The stock gily-fower, dedicated to st. Monica, il
the emblem.
In l47l, the battle of Tewksbury, Gloucestershire
England was won by Edward ", over the L .ncaste
rians.
In 1877, DR.. Isaac Barron, an eminent mathemati
clan and learned divine, died.
In 1895, John James Barthelmy, author of th
travels of Anacharsis, died.
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CoNcoRDIA PARIsH.-We clip the subjoined item
from the Concordia fnteigencer of the 25th
The IVeather-The rain of last week Thursla,
morning was so light and so limited and partial ii
quantity, that but little benefit was derived by tn
planters from its fall. =
On Tuesday night of the present week mu'1
more abundant fall of rain took place, accompahed
with thunder. 1t continued shoWerg on "Wednesday
much to the delight of the panters.
Destruction Of the Corn Crop.-We are tally sorfJ
to record the partial destruction of the yong corn OF
some of the best plantations in Concoy1a Parish h5
| the IbiI,tZ huo Wp have OF corn so QE