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The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-12-29

AfARM ONE NILE FROM ABBBvILLD, Oh
n Bayou Vermilion, in good neisAborAssd, elufaA
cypress fence dwelling kitchen and outho1sss teAsn
and household furniture sad farming utensls fer sss
with the place Also Is mich cows and ether choice
cattle. yoke of oxen, good horsss. gsatls narss
sheep hogs, etc. = !
The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-12-29

A gang of New York sharpers, after hav-
ing made good raise at Rome. had their
pockets picked at Atlanta. while on their
way to the State Fair. They left Georgia
cleaned out and disguised.
The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-12-29

flACr N PINE OR PUGH ISLAND. PARISH
"A ofOA naRy II miles from Brashear City, 235 acres,
Asusss aers sugar cane desirable little property
n = Iov - 0o, ~nSA 40
The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-12-29

BILL" said one apprentice to another my
boss is better man to work for than your
old man. My boss amt always. round hi
shop interfering with his own business"
The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1869-12-29

4 FARM n P1AIRIE GREGG, NEAR BAYOU
"A vsmi1on, six milss below Abbeyille, go acres,
eAsles lnA sod sssins country, healthful climate
The lDd rood for sugar. cotton. sweet potatoes,
Rordeoa pesshss, oranges and other fruits 3
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From the London Times).

Inc CofncSde DtBa0f pOlitlcftt with att
mospberical phenomena is not quite a
novelty of human Imagination, nor would
it have been surpfisingeif the expected
high tide of last week had been coupled
In popular speculations with the recon
struction of the Irish Church or the re-
form of the Irish Land Laws. Everybody
remembers the tereible storm which
marked the death of Oliver Cromwell,
out everybody may not be aware that a
succession of tentests is believed TO have
followed upon the extinction of the East
India Company. Ifourreaders are amused
at this idea, they will be still more i'm
pressed with the intelligence that the
fact, if not the explanation, is beyond dis
pute. Our Calcutta Correspondent in
forms us that it is the common talk of the
natives throughout India. Since the great
Mutinles of 1857 and the transfer of In
dian administration 10 the Crown fright
tul hurricanes, and not only hurricanes,
out taLnLlnes,. have devastated the country
to an extent never before known. Death
after death, and tornado after tornado, af-
f1lct the land, and, though we are not told
that the British rule is held accountable
for the visitations, the coincidence appeals
with some effect 10 the native mind.
Strangest of all, however, is the apparent
fact that the two things are really not
without some connexion. The cyclones
we must put out of the question, but the
famines, or rather their Incidents, are un-
douhtedly 10 be traced to the operation of
events during the last ten years
1t should be first remarked that there
may possibly be some inaccuracy in the
statement of the case. When it is said
that these visitations are now occurring
with q frequency never before known, it
would perhaps he more correct to say
never before recorded. The spread of
education in India, the increased soIicitude
of Government, and the vast improvement
of communications throughout the coun-
try have caused all such events to be
better known and more freely discussed.
Perhaps famines, or, at least, the ordinary
occasions of famine, might have been as
common years ago as now but now they
are noticed and compared, whereas in
former days they passed unheeded and
unrecorded. Allowing, however, for this
correction, and assuming that the recur-
renee of such calamities is not in reality
much more frequent than before, we can
discover without difficulty why the incl
dental distress should be more severe. In
India famine is simply another expression
for want Of rain, or it's equivalent. IF the
rains do not fall in sufficient time or guam
, 1869-11-16

IVY 10 tertlllZe the ground, there is a
failure of the food crops, and, conse.
= qnently, q scarcity more or less grievous.
WIN a complete system o~firrigation the
huSbandman might be rendered more in
dependent Of the seasons, but until that
vision OF Indian reformers can be realized
a late or scanty rainfall must bring about
q deArth OF food. Now, unless The physi-
cal geogrophy of India has been modified
by The action OF man, we cannot suppos
thai The rainfall Is greater or less than
formerly, but we can understand why
dry season should be attended with greater
scarcity. The truth, in a few words, is
ihls-ihat the stocks in hand are smaller.
In Old times a peasant had often his little
reserve OF corn against a Time of need in
these days such reserves are rarely to be
found. b. the first place, the production
OF corn has decreased, less land being un-
der food crops, and for this reason-that
other crops are found to pay better. The
demand for cotton, iute, and other agri.
cultural produce has of late been so great,
and the prices obtained have been so high,
that every sAasbaaslnlan is lSeanpted 10
grow such crops for sale and export
rather than grain for store. OF course
he must provide himself with food for
currenA consumption, but within that
limit he is induced TO keep, and he rarely
has any store in hand. The result is that
when a scarcity occurs he has no hoard of
his W TO fall back upon, and so, not
WlIhStandlng his improved condition, he
suffers more. That he is, however, an
enormous gamer, on the whole, is beyond
denial. The exports of India have in
creased prodigiously, and an unusual pro-
portion 'ot the value received has fallen
to the actual cultlvator of the soil. AS
a rule, the Hindoo ryot is now out of
debt, and e~mancipated from bondage.
lie earns more money, spends more money,
lives BETTER and has more enjoyment Of
lie than In times gone by; The only
drawback is that when famine comes he
finds 1t difficult to exchange his money
Tor corn. That all these changes do date
from 1857 or Whereabouts is true, but the
coincidence is purely accidental. The
real causes are to be sought, not in the
substitution of the Crown for the Com
pany in the administration Of affairs, but
IN the vast displacements of trade occa-
stoned by the Crimean war and the Ame-
rican rebellion, in the great gold dis
coveries and the immense flow of bullion
to the East, in the extension of railway
communication and in the acceleration of
progress generally. To such a point, in
deed, has this acceleraiion been carried
that the wIsest of Indian statesmen do not
venture on a forecast of the future before
them. If the Hindoos have been ihmov-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04

PREMATURE BURIAL. A paper IN All the
Year Round speaks of the many cases of
premature burial which occur during the
prevalence of cholera. 1t says among 9TH
er things that 'sDr. Londe states as an ac-
knowledged fact that patients pronounced
dead of cholera have been repeatedly seen
to move one or more of their limbs after
death" Mr. Searle, an English surgeon,
has often remarked this fact; and DR.. Vey-
rat, of the Bath establishment, AK Savoy,
succeeded in ''resuscitating" young woman
after she had apparently been dead for
nearly three days Apropos of the subject
of premature burial, of which many peo-
pie have horror not altogether unreason-
able, it may be well to state that French
doctor has recently invented process by
which it may be determined with absolute
certainty whether person supposed to be
dead is SO or not Belladonna dropped on
the living eye always causes dilation of the
pupil, while on the dead eye it has Nc ef-
feet. A camera with the ordinary photo
graphic paper, which is ruled with delicate
lines, is placed over the eye undergoing
examination. The paper is unrolled from
a spindle for ten or fifteen minutes at the
expiration of which time, if no variation in
the size of the photograph of the pupil can
be detected, the subject is known to be
dead
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
How Shoal of Betters were Hooked.

from the Cincinnati Gazette.
at one of the hotels Of the city, a few
days ago, guest was holding conversation
with the clerk, and anxiously awaiting un-
til the great doors which separated him
from dinner should be thrown open. In the
midst of the conversation a woman came
into the hall, and after casting quick and
glancing search over all, walked boldly to
the desk, and laid her hand on the should.
er of the hungry guest. The fair one was
evidently excited and angry, for she spoke
sharply, and, we regret to say, profanely to
the gentleman:
''YOu are the man / want" she said, and
then she proceeded to declare that she was
milliner, doing business at 80 Fourth
street.
''You passed this $40 counterfeit bill on
me-, saying which she drew from her
pocket the bill she charged him with hav-
ing given to her.
The gentleman appeared somewhat as
tOnished, but he drew forth-fortunate
man that he was able to do it-a roll of
bills, and handed her $40 in good money.
Just then the lofty door swung open, son
iron hinges turning" and the hungry man
went to his dinner. Dinner over the man
found himself in o conversational mood,
and related the circumstances to some Of
those around him.
At last the bill was produced, and opin-
ions IN regard to it were found to be quite
diverse, the larger part, however, of the
company inclining to the belief that it was
poor. After more discussion, betting be-
gan, the man who had received it from the
woman taking all bets that were offered
that it was bad-$10 to $5, S25 to $10 and
in one case 500 to S5 were offered and ac-
oaTtp6 that tho hill yuac ho5
Then began race and a chase among
the banks and bankers. To the consterna-
ton of the betters-or, rather, all but one
of them-the bill was everywhere pro-
nounced a good one, and the man who had
such faith in it found himself winner
to the amount of S400.
The singular part of the story is that, on
inquiry, it was found that the building No.
SO Fourth street was not occupied by a
miliner, and no such woman as was des-
cribed was known to persons in the neigh
borhood
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04

The LATEST IMPRovEMENT.-One of the
latest things out for an improvement is that
of II. G.. Goodrich's Patent Combined Hem
and Tuck Measure and Marker. This attach
ment is simple and durable, and can be at
tached to any sewing machine. By use of
this attachment each succeeding tuck is meas
ured and marked out true and parallel with
the last line of stitching while the same is
being sewed When we take into considera-
ton the beauty of the work done, and the
ease and facility with which it is accomplished,
we do not hesitate to say that no attachment
heretofore used on a machine is so simple
and easily managed, and does all its work
with such precision as the New Tuck Meas
ure and Marker, as now applied to all sewing
machines. All ladies who use a machine well
know the length of time required to measure
mark and fold the tuck above that taken to
do the sewing of the same. To say that five
seams around all ordinary skirt, Of four or
five yards each, can be sewed in the time re-
quired to measure, mark and fold one tuck,
is only repeating fact well known to all.
But now, if a tuck can be measured and
marked out true and parallel with the line of
stitching while the same is being sewed, then
at least four times as much work can be done
in a given time, and in superior manner in
comparison to that done in the ordinary way.
These attachments may be found at all sew
ing machine offices throughout the United
States, where circulars and all information
may be had, or circulars sent on application,
by addressing the patentee, Ell. @. GOODRICH,
95 Michigan avenue, Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
Cyclones in British India-AIleged Loss
of Ten ThnuSAnl Lives

The second of the two hurricanes which
visited Bengal on the 10th of May and the
9th of June was very destructive, but far
inferior in violence to the terrible storms
of 1864 and 1867. The plantains, the pau
leaf which is ehewed with the betel nut,
were ruined, but the other crops escaped
Calcutta business was entirely suspended
Few merchants were able to reach their
places of business, and those who did
found themselves minus their native en-
ployes.
The roof of Lock Hospital fell in kill
ing two women and wounding nine others
Trees were blown down, brick houses were
injured, and huts We're generally leveled
with the ground wherever they were not
sheltered. The shipping rode out with
few casualties, but cargo boats were swept
away, and some lives must have been lost
In the country the huts of the peasantry
were blown down in all directions, except
where they were protected by thick trees.
No news Of shipping disasters had comeIin
when the mail left. One paper asserts that
ten thousand lives were lost by the first
cyclone, that of May 10th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
ShakeSDeare'S Marriage

At the time of this event, Shakespeare
was eighteen years ofage, whilst Ann Hath
way, his bride, was a mature maiden of
twenty-seven. But if it be true, as Lord
Bacon says, that a man finds himself seven
years older the day after his marriage, this
sudden maturity would nearly equalize the
matter and keep the balance true. An old
writer describes her as ''a tall handsome
girl with ruby ips," and it was on these
coral reefs that the boy poet is supposed to
have made shipwreck. The speech of Her.
mia's lover, Lysander, has often been quot
ed to prove the infelicity of his welded life; /;
because one of the reasons given why F'the
course Of true love never did run smooth, !"
is that it is 'snisgraffed III respect of years.
In Twelfth Night" also, this same point,
viz: disparity of years, is pressed again
with an earnestness that seems to spring
from bitter personal experience. [ refer to
the beautiful scene where Viola, disguised
as page, enters into conversation with the
Duke, of whom she is enamored, and re-
celyes from him this general advice:
''Let still the woman take
An elder than herself; so wears she to him;
So sways she level in her husband heart
And to the man he says:
sThen let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection may not hold the bent.'
As convincing proof that Shakes9eare's af-
lection did not 'shoId the bent, F." we are told
how he settled in London and left his wife
in Stratford, visiting her only once year
One biographer insinUates that he never
sent her penny of his earnings, "a clear
case of 1c1renlittiag Iove,) but spent them
in the delights and dissipations of metro
politan life. In his last will and testament
he leaves no word of love for his wife, and
bequeaths to her only his ''second best
bed" The sonnets, too, which are the
truest records and very issues of his life,
indicate that there was some coldness and
estrangement between them, and speak also
of the ''disgracesF and ''blots" that c1ung
to him as the results of his ''old offences of
affections"
Various anecdotes are told of him in this
connection. One story, related by the gar
rulous Aubrey, is to the effect that Shake
speare, on his journeys to and from Lon
don, used to put up at the Crown Inn at
Oxford. The innkeeper, John Davenant
and his wife, were very fond of him, and he
stood godfather to their son William. The
wicked world limited that there was some
thing more than friendship between the
poet and the witty and beautiful Mrs Da-
venant One day, as William was running
home IN haste, some one asked him why he
ran SO. He replied that he wished to see
hisgodfather, who had just arrived. you're
a good boy" retorted his interrogation, stbut
you ought not to take the name of God in
vain. "-Prof. E. p EUans, i,a Western
MOnthlu for AuglLst
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
ssTHE VITALMETER."
AN apparatus to Prevent Death from
Premature Interment,

from the New YORK World
An exhibition of the ''Vitalmeter," new
invention BY Prof JIM. Pfeifer, the purpose
of which is to conduct sufficient air to en-
able persons to breathe in coffin lowered
in the earth and covered by the earth, and
in cases where persons are buried alive to
call the attention of people in the imme-
date vicinity Of the grave, and thus secure
efforts for the restoration of life was held
IN room No. "a, Cooper Institute, last even
ing.
Prof. JIM. Pfeiffer, the inventor, III des-
cr1blng the apparatus, said there was a
possibility of being buried alive, and,
therefore, all of them could understand
the Importance, and would not underrate
the advantages likely to accrue from the
invention, which would, without doubt,
supply that which was now needed, and
the want of which had long been felt in va
r1ous localities. He had experimental with
the apparatus, and fully tested its WORTH
and the result was such as to leave no
doubt in the minds of the spectators Of the
peculiar utility of the invention. The lee
turer then illustrated the working Of the
apparatus, as he proceeded to explain that
when the corpse was inferred in the coffin
and lowered into the grave, hole would
be left in the top of the coffin, just above the
cnest OF the corpse, into which spout
would be inserted, and the spout or pipe
being securely fastened so as to prevent its
slipping lower down into the coffin, another
pipe of smaller dimensions would be in
serted into the spout. A ball is placed just
above the chest of the corpse, and wire
is attached to the ball, which runs through
the small pipe, and is finally carried to the
sexton's room, or the person in charge of
f1,no 4 T1a &1,p >.
small alarm bell which keeps up perpat-
ual ringing when the ball inside the coffin
is moved over the corpse. During the
course of the proceedings one of the as
sistants of the professor got iuto the coffin,
and, the whole apparatus being arranged,
demonstrated beyond doubt the value and
utility of the invention, and that it is ad-
mirably suited for the purposes for which
it is intended.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
Dostru.
PEOPLE WILL TALK.

We may go through the world, but twill be very
If We listen to all that is said as we 90;
Wen be worried, and fretted, and kept in a stew
TOT hleoolesome 9o tongues must have something to
So sForpeaple win talk.
II quiet and modest, twill then be presumed
hoo re wolf in sleeps clothing, or else you're &
But don't get excited, keep perfectly cool
For people will talk.
If generous and noble they vent out their Spleen
You'll hear some loud hints that you're selfish and
mean;
If upright and honest, and fair as the day,
They'n call you rogue, in sly, sneaking way
For people will talk.
Then if you show the least boldness of heart.
Or slight inclination to take your ewnpart,
They'll call you an upstart. conceited and vain,
But keep straight ahead, don't stop TO explain
For people viii talk.
II threadbaro your coat, or old-fashioned your
dress,
Some one, Of course, will take notice of this
And hint rather close that you cant pay your way,
But don't get excited, whatever they say
For people will talk. -
If you dress in the fashion, don't think to escape
For they criticise then in a far different shape a.
You're ahead of your means, or your biTls ara un-
paid,
But mind your own business, and keep straight
ahead
For people will talk.
They'll talk fine before you, but then at your back,
OF venom and spite there is never lack;
How kind and polite is all that they say,
But bitter as gall when you're out of the way
For people will talk.
Good friend, take my advice and do as you please,
For your MIND IF you have one) will then be at
ease,
Through life you will meet with all sorts of abuse,
But don't thinkto stop them, twill be of no use
For people will talk.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
No. rs.

Nervous Debility with it's gloomy attend
ants, low spirits, depression, involuntary
emissions, loss of semen, spermatorrhooo,
loss OF power, dizzy head, loss of memory,
and threatened impotence and imbecility
find a sovereign cure in Humphreys Homeo-
pathic Specific, No. twenty-eight. Composed
of the most valuable mild and potent Cura-
tives, they strike at once at the root Of the
matter, tone up the system, arrest the dis
and vitality to the entire man. They have
cured thousands Of cases. Price s.. 90 per
package of six boxes and vial, which is verv
important in obstinate and old cases, or 81
per single box. Sold by all druggists, and
sent by mail on receipt of price. Address
Humphreys Specific Homeopathic Medicine
Co, 500 Broadway, New York,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04
WonderfuI Effects of Magnetism,

A Neao Science DISCOVERED Money Refund
ed If not EenetiHed-Dr. G. N. Wood, the Re
noe0aed Magnetist Located IN lfi,goukee.-
Those desiring magnetic treatment may be
benefited or cured by sending in an envel-
ope one or more pieces of flannel twice it's
size, which have been worn over the disease
twenty four hours. This charged with mag
netism is returned with directions to use SCI
entifcally. For rheumatism, female and all
chronic diseases, it works wonders. Blank
certificates returned with f1anpels, which, if
no relief is had is filed out reliably, signed
and returned to postoffice box 1 ,153, when the
money will be returned. Price, one piece of
flannel $1.00, four pieces $500. Personal
treatment given at his office, Nose Wisconsin
street, up stairs.
E.rtrGct Of OpinioTS.-Dr. Wood is gentleman
in every sense of the word man doing much good.
Rev. J. E. Fitch, pastor NJ. E. Church, Upper
Iowa Conference.
He has performed wonderful cures on persons to
us well known.-Ed. Grant Co. Herald.
Of the thousands he has treated few have resisted
his power of cure.-Darlington. Wis. Union.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04

FRANK MILLER Il Co. have been at work
the past two years, perfecting their Engine
and Thrashing Machine Oils, and now feel
confident in offering them to the public,
that they will at once take the place of
many other oils used on Engines and Farm
Machinery.
They have put them into the market to
become the standard Lubricator, and if
price and quality are considered, they Ger
tainly will We like them better than any
Oils we have ever used.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04

Nilsson is written up most elaborately
and enthusiastically by the London press
generally. There seems to be a determine
ton to make her another Jenny Lind Her
reputation, whether deserved or not, is be-
ginning to oyershadow that of Adelina
fatu. The latest adulator describes her
voice as pure soprano sforzato, bright
ana tender as May morning, and clear
and impid az stream"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-04

BARNES -CHIoAGo.-T above hotel
Is located on the corner of Randolph and
Canal streets, within one block of the Wash
lngton street tunnel, and near the business
center. Mr.. n. A. Hawks is the proprietor,
formeriyof Milwaukee, and is always on hand
to attend to the wants of his guests. The no.
tel has first-class accommodations for 200
guests. The table is supplied with all the
market affords,-and all for the moderate
charge Of $3.50 per day.