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Louisiana Directors:
| Gov. G. II. MOuTON, Of C. II. Mouton & Co
JUDGE f. r. MERRICK, OF Race, Foster &
E. T. Mcrrick.
r. H. HATCH, of Samacl Smith 4 Co
c. CHISM, of Chism & Boyd
JAMES JACKSON, Of Jackson & Manson
OCTAVE VOORHEES,, OF G.. w. Banckcr
THOMAs FITzWILLIAM, Of 7. Fitzwill-
lam & Co
r S. MORSE. Prietor City Hotel
GEN. B. b. SHINES.
The Mound City Mutual Life Insurance
Company being a Home Institution, it should
be preferred by citizens of the South for ma
nv reasons. We will, however. enumerate
only two or three,
l. The money invested in it is retained at
home, where it assists in promoting Western
and Southern trade and commerce, in build
inp ND towns aud cities. in developing our
rich mineral and agricultural resources, ill
building our great lines Of railroad. and in
cnltivating our boundless prairies. For these
reasons Southern aid Western men should
insure in it.
2. As its funds are all invested where high
rates of interest prevail, it can grant insurance
cheaper and pay better dividends than any
Eastern Company. For this reason all per.
sons desiring to make a certain and safe pro-
vision for their families. should insure in it.
8. It's Local Board Of Louisiana Directors
being composed of men Of high standing in
the community. is a sufficient guarantee thai
widows and orphans will be protected in theil
rights, when policies issued by this Company
mature by reason of death or otherwise. Thu:
feature is peculiar to this company, mo Other
institution beyond the limits of the State hay
ing a local board,l and is, therefore, worthy
of the highest consideration.
All kinds of Policies are issued by this com
pany. All policies non-forfeiting
This company makes no charge for policy
fee or stamps.
The Louisiana Branch Office is in the Sto
ry Building, up stairs, No 3, corner CamF
and Common streets, opposite City Hotel
New Orleans. B.. b. SHINES,
State Agent for Louisiana,
oct 9-ly New Orleans.
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Horses RUBBING THEIR NAMES AND
TAIL.-When you perceive your horses
inclined to rub their names and tails
feed them 0 little oil meal, say from one
to two quarts. a day for a week or ten
days, and at the same tiIse make a
good brine, as warm as you can bear
your hand in it, and wash the scaley
substance ont of the mare and tail, and
mix about a tablespoonful of lard to a
tablespoonful of powder, and rub it in
we'll about the roots of the name and
tail.
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NOTICE..

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Il Carfon at Washington, having been COM
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Jury authorizing the same, will on and after
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no Make Whisewash of Differ
emit C0fOgs.

&5EE EN4A&.&E - - --E
Take Of good unslacked lime half a
busheI slack with warm water train
water If c~onvenienl) in a forty-fYe GAL
Ion barrel. Keep covered while slack
ing. Use just enough water to slack
dry. Let the lime stand four or five
hours to insure it being well Stacked.
If it ID desirable to have a good, smooth
wash, the Stacked lime should be sifted
through d moderately fine sieve If to be
used on barns, o~utbuildings and fences,
IL il not material about sitting.
To the lime thus prepared add
enough water to filltfe barrel half full;
then add two gallons Of -four starch
hot one quart Of grease Ito make It
run smoothly; four pounds Of melted
rosin, hot, to make ii stick. The flour
starch will also have the same effect.
Some use salt in making whitewash.
/ would not. as salt in damp weather
causes, the wash TO crack and scale off.
Stock, also, win lick it of. ! have had
the whole side of a barn licked clean BY
stock in using salt. .s
After preparing the whitewash al
above, gill your barrel with water, cold
or hot, it matters not, and yon will have
d wash that will stand quite well for
five years, 70 color dark or slate. use
lalnpblack; for yellow, use yellow
ochre for blue, use indigo; for different
shades of color. vary to suit. If The
Wash gets TOO thick, as it will, make il
thin With water. I make ii a rule to
put Id one bucket Of water I'd every
threetaken out.
The older the above whitewash be.
comes the better it will Be, provided il
rs kept covered with water. and not
allowed III become dry and hard .-Ex,
change.
LEMONS FoR FEyRR.-Msen people
are feveriah and thirsty beyond wat is
natural. Indicated IN some cases sby
metallic tasts III the mouth, especially
after drinking water, o. by q whitish
appearance Of The greater part .os the
tongue. one of the best coolers, inter
nal OF external. T. / take a lemon, cut
of che top. sprinkle over il some loai
sugar, working il downward into Tho
lemon with d spoon, and then sack j
slowly. squeezing the lemon a~ndaddinl
more sugar as the aeidity increases from
being brought up from . lower poiatr
Iavalids with fsyerishness may TAX
two or three lemons d day IN this man
DER. with the most marked benefit
manifested by sense. d ~coolness, com
fort and inRiearation a lenaonsor fwt
TINS taken At tea time II an entire sub
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naer, wsnId give many a comfortable
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rest, eli inyigoralipn, with N appelits
Obi breaktast X which they are slraag
srss Hlo will havaathsir cup 4 tea 81
suauer, or RELISH cake aid hars
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SherifB Sale.

Solomon Firnberg, ct. ais. VS.. Savannah
Desmaret.
DISTRICT COURT, ST. LANDRY, No.. S766.
DY virtue of a writ of feri fscias, issned ont
I'D of the Hon. 9Th District Court in and for
the Parish of st. Landry in the above entitled
cause, and to me directed, / will proceed to
sell, at public auction, to the last and highest
bidder, at the Courthouse of said parish, IN
the town of Opelousas, ON
Saturday, June 41, 1870,
at II o'clock, a. m, the following property
seized to satisfy said writ, to wit
The undivided half of a certain tract OF
land, in the Parish of st. Landry in this sfass'
living on the Bayou Marie Croquans, having
a front of seventeen and a bali arpents on the
east side of said bayou, containing about sA
hundred and eighty arpents, more or ZEE,
bounded above by land formerly bsionsJis
to Martin Donate, t. NJ. G., and below ~ a-s o.
of the estate of Eliakim Littell, 6SfIg maret
the plantation purchased By SAID 2 2 Dssmaret
and o. o. Foster from Marsin a.na,ary, 1855,
and wife. ON the 26th day1of Jahn 1:a
before ,Joel II. Sandoz, notary puo's'
Terms-Casb. ,,a.spsoN Sheriff.
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-26
SHERIFrS SALES.


GHe0rRe NuHXESSCI
Stevenson MARY Ann Woolverton, widow OF
Joseph s. evensonl.-Fourth District Court
for the parish of Orleans i 6t No S, z;Tgs
ID to me directed by the Honorable the Fourth
District Court for the parish of Orleans, i'll the above
entitled cause VIII proceed 10 sen at pPotc nae
Royal street between Canal and Customhouse
streets in the Second District OF this city on SAT
URDAY, October 30 1870, at twelve O'clock NJ, the
following described property, TO vii
TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, together
with all the buildings aud improvements thereon
and all rights ways, privileges and appurttnances
thereto belonging or i'll any wise appeTtalnln9 STU
ated in the First District OF this city IN the SQUARE
bounded by Bacchu5 (now Baronnr), Drya0ts,
Caliope and Clio streets designated By the mum.
bers i've and six, sketch annexed to an act OF
partition PASSED before II. -. ttila, aIt a notary
public in this c;ty on the fifteenth day OF February
l35l; said lots mea surr, each as follows; lot mum
Der v. twentvone feer one nch ana SIX lines tront
on Bacchus (now BarrOnnel street, by one hun.
bred feet in depth between parallel lihes Douhued
in thu, b, alley four feet vile common TO
the same and other lots bordering thereon:
And lot number SIX. twenty tN feet ana foir nes
front Baochus tnow BaIonne) street 10y one nun
bred and tH clIty seven feet two inches ana three
lines in depth between parallel lines being the
same property acquired by defendant by purchase
from Mrs Sarah " ooiverton, widow of James Bud
ley per act passed before William shannon, notary
public il tho city, on the tWeutytourtE Gay OF Jan
uary. 1857.
seized in the above sit.
Ternis--Cas il a sufficient amount to pay PLAIN
tins claim, say six thousand dollars ttdU01), with
interest thereon at eight per cent per aHnUm nom
the tWentl fourth DAY OF Jahu"lv, 'l3bl, ana costs
OF slit 2. The purchaser 10 assume Ito the extent
OF the amount OF his ou) the payment OF prons-
sorv note secured hy mortgage upon said property,
,lr >-u by thu. defendant Guiy aided and authorized
b. her band IL ler order, ami by heI IN
d0rsed, dated the twcnty-fourth day OF January
1861 tor the sam OF two Thousand dollars $1,000
payae four wears after datc, ana bearing Interest
at the ia ot glt per cent pei aIlnilm from date
until paid. g. AMI tie baiaIee of the price OF ad
Indication ii any cash T ri 81 sPf, MAXWELL
se27 ocl0 - Sheriff of the Parish Of Orleans
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. and district courts of the United States,
and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the SenateAnd House of
Representative of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That here
after the grand and petit Jurors in the sew
eral circuit and district courts OF the United
States shall each receive for his services the
sum of three dollars per day for each day $
actual attendance at court, and Tor the
time necessarily occupied in going to and
returning from the same; and the sum OF
five cents per mile for the distance necessa-
rily Travelled from their residence IN gong
to and returning from said court by the
shortest practicable route.
SEC. ,. Aud be it further enacted, That
no person shall be summoned rs juror III
any circuit or district court more than once
in TWO wears and it shall be sufficient cause
of challenge to any juror called 10 be sworn
in anv cause that he has been summoned
and attended said court as juror ut any
term of said court held within two years
prior 10 the time of such challenge.
SEC. B. And be it further enacted. ihs
the act of Congress, approved March three.
eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled
An act concerning the selection OF Jurors
in certain courts of the United States, and
the act Of Congress approved March nlne-
teen. eighteen hundred and torty-two, en-
titled IAN act supplementary to an act
entitled An act to amend the act approved
Nav thirteen. eighteen hundred, entitled
An act to amend an act entitled an act 10
amend an act emitted IN act to establish the
judicial courts of the United States, be,
and the same are hereby. repealed
ADproyed July Is, 1870.
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fItu htarnN-FGtn DStIlCt SOtItt ApA LII. Ga
sh of Orleans, No. 1919.
DY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF SEIZURE AND SALE
ID to directed by the Honorable the FlttA
District Court for the parish OF Orleans III tie
above entitled cause, will proceed 20 sell al pu.c
Auction at the Merchants and Auctlontels hA-
change, Royal street, between Cana! ana custom
house streets, in the Second District OF tins city on
SATURDAY, October 20, 1870 at II O'Clock, hl., tne
d9ssrbed p n" to together with
all the buildings and improvements thereon:
situated in the Third District OF the Guy OF
New Orleans, i'll the square bounded ny hoitdI
now Chartres Architect, Port and s.; rer'iln1ild
streets, measuring twenty-siX feet three me ,
front on Moreau street, by depth OF one huhultd
and thirty-eight feet one inch and three INES
fronting in the rear on Architect street. .
The buildings and improvenents conI,tae d
three-stOry brick dwelling house, No. oz9 Moreau
(now Chartres) street having six rooms a tnIte-
story brick kitchen, having nine room, al STATE
rooted, outhOuses yard paved. etc ~, 10
Being the same property acquired pE the ue
PENDANT at public sale made by the Sheriff OF the
parish of Orleans, the twenty -thlrd day OF april
1867, in the matter of the succession OF the ldit
Mary Virginia Chew, deceased wife OF Martin VI
Kennedy No. Is 622 of the docket OF the late Second
District Court OF New Orleans.
Seized in the above suit.
Terms. l. Cash in sufficient amount to pay pam
tif's claim the sum of two thousand hNe h"a.
bred dollars (S250O), with interest thereon a
eight per cent per annum from the t"eht!e.l
November, 1862 attorneys fees, at five per cent OF
tie amount sued for, four dollars costs OF copy
act and costs of suit q The purchaser 70 assum
ito the extent OF the amount OF his old) the pa.
ment of three prOmissOry notes, secured oy Iiolt
gage upon said property of two thousand nve nun
dred dollars ($2500) each, dated November ~
1868, drawn by defendant to his own order ana ..
him Endorsed, payable respectively two tnree an
per cent per annum from date until Para,
seN ocl0 - Sheriff Of the Parrish OF Orleans