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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23
A HOME PICTURE.

A kitchen fire beams bright and red,
And little table is neatly spread.
In the Iamplight sitting, alone and still
A woman thinks - young wife will
Tho Iifs has many weary care,
Mine is simple and no less fair.
Little of earthly fame have 1:
Little Of earthly wealth laid by.
Yet loving heart that is true and kind
Is better than riches and fame combined.
IN my humble home I wilt remain,
Nor e'er Of my lowly lot complain.
'Living and loving is sweeter far
Than all the worlds bright baubles are."
The cat wakes upon the kitchen floor,
And the house dog barks outside the door
Listening the waiting wife can hear
The sound OF we'll known footstep near.
The creaking gate is swung once more,
And her husband enters the open door.
And never prince under palace dome,
Fer met with better welcome home.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR :?
From Our Home Journal


Thy neighbor! 1t is he whom thou
Hast power to aid and bless
Whose aching heart or burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press.
Thy neighbor !? 'Tis the faiuting poor
Whose eye with want is dim,
Whom hunger sends from door to Jpr-
Go thou and succour him!
Thy neighbour 'Tis that weary man,
Whose years are at their brim,
Bent low with sickness, cares and pain
Go thou and comfort him!
Thy neighbor' Tis the heart bereft
OF every earthly gem;
Widow and orphan, helpless LEFT
Go thou and shelter them!
Whene'er thou ir,eet'st human form
Less fsvor'd than thine own,
Remember It's thy neighbor worn,
Thy brother or thy son.
Alb, pass not, pass not needless by!
Perhaps thou can'st redeem
The breaking heart from misery
Go, share thy lot with him.
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Che Cafapette A0ucrtiser.

--TERMS-
srBscRIPrIoN-THREE DOLLARS per annum
in adyance. For sx months. 81 Is.
-ADvERTISING-
Per Square. 90 lines or less) 81 80
Every subsequent insertion. n.............. -
Announcement of candidates for Office =. SlO 90
No credit will be given for Advertising Or Job
work. except by special agreement.
Cards stating merely the names. business and
place of residence, with paper included. Twelve
Dollars per annum.
All advertisements not marked, will be pub
lisllcd until forbid and charged for accordingly
10 All judicial advertisements must be pail
for on the last day of publication, 'or on the day
of sale. No advertisements will be inserted nnlcss
security is given or amount Of costs dnpositcd
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23

FonrITUDE.-Courage is an
active, fortitude a passive trait.
The one strives, the other en-
dures. At Waterloo the French
made the greatest display of
courage the English of fortitude
until the favorable moment when
Wellington said, up guards and
at Them"
Fortitude is pre-eminently the
quality Of defense, and its chief
sustaining power is conscious
rcctitudc and genuine devotion
to principle. 1t is the characte-
rlstic Of the man who would
rather be honest than rich de-
serving than famous /; right than
president. 1t is the proud dis
tinction Of the people who,
though they endure the oppres-
sion they cannot repel, can me-
yer De DrlDed to embrace the Oh.
pressor. 1t is the proud distinc-
ton of great hearts everywhere
that know how to wait as we'll az
labor ; to suffer as we'll as dare.
Just now, how many young
men in the South, of honorable
birth, liberal education, and Just
ambition, are compelled. from a
private station, to see all offices
of usefulness and preferment fall
into the hands of the mischievous
and unscrupulous, or the igno-
rant and degraded! Having vim
dicated their courage on so many
fields of battle, it is their privi-
lege and duty to give the world
an exhibition of the no less noble
trait of undaunted fortitude.-
Picayuve.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23

A young lady teacher in a
Lawrence Sunday-school caught
a boy smiling last Sunday. Said
she: "What are you smiling at
Johnny ~ Nothing, num-" was
the answer. II know better" said
the teacher severely; now tell
me what it was" Johnny looked
frightened as he stutteringly said,
I-l-s-see yer n.hewspaper
s'sticking out mum. The teacher
sat down suddenly and arranged
things. .
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23

IL compliance with an act Of the Legislature
of the State Of Louisiana, entitled "An Act to
provide revenue for the support of the.State
government of Louisiana. and the maDner' of col.
Letting the same," approved March 9th, 1869,
the undersigned will assess the property of the
parish of Lafayette, for one month. commencing
on the first day Of August, and ending on the first
day Of September, 1873, from 10 O'Clock A. N. to
IL o'clock NJ, and from O'Clock Pm, to 4
O'Clock r. NJ, Of each day, at the Office of the Re
corder Of the parish of Lafayette, in the town Of
Vermilionville.
H. EASTIN, Sheriff. J
Y Y: SSxSiSs; sSASS5; s;ss;ss' s;:;s; Lafayette
July 26th, 1873.
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TRIBUTE TO WArKR.-Pal Denton, q
Methodist preacher in Texas, advertised a
barbecue, witlDetter liquor than is usually
furnished. When the people were assem-
bled. desperate in the crowd walked up
to him and cried out:
''Mr. Denton, your reverence has lied
You promised not only good barbecue.
but better liquor. Where's the liquor T.
''There," answered the preacher, in tones
Of thundes; and pointing his motionless
finger at spring gushing up in two
strong columns. with sound like shout
Of joy from the bosom Of the earth.
"There." he repeated, "thers is the liquor
which God the Eternal byews for all his
children. Not in the simmering still. over
the smoky fires, choked with poisonous
gases, SURROUNDED with stencil Of sickening
odors and corrup.ion', doth your Father in
Heaven prepare the precious essence Of
life-pure. cold water, but in the green
glade and grassy dell. where the red deer
wanders and the child loves to play. There
God brews it; and down, low down in the
deepest valleys, where the fountain mur.
murs and the rills sing; and high upon
the mountain tops. where the naked gran.
ite glitters like gold in the sun, where the
storm cloud broods and the thunder storms
crash; and far out on the wide. wild sea-
where the hurricane howls music, and the
big waves roll the chorus, sweeping the
march of God-there he brews it, the
beverage Of life-health giving water"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23
City Council of Vermilionville
Regular Session, Aug. 4th 1873.

Present: Aug. Monnier, Mayor, ant
Councilmen L. p. Revilon, +. C. Latiolais
II. Landry, Jos. O. Girouard. and r.
Mcbride. Absent Messrs. Brandt ant
Olivier.
The reading of the minutes were dis
pensed with, and
On motion it was resolved, That the
Committee on streets wait or Mr.. A. Ju
dice, street Contractor, and confer with
him as to the ful6llmcnt of his contract
and that said Committee make their re-
port to the Mayor on Monday the llth
inst.
The following accounts were presented
and approved:
&C. Bailey, CONS. Election 81 20.
L. Hirsh, Police Officer 2 20.
On motion, the Council adjourned.
A. MONN1ER, Mayor.
II. NJ. BAILEY, Secretary.
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TAKEN UP.

BY the undersigned near bis plantation
in this parish, on the 18Th of July, one
large American mare mule, brown color
about eight or ten years old, no brand
visible.
The owner is requested to come for
ward prove property and take it away
otherwise it will be dealt with accord.
ing to law.
M.G. BROUSSARD.
June 26th 1873.
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Two men, disputing about the
pronunciation Of the word
"either"-one saying it was &C.
ther, the other i-ther--agreed to
refer the matter to the first perscn
they met, who happened to be
an Irishman, who confounded
both by declaring Its nayther,
for it's ayther."
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23

Corrox Worm DEsrRoYER,-The Gal.
weston News Of the 2eth July says:
From all sections Of the country whore
the new worm remedy has been tested tho
most gratifying results have been obtained.
farmers speaking in the highest term. of
il. For the benefit Of those who have not a.
yet used this remedy we publish It below ::
J Ii. Dry Paris Green.
ID. Arsenic.
lbs. Wheat Flour.
20 lbs. Slack Lime or Ashes.
Mix. and apply when the dew is On ,la
plant through box or can with a sieve
two (2) inches in diameter in the bottom.
The above quantity is sufficient for fiv"
(5) acres. Care ehould be taken no, to
inhale the mixture. When scattered ovs,
the plant in the morning the worms NAV
be alive the next morning. but will ,u,a
white and die within twenty-four ho.r,,
meanwhile losing their appe!iss,. ,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
PARISH OF LAFAYETTE.
Parish Court.

TUTtSN COVFE.
WHEREAS Narcisse NJ. Dugas, o
w the parish of Lafayette, has flee
in said Court petition praying to be ap
pointed Administrator of the succession o.
Carmalite Guidry, deceased.
Any person intending to mako opposi
ton to said appointment will file the same
in said Court, in the town of Vermilion
vile, within ten days from the publication
Of this notice, otherwise said appointmen,
will be made.
Given under my official signature in the
town Of VermilionvilIe, this goth day OF
July 1873. A. MONNIER, Clerk.
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A colored minister in translating to his
hearers the sentence, THE harvest is over,
the season is ended, and thy soul is no,
saved" put it, "De corn has been cribhed
dere amt any more work, and de debbil
is stil! fooliu' wild dis community"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23

THERE is no human duty SO
lofty and imperative as that Of
breaking the entanglements Of.
purely private interests, plea.
sures, and ambitions, and taking
up with brave and unselfi&h
hearts the task of bettering the
world we live in.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23
Ttykce1e Up

DY the undersigned near Chenille Ira.
ID hans store, 10 this parish, one grey
creole horse, aged 10 or IL years, branded
thus, s E.
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay charges and take the
said property away. otherwise it will be
disposed of according to law. .,
ARNAUD BACQUE.
July IL, 1873.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23

"A fashionable young lady acci-
IDENTIFY dropped one of her false
eyebrows in her opera-box the
other evening, and greatly
frightened her beau. who on
seeing it, thought it was his
mustache.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1873-08-23
II D {

1sad ayant ete uomme Depu.
=. - Etats. Unis pour le Dis.
y !. L'sisiane, cousacrer. .on atten.
- tsmps Axer, confrmer e,
; eoaesssions qui peuvent etre
:. don't lss lienes seraient obi.
~ dsessit necsssaire d'etsblir e,
= 1.seisenss bosnes dan, les Pa.
!so.. lafayette St. Landry
- 1asis 4 Ibasie.
!. arrangements avec Ad
sq- ftsrs Dc l'Arpsnteu,
ssngags : obtenir do suite Ie.
el'naticns on reclamation, dc
sasts h Goavssnement de.
aaiairss eouoeruant le, ter,e.
lssat sstcuttes.
49,. F. FERAY,
- Aspesteur des Etas. Uni..
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Ttykese UD

Taken Up
DY the undersigned near his plantation
IHon. Cote Gelee, one light bay crole
>aorse. about five or six years old, branded
on left shoulder thus: F
The owner is requested to come forward,
prove property, pay costs and take it away
otherwise il will be dealt with according
to law. CALVIN MOSS.
July 10th 1873.
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Ifs : sostss q.alite.
I, ,.e.. ao'ssa'ant , plus debi,t
~ 'e' dams le magasin.
"'~. 1879. 4. GARNER.
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r p. SARRAZIN.

STEAM TOBACCO MANUFACTORY,
Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Snuff, Cigars
of Cont, and 65 Poydras Street, corner Of
Tchoupitoulas,
June7 '73. ly. New Orleans, La.
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Brashear Csty and Bayou Ver-
million Packet
&z FLOR.4.

JOHN PHARR, Master,
In connection with Morgsn's Louisiana
and Texas Railroad, will make REGULAR
WEEKLY TRIPS, leaving Brashear City
every MONDAY morning, taking freight
and passengers for all points on Bayou
.VermiIion as high up a. WiIkinson's land.
ing near the Vermilion Bridge.
Reference IN. P. Young 4 Co.
April 10 1873.
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Good Bargains tn Land
Lands for Sale Cheap,
Near Term;lionv;lle.

10. One tract Of prairie land Of abou
Two hundred arpents, situated between
the plantations Of Mrs. Valmond Breau,
and Olivier Bop1reau.
20. Another - act Of prairie land o
about One hundred arpents, between tn,
plantations Of Leon BilIeaud and Dona
Breaux.
80. And . tract Of wood land of ahou
One hundred arpents, on the West sid
Of Bayou Vsrmilion at the mouth of Mi
mes Coulee, heretofore belonging to Basi
c. Crow.
For terms and conditions, apply to th'
undersigned.
NJ. E. GIRARD,
July 10, 1873. Attorney.
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TN r. KING
ArroRNEY At LAW.

II R. KING,
f. ATTORNEY At Law,
Office at Abbeville, La..
WILL attend to all business entrusted to
his care in the parishes Of St. Martin, ST.
Mary, Iberia, vermilion, Lafayette and
Cameron. july IL, '73.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13
Preventive for Small PoX.

It's said that an ounce of pre-
ventive is worth a pound Of cure;
so in the first place be vaccinated
yourself and all your family, in
the second place do not expose
yourself to the disease by going
where it is (here is none in our
town. and last but not least buy
your goods at the old and relia-
BILE green brick front, where we are
offering goods at the lowest rates
to make room for our Spring
stock, and still proposing to sell
ladies' cloaks, shawls, furs, hats
and all wool dress goods at cost; if
you are scarce Of greenbacks
bring your barter, anything from
& dozen eggs or pound of butter
to SEQ acres ofriver bottom land.
MURRAY & MORGAN.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13
A Liberal Offer!
Good Farmers Monthly
G5Ue9s s49U6sN.

We desire to largely increase
the cash subscriptions to the OBJ
SERVER, and to aid in so doing
make the following very liberal
offer: To every old subscriber to
this paper who pays all arrearages
and one year in adva2ce, we will
cause to be sent, for one year, free
of cost, the american Farmers Ad-
rocate, (the subscription of which is
81 a year, large Southern quar-
to monthly. 1t is one of the best
agricultural publications of the
country. To every new subscri-
be- of the OBSERVER, who pays in
advance for one year, we will also
send the Adrocdte free of cost for
the same length of time. Now is
the opportunity TO get good home
and foreign reading-a weekly
and monthly--at the cost Of only
one. The terms, it must be re-
membered, are cash. Such lib,
eral offer does not admit Of credit.
Our proposition gives Arger a.
mount Of reading matter than was
eve: before offered for the same
price.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13
Notes Of Alarm.

The facility with which men
can buy seats in the United
States Senate under Radical
rule, is beginning to excite the
alarm of the organs of that par
ty. Even the New York Times
and the Washington Republi-
can are sounding notes of
alarm. The latter says:
cit is nigh time that the de-
moralization and corruption
which seems to have set in
should come to an end. As
the New York Times said the
other day, the Senate of the
United States is 'degenerating,
and men are creeping into it as
the mere agents and servants of
corrupt and selfish corporations,
whose only object is to rob and
plumber the people. The great
duty before the country and be-
fere the Republican party is to
drive those INSCRIPTIONS men
out, and punish them as they
should be punished. When our
Legislatures become as corrupt
as were the Parliaments Of the
English Jameses, when men are
bought and sold day after day,
it is time to sink party names
and party fealty and unite for
the common good. The thieves
and plunderers must be dashed
out of the Capitol, and made to
understand that they cannot
shield themselves under the cry
of either Republicanism or of
Democracy. That is the great
duty of the hour; let the blow
fall where it may"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13


A Washington letter says
Mr.. Creswell's scheme to require
prepayment of newspaper pos
tage is quietly pushed by the
administration forces, and unless
there is an immediate arousing
of. public attention to the sub
ject there is danger of the meas
ure passing Congress. The
proposition is without merit from
any aspect of which it is sus-
ceptible; unless, indeed, it is
desirable to reduce the circula-
ton of newspapers by mail and
at the same time diminish the
receipts of the department. 1t is
said, however, to be a pet scheme
of Mr., Creswell, by which
he hopes to signalize his admin
istration of the department, and
that he will probably adhere to
it with more than parental ten-
acity.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13
Look to your Interest !!

Call on Whitaker & Allen OF
their Hardware and Grocery Store.
sign of the Big Saw, if you want
to buy goods cheap. They are
just in receipt of q large assert
ment of Hardware and Groceries,
which they propose to sell at very
small profits for cash, or will ex-
change for all kinds of produce
and the usual barter of the coun-
try. Will sell Cotton Yarns to
the trade at Nashville wholesale
prices. We keep Hillman & Bro.
& Son s charcoal Iron, Salt at 50 40
per sack, good Coffee OF 25c per
pound, other goods in proportion.
Give us a call, and be convinced
that it is to your interest to deal
with us.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13
A Mississippi Marriage.

Some time ago a white man
named J. P. Bell, married ne
gro woman in Mississippi, which
State, being in control Of ne
groes, permits such marriages.
They moved to Davidsoncounty,
Tennessee, and continued to
live together as man and wife.
Bell was indicted for the offense,
it being against the law in Ten
nessee for a white man to marry
or live in marital relations with a
black woman. The indictment
was quashed, and the State took
an appealto the SupremeCourto of
Tennessee. Judge Peter Tur-
ney has given his opinion, which
reyerses the Judgment and re-
mands the case for trial. He
says
Each State is sovereign--a
government within, Of and for
itself, with the inherent and es-
sential right to declare and main
tain its own political economy
for the good of its citizens, and
cannot be subject to a recogni-
ton Of a fact or act contravening
its public policy and against good
morals as lawful, because it was
made or existed in a State hay
ing no prohibition against it, OF
even permitting it. Extending
the rule to the width asked for
by the defendant, and We might
have in Tennessee the father liv-
ing with the daughter, the son
with the mother, the brother with
the sister, in lawful wedlOck, be-
cause they had formed such re-
lations in a State or county where
they are not prohibited. The
Turk or Mahommedan, with his
numerous wives, may establish
his harem at the door of the Cap
itol, and we are without rene
dy; yet none of these are more
revolving, more to be avoided or
more unnatural than the case be-
fore us, Chancellor Kent says
that the contract of marriage, is
a stable and sacred contract of
natural as we'll asmunicipal law"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13
Bank Of Tennessee Notes.

A very considerable degree
of public interest was felt as to
result of the chancery suit in
volving the validity of what is
commonly known as''new ISSUE"
or notes issued by the Bank of
Tennessee during. the first two
years of the war. The opinion
of Chancellor Fleming was Civ
en- on Friday in Nashville, in
which he sets up the validity
of the issue; and the holders
are entitled to the full value of
the face Of the notes, and also
a priority of satisfaction over
general creditors Of the Bank,
and to share pro rata with all
bill holders, whether of the old
or new issue. The case will
unquestionably go to the SUI
preme court. 1t is estimated
that there are now outstanding
some 100000 or $4,000 of
the Torbett issue and it is
bought in the markets at 30@
.33 cents, and sold for 35@37
cents. We doubt whether its
redemption by the State would
materially relieve the original
holders Of these notes, as the
great bulk of them have long
since found their way into the
hands Of spectators at even
much less figures than those
quoted above. However that
may be, if the State rests under
any moral obligation to redeem
these notes she cannot escape
that obligation in any other
way than by redemption with
out furnishing her fair name.
The case is likely to go before
the Supreme court at it's present
term, and will be heard by a
full bench.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13
The Northern Methodists arr

The Northern Methodists are
about to engage in new un~
pleasantness on the subject of
future rewards and punishments,
1t seems now that a portion of
the clerical members of this
powerful church have declared
their lack of faith in an abode
of eternal punishment for sim
ners. The assumption Of such
a position will of course antag-
onize the great majority Of
Methodists who believe in the
orthodox and old fashioned doc
trine of a hot place for sinners;
nevertheless, the issue will be
pleasant to those who live in sin
and expect to die in it. 1t will
not require much time in a dis
cussion of this order to divide
the Methodist Church.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-13

@ Dusenberry & Bruce de-
sire the people of Lincoln coun-
ty to call and price their large
stock of grass seed, oats, clover,
&c, Also post yourselves in the
price of Family Groceries and
the freights, and try them once
and see if they will not sell you
groceries as cheap and seeds, gar
den and field, cheaper than Nashville
after adding freights, Do not
forget to bring wheat, corn, lard,
bacon or greenbacks to pay for
them,