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BOARDING MONEY.

BOARDING MONEY.
Now that We are all talking finance.
it is good time to talk it philosophic-
ally. A curious faith in a very old fall
lacy comes under our notice. It used
to be considered that wealth was money:
that the more money nation had, the
more wealthy it was, and tears were
shed over the supposed impoverishment
of q country when money went out of
it. It must be a lingering faint of this
ancient superstition that leads the St.
Louis Republican to extol boarding.
GA money that is not worth boarding, :"
it says, " ought to be got rid of by the
Government. The habit of boarding
good money is natural virtue rather
than q vice."
What are we to say to such talk as
this from a leading journal of the great
West, where the rich harvest of capital
is plowed in and not boarded! But if
anybody in the West is to avow such o
doctrine, it ought surely to be st. LOU
is-a city whose growth and enterprise
have been checked by the niserly illib-
erality of her rich men. Her million
aires have ever been given to boarding,
and by their niggardy policy have made
st. Louis the second great trade center
of the West. The same policy that is
keeping Portland back; and in fact any
other place where it predominates.
But apart from such exceptional cases,
this vastAmerican civilization is grand
demonstration of the sound political
economy, as well as the sound ethics,
of Christ's parable regarding the invest
ment of the talents. The lord of the
estate denounced the man who "was
afraid and went and hid" his talent in
the earth, as -" wicked and slothful"
fellow, and the language was hardly
too strong.
Hoarding is trait of barbarism
Just so far as nations rise above barbar-
ism, just so far they abandon boarding
and no farther War, another and the
greatest exhibition of barbarism, is the
great modern excuse for boarding.
The war-like nations cannot do bank
ing. Germany, France, and Europe
are constantly subject to war, with its
uCNuoCutIOiiS, AtS uuduCidi UlSdSt6IS Auu
it's rupture of all contracts. Great
Britain has not felt the terror of war
within the four seas this 200 years.
The inhabitants of the continent do not
dare to bank, and hence they hoard
Long peace, on the other hand, has
given to the British people confidence
to put their money in bank. What is
the result? Great Britain is, to-day,
the banker, the strong arm of the
world. 1t is her capital that is SUBJ
DUNG the world, her political system
and its natural outgrowth that are sup
planting all other political systems, her
morals that are making the world
Christian. She may say with tri-
umphant confidence: Let me supply
the capital of the world, and I care not
who shoulders its needle-suns. Let
US cease to glorify France for paying
her milliards out of the old stock
ings. Let us rather commiserate her
that her continued wars have made any
other bank but the stockings safe, and
that, when her talents come out from
their napkins, it is not to found colo
MES, build railroads, erect school sys-
TENS and civilize the world, but invest
it in war loans and to iquidate the gi-
gantic ransom of nations captivity.
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~ The man that will abandon a
friend for an error, knows but little Of
the human character, and shows that
his heart is as cold as his judgment is
weak.
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s Volney ": Smith, son of the
late Hon. Delazon Smith of Oregon, is
now Lieut.. Governor of Arkansas.
His Democratic opponent was fairly
elected, but was counted out to make
room for Smith and the other carpet
BAG Radical candidate.
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TA A Waterbury man has christened
his daughter Glycerine; He says il
will be easy to prefix Nitro" il hel
temper resembles her mothers.
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xE The per centage of mines on
Lake Superior that paid handsome div
idends in 1879, was ahead of Great
Britain and the Pacific coast.
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81 Duluth boasts . woman vho
weighs $50 pounds. A jealous Wiseon-
sin paper chronicles the fact with
the remark that at little distance Il .
difficult to tell which Is the larger, Tie
town or the womac- .AaaI
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melody. eco to the mischief, and
shake yourselfy"
OHanlon couldn't pursue him; the
cute fool had made him discharge his
pistols. There was nothing left but to
walk away, cursing his stupidity; and
ever after, if anyone wanted to provoke
him, they had only to ask him when he
had last seen Jerry the fool.
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u Virginia, in the per eapit1 indtae-
edness Of her population. sfAnd6 -.
eminently at the head It the, kst.v T4e.
debt of each Virginisn 10 S87, and RI
each resident ot Minnesota only a.
cents. F&Af Haissya
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g" Paws for a reply" as the cat
sa,d wnen she scratched the dog for
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E The eomplAte klAoi The Chasp-
ton, e. G.. Courier, for seventy yeAts.
was bought by G. A. SpoAbrd Tor o1,-
$50, for the Congrsssiozal Iibsasysno
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CA liberal deduction will be made in ia
vor Of those who advertise four squares, or
upwards, by the year.
o. Legal notices will bo charged to the at
torney or officer authorizing their insertion.
o. Advertisements sent from a distance
and transient notices, must be accompanied
by the cash.
uy- Announcements of births, marriages
and deaths, inserted free of charge.
c. Obituary notices, or poetry" append
oil to marriages or deaths, will be charged
one-half our regular advertising rates. We
will not hereafter dcviatc from this rule.
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~ Blanks, Billheads, Cards, Catalogues,
Circulars, Bills of Fare Posters, Pamphlets
Programmes, &c, printed ut reasonable rates
OFFIcE-Corner of Second and Washington
Strpnty
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A CONVENIENT WAY TO MEASURE LAND.
1t is frequently desirable to measure
Q given plot of ground or a portion of a
field, and simple method, such as the
following, for which we are indebted to
an exchange, will be of use to many of
our readers. Surveyors are not always
at convenient distance to attend to
such little jobs; and even when they do
reside in the immediate vicinity, one
does not always care to incur the ex-
pense incident to such small job. If
the lines are already established, the
plot can be measured with sufficient
accuracy for all practical purposes by
means OF neat rod-pole, made as fol-
lows: Procure stick of pine, white
wood, Eastwood, or almost any other
timber, one and a half inches square
and sixteen and half feet long. Dress
each end tapering from the middle, SO
that the pole will be one and half
inches square at the middle and about
half an inch square at each end. Such
q pole will be light and quite stiff.
Now, graduate one side with the marks
representing feet and inches, and grad
uate another side to indicate survey
ors links. A pole one rod in length
must be equal to twenty-five links. To
divide one side correctly, let mechan-
ic's compass be adjusted, so that the
points will divide the distance into
twenty-five equal spaces OF links. A
line can be measured with such pole
nearly as accurately as with surveyors S
chain.
Now, then, if person does not un-
derstand how to multiply chains and
links, let him compute the measurement
by square feet. In one acre there are
43,5OO square feet. Any intelligent
school boy can measure the length and
the breadth of square plot, multiply
one by the other, and divide the pro-
duct by 43,5O0, which will give the
number of acres, and the number of
square rods representing the fraction of
an acre. If it is desirable to measure
triangular plot, two sides of which
lie at right angles, measure these two
sides, multiply the distance in feet one
by the other, and divide that product
by two, which will indicate the number
of square feet, by 43, 500, and the quo
tient will represent the number of acres.
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upon us and the State with an hundred
fold damage. Having been heretofore
firm and strong in my opposition to the
powers thatbe, but beingnoW convinced
That those powers will accomplish good
for the parish and State If fairly dealt
with and given a chance, T am bold to
say that | shall sustain them as long as
they go right.
j.. 1t appears to me that the Governor
and our own p~arochial officers desire to
do right and to administer the law i'm
partially, and that to this end they de-
manda truce to political animOsity and
cant. Down with further agitation
then! Pour oil upon the waters and
let the people come together. For one
lam willing to shake hands. across the
chasm of the past. There is no better
way to achieve the prosperity of the
State than by supporting the govern.
ment which Indicates it's wish to serve
the people faithfully and well.
sept. R0DFPTCK
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How Not to do 1t.
From the New Orleans Times.7

INAotA tIS y IVA = lin
The great medicines and sachems of
efficient in their knowledge of chow
not to do it.n They last year success
fully interfered with the Liberals till
the close of the November election,
disorga11ized all the plans which might
have proved successful, and in them
disgusting adherence to men rather
than to measures, and to place rather
than to principles, they threw impHta-
lions on the character of the election
and denounced the counting of the
ballots as a premeditated fraud.
Such conduct as this furnished the
incentive and the warrant for that
Federal interference now so vigorously
denounced, and for that usurpatiort so
generally condemned.
Subsequently, after Gen. Grant had
showed his mailed hand, they deceived
themselves and the people by holding
forth the ttatterlng promise of an I'M
possible success, thereby rendering'ab alb
Ortive all reasonable schemes of com
promise. Since that time, they inau-
gurated the jackson Square war, with
its waste of ammunition, and one or
two homicidal results; the St. Martins
vile war, with it's inconseduential Skin
mislles and prospective troubles, and
the motley rabblen riot III this city,
in which plumber and disgusting as
saults were far more prominent than
patriotism.
In all these acts the purpose may
have been better than the results. If
that purpose were the relief of our peo-
pie from oppression, the authors thereof
have taken very unWise measures for
the accomplishment of u desired end.
They have made confusion worse con-
founded and fixed more firmly in their
place the officials they desired to resist.
It is admitted on all hands that the
Federal Government is responsible for
the present condition of affairs in LOui-
siana. Without the cOuntenance and
support of the Federal authorities the
existing State government here would
never have been inaugurated, and if
lnaugurated, could not have maintained
itself for q single week. It was the
tan policeman which gave strength to
the ~po1iceman's arm. Now, as we un-
derstand the Resisters' programme, re-
slstance is to cease as o as the Federal
bayOnet comes in sight.
Until Grants mind changes, or Con-
gress takes some actiOnjn.Our case, the
Federal bayOnet will certainly play it's
allotted part. Of what use then is this
armed resistance in ST. MartinsviIle z
Ii Virtually ended even before the arri-
val of the United States troops. IF the
United States authorities are esp0n-
sible, and their armed defenders and
representatives are at once to be sub
mitted to, we cannot discover anv adj
vantages resulting from such inconse-
quential resistance, a resistance which
terminates before anything is accom-
plished. Such acts may give rise to K
pensive and troublesome Kukltx prose
BUTTONS, but they effect nothing which
can benefit our people. They are cal
culated to rivet more firmly our letters,
but it is vain to hope that they can do
us any good.
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Dean, sa femme, tous deux d6cedts.-No. 3G48

Dean, Sa femme, tous deuN dGcGdes.-No. 3G48
COUR DE PAROTssE, ST. LANDRY.-AT-
t"nd! que Edith Emma ihm, de Ia ParOisse
81: Landry, ayant prGsentt une petition a Trffct
I'Gtre nommG ADMINISTRATIVE dc Ia succession
de john b. Bihm ct Matilda Dean, sa femme,
touS dcnN decides, reinforcement dc la dite
par0iSSe
Ell consequence, avis est par lie present donnt
aux intGresstS dams Cctte succession d'av0ir 4
dcdllire par ecrit a mon bureau, dams les dix
rais0ns, 81 aucune lis ont, pour lesquelles il ne
seTait pas fait dr0it il Ia fernando de In ditc petit
ton. ". 4. ROBERTSON. Grcfier.
81 moi
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Soldiers Entitled to a Homestead Of 100 Acres.
THE BEST LOCATIONS FOR COLONIES
TTSE THE REusENCER

SASH LOCK AND SUPPORT TO
HASIEN YOUR WINDOWS!
No spring to break, no cutting of sash chcon
place desired, and Il SC1f-fastcnrr when fine SIsh
~ down. Send stamp for circular. Circular and
SIX G9pPcI-bronzed locks seut to any address in
!nS L s. postpaid, on receipt Of 80 cts. Liberal
Inducements to the trade. Agents wanted Al.
Dress kelSlnger Sash Lock Co, No. 48 Market
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HIDEBOUND IN HoRsEs.-we are often
called upon to prescribe for horses
affected with what is called hide-bOund,
Hide -bound is not q disease of itself.
but it is a SYMPTOM of many complaints
if any of the organs of thesbody becomes
diseased in flesh, and presents this con-
5dition. In other cases it is the result
of faulty digestion, which may be re-
lieved by attention to the feeding, by
giving nOurishment and easily digested
food, with carefuluse of either, vegeta-
bic or mineral tonics. Good grooming
and regular exercise also promote q
healthy action, and bring about q. nor
alcondition of the parts.-EExchange
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~
Medical BIunders,-Fromth the period when
surgeons applied their salves to weapons instead
of wounds to the present wide-awake age. the
medical profession has often unwittingly taken
side with Diseasein its conflicts with the human
system. Even yet, i'll spite of the teachings of
centuries of experience, some physicians believe
in depicting their patients, already seriously ex-
hausted by sickness, with powerful evacuants,
emetics, ~saIfyants, eautharidal plasters, or the
lancet. But, providentially,, public intelligence
is ahead of these medical fossils, who belong, of
right, to the erd of the Crusades! That power
fu ally of nature in its warfare with the causes
OF sickness, Hostetter,s Stomach Bitters, has
opened the eyes of the masses to the paramount
Importance of increasing the vital strength of
the BODY when menaGed by disease. They mn
derstand that when the atmospheric conditions
are adverseSto health, it Is wise to reinforce the
system with q wholesome tonic and stimulanf.
and thus enable it to combat and repel the de-
pressing influence Of an inclement Temperature.
II the constitutional and nina powers were
always thus recruited in the presence of danger.
the mortality from consumption, bronchifis'
chrome rheumatism, ETC., would be much less
than 1tnOWis. Thecauses which nPOduee cI01Ine
co1ets, qulnsey, diptheriar and cafarrh seldom af-,
rect q Str0ng and active vital system; and of all
yltallzIng preparations, H0stctters BitTG5rs has
proved tile most efficient. Tt ii NOT dlaiTFed +hat
throat maladies, as it is fordyspepsia, liver com
plaint ana lntermittents, but it is unhesattnplv
asserted that: it is the best known safeouSr1
against al the atmospheric elements of disease
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NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Go. Est. LANDRY LODGE. NO. d.
4s meets atlMasoniG Hall, Onelousas, every
Monday night at 8 o'clock.s Louis DeslnaraiS,
n. ~ sPerrodin, V. G.; Chas. n. Ealer. Treas
SurGr SamI. =, Clark, Secretary Joseph Bloch,
- I'M. may 24-1y
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e. GAMRF,E,s

n OLIVE SO a
Is made from the best materials and nicely per
fu1ncd. Sold ut price of ordinary SOap, buy if,
you will Use no other. Gruccrs have it,
New OrlealS LohhrrS MhnlnsnIn Amnnts
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alHE METROPOLITANS. -0At this dis
tance frem the sense of action we NAV
not be in a condition to Judge, but it
occurs to US, as it will to the people
throughout the country parishes .gener-
ally, that the people of New Orleans
especially those extreme gentlemen who
were 81 ultra anti-radical that their
delicate sSomachs could rot bear even
the fusion or liberal movement - are
proving untrue to their protestatiOns
and their political code. It appears
and it mortifies us to say so-that the
citizens are permitting their city to be
used as a. stronghold, a baronial castle.
as it We're, whence issue forth armed
bands OF robbers to harry and Cypress
the people of the parishes, without any
effort to check them, so far as we can
learn. Fer every Metropolitan who
leaves New Orleans on such service
there sholld be at least one citizen to
follow and aid the country. Ez-za.
The members of the city government,
and the city members of the McEnerV
Legislature, all elected by democrats,
are IN great part responsible for tile fact
that the MetfOp0litans are not with.us.
Ali that most OF them required was an
assurance OF pay, but this the city gov
AlA1iShIE W Ouuu HUb
bly, thinking it the part of Wisdom:to
give, to say the very least of it, a quasi
endorsements of Kellogg. Not only this,
but some of our gunpowder members of
the Legislature discussed the idea of
taking the Metp0politans into service.
but, on the contrary, were in fayor,of
Wiping them out by a legislative enact
ment-Which, under the circumstances,
would have been like the Pope fulmina-
ting a bull against the moon. This they
regarded as an evidence of the highest
order of legislative talent. - g -
Be all this as it may, the people
throughout the country parishes are by
no means satisfied with the course of
some of the leaders in New Orleans,
They, of course, regard themselves as
independent in censupe, from so OBJ
scure a quarter ; and yet i6mightbe well
for the merchants of that city to reflect
that political antagonisms sometime eff
/ 4IW1RS. 4.a-s..A .FG~. Z Er-~ .srRE -E- --z
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II at last ~transpires that the iudg-
Inent obtained by Mrs. Gaines against
the city, for S138,90z, on account sc her
Orleans canal draining machine, will
have to be. paid by the city. The iudg-
ment does not now belong to MIS-.
Gaines, having been sold under exeen-
ton by the sherif-LCreseent City.
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FOR SALE.

n ANDs FOR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
- tracts OF unimprOved lands belonging to me
and to others which l will sell or rent to actual
settlers,
I will sell on credit, payable in one, two, three,
1oui, ftVe, six, SeVen, eight, nine and ten years.
with eight per cent interest annually, from first
day OF December next. Or I will rent to actual
settlers for mere payment during five years) of
tle taxes which may be assessed upon the tract
they occupy.
In either selling or renting, the purchaser or
lessee will obligate himself to actually settle on
and place in cultivation the land received by
lease, under penalty of nultity of sale or lease.
have also for sale a wellimprOved place, CON
tanning two hundred arpents of land, with large
and e0mmodioas dwelling house, cotton gin and
cribs. Price of misplace $500Os payable on terms,
with eight per cent yearly interest from day of
sale, 49, -.s 49,.
Also, a saw mill property, which I Will also sell
on terms. EMF L. GARLAND,
Time % 1S-1-+f
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
ESTATE of John Be- RihnR and Matilda

Dean. his wife, both deceased-NO. S84s,
PARISH COURT, ST. LANDRY.LWHEREAs
Edith Emma Bihm, of the Parish of ST: Ian
pointed administrators of the estate of ,Tohn
B. Bihm and Matilda Dean, his wife, both de-
ceased, late of the Parish of 81. Landry -.
AHlerefQEe, any person intending to make Op-
position to said appointment, will file the same
in writing in my office, in the town of Opeiou.
sas, within ten days from the present notice.
w. A. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
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Elizabeth Csarvin vs.. A. H. Gradenigo.

MAGISTRATES COURT, SECOND WARD
ST. Landry-By virtue Of a writ of fferi ia
Gas, issued by the Honorable B. Woodworth,
Justice q1 he Peace, Second Ward. st. Landry.
In the, above entitled suit, and to rie directed, /
Town Hal, III the town Of washington, in said
Parish, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th day Of June,
8l3,l at eleven o'clock, a, NJ, the following des-
cribed property, ta-W1t-
One 9rmpir, one bureau, two tables, one wash
stand, four chairs, one lot OF erockery, one stone
Seized in the above suit. .4 4-. .. #-.
T~erms-CaslE ~,
NAV "a
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DIED,

HASH Opelonsas, on the 21st inst, Au-
gustine DestFest, wife of Joseph Haas, aged A
years.
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Getting into debt is like q mouse in a
trap; very easy to get in, but hard to
get out.
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NORGED AND sPURHOUsP PARISH
WARRANTS.

"A copy OF the report of the Grand Jury, in ref
crcnce to forged warrants, was read, and OIL mo
ton OF Mr.. l.. 5. FOntenOt, resolved, that thr
following suggestion be adopted That it be
MADE the duty of the Parish Auditor to mark all
forged and spurious warrants so as to preclude
the possibility OF their ever being again used, by
writing across their face the words * Forged and
spurious" i'll at least three different places. with
red ink. i'll large and legiblr letters. That in or
der to facilitate this he be allowed to give public
notice through both the local paperS. furinU
thirty days, to all holders of these Warrants to
present the SamC to him to he marked. That
after the expiration of this notice it be made his
duty, through the Parish Attorney. to i~nStitutp
suit i'll the name Of the Parish of st. Landry
against all persons holding such warrants and
who shall have refused, neglected or failed TO
present them to him to .he marked us suggested
above. Resolved further, that the Auditor be
instructed to keep Il record of the forged and
spurious warrants so marked by him.
In accordance with the above resolution of the
Police Jury of this parish, adoptedMay 9th, 1878,
I. James o. Chachcrc, Auditor for th6Parisb of
st. Landry, do notify the holders of said Forged
and Spurious Warrants, that if, in the thirty
days following this notice, they do not comply
with the foregoing Resolution, that suit in the
name of the Parish will he Immediately institu-
ted against those known to he holders of said
Forged and Spurious Warrants.
JAMES 0. CHACHERE,
Parish Auditor.
OnclOuSaS. Nav 9th, 1ST3-5t
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The following are the names of the
parties arrested in St. Martin parish
Colonel, Alcibiades DeBlanc, General
Alexander DeClouet, Gabriel Fournet,
Huntsville Fournet, Zachary Fournet,
Paul FOurnet, Paul DeClouet, Lassaline
lBrla4t, Alfred Peschier, Eugene Ber-
trand. The other name making eleven
not observation-disclosures City, 10TH,