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Important Notice.

STATE TAX COLLECTORS OFFICE,
Donaldsonville, March g, 1874. :
Refapring to above instructions from the
Executive, / would respectfully request both
delinq uent and current Tax and License
Payers to settle Immediately al demands
against them. thereby avoiding trouble and
costs of court, which delay viii most posi-
lively occasion.
L, E. BENTLEY, Collector.
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Parish of Ascension-Parish Court.
EDGAR LESSARDt
rs. Nc. Az,
MISS EULALIE POIRRLER.
This case being called up this day for trial
and the same being tried contradietorily with
Fred Duffel, counsel appointed to defend
Miss. Eulaiie Poirrier and the testimony of
Edgar Lessard, Edwin Leblanc and Ozemee
Dugas having exclusively established the
fact of the insanity and habitual acts of mad
ness of the said Eulaiie Poirrier, and her
consequent inability and ineapacity of taking
care of her property and her person. therefore
by reason Of the law and evidence being
against said defendant, il is decreed hereby
shat the said Miss Eulahe Poirrier be and il
iHterdicted and incapaeitated, and that Edgar
Lessard be and he is hereby appointed hel
Curator, and Octave TeFrio her under Cara
tor, and they be authorized to qualify as such
Read and signed and dated in open Cours
at the Parish Of Ascension, this 10th day Of
January, 1874.
Signed JOHN A. CIAEEVERS, Judge
hereby certify the shove to be a true copy
of the original Judgment rendered in the
above entitled and numbered cause. Parish
of Ascension, Clerks office, this the 18th day
of March, A. ID. 1874.
JNo. D. CANTEY, Clerk
marl43t
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List of Letters
Remaining in Donaldsonvills Post 0Rce
April 4th, 1874.

Adams w. 7. johnson Franklin
Amefiate Mrs. C. KOss Mrs Rucilla
Baker VIM. X. Leblanc N.
Breaux Miss. Mary L. Lecross BENJAMIN
Babin Nine. Felix Landry Miss Melanie
Cross Harrison Lestang Bod
Conya M0rien Landry Leon U.
Day w. Materre j. l..
Doverty Mrs. John Majeid Mr.
Dodge James Maybin Mrs Robert
Farrelle Mrs. Julia Miller john e..
Fassitts Geo. w. MOlair Mrs A.
Faulk b. Mitchell Washington
Green w. MeGrnder George
GregOirc ID. Norris Wesley
Gauthreaux Justin North Billy IL.
Gimes X. n. OConnor Edward
Hughes Morgan Obergerfelle Bernard
Hogan William Power j. ID.
Howell Thonis Potter George
Hanson David Sims Louisa
Hebert Ernest Shevle Henry
Howard Jefferson Scott Nose
johnson Miss. e. Taylor Abraham
p. LANDRY, p. NJ.
r. FoRB, Assn. p. NJ
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OFFICE STATE SURF. OF PUBLIC EDUCATION,
New Orleans, March ~, 1874.
To Hon. Pierre Landry, President Ascension
School Board.
Dear Eir-Yea are respectfully informed
that ewing to the fact that the December
AppertieRnent for 1873 was not made until
February, 1874, ut which time all the funds
in the State treasury to the credit of tbs
Common School Fnnd was apportioned also
that there win not be any settlements with
tax collectors BY which the funds Of eighteen
hundred and seventy-fonr viii be paid into
the treasury before May, therefore an APP
portionment for March can not be made.
This will neeessitate careful inquiry rs to
the expedicncy Of ineurring obligations
which your Board may find 10 difficult to
meet. Not until September and December
can we hope to have sufficient funds IN the
treasury 10 make apporti0mMents of any con-
! siderable ameunt.
In view of these facts let me urge upon
| your Board the exercise OF great caution IN
| the administration of its affairs, that your
work may be saved embarrassment and the
| caase of Education injury.
While it il desirable to have us many
schools in operation rs it is possible to main
| tain with the revenue at command, it ID I'M
wise and prejuaieial to eur interests to es-
| tablish and maintain schools at the expense
/ of the teachers, which is the case whenever
4 their saiaFies are in arrears. CafetulneEf
| on the part of the Board in mourning obi
i eafiens and prompt payment of all indebted
mesa. viii secure the confidence OF tho caEa
| mf1nity, the best grade Of teachers for OsII
schools, and the greatest efficiency for ON
work
4 M ~ IL curry
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Respectfully,
WM. G. BROWN,
State Sapt. of lAublic Education

TO THE TEACHERS OF ASCENSION
PARISH.
In accordance with the recommendation
contained in the above, notice is hereby
given that the schools in the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth aid sixth wards, and
Mrs F. A. Burnett's seventh ward schsel,
will be clsscd ut the end Of the scholastic
month In April, and the schools of Messrs.
E. St. Helen, John Dixon and Jno. Herman,
in the seventh and eighth wards, ON the 3lst
of March, and you will govern yourselves
accordingly.
P. LANDRY,
President Board of School Directors, Ascen-
sion Parish.
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Office in Crescent Place,
Eb0nnHdsOmviAIe, H1a.
JUDGMENT.

JUDGMENT.
State off 0u1sfama,
Parish Of Ascension Parish Court.
EDGAR LESSARDs
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OFFICE STATE SURF. OF PUBLIC EDUCATION,
New Orleans, March ~, 1874.
To Hon. Pierre Landry, President Ascension
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-09-18

1t 'kes 2G0 rails to lay a mile of rail-
road track.
Minneapolis. Mimi, spends 800, 600
annually for -four barrels
"A car Of fruit is shipped East from San
Francisco, Cal. every day. Each car con-
tains ten tons.
Five hundred and twenty-five dollars
profit in one year from seventeen swarms
OF bees. IS the report of New York bee
keeper.
"A firm Of Connecticut brass and cop
per wire manufacturers recently drew a
copper coin into 100 feet more Than halt
a mie) OF wire.
The quantity of milk daily consumed
IN New York is estimated at 1000, 900
quarts. This Is more than two quarts a
day TO each individual.
"A patent has been secured by an En-
glish inventor for telegraph worked ex-
clusively by air. 1t j. specially intended
Tor hotels, offices, vessels and public i'll
stitutions.
Mr.. George Jerome. one of the Fish
Commissioners of Michigan. declares that
every acre of water. IL properly cultivated,
Is equal in tood-producing value TO an acre
OF lana. and thar the present food supply
from water is equal To 5.750.0O0 cattle OF
an average weight of 200 pounds.
"A new plan of delivering milk is sug-
gestcd by The Boston MIX Association.
Side racks are arranged on each side of the
milk wagon containing quart and pint
bottles OF fresh milk. The customers re-
turn the bottles the next day after delivery.
and no pitchers. pans or bowls are rcquir-
ca. Each bottle is tightly corked, and can
bcput away in "A pail of cold water or
refrigerator, keeping il fresh and sweet
and taking up but little room.
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The Spanish and Cuban residents of
New York are AT present much excited
over duel which was lately fought near
Brussels on the Belgian frontier. Both
the principals are well known i'm New
lork-they having participated In the late
Cuban troubles. and one of them al least
Senior Rosado, Cuban-became noted for
bravery during the Cnban war. The other
one, Don j. Ferrer DE Cont0. is a fire.
eating Spaniard. and was always getting
up duel with somebody. or getting over
one. lie seems To have been constantly
at war with all the world. and his ac-
quaintanoes wondered how he lived
through IL. He had fought several duels.
had never been hurt. and he probably be-
gan 10 think he bore charmed life. The
thought made him very unpleasant man
TO do business with. and he finally drifted
into the newspaper business and embraced
the splendid opportunity the press gave
him for INDUCING in his propensity for
quarrelling. He was the editor of the
Spanish organ in New York City. Don
Juan Bellido DE Luna il the editor of the
Cuban organ in that city. Here was
grand chance for a running fight between
two political organs, provided the Cuban
would fight. De Comic attacked DE Luna
In the columns of his paper. and the Cuban
1tp't ~ a. ipA a. HOl ltl
him. At length DE Luna. driven TO des-
peration, let drive a singer into DE Conto's
honor. The Caban called the Spaniard a
coward, a liar and a charlatan, introduced
clrcumstantiai evidence to prove the sew
eral counts, and then challenged DE Conto
in public print to disprove the charges or
fight. Fight was just in DE Conto's hand.
and he cheerfully accepted the alternative.
While preparing for battle DE Luna was
arrested and bound over to keep the peace.
His second. Col. Pho Rosado, was still al
liberty, however. and gladly took his prin-
cipal's place in the encounter. The two
bellgerents sailed over the sea together.
with bloody intent. and got a meeting i'm
peace, at twelve PAGES, with pistols. The
accounts state that the shot from Rosado's
pistol pierced DE Cont0's side. and he fell
dying. There were other reports that he
was not so badly hurt after all. and might
live to fight DE Luna, his proper foe. an
other day. Another and later report from
the distant battlefield stated that DE Conto
had died of his wound. Rosado was un-
hurt. So the Cubans and Spaniarls in
New York are very much excited and i'm
painful suspense TO know the truth OF the
matter. All expected that DE Conto would
kill his man. as dueling was his profession.
and he was thought to be dead shot. III
he was really shot dead DE Luna ought TO
feel very thankful 10 his substitute for TAX
ing ticklish job out Of his hands. and go
ing such a great length To do it,
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The gross sum to which Americans
have fallen heir in England and Hol-
land during the past three DAYS Is $780,
DOC. 900 .0OO. 600 100000. with a small town
ship to hear from. -Detrou Free Press.
A Saginaw poet writes of his native
place:
Wonst the red lnjun here took their delights,
flsh't, III and bled
Now most Of the inhabitants is white
With nary red
Sidney Smith was once visiting the
conservatory of young lady who was
proud of her flowers, and used mot very
accurately a profusion of botanical names.
" Madame" said he. have you the Sep
tennis psoriasis ~ NO" she said very
innocently. II had it last winter. and |
gave ii to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
and 1t came out bcautitullyin the spring."
Septennis psoriasis is the medical name FOR
the seven-years itch.
1t is announced that Hay watermel-
ons We're purchased in Burlington yester-
day. OF these. 500 were eaten in alleys
and on dry-goods boxes. lO3 were dropped
and "busted" while being carried home,
I20 were found to be green when they were
cut. and the remaining 9,99s Were eaten AT
happy dinner-tables, in wild and reckless
hilarity. while sad-eycd doctors walked
slowly up and down the street. or hid
patiently behind the alley fence.--Bwiing-
ton Ha,0keve.
The late Ezekiel Hum ventured abroad
some years before his decease. and the first
thing after landing on a foreign shore got
his love of country so wounded that he
never INDUCED i'm travel afterward. He
prided himself on his origin, and in regis
tering his name on his arrival abroad in
teRded to- make something of spread.
Accordingly he wrote thus Ezekiel
Hum. America" The polite and gentle
manly clerk seized the pen after him, and
bending over the book as II to complete the
entry inquired, .What tribe :" When
Uncle Ezekiel had recovered enough TO an
swer he replied with much dignity: mo
North America" beg pardon. Cana
dian ~ "No." "Ah! perhaps Nova
Scotia- mo. sir. am from the United
States of America" ''Oh, very good.
Thank you, Yankee"
Rather amusing funerals they some
times have in New Hampshire. A clergy
man in one of the cities. who had to pay
the last honors to man of doubtful char
acter recently, began his remarks by say
ing: IL was not acquainted with the de-
ceased and therefore hardly know what to
say on this OCCASION He paused, when
presently one of the mourners, who had
evidently been drowning his sorrow In the
flowing bowl, approached him, and plac-
ing his hand famiiarly on his shoulder,
said: 4" What old felcr (hici, don't you
know WILLIS He's (hic) one of the fellers
(hic), he was Low me TO intro (hic) duce
we. Willis" said the drunken man, adj
dressing the corpse. "this is MIR. Brown, ;
Mr.. Brown (hlc). this Is Willis. Willis,
yer funeral (hic) sermon.'' The drunken
man was hustled out, and the funeral pro-
ceeded.
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Radical Abuses in Alabama.

In Dallas county. Alabama. the Grand
Jury. composed of twelve colored men and
six whites. have presented the Radical
county officials as being guilty of outrage
Gus abuses. extending over period OF six
or seven years. whereby the State and
county have been defrauded out Of from
So 900 TO $4,000 annually. They also say
that lands have been sold a belonging to
unknown owner when the owners were
not only known to the assessor and tax
collector. but the taxes on them had been
paid, while the same officials have made
pretended sales for non-payment of taxes
of lands which had no existence. In other
counties in Alabama grand juries. largely
composed of colored men. have made
equally strong denunciations oft the rascali-
ties of county officials belonging to the
dominant party. and yet the Montgomery
Nel1s says that so complete and effective Is
the organization among the blacks that
every negro in these counties will on cleo
ton day vote for the very men they CEN
sure, il they receive the party nomination.
in order TO keep the negro race in power.
In most of the Southern STATES the question
as 10 which race shall predominant in po-
litical power is becoming the main issueto
be decided at the polls
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The Negroes In Alabama.

In some towns. as Montgomery. and
smaller communities in the region where
the most distress prevails, the negroes
seem to be absolutely dependent upon the
charity of the white folks. Their lives are
grossly immoral, and the women especial
ly have but little conception of the true
dignity of womanhood. One sees men
and women. like Italian and Spanish beg
gars, slouching all day. from sun to shade.
from shade TO sun, living on garbage and
the results of begging and predatory ex-
peditions-aprey to- any disease that comes
along, and fostering in Ignorance. Some
OF them have been trying agriculture. and
have given itup in disgust, because they
do not understand farming, and there Is
no one to teach them. They have flockcd
into the towns, and there remain, seem
ingly nourishing vague idea that some
thing will turn up. II often struck me
that the thousands of idle negroes saw
were In the attitude of waiting. Their
expectant mir was almost pathetic TO wit
ness. IL was the same thing which we so
often remark In animals--that quaint and
curious, yet dcspairing look i'm the eyes
and poise of the body. which seemed to
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Manurial value OF Certain Food.

We see IL stated i'm some papers that GER
tain kinds of food used BY cattle has vary
ing values as manure. which il likely bur
we are not prepared 10 believe there i as
much difference In this respect a. the pa
pers referred to believe. For instance. il
Is said that, suppoSing the manure from
ton of wheat straw is worth S2.6s. then the
manure from ton of meadow hay il
worth f6.45. from "A ton ofclover hay 1874.
from ton Of corn S6.4j. and from ton
of peas $3.50. We suppose this is taken
from analysis; that is 10 say. the various
elements of the manures are ascertained.
and the comparison made between these
elements and those of the best guanos. or
some other well-establshed. useful article.
But this estimate is very deceptive. Chem
cal analysis, though useful. has never done
SO much for the farmer as was hoped for
II in the earlier days of Liebig and other
enthusiastic chemists. The proper test
would be by actual experiment. II. for
instance, we could get the same goodcrup
irons one load Of pea-yine manure that we
could from seven OF straw manure, and If
the land were to remain In rs good condi-
ton for year or two afterwards. then the
point would be gained. We do not under
value these chemical analyses. Much may
always be learned from them; but IL will
take very little more time 10 try the value
OF different manures of this kind by actual
experiment than IL would In this way.
while the result would be far more relia-
Bile. We like actual experiment wherever
we can get IL. II is worth so much more
than theories. Theories are well enough
In their place; but chiefly because they
are guides and suggestions TO expert
ments.-Fo,zey's Press.
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say " i would like 20 read the riddle OF
my relation 10 the universe. but cannot. -
30 they occupy themselves lazily in loung-
ing about the shcrifi's sales of mortga0ed
property. always a prominent sight In
the South nowadays, alas .-or IN beg
ging Of citizens and strangers with the
greatest presidency. On the plantations
they are the same a. everywhere else In
the cotton States not always honest when
they work for other people. and reckless
and improyident when they work for
themselves.-Edacard King, Ia lScribney's
for September.
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home for the old and infirm of either
sex without limiting the privileges TO any
denomination.
-Rebecca X. Thayer. a Boston school
teacher, deserves special mention upon
her retirement after thirty-seven wears OF
faithful and valuable service. A fact like
this ought 10 inspire those who assert the
capacity OF women for continuous and IA
tigulng work.
AT the close ofthe. last term of the La.
theran Theological Seminary at st. Louis,
forty-four candidates entered the ministry.
those of other Synods not being counted.
The number of vacant congregations
asking for pastors Is exactly double the
number of candidates, namely, eighty
eight.
"A pension list for faithful teachers
worn in the service would not be an I'M
pleasant thing. The alumni of Michigan
University have proposed an equivalent in
one case. They are about to raise a fund
OF so, 600 TO cndow civilians Profes-
sorship," the object being TO make gen
erous provision for Professor George L.
Williams, the oldest professor i'm the insti-
tuition. who must soon become disabled by
age from further active duty.
Bishop Kavanaugh, of the Methodist
Church, South. said in a recent address:
The unhappy and ever to be hmented
war left our country in state of very
great comparative poverty to what she had
been; but have this to say of her: that
even in this disadvantageous circumstance
the ministry have been better supported
and more churches built than have ever
known before"
The Presbyterian Church South is en-
joying healthy growth, according To its
statistics, which are just published. There
are II synods. GA presbyteries, ,O56 minis
tiers, l,764 churches-an increase of nearly
communicates. The total
for 1873 amount 10 SILL.
46l. The increase in the numbers of mem
bers is $4,000, of whom 5000 have been adj
ded by the union of the Old School Synod
of Missouri with the Church.
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The new Presbyterian college at In
annapolis is TO have thirty acres of land
lor beginning on the north side of the
city.
Miss MclIenry, of st. Stephens
Church, Philadelphia, sets noble exam
pie to women who wish to be of real use
IN the world. She has raised 100000 for
Three church homes, which care for 600
children.
The Epscopalans of Newburgh. n.
!, are engaging In useful work of be-
hehcence. They are about to create
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Foreign Notes.

-Gatignaa;s Messenger says that "some
curiosity was excited on the boulevards in
Paris the other day by the appearance of
three women attired in singular costume,
viz: large zouave trousers. closed by
CATERS, small gray paletots trimmed with
black. and tall felt hats--who were staying
at the Grand Hotel. On inquiry they were
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WANTED, Mcelers or Borders" Is
specimen of what a Nashua boarding
house can do when il turns Its mind TO
literature. Boston Globe.