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Post Office Affairs.

Mail your letters early as practicable.
Make the address lpgible aud complete,
giving the name Of the postotice, coun-
ty and State. Postage stamps should
be placed on the upper right hand cor
npr of the address side of all mail mat
ter.
A postmaster is not obliged to make
change when you purchase postage
stamps. If a letter weighs over me-
half ounce put a three cent stamp for
each fraction over half ounce in weight.
Transient newspapers must be prepaid
at one cent for each two ounces or frac
ton thereof. Books must be prepaid
at two cents for each two ounces or
fraction thereof and not TO exceed twelve
ounces in wheight.
Postal cards must not have any other
writing" than the address on the face of
the card. You can write or have prfLt>
ing on the back, but nothing should be
! pinned or pasted to the card.
If you write anything more than the
address on printed matter, letter post
age will be charged For instance:
many persons send newspapers and on
the wrapper they will write zone paper
or "printed matter This will make
the package liable to letters rates.
The department does not ask post
masters to dick" postage stamps and
place them on letters for persons send
ing them.
Newspaper postage must be paid in
advance, either at the Office of mailing.
or the office where delivered, and for
not more than one year, nor less than
three months.
Publishers may write or print upon
their publications, sent to regular sub
scribers, in addition to the address, the
dates when the subscriptions expire,
and may also enclose therein bills and
receipts for subscriptions without extra
charge for postoge.
A steamboat, railroad, stage, express
company or sailing vessel, travelling
over a mail roHte 1ill he fined from fifty
to one hundred dollars for carrying let
tiers, unless they are enclosed in a gov
eminent stamped envelope, or else per
tain to the cargo or articles at the same
time conveyed. The persons entitled
to letters received by mail are those
whose names are in the address. Let
tiers addressed to fictitious firms or per.
sons, or to initials. are returned to the
dead letter Office at the end of each
month.
After a letter has passed from the
mailing office the delivery Of it cannot
be prevented or delayed by the alleged
writer.
b No person is allowed to be present
when the mail is being opened unless
he be an employee and has taken the
oath.
A postmaster must not give credit for
postage
A letter cannot be garnisheed in the
hands of a postmaster; and under no
circumstances can he open q letter not
addressed to himself.
You cannot send liquids or fruit by
mail.
Newspapers oannot be remailed ex.
cept on the prepayment of postage by
stamps at one cen for each two ounces
or fraction thereof.
Money and other valuables sent by
mail are at the risk of the owners.
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DOLCE JUDY Proceedings.

VERMLLIONyILLE, LAFAYETTE PARISH, I
March ,, 1874. {
Present:-G. Dubou President. r. G,
Landry, R. Leblanc, 5. J. Montgomery,
| Absent:-Jean Bernard.
The President called the meeting to or
der, when OH motion, the reading of the
minutes of the last NEE ting was dispen,
sed with.
On motion, resolved that the sum OF
seventy dollars be and the same is here
by appropriated to pay the work to be
done by Cesaire Dapuis at the south end
Of the CaIencre Bridge, and that a war
rant issue for the am on the order OF
the committee on public works.
On motion, resolved that the sum OF
two hundred dollars be and the same is
hereby appropriated to pay the work to
be lone by J, S. Rande in the lane of Mrs.
Scranton to MieT's COulee, and that a
warrant ISSUE ior the same on the order
of the Committee on Public Works.
On motion, resolved that the SUM of
Fifty dollars be and the same is hereby
appropriated to pay the work to be done
by j. 5. Rande Oh the lane between A.
MOUtOn and the plantation formerly be-
longing to B. G. Crow, from the Hebrew
Rest to the Protestant graveyard, and
that a warrant issue for the same on the
order of the Committee or Public Works.
K. Leblanc was then called to occupy
the Presidents chair, when,
On motion, further time was granted to
the Finance Committee to report.
On motion of G.. Dubau, Resolved, that
after the passage of this resolution, all
warrants to be issued by the clerk of the
Police Jury, shall be made payable to the
order of the person to whom the amount
shall be due, and not to bearer.
On motion of G, Dubau, resolved, that
the sum of twenty-five dollars be and the
same is hereby appropriated out of the
general fund to C. H. Mouton, Clerk of
the Police Jury, to buy stationary for the
use OF the same for this veal, and that a
warrant for the SAME issse to his order.
ON IuOtluIs Of q. Da1"U, zosOIvoL, that
hereafter the parish treasurer and parish
tax collecterare OTdsred to receive par
iSh warrants at par in payment of all
debts and taxes due this parish.
The president then resumed his chair,
and on mo ion of r. c.. Landry, it was re-
solved that the clerk of the Police Jury is
authorized to keep the books and papers
belonging to the police Jury in his law
office in Vermilionville.
On motion offs. J. Montgomery the fol-
lowing accounts were approved and war
rants o. dered to issue for the same:
". Gilmore 500 30
]. Y. Gilmore rs 40
IL Eastin q so
II. ID 90
Il. 60 90
d. 10 90
2. f. Beauchamp, NJ. 49,. 10 90
E. F. Bsauchamp, Mp...... 10 90
On motion of Rosemond Leblanc the
Police Jury then adjourned sine Die.
G. Debaillon, G. DUBAU,
by. Clerk. President.
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Speaking Of the half naked statue OF
Washington, which cost $4,000, IL the
East Capitol Park, Grace Greenwood VIZ
tiIy says that his outstretched arm points
reproachfulIy toward those glass cases IA
the Patent Office, wrerc hang LIS nue.
desired habilimcntS.
The word lady is compounded of two
Saxon words. leaf, or laf, signifyiog a
loaf OF bread, and dian, to give or to
serve. In oIden times it was customary
for those families whom God had blessed
with a~tfiuencc to give away regularly q
portion of bread or other food to poot
families in their respective parishes n
neighborhoods, and on such occasions tho
LADY, OF mistress of the household dis
trlbuted the daily OF weekly dole. Hence
she was called "l.f-dy or "bread-giver,'
and is probably from this hoSpitable Gus
tom that to this day English ladies carve
and serve the meat at their w tables.
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. II 49, a ETTTFNr me
l'".'' nj, :l,.1 marti,n was
ST>S'"h y IL SIan o7orted by the
"lr''7 = ~ T,xas Railroad. and in
"ii''e'S VI 49, Lasa1 their homes Of a
"u"I ,u,J 4Lai- roaI The
speedy c"Fniie'''I VI h. diri5a1
present cntiT" f""" Wa oN5 Nn,
the division between MS ~ Orroa, :
hiie =" oe Aio"n 1 tba ono ho-
anu ''|"i'T NAM u Tho New
tween ms CiIy an" ~ 49, +his cnar-
orleans anu iTNtS G :nn,a35taIv
"h'f'' ,"e l-4u "'s .I',i, tLa c~anitaI
Pu>"'u Us 0I"' rn'r,an c~anito1-
oelhS I''n'>"'u ~ LL',l wants a.
ISIS IHTy !T''''T - az
stcuT'ly' Inc I.n hapo :, it
I1'I' '"' nanaj and immcli-
Is s'a'eD o'EI P'.P IS +b.. rax.
4'e'y upon ,"1 oPtn5 ,r;li ba ~antire-
LFg'>,H' u Ill., ,naaL rnsb.d on 70
ny s'I"Eu anu
'" mh rnni w;ul. if is thought, run
aan :, Horstnn where it will strike
.na;n liza af The Ttvns and Pacific
D - and connect with all its
hrn.ob... .bosa starting from Trxark-
nm tho Red River opposite
a." L'o pn. :, A,konsas Of the Cairo
and FnItmn Railroad. which gives direct
ao.,ns 9th tho North and East;
om4 fro,n W,rshaIL, fftv miles west of
CIIananar, tbo ~nrircinal shipping point
' .La tp,5 Piyar and through which
o;,ntba T,ras and Pacifc Road will
LaIo oil rail connections with Vicks-
r1.S aad tbo a,,tira railroad and water
gsiems If the South
,,'3 r., h,Iant; Statas. These branheS
"'N - .4w,r,b whara nv
converge to"hIu u rr thoyy
It qnirement OF the slata,l i'N'' no
are 10 unHe' 1oFnffts " ooand
which continues 4T4E ''e '"'' G5,rt,~n;r
parallel, 10 Dan C.Ts", an5 ~ =,
he eastern trfhliNl' ''A'Sua'5 !" ~.
arkana- VIII ais" "e c'"1eI.su ~ nart
passing 'h"hgh JEDeII"' 1o5i',"J
OF the IeA7s anu l - 49,
Ing' also Important n' ~ Cr1f
the lower interior " In' o'"'T T tn' 1911
coast ana the M" Et nnu9 Eno.IEn
line crosses Inc hio uranue az l. l1'Ha
IN IL faso county "H'Le " w" ~ ona
meet with me DehY'F' oh''a 10 al" T
Rio Grande ha,iFo"u' no" o"i5"'TS
crosses the 0lla ana Io'VJaua n nSers
hear 'heiI J"toi'on a tha Cn,tb
IL "I.l Il ~ San Eau
cisco. II fnds at San Diago. the termi,
ms marnifcent bartor, ranking be.
low few ofbrrs in the world. From this
aIono II will he easilv seen that our citv
havo immense adrgntspes. being the
nniv areat availabn SHINING point on
tba k9iiantin cast and tbroHob which,
br tbo all If the Fart St, PbiIin Canal,
III mnst nItimatsIv come, Col John
Fnrnov Who II wiII he remembered.
" i"'J' "NV 49,: -
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RLOOD FERTILIZER.
Manufactured by the
BLOOD FERTlLlzING WORKS

Of Now Orleans.
This l. the best and most completo
chemical manure made, and contains the
largest quantity of AMMONIA and pH0s1
Pd0RlC ACID. l. is especsally adanted
TO the culture of COTTON and SUGAR
Purchasers are requested to examine
t9e analysis made BY JOSEPH JONES,
ID. u, Professor Of Chemistry and Clint
cal Medicine, Medical Department. I'M
yersity of Louisiana. 0"
Pamphlets with analysis, directions
al" price, mailed free by addressing
F0RSTALL & DELAVIGNE
sm "a Magazine Street,
agents for the sale of Products of BJGod
Fertiiizing Works. mis-
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Something for Every Man to Read.

We have probably all of us met with
instances in which a word heedlessly
spoken against the reputation of a fe-
male has been magniied by malicious
minds until the cloud has been dark
enough to overshodow her whole Cxis-
tence. To those who are accustomed,
not necessarily from bad motives, but
from thoughtlesssness, to speak lightly
of ladies', we recommend these ''hints"
as worthy of considerations:
Never use a IadY7S name in improper
places at an Improper time, Or in mixed
company. Never make assertions
ahoat aer that yOn think untrue, or all
lusions that you think she herself would
blush to hear. When you meet with
men who do not scruple to make use of
a woman's name in a reckless and IN
principled manner, shun them-they
are the very worst members of the com
munlty-men lost to every sense of
honor, every feeling of humanity.
Many a good and worthy womsn's char
acter has been forever ruined and her
heart broken by a lie manufactured by
some v~allian, and repeated where it
should not have been, and in the pres
ence of those whose little Judgment
could not deter them from circulating
the foul and Dragging report. A SLAM
der is loon Propagated, and the smallest
thing derogatory to a woman's charac-
ter will fly on the wings Of the wind,
and magnify as it circulates, until its
monstrous weight brushes the poor un-
conscious victim Respect the name of
woman; your mother and sisters are
women, and as you would have their
fair name untarnished, and their lives
unembittered by the slanderer's bitter
tongue, heed the ill your own words
may bring upon the mother, the sisters,
or the wife of some fellow creatura.
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CHURCH

NJ. f. CHURCH. SOUTH, Vermilion-
Vile, La.-Preaching every Sunday at
II O'Clock A. NJ, and at 7 o'clock P. NJ.
Sunday School at 9! o'clock each Sunday.
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening,
at I o'clock. \ Cordial invitation is ex-
tended to the public to attend.
j. NJ. BROWN. Pastor.
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s. MAIL STAGE LINES.

u. s. MAIL STAGES leave Vermilion-
vile daily for New iberia via Royville
and Cote Gelee. Also, daily ~(Sundays
excepted) for Grand Coteau, OpeIousas
and Washington; and on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays for Mermentau River,
Lake Charles, and Sulphur Mines.
Through tickets to New Orleans can be
had of the undersigned.
n27 If Nj. P. YOUNG, Local Agent.
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Protecting Southern SeapOrts from
Yellow Fever,

Representative Bromberg's bill to
establish a national quarantine system
is opposed by many of the New York
members, on the ground that it would
interfere With the State quarantine es-
t~ablishment. Mr.. Bromberg replies to
this objection that this would not neces~
sarily be the case, for the State officials
could enforce any local regulations af-
ter the government officers had exam
ined a vessel. In reply to the objec.
ton that it is not a legitimate function
of the general government to look after
the heath of the people, the author of
the bill refers to the facts that in 1855,
when the rindeFpest prevailed in Cana
da. Congress prohibited the transport
tation of cattle except under such regu.
Iations as the President might pre-
scribe. If it is competent for Congress
to legislate for the health of the cattle
of the country, he thinks there can be no
question as to its power to make regu-
lations to guard the health of citizens,
The chief object of the hill is to protect
the Southern sesports from the intro-
duction of yellow fever. Local qusran
tiaes have been found 10 be inefficient.
They are almost always enforced too
late, because the local authorities hesi-
tate to admit the danger that exists for
fear of injuring business by creating
alarm among the people, and when they
are enforced they do not protect South
ern cities from the introduction Of the
disease by persons who have landed on
other parts of the coast and enter them
by rail.
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From tins date 40 Judicial ADVERTISE
mrnt Will be- inserted in this paper unless
u0jf for in ddrdE"",
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HEyk ORLEANS.

XKT EHAEREsGNGTON ~ GO.
GENERAL PURCHASING AGENTS,
Cotton Factor, and Commission Mor-
chants for the
PATRONS or HUSBINDRT,
For the States Of .tla., Miss La. and
Kansas, II CaToudrlet St, \. O. mi
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The following question is respectfully
addressed to the clergy: Whether 4 per
son who sits in the gallery Of tho ohurch
is responsible for the deeds done ID tie
body.
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A queer hog story ONE from Salem,
Ore gon. The owner of the ferry at
Baena Vista bad two hogs, which mys-
tsriously disappeared about two months
ago, at which time they weighed about
three hundred pounds apiece. About
that time a new warehouse was bulk
near the ferry at Buena Vista ard filed
with wheat, which was shipped 9 week
ago. when the temporary structure was
removed, and under the floor were found
the missing swine, alive, but not weighs
ing near 80 much as when last seen.
They had evidently gone under the
warehouse to find wheat which leaked
through the floor, and we're detained
there by the settling of the building
They lived on what wheat leaked
through a crack, and occupied a circu-
lar place they had worn for themselves,
but during all that time they must have
been without water.
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4 farmer in San B~ernardino county,
Cal. raised last year 10000 ponds Of
beans worth 1900 Oh eight acTeSof Land.
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80
Nanenaace would
Eially TO insara ia sns.
rs HfEsfmsesz~
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COMMERCIAL.

Corrected tceeEly, by A. MEYN1ER, JR.,
Commission Merchant and dealer in ali
kinks of Country Produce, No. SIS Peters
Street, near B~einville, New Orleans :
NEW ORLEANS, March 81, 1874.
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~ Pennsylvania is organizing anti
grange societies.
n Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is reSld-
Hntel in Jack
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Parental Interference.

We nil know how it Jared with the
bean that, after being planted, was dug
M eyecy morning to see If it had begun
to GROW, and which, after having made
Il brave struggle for life and got It's
head above ground, was declared ont OF
ordsr. and ruthlessly pulled mp and
turned upside down, Much OF cur IN
torference with children ia no less I'M
rertinent, and in its results no less MIS-
chicyous, Nature abhors meddling to
reyerent cooperation she yields her
hoppiest results; but she will not be
diverted from her purpose by your
homilies, nor submit her plans Tor your
revision. Haudmaiden OF the great
architect, she never loses sight OF the
original intention. If you thwart her,
il is Mt your peril, and she leaves on
vour hands the work you have spoiled.
The child in his normal condition ls an
embodied interrogation. lie cannot
wait for the eyes alone to report the
objects about him; every iinger-up ls
pressed INTO the service and made 10
convey tidings to the eager lntelllgehce'
The little creature is overwhelmed with
imuressions, stunned by the music OF
the spheres, blinded by excess OF light.
His greatest need is wise and tender
interpreter somo one to walk beside
him and explain the significance OF
what he sees aud hears, to distinguish
between the important and the unlm-
portant. the high and the low, the near
and the far. Do we realize what we are
doing when we ait stolid and dumb un-
der a chjld's questions, allowing the
keen intelligence to be blunted against
onr indifference, the glowing enthusl-
asm to bo damped by our apathy, the
buoyant hope crippled by our unoeliei
Having eyes we see not, having, ears we
hear not, and standing before the greal
wonder,book of Gods universe We
watch the turning OF its leaves VIII
> scarcely an emotion. Verify, we neec
! to be taught of the child. What en-,
il determines his possessions, ano
whether the child shall be beggar OF
prince depends upon the training o. o.
: his faculties and the education that he
receives. CeIa BWleigh.
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NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
EAST

A billiard match for $4,000 and the
championship Of tho United States will be
ulayed in New York the last week OF Decem-
Der.
The reign of lawlessness in the coal
regions of Pennsylvania appears to be con-
tinually growing worse, caused perhaps by
the fact that most of the perpetrators OF the
assaults and murders escape capture and pun
shment.
The creditors of Neil McCullum,
leather merchant, of New York, who failed
for 1880, 900, have accepted thirty cents on the
dollar. McCullum's books show losses of over
one hundred thousand dollars the past year,
owing to the failure of shoe dealers in various
PARTS of the country.
The number of deaths in New York
city from diptheria and membraneous Group
during the last Fix weeks aggregates 1888, of
which 81 occurred within the week closing
November 7, 81 of these being from diptheria
and 10 from the kindred malady-croup. In
its nature the disease is clearly epidemic, and
large proportion OF the cases, if not the ma
iority, are due to unfayorable sanitary con-
ditions.
About one thousand families of the
Mennonite sect are arriving, this fall, in Kan
sas, where 100000 acres of land have been
taken up and paid for in cash for tho site OF
tho colony. They are all farmers who have
yet made their appearance, although under
the law of the sect every man is also master
Of trade. They carry on most Of their man
ufactures and probably will not add much TO
tho custom of the local trade.
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hapless Perlina's letters were produced.
Poor little Kolt read with the bitter
agony of youth the woman's denial OF
her love for, and engagement to him,
written week after his supposed death,
and old Downhill gave groan over an.
other buried hope as he read the lines
on which lie was set down IA super
animated creature only taken notice OF
out of pity.
After this the two gentlemen shook
hands. They had no quarrels with
each other now. Neither of them want
ed to marry Perlina Milkin. She re-
ceived two little notes that evening tell
ing her so.
That was last summer. This year
PerlnN did not go to Saratoga at all,
and Mrs. Gatlerly having dismissed her
chambernaid, it is matter of wonder
to the neighbors who the person with q
green bOrege veil on her head who rubs
the windows can be. 1t il barely posi-
bic that this is Perliua. Mrs. Gatterly
is woman of her word, and she con-
siders her nicce's chance of matrimony
quite over.
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they wish to respect the laws Of England, and
cannot blindly accept such regulations as are
imposed on continental bishops.
Riots have recently occurred at sew
oral points in Poland, on account of the forci-
BILE introduction, by the government, OF
church reform and the appointment of priests
by the imperial authority, The newly-ap-
pointed priests have been maltrested by moba
The local governments at the points OF dis
tnrbance, have been reinforced by troops
from Warsaw and number OF rioters have
been arrested.
An unusually heavy earthquake was
felt in Chill on the Goth ult,, about twelve
minutes after midnight. Its duration was
about thirty seconds, and the direction from
east to west. Much alarm. was caused in Vail
paraso and Santiago. All the public clocks
stopped, and the walls OF some Of the
churches and houses were split. The shock
was followed by an increase of the thcrmome-
ter of two and two.tenth degrees Vessels at
anchor felt it severely. During the week
slight tremors were felt.
The Alsatians are grumbling more
and more because their German rulers insist
upon making them feel in every way that
they arc conquerors. At Strasburs it was
lately ordered that newly born children must
hencsfOrth receive no frames which do not 0It
pear in the German calendar citizen
wished to name his daughter Blanche, but had
to substitute Mathilde. Fornond, Carlos and
Su2ette have had to give way to Ferdinand,
Karl and Susanna. The giIl5 at school were
in tho habit OF omamentiug their desks ac'
cording to their own fancies; now they have
to draw heir figures and arrange their colore
according to law. The Alsstisns don't like SC
much German in theirs, and are driven to an
attitude of passive resistance.