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Estate Of Marie Philippe Jean Louis

FOntenOt and heH husband, Chs. Soileau.
by VIRTUE OFAN ORDER OF THE ION
ID 0rable Probate Court of the Parish of st.
Landry. there will be sold at public auction. to
the highest bidder, by the undersigned adminis-
traitor, or by a public atletiunec1, ut the last
residence OF the de HrsfS u Oia ! G +fa Ia fEil dn5
of August, 1874, the followingdescribed property
belonging TO the estate of Marie Philippe Jean
Louis Fontenot andher husband Charles sOileau,
both deceased, to-wit: @3t
l.. The plantation on which tho deceased last
resided, sitnaied in Old Grand Prairies parish
of st. Landry, together with all the buildings
and improvements thereon, containing one nun
bred and sixty arpents, more or less, being four
arpepts more or less front by forty arpents more
or less i'll depth, bounded north by Bayou Gro
cOdile, east by Pierre SylYeStre, south by Emile
Vidrine, and west by Pierre Lafleur.
9. A certain tract of wood land, situated in
the confines adiacant to Old Grand Prairre, par
ish of st. Landry, contaiIiugsiXty alpentss more
or less, bounded north by Bayou Crocodile, east
by Denis Lafleur and others, south by Israel
Guillory and west by Paul Stagg.
8. The ~yaelerie cattle consisting OF one hun
drtd and twenty head of horned cattle. more or
less, rangiig'il iii prairie MauI0u, in said parish,
with the branding iron, forty head OF gentle
horned cattle, more on less, oneFWnrk lltles one
gentle mare, fifteen head OF stock nefseS anu
mares, one horse wagon, one OH Dhggy, inc
hog mark and privilege. one lot OF hoasehoid
fnfnitlIfe, kitchen utensils, etc, etc.
Terms and COnditi0ns-AH the movable pro
peaty, except the stock tyacllerie) be sold for
cash. The VaclIerie to be sold one haf cash on
the day of sale, the otheg hall pasaeles IN one
and two wears from the LAY OF sale, purchaser
furnishing satisfactory security. The lands 10
he sold payable also in one and two years irolil
the day Of sale, the lands to remain specially
ICED lin favor of said estate until final
payment, and. further the purchaser or pur-
chasers TO furnish security to the satisfaction
of the administration, in case OF non payment,
81 sums due said 50, ,a on tlte s aay 81 na aa add =
JJEAN LOUIS PHILIPPE FONTENOT.
July f6-sf II Administrator.
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WINGED, the only way to save Louisiana
was to unite the two races OF a common
ticket, that they nominated Saml. Arm
stead, one of the blacklist darkies in
Louisiana, for Secretary of State, and
had the masses of the people refused to
vote for him, then what ahowl some of
these same Doctors would have raised
IL the people, at the word of command,
from a few politicians in our midst, have
to turn political somersaults, and recant,
and make new professions of faith every
twelyesor eighteen months, it is about
high time, in our opinion, they were
giving up politics entirely and going
into some other business. Some of II
political Doctors, it is evident, won't do
to tie to. They change prescriptions a
little too often. In 1872 they insisted on
our taking a mixture of "black and
white" In 1874 they tell us this pres
cription will kill anybody that should
swallow it, and that we shall, nOletis 10
Tens, take it pure, all white or all black.
II they were right 1879, they are wrong
in 1874; If they are right in 1874, they
were certainly wrong in 1872. The dis
case they are doctoring certainly has not
changed a particle. ~ H..
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The sewing Machine question.
From the New Orleans Times.

No. Sill, r. ;ntoros+odi ~ 1rnou;nn
Eseiy nail,ts - Is ~ Irntod utatoo ing
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Ll.l esn ~ .l,o "pItlot W IL " 800 80 w W.
s PLY a Ctto tAef Thn Ro u ,as ses s,,ni s NH
e III w pa y = n+o nne nannGdLo,3p an spos
S4ah " eo IsI1hs'o Apt"inS
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tEo h nos npolC tsn ro ,eos,o IN renaad 20 90
aor i.e pas Il SmenHy w. . ea fhst ~ t 500 W
SILL ssITan lu.aJ,l'111, .m m3h =" a Naruiandd
snlen t5 Son aou,n iI tna on ba 70 M", ,onn,5
dEoni ene op ~ III 4ho o nn ! asinue, fo bpohB
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Communicated
Pertinent Queries from a
FusiOmigt.

# tE&E E.A-
EDEToR REPUBLICAN, see that the
Bulletin advoeatesa White League, and
il endeayoring to dragoon all white per-
sens into it. Allow me to ask; through
d columns, Messrs. Dan Byerly, Page
M. Baker, Frank Zacharie, John Ellis,
James Lingan, Edwin Booth & CO.,
what part they have assigned to ns who
will ioin neither awhile mans league
nor al black mans league Il the com
munity Is to be divided intOleagles aud
camps for the benefit of thetadieal office
seekers of the Democratic party may
not we, who desire neither a white mans
government, q aablack mans govern
ment, and whod do not wish to see Lou
isianis set hack for another ten years by
d repetition of the atrocities OF 1866, be
driven into d league for self defense
against the bad and desperate men of
both sides2
Al reform of the constitution, repudia-
ton of all extreme meIlsEn no special leg
islation, the lowest possible taxation,
and the preservation of peace 9ndorder
at all hazaTdg-a league f0sthesa objects
win do real good and bring speediest
relief. Al FUsIQNH9.
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Politics i'm the West.
'[From the Chicago TimeS!F

AAc"A AAS% %AAA%NHj
Present political indications at the
triumph of the Pendletonian financial
ideas in the next Presidential: election.
The steps conducting to such q result,
the foundation for which is now being
laid, may be briefly stated:
The dominant political party in Hill
nois and Indiana is, now fairly mounted
on what is in substance and effect the
Pendleton platform. The action of
that party in Illinois and Indiana is
very sure to be initiated in all the
States west. of Ohio and east of the
Rocky Mountains. The successful
carrying out Of the Morton programme
III the Republican Convention of the
18th instant virtually determines the
fact that Z" the West so far as the Re
publican organization represents or in
cludes it, has got it's face set in the
direction of reputation.
"The farmers inovemeItn has fatal
"Iy plunged into the same bottomless pit
Of dishonesty. Between it and the
Morton ring of the Republican move
ment there is no essential difference
whatever. On the one vital question
of the time, the farmers movement
i'm Illinois and Indiana, and the repudia-
ton movement headed in the same
States by Logan and Morton, are en-
tirely one, and the action of the two
farmers conventions on the 10thinstant
has given the political cue that is pretty
sure to be taken by the corresponding
movement in other Western States. In
Iowa the ti-Monopolists,n as they
call themselves, will soon meet by dele
gates in State convention, and like con
yentions will shortly oecurin Minnesota.
Nebraska, and other Western States
That these conventions will folloW the
example OF their co-WoPkePs in Illinois
by taking the. highway to reputation,
is altogether probable.
The corpse of the old Democratic
party-the first of all to- strike fol
Reputation, and the original inventor
of the stone, Pendlet0nism, which the
builders rejected in 1S6S-is to be again
reslIrrected at least in so far as the
self-constituted leaders that have
outlived the party shall be able to re-
surrect it, III the West these leaders
almost to Il man were repudiationists in
1868, and the majority of them are
repudiationists still. The political
corpse they intend to resurrect, is ex-
|peebed to be the same repudiatiO corpse
that was buried In 1868. Should It
prove to be a different corpse they will
have none of 1T. Should it proveiIto be
a hard-mohey corpse under the name
of the party that died of Pendletonism
and Greeleyism it will be hopelessly
damned by the name.
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The late Edward Everett condensed
into a single brief paragraph his estiHla-
ton of what constituted a good eduea-
ton. Here its: TO read the English
language well, to write with dispatch a
neat, fegible hand, and be master of the
first four rules of arithmetic, SO as to
dispose of at once, with accuracy, every
question of figure which comes up, in
practice-I call this a good education.
And il you add the ability to write
pure grammatical English, I regard
IL as an excellent education. These are
the tools. You can do much with them,
but you are hopeless without them.
They are the foundation ; and unless
you begin with these, all your hashy
attainments, q little geology. and all
ether oIogies and osophies, are ostenta-
ftiOus rubbish. sH Ill.
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WHITE VS.. BLACK.

We invite attention of thinking and
rejecting people to the subjoined sta
tistics of population in Louisiana; par
ticularly all that class who are now at
tempting to array the races against
the other in political a~ntagonism:
Parish of Orleans, white -...-..-.---- l4O,9z3
parisI III Orleans. colored 5O,456
FEE E=##s .-..H. -----
Exeass ef white 90,467
Total of coiored population in the c0un-
try parishes, outside parish OF Orleans, 3l3,7e4
rotSI ditto of white. 221 ,l42
Excess of colored in the same &c.,. 92,6l2
Country parishes wherein the white
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of preponder-
ance-with the number of representa-
.tives these. parishes are entitled to under
the aipportionment of 1868:
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The statement was made last Sunday
BY one of the White League speakers,
that the Advertiser was the official pa
per OF thisparish. The manner In which
it was done showed that his Intention
was to- insinuate that we were not in
dependent in politics. 1.-THE gentlemen
had been properly informed, in all pro-
liability, lie would not have committed
sueh an indiscretion. His audience was
aware that tile aspersiOn was unjust and
unealled for. This writer was q Con-
Tolerate soldier during the whole war,
Id the army of Virginia, and as u soldier,
as q citizen and as q man, has always
endeavored to do his duty faithfully and
OH the square. He was born and raised
I'D this parish and has always been IL
Democrat and is one yet, and has the
honor at this time, of being a member OF
tile State Central Committee. HeObtain-
ed the public printing without solicita-
ton OF any promise whatever OH his
part. He has never HiBclie6 In amy duty
and has always been consistent, and is
now, free as the air itself, and us indel
pendent, he feels, rs Old Hickory ever
was.
We desire reforin as Muesl as any one
and are more sincere to effect il, than
some OF the self-c0nstituted leaders of
the White League. But we maintain
that it should be brought about legal
and peaceable manner. We areOppOsed
to violence and revolution, and no gra-
tuitous and ~slanler0ns destinations or
considerations ct any kind, can shake
MS from d position we consider sound
and patFiOtic.-LLafayette Advertiser,
July 4tIis
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MOST
July 1927

ENOR SALE.-.A SMALL DRUG STORE
NJ with ii lot Of seven acres of ground, with all
the improvements, consisting of a good dwell
ing, barn, garden, etc, in the town of Vile Plate.
The surrounding country thfckly populated,
l8 miles fromthe nearest drug store. Business
strictly cash.. Business could he largely in
creased. satisfactory reasons given for selling.
The drugs and furniture appeItaining to the
drug store can be bought for $1,000 cash, apart
from the other property, and the store they arc
i'll rented upon reasonable terms. -
Address to this office, or to the undersigned at
Vile Plate, La. Y. VIDRINE.
iulV loft.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

%NTARD'S SEMINARY FOR YOUNG
w Ladies', Nashville, Tennessee, it appears,
stands high among the educational institutions
OF the country. In the report of the Commits
stoner OF Education at Washington, it stands
tltth on the list Of superior schools" in the
United states, and first on the list of Southern
schools. For catalogue, address
Dir. W. +. WARD,
JNE ltE4t NnShNillc, Tenn.
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III ENTUCKv UNIVERSITY,

Ashland. the Home of Henry Clay, and Old
Iransylvanla University, the sites of the several
colleges. SIX Colleges in operation, with their
separate Faculties, so Professors and Instruct
0rS, with an average of more than 900 Students
each session since the war. Fees very low.
Good boarding from s. to 81 per week. Sessions
begin Second Monday in September. For cata-
ioGles or other information address, enclosing
stamp, J. d. BOWMAN, Regent. XIV. II.
s IPyinrton XIV
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NOTICES.


A CARD
To the democracy sof Galeasieus CtlneralLs La
fayette and st. landry"
/ hereby pledge myself to publicly demon
strate, to Il positive certainty, in advance of the
November election, that the action Of the, Cal
casieu Parish Democratic Convention, held at
Lake Charles, June 25th, 1874, is not politically
nor morally binding upon the Democracy of
Calcasieu parish, much less upon the Democracy
III st. Landry, Lafayette and Cameron.
GEO. II. WELLS.
Lake Charles. juno &c, 1874. Z ..s
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Estate of Enoch mayes.-No. $3.50.

pARISH COURT, ST. LANDRY.-WHEREAS,
l. Henry NJ. Andrus, of the Parish st. Landry,
1ninistrator of the estate of Enoch Hayes, de
ceased, late of the Parish of st. Landry;
Therefore, any person intending to make OPP
in writing in my office, in the town of Opeiou-
saS, within ten days from the present notice.
7 ". A. ROBERTSON, Clerk.
irIr- 1n-oh a.F.'
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The standard authorities on English
ceremonial enumerate no fewer than
ninety-seyen different kinds Of men,
between each of whom there is a. per-
ceptible graduation of rank-not count
ing common people, who have no rank
at all, +
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In a Dilemma.
From the New Orleans Times.J

From the New orleans Times.l
Aeolored man who gives his name,
but which we withhold, as giving no
additional pertinency to the query he
proposes, writes to us as follows:
To the Editor Of the New Orleans Times:
VIII you be SO kind as to inform me
whatstep I should take to do some good
to my native Statee lhave said amen
to the caTpet-baggers. am q colored
man and would like to know what to do.
The Opposition party styles itself the
white mans party, and |, not being a
white man, do not know what step to
take. to join the party in opposition to
the carpet-baggers therefore, | would
e very much obliged to you for your
opinion for my future action. Il
A CoLoRED Son OF LOUISIANA.
The redemption Of Louisiana is not a
question of race or color; it affects all
classes and all interests, and should re-
ceive the earnest corporation of all citi-
Gems who desire to " do goodR to their
native or adopted State.
In this State, as in others, there is
usually u prediction contest, in which
some special OF peculiar interest en-
deavors to secure position above the
larger and more general interests of the
entire commonwealth. Basedon faction
and cemented by prejudice, these pecu-
liar organizations are powerful only
for evil. When they succeed, their rule
is Synonymous with ruin, a fact which
has received abundant Illustration in
the political history of this State since
the close of the war. 1t commenced in
the canvass which resulted in the cleo
ton Of Coy. Wells, and has been fol-
lowed up to the bitter end in every con-
test since.
We believe, however, that the forth
coming canvass will develop q wiser
adaptation of means to the accomplish
ment of a desirable end. Like our cor
respondent, sensible men of all colors
feel the necessity of effecting a radical
reform-of securing the services of pub
lie officials who.are at nee capable and
honest. To do this they must carefully
ponder the entire situation, and give to
intelligence and worth their natural SUI
premacy over ignorance and corruption.
In the election next fall this cannot be
done by attaching an educational quail
LITIGATION to the electoral franchise but
through the exercise of aoIttle common
sense and intelligent discretion, and a
combination of well-disposed people
irrespective of race on color, we hope to
see at leastthe be~ginningsof redemption
fairly secured.
% - 49,. " =
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-%@ AFeyv Good Reasons: "a.
IA new Invention thoroughly tested and
secured by Letters Patent.
2.-Makes a perfect Lock Stitch, alike on both
sides. on all kinds of goods.
3.-Runs Light, Smooth, Noiseless and Rapid,
best combination of qualities.
4.-Durable-Runs for years without repairs
will do I'LL varieties. of Work and Fancy
Stitching iii d superior manner. E't-s
6.-Is most easily managed by the operator.
Length OF stitch may be altered while running,
and machine'cantbe threaded without passing
thread through holes.
design Simple, Ingenious, Elegant, form
ing the stitch without the use of Cog Wheel
Gears, Rotary Cams os EeE9rEtf1nss Has the
Automatic Drop Feed, which ins!lres uniform
length of stitch at any speed. Has our new
Thread Controller. which allows easy movement
of needle-bar and prevents injury to thread.
S.-Constluction most careful and finished. 1t
is manufactured by the most skillful and expe-
rienced mechanics, at the celebrated Remington
Armory, lion, N. Y. New York Office No. &
Madison Square, (KurtZ's Building).
ilfY 10-9m.
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TIE CHANGERS TOBACCO WARE
HOUsE.-A Logan county fKy.@ CORES
pendent of the Elizabetftown Newssays
that the. Changers in that, the Clarks-
vile tobacco district, are discussing the
question whether it would be to their
interest to establish or selectsa tobacco
warehouse at louisville, Rnssellville,
Clarksville or HopkinsHiAe, binding
themselves to patronize such in prefer
ence to all others. Each side of the
question has its earnest advocates.
of monopoly, and it would indeed be bad
for that organization, to fall into the
same error in opposition to. which. the
fundamental principles Of their society
are based, and was originated to- eradi-
Cate. From present prospects of the in
coming crop, we think it will make but
little difference 10 their interests"
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A Brilliant Record Of CuPGs.-An Amer
lean humorist tells us that it would have been
money in his pocket if he had been born with
ont a stomach, and then proceeds to figure M
the cost OF Il chronic dyspepsia, to winch he is Il
martyr, and which he says it is impossible to
cure. On this point. Josh Billings for he is
the party referred tor is mistaken. Unless his
stomach differs from all other dySpeptic stOm-
achS, HoStcttcr'S Bitters will cure him in less
than three months. This it would be safe to
guarantee uudcr any penalty. There are a few,
Il very few, actual specifics for disease in exist
rncc. and HOstctter's Stomach Bitters may be
set down as one Of them. In cases of indiyes-
ton it never fails. Persons who had suffered
for many years almost every conceivable spe-
cicS of torture from this ag0niziug complaint
have been permanently cured with the Bittcrs
i'll six weeks. Hundreds OF such Instances are
on record, authenticated by the testimony of
prominent men in every walk of life, eminent
physicians among the Bnmbcr. But this cele-
bratCd vegetable preparation is something more
than Il stoInachic and tonic. 1t is also All alter
alive Of wonderful virtue. In liver complaint
its effect is rs direct and immediate as that Of
calumel or blue pill, and far more salutaIy and
in all diseased conditions of the bowels. notably
in cases OF constipation, its regulating proper
ties are in the highest degree serviccablc. The
new settlements i'll the. west and all lOw-lying
tracts of country infested with miaSmatic exhal-
ati0lts, so fruitful at this season, of the various
types of intermittent fcvcrs, should he always
well stocked with this Incompatible chpl0glle
which will cure any case Of fever and agllc in Il
period varying from three days to three OF four
weeks, according to the violence of the com
DIainf5 ,-NerYOuS disorders which are ALWAYS
| aggravated by the adulterated liquors usually
prescribed by physicians, are readily cured by Il
course of this admirable combination medicine
i'll which the properties OF a stimulant, a tonic
and Alternative are happily blended.
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ANDHDATE
For state Senator.

For State Senator.
Mr.. EDITOR Please announce that, at the
solicitation of many Democrats and CQnscrva-
tives of the parish of st. Landry, Bf. w. Fl.
KIRkMAN, of the parish of Calcasieu. has con
Sented to become a candidate for the State Sell
ate, at the election of November next.
III cOnceding to Our sister parish the right of
presenting Il candidate for the said office, we
cheerfully recommend DR.. Kirkman to the IA
Forable consideration of the Democrats and
Conservatives of st. Landry.
MANY VOTERS OF ST. LANDRY.
I respectfully announce myself IL candidate
for the office OF State Senator of the Tenth Sell
atOrial District, comprising the parishes of st.
Landry, Lafayette, Cameron and Calcasieu.
GEORGE H. WELLS.
DIR. WM. \. ROBERTSON is a candidate for
the State Senate ut the next election, from this
District. composed of the parishes of Lafayette,
Cameron. Calcasieu and st. Landry.
For Sheriff.
JAMES o. CHACHERE Is Il candidate for
Sheriff at the next election.
EGBERT O. HAYES is a candidate for Sheriff
ut the next election.
I am Il candidate for the office of Sheriff of the
parish of ST. Landry, at the election i'll NOyem-
Der next. +-s c.. G.. DUSON
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PREAMBLE.

We do hereby agree to unite In an Organiza-
ton, the object of which is the maintenance and
support of the Laws and Constitution Of the
United States; the Constitution andLawS of our
State, and the earnest support of the principles,
platform and candidates of the National Repuh-
lican Party, pledging ourselves to use our best
endeayors to secure the nomination of honest
and competent men for any and all positions.
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the poor his best patients, for Gud isthe
payMatep
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MISCELLANEOUS.
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
OF THE THIRp WAR;
WORKINGMEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB
OF Washington, La.

We, the undersigned, being appointed as a
committee to draft n Constitution and Bylaws
Club. respectfully submit tie following Pre-.
amble and Constitution
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE NEW IMPROVED p.
REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE
=
THE MEDAL PROGRESS
AT Vienna. 1873.

THE GHEs OF "MEDAL" AWARDED Al
THE EXPOSITION.
Nc Sewing Machine Received a Higher Prize.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-08-11

THE VALUE OF A GooD NAME
The Philadelphia Press alludes to
two circumstances in the controver-
sy between Mr.. Beecher and Mr..
Tilton. First-The moderation and
ldispassionate judgment of the jour
mails; and Second The "remarka BILE
unanimity, wherever there is an ex-
preston of opinion, with which that
opinion leans in favor of Henry
Ward Beecher." The Press, too,
justly remarks upon this, that if a
great name and a "great reputa-
ton, built up by a life of good
works, are to be struck down in a
night time by the er parte statement
of any man, then good name and
good reputation are not what we
have been taught to believe and to
hope them to be" 49,