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Voters
lnn,.-hffb
'a3,O50 22,5s9 1909 ASH
Very truly yours,
TRUTH.

1t should be remembered that
the figures in the above table are
taken from the census returns OF
1875: one ordered by and taken
under the auspices of the radical
authorities. and certainly intend
ed not to overstate the strength
of the whites. The voting strength
of IA population is estimated as
one fifth ul5) of the total, and on
this basis it appears that instead
of being in il minority in this Dis
trict as in generally supposed,
the whites really hayea majority
of 92.
In this connection the follow
inc statement of the total popu
Iatiou and number OF voters III
the State taken from the same
source is interesting:
Whole number OF inhabitants of Louisia-
| ,039
OF this number there is CDlci -..-45O,Gll
Whites ---4ol.9l6
Indians and Chinese. i,JII
OF whites there are Natives..---.--3iS,S9 80:
Forrigners.-.--.. 5b,0l9
Colored voters Il III 81 49,. 90.Is<
Natives White voters 80. 69.Il.
Fnrciou VOTERS 80. 1874
Total white vote in 1874 ---- SID
This gave II colored majority
in the State in 1874 of 969; but
at the time the CELSIUS was taken
there were in Louisiana 9OS4 fol-
eigners not n%aturalized, over q
years of age; making the low es
innate that of these will qualify
as voters in the approaching elet
ton, this increases the white W
ting strength by 227l, giving
white majority in the State o
1902. Thus it will be seer that tn
assertion Of the radical leader
that "a democratic victory is pr
nat facie evidence of trand'' fall
to the ground, for the very cen
) sus ordered by Kellogg for til
prrpoSr OF ey"ggerallng TIL
strength of the negroes given
| majority of white adults in tn
State,
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NOTICE..

'TNHF UNDERSIGNED HAS REMOVED
l. to the corner of st. Philip and Market
streets, next door to the Post Office, where
he VIII keep an assortment of Charter Oak
and other cooks stoves, fire CRATES. cooking
utensils, Glass ware. Tin ware. Bolts and
Nuts, Charcoal, rlvets of all sizes and kinds:
and will be prepared to do any specics of
I'm; Zine, light iron and copper work.
Also an assortment OF wagon hubs, felioes.
spokcs ect.
Jan. LIST. s r. GRISAMupF
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We learn that +. Collin, TIL

we learn tilaL L. Coiliti, tt'c
party who made sOine reputation
in this Parish in 1872 by his
>lightof hand in changing the re
suit at one of the lower boxes in
favor OF the radicals, has turned
on his old friends and got off a
violcntSperch in Jefferson lately.
We would suggest that Collin be
put on probation, and ii his repen
lance il sincere, we will admit
him to the democratic party after
ten years. publication.
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The following educational
institutions will open on the first
Monday in September MI. Car
mel Convent and the TliibodauX
College. as well as the various
public schools.
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We reproduce this week
from the Charlestown HeTuM an
account of the reunion ofthe GrlSa
more family at the old homestead
in llAAiana.
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The Board of ASSESSORS

The Board of ASSESSORS OF
the Parish of LafOulche is now in
session at the Court House III Thl-
bodaux. Taxpayers should see to
the equitable assessment OF their
property, aS all corrections must
be made before the LIST of Septem
ler, at which time the lists will
be- closed.
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Town and Parish.

We learn that ~. Panaile has
been appointed Supervisor of Re
~pistration for this Parish, though
the appointment has not set been
officially announced. The Office
will open Monday next.
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To the People Of the 18th judicial District
I am n candidate for re election as Judge
Of this District.
Conscious of an answering attempt 10
administer tho Office in the past with fair
ness and impartiality, shall submit the
future to you, withou. seeking the n"nina
hon either of political party or personal
sotsrie. r.xoy pp,rr,p
'rhibodaux, Juue 23rd. 1876.
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NOTICE.

DlDs WILL BE RECEIVED AT TIE
aJOitice OF Parish Treasurer for the sale of
Parish Warrants told issnej, ami all monies
coming into the Redemption Fund will he
used for the purchase of said warrants
monthly. to the lowest bidder.
s. T. GRISAMORE,
gan Pres't Police Jury
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Mss Clara
School

WILL reopen Wednesday, the 10Th
W sugust.
soilelt the patronage of the public. Every
attention paid the pupils, mentally, morally
pnSslcaiiy: Teach French and English, also
pam aud tasiey needle work. etc.
Lag &. LEVRON.
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Mrs. Zenon Bourgeois died
at her residence about two miles
below town on Saturday the lit
tie daughter of p. A. ThibodauX
also died on Monday, after Il
long illness.
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For Clerk of Court,

thereby myself as n candidate
for the office Of Clerk OF Court, subject to
the decision OF the people at the prelimina-
ry election Sept. 9th 1876.
j.. W. KNOBLOCH
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For the Legislature.

Octave Harang ESQ, will be "a candidate
for the Legislature subject to the decision
.ofthe people ut tho preliminary election
Sept 9th 1876.
am q candidate for the Legislature, sub
ieSt 10 the decision of the people ut the
preliminary election Sept. ., 1870
4 EDWARD MEEGEL.
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TIE Henry Tete makes her
last f14p OF the season in the Bay
on to day. Her place will be sup
piled by a smaller boat, during
low water.
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White Majority in the Dis
trict!
HOUMA, La, Aug. q, 1876

HOUMA, La, Aug.2l 1870
Mr.. Editor - 1t is generally
believed that there is "a small Re
publican majority in this Senate
rial District. THIS is il mistake, If
as many colored people vote the
Democratic ticket rs white people
vote the Republican ticket.
| submit the following state
ment from the census OF 1870
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n secret society, after the fas
hion of the old Kslow-Nothing or
ganization, called the American
Alliance, has been gaining
strength in the North for months
past. The Alliance claims to be
the result OF all the native Ameri
can orders, the combination hav-
ing been perfected at Philadel-
phia May 10, 1876. The MOTTO of
the order is "American and Pro
teStants should rule America"
The members ore known only to
each other, and are sworn to secre
cy. a convention was held at Phi
la~delphia recently, at which this
resolution was adopted:
Resolted, That the nominations
of Rutherford b. Hayes, of Ohio,
for President of the United
States, and William A. Wheeler,
of New York, for Vice President,
be and the same are hereby in
dorsed by the American Alliance
Conference, and the Alliance
earnestly advise all who are in
favor of American principles, as
advocated aud set forth in the re
solutions, to give those nomina
tons an active and determined
support.-Erchange.
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For Recorder.

hereby announce myself as a candidate
for the Office of Parish Recorder, subject to
the decision OF the people ut the prelimina
~ election.
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$ .nbllug of all the family OF Eliza
Adair for the first time III twe"sy
years.-CAarlesto,cn (Ind) Hefam.
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE TOWN,
THlBoTAUX. La.
sATURDAYtAUGUST 2Gth.la76.
Notice 10 Subscribers.

This mark Y, on the margin. means that
YOUR subscription has expired. Such are
invited to renew at once.
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TO Planters /!

HAVING fitted up u shop on Jackson
lAStrcet, l am Prepared to manufacture
Steam Trains for sugar making, Tanks,
Britching, Chimneys. Copper and Iron Pipes
for every purpose. Cutters OF all kinds, ma
c~linery and Boilers
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Repaired on Plantation.

Thirty five years experience in the bushes
of,ters solicited. JOHN LAFHIN
lSmar 7G)
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The Newborn Rad.

Oh, come my brother Democrats and listen
to my lay,
I've joined the Radical Party fol- l could no
longer stay
With Independent conservatives who had
no better pay
Than a military appellate, that's picked up
every day.
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Total: .
1l,156 Gifts. All .SROO.O(

1sAsSs All I'm
PRICE OF TICKETS:
Whole tickets. $l2 Halves. So; Quarters,
g.; Tickets, SI00; III Tickets, $500 II
a6s Tickets, $500 95a Tickets, 81 1000. 1907
900 Tickers at $l2 each.
Hon r. II: Taylor, Mayor of Frankforhtne
entire board of City Councilnien, Hen. ~
vln Dmvall, late Chief Justice Of E1ntncEy,
ana other distinguished eitizey<, togctoeL
with such disinterested pery~ns ss tne IIeH
ct holders present may designate VIII super
intend the drawing.
Pemittances can be sSa.te by Express,
Draft, Post-ofice Monsr Order or ReglstSsf1
Letter, made paykSle TO. KENTUCKY
CASH DISTRIBUTION CONPANI:
ALI communications connected with La
distribntion.hd orders for Tickets, and APP
plications Agents to sell Tickets. should
W1n. THOS. p. PORTER,
Gel Manager, Frankfort, Ky
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District Ticket.
For State Senator
ISAIAH ID. MOORE,
an AgnlyprnE
For District Judge
LEWIS GUION,
OF LAFOCRCHE.
Announcement Of Candidates.
r,.- g,h;ha5,,ur .Scntiuey.

Editor T'hibodaur Sentinel:
At the request of my friends announce
myself rs a candidate for the Office ut Sher
III Of the Parish Vi Lafourche subject of
course 10 the decision of the people i'll The
preliminary election.
THEOPHlLE THIBODEACA.
To ne voters Of L~afo"rche:
hereby myself as a candidate
n the coming preliminary election, for the
office Of Sheriff.
l.. a. WEBRE
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For VICE-PRESIDENT
.ThOS. HENDRICKS
OF INDIANA.

AT LARGE.
JOHN MCENERI.
ROBERT G.. WICkLlEF.
Int Dist Louis st. Martin.
Authenticated. w. Dnpre.
1nd Dist. i. PWcir.
Alternate--Jamrs IL. T. Lawler.
Bird Dist-A. DeBlanc.
Automatically Knoblocil.
4th Dist-W. ~. Seay.
AIternate-J. q. White.
9th Dist-K. .. Cross.
Alternate-J. M. Morse.
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I'm a Louisiana Rad,
A cunning unprincipled Rad Bench.
But my eyes are fixed on the Supreme
And I'm going there, good or bad.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-09
TOD MICH OTIRRLINE

II il a great misfortune in one sepse that
the Presidential election should have been so
close as to leave the result dependent finally
upon the Southern States in which there was
the likelihood of disputes such as have arisen.
The long period of uncertainty and doubt,
not yet terminated, is not q good thing. 1t
causes business depression at time when we
most need the establishment of confidence and
revival of trade, and when there was good
reason for believing that the determination
either way of the Presidential question would
have had a.tendency to set the wheels of trade
in motion and open period of material pros
perity. The effect of the present unsettled pO-
litcal condition is, as everybody knows, very
depressing upon all our business interests.
But we may find some compensation for all
this in the fact that it has disclosed
some weaknesses in our system of
conducting Presidential elections, which, if
Congress has the wisdom to profit
by the lessons of experience, will be speedily
corrected. In the general discussion, too,
which is now in progress over the whole sub
iect-a discussion which, if not always calm
and good tempered, is certainly freer from in
temperance of language and violence than we
might have e1pected-it must fall out that the
public mind will have much-needed eplight-
epment as to the actual theory of the Federal
Government and the details of the system
upon which it was organized. People are
learning now with something like precision
what are the actual relations of the States to
the General Government and why and how it
is that candidate may receive popular ma
New-York tribune., 1876-12-09
4 FJREvAN,s ACCOMMODATIONS.

That out of evil some good may always be
educed was settled long ago. 1t is cOnsola-
ton to find that the burning of the Brooklyn
Theater has directed public attention to the
condition of similar establishments in different
parts of the country, and to the degree of
safety which their arrangements would insure
TO their occupants under the conditions OF the
recent terrible event. In Boston, the public
authorities are carefully inspecting the theaters
Of that city, and we presume that like sur
yey will be made elsewhere. This will be
much better and surer than reliance
upon reports of the architects OF the
structures, which are always in the eyes of
their builders, rather safer in case OF fire than
the open fields. The weeks to come, before
the excitement of the event has subsidized, will
be extremely prolific of plans and resonant
with discussion. Our own opinion is that
where there is a will there is way, and that
tragedies like that in Brooklyn may, with no
exhausting effort of human ingenuity, be
avoided. We are not of the mind of Moham-
medans respecting fires and other casualties,
and We think that the burning of theaters
may be- guarded against successfully without
putting anybody's brain to the torture of over
thinking while, if we are wrong, 1t would be
better to stop building theaters altogether,
since we can much better go without them
than be burned within them.
A practical treatise upon fires in theaters has
been published recently by Mr.. Shaw of the
London Fire Brigade. Mr.. Shaw, who is
veteran fireman, advocates a standard of dis
tance which shall be the minimum between
the walls of theater and those of the nearest
buildings, with an open intermediate space.
He also favors as indispensable the separation
of the different parts of the building by strong
interior walls. He would have heavy wall
ND TO and surrounding the opening of the
proscenium and he also recommends the
iron curtain now so much talked
about He further suggests subdivisions of
the theater and the. audience, and censures
steepiy inclined modes of exit. The reader
will observe that this problem of a safe theater
has attracted attention abroad and that the
danger is fully understood, though no tragedy
like ours has, at least lately, occurred there.
1t will hardly be possible for those who have
the management of theaters very soon to
exhibit the reckless careessness of the past.
The people will not bear it, and will, il it is
persisted in, show their disapprobation in
way which will have marked and disastrous
effect upon theatrical treasures.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-09

or other means for quickly forcing o
stream in the upper scenery ought to be pro-
vided. The question should be asked whether
under the present management of the theater
its employes had been at all instructed OF
practiced for their specific duties In case OF
panic or fire or whether every precaution Oh
that sort was left to the chapter OF accidents
There are conflicting stories about the ex-
ira doors. We have recently alluded 10 tIe
difficulty said to be found in opening from the
inside one of the doors whose bolts were
rusted. There is still question as to whether
the door on the alley, that was broken open
by rescuers, could have been opened outward
from within. 1t seems tolerably certain that
great force was required to pry 1t open from
without, and that an AK was broken In the
attempt. There appears to be sad reason Tor
the belief that the number rescued at TINS
door might have been far larger If 1t could
have been opened at the first alarm.
There is something more than suspicion
that the provisions Of law in respect to the
safety of buildings in Brooklyn are inadequate
and are disregarded. 1t is rumored that there
is no plan of the Brooklyn Theater on file in the
Building Department. Before the Chicago fire
III was IL HOtOrlOuS IhCI lHdo ehO ihop'Noi"ii W.
buildings in Brooklyn amounted to nothing;
that the laws on the subject were anti
quatcd, were fit only for small VII
lage, and were not enforced. There
was some stir made in the matter, and
both laws and system were much improved.
Whether they are yet sufficient, is a subject
for grave inquiry. For the enforcement of such
laws due penalties must be provided, and the
officials must be clothed with authority. 1t
may be necdful also to have special law, with
power for enforcing it, which shall compel the
owners of theaters and public halls to supply
ample means for extinguishing fire on their
PREMISES.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-09
cHILDREN,s MkRRYMAKING.

The Masonic Hall Corner of Sixth-ave. and
Twenty -third-st.) was full yesterday OF happy
children, who were sure that Saint Nicholas
had already arrived. All of his toys were
there, besides Punch and Judy tableaus and
good things to eat enough to delight the heart
of an Irish king. If any OF our readers wish
to give their little ones foretaste of Christ
mas fun we advise them to take them to the
merrymaking at the hall to-day. 1t will give
meaning to the frolc if they tell them that
the money they spend there is to help sup
port noble charity-the New-York Diet
Kitchen.
The object Of this association of good women,
as everybody ought to know, is to furnish the
necessary food, or even delcacies, required by
the sick poor. This work was carried on
through last Winter, with what success hun
dreds of poor wretches sick and dying in cell
lars and the sitting rooms of tenement houses
only can testify. 1t needs no words of ours
to urge it upon the sympathy of our readers.
The strongest man can remember how when
sick he turned with loathing from the ordi-
nary food of his own well supplied table. The
poor mans life may depend upon proper diet !;
but while his family eat the coarse refuse OF
the shops or the garbage begged at kitchen
doors, how is he to procure ltY Stated
charities furnish him medicine and medi-
cal advice, but until this assOcia-
ton begun its work there was no help for
him beyord but to starve. We have before us
now the face of one hard working woman, a
good mother and faithful Christian, who wore
ont and died in her poor hovel simply for the
lack of the plain nourishing food which she
would not beg, aud which these other women
now are giving in Gods name to the needy.
That the affairs of the association will be
administered with discretion and practical good
sense we are assured from the character of
the managers, chief among whom is lady of
large experience as matron and nurse in sew
eral hospitals during the war. Her executive
ability and knowledge of details gained there
will insure the most economical and wise dis
posal of funds contributed to this charity.
New-York tribune., 1876-12-09
INDICITJONS OF VAR.

We hear nothing more of the Conference Mt
Constantinople, or of that plan OF reform
which was to have been promulgated by the
Turkish Government ten days ago. In three
weeks more the term of the arInistice will ex-
pire. and unless the negotiations of the Con-
ference should be then far enough advanced
to promise a settlement, Russia will have no
other reason than her own convenience for
consentlng to its renewal. But, if there be
obscurity in Constantinople, the atmosphere is
rapidy growing clearer throughout the rest OF
Europe. The positions Of the principal Pow
crs. both absolute and relative, are now clearly
defined, and they arc not likely to vary IN
case of war,-at least not until war shall give
rise to new questions and fresh conflicts OF
interest.
Prince Bismarck's speech simply declares
what has been manifest for some time past.
Germany's position and interests so clearly
prescribe her neutrality that 1t was to be as
sumed from the beginning. But the declara-
tion that Austria is also in accord with Ger
many and Russia removes another possible
complication. 1t indicates that the chief pur-
DOSE of the Berlin Conference was attained
at the time, and was not relinquished when
the object of that conference was appa-
rcntly defeated. Moreover, it is now settled
that neutrality, and probably to the same ex-
tent, must Of necessity he accorded by En-
gland. There is n renewal Of the manifesto
tions of public sentiment which the present
Ministry will be compelled to heed. The pO-
sition taken by Bright, Gladstone, and other
statesmen of the Liberal party, rests on Il very
general change of opinion in regard to the
Eastern Question. The Government has for
feited the confidence of a considerable portion
of its own party in its wisdom. and must act
| on the defensive when Parliament assemblies.
Russia. therefore, is left entirely free to
march against Turkey. The increase of her
military preparations, the concentration and
disposition of her troops, and the movements
! in Servia and ROumania, all indicate the con-
fdent expectation of war. They are on too
| large and costly a'scale for mere "intimida-
"tIon." Even if Turkey should concede the
chief demands, it will he very difficult for her
| to furnish satisfactory guarantees for their
execution. She cannot defeat the pretexts
which Russia will bring forward to justify n
military occupation of Servia, Bulgaria, and
| Bosnia. 1t seems almost certain that Russia
intends as much as this, which is ut least pas
| sive war, and liable at any moment to change
! into the active state.