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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-07-08
SOLID WEALTH!
100000 " GIFTS:
Grandest Scheme ever presented 70 the Public
A Fortune for only Sl2.

E'HE KENTUCKY CASH DIsTRfBU-
ATlON COMPANY, authorized by Il spc-
cial act OF the Kentucky Legislature. for
the benefit o. the PUBLIC SCHOOLS or
FRANKFORT. will have the first of their
series OF Grand Drawings at MAJOR HALL.
IN the City OF Frankfort, Ky. on THURS.
DAY, AUGUST 81, 1876, on which occasion
they will distribute to the ticket-holders the
immense sun of
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-07-08
$1,000. STATE OF LoU1s1,N.

Tf.o"V' SIAIE UF LOUISIANA No
hnoW al men By these presents that the
Town OF 1hiboGaux acknowledges itself in
debtedto the 1h5bodaur d IerFe5oaue D,oi
mage ana A0rtgoion 20. in the sum of five
Hundred Dollars. which suiu the said Town
promises to pay in current money. of tbn
United States to the order of said Gompanv
ih"-year from date hereof with interest
at the rate of eight per cent per annum
from date. ~
Secretary Manor.
Town Of Thibodaux-- 1877
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-07-08
For District Judge.

To the People Of The 18Th Judicial District
| am a candidate for reelection as Judge
of this District.
Conscious of an answering attempt 20
administer the Office in the past with fair,
ness and impartiality, | shall subult the
future to you, without seeking the nomina-
ton eitherof political party or personal
coterie.
TAYLOR BEATTIE,
Thibodaux, Juue 23rd. 1876.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-07-08

Sec 3. Be it further ordained that in orylar
to acknowledgement of said bonds and
10 secure the ppnctual avmen of said
bonds IN principal and interest, the Mayor
OF the Town is hereby authorized to piedre
all the shares ofstock owned by said Town
in the Thibodaar Bridge Compa,sy, and the
pledge Is hereby authorized to receive the
dividends on the shares so pledged, provi-
ded the amount OF dividends as fast as re-
celved shall be credited on the bonds first
maturing. and shall be so credited on the
bonds as they successfully mature:
SOC. q. BE 1t further ordained that as n
further security for the punctual payment
OF SAID bonds in principal and interest, a
special tax OF not more than one half of one
per cent be and is hereby levied on all the
landed estate situated within the corporate
limits OF the Town Of Thibodaux its being
well intended, however, that the Collector
OF municipal tax shall only collect said tax
during shuch years when the devidends on
the Erldg stock shall be insufficient to meet
the full payment Of bonds as they mature.
And IN any year when the dividends of |
the Bridge stock arc sufficient to punctuaIly
meet the payment of the bonds as they mn
ture, III principal and interest, that for n
sacn year the tax hereby levied is RENTED
and snail not be coliectable.
Sec.o Be it further ordained that the
T., 1919 't'iALteitc bc SUI HliCGSti lOF 1pDrO-
or rejection Mt an election of the voters
on whose property the tax Aforesaid is le-
wed, sad election to be advertised by the
Mayor during thirty days and to be held
the office of the Mayor on Saturday. Au-
gust Eth 1876, between the hours of 6 A.
A., II b 2. M, said election to be presided
over by 2. f. L0rio, II. A. Legendre aud j.
Badeaux.
Commissioner hereby appointed for the
who shah first be sworn to discbar.
their duties faithfully and honestly. said
commissioners are to be furnished by the
own Constable With a list of the voters |
to vote at said election
Approved and adopted this Fifth dav of
my A.. Eighteen Hundred and Seventy /
six 1851
:. -LORiO, NJ. T. HIGGINBOTHAM {
mayor. Secretary. \
A true copy from the minutes.
NJ. t. HiGGINBoTHAM. Secretary
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-07-08
KEErE & Bouln|
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r-NE EHUI
HAVING purchased the asowz
Unknown establishment, taks
ure in announcing to the plant
have retitted the Foundry
Shop. and are now prepared
in their line, with neatness
STEAM ENGINES, Ii
SUGAR MILLS,
DRAINING WHLEId
SH4FTING and 6AA !.
-AND-
CASTINGS IN
of all descriptions made to ols's.
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27
DEMOCRATIC MASS CONVENTION

The above call, for mass convention OF
the democrats of this county on the Sth OF
June next, is issued on consultation with
leading democrats from various parts of the
county, and in this form for the reason that
at present the democratic party is without a
central committee or any other regular or
ganization. The hope is that there will be a
general attendance at the proposed mass
meeting from all parts of the county, and
that, in addition 10 the appointment of dele
cation to the Springfield convention, a coun.
~ committee may then be appointed and
other steps taken to fully re.organize the par,
~ OF the county and provide regular mode
Of calling future conventions
1t is manifest, from present appearances,
that in the coming presidential contest, there
will be but two parties in the field, the demo.
cratic and republican, and that any third
party that may attempt to enter will be but a
shuttecock between the other two, to be used
or cajoled by one or the other, or crushed be.
tween them. If the opposition Of La Sale
county desire to occupy their natural and
strongest position in the contest, therefore,
they must unite and fight under the demo.
cratic name. Those who are not with US In
that name are against us and helping the
party of republicanism, whisky rings and
general corruption. There is no room, time
or occasion for guerilla warfare. 1t will
be an open, square, standup fight between
Democracy and Republicanism. Let the
democrats of La Sale county, therefore,
buckle on their armour and hang their ban.
ners on the outer walls.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27
PATENT INSIDES

The Strcator Monitor, commenting on soma
recent remarks of the FREE TRADER nm H.
deterioration of the country press BY
reason of patent insides," says:
The demand of the reading nuhIic and
competition caused the production of "natent
lnsides," and the matter they supply is nc
newsy and readable as that made I'M M
home. The charge that the circulation of
these papers is from 3OJ to 500 copies falls
harmless. When the writer of this article
was an emp!oye in the FREE TRADER office
thirty.twO years ago, its circulation did not
exceed the latter figure, if our memory serves
US. 1t seems to us, that II is fair to presume
II our friend OSman's paper had deterioraed
IN lis growing years and increased circua
uoh, as he claims the county press has, il
would not today be, as il is, at the head OF
the press IN this Congressional district-the
sturdlest Roman OF them ALL
Inc circulation of the FREE TRADER was
never less than 700, and at that time extended
over nan a dozen OF adjoining counties But
thouSh the population of La Sale and the
o'her counties has increased tenfold since
then, The circulation of the FREE Tp,nV &c
less IMAM 2ooO. But for the patent inside
competition, 1t might have a circulation of
four or five thousand to-day, with propor.
tlonate advertising patronage, which would
give 1t means not only to hold its own in
editorial ability and mechanical execution
but to hire such additional editorial talent
and mechanical skill as would place 1t on a
level with first class metropolitan journals.
With the patent inside competition this is
impossible. Every village of 500 people IN.
der that system has its local paper, and this,
with metropolitan blanket sheet about
supplies TIE local newspaper reading demand.
Iha, the FREE TRADER has any considera.
bic circulation left outside of Ottawa, is
mainly attributable to the accident of its To-
cation at the county seat, where it thus has
4 sort OF monopoly, or at least first lien, on a
class of news that all parts of the county are,
interested in
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27
Democratic Mass Convention.

Democrats, conservatives and all other citi
zens Of La Sale county, irrespective OF pas
political associations, desiring to cooperate
with the Democratic party IN its present ei
forts and objects, are invited to meet in Mass
Convention at the Court House in Ottawa, on
Thursday, tie sM doy # Jane 1876, at 9i5
o'clock p NJ, to appoint eight delegates TO at
tend the Democratic State Convention to
be held a, spylngfeld on the 22d day of June
1876, and to transact such other business rs
may be deemed necessary to promote the bet
Ter organization and the success of the Dem.
ocratc party of this county.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

MORMON HEGIRA.-It is said there Is
great deal more than mere talk" IN the ru
NOR that the Mormons are preparing to leave
Utah and move TO New Mexico or Arizona
A correspondent of the Detroit Free Press
recently had a conversation with Brigham
Young and found him in dead earnest in the
matter; and Brigham gives his reasons thus
1t is well known fact that Salt Lake has
no visible outlet for its waters, though a mum
Der of streams OF considerable volume are
continually dischaging their waters into it,
1t has always been conceded that there was
some subterranean outlet through which the
surplus waters have been discharged. In
the past few years the waters of the lake have
been rising, on an average, ten inches per
year. New, through my powers of divination
have discovered that the outlet is being
closed up on account of the vast quantities
OF sodium and chloride gathering al its
mouth. Five years at longest will be sufli.
Gent TO close 1t entirely, and then Salt Lake
Valley will be one vast ocean and Salt Lake
city in the ocean.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

\ NICE MACHINE.-Congress adjourned
over Saturday afternoon TO 60 to the Wash.
ington navy yard and witness experiments
with the Lay torpedo" 1t is an iron.clad,
round, cigar shaped little monster, carrying
its own motive power and bears the torpedo
on its forward point, so that the machine it.
self Is not destroyed by the explosion 1t is
started from shore, or vessel in mid-ocean,
and guided through the water by electricity,
acting through a small cable by which the
connection is kept up, la this way 1t can be
guided to the right or left, made to go fast or
slow, and can be controlled accurately in its
motions 10 distance of miles. The eXper.
lment on Saturday was entirely successful.
The machine dashed here and there as If i'm
bued with life. Finally it was recalled from
a great distance and sent to explode small
raft stationed a quarter of mile from the dl.
recting engineer, The torpedo dashed for this
platform with vim and directness that sur.
prlsed everyone. Some thought that the raft
was too small to be,hit at first venture but the
aim of the engineer was unerring, the torpedo
striking the raft directly IN the centre and in
a second after the whole taft was flying up
ward, blown into thousand pieces
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

Either Marshal Campbell is the champion
political greenhorn of the day, or lac must
consider everybody but himself green. The
story he told TO the committee ut Washington
about his connection with the levy of black.
mail on Miss Sweet is as charming a bit of
ycrdancy as any nicely shaven lawn. lie
had lent Blakcly 5000, he says, without
much hope Of getting l, back. and when
Blakely turned over the pension agency to
Miss Sweet he took Miss Sweets note for
$4,000, the balance due on Blakely's note. and
since then Miss Sweet had paid him -, lOC
on that note; but all this time, and in spite Of
Bakers Investigation of the matter, and Lo
gan's indignation, and Miss Sweets com
plants, he never had the remotest suspicion
that there was anything crooked in the ar
rangcment between Blakely aud Miss Sweet
When fually the whole matter came out by
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

The c. b. & @ Railroad Company on Tues
day filed a bill in our Circuit Court to enjoin
the collection of the railroad tax which re
cent decision of the Supreme Court OF the |.
5. said the company must pay. The bill goes
over the whole ground of the legality OF the
assessment of the capital stock of railroad
companies and their franchises in addition
to tangible property, claiming such assess
nent to be illegal, &c. We are not sufficient
" posted IN all the legal and technical de;
tails of the case to say how much OF what the
company here sets up for defense against pay
ing the tax has already been decided against
them, but osr impression Is that the decis'
IONS of the Supreme Court of the |. 5. and OF
the state cover the whole case, and that THIS
proceeding is only to stave oil paynien'-
Meantime temporary Injunction, allowed Oy
Judge McAllister, of Chicago, stops tue 'i'
mediate collection of the tax.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

Miss Sweet telling her story to the committee
a, Washington, simple, innocent Mr.. Camp
bell was immensely shocked, and forthwith
proceeded to pay back TO- Miss Sweet the saiu
S2lOO. The innocence and virtue OF MI
Campbell in the whole business, as unlo!ued
by himself doubtless overwhelmed the com
mittee with admiration, and they can do no
less than recommend that an olAccr Oh sucn
marvellous purity ought at once to be placed
heyond the fearful trials that must assaiI his
virtue as a Grant office holder
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27
FATE OF THE CARPET.BAGGERs

Bullock, the deiaulting carpetbag COVER
nor of Georgia, who stole at least ten mil
lions an1 then ran off and hid, has beer
found and taken back TO Georgia, where he
will now be tried for his crimes and doubt
less end his career In penitentiary. Ames,
of Mississippi, has been deposed by impeach
ment and left the state where the climate is
no longer congenial to his health. Scott OF
South Carolina, Is still in Charleston, we be-
lieve, but no dog there is mean enough to do
him reverence. Spencer, of Alabama, still
occupies a seat obtained by corruption in
the |. 5. Senate, but he is despised there,
and will hardly dare to return to the state he
mlsrepresents and disgraces. A few months
more Will end the career of Kellogg, of
louisiana, and then the south Will be rid OF
that nuisance. Surely there should be hope
for the south when It has been able to sur
vive the ordeal of such rule of scoundrel
ism.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

The LOUISIANA TROUBLE-The history OF
the last episode in the "war of races" in Lou
slana is briefly this: On the 14th inst, at
Laurel Hill, on the Mississippi, in northern
Louisiana, in broad day light, band of ne.
groes called on store keeper named Lehman
against whom they had spite, and calling
him to the door shot him dead A squad OF
white men then went to the place to bury the
body, but the negroes refused to allow this,
and a fight ensued, in which three negroes
and two white men were killed. Then all
the people OF that part Of the county, whites
and blacks, armed for fight. The negroes
gathered near Fort Adams and the whites en-
trenched themselves four miles away. On
the 10Th the negroes, having driven the whites
to their trenches, broke open Lehman's store
and Quilted it, and pilaged the neighborhood
generally. On Wednesday the Sheriff ap-
peared at PlGkneyville with posse of whites
and summoned the negroes to surrender.
They answered with a voley, upon which
fight occurred resulting in the death OF
negroes, the balance taking to their heels.
Since then quiet has rcigned, and the sherih
telegraphs that the trouble is over. Reports
say that the disturbance was caused by the
Vaccinations of white republicans for the
purpose of filling the state with troops to IN
timidate whites, and carry the state for the
Republicans at the coming election, but the
sheriff, who seems 20 be conservative, says
in his dispatch that politics had nothing
IN do with il ~
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27
THE RESUMPTION ACT.

We observe that at about all democratic
meetings east or west, no matter no" strongly
the resolutions adopted may insist on a gold
basis for our currency and an early return To
specie payment, at least one resolution is In
Cluded in favor of an unconditional repeal OF
the Sherman resumption act Whether the
hard money democrats in congress so under
stand it or not, the mass Of the party outside
hold that "the Sherman act was passed by
the republican party As party measure anu
is a fraud in conception and swlndle in
execution, and it ought to be repealed for
this reason alone. There are an abundance
of other reasons for the repeal, but all OF them
have their root in this one The Springfield
Register states the case correctly rs follows;
The argument that 1t is necessary to put
something in It's place is not good one be
cause Of the difficulty OF agreeing on the sub
stitutc. The whole financial system of the
country has beed demoralized by republican
legislation, and it will not do to say that the
people must endure the robbery until a com
pete honest system is re-established. The
true plan of reform is TO strike at the boldest
and most prominent evils, and of all financial
evils Shermans resumption act is the worst
and most prominent We say, therefore, that
the act should be repealed, and the represen.
tatiyes at Washington will find either sooner
or later, that the people Of the country are of
this opinion
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

INDIANAPOLIS RIoT.-Some three or tour
weeks ago, at the municipal election in Indi-
annapolis, there was quite serious riot, in
connection with which the democrats were
sharply blamed, as several negroes were
killed. Since then there has been corOner's
inquest, and the jury, by agreement, was
composed OF three democrats and three re-
publcans They made an exhaustive inyes-
tigatIon into the causes and all details OF the
riot, aud the substance of their verdict is that
the negroes who caused the riot were outSid-
ers. mad no right to vote, ard were the aggres
sors in the violent acts that led 20 their
death. Says the jury:
The riot was carried into effect by colOred
men, under the leadership of white men, the
two most prominent who participated IN per
son being Al Nancamp and James McBrice
lrepublicanS) The motive held by these
men in conducting and directing colored
men from the Fourth ward TO the sixth ward
polls, armed with bludgeons, rocks, knives
and raZors, cannot easily be determined ny
the jury, but the motive of the colored men
in so doing can be judged by their actions
in creajiHg and carrying on the riot. Inc
jury are further of the opinion, and II IS over
whelmly supported by the evIdedce, that lhe
colored men, during the entire day, were pre-
pared for the riot. 1t is shown by the evidence
that threeiourths Of the colored men "eIe
armed al the polls.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

By the way what is the Ottawa FREE TRAD
Err about now adays? What was the last prn-
ciple il was advocating? Speak quick, if.you
are going To answer, for We want to find out
before it chan 5es again.-lndustrtdl Age
The Age is both tlippant and mendacious.
How has the FREE TRADER changed? Ii
commended the good senseot Sidney Meyers
and Professor Turner for insisting on a
specie basis currency, IN opposition to the
bcttomless scheme of Hooton, Kelly, Day,
Cooper and the Decatur convention. And
now the indianapolis conventicle falls into
the same idocy. Like the Decatur gathering,
that at indianapolis resolves in favor of a
grecnback currency redcemable in bonds,
principal aud interest Of said bonds pay.
able in currency, In both gatherings a
motion tossnake either principal or interest
of bonds payable in gold was voted down.
This Mr.. Meyers, Prof Turner, W c. Flagg
and the FREE TRADER say rs currency
scheme is nonscnscal ana idiotiC
And on the same question where does the
.Igc stands 1t cordially endorses the Decatur
platform, and calls il 4 second gospel In
like manner it cordially endorses aud adopts
as its own the indianapolis platform. And
then the ige spreads itself in one Of its grand
/ tlopdoodle editorials, and thus exploits the
majestic scheme of its party:
1 The currency reformerS propose that the
J government shall exercise It's rightiul prerog.
alive, and furnish the currency OF the nation,
the volume 10 be limited To the amount
that will float AT par with gold) This
will be the guage of the wants of trade
Ii is not proposed To leave it 10 the power of
factions 10 arbitrarily contract or exI and
the volume, but to render the quantity self
adjusting by ITS being convertible into an in.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

Senator Booth is understood TO say, in re
ference to his nomination for Vice Presidcn,
at Indianapolis, that he does not intend 10
pay any attention 20 it--that he will neither
accept or decline it, lie says he is N accord
with the convention only on two points,
that the L. S. legal tender notes shall be sub
siituted for national bank bills, and 2
hat they should be made interconvertIbl,
with 365 interest bearing bonds. But b,
scouts the delusion that the greenbacks car
be made equal TO gold without the bonds be
ing long bonds aud payable principal and
interest in gold.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27

"Of course" Blaine Is innocent, but the
strain upon his nervous system in conse-
quence of the accusations against him in
connection with those Arkansas railroad
bonds and $4,000 IRON the L. r. Railroad
Company, has been SO great as 10 bring him
10 bed Meantime Bristow, who has had to
fight thousand mules and half dozen OF
whisky rings In the same way, is in first rate
health and seems TO enjoy the excitement OF
Sighting his accusers.