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Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-10-27
Les senateurs de la Louisiana

Quels naIfS s'etaient done ina |
yine que, apres ayoir etc cons
battus, depuis deux
ms, apres avoir essuy6, an Nord
sussi bien qu'au Sud, nous ne sa-
Fons combien de defaites plus
crnelles les unes que les autres,
les radicaux fniraient par s'a-
vouer yaincus ct par abandon
ner, de guerre lasse, cette proie
du pouvoir qui satisfaisait leur
interet plus encore que leur
amour propre, ct remplissait leur
poche plus qu'elle ne fattait leur
orgueil.
Ces braves gens-la etaient loin.
de lear compte, ct lis yoient au-
jourd'hni que les radicaux dn
Congress ont la vie plus dnre et
l'ambition plus tenace qu'ils men
ayaient pidee. lis peuyent EN- jtf-
ger par ce qui Went de Sc passer
au Senat des Etats- Unis.
On salt que, par IN scandale
inouI dams l'histoire parlementai.
re, par un abns de pouvoir sans
nom, un Etat souyerain, la Loui-
siane, Sc trouve, depnis plusieurs
annees, privee de representants
dams la Chambra haute du Con.
gres. II y a plus de denx ans, le
parti democratic, en- majorite evj-
dente parmi nous, lui await en-
yoy6 un homme eminent; mais il
|etait conyenu que rien de demo-
Icrate ne devait 6tre accepte de la
Louisiana. II laissa Sc morfondre
d la porte relu de lEtat. Est,ce
lque l'oll tlaignait tenir compfe Gle
nos volontes Z Nous etions des
parias; on ne Sc g6nait pas pour
lnous le dire, ct on agissait ouver
ltement en- Consequence.
X
A Ia bonne heure, mais le part
republican,, don't on maintenai1
Persistence par la force des bafon
Inettes, await, hi aussi, envoys
Ison homme. ii efait tout nature
lqu'on i'acceptat. Pas du tout
'1Lelu des radicaux ne plaisait pa
la ces messieurs ills objectaient
'Isa personne ct a sa couleuI
-IC'etait absurde, c'etait il'ogique
sImais Ia justice, la loglque. sc
lmessieurs ne s'inquietent guer
sIde celia. Fl faut faire ce qui leu
Iplaft, nommer qui leur plait, sino
2 eIpas de representation. La Cons
{ ltitution en- dira ce au'elle voudra
let le peuple aussi, ces messieuf
se moqueront de Pun ct de l'autr'
i Anjourd'hui que le pauvr
senateur de couleur est bien ev
5 Idemment mort ct enterre, anjoul
j. .ld'hui que Pinchback 4, de guerr
allasse, renonc6 b son siege qui u
J. ltenait tant au cGur, vous croye
elpeut etre que, par pudenr, sino
tide bonne volont6, ces messieul
eIvont admettre le democratic al
Ina plus l'ombre dun concarren
lAllons done, vous ne connaisst
eIpas les radicaux du Senat. Aus
stlongtemps qn'ils le pourront /
1 -Iretiendront M. Enstis a la port
S lS'il le faut meme ills ressnscit
ulront Ia candidature ssde Pine
el back. Non pas pour Padmettr
e au moins; oh non, Inais POI
Iel elprolonger le statat quo actnel, sal
legard pour la representation {
LA Louisiana, sans egard pour
"a Constitution des Etats- Unis, sal
1, l6gard pour Ia volonte du pcnp
lslde pUnion.
,el Ce nest pas tout. Un fait e
r len train de Sc passer, qui est !
elautre d6ni de justice autreme
lelconditionne.
.el Ian dernier, il 3 await ici u
n.1doubie election; dun cote, III
ir election de minorit6 qui donna
lel elpour resultat Packard, avec q
Legislature de meme acabIt ct !
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-10-27
W ASHINGTON HOTEL
NAPoLEoNyILLE, LA.

NAPOLEONyILLE, La.
Having been newly fitted up, is now
fiji ly prepared to accommodates all those
who will honor it with their patronage.
Nothing has been spared to make this
popular H5TEL home for the travelling
'''s CHARLES DUPATY.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-10-27
NOTICE

All persons holding claims against the
School Board of this Parish, are notified
to file the same without delay with August
Buiow, Treasurer of the School Board oi
J.E. LEBLANC,
Secretary Parish Board.
Parish of Assumption, August Is, 1877.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-10-27

Ii y q It's avocats D la Cham
bre des Representants de Wash
ington.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
Poe tic al.
A Little Child's Fancies

think that the world was finished at night,
Or the stars would not have been made;
For they wouldn't have thought of having the
light,
If they hadn't first seen the shade.
And them again, alter my mind,
And think perhaps it was day,
And the starry night was only designed
For little child tired of play.
And think that an angel, when nobody knew
With window pushed up very high,
Let some of the seeds of the flowers fall through
From the gardens they have in the sky.
For they couldn't think here of lilies SO white
And such beautiful roses, l know;
But l wonder, when falling from such height
The dear little seeds should grow
And then when the face of the angel was turned
think that the birds flew by,
And are singing to us the songs they learned
On the opposite side of the sky.
And q rainbow must be the shining below
Of place in Heavens floor that is thin,
Right close TO the door where the children 60
When the dear Lord let's them in.
And think that the clouds that float in the
skies
Are the curtains that they drop down,
For fear when we look we should dazzle our
eyes,
AS they each of them put on their crown.
do not know why the water was sent,
Unless, perhaps, it might be
God wanted us all to know what it meant
When we read of the casper Sea-"
o! the world where we live is lovely place,
But il oftentimes makes me sigh,
For Pm always trying causes to trace,
And keep thinking "Wherefore?" and
"Why?"
All! dear little child, the longing you feel
Is the stir of immortal wings;
But infinite Love one day will reveal
The most hidden and puzzling things.
You have only your duty to try and do,
To be happy, and rest content;
For by being good and by being true
You will find out all that is meant!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
Giants.

In a memoir read before the Academy
of Sciences at Rouen, M. lie Cat gives the
following accounts of giants that are said
to have existed in different ages:
Proiane historians have given seven feet
of height to Hercules, the first hero, and
in our day we have some men eight feet
high. The giant who was shown in Rouen
in 1884, measured eight feet some inches.
The emperor Maximinus was of that size.
Shenens and Platerus, physicians of the
last century, saw several of that stature,
and Horepius saw girl who was ten feet
high. The body of Orestus, according to
the Greeks, was eleven feet and half; the
giant Galbara, brought from Arabia to
Rome, under Claudius Caesar, was near ten
feet high and the bones of Secondilla and
Pusio, keepers Of the garden of Sallust,
were but six inches shorter. Funnam, a
Scotchmau, who lived in the time of Eu-
gene H., King of Scotland, measured elev-
en- feet and a half; and Jacob LIE Marie,
in his voyage to the Straits of Magellan,
reports that on the seventeenth of Decem
Der, 1915, they found at Port Desire seve-
raj graves covered with stones, and having
the curiosity to remove the stones, they
discovered human skeletons ten and eleven
feet long.
The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to
the Peake of Teneriffe, says he found in
one of the sepulcheral caverns in that
mountain, the head of gaunche which
had eighty teeth, and that the body was
not less than fifteen feet long. The giant
Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of
Charlemagne, was eighteen feet high. Ro-
land, a celebrated anatomist who wrote in
1914, says some years before there was to
| be seen in the suburbs of st. German the
tomb of the great giant Isoret, who was
twenty feet high In Rouen, in 1900, in
| digging in the bitches near the Domini-
cans, they found stone tomb containing
skeleton whose skull held bushel of
corn, and whose shin bone reached up to
the girdle of the tallest man there, being
about four feet long, and consequently the
body must have been seventeen or eighteen
feet high. Upon the tomb was plate of
copper, wherein was engraved, In this
tomb lies the noble and puissant lord, the
| Chevalier Ricon de Vallemont and his
bones" Platerus, a famous physician, de-
clares that he saw at Lucerne the body of
Il man which must have been at least nine
teen feet high. Valance of Dauphiny
boasts of possessing the bones of the giant
Bucart, tyrant of the Nivaries, who was
slain with an arrow by the count of Cabil-
lon, his vassal. The Dominicans had part
of the shin-bone, with the articulation of
his knee, and his figure painted in fresco,
with an inscription showing that the giant
was twenty-five and half feet high, and
and that his bones were found in 1905,
near the banks of the Morderi, little river
near the foot Of the mountain of CIusal,
upon which tradition says) the giant
dwelt.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23

to be famous for its beautiful women, but
l did not see any of them. 1t has quaint
and ancient appearance, and taken to-
gether with the beautiful country which
surrounds it, we might quote few words
from well-known missionary hymn in re-
gard to it:
Where every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile"
confess left it without regret, and felt
safe and happy when we had procured our
tickets and were securely seated in our
coupe. Italian railroad travelling never
struck me with any great degree of admi-
ration. There is dingy, unclean look
about the coaches, q too economical use of
padding in the cushions and a weakly,
hand appearance about the engines,
all OF which characteristics did not COM
Dlne to produce that comfortable feeling
of safety which is so requisite for agreea-
Die travelling. But we had good company
and good wine, and so made the best we
could of bad bargain. Our route lay
for many miles along the coast, between
the mountains and the sea- and we amused
ourselves4!e looking from the dilapidated
towers perched on the crest of one to the
curious craft sailing on the bosom of the
ether. At Foggia our efficient German
friend left us, or rather we left him, after
having given us much instruction and adj
vice about Naples; and we journeyed on
with two other Germans of the party to-
ward that interesting city. The country
from Foggia to Naples is level, and chiefly
devoted to the culture of grapes and olives.
The olive trees are set in orchards like our
peach trees, the grape vines were on high
trees, regularly set out for the purpose,
and as they produce abundantly, l think
note of this method would he worth while
to some of those who experience difficulty
in raising grapes in the lower and more
level parts of our county. Toward sun
set, the smoking peak of old Vesuvius
came into view and it was about night-tall
when we rolled into Naples and rested
from our labors. Here you will no doubt
be content to leave us until / find time to
relate what we saw there.
Yours,
M s. 4 i ~
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
Words of Wisdom.

Always be ready to say kind and cley-
er word to every body.
A bird is known by his note and man
10y bis talk.
A friend to every body is friend to no.
body.
A friend that you buy with presents
may be bought from you.
A little time may be enough to hatch a
great deal of mischief.
small leak will sink great ship.
A man of honor respects his word as he
does his bond.
friend is never known until needed.
A good cause makes a stout heart and a
strong arm.
A little house we'll filled little land
well titled and wife well willed is a
blessing to man.
An obedient wife commands her hus-
band.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them
not is like an ass that carries gold and eats
thistles.
An idle brain is the DEVILS work shop.
Be you ever so high the law is above
you.
Better an empty house than bad ten
ant
Better unthought than iflthought.
Better to be alone than in bad company.
Be always rs merry as you ever can; for
no one delights in sorrowfull man.
Don't'expect to please every one or you
will please no one.
Do not NEEDLE with business you do not
understand.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
Thirst I'm the Arctic Regions,

The use OF the snow (writes Souther-
land) when persons are thirsty does not by
any means allay the Unsuitable desire for
water; ON the contrary, it appears to be
increased in proportion to the quantity
used; and the frequency with which it is
put into the mouth. For example, per-
son walking along feels intensely thirsty,
and he looks to his feet with coveting eyes;
but his good sense and firm resolutions are
not to be overcome SO easily, and he with
draws the open hand that was to grasp the
delicious morsel and convey it into his
parching mouth he has seven miles of
journey to accomplish, and his thirst is
every moment increasing; he is perspiring
protusely, and feels quite hot and Cypress.
ed; at length his good resolutions stag
ger, and he partakes of the smallest par
tlcle, which produces a most exhilarating
effect. In less than ten minutes he tastes,
again and again, Always increasing the
quantity, and in half an hour he has
gumstick of condensed snow, which lie
masticates with avidity, and replaces with
asslduity the moment it has melted away,
but his thirst is not allayed in the slightest
degree; he is as hot as ever, and still per-
spires; his mouth is in flames, and he is
driven to the necessity of quenching them
with snow, which adds fuel to the fire.
The melting snow ceases to please the
palate, and it feels likered- hot Goals, which,
like iire-eater, he shifts about with his
tongue, and swallows without the addition
OF saliva; he is in despair, but habit has
taken the place of his reasoning faculties,
and he moves on with languid steps, la
mentlng the severe fate which forces him
to persist in practice which in an un-
guarded moment he allowed to begin. I
believe the true cause of such intense thirst
Is the extreme dryness of the air when the
temperature is low. In this state it. abb
stracts a large amount of moisture from
the human body. The soft and extensive
surface which the lungs expose twenty-five
times or oitener every minute to nearly two
hundred cubic inches of dry air, must
yield quantity of vapor which one can
hardly spare with impunity. The human
skin throughout its whole extent, even
where it is brought to the hardness of horn,
as well as the soitest and most delicate
parts, is continually exhaling vapor, and
this exhalation creates in due proportion
demand for water. Let a person but ex-
anime the inside of his boots after u walk
IN the open air at low temperature, and
the accumulation of condensed vapor which
he finds there will convince him of the ac-
tive state of the skin. often found my
stockings adhering to the soles of my
Kllby's boots after walk of a few hours.
The hoar frost and snow which they con-
tanned could not have been there by any
other means except eXhulation from the
skim
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
A Saving Wife.

Mr. Rose, a merchant now residing in
Philadelphia, who formerly lived in rather
an extravaganza style, was in the habit,
every Monday morning, of giving his wife
a certain amount of money for the table
and other household expenses of the week
lie never mentioned his business to his
wife, and she, deeming him sufficiently
capable OF attending to his own affairs,
never inquired into them. About fifteen
years after their marriage, through some
slight mismanagement and the rascality of
his confidential clerk, Mr.. Rose suddenly
broke, and his fall was mentioned sympa-
thizingly on Change, and-like all such
matters-there sympathy ended. The mer-
chant kept the affair secret, and the first
intimation his lady had of it was a para
graph in paper Shortly after dinner
was over, on the day of the discovery of
the startling facts. Mrs. Rose desired her
husband to remain in the parlor few mo.
ments, as she had something to say to him.
She then left the room and hurried up stairs
and shortly afterwards returned with a
splendidly bound Bible in her hand. -
Handing it to her husband, she said,
George the day following our marriage
you gave me this precious book as token
of your love, and asa rich fountain to look
to in the day of trouble. Its pages have
been precious to me, and, as your brow
looks sad to-day, | now return it to you,
that you may CLEAN from it some consola-
ton in the hour of gloom"
She then left the room.
The merchant opened the book careless.
ly, aud bank bill fell out of it. Hepick-
n1i nd
$40 bill. He opened it at the first page
and continued to find an Y between every
two leaves till he arrived at the commence.
ment of the Book of Revelation. He was
saved-could again commence business
and that, too, with a capital of $4,000.
He rang the bell. A servant appeared.
Request your mistress to come to me
immediately" said the merchant.
The lady obeyed, entering the room with
something between tear and smile.
Kate Kate! where did you procure
all this money 2"
cts the weekly saving of our household
expenses for the last fifteen years." was the
modest reply. Every week put ten out
of twenty dollars which you gave me into
our Bible bank, that when day of trouble
came upon US we should have something to
save us from the wolf"
but why put it in the Bible, Kate ?"
Because it is good bank, and one
which will not suddenly break" replied
the lady.
You are an angel !" exclaimed the de
lighted husband, clasping her to hisheart.
And SO she is. Does any one doubt2
There are thousands of such angels, de-
spite the railing ofour miserable, woman
slandering bachelors.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23

Many recipes for making this bread are
given, from time to time, through differ
ent sources. But lady in the Tribune
thinks las do all the resD that her process
is the best Take stone jar Cor pitch
er will do) that will hold about two quarts
and half; scald it out with hot water
then put into it II pint of water Just
warm enough to bear your finger in,
a tcaspoontul OF salt, and flour enough to
make a thin batter. Put the jar into
kettle of warm water, cover it and set it
by the side of the stove, where it will
keep warm. After it has remained there
quite II while, water and bubbles will
come on the top; then stir in thoroughly
some flour until quite thick, and let it re-
main until it has risen to the top, or ring,
or nearly. Put flour into pan, pour in a
pint of water just warm enough to hold
your hand in; then pour in your ris-
ing and mix. Work it well, and then make
into loaves; put your pans Z; grease the top
of your loaves with butter, and set in a
warm place to rise. When light enough
bake in Il moderately hot oven one hour
If the rising doesn't seem inclined to come
up, set the kettle on top the stove for a few
minutes,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23

LISTENING TO EVIL REpoRTs.-Th e
longer live, the more feel the impor-
lance of adhering to the rule which have
laid down for myself in relation to such
matters: 1. To hear as little as possible
whatever is to the prejudice of Others. g.
To believe nothing of the kind till am
absolutely forced to it. 3. Never to drink
into the spirit of one who circulates an
evil report. 4. Always to moderate, as
far as can, the unkindness which is ex-
pressed towards others. 5. Always to be-
lieve that, ifthe other side were heard, a
very different account would be given of
the matter Caus's Life of Simeon.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
q III C III y
II Hurts the Old Fogy Dealers
THEY SQUEAL AT THE LOW PRICES A
WHIEu WE Sci 0IIR STOMES

II Hurts the Old FOgy Dealers
THEY SQUEAL AT THE Low PRICES AT
WHICH WE SELL OUR STOVES.
MEssRs. EDITORS conference.-the want
You to proclaim that we are ahead in Low
PRICES.
Our foundry is right in the Coal and Iron re-
gions OF Pennsylvania; therefore we can make
Stoves cheaper than any other foundry and we
will sell them at RETAIL at WHOLESALE
PRICES.
We are ahead in QUALITY. We use none
but the best No. Iron and employ the best
mechanics we can procure.
We are Ahead in our "TlMES COOK" for
quick baking. 1t took the Gold Medal over all
competitors, baking IN lbs. of Bread in Al
minutes from the time of lighting the fire
and only used 3 lbs. of wood
II you aoant the Best Baker, tie La,qes OYeu,
the Heaviest Iron, the Best Fitted Store, 6ty The
TIMES COOK.
We guarantee every one. If it does not bake,
cook, draw or give satisfaction you may re.
turn it and we will refund the money.
The only place to buy them is at q6 N Cav
st., just above the Bridge.
"a" DO not forget tie number, &C. 1t is be.
tween Front Street and the Bridge
e9y" The No. is 9G. 90. 90.
w. j. ii. GLUCK,
96 n. GAY STREET, Baltimore.
p. s. AS the city of Baltimore is being
Hooded with stoves made in our Penitentiary
by Convict Labor, we would particularly warn
and caution our friends 10 be very careful
where they deal, and where they buy to ask
who makes the stoves. In fact come direct to
No. 96 N. Gay Street for explanations. sells
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
TO Make Cows Give Milk.

A writer who says his COW gives all the
milk that is wanted in family of eight
persons and from which was made 200
pounds of butter in the year, gives the
following as the treatment. He says:
lfyou desire to get large yield of rich
milk, give your COW, three times day,
water slightly warm, slightly sailed, in
which bran has been stirred, at the rate
of one quart to two gallons of water You
will find, if you have not found this by
daily practice, that your COW will gain
twenty-five per cent. immediately under
the effect it. She will become so at
tached to the diet as to refuse to drink
clear water unless very thirsty, but this
mess she will eat almost any time, and
ask for more. The amount of this is an
ordinary water pail full each time,
morning, noon and night. Your animal
will then do her best at dscounting the
tactical -Four hundred pounds of butter
is often obtained from good stock, and
instances are mentioned where the yield
was even at higher figure.
The BEST CATTLE. question as
to which breed of cattle is the best is dis
cussed with all the earnestness now that
1t was forty years ago, and the answer
is as unsatisfactory now as it was then.
Theirs is one part of the question that does
not seem to receive as much consideration
as it deserves-that.is the adaptation of the
breed to climate, soil, and positive profit
in view of the distinct purposes for which
the stock is to be used. We all know--or
ought to know-that particular breeds are
to be preferred for particular locations and
ignoring this, the discussion should end,
as it loses all its point and interest, and
is mere waste of time and gas to continue
it, Germantown Telegraph.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-02-23
Watering Stock.

These same cattle were always well fed !;
that is, they had plenty Of good hay and
fodder the cows wers usually dry during
the Winter--but the effects of the want of
sufficient water in proper places and times
was very observable in the condition of
the stock every Spring, and have often
heard the remark. 81 do not see why
Blank cattle are so poor, as he always
feeds them enough" Very different from
this was it at a neighbours near by. At
this farm log aqueduct carried spring
water into long trough in the yard,
where the water seldom froze entirely over,
so that the cattle, whenever out in the
yard, could take II drink at any time, con-
sequently would never overdrink and be
so chilled and curled up. | have often
watched the sheep, when taking their
morning or evening meal of hay, run every
few minutes to the water, drink little,
then so back to the hay-rack, eat little,
and then trot off to the water again; and
the crowd at the water-tub was fully equal
to the crowd at the bar of one of our Pitts
field liquor saloons, but not quite So noisy.
For mich cows in severe weather, it is bet
ter TO give water with the chill off irposs-
BILE, and | always noticed a falling off in our
milk when the cows have to drink ice
cold water. | expect considerable
shrinkage now that they have to 90 80
far and then take ice-cold water mirror
and Farmer