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SUCCESSION SALE.
Succession of
FRANCOIS GAUDE
AMI
HORTENSE EALGOUT
his wife, both deceased.

Pursuant to a commission to me directed
by the Honorable the Parish Court sitting
in and for the Parish Of Lafourche. ! will
offer for sale at Public Auction, ON the pre-
misses near the town Of Thibodaux, Ola
Saturday, March, 18th 1877.
between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and
O'Clock p. NJ, the following described
property belonging to aforesaid Estates, to.
wit:
LIST. A certain sugar plantation situated
in this parish, on the left bank Of the Bayou
Lafourche. at about one mile below the
town Of Thibodaux, measuring tour arpents
and a half, more or less front by eighty ar
penis in depth, the lateral lines opening as
they recede from said Bayou, bounded
above by the lands of A. Collins Il Co and
below by those Of the estate Of Urban PO-
che.
Aud another certain tract OF land situa-
ted in the Parish Of Lafourche being the
South East quarter o fthe South West quar-
ter OF Section ~ in Township No Id, South
OF Range IL, East, in the South Eastern
Land District of Louisiana West of the
Mississippi river, Containing forty acres,
being the same property acquired as per
act before Adolphe Boudousquie, Notary
Public OF New Orleans or the 9Th February
too61rom Antoine A. Laforest, who acquired
same from the State of Louisiana, on the
18th of January 1855, as per patent No. 1856
Recorded in Patent Book, Vol. 2, p. As, for
ming together one plantation known as the
Nor7s'ng Star Plantation together with all
the buildings and improvements thereon.
III Together with all and singular the
movables upon or attached to said planta
ton, consisting Of One carriage, One horse,
Two mules, One saw mill, saw and carrier
Six COWS, &C., &C., &c.
I'D. One lot of Household furniture, con.
slsting of Beds, Tables. Chairs, Sc, sc.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS.-The lands
to be sold for One third cash, One third at
twelve months. and One third at two wears
credit. Credit installments to be represent.
ed by notes of purchaser, drawn to his own
orders and by himself endorsed, bearing
Eight Per Cent Interest from maturity,
and secured by special mortgage, and ven
doris privilege under the Pact de non alien.
do, and Five Per Cent Attorneys fees in
case Of suit.
For the movables, all sums of Twenty
five Dollars OF less, payable cash, and all
sums over that amount, one half cash and
the balance at twelve months from date OF
sale, represented by note of purchaser with
approved security.
sale Of lands will be made subject tt
rights OF occupancy, Of Ulysse Bourgeois
as PER recorded agreement.
WILLIAM WILTON,
Sheriff
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people of Louisiana have treated
him like a dog. Now any ordiua-
~ dog has all affection for, and
fidelity, to the interest of his
human friends that entities him
to respect and good treatment.
Mad. Wells, possesses neither,
aud has no right to expect the
people Of Louisiana to treat him
with the same kindness that they
do their dogs.
The dog is far the superior ami
NAL, and it is a Islander upon a
devoted animal, to be placed
q level With Welle.
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Manhood : How Lost, How RegtGI

jan. 6'77'ly.
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13
Stlttt Aoetrp.
THE COMING MINISTER.

A pastor wanted-one to please the people;
Our church, expensive and designed with
skill,
Embellished with q mortgage and q Gothic
steeple-
Has pulpit, pews and treasury to fill.
A modern sampson, kept in strength BY prac-
tice,
A mental giant, 50 to speak, we ask,
Who shall our burdens tighten, for the fact Is
To lift a mortgage is no weak mans task.
A man to idraw''-an artist, palmer speaking,
Who frames with skin his soft-ioned modern
views,
To please the taste Of those who, pleasure
seeking,
Rest for little in our cushioned pews.
A Holman Hunt in style; not harsh as Turner;
with fiame-hued tints and danbs Of color
garish:
No dazzling lights softly-shaded burner
Best suits the sense Of our esthetic parish.
No clank Of chains, no birthstone fumes for
sinners,
No rugged pathway over hills uneven,
No weary race wherein but few are winners,
The road is easier nowadays, to heaven;
For, from depot planned by modern science,
We take our palace or our sleeping cars
To Paradise dIrecI--in C1iIl1 eeaahH1
Ofold-tine stages with their iolts and jars, }
And old-fashioned laws.
Such must our pastor be-and such, in brief
his preaching;
Well read in Hegel, Figuier, Renan, Strauss,
He cannot fail to please, and if bis teaching
A hint Of Brahma or Of Buddha shows,
That's better still-men will not weary Of it,
For doctrines new, whether Of priest or sage,
Are indications of coming Profit
Foretelling for our church golden age.
-FTdnk II. Converse.
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Buslnsaa punstaaaaty.

It is astonishing how many people
are unpunctuaL Thousands have failed
in life from this cause alone. It is not
only a serious vice in itself, but the
fruitful parent Of numerous other
vices, so that he who becomes its victim
is soon involved in tolls from which it
is almost impossible to escape. 1t
makes the merchant wasteful Of time,
saps the business reputation Of the law
yer and injures the prospects Of me-
chanics, who might otherwise rise to
fortune; in a word, there is not pro-
fession nor station in life which is not
liable to the canker Of this destructive
habit.
Many of NapOleOn's great victories
were won by infusing into his subordi-
mates the necessity Of punctuality to-
the minute. It was his plan to ms
neuvre over large spaces Of country,
to render the enemy uncertain where
he was about to strike, and then sud-
denly concentrate his forces and fall
with irresistible force upon some weak
point Of the extended line OF the foe.
Execution Of this system demanded
that each division of the army should
arrive at a special spot punctually, for
if any part failed to come up, the bat
tie was lost. 1t was by initiating his
plan that the allies finally succeeded
in Overthrowing the Emperor. The
whole Waterloo campaign turned upon
these tactics. At Mt St. Jean, Blucher
was punctual, while GrOuchy was not,
and the result was, Napoleon fell and
Wellington triumphed.
In mercantile affairs punctuality is
quite as important as in military.
Many are the instances in which ne
glect to renew an insurance policy
punctually has led to serious loss.
Hundreds of city merchants and man
ufacturers and publishers are now suf-
fering in consequence Of want Ofpunc-
tuality among their country customers
in paying up accounts. 1t is sound
policy which moves the banks to In
sist, under penalty of protest, upon the
punctual payment of notes; for, were
they to do otherwise, commercial
transactions would fall into extricable
confusion. Many a time has the failure
of one man to meet obligations brought
about the ruin Of a score of others,
just as the topping down of the FIRST
in a line Of bricks causes the fall fall
therest.
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p..r,. .arrhourht.
Faith is necessary to victory.
Viz h.. 5.o,,vad 49,. 4I,or 4bo

Faith ia necessary to victory.
Wine has drowned more than the
sea.
MOdesty once extingnished knows
not how to return.
Time borders upon eternity. 1t re-
quires but an instant to make the pas
sage from one to the other.
A man who cannot command his
temper, his attention and his counte-
nance, should not think of being a
man Of business.
Dissipation is q swift and sure de-
ssroyer, and every young man who
follows it is, as the early flower, ex-
posed to untimely frost.
Honor is like an island, rugged and
without landing place; we can never
more Eeenter when We are once OUT
side of it.
To assist our felIow-creatures is the
nOblest privilege of mortality; it is,
in some sort, forestaIling the bounty of
Providence.
Party spirit is like gambling
vast number of persons trouble them
selves about what in the end can be
beneficial only to few.
Philosophy has not so much enabled
men to overcome their weakness, as it
has taught the art of concealing them
from the world.
Ifall the year were playing hOli-
days, to sport would be as tedious as
to work; but when they seldom come,
they are wished for.
Of the acts of coWardice, the mean
est is that which leads one to aban-
don good cause because it is weak
and Join q bad cause because it is
strong.
They who have experienced sorrow
are the most capable of appreciating
Joy; so, those only who have been
sick, feel the full value of health.
Men of humOr are, in some degree,
men of genius wits are rarely SO, al
though a man of genius, amongst
other gifts, may possess wit-as Shake
speare.
It is as difficult to win over an en-
thusiast by force of reasoning, as to
persuade a lover of his mistress
faults; or to convince man who is at
law of the badness of his cause.
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swal-
lows up all virtues, and the selfmade
sepulchre Ofa living man. The idle
man is the DEVILS urchin, whose livery
is rags, and whose diet and wages are
famine and disease.
Man was born for action; he ought
to do something. Work, at each step,
awakens sleeping force, and drives out
error. Who does nothing. knows moth.
ing. Risei To work. IF thy knOwl-
edge is real, employ it. Wrestle with |
test the strength of thy theO-
ries; see if they viii support the trial
Aetl !
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13

WHAT IS THE BIBLE LIKE ?-It is
like a large, beautiful tree, which bears
sweet fruit for those that are hungry,
and affords shelter and shade for pill
grims on their way to the kingdom of
heaven.
1t is like a cabinet of jewels and pre-
ciOus stones, which are not only to be
looked at and admired, but used and
worn.
1t is like a telescope, which brings
distant objects and far-of things of the
world very near, so that we can see
something of their beauty and import
ance.
It is like a treasure-house-a store
house for all sorts of valuable and use
full things, and which are to be had
without money and without price.
1t is like deep, broad, calm, Aow-
ing river, the banks of which are green
and howery, where birds sing, and
lambs play, and dear little children
are loving and happy.
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13
A very Fanny joke.

An English farmer has recently
been compelled to pay the costs of a
practical joke. He was sitting in the
barroom of the Greyhound Inn one
night and taking his usual tankard of
ale, when his eye chanced to fall on
the sleeping form Of a man with a long
beard. He went to the fire, and, light
ing piece of paper, deliberately ap-
piled it to the sleeping mans beard.
There was bright rushing fame for
a second or two; the man sprang to
his feet in agony; the joke was COM
plete, and the farmer roared in ecstacy.
The unfortunate sufferer, who hap
pened to be the village tailor, knew
that the farmer was a man of substan-
tial means, and acted accordingly. He
brought an action for $3.50 damages
in the Malmesbury County Court in
due course. According to the plain
tiff's evidence his beard was eighteen
inches long when he lay down, after
having some ale. The next thing he
remembered was his face being on fire,
while a man helped to put out the
fame. The defendant sat in his seat
roaring with laughter, and did not
offer any assistance, nor did he tender
any apology for what he had DONE
His lips were burned severely, his face
was blistered, his head, eyebrows and
eyelashes were burned to the skin and
one eye and one ear were scorched.
The magistrate awarded him $3.50 and
costs.-&. Louis Globe Democrat
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13

partners Office, he raised his eyes from
the desk, and looked steadily at me.
I was surprised to find there was no
sternness nor indignation in his cOun-
tenance.
O." he said, in a kind tone,
"you do not look at all well this morn
ing. Is there anything the matter
with your"
I caught at the idea, and said | had
not felt well for the last few days.
q thought not" he said "and only
sent for you to say, if it were the case,
you had better return home and take
a day or two's rest. You will then be
better, and we can do very well with
out you for that time"
A reception SO different from what
I had expected, made such an impress
sion on me that the tears came into
my eyes, and 1 felt half inclined to
confess the whole truth. The senior
partner, however, putting out his hand,
and shaking mine warmly, said:
"NOw go home, and keep up your
spirits, and you will do very wei.
At that moment one Of the clerks
entered the room, and 1 left it and
proceeded homewards, the man whom
I had imagined to be detective being
no longer there. For what purpose
jackson visited the Office the evening
before 1 know not. Certainly it was
not connected with my business.
It will be too painful for me to go
further into the matter. I plunged
deeper and deeper into crime. I at
tempted to cOnjure up reckless frame
Of mind, and in the daytime to con-
siderable extent succeeded. But then
the nights-how can I describe their
miseryi I could not sleep without
opium, and the more I took of the
drug the greater the quantity 1 requir-
ed, till at length I was obliged to take
each evening as much as would have
killed any ordinary man. 1t had also
its effect on my countenance, which as
sumed the paid hue of the regular
opium eater. At last the forgery was
discovered, Jackson having sold my
note; was arrested, my defalcatiOns
came to light, and soon after I found
myself here.
One word more, in justice to myself.
I heard that in the newspaper report
of the trial it was stated that when,
after my sentence, I left the bar, it
was with a jaunty step and Indifferent
expression of countenance. Never was
there a truer remark. If, indeed. any
objection can be taken to it, it is that
it did not go far enough, for the i'm
prisonment to which was condemned,
and the utter ruin of my prospects in
life, were but feather in the balance,
when compared with the weight of
horrible mental torture and doubt 1
had been labOring under for months
before the termination of my career of
crime.
"Where Is Thornton, you ask p
He occupies the cell adjoining mine.
-AIustrated Weekly.
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13

PUT LIFE IN YOUR WoRK.-A
young mans interest and duty both
dictate that he should make himself
indispensable to his employers. He
should be so industrious, prompt and
careful that the accident of his tenn
porary absence should be noticed by
being missed. A young man should
make his employer his. friend, by do
ing faithfully and minutely all that is
entrusted to him. Its a great mistake
to be over-nice or fastidious about
work. Pitch in readily and your will
ingness will be appreciated, while the
"high toned" young man who bubbles
about what it is and what it is not his
place to do, will get the cold shoulder.
There is story that George Washing
ton once helped roll a log that one of
his corporals would not handle, and
the greatest Emperor Of Russia worked
as shipwright in England-tO learn
the business. That's just what you want
to do. Be energetic, look and act with
alacrity, take an interest in your en-
ployer's success, work as though the
business was your own, and let your
employer know that he may place abb
solute reliance in, your word and on
your act. Be mindful ; have your
mind on your business; because it is
that which is going to help you, not
those outside attractions which some Of
the "boys" are thinking about. Take
a pleasure in work; do not go about it
in Estless, formal manner, but with
alacrity and cheerulness, and remem-
Der that while working thus for others,
you are laying the foundation Of your
own success in life,
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13

We should never SO entirely avoid
danger as to appear irresOlute and cow
ardIy; but, at the same time, We
should avoid unnecessarily exposing
ourselves to danger, than which moth
ing could be more foolish.
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13
marae n hs.is.a.

When Napoleon rushed back to
Paris as fast as horses could draw him
in order, that he might himself tell the
story of his discontinue, he thought
fit to select the King Of Naples, from
among all his Marshals, to take the
command Of the retreating force. As
was usual with him, he thought out
everything that was likely to happen,
and left Murat instructions according
ly. No man, perhaps, ever more pa
tiently provided for the execution Of q
design, or took more careful account
of the probable accidents which might
supervene; but when be had once
taken this trouble be expected not only
that his officers would minutely con-
form to directions, but also that nature
accident, every circumstance, should
keep strictly within the range Of his
provision and he was fearfuly angry
if things took an unexpected turn, and
he invariably vented his wrath upon
some officer, although it may have
been TIE elementa or the outfall Of
events that disappointed him. It was
Murat's supreme ill-fortune that inn
mediately after the Emperor's dspar-
ture December 5th) the thermometer
descended to point unprecedented at
that season, and rendered the execu-
ton of his orders impossible. There
were 27 degrees q presume Of the
Centigrade thermometer) of frost. So
far were the wretched forces from hav-
ing at length surmounted the extreme
horrors Of the retreat, that at Wilma
all the horrors recommended in an ag-
gravated degree. A division of 10000
men was in eight days reduced to g.
900 without having seen an enemy or
received a stroke save from the ele-
ments. In one night all the artillery
horses were frozen to death, as they
stood, with their harness on, and just
as they had stood in life. Half the
drivers died Of cold the same hight ;
the other half came to put their horses
in motion, could not stir them, and at
last found they were all dead. Before
retreat could be continued the Russian
cannon vas heard in the rear. Murat
himself seemed to care as little for
cold as for cannon-shot. He turned
out at the first hint of danger from
the enemy, and he would have led on
in the same gallant style as ever but
nine-tenths Of his miserable force were
paralyzed by the cold. Their arms
literally dropped from their hands.
The few exceptionally hardy men who
could still move fed as they best
could, leaving their comrades to the
mercy of the winter and the enemy.
These fost-bitten wretches were strip
ped, and in various ways afflicted by
Cossacks and others. The enemy was
never 12 hours march behind the
rear-guard, (Ney,) and there was
neither rest nor refreshment for days.
Artillery, baggage, and the imperial
treasure were abandoned. Except
that they still took with them a few
horses, nothing remained to the sur
vivors but the tatters and arms which
they carried. The line Of the fight
was covered with cOrpses, and with
cold-strieken beings who had laid down
never to rise again. These details are
in the highest degree horrible, and it
is pain to dwell upon them; but it
is right that We should sometimes
mediate on scenes like these, and not
exclusively on the "pride, pOmp, and
circumstances Of glorious war;
BIdcEaUoOds Magazine.
Middletown transcript., 1877-10-13
Agricultural Implements,

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MIDDLETOWN STOVE HOUSE
MiddIstown, Delaware.
hardware department.

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iron and Steel, Horse and Mule Shoes, Horse
Nails, Blacksmith Supplies, Chain Traces,
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Bolts, Files, Ohisals, Levels, Planes, BeveIs,
wrenches, Picks, MattOcks, Hubs, Rims,
spOkes, Shafts, Long and Short Arms, Clips,
Springs, Enamsled Cloth, Gum Canvass, &c
A cOmplets stock of TOOLS and Supplies
for Carpenters, Builders, MasOns, sadlers,
shOemakers and Others, with many House.
urnlshing articles. weinvite the public to
callaad examine our prices.