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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10
That a thing

as by any others. That a thing
was tricky or immoral did not
make it odions in his eyes pro-
vided it could be made useful
in politics. Yet he was a pa
triot. He loved his country
sincerely. Every fibre in his
nature was American, even
when he resortel to doubtful
measures. The good of the
country he really believed
could only be promoted by the
success of the party to which
he was devoted; aud while he
was carried away by the in
tensity of his party feeling into
regions and into actions where
man Of nobler nature woul d
not consent to go, there was
yet such an Astounding force
in his mind and such frank
demagogism in his conduct
that he commanded a certain
kind of respect even from those
who condemned him. We add
also to his credit in these times,
that he was not avaricious, or
venal, and did not get rich
through the use. of political
| power.
Without the advantages OF
extensive culture or any great
accumulation Of knowledge,
Mr.. Morton's intellect was so
quick aud fertile, and his pow
er of expressing hlmselfin Ian
guage suited to the popular
ear was so great, that he was
a formidable athlete in any
public contest in which he
chose to engage. He had also
the great advantage of never
laboring to maintain or defend
his own personal consistency.
The opinions Of to-day he ad-
vccated with extraordinary
vigor, but he wasted no time
in seeking to reconcile them
with his opinions ofyeslerday.
1t was enough for him to ex.
plain and enforce the views he
now held, and it was generally
enough for his audience. His
argument was often Of almost
matchIess point and cogency;
and if he had been a man of
better regulated habits and if
no physical weakness had bros
ken down his great natural
powers. he might have risen
to the highest eminence. He
was a very ambitious man,
desiring to be President; but
his party was not willing to
risk itself with a candidate so
stricken with disease.
Personally he was generous,
agreeable III social intercourse
and democratic in tastes and
manners, public spirited cit
izen, and faithful friend. He
was wei! loved and we'll hated;
and few conspicuous men Of
our time have possessed at
once more of the weakness
and the excellence of humanity
than Oliver 2. Morton.
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RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
HALL EEL1CIANA LODGE,
No. 81, +. A NJ.
St. Francisville, La. Nov. 3, II.

St. Francisville, La. Nov. 3, II.
Whereas, 1t has pleased the Great
Architect Of the Universe to remove from
our midst by death in New Orleans, La,
brother, MEYER OPPENHEIMER,
Resolved, That we deeply deplore his
death, and sincerely sympathize with his
relatives and friends in their bcreavc-
ment.
Resolved, That in life we recognized
in him the true Mason, and good citizen.
Resolved, That in token of his memory
we wear the usual badge Of Masonry and
that the Lodge DO draped in mourning
thirty days.
Resolved, That copy of these resolu-
tions be inserted in the Fclciana SENTI-
MEL. j. G. PLETTINGER.
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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10
THE DEATH OF SENATOR MORTON.
FPrOm the N. Y. SUM-

Prom the N. Y. SUM-
Oliver Perry Morton, Sena-
tor of the United States from
Indiana, died at indianapolis
laat evening, He was only 81
years old, but thoug h natural
ly OF very robust constitu~
ton, he had for many years
suffered a partial paraly$i
which had disabled HIM. from
walking; and this disease ag-
gravated by accidental causes,
finally affected his whole sys>
tenn and produced his death.
He was educated at the Miami
University in Ohio, was a law
yer by profession, and became
a Judge in Indiana in 1852.
He was elected Lieutenant -
Governor Of that State in 1860.
and became Governor in 1861
His first term Of service in the
United States Senate began
on March 4, 1864. an in due
time he was elected to the
same office for a second term,
which lacks nearly two years
Of its completion.
Mr.. Morton was endowed
with surprising talent, audaci~
ty, and intellectual agility. He
was a muscular, bold cnarac-
ter, one Of those who natural~
ly rise to distinction in times
of connection and passion.
The civil war was his great op-
pcrtunity, and being Govern
or Of Indiana at the time, he
improved it to the utmost.
Originally a Democrat and a
master Of the arts Of political
management, he was CONVEX
ted to Republicanism, and it
was as Republican that he
took his first political Office,
that Of Lieutenant-Governor.
Ever since then he has steadi-
iy adhered to that party, and
more than ten years ago he
took rank as one of its most
determined and influential
leaders. AS was natural to an
Indiana man, he was at first
a strong opponent Of anti-s}a>
very agitation, and when the
civil war ended and the ques-
ton of negro suffrage was rails
ed as an incident in the recon-
struction Of the Southern
States, Mr.. Morton was at the
start decidedly opposed to it.
His disposition was to support
Andrew Johnson in his breach
with the Republican party,
but he did not long indulge so
dangerous proclivity, and
when he turned about he die
it without a qualification.
Since then no man has exceed
ed him in fidelity to the negro
cause, or in the extreme radi-
calism Of the measures he has
advocated.
We cannot say that Mr..
Morton was statesman. He
was cunning, wary, and un>
scrupulous--a politician Of
wonderful fertility and such
cess; hut those large views and
firmly held principles which
are indispensable in the higher
type of public man were not
his. He aimed always at the
advantage Of the moment, and
was just as ready to gain his
erds by means which high
consciousness would reject
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10
TOMB SWWMy&Sc
G. B. & E. moo KS,
DEALERS IN
MONU.ME.NTAL WORK

WE ARE NOW prepared to furnish all
w kinds of Grave Work and Iron
Railing at reduced prices. Parties adj
dressing us at Bayou Sara, or at william
ii, Pipcr's, Baton Rouge, we will call and
see with our designs, of which we have
a large variety.
Oct. 13 Tx
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10

Special NO7ICE.-We aretb
crs of the outstanding claims and
c,lnesscs due to the late firm Of
Fischer & Co.
The Citizens of East F'eliciana
Coupcc, and Williamson County,
will find it to their interest and
age to open up a trade with us.
ders from abroad promptly, and Cd
filled.
Ey Highest market price pailI
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of hardware, china and glass ware.
Ezy Hi CHEST market price paid FORGOT
ton, wool and hides
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Hats and Caps and Il general ASA
of gentlemens underwear and fun
goods.
Dealers in Fancy and Staple n,
Provisions, western Produce
Plantation npplies. Agents
the renowned Singer Sewing
Machine and it's various
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

Saving COMMON SENSE. "-Thert
is a great deal of 'saving common
sense in Gen. Sheridan's remarks on
the evening of Decoration day in Chi
cago:
"Since [ shook hands with Gen. Lee
at Appomatox I have been willing tt
forgive. But | will only forgive wher
the principles for which they (our sol
diers) fell are established. L DOM
think it best to be too hasty about it
| don't believe in legislating forgivness
[ don't believe in taking forgivness
[ don't believe in talking so much
about it. don't belong to any party,
| am not Republican. [ am not a
Democrat. But / think this thing is
too much talked about. 1t must be
allowed to take its own course, as other
matters do. 1t will take time. But
[ don't believe it is well to do TOT
much talking about 1t.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
How it is DOne.-The frs

How it is DOne.-The first OBJ
ject in life with the American people
is to ''get rich; the second, how to
regain good health. The first can be
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using GREENS AUGUST FLOWER
Should you be respondent sufferer
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Nervous Prostratiep, Low Spirits, &c.,
you need not suffer another day.
Two doses of AUGUST FLOWER will
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10 cents. Regular size Is cents.
Positively sold by all frst-class. Drug
gist in the US.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
THE WISCONSIN Editors met il

THE WISCONSIN Editors met in
convention-in business convention last
week. They came together like men,
paid their bills, transacted their bust
ness and returned heme like men. We
are glad the EDITORIAL fraternity have
come to see that the standing of the
craft was yearly being lowered and dis
graced by the old time system of dead
head excursion conventions where a
few assembled to simply have good
time, guzzic lager and corn juice, at a
corporations expence and swagger
like brainleaa millionaire Those
days are gone by. The Editors OF
Wisconsin, are no longer a 'press
gang no longer dignifed paupsrs,
but a band of freeman representing
the noblest art extant, an art to which
attaches nothing low, mean or grovel-
ing.
The convention did some excellent
business. 1t said "we wont patronize
publishers who fill up our insides with
advertisements which rightly belong
to us. and extort exhorbitant prices as
a tribute to their impertinance and
brass facedness, but we will patronize
the man or men who will fill our in
sides with good wholesome food for we
subscriber, and faith they'll do t too.
Another good thing they said: s'W c
won't patronize any stationer who
scoots about the country stealing the
job printing which is ours" and faith
they'll do that, too that is they wont
dot.
The boys had good time: Bro.
Kutchin gave an admirable address.
Bro. Peck said some cute things q.
well as some silly things, and Bro.
Robinson and Bro. Deuster spoke
feehngly and eloquently of those
brothers who have stuck their last
type, whose 'forms" are "locked up
awaiting the proof to be corrected
and revised by the Author. :" The
convention was a success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
Wisconsin Diary Interests.

The dairy interests of Wisconsin
are becoming more important, as sta
tistics very clearly show. That the
product of butter in the State has
more than doubled and the product of
cheese increased more than ten>feld
Within the past SIX years, Isa fact OF
too great significance to escape serious
confederation.
There was manufactured in Wiscou-
sin in fs7e, 22,473,OO0 pounds of
butter In 1876, 50,15o, 900 pounds.
The amount of cheese manufactured
in the State in 1870 was 1851, 7as
pounds. In 1876, II, ZOO, 600 pounds.
Sheboygan is the banner county Of
the State in point of dairy products,
having made in 1876 from Is, sos, STA
pounds OF milk the product of 6,271
cows, I9Sas524 pounds of cheese.
TIE average value of product per cow
being $685..
Dodge county has Is cheese factor
ies, winch manufactured $50, 800
pounds of. cheese. of which S6,725
pounds we're Limberger and Swiss.
Green county has Is factories, ma
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
The Poor Preachers.
IChicago Alliance. !

I
A convention of clergymen, be it a
Methodist Conference, or an Episcopal
Convocation, or Presbyterian Assem-
bly,, has its pathetic side. Mingling
with the delegates one finds not only
men of learning and of piety, who
have come from large and rich livings,
but also men who are dis.ressingly
poor. Here in our city, among these
strangers who assemble daily to consult
about church work, are men getting
gray in years who can i'll afford to ride
in street car, and who would become
bankrupt should they while here pur-
chase anything to take home to the
children or faithful mother. Some
of these men are happy in spite of
poverty Others of them are sad, aud
feel that something is wrong in the
human management of the Lord s
vineyard.
AS general thing these men are
poor not by command of the Gospel,
bat by express order of earthly mis-
take or llttleness In Christianized
lands the Gospel does not ask any man
to be miserably poor for its sake If
village cannot support four churches
to each thousand people, and thus
starve four pastors, let two or three
of these pastors say plainly, two men
can do this work, | will 60 to farming
and raising sheep. If there is not
positive demand for me as preacher
| will see what demand there is for me
as farmer or school teacher.
Again, each church that dares to
mediate an organized form and call a
clergyman should look into its purse
rather thin into theology. 1t may
love immersion, but in a sprinkling
settlement can it afford to hire man
who brings only immersion? And
can half dozen Presbyterians in a
Methodist community afford to pay a
man who will bring with him only a
little aroma of Calvanism? The COM
fort of the pastor should be made a
first inquiry. All this being well at
tend to, the peculiar idea might then
UC iii pOItCu.
Should not the country churches
return to good old times and make the
pastor farmer and preacher combined?
A church, parsonage and ten acres
of ground shuld be a call from the
Lord to the clergyman. Then upon
a salary of $500 cash the preacher
and wife and children could live. The
best studio for any professional man is
ten acres of ground for the first three
working days of the week. Health
of body and of mind could thus be
secured, and the family would have a
table loaded daily with food The
best libary in the world is ten acres OF
ground on Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday. There thoughts will come to
man as never they came from books.
The common student life is all wrong.
What it seems to add to the mind in
the shape of facts it takes away from
its natural power. As ideas come in,
health and buoyancy fly out the win
dow. 4 little church and a little
farm should go together. The Lord
has no hand in making the preachers
poor. Mans folly is at the bottom Of
all this suffering.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
Details of the Inhuman Murder
of His Own Child by
Madison Student,

MADISON, Wis, June 14.-The
arrest of A. w. bennett, one of the
graduating class of the State Univer-
sity, reported last night, for deliberate
and wilful strangling and drowning of
his 6-months- boy in milwaukee
some six weeks ago, has created the
greatest CONSERVATION among the
students of the University, where he
was highly respected, and would no
doubt have graduated with honors
next week. The history of his crime
is as follows: Some time ago he
formed the acquaintance of Miss Cain,
a highly respected young lady of Lodi,
Wis. The acquaintance grew into a
criminal intimacy, and on a visit OF
Miss Cain to some school friends in
Stevens Point, last October, male
child was born. To conceal her shame
from her parents the child was taken
by bennett to Milwaukee and put in
charge eft a. German nurse. During
the holidays Bennett and Miss Cain
were married. bennett continuing his
studies at the university, where he
was regarded as highly noral and an
enthusiastic student The first OF
May bennett went to Milwaukee, pro-
cured bag, and placing therein a
brick, put the package under his arm,
and in the evening went to the house
of the nurse and claimed his child,
saying he had provided for its keeping
elsewhere. The child was neatly and
clearly dressed and given to him He
took the child in his arms and started
for the Milwaukee & St. Paul Depot,
and it now being late at night he plac-
ed 1t in the sack and smothered it to
death under his arms, and in crossing
she Menomonee bridge consigned the
innocent to the cold waters. A week
or more ago the Milwaukee papers
chronicled the finding of male in
FAINT in the river, a passing tug having
brought the sack with its contents to
the surface by disturbing the waters
as it passed. Chief of Police Beck
at once commenced a systematic course
to ascertain the author OF the horrible
crime, succeeded in finding the Ger
man nurse, and from her learned the
father of the child and her story a,
to its delivery. The rest followed
easily. bennett, on being arrested,
acknowledged the fathership of the
child, but claims that he put it on the
steps of beautiful residence in Mil
waukee. On being seld of positive
knowledge of his crime. he confessed
to the above sickening details. He
wa. taken to Milwaukee this morning
for trial
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

REv. MYRoN W. REED. delivered
a Decoration Day address, from which
the following characteristic extract is
taken:
"Men willing to die for an idea ?
The South is rigid with the men in
gray. Mistaken? Yes. Willful sim
ners? Yes, a few of them. I grant
the error, the treason. 1t looks so,
it is so, but it did not seem so to the
rank and file of the legions of Lee.
Think of Hoods ragged, hungry,
barefooted hosts living upon sorghum
cane and, acorns. Think of Cleburne
riding his skeleton horse twenty yards
forward of his line,. right up to the
mouths of the guns. Despise his
cause, hate it !; but when man. strives
for mistake, fights for it, takes the
deadly risk of it, dies for it, you can
not despise him. He played and lest.
and paid. Let us save, our contempt
for those who. played and lost. and
sneaked out of payment. Invite
JEFF. Davis to address one of our agri-
cultural fairs, the man who never took
risk, ran away with twenty wagon
loads of money-money of dead men,
orphans and widows; betrayed his
country, betrayed the confed.raey,
betrayed his own sex. The cold
blooded deliberate scoundreI tried al
last to be his own mother-in-law, and
failed, as usual. His is the only grave
of a rebel that I should like to decorate.
I would decorate it with dog-fennel and
gympsum weeds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

R9 ATTEND carefully to the de-
tails of your business.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well. then decide positive
ly.
Dar4 to do right; fear to do wrong.
Endure your trials patiently.
Fight life's battle bravely.
Go not in the society of the viscous.
Hold your mortal integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation or
business.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few acquaintance.
Never endeavor to appear what you
are not.
Observe the Sabbath day.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity of friend.
Respect the counsels of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than primer
pie,
Touch not, tast not, handle not in
toxicating drinks.
Use your leisure time for improve
ment.
Venture not upon the threshold of
sin.
Watch carefully orer your passions.
'Xtend to everyone kindly saluta-
tien.
Yield not to ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Zealously labor for the right.
And success is certain.