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Proceedings
OF THE
BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS.

PARISH IF ST. JAMES, La,
June 2nd. 1877.
The School Board met this day ut the
Court House Of this Parish.
Members present: j. Gcntil, President;
DIR. O. Gaudet, A. W. Thompson, J. N. Thi-
boleaux, P. N9Wa Martin, d. T. Bourgeois,
TElesphore DrSis, j. L. Gaudet and John
Djckerson. e
Absent: More.
The minutes of tho last meeting were
read and approved.
Messrs. Thibodeaux and Dugas reported
that they had received a proposition from
Mrs. Martin to furnish q School House free
Of charge in the 1st. district and asked to
be assigned a position as teacher OF said
school, and OH motion the above PROPOSE
ton was accepted 10y the Board.
The following report was also submitted
by Messrs. Thibodeaux and Dugas:
To the President and Members of the
Public School Board Of st. James Parish,
The undersigned, your Committee for
the End. and Bird. ward of the Parish for
the purpose Of locating Schools, beg leave
to report:
That Rev. O. Renaudier, Curatc of St.
Michael Church proposes to take charge Of
n School for BOYS of the 2nd. District, fur
nishing his School House, benches, desks
and other appurtenances, and the necessa-
nv teacher and assistant for the price al
lowed BY the Board for each School.
OF THE 3rd. WARD.
But as many boys have been attending
for some time his parochial School, he pro.
poses in the second place to take charge,
in his School House Of a School for boys Of
the End. and 3rd. wards for sixty Dollars
- s.--Es - :
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Resolved, by the Police Jury of St. James,
that the following Tableau of Approxima-
to Expenses for the Parish Of st. James,
for the year 1877 be and the same is here
by adopted; and that the same be publish
ed for thirty days according to law:
Estimate of Expenditures for the Parish
Of st. James for the year 1877.
LIST. For redemption of one .enth
of Court House Bonds, issued
in accordance with Act No. IS
of 1869, and interests due there
on for the year 1578, I mills. 476o 90
2nd. For support of Public Sch'ls
l mil l4cO 10
Bird. For repairs to Court House
and Jail, current year.-<---- $50 w
4th. ForTax Collectors Commits
sion on Parish Tax.-...:.... 900 90
5th. For fees Of Sheriff, n,ainte-
nance of Prisoners eOO w
9TH. For fees Of Sheriff. i'll Grimm
al CaSes..---. eUU W
9TH. For fees Clerk of Court, cir
minal cases 4VO w
eth. For fees of Coroncls and
Coroner's Jurors. 200 90
9th. For fees Of District Attorney
and Parish Attorneys %eonvic-
3UO w
10th. For fees of Justices OF the
Peace, criminal cases----.---- 400 90
18th. For fees Of "nstablcs-Cri-
minal 4OO w
18th. For Jurors and witnesses,
criminal cases, District and
Parish Court..-...-........ 800 90
18th. For Sheriff US keeper of
Court House and Jail. -..... 100 90
l4th, For salary Of mcml, ets of
Police Jury-...-----.---.-.-. $50 NO
18th. For salary Of Paris Treasu-
40O "
Police Jury.......~-.. $50 90
| 18th. For salary Of Parish; Attor-
ney ...A---.-.......-.... 300 90
18th. For official Printing..... $50 OO
10Th. For pro-rata of Parish, in
the salary of Parish Assessor
Act No. 96 of 1577.-...5..... 446 90
18th. Contingent und-.-@.... 1416 90
Total $l4 s67 81
EQUAL to ten mills on assessed value Of
property in the Parish amounting to
ST. 3 6,751,0O.
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Resolved by the Police Jury of st. James,
that all claims against the Parish Of St.
James for debts contracted previous to the
year 1877 must be presented to some mem
Der of the Committee OH claims, or to the
Parish Attorney on OF before the 18th. day
Of July 1877, and that public notice of this
Resolution be given in the official journal
during thirty days.
A. L. BOURGEOIS,
EMILE J. LAIcnE, Prest. Police Jury
Secty. Police Jury.
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SCHOOL
MR.. DIBBIE.

ted on the charge, filed by MI. Fin.
ney, the Ditrict Attorney, of embez-
cling State funds has played quite a
conspicuous role in Louisiana poll
tics during the past eight years. He
is one of the smartest and most
INSCRIPTIONS of the band of carpet
bag politicians and plunderers who
came into the State after the war,
aObbv his superior impudence aud
shrewdness soon became eminent
and influential in an era when rasca-
eity and audacity constituted poll
tics, aud plumber the end of politics.
He was one of Warmoth's ablest
lieutenants, and he has been a tower
of strength to Kellogg, both in sus-
tanning his usurpation and in thwar-
ting the vigorous efforts of the late
Attorney General Field to expose
the corrupt and criminal practices
of Kellogg and Clinton. Dibble was
at one time made Judge of the
Eighth District Court. 4 llogg ap-
pointed him Assistant Attorney
General, that the State might be-
quietly robbed with impunity, and
in the last election he was the Ra-
deal candidate for Congress in the
Second District against Hon. E. j.
Ellis.
That Dibble will be landed in the
Penitentiary, if justice be done, no
man in Louisiana has the least doubt.
He was a chief among the rascals
who, for SO many years, despoiled
this State, but who having all the
archives, records, offices and courts
under their control and in charge
of their creatures and tools, have so
sklilfully covered up their tracks
that it is difficult to obtain the clear
Evidence of their notorious crimi.
nality. And vet Mr.. Dibble is not
the worst of the gang. Certainly he
ought to be vigorously prosecuted
and semitic the P%enitentiary; but
when the facts are all discQnored
there is no doubt that, if the law
prevails, w. Pitt Kellogg, instead
Of representing Louisiana IN the
United States Senate, will join Mr..
Dibble in Baton Rouge. Nor will
the list of convicted criminals end
with these two. There are q host
Of distinguished political robbers
among us, and the energy Of the law
should not I've relaxed, n0r should
the vigilance of its ministers
cease until its hand is upon the
whole gang Of rascals Who have fol
years held . saturnalia Of robbers
and every species Of crime in this
State, in defiance Of decency and in
the face Of the whole country, fan
cying that justice had persisted I'M
der the shadow Of the sword, and
that the CLEAN Of the bayonet heral
ded the dawn Of the millennium o
fraud, forgery and unlicensed plum
der.-N. q. De1sOcrat.
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OFFICIAL.
RE p ORT
OF THE
GRAND JURY.

TOTHE HONORABLE NORRIS MARKS,
JUDGE OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT COURT:
The Grand Jurors of the Fourth Judicial
District Court of the Parish of st. James,
duly empaneled and sworn for the regular
June term Of said Court, beg leave to res
pectfully submit this their final report.
PARISH TREASURER.
The report submitted to us by the Parish
Treasurer, shows a balance on hand of One
Thousand and Eighty One $500 Dollars
in United States Current Money, which
said sum is apportioned as follows:
Poor or Paupers FUND. 1926.
Indebtedness fund.-....-...---.-$ 1886.
General fund..-.--..----..----.$ 231,O2.
Stray 4,35.
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MARRIED

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Wed.
nesday evening, June 18TH, at st.
Joseph's Chapel, NJ. Eugene Bour-
geois, Of st. James, to Miss Lizzie
Chenet, of st. John the Baptist.
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PUBLIC NOTICE.

The Taxpayers Of St. James Parish are
hereby notified that the assessment Of all
taxable property in the Parish will be be.
gun on Monday next, the Psth Of May, in
the LIST ward.
Tax Payers are requested to prepare a
statement Of their property, as well as q
list Of children of both sexes and Of botl
colors, between the ages Of 6 and 81 years
living OF their premises.
JULES DORN1ER,
St. james, May g, 1877. Assessor.
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II bic Notice

The Taxpayers Of the Parish Of st. ia
mes are hereby notified that for their con-
v~cnicnce, the undersigned, Assessor in and
for said Parish, will he. at his Office on
widow J.. p. Boucry's Plantation, left bank
Of the River, every Saturday from 9 oc.
A. NJ. to 5 r. NJ. for the purpose of assess
ing the property Of all t~ax-payers, espe-
cially such as We're absent from home,
when he called on them as the law requires.
j. DORNfER, Assessor.
st. James Parish, June 9th, 1871.
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SATURDAY, JUNE Is, 1877.
Official Directory.
Fourth Judicial Distri'

TComprising the Parishes Of Ascension,
St. James, st. John the Baptist and st.
Charles.
District Norris Marks,
District ATTORNEY. Is. Earhart.
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THE HORIZONS.
The Prosperity They Have Brought to
Utah.

The Mormons double once IN nix
years. They now number 10000.
They have thirty Incorporated cities,
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Seventh Senatorial District.
comprising the Parishes of Ascension
and ST. James.
State Senator. Pierre Landry.
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Special Notice.

All delinquent Tax-Payers owing the
Special Rathbone Tax, will call at my Off
CO and pay the same within Ten days from,
the date Of this notice or else proceeded
against as the law directs.
E. G. MIRE,
Tax Collector.
Parish, of St. James, June 9th, 1877.
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Special Notice to Merchants.

-
TAX CoLLECIOR's OFFICE, !
Parish Of st. James, May II, 1877. !
The Merchants Of this Parish are hereby
notified to call ct my Office for the pay
ment of their STATE LICENSES. within
n week from date under penalty Of be-
ing proceeded with according to law.
II. c. MIRE.
State and Parish Tax Collector.
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POLICE JURY.
President, A. l.. Bourgeois;
Secretary, Emile J. Laichc;
Members, j. A. Druilhet, J. B. Ferchaud,
Felicien Waguespack, Desire Leblanc, Ja-
mes Davis. Alfred Mire, Henry Johnson:
Thomas Mooney, Richard A. Harrison.
SCHOOL BOARD.
President, J. Gentil:
Secretary, J. Louis Gaudet:
Members, DR.. o. Gaudet, J. n. Thibo-
deaux, ID. T. Bourgeois, P. Numa Martin,
Thelesphore Dugas, A. W. Thompson, John
DickersOu.
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r. X GAUDET Sc SON,
Attorneys ut Law and Notary Public.

VIII practice in the Courts Of the Fourth
Judicial District and Supreme Court, and
attend to notarial business in the Parish
of St. James.
Of6ces:-Parish ofSt. James, Right Bank,
at Mr.. J. Billions Store, opposite the Cour
House, and ut their residence five miles
above the old Court House.
Will be at their Billion office on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday of each week. Ri.
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FP PoCFIE
Attorney and Cssasellsr It Law.

OFT1cE:-At his residence, near the
Courthouse, Parish Of st. James. Com
vent Z. @.
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Total IA abOve...,

1ONSIl aC atOoS W.
The Treasurer has no funds in his pos
session belonging the Revenues of the year
1877. but this is owing to the fact that the
budget of the present year HAS been but
recently adopted finally by tho Police Ju-
nv, Oh which the tax to defray the expen-
ditures of the current year was simulta-
neously levied. We however beg leave to
state that the Parish taxes are now being
collected under this levy, and that in a few
months there will he funds in the Treasury
t meet the obligations Of the Parish, as
provided for in the budget, and that all
obligations will be paid in cash current
money of the United States.
TREASURER OF THE SCHOOL BOARD.
The Parish Treasurer is also the Treasu-
rer Of the School Board. This officer has
submitted his report annexed hereto, and
informs us that he has no funds in his pos
session belonging to the School Board. The
former Treasurer of the School Board also
submits his report herewith, and has in
forn ed this body that he is ready at any
time to make a settlement with the Board
aud turn oyera all property in his possession
to his successor in office belonging to the
Board. His report shows that lie has no
school funds in his possession, and that he
has turned Oyer the books and vouchers to
his successor in Office. The ex-Treasurer
has in his possession q number of Grand
aud Petit jury Warrants belonging to the
School Board, which, he informs us, he is
ready to turn over to the School Board as
soon As the Committee appointed by them,
shall make an examination of his accounts
and final settlement with him.
PUBLIC OFFICES.
The Recorders office 10 q credit to the
Parish. All records are properly kept and
indexed under SO perfect q system that
there is no difficulty or delay in transact
ing business in this ofice.-The Clerks
office is contained in a very small room for
the amount of records it contains, though we
believe that if the Police Jury would fur
nish this Office with ''pigeon hole cases,
that the Clerk of Court could then file
away the Records Of the Court according
to their dates, numbers, alphabetically, or
other convenient method, 30 that there
would b no difficulty in finding > record
in any cause.
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To the Taxpayers
Parish'Of st. James.

The Taxpayers and Merchants of the
Parish of st. James are hereby notified to
call at my office Mt the Court House, to pay
their Taxes and Licenses.
Office open from 9 4. N. to r. NJ.
T.. c. M1RE, Tax Collector.
St. James Parish, May 2nd., 1877.
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TURKISH OFFICIAL TITLES.

Sultan-The sovereign Of the Tur-
kish empire-the recognized organ
Of all executive power in the State.
His headquarters ri at Constant.
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J.R WINCHESTER, Parish Atty.
On motion duly seconded, these two
bills for convictions, in favor Of Mr.. Ear
hart were approved.
dedb by J. A. Drnilhet, the following reso-
luton was adopted:
Resolved, that the Parish Treasurer be
and he is hereby ordered t. apply all mo-
neyt,now to the credit oftl1e former Gen
cral Indebtedness fund and the former
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LOUISIANA.


Corn crops in many parishes are
this year thellargest since the wal
Judgments for $l3,453 stand
against Plaquemine parish.
Caddo parish has made more
cotton than it can gather.
New Orleans is making efforts
to close gambling saloons. But
there seems TO be complaints Of
Partially in the execution of the
ordinance.
at. Martinsville may boast Of
having supplied our Supreme
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TEXAS.
Green back clubs are forming

Green back clubs are forming
all over the State.
An oat field in Hayes county
Welded ITO bushels OF oats per
acre.
San Antonio boasts of q melon
weighing rs lbs, and measuring
five feet in length.
The Austin Statesman thinks
there is probability of the several
military companies Of Texas being
ordered down to the Rio Grande
to cover themselves with glory.
Living near Englewood is a
family of u children owning to
2S9 fingers and toes. Their par
ents have only forty between them.
Six millions pounds of wool
passed through Corpus Christi
last season.
Sabine Pass is once more prom
ised r. r. terminus,-that of a
Narrow Guage road, from Denison
via Lawrence.
The city of Austin wants its
streets railroads to keep their
tracks level with the surface of the
streets.
Happy San Saba. A practical
farmer has told the farmers of San
Saba that the worm now eating
their cotton is not the cotton worm,
and they need have no apprehen-
sions.
The iron mines of Marion county
continue to he worked, turning out
from s to 10 tons of No. / ilon
daily.
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The Baptism Of a Murde,..

The Waco Examiner, Of Texas
has a remarkable account oftb'l
baptism OF q eolcred man una..
circumstances which have NM
badly never occurred before Their
is confined at Waco, under 50,
tence of death, a desperale MN.
derer, named Perry Davis, VIII
will be hung for his great crime o.
Thursday, the Both inst. Likeb
average murderer under the shs.
ow of the scahold, Perry Dan
claims to have experienced III |
gion. He has been for some fin
in prison under the spiritpl
charge of Rev. Stephen CobA,s|
eolored preacher of the Bapdt
persuasion. Since his conversiop
Davis expressed a wish 70 M
baptized by immersion.
In this he was humored byasl
sheriff, and one Thursday last Nls|
prisoner, attended by the jaHal
and a number of deputies, vail
placed in a wagon and drivena|
the water of the lower ford ontIel
Brazos. The prisoner had shacka
on his wrists and arms, aud Was
closely guarded, and in that con,
dition was led by the Rev. Mi
Cobb, and in the presenceof 4
solemh congregation ASSEMBLE,
WAS baptized In the maine Of Hla
who died to redeem men from sll.
1t is said Davis appeared deepIJ
affected when coming out oftbs
water, and gave free vent to- hl
emotions by expressing his graf
tude that he had been able h
have the solemn ordinance ID
ministered.-l N. o. Picayuue.
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all other patents / hold with a.
afforded the same result, Tbasass I. plas
ship plats were marked aNo nasa 'osl \
No U. 5. patents is what was , ;n.sus .
to be conveyed by the words s'al, ~
Gov. land plats would not sho he, ~ y
location of State patents. NJ
Carney assured me that he won Iais a
again modest me ii 4 -dia faf. -a.l u Aei
the lines dividing my lands from m y ~ Z
lands. Saturday morning, Anrns s y 20
I resumed work. "a S NJ ~
The above is a fair sample a y /
outrages to which our lormen i y
been subjected. Comment i NM, aals
essary.- Orange fTexas) Tribune ''s Y
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The vexed question of the right
'of the intervenors in the log suit
of the United States VS.. Joseph
Hampton ct ais, to release their
logs on bond, has at last been
settled by q decision of Judge
Billings last week, in the Circuit
Court at New Orleans, against the
application of the intervenors for
such release. We are informed
that all the logs under seizure will
lbe sold at marshal's sale, the
proceeds to remain in thehands OF
the marshal TO await the i6nal de-
tcision of the snit.
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A tCoMPLAINT.-A subscriber at
Bleakwood, Texas, complains that
he has received butthree numbers
of the Echo since last May. We
have mailed it regularly to his adj
dress, and as the fault must be at
some Postoffice on the route, via
Orange, Texas, we hope the Post
masters on the route west Of Lake
Charles will endeavor to ascertain
where the fault Of its non-delivery
lies, and correct it. 1t is Justly an
noying to subscribe and pay for a
weekly newspaper, and get only
one copy month.
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The Log War.
MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE MaRSHALS

Three weeks ago / was visited
by Marshal J.J. Carney and posse.
In passing through the woods
to my camp, Marshal Carney
stopped two men who were saw.
ing timber for me near the woods
lead to them tue penalty for
cutting timber on Government
land, and told them they would
be liable if they continued their
cutting. The sawyers filed into
camp with their saws upon their
shoulders. Some of them did not
finish the cut upon which they
had commenced When he met
me he told me lie had seized all
the logs or other timber, in the
water or on the land, cut from
u. S. public land on the Sabine
river or tributaries, in the parish
of Calcasieu and State of Louis
ian,."
Your seizure, MIR. Gainey,' /
said, "tcan in no way affect me, as
[ hold La State patents for the
land upon which 1 am cutting"
and here I showed him my patents,
which are signed by Ex-Gov. w.
P. Kellogg and Gov. Francis I.
Nichols. Marshal Gainey looked
at them and said, "They are
worth nothing, if they are for
pine lands, for the State of La.
owns nothing but overfowed
lands"
The State must consider the land
hers. or why does she give these pat
ents /? i asked.
There is a contest now going on be
tween the government of the III. S. and
the State OF La, over difference in
the original government survey and a
later survey made by the State And
if you go on cutting and hauling YOU
lay yourself liable to the extreme
penalty Of the law, said Marshal Cal
ney.
4 stopped. Stopped everything.
Stopped immediately. There was not
another log hauled, or stroke made
with ak or saw. My confidence in
State patents was unshaken. but /
stopped. A few days afterward went
TO Lake Charles, La. TO see Mr.. Carter,
the jas. Gov. agent. but he was in
New Orleans. 4 photographed to the
land office in that city to know If there
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The New Orleans Democrat OF
the LIST contains some interesting
statements Of the varions farm
products Of Louisiana, from which
we gather the following:
The largest amount of sugar
produced in the State was madein
1861, and reached the enormous
figures Of 5O0,OO0,0O0 pounds,
which with its molasscs, s30,OOOy0O0
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Reports of the ravages of the

Reports of the ravages of the
cotton worm come in from every
part of Louisiana and Texas, and
in most of them it is stated that
Except where worm destroyers
were used the cropis nearly total
loss" Those who properly applied
the worm destroyers saved their
crops; those who did not, lost them.
Will our gCalcasieu and st. Landry
cotton growers make a Tote OF
this, and govern themselves ac-
scordingly?
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We request our patrons not to let the
European war. the tCalcasieu log war,
the railroad strikes, nor anything else,
cause them to forget payment of their
dues to the Echo. They must pay up
if they wish to echo the current news
of the day. A word to the wise, etc.
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The first bale of cotton ready for
market from this parish this year was
raised by Elder Warren Hamilton, OF
Sugar Town. 1t was shipped on the
goth nit, by Fairclild & Lyons. They
realized II cents in gold per ID. for it
They have number of other bales of
cotton ready for shipment.
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Magnolia Grange No ,3l2
Patrons of Husbandry meets on
the 4th Saturday, of each month.
IT,. M. Nichols is master of the
above Grange.
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Our subscribers will confer a
favor by advising the proprietor
of any irregularity in receiving
their paper.
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Brigham Young died last Fri
day, and Admiral Raphael Semms,
oil the late Confederate Navy, died
last Saturday.
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We will publish next week tabular
statement of children between 6 and 81
years of age in Calcasieu. Total num-
Der between the above ages is 1867.