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West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04
PLAIN TALK.
C.AleSt1aa'i3 { (Va.) Gazette.

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The question to be decided now
is not whether t'grasping monopo-
lies have a right to fatten upon the
sufferings of the people. for the
government has sanctioned that by
it's laws protecting national banks;
not whether employees have a right
to organize and quit work in a
body, which nobody denies, provid-
ed they do not force their fellow
workmen to join them; but wheth-
er, in this nominal land Of freedom, -,
man is at liberty to work for
such wages as he chooses to accept;
and unless it be decided in the
affirmative, aod that speedily, the
sooner the travestv Of republican
institutions that has been played
in this country for the last sixteen
years is ended the better for every
body. A government that delib
erately forfeited the respect Of its
subjects by sanctioning the presi-
Dental fraud, and that, as just
shown, has lost the authority to
enforce its laws, had, unless it
speedily regains that authority, bet
ter give place to another that will
preserve not only the property, but
the rights Of citizens.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04

strangIed his eldest brother and five ne
phews in one day, under authority Of the
fetwa above mentioned. His successor,
his sons strangled by the Persian Shah,
and paid him 100000 ducats for the job.
Mohammed iii, who came in in 1895
has the credit of attending to business,
under the fetwa more energetically than
any of his predecessors. He murdered
no less than nineteen princes Of the royal
family, which left him clear title to
the throne, ana, possibly, to the Mo-
hammedan heaven also. His successor
Ahmed I. (16O3), had seven sons, and
six of the seven were promptly stran-
gled.
Mustapha I. (161s), being too idiotic
to murder any one else, was himself pois-
Oned in his harem. His successor, Or
man H., was strangled. Aiurad w., who
took the throne in 1923, strangled and
beheaded, according to the records, "a, 900
persons, but how many of the royal fami-
ly were among them we are unable to
say. Ibrahim I. (164O) was himself
strangled "amid curses" as the record
runs.
Over the remaining 200 years Of the
Ottoman reign is unnecessary to run as it
is but repetition of the above. Th
Sultans had before them a very simple
dilemma-either to murder their brothers
and sons, or to be murdered by them.
As rule they chose tie first honor, unless
the second was thrust upon them too
suddenly. With such state of affairs,
the world can only rejoice if Russia puts
an end to the race of Su1tans in Europe.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04
THE BLOODY TURK.
RE1SING BY ASSASSINATION
TCincinnati Times

1t may interest the few people-and
there are still a few over here-whose
sympathies run with Turkey in the pres
ent struggle, to look into a peculiar
phase of her s'civilization" which, so far
as we are aware, has not yet been touch
ed npon by the press. We refer to the
tenure by which q large proportion of
her soverigns have secured or held their
thrones-the tenure OF assassination.
The story, to be properly written should
be in letters Of blood, but brief outline
of it might run as follows:
In 1859 Orohan, the grandson of 9th
man l., founder of the Ottoman dynasty,
assembled the throne. He was sovereign
of great force, and u successful soldier,
but narrowly escaped losing the scepter
through conspiracy of ono of his sons.
The rebel son, once overpowered was
promptly executed; and the precedent,
thus established, soon became re1og-
nized principle, to-wit: That upon the
accession of new Sultan, all possible
rivals to the throne should be strangled.
Authority for such a course was
easily manufactured from doubtful
passages in the Koran, and, as we shall
see later, was soon formally decreed as
the law of the realm.
Murad H., who became Sultan in 1 421
promptly proceeded, under this princi'
pie, to strangle his two brothers; but
was prevented, for the time, by their es-
cape to Constantinople. His successor
Mohammed H., conqueror of Constansti
nople, procured the issuance of p fetwa
authorizing the strangulation of the roy
al family: and put it in practice upor
his two uncles, whom his father, Murad
had heen unable to catch.
bian.
! Selim l., who became Sultan in Is l:
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04

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West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04
TILDEN.
THE LEGALLY. ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES GOING ABROAD
PARTING WORDS.
ECTORAL COMMIsS1ON-HIS
POLITICAL PURPOSES.

Special to tho Cincinnati Enqnirer.I
NEW YORK, July 16--Mr. Tilden, &C
companied by ysecretary-of-StateB Bigelow,
will sail on the Scythia day after to-mor-
row for a three mouths stay abroad. He
has been spending the hot weather at Sea
Girt, New Jersey, and to HorM cores
pondent, who visited him there yesterday,
he expressed himself quite freely on cur
rent topics. He said his trip has no con-
nection whatever with any business Oh
terprise or railroad scheme, as announced
without authority in some papers. In
regard to the electoral commission, he said
he never had any real confidence in the
arbitration of the question where there
was so much at stake by a body of the
kind. The Republican party, and men
who had managed it in the past, were too
yield any point in an arbitration. The
result of the electoral commission, there
fore, was what might have been ex-
pected, considering the power and influ-
ence brought to bear upon the political
majority of that body as finally consti-
tuted. He Furthermore never liked the
scheme as a matter of principle believ-
ing that the direction Of the Democratic
appeal was not away from three hundred
and sixty representatives ofthe peo-
| pie toward fifteen individuals, and still
| less, from fifteen individuals toward one
! to be selected necessarily with a large
element of charge, not to say of trick and
device. He thought there should rather
have been all appeal from the three hun
dred and sixty-nine representatives to
| the eight million of voters through a new
| election. He was distrustful of the Sc
crecy, celebrity and improyidence with
| which the arrangement was carried
| through and ushered into being but the
proposition appealed to the hopes of the
business classes, which were anxious
above all things for settlement of al
most any kind, at almost any price, and
as it was presented by the un animous re-
port of the joint committee it became
the only representative Of public desire
| for peace. The events when are now at
tractipg so mnch public attention in New
| Orleans, and the disclosures which per-
haps may follow, Mr.. Tilden considers
only the logical outcome of tho revolu-
I tionary acts of last fall and winter. In a
government like ours. he said, such
fraudulent practices as were reported
from New Orleans last November sooner
or later must come to light, and the gull
ty parties, with their practices,
must be made known. 1t was so with
| the ring frauds in New York IT has
been the case to a certain extent IN
Washington, and like result will fol-
low in New Orleans. 1t is against the
natural course of events that deeds OF
this kind should ultimately fail OF being
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04

For State and District offices, ...-..$ 800
For Parish offices, -----.---...---. lO.Oo
For police District Offices, .----.--- 500
Ito be paid invariably in advance.)
Transient advertisements ,UiH be inserted
at the rate Of 81. so per square Of ten lines
for the first insertion, and IS cents for each
subsequent insertion.
Personalities charged at transient adrer-
tising rates.
Yearly advertisements payable quarterly ];
Quarterly, payable monthly; Transient, in
adrance.
The abOre scale Of rates must be the basi;
Of all contracts ,rith advertising agents.
Obituaries, tributes Of respect, resolutions,
etc., charged as advertisements.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04

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West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04
A T.. GASTRELL,
Bayou Sara, Louisiana,

Bayou Sara, Louisiana,
DEALER IN
PLOWS, AGRICULTURAL 1MPLE-
ments, Brides, Harness, Hardware, Guns,
Pistols, Pumps, Pipes, Machine Fittings,
Cocks, Valves, Castings, Ropes, Hollow
Ware, Wagon and Carriage woodwork,
Biacksmith's Materials, Etc, Etc.
TIN COPPER AND SHEET IRON MAN
IFACTORY.
Also Agent for the celebrated
"CHARTER OAK" STOVES,
Uric, Garrett & Cottman, Brinley, Jas.
II. Hall and other plows, Aliens Horse
Hoes, Woods Moving Machines, Horse
Hay Rakcs, all of which will gnaran,
tee to sell lower than can be purchased
clsew here.
Changers and others will find it to
their advantage to call and examine my
stock and prices before purchasing else
where.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04
ILLUS FREYHAN g. CO.,
'OTHE PUBLIC.

WEST FEL1c1ANA, June l6. 1877.
10 parties living in West Fehciana
~ snail at any time desire my profess
s,ai servicse I would respectfully an
fnee, that they have but to address
s$h hs hermitage, Pointe Coupee Parish,
Sue care of Messrs. Deplaigne ~ Lieux.
calls from the citizens Of this Par
80 addressed will receive prompt at
l'!on end response.
?. &. 4. KAUFMANN, M D..
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04
THE LABORERs' REVOLT.
Ne,U York Graphic.

It is hardly worth while for
the press Of the leading cities
to be giving advice to the
rioters on the railroads, or 10
be propounding lessons in
good conduct which they will
not heed. Those who are now
in revolt against The constitu-
ted authorities in FIVE States
of the Union, are not as a class
newspaper readers and in
times Of excitement like the
present the press would be
much better employed in CIV
ing the facts and accounting
for q disturbance which af-
fects so large q section of the
country. Had there been a pro-
per militia system in West
Virginia this epidemic OF revolt
| would not have extended be-
yond that State, but the meas
ure of success, which there at
tended the revolt Of the brake
men and fremen. has been
followed by its extension to
other roads and other States.
OF course this outbreak must
and will be put down by the
strong arm of the law, but its
causes, after the first heat of
passion is over, will be inquir-
ed into and a remedy applied
70 prevent the recurrence Of
such disturbances in the fu-
ture. The Baltimore AMER1-
CAN states that the strikers
have the sympathy of the peo-
pie living on the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio road.
This was, however. to have
been expected. The local
store-keepers and the other
workmen would naturally
sy1npLathize with the families
of the men, who were strait
ened in tn cir means and who
could not purchase as freely
or pay as we'll as when wages
were better. But the AMER1>
CAN further says that there
we're instances of real hard
ship, the regulations Of
the company requiring men
70 live at different ends of the
line, while giving them only
tWo or three days work in a
week. It must also be re-
membered that the employees
lof the various railroads have
been repeatedly reduced, that
the screws have been put up
on them time aud again, and
that in every instance up to
the present they have loyalty
submitted to what appeared
to be an inevitable reduction.
It has been often reported
that there were likely to be
disturbances due to the irri>
tation of the brakemen, fire~
men and engineers at the
repeated reductions, but in
every case the alarm was un-
founded. The BULLETIN Of
this city, an organ of the
| wealthy classes, thinks that
perhaps the railroads in their
anxiety to pay eight and ten
per cent dividends have dealt
too selfishly with the work
people !; that they should have
all followed the example Of
the Pennsylvania road, which
voluntarily reduced the divid-
ends upon the stock at the same
time it cut down the wages Of
it's employees. The business
of the roads and the condition
Of the country do not justify
the payment of eight or ten
per cent on investments in
railway stock, and if the work
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-08-04
|ENTISTRY.
b:NTlSTRY. DENTISTRY :!

DENTISTRY. :!
l will attend all calls on
EX1 the Coast, from Natchez to
kl1DNew Orleans; also the back
btry, when accessible with Il buggy.
lrsons wishing my services, can pro-
the same by addressing me, at my
Hence.
u. STOCKING, ID. ID. s.,
|oS, '76.-1y. st. Francisville, La
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13
THE WAR IN The EAST.
THE Eussians Acknowledge the L0sS of
TIny.TWO Thousand Nen up IA Bnte-
The RmssIan Jsraiu Crop VnsatIstaC-

4 Berlin dispatch says that the
Russians officially acknowledge the loss
of fny.two thousand men up to the
twenty.seventh of September. The 81 me
dispatch says that the Russian gram
harvest is Disappointing both in quality
and quantity. The wet weather IN Au-
gust is assigned as the cause of the short
yield.
Further particulars of the battle before
Kars make it evident that the Russians
assaulted the Turkish positions along
the whole line, and were repulsed with
heavy loss. The main action was fought
Oh Tuesday. The Turkish line extended
from the Great and Little Yagni to the
fortified hills on the Kurskada plains as
far as Ami, on the Arpachai river with
the center advanced toward the river
and resting on Kizil-Tepe, The Rus
slams, reinforced by new troops and those
lately employed against the Caucasian
insurgents, began the batule at daybreak
on Tuesday by an assault on the Great
Yagni, the extreme outworks of Mukhtar
Pasha's Notifications, twelve miles east
from Kars. Tue Turks seem to have
been taken by surprise. A single Turk
ish battalion, defending the Great Yagni,
was cut to pieces or captured with the post
after two hours obstinate defence, which
gave the Turks an opportunity to prepare
for the next assault Up to this point
all accounts agree, but regarding sub
sequeut events they are very conflicting,
The Turkish Official dispatch says: "a
great battle ensued, lasting thirteen
hours. Repeated Russian attacks were
repulsed with heavy loss. "
A Russian bull.tin from Grand Duke
Nicholas's headquarters at Karajal,
dated fourth instant, says; CATER the
capture of Great Yagni it was found
that Little Yagni was 80 strongly forti-
fed that the attempt to assault was CON
sidered premature. After thirteen bat.
taions, sent from the Turks to reinforce
Muhktar Pasha, had been repulsed, our
troops fortified themselves in the posi-
tions occupied. Our loss Tuesday was
three thousand and sixty nine killed and
wounded. The enemy's loss was not
less. We captured two hundred men"
The Turkish account as TO repeated
attacks after the capture of the first Turk
ish position seems correct, otherwise
there could not have been six thousand
killed aud wounded. The two hundred
captured by the Russians were probably
the remnant Of the garrison Of Great
Yagni. The Russians also attacked the
center, at Kisiltrez, but we're repulsed,
Simultaneously the Russian force, moving
from the direction of Ami, endeavored to
turn the Turkish right and get between
Mukhtar Pasha and Kars. This move
ment is referred to by correspondent,
saying: "Hopesare entertained OF cutting
oft Mukhtar Pasha from Kars."
OF this affair the Turkish bulletins
say that after FIVE hours fighting the
Russian Iorce of ak bsttslions ofinfantrv
and two regiments OF cavalry, was driven
back and pursued to the banks of the
Arpaehai.
The Russian bulletin says: "a lodge
ment was effected on the Turkish rieht
flank, and the Turkish attack on the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13

We call the church the house of
prayer And 30 1t is for it was built
expressly fOr that pufpO.e, and for t5e
reading and preaching Of the word Of
God, and for the administration OF the
sacraments. But the church is iCr public
prayer. In another way every one ofour
houses ought to be house of
prayer There ought to be among
US as many hotses Of prayer
as there are dwelling houses. Nay,
more, for some ofour houses are coupled
by several families, and each separate
palt Of the house .houId be a house of
prayer.
Wherever . family lives there should
be house OF pfsyc', however humble
the family, h0weyef small the house.
Every father of family is the proper
head OF his own house and as such shodld
conduct the family prayer, morning and
evening. In some cases where a man
has to be at work very early in the. morn
ing or fer5 Iats At night, this may not
be possible. In suth casgs let tie wife
take his place but it is fir better wher
all can Join aud the father take the iead.
The bible ought to be read in every
family, 700. Ii there be time for no
more than a few verses, still let it be
read, and read daily,-Nhe Chwchmdn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13
NaINCELLANEOUN.

A Boston gas company is importing
coal from England.
Nine Thiers is most eligible widow,
So far as solid attractions are concerned
Her fortune is S3,2OOOOo'
The receipts of wheat at Milwaukee
October I'd were the largest ever reported
in one day-45S, $50 bushels,
The treasury department has decided
that hereafter in case Of revocation OF a
,,;Iot,s license by local board OF steamboat
insnectors. they must state the length oil Tine
Co.. which the revocation shall obtain.
Florence, the comedian, made 100000
hv his last engagement at San Francisco,
a1d invested the proceeds in mining stocks
~ t ihe "a suggestion Of 0'Brien, the million
";rs % ~ To-day the market value OF these
stocks s is estimated at $SO,OOO' M
Chicago is trying the plan Of still "
6res' The chief of the fire de-
nartment has allowed no beii'rnglhg slnIe nIi
he recent riots, and the plan WORKS wen;
Groat crowds at fires are preVen'eu, anu
bstter work is done by the unhlnuere"
iremen.
A champion of the cause OF Li6erlan
oxadns ~ assured the negroes of Charleston
last week that the scepter OF the wotid SsS was
laSI lsi,h;n their grasp. Negroes, he said haa
S.nndsd Greece and held the Jews III pon9.
age and the African by returning .hn mnSS 70 as In IN
native heath. might yet rule the wOrl" "' !"
the olden days.
stove-dealer in Hartford, Conn, has
"A ~ eSV sl;Cht cutmade in one Of his fingers
aiea Uioce Oi n ordinary oxydized sheet zlnc' 2!
py I,e'Ji inflicted poisonous wound that III
l9e s'so nonrs atlscted the whole circulation,
Anew hotlsd nv the efforts Of physicians VINO
anu NAN uV VSnmmoned. l0zydised zinc, when
weIo nS sa IN nuIhberless houses should pe
is ISHnS 9snS a. carefully as WOorarp arrows OF
noiSoped Chinese daggers'
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13

General Mcclellan has accented the
democratic nomination for governor Of New
Jersey,
The Wisconsin democratic state con.
vention, held on the 26;h uldmo, adopted
resolutions favoring the reconciliation OF
silver, aud opposing forced resumption and
ule granting of subsidies to corporations
etc James A. Mallory was nominated for
governor.
Lewis V Bogy, United States senator
from Missouri, died last week at his residence
IN St. Louis, the immediate cause Of his
ueath being tumor on the liver. lie wes
elected to the senate in 1878 as a democrat,
his term therefore expiring in 1870 His
successor will'be appointed by the governor.
The estate of the late Captain +. &.
Ward, Of Detroit, which was inycntoried at
his death several millions in excess Of his
dobts, has, on account Of the late great
shrinkage in values, deprecated to such an
extent that the executor has proposed to the
smaller creditors to settle thcir claimr n,
sorcnty.tyc cents Gn the dollar.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13

There was an exhibition in store in
Dupont street, ean Francisco, last week, of
mammoth bunch Of grapes from the great
grape vine of SantO Rarhara "a Cutting from
the monster srnt to the centennian. This
c!Hatef weighs one hundred and twenty-five
pounds, is six feet in circumference and three
feet long. The vine from which this is cut is
sixteen years old, and produces annually
10000 to l2,O00 pounds of grapes. This is
probably the largest bunch OF grapes ever
grown.
Deadwood gamblers are remarkably
superstitious One slys he il always lucky
when wearirg a certain shirt. He won $40.
Uf' in one day while wearing it, Others read
their luck in dreams, ia the weather, or in
the number Of men they meet in walking a
certain distance. When luck is against
them they change their clothing.
Mr.. John W. Keely, of "Keely Motor"
fame has been induced by some remarks in
a recent number of the Scientific American
derogatOry to his motor" to invite an in.
yestigation Of the machine under the aus.
pices of the New York Herald. That paper
has accepted the invitation and named n
competent engineer fnante withheld at
presentl to prosecute the investigation at
an early day.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13
FOREIGN.

The invader Of the potato fields OF
Hereford England was not the bug with ten
stripes, but only a beetle with seven spots,
and England resumes free respiration
The London papers give discouraging
accounts of the potato crops in England
They speak of the result as "total destruc'
tion." For twenty years there has been no
attack of disease $50 swift, so general, and
so complete"
A proposition was made in England a
short time ago to open the British museum,
National Gallery, and other public buildings
on the Sabbath; but when the question came
before the house of commons, the measure
was promptly put down byavote OF 2Sto q"
An extensive collection of postage
stamps, consisting of 1900 varieties, was
recently sold in London for $500, and a
magistrate of Middlesex England, was re,
Gently offered, but refused to accept tgoU
for his collection of stamps IN France the
mania has gone to greater lengths, no less
than $4,000 having been paid for what was
probably the most complete collection when
has ever been made.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-13

General lie Due, commissioner of
agriculture, proposes 20 establish sys.
TEN of inquiry in various sections of the
country, with view to the propagation
OF plauts adapted to certain localities, but
hitherto not cultivated in those sectiOns
He also proposes to adopt measures to
stimulate as far as practicable, through
the agency of the department cultivation
of those agricultural products for which
we are now largely indebted to foreign
countries The reports thus far received
by the commissioner show that the
climate and soil of the Pacific coast are
admirably adapted to the cultivation of
teas. He also finds that sugar, though
now cultivated in the south only, might
be produced elsewhere by proper manage
ment. A liberal series of experiments in
production is proposed through the co
operation of agriculturists, for the put
pose of produ ,ng articles which are of
numerical value, and are now largely
imported. L. wants information as to
the characteroi the crops, the possibili
ties of the soi and climate, and any data
of interest, and suggestions as to the
peculiar wants OF each locality. - 7WT
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