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Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08
NAPOLEONVILLE, Line, SAMEDI, s SEPTEMBRE 1877

folies de la derniere greye, ct des
infamies de la periodic dite de
reconstruction, apparemment
parce que pon ny rien recons-
truit du tout, ct que tous les eff.
forts du Nord consistaient q
maintenir son talon sur la t6te
du Sud, sans parler de tout celia,
qu'apercevons.nous aujourd'hui
Uu president republican,, q moi
tie enleye d la force du poignet, a
moiti6 escamote en- faisant sauter
la coupe electorate. Eh bien, d'on
croyez.vons qne syienne popposi-
|tion q cette progeniture de la
main gauche du parti repabli
lcain : du parti republican, lui-
meme; ct l'appui lui arrive du
parti qui lui est oppose en- prin-
lcipe, dn parti democratic. C'est
vraiment d ne sly plus recon
naftre.
II faut pourtant l'avouer, cette
lsitnation etrange du nouveau
President lui Went de son bon
sens ct de ses bons sentiments.
Dams cette grande famille de Ger.
veaux brnl6s oh Pom ne reve que.
re que plaies ct bosses, il est IN
des rares esprits qui cherchent la
paix, la concorde, l'union. Et,
ma fol, 81 on le compare aux chefs
des gouverDements europeans, il
lleur est, dams sd m6diocrit6 me,
me, imminent superienr. De
tons les chefs d'Etat, actuelle
ment al pouvoir, c'est lie seul .
peu pres qui ne m6rite pas d'6tre
soumis d un regime de donches
ou a nm regime de maison de cor
rection. Et parmi toutes les ma.
tons europeennss qui, grace 4
lleur age, devraient avoir Ie pri,
vil6ge du bon sens ct de l,huma
mite, c'est encore ee grand enfant
que Pom appelle pam6ricain qui
m6rite la paine du sens commnn
ct de rhumanit6.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

sauver la France ct la sortir dc
forniere on rempire l'avait pre-.
cipit6e. Apres avoir termin6 les
negotiations de Ia paix, il fut 6lu
president de la republique ct
en- cette capacite il negocia pour
P6yacuation du territoire.
LIE nom de M. Theirs, on du
petit bourgeois, CONNIE On s'est
plu d Pappeler, passera q la pos.
t6rite CONNIE un des plus illus.
tres de notre steele.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

Voici IN item ennprnnte a un
journal du Nevada: .Une femme,
iuge dc paix dams IL Territoire
du Wyoming, est oblig6e den
tendre une affaire dune nature
scandalense, dams laquelle son
mari occupait 10 position peu en-
viable de defendant. Ellie Ia con-
damn6 q etre pendu par le con
jusqnsa ce que mort sen suiye, ct
ellie q ordonn6 que la sentence tut
imm6diatement ex6cut6e. Les
avocats lui ayant fait compren-
DIRE Qu'elle outre.passait ses pou-
vOirs ct qu'elle ne ponyait agir,
en- cette affaire, que CONNIE jnge
Construction. Ellie q alors mis-
son mari sous cantionnement de
els, 900, 900 en- attendant uu'il
comparaisse devant le Grand Ju-
~, ct 3 dit qu'elle criblerait de
bales le premier individu qui
tenterait de lai procurer cette
sscurit6.v
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08
Samedi dernier nm homme dt

Samedi dernier IN homme de
couleur dune Equarantaine dan.
n6es est mort snbitement dams
notre village. LIE malheureus
6tait employe par n. Z. w. Pike
pour softir des m6rains de la cy.
priere; arrive q NapoleonviIle, il
await tres chaud ct but de reau
glac6e. Aussit6t qu'il eut bu il
tomba roide.mort.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

La petite vile de Paris, dams
le Texas, o etc presqu sentierement
consum6e par les flammes. On
estime les pertes q trois.quarts
de million de piastres, sans comp.
ter celleS couvertes par les assn.
RANGES. Un appel a etc fait aux
sympathies du peuple des Etats-
Unis pour venir en- aide aux in.
cendies qui sont dams Ia plus de.
plorable d6tresse.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

LIE jnge Adrien Pothier nous
o eilvoy6 un superbe 6chantillon
de mieI provenant de ses ruches
O'est, a notre connaisssnce, le
seul de nos co-paroissiens qui
s'occupe ssreusement d'apicultu
re-; aussi reussit-il admirable
iaeuts quarante rnches lui ont
donne cent-dix gallons de miel.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

Dams Ia paroisse Caddo Ia
nouvelle lol des chemins pnblics
est mise strictement en- viguer.
On poursuit rigoureusement tous
ceux qui refusent de TRAVELLER
aux routes.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

Les marchands de la Pointe.
Goup6e ont fait IN appel au in
ry de Police de cette paroisse
pour 6tre proteges contre les in
justices ies planteurs qui ven
dent dies marchandises a lenrs
employees sans payer license.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

u Les abonn6s du Pionasier, qni ne
recevraient pas regulisrement lenrs hume
ros, nous rendront IN grand service en- nous
signaiant sans delai toute irregularits.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

Un ineendie = eclat6 Ie 8 cou-
rant a New York, dams une
manufacture de pianos. Les pro-
priet6s detruites sont estim6es d
plus dun million ct on croft quill
q peri plus de 200 personnes.
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08
Bulletin politique.

= OA0AA ss0A0 NSO Oo1 "a u SlCAA6f
|qui, dams la politique surtout,
|prennent des proportions v6rita-
Element 6tourdissantes.
A commencer par rOrient, il y
% trois mois environ, une grande
|guerre Sc declarait.
II y await, DUN cote, une puis-
|sance gigantesque, ct que, par le
fait, le monde s'etait habitue a
|appeler lie colosse russo. Une
puissance qui possedait en- terri
toire q pen pres la septieme partie
du globe, non pas a titre de colo.
|nies, mais directement, ct dun
|seul bloc; une puissance qui
await la pretention de faire la loi
a la fois d apOccident ct a rOrient;
|qui, par-dessus le marche. Sc po-
salt majestueusement en- cham.
|pion de rhumanit6, en- general, ct
de Ia chr6tiente, en- partieulier
une puissance, enfn, qui await
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS plus
on moins franches, plus on moins
|interessees, de toutes les nations
|civilis6es, mais pappui actif de
Ia moiti6 du pays soulnis a son
|ennemi.
De l'autre, il y await un peuple
|corrompu, use, agonisant, qu'un
|czar appel6 de ce nom rest6 &C.
|lebre, "le malade j" que d'aucuns
traitaient d'incurable, que tous
|m6prisaient, ct qui semblait me.
ritter le mepris de tons; qui, en-.
fin, soft en- population, soft en-
territoire, ne valait guere quinn
|dixiame de son adversaire.
Les premiers coups de canon Sc
trent, ct, tout de suite, il devient
|evident aux yeux de tous que la
Turquie est cette fois-ci bien per-
due, qu'au bout dun mois ou
|deux la Russie sera q Constanti-
nople, ct le tnrc refoule en- Aisle.
Deja on await annonce le trans
fert de la capitale musuimane d
Brousse.
Mais voici que le turc prend
Iloffensive, inlige q l'ennemi en-
vahissenr 6chec sur 6chec, ct re
trouve une jeunesse, nne vigueul
lque personne ne lui soupconnait
lplus.
Vous imaginerez pent-etre que
Icette preuve d'6nergie, de virilitt
| va lui reconquerir quelques sym
pathies de la part de certaines
puissances que Ia peur senle await
lrejetees dn cote de son ennemi
Pas le moins du monde.
C'est justement ce moment
lqu'ils choisisseDt pour protester
contre lui, contre les actes bar.
bares quill q pu eommettre, e'est
possible, mais qui n'etaient que
Ides represaiiles contre les barba.
lries deja commises par les russses
Vous trouverez peut-8tre cette
lconduite pour le moins singulie
Ire. C'est plus que celia, en- effet ;
lc'est de la faiblesse ct de l'incon
sequence. Mais que dire dune
puissance, telle qae lAngleterre,
Iqui q un int6ret evident, imm6.
Idiat, tout puissant, d ce que
lConstantinople reste libre, ainsi
|que le Bosphore etsla Mediter.
Irannee, ct qni laisse faire a Zen
lnemi commun toutes ses fantai-
isles Z
Mais peut-etre que c'6tait Ia
|peur qui jnsqu'ici ravait emp6.
Iehee de Sc lancer sur le terrain,
|pour n'avoir pas d Sc mesnrer
|avec le colosse russo. Parcons6-
|quent. vous pencherez d croire
|quelle proftera des Debates de
Ia Russie, pour entrer dams Pare,
Inc ct arr6ter une guerre fatale
pour tousi Allons done, c'est le
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

fouler ses vell6it6s guerrieres ct
remettre le sabre an fourreau.
Ceci est tout supplement insens6,
|mais c'est la triste r6alit6.
Mais nous ne sommes pas au
bout de ces faiblesses, de ces in
sanit6s.
Remarquez bien que dams cette
|grande guerre, tout Ie monde,
journaax ct ministries parlenJ
|d'humanite, de chretient6 a sau-
yer. On croirait, a les entendre,
que Pom assiste a une croisade
|religieuse. Point dn tout; tout
CO monde-la ne songe qua lfnte-
ret, nest dirige que par le plus
etroit interet personel, l'int6rGt du
moment, lequel les aveugle a tel
point que personne nest plus Ca
|pable d'apercevoir les grands in
t6rets de Pavenir. Tous les grands
meneurs de peuples, qui Sc tar
|guent tant d'etre habiles, ne vi
vent qn'au jour le jour ct sont
|incapables de songer au lende-
main.
Par exemple, il est actuelle-
ment evident que cette affreuse
guerre, enterprise au nom de Phu-
mantle, nest au fond qu'une
Iodieuse conspiration des deux
grandes pnissances du nord pour
Iarriver d refaire une Europe a
leur image, une Europe lni-partie
Iallemande, mi-partie slave. Celia
resort des fats ct gestes de M
de Bismark !; on en- presque les
lpreuves mat6rielles en- main.
V0ns allez sans doute croire
Ique les puissances occidentales,
que la race latine que Pom geut
Ifrapper de mort ct traiter a la IA.
lcon don't on traite deja les lures,
won't SO ligner ensemble pour
ldejouer une pareille conspiration.
Plus solvent. Chacun ne songe
lqu'a sol, ne cherche qua s'6yiter
lquelque tracas pour lie moment,
ct serait meme bien aise quill
arrival malheur a son voisin dams
Temperance de d6tonrner la fou-
DIRE de sa t6te, on meme den tirer
IN petit profit momentan6, sans
Sc douter que rabaissement du
yoisin ne serait que le prelude de
son propre abaissement.
Si nous detonrnons nos regards
de cette triste guerre d'Orient
lqui n'inspire que degodt ct vous
fait presque douterde l'honnetetG
humane 81 nous jetons un coup
fd'Gil sur une puissance qui, JUS
Iqu'ici, a tenu un 81 grand role
dams lie monde, ct qui Sc d6sinte-
resse actuellement des questions
exterieures pour Sc recueillir, a
lce qu'elle dit, que voyons-nous
Un peuple aux traditions monar.
chiques, qni s'est fait republican,
par raison, ct parce quill s'est
lapercu que tous les regimes mo-
narchiques sont desormais frap,
lp6s dune impnissance irrem6dia-
BILE. I'll s'est fait republican,
saivant les conseils des hommes
d'Etat qui Sc sont trouv6s d sa
lt6te dams un moment de tour
lmente. Et, maintenant quill a
nomm6 des gems pour mener tant
bien que NAL ga barque repnbli-
Icaino. ca SOnt cas- Cens.la nui.
lcontre son gre, venlent absolu.
ment le faire eouler. La nation
tire dun cote, lie gouvernement
de fautre; c'est le maitre qui de.
Went le serviteur, ct le serviteur
lqui a usurp6 Ia place dn maitre.
VOLTA ce quest devenue la IA
Imeuse sagesse europ6enne. On
Icroirait So trouver dams une mai
son de fous.
Est-ee que rAm6rique elle-ma-
me est bien exempte de ces criti-
|ques7 ! Helas sans parler des
Pioneer of Assumption. (Napoleonville [La.]) 185?-1895, 1877-09-08

- Ab0nnez.vons an Pioga;es
ponr % par N.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
One of TMeed's Lady Friends.

had, says Celia Logan, writing from
New York to the Baltimore Neaos, a
little business to transact few days ago
with a certain dealer in real estate.
While sitting in his office there entered
a lady, tall, slight, we'll built, and grace
full. Not young, although art had been
made to do its share to make her appear
So She was dressed all in black, the
silk being covered with real Spanish
illusion-a very beautiful, costly, and
perishable material, seldom worn in
this or any other country, on account of
it's expensiveness. She was loaded with
jewelry-the diamonds in her ears were
not have cost less than $4,000. Even
the handle of her parasol must have cost
large sum. Her carriage and pair out,
side were enough to make ones mouth
water, so splendid were they. This lady
talked in loud shrill voice, with ring
of command in it, as that of a person
| possessing power and conscious of it
And no wonder she looks grandly, and
talks as if accustomed to carry matters
with high hand, for this is Mrs. Nc
MILAN, the lady to whom Tweed, il
those days when he was flush and liberal
I is said to have presented a mansion or
Fifth Avenue worth 100000! And a.
further proof of his confidence in he
discretion and business ability, he is re
ported to have deposited for safe-keep
ing, until he abandons his retirement
the snug sum in bonds, ETC., of $12, 900,
900 or $14,000,000, leaving himself, a
he truly states, with only few paltr,
hundreds of thousands.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
A Wide.AWake Dog.

A Paris Letter says: Mile. D., good
and worthy lady, who lived in country
house in the neighborhood of Columbier,
had dog of special intelligence. He
was of the race of poodles, which, every
body knows, is remarkably sagacious.
When Mile. d. passed the evening with
ladies of her acquaintance in Columbier,
as often happened, the dog lightened her
home by carrying two little lanterns,
which were fastened on each end of a
stick which he carried in his mouth. If
she went to walk during the day, the
faithful dog carried her work-basket.
On beautiful autumn morning, asMlle.
D. was going by vineyard on her way
back from Columbier, hare sprang out
into the road. The dog set out after
him, forsook his mistress, and sowed a
part of the contents of the work-basket
at every turn in the field. When he
came home with the empty basket, Mile.
D. scolded him we'll. Wholly ashamed,
with dropping ears and tail, he did not
wait for the end of the lecture, but
scampered off, Scarcely had half an
hour passed when he came gayly back,
bringing pair of shears; then he hur-
ried off again, and brought the knitting
work; then skein of thread, and at
evening all the articles which the basket
had contained, except the thimble, were
| together again.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
That Magic Shampoo.
Cincinnati Sunday Breakfast Table.

The Vine-street barber said he had a
shampoo he could recommend, and for
family trouble or business cares, or any
thing like that, it would pick a man
right up by the hair and set him down
in Elysium so suddenly he would think
his mother-in-law had swallowed her
tongue and died of suffocation. 1t was
better for the brain than two barrels of
fish-oil, and had more inspiration in it
to the drop than seven-dollar champagne
or Democratic majorities, which the
same-that is the shampoo-would con-
ciliate and pacify man when you
couldn't touch him otherwise than with
graphing iron; 1t would take right
hold of one and appeal to the SYM
wooden leg. If you had wealthy rela-
tive in poor health, only get him into
that chair, and one dose of the sham
poo would make him go right to law
yer's Office and WI you twenty. thousand
dollars; and all iis for thirtyfive cents.
If you wanted tcsleep, it would put you
into doze as sweet as beeswax, and if
you wanted to feel particularly lively
and wide-awake for sharp trade ten
minutes rub with that immortal elixir
would make you swap swamp lot in
Texas for fve-story block on Fourth
street, or money cheerfully refunded !;
and if it was appetite you wanted you
could go way willing to bet you could
eat raw dog without salt. 1t was a
cheap preparation at thirty-fve cents.
Cheaper by fifty dollars month than
doctors bills. 1t would just take rheu-
matism by the neck and heels and throw
it clear over into Kaintuck, and bill
iousness couldn't even come to the front
gate. 1t would make an aching tooth
more pleasant than ball room, and as
for corns it would fairly render 'em a
source of inspiration. Tight boots would
become. as sandals of spicewood, and a
pain in the chest would stand on its
head and howl for joy. In affairs of the
the heart it was surer than Cupid, and
one customer who had only invested two
dollars in it was now happily married to
widow with three children and twenty
thousand dollars. Thirty-five cents was
dirt cheap for the preparation.
The man had just got through with a
breach of promise suit, and didn't in
vest
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
A Way to Get Rid of Borrowers.

A gentleman whose place of business
is not a thousand miles from the Mer-
chants Exchange, says the Boston
Commercial Bulletin, is annoyed as many
business men are, by impecunious indi-
viauals desiring small loans. He has
adopted the following method of deal
ing with them: He will listen to the
long preface to the request to Just
lend me five dollars for few days ?'
and answer, certainly" and then turn.
ing to the clerk, says:
"James we have five dollars to lend
have we notY'
Yes, sir" says well-trained James
Well, lend it to Mr.. Beet"
1t is not in, you loaned it to Mr.
hummer day before yesterday"
" Ah, yes; SO l did. Well, when i
comes in lend it to Mr.. Beet" and bow
ing to the borrower the merchant re
sumes his business, and the needy on
walks dejectedly out to try more profit
able place.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
Cure for BarbarOus Husbands.

A woman who had suffered barbarous
beatings from her husband, went to
noted wise man of the village to inquire
how she might cure those paroxysms of
violence. The soothsayer heard her
complaint. and after pronouncing some
hard words and using various gesticula-
tions while he filled phial with a mys-
terious mixture, desired her, whenever
her husband was in passion, to take a
mouthful of the liquor, and keep it in
her mouth for five minutes.
The woman, quite overjoyed at so
simply remedy, strickly followed the
counsel which was given her and escaped
the usual chastisements.
The contents of the bottle being al
last expended, she returned to the wise
man, and anxiously begged to have q
fresh supply of the same liquid.
You foolish woman" said the sooth
sayer, there was nothing in the bottle
but brown sugar and water. When you
husband is in passion, hold you
tongue. and, my life for it, he will no
lay finger upon you.u
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
Awful COlliery Explosion near Glas-
cow. Scotland.

LONDON, Oct. 22-An explosion has oc-
Cured in the colliery at High Blantyre, near
Glasgow. Four hundred men were in the
mine. A large number were killed.
A Glasgow dispatch says the most intense
excitement prevails over the colliery explo-
sion. Exploring miners are endeavoring to
get at the miners, but have little hopes of
rescuing any. The bottom of the pit is said
to be full of dead bodies.
GLASGOW, Oct. pa special train sent
to bring the injured of the colliery explo-
sion to the Glasgow Infirmary has returned,
no one having been got out alive. Twenty
dead bodies have been recovered. 1t is
feared the entire four hundred in the col
liery when the explosion occurred have per-
ished.
GLASGOW, Oct 22.-The latest particulars
from High Blantyre show that two hundred
and thirty-three men descended into the
mines this morning. None of these, except
one, who was working near the shaft at the
time of the explosion, has been rescued up
| to a late hour this evening. Very little hope
| of rescuing the men is entertained, as the
| explosion occurred at nine o'clock in the
| morning, and the exploring parties had to
| relinquish their efforts in one pit at four in
| the afternoon, because of the poisonous
| gases at the bottom of the shaft of the other
pit, the colliery comprising two pits, with
| Communication between them. A faint
| knocking has been heard, but, so far, it has
| been impossible to reach the bottom of the
| shaft.
[LATER.1
GLASGOW, Oct. 22.-Explorers have re
sumed operations at the first pit. They
report forty corpses lying at the foot of the
shaft.
The shaft at the bottom of which knock
ing was heard is rapidly collapsing, and ex
plorers, consequently, are attempting to re
open a communication from the other mine
They have penetrated about half mile, bu
have still one hundred and fifty fathoms t.
clear, SO they cannot possibly reach the mel
who are supposed to be imprisoned befor
morning. tits feared that by that time few,
any, will remain alive.
LONDON, October 23.-The work of e1
ploring the colliery at High Blantyre, il
, which the explosion occurred yesterday
proceeded throughout the night. Fou
miners were discovered alive about eleve
o'clock, but in so exhausted conditiO
: that one died before morning, and anethe
t is hopelessly prostrated. Mining expert
!, say all the men in the pits perished, BIT
+ even if any are alive now, no rescue part
4 can reach them in less than eight or ten day
The work of bringing up the dead was r
/ sumed this morning. The bodies are fea
: fully burned and mangled. The explosio
e was of terrific violence.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01

THE FIRST NAPOLEON ON PEACE.
The First Napoleon was accustomed
to say that if Europe had only allowed
him to work out his will he would have
given it such peace as it had not known
for ages. All the warning dynasties
would have been banished to the quiet
comforts of private life; all the foolish
iealousies of nations and Churches would
have been hushed; all the bad laws ac-
cumulated by stupidity and despetism
would have been swept away to make
room for variations of the Code Ma
poleon: Europe would once more have
known the benefits of Roman peace" :"
But nations do not choose to put their
liberties, their opinions, their interests,
or, it may be, their prejudices, at the
mercy even of the most benevolent
despotism, and the mere fact that Ma
poleon had the power to begin such an
experiment made all Europe feel it
could never be tranquil until he should
be dethroned. Some faint revival of
such fear was seen during the Franco
German war. Although France had
been the aggressor, and Germany was es-
sentially peaceful, it was not comforting
to find any one State so powerful that it
could crush the strongest of its rivals in
few weeks. Such government might,
if ambitious, turn its arms against
weaker countries, and thus all would be
alarmed for the safety of their land
marks.