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West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-24
THE TERRIBLE DISASTER.
Fearful Scenes Consequent Upon the 4Arful
Result of Panic.

Result of Panic.
New York, March 9.-At the
time of the alarm last evening in
st. Francis Xavier church which
re-uIted so disastronsly, Father
Langiache was preaching on Hell
and the Horrors of the Damned
and perfect stiffness prevailed
uddenIy, as the preacher was pict-
uring the torments Of purgatoty, a
young woman in the northern cor
ner of the W st gallery. overcome by
her feelings, tainted. and gave
utterance t. a hy-terical scream.
startling the worshippers. and caus-
ing them to spring to their feet.
he next moment some reckless
person cried fire and this gave
rise 10 the panic.
Father Langiache. who was near
ing the emf OF his sermon, stopped
and implored the people to Keep
their seats, as there was absolutely
no cause tor alarm. Father Mer-
rick the pastor, heard the screams
and rushed into the sanctuary. He
called upon the congregation to-
keep their seats, as there was no
fire and no Cause for alarm. The
-exton also end"avored to stop the
panic. These eff ,rts were partially
-ucceSsful. Father Langiache re-
tired to the ve$try-rot m, and in a
few momen returned attired IN his
cape, and uttered the benedic'ion
d'Smissing the congregation, and
the organ began 10 play. The
women in the main body of the
church and in the east gallery pass
ID out in an orderly manner, and
not a single person in the portions
Of the chul ch last named was il IT.
ed. The people occupying that
'or.ion of the g'!lery where the
cormotion had begun and centered
is encd to neither pr lest, pastor,
sexton, beEedlction nor organ.
They rushed towards the exit from
the gallery, and almost crazad with
fear, pu-hed and fought III: ir. way
into The narrow stairway leading
TO Sixteenth street. The stairway
is but four fee. wide. and within
three Or four steps of the bottom it
makes sharp turn before it reach
eS the vestibule. The crowd Of
ma4dencd women rushed down
stairs and would probably have all
reached the street IN safety, but al
the bend in the stairway an aged
and very stout woman, in her ea-
gerneSs 10 reach place of safety,
fell headiong down stairs, and be-
fore she could regain her feet the
frantic crowd, pre-, sed On toward
the vestibule. came upon her p. os-
trate te m, and those IN the fore~
most ranks tell npon her. In a
moment the passage way was
choked and a scene of the widest
confusion aud most intense excite
meut ensued. The crowd. in fear
aud terror, pressed on with almost
irresistible force, and nothing could
be done to stop their advance. The
c"azed women Tough, their way 20
wards the choked up stairway tram
ping upon those WHO had tallen in
front and crushing the lite out CT
them. They screamed and fought
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-24
HENRIETTA HOUSE.
BAYOU SARA. LA.

A BAYOU SARA. LA.
Pan be procured by the day, week
A, and at reasonable rates. In
Il as in the past, the table will
ed with the very best fare the
hffords. Elegant and well fur
Poms. Accommodating servants
y IN attendance. Patronage So
Rnd satisfaction guaranteed.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-24

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& Il. ENOCHS'

MARBLE YARD,
Z the Hill, st. Francisrille, La.
ents. Tomps. Mauaoleums,
and Foot Stones, Mantel
ices, Iron Railing. &C..
to order. Any orders addressed to
|ou Sara, ,riU receiue prompt atten-
Il j2S'76
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-24

h Street, Bayou Sara, La,
DEALER IN
|oods, Groceries, Confcctions, To-
ines and Liquors..
F6.-3m.
West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-24

CHER. AUGUST FISCHER
A. FISCHER,
3er OF Sun and Front Streets,
Bayou sara, La,
.sALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
FOODS,
DTIONS,
1 CLIO THING,
\, SHOES, GROCERIES
AND
gS1ERN PRODUCE.
5gsnest cash price paid for cotton.
F76.-ly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
To CONTRACTORS.

GEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
y ceived at the office of the Clerk of
the Board of Education of Monroe
Township, at Eldorado, Ohio, until
twelve O'Clock, at noon, on the 26th day
of May, 1877, for building an addition
al story on Brick School House; also a
vestibule for reception of stairway, in
sub-District No. l, according 10 the
plans and specifications on file in said
office.
Each bid must contain the name of
every person interested in the same,
and be accompanied by a sufficient
guaranty of some disinterested person,
that if the bid is accepted a contract
will be entered into and the perform
ance of it properly secured.
The bid for each kind Of material
called for by the specifications must DE
stated separately, and the price of each
given, and the price of labor must also
be separately stated.
None but the lowest responsible bid
will be accepted, and the Board may re-
ject all bids.
BY order cf the Board Of Education.
w. H. STOKELY, Clerk.
apr9e-5
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

The Chicago Tribune now square
ly admits that the black man of the
South has at length been assigned
his political status alongside of the
white citizen. 1t says:
"And now, in 1877, the long CON
troversy over the black mar seems
to have reached a finality. The
negro has been emancipated. He
has been made a citizen, and the
ballot placed in his hands. BY the
arrangement in Louisiana the last
obstacle to his free enjoyment to pc.
litical liberty has been removed, and
in the land peace prevails between
the whites and blacks, and in all
the States there are now local gov
ernments having the ability and dis
position not only to protect the col
ored people from violence and OPP
preston, but deeply interested in
elevating and improving the moral
and educational, as well as industri-
al, condition of the long degraded
and depressed negro population.
The material interests of both races
are bound up together and are insep-
arabic; the recovery must be mutual,
and must hereafter more closely bind
them together"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
. BEN WADE.

BEN WADE writes another epistle
and reiterates the sentiments ex-
pressed in his first. He has nothing
to take back:
JEFFERSON, April 80, 1877.
To the Editor of the Cleveland
Leader:
1 notice in your paper of to-day
two articles relating to myself, copied
from the New York Tribune. The
first purports to come from Mr.. Ward
Lamon, of Washington, formerly
Marshal of the District, stating in
substance that some time during MI.
Lincoln's Administration a conspira-
cy vas formed by the Republicans in
Congress opposed to his Administra-
ton to depose him from the Presi-
dency and put either Mr.. Fremont or
myself in his place as dictator; that
a. written memorandum of the COM
pact was made at the time; that a
copy of it was in possession If Mr..
Chase, and by him shown to Mr.. Lin
coin. Now, l desire to brand the
above statement, in all its parts, as a
willful and malignant falsehood; and
if Mr.. Ward Lamon ever made such
a statement as is alleged, to any one,
l pronounce him a liar. I saw the
article in the Tribune last week, and
had it related only to myself 1 should
not have condescended to notice so
silly a lie; but when I find it copied
into respectable journals, and as it
duplicates many members of that
brave old Congress that carried us
triumphantly through the war, most
of whom are in their graves, l thought
such a scandal upon them should moi
go uncontradicted.
"The second statement; relating tc
MI. Painter, is as follows: Mr. Wade
is credited with saying, in explana
tion of his famous letter, that it was
confidential, and was made public by
a person totally d~epraved and utter
ly destitute of honor This is also
utterly false. Although the letter
was private. it found its way to the
public in a manner which entirely
eXculpates Mr.. Painter from al
blame; nor do 1 blame him for its
publication, and in all the hostile
criticisms, in the papers and other.
wise, which it has called forth, none
has as yet denied that it contained
the exact truth. In vindication Of
Mr.. Painter, 1 will say that I have
known him for many years, and he
is as honorable a man as l have eve
been acquainted with.
Respectfully yours, &c,
"B. F. WADE"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

New York Sun: The advance in
the price of flour has caused gener-
ally a corresponding advance in
the price of bread. The advance is
irregular, however, as some large
bakeries carry -four in stock. The
poor man buys, for ten cents a loaf
of bread weighing twenty ounces in
stead of one of twenty-four ounces.
Crackers, a common but q miserable
substitute for bread on the laborer's
table, are two cents a pound higher.
Hence bread is one-sixth higher
than it vas a month ago. This may
seem insignificant to some people,
but it is not so to the man who
works for a dollar a day, and would
now like to have a dollar and twenty
cents a day to fill the gSp.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
Another cold Bourbonm of I

Another sold Bourbon of the
WADE, BLAINE and TAFT stripe has
turned up and sticks a thorn into the
sides of the fraudulent President.
Poor HAYES! He deserves the pray
ers ofthe united ministry of the u
try, to give him backbone to endure
the stabs he is receiving in the house
of his own party friends. This time
it is one Colonel UTLEY, of Racine,
Wisconsin, who earned his title in
the Union army during the late re-
bellion. He thus belches forth:
1.-THE GROWING infamy of Mr..
Hayes Administration thus far is
the weak and vaciliating manner in
which he deals with the Southern
Republicans, especially in South
Carolina and Louisiana, and the men
who took their lives in their hands
to make him President. When he
goes to the South for a member of
his Cabinet, he selects q rebel Dem
ocrat. \ X x K Il
l contend that there was but one
honorable course for MI. Hayes to
pursue. He should either have car
ried out the policy of the party that
elected him, or resigned. Perhaps
he may think that the chance game
of eight to seren relieved him from
all obligations to the Republican
party. 4 Of all the men
that have ever occupied the Pres
idential chair, no other President
has shown such an aptitude to squat
to the clamoring horde as this same
great reformer; and is it not sickly
to see the soft-shell crabs of Repub-
lican editors trying to Guido each
other in clarifying the wonderful
Civil Service reform policy of Presi-
dent Hayes, and the backbone he
exhibited in carrying it out? Holy
Mosesl His boosted
firmness is of the reed shaken by
the wind species. He imagines
himself the usher of the good time
coming, the millennium. He is un-
dertaking to do what nothing short
of Almighty power a accomplish.
He is trying to get the Southern
white man to lie down with the ne
gro, and let a Hayes lead them.
II x He is trying to serve two
masters, and in the end he will
hold on to neither, and be cursed by
both. 1t is not very strange that
with the wrecks of Tyler, Fillmore
and johnson before his ey es he will
insist upon trying the same part?'
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
HAYES NEW ORGAN,

The Nation newspaper, at Wash
ington, heretofore an independent
journal, announces that hereafter it
will be a party "Organ'-the organ
of the New Wing Party" or the
Republican Wing Party" and that
It's platform will embrace the folloa T.
ing principles:
81. A National currency founded
on a bi-metalic standard, and suffi-
cient for the wants of healthy trade.
80. A system of internal improve
ments; such as private capital is pow
erless to conduct, but which is essen
tial to the Development of the coun-
try's resources.
"3. A tariff sufficient to keep en-,
ployed such manufacturing establish
ments as r already in operation, and
put in operation such new industries
as will tend to develop the natural
wealth of the country, and create a
balance of trade in our favor"
The Nation, it is understood, is to
be the special or personal organ OF
His Frandulency, Hayes, who, hav-
ing broke up the Republican party
fancies he can establish q new party
on its ruins. John Tyler, Millard
Fillmore and Andy johnson each in
his day tried to organize a new party,
but outside of the oftice-holders, they
had no followers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
The Pittsburo Post saws of MI

The Pittsburg Post says of Muir
ply, that when he started OH his
temperance movement he resembled
a physician called in to treat q des-
perate disease. He did not guaran.
tee a cur in every case and must
not be held responsible if some OF
his patients have a relapse. He
was, however, sure of one thing that
the ordinary physician is not, that
his prescriptions would cure if the
patient followed his directions.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

In the Ohio Senate on the goth
inst, Hon. 1. T. MoNAHAN offered a
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted, directing the President of
the Senate to draw his warrant for
the per diem of Senator HAINEs, in
favor of his widow, from the date of
his death to the close of the session.
A more faithful and honorable mem.
Der never sat in the Ohio Legislature
than Judge HAINEs-he fell at his
post-and this is justly due his re-
lict.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

There is no use ofthe Republicans
undertaking to cover up the fact
for it is a fact-that there is q large
majority of their party that r not
satisfied with the fraudulent Presi-
dent, in regard to his southern poll
cy. MI. HAYES would better be look
ing out and blazing his lines of re-
treat. for that he must retreat or be
broken down, is as sure as that NOR
TON, BLAINE, WADE, and other bloody
shutters lead the party.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

The fraudulent President seems to
have an ambition. He wants to go
down in history, not IS a fraudulent
President, but as the respected sire
of a new party. He wants to jerk
the old Wing party out of its forgot
ten grave, quicken it with a little of
the Returning Board ~leaven, tie it to
a few Southern Democrats and some
of the o conservative Republi-
cans, and set up shop as the gre
deemed Republican party" If these
things are true, and circumstances
apparently confirm them, the fraud
ulent occupant of the White House
is making a great mistake. He
seems to think it is less his duty to
obey the Constitution and execute
the laws, than to build up parties.
Instead of concerning himself about
the unfortunate condition of the
country and the depression of bust
ness and doing something to relieve
it, he is scheming for the organiza-
ton of HAYES party. There is his
mistake. Let him do his duty and
there will be no danger about his
having a powerful party at his back
to support him, and let him violate
his duty and he will just as surely
find the majority against him. Let
him help the country to prosperity
and turn out the thieves, and he will
find a party to defend and support
him, without his violating decency
and honor in its organization.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

Richmond Wing (Dem.): Ben
Wade and Ben Butler have had their
day. They were big dogs, and bark
ed loud while the row was going on,
but, with peace restored, they must
either sit upon their tails and howl
at the moon, or sink out of sight al
together.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
w. L. SCOTT, M. D.
Physic-MedicaIist and An.
fi-PoiSonouS Practi-
fiOneY.

yXTOULD say to the citizens of Ea-
w ton and vicinity that he has per-
m%anently located in the city of Eaton
to practice the Physio-Medical system
of Medicine, which is in diaect opposi-
ton to Allopathy, Homeopathy and Ec-
lectic Systems, which use many poisons
in treating diseases. This system of
medicine rejects the use of all Poison,
and uses none but harmness remedies.
Particular attention given to the treat
ment of Chronic diseases.
All calls promptly attended to, day
o + night.
OFFICE-No. 147 South Barron ST.,
Eaton, Ohio.
Office Hours-from Z to 8 and II to II
A. NJ, and l to 3 and Z to 8 P. NJ.
March %. 1877.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
To Builders and Contractors.

Oealed Proposals will be received at
y the office of the Clerk of the Board
of Education of Casper Township, Pre-
BILE County, Ohio, until Il O'Clock,
(noon) on the 10 Ii day of May, 1877, for
the building of two Frame School
Houses in snb-Districts No. 3 and No.
4, of said Township, according tt plans
and specifications now on file in said
Office.
The Board reserves the privilege of
rejecting all bids not satisfactory.
There will be a meeting of the Board
at the Township House, May 10th, 1877,
at l o'clock p. NJ. at which time the
proposals will be read.
BY order of the Board of Education.
w. Ii. JEFFERSON,
apr26-41 Township Clerk.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
THE EXTRA SESSION

The postponement of the call for
m extra session of Congress until
the 18th of October surprises every
body, even the supporters of the
fraudulent President. 1t is not only
violation of law, but cowardly in
Mr.. HAYES, to undertake by such a
course to advance the interests of the
party he hopes to build upon the
ruins of the one that stole him into
the Presidency. In speaking of this
call the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
1.-THE cowardice of the Republican
party doth appear in this: it hath
put off that extra session of Congress
till the 18th of October. This defers
Congressional criticism of the Ad-
ministration and its policy six days
beyond the election in Ohio, which,
this year, is the October State, with
an. important verdict to render.
The motive is obvious. The delay
is explained chiefly on the ground of
heat. The business men of the coun-
try do not wish the members o fCon-
gress to be annoyed by assembling
themselves together in warm wealth
er, and the members of Congress, so
long as the business men of the coun-
try insist upon it, have agreed to
stay at home. This is the Cabinet
excuse that goes to the country. The
real reason is patent to all. The
HAYES wing of the Republican party
dare not permit the title of HAYES to
be discussed on the floors of Con-
gress, before the eyes of the country,
by the Democrats until a little more
time has soothed their righteous in
dignation; and they dare not allow
his policy to be debated by Republi-
cans. HAYES, looking at his deed Of
power, shrank from his political en-
emies; and gazing on his S of it,
shrank from the men who gave it to
him. He knew that the discussion
in Congress of his lease and his pol
icy in advance of the October cleo
ton would be the doom of his party
in his own State. He knew he would
be almost compelled to announce a
position upon some great public
questions, notably the currency ques-
tion, before October could speak, and
he dared not. He needed time to
buy and persuade recalcitrant Re-
publicans; to coax them with Office.
1t was necessary that their wrath
should be permitted to cool. The
lawlessness of which the Republican
party will be guilty in consequence
of this delay is Of no account-the
Republican party is accustomed to
more fragrant violations of law. He
has, it is feared, already secured
promises from a sufficient number OF
Democratic members of the House to
assure the legalization of his course.
He has told Southern Representa-.
tives that he has incurred the dis.
pleasure of one-half of his own party
by befriendiag the Democrats of the
South, and he asks their assistance
in softening the abuse that will fol
low. To this persuasive appeal some
Democrats have doubtless listened
and have thus saved the HAYES party
from a part of the penalty of steal
ing a Presidency and a policy"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

What puzzles Packard is that
Hayes was elected and he was not.
That's what puzzles Blaine too. 1t
particularly puzzles Pitt Kellogg.
In fact how Hayes could have been
elected and Packard defeated when
the Hayes electors received a thous,
and less votes than Packard received,
is one of those things which would
puzzle most any fellow-exeept Stan.
ley Mathews.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

The colored voters of German
township, Darke county, 1O3 in num-
Der, have filed a notice through the
Democratic papers to the effect that
hereafter they will go square back on
the Republican party and vote the
Democratic ticket. At the late
spring election one of their color
was a candidate for trustee, and an
other for constable, and the white
Republican voters of the township
turned their backs upon their color.
ed brethren and refused to support
them. There will be more of this
kind of work in other sections of the
State this fall.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

There is one fact that stands out
as prominently as a wart on a wo-
mans nose, and that is if Packard is
not the lawful Governor of Louisiana,
Hayes is not the lawful President of
the United States. Packard's title TO
the Governorship is the same as
Hayes title to the Electoral vote of
that State; they are one and INSOFAR
able. The face of Packard stamps
the brand of fraud upon the brow of
MI. Hayes.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
when the Government sunplied

When the government supplied
the people with forty millions of
currency, it did ii at the
cost alone Of increasing paper and
printing it. When, in response to
the demands ofthe bullionists, silver
coin was substituted, the general
government not having the silver
bullion in its treasury vaults, out of
which to coin the subsidiary curren-
cy, a obliged to go into the mar
ket and purchase bullion. To be-
come enabled to do this, bonds were
issued, the principal and interest of
which was made payable in gold and
the interest bearing Indebtedness of
the government thereby increased
SAC, 000,0 600, at an expense to the
people of over $4,000, 900 a year on
interest. Whenever the fractional
currency vas counterfeited, as was
often attempted, the government at
slight expense called in the issue SO
counterfeitcd and substituted q new
issue more difficult to initiate, thus
preserving in its purity and protect
ing from loss, the people, and espe.
cially the poor whose money the frac,
tional currency was TO q great ex,
tent. The counterfeiting ofssilvel
coin is an easy task, large amounts
of counterfeit coin is already afoat
The government seems powerless to
arrest or prevent it, and upon the
people must fall the inconvenience
and the loss.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10

There is a faint prospect that the
extension of the Lake Erie and Lou
isville railway from St. Mary's south,
may run to Eaton Ella Greenville. A
little earnest work along the line
would assure it.-GreenUiUe Herald.
We are ready in this county for
that work, Bro. Herald, and hope
there will be a move in the right di-
rection in this important matter at
an early day. Let US have a meet
ing.