The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1877-11-03
Lovely Fi1anciering
BY UNCLE SILAs.
Chapter the last.

49, 9oo~
of the late ruling party in Louisi
ana, and an easy conjecture of
the intended robbery and whole
sale plumber of the money and re
sourceso of the State, laid down
in the secret programme of Pack
ard and his crew of blathershitcs
and rascaIs,
The five thousand dollars
belonging to the Parish School
Fund and the twenty thousand
dollars belonging to the State
Treasury which had been paid in
to the hands of Crosier, the tax
collector Of Lafonrche in 1876,
was never to find its way into
, either OF the Treasures to which
they respectively belonged but
were to be covered over with the
Radical mantle of Packard WHEEL
he should become Governor, and
concealed from the. spuolic gaze ;
and even, if not hidden. from the
eye of mankind what would it
have mattered to a parcel of vaga
bond villains whose notorious and
only business was. robhing the
public treasury, and quelching
out every sacred right that Cos
and the Constitution of the UaIs
ed States allotted to..man. &:
Not only had the Lieutenant
of Packard bulldozed the Police
Jury of this Parish elected by
the votes of dead men, peniten.
tiary convicts, refugees from JUS.
tees etc., into paying him 800:
20 for a lawyer to defend him in
violating the law, and another
item $732.65 to which he had no
just claim whatever, the legality
of which he dared not leave to
the decision of Judge Beattie, a
member of his own party, hui he
also bulldozed the Parish Ttea-
suler to tramp.e the law under
his feet and pay these warrants,
as we'll as a large number OF Pa,
IRISH warrants that he had bought
up alta large discount, by misap-
propriating public funds in di'
rect violation of law. Not satisfied
with holding in his hands fol
several months, and with the
very evident design Of coutinu.
lug to retain the same in his pos
session, except what he WOULD
, divide with his master. Packard
$4,000, 90 of the School Fund and
, Twenty odd thousand Of State
{ funds, he had pillaged the pool
, school teachers out of ten per
cent of their salary in'O October
3 by making each one endorse 4
warrant for that percentage O
his monthly salary, which he wa
, careful to make the school boare
Treasurer honor at sight, willis.
the teachers went unpaid for tn,
remainder until the present schoo
board came into power, which
board has 1iQuidated the MAORI
ty OF them and will soou settl,
e remainder.
j.. There was no one too high O
4 too low for this BuIidozer to pray
h upon without mercy and withou'
stint, and at his master Kellogg
or Packard's command be wa
ever a ready and willing tool.
Sd But in the course Of human
s~ents, Packard's goose that hat
: - in Crosiers eye
suddenly lost tie haia s oa.1'
down with a thud that made Tn
curls on his head stand straight
t up on end, almost lifting his ha'
f off his head. An era of justice
= and honesty was about to be III
/ augnrated and Crosier soon as
1 ~certained that a day Of reckoning
was approaching. He was notlona
in alighting from his high hors,
8 and assuming a position alto
Q gether different from the one tina
= he had been occupying with 81
much independence and bolduess
First he appeared before the
Treasurer of the Parish schoo
K Board aud paid overfto him tn,
S balance due that Board which ht
r Ind four months previously stow
ed awasE tie depths Of his ca
pacious POCKET; deep that h
a thought it could never bo>tount
by any human being. He was very
s careful however, in making thai
settlement to tnrn IN a warrant
s for $4,000 which he had made
t Enoch Dunn a school Teacher en-
dorse in blank, and after drawing
g a new warrant for the same
s months services, when he paie
l Dunn, he filed up the blank one
which Mr.. Dunn has been com
peeled to make good to the schoo
Board. He also turned into thu
Treasury five or six 5000 war
rants given to Mumford Mccoy
for services as Inspector Of schools