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MISCELLANEOUS.
BARGAINS BARGAINS !
BARGAINS ~!

Wishing to reduce my enormous stock of dry
goods, dress aud fancy goods, notions, clothing.
shoes, boots, hats, &C., and considering the
scarcity of money, and wishing to realize Cash,
I have concluded and take this method to make
it known to the pN)lic that I will, for THIRTY
DAYS from this date, offer great Inducements
to Cash purchasers.
Goods will be sold during that time at agrcat
sacrifice, but strictly for Cash only.
L have too much stock on hand, and as times
are hard and business slow, and being unwilling
to keep the goods on hand, I am determined
to let the public have the benefit of the sacrifi-
ces which [ am willing to make, and thus save
you from 20 to 40 per cent. on your purchases.
FAST color eaIicOes, Best American
Prints 5 yds. for 4 90
Al Prints worth rs Genfs.....fO Gents
Brown Cotton TO sold from 6 to 10 Gents
Esieaclcd " " " q TO IL Gents
Bed Ticking " " " Z to 30 Gents
Cotton Checks worth 30 cents TO be
sold Gents
Cotton Checks worth rs cents 10 be
sold Gents
LINEN Checks worth IS cents to be o
sold 25 Gents
Linen Checks worth SO cents 10 b.
sold Gents
Stripes worth 1@A to be sold at..-9 Gents
" as " I" " "..a11 Gents
C~Ottonade, drills, tvceds, jeans from 5
cents 10 40 cents per yard cheaper.
Swiss anusfins, worth from 25 10 so
cents, to be sold at 5 TO 30 cents.
bishop and Victoria lawns, NansOok,
worth from 25 to so cents, TO be sold
at 1J to 20 CENTS.
lawns, 5aCOnets, Limen Lawns, mand-
~k"rchfefs, Hosiery, Corsets, 30 per
cent Off.
Laces, Embroidery, Buttons,
from b 10 40 per cent OF.
A vast assortment OF clothing, of which,
prices are reduced 10 smch IA low figure
that IL will astOnish the closest buyer.
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TUESDAY, May stll, 1877.

The Police Jury met pursuantto adjournment.
Present: Il. III. Littell, President Albert Guidrys
On motion Of Mr.. Guidry, Resolved, that the
Parish Treasurer be required TO make q state
ment every month of the amount of Funds III
tfle parish treasury.
on motion of Mr.. Hawkins. Resolved. that
there be added to the special tax assessed and
levied on TIE tax roll of the present year, and
designated as the Judginent Tag, the sum OF
the Judgment against the parish OF st. Landry
in the snit III r.. Mufl2esheinler vs.. Parish Of st.
Landry.
proceeded Id examine claims unpaid and on
file against The Parish, w~herenpen motion Of
Mr.. Gnilaty the following claims We're allowed
and approved:
&C nnst.n Sheriff fees in eriminaI cases .S679 40
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION,
PROBATE COURT, PARISH oFsR LANDRY
No. 1916.

ESTATE OF JOSEPH A. GUIDRY,
u -
Whereas. Ignace Guidry of the parish Of st.
Landry, has applied by his petition to be
APPOINTED administration of the estate Of Joseph
A.. Gnidry, deceased late OF tile parish of st.
Landry.
Therefore, any person intending to make OPP
position to said appointment, will file the same
in writing in my office, in the townofO pelousas,
within ten days from the present notice.
JAMES o. CHACHERE, Clerk.
may 26-jfs
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Tower Still!
Prices Greatly RedNceds

I am about to remove and wishing to avoid
the labor and trouble of transporting my large
stock of goods, I will from this date sell my
entire stock of
DRY GOODS,
DRESS AND FANCY GOODS,
NOTIONS.
CLOTHING,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS, ETC,
at the lowest prices ever known here before,
until the stock is exhausted.
Now is the time to get cheap bargains, for
Cash, and Cash only.
Come at once before the goods are gone.
PHILLIP JACOBS,
Washington, La, May 26th. 1877-tf
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TOESCe.

ITO PARENTS.-MRs. RUDOLPH MAY
= er begs to announce that she purposes open
ing a school at her residence, Union and Main
streets, O,pelousas, on Monday the 9th inst. The
course OF instruction will be in English and
French, and pupils committed to her care shall
receive sound, practical instruction in these
languages. Special arrangements may be made
Tor German, Music and Drawing.
Terms for tuition in English and French, So
per month. Small children at lower rates.
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1877.
NEW YORK,

1877. NEW YORK. 1877.
The different editions of The. Sun during the
next year will bedhe same as caring the year
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OF eight pages of the same dimensions and char
acter that are already familiar to our friends.
The Sun will continue to be the strenuous adj
GOcate of reform and retrenchment, and of the
substitution OF craftsmanship, wisdom, and
llntegrsty for hollow pretence, imbeGiiity, and
fraud in the administration of police affairs.
It will contend for the government of the peO-
pie by the people and for the people,, as opposed
to government by frauds in the ballot box and
i'll the counting of votes, enforced by military
violence. 1t will endeavor to supply it's readers
a body now not far from a million of souls
with the most careful, complete, and trustwor-
thy accounts Of current events, and will employ
Tor this purpose q numerous aud carefully Sc
lected staff of reporters and correspondents.
Its reports from Washington, especially, will be
full, accurate, and fearless; and it will doubt
less continue to deserve and enjoy the hatred
Of those who thrive by plundering the Treasury
or by usurping Whatthe law does not give them,
While 1t will endeayor to merit the confidence
OF the public by defending the rights of the
people against the encroachments of u%njusti-
fed power.
The price of the daily Sun will be SIS cents a
month or $3.50 a year., post paid, or with the
Sunday edition $40 a year.
The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, $40
ID year. post paid.
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ttmns, " be furnished during 1877 at the rate
OF II $Hear, POST paid.
The benefit Of this large reduction from the
previous rate for the Weekly can be enjoyed by
individual subscribers without the necessity of
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our friends choose to aid in extending our cir
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expenses Of paper and printing are barely re-
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est newspaper published i'll the world, and we
trust also one of the very best.
Address, THE SUN,
dee 15-Gt New York City, N. Y.
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5000 CAN'T BE MADE BY EVERY
DOOO agent every month in the business
We furnish, but those willing to work can easily
earn a dozen dollars Il day right in their own
localities. Have no room to explain here. Bust
ness pleasant and honorable. Women, and
boys and girls do as well as men. We will fur
nish you a complete Outfit free. The business
pays better than anything else. We will bear
expense Of starting you. Particulars free.
Write and see. Farmers and mechanics, their
sons and daughters, and all classes in need of
paying work at homo, should write to us and
learn all about the work at once. Now is the
time. Don't delay.
Address TRUE & Co,
june 30-1y Augusta, Maine.
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EV&5y Bee-Keeper should subscribe for this
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MISCELLANEOUS.
ViCH'S Floral Gwfde
B"SCk'S
FLOWER AID VEGETABLE GARDEN
E'5Ck.'S

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
arc Planted by IL Million People in America. See
'Vicfs Catalogue-3oo Illustrations, only .
cents. '"J :
year. ~ ~ UNITS "
Nick,S Flower and Vegetable Garden. 50 cents:
with elegant cloth covers 81. 90.
All my publications are printed in Enrhsh
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ia" Rochester,, n. Y.
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FOa" Safe.

A furnished house and lot in the town of
Opelousas. Apply at this office.
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NOTICE OF
ESTATE OF ENOCH HAYES.

PROBATE COURT, PARISH OFST. LANDRY.
No. 1886.
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NOTICE OF F1~AH TABLEAU.
ESTATE OF AUGUsT1N JEANsoNNE.

PROBATE COURT, PARISH OFsT. LANDRY.
No, 3415,
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On motion the Police jury ~adIUuIlleu nlltIi
Monday, June 18th, 1877.
Attests O. MAYO, Clerk,
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English Hunlor.

An English farmer has recently been
compelled to pay the costs of . practical
Joke. He was sitting in the bar-room Of
the Greyhound Inn one night and taking
his usual tankard of ale, when his eye
CHANGED to fall on the sleeping form Of q
man with long beard. He went to the
fire, and, lighting piece of paper. DELHI.
erately applied It to the sleeping mans
beard. There was bright, rushing flame
for second or two; the man sprang to
his feet in agony; the joke was complete,
and the farmer r0ared in ecstacy. The
unfortunate sufferer, who happened to be
the village tailor, knew that the farmer
was man of substantial means, and acted
accordingly. He brought an action for
$3.50 damages in the Malmesbury County
Court in due course. According to the
plaintiffs evidence, his beard was eighteen
inches long when he lay down, after hav-
ing some ale. The next thing he remem-
bered was his face being on lire, while .
man helped 70 put out the flame. The
defendant sat In his seat roaring with
laughter, and did mot offer any assistance,
nor did he tender any apology for what he
had done. His lips were burned severely,
his face was blistered, his beard, eyebrows
and eyelashes were burned to the skin,
and one eve and one ear were scorched.
The magistrate awarded him $3.50 and
COqfa
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&c Rank Clssed."

ABOUT eleven O'Clock yesterday fore
noon man walked mp and down Girls
void street for few minutes, carefully
scrutinizing the exterior Of the several
banks, and finally entered one Of tn I'm
and deposited thirteen dollars. It was his
very first dealings with bank, and his
hat slanted over trifle more than usual
when he came out. About . quarter after
twelve, finding that he could deposit two
or three dollars more and still make his
purchases, the man came down. town
again. The bank was closed, according
to custom, and the usual sign OF " Bank
Shut" hung up against the glass. As the
farmer pushed on the door he saw the
sign, and he was only about ten seconds
growing - psle - death. Az he made
smother attempt to open the door. q bow
came along and called out:
"You can't get in there-she's shut
up!"
"Took my thirteen dollars in and then
bustedw gasped the depositor, a. he
backed of and looked It tho sign.
'She'll open again at two O'Clock" said
the boy, - he passed along.
i doubt til doubt itI'' muttered the
man, as he wiped OF the Precipitation.
"but I'll wait and Sec"
He eat down on the steps, knees weak
and chin trembling, and be didn't move
IN inch till two o'clock. When the bank
opened he walked in. presented his certin-
cate Of deposit, md said:
I'm be thousand times obleeeed II
you'll let me draw out my thirteen dol.
lars"
Il was handed out, and the man bfaced
up instantaneousiy. Counting he money
over twice, he put the bills "a his walle8
walked out, and, = he reached the walk,
he said:
That's the closest escape ever had ID
my life, and won't make . fool Of nv.
self again l''-Dstroig Fres Pres.
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A Good Word for the Grow.

LET me speak for the crew. Last year,
as was narrowing corn with vibrating
harrow, having teeth O0u know it is .
noisy thing), it uncovered . great number
of white gIubs, which you could see all
about the ground. They are very destruc-
tive to vegetation of all kinds. They ate
or destroyed thousands of hills Of corn
that year. You could see the track of the
grubs ae they travelled to get something to
eat, for they travel when in search OF food.
You could see the surface Of the ground .
little elevated. and checked when the sur
face is hard and dry. Well, you see, when
I was narrowing, - soon % tho crows
heard tho harrow ct work, they would
come and light on the ground that was
being narrowed, and the fresher the better
they liked It; when going one way they
would light after had passed along;
when returned, and came within six or
eight rods Of them, they would rise gently
and circle around in the rear again. /
have counted ~ many ~ seventeen grubs
that one crow has picked up q one light
ing. They takeany and everything, large
and small-that ID, worms, grubs aud bee
ties. Crows can't pull corn when planted
with . machine; w have no fear Of them
from that source. Finally, wherever CIV
ilization u. there are rocks and crows.-
Letter to CAatasqsa (N. ~ Farmer.
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Penny.M ise and Pound. Foolish.

JUST a. some people love beauty, and
some love books, and some love pleasure,
there are some who love money. They
do not seem to love it for anything that It
will do or that it will procure, FOR any
power that it gives them, FOR any extrinsic
happiness, but simply for itself alone;
and the sight Of . double eagle that is
theirs warns the cookies of their heart a.
the sight Of no perfect face or lovely land.
scape on earth could do.
Most of rs desire money for the comfort
it can give rs, the appreciation in the eyes
Of the rest Of the world, the pleasure It ii.
lows rs to bestow. But these people love
il for no such utterly exterior quality, they
love it simply ~ money; It hurts their
hearts to part with it, and every dollar
that they add to their store is more to them
than good deed added up in Heaven.
Far beneath their love Of money sinks
their desire for the esteem Of their fellow
mon: they had rather be thought rich
than good, or noble, or generous, or kind,
and in truth they frequently do not care
whether they are thought rich or not, 90
long Is they ara rich. Their wives lead
dreadful lives, that drive them to rebellion
or reduce them to idiocy; their sons run
away - soon - they are old enough to
know any rOad that leads from home.
feeling nothing can be worse than home;
and their daughters, hating the hand that
compels them to unrighteous drudgery,
grow up to labor through al their heavy
hearted youth. If they also do not forsaks
LONE. only TO flannt IN vulgar superb
bundsnce Of finery, to rejoice in gross
tables, and TO marry husbands that will
DO their best TO run through the property
40 49,. Il -
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cup of tea, the air Is in the first place en-.
tangled among the particles Of liquid, and
thus forms bubbles in the struggle to e.
cape. Although carbonic acid may, in re-
gard to physical properties, be ranked a.
kind Of air, the formation Of fr0th in eff
fervescing liquids is slightly different.
But why is froth white? Porter, ale,
tea, coffee, champagne, water, differ
very considerably in color; yet in all of
these, when froth is produced it is white.
This appears to be due to the reflection of
the light from the outer surface of the sew.
eral bubbles. When the surface IL thus
broken, we have cluster OF little spheres,
each of which presents reflection to the
eye from some part of its surface; and as
there may be tens of thousands of these in
q very small space, the effects become
united, and are recognized as Wilderness.
1t is simply an aggregation of small ef-
fects to produce one more conspicuous.
If the bubbles are large, then fewer of
them can be contained in q given area
consequently the number of convex re-
flecting surfaces is smaller, and the united
effect less brilliant-in other words, less
white.
But it may still be asked by some of US,
How is it that the ffoth of reddish liquid,
such as beer, il white? The phenomena
of reflected light must again be appealed
to for the means CT solving this problem.
The color of LIQUID mot its froth) is de-
termined by the transmitted light, not the
reflected. If liquor be contained in a
transparent glass vessel held between the
eye and the light, and we look through it,
the eye receives the light transmitted by
the liquid, and deems the color of that
light to be the cUlor of the liquid itself;
but if we pour the liquor into an open
vessel, and look obliquely at the surface,
we shall find that the color does not devil
ate much from whiteness, whatever the
transmitted color may be. The liquid,
whatever be Its body color, is when agi-
tated broken up into detached portions ut
its surface by the formation Of bubbles,
and each bubble reflects to the eye por-
ton of the light which falls upon it. Con-
sequently. if this reflected light is nearly
white in all cases, the resulting assem-
blage of bubbles generally known as
froth must always appear white or nearly
white. We can easily understand the
greater yellowness of the froth on strong
Dublin stout than that on pale Burton ale !;
the more tenacious liquor forms thicker
and consequently less clearly rejecting
bubble than that On the more limpid.-
Chambers Journal.
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AHn AORCOeB8OSSAAN wA8s
The Germa An Government has seriously
demonstrated with the Porte against Turkish
atrocities, AMI intimxted the absolute necessi.
ty for better discipline.
A Constantinople telegram of tho 14th
says the Russians had been driven from al
localities south of the Balkans.
Advices from st. Petersburg, received
on the 18th, say Russia would mot be bound
by the pledges she made when war was first
declare d, but would dictate peace ON her
own terms when the Turks have been finally
subjugated.
The Russians have completed second
bridge across the Danube, at Pyrgos.
London dispatches of the 10th say the
siege of Rustchuk had been practically
raised. The Russians had oficially acknowl-
edged the loss of II. $50 in killed and wound
ed up the 9th of August Prince Nikita had
also raised the siege Ut Nicsics. Il was be-
lieved that the whole Of Bulgaria south Of
Tirnova had been evacuated BY the Russians.
The Sultan has issued an Imperial de-
cree, calling to arms all hitherto exempted.
The Russians. on the 18th, occupied the
Turkish Town Of Kustendji. The line, ex-
tending from Tiruova to Schipka Pass, Was
occupied in force.
On the 18Th, the Russians, numbering
5000 infantry, ten regiments Of cavalry and
10 gums, attacked Mukhtar Pasha. in Ar
menia The battle lasted the entire day, and
in the evening the Russians Refreshed n
their old camp, with loss OF ! 100 killed and
wounded. The Turkish loss was 106
A London dispatch of the 20th says the
Turkish accounts Of Russian disasters IN
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ness, 1t any rate, and you'll excuse her

ness, at any rate, and you'll excuse her
conduct"
1bowed. I could say nothing. Marga,
ret opened the door tor me, ana walked
out into the fresh air.
A. looked back upon the house, with
all its elegance, 1t seemed to me to have .
haunted air. az though the ghost of the
poor girl still lowered about Il.
"God only knows how many fearful Sc
crets such handsome homes may at times
shut in" said to myself, as turned my
back upon it gladly.
have never seen the poor old lady since
that hour. Probably Margaret has kept
too close watch upon her.
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How little the American parent
knows Of what his child 10 doing has
Just been illustrated in Connecticut. "A
South N0rwalk miss, while herself attend
ing an uptown day school, started pri-
vate school in the city, and maintained itin
hourishing condition several months be-
fore. her father discovered the fact"
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Asia were greatly exaggerated. The Russian
movement was merely heavy reconnaissance
in force, which fell back after it, purpose
had been accomplished.
The Province of Salonica and the coast
district from Olympus tothe terminus Of the
Adrianople Railroad had been declared in .
state Of siege by the Porte.
The persons implicated in the murder
Of the Consuls at Salonica, some months ago,
have been released by order Of the Sultan,
and the Powers have agreed upon common
protest to the Porte concerning the impolicy
of the act
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.

CuRRENT PARAGRAPHS.
William Longman, the well-known Brit
ish publisher, is dead.
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We are ever regretting what we
do, and ever doing what we regret.
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The Pennsylvania Independent Green
back State Convention Is to be held ut Will
Transport, on the 10th Of September.
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A State Prohibition ticket has been
nominated in New York.
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Col. John A. Joyce, sentenced to the
Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, for his
connection with the st. Louis whisky ring,
has been released from confinement. The
case came up ON writ of habeas corpus, the
plea of Joyce being that he could not be SUBJ
jccted to cumulative sentence, and that his
two years imprisonment having expired,
he was entitled to his release. The Judge
took the same view of the question, but re-
quired Joyce to furnish bonds in the sum of
1000 to respond to the order Of the higher
Court, to which the Government has ap-
Dealed
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At Flushing. N. Y, few days ago,
two children of F. NJ. Lavalley were burned
to death by the explosion of can Of kero
Scne OIL
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The Servian Cabinet have rendered
their resignation on account of differences
in respect to the foreign policy of the Gov
ernrhent,