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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10

SYNOPSIS OF SUHJECT-Titled, Deity &
Satan; with their respective natures ard
final development in man as purpose, now
being prepared by DR.. Buatt for publica-
ton. Which when complete, 10y request
will be condensed in two lectures for pub
lie DISCOURSE.
Deity and Satan as two extrenlities of
conditions, as forces. The one as the
consequence of the other. Their natures
intellectually, are as entity and nonen-
tity; order and confusion. From the
measures of void Deity was us positive,
as an on,nitc intelligence, the central on
nj soul of creation, whose volition urged
his ounnipotent impulse, which as cxerte.l
force, implies an equivalent resistance as
it's negative. which became II co-etrrnal
antas-Orism from the beginning of time.
This embrace thrilled by it's shock liner
tia us space. From whose convulsol cHs!
arose the condition as chaos; engentlcring
the essentials Of heat, as constituents of
matter, which as product of he two, must
possess Il quality of natures in each rang
ing ultimate as an escence. From which,
as aggregates marshalcd by an omliiic
wisdom, rolled forth all creation as the
many mansions of my fathers house, as
Kingdoms for his divine family, which as
this earth is the inheritage of our Messiah,
through whom the nature Of Deityis pro
longed as developing individnalities
through the mortal OF man, with his and
their respective antagonis1ns as volumed
embracing natures. Whose clash is the
phenomenon oflife as the immortal factor,
from it's relative escence in matter; c1ll
minating to the border of reason, as IA
Guilty of physical mind, for the develop
ment of soul as the immortal intellect
with its conscious faculty as monitor i'll
Judgment over those sentient suggestions
derived through the senses by reason, as
ideal facts; which being of the same char
acter of surrounding associations, deter
mines their nature as it's own. While
fostering desires of such as arbiter of will,
for it's development as saint or devil.
The senses furnish the evidence, memory
records, reason debates, conscience do
cides, will executes the Judgment. Heav-
en- the embrace of creations circumter
ence as order. Perdition beyond as con-
fusion. The Millennium a question of
time as to when those antagOnizcd ma
lures will be asslmilated as immortal in
dividualities.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10

JOSEPH STERN, PHnNIN-LIKE, has aris-
from his ashes, and makes his head
harters at the store lately occupied by
E}es Gontlran, at the top of the hill,
kere he has opened an extensive selec-
pm of entirely new and fresh goods of
Fery description, to which he invites the
|spection Of the public generally His
h friends and customers are particular
invited to call and see him in his new
harters. You sec Joe is one of the ''i,r:-
Pessib'es"; if floods swallow him up he
bes anon to the surface, if devoured by
hmes, like the imperishable Phoenix, he
Uses from his ashes, full of energy, life
phd vigor. He deserves success.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10
DIR. BUATT'S GREAT WORK.
From the Morehouse Clarion. I

| L. AoAiA pIlS NNoieuOtlSc Cl3ClOu.
1t is good for all of lis to be occasionally
reminded that the world knows little of
Its greatest men, and that nature is far
more prodigal of intellectual power than
many of us imagine. For one Milton who
takes the world by storm, fifty pass be-
fore us, and fade away into the dark ness;
unrecognized. Many heaven born genius
has had to hide its light under bushcl
lest the ungodly should laugh him to
| scorn. 1t has long been known to a few
among us that in the gentleman whose
name heads this article, our town may
claim citizen of credit and renoun,
whose thoughts may one day shake the
world, but even those few were unaware
until within the past few weeks of the
gigantic task he had undertaken. The
problem how to justify tho ways of God
to man, to penetrate the mystery of crea-
tion and of life, h as for centuries occupied
the thoughts of the learned. Plato strug
gled with it, Aristotle shirlxed it, Bacon
was conquered by it, but it has been re-
served for Solomon Peter Buatt to put it
to rest forever. And this, too, he has &C
complished without any of those udven-
titious aids, the want of which generally
renders the scholar so helpless. Future
pilgrims to his woodland home will sec
no ponderous tones weighing down his
library shelves. Like Shakespeare he
knows little Latin and less Greek. He is
simply as God made him. He claims
nothing for himself To the tlattcrer his
answer is ever "Praise God from whom
all blessings flow" During the spare
hours of all arduous profession and in the
dim seclusion of a pine-woods cottage he
has evolved a chain of ideas that will
probably prove to be the master piece of
the Nineteenth Century. His great work
is not yet ready for the press, but am
glad to be able to announce that at the |
earnest request of his many friends he has
consented to embody his ideas in two lee
lures, which at an early date he will de-
liver to, we trust, an appreciative audi
ence of his ad,niring fellow-citizens. 1 |
append synopsis of his great work, to
Which we simply add, "Quod Buatt de-
monstrantl1,m. To many it will seem a |
mystery at the first reading, but long and |
earnest study will reveal its beauty and |
"Speed the soft intercourse from soul to |
SOUL" A. d. b.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10
yf,r~aPHOUSE PAINTERS
ATTENTION. %1N
BAXTER, BELL s. CO.'S
PURE LIQUID PAINTS,
OR
B5OuJSs; PAINTERS COLOIsS

We beg to invite the special attention
of Dealers and Consumers to thes"
PAINTS. They are manufactured from
the very BEST AND CHOICEST PIG
MENTS, and mixed or thinned with only
STRICTLY PURE Linsced Oil and Tur-
pentine, and they cannot be excelled IT,
covering capacity, durability, tineness and
beauty of finish. They will neither
chalk, flake, or peel off, and work with
perfect freedom under the brush. The
weigh from Is to 10 lbs per gallon, which,
of itself, POSITIVELY demonstrates their
purity and superiority.
Tho various compounds known In IT,"
market IS Chemical Paints, contain oni"
sabour SO per cent. of Paint; the balal .
i. water, introduced into the same by tic
use of an alkali, to combine it. I'll"
last mentioned Paints, so-called, only
weigh from ITO 10 lbs per gallon, viii. h
we .hnk certainly proves their lack e
capacity or body. When water is mi,
ed with Paint, it not only destroys lis
body, but, to Il very great extent, it's AL
heSivcucss, which all practical men know
is of the highest importance to preserve.
in order to make n durable Paint.
We think, from the statement we have
made, that buyers cannot fail to at ONCE
perceive that their interest will be best
-omoted NY buying our Liquid Paints
i. G. Pure Paints), in preference to the
so-calleG Palhvs referred to.
Sample card and prices sept free on mp.
plication.
BAXTER, BELL & CO.,
| Is Murray ST., New York.
Manufacturers and dealers in all Paints
Coiors, &c Mar.17.'77-f,
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10
THE FORESTS.

The attractions promised in III,
published programme, for the en-
tertainmvnt at Firemen's Hall. O,
the hight of Tuesday, 9Th instant
were we'll and credi!ably borne GU
oy our young friends OF the Forres
AMATEUR Dramatic Association
indeed they went beyond ,hei,
promises and presented the andi
ence with many select n,orceous tina,
were not mentioned in the bills,
thus affording pleasant and
agreeable surprise. Quite a large
audience was present, pc, haps fuIlv
as large as was expected, in con.
s'oerat'on IF the melancholy local
events OF the preceding eight or ten
days, which threw a cloud of sad
ness over many, who would other
wise have attended. The efforts
OF our young friends were in everv
way deserving of the largest
success, and so far as the selection
OF plays, their rendition, and the
beautiful decorations and ornamen-
tatiohs Of the stage were concerned
aDere a success to the fullest extent
of the word.
The scenery, painted expressly
for the FORESTS by l.. w. Seayy.
OF New York, is very beautiful and
upon this occasion added immeas-
urably TO the attractions of the
evening and TO the satisfaction and
delight Of the audience who Justly
appreciated the creditable enterprise
ct The II ISOLATION in this out lay for
their pleasure and amusement.
Of the young ladies who took
part in the perfor nance it would
be super fuous so speak in word. of
adula:ion. Their success Was a
foregone conclusion, aud each and
every one of them sustained and
justified previous anticipations.
With the young gentlemen how
ever, all of whom are entitled to
commentator, we shall take the
liberty of mentioning specially,
MoSsrS. F.. II. 3 excl J. s. Sweet
man, J. G. Mcguire, and Gus.
Brown, as particularly deserving OF
credit for the splendid manner in
which they acquitted themselves
in til III several roles. Mr.. Bockel
especially. showed the effects of
clos Sc apl lie lion and a keen con-
ception and app' eciation of his
l,arts.
We are pleased to he able to
state, that on Monday evening
next, 18th instant, the FORESTS
will repeat their entertainment,
with material additions to the al
ready attractive programme, 70.
the benefit of Bayou Sara Fire Co.
No. l. THIS is nob'e Object, and
we expect to see our young friends
fully susta med in their commeDda-
bic act of generosity. Let every
body who can, turn out to offer
our firemen a rousing benefit and
to accord 10 the FORESTS that need
of appreciation and encouragement
to which they have proved them
selves so Justly entitled.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10

PEHscNAL.-Ex-Go Gov. Wicklitfe return
d to his home OH Sunday morning last,
)fter several months absence, looking in
Iplendid health. On the 4th page of
His issue will be found an account of the
erviccs he rendered in keeping an eye
pom and providing The Attorney General
18th the forged Vernon Parish returns,
p valuable in the prosecution of Wells,
|ndcrson & Co., for their villainy in the
Ecrcise of their functions as members of
be Returning Board.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10

DIR. Tut has been ell
gagged i'll Tie practice oil
medicine thirty Years, AMI
for ! longtime was dc,no-.
str:i'or IT anatomy in the
Medical College Of Gcor-
"la, hence persons usin"
lis Pills have tic ruar::n-
tee tha. they are prepared
on nitric PRINCIPLES,
and arc free from all
Yu,lckcry.
lie las snccccdcd in
combining in them the
her, ;u!orc auiaSonis,ic
qualities Of Il st"<:rg.hen-
MS. n.Sa1iv:, aHdafn
Iy!Hs, f"u!r.
Their first apparent cr-
!cct Is to incrcIse the ap.
rcritc nv ca"sing the food
10 properly AS $ initiate.
Thl,s the svstcu, is n,.,r-
i$hcd, and by their tonic
action Oh the digestive or
-ars. regular and healthy
cvacuatious :,rc produced
Tlicrapi'ii;y with which
frrsonS lake on Ersh.
Willie unI.r the ;Eilucncr
Of these pills, Of itself in
dicatcs their adaptabilily
10 nourish the body, and
hence their cfticacyin cur
irE nervous debility. mel.
ancholy. dyspepsia, vast
ing of the muscles, slug.
gishncSS of the liver.
chronic constipation, and
myth 10 the system. Sold
IN r,y Street, New York.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-10
IG,IIE ADLER HOUSE,
Clinton, Louisiana.

CLINTON, Louisiana,
Is constant y open for the accountable
ton of the public. Meals by tho day,
week or month at reasonable rates.
SINGLE MEALS FIFTY CENTS.
Elegant and well furnished rooms can
ais" be procured. Respectfully,
june -, Oily. Mrs. S. ADLER.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-10-26
A Dead Shot.
Denver Tribune.

William Spencer, alias Oregon Bill, is in
birthplace is Port Natal, South Africa, and
he has hardly yet reached 40. He was at
sea for years, and during the time distin-
gushed himself for his bravery in two en-
gagements with pirates on the coast of Af-
RIGA. He participated with credit to him
self in the last war with Russia, and was
present at the fall of Balaklava. From
1860 to 1865 he was an Indian fighter on the
frontier of Kansas and Texas, and in an
engagement with the red man on an occa-
sion in which the whites were victorious,
after q bloody hand to hand fight, he is
said to have killed seven warriors with his
pistol and bowie knife. In Portland, Ore
gon, he had u friend, John O'Madigan, now
of this city. While O'Madigan was walk
ing along the street smoking his pipe, and
at distance of ten feet, and at about a
right angle, Bill suddenly drew his pistol
and fired, the ball taking the pipe from the
mouth of his friend, but doing him no harm.
AGAIN, last lail, Dill was III Lake CIty Win
deer for sale, and seeing his old friend,
O'Madigan, passing up the same street on
the opposite side, he called to him to stop.
When he had drawn his revolver, John did
SO, facing him at the time. Bill fred, and
the ball passed through the top OF the hat
of his friend. O'Madigan, in the best of
humor. called ont. g Bill. don't shoot any
more it is too close"
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Life in a Lighthouse.

The Baltimore Sun describes an official
visit to the lighthouses Of that port by the
Collector. Among the number is one at
Seven-foot Knoll, known as the "iron
cheese-box pattern, which stands on legs
out of the water. The visitors climbed a
ladder through trap door and found them
selves in the garden, which is an iron bal
cony running around the cheese-box and
filled with flowers growing in pots and
boxes, with several children playing in it.
Inside the cheese-box was found a large
suit of apartments, including parlor with
a piano, large sitting room, sleeping
rooms, kitchen, ETC., quite as commodious
as a French 1st in a large city, Mrs. Boil
ing, the keepers wife, said she and the
children were never SICK. A little girl,
three years old, who was born in the light
house and had never been ON land but once,
appeared rather shy Of strangers. Three
children and two grown people form the
child's world, save the broad expanse' of
waters and the ships that come and go, and
the sun and moon and stars overhead.
When the ice jams against the piers of the
lighthouse in the winter it rocks like era
die. Last winter it occupied two men near
ly all the while to watch the stoves and
keep them from overturning. Everything
was found to be very comfortable and
homelike, and the occupants of the singular
dwelling we've as happy as if they lived on
solid land. gs@ffsi aas ans'ss H
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Newspapers.


Newspapers are to the civilized world
what the daily house talk is to the members
of the family; they keep our daily interest
in each ether, they save us from the evils
of isolation. To live as member of the
great white race that has filled Europe and
America, and colonized or conquered what
ever territory it has been pleased to occupy,
to share from day to day its thoughts, it's
cares, its inspirations-iti is necessary that
every man should read his paper. Why
are the French peasants SO bewildered at
sea? 1t is because they never read news
paper. And why are the inhabitants of the
United States, though scattered over a ter
ritory fourteen times the area of France. SO
much more capable of concerted action, so
much more alive and modern, SO much more
interested in new discoveries of all kinds,
and capable of selecting and utilizing the
best of them? 1t is because the newspapers
penetrate everywhere, and even the lonely
dweller on the prairie or in the forest is not
Intellectually isolated from the great cur
rents of public life which flow through the
telegraph and press.-P. G. Hamerton
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Narrow Gauge Railroads.

A few years ago narrow-gauge railroads
attracted much attention, and from the
then limited experiments with them 1T was
predicted that they would eventually super
cede the broad gauge on the score of econ
omy. But latterly little has been heard OF
them, and that little has been mostly dis
appointing. In India the narrow-gauge
railroad is melancholy failure. The coun-
try has gone into the raising of grain, Of
fering great tonnage to the roads, and mar
row cars and small engines of the narrow
gauge are mere baby appliances with which
to ha IDLE it. The train service and road
service cost as much for the narrow gauge
as for the broad, while the tonnage move
ment per train is less than half. The cost
Der ton per mile on representative narrow
gauge road is one penny, or more than
double the average cost per ton per mile
al the four great hroad-gauge lines. The
proposal to lay another narrow-gange has
called forth sharp protest The English
Enoineer, which formerly indorsed the
narrow-gauge now says that any railway
having q gauge of less than feet 81 inches
must be i failure, save Observation-Disclosures
I'd are as hardly TO deserve consideration
IS. II Market Reciesc.
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The True Story Of Mazeppa.

In the Church of st. Mary is to be seen
the tomb of Mazeppa, the famous hetman
of the Cossacks, immortalized by Byron.
His adventures, sung by the bard, were in
reality much more common place than as
we have learned to know them. Mazeppa
was young Cossack of the Ukraine, who,
having been ennobled by the Russians, de-
clined to pay his taxes. For this the local
Governor, Count Talbosk, ordered him to
be stripped naked by his servants and tied
to the back Of his own horse, with his head
to the animals tail. The horse vas then
fogged, pistols were discharged close to
his ears, and after being thus excited he
was turned loose. The road leading to
Mazeppa's house was bridal path leading
through the woods, which were particularly
fertile in thorn bushes and wild pear trees,
and the Infatuated beast accustomed to
follow this route before, dashed off as soon
as he was at liberty homeward, where his
master arrived very much the worse for his
journey. He had, however, enough
strength left to call for the gate-keeper,
who recognized his voice and opened the
door, to close it Immediately to keep out
what he supposed to be Mazeppa's ghost.
At last other servants, rec oTering from
their fear, came to his assistance and put
him to bed, where he remained some
months between life and death from the
injuries he had received. When he recoy-
cred he exiled himself voluntarily to Poland
and joining himself to the fortunes OF
Charles XII, was mortally wounded at
Pultowa, and dying at Barnitza, his body
was brought to be buri ed at Galatz.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-10-26
A BRAVE Doc 5 REconD.-The following

A BRAVE Doc s REcoRD.-The following
is the record of brave dog that lately per-
ished: In 1868 man with delirium tremens
jumped overheard from the schooner Hero
on the voyage to Labrador. The dog bound-
ed over the taffrail, and for half an hour
held the man with his teeth fastened in the
collar of his WOODEN shirt. The delay was
occasioned by the capsizing of the first boat
lowered. IL 1854 the dog saved baby
that had fallen through sewer hole in a
wharf at Catalina, N. F. He jumped
through the whole but was too large TO swim
between the posts of the wharf, but be held
the baby's head out of the water and swan
briskly in every direction in search of an
opening. In 1869 he saved the life of
Swedish sailor, who while drunk, walked
into the land wash at Bonavista, N. u.
Between 1870 and 1878 Billy saved three
children and one grown boy. Thenceforth
his strength failed, and bis fangs fell out
one by one, until last winter he had not one
left. He was genuine Newfoundland.
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Andrew Iohnson's Grave.
From the PhiIadelnhia Times

F@ FROM the Fnlladel lphla Times.
A Philadelphia firm is completing a mon
umenJ to be erected at /" Home,'' near
Greenyille, Tennessee, over the grave of ex-
President Johnson and his wife. The
height Of the entire structure is twenty-six
feett, and it consists Of a granite base, with
a pllnth, die and shaft of Italian marble.
The base is nine feet six inches square at
the ground. There will be two granite
piers, one on each side of the two graves
over which will be sprung granite arch.
and upon this the monument will rest,
leaving an opening under the aach in which
the graves win be visible. On the front is
carved a scroll representing the Constitu-,
tion Of the United States, and an open book
with 2 hand resting upon it, representing
the taking of the oath of office. Surmount-
ing The whole is an American eagle with
outstletched wings. The inscription to be-
carved ON the plinths has not j ct been de-
elded upon by the heirs Of The ex-P President,
at whose order the monument Ii being
made. 6 ,ssff .s4. .ss \
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THE BUSY BEAVER.
What the Hayden Surveyors Have Seen
81 in Western Wyoming.

A member of the Hayden survey. writing
from Western Wyoming, says:
6 In almost any stream in the mountain
GUS parts of Wyoming Territory you may
find more or less beavers and beayer-dams.
But Green river and that whole region sur
passes any place know of as a resort for
these animals, now SO scarce east of the
Mississippi. In rocky cailons high up, this
creek was forty yards across, nor would it
have been much wider in the open valley
below had it not been impeded But for a
dozen miles the beavers had SO damned it
and choked il with their houses that the
water spread out to a mile or more in width,
and hundreds of dead or living trees, once
far back from the margin, were now stand
ing equally far out in the water. Some of
the dams measured 100 feet or more in
length, and were built on a curve, with the
hollow of the curve up stream, yet so sub
stantially that they were standing the beat
ing of the freshet with slight damage. All
along the bank of the stream the hillside
was bare of aspens, and their stumps, cut
off close to the ground, showed what had
destroyed them. Some of the stumps were
of trees ten or twelve inches in diameter,
and seventy-tiye yards from the water yet
there was no doubt that these rodents had
felled those trees, trimmed off the branches,
peeled away the bark, and then dragged
the log all the way to the water to put in
a new dam or repair the old one. Indeed
we surprised some of them at work Most
Of the dams were shorter than | have men,
toned and ran from one to another, SO that
there was network Of them supporting a
growth of willows and each enclosing lit
tie basin of deep still water, In which
would rise like an island the domed top of
their home. But the houses of many were
under the bank and of Others beneath the
dams, as we could see BY the paths to them,
which showed plainly through the water.
Wherever the willows grew closely to the
waters edge for some distance, there would
be roads through them at frequent inter-
walls, the stems gnawed off, and the weeds
trodden down smooth. ''Busy as bea-
ver," acquires new force when we think
how ceaseless he must work to get his daily
food, collect winter stores, keep his house
in order, repair his dam and guard against
enemies, We saw none Of the animals
themselves. They are rarely seen by any
one, being able to detect your approach by
the jar of the ground, if not otherwise, aud
hide themselves"
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Thurman and the Presidency !.


NEW YoaK, October 15.-The Times
Washington special says an Ohio gentle
man now here say pfior to the election in
that State Senator Thurman informed him
that in the event of the Democrats obtain
inn majority IN the Legislature, he would
resign his seat in the Senate in order that
both Pendleton and Ewing might be chosen.
Thurman said he would do this because he
believsdit would bs the means of prevent
lng division among the Ohio Democrats in.
consequence of the Senatorial struggle, and
would leave him in aotid condition for the.
national campaign of 1880, when he ex-
pects the Ohio Democracy 10 present him.
ifoI the Presidency. i.sss