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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
OFFICIAL,
To the Qualified Electors of
the State of Louisiana.

OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, J
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
New Orleans, July II, 1878.
In pursuance o: article ia of the con-
stitution of this State, publication is
hereby given to the voters of this State,
Of the proposed amendments for tho con-
stitution Of this State, agreed to by two
thirds of the members elected to each
house of the General Assembly, at its ses
sion of 1873, and which are required to
be published, three months before the
next general election for Representatives,
to the General Assembly, in at least one
newspaper in every parish of this State
in which 4 newspaper shall be published.
Said amendments appear more fully in
acts Nos. % and "A of tho regular
session of the General Assembly of 1878,
and in act No. II of the extra session of
the General Assembly of 1875, which are
officially published for the information of
the voters, and which will be submitted
to the people at the next general election,
to be held on the fifth day of November,
(neNt) 1873, in such L manner and form
that the people may vote for or against
each amendment, separately, and if a
majority of tho voters at said election
shall approve and ratify all or either of
said amendments, the same. shall become
apart of the constitution.
WILL A. STRONG,
Secretary Of State.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14

A month and more ago-taking
time by the forelock, as VIC
thought-we ordered from St. Lou
is, supply of paper for four
months. The yellow fever was not
then talked of. When the excite
ment began, we relied upon getting
paper through from New Orleanss
New Orleans was closed, md then
we turned to Vicksb7rg. Commu-
nication was stopped with Vicl;s-
burg, and then we learned that the
paper ordered from St. Louis had
been landed at Vicksburg by the
City Of Helena.
Immediately we telcgraphed 20
the editor OF the Shreveport Stand
ard to send us some paper by the
Monroe and Shreveport stage.
Yesterday VIC learned that the
Monroe stage is not permitted to
cross Red river and enter Shreve-
port. 1t is highly probable, there,
fore, that we will not issue a paper
next week, as we have not a dozen
quircs left, and unless we can
smuggle some paper through the
quarantine the Telegraph will dis,
appear until the next killing FROST
-Ouachita Telegraph.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14

\ trial package of Dir. A. G.. .Simu'ons
Nerctabl Liver " cdicinc can be had
free of charge, at Munford's or Brooks.
DrIS Store.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
4 SPLENDID SUGGESTION:

In Mr.. Dcnnit,'s Agricultural
column of the N. o. Picqyune We
find the following admirable sug>
gestion
In these times Of poverty in the
South few that have hearts to feel
for the distresses Of the large num-
bers who are suffering by the cpl
demic have money to send TO tn"
distressed in those cities. W.
have a suggestion to make whic:s
may d. much good, and we !:orc
the benevolent who can will act
upoo it. No money needed in this
case. In Southern Louisiana there
are innumerablc orange trees;
and many children and young la
dies. These young ladies and
children, and older persons, could
gather millions Of orange leaves
put them in paper bags, holding
two, or three, Or more quarts. and
direct them to the yellow fever
patients Of Grenada, or V;cksburg-
or Canton, Port G Ibson, Memphis,
New Orleans. Thousands of sucls
bags could be forwarded to the
Howards of New Orleans, who
would send them where most needs
ed at no cost in money to aoy one.
Who will send the most and tho
sOOncSr
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
A Il. GASTRELL,
BayOu Sara. Louisiana,

Bayou Sara, Louisiana,
DEALER IN
PLOWS, AGRICULTURAL IMPLE
mcnts, Brides, Harp"ss, Hardware, Guns,
Pistols, Pumps, Pipes, Machine Fittings
Cocks, Valves, Castings, Ropes, Hollow
Ware, Wagon and Carriage woodwork, !,
Blacksmitll's Materials, Etc, Etc.
TIN COPPER AND SHEET IRON MAN
UFACTORY.
Also Agent for the celebrated
"CHARTER OAK" STOVES,
Uric, Garrett Il Cottman, Brinley, Jas.
II. Hall and other plows, Aliens Horse
Hoes, ood's Moving Machines, Horse
tee to sell lower than can be purchased
elsewhere.
Changers and others will find it to
their advantage to call and examine my
stock and prices before purchasing olse'
where.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
ACT NO. "a. r. S. OF 1873.

NUMBER TWO.
Representatives shall be chosen on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday i'll
November every two years, and the cleo
ton shall be completed in one day. Tho
General Assembly shall meet on the first
Monday in january, 1879, and biennially
there after, on the first Monday in Janua-
nv unless a different day be appointed by
law, and there sessions shall be hold at
the seat of government.
(Strike out article SeVentcen.)
NUMBER THREE.
After the year 1873 the General Assem-
blv shall not have power to levy in any
one year for all State purposes more than
one Der centum taxation, nor shall any
collcction of moro than ono per centum
toxotion be made in any one year, on the
actua} cash raluc of all real and personal
nroncrtv liable to taxation, except in
case of a foreign invasion or a domestic
;nsnrrection, and in that ovent any addi-
tionnl taxation shall only be for the i'm
mediate purpose of repelling invasion or
sunnressinr instruction. The city of
Nav Orleans shall not levy or collect IN
onv ono year moro than one and ono-half
unT centiIm taxation on the actual cash
voluc of all tho real and personal proper
tv l,blo to taxation within its limits.
M noIish or municipal corporation, OK
cent The CITY of New Orleans, shall levy
or colle,t in any one year moro than one
nor centum taxation upon the acttai
cash yalue of all tho real and personal
nronerty liable to taxation WITHIN lts
limits. The General Assembly shall not
have mower to issue any bond or plcdEe
ihe faith ofthe State for amy purpose, NOT
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
NO. l2.
Article one hundred and thirtytwo Of
the constitution Of 1868 shall Ee abroga
NUMBER EIGHTEEN:


ted.
NUMBER EIGHTEEN:
The Superintendent of Public Educa-
tiOn shall receive Il salary Of thirty-fiv'
hundred dollars, payable quarterly on
his own Warrant.
NUMBER NINETEEN:
No license tax shall be imposed by the
State, or any parish or municipal author
ity, on any mechanical trade, mannfact"-
ry or factory, except such as may reqnlrH
police regulations, i'll towns and cities.
NUMBER TWENTY.
The Legislature is authorized to OK
empt from State, municipal or parish tan
alton household goods, such as furniture;
wearing apparel, tools Of trade or prott>-
sion and family portraits, not exceeding
in aggregate value the sum Of five hun
dre.t dollars.
ACT NO. II, EXTRA SESSION OF 1877:
NUMBER TWENTY ONE.
Strike ont the first part of article II
of the constitution of 1873, which reads
" A university shall be established anh
maintained in the city of New Orleans
1t shall be composed of a law, Il medicai
and collegiate department, each with ar-
propriate faculties. The General Assem-
bly, shall provide by law for its organiza-
ton and maintenance and insert:
l" The university shall be maintained. IT
shall be composed of q law, ;.medical and
an acadcmical department, and such 9th
CT departments as may be established b.:
law, each with appropriate faculties:
prorided. that the law and medical depart
ments already organized shall continue
in the city of New Orleans, and the aca
demical and other departments may hn
located elsewhere in the State"
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
81. AAMES 80 NTEN.

No. 40. M1S;lZlnc ST.. Ncsaf Csa
OPPOSITE
MonGAS's TEXAS r. r. g. STEAMSHIP
OFFICE.
In Office, A. P. Watson,
r. M. Leake.
Having leased this Hotel for five
years, it is my purpose to keep it open at
all seasons, and make it desirable abode
for guests, both permanent and transient
The table will continue to be the leading
feature of the St. James. Terms only
50 so pcr day.
JAMES II. LEAKE,
Proprietor.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
CONSTTTUTION.IL AMENDMENTS
ACT NO. "a, r. S. OF 1878.

NUMBER ONE.
That the seat of government shall be
established at tho city of Baton Rouge or
at the city of New Orleans, IS the major
ity of the voters of tho State may deter
mine at the next ensuing election; those
voting to locate the State capital at Bat
on Rouge shall indorse OH their tickets.
"For State Capital, Baton Rouge ;'' those
voting to locate the capital at New Or
leans shall indorse on their tickets. "For
State Capital, New Orleans"
(Strike out article one hundred and
thirty y-one.(
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14

Cuban Chill Tonic, tho Great West
Indies Fover and Aguo Remedy, is til"
best medicine ever presented to tho Poo
pie, for tho speedy cure of malaria-lt
cures the Chill roots ont she Fever, FUR
gcs ont the malarial poison from tho sys-
tom, carries of the black bilc-lt saves
sickness, and gives health to- tho poor
sufferer got n hottie from Mumi"rd.-
IT is cheap, and Safe.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14

The Superintendent of Public Educa.
tion shall receive Il salary Of thirty -fiv''
hundred dollars, payable quarterly on
his own warrant.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
HI@ The late Samuel Miller, of

RI% The late Samuel Miller, OF
Richmond, Va, was so great a
miser that when he died his house,
hold furniture was worth less thar
$500 yet he left an estate Of near
Iy 81, 500: 900, most of it for ed
ucation of poor children Of Alber--
marie county, Virginia, free OF all
expense.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

FoRGETFULNEss.-H as it may seem
to overcome the habit of forgetfulness, it
is thing which may be accomplished; for
the memory, like all God-given talents,
may be cultivated to great extent. Those
who do not endeavor TO cultivate it are
guilty of culpable neglect, and should not
be allowed to plead forgetfulness in pallia-
ton of any omission orneglect. We have
the happiness of knowing a gentleman
whose power of memory is SO great as to
seem really wonderful, the result almost
entirely of cultivation. In fact we have
heard him say that when he was young he
was so forgetful as to be constantly under
a cloud in consequence. One day, when
something more serious than usual had
resulted from this failing he determined
to overcome it, and from that moment
resolved that his memory should do for
him its appointed work, and forced it in
to action. He allowed himself to make
no more memorandum or aids to memo
ry, but demanded that the faculty should
work for his assistance. The result is he
has but few equals in this country in this
respect. What one can do, surely anoth-
er may do; and, unless in cases where the
brain is overtaxed, it is mans own fault
if he is forgetful.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

Informal People.

Preserve us from unceremonious people
those men and women who ''never stand
ON ceremony'-who are always perfectly
at home in other peoples houses! Society
has many pests, but few so intolerable as
they. S'Free and easy" visitors are most
thoroughly disagreable. They will infict
themselves upon you at any time, and ex-
pect to be always cordially welcomed. be,
cause they are so free and easy. and so Il tn
to put anybody to trouble. They will
come before breakfast. or just as you are
sitting at dinner, and draw up their chairs
quite like one of the family. Early in the
morning they delight to run in,' and
they will come right up to your chamber
to save you the trouble of coming down,
and there they will sit and watch you
make your toilet, and comment on how
gray your hair is getting, and wonder if
you are great deal stouter, and redder
in the face than you used to be. They
will hunt over your writing desk for note
paper battle their faces. with your cologne
water, and scent their handkerchiefs with
the contents of your choicest pelfumery
bottle. They are always ready for lunch
eon-s'You know Pm too much at home
in yoaer house to 60 hungry, my dear''-
any stray confectionery lying about, melts
before them as dew before the sun. They
make no scruple of borrowing your latest
magazines and novels; even your wardrobe
does not escape their entertainments; and
all this insolence is cloaked by some such
empty remark as this 81 never stand on
ceremony, but make myself at home every
where, so don't put yourself out to enter
tain me - Again, we pray, preserve us
from unceremonious people.-1he Scots
man.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

I COUNTRY PRODUC
w A N II E D.
5000 Barrels Green Apples.
5000 Bushels Irish Potatoes.
1000 Barrels Country Onions.
10000 Heads Good Hard Cabbage
LOCO Bushels " hite Navy Beans.
LOCO IS B. E., and Mixed Peas.
1000 6 Prime Pea Nuts.
$4,000 Pounds Dried Peaches and Apples
1000 6 Apple Butter.
10000 6 Fresh Country Butter.
$4,000 Sc Dressed Poultry.
$4,000 Dozen Fresh Eggs.
1000 Barrels Extra and Family Flour.
100000 Bushels Wheat.
100000 g Corn
100000 '' Oats.
1000 g Glover Seed.
10000 Bales Hay, ShuckS and Straw.
10000 Hogsheads Tobacco.
Country Produce Of every description for which
will get the highest Market Price and make Promp
Cash returns. charging only FIVE per cent Commits
sion. Liberal advances made on Bills of Lading Of
Goods in hand.
GRAIN AND TOBACCO only per cent.
J. r. HOCKADAY,
General Commission Merchant,
feb8-3m RICHMOND, VA.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
The Farm Boy and His Errands.

! There are so many bright spots in the
life of farm boy that 1 sometimes think
l should like to live life over again. There
| is great comfort to boy in the amount
OF work he can get out of doing. 1t is
something astonishing how slow he can 60
on an errand--he who leads the schoolin a
race. This world is new and interesting
| to- him, and there is 50 much to take his
attention off when he is set to do anything
Perhaps he could not explain himself why,
when he is sent to neighbours after yeast,
he stops to stone the frogs; he is not exact
|ly cruel, but he wants to see if he can
hit 'em.
q No other living thing can go so slow as
a boy sent on an errand. His legs seem to
be lead, unless he happens to espy a wood
chuck in an adjoining lot, when he gives
chase to it like deer; and it is a curious
fact about boys, that two will be great
deal slower about doing anything than
one, and that the more you help on a piece
of work the less is accomplished. Boys
have. a great power Of helping each other
to do nothing and they are so innocent
about it and unconscious.-''I went as
quick as ever could" says the boy. His
father asks him why he didn't stay all
night when he has been three hours on
ten minutes Grand. The sarcasm has no
effect on the boy.~
Going after the cows was serious thing
in my day. had to climb hill that was
covered with wild strawberries in the
season. Could any boy pass those ripe
berries? And then, in the fragrant hill
pasture there were beds of wintergreen,
with red berries, tufts of columbine, roots
of sassafras to be dug, and dozens of good
things to eat or to smell, that 1 could not
resist. 1t sometimes even lay in my way
to climb tree to look for a crows nest,
or to swing in the top and to try if I could
see the steeple of the village church. It
became very important sometimes for me
to see that steeple, and in the midst of
my Investigations the tin horn would blow
great blast from the farmhouse, which
would send cold chill down my back on
the hottest days.
I knew what it meant heard fright
full culver in it, not at all like the sweet
note that called us to dinner from the hay
field. 1t said: "Why on earth doesn It that
boy come homer 1t is almost dark and the
COWS amt MIXED" And that was the
time when the cows had to start in brisk
pace to make up for lost time. wonder
if any boy ever drove the cows home late
who did not say that the cows were at the
farther end of the pasture and that s'Old
Brindle" was hidden in the woods, and he
could not find her for ever so Iongl The
brindle cow is the boys scapegoat many
Invertebrates Dudley Warner IN ''Beiqeg
a Boy."
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
Mems Love and Self-Love.

Girls are sometimes admonished not to
fiirt, because, however pleasant it might
be to them, it might break the hearts OF
those with whom they flirt. Nonsense
We have heard Of victims Of blighted af.
lection, but never yet came across one.
Time in this sort of matters, works won
ders. We doubt whether any man ever
yet died of broken heart. Men are more
vain than women.-There are exceedingly
few Of them who are not fattered by the
idea of some woman falling in love with
them. The lady for the moment affords
them this qualification Of self.love. She
makes herself as agreeable as she can. If
the vanity Of the man leads him to believe
that she has fallen victim to his charms
this is his fault, not hers. The illusion has
raised him to the seventh heaven for a brief
period, and if the period be short he has
been the gamer. In one of De Bernard 8
novels he describes an old captain who
lives supremely happy because he fancies
that, years ago, some girl died of broken
heart because he had declined to marry
her. He carries abont hvr portrait, and
on all occasions takes it out and weeps
over it. One day, however, he meets the
girl, who had not died, but had married a
grocer, and forgot all about the captain
He is in despair. He can no longer in
dulge 10 the luxury of grieving over the
sad fate of the object of his youthful affec-
tions. Flirt on, young ladies and do not i'm
agine that the amusement will break the
heart of any one. It may wound his vani-
ty quite likely, and where this is the only
quality the man has, the blow may stagger
him. But it will do him good-show
him his real selfshness. So f1irt on, young
ladies, sbut at the same time temper the
blow to the tenderness of the youth who
is to receive it.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
The Cure for Gossip.

What is the cure for gossip? Simply
culture. There is great deal of gossip
that has no malignity in it. Good people
talk about their neighbefs because they
have nothing else to talk about. There
comes to us the picture of family of
young ladies. We have seen them at
home, we have met them at the galleries
of art, we have caught glimpses of them
going from book store or library with
fresh volume in their hands. When we
meet them they are full of what they have
seen and read. They are trimming with
questions. One topic of conversation is
dropped only to give place to another, in
which they are interested. We have left
them, after delightful hour, stimulated
and refreshed; and during the whole hour
not neighbours garment was soiled by SO
m UGH as touch. They had something to
talk about. They knew something and
wanted to know more. They could listen
as we'll as they could talk. To speak free
ly of neighbours dolngs and belongings
would have seemed an impertinence to
them, and of course, an impropriety They
had no temptation to gossip, because the
doings of their neighbors formed sub
ject much less interesting than those which
grew out of their knowledge and their cul-
ture.
And this tells the whole story. The con-
firmed gossip is always either malicious or
ignorant. The one variety needs change
of heart, and the other change of pas
ture. Gossip is always a personal profess
sion, either of malice or imhecility, and
the young should not only shun it. but by
the most thorough culture relieve them
selves from all temptation to indulge in it.
1t is low, frivolous, and too often dirty
pastime. There are country neighbor-
hoods where it RACES like pest. Church
es are split in pieces by it. By it neighbors
are made enemies for life. In many per-
sons it degenerates into a chronic disease
which is practically incurable. Let the
young cure it while they may.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29

CHARACTER creates confidence In men
in high stations as well as in humble life.
1t was said of the first Emperor Alexan-
der of Russia, that his personal character
was equivalent to constitution. During
the wars of the Fronde, Montaigne was
the only man among the French gentry
who kept his castle gates unbarred and
it was said of him, that his personal Char
acter was worth more to him than a regi-
ment Of soldiers,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
The Science Of Apple Eating.

The boy is indeed the true apple eater
and is not to be questioned how he cam'
by the fruit with which his pockets art
flled.-It belongs to him. His own juicy
flesh Graves the juicy flesh of the apple
Sap draws sap. His fruit eating has little
reference to the state of appetite. Wheth.
er he be full of meat or empty of meat, he
wants the apple just the same. Before
meal or after meal it never comes amiss.
The farm boy munches apples all day long.
He has nests of them in the hay-mow, mel
lowing, to which he makes frequent visits.
Sometimes old Brindle, having access
though the open door, smells them out and
makes short work of them.
The apple is, indeed, the fruit of youth.
AS we grow old, we crave apples less. 1t
is an ominous sign. When you are ashamed
! to be seen eating them on the street; when
you carry them in your pocket, and your
hand does not constantly find its way to
them; when your neighbor has apples and
you have none, and you make no nocturnal
visits to his orchard; when your lunch bas-
ket is without them, and you can
pass winters night by the fire side with
no thought of the fruit at your elbow,
then be assured you are no longer a boy,
either in heart or years.
The genuine apple eater comforts him.
self with an apple in their season as others
with pipe or cigar. When he has moth
ing else to do, or is bored, he eats an apple.
While he is waiting for the train he eats
an apple, sometimes several of them.
When he takes walk he arms himself
with apples. He offers an apple to his
companion, and takes one himself. They
are his chief solace when on the road. He
sows their seed all along the route. He
losses the core from the car window and
from the top of the stage-coach. He would
in time, make the land one vast orchard.
He dispenses with knife. He prefers
that his teeth shall have the first taste.
Then he knows the best flavor is immedi-
ately beneath the skin and that, in pared
apple is lost. If you will stew the apple,
he says. instead of baking it, by all means
leave the skin on. It improves the color,
and vastly heightens the flavor of the dish.
John Borrouqh in WSnter Sunshine.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-03-29
poetrp.
AWAKENING.

think could do without you,
Perhaps, lille the skyis fair,
And the-infnite smile of summer
CLOVIS in the golden air;
When earth with its myriad whispers
Breathes in the ear of Day
The secret Of great glory
That waits her-far away.
But when to night of sorrow
Rises a day of scOrn;
When out OF the smile comes treason.
And out of the rose thorn;
When the soul is sick with thinking
OF The plots and lies OF men,
OF life and LIES long travail
Could do without you then?
For, indeed, there are fairer faces
That shine more bright in the sun,
And voices whose tones, it may be,
More smoothly and sweetly run;
And when over vale and meadow
Peace, like a mantle, flows,
Who dreams Of the distant battle,
Who doubts the heart of the rose?
o heart, more true and tender
Than ever was heart before!
o hand, whose faithful clasping
Holds fast for evermore!
Osweet, pure soul. unchanging.
Though doubt and loss and pain,
Shall l, so slow to know you,
Know now at last in vain?
Behold, come and whisper;
'Weary:and bruised and hurt,
plead for grace, not honour
For mercy, not desert!
Will you stretch your hand and lift me
Out of my own unworth7
For know / can do without you
Never again on earth!