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The Van Buren press., 1878-03-19
CHANCELLOR, Eakin.

Now, DR.. Mcclure knows that there is
not the man that can be brought out at
this time that can beat GOV. Miller for
the nomi alton for Governor. That.
then, leaves the nominations to fight for,
Of Attorney, General and School Super,
intendeat. If there is anything in the
claims for recognition Of our part of the
Sta e, the names of Mansfield aud Du-
Val deserve some consideration, and the
idea OF Mcclure showing Judge Nuns,
field aside SO unccrimoniousIy, until an
other election, is the height Of impu-
deMce.
The Van Buren press., 1878-03-19

GF The Charter Oak Life Insurance
Company, of Hartford, Conn. has been
reorganized.
The Van Buren press., 1878-03-19

<hs- Hon Marcus L Bell, will not be
n candidate for Governor, but is a can
tii'i,tc' for [. sgacnator.
The Van Buren press., 1878-03-19

The New Y9gN Word We I. .sy.
there will be but little real interest in bali
matters the coming season.
The Van Buren press., 1878-03-19

ANNOUNCEMENT FEfst
state Officers, Congress, etc, $50 w.
District Offices, 10 w,
County offices D w
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The Van Buren press., 1878-03-19
Commissioners Notice.

Feb. 10 1878.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Doctors, Sun and Air.

The air of the rooms we live in is
more or less alive with germs. Sunlight
with air will kill them, sunlight without
air won't kill them; consequently sun
light and ventilation are essential con-
ditious of health, and there must be at
least two hours of sunlight TO produce
affective results. It is neither necessary
nor desirable to allow the scorchipg sun
to pour through our windows all day
long, but We must have enough of it to
keen our homes sweet and fresh, or we
must suffer the consequences. We may
keep our houses open till ten o'clock in
the morning, and then close them during
the heat of the day, reopening them in
The afternoon when the noontide fervors
are over. The amount of good round
,Ioctor's bill for attendance on case OF
djyh,leria or typhoid fever will amply
suffice TO put wire-netting over all our
doors and windows, 10 that no trouble
sano. irsz Ct car find entrance, while sun-
sight and air may freely distill upon US
their blessings.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
The Old Delusion of Communism.

1t is easy to say that all the socialists
are not like HeedeI, but it is hard to deal
with philosophical enthusiasts, honest
fanatics and political revolutionists who
seek short cut to what they call the
regeneration of society. The London
Times recognizes this difficulty when it
SAYS that crowds have become socialists
at the bidding of hunger, misery and
ignorance. For centuries, in fact, So
cialistic or communistic ideas have at
Intervals seemed to masses of people in
many countries the secret of the means
by which poverty might be swept from
the earth and crime obliterated. The
English peasants were carried away by
those fancies in the fourteenth century,
when John Ball, the mad priest of
Kent" preached crusade against
property in words that seem almost
as modern as the defamation of any
Partisan or Berlin communist of to-day.
Before the reformation, Germany had
more than once been disturbed by
doctrines of the same kind, and in the
sixteenth century John OF Leyden taught
and practised theories OF an equally
modern hue.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
tGOld Lace.

Gold lace is not gold lace. It does not
deserve this title, for the gold is applied
as a surface to silver. It is not even
silver lace, for the silver is applied to a
foundation of silk. The silken threads
for making this material are wound
round with gold wire, SO thickly as to
conceal the silk; and the making OF this
gold wire is one of the most singular
mechanical operations imaginable. In
the Arst place, TIE refner prepares a
solid rod of silver about an inch in
thickness he heats this rod, applies
upon the surface sheet of gold leaf,
Furnishes this down, applies another
coating, Furnishes this down, and SO on,
until the gold is about one-hundredth
part the thickness Of the silver. Then
the rod is subjected to a train of pro-
cesses, which brings it down to state
of fine wire; it is passed through holes
in steel plate lessening step by step in
diameter. The gold never deserts the
silver, but adheres closely to it, and
shares all its mutations; it is one.
hundredth part the thickness of the
silver, and it maintains the same ratio to
the end. AS to the thinness to which
the gold-coated rod of silver can be
brought, the limit depends on The deli-
cacy of human skill; but the most re-
markable example ever known was
brought forward by DR.. Wallaston. This
was an example Of solid gold wire with
out any silver. He procured small
rod of silver, bored a hole through it
from end to end, and inserted in this
hole the smallest gold wire he could
procure he subjected the silver to the
usual wire drawing process, until he had
brought it to the finest attainable state
being, in fact, silver wire as fine as
a hair, with gold wire in its center.
To isolate this gold wire, he subjected it
to warm nitrous acid, by which the
silver was dissolved, leaving gold wire
one-thirty- thousandth Of an inch in
thickness-perhaps the thinnest round
wire that the hand of man has yet pro-
duced. But the wire, though beyond
all comparison finer than any employed
in manufactures, does not approach in
thinness the film of gold on the surface
of silver and gold lace. It has been cal"
culated that the gold on the very finest
silver wire for gold lace is not more than
one-third OF one>nillionth of an inch in
thickness il, not above one~tenth
the thickness OF ordinary gold leaf.
[ Coventry Standard.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Personalities,

Olive Logan writes that the Raphael,
ola Belle Jardineer," for which the
French government paid nearly quarter
OF million of dollars, is bogus, and that
the original is owned by Boston GEM
tleman.
The st. Louis Times has a statement
to tee effect that Thomas E. Sherman
son OF General W. T. Sherman, is about
to abandon the law and connect himself
with the Order OF Jesuits, and with that
view will enter upon two years. course
of preparatory study at Roehampton,
England.
Mrs. A. d. Johnston is one of the
most promising of the young women COZ.
respondents at Washington. She has
untirjng industry, and regard fer plain
facts which does not always characterize
the newspaper letter-writer. She is a
political as well SIS social newsgatherer,
and she is so thorough in all she does
that only the fewest number Of Wash
ington correspondents understand COM
gressional rules and the intricacies of the
capitol as well as she does. Her news
paper name is Monroe"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06

same period in 1857, and 4.0O4,104 in
1856. The stock on hand amounts tc
| 294,506 bales, against 453,197 at the
same time in 1877.
Oddly enough, California leads all the
states of the union in the matter oil
newspapers in proportion to her popu.
Iation; for, while she has but $4,000 o!
the European race, she ranks fourth,
New York, Pennsylvania and illinois,
| beating Fer in the publication of news
papers.
| So far as the transfer of the Indian
bureau to the war department is con-
cerned, it is almost safe to say that all
which will be accomplished at this session
will be the appointment OF commission
to inquire into the subject, although, If
it were not for the newborn opposition
CT the senate to the incorporation of
legislation changing existing laws in an
appropriation bill, provision could well
be made for the transfer, to begin with
the ensuing fiscal year. II the house
accedes to the view of the senate at this
time, it will be fully justified at the
next session in insisting that there be
no further delay in measure which will
be alike beneficial to the Indians and the
country. 1t will save lives and money.
Mr.. Americas Symmes has recently
restaied his fathers theory of the north
pole, in which he also has faith. He
holds that the explorer will find, after
he passes the eightieth degree, the
weather milder; when he reaches the
eighty-frst degree he will find some
open water; when the eighty-second de-
gree is reached he will find much open
water and great quantities of wild ami
mails, and some water fowls; when the
eighty-third degree is reached he will
find the open Polar sea, two thousand
miles in diameter, and if be will 20 out
irto that sea when the weather is warm
and genial, he will find the country that
the Symmes theory says can be found,
of large forests of timber, large rivers
and rich land, and the home of more
wild animals than can be discovered
anywhere else in creation, and water
fowls in abundance. Mr.. Symmes ar
CUES that the observations of the open
Polar sea back up his theory; that wild
animals 60 north in the fall from Green
land and return in the spring fat and
leading their young; and that big trees.
and flowers come floating
down from the north, and lodge on the
coasts of Norway and Spitzbergen. Mr..
Symmes recommends his banana zone on
ice to the attention of the Howgate
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
unpaid, and this small sum was due
from the unsettled estates of deceased
3ahtors'r
PaganiSm in Churches,

The Christian law is the law of love.
Whoever puts the rules of art above the
law of love is a pagan. He who hsbitu>
ally seeks to crafty his own tastes rather
than to do good to all men as he has
opportunity is not Christian, but
pagan. The church that in all its ap>
polntments land provisions for worship,
and in the development of its social life,
practically seeks aesthetic qualification
more than the helpful service of the poor
and the ignorant who dwell within the
sight OF its spire or the sound of its bell,
is not true church of Christ. No mat
ter how orthodox may be the doctrines
taught from its pulpit; no matter how
liberal may be the gifts OF its members
to missions in Africa; no matter how
numerous may he the converts that flock
to its altar; if the practical relation of
the church to the people of its neighbor
hood who most need the gospel is one of
isolation rather than OF sympathy; ii the
prevalent sentiment Of the church leads
the members to ignore their poor neigh
bors, and to associate only with persons
OF cuNure-pleasing themselves in their
social life instead of bearing the infirm-
tiles Of the weak-then the religion of
this church ia paganism, and it has no
right to the Christian name. We do not
say that most of the churches of Christ
in this country are essentially pagan.
The contrary is true. Most of them, We
believe, remember who Christ was and
what the law of His kingdom ia But
great many of them are wholly given
over to this false religion and there are
strong elements in many others that tend
the same way. Aud the same dangers
that threaten cur churches from this
quarter are much more serious than those
which grow out of new interpretations of
doctrine. Really it must be that pagan
ism is little worse than Sabellianism or
Bushnelllsm or even than unlversalism.
For man who sets aside and condemns
the fundamental law of Christ's reli-
gion; for church that processes to own
Him and yet ignores, practically, the
very people with whom He has SO
solemnly identified himself in the
twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew, some
solicitude may we'll be felt. There has
been good deal Of discussion, of late,
about what kind of punishment it is,
that those are threatened with, who, in
the parable just referred to, are found on
the left hand. Would it not be worth
while to give little attention to the
question what kind of people those are
against whom this punishment is threat
ened?
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Curious Lakes.

On the top of Mealfourvone,e, q mill in
lnVernesshire, Scotland, is lake one
hundred and eight feet long and eighteen
broad, which never freezes, and is always
full, without the appearance OF any
regular supply. This lake has been said
to be unfathomable, bat the contrary is
now ascertained.
About seventeen miles from this lake
is another, called Loeb Vain, which is
covered with ice all the year around.
On the top of q ridge of mountains in
Portugal, called Estrella, there are two
lakes of great extent aud depth, espe-
cially one of them, which is said to be
Questionable. What is most remark
able in them is, that they are calm when
the sea is so, and rough when that is
stormy, which makes it probable that
they have subterrsneous communication
with the ocean and this seems to be
confirmed by the pieces of the vessels
they occasionally cast up, though AL
most forty miles from the sea.
There is also another very curious lake
in this country, which, before a storm,
makes a frightful rumbling noise that
may be heard at the distance of several
miles. And there il pool or fountain
called Fervancas, about twenty-four
miles from Coimbra, that absorbs not
only wood, but even the lightest bodies
thrown into it, such as cork, feathers,
straw, etc, which sink to the bottom,
and are seen 10 more. To these may be
added remarkable spring near Eremos,
which petrifes wood, or rather incrusts
it with q case of stone but the most
surprising circumstance is that it throws
up water enough in summer to turn
several mills, where's in winter it is
perfectly drv.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
lMMOLAT Ed.
By JOHN ANTROBUS,

But at the conclusion of ten years war how are
We recompensed for the death of multitudes and
the expense of milliens but by contemplating the
sudden glories OF paymasteis and agents, contrao-
tors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like
meteors and whose palaces rise like exhalatlons
- DR.. Ramuel johnson.
AZIKL.-"Aye, they are many the weariest winds.
Thateve have drone3 o er the Asian plain
And kissed with Calamity's lips the bones
Or the lartarshorde5 of Tamer1ane,
Have never with travel of Gothic spears
Moaned or made
ThreDody over such dead as these:
They we're the children of all the years,
the offspring of ages washed in tears.
The sons and heirs Of the centuries"
THALATH.-" Yea, this is the west-wind blowing
Bosing and breathing with scent of flowers;
From fields of harvest and lands that glow
With the fervid hues of tropic bowers,
Fruit OF the North end ioT er OF the South
All, aye all,
Tndustrys labor may here bestow;
When sickles cleaned in the ripe, red growth,
Corn of the North and cane Of the South,
nd all the sweet nuptial songs that flow
From one who singeth with bleeding mouth
AEEEL.' Aye, hear the song, for her lips are wet :;
The widow mourns and the orphan walls;
The dew en- her mouth must crimson yet,
While thought OF her sdful grief prevails.
The blood of her foe must redder flow:
They he low.
They think of the Blue and Gray-and of God
Brothers-all brothers under the sod
But who hath scourged with 20 firm rod
None none TIL their wrath subsides, shall
know
THALArH.-" Yea, softly the wind hath kissed
these graves,
TIL hear, it seems, the sleepers say:
81 Yes brothers and sons were we. you know,
All of us we Of the Blue and Gray
And the stars and winds and leaves that play,
Sing 1t yet ;
And yonder the still, vi ite shafts will show
Where the women weepers come and 60
Aye coming, whence all the four winds blow,
To CLEAN these places of deep regret 70
AzrEL - AYE bat there's many Groom OF grief
In the wind that blows from either way;
For the reaper Death hath spared the chief
And carried the fair young away.
He hath mown the ranks OF the Blue and Gray:
They, tits said,
Splendid with rib bon and stars and gold
Have little taste for this red red mold,
For yaior is great and manifold.
And many must die for few, we're told"
Aye, but the mills OF the gods grind
slow,'
And the rist OF earth is not OF heaven;
Up by the stars should the bugles blow.
Conquest and blood have no parole given,
The eagle of slaughter hovers low.
Chiefs and kings
Are nlumed with praise till their eyes drop down,
For the victor wreath is enough renown
And who would look up from Caesars crown
To the place where the veal ranks alone
Climb steadily on to bloodIess throne.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Bible at the Ex-
position.

On the opening day of the exposition
more than $1,000 people, among them
Arabs, Turks, Chinese and japanese,
received copies of the scriptures. No
sooner were the windows of the bible
stand open than crowds focked to share
in the distribution. Language" says
a witness, utterly fails to adequately
depict the solemnity and impressiveness
OF the scene. Let the reader imagine
thousands OF men and women, soldiers,
sailors, officers, policemen, priests, rich
and poor, persons Of all ranks and from
all countries, struggling for q portion of
the word of God, with, in almost every
instance, an expression of joyful tharks
as the prize was berne away. Perhaps
the best idea OF the eagerness of the
populace may be gathered from the fact
of the windows of the kiosk having to be
cl.sed more than dozen times to lessen
the pressure" ~
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
A Strange Affair.

Savoy, near North Adams, Massa
chusetts, is experiencing the pleasures
of decided sensation, which ia furnish
iog unlimited opportunities for conject-
ure aud wonde, ment. On Friday thirty
nine gravestones in the cemetery at ss-
voy were found either broken or thrown
down, and a large sheet of common
brown paper was picked up in the same
place, on which were written niue verses
predicting a civil war in the future
much more dreadful in its results than
the one Of 1876. The title to the
verses was, "The Red Dragon" end the
signature, GA Tramp" Who turned
over the gravestones is the question OF
the hour in Savoy.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Mosquitoes and Men.

The mofquito has been regarded az a
particular nuisance by man wherever
they have met. The bite of this pecu-
liarly Objectionable insect has an irrita-
ting effect upon most people, over and
above the mere discomfort produced
thereby. But it would appear that
mental disturbance and systematic
bleeding are not the only injurious
actions which the mosquito can and
does exercise upon us. From what was
said at the pathological society few
evenings ago, it would appear that the
mosquito is the means of spreading the
filaria sanguinolenta among human
beings. They sack up this tiny enta-
ICON with the blood of their human
victims; and the female mosquitoes,
after their banquet, 60 to the river to
deposit their eggs. In doing 80, the
flarise and their Larvae find their way
into the water, and again to other human
bCAASS WAo OAAAh 1Vs Ill UIuCE, W hSCSIe
tain how far the mosquito is thus a
carrying agent Of disease from man to
man, q patient known to have the fiIa.ia
in his blood was placed alone in cham>
Der, and an opportunity furnished to
mosquitoes to feed upon him. After
that, the spoilers were captured and
dissected, and in the stomach of one no
fewer than 120 filaria were found. This
newly found relation of the mosquito to
man adds materially to its Objectionable
ness; for, not only does it feed upon us,
but it helps to spread amongst us an
entozoon which is known to cause
definite series of unpleasant pathological
consequences by it's presence in the
blood
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
Miscellaneous.

The total amount of coal mined this
yearin Pennsylvania will be 1900, 900
tons, 1000. 900 less than the combination
calculated upon,
Half the tillable area OF Scotland Lis
said to b. used for growing oats, which,
IN the form Of porridge. and cakes, forms
the principal diet Of the people.
Americans in Paris this season, pro-
neance the whisky unusually bad. The
German ssillsl ARMIES seriously damaged the
cognac raising districts, and their entire
recuperationhas not been as yet possible.
The receipts ofeotton at the sea-ports
fsem September ! to May "a aggregated
4,177,ss4 bales against 8, s95, s74 for the
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06

and shell and bullet. BY and by the
slaughter ceased. The living left tie
field in possession of the dead and
wounded, and the deafening roar of bat
tie drifted right and lett.
On that meadow there was no patch
of grass without its stain of blood-dead
men with eyes opened shared the ground
with those who shrieked for water or
screamed out with the agony OF
their wounds. John was there. A
shot had mangled arm and
shoulder, and he knew that the
blue cloud of powder smoke could
not shut him in from the shadow OF
death. He had been wicked. He was
loudest in his curses, the first to sneer at
good, the last to speak of home. Com
rades feared and hated him, and officers
wondered why he was there instead of in
convict's cell. Yet, when he saw the
shadow coming, his face lost its bronze,
his tongue forgot its familiar oaths, and
he dragged himself to the side of a
wounded comrade, and said
"Have you got a mother, comrade ?"
eyes, God bless her !" gasped the
other.
$50 have l." said John. II was think
ing of her for the first time in a year
just before l was hit. She used to beat
ME. Oul home was howell, and I knew
he alleys better by night than did the
streets by day. I have been the wicked
est man in the regiment, but size is to
blame"
The dusk of evening helped the
blue cloud to shut out some of the
horrible sights, but it could not disguise
that dark shadow which moved from
man to man and stilled the awful cries
1t was coming nearer as John whispered:
" / have been thinking. / alone am
to blame. In an hour I shall be dead
You will live, and you will some day 60
back to our old home. Will you
seek cut my mother and tell her that
in my last hour I a ked her forgiveness,
I want to hear her voice--prayed for the
motherly touch OF her hand on my hot
cheeks?''
~ willu'
"And say to her that good thoughts
crept into my heart-that 7 prayed--
that ! remembered her as the dear old
mother who prayed at my bedside and
taught me heaven! Say that -"
When the living stealthily advanced
under cover of midnight, feeling of this
and that dark mass to see if the heart
was still, of flashing their lanterns into
pale face to see what comrade it was, a
voice called out:
"Come this way-here, under the
bushes!'
They were lifting him upon a stretcher,
but he said:
"Here is our John. Turn your light
upon his facet"
They bent over the figure, and one
said:
He is dead ~
And he must have wept," said
another" see this tear on his cheekl'
No stone marks the mothers grave
no flag, or wreath, or tribute has ever
pressed the turf above the dust of the
soldier. son. 1t is well. Could there be
a greater tribute than the tears of the
dying, of the forgiving and the forgiven
- Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06
A boy OF ten wears was p,aying raj,

"A boy OF ten years was playing rails
road with his sister OF two and q half
years. Drawing her upon q footstool,
he imagined himeelf both the engine and
conductor. After initiating the putting
noise of the steam he stopped and called
out New York" and in moment after
6 Patterson" and then Philadelphia. y
His knowledge of towns was now ex-
hausted, snd ut the next place he cried
!" Heaven" His little sister said eagerly:
"Topi des I'll dit out here
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06

An honest men but let US not dig
up the past.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-07-06

1t had been fierce fight. Shoulder to
shoulder the line swept ont from the
cover of the woods, dashed across the
long field, and found death beyond it
death in such terrible forms that the line
fell back in wild disorder Again and
again the paie-faced but courageous men
dashed at the position, almost gained it,
and melted away under the fire OF shot