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Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05
A RIVER THAT DOES NOT GIVE UP
IT'S DEAD.
Huntsville Itcm.7

The Colorado river (not our Texas Col
orado) is noted for "swirls' so-called.
They occur everywhere, but only at high
stages of water. A bubble rises from the
bottom and breaks with slight sound
o.. the surface. The water 1T the point
Legins a rotary motion. 50 svlall that an
inverted tea cup might cover it. Larger
and larger grows the circle. till Il surface
of forty fee5 i'll diameter is in motion,
spinning found fiinnelsEaped hcle i'll
the centre, two or three feet across the
top, and coming to point IN the depths
below. Often a large tee floating down
the stream is caught, aud lis fore
end thrust up in the air twenty or thirty
feet, while the other passes underneath
the exposed end tc he slowly drawn
down again, an! to disappear. Three
soldiers--d, serters fru..: Camp AOhnre-
passing through the ravine 4, a sllih;, i'm
mediately below the forA, suffered their
craft TO run into swirl. Cne of the
crew, at the first intimaton of danger,
threw himself overheard beyond the
charmed circle, and as he swan away he
turned his head and SAW the boat spin
round until one end, being drawn i'll the
vortex AMI the other upheaved in the
air, it slo ly sank rs it revoived into
the t,lrl,l bilSOm of the river, its human
irci sht to lie seen no more, for the Color
ado river does not give up its dead
no carrscs lodge on its shores.
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05

Henry Williams, colored, killed one Jas
Henderson. also colored, at Hayncsvil!c,
Claiborne parish, on Monday, the 10th
ultimo. The parties went into the woods
to play cards. Williams won from Hem
dcrson Il and his knife. Henderson 1c-
fused 20 give it mp an' began cutting at
Williams with his pocket knife, intilctlng
two wounds upon his arm, whcrenpon
Williams reached back to get his stick,
ii IS deceased still cutting at him. Will
llaufs knocked him down, and rs he star
ted to rise struck him again and still q
thild time. He then went up to the town
told that he had killed Henderson, and
that he would be found lying in the
woods No one believed him, although
he showed the wounds upon his arm and
cuts in his othing. The next evening
however, tho body was discovered ana
Williams arrest ed and brought before
Judge Scott.
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05
~ FrancisviIlc, Jan 5 2,

AWNOWWcln0 Candidates:
For State and District offices, .----. S25.O 90
For Parish offices, ..---.------. 1000
For police District Offices, ,--------- 500
(to be paid invariably in advance.)
Transient advertisements WiU be inserted
at the rate Of Sl.5O per square Of ten lines
for the first insertion, and IS cents for edck
subsequent insertion.
Personalities charged at transient adrer-
tising rates.
The ADORE scale Of rates must be the basis
of all contracts ,riM adre,tisiug agents.
Obituaries, hib"tes Of respect, resolutions
etc., charged as advertisements
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05
lIOSiIFTHAL,

TAT L. Vresinsly's old stand,]
Bayou Sara, La,
FAHIONAB LIE BOOT & SHOE MAKER
Respectfully solicits a share of the pub
ic patronage and guarantees satisfaction
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05

lFrom the Dublin Nation.]
From Il doorless shed.
With the stars O'erhead,
A beam struggles out on the snow;
And the nj ght winds sigh
With a winter cry,
And scat er the frosts as they go!
But within the shed,
With tn" stars O'erhead,
And pourin. their golden rays down,
On a niangcr lies
The pride of the skies,
And he beareth not scep.re or crown
Hear you now soft voices stealing!
Hear you now loud anthems pealing!
See you forms of beauty soaring!
Sec You forms of light adOripg!
'Peace unto men!' the chant they sing,
"Pcace unto men !" the valleys ring
Echo returning, till the sky,
And stars. and earth. and air reply,
"Pcace unto men = and round the
Manager,
Halt-shcliering the Infant Stranger.
"Glory to God !! with burst divine,
Swells round the lowly smelling,
And angels in radiant garments shine.
Around the threshold hnmbly kreeling !!
"Glory to God and Peace to men!'
Rings ont and peals, again, again!
See the stars in beauty Eeaming,
See the hills in starlight cleaning
The light-torped hills Of Gallilee
Look down upon its sparkling sea!
See the illumined hosts advancing,
See the earth in crystal glancing,
Hear the heart Of mankind beatir rg,
While the earth and skies are greeting;
See the : shepherds wrapt in wonder,
Holy Angels guidance under,
Hedg'd in light that grows in radiance,
Ravished by the glorious cadence!
To God in the highest
Be glory! be glory
Sing, furthesU and highest,
Adore ye! adore ye!
Sing, children of .Japheth;
Your New day is dawning!
Sing, c!. .lldren of Jacob,
The Star of your Morning
Is shining far off in the luminous east
Like beautiful gem on the ethcr's
breast;
And down and fer over city and nation
Shines, like the love-knot of all the
Creation,
Holiness, like voice in the Patriarch's
prison,
And tells them the Star of their Hope i:
1t sweeps DER the earth to the downcas
ard lowly,
And centres all mankind in brotherhood
holy.
1t shines DER the tyrant, and speaks
him traitor,
Who. trampling his brother, denies TIN
Creator!
It shines o'er the slave i'll his bonds ant
disaster,
And tells him the God of the free is hi
master.
Adown and afir, the Star comforts tn
weeping;
Adown and atar. it awakcth tho sleep
ing;
And encircieth the world with harmC
MES given
To all who will. join in that chorus c
Heaven!
1t inspires
Hearts and Tyres
To pray that ''to men of good will b
| peace"
To pray that to God be still true OH
| race!
To pray as we wrought through a wear
| way,
To salute our Star on this Christina
Day!
To prav that this beautiful Star sha
| see
A Pcople content and q nation free!
TO pray to the brotherhood far and ne'
A New Year of Biessings-a Happ
| New Year!
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05
VACARO

1NO THE PUBLIC.
WEST FELICIANA, June 16, 1877.
To parties living in West Feliciana
who shall at any time desire my profes
sional services l would respectfully an
nounce, that they have but to address
me at St. Claude, Waterloo, in care of
Messrs. Edwin Visne, or r.. Pourciaux.
All calls from the citizens of this Par
ish SO addressed will receive prompt at
tentiOn and response.
PIG. A. KAUFMAN, NJ D..
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05

On the Ewell and West plantations, in
Avoyelles. not single pound OF sugar
could be made this year, and the whole
crop of cane was converted into molas-
ScS.
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05
THE DAY STAR.

VERY REV. Il. b. O'BRIEN, DEAN OF I'M
ERICK.
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05

e-g7 The receipts of live hogs at Cn
caso for the first three days OF last week
were 1b1 ,003,-worth on foot more than
S1,50O,O00.
Feliciana sentinel., 1878-01-05

- The Turkish Grand Council is re-
ported 10 have resolved TO carry on the
war TO he last extremity.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

II don't know; Ise always felt the
power of God"
What do you talk about when you
speak to crowd?"
8" / talk about Jesus, about heavenly
things, about how Jesus died and was
crucified; hews He rose again in three
days and stitch on the right hand of
"Can you spell?"
I" No sir; / don't know my A, B, CT
yet.n .,G3 .>..}.,!t, i -,
She then went on in rapturous strain,
about things Biblical and spiritual, com.
pletely nonplussing the reporter.
She was accompanied by two colored
men. They talked in an enthusiastic
manner about her. She said in her own
conversation that she believed in two
kinds of baptism. She spoke of the diff.
ferent modes of salvation; how to reach
paradise; how to be converted from 8
bad man to good one, etc. Her say.
ings were entirely original, and were not
spoken in a hesitating voice, but in a
quick, keen, and forcible manner. Al
young as she is, a negress, without edu
cution in the principles she sets forth
her power partakes strongly of the
marvellous.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
Toll Habits of Ants.

The Rev. 81. G. M'Cook, of Philadel-
phia, eulogizes the neatness of the agri-
cultural ant, az observed in confinement.
The most minute particles of dirt are
removed, and the whole body is fire.
quently and thoroughly cleansed, espec-
tally after eating and sleeping. They
assist each other in the general cleans.
ing, and the attitude of the ant under
operation is one of intense satisfaction.
Mr.. M'Cook has seen an ant kneel down
before another and thrust forward the
head under the face of the other, and lie
.motionless, expressing quite plainly the
desire to be cleaned; the other art u11-
derstood this and went to work. Some
times this is combined with acrobatic
feats, in which the ants excel, Jumping
about and clinging to blades OF grass IN
remarkable fashion. Sometimes the
cleaning ant hangs downward from the
grass, and to her the ant operated upon
clings, reaching over and up with great
AGILITY to submit to her friends Offices
Evidently moisture from the mouth is
used fol washing. Mr.. "MCook has
observed most infinitely the whole of
these processes, which are recorded in
the Philadelphia Academy's Proceed
ings" for this year.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
About Ostriches.


At a public sale of ostriches at Mid
dlebqrg, in South Africa, twenty pairs Of
breeding ostriches realized an average of
nearly 81 900 per pair. The lowest price
given for single couple was $3.50, and
as much as 81 ,425 was paid for one pair
of birds. Commenting upon this the
London Colonies says:
We believe even these prices have
been exceeded in the ease of well-known
breeders. When it is remembered that a
few years ago ostriches could be procured
in South Africa for the catching, and
were purchased for mere trife for exhi-
bition purposes in this country, whereas
at the present time live ostrich does
not exist in London, the Importance of
the birds on the ostrich farms of Cape
Colony, may readily be realized. Even
the Geological society of London does
not possess a single specimen of the At
rican ostrich. The late birds exhibited
in Regents Park were poisoned by the
idiocy of the visitors who, amused to see
the birds swallow stones and other hard
substances, used to throw coppers into
the paddock, the consequence being that
the birds were killed BY the verdigris
thus engendered in their crops. Even
the eggs of the Birds once commonly
collected as curiosities, are nQF hardly
obtainable, being reserved for breeding
purposes. And while such keen compe-
tition exists for the! birds. themselves,
their produce is also eagerly sought for.
At q recent sale of ostrich feathers at
Port Elizabeth, a parcel of selected
"bloods" realized the, fancy price Of
s67 15s. per pound, or about 15s for each
separate feather. rn.s. sq..s.-.. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
A Dumb Dog.

Mr.. Darwin might turn to some &C
count story which is told in the Ger
man papers about the manner in which
an intelligent dog adapted himself to
his condition. A deaf and dumb lady
living in a German city had as a COM
panion younger woman, who was also
deaf and dumb. They lived in a small
set Of rooms opening on the public cor
ridor of the house. Somebody gave the
elder lady a little deg as present. For
sometime, whenever anybody rang the
bell at the door, the dog barked to call
the attention of his mistress, The dog
soon discovered, however, that neither
the bell nor the barking made any i'm.
preston, on the women, and he took to
the practice of merely pulling one of
them by the dress with his teeth, in or
der to explain that some one was at the
door. Gradually the dog ceased to bark
altogether, and for more than seven
years before his death he remained as
mute as his two companions" When
expression by sound was useless, it fell
with him into absolute disuse.-London
Examiner. ri.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
THE THREE LESSONS
By SCHILLER

There are three lessons I Weuld write
Three words as with burning pen,
In traciogs of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men,
Have Hope. Though clouds environ now,
and giadness hides her face in scorr,
Put thou the shadow from the brow
No night but hath it's Morn,
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven
The calm's disport, the tempest mirth-
Know this-Ged mites the hosts Of heaven.
The Inhabitants OF earth.
Have Lose. Not love alone for one,
But man as man thy brother cal,
And scatter like the circliDg sun
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave these lessons on thy soul
Hope, Faith and Love-and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else we're blind.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

{, TIE interior department has directed
the arrest and return to the reservation
sof, three Indian men and squaw now
performing in Washington in the COM
pany of Buffalo Bil."'s The Indians
were brought from the reservation by
the brothers Burgess, members of the
company, and sons of the late agent at
the Pawnee agency ID.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
Death in the Oil Can.

A man out on South Hill had reason
to believe that his superintendent of
cuisine was in the habit of using kero-
sine to start the morning fires. He
placed his suspicious in the form of
charge, which was Indignantly denied,
and proof demanded. He wasn't ready
with his testimony, and the case was
dismissed for lack of evidence. But his
suspicious increased, and he ordered a
secret investigation, and appointed him.
self chairman of the committee, with
power to send for persons and papers.
He laid his plans with care, and the
next morning he followed his maid
servant down stairs at q careful and re-
spectacle distance, and hid himself near
the kitchen door, where he could not see
nor be seen, while he could hear very
distinctly whatever was said or done.
The rustic of paper and the rattle of dry
light wood was succeeded by hasty steps
toward the closet in the cellar way.
Then he heard the gurgling of liquid,
as though it was bubbling out of small
tin spout. He heard the can set down
and then the scrape of match.
Him." he heard the maid-servant re-
AAdA NJ AuCA oAOVu0A "oUIA AdppCu,
and a barely audible fzzle succeeded.
Grimly smiled the silent man by the
outer door.
"H'm," remarked the maid-servant, a
little petulently. Another match snap
ped and blazed up. Another sound as
of sizzling. The smile on the face of
the man deepened into q grin.
"Weu, I never didy came from the
kitchen, and there was heard the sound
of more pouring on the light wood. An
other match and more silence.
"Well did you everT queried the
queen of the range, evidently anxious to
obtain testimony corroborative of her
own experience, as set forth in her
previous statement that she never did.
The man sitting outside the door throt-
tied himself with both hands and softly
pounded the ground with his heels.
Something evidently excited him, and
when the next match snapped he caught
himself by the legs and bit fiercely into
the corner of the door-frame in frenzied
effort to swallow a hollow groan.
"The old scratch is in the oil, / do be-
ieve," said troubled voice in the
kitchen, and more pouring ensued. An
other match, another, another. And the
man crawled off behind the cistern box
and Rugged his knees with many insane
expressions and silent demonstrations of
interest, when he heard the angry voice
inside the kitchen say:
"Plague on such oil! I'd like to pour
it all down Will Darling's back"
Another match, and then a confused
sound of rattling and scraping, and a
fearful woman came to the door and
hurled an armful of soaked paper and
light wood out into the yard and kicked
an oil can after it. The smiling man
crept back up stairs unseen. Breakfast
was late that morning, and when the
queen of the kitchen was asked the cause
wherefore, she said somebody had left
the shed door open and all the light wood
was damp. And no man that ever filled
an oil can with non-explosive cistern
water ever looked half so innocent as the
man who sat at the head of the table
choking over Graham mufin.-Haeok.
eye. ::
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
Canada deficient. ......... 1000
Seven northwestern states deficient 100000
State Of New York deicient........ 3,300,000
,16,4QO,OQQ
Total defciency..,,
From the Evening Wfsc0nsin. Milvauh

Total dedciency.....................15,400, 900
Against this deficiency, however, there
were last year exported to Europe and
surplus of stock on August LIST, 1878, q
surplus of altogether say 4, 900, 900 bush.
els, 80 that the net deficiency is equal to
10000, 900 bushels Now on the assump-
ton that the crop OF 1877 was equal to
81, 900, 900 bushels, and take this years
shortage Of 10,500, 900 bushels, it would
show crop of q, 100000 bushels, or
4, 941 ,48l bushels below any year since
1878, and that year (1S78) No. 2 barley
sold in Milwaukee at 81 cents in July,
$1.06 III. August $1.2O in September,
A.@ in October, $1.45 in November
and $1.46 in December, and in the fol-
lowing year at $1.80 in January, $3.50
in February, and On the crop Of 1874,
with its 1850, 900 bushels product, it
touched 41.88 In September.
,3,. From these statistics We can draw
but one conclusion, and that is in favor
Of higher prices for barley. Producers
can draw their own conclusions from
the facts and figures which We have II.
produced, but Wo arc confident they will
concur with 10 after reading. tho facts as
here presented. 5t@a ID 7:s.2 .ssis s:a.=3 n d"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

$40 for mixed western; white 5pnchangsd.
Pork-Heavy at 1896. Lard-Qpiet and m
changed. Whisky-At $1.080t.O9. Pello-
leum-Crude at $40; re6nedstt 1Oc. O1al
Firm. Leather-steady II 2o@21N c.
WOol-At 29@45c. %&- '@s~@~
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
DAVIDSON 4 WHEELER. Publishers.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

SPEAKING of the harvest of cereals in
Europe, French paper says that in
Italy it is fair, in England, Spain and
Holland good, in the Danubian provinces
and portions of Turkey not the scene of
war, magnificent, and only fair in Rus.
STA. The editor says that no advance in
the price of bread will be necessary, and
with their usual importations :. neither
man nor beast will suffer for the want OF
food.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

DR. BuKNHI, Of London, pronounces
the ,inebriate asylums Of the United
States practical failure.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
sohioa,so

CHICAGO, September 28-1 80 p, ~
Wheat lewer st.881<o for seller Sep
TENDER; $3.50 for seller October; $3.50 for
seller November. Corn-Without impor-
tant change at $3.50 for seller September
S59t@S511c Tor seller October; 36h@36Nc
for seller November. Oats Steady: at 1910
for seller September; 19Ac for seller Octo.
45xc cash; seller October nominal; 47c for
seller November. Barley-At $1.O9@1 .O9h
for cash; $l.10 for seller October; Is fol
seller November. Pork-Lower at $802H
for seller October; $8.l0@8.12H for seller
November. Lard--Lower at $6.27@6.3O fo1
seller October; $6.32X for seller November
Whisky-At $1.07. Hogs Receipts 10000
rough mixed dull and lower; other steady;
light at $S.50@3.60; heavy shipping at $500
@3.90 for tair to choice. Cattle-Quiet; re-
ceipts 800 head. u.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

Foreign.
LONDON, September 28.-12:3O P. M
Liverpool wheat market opens quiet; white
wheat depressed, whilst there is good de-
mand for red. Floating cargoes steady.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

MRS. MAcKEY has been a great pur-
chaser of jewels at the exhibition in
Paris. She has bought parure of dia-
monds, consisting of diadem, brooch
and pendants, bracelets, ring and ear
rings. The parure is ornamented pro-
fusely with blue sapphires and termi-
mates with handsome pearl. The
center sapphire is valued at 100000
francs, and the entire parure at $4,000
francs. Also necklace of brilliants
terminating in briolet drop valued at
$4,000 francs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

IF : prize had been offered to the
world for the best remedy for hazine in
college, no happier solution of the prob
lem could have been hit on than that re-
Gently adopted BY the Yale faculty.
They ! have y :. decreed that any sophomore
found guilty Of maltreating freshman
shall hal be summarily dropped into the
sfrs1h man nan Class, no matter how. high his
rank n:hia own clam. It il to. the hazer
Of ali others that the fear Of this degrs,
dation would apPeal most strongly, and
the chance Of incurring this penalty,
including also the addition Of ! full
year 70 his oollegs ooufse, will deter him
from ding = vlhsn lie would laugh at
the .msre mp naion or even
tho slnall gchance 81. iirreyocable expul-
MON, Only n ono way can this remedy
zfail, and that is b. laxity OF uncertainty
Of ii enforcement.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
NilWGukoe.

MILWAUKEE, September 2S.-3 90 P: M
Flour-Dull; choice spring extras at $4,000
4.75: extra choice at $4.S7X@5.00 common
at $4.OO@4.25. Wheat-Tame No. at 96c;
No. 2 at 9O@90hc: No. 8 at 75hc; No.
seller October at90H@91Hc; seller Novem'
Der at 92@9Sc; seller December at 93@933c.
Corn-Dull at $3.50. Oats-Quietat 1870.
Rye-Tame at 45hc. Barley-Strong at
seller December at $1.15; No. 3 at SIC. Pork
Dull at 1926. Lard-Dull at $3.50. Hogs
Quiet at $3.50@3.7O.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

THE late Hank" Smith, police COM
missioner of New York, in Tweed's
palmy days, and a favorite member of
the ring, was supposed to have left an
estate of half million. The recent sale
of his assets shows the way in which his
ill-gotten wealth was sunk. A batch of
notes, whose face value was IS, 500, was
knocked down to the highest bidder for
$3.50. A lot of fancy stocks, whose pal
value was $26S, 900, was knocked down
at $40. The "fortunes" 50 quickly
made by the old ring generally vanished
almost as quickly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03

FARMERS who have plenty of apples
of first class quality this year are out Of
sorts because they cannot get any price
for them, while last year when "apples
were apples" they had none to sell, and
there is some discussion of the means OF
making trees bear in the old years. One
proposition is to pick all the fruit from
trees as soon as the blossoms set. This
will, it is said, throw the trees into bear.
ing next year, and it will then continue
to bear in the odd years. The work oil
plucking the fruit from young tree is
not great.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-03
BAY ST. Louis.

BAY ST. LOUIS, September 27.-One
hundred cases to date; four deaths in
the past twenty-four hours. The How
ards, of New Orleans, have sent DR..
Jackson and nurses to Bay St. Louis to.