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Two for the parish of Assumption '-ui
Two Tor the parish of Avoyelles. t.t.., be-.
Two for the parish OF East Baton Rouge.
One for the parish of West Baton Rouge
One for the parish of Bienville. 30
One for the parish of Bossier. ssjdBg su}
Twofor the parish OF Caddo.~ E4yss@ .s-
One for the parish of Galcasieu. 5
/ One tor the parish of Caldwell.
One for theparish of Cameron. "+-s
2 One for the parish of East Carroll. ,s
One for the parish Of West Carroll.
One for he parish of Catalonia.
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/ One for the pari i of Concordia
q Two for Ia: PARISH of DeSoto. . Z.
Two for the parish of East f liciana.
One for the parish of West Feliciana. Ht',t
3 One for the parish of Franklin TrA "a =
One fer the parish of Grant 7u t'
sOne for the parish of Iberia. ..t. @
Two for the parish of Iherville
= One for the parish Of Jackson. :i
One for the PARISH of Jefferson.
One for the parish uf Lafayette. a,+ a.tI
Two Tor the PARISH Of Lafourche.
One for the parish of Lincoln.
II One for the parish of Liyingsto l. ''E
d Two for the parish of Madison. @EG |
One for the parish of Morehonse. asYv. 4 q
Two for the parish of Nateh;toches. @
One for the first rep. sentative district, par
ish of Orleans.
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ish of Orleans. - nsEl si45s esaa., t4s
Three for the third representative district
parish of Orleans
One for the 4th representative district, par
ish of Orleans. 5fF@t 5&7 I'1a1 ,a17
Two for the 5threpresentative district, par
ish of Orleans. s1iR tfWSp ia slnJ Fa
> One. for the 9th representative district, par
ish of Orleans.
Two for the 9TH Representative district, par
ish of Orleans W. f12 81 tgs8a gt n 93S
One for the eighth representative district,
parish of Orleans
Two for the ninth representative district,
parish of Orleans rga54E Il 20
8 Two for the tenth representative district,
parlsh7ol orleans. isA1 ers gs./ ,.ai Z
IS Two for the eleventh representative district,
parish of Orleans. E 81
One for the twelfth representative district,
parish of Orleans Il Ho3 a. sfr--
= One for the thirteenth representative dis
trict, parish of Orleans.
One for the 18th representative district, par
ish of Orleans. - f.;fa. .sEaI' fa - E
One for the l5tirrepresentative district, par
lsh OF Orleans. ~ ty7et.5aa s..,.r- @
One for the parish of Ouachita.
|" One for the parish of Plaquemines.
= One forthe parish of Point Coupee: -
4 Two tor the parish of Rapides-a
x One fer the parish of Red River *,i
One for the parish of Riehland. r
One for the parish of Sabine.
& One for the parish of st. Bernard.
Il One or. he parish of st Charles. eve
One for the parish of st. Helena.
One for the parish of St. James.
One for the parish Of st John he Baptist.
{ Foor for the parish of st. Landry.
/ One furthe parish of st. Martin. JH6 19'
E Two for the parish of st. Mary. I8a rcTi :.
One for the parish of st Tammany.
One for the parish of Tangipahoa.
Two for the parish of TeBsas.
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Proposals for Building
10 ,aisins Bridge. ~ fiR31 9

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House door in the town of Bellvue. within the
legal hours of sale on Saturday the list day of
March, 1879, a contract for building a new
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specification now on file in the Office of Clerk
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T clamation by the Governor.
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w hereas, it is provided by act No 8, of the
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-05
THE CHANCES or THE PLIGUE.

The threatened districts of Europe are adopt
ing precautionary measures 50 vigorous that
there is ground to hope that this frightful
scourge may be stayed before Spring. In
Rus,ia. villages already tainted are To be
burned to the grOund, and the inhabitants re-
moved The quarantine is To be enforced by
the military power. and Ga still more intelli-
gent and promising movemcnt medical
commissions have already set Off to
examine into the causes of the dis
ease, in which inquiry English experts have
been invited to join. Italy, Austria, indeed all
the neighbOring States are establishing cor
dons against the plague. Whether these pre-
cautions will prove effective or not, they
show the different temper with which this
terrible curse is met by Europe from that
showed in its former viSitatOnS. \ very sig
nifcant instance of this is the last sanitary
order in Moscow, including the pcrcmp-
tory closing of all basement dwellings,, the
erection of clean temporary buildings,
and of furnaces to burn infected clothes,
and the gratUitOus distribution of cooked
food. These Muscoyitcs give us a useful
hint. These preparations cost money, and
the plague, after all, may not come. But If
if does they will have saved thousands OF hui
man lives An American city bcgrudges every
penny spent i'll prevention, though it will
throw money like water on an evil already
existing. What is Ncw-l0rk or Philadelphia,
or even Orleans, doing now to prepare
for the yellow fever next Summer2 One
fourth of the money 80 generously given to
the South last year would put us all in con-
dtion to defy any epidemic.
With regard to this especial plague, 1t would
Ice false policy to disguise its dangers. Under
the most favorable circumstances it brings to
the patient horrible suffering and almost Ger
tam death The accounts brought from Russia
are vague but there j. little reason to doubt
that the disease which has appeared at Sell
trcno is identical with the Black Death which
ravaged the world in the fourteenth century.
leaving, at the lowest computation, SO,OOO,0OO
dead. There can be no doubt, either, that
physicians know little more about it now
than they did then. II has been happily too
rare a disease to admit of their study. There
has been a singular repetition, too, of the CIR
cumstances which accompanied its Tayagcs
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Jn0ef 10 ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-05

before. II came. as now, from China, where IL
was preceded by frightful famines, which nave
been paralleled by those OF the last two years
in China and India. The Winters, we are
told. were exceptionally warm and moist Gas
was that of 1S77-'7S). and the impure air, the
want of proper food, the great mortality, and
the vast number of half buried bodies, all
warmed the pestilence, which always turks In
the East, to life. Most of these causes exist
now to certain degree. The sweep OF the
plague, should it actually gain life, would DC
instantaneous compared with its former move
ment, thanks to railways and the close con-
tact of modern trade and transportation. IL
took three years in 1913 to CARY it from
Constantinople to Vienna. Now 1t would
hardly need IA many weeks.
On the other hand, medical skill, If 1t has
not grappled with this especial enemy, has
grown in strength and broadcncd its bases
immcasurably. So has human intelligence
among even the lowest of the people The
Black Death was met before with an abJect
ignorant terror which made ready every
victim for its grasp. The best remedy which
educated Europeans could find was TO march
i'm great bodies from town TO town, fasting
and whipping themselves, or to sacHhce
innocent Jews by the thousand to prOpltiate
the raging devil. Now thoy promptly meet
the first cases with medical commission.
There is an improvement, roo, in the sanitary
condition of Europe. Men do not nerd INTO
huts like swine quite a. universally as they
did in the fourteenth century, though among
the poorer classes in Russia, Germany, even
in England and Scotland, the overcoming
is sufficient to afford ready food for the pcsti-
lcnce. But sanitary science is yet in its in
fancy IN Europe and this country. God
grant that this scourge may not be the means
of Weakening lis at last to a knowledge Of its
importance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-05
PERSONAL.

James Calhoun. n brother OF John { Tar
hou. qtll I've, near lIawknsyllle, Ga. ,
Miss WoOlsey's charming little story u
"What Katy Dd" has been drauatited aud ae'eu WIZ
much applause in 4 Newport home
said General Sherman to divers coioleu
men o. Macon the other day "lon have your ues'-y
I'm or own hands 20 work ont Get educated set "a
uttir homes treat every body kindly, anu 20" WIZ w.
well
The late Michael Sulliyant, the great western
faImcr could ride miles from border TO ouru.
IA. own land in Ohio. which he inherited In lo'- ~
cultivated more than 900 acres OF on his h'nO"
estate, n,
Mrs. HAYES, some obscryant person has ui'.
covered does not object 10 wear handsome sO"-
great many times She bought several eApons'' 80.
last season. ana as they sti good, does ho' "'
To wear thcm repeatedly -.
Mr.. Moody is now in Baltimore pIepafns'
some new sermons for next seasons "o'A' no - na,
sure whore ho Will 20 on leaving that et-Ic ''' ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-05
4 TRIUMPH or REFORN.

II is long since the country has been so
startled and surprised as by the announce
mcnt lust made from Washington that the
Agricultural Department Of the Government
i, To ba reformed. Not that there is ANYTHING
thai should stIrtc and surprise in the mere
announcement of reform. For we are ia
milar with that. But that the Ag,7calfu-
rat Department should he reformed; that
the great movement now in progress III
all other branches of the service with such
gloriou. results should find anything to work
upon in that Department, i certainly a sub
icct OF establishment. Why. no one ever
dreamed that the Agricultural Department
was "a hot-bcd Of corruption and nursery of
crime, until Commissioner lie Due broke ont
the other day in the uncomfortable agony
Of rcmorsc with declaration of in
dependence OF Congress, and procla-
nation that hereafter the Department
will disseminate the bean and watt the Gu
cumbcr directly to the agriculturists of the
Republic without the intervention of Con-
grcssmen. SO he divorces his department
from politics. and Agriculture becomes, if we
may be allowed the expression, the handmade
of Progress instead Of the pretty waiter-giri
of Congress. Verify, We are in the midst of a
reform epoch. 1t would be irrevcrent to
the beautiful spirit which seems to be
animating the leaders Of public opinion and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-05

Individual jeaOuses and ambitions! II is
because of these that the Democratic party of New
York is rent by internal ds,ensons and weakened
by intestine broIls. lhe young men of tho party
sorrowing at schisms and bolts, have held a
meeting in a hotel and have resolved that ind-
vidual jealousics and ambitions ought to be made
suhseryicnt to "a hearty cooperation of aims In
order to bring about this harmonious rapture. il
had been arranged that MIR. David Dudley Field
should deliver a discourse on the thrilling topic
Of what would be fair pay for city and county
officers. But Mr. David Dudley Field Is 50 en-
numbered by law business that he cannot grlpplc
witt the topic until next March. The vOung men
who arc hungry for the necessary clOquence appear
to have been a little hurt by Mr. David Dudley
Fields delay, and they substantially resolved
that If he could not speak before March he might
lust "a well not speak at all. Meanwhile the "indi
yidual iraouseS and ambitions have full swing
and exercise their old demoralzing influence. 1t
is to be wondered at that it never occurred to the
voung men meeting in the hotel. that this acknOwl-
rdgment Of the ealouSics aud ambitions aforesaid
was IN fact q most damaging indictment of their
party. Higher interests of the country are doubtless
entitled TO attention but somehow the Democratic
leaders are Ike Mr.. David Dudley Field too busy
to attend To them. There would not bo much Of
the party left # the individual ambitions should he
wiped ont The young men had better beware or
they max reform the said party first into vrtuous
apathy. and finally into its grave Too much good
moss is not good for the Democracy OF New-lork.
Bragg of Wisconsin, ought to be credited with
raising very live Issue inside the Democratic
party. The power of the caucus IA Congress avaIls
to restrain in degree the heated brethren there
from giving their emotions fluent escape
IN irritating language. Bot the Democratic
editors of the North have not the terrors of tho
caucus before their eyes, and many OF them
calling names and hurting back charges with an
uncommon l0oseness. IL is rather startling 10
hear Northern Democrats accusing tho solid
south of treason and rebellion, and bcratIug
them for loading the country with debt
and their party with disgrace. Mr.. Braggs e1hibl-
ton has certainly demonstrated the fact that there