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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-03-15
University Of the South
SEWANEE TENNESSEE.

Sprlng Terms opens March I4th.
This nstitution-controlled by the Epis
copal Church. offers the Southern youths
the highest Education upon Christian prin-
eiples Rs
Attached isa Grammar School with com
petent force of Instructors.
The Calendar can be had hv addressing
the Rev. j. f. Girault d. D. New Orleans
Or SAMUEL JONES.
Sewanee Tenn.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Parish Court, Parish of Lafourche. No.
Il0l6 Probates.

Succession of Joachim Dcrgernn.
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....r,nations Locales.

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encOignures des rues st. Louis ct
Market
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no COMPROMISE.

The Republican members OF Con
gress have decided upon lice Of
action Ia d.fesce IF the election laws,
10 which they will be supported by
be best opinion uf the country. They
i'll resist every Democratic atteuipJ
TO break down the barriers To fraud
10 elections, earnestly and ia s0lid
pbalanx; they will make no pairs
With Democrats, aud will demand
ample time for debate. % the other
baud, they will net waste the money
Of the country aud proiong a vexs
lious session IF Congress by stubborn
opposition, after all opposition IL seen
to be useless. There will be no fiji
clustering, bat when the case Of hon
est voting VS.. fraudulent voting has
been folly argued, the minority will
let it go to the President and 10 The
cou0try.
The Republican party has thus
taken a brave stand on this question.
The decision OF its representatives in
Congress will be approved by honest
sentiment throughout the Uoion
They are ~iniexibly opposed to break
Jog down the safeguards Of elections.
They believe absolutely IN tue wis
dom of the Republicans Ia the last
Congress who prevented The passage
IF appropriation bills which carried
with them this obnoxious legislation.
They recognize this as the ground on
which the battle of this session must
be fought, the ground on which there
can be no compromise, from which
there must be no retreat. The issue
Involves The purity Of our elections.
and the purity of elections involves
The political health Of the nation.
Ia this patriotic conrse the Repub
liean members Of Congress should
have The moral support Of every mem
Der Of tee Republican party, in or out
VI flee, and, above all, Of everv
member of the Republican Admins
t~ration. We have good reasons to be-
iieve that the President Is heart aud
soul wi'h his party 10 this cootest,
aud that nearly or quite oil Of bis Cab
met stand with him. II any member
Of the Cabinet. or any person 10 any
way authorized to speak for the AID
m~instration, or any Republican of
~6ce-holder, arrays himself 10 a hos
tile attitude, it must be distinctly
understood that be does so on bis
own responbilty and It his " COST
lie casts biz lot With the Democracy,
sud will 90 down with The Democrat
ic defeat. The Rrpubaesn party IS
united, aud there must be no compro
mise with the enemy.
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Is Beer Intoxicating .

NORWICH, Conn, March 2S-The
greatest excitement known here since
the enforcement of the Maine Liquor
law in 1854. in this State, exists uow
Ii is not charged that liquor has beeo
sold here. Hop and Scbenek beers
have been sold openly, aud nearly
800 cases now appear before the Su-
perior Court at New London against
the sellers. Test cases are made of
the suits against the wholesale deal
ers to decide the intoxicating proper
ties Of the beverages. J. b Shannon
& Co., a large irm. are the FIRST. and
the trial in their case has already
occupied two days. Prof. SiIlimau,
who Analysed samples for the State,
found 3 "a per cent alcohol. His
different analyses vary 10 results, as
they also do from those OF Professor
Hayes, of Boston. who has Analysed
for the defendants. Three boys
swore that they became exhileraled
on eight glasses. Others, older, swore
thay drank as much as thirty-nine
schooness per diem without intoxica-
ton. The jury, IL is believed, will
scquit OF disagree. as the beer in
question is lighter than cider, tie
sale Of which they are very much
verse TO prohibiting. A decision is
looked for tomorrow. This will
probably govern the 200 other cases.
Prof. Silliman to-day admitted that
the beer was not en- ale 10 not yield
ing Eve per cent. of alcohol.
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GSigned1 Thomas Buford.
Prairie Fires.

Sioux CRY. Ia March 3l-Toe
Jouraat has startling reports OF the
rayages Of destructive prairie 6res up
the Big Sioux Valley and throughout
Southern Dakots The fires on Sat
urday we're of unusual force and de-
structive beyond precedent. The
poles Of the telegraph line on the
Sioux Guy & Pembina Railroad were
burned, So the line has been down,
and reports from that quarter are NOT
tuil. A merchant of Eden 10 Sioux
City to-day tells narrowing tales Of
l,sses in that quarter. On Saturday
from bis store door, the town occupy.
log an elevated position, be counted
thirteen farm houses in flames, and
be says more THAI forty 10 that vi
cinity have lost everything, houses,
barns, seed grain, etc. Tue flames
travelled with such rapidly that peo-
pie were unable to save snythlng.
The stricken people are dazed by the
terrible blow that has fallen on them.
A large Norwegian church 5 miles
from Eden was burned. la The same
Heighnorhood a child, it is reported,
was fatally burned, aud it's father
was terribly burned in his efforts TO
save the child's life. Northwest Of
Beioit . Norwegian named Nichol-
son, while working to save his prop
erty, was caught ia the FIRE aud SO
badly burned that be cannot live.
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The Democrats want 10 strike oof
from the law that portion OF il which
permits the National government 70
use troops. if necessary. for the pres
erva,ioD Of peace at the polls, aud
this uuder the pFetext that The pres
eDce # armed men 81 the polls IL an
Intimidation 10 the voter, aud 6 re-
straiDt upon the freedom OF the bal
lot. Do any one eve hear OF q 70
ter being deprived of bis rights at
ihe polls by q soldier Of the United
States? There is no provision 10
any OF the States preventing State
troops from s%uppressiDg riots. and
preserving peace al the polls, and yet
these Democratic Law makers want
TO deprive the general government
Of a right aud power exercised by
the States This is the merest pre-
text on the part Of the Southern
Drigadiers, TO give them the occasion
to degrade the power of the United
States, by setting up State rights as
paramount to it. These fellows not
only permit bus call out their red
shirt rife clubs, to parade about the
polls on election days, and intimidate
aud murder Republicans at their own
sweet will, and yet, forsooth. the
United States is TO be prohibited BY
law from using its own troops to
preserve order at National elections
The United States is required, with
the Army, 10 time Of peace. to pre-
serve order when the civil authorities
are enable 10 do so, at all times and
10 all places, and yet it is proposed
to forbid il doing so, Cd one day Of
the year-election dsy-the very
time when violence lie most to be ap-
pretended, and should be most
promptly suppressed. Now let us
see how many Pennsylvania Repre-
s~entotives will get down on their
bellies 90 this question, ct the crack
Of the Southern lash.
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wouidn's Sign the Pledge.

GORDON, Ind. March e5.-Phe
snicide of Leonard Keller, u promi-
nent merchant Of this town, is the
sensation Of the season. Mr.. Keller
had been indalging TO excess 10 drink
for o long time. while sil his family
were ardent temperance workers
They were deeply concerned for him,
and importuned him to sign tao
pledge. This be positively declined
to do, and frequently was in bad
humor and disagressble 10 bis domes-
tic relations. He left home several
months ago to never return, IS be
said, but did return in a few days.
Since then he had drank bard. Mon
day, while somewhat under the in
auenoe of liquor, be went to the
bridge owe Indian creek, west Of
town. and taking of bis hat and coat
leaped into the surgiOg food, the
stream being out of its banks from
the late rains, and was drowned. He
left a letter directing the payment Of
a few debts and ordering the educa-
ton Of bis children. He vas 55
years old. and quite wealthy. So
much for whisky.
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Farmers.

WICHITA, KAN, March 25-A ru
NOR has been current here far many
days-that 2 Id has been discovered
about 80 miles southeast of here.
Little attention was paid to it on &C.
count of 50 many schemes 10 this
country, bu, a correspondent had an
interview to-day with d party fresh
from the fields. who has no interest
10 them vhiteEer, ana who is fully
convinced that there il DO deception
being prac.iced The gold was hrst
discovered about January - by two
farmers named kimbsll and McDa1-
aid who Were digging a well. They
sent specimens TO q man 10 Chicago,
who went to New York and formed,
a c,mpany, aud then o on an agent
to Reno. Nevada, aud had the metal
ssssyed. The correspondent has ex-
amined The assay report. Ii reads
Gold, 81 092 per ton IL is sign
ed A b. Williams, Assayer. The
New York company then tried to get
the laBd, but the farmers would not
sell, so they pronounced it q fraud
and returned to New York, and as
soon as the excitement died out sent
an agent and bought Q mile square.
except 40 acres Of Government land
they could not buy. IL was their in,
t%ention to keep this secret, but u
mat became 50 excited be could not
wait, butg immediately sank a shaft
aad threw the ore to the surface ty
blasting Great excitement Dow pre-
walls. Thousands are trying to secur
claims on sbe Gouernment land Gu
der the mining act.
-Four companies are organized.
O0e of them claims to be worth &c.
900 600 The farmers are trying
bard to hold the fort, bat are being
orerrun by capitalists. To-day is
the first time that these capitalists
would give any information. They
wanted the 40 acre tract also. but as
the fever is high, and they had Offer
ed a farmer $50, 900 for bis farm ad-
Joining, and we're refused, they saw
it was no use TO try to blind the peo-
pie any longer, and showed their as
say report rs above.
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NASHVILLE. March 30 Amer-
leans Lebonon special ssys: This
community was greatly shocked a.
noon to dsy By the rumor that Hon
II. Y Riddle, recently representa-.
tive to Congress from this district.
bad conamitied suicide. inyestiga-
lion soon developed the fac5 that BIZ
shot himself in the bead, iud dieting
a mortal wolud. Fer seYefa' months
be has been il very bad health. Last
winter be was compelled 10 leave
Washington before the sdjperameat
of Congress an account of mis- pbyzl-
cal couditioc, and there were romors
at the time that dis mind was affect
ed.
In addition to his illness be had
recently become financially embar'
raised in consequence of large secnr-
ity debts. lie was on The Square To-
day and conversed nationally with
several friends, although appearing
mentally depressed. AT ii O'Clock
he borrowed a small cartridge pistol
from al acquaintance, saying that be
anticipated a personal difficulty. He
went to his residence. stepped out o.
a back door aud shot himself. Re
fell to the cellar below, where be
was found on his back, with the
pistol still in his hand, and apparent.
ly dead. The bali entered the right
side Of his head, ranging backward
sud downward. He fingered un.
conscious until 6 P NJ, when be died.
His wife arrived from Nashville soon
after his death.
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Diplomatic Missions.


WASHINGTON, March 26.-Tbe
President sent the following nomina-
tiops to the Senate to day Andrew
D White. Of New York, TO be Envoy
Extraordinary aud Minister Plenipo-
Tertiary TO Germany; Cornelius A
Logan, of Illinois, 10 be Minister
Resident to the Central Americas
STATES.
President White was boru in Ho-
mer. n Y. in 1882 vas graduated
from Yale in 1853; studied al Paris
aod Berlin, and was connected with
the Legation a, ST Petersburg until
1851. afe II which he was profe SIR of
English literature iu Micb'g 80 Uni-
versi;y until 1862; resigned. visited
Europe, was a member Of the New
York Stare Senate. and baving snp-
ported the plan of the Cornell Ua,-
versity, was chosen its president in
1866 Ten years later be resigned,
but was induced to recall that resig
nation. aud revisited Europe. He
was a conspicuous aud able defender
IF the Union cause in England dur
ing the rebellion. He was a com
missioner to San Domingo in 1871
The same year be wss president of
the New York Republican Conven-
ton and a deleg te TO the National
Republican Convention 10 1876. He
published "a Syllabus of Modern
History" aud "The Warfare of Sci
%enoe," and contributed u magazines
and reviews. His "Wsrfsren is rath-
er philosophical. and susta'Ds the
idea that religion has nothing to fear
from scientific progress He is a gen.
tleman Of property as we'll a. a stu
dent. and enjoys a high reputation
for ability. His appointment is said
tn have been made to avoid offending
others who are more pronounced pol
iticians.
Mr.. Logan was born 10 Deerfeld,
Mass 10 1892; studied medicine
removed to Kan 10 1856, aud was q
leading Free soiler there He was
appointed Minister to Chill in 1873
a~rbitrsted g boundary dispute b.
tween B livia and Chill hat year,
and a difficult and lou2-pending diff
ference between Dtili and Peru the
next year, with satisfaction to both
countries in each case, and returned
in 1877. He is a prominent Odd
Fellow, and q cousin to Senator Lo-
gan.
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4 Valuable Present.

The Pennsylvania Museum aud
School of Industrial Art received
yesterday a valuable acquisition TO
It's collection in Memorial Hall by the
presentation of the rich gathering of
minerals that was exhibited 10 the
Centennial Exposition, representing
the mineral products of almost every
country 10 the world. 1t embraces
metals. minerals and ores, illustrating
the me~tsllurgical and mining products
of Germany, Russia, Sweden, Spain,
ENGLAND, Au tria. Portugal, Belgium,
Italy, Brazil, Canada, Novs Scotia,
Australia and New Zealand. So
complete is the collection that its
value cannot be fairly estimated, as
it would be o matter of great difficult
ty to duplicate it. Philadelphia is
indebted for the valuable present to
the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, who, at q convention held
at Baltimore q few weeks ago. re-
solved upon the generous act, and
the formal presentation took place
at Memorial Han yesterday after
noon.
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CHARLESTON. S. G., March 25-
The Court of General Sessions met
at Columbia yesterday, when the
case of the State vs. ex Gov. d II.
Chamberlain, Kimpton, Parker and
others, as members of the Land Com
mission, was called. Mr.. S. NJ. Mel
ton said that be appeared for The
defendant Chamberlain. who was the
only o of the defendants bound
over for trial, and that none Of the
others had been arrested. Mr.. Cham
berlain, be said, had instructed him
to ask for q continuslioa of the case
until the next term Of the court on
account of domestic and personal
bereavement. one of his sons having
recently died, and every member of
his family. including himself. having
been p~rosTsteJ BY the disease which
had caused his sons death By con.
sent of counsel for the people the Case
was continued, ss were all other
cases in which ex-Stste officers are
defendants.
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LoYpoS. March 26-Cesrespond
e.ce If he Times, ds.sd ~ Armenf'
Upper Egypt, Feb. "a. gives q nssfs,
r,ndipv account Of The condition 81
the popolatiou OF the Nile valley
The scenes described resemble those
ia India during the recent famine.
Ia some Of TIE villages the people are
uas, help, sitting naked, Ike w'd
beasts. ea,iog roots aud sunerlng
with The endurancs Of despair. Tue
madness worked on by famine stamp-
sucb a brand on the starving feiians
as cannot be easily described. IN
one town women and children fcnsnt
over scraps If bread like Wild aui-
mails The case is believed to DE-
srill worse in the island bamie,s'
1ners the villagers are said 70 ne
starvi, g ike dags.
The snles, ia an editoriai article
cammen ing GA The letter els cor
resp udept st Aruieui, Upper Exyp,
descrlbiog ,he cpadIlion OF ih- Tan
me stricken population Of The Ale
valley. says:
.Tais 6 ale of affairs is Immediate
Iv ascrioed 10 last y.a,'s iuu1dations
aud The failure # the first wheat
crop, hut toe real Cause lies in the
permanent hslplessness Of the frllah'-
condition He is so merciIs-rly taxed
that be is forced ,e live from band 10
mouth, aud it is impossible for him
o make aoy preparation ngsinst the
day of temporary need. whiis De is
81 oppressed with work and 90 reduc
I'd by insufficient food a TO close all
hope and energy. and all power Of
phssicsl or moral RESISTANCE. The
sole aud simple u of their misery
is to be found ia their crushing taxa
Lion, aud 10 the Injustice With which
il is extorted from them. Aud to
what is this due? Simply to the
necessity Of meeting the financial de-
mands required by the extravagant
expenditures of the Kbedive aud his
government. Matters have pos
reached such a pass that every turu
of the screw by which the payment
of a coupon is forced from the khe-
dive. in spite Of deficient revenue.
represents another pang of Torture in-
aicted upon the unhappy fellahs.
There il no reason for thinking the
condition of Egypt desperate. Good
government would in q moderate
lime restore the country to a iairly
prosperous condition. Bus there is
great reason to believe that for the
present The English and French cred
itors must consent to fJrego their full
rights. To insist IN these rights
might prove shortsighted fer their
own interests as well as cruel To tbs
fellahs, aud it will be the duty of our
government to look to the permanent
welfare of the Egyptian people in the
first instance rather than to the i'm
mediate claims Of the bondholder."
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f~righrfai Accident.

An accident of q horrible nstufe
happened yesterday at McKeesport.
About 4 O'Clock ia the afternoon Ma
than Morgan, an oiler, employed BY.
the National Tube Works, was
caught 10 8 rapidly revolving shaft
and carried around eight times, when
his clothes gave way aud be fell a
distance Of ten feet. striking a pair
Of red hot tougs which run into bis
side over Eve inches. One of his
arms was broken in two places and
be was other wise bruised and broken.
10 spite Of all this be is yet alive, and
although the injuries sustained will
doubtless prove fatal it is by no
means certain that such win be the
case.
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DAYTON, O., March si-By pre-
concerted arrangement; the sermons
10 the churches Of this city Sunday
we're all directed against the viola
tion of the Sabbath in Dayton. and a
call for an enforcement oil the law
prohibiting such infringement. A
circular was also issued aud distribu-
ted at all the churches, declaring
against breaking Sabbath by keeping
open saloons. stores, markets, photo
grsph galleries. by sale of papers, by
professions with music, excursions,
&c. The effort will be continued by
the churches to enforce an ordnance
relating to all violations of the Sum-
day laws
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-02

BIsBEE. Of Florida. appeared be-
fore Congress with the certificate Of
the BARD of Canvassers, and of the
Secretary Of State. the decree of the
State Supreme Court in bis favor.
aud copies Of the returns. while Hull
has only the certificate Of the Gov
error elone. This Governor himself
b las bis seat asG1vernor, solely up
Oh a recount ordered by this some
Supreme Court, whose authority be
nos dsfes. The Democrats have
given Hui the sea-, bus the MISTER l.
ended
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-02

SENATOR WALLACE got 10 a good
lick At Randall. when Marshal kearos
testified thar Randail's district com
prised the slnus Of Philadelphia, aud
was the only place be deemed itnec-
essary to appoint special Marshals TO
make arrests. and preserve order al
the polls. Now let the Senator call
Alderman "BiIl McMullen" and be
can get e, the true inwardness Of al
the Democratic sconndfel sm 10 the
Quaker City, always provided, ihst
toe witness is not blessed with as
short a memory a. Nephew Peltuo
owns.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-02

WE always thought one OF the
strong points in Gen. Coffroth's polit-
icsl character. was gratitude to
friends for past favors. Bot if "our
Alec" has become the "big Indian
which his admirers claim, be surely
ought to have been able TO secure q
crumb or TWO for the sorebeads and
Greenbackers who elected him.
Come, come, General, we win have
TO change our opinion if you permit
the South to snatch everything away
from your hungry dupes at home.
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IT is the traitors who were par
doned by the government, and re
stored the right to The ballot, which
thew had forfeited, that are now con
trolling the Democratic party ano
demanding the right TO sluf ballot
boxes. and thus perpetuaie the pow
er which they obtained by fraudulent
befio.a
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WHAT has become of all those pa
triots that, a short time since, had so
much to say about ~coaciliating the
South? A little Cancellation of the
North is just now in order. There
hasn't been SO stalwart q Republican
party as now exists in the North,
since the days of Yicksburg, Gettys'
burg, and AppOmatox. The baud
will 0 0 begin 70 play.
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Negro Hanged.

NASHVILLE, March 90. - Knox
Martin, the colored murderer of j
Wittenmeyer and wife, was hanged
here to-day 10 the presence of H..
600 people. Before leaving the jail
be made q fo!l confession Of the crime.
made no statement on the scat
fold The body was given over to
the physicians, who attempted to re
snscitate him.
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THE Issue is distinctly made 10
Congress that this government shall
stop, shall not proceed in the bust
ness for which it was organized, for
want Of the necessary money to carry
it on, unless the President consent
TO, aud approve such partisan legis.
iation as is forced on the Democratic
party by the rebel element now con.
trailing IL
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-02

THAT apostle Of the Grsenbsekers,
Hendrick B. Wright, has gone back
into the Democratic caucus. The old
fraud only ~professed to join the
Greenbackeis during last campaign,
for the purpose Of cheating a few
simpletons 10 this State into support
ing that ticket, for the benefit Of the
Democracy
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-04-02

TuR last act If the Democracy be-
fore 4. Lost power was an attempt 20
dissolve the Uuion. lIs fret attempt
Oh r~ersioing power, is to overthro~
the Constitution by forcibiy depriV-
ing the President of the veto power.
Rule or ruio," is the one fixed poll
cv of that partv.