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Sharp County record., 1879-10-02

There is a possibility that the par
tial failure of the European silk crop
may force this country into silk-culture
on a more extensive scale than hereto
fore. The silk product in Europe last
year was 3,400,00O kilogrammes; this
year it is only 100000 kiiogrammes.
1t is thought that silk can be profitably
cultured in New Jersey, California and
many of the Southern States.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02
Is Years Before the Public.
the GENUINE
DIR. g.
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, Or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND sscx xsADAcMs.
Symptoms Of q Diseased liver.

DAM in the right side under the
l edge of the ribs. increases on pres
sure sometimes the pain is in the left
side the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade. and
it frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder. and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The stom-
ach is affected with loss of appetite
and sickness; the bowels in general
are c~ostive, sometimes alternative with
lax: the head is troubled with pain,
accompanied with a dull, heavy SEM
sation in the back part. There is gen.
orally a considerable loss of memory,
accompanied with a painful sensation
Of having left undone something which
ought to have been done. A slight.
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains of WEAKNESS.
and debility he is easily startled. his
feet are cold OF burning. and he COM.
plains of a prickly sensation Of the
skin his spirits are low: and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial to him, vet he can scarcely
summon up fortitude enough to try it.
In fact. he distrusts every remedy.
Several of the above symptoms attend
the disease. but cases have occurred
where few Of them existed. yet exam
nation of the body, after death. has
shown the LIVER to have been extcp.
sivcly dcranged.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

We print to-day an able ar.
ticle on the Convention clipped
from the Opelousas Courier. The
able writer of that article com.
plans that the Internal system
OF registration is to be continued
in the state. Such is not the fact
The Constitution says that "the
Legislature may provide for a
system Of registration through
out the parishes" and any legis-
lature that will provide for such
a system Of corruption and ras.
cality should be pitched headlong
into the Mississippi river and sent
out through Eads' jetties.
The Courier also objects to the
consolidation Of the offices of
Sheriff and Tax Collector. Why
everybody over here thinks that
was one of the wisest things the
Convention did. 1t is equal to
about 3 per cent saving on all
taxas collected for both State
and Parish. No man can afford
to make such collections for as
low a per cent as the Sheriff.
The failure to pass a poll tax
qualification does not cause any
complaint in this vicinity. Now
that fees and emo!uments of off
GERS are reduced so low that no
serious contention for such places
will arise, no fears need be enter
tanned that the dead republican
party will ever obtain control of
the State again.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

YELLOW FEvER.-RumOrs are
prevalent that this disease is here
and there and everywhere.
What object these heralds Of
bad news can have beyond graft.
flying an innate desire to lie,
square and direct, is difficult to
imagine.
From present indications there
is really no ca';se for serious ap
prehension of yellow fever in this
section of the State. Such a thing
as ii few scattering cases may oc
cur, without violating ally Of the
rules Of probabilities, and need oc
casion no uneasiness. At least,
from the outlook to day, every
mind eau rest c0ntented.
There never was a better state
OF health in LafOurche than there
is to day; the daily showers
wash away all the filth aud rem
der the atmosphere pure and
sweet.
The physicians all combined in
this town have not had enough
to do in the last six months, that
would have been considered over
work for one of them to accom-
plish.
Therefore let every one attend
to his business and wait until
the disease is here before spread
ing rumors that the authors
know to be false.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

NIJNE NovGoRoD FAIR. The
great market of the EASTERN world
has been held at this junction OF
the VOlga and Olga Rivers in
Russia, every summer for hun
dreds of years. Here the nations
Of Europe and Asia meet with
their products for trade. Cossack
Chinese, Turk and Persian meet
the German and the Greek with
every variety Of merchandise that
mankind employs, from sapphires
to g%rindstones, tea, opium, fur,
food, tools and fabrics, and last
but not Least, medicines. j. g.
Aver & Co.'S celebrated remedies
from America were displayed in
an elegant Bazaar, where the Doc
tor himself might sometimes be
seen. They are known and taken
on steppes Of Asia as well us the
prailes of the West, and are an
effectual antidOte for the diseases
that prevail in the yaourts of the
Moth as well !as the huts and
cabins OF the western continent.
-Liac0ln Ill. Times.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

The POLICE JURY.-1n perus
ing the proceedings of the last
session OF the Police Jury the rea
der will perceive that Mr.. Frank
lin, the member from this ward,
refused to sit in that body or
have anything to do with its &C
tons as long as the sessions were
held in a closed room.
In this action Mr.. Franklin
showed considerable common
sense, an article in which the re
naming members did not appear
to have invested much stock.
The idea of holding secret ses
sions Of the Police Jury is entirely
too luminous to have terminated
by any other body than the pres
ent one, which ever assembled in
this Parish.
1t is paying a very poor COM
pliment to the people who elected
those members to have the door
slammed in their faces, when they
desire to visit the parochial legis-
lative body, or wish to bring any
business before that body.
Mr.. Franklin deserves the ap
probation Of every good citizen
for refusing to act with them in
their secret conclaves, aud the
members OF the jury themselves
appeared to have come to the
same conclusion for the remain
der of the session was held with
open doors as it should have been
from the beginning.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02
A SHORT ITEM FOR CONWAY

A SHORT ITEM FOR CoNwAY's
GANG!-The restitution of the
colored people in this section OF
country is what would be called
up West as "awtuI.'
Last Saturday Il fat Boat load
OF them went up to Assumption
on an Excursion, to night there
is all Entertainment at Waverley
Hall ; next Saturday a large ex>
cursiOn from DonaldSonville will
be here on a three days cruise !:
for the last three months hardly
a week has passed but an excur-
sion or entertainment Of some
kind has been had in this vicinity
by the colored people, and yet
Conway, the school fund thief,
and his Kansas Exodus gang OF
robbers and plunderers are howl
ing all over the North and West
about the restitution of a class Of
people who are tar happier and
more prosperous than are the la
boring classes i'll those parts OF
the country.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

The statement is often seen
in the reports Of the Yellow Fe,
yer in Memphis, that it is of a
very mild type. When the re.
port gives 2G deaths in IO4 cases
where the mildnesS of the disease
comes in, is difficult for any but
a scientifical genius to discover
E.tier the fever is Of a very mali
cious type or the physicians do
not know how to treat it, one or
the other.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

DY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF Fl FA TO
ID me directed in the above entitled and
numbered suit. l have seized and will of
fer for sale at public auction pursuant to
law to the last and highest bidder at the
Court House in the Town of Thibodaux,
OF Saturday the 9th. day Of September 1879
between the hours of II o'clock A. NJ. and
4 o'clock +. NJ. The following described
property to wit
l.. "A certain tract of land situated in the
of LafOurche in this State on the
twenty two miles below the Town of ThibO
daux. aud at q small distance below
L~Ongueville measuring five srpents more OF
less front. by the depths Of confirmation
bounded above by lands of Thomas White&
ais and below by those Of the Church and
OF Charles Leblanc according to the exist
ing lines, on this tract there is q reserv;s
ton of forty feet Of a triangular form for q
cemetery which is not comprised in this
act.
2. A certain town lot situated in the
Town of LOngueville in said Parish of La
fourche measuring W. hundred and TWEEN
ty three feet more or less front by three
hundred and sixty six feet on the ripper
line more or less in depth, the depth of the
lower line not being exactly known, bound
ed above by lands of ]. j. Babin formerly
and now owned by Valery Breaux and be-
low by land of David Mcleod.
3. A certain tract Of land or town lot sit.
uated in said town of LOngueville at about
twenty two miles below the town of Thibo
daux and ON the LETT bank Of the Bayou La
fourche designated as lot No. l, on q plan
made by j. A. D'HemecOurt Surveyor on
the Goth day of December 1885 and deposi
ted among the Records Of the late Jules
Massey Notary Public in New Orleans, meas
uring fifty nine feet five inches front on
the Public Road by three hundred and sew
en- 3ll2 feet on the line separating 1t from
Laf"urche Street aud two hundred and
eighty four 8ll2 feet on the line separating
it from lot No. 2. Together with all thu
buildings and improvements thereon and
appurtances thereof and the rights way,
and %lmmunities thereuntO belonging.
The above being q correct description O.
the said property a. of date the 18th Apri
1871.
Terms of sale Cash on the Spot in Uni
ted States Treasury Notes
August End 1879.
La. WEBRE.
Sheriff.
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NO~~ ~ NSA 0AS~A
;ores, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Paini
he Bones, Side and Head. Femal
Weakness, Sterility, Leucorrhoa, arisin
rom internal liberation, and Uterin
l~isease, Syphilitic and Mercurial dis
ases, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, EmaciatioI
General Debility, and for Purifying tn
Blood.
This Sarsaparilla is acombination G
egetable alternatives - Stillingia, Mar
rake, Yellow Dock - with the Iodide
+ Potassium and Iron, and is the mos
f~icacious medicine yet known fc
he diseases it is intended to cure.
Its ingredients are so skilfnlly con
lined, that the full Alternative effect O
ach is assured, and while it is 80 mil
$ to be harmless even to children, it i
till 50 effectual as to purge out from tn
ystem those impurities and corruption
vhich develop into loathsome disease.
The reputation it enjoys is derive
rom its cures, and the confidence whic,'
rominent physicians all over the cour
~ repose in it, prove their ~experienc
t its usefulness.
Certificates attesting its virtues hav
formulated. and are constantly bein.
eceived, and as many of these cases ar
nblicly known, they furnish co~nvincin;
violence Of the superiority of this Sal
aparilla over every other alterativ
,edicine. So generally is its SUPERB
rity to any other medicine known. tina
70 need do M moro thoc tn asonro IN
ublic that the best qualities it has eve
assessed are strictly maintained.
PREPARED BIT
Dr.. J. c. AVER 4 co.. Lowell. Mass.
Practical n Analytical CheMstses.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

Worth Knowing.- That fish may
be scaled much easier by first dip
ping iuto boiling water about a
minute.
That sa!tfsh are quickest and
best freshened by soaking in sour
milk.
That salt will curdle new milk
hence, in preparing milk po,ridge
gravies, etc, the salt should not
be added until the dish is prepar
ed.
That fresh meat beginning to
sour will sweeten if placed out of
doors in the cool air over night.
That clear boiling water will re
move tea stains and many fruit
stains. Pour the water through
the stain and thus prevent it
spreading over the fabric.
That boiling starch is much i'm
proved by the addition of sperm
or salt, or both, or a little gum
arabic dissolved.
That beeswax and salt will
make your rusty fatirons as
clean and smooth as glass. Tie
a lump of wax 10 a rag and keep
it for that purpose. When the
irons are hot, rub them first with
the wax rag, then scour with 2 pa
per or cloth sprinkled with salt.
That blue ointment and kerO>
sine mixed in equal proportions,
and applied to bedsteads, is all
unfailing bug remedy, aud that a
coat OF whitewash ia ditto for the
walls OF a log house.
That kerOsine will make your
tea kettle as bright rs new. Sat
urate a a wOllen rag and rub with
it. IL will also remove stains
from the clean vanished furn,
ture.
That cold rain water and soar
will remove machine grease from
washable fabrics.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

Work IN the Thlbodaux FOun
pry, HOgan's boiler shops and
other mechanical shops is coming
iurfreely. Every mechanic who is
disposed to work can find steady
employment and no laborer need
be idle:
Lafourche is to-day emphatical.
~ a prosperous Parish. Money is
not made as rapidly as it has
been in some years passed away,
but a community that will furnish
work and employment for every
citizen cannot be considered in
any other view than that of a
prosperous one.
1t is employment that is requis
ite to render a people happy and
cOntented, and that Is not want
ing in Lafourche to day.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

me Ladies Of the Presbyte-
Vaarch has been working
s'efal years to obtain money
ssssta parsonage for the use
~ Pastor Of their congrcga-
BY degrees they accumula
aaall sums, which have been
~ Invested SO that they have
t.'e Of some twelve or thi1teen
'aat'sd dollars.
.. Goode. then made
donation of a fine lot OF,
street, running through
\. y. Louis to Green streets,
y 'aa's other donations were
" friends Of the Church
nave enabled them to Sc.
'ls means of building the
'asse which is already unde,
THIS will add to the
the neighborhood il
Will stand, aud secure d
s's'zen for the Town.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

Gov. Nichols has been in bad
health for some time. AS soon
as the Convention of which Lieut..
Gov. Wilt was Chairman had
adjourned, the Governor turned
the GubernatOrial Office over 20
the Lieutenant Governor and left
with his family for the mountains
III the vicinity of Lynchburgh
Virginia.
The iipe climate of that eleva.
ted region will, doubtless restore
him to his usual health and vigor.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

The serious illness of a fam
ly named Creel near Mississippi
city on the Mobile & New Or
leans railroad, CEASED the Board
OF Health in New Orleans to send
DIR. VIM. G. Austin to investigate
and ascertain if it was yellow few
er or some other disease.
On July "a, the learned Doctor
published the result of his inyes
tigation. He says: ~ think they
are malarial hemorrhagic tevers.n
1T would have been interesting
to people out here if The Doctor
had told his readers the difference
between his description of this
wonderful malarial fever aud vel
low fever.
Common folks do not under
stand these Scientitical differences.
and find it strange that there is
never a first Case of yellow fever.
Only after Il few deaths of maM
rial or intermittent feverS does
yellow fever develope itself. 1t is
strange.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

THE WAY TO DO BUSINESS
W. invite the attention to the
cards of Mesdames Matilda and
Ellen Laupheiraer, in regard to
the receipt of the insurance effec-
ted npOn the life Of MIR. David E
Laupheimer, brother of the first
aud husband of the last, from
the Louisiana Equitable Life In.
surance Company. 1t will be per.
ceived that that staunch and re-
liable home Institution paid one
thousand dollars in advance when
it was due to Mrs. Matilda Lau.
pheimer, and four thousand dol
lars to Mrs. Ellen Laupheimer,
without cavil ordelay. This is
what we call the right way to do
business.
The Louisiana Equitable Life
Insurance Company means to
continue in this way. 1t does
not take peoples money during
their lives and when they die
cheat their assignees out of it ups
on t1imsy excuses, nor does it
force poor widows to 60 to law to
get their rights. In a word: it is
aSouthern company, conducted
on Southern principles, has all its
means invested here. and the
prefit made by it are distributed
among our own people. Couse>
vuently we say to all who wish to
insure their lives. patronize this
company.-FrOm the n. o. Times.
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In any case of suspicious dis
ease, as well as in the yellow
fever itself, let the vomiting stools
and urine be disinfected at once,
and thoroughly when yet fresh in
the vessel. Wash in a disinfect
ant (Javelle water for instance\
the sponges OF cloth used to wipe
off the perspiration, and Danish
fear that most powerful auxiliary
of the Southern scourge.
F. L., N. D.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

There is a very good law in
this State in relation to unneces.
sary cruelty to domestic Animals.
1t would he a wise action of the
next Legislature to adopt some
ordinance to enforce obedience to
this law. Horses and mules are
driven on the streets here every
day, that are a shame to their
owners and the use of which is a
disgrace to humanity. Men, SO
called, think nothing of working
stock all dav, without paying
any heed whatever to their
wants.
Horses are hitched to racks
from morning Until midnight
without weter or food. willis,
theiI- cruel owners are swallowing
enough whiskey in the coffee
houses to float a steamboat:
How a human being, or any
man pretending to be human
can be SO careless of the suffer
ings of a faithful brute is incotn-
prehensible.
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LEPEosY.-The City Item, at
ter quoting the article printed in
last Saturdays SENTINEL says
that It nothing else can be done
the Paroclial authorities should
employ a competent Physician to
investigate the question of Lepro
s.y OF no Leprosy in Lower Lafour
che. This will not accomplish
the object. The establishment of
the fact that such u disease does
exist must be followed by remed
les that the State or United
States authorities alone can pre-
scribe.
There may be opposition by
the afflicted parties which an or
binary expert could not set aside,
should there be, it will he necessa
ry to invoke the power of the
law to compel an examination.
Wherefore the State Board of
Health, invested with lega; rights
can alone properly examine into
this unfortunate subject, and it
is only on reports and investiga
tions from that body, that the
power of government could he
invoked to apply the remedies
that may be deemed expedlen MT
and necessary to remove this fatal
scourge from the land.
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The Constitutional Cor

The Constitutional Conven-
ton has appointed the first Tues
day in December next az the day
upon which an election is to be
held for the Ratification or Reiec
ton of the Constitution, aud ups
on the same day for the election
OF officers provided by said Con
stitntion.
1t will be an important election
and the officers chosen upon that
day, for there is no probability
that the Constitution will be re>
jected will have very important
and responsible duties to perform
in placing the new machinery in
motion.
The people can have this couso
lation ; that they will be annoyed
with no more elections for four
years. as that is the period for
which the officers will serve in
the future.
The honest, industrious, tax
paying population should at once
take hold of this matter and see
that at all preliminary conventions
and meetings, their interests
are properly represented and not
allow them to go by defaults
For the first time in 20 ydars
they can see a bright political Ifu
ture, and therefore no negligebct
or apathy ought to be suffered tt
prevent them from selecting ia,
| proper and most capable persdn.
to fill all the positions, for whkl
officers are to elected.
Persons having painting It,
do should buy prepared pal,it
FROM s. I. Grisamore.
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THE New CONSTITUTIONS

THE New CONSTITUTION
We send to day to each subscli
Der OF the SENTINEL a copy OF
the Constitution framed by the
late convention, and which the
people of Louisiana will be called
upon to endorse or reject Oh the
first Tuesday in December
There are some clauses IN this
instrument that do not meet the
appreciation of certain parties.
This is natural, DO body Of men
could frame an organic law that
would please everybody.
We are satisfied that this Con
stitution is an immense improve
ment over the present one, and
that it will not require many years
to satisfy every intelligent citizen
OF this fact. The reduction of tax
alton to six mills from eleven
mills will make a great difference
to the tax payer.
The prompt trial of criminals
will reduce Parochial expenses
from 80 to so per cent. The aboli
ton of the Registration nuisance
and the annoyance of elections
but once in four years should be
a point in favor of the new con
stitution. We hope that it will he
unanimously confirmed.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

W cream seller told a col
! 'ady' the other day, that he
- talking to her, for which
.aa'oa da'usel wanted to have
afrested. Andthis is about
Specimen of the suits
" entered before the JUS.
'ne Peace Courts in Tbib.
:. days in each week. OF
'a's complaint WAS not
out the majority of com.
When sifted out a,mou,t
1''sa'ent, Forty negroes
80 two or three whole DAYS
'aseusical suit like this.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-08-02

If you have a disposition to
see little happy folks, set down
on the levee and watch the pref
ty little girls and rollicking boys
going to Waverly Hall to lake
dancing lessons.
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The undersigned agent for Thomas =
Holden Administrator Of the Estate Of Ben
jamin +. Holden deceased, will sell OF
reut that desirable property, corner Of Mark
ct aud st. LOnis streets in the Town OF
Thib"danx, known as the franklin House,
also. the large stables and lots on the cor.
ncr of st. Louis and st. Bridget Streets
Thibodaux. For particulars inquire
s. L. GkISAMOKE, Agent.
Thibodaux, May Is, 1879.