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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF LAFAYETTE.
Parish Court.

WHEREAS Dfozin Navarro, Of the
w parish Of Lafayette, has fled in
said court petition praying to be ap-
pointed administrator of the succession of
Littleton Suites, deceased.
Any person intending to make opposi-
ton to said appointment will file the same
in said court in the town of Vermilion.
vile, within ten days from the publication
Of this notice, otherwise said appointment
will be made.
Given under my official signature, IN
the town Of Vermilionyi|le, this 9th day
Of August, 1879.
A. NJ. MARTIN,
Clerk of Court.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

Paper is now substituted for wood il
Germany in the manuftclure Of lead
pencils. It Is stepped in an adhesive H.
auil. an,! rolled round the core Of lead to
the requisite thickness. After drying, it
is colored, and resembles an ordinary &c.
DIR pencil. The pencils sell IN London o
+. tai 'ets a. about f6 cents stoss.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

4 say, what are you about-sweeping
out that roome" asked young cork.
mo, | am sweeping out the dirt and
leaving the room.'
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

An inveterate wag. seeing heavy doc,
nearly off its hinges, in which condition
Of neglect it had been for soma tima, OBJ
served that when il had fallen and killed
some one it woa'e' be hung.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

dressmaker who was at the point of
death recovered, and the local paper
headed the item, Survival Of the Fit
tss'.a
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13
E3's.ss <y2ssI .7zKeti5cines.

MT p. YOUNG & Co, Apotbecaries ant
ltl> Druggists, corner Washington and Yer
million streets, dealers in drugs. chemicals, Pat
ent medicines, paints. oils. and varnishes glass
putty, brushes. and painters tools blank book
and stationery, perfumery, etc Prescriptions
"a speciality might or day.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13
oegIclAL DzRECC { DnY.
.,YgyEyYH JUD1C1IL DISTRICT.

r..nrisins the parishes of Lafayette, Yer
.scp and Cameron.
'py '.s... Iadce Ed. Eug. Mouton.
p.t,; DSIct Attorney a. Chargois.
psle post.o .ofice address, Vermilionville, La.
p.,rlars terms Of Court in Lafayette open on
J. atsd ,s;rd Mondays Of April and October.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

GEORGE JossE. Washington street, dealer
~ in dry goods, fancy articles, children's TOYS,
and groceries; Sewing machines, &c. Fire
arms, and musical instruments repaired.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13
FOR S.aLE.

nNE town lot at the north-end OF Lafayette
~ street near the Railroad, with Cotton Gin
and Press and substantial building. The cot
ton gin and press in good working order.
Terms very reasonable.
W. B. BAILEY.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

FRANK, corner Main and Lafayette streets,
=. opposite the Court House, dealer in dry
goods clothing. boots, shoes aud hats Ladies
and gentlemen's fancy furnishing goods No
tons, crockery, tinware groceries, etc. Fine as
sortment OF tobacco and cigars always on hand.
nj P. YOUNG & CO., dealers in fancy and
lvls staple groceries wines, liquors, glassware,
tinware, paints, oils. Havana cigars, superior
smoking and chewing tobacco, etc. Corner Of
Washington & Veimilion streets.
WILL. G. ROGAN, dealer ia choice family
" groceries, Havana cigars. smoking and
chewing tobacco; Telegraph Office, corner La
fayette and Vcrini!ion streets.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

aa.oNskY dealer in dry goods, cloth
-. .so ehoes, hats, notions, plantation
~ Ladies' and gentlemen's fancy fur
ss Polite clerks always on hand and
- .se customers. Corner Main ana St.
near catholic church. - ~
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

-, .st.. dealer in ready made clothing
[ go: groceries, crockery, confection.
S John street, opposite the Catholic
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

". AouToN, dealer in dry goods
notions, hats, boots and shoes, gro.
sare, crockery, saddlery. Ladies'
\ - &c. Liquors. wines, &c. Cor.
son g Vermilion streets, near the
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13
Llce3.y end Eeeg Stables.

T'nEo. HEBERT, Jr.. Livery and Feed Sta
bic, hacks, buggies, horses aud saddle horses
to hire. Rates moderate. Madison street.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13

lSs BROS. corner Of St. John & vermil-
saeets. dealers in dry goods, notions,
4 - s.., snd shoes, groceries, hardware, tin
SssLery, glassware, and all kinds Of farm
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1879-09-13
- Goods, Groceries, Etc.

hlLERlN, dealer in dry goods, notions,
eoots and shoes, hardware, crockery,
cutlery, groceries !; oil kinds of house
(cods. Call at the brick building on
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15
A New Steam Wagon.
london Field.)

A new stvle of road vehicle, designed
to be propelled by mechanical power has
made its appearance in London, England.
The carriage closely resembles an ordina-
rv dog cart; the shafts are very short, and
incline together, meeting two feet in
front of the dashboard; between them
there is a third wheel, working upon an
upright shaft, which could be turned by
handle placed the same as that OF a bi-
cvcle, this handle is worked by reins, in
the hands of the driver.
The motive power is obtained by the
combustion of benzoline, small jet OF
which is admitted into the burner 1t is
then set on fire, and is completely con-
sumed by current of air, which, until the
machine is in action, is produced by turn
ing the small handle already alluded to.
The burner, about the size of an ordinary
chimney pot hat, and quite as elegant is
lined by coils OF a copper tube containing
water; this tube is calculated to bear
2,0o0 lbs. on the square inch, and in work
ing only receives 90 lbs; SO that practl-
caliy it is not likely to burst, and if such
an accident did occur, the results would
not be serious, as the whole tube only con-
tans a pound Of water.
The steam generated in this tube passes
at one end into the cylinders OF small
torpedo engine, which rotates horizontal
shaft it then passes into cooler, where
it is condensed by the effect of a current
OF cold air driven against the outside OF
the vessel by revolving fan, and the wa
ter SO produced is forced back into the
other end of the tubular boiler by force
pump; hence there is not the slightest es-
cape of steam, nor is there any smoke,
as the benzoline is entirely consumed by
the current Of air. The revolving engine
shaft works the driving shaft, not directly,
but by the medium of two cones placed
side BY side, their bases being reversed in
,.l,i! : a e~,,r4 eight band ;onnects
the two, and as it is moved toward the
base of one it nears the apex OF the other.
and thus increases or diminishes the speed
of the driving shaft, which is connected
with the driving wheel, or off wheel, by
an endless band,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15
a HERO IN THE woRK-HoUsE.

England honors valor with a lavish
generosity. No nation in modern times
ever voluntarily granted such munificent
Gifts as were bestowed upon Marlbor-
ough, Wellington, Nelson, and other
great commanders who had led the ma
ton a through great perils. Towards such
there has always been an ostentatlon IN
her generosity. They were made monu-
mental families to inherit and ever snow
forth to the world living proof oil what
ENGLAND has done, and an assurance OF
what she will do in future for those who
pilot her through national dangers sue
-cessfully. But most of these recipients
Of her bounty were of the blue blood Of
her aristocracy or of the blood royal
Towards her minor heroes she shows any
thing but a substantial gratitude. A
medal, or clasp, or cross, is the highest
reward ever granted to the private sol
dier for deeds of the most sublime hero
ism. In no other country exist such ma
tional gifts as Blenheim or Walmei
Castle and their princely adjuncts. VI
no other country than England could
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15

Miss Prince was the only daughter of a
Pittsburg merchant, and two years ago
was welded to Mr.. Savage, of Baltimore.
Six hours after the ceremony the train
upon which they had started on their bri-
dal tour was wrecked and. the husband
of less than day was killed. The shock
of the terrible calamity robbed the young
wife for a time of her reason. From
mental death she recovered to go into
slow decline All the blossoms of her
life were withering, and the world once
so robed in beauty and delight became
prison from which her spirit longed to be
free They took her across the sea, but
the panorama OF scene and incident had
no mower TO renew the love of life and
the young thing faded as flower fades.
At last they took her to the south Of
France, and there amid the bloom of flow
ers-on the spot where Petrarch once
sang to Elvira-in the home of Leonar-
do da Sincis exile-thiS fair American
girl found the peaceful quiet of the grave.
Our correspondent who relates the in
cident draws vivid picture of the sor-
rowing family overwhelmed with grief,
the mother wild with despair, while a
young sister clasping hand Of the dying
girl looks with pallid face and rigid lips
into the glazing eyes,
"The anguish is nearly over-my race
of life is done" came in feeble intonation
from the lips of the dying.
"And you are willing to de?" asked a
minister, bending low to catch the whis-
pered utterance.
"Oh, so glad Listen to me. | die as
many of my sex have done, of broken
heart. had put my all of life and hope
on the hazard OF an earthly love and God
has smitten me for my sim"
ait was no sin to love"
"No. not TO love--but to build an idol
as l did and to worship the creature in
stead Of the Creator. have been terri
, bly, punished. The horror of these two
| brief years no words can tell"
! There was a hutter afathe feeble heart.
The blue eyes sheathed themselves meath
palely tinted waxen lids, and the fair
Young form, once so full of subtle life
was frozen into death.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15

her health and comfort. She thought it
was that consumption, which, sooner or
later, she believed must be her fate,
which he was anticipating with so much
compassion. She was blind to the far
more dreadful dangers which surrounded
her.
Poor Mrs. Saunders At last it could
no longer be concealed from her. She
must die.
He broke the intelligence to her in the
gentlest terms, as she, at last, in par
oxysm of terror, asked the question;
giving her what hope he could, but still
not denying that she stood in a feafNl
strait. 1t was a terrible scene that fol-
lowed. Such a frightful agitation and
hurry to accomplish in few counted
hours what ought to have been the busi-
ness CT life. Such callings for psalms
and prayers, such piteous beseechings for
help; and, last of all, such an awful
awakening of slumbering conscience.
Like Richards bed on the eve of Bos-
worth fight, it seemed as if the spectral
shadows of all those she had injured in
the body or the soul, by her unerring
demands upon one, and her negligence as
to the other rose a host of dismal spec
tres round. Their pale, exhausted,
pleading looks, as she scolded and threat
cned, when the clock struck one, and the
task was undone, and the head for a
moment dropped, and the throbbing
fingers were still. Those hollow coughs
in which she would not believe; those
hectic fushes that she would not see;
and worse, those walks, those letters, at
which she had connived, because the
girls did so much better when they had
some nonsense to amuse them.
What fearful revelations were made as
she raved aloud, or sank into a drowsy,
dreary delirium! The old clergyman,
who attended her, consoled, and reasoned,
and prayed in vain. The young people,
that lovely girl, and that feeling, inter.
csting young man, stood by the bed
appalled,; he CHASTITY pale, pale with an
agony of despairing pity, she trembling
in every limb.
The death agony, and then the poor
woman went to her account. There was
no one in the room but themselves; it
was late in the night, the morning, in
deed, began family to dawn. The maids
were all gone to bed, glad enough to
escape the scene. He stood silently
watching the departing breath. 1t tstopped.
He gave a deep sigh, and STOPPING
down, piously closed the eyes. She had
turned away in horror and in dread, but
shedding some natural tears. He stood
looking at her some time, as there she
stood, weeping by the bed; at last he
spoke.
[To BE Continued
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15

"A proved thing-A ship.
A full hand-hired man on a drunk
[Ottawa Republican.
Is the knot in a porker's tail pigstye'
-TSteubenville Herald.
A Gu on the wrist is worth two on the
ear American Punch.
The way some farmers put up corn is
shocking, n. Y. Herald.
In this world brayin is too often taken
for brain Boston Transcript.
Pluck and luck are twins, and where
one is found there is the other also
TCamden Post.
The highest mountain gives the finest
view, but give us little one for ascent.
Il Boston Post.
There is no vine that contributes more
sustenance to man than the bovine
[Wade Whpple.
Find out what men laugh at and you
know exactly how refined and intelligent
they are. N. o. Picayune
"a charge to keep have" as the gun
said, when it was loaded and put away for
future use Rome Sentinel.
"And the iron entered my sole" said
Grayhead, as he pulled the tack out OF the
bottom of his slipper Boston Transcript.
So long as the lamp holds out to burn,
fly for your life. The blame thing might
explode - Philadelphia Chronicle Herald.
Why are good resolutions like a squall
ing baby at church, Because they should
always be carried out keokuk Coustitu-
ton.
The man who tries to wind up clock
with an old hair-pin may be good Chris
tian when he starts in Detroit Free
| Press.
1t is strangely singular how much the
| boy with pair OF new suspenders hates
to wear coat Philadelphia Chronicle
Herald.
There is one field Of labor that women
can never enter-colecting bills; for "wo-
mems work is never dun Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
Scande mongers may learn this lesson
from the frog Once overpassed the sea
son of his adolescence he gives up tai
bcaring.-[ Y onkers Gazette.
1t is great piece of folly for man to
be always ready to meet trouble han way
If he would put all the journey on trouo'
lie, he might never meet it at all.
Some men are captivated by woman's
laugh, lust as some men predict pleasant
day because the sun shines out clear for 3
moment. They forget the chance FOL
squalls
A Cleveland mother, noticing her llttl'
daughter wipe her mouth with her dres
sleeve, asked her what her handkerchief
was for. Said the little one: "lts t
shake at the ladies in the street That
what papa does with his."-[Clevelan'
Voice.
A French lady, who was expecting he
third child, asked her first born, boy o
six, whether he would rather have litti
brother or little sister. After refectin
moment, he said: "Mamma, l have
little brother already, and if it's all tn
same to you, would rather have
| horse"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15
Editorial Spinnings.

Dentists make great deal of money
accidentally.
Corn cobs are said to be sweeter when
eaten with the corn.
The emigrants from Iceland were very
sea sick on the voyage. They make an lcelander
but poor seaman
A man was bitten by a mosquito in
New Jersey over twenty years ago, and has had the
hydrosquito ever since
Marriage is business" This is the
reason so many people get sold when they enter
the matrimonial market.
Zing-u-Zing, the Chinese giant now
exhibiting at St. Petersburg, is said to be over
eight feet He must have as many legs as Il cater
pillar.
The Detroit News says the woods of
Michigan are full OF boat clubs. The woods here
abouts are tolerably well stocked with hickory
clubs.
Indigestion is a dangerous malady to
trfe with. A man may bolt the alley gate under
the direction of his family physician with i'm
punity, but he should never bolt his dinner.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15
Lincoln's HomeIy Phrases.
Noah Brooks in ScribnersJ

In his letter declining an invitation to
attend the Illinois Republican convention,
in 1863, Lincoln made use of two or three
striking figures. Reviewing the military
events of the past year, which had been
favorable to the cause OF the Union he
said:
"The father of waters again goes un-
vexed TO the sea" And, referring to the
fact that Southern Unionsts and ex-
slaves had done something to help on the
good work he said "On the spot, their
part of the history is dotted down in
black and white" There was something
in the phrase dotted down in black and
white" which nightly tickeled the popu-
cisln was provoked by this odd figure en-
ployed by the president: "Nor must I'm
Gle Sans web,feet be forgotten, At all
the watery margins they have been pres.
ent not only on the deep sea, the broad
Lay, the rapid river, but also up the mar
row, muddy bayous and wherever the
ground was little damp, they have been
and made their tracks" Lincoln was
amused by the discussion in the newspa-
pers to which the use Of the phrase "Un.
Gle Sans web feet" gave rise, He ex'
planned that the remarkable feats per
formed by the gun.boats, in making Their
way through sloughs and bayous, hereto
fore considered unaavigablc, reminded
him of the stealthy passage of water
fowl. The pleasantly concerning light
draught steamers going whcre"the grounc
is a little damp" is familiar to everybody.
1t will be a long time before our people
will forget Lncoln's homely simile OF
"elder squirts charged with rose-water,
as applied to the conservative programme
for prosecuting the war, This was uset
| in a letter addressed to Cuthbert Built
OF New Orleans, in which letter he alst
! said that the conservatives were like com
planning passengers on ship-"The mu
tineers must go untouched, lest one oI
these sacred passengers should receive al
accidental wound" His imagination wa
powerfully stimulated by any reterenc
to the history of the Republic. His ad
dress at Gettysburg, now one of the grea
historical speeches Of the world, suggests
rather than expresses, crowd Of images
To Lincoln's mind apparently, America
history was filled with noble and patheti
figures. In some of the loftier flights o
his eloquence may be found traces of
strong poetic faAcy-an imagination fire
by love of country, and inspired by tn
contemplation of the stirring events thu
have marked its history. No more stril
ing example of this can be found any
where than in the memorable wore
which closed his first inaugural address
"The mystic chords of memory, ,stretcl
ing from every battle field and patric
grave to every living hearthstond, all ov'
this broad land, will yet swell the chor'
of the Union, when again touched ;
surely they will be, by the better angels
our nature"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15
Color in Nature.

A curious point in relation to color in
nature, is the very different characters,
tic colors in fruit and flowers. We see
that white and yellow, which immensely
preponderate in flowers, are very scarce
in fruits, among which rcd and blue and
black predominate, the two colors which
are far less common in flowers. For in
stance, according to the highest authori-
ties we find our hundred and fiity-two
white flowers and only seven white
fruits in England, while in red we find
two hundred and thirty flowers and sixty
fruits; we must therefore conclude, either
that there is no community OF taste in
color between birds and insects, or that
what may be termed the normal colors of
both have been more or less intensified
and utilized by natural selection in order
to attract insects and birds respectively.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15
A Man Who Called "Old HICKORY
it<.....xI.II

Long wears after the capture OF Stony
Point, when Andrew Jackson was presi-
dent, a visitor at the White House re-
marked that the postmaster in his town
(who "held overD was an enemy 10 the
president-had even been heard to call MN
"a scoundre"-and urged the removal OF
the i'll hammered officer
"What sort of person is he" inquired
the president.
The visitor admitted that the postmaster
was an aged and honorable man, and Incl
dentally remarked that ne was one of the
survivors of the battle Of Stony Point
"What!" said the president, rising from
his chair, "was he really with Anthony
Wavne at Stony Point"
ale certainly was" replied the visitor
"Well, then,' said Old Hickory "by the
Eternall he has a perfect right to call me
scroundrel every day in the week, ano
to be postmaster during his natural life"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-15


Now, poetry is nothing less than the
most perfect speech of man, that in which
he comes nearest to being able 70 alter
the truth. 1t is no Snail thing, there
fore, to succeed eminently in poetry.
And Sc much is required for duly esti-
Eating success here, that about poetry it
is perhaps hardest to arrive at sure gen
eral verdict, and takes longest. Mean
while, our own conviction Of the superb
ority of our national poets is not decisive,
is almost certain to be mingled, as we see
constantly in English euogy Of Shaks-
peare, with much Of provincial infatua-
ton.
And we know what was the opinion
current among our neighbors, the
French, people Of taste, acuteness and
quick literary tact, not hundred years
ago, about our great poets. The old
Geographic Universelle notices the pre-
tension of the English to a place for
their poets among the chief poets of the
world, and says that this is a pretension
which to no one but an Englshman can
ever seem admissible. And the scorn-
full, disparaging things said by foreigners
about Shakespeare and Milton and about
our national overestimate of them have
been often quoted, and will be in every
ones remembrance. A great change has
taken place, and Shakespeare is now gen.
orally recognized, even in France, as one
Of the greatest of poets.
Yes, some anti-Galican cynic will say,
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