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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

Nevada girls are feet of foot and
lively withal. The Plumas National
narrates that one night, about three
weeks ago, the dog of hunter nam
ed Swan started a deer near the
house, which is located in Granite
Basin. Swan was up aud at it in a
moment, aud little later his two
daughters joined the chase 10 their
night robes. The Dianas, in cos
tunes as picturesque as those in
which the mythic goddess herself
figures, ran up the mountain side
ahead of their father, When they
closed upon the buck he was at bay,
with the dogs loud>mouthed around
him. Miss Sallie, the youngest Of
the girls, did not hesitate, but, being
unarmed, seized the buck by the
hind legs and held him until the faith
err arrived. All the miners in the
country now sing the praises Of
| 'Sallie Swan of Granite"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02
A DESERTED TOWN.

Pine Flat, Sonoma county, Cal,
is a good example of a deserted min
ing town. Five or six years ago,
when this part of the country was all
excitement on account of the quick>
silver discoveries, Pine Flat was q
very lively town of 5000 or 1000
inhabitants. Six or eight hundred
men were to be seen in the streets,
the hotels could not accommodate all
who came, and business of all kinds
was just booming Houses were
put up in day, canvas tents stood
upon every available spot, system
of pipes supplied water to the town,
and the wave of prosperity threaten
ed to swamp everybody with riches.
But change came DER the spirit of
their dreams. The price of quick>
silver declined, the wave Of prosper
ity subsidized to a calm and then re-
ceded, until to day, by actual count,
there are two and one-half houses to
each inhabitant, and there are fif-
teen houses.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

An Iowa lady took her little child
into a cemetery, for the first time,
and upon showing him the marble
figure of lamp upon grave, was
at once appalled, and delighted to
hear him exclaim 81 suppose an
old sheep is buried there"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

PERKINS lacks jest 23,l5S votes
of being the choice of majority of
the voters of California for Cover
nor, the entire poll being bu. frac-
ton over 100000. But he is Gov>
ernor all the same, thanks to the
Hon. Denis Kearney.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

John Seigle was driving home
from Salem, MINI. A highwayman
jumped into the wagon from the
rear, point a pistol, and said 'Up
with your arms Seigle held up his
arms obediently but simultaneously
kicked out with all his might, hit>
ting the robber in the stomach, and
tumbling him heels over head to The
ground, where he lay iusensible uu%
til the farmer escaped.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

The Atlanta Dispatch il of the
opinion that when the Office seeks
the man and not the man the Office
in Georgia, the days of impeach-
ment and corruption will be ended,
for then integrity and competency
will take the place of wire working
and intrigue.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02
THE DEAD MAN CLAIM.

1t was winter, and the region
around Leadville was covered with
snow. Scotty had died, and the
boys, wanting to give him a right
smart of burial, hired man for
$40 to dig grave through ten feet
of snow and six feet of hard ground.
Mean while Scotty was stuffed into a
snow bank Nothing was heard of
the grave digger for three days, and
the boys. going out to see what had
happened to him, found him in a
hole which, begun as grave, prov
ed.to be sixty ounce niue. The
quasi sexton refused to yield, and
was not hard pushed, for Scotty was
forgotten and staid 10 the snow bank
until the April sun searched him out,
the boys meanwhile digging pros
pect holes in his intended cemetery.
One mine had its shaft down one
hundred and thirty five feet, and the
indications of success were good
Some capitalists proposed to pur>
chase an interest in it, and half of
the mine was offered them for ten
thousand dollars, if taken before five
O'Clock. At half past four rich all
yer ore was struck, and when at
half past five the tardy men of mon
ey came leisurely up and signihed
their consent to the bargain, the
manager pointed at the clock, and
quietly remarked
'The price of half interest in this
mine now, gentlemen, is sixty thou-
sand dollars
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02
A INFALLTRLE REMEDY-FIGHT.
ING THE DEVIL, WITH FIRE.

If there is one thing that more
than another annoys a good wife, who
is ner7ously sensitive to oil that is
gross and illtimed, it is the habit
some husbands have of using profane
language in their homes. In many
cases this is mere thoughtlessness on
the part OF the good man, who never
gives thought to the foer sensi,
bllities of his better>haif, and even
should she mildly demonstrate, he
pays no attention to the rebuke.
We have just had case in point,
which happened in one of the thriv-
ing Missouri cities on the banks of
the Mississippi, which tho ladies of
Georgetown should know something
about.
A lady whose husband wasyaddic>
ted to the bad practices we have al>
luded to, came to her family physi-
clan, laid her grievances before him,
and said:
NOV, Doctor N -, won't you re-
monstrate with him, and try to break
bin of this habit | know he will
listen to you"
why, madam, said the doctor,
he would pay no attention to any
thing | could say to him; but as you
have come to me, although some-
what out of my line, / will recom~
mend prescription, to be admins,
tered by you, that will certainly
cure him 1t is an infaIlible remedy
ooh, what is il doctor ~
We'll, when John comes home
again and swears, do you swear
back at him. OF course, | don't
want you to take the name of the
Lord in vain, but d--n things little
for his benefit
doctor, fer the sake of the final
result, III do it 2
And she did.
The next day John came in and
inquired whether dinner was ready,
and wss told it was not.
well, why the ID isn't it 2 said
he.
Because, she coolly replied. the
wood was so id wet that the fire
wouldn't burn
why Mary, what is the matter
with youf Are you crazy or have
you been drinkingH'
Neither she said, and quietly
proceeded to put on the dinner.
The beef didn't melt like butter
between the teeth - it rather resisted
all efforts at mastication, like so
much indiarubber ; and finally John
blurted out:
what makes the d-n beef SO in
fernal tough 2
Mary looked up archly and re-
piled:
well, John, | suppose you went
down to the butchers and, without
knowing the difference, picked out
piece of some d-n old stag that
hadn't been fed for month";
John jumped up, looked at his
wife in dismay, and wanted to know
what such language from her lips
meant.
at means just this, John you are
the head of this family, and just as
long as you think it manly to swear
in my presence intend to do tho
same. If you don't like to hear it,
you know how to prevent it,
The cure was radical, and to this
date Mary has never been compelled
to administer another dose Of DIR.
Ms prescription. - colorado
Miner.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

Loss OF $4,000 REPUBLICAN
VcTEs.-California more than re-
spends to Maine by giving $4,000
Democratic and Workingmen's votes
to $4,000 Republican votes. ln
1876 the Republicans carried Cali
fornia by $500 majority over all op :
position. 10 the late election they
have lost the $500 majority and are
in a minority on the popular vote of
30, l57. If in popular vote of 1885,
343 the Republicans have lost 3d.
1877, what at the same rate will be
their loss 10 the 100000 votes of
OhioY Over 100000. 1t is hard
err blow than the Republicans receiv-
ed from the State of Maine. Maine
has told the story, and California
seconds it. Our doubling friends
who do not think that Maine is pc
Iitical barometer will be convinced
on the Wednesday morning following
the October election. If these Re-
publican victories accumulate, there
will be nothing left of the Republi-
can party.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

The Cochran Enterprise says :
"There is dog in the neighbornoOd
of Buck Horn, 10 Laurens county,
which has been killing fifty sheep on
an average a week, for the last four
months. Fifteen men have been
seeking him to kill him, but are un~
able to find him outside of his mas
ter's yard.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

A mother with four children, the
eldest seven years, the youngest six
teen months, walked for fortnight
the streets of New York, begging by
day and sleeping in Railways by
night, until Frustrated by disease Of
the lungs, is terrible fact for the
we'll to do to ponder over. This was
Rose Shandley's fate, as told by the
New York Herald
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02
Chr aslarletta goarnal.
Marietta, Ga, Thursday, oott. 2, 1879.

"Have you a mother-in>laW r
asked a man of a discorsosis look
ing person. mo- he replied, but |
have father in jail"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-02

Flattery is like cologne water--to
smeIled of, not swallowed.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
Temperance FanatiCiSAe.
ATTEMPT TO DESTROY TWO SALOONS
WITH GUNPOWDER.
TCincillnati COnmerriall

lClncinnati COmmercal.l
COLUMBIA, O., Dec. 15.-Reports from
Dublin, Il small village in this county,
show that the same mode of Kidding the
the village of a saloon is being carried
out there that was put in practice at
Westerville about three months ago,
when Corbin, the gin vendor, was
blown high and dry and his hotel to-
tally demolished by the explosion of
gunpowder. On Thursday nj ght of last
week the window in the building oc-
cupied as saloon by D. G. Cock was
forced open, and q 6aer bottle placed
inside, containing about two pounds Of
powder, which was eSnlcaed. The
rooms over the saloon were occupied Dy
the family, who were asleep. The ex-
ploson shattered the ceiling consider
ably and most etfectualy atampeded
the sleepers: Timely efforts saved the
building from being burned to the
ground.
Last night a similar attempt was made
to dem0ish the tavern kept by Mr..
Thos. West. A bottle containing pow
der was thrown into the bar-1oom and
exploded, blowing out the windows, and
shattering things generally. As in the
previous affair, people were asleep in
the room above but, aside from lively
shaking up, no one was injured.
1t is believed that this is the plan to
be carried out in order to rid the village
of liquor sellers. A number of temper
ance fanatics are charged with the work.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
Curi0sities of Pension Claims.
[Cincinnati Cnmmcrcial.l

tClnG1nnatl CQmmcrclai.l
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 15.-When the
bill to pension the survivors Of the war
of 1912 and their widows was presented,
it was argued that not more than eight
thousand of this class of persons were
now living. How far this estimate was
out of the way we now know, as 32,S15
survivors Of that war and their widows
have been discovered and are receiving
pensions! The annual cost to the Gov
ernmenf is over S3000,000. Of the 52,Sl5
pensioners, 21,194 are widows. AS to
have been widow Of soldier of the
war Of 1912 would require the person to
be at least eighty-one years old now,
we have the remarkable fact that there
are living 1914 women, all of whom
are over eighty-one years of age, and
all Of whom were wives Of soldiers of
the war Of 1912. There is general
among members of Congress that the
pension business has been overdone,
and that it is time the taxpayers had
some consideration. There has been
paid from the Treasury in pensions in
the past sixteen years nearly five hun
dred millions Of dollars. In view of
these facts and figures, it is thought
| that the Mexican veterans must wait,
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
A Glance at 1879.

A few more days and 1879 will be a
closed page in the Book of Time. A
closed page as far as it's activities are
concerned, but its influences will project
not only into 1880, but through the
coming centuries.
The past year has witnessed some of
the most wonderful discoveries of
science. There has been no pause, or
rest between them, and we find our
selves wondering in a kind of stunned
amazement, what tomorrow can bring
forth more exciting than to-day. We
are striving to condense in the narrow
est compass thoughts and actions that
i'll earlier times, would have spread,
themselves over the surface of a century,
| and there is such thing as living too
fast for centuries as well as men. Let
us take cursory view of matters and
things in general.
Science and relig igion have mixed them
selves up in hopeless snarl, which the
harder it is pulled the more inextricable
becomes the knot. Laws, politics., and
social problems are drawing the strait
mathematical line, that bids fair to keep
them apart to all eternity. Communism,
particularly in Europe, has attacked the
very heart of existing institutions. 1t
is no longer an approaching dread,
but its bodily presence armed will,
pistol and dagger turks in the vestibule
of palaces and waylays monarchs in the
streets. 1t is tremendous organization,
extending all over the world, and rearing
its front even among our Republican
institutions. 1t grew out of the oppres-
preston and suffering of the lower
classes, but the remedy itproposcs, even
if it were practicable, would be the
signal for anarchy and misery. Yet
this hoarse cry of the poverty stricken
millions, will be the problem to perplex
and hamper this government through
the coming years. 1t threatens the
crowns of Europe now-in short time
it will influence the popular voice here
In spite of Socialism however, the
world within the last year has not grown
worse. There is in it q spirit of HUI
manity which has multiplied, and per-
fected cilartible institutions, and turned
the discoveries of modern science into
useful channels for the human race.
Hygienic laws are investigated, and
practical application made of them to
lessen the count Of disease, and prema-
ture death. In fact the tendency of the
Age has been for the amelioratiun of
human misery, and as human Thought
and Action never move backward, there
~ every prospect OF the world being
bettered in the New Year, whose steps
are on our threshold. In our own little
corner of the earth matters and things
are at standstill. We made fair crops
and we are not suffering in any special
manner. The health OF the parish has
been exceptionally :good, and If our
people will only wake up to the nee
essity of railroads, 1880 will be an era
when new and permanent prosperity
will dawn upon us.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
GHERHFF,S SALE.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY
No 12764.
ADRIFN ISELIN, FOR USE SC, VS.. JEAN
BITE, FONTENOT -

By virtue of a writ of seizure and sale issued
out of the honorable District Court. i'll and for
the parish OF ST. Landry, in the above entitled
suit, and to me directed, will proceed to sell at
public auction, to the highest bidder, at the
Courthouse of said parish i'll the town of Ope-
,lousas, OH SATURDAY, the 18th. day of Jan
uary, 1880, at IL O'Clock A. NJ, the following des-
cribed property, tO-Wlt: .-z
i. a certain tract of land improved as a cotton
plantation with all the buildings and improve
mrnts thereon situated in the parish of St. Lam
dry State aforesaid measuring about three hun
dred and ninety three acres, bounded OH the
north by land belonging to the estate Damovile
ing to c. c. Picket, now to VIM. Hoyt. south by
land formerly belonging to Ms S. NJ. Bullard
now to Thos j. Clark and west by land of Jean
Bite. Roy, deceased. 40
north by land formerly belonging to Lamoran-
der now to-, west by Little Bayou and
east by land formerly belonging to Wm. Knox,
now to the heirs and widow of said Knox.
g. A tract of land situated near Washington
in the parish of st. Landry and fronting on the
road leading from Opclousas to Washington,
having two arpentS front and running back to
the Bayou Carron or TeCAe, containing sixty
two and s5I100 arpents, bounded on one side by
land of Mrs Vanhile and on the other side by
land of Francois Louis Pitre and designated as
lot number 3 and on a plat filed with the sale
of the said land from Mrs. Rice Garland to Mrs
Michel Prud' 'hommG, by act before Yves DAvy,
recorder, dated April 4th, 1859, saving and eX-
ceptins that portion of said land sold to Ben
iaInin Woodwork by said Jean Bite. Fontenot,
on the 21st of May, 1877, by act before A. p.
Williams, notary public, described as follows ::
4 certain tract of land together with all the
buildings and improvements thereon, contain
ing thirty-five arpents, situated about one mile
south of the town of Washington, bounded
north by lands of t. L. Pitre, south by land
of purchaser, east by vendor and west by said
road.
Terms-To be sold on a credit of twelve
months, purchaser furnishing bond and security
according to law and paying ali, costs and taxes
Lin CASH %-g&#zE*s4 - ~ 4 ~ ~ '--F
C. G. DUSON,
| dee27 Sheriff of the Parish of st. Landry.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
A New Departure.

We are much pleased to be able to
inform our readers that there seems to
be good prospect of sesuring railway
communication from our town via YER
millionville to New Orleans.
Mr.. James G.. Parkerson, agent of
Morgons Louisiana and Texas Railroad,
proposes an extension of that line from
Vermillionville to Opelousas, il the
people along the line will secure tue
right Of way, and subscriptions to the
amount OF $a0, 200, which the subscribers
will get back in deductions on freight
and passage.
On last Thursday meeting was held
at the Courthouse, and a committee of
eleven was provided for, with instruc-
tions to set about the work at once. HI.
i. Garland, ESD, is at the head of the
committee. On the 9th of January MI.
Pendely will visit this place, and will
lay before the people fully and authori-
lively the purposes of the Morgan COM
pany. A public meeting will be held
on that day, at the Courthouse, at which
every body, big, little, old and young
should be present.
Now is the time to secure this great
boon. The line win be completed
through to Houston Texas by the
month of April, and it is desired that
all the preliminary difficulties on this
line shall be removed, before that time,
SO that the five hundred hands now in
the employ OF the company, can be
transferred at once to our branch. All
that is needed to ensure success is a
little public spirit enterprise, and unity
OF action, on the part of our people.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
ParsOM TaImage Accused of
Lying Like IA Trooper
lspeoial Disnatch to the Glohe- -Democrat

Especial Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.
New YORK, December 12-The twen-
ty-two complaints to the Long Island
Synod from the decision of the Brook
lyn Presbytery, in the case of Talmage,
have prepared a statement i'll denial OF
many of the assertions, made by him at
the tabernacle on Sunday. It says that
Talmage's statements cannot beignored,
and that they are constrained to de-
nounce them as a tissue of falsehoods.
1t says the assertion that they are his
enemies apd prosecutors, seeking his
destruction for the ratification ot selfish
passions, is utterly Without fs'r~ ~.,,ation
i9 truth. The staterne ee.nent quotes the
clara"s maue by Talmage, and charac-
| terizes them in letter and spirit utterly
unfounded and untrue.
1t concludes thus: The declaration of
DR.. Taimage that he has in his posses
sion proofs of the moral rottenness .
Of some Of those whom he calls his
Prosecutors. is a SANDER Of the most
| ignoble kind. The tranparent prctense
| that he is unwilling to retaliate upon his
so called enemies, while at the same
time he is openly accusing them OF
moral rottenness," and. leaving it to
evil imaginations to define and apply
| tuO tiSIOo0VAoh 10 AOAuclC0 tIC iAolO 1C-
voting by the f1imsy pretext that in this
course he is initiating the example and
illustrating the spirit of Him who said
Father, forgive them, they know not
what they do" Notwithstanding this
affected similitude between his case anl
that of the Saylor we shall hold him te
his responsibility as guilty accuser
This is signed by j. M. Sherwood an(
j. NJ. Green.
There are several societies in Londor
which furnish wedding portions tt
Jewish girls of the poorer classes
/ They are. endowed by wealthy mem
bers of the faith, and poor Jews will
daughters make weekly contributions
/ from sixpence down to penny, in thu
names of their girls. Once a year, be
| fore the Passover or before New Years
Day, there is drawing by young wo
men who are engaged to be married
the prises ranging from $3.50 to $1,000
according to the capital of the society
and the number of candidates. There
are no blanks-eaeh candidate draws
something. On the occasion Of wed
ding the Jews of the neighborhood of
/ ten contribute toward the brides dow
ry. Young men on seeking wive:
make point of learning whether tllt
girls they fancy belong to any of these
societies.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
Moorish IGeas of keauty.
TIE PROCESS WHICH FATIMA UNDER
GOES DURING HER BETHOTHAL.
Tinsley's Magazine. ]
For sale by

[Tinsley's Magazine.l
The prevalent leanness of limbs
which characterizes the Moorish race
collectively has peradFentrire led
them to consider that loveliness and
embonpoint are identical. Feminine
beauty in Morocco, far from being
merely skin deep, is measured by the
camel load ; and fat being more esteem
ed than features, the homeliest damsel
of twenty stone is more admired than
100 weight of what would seem to the
eye of Europe perfect prettiness. AS
| wives, therefore, are valued, like whales,
for their blubber, the Moorish belle
seeks from diet the charm denied to
her by nature.
Taking as her model the Hottentot
Venus, Fatima undergoes, especially
during betrothal, a process of cramming &
| very similar to the mode of fattening
Strasbourg geese, After every meal
she moulds with her fingers the crumb
Of new bread-sometimes mixed with
fenugreek-into pellets called horrabe,
of the shape and size of Eley's No. 1C
central-fiire cartridges. This ammuni-
tion is rammed down her gullet with
the aid of green tea or other beverages
and by stptting down from fifty to one
about a month the fair martyr to Moor
ish materialism acquires q breadth ni
body and mammoth like massivenes,
OF llmos "..l '...oll render locomotion a
i vanity, and getting upstairs a vexatior
of spirit. With irrepressible mirth
have watched a Jewish matran (fivt
feet by fourl making the ascent to the
upper storty OF her house, propelled a
tergo by three perspiring Israelites
Beneath her elepllantine tread eartf
trembled, ceilings creaked, and chairs
not expressly manufactured to sustain
her too, too solid flesh shrivelel
suddenly, as if smitten by thunder
bolt, into infinitesimal chips
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27
IURECIAL ADvERTEsENHE
DUBLEC SALE.
PROBATE COURT, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY,
No. 4O94.
ESTATE OF ESTHER MILLER, DECEASED.
Dee. 27-5t

By virtue of an order OF the honorable Pro-
bate Court, of the Parish of St. Landry, there
will be sold at public auction, to the highest
bidder, by the undersigned administrator or by
any duly qualified auctioneer, at last resi-
dence of the deceased in the town of Ope-
lonsas, parish of st. Landry, on WEDNESDAY,,
January 28th 1880, the following described
property, belonging to the estate of Esther
Miller, deceased, to-wit: The lndivided4 /, being
the interest of the minor COrrine PefferkOrn, in
A lotof ground, together with all the buildings
and improvements thereon, situated in the
town of Opelousas, La, bounded north by
Joseph Pasquier, east by C. Mornhinveg, sr.,
west by Union street.
Terms and Conditions.-The amount Of the
bid to be paid on the majority Of said minor,
satisfaction VI the administration, said aMoaDs
of hid being payable to said minors nt'"
noo oz,t -AURN,
He'' - "s Administrator.
St. Landry democrat., 1879-12-27

Conrad Brand wishes his customers
q happy New Year. He has such beau
tiful toys, such cakes and candies, and
every thing in his line'of business that
you cannot do better than call upon him
and choose for yourselves. He ought
to be patronized by this community for
he does his very best to please them.
Let your little ones see what he has,
and they will not care to go further.