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St. Landry democrat., 1880-10-02

There was fight In town night
before last; but as the pistol killed no
one, and sore hand sorer head is the
only result, we will not mention names.
A gentleman from the country present
ed a cooked pistol to the breast of a
town gentleman. The latter knocked
it down, when it fired, hitting no one.
He then wreEched it from his grasp,
and, with his fist and the pistol, pum-
meled the countryman's head pretty
badly. He then landed the latter in
Jail. In the meantime variety show
was performing at the Varieties
Theatre. When the pistol fired, a ne
gro, an attache Of the countryman in
the fight, broke for the Varieties theatre
where he expected to find the town
constable. The door being closed when
he arrived there, he threw his body
against it and burst it open, and en-
tered excitedly, calculating: al est
mort il est mort. SIR, il est mort =,
He is dead he is dead sure, he is dead /!
This was denouement to the play
going on that the audience did not ex-
pect, and Immediately there was a gen.
eral stampede, the crowd trampling each
other under foot, as it surged through
the door, no serious damage done
however, except thai sore hand that
made that sorer head.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-10-02
LOCAL ITEMS,
For SD

The New Orleans Weekly Democrat
and the ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT will be
sent one year, to any address.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-10-02
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
ESTATE OF AMELIA ROBIN.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Notice :

.tOtiCe
Ali those indebted to the estate of DIR. j. L..
Estorge are requested to cali and settle their
accounts with Jules PerrcdiH. my agent, at his
store, formerly j. d A. PersOdin, and those who
have claims against said estate are requested
to present them to the same.
MARIE THERESE CASTILLO,
Sept. II Administrative.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-10-02
Agents for the Democrat.

OpELOUSAS, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1880.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-10-02
JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS

HEREFF's SALE.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21
Florida Ship Canal.

new impulse appears to have been given
to this long contemplated scheme by the re-
port of General Gilmore. lie is an expe-
rienced engineer, and has Just completed a
survey of the northern part of Florida. He
strongly recommends the construction of the
canal, believing it both a practicable and
profitable scheme. The advantages he emu
merates as follows The distance from New
York to New Orleans by the present route is
one thousand seven hundred and ninety
miles, which by the proposed canal route
would be shortened four hundred and seventy.
nine miles. The canal would be one hundred
and sixty-nine miles long, with double locks,
so as to avoid any delay in the ships passing.
The center of the wheat growing belt is now
west of the Mississippi river. The center Of
The corn crops is nearly identical with that
of wheat The grain trade will ultimately
be turned into the Mississippi river, and by
the aid of Florida canal could reach
Europe much sooner than by any more
northern outlet. The center of the cotton
crop has also moved westward. Seventy pei
cent Of the whole is raised in the states Dor
dering upon the Mississippi, and more thar
three-eighths west Of the river. Ninety-fv'
per cent of the entire product is exported
to foreign countries, and it is confident,
believed that the Florida canal reducing
reducing both time and freights would pas
through that way. General Gilmore think
the insurance on cotton shipped from New
Orleans would be lowered twenty-five pc
cent, and freight decreased fifty-fve cents
ton. So much for the advantages. Tn
cost of the canal, II is estimated, would b
$50,000,000.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

OK WHICH PLATFORM Y-llancock was
not nominated in 1868, but he received a
large number of votes on twenty-five of the
ballots-l44i on the eighteenth ballot be-
ing the highest number. The platform had
been already adopted, and had Hancock
been nominated he would have run on this
Democratic doctrine That the bonds should
be paid in greenbacks; that the bonds
should be taxed that the interest on the
public debt should be paid in greenbacks
that negroes should not vote; that the re-
construction acts were usurpations and I'M
constitutional, revolutionary and void. The
Democracy of to-day asserts its past, includ-
ing the above. An interested country would
like to know if Hancock also remains uu-
changed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

WESTERN CRoP PRosPECTs.-Th reports
from the great agricultural states of the
west are encouraging as to the crop pros
poets for the year. There have been local
floods and droughts and bug visitations, but
generally speaking the crops at the west
promise well, and in some instances excep-
tionally WELL In Illinois, for example, the
estimate of the state board of agriculture,
based upon advices from every county, is
that the farm products in that state this
year will be larger by several millions of
dollars than ever before. The wheat acre
age in Illinois this year, is twenty per cent
larger than last, and the yield averages
about the same as last year. The corn crop
will be equal to last years. oats will be fif-
teen per cent better, hay will be double that
of last year, and the potato crop is the larg-
est ever grown in the state. The crop pros
poets in Minnesota are improving just now,
the prolonged wet weather having been sue
ceeded by sunshine, and if the pleasant
weather continues the Minnesota wheat
crop will in most localities be large one
Elsewhere in the west and northwest the re-
ports generally indicate increased acreage
and an average yield, and the grain crops
promise not only to be the largest ever har-
vested in the United States, but to be in &C.
tive demand abroad, on account of the very
serious deficit in cereal productions in north
ern Europe.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

HIS TEsTIMoNY.-The versatile Colonel
Forney of Philadelphia, the editor of "my
two papers, both daily" having worked him
self entirely out of favor with the Repub-
lican party has cast in his fortunes with the
Democrats-over which much ado is made
Here is what the colonel said of General
Hancock in 1867 "One week ago General
Hancock arrived at New Orleans] and took
command of the fifth military district. From
every rebel throat went up songs and shouts
of joy, as his plans were all known to them.
With sneer and jeer they meet Union men
and say; Now is come our day. General
Hancock has arrived and will see us righted.
The whole policy of General Hancock, so
far as foreshadowed, tends to prove him I'M
mistakably opposed to the provisions of the
military bill, and warrants the assertion of
his sympathy with the old secession element
of this state and city, who now find in him
a true friend"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

THE ARMY WoRM,-As this pest is reported to
have made its appearance in Vermont we publish
the following article, suggesting a plan for de-
stroying the army worm, which has been received
through Governor Proctor: Before the worm
appears, divide each town into sections of four
farms each, lying nearest each other. II one
farm in such district is attacked let the three
other farmers hasten to its aid with all their
hired help, their horses and their ox-teams Let
ditch for tar be dug in certain part of the field
attacked. Next the ditch, station ox-teams at
regular intervals, facing across the field Between
the ox-teams and the worms, station horsemen
at regular intervals, facing the field 1t is
said that the worms advance in one solid column
II So let the horsemen ride to aad fro at quick
trot across the column. The worms that escape
the horses hoofs must meet the heavy ox-teams,
charging to and fro across the column. II any
survive the ORLEANS, they must fall into the
tarry ditch. II any escape the ditch form the
lines of horsemen and ox-teams again beyond the
second lines, II needful. Finally, the farmers
whose crops are destroyed, will probably stay
the plague, and save all other farms, and each
town should literally recompense their loss 1t
seems to be conceded that the worm could be
stamped out II it did not move more swiftly than
the stampers, and that it could be killed, if the
dead worms did not bridge such bitches for the
living. The above plan utilities each OF these
suggestions These worms are not 80 terrible AS
the grasshoppers Of the west, because they can
not fly firmly believe that they might be en-
tirely destroyed If towns would so organize, in
sections, before the worms appear, each section
being ready to act, independently of all others
the instant the worms arrive on its area"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21
A Rebel Application for a Pension,

Robert Hanna, soldier of the fifteenth
South Carolina regiment, has made formal
application for a pension. The application
is made out upon the regular form used by
the bureau, and the applicant has employed
well known pension agent in Washington
to support his claim. Whenever there seems
to be chance for Democratic success, ap-
plications of this character find their way to
the pension bureau. Just before the election
in 1872 and in 1876 several were made,
but they did not come in due form. This
claim of Hanna, the New York Times says,
is in strict accordance with the position
taken by Senator Brown of Georgia. In the
memorable speech delivered June 18th, 1880,
these words are TO be found
When you finally let us back into the Union, we,
OF course, had to assume our part OF the expenses
OF the war on your ride. In other words, in pro-
portion to our means, we had to pay our part of
the debt contracted for the support of the Union
armies, and not only so, but we have to pay our
part OF the very large sum that is now annually
appropriated to pension Union soldiers, and |
grudge not dollar OF 1t TO them for they were
gallant men fighting for their honest convictions
On the other hand, | think you should sympathize
with the poor manned soldiers who on our side
felt that they were fighting in as sacred cause
as yours, and believed they were right and who
| can draw no pensions because they were on the
weaker side.
Further on in his speech the senator re-
marked that the south deeply deplored the
fact that their soldiers had no pensions, and
said that probably the only chance to pay
sOmpth hing in return IN the snuth for its
losses would be to give pensions to the con.
federate soldiers who fought in the Mexican
and Indian wars. The brigadiers introduced
and supported the bill to which Senator
Brown refers in this speech. The South
Carolina soldier seems to take in the full
purport of Hancock's election, and SO, hay
ing lost an arm in the confederate service,
he hastens to put on file his application for
his share of the spoils. Northern Demo
Gratis who do not believe that any effort will
be made to pension confederate soldiers,
either directly or indirectly, to pay southern
losses, and ultimately to assume the confed-
crate war debt, should ponder well on this
rebel claim for a pension, in connection
with the significant utterances of southern
men on the subject of confederate pensions
and southern losses generally. "Coming
events cast their shadows before" and this
shadow, though no larger than the single
hand of confederate soldier, under a
Democratic administration will increase till
it overclouds all the land.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

The prospect now is that we are to reap
the evil fruits of our biennial system in un.
usual measure the coming fall, at least so far
as our state senate is concerned. There are
already about three-fourths of that body in
nomination, and while the list embraces
several gentlemen of marked ability, not
one has ever known previous service in that
body, and only very small proportion have
ever even been members of the lower house.
The evils arising from this practice, as
shown in crude aud unwise legislation, and
especially in prolonging the work of the
session, are known and acknowledged by
every intelligent citizen of the state and
still they will be persistently winked at while
the system of biennial elections prevails.
Washington county can hardly avoid set
ting the state good example in this behalf
the present year, for we hardly see how any
satisfactory progress can be made toward a
return to our wise practice of choosing one
old and one new senator at each election,
without re-electing both of our excellent
senators for another term. Then re-elec-
ton of one of them two years hence will
place us fairly on our old track again.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

How IT Is WoRKING.-Whilet the q ur-
rah " tactics of the Democracy now and
then wins vote from old soldiers who
served in the Army of the Potomac, and are
somewhat dazsd by General Hancock's mil
itary record land far be it from us to de-
tract from iD, we have believed that the old
war Democrats, and the Republicans who
strayed into the Democratic camps during
the Greeley campaign, would see that Gen
eral Hancock was military man, pure and
simple, while General Garfield is that and
much more, and would vote for the latter.
Our hopes and expectations are being real
lied, and we every day see reports of Dem
ocrats all over the country who express their
determination to vote the Republican ticket.
We have a conspicuous instance of it near
home,-as near as Rutland, where Mr.
George c. Underhill, who had been elected
by the Democrats delegate TO the Rutland
county convention, has come out in most
admirable letter giving the best of reasons
why he cannot vote that ticket, and will moi
only vote for Garfield and Arthur but fol
the Republican state ticket. 1t reaches III
too late for publication this week, but II
expresses the whole thing so tersely ant
candidly that we shall print it next week
and we commend it to the perusal of mel
who intend TO vote as their conscience die
| tates
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

How They Do IT.-The Washington
Sunday Gazette, the organ of the advanced
Bourbon Democracy, has an editorial which
will be likely to attract some attention in
the north. Among other things the Ga-ette
says: ave therefore call upon the confed-
crate soldiers, of whom there are at least
100000, to make an average subscription of
s. apiece, which will net at least 81, 100000.
In making this suggestion our sole purpose
is that they shall show their loyalty and do
nate that amount as tribute to the mainte-
nance of civil liberty and free government
for their posterity. Let the four or five
thousand Democratic federal soldiers who
fought with General Hancock during the
war do likewise, and the Democratic cam.
paign fund will be swelled to an amount
amply sufficient for all Legitimate purposes.
We respectfully call the attention of our
Democratic exchanges to these suggestions,
with the hope that they will advocate them"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

The following letter from Mr. John G. Whittier
WAS read at a Garfield and Arthur meeting in
Amesbury, Massachusetts,;
DASvERs, Mass, 9Th Seventh month, 1890
The Hon. g. W. Cate, AmesbiTy:
DEAR FRmED:-I regret TO find that | cannot
as intended, be present at the formation of a
Republican club for Amesbury and Salisbury on
the It'll instant. must not, however, let the oc-
caslon pass without expressing my hearty sympa-
thy with the movement, and my desire to COOP
crate with you in your labors, in support OF can
didate OF pure character wise statesmanship and
lcan party the Union Of the states and the secur-
ity of the rights OF person, property and franchise
For myself, ! would gladly find an excuse for re-
firing from active participation In the coming
election, and would welcome with inexpressible
relief any decided manifestation OF more gener-
Gus and enlightened policy on the part Of Dem
oerats toward people OF color. But look in vain
for any good evidence Of change which would
Justify relaxation OF zeal and vigilance on our
part have no words Of personal disparagement
for the Democratic nominee, and do full justice
20 the sincerity and patriotism Of many OF
his supporters; but as rule, the party remains
as 1t WAS at the close OF the war. The time has
not come when ii will be safe TO intrust the fnan.
cial interests of the country and the welfare OF
the emancipated class to party whose president
can only be elected by compromise with the
Greenback heresy, and the virtual suppression by
fraud and violence Of the vote of the colored cit
zens of the southern states. Massachusetts Is moi
a doubtful state Her vote will be given 10 a Re
publican nominee. But let us see To II that he
voice at the coming election has the strong EN-
phasis OF the days of Sumner, Wilson and An
drew. Thy friend, JOHN G. WHITTIER"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

WELL ENDORSED. venerable Thur
low Weed, in the New York Tribune, speaks
thus of General Garfeld's letter of accept
ance al waited patiently but anxiously for
the written acceptance of our candidate for
president. That patience aud anxiety were
both relieved and rewarded this morning by
Garfeld's letter. This letter proves, in the
language of Daniel Webster, that his nomi.
nation was one fit to be made. His ut
terances are frank and fearless. His views
upon all national questions are clearly and
succinotly stated. His sentiments and sym
pathies are all in right direction. This dec
laration of principles, fortified as 1t is by a
record which attests his capacity, integrity
and fidelity, insures a united, active and
vigorous Republican canvass in favor OF
Garfield and Arthur Though there is moth.
ing of concealment or ambiguity in General
Garfed's letter, thoughtful readers in their
interpretations Of it will discover that the
writer possesses not only great ability, but
is practical, and is in the habit of bringing
his common sense TO the solution of per.
picking questions"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

A COOP WITNEss.-Henry Watterson,
editor Of the Louisville Courier-Jomnal, and
chairman of the platform committee at the
Cincinnati convention, says that he shall
take the opportunity offered by the first cam
paign speech which he makes to put his foot
down, so far as he is concerned, upon the
idea that General Garfield is not an honest
man. lie knows hSn well, and declares his
belief that he is not corrupt man. The
simple fact that he is poor man, when he
has had 80 many opportunities to enrich
himself through the improper use of his po
sition, Ia proof that certainly he is honest. y
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

ARRIVAL OF THE OBELIsK.-We are in
debted to Mr.. Francis Schroeder for inter
esting particulars relating TO the arrival of
this famous relic of remote antiquity. By
a dispatch received Tuesday morning Mr..
Schroeder was apprised of the arrival Of the
steamer Dessouk having the obeisk on
board in the lower harbor of New York
Monday evening at seven o'clock, and Tues
day morning the vessel anchored in the up
per harbor. The steamer, of which son of
Mr.. Schroeder, Lieutenant Seaton Schroe-
der, is second in command, sailed from Al
exandria on the 10th of June and from Glib
ralter on the 25th, but was detained eight
days at sea with broken shaft, a slight fa-
tality compared with that which overlook
the obelisk destined for London few years
ago. The obelisk which has just arrived in
New York is a monolith seventy feet in
length, which, with base and foundation
stones, will make an aggregate height when
set up of about one hundred feet. All the
foundation stones accompany the obelisk,
which in due time will hold grand recep-
ton from its new resting-place in Central
Park, and receive the wondering homage Of
the busy denizens Of the new world.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

THREAT OF WAR.-The Berlin confer
ence having decided that strip of Turkey
belongs to Greece, and the Turkish govern
ment having declared, in the most unre-
served manner, that it will not give it up,
there is mighty fine chance of war be.
tween Turkey and Greece. The young
king Of Greece is credited with the posses
sion of hard sense and dauntless courage,
and If he takes the field he may be counted
upon TO make gallant fight Turkey is
doubtless more than match for Greece,
but II war comes, it is not likely to be con-
fined to those two countries All the great
European powers would be likely to take
sides, and in that event, Turkey and Greece
would be but minor factors.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-21

ACCIDENT ON MOUNT WASHINGTON. six
horse coach load OF Michigan excursionists, de-
scending Mount Washington on the afternoon OF
the 18th inst, was tipped over about mile below
the halfway house One lady was killed and
several Others severely injured. Soon after leav'
ing the summit the passengers discovered that
the driver had been drinking, and, leaving the
coach, walked to the halfway house-nearly foui
miles. Assured by an agent OF the road that the
dangerous localities were passed. the passengers
re-embarked, but In driving too rapidly round a
curve, the coach was overturned precipitating the
inmates among the rocks ard trees Mrs. Ira
Chichester Of Allegan Michigan, was instantly
killed. her husband sitting beside her escaping
with slight bruise, Broken limbs and minor in
juies were received by several other occupants
The driver, Lindsey, is probably fatally injured.
lie has been on the road ten years and has beer
considered one OF the most reliable drivers on the
mountain.