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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
The Rascality of the New York
Cotton Exchange.
[Southern (Miss.) Reyeillc. |

"The evil name still clings to the
New York cotton market, and to all
other metropolitan markets. The hand
full stolen by the sewers. and carriers,
and drayers, and weighers, is but a
glimmers compared to the wholesale
grabbing by Cotton Exchanges when
dealers in futures coDgregate to wink
and blink away the staple produced by
plantation sweat and muscle. There is
a growing feeling among planters
against the nefarious stealing engen-
dered by Cotton Exchanges, and the
day is not distant when they will COM
bine to hunt up city where cotton can
be sold without the interpOsltion of
must soon be revolution throughout
the Kingdoms of commerce. The rn|e
and reign of trickery and legerdemain,
which turns up huge fortunes, in an
hour, for the white hats Of Cotton E1-
changes, and at the expense of the pro-
dncer, is equally dominant in all other
produce interests, and it behooves our
people to begin to protect themselves
against the unloly traffic in futures.
"In New Orleans, the place where
our friends live, they join in this prac-
tice of dealing in futures, and this
season a million Of bales of futures have
been sold. But we know words Of
warning are idle. 1t depends on legis-
lation to make buying and selling fu-
lures penitentiary offence, and then it
will be crushed out. We shall press it
as a topic for our next Legislature to
consider.
Down with the Cotton Exchanges,
and down with futures kick the money
changers out of the gold rooms, as Christ
kicked them out of the temple, and
Christianity and honest labor will get
such a boom as will make the pulpits
rejoice, and the plantations to shout for
joy.
"Every State Leglature must crush
out this system of dealing in futures,
and empty the bulls and the bears in
the penitentiary.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
AN ORDINANCE,

To levy, collect and enforce payment of an an
nual license tax upon all persons, associations
OF persons, and corporations pursuing any
trade, profession, vocation, calling or business
except those who are expressly exempt from
such tax by articles 206 and 2O7 of the const-
tuition.
SECTloN1. Be it ordained by the Police Jury
Of the parish Of St Landry, that there is hereby
levied an annual license tax, for the calendar
year A. D. 1880, upon each person, association
OF persons and corporation, pursuing any trade,
profession, vocation, calling or business in the
parish OF st. Landry, except those expressly ex-
empt from such tax by articles 20G and POT Of
the constitution.
SEC. g. Be it further ordained, etc, That I'M
mediately after the PRONUNCIATION of this ord-
nance for the year, ISIS, the tax collector shall
begin TO- collect, and shall collect, fast pos
si1fe, from each of the persons, association of
persons and corporations, pursuing within the
limits of the parish, any trade, profession, voca-
ton, calling or business, license tax as herein
after graduated.
SEC. ;. Be it further ordained, ETC., That for
every business Of selling, whether as principal
or agent on commission, at auction or otherwise
the license shall be based on the gross annual
amount of sale as fOllows
When gross sales are over 5000, each person
or firm shallpa $500
~ -rn
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10

Provided, that if any distilled, spirituous
vinons, malt or other kind of mixed liquors, be
sold i'll connection with the business OF retail
merchant or grocer, in quantities of not less
than one pint, the license for such combined
OF the above mentioned liquors are sold in less
quantities than one pint i'll connection with the
business of retail merchant or grocer, the
license shall be four times the above amount of
said combined business; prorided, no license
shall issue to sell liquor in less quantity than a
pint without paying a license not less than $50.
SEC. 4. BE it further ordained, etc, That for
each and every circus, menagerie, or other trav-
cling show. exhibition or performance, the
license shall be based upon the number Of at
taches, whether proprietors, performers, en-
plOyes, as follows viz
When the number OF said persons is over So
an annual license of $3.50 shall be charged.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10

A Martinique journal AYERS that an
anchor belonging to one of Columbus
vessels has been found six feet below
ground in Venezuela, three hundred
and seventytwo feet from the coast
line. 1t is of simple form and rude
manufacture, the stock being round
and eight feet long, with ring a foot
in diameter at one end, and with fukes
five feet in length. The weight is one
thousand one hundred pounds. Col
umbus had the fourth OF August,
1893, three vessels at anchor off the
southwestern extremity of the Island of
Trinidad, in the narrow strait sepera-
ting it from Venezuela, and his son
Ferdinand relates that q great wave
suddenly disturbed them and caused
such strain upon the cables that one
Of them parted. The anchor to which
this cable was attached is the one re-
Gently dug up. The land in that part
of Venezuela has gained so much upon
the water-since that period that gardens
are now planted where ships once sailed.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
A Mistaken Policy.


There is one thing we would like to
owners along the lines of the Louisiana
and Texas and the New Orleans
Pacific railroads. It is, that if they e1-
pect to realize fortunes Immediately by
the sale of their lands, they will find
themselves mistaken. The Louisiana
and Texas road is almost completed,
and there is no reason to doubt that
work will soon begin again on the New
Orleans Pacific road, and that it will be
finished inside of two years. These
roads give an additional value to the
lands through which they pass, and also,
to the lands which are Within a rea-
sonable distance of them. They do not,
however, give lands any such value as
some landowners seem to think. Ihey
bring them in closer communication
with the markets, and, for that reason,
make them more desirable. They en-
courage immigration, and in that way
also, they contribute something towards
increasing the value of the lands which
are tributary to them. In new or
sparcely settled localities, however, the
value of land increases with the increase
of population, with the improvement OF
the country and with the. establishment
of schools, churches and such other in
situations as are found in tiourishing
communities. 1t is folly, therefore, for
those who own land along the lines of
the roads above mentioned to ask a
price for it that they will hardly be able
to get ten years from now. Ii we are
correctly Informed this is exactly what
they are doing. by such course they
are not only retarding the growth of the
country, but are defeating the very OBJ
:ject which they have in view; that is,
to obtain large price for their proper
ty. When the excitement caused by
the opening of the roads is over, the
owners of the lands will find them
selves still in possession Of the same,
and find that that there is very little
if any, demand for their property.
grow heavier, and the owners will finally
be forced to see and acknowledge their
mistake. 1t will be a far wiser policy
for those who wish to sell their lands,
or for those who have large tracts and
wish to dispose OF portion OF them, to
offer them at such reasonable rates as
will invite settlers. In this way, only,
can the country be improved and made
prosperous and the lands be made val
liable. Indeed, it would be profitable
for the large land owners to dispose Of
portions Of their holdings to actual
settlers below the market price. In
little while the increase in the value OF
that which they retained would amply
compensate for any supposed loss on
the portions sold. The policy of holding
the lands along the lines of these roads
at two and three times their actual
value is a mistaken one, and, if persisted
in, will be discovered to be so, to the
cost Of the owners and to the detriment
of the section wherein they are situated.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
rTharn IL in 4ha Rnval r ,,hra ~ at StoaL

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There is in the Royal Library at Stock
holm, an immense manuscript, which,
when open, covers about a square yard
of surface, and requires two or three
men to lift it. 1t consists of three hun
dred leaves of thick parchment, prob
ably of asses skin, and contains the
Old Testament, the Antiquities and
Jewish Wars of Josephus, the Origipes
of Isidore, medical work OF Joilwdni-
cius Johannes Alexandriums, tlle New
Testament, curious picture of the
devil, and other miscellaneous matter.
1t belonged to a small Benedictine mon
astery at Podlazic, in Bohemia, and
tradition asserts that it was written in
one night. with the devils help, by an
imprisoned monk. The date of its
transcription may be ascribed to the
period between 1894 and 1899. Late in
the sixteenth century, it was taken to
Prague, whence it was carried off by
the Swedesin the last year of the thirty
years. war ll64S.l Since then it has
been in its present. home.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10

OVER Four BALES TO THE ACRE..
c. Z. Of Rome, Georgia, writing to the
Editor Of Cotton, New York, under date
of May "a, 1880, says: "Your Aberdeen
(MlssissippD correspondent, who des-
cribes at length the process by which
planter OF tire town obtained two bales
to the acre, has probably never heard
of the achievement of Mr.. T. G.. Warther,
OF Washington county, Georgia, in 1878.
He obtained, / believe, the heaviest
yield Of cotton on record. He was COM
peting for a premium offered by the
Georgia State Agricultural Society, and
gathered from an acre 6,S91 pounds of
seed cotton, yielding 1905 pounds lint,
or a little over four bales of 500 pounds
each. The rows were checked off three
feet each way, and one stalk was left
in each hill. This distance gave him
1900 stalks to the acre, and allowing
100 hollis to the pound, he must have
had 140 hollis to the stalk in order to pro-
cure 6,891 pounds of seed cotton. Mr..
David Dickson, of Hancock county,
Georgia, reported in 1867 sixteen acre
field which averaged 2, 700 pounds ofseed
cotton to the acre. He estimated that
a portion of his sixteen acres yielded at
the rate of 5000 pounds to the acre.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
A Possible Relic of DeSOtO.
lTauahasae fla Floridian.]

A few years ago, about two miles east
| of Tallahassee, was found ponderous
spur Of unique and curious workman
ship the like Of which has not been seen
in modern times. The burr was one
| and half inches in diameter and the
bar proportionately heavy. On either
side of the rowell dangled small pen
dant bells that gave forth a tinllIing
sound in response to each step of the
wearer-doubtless some steel-clad and
bonnetted warrior of the long ago. Not
many days since, while parties were
plonghing near the identical spot, a
solid and shapeless mass was turned up
which upon closer examination proved
to be an iron strip of ancient pattern,
as heavy and as massive in proportion
as the spur spoken of first, and firmly
imbedded in a thick coating of clay and
rust. When this was removed the STIR
rup was found to be i'll q remarkably
good state of preservation. The sides
represent two Ethiopian figures standing
upon the footstep, leaning forward
facing each other, while they support
with outstretched arms what forms the
top OF the stirrup, or that part which, is
connected with the leather. So unlike
are both these relics to anything known
to the generations Of this day and time,
and, both being found so near the same
place, il is not unreasonable to ascribe
them to the same era and individual.
Nor is the proposition at all improbable
that one of the knightly followers of
DeSoto, lured on through this then I'M
known region and wilderness, like that
dauntless son of Spain, by thirst for
the yellow heaps of glittering gold that
loonled up ahead Of them in vain visions
and heated fancies, here fell victim to
the tomahawk and scalping knife of
the wronged and revergeful red man
and, no doubt, some one of the "Talla-
hassee Tribe" Of which "Tiger Tailn
claimed to be defendant, boosted as
he displayed at his belt yet bloody
scalp, that he had KILLED pale face.n
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10

Bold BUT FRU1TLEss STROKE FOR
FREEDoM.-A man was saving wood
yesterday afternoon in the back yard.
He severed two sticks as thick as your
wrist and then went into the house.
Mary said he to his wife, my country
needs me; there's no use of talking !;
we've got to slaughter all these Injuns !;
no true patriot can be expected to hang
around wood-pile these days,
.John,' said his wife, if you fight Injuns
as we'll as you saw wood and support
your family, it would take 118 like you
to catch a squaw, and you'd have to
catch her when she had the ague and
threw pepper in her eyes John went
back to the wood ile.-Isalt Lake
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
Think Of it. The hotel men Of New

Think Of it. The hotel men of New
York city allow one pound of meat,
each, per day, to their guests. Well, if
all New York and the suburbs are fed
at that rate, it will take 100000 lbs. per
day to feed the people will it not? Now
if they used only beef, and each OK
weighed 500 pounds, it would take 1000
per day, or ttco hundred car Ioals a day.
Now you know what becomes of the
immense. droves of sheep and cattle
that are brought to the city.
The great prairies of the West are
fattening cattle that will be put on the
cars and be carried to New York to be
eaten at the rate OF 1900 in one day.
Billy Vanderbilt ought to be able to
live comfortably. His income is $500
an hou1, and he holds SG0,000,000 gov
eminent bonds.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10

T AND Office at New Orleans, La, June Q.
Ii A 1880. Notice is hereby given that tho fol
lowing naIned settler has filed notice of his
Intention, at the clerks office in the tho parish
1880, to make final proof i'll support of his
claim, and secure final entry thereof at the
expiration Of thirty days from the date of this
notice, viz: Augustin Gradingo of ST. Landry
parish, La, who made homestead application
No. 1904 for the w of the n Ell and Es Of N WI
acc. I r w, S w W Dist, and names the
following as his witnesses, Wig: Raymond De-
vile and Damon Devilie, d. Laythan and G.
Hudson, all OF St. Landry parish, La.
WM, NJ. BURWELL,
June ata-5t, Register.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10


Provided, that no establishment selling OF.
giving away any spirituous wines or malt
liquors in less quantities than one pint, shall
pay less than $50 90. Provided, that whenever
amy kind of business provided for i'll this sec
ton, snail be combined with any business pro-
vided for In the previous sections, both licenses
shall be charged as provided for
SEC. g. Be it further ordained etc. That each
person or firm having one or more teams to
transport merchandise, and whose annual re-
celpts are over $1,000 shall pay license of $40 co.
SEC. Z. Be it further ordained. etc, that for
every individual or company carrying on the
business or profession of attorney at law, ply
stefan. editor, dentist, oculist, broker or other
business, draying, trucking, keeping cabs or
carriages. horses for hire, the license on said
profession or occupation shall be based on the
amount of gross receipts therefrom, as follows,
viz:
When receipts exceed $4,000 shall pay 5000
1000 Z" 1000
g. IS are $4,000 or less, SO 500
SEC. s.. Be it further ordained, ETC., That
whenever any person shall apply for a license
to pursue and follow any of the trades, pro-
fessiOns or occupations which are taxed by this
ordinance, for q less period than one year. said
license shall be issued in the following proper
lions, viz for nine months, fo1lr-ffths of the
annual license: for six months. thrce-fifths, for
three months tW0-fifths; and for one month";
One-ffth OF the annual license.
ALBERT GUIDRY, President
Attest: p. J. LEFEBvRE, Clerk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
CHE RIFFS SalE.
HEKEFF'S slaLE.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OFsT LANDRY
No. 12S03
NltIOlRE MOORE vs. MOSES fII-pS1E

~! virtue OF Il wit Of ticri racias and ia
Iii'.t Partition. issued out of the honorahla
Dlsul'I Court, IN and for the parish of ST
Landry, III tue above entitled suit, and TO me-
~ t YIN proceed to sell ut public Auction
81" ,T1rp' 'lls,l, IN the town Of OpciousaS, on
:, hDAi, the 18th day of August, 1880 ut
IL c,"eh =. NJ tie following described prop
a certain lot OF ground situated in the town
OF Washington i'll this parish, with ali thn
t'ii'. improvements thereon, situated in
southwestern part of said town. bounded north
ns properly OF Cilntz otherwise called Aurus-
tieli Nihher, south by Bayou Caron, east hy
property OF said Wnkier and west bv propertv
now occupied by Mary Jane or Polly Ben, cor
G!ihiS Residence and small ont buildings
thls nelnS the property on which Moses Hud
marriage with plaintiff N''
IcrmS-Cnsn. ~
c. c. DUSON,
Sheriff Of the Parish of st. Landry,
June 26 " '''S'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
SHERgFE,S SALE.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF sTLASDpy
n
CHAS' n. EALER, PRIEST, EFT AIS vs.. A,
MILSPAUGU EFT AL,

b% virtue OF 4 writ OF ticri facias issued ont
u me honorable District Court in and for the
farlsh OF st Landry, in the above entitled suit,
aud TO me directed. | will proceed to sell at
pnbiIc SAFE, to the highest bidder, at the Court
mouse III tle town OF Opelons;ts. parish of st.
Landry, on SATURDAY, the 18th day of August.
1851 AT IL O'Clock A. NJ, the following described
property, to-Wit:
certain piece of land situated in the parish
Oh 81: Landry on Bayou Conrtablcau. fronting
formerly belonging to stephen Dewcll, west by
landso1 same and east by lands OF NJ. Melancon
containing four hundred arpcnts more or less
CAN'T at Sheritrs sale made on the 9th of
August, 1873. i'll suit entitled Gilbert CAN'T vs.
Desire Glherteau. Seized as the property of
Ebert CAN'T
TermS-Cash
{. c. DUSON,
Sheriff of the Parish of st. Landry.
June 26
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10

SEC. s. Be it further ordained, ETC.. That
for each and every business of restaurant, oys-
tel-house, confectionery, bar-room, cabaret
coffee-house, cafe, beer saloon, ice cream saloon
liquor exchange, drinking saloon, grog shop, or
other place, wheIe anything to be drunk or eaten
on the premises is sold directly or Indirectly
receipts of said business, as follows, viz:
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
JUDICIAL ADvERTIsEME yrs
SHERsEF,S SALE.


's'r,, 1s"',. ~<>,>-,.. ,~.-,,, ..,~.,. So
SALE.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OFST I,Avnpv
No. 2l9G.
oo'hoNGCE HARkEEVs. LUCIEN DAIRY
JUSTICE PEACE, Ell AIS.
hS virtue OF a writ of ticri facia. iS.,,o1
ol' OF tic honorable District Court in .',,H
l lnr 'he Iarsh of St Landry, in the above rn
1eo SUIT ana to me directed, will proceed 70
sen at llhlle sale, 10 the highest bidder ~
n t,e Hohil Louise OF said parish, in the town "f
opelonH'tS. on SATURDAY. the 7th ,lnv W
t,hSuSt, 1880, ut / O'Clock A. NJ, the folIowin,
ocscrloeu property to-wit:
ole h'ln'!ltd and tifty-cght acres of land
L,o.lut" north by jules Chrcticn. south Nv N
n =, .i' east by +. Savoy and west hy Mr..
ie,ll1n. together with all the buildings and
lnri"n"lGehls thereon. said land situated near
taTanrr" IN the parish Of St Landry. N'l
IernS-CaSh.
c. G. DUSON,
July 3 'i VI ~ LUXURY
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS,
Important to 1Ttzs. Claimants

The undersigned attorneys are now prepared
to prosecute the claims of the citizens OF France
Spain or Italy, for property taken from them
during the late Civil War by the United States
Army or Government Agents. Treaties lately
concluded with these countries make ample
provision for the payment of such claims
Parties Interested should not delay
CHAS. 5. RICE, New Orleans, La.
KENNETH BAILLIO, Opeloust,s, La. :
June 5-tf
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-21

perversion. So is the use of prayer by
some merely to quiet conscience, and by
others merelyin distress The Christian
who makes known his request by prayer
and supplication, adds thanksgiving. a"
There can be nc doubt, therefore, that
prayer is a means to obtain blessing, as
the beggar asks to obtain what he needs,
not because his asking has merit, but
because it is the means of making known
his wants. Whatever doubt may exist
respecting the question whether certain
earthly blessings are those which it is
agreeable to Gods will to grant, there
is no doubt that He will answer prayer
for spiritual blessing.
experimental religion, as presented by
people of God, of different languages and
nations, is substantially the same, in all ;
because all are begotten by the word
as the seed, and Gods Spirit as the agent
80 all progress in the divine life, however
diverse be the subjects of divine grace, is
the result of using the means taught in
the Scriptures. Men may be alarmed
legally convicted, have terrors and re-
morse, but there is no regeneration of an
intelligent and consciously responsible
adult, no sanctifcation and no final re-
demption, except through the use of the
means of grace, under the blessing of
Gods Spirit, by faith in them who use
those means. This is the browning inter
nal evidence of the divine authority of
the Scriptures, that the believer can truly
say, | know the Bible to be true, because
| feel in my experience, the truth of its
teachings BINS.