St. Landry democrat., 1880-12-25

vari brigade last Wednesday evening.
The "long- was called with an old
cow bell. 1t was occasloned by the
marriage on that day of one OF our
young and handsome widowers. When
that bell was sent round to notify the
"boys," it attracted the attention of
some ox-cart drivers from far in the
country. On being told what twas up
they wonderinglyin if such things
were done in town too; they thought
cllarivaris were only in the country.
Being invited to join the brigade for the
occasion, they postponed their departure
until next day, unyoked their cattle,
armed themselves with the bells on
their oxen, and joined Gen. Cooks brig
ade. About dark Gen. Cook sent out
skirmishers to feel the position of the
enemy, who was strongly fortified
about mile from town, with q big
demijohn of whiskey. The only two
roads leading to his position, directly in
front and rear, were guarded by senti-
nels, the redoubtablc Horace armed with
a bottle, guarding the front. Their duty
was to disarm the brigade by inviting
them to walk in and charge the demi-
john before they could begin their at
tack in the regular way. Gen. Cook
was too wise and experienced comman-
der to be caught in such trap, and
having discovered it by his prudence in
sending out skirmshers, he determined
to avoid the roads, and attack the ene-
my's flank. 70 do this tlfe brigade had
to move. noisclessly through briar
patch, 50 as to make Il simultaneous and
harmonious charge on the encmy's
works. We had no reporter who was
willing to follow Gen. Cooks brigade
through this briar patch, but we are
confident he did the job up brown"
The latest from the field of battle,
communicated to lis just us we 90 to
press, is that the brigade made a sue
cessful onslaught on the dcmijohn of
whisky Horace, the complaccnt but
Ter, poured out for each one us much as
he could swallow. But pride goes be-
fore a fall, and oh, my. countrymen,
what fall was there this brigade in
the very hour of victory was cast down
in defcat-t.c whisky was cyoton -oiicl!
Van Stone & Crosby, Wholesale and
Retail Druggists, Toledo, Ohio, says :
We have sold large Quantities of the
Excelsior Kidney Pad, and have been
surprised at the unvarying satisfaction
given 10y them. See advertisement.
As to the mat ter Of regulating rail-
road charges by law, we think the
steamboats, i'll this latitude should not
be overlooked. Twenty-Five pounds of
gunpowder-in four six and quarter
pound canistcrs put together in a frame
or crate so as to make only one package
was recently shipped from New Or
leans for this place by the steamer Fan
chon, and the freight bill alone to Wash
ington, not counting drayage nor stor-
age, was tmo dollars and fifty cents, being
~ tdA vi tCF tCHtS pH tttH pOFHu VI pON
der. On the other hand, the freight
from New Orleans to this place, by the
Morgan railroad, on tro packages, one
containing two boxes Of stationery,
weight about ten pounds, and the other
containing about thirty five pounds of
glue and stationery, was only .htty cents
OH both packages. We judge from this
that the railroad would not have
charged two dollars and fifty cents
freight OIL twenty-five pounds of pow
der.
No one whose blood is impure can
feel we'll. There is a weary, languid
feeling, and often sense of discourage
ment and dependency. Persons hav-
ing this feeling of lassitude and de-
preston, should take Ayers Sarsaparilla
to purify and vitalize the blood.
We will notice next week the State
University, an advertisement Of which
appears to-day.
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