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St. Landry democrat., 1881-12-24
Fire Insurance.
]. p. HODGE, General Agent

At Judge Moorc's Office, Opelous;ls, La.
PROPERTY surveyed and policies written di-
- rect and recorded at this office and losses
paid without delay
Su@Ar-hollses, gins, mills. stores and mcr
chandlSe all insured at reasonable rates; and
special Inducements offered on DIR, linus and
.fnm property against both fire and lightning
Tor tive years OH annual payments.
PRINCIPAL COMPANIES REPRESENTED:
EStab'd C'h aS'tS
Fire Association OF Phila 1877 S431o ,70
Continental, OF New York 1913 4 600 CO7
London Assurance Corpora'n 1920 49, 1856, no
Niagara of New York 1850 300 600
Correspondence with responsible property
owners solicited. and their risks will he inSpecf-
ed and rates fixed OH application.
j. =. HODGE.
General Agent for st. Landry and adjoining
parishes, and has come to stay
nov. left
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
Men Who Brap.

1t is natural for a man to brag. And
frequently the less he has to brag over
the more Dragging he will do. The
most triaing incident are sufficient to
keep some men Dragging all their lives.
We once knew a man whom Henry
Clay kicked out of his way, and the
fellow Dragged of it all the rest of his
days, and he was proud to be known as
the man Harry of the West had booted.
Men brag over things that never hap
pened, though they repeat it so often
that they come to believe it themselves.
1t has been estimated that it would re-
quire q vessel like the Great Eastern to
carry all the people claiming to have
been on Fulton's first steamboat when
it made its trial trip. We have our
selves shaken hands with twenty-elght
men, each one Of whom b0asted that
he was the first man to walk across the
Niagara suspension bridge. Thewoods
are full Of men who are ready to sweal
they were standing alongside of Gran,
when he said he would fight 1t ou'
on that lire If il took all summer
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
Successful Measures,

Nil''H lsilhl'i'
The following measures which the
Greenback party aims to secure, should
be studied carefully
l. The bonds to be paid aud not re-
funded.
.. Bank currency to he suppressed
and the issue restored to the govern
ment, to which it properly belongs,
;. All the money, whether metal OF
paper, to be issued by the government
and made full legal tender in payment
Of all debts, public and private.
t, The unlimited coinage Of gold and
silver without cost to the government,
of weight and linencss as now estab-
liohed by law.
3. Corporations shall have no greater
privileges than persons, The high
seas, the lakes, the navigable rivers,
canals and railroads me all public high
ways, and subject to the control and
supervision of the government.
4. The freightage, transportation,
and the carrying trade, being part OF
commerce, shall be regulated by CON
gress as the constitution directs.
7. That the public lands shall be
kept for homes for the people; and in
all those cases where railroads or other
corporations have failed to comply
with the terms of their grant, that the
lands shall revert to the government
for the benefit of the people.
s. That taxation shall be equal, and
no class of persons or property shall be
exempt from its legitimate burden.
9. To reduce the expenses of the
government to the lowest possible
amount consistent with an efficient
administration for the public welfare,
and thorough reform of civil service.
10. To establish public savings banks
and telegraphy as branch of the post
office department.
II, To bridge the sectional chasm
between the North and the South, on
common platform that shall secure th'
rights of each and secure peace, har
mony, and fraternal relations between
all parts of the country.
II. To establish such public meas
ures as shall promote the prosperity o
the whole country, re.establish on
commerce upon the high seas, and pro
mote friendly commercial relation
with all the nations of the earth.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
.he withdrawal of coin also produce a

the withdrawal of coin also produce
panic?
1t would strengthen our credit" to
pile up coin in the treasury.
How "vastly" it would strengthen an
individuals credit wouldn't it, if he
should pile up surplus money in his
pocket and in the meantime pay inter-
est on an outstanding, past.due note?
The people have had quite enough of
the "credit Strengthening" business.
In 1869, in order TO Strengthen the
public credit" the people were plum
dered out of upwards of Sj00,000,OOO,
and they are in no mood to listen to
any more of that sort Of talk. There
are too many Greenback papers pub
lished, and too many Greenback speak
ers loose in the field, to permit any
more "credit strengthening nonsense.
The people have come to the conclu-
sion that the best way to strengthen
the credit is to pay off the debt and
stop the interest.
"But there are two other ways TO get
rid of the surplus" says the Hour.
One way is to scale down the taxes
and the other is to spend the surplus.
Taxation is a curse to be sure-and
the best way to get rid of it is to pay
off the debt and stop the interest.
That will stop it now and forever.
If taxes were scaled down One-half
the machinery necessary to collect the
remaining half would cost just as
much as it does now to collect the
whole, 50 that the actual saving TO the
people would be very small indeed.
There has already been nearly three
times as much money paid for interest
as there has been for principal, and
people who know this fact will be slow
to see the wisdom of continuing such
a policy. They will say that it is bet
ter to bear the burden Il few years
longer and then done with it forever
than it is to have it lightened only Il
little at most now, and continue it as
burden to their children and their
children's children. They will lemem.
Der the teachings of Jefferson, that one
generation has no right to burden the
next generation with a public debt,
But "spend the surplus says our
New York cOtempOrary.
A postal telegraph system is needed,
indeed, and the government should
construct it and own it. Coast de-
fensos and war vessels are not needed,
but our merchant marine might per
haps be aided, and certainly rivers and
harbors ought TO be improved.
Instead of spending tho surplus"
for these purposes, however, let the
government substitute greenbacks for
national bank notes and thereby save
$l5,O0O,OOO or more per year and spend
that. 1t would be quite enough if
honestly expended to improve our riv-
ers and harbors, and provide for an ex-
cellent system of postal telegraph
service
"The point TO be kept steadily in
mind" is that the public debt should
be wiped out of existence as speedily
as possible
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
Joan of Arc,

The London Standard says: Though
Joan of Arc is a French heroine in
little danger of being forgotten, the
citizens Of Crotoy have thought fit to
make assurance dOubly sure by rearing
a fresh statue to her memory. 1t is
true, though there is a question how
far the fanticism of Jeanne aided in
routing our cOuntrymen, no one doubts
that they were defeated. It, is there
fore, needless revising the verdict then
passed at the spears point, But after
a hundred works had described her
death, and thousands Of reyerent pill
grims have wept over the scene of her
martyrdom in the Place de la PuCelle
of Rouen, it was a shock to hear not
only that the English were not respOn-
sible for her martyrdom but that the
heroic damsel was never burned at all,
having lived to be a respected matrOn
and well-to.do cheyenne. This is,
nevertheless, what Father Vlgnier
asserts to be the fact, and NJ. Delapierre
has confirmed it with documents re-
garding the authenticity of which
there cannot be much skepticism.
There always was a belief that the
woman executed in 1431 was not the
real "Maid," and at different towns
during the subsequent years numerous
imposters were punished for attempt
ing to pass themselves off as the au'
thentic martyr, NJ, Vignier, however,
found in the archives of Mentz con.
temporary account of the arrival Of
Jeanne in that city on the 26th of May
1886, and her reorganization by her two
brothers.
This paper Furthermore mentions
that in due time she was married to Il
Sieur de Hermoise or ArmiOse, and
though it might be admitted that the
document discovered was modern
forgery, it is certainly staggering to
disinter from a family imminent chest
Of NJ. des Armoise, Of Lorraine, Il
contract of marriage between "Robert
des Armoise Knight, with Jeanne de
Arcy, surnamed the "Maid of Orleans y
This also might have been a coinci-
dcnce, though a rather striking one,
but among the archives of the MatsOn
de vile Of Orleans, under dates 1885
and 1886, are records Of certain pay"
ments made to messengers bringing
letters from "Jeanne the Maid" to her
brother John du Ills or Lys. Now,
this sir name is well known TO have
been that under which, as Il reward
for long service, the Arc family are
ennObled. So here-unlesS we at once
cut the knot by declaring that the en-
tire mass of documents (thOse in Mentz,
in Lorraine, and in Orleans,) to be
gross forgeries, which has not yet been
attempted-is a curious net work Of
facts, out of which tits rather difficult to
escape from the conclusion that there
must have been some mistake about the
Maid of Orleans having been incineart-
ed in that lively city on the Seine, in
which stands one of her many statues
erected to attest the truth of the event
Most curious of all, in the Orleans Ac'
counts, under date of August LIST, 143G
eight years after she ought to have
been dead,) there is an entry Of 22C
livres presented to Jeanne d ArmoisC
by the town council for services ren
dered by her an the seige of l429. Il
is difficult to get over these facts,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
The Possibility of Utilizing the
Falls at Niagara.

Prof. VIM. Thompson, in his open-
ing address before the mathematical
and physical section Of the British
association, at the meeting in Septem-
Der, spoke of the possibility of utilizing
the falls at Niagara as a source Of
mechanical energy. He supposed the
p)wer was to be transmitted to Montreal,
Boston, New York, and Philadelphia,
and in calculating the formula for a
distance of three hundred British
statute miles he was surprised to find
that "even with so great distance to
be provided for, the conditions are thor
oughly practicable with good economy,
all aspects of the case carefully consid-
ered." Dynamos at Niagara would
transmit an electric current through a
copper wire half an inch in diameter;
and in the case supposed, with an
energy Of 26,250 horsepower at the
start, $3.50 Tor twenty per cent?
would be lost "by the generation and
dissipation of heat through the conduc-
tor" leaving 21,000 horsepower for
use at the further end of the wire.
"The elevation Of temperature above
the surrounding atmosphere, to allow
the heat generated in it to escape by
radiation and be carried away by con.
vection is only about 20 degrees G..
the wire being hung freely exposed to
air like an ordinary telegraph wire sup
ported on posts"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
Turcoman Horses.


The western extremity of the bazar
is devoted to the sale Of horses, asses
and camels. Some fire horses are Oc.
casionally TO be seen at prices varying
from $50 to $50; but as arule animals
of this price are not brought to the ba-
zar, there being so few of its frequent.
ers able or willing to invest such, for
them, serious sums in any purchase.
Besides, the price of good TurcOman
horse is generally fancy pricc-asked,
not so much with regard to the ami
mails beauty or apparent physical de-
velopment, butin consideration of some
wonderful exploit, real or imaginary,
which the vendor says it has perform
ed, of swiftness or staying power, As,
however, Turcomans are too well ac-
quainted with each others powers of
mendacity to place much confidence in
a mere statement on such a subject, the
really excellent animals are kept for
the owners own use, or else purchased
by some one who has had an oppOrtu-
nifty of testing or witnessing their
prowess.
A great deal has been said and
written about TurcOman horses. am
fain to believe, by people who make
their statements from mere hearsay,
who never had an opportunity of judg-
ing personally of the wonderful quail
ties they so freely announce. During
my present stay at Merv, and a pretty
long one among the Yomuds, have
had ample opportunities of Judging of
the powers of Turcoman horses, and of
hearing their praises sung by no cold
partisans of the breed-Turcomans
themselves. Yet l never witnessed,
or even heard of, among the Turcomans
such exploits as were lately printed in
Russian book of travel. At the mo
ment of writing l have Turcomans al
my elbow (alas! only too many Of
them), and l have over and over again
made searching inquiries about The
power of central Asian steeds.
A first lass Turcoman horse, after
a months special training, and witt
ample and special food, will do from
sixty to seventy miles day and keeI
it up for an apparently unlimited pc
riod. 1t is this sustained power whicl
is probably their only excellence whicl
has not been overrated, For speed
they could not hold their own agains
the higher class of European horses
As rule the Turcoman horse is yer,
doggy" but extremely graceful o
limb. His chest is narrow but long
His head is handsome; but the necl
at the point of junction has stranglet
appearance. The neck, too, far from
having the proud curve of an Aral
horse, is not even straight. 1t is slight
ly concave from above, which gives t
some otherwise gazelle.looking animal
lamentable resemblance to a strange
| ly abnormal camel.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
"Don't know half their Value :

"They cured me of Ague, Biliousness
and Kidney Complaint as recommended,
1 had half bottle left which used for
my two little girls, who the doctors and
neighbOrs said could not be cured. l
would have lost both of them one night If
| had not given them Hop Bitters. They
did them so much good / continued their
said you do not know half the value of
Hop Bitters, and do net recommend them
high enOugh."-B., Rochester, N. Y. See
other column.-Am6rtcdn Rural Home.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27

The commission appointed by the Rus
sian government to inquire into the best
means Of diminishing drunkenness has
entered upon It's labors. Experts from all
the different governments of the empire
will give evidence.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27

An ex-consul Of Great Britain, says
the Brooklyn Eagle, related that Mr..
Charles Townsend, Sedalia, Mo-, was
cured of rheumatism of the worst
kind by st. Jacobs Oil.-IndianapOlis
(In9,) Sentinel
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27
WHO'LL THINK OF ME.

Who'll think of me when am gone
Beyond the silent sea?
Who'll bend moment above my form,
And drop tear for me?
Or who will say | loved her So
Now she has gone to heaven know.
Who'll think of me when am gone
And my y'reath has passed away?
Who'll tax NY cold, white hands in theirs.
My hands of lifeleSs clay
And say, dear hands your work is done
Now folded lie till Christ shall cOmg /?
Who'll think of me when | am gone
And lie beneath the sod?
When my weary life will ended be
Ny soul be with its God?
All few | fear will think of me
When have gone TO eternity.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27

The Ottawa (Kan.) Republican thus
quotes: Mr.. Harvey B. F. Keller, re-
corder of deeds, says: I have long
been convinced Of the merits of st.
Jacobs Oil, and use it in my family
for rheumatism successfully.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27

One of the most etfectual ways of pleas
ing and Of making ones self loved is to
be cheerful; Joy softens more hearts than
tears.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27

Erneste Rossi, the Italian actor, and the
Norwegian poet, Biornstjerne Bjornson,
are said to be strikingly alike, mentally
and physically.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-27

The one thousand farmers in Hamblen
county, Tenn, will produce this season
twenty thousand bushels of dried fruit,
worth sbO0oo.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-03-18

Charley Cooper. who i Interested in the
mines In the First Chance District, and vi~i-
ted there SOM two weeks since, tells us that
McDermott and Brennan recently struck a
rich vein of rock. The Iocatiun |. an old one,
directly east of thu Minnie Palmer, but has
not been worked LATELY.
Work IN steadily progressing on the Min
ME Palmer. The shaft which will -trike the
lead nj about 10 feet Is now down 20 feet 1t
IL expected TO strike the lead whore II IL from
10 TO IL feet In width.
Another rich strike has been made in tn :,
Robert Emmett. A tunnel was sunk to tap
the Lead, and at ths point of contact a Al feet
vein of rich. free-milling, gold-bearing rock
wa. found. The Emmett IN at present the
most valuable of the several locations.
Henry Grant is not working his lead on
account of the water.
A letter from Sam Richie says work Is
progressing nicely on the Consolidated Min
ME Palmer. At 20 feet the rock Nv quite hard
though not hard enough to require blasting.
The San Jose il good beyond doubt.
Tom Anderson and Henry Grant are work
Ing On the Homestake, and Fred Eggers is
developing the Poetman.
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TEACHERS INSTITUTE.


The Teachers' Institute Of Deer Lodge and
Silver Bow counties IL called to meet In Butte
IA Monday next, 2ist inst. From superin-
,epdent Hardenbrook we are enabled TO pre-
.ent partial list of the exercises ~ fol-
lows:
r w. Catlin will read paper on 1.-THE
teacher among men and women"
Mi. Cox. paper on Normal Schools"
Mr. Mnchmore, paper on "Physiology."
Miss Fannie Hart, a paper on Which ex-
erts the greater influence ON the child-teach-
er or parent? ~
Mrs.. Johnson, paper on " Primary Read
ing"
Miss Crossman, paper on " The Graded
School System"
Miss warhrId, apap"r on 1.-THE Primary
Teacher"
In arithm tic Mr. Catin will give his ideas
n 10 what should be- taught.
Miss Cro4sman will have class i'm frac-
,ops Miss Nettir Emerson class in num-
beers.
History-Prof Howell what should be
taught in IL.
In Grammar-Miss Hutchins, analysis and
parsing by diagram with class.
Miss Wylie, class In language.
Miss Hixon win give her views ~ TO what
should be taught In geography. Miss Pierce
= class in geography.
For primary schools Miss Hodges will have
an illustration of the word method and object
lessons. Mrs. Gibbs class in word method.
Miss Shot will have au exercise in meth
DDS Of spelling.
A. T. Muir, a graduate and professional
penman, win illustrate different methods of
penmanship. Mrs. johnson class In wri-
ting.
In addition to the foregoing several other
teachers In the two counties will be present
ami read papers and have classes in different
studies. Superintendent Hardenbrook was
unable, however, to give n complete list.
Territorial Superintendent Howie. Prof.
W Egbert Smith, Prof. Haascil Judge
Knowles aud several Others have signifrd
their intention to be present and participate
in the proceedings. Addresses will he deliv-
cred on two or three evenings of the week.
Vocal and in>trum 'ntal music will also be a
pleasing feature of thu meeting and the In>ti-
tutr of 1881 will b. profitable and largely at
tended
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-03-18
MARRIAGES


DopGE-PooL-At Madison, Ohio, February
9th, Mr.. ii. G. Dodge, of Jefferson City,
Montana, TO Miss Sarah A. Pool, daugh-
ter of Daniel Pool, Esq.
SHERMAN-GoUDY AT the residence Of the
March 9th, by L. Rotwitt, p. j., Byron X
Sherman and Addie Cloudy.
TrpBALL-KIMMEL-On Middle Creek, Gal
latin county March 9Th, by Joseph Plumb,
j. p, Lewis G. Tidball and Jennie Il.
Kimmel.
Northumberland the residence of the
brides father, East Gallatin, March 9Th,
by Rev. George Comfort, VIM. McHugh
and Eva Jones. a#
SrosE-LISsLEY-At the residence Of the
brides father, Gallatin city, February
I'D, by Rev. @. l.. Richards, Chyland
Ward Stone and Selena j. Linsley.
HAwKEs-LIsGo-Att the residence of Mrs.
Kempland, in Dillon, February 18th Rev.
w. g. Shipper officiating, Charles r.
Hawkes. and Aurelia Lingo, all Of Dill
Ion.
FLISN-O 'CossSELL-AtSt.J Joseph Church,
Terre Haute, Indiana, March !, Robert
Finn and Ellen OConnell
BuRKErr-ALLEN-At Butte, March 15,18S1,
at the residence Of the brides parents, by
Rev. j. r.. Russell, Mr.. /. G. Burkett and
Miss Kate Allen.
NELsos-RUrcHER-A the residence Of Al
exander, j. Elder. March II, 1881, by Al
exander j. Elder, j. p, Mr.. James Nell
SON and Miss Louisa Marie Butcher, both
of Lower Boulder, Jefferson county Mon
tana
GRAyER-DEuBLE-At Neayada City, Tnes-
Maifisy, Mr.. Andrew J. Graver. Of Ne
yada City, and Miss Ida G. Double, Of
Ruby valley.
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Stallion for Sale.
SIIE.RIFFS SALE.
r. W. Donnell, ct al plaintiffs, vs. Ell r. Green 1t
defendants

R. W. Donnell, ct al plaintiffs VS. Eli r. Green ct al
defendants
To he sold q Sheriff. sale a. O'Clock ?. m sstur,
Houre door in the town and county OF Deer Lodge,
r under and by virtue Of IN order OF sale in the
aars Of the second Judicial D.,et q Montana
Territory, and d. er Lodge county, the follow
ing described property, to-wit An undivided ore
half III interest in and to that certain placer mining
groanu for which patent granted BY the United
States 10 Pounds, 1reen aud strickland. and desig
mated and described NJ lot No. IS and embracing
portion OF the OF re sE sec and
ing 81 and $500 acres Ut mineral land situated in
Wilson's mining district, county and Territory afore
paid Also an undivided one hall M interest In
that certain water ditch, snown the onio ditch,
and conveying water from Georgia guich to Carpen-
ter's Bar and the placer mines In that vicinity also
the branch ditch Of said Ohio ditch conveying water
to Nelson Hill also all reservoirs fumes, tributaries
rights, privileges, and appur,eLances belonging to or
In anywise appertanng TO each and a OF said prop
erty Also all interest that Gard Gre en- had nj ID
date Of sad mortgage In and ~ mining xrodnd-nil,
bar guich Claims. situated In, along or upon Car.
penters yulch. ABOVE or below The tract OF mineral
groutd above described M lot No ~ aro the bed
rock hume In said gulch used to work said ground;
aiso one third interest In the Nc lai Pound and
Green ground, situated In along and upon said Car
penter gulch Also all fumes, reservoir bitches,
water rights privileges and appurtenances belonging
used In connection with the working Ut each and
all of said properly. Also an undivd' one half M
placer mining claim to wit-The : n OF the " OF
the NV i Ut the sk y and the w n Of the n OF
the w 4 If section is, and the N u Ut the N y
q ghs and d the sW ." the sol ns 4 sas
Of the principal meridian and containing about
so acres OF mineral land. Also all rights privileges
and appurtenances thereto bel nging or In anywise
being In Deer Lodge county. NJ. T., and levied upon
as the property OF the defendants ~
Dated th' nth day OF h~ S ssi rsfl Sheriff
BY Thomas McTague, Deputy sheriff. 6l04t