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St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26
DUBLIC SALE.
PROBATE COURT. PARISH ST. LANDRY.
NO. 4O23.
ESTATE OF AMELIA ROBIN, DECEASED.
Nov. 26

By virtue of an order OF the honorable Pro
hate Court of the parish of st. Landry, there
viii he sold at public auction, to the highest
bidder, by the undersigned administrator OF
any duly qualified auetieneer at the .,d last
narish Of St. Landry, on TUESDAY, Decem.
Der 27th, 1881, the following described property
belonging to the estate Of Amelia Robin,
deceased, to-wit:
CrOche i'm said parish OF st. Landry, bounded
north by Zepherin Leger, south by Hypofitt
Venable, east by public land and west by
Terms and onditions.-One-fourth cash and
the balance payable in three equal annual in
sediments from the day Of sale; the install
ments to bear per cent interest from then
respective maturities, and the land to remain
specially mortgaged and the vendors privilege
to be retained thereon.
ALEXANDRA VENABLE,
Nov o6-5t Administrator.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

Habit, if not necessity, makes a Hair
Dressing such as DR.. Ayers laboratory
issues, indispensable to many. Ayers
Hair Vigor is one Of most delightful we
have ever used. It restores not only
the color, but gloss and luxuriance, to
faded and gray hair.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

A penny makes more noise in the
contribution box than five dollar bill,
and the man who gives the penny usu-
ally makes more noise than the giver
of the bill when it comes to "amens" or
voting on church Chris
tan at Work.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
List of Jurors.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of st, Landry.


Parish OF st. Landry.
Be it known that we the undersigned men
bers Of the jury commissioners did on tins tne
18th day OF October, A. d. 1881, meet at inc
clerks office in the town of Opelousas parish ol
st. Landry for the purpose of drawing jury
for the regular term of the District Court oL
the Thirteenth Judicial District under sectl0n
act A of the regular session OF 1877 and all the
members being present, P. ]. Lefebvre, one OF
said members, drew from the general Venlfe
box, one at a time, the names OF the foliOWlns
fifty persons to compose the grand and petit
Jurors for the LIST week of said court, comlnen.
cling Tuesday, December 9th, 1881, a list OF
whom was then and there kept by the Clerk
OF Court james 0. Chachere, and in our
Judgment jury being required for the second
week OF the term, we then and there proceeded
as in drawing the first fifty jurors, to draw
thirty additional names to serve as petit jurors
for the I'd week OF the term of said Court, and
we the clerk and commissioners, did then aho
there place the names drawn as aforesaid Tor
each separate week in separate envelopes ant
sealed and endorsed the same with the week
for which they were respectively drawn, Whiei
said envelopes containing said names Were
then and there placed i'll a jury box provided
for the purpose which after depositlng SAT-:
names therein as aforesaid was sealed anti
locked by us and placed in the custody OF the
clerk of the court for use at the next term o.
ntIf
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26
Communicated

TIGER BEND, La, Nov. 21st, 1881.
Editor ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT
Everything is booming up our way.
The n. 0. Pacific and NJ. L. r. r. made
connection last week at Chennyville.
Life seems to be coming to the old land.
Business is rushing. The n. o. Pacific
will push its track through as rapidly
as possible. Bayou Beuf is on the
rampage, and barges are coming. Com,
petition is life. The sugar mills are all
in full blast. The cotton is not all
picked yet. The crop is better and
Weld larger than was expected. VINO
says we havn'ta good country. l tell
YOU it's the best in all this great and
glorious old union. Don't you believe IT.
Well il you don't do. l will give your
readers an item from late letter re-
ceived from friend living In Illinois;
He writes me that the chinch bugs ana
drouth completely ruined the, farmers
in many parts of that State this year.
Corn is selling at 80 cents per Dusnel:
The wheat was cut short. On land thaJ
had grown thirty bushels OF wheat IN
former years he cut three this year.
The Irish potato crop is next to nothing:
Finally they have nothing but hard
times, How does the above compare
with our own loved South, where every
one can grow enough to do them II they
have the viii to do so. IN the very
locality from where my correspondent
writes T have seen corn SO plentiful and
chean that it was used for fuel to beat
cooking stoves with, but it is not SO to-
day. MANY are in want and are actually
moving away to hunt better land.
WHAT ELSE. r.,..
lam no grumbler, but somebody was
good enough to pocket the DEMOCRAT
for me last week, it never came to hand
Oh, how I did wish that l was Fin
M'Cool for a little while. l would
have built another giants Causeway,
bad luck to 'em, may they be smothered
in hot petates, and never know the
name OF their grand mother, who evel
it was ought to he boy-coted. IT ]
could only find the man that strucE
Billy Patterson " | would walk thou.
sand miles over land and water to gel
him to give the man that took the
DEMOCRAT tap for me. AS a young
friend of mine often remarks, its .
diabolical instigatiOn," whatever that
is for my part don't know, unless its
dilemma, it its that he ought to hans
on both horns. They say dilemma has
nOT0S II I'D uOPO 1uOy ga 20 Ats6O 40
Texas stears. tell You they arr
mighty big.
NEXT.
Well we are over the 18th of Novem
her. and this old earth still rolls on
She did not collapse worth cent. Som,
thought the old fabric would go up
but didn't, not once. 1t might though
il the call Legislature had been through
ought to be thankful. / guess that
the reason President Arthur has orderet
Thanksgiving day, because the Leg
islatnre is going to meet in call session
It saved this old world and Office seek
ers have an indefinite lease OF time.
It's good to have wise men at the helm
of State. May she never go crooked
-. JOHN O'SHANE.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

CompL1cAr1oNs.-If the thousands
that now have their rest and comfort
destroyed by complication OF liver and
kidney complaints would give natures
remedy, kidneyWo ,,I,sa q T. tFla ats they ey
both ORGANS All. the same time and there
fore Completely fills the bill for perfect
remedy. ,H you have a lame back and
gdisordered kidneys use it at once. Don't
neglect them.-[Mirror and Farmer.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26
N1OTHCE OF TABLEAU.
PROBATE COURT, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY
No. 1860. I
ESTATE OF SUSAN ELIZABETH ANDRUs

Whereas, Clinton B. Andruss administrator OF
the estate of susen Elizabe1.5sfAndrus, deceased,
having filed a provisi~ al account OF admins.
tration and tableau 81 distribution OF debts OF
said estate, acS1mpztied by his petition praying
for the hSrho Sga.S5n of same.
And, whepsaSL the prayer of said petition has
been grantd ~ an order of court bearing date
Octobeg[s.71sa1, :,
Ne-JThgskfo notice is hereby given to all
r-prsuns Lterested to make opposition to said
tableay.m writing in my office in the town OF
OpelofAas, withi6 the time required by law
whyfhe said tableau should not be homologa'
ted~ha confirmed: urpr
Nov. q-kb S' W Clerk.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26
OPELoUsAs, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1881.
Don't forget Robinson's great Circus
On Sunday.

Sheriff C. C. Duson sent by steamer
Fanchon, on Wednesday last, an insane
man by name Of Teal who had escaped
from the Innate asylum ut jackson,
also an escaped convict to Baton Rouge
penitentiary. The parties were in
charge of two deputies. 1875 2
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

Ayers Pills promote digestion, i'm
prove the appetite, restore healthy
action and regulate the secretive func-
lions Of the body, thus producing a
condition of perfect health.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

A young lady at an examination IN
grammar was asked why the noun
;mmediatalv. "Because it is very singu-
lar they don't get married"
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

Religious services tomorrow at the
Methodist church conducted by Rev.
Thomas j. Hough. Preaching at II
O'Clock A. NJ, and A. NJ. Subject for
II. "Sinful Amusement
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

Circus will be here tomorrow, and
our youngsters are beginning to save
their nickels,
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

On motion the Police Jury adjourned unit
the cd Monday i'll December, it being the l2tl
day of that month.
ALBERT GUIDRY, President.
Attest P. ]. LEFEByRE, Clerk.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26

written.
c. MAYO,
b b1 hKFEBvRE, Commissioners.
JOHN SIMMS,
JAMES O. CHACHERE,
Clerk District Court.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-11-26
CHllCeIItU dCCOFUIDSIy. - .
FINES COLLECTED BY c. Z. DuSON,


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NV commission 10 per cent IS Ga 90
Less District Attorney $50 90 paid
him by his commission on Fusl-
llerS fine ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS W !"
1924 90
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thoughtless enough to leave water turned
90. Ii every family would act on these
hints we would have less diphtheria.
GLycERISR's UsE.-A late number of
the Boston Journal Of Chemistry reprinted
from the London Lancet DIR. Ringers ar
ticls upon the use of glycerine in fiatulence.
acidity and pyrosis. DR.. j. A. Lewis, re-
ferring to the same article, in commune
cation to the Louisville Medical Neos,
says desire to add my testimony Co
its value, so far as regards acidity and flat
ulenee. For this form of indigestion, so
common, and for the relief of which so
many persons resort to the daily use of
soda, glycerine is remedial agent of no
mean value. | have used it for several
months with my patients troubled in this
way, and in majority of cases the results
have been gratifying. l had no knowledge
OF its use for dyspeptic troubles, and was
led to the use of It much in the same way
as reported by Mr.. Ringer. l knew of its
property OF preventing fermentation, and
especially of its use by druggists in pre-.
serving their syrups from acidity. was
led to a trial OF it upon this principle, and
soon became satisfied of its real value.
have always prescribed 1T in large doses,
never less than two teaspoonfuls TO table,
spoonful for an adult, to be taken in a
wine glass of water Immediately after eat
ing. It does no good after fermentation of
the food has taken place in the stomach.
Il is no specific, no cure-all, but certainly
does afford alienation, if not cure, in many
Of these cases, and is worthy OF a place
among the remedies in use for this very
common i'll of the flesh"
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Dinner Receipts.


SPRING SoUP-0ne pound of soup meat,
well chopped a piece OF butter melted IN
pan, the meat Drowned in it, some flour
sprinkled over it, and, when turned about
little, warm water poured over; add tive
cloves, corn pepper, salt, and bit OF
whole mace simmer gently for one hour
and quarter. Strain and put away the
meat; add to the soup canned peas and
very finely chopped parsley let simmer
ten minutes Have the yolks of two OF
three eggs ready beaten up and stir into
the boiling soup; let simmer minute or
so, and dish up with crackers or toasted
bread squares.
Drowned VEAL.-Put piece of butter
in covered pan and place into it about
three pounds of veal. Choose thick end OF
shoulder or loin; brown well for at least
twenty minutes, sprinkle over little flour
and add some warm water. just to make
little gravy. Add also four slices of lemon,
some mace, little nutmeg, salt and whole
peppercorns. Place two pieces OF bacon on
the top of the meat, close up tight, and let
gently simmer for three-quarters of an hour
more. This dish must not boil fast. Take
out the meat and strain the gravy over 1t.
Trim with lemon.
WHITE JELLY.-Buy isinglass gelatine.
Soak half of three pint packet with two
pints of new milk for twenty minutes or
so then simmer up in it for a minute a
couple of laurel leaves, or a little lemon
rind, also lump sugar to taste, adding a
drop or two of an essence whose flavor you
desire. Take off the fire and str till well
dissolved, then pour into your mold
through muslin. Serve when cold with
chocolate creams round.
SpINNAGE. off stalks, wash well,
place in saucepan with very little warm
water, add little salt, and boil quickly.
Chop very fine when done and add a piece
of butter pepper and salt. Shake up again
in pan, and dish up vita poached eggs on
top if you like.
STEAMED RIoE.-Put rice (having washed
it) in pan with warm water, stand aside,
let the water be soaked up, and add again
and again till rice is quite done. Now
shake with small piece of butter and send
to table. This rice should replace the
rather Indifferent potatoes we have now.
Tongue Buy pressed whole OK tongue
or cooked tongue Let the steam thor
oughly through before dishing up, and trim
with parsley. Use rest of tongue for sup
per or breakfast.
PEACHES. Buy preserved peached and
stew them for fifteen minutes in their
Juice, with the addition of q little sugar.
Serve up in glass dish.
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A SANDER on the Porkers.

The acting British Consul at Philadelphia
dealers and exporters of the great Mississippi
valley country, as well as in official circles at
Washington, by sending to his Government
an exaggerated statement of the prevalence
of diseases among the hogs in this country
As near as we can judge from the character
of the ConsuPs dispatches, he is man of
limited knowledge on practical subjects, of
which he has attempted to give his Govern
ment information He probably has but a
faint idea of the vastness of the country and
the great number of hogs raised in the great
West, and perhaps has been reading the re-
port Of the Congressional Commission to in
auire into the diseases of domestic animals,
and has jumped to the conclusion,
that because large numbers of hogs die
in this country from the various dis
eases classed by farmers under the
general and comprehensive head of hog
cholera, therefore al hogs are diseased. He
may, therefore, taking this view of the case,
be innocently endeavoring to save or preserve
the health OF his countrymen by indu ing
them to give American pork the go-by as
food 1t is mora probable however, that ne
is in an indirect way making an effort to en-
courage home production of pork by discour-
aging the importation from the United States.
Whatever may have been his motives, it must
be borne in mind that while directly issuing
and publishing a Islander against our pigs, he
has at the same time published greater
SANDER against our farmers, butchers and
produce dealers, which it is the DUTY of our
Government to officially resent and
deny. Probably Mr.. Crump does not
know that we can annually lose
BY disease more hogs than all Great Britain
contains, and still have healthy ones enough
left to supply our own markets with pork and
spare all the people of his country can eat be-
sides. This is prominent example of what
an amount of mischief ignorance can do when
allowed to occupy important positions. We
think probably Mr.. Crump could employ his
time by the study of Youatt's simple treatise
on the hog. In this little book he will be
able to learn that since the famous stampede
of swine into the sea, hogs, even In the Brit
ish Isles, have been troubled with diseases of
various kinds, and that cattle have also, since
the introduction OF the ringed, speckled and
striped colors by the use of the peeled willows,
been subject to various ailments Having
ascertained these elementary facts, if he will
look into the history Of these diseases
among domestic animals in the various
countries of the world, he will find
that they have prevailed to greater sx-
tent, compared to the numbers of such ami
mails in the respective countries, in his own
country, than in most any other, and that the
United States have been comparatively free
from them. American pork and American
beef viii continue to be imported and con-
sumed by British subjects so long as they can
be laid down In that country cheaper than
they can be produced there. Herein lies the
trouble.
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A SIMPLE METHOD OF COPYING DIR.
Beale gives the following as the simplest
method of copying an object magniied in
the microscope !: Arrange the paper on a
piece of stiff cardboard, SO that it may be
upon the same level as the stage upon
which the Object is situated, on the left
side, if the right eye is the one used for
observation. If we now look steadily at
the object with the right eye, it will be
found that the object appears to be thrown,
as it were, upon the paper, and it may be
clearly seen by the left eye, and its outline
be very readily traced, the movements of
the pencil being executed by the right
hand, if the observer is not able to use the
left. By far the best course, however, is
for the observer to acquire the habit of OBJ
serving with the left eye, in which case the
paper can be placed on the right hand of
the stage, and the right hand used for
drawing. With little practice the rela-
tive position and correct size of objects may
be insured In this manner.
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Breakfast Receipts.

SrEwED PRUNEs Place the prunes in a
covered pan with little warm water and
sugar, some ground cinnamon and little
lemon peel stew gently for one boar, and
shake now and then. They must not be
stewed in too much water, so that when
they are quite soft only a rich syrup re-
mains. From Food and Health.
FRIzzLED PoTAToEs. your pota-
toes over night /; cut them into slices and
frizzle them in warm butter or dripping, or
melted beef suet or bacon fat, but not In
lard. Throw them also on clean sheet of
paper for minute, strew salt over and dish
up. A very finely chopped onion among
the potatoes is savory.
FRzzIED SMELTs. Clean them over
night, dry them and leave them wrapped
up in cloth. In the morning wipe them
again, flour them and put them in warm
lard there must not be too much fat.
Cover them up in frizzling, drain them of
the fat on paper for minute or two when
done, and put them on hot dish. Ssrew
a little salt over them.
PoACHED EGGs.-To poach eggs is an
art. We want little egg poachers for this
process As yet it has to be done in plain
pan, in which have boiling water ready
put in a little vinegar, and carefully put
in the raw egg SO as not to break the Yoik.
When the eggs have well set take them out
with the draining slice and hold them for a
minute till you put them on the buttered
toast A little pepper should be sprinkled
over them.
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NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There is q movement in Indianapolis TO
cut down the course of study and shorten
the hours in the public schools, on the
ground of the overwork of the pupils.
The Maine State College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts has been in operation
for twelve years, and has graduated 1874
students. The college is said to have a
permanent fund of Sl3l, 300 So.
The teachers in the public schools of New
Orleans are said to be in actual want.
They have received not one cent of their
salaries, the Democrat declares, since last
July. One reason of this disgracefuI state
of affairs is said 80 be that the citizens do
not pay their 81 poll tax.
The Boston School Committee has been
obliged to ask the City Council for funds
to carry on the schools during the remain
der of the financial year. The Council so
reduced the estimates last winter that by
the first of the coming month there will be
no money for salaries.
1t is proposed to transfer the good will,
library, museum and all useful appliances
of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, to
the Ohio State University at Columbus,
and to sell the buildings and other prop
erty OF the college TO tne state, TO be used
as benevolent Institution.
The Massachusetts Legislature has re-
ceived petition from 1853 Boston teachers
asking for law allowing school committees
to elect teachers for term of years, or
during good behavior. The Boston Post
advocates election for term of ten years
with preliminary year of probation.
The school population of Illinois, accord
ing to the last school census, was l, 0l0, S5l,
and the whole number of pupils enrolled
last year was 704, 04l. The State has
IL, 1854 public schools and %, 255 teachers.
Male teachers receive an average monthly
salary OF Sal 80, female teachers an aver
age salary of S3I 80. Private schools last
year were attended by go. 440 pupils, who
were instructed by I,497 teachers. The
CELEBRATES Of the State number only
4,O45. The total receipts for the schools
were So, 75S IA, and the total expend-
itures, 1881, 94l. The cost per capita
upon average daily attendance was SIG 81.
The permanent instruction fund of the
State amounts to 50, 1858. 480 SO. There
are 10 high schools, which last year grad
uated 924 pupils. The bonded school debt
amounts to 50, 406, 304 IA.
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General Notes.

DANGER IN THE SLEEPING RooM.-In
fighting that terrible enemy, sewer gas, it
will not do to depend on the plumber.
In sleeping rooms the espionage of the
trap is the opening of the gate of
death; yet, strange to say, thousands of
people hear nightly this death-rattle in
their rooms, and do not know what it
means Now, if one can't have effective
plumbing, the next best thing is to know
what to do about As espionage implies
the breaking of the water-seal that acts as
barrier against the free admission of
sewer gas, it lie, first of all, important to
know what traps are defective. When
one hears low, gurgling sound in the
wash basin, the time for action has come.
Any noise beneath the wash-basin, at any
hour of the day or night, when the water
is not turned on, means death. The gurg
ling sound is caused by draft of air down
the ape-pipe, which breaks the water
seal. OF course the services of the best
plumber should be had at once but in the
meantime fight the enemy. First turn on
water and fill the trap. Then put in the
plug, fill the basin half full of water, and
with wax or soap seal up the overflow
holes. Lower window and let in the
outer air. Until the sound of syphonage
ceases, and you are absolutely certain that
the trap can be relied on, stand guard over
it. Keep the overflow holes sealed and
the plug in, no matter at what risk of
flooding lower rooms, IN case some one Is