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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18
S''hgs Taken on the Wing.
TIGER BENZ r.. I'm, 400,

NN bend, La, June 14tb, 1881.
Editor Democratic was with n,eas-
u uae last week I made the trip from this
of b. W Washington and return by way
ona n"yoo b@uf. This gave me a good
opportunity to see the crons on the
, w"'.' railroad, etc. In all candor we
Irus s' report corn prospects better on
3ppef Bayou Beuf than nearer Wash
'on' think the best cane | saw
was near Washington, on the Oakland
a' "l IL III charge of Mr.. John Humble. 1t
seems II anything to have been rather
"" 'iy as we approached Washington,
"n,le higher up the Bayou it is just the
on'fary. But at present writing we
'a'e une, warm, farming weather. The
al''"ao' IL appears to us, is progressing
slowly. We learned that considerable
sickness prevailed among the convict
laoorers. The grading is farm advance
o, 'ne iron and ties; why, we are una
oie 70 learn. A force has commenced
work on the grade at Tiger Bend, under
t"e charge OF Geo. Littell; they are
working down the Bayou, and pro-
crossing reasonably we'll with the force
employed. In our judgement the cars
VIII not reach the Bend before the last
OF october unless a larger force is put
TO work and pushed forward. Now let
let me SLIT word on the parish bridges
on thls route, and that word is the
ofldees that span the Bayou Buuf are
IN bad condition. Who is to blame?
can any one answer
Well, | sifted Washington. While
doing so the words of the homeless poet
came to our mind,
Home, home, sweet, sweet home.
be 1t ever 50 humble, there no place like home :"
but for us Washington is hardly the
sweet place that one would think it
was. We can say one good word,
Washington has fine and we'll bept
hotel. The gentlemanly proprietor
leaves no stone unturned to make his
guests comfortable. His table is loaded
with the best of viands, and his SER
wants the most polite we have seen for
years. Jake, on the corner, knows just
how to meet the wants of his
fellow man. Beer on ice is speciality.
Jake, we hope to live long enough to
sift one more glass with you. We no.
ticed that the sisters are making consid-
cradle improvement by building a new
addition to their college, business
looked slow to us, one party we inter-
viewed said he thought that Washing
ton was about grown. Why we ask
ed. Well, you see there is too much of
the old fogy about yet, can't thrive, it
takes live men to build town, if there
is any here we can't find them. At this
his eyes filled with tears, we tried to
calm him but it was no use, the last
words we heard him say was "oh! we
are all undone." Our advice is that
these broken hearted people had best
move up to Tiger Bend, where there is
real life and energy, the Bend is the
place that will prosper, and why Be-
cause it has the right kind Of d man at
the helm, Capt. A. M. Haas. This gen.
tleman is determined to make the Bend
live place, and one that will give
credit to the country.
Yours, JOHN O'SHANE.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

WIPED OUT.-Marcelin Granger, alias
lie toro de la Mermentau," Anglice,
".the Mermentau BULL met long pre-
dicted fate last Sunday morning near
the Mermeptau river in this parish, at
the hands of Homer Hognon, Granger,
who had threatened to shoot L0gnan on
sight, went to a party Of horse herders,
where lie knew Lognon was employed,
and challenged him for fight. Log
non proposed to dismount for that pur-
pose. Granger, replying that lie Gran
ger) did not want to fight, Lognon
turned away from him, when Granger
fired, Both men dismounted, and
Granger advanced on Lognon, both the
young men firing at each other with
pistols, Changers last shot being at
such close quarters that it set Lognon's
clothes on fire. Lognon's last shot en-
tered Changers forehead, killing him
instantly. Granger was hit three times
out of four shots, each wonnd being
mortal, Granger fred four shots, but
Lognon eseaped 4nhArt. Granger is
accredited with two murders, of peeu-
liar atrocity, and bis taking off. strictly
in self-defense, gives, we understand,
general satisfaction along the Mermen-
tap riyer.-[Lake Charles Echo, June
4ti.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

On the 25th of this month a grand
excursion under the auspices of the
Cantgetaway club" of New Orleans,
will leave the city for Houston and San
Antonio. Everything to make the trip
pleasant one has been provided. Two
days in Houston and three in San
Antonio are allowed. The price is $1,000
for the round trip from New Orleans.
1t is fine opportunity to see the best
portion of Texas, as the passage from
Houston to San Antonio will be in
daylight. Hotels in Houston and San
Antonio have agreed to charge only
$2.OO day to the excurtionists.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

Viscount Walsch de St. Serrant was
recently convicted Of larceny in New
Orleans, and sent to the penitentiary
for five years. He has but one leg, and
will be taught tailoring. He was an
object of much curiosity on the boat to
Baton Rouge, because count is a rare
animal in this latitude. He made a
mistake in resorting to stealing for a
living; he should have tried matrimony-
rich American girls have partiality fol-
counts.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

AMAD MAN.-Tbere is a man in this
town, who has been unwell for some
time. His friends advised him. to 90
over to Texas and visit Sour Lake. as
the waters there would certainly relieve
him. ~
He decided to 60 about the first OF
June. So strange was his faith in the
virtue of those waters, that he began to
improve right away, and when june
arrived he was well, aud now he is the
maddest man in the parish because he
has no need of making a summer trip
[Thibodagx Sentinel.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

The religious world seem to be con-
siderably exercised about hell in the re-
cent version of the New Testament.
The old or St. James version translated
both the Greek words "gehenna" and
"hadesn as hell, but the new version
makes "gehenna hell, and leaves
shades" as it is. For instance the rich
man who after death saw Lazarus in
Abraham's bosom, was not in hell but
in "hades." Now if the sinners could
get "gehenna" out Of the way, get it to
mean something milder than hell, they
would be happy; but the English word
hell is very strong word and mnst
mean something. But words cannot
change the facts, and the faith Of men ;
this world is now governed by the prac-
tice of the doctrine Of rewards and pun
ishments; it is practiced because it is
a part Of mans nature, part OF his
being which he cannot lay aside; and
we cannot but believe that it is type
of the hereafter, when men shall be
Judged and rewarded for the deeds
done in the body whether they be good
or whether they be evil. The diseases
and evils that the human mind and the
human body are subject to in this life,
by reason Of each individuals own mis-
conduct, or by reason of the sins Of his
ancestors visited upon him, or by reason
Of Adams trangression which involved
the whole human family-these with
their resulting evils, which require hu-
man government and courts of human
Justice, are type of the hell of the
hereafter. The faith in the immortall-
ty of the soul, and in hell and heaven,
is part Of the human mind and no rea-
soning can eradicate it. The word hell
may be expunged from the bible; but
the idea that there is hell, or place Of
punishment for the wicked, cannot be
expunged from the human mind. What
was made part of mans nature at his
creation, cannot be changed by him nor
by his construction Of words. The
individuals who do not believe, or pre-
tend not to believe in a hell, can not
abolish it's existence. All human gov
ernments recognize the existence Of a
hell and they are founded on tbs all
pervading belief that there is one.
Without hell hereafter we would have
a he'll here now; for it is the fear of
hell that restraints mans evil nature
here. We may have hundreds OF vep-
sions Of the bible, and hell may be left
out Of all Of them but the human mind
cannot conceive of a heaven without
hell, any more than it can Of light
without darkness, or good without evil.
There is hell in us, and all the book
learning in the world cannot take it out.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

MY Coop WoMAN.-Why are you SO
out of sorts, never able to tell folks that
you are we'll ? Ten to one it is oil!
caused in the first place by habitqal
constipation, which no doubt finally
caused deranged kidneys and liver. The
sure cure for constipation is the cele-
brated Kidney Wort. 1t is also a spe,
cific remedy for all kidney and liver
diseases. Thousands are cured by il
every month. Try it once.-Tofedo
Blade.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

An editorial item in the New Orleans
Democrat of June 14th, begins thus:
"We are Americanizing England" etc.;
another item in the same column begins
ave are rapidly Auglicizing this coun-
try" So, in the course of time, England
will be America or the United States,
and this country will be England-that
is. in habits and surroundings.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

The Steamer John Hanna, bound for
Monroe, exploded one of her boilers,
fourteen miles above New Orleans, on
Wednesday of last week, scalding thir-
teen persons, all Of them fatally but
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

Henry Ward Beecher announced
from the Plymouth Church pulpit his
belief that baptism was non essential
ordinance of the church. It was pleas
ant enough and useful enough, but if q
man died Trusting in Christ it made no
difference whether he had been sprinkled
or immersed OF both or either,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

TROUBLESOME CHILDREN that are al
ways wettins their beds ought not to be
scolded and punished for what they
cannot help. They need medicine
having tonic effect on the kidneys and
the urinary organs. Such medicine is
Kidney Wort. 1t has specific action.
Do not fail to get it for them.-Ex-
change
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

In addition to the winning of the
English Derby by the American horse
Iroguois, another American horse, Mr..
J,R. Keene's Foxhall has won the great
French race, the Grand Prix de Paris.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

They have now got to boxing up
electricity and keeping it for future
use. So we may expect it to become an
article of commerce like canned fruits.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

On the 10th inst, the mail between
Bastrop and Monroe was robbed of a
valuable package. The driver and a
messenger were arrested for it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

The cash in the United States treasu-
nv at the present time is estimated at
$165.O0O,OO0.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

PREJUDICE K1LLs.-"Eleven years
our daughter suffered on bed of mise
ry under the care Of some of the best
(and some of the worst) physicians, who
gave her disease various names but no
relief, and now she is restored to us in
good health by as simple remedy as
Hop Ritters, that We bad poohed at for
two years. before using it. We earnest
" hope and pray that no one else will
let their sick suffer as we did, on ac-
count OF prejudice against so good a
medicine as Hop Bitters. The Parents.
Telegram.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18
SEEDS THAT SURPRISE!

Make, a new vegetable from g. A., differing
from anything ever grown here. delicious raw or
cooked. Seed sent by mail 20 cts a paper Soya
Bean of Japan, half bean half pea, said by chem
lists to be the richest human food known. Fine
fodder plant, also, Seed, 10 cts. paper. Cuban
Queen Watermelon, Just imported. largest variety
sugary best to keep or ship, Is cts a paper Of 30
seeds, 6 papers for ST. Very scarce. Log Wood
MuskmelOn, largest known, 2 to feet Longtime
quality. early and prolific, Is cts. paper. Climax
Tomato. richest flavor: early, prolific; solid.un-
tian Corn from the Niler. Yields immensely
In the South where other corn fails. Unequaled
Teosipte one plant feeds cow two days 10 to IL IT,
high Is cts paper. Cuzco Corn, grains in. long,
y in broad Seed will bring fabulous prices Is cts.
paper All the above sent for 81 of each for 3.
Address G. Il. GILBERT & co. Atlanta, Ga.
Reference: Hon. w. L. Calhoun, Mayor Of
Atlanta.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

A boy recently died at Natchez, Miss.
from spider bite.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18
NOTICE..
SHERIFF'S OFFICE,

SlIERIFF'S OFFICE, I
June 9th, 1881
Notice is hereby given to all parties concerned,
that persons selling medicines or drugs, within
less distance than eight miles of any licensed
drug store will be liable and have to pay drug
store license. c. c. DUSON,
June IL Sheriff and Tax Collector.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
Notice.

WILL hereafter pay no claims against the
l. Plantation on Bayou Marie Crouuant, known
as DR.. LittelPs Place, unless authorized by me.
All persons are hereby forbidden to trespass
upon said place under penalty of the law.
Feb 26-tf. K. H. LITTELL.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-06-18

"In Providence we trust"-everybodye else cash
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Irwin Stark, of Harbor Greek, Erie
county, has yoke of trotting steers,
three years old. One of them goes sim
gle inside of four minutes.
In an effort to enforce, in st. Louis,
law against carrying concealed weapons,
fines as high as 500 for pistol and
5000 for a slungshot are being imposed.
"You don't know how it pains me to
punish you," said the teacher. 81 guess
there's the most pain at the end of the
stick" replied the boy, feelingly.
"T any rate, I'd be willing to swap"
T. NJ. Darnell, dwarf, four feet four
inches high, caused sensation in Co.
lumbus, Ga, by appearing in the streets
with son only 80 inches high, though
nine years old. The Sather has four
children, two of whom are dwarfsh,
while the other two are of the ordinary
height.
There must be something wrong
about the family government when a
four-year-old boy is heard praying
ooh Lord, take all the naughty out of
Johnny, and all the scold out of papa,
and all the punish out of mamma.
Amen" No doubt the little fellow fell
asleep after that, in blissful confidence
that life was going to be brighter for
him.
The South has never seen anything to
equal the preparations being made for
the International Cotton Exposition.
Hundreds of workmen are busy day and
night on the grounds, and the lumber
for building is sawed on the grounds by
steam saw mills that run day and night.
The main building is 800 feet in length,
with central tower 100 feet square,
and with wings 400 feet in length.
This building covers less than half the
floor space of the other buildings, This
is only one of the many huge edifces
going up like magic. The hall for re-
ceptions and speaking is 100 feet square,
and huge double hall for art exhibits
is much larger. Every inch of room
has been applied for, and still other
buildings are being planned and execu-
ted The grounds have been sown
down to grass, and roads and promenades
cut. The beauty of the grounds will
be an attractive feature, and fountains
and shrubbery have sprung into exist
ence where few weeks ago were the
"old red hills of Georgia"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-07
Boys Reared by Wolves.

In his eminently interesting work en-
titled Jungle Life in india" Mr.. Ball
has adduced good reasons for believing
that the old classical story of the rearing
of Romulus and Remus by she wolf
maybe founded on fact. This author
cites the case of two lads in an orphan
age in Sekandra, near Agra, who lad
been discovered among wolves, and in
many ways shared the habits of these
animals. One of his stories is supported
by letter from Professor Max Muller.
1t says; "a trooper sent by a native
governor of Chaudaur to demand pay
ment of some revenue was passing along
the bank of the river about noon, when
he saw large female wolfleave her den,
followed by three whelps and a little
boy. The boy went on all fours, and
when the trooper tried to catch him he
ran as fast as the whelps and kept up
with the old one, They all entered the
den, but were dug out by the people
with pick-axes, and the boy was secured.
He struggled hard to rush into every
hole or den they come near. He be,
came alarmed when he saw a grown-up
person, but tried to fly at children and
bite them. He rejected cooked meat
with disgust, but delighted in raw flesh
and bones, putting them under his paws
like dog. They tried to make him
speak, but could get nothing from him
but an angry growl or snarl,
Another instance is quoted as having
occurred at Chupra. A Hindoo father
and mother went out to cut their crop
in March, 1S43. The woman had with
her little boy, who lately had been Sc
verely bnrIed on the left knee. While
the parents were at work the child was
carried off by wolf. Some time after
ward q wolf with three small cubs was
seen about ten miles from Chupra, fol-
lowed by boy. The boy, after much
resistance, was caught and recognized
by the mark of the burn on his knee.
He could eat nothing but raw flesh, and
could never be brought to speak. He
used to mutter and .snarl but never ar
ticulated distinctly. The pans of his
knees and.the points of his elbows had
become horny from going on all fours
with the wolves. In November, 1850,
this boy escaped again and disappeared
in the Jungle Thus the she VOLTS lit
ter of Macaulays "Lays of Ancient
Rome" may have been, after all, no
myth.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-07
How the Prince Obeys His Mother.

In Europe, as you know, royalties are
nearly all related. When one dies, all
the rest go into mourning and suspend
pleasure. A common result of this is
little passage of-arms between the
Queen and Prince of Wales at this mo-
ment. The Duke of SAKE Coburg died
two or three days ago, just when the
Goodwood races were in full swing, and
when the Prince of Wales was enjoying
himself very much indeed at the man
sion of the Duke of Richmond. In.
stantly the Queen telegraphed to the
Prince, desiring him to return to Lon
don. The Prince sent back word that
he could weep just as freely for the de-
parted second cousin at Goodwood as in
Marlborough House. The Queen in
sisted on his not going to the races.
The Prince replied that he must where.
upon the Queen, in a great rage, tele-
graphed positive orders to the Duke of
Richmond not to allow any dancing at
Goodwood House during the races.
Thus, the Prince goes to the races in
the daytime, but has to content himself
without tripping the particularly light
and fantastic toe, which he loves to
WELD when any fair danes are about.
l now hear that he will go to Cowes
next week but the newspapers have
been asked not to allude to his pres
ence, as he intends to be at the regatta
almost incognito. The Queen, too,
being at Osborne, would be triAe too
handy for him, and he would in all
probability find that morrymaking at
Cowes was followed by q little enforced
penitence at Osborne. The Prince has
evidently lost none of his original dread
of his august mothers anger,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-07
TENN, OCTOBER 7, 1881.

ment in the papers for the heirs of Lord
Borrowdsle, who had died in London,
leaving his title and fortune to his only
son, Herbert. Knowing this to be your
dead husbands name, / sought ont the
lawyer in the city who had inserted the
advertisement, and telling him l thought
You were Herbert Borrowdale's widow,
l advised him to communicate with you.
This he did, and you received his letter,
called on him yesterday, with Nettie,
and proving yourself to be next of kin
to the departed peer, you received, l
think, papers which will give you your
rightful fortune. Is it not SOP"
eyes, yes p replied the delighted
Mrs. Borowdale. "Lennox, forgive our
unjust suspicious of you. We should
never have doubted your good-hearted.
nessw
He said nothing, but kissed Mrs. Bor-
rowdale, and all that day there was re-
joicipg in the cottage. He did not men.
tion then that he had paid the village
grocer to see to their wants, and it was
long after he married Nettie before they
found it out, and that his cold dcmeanor
was assumed, that they might not sus-
pect who their benefactor was in their
distress.
1t was necessary for Mrs. Borrowdale
and her daughter to go to England to
make good their claim, and after Len
nox had married Nettie, they all three
went. They had little or no difficulty
establishing their identity and gaining
their inheritance. 1t was ascertained
that the ldpeer died repentant of his
injustice to his only son, and had used
every means of trying to find him and
bringing him to his heart and home
again but, living quietly in the seclu-
sion of the pretty little Jersey village, it
is not strange that Herbert Borrowdale
never heard from his father, as they
never coresponded.
And thus we leave our glad trio, living
luxuriously in great mansion in Lon.
don, once children of misfortune, but
eventually made happy once more
Wdrerly Magazine.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-10-07
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Dissolute people let their soup grow
cold between the plate and the mouth.
Learn to say no! and it will be OF
more use to you than to be able to read
Latin.
Zone soweth and another reapeth,"
is verify that applies to evil rs we'll as
good.
No better advice could be given an
aspirant than the terse little counsel of
Emerson: "If you want success, sue
ceed."
A great step has been gained when
one has high standard for himself, and
measures himself on that ideal standard.
10 cover bad life and its fruit the
evil strive to divert attention from our
selves by laying evil at the door Of the
innocent.
Bad habits are the thistles of the
heart, and every indulgence of them is
seed from which will come forth
crop of rank weeds.
Ii is better to be the builder of our
own name than to be indebted by descent
for the proudest gifts known to the
books of heraldry.
1t is very difficult to b. learned; it
seems as if people we're worn out on the
way to great thoughts, and can never
enjoy them because they are too tired.
Life is so complicated a game that
the devices of skill are liable to be de-
feated at every turn by air-blown
changes, incalculable as the descent of
the thistle-down.
A critic, in noticing discourse on
"The Sayingsand Doings of Great Men, "
remarks: ut is sad to observe how
much they said and how little they did"
Temptation is fearful word 1t in
dicates the beginning of possible
series of infinite evils. 1t is the ringing
of an alarm bell, whose melancholy
sounds may reverberate through eter-
nifty. Like the sudden, sharp cry Of
'fire !" in the night, it should rouse us
to instantaneous activity, and brace
every muscle to its highest tension.
As every thread of gold is valuable,
so is every minute of time; and as it
would be great folly to shoe horses with
gold las the Roman Emperor Nero did
so it is to spend time in triAes.
A dull axe never loves grindstones,
but keen workman does and he puts
his tools on them in order that they
may be sharp. And men do not like
grinding; but they are dull for pur-
poses which God designs to work out
with them, and therefore He is grind
ing them.
The gold of the sanctuary must be
tried before it is accepted f; and is thrown
into the fire, not because it is of no
value, but because it is so precious.
1t is, after all, the person who stakes
the least who loses the most. In the
affections this is wholly true, He who
risks nothing loses everything.