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The Morehouse clarion., 1881-08-05
OUR PARISH.
An Invitation to ImMigra Is.

Bartholomew. Aad for the 10
formation Of persons who are
not acquainted with the bounaa
rIes OF Morehouse parish We vii
here state that our parish is il
rather a square shape, bounded
On the North by the Arkansas
State line, on the West by the
Ouachita river, on the South by
a small stream called Boeuh
Bayou and Lake Lafourche, OF
the Northern boundary Of
Ouachisa parish and on the Ea st
by Boeuff river. The hills, Or high
lands, in the parish commence
on the South at the line Of Qua
chita parish and run North
through the parish to the Arkan-
sas line. Bayou Bartholomew, .
navigable stream, enters the par
ish at the Northeastern corner
and runs diagonally through the
parish with a generally straight
course although the Bayou itself
is quite crooked) aud passes out
and into the Ouachita river at
the Southwestern col ner of the
parish. Thus we see this bill
land is divided by the Bayou.
Near the line of Arkansas the
hill lands are about fifteen miles
wide from East to West. And
we might say the whole parish
North Of Bayou Bartholomew is
of this character of country, say
ten by fifteen miles. This por-
ton of the parish had begun to
settle up and improve rapidly
before the War. But owing to
that unpleasantness its settle
ment ceased and there are large
quantities of fine lands for pur-
chase from the government.
These lands are all subject to be
entered under the homestead
act, and to be paid for in five
years. The farmers who live in
that section are all thrifty,
healthy, and out Of debt It is
mostly settled with white people,
but some few colored people
have secured lands there and are
respectable and good citizens
and live we'll. They raise their
own hogs and COWS, have plenty
of bacon, milk and butter of
their own raising, aud with ease
make enough cotton to buy
everything needed that .hey can
not raise. The woods and beau
tiful rolling prairies, of which |
there are several, furnish album
dance Of rich food for both hogs
and cattle. This ought to be and
with proper industry and care
,an be made the poor mans par
adise, fguratively speaking.
South of Bayou Bartholomew
he hill lands are about or an
average, seven or eight miles
vide from East to West: And
sbout the middle is situated the
pleasant and thriving little town
# Bastrop, the parish site. Some
II our most thrifty farmers Gull
lvate these LANDS. Bayou Bar
holomeW is navigable for good
lied passenger boats, usually
DR. at least from four to six
,onths in the year, and planters
q its banks ship their crops to {
larket without the need of
euling; the boats take the cot
~ right from the gin houses.
III along on both sides of the =.
'ayou the lands are very rich 9
I'D fertile. Many large planta- t
ons line its banks from where 4
enters the parish to its mouth. !
he tillable lands On the Bayou :
e from a quarter to half a. mile
ide on each side to where the G
gh lands set in: In some q
aces the high lands come right b
, to the banks of the stream. /,
ne average of what is known as
ayou land is three-quarters of i,
bale Of lint or 1900 pounds Of o
ed cotton to the acre, and "
L. n
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-08-05
SHINGLES IND BOARDS.

Delivered in town or at the stump.
Orders left with j. T. Cole will receive
prompt attention.
july29.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-08-05
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

There will be preaching at the Bap-
fist Church during the year 1891 on the
second and third Sundays and Saturday
nights before in each month.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-08-05

Our parish finances are Ger.
tainly in a healthy condition,
thanks to our very able and Of
dcient police jury. The year is
over half gone and yet the treas.
ury is in condition to meet all
outstanding claims that may ex-
ist against it.
We clip the above from the
Morehouse Clarion. We are
glad to learn that there is an
other parish which has fallen
under the management Of good,
honest and practical men, who
have rescued it from debt and
placed it on a solid financial ba-
sis.-[IberviIle South.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-08-05

METHODIST CHURCH. - Services every
first and third Sabbaths, in each month,
morning and night.
Sunday school every Sunday morning.
j. NJ. MCKEE, Pastor.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-08-05

ADtI O Piis|'C lSIVCa " u
Bastron merchant, under date
July 9th, we have been kindly
permitted to use the following
extract
DEAR SIR.-As [ have been re-
quested by so many of my
former friends and acquaintances
of Bayou Bartholomew to put a
through boat in the trade this
coming season, I have decided
to write you to inform you that
my Company, the Camden Pack
| ct Line, has concluded to place
the steamboat, Earle, in the
Bartholomew trade to make reg
ular trips from Louisiana Line,
or Lind Grove, through to New
Orleans, and to remain perma-
nently throughout the season.
The steamboat, Earle. is less
than a year old, has a nice cabin,
runs very we'll, and about the
size of the steamboat, Clara S.
Ii duly patronized, / am author
lied to assure you and the pub
!lo generally that We will keep a
regular through boat in the
trade every season, to enter the
bayou on the first rise and con-
tinue as long as the water will
permit, just as I used to do with
the steamboat, Bastrop.
Yours truly,
T.. P. DELAHoUssAYE,
The opportunity is now pre-
sented to our merchants and
planters to secure the advan-
tages and conveniencos of a
through boat during the coming
season. Will they take advan-
tage of it? is a question which
they must answer. We believe
that arrangements can be effect
ed With those Of our citizens who
are directly interested, whereby
Capt. DeIahoussaye could bring
the Earle up on the first rise
with the assurance of getting the |
entire Bartholomew business;
AMI to that end we would sug-
gest that he visit our parish at |
an early day and consult with
our people vino, we believe, are
willing, and even anxious, to
pledge their entire business for a |
through boat and Giving prices
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27
Shad in All Seasons
FISH THAT ARE AS FRESH AS
WHEN THEY WERE CAUGHT.

A number of capitalists of PHILADELPHIA
last Spring formed fsh-preserving com
pany, and between April and June 4. no
less than 10000 shad were preserved and
stored away in the warerooms of the
company on Delaware avenue. The shad
were caught at Gloucester, brought alive
to the city, and after being carefully
washed were packed in crushed ice, which
by Il patent process, was frozen solid
around them. Each cake is fortv-six
inches long, sixteen inches wide and four
inches thick and contains ten shad. The
cakes were then packed in patent refrig-
orators with ali average temperature of
twenty degrees above zero, and there they
remain until sold. The fresh shad season
closes here i'll June, but this market was
supplied with shad from the Connecticut
river until July l, and it is only since
then that the preserved shad have been
offered for sale at the rate of $50 per hun
dred. Although the majority of these fish
have been packed away over three months
their scales are as bright, their eyes as full.
their gills as full-cOlored and their bodies
as firm as the day they were taken from
thelr native element. Prominent restaur-
ant and hotel keepers who have introduced
these preserved shad to their guests say
the freezing process has no effect upon the
delicious natural flavor of this popular
| fish.
The demand for the fish is increasing
daily, and the managers of the company
only regret that they did not freeze double
the number they did. A prominent Chest
nut street restaurant-keeper says that
when he first placed these preserved shad
on his bill of fare he did not sell one dav
but since then the fish have become SC
popular that now he serves from ten to a
dozen every day. Yesterday half a
dozen workmen in the cool vaults of the
preserving house were engaged in packing
cakes of the frozen fish in boxes for ship
ment to the West. Thus far the demand
for these shad in Cincinnati, Chicago anC
st. Louis has been far larger than the
most sanguine member of the company
hoped for, and another remarkable fact il
that orders are coming in daily from CapC
May, Atlantic City, Long Branch, Saratog;
and other watering places, This fall tn,
company will freeze 10000 pounds of blue
fish and 100000 pounds of mackerel-
PHILADELPHIA Times.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27
WHOLE NO. 1850.
Advertising Bellies.
WHO WILL SPEND THE SUMNER AT SARA.
TOGA AND LONG BRANCH.

Clara Belle" in the Cincinnati Eaou;y-
eA, writes as follows from New York.
mover feature of the season at Saratoga and
Long Branch will be an ADVERTISING baUo
at each Of those places. Two handsome
girls OF good form and top-lofty STYLE have
been hired for the purpose. They will be
iaShlonably dressed, but their mission
Is not to display dry goods. A dealer in
halr' hair-dyes, washes for the COMPLEXION
anu toilet articles of a beautifying sort
employs them, and will pay their exnen.
Ses. They will serve as models on which
10 exhibit the latest achievements in false
mar and hair-dressing. Their faces will
De carefully made up with such prenara-
tlons as he manufactures
The plan is bold one. but entirely faos.
lble. The hotel balls at Long Branch and
saratoga are open to all who come: and
these two professional beauties are nor
sonally respectable, know how to dance
gracefully, can talk well enough, and will
certainly eclipse most of the amateur
beauties. They will stay at first class
hotels, lounge on the most thronged bal
comics, go to the horse races. and. in short
make themselves decently conspicuous in
every possible way There is a swindle
IN the matter, however, and I'll tell YOU
how. These girls are beautiful when nm
adorned, and the make up of their faces
with washes and pigments is not at all
needed; nor is any particular kind of
braid, trizzle, or switch requisite to make
their head bewitching. But MANY plain
woman will suppose that the same adorn-
ment will produce in her equal attractive
ness, and in that error will be the hair
dressers' profit. 1t depends on the news
papers to let the public know who and
what his professional beauties are. and
whom they advertise, but 1 won't further
his case by giving his name. Both girls
are tall, slender, delicately nodded blondes.
with the air of duchesses, and they come
from East of Avenue A.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27
Current Comment.
PHILADELPHIA EVENING NEWS.

If you like cyclones, go West, young
man and blow up with the country.
Cassius was the first man who refused
to fee the walters Brutus noticed that he
had "a lean and hungry look"
Health boards are much the same all
over the world. Both Paris and London
are complaining of dirty streets and bad
smells.
Considering that this is the nineteenth
century, Guiteau's punishment has al
ready begun. They will not let him read
the papers.
On every anniversary of the Wyoming
massacre the people of that region enjoy
themselves almost as much as the Indians
did on that occasion.
Seventeen little toy pistols in Baltimore
have gone into deep morning for their
owners since the Fourth, and the returns
are not all in, either.
An Erie young man has been turned
out of church for dancing. If he wants
to get back he must promise TO do his
hugging hereafter sitting down,
1t will be difficult to find jurymen who
have not formed an opinion" regarding
Guiteau's guilt, but not impossible. There
is the sleeping Hungarian to begin on.
Doctors will quarrel at the White House
for the advertisement which having charge
of case would give them, but if they
should insert line in q newspaper they
would be kicked out of the profession.
To prepare Southern green corn for the
table, boil it well, and when nearly done
add little salt and ten pounds of sugar
to the ear. Then run through sausage
cutter and serve with files, for sharpening
the teeth.
German students have no end of fun.
One of them at one university of Bonn
has lust been killed in a duel, another is
in hospital hopelessly wounded, and
another at Berlin has had his nose slashed
off in duel with sabres.
Eighteen thousand more females than
males in Boston, says the census man.
That's what makes it so delightful to live
here.-BOstoR Transcript, Just wait till
Mrs, Boston Transcript sees that and gets
home from the springs.
The story of Billy the Kid" should be
published in all the boys papers in the
country, The fact that he was shot down
like dog at the age of twenty might SET
them thinking what internal lies the dime
novel stories always are.
False fronts of shirts, vest and coat are
now furnished corpses by the New York
undertakers for ten dollars saving OF
thirty dollars ON suit. Economy is a
good thing, but when Gabriel gives his
first toot and a lot of New Yorkersa appear in
such ridiculous attire he will not be able
to blow again for laughing.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

GOOD NEws.-No more Chills and Ague
in this section. Our Druggists is selling
an article called Ague Conqueror. 1t is
about the only satisfactory preparation
sold for the cure of Fever and Ague, Dumb
Chills, Intermittent or Bilious Fevers.
The proprietor ofthe Ague Conqueror has
used but little energy to make this medi-
cine known, and yet its sales are immense
in Ague Districts. 1t puriies the blood,
Liver and other Seeretory organs so effect
ually that the Chills do not return even
when persons have had them for years.
Entirely vegetable preparation. Price,
so cents and 81 per bottle. Two doses will
stop the chills.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

went about among the Indians, all of
whom, it being warm weather, were out
of doors reclining on blankets, mats and
skins, on the grass, under trees. l don't
think the ladies of our party slept much
that night. The next day we proceeded
OH our journey as far as Batavia, Genesee
county, when we halted at the hospitable
mansion of Mr.. Lowber for some days,
before going to the Falls
OF Niagara shall not attempt discrip-
ton. could not paint it in language if
tried. To get an idea of it, it must be
seen. Thus you see Mr.. Editor, that 50
years ago, Niagara was seven to eight
days distant from Smyrna, about as long
time as it now requires to cross the CONT
nent from New York to San Francisco.
Now you may take the cars at your door
and in about a day and a nights travel.
stand beside the never ceasing, tumbling,
laundering waters of Niagara.
A party in whom am interested is now
there and perhaps it is owing to that fact
that my thoughts have reverted to my
trip.
The change in the mode of transit re-
minds me of an anecdote of war times.
After our army had laid a rail road track
in certain section in Virginia. A gentle
man who was travelling there inquired Of
negro how far it was to the next town
The negro replied, "well massy, that
'pends on hOw's you travels. Ifyou walk
its right smart ways; If you takes the
stage coach, 'tain't so far; and if you
goes by one of desc Yankee bullgines, yor
most dare now" +, W,
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

HoNoRED AND BLEsT,-When board
Of eminent physicians and chemists an
nounced the discovery that by combining
some well known valuable remedies, the
most wonderful medicine was produced,
which would cure such a wide range of
diseases that most all other remedies
could he dispenced with, many We're
skeptical; but proof of its merits by actual
trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day
the discoveries of that great medicine, Hop
Bitters, are honored and blessed by all as
benefactors.-D Democrat,
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Music HATH CHARMS, ETC.-One of the
great manufacturing interests of Boston,
is the Emerson Piano Company, whose
pianos are used with high appreciation
and satisfaction throughout the world
In recent conversation with Mr.. Jos.
GARNER, one of the pyoprietors, that gen.
tleman remarked: l have used that splen-
did remedy, st. Jacobs Oil, in my family,
and found it to be so very beneficial that
will never be without it. 1t has cured me
of a severe case of rheumatism, after other
remedies had failed.-i&. Louis Western
Wdtchman.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27
SUMMER.
FROM THE JOURNAL OF FARMERS DAUGHTER" BY
ELAINE GOoDALE

She walks between the tassclled corn,
Whose serred ranks her fair face screen;
She greets me with careless scorn,
And scornful laughter rings between.
Black k-haired, red-lipped, her dark, bright face
The toy of every womans whim;
Her form the mould of sensuOus grace,
Supple and smooth and round of limb.
And Is it summer behold
Abreathing splendor stretched and warm?
Within her bosom's plenteous fold
She thrusts brown and shapely arm.
This harvest nymph, whose lOOsened braid
Drops down a cheek of glowing tan.
Incarnate Summer is, and made
To satisfy the heart of man.
Nay, but q simple country lass
That dark abundant beauty wears
Her popped slumbers softly pass
The ripened harvest warmth she shares.
Beside her couch the heat is sore
Her silken couch. with green o'erlaid;
Whose glistening spears pass before.
And leave unhaFmed my barefoot maid.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27
All Sorts from all Sources.
Keep your dog in the shade.

Keep your dog in the shade.
Brewers and employees are still at logger
heads.
This is the weather that thaws paper
collars.
The Whitaker will case is narrowing to
the end.
Shipping is in demand for coastwise
freights.
Hold on to your old tin pans. A tin
pan craze is coming.
Mother Garfield who has been i'll at
SolOn, Ohio, is doing well.
William Penn's remains are not to come
here; that is definitely settled.
John Wanamaker is spending 100000
i'll improvements on the Grand Depot.
Nearly every large school in the South
ern States is said to be a military school.
Guiteau says he was trying to unite the
Republican party. He has united the
whole nation.
General Burnside is getting better. He
has been so i'll as to require consultation
of physicians.
A fund is being raised in Boston to give
poor and infirm persons street car rides on
pleasant days.
General Hooker's grave at Cincinnati is
crowned by lofty granite sarcophagus
which cost $1,000.
A good Democrat in Columbus, Georgia,
has just sent box of fine peaches to
President Garfield.
A mining millionaire recently ordered
| 1000 square feet of books, to be bound to
match his furniture.
We are sending flrs to Russia, wire to
France, and notions to Great Britain.
The YANKEES are coming!
| A company has been organized at South
Bend, Ind, to manufacture agricultural
implements of wood pulp.
On top of Mount Washington the busy
season is well advanced. Excursion par
ties are fairly thronging the summit.
An act of Parliament will be necessary
to authorize the use of the revised New
Testament in England by clergymen.
The postmaster General now commands
a much larger force than our combined
army and navy. 1t numbers $1,000 in oil.
1t must be remembered that six at
tempts have been made on the life even OF
good Queen Victoria. Every nation has
some of its lunatics at large.
Mr.. H. r. Revels, the colored ex-senator
from Mississippi, has been chosen presid-
ing elder of the Jackson district by the
white Methodist Conference of that State.
Some unknown Philadelphian has sent
a $500 subscription toward fund OF SlO,-
600 for the purchase of a cottage at ATTAIN
tic City to be presented to General Gar
field.
Congressman Hurd thinks the tariff
will be prominent issue in the Ohio
canvass this year, and says the Democrats
will take the free trade. Whether they
will treat it as local issue or not, he does
not say.
The business over the West Jersey rail-
road to Cape May and Atlantic City has
increased to such an extent that the facili-
ties provided at the commencement of the
season have been found inadequate, and
number Of improvements have been
made and are now in working order.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Our exchanges frequently quote II hate
a fiji. Darn fli," and credit it to Josh
Billings. Josh has had great many bad
spells, but according to our recollection
81 hate fiji was written by another
spelling reformer.--NorristOt0 Herald
According to our recollection Josh is re-
sponsible for the spelling, but we believe
the sentiment was original with Adam.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

3 RHEUMATIC DISEASES. These ailments
follow from TORPID liver and costive bow
els; the skin, bowels and kidnays failing
in their proper work, an acrid poison is
formed in the blood, which is the occasion
of these acute diseases. Kidnay-Wort
produces healthy action of all secretive
organs, and throws off the rheumatic poi
son. Equally efficient in Liquid or Dry
form. Inter- Ocean.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Probably the boy never lived who, hav-
ing drum, did not burst 1t to see what
made the music. But Vermont has the
champion boy. He broke his drum be-
cause he wanted to see the drum core that
his father spoke of
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Old proverb; "The darkey's hour is
just before the dawn" remarked Sambo,
when he started out before daybreak to
steal young chicken for breakfast. st.-Ne,c
Orleans Times.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Horseback riding is indulged in at Sara
toga to a greater extent than ever before.
Parties of ladies and gentlemen may be
seen on the avenue every morning.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Forced by my political connections into public
life my sunerings were intensified by the comments
of those who saw my face and head covered with
scrofulous humor,p said gentleman recently cured
by Cuticura Remedies.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Is cider temperance drink? Josh
Billings thought not, when it was hard,
and perhaps he was right.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

Some striking farm hands in Indiana
have been burning the reaping machines
known as ''twine binders.n
Smyrna times., 1881-07-27

draper through the Of from
a hnk rigging the with owcatcherhia N
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-18
The African Slave Trade Vigorous.
London News.

From time TO time Intelligence reaches
London from the Soudan which leaves nc
room for doubt that the African slave
trade continues to be in vigorous operation
in that country
1t is, indeed stated that no fewer than
so, 900 to 10000 negroes are still annually
conveyed to the Turkish and Egyptian
ports of the Red Sea, where they are dis
posed of to dealers from all parts of the
Sultan's dominions. Yet it is unauestion-
able that in 1879 Col Gordon dealt what
promised to be death blow to the slave
trade in the Soudan
His Lieutenant Gessi Pasha, who has
lately suffered terrible hardships, fought
and beat the slave traders in pitched
battle. in which they, relying on superior
numbers, made the first attack. Gessi
Pasha inflicted crushing defeat upon the
slave traders, and liberated an immense
number of slaves.
If Col. Gordon had been properly sup
ported by Tewtik Pasha, there is reason to
believe that the slave trade would have
been driven out of the Soudan. Since his
departure his old enemies have to a great
extent regained their former influence, and
have succeeded in reviving on large scale
the traffic in negroes.
It is quite true that that traffic cannot be
effectuall suppressed until domestic slavery
is abolished in Egypt, but yet Col. Gordon's
experience shows that by the adoption of q
vigorous policy the number of victims may
be greatly diminished and the trade render
ed both hazardous and improbable.