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Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

The temporary occupant Of the char
of natural sciences in a Virginia 'iniver-
sity, in Illustration of his unconqnerable
faith, said: ~ hold this pebble up be-
tween my thumb and finger and let it
90. 1t is not grayitation that makes it
fall, but God that just pushes it down to
the ground"
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

Natchitoches indicator The new
bell Of st. Francis Cathedral was ele-
waited to it's place in the northern tower,
last Friday. Messrs. Dolphin, Harkins,
Nayeur and other mechanics, gave their
time and labor to this task, without re-
muneration. They, as well as others
who have given their services gratis,
certainly deserve, as they already have
received, the thanks of those interested,
fol their labor of love, The new bell is
very fine toned and can be heard at .
long distance.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

John JOHNSON, matchmaker and jeweler,
u dealer in jewelry, silver ware, pictures and
picture frames, Third street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

4 pompous lawyer said to the keeper
Of an apple-stand: "Your business cares
seem to wear upon you. You should go
into something that is not so trying to
the BRAIN ooh, faint business, ''re-
piled the apple seller, ''its lynn awake
nights tryin' to decide whether to leave
my fortune to an orphan asylum or to a
home for pIayed-out old lawyers, as is
KILN me-
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

y A. DAY, proprietor Red Stick Drug Store,
ID keeps constantly on banda full assortment
OF drugs and medicines corner Africa and
SOmerulOs streets
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

A fashionable young man had acquired
considerable fame as musical bore on
the violin. One night, at social gath
ering, he announced that he was going
to send for violin and draw few of
Beethoven's immortal symphonies out
of it, as it were. TO his amazement,
all the gentlemen present volunteered
to go for the fiddle, and up to date,
none Of them have got back with it.
For dispensing crowd no implement OF
war has yet been invented to rival the
fiddle.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

A LEXANDRE GROUCHY, proprietor OF tn,
n Capital House, Board by the day. week OF
month with the best the market affords.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

u FEIBELMAN dealer in Dry Goods and
ID the most fashionable styles Of ready made
clothing, hats boots and shoes Main street.
MI j. NJ. PARKER, dealer in Millinery and
wi Dry Goods and fancy articles OF all des-
criptiOus Main street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

w T. CLUVERIUS, Druggist, Bogels old
w stand dealer in drugs, medicines, cutlery
soap, garden seed and fancy articles.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

CHARLES Week proprietor Sumter House
~ dealer in the finest wines, liquors and cigars
corner Third and Laurel streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

/ PHILIP BOTT, proprietor of Bismarck Sa.
- loon and Lager Beer House, corner st. Louis
and North Boulevard streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

w 7. KIRBY, proprietor Ladies' Restaurant
w and dealer in fruits, COneCtOneries, Ci.
Gars, etc. cor Third q Vi Florida streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

NERANDAH HOTEL and Restaurant is
supplied with the best viands in the market.
Third street, G. Cremonini, proprietor
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

u NJ. BROOKS, Druggist, dealer In drugs and
Il medicines OF every kind. cigars, smoking to-
bacco, cutlery, etc, Main street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

II W. HEROMAN, Blue Store, dealer in news
Il literary and fashion periodicals, stationery,
and pictures, Main street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

JOSEPH LARG UlER, dealer i'll foreign and
~ domestic hardware, house furnishing goods,
corner Third and Florida streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

M CHAMBERS, Stationer dealer IN station
lfl cry, books, cutlery, Violin and Guitar
strings, and fashion papers, Third street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

EDW. WHITING, dealer in fancy and staple
II groceries, fruits and confectioneries, ci'
CARS, smoking tobacco, Third street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

W1LL1AM GESELL, worker in tin, copper
w amt sheet iron, aud dealer in stoves tin.
ware and crockerYware cor Third and Honda
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

~ GESSELLY, Civil and Military Tailor,
VI Latest styles, Third Street.
M j. WILLIAMS, manufacturer OF steam
wi trains strike pans, boilers and tanks aud
all kinds of sugar house work, corner OF Main
and Front streets, near the ferry landing.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

IUHN j. WAX, dealer in fancy and staple
u groceries, liquors, cigars, tobacco and Con-
dictionaries, St. Ferdinand street
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

patton Rouge Oil Works, manufacture cot.
- ton seed oil. oil cake, cotton seed meal and
hnters; Front street
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

NEURGE Ii. WILSON, dealer In western
VI produce, groceries, plantation supplies,
saddlery, harness, corner Third and Conveu'
ton streets.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

II. CAPDEvIELLE, dealer in groceries and
~ liquors and ear corn, lime, hoop.pole and
fat boat agent, Front street.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-03

I OUISIANA CAPITOLIAN Book and Job
IL Printing establishment, on Third street, is
one OF the most complete in the State.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
picket fence. 90 uso qua had at a moderate price and On very good

Ipicket fence, 90 uso qua had at a moderate price and On very good
terms.
No. Is A yalnaEle lot in the town of New Iberia, Oh church st,
100 wards from The Methodist Church. very suitable for a residence
or business stand, measuring 2o teet front by 2U iet deep. The
same can be had on q good bargain.
No. Is This beautiful and we'll improved property g situated in
this town on rue dn-bas-de lille. The lot measures 50 leet front by
l Az feet deem = large connections and well furnished dwelling honse,
kitchen. corn Grill. stable and carnage house, bathing room ana Wei
also a large cis,crn. everything perfectly new and enclosed with
q neatly flashed picket fence. Iuis property located in the centre
of the Village offer q good position for a business man with family
plysician. miIiner or hotel keeper and can be had at a very low
price. ~
can he had O n calling at the store of above address. He also has tie
agency for a variety OF movable properties, and parties dealrous Of
purchasing closely would do we'll to consult him. -
A full stock of general merchandise and of The most selected quail
ties is constantly On hand and at the falreSt prices. customers. "h,'e
or coIored n rey that they will always receive as in the past the
best attention.--my "a T9-ly.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-01-15
CONSU CCRi.D,

An old physician retired from active
practice. having hid placed in his hards
by ar East Indian missionary the formnls
OF a simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy aud permanent cure of Consnmp-
ton, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all
Throat and Lung affections, also q posi-
i've and radical cure for General Debility
and ell nervous complaints. after lavi. g
thoroughly tested its wonderful curative
powers in Thousands Of cases. feels il his
duty to make it known to his suffering
fellows. The recipe will be SEM free OF
charge. to all who desire it, with tull d.
rections TO- preparing and successfully
using. Address with staup naming thi.
taper, DR.. j. G. Stone. A North Ninth
Philadelphia, Pa.-Nov. ly.
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Cor, G
NEW ORLEANS, 1880.

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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs,

The Canadian officials at Montreal
have attached the property of the Pullman
Palace Car Company for smuggling. The at
tached includes thirty Pullman cars. The
Government claim $3.50, 600.
The steamer Bath City, which sailed
from Bristol for New York, was wrecked off the
coast of New onndland. The Captain and the
crew took to the small boats, one of which was
capsized with the loss of four occupants. After
three days in the storm, in which the Captain
and five men died, seventeen survivors were
picked up by sailing vessel and taken to Liv-
erpool.
The Census Bureau has issued bul-
letin showing that there was standing Cd the
31st day of May 1880, s0,610, OO0,0 600 feet of
merchantable pine in Minnesota %, 975, OOO, 900
feet in Mississippi. 81, 1872 100000 feet in Ala
bama, 6,6I5, 300 900 feet in Florida, aud II, $685.,
800, 900 feet in Texas.
Some Mexican cavalry and customs
guards had fight with twenty smugglers near
Mier. Mexico. Lieut.. Neza and a corporal and
private were killed. The smuggers escaped in
to Texas. Three noted bandits were hanged
by Mexican vigilants near Renosa.
Mr.. Scoville, counsel for Guiteau, has
received so many threatening letters ;hat Mrs.
scoville is making urgent appeals to Marshal
Henry and the Washington police to protect
her husband and her brother.
James Gordon Bennett cables Secre-
tary Frelinghuysen that two new expeditions
have been sent out from Yakutsk In search of
the shipwrecSed crew of the Jeanette, who are
fourteen hundred miles away. The wherea-
bouts Of Lieut. De Long are not known.
The telegraph does not extend beyond lkutsK.
and there will be no further news from the
sufferers for three months.
DR.. o. G. De Wolf, Health Commits
sioner Of Chicago, has notified Dr. Smith, Quar-
antine Officer of New York, that he will not al
low the smali-pox-infected emigrants, arrived
per steamship westphala, to come 10 Chicago
until they are all well.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Guiteau jurymen, in body, at
tended the funeral OF the deceased wife of Mr..
Hobbs one Of their number.
The Legislature of Virginia elected
II. II. Ri idleborger to the United States Sen
ate. He goes unpledgcd to either party.
The Navy Department thinks it i'm
practicable to send the steamer Rogers in
search of the missing crew of the Jeanette
until spring. The Russian Government Will be
requested to aid the survivors with funds and
facilities to reach home.
The wife of Justice Swayne, United
States Supreme Caurt, died last week.
The President left for New York Dec.
20 on the limited express, accompanied by Pri-
vate Secretary Phillips. Secretary Lincoln left
for Chicago The same day. Friends of the
Pr sident sent two detectives to escort him
from Washington to New York. He was not
aware of the fuct.
Secretary Kirkwood has issued to the
heirs OF the famous Paul Jones, Captain in
the American navy during the War of Inde-
pendence, twenty-seven pieces of bounty-land
scrip.
Postmasters complain that there has
been a loss Of revenue under the present sys-
tenn of partial prepayment of postage on first
class matter, and are agitatng for the abolition
of the practice.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30

The sssassin opened proceedings by making n
half apology for his brutality to George scoville,
CHASING him as fine examiner Of titles, and
Announcing that Charles II. Reed had con-
sented TO assume charge of the case. Judge
Cox stated that be saw Io objection to the par
tcipation Of Mr.. Reed ...------
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30
The Assassin and His Wife.

Mrs. Theodore Dunmire, Tho divorced wife
Of Guiteau, publishes card in relation to the
Wit of herself and her husband TO the as
sassin. She SAYS:
Az we entered the Jail he advanced, and,
shakisg hands, received Us very politely. l in.
qnred II he was feeling wei, aud remarked,
al o, that he had gown much thiuuer and
looked a good deal older than when L last ga
him. liz reply he said his health was good.
Gnteeu theu inq iired the ages of my children,
and first stopped and kissed my 3-year-old boy,
who was standing near him, and then ssCd
my little grl. whom l was holding, and then
remarked they were nice children. Ny hus-
bant, who was standing near him during the
interview, then said quite impressively, adj
dressing the prisoner, II am sorry, Guliesu,
to see you. or any other man, in tie condition
you are ia" The pr,sof or, smi ing sadly, To-
piled, "Ihe Almighty viii protect me-" TIE
prisoner then said he was giad to know that
was well and comfortably settled In life, and
said: "Annie, wish you much prosperity.
wish YOU we'll"
some remarks were then m de with reference
to the climate OF Leadulle, whore we reside.
Dir. Dunnire then shook hands and said !:
"Good-by, Guieau, it is not likely that We
shall meet again" To which he policy bowed
I then babe him good-l y, and remarked: at
makes me exceedingly sorry to meet you under
thu Sc sad circumstance, when the prisoner
smiled in usdued manner and said: canine
the Almie hty vii protect mo" We then quiet
" withdrew, leaving The prisoner alone with
his God.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-30

1877 east. The crew left the ship In
three boats, bat were separated by Winds and
fogs. One OF the boats arrived at the eastern
mouth OF the Lena river. and another boat sue
ceeded in reaching the same spot, but 1t is not
clear from the dispatches that the third por-
ton of the crew in boat No. 2 have been heard
from. The Jeannette is n wreck, q considera-
bic number of her officers aud men have very
likely persisted. the North pole is as far from
discovery az ever, and the Northwest passage,
il there is such q thing, still remains a sealed
mystery.
A bill TO confer the suffrage on all who
can reod and write has passed both branches OF
the Italian Legislature.
Mr.. ODonovan, correspondent OF the
London DAILY Ne,cs, who was recently in
prison at Merv, has been thrown into jail at
Constantinople on a charge of publicly abusing
the Sultan.
A Russian semi official newspaper SAYS
of Mr. Blaine's Panama canal dispatch that no
guarantee of the preservation OF the neutrality
OF the canal will be of any value unless agreed
to by the European powers conformity with the
Government OF the United States.
Gen. Ignatieff has ordered an active
search for The second cutter of the Jeanette.
James Gordon B nnett sent cabegram from
Paris to Secretary FRI lnghuysen stating that
he had transferred 5000 rubles to Gen. Igna-
tieif to aid Capt De Long and his party. The
distance ty wagon from st. Petersburg TO the
point whore the shipwrecked crew are stopping
is 1000 miles
The people of San Domingo are
greatly exercised over the news that United
States man-of-war will survey SANTANA bay. A
revolution has broken out IT Santiago.
A revolution was raging in Hayti at
last advice. The President, Gen. Solomon,
met the rebels at st. Mare defeated them with
a loss of $50 killed on both sides, and then left
for renforccments.
Miss Reynolds, a Lady Land Lacquer,
who was charged with aiding and abetting a
criminal conspiracy to prevent the payment of
rent was ordered by the local justices at Castle
ton, Limerick. to give bail to keep the peace for
six months, or to go to Jail for one month.
She preferred to 60 to jail