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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

COSTLY, BUT Nor DEAR.-A Swede
wisely replied to an Englishman,
when he asked if it was not costly
to take children off the streets and
highways and place them in special
schools, as is done in that land,
where illiteracy is almost unknown:
Yes, it is costly, but not dear We
Swedes are not rich enough to let a
child grow up in ignorance, misery
and crime, to become a scourge to
society, as well as a disgrace to
themselves" To judge from the
above remark, We infer that the
Swedes, as nation, are not as rich
as the people of Louisiana.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18
MIR. Armand Marigny has applied
for letters of administration on the
estate of Armand Marigny, Sr.

GLOVE Found We found a Glove
Yesterday morning near the FARMER
office. which the owner can have
by calling for it and proving prop
erty- Unfortunately we failed to
find the mate to it, hence this no.
tlce. If we had found both gloves,
it might have been different. We
can utilize this one, however, next
winter, by keeping one hand in the
pocket of our new silk-lined beaver
overcoat. In that way it would
come in right handy,"-but we
don't propose to tell which hand it
belongs to until we find out who
cleft" it there by mistake. People
should always keep their gloves in
their pockets if they don't want to
lose them.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18
A Foolish Mistake.

Don't make the mistake of con-
founding a remedy of merit with
quack medicines. We speak from
experience when we say that Par
kers Ginger Tonic is a sterling
health restorative which will do all
that is claimed for it. We have
used 1t ourselves with the Lappiess
results for rheumatism and when
worn out b oyelwork. See adyer.
tisement.-Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

We received rose last Sunday
which was the envy of all observers.
1t was about the size of four terra
pins, only more beautiful, and was
raised at Claiborne Cottage. 1t
was presented to US by Miss Jau-
froid, one of our numerous young
lady friends. "Grand merci."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18
LETTER FROM SLIDELL.
SLIDELL STATION,
st. Tammany Parish, La,
March 8, 1882,
EDITOR ST.. TAMMANY FARMER:

4AMMAN1 Il AhMEk.
Thinking that few notes from
the New Orleans and Northeastern
Railroad might prove interesting to
your many readers, I send you the
following items:
A large mill, owned by Messrs
Hamlet, Bliss & Elliot enterprising
young men from Alabama, situated
at this place. formerly known as
the Robert brick house" is now in
full operation, and employing as
many hands as will apply. The
brick house itself has been turned
into a lodging house. by the enter
prising merchant, Mr.. Beer, of Tai
lulah, who also owns the grocery
store situated a few feet from it.
The name of Slidell Station is
very properly given to this place in
honor of our distinguished diplo-
matist. whose daughter married,
i'll Europe, MIR. Erlanger, of syndi-
cate repute, who, with the lash of
his many millions, lead this formid.
able enterprise to sure and speedy
success. I Say speedy. because the
railroad must be completed by the
31st of December next.
The creosote works, being per-
manently established here, are rap
idly progressing. under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Tobias, an excellent
gentleman.
In the midst of the whir of ma
chinery and the excitement created
by the arrival of all the contractors
and their employees, clearing the
right of way, our minds were agree
ably relieved in our weekly labor
by the soothing influence of Right
Rev. Bishop Xavier Leroy, coadju.
tor of our venerable and bonored
Archbishop. Scientific and learned
beyond the power of my feeble pen
to describe, Bishop Leroy sits
highly on the rock of eloquence,
possessing the natural sublime
Ciceronian simplicity of language
SO unsaccessfully studied by ora
tors, combined with the eloquence
of his Virgilian poetical express
sions. If Demosthenes, practicing
the power of his voice over the
waves of the sea, did not succeed in
arresting them from dying on the
shore, surely will the powerful elo-
quence of our loved Bishop rescue
many soul from the shores of
eternal death.
In my next letter I will furnish
you with full particulars of the
progress made in clearing the road
way, building the bridge across the
Lake, and other matters of general
interest. SILEx.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

Yesterday evening Mrs. Stanley's
child, aged about two years, was
very severely bitten about the face
by a vicious dog. That dog ought
to be promptly killed; not that his
death can in any way ameliorate the
sutferings of his little victim, but in
order to prevent similar occur
renee in the future.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

We have received several copies
of the AGuancs, a new daily evening
paper published in New Orleans.
1t is half English and half French,
presents q neat appearance. It's
motto is "Independent. Vigilant,
Progressive" We wish it full
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

We have received. with the COM
pliments of the author, Mr.. A. j.
Reynolds, of the Donaldsonyille
Chief, copy of a charming new
song, entitled, 81 Think of Thee,
My Love, Tonight" Thanks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18
Mulberries are ripe.

We understand that the Rev. MIR.
Nickers will soon start a private
school in Covingt on.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

Uncle Steve Mizell was in town
last Monday, looking as young as
lie did ten years ago. He retains
his muchness very much for one of
Years.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18
Grateful to InYalids,

Floreston Cologne is grateful to
invalids, because it is ref, eshing
without the sickening effect of
most perfumes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

The Mascot is a fearless and out
spoken illustrated weekly paper
which appears to have undertaken
a general exposition and reforma-
ton of matters and things in New
Orleans. The field for such a
journal is very wide and long
one, but it seems to have under
taken the task in the right way.
If it succeeds in making a clean
sweep Of all the corrupt rings, from
the City Hall to the barrel houses
on the levee, it will have accom-
plished a gigantic work.
The large two-story building. re-
Gently occupied as a Convent, Ill
Covipgton, is advertised for rent
in to-day's paper. This is a very
desirable place fer hotel, or is
well suited for a college. We
would like to see first class col
lege established in Covington. and
believe that such an institution
would be literally patronized from
abroad. as well as by the citizens Of
our parish. No more suitable or
healthy location could be found for
that purpose in the State. See adj
Sertlae.uent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

Mr.. Gustave Dupart, who has
been sojourning in Mexico for sew
eral weeks, returned last Thurs
day evening.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

Constable's sale to-day, case of
Jas. Caramel VS.. c. NJ. Fogg.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-18

IN
Seven worthless ours, in the sum OF
$35, that being his only property.
If he would kill the dogs and be-
come the owner OF seven sheep, his
taxes would be about one-half what
they are now, to say nothing of the
profit at "wool gathering" time.
Work on the new hotel at Abita
Springs, and the Telephone line
from Covington to Ponchatoula,
is progressing with about equal
rapidty. We are sorry to see that
there is SO much competition and
rivalry between the managers of
the two enterprises, as to who can
do the most talking and the least
work in a given length of time. 1t
appears to be a go-as-you-please
race, in which both parties have
gone-to sleep.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
An Encounter With a Bear in a Cave.

Henry A. Hall, one of our most popu-
lar letter carriers, is in New Brunswick,
enjoying a short vacation. Mr.. Hall is
quite Nimrod, and with rifle and fish
ing tackle is making havoc among the
New Brunswick. From a private let
ter we are permitted to make the follow
ing extracts: 81 cannot close this letter
without telling of a little rub have had
since here, though you may think | am
exercising Yankee privilege of brag
ging. Last Monday, when out in the
forest about twenty miles from town, |
came across camp of Frenchmen, where
hired a young boy to guide me into the
woods. About two hours after we started
we came to a cave, and sent the boy in
out of curiosity. He called out there
were some bear cubs inside. Just as he
did so heard a crashing and growing
beside me, and had just time to bring
my trusty rifle to nv shoulder and fire at
black mass that tumbled past me, and
as it plunged into the mouth of the cave
real ized bruin had come back. don't
know how / ever did it, but l have an
indistinct recollection of dropping my
gun, drawingmy bowie-knife, and Jump
ing into the dense darkness of the cave.
1t is as a dream--horrible- and like a
nightmare in which everything is mixed.
remember plunging my knife again
and again into the body, the warm jet
of blood, the tearing of claws across
my body, the hot breath in my face, a
close embrace-then darkness! When |
revived was lying outside the cave
and the Frenchmen were cutting up the
monster, which weighed, when dressed,
450pounds. Petit Pierre, my boy guide,
had been in the cave during my COM
bat, and when the bear fell on me in
his death struggle, he crawled out of the
cave. and ran back to camp. am all
right, or shall be when the marks of the
brute's claws are healed. shall bring
his skin back with me, and | wish l
could give you piece of the beef. y
AuguSta Me- Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
Something About Spiders.

The instinct of animals is always an
interesting study. And it is no uncom-
mon thing to meet with instances of ami
nal sagacity which go to show that ami
mails, even the lowest species, are pos
sessed of a sort of reasoning capacity
which is greater than mere instinct. In
Chambers Journal there is cited an in
stance of this kind. A small spider had
been placed in the centre of large
SPIDERS web some four feet above the
ground. The large spider soon rushed
from its hiding place under leaf to at
tack the intruder, which ran up one OF
the ascending lines by which the web
was secured to the foliage.
The big insect gained rapidly upon
the little one but the fugitive was equal
to the emergency, for when barely an
inch ahead of the other it cut with one
of its hinder legs the line behind itself,
thus securing its own escape, the fero-
cious pursuer falling to the ground.
The writer says: 1T is not the habit
of spiders to cut the slender thread be-
low them when they are ascending to
avoid some threatened danger. AS a
rule, spiders do. not run from danger
unless there is hole close at hand-and
a hole that is known to be unoccupied. ="
From which itwould seem that this little
creatures action was the result of some
sort of reasoning! Instinct led it to run
away, but it must have been something
more than instinct that led it to sever the
line, and so cut off the pursuit
The same writer says that spiders are
cafnibals. and thar Tsliesy aise ,natsssalls
pugnacious. But they do not fight for
the satisfaction. of eating one another.
when two spiders fight there is gener-
ally very good reason for the attack and
the vigorous defence that follows.
/" 1t is not generally known that after
a certain time spiders become incapable
ofspinning a web from lack of material.
The glut;nous excretion from which the
slender threads are spun is notinexhaust-
ible, therefore spiders cannot keep on
constructing new snares when the old
ones are destroyed. But they can avail
themselves of the web-producing powers
of their younger neighbors, and this they
do without scruple. AS soon as spiders
Notwithstanding material has become
exhausted and its last web has been de-
stroyed, it sets out in search of another
home; and unless it should chance to find
one that is tenantless, battle usually
ensues which ends only with the retreat
or death of the invader or defender. u
Youths CODpDd7aiOn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
THERE ROOM ENOUGH FOR ALL.

All, Rover, by those lustrous eyes
That follow me with longing gaze,
Which sometimes seem so human-wise,
IlcOk for human speech and ways.
BY your quick instinct, matchless love,
Your eager welcome, mute caresS,
That all my hearts emotions move,
And loneliest moods and hours bless,
1 do believe, my dog, that you
Have some beyond, some future new.
Why not2 In Heavens inheritance
Space must be cheap where worldly light
In boundleSs, limtleSs eXpanse
Rolls grandly far from human sight.
He who has given such patient care,
Such constancy, such tender trust,
Such ardent zeal, such instincts rare,
And made you something more than dust,
May yet release tn speeches. thrall
AT death-theres room enough for all.
Yes, room enough-the fading flowers
On affairs paint their petals rare,
And in Gods far, celestial bowers ..--
Rebloom with richer beauty there:
The tree cut down in foliage fine ....
May still survive the cruel shock,
And ancient wisdom could divine '' -t'
A spirit in the solid rock. ..-.
Why should such things our sense appallf
God liveth in as over all. -.H
And so my dog, when you and 1,
Our trials past, our labors done,
Lie down both man and brute, TO die,
We each may find some triumph won;
j that my faith in man and God
Has woven me robes of fadeless hue
And softest texture-some green sod
viz !Slsd Iii Mite 3 s9:sa cali
Where there is room enough for all.
..f... Our Continent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Philadelphia man has figured that
he will save $500 on ice cream, carriage
hire and theater tickets this year. He
has married the girl.
Il want a little change" said Mrs.
B. to her husband. well" was the
heartless response, ''just wait for it.
Time brings change to everybody"
There was young lady in Worcester
So scared by Il crow of Il rorceSter,
That her mother cried, Hannah
I'm surprised at your manuah!
Why don't you behave as you uccstcr?
The Boston Post says that Buffalo
IN. W has got the baseball fever so
bad that a man can't catch baby falling
from a second story window, without
yelling " Judgment!'
Oscar Wilde says that he learned
while he was West why Nature is clothed
in green. No doubt Nature is green for
the same reason that Oscar is silly-its
Natures nature to be green.-N T.
Tribune.
-Courtesies at an introduction: First
gentleman Madame, permit me to in
troduce my friend, M. p. He is not
81 VI lOOl ttS llC lOOh''
Second gentleman--''That is where my
friend differs from me, Madame"
"A western young man aged eighteen
has eloped with a married woman OF
three score years. This aesthetic craze
for antiquities is becoming altogether
too general and threatens to cause
trouble. NorTiSt0OR Herald.
"A little daughter of a Methodist
minister was invited by friend to spend
few days with her. The mother said
as she left; Don't You think mamma
will be lonely while you are away,
80, no, the Lord will be with you. and
Pm be home soon,'' was the reply
Iona State Register.
Little Wavy Hair had just finished
her first effort at English composition
at don't look very nice, coz | wrote in
a hurry" said she with all the charming
Justification of those of olderyears. IT'S
about Ned, the black cat You look it
over and put all the little mistakes in,
won't youP" and she tripped away as
proudly conscious as if she hadn't got
her request little in the shape of a left
'.ss.ttNN Oiiil'iiiAlSHb' I| W. CuihiNlS
children. We wouldn't live in a world
without children, and we couldn't livein
the family with some children mostly
''other folkses' children. -NesO Hace~
Register. .. ..
Constable Jones held an execution
against farmer, and when called for
settlement the agriculturist took him out
INTO big pasture and pointed out wild
steer as the particular piece of property
to be levied upon. Jones chased the
steer around for while, and then sat
down, and taking out his book, began
to write. "What are you doing there"
asked the granger. I" Charging mile
age, replied the Constable, without
looking up. do have 1t all to payP"
gasped the rancher. d" You bet" Then
take this tame heifer here. l can't stand
any such game as that. - egmantot0a
Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
LIES Spring Blessings.

He came out of the side gate with a
kangaroo motion to his legs, and an ex-
preston of countenance that would have
frozen a tramp into a solid block of ice
in six seconds. Then he turned, and
while J. ) held to the fence with one hand
he shook the other at the house in a
wild, strange manner. Then he stood
on one foot and felt of the other as ten
derby as if he was caressing new
blown rose. "Was it all there?" He
seemed to doubt, and that same wild ex-
preston tloated over his countenance
again, and again he waved his arm
around his head and, shook his fist at an
unseen enemy-fis oeiiu III harr 5ta
A white, scared face appeared at a
window, and the man danced up and
down on his leg and cried out, liod - t'
g NeveIl never again on earthp'' M
A white hand behind the. glass beck
oned to him, but he waves his arm and
replied:
Il won't! I'll send up six men with
blocks and tackler'
The white face was pressed against the
pane and the blue eyes had beseeching
look, but the man hobbled along on the
grass. and growled out: -aa
I'm smash the internal thing with an
axn
Then a lady appeared in the door and
seemed to want to explain something,
but lhethrew down his hat with an awful
whack and interrupted her with:
" | tell We I'm going down and have
this foot amputated, and when you see
me dumping around with an old wood
en- pedestal you'll remember that told
you we ought to turn the house around
instead OF trying to move that old cook
stove into the back kitchen. Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
The editor of a Boston newspape

The editor of a Boston newspaper
wrote a letter to an out-of-town CORE.
spondent, telling him that unless he. i'm
proved his handwriting. he might cease
his connection with the paper. He had
TO nav his compostors by the hour, he
said. for setting up the correspondent
letters. In day or two the editors let
ter came back directed to the office, with
the following Endorsement from the
correspondence: "a. received this from
some one in your Office. Will somebody
that can write a legible hand please in.
form me whom it is from and what it is
all about?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17

The suntlower season is not far off.
When it arrives we shall be as limp AS
the most pronounced aesthetic of them ali /.
boston Courier. y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17

There is large movement of emf
grants of high class from Scotland to
Manitoba.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17

ne.ks of the Sierras, working hard and cheer
ily Miss Boynt1n's little house oyerhoWeu
with Indian Mexican and Chinese curiosities,
quaint souvenirs of the far Pacific coast, and
1ucy might have walked in silk attire had she
chosen to assume the ''marrowy shawls OF
China Grape, like wrinkled skins on scalded
milk :" and their companion rolls OF stun, that
Tom showered upon the two ladies from time
to time. ta-.
Uncovered walls that bounded 1t.
When the day came that poor old Miss Boyn-
ton entered into everlasting rest, Lucy was
bewildered by her sudden freedom, and the
stirring change it entailed. She was an Eng
lish woman, however, which means one cape
bic of arising to any emergency; and when
the answer to the letter announcing her aunt's
death to Tom arrived, it found her quite ready
to obey its loving behest, and to set forth
alone upon two long voyages. Tom, who was
chained to his post just then, awaited her with
open arms.
Westward she iourneyed brayely through
Atlantic storms; then southwark TO the Ian
guild torpor of the tropic seas, and across the
Isthmus to the calm Pacific. When at length
the steamer passed through the Golden Gate
into the broad Iand-locked harbor of San Fran
cisco, Lucy's heart bea high wi h expectation.
Enough OF her story had become KIN wn to her
fellow -voyagcrs to create in them feeling OF
active sympathy in the expected reunion with
her husband Something very like groan at
his expense arose from Lucy's adh rents when
among the motley groups OF Californians,
native and imported, assembled to greet the
arrival of the ship, no trace appeared of the
recreant Tom. Under he Inspiration of Cali
fornia air, it is barely possible that Mrs. Boyn-
tons Jealous friends might at that point have
been led to visit with prompt public rebuke
the appearance of the missing man. If the
culver of Lucy's lip and her blanching cheek
thus affected them, what would have been the
result of witnessing the bitter, inconsolable
burst of tears with which she shut herself in
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-18
Eastern and Foreign Markets.

NET YORK, May 18th.
BRRApsrURPs-FlouTis steady and Wheat irregu.
lar, latter at 81 40Gl As y bushel.
WooL-California is steady at l2914c for fall bur
~, and l692Sc for clean fall spring bury, 159
lsc; clean spring, 24@32c pulled, 25945c.
HDEs-Caliiornia quiet at 23G23ic.
LIVERPOOL, May 18th.
WHsAT-C California spot lots are firmer at 9s IQd
TO los I'd. Cargo lots are AIS for just shipt1h
igs Cd for nearly due and 49s sd for of coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-18
SCIENTIFIC HANGING.

In the report from London of the execu.
ton OF Lamson there is one statement that
must have certain interest in every com.
munity in which capital punishment is in
ficted by the scaffold and rope-that is,
that the victims death was instantaneous.
He was killed by the fail from the drop
killed instantly, therefore, and did not
linger through twenty minutes of torture,
to die at last of strangulation. Such an
execution is humane, and almost merciful.
1t lnfiicts the penalty of the law and ex-
cludes the gratuitous barbarity of the
bungler. Compare this with the reports of
executions here and the result will not be
creditable to our officials, Sindram was
the other day softly drawn up from the
earth by moose about his neck, and SO left
to dangle until the pressure made by his
own weight should produce suffocation.
All men hanged here die in that way.
One experienced prison surgeon says he
never saw an execution in this city in
which death was caused otherwise than by
strangulation. We doubt if there has
been one since the old. time gallows and
drop was abandoned, for this absurd plan
IN which an iron weight falls instead of a
man. Our barbarous and cruel executions
are reproach to the criminal authorities,
and are due to the defect in our official sys-
tenn which gives us amateurs in office for
all places, even for that of hangman. Mar
wood in England is an exceptional hang.
man. He is a professional executioner.
He has acquired proficiency in the per.
formance of his peculiar duties by practice
and study such as are possessed only where
one holds the place permanently. He is
not a.deputy Sheriff who may 90 out of
office upon any accidental political deal.
We shall not have humane and effective
executions until we have a regularly
trained and salaried hangman, who shall
be State officer, with authority to apply
the penalty of the law at any point in the
State where criminal is condemned.
New York Herald.