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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11
Always Refreshing.

A delicious odor is impaired by
floreston Cologne, which is always
refreshing, no matter how freely
used.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

At Wilmington, Ohio, on the 10th
of January, a child died that was
supposed to have had the chicken
pox. The funeral was largely at
tended, and as consequence there
are over fifty cases of virulent
smallpox in that town.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11
CONVICTION, LA:
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY II. 1882

Many of our exchanges favored
us with fattering notices, upon
commencing a new volume, for
which we return thanks.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

The smallpox patients at the
Wilson House are all nearly well.
There are no new cases of the dis
ease in town, that we know of.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

Guiteau makes frequent use of
the slang phase, "and don't you
forget il" When the final day
comes, and the hangman springs
the trap, he will probably take his
glorious fight to glory shouting:
"And don't you forget it %
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

The Whit,coth Echoes, published
at Brookhaven, Miss, and edited
by Misses Mary Richardson and
Salhe Ellis, at Whitworth College,
appeared to us this week. It is a
charming and ''bang up" little pa
per, and reflects credit upon the fair
Eddie Tresses. We tip our hat
and exchange.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

DELINQUENT Tax SALEs.-Nearly
all of our exchanges are publishing
long lists of property to be sold for
the delinquent taxes of 1SS1.l We
understand that Sheriff Cook will
soon have the delinquent list of
this parish ready for publication.
1t comes little higher to have to
pay your taxes in this way, but it
gives the printer a chance to earn
a little fee, SO we don't propose to
complain about it. The more the
merrier-for Us.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

A short time ago Sullivan and
Ryan had their colors printed,
which they sold to their respective
admirers for moderate sum. And
now Grant is having medals made
for those who voted for him at the
Chicago Convention. Verify, some
men invent. while others initiate.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

Uncle Harry, of the Sugar Plant
er, rejoices over the arrival of girl
baby at his house. He says this is
baby number nine, and that it will
take but three more to make a
dozen, unless he gets another by
way of "lagniappe." Wonder if
he's got a license for dealing in
futures?
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11
THE CORONER.

DIR. George Tebault. of Mande-
vile, filed his bond with the Clerk
of the Court this week. as Coroner
for the Parish of st. Tammany.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-02-11

INQUEsT.-An inquest was held
on the body of Chas. Sharp, last
Saturday. Drs. Chambers and
Randolph made post norton ex-
animation of the body, and the
verdict of the jury was that Lis
death resulted from the effects of a
gunshot wound, supposed to have
been inflicted by w. E. Parker.
ACCIDENTALLY SHoT-Mr. Ange-
lima Mugnier, postmaster at Nah
deville, went hunting last Sunday,
and as he failed to ieturn. search
was male for him On Monday
morning, when he was found IN a
house formerly occupied by Mr..
Cramer, near Big Branch, about
four miles from Vaudeville. He
was SPECIFICS when found, and
had gunshot wound in the left
side of his neck. He was taken
to his home, where he wrote state
meut to the effect that he had been
wounded by the accidental dis
charge of his gun while climbing
over some logs. His wound was
dressed by DR. Tebault, and we un-
aerstand that his condition is very
critical.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
A San Franciscan's Will.


1t can hardlybe disputed that the San
Franciscan who drew his own will, of
which the following excerpt is a good
example, was in a disposing frame Of
mind, though he may have been unwar-
rantly hippant: al, John T. Pentland,
of the city of San Francisco. county Of
San Francisco Il guess it don't amount
to =, anyhow. what county am I'M.
state of dear old California, knowing the
uncertainty Of life and being Of sound
and disposing mind and memory, do
make end publish this, my first, last and
only will and testament, wish it un-
derstood that / am in my clear, level
headed sense, and know just what am
about, and don't want any one-horse
lawyer business fooling around. / do
not believe will die for six months yet,
but want this little business off my
hands," Speaking Of his half. brothers
and sisters, he says: There was chasm
during life; let it be even wider in death.
This deathbed repentance aud pardoning
of old wrongs is all in your eye and
worse than hypocrisy. I don't want any
minister or preacher of any kind at my
funeral. The Masons shall do the entire
work. Gospel sharps and l never flocked
together muchly."
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
The Real Indiana.

A correspondent of the Troy Times
in the far west, writes as follows:
Every tradition repeating the story of
Indian bravery, generosity and hospital
ity fades like mist before the actual man.
The instinct of baseness runs through
the whole family, from King Philip and
Red Jacket down to Sitting Bull. The
common instincts Of savagery are inten-
sified in the race. Brave only in super
ior numbers or under cover; honest only
in hypocrisy; merry only at the sight Of
suffering inflicted by his own hands;
friendly and hospitable only through
cunning; and sublimely mendacious al
ways, the Indian as he is actually known
seems poor material out of which to
manufacture hero or frame romance.
Prominent as he has always been in
American history; always the impedi-
ment TO be removed, and afterward the
dependent to be supported; mollified by
semi annual gifts, oiled and pacified by
periodical talks about the Great Father
and blarney about brothers," through
campaigns, councils, treaties aud tribal
reservations, he has but one redeeming
fact upon his record, viz. that he has
newer Deen tnOtOuBuly IHIutu, hOu ms
never been q servant. Neither has the
hyena. Most efforts in his behalf have
failed to alter his status or change his
life. Almost everywhere the men are
idle and the squaws work. Almost
everywhere, her education is limited to
one lesson-to toll and be silent. Al
most everywhere, he is unwsshed and
entirely naked, save in the respect of
paint, swarming with that industrious
insect to which the Scottish poet wrote
an apostrophe. Almost everywhere,
each family is the manufacturer and pro-
ducer of all articles required in daily
life. Almost everywhere, each family is
self.supporting, and comprises in itself
the whole plan of patriarchai govern
ment. Almost always, the Indian is the
persistent and importunate beggar on
this continent. Almost always, tue CON-
pendium Of an Indians knowledge OF
Eugli.h is the one word "How ?" or
"HoW!' Almost all indians will
Chow" as soon as invited and Ill prodi.
gious quantities.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
ADULTERATED SUGAR.

At the quarterly meeting of the New
York state board Of health, the sanitary
committee, through Prof. Chandler, sub
mitted a supplementary report on sugar
by Albert L. Colby. After reviewing
the work Of others in this branch of an
alytical research, and enumeratiug the
adulterations, organic and inorganic, de-
tected--to wit: glucose, potato and other
starches, -four, dextrine, vegetable al
bumen, blood, fragments of sugar cane,
woody fibre, sporules and flaments Of
fungi, acarus sacchdri or sugar mite,
sand, PARTICLES of stone and grit, chalk,
marble dust, pipe clay, terra alba, gyp-
sum, plaster Of Paris, bone dust, lead,
iron, lime, chloride of lime, common
salt, etc.-Prof. Chandler and Mr.. Colby
show that the sugars now in the market
are generally free from this long list of
insoluble and mineral matters alleged to
be used in former times, and that, owing
to the improvements in the processes of
refining AMI purification and the absence
of rswsugars from the retail trade, most
OF the organic impurities previously de-
tected are now removed, and that the
sugar mite is seldom seem. The sugars
of to-day are, however, subject to adul-
teration by the addition of starch or
grape sugar to the cane sugar, and by
the bleaching of the brown sugars by
tbt use Of tin salts. One hundred and
seven carefully selected samples OF sugar
procured in New York city showed re-
suits as follows: Thirty one were mi
croscopically clean, forty-eight slightly
contaminated with dust, twenty-five con-
taiued considerable dirt, and six we're
very dirty. Forty-one samples of white
sugar were all found to be pure, 8nd in
the sixty.six samples OF brown sugars,
three we're adulterated to very large ex-
tent with glucose and four showed the
presence Of tin.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
Pawnins Human Flesh on the Gold
Coast.

According to writer in the Lagos
Times, of February %, human pawn
system exists in that colony. Itappears
that many persons whose necessities
compel them TO borrow money are in the
habit of pawning their children or other
relatives to the money-lenders of the
colony, who, instead of being paid in
terest in the usual manner, are able to
use these unfortunate creatures until
the loan is refunded, which may not be
for a series of years. The inhabitant Of
Lagos who makes this statement says,
1.-THE pawn receives not a fraction of
payment for his toll. Should he die be-
fore payment of the loan is made, or
should be desert his master, substitute
is to be provided. This wiCkc3 slavery
is prncticed under the eye of British law,
and sometimes by persons calling them
selves Christians. The same writer
states that there are British subjects
residing in Lagos who serve on juries
and perform all the duties of citizenship,
but who yet are among the largest own
ers of slaves in the neighboring terri
tories, and he says that instances have
been known of these resident British
subjects converting their slaves them
selvee, or through their agents, into
money to meet their liabilities.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
THE RENT QUESTION.

The New York Times in commenting
on the Irish troubles cites an interest
ing point in regard TO the adjustment of
differences about alleged exorbitant rem
tails. 1t says: Ireland, peculiar in many
respects, has become the one country,
probably, in the world where a man may
not lease property for what he can get.
Ii the tenant deems the rent too high, he
can appeal to the land court, which has
ample powers to reduce the rent. Thus,
the Irish tenant, already enjoying entire
immunity from CONSUMPTION, SO greivous
iu Germany and elsewhere, is, further,
nov almost secure from the possibility
OF excessive rent, and thus in possession
of au advantage denied him even here.
Iu addition to this, the government is
now about to assume the responsibility
of saying to the tenant, "Your arrears
are forgiven" 1t is very natural, then,
that the tenants iu Skye, seeing what
good things Ireland is getting, should
have wanted some too, and the English
government, having thus iuitiated inter-
ference between man and man in con-
tracts, the chances are that the
principle will extend. Land is
rented enormously high in other
countries besides Ireland. In Belgium,
for instance, where the population to the
acre is the largest in Europe, and where
there is little emigration, the rural pop
ulation only get along by dint of thrift,
industry and skill in husbandry almost
unknown in Ireland. Government inter-
ference to reduce land would be nearly
as great a boon i'll Brabant as in Con-
naught, nor would it meat all amiss to
toilers on the ungrateful soil of Pommer-
ania And then arises the question, If
such a boon be extended to dwellers in
the country, why not, too, in the town?
Here, in this very city, are tens of thou
sIuds to whom rent is the paralysis of
industry. Indeed, it is ayerred that the
evictions here last year actually exceeded
tliose. in ireland and they are briskly in
progress to-day. The principle initiated
by the land act is, then, scarcely likely,
in such days as these, to have n mere To-
ctl action. 1t is the edge and not very
thin one either, of what may prove a big
wedge, and, so far as other countries are
concerned, by far the most important fea-
ture in the Irish campaign.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
A Lucky IhinQ.
tFrom the Wall Street News.l


Two or three years ago there was a
smash-up on the Grand Trunk Road,
and among the killed was woman about
80 years old, who lived ON the line. The
husband was sent for, the body taken
care of, and after few days an agent
went down to see how the matter could
be settled. at is sad thing, Of
course, he observed, "but in o business
point of view we must look at her age.
She was over 80, and in poor health; I;
then she had weak eyes and q bad
cough. She was wife, Of course, but
she was companion in one sense-she
had hacking cough and snored in her
sleep. Take all these things into con-
siderstion, and then tell me what you
will settle for?'
The peppery old man had been moving
about uDeasily, and as soou as the agent
was through be called out;
II don't keer how old she was nor
how bad she coughed, nor how loud she
snored! want this ere railroad COM
pany to come down with three hundred
dollars, or IN sue 'em till they can't
rest And ! want you to understand
that it's - lucky for your internal old
line that I happened to find q widow
ready to marry me week from Sundayl
II / hadn't I'd stuck four hundred II it
busted the farmi"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01

II has been ascertained that T. J. Navin, the
absconding mayor of Adrian. Mich, swindled
the Clark estate to the amount Of S93, 900 by
means Of forged mortgages.
A bank messenger in New York was recently
robbed Of over $4,000 worth Of papers by the
connivance Of q woman. Two days afterward,
in manner precisely similar, one Of Lorillard's
men was relieved Of $1,000 in checks. The
thief was caught in the act, and on his person
was found nearly all the drafts stolen from
the bank boy.
In the st. Louis postofice, on the 2lst inst,
Inspector Schaurte seized q clerk named Julius
Ritchie in the act Of rifing q package Of let
tiers. The culprit confessed that for at least a
year he had been robbing the mails. Poverty
and sickness in his family prompted him to
commit the robberies.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
Suicidal.

An Indianapolis youth named Henry Hilgen-
meyer. aud his sweetheart, Miss Ella Winning,
hired buggy on the 21st inst, drove 10 a sub
urb, and imbibed laudanum, but without
avail. Then they purchased and ate another
poison. with fatal results to the youth. The
girl returned TO Indianapolis and related the
events. Miss Winning is in a delicate condi-
tion, hence the despondency Of the pair.
Price, an Enghshman confined in the peni-
tentiary Of Colorado, literally starved himself
to death. He was an expert knife-thrower, by
which he had KILLED i've men.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
Flash Words.
lFrom Oliver Wendell Holmes.l

[From Oliver Wendell Holmesl
think there is one habit said to
one company day or two afterwards
worse than that Of punning. 1t is the
gradual substitution of can't or fash
terms for words which characterize their
object l have known several very gen.
teel idiots wEase whole vocabulary had
deliquesced into some half dozen ex-
pressions. All things fell into one of
two great cntegories. fast or slow. Mans
chief cad was TO be brick" When
the great calamities of life overlook their
friends, these last were spoken of as be-
ing ga good deal cut up" Nine-tenths
of human existence were summed up
in the word "bore." These expressions
come TO be algebraic symbols of minds
which have grown too weak or indolent
to discriminate. They are the blank
checks Of intellectual bankruptcy; you
may fill them up with what idea yon like;
it makes no difference: for there are no
funds in the treasury upon which they
are drawn.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
A Mothers

kfrom the foutne Comphnion.J
A private letter brings US this singular
story. A widowed lady in New York
gave her cnly daughter in marriage to a
physician who lived in California. The
mother and daughter were deeply at
tachei to each other, and had been in.
separable companions for years.
After the newly married couple had
gone, the mother, who was an invalid,
sank suddenly and rapidly. kilograms
were sent after them urging them to re-
turn, but as their exact course was not
known, the messages failed to reach
them.
The mother grew worse. Her prayer
was that she might live to see her child
again If but for moment. On the after
noon before her death she was left alone
for few minutes, and when her attend
ant returned, she was found sitting up
in bed, her cheeks flushed, her face illu-
minated with delight.
Have you seen Charlotte ?" she
asked. "She has just gone into the
other room.
"Charlotte has not come" they said.
"Oh yes" she replied, smiling, "I
have had her in my arms. kissed her.
Col has been so good to me, to bring
her back in time !" and 30 talking she
sank into an exhausted slumber from
which she never awoke.
Now on this afternoon the daughter
was in Omaha, totally ignorant Of her
mothers illness. Her husband after
| wards wrote that on that afternoon,
being ia their private parjor in a hotel,
she suddenly sank into a deep sleep
which lasted nearly IN hour. From this
che awoke pale and sobbing, saying she
had dreamed she was with her mother,
who looked strangely i'll and exhausted.
The impression, however, soon passed
away.
This coincidence, Of course, can easily
be explained on natural grounds, and
yet one almost wishes that IL could not
be SO explained. We would like to
believe against reason that the mothers
love would be stroug enough to bring
back her child for that brief moment to
ease the pain of death.
In POmpeii, lately, the workmen dis.
covered in the hardened mud If new ex-
cavations, two empty spaces left by de-
cayed aud vanished bodies. The
spaces having been filed as mould
would be with plaster, us is the usual
practice, the figure of a woman with her
arms outstretched TO little boy were
brought to light.
The child wac just beyond her reach,
but as the fiery Hood flowed in upon her,
see had held out her arms to save bim--
in vain. Eighteen centuries have passed
since then. Every atom of that woman's
hoa a..
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01
THE CENTER OF POPULATION.

A volume recently issued from the
census office, embracing a portion of
the statistics gathered at the enumeration
Of 1880, contains, among many valuable
maps illustrating the distribuiIon, dem
sisy and character of population, dia-
gram which shows how the center of
population has shifted from decade to
decade since 100, in it's steady march
westward. What statisticians understand
by the term center of population, it may
he well to explain, is the point at which
equili6rium would he reached were the
country taken Us plain. surface without
weight, but capable of sustaining weight,
and the inhabitants distributed over il
ia number and position as they are
found at the period under consideration,
each iuhabi tant being supposed to be of
equal weight, and consequently to exert
pressure on the pivotal point in direct
proportion to his distance ,herefrom.
The FIRST census OF the United States,
taken in 1870, showed the center OF pop.
ulatiou to be on the eastern shore of
Maryland, about two miles from Balti-
more, and near the thirty ninth parallel
of latitude. From that poiut il has
moved westward at the average rate of
about fifty.ope miles in decade, never
dsviating as much as degree to the
nth or south of the thirty ninth
parallel BY 1900 it was moved forty.
ona miles, aud was found at point
eshteen miles west Of Baltimore. In
1Sl0it was near the Potomac ia Virginia.
n a placs forty. miles northwest OF
Washington, having travelled thirty-six
mixes durirg tho preceding decade. Its
progress in the following ten years was
ff.y miles, and in 1920 il was in the
valley of Virginia, sixteen miles north of
.w,o1stock.
The census of 1880 discovered that the
oeoier OF population. previously little
no 'h ~ the thirfy-lipth parallel, had
passed that line and was trifie to the
so4,a OF Il, at a popt 10 the Allegheny
M liatains, nineteen miles vest of Moor
fli, Va, the progress westwarJ since
1870 being thrty-nine miles. This was
ihc .aost dacided southwark movement it
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01

Near Quincy, NO., on the 28th, while Mr..
+. II. Allison and others were driving along
the road during the prevalence Of severe
wind and hail storm, tree fell across their
vehicle, crushing ii, and killing Allison and
Mrs. Charley, and fatally injhring Mr.. Char
key The Gharkeys leave four children.
A student in the Brinker Military Academy,
Denver, Col, named Herman Wulsten was shot
and killed on the 26th BY W. A. Watson, .
playmate. In boyish frolic Watson aimed at
Wulstsn with an old musket supposed 10 be un-
loaded, when 1t suddenly discharged.
Lewis T. Frye, champion bicycle rider Of the
United States, was thrown from his bicycle at
Marlboro, Mass, on the 26th inst, and fatally
ipfur~J
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-06-01

venerah p maiden lady of Vermont had
made whh her own hands, and sent to
him as pleasant reminder Of the days
Of his boyhood. The kind-hearted
President Acknowledged the favor in a
graceful note, which was printed in the
journsls in various parts Of the country.
At ons( . supply Of confectionery began
to pouE into the White House, and 1t has
been asserted that more than q ton OF
sweetmeats heve been received during
the winter and spring.