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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-04-15
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
POLIO E u R Y
ST. Tammany Parish.

Coy1NGToN, LA, March Ii, 1882.
The Police Jury met at the Court
house on the above date.
Present J. Nj. Allison, Presi-
dent; w. B. Rogers, Milton Burns,
r. Galatas, G. AuLry and A. Cousin.
Absent-James w. Smith, Nj. H.
Crazy, w. Z. Parker and P. Melch.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read.
Mr.. Rogers moved to strike out
the resolution adopted at the last
meeting, appointing committee to
examine all warrants issued pricr
to January L, 1881, and indorse ali
good warrants as valid and de-
stroy all others, as said committee
was unnecessary. Adopted, and
committee discharged.
Mr.. Galatas moved that the reso-
luton adopted at the last meeting,
appointing committee to examine
the books of Mr.. Poole, Parish
Treasurer, be rescinded, and that a
new committee be appointed, to
examine the books Of the Tax Col
lector and the Parish Treasurer.
and report at the next meeting.
Adopted.
The President appointed on Said
committee Messrs. Cousin, Aubry
and Burns.
Mr.. Burns moved that the APP
Iointment of James Fitzgerald.
uverseer on the Lee Ferry road,
from Ooyipeton TO thexard line.
be stricken out. Adopted.
Appointments of road overseers
at last meeting were amended so as
to read as follows:
James Page, from the foot of the
big bridge, on the west side of the
Bogue Falia. on the Columbia and
Pearl River road, to the forks of
the Military Road.
Herman Shoultz. from the forks
of the Military road, on the Colum-
bia road, to the ward line.
j.. L. Phillips, on the Bayou La
combe road. from the corporation
line of Vaudeville, on Girod street,
to the Covington road.
Willy Connaughton, on the road
from Lewisburg to the Covington
road, at Tate Loose.
The minutes, as amended, were
then approved.
Or motion of Mr.. Galatas, Mr..
Reid was elected Parish Attorney,
at salary of 800 per year.
On motion of MIR. Burns, the
lower room in the Courthouse for
merly occupied by the Police Jury
was rented to Mr.. Reid, for the
sum of S25 per year.
On motion ,of Mr.. Burns, Mr.. |
". c. Warren was unanimously in
dorsed by the Police Jury as Par
ish Treasurer.
BILLS PRESENTED.
G. Fl. Cause, to balance due for
making the assessment rolls of
1881, 500, and to amount expend-
ed for poll books, stationery, ETC.,
S11 80.
Approved and made receivable
for taxes and licenses uf 1881.
G. H. Cause, to balance due for
the assessment rolls OF
1880, $50. Approved and made
receivable FOR the taxes aud licenses
of 1880.
W. e. Cook, to feeding and
guarding prisoner, Chas. Sharp, /
from january l to February 1,
1882. So so; to feeding George
Bland nine days, 81 so; to feeding
A. Alex nine days, 81 50; to feed
ing Benjamin Williams fifteen days,
81 so; to feeding Frank Archer
seven;y-two days, $50. Total, sos.
s. D. Ellis, District Attorney, to
Joe Smith to the Peni-
Tertiary, at October term, 1881,
of The District Court, SIS; to con-
yicting Joe Silva to the Parish Jail,
at the Nay t I'm, 1881, Of the Dis
trict Court, $40. Total $50. APP
proved. !
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-04-15


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Can also be sent safely by registered
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hshed 1858.
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Will keep on hand fresh supply Of
Groceries and Canned Goods. Also, q
complete stock of Dry Goods and Ready
Made Clothes for Ladies and Children.
The largest stock of Mems, Youths and
Boys Clothing and Hats. A fine assort-.
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All the above goods l offer at stricfhg
city prices. Full weights and measures
guaranteed.
Goods delivered in Coyipgton free Of
charge.
h'qhestpriee paid for coaatry produce.
des1 #
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Gems From Emerson.

The publisher of the Literary News
offered prizes for the most striking and
characteristic sentences from Emerson s
writings, those four persons whose
sentences were the most frequently
quoted by all the competitors to have q
prize. There were forty-nine Compel
itors. The highest number OF votes
given to the same sentence was twenty
four. The following seven sentences
received from twenty-four to eleven
votes each in their order:
I. Character is higher than intel
lect. A great soul will be strong to
live as well as to think. THE Amer
icd1, Scholar.
26. His heart was ns great as the
world, but there was no room in it to
hold the memory of q wrong."-O1g
Lincoln.
43. "The fountain of beauty is the
heart, and every generous thought IL
Illustrates the walls of our chamber. -
Society and Solitude.
48. 1.-THE ornament of a house is the
friends who frequent it"-Essay on
Domestic Life.
10. Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm, "-ESSGy on Cir
Giles.
Z. "There is no beautifer of COM
plexion, or form, or behavior, like the
wish to scatter JOY and not pain around
us. Essay on Behdvior.
"a. "The finest and noblest ground
on which people can live is truth; the
real with the real; ground On which
nothing is assumed. Essay on the Stt-
perlatiUe.
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in trarnps here. Perhaps they would at
Nichols, across the road
But said Tom, his little lips trem-
bling. II-loYe your
Mothers lips trembled, too. That's
a very strange thing for strange man
to say to me. What do you mean, sir 2
And then, somehow, she shut the door
In poor Toms face"
sob, OH" broke In Frank; show
could shedo it? how could you let her,
auntie? It was just meaner than-oh,
auntie, how mean it wasl"
But by this time mother had gone
back into the sitting-room and into her
chair, looking so pale, began to under
stand she was giving her darling boy a
lesson-but she nearly broke my heart
as well as Toms and her own in doing
it.
Eight o'clock came, and with it, fall
tering slowly came Toms steps on the
porch. He rang the bell, but it only
tinkled feebly. This time Yeall sprang
to meet him, mother leading us and
opening the door.
Would you?' sobbed poor, tired
Tom, would you-wouId you let me
come in and let me warm my poor little
hands? l am-Jennie, I am so sorryr
"In minute, in a second, Tom was
folded in mothers arms, sobbing, re-
pentant wet, drabbled-yes, we were
all sobnng."
Well, auntie," was Franks comment
i think Uncle Tom was just brick !"
emphasizing the last word with thumr
of his clenched fist on the white rug.
mo, [ think mother was the brick as
you say. At least, all she ever after
that had to do to dispense Toms TEN.
per was to say: Does my little boy
wish to be taken at his word ?'"- Wadt
ArdLe.
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HISTORICAL NOTES.

MoKAMMED was born at Mecca about
$40.
The Franciscans arrived in England
in 1924.
CHRISTIANITY was introduced into
Japan in 1549.
THE first regattas were held in Ven
ice, whence they were introduced in
England in ITS.
THE first prayer-book of Edward vi.
came into use by the authority of Par
lament on Whit-Sunday, 1549.
The manufacture of porcelain was
introduced into the province of Helm,
Japan, from China in 1913, and Helm
ware still bears Chinese marks.
THE first coach that was ever in
Scotland was brought thither in 1861,
when Queen Mary came from France.
1t belonged to Alexander, Lord Seaton.
THE common law of the town of
Bigorre was compiled by assembling all
the old men and writing down such
customs as they declared to be law.
THE will Of Peter the Great, written
as he lay dying in the arms of Catherine,
was: "Let everything be given TO-"
Catherine took the benefit of the doubt.
THE Spartans asserted that Lycurgus
brought complete copies Of the Iliad
and the Odyssey to Greece, having OBJ
tanned them from Che Creophylidm, a
poetic family of Samos.
THE choruses in the ancient Greek
plays were paid in turn by citizens
chosen from the ten Attic tribes. to su-
perintend and furnish the dress and
musical training of the singers. He
whose chorus surpassed the others re-
ceived q prize.
WHEN Drake returned from his voy-
age around the world in the Golden
Hinde, and entertained Queen Elizabeth
at Deptford, the crowd was SO great
that the bridge broke down, and many
persons were drowned.
In 1856 Cromwell, doubtful Of the f.
deity of his English soldiers, provided
himself with life-guard Of 100 Swiss,
concealing his design by bringing over
many families from Switzerland and
settling them in London, SO that the ar
rival of his mercenaries was hardly no.
ticed.
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Remembered.

The Kentuckians tell with keen zest
even now many anecdotes illustrative of
the kind heart and fine courtesy of
their old idol, Henry Clay. The follow
ing we do not remember to have seen in
print.
On one occasion, when q young man,
Clay was. travelling up the Ohio on
small steamboat. He was taken sick
with violent cramps and collie. An old
colored woman who was on board took
charge of him, administered medicine,
etc, and nursed him faithfully until the
boat touched ut Wheeling, where he
could be put under physicians care.
Ten years afterward Clay, then at
the zenith Of his fame. was making a
political speech in Louisville, from the
steps of public building. The square
was crowded with men, while line of
black faces fenced them in. In the
cheers that rose when the orator had
finished shrill voice was heard:
God Dress Mars Henryi"
Mr.. Clay, who was surrounded by his
eager friends, paused.
"A moment, gentleman. I think I
hear the voice of woman who was
very kind to me-" glancing around
searchingly. "There! That old mann
my on the edge of the crowd. / should
like to see her ..
He stepped down into the street, and
way was eagerly made for the old wom-
an, who was brought up to shake
hands with the great man. 1t was the
proudest moment of her life, and the
happiest. But Mr.. Clay was not satis-
fed with comforting this simple pleasure.
He procured situations for her husband
and sons, which enabled her to spend
her remaining years in comfort
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had provided it, True, she had used
his money IN bringing it all about, but
how else could his money be of use to
him? Who else could have turned it
into just what he needed day after day
for years? And he began to have an
underlined feeling that it took more than
money to make home. He glanced at
his wife's face as he buttered his last
slice of bread.
I was not that OF the fair, rosy bride
whom ne had brought to the mills years
before, but at that moment he realized
it was far more dear to him, for he
knew that she had given the bloom and
freshness of her youth to make his
home what it was. His daughters had
her rose-leaf cheeks, his sons her youth
full vivacity, all had her cheerful, win
some ways, and comforted him as she
had in those days when, hardly know
inc what care meant, she had lived for
him alone.
And a new thought came to him,
"Who was comforting her now, when
she had so much care? Was not that
what he promised to do when he
brought her from her old homer" He
sighed as he thought how far he had
drifted from her when in bondage equal
to Cufee's. Nay, he felt that her chains
were far more binding than any which
had ever held the negro, and that
his obligations to her were so much the
greater.
Something called the children out of
doors, and Mr.. Jarvis took his easy
chair. His wife came and stood beside
him. II fear you are not well, Donald;
are you displeased with me?"
He drew her into his arms and told
her how her words had showed him
what manner of man he was, and there
were words spoken which need not be
written, but from that time forth a
different man was proprietor of the
JARVIS mills, and there was a brighter
light in Mrs. Jarvis eyes, for at least
she had something of her own, nor has
she regretted that she applied for
wages :"
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I'm bandit bold, with lust for gold, and
heart that knows no fear;
rob and slash, and plumber and cash through
out the joyous year.
Fly Iayorite food S Eunpowder and blood, washed
down with whisky neat;
And I'd rather kill than have my bll OK Demon
100 dinners to eat.
You should see my mien as board train and
my pops on the passengers pull.
The way do it is quite too too 1t indeed is just
awfuliy awful.
The ladies squeak, and the gents, so meek, pass
out their wallets rtoh
And I gather them in-the diamond pin, the
watches, and rings and SIGH.
AT home with the boys, all my household joys
are eSthetic and chastely gay;
We have prayers with meat and there's always
seat when the parson comes our wayi
For pa wore the cloth, and, though may be ofis
ma hasn't forgot her place,
And there's never dollar that / may collar to
which she don't say grace.
POSTSCRIPT.
Communicated through Madame de Limerick,
seventh daughter of a seventy seventh son, born
with a caul. Ladies, so cents; gents, s1.l
BY treacherys bolt from an army Colt was
kicked into paradise,
And now frolic on wings angelic IN the man
sions of the skies.
I've job on hand, and it looms up grand-just
whisper to them at home;
Jack Sheppard and me has it fixed, you see, to
capture the Golden throne.
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No scientific discoveries have been
made In our generation of greater i'm
portance than those of NJ Pasteur. As
many of our readers are aware, they re-
late to the propagation of disease
through living organisms, those known
as 6dct{i and bacteria being most fire.
quently connected with the morbid pro-
cesses of disease. NJ. Pasteur finds that
these microscopic forms of life exist es-
pecially in dead bodies; that they work
their way up through the soil to the
surface, are taken into the intestines of
grazing cattle or are distributed by the
winds, and so, it would seem probable,
propagate whole school of diseases
such as smallpox, scarlatina, typhoid
and typhus fevers, diphtheria, tubercu
lar consumption, pneumonia, erysipelas,
etc, ETC., and perhaps yellow fever. M.
Pasteur mentions the splenic fever
which prevails in France and other
countries of Europe, and which annually
destroys thousands of cattle and sheep.
In one such case he discovered that an
epidemic of this disease was followed,
after some years, by fresh outbreak
among cattle that had been grazing
where, previously, victims of the same
disease had been buried under the past
ures The little bacteria had worked
their way from the buried carcasses to
the surface, and were found in swarms
in the intestines of earth-worms gath.
cred there.
1t ought to be the business of scien-
tifc people to show the relation of
these facts-if they can be accepted as
facts-to our present method of dis
posing of the dead. If the breezes that
blow from Greenwood, Mt. Auburn and
Laurel Hill are laden with germs that
propagate the diseases that have al
ready slain our kindred, then the most
expensive feature of those cities of the
dead is not their costly monuments. It
is worth while to ask ourselves whether
the disciples of cremation have not
amendment is not needed in the modes
of burial which, in this country espe-
cially, seem designed to resist the ope-
rations of nature as long as possible,
and so to make a dead body source of
indefinite evil
Indeed, the whole matter of our bur-
ial customs is one which urgently needs
revision. It is astonishing that, in con-
nection with risks so many and various
as are involved in our modes Of burying
our dead, there should have been, in
modern times, SO little care and fore
thought. The jewellers in proximity to
graveyards who have been poisoned by
their drainage include vast multitude
whose number has never been reckoned.
Century Magazine.
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Life In Texas.

1t was weary, worn traveller riding
along through the swamp country on
horseback one afternoon; and as he
came along to a settlers cabin on the
mountain road he asked of q man lean
ing over the gate:
"Can you tell me how far it is to the
town ahead?"
II reckon I kin, stranger. You will
have to peg along fur about nine miles
yet"
"But it is nearly dark Is there no
tavern on the road?"
Never heard of any, and I've packed
my corn meal over this road risin' Of
twenty years"
"But perhaps I could put up some
where?"
"P'raps We could. There's Steve Tay-
lor's down about four miles, but he'd
beat ye blind on old sledge. There's
Nose Smith, mile higher, but Nose
would feel offended if We didn't trade
him that boss for q stub-tailed mule.
Might put up at Green's, but there's
lots of rattlesnakes around his place.
Kurnel Johnson is down about six mile,
but the Kurnel would turn We all out
doors Mt midnight if he found that We
didn't vote his way"
But what am I to do?"
"Waal, I'm q squar man, stranger,
and the best l kin do is to ak We to stop
here with me, an to tell We beforehand
that if We are wakened in the night by
shingles bein' ripped off and logs pulled
down it won't be an avalanche nor cy-
clone, but only me an the old woman a
tryin' for the two hundredth time since
the war to see who handles the money
when | sell two coon-skins for dollar"
I'll guess I'll go on" faltered the
rider.
"Ke-rect! stranger The last man
who stopped here said he wished he'd
have run the chances with the snakes
down at Green's, an gin him my hand
when he rode off. I'm squar' up and
down, as 1 told We, an Green's is the
third cabin on this side arter We cross
the creek. "-Te1ds Oddities.
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StOp-OYer Checks.

A regulation by railway company,
by which one who has paid his fare be-
tween two points on the road, but de-
sires to stop over at an intermediate
point, is required to procure stop-over
ticket from the conductor, and present
it to the conductor of the train ON
which he seeks to complete his Jour-
ney, as evidence of his right to do so
without further payment, is a reasona-
bic regulation. If the passenger, in
such case, asks the proper conductor
for stop-oyer ticket, and through the
conductors fault receives instead only
a trip check, the second conductor may
still demand of him the additional fare.
and upon his refusal to pay it, may
eject him from the train at some usual
stopping-plaee, using no unnecessary
force; and such election will be no
ground for recovery against the com
pany, though such company will be la
bic to the passenger for the fault of the
first conductor. -Atbdny Lac Jour
n7nI
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OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
Fairy Folk.

DO believe in fairy stories?"
Darling, of course, do;
In giants so tall,
And Titania SMALL,
believe in them all.
Don't you?
Was there ever any Red Riding Hood?"
Oh, yes: without doubt.
There are wolves to-day,
70 lead You astIay,
When they come in your way.
Look oUtl
and was there really Cinderella,
With naughty sisters?' Why, yes,
I've met with her since;
And, though proud ones may VINCE
She'll marry the Prince,
guess.
And was there Blue Beard?" Yes, my darling
There was. But the boards turned red.
If you tread on his toes,
Or his secrets disclose,
In minute off goes
Your headl
And the fairy folk viii never, no never,
Refuse to help yon along,
If you form an alliance
With first-class giants
And bid defiance
To wrong.
Love and Duty are real twin fairies,
Beautiful, good and true;
By them we're attended;
By them we're commended;
l think they're just splendid
Don't you?
--Nelc York IndepeTldent
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MURDER AND R0RnRRY.

A Banker st Waupaca, Wis. KIu.d hS
unknown Persons, and tie BAN, vs,;it
kobbed.
II C. Mead, an eccentric bachelor, who for
thirty years has done 2, banking business at
Waupaca, Wis, was shot dead at rear win
dow Of his Office as he sat writing at table.
His nose, eyes and part of his brain were
torn away by the discharge. The murderers
then cut the wire screen, entered the apart
ment and rifled the money-chest Of
several thousand dollars. A dispatch from
Waupaca gives the following particulars
of the tragedy: Mr. Mead had been in the
habit Of sleeping near his treasures and tax
ing his meals at the hotel, and when he did
not come to either breakfast or dinner a
messenger was sent to learn if he was sick
Repeated knocks on the bank door brought
no answer, and the back window was used
az O means OF ingress On the floor lay the re-
mains of the banker, with blood spattered all
over the walls while large pool had gathered
around his PROSTATE body A jury was inn
paneled and an examination showed that
MI Aead's death was caused by gun-shdt
me gun had evidently been placed in the
rear window of the building, as the wire
screen was found torn on and the window
lowered He had probably been sit
ting ut a small table in the back
room writing, and, hearing a noise at
the indow, had turned around, only to re-
ceive the full charge from both barrels of the
shotgun in his face, The nose, eyes and part
of his head had been completely torn off.
The aSsaSsins then seemingly went to the
safe, which was still un ocked and rified the
chest, taking away several Thousand dollars
in currency, gold and bonds 1t is known
that Mr.. Mead was worth more than $780,
COO
The bank is a one-story wooden building
the front room being used for business, while
the rear room was the sleeping apartments
of the murdered man Not FIVE feet from
where his bed stands Is a window without
bars, and the sill is about five feet from the
ground In this room Mr. Mead had slept
and almost lived for twenty-five years, hav-
| ing no children. His peril was often men,
| toned to him. and h answer was that he
had never harmed any one in his life and
that, lift was his money that was wanted, it
would not be necessary to kill him
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

MUSK and nutmeg melons cut in
slices, with pepper and salt scattered
over them, make good beginning at
the breakfast table.
If You find that your stoves that are
put aside for the summer are rusting,
rub them over with little kerosene.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-13

A CINCINNATI society reporter has
mysteriously disappeared, and foul play
is suspected, although it is possible
that he is hiding somewhere in the
Rocky Mountains, as he is well sup
piled with railroad passes. His last
article was an account of the marriage
of pork-packer's daughter, in which
he used the term swell wedding" It
came out in the papers "swill we'd
ding. "-PbiladeEphia NeaUs.
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AN exchange attributes this to ODon-
ovan Rosa, describing his captivity as
Fenian: II was obliged to ate on all
fours, wild me hands tied behind me
backp