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The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09

DANDoR THAT PAYS. - The
eolored voters are beginning
to understand politics an well
If not better than most white
voters, One of the candidates
for an office at the municipal
election In Austin not long since,
relied on the fidelity of an old
family servant to help him out
among the colored voters. The
candidate was beaten. After
the election he was told that his
eolOred political friend had vot-
ed against him. He did not
believe it, but, meeting him one
day the ex-candidate said:
I'LL give you q dollar, Jim,
u tell me whom yOu voted for"
81 voted agin you, boss
We'll. here is the dollar for
your candor.n
Look heah, boss, eff yer am
gwine ter pay for de candor, /
mont as well own UP. / voted
Agln yOu free different times.
Free dollars NOAH, ifyou please,
boss -1s5as Sittings.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09
FOR SALE
EOR SAFE.

HFdDM SAA4HGs
90 ACRES OF LkND-5O acres enclosed
HUI and in cultivation, balance woodland
with dwelling, two corn cribs, kitchen,
snoke-homse, etc, situated twenty miles from
Opelonsas. and five miles from prad'honfine
City, on west side of Bayou Mallet. Terms
part cash, balance ON time. For particulars,
apply at the COURIER office. apl5tf
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09
Din. LANDRx O.
STEAM PLANNING MILLS.

"
STEAM PLANNING MILLS,
On Carriere ST., East of Railroad,
WASHINGTON, LA.
FTONGUED AND GROOvED FLOORING
4 and Ceiling and Dressed Weatherboards,
furnished to order. Special attention of
builders is called to my facilities for execnt-
ing every variety of
Planning Mill Work,
and all who are accustomed to sending to New
Orleans for work of this class, can save Time
and Money by patroiizing a home institution.
Particular attention will be given to making
Door ana Window Frames.
We will also make all Kinds of mouldings. plain
or moulded base; Cornites of any design,
Store and Office Fittings, such as
Counters, Shelcings, Dro,ccrs, Desks.
Office Screens, HIND Rails, Bdiusters
(plain or mouhledl Mantels tplain or fancyb
Church Pews, Pulpits, etc., etc.
In starting this enterprise, we hope to supply
a want long felt iii this part of the State, and
trust by strict attention to business, prompt
ness and fair dealing to merit public patron.
age. Terms cash.. Address all orders, or tof
estimates, WIN. c. CLOYD & CO.,
may20t Washington. l.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
Posi- OFFIcE, Opelonsas, Dee. /, 1890.
an aud after this date, the Post Office at
close Mt 4 y. nj. every day. On Sunday it
will he closed all day.
Money orders issued, and letters registered,
from 10 a. III. till A p. Ill. Positively, m orders
issued, nor letters Registered, except atithia those
hours.
ARRIVALS OF MAIL.
New Orleans and way mail at f:Gn p. in. daily
Alexandria /" $50 a. III. Z"
All mail matter must be deposited in the
office before 8 p. NJ. every day, otherwise it
will lay over one day.
id Lofts DESMARAIS, p. n.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09
FOR RENT.

A NEW, comfortable, roomy and conve.
IN niently arranged dwelling. with 4 arpents
of ground, situated in the eastern limits oil
Opelonsas. Apply to JAS H. HOUSTON,
July 3, 1882. agent.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09
SCHOOL
FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN.
Al Franklin College Buildings.

Rss1 and 1883.
TNgHE Third Session of Capt. John M. Tay-
loris School for Boys and Young Men will
open ut the Franklin college Buildings; on
Monday, the 18th Of September, and continue
for a period of ten months.
Primary Grade, per month. 90
Grammar Y ---..--.- 3 00
Academic !. --. Z w
Tuition payable invariably at the end of
each month. No deduction for lost time, ex-
cent III cases of protracted illness jy29
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09

There Is one man id Michigan,
~ whose presence, as soon as he
gets well, il will be fatal to men-
Epn warm weather. He got on
top Of y barrel to fix a hammock
90 hls porch. The barrel head
cared ID under him ; then the
narrel upset and rolled down
1lle steps and clear across the
yard with the man in il. When
'tElls trouble began ii was only
common salt barrel, and would
10Y bold oyster shells, but when
AAe man got out, its inside was
thoroughly lined with hair,
paeces of skin, clothing and pro-
ssas language that it is thought
lsEg0lsnm oil wouldn't leak
through II.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-09

mr. M0nper day At home SansFIea .,rth
VI ID XIIts5 free. Address Ssiasr' ~
w WEUPoraEandr Msiasi d : rs Is
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
Valuable Improvements.

We have just ordered from Barnhart
Bros. ~ Spindlcr, Chicago. large guam
tity of new and elegent job type, to-
gether with two new presses-the Cor
don-the finest machines made. These
additions to THE FREE PRESS have
been made necessary from our rapidly
increasing job and blank book work,
and will enable us to successfully COM
pete with Chicago or ST. Paul either in
prices or quality of work. We have
without exception, the finest job prin-
ter that ever occupied position in this
city, and with the new facilities provid-
ed will turn and send out such work as
cannot fail to tickle the fancy of the
most particular.
Our bindcry will Immediately receive
new additions, and with a gentleman
from Chicago at the helm who is supe-
rior to any workman that ever held Il
position in Southern Minnesota and
equal to the very best in the city, We
shall excel in this particular branch,
and only ask Il continuance of that cor
dial support which has been accorded
us since we ventured to inaugurate this
long needed enterprise.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
The County Pair.

The Agricultural society Of Blue Earth
county, closes its three-days session to-
day. It has proved grand success in
the name implies. Beautiful
weather has smiled upon the manage
ment from the outset; the display of
stock and products were abundant and
varied. bountiful crops have cheered the
farmers hearts. Gwakened them from
their lethargy into new life aRd action,
and the crowds which were daily upon
the grounds justify the belief that
greater interest will be taken in our
County Fair, than there has been here.
toforc. If those of our people who are
disseminated with their location, and
feel that other localities are enjoying
greater privileges than they. let them
take short vacation and look around
and We venture to say that they will
return satisfied that no county offers
greater attractions for pleasant home
and general prosperity than Blue Earth
county. And an annual gathering OF
our Produces of stock and farm prod.
ucts, striving with honest competition
lends on incentive worthy Of emulation
and which should be encouraged IN
every Legitimate manner possible.
When we say that no county in Min
| nesota possesses the same advantage
for diversified agriculture and stool
! raising as does Blue Earth, we do &c
without fear of successful contradiction
and but once give or county tgo o
three good crops, and every little yillsg'
and town will boom with new life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
Thunder and Hail.

The worst thunder and hail storm
that has visited MankatO since two
years ago, was last Saturday night, or
more properly speaking, Sunday morn.
ing. The mutterings of thunder were
heard early IN the evening, and increased
in tone until midnight when vivid fash
es of lightning accompanied each re-
port, making the very earth tremble.
About two o'clock the thunder and
lightning kept up continuous fusillade
startling the sleeping ones from theiI
beds. Hail fell thick and fast until the
ground was completely covered. Some
of the stones were as large as walnuts
Sunday morning the damages were re-
ported. Fruit and shade trees wert
stripped of their fruit and foliage. sky
lights were smashed to atoms, while sew
erai tall trees in the yard of d. L. Glenn
ents were struck by lightning. Only ,
fey animals were reported killed. The
storm did not extend over a very large
extent of territory however, and it wa!
owing TO the remarkable stiffness of tho
air which prevents us from recording
long list of casualties.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15

The schedule adopted by the Chi.
cago dealers is that all seed passes for
No. If dry and hard, but 7 per cent.
of dirt is locked a of one per cent.
and every additional per cent. of
dirt to ID is locked ID of one
cent per bushel. When this per
cent. of dirt is reached, every per cent.
above that amount of dirt is locked
y of one cent and so continued
for every per cent. of dirt con.
tanned in a bnshel of seed. Any seed
containing dampness is condemned
and rejected, and the farmer must
accept just what he is rendered.
Now in contrast to this, the method
adopted for handling the crop Of flax
seed of Minnesota and the North
west by the buyers of our State is
that all seed which weighs SO lbs,
regardless of dirt. is received as No.
l. Seed weighing less than So lbs.
and above So is locked 3 cents per
bushel as given by the above seized.
ule, But here comes In the graft
flying intelligence that the entire crop
of the Northwest will all grade No
l. To be sure there is more or less
dirt mixed, which, on the Chicago
process of grade would suffer depre
citation in price, but with the dealers
of Minnesota this is not so. A
gentleman residing In our own locality
recently shipped q car load of seed Il
Chicago, and when his returns wer'
RENTED found that a considerabl,
per cent. had been charged as penal
ty. in addition to the amount of dirt
thereby losing to him quite u sum o
money. He has since sold his cro]
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
A Propitious Season.

Never was fairer weather for harvest
ing, stacking and closing up of the
seasons work than the present year has
been. In early spring, Vennor, the
Canadian prophet, predicted wet and
cold season, to be followed by a second
season of the same kind. But perfect
as science apparently is, it can't reveal
the ways of Providence. The past
year has also greatly encouraged all
classes in Southern Minnesota, espec-
ially the agricultural, and through
their prosperity will come the prOspcri-
ty of all other classes and corporations,
for upon the tillers of the soil do the
material interests of our entire country
rest. 1t may seem improper or injudi-
cious to mention the adversitles Of any
particular section of country, especially
your own, but We are not prone to ex.
aggeratiOn in eXtalliug the many vir.
tues which our section possesses and
upon the other hand are not ashamed
to admit of any Universities which have
visited it, because the rapid recupera
ton from calamities shows the wonder
full recuperative powers this particular
section possesses. Prior to this year,
Southern Minnesota suffered for at least
half dozen years from crop failure,
reducing many to the point of de-
spondency, but our people adopted the
motto of Necessity is the mother of
invention" and determined to at once
change their mode of farming, and in.
stead of raising all wheat, or all of any
particular crop, they adopted the system
Of diyersifying. 1t was slow work at
first because all were poor, but as year
succeeded year an improvement was OBJ
served, until now, one travelling through
any of the counties of Southern Mime
sofa, and especially through the beau
tiful, undulating ones of Southwestern
Minnesota, they cannot fail to observe
the neat farm houses, barns and sheds;
the small herd of sleek looking cattle
and horses, the number of Berkshire
and Poland China pigs. the Cotswold
and Merino sheep, the large hay ricks,
diversified with few stacks of wheat,
oats, barley and flax, while fields of
ripened corn stand awaiting the shuck-
ers In adjacent fields. One familiar
with the scenes of this same section
but few years ago Can justly appreci-
ate the remarkable change which has
taken place in the interval, and even
he will wonder at the astonishing fer
Utility and unparalleled resources of
Southwestern Minnesota. The prolific
crop of 1882, while it has been hailed
with delight, can not influence any to
change their present diversifying of
crops and raising OF stock to the one
crop system again, for experience has
been costly but wise teacher.
Southern Minnesota we assert, will
yet he the garden of the State, where
prosperity will reign supreme, and
agriculture be diversion instead of
apparent drudgery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
What Judge Severance did Say.
The State papers have been publish
ing the following:

The State papers have been publish
ing the following:
Judge Severance, in a speech before the
prohibition convention at MankatO, said that
In law practice OF thirty years he defended
one hundred persons charged with homicide,
and in all but one case the action charged
had been committed I'm iptoxicatiOn. He ad-
yOcates prohibition.
But the Judge in answer to an in.
quiry from Burt W. Day, editor of the
Jackson Republic, gives his own version
of what he said, which is as follows;
You inquire of me as to the correct
ness of the article. The article is not
entirely correct, but rs herein modified
It is: | said in some remarks that ]
made at temperance meeting here
that sin a law practice Of thirty years
[ had defended or prosecuted more than
one hundred persons charged with crime,
and among them many charged with
homicide; that the acts charged as
criminal in more than four-fifths of all
those cases were directly traceable to
intoxicatiOn; that in all the cases Of
homicide had prosecuted or defended
there was but one where the act charged
as criminal was not the prOximate re
suits of intOxication." This is all true,
and can recall more than twenty cases
of homicide in which l have been en-
gagged as attorney in the State of Min
nesOta.
/ said also in said meeting that
should probably vote for prolibitory
law should one be proposed, but
should regard it as one of the weakest
weapons that could he used in the tenn
perance cause. gave my reasons fol
it very fully-expressing great fear thai
such q law would have tendency t.
displace more patent influences. am
| in favor of making drunkenness disgrace
full and announcement by Furnishing
severely as serious crime, ] am il
favor Of teaching temperance in alp on
public schools as we teach geograph,
OF arithmetic,
| have no confidence In the club o
the reformer who advocates particular
reform for the fight there Is In it, forget
ting all the time the great good tina
: should be its ultimate object.
We must correct the taste for habi
of indulging intoxicating liquors to ex
) cess. We can't do this and besto,
, too maudlin sympathy on the drunkart
Lot him who abuses the use of intox
eating liquors DO subject to sever
penalty.
Let no cry of ''sumptuary laws" dc
ter the State from visiting condign pun
Z ishment upon any man who by the vo
, untary use OF intoxicating liquor
makes mad dog of himself. Societ
> has a right to be protected from I'll
teeth Of man and beast.
0 Yours Very Truly,
] NJ. SEVERANCE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
Personal.

Geo. E. Brett has returned from the
Eastern markets.
r. d. Hubbard, Esq. lett last evening
for Montana, on business trip.
Mrs. Miner Porter is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Pfeffer, of Blue Earth
city.
Doctor Dornbcrg returned home last
Saturday night from the Minneapolis
show.
Mr.. Robert Shannon returned to town
last Wednesday, and departed for Ham
lin. yesterday morning.
Mrs. Hamlin was visiting her numcr-
Gus friends in this city this week. She
is located at Faribault.
Mrs. w. W. Paddock, returned to the
city last Saturday. Mr.. Paddock is at
Silver City, New Mexico.
Guy Monaghan, formerly cashier at
the Winona Il 81. Peter depot is spend
ing few days in town with his many
friends and acquaintances.
Mrs. NJ. s. Foulke started for Chicago
this week to replenish her millinery
stock. Mrs. +. has occupied the rooms
formerly occupied 10y Mrs. Todd.
Warden Reed and DIR. Pratt of the
saltwater Penitentiary, spent Wcdncs-
day in the city with Prof. Gorrie. These
gentlemen are on short hunting ex-
petition through our locality, and APP
pear TO enjoy themselves.
J. NJ. Turner, of lie Ray township,
brought to our office on Friday last, II
sample of Dakota wheat, grown in
Grand Forks county, which he says will
yield 25 bushels per acre. The heads
are long, kernels plump and hard and
altogether nice. Mr.. Turner started
for that locality again Saturday morn
ing, and promises on his return to bring
us samples of oats and vegetables. He
says he has been reading IL. {. Towards
letters, &c.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15

of 5000 bushels to a Minnesota
crusher all as No. /, and saved him.
self the per cent. charged to him by
Chicago dealers.
Again, Minnesota buyers grade
damp seed-deducting a reasonable
per cent. for the depreciation from
standard grade-while Chicago buyers
condemn the whole series and pay no
more for seed that is slightly tinged
with dampness. than they do for that
from which water could be wrung.
In an interview with Mr.. II. ID.
Hubbard, of this city, from whom we
cleaned the above facts. we also learn
that the Mankato Oil Mill Co. has re.
ceived mp to date $4,000 bushels of
new seed, the average per cent. of
dirt heing a trile over IL. This
amount was received and paid for rs
No. I with only deduction of actual
amount of dirt, but no dcprecia.
ton in value on account thereof,
while il the same had been shipped
to Chicago. il would have been locked
II cents per bushel aside from dirt,
and the producers would have suffered
II loss of over $l75.
The fax seed crop of Minnesota is
at about 100000 bushels,
and il is all No. if sold to home deal.
ers, with no penalty attached for dirt,
but If sent to Chicago it is question.
able il the buyers there will grade
half of it better than No. . and II big
per cent. off at that.
Taking these facts into considcra.
ton, the farmers should not sell one
single bnshel to these Chicago chaps
unless they know that our home
dealers will not do as well or better
by them. We have mills i'm onr
State with capacity for using vastly
more seed than the products of the
Northwest. and that they will pay
very cent seed IL worth can
hardly admit of doubt. We give
hese points to our farmers that they 3:
nay investigate for themselves, and
lot be dipped by the willy advertise.
nents and circulars now being dis.
from Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
A STEAL EXPOSED.
BY which the Flax Seed Producers
of the Northwest can Profit.

There Is nothing too palpable for
the Chicago wholesalers and dealers
and buyers of seed and grain to in
dulge In. and all sorts of devices are
iliaugurated to induce our farmers to
ship their products there under guise
of plausible features which. without
investigation. appear pleasing on the
face. but by a little insight into the
matter is nothing short of clear
steal, and is unjustly operating, not
only against our home dealers, but is
likewise beating the producers out Of
their just deserts.
A meeting of dealers in fax seed
was recently held in st. Paul for the
purpose of heading off these Chicago
buyers from unjust imposition upon
our farmers and the following grades
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
HOW TO SECURE HEALTH.

1t seems stranges that any one will
suffer from derangementsbrOught on by
impure blood, when SCOVILLS' SAR-
SAPARILLA AND STILLINGIA, or
BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, will
restore health. It's the BEST BLOOD
PURIFIER ever discovered, effectually
curing Scrofula, Syphilitic disorders,
Weakness of the Kidneys, Erysipelas,
Malaria all Nervous disorders and
Debility, Bilious complaints, Diseases
of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys, Stomach,
Skin, etc. 1t corrects indigestion. A
single bottle will prove to. you its merits
rs health remover, for it ACTS LIKE
A CHARM.
DIR. ROGERS VEGETABLE Worm
SYRUP instantly destroys WORMS and
removes all Secretions.
BAKERS PAIN PANACEA cures
pain in Man and Beast. Use externally
and internally and find relief.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-15
M 7. Lockcrbv, ESQ, has our

M. L. Lockerby, Esq, mas our
thanks for luscious watermelon.
Hon. ]. B. Wakefield is announced
to deliver an address at the Nicolle'
County Fair tomorrow Saturday.
-Messrs. A. II. Exile & Co., proprie-
tors of the North Star Marble Works,
have an advertise ment in this issue.
Miss Grace Pitcher did not go to
Boston as THE FREE Press was in
formed, and probably will not do SO.
C. +. Weaver gives notice that he
will dispose of the stock and implements
on ID. A. Jones' farm at auction on the
2Sth inst.
Willie Dackins returned home
about two weeks ago, sick, and has been
confined to his bed ever since, with
typhoid fever.
Senator Daniel Buck has Holstein
calf which he IS exceedingly proud Of,
aud thinks it is little the finest one in
this section of the State.
Christensen X Chapman offer for
sale several dwellings and lots in the
city, and farm property in the ncighhor
hood of Mankato. See local.
y. X. Moore, editor of the st. Peter
Tribune, says he has not sold out, and
that the negotiations which were pend
ing few days since are "off."
w. W. Woodland, Esq, has engaged
with w. Il. Mills rs accountant. Mr..
w. is Il first-class man for the position,
and will give excellent satisfaction.
DIR. Trenkler was summoned by
telegram. Thursday evening. to Castle
town, Dakota, and will he absent from
the city until Tuesday of next week.
C. II. Presley has assumed full con.
troll of the fruit business at 2l9 North
Front street, and we wish him success,
for Charley knows how to keep fruit
stand.
On our second page will he found
the official call for the Republican coun-
ty convention, Ia meet Wednesday, Sept.
eth. The Alliance convention meets
Sept. 22nd, and the Democrats haven't
issued call as yet.
The New Tim Rerier says that
"llon. J 4. Latimer, the Alliance candi-
date for Congress, interviewed some Of
our Democrats last Wednesday upon
matters Congressional. He gave the
Recie'c office the go by"
Perhaps he is on still hunt.
The Pioneer Press of last Saturday
tells us, that Hon. Daniel Buck, of this
county, will not be candidate for re-
election Ia the Senate; that he has served
four terms very successfully ana wants
u rest" So we have understood.
The Blue Earth Valley Stock Show
and Agricultural Fair will hold their
Sixth Annual Exhibition, Sept. %, at
the farm of l.. F. McKibben, in Pleas
ant Mound. The society have rented
grounds for a permanent location and
are putting up buildings and other i'm
The society sends an invi-
tation to 90 editor to come and see the
best and most practical farmers fair
ever held in Southern Minnesota. A
free dinner will he furnished and any
courtesy the society can extend. Come
and STE the Fair.