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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21

MINcE PIES, TIE BLUES AND MAR.
RYING.-That Mr.. Howells, in his new
story, "a Modern Instance has in
mind a mastery study o. the typical
character of American life-the young
man who works from the foot to the
top of the ladders the conclusion OF
the Boston Transcript. Carlyle,
adds that journal, "never made a
grimmer sarcasm than the picture OF
the perfectly natural way in which the
STRIPPING editor, having forlorn head
ache from eating mince pie before go.
ing TO bed, proposes TO the pretty girl
who is kind TO him next day. How
many men have proposed because they
we're blue, and wanted something to
cOddle them, when glass of seltzer
and long nap would have cleared
their spirits, without the risk of some
woman's sOundness of heart and happi,
ness"
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21

The City Of Montreal recently
landed six hundred Irish girls at Cas-
tie Garden. The Oldest was twenty
three. Not male passenger came on
the ship with them. They were sent
by agents of a society which cares
for young women, and each one has q
place provided for her somewhere.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21

Lawyers, jurors and clients were
sitting about the stove in the village
tavern, telling yarns about strong
men, fine horses, fat hogs, cattle,
sheep, etc. aid some of them were
pretty tough yarns, | assure you. The
only man amongst them who seemed
10 know Of nothing very extraordina
~ was "Uncle Billy" Underhill. III
nally, one fellow told a stiff yarn
about the amount of tallow he had
procured from a sheep which he had
recently slaughtered. This seemed
g. arouse Uncle Billy"
"Well,' said he, 81 must tell you
about n sheep killed the other day,
which. for yield Of tallow, / think,
heats any thing you have yet heard.
You see, ran short OF feed last win.
ter, and my sheep had to live all
winter in a straw stack in the field,
with nothing else TO eat. We were
forced To kill one Of them this spring
aud so l selected the latest one Of the
lot, and slaughtered him and render.
ed the tallow. And now, how much
do you guess | gotg'
Some guessed twenty, some thirty,
aud some even as high AS fifty pounds.
When all were through guessing, he
was asked TO relieve the suspense by
informing them as to the correct
amount.
"Well," said he, stretching himself
back in his chair. II don't jes' recol
lect, but il want very much, | assure
you"
That ended the big stories for the
evening.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21

Beneath a shady tree they sat,
lie held her hand, she held his hat,
held my breath aud lay right fat;
They kissed, saw them do II.
He held that kissing was no crime,
She held her head up every time.
held my peace and wrote this rhyme
While they thought no one knew L..
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21

If one would learn the secrets of
dyspepsia aud feel its untold horrors,
let him eat Of hot biscnit. well satura.
ted with butter, melted by its heat,
eat in haste, wash il down with coffee,
If the oily butter is not sufficient TO
dispose oft in the shortest possible
Tins. II the bread is not sufficiently
TO your taste add old strong cheese in
abundance, some rich preserves, honey,
cold ham and pound cake, finishing
with a hard-baked custard aud quar-
ter Of mince pie, taken at ed time.
IL such a meal will not produce bad
dreams-the night.mare-and the n
dyspepsia eventually, it is because the
stomach is like that Of a hog. N
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21

The Shenandoah News has the fol.
lowing picnic piece:
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21
Too Much for Mn.

A singular spectacle took place in
an adjoining county about ten days
ago during a marriage ceremony. In
the very midst Of the service the
preacher stopped short. His agita.
ton had been noticed from the first.
His voice which had been shaky, now
gave way entirely. He tried 10 speak
but could not; his face was deadly
pale. He trembled visibly and finally
swooned, and would have fallen 10 the
floor but for the supporting arms Of
those around him. The marriage be
ing Of a strictly private character.
there but few who witnessed the re.
markable scene This took place at
6 O'Clock. The ceremony was defer.
ed until the minister recovered. which
happened about 8 o'clock, when the
anxious pair we're united. The
singular circumstance attending the
marriage has been much talked Of.
The ministers agitation, his swoon
and his failure TO complete the cere.
mony are variously accounted for.
There are not wanting some who trace
relation between this impressive
scene aud the fact that the bride was
former sweetheart (and iiancee. it is
thought) Of the minister who had been
called upon to unite her TO another
man. The minister is still bachel
orr Richmond Wing.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21
MS MODERATE.

In Tuition, prices range from s25 TO $50 In tn
regular Departments. Primary, t25; Intermediate
$50; Preparatory, $40, and Collegiate, $50.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-04-21

For full particulars, as To Board, Sc., address
MRS. 3. q. TRUEHEART. Principal
stanford. Lincoln Co., Ky.
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What did Cause Itg

The mortality among the cat
tie has been explained to the
satisfaction of the fellows who
are always ready with a reason
without a reason. At first it
was smut" in the corn. and
smut has been in corn ever
since corn began to be corn.
Then it was corn fodder, and
yet cattle and other stock have
been running in corn fodder for
two hundred years. Then 1t
was a lack of water and two
much fodder, yet the men who
have lost cattle say that their
stock has had the freest access
to water, and to give them
more water it would have to be
pumped into them. The Cald-
well Post, of last week, says
that cattle have died of the
same disease, apparently, on
the range, with no corn fields
within fifty miles ofthem. There
are plenty of herds in this
county that have not lost a
head, and yet they run in the
stalks. The possibilities are
that the disease may be caused
by fodder, but the probabilities
are not that way.-Wichita,
(Kas.) Beacon.
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Recommendations from a Journal
ofHealth.

Try popcorn for nausea.
Try cranberry for malaria.
Try a sun bath for rheumatism.
Try ginger ale for stomach
cramps.
Try clam broth for a weak
stomach.
Try cranberry poultice for
erysipelas.
Try gargling larger beer for
cure Of sore throat.
Try a wet towel, to the back
OF the neck when sleepless.
Try swallowing saliva when
troubled with sour stomach.
Try eating fresh radishes and
yellow turnips for gravel.
Try eating onions and horse
radish to relieve dropsical swell
ings.
Try buttermilk for removal of
freckles, tan and butternut
stains.
Try the Group tippet when a
child is likely to be troubled in
that way.
Try hot flannel over the
seat of neuralgia pain, and renew
frequently.
Try taking your cod liver oil
in tomato catsup if you want to
make it palatable.
Try hard cider-a wine-glass-
full three times a day-for ague
and rheumatism.
Try taking a nap in the after
noon if you are going to be out
late in the evening.
Try breathing the fumes of
turpentine or carbolic acid to
remove whooping-cough.
Try a cloth wrung out in cold
water put about the neck at
night for sore throat.
Try snufing powdered borax
up the nostrils for catarrhal
"cold in the head"
Try an extra pair of stock
ings out side ofyour shoes when
travelling in cold weather.
Try walking with your hands
behind you if you find yourself
becoming bent forward.
Try a silk handkerchief over
the face when obliged to go
against a cold, piercing wind
Try planting sunaowers in
your garden if compelled to live
IN a malarial neighborhood.
Try a saturated solution of
bicarbonate of soda baking
soda) in diarrhea troubles; give
freely.
Try newspaper over the chest,
as a chest protector, in extreme
ly cold weather. = Foote'S
Health Monthly.
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Cotton Seed Uses.

w. L. c., in the Advocate of
New Orleans, says: Cotton
seed oil is constantly extending
the sphere of its utility. l have
seen biscuits in which cotton
seed oil supplied the place of
lard, and beefsteak fried with it
is by no means an unknown
dish. 1t is scarcely improba-
BILE. that within a few years cot
ton seed will be worth as much
as the lint that grows upon
them. Oil makers are trying
to convince planters that the
meal from which the oil has
been pressed is a better ferti-
lizer than the seed themselves.
They offer ton of the meal
for two or three tons of seed.
They claim that chemical ana
lysls support their theory.
This reminds one of what has
been styled Science falsely so
called" The man who sells
his cotton seed will find him
self, in the long run, penny
wise and pound foolish. We
have certainly reached one
very unexpected result in the
use of cotton seed we have
made true of ourselves what
was strangely, preposterously
and slanderously said of our
late slaves. Such publications
as Chambers Encyclopedia
gravely stated to the world that
the Southern people fed their
slaves on cotton seed. We did
not, but we eat them now our
selves.
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An Aesthetic Kicked.

They stood on the porch al
midnight.
"Ah, sweet mine," he sighed,
oily of my soul, dew drop OF
my happiness, let the intensity
of our affection intensity to in
tenseness, and let US live''to love,
that we may live loving IN the
ethereal ethereality of passion
less passion, purified to angel
ic publication.
"Rather ever, hero mine"
she answered, depositing her
wealth of golden hair upon the
shoulder of his six-dollar ulster,
land our lives so sweetly per-
haps, just now, will be joined in
the superlative certainty ofcon-
junctive bliss corrugated in hap
py wedlock."
dear heart OF nine, he rap
turously exclaimed, pressing
her to his new satin necktie, this
is too tool
"And this too, tooP abruptly
broke in the girls father, com
ing down in his boots, and Civ
ing the young man two kicks
which landed him out in the
street-and separation like a
pail thence afterwards fell upon
those two young llves.-Steu-
benville Herald.
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Keep the Sheep Pen Neat.

Five sheep eat about as much
hay and grass as one COW, and
furnish probably about the same
amount of manure as a COW,
but of better quality. Make a
compost heap for sheep manure
when they are penned at night;
keep the pen clean; throw a
little land plaster over the COM
post when fresh manure is ad-
ded and sprinkle some over the
ground where the sheep lie
down at night. 1t viii neutra-
lie bad odors, conduce to the
health of the sheep and the val
ue of the compost. We have
seen sheep refuse to go in their
e~n pen in wet weather solely
ON account of its filthy condi-
ton. Sheep hate eI ;en to wet
their feet, and they would ratn-
er be beaten than to step in
mud or filth.
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Shreveport Times asks: Why
is it7 If a business man draws
up an instrument of writing, if
an editor writes a political or
other article; if the most litter
ate man wishes to convey his
meaning on paper, if a school
boy writes a composition on
"the horse" of if a maiden
writes a love letter to her swain,
in ninety-nine cases in a hundred
only one construction-and that
the proper one-can be placed
upon each. And yet let a law
yer draw up legal document,
a legislative bill or other, or let
a judge render a decision from
the bench, and in nine cases in
ten the former can be construct
ed at least two different ways,
and the chances are about even
that two equally intelligent men
will differ as to the meaning of
the decision.
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Eject of the Short Crops.

In discussing the effects of
the short crops, The Public
comes to the following conclu-
sion: Strictly speaking, the
actual loss of crops did less
harm, considerable as it was,
than the exaggerated expecta-
ton of loss of crops. Early in
the summerit was very general
ly believed that there would be
only half a crop of wheat. The
whole world was carefully ad-
vised that this country would
not have wheat enough for its
own consumption, and that the
bad planting season would make
the crop failure also. Even
with the terrible drouth which
followed, the yield Of all grains
proved greater than was antici-
pated in May or June. But the
expectation Of great disaster set
on foot gigantic speculations,
not only in railroad stocks, but
in wheat, corn, oats and cotton.
Prices were soon rushed up to a
point at which, it is now evil
dent, they can not be maintain
ed. High prices here caused
foreign consumers to supply
their needs as largely and quick
ly as possible from other
sources, and thus deprived US Of
markets for our surplus. The
enormous speculation absorbed
immense capital and caused
monetery pressure. The actual
decrease in yield, now
supposed to be over 100000
bushels of wheat and 40, ooo,-
900 bushels of corn, was largely
neutralized by stocks left over
from last year, SO that there is
now little reason to expect that
markets can be found for sur
plus actually on hand.
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Varieties.

Winter liver pads will be worn
chest hgh.
Fashion Item-Freckles this
winter will be worn well pow
dered.
The Individual who sleeps
like a top must be turning all
night.
Arthur ought to make a
spanking good president. He
used to teach school.
Talk is cheap unless you are
married. Then a word or two
often causes a sore head.
Foxhall's four limbs earn
more in actual cash than those
of an entire ballet troupe.
The first woman was very
easily suited. She married the
first man she came across.
When a girl rejects an offer
Of marriage she goes through a
sleight of hand performance.
Apair of deaf mutes were mar
ried the other day in Alabama.
1t was very quiet wedding.
Bashful people and the mules
hind leg are very much alike.
Both have backward tenden-
cies.
The actor who wants to draw
crowded houses should try
sketching New York tenement
buildings.
Suspensions in the west are
very unhealthy. They gener-
ally take place from the branch
of a tree.
1t is singular, but true, that
the whiskey that makes some
men uproariously noisy is the
spirit of the still.
Fashion item-cold weather
affects alike butter and the own
er of a sealskin sacque. 1t |
makes both solid.
The reason why the little pro-
fessor carries very little dignity
in America is because it often
smells of whitewash.
Those little stif-rimmed hats
the girls are going to wear this
winter will make nice hanging
basket next summer.
Never do anything hastily IS
good advice, but " you don't
dodge quickly when you see a
stone thrown you're apt to get
hurt.
A member of Theodore
Thomas orchestra is said to
have six wives. Notes will catch
4 woman, even if they are only
musical ones.
Although the material for a
Eoman's dress is sold by the
Yard, she always has the bundle
:arried in through the front
IGOR.
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GENERAL HARDWARE

Oils
Roofing spoune
cartridges
ann niion kept ton
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BRENNAN FOUNDRY
AND
MACHINE SHOP.

The foundry and machine shops are now in
full blast Repairing of all kinds of machin-
cry, boilers, etc, u specially.
Cash paid for cid iron, copper, brass and
zinc. We are paying from Sic to SIS and
$50 per ton for old iron.
c. S. PATTON, Proprietor.
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New York Evening Post:
Women have a sphere far high
er than politics. Their empire
is the home. The home is the
unit of republican government,
and it is for the sake Of the
hor,e that governments exist.
To keep that safe. secure and
free. men toll, a.; AID watch and
fight, if need be. The hon..ee IN
fluence of wemen acts in a no.
BILE, though indirect, way upon
governments, institutions and
laws, upon education, manner
and social life. This indirect
influence is far more potent
than any direct influence, and
women abdicates her throne
when she Sights the home to
cultivate diplomacy or politics,
the lobby or the court.
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w eekly Banner.
GeneraI News.

WDuCA II NCWes
The buckwheat crop this year
viii be short.
The Chicago police depart
ment asks for $4,000 for this
fiscal year.
The little town of Harrison
burg, Virginia, spent $4,000
last year in street repairs.
The London Engineer ex-
poets to see gas sold for so
cents a thousand feet at a
profit.
ABlanchester, Ohio, saloon
keeper is required to pay a
woman $1,000 for selling her
husband liquor.
Jay Gould has bought three
coal mines at Stanton, Illinois,
and 500 men are to be added to
the working force forthwith.
Only one of the nine Tam
many "anti-monopolY" men,
bers of the legislature, refused
his pass over the Hudson River
railroad.
Judge Barnum, of Chicago,
charged the new grand jury to
look into gambling in general
and corners" in wheat IN par
ticular.
Attorney-General Stockton,
OF New Jersey, United States
senator from 1860 to 1875, has
just been nominated Tor his
fourth term.
And now, strange as it may
appear, the New York Tribune
comes forward and advocates
the repeal of the Arrears of
Pensions act.
A bill is before the New
Jersey legislature providing for
the distribution of the public
printing among the county
newspapers.
Judging from the tone of the
house toward the speaker, a
stalwart revival is no more pop
ular there than it is outside
N. Y. Tribune. Half-Beed.
A cliff 1000 feet high slid
from the Rothusa mountain, in
Switzerland, carrying away
orchards and burying meadows.
Fortunately no lives were
lost.
New York has sixteen con-
victed murderers slowed away
snugly in the tombs, yet the
newspapers print slurs about
crime in the South and the
West.
Sarah Bernhsrdt is not a
Jewess, as is generally suppos-
ed. While she is Hebrew in
origin, she is a Catholic in faith,
that is, as far as she has any re-
ligion.
St. Louis is getting ahead OF
Chicago in one very important
particular. She's doing some
deserved hanging. The useful
art is a lost one in Chicago
Chicago Times.
The German government con-
templates the purchase of the
lines of railway in the country.
The sum necessary to cover
the expenditure will approx
mate SI5o.ooo,ooo.
1t is to be hoped that the
president will give Gen. Bur
bridge, the great American
letter-writer, a foreign appoint
ment-as foreign as possible
also Blackburn.-Chicago- Inter |
Ocean, Rep.
ingalls, is as generous as Dick |
Turpin of other peoples money |
He doesn't care a continental |
how much is paid out 70 satisfy |
the claim agents for arrears of
pensions.-Cincinnati CONNER |
cial.
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The price Of iron has advan-
ced at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-02

United States senators who
are lucky enough to be chair
men of committees have each
the appointment of a clerk, who
can act as private secretary to
his patron. This is privilege
of which other senators are nat
urally envious, and senator
Brown probably feels that he is
only making things equal by
offering a resolution to provide
every senator not a chairman,
with a clerk. But as a senator
receives $1,000 a yea besides
mileage and an ence of
SIPS year for nd rs and
stationery, membe Rious
whether the pub and
the proposed q
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Cabbages and potatoes have
been noted among the unusual
importations into this country
from Europe, and now a st.
Louis grocer has received onions
from Spain which he offers for
sale. They are considerable
larger than our American
onions, and are oval IN shape,
like lemon, only two or three
times the size. The onion fla
vor is not so strong in them, and
they are preferable on that ac-
count, and especially if eaten
raw.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-02

A fashion magazine says:
listers will be worn somewhat
longer this winter" Well then
by ST. George, the men who
wear them have got to wear
stills, that's all.
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GREAT GERM DESTROYER |
DARBES
ProphyIaetie Fluid

ulcers purified and
healed.
IGangrene prevented
and cured.
Wounds healed rap
idly.
Scurvy cured III short
time.
letter dried up.
1t is perfectly harm
less.
For sore throatit is a
sure cure.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-10-21

"Who is Trager?" That is the
question asked by everybody now.
In about three weeks they will be
asking the question. "Where IS
|Trager?" He will then probably be
|foppd safely hidden behind his
5000 bales of cotton, and wishing
he had some of the money back
that he has vainly squendered in
|bucking against that Democratic
Rock of Gibralter, Gen. Andrew S.
Heron.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-10-21
II

We had the misfortune to- "pi
the fourth page of our paper tbi
week, and are consequently com
PEELED to issue a half-sheet. TIL,
entire page, fell out on the floor
lOur readers and patrons must beal
with us for a few days, until W,
| yet things fright side up again.
The accident was caused by the
great comet how shining in the
East, which it appears has becom.
offended at rs because we predict.
ed it would soon quietly "fzzle out
and vanish from sight. We still
maintain, however. that our pre-
'hction will eventually come to pass,
the comet may not live to
see il.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

81 COUNCIL HALL, !
d CONVICTION, La, Oct. Is. 1882. I
h The Council met on the abov,
kdate.
B Present-E. r. Randolph, Mayor
EP. j. Dulion, H. J. Sr,ith, julie.
EPechon, Thos. Davis, c. Il. Joynel
Eand james Taylor.
q The minutes of the last meeting
kwere read and approved. with the
aexception of that portion instruct
fling the Secretary to make out the
6delipquent tax list, winch was
! Stricken out.
q The following bills were then
gread and al proved:
I'LL. j. Smith, agent, to lum-
Der and posts. $94 81
L. Losset Il Son, to 10 iron
braces ....-.-.. 1900. 50
J. Bacconi, to ~ days work
on streets. ............. Is 50
Mr.. Carver, to hewing 12O
feet OF timber. 3 GO
"a. Herbez, to rebuilding two
bridges. .......... II OO
IA. Herbez, to building side
walk III front of the Court
houoC. 5000. Il uU
y. T.. Smith, to l key of nails.
So 90, and l pillow, S1.... s sol
y. Ineobald, to -epairing one
Ilo" ............. / OOl
ID. ". 5. Lund, to l lamp
and fixtures, So, and
blank book, 81. 4 Dol
W. L Reagan, to extra SER
vices as Marshal during
court week ........ G 90!
Robert Badon, to services as
Special Marshal during
court week 3 DOL
Jack Pelloat, to four months
hall rent, from Juna l to
September 80. 1882. 49,. s DOL
W. Ii. kentzel, to salary as
Secretary for the month of
September, 1882. ) OOI
Total. ........ ....-.$I69 92X
On motion, the Marshal was in Il
'tructed to step all carte and I
from entering the grave
Yard.
MIR. Peehon offered the following
Resofced, Tina. at the next meet Z
ng of the Councl! sealed proposals
Re received for keeping the streets, B
cutters, bridges and graveyard in
epalr. the Council to furnish thel4
necessary lumber, nails, etc, the
ontract to be given to the lowest
adder, the Council reserving the
light to reject any and all bids. u
Carried.
The Council then adjourned.
Z. r. RANpoLEH, Mayor.
w. q. hENTzEL. Secretary. RI
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-10-21
Died.

SMITH-m Covington, on Saturday
October Il, 1882, at 3:45 p. NJ, Eliza
JANE Mason. wife OF J. Z. SMITH, aged
Sc years. A native of Baltimore, Md,
and resident of ST. Tammany parish,
La, for 80 wears.
New Orleans, Baltimore and New
York papers please copy.l