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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-25

Jurors drawn for the first week of the
March term, 4. ID. 1882:
Zse Sharp, 26 W Fontelroy,
2 j. W. Tlslale, "a Lorenzo ID Davis
James Z. Page, Is Felix Cousin,
Ar E Terrell, 20 Harry Bossier,
5 Thos Z Crawford 30 }. :. Pujol,
6 jackson Lloyd, 81 Paul Laborde,
w. b. Rogers, 81 John Lloyd.
3 David LaCrolX, 81 Ilbb Parker,
8 Henry Lloyd. "a I'll Rousseau,
10 Robt T. Williams 35 W Sadler,
II Alfred LACroix. 36 \ Quave.
IL John ID. Evans, 81 Henry Stein,
13 John A. barker, 30 Thomps'1 Parker
IA Vim. Gaines. 80 VIM A Fleitss,
15 Geo v Crawford 10 b Rogers,
16 Taylor Davis. Al Charles Foss,
IL Uriah Barker, AZ Emile Vol,
is Calvin Tally, 43 Neal Mclean,
19 John Slade, Al Geo. ). Cooper,
20 Aieck Bush. 45 Bennett Bourne,
81 Crawtd WiIliams46 John H. Davis,
% Samuel Cowart, II Wm. 5 Thompson
% q. q. Joyner, As Len Dorsey
"a Jouvilie Cousin 40 Ii ID Mitchell, Jr
rs A. p. Blackwell, 30 w A Crawford.
hereby certify the above to be Il true
and correct list of jurors drawn by the
Jury Commissioners, on the 18th day of
January, 1882, to serve for the frat week
of the March term, 1882, of the above
named court.
Witness my hand and seal officially,
this l9th day ofJanuary, 1882.
WM. &. MORGAN, Clerk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-25

A lot of farmers who had been
listening to a railroad land agents
praise of Arkansas Valley soil, at
last asked him surcastically if there
WAS anything that wouldn't grow
there. Yes. said tue agent. quick
ly. pumpkins won't" why not?"
Because the soil is SO rich, and
the vines grow SO fast, that they
wear out the pumpkins dragging
them on the ground"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-25

The most sacred obligation is the
marriage contract. The most sacred
duty is to maintain ones health.
The best medicine is Browns Iron
Bitiers.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-25
THE TRIUMPH OF TRUE
LOVE.

eyes uncle, if you please" said
Bell, with her long lashes cast down
aud her pretty fingers busy will
the crimson tomatoes that she wa.
peeliug. II love him. and he loves
me, and We are engaged, uncle, and
hats all there is about 1t. :"
Bell Bessemer was only seven
teen years old-a plnmp. brown.
Eyed lassie, with rippling. nut
brown hair. and cheeks roster than
my carnation-bloom. And to MIR.
6essemer the surprise was almost
is great as if doll had suddenl,
tisen up before him and ANNOUNCED
Itself in love" with one of til.
lima shepherds on the mantel-
,iece.
"Eh?" said Mr.. Bessemer. "You
owe hiE-?"
Yes uncle" said Bell, stead
as.ly.
.'That barp-actor?"
Bell blushed pinker than ever.
He's an actor. uncle. but so is
Booth and Salvini, and all those
great men. And as for barn,
everybody knows that Merrick
dali is nothing of the sort And l
.uve him, uncle, and he loves me,
and"
Fiddle !" said Mr.. Bessemer.
Very WELL" said Bell, with a
desperate struggle for dignity, lust
as you please, uncle, only l thought
l'u tell you, because knew you
didn't like secrets and mysteries,
and all that sort of thing"
Il never heard such nonsense in
my life" said Mr.. Bessemer, sitting
down in helpless sort OF way Ill
Ills big cushioned CHAIR, and staring
>tlaight before him. 1t serves me
right for letting you go to that
t~o-pence half-penny show at Mer-
lick Hall! And"
but. uncle" pleaded Bell, Elf
you could only see him i'll Hamlet
"Stuff and nonsense said MI.
Bessemer.
"Or in Romeo and Juliet in a
blue velvet suit, with diamond
dagger i'll his hat"
Il am deal more likely to SET
him in the States Prison" said Nh.
Bessemer savagely.
He is SO handsome" pleaded
Bell, land SO pensiye and intellec-
tual."
Il dare say" growled the old
gentleman. And what means has
ue of supporting wife2"
He has his profession. uncle"
His profession, indeed" repeat
ed MIR. Bessemel. "Tra,nping about
the country with pack of half.
civilized meiry-andrews and rope
dancers, and"
Uncle, you shall not talk Sc"
flashed ont Bell. Il am to study
for the stage, and we are to act to-
gether!"
"Upon-my-word," said Uncle
Bessemer. And for the rest of the
afternoon lie never said q word,
while pretty Bell went about in q
defaut manner, as if she were pre-
pared to defend her lover, and the
tragic stage in general, against the
whole world.
After all. why should Uncle Bes-
seiner have conceived SO unraason-
able IL dislike for Mr.. Alaric de
Montfort? 1t was entirely without
foundation. Bell knew, perfectly
well. that Alaric WAS . brave, noble
injured young fellow. who was
worthy of any young girls love, snd
for Uncle Bessemer to call m such
uutlandish names. apa pronounce
bIni "a mere barns>ctor, was more
than any girls psAosophy could en-
! Unsie B~<emer, however, like
most el,l<ry gentlemen, WAS welded |
10 his "a way, and he sat down, I
that -saine evening, and wrote b,
bis eecohd cousin, out in Omaha
5vfr;tory. thus:
Dear ooAn-I think it will NV
! Gu. .nat you should come RN 81
- osce Your Cousin BeYnas :
4ks9 .t Into her silly lit,le<e
Z M IN love with>-<aol = =
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-03-25
VENIRE.

Eighteenth Judicial District Court for
the parish of St. Tammany--State of
Louisiana.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
WIT AND WISDOM,

The women who do fancy-work
don fancy work.
Water reddens the rose, whisky the
nose. and tight boots the toes.
If you should have just what you
really deserve-no more, no less-would
you be as happy as you are now?
The First brigade of Illinois militia
is without General. This accounts for
the sassy attitude of Europe. Louis
UiHe Courier-Jour7aal.
Lasting regulations are of slow
growth; the man who wakes up famous
some morning is very apt to go to bed
some night and sleep it off. Billings.
"A lecturer is telling ''How We
Hear 1t is easily told. Somebody
tells friend of ours, and tells him not
to tell; that the way we hear. r.-lnara-
tto,1 independent.
Woman says Mr.. Eastman, lis
problem" So she is; and though a
problem we can never hope to solve, it
is one we shall never, never be willing
to give up.-Bosto,a transcript.
He was sitting in the parlor with
her, when a rooster crowed in the yard,
and, leaning over, he said, ''Chanti-
cleer." Il wish you would" she re-
piled; ''pm sleepy as l can be. He
cleared.
Cause of the recent earthquake: 1t
is now understood that the reported
earthquake in the South was caused by
a st. Louis girl thoughtlessly jumping
from buggy to the sidewalk. Chicago
Tribune.
-s'What is junction, nursep' asked
eventeen-year-old fairy the other day
at railway platform. "a junction, my
dear, answered the nurse, with the air
of a very superior person indeed, ''why,
it's place where two roads separate. =
This hard one is sent by an inquir-
ing correspondent to the Boston
Journal:
Mr.. Editor: Tell me why colonel
Is spelled in a style so infOlOnel2
Shed one ray Of light
On a sorrowful wight.
Who for years has subscribed for the J0t0net.
Better a thousand times to grow old
over the spinning-wheel and the ashes
of the cooking-stoye than to become
gray with artificial flowers in the hair,
on the benches of the ballroom, or the
seat of the supper room, smiling over
the world which smiles on us no longer.
State journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
FACTS AND FIGURES.

More than 5000 men make a busi-
ness of taking whiteish from the great
lakes.
1t is stated that there are now over
200. 600 telephones in use in this coun-
try. At the beginning of 1879 there
We're only 1900; a year later 50,000.
On the lowest computation, $50, 900
tons of fish are annually taken in British
waters. and Prof Huxley estimates the
take of herrings in the North Sea at
3,000 600, 600.
Thomas Allen. Henry Shaw and
Mary L. Tyler are the only residents of
st. Louis who pay taxes on over ST.
600, 600 worth of property. One hun
dred and fifty other persons are assessed
as worth more than $1,000 in taxable
property. C0urter-JoWYnGL.
During 1880 Connecticut had 13, 829
births. 4,745 marriages, and 10, 40S
deaths. These were an increase of /, ,014
in deaths and of 300 in marriages, and
q decrease of 122 in births. There were
322 divorces. The ratio of divorces in
proportion to marriages was less in 1890
than in any previous year of which there
is record.
There are in the Connellsville (Pa.)
coke region 8,091 coke ovens now in
operation. Each oven has capacity for
81 tons a week, making a total yield of
69. 733 tons week, or 1876. 900 tons a
year. Reduced to bushels the amount
aggregates 178, 800, 900, which is the
estimate for the output of the region
for this year. Chicago Times.
Somebody has discovered some tall
and heavy boys in the town of Rossie,
St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Briefly
described, they are: d. Jillen IA years,
6 feet % inches in his stockings; i.
Kelley, p years, feet 81 inches, and
James Hunter Jr., feet 6 inches.
Jason Lamb, of the same town, has a
son Is years old who weighs 384 pounds.
The great hotel at Rockaway, L. T.,
is ordered sold. The hotel was opened
in part late last summer, and sunk $780,
600. 1t is costing 81, 500 a month to
care for the property. There is first
or ground mortgage of S72, 900, and
second or construction mortgage of
500, 900. Outside of these liabilities
there are debts, represented by certiti-
Gates, aggregating over $780, 600.
President Isaac Kline, of the Win
dow Glass Makers Association, says
there was never a. greater demand for
American window glass, and the trade
was never in better condition. He esti-
mates the manufacturing capacity of the
factories in the United States at about
2,000,000 boxes, and expects the de-
mand this year will reach 100000, a
large amount of which will be exported.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Reformed Duteh) Church at
Leeds, N. T., has just celebrated its one
hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
"A tablet in memory Of the late Rev.
Alexander H. Vinton, ID. d., has been
placed on the walls of St. PauPs Church.
Boston, where he was rector from 1912
to 1858.
A bell with the inscription: 9 Sim
ners, this bell calls you to the worship
of Christ and nothing more, has been
presented to the Baptist Church of Ded-
ham, Mass.
John Wentworth says that the first
Protestant in Chicago was Baptist, the
first book there published was written
by Baptist, and the first Protestant
sermon was printed by Baptist.
The Presbyterian synods now con-
torn to State lines. That of Pennsyl-
vania heads the list with 131 ,054 COM
municants; that of New York has
130, 374; Ohio has 68, 326; New Jersey
45, 957; Illinois, AZ, 286; Indiana, 1873;
Iowa, 20, ,812.
Prof. w. w. Goodwin, of Harvard.
has accepted the dictatorship of the
American School of Classical Studies
which win be established in Athens,
necessary to conduct the enterprise have
been collected.-N T. Post.
A novel plan to promote the cul-
tivation of flowers among the poor is
being tried in Philadelphia. Mr.. John
Wanamaker, of that city, President OF
the Presbyterian Sunday-school Super
intendents' Association, has given notice
that he viii supply gratuitously Except
1o - Il
packets containing four varieties OF
which viii agree to make a midsummer
display of flowers, with prizes, and send
a report of the results to the committee.
"A speaker at an educational meet
ing recently held in Chicago, insisted
that instruction in morals should be
given in the public schools from some
ars should be made to commit to men,
ory the Ten Commandments, and these
should be explained to them so that
they could understand them. They
should be taught tha exist ence of God,
and to recognize Him as the Ruler of the
universe, as well as a mans RESPONSE
bility toward God, that there was a life
beyond this one, and the hope of ever
lasting life.
Bishop O'Reilly, of the Roman
has been preaching strongly against
mixed marriages Of Protestants and
Roman Catholics. He says a Roman
Catholic woman who marries a Prot
estant endangers her own soul ane
those of her offspring, as the husband
will not be likely to allow the children
to be educated as Roman Catholics,
whatever he may promise. Never
should Roman Catholic marry a Prot
estant woman, because in ninety-nine
cases out of hundred the children in
herit the characteristics of the moth er
Herald
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
Two Misers.

A lawyer in Troy, N. r., states that
in the bitter weather of last January he
was called at midnight to mako a win
for supposed pauper named Ager.
He found the man dying in a wretched
hoyel, withouta fire, apparently Of want,
his wife beside him, dying also of hem
orrhage of the lungs.
Ager had one thousand five hundred
dollars in four small bags, and six hum
dred dollars in gold in his pockets.
which he had carried so long that they
were black and greasy. Gold was also
found secreted i'm iron pots and tea-pots
in the house. He died before morning,
and his wife an hour or two later.
They were both educated and of good
birth.
They had bought no fuel all winter,
and had literally starved and frozen to
death. When asked why they had not
spent a few dollars in making them-
selves comfortable, they replied; "Mon-
ey was a good thing to have" They
could not take it with them however,
and at almost the last moment Of life
gave it to a charitable society.
Such instances of extreme avarice arc
very rare among native Americans. The
Nation is too well-fed and well-clothed;
the general habit of life is too prodigal;
money comes too easily TO foster even "a
wise economy in the character of Ameri-
can children.
A certain Major s. was well-known
to the past generation i'm the Middle
States as n miser Of land. He was
childless, and owned enormous tracts i'm
Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio,
which he only improved sufficiently TO
enable him to pay the taxes on them,
and to buy more land.
His whole life was spent in travelling
on foot over his possessions, and il was
his boast that he could walk from the
Hudson 10 the Miami, and sleep every
night on his own ground. On these
journeys he begged his food from his
tenants, and wore the same suit Of
clothes, until it literally dropped of Of
him, rotten wit filth and age.
Nothing could induce him to sell or
give away "A foot of land At last the
old man was missed, and after a couple
of months his body was found In q for
est on the Allegheny Mountains, where,
having been taken i'll on one of his Jour
neys, he had crept to die. Six feet Of
ground was given to him for a grave,
and that, by strange chance, rs if in
derision of the old mans folly, belonged
to another man.
The folly of these two men is evident
to the dullest of us. Their lives To the
very hour of death were spent in dis
comfort and want, that they might ac-
cumulate riches which they knew they
must leave behind them.
But are we any wiserp How many a
us are striving only to gain the property,
fame or social position which we must
leave behind usP What goods have we
TO make comfortable and happy that
life beyond the graveP Which Of all
the things we prize and hoard here, will
be Of any more use TO us AN hour after
death, than were the gold or land 10
these two dying misersP- Yoseth'S Com
D041t0n.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

SOME months ago package contain
ing s., 900 was lost at Grayling, Mich, while
in charge Of the express company. A few
days ago u. d. Price, poor railroad labor
er, bought a house and branehed out in
other directions so as to excite suspicion.
Detectives visited the house and found un-
der clapboard almost $4,000. Upon being
confronted with these facts Price owned up
and said he noticed the package accidentally
drop while being transferred at the station.
He kicked it under the platform and after
ward secured it. He says he burned nine
500 bills, for fear they might lead to his de-
lection.
THE Controller of the Currency has
decided to issue So National bank notes up
on new plate, the principal feature Of
which will be an engraved head Of the late
President Garfield, with the new charter
numbers in various portions OF the note, and
particularly in the border, so that the iden-
tfty OF the no(e may be easily ascertained
from any fragment.
In Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
three sisters died suddenly within half an
hour. Two OF the women, Sarah Watson,
a widow aged 52, and Mrs. Cynthia Wins
more, aged 5S, resided at 329 Wharton
street, and the third, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith,
III
O'Clock at night Mrs. Wnsmore, hearing
noise in her sisters room, entered and found
Mrs Watson iu a dying condition. Medical
assistance was promptly summoned, and
Mrs Smith was also sent for. Mrs. Watson
expired in few minutes. Almost immedi-
ately Mrs. Winsmore fell to the floor uu-
conscious, and in ten minutes She died. Ten
minutes later Mrs. Smith, the third sister,
was a corpse.
TEN persons were attacked with
trichina at Bridesburg, Pa, April 9th, SfT.
and Mrs. Lutz and four children Vere not
expected to recover. Members Of two other
families to whom diseased ham was given
were also attacked.
THE charge is brought against the
Commissioner OF the General Land Onlce
that a company OF sportsmen has been given
at its own price tract OF five thousand
acres OF swamp land lying on Lake Erie,
twelve miles outside Of Toledo, notwith-
standing the efforts OF settlers in the vicinity
to bid OF portion at market prices. Prop
erty worth $50 per acre went OF at Sl.25
through colusion at Washington.
JUICE WYLIE has decided the star
route indictments good aud sufficient, the
evidence presented being strong enough to
warrant the prosecution oe the defendants.
The recognizance Of stephen w. Dorsey was
declared forfeited and his arrest ordered.
In New York City, the other day,
Francis A. Fogg began an action against
Clinton B. Fisk 10 recover sos, $3.50, alleged
rs have been lost in mining speculations in
which plaintiff was induced 20 take part
through alleged false and fraudulent repre-
sentation. Fisk. who was General in the
army, is a prominent member Of the Metho-
dist Church, founder OF Fisk University,
Tennessee, and generally regarded rs a man
OF irreproachable character, pronounces
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

A DISPATCH from Morgan City, La,
says that section was visited by u terrible
storm the other day, causing the water to
rise and destroying an immense amount OF
property. The Ramos Railroad bridge was
carried awav, and at Andrews Mills about
twenty dwellings were destroyed, only one
remaining standing. Along Bayou Teche
cabins and other small buildings were de-
stroyed on nearly every plantation. In Ber-
wick the school house was blown from its
foundation. Two colored men were killed
by falling timber. Many persons had mar
row escapes from drowning. The destruc-
tion Of live stock is very great through
large section OF country. The sugar house
Of Francoise Bougere, in st. Charles Parish,
was blown down and a negro killed.
THE Irish Catholics of Turners's
Falls, Mass, have decided to "Boycott" G.
l.. Rist, a member OF the Grand Jury which
indicted for manslaughter David Mcmillan,
who shot Father Mccarthy. The bOycotters
think Mcmillan should have been indicted
on a charge of murder. Father Purcell
told the people that Rist asked an improper
question in the jury room.
JOHN SMITH, a young man of dissolute
habits, was cremated in Hohead & Co.'s
furnace, Philadelphia, Pa, the other day.
II is supposed that he crept into the furnace
In a drunken condition and went to sleep.
When the fires were made he was probably
asphyxiated by gas and then burned to
death. The deceased was well known
throughout the neighborhood as an erratlc
character and musical genius.
STEVENS carriage factory in New
York City burned on the 18th. Loss, $780,
600; insured. One hundred and fifty work.
men are thrown out OF employment smoke
from the factory was carried by the wind in
to Parker's Variety Theater, when an alarm
Of fire was raised, and in the stampede that
followed Frank O'Donnell, boy, was seri-
ously injured by being thrownand trampled
upon.
THE steamer Planter exploded her
boiler just as she was leaving the dock at
Charleston, 5. c. on the 18th. Jake Wash
ington, a colored deck hand, was killed. l.
+. Bosang and w. 4. Ham, mate and engi-
neer, were seriously scalded. Two colored
men were slightly injured. No passengers
were hurt. The vessel and cargo were
slightly damaged.
In a lecture at Jersey City, n. D., on
the 18Th, Scoyine blamed the stalwarts and
StaIwarlism for Guiteau's crime, and said
that Conkling spent his time making capi-
tai for his faction Of the Republican party
instead of working for the good Of the eoun-
try. Guiteau's brother and Fritz snyder,
Svho found the newspapers in the jury-room
in the hotel, were present, with eight re-
porters, three policemen and about twenty
others.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-20
Alcohol IN Water.

The Paris correspondent Of the Lon
don Lancet makes the following an
nouncement. He says ''M Muntz,
director of the Institute Agronomique,
has, by means Of an apparatus Of his
own invention, discovered the presence
of alcohol in water. II liz true the pro-
portion is almost indnitesimal, yet il il
sufficiently appreciable for him TO have
fixed it at one hundred -thousandth part
and even less. In pushing his expert
ments further, he discovered the pres
ence of alcohol in all the natural
waters-such as those Of the river and
the sea,-and even in rain-water and
melted snow For instance, in tho
water Of the Seine and I'm rain
water the proportion Of alcohol
was about one-thousandth, or one
gramme TO each cubic meter. Tho
proportion was about the same in tho
sea-water, but q little greater in cold
rain-water; the proportion was also
sensibly greater in sewage water. From
the presence of alcohol In rain and
river water, NJ. Muntz concludes that it
must also exist In the air, and even in
the interior of the earth; so that IL may
be said 10 exist everywhere in nature,
but he is at loss to explain its origin.
He, however, sets forth the hypothesis
that it Is produced by the decOmposi-
tion Of organic matter existing on tho
surface of the globe, ia the depths Of tho
sea, and in the different strata Of the
soil, and after its production, and in
obedience to the laws of the tension Ot
vapors. IL Is diffused in the atmosphere,
from which it is eliminated with tho
meteoric waters.