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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-08-18

Second-And the following to servo as Pet
Jury for the second week of Court he.
ginning on the StE. day CT October 1888.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
ARMY AND NAVY NOTES.

The leave granted First Lieut.. Theodore
H, Eckerson, 10th infantry, has been extended
two months.
The leave granted Chaplain Francis H.
Weaver 10th cavalry, has been extended
three months.
The leave of absence granted Capt. John II.
Patterson, Goth infantry, department of the
Missouri, has been extended two months.
The Tennessee and Vandalia left Port
Royal, s. O., on the Seventeenth for Hampton
Roads, Va, where they arrived to-day. All
we'll on board. All the vessels of the North
Atlantic squadron are expected to bo there
about the first Of May.
The following named officers, having been
found incapacitated for active service, have
been granted leave of absence until further
orders on account of disability: Capt, Emory
w. Cliff, 18th infantry; Capt. Frederic A.
Kendall, 25th infantry; Capt. John o, White,
LIST artillery.
The resignation Of Veterinary Surgeon
John Caswell, 4th cavalry, has been accepted
by the secretary of war to take effect April 30
Capt. Otho f. Michaelis, ordnance depart.
ment, has been ordered TO proceed from Frank.
ford arsenal, Philadelphia, to Wilmington
Del, to inspect powder in process Of manu-
facture at that place for the ordnance de.
partment, and on the completion Of that duty
to return to his station.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

ernment has been paid; aud after calling at
tention to this law, the secretary of the i'm
terror says to tho road in effect that IL
will do we'll to pay what is incontestibly
due, and go into tho law of tho dis
puted parts of tho debt afterward, the pay
ment of the requirement for tho year
ending December, 1882, not to prejudice any
sums in dispute. If Mr.. President Dillon
takes the free and easy stand in the matter
maintained by him toward tho government
directors Of the road, he will probably put the
letter away in the pigeonholo with the other
government duns, and tell his secretary to
wake him up when it comes time for another
dividend 1t will be interesting to watch the
case and learn by the issue which is tho
greater the government or a subsidized rail-
way running through the middle Of its terri
tory.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
About Gas.

Tho most serious thing the Washington Gas
lightcompany has to contend with is a clause in
its amended charter providing that when
victims can provo that they are charged for
gas of lower illuminating power than sixteen
candles the company shall make a reduction
in its bills in proportion. Thus by spending
athousand dollars a sufferer may obtain ten
cent reduction on some particular bill. Up to
the present writing reductions thus made in
gas bills has not seriously affected tho price Of
gas stock or cut into its dividends.
That clause which provides that "any re-
duction made in the price or cost to any pcr.
son or persons, except to officers of the COM
pany, shall furnish legal right on the part
of any other person or persons to demand gas
at the same cost or price," is also giving the
company great uneasiness. These two para
graphs, which are the only clauses in the char.
ter imposing penalties that are are not neutral
lied by the Interpolation of saving provisos are
all that stand between the public and the COM
pany, Congress should promptly amend the
charter, when it meets next winter, by max
ing capital crime for any citizen to complain
when compelled to pay two dollars thousand
feet for napthalized east wind. This is the
only way to mako amends to the company fol
the great wrong done.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
A Forgotten DirtilIorx.

correspondent who desires to be answered
right away" wants to know whether or
not George Washington owned distilleryP"
The note Of inquiry is in lady's handwrit-
ing, and 1t explains the query by saying, II
was at Mount Vernon Saturday, and when
asked where the distillery was 1 was told
that Washington never owned one.
think he did, but / could not success
fully dispute with tho gentleman in charge
when there were dozen strangers
present" Womanlike, the supposedly
fair correspondent wants to have the dispute
out in some way, so writes to the leading
daily newspaper. 1t is wrong to aid in the
promotion of disputes, and troublesome as
well; but it is safe to say that George Wash
ington did own distillery, if we may believe
the statement of sworn inventory Of his
property at tho time he died. He had dis
tillery, and it was not a brass-kettlo, moon
shine affair. There were twelve oxen there,
and over fifty hogs, and some thousands of
DaiISl obdNSo. III ldclt OHcIO 10 tNely
tion in the inventory that his distillery was
q well-stocked and well-conducted
affair, like his blacksmith shop and his
outlying farms, and, in fact, pretty
much everything about the place. The rea-
son for forgetting this by no means un-
important plantation adjunct may be
found in tho fact that the distillery
was never seized by revenue officers.
The distiller never shipped his whisky to
the Bcrmudas to avoid the tax, nor did Wash
ington have new whisky bill to push every
year. He just quietly made mash on his
own grain, without advertising the choice
brands or sending drummers out to work up
an inflated trade and bring on over produc-
tion. There were modest, quiet old distil-
leries in those days, somewhere between the
one-kettle, one-barrel, one-hog, moonshiner's
cabin in east Tennessee and the four-million-
dollar brick whisky village in suburban Louis
Vile.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
DEPARTMENT DROPS.

The issue of standard silver dollars from the
mints for tho week ended April 81 was $l09,-
400. The issue for the corresponding period
Of last year was $4,000.
The following postmasters were appointed
Saturday: Emma ]. Porter, at Somerville N.
j.; Eva r. Westling at Middleton, Pa;
Robert o. Beebe, at Paw Paw, Mich.
Hon. J. R. Partridge, the newly-appointed
United States minister to Peru, called at tho
State department Saturday and had an inter
view with the secretary, after which he re-
turned TO Baltimore.
The first installment of the 100000 of Pc
nobscot salmon fry, which are to be deposited
in the headwaters of the Delaware river,
were shipped last Saturday evening from the
fish commission station in this city.
The general superintendent of the life saw
ing service has issued circular, changing the
designations Of all the stations of the service
from their official numbers to local names
Tho change will so into effect on June /
next,
Tho number of illicit stills captured, per.
sons arrested, and casualties In the internal
revenue service in connection with the seizure
of Illicit stills from July /, 1876, to March /
1883, were as follows: Stills seized, 6,37l
persons arrested, $500 officers aud employees
killed, 32j officers aud employees wounded, 81
National Republican., 1883-04-23
No Hone For Them.

The cohesive power Of public plumber, and
the hope that each rocurrent national election
would bring the official crib into their grasp,
have been sufficient to hold the democratic
party together for many years. Prayerfully
have they watched and religiously have
they waited hoping against hope. In the
elections last fall they saw the pillar of
fire which would lead them out of dark
ness into light, and loud wero their
choruses of praise and thanksgiving.
But cloud has now hidden IL from
their view, and their air castles
arc crashing to Garth. The tariff issue
has divided them and a number of
the most potent, grave, and reverend seign-
iors are at loggerheads. Disintegration is
everywhere visible, and the cohesion Of
plunder will not prove attractive enough to
weld again the sundered factions. We have
before us Lamar, Mcdonald, Voorhees,, Vest,
Randall, Bayard, and several others Of equal
prominence, each representing distinctive
phase or disk of the rainbow horizon Of
democratic thought and opinion. Each has
been obliged to give expression to ideas upon
the all-absorbing topic, and every utterance
has awakened criticism, elimination, and re-
elimination, until the air is shattered with
the conclusion of conflicting ideas. There is
nothing in the nature of frien dly argument
or generous rivalry among these Boanerges
Each is the chieftain of his own clan. Each
is an aspirant for the highest honors, and all
are struggling for the flesh pots of Egypt.
The latest dogmatc dictum is from Mr.. Me-
Donald, of Indiana. He is an avowed presi-
Dental candidate, and as such has made for
NAL declaration of his principles, so far as
they relate to the issue upon which the next
campaign is to be fought. He is squarely
an anti-protectionist, and wants the country
at large to thoroughly understand him. Tho
senior senator from Indiana, Mr.. Voorhees,, is
protectionist pure and simple. Upon the
issue thus presented Mr.. Voorhees, could
not consistently support the candidate
of his own state and party. Mr.. Voorhees,
is never inconsistent. Mr.. Bayard, another
candidate, has declared himself for free trade,
and been publicly rebuked by the democratic
mayor of the metropolis of the west. sena.
tor Lamar warns the democratic party that
they are inviting the ruin that overwhelmed
slavery by giving countenancc to protective
theories. Mr.. Randall calmly avoids the
issue until compelled to declare his atti.
tude upon the subject, and then as calmly
votes for protection. Leading democratic
editors are as muddled as are their political
leaders, and, waxing wroth, are firing the
democratic heart with bitter denuncations
of the heterodox isms Of their opponents.
Thus does the good fight go on all along tho
line. The issue is live one. The demo.
cratic party will soon be dead ono. 1t can
not handle the great question without coming
to standardization. 1t cannot avoid tho
question, and upon that rock it will inconti.
nently split.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
with side illustrations showing them as they
at different stages of the trip"

with side illustrations showing them as they
appeared at different stages of the trip"
ees
II see" said an old newspaper reader yes
terday, that Mai. Ben: Porley Poore has
left the Boston Journal after an association
OF thirty years. l am surprised. He is a
part of the establishment in tho minds Of
journal readers. To show how true this is, /
can relate little incident: In the spring of
last year there were a lot Of excursionists
from New England who came to Washington
to sec all the sights. One of them met an
old friend on the night of his first day here
and said, We'll, I've seen the capitol and the
white house, and now must manage some
how to see Bon Perley Poorei He was one
Of thousands who were boys when Poores
letters were the most famous that wero
printed In Washington, and they grew up to
regard them as gospel truths and the most
important reading in the journal" With this
and further "reminiscences of tho veteran cor
respondent, his friend went his way, shaking
his head at the idea Of letting so large part
Of the concern go. Poore was here as corre-
spondent of the old Boston Atlds before he be-
gan WIN buo OUuINtt, anu tNoh odiiiOA shoAa
that had travelled over Europe as corre-
spondent. He has seen generation of states
men flourish and die; has seen Washington
rise from muddy village TO a populous and
beautiful city; has seen slow and expensive
mail facilities superseded by rapid and
cheap telegraphing; has seen the owners OF
his paper grow rich and die, and new set
grow rich and live in clover. He has written
acres of interesting reading; has made the
congressional directories for years; written
stories and biographical sketches moro than
any other correspondent, and is now writing
book Of recollections He has engaged to
edit the Boston Sunday Budget, and is fresh
and young in mind, and with his pen, full Of
auecdote, and always ready to put his hand in
his pocket when "tho boys" get up dinner
or a club. He is comfortable with his we'll
earned income, but not rich, and is SO proud
of an old homestead up in New England
which he inherited, that he spends moro than
it is worth to keep it up for summer resi-
dence for one-third of his year. He will 60
ON working here in Washington as ever.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
FoRD's OPERA HOUSE.
Unhappy Indians.

R. II. Melroy, of tho Yokama Indian
agency, Washington territory, writes to tho
commissioner of Indian affairs, under date Of
April A, stating that tho recent trouble be-
tween the Indians of his agency and white
settlers in the vicinity arose from quarrel
which was occasioned by the scattering of
poisoned meat near the camp of the Indians
on the Columbia river by one of the white
settlers-the Indians complaining that when
tho grass grew around the meat their horses
might eat of 1t and be poisoned. The agent
says that the Indians ought to be brought to
tho reservation, as 1t is becoming very diff
cult for them TO find subsistence where they
are in camp, and as long as they remain there
troubles of greater or less magnitude will be
constantly arising.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

WHEN tho Cincinnati Gasette and the Gin
cinnati Commercial were married the Gasette
had a little child known as tho Morning Jour
nal which was never taken into the family
after the marriage, Though born out of we'd
lock, the Garctte loved it dearly and cherished
it, and finally sold its little franchise to the
daily Nevs for Good Round Sum. The News
had everything it wanted with the exception
OF franchise, and now it is happy. 1t can
have telegraph editor to run the fran
chise, and swear, and muss up great basket
fuls of himsy manifold paper, which smells
like the rag the boy cleans the lamps with.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
nRANCH oFFICEs.

The following Is n list of the branch offlces In
washington. Others will be added hereafter
w.s, RoosE's News Stands at the ARLINGTON
HorKL. WIZARDS HOTEL, and METROPOLITAN
HOTEL.
RoosE & QUEENS News stand, NATIONAL HOTEL
B.F. QuEES, ST. JAMES HoTEL
RIGGS HOUSE News Stand.
EBBITT HOUSE News Stand.
AMERICAN HOUSE News stand.
w. S. THoMPsoN's Drug Store
{. II. FICKLIN0's Drug Store, Georgetown.
J.BnApLEY ApkMss Book Storea
CIR. DuFouR Druggist, 1918 Fourteenth street.
RIB. FERGUSON, Druggist, corner Second and
Pennsylvania avenues. e.
sc. LEWIS, Druggist corner Fourteenth and
streets.
CO. G. srrns, Druggist, corner Fourteenth and
New York avenue.
W.T.. Scala, Druggist, 500 East Capitol street.
H. JOHNSTON. druggist, corner Tenth and q
streets northwest.
8. sLATER's Cigar Store, corner and First
streets northwest
National Republican., 1883-04-23
which Is tho GreAteri

The Union Pacific Railway company, ac-
oustomed to duns from the government, will
not be surprised to receive tho letter written
on Saturday by Secretary Teller to Sidney
Dillon, esq, president, making an urgent
demand for the immediate payment of the
uncontested sum of $l,036,s24ss. No part
of this debt is disputed, not even the So
cents; neither is any part of it paid or tend-
dered for payment; but it is now hoped that
President Sidney Dillon will either renew tho
old excuse or put up better one. A dis
couraged claimant once said the plan of the
government was to assume that every
bill it is asked to pay is fraudulent,
and then wear out the claimant in
making him prove it a few times
in the departments and before congressional
committees. This statement came, of course,
from the inaamed imagination of an enraged
claimant, and it is only of use in passing as
suggesting that, If it were true, it may be said
that the government has q match in this rail-
way, so long and so wide. 1t is the only cor
poration in the world with more assurance
than the Washington Gaslight company, and
runs its trains as placidly while owing millions
to the government as though it held a surplus
invested in gas stock. Mr. Secretary Teller
reminds Mr.. President Sidney Dillon that by
the act of 1873 he is epjoined from paying
making, or voting any dividends to stock.
holders of the company until the 5per centum
Of net earnings and OthssJ money due the gov
National Republican., 1883-04-23

TIE story told by Bishop Marty, of Dakota,
of the miraculous conversion of the red
handed Indian chief, Sitting Bull, to the
Catholic faith has thrown the ungodly into
convulSions of incredulous laughter. The
bishop, in the innocence of his pious soul,
imagines he had converted tho murderous
old reprobato into meek and lowly follower
of the humble Nazarene in about a quarter of
an hour. Tho spring time has come, gentle
bishop, and one of these mornings Sitting
Bull will exchange his cross and government
rations for a tomahawk and Winchester and
depopulate few white settlements. Then
the good bishop will have to go all over the
work again.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

will be better, for the remainder of the year,
to make bargains without pulling at each end
ofevery dollar note The old fashioned leather
pocket book, that couldn't be opened in a
hurry, did not wear out paper money SO fast
as the modern style of carrying it in vest
pockets, stockings, and fancy bags. A noto
gets squeezed and mussed and wadded up and
most shsmefully hustled around on It's mod
crn fight from hand to hand.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
Tur President stepped Off tho returning

THE President stepped of tho returning
train robust and healthy last night, and all
Washington will be glad to have him back
from tho trip and again the center of all
capital life. Washington without the Presi-
dent seems unlike itself, and it may bo that
after all the President feels moro at ease in
Washington than when seeking pleasure away
from its comfortable mansions.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

Mn. PARNELL's reason for not coming to
the Philadelphia convention is given in a
dispatch from London, and also tho home Sec
retary's views on the danger to England from
Irish plotters in America. Every woman
thinks hor own children can be managed, if
only the neighbors will make theirs behave
or stay at home.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
Worn and NIutilated Notes.

The appropriation for the redemption Of
worn and mutilated United States notes for
the fiscal year 1882 1883 is nearly exhausted.
No appropriation for this service fot the next
fiscal year was made at the last session OF
congress. Therefore after the present appro-
priation shall be exhausted no notes of this
description can be redeemed at the Treasury
department until congress makes another ap-
preparation for that purpose
National Republican., 1883-04-23
The Weather To-day.

For ne middle ARdntic states, Including he Dis
trfc Of Columbia, generally cloudy tpedher, nth rain,
norheasto southeast tpnds, stationary or loer bdro
eter slioM changes in temperature
Fair tcedther ia indicated for ue south Atlantic
and ouV states and Virginia on Tuesday.
Yesterdays temperature.-7 a. m, bo5o; IL a. M,
520o; 8p m, 5000; 7 p. M, 4soo: II p. m, 422o
maximum. $3.50; minimum. 4l5'. Rainfall, l.47
inches.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
ro c,rv sussoRIBERs.

THE DAILY REPUBLICAN delivered by carriers to
sny part of the city and suburbs, regularly and
early, at the following rates:
Per Month...... ss..'..''.''.'''''.'''''''' oO
Per Quarter. ei'0o
Per Year..................... wv
National Republican., 1883-04-23

SOME of the hotels have found machine
for saving gas-ffty per cent. of it. They
pay half of all they save for the machine, so
there are three of them getting rich at the
same time.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
TABLE TALK.
TIE WICHITA "roKrn oRAzI

THE WICHITA "PoKER CRAZE"
Which says for heather Injun,
Who hasn't civilized ways,
That Yellow Dog OF the Wlchitcs,
Was regular draw poker craze"
When we camped on tho Canadian,
Down low on the southern fork,
Missouri Dan" had greasy deck,
And we settled down 10 the work.
Dave dealt tho papers To baltimore"
(Which Hal was also his name)
Hal "antied," Yellow Dog "staid In"
AS likewise did the same.
Then Dan passed out" Hal raised the blind,
And throwed to the center" todraw,
And Yellow Dog stood the raise Of Hal,
Which the same also saw.
/ drawed two cards and Hal drawed one,
And Yellow Dog he drawed three,
And knowed that Hal had :" filled his haul"
By the wink he wunk at me.
Then the fun began, and the Iniun "bucked,"
And saw Missouri laugh;
He knowed whoever won the "pot,":
That we was all "half and half"
When all tho "rocks" which the party had
Had been put up on the board,
And all the ixins about the camp,
And even the stock we rode,
l. called for "sight," throwed down my hand,
When, as sure as I'm alive,
Baltimore Hal he hilt four ones
Whilst the Yellow Dog he hilt flvei
Stranger, of course we was surprised,
But the rules Of the game declare
That whenever the redskin cheats the white
He must climb the golden STAIR"
And there he was awicked 1njun,
For he tried to raise gale"
By "roping" us innocent cowboys;
So we "tuck him OF the trail"
Way down on the South Canadian,
Where the waters wildly sweep,
Where the osier sighs TO the sage bush,
The Wichita Yellow Dog sleeps,
Which is why says Of the Injun,
Who hasn't civilized ways.
For to tackle cowboy at poker
He must have "poker craze"
Memphis Appeal.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

SMUGGLING is added to the other enter
prisos springing up between Mexico and the
United States. The smugglers seem to be
doing as we'll as is possible with their made
quate railway facilities.
National Republican., 1883-04-23

In its spring attire Washington is the
most beautiful city on the continent. Strang-
ers visiting the capital now will fall in love
with it on sight. The love of old residents
only becomes more confirmed.
National Republican., 1883-04-23
MONDAY. APRIL 90, 1888.

Every effort Is being made TO haze THE REPUBLICAN,
delivered early and promptly In oil paris Of ne city
Persons Who do not receive their pdper or tDho hare
any cause Of complaint tViH oblfoe oy Ho'VV'n0 me
office, either In person or By postal card.