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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-09-15
INTEGRITY OF THE DEMO
CRATIC PARTY.

i /
: that large majority Of the papers
OF the State. and especially those
i noted for their ability and conser.
t, va:ism, not only take no part and
have 10 sym pathy with the insane
and selfish course of the Picayune,
: bn: condemn its policy. The
: friends of Gen. Ogden, especially,
ought to feel aggravated at the
course taat that paper is endeavor-
, ing TO give the canvass. It is doing
bin great injury. As the New Or
leans States very properly remarks,
IT such a hostile sentiment were to
continue, growing in intensity from
day to day until the convention as
sembles, it would lead to its dis
rnption, and the nomination of two
rival Democratic candidates. This
wcuid be very unfortunate. Every
sensible, patriotic man must see
that tue ultimate result would be
the disruption and disintegratiop
of tte Democratic party, ard that
upon its ruins would arise q third
party, combining oil the worst ele
ments of the State, with the color
line restored, as a great factor to
be used for selfish purposes. Where
would this end? What are the
purposes contemplated
Certainly there is nothing praise
worthy, good or patriotic in it. 1t
looks to Us as il the faction that is
endeavor;ng to create strife and dis
sension, with a metropolitan Jour-
nal in the lead, look forward to the |
time when they Will have the State |
at their disposal, with all it's vast
interests. and when rs corrupt Il
government viii be in power as
when Warmoth and Kellogg were
plnndering the government and
people.
Fortunately there is sensible
clement IN the country more pow
erfnl than such newspapers and
men, and will increase in strength
aud influence until tie convention
meets. And it is equally fortunate
that the intelligence of New Or
leans. and especially the apprehen-
SONS Of its merchants, business
ner, and mechanics are being
aroused to the denagogu;sm that
is endeavoring to mislead public
sentiment.
The rebake which tie Pica7une
and its satellites are receiving from :
every portion of the State, and par ,
Eicularly from the newspapers that 4
give expression to public opinion,
oined with a beautiful. patriotic :
sentiment, will either silence tLese :
onrpals or force them to change y
heir course. The Democratic par |
y must be preserved !; its integrity s
maintained ; its harmony restored.
Ind then when the convention $
meets, all the other Offices will not i
'e subordinate to that OF The ques-.t t
ion Of who shall be the governor, 5
nut good and true men will be Sc :,
ected for every position within the S
ift of the people. We are willing b
o trust their Intelligence and to s.
atty their decision. The trick
'ers that inaugurated personal :.
indictive canvass commenced too d
Don to accomplish their purposes. n
cong before the convection meets. e.
ie ISSUES they have sprung, un- -
'or;hily and for selfish ends, will i
e settled, and VIC predict that when W
mt BODY meets it Will prove as Il
srnonious political convention d
ever assembled in Louisiana. s.
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RECEIPTS.
First Subscription.

The following named person.
contributed to the work:
| q. Laroussini $40, H. A. Morte,
81. j. +. Smith & Sons 50, ". Ba
don $40, j. ID. Warren 81, DIR. B
B. Warren 81. VIM. G. Warren S.
G. E. Van Houton 81, H. W. S.
Lund 81. John Rocchi So, C. l..
Smith !. Philip Hoelzel 81, L. c.
LeBreton 81, Thos. Lunn 81, j. Nj
Thompson 81. Chas. Keller 81, ii.
Z. Janfroid 81. ". H. Davenport
s.. Victor PIanche So, H. j. Smith
81, DIR. j. T. Chambers 81, Julius
aeIntz 81, Il. Badon S., A. Pecho,.
81, J. Pechon 81, Chas. Thiery SIS,
Zach Strain SIS, Emile Frederick
81, five subscriptions of FIVE cents
each 25 cents, L. Lacroix So, j.
Pellaot 81, Jules Cahier 50, L. C.
Levy S5, W. G. Coyle, of steamer
New Camelia, SO, A. Thomson So,
II. F. Sturcken 81, Hardy Smith
81, Sam Porter So cents. Total
slO6 IS.
Second Subscription.
Thos. Lnnn 50, DIR. J. F. Cham
bers 81, jules Pechon 81, T.. C. Levy
81, Emile Frederick 81, ]. M. La
bat 81, E. Bossier 50. Unknown So.
Total, Sl3.
Total amount subscribed, $119 IS.
Mr.. Maloney, about lao loads of
brick-bats, and q horse and cart for
abont ten days.
Jules Cahier, mule and cart 4
days.
j. Z. Smith, mule days.
Slrs. Laborde, cart 5 days.
Sid Daniels, cart 2 days.
EXPENDITURES.
Thomasint e. Son, for three con-
tracts, S2l; TIomasint & Son, 81
days work, 50 IS; Ransom Brown,
10 days work, $40; Thos. Stanley,
) days work, Sc; Joseph Martha,
q days work, 81 50; Benton Tho
uas, 81 days work, So so; A. P.
Lacrcix, III days work, $40; Jack
overton, J days work. SO cents
Collier Pool. II days work, 81 SO;
'wo shoveIs, 81 80; nails. Is cents;
". Radon, 10a davs' work, $40; H. |
J. Smith, lumber, S. SO; j. McIn-
yre, 4 days work, 81; james For
est, 4 days work, 81; Sid Daniels,
'epairs to wagon, 25 cents; Lee
FISHER, 81 days work, 50 so; Peter
'inkney, q days work, 81 so;
loses Davis. l days work, 81. To-
al, $1lS As.
REHABILITATION.
.ecelpts. -.... $119 IS
Expenditures. lis As
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STATEMENT

OF the amount collected and paid
out for repairing the road to Old
Landing:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-09-15

lSigned, Fl. LARouss1s1,
WIN. BApoN,
J. E. SMITH,
Treasurer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
Returning to Work.
NEW YORK, Au,

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.
The main office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company was besieged from an
early hour Saturday morning by nearly a
hundred operators seeking reinstatement.
Superintendent Humistone was busily en-
gagged discriminating between the applica
tons from frSt-claSs workmen and those
who were considered second and third
rate. Only the best workmen were taken
back, and quite a number of OPP
orators were disappointed by being rejected
Those operators who were taken on after
the strike commenced will be retained by
the company in their present positions.
Superintendent Humistone said that all the
branch offices will be open for business
Monday morning, and everything be in
perfect working order by that time.
He could not promise that the company
would find positions for all operators, and
thought that large number would be COM
PEELED to seek positions elsewhere as the
company could not, in justice to itself, dis
charge those operators who had stood by it
in its difficulties 1t will take about two
weeks before positions can be found for
those Of the strikers whom the company in
tends to reinstate.
There are still many operators and nearly
all of the linemen who say the strike is not
yet ended, and that they intend to make it
lively for the company yet. This, however,
is regarded as mere talk and bravado. Mr..
Mitchell, Of the Brotherhood, says the men
will return to work just as fast as the COM
pany will take them back. He expressed
belief that at the end Of week or SO there
would be but few of the strikers who will
not have been reinstated in the company's
employ.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24

boro, Md, in presence of large assem-,
blage. 1t is thirty-fve feet high, of native
granite, and succeeds one placed by the
Odd-Fellows in 1927.
The Pensacola (Fla.) Board of Health on
the Goth reported that city in healthy
condition, with a Gordon Of seventeen
miles, protected by swamps and water.
Thirteen arrests were made for endeavor-
ing to break the lines.
THE other day Captain William j. How
ell, retired Assistant Quartermaster United
States Army, was found drowned at Lo-
Gust Point, nd.
NEAR Albuquerque, N. NJ, two officers
on the Goth tried to evict ranchman, and
fight ensued, in which all three were
killed.
THE Knights Templar at the Triennial
Conclave in San Francisco paraded on the
goth. Nearly four thousand Knights were
in line, representing all the States and
Territories in the Union.
The failure is announced of Silas Megs
chant, of Cleveland, manufacturer of ice.
machines, for 800, GO.
On the goth man killed woman and
himself at Cincinnati, O.; at Detroit,
Mich, bartender killed his wife; at Me-
braska City, Neb., woman shot and killed
her husband and killed herself; and at
Elmo, Tex, man shot his wife fatally.
A BOY named Ike Petite, sixteen years
old,while initiating the execution he had
seen of criminal, accidentally hanged
himself at Scott's Bars, Ala, few days
aO0
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
Money Under a Truck.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.
George |. Langley and John r. Burgee
were engaged a day or two ago to remove
worn-out punch-machine in the canceling-
room of the Treasury Department The
punch is used to cancel paper money as it
becomes old. 1t lacerates the money in
such way as to destroy it forever. In the
corner of the canceling-room stands an old
truck. 1t has not been disturbed for many
years, and the janitors, with commendable
thrift, carefully deposited their sweepings
under it.
On the day the workmen commenced OPP
erations there the rubbish had been piled SO
high that it was found necessary to remove
it. Langley began the work. After remov-
ing several hundred old annual reports and
q stack of circulars, his attention was at
traeted by a small dagk-colored package,
covered an inch deep with dust. Taking
the package up, he was astenished to find
that it was bundle of brand-new one-dol-
lar bills. There were 10, 900 of them-more
money than the workman had ever dreamed
of having. He was unobseryed, and could
have slipped the bills under his coat. He,
however, delivered them up at once to one
of the officials.
The Treasury officials are not anxious to
talk about the matter. That so large sum
could be lost and not missed displays re-
markably loose system of bookkeeping. If
the bills had been called in for cancellation
the tallies that are kept Of cancellations
should have discovered the deficit. If taken
from the vaults the system of checks in
vogue there ought to have made known the
loss. 1t was reported that the money was
part of the Gilman compromise fund, and
had been placed there for safe keeping by
the Attorney-General and George Bliss.
This report is not believed, however. The
matter is undergoing strict investigation,
and it is probable that some explanation Of
it will be made. Langley received no re-
ward for his honesty.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
DEATH OF JUDGE BLACK,

YORK, Pa, Aug. 20.
Judge Jeremiah Black died at ten minutes
past two O'Clock yesterday morning. Though
not unexpected, his death was sudden. Sat-
urday morning he seemed somewhat better,
but the improvement was two slight to JUS
tify hope of his recov cry. The unfa-
vorable change began about four o'clock
in the afternoon, and he gradually
grew worse, but remained conscious al
most to the end, and died peacefully. Short
ly before the end came he said to his wife:
Show can | fear to cross the dark river
when my father waits for me on the other
shore?" and added: ''Would | were as COM
Portable about all I leave behind unfinished
in this world" He then breathed the fol-
lowing earnest prayer: sob! Thou most
beloved and merciful heavenly Father, from
whom had my being and in whom l have
ever trusted, if it is Thy will grant that my
suffering may end and that may be called
home to Thee; and oh! bless and comfort
Thee, my Mary"
The immediate cause of Judge Blacks
death was poxRmia, produced by the alb
sorption of retained urinary constituents
prior to the operation Of Thursday. Dr.
mCA6uHOLl, OIL 4OIh, WHO Ildu spent y6Sl6r~
day with she patient, noticed the appear
ance of unfavorable symptoms about four
O'Clock in the afternoon. DR.. Meissen-
helder, who relieved Dr.. McKennon, also
noted the change for. the worse.
and from that hour the increasing gravity of
his symptoms indicated gradual failure of
the vital forces. Judge Black suffered
greatly during his illness, but his last mo-
mentS were without acute pain, and he
passed quietly away, retaining conscious
ness until within few minutes Of his death.
From the beginning Of his illness Judge
Black believed he never would recover, and
was perfectly resigned. jeremiah S. Black
was born January 10, 1910, in Glades, SOM
erset County, Pa.
AT the age Of seventeen he began the
study of law, and his success as lawyer
was remarkable from the date Of his adj
mission to the bar. In 1851 he was made
Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylyania He remained in this position I'M
til he was called into the Cabinet of Presi-
dent Buchanan as Attorney General. Judge
Black retired from official life in 1861, and
from that time until his death he was
actively engaged in the practice of law in its
highest branches.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
Foreign Intelligence.

THE Russian Minister of the Interior
had, according to advices of the 10Th, or
dered the enforcement of the decree pro-
hibiting Jewish manufacturers from en-
ploying Christian workmen.
PARNELL threatened in the British
House of Commons on the 18th that if the
shortcomings of the Land act were not
soon remedied he would lead an agitation
deeper and more desperate than any
hitherto experienced in Irish politics.
In the International cricket match at
Toronto on the 10Th the Americans won by
an inning and forty mine runs.
THE sanitarium at Sinkat, Egypt, was
attacked on the 10th by two thousand Bed
ouins, who were repulsed with loss of
sixty killed. The soldiers defending the
palace lost seven men and the civilians
five.
FRENCH imports for the first seven
months of this year show comparative
increase of IS, 0OO, 900 francs, while the ex-
ports fell off so, 100000 francs.
BIZ the explosion of three powder mills
near Halifax, N. S., few days ago Henry
McEwan was killed, and Rowley Smith
AFTER voyage of two years, seventeen
months of which were passed in the ice, the
whaling schooner Eva arrived atSt. Johns,
N. F., on the 18th.
NEARLY twenty thousand persons were
idle in the district of Ashton-under-Ly Lyme,
England, on the 18th, on account of the re-
fusal of the master weavers to increase
wages.
THE faculty of the st. Petersburg Uni
dents to exile in Siberia for being connect
ed with a Nihilist journal.
THERE were $40 deaths from cholera in
Egypt on the 18th, Including nrUy az CAIRO
and thirty-two at Alexandria.
FORTY deaths from yellow fever occurred
at Havana during the week ended on the
18th.
UP to the 10th one hundred and fifty-four
wooden houses had been erected and occu-
pied in Casamicciola, which was recently
destroyed by an earthquake.
FIRE destroyed R. McCready &c Co.'s
boot and shoe factory, at Montreal, the
other day. Loss, 100000.
The United States Consul at Cardiff,
Wales, William Vert Sykes, and husband
of Olive Logan, died on the 18th.
In County Sligo, Ireland, the election on
the Goth resulted in the return to Parlia-
ment Of Nichols Lynch, the Home Rule
candidate.
A RAIN and wind-storm in Northwestern
Ontario few days ago washed away rail
way tracks and bridges and destroyed
standing grain. Some towns were del
uged, the water standing two feet in the
town of Listowel. The damage at various
points was very great.
AT cambridge, Ireland, Denis Renshawe,
an Orangeman, while being evicted from
his house on the Goth shot three policemen.
Renshawe had been imprisoned.
THE deaths from cholera in Egypt on the
10Th numbered 1872, including thirty-seven
at Alexandria.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
Civil Rights at the Capital.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20

WASHINGTON, Aug. ~.
Judge Mills, of the Police Court, on Sat
urday, rendered a decision in the case Of
Smith, colored, against Bell for violating
the criminal action of the Civil Rights act.
This is the first case under this section of
that law ever tried in Washington, and the
second ever brought in any court in the
United States. Action in this case was
taken about the first of the pres
ent month by Rev. George FL. Smith,
of Norwich, Conn.,, who charged that James
w. Bell, a restaurant-ke here, refused
him the accommodations of his restaurant
because he was colored. Judge Mills, in an
exhaustive opinion on the subject, after re-
ferring to the novelty of the case and the
rights and privileges and duties of inn-keep-
ers, holds that in this case there was wan
ton violation of right secured to the COM
plainant by the Civil-Rights act. He there
fore fined the defendant $500 or thirty days
in jail, the lowest penalty under the law.
Mr. Bells counsel noted an appeal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
LATER

The Misses Mary Kairns and Mary
Rudd, each fifteen years old, were drowned
on the 21st while boating in Silver Lake,
near Rochester, N. Y.
TURKISH brigands on the 21st captured
the Mayor and several Aldermen of Salo-
MICA (old Thessalonica) and were holding
them for ransom at the high figure of one
hundred thousand dollars.
A WOMAN at Breslan, Germany, while
temporarily insane on the 21st took her
five children to the attic of her house,
placed ropes, which had been suspended
from a beam, around their necks and her
own, and then kicked away q bench upon
which all were standing. The mother and
children were all dead when discovered.
L.G. HAYNES & Bro, of Savannah, Ga,
the largest -four, bacon and grain dealers
in the State, failed on the 21st for 100000.
Other suspensions were feared.
A FIRE on the 21st in the office of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, in
Chicago, destroyed the entire operating
department, and caused loss of about
100000. The other occupants of the build
ing, including the Union National Bank,
were badly damaged by water. The fire
originated just back of the switchboard,
and was supposed to have been caused by
the crossing of wires.
A CYCLONE visited Kasson, Mimi, on the
21st, which wrecked many structures,
killed two persons, and injured several
others. Hail-stones fell which measured
ten inches in circumference.
THE funeral of Judge Black, at York,
Pa, on the 21st was the largest ever wit
messed in the town, many distinguished
persons participating. The remains were
inferred in Prospect Hill Cemetery, at
Broclie.
THERE were 1913 deaths from cholera in
Egypt on the Goth, including three at
Cairo and forty-three at Alexandria.
Amougthe British troops 143 deaths from
the disease had occurred since its outbreak
1t was believed that the virulence of the
disease was rapidly subsiding in Alexan-
dria.
On the 21st Richard Powers, of Chicago,
President of the Seamen,s Union, of the
lakes, testified before the Senate sub Com
mittee on Labor, in New York, that the
union had improved the moral condition
of its members and secured for them high
er wages. George G. Block, of the jour-
neymel bakers, of New York, said
the condition of the bakers was a very
degraded one on account of the long hours
they were compelled to labor. Their
wages averaged $500 a week. Adolph
Strasser, President of the Cigar makers
Inter national Union, read statistics show
ing that where there was an existing or
ganization much higher rate of wages
prevailed than where industry was unor.
ganized,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24
A Russian Solomon.


The St. Petersburg Herald relates
that recently in South Russian village
q peasant was accused of theft. The
culprit kept out of the way, but sent an
advocate to plead his cause before the
local judicial magistrate. The lawyer
employed all his eloquence to convince
the Judge that his client was innocent,
but his clever appeal had no effect upon
the magistrate, who knew the accused
and had probably condemned him be-
fore he heard the details of the case.
He gave the sentence-five and twenty
blows with rod. The village Solomon
was informed that the criminal could
not be found. 'Never mind" he OBJ
served. Justice must have its course.
As the criminal is not in our hands, we
decree that his advocate shall receive
the fogging. The man who has the
face to defend such a rascal deserves to
be punished. The luckless lawyer in
vain protested against the illegality,
absurdity and utter injustice of the
monstrous sentence. The loss of his
time and his fees, he commended, would
be quite sufficient punishment. But the
stiff old Russian Solomon was inexor-
able, and the lawyer was actually
seized, bound and received the twenty
five strokes as the representative of the
absent criminal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-24


A CIRCULAR was issued by the Master
Workman of the Brotherhood of Te-
legraphers on the 18th saying that the
strike was failure, and directing the
members to seek work. The New York as
sembly voted to give the girls the first
chance to regain their situations. A num-
Der, both male and female, were re-em-
ployed in the Western Union Office in New
York.
The failure of Taussig& Hammerschlag,
sugar dealers, of New York, for $235,000,
occurred on the 18th.
THE Democrats of Massachusetts will hold
their State Convention at Springfield, Sep
TENDER 26.
LIGHTNING killed forty sheep few days
ago near Garden City, L. 1.
WHILE two brothers, Richard and Will
lam Hams, were fishing few days ago at
Canarsie, L. l., William was accidentally
drowned, and Richard, in despair at his
brothers death, attempted to strange
himself, but was prevented by a fish
erman.
JUDGE ]. s. BLACK died at his home at
York, Pa, on the morning of the 10Th,
aged seventy-three years. He was born in
that State, and became Chief-Justice of it's
Supreme Court in 1854. He was Attorney
General and Secretary of State under
President Buchanan. He participated in
nearly all the great cases before the Su-
preme Court, including the constitution
ality Of the Reconstruction acts.
Two BOYS, George Marshall and Dennis
Shea, engaged in scuffle at Holyoke,
Mass, few days ago, and the former upon
being thrown died instantly, being asphyx-
lated, the doctors said.
A SCHOONER, carrying a black flag, was
sunk off Atlantic City, N. j., few days
ago. and all hands were supposed to have
been lost.
On the 18th little dog bit Frank Blood,
at Howe's Cove, N. T., causing the boys
death the same evening from nervous fright.
THE death was announced on the 18th Of
Mary Lamb, at Plainville, Pa, who lacked
three weeks of being one hundred years
old. A short time since her husband died,
aged ninety
SUICIDES occurred on the Goth as follows:
Ebenezer Marsh, seventy-nine years old,
of Providence r. l., Owed down a well
HVtuAOASluOSV @Lu VI oWueu hilhSSlLs LII. u
B. Campbell, a prominent physician, of
Westfeld, N. Y, took poison, and Wilder
Rixford, farmer, near the same place, in
comfortable circumstances, shot himself
in the right temple.
TEEMER was awarded first place in the
professional boat-race at Fall River, Mass,
on the Goth, Hosmer being second and Ross
third. Hanlan failed to get a position.
An excursion steamer ran among the
rowers at one time, some of whom were
swamped.
On the 2Othsfires destroyed the Cheshire
House, at Keene, N. H.. Mcdonnell &
Sons paper-mill, at Lumbertville, N. j.;
the Lincoln House, at Richmond, Me-, and
nine tanks and considerable machinery of
the Eclipse oil refinery, at Franklin, Pa.