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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-07-28

Thf 81. Ta,tltlauu farn,e,
CONVICTION. JULY %. 1883.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Are there any houses for rent in Gov.
That was fine shower yesterday
evening. Good for the gardens.
A raild type Of palerial fever has SD.
peared in the northeastern part of the
parish.
Our friend Milton Burns has our
thanks for basket of delicioue grapes
.apd peaches.
We learn that Mr.. Jack Mizell died.
last Wednesday, at his HON e in Wash
.ington parish.
Nh. Emile Frederich's new cottage is
completed, all but the painting. We
understand it Is not for rent.
Mrs. Moulton, of New Orleans, is on
. visit to friends in Coyington. She is
staying at the residence of Mr.. J. E.
Smith.
The committee to examine the books
/. of the Parish Treasurer failed to meet
last Saturday. Mr.. Burns was the only
member present.
Rev. Dr.. Markham, of New Orleans,
preached to large and attentive con-
gregation in the Presbyterian church,
Hast Wednesday night
Hereafter drayage will be charged on
trunks from Old Landing to Covington,
when they have not been shipped as
freight See advertisement.
How many young men are there in
.Covington who have built new homes Of
their own. with the intention of getting
married and settling down?
Don't forget the auction sale at Mr..
q. w. s. Lund's store, next Monday.
He has very large and we'll selected
stock of goods, which will be sold to the
highest bidder, in quantities to suit
purchasers.
Prof. Augustus II. has invented new
nap trap. which he says never fails to
catch EN-. as follows: Apply a little
stiff tar to the plecs where the rat usual
y passes, and he will Immediately
fasten himself. and may be killed at any
time.
The Cpupcil met last Saturday even
ing apd approved bills for work on the
streets. apd lumber, to the amount OF
So The bills were promptly cashed by
the Treasurer. That's the way our town
/. conducts its business. A dollar warrant
+. is worth jastgope hundred cents.
The weather, during the past week.
has been varia BILE. At times it was al
most too hot for endurance, then we
would haye storm, with the usual
thunder, lightning and rain accompani-
Uents. 1t may be summarized as fol-
lows: Hot mornings, cool evenings and
cold nights.
Under the apportionmept Of school
funds made by the Superintendent of
Public Education, for the first quarter
of 1883, st. Tammsny parish receives
$lS5 Al. and Washington parish 1921 To-
This is about 81 cents per capita, AMI
secures the public school children about
nine months vacation.
Circuit Court vas in session last Mon.
day. Judges Powell and Mcvea pre-
siding. The bar vas represented by
Judge 3. 81. Mari, Jno. Wadsworth, T.
G. W. Ellis and JOS. A. Reid. The case
Of N. Dicks VS.. Theo. Dendinger was
heard, and the Judgment of the lower
court affirmed, with costs.
The force Of street workers, under the
the management of Charlie Davis, are
npidly putting the streets and cutters
in good condition. So far as we have
observed, the work Is being well done,
and Covington will soon be one of the
nlsanest as we'll as the quietcst and
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-07-28

We carry stock of Victor" and
"Kentucky"
Sorghum Cane Mills, Cooks,
and Williams EyapOratOrs.
Pans and Furnaces.
ALSO GAZE Mills FOR STEAM Power.
We can furnish almost anything in
the way of Plantation Machinery. at
lowest competitive prices. and at short
notice.
Send for prices OF Saw Mills. Betting.
Pumns, Moving Machines. Threshers.
Fan Mills. Gas Pipe and Fittings, Brass
Goods, Boiler Settings, Woodworking
Machinery, and Machinery of any kind
you may be in 0eed Of.
nD-Foundry and repair work prompt
~ and carefully executed.
TRY US!
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The Simplest Words the Best.

Godfrey Turner writes in Macmillan s
Magazine: Your servant says: GA man
told me so;" the most learned and ele-
giant of your acquaintance would be
more likely to say on the same occa-
sion: ga certain person informed me. "
Here the person is not a certain but an
uncertain one, and the thing told may
have nothing in it of information. Year
by year our language loses something
of its propriety and force. 1t is doubt
full whether, in the no longer unlettered
but still ignorant ranks of the English
people, sound and honest vulgarity
exists as it did when Lander wrote. A
footman nowadays would be more like
ly to say he had been Informed than
that he had been "told.n The plain
yeoman who, at that period, might
have said that it cost him great de al
of money to build house, would now
tell us that he had expended a consider
able sum in erecting residence. We
no longer eat and drink; we 'partake
of refreshments" and we contrive by
some miracle to ''partake" even when
we dine alone. Affected rusticity OF
speech is as much to be summed as af-
fected anything else. The true vulgar
were never guilty of it. Those whose
vulgarity has been named "Philistin-
ism'-and the term is terribly signfi-
cant-are guilty of all Alterations that
plain mans mind can conceive and
detest. But if we need not be rustic
we need not be roundabout. The SIM
plest words are always best; and so un-
erringly does their habitual use indicate
a clear mind, an earnest meaning and q
sincere intent that he will always be
better worth listening to who never says
''arrive" when he should say ''come,'
nor proceed" when he might say
-
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been a diamond pin now, or horse
and carriage, it would not have been so
bad-but a bonnet! Oh, the brazen
huzzy! Miss b., indeed! should like
to scratch her eyes out! know she is
some insignificant doll-faced, long seal
skin ulster girl. And, mother, sup
pose. he knew Ahers when weswere en-
gagged. Oh, | shall die | know shall!
We lave only been married six months
He must have known her. What shall
l do? L have taken off all the jewels he
has given me except my diamond ear
rings; they are to pretty to give back;
he would only send them to Miss B., l
suppose, Yes, | will keep them just to
spite him. 1 have packed up all my
dresses that he has bought for me, ex-
cept my last new one, the Paris one
you ought to see it, mother. Now write
at once and tell me what to do. Your
own LITTLE CARRIE.
p. S. 1t fits me beautifully, and of
course | must have something to cover
my back.
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Splitting the Difference.

"Well, dad he suddenly began, as
he placed top rail in place, Il am
twenty-one years old tomorrow"
"Y-e-s." grudgingly replied the old
man.
"And I'll be my own boss"
The old man looked troubled, and
it was long three minutes before he
said
"See here, Sam, 1 believe you have
jumped ahead a year."
Cant be, dad. The date is down
in the Bible, and in your own writing"
IT'S, ehP Wall, never got any
thing right within month, and reckon
let it run along three or four weeks
before put it down. Well call it a
month"
"Not much! I'm going to work for
Deacon Calkins tomorrow"
"Sam," said the old man, as he let
the maui down beside the rail-cut, ''this
ere fence has got to 60 up if it busts
the county. I'll shave the time down
to two weeks, and if you pitch in smart
you can call me old man after noon to-
morrow"
Sam agreed. 1t was better than work.
ing for sixteen dollars per month
Detroit Free Press. 9It
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WIT AND WISDOM.

There is nothing slow about
burglar He works pry. .....
1t needs bold, resolute man at
any time to grapple with the subject of
woman.- Churcisman.
The idea that color can not be dis
tinguished in the dark is false. You
may not be able to see, but you can feel
blue. al
Physicians affirm that diseases are
often contracted by person becoming
overheated Which is all the doctors
know about it. Heat does not contract;
it expands. Boston Transcript.
"A gentleman had his boots BACKED
by one of two boys, and gave the sinner
a two dollar bill to get changed. After
waiting some time he said to the other
boy: "Where's your partnerP' "Oh,"
said the youth, with a grin, ''he's bust
up, and I'm his assignee. ~ Church
Union.
"A boy of eight years was asked by
his teacher where the zenith was. He
replied: 1.-THE spot in the heavens di-
fectly over ones head" To test his
knowledge further, the teacher asked:
"Can two persons have the same zenith
at the same timep" "They can"
, " HowP" eff one stands on the 9TH
er's head"
-"Goin' furP" the inquisitive traveller
asked the man on the wood-box.
(" Well, yes" he replied, 81 reckon it's
fur I'm going to Buffalo" And
being thus pelted with this answer, the
inquisitive man looked as though he
wanted to hide somewhere. But this is
Turin to the subject. Burlington
Hawkeye.
The bane of our life is discon-
tent. We say we will work so long and
then we will enjoy ourselves. But we
find just as Thackeray has expressed it,:
"When l was a boy" he said, II
wanted some taffy. 1t was shilling,
1 hadn't one When was aman I had
shilling, but l didn't want any taffy."
-R0bert .CoLtuer. asasasaaasasss
PAS long way ahead of wig
gins" said Melancthan to one of Mr..
Marrowfat's guests, as they we're ex-
aiming the pictures in the parlor after
dinner. Your father is very clever
man" politely observed the gentleman
to whom the remark was addressed.
Eyes" continued the garrulous boy,
she can tell when there's a storm COM
ing every time, just by looking in ma
face "--Brooklyn Eagle
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

Hungary has 2,976 producers of
silk, who turned out $1,000 pounds of
silk in 1881.
One school district in Maine, con-
tanning eighteen farms, received over
$1,000 for apples sold in single year.
The New Orleans Picayxne esti-
mates 9. profit of about $500, 900, 900 for
the. Americans who build the railroads
Of Mexico.
California produces half the quick
silver in the world; 100, 222, 267 pounds
in the last thirty years, of which two
thirds went abroad. San Francisco
call. e,a,
The Lancaster Bingham Mills at
Clinton, Mass, are the largest mills of
the kind in this country. They employ
1900 hands and produce 2O.0O0,OO0
yards of cloth each year. Their pro-
ducts are sold mainly in Pennsylvania
and the Southwest.-Bostoa Post.
West Point, Miss, with two thou
sand inhabitants, has recently raised
1000 for National bank, $50, 900 for
a cotton-seed oil-mill, increased its ad
valorem tax list 100000 in one year,
established cotton exchange, voted
$4,000 to railroad, and is talking of
$50, 200 cotton factory.
According to the emigration sta
tistics of Ireland for 1882, just pub
lished, 1871 natives of Ireland emf
grated during the year, an increase of
10.847 over 1881. The heaviest emil
grafton was from Munster and Ulster.
From May /, 1851, the total number of
natives of Ireland who left the seaports
was 2,804,740
From statistics presented at the
office of the Troy Steamboat line it APP
pears that there has been no colder sea-
son along the Hudson than the past one
since 1913. This season the river has
been closed 120 days. During the win
ter of 1896 it was closed 125 days,
and in 1929 for 1876 days. The winter
of 1884 was an exceptionally mild
one, thirty-one days being the period
during which the Hudson was closed
Troy (M ~ TGmsS.
From the Agricultural Department
at Washington we find that the average
price of corn in the entire United States
| for eleven years, from 1871 to 1881 in
elusive, appears to be about 43 cents
| per bushel. The highest annual aver
! age was GA cents in 1874, while the low
est was 81 cents in 1873 The aggre-
| gate value has increased in ten years
from $435, 100000 to S759,00O,000,
though the last crop was the smallest
! tor the last seven years.
The compendium of the tenth CEN
sus, recently issued, contains some fig
ures which will serve to give an idea of
the magnitude of the quarrying inter-
ests of the country, which in 1880 gave
employment to 1928 men, 8,059
horses, and 851 mules; had 800 ma
chimes for quarrying, 1920 machines
for hosting, 1903 machines for
dressing, and used S192,175 worth of
explosives. The capital invested is
given at $25,414, 497, and the value of
the product in the census year at $18,;-
$50, 055, there being 1925 quarries in
all. Marble and limestone lead the
list with 60, 1928, 965 cubic feet, followed
by the sandstone quarries with 24,776,-
$50 cubic feet; crystalline silicious
rocks, with 5,118, 1898 cubic feet; and
slate with 457, 267 squares, or 1872, $40
cubic feet.
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XVI.
INF. Wilson 10 Nine. Dougan.l

f...tH INT. Nllsoil W MINI DOuRhu.I
Mr.. Wilson presents his compliments
to Nine. Dougan, and will deem it a
favor if she will request her book-keep-
er to abstain in future from using any
more authorizations in his or her CORE
spondence with Mr.. Wilson or family
than are required for 8 proper economy
of his or her doubtless extraordinarily
valuable time. The simple fact of hav-
ing used an initial instead of full
name in account rendered November
9th, ultimo, has already cost Mr.. Will
son some fifty dollars, more or less, and
he has reason to anticipate an attor-
ney's bill amounting to several hundred
dollars more.
Nov. IL, 1882,
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X I

from Messrs. Doom & Sharp, Attorneys, to
Mr.. wilson,
NOVEMBER o. 1882.
CAROLINE WILSON, of Boston,
ROBERT A. WILSON, New York.
ROBERT A. WILSON, EsQ.-SIR: In
pursuance of the instructions of our
client, Caroline Wilson, of the city of
Boston, County of Suffolk, State of
Massachusetts, we forward herewith the
charges and specifications of an applica-
ton for divorce and alimony for the
aforesaid Caroline Wilson from Robert
A. Wilson. We shall be pleased to be
referred to your attorney, who will
doubtless file your answer within the
succeeding twenty days. We have the
honor to be
Your most obedient servants,
DOZEN AND SHARP.
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Mrs. Wilson, Boston, to Mr.. Wilson, New
York.


Mrs. Wilson, Boston, to Mr.. Wilson, New
York;
900 BEACON ST., November 10, 1882.
DEAREST HUBBY: / shall see you be-
fore you get this, but | must write to
tell you how absurd it all is and how
foolish, and what a little goosey have
been. But you'll forgive me, won't
you, my darling boyp there's good
fellow. You see it was all on account
of that coat you left at home, and which
had that horrid bill for my birthday
bonnet. You naughty fellow, why
didn't you tell me who Miss B. was? 1t
must be lovely. Marion-just think of
my not thinking that Miss b. meant
Marion, when have known her for all
these years, and, indeed, we played to-
gether and went to school and the
French convent together, and she was
one of my bridesmaids, and was to be
one of hers only Twas married first as
you know-wasn't it absurdp Well,
Marion writes that the bonnet is per-
fectly lovely, and no one of our set has
anything like it, and must send you a
kiss right here at this moment for it,
and will give you more when | see you,
which will be, as said before, before
you get this; but | am So happy and
glad that we are not going to be di-
vorced, and that those horrid lawyers
won't publish everything in the papers,
SO that shall not be able to hold my
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XII.
XII.
[Mr. Wilson to Mrs. Armstrong;

DEAR Mrs. ARMSTRONG: Have you
all gone crazyP What internal non
sense is this you are playing? My bust
ness presses me so that | can not, leave,
or should be in Boston. If this is a
joke it has gone far enough. First,
Carrie leaves me a most enigmatical
epistle, in which she says; $50 10 your'
Mss b." and saying shells going home
to her mother Perhaps it is lauda-
BILE desire on her part to wish to see her
mother, but why does she insist on my
going to see Miss B.p What Miss B. ?
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From Mrs. Wilson, New York, to Her Moth

From Mrs. Wilson, New York, to Her Moth
er, Boston.l
1902 FIFTH AVENUE, Nov. A. 1882
Oh, mother, am perfectly wretched!
Robert is villain! We were so happy,
and now the canker-worm of-zyou
know what the poet says the canker-
worm does to the peaceful household.
We were so happy; Robert gave me
everything l asked for, and was the
most indulgent of husbands and now l
am torsaken wife,, i feel, dear moth
er, just as Modjeska looks in the play
when she sinks down with stony stare
and her dress Grapes around her so
beautifully. My dress won't drape at
all, though / have sunk down lots of
times. must tell you all about it.
You see Robert has been in the habit
lately of staying down town on business
until quite late; he said that important
contracts were being decided and he
would make lots and lots of money, and
could sign his check next year for a
hundred thousand dollars if everything
went well; though | can't see why he
should wait until next year to do that,
for he has number of check-books in
the house which look the easiest thing
in the world to fill out; he showed me
how once. I'm sure i could sign one
for as many figures as the line would
hold, but he never lets me; he saws
l don't understand business, but
I'm sure / understand an easy thing
like that. didn't think anything of
this, until now; in the light of later
facts, / can see that he does not love me
enough to let me keep pretty check
book of my own. But as | was saving,
l did not think anything of his staying
away late, until yesterday, when he left
his Office coat at home for me to send
to the tailor's to be made over or some
thing-have a new breadth put in the
back, l think. And speaking of
breadths, mother, you ought to see my
new Paris dress with the gold embroid-
cry down the skirt, with erer so many
fiounces of lace and the most lorely but
tons. Well, as | was looking at it Ct
mean his coat bill dropped out of an
inside pocket-an inside pocket-just
think of it! | don't know how it came
TO fall out, for l am sure would not do
such thing as to rummage into my
husbands pockets. Lots of other things
fell out, too, from all the other pockets,
but they were only money and things.
looh inc plli up, anu tne sbIdnSeSt
thing is that it persisted in flying right
open before my eyes without my ever
touching it. And sohat do you think it
was? Oh, mother! that |, your daughter,
nurtured in the exclusive east wind of
dear old Boston should be so disgraoed.
It was this bill from Nine. Dougan, the
milliner, which inclose, my husband s
name as plain as can be; and only to
think of it, bonnet to Miss b. at her
house. Oh. the shame of it! If it had
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fear Carrie Is not well; be sure and
have advice from your old family ply
stefan. sent DIR. Brooks to see her the
day she left on this remarkable trip, but
he tells me he did not see her. Next, L
received q letter that j wrote her, re-
turned with " unopened written on the
envelope in her writing. Then some
lawyer firm send most astounding
document for me to answer through
counsel; said document being charges
upon which are based an application
for divorce BY one Caroline Wilson,
wife of Robert A. Wilson, etc., ETC.,
which also bristles over with the re-
markable "Miss B." Confound it, I
can stand deal, and like Joke, but
this suits me too well. What possessed
Carrie to run off to Boston without
warning, just on the eve of her birth
day, tooP l had bought her bonnet of
Mime. Dougan, and her friend, Miss
Bond, was keeping it for me. wanted
to surprise her with it. For Heaven s
sake, write or come home with Carrie
at once. am nearly crazy with anx-
iety about her and my business COM
bined. 1t was the very worst time she
could have chosen to launch out into the
role of humorist, for see my way clear
to make fortune if / can attend GER
tain meetings for the next few days.
! Telegraph me or do something at once.
Yours, anxiously, ROBERT.
P. S. inclose letter which came
for Carrie the other day.
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Mrs. Armstrong, Boston, to Messrs. Doom &
Sharp, Attorneys, New York
900 BEACON STREET, November g. 1882.

W. BEACON STREET, November D, 1857.
GENTLEMEN: l desire you to COM
mence an action for the divorce of my
daughter, Caroline Wilson, from her
husband, Robert A. Wilson, of New
York, alimony to be arranged for as
large an amount as possible. l should
desire matters to be expedited, and will
place myself and daughter in your
hands, to do whatever you may direct.
We, of course, should desire the affair
to be arranged without publicity if pos
sible. / inclose the document, bill
from a Nine. Dougan, milliner, which
viii be our principal piece of document
airy evidence, and | also inclose short
statement of the actions of Mr.. r. A.
Wilson, which have compelled us to
take this step.
Very respectfully yours,
HtEat ELLEN Z. ARMSTRONG.
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Kill.

XIII.
From Miss Marion Bond to Mrs Wilson, for
warded by Mr.. Wisonl
100 FIFTH AVENUE, November O. 1882
MA CHERE: l did not see you at Mrs.
Bellows ball last night. hope you are
not i'll. Everybody was there-the Wat
kyns, the ENTHUSIASTICALLY. Mrs.
Watkyns wore a lovely shrimp pink sat-
in with the skirt looped with diamond
ornaments that were worth at least ten
thousand dollars. Iwore that neaU dress
1 showed you when you were here the
other day. You remember, of course
the pale blue with the real Spanish lace,
and fear l have completely ruined it,
That clumsy Dick Bellows was passing
me glass of wine, and he spilled it
right dorm the front and made two
fearful spots. He looked frightened to
death-you know he is just from college
but i told him it was nothing, and
waltzed with him afterwards to make
him feel that forgave him. They say
he is very rich in his oUn name. No,
there is nothing between Mr.. Harper
and myself perfectly detest him, and
l wish people would stop talking about
us. Even if he did dance twice with
me the other evening Che is a beautiful
partner), it is no reason why every
body's tongue should begin to run. 1
declare, my tongue is running. / sat
down to write this to ask you to come
over to my house tomorrow. I've got
something wonderful to show you. 1t
belongs to friend of mine, and her
husband is going to give it to her for a
birthday present. It's the lOuelieSt bon
net-oh! there now, I've told you what
| it is, and l know your husband
would be very angry if he knew 1 had
told-grdciOWS! now I've told you who
it is for. How stupid never could
keep secret. You remember at school
l used to tell everything. But do come
over and see it; it is just too loUe3y.
You know Dougan does get the most
stunning things sometimes. By the
way, met Elsie last night. You re-
member her at school. Well, you know
she married that rich Tom Chamberlin
last year, and had such a swell wedding
and such a trousseaur from Paris.
Well, as was saying, l met her last
night, and would you believe it-but of
course you wouldn't had on pre-
ciSely the same dress she wore last fall
at Mrs. Towards ball was neUer so
much taken aback in my life. They
do say he has failed, but Mr.. Williams
failed the other day and his wife has
got a number of new diamonds, but /
aerer did understand business, did youP
How / do run on! Now don't forget to
come over tomorrow early, and then
we will go out to luncheon at Del's.
Mother sends love.
Your own MARION.
P. S. 1t is all covered with those new
gold beads that have just come in.
XIV.
Telegram from Mrs. Armstrong, Boston, to
| Mr.. Wilson, New York I'i l
ID. , BOSTON, November 10, 1882.
To Mr. Wilson, 1914 Wall St, New York.
Everything explained. We start at
once. Meet us at depot.
| f...rY f. f. ARMSTRONG;
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IMr. Wilson to Mrs. wilson,


DEAR LITTLE WHEY: am very sorry
that can not be home to dinner to-
night. / must see some gentlemen on
business and shall not get through until
late. Don't sit up for me, and don't be
nervous. do not think you have been
very well for the past day or so. Now
be careful of your little SELF With much
love. HUBBY.