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GRAND JURY REPORT.

To tie Hon. NJ Hahn, Judge Of
the Twenty.Sixtll Judicial District
Court of the State of Lou siana, in
and TOR the parish of st, Charles.
We the Grand Jury of the Parish
of st. Charles, duly empamelled
and sworn, for the term commencing
on the second Monday OF October
1888, beg leave TO present this, our
final report.
/. We have examined the Court
House and found same ia 6 nod or
der. The Jail is in very bad con-
dition and neels repairing; the cells
are unfit to hold the prisoners, for
more safety, we request the Police.
Jury to build a fence around tue Jail,
forty feet frMn the building and ten
feet high. A new kitchen aud stove
| is necessary.
2. We have found the Clerk and
Sheriff offices kept in very good or.
der.
3. The Treasnrer'S hooks have
been examined and found Co rect.
A, The road y, eerseers of This
parish are requested to seq the pro.
perry holders of this parish, and
have Them, to keep their roads,
bridges and bitches in better order
an.l condition.
3. We recommend thatthe Police
Jury take the measures which they
may deem necessary TO prevent the
spreading OfSmall pOx in this parish;
and furthermore strongly and siren
ously recommend that they pass
resolutions and ordinances to pre-
vent gambling in the public road.
8. We cali the special attention
of the Police Jury of this parish to
this report and request that the Clerk
of Court should hand copy Of sam.
to said Body.
Thanking YOUR Honor, the Dis
ttrict Attorney,and all other OFFICERS
or uniform courtesy extended to us
during our Investigations, We re
spectiully submit this our Anal re-
port. Parish ofSt. Charles, October
18th 1883. Signed, EDw. PooHE, A
Foreman of the Grand JpS'
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LOUISIANA ORANGEJ.


The orange crop Of this year viii
be considerably smaller thau it
sllollld be III the ordinary course Of
time. The eld trees are just recOv
ering from the great freeze Of 1880 |;
aud about twenty per cent. of new
trees have been set out. The croI,
of this year would have rxcee.l' d
that of last year about twenty iiye
per cent. had We not been visited by
a severe hail storm III April. Be.
sides this, tllp constant rain in The
spring, and want ofraiu in summer
have dwarfed the fruit and male il
quite small IN size aud ready tn
burst With present rains. The total
crop of Louisiana for this year will
be about the same as last year, say
$4,000 barrels.
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DISTRICT COURT.

After two weeks and three days
the District Court in st. Charles
adjourned sine die Wednesday 24tll
ut. The principal cases of note
finally acted on were the rape case
Of Richard Comstuck, the shooting
case Of young Sylvester Barthcmey
by Buddy Green and The civil dam
lge suit of Clement CoIly Us Frder
ick ToWps. Messrs. J. ID. AnsusIin
and GA .Baquie zealuuSly defended
COmstock, and ut last succeeded in
saving his neck: after an Intellectual
motion for a new trial, he was sen
fenced to the uenitentiary for HE
and took a snspensive appeal to the.
Supreme Court. His counsel mnde
bushels of POINTS and motions,
aud took numerous bills Of
exceptions. Buddy Green was sen
ftpnc,d To eight yemS. his marion in
larrest Of iudgment being ovrrrulel
and lie also appealed. j. d. ug s
lin and Gpr,aise Lcchc Tor lie Siat
L. u, Pa0rter for the defence. Tie
case Of CollN us Toups was a
sat lol $1,000 damages for alleg, d
bad fifth IN breaking u promise to
lelse to l,hiniif the old Pecqucul
sore. This being the first civil ease
su united toa colored jury il ST.
Charles, aud the parties being vel
K nen, he TRIAL ere led quite $, II
s ti0l. NJ, Ssis j. ID. Au. ustin iur
| pa intitf' and G. A i'aquie for def, 4
ant, tnsSelcd val atty .livitlins two
days, Monday aio Tuesday: nlterisn
|exa.Nsliveatilaabr cha sc lN.Jndge
Hahn the jury after about an hour
and. bali, returned V, rlici tor
plainuff for $500, u nrw trial beiO1
refused by the Judge. WrdppSS
hrsignp,lla Gdgm a ssssdy" no
verdict: The jury and The lie t''"".
appealed 10 I've Cifcnit 49, "nu
pc .iNelA declined to ''N "'"i'
far thnnln ami
Monday next ths district Court
opens in st. job 'ne cases OF
Mrs. widow d. y<io et.0ls-,es,Nidrw
o. Loire and sherlft,au'l Of Yale I
\ i,ow,;,,,. Mrs, Bln@er'ch. ate $
> : NM, stimonN to be * ii byI !
s" '.'.,''s " also harm that M. i
s,.s,. Stice,on charge Of ma,,ir, in 6
Ilsition from the Goveruor,WiIlih
jably he brought her, ihi, we, K In
M Chicago BY deputy ShrIiff,J.L. ii
artin. axe ADVISE him to beM are $,
the Chicago gills: they arr sad 10 al
ar number nine shoes. lot
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OSCAR ARROYO.

Mr.. Strong, the present Seer tary
Of State, viii not be- candidate for
reelection. HIS efficient, able and
accommodating ASSISTANT, Mr.. Oscar
Arroyo, is suggested for the place,
and no better selection could he
made. Mr.. Arroyo has been in the
employ of the State for many years,
always however, in laborious
and lOorly-paying position. He is
well and thoroughly posted in all
State affairs, and in the manner III
which be discharges bisduties seems
to have been born and educated ex-
pressly for the affairs Of Secretary OF
State. We hope to see him nomi-
mated and elected unanimously, for
he enjoys the esteem and good will
of every man who has ever had any
business with him, Democrat or
Republican, white or black. His
constant courtesy and spirit Of kind
ness, and clear head make the offict.
seek the man, and we do hope no
one will have the presulntion OF
running against him.
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THE BOILERS.

We have carefully read and con
sideIed all the grounds on whicll
the anti administration members OF
the Democratic State Committee
halloted, and must say that THEN
cOnduct was not prudent or justified
by tile facts Of the, case. The idea
that committee cannot change ilk
presiding officer is so absurd that il
scarcely merits a RECITATION. We do
not sAmpail,ise With the MINORITY
VIZ do not favor their candidate fm
Governor, our section of the State
being in favor of Hon. EMILE RosT
hut he correctness Of the position
assumed by the McIEnery men on
this matter il so strong and well
iOui ded that it seems almost in.
possible to conceive how they could
have committed. 80 great blundei.
The position OF Fitzpatrick in reGus
ing 10 vacate the chair on majority
demand is as silly and a. just as was
that Of Mr.. Nillz,wllen he attempted
10 carry ont the views Of il minority
and install himSe t by Violence in The
Speakers chair Of the Legislature.
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TINS PAPER may be found ON file Mt Geo.
4 hawell 4 Co.'S Newspaper Advertieiue
bnFeau az Sprnco st.,1 where advertising cor.
tracts may be made for itin NEW YORK.
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HAHNvILLE, NOV. 8. 1883
ADVERTISING RATES.
NEWS TTFMs


Nervousness, debility and exhausted vitality
cured ~ using Browns Iron Bittcrs.
tits fact that Keudall'a spawn Cure Is all
Is claimed to be- See advertisement.
Texas organized sixty eight new
counties last year, making 200 in
the state. Tie increase of her tax
abr property in the year was $3.50,
O00,0OO.
Cox. J. w. Nicholson, President
OF the Louisiana State University.
his etlrned from his t0nr through
the State, and found The peonl,.
everywhere maniitsiiug gi4a, In
ielrst II tile wrllaIe Of he Univers-
iiy.
Two thousand two hundred trains
enter ana leave ondOu each ,Iav.
Of these there are sixty eight which
lsQ not carry third class passengers.
IN Paris li,irp ares110 trims which.
a. not carry ilird-cIass.
f"AndthSs is married lift !nexcl,timetl
an indignant wife, as her husband
leelfd into the room and tried to sit
downon the door.knOb. eShelt'nly.
M alear-slert'uly. Marriage is
ohly q lot,0'rYtf'
Mrs. Murray, the wife of".s diron--
slaeh Murray, has snst returned
FROM Europe with q diploma from
the Vienna Medical College. bolh
as physician aud surgeon, icing.
her trinds say, the only womai, h
This country with this certificate.
A frog Tell into a pail of milk one
night, aud ia the morning WIS tnI i'd
sitting upon d roll Of fresh butter.
A local upper says that, IN irving
to HxtiitMle himself, liz had, bN dill
gent and continuous stokes of his
Long legs, rhurned tue milk into
butter.
superintendent of Education Fay
has made the fol owing appolti0n.
lilent OF school funds for the last
quarter ~ 1882: East Baton Rouge
@562 %, West Baton Rouge $207 AZ,
EAST Felniana $464 go, West Fell
ciana 1884 80. st. Helena $244 "a,
Llvingstnu $l6l Is, Ascension 44s.
~. Ibtrvllle $4S "a; pointe Uoupce
S5l0 33
Iht Grand Military, Musical and
Y nal Entertainment, Fencing Ia.
b eau, etc, given under the auspices
OF the "St. John Fencing Clnb,7
for the heieht Of the Dyesr Momu.
meetaI Fasld, begun last nightat the
"French Opera House," on Bourbon
Street, New Orleans, and is to be
concluded to night Ii will doubt.
less Be q grand success in every
respect
On lhe lwcntieth nit, the stock
for hN first ostrich farm in The
Southern States was shipped from
New York II goes to Sylvan Lake,
Orange County. Fla Tie bids
weighed hoin 100 TO 200 pounds
each, and stood seven feet igh
Their first crop of feathers will b.
slassnext ears In a5onl two years
from nav il isexpecie,l that iins
viii furnish cfOpsannually. AN
this exlseFinnsHt Is valuable, hy r,s..A
sou III the new Tell il may oselrI Of
Enterprise, tits watched with n ",
interests.
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Mr.. E. Bourbon and family of the
"Star Plantation" returned to this
parish last week from Paris ,Franee,
after their usual annual visit. He
found yerything going along nicely
under the careful supervision of his
efficient manager, Mr. George Lorio.
The other day three tramps nfan
unusual character and nationality
passed. through Hahuville on beg
ging excursion. They were two
men and a boy all Arabs. The bO,
only spoke Il little English. They.
carried papers setting forth that
they had suffered at Alexandra,
Egypt, and been compelled to leave
that place on account Of being Cath,
Olics. We took them TO b hnlnbugs,
although FIR fear of being mistaken
we handed them a dime. We as
certained that at Blocks and Worm.
ser's. stores, ami at Slicn's shoe
factory, they had changed small!
coins lo' larger ones; and frum tlles,.
facts We calculated thai they wer
receiving about twenty dollars q
day. They said they were on their
way to.Texis. The novelty of hear
dress, con.pleXion, etc, drew much
attention aud made their call luttr
csIi Z, whether hnmi,ugs or not.
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Quite number OF ''uue horse lao
iticians'" are electioucering to IL.
nominated for the Legislature from
this pariSly We have not yet heard
ola respectable name as candidate.
Those seeking the Nomination base
their claims on either capacity for
swallowing large quantities Of mean
whiSkey, or for extreme mental
Ignorance. We hnpe the people will
insist on selecting man who will
east no reproach on them, aud Win
has capacity en .nglI to I've of use tn
his constituents. This il not a pa,
ng l'OSit Oh. and the office shonll
'eek the man, ami no nan 81 oald be
allowed to push himself Into the
,ttice.
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A jury term Of the Dlstryt Conr

A jury term of the Distpse Court
will commence on Mop-ay next in
st. John. Several 6, hllllal cases OF
high grade. beside numerous cases
OF lesser imp .fance are on the
docket. IF d'Ige Hahn, Who has
been too y<fcifnl generally, will do
as wepdh sentencing the guilty 10
-tba ,6itcntiary In ST. John as he
diSd eur late term oil court, be will
good service TO the STATE, aud
VOID the unfavoiahle criticism ol
hose who think him entirely too
endeI hearted in dealing viii, Grim
nails.
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Los ANGELS. Cad, Frt.. oh. 1870
MeSsrs II y. Kendall d to.:-aayin5 ns =
your Men nj 8 SPAWN CuTp, tnd / 4. ,es,
remedy ion tn. hprs- thar has ever hse,, ,,',s,g
"n this coast | haye ii fine ,r,It TIA,
kicked last tall on the point II III" shoulder ,.nj
Tor three months had M OF nj i,v ma hv
using two battles OF v ~ kendaifs Sn.r;n
Sure, he is ettrc'y euled / enclose Is GENTS
Ior winch p' use SIND m" One of Your Treatise
on the Horse by mali and ohIige. '''i''
Y. u. IHAY..I,. z. O. Rnr nn~
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oS iHnrf PAYS nIEl.

FaE VnLrAIc Pr. ~. III sb.,i MI,
send t)r Dys ~ CHEATED Eleetrc-Vot IL ...'iGs
ma Electric APPLIANCES on trial fa,r Hin, .I,'
To men ty0ap ODD W'.l arr a,iji.,rJ Nil,
n, iN"ns 'thii'ty, oss yi'aity .na kindred
"tn.'s gr''rantSs,ns speedy and compl,te
,iresS as .hv ven r. NJ risk is inc,,rr.i W
thirty days trial is allow, Il. ''as
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Dr. Casper recommends Kendalrs SPAWN
Cure in the highest terms. and fLonsaniis ~
eminent physicians do the same See advst
National Republican., 1883-04-26
The Hill Investigation.

Secretary Folger has not filled the vacancy
created by the resignation Of Assistant So
licitor Robinson from the Hill investigating
committee. Consequently nothing was done
at the adjourned meeting yesterday, except
TO postpone further proceedings until tho va
cancy shall have been filed, which may not
be before next Monday. The department has
no fund from which to compensate an out
slider" for service on the committee and
some difficulty is anticipated in securing a
suitable person willing to give his time to the
work gratuitously. 1t was unptiicially sug-
gested yesterday morning that Mr.. Murch be
invited to serve. Assistant Solicitor Robin
son, whom Mr.. Murch objects to, on the
ground of his alleged partiality, ass erts that
so far from being personal friend of the SUI
pervising architect, he has never spoken to
Mr.. Hill, except in regard to matters rcquir-
ing official intercourse.
PHILADELPHIA, April 25.-The fol- wing
letter, bearing upon the charges against super.
vising Achitect Hill, has bccn forwarded to
Washington:
PHILADELPHIA, April 2i.-JoHN G. NEW, CHAIR
MAN INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON, ID. o.
Dear Sir In Mr. Hil's reply to our charges In
regard TO the contract for hre-proof shutters &C.
places the responsibility of not investigating the
| said charges viz, attempted bribery and declin:
| ing 10 test our shutters (when the government had
$4,000 to make and nothing to lose), and the final
award of the contract, with the secretary of the
| treasury and not with himself
Such being the case, and under the cirCum.
stances OF the present ttnyestigatigation, we shall
decline to answer him in detail and shall not
Respectfully, MANLY & COOPER,
Manufacturing Company.
National Republican., 1883-04-26
A Rejected Claim.

The first comptroller has disallowed vouch-
ers for payment Of expenses incurred in MAX
ing repairs to tho Howard University build
ings, because the work was done before the
passage of the act making an appropriation
for the same. He holds that the appropra-
tion cannot be used to pay expenses incurred
prior to the date of the passage Of the act.
This decision appears to us 10 be open to this
criticism. The law forbids the incurring of
any expense for which no appropriation has
been made, and therefore the performance of
the work in question prior to the appropriation
could not have had the effect of creating an
obligation. But after the appropriation had
been made and the work had been thereby
authorized we do not see why the repairs Just
completed could not be bought of the parties
who had made them, and paid for as is all the
time done with reference to supplies for the
government. If an appropriation is made
out Of which the office of the
first comptroller may bo recarpeted, could 1t
not be drawn from to buy carpet laid down
on the floor by the dealer at his own risk
few days prior to the appropriation? In the
case of repairs to buildings tho government
might say that they could be used without
being paid for, because they could not be de-
tached by the claimant and carried away.
But we think that the interests of the gov
ernment would hardly require such sharp
practice. An appropriation for repairs could
not be used TO discharge claim accruing
before the appropriation was made, but
we sec no reason why the person
charged with an expenditure could not buy
new ready-made work after repairs are au-
thorized. We do not know who the parties
are that are affected by theruling in question.
We merely direct our remarks at a principle.
The government should be governed by the
rules which obtain among business men. No
business man would be allowed to repudiate
the claim of man who repaired his house by
request OF the agent merely because that
agent had succeeded in getting the work done
National Republican., 1883-04-26
The Old NVhiRa Again.

Our correspondent "E. N. H." yesterday,
in an interesting and instructive communica-
tion on the wings of the south, takes issue
with THE REPUBLICAN as to one matter of
fact only, as follows:
THE REPUBLICAN, is mistaken in saying that
Toombs and Aleck Stephens were wings They
had been, but both had formally severed their
connection with that party long before secession
came, and they had turned Georgia from whig
into democratic state.
But THE REPUBLICAN was not mistaken in
saying that Toombs and Stephens were wings
up to 1862. We stated in our article that
they then boltcd Scott's nomination, and
with Judah p. Benjamin, Charles ]. Faulk-
ncr and others, put forth the southern
whig address Of 1852, blow from
which that party never recovered.
The whig party carried but four states for
Scott in 1852 and then laid down and died
Toombs and stephens "severed their connec-
tion with that party" as "E. n. H." says,
"long before secession camel" but "E. N. H."
fails to recognize the fact that 1852 saw tho
demise of the whig party, and, this being
eight years before secession came, there can
not be said to have been any wings remaining
with the party at that time.
However, it is all the same. The wings
who refused to become democrats supported
Bell or Douglas in 1860 and from that ele-
ment the party of the union may hope for
large acccssions Whoever is for the union,
the constitution, and the enforcement of the
laws, and for protection to American indus
try and free elections and free education,
should be made to feel at home in the political
company Of republicans.
National Republican., 1883-04-26

faction as "Guiteau President" for
no other purpose than to associate him in
mons minds with the name of detested as
sassin. five do not make laws against such
palpable attempts against the life of our
President and the peace of our land, shall we
make it unlawful for windy fellows like
Rosa and Grove to bluster about dynamite
and to advise its use in England2
1t is time for little sane talk Some bad
behavior cannot be legislatcd against. The
advocacy of assassination and Of destruction
by dynamite is not crime in this country
but 1t will so disgrace whoever engages in It
that no reasonable and self-respecting man
can bo found willing to endure the hot blast
Of public indignation it is sure to arouse. AS
for extradition, the word is misnomer when
applied to any offense committed in the coun-
try to which application is made for it. As
for legislation to protect England from sedi-
tious utteranccs in the United States, itwould
be most servile, oven If constitutional, so long
as there are no enactments to punish for sodi-
tion the newspapers which have endeavored,
as above stated, TO endanger the safety of the
President and the peace of the republic.
National Republican., 1883-04-26

THE Treasury department will not be out
of its trouble caused by the new revenue law
for several months. The latest new regula-
tion is a long and specific one, which, all
told, explains how match manufacturers may
ship unstamped packages by the carload to
and from warehouses previous to July by
dopositing a sum equal to the amount of the
tax. 1t will tako small army of men to
draw the line on the day of transition be-
tween the free and taxable goods. The cir
cular explaining the law in regard to the
redemption of revenue stamps applies all
along the line of articles upon which the
tax is either changed or abolished, and it is
given in full.
National Republican., 1883-04-26
The Fatal NIoney-Itcb,

The handling Of money is the severest
test of honesty, If we may believe all we
hear about dishonesty. Its perhaps unfair to
take it for granted that the passenger conduc-
tors recently discharged from tho service ofthe
Panhandle railway wero all dishonest but
the simultaneous discharge of large num-
Der will favor the suspicion. The men who
come to be passenger conductors are gener-
ally the best in the business. Favoritism
rarely promotes very stupid man in the rail-
way line and in the army ofmen employed by
any great company the natural selection
brings forward the ablest men. They come
up, many of them, from the very low
est places in the service, going from
good TO better until the accursed money
they go on gathering the money and honestly
paying it over for years until conscience
blunted by the false talk about "all doing it,"
they begin to draw crooked line between
the individual and the railway cash. That
moment they arc done for. Nothing but
death in collision will save them from sus-
picon and final detection. One theory is
that, coming from the ranks of want rather
than those of plenty, the men find themselves
tempted by the small sums they take at first
as they would not be tempted if they had
! grown up to be accustomed to money, regard
! ing it more as a kind of Counter" in the
grand game called business than as some-
thing particularly desirable on its own ac-
count. 1t cannot be said that all
these men who have been overtaken were nat
urally dishonest. Were that the case they
would have been thieving all the way up to
the last promotion, and so never have reached
the place. 1t is clearly something in the con-
slant handling Of small sums day after day
and all the time and in way that seems TO
be unchecked. Men Of the same sort who get
promoted to the better places in the freight
management or passenger agency branch of
the business have no trouble, as class, with
their cash accounts, while the passenger con-
ductors are always under surveillance, and too
often run down in the practice of systematic
robbery. All punches and g spoilers " and
other machinery ofdetection is known to them,
yet they arc tempted and fall--fal so fire.
quently that the honest ones must feel mean at
times to think that they belong to sus-
pected class and all are objects for sym
pathy. The owners of tho railways cannot
collect their own fares and bo managing the
dividends at tho same time, and there are
many reasons why Sawson boxes and bobtail
trains on steam railways are impossible, so
there seems to be no way but the old one of
using men until by the regular wear and tear
of conscience they cease to draw the line be-
tween the private half dollar and the cor
porate half dollar Railroading seems to
have phase like some kinds of fine polish
ing in metal working-mcn can work at it
until the dust has cut away the lungs; so
some men seem TO so honorably and am.
bitiously up, from one step to another, until
tho money strikes their fingers and affects
that sense of honor called conscience.