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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Illinois Central Railroad will not
adopt the new time standard.
The deaths by the recent colliery ex-
plosion in England foot up sixty-seven.
The examination of witnesses in the
Greedy relief investigation began on the
10Th.
FIVE men were killed and seven seri-
ously hurt by the fall of building in Buffa-
10, N. Y, on the 9th.
GENERAL WRIGHT, Chief of Engi-
neers, advises liberal expenditures for
coast defense.
AN anti-Jewish riot in Hungary on
the 9th was quelled by the police after sew
eral rioters had been killed.
AT Forest, o.. on the 9th Baggage
Master Speidel was fatally shot by bur-
glar whom he was trying to arrest.
The Interstate Commission on Edu-
cation, appointed at Louisville, KY, has
prepared bill to submit to Congress.
AT a blast furnance in Newcastle,
Pa, scaffold seventy EIGHT feet above the
ground gave way on the 9th with four men.
One was killed.
The Jamaicans are again indulging
in rebellious talk, being dissatisfied with
the course of the British Government.
ANTOINE, the Alsatian deputy charg-
ed some time since with treason by the
German Government, has been released.
A PITTSBURGH dispatch of the 9Th in
Inmates that the striking glass-blowers get
| financial aid from the importers, who make
money fast while the home factories are
closed.
ANOTHER move has been made in
| Chicago to test the validity of the saloon
licenses issued few days before the high
license law took effect More than 81 ,0O0,.
| 600 is involved.
a STEAM Boiler Insurance Comp any
has been Incorporated in New York with a
| capital of S25o,0oo.
COUNTERFEIT half dollars, made in
| imitation of well-worn coin, have been in.
troduced in Salt Lake City, Utah.
HIRAM McAFEE, of Newport Town
| ship, near Marietta, O., accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting on the
| 9th.
The bark Margarita, laden with 1875
barrels of naphtha and 2,1oo barrels of re.
/ find oil, burned at New York the morning
Of the 9th.
THE Germans Of Chicago held a sec
ular, as distinguished from religious, eel.
ebration of the 4oOth anniversary of Martin
Luther's birth on the 9th. A Jewish Rabbi
was among the speakers.
THE United States Circuit Court in
/ New York has decided to permit Mr.. Marie
/ to bring suit against Commodore Garrison
] of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, for u.s.,
G0U,O00 and interest.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-17
nrIscELLANEoUs.

On the 18th the trial Of Stephen j.
Price, charged with embezzling $4,000 as
executor of the estate of Thomas Richard
son, began in Philadelphia, Pa.
The Municipality Of Boston, Mass,
gave farewell banquet on the It'll in honor
Of Southern and Western exhibitors at the
American Exposition.
A PRUsSIAN banker named Nathan
Szholny was arrested on the It'll on the
steamer Marathon, at Boston, charged
with extensive forgeries in his own coun-
try.
The Des Moines Ia.) saloon-keepers
have petitioned the City Coincil for a re-
duction of the license law, declaring they
can not stand 81 900 a year,
In suit against the Camden & At
lantic Railway Company, for personal in
juries, John Apologize. of Philadelphia,
Pa, got verdict for IS 900 on the It'll.
THE defaulting cashier of the Warren
(O.) Second National Bank, Kirkland NJ.
Fitch, pleaded guilty on the It'll to embez-
cling $4,000, and was sentenced to five
years in the Penitentiary.
On the 18th the cornerstone of a new
Masonic Temple was laid at Des Moines,
Ia, with imposing ceremonies.
On the 18th the stockholders of the
coke mandatory of c. H. Frick & Co., of
Pittsburgh, Pa, met and increased the
capital stock of 81 100000 to $4,000, 200.
A SALT LAKE CRY dispatch says the
creek which supplies the city with water
has become so offensive from dead sheep in
its bed that the Salt Lake Council was con-
sidering the problem Of a remedy for the
evil. Stories of the impurity of the water
have heretofore been denounced by the Nor
mons as GENTLE lies.
IMPORTS and exports in Great Britain
for October both show an increase as com
pared with that month in 1882.
The London, eng. police offer a
reward for John McCafferty, convicted OF
treason in Dublin in 1867, and sentenced to
penal servitude for life, and since escaped,
McCaferty was born IN Ohio of Irish par
ents, and served in the Confederate army.
The supply Of wheat visible is 80
CT, 600 bushels.
IT is said cholera in Egypt is now
confsled to Europeans.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-17
The Zura Burns Murder.
LINCOLN, ILL, Nov. s

LINCOLN, Ills Nov. 8,
> The Circuit Court room was crowde
day by solicitous audience as to the
come of the Carpenter preliminary hea
1t has been field day for the defense,
have scored numerous strong points,
by witnesses whose testimony canno
shaken by any circumstantial evidel
The sensational part Of the proceedings
the appearance of Mrs. Mary Carpent
aged seventy -four years, mother of the
PENDANT, on the witness stand, Her
pearance is that Of a well preserved and i
fined old lady and her account is partic
larly marked with the striking yernaculs
of the average Bestonian. Her voice
trembling and during her examination wa
listened to with breathless attention and
most rigid cross-examination failed to
shake her testimony in any particular.
When leaving the witness stand she passed
by her son, took him by the hand, kissed
him and passed on, after which for several
minutes the prisoner sat with his face bur.
led in his hands and wept She has never
seen her son behind the bars and it was the
first meeting since his arrest. The testi.
mony will be concluded tomorrow fore.
noon.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-17
On the 21st the French viii begin of

On the 21st the French will begin Of
fensive operations in Tonquin.
SERvIAN troops recently captured the
insurgent stronghold together with 100 pris-
oners.
DURING the past year Cincinnati, O.,
and Covington and Newport, KY, manu-
featured 1900 barrels of malt liqnor.
NUMEROUS arrests have been made
recently in Russia for Communistic demon
STATIONS.
The receipts of bullion at Salt Lake
City for the week ending the Sth We're
$176460.
THE body of the fat woman, who died
recently in Baltimore, was sold by her hus-
band, Moses, to physician the day of her
death.
IT is said that Ruiz Gorilla made a
fortune specializing on the Bourse during
the late Spanish outbreak.
A WARDEN in Sing Sing prison and
custom-house officer are charged with brib-
ery in the New York election.
A PARTY of 359 Momon converts ar
rived in New York on the sth, forming the
the last company of the season.
The Northern Pacific Syndicate has
secured more than the required amount of
stock to ratify the new loan.
AN indemnity of 100000 francs has
been paid by the Chinese Government for
the execution of the father of French mis-
sionary.
The prosecution in the impeachment
trial of the Norwegian Minister of State
demanded that he be forever disqualified
from holding office.
THE Dubuque Ga butcher, William
Newmeister, who cut his throat in his own
slaughter-house few days ago, died on
the Sth.
On the sth Christian Oettle, who
killed Edward Kamp in a quarrel over a
debt, was convicted of manslaughter at
Cleveland, o.
AT Chapultepec, Mex, on the Sth in
duel with swords, Olivier, a French mer-
chant, was killed by Degheest, a Mexican
banker, who was himself badly wounded.
On the night of the sth the party of
Mexican capitalists about to visit st. LOUIS
| Mo-, left Chihuahua. Over $50 100000 of
capital is represented by the excursionists.
1T was recently decided by Judge
| Hoffman, of San Francisco, that Chinese
who returned from this country to China
prior to the restriction act are entitled to
| land here.
In suit for damages for loss of life
| at the recent rag-house fire, a Cincinnati
court has decided that the proprietor OF the
warehouse and not the owner of the build
| ing is responsible.
The Civil Service rules have been
| so amended, by the president, that in de-
partment, post Office and customs office ap-
pointments discrimination on account OF
/ politics or religion is prohibited strictly.
In his annual report General Hazen,
chief signal officer, says the service has
been seriously crippled by diminished APP
| preparations, and urges Congress to be more
liberal in the future. He recommends a
separate office on the Pacific Coast and a
decided extension of the service in that inn
portant region.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-11-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

THE evening of the Sd the roundhouse
and repair shops of the Toledo, Cincinnati
& ST. Louis Railroad at Cincinnati burned;
loss $751; oo.
On the night Of the Sd a fire entailing
loss Of over f3OO 600 occurred in Glasgow,
Scotland.
A FAMILY consisting of Calvin Hailes,
his wife and three children, of Topten, Pa,
were poisoned on the 9th by eating sausage,
The youngest child died.
A HIGHWAYMAN stopped the stage
near Sonora, Cal, on the 3D. and secured an
Express bundle worth 81 100.
On the Sd the Canadian wrecking
steamer Conqueror sank on Lake Superior
while trying to raise wreck.
On the 9th two girls were fatally in-
iured by the explosion of a kerosene lamp
in Boston.
A FARMER named John Quinlan, liy-
ing near Marysville, Neb., was killed by
lightning on the morning of the 9TH.
ADyIcEs from Oakfeld. Wis, say
that Lee White, who recently confessed to
robbing the Express at that place, made
restitution and then committed suicide.
On the afternoon Of the 9th Spring
field, Mo-, was swept by cyclone which
destroyed vast amount OF property.
caused the death of at least four persons
and the injuring of thirty or forty more,
some quite seriously.
AT Princeton, Wis, Mrs. Ellen Long
and L. s. Whittemore have been arrested
charged with numbering a boy found inthe
river with his throat cut. Whittemore is
the boys father.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23
st. John in Pennsylvania.

REV CITY, MckEAN Co., PA. May l..
DEAR FREEMAN Find inclosed
one dollar for the FREEMAN. Can't
do without itany longer, and please
send some sample copies.
The Methodist Church in Brad
ford was tested to its full capacity
last evening, the occasion being the
lecture of Ex-Governor st. John, of
Kansas, on the evils of intemper"
ance. The speaker occupied the
stand for nearly two hours and held
the audience spell-bound all the
while, by his eloquence. His ad-
dress was polished and scholarly
throughout, and was greatly appre-
ciated by the audience.
Yours in the work,
C. w. MoDIsETT, JR.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23
Morgan County Free.

BERKELEY SPRINGS, MORGAN Co.
Ed. FREEMAN: The Temperance
cause has just obtained in this place
great victory. The Council re-
fused few days ago, to renew the
license to the several hotel keep
ers and saloons to sell liquors. The
consequence was the closing of all
their places of business.
On last Saturday was the cleo
ton of Mayor and Council. The
issue was squarely made, on Ii
cense or No License. No effort was
spared nor any stone left unturned
by the friends of his majesty, King
Alcohol, to secure the election of
men who would give full liberty
and grant license to again open the
hood-gates of intemperance with
all it's attendant evils; hence the
results of the ballot were waited
for with great anxiety and deep
concern for the morals of this place
and vicinity.
The ringing of the Court House
bell announced that the officers
were ready to report. A great
crowd was brought together when
the glorious news was given that
the "No License" ticket was a per-
feet unit with some II or Is ma or-
ity.
A very telling speech was deliv-
cred by the Mayor elect chiefly
dwelling upon the evils Of intern
perance and the great boon Sc
cured to their town and county
generally, by the great victory won
in this election.
"It is unconstitutional; otis a
great shame" "it deprives us of
our liberty; cit shall be tested in
the Supreme Court" Such are the
cries we now hear.
If you will forward few copies
of the FREEMAN l can perhaps Sc
cure some subscribers. My own
health is upon the whole, some
what improved although unfit for
any active work. | am as ever
deeply interested in the final over
throw of intemperance.
Yours fraternally,
GEO. CRossFIELD.
P. S. These are the gentlemen
composing the new Council of
Berkeley Springs:
Mayor, DR.. J. w. Ewing.
Recorder, Jas. S. Bechtol.
Councilmen, H. w. Disher, S. S.
Havermale, 7. ], Blackwood, J, T.
Boone.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23
Brave Old Boone.
PEYToNA, BOONE Co.

PEYToNA, BOONE Co.
ED. FREEMAN A few words in
behalf of Old Boone.
Our County Court met and with
one voice said, mo whisky in
Boone for the next twelve months"
And we say amen; so let it be for
the next thousand years.
Our Commissioners are true
hearted men who have some regard
for their wives and children and
the welfare of the country. They
are not penny-wise and pound-fool-
ish.
If some of our representatives
could recall their mistake of last
winter, their names would not now
be with the eleven" CIR -Four
teen" But "burnt children dread
the fire." and the good people will
Just put them aside with the "by-
cones"
"INFERNAL' REVENUE.
A liquor man was preaching his
whisky doctrine to me the other
day, and said, the internal" reve-
nue. the whisky sellers paid was a
great help to the Taxpayers. We
told. the old gentleman that was the
first time we had heard the whis-
ky revenue called by its proper
name. If it is not an internal rev.
enue, there is none.
TEMPERANCE ON TOP.
The temperance cause is Oh top
in Boone and we never expect to
see another whisky or robbery shop
in the county.
The whisky rings are using ev-
cry device to keep US down, but let
us 60 forward in the work, with
our banner flying and eyes to the
front, and let us vote for temper
ance meE regardless Of party. We
must protect our homes and let
party 80. Let us go on trusting in
Him who builds and destroys king
doms. "If the Lord be for US, who
can be against us2'
w. II. ZoLKR.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23

proposition which will give the
Legislature the power to license
the traffic, and which aoiH not give
it any more power than it now has
to restrain the evils of the trade.
However, it is as plain as daylight
that thousands of temperance men
are going to vote for just such a
measure, and thus the prohibition
sentiment of the State will appear
much weaker than it really is.
Do not understand me to mean
that we should not vote for the
Prohibition Amendment. By all
means let US do so, but let us be ex-
tremely careful that we do not elect
Legislature that will put us back
even farther than the last one did
There is no need for us to be dis
couraged at temporary reverses. Mil
ton strove with all the force Of his
mighty intellect to prevent the
Restoration, but when it came and
when the Puritan cause seemed for
the time to be hopelessly lost, he
saw, as other men did not, that the
seeming reverse was but a bless
ing in disguise and in his beau
tiful drama, Samson Agonistes,"
he foretells the glorious triumph of
his cause.
In so far as you are right you are
bound to conquer" says Carlyle and
this is surely the right view to take
if we believe in an over-ruling
Providence.
1t is in accordance with the ma
ture of things that all great reforms
move slowly. Then when triumph
does come it is thorough and last
ing.
Anti-slavery men met with long
years of reverses and discourage
ments, but every seeming advant-
age of their opponents only served
to show mankind the true charac-
ter of Slavery, and at last a public
opinion was formed before which
the curse was swept from the land
at once and forever.
So it will be with the liquor
trade. All over the land from pull
pit, press and platform, may be
heard the gathering force of storm
of righteous indignation, which will
burst upon the heads of the lawde-
flying liquor men with a violence
before which they will be power
less as babes.
Politicians may succeed in
thwarting the will of the people
for time, but the delay will only
make our triumph more complete.
w, J.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23
Another Ohio Letter.
About the Bifurcated amendment.
GRANVILLE, ONO, May 16.

GRANVILLE, ONO, May 16.
DEAR FREEMAN: The more one
examines the proposed amend
ments to the Constitution of Ohio,
the more inoxplicable they become.
One lawyer will tell you that the
two amendments are perfectly con-
sis.ent with each other and can
stand side by side in the Constitu-
ton.
Another will tell you that vote
for one is necessarily vote against
the other. If this be the case and
each receive majority of the votes
cast, each will destroy the other.
The amendments certainly do
seem inconsistent. However, we
have right, according to excel
lent legal authority, to vote Eyes,"
on each one. So you see, it is en-
tirely possible that each may
receive a majority of the votes
cast. The farce would then proba-
bly, conclude with a decision of
the Supreme Court that the two
amendments were mutually de-
structive, and then we will be back
where we started.
1t is becoming palmer every day
that the Temperance sentiment
of our late Legislature displayed
itself only in an attempt to make
political capital for the next cleo
ton.
The temperance people of Ohio
must learn one thing before much
progress is made, and that is, that
| they must not trust in either of the
present political parties.
What we want to do is to drop
everything else and turn our at
tention to the election of suitable
men to the Legislature, whether
they be Democrats or Republi-
cans.
BY all means we must guard
against negiecting the Legislature
in vain attempt to carry the Pro
hibitioh Amendment.
We may as we'll face the fact
that there is not a chance of its be-
ing carried. The first amend
ment destroys all hope of success
for the second, and probably was in
tended for that very purpose.
We cannot see why any temper.
anco men should wish to vote for a
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23

WISE RuLINGs.---The new Post
master General has decided that
all Postmasters who fail to notify
publishers promptly when subscri-
bers remove or fail to take the pa
pere from the office, shall be re-
sponsible for their subscriptions.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23
CoTTAGEvILLE, JACKSON Co.

Enclosed 81. When time for
this expires, will renew. Have no
way at present of sending the odd
fifty cents. JOHN w. STANLEY.
THE OTHER SORT.
OUT OF THE SUNSHINE INTO THE
SHADOWS.
We have been giving, above, a
little of the May showers of refresh
ing that cheer the editors sanctum !:
but the showers are not all SO. We
have to pass through some ugly
gusts and storms betimes. But
then we always did enjoy a storm
with plenty of thunder and light
ming in it. 1t always seems to US
like business, and all Nature is so
much brighter after it. IT'S the
cold, drizzly, cherries day we don't
like. Neither do we like the cold,
heartless, half-and-half sort of men.
We like people with some "vim"
in them in some direction, and if
anybody don't like the FREEMAN
we don't mind having him say
so.
Well not infict on our readers
any of the "drizzling" pages of cold
encouragement we sometimes get
from well-to-do friends 1--WE wish
they were all better friends) of the
cause, who tell us how "they like
the FREEMAN"-"what a grand
work it is doing" &C., &c.,-how
they have always been staunch
temperance men and always will
be-but-hut, they are taking so
many papers-haven't time to
read, or something else-"you may
discontinue" &c.
But far be it from us to complain
of those
TRUE HEARTED FRIENDS,
who are compelled by hard necessi-
ty to economic at every point, and
who come to us with the honesty
of their burdened, anxious hearts,
telling how they want the FREE
MAN and why they can't renew.
These are the real friends of the
cause-friends who will vote for
principle before party. We are
glad to read their letters. and when
we send sample copies, we gener-
ally get returns in new subscrib-
ers.
RICH SPECIMENS.
Well pass over the short and
easily interpreted postals that come
in saying:
"Stop my paper"
"You needn't send me your Re-
publican sheet any longer; | won t
take it out of the office"
"When | want Bourbon Democ-
racy, I'll take it straight; stop sem
ding me the FREEMAN"
Cant stand so much temper
ance," &C., &c,
And now, for the present, Well
close Our Letter Box, after select
ing from among that rare class
this
SPARKLING GEM, VERBATIM.
SINNETT's MILLS, Richie Co. !
May the Is 1888.
freeman, sir want you to stop
now Don't want it any more, sir.
there is a little to mulch wind in
you mr.. freeman.
P. S. Wind, fire, water--these
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN
CORRESPONDENCE.
Our Letter Box.
The Statements sent 0att-dpd hoW the
Ansuers come an.

SCaCe cannot OVereSClmdCe IHe gen
uine pleasure and encouragement
it gives the friends of the FREE
MAN and the cause it serves, to get
the substantial responses and cheer
full words that are fast coming in,
in response to statements" sent
out few days ago. Of course we
get some cards and letters that
don't make US as happy as pig in
a clover patch-but Well take
them as they come.
PHILIPPI, w. VA.
DEAR FREEMAN. Here's the dol
lar called tor. Success to Prohi-
bition, now and forever.
CYRUS POLLING.
SHINNsToN, w. VA.
Enclosed find $3.50 renewal. /
like the ring of your paper. 1t
speaks out plainly and boldly !;
so | will 60 in for another year.
S. M. OGDEN.
MoRGANTowN, w. VA.
Enclosed you will find $3.50, and
don't delay sending the FREEMAN
around, and SO oblige all your read
ers. VIM. FREY.
WHEELING, w. VA.
X x Am still unable for work
but am pleased to be able to do
something for the FREEMAN. En-
closed find $500 which credit as
follows. x X
Most sincerely,
A. TAYLOR.
GRAFTON, w. VA.
Please credit amount enclosed,
and send on the FREEMAN, as |
can't do without it.
F. M. STONE.
HUNTINGTON, w. VA.
DEAR FREEMAN: | didn't think
my time was up, but guess you are
right, SO find enclosed Scots in
stamps, to keep it coming. like
the FREEMAN and the cause it is
fighting for, and hope its influence
will increase till the the whisky
traffic is destroyed.
was denied the privilege Of an
education, but | have learned
enough to be for temperance, and
not only temperance, but for the
entire prohibition Of the accursed
trade in drinks.
claim to be Christian, and all
Christians must be prohibit:onsts
They can't be otherwise, for it is
impossible for a Christian to favor
the sale of that which ruins the
bodies and souls of his neighbors.
close by wishing you great success.
T. MURPHY.
GRAFTON, w. VA.
ED. FREEMAN: After this week
send our paper to Sioux Falls, Min
nehaha county, Dakota, as that
will be our future home. When
time is out let US know and we
will renew. We must have the
FREEMAN. GEO. NJ. JAco.
PHILIPPI, w. VA.
ED. FREEMAN: | herewith en-
close one dollar bill and Scots in
stamps for FREEMAN to January LIST.
1884.
Many of us here are doing what
we can to strengthen the good cause
of Temperance by working for Pro-
hibition. |. HI. STRICKLER.
AVON, DoDDRIDGE Co.
x * Enclosed find Scots. Have
been taking FREEMAN four months
and find | can't do without it.
Please change address from Fink s
creek to Avon.
w. III. FLOYD.
CLARKsBURG, w. VA.
Find cneck enclosed for FREE
MAN another year. =
JASPER PEW.
clay ON McDUFF."
SAYS FRIEND IN OHIO.
LOWER NEWPORT, O.
DEAR Bro. FREEMAN: Enclosed
find 81. for another year. minis
ters' rate. ED
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23

P. S. Wind, fire, water these
three. Has the FREEMAN got our
good Brother between wind and
water?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-23
SPARKLING GEM, VERBATIM.
SINNETT's MILLS, Richie Co.
MAY the Is 1883.

freeman, sir want you to stop
now Don't want it any more, sir.
there is little to mulch wind in
you mr.. freeman.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-03-14

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