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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16

The bills that passed the house on
districts in the territories and for the
appointment of governors from the citi-
zens Of the territory over which they
are to preside, are good one and will
meet with hearty approval in the west.
1t is to be hoped the same favorable con-
sideration will be given these measures
in the senate.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16

Il THE eleventh annual meeting of the
Wyoming stock growers association
has just closed at Cheyenne, and was a
very successful affair. One hundred
and twenty-five cattle kings were pre-
sent, representing 1000, 600 head of
stock, and 800, 900 900 of invested capital.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16
Bow Gen. Sheridan Proposes to Dcono-
mise.

|
WASHINGTON, March 28.-'You have
sent for Gen. Terry to come from st.
Paul to Washington" said your cores
pendent to General Sheridan this after
noon.
Yes replied the general, II wanted
Terry to come down here and help me
to secure an appropriation for a new
barracks at Fort Smelling. He is a good
talker, and understands the situation;
and the congressman take a good deal Of
stock in what he says. [ do not know
any officer ia the army who is more
highly respected or more influential
than Gen. Terry. We want 5000, 900 to
build new post. It will cost more to
fix up the present barracks than to
build new ones. We want a new and a
nice post up on the higher ground above
the old one. It will cost about 5000, 900
if the soldiers perform the labor, and
will save all the money it costs every
year"
Chow do you figure that out ?"
1T is my policy to concentrate the
army, as far as [ can, in large and con-
venient posts. 1t costs a good deal less,
and the railroad facilities are now so
good all over the west that we can send
soldiers wherever they are wanted
cheaper than we can sustain them in
the outlying frontier posts. My policy
is to concentrate them at convenient
points where the railroad facilities are
good. st. Paul is a very convenient
location, and | want a big post there
with a regiment of cavalry and another
of infantry-say twelve or fifteen hun
dred men. They can go to Fort Yates
or to Fort Keogh from st. Paul as quick
and as easily as from the posts in north
ern Montana, and at a great deal less ex-
pense to the government"
"How do you figure out that you
can ave enough in a year to build a
post ?"
"In this way: Including the trans
portation Of clothing, subsistence, forage.
fuel, and quartermaster's supplies, with
the expense of maintaining a post, it
costs $31.7 rs per day to.keep 100 infantry
soldiers at Fort Smelling, and $61.8 to
keep 100 cavalry e At Fort Assina-
boine, for example, it costs $52.OS a day
to keep a hundred infantry men. The
then, in keeping the men at
Smelling is $2O.35 per day for a hundred
infantry, and $46.66 per day for the
number of cavalrymen. The saw
in a year at Fort Smelling is S11 ,581.-
40 for infantry, and $22,557 for cavalry
men. It is an argument in favor Of
economy that nobody can get around,
don't you see? Then take al estimate
500 men. The saving to the govern
.ent would be $57, 5000 in keeping
that number of infantry at Fort Smelling
year and SIP. 785 in keeping 500 cav
alrymen. Then take an estimate of a
thousand men, the saving would be
S115, 1914. so a year on infantry and $685.
800 a year on cavalrymen. Suppose /
put a regiment Of 800 cavalry at Fort
Smelling it would saw the cost of the
post in a single year,
"What is the prospect of getting the
appropriations
II think it is good. IT congress wants
economy / have given some arguments
they can't get around.O
Gen. Terry will leave st. Paul for this
city on Monday or Tuesday.
Buggy and Harness for Sale.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16

Mr.. JUDAH p. BENJAMIN has retired
from the British bar. and is enjoying in
Paris the large fortune acquired from his
practice. He is a daily visitor at the
rooms of the chess club, overlooking the
garden of the Palais Royal. His health
is delicate and he lives quietly.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16
Front ST.. Fort Benton. M. T

In Chicago there are 3,777 saloons, or
one to every thirty-tive families 313
bakers, or one to every 47O families 716
butchers, or one to every 2o5 families
and 1903 grocers, or one to every 80
families.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16

FRANCE in 1882 produced $780, 0O
bottles Of champagne, Of which 1860, 800
were consumed in that country, and
GOO. 900 were sept to the United States.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16
Buggy and Harness for Sale.

Anybody wanting a good secondhand
buggy and harness can secure them at q
low figure by inquiring at the RIVER
Press office.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-04-16
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St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22
The Democratic Party and the
Sugar Planters

The lower house of Congress is now
Democratic. Mr.. Randall OF Pennsyl-
vania, who was speaker when the house
was Democratic before, was defeated
for the position this time by Mr.. Car
isle. Mr.. Randall belongs to the pro-
lection wing of the party, and Mr.. Car
Isle to the free trade wing-that is, he
is in favor of tariff on certain imported
goods for a sufficient revenue only and
no further, he is not in favor of tariff
for protection, and such is the doctrine
of the Democratic party, as announced
in the last national Democratic plat
form. Mr.. Morrison, a Democratic
leader in the House, has provided bill
reducing the tariff on imports twenty
per cent, and it is a party measure. Mr..
RandalI's opposition represents about
thirty votes. This bill reduces the duty
on sugar twenty per cent. The sugar
planters of Louisiana are bitterly op-
posed to its passage and Mr.. +tandaIFs
minority cannot defeat it, unless a
coalition is made with the Republicans.
At recent convention Of the sugar
planters in New Orleans, they urged
the senators and congressman from this
State to form an alliance with any men
OF party to defeat this bill, and the ac-
ton OF this convention showed further
that the delegates composing it would
quit the Democratic party and actively
oppose it, if the party abolished the
protection ON sugar. 1t is fact how
however that the sugar growing par
ishes are Republican, and the loss of
the sugar planters to the party would
not amount to much. Every consumer
who does not grow sugar has to buy it,
and the producers of cane sugar are in
Intestinal compared with the consum
ers. Here in st. Landry, all of which is
good sugar land, bat where very little
is made, nearly every voter would vote
for free sugar, because nearly everyone
Of them has to buy sugar. The people
of the United States are overwhelming
" for free sugar, and the will OF the
people can be defeated only by bargains
with the protectionists in congress. In
this matter everything seems to be
against our sugar planters, and their
leaving the Democrats party will hard
" affect the issue. Unfortunately for
them, their individual loss to the party
will not be felt, and the destruction of
their business will scarcely be felt by
the country outside of Louisiana.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

Mr.. j. II. Stone, a prominent lawyer,
and politician Of the better sort, of East
Feliciana parish, was nominated on the
Republican ticketfor Attorney General.
Before there was time for him to de-
cline, certain class pitched into" him,
and ridiculed and belittled him without
stint. Mr.. Stone declined promptly in
courteous terms. He was strongly OPP
posed to the McEnery administration
before the Baton Rouge convention,
which no doubt caused him to be pitch
ed into" so numerically; the same class
seems to be more lenient towards their
erring brother, Auditor Jumel. Mr.
Stone in a letter to Mr.. Cunningham,
Democratic candidate for Attorney
General, says
There is no man in Louisiana, who
would rather see Attorney General,
than you; and You may look for good
news from East Feliciana on election
day.
He also Says never have voted for
Republican. When Democratic Con-
ventions have approved or adopted Re-
publicans as candidates, have abstain
ed from voting. No folly of ay own
party has led me to desert my party al
legiance aud principles.
In regard to the trainers of the Re-
publican ticket, he says:
They are the same people that have
always voted in favor Of the Louisiana
Lottery Company and Penitentiary
lease, MOnOpolies in every form, in
creasing the Interest on the Public
debt, any, and every plan that has been
suggested by which money could be TAX
en- from the public treasury.
The Republican convention endorsed
the proposed debt ordinance amend
ment to the constitution, which is one
Of the acts of the present administra-
ton, which the Democracy of this and
other parishes has condemned; but no
fault has been found threat by those
who abuse Mr. Stone for having q Re
publican nomination thrust upon him i
to be consistent they should repudiate
The debt ordinance amendment, as con-
animated 81 Republican endorse
nent.
WeSpake another extract from Mr..
tones tetter which shows why he was
getting Republican nomi-
lation %
ann ne of those who was most dis
,leasef the present Ge1ocratic adj
81 and exercised in the full
st meaS RS pay privileges, as a Demo-
rat, to tAticise ms, conduct of the men
had h6Sehe' pstrnmehta 10 putting into
flee; but mine was not factious OPP
osition, and had nothing personal in
neither did it spring from disloyalty
. the party, nor was it failure. Did
se not retire to the shades Of political
hscurity one batch of Democratic
lunderers and corruptionistsq | was
OF seeking an Office. My Repu blican
'iends mistook my purpose. No, am
Democrat, and shall heartily support
NJ democratic ticket
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22
Notice Of E8cgdser0siOas.,

will be at the places designated below to-
correct and revise registration books for each
place. also TO register all voters who have not
heretofore registered, from o'clock A. NJ. to
6 O'Clock p. M. each day:
Opelousas-At Courthouse, on Monday Feb,
18th to Sunday oath.
WashingtOn-At the town Hall on Monday
Feb. 25th.
Lower Bayou Boeuf-At School House ON.
Thursday Feb. Goth.
Upper Bayou BGeuf-At Louis Stagg on
Wednesday, Feb. 27th.
Big Cane-At L. Godcheaux's on Thursday
Petit Prairie-At Jules Godeau's on Friday
Feb 29th.
Church ville-At j. L. Morris Monday, March
Waxia-At School House on Wednesday
March 5th.
Barry's Landing-At D. P. saizans Thurs
Leonville- School House Friday March
Grand Coteau-At Dunbar Saturday March
Bellevuc-At School House Monday, March
10th.
Coulee croche-D. P. Richards Tuesday
Church Pornt-McBride's store Wednesday.
March 18TH
Plaquemine Brulee-FOreman & Dusons
Thursday March 18th.
Rayne-At Arenas Friday March 18th.
Mermentau-At V. Maignaud, Saturday
.Point-anx-Loups-At S. Cart, Monday
March 17th
Prud'homme City-AtT I. c. Chachere's Store
on Tuesday, March 18th.
Faquetaique--At Louis Couryille's, Wednes-
day, March 10TH
:, Lower Mamouth-At zenon vidrlne's, on,
Mamouth-At Sauciers, on Friday, March
21st.
Upper Mamouth-At Landreneau's, on satur--
day, March 22d.
Beaver Creek-At schoolhouse on Monday.
March oath
Bay, Bay{on. Ghicot-At s. Haas Store, on Tuesday,
Dossman's-A Charles Dossman's on Wednes
day, March goth
27th. -
Old Grand Prairie-At Paul Stages store,
, Plais ad9i JOS Vidrines, on Saturday,
!, cha , slg4 p. P. Laieur, on Monday,
= Mallet-At JOS. suliee's, on Tuesday. April
Ma1iet-At Lucien Jouberts, on Wednes~
At 6 Coz in opeousas until Friday,
FL. PTTRE,
eeister.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

Col. VIM. Preston Johnston, during Il
recent lecture delivered in New Orleans
on the subject of Education, stated that
according to the census of 1880 Louisi-
ana stood above South Carolina and
Mississippi, but that it now ranks below
in fact, it is the last State on the list,
showing that ignorance, instead Of di-
minishing, is gradually increasing.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

Some are blaming our "levee Govern
or" for the break in the Morganza levee.
We do not. We do not believe the Mis-
sissippi river can be securely leveed.
We blame the friends Of Gov. McEnery
for matchmaking the river people with
the belief that he could and aCould Sc
eHrely levee the river, in order to OBJ
tain their votes to get him nominated.
Heshould do his duty without regard
to political tricks.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22
The Independent Movement Tn
IbeFviERe.

On the ,21st day Of January last, a
senatorial Democratic convention was
held in Plaqnemine, IberviIle parish
which unanimously nominated ID. G.
M0ntan for State senator from the
district composed of the parishes of
West Baton Rnuge and Iberville. State
Auditor Allen Jumel was a delegate
in said convention. Since then he has
announced himself as an Independent
candidate against the candidate he
helped to nominate. The Democratic
parish committee of Whist Baton Rouge
has adopted and had published tile fol-
lowing resolutions:
And whereas, since said nomination a
numb Der of the delegates from Iberyille
parish, q minority constituting said
convention, have signed a letter adj
dressed to the Hon. Allen Jumel, who
was also delegate in said convention.
and participating ie said nominations.
requesting him to run as an indeDen-
dent candidate for the position OF Sen
atOr of the Fourteenth Senatorial Dis
trict, in opposition to the said nominee.
Hon. d. c. Montan.
Auu WuOI6dG3 btI0 bdIU 11OD. Allen
.Jumel has acquiesced in said re0Prst.
announced himself as an Independent
candidate and been Endorsed by the
Republican party of IberFille ::
Now therefore. we, the Executive |
Committee OF the parish of West Baton |
Rouge, composing part OF the Senate
rial and Judicial Districts, feeling a
deep interest in the integrity of the
Democratic party and the success of the /
nominees thereof, do hereby earnestly
protest against the action of said dele
gates from Iberville as violatiVe of par
ty usage, calculated to disorganize the
party and endanger the Democratic
ticket, and we call upon all good Dem
Ocrats throughout the district to dis
and suppress the Indepen-
dent moEemeDt by supporting its nom
nees, and respectfully suggest TO the
,igners of the petition the propriety,l
or the sake Of the regular nominees, to
their hasty action, and join ;
b line Ut the democracy Uf the district. |
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

In Berlin a decree has been issued
forbiding the sale of Intoxicating liquor
"on credit" under penalty of a forfeit
ure of license. That is the kind of law
the liquor dealers would like to have
here; getting drunk "on credit" has help
ed to bankrupt many liquor saloon.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

The storm at New Orleans last Mon
day, destroyed the works at the Davis
crevasse which foods the tracks of
the Pacific and Morgan railroad, and
the attempt to close it was abandoned
for the present. Passengers are carried
over the crevasse by boat.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

The Musical Journal is published
monthly by Louis Grunewald, New Or
leans, at so cents per annum.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

President Arthur, a few days ago,
gave,a grand dinner to the bachelors,
widowers and married congressman
who left their wives at home for the
season.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22
Net due parish >.

Messrs. Clark, Dubusson and Young having
been appointed committee to examine the
norted through their chairman Mr.. Clark, that
they examined and counted the vouchers pre-
sent ed by the treasurer, amounting to $40 49,
"a. Ten Thousand Four Hundred and ElShTeeh
1854, as per his statement filed, which amount
correspondent with items on the cash bo9k,
when on motion it was resolved that the
vouchers be cancelled and that the treasurer
have credit on the books of the parish for sad
amount. and the vouchers were cancelled ac-
cordingly.
The Police Jury adjourned until Tuesday the
10Th at 10 n. m. AUGUSTE PERR0DIN,
Attest r. J. LEFEBvRE, Clerk. Pres. Pro. Tenn.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

Last year man named j. B. Watkins
bought one million two hundred and
twenty-five thousand 1,9S5,0OO) acres of
Louisiana public land, for mere song.
The money we believe, was expended on
the leyees. The work on the Morganza
levee alone cost $4,000; and the first
high water swept it away. Thus the
land is gone, the I8oney received for
it is gone, the levee built with it is
gone, and the country that the levee
was to protect is covered with water.
Such is craftsmanship of the great
levee Gov errors administration.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22
State News.

The Democratic party in Pointe Cou-
pee has two tickets in the field. On
March 9th, the parish convention met
with twenty light delegates; after vot
ing several times, the minority of nine
bolted and held another convention.
One ticket is called the "Cadiens' and
the other the ''Peacocks."
On the night of March 9th, in Qua
chita parish, John Mullican and John
Clark murdered John Rogers and wife,
aged Is and so years respectively, as
they sat by the fire; they then robbed
the house, took two of the best horses,
and went towards Texas, passing
through Natchitoches-they were pur-
sued.
P. j. Kennedy, levee contractor, and
not unknown in this State in connection
with the old grinding monopoly of the
Louisiana Levee Company, has failed.
Thus one by One.-Monroe Bulletin.
Work has begun on the Exposition
buildings in New Orleans.
New jails are to be built in Iberia and
Lafayette parishes.
Joseph MCGEE is to be hung in Red
River parish on April 4th.
The Morganza crevasse which had
been open nine years, was lately closed;
last week the new work washed away.
At last accounts the break was 5000 feet
wide.
The planters in the Mississippi river
bottoms are moving their stock, and
other movables to the high lands; they
evidently expect an overflow.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

The Anti Monopolists will nominate
presidential ticket, at Chicago, on
Nav 14Ch.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22
9Th WARD.

Frank Moore-From Bayou Chicot to c. F.
Lutz. ~
II. o. Tubre-From VIM Forrman to old toll
bridge on Crocodile
nth WARD.
Lucius Johnson-From Vile Platte to =. +.
Lutz.
sebasten Fontenot-From Vile Plate to Pointe
aux-Pins gully.
TAX COLLECTORS STATEMENT
For Parish Collections During the month OF
January, 1884.
Back 1dNGS.-
Parish Taxes 1888 .--...-.---..-- .--,--. 645I %
Corporation Taxes 1888 .--.-------..--.-- 624 90
s6963 rs
Less his commission. $349 35
Less taxes refunded --..---.---- 70 800 ~
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

On motion the Police Jury adjourned until
the I'd Monday in April being the 14th day of
that month.
AUGUST PERRODIN.
Attest: Pres. Pro Tenn.
P. j. EEFEByRE. Clerk
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

ePEnOUsAs, SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1854.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-03-22

For Parish Collections During the month OF
january, 1884.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-13
THE ANGEL OF DEATH.
He Hovers over the Great Metropolis
of Paris.

PARIS, Nov. II From midnight to
noon to-day twenty-eight deaths from
cholera occurred. or these nineteen
occurred in the hospitals and nine
in the city. Two soldiers Of the
guard at the Elysee palace were seized
with cholera to-day and died almost
Immediately. THESE cases have caused
a profound sensation.
In eighteen hours ended al TO-
night foTty-three deaths from cholera
have occurred In Paris.1q
Misunderstanding the past twenty
four hours there have been forty-seYen
deaths in the city by cholera, includ-
ing the fatal cases Ia the hospitals.
The Patriotic league has converted
its meeting hall into a cholera hos
nital. The archbishop OF Paris Is q
daily visitor at the hospital.
Itis noticeable that the suburbs Of
this city where the drainage IL bad
and the water used mere sewage, are
unaffected by the epidemic,
also that the enyirons o.
cemeteries are scarcely affected
bv The disease, wilhelm several portion,
az the city which are well supplied
with water several cases have occurred
Ies AUX says that IA.
quarters on the rlsn'
aide .. the river Seine which hays
heen severely attacked by cholera de
rive their water from the LouYr'
| canals,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-13
OBITUARY.
rhos. BeyerIdge pead.

NEwBuRGH, n. V, Nov. l2.-Thos.
Beveridge, the head of the Beveridge
Brewing company, widely known
among the brewers of the country,
died at the age of seventy-four. He
was n prominent member of the
Masonic fraternity.
A Newspaper Man Dead.
PITTsBuRo, Pa, Nov. IL -Armsby
Phillips, one OF the proprietors Of the
Pittsburg Dispatch, died suddenly this
morning st o'clock of nervous pros
tration. The deceased was for many
years prominently connected with the
iron and glass Industries here. He
was mayor Of Allegheny City three
years, and at the time OF his death he
was the president OF the board OF
managers Of the Western penitentiary.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-13
CROP REPORTS.
The Texas Cotton Crop Averages 14s
Pounds TO the Acre.


WASHINGTON, Nov. l9.-The Oeto-
Der returns OF the cotton report to the
department of agriculture relate to
the yield as the vitality of the plants
was too nearly exhausted to produce a
ton crop. The drought had not
been broken at some points on the
gulf coast at that date. The returns
indicated that the yield per acre Is
lower in nearly every state than In the
census year, which was an average
production. The reduction this year
is very marked in the Louisiana aud
Arkansas region, the most productive
cotton land. The returns by states in
dictate o yield per acre as follows. The
figures are subject to modification;
Virginia, $50 pounds; North Caro-
lima, i75 pounds; South Carolina, l52;
Georgia, 1856; Florida, los; Alabama,
1870; Mississippi, l75; Louisiana, l9Oi
Texas, 143; Arkansas, 300; Tennessee,
1850. The indications poiut TO a crop
some larger than 1888 gathered in un'
usually fine condition, Of good color,
unstained by storms and free from
trash end dirt.
Returns from the late yield of corn
show that the product is somewhat In
Excess OF / ,s00,00O, 600 bushels, with an
average of a mill and a fraction above
twenty-siX bushels per acre.