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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-01-05
By the Breadth of an Axe.

quarter Of mile back from the river
= u street that led down to Martins saw
N on the St. Anthony Falls, stood the
~ vhits cottage that Jack Donnelly had
psght for his bride. It was not all paid for
y bat the mortgage had been growing
naller each spring for three years, and a
nlph Of seasons more would see the eutire
ncsat paid, and then Alice would be the
Euad owner Of what she aud Jack thought
- TIE prettiest place in Minneapolis.
Almost any one who might have happened
e0tch glimpse, from the cross street. of
= tidy little kitchen where Alice was busy
- Nay evening at sunset, would have been
heined to agree with the verdict.
The door wns bare, but it was so spotlessly
I'm that no one would have dared to sug-
ost the idea that it looked bare. The stove
~ not very large, but it seemed to be try
Iag to give out the heat of furnace, and
q red glow that came from its open door
~ like the head light of a locomotive
xvaything in the room was plain. aud there
d'd not seem to be anything there TINT was
a0t absolutely necessary. The luxurics
could wait till the mortgage was paid of.
Sat What there was scrubbed till it shoue,
md the tea-kettle was putting out steam like
md Il wns fairly wonderful how that little
astsls pufed and sang, and how the lid
eaaced lightly up and down.
But the brightest, tidiest object in the
nan vas Alice, with her brown hair tied
securely back with blue ribbon Jack liked
IN % very mach) aud her blue eyes WATCH
rs each particular thing on the stove all the
me and yet looking every moment at the
ny to see if anything was missing that
- would want and into the other room
eS i baby was all right and out of mis-
1ls' and at the clock to see that the min
- were not going too fast, she fitted
mind the room singing like bird.
Hssythins was done just right, and the
sa'd quarter past six. Jack would
. I'M IN minute or two, 90 supper was
s eaek where it would keep hot. It
sldat be long; Jack never loitered ON his
AdnA There was too much happiness
fsr him. No stopping at the corner
- of Umethtng hot and strong.
- little clock kept on ticking just as
Sssk WIS there. And the ticking
1aer and louder, and more and more
s'ahle. as it remorselessly checked of
aiter minute Of the time that Jack
Aovsrdue.
= minutes twenty, thirty, and the
as lisfle housewife sighed. as she won
what could be keeping Jack. 1t was
aae to suppose that he was. hurt. She
'aa not think Of It for moment. The idea
R-her Jack--the bravest, strongest,
neger on - river, had been lurt,
sehAhle. And she laughed. But it
J = sound ikafhe ripples of merriment
esak loved 50 we'll, and it stopped very
~ fading away from a face that
VT sober when it was gone.
baby began to cry. and there was no
''n'1s sAe1' because Jack would b
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-01-05

SSA
:. s>ndhood's merry rompins days,
=. i,soosncy's happy years.
A6,essd By IT. dancing rays.
NJ dlded edge and lofty piers.
.r,.d in the tablet Of my mind.
R.v,rsd BY msmory's fondest wayA
a. asaf old mirror. well outlined.
Rxturus again my infant gaze.
Mtveuty years looked and saw.
with vain but pardonsble pride.
Avuthful face with scarce aaw.
n frsshness Of the morning tide.
win health and JOY. love. hope and peacs.
Ambition. vigor. strength and zeal.
!, eazth's good things q certain lease.
NJ picture did the glass reveal.
Mfkirty, bearded. bronzed and tall.
Island before the mirrors front.
Iossh shod. had experienced all.
he tented field the battles brunt:
IN frontier bush. in mountains peak:
Adown the city's busy mart,
With those who hasty fortunes seek.
In every sphere took my part.
Il forty. sturdy. in my prime,
The fond devotion Of . wife,
Ihelchildren's love. oh. blissful time.
These blessings softenei worldly strifel
mans but half man at best.
Who has no helpless ones to shield.
Responsibilities TO test.
His manhood. on lfe's battlefield.
Nafty, how those years have fed!
The living may ace in the glass.
Il never can reflect the doad.
Again glance. cannot pass
n friendly front without look.
Gay, bald and wrinklsd is the tale
1hs mirror reads me like book.
Which from my past uplifts the veil.
n 0dxty-sh. that II to be.
What shah It tell. say joy or woef
Nnt will the future bring to me-
smile or frown. kiss or blow?
II truthful mirror may lay bare.
Just ten years hence. my actual fste.
Who now that future can declare?
Who new that story can relate?
The state journal., 1884-08-16
Harrisburg Colored Church
and Society Directory.

Wesley Union Church, corner South street and
Tanners avenue-PastOr, Rev. II. I. Pearsall
Services at 1890 and 7:30 every Sunday. Sun
day school at l:30. Jos. b. Popel, Superintend-
Bethel M. E. Church, Short street-Pastor, Rev.
Amos Wilson. Services at 1920 and 7:30 every
Sunday. SABBATH school 1:30. Richard Snaively,
Superintendent.
1890 and 7:30. Sabbath school at 1:30. Thomas
Miller, Superintendent.
Second Baptist Church, Eleventh street near
Market-Pastor, Rev. Beverly Jones. Ser
vices every Sunday at 1890 and 7:30. Sabbath
school 1:30 Robert Darlington, Superintend-
Free Will Baptist Church, corner William and
Colder erstreets-Pastor, Rev. Frazer. Services
every Sunday at 1890 and 7:30. Sabbath
school l:30. William Burrows, Superintend-
Union A. NJ E. Church, Tanners avenue-Pas-
tor, Rev. Il. johnson. Services every Sunday
at 1890 and 730 Sunday school 2. NJ
Wesley Mission, Marion street near Colder
bath at 1890 and 7:30. Sabbath school 1:9O
Mr.. SOlbert, Superintendent.
SOCIETIES.
Brotherly Love Lodge 500, G. Q. o., of o. F.;
nall in South street; regular meeting every
Monday night.
Chosen Friends Lodge, Masonic hall, Odd Eel
lows building, South street regular meeting
every alternate Thursday night.
Golden Chain Council Hall, South Street.
Franklin Hall; regular meeting every Tuesday
night.
Good Samaritan Council, hall East State street;
regular meeting every Tuesday night
Household of Ruth Hall, Odd Fellows Hall
South street; regular meeting every Tuesday
night.
Paxton Lodge, No. 1s, A. Y. NJ, meets every
Monday evening, at Franklin Hall, South st.,
Harrisburg,
The state journal., 1884-08-16
THE FARMERS COLUMN.
TRAINING TOMATO VINES.
rom the New York Observer.

From the New York Observer.
Considerable difference of opinion ex-
lists as TO the proper method of caring TO-,
tomato vines. The following suggestion
from an agricultural paper are timely
Nest growers agree that keeping tomatoes
off the ground is great advantage.
Stakes or treliises are now used to great
extent to train them so. A common way
is to train to single stakes of about four
feet in height, tying the plants to stakes
as they grow. This is little or no
improvement over the old way of let
ting them lie on the ground. A much
better plan is to set the plants in rows
four feet apart, and the plants three in
the row. Before setting the plants dig
out a couple of spits of earth, and set in
three branches of trees-twiggy ones are
the best-in triangular form. with the
tops spreading outwards. Set the plant
in the center of this, and as it grows
keep the shoots inside of the stakes by
passing a string around them. There
is 10 better way to get good, clean
fruit from tomatoes. AS everything gen.
orally has some disadvantage connected
with it, so this way of growing tomatoes
lS HOb peTlcCI. w ncH th0 pldutS are al
lowed to run over the ground they keep
the soil cool and moist. 1t follows
that tying up to stakes produces the op-
posite effect, and the plants suffer the
sooner from summer droughts. This
can be easily remedied by mulching
around the plants with something to break
the suns rays. If nothing else is at hand,
cornstalks answer admirably. Tomatoes
produce such mass of foliage that they
require much moisture, and it is surpris-
ing how they tdriye when by mulching or
other means the ground is never allowed
to become too dry.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
A woRn ron wUnaiN6MEN,

In q letter TO his brother the editor Of
The Lebanon Free Press. Ex-Governor
Cheney, of New Hampshire, reports a
conversation which he lately had with a
manufacturer in Scotland. The Scotch
man at first assumed as sufficient reason
for lower wages in Great Britain that a
dollar would go further there in the pur-
chase of the necessaries of life than in
this country. Forced from this position
by comparison of actual prices, the
Scotch manufacturer exclaimed "The
fact is, our workmen do not require so
much and are not accustomed to
living so well as yours dc"
Now" replied Governor Cheney,
your answer is complete and satisfactory.
This is just the case. Our workmen are
a part of our great Republic, so closely
interviewer with its interests that it is
hard to draw the dividing line between
them and the manufacturer. They fill
Places of responsibility in our churches,
our schools, our benevolent institutions,
our hospitals, all of our secret societies,
as well as all of our political organiza'
tions. They are always represented IN
our municipal government and in our
State Legislatures, and the employed are
as much respected as the employer
tested by actual merit.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
A Pu22LfNG pAlR,

Alta trial Ia Augusta The other day,
before Judge Whitehouse, the case being
family quarrel between disgruntled
heirs, among the witnesses for the de
fense were twins. They were not ordl-
nary twins. They had hair OF the bright
rest auburn, eyebrows the color OF flax,
pink and white compleXiens, and dresses
exactly alike, even 10 the least important
bow. Their names even were exactly
alike, with the single exception that an
ga" appeared in one of their names in
stead of an sc" When the first ap-
peared on the stand the jury, judge, and
lawyers regarded her attentively; she
gave her testimony in modest manner
and stepped down. Another name was
called; it was that of her twin sister. AS
her counterfeit presentment quietly took
the stand there was hush in the court
room. Judge, jury, lawyers and spec
tators sat transfiXed and gazed first at the
witness in the witness in the box and
then at the place where her sister had
taken her seat. They could hardly be-
lieve their eyes; il seemed as if the
last witness had returned to the box
without being recalled. The lawyer con-
ducting the cross examination put the
usual questions; the name and the resi-
dence were, to all appearances, the same
in the case of her double just on the
stand, and the voice precisely the same
in tone and infection. The jury looked
at each other and seemed ready to match
coppers as TO whether they were awake
or not. Then the lawyer asked the
witness if she had been on the stand be
fore during the trial, and received
quiet answer in the negative. This
satisfied the court, although if her twin
sister had not sat in plain view at the
other end Of The court room it is by no
means certain that she would not have
been indicted for perjury. - Aaguetd
(He.) Journal.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
A FARM NECESSITY.

Every farmer should keep can of
the following mixture: Kerosene, two
quarts; linseed oil, one gill; rosin, one
ounce. Melt the rosin in the linseed oil
and add to the kerosene. Coat all steel
or iron tools, wherever bright with this
when they are to lie idle, if for only few
days. 1t will not take half a minute or
half teaspoonful of the mixture to coat a
plough when one has finished using it,
and it will prevent all rust and save half
days time in cleaning it when it is
again needed. besides saving the team
many thousands of pounds extra pulling.
Coat the iron work of the mowers and
reapers with it when they are put away
for the winter. A little rust is only
little thing, but it makes much difference
in the aggregate.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
THE TALK OF THE DAY

SPANISH and Cuban dances have be-
come popular at many of the summer re-
sorts.
In a few weeks more the summer
hotels will begin to burn up. A man s
got to balance his books in some way,
you know.
TIE head waiter of a Block Island
hotel is said to bea graduate of theology.
He is probably trying to minister to the
inner wants of the guests.
JOHN KELLY's silence is not of the
golden order. There is a sort of cast.
iron flavor about it which renders it very
imposing. ng.-PiLadelphia Press.
THE Democratic organs are beginning
to breathe more easily now. They have
triumphantly proved the personal purity
of Governor Cleveland by calling the
Rev, Mr.. Ball liar, buzzard and a
horse-thief
A MAN got drunk the other day in Lon
don and fell down and broke his neck.
Inc wise jury that "sat" upon him hap
pened to lind out that his grandfather had
accidentally broken his neck, and so rem
dered the devout verdict "Died by the
hereditary visitation of God
SOMEHOW or other it seems to have
suddenly and simultaneously occurred to
all the brighter Democratic papers that
Mr.. Blaine is about the best-known pub
lie man there ever was in this country,
and that the people are rot likely to
change their opinions of him on account
of anything they see in hostile partisan
papers.
A MAN who has no club to &c to in Lon.
don on Sunday, and cannot procure food
at his lodgings, will probably have to dc
without eating anything, as the people
are too religious to cOuntenance the
opening of restaurants on Sunday. Rut
he can get all the liquor he wants, ex
cept during the hour when the churche:
are open for morning service.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
NOT A CUSS WORD,
General Butler Makes an Amusing Ex
PLANTATION.

General Butler gives the following
amusing explanation of the origin of
what is generally accepted as profane
remark:
The editor Of the Boston Herald does
not seem to know enough to be wicked
when he wants to be. He closes an ar
ticle upon your humble servant in the
Herald of Sunday as follows: "Can any
body believe that man with his record
cares tinkers malediction for the prin-
ciples of any party?" Now he evidently
thinks that thinkers dam is cuss
word. VIII you inform him that in the
olden time, when travelling thinkers went
about the country mending the holes in
the tin kettles and pans he frequently
found one that was ragged and rusty,
so that the soldering iron would
not take, and he was obliged to fill it
up with a mass of solder. To keep that
solder en- nadSSe over the hole while in
the melted state, he was accustomed to
| take some crumbs of bread and moisten
them and make a little ridge around the
hole with the moistened crumbs, to hold
the solder in its place as he melted it in.
This was what was called thinker S
dam, which he brushed away after he
mad finished, as it was utterly useless.
So that our Pilgrim fathers used the
word mot worth tinker's Gam," never
dreaming that they were profane. The
editor of The Herald evidently thinks he
has been swearing all his life, when he
hasn't, and that he must soften the word
down to 'male Lotion. Yours truly,
BENJAMIN +. BUTLER,
The state journal., 1884-08-16
He HAD "RUN INTO sOMETHIN,.u

. NNAAA NAAN ~AiAOslo " AANltNld'
New York Central locomotive stood
close to the Main street crossing in Buffalo.
The fireman was busy cleaning some
blood and pieces Of meat off the cow
catcher. Don't shudder," he said,
"nothin but beef-a fool COW got on the
track back here by Looneyville. Killed
man once at the same crossing. It'san
unlucky spot, | guess. Do we have
many such accidents? Yes. few Did
you ever hear of old Jerry Drew; lives
up near Rochester? No? Wei, We
had scrimmage with him one day. He
gets drunk every time he goes to town.
and that day he was drunken than ever.
He allus seemed to get to the track bout
time we got to the road, AN I've seen him
whip up his horses and whoop and yell
and try to get there the same minute we
did many time. He seemed to delight
in it. Once he stopped right on the track,
and when we came up slow with brakes
on he dared us to come any closer, and
said he'd run over us. Had to whistle
and scare his horses in order to get him
Oft. The time'I started out to tell you
abcat, though, Jerry had had too much
and was sound asleep in his wagon. The
horses went on the track right in front ol
us, and the whole institution was busted
all opieces. We stopped as quick as we
could, an run back. Both horses were
killed and the wagon all cut up to kind
lin wood an scrap iron. Over by the
fence was old Jerry. / saw he WASH I
dead right away. The shock had woke
nm up. an he was tryin' to drink out OF
tne neck ofa bottle, the neck being all there
was left of it.
mats the matter here 2 [ shouted.
ne looked up opened his eyes little,
an gazed around him.
1 guess-hic,' he said, 1 guess | must
o'-hic--run into sumthin'.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
A YRETCHEn BUSINESS.

New DIX Sun, Dem.
Less than month has passed since this
available nomination was made, and how
is it quoted now? Has availability gone
up or down in that time? What has the
Democratic party gained by lowering its
standard of public merit, and by sacrific-
ing its most splendid names to a pro-
NOTED accident? 1t has gained, or hopes
it has, some small quantity of votes, the
votes of Republicans who hate it as badly
as they hate Mr.. Blaine, and who have in
tended to vote for Mr.. Cleveland as being
about the same thing as voting for Re
publican. 1t has gained, also, the enmity
of great numbers Of labOring men who
have hitherto been willing to support it..
1t is safe TO estimate that for every dissat-
isfed Republican whom the Demi- Repub-
licanism of the Democratic candidate has
won over, it has turned two Democrats
away disgusted. This is the fruit Of put
ting up acandidate whose course, however
sincere may have been the motive that
prompted it, has only secured Republican
votes by alternating Democratic. And
now to make this brilliant triumph OF
availability still more resplendent, the
Democratic candidate must so through the
campaign with the burden of an old
scandal weighing him down. 1t is a
wretched business. Surely, if mediocrity
was to be honOred and exalted by the
Democrats, there was mediOcrity enough
to be found against which, in private life
at least, no shameful accusation would be
brought and in whose defense no painful
confession would have to be made. But
to public abilities of the highest order, to
private lives without b.emish, the
Democrats preferred availability. The re-
suit has been that already there is doubt
where there should have been assured
confidence, and the fatal seeds of division
and disaster may be already springing up
in fields where victory was looked for.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
PLATES, BIRDS AND POETRY,

The wife of Senator Harrison, of Indi.
ana, has decorated eighteen china dinner
plates in novel manner, which was
wholly her own idea. On each she has
painted bird Of different species, and
on the border of the plate a verse in old
English text of poetry written by one
of the best authors about that particular
kind Of bird This not only has the
merit Of originality, and so excites the
interest and admiration of those who see
the plates, but has the further advantage,
as every verse is one which has been lit
tie quoted, of suggesting topics of con
versation at a dinner party when the
plates are used, which is always an ines.
Unable boon on such occasions Mrs.
Harrison says she was surprised TO find
how much good poetry had been written
about birds which alluded to or described
so many different species. She says she
found verses enough to serve for another
dozen plates entirely different from those
she has finished.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
AUTHORIZATIONS Aprln qnaN,
The Hero Of the Historic Spot Edits With q
Blue Pencil q Current Tradition.

INe nero Oh the htSt9flg Spot Eults WIN y
Blue Pencil a Current Tradition.
General Grant to a comrade in Philadelphia
When 1 reached Appomattox Court
House, Lee had been in MClean's house
for some time. All there is of the apple
tree story is this : When l received a
note from Lee asking TO meet me at Ap-
pomattox, where he then was, l sent
him note saying l would be there as
soon as possible There was an old ap-
pie orchard on the hillside, opposite
M'Clean's house, where the advance of
Lees army had halted when the white
flag was exhibited. a farm road ran
diagonally up the hill, through the or
chard. In places where trees were close
to the wheel tracks, on the upper side of
the road, the roots had been cut off by
being continually run over. This left
low bank between the road and
trees so cut. When the officer General
0. E. Babcock) who bore my reply to
General Lee reached him he was seated
on one of these embankments, with his
feet in the road and his back against the
tree. He was then invited to pass through
our lines to house to await my arrival.
To ]. L. CORNET.. U. S. GRANT.
The state journal., 1884-08-16
VERYRICH MAIDEN

Newport Letter 10 Chlcd8o 1llleS'
The richest woman here, the richest
maiden, indeed, in America, it is
said, is Miss Catharine Wolfe. She
is not prosecuted by fortune-hunters, be-
cause her anti-connubial resolution is
we'll known and because she is not Of an
age TO provoke offers Of marriage not
visibly mercenary. She is most amiable
and most estimablc and has devoted her
life to doing good. A Jealous Episco-
palian, member Of Grace Church, she
follows 10 a great extent the counsel OF
Rev. Henry 9. Potter, III bestowing her
charities. 1t is she who is paying for
the new spire going up on that editice.
But her generosity is not confined to any
particular cause. She gives freely when
ever and whenever she finds worthy
cause and gives without the slightest
parade and OstentatiOn. Most Of her
kind acts arc not known beyond the
immediate circle of her friends. Her
fortune is estimated at $1,000, 900,
to 1000, 600, and was inherited from her
father, she being the sole surviving child.
Most of it is in real estate in New York,
which has increased in value enormously
of late. When She was young she had
the fear that heiresSes naturally have
that her hand would be sought on ac
count of her wealth, and she announced
her resolution to remain single. She had
many offers, Notwithstanding, and it is
believed none Of them would have been
made had she been in ordinary circum
stances. 1t seems, too, that she has seen
a good deal of conjugal unhappiness and
would have been, she says, deferred from
matrimony had she been differently
situated. Although she goes into society
she appears to be a devotee by nature.
If she had been q Roman Catholic she
would doubtless have entered a closter
and given her money to the mother
Church, which has been the great beggar
Of the centuries from It's very foundation.
The state journal., 1884-08-16

The sweet potato crop, the most i'm
portant product of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland and Virginia, is said to have
been almost ruined by disease similar
to the disease which afflicts Irish po.
tatoes, and known as phytapthora in
festans. Hundreds of acres in North
ampton county, Virginia, have been
plOwed UNDER TO be replanted in corn, so
as not to lose all the money expended in
fertilizers. Northampton county has al
ready lost 500, 900 this year, and the dis
ease is still spreading, causing great
alarm. Close inquiry indicated that slips
obtained from northern regions were
more prone to become diseased ;
some slips from South Carolina
have not up to this time shown any indi-
cations of disease. Obsefvant farmers
have tried to overcome the trouble by
growing their slips in new localities, away
from the old hotbeds, but without any
improvement, since these plants also died.