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COLLECTOR.

1 am prepared to collect all kind of bills
intrusted to my care. Prompt attention
given to all matters intrusted to me. Best
of references furnished. Address:
FRED DAVIS.
Constable 9th Ward, Lockport P. O.
Aug. 30-'S4-ly.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
For the week ending Aug. @, 1884.

STRANGERS ROTEL.-E. E.. Lucas, G.
A. VOORHEES,, VIM. McGary, Meyer Wiel. j.
6uskin, N. y; Mrs. Y. Pave, Miss Raymon,
Lockport Thomas Atkinson, Yorkshire,
England /; Mrs. TheO. Landry, E. C. Abadie,
Algiers; Frank Bergeron, N~apoleonville !;
kranklin Dalferee, Ascension.
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Atwo horse covered wagon, load
ed with fish, crabs and shrimps
created a sensation on Tuesday
morning, by having the horses run
away with it, upsetting wagon aud
spilling contents along the street.
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We have been requested to state
that the next session of St. Valerie
School will commence OH Sept. /,
1884. tl IT,.
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MISSISSIPPI MILITARY
INSTITUTE,
PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS,

wear NeW Orle0n4e A.
CESSION BEGINS OCT. 1. "a. ELEGANT
Oand newly finished buildings; corps Of thor
ough instructors employed to teach according
to modern methods, preparing students for
business or the high classes in Z university.
: EXPOSITION COURSE .Ls.en
Of six months. visiting the great fair weekly,
not for mere sightseeing, but to study one or
more departments at a time. then returning
to the Institute, where text books on the snb-
.ject are taught sud essays written by the ca
dets-a grand object lesson of the corld.. Spe.
cial rates given by railroad, both in coming
to the school and in tho weekly visits to the
Exposition. Apply to
E. H. MURFEE, A. NJ, Superintendent
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Notice.

I" whom it may Concern :
Notice is hereby given that 1 will apply to
the Board Of Pardons tor clemency il the
case OF my son Levi Hill. CELESTINE
Lafourche, August 9Th, 1884.
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I will make application to the Board Of
Pardons for clemency in tho case Of Ar
thur Weber convicted - larceny.
Aug. 80, "a. SARAH WEBER.
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The attention of voters is called
to the notice of Mr.. II. Il. Mcbride.
Registrar voters: in another column.
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We have been requested to state
that deputy Sheriff Walsh, will
abandon the practice of dentistry
in the future.
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The parish School Board will
hold a session on Monday morn
ing, at 8 o'clock.
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All the pretty girls will be on
the Excursion train on the 14th,
September.
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AND BATTLE FOR LIFE.

sneflH anu deputies were giving
breakfas: to the prisoners in Jail, u
desperate atfray occurred.
Bill Mckinney, colored, who was
confined i" Jail, under sentence of
death, awaiting the action of the
supreme court, 10y some meals got
loose from his chain by which he
was fastened in his cell, and as
Johu Walsh, deputy sheriff, opens
ed the door of his room from the
hall, Mckinney struck him a terri.
BILE blow upon the head knocking
him backwards against the stair
way, and began beating him with
his fists or a piece of his chain.
Walsh raised the ALARM, when,
sheriff Thibodaux ran into the hall
from the outer yard. The prisoner
seeing him approaching caught him
i'll his arms, threw him across the
ball, aud renewed his attack upon
Walsh. w. Z. Raglan who was pas
sing along the banquctte, IN font
of the prison, hearing cries of dis
tress, and knowing that the sleritfs
were in the Jail, rushed within, pick
,Mg up Il brick as he ran. In the
meantime sheriff ThibOdaux had
struck the prisoner Il few blows
with his cane, when Raglan ap.
preached and was about striking
the prisoner with the brick the
prisoner still hammering away at
Walsh.
The prisoner then seeing that he
was about to be overpowereI, made
q rush for the door. .
Thibodaux had moved in that d.
rectiOn, and as Mckinney came,
fred, the ball striking the prisoner
in the left breast and killing him al
most instantly.
Another prisoner by the name Of
Mitchell sentenced to two years in
parish prison, made a rush for liber
ty, ran into the street, and made
for the rear Of town. He was
caught BY Henry Cclestin on st.
Charles street aud brought back to
prison. Walsh was pretty badly
bruised about the face but received
no serious .:injnlies. Thibodaux
has one pair of knuckfes skinned.
Mckinney WAS convicted Of a
most lleinous assault upon a colored
woman, aud was found guilty by q
jury in about fiva minutes.
His case was appealed to the su
preme court, (which body had not
yet acted upon it. The man was
desperate, having nothing to lose,
aud doubtless imagined that he
would get some weapon from
Walsh, whoswaa anarmed.
The other Prisoners took no part
in the battle, and made no attem,pt
to get away. Constable Auslet
was at the outer gate, guarding it
at the time.
Mckinney was a large powerful
man, and the sheriffs may be salts
fed that it was no worse with them
than it was. sAk~!l Nt
The deputy Coroner, F. Rogers,
was summoned and an inquest
held over McKinney's body,
The Jury after examination eta
ted s'That Bill Mckinney came to
his death by a pistol shot in the
hands of Theophile ,Ihibodaux.
Sheriff Of the parish, justiiable and
in self defense, and in protection of
john Walsh, deputy sheriff, and to
retain said accused Mckinney and
keep him frhm making bis escape.
Signed: George A. Nelson, III.
Franklin, r. A. Lagarde, Anatole
Boudreaux, Charles DeRoussy."
THE Davis CREvASSE-Mr. LIE
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Save up your nickels for the Elk
cursiOn.
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METEOROLOGICAL
RECORD.
LOCAL

Thibodaux, La, August, 1884.
Temperature inches of:
Dag. Date. Maxi. Min. rain fall. remarks.
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CHASED BY HUNGRY WOLVES.
Mile After Mile with the Savage Brutes Snap
ping at the Horses Heels.


An incident related to a News reporter by a
Mr. James Austin Just in from Cheyenne Wells.
proves that the populer idea that game is hard
to find iii that State, and that wolves are things
Of the past, is a falacy. Said Mr.. Austin: AT
the station. which is collection of cabins orcll-
pied by ranchmen and those employed in putting
down the government well, are number Of
wealthy young men from the East who are en-
gagged i'll hunting expedition We started last
Thursday morning and rode due east then
northeast, until when eighteen miles out we dis
covered in the distance an immense herd of buff
faloes. Thinking to accomplish more we scat
tered, with the intention Of circling them
or at least turning them from their
cessful, as night overlook us before
we had downed single bail / had singled out
one that had become separated from the rest of
the herd, and had followed him some distance
when it became too dark to see, and discovered
that / had lost my companions. There being
nothing else to do, and as it would be impossible
to find my way in the dark resolved 10 camp
where | was, so unrolllng the hide lariat,
secured the animal to some stout sage brush
and. after building small fire of grass and
brush, rolled myself in my blanket and prepared
to make the best of it, but without much idea of
sleep II. fact, III spite Of the heavy oyercoat and
blanket which covered me, it uncomfort-
ably cold. | lay four hours in n half-waking
when something more like sleep oVercame me
Suddenly sound. the most horrible and blood
curdling Of any had ever heard, seemed to
chill the very marrow in my bones. To my eX-
cited imagination it seemed like the shrek of
fifty demons. Jumping to my feet, discovered
that my fire had gone out, leaving but a few
embers, but, at distance of perhaps 200 feet
nearly forming a complete circle around me-
was IA line of bright points scintillating like so
many diamonds | instantly realized my dan
ger ! was surrounded by wolves. To hesitate
was DEATH and, mounting my horse that was
trembling with fright drove spurs into him
and we darted of through the only opening in
the Gordon which nearly surrounded me- and
swept across the plains without regard to the d
rection, my only object being to escape the fangs
of my pursuers.
The wolves, as soon as they discovered my
fight, with a renewed howl, more full of rage
and herror than that which had Weakened me,
started in full cry, and the terrible race began.
At the start gained considerable as my horse
was a good one and his fright seemed to add to
his lightning sped. Miles seemed like feet, and,
after perhaps a half hour passed, upon hooking
back ! saw that the distance from the foremost
of my pursuers the same as at the start
To keep this distance till daylight seemed nay
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against the lower iron doors of the lighthouse
in the vain attempt to reach us, for they were
pucka, man-eaters.
Well continued the lighthouse-keeper
daylight dawned. | could see the brown waters
of the HOoghly tapping the island and Spllllng
their foam up to the edge of the iungles. but
what fascinated me time and again was the spec
tacle which met me in the compound There lay
strewn around the feathers of the fowls-all PAID
for by government. though-and the portions of
borne me many mile. One tiger was asleep. or
appeard to be so, and the other fellow was lying
mumblng and growing over the bones OF the
pony.
Il shall never forget the feelings had when
about o'clock of the morning | saw these two
tigers lying beneath the lighthouse The ONE
suppose it was the male-was lying SroWl-
ing over bone of a fowl, and the other
with her yellow gray eyes, was blinking up at
us i'll cold blooded, greedy way that | shall re
member until the day of my death. Small
vermin, such as my fowls, she did not seem to
care about; her gaze was fixed at weird, wander
ing intervals upon the men up in the tower
whom she had obviously tried to starve out, for
she could not, with all her plunges, break down
the lower iron doors.
4" Well said to myself, if this sort of thing
is gong to continue. will hoist flag OF dis
tress. The Baboo in charge of the natives, a
highly educated government Baboo, advanced
the objection that there was no official pre-
cedent for interfering with the freedom of a
bengal tiger; but L oVerruled that with my
fists and things became pleasant thence
forward. 1 am going to make Il
long story short. | couldn't find my fire arms
and as dared not go down stairs to where they
were, | had nothing to do but hoist a flag of
distress over the light house We managed on
the second night to keep the lights burning, but
by George! after the second night of being freed
up, when food was running low and oil for the
lamps was getting scarce, / began to feel the
most lonely creature in the world. These tigers
down below never budged. One or the other
made an occasional dash against the lower parts
Of the tower. trying to get at us, but they
couldn't reach us anyhow. A government
tug coming down into the Bay Of Bengal
caught sight of flag, and
sent iollyboat of marines ashore with
rifles They caught sight of the brutes that had
freed me and my party and fired at them, until
they finally shrank back growing and lashing
their tails, into the jungle. OF course We all
came down very glad to meet our saviors; but
shoot me. sir, if ever want to have such forty
eight hours experience of New Years holidays
on Sanger island, or anywhere else again. Here
you boy, you khitmutgar. doosra peg lac" And
with that stentoran demand for more brandy
and soda, the exhausted lighthouse keepers
head fell Imply upon his shoulders.
| heard afterward that the learned BaboO had
reported to his government that the affair was
very aggressive, as two tigers had threatened
the lives of respectable public servants; but
whether or not he was promoted to a remote
nIagistlacy in the Soonderbunds | never heard
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Patti from fatigue Of all Sorts He is a sort of a
combination valet maid, carrier, and companion.
Nothing could exceed the care he takes of the
prima donna. He folds her tendery in herwraps
and almost carries her to her carriage, closes
the door, and holds her wraps about her until she
gets to her hotel, after the opera is over. Then
he opens and closes all the doors for her himself,
so as to exclude all draughts, and assists her to
disrobe.
When she is comfortably clad in some loose
wrap, her feet slippered, and placed comfortably
before the fire. and the screens are arranged
about her, Nicohni rushes to the kitchen to
watch the broiling of Madam PATHS bird. When
it is done to turn, and the toast properly
Drowned, he brings it up and follows it to her
every detail of the supper, and it is only after
Madame Patti has fallen into a cOntended doZe
that he relaxes his vigilance. He is first up in
the morning. and begins again his unceasing care
of her. Hence his grip.
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A STORY OF A GOLD CHAIN,
And Why Messenger Boy Went on Four
Hundred-IiIe Errand.
Baltimore Sun.


A bright-faced, redheaded boy. fourteen years
old, dressed in the uniform of a messenger lad,
called at pawn store. on Saturday, and threw
pawn ticket for 8, gold chain on the showcase.
and said 'Gimme that chain"
Mr.. Lewyt looked at The ticket, which he at
once recognized 'The man to whom that ticket
belongs is in New York he remarked to the boy
''Well, that's just where I came FROM said
the boy. The little fellow then said that on
Saturday afternoon a call came to the Seventy
second street Office, East side New York city
for messengerboy. This lad was sent to a
well-to-do gentlemans house in answer to the
summons. The caller had pawned a valuable
chain, an heirloom, during his visit
to Baltimore a few days ago. when
he was out of money He wanted to
wear the chain on Sunday but could not get it
in time as no express would reach him on that
day. The boy was to bring the pawn ticket
here, pay the $25 advanced on the chain also
the interest, and get back as soon as he
could. The gentleman was to pay his fare here
and back, incidental expenses, and give him be-
sides sixty cents an hour extra pay.
The boy was back in New York on Saturday
night with the chain, fifteen hours after he
started
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STILL A SHAREHOLDER.
a Rip Van Wrinkle from the Wilderness with
Two Serfs to Sell.
tier in Baltimore American.

Staunton Letter in Baltimore American.
A strange reminder of the ante-belum days
was witnessed a short time ago in the busy
streets of the peaceful city of Staunton, in the
Valley of Virginia. A sturdy mountaineer from
Pocahontas county, West Virginia, had made his
way from his secluded fastness in an outlying
district across the Cheat and Allegheny Mount
aims $50 miles to the nearest center of civilza-
ton, to make sale of some stock, the fluctuations
in whose value once sent a throb through the
commercial world In his high and isolated
eyrie, enjoying the independent freedom and
simplicity of rural life, he had not heard of
wars alarms and none of the confusion Incl
dent to secession had disturbed the peaceful
rounds of his life He had tended
his focks, cultivated the soil and
prospered until the surplus was beyond
his consumption. Reckoned among
the wealth that could be disposed of as no longer
necessary for his needs We're two finely built col
ored men, and it was more particularly to sell
these that he had got the consent of his mind
to make the perilous journey to the nearest point
within the pale of civilization.
Arrived in StamtOn he asked for slave-dealer
and tried in vain to sell his slaves. He could not
be convinced that there had been a great war,
and at last he left dsgusted When last seen he
and his dusky property were on their way back
home to enjoy a life free from the vices of an
unreal civilization.
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New York Sun.

Fifty-nine scholarly-looking men sat in a
brightly-lighted room with their legs under three
long pine tables at 696 Broadway last evening.
They were in a state of bristling excitement
Each man had pen in his right hand and pags
of the French edition of Sarah Banum" before
him. At the left hand of each translator, for
such were the scholary-looking men, was a bot
tie of beer. Whenever translator found him
self bal1icaded by tough French idiom his left
hand sought the beer bottle. AS the book con
tans many tough idioms much beer was con
sumed. Within convenient reach of all were
picturesque piles of sandwiches and packages of
cigarettes. Fragments of cigarettes, half-eaten
sandwiches, and an unguessable number of
empty chairs and tables We're all that could be
seen in the room. At II P. NJ, the book had
been rendered into English, edited, and sent to
the printers
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Nicolini's Grip Upon Patti.
San Francisco Argonaut.


People have been specializing once more upon
PATHS extraordinary love for Nicolini. The true
condition of affairs is known to a few people,
but the majority Of opera goers sit by in silent
wonder when they see the scrawny and ungainly
Nicolini beside such an exquisite bit of femi-
ninity as Patti. They seem utterly unable to
understand her fondness for him. She has a
husband and, | believe, some children, and he
has wife and five children, and yet they live
together as man and wife. The extraneous fam
lilies are supported entirely by PATHS money, as
is Ncolini himself. He lives on her bounty,
and follows her about like a favorite dog. Still,
people express amazement at what they term
the deep mystery of PATHS affection for such a
shrimp as Nicolini.
The truth of the matter is, Patti is one of the
most selfish women that ever drew three con
secutive breaths. She is selfish in everything.
Her avalicious demands in the matter Of salary
are well known but her avarice is nothing com
pared to her innate selfshness. l speak from
positive knowledge. The man who saves
Madame Patti a little trouble earns her graft
tude. 1t is Nicolinis business to save Madame
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FOUR WEALTHY WOMEN.
Including One who Cried When She Heard
that She Was To BE Presidents Bride.

Including One who Cried When She Heard
that She Was To BE "a Presidents Bride.
New York Letter in Kansas City Times.
Some of the very rich women of New York
have many peculiarites. Mrs Stewart for in
stance never opens her front windows, and she
goes out driving so seldom that even the neigh
b0rs on the adjoining block do not know her.
She is a sincere Christian, believing more firmly
in the English Church than any other, and yet
worShiping more to suit her own quiet taste than
according to any set tenets OF faith. She does
not care for her personal appearance and does
not dress half so neatly as her servants She
walks out of pleasant afternoons twice or thrice
a week and while always accompanied at re
spectful distance by strong man servant she
looks so commonplace that not one of the multi
tude are aware that she is the richest widow in
the world Mrs. Stewart always carries goodly
sized coins for beggars.
Miss Wolfe differs from Mrs Stewart in this
respect. When she meets a beggar she must
know his or her references before doing any
thing of a substantial nature II is a very diff
cult matter to fix the age of Miss Wolfe. She is
no longer young and yet she does not look old.
She possesses a face of the type which never
ages. There is a story about her having loved a
brave fellow some years ago, and that he passed
away before the day agreed upon for their wed
ding, and when he was buried her heart also was
put away in the tomb 1t is a pretty romance.
all devotion, nothing but trutE Ind ;ureness and
she now devotes her life to charity
Mrs. GGlet, like her late husband, is of re-
firing disposition. For intervals of weeks she
will remain closely at home ouc to all callers,
and then again she will be seen at every place of
note in the city. Her jewels are said to be the
finest private collection in the country. The
Gelets were always curious family.
But the most sensible and attractive of the
rich ladies in New York whom this article has
called to mind is Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts The
widow of a mining king, intelligent, cultured and
handsome, she, with 50, 600, 600 in her own right
numbers her suitors by the dozens. Some time
ago it will be readily recalled. the gossip said
that she proposed to enter the White House as
the wife of Arthur and its mistress. According
to am informant Of mine Mrs Roberts. when
this story came to her ears burst out crying as
though her heart would break, pronounced it
false and supplemented it with the etatement
expectant bride. She is the center of social
circle of brave men and women. does a great
deal in aid OF literature and art and is well known
to the poor of the Five Points and the East Side