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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31

When the Sweet Sweepers give
their entertainment, there will be
some fine music between drills.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31

Miss Tanner, whilst skating, at
the rink, the other day, fell and
broke her arm, near the wrist.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31

The new coat OF paint, lately
given to the bridge, over the Ba
you, improves the appearance of
that structure.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31

Planters generally appear sat
is6ed with their plant cane but not
With the grass that is appearing IN
it during this hot weather.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31

When the steamer "Sunbeam- or
rives, every evening, from New Or
iealis, busy bodies go to the depot
and count the passengers.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31
GGc Gbibooaux Sentinel
SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1884.
LOCALNEWN.

The next District Court will
have some hardeLed criminals tn
appear before it.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31

VIM. IL. Raglan, II. crest and one-halfof
note due hliii, char. to lncidi Exp. i!G0 90
Arthur haibroush. Corporation Labo-
rer, salary for March and April, 1881.
chargeao be to Corporation Laborer IC0 90
q. j. Legeu,ire, Market Master, Salary
1or Feb, and Match char. to Market
House 33 a3
Peter Alexander char. to SITS. s. bitches } on
Alfred Golden / CO
}. Is. Lenaln :" Whit T. Levee / 60
j.. Auslet. constable char to P. & c. Exp. 10 90
L. 4. DeManad6 culs. char. " = 81
j. Nj. Walsh, commission on collection
OF State warrant char. TO lncid1 Exp. 10 90
J. wary I A Anr"ia, f Mayor. ll i'i iar r"a na1: -
ending May LIST, 1854, chargeable to
salary of officers 30 90
\. }. Perrin. Clerk, salary for quarter
ending May list, 1854, chargeaoie to
salary vi officers 1875
U. j. Lensendse, Constable, salary for
quarter ending May LIST. 1884, charge
able to Salary OF Officers. l37 81
j.. 1. Ihibodaux. Treasurer, salary for
quarter ending May LIST, cAargeable
to salary OF officers 81 %
+. Samoan, Printer, salary for quarter
ending May LIST. 1851, chargeabie to
salary OF officers 81 80
TiibodauX Fire Co. No. /, allowance
tor March, April and May, chargeab!e
to Ire Department 80 W
Protector Fire Co, No. =, q allowance Tor
March, APRIL and May, chargeable to
Fire Department. 80 90
Home Hook and ladder Go. No. L. al
lowance for March, April and May,
chargeable to Fire Department 30 90
yheophlle Ti,ibodaux, %jaiior's fees,
c~halgeable to Police & Criminal EXP. b 90
.. J. Lescndre. Matket Master. salary
ior April, charseaoie to Market House Is &c
Total 1895 80
Yeas: Brand, Dansereau, Moore, and Ter
mott.
Nays None.
The t%oliowia. Treasnrer's Report was pre-
sented and referred to the Committee tn ri
Trcasurcr's Report.
for March 1884.
To Balance on hand 2l66 81
:. Market House for March III ~
- Taxes 1888 ii
= Licenses 1881 132 80
:" Amount received from State
Crevassc Warrant 267 ID
BY Banquettes so
" Corporation Laborer 80 90
- Streets and bitches 80 90
Z" Wharf and Levee 90 SO
4" Incidental Expenses 30 90
- Bills Payable ll6O 90
:" Police and Criminal Expenses 81 %
% Market House 90
:. Collectors Commission 5 60
- Balance Oh hand l24i 40
Total 2695 "A 2695 "a
-------
To Balance on hand 2iI 10
Respectfully Submitted.
(Signed) j.. I. THIBODEACX.
Treasurer.
Treasurer's Report for April, 1884.
To Balance on hand l24l 40
- Fines is
I" Bridge Dividends 346 IS
= Market House for April 1884. ll9 20
= Licenses Of 1884 80 Do
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-05-31
CIR.

CIR.
by Market House 33 33
" Wharf g. Levee ~ no
otreets q bitches 43 90
!" Corporation Laborer so 90
:" Collectors Commission 3 26
!" Balance on hand l633 a
Total l7sS 81 1888 81
10 Balance on hand, May 9Th, 1863 IS
I Respectfully Submitted,
JOS. 1. THIBODEACX,
Treasurer.
The following COllec tors Report was pre-
senteu and referred to the Committee on
Collectors Report.
For March, 1884.
Tax of 1888.
School. Cor.
Est. Ma. Lawless $50 80
$50 so
Licenses. 1884.
Sam Madison. l day 9
Thee. Verrier. L. NJ. 500
Nm. Brock lOett X. VI. & Il. $. 81 M
- tAZeii;'. y. IL 100 90
frank ilonlnapn L. ). 80 90
Total IL. 9
tt"s
(Si.ned) y. J. LEGENDRE.
Collector.
Collectors Report for April, 1881.
Lugger Saratina 10 90
Crncl1uX 10 %
Samuel katz, Pedller : O
George Ovicll, T.. H.. 80 OO |
H.. W. Tabor, dray 5 90
Total 80 90
Fines.
Alfred Aymond, ! fine 20
kespectf ully Submitted,
o. j. LEGENDRE,
-, Collector.
The Market Masters report for March aud
April showing the total corrections to be Two !
Hundred F"rty-two anti 25ll0 % Dollars. was !
Finance.
On nioti"n duly seconded the Mavor was
aut1i"ilZrtt To purchase IL suctiOa los. Tor
1!iit'udiuN Fire Co. No. and to uay for
SAINT " warrant on the Observation-Disclosures
to flrc Department..
Yeas: Brau,i, Dansere.u, Moore & Ter.
mott.
Nays None.
On motion. duly seconded the Council adj.
joul ned.
~lsignet] j. l.. AUCOIN,
Mayor.
Clerk.
A. true copy:
"A. j. PERRIN,
Clerk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26

by this means also does nature sort her kinds,
decreeing some unto quiet and painless death,
others unto resurrection and strength.
The seasons have their significance as well as
the hours and moments. For few months
human destiny is wrapped in furs. Forced
within, life becomes subjective and introspec-
tive. Around the radiant fireplace, zen
closed in a tumultuous privacy Of storm, s." we
store our bodies, but thought travels far
abroad-with the furred life under the snow
carpet, with Greely's lone party seeking the
mansion of the northern bear" in the rigging
of the Columbus off Devils Ledge, among the
white stones of Crown Hill, away to the cold
and ifeless moon. We nod. The frost thickens
on the pane. Mind and eye, prejudiced by our
personal comfort and by the cares and brevity
of mortal life, see not the dawn of the morn
ing sun, that in an hour will undo the work of
the frost in snow and ice as it has pulverized
the mountain quartz-the crystals of longer
night-see not the morning when the treasures
of the snow shall be revealed and mortality
swallowed up of life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26

James is cOwardly brute, possibly sick unto
death There is absolutely nothing about
him to call for commiseration or notice. IF
fate has at last got a grip on his throat, hands
off, and let death get the drop on him. Let
Sturlata drown in the infamy she still courts.
The better public has no part in the Shiny
business and wants to hear nothing about it.
If enterprise oompels some mention of these
unsavory creatures let it be done with a line.
The public wants as little as possible to do
with them, and to forget them at once and
forever
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26
INSANITY OUTRAGES.

A new instance has come to light of how easy
a thing it is for any one so disposed to infiict
outrage and injustice upon any obnoxious per-
son through the cOnnivance or assistance of
the laws and the officials appointed or elected
to enforce them. The details of the case of
James G. Silkman, of Yonkers, N. Y,
are given with fullness in the telegraphic
columns, and will serve to renew the indigna-
ton frequently expressed at the manner in
which the insanity laws are made the means
of the most deplorable outrage. A horror
suggests itself in this fragrant crime that
must appeal to every man and woman in the
land If sane men can be dragged from home
at night by officers of the law, hurried off to
another locality and thrown into a maniac's
may reasonably consider himself secure2 1t is
fearful thing to commit human being for
lunacy, and when done for revenge or for any
similar motive is one of the gravest offenses
possible.
The laws of Indiana on this point are not
what they should be, and their adininistra-
ton only too often is even worse. At present
it is too easy to have suspected person con-
fined in an asylum, and the ease with
which criminal can feign in
sanity and break in to escape
merited punishment has had too many illus
trations to need new evidence. Only few
months ago young brute committed a best
ial assault upon young lady in this city, and
was about to be committed to the asylum, by
means of which shamming he would have es-
capped even rebuke for his iDfamy, had not the
journal called attention to the case, when
public sentiment compelled an honest inquest,
resulting, as is we'll known, in his being pro-
rouneed sane and in being sent to the peni-
tertiary, where he properly belonged The
officers of the law who wink at irregularity in
the Investigation of such cases, should be held
criminally responsible for their acts when they
allow sane person to be committed at the
will of anybody, or who admit criminals to
save them from just punishment. The wrong
possible in this direction, and too often done,
is Of common knowledge, and the feeling
against its further preparation is universal
and unqualified.
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OTHER CASUALTIES.

Several Persons Hurt in Wreck the
Lake Erie & Western Railroad.
FINDLEY, O., Jan. PA mixed train on the
Lake Erie & Western road was wrecked near
Button o., at o'clock this morning by a
broken rail The passengercar turned over and
took fire The conductor saved the lives of the
passengers by extinguishing the fire with snow.
He then went to Blufton for carriage to con-
vey the wounded to hotel freezing his face
during the trip. The brakeman had both feet
frozen. The injured passengers are; James W.
Shaw, Nebraska, seapula fractured and badly
bruised; A j. Owens, Bluffton, cub about the
head; o. S. Langley, Button, arm badly burned,
head cut, and internal injuries; Mrs Langley,
cut on head and face. Several others received
minor injuries
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26
Tariff-Wool and Glass.
prevails.

1t is proposed to remove the tariff on wool
How afflicted with poor memories, and how I'M
observing must be those who cannot remember
the effect when the wool tariff was removed once
before. O., we know, we old heads, how it was!
Sheep were mot worth the powder to blow them
to Tophet," as the farmers said. Sheep were all
killed off. Mutton was so cheap you could build
houses with it, if so disposed. All the wooden
mills stopped. Prosperous factory villages went
to Ballyhac, that celebrated Irish village, the
symbol of utter runation. At the same time
the iron tariff was reduced, and. the foundries
and rolling mills dropped into pieces and woods
grew up around them. Anybody that wanted
an old grindstone for q door step could have one
for nothing. The country was full of ragged
artisans seeking work. Artisans had to take to
wedding onions and hoeing corn for aliving and
the worst of it was when the onions and corn
were ripe there was no market for them. The
only people pleased with this state of things
were the lawyers and the professors in the col
leges who had some kind of BENEVOLENT notion
that certain persons in the Fiji islands or else
where were benefited.
England scods because our wages are high.
English free-traders say that our high tariff
makes our high wages, which is true; they add
that our high wages induce immigration also
true But they say we object to immigration,
which is not true. We want immigrants if they
are not paupers The English recommend free
trade as the means of reducing immigration. No
doubt it would nave that effect.
The News says we have tciig Of 100 per
cent on some kinds of glass aud thai this tariff
was established to protect Deiopw and a few
other rich men, thus robhiug the poor for the
sake of the rich Now look al The actual fact,
which is simply this: The glass tariff was put
on for revenue only" long ago, before glass
was made here and was not for protection at
all. Moreover, the high tariff does not apply to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26
SNOW IMAGES,

It was thought we should have green
Christmas-no ice crop, no skating, no merry
bells, no heavy coal bills. The cold weather
of late December and the fierce storms and
polar waves which have swept over the north
EN- half of the United States, and even
blasted with blighting frosts the gardens of
Mobile and the orange groves of Florida, are
sufficient evidence that no one can forecast
the winter or predict the extremes of one
season by those of the preceding.
The snow and ice are not without their uses
and significance. The northern and middle
States cannot do without the pillow of the
frost, and the snow that is given like wool is
Such snow as last Saturdays not only covers
for time the vileness of city streets and
alleys, putting novels and mansions in one
color and form, wreathing the trees with
beauty and making the meanest for the time
the most beautiful but it is also robe of
protection over the earth. 1t turns the eye
toward the heaven, out Of which the miracle
comes. If it keeps the beauty within doors it
leads the mind out. 1t widens and purifes
both the external and internal view.
If you would make a man tall, says Emerson,
you must walk him under high ceiling He
must be subjected to every extreme and en-
vironment, must know the equator and the
pole, the summer and the winter alike. Only
in the middle ATTITUDES, on which the seasons
smile OF frown in their wonted time, where
the problem of food, shelter, and raiment is
kept constantly before men, are they at their
best in either body or mind. Toward the
South the land is more fruitful there even
the bees will not make honey; but toward the
arctic lines what is lost in the land appears in
the man. As you rise in altitude or latitude
you find the animal world at its strongest and
best The line of forty north or its equiva-
lent isotherm, bisects all great civilizations,
runs near all the great centers, books, battle
fields, touches the birth places of
the great among men. This law af
fects individuals as well az peoples.
The cold of winter drives to the book
and the Preside, builds the home and lights its
hoarthstone. II is the strength Of northern
races alike with the spring freshets and the
fruitful autumn Nature knows not bad sea
sons or weathers; they are human infelicities.
Whalemen make their weather and comph-
mont all seasons Their summers do not go
with tho swallows, but in the coolest winter
are in the heart.
In all northern legend and literature snow
stands tho symbol alike of virtue and purity
It is also the image of death. But it hides
the ever-appearing life under its robes It
does not aggravate the tempest, but is a de-
Tense against it. The life that survives the
snow is of the highest and intensest type, for
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the DePauw glass. 1t seems that free traders
are willing to tax cloves or coffee or anything
else where the tax does not benefit Americans,
but as soon as they discover that tariff is of
some use to our manufactures the free-traders
want that tariff abolished. DePauw is bene-
factor to this State and town. he is about to
found agricultural works in our city, and the at
tempt to excite any thing like a personal ami
mostly against him or any other manufacturer is
in bad taste and is injurious to the whole COM
munity. MARY DEAN.
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DIVORCE MALADMINIsTRATION

Inc lnaueQuacy OIL Uno SCtUuUeS regulating
the granting of divorces has been the theme
of discussion in all parts of the State from
time TO time and certain much-needed re-
forms have been effected, though they still
remain much less than they should be for the
proper protection of the marriage relation and
consequently of society. But to inefficient
laws must be added their careless and ineffec-
tual administration, an evil that would kill
the spirit of justice in the best-drawn legisla-
ton. Various courts throughout the
State have brought shame upon
the bench by the lax and we'll
nigh criminal manner in which the most
serious charges have been allowed good in the
obtaining of divorce without the formality of
Investigating their truth. A fresh instance
is at hand in this county. Not long ago
wife brought suit for divorce, plainly with the
consent and connivance of the husband. She
alleged unkind treatment and good ground
for the belief that her husband had been
guilty of adultery naming presumably
respectable and innocent woman as the
co respondent The complainant was the only
witness examined, as the husband did not APP
pear, and on her own testimony the divorce
was granted and the charge against the core
spondent was allowed to go on record as
proved. 1t has developed since that the lady
against whom the charge was uttered had no
knowledge that it had been made-was not
summoned as a witness, nor given any oppor-
tunity whatever for selfdefense from the
greatest shame and humiliation that could be
placed upon her
But the farce does not close with the first
the allegations have been sustained and grants
the decree of divorce, both parties to the suit
step out of court perfectly free respecting
new marriage alliances, and the husband,
within ten days, secures license to marry an
other woman, not mentioned in his first wife's
complaint, but to whom he had been paying
attention before the decree of divorce was
allowed Within three months this second
wife applied for divorce, and it was granted
with apparently as little investigation as pos
sible The ex-husband of two wives then i'm
mediately introduced the climax of the judi
cial and marital farce by obtaining license and
re marrying his first wife.
There is enough in this travesty of justice
to bring shame upon us all. The sacred
est ties are sundered, the soemnest
vows are lightly broken by legal process,
character is irreparably smirched without re-
course, and the rite of marriage is made a
burlesque. The law of divorce is lax enough
To facilitate the procurement of marital
enforcement by such maladministration of law
is simply to weaken the morality of society
and to bring contempt upon the State. In no
direction is there more need of radical reform
than in this, and the public should cry aloud
and spare not until better order of things
prevails.
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A Woman who Could Keep a Secret.

PhiIaueIphla hecOrd.
Miss Elizabeth Richards member of the Or
thodox Friends meeting, and native of this
city, who died at her home in Wilmington on
Monday at an advanced age, conducted a private
school in Philadelphia for twenty five years.
She then opened a school in Wilmington, where
she was engaged in her educational profession
for a continuous period of fifty -four years, retir
ing nearly five years ago The greatest secret
any one. always avoiding tho question when
asked On her hbed, q few hours before
she died. she refused to reveal the number of
years she had lived, and destroyed all evidences
of the dato of her birth. 1t is asserted by one
who was familiar with her. and who attended her
school. that she was 105 years old.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26
BUSINESS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Failure of a Detroit Private Banker and
Real Estate Dealer.

Real Estate Dealer.
DETROIT Jan. 25.-Joshua Kuhn, who has
done business in this city for the past thirty
years as private banker, money-lender, real
estate and steamship agent, has suspended pay
ment. His customers were mainly among tho
German working people, of whom great num-
bers had deposits with him. Assets are esti-
mated at 1925 1000 solid property; liabilities UNI
known, but feared to be much greater. Kuhn
always had the reputation of being wealthy, and
has handled millions He now declares he shall
sacrifice every dollar he is worth if necessary,
to meet the claims of creditors. The failure oc-
casions great surprise.
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Several Men Injured by an Explosion.

READING, Pa, Jan. PA terrific explosion
shook the borough of Ph9nixville, this morning.
wrecking large portion of the machinery in the
Western Iron Mill, and iniuring several of the
men. A piece of zinc in the mechanical pud-
ding machine caused the crash General Super
intendent Reeves, in experimenting was knocked
down and the clothing stripped from his body.
Manager Nichols and several men were slightly
huPt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26

To Judge Galbraith. in the County Court at
Erie, Pa, was presented a singular document,
duly attested and sworn before Justice Wells,
which was virtually a bill Of sale for child of
the petitioner. The father is Leroy Warner, Of
Ccuneaut township and the paper handed to the
Ter Wills, of Erie, the receipt of which he ac-
Ixnow)edgeS. he surrenders all his right, title, in
terest and Slain, now and forever, in his
daughter Mapgt.%. aged fifteen months. The
document caused a Esofound sensation in court,
and it was ignored
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26

DIR. NEwMAN's charge, New York city, is
badly divided. A portion of his congregation
would like to take afectionate farewell of their
pastor, and he got in his revenge by preaching
on 'Brotherly Love" One of the leading recall
citrants has declared that ''the trouble is not
over. We are only resting on our oars. The
next thing will be to call meeting of the
church and have its spiritual and financial con-
dition discussed in frank, Christian spirit
We will have a notice for such meeting signed
by the deacons and sent to the pulpit, and if DR..
Newman refuses to read it, there is another way
of having it announced" 1t will be interesting
to learn what his idea of "a frank, Christian
spirit is that compels things
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26
Cincinnati Failures.

CINc1NNArI, Jan. 25.-The schedule of assign
ment of Isaac Rees shows liabilities of SPA 600
The assets are not given.
The creditors of Bloch & Co., publishers, have
proposed an extension Of two years, with inter-
est. on the basis of full payment. The firm has
accepted the proposition, and the assignment
will he raised