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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-01-26
State of Louisiana.
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE PARIS H OF ORLEANS.
No. 1O,1O9.
HENRY MEYER, vs.. WIN. c. FISHER,


BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF FIERI PA
GAS to me directed by the Honorable the
Civil District Court of the Parish of Orleans
issued in the above entitled and numbered
suit and bearing the date of December 10Th
1883, have seized and token into nv posses
sion. and shall ?. oceed to sell at public sale
at auction,to the highest bidder, at the door of
the Courthouse of this Parish on
SATURDAY THE ID DAY OF
FEBRUARY, "A. D. 1884,
at the hour of II A. NJ, The following des-
elibed property, to-wit:
All and singular those certain tracts or
parcels ofland, together with the buildings and
improvements thereon and all the rights and
privileges thereto belonging, situated in the
parish of St. Charles in this State, designated
and described as follows, to-wit:
Lot four, az of section No. three. f3l in
township No. fourteen, H4J south of rappe
twenty, f2OJ east, in the southeastern district.
west of the Mississippi river, containing eleven
nl-96-l00) acres. Lot three (3,J of fractional
section No four (4Jin township No fourteen
N4) south of range twenty, (20J east, in the
southeastern DESTRUCTIVE of Mississippi river
containing forty four (44-2O 100 acres.J The
east-half of the south west quarter of section
No. 8, containing 81 2s-l0O acres. Lot No.pine
~ of the south west quarter Of section No. 3.
containing 70 acres, and the south west quar-
ter OF the south west quarter of secrlou No. (31
three,in township fourteen( l4), south of range
No, twenty 1901 east, containing 4O-73-lOO acres,
all OF which lots and portions of land together
amount to 2l2-l7-1OO acres, with the exception
Of the right of way granted by the said Wm.C
Fisher to the Morgan's Louisiana and Texas
EaSIfoaa. aaaG SSiH1.AsAir Company.
Seized to pay and satisfy plaintiffs
claim for the sum of $4,000 with interest
thereon al. s per cent, per annum from May
II, 1882. 10 per cent, attorneys fees and al
costs of these proceedings.
TERMs-CASH ontthe spot.
f. 7. BAUDOUIN,
Sheriff Of the Parish of St. Charles.
Sherif's office, December 26, 1883.
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q $95, 90
Stssfe SENATE and Representative, 1900
13Rsslee Judge and Attorney 1900
PaFlat Oiisceia, l0'10
W s,s Viucers 500
A.1u when properly announced the columns
~ tits pepper are ut theneryiee ST friends WHO
people for election.
yna column one year $4,000
One-nalf column one wear I'D. 00
One quarter column one, wear $500
Small Cards one year 1900
advertisements saMd Subscriptions are
CoiIecsahle invariably In Advance.
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T. 4. BAUDOUIN,
Sheriff of the Parish of st. Charles
on THIRTY DAY TRIAI,.

THE VoLTAIc BFLr Co., Marshall, Mich. will
send DR.. Dyes CeleblatedElectro-Vo ltaic Belts
and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days
to men Iyoung or oldl who are afflicted with
nervous debility, lost vitality aud kindred
troubles, guaranteeing speedy aud complete
restoration of health and manly vigor Ad-
dress as above-N. B.-No risk is incurred as
thirty davs' trial is allowed
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-01-26

Kendall's SPAWN Cure, for sale at
this Office. One trial is sufficient;
use it onces aud you will not be
without it Afterwards
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-01-26

DR.. Casper recommends KendalPs Spawn
Cure in the highest terms, and thousands OF
eminent physicians do the same. See adv't.
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KTNHIS PAPER may be found on file at Geo,
a kVwell a. tOs Newspaper Advertising
Bureau 10 Spruce ST. wherc advertising con.
tracts may be made for il In m E4Vs DIRK. 8
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a CALL TO The PRE- S AssoC CITATION
OF LOUISIANA.

/ deem it proper, at this time, to remind DO
4 brotherhood that the next ocular meeting
i will be held at New Orleans. on Martli GiaAl
eve, February %, prox
n In view ofthe fact tbatthe meeting will take
Il place during the session OF Congress and that
the General Assembly will hold its regulai
session in May; also, that the prandest indus
trin enterprise ever undertaken in Louisiana
tie Worlds Cotton Centennial Exposition
will bt opepedin NewCrleans, Deeember,ne
it is obvious that the Association viii have
in its power, by an intelligent concert OF action
to materially advance the interest of the Press
at the same time that its great power is con
centrated to assist the nascent enterprise O
the people Of Louisiana, who have giowp cage
to keep pace with that progressive spirit OF III
age, which is bringing TO 80 many states 9
: the Union, Il degree OF grandeur and prosperit
unex,tmpied in the worlds history.
l trust that the members, approaching tn
opportunities and the demands of the situatlo
? l have but briefly traced, will al attend, an
that they will urge those Of tie tratcGnity nc
tfle rolls Of the Association, to ION &c
this next meeting; to the end that the entire |
press Of our State may exc its whole power, |
when it can be so advantage0usy applied. as
much in its own behalf as In the advancement |
of the material interests of its patrons
In pursuance of its object to encourage let I
tiers and literature, the Association will award /
a premium for the following, produced in
to-wlt: Fifty dollars Tor the iirst |
poem Fifty dollars for the best prose compo-
sition. Fifty dollars for the best essay on the !
agricultural and industrial resources of the |
state.
The above must be delivered to Page H. |
Baker, Esq, 1'imes-Democrat, New Orleans,
OH Or before the %, February 1884.
| would. also request those members Of the |
Association having reports to sublnit, or sag
gestions to offer, to draft the same in due form
before the day of meeting.
Following ARE the names of the members of
the EXECUTIVE Committee, to whom re en-
trusted til arrangements for the meeting viz:
AIessrs. w. A. Bryan, of the Iberville south,
Page NJ. Baker, N. o. Times-Democra,: Mrs.
NJ. X. Field, n .. Picayune; M. f. BigAey, |
N. O. City Item J. Y. Gilmore, New beria
Sugar Bowl.
The newspaper throughtout the Stale arc
requested to reproduce this call
in their columns.
Very respectfully, etc.,
LEON JAoTREMSKI,
President Press Association of Louisiana.
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DISTRICT CONVENTION.

Pursuant to call the Goth Judi.
cial District and 7th Senatorial
District Committee assembled at
the rooms of the State Central Re
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Posi-. OFFICE NOTICE.


Another change has taken place
in he arrival aud departure of the
mails; the Texas through trains car
rying the mails.
Trains pass HaLnville station, as
follows:
MAIL.
Going East at $40, a, NJ,
Going West at l;4G p. IN.
Nail closes going East at 6:30p m.
:" g West at loo pm.
LOCAL.
Going west, at 9:20, A. M.
Going east, at 5:55. P. NJ.
Stage leaves at 5 80, a. IN.
Post office opens at 8 a. IN. and
closes at 5 y. ~, until further notice,
No mail delivered on Sundays.
JOSEPH w. CAREw,
Postmaster.
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FOR RENT.

Aboutsixty arpents of land. suitable for rice
and gardening, with buildings, stock and
implements all first class.
Apply to p. HARPER.
Lufing, Post Charles Parish Ia
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-01-26

The following is correct report
of the expenditures Of the School
Board tor the maintenance of the
public schools of this parish, during
tfa ,,asf x-aar.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Transient adyertleeinents s tper squares ilrst
cents per inch.
Anr.st,,,s4ssf = ~. i; n !, -. ~ "a -.
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SATURDAY, JAN 2es 1884.
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Gov. Orlway, of Dakota, has in
formed Commissioner General More
head that Dakota will make an ex.
hibit other mineral and agricultural
resources at the Cotton Exposition,
and he could safely say its exhibit
of natural curiosities, such as petri
fed woods and bores of mammoth
prehistoric animals, would be OF
marvellous interest.-TChronicle.
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PECAN AND OR .NGE FREES
WANTED.

Our subscribers failing to receive
their papers regularly, Will confer a
favor by informing us of the fact.
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Making d total Of. " .S2146

Making 4 total Of. Z. .$2146, As
Which, / thilk, will emble the
Board to open the schools for term
Of five months during the present
year. st
t. II. BAUDOUIN.
Parish Superintendent
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-01-26

OUR ADyERTlsnNG RATES
are Very MOncKntes Htpd FOR Prices
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-01-26

Mr.. White our old friend and
assistant, is quite i'll We regret to
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-01-26

There is now in the School
TreasRry.. 1916, As
to which may be.added
taxes to be collected and
paid in, say about 81. 10000
We are entitled to three
apportionments from
the State for 1888, which
should give the sum IF 10000
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say.
The drugstore of Ulrich Rostrup,
deceased, was rented by MI. John
Frey for 1920. A good price.
The poStotfice is removed to the
''Railroad Exchange" on the corner
Of Fourth and Copernicus Avenue.
-sg(5retna Courier.
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Established, February 18th, 1878
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JOSEPH W. CARE ",
EDIroR AND PuBLfsIEE.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,

SO 90 A YEAR.
a Months, w1.U0 Is Months, SOC.
On Trial 8 weeks. 25c.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

prohibiting the encl osure of any public
land when the person or corporation
making the enclosure has no claim or color
of title to the land, and makes it lawful for
any person to tear down or demolish any
such enclosure when it includes more than
$50 acres.
8 The 18th of June was set apart for con-
sideration of the Electoral Count Bill. An
other vote was taken on an unimportant
question, and there being no quorum, the
House adjourned.
In the House on June 9th the Committee
on Public Lands reported on the charges of
corruption, or collision, in regard to the
selection of a site for public building at
Brooklyn, n. Y, which dismisses the
charges for lack of proof to sustain them.
The report was recommitted, with instruc-
tiOns to hold another investigation with
open doors
The Oregon Central Land Grant Forfeit
ure Bill was taken up and passed. Yeas 138,
nays 20.
Senate amendments were nou-concurred
in to the bill establishing Bureau of LABOR
Statistics.
Senate amendments were concurred in to
the Joint resolution making an additional
appropriation for the relief of the sufferers
in Louisiana from the overflow of the Miss
issippi.
A bill was passed amending the act to ex-
clude the public lands in Alabama from the
operation of the laws relating to mineral
lands. The provisions of the bill were ex-
tended to the State of Louisiana, Florida
and Arkansas.
No quorum being present on the next
vote, the House adjourned.
In the House on June 5th the Senate bill
passed authorizing the Mayor and City
Council of Nashville to construct free
bridge across the Cumberland River.
On motion of Mr. Peters, of Kansas, the
Senate bill passed authorizing the construc-
ton of a bridge across the Missouri River at
Leavenworth, Kansas.
The California and Oregon Land Grant
Forfeiture bill was next taken up and pass
ed.
June 14th and 18th were set apart for con-
sideration of the bill to amendt the Thurman
Sinking Fund act.
The House then adjourned.
The House Committee on Public Lands
have agreed to report the bill providing for
the forfeiture of So, 900 acres of land imme-
diately north of Sioux City, Iowa, which is
claimed by the Sioux City & st. Paul Rail
road Company.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12
cRIMEs And CAsuA1r1Es.

Albert White was shot and instantly kill
ed by A. Z. Hyde. The trouble being that
both loved the same young lady.
In the Criminal Court at Washington,
Judge Wylie reduced to $20,0 900 the bail of
Colonel Burnside, the defaulting disburs-
ing clerk of the Post-office department.
At Iowa City, John Niger killed himself
with a revolver on the sidewalk, in pres
ence of his brother-in-law and sister, be-
cause of being crippled for life by fall.
On farm near Aurora, Illinois, NJ. O.
Fletcher killed Otto Hope and seriously
wounded one of his employees. The tragedy
arose from dispute about pasturing COWS
on the roadway
The police of Milwaukee have bagged a
couple calling themselves Edward and Ella
Buxton, who have been swindling grocers
with worthless checks. They carried masks
and burglars tools, and had pawn tickets
for valuables.
Unknown men entered the residence of
the widow of Senator Truck, at Osborne.
mitted criminal assault upon her. A large
party of citizens are securing the country
in search of the villains.
J. Stanton, steamboat engineer of ST.
Louis, threw a goblet full of sulphuric acid
over his wife as she lay in bed infiicting
injuries that will kill her. Her eyes We're
eaten out, and she was terribly burned Oh
the face, back, breast AMI shoulders.
Gen. o. E. Baboock, Engineer of the Fifth
Light house District, Levi D. Lucky, his
Chief Clerk, ormerly Assistant Private Sec
rotary of President Grant, and Benz. Suter,
of Washington, were drowned in Mosquito
Inlet off the coast of Florida, while super
intending the work on the lighthouse be-
inc erected at tn 9t OO;Ot
At Detroit, Mrs. Laura Schulz was found
in her night-dress on the sidewalk in Vim
CHIMES avenue, with her throat cut, but still
living. Her husband was detained for two
hours, and released for lack OF evidence
against him. She soon recovered conscious
ness, and held along private interview with
her husband, showing that the case was one
of atte mpted suicide on account of family
troubles
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
MISCELLANEOUS.


Waterspouts in Texas did great damage
to stock and lands.
The reduction of the public debt for May
is estimated at 81, GOO, 900.
A confagration at Paducah, KY, destroy
ed $4,000 worth of property.
Reports from the overlooked districts of
Mississippi indicate good crop prospects.
The annual statement of the Nickel Plate
road shows a deficiency of $938, 600 in meet
ing its fixed charges.
The banking house of D. W. Middleton &
Co., of Washington, D. c., has failed. Liza
bilities and assets unknown.
Fifteen hundred coal miners in the Mo
nongahela district decided to strike against
a quarter Of cent reduction.
MD. Shay, wholesale dealer in boots and
shoes, Cleveland. Ohio, failed with iabiG-
ties of $4,000, and assets $4,000.
Gilbert G. Wright, an attorney of Dallas,
Texas, has been indicted on a charge of
completely in the cotton swindles.
Articles of incorporation of the Kansas
City, Arkansas & Fort Smith Railway COM
pany have been filed at Little Rock.
III Witter, of st. Louis, has been
elected President of the International Typ
ographical Union, now in session at New
Orleans.
James Coward, the last victim of the pis-
toll practice of Began Cash in South Caro-
lima, died after suffering greatly for three
months.
The Governors of Missouri and Kentucky
propose to look into the matter of legal
fees exacted by officers arresting fugitives
from justice.
The furniture factory of c. G. Holton, on
Wabash avenue, near Van Buren, street,
Chicago, was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire.
Neal McKeague, who was recently &C
quilted of murder in a Chicago court, reap
peared in Winnetka, and received hearty
greetings from his acquaintance.
About five hundred employees OF the Wa
bash road at Peru, Ind, struck, but prom
ised to resume on a guarantee that their
wages will be paid within week.
Right of way is being purchased for a
railroad from Belvidere to Peru, Ill, eighty
five miles. Sixteen thousand acres of coal
land has been secured on the Illinois river,
six miles west of Peru.
The Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad
has appointed receiver. The cause is the
operating of a number Of branches, which
UuOy nave OOAC az a 1885, A4AO OO1ANOO NOUC
of the road is $50, 900, 900.
A license has been secured at Springfield
to organize the Peoples HOrse-Car Railway
company at Chicago, with capital stock of
100000, to lay track to haywood from the
city limits of Chicago on Lake street.
The failure is announced of R. H. Fore
stall & Co., of Philadelphia, jobbers in
paper. with liabilities of $500 1t is IN
derstood that the creditors will accept sixty
per cent. of their CLAIMS in promissory notes.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
road Company have given the required
three months notice of withdrawal from
the Transcontinental Railroad Association,
which pools all business west of the Mis-
souri, river.
General o. E. Babcock was appointed to
West Point by Mr.. Sabin, then Congress
man from Vermont, now a resident of
Sycamore, Illinois, and in his 91st year.
For many years the General has sent Mr..
Sabin Christmas present of 500.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

A SIGN painting fend while defacing
a fine ledge of rocks, known as the Pail
sades, fell fifty feet and broke his neck.
The people in the neighborhood were so
tickled over it that they Clipped in and
gave him dandy funeral. The old cur
mudgeon who sold him the privilege for
$50 cash attempted to resell for another
$50, but one of the dead mans friends
but not friend until after he was dead
took out administration papers and
seized the contract, which holds for ten
years, at SO year. The other neigh
bors whose taste is offended by the "be-
fore and after taking" pictures agree to
share the expense, confidently hoping
the owner of the property may die be-
fore the lease expires.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12
Po1Ir1CAL AND PERSONAL.

The Democratic State Convention of Ala
bama renominated all the present State of
fcers by acclamation.
Delegates to the Georgia State Conven-
ton are all known to he for TiIden. Three
fOurths of the counties so instructed.
Montana Democrats have elected dele
gates to the National Convention favorable
to the nomination of Tilden and Hendricks.
Hon. James Buchanan of Indianapolis,
predicts fusion of GreenbacBers and Re
pubicans in Missouri for the approaching
campaign.
Everything points to Republican Victo-
nv in Oregon. The candidate for Congress
has majority of $500 while the Republic
ans have majority of IA on joint ballot.
Geo. o. Jones of New York has issued a
circular to Greenbackers, urging them not
to vote for Butler for President unless he
squarely Endorses the platform of the party.
Miss Emma Bond, whose name became
known throughout the country by terrible
treatment at the hands of unconvicted vii
lains, is rapidly regaining her health at Pal
myra, Wis.
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker Vice President of
tho Adams ExpresslCOmpany, died at Old
Point Comfort. Of late years he has enter
tanned himself by raising thoroughbred cat
tie in Maryland, and owned the finest herd
of Jerseys in the United States.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12


A fire in Liverpool destroyed three thou
sand bales of cotton in Zerega's warehouse.
The aquarium in Bishops Gate, London,
with several lions and bears, was also
burned.
The Parliament of Great Britain reassem-
bled few days ago. The matter of COM
munlca1on with the United States Govern
ment in reference to dynamite outrages
was brought up.
The Manitoba Legislature passed to third
reading a resolution rejecting the terms of
settlement offered by the Federal Govern
ment. The Governor entered the House
and prorOgued the Legislature.
An attempt was made to blow up the
Scotland Yard detective Office in London,
but it was unsuccessful. The damage done
was slight because of the failure of eighteen
packages of the dynamite to ignite. 1t is
is said that the perpetrators of the outrage
have been arrested.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

JUDGE STORY told of Chief Justice Mar
shall that one morning while doing the
marketing he came across a young Vir-
ginia blood who was swearing loudly be-
cause he could hire no one to take home
his turkey. Marshall stepped up and,
ascertaining of him where he lived, re-
piled: "That is in my way, and will
take it for you" When he arrived at
his dwelling the young man inquired,
'What shall pay your" "Oh, nothing, !"
was the rejoinder; "you are welcome it
was on my way, and no trouble" "Who
is that polite old gentleman who brought
home my turkey for me?" inquired the
other of bystander, as Marshall stepped
away. THAT" replied he, 'is John Mar
shall, Chief Justice of the United States
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

ABECHAM LIVINGSTON SAWYER, of Cedar
Keys, Florida, is % years old, 403 inches
high, weighs SO pounds, and is said to
eat more than any full-grown man. The
midget was born and reared in Key
West. He is built in perfect proportion,
is very bright, and can make an elegant
speech, and has clear, high voice, which
sounds like a child's. He was at one
time reporter on the Key West Demo-
crat. At present he is clerking in a
grocery store. He has a sister who is
just quarter of an inch taller than he
is, and is just II years old.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

The Chinese claim to have known how
to make casks and hollow woodenware
for thousands of years. They labored,
however, under this disadvantage: They
did not know how to give the final touch
by which the lid is fastened in, the only
method that struck them as feasible be-
ing to place a boy inside while the
cooper frightened the hoops and secured
the lid in its position. But how was the
boy to be got out2 This remained an un-
solved problem for 5000 years.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

WYATT HARE, who died recently at
Nelson, Va, never bought a match. A
fire, either open or banked, was kept up
continually on the hearth. In this he
trod in the footsteps of his father, and
and the fire upon that one hearth was a
continuous fire for more than 100 years.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

A VERBATIM report of a portion of a
lecture delivered by Colonel Robert G
Ingersoll in Philadelphia recently, has
been submitted to eminent lawyers of
that city for an opinion whether he can
be prosecuted therefor under the law
against blasphemy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12

MAJOR BURKE, Director General of the
Worlds Centennial Cotton Exposition,
to begin at New Orleans, December LIST,
has proposed to appropriate $4,000 for
the purpose of allowing the colored race
an opportunity of exhibiting what they
can do in the arts, manufactures and
other industries. The managers have at
once made the appropriation as suggested.