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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
sth WARD.
Lucien Tangly-from Fruge's bridge to Jesse
Young.

iucleH I.aHSiJ-Ifokn FfuSeS bPlu3c TO Jesse
Young.
9th. WARD.
r. L. Harmun-from upper Corner OF PeltOn's
pasture to Hayes bridge.
Henry Clark-frOm Webb's bridge to Rayne
Station.
Mr.. Haas notified the Police Jury, that at its
next meeting, he will ask in behalf of the resi-
dents of Beaver Creek and vicinity, in the 9Th
Police jury Ward, to have another Magistrate
Ward established in their section; that the fail
llre Of their petition to that effect, to reach this
body Tor tnls meeting, causes the postponoment
10 act.
ON motion the following appropriations were
made:
FOrbridges on road from Grand Coteau
TO CarencrO, tOrty-tve Dollars. ...S As 90
For brids es on road from Grand CO.
teau to Bellevue, FOrty-tive Dollars As 90
10 repair the bridge at Urban La
yergne, one Hundred Dollars. .--....-.. 100 90
and Messrs. G. Peck, Emare Savoie and
Barry Andrits, were appointed q COM
nittee to sch the contract to repair said
bridge.
ON motion, the Police Jury adjourned until
Tuesday, April 18th, at ii. III.
ALBERT GUIDRY,
President.
Attest:
T. j. LEFEBrRE, Clerk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
JUDTCRAL ADTEETEsEMENTs.
NDUBLTC SALE.
ESTATE OF JOHN OUTLET
No. s49l, PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT
COURT, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY.

BY virtue of an order of the Honorable the
District Court in and for the parish of St. Ian
dry, there will be sold at public auction, to the
last and highest bidder, by the undersigned
ADMINISTRATORS or duly qualified auctiOneer
WEDNESDAY, April 3Oth, 1884, at the
parish of st. Landry, the following described
property belonging to the estate of John
Outlet, deceased, tO-wit
A certain tract or parcel of land with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated
in said parish of ST. Landry, being fractional
section thirty-six in township five south Of
runge four east in the district of lunds subject
to sale at Opel0usas, as per patent certificate
No. 4479, dated at the city of Washington,
March 9th, 1847, containing two hundred and
three and 1OIl0O acres purchased by Henry Otis
Ter5ell from Cyrille D0ucet in whose namc
said certificate is issued, as per private act
dated December 2Sth and recorded in Record
er's office in and for St. Landry, Book II" page
Sth, on 4th OF May, 1897.
Terms-Cash.
MARY JANE OUTLET.
ELIZABETH i. MCKINNEY,
inch 29-5t Joint ADMINISTRATORS.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
nj Office OF TABLEAU.
! THOMAS MCCARTHY VS.. HIS CREDITORS.

No 13026.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. LANDRY
Whereas, Dominique Lalanne, syndic, has
filed tableau of distribution of the
estate of Thomas McCarty, insolvent, aecompa-
MED by his petition praying for the homologa-
ton of same,
And, whereas, the prayer Of said petition has
been granted by an order of Court bearing date
April 18th, 1884.
Now, therefore notice is hereby given to all
persons interested to make opposition to said
tableau i'll writing in my office, in the town of
Opelousas, within the time required by law,
why the said tableau should not be homolOga-
ted and confirmed.
JAMES o. CHACHERE,
april 19-2t Clerk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

The Oakland Saw Mill at Washington
La, has been purchased by a Mr.. Jents
from Texas, and torn down and re-
built, and reftted with new and i'm
proved machinery.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

There has been no rain this week, but
the weather has been very cold, APP
preaching almost the frost point, and
vegetation has been at stand-still
Crops are very backward.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

Mr.. Geo. G. Pulford started his new
planning machine last Monday. 1t
worked satisfactorily. 1t is run by a
geyen-horse power engine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

Peace Lodge, K. of p, of Lake
Charles, has our thanks for an invita-
ton to attend their ball.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

Messrs. w. II. Anderson and Arthur ST.
mon were elected justices of the peace
in this ward, and A. Giron and j. B.
Zachary constables.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

DR.. A. j. Bercier is having a residence
built at the extremity of Court street
Mr. Geo. c. Pulford is bossiDg she job.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26


selemnly swear that have paid the full
amount of The vouchers. as per this exhibit, i'll
money. or have received the same III the pay
ment OF Parish dues and that have not spec
uated thereon myself nor been directly or in
directly in any speculation that may have been
made iii their requisltiOn.
MM. A. ROBERTSON,
Parish Treasurer.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

New Honey for sale. Apply to John
Blenderman at this office.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

McSsrs. DuhuissOn, Perrodin and Haas, hav-
ing been appointed Il committee On claims, re-
ported through their chairman, Mr.. DubnssOn,
that they had examined and found correct the
following claims filed against the parish viz:
c e DuSOn. general crim'l fees ........$ $40 so
:. carrying prisoners to +. r.. 1913 As
Attendance on Court. :i65 90
j o ChacherG clerks fee hill &c....-..... 1873 70
stationery ..-.........-.... 10 90
F F Perr0din. criminal fees $685..
less a credit of l25...-... 507 co
: fee i'll railroad case. -......-. $50 90
st Landry Democrat, extra printing and
blanks. IA 90
OpelOusas Courier, advertising . So 40
Joseph Bloch, sundries for prisoners. IS 81
Victor LaStrapeS, repairing TOOLS &c..-- 8 10
Edgar MoutOn, Sheriffs fees, Lafayette
parish 90
Mount Pleasant Mill. lumber .. 203 65
Sam Haas, lumber spikes tSc.,...--. So %
Whitw0rth g. Co. lumber 48 90
William Chappelle, lumber. .....-....- 80 90
l.. N. Chachere, hanling ..-...-. 80 Is
Jean DOmec, building bridge. 20 90
J Meyers IL Co, . plCWs broken ON road. 2 90
st Armand pillow broken on road. 1890 2 so
Milton Bennett spade so
Dr. W. NJ. Thompson, Coroner's fees...--. 40 90
DR.. Young, - Is 90
Juror on inquest transf'd Ii 90
Meyers IL Co . 90
JOS Bloch :. 10 90
Sam Haas 90
On motion the police jury adjourned until the
I'd Monday in June, being the 9th of that
month. ALBERT GUIDRY
Attest P. j. LEEEBTRE, President.
Clerk apI 10
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

EXPENDITURES.
BY amount of parish warrants paid
which were counted, examined
and cancelled by the police jury,
az per resolutions of l4th Of May '33 1890 81
BY amount Of parish warrants paid
which We're counted, examined
and cancelled by the Police Jury,
as per resolution of 18th OF Noyem
Der, 1888 ............-.-... 1856 81
BY amount uf parish warrants paid
which we've counted. examined
and canoe led Ivy thepolice jury,
as per resO utiOn OF 22d January,
BY amount OF parish warrants paid
which were counted. examined
and cancelled by the police jury,
as per resolution OF Feby 11th 1884 1O418 "a
BY amount OF parish warrants paid
which were counted, examined
and cancelled by The police jury,
as per resolution of April 18th 1884 6442 80
Total disbursement 1882 40
1884.
April 2. By balance on hand. ..-..... IS 81
$34,325 81
/ certify that the above statement is true
and correct transcript OF the parish books.
". A. ROBERTSON,
Treasurer.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
NOTICE.

a LII Persons passing through, or otherwise
"A trespassing on my plantations the Vannoy
and Hayes, will be prosecuted tothe fuil extent
of the law. LEOPOLD GOUDCHAUX.
Big Cane, La, April Sth, 1884. apl 22-n
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
THE ELECTION.

The election in this parish last Tues
day, passed off quietly, as usual. The
entire local Democratic ticaet was elect
ed, except Mr.. Wharton for the legisla-
ture-Mr. Aurel Arnaud being elected
in his place. The amendments We're
only partially voted for, and were de-
feated by over three thousand majority.
The few votes cast for them were by
the Republicans; the Democrats voted
against them en- maSse. The following
is the vote as accurately as we can give
it this week:
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
ESTATES OF JOHN HARRISON
and Susan Smith both deceased.

No 4514
PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT COURT.
PARISH OF ST, LANDRY.
Whereas Isaac Harrison of the par
sh of st. Landry, has applied by
his petition to be appointed administrator OF
the Estates OF John Harrison and Slisan Smith
deceased, late of the parish of st. Landry.
Therefore, any person intending TO make Op~
position to said appointment, will file the same
in writing i'll my office III the town of Opelou-
sas, within ten days from the present notice.
JAMES o. EIIACHERE,
april 19-2t Clerk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

nTIF2N Send to Chicago, ILL.,, for sample 4
IMAM II RHCAN BEE D OURNA09
= Monthly, q o year. Weekly, ".
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th
day of April, 1884.
Clerk 18th Judicial Dist. of Louisiana.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-26
PUBLIC SALE!

win proceed to sell at public ancton, to the
highest bidder at the Courthouse door in the
town of Opel0usas, on
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-13
Oddities of Paris Horse Cars.

An amusing feature of Paris to for
eigner is the horse cars. The appearance
of the car driver and the conductor would
almost assure one that they had been i'm
ported from America; but certain rules
to be observed in running the cars very
quickly remind him that he is in France.
The cars are allowed to carry only a GER
tain number of passengers-ten standing
on the front platform, ten on the rear
platform, and as many in the car as are
allowed to have seats. Those inside pay
fifty centimes ten cents, and those out
side twenty-five confines. When car
has its complement the gates are shut, a
sign is hung out reading "camplet, "
and no one can enter. During the busy
time of the day, between and 6 O'clock,
when crowds are waiting for a car, it is
necessary to apply at the Office for a
numbered ticket.
For instance, say YOU applied and re-
ceived No. 21. You wait for a car, and
the driver, when ready, commences to
call une, deuy, trois and SO on until he
reaches your number, when you must be
ready to enter; if not you must pro-
cure another ticket and wait your
turn again. This system has its advan-
tages as we'll as its disadvantages, and
the French think it great thing; but
the amusing part of it to foreigners is
the calling of the numbers, and, unless
one is pretty well up in French, he is
very apt to get left and has to go and
get another.
Instead of ringing bell like our con-
ductor they use a kind of horn, which is
attached to the dashboard and blown by
a rubber ball which the driver presses.
The sound, which is not unlike that of a
COW horn, can be heard distinctly for a
block 1t is not Objectionable unless the
instrument happens to be out of order
and then it is very unmusical. The cars
are a great convenience, and are very
literally patronized. One secs in them
the economy of the French people as a
class, very finely dressed ladies standing
ON the platform to save five cents. Econ
omy is observable everywhere in France
and there is much truth in the aphorsm
that "the people could live on what the
Americans waste. - Chicago Tribune.
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Blood Food For Animals.

The use of blood as a food for cattle
has been recently the subject of expert
ment in Denmark by chemist named
Sofus Owe Cjer, of Ribe, who as a result
has invented and patented new kind Of
cake, in which blood forms one of the
chief ingredients. This new food is
stated to be exceedingly nutritious and
wholesome, and eaten with avidity by all
sorts of animals, and even by COWS and
horses, which have naturally a strong
dislike to the smell of blood. The com
position and process of manufacture are
as follows: The blood is first deprived
of its fabrine, to effect which immedi-
ateiy it issues from the slaughtered ami
nal 1t is treated in an apparatus like a
churn, and subjected to agitation and
cooling. 70 each 100 pounds of blood
so treated, the albumcn of about twenty
five pounds of blood is added. This
quantity of bloc compound, or more if
it will be taken up, is then mixed with
fifty pounds of meal, fifty pounds of straw
or hay, two pounds of crushed linseed,
two pounds of the finest bone meal, and
one pound of salt, the whole being knead-
ed together and made into a dough,
which is divided intO cakes and baked in
an oven, the heat of which must be but
slightly above 212 degrees, because the
albuminouS parts lose their nutritious
value at higher temperatures. The straw
or hay serves to make up bulk and to
give the required lightness and porosity,
us no fermenting material is used, lest tie
bread should not keep so well. Chicago
Times
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WISE WORDS.

A man can do what he ought to do
when he says he cannot he will not.
When the works of the wise are free
from faults, the fool attacks the authors
person.
We find ourselves less witty in remem-
boring what we have said than in dream
ing of what we might have said.
He whose first emotion on the view of
an excellent production is to undervalue
it, will never have one of his own to
show.
If you would be pungent be brief, for
it is with words as with sunbeams, the
more they are condensed the deeper they
burn.
There are moments when petty sights
are harder to bear than even a serious in
jury. Men have died of the fostering of
gnat bite.
Stupidity has its sublime as well as
genius, and he who carries that quality
t. absurdity has reached it, which is
al ways a source of pleasure to sensible
people,
The man who puts chains upon an
others limbs is only one shade worse
than he who puts letters on anothers
free thoughts and on another's free con-
science.
All death in nature is birth; at the
moment Of death appears visible the ris-
ing life. Death and birth is simply the
circling of life in itself in order to pre-
sent itself ever more brightly and more
like to itself.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-13
A Remarkable Operation,

Skiing grating has for some time been
successfully practiced by surgeons for
the purpose of ccatrizing unsightly
wounds, but the ansplantation of flesh
is new device in the healing art which
DR.. George E. Shrady, of the Presbyte-
rian hospital in New York has adopted
with signal skill. Bertha Kistler, twenty
years of age, was the subject, and the
operation involved the reconstruction Of
nearly her entire face There was a large
hole in the cheek and the nose and
mouth were frightfully distorted
when the doctor took hold of
the case, and years treatment and
twenty different operations were required
to make the girl new face, as it were.
The most important step IN the treat
ment of the case was the filing up of the
hole in the face. For this purpose
large skin flap was wanted. 1t was OBJ
tanned by DR.. Shrady in the following
manner
A rectangular section of skin was par
TALLY separated fIom the girls left arm
above the elbow. An incision was made
in the left side of the forefinger of the
right hand, extending from the first Joint
around to the thumb. The hand was
then brought over to the left arm. and
the detached edge of the skin flap was
scwed into the incision in the finger with
fine silver wire. The hand and arm were
kept immovablc by plastic bandages.
In about a week the skin flap became
united to the hand, but the flap was
principally nouriShed from the arm. To
change the current of nutrition the flap
when it had been nearly severed the fin
ger, and not the arm, kept the skin flap
alive. When this became apparent the
entire skin flap was amputated from the
arm. The hand, with the ingrown flap,
was then brought up to the face, the
SCARED skin on the left cheek was raised
and the flap was inserted underneath.
The hand was kept in position by plastic
bandages and plastic cap. In three
weeks the flap became attached to the
face; the current of nourishment was
changed by gradual amputation from
the finger, and finally, when entirely sep
arated from the hand, the skin flap taken
from the arm became the foundation of
a new check. To restore the mouth DR..
Shrady decided to enlarge it on one side
and sew it up on the other, and after
this was done the lips were cut into the
true and proper shape and all traces Of
distortion had disappeared.
There is now only slight Disagreement
of the face. From the first moment of
her long mArtyrdom the girl has not fall
tered for an instant, but has even been
impatient for the next step. Sometimes
the doctor would try to persuade her to
forego for time the operation, but she
/ persisted in her desire. A singular feat
ure Of the case is, that Notwithstanding
the suffering she must have experienced,
she has grown very fat. She has been
constantly the recipient of flowers. wines
and deicacies of various kinds from peo-
pie who, though strangers to her, have
become interested in her singular and
remarkable patience. The gratitude she
evinces toward DR.. Shrady is immeasur-
| able.
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A Cremation I'm India.

A Calcutta letter to the Omaha Herald
thus describes the cremation of Keshub
Chunder Sen: 1t was 1 o'clock in the
afternoon when the company of apostles
and mourners arranged themselves in
order, took up the flowery bedstcad with
its precious burden and started for the
cremation ghaut in Nimtollah, a suburb
to the north, on the banks of the
Hooghly. Many hundreds of grief
stricken people followed, their eyes
downcast, their feet without shoes, and
their hair disheveled. There was much
difficulty at the outset to preserve order
and to form line, as each was eager
to have a glimpse of the benignant smile
which sill played upon that beautiful
face, though cold in death The house
tops were full of gazing men and
women, who frequently took up chorus
in piteous lament. Europeans, Moham-
medans and Hindus all conspired to
render homage to the dead leader Of the
new dispensation.
1t was just dusk as the earthly remains
and the fowery cot on which they re-
posed were laid upon a pile of sandal
wood. The hand rested upon the heart,
ONNS'N'N tiO N4hNp'iiS S'AOSO' as lhO pOtJ
lay upon the pyre, the vast assemblage
shouted: Gas the true, the intelligent
the infinite, and the blissful, lie mani
tests himself, He is the peaceful and
merciful God. He is one without
second. He is holy and sinless,"
The chief mourner, Karuna Chunder
Sen, the eldest son Of the deceased, then
took torch in his right hand and APP
piled it to the pyre, saying: "In the
name of God Iapply this holy fire to the
last remains of the deceased. The NOR
tai shall burn away and perish, but the
immortal shall live. Oh, Lord, the de-
parted soul is rejoicing in Thee, in Thy
blissful abode" AS the body began to
burn, the multitude again chanted Kes-
hubs favorite anthem: GLORY be unto
the Redeemer, who is truth, wisdom, and
joy" The cremation lasted about five
hours, and at a quarter past II o'clock
the ashes were collected in an urn, and
brought back to the Lily cottage by the
chief mourners and apostles of the new
dispensation. A universal feeling of sor-
row hangs over India.
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The Inner Man.

The stoic's fare-the radish and the
egg.
Henry ~, of France, INDUCED largely
in oysters.
In England people eat to live; in
France they live to eat.
Bismarck's steady drink is a mixture
Of London porter and champagne.
Pope Plus VII, when prisoner at Fon-
tainbleau found solace in cultivating cab
bages.
The Emperor Frederick, of Germany
and MAMMALIAN H., were Unfortunately
fond of melons.
Wordsworth, the poet, had lost the
sense of smell-roscs and onions were all
the same to him.
The Tartars pull man by the ear to
press him to drink. In this country
treatment so severe is unnecessary.
Charles XII, of Sweden, was an alb
stemious eater, and preferred, above all
attractions of the banquet, plain bread
and butter.
Napoleon, like Voltaire, was excessive
ly fond of coffee, as Boswell informs us
the great photographer was of Mrs
Thralle's cups of tea,
When plucked from the vine, we call
the fruit grapes, when dried, raisins,
when in pudding plums, while the
juice we extract from them becomes wine
The fourth earl of Sandwich was the
inventor of the popular food known as
the sandwich-without supply of which
no picnic party can be made a success.
When an English traveller expressed
his surprise and DISGUST at some Arabs
eating insects, the men retorted that it
was poor atfectation in a person who
would swallow raw oysters.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-13
A Homeless Wandprer

Orrin A. Carpenter, whose long trial
for the murder of Fora Burns, his house
keeper, will be remembered, is now a
homeless wanderer. lie is the first man
ever banished from Illinois, and he left
his native town of Lincoln because it was
impossible for him to live there. No one
would speak with him, no one would do
business with his firm; his wife and
daughters are treated in the same way.
Despite his acquital, there are few peo-
pie in Lincoln who believe Carpenter in
nocent, and when the result of his trial
was announced a mass meeting of the
citizens of the town was called to take
action in the matter. AS result of the
convention, petition was signed by fully
1000 men, asking Carpenter to leave Lo-
gan county Immediately. This was
served on him at his residence by a com
mittee Of seventyfve signers, and it had
the desired effect. Mr.. Carpenter sold
his property and business and left, but
whittier he took his family no one
knows.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-13

The latest fashionable disease in Eng
land is species of asthma, caused by
the smell OF a horse. The Duchess of
Argyll and son of the Marquis of Sails
bury are among its victims The fash
ionable doctor has written it can only
be cured hom9pathically by sleeping for
a night above a stable and grinning and
bearing the misery without taking any
remedy.