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St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-20

A committee Of New Orleans Bremen
called on the Governor to-day. aud had
an interview relative to the Ford case.
Extract Baton Rouge special to
Times-Democrat June 18th.
Which no doubt, means that an effort
viii be made to have Governor Mem
cry interfere in some way, and have the
late decisions in the trial of the Murphv
murderers upset, so to speak, so as not
to be so hard sao the accused. We
thought so all along, and have been
waiting patiently for just such a turn
of affairs. Governor McEnery, if he
has the will of his Own that we credit
him with, and would do good for his
State and his people, he should turn
deaf ear to all such entxeaties and let
the law be yindicated. If he dares
interfere he will call down on himself
such wrath of the people as has never
been shown before yea, such wrath as
will make him trembIe in his boot8..--
Alexandria Democrat.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-20
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OPELOUsAS, LA.

A FIRST CLASS Barber Shop with all the
a improved appuTtenances toilet articles,
ETC., will be kept open and in operation during
the usual business hours. Mr.. b. is determined
not to be excelled, guaranteeing
Good Work or mo- Money.
july %
St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-20
FOR SALE CHEAP.

Two Irish setter puppies, male and female.
Apply at this Office. Feb. Att.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-20
e oPBTA R3.In5.. ana ln n ~
NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE at New Orleans, La, !

LAND OFFICE at New Orleans. Ia,
May 4th, 1886
Notice Is hereby given that the following
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the Judge
or Clerk of Court at Opelousas, La, on JUNE
10Th, 1885, viz:
WILLIAM RILEY, Dr.,
Homestead Entry No. 1878, for the E j Of N w
Sec 81 TIP 8SR1 e, st. Landry parish
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
of, said land, viz:
William Riley, ST., Eli Robertson, W E. Davis
and Malcolm Harrali, all of St. Landry parish.
Louisiana.
c. B. DARRALL,
may 9-5t. Register.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-20
NOTICE no TAX-PAYERs.

Il are hereby notified that the listing and
estimation of the valuation of all real ana per
sonal property situated within the corporate
pleted, and is now exposed at my office in the
Courthouse in the town of Opelousas, for in
spection and correction, and that the same will
so remain exposed for the space of thirty days
from this date.
Office hours from 10 O'Clock A. NJ, to P. NJ.
Opelousas, May II, 1885.
w. M.JOHNSTON,
may 1856. Assessor and Collector.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-20
OPELOUSAS (:
Saturday june goth, 1855.
Gen. Gibson and the Ring.
Picayune.


Some of our contemporaries seem to
be greatlytagitated over the prospects at
Washington, and endeavOr to vent
their wrath On Senator Gibson, who,
with four members of the delega ion
are standing up to the cause of the peo-
pie.
We are told a great deal about the
Democratic bolt in the first Congress
slOnal District last year, and how it
threatened the Democratic cause. The
.Picayune is not called upon to enter
upon any defense of Mr.. Kernochan's
Democracy as it needs none. We are
willing to compare his record with the
candidate Mr.. Eustis put up for the
Naval Office, whenever it is desirable.
AS to the contest in Mr.. Hunts dis
trict, since the question has been
brought up, it would be we'll to COM
and the adjoining district, wherein
Judge w. t. Houston was candidate,
without opposition except from a Re-
publican. Judge Houston was an cal
nest Democrat with good record on
the bench, and having hosts of personal
friends, but was thought to be support
ed by the Ring. He was, despite all
pTOtestatiOns to the contrary, looked
upon as the Ring candidate. The result
was that he was defeated in district
strongly Democratic, and which had
never been lost to the Democracy be-
fore.
Not only was Judge Houston defeated
but the Cleveland ticket fell with him,
and where Hancock got 24S0 majority
in 1880, Blaine received 1139 majority in
1884. As we have said the reaction was
not against Judge Houston personally,
but what he was supposed to represent,
and it went so far as to destroy the
interest in the national election, and
lose the district for Cleveland.
On the other hand, while the apathy
IN Hunts district was marked, yet it
gave nearly $500 majority for Cleveland
out OF the $1,000 he received III the
State.
These facts speak for themselves, and
show how the fear Of Ring Rule is more
disastrous to the Democracy than any
thing else in this State.
Below we present a recapitulation OF
the votes for Presidential electors and
results in these two districts for 1880
and 1884:
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15

winter. One day two natives drove
up to DR.. Hayes's hut with Il sledge
load of walrus meat. They were on
their way home after a long journey,
and they accepted the doctors invita-
ton to tarry a while. Everybody ate
heartily of the walrus meat, and then
the natives, overcome with fatigue,
laid down for a nap. Hayes and his
men stole to the hut, barricaded the
entrance, and then drove off with the
dogs and walrus meat. They had gone
several miles before they saw the Esqui-
maux in full pursuit. The party wait
ed for the thoroughly angry natives to
come up, and then told them plainly
that they would never see their dogs
and sledge again unless they agreed to
go with them to Kane's ship. Finally
a bargain was made, good feeling re-
established. and the poor fellow to-
gether with some of their friends from
a neighboring village, never rested I'M
til Hayes was back on the ship again.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Tie Bitter B1t.

ooh. hol" exclaimed q suburban
passenger to his milkman; 'tgot q box
of chalk under your arm, haven't your
Bought It in the city and taking II out
to the dairy, ehp Now. will you be
kind enough to tell me- what you are
going to do with 1t 2"
Certainly, sir. certainly" replied
the milkman; '.your wife tells my
driver to chalk It down so often that
he has run out OF crayons. ana I'm
laying in . new supply. IN yon'll,
come out to the farm III show you
yonr abatement Of account ON the sids
Of the new barn.-Chtca0o Herald
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Books for the Indians.

The only written language of the
American. Indians was in the form Of
hieroglyphics, but This plan of picture
writing was not much used among the
tribes of North America. AS the spok-
en- languages of the tribes, however,
have such a complete dialectic struc-
ture it was not difficult to give this a
written form by means of the Roman
alphabet. This has been done in many
instances, and a number Of grammars
and dictionaries have been printed in
different Indian dialects, besides many
other books. Several newspapers are
at this time printed among the civil
lied Indians of the West, and ut mis-
sion stations, in the Indian language.
The Aztecs and Toltecs kept their his
toricai and other records by means of
hieroglyphics in . very systematic
manner.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Gentfans.

Shiv'ring like children with their garments
torn,
All the comely leaves of their r%oundness
shorn,
Crouched in the bleached and shudd'ring grass
l find them to-day as I idly pass,
Blue gentians.
Children OF frost-of winds snow-kissed,
Nurtured in travail-in sleet and mist,
Budding and blowing in the chilling rain,
With little of glndness and much of pain,
Poor gentians!
In pity / bend and gather each one,
And hold them up to the plying sun,
10 give them a glimpse of a fairer day,
Before they shall droop in their quick way,
Sad gentians.
And l hold them close to my eager face,
And the tender lines Of their being trace,
And l count their goodness to come SO late,
When no flower is left to DO their mate,
Lorn gentians.
Though tho year of my life wane drear and
cold,
May this kindness be left, its hands to hold,
That some flower OF love rs n tender sign
May bloom rs II token of summer time,
Sweet g%entians.
IS. B. .McManus in the Current.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Christmas Chimes.

Tho meadows are brown, the hills are all bare,
And up through the valley the clear, crisp air
Is singing n Christmas song.
Like the song of the sea in the purple shell,
If we list to its notes it will sweetly tell
The secret it's kept so long.
It tells Of a time so sunny and fair
When we watched tho clouds Of the snowy air
For the reindeers' tiny form.
And saw in our dreams such pictures Of light,
As we lay through the hours ofthe long, dark
night. ~ - - 3 ''
Away from the clouds and storm.
Such pictures rs glow in fairy tales
When told ut the hour that daylight pales
And the crimson west grows gray,
When we list for the chime Of tiny bells
That are hung in the shade of haunted dells
And are rung by goblin and fey.
1t rings on the heart a fearful change
ora darkened time, SO sad, so strange
When our dreams had lost their light.
1t whispers and sings to the leafless trees
Our secret that signs in every breeze
Till the day wears into the night.
Christmas chimes! Ye are merry and sad,
Ye wound the heart and ye make it glad
With the music your ringing makes;
And the weary heart that has dreamed SO long
Takes up the thread Of the broken song
And sings till it, quivering, breaks.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
A Machine that Calculates.

The calculating machine invente
by Prof. Thomson appears to excel, in
its ingenious adaptation to a variety
of results, even Babbage's wonderful
apparatus. BY means of the mere
friction of a disk, a cylinder and a
ball, the machine is capable of effect
ing numerous complicated calculations
which occur in the highest application
of mathematics to physical problems,
and by its aid an unskilled person
may, in a given time, perform the
work Of ten expert mathematicians.
The machine is applicable alike to the
calculating of tidal, magnetic, meteor
illogical and other periodic phenome-
ma; it will solve differential equations
of the second, or even higher powers
or orders; and through this same Won
derful arrangement Of mechanical
parts. the problem of finding the three
motions of any number of mutually
attracting particles, unrestricted by
any of the approximate suggestions
required in the treatment OF the lunar
AID planetary theories, is done by sim
ply turning a handle.-NeaD York
Sun.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Tie ssThlrteen" Superstition.

In Paris there are streets where IL
does duty instead of 13; and the house
holders who thus ingeniousiy sought
to circumvent fate would not for the
world let the proper number be paint
ed upon their doors. Some years ago
Prince Napoleon tried to laugh his
countrymen out Of the superstition;
but his efforts did not benefit his cause.
for, with characteristic perversity, he
used to invite twelve friends to ca
rouse with him on Good Friday,
whereby he gravely scandalized right
feeling people, whatever their theolog-
ical views.
In Americ , similar but less agrees
i've attempts have been made to correct
popular superstition, and numerous
Thirteen clubs have been established,
the members pledging themselves to
dine thirteen at table OF every oppor-
tunity. In France, too, there is a
Thirteen club, the headquarters of
which are at Senlis; and even in Eng
land there is a little coterie of thirteen
men who dine monthly ut a house
numbered thirteen, and pay thirteen
shillings each for their dinner and 13
pence each to the walters. Yet still
the superstition is rs lively as Of yore
all over Europe and America, and
probably it will continue to flourish
and to make people uncomfortable un-
til the end of time. There are, in all
likelihood, men and women who are
even now undergoing vague uneasi-
ness because 1885 happened to be a
multiple of thirteen.-Phi1adelphia
Call.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
HUMOROUS.

All the rage-A mad dog.
AS a general thing, what a man
sews he rips.
The thermometer gains notoriety by
degrees, SO to speak.
The man who is opposed to vaccine
ton is probably to be pitted.
Even the most inveterate topper OBJ
jects to taking a horn with. a bull.
A young lady asks. "How can I
remove superauous hair? Comb the
butter.
The man who said, "There is a gar
den in her face" was evidently using
fiowery language.
The telephone is an arrangement by
which two men can lie to each other
without becoming confused.
The king of Sweden and Norway is
a poet. The dictum that the king can
do no wrong appears to be exploded.
Ground again ?" ne asked. as the
dun put his head in at the door.
"Yes. and I'll stay round until 1 get
square"
"Using tobacco in M FORM" says
a Halter of the weed, casually leads to
the use Of it in another" This is
doubtless true, for when a man first
takes snuff he must et-chew!
"Why Johnny" exclaimed mamma,
aren't you ashamed of yourself, going
about with such a dirty face ?" mo,
l ain't," replied Johnny, with a con-
scious pride in the integrity of his in
tentions; you'd like to have me taken
for a dude, wouldn't you ?"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
The Mouse.Tower on the Rhine.

This tower is situated on an island
in the Rhine, and is supposed to have
been erected during the middle ages
by some Of the robber-knights that
then infested Germany. The ruins
have been covered with stucco and
converted into a watch-tower. It's
name is popularity derived from the
legend Of the cruel Archbishop Hattie
of Mayence. According to the story,
as told in the well-known ballad of
Southey, the crops of the district had
failed one year, and all the poor people
were starving. But the rich bishop
had granaries filed to OVERLOOKING,
which he was holding in order to profit
by the advanced price of the grain.
The wretched people besought the
bishop to give them food from his
abundant stores. TO rid himself of
their opportunities, the bishop ap-
pointed a day for all the poor to come
to his barn and receive a portion of
grain. When they had all gathered in
the building, the cruel prelate ordered
his servants to fasten the doors and
set fire to it, thus burning the wretch
ed beings alive. The next day a
whole army of rats were seen coming
toward the bishops palace. He fled
fol- safety to this toW er on the Rhine,
but they pursued him, swimming the
river and scaling the walls of the tow
yer; and making their way into the
room where the terrified bishop was
trying to conceal himself, they de-
voured him alive. This was in the
year $40. A different story concern
ing the mouse-tower, however. is given
in Murray's Handbook of. Germany.
This asserts that the tower was not
built until the thirteenth century,
more than 200 years after the death of
Bishop Hattie. at was intended,
with the opposite castle Of Ehrenfels
erected at about the same time, as a
watch-tower and dollhouse for col
lecting duties upon all goods which
passed the spot. The word man,s Is
probably an older form of mauth,
meaning duty or toll, and this name.
together with the very unpopular Oh
ject for which the tower was erected,
perhaps gave rise to the dolorous
story of Bishop Hattie and the rats"
Inter Ocean.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Shying Horses Near.Sighted.

"Why it is that shying in horses
should be set down to an ugly dispo-
sition I don't know" said q prominent
veterinary surgeon to a New York
Sun reporter: at must be because
horsemen don't know what else to lay
it to. The fact is that it seldom is
met with unless the horse ia near
sighted. I have tested scores of shy
ing horses for near-sightedness. and in
nearly all cases found what I expected.
And now, when I am asked to give
points on buying horses, I give this as
one Of the requisites: Never buy a
horse which is near-sighted. There
are, however, two exceptions to this
rule. If the horse Is to have q mate,
then it doesn't make any difference
about the sight. One horse can go
blind if the other is clear-sighted. If
the horse is to be used for riding to
saddle be careful that he is not near
sighted, for he will throw you sooner
or later.
"The reason why a near-sighted
horse SHES is very simple" the sur
geon continued. "Of all animals the
horse is the most gentle and even tim
i'd. He sees a strange object and his
susceptible mind magniies 1t into a
monster that is going to destroy him.
a piece of white paper at the roadside
in the night is q ghost and an old
wagon in the ditch is q dragon. Eve
ry horselnan knows that If you drive
the animal close to the dreadful object
the horse cools down at once. 1t is
supposed that it is because the horse
makes a closer acquaintance with the
object. That is true, but not in the
sense in which it is generally under.
stood. The animal has not been able
to see 1t from q distance. He Ia near
sighted"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
An Odd Public House.

A curious public house is among the
latest attractions in Paris. 1t is called
la Taverne da Bagne. The walls are
hung with paintings representing the
horrors Of convict life. interspersed
with portraits Of notorious Commune
sists. All the walters are dressed in
convict uniform and wear the chains
and boulets Of the regular oSeat The
landlord is Citoyen Maxine Lisbonne,
one of the leaders OF the insurrection
Of 1871.-London Truth.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
"of course you may CO." said Aun'

"Of course you may CO." said Aun'
Almira.
What was the end of it all? There
IS but n sequel to stories like this
when youth and bright eyes and hu.
man hearts are concerned. The next
Christmas v Bertha Hooper and
Charley Harcourt were married. But
the bridegroom persists in declaring
that Bertha did the first of the love
making.
And Bertha only laughs. -Amy Ran.
IoTo,b
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Fast Railroad Time.

cts a foolish statement said AS
sistant Superintendent Rowland, of
the c.. B. & O., pointing to a para
graph cut from a railroad paper pub
lished in Chicago. Il refer to this
paragraph, which somebody has
mailed me with a big Interrogation
mark on the margin: "A train on the
West Shore run eighty miles an hour
not long ago. The fast mail train on
the c., B. & @. regularly makes sixty
miles an hour on certain portions of
its rum I am astonished that such a
statement as this should appear in a
railway paper. Nc train in America
was ever run eighty miles an hour,
nor no engine without a train. OF
course fast mail train doesn't make
sixty miles an hour any portion of it's
run, regularly or i~rregularly. A mile
or two here and there on a down-grade
may be covered at sixty seconds to the.
mile, but that's all. I have run a
train for twenty-five years and I tell
you / don't want to ride eighty miles
an hour or anywhere near it on the
best track the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy has, and we have just as good
road way as there is in the United
States. Eighty miles in an hour is
practically an impossibility with our
present locomotives and track. For
years I tried to beat the record be-
tween Mendoza and Galesburg, an
hour and forty-six minutes for the
eighty miles. with two stops, but we
couldn't do it. When they talk Of
their sixty miles an hour you tell
them they lie. Beats all the fast-run-
ming stories that 60 around. The
other day I read that a train in Eng
land regularly ran ninety miles an
hour for 40 miles."-Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-12-15
Very Like a Tornado.

v6ry IIRe u IOrnauOs
"Papa, what Is a tornado" asked a
youthful seeker after information.
CHANGING nervously around the
room to see il the coast was clear he
said:
"You.have often heard your mother
blowing me up for bringing company
home without previously notifying
herP"
Eyes sir"
"Well, that is ~ much like atorDado
as anything I know Of But you
needn't tell your mother that I saidso.
however '-Ns,o York Journal.