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Madison times., 1885-03-07
For Constables.

The Circuit Judges, on Wedncs-
day, in rendering their opinion
in case then pending, gave the
following information to this peo-
pie as theirlegal opinion. As it is
a matter which may effect every
one at some time, it should be pre-
served for future reference "The
evidence in the record satisfies us
that there was newspaper publish
ed and printed weekly in the parish
during the time in which said
advertisement by posting was
being made. Under the law such
advertisement, by posting, was il
legal. Article 1140 of the code of
practice, requires that the cOnsta-
BILE shall give notice of sales with
in ten days at the customary places
in situation, where no newspapers
are published, and in at least one
public paper in places where any
are printed, according to law and
it does not appear that this law
was changed or repealed by the
act of 1877.
Article 1142 of the code of prac-
ticc says: In no case can the con-
stable appoint keeper topreserve
the property seized unless with the
consent of the debtor, etc. In the
present case the constable seized
the property and Immediately ap-
pointed custodian and turned the
property over to him. 1t is not
pretended that the debtor, in writ.
ing or otherwise, consented to the
turning over of the property to the
custodian; and from that moment
the constable ceased to have the
property legally in his possession
or directly under his control. "-Ex
Madison times., 1885-03-07
Cold in the Head.

The best way to treat this trouble
some complaint is to take shot
drink An orange sliced and put
into a large cup with little sugar
sprinkled over it, and boiling water
poured upon it, and then drink as
hot as possible, is both pleasant
and beneficial. The feet should be
put into hot water, with or without
little mustard. This foot bath
should be taken at the bedside (;
the patient should be we'll wrapped
up, and a blanket placed across his
knees should be drawn outside the
bath, so as to confne the steam.
After keeping the feet in the water
for from five to ten minutes, the
patient should loose no time in
getting into bed, where he will
probably derive great benefit from
the general feeling of warmth, and
from the flow of perspiration which
has been induced. The main point
is to keep thoroughly wrapped up
and constantly warm. Even an
uncomfortable degree of heat may
be beneficial" After such treat
ment it will be especially needful
TO avoid exposure to drafts of air.
-Ex
Madison times., 1885-03-07
A Walnut Orchard.

More than forty years ago John
Atere, a remarkably thorough and
successful farmer, planted a black
walnut grove on very fertile up
land prairie in Payson, Illinois.
He took good care of it and it
fourished, and has been growing
ever since, His grandchildren now
gather nuts and play in the shade
of fine trees, such as theorists will
tell us can be grownin fifteen years.
Perhaps they can, in very moist
and fertile river bottom, but not
where it is dry enough for resi-
dence.-Ex.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
Taken at His Word.

1t was one of the genus tramp.
He knocked at the door Of honsa
and when q kindly-looking woman
opened it he said:
"Madam, l am very hungry. ]
have had nothing to eat for week
back"
"Why you poor SOUL" said the
good woman, "wait moment and
1'll find something for you"
And she gave him an old porous
plaster, and closed the door before
he had finished thanking her.-De.
troit Free Press.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
Gen. Grants Health.

DR.. Douglas said: 81 am in no.
wise responsible for the rose-color-
ed report that appeared in the
Medical Journal last week. Two
days before the report was publish
ed l had u conversation with DR..
Sands at Gen. Grants house. AS
a result of the conversation we both
decided that the cancerous growth
at the root of the tongue was hard
ening and steadily growing worse.
A microscopical examination by an
expert proved beyond doubt
that it was a case of ma
lignant epithelial growth. Gen.
Grant is a very sick man. 1
think there is little or no hope that
he will recover. He is break
ing down, but has displayed much
courage. For less than a month
he has done as much as six or eight
hours work n day, but had little
sleep for the past eight days. We
have tried to keep the knowledge
of his true condition from the Gen.
eral, because he had so many other
troubles to bear. l have all along
maintained that his trouble is from
cancerous growth at the root of the
tongue, caused undoubtedly by ex-
cess in smoking. Every time he
speaks or breathes or eats this is
disturbed. 1t is difficult to treat il
for that reason. There have been
times when the growth has been
temporarily checked, but it has
never been arrested, and is steadily
increasing. There has been con
siderable loss of tissue of the sof
palate. He takes nourishmen
every day in liquid form. He can
not eat solid food, because he ha'
lost all his teeth. They were ex
tracted in the hope of easing th'
pain in his face. The pain although
it resembles neuralgia, is not that
pure and simple, but it is a refiec
tion of the pain caused by the can
Ger in the throat. He has beel
suffering from severe pain in tn
right car and on top of the head
To ease this his head is kept wrap
in hot flannels. / cannot say ho,
near the end is. He may live 70
months yet, as men suffering from
this disease have done, but | d
not think there is any hope that h
will recover.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
A Cool Place.

The Boston Journal of Chemistry
says that in January, 1874 the ther-
mometer at Inkontsk, Eastern ST.
IBERIA, registered 1918 degrees
below zero, and in the same coun-
try a staff surgeon had known it to
be 8 degrees colder. Mercury in
that region is solid for hours at a
time, and can be worked with a
hammer like lead iron is brittle
like glass, and is useless; even fire
itself seems to freeze, for the gases
which feed it lose their heat. Dur
ing the winter of 1s19-20it was i'm
possible to 60 out without mask,
to prevent losing the nose or ears.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
A Man of Family.

Martin II. Blanchard, of Bloom
ingdaTe, all old resident of Morris
county, New Jersey, died on Janu-
airy %, aged ninety four years. The
Boonton Bulletin says: AS re-
CARDS the number ofhis descendants
his history is remarkable. He was
first married in the year 1905, at
the age of fourteen years, to Sarah
Beach, a daughter of John Beach,
who was a brother of Benjamin
Beach, who erected the Beach
Glen Iron Works, Forge, etc. His
first child, daughter, was born
when he was fifteen years old. Her
name was Elizabeth. She married
Henry Vanderhoof, who died dur
ing the past year at Denville, aged
eighty-four years. When Martin
II. Blanchard was sixteen years
and six months old he was the ia
ther Of twins-Abner and Aaron
both now living in Morris county,
at the age of seventy-seven years.
There were afterwards born to him
by his first wife sixteen other chill
dren, making nineteen in all. His
first wife died in 1859. He after
wards married a woman named
Youmans, of Rockaway township.
By this wife he had eleven children;
the youngest, Martin, is now about
twenty years of age. The oldest
gran ndchild of Martin H. Blanchard
the subject of this sketch, was q
daughter of Elizabeth Vanderhoo1
(his first child), and was born be-
fore her her grandfather was thirty
years of age. Her name is now
Jacobus and she has three grand
children who are married and have
children. Martin H. Blanchard's
children in all numbered 36 or 81
During the war, when Martin H
Blanchard was seventy-three year:
old, he said that he had enough
male descendants of his own, in
Guiding those who married into hi'
family, to make company of ont
hundred able bodied men. In th'
year1S72 his descendants numbered
about three hundred, and at tho
time of his death they probably
numbered six or seven hundred
This is wonderful list of actua
descendants of one man, but can b'
} accounted for because of his carl,
} marriage and the fact that he wa
, the father Of so many children.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
For Butter Experts.

1t is said that had not an explain
alton been given which caused the
commissioners of awards to revoke
their decision, the second prize for
butter at the Calcutta Exhibition
would have been given to a fine
sample of American oleomargarine.
-Ex.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
Steaming Cholera Germs.

Assistant Secretary OF the Treas
ury, French, Major Stemberg, of
the army, Collector Robertson, and
several members of boards of health
of different cities, went to Brook
lyn recently to witness an expert
ment with cholera germs, small
pox virus and germs Of other con-
tagious diseases. The germs were
placed in bales of rags, and two
methods of disinfection were used
-one with sulphurous acid gas,
and the other with jet of super
heated steam. Major Steinberg
yesterday made an informal report
to Collector Robertson on the test
upon rabbitswiththe cholera germs.
He said that where the animal had
been inoculated with the germs
disinfected with the gas that they
had died from the contagion, but
where the germs had been brought
in contact with the steam they
lived, proving that only in the lat
ter case had the germs been de-
stroyed. He will make an extend
ed report to the Secretary of the
Treasury.-N. y. Observer.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

charged, and as was sought to be
shown, but the evidence did not
establish the fact of their guilt, and
the evidence was what the jury had
to deal with. Another interesting
chapter is added to the history OF
trials by Jury.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

On the principle of fighting the
devil with fire, it would be a good
idea to form anti-dynamite socie-
ties, in opposition to the dyna-
miters, whose business it would be
to throw dynamite bombs into
every gathering of dynamiters. A
few applications of their own med.
icine, to these brutes would have q
tendency to check their enthusiasm
Madison times., 1885-03-07
Congressional Notes.

The Exposition got s365, 600.
The river and harbor bill failed
to pass.
The mail steamship subsidy,
passed the House March 3.
The bill placing Gen. Grant on
the retired list, with full pay, was
finally passed March 8.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

In future all legal advertise-
meats must be Paid for before
the second insertion If not
paid for before the day on '0h'eh
they should appear the second
time, the publication w;N be
discontinued.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
Deadly Missiles.

1t is said that the reason the
Arabs succeed in killing so many of
their enemies in battle, is because
they use, in lieu of cannon balls, a
lot of biscuits sent the Mahdi, by
the Vassar college girls.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

Three states enjoy the distinction
of having built their capitol build
ings for less than the amount ap-
propriated. They are Connecticut,
Indiana and Michigan.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
A Warning to Country Editors.

The Baltimore Day has at last
come to q final close after $500, 600
had been sunk in trying to keep its
light shining.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
ESTIMATE FOR 1885.

The committee appointed to
make the estimates, for the year,
1885, reported as follows:
To the Hon Board of Police Jury,
We your committe to make the esti-
mates for the year 1885, report that we
have made the following estimates,
assessment. 5 800 90
Clerk Police Jury. 200 w
Constables 100 90
Coroner. GOO %
Contigent. JOO OO
District Attorney. 300 %
Election Expenses. gO w
Puhlic Building. $50 50
Public rewards, 100 90
Jurors. 1000 00
Justice Peace. 100 90
Parish Treasurer 600 90
Parish Printing. 400 W
pauner Relief. 500 90
Police Jury. 800 %
Roads and Bridges. 1000 %
Sherifr. 1000 %
Witness. lOOO w
Health 1000 90
Leyee. 1000 %
l74OO 90
+ +; 5 5. 7 25;:':; %s,::4s,; s:::s4s
Madison times., 1885-03-07

The President quietly arrived in
Washington at z o'clock a. m. The
party Was not expected at that
hour, and SO escaped a reception.
In the afternoon, Cleveland called
on Arthur.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

The English contemplate laying
a pipe line from Suakin to Berber,
for the purpose Of furnishing a sup
ply Of water along the route.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

Washington, d. c., is full of men
who expect to get an Office imme-
diately on their arrival in that city.
Many of them would be glad to
have q ticket to take them home
again.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
Poor Old Surplus.

Only three weeks intervene be-
tween Democracy and the United
States Treasury, overfowing with
surplus.-Macomb (Ill) Journal. .
Madison times., 1885-03-07

The bill preventing aliens from
acquiring land is not enough. No
one should DC allowed to hold too
much.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

New York and Kansas, both, an
nounce the entire failure of the
peach crop. Delaware appears to
have lacked enterprise this year.
Madison times., 1885-03-07
The fresh and cheerful article

The fresh and cheerful articles
on the cancer on Gen. Grants
tongue, attributing it to smoking,
which is INDUCED in by many pa
pers, are counterbalanced by the
statement Of DR.. Fordyce Barker,
one of Grants physicians, who
says "It was thought best not to
irritate the throat with tobacco, but
to say nicotine caused the cancer,
is going too far. /"
Madison times., 1885-03-07

The silver men, say, that if the
administration will have war on
the silver question, they are ready
for it.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

When Cleveland tackles the sill
yer question, he brings hornets
nest about his ears.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

Ex-President Arthur called an
extra session of the Senate. 1t was
his last proclamation.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

The Fenians are said to contem-
plate raising troops to assist the
Mahdi in his fight against England.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

There is no secret about corn
raising-unless it is done at night.
If your ground is new and strong
1t can be planted eighteen inches to
to two feet apart, in the row. II
your ground is old and worn, at
least three feet apart should be the
distance. Keep the ground clean
and loose, and you will make corn.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

People who do not use tobacco
have cancer in the mouth. Let the
tobacco users be not terrified.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

The silver men, present strong
statement in favor of the continued
coinage Of silver.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

As usual, Sam Randall is found
opposing the Mississippi. He has
never been friendly to it.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

Russia is crowding England's
Asiatic possessions.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

At last the country breathes freely.
The Cabinet has been announced.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

The Delta ferry, now lands at
Kleinston.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

Convenient to Railroad Depot, Land
ing, Post, Telegraph and Express offices,
and to business. Meals in time for all
trains. House open all night. Has
been renovated and refurnished. Tables
supplied with the best the market af-
fords. Patronage respectfully solicited.
Polite and careful attention given to
guests. Nov. |, Tyr.
Madison times., 1885-03-07

convicted on theory. 1t was a
poorly made out case, and was not
convincing to an impartial mind.
The verdict is a concession to
public clamor, to the demands for
blood, made by the city press, to a
wild and unreasoning cry for ven
geance. All of the jury must have
read the papers during the first
trial, and they must have inferred
from them, that it would not be
safe to bring in a verdict of an ything
but guilty, of something. In def
erence to this sentiment, they
bought in the absurd verdict max
ing Judge Ford, Caulfeld and
Buckley, guilty of manslaughtcr.
If they were guilty of anything
which was not proved, they
were guilty of murder. particularly
Judge Ford, but the jury, to ap-
pease public opinion, as reflected
by the city papers, made it man.
slaughter. Public opinion murder
ed Mrs. Surratt, public opinion has
been wrong on more than one oc-
casion, strange as it may appear,
and public opinion should not have
influenced the verdict of this re.
markable jury, but it did. The
accused may have been guilty as
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-20
A Sierra Volcano.

From the Virginia City (Nev-) Chronicle.
News reached Candelaria from
Bishop Creek that a volcano had burst
forth in the mountains sixty miles
southwest of Bishop Creek. A party
of frightened sheep-herders rode into
the latter place. They were covered
with dust and ashes and had numerous
holes burned in their clothing. They
reported that they were restartled by an
unusual rumbling noise and trembling
of the ground. At first they mistook
the noise and rumbling for thunder,
but it was quickly followed by ire
mendous explosion, and on looking Up
they were appalled, at seeing a mountain
not far away belehing forth a column
of flames and smoke several hundred
feet in height. The air was soon filled
with fiery cinders and hot ashes which
came down upon them in clouds.
The affrighted men Immediately
drove their sheep to a place of safety
and rode to the nearest settlement
with the startling news. Several par
ties have started from Candelaria and
Bishop Creek for the scene of the erup-
ton, which is near the deserted town
of Mammoth, recently described in the
Chronicle. The bright pink glow OBJ
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-20
The Girls and Tight Lacing.

A girl, who has just returned from
London, tells me that, in the Health
Exhibition there, one of the exhibits
was meant to depict the horrors OF tight
lacing. A wazen figure was subjected,
for the purpose of divulging the secrets
of the ladies' torture chamber, to % COM
pression to t'>e girth which a woman
may, with proper self-respect, measure
aro,1nd the waist. The sufferings OF.
the dummy, maudible, save for the
creaking of the machinery, which IN
the forcible compression of the walsh
might well be mistaken for groans, were
quite terrible in their realism, but the
female spectators laughed instead OF be-
ing instructed. The fact is that the old
curmudgeons who take corsets as text
for sermons against us are left very
far behind. Injuriously tight squeezing
of the waist is rare indeed, nowadays.
"The coming man and woman," said
DR.. Dio Lewis, twill be just as large as
the waist as at any other part OF the
body" Did he ever see FIJI Island
woman? I have. She had never been
compressed by so much as calico
wrapper, and yet her waist had good
ly taper to it. Pretty soon Lewis win
be demanding legs as big at the ankles
as at the calves. And when that same
ness of outline is produced by bigness
of ankle rather than smallness OF
calf, I hope he will be satisfied for
surely the owner won't.-Cincinnab
| Enquirer.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-20
THE LOVE OF MONEY.
The Georgia Philosopher Moralizes on
! Common Human Weakness.

The Georgia Philosopher Moralizes on "a
Common Human Weakness.
I knew hard working man, says Bill
Arp in the Atlanta Constitution, who
was SO anxious to get ahead that hs
stinted his family and invested part OF
his earnings in the Louisiana lottery for
five years and never drew but $40. He
told me he had lost $500 that way, and
every time he saw the list published OF
the lucky men who drew the prizes it
fired him up and he tried it again.
Sometimes I wish Uncle Jubal and Gen.
Beauregard would tote fair and publish
list of them fellows who didn't draw
anything. But I reckon that would be
so long and occupy so many columns
in the newspapers they couldn't afford
it.
It is just human I know to want more
money than we have got, especially it
we are hard run and live on strain.
1 want more myself and if I was to find
800 in the road couldn't help hoping
that the owner would never miss it, and
| never call for it. just like boy who
finds pocket-knife and feels like it is
his, but that sort of money is notas sol
id and satisfactory as money we work
| for. Iknow an old preacher who had
$40, and his son had SO, and the young
/ man went down to Atlanta and took all
the money to buy some things, and he
came across wheel of fortune and saw D.
fellow win $40 just as easy, and SO he
was persuaded to try his luck, and,
sure enough, he won $40, and it hope
him up nightly, and he tried it again
and won some more, and he kept on
until he had won $50 and become fool,
for right than his luck changed and he
lost it all and his $40, and his daddy's
$50 besides, and he had to borrow 81 80
to get home on, and like to have perished
to death in the bargain. Well, he be-
longed to the church, and they had him
up and tried him, and he made clean
breast and told how he was overtakeB
and tempted, and how he went on and
on until he made $50 clean. "And
right there" said the old man, is whar
p Johns sin begun. If he had stopped
right there it would have been all right,
but like fool he went on and on to de-
struction. "Well, John wasn't such a
dreadful sinner after all, for he wanted
the money to buy something to please
the old folks. But money don't come
that easy Very often. I know a man
who has been kept on a strain for tive
years working out his losses on cotton
futures. Sometimes luck runs along
with man for ten years and more, and
that makes him vain and he thinks hls
Judgment is infallible and suddenly ht
coliapses like Seney and Emo and Keene
No money is safe except that made b!
honest men.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-20

dad?' General Lee, reused from his
reverie, looked up, and, in a. kindly
sad voice, answered, 'Howdy do, my
MANI and rode on."
In the campaign around Petersburg
the Confederacy ordered out the last
reserves. They came In citizens
clothes, and looked so rueful that
their presence was sdiscouraging. Food
for men was scarce, and the horses
gnawed the trees in their hunger and
died by hundreds. On the night OF
April 2, 1865, the battery cautiously
moved away from the work it had
occupied so long, and plodded west III
the darkness along melancholy swamp
roads. In the morning it reached
Chesterfield Courthouse. Explosions
in the rear told that Richmond had
fallen. After an hours rest the bat
terry toiled on again. That night some
of the company was missing, and the
Captain made a speech urging his men
to be true to the last. The Union
cavalry swooped in like Cossacks here
and there in the retreating lines, tax
ing each time few men and wagons,
and perhaps gun. In one OF these
dashes the author was captured be-
fore he or his comrades had chance
to pull lanyard.
This faithful little history abounds
in sentiment, descriptive passages and
anecdotes, as well as purely military
facts. The author, though not a
preacher, had pious training, and
Sometimes acted as chaplain. Before a
| battle soldiers often came to
him to talk religion, and to
tell him they had just been
converted. At Gettysburg, during a
| lull IN the firing, one OF his battery com
| rades informed him that he had felt a
spiritual change. There was a marked
reform in this convert "until we were
pleasantly encamped somewhat re
mote from the enemy, but not longer
Laugh Us we may after the war about
the noisy artillery, and how little il
was feared compared with the colo
gleam of the infantry bayonet and tht
deadly whiz of the mimic, lconfess that
to nv ear there was something mourn
fully suggestive in the booming OF can
non and shrieking of shell. The mini'
may hit, and the object OF its wratl
may live to tell the tale; but when tn
solid shot or bursting shells find thel
victim, it generally leaves him a dlsor
dered mass of quivering flesh"
The author at the end is able to avoy
his belief in the eindestructability OF tn
right, and to say, "Perish the wrong
whether hid beneath Southern gray. o
Northern blue" The book has min
heliotype portraits of officers.