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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31
SATURDAY, OCT. 81, 1885.
ADVERTISING RATES.
NEWS ITEMS.
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Sugar house parties are now IN
vogue.
Cholera has appeared in Palermo,
Italy, and is spreading very rapidly.
Why was Adam like a sugar
l,lanters Because he first raised
Cain.
Honey for sale, crop of 1885. Al
20 cts, per gallon. Apply 10 G. Nj
Higgins, HahnvilEe. La
An artesiau well is being bored in
the yard Of the st. Charles uotel,
to supply that establishment with
water.
We wonld thank our numerous
planter friends ii they would keep
us posted as TO their operations in
the manufacture of sugar.
There, John, that's twice you've
come home aud forgotten that lard"
LA, mother, it was 80 greasy that
it slipped my mind"
Young men should center their
hopes upon some definite emplop
ment, aud never attempt otiice. seek.
ing asa means of gaining a livelihood.
Roscoe Conkling's law practice,
according to the Utica Observer,
bis home organ, returns him an
income of seventy five thousand
dollars.
Work was commenced on the grand
stand at the Exposition grounds.
1t will be used for base bali and
racing, and will seat bet yeen 1000
and 5000 people.
Mrs. William Preston johnson.
wife of the president of the tulane
University of Louisiana, Academic
Department, died at Lexington,
Va. Her husband was at her bed
aide and saw her die.
The Hornet is the title of a new
paper published at Baton Rouge.
i IL edited and managed by colored
luen in the interest of the colored
population. 1t is four column
folio and neatly printed.
Floed Rock, under the famous
Hill Cute in New York harbor, was
blown up Saturday week with go.
OOO pounds Ut dynamite. The ex
plosion was a success, the hue
rock being shattered into atoms. q
A sugar house belonging to Mr..
5. Bratld, in st. James parish was
totally consumed by fire Sunday
night week entailing a loss Of $o5,.
O0O upon the proprietor, TIE fire
10 supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary.
Rev. |. l.. Leucht, secretary of the
Louisiana Educational Society In
forms us that arrangements have
been made with Rev. A. ID. Nave,
"f Boston, Mass, to lecture throne h.
ont the State during the months of
February and March next on the
subject of "Publie Education"
Col. w. Fl. Harris, State Commits
sioner of Immigration, has several
clerks in the United States Land
Office at New Orleans, collecting
data for monster mapof Louisiana
which he is peliecting for the Expo
sition. The map will show all the
United States and State lands
courses of streams, pecnliaritieS O
the soil, etc
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31

We are in receipt Of Vol. /, No. !, of the
Gretna Slo,, published by D. B Woodruff in
Gretna, jefferson parish La. tits AN eight
page weekly. notwithstanding six pages Of it
are patents, we consider t3is fa b tier and
more interesting to readers than is the case
in many instances, where newspapers are EN-
tirelv printed at home, in slayenly manner,
often not readable, and withal the advertise
ment columns Of which are principally filed
with dead advertisements, but, at the same
time these papers are the ones that pronounce
most velemently against patents.
The earnest wish OF the HERALD is that the
SANS mission may be that of peacemaker III
the village of Gretna, heoling all differences
as far as possible, that has existed in that
parish and with the support it deserves. and
doubtless, when justified il so doing, it will be
entirely printed at home
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31


10 communications handed IN later than
Wednesday evening, will lay over until the
week following.
EFs All communicates must be written on
emo side of thepaper.
10 The full name and address of the wri-
ter must accompany each communication, not
for publication, but as matter Of good faith.
~ Communications of u personal eharao
ter will not be recognized, unless from res
pOnsible parties. In such cases q charge Of
" so suiare will be made.
E-W We cordially invitecorrespondence from
all parts Of this aud neighboring parishes.
ESpNews and interesting local Items res
pectfully solicited
E% OUR READERS CAN HELP US
greatly, if, when writing to or buying goods
from our advertisers, they will simply say
+hev saw their cards ia this paper.
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TnS PAPER Ro sy II 9Sq Uos q R6w IS % o ID
vertisrng Bureau 40 Spruce ST., where advertising
contracts may be made for 1t IN NEW fOkAs
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THE EXPOSITION RETURNS


The canvass SO actively made by
the President and Managers of the
North, Central and South American
Exposition, directly by themselves,
and through their various commits
sioners, has proven, in every respect,
u successful one.
No longer is it their labor to create
among the people throughout the
American Continents and the East
ern Hemisphere All interest III the
great enterprise; but TO receive and
quickly place imposition the rapidly
arriving exhibits.
At last, the strain (he extent of
which few fully know which for
months has constantly rested on the
Managers and their cO-workers is
relaxed, and their present work,
! though yet constant and untiring,
il cheered by the feeling which the
husbandman has in the gathering
of fruitful harvest.
The truth of the statements OF
President McConnico, so clearly
uttered and so agreeably heard at
the Opera House assemblage Of
last week, is being daily verified tC
al, by, to those visiting the Expo
sition Grounds, the busy workers,
not on the buildings, for the repairs
on them are already finished, but
in the mnltitudiuous and varied
articles of machinery, Of art, Of
minerals, of food, the useful and
the beautiful, that are rapidly anC
carefully transferred from boat anG
car to their already determined
positions; by the nearly completed
steam transit from the heart OF the
city to the Exposition grounds; by
the appearance in every department
OF strict business methods, and, &C
complaining all which, by the con
tidence felt and manifested through
ont in the business and financial
standing of the Managers AS
Therefore, it IL assured that the
work up to the gathering together
the material parts of the Exposition
will by tue opening day, though
only ten days of, be giandly accom-
| plished, the remaining essentials O
entire success is, practically, limited
to the gathering Within the aisle
surrounding this material wealth
the people for whose great benefit
the past labor has been SO generousl
aud asSiauously performed.
This plcasurnble duty it is incum
bent on the people themselves
individually and collectively, to al
tend to; and to the performance q
which all have been requested, an,
at whose doors convey ances, a
reasonable rates and rapid speed
have been provided.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31

There are $500 eomp0Sitors in
Paris, and their pay averages about
thirteen cents an hour.
Mrs, Grant says that her daugh-
ter, Mrs. SartoriS, does not desire u
divorce from her husband, as was
reported by the Northern press.
NJ. W. Shaw, popularity and com.
monlN known AS josh Billings, one
of the most popular hnmoristS of
the present aye, died at Monterey,
Mexico. lately.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31

OUR ADVERTISING RATES
Are Very Hodsrato. sena for Friees
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31
JOHN RODRIGUE,
DEALER IN
Sewing WI achines,
NEEDLES, OIL, PARTS, SC.

Agent for the GENUlNElMPROvED
SINGER SEWING MACHINES,
for the parishes of ST, Charles and
ST. John the Baptist,
OFFICE, EDGARD. ST. JOHN. La.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-31
500 REWARD.

One hundred ($loO) dollars re-
ward will bp paid for he arrest and
conviction of the thief or thieves
who robbed the registered letters in
the postoffice here. 1t was done on
the night Of Oct. Sth, 1885. Apply
to the postmaster.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
How Cocoa is Grown.

United States Consul Bird, in re-
port from La Guayra Venezuela, thus
describes the cultivation of cocoa in
that country:
COCOA, or cacdo, as it is termed in
Spanish, from which the chocolate of
commerce is made is the fruit of a
tree indigenous to the soil of Venezuela,
and within this country is compre-
hended large part Of the choicest
cocoa zone. The tree grows to the
average height of thirteen feet and
from five to eight inches in diameter.
Is of spreading habit and healthy
growth
"a cocoa plantation is set in quite
the same manner as an apple orchard,
except that the young stocks may be
transplanted from the nursery after
TWO months growth. No prepara-
ton of the soil is deemed necessary
and no manures are applied. Tho
young trees are planted about 10 reet
equidistant, which will accommodate
200 trees to the acre. Between the
rows and at like spaces are planted
rows of the Bucdre, tree of rapid
growth, that serves to shade the soil
as well as to shield the young trees
from the torrid sun. Small permanent
trenches must be maintained from
tree to tree throughout the entire
length of the rows, so that, at least
once in each week, the stream decend-
ing from the mountains may he
turned into these little channels and
bear needful moisture to trees and
soil. At the age of five years the
plantation begins to bear fruit and an
nually yields two crops, that ripening
in June being termed the crop of San
JHdn and that maturing at Christmas
being known as the crop of La Ma
Cidad. The average age to which the
tree attains under proper care may be
estimated at forty years, during which
period it will give fair to fun crops of
fruit; but of course 1t must be under
stood that, as In our fruit orchards,
new tree must be set from time to
time to replace one that may be de
cayed or blighted. After c'reful in
quiry it may be safely stated that the
average crop Of the cocoa plantation at
ten years of age, and under a proper
state of cultivation, will amount to
500 or GOO pounds per acre.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16

At the wedding dinner the Princess
Philippine found an almond with two
kernels.
"These stands for you and me, shS
said to her husband; "you shall hays
one kernel and will have the other.
Thanks. my love" said the prince.
Let me have the kernel that repre-
sents yourself and | will wear it, that
you may never again be lost away
from me"
Here is your Philippine" said the
princess. "and with it give my sig
net ring, that stands for AL my posses
sions, for since threw it away and it
was saved for me by spider, against
all whose kind | have all my life
waged war, 1t humiliates me every
time my eyes fails upon it, and l
think l ought to pay some penalty for
my foolishness and for my ill-treat-
ment of yourself"
but did | not cry philippine my
dearest one the moment my eye fell
upon you on my return" said the
prince, Ito show you that never
held anger against You in my heart"
At this all the young people who
found double almonds began to eat
them with some chosen friend, and
since they all had not signet rings to
bestow, it came to be custom that
the one who should first cry Philip
pine after an absence should receive
gift, and the custom continues
among young people in all countries
to this day. -SpringfeH Republican,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
, Famous Resort for the Sick.

The follow ng is the regimen pre-
scribed to the majority Of Carlsbad pa
tirnts They begin the day by rising
mn later than and 70 to the springs
After having drank three glasses OF water
n, intervals of quarter of an hour, they
y,lk for an hour aud then breakfast
rbis meal consists Of two small rolls OF
r1.ks. boiled cgg, and a cup of tea
coffee or chocolate. Ii may be noted III
ra..Ing that the custom is for each per
,,n to buv his rolls or rusks at Is baker
.hop and carry them to the place where
the rest Of the breakfast IS provided.
The hourof dinner is from to . o'clock;
osa table d' hote is unknown in Carls-
bad. each person or party dimes apart IN
a restaurant Three courses constitute
tbc dinner, consisting Of soup, roast
meat and disL of vegetables, Or IN
nlace Of vegetables, little stewcd fruit.
4 quarter Of bottle Of red Austrian
vine nav he drunk at dinner, and this
+. mixed with Gicsshubcr, sparkling
eud very pleasant table water. At D
o'clock cup Of tea, of coffee, OF choc-
oIatc. or glass Of water is permitted To
those who require something. supper
is taken at 7 o'clock, and this is confined
10 cold meat. bread, and wine mixed
with water. Between breakfast and din
ncr bath is taken every other dav, and
all spare time between meals is passed in
walking. After wcll-spent day, in
which the patient has displayed the self
denial Of an anchorite and has covered
MS much ground as if hc were in training
for walking match, he goes 10 bed be-
tween Q and 10 o'clock, there to rest his
weary limbs and dream Of dining with
Lucuilus.
The course of treatment lasts from
three to six weeks. Patients undergoing
the treatment are advised to keep up
their spirits, forget worldly cares, and
amusc themselves by contemplating the
beauties of nature. If any have been
accustomed to smoke tobacco they are
allowed TO do 50 in moderation, but sub
iect to the condition that they never
smoke at the springs in the morning and
That they always smoke good cigars.
Patients are also advised to avoid eXcit-
ing conversation; to refrain from going
to the theatres when tragedies are per
formed; to read light literature only and
newspapers in particular; to listen to
good music when they have the opportu
nitv, and to abstain from everything
which faugues or distresses them, Sc
far as eating or drinking is concerned
the hotel and restaurants proprietors dc
not heartily CO operate with physicians
in keeping patients out of temptation
EVERYWHERE notices are displayed to the
eject that the food or drink displayed i
"kurge mass" word for which there
Is no English equivalent, its meaning
being that the articles in question are
suitable to be taken during the treat
ment. But, as many persons visit Carts
bad who do not drink the waters, pro
vision has to be made for them also. -
London Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
The Food Of ths Persian Masses.

tHt VNW w WV 4 - NAhh -Nf''N'E
The food of the Persians is very
varied. As rule. the very poor do
not get meat more than once a week;
while villagers and the numerous
numadic tribes see it very rarely, and
only on great occasions, as at marriage
reasts. The ordinary diet of labor
ing man is bread and cheese in winter
bread and fruit in summer. But even
the laborers manage to obtain an oc'
casional bowl Of strong soup; and they
vary their diet with conseryes, dried
fruits, basins of curds, and hard-b boiled
eggs. The actual weight OF bread that
"a muleteer or laborer can consume, and
does consume, daily, is very great, sew
en- pounds not being an extraordinary
allowance ! In the South of Persia
dates are the staple food they are
very cheap and satisfying. During
the summer, lettuces, grapes, aprlco's,
onions, and cucumbers form the daln-
ties of the villager, and these, with
bread, cheese and curds are their only
food In every large town cookshops
abound. But in Persia, a. in the rest
of the East, bread, rice, or dates are
the real food the meat merely the
sauce or bonnie 60uths. Per,ians OF
all ages are very fond of confectionery
and are constantly deyouring sweets.
These are generally pure and good, but
there is little variety in color, most OF
them being white, and nearly all are
favored with lemon juice The low
er-cass Persian will eat several
pounds of grapes, cucumbers. or aprl-
cots for a meal They eat onions as
we eat apples. Pomegranates and
melons are in a great demand as food;
and the melons, which run to l4lD. IN
weight. are very nutritious. Cucum-
bers are looked on as fruit, and are
eaten in large quantities by rich and
poor. They are not indigestible. sew
en- pounds weight may be often had
, for a halfpenny Grapes in infinite
variety and Of the most delicious kinds
from the huge long grape which meas
/ ures 2in., to the tiny sultana, sweet az
honey to the taste. Tho curds' o.
mast, is simply made by adding
e small portion of rennet or else ole
5 curds to warmed milk; in few hour
n it sets into mass, the cream on TOP
Il If eaten the first day, it is like junk
n ct; ff allowed to remain 10 become
: sour, and viii keep good any time
: In this sour state it is preferred, and |
: either eaten with honey. sugar, O
) grape sugar. Eggs boiled hard an,
4 dyed gay color are much eaten; from
forty to fifty can be had for 9d. Thes,
. things, then, form the cheap and va
rled diet of the working classes. Beef
too, is eaten by the lower classes: nev-
er by the to-do.-M Jamo,' Ga
zette.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
Hurricanes at Honolulu.

= ak about tornadoes and cyclones"
said Reserve Officer Stark. "People
living in this section of the country
don't know what they are. In the
neighborhood of the Sandwich islands.
and particularly off Honolulu. which
IS at the head of the landlocked harb0r.
IS the place for hurricanes. The noun
tains back of Honolulu are saw
shaped and they have a queer effect
on the atmospheric currents. There
is no anchorage outside the harbor and
vessels that don't care to tonch at
Honolulu usually lay off and on, as
the sailors have it, while they send
boat ashore. have seen half a doz-
en- ships lying off Honolulu within
hailing distance Of each other-one in
a shower of rain, another in dead
calm, with bright sun shining over
head; third in a smooth breeze, and a
fourth in such "A gale that everything
had to be close-reefed.
different air currents are 50 close
together and SO sharply defined that |
have been standing on the deck of
vessel with the sun shining brightly
overhead and not air enough moving
to fill the sails, while within ten feet
of me on one side it was raining big
guns, and not twenty feet the other
way blowing regular hurricane l
never shall forget one incident 1t
was about noon and | was leaning over
the port rail amidships There wasn't
air enough blowing to lift feather
Suddenly | heard roar and knew
that tornado was passing by the ship.
1t was SO close that when stretched
out my hand the wind struck it with
such force that | was whirled com
pletely around. Our port anchor,
which weighed about a ton and half,
was hanging on the rail forward, and
the same gust struck one Of the fukes
1t tore loose the fastening, whirIed
that anchor through the mir like a
bit of thistle down, and left it hanging
on the main yardar It put Us to a
heap Of trouble to get 1t down again"
-Phiiddelphia Times
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
"ChnrnIng" for CIAms.

Twothirds Of the clans are got by
"churning." The clam gang wades
out over the bed and shoyels up mud
and CLANS and everything that comes
along into big wire baskets. which,
when about full, are lifted out of the
water, and a rinsing and shaking
washes out the mud and leaves the
CLANS. Two men and boy attend to
each basket. one man shoveling in the
mud, the second getting out the claims,
and the boy "culling' them Churn-
ing can only be done at about half
tide, when the water is two or three
feet deep, as, by the time the workman
has to put his head under water, when
he bends over at shoveling, he soon
has TO give up the job. The suction
on the shovels is tremendous, and
they are made exceptionally strong.
When there are good tides, on the full
and change of the moon, the clans
may be raked out after the manner OF
the On-professional digger; shovel
full of mud is turned up at time, and
the clans it contains are raked out
with a clam-hoe Consideration Of
either of the above methods is sufiici
ent for true understanding of the
happiness of the clam at high water.
The clam ordinarily lies in the mud
from two to eighteen inches; a clam
that would bury itself much deeper
than eighteen inches is not to be lock-
ID upon with favor. .-Pr00idence
Journal.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
A Poetic Tail.

A thoughtless boy with a shining
pail went singing gaily down the dale.
to where a sad-eyed COW with a brin
die tail on clover sweet did herself
regale. a humble bee did gaily sail
over the soft and shadowed vale, to
where the boy with the shining pail
was milking the COW with the brindle
tail. The bee lit down on the cow :
right ear. her heels flew mp through
the atmosphere and through the
leaves Of big oak tIee the boy sailed
into eternity.-OregoH Reporter
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
Ayers Sarsaparilla.

Since then Mr.. LELAND has recommended
AYERS SARsAPARILLA in many similar
cases, and he has never yet heard Of its fail
ure to effect a radical cure.
Some years ago one of Mr.. LELAND's farm
laborers bruised his leg. Owing to the bad
state of his blood, an ugly scrofulous swelling
CT lump appeared on the injured limb Hor
vible itching of the skin, with burning and
aarting pains through the lump made life
almost intolerable. The leg became enor-
mously enlarged, and running ulcers formed,
discharging great quantities of extremely
offensive matter. No treatment was of any
avail until the man, by Mr.. LELAND's direc-
ton, was supplied with AYERS SARsAPA-
mLLA, which allayed the pain and irritation,
healed the sores removed the swelling, and
completely restored the limb to use.
Mr.. LELAND has personally used
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
A River Dream.

The blue, blue sky above
The blue, blue water under,
Two eyes more blue, and heart that's true,
And bout to boar me with my love
10 lands of light and wonder.
The sunny fields around,
The river rippling by u.s.
A smile more bright than MONDAY light,
Cur bfows with meadow garlands crowned,
And never care to tly u.
A drifting with the tide,
4 wind that whispers greeting,
An isle of rest in the ludo west,
With only the waves on the shore beside
Aul twi iclrts f)1 lily be Itng.
n. f. Bouiioa, IN Cd@eiFs .Magdsin inc.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16

oo ysf In tiSinq ta 36ild EaMaTa nc ,4oa aSa
300 persons supposed to be on the globe
could all find easy standing room within
he limits of field ten miles square, and
)y the aid Of a telephone could be adj
dressed at one time by a single speaker.
In field twenty miles square they could
all be comfortably seated.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16

of America, says that while passenger from
New York on board a ship going around Cape
Horn, in the early days Of emigration to Cal
ifornis, he learned that one of the officers of
the vessel had cured himself, during tho voy-
age, of an obstinate disease by the use Of
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16

Dude-"You love me, then, Miss
Lydia?" Lydia-"Love is perhaps
somewhat too much to say. At least
have sympathy for you, because your
face resembles so much that of my
moor dead Fido."
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16
Ayers Sarsaparilla

for Rheumatism, with entire success and,
after careful observation, declares that, in
lis belief, there is no medicine in the world
equal to it for the cure of Liver Disorders
Gout the effects of high living, saA
Rheum, Sores, Eruptions, and all this
various forms of blood diseases.
We have Mr.. LELAND's permission to invite
all who may desire further evidence in regard
TO the extraordinary curative powers Of
AYERS SARsAPARILLA TO see him person.
ally either at his mammoth Ocean Hotel.
Long Branch, or at the popular Leland Hotel.
broadway, 9th and 2sth Streets. New York.
Mr.. LELAND's extensive knowledge OF the
good done by this unequalled eradicatOr of
blood poisons enables him to give inquirers
much valuable information.
PREPARED BY
Dr.. J.C. Ayer& & Co., Lowell, Mass,
Sold by all Druggists; 81, six bottles for IS.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-10-16

jpcts Of the exhibition. which IS eX-
pccted to form leading attraction OF
the next season.