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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18
Thanks the Earthqu ake.

A Savannah special to the New York
Times says: That strange incident OF
last weeks earthquake shock is the re-
ccvery of the power Of speech by Miss
Mamie Martus, daughter of a retired Of
ficer of the regular army. At the close
of the war her father was put in charge
of Forts Pulaski and Jackson below this
city. While at the former fort, the
daughter, then bright, intelligent
child had an attack Of meningitis which
left her vOiceless. The best medical
skill was obtained and the father took
his afflicted child travelling, but nothing
did her any good. She was dumb, but
had all the other senses. During the
excitement Of the first earthquake shock
last Tuesday night, she in her fright at
tempted to call her brother. He was
frightened himself when he heard her
whisper his name. Since then she has
gradually regained her voice and now
talks with perfect fluency. She says she
was almost delirious with joy when she
found that she could speak. Her voice
was low and her throat sore for three
days and she had trouble in finding
words to express her thoughts. 1t was
much like learning new tongue except
that she knew the words, but had for
gotten how to pronounce them. City
physicians are deeply Interested in the
case. Their explanation is that the re-
cOvery was due to intense mental excite
ment.
@ Beer on ice at cents glass at
r Audiherf,s
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18

The Farmers Congress held few days
ago at st. Paul, Mimi, passed q resolu-
ton approving the OleOmargarine law
past by the last session Of Congress and
recommending its enforcement. Some
how the farmers every where. east and
west. refuse to be humbugged by the
paid advocate of wagon grease butter,
which commenced by opposing the bill
as an injury to consumers. who 1t was
claimed ought to enjoy the privilege OF
buying the bogus article at the price OF
the genuine. Failing to defeat the Dill
these paid newspaper organs OF the
oleomargarine ring are now trying to
convince the farmers that the. law will
injurp them and ought not to be enforced
And yet in spite Of all the efforts OF the
venal oleomargarine press not solitary
farmer Of all this broad land has yet
expressed any dissatisfaction with the
national law passed for the protection OF
honest dairy and the general public.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18
N o T l c E
Headquarters Democratic Executive
Committee Third Congressional
District.

Lake Charles, La, Aug. % 1885.
By virtue of authority vested In me as
Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee of the Third Congressional
District, Of Louisiana. notice Is hereby
given that Democratic Convention is
hereby called to convene in the town Of
Franklin, St. Mary Parish. La. on
Saturday September IS 1886.
at II o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose Of
nominating q Democratic candidate to
represent the Third Congressional Dis
trict of Louisiana, In the Fiftieth (5Oth)
Congress of the United States of America.
Representation in Convention to be the
same as in the Congressional Convention
of 1884.
The Chairman of the Democratic Exc
cutive Committee of the different pa
rishes comprising the Third Congree-
sional District, will take the necessary
steps to have their parish properly repre-
sented in said Convention; and will for
ward to these headquarters the names Of
Delegates elected.
Respectfully,
WIN. VINCENT,
Chairman Democratic Executive Com
mitttee, Third Congressional District Of
Louisiana.
G. NJ. RICHARD, Secretary.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18
Rspelling a Sioux Outbreak.

A number of years ago Dakota set
tier who mad recently come from Mis-
souri,, went In hastily formed company
to help repel Sioux outbreak. After
few weeks neighbOr, who had also gone
returned and informed the mans wife
that her husband was dead.
Was he killed during fight with the
Indians asked the woman.
There was little skirmish going on
that was all.
Yes.
We had retreated to one side Of "a
vine and the indians were on the other.
He ventured down into the open space
and was killed.
Do you mean to tell me that John
crswled out Of good cover right down
where the Indians could see him?
Yes mann.
Ican't believe it sir. He knew more
abont Indian fighting than that. don't
believe he would risk his own life that
way even IL he knew he could kill an In
dian.
Oh, he didn't creep out to kill in
dams.
What was it then.
Why, when We retreated somebody
dropped bottle Of whiskey in the bottom
Of the ravine and he went back to get il
before the indians did.
How large was the bottle?
1t was quart bottle Of good old whis-
key, and he got most Of it drank be-
fore the indians succeeded in hitting
him.
Well l believe you now. John wa
an excellent judge of whiskey and would
make almost any sacrifice to get it,
Estelline Bell
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18
Brave Act Of a Flagman.

As train dashed into Lowell Mass, on
Friday small child was seen by the
hagman, william Lawler. standing in
the middle OF the track with his back to
the approaching engine. He sprang in
front of the train and succeeded in res
cuing the child. In the performance
of the brave act Lawler himself was
struck by the cOwcatcher Of the lOcomo-
tive and hurled several feet against q
fence bordering the track. His injuries
though serious will probably not prove
fatal. The rescued boy was deaf and
dumb.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18

According to Voorhees, the distrib97
ton of the patronage during the first
year Of a new administration always
causes mote or less ugliness, which, gFa-
dually disappears as men begin to get
mad at the common enemy, and he is
confident that old Democrats will come
up to the scratch by election day.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18
Born Without Eyes.

There is boy in Dover, Me-, born
without eyes or eyeiids. The part Of
the face in which the eyes ought to be
according to all presidents Is as smooth
as the cheek. The boy is IA years Of
age and his name is Stimsford. His
parents have repeatedly refused offers
to have the child exhibited as q curiosity.
The lads mother is very near sighted
Boston Traveller.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18

w Beer! beer! beer at
5 cts a glass at B. Audibert's.
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As an exchange remarks there Is no
necessity for our government to enter
into costly competition with European
powers in turning out enormous war
vessels. We should, however have as
fast and we'll armed vessels as there are
In the world, and It begins to look as If
we shall get them. The two 5000 ton
ironclads authorized by recent act Of
Congress are to have speed greater than
that of any English war vessel now
afost.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18

Transient advertisements, IS cents per
inch for first insertion; so cents for each
subsequent insertion.
Official or legal advertisements, 81 per
IA inch for first insertion; and so cents for
each subsequent insertion.
vBrief communications upon subjects
of public interest solicited. No attention
will be given to anonymous letters.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18
Notice to the Public.

The tickets issued to Laborers on the
St. John Plantation, marked not trans
ferable," will only be cashed at the end
of each month, to the laborers to whom
they are issued. The public are noti-
fed not to negotiate for said tickets.
g. W. Thomas.
st. Martinsville. Sept. 18th. 1886.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18

Dear Frye: know how 1t is myself.
shake.-Burch0rd.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18

6r Beer on ice at 5 cents glass at
B. Audibert's.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18
Post Office, St. Matinsville, La.

Opens daily, except Sunday, from 8 a. m
to 6p.m. Sunday from 8 a. m. to 1850 a.
M, and from p. m. to 4p. m.
Money ordes issued daily, except Sunday
from a. m. to 3p. m.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-09-18

"a Beer on ice at cents glass at
b. Audibert's.
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1t takes 100000 tons Of paper annu-
ally to supply the world.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-06-18

n1-An Assay Office is connected with
the Bank under the su' ervision of Mr..
Charles A. Hofer, late Assistant AssayeI
OF the United State Mint. Prompt and
reliable Bullion and Oore Assays OF
Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin, Iron, Nickel,
Manganese, Cinnabar, &C., &c.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-06-18
Saturday. September IL.

For the purpose of electing delegates to the
said State Convention, the primary elections to
be carried out in compliance with the laws of
tee
The following test will be required Of each
and every voter at the said primary elections.
viz: That he is a citizen of this State and will
support the nominees If the Republican party
at the coming election.
c. C. STEVENSON, Chairman.
r. C. LoRp, Secretary.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-06-18

The several Republican County Central Com
mittees of the State are hereby Instructed to
call primary elections Of the people on
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-06-18

n@A General Insurance Agency 10
also eonnseted with the Bank. Staunch
and reliable Fire, Life and Accident
OA d0y application,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-06-18

Tie basis If representation to said Conven
tion mad follows: One delegate for
each so votes, and one for each fraction of 25
or over, cast for the Blaine and Logan Elec
tors al the last election, aggregating IA Dele
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
The Flow Of Metals.

In one of his recent interesting lecture.
in London, Prof. Roberts-Austen spoke
of eight prominent points of resemblance
between metals and fluids which have
long been known. They are the rejec.
ton of impurities on solidifcation, suffu.
sion, flow under pressure, changes due ia
compression, absorption of gases. ab.
sorption of liquids, vaporization, and
surface tension. OF these properties
perhaps the most astonishing are those
exhibited by metals whtn compressed.
Placing cold powdered metals in q pow
erful press, Prof. W. Spring, of Liege,
caused leld to weld into a solid mass 6y
a pressure of Il tons per square inch;
zinc, by 10 tons; tin, 80 tons; antimony,
3S tons; aluminium, 3S tons; bismuth, 3S
tons; copper. 3S tons. At 80 tons per
square inch lead actually began to flow,
and at 47 tons tin showed the same phe.
uomenon. When pressure OF more
than so tons to the square inch was given,
the metals under experiment flowed
through the fine cracks of the compress
ing chamber like so much treacle. Prof.
Spring also proved that the crystalline
structure of metals may be changed by
pressure as by fusion; and that it is pos
sible even to build up alloys by pressure.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
The Instinc& of Animals.

Professor Fowler mentioned that 1t
had seen within the last few days a dog
which knew the return of Sunday. Moth
ing could induce the dog to 60 out with
him. though on other days, when he
took his stick and hat, he slowed great
anxiety to go with him. Professor
Fowler attached great Importance tc
kindness in the teaching of animals
Miss Katherine Wray gave an in
tercsting account of how, in three
weeks, by means of bone attached tt
the door bell she had tlught the dog tc
ring the bell. C. c. Walker mentioned
that he knew family which had taught
a dog to howl at the opposition and show
great interest at the mention of the late
government. Mrs. Stokes thought tina
some minds seemed t. have greater power
Of communication with animals thar
Others, and she mentioned an Englisf
professor who seemed to have the powe
of calling birds from the sky.-Picayuns
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
4 Snake in His Stomach.

Speaking of the venomous snake
which caused the horrible d ath of the
little boy who lived Lear Grand Falls, q
short time since, q Lewistown man
vouches for the truth of similar occur
renee in the eastern part of this State,
which came under his observation not
long ago. a young fellow who was
noted sportsman, always run
ming about the woods cunning and
fishing, one day about month
since took his fishing rod and started for
well known trout brook, where he was
wont to make his headquarters during
the fishing season. He tells the story
himself, that about noon, the day being
warm, lie became thirsty, and stretched
himself out on the bank of the trout
brook, and began drinking q cool
draught from the clear pool just below
small waterfall. How the misfortune
happened he can hardly explain, but
when in the very act of drinking he
sucked into his stomach q large water
snake.
1t was with difficulty that he crawled
home and obtained assistance of ply
sicians. His symptoms grew alarmingly
serious soon after medical aid was sum-
moned. The doctors did everything in
their power to rid him of this living
death, but all their efforts only resulted
in making the young mans condition
more critical. The snake nearly choked
the man. to death several times by crawl
ING back and forth in his throat. The
young man was nearly dead when his
friends advised him as last resort to go
back to the trout brook, lie down near
the water, and perhaps the gurgling
of the brook might entice the water
snake out of his stomach back
to his native haunts. The victim
of this awful calamity thought the
experiment only foolish chance
for life, but he consented to try it. He
was carried to the brook and placed
directly beneath waterfall, where the
sire m rushel down steep, rocky de-
scent, making noise enough to awaken
a dozen snakes. He hadn't remained by
the water long before he felt u motion Of
something crawling in his stomach. Grad.
ually the sensation became higher and
higher, and the viper bcgl IN slowly crawl
ing up the poor mans throat. The water
had won the victory, for the Shiny rep.
; tile stuck its head out of the mans mouth,
saw the water rushing past and leapt into
the brook. An attcnpt WAS made to cap.
ture the water snake. but it was unsuc.
ccssful. The man lives today to tell
the story. .-LeWist0n (Ne.) Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
Sugar Statistics.

The worlds production of sugar is
probably we'll toward eight million
tons year. Of this, British India
and China produce and themselves
consume over million tons each
of cane sugar, their exports being
small, and these of very low grade
sugars. The estimated product of all
countries available for export was, in
1sS4-5, 6, year of large production, 2, 162,-
900 tons of cane and 40 less than 2,557,-
800 of Eect sugar. Ii is estimated that
the cane-sugar crop marketed this year
will increase to 2,21S,O 900 tons, and that
the beet-sugar crop will fall off $40, $50
tons -ra tly the result of a lower acreage
resulting from the low prices of last
year. Cuba produces more than quarter
of the whole export supply of cane
sugar, last years p. oduct being 627, 900
tons, while this years will probably
equal her largest crop (1875), which was
600, 900 tons. Of this more than half
Tin 1885, 339, ,536 gross tons) comes to
this country, which gets nearly half its
total supply for refining from that island
of revolutions. louisiana produced last
year but $4,000 tons, but its normal
product is nearer 125. 900 tons, to which
Texas, our other chief sugars growing
State, adds 10000 tons more. Five other
States contribute some cane sugar.
The Sandwich Islands crop, under
the stimulus OF the treaty which
permits its sugar to enter duty free,
reaches $4,000 tons. but it is said
that the use of all the available
land, and the poor quality OF native labor,
the prohibition of Chinese, and the high
price of white labor, fix the limit at the
present figure. Of the beet-sugar supply,
Germany produced last year 1, 155, 900
tons, Austria 557, 900, Russia. $50, COO,
France $4,000, Belgium 10000, and
Holland $4,000 tons. Our chief contri-
button to this crop is from factory at
Alvarado, Cal, producing about 1000
tons, but it is believed that this will be-
come an important Pacific coast industry.
Beet sugar is largely imported into this
country for refining purposes, and we get
also some date-palm sugar, called com
mercially "date jaggery." Our yield of
maple sugar, in which Vermont still
leads, was about 25, 900 tons last year.
Sorghum, although large quantities of
syrup are made from the large acreage at
the West, has not yet come into the mar.
ket as all important commercial source of
crystallizable sugar, the largest crop
having been but 5,00Jtons; our scientific
agriculturists, who give good reasons for
looking to this as one of the great Ameri-
can crops of the future, have yet to JUS
tify their faith by their works. The
manufacture of commercial glucose, or
artificial starch sugar, has of late years
reached enormous proportions in this
country, amounting in value to a third
of our cane-su gar crcp.-Ha'per's Aaga-
.in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
Ivory.

Mammoth tusks of ivory occasionally
come to this couLtry from Siberia, but
as these have been lying exposed for CEN
turies, and probably for many Thousands
of years, and often buried in ice, the
mature" has gone out of them and they
are not fit for the cutters use. The
teeth of the walrus and hippopotamui
are used in considerable quantity, and
being of suitable size are used whole fol
making expensive carved handles. Ivory
of the best quality comes from the west
coast of Africa, under the names of Cam
eroon, Angola, and Gaboon ivory. This
is brought down from the interior, and
retains larger proportion of the "fat"
or ge.atine, from the fact, probably, that
it is more recently from the animal. In
this state it is called 'green'' ivory. Il
is more translucent and not so white a.
the Egyptian and other kinds. called
"white" ivory, that have been lying
longer time and in more sandy region,
and exposed to the heat of the sun until
the animal matter has disappeared. Thu
excellence of the ''green" ivory consists
in its greater toughness and in its grow
ing whittier by age, instead of yellow, Al
is the case with the whittier varieties. Yet
buyers of cutlery, through ignorance oi
these qualities, usually prefer the whittier
kinds, which, on that account, are more
in demand for the Sheffield trade, and
have more than doubled in price since
1879. The sales OF ivory occur every
three moths at London and Liverpool,
and sales are also held to limited extent
and at irregular intervals at Rotterdam.
At Liverpool only ivory Of the best quail
ity and from the west coast of Africa i
offered. Buyers from Germany and
France and agents of American consum:
ers attend these sales. and it is estimated
that about one quarter of the whole
amount goes to Sheffield, another quarter
to London, and the other half to Ger
many, France and the United States
Chambers Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
Gladstone Preparing His Speeches.

We are told, on good authority, this is
Mr.. Gladstone's method Of preparing his
speeches: lie keeps Il box into which ne
is in the habit of throwing cuttings from
newspapers and other memoranda OF facts
bearing upon the sub; ;ect IN hand. on
the morning of the day preceding any
great oration he goes through his box
and picks out his notes of the particular
facts which he wishes to use. These ne
gums in their proper order upon large
Sheet of paper aud uses them as the posts
uron which the speech itself is to be
hung. Then he imagines himself actually
speaking-composes his Grafton, in tact,
in his head. After he satisfied with 1t,
he dismisses the subject from his mind,
md occupies himself until the hour for
speaking comes threading a novel.
Ills memory is so great that his pre-
viously composed sentences come back to
him without effort. - Whitehall Recaeu.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
POatical Aid to Pronunciation.

"How They are Pronounced by Sensi
BILE People," is the heading given to th'
following rhymes, which we find credited
to the Boston Courier:
Long time he'd been away from home,
Th, Reverend Mr.. Harris.
When he returned he told his wife
That he had been to Paris.
And when b, asked his wife about
His little girls and boys.
She said that they wele visiting
An aunt i'll Illinois.
She said she was in failing health
And if he had the means,
She'd like to take a trip herself
As far as New Orleans.
He said: "My dear, you'll have the trip"
The proper thing to do is
To go together, and We'll take
The steamer al st. Louis.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-23
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The Savannah News says that the real
reason why Southern men wear Their
hair long is to keep the sun from tan.
| ming their necks. .'.->4
The accumulated photographs of babies
that have been named after the President
number some 700 and fill three drawers
In White House closet.
It is said that japanese house Of
three rooms can be built for from twenty.
five to hundred dollars, and the furni
ture, which consists principally of mats
and sliding partitions, costs ifty dollars
more. ..
The palanquin was introduced into
Greece and Rome from the East, in tha
first instance as an article of luxury. for
females, but aftcrward it came to be
pretty generally used for men as well al
women.
In her wars with Turkey between 1857
and 1778, Russia did not employ priva.
teers. In the eighteenth century priva-
teering had become an organized piracy,
and almost every treaty attempted, but
in vain, to restrain it.
It is said that in 1926 there was not.a
nursery for the sale of fruit trees in all
New England, and the neglected gardens
yielded only small quantity of small
fruit, chiefly currants. The first horti-
cultural society in the country was
founded in 1929.
It appears from recent book on sea
legends that there are many ways to
raise the wind. You may suspend he
goat skin at the mast head, you may fog
boy at the mast, you may burn broom
and let the handle turn toward the de.
sired quarter, you may blow out to sea
the dust from the chapel floor, you may
stick a knife in the mizzenmast or scratch
the foremast with nail, and so on.
The lasso commonly used by cowboys.
is made of sixty feet of rope, third of
which forms the loop. When thrown, it
is swung over the head and left shoulder,
with peculiar turn of the wrist calcu-
lated to keep the loop open until it en-
/ circles the object ut which it is flung.
Expert throwers do not pride them
selves on catching steer by the horns
but try to so hurl the moose in front of
the beast that he will step into it, thus
entangling his legs ard throwing him.
In Wyoming exhibition cowboy re-
peatedly caught bull by any leg the
spectators named.