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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10
DEMANDS PROOF OR A
RETRACTION.

MADrsoNvILLE. La, April l, 1886.
EDIroR ST.. TAMMANY FARMER:
Sir write to infolm you that
cannot rest under charge OF
plagiarism, made in your paper of
March 9th and Goth. l demand
that the FARMER make good its as
sertion, (Which | am sure it cannot
do. or publish to the readers Of
that paper Il retraction of its state
.ent. Very respectfully,
AMANDA NJ. CLARK.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

A You've Mans Fancy lightly
turns 10 thoughts of love ut thls
season, but if his mother you'll
give Kim course of Van Wert's
Cathartic Pills he would probably
recover. Anxious mothers aud all
others can obtain the Pills of J.
Cahisr & Co.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10
New Advertisements.
JUDGMENT.

In this case submitted to the Court
under its assignm ent, the law and evil
dence being In favor of plaintiff and
against defendant: 1t is ordered, ad-
judged anil decreed that Mrs. Pauline
Joseph. wife, do have Judgment against
Neaphtali Levi, defendant. her hns-
band, separating her in property from
him, anu dissoiving the community OF
acauets and gains existing between her
and her said husband. from the date of
the filing of this suit to-wi., february
Isl, 1856, and for al! costs of suit to be
taxed.
CoviGgton, La, March 90. 1856.
JAS. NJ. THOMPSON.
Judge Eighteenth Judicial District of
Louisiana.
true copy.
f. B. MARTINDaLE,
apl0 st Deputy Clerk.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

RELIEF FOR OUR LrrrLE ONES can
he obtained by using DR.. Van
Wert's Balsam. It cures Group,
Pneumonia and Whooping Cough,
and 50 agreeable that babies never
refuse to take it. Samples free at
J. Cnhier & Go.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

The fine schooner Two Sons will
hereafter make regular weekly trips
between New Orleans and Covine-
ton, touching at Jacksonville and
Vaudeville. H. Il. G.. Weaver,
Master. See advertisement,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10
Nj A llRIED.

RAPID New Orleans,
Gu Monday, March %, 1886, Mt the
Church of Oul Lady of the Sacred Heart,
by the Rev. Father Frain. ANTOINE F.
COLLINS and Miss ANArsE VI. RApp.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

Owing to the changing of the
gauge on the Northeastern Rail-
road. no mail arrived here last
Thursday night. It arrived last
night on time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

The delinquent tax sales will take
place at the Courthouse next Sat
urday. the 18th inst. See list on
third page.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

In the Courthouse yard, near the jail
Where felons their luckless fate bewail-
Last Saturday Mt, gent and scholar
Found bright new silver dollar.
He quickly seized the unlooked-fol
treasure,
And got its full value-in liquid meas
ure
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

Thos. Stanley, one OF our oldest
colored citizens, died last Monday
night.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

Danger! a neglected cold or cough may
lead to Pneumonia. Consumption or other fatal
disease. Strong's Pectcral Pills will cure q
cold as by magic. Rest Thing for dyspepsia, in
digestion. sick headache as thousands testify,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10
SHEEP.

will exchange one pure Merino Ram
and some hish-graded Rams for common
Ewes, in proportion TO quality.
A. THOMSON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10
WEATHER REPORT

kali fall. 4th, ~ of an inch.
Heavy frost on the 9Th.
ALEX. BAND, Observer.
Vaudeville Station. La.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10
THE TWIN POEMS.
A MOST REMARKABLE COIN
CIDENCE.

We copy the following poem from
the New York Family Story Paper,
OF November 3, 1854:
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-04-10

Take cars Corner
of st. Charles 1n:l
Canal streets,
NEW ORLEANS,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

their gratitude by ranging IN front OF tile
little norch and giving her three cheers.
Late that night the division moved Off and
az We went by the boys showed anew their
gratitude and walked her up and brought
her out by singing it for her. And pretty
hard singing it was. 1 see her now stand
ing in the low door with candle In her
hand. and waving her apron in goodbye,
her honest and homely face SHINING with
delight. We marched at the head OF the
division. and, as soldiers will, the cheers
we gave her, as we got by, were caught
up, and regiment after regiment cheered
her az it passed. expect the little woman
was bewildered with marching compli-
ment of such magnitude as nobody that
wore bonnet had ever gotten before. As
long as we remembered her. which was
the usual period of thirty days, we spoke
of her with affectiOnate familiarity as
.Lorena." Later, the name was trans
ferred to corporal, who had been very
much taken with her, and he was called
"Lorena. The prima donna of the Jack
son Memorial concert, next week. may
sing it beautifully. She may be dressed
more fashionably and be more lovely,
but she will not do what Time has not
been able to do-dim the picture of the
honest little Lorena who waved her fare
well with her apron, her haring tallOw
candle and-I blush to write it-no
shoes on. 2. BOYZY.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26
DREAMER 2 TO BE STA RTED IN
AUG USTA COUNTY.

On Saturday last, as will be seen by
report in another part of to-days paper,
there assembled near the "Old Augusta
Church b." in the lecture room of "Roller's
Academy" number of gentlemen, who
came together for the purpose of COD sid
erIng the propriety of at once establishing
creamery in that neighborhood. This
is certainly a move in the right direction
and the prospect of concentrating the en-
terprise is stated to be good. The plan pro-
posed is the one adopted in Loudon coun-
ty, Va. by the Kingsley Bros, of buying
the whole milk from the farmer at o. fixed
rate per LOO lbs, separating the cream with
the DeLsvel centrifugal separator, and
then selling the skim milk at low price
to the farmer to be used upon the farm.
Whilst this plan may not lie the best in all
respects, it has the advantage of putting
into operation an enterprise IN which the
rAaximum of risk is devolved upon those
who establish the business, leaving he
farmer the minimum. In other woI DIS
the gentlemen, the Messrs. Parkins, pI o.
pose to commence operations by paying; 3
price for the whole milk which will re-
munerate the seller, and look to their own
management of the enterprise for prof it,
Quite number of letters were read at The
meeting from patrons of the Kingsl ey
Bros Creamery, giving practical, bust
ness like statement of the profit which
each received from their raw material {, IT.
nished the factory. The profit per cow
ranged from $50 per annum to somethi ng
over 800. AS illustrating the advanta &c
of selection, we recite the experience OF
one gentleman who furnished the milk of
ten COWS, 8 of which averaged So L'er
month, whilst the milk from one COW pro
duced SIS per month. No section OF
country is more favored than our own flor
the successful management of just such
enterprises, and 1t IS with pleasure tn at
we hail the Inauguration of system OF
dairying which in time must place A u
gusta, where she belongs, in the fro Mt
rank, as producer of butter. This is he
foundation OF a new industry which " i'll
prove source of untold wealth in the u
ture. Every condition necessary to sucet 50
meets here. and we hope the enterprise
of our people, now their attention is called
to it. will turn their opportunities into
source of profit.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

fully confirms our view of the matter and
puts the folly of the Lee-DanIel-M assey
suggestions in the light it would appear
to any business man:
1.-THE council of foreign bondholders is
perfectly well acquainted with the merits and
dement's of the settlement which is offered by
the Riddleberger funding scheme, and are
also well-informed of the financial condition
of Virginia, and know what are the revenues
and expenses of the State probably better than
some of her legislators. They know exactly
what are their rights, and how far they can be
enforced, and they are fully determined never.
under any circumstances, to fund single
bond under the Riddleberger scheme.''
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

they might render to sentinels engaged in
keeping guard during the night.
Miss Emma Abbott, the singer, has procured
two Florida alligators for pets.
The Good. Templars of Richmond, have
sent bouquets to Senators Stubs, Rhea, Kee-
zell, Williams and Petit, and basket of fow-
srs to 1t. Gov. Massey.
Rev. Geo. W. Lightner, a superannuated
minister of the Baltimore Conference of the
M. E. Church South, died at Falmouth, Va,
aged 81 years. At the breaking out of the civ
IL war though over age, he joined the 30th
Va. Regiment and was appointed drum major
1t will make the hearts of Virginia girls and
all other girls beat faster to read that the le-
gacy of Miss Sallie Strother of Culpeper, from
her aunt, the Baroness Fannenburg of Paris
consists of twenty seven trunks, filled with
silks, laces, shawls &c, &c. The Baroness
was Miss Strother and sister of the late Col.
James F. Strother of that county.
Capt. VIM. L. Neil. of Pocahontas county,
W. Va, is reported to have discovered valu-
able coal vein near his residence.
The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs was
rented out last week to w. A. Stuart for
$40, 900 for the year. Maj. B. F. Eakle is
again to be the manager.
DIR. Meade Kemper, son of Ex-Gov. KEN
per, and former practicing physician at
Goshen, in Rockbridge, was found dead in
bed at his residence in Norfolk, Tuesday
morning, from heart disease. When the SER
wi 10 70 ho xUoo
found dead, by bis side lay his Bible, and
on table near the bedside where he lay the
night lamp had burned itself out. He was a
widower.
The marriage took place at Charlestown,
W. Va, Tuesday, of Mr.. George Washington,
youngest son of the late Col. John Augustin
Washington, former owner of Mount Vernon.
and Miss Emily Serena Porterfeld, daughter
of Col. George A. Porterfeld, Cashier of the
Bank of Charlestown, and leading citizen.
The ceremony, which is stated to have been
''after the strictest English STYLE" was per-
formed by Rev. Dallas Tucker.
A few years ago the Montreal witness, :"
being strong temperance journal, refused
to publish advertisements of saloons. One
day, however, it printed an advertisement
headed, ''Schooners for Sale" and giving
time and place. It was an announcement of
the opening of lager beer saloon.
The son of the late Admiral Farragut is
about to return to Capt. James D. Johnston
of Savannah, the sword surrendered to Far
ragut on the 9Th of April, 1864, when the Con-
federate ship Tennessee was captured in Mo-
bile Bay. The sword was made in Mobile,
and its first owners name is inscribed upon
the blade.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26
ANOTHER CHANCE At LOCAL
OPTION

The Senate has wisely discarded tn
House Local Option Bill and sent back
it substitute. The substitute include
cities. exempts distllleries, and makes
majority of the votes cast at the next pre-
ceeding election necessary to carry loca
option. 1t is far better bill than tn
House bill. If, however, it does not salts
fly the Prohibition Democrats, we vii
suggest mode that will Let the Local
Option Alliance, or the Good Templars,
or any other recognized organ OF that SEN
timent prepare just such bill as they
want, however wild or impracticable ii
may be, for submission to the people,
Pass it without dissenting voice and 10
it 60 TO the people. The people of Wiz
ginia have good deal at stake, and WI
vote intelligently on 1t. They will no
vote for any measure which will bankruk t
the State treasury, open an unllcense'
rum hole in every alley, n @ke their .Stai'
depot for all the doctored whiskey MAT
in the West, and throw the liquor traifi
into the hands of men who will neltht
respect divine nor human law. 1t tht
Prohibition Democrats won't have loca
option law that may be enforced wherev-
er the majority of popular sentiment sup
ports 1t; then let them have just what
they demand, law that can't be enforced.
That the Temperance sentiment in this
State, judging by the conservatism of the
Virginia people in the past, will finally
crystalize on High License as the only sure
method of controlling the traffic, we deem
to be certain. But if it proposes to pur-
sue the tentative course, marked by the
usual failures. Of all high moral efforts be-
fore reaching solid and practical middle
path let it have its way. No local option
bill that does not provide to protect tn
State treasury from bankruptcy and the
State government itself from consequent
anarchy, will receive majority of the
votes in any community In Virginia. A
reform is wise and judici0us mode of
correcting an evil; craze is wild theo-
~ on whose tide good order and good
morals alike are swept into common peril.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26
THE LEGISLATURE.

The Senate has been chiefly engaged
this week on Local Option.
In the House there has been nothing of
special Importance done, except a fierce
ripple of protest by Mr.. Fulkerson, of the
Special Committee on the debt, at the
awkward interruption of its line of action
by Gov Lee 8 message about commission
to meet the creditors.
Mr.. Echols offered resolution extend
ing the session thirty days, which though
passed by, may from all appearances have
yet to be adopted.
The most important bill to this section
of the State-that for providing for a
State Normal School at Staunton-which
is on the calendar, was gotten up by Mr..
Echols on Wednesday. In its discussion
the delegates for Danville, Loudoun,
Front Royal, Alexandria, and Mathews,
all thought their homes the best location
for it. No action was had.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

Referring to Maj. Jed Hotchkiss' hu-
morous illusions in his lecture there to
Banks, as Stonewall Jackson's Commits
sary General, the Boston Herald" says:
Statements like those of Hotchkiss. ut
tered and applauded In Boston, brace up
the Union, as showing how entirely old
war passions have vanished" But. at the
same time The Transcript comedies that
Massachusetts "has weakness on one
poict-it would rather the defects of
Union generals should be shown up by
those who fought on the same side, and
we suppose similar feeling, only great
deal more strongly held, exists throughout
the South"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

It is the first time in the history of the
Commonwealth, to our knowledge, that
1t has taken three able bodied and promi.
nent Virginians to elevate the white
feather on public question.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26
OBSER VATIONS OF Il RETIRED
VETERAN.

VETERAN.
Perhaps we had all better be frank about
what We felt at seeing the Emma Abbott
Troupe in the "Mikado" the other night.
eighths OF us felt distressed in having the
lively but shallow music of that operetta
given by such first rate troupe. AS for
myself, am afraid heard the most of it
with mild sense of humiliation and loss,
and when heard that fine array of voices
and thought of what we might have had,
the mild sense changed to an indignant
one. When l heard the voice of Count
dl Luna wasted on the comic patter song
of the Mikado; the tones of Azucena lost
might have given "Ah. que la morte." de-
graded in Nanki-Poo's efforts, and the lit
tie woman who, whatever we may think of
her voice, is really lyric artistic and
can thrill an audience in Leonora-when,
l say, heard this and other waste Of ar
tistlc material, I could see the outraged
spirit OF the lost "Trovatore, with all it's
grand music, frowning upon the whole
performance. To think that we might
have had that scene, the ''Mlserere,"
which is one of those things that neither
age nor ages can pail, and with such cho-
rus and orchestra, gives one sense of loss
approaching to robbery. If we have not all
said this to each other about the Mikado,
we may as we'll say it now and be frank;
for that ID about the way We all felt. or
course one cannot criticise the Mikado as
musical test for any company, especially
for such company as this, but one thing
struck me very forcibly, and that was their
conscientiousness in observing the details
The waddle of the Japanese woman, even
as much as it detracted from the three
really pretty women who practiced it; the
minuteness with which the Japanese
ensemble was carried out; the splendor of
the dresses. the characteristic stage set
ting-a showed a cOnscientiousness hard
ly to have been expected from irst-class
troupe who had descended to a comic
operetta. Not, mark you, that mean by
any of this to detract from the Mjkado,
for it is just one of those pretty, bright.
pure productions that this generation
should be thankful for, seeing that it
gives US an opportunity to take our fami-
lies to see bright and innocent perform
anee, not besmirched anywhere by doubt
full phrases or scenes.
/ have been good deal bewildered late
iy Ia the solution of how far it is essential
to be truthful in formal social matters.
My attention was called to it in the most
startling way. The other evening after
a visitor of oErs had left, to whom | had
made remark WHICH did not contain
particle of untruth but at the same time
was equally free from truth, Mrs, Boyay
turned to me and remarked with stern
emphasis: How deceitful you are u
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

There ara lying somewhere in the Vir-
ginia legislature pair Of loose reins. To
the Democrat who shall selzs and use
them. future promotion and distinction.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

Augusta county ought to remem Der the
StonewaIl Jackson Monument Concert
here, next Tuesday night She furnishe d
many man to follow him.,
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$1,412 525 so
Miscellaneous sourees...... IS q

But the above facts are to be offset by
the county and municipal taxation, which
the figures have obtained from the Aud
1tor's office show to be 100 per cent. of the
State taxation.
The opinion of some that the consol and
ten-forty coupons may Big funded at par
as they mature into new threes without
Inconvenience is not considered correc by
the Second Auditor. He reports the
amount thus proposed to b funded as
$25 $3.50, which, added to the $40, 2O4,-
900, principal of these bonds, would make a
total of SAG 031 ,480 by the time the b,nds
mature. But the preamble to the sattls
ment of 1881 and 1882 declared that the
resou rces of this State are inadequate to
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

pay more than per cent. In annual inter-
est on the debt, which was ascertained to
be SCI 035. 81, or more accurately $685.
JAS .o23. FITZHUGH LEE
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

"Justice,'' on the subject of roads, will
have place next week.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

The concert of old songs of the war
time, which is presently to be given in aid
of the Jackson Memorial Fund, promises
to bring up many recollections OF the past
at least it promises me that. 1t was
only yesterday that grizzle- bearded vet
eran who, have no good reason to think,
knows one note from another and whose
little daughter is practicing the old war
time songs, told me that he had recolIec-
ted "Juanita" we'll enough to correct her
notes. And many of us recollect these old
songs, or would if we heard them again.
shall never forget "Lorena", though it
is twenty-five years since heard it. 1t
was at farmhouse 10 North Carolina
that the boys Of our company first heard
it outside of Richmopd, and the ar
tiste made up in esrnestness and
good nature what she lacked-in sur
roundings. Her hands we're red, her face
freckled, her hair was done up in gaudy
red ribbon. she called it "Lurrepy,"
and the piano was out of tune, but it was
news from home to us and no artistic I
eyer knew got @ore encores In fact. we
we kept ner at il all morning, and when
they we're obliged to 60, the boys showed
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

and GENUINE POINTS, LANDsIDEs MoULD-
BOARDS sc
Those using the OLIVER are never DELAYED for
repairs as is the case with those buying new and,
untried plows, however good, for we buy Oliver
Flow repairs by the CAR LOAD and ALWAYS have.
them on hand. LYNN & co Ag'rs
IeD ~ StauntOn, Va.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

Mr.. Morrison has introduced his tariff
bill. 1t is estimated that it will save the
country at large some 500 900, 900. It let's
in free of duty coal, salt. iron and lumber in
which Virginia is so much interested;
lumber in which the Northwest has such
vast interests; sugar, which has aroused
Louisiana, and rice, which has arrayed
South Carolina against it. There is little
chance, we are glad to say, OF the bill pass
ing the House as it is. Perhaps, Mr.. Nor
rison has introduced it for discussion, as
he did his horiz )ntal tariff last year. At
any rate it will have to be shown whether
it can stand discussion, and searching,
thorough one. The opposition to it in
some of the States IS neryed by the pros
pect of fatally destroyed values of staple
products should it become law.
We see that Delegate Echols received
the high compliment of being assigned,
on the part of the House, to the Joint
Committee to take charge of and advance
the bills considered by the caucus as de-
serving special consideration. during the
remainder of the session of the General
Assembly. The Committee consists Of
three members Of the House and two of
the Senate.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-02-26

/ herewith submit in connection with
the foregoing message the following facts
and figures for the information Of all con-
cerned:
The receipts of the last fiscal year were
81, 69s 1922. OF this amount $50 1854 so
was paid in coupons, showing cash reve-
nue. of So, 615 ,93o72. The face amount OF
the tax-receiyable coupons is $2.721 ,212.
If this amount is forced upon the Treasu-
ry in any one year it will absorb the entire
revenue for that year and leave $25, 10S. IS
receivable coupons still unpaid.
The deficit in the Treasury from Janu-
airy l, 1872. to January 1, 1880, was &c.
28O .23S.91; or ST. 100 ,O29 Sc per annum, and
it Is but fair to suppose that similar
state OF things will exist If these coupons
are forced on the Treasury, for this will
necessitate an additional tax of IA cents
on every hundred dollars OF value in the
State. and the people have decided that
this is more taxation than they can bear
The best explanation Of the discomfort
that follows an increase of taxes in Vir-
ginia will be found in an examination of
the following table of the number of Cit
liens who are assessed with State tax of
twenty-five dollars or more, up to five
hundred dollars, as prepared by the Second