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The Opelousas courier., 1886-05-08

Then they parted. The Major went
| home and cleaned his rife. After the
family prayers his wife sat up until mid
night moulding bullets, while ne himself
sharpened the old axe on the grindstone.
In the morning two marshals came out to
the farm and ordered the Buckhinge
family to leave. The Major got out his
| riie, but before he could make a mov
he was thrown on his back and disarmed.
| Then he was handcuffed and taken away
to Jail. Mrs. Buckhinge vowed that she
would be true to her husband, and she
made a loophole in the door of the house,
and when the marshals came back she
poked the muzzle of the rifle out and
said that she would die rather than give
up her home. The marshals retreated,
but in the afternoon they came back and
opened fire on the house with rifles. The
poor mother at last crept out of the house
with her children and wandered away
half naked.
Kind neighbors fed the family for
awhile, and the. Major was at last set
free when he promised that he would
abandon the farm. The first thing he
did was to hire horses and haul the old
home up the shadows until he had taken
it far enough to float over to the thirty
feet of the old farm which the Missouri
had spared. The house was dragged up
to its old foundation.
As there was no farm left the Major
told his family to take care of the house
until he came back. When he started
away to search for a living the Major
cried for the first time in his life. He
earned a little money here and there at
odd jobs and sent all he could to his
wife and children. All last winter he
worked in St. 10, heart hungry for home,
but afraid to go back to the farmhouse
lest he might lose a dollar and thus de-
prive the children of some little comfort
OF luxury.
One morning last spring he got this
letter:
DEAR HUSBAND: Come home at once. Let
nothing delay you. Your wife, JEAN.
With a quaking heart the Major burri-
ed back to the farm house with his rife
over his shoulder. What was his sur
prise to find that the Missouri had chang
ed its course a half mile above and had
washed the old farm back again with an
addition of twenty acres. The neighbors
had joined together to surprise the absent
man. They contributed seed, ploughed
the land and sowed the early crop.
The Major wept as he embraced his
little wife and then he knelt down and
offered up a thankful prayer. He now
lives a life of eonteutment and true hap
piness.-NeW York World.
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Had Heard the Name.

Don't know Cranmer, of Colorado"
queried a Montana man at the Merchants
a few days ago. "Well, | thought every
body knew Cranmer. He is one of the
biggest cattlemen, not only in Colorado,
but in the world. His cattle, and there
are a good many of them, too, arc all
branded with three circles-thc three
circle brand, as he calls it. Cranmer was
at a convention of cattlemen at Hugo.
He was conversing with a party of cat
tlelnen when n of the party happened
to mention the name of Shakespeare.
shakespeare observed Cranmer, where
have | heard hat name before? What
kind of a brand docs he use on his cat
tle?'n-St. Paul Pioaeer-Press
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Your Coming.

/ know not, love, how first you found me,
What instinct led You here;
/ know the world has changed around me
Since once you came SO near.
! yield a thousand claims to nourish this,
At last the dearest hope, the nearest tie;
And looking but to you for happiness,
Happy am ].
How lightly passed the maiden leisure
That youth and freedom chose,
The careless days of peace and pleasure
The nights of pure repose!
So swift q touch could set the tune amiss!
So brief a shadow blot the morning skyl
Yet if the heart be made for happiness,
Happy am /.
0 love, your coming taught me trouble;
Your parting taught me pain.
My breath grew quick, my blood ran double
1t leaped in every vein.
Yet, all! has Time outdone the lovers kiss,
The 1ook-the burning look-the low repIy7
If these be all he holds of happiness,
Happy am !.
You lend to earth a vague motion;
Myself a stranger seems;
Your glance is mixed with sky and ocean;
Your voice is heard in dreams.
The good ] choose is weighed with thatI miss,
Ny idlest laughter mated with a sigh,
And moving only in your happiness,
Happy am /.
Dora Read Goodaie. in Harper's.
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Madstones for Hndronhohfn.

North Carolina boasts of no less than
four madstones each of which is alleged
to have certain specific virtues, making
each the great and only maidstone. Won
derful apparent cures have been effected
by the use of these madstones during the
past half a century. Some Of them are
even older than that, but faith in their
efficacy has never diminished. There is
a famous stone in Halifax County, and
people bitten by rabid dogs have been
taken to the stone or the stone has been
taken to them for years.
Another stone is know far and near a.
the Painter maidstone, and is owned by
Mr.. Painter,i Of Person County. It is in
demand by both Virginians and North
%Carolinians, and there are cases known of
persons having been taken hundreds Of
miles To be touched BY this stone.--Nep
Yorb World.
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Sugar Habit aud alcohol Habit.


When we consider that sugar is a staple
article of human dict, used greatly to ex-
cess in many parts of the globe, and
when we consider that the human stom-
ach furnishes the water and the warmth
necessary to produce fermentation, it
seems very wonderful to me if it has not
occurred to medical men long ago, writes
Florence Mccarthy in the Chicago I1ib-
une, hat there may be a very close con-
nection between the sugar habit and tho
alcohol habit, though ! am not aware
that they have ever suspected it.
MY theory is that sugar in the human
stomach undergoes a partial fcrmenta.
ton, and produces small quantities of
alcohol, which are absorbed INTO the cir
culation, and which, by the well-known
and fatal power which this poison pos
sesses to increase the thirst for itself, lays
the foundation for alcoholism. do not
mean that this takes place in all stom-
achs, much less in all healthy stom-
achs, for I understand that where there
are healthy and copious gastric secretions
this would be impossible. But | suppose
that it takes place in stomachs which
through some idiosyncrasy are unable to
dispose of sugar, and especially when dis
ordered and dyspeptic. / do not know
that this is true, but if it is true it is inn
portant and deserves the attention of
men with more learning and skill than ]
can bring to the investigation.
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A Motter Of AGE.

Major-Who is that young lady on the
opposite side of the room?
Widow-That is my daughter. This
is her first season. She is not quite nine
teen yet.
Major-Will you introduce me2
Widow-Certainly. Rosa, my dear,
this is Major Guns. Major, my daughter,
Rosa.
Rosa-Good evening. And SO, you
were in the war;
Major-Ycs, I enlisted Immediately
after the battle of Bull Run and served
till the close.
Rosa-My poor, dear father was killed
IN that battle.
The Major is now buried IN deep
hought.-Deh-oit Free Press.
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SCRAPS.

A French scientific journal states that
the Paper rails now being made at St.
Petersburg have proved to be extremely
durable, while they cost one third less
han those made of steel.
From his studies of the Krakatoa cat
astrophe, Verbeek is led to maintain that
part of our globe remains still in a mol,
ten state, and he disputes the theory
which has been advanced that the heat
of the volcanic furnaces is entirely due to
local chemical action.
Alderman physician has experimental
to ascertain the hour of the day at which
mar is at his best and able to do the
most work with the least fatigue. and has
concluded that he is strongest at the
time of rising. He has shown, also, that
breakfast has an important effect on the
muscular powers, and urges carly eating,
for those who rise early.
j. GRADER has made experiments with
animals of the classes of vertebrates, ar
ticulatcs, mollusks, and worms, from
which he has determined that the sense
of color and the power of perceiving light
are more widely distributed than has
generally been supposed. The variations
in the sense of color among animals are
very great.
The theory that abnormally brilliant
| skies, like those of recent years, are due
to volcanic dust or vapors appears to be
not a new one. Attention has now been
called to Danish records which mentions
remarkable sky glows in 1886 and again
in 1888, in each case the effects being
attributed to emissions from the great
volcanic eruptions which had taken place
in Iceland.
An English statistician shows that
since 1888 wars among the civilized have
caused the death of AGO. 600 men. A
large majority of these deaths have re
suited from wounds, hardships and dis
ease, the number actually killed on the
field being comparatively small. The
bloodiest battle in the period named was
iBorodino, where $50, 900 men were en-.
gagged and 1000 were placed hors de
!combat.
A botanist has attempted to estimate
| the number of seeds found on single
specimens of some of the most obnoxious
weeds of this country. For shepherds
purse he makes the number 81, 500 pei
plant; dandelion, IL, 1OS; wild pepper
grass, 10, 400; wheat thief, 1000; com
mon thistle, IS, 1865; c%hamomile, Is, $50
butter weed, 8587; rag weed, 1885
common purslane, 3s8, 800; common
plantain, AZ, 200 'burdock, SO, 06s.
A noticeable feature in the climate Of
southeastern India, according to Col. B.
r. Brantill, of the London Geographic
cal Society, is the frequent lightning
storms, which occur daily for weeks to-
gether, before the setting in of the south
west monsoon, unaccompanied by rain OR
by any sound of thunder. This curious
phenomenon is most frequent in districts
where land and sea breezes alternate with
much regularity.
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TWO MALLARD DUCKS
Because One was Bad the
Other was Given Away.
But the One GivenCAway Proved to be a
Tosthsome Tidbit.

The other day. purchased a pair of NAL
lard ducks, and looked forward to feast
with the eyes and soul of an alderman. |
concluded they could be nothing but
mallards when my setter pup proved his
good breeding by barking himself al
most into a fit when the express man
brought them.
The cook had a great time with them.
1t took her, she says, two hours to get
the feathers off the first one. She says
she never saw feathers before that could
hold on so tight. 1t was her opinion
that they must have been riveted in, be-
cause, after scalding the duck, she could
not pull them out without taking the
flesh along. She observed, after the first
one was plucked that she would like to
have a pair of forceps, to remove the TO
liage from the other.
''Never mind about the other" | said;
"We will try that one first"
So on the following day we tried, it. [
am not sure yet whether it was a she'll
drake, a coot, or an old wife, but it was
certainly the strongest and tshiest thing
ever saw in the image of a duck.
1t was as tishy as the advertised circu-
lation of a morning paper, and, as far as
strength goes, l will simply say that we
couldn't touch the duck, except with a
fork.
There is no use of plucking the other
duck, is thcre?' I asked.
"No," came from the other end of the
table.
''Then, as it is of no use whatever,
suppose we give it to the poor9" l asked.
Capital idea," came from my cis-a-ris.
So the cook wa ordered to give the
remaining duck to the poor woman over
the hill, and when the poor woman's lit
tie boy came with the milk in the morn
ing, the duck was presented.
On the following afternoon | looked
out of the back window, and saw the
husband of the poor woman bounding
down the hill.
"He has probably eaten some of that
duck" | observed: land is now coming
for revenge. Tell him l shall be absent
on business for several days"
| felt rather queer as l heard his great
cowhide boots rafting on the stoop.
"You sent up a duck yesterday" he
said.
Yes" replied the cook.
"My little boy is sick, he said: land
l have come to"
Probably the boy is dying, thought,
and he is coming to kill me.
What is the matter with the 5oy?'
asked the cook.
He simply replied:
"The duck"
I crawled up the garnet steps, got
through the s~cuttle, sat on the roof, and
listened.
How did the duck come to make him
sick2' | heard the cook ask.
HE ate too much of it: and | have
come to bring the milk"
Then l hurriedly descended, and
learned, to my horror, that the market
man had given me a plump domestic
duck and a scrawny shelldrake, and,
having been sold on the latter, / had
gone and given the former to the poor
woman Just over the hill.-Puck.
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satisfied WITH the assertion.

Wife-:'The lardcris empty"
Husband-''So is my pocket-book.n
Wife-sThe coal is gone
Husband-s'So is my credit
Wife-"We have no -four in the house,
Husband-ssAnd I have no money
Wife (emphatically)-seWcll we can't
starve.n
Husband INK goodness.
! was afraid We should have to, "-Roston
Beacon.
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Speakf,tq from. Ecperfence.

Bolgertop Geading)-Here's q strange.
remedy for bleeding at the nose.
Dusenbury-What is it2
Bolgertop-A vigorous working Of the
jaws viii prevent it.
Dusenbury--No good-emphatically
no good
Boigcrtop-How Do yon knowa
Dnsenbury-My wife frequently has
nose bIeed.-CdN.
i shrewd writer IN 8 household peri
odieaI recommends washing dishes IS the
best thing to put the hands IN the soft
and pliablc condition most favorable To-
piano practice.
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Reward Of s5O-.Fifly Dollars

rs OFFERED by the Central st. Ltairy Protective
Il Live Stock ASS ~,ciation, for evideR;e that Will lead
to ths apprehension and conviction OF any persons
guilty OF stealing horses or cattle belonging 70 any
member of said Association. A racord of the brands
of members of the Association may be seen AZ me
house of the Secretary. Jno. NJ. Ware. in Bellows. y
j. E. sHUTE. JNO. NJ. WARE, sscy;
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Ope!ousas Lumber Yard.
WHITWORTH & co, Iroprietors.

All X nos Of Cypress lumber, shingles, dres sed fcof
ing. ceiling, sash, doore. blinds AMI m~sul1tngs. A
good lJt OF cistern lumber Bills of lumber saved 10
Cruer or shot notice. dec las
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3. MARTEL, by. Clerk & Notary Public

Real Estate Agent. Opeionsas, La
WI ILL give special attention to the purSnasss .s h
wv site Of lands in the parish of ~. banosyis e snsry
sieu. Cameron ana Lafayette fAttakroase. to me "a w Il
of homestsads and procuring patents for same :
MISREPRESENTATION Geo. W. Hudsgsth, b Iiais Sss
land. Att5y.. L. /. Tanssy. Atty. e 2. Estae Ian.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-17
CUERIFF-S sAlE-

CHERIFF'S SALE.-Notice is hereby given
- that 10y virtue of a certain writ of teri TGcidS
issued out of and under the seal of the circuit
court for the county of Van Buren,, and to me
directed and delivered bearing date the 25th day
May, A. ID. 1886, wherein Charles A. Limbeck il
plaintiff, and Seth II. Felt il defendant, did, on
the oath day of May A. ID. 1885, levy upon and seize
all the right, title and interest of the said
Seth H. Felt, the above named defendant, in
and TO the following described real estate, situate
i'll the county of Van Buren, and state of Michigan,
to-wit
All of those certain pieces and parcels of land,
situate in the county of Van Buren, and state of
Michigan, known and described as follows, to-wit
The southwest quarter "A of section twenty-:our
"a in town four 4 south of range sixteen l6l
west, containing hundred and sixty acres
more or less, and four acres of land situate on the
east half of the southeast fractional quarter "A
Of section twenty-three - in the same township
aud range sixteen west, particularly described as
commencing at the quarter IA post on the east
side of section twenty-three % in said town, run
ming thence south on said section line TO said Felt s
south fence on his Improvement of section twenty
four "a thence west to what Is called Keller
Lake, until by running directly east you strike the
quarter post az the place OF beginning: which
said lands and premises, much thereof as
may be sufficient 10 satisfy said execution and all
legal costs, shall expose for sale, and sell al
public auction, vendue, to the highest bidder,
the law directs at the front door of the court house
the village of Paw Paw, in said county of Van Buren,
said court house being the place of holding the cir
cult court in and for said county, Saturday the
oath day of July, A. d. 1sss. at the hour of one
O'Clock in the afternoon of said day.
2st7oS5 JOHN G. TODD. Sheriff.
f. j. ATwELL, Plaintiffs Attorney.
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ORDER FOR HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT.

ORDER FOR HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT
" State of Michigan, County of Van Buren,-ss.
Probate court for said county.
At session of the Probate court for said county,
held at the probate office, in the village of Paw Paw
on Thursday the 9th day of May in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty six
Present. Orrn n. Hilton, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of James Sabin, de-
ceased, Milan Virgins, administrator OF said
estate, comes into court and represents that he is
prepared TO render his account as such adj
ministrator, and now files the same.
Thereupon Il is ordered that Monday, the 2sth day
of June next, at ten O'Clock i'm the forenoon be
assigned for examining and allowing such account,
and that the heirs at law of said decea sed and ali
other persons interested in said estate required
to appear at session of said court then to be hold
at the probate office in the village Of Paw Paw,
In said county, and show cause, q any there be-
why the said account should not be allowed. And
II is further ordered, that said administrator give
notice TO the persons interested i'm said estate of the
tendency of said account, and the hearing thereof
by causing copy Of this order TO be published I'm
the TRUE NoRTHERNER newspaper printed and
circulating in said county, three successive weeks
at least, previous 10 said day of hearing.
2stio3l ORliIN y. HILTON, Judge of Probate.
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An Eternal Excursion.

w II. ii. Earle, editor of the Hartford
Doy Spring, Immediately on his return IRON
the recent editorial excursion. was taken al
with slow fever from which he never secov-
cred. The immediate cause of his death
which occurred last Tuesday at 4;30 p. m.
was congestion of the lungs. His daughter
with whom he parted at the Falls few days
since while on her way to Vermont, has been
wired to return and the obsequies Will be
held on Friday under the auspices of Ellis
worth Post, G.. 4. r., of which he was al
honored member. Old comrade, fare thee
well may this thine eternal excursion, be q
supremely happy one.
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NEORTG A(.ESALE.

"A Oh n Is - .ALf.-De1ault having oeeu
ltJ made in the conditions of a certain mortgage
whereby the power therein contained to sell has be-
come operative, executed by Milo Huey and his
wife Marian Huey and Nathan Huey and his wife
Ada T.. Huey, and Charles Welch of Van Buren, Co.,
Michigan, TO Martha den Bleyker of Kalamazoo, IN
said state, bearing date the goth day of May A. D..
1882, and recorded in the office of the register OF
deeds for the county of Van Buren, in SAID state
Michigan, on the 10th day of May, A. D., 1882, in
hber 20 of mortgages, on page 1884, upon which said
mortgage there is claimed to be due and unpaid al
the date of this notice the sum of six hundred and
seventy dollars and twenty cents (S67020) and no
suit or proceedings at law or in equity having been
instituted TO recover any part thereof, and in pur.
suance of the statute in such case made and pro-
vided, notice is therefore hereby given that Fri
day, the 9th day of August next, at two O'Clock in
the afternoon of said day, shall sell at public auc-
ton TO the highest bidder, sale to take place at the
front door of the Van Buren, county circuit count
house in the village of Paw Paw the premises de-
scrbed in said mortgage, with interest at eight pei
cent and legal costs that is to say, all those certain
pieces parcels of land situate in the township OF
Waverly, in the county of Van Buren, and state OF
Michigan and described follows, to-wit: All those
portions of the east half Of the southwest quarter
"a and the southwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section thirtysx 1867 in township number
two GU south OF range fourteen 14) west, lying east
and north of the Paw Paw River containing seventy
acres of land more or less.
Dated May 18th, 1886.
MARTHA den BLEYKER,
25t1So37 Mortgage.
CRANE h BREcK, Attorneys for Mortgage.
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NIORTGAGE SALE

MORTGAGE SALE.-Default having been
wi made in the payment Of certain indenture of
mortgage, bearing date the 18th day of April, A. D.,
1882, executed 10y Charles w. Howard, of Columbia
Van Buren, county, Michigan. to John den Bleyker,
executor of the estate of Paulus den Bleyker de-
ceased, of the city of Kalamazoo, state afore-
said and recorded in the Office OF the register
of deeds of Van Buren, County, state OF Mich
igan, IN liber number "2s'' of mortgages on page
1914, on the 14th day of April, 1882, and on which
mortgage there is claimed to be due and unpaid al
the date of this notice. the of three hundred and
twenty-three dollars and fifty cents (s323.5O) and
no suit or proceedings at law or i'm equity having
been instituted to recover the amount now due, or
any part thereof:
Now therefore, notice is hereby given
that by virtue Of power of sale con-
tanned in said mortgage, and in pursuance of the
statute In such case made and provided there will
be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, at
the front door of the court house. in the village of
Paw Paw, state of Michigan, said court
house being the place of holding the circuit court
In and for said county, on Friday, the 9th day
of August, A. D.. 1886, at two o'clock I'm the after
noon of said day, the premises described I'm said
mortgage, or so much thereof shall be necessary
TO satisfy the amount now due on said mortgage
With interest and costs such premises being describ-
ed as follows, towit The west one-half q y of the
east one-half "a of the southwest quarter of
ton number twenty-seven CAD township number
one south of range number fifteen 15) west.
Dated, Paw Paw, May 18th, 1886.
JOHN den BLEYKER,
Executor of the estate OF Paulus den
25t13o3I Bleyker, deceased.
CRAZE 4 BRICK, Attorneys for Mortgagee.