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The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-08

The quite famous case of ]. NJ.
Seixas, syndic Of the insolvent firm Of
A. Carriere Il Sons, vs. the Citizens
Bank of Louisiana, was decided at
New Orleans Tuesday by the Supreme
Court in favor of the Bank, the judge
ment OF the lower court which was 10
favor Of the syndic against the bank
for certain of the assets and for $50, $685.
SO being reversed. An appeal has
been taken. Justice Told as the Organ
of the Court rendered the decision,
Chief Justice Rurmudez concurring in
the decree and Mr.. Justice POche filed
q .concurring opinion but did not
accord with all the reasons adopted by
a majority of the court.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-08

other student, for that matter, with
pistol is simply without the shadow
of fact. I have never made any such
statement nor any statement that
could be 80 construed. cannot believe
that you or any other man at the
head of popular newspaper would
willfully and knowingly do me 20
great On injustice as your article does,
and I hope you will not TAIL to allow
this statement of facts place in your
paper; and hope other papers which
have copied your correspondents mis-
statements Of my conduct in this AFFAIR
will do me the justice to copy 1t. Mr..
Jno. Richardson has recovered. His
and his fathers names below attest the
trnth of the above statements.
]. L. COOPER, former Principal.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-08

Mr.. Jay Gould declares that there is
nothing 80 good in this world as water,
and he drinks nothing else. To his
wonderful fOndness for water may be
due the fact that he cannot resist tic
temptation of watering his railroad
stock every chance that is offered.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-08

A bill has been introduced in the
kentucky Legislature to make base
ball playing a felony, and short time
ago the audience attending a prize.
fight, together with the railroad Off
cials who provided special train, were
arrested.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-08

Mr.. Cooper Explains.

from your paper that your corfespon-
/, dnnt has either beeu misinformed or
(lnat he has willfully misrepr scented
20 In the shooting AFFAIR which occur
- At this place on the 2lst of Janu-
~. lam represented - 'President
'of the school retaining Kyle, the despe'
rsdo, in IT," "furnishing Richardson
With = pistol with which to defend
himself, and finally ''sending him
home" did none of these things.
Kyle was not a student Of the school
,at the time Of the misunderstanding
between him and VIM. Richardson; be
had Withdrawn from the school more
than week before, with the avowed
lntsntion Of going home.
I had been from home q day or two,
and found the difiiculty brewing when
returned; aud on the I'd OF January,
about 10 O'Clock, "A. NJ, ! found that
Kyle was threatening to attack VIM.
Richardson. went at once to Rich.
ardson's room and found Kyle there.
induced him to leave the room, and
after exhausting all reasonable means
Of persuasion and expostulation, ]
asksd my brother, Prof. s. B. Cooper,
! 70 ses that they should not meet dur
.Apg my absence, and mounted my
horse to 70 for an officer to arrest Kyle
and put him under peace bond; but
when Kyle saw this he pledged his
honor that the matter should drop
until Richardson was out of school,
and I 90 announced 1t at tho supper
table that evening. That was Saturday
evening, and In few hours after the
dlmculty was settled l closed the trade
with = stock company which had been
formed and had for some days been
negotiating for the school property
with view to organizing Normal
College; 90, on that evening the school
properly passed into other hands.
After preaching on Sabbath night,
VIM. Richardson came to me to bor-
row money to 60 home on, stating
that he had no confidence In Kyle's
fair promises, and he believed him to
be without principle and liable to
attack him at any time, and he did not
wish TO be forced to kill him. dis
eouraged bis going home, and told him
I thought Kyls's braggadooio manner
was not an Indication Of danger; but
be persisted In his determination to
leave, aud, simply a. friend, I loaned
him the money to 60. did not then
know Of his having q pistol. These
are the facts In the case; and after run
ming . school for twenty years, COM
mencing Just after the war, when piss
tolls were as common as pocketskpives,
I have never failed to put any student
on the rostrum, and for the third
onense, to send him home for keeping
. pistol when I could by any means in
my power find it out, and I appeal to
the experience and observation of more
than 1000 students who have been in
the school during my administration
to show single case of failure on my
part to execute the school law in this
natter and Kyle, who was not stu>
dent ut the time, fred the first and
only shot ever fred at a student in
Oooper's instituted and that was on the
2lst of January, and my administra-
tion really closed on the 2i of January
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-08
n EXTRA
FEMALE INSTITUTE,
Clinton, Kinds County, Miss.
The Thirty. Third Collegiate Year will
begin Tuesday, Sept. ~. 1885.

ADvANfAaEs-Prestige of a long and
successful career full Corps OF Accomplish
ed Professors and Teachers; Curriculum,
and other means of Illustration, Unsur-
passed; Location, accessible and noted for
it's healthfulness; a pleasant Home for
Boarders, where order, neatness and refine
ment are taught by precept and example |;
Expenses low.
For Catalogues, or other information,
address DIR. WALTER HlLLMAN.
ROBERT KELLs, Pres. Board Trustee 8
QHo. WHITFIELD, Secretary.
The Daily telegraph., 1886-05-08

M p. COOK,
MERCANTILE BROKER.
ONCE j. A. Moore's Drug Store.
No. 2, DESIARD ST., MONROE, LA
Representing first hands, can guarantee
lowest prices. Flour, Meal, Meat and
Grain Specially. Sole agent for Plank
ington & Armour Hams.
Monroe, Dec. s, 1886. 6m
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
Senator Edmunds' Letter.

AT the dedication of the soldiers
monument at Brandon, last week,
letter was read from Senator Edmunds,
of which the following is an abstract:
The memorial structure you are to
dedicate will, trust, recall to the pa
triotic people of our commonwealth for
many generations the story of the sac
rifices of her sons for the preservation
of the republic founded by our fathers
"a republic the fundamental idea of
which was government for and by
the people for the security of liberty
and equal rights under the law. Such
memorial is not only sacred to the
memory of brave men who, leaving the
comforts and pleasures of home, went
to the defence of the integrity of their
country, but it will be in the future an
inspiration to the people to maintain
and defend with all their power the
principles of free and just government
in which none are so great or high as
to be above the law or none so humble
as to be beyond its sure protection.
May your monument stand, therefore,
among the hills of Vermont and in the
midst of a free, intelligent, independ-
ent and law-abiding people as long as
granite or marble can endure, sacred
memorial of their patriotic sacrifices, a
symbol of republican power, and a
guarantee that the sons of Vermont
will in the future, as always in the past,
protect and defend the unity of the re-
public and the liberty of its people,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09

quet. A great deal of very cheap and
trivial verse is produced for such occa-
sions, and has done its duty well
enough if it has made its ten or fifteen
minutes pass pleasantly. Sometimes it
will bear showing up in the newspaper
of the next morning, but if it is ito be
read in cold blood it must have some
thing workmanlike in its construction.
A few easily taken puns, new or old, a
few local illusions, a patriotic senti-
ment, little judicious fattery of the
company will do well enough, if put
together with very moderate amount
of skill, to keep in good humor an audi
ence already in the tranquil stage of
digestion and the amiably receptive
condition which goes with it. But there
is no reason why one should not write
the verses which are to be recited or
sung after feast, or for any other oc-
casional object, just as well as if they
were suggested by daisy, or mouse,
or bed of daffodils, or the reading of
Chapman's Homer, or stumbling over
a broken statue, as Burns, Wordsworth,
Shelley, Keats, have done. The acct
dental cause is not the main thing: it
is the imaginative, or fanciful, or witty
treatment of it which we care for
Oliver Wendell Holmes, IN atlantic
MOntbhj
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09

soon run in breathlessly saying: Come
sahibl A snake, a snakeln On investi-
cation we found that in looking in a
corner for the missing article, instead
of seeing the looked-for scissors he saw
the bright bead-like eyes of snake
called Ratra (nighD looking into his.
1t is pretty snake, being of seal
brown color on the back crossed by
crescent bands of white, while the belly
is beautiful red. The name may not
seem definite, but is given to it by the
natives, who say it is found at night,
hence the name. 1t was only the next
day that the baby of the house was
found amusing itself by rolling jack
fruit back and forth over Ratra which
was close to its feet. These are pos
sessed of fangs, so of course are not
harmless. A few nights later, just as /
was about to step into bed, something
told me not to move my raised foot, so
carefully reaching for the lamp and
looking under my foot there l beheld
great scorpion, which after death meas
ured five inches as one would lie or
stand at ease if alive.
A few months ago l found a grown
scorpion, and put it into an empty bot
tie. 1t was forgotten for few days.
When remembered and examined, alas
where there had been only one there
were twenty-eight But this rapidity
of increase is offset by its bitter enmity
toward all others of its own kind. They
seem, too, to be devoid of natural affec-
ton, the offspring destroying their own
mother. The centipede is not an infre-
quent visitor. About the size of a mans
finger, it is composed of alternate links
of brown and white, numbering in all
eighteen or twenty links, making an
entire length of seven inches. Each
link is furnished with pair of red legs,
and the round head and feelers too are
of the same bright color. The bite is
usually fatal unless remedies are ap-
piled at once. Surely the promises in
the ninety-frst psalm are fulfilled to
those in this land who have made the
Lord their habitation.-Panhala Cor
respondent Of Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
The Case Of Sally b. Bent.

On motion of Congressman Grout a
bill has passed the house granting
pension to Sally B. Bent of Marsh
field, VT. The facts in the case are
well stated in the report of the COM
mittee on invalid pensions, and as there
are several applications from Vermont
which stand rejected on substantially
the same ground as Mrs. Bent's case,
we give the report in full: "Sally b.
Bent filed claim as dependent mother
of David p. Bent, private in Com
pany G., Fourth Vermont Regiment,
who died of disease in the service.
Her claim was rejected on the ground
that claimant was not dependent on the
soldier for support at the time of his
death, her son, Charles G. Bent, hav-
ing before that time agreed to support
her, and having performed said con-
tract 1t appears from the evidence
filed in the pension office, and with this
committee, that in the spring of 1861
the Bent family consisted of the claim
ant and her husband, two sons and two
daughters. The husband was at that
time, by reason of poor health, able to
perform but little manual labor, nor
was lC At any lllliN bCiOlb NNoth,
which occurred in 1880. Both daugh-
tiers were deformed in person and de-
ficient in intellect and intelligence,
being thereby unable to take care of
themselves. The family resided upon a
farm in the town of Marshfeld, VT,
which was situated nearly half mile
from the public road, and comprised
sixty-one acres of wet, stony land The
buildings were poor, and the entire
property, real and personal, was worth
from 81 900 to 81 200. July o, 1861
Mr. and Mrs. Bent decided their prop
erty to their eldest son, Charles c. Bent,
in consideration of life support for
themselves and their two idiot daugh-
tiers. The youngest son, David p, was
party to this arrangement, but, being
a minor, could not appear of record. II
was understood, however, that he
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
A Formal Call in Persia.

The visitor sends notice an hour or
two previous to calling. If the visit is
one of importance, notice is sent the
previous day. You will go in a fashion
suited to your social position and rank
of the host. Whether on horseback or
in carriage, you will be accompanied
by number of mounted attendants.
As you approach the house, servants,
mounted or on foot, come forth to meet
you, and one returns with speed to an
nounce your coming. A dozen attend
ants escort you to the reception-room.
According to your relative rank, the
host meets you at the foot of the stair
case, at the door, or at the upper part of
the room. The question of seats is one
also requiring the utmost circumspec-
ton in observing the various shades of
rank. If your rank is superior to that
of the host, you are invited to occupy
a sofa alone, at the upper corner, while
your host sits on chair or on the floor
at your right The left is more honor
able than the right in Persia. If of
equal rank, he occupies the sofa with
you; but if you are inferior, then the
positions are reversed. The upper
corner of the room is in any case the
most honorable position. If number
are present Of various ranks, each one
knows his place at glance. The pass
ing of refreshments is also a matter of
undertaking strictness, the number and
quality depending upon the time of day
and the character of the guest. The
kalan, or water-pipe, offers fine OPP
portunity for display of Persian man.
ners. According to precept and GUS
tom, Mohammedan cannot smoke the
same pipe with Christian, and except
on rare occasions, when the host is a
man of progressive views, separate
pipe is furnished for European WIS.,
itor. But among Persians it is the GUS
tom for the highest rank to receive the
pipe first, offering it to each in turn be-
fore smoking himself. For an inferior
to accept the offer is an incredible Of
fence against good manners. But each
in turn after this ceremony takes few
whiffs at the pipe, all taking care to
eject the smoke from the bowl before
offering it to the next. The attendants
on such an occasion leave their shoes at
the door, and retire backwards G.
w. Benjamin, IN the Century.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09

should enter the service, turn over his
pay for the support of the family, and
on his return was to share in the title
to the property. He enlisted Septem-
Der Il, 1861, and his state pay of 81
month was drawn by his father, besides
which he forwarded about $40 per
month from his government pay. He
died in hospital at Washington, May
10, 1862. The bar to the allowance of
the mothers claim is in the contract for
support made with the son, Charles G.
Technically, it destroyed her claim of
dependence upon the soldier. In fact,
we think that dependence existed to a
considerable extent. All the evidence
tends to show that of the three male
members of the family circle the SOL
der was the most competent. The
father was an invalid for twenty-five
years, and the son, Charles c., has had
several severe fits of sickness. The
miserable little property involved was
manifestly insufficient for the mainte-
nance of two old people and two idi-
otto children, The father is now dead,
also one of the daughters. But the
mother, in her old age, is obliged to
work hard for her support, which is
guaranteed to her on paper, but which
the guarantor has been unable to furn-
ish in fact. She gave her son to the
country, and we think the country can
well afford to waive for the few remain
ing years of her life the technical obiec-
ton to granting hera pension"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
Almost a Mutiny.

During the war, said an old officer,
soldiers themselves were not unfre-
quently the victims of unreasoning pre-
judice. On one occasion / remember
our regiment, which had seen some
service, was ordered by General Wood
to carry knapsacks on guard. Without
stopping to inquire into the matter,
without considering the motive or pur-
pose of the officer, the boys jumped to
the conclusion that this was done to
humiliate them, and when they were
formed at guard-mount they declined to
take up their knapsacks. The officer
of the guard was in dismay Here was
open mutiny, and he did not know how
to meet it. A regular officer on duty,
on his own motion, ordered out bat
talon to shoot down the mutineers.
The old veterans who had declined to
swing knapsacks watched the proceed
ings in spirit that BODIED mischief
Each man took his rifle in a way that
meant business, and in ten minutes
thousand men from their camp were
about them to encourage them. AT this
juncture word was taken to the colonel
commanding the regiment to which
these men belonged. He was asleep in
his tent. When he was made to under
stand the situation he jumped up, put
on pair of slippers, threw on long
dressing-gown,a and started, bare-headed,
for the battle-ground. He came upon
the scene like an apparition. He re-
ceived the report of the officer of the
guard in silence. He walked two or
three times along the line, looking in
surprised and grieved way into the eyes
of every man. Then he stopped in
front and commanded attention. In an
unsteady voice he explained what con-
stituted mutiny. He then explained
the motive of the commanding general
in giving the order, and, after a few
references as to the brilliant record his
regiment had made, he turned to the
officer of the guard and said, sternly,
"You misunderstood my men, sir.
Every one of them is every inch SOL
der. They will do nothing unsoldierly."
Then, turning to the men, he ordered
them to stack arms again and said,
"Take your knapsacks, boys; take
your knapsacks," and, after moments
hesitation, each man stopped, swung
his knapsack, and moved off the ground
to stirring music. In another hour the
order to carry knapsacks on guard was
revoked.-Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
The Blind Sculptor.

We should think that it was quite i'm
possible for blind man ever to become
a sculptor, and learn to carve out i'm
ages of men and animals from wood
and stone without ever being able to
see them. But perseverance accom-
plished even this in the case of a blind
sculptor at Switzerland. This man was
attacked with the smallpox when he
was only five years old. 1t left him
entirely blind. Before losing his sight
he had often played with those little
figures which the Swiss people make,
and had even tried to handle knife
and form some himself. When his
sight was gone he often thought about
those images. Then he would take
them in his hands, and feel them again
and again, and turn them over in every
way till he was able, by degrees, to tell
exactly by the touch the size and pro-
portion of the figure. Then he began
to think whether he could not supply
his loss of sight by the sense of touch.
His father and mother were both dead,
and, finding himself alone and poor, he
resolved to try to support himself by
his own exertions. Taking piece Of
WOOu hullC OCSdh W WIN
His first attempts gave him much
trouble. Often he would destroy, by a
single notch made too deep, piece of
work on which he had spent long days
of labor. Such difficulties would have
discouraged most persons, but the blind
man persevered. After many trials he
at length succeeded in using his tools
with steady hand; and so carefully
would he examine each fold of the
drapery, one after another, and the
shape of each limb, that he came, as it
were, to see by means of his fingers
the figure he was trying to copy. Thus
he went on by degrees till he reached
what seemed wonderful perfection
for he was able to engrave from mem
DRY the features of face over which he
had passed his hand, and to make one
exactly like it. In his lifetime he sculp-
tured many hundred figures. He was
happy and contented with his lot, and
his works remain as monuments of
the triumph of perseverance over diff
culties.-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
Grants Kindness.

A story was told the writer year or
two ago in the South by Memphis
gentleman, which, as it illustrates Gen
eral Grants simplicity of manner, is
perhaps worth preserving. The gentle
mans mother, a middle-aged lady dur
ing the war, was living near Memphis
when General Grant was in command
there, and she desired to go out beyond
the lines and return in order to visit an
invalid married daughter. She applied
at General Grants headquarters and
was referred to a staff officer, who,
after having heard her case, declined
with rather grand manner, and to her
expostulations merely answered, CURLY,
g Impossible!" The lady was down
hearted under the circumstances, as
may be imagined, and probably her
countenance betrayed her feelings as
she was going out across the piazza of
the house that served as headquarters.
For plain-looking little man, ap-
parently hanger-on about headquar-
tiers, as she described him, wearing a
private's blouse, accosted her and asked
if he could do anything for her. She
retold her Grand. "Wait moment"
said he, as he left her and went into
the house. a moment after he came
out and handed her a pass, saying,
"Take this. 1t will pass you through
all lines" She thought it very kind
indeed of this person to be at so much
trouble for her, and she thanked him
cordially. 1t was not until she had
reached home, had opened the pass,
which was signed GU. S. Grant," and
shown it to her family and described
the 4" little man. that she learned it
was Grant himself who had befriended
her.-Cor. Of Ne,0 York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09

LoNGFELLow's birthday book is a
beautiful present to give any lady. But
there is little book, published in pam
phlet form, with no pretensions to lit
erary merit, that would be as appropri-
ate, and might be the means of saving
life. 1t is called DIR. r. V. Pierce's
treatise on diseases of women, for whose
peculiar troubles the Favorite Pre-
scription " is especially designed. 1t is
profusely illustrated with wood-cuts
and colored plates, and will be sent to
any address for ten cents in stamps by
the Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09
Gbe Soldiers 8uoqet.
Pensions Granted.

To Calvin Lasure, Felchville, S12 a
month and $500 arrears as a dependent
father; Betsey Richardson, Waitsfeld,
q dependent mother, S12 a month and
$3.50 arrears; John w. Avery, Mont
pelier, "a month and SS40 arrears
Stephen Chapman, Middlebury, SO a
month and 81 800 arrears; Patsey Sui
Ivan, Ludlow, S12 month and S2, 300
arrears; Richard j. Doying, Wolcott,
restoration to "a a month and 1864 ar
rears; Rufus II. Farr, Marsh6eld, an
increase from So to S12 month and
1868 arrears; Mark p. Hall, East Cabot,
an increase from "a to So month