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They have a smart boy in Avoy
elles, Victor Roy, Ia years old who
went before the Parish School Board
for examination for the position of
teacher in the Public Schools, and
passed a splendid examination.
The board thought that he Was too
young to govern a school, but ap
pointed him assistant in the Mau
sura school.
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We are told that a telegram has
been received stating that the Rev.
Charles F. D. Lyme, formerly Rec
tor of st. Johns Church, but now
of Key West, Florida, was DANCE
rously i'll.
His numerous friends here sym
pathize with him and hope that he
may son be restored to health and
strength.
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The Bell Telephone men, because
Garland and Lamar decided that
their disputes should go into the
United States Court for settlement,
are now trying to drive those two
men ouC OF the Presidents Cabinet
and to do this they ale feeling heav
lily some of the big papers of New
York.
The game is understood and will
amount to nothing,
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P 0 MATI0 n
Or THE
KING Of the CARNIVAL.
OF THE.
Pro Bono PublicO.
Edict end.
10 all vhOm 1t may concern I:

10 all WhOm 1t may csnccFN
GREETING.-Our faithful subjects
of the parish If Laf"nrche having mani
tested to Us their desire that We
-honld honor with Onr presence their
splendid capital. Thibodaux, We del
rgate. by asa of prior engagements,
Our Well beloved son., the King Of Con
20 to represent Us in that solemnit y.
and in order that due preparations may
he made for his worthy reception. We
Ordain that
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Proceedings OfTown


TOWN HALL. ,
Thibodaux, Tuesday, jan. Goth. 1886.
The Council, for the Town of Thibo
daux, met. in regular session, this day at S
o'clock, p. NJ.
Present: Mayor Auooin and Trustees.
Braud, Moore NaQuin and Zeruott.
Absent: Trustees Bergeron, land Curtis.
The minutes Of the last session were read
and approved AZ recorded.
The following claims approved by the FL
nance Committee were presented and on mo-
ton duly seconded she requisite appro.
priatiOn was made to pay the same.
l.. G. Aubert on acctl char. Town Hall 100 90
H. w. Frost ION acct) 100 90
A. Bourgeois 10 90
K. L.. Aubere 3 90
H. w. Tabor 4 20
F. Samoan for tablets d crest les O5
Alfred Golden l. 90
" char. Streets Il bitches Is 90
P. A. DeManade Banqnettes 10 90
A. Nalbrough l mo. Corp. Lab. so 90
j.. Auslet " Market House I6 66
Total 445 Al
Yeas: Rraud, Moore, Nsquins andZernott.
Nays: None.
The following annual report Of the Tressu
rer made pursuant to resolution Of last meet
ing was read aud referred to the Finance
Committee.
Summary Of the Treasurer's MONTHLY
Reports for 1885.
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Gen. Hancock died comparative
" poor. AS soon as the fact be
came known a subscription was
opened to raise q found for his wild
ow, and in New York, Samuel j.
Tilden subscribed 81, 600, VIM. &.
Grace $500; NJ. B. Brown $3.50, j.
D. Cummins $3.50. In Philadelphia
the fund has been started by the
subscription OF Oh, 1000 each by Mes
srs. A. j. Drexal and Geo. w.
Childs.
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Morrison has presented his Tar
IF Bill to Congress for its consider
alton.
1t is not very pleasant reading
for sugar and rice growers, but it
strikes every industry all along the
line.
It will arouse a vigorous opposi
ton, and it is not likely that it will
become a law.
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Hon. r. p. Hunter is vigorously
discussing State politics, and prem
Using his probable action during tho
session of the Legislature that will
be held In May next.
Mr.. Hunter is one of the rising.
prominent young rel OF Louisiana.
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The Assumption Pioneer reports
the death of Madam Louis Chauffe
which took place on February IL,
1886 at the advanced age of Sc
years.
This venerable lady lived all her
long lite near Napoleonville, and
was highly esteemed by her neigh
bors and friends. She was a sister
of the late and universally known,
Capt. F. Streck, who brought the
hrst steamboat into Bayou La
fourche. 60 odd years ago.
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MYYYo nADED nay 10 found On HE at GeA.
THIS Ell T. howell 4 Cos Newspaper
Advertising Bureau 40 Spruce ST. where adve.tisinS
1sptract1 IuAy " made for It IN NkH 1OAAs

Mr.. Maxine Dupaty has been
awarded the contract to carry the
mails between Donaldsonville and
Thibodaux.
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hla
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A. Riggs & Bro, Cistern Makers
247 Delord street ; n. o. Send for
price list.
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The death of Horatio Seymour of
New York deprives the nation of
the counsel of one of the wisest
Statesmen of this century.
He was buried last Tuesday at
Utica New York.
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Fifty millions If dollars lie idle
III the vaults Of the United States
Treasury.
Rings are trying to gobble them
tor various selfish purposes.
Senator Blair wants j, TO educate
the children of the poor. Then
men get up and say that it would
be unconstitutional to educate the
poor.
These men forget that folks who
get too smart, die young.
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Where I have used Tongaline in
cases of neuralgia it has worked
very satisfactorily so far.
r. w. Brady, NJ. D.,
Honesdale, Pa.
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The Texas Senators Can we'll at.
ford to antagonize the Educational
Bill. When Texas was admitted
into the Union the reserved her
nnblic lands. The sale of these have
given Texas "A fund that will run
splendid schools for all time to
come.
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Tsles 1881: General 50
School IL
Taxes, 1884, General 3 90 School, 3 90 u 90
Taxes 1885, 207 81; " 69 ~ 276 IS
Licenses 1885, IS w 1886. $50 so 7s5 81
wharfage SO 90
Total 1877 IS
Respectfully Submitted to the Hon. the sts
yor aud Trustees OF the Town OF 1hibodaux,
Feb 2nd, 1886.
j. AUsLET
Collector.
The Market Masters Report showing the
total receipts, for December, to be $3.50.
WAS read and referred to the Finance Com
mittee.
The following resolution offered by Mr..
Moore, duly seconded, was presented and
unanimously adopted.
BE il Resolved. That the Tax Collector be
and no Is hereby required to submit TO the
Finance Committee ON or before Friday, Reb
ruary 5th, 1886, a full and detailed statement
Of the delinquent taxes for the year 1885 tand
d~recediug years and 1T the same time 70
submit all receipts from the Treasurer 40
that tho said committee may make settle
mont y ,th the said Tax Collector aud report
thereon 1T next meeting Of the Council.
The spocixi Building Committee was an
thorixed to contract for the furniture. lights.
~cistern. and privy, necessary tor the Town
Hall.
A special appropriation OF $3.50 90 was
made to pay the following claims.
d. NJ. Gix, slater, char. to Town Hall 27S 90
Firemen's Hall, ceiling on acct 60 90
joachim Auslet, collector, .25
Total $50 90
Yeas Braud, Moore, Naquin, and Zernstt.
Nays: None.
The Council then adjourned.
lSigneu) j. L.. AUCOIN,
Mayor.
p. Z. LEBLANC,
Clerk.
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SURSCKlPTlON:
OF

Que gear lin advanced
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Equilibrium ss5z IS Equilibrium $6527 Is

January eth. 1885,, To Balance on hand
this day lAnnuAl report tor 1885: $l29e So
Respectfully Submitted,
JOS. T. HlBODEAUX.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12
CROPPING AND CUTTING our.e

In winter the cowboys nave not much to
do. The cattle roam over the plains at will,
'shusting' for their living, as it is called,
that is, picking it up through the snow.
They run down to skin and bone, and many
freeze and starye to death. During these
months the herder is in winter quarters.
With the appearance of the grass in spring
his activity begins. All the cattle are
branded with their owners mark. It is the
work of the boys to select each mans out,
lasso them as shown in the picture, and gather
them in a herd to themselves. Tt is a work of
difficulty and danger, with the wild, long
horned cattle; but the horses are trained to it,
b rope is twenty to thirty feet long. The
of it is in a slip moose. This must be
aimed and thrown exactly around the cows
horns. As the animal struggles and tries to
pull away, the moose only tightens, and the
little horse drags the captive to its own herd.
are then driven to their several owners
ranches or herding grounds for the summer.
The herder must remain with them night and
day the season through. Watchmen must
stay up with them in the night, to prevent
stampedes from thunder storms or other
causes of fright. A stampede of a drove of
cattle is a serious business.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12

l-L III ShlASf n
The building occupied by the work of this
bureau is shown in the illustration. Here at a
little desk sits the officer who is to prognosti-
cate the weather for the whole country, and
his method of doing it is briefly this: He is in
.telegraphic communication with the members
of the signal corps of the army. These men
are stationed at various posts over the whole
country from Halifax to San Diego, and
from Fort Garry to Key West. Observations
of the weather are taken three times a day,
at intervals of eight hours. Each observation
being taken all over the country at precisely
the same moment of Washington time, and
are Immediately recorded. The facts thus
obtained are charted upon a map of the
United States. That is, lines are drawn over
the places reporting equal temperature.
Other lines are drawn over the stations on
the map reporting like barometic pressure.
These last lines are termed ~slsobars," and
the lines of equal temperature ''lsotherms,"
From q careful study of this map of the
United States, with the freshly drawn
'sIsobars'' and "Isotherms," the officer in
charge is enabled to determine the probable
movements of the storms, winds, cold waves,
ETC., and makes his prediction for the differ
ent sections. These predictions are immedi-
ateiy telegraphed over the whole country,
and published in the press and through
bulletins, and by the recently adopted system
of signals.
The official head of tile signal service is
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12

They were winding up with one gorgeous
lark. Their idea Of fun was to prance
through the rain with loaded revolvers, fir
ing out the windows. A train boy passed
through the cars with q basket of peanuts for
sale. The cowboys suddenly tool it into
their heads to sell out the peanut fiend's stock
for him. They drew in their pistols from
firing out the window, and brought them
to bear on the passengers instead.
They pointed the cold, persuasive bar
rel successfully at every man in
the train and ordered him to buy or be
shot. There was one tall, thin, d~yspeptic
gentleman in black, evidently a minister, who
was plainly outraged with this treatment.
He raised his hands and lifted his eyes to-
wards heaven, protesting, but it was no use.
He was ordered to shell out and stop his row.
He did it. So they went through the train
till every peanut was sold. You will see
from this what the cowboys idea of a joke is.
In a civilized region he is an uncomfortable
creature to have aronnd But out on his
own plains he is a picturesque looking object
enough. He rides the why, bucking, tough,
scrnbby, untamed little Indian mustang
pony, as If he and it made a %centaur. Fixed
in a coil to his saddle is the lasso or lariat
with which he catches the wild cattle. The
mustang, the cowboy and the Texas steer are
all nearly equally wild. The cowboy wears
his hair long and a SLOUGH hat upon his head.
hiatt be wears his hair long for nobody knows.
A high Mexican saddle is girded around
the shaggy pony, and the cowboys blanket
is strapped IN behind. There is one thing
about which / canno make up my mind.
That is, whether the cowboy is an imitation
of the ideal figuring in the literature of Joa-
quin Miller and Bret Harte, or whether there
ever was a real, rip-rcaring, wild man of the
plains whom they described. To me the
cowboy seems rather trying to live up to his
blue china, as it were, and his blue china is a
sort of dime novel hero.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12

romance or 'Ihe
Entailed Hat. . The Phebus family had lived
in Maryland over a century, yet Harrison
had a curiously foreign face. The name it
self is Greek, and Mr.. Phoebus himself once
told me that the family was of Greek origin.
Nearly three years ago ] was a despairing
health seeker at the Hygeia hotel, on the
soft water by the blue Chesapeake. Harrison
Phebus, the picture of robust health, did all
in his power to. make the stay of myself and
my friends comfortable and agreeable. 1t
seems strange now that he should be dead,
and I should be writing about it.
He took more pride in that huge Hygeia
hotel by the blue water than Secretary Chase
probably did in the United States greenback.
1t was his life work. For it he refused nomi-
nations to congress and many other official
places. His family was poor lowly,
and Harrison Phosbus had only his two
hands, his brains and his marvellous energy.
He enlisted as a private in the northern
army, and served during the war. AT its
close he started out to make his life. He
was very successful, owing to his indomit-
able pluck and will. He was 1umberman
and express agent, and finally hotel keeper.
He had no money in 1874, when he bought
the Hygeia, blu his employer in the express
agency, Samuel Shoemaker, Esq, of Balti-
more, backed him in the enterprise. The
earnings of the business soon repaid the loan,
but Phobus never forgot the kindness. He
was accustomed to speak of MI. Shoemaker
as athe whitest man the Lord ever made.n
Mr.. Phabus was unlettered in the lore Of
books, but he had some unusual tastes for an
uneducated man. One of these was a love Of
poetry and verse. He committed anything
that pleased his fancy readily to memory,
and could repeat rhymes, as well as prose, for
an hour together. He was particularly fond
of the illusions of aUncle Remus."
DOVE here about Fortress Monroe, where
the sea air blows soft and the fig trees and
crinkly crepe myrtles live out doors the year
around, Harrison Phnbus, peace to his soul,
viii be missed more than any other man.
JANET ELMER.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12
AT DINNER.

1t is from lassoing of cattle that the ex-
preston "to rope M comes.
Another great occasion is the Grounding
up.n This Is the process of selecting and cap
turing the animals chosen for market. The
picture shows the cowboys dinner at O round
up. Yet another great time is when tho
calves are branded.
The life is full of wild excitement and
danger. Some of the huge herds mount far
up into the thousands in number. Six months
in the year the herders are quite away from
any OF the influences of civilization. 1t is not
strange that they become just what an unre-
strained life, uniler such circumstances
would make them. When they are paid off
the first thing many of them do is to go and
spend every cent of their earnings in gam
bling, and for the chain lightning fire water,
that is the staple iii the western border
towna.
This is saidto be the beginning Of one of the
untamed cattle mans melodies, though I
never beard him singit:
9Oh, I'm q jolly cowboy, my age just
twenty-taree,
Ny home is in the saddle, my life ia wild
and free.
There is no happier life, my boys, as you all
well do know,
Than riding after cattle, ON the plains of
Mexico.
PAuL H~AnRrNaroN.
MLL Lie aLa
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12

fame, and Woodruff, and six second lieuten-
tenants, besides several clerks. The bureau
was created. in 1870, but did not commence
operations on IN extended scale until 1874.
1t controls and. operates several thousand
miles of telegraph. Tn system of gathering
reports of the weather, and from them formu-
lating weather warnings, is likely to be
adopted eventually over the whole globe.
just now a storm is approaching the
weather bureau in the shape of a congress
sional investigation which may test its sta
bility. 1t has weathered other storms be-
fore this, though this one may develop into a
cyclone and leave it shorn of much of its
present Importance. After the populations of
Capt Howgate it was said the signal service
would ave to go down under the gale which
then arose; but it was not budged from its
moorings, and Howgate went into some safe
harbor, where he has been sheltered since.
THE ATE NAT MILLER.
The late Senator John Franklin Miller
exhibited in his last illness an amount of
will power which recalls the heroic patience
of Gen. Grant. 1t is said he lived on his
nerve for q long time prior to his death.
which vas the result of a complication Of
disorders arising primarily from a severe
wound in the eye received during the war,
twenty-three years ago. The bulletremained
in his head about twelve years before it could
be extracted, and the wound Slapped his
strength and rendered him an easy victim to
disease.
Gen. Miller was born in Indiana, in 1881.
bis parents being Virginians. He was a law.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12

SA,SO = - cN1S ri No.
friend of this sSrong, gentle woman, has
written an admirable sketch of her, from
which / have gathered a few facts. She quite
undertakes herself in saying she never did
anything worth while. Mrs. Thomas is best
known to a large circle as q successful bee
keeper. Her husband, Rev. Abel c. Thomas,
was a minister of the Universalist denomina-
tion, and she herself is a forceful and inter-
esting speaker and enthusiastic worker among
the Universalists.
Mrs. Thomas accompanied her husband
and shared his tolls and fortunes in many
fields of labor. During the war she worked
INCREASINGLY for the sick and und sol
diers in the hospitals of this city. In this
time she wrote thousands of letters for them
with her own hand. The close Of the war
found both herself and her husband broken
in health. They retired to a farm, hoping to
find in country life a fountain of r%einvigora-
ton. They finally bought a farm at Tacony,
on the Delaware, just above this city. Here
a living had to be made, and made off the
land.
Mrs. Thomas set herself to this task. She
made the acquaintance of her neighbors, eS-
amined their crops, their focks and herds and
studied their methods. From the first she had
the whole management of the farm. Her hus-
| band was an invalid and died some years ago.
The lady whom Sorosis has just selected for
its head is a most successful business woman.
She not only learned how to make a living
off the farm, but she has, entirely by her own
efforts, laid up a handsome competency. The
secret of it all is that whatever she undertook
she did not rest until she learned to do it a
little bit better than anybody else. She sells
honey and bees and butter and berries and
eggs and other products of her farm. She is
said to nave one of the finest small herds
Of full-blooded Jersey cattle in the
country. They commanded high prices
when sold. She has large and lucrative
poultry yards, also. Her country home, on
the Delaware, is lovely and hospitable. In
the winter Mrs. Thomas is mostly at her
other home, at Fordham, in the edge of New
York city. Strange to say, although she has
been so successful in rural pursuits. she never
lived in the country at all before she took her
farm. 1t shows what brains and perseverance
| can do ELIZA ARCHARD,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12

1t is said that ostrich farming has ceased to
be profitable in South Africa, because the
market has been overstocked. That the de-
mand for ostrich plnmes SO largely increased
the supply of ostriches encouraged the hope
that the use of song birds for the decoration
of ladies' hats, instead of e~xtirpating the
whole race of them, may have a contrary eff
feet. There is no news yet, however, that
any one is raising small birds for their plum
age. and the immediate prospect is that,
owing to a stupid fashion, the woods will
cease to he vocal. 1t is to be hoped that as
the spring approaches the propriety of leaving
to the wanton lapwing the exclusive use Of
bis celebrated crest may be borne in upon the
feminine min6.-Life.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-12
various vaccinations Of the Future.

Carl Vogt predicts that the children Of
the coming man will have to undergo
about a dozen different kinds OF vaccina-
tions, but ascribes the success of so-called
microbe experiments to the fact that the
action of nearly every virus can be pre-
vented by the influence Of swifter poi
son. The secret of all santidotesr is the
circumstance that the organism can not
undergo more than one. dssease at a time.
Alcohol, arsenic, aconite and other yirulent
substances not less than quinine, suppress
malaria germs; alcohol also counteracts
snaIe-bites, and would probably cure the
incipient stages Of hydrophobia.-Dr. FELIX
L. Oswald.