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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
NOTICE OF TARLEAU,
ESTATE OFJULIEN BATTICE, DECEASED,
in Community with Caroline johnson. his
widow, now Wife of Adam Malbroux.
No. Alta
PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT COURT.
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY. Lxs
OF TARLEAU,

Whereas, Octave Fontenot, of the mar,
ish of ST. Landry, administrator of the Es.
tate OF Julien Battice, deceased. in com.
now wife of Adam Malbroux, has filed a tab
leau OF classification OF debts and dsitributio,
OF the funds of said estate, accompanied Nv
y, ms petition praying for the homologation OF
the same; Va
And, whereas, the prayer of said petitionshas
been granted 10y an order of court bearing DAFT,
May 3d. 1885, "''o
Now, therefore. notice is hereby given tn all
persons interested to make opposition to said
tableau to file the same in writing, in my Office
IN the town OF opelousas, within the time re-
CURED ny law. why the said tableau should not
be homologated and confirmed. NV
JAMES D. CHACHERE,
n''s o-se Clerk.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19

The newly elected officers OF Grand
Coteau ard Vile Plate were commits
stoned 10y the Secretary of State last
Thursday.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
1UnsCuAL ADVERTIsEMEN
DUBLIC SALE.

ESTATE OF ELEMON FONTENOT, De-
ceased Wife of Henry Young, Sr.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19

See card of James O. Ray, M. d. in
thi issue.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN

That an application will he made by Caldwell
c. Swayze, of the Parish of st. Landry, La, to
the Legislature of this State to have an act
passed for his 70 ief in the case of the land en-
try made by Caleb l.. Swayze, his father, at the
State Land Office, for the west half of section
7, and lots and of section IS i'll township s.,
south range east on May 81, 1856, said entry
comprising 526 56I100 acres, for the reason that
same land had been disposed of by the U. s..
Government ON February 5th, 1856, and loca-
ted Ivy Joseph ID. Guidry with State warrant
No 722. j. L. CHACHERE.
May 10
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
NOTICE.
The Famous Bell CheneI SlIings

viii be open to the public on ,Lannrry LIST.
1855, under file fnanageheiit Of that prince OF
who has given the Springs a thorough over
hauling and put everything in first class order
"IJncle Bug has pack OF fine hounds to. the
fatd tr ss ads ies testsag t spesg j the
sssssA orede pony as well AZ Eat q the arts
tocratic race horse In fact, those seeking .! a
nice. quiet, healtl-restorlg resort, will ind 1t
at Bell Cheney and plenty to eat for bet iaiatn
a HHsk Rsasf h EFT tH, bey4a ehfet La
n Terms moderate. HAY is-'i
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
NOTICE OF FINAL TABZEaU
ESTATE OF HARRIET E, ROBERTS. DE
ceased WIFE OF lsam Vest, and of the Com
muhity between aasl Isam Vest and
Ais deceased wife,
No. 1881.
PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT CourpT
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY.

whereas. Isam Vest. OF the parish of ST
Landry, administration of the Estate of Harriet
E. Roberts, deceased. and of the community
between said Isam Vest and his de-
ceased wife, has fled settlement of
accompanied BY Ills petition praying for the
hOmo0gatian Of the same; "o
And Whereas. the prayer OF said petition has
date May Sd, 1883; 10
Now, therefore. notice is hereby gwen to all
persons interested to make opposition to said
tableal. to me the same in writing. in my office
in the town UT Opelousas within the t;me re-
CURED by law. why the said tahleau should not,
be homofogated and confirmed
JAMES O. CHACHERE
May a.at Cs,.,-
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
GMERHFE,s SALE.
CLEOPHAS COMEAU VS.. THOMAS NJ. AN
DERsON AGENT, ET.ALs.

CLEOPHAS COMEAU VS.. THOMAS NJ. AN
DERSON AGENT, ET.ALs.
No. 12772
DISTRICT COURT. PARISH OF ST. LANDRY
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
By virtue of a writ of alias f. fa.
issued out of the Thirteenth Judicial District
in the above entitled suit and to ME
directed, will proceed to sell at
the principal front door of the Court
house, of said parish, in the town of Opelousas, ,
at ii O'Clock A, NJ. on
Saturday, 18th day Of june, lSSS,
the following described property, to-wit:
All of your right, title and interest in and
unto the following described property A tract
of land containing eight hundred arpents,
more or less, ten arpents front Ivy the ordinary
depth OF eighty arpents, bounded south by
Louis GuillOrys tract and Louis Boisdore.
north by lot No. q of the process verbal OF the
successional sale of Antoine BoIsdore, on the
east by public land, and west by Bayou Nez-
pique.
q. A tract of LIANT containing eight hundred
arpents, more or less, ten arpents front by
the ordinary depth of eighty arpents. bounded
south by lot No. of same process verbal,
north by lot No. 8 OF same process verbal west
by Bayou Nezpique, and east partly by public
land and Joseph GnIIory's tract /; tho said
tracts having been acquired the 18th January,
1860 by Mrs. ThOs c. Anderson at sueeessional
of the estate No. 1674, items No / and 2.
Terms-Cash.
&C DUsON,
may 12-6t Sheriff Parish of ST. Landry
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
IANDS.

Improved, and unimproved, for sale or rent
by HENBY l.. GARLAND.
INCH loft.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
NOTICE

Is hereby given of intention to cause to be
introduced at the ensuing session of the Legis-
lature, an act or acts to forfeit the charter of
Franklin College, to authorize the sale of the
college property, and to appropriate the pro
ceeds to building a public school house or
houses in the town of Opelousas.
THOS. H. LEWIS
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19

No. 4S76.
PROBATE DOCKET, DISTRICT COURT,
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19

By virtue of an order of the Honorable Thir,
tenth Judicial District Court OF the state OF
Louisiana. in and for the parish of st. Landry,
there will be sold at public auction to the last
and highest bidder, by the undersigned admin.
istrator or any duly qualified anctioneer at
the last residence of the deceased, in lAnsc
Bourbeuse in said parish on
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-02
Utilizing Niagara.

There have been so many false alarms
about utilizing the wasted water power of
Niagara Falls that one hesitates to accept
rumors of new propositions as likely TO be
carried out. The latest one which appears
to have any backing, though not altogether
an original idea, is to tap the Niagara
river at some distance above the Falls bv
means of a tunnel driven along the side of
the river. The water would be distributed
by means of lateral underground conduits
to turbines placed on the bank below the
Falls. These could give power direct to
mills, factories etc, and by electrical trans
mission furnish light and power to Buffalo
and neighboring towns. 1t is claimed that
by adopting this system the scenery will
not be disfigured, and that the amount of
water drawn of will not appreciably lessen
the quantity flowing over the falls 1t
has always been a source of wonder to
those who have studied the ground that
some plan has not long ago been adopted
which would meet the engineering re-
quirements without impairing the grand
eur of Niagara. The first attempts were
certainly not in the right line, the small
power taken off by the paper mills, etc,
being accompanied by disproportionate
injury.
Niagara is not to be measured by hun
dreds of thousands of horsepower and
millions of money, it is true; but the Wis
itor's first impression is vivid realization
of the amount of waste perpetually going
on, which might be avoided The State
and the country can afford to pay good
deal to keep up the show, but surely there
is margin enough, without reducing Nj
agara to the condition of some of the
smaller falls where the water is turned on
from dam for the qualification Of tour
lists who can afford the luxury.
Electrical transmission Of power, which
was thought not many years ago to be a
mere dream of the cranks, is now shown
to be of practical, economical utility. 1t
has been adopted successfully in so many
places and under such different conditions
that it is reasonable to forecast great
future for it. So far as is known at pres
ent, it is the most promising mode of util-
izing the natural forces, such a winds, cur
rents, tides and terrestrial electricity.-Ea-
cheering and Mining Journal.
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The Charm of EcYnt.

When one first lands in Egypt the scene
is the freshet imaginable Within an hour
you are launched from the p and O.
steamer that has carried home with it to
the last moment and are plunged in a new
world. You find yourself in a narrow
street of QuaiDtest houses and in a throng
that presses past, each figure in it a pict-
ure and a novelty. On either side are the
pigeon holes of shops where turbaned mer-
chants sit tailor fashion, gazing out, calmly
rs oxen in their stalls, upon the hurrying
tide of life which fills you with wonder.
You would like to arrest each person for
scrutiny as in wax-work exhibition. You
long for a kind harlequin that with
touch they might be transformed into mo-
tionless tableauX yivants. Here is string
Of camels with their heads aloft above the
crowd, moving with soft step and long
stride as they carry bags of spice that have
come from the distant Soudan. Here is
rich official with his REFS running in front
and his pipe-bearer behind Here comes
a lady of rank, perched on her padded sad
die, riding stride legs, and except for the
large eyes that glance from the kohl-tinted
eyelids above the white vail, and the little
henna-stained hand that holds the reins,
she might be mistaken for bale of silk.
Peasant women hurry along with walls
hung by kind of thimble to their head
gear, their 1.-THE forms thinly draped in the
long bathing gown sort of dress of blue cot
ton, and carrying astride on their shoul-
ders their little naked children with weak
eyes and grave faces. There comes a Be
douin on his hardy horse, that frets under
the cruel bit, the saddle richly capari-
soned, and the stirrups broad and coarse as
iron shovels And here, with many a
stroke on the tough quarters of the long
cared donkey he drives before him, comes
the donkey-boy shouting his Ruach"-
Sheemeenuck," Regluk"-as he steers
some large Englishman, who sits perched
over the quarters of the " Homar" Crowds
there are of brown-legged, brown-bosomed
laborers, wearing the kind of gray-felt cap
which we see on clowns in the circus at
home; and water-carriers founder past,
bearing the bursting skins that palpitate
and surge with their liquid contents and
sellers of bread, carrying fiat cakes on a
tray on their heads; and sellers of swords,
bristling with steel, like moving stands of
armor; and then the beggars-blind, halt,
deformed-such as Raphael introduced into
some of his pictures, but to be seen in the
flesh only in an Oriental city.-Suaday
NUnn-ine
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BILL NYE AND THE PRESIDENCY.
he Expresses an Opinion as to the Kind
of Man Most Needed.

u hdu MOST Needed.
Bill Nye desires information, and has
written the following letter, addressed to
whoever can give the desired inforna-
ton:
DEAR SIR: What are the personal
qualities that should be possessed by can
didate for the Presidency? In other
words, how should a man be equipped
mentally and morally in order that he
may cope successfully with the require
ments made by the Presidential office? At
a time when two important political par
ties are on the verge of making nomina-
tions, we believe an bipartisan exposition
of the individual attributes essential to the
wise performance of the duties attached to
the chief executive position would exert
good influence perhaps in leading the
nominating delegates TO examine candi-
dates with reference to their fitness. aside
from their power to carry certain districts,
etc. Ifyou will reply, briefly or other
wise, at as early as possible date, not
later than May 23d, setting forth your
ideas as TO the kind Of a man who would
make good President, you will confer
great favor"
If 4 man could be found who united the
fearlessuess of Andrew Jackson, the purity
and patriotism of Abraham Lincoln, the
firmness Of [. S. Grant and the personal
loveliness of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, he
would make good President, provided he
could carry New York But we must re-
member always that New York City set
ties the matter for us, and so it is idle to
talk about what qualities our candidate
should possess. In the city OF New York
the voting industry has attached wonder
full degree Of prominence. While a voter
elsewhere in the United States has to COM
bine other business with the divine right
of suffrage, here he may, with economy,
live comfortably by the judicious use of
the ballot. BY fostering the voting in
dustry New York has made herself the
great poller region of the world.
Conventions may come and conventions
may 90, but the New York voter knows
not the weight of WEAKNESS. Booms may
rise, flourish and decay, but the ballot of
the metropolis rises above the wreck and
puts the grand kibosh on the entire bust
ness.
So we can only fondly imagine the style
of candidate we would prefer, and wait for
those who have made voting a business to
settle the matter for US.
| have in my minds eve q candidate
who is magnetic, cultivated, polished to a
high degree, brainy, in good health, stands
at least sixteen hands high, could furnish
good press notices, and is morally as pure
and unspeckled as a new-laid snow-bank,
but he is engaged in literary pursuits and
cannot run. BILL NYE.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-02
THE ACME OF VALUE.
Articles for Which the Highest Prices
Have Been Paid.

! Cost is: of course a very unsafe measure
of value in many instances, and yet there
is not unnatural curiosity on the part of
the general public to know the mere
money estimation in which certain more
or less beautiful articles are held. Here
are few somewhat remarkable examples
of lavish expenditure:
The highest-priced piano in America is
owned by II. q. Marquand of this city.
/ The case, which was built In London, was
designed and painted by Alma Tadema.
| 1t cost $4,000.
The most expensive sideboard ever
made in the United States is owned by
Judge Harry E. Packer of Mauch Chunk,
| Penn. 1t covers the whole side of room.
and was built for S47, 900. 1t is a marvel
of elaborate and beautiful carving.
Mr.. Marquand is the possessor of the
costliest billiard table in the country.
The price was $4,000.
j. w. Mackey furnished about $4,000
in weight of silver, and paid $4,000 for
the work on his dinner service, which
| thus represents $l95,000.
The costliest string of pearls in this
country belongs to Il New York lady and
cost S51 900.
Another New York lady has solitaire
diamond ring for which she paid $4,000.
The late Mrs. Morgan paid $25O,00O for
her necklace. Mrs. Hicks-Lord is the
owner of a diamond necklace that cost
$250,O00.
The famous picture by Meissonier, called
1897" was painted for the late A. T.
Stewart. At the sale OF his gallery Henry
Hilton bought it for $66, 800, and presented
it to the Metropolitan Museum, where it
now hangs, the costliest painting by that
artist in America.
Sir Donald Smith is the possessor of the
highest-priced painting in Canada, "The
Communicates" by Jules Breton. Cost at
the Seney sale, $4,000.
w. w. Corcoran of Washington. paid
the highest recorded price for an Ameri-
can picture 1t is Churchs Niagara"
and the price was $4,000 1t was re-
ported that Legrand Lockwood paid S25,-
900 for a Bierstadt's "Domes of the Yo-
semitic" but as at the distribution of his
effects the picture brought les than
$500 the first price was probably a
fable.
In the Lenox Library is a perfect copy
of the Mazarin or Guttenburg Bible, the
first book printed with movable types. 1t
is worth $4,000, and nothing better has
been done since. Brayton Ives of this city
has an imperfect copy, for which he paid
$4,000.
J. F. Irwin, of Oswego, paid $4,000 for
Bible. 1t was originally in three vol
umes, but by the insertion of manuscripts,
engrayings and etchings had been ex-
banded to 60 imperial folio volumes
OF the original edition of the sonnets of
William Shakespeare, published by George
Daniel, of London, in 1909, there are two
perfect copies. One is in the British lIu-
scum. For the other $4,000 was paid. 1t
is little book about : by 4 inches in size.
A somewhat hard-headed clerk figures that
at the price it cost S4S7 an ounce
A sixteenth century vellum manuscript
with six paintings by Giulo Clovis, cost
the Lenox Library S12,OOO-New York
Decorator and Furnisher
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-02
Dark and Mysterious.

The London correspondent of the Scot
fish Typographical Circular refers to the in
PRODUCTION Of the type-setting machines in
that ciry as follows:
''Now to conclude, Mr. Editor, with
secret \ dark and mysterious invention
will shortly be heard of, and will doubt
less come as a thunderbolt on the devoted
heads of the compositors Of the world
shortly after Easter. 1t is new COM
posing apparatus which can be worked by
the operator at an ordinary case with
both hands. No more sticlis-they will
become as obsolete as shooting sticks in
news Offices or as the skin inking-balls of
the thing. At the bottom of the lower
case, below the space-box, is fixed funnel
with a large mouth, and the comp picks
up with both hands and throws the
Experimentation the gully. 1t
rights itself, and slides into the
groove of 4 machine 1igged upon the bed
of the frame. At the conclusion Of 4 line
of given measure you drop in brass
knob, ring bell, and the spacer-out on his
hands and knees then lifts the line and
completes it, and drops it on 4 galley. 1t
is claimed for this continuance that one
man can compose 5000 ems an hour, and
that one spacer-out can justify the work
of three compositors. 1t is being tried at
the present time at several non-society
houses-notably, Clay's, Spottiswoode's and
Rivingston's-where shaving is the order
of the day, and invitations have been
issued to other firms to view the wonder
and many proprietors and managers Of
offices, both news and book, have been to
see the novelty at work. At Clay's it isjeal-
ously guarded and boarded around, so that
even the poor rodents there have only the
faintest notion OF the preparations in prog
ress for their utter humiliation They
can, however, smell another rat, and a
wonderful little fellow he will be if he
prove ambidexter and able TO follow with
his eye the movements of both hands SIM
ultaneously. Ridiculous as the idea is, it
is readily and greedily seized upon by
employers Of labor as possible means of
increasing their wealth, and already | am
assured some of the most silly and san
guine are rubbing their hands with de-
light at the prospect Of the good time
coming. could mention several firms
that have received from their managers
favorable reports of the spout process, and
which may be expected shortly to intro
duce it into their composing-rooms, but as
am pledged to secrecy, and never betray a
trust, Barber for the present"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-02
raots Connernins Ancient cities,

Ninevah was Is miles long, wide and
40 miles around, with wall 100 feet high,
aud thick enough for three chariots
abreast. Babylon was 80 miles within the
walls, which were 81 feet thick and $50
feet high, with 100 brazen gates. The
Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was 400 feet
to the support OF the roof 1t was 100
years in building. The largest of the
pyramids is 46l feet high, and Cos on the
sides; its base covers II acres. The stones
are about 80 feet in length, and the layers
are $50. 1t employed $4,000 men in build
ing. The labyrinth, in Egypt, contains
800 chambers and $50 halls. Thebes,
in Egypt, presents ruins y miles around.
Athens was % miles around and contained
100000 citizens and 100000 slaves. The
Temple of Delphos was so rich in dona-
tions that it was plundered of 00000,
and Nero carried away from it 200 statues.
The wall of Rome were - miles round
n Y. Commercial
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-02

l find nothing about trotting in the Cub
met, rare paper treating of American
field sports, published ut Philadelphia in
1880, but running race for Il purse of
$4,000 was run at Norfolk, Va, Novem-
Der 3 1881. Two mile heats, won by W. K.
Johnsons Annette, in two heats, 3:47I and
and 800. The next day Il race for $1,000,
on the same course, won by Doswelfs Sally
Hornet, four miles, in 7;55 and S:13. w
r. johnson was the leading turfman of
that day, usually called the /" Emperor of
the Turf" | saw this same mare Annette
in 1882 win 4 threc-mile race in Charles
ton, 5. c., and Johnson's famous gray
mare, Bonnets OF Blue, win great four
mile race ut the sane meeting, against
Colonel Singleton's Clara Fisher, for$ s., 600,
in 7:55. In those days a horse which
could trot a mile in 80 was considered 4
wonder. So that within fifty years the
trotting record has been cut down twenty
seroH!s to the mile, and the running record
OF iour miles from 7:45 to 7;20. twenty-five
seconds, this time having been made by
both Fellowcraft and Lexington-S. c. c..
IN Forest and Stream.
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is more than twice as long as the original
statement, the extra matter may be charged
for as an advertisement. The exceptions
to this rule are when the wording of the
denial is offensive, or if the denial itself is
anonymous. No newspaper is to publish
an article defending an ofense against the
law, even though the law is confessedly
bad. No official documents of any kind
may be published or even alluded to with
out the consent of the department con-
cerned. The Home Minister may sus-
pend, prohibit or confscate newspaper,
if its tone may be judged to be detrimental
to the public peace or injurious to the
public peace, or existing customs, however
open to attack these customs may be. Very
heavy penalties are attached to breaches
of these regulations, which are, however,
described as much more lenient than those
previously in force.-B. q C. Printer and
Sf0fioOer
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Press Regulation in Japan.

A new law for regulating the press has
been issued by the japanese Government,
and is to continue in force for six months
only. 1t provides that the names and
ages OF editor, publisher asd printers shall
be furnished with every written applica-
ton for permission to publish a news
paper; that the applicants must be over
twenty years of age, japanese subjects, and
shall never have been deprived of their
civic rights; that the editor and printer
must he different persons, and must de-
post as caution money sum between
goo and go, unless the paper Is to be
devoted wholly to science, art, statistics or
current market prices. # any person
sends denial or contradiction OF any
statement that has appeared in the paper
the editor must insert it in erteaso. in the
same type as the original statement. and
at the head Of the same column as that in
which thelatterappeared. Butiftl,o denial