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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-08-09

No BETTER indication Of the feeling
Of the working men toward the Repub-
lican party can be taken than the re.
ceptons given Gen. Harrison in Indiana.
Clubs formed exclusively of the
different classes miners, laborers,
farm IS, etc, are pouring in TO grasp
the hand Of the next President, and the
tide grows rs the days roll along. 1t
is hard work for the General, but he
carries bright smile, and is delighted
with this outpouring of good will and
the certainty of election it indicates.
All the Republican states including
New York, New Jersy and Connccti-
cut, rejoice with Indiana in her
supreme happiness. She has no inteu-
lion OF betraying her trust. She sees
tie grand march of progress and right,
and will be in the front rank with
banners flying, bands playing, aud
round majority that will make the Dem
ocrats ask how they could have even
counted her as doubtful.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-08-09
Dissolution Notice.

We the undersigned. doing business in the
name Of Il cortland Il Sons. as Lumber Mer-
chants. in tn village OF Glen Haven, County Of
Grant and State or Wisconsin, do hereby, this
date, dissolve partnership by mutual consent,
by II. cortland Withdrawing from said firm and
Frank and VIM. cortland having purchased his
interest are hereby authorized to settle all
claims OF said firm within our knowledge and
receive all dues and demands due said finn.
Dated at Glen Haven, this 18TH day Of July
a. d. 1888.
HENRY CORTLAND.
FRANK DORTLAND,
WILLIAM DoETLAND
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-08-09

WHAT will be on the trust trapese
next. The Millers Association of St.
Louis are trying to get the millers Of
winter wheat states to meet on the
thirty-iirst of this month and form a
Flour Trust" In other words this
means to squeeze out the small fry and
raise the price of flour This is one Of
the hardest evils to fight. If two mills
can do the work of three and by the
concentration make profit enough to
pay the third man for shutting down,
who can keep him from doing so? 1t
is hard on the town whore his mill was,
and rough on the labor he employed,
but it is difficult to see the remedy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-08-09
MOTRCE

TO TIE PUBLIC. We would say that we
thank you for your liberal patronage in the past,
andtrusting you will favor us with a continuance
of the same in the future.
Resp. yours, CORTLAND Bios.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-08-09
Collection Notice.

All persons knowing themselves indebtedt0 us
for Lumber got in the year 1887. and previous to
that, will please TO settle at once. Per
2tw4 DORrLAND Bros.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
FAD THIS.

1t is with pleasure that we announce to
our many patrons that we have again made
arrangements with that wide-awake, illus
trated farm magazine, the AMERICAN FARM
Err, published at Fort Wayne, Ind, and read
by nearly 200, 900 farmers, by which that
great publication will be mailed direct FREE,
.1e address of any of our subscribers who
will come in and pay up all arrearages on
subscription and one year in advance from
date, and to any new subscriber who will pay
one year in advance. This is a grand op.
portunity to obtain a first-class farm journal
free. The AMERICAN FARMER is a large l6-
page ~jorrnal, of national circulation, which
ranks among the leading agricultural papers.
Il treatsthe question Of economy in agricul-
tu11s . e rights and privileges Of that vast
bo' INC 5Sizens-American Farmers-whose
JIM 3 Is he basis of all material and ma
tlonal prospef.tv. It's highest purpose is the
elevation and enabling OF agrieulture, through
rye aSa higher she,. and bro. ,dEE education ;ss of the men men
regular subscription fan;sf the AMERrcAN
FARMER is $1.oO per yeaf.l, TCOsTs YOU
NOTHING. From any ongn0lpber ideas
can be obtained that will be worth a.vice the
subscription price to you or members ofrllulr
household, yet YOU GET 1T FREE Cali an
see sample COPY. =
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
Tobacco a Cure for Group.

Chicago Herald.
Although DIR. S. Leavitt, pro,
lessor of Hahnemann college,
does not use tobacco in any
form, he is never without a
small package of fine cut in his
pocket, and the reason OF it is
this: A gentlemen of the doc
tors acquaintance told him how
he had saved his child's life after
all the doctors had given her up.
She had membraneous Group,
and the mother, from sheer ex-
haustion, had laid down for a
few moments rest, the father
sat by the child. The hard, diff
ficult breathing of the little one,
growing fainter and fainter as
the throat clogged up, was tor
ture to the father. Everything
in the way of emetics had been
used, but withde.t effect but
suddenly an idea struck the
nearly distracted father. He re-
membered how deathly sick he
was the first time he cheWed to-
bacco, and having a cud in his
mouth, without thinking twice
he opened the child's mouth,
and placed the tobacco in.
The father knew it was q des-
perate act, and he waited in ter
rible suspense for the result. 1t
came, and quicker than he could
have hoped. There was a sud
den convulsive movement, and
the poor little thing was nearly
doubled for an instant, and
seemed to writhe in agony,
when, throwing herself forward,
there shot from her throat a
chunk of almost solid phlegm
at least two inches long, and hav-
ing through it a passage no lar
ger than a small lead pencil.
After a few minutes of retching
the little one lay quietly back
and slept calmly and sweetly,
and the next day was playing
around the house with all her
Wonted vim. DIR. Leavitt re-
marked that it was a rough rem
edy, but said he would always
carry tobacco hereafter, and he
does.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

Lake Charles Echo: Prepare
tons are being made by our
several large hotels for the &C
commodation of an overwhelm-
ing number of visitors from
other States, during the fall and
winter. -
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

a Western newspaper makes
The following timely and truth
FIJI remarks
The publisher of a newspaper
has one thing to sell and one
thing to rent. He has the news
paper To sell and the space in
Che columns to rent. Can any
one inform MS why he should be
expected to give away either
one on the otherg He can do
e Il be chooses, and hedoes, as
2 matter of practical fact, fur
nish q great deal of space rent
fEee. But it does n~otfollow that
% ought to be expected to do it.
Il ought to be- recognized as a
contribution exactly as would
lae giving away of sugar Or cof-
iee by the groceryman. But
strange to say it is not looked
upon IN that light at' all, yet
eferyone knows that the exis-
lelee Of o paper depends as
much on the rent of its space
afd The sale of the paper as the
AeEchant's success depends on
salling bis goods instead of Civ
lug them away.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

The Shreveport Democrat is
authority for the statement that
the treasurer of Grant parish
gets the enormous salary of SIS
per year.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

The almost incredible state
ment is made on good authority
that, in Sabine parish with a
population of $4,000 most of
whom are farmers, not a single
farm is mortgaged or seriously
encountered with debt. This is
the result Of farming upon a cash
basis, and denying ones self of
the many extravagances which
cretitsprompts a person to buy.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

Harrison's speeches to the vi
sitting delegations are positive
proof that Sarah Bernhardt isn't
the thinnest thing aliye.-Phila-
delphia Times, Ind.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

The Opelonsas Courier has
aeandoned its idea Of publishing
an immigration edition. Lack
J. nome support is the reason
glFen. We can not understand
aoW the business men of Opel
glsas can be so short sighted in
sIlls matter. Can ii be that
aeadia was the only corner Of
ola NJ. Landry that has any men
e enterprise Ii looks that
8ag: Here In this new parish
- nave found no trouble In Sc
''flng al the patronage desired,
saas TOO Without begging or in
sssllag. The people of Opelou-
y should awake from their Rip
81 Wrinkle s~leop.-Orowley
4 IN
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
How to Kill Worms.

At the request of several sub
..ribers who desire to know how
= mix poison to kill cotton
rorn,s. the Shreveport Times
1anroduces the directions given
y Cant. B. W. Marston, a sue
Dsssfni aud practical planter OF,
IA river, and published in sew
asoI issues of that paper in 1886
snd last season. Capt. Mars
san,s method of poisoning cater
a;llars has been Endorsed by
Rnndreds of planters and farm
- Parties interested should
snt this out and preserve it for
seserence. Capt. Marston's let
, ter to the Times bears date OF
August 10, 1886:
Nine weeks from the time |
discover the caterpillar, | expect
he cotton will be entirely strip
ned Of its leaves if they are not
gastroyed by the ants, their nat
aral enemy. The ants totally
destroyed them in 1869, and /
think they would have done it
This year had July been a dry
month. as they ought to increase
sufficiently in q dry May and
lime TO do so. If the cotton is
stripped of its leaves this year
+ mght to occur in this section
about September 7th, as they
are discovered about the first of
INV. But as to destroying
Them: Take a pole two
fact shorter than the width
ftWo rows together. For in
stance, If the rows are four and
half feet, the usual distance,
tVobeing equal to nine feet, have
the pole seven feet, made some
thing like a hoe handle. Then
take eight ounces towels (do-
nestle IS too thin) and have
sleeves made of it full width of
the towels and about the size of
tight shirt sleeve, using about
one third of a yard for each
sleeve. The full width Of the
towels from each end of the pole;
conine one of the sleeves over
the end of the pole as a strain.
It is then ready for the Paris
green without any admixture.
Put about two pounds in each
end and tie them fast. One
can then balance the pole across
the horse or mule, carrying two
rows at atime, and lightly dust
The cotton, say about one pound
per acre. An active man can
dust twenty acres a day, and
nothing but a heavy rain will
wash II off. The dew Of the
next morning will adhereit firm
II to the leaf and every cater
pillar ID the field will be killed.
/ have applied it this way in
windy Weathera and enough would
adhere to the leaves to do the
work. If a heavy rain comes
ID tWenty-four hours it will have
% be applied again. | only put
il on ID time to kill the third
a. nnfsrc nn@Y nf aofcwn;fIor.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

Alexandria Town Talk: l. is
fortunate that the Constitution
limits the mileage Of Legislators
to 500, Or some Of them would
have carried off the State House.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
Don't

Suffer anNflonger with that painful
wound. DrhsTichenor's Antiseptic will
relieve fromtpain and heal the wounds.
Price so cts
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

For SALE-A new Remington double
barrel bteech- loading shot gun can be
had at a bargain on application at this
Office.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

st. Mary Herald: Mr. Conrad
has already made q shipment q
new rice. This Is the first we
have heard Of this season.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
Prescription of Accounts.

Act No. IS of the late session
amends article 1888 of the Civil
Code, so that it will read
The following actions are pre-
scribed by three years.
That for arrearages of rent
charge, annuities, alimony, or
the hire Of movables and immov-
ables.
That for the payment of mo-
ney lent. That for salaries OF
%oyerseers, clerks, secretaries,
and of teachers of the sciences,
who give lessons by the year or
quarter.
That of physicians, surgeons
and apothecaries for visits, oper-
ations and medicines.
That of parish recorders, sher-
ifs, clerks and attorneys for
their fees and emoluments.
That on the accounts of mer-
chants, whether selling for
wholesale or retail. That on
the accounts of retailers of pro-
visions, and that of retailers of
liquors, who do not sell ardent
spirits in less quantities than q
quart.
That on all other accounts.
This prescription only ceases
from the time there has been an
account acknowledged in writ
ing q note or bond given, or an
action commenced.-City Item.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
Ho, for Opelousas.

Thibodaux Fire Co. No. / and
Home Hook and Ladder Nc.
combined have made all the re.
qnisite arrangements to give a
grand excursion from Thibo-
daux to Opelousas, on Sunday.
Sept. 2, 1888. This will proba-
bly, be the last excursion of the
season, and the objective point
being one to which none have
heretofore been made, it will
give the excursionists a view of
one of the most lovely and at
tractive sections of Louisiana.
Opelousas being one of the
oldest towns in the State, has
long been famous as the "Prai-
RE City," and recognized as one
of the most beautiful towns in
the South.
This is al opportunity that
has never been afforded to the
Lafourche and Terrebonne peo-
pie before and which may not
occur again. Sen
tinel.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

OPELoUsAs, LA, April Is, 1888.
To my friends and the public
Iabave seen Mr.. B. T. Perley's work on sew
eraf gins and Rave examined the same, and
have found them to be good work, and recon-
mend him to the public as q good ginwright.
May l2-2m. MARTIN CARBON.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

1sclle Plot MI. +. M. WEIGH,
IS immigration worker for this
ssssloiA, returned last Saturday
III. 9 very extensive trip
~ sagh Illinois and other states,
ssss reports j very favorable VII
-. MF Welch feels assured
49, ss. he Will have one hundred
s9.s Northern families located
l ssssa section By January 1st,
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

st. Mary Herald: The Repnb-
licans want to put sugar on the
free list because the negroes Of
Louisiana did not care to hang
on to the tail Of the Republican
party any longer.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
COTTON PLANTERS, ATTENTION |

WILL be in st. Landry ID the months OF
Il June and July, repairing Gin Stands. / am
prepared to recut old Jaws and make them as
good as new, gum and file same In the most
approved style, and refill brushes, and bah
bet boxes, &c. Terms made satisfactory as
we'll as the work. B. 2. PERLEY,
Alexandria, Lie.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

t.I aege will be two Census
I d ~ tllls State ia 1890, one
a aneEal Government and
s''s py shs State.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11
Proceedings of the Police Jury.
OPELoUsAs, July Both, 1883.

OFELOUSAoJ Ouiy oVtHi 1000.
The Police Jury met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
Present E. NJ. Boasui, President, I. Stage,
I'll. Durio, r. w. Heath, E. G. Milburn, CT.
Bihm, L. S. Barry,P. Robin, 3. Haas and l..
j.. BOSNIAN.
The minutes of the last meeting were read
and adopted.
Messrs. Parkerson and Natili, representing
the Morgan's La. g. Texas R.. r. and Steam
ship Co. appeared before the Police Jury and
presented the following memorial: Q
To the Honorable President and Members of
the Police Jury of the parish of st. Ian
dry, sitting as a board of Assess-.ont Re-
viewers for said parish:
The undersigned Randolph Natili aud James
G. Parkeraon, representing the Mofgan's La.
e. Texas r. r. & SteamshipCo., and all other
persons interested, respectfully represent i:
that in order to avoid litigation and trouble,
they accepted for the year 1887, an assess
ment of Sixty-ive hundred dollars per mile,
as a matter of compromise, though such as
sessment was in excess of the actual cash
value of said property that as yonr Hon.
Body now propose to revise and change the
assessment for the present year C8881, they
now respectfully suggest that the properties
of the aforesaid company, are not worth over
$4352 90 per mile of track, and buildings at
$4,000 and they now respectfully suggest
that the assessment of said company be re-
dnced to said sum and they will ever re-
spectfully pray.
Signed R. NATILI,
JIG. PATTERSON.
On motion of Mr.. Haas, Resolved, the Po-
lice Jury as O board of assessment reviewers
agreed to the following compromise with the
bMorgan's La. & Texas r. r. Go, thai the road
bed be assessed at $500 dollars per mile.
343 miles at $6500 1924 250.0 90
2 miles in Corporate limits .....- I3,00O.0 90
All depots, section houses, side
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

Thibodaux SentinL 1t is
said that the rice millers of New
Orleans who have entered into
the trust profess that they have
done so in the interest of the
planters as well as in their own.
Planters are not going to be de-
ceived by any such himsy pre-
tense. The trust had better re-
alize once for all that our rice
planters will not stand this at
tempt to destroy competition
for their product.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

st. Mary Herald It now looks
as if the Legislators who drew
from the State about twice the
amount of money necessary to
defray their travelling expenses,
had to return it into the State
Treasury. There were some
members of that body who
passed as preachers and each
one delivered a sort of prayer
and drew $50 each for their SER
vices outside of their actual pay.
What humbuggeryg Verify, this
is reform with a snout on it.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-08-11

The session of Congress is
now mainly devoted to the
manufacture of campaign ma
terial, a very uncertain business
for both parties. The best thing
for Congress to do would be to
get through as soon as possible
with necessary business and adj
iourn, leaving the political cam
paign to be carried on from the
stump. - Philadelphia Ledger,
Rep.
Teche Pilot: The Jeanerette
Ice works, Mr.. A. Moresi, pro-
prietor, shipped to Franklin one
day this week twenty tons of
ice, this being the largest single
shipment of the season. The
ice of this campany is of d supe-
rior quality and they find ready
sales for all they can manufac-
ture.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-08

The question that has long troubled butch
ers-v!z-, what causes the wool taste in NUT
ton!-is again the subject of much discussion
among the fraternity The American Public
Health association recently stated that the
touch of the woolly coat upon the dressed
flesh impaired wool taste, and that there
was very noticeable difference in the flavor
of mutton taken from a sheep which has been
for some time deprived of all excess in its
woolly coat and that taken from q sheep
which has heavy fleece The Hon. Cassius
NJ. Clay, of Kentucky who is recognized
authority in matters relating to sheep raising,
contends that the association is wrong He
recommends butchers to starve the sheep for
twenty four hours before killing and then to
cut the throat all around to the bone, allow.
ing free flow of blood. The sheep should
then be dressed at once The flesh will then
be found perfectly sweet and vithout any
perceptible wool taste.-Chicago News.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-08

for the new navy. She has twin screws, IL
3S5 feet long over all, her beam amidsbips is
IS ; feet her mean draught is 1915 feet, and
her displacement is T. 400 tons The indicated
horse power of her engines is 1880 at nat
ural draug BIT and $50 at forced draught
She is expected to make nineteen knots an
hour. She W i'll carry two masts fitted with
military tops and her crew will consist of
800 men. The Baltimore has protective
deck Of thick steel plates, and under this,
down below the water line, are placed the
rudder and the steam steering gear. Her
armament will be main bat
terry of four eight-inch breech-
loading rihed guns on the poop and
forecastle and six six-inch rified guns eight
cen feet above the water There will also be
a second battery of six rapid-firing six
Founders, six Hotchkiss revolving cannon,
and four Calling guns She will carry five
torpedo launching tubes or guns. In her ap.
pointments the Baltimore will be fitted up rs
flagship 1t will be lighted throughout
with incandescent lamps The Baltimore
can make 45G knots day, using 235 tons OF
cnal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-08
Judgment Confessed

Nearly year ago the president sent
his message TO congress calling attention
TO the constantly accommodating surplus
in the treasury and to the further fact
that vast amount of unnecessary revenue
was annually collected by the federal
government Ever since that time the
republicans have been vigorously CONS
batting the presidents position, which is
also that of the democratic party. They
have maintained that the surplus is by no
means as large as has been represented
and that il certain measures which they
advocate as just and necessary were
passed, the income Of the government
would hardly more than meet its obliga-
tons.
Now comes the republican senators
and practically concede the correctness o.
the democratic claim and the falsity O.
their own By uniting upon bill which
they estimate will reduce the revenue no
fifty millions, as the democrats propose
but seventy five millions. In substance
they 90 back on their previous profes
sions and admit that the necessity for
prompt revision Of the revenue is a
pressing as President Cleveland and tn
democratic party have claimed it to be-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-08

In Dickens Christmas number, ''Dr Mari
COLDS Prescriptions, one of the tales, 'To be
Taken in Water describes the adventure OF
a clerk who was travelling through France in
charge of "a quarter of million in specie.
He had it lin two iron boxes, inclosed in
leather to look like samples The French
porters seem to have noticed that the boxes
were heavy, but managed them well enough,
two porters to each box. My copy of Or
Margold" has marginal annexation by an
impatient reader, "Bosh! quarter of mil
lion in gold coin would weigh upward of two
tons" The calculation does not seem to be
quite accurate, but it would weigh about one
ton seventeen hundredweight, avoirdupois.
A thief who got at the boxes is described in
the story as stopped in making his way out
of a window with carpet bag half full of
sovereigns. The annotator reckons again,
from the description of the bag, that it must
have weighed five hundredweight. One
wonders that errors so easily noticeable es-
capped the sharp editorial eye of Charles
Dickens.-Notes and Queries.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-08
DEATH IN PITCH DARKNESS.


Two Trains Come Together on the BaIti-
more & Ohio and Kill Three Men.
WASHINGTON, Oct. S-The Cincinnati ex-
press, bound west, collided with an east-bound
freight train about midnight Saturday
night near Dickens station, forty miles west
of Washington on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad Three men were killed outright
and several others seriously injured. The
trains csms together without a minutes
warning in deep cut where there is curve
in the road, and while the express was run
ming perhaps fifty miles an hour. There was
an awful crash, and the mail car, the bag
gage and express cars of the Cincinnati
train, three freight cars and the two loco
motives were piled up in heap thirty feet
high.
TIE night was pitch dark, and it was some
time before the bewildered people in the
passenger coaches and sleepers, none OF
whom was seriously injured, could realize
the situation, and with the train hands rem
der assistance to the unfortunate men who
were buried in the wreck Finally two men,
John Wiley and John Casety, postal clerks,
and John Rodenbaugh, a brakeman on the
freight train We're taken out dead; JOSEPH
Jefries, engineer on the passenger train: l..
W. Gordon, express MESSENGER; S. G.. Jack
son and A. c. Cook, postal clerks, and j. B
Virts, the freight trainman fireman, wer'
badly injured. Their escape from instant
death seems almost miraculous