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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24
!Ij!Av! UNIVERSITY 0F LOUISIANA
WIN. Preston Johnston, Ii. D.,
President.

The hext Annual Session of High school, Col
legc, and OF the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial
College for young women, will begin Tuesday,
October LIST Entrance examination on Mon
day, September 30Gg.
= High School Course years. College Course
4 years. All departments supplied with labo-
ratories ard other aids to practical instruction.
The Maiuai Training department is well sup
piled wit Qparatus for wood working, black
smithing, @rglng. brazing and soldering and
machine construction.
Parallel College Courses lead to the degree of
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. There
is a practical course in Electrical Engineering
and a complete plant of the Edison System for
instruction.
Tie Fl. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College
for young women offers full course i'll science
and letters.
Special courses in Art and Literature. There
is an Academical Department which prepares
students for the College. College course, 500
per annum. Preparatory course Of two years,
$50 per annum.
The Law Department opens November 18th.
II. c. Miller, Dean. Medical Department opens
October "lst, Stanford E. Challle, III. d.. Dean.
For general catalogues, address
WM. O. ROGERS,
Secretary of the Tulane University.
Aug a3ln New Orleans, La.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24

Bottled beer on ice at 5 cents o glass
at Vilaseca's opposite the Market
House.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24
OLERKN McCAEEEx
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NOTICE |!
LAND OFFICE, at New {

LAND OFFICE, at New orleans La.
July II, 1889 {
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his Intention
to make final proof in support of his claim. and
that said proof Will be made before the Judge.
or in his absence the Clerk OF the District
Court at Opelousas, La, on Monday Augmst
2Gth, 1889. viz: o"''
THOMAS G. ASHFORD,
who made Homestead Entry No TIT for tI
southwest section II township 6 solth ranao
l west, Louisiana Meridian. "e"
He names the following witnesses to prova
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
of, said land viz: ''i"i'
Louis -Fidrine, Benoit johnson, Tbeodu,a
Dogue, Joseph A. Dogue ali Of St. Landry Tar'
ish, Louisiana. P'A
J., ANY person who desires to protest against
the allowance of such proof, or who knGws ~
any substantial reason. uuder the law and the
regulations of the Interior Department VIZ
such proof should net be allowed. vii, ~. r,,y mny
an opportunity at the above mentioned ttma
and place to eross-eXamine the witnessed nS
said claimant, and to offer evidence in r,Snt,Iei 81
Of that submitted by claimant ''"A
THOMAS j. BUTLER,
""'S %''o1 Register
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24
Estray Notice.

TNAKEN up as an estray by the undersigned
H. at Plaqueminc Point, OF. the 18th of August.
1889, a sorrel creole horse, about ten years old.
gentle, branded on right shoulder about thus :
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24
LANDS

Improved, and unimproved, for sale or rar+
by HENRY L. GIR1 a yTRsat
inch loft. ~N%aN3s~Nbt
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24

Plso's Remedy for Catarrh is sold by F
E. Bailey Druggist. Price so cents.
The DEMOCRAT six months 81.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24
Personal.

Joseph Dejean, a prosperous planter
OF Port Barre, treated us to a call few
days since.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-08-24
THOMAS G., ASWFnRm

July 20-Gt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
AN OLD JOURNAL.

The HERALD is past nineteen years of
age, and yet compared with some of the
publications Of the day it is but good
sized, healthy infant. For instance on the
9th ult the Hartford Courdnt celebrated
its hundred and twenty-fifth birthday.
There's age for you'll The Courdnt remarks
in an article reviewing its own past, "Such
a reputation not only has sentimental but
a business value" We should say it had
A paper that lived before-the national gov
eminent had an existence, that published
the details of the first and the last struggle
for liberty on this continent-the latter by
the lightning wires and the former by
means of the diligence which often made
hundred miles in a hundred hours-has seen
q great deal and ought to know
s1methipg not only of this country but of
others, where there has been even more
shaking up than here.
There is not a man alive in the United
States vino was in existence when the
Courant was born; the affairs of our land,
and of all lands, have passed into entirely
different hands, and so has the paper
changed its board of control several times.
Such a career is a history of itself, one
well worth reading.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

especially in view of the fact that there
was no pressing emergency requiring i'm
mediate action.
The attitude of HARRISON in this matter
has created confusion thrice COMPOUNDED, all
having general tendency in favor of the
Republican party. Judge De WOLFE was
by it rendered functus off;io while in the
miCstof his duties rega ding the case, the
object being, of course, to take the matter
out of his hands and give it over to
judge having less regard for the law and
more for ths party by means OF which he
was brought into judicial existence. But
this only brings the new commonwealth
into condition of things for which it was
not at all prepared and had never looked
forward to. There are two claimants
for Judge De WoLFE's seat, one
a Democrat, the other a Republican. Who
is to determine which of these is entitled
to qualify and assume the duties of the
ofice2 And could not HARRISON have fore
seen this! Must he not have known it?
Why not wait day or two until the Terri
torial authorities had settled the matter
conclusiyely and thus let the new state
come in without q wrangle? Undoubtedly
because that would have given the party of
law and order a fair chance, while nipping
all proper proceedings in the bud gave the
Republicans their only hope.
1t is perhaps not too early nor too late to
advise the Republican party that the Louis
lana plan is dangerous one to adopt Just
now. The people as a class have had
ON Of oh
do not think that they are pretty well tired
Of the Republican policy of overriding law
and order to accomplish immediate re.
suits are referred to the elections of
Tuesday last as means of be-
coming undeceived. And it is not,
perhaps, out of the way to say that
each additional effort in the direction of
such revolution as this administration and
its predecessors have favored does but the
more greatly incense the masses.
If the worst comes to the worst, it is sin
cerely to be hoped that Governor TooLE
will range himself squarely on the side of
law, the right and decency by favoring a
gathering of the legislators properly and
fairly elected and organizing themselves as
the first legislative assembly of the state of
Montana. The Republicans would doubt
less get their rev uliOnary and illegal body
together and seel. recognition for such bas-
tardly aggregation; but the governor need
not recognize them, he need only recognize
the body which was properly elected in &C
Cordance with the forms and terms of the
law. Those Republicans who were actually
elected might come in if thew chose but
without them there would be quorum and
the business of the state would go ahead
This would be rather ungraceful attitude
for the new state tn assume, we admit: but
it would be infinitely preferable to having
it begin its career with q Republican fraud
of the deepest dye fastened upon it.
Governor TooLE may have the matter all
in his own, hands, and this paper, in com
mon with upright and right-minded people
everywhere can only say, Governor, do
your duty" with the sincere hope and be-
lief that he will do it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
OGDEN PROTECTING IMMORTALITY.

It is not to be wondered at that the de-
cent Liberals of Ogden are heartily
ashamed of the way things are done in that
city. Nor is it surprising that so many OF
the decent men in the party announce
openly they will vote the Peoples ticket
at the next election, rather than be par
ties to the continuance of the aw-
ful condition of things prevailing
in the junction city. The outcome
of the recent attempt by the United
States deputy marshals to suppress
couple of very public houses of prostitu-
ton is scandalous, to draw it mildly, and
use the least offensive term that will ap-
ply The keepers and inmates were ar
rested by the deputies, as the municipal
authorities did not seem disposed to inter
fere with the places, though the character
of the houses was notorious. The women,
as we understand it, did not deny their
guilt, but demanded jury trial. This being
granted, guilt was established beyond the
possibility of doubt; the case was so well
made that the attorney for the accused did
not even claim that his clients were limo
cent, but put forth the startling plea that
their business was necessary if not strictly
legitimate, and taat it had been sanctioned
by the majority of the voters when they
installed Liberal government. His claim,
implicitly if not openly, was that mas
much as the municipal authorities did not
attempt to suppress the houses of ill-fame,
the understanding was that the women were
privileged to carry on their business, The
attorney was correct in his Interpretation
of last February's vote and also of the
meaning of the city governments refusal
to proceed against the immoral establish
ments; he was also right in ''sizing up'
the jurors, for the latter promptly returned
a verdict of not guilty.
This case must be interpreted as notice
to the world in general and to the United
States marshal in particular that the Ogden
Liberal government regards houses of
prostitution and women of no virtue what
ever, as essentials to community welfare
and public prosperity, and that such houses
and such women will be encouraged and
protected in that city By the Liberal au-
thorities and the Liberal voters.
Under the circumstances, it would be
surprising if some of the clean Liberal
folks in our neighboring city did not sigh
for the return of the Peoples party to the
control of the municipality.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
THE UTAH BOY.

1t is as impudent as it is despicablc for
the Liberal organs and political leaders to
address themselves to young Utah, as they
are doing. They talk to the young men
born and raised here as if the latter were
either dolts or unnatural and vicious crea-
lures whose mission on earth was to make
war against their parents and friends, and
bring distress to those who have helped
them. These young men are told that their
fathers are vile wretches unworthy the
respect of decent people, and undeserving
the rights and privileges enjoyed by other
citizens of the republic. Their mothers are
spoken of and denounced as women with
out moral instincts and devoid of virtuous
thoughts. Their sisters are referred to in
but complimentary terms, and as
a whole are slandered most outrageously,
as when the scoundrelly libel regarding the
female students in a certain school was
published a year or two ago.
Accompanying this daily abuse of fathers,
mothers and sisters, and side by side with
it, are appeals to the young sons and
brothers to Join hands with the persecu-
tors of their parents and traducers of their
sisters, in the war of plumber now being
waged against the old settlers of this ter
ritory, the men who have made it possible
for the SPECTATORS to exist on Utah soil. Do
the fellows who are issuing these appeals
realize that they are asking the young men
to give their endorsement to the SANDER
that the wives and mothers of Utah are
that the fathers are lechers,
criminals and ignorant brutes, opposed to
civilization and fighting intelligence and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

is always proud to know that he carries in
his pocket the pasteboard evidence of
his influential friendship with the rail.
road, was required to surrender his
pass, and move about somewhat like an or
phan. 1t was only little while, however,
that passes were obsolete. In the course
of few weeks the railroad people found
excuses for giving free rides to favorites
and as bats for business. and within a
year there was practical return to the old
order of things. To-day passes are as nu-
merous as ever, the regulation annual"
being quite common; while excursion
rates" are granted Oh the slightest pre-
text.
COOLERS proposition is that passes and
excursion rates necessarily make the regu-
lar rates high; and he is right. Somebody
must pay the fare of everybody
who rides on pass, and if any
number of people are carried for less
than the actual cost to the company
Of carrying them, others must make up t. G
deficiency or the road will go behind 1t
would be better for the public, and for the
railroads also, if there were an established
rate of fare from which no variation could
be made, and if passes were abolished So
long as considerable percentage of the
travellers arr carried for nothing, and
another considerable number of people
are transported at cost or less, those
who have no pull" on the rail
roads and can command no favors,
must pay more for passage than
they should, and there will be discomfort
on the part of the public, and annoyance
on the part of the railways
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
REDUCED RATES AND PASSES.

Judge COOLEY, of the inter state com
merce commission, does not agree with the
managers of the railroads. Ever since the
interstate law went into effect, most of
the railroads have complained that they
were making no money, and several have
said that the act was the cause of direct
loss to them. The allegation is that rates
have been forced down to such point
that there is no money in them for the
roads Judge COOLEY argues, and he
seems to have the better side of it, that the
rates are too high. He bases this assertion
on the fact that the companies are very
generous in the matter of free transporta-
ton, and on the other fact that very low
excursion rates are given.
The position assumed by Judge COOLEY,
it appears to US, is correct, railroad rates
being too high, and for the reasons stated.
1t was said the interstate law would put
an end to the free pass system, and for a
short time it looked as if this would be the
case. The roads called in their passes,
always with polite note blaming the law
and regretting that Congress had made il
impossible for them to be generous, or even
courteous, to their friends. Even the roor
newspaper "feller,' who seldom rides but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBoR'S DILEMMA.

There may be nothing revolutionary in
the course of President HARRISON regard
ing the admission of Montana as a state;
but there is that in his action which has 4
tendency to excite partisanship in the
former territory to its highest pitch and
make things there scene of rude commo-
ton; this particularly in view of the fact
that it was given out by at least semi
official authority that no action in the
nature Of fnality would be taken by
the executive until everything as between
the parties was settled by our northern
neighbor
The complexion of the legislature de-
ponds upon the vote of one precinct of
Silver Bow county, which the canvassers
threw out because a number of foreigners
who could not read and write our language
were permitted to vote. There is nothing
in the new constitution or the old
laws forbidding this; on the con-
trary, such voting and such voters
were anticipated by the law, which pro
vided among other things that when voters
of that class presented a statement in
writing, to the effect that they could not
read or write our language and giving
their political preferences, it was the duty
of the judges of election to make out their
ballots for them, all of which was done.
1t seems that all these foreigners had a
disposition to vote the Democratic ticket
which is the best evidence they have yet
given of their qualifications for citizenship
and the fact that they follow their in
clinations is made by the returning board
ground for the rejection of their votes.
1t is hardly to be believed that had they
voted the Republican instead of the Demo
cratic ticket, the knaves composing the
canvassing board would have thrown
the votes out; it is also cor
relative circumstance that in thus
acting, the said canvassers knew
exactly what the political effect would be,
having OF course been advised of the fact
that doing as they did would make the leg
islature Republican instead of Democratic,
and of course they acted in that way for
the accomplishment of that object. The
same old story-when Republicans have
full sway, they have no regard for the
d cts of GoD nor the laws of man.
Well, the Democrats sought proper relief
from the courts. Having been overthrow
by utterly lawless methods, they did not
propose to confront like with like, but
rather, as usual, to meet lawIessness with
lawfulness. The Democratic party has
lost great many points and large num-
Der of advantageous positions by reason of
such conduct, but it keeps on doing it be-
cause it is the party of law and order as
against the organization whose hope is the
offices and whose only reliance is on
power, whether rightfully or wrong
fully acquired. And pending solu ton of
the local question, the least that the chief
authority at Washington could have done
would be to await the decision of the courts,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
THE BLAINE BUSINESS.

A few days ago THE HERALD's Geographic
columns contained an interesting statement
regarding the motives and attendant cir
cumstances which caused JAMES G. BLAINE
to write the famous Florence letter which
cost him the presidency of the United
States. The story in brief was that while
passing through the ST. Gothard tunnel
he became chilled to the marrow and was
thereupon partially paralyzed, resulting,
on his arrival at the city above named, in
a severe attack of melancholia, all of which
influences completely Frustrated him. The
resident American doctor, who attended
upon him, after full and careful
diagnosis, announced in substance
that it was case of mo politics
or no life,n and thereupOn the Maine
statesman, without hesitation, chose life
and made up and forwarded to America
the document which alone made it possible
for Mr.. HARRISON to now occupy the
Presidential chair
This statement, however, is not univer
sally accepted. Some of the newspapers
will not have it at any price. One of them
thinks it altogether unlikely that man of
BLAINE's celebrity should have reached the
verge of dissolution in an Italian hotel
without some mixing of the circumstances
being transmitted to his friends in Amer
lea. Furthermore" it says, IF our men,
DRY serves us right, at the very time when
he is said to have been in moribund con-
dition. the reports forwarded to this coun-
try by presumably reliable correspondents
reported the Republican leader as being in
reasonably good health-his physical con-
dtion being, in fact, so promising that
there was no doubt as to his ability to
serve his country if his country wanted
him. Our opinion of the vigilance of
European newspaper correspondents is not
so slow rs to admit of the belief that Mr..
BLAINE passed twenty four days hors dc
combat, and in hourly danger of giving up
the ghost without their detecting the cir
cumstance."
Why a man whose bent of inclination for
half generation past has been the Presi-
dency of his country, and who was pos
sessed of every qualification and the
requisite ability with any amount of back
ing, should, after pulling for it unsuc-
cessfully so many successive times, then
draw out just as the prize was within his
grasp, seems one of those mysteries of life
which are from the beginning beyond the
ascertainment of mankind. If the reason
stated in the dispatch was not the correct
one, what on earth could it have been? is
what it would be interesting to find out.
Answers are in order.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
DISCRETION IN DIVORCE CASES.

1t was remarkable statement which
Judge THAYER made at meeting at the
National Reform association in I'hiladel-
phia the other day. 1t was This:
Ihave granted many DEGREES of divorce that
did not think should he granted simply be
cause by my official oath am bound u admin
lister the laws as they are upon the statute
books In many and many a case have felt
that this thing was being done by agreement
and That people who were bound together by
the laws of God were sundering themselves by
trick. ! am bound, ;...u CIV cry Judge is bound,
hand and foot in this matter. No judge can say
no, nor has he any opportunity to protest
against it.
Judge THAYER entertains strikingly pc
culiar ideas of the requirements of the law
if he has granted divorces under the cir
cumstances mentioned. Other judges have
assumed that the law conferred upon them
a certain degree of discretion, and they
have exercised that discretion, the rule
being to deny the legal separation when
there is reason to believe there is fraud or
collusioI. If a Judge were tied down, as
THAYER thinks he is, and were required to
issue the annulling decree upon the APP
plicatiOn of the parties. without an
inquiry into the merits of the case, the
marriage and divorce laws would be almost
useless statutes. If man and wife could go
into court and get divorce without prov
ing to the satisfaction OF the Judge that
they were entitled to it, and that society
would be benefited by the separation,
what protection would the law be to the
so-called sanctity of marriage: The di-
vOrce laws, as a rule, permit too wide
latitude to,the Judge in the matter of dis
erection. They open the door to the granting
of divorces in cases in which the statutes
intend that separations shall be denied.
1t is because of this laxity that so many
easy divorce scandals arise, and certain
courts acquire the reputation of making it
decidedly convenient for married people to
sever the ties which bind them together.
We know of no law which requires Judge
to grant divorce when the demonstrated
facts do not justify the separation, though
there are plenty of statutes which permit
judge, in his discretion, to divorce people
who should not be allowed their freedom
from the marriage bonds. Judge THAYER
is so strict a constructionist that in his de
votion to the literal rendering of the law it
is 10 be feared he has permitted and
encouraged immortality
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
How She Did IL.

Chicago School Teacher-Does any
little boy or girl know the poem about
Old Mother Hubbard?
Little Girl (from Boston)-I do.
Teacher-Very well, you may recite it
for the others.
Little Girl-Aged Mother Hubbard
performed that particular style of vol
untary Iocomotion known as walking in
the direction of the receptacle in which
provisions were wont to be kept, for the
purpose of providing for her faithful ca
nine portion of the frame of a body,
But, upon arriving at the aforesaid re-
ceptacle, what was her dismay upon dis
covering that it was in state of abso-
Lutte nudity.-Lawrence American.