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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14
Save Your Own Bacon.

In these days of unsatisfactory railway
rates it would be we'll for you to ponder
plans that will enable you to depend more
for sustenance upon what you raise at
home, SO that you will not be compelled
to pay so much tribute upon what you buy
and what you sell. =
One very simple and very saving way
for You to help yourselves will be found
in raising hogs enough to supply all the
pork and bacon you can use through the
year. Corn is a very good crop, and
yet by the time you pay the ruling freight
rates for carrying it to the market you find
it's production far from satisfactory. The
hard work you do makes strong food nee
essary to keep your ply sica, organizations
in good condition, and nothing has ever
been found that sticks to the ribs like
bacon. Well, you are buying your bacon
at the stores, and you are paying more for
it because it is cured outside the State and
has to be hauled good long distance to
find it's market.
You must sell your corn for less because
the market is far away you must pay
more for your bacon because the slaughter
pens are far away.
Don't you see the remedy2
1t is very ximple. T.
Hogs are easily raised, and corn produces
well.
Feed your corn to hogs and save your
own bacon. If you cure but enough for
the use of your own family, you will be
ahead by so much if you have some to
spare you will have no difficulty in finding
a sale for it.
The plan is worth trying Sunny South.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

Young Doctor Ito hospital superintendent
IL want no interference, sir, with my
directions. | know my business. have
walked all the hospitals of London and
Paris Superintendent-s'Yo You may have
walked foreign hospitals, sir, but you will
find that run this one. '-S filings.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

Mr.. Cheatham, of North Carolina, the
only colored Congressman in the next
House, has just returned from trip to his
district whittier he went for the purpose
of trying to persuade the negroes of his
State to give up their idea of emigrating
in large numbers to the South and South
west He has all along been opposed to
the exodus, and during his visit made a
last appeal to the colored people to stay
where they are His words and warning
do not, however, seem to have produced
much effect, and the probabilities are that
this fall will witness the moving of about
thirty or forty thousand negroes from the
old tar heel State in search of homes in the
more fertile South. The effect of this
large exodus of negroes will be felt in
many ways. Its political effect will be to
make the State of North Caroliana more
surely Democratic than ever.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

Rev. M. T. Martin has been deposed
from the ministry by the First Baptist
church at Waco, Texas, on the charge of
heresy, but was granted letter as lay
man.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

Question-Is it polite to pick ones ne teen tha
in company. wer-lt depends 3n tn
If accompanied 6y Soaf u5 tasth
you would be able to plesk p e;s;no -
than if you went by yourself. 'og's's@'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

A note of long, forgotten music, like the
fspurpst Dlay raise up the sheessd dead
a fness f that have we passed away-Dr B. H.
Carroll,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

The Isras Adg0nce is q Prohibition
paper just started in Waco, Tex, with J.
.. Cranfill and ]. G. r. Kyger as editors.
Wow. No. 3, is before us, and ne find 1t
IN ably edited journal,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

The reported find of rich gold deposits
county, Ind, made by Cincinnati mining
the neighborhood of the alleged discovery.
to the gold fields, owing to the doubt of
the people as to the truth of the miners
assertion. There can be no doubt that the
precious metal exists along Bean Blossom
creek and other parts of the county, but it
has not heretofore been thought that it's
quantities were sufficient to Justify the ex-
penditure of mining it. In jackson town
ship, where the present rich find is located.
gold has been found for many years, but
was always in pockets and offered only the
precarious rewards of placer prospecting
to the seeker. 1t is claimed by some that
the valuable metal there is not indigenous,
but that it came from the North with the
drift of the glaciers. A few years ago an
old California miner prospected in that
section for some time and claimed to have
discovered valuable deposits. He organ
lied mining company without difficulty,
and securing leases on considerable area
of the supposed rich field, proceeded to
put in the necessary apparatus for gold
digging. IL Is SAID tnaG conSiueraole quau-
titles Of the precious metal were found,
but the work finally ceased from some
cause. Christopher stump's place, near
Georgetown, has recently given out over
$500 worth of gold, while a number of
nuggets ranging in value from So to $40
have been found along the bed of the creek
where the recently discovered rich deposits
are said to have existed. The Cincinnati
expert has returned to Cincinnati for the
purpose, so he stated, of securing the as
sistance Of other experts and to get the
necessary mining machinery.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14

Ed love you, Miss Flossie, but
have not got cent = FIossie-sI love
You too, Ned; but haven't got cent. ?
Ed Then we'll start married life two
cents short. - Time.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14
The Farmers Waking UP and Improv
ing Their Condition.

On being asked the present condition
and future prospects of the farmers of his
section, by correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle, Col. J. M. Smith, one of the
most successful farmers in the State, said ::
sThe farmers have worked harder, stuck
to business closer, bought less on credit
and at lower prices than was ever known
before. Such policy is bound to produce
good results, not only so far as they of my
section. are concerned but the whole people
of the State will be vastly benefited"
"What led to this policy 2" asked the
correspondent.
"For several years past crops have been
short and farming has not paid. Necessity
being the mother of invention, and the
farmers seeing impending ruin near at
hand, determined to make one more heroic
effort to better their condition. The agi-
tations of many matters directly affecting
the farmer by the Alliance induced the
farmers to think more seriously and intel
ligently of their condition than ever be-
fore. If the farmers would live inside
their income and practice half the economy
that prevailed fifty years ago, there is no
reason why they should not become as in
dependent as in times past. Before the
war the farmers owned the railroads, the
banks and the factories and loaned the
merchants money. After the war all of
this was changed. The farmers now owe
the merchants and the merchants owe the
banks. There is no good reason why this
should be so. 1t is much easier to make
living now than it was fifty years ago. The
necessaries of life are fifty per cent cheaper
and labor is one hundred per cent higher
than it was So it follows that days
labor now is from three to four times more
beneficial to the laborer and his family
than it was fifty years ago. think the
country is beginning to see the situation
in this light, and the encouraging prospect
is thus accounted for.
The City Item says: The waters at
Mississippi Sound at Ocean Springs and
Biloxi, for couple of nights past, have
been highly charged with phosphorescent
anina1cula, causing very splash, ripple
and moving object to appear like pale
liquid fire. At Ocean Springs on Saturday
night the water too, was alive with fish,
which darted hither and thither the greater
preying upon the lesser, and the size and
shape of each sharply defned and brilliant
lysilluminated as 1t sped along. The cat
fish, with their gaping mouths, long feel
ers and sharp fms, seems to become especi-
ally coated with the phosphoric element,
and in moving about they appeared like
tabled monsters of the deep on diminu-
tive scale.
A special to the NJ O. Times Democrat
from Crowley, La, dated Aug. 10Th says:
Crowley shipped its first bale of cotton of
this season to- day, via the Southern Pacific
Railway, consigned to julius Weis & Co.,
New Orleans, shipped by Kahn & Smith,
of this place. and raised by Jesse B. Clark.
of Plaquemine Brulee, twelve miles north
of here. This is the eighth consecutive
time that Mr.. Clark has raised the first
bale of cotton of this parish" This is the
best record ever made in three year old
parish.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14
A Curious Case of Death From Drink,

A 6-year-old daughter of Jacob Mann,
hotel keeper of Hicksville, l.. l.,
died August IA under peculiar circum-
stances. The child complained to her
father that she had slight cold, and he
told her to go to her mother and she would
give her some medicine Instead of going
to her mother the child went to closet
and took long draught of whisky from a
demijohn. Soon after she fell asleep and
never woke again. Two physicians were
called in, but they could not revive her.
An autopsy showed that the whisky had
killed her
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-14


Gen. Theodore 8. West, one Of the pro-
prietors of the Langham Hotel, Washing
ton City, died suddenly on August Is at
Asbury Psrk, N. ]. On July last Gen.
West and Sterling Ruffin, well known
clerk In the Treasury Department, who
comes from North Carolina, had d quarrel
over board bill. and Ruffin struck West
In the face with an umbrella, breaking
his nose. He then hit West again, and,
after knocking him down, jumped ON him.
The quarrel wigs renewed later in the day,
and West was SO badly punished that he
has not since been able to get around. No
arrests were made at the time, but when
the police this afternoon learned of Gen.
Vests death Ruffin was taken from the
Treasury Department and locked up. The
dead man during the war was Colonel of
the Twenty fourth Wisconsin Regiment
and was breyeted Brigadier General for
pallantry. A few months ago he married
Miss Charlotte Croker, daughter Of
Gen. M. III. Croker, Of Lows.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

The British foreign office is negotiat-
ing commercial treaty with Japan. by
the terms of which Great Britain sur
renders the present judicial privileges
of her subjects in Japan, in return for
which concession the whole interior of
Japan Will be opened up TO English
trade.
San Luis, village near Santiago de
Cuba, has been visited by a disastrous
fire. Sixty houses were destroyed and
two children were burned to death.
News from Onalaska, by the steamer
Bertha, at san Francisco, confirms the
recent reports of the loss of the whaling
schooners James a. Hamilton, otter
snd Annie. The vessels carried about
sixty officers and men.
An effort Is being made to induce
Judge t. NJ. Cooley. of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, TO become COM
missioner of the Trunk Lines Associa-
ton at a salary Of $25, 900 year.
1t. Lopki, an Indian Territory des-
perado was killed in fight with an of
hcer.
John Roman was fatally hurt and Pat
rick Grimes and John Brennan serious
" by the fall OF an elevator in beet-can-
ming works at East ST. Louis.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
OWES OVER A MILLION.
Batcheller, the Boston Shoe Dcaic'
Makes an Assignment.

BosToN, Mass, July 30.-E. & A. IL.
Batcheller & Co., among the first boot
and shoe houses III Boston doing busi-
ness at l06 Summer Street has assigned.
At the office of tie firm nothing dciin-
lie as to the extent of the liabilities, etc, +,
can be learned at present.
Mr.. Batcheller, of the firm, states
that the liabilities as near as can now
be ascertained will reach Sl,250,U0,
with nominal assets about the same
figure. An expert accountant is now
going over the books aud a report viii
be made to the creditors as soon
possible. The assIgnees are Tho
+. Proctor, Of Boston, and
Batcheller of North Brookfeld.
larger amount of the Indebtedness is
said to be on paper and held by parties
who are at present unknown 10 the firm.
Eour-iiths of the indebtedness is to
banks and individuals. The leather
trade will not suffer as the firm paid
cash for most OF its leather. The firm IL
one of long standing and was rated hv
Bradstreet sc. a." The failure creates
great surprise.
Mexican & Appleton, shoe manufac-
turers of Salem, to-day assigned to ].
Beebe, of Boston. The estimated Ii.
abilities are from $50 600 to G75 600.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
CHICAGO'S GREAT STORM.
One of the Worst Ever Known in the
HistorY of the CIV.

From all accounts received the storm
at Chicago on the night Of the 9th was
one OF the worst ever known in the
history OF the city, both for the amount
of rainfall and damage done. Aside
from the awful catastrophe st Twenty
first and Leavitt Streets, where eight
people We're killed by fall
ing house, three lives are
known to have been lost. One child
was killed by lightning and two men
walking on the railroad track were
stunned by d shock and were killed by
a passing train. The damage TO base
ment stores IN the business portion of
the city is very great, and in residence
districts many houses We're more or
less injured by the wind or lightning.
A tremendous rainfall raised the Chica-
go River rapidly and all night and next
day it flowed into Lake Michigan at a
speed OF about SIX miles an hour. 1t
Is reported traces Of the filthy water can
be discovered nearly as far out as the
crib where Chlcago's water supply is
taken in. telegraph and telephone
wires throughout the city and suburbs
were badly used up, and large gangs of
men have been busiIy employed repair
ing the damages. The city fire engines
were TO be seen at many points in the
heart OF the city pumping OUT water
from easements.
During the height of the storm, the
propeller Boston, of the New York
Central line, grain laden, coming down
to the south branch from the elevator,
became unmanageable on account of
the swift current, and swung broddside
to against bridge. It Was held in that
position until evening, notwithstanding
all efforts at release. 1t took two rail-
road engines on shore, two large tugs
and elaborste complication of tackle to
release the big boat, and in the mean
time river and railroad traffic in that
vicinity was completely saspendcd
CHICAGO, ILL.,, july 29.-Ihe damage
by the storm in this city Saturday even
ing will, it is estimated, amount to ST.,
C00,000. The rainfall was the heaviest
known in years, the amount of precip-
itation being 4.l2 inches between 6:45
o'clock p. NJ. and $40 O'Clock p n, fill
ing easements and cellars ana aoing
much damage generally. During the
storm the unfinished three-storv brick
building at the northeast corner OF IWeu-
ty-hrst and Leavitt Streets was blown
down upon a one-sIory frame cottage
adjoining, burying it out Of sight,
| killing Mrs. Amelia Buck, Annie Buck,
Albert Buck, Cornelius FeTdeuanches,
Areka Ferdenanches. Cora FerdeaaEch-
es, Mea FeTdenanches. aHd wounding
Charles Buck, August Buck, Lula and
/ Ada EerdpnqDchpS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
LORD CHuRCHILL,S ADVICE.
a Loan of $500 900, 900 tc Enable IrisL
Tenants to Buy 1heir Holdings.

Loan of $500, Go0, 0O0 tc Enable Irish
Tenants to Buy 4heir Holdings.
AT Birmingham, on the 30th, Lord
Randolph Churchill, in Il speech said
that the Conservative party in Birmlng-
ham ought to receive a larger recogni-
ton than the dissidents appeared will
ing to accord. The elections ought not
to proceed on the principle of men be-
fore measures, The Conservatives had
a right to ask the dissidents to define
deClsively the platform on which the
latter appealed to the electors.
Otherwise the dissidents could
not expect the Conservatives to vote
for policies which, apart from Unlonlsm,
the conservative party would strongly
and even desperately oppose. If the
Conservatives chose to exert them
selves they would carry more than half
the seats III Birmingham. Referring to
the many remedies proposed for the
prevailing discomfort in Ireland, Lord
Randolph recommended as a final solu-
ton of the question an imperial loan of
not less than 600, 1900 900 to enable
tenants to buy their holdings, the local
bodies controlling the rate of collected
revenues to become security for the
payment of the loan. He pointed out
that this scheme made it necessary that
Ireland remain under the imperial
parliament
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
GREAT ROADS UNITE.
Com bination of Five Great Railroad
Lines in the West.

SPRINGFIELD, H., July 29.-Articles of
consolidation were fled with the secre-
tary of state to-day combining the To-
ledo Western Railway Company,
the Detroit & State Line
Wabash Railway Company, the
Wabash Eastern Railway Company of
Indiana, the Wabash Eastern Railway
Company of illinois and the Wabash
Western Railroad Company under the
general name of the wabash Railroad
Company" The capital stock is S52,-
0 0,0O0. The first board of directors Is
constituted as follows: James +.
JOY, of Detroit. Mich Ossian
ID. Ashley, of New York; Thomas
II. Hubbard, of New York /;
Edgar T. Welles of Hartford, Conn. /;
George w. Smith of Chicago; Abram
NJ. Pence of Chicago; Charles Henrotin
of Chicago; John w. Bum of Spring
field and John Maynard Harlan of Chi
cago.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 29.-At meeting
of Wabash Western officials here to-
day the purchase of the Eastern
lines was ratified and the
consolidation of the properties
formally effected. A final meeting
will be held at Toledo on I lursday, and
the board of directors will then elect Of
fcers for the ensuing year.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
INDIANS UP In ARMS.
Uprising of Reds Reported in Washington
Territory-Troops Called.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 27.-The
commissioner of Indian affairs to-day
received telegram from r. A. N. Esr-
yey, chairman of citizens committee,
through Indian Agent Cole of the Col
vile agency, in Stevens County, w. T.,
saying that the Indians attached to the
Colyille agency have burnt eight square
miles of hay land and threaten the lives
OF the settlers, many of whom are
guarding their dwellings and hay stacks
The settlers have signed a petition re-
questlng THAI company of soldiers be-
sent them to protect their property
and perhaps their lives. Agent Cole
joins the committee in asking that inn
mediate action be taken.
The telegram has been re ferred to the
Secretary OF War, with the request that
the military officer nearest the scene Of
trouble be directed to promptly invesb-
gate the matter and take such action as
may be deemed necessary.
The Indian officials have no knowledge
OF the cause OF the reported trouble.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
FLAMES IN THE MOUNTAINS.
Much Valuable Property Destroyed by
Running Fires.


Fort BENTON, Mont, July 29.-Forest
fires are reported in the mountains and
along the banks of the Missouri, for
many miles below here. At Bowdoin the
section house was burned, and Miss
Matte Johnson, school teacher, so Sc
verely burned that her recovery is
doubtful. The Northern Pacific
track east of Livingston burned
out Tor short distance, but
has been repaired. Several mining
camps have been deserted and ranch
ers are plowing around their land to
prevent fire in the grass from running.
The air is filed with Il dense smoke,
but so far no loss of life is reported.
CHICo, Cal, July 29.-Large forest fires
are raging on the Humboldt road eighteen
miles from Chico. The fire has burnt
over district four miles in length and
is sweeping everything before it. Much
valuable timber has already been de-
stroyed. The inhabitants have all
turned out and are fighting the flames
with great energy. They hope to have
the fire checked by night.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Jul 29.-Fleld
fires have been burning in the foot
hills back Of Santa Barbara. Twelve
dwellings, besides a number of earns
and a large quantity OF hay, have been
destroyed. A number OF horses and
| cattle also peTisheJ. The loss Will reach
| --lif iihI
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
A STRIKE DECLARED.
The Conneusville Coke Region 50 Be IL
kext Fighting Grnn.lt.

The ConneIIsviIle Coke Region 80 Be the
Next Fighting GToanti,
The much talked Of strike has ut last
been ordered by one Of the largest labor
conventions ever held in the Connells-
vile coke region. Nearly $40 dele
gates were present, representing
almost everv work in the region.
Master Workman kerfoot, OF sub
division 4, Knights of Labor, was
chosen chairman, and Cloyd Nj. Parker,
of the same organization, secretary. As
was predicted hot a single coke operat-
or was present 10 meet the conference
committee. j. NJ. Dayton, 7. L. Mont
gomery and John $. Peight were ap-
pointed a committee on resolutions.
Their report, which was unanimously
adopted, racites that in spite of repeat
ed efforts to obtain a conference with
the operators, they still continue TO ig-
more any proposition in the interest Of
harmony; that the condition of
the workers III the COnnellsville coke
region is such as to demand the greatest
urgency in obtaining redress; that the
! decision of the former convention be
! approved and the work cease through
| out the region August, 1889, and that no
work be done until their demands be
| granted; that committees be appointed
| to visit the various works and explain
| to the men the condition of Affairs and
| urge the workmen to unite in order to
| obtain their demands,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
PURCHASE NAVAL YARDS
An American Syndicate "A fter the Brit
ish Plant at Esquimault.

A dispatch OF the 29.h from San Fran
cisco says Theodore Cramp, member
of the Philadelphia shipbuilding firm,
LETT san Francisco this afternoon for
Alaska. On his return trip he will visit
the British naval station at Esquimault,
on Nancouver's Island. 1t is said that
he is forming a company of American
capitalists to purchase the yard
from the British government.
1t is stated that the sym
dicate has already been formed in
the East, with a subscribed capital of
$4,000, coo. The purchase price is said
to be about 81 100000. The syndicate is
said to have number of prominent
ship building firms, including Cramp &
Sons, Philadelphia; Harlan & Hollings-
worth and Pusey 4 Jones, Wilmington,
and the Union Iron Works, of this city,
as its principal supporters. 1t is under
stood that the British government has
found the Esquimault yards inadequate.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-08-03
Fires started by sportsmen.

GLENwooD STRINGS, Col, July 30
The forest fire which has been raging in
this vicinity torseveral days was started
over week ago by some sportsmen In
No Name Cabon. J. Brown, his family
and party OF ladies narrowly escaped
death, only escaping by wading through
a creek for neaily two miles on their
hands and knees. The fire has now
spread and covers an area of over ten
square miles. The entire air in the
western slope is filed with smoke from
the burning mountains.