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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
A GRANGER'S MISTAKE.
An Agriculturist Who Thought the Union
Depot a Country Station.

An Agriculturist Who Thought the Union
Depot a Country Station.
"Whar's the ticket office?" asked mid
dle-aged farmer of the telegraph operator
at the Union depot.
"Just across the room, replied the teleg-
rapher, pointing the way.
The country man walked over. Evident
ly his eyes were not good or else he had
never been in any but a country railroad
station before. He walked up to the little
frame which incloses a sheet of glass be-
hind which the daily weather bulletins are
posted. Mistaking this for the ticket
sellers window he began tapping on it to
attract attention. He succeeded. That is.
the people in the station all began gazing at
him and wandering what he was trying to
do. The ticket agent was too busy to notice
him. The granger kept on rapping, but the
supposed window didn't raise Finally
some person showed him where the Office
was and he purchased ticket to some
station in Fayette county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

ing homicide. He did not care for the pomp
and circumstance of war, for the blast OF
bugles, the neighing of red-nostriled
chargers or the gaudy trappings and par
aphernalia of combat. He preferred the
quiet of the boskey dell, the silent night,
the sough of the pine or any other sough-
erer SO that he was not included him
self, the quiet of the forest, the
deep hush of the lonely gu1ch, with none
but the Great Spirit and the regular army
to watch him, then with a steady aim and
the click of his approved Winchester, the
echoes and the lone " prospector died away
together. The stream moved gently on.
Then Colorow's own special buZzard de-
scended from the crest of the hills and be-
gan his inquest. The modest chieftain
robbed the dead and then went on. He did
not ask to be banqueted on his return.
He scorned the popular approval and asked
for no recognition other than the conscious
ness of duty well done. That was Colorow's
style.
DOInot know him? Have we notroamed
over the North Park and Muddy Pass and
along Owl creek and over Independence
Mountain together, or very nearly so, l be-
ing only two or three mountains in advance?
HIS GUILTY STAINS.
But he is gone. Colorow celebrated his
Christmas by sitting around the depot of the
Great Hence. Philanthropists tell us that
he has gone directly to heaven. / hope not
That is l hope he has not gone directly
there. | trust that be had a chance to stop
somewhere on the road and wash away his
guilty stains When 1 saw him buried in
the North Park l noticed that he had the
largest collection of guilty and other styles
of stains of any savage | had ever asso-
ciated with. IfColOrow has gone directly
to heaven, and it becomes generally known,
it will certainly do much to discourage
travel that way next year, and salvation,
which has heretofore been entirely free,
will be placed on the list of articles requir-
ing protection.
Colorow's death wax caused by pneumonia
directly, brought on by exposure. 1t seems
that a year ago at full dress ball, given at
0usary, he forgot to bandage up his lungs
when he changed from high to low-cut
vest, and pneumonia harvested the great
warrior Just as yuletide was coming on.
He was not ready speaker. and as q
lecturer and reader of his own words he was
repeatedly criticised, but he was lifeless
foe and would rather do that than anything
else. He started in as young man to wipe
out the United States. and though he did
not succeed be has done what he could. He
did not care for publicity or press notices.
He Just wanted to know that he had the ap-
proval of his own little smoke-tanned con-
science and then he would take an old rag
and some kerosene oil and clean out his old
rife and start out again. Some days he
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
BOUQUETS ARE In FASHION,
And the Men Who Wear Them are Be.
coming More Numerous.

coming More Numerous.
Said Pittsburg florist: "The custom of
wearing button-hole bouquets seems to be
slowly gaining favor here. I have few
customers, clerks and business men, who
stop in regularly each morning on their way
down town, and buy bouquets. A few
years ago any man in this city who did
such thing would have been looked upon
as very eccentric, even if he had not been
set down as dude by his associates.
''But in other cities, notably New York
and London, the practice has long been
common. There almost every well-dressed
man that you meet wears a bouquet, whether
he is at work or taking holiday. Pitts
burg is slow about adopting such fashions,
but she takes them up eveatually. A but
ton-hole bouquet is an indication of good
taste, and it looks as well on cheap coat,
as on fine one'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
1T AFFECTS THEM STRANGELY,
The Sight of n Dentists Chair Gives Pa ntients
Chills and Fevers.

Chllis ana Fevers.
'It's queer the way people are affected by
visiting a dentists Office, remarked dem
tai surgeon to a DISPATCH reporter. "Some
no sooner come here than they seem to be
seized by sudden chill which sets them to
shivering all over. They get in the chair
and I turn on the natural gas to NAL ke as
much heat as possible. Why, I've even
had to put blankets around my patients to
keep them comfortable on a warm day.
Others are thrown into feyerish state, and
the perspiration breaks out the minute they
sit down. Then of course 1 have to shut off
the fire.
"But the srangest thing about both
classes of patients is that their chilliness or
feverishness leaves them Immediately after
they quit the chair. 1t is nervousness and
dread that cause these remarkable physical
effects, l suppose. But it's about as hard
on me as it is on them, for the uneyenness of
temperature in the operating room, which
l must perforce endure, keeps me suffering
from cold, catarrh, or headache about half
the time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

ADVISE the angelic host TO conceal lts crowns
every night; also to see that the aged chief
does not push the women and children over
the battlements while they are looking the
other way.
DRIVEN BY ADVERSELY.
met sad-looking man in the smoking
car the other day. He was woe begone and
cast down, and looked as though he had
suit of clothes which did not fit him and
there were dried clover blossoms in his
hair. The air of poverty and the haymow
peryaded his neighborhood. He told me he
was well educated but poor, oh so poor. He
looked down in his clothes and said they
were not made especially for him. I told
him that had Judged so. He said he was
college graduate but somehow had never
succeeded because he only knew what lot
of other people knew and the other people
had secured the job of knowing those things
at a salary while he just knew them for his
own amusement.
Last summer he was driven into New
York, not by his own coachman as some
are, but by adversely. He was compelled
to do anything and for while sold terra
Gotta gum rings for umbrellas on the street.
Often he was tempted to eat his assets, he
was so hungry, but did not do so. At last,
hunger compelled him to seek other avenues
of trade. So he tried Seventh avenue.
He hired out to act as lay figure. That
looks like an easy job, but little does the
average, barbarian know of toll. He hired
himself to bed manufacturer. In the show
window it was the custom to make up
handsome bed, using the Morpheus Joltless
Couch or some other new style, collapsing
bed and baby grand pianos combined. He
hired to repose in this bed at so much per
day and his board. All he had to do was
Just to lie there like little Eva in Uncle
Toms Cabin company and look sweet,
breathe perfectly naturally or like the wax
works in the assassination groups at the
Chicago museums, and not allow himself to
actually 60 to sleep, for then he might snore
and disgrace himself
ART CRITICISMS.
People used to fatten their noses up
against tho widow from 6 o'clock in the
morning till S.o'clock at night, looking at
the beautiful bed and the wax man with the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
HISTORY OF. A CIGAR.
The Material From Which 1t is Made
and How 1t is Put Together,
IN SHAPES TO SUIT THE SMOKER,
By the Aid of Skillful Hands and Curiously
Contrived Machines.
PITTSBURG TOBIES GAINING GROUND
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArCH.l

10on mAhlNU
is an industry
which furnishes
employment to
thousands Of peo-
pie in Pittsburg
and Allegheny.
There are over 200
cigar factories in
the two cities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
FEMININE CLUBITES
Once More Reproached and Criticized
by the Bold 0uida.
HARDENING EFFECT OF CLUBS.
They Please the Average Woman, But Not
the Woman of the World.
ONE DEFECT In MODERN EDUCATION.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l

ANDIDLY it is a false
philosophy which per-
suades people that enjoy
ment is to be found in
excitement alone. The
only really valuable
training is that which
teaches a man or a woman
to be able to be indifer-
ent to the fitful and
quickly exhausted pleas
ures of social life.
Society has many ex-
cellent uses; it forms the
mind in one way as much
os education forms IL in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
A CONSERVATIVE MAN.

Very often he PLAYED to poor business, but
he never murmured or repined.
A CONSERVATIVE MAN.
Colorow did not believe in industry or
open hostility. He was a conservative
Jack the Ripper on his fathers side. All
his ancestors were long-lived people, That
is, they generally succeeded in living
longer than those who looked at things
from a different standpoint. Those who
disagreed with the Colorow family gener-
ally ran across each other in a better land.
He was quite like all successful murderers
and reminded me in many ways OF old man
Bender in his more prosperous days. Still
he had an air about him which though fla
vored with the past still commanded respect,
and when he asked man at the table to
please pass the butter, that man would drop
everything else he had on hand and pass the
butter.
Colorow once jumped one of my mines.
but forgive him now that he is dead. /
did not criticise him at the time, for the day
he jumped the mine jumped the country
and so l thought | would say nothing more
about it. l had Just been down the gulch a
little way and was returning. As / strolled
on, up the little trail, burst forth into
song. My soul was full and just seemed to
swell up in one of the most joyous little
pianos that ever iolted the geological forma-
tion of Colorado.
1t was at this time that Colorow and 1
were thrown together. i knew him BY his
SCARED and powder-burned face. From
what he said l could see that we would
never be happy together and SO Invent away.
There could be nothing in common between
two men of such entirely opposite tastes.
lie was thick-set, hairy man with an i'm
mediate gun. ] a tall, 1.-THE, blonde person,
less hairy than he and ill-ftted for assassi-
nation.
Whether the mine will now revert to me,
together with the 65 feet OF water and assess
ments, / wot not 1 would not wot if L
wanted to. / only know that Colorow is
dead, and that knowing him as I do, would
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

WHO would waste money? We call at
tention to the fact that Salvation Oil costs
only % cents.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
CHIEFTAN AND CHUM.
William Nye Drops a Few Pearly
Tears on the Tomb of COlorow.
A COLLECTION OF GUILTY STAINS.
The Novel Experience of an Advertising
Lay Figure.
4 SENTIMENTAL ASPECT OF POLITICS
rwRITTEN FOR THE nrsPArcun

1 OUGHT not
to allow any fur
ther time to elapse
before paving a
deserved tribute to
the memory of
my old friend and
comrade in arms,
Colorow, the Chief
of the Southern
U teS. L VIII now
do so.
Colorow was not
regarded as a great
statesman even by
his tribe. but he
won the faith and
approval of his
people more espe-
cially by his pa
tient and efficient
methods Of untir-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

would scare up two or three white men and
get them all. Other days he would have to
content himself with little dead child.
Very often he PLAYED to poor business, but
he never murmured or repined,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

advise the angelic host to conceal its crowns
every night; also to see that the aged chief
does not push the women and children over
the battlements while they are looking the
other way.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-12-28

Ere the next number of the DEMO-
Graf is issued the year 1890 will nave
made it's advent.
We greet thee, oh mysterious year!
What will thy weeks and months
bring to each and all of u.s.
Will sadness and sickness and sorrow
come to our homes ere we bid thee de-
part into the oblivion of the past?
Will disaster and misfortune to us
attend thee upon thy journey, or shall
we be able, as thy last chickering's throo
and pulsate, to say, ''Thou hast been a
blessed year to u.s."
. We salute thee, thou new born year
Thy advent makes US feel older, we
begin to reckon the years that have
passed, the wrinkles are growing deeper
on our faces, our eyes may be DINNER,
yet we salute thee!
Let thy three hundred and sixty-fve
DAYS and nights be fragrant with sweets
let joy and happiness, peace and pros
perity be showered upon all who live
during thy brief reign.
| And to our many readers we say mos
heartily, may the new year 5e the hap
piest you have ever known, 10 ou
natrons and advertisers we have bu
one wish, and that is, that they may b
az prosperous as they deserve. May thu
wear 1890 be to all full Of golden fruit
and may gold and silver and greenback
fill our Golfers full and overtiowing.
To each and all Happy New Year.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-12-28
Persona

Misses Ida Dupre and Corine TODD,
Of Washington, have visited friends IN
town during the week.
Eddie Won Eye departed on the Sun
day morning train for weeks soJourn
among friends at Lake Charles.
J. T. st. Cyr, from the Teche, gave
MS a pleasant call on Monday. He was
en- route for trip to the Crescent CITY,
where he will spend the holidays.
Sol. Jacobs. who has been spending
some DAYS in New Orleans, has returned
home. with a stock of new and season
able goods for his store.
The Crawford sisters, and Miss Elco-
nor Roy, of Washington, attended the
matinee in town on Saturday last.
John P. Ortego, a prosperous farmer
of Old Grand prairie, gave us q pleas
ant call on Monday.
Paul Lambert, a respected resldent OF
Plaisance. was in town on Monday last.
Isidore Isaacs, Garland Dupre, Ollie
Thompson, Edgar Bloch and Walter
Duson, who have been attending school
at New Orleans, are spending the holt
DAYS at home.
Ed. Wells OF Crowley, is on visit to
friends in town.
Miss Gussie Plonsky, of Lafayette, is
on a visit to our town, and is the guest
of Miss Yetta Jacobs.
]. c. Trainor, formerly of our, sister
town of Washington, now OF Palmyra
Miss, gave us a most pleasant call on
Tuesday. :,
ing visit to our town on Tuesday.
Frank j. Hardey, of Lake Charles,
gave lis call on Wednesday He was
on a business visit to Washington.
Mrs. Leon Miller, of Mallet, has been
spending the holidays with friends IN
| town.
Judge E. North Cullom, of Avoyelles;
has rem owed his family to town, and
will for the future make their home IN
our midst. We welcome them to oul
community and hope their stay among
us may be prosperous one.
District Attorney j. N. Ogden anc
Laurent Dupre Esq, departed on the
Thursday morning train for New Or
| leans, where they will attend to linpor,
tant business appertaining to their pro-
! fession.
Senator C. G.. Duson spent Christmas
with bis family in town.
Jos. P. Russell and Capt. L. Z. Glb
bons, of Washington, were attending
to business in town on Thursday.
S. Howell took bis Christmas Dime
on Wednesday, with old friends at La
| fayette.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-12-28
FrE1ifS for louisiana

The following is an extract from an
essay read by t. Jay Lacy before the
Audubon Agricultural Association at
the Horticultural Hall, Audubon Park
New ORLEANS, Nov. 14tb, 1889.
Ladies and Gentlemen
At the request of this Association |
give a few hints on the fruits best
adapted to South Louisiana, especially
new fruits.
Northern fruits, as rule, do not sue
coed well in the far South, hence we
must look to some country with the
same latitude as our own for fruit trees
that will produce fruit in our climate.
What signifies if Northern fruits are
better? If we cannot grow them we
must be content with such as we can
grow, and try and improve on them.
The best fruits we have for our eli
mate come from China and Japan:
AS Pear Culture is my hobby | Will
commence with the LeConte Pear ana
though volumes have been written
about it, its value has not half been
told. 1t is we'll adapted to our climate,
and it adapts itself to any kind OF SOL.
The tree grows we'll, bears Well, the
| fruit keeps we'll, and sells we'll in mar
ket. 1t is good for eating in fresh
state and for canning. The crop may
he gathered at any time from the first
of July to September, as suits the mar
| ket and your convenience.
The Kieffer Pear succeeds the Lee
Conte, and ripens in October. 1t IS one
of the largest pears known, often weigh
ing more than pound and half. 1t
is not as good as the LeConte for all
purposes, but for canning and .preserV-
ING it is far superior to any other pear
known, and will be, in the near future,
the great canning and preserving pear
of the South.
The Kieffpr suits our climate and also
bears marvellous crops when very young:
The trees are dwarf growers, ana should
always be grated Oh LeCOnte roots u
give them vigor and make the oes'
trees.
,JdDdpese Plnms.-Of these we nave
tried four varieties, namely: Kelsey
Oeon, Botan and Prunus Sinonll. THESE
p!ums grow very large, arc OF tine fla'
vor. and | think will succeed we'll IL
this climate.
Vatire Plums-The best of these be
long to the Chickasaw family, OF which
there are many good varieties for ou
: climate. The Mariana is one OF the
best.
japanese Perslmm0Rs,-Ih Vaflet'e'
of this fruit in Japan are SAID to De a.
numerous as apples III the North. W.
have now bearing what came to US a
ten varieties, but we would class then
[ in about three distinct varieties, to-Wlt
1 kurakume, Hyakume and 1umato.
PersimmOns grow we'll III our climate
bear we'll and have no enemies.
Goumii.-This new fruit, from Japan
grows we'll here and bears q red oolons
:, fruit, about the size Of an English cher
nv, in one year after planting. The ire
grows from three to ten feet high, ant
;, ripens it's fruit early in May
japanese Chestnuts.-These grow wei
in our climate, and bear when yer
e young. The nuts are very large, som
e Weighing nearly an ounce Tie haVo
t is equal to our best American chestnuts
There are many other fruits that ma
: be grown for home use in Souther
d Louisiana, but these mentioned may b
I grown in large quantities for profit.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-12-28
$4,000 90

On motion of Mr.. MiibHrn the chairs here
nv authorized to communicate with the au-
thorities at Baton Rouge, relative TO the rot
berry OF Deputy Garland whilst on official duty
in the said parish
On motion of Mr. Ward he it resolved that
from and after This date all bills to be APP
proved by the Police Jury, be handed 10 the
different members of the different wards from
which they come.
On motion of Mr. Haas, he it resolved that
the president he ana is hereby authorized to
sell the lands belonging TO the parish OF ST.
Landry in or near the corporation. Tor such
price as he may deem to the best interest OF
tie parish provided that no sale be made tor
less than fifty dollars per acre.
On motion OF Mr. Ward, lee it resolved that
from aud after this date the clerk be required
TO keep in d we'll bound book an account OF
each tlud: said account TO be open by cred
ifing the said funds with the amount seG
aside in the budget, and debit each tand with
81 amounts appropriated there against tue
Wme: anl said book be balanced ana land
nuon The table at each meeting for intorma-
ton of the members.
| On motion of Mr.. Haas, the Police Jury adj
iournea until the third Monday Oh january,
| 1890, being the goth day of said month, at 10
| a. m ,
| Attest; Il. nj. BOaNNi,
/ IL r. ESTORGE Clerk President
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-12-28
ORDER OF COUR

rEyHE ORDER heretofore given fixing tre
z terms of Court for the Parlsh OF Aea sni
during the year $780, is hereby modified DIS ioi-
lows, tO-wit ,road.,r
For Acadia.-A Civil term beginning Monday
January 9th 1880. -,,r. N,arcb
Criminal term beginning Monday March
4 Civil term beginning Monday SEPTEMBER
Sth 1890. ,r-ou,
A Criminal term beginning Monday NoVen1-
Der 10th 1890. -..ao,, .bis
The Clerk of Court is directed to enter ms an5
order on the minutes-to furnish q cettlht ~
copy to the Clerk Of Court for Acadia WHO 10, 10
directed to publish and post the same as re-
quired by law, and the Clerk of this eouil Us ~
also directed to publish and post copies as hefe-
tofore required i'll such cases. ,oo -4t,
1890 L. I. LEWIS,
Judge of the 18th judicial District.
A true copy !: II. E. EsToRGE, by, Clerk
Dec. 21-lul.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-12-28
With a public school building under

With public school building under
way, o bank, rice mill, cotton compress,
opera house, and some other industries
and enterprises in prospective, Ope-
leusas wonld not take back seat for
any town in the State. A public school
building, bank and opera house would
fill the bill for the present, and be OF
incalculable benefit to our town. Should
these enterprises be started and brought
to successful issue others would ma
turally follow, and the apathy which
has 80 long hung over US will disappear,
and thrift and enterprise will make our
town, what it should have been years
since. one of.the liveliest in the South.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-12-28
N NOTICE.

LAND OFFICE AT NEW ORLEANS, La
Nov. H. 1885,
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 Jan. 6, 1890, viz ::
PIERRE B. MANUEL yr.,
who made Homestead Entry No. 1885 for the
northeast sec. II in township 8 south range l
cast Louisiana Meridian.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of, said land, viz:
David Courvile ST., David Courville Jr, Las
tie RoZut, t. S. Fontenot, all of st. Landry Par
ISL Louisiana.
THOMAS j. BUTLER,
Nov. IS ct. Register.