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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11
Local News.

The rain that fell Tuesday was very
disagreeable.
1t is curious to see how some people
hate the truth.
The weather has not been favorable
to the planter this week.
Mrs. Martin j. VOORHEES, arrived from
New Orleans, Sunday.
Mr.. NJ. F. Bonnis. father of Mrs.
Henry Beslin, of this place, died in New
Orleans Saturday last.
The public schools of St. Martin par.
ish will open on Monday the 10 inst.
throughout the parish.
"A man who passed con terfiet silver
coins in Lafayette, was arrested and
jailed by sheriff Bruussard last week.
Most all the sugar planters in this
parish will be grinding by Monday next;
the sugar crop will be large this year.
Mrs. j. Aristide DeBlanc, born Marie
Laure Tabary, died In New Orleans, at
one o'clock Saturday morning the 4th
inst.
Tho Regulators from this town who
are before the court at Lafayette, left
Monday for that town to stand their
trial. The case was continued.
Cotton in seed is selling at $500
per thousand pounds, which r. a low
price comparatively to the quotations of
cotton in bale.
Hon. NJ. D. Lagan was nominated as
the Democratic candidate for Congress
by the second congressional district con-
ventiOn last week.
There Is comfort for the maj, with a
prematurely gray beard in Buckingham's
Dye, because it never fails to color an
even brown or black as may be desired.
Mrs. Alexandra Barras, born Alice
Thibcdeaux, died in this parish Thursday
morning at half past one O'Clock. aged
IS years. She was buried at 10 a. m,
Friday morning.
The Farmers Union convention that
met in Natchitoches last week nominat-
ed State Lecturer T. j. Guice as their
candidate in opposition to Mr.. Blan-
chard.Mr. Guice refuses the nomination.
An act passed at the last Legislature,
makes it necessary that all voters should
get registered before they can vote, there
fore those who desire, and whose duty
it is to vote, should not fail to get regis
tered.
Don't fail to read the advertisement
Of the White Sewing Machine Co., in this
issue. The success that this Co.. has
met with thus far is indicative Of the
fact that they have been catering to the
wants of the public in highly satisfac-
tory manner.
A fine head of hair is an indispensa- |
BILE element of beauty. Ayers Hair vi
COR maintains youthful freshness and
restores to faded and gray
hair its original color, prevents badness,
removes dandruff, and cure scalp dis |
eases. 1t gives perfect satisfaction.
A bill has been presented in the
Senate of the United States by Senator
Gibbons, appropriating nine million dol
lars for the levees. The bill was at the
same time presented in the House. and
it is generally believed that the bill will
be passed at the next session Of Congress
which meets again in two months. II
this bill becomes a law. the State will be
independent of the lottery to put the le-
wees in a sure and safe condition. We
hope congress will pass the bill.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11
ADVERTISING RATES.

Transient advertisements, IS cents per
,.uch for first insertion; so cents for each
subsequent insertion.
Official or legal advertisements, 81 per
n inch for first insertion; and so cents for
sseh subsequent insertion.
UeBrief communications upon subjects
of Sublic interest solicited. No attention
sIji be given to anonymous letters.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11

-Rube Barrows the great outlaw and
train robber has been arrested Tuesday
night, near Myrtle, Monroe county, Ala
bama, with his whole gang, composed of
five men.
Later-Barrows was killed by a ghard
while attempting to escape.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11
Special Notice.

The undersigned who is a midwife OF
Sxperience offers her services to white
ladies', at reasonable rates.
Address ANNA CARRIER.
st. Martinville, La.
Sept 27-3 m.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11

Free divorce. therefore, seems to b
more desired by women than by men.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11
NOTICE.

The public is Hereby notified that l
will not be responsible for any debts COIL
tracted by my wife, LeveDia Jones, from
end after this date.
FRANK JACOBS.
u. Aartinville, Oct. 18th 1890.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-10-11

Ind those troubled with nervousness resuiting
nom care or oyerwork will be relieved py taxing
BrOUn's Iron BitterS. Genuine
~ trade mark aud crossed rcd l:acs on wrapper
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

William Bennett, a street car driver
at Chicago, has been arrested for poi
soning his wife
Miss Ida Snyder, a beautiful young
woman, was shot and killed at Fort
Wayne, Ind, by Burt Shurt, her lover,
who was insanely jealous because atten-
tions were paid her by other young men.
Shurt afterwards committed suicide.
B. A. Greever, a well-known cattle
dealer, was shot and fatally wounded
by Charles Clifford, a New York tray
cling salesman, at the Hotel Andrew,
Kansas City. Greever, in his ante-mor-
tenn statement, said it was a blackmail-
ing scheme.
The sensational career of William w.
COttrell, who acquired much nOtorietv a
months ago by his course while Mayor
of Cedar Keys, Fla, was ended at Mont
gomery, Ala, the other day, with a load
Of shot from gun in the hands OF
Chief of Police Gerald, whose life Cot
trell had threatened.
The Chinese cook of T. Milligan, at
Victoria, b. c., cut the throat Of a
fellow countryman, put the body under
the bed, washed the floor, changed his
clothes and walked out unconcernedly
but Mrs. Milligan had heard suspicious
noises, and telegra phed for policeman,
who arrived in time to seize the cook,
who confessed the quarrel originated
over money matters.
J. H. Aiken, a saloon-keeper at San
Jose, Cal, has been arrested for setting
fire to his place with the object of OBJ
tanning an insurance of 81 500 The plot
was known to the police, and it was
agreed that the blaze should be permit
ted to be started, when a man, stationed
for the purpose, would put out the fire.
But the man failed, and great deal of
damage was the result, and now San
Jose is agitated over the question as to
who is r, sponsible for the damage.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22

The Union Iron Works of San Fran
cisco have secured the contract for fur
nishing and assembling the Pinch
rifed mortars for the Pacific Coast de-
tense.
Every American drummer doing bus
mess in Victoria, B. c., is required to
pay liscense of $50. This only allows
him to sell goods by sample until Jan
uarv l, when every foreign salesman
must pay a fee of 500 for the privilege.
Inquiry instituted by the society for
the importation of German song birds
shows that birds brought from Germany
and turned loose in Oregon in the
spring of 1889 have prospered. The
society is so well pleased with the sue
cess of its efforts that another subscrlp-
ton has been started ard large num-
Der of insectiverous song birds will be
imported.
Years ago tradition says the ella river
used to run dry west of Phoenix, toward
Yuma, says the Pn9niX Republican.
Now it is fordable hardly three months
of the year. Settlers at Aqua Caliente
are just beginning to cross for the first
time this season. Salt River Valley ir-
rigation is said to be the cause Of such
hydrometric change. Instead of run
ming at once to the sea, the water is
spread over thousands of acres of highly
productive land After fertilizing the
Phoenix ranches it sinks and gradually
seeps back to its old river beds, where it
flows down their ancient channels and
only needs impounding to provide what
Yuma lacks for a realization of her po-
tential wealth in citrus culture.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22


The hair of the negro, with its ten
dency to kink or curl, is mockingly
called wool, because it to this extent
resembles the hair of the sheep. Curly
hair is, as a matter of fact, less perfect
than straight hair But through all
this range-of the human plant, goats
hair, and Sleeps wool-nature shows
such close gradations that it would be
difficult to draw an exact line between
hair and wool, or in this respect to
separate the sheep from the goats
Witness the Angora goat, whose fleece,
known as mohair, is reckoned a supe
rior wool, and the Peruvian alpaca, or
llama. The microscope distinguishes
very clearly, however, between wool
and silk, the fiber of which is am even
double filament of gum exud&d by
the silkworm; and between wool and
the vegetable fbers, such as cotton,
which, growing as a tube, dries into "a
hall twisted ribbon, having no barbed
edge.
The root of the hair has natural
tendency to dry up as warm weather
approaches, allowing the hair to fall
free from the skin; thus animals
shed their coats. But when hair is
cut, as with human beings, or the
fleece sheared, as in the case of sheep,
nature adapts itself to the demand
upon 1t, and growth is continuous
The number of these fbers is wonder
full. On the pelt of a full blood ram
DR.. Cutting, Of the Vermont board Of
agriculture, reckoned with his micro
scope 222, 300 to the square inch; an
ordinary open wool sheep will have
one-thirtieth as many.-R. Bowker in
Harper's
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22

subject of smokeless powder General
Benet says that. though some astonish-
ing results have been obtained in exper-
iments abroad, it can not yet be said
with certainty that these new explosives
will eventually supersede the present
powders. The performances of the
Maxim (American) and Wetterson BEL
gian) powders are fairly comparable
with those to be obtained abroad, and it
is hoped that one of these can be devel-
oped in time to be thoroughly satisfac-
tory for small arms powder With ref
erence to the procurement of modern
small-bored rifles for the army General
Benet says lack of sufficient quantity
of suitable smokeless powder delays
perfecting the thirty-caliber barrel, but
it will be completed by the time a suit
able magazine mechanism is selected 1t
seems peculiarly necessary now that a
change in caliber is contemplated, and
that the present Springfield single-load-
ing system should be replaced if possible
by an equally efficient magazine system.
A board should be convened to select a
suitable magazine mechanism after a
full and free competition among all the
best existing systems.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
ALONG THE COAST.

An Oregon State Bar Association has
been formed at Portland.
Tacoma merchants are sending drum
mers to Alaska.
San Bernadino, Cal, officials are to
prevent gambling in that city.
The government will build an Indian
schoolhouse at Perris, San Diego coun-
ty, Cal, to cost $4,000.
The line OF steamers between Portland
Or, and Japan, to connect the Union
Pacific, will be inaugurated next MAY.
The assessed valuation of Multnomah
county, Or. for this year Is just little
short of $50 100000, an increase of $I4,.
694, 4S4 over last year.
The attorney for Ex-Governor Booth
OF California has entered suit for a
partition OF valuable mines in Lodi
district, Nye county, Nev
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Washington Post saws that Secre-
tary Blaine has obtained from United
States Ministers to South American
countries copies of the tariff laws of
those nations, with such comment ON
them as the Ministers thought proper to
make, and that he proposes to prepare a
letter on recip' ocity which he will sub
nit to Congress.
In his report to the State Department
on Australian silver Consul Griffin of
Sydney says that the advance in the
price of silver since the passage of the
bill by the United States has made diff
terence in the annual value of that prod
uct In New South Wales of more than
$4,000. Griffin says that in three wears
the price advanced TO 81 cents per ounce,
and 1t IS now quoted at $l.1O per ounce.
This advance. he says, is likely to have
marked influence on trade between
Australia and Eastern countries. and il
may result in the establishment of direct
exchange between these countries and
China and Japan.
Commodore Denney, Chief of the Blu
reau of Equipment, in his annual report
Niittb 'AtLl my bIlC lIetol
ty-fiye vessels have been wholly or par
tally equipped at a cost Of $593, 1856, and
coal has been purchased at a cost oil
$45l ,G93. The Commodore says the
Ii htingof war ships 10y electricity inaug.
urated by this government, has now be-
come so essential that no war ship is
considered complete which is not sc
lighted. Special attention was Civ. L
during the past year to the subject Of
means of accommodation on ship
board, and telephone system will soor
be added experimentally to other devices
on one of the new cruisers.
The annual report of General Benet
Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, shows
that the bureau expended during the
last fiscal year s., 28a $40, leaving a credit
in the treasury Of $2,994, 4S4. On the
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22

A deadly serpent, such as the ecusI Il,
the more notorious, but really A5'' 'iloa
midable, cobra. is so confined in q llO,. ~.
bamboo cane that its head just parely i,
trudes at the end; and the assassin, hi III,
ing this diabolical weapon, whicn L h
like a harmless walking staff, IN ll' ~ III.
approaches his enemy quite unslsP IN
and, touching him unawares WIN nlupe
of the staff, causes the snake = Al
its lethal fangs into his defeEseie'' ~ Is
The victim is found dead, pernap9hl HI &
couch or divan, or in char q. LII .srdss
seated in some lovely secludeu msl
where his treacherous foe and n' mi
have retired together to ENJOY 'ns y, doss
and the perfume. His death : -, - # II
to sunstroke or fever, or any otnei t6s
sudden diseases that are comlno ~ NJ b
country; and, in accordance WIN ,dncs
cal custom, his body is hurrleuiy \. rpcer
to ashes or consigLed to the puDns; aouB
tacle for the dead before any ian =,
can be made.-EdgaF l. MAA
Pittsburg Dispatch,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
4 stranger to Medicine.

The late Governor English, of Connect
cut. never had serious ailment until his
last and fatal illness A short time be
fore he was taken down with this last
sickness he felt little indisposed, and a
physician whom he met gave him a pre-
scription.
"What shall l do with it, said the
governor, Il never had prescription
before in my life"
"Take it home and frame it. replied
the doctor. Men who live as you have
lived need no medicine New YORK
Evening Sun
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22

/ thank heaven for one thing. that
thare IL not in this wide world human,
or inhuman being, that would not
rather help than hurt find this senti.
ment in mi conscience, or i wouldn't
dare claim it; and kno mi own con
science better than emmy boldly else duz
New York Weekly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
1tarys OF journalism.

There are five Marys potent il New
York types: Miss Mary L. Booth, editor
Of Harper's Baz2r; Mary Mapes Dodge.
editor of ST. Nicholas; Mary j. Lamb,
editor OF The Magazine of American Lis.
tory; Izary Kyle Dallas, Of The New
York Ledger. and Mary Z. Bryan. Of
George 1Lonroe's Fashion Bazaar. Wi
liam II. Bauou ia The Journalist.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
1t Went Further.

Editor-There isn't sufficient action to
this comic sketch of yours.
Artist-Action! Why, great Scott! it
has moved around to nine or ten papers
alreadyI-Texas Siftings.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
The Meat Market.

The meat market is firm. Quote:
Beehive, 24@3 Sc; dressed, &c.
Mutton-Liye, SIC; dressed, &c.
Hogs-Live, 4la@5lac; dressed, 515c
VeaI-508c per pound.
Lambs-$2.50 each.
SMOKED MEATS AND LARD.
The market is firm. Quotations: East
ern Hams, 13@14c; Breakfast Ba-
con, ll@1lbc; Sides, 9@10c; Lard, So q
lO14o per pound.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22

where the mistake come in l believe
Sarah Dufy'd a been alive today if that
husband O hers had had grain of sense.
She KEEP on and KEEP on till she broke
down all at once"
"How do you mean? He was always
good to her"
Eyes, in a way. But he let her work
and slave without ever trying to make
things easy for her. If l should say my
say right out should say twas that
pump in the shed that was the death O.
Sarah Duffy"
"You don't mean it,"
eyes, | do. I've seen her a-workin'
away at that old pump-stiff and heavy
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-08-21
How to Ssep,

Up to the fifteenth year most young people
require ton hours, and uAil the twentieth
yeay nine hours. After that age every one
finds out how much sleep he or sho requires,
though, us Il general rule, at lcnst six to
eight hours ID necessary. Eight hours sleep
will prevent more nervous arrangements in
women than any medicine can euro. During
growth there must TOO nnpo aleep If tho brain
l. to develop to it's fun extent; aud tho more
nervous, oXcitable or precocious child is,
the longer sleep should it get, if it's intellect
nal progress is not 10 como to Il premature
standstli, or its life cut short al al aariy age
The aallEst
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-08-21

The project Of the Seine published q decree
approving tho tariff drawn up by the mnnic-
ipal council for incne"ating the dead. Pau
pers are, of course, burnt gratis pro Dec.
Persons able to pay are uniformly charged
SO This includes a niche for five years, II
demanded, In u colunlbarum or urnroom,
which, however, has yet TO be built. The urn
must In every case be paid for by the family.
An extra tax Is imposed for the space taken
UP by the receptacle in tho urnroorn, the rate
being proporticnato to the decoration OF tho
crematorlum monument when the incinera-
ton occurs and the Importance Of the pomp
displayed at the funeral
First, second and third class burial car
riages and paraphernaiia are charged $40
fourth and fifth classes, as also bodies
brought to the crematorium from places out
side Of Paris Notifications, are rated $50; the
sixth class pays $40, tho seventh class s., and
the eighth class 50 10, No tax is imposed
for exhuming corpses for purposes Of crema-
ton in any of the Paris cemeteries-Paris
Letter.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1890-08-21
TIVE MAGNOLIA TREE.


an Investigation of the Subject.
While this city nbounds in rare and curious
trees. two specimens Of tho southern nngno-
lin, known by botanists us Magnolia grnndi-
fora thriving outdoors In this section, AFRO
particularly interesting 10 those acquainted
with the habits of tho variety. One OF these
trees Is growing ON the Broad street side OF
the grounds of Mrs. Lippincott, 1898 Walnut
street, and the other in Laurel Hill cemetery,
near the group of "Old Mortality" The lat
ter tree Is tho larger nnd handsomer speci-
men Of the two, but Mrs Lirpincotts tree is
better known, and is besides, u beautiful "X-
ample of the species
Thc,. two trees are said to be the only ones
growing outdoors as far north hs this city, IL
being supposed not to be hardy beyond Nlr-
giuie and even gardeners, who are used TO
the curious vagurics existing in plant life,
have been heard to express surprise that these
trees, should be In such hourishng condi-
tion when apparently all other efforts to nc
cIimntiGo the kind hero havo failed. 1t is
said, however, that in all these efforts the
trees have boon brought from tho Car"Einas
or from Georgia. The change from semi
tropical climate to one as cold as this was IN
each case too much for the plants constitu-
ton. Tho two trees, however, that were tho
exception, to tho rule were brought from Viz
uinia, the climate of which is nearer TINT OF
Philadelphia, and gardeners who are ac-
ouolnted with the history Of these two trees
Say that there Is no reason why efforts to
transplant other trees from Virginia should
not he equally successful aud thus make
plentiful in this locality one of the handsonl-
est Of the magnolia family.
In the ucirhborhood Of Savannah, Ga, and
nenr Now Orleans, the southern magnolia
commonly grows to n height Of from sixty TO
eighty feet and occasionally trees are found
tho graceful and spreading almmlts OF which
nrr q hundred feet from the ground. IL Is
ono Of tho hundsumrst trees of the south, and
when in bloom It's large white flowers form a
striking contrast 10 tho dark green foliage,
and the delightful fragrance which the flow
crs exhnle tllla the air Tor n long distance.
Travellers who have s7een this royal species OF
tree for the first time In blossom declare that
1t IL sight newer to Ike forgotten.
1t Is said that the first specimen VI the mag
nolia prnndih"m WIS INTRODUCES! into Europe
in 1852, and was trunsplnut.I from III" banks
Of the Mississippi river to Maiardierc. about
five miles from Nantes, where 1t seems to have
boon spc.,hly forgotten until twenty eight
years later, whcu NJ. lIonami, n physician,
nnd also botanist Of Nantes took motto" of
it, aud ut q meeting OF III" states of BrctnEnc,
IN September, 1860, In Nantes, he presented n
lnr1c branch Of this magnolia IL! lower to the
Princess of Rrhan-Chah-ct. Its lovclincss,
both of foliage and flower, made 80 much
talked Of that Louis XIV, who had u short
timo before received several small trees, but
which were not thriving, sent two gardeners
To s,o whether the trcr. which was then a(.,ut