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LocKPoRT NEWS.

We sometime ago raised our voice
in favor of Hon. Andrew Price as his
own successor, and his course ever
since cOnvinces rs that it would be the
best thing for our interests to have
him sent back to Washington. We
have talked with many and all kinds
of people. and they, one and all. are
in his favor. We are vet to hear of
the first man who would wish for some
one else. By all means let us elect
him.
By advertisement in official papers
we see that the work of rebuilding the
levees is to be let ont under sealed pro-
posals, and we quite approve of this
! mode of letting out contracts one OBJ
lection however we find, ard a serious
n it is too, is the very limited time
allowed bidders to file ia their propo-
sails, and after acceptance. file in their
bonds. The board passing on this
subject precludes, with our poor mail
facilities, those living at some distance
from making bids, and only the few
contractors who make it a regular bus
mess a compete, whereas, were the
time more extended, other par
ties might and probably would make
lower offers, and thus save money in
our, W already sorely depleted treas
ury. From the specifications, we see
that the base of the new levee will be
much wider. But it is feared by MANY,
and we ourselves are among them.
that, this being a new work, and the
enormous pressure brought to bear
against it at the next high water, the
whole may be swept away, unless the
deep precipice on the inside be filed
up and the public road made to run
along the base of the new levee, thus
consolidating the ground, and forming
a sort of hrace-work.
The convent of the immaculate Con-
ception, in Loekport, will reopen on
the LIST of September. The convent is
under the direction of the able sister
Pulcherie, and has succeeded fairly
well, Notwithstanding the large com-
petition from both private and public
schools. We dare say that the good
teachings at the convent are highly
beneficial. and we hope that the sisters
of the immaculate Conception will get
all the patronage they SO well deserve.
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THE

Mr.. Reed succeeded admirably we'll
in pulling his Republican friends in
the House Of Representatives, by the
ears, and, making them bow to his
imperious dictates. but when be crack
ed his whip owe tie heads of the Re-
publican senator's it didn't crack worth
a cent.
The senators have laid his Force
Bill under the table uutil the Decem-
Der session, drying his tears by a
promise to take it UP then. Before
that period arrives there will be such
a thunderbolt strike them at the No
vember elections that they will for
get that such IA bill was ever dreamed
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Y
How Shall 1t Be Improved

The high water of 1890 is past and
gone. Great damage and some hard
feeling and strong language were caus-
ed by the overflow. Let us hope that
all losses will oon be repaired. that
all bitterness will soon pass away, and
that every one concerned, now that we
have a breathing-spell, will feel dis
posed to take a reasonable and nnpre-
Indeed view of our situation.
This, think all will agree is we'll
nigh intolerable, with each returning
high water bayou Lafourche, which
once was only second to our fertile
lands rs a factor in the sum of our
prosperity, becomes more and more a
} cause of loss; each succeeding year
decreases its usefulness and augments
its power for harm. During from five
to seven months of each twelve, no
planter or farmer from Donaldsonville
TO the Cutoff lies down at night with
out dread nor rises in the morning
without fear, no human creature ar
rived ut the age Of reason, whether in
town or country, whose heart is not
constantly oppressed with the harass-
ing thought that at any moment, at
high noon OF at deep midnight the
overhanging flood may burst through
the frail barrier of clay and sand which
alone restraints it. and carry devasta-
ton and ruin to house and field. The
levees cost a great deal in money and
labor, and the overflows infict heavy
losses upon the people. but these can
be quickly figured up liz dollars and
cents, and the expenses once paid, and
the hard times tided Over they are
soon forgotten; but by whom and by
what formula can be expressed the
amount of mental suffering and loss Of
vital force entailed by this ever recur-
ring nightmare 1t seems to me that
the evils arising from this intangible
but most potent source Of unlappi.
ness are not among the least of those
with which the dwellers on the shores
of Lafourche have to contend.
But this is not all. After pouring
upon ms a flood deep enough to float u
man-of- war, and keeping us for six
months upon the ragged edge Of fear
full expectation, the bayou almost sud-
denly subsidies to a mere lagoon un-
navigable TO any bnt the shallowest
craft and difficult to them. The swift
flowing repulsive-looking water is
gone and its place is occupied By a
narrow riband of half-stagnant fluid
by unsightly sand-bars and by still
more unsightly banks, high, steep
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
goth. Judicial District Court. Parish
of LafOurclic
Mrs. 4delind bourgeois, uiFow Of Aler-
erGRdre CardiIiac, rs. No. 2519
Mrs.. Leon Lainc. ct ais

TNAKE NOTICE THAT ACTING UNDER
and by virtue OF an order If Seizrrr and
Sale enianating from the above entitled court
III the above entitled aud numbered case, L
have seized and will offe- for sale az hubble
auction. pursuant to law. to the last and
highest bidder at tho Court House in the
town Of Thibodaux, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1890,
between the hours of ~ o'clock II. IN. and A
o'ci''ck T.. M. the following described pro-
perry. to-wit'
The Low or half of a certain tract If land I
sinated in the parish of afnnrcbe nn the
left b9nk oi Bayou Laloarche ut ahent two
miles below the town of Thiiodaux, m,asur-
ing une atltept more ar less fruI III sixty
arprnts III depth. boinded ahoye hy ltr,ls of
widow IL. PuclG and below Nv lands of Jules
Cil"''rui< together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon and all the rights and
privileges thereto belonging or in ans wise
appe; tanning.
Terms and con lifious Of sale-Csal 81 the
spot 10 pay and satisfy the iuil and ertire
sum of /. Eight hundred aud thirt T., ight
and J7-iOo dollars with eight per cent Interest
from September aDth 1886 until paid. l,~s the
following partial payments io-wit: $1,000
paid March IS 1887 500 paid Jnne : 1881
$4,000 paid June ~ 1888; and $50 40 paid
March 1880: =. Ten per cent on the ag.re-
gate amount recovered IA attorneys fees aud
3. All costs herein which said amount in prin-
cil'al and intert ST, attorneys fees and all
costs llerrir ia secured ly niori gage with VEN
d"rs i,rivileg" per aet passed before l.. p.
Cailiourt. No.arv Public of said parislI Of
date September I2tb, 1885,.
p. Il LORIO.
Sheriff Of parish OF ~llafourcha.
july 26. 1890.
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A CALL.

Rooms DEMOCRATIC PARISH COMMITTEE
THIBoDAUx, Aug. 20. 1850.
The Democratic Parish Committee of the
Parish of ~Lafourche, is hereby called to meet
at Union Hall, in Thibodaux, SATURDAY
AUGUST 3oth., 1896. at IL o'clock, m, for the
purpose of providing for the selection of Del
egates to represent the Parish of Lafourche IN
the Democratic Congressional Convention IN
be held at Lake Charles on the 10th day Of Sem
tember. 1890. and for the transaction of spcl,
other business as may come before the conn
mittee. EMILE LEpEr nres,aan.
o. L. secretary. Aug 3st
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weed-gr0wn and muddy. And every
year during the low. water season the.
water is s~hallower, every year by how
ever little the bed of the stream is ris-
ing, and in consequence the difficulties
of navigation and the danger Of over
flow are every year becoming greater.
The bayou is filling itself up, and I'M
less the process is arrested, the period
at which it will become wholly unna-
vigable and practically uninhabitabls
is not remote.
Can this filling up be stopped, a
practicable low-water channel secured,
and the danger of crevasses lcsse ed or
eliminated 7 Certainly these ends can
be accomplished, and in two ways each
radically different from the other.
The first first in order but not in fea-
slbility or utility contemplates the
free access of water from the Missis-
sippi as now.
Two experiments in line with this
plan have lately been made. Both
fail for obvious reasons. The one pro-
posed dredging out the channel begin
ming at the extreme upper end. The
originator of this idea must be q firm
believer in Hannehmann's dictum
"Similias similibus curantur.r We al
ready had too much water, he propos-
ed to remedy the evil by giving us
still ore Really this dredging
scheme is too absured for serious con-
sideration. The sum of $4,000 has
been appropriated for the work. How
much of that money has been spent
and the length and depth of the hole
dug during low water to be at once
filed up by the succeeding high water
is known best to those Immediately
concerned. Fortunately Capt. Fisk,
has at last sat down very hard on this
job. Next we had the project of blow
ing up the mud-banks with dynamite,
and having the debris promptly and
expeditiously carried by the current to
deep waterin the Gulfof Mexico. The
plan as a plan vas a very pretty one,
but after due trial it was found not to
work. Of course it wouldn't work, but
not entirely or rather not at all for the
reason assigned, i. e. that sufficient
charges could not be used with safety
to the adjacent levees. AS a matter
of fact much larger quantities of the
explosive could have been fired with
out injury to the %levees, and IA much
greater amount of work done per CIV
en- quantity had the charges been sim
ply sub-divided. But the plan would
have failed of the desired effect of
cleaning out the bars under any cir
cnmstances whatever so long as there
was not sufficient current to carry off
the Objectionable matter as it was dis
lodged. For there is a direct and un-
alterable relation between the velocity
of the current and it's s;lt-bearing pow
er. This is. a natural law, and any
plan for the securing out and mainten-
of a channel in any silt-bearing
by its own dynamics, not based
upon and carried put in accordance
with, this law is fore-doomed to fail
ure. Had the current had the power
carry the sediment to the sea it
not have thrown it down at the
ands to expect that current
without any preliminary increase of
power to do by the persuasion of dyna-
mite, that which it had already re-
fused to do of its own vOlition is mere
folly. 8. G.
ITO be continued.)
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SATURDAY. AUG. 80, 1890.
CT. NO. 81.

The act creating The Atchsfalaya
Basin Levee District has been pro-
mulgated and put into operation.
Whether it will prove a good Act, and
whether the commissioners appointed
to control and manage it will render it
a success, in preventing overfows and
foundations a only be satisfactorily
answered after the test of time will be
given to develop results.
The Legislation that brought this
Act into existence, the manner of its
conception and birth are now proper
subjects of discussion and criticism.
1t is an act that authorizes a body of
levee commissioners, appointed by
the governor to assess extraordinary
taxes upon the residents of the dis
trict, in an unusual and arbitrary
manner, andnot, it may be asserted, in
a uniform and equal method. How
many men in this A~tchafalaya Basin
Levee District knew that such an act
as that of number 81 was in contem-
plation, until the act had been passed,
and signed by the State Executive?
The assertion that not one in fifty
knew of it is a safe reply. Was there
a single petition presented by any of
the citizens in the said district asking
such legislation Was the act ever
printed and sent out among the peo-
pie, that they might know what was
going on, and be allowed the poor
privilege at least, of expressing
their opinions upon the propriety of
such legislation
The whole thing was engineered
through the Legislature by a few in
terested parties signed by the execu-
tive and promulgated whilst four
fiftbs, If not more, of those whose in
terest were directly affected by it,
were in profound ignorance of any
such a law being in contemplation.
Again, when the act was passed, and
before it was promulgated, in such
methods that the people could see and
comprehend it, the Governor appoints
the commissioners, without even per-
hitting the people, whose property
they are privileged to burden with ex-
cessive and extraordinary taxation,
to be heard in reference to the ap-
pointments.
Such Legislation deserves no credit
from the Legislators of this State.
1t is, to say the least, an outrage, and
an insult to the intelligence Of the
people whose interests are so vitality
involved.
The law may result favorably to
the interests, agricultural and tinan.
cial, of the district.
But it is not the way to enact such
legislation. Laws so violently chang
ing established methods, and, placing
so great interests ut stake, in the ar
bitrary power of a few men, should
never be enacted until the people are
permitted an opportunity to examine,
study and investigate them, and he
given the privilege to be heard, in ref
to them. Such legislation
would have created no wonder twenty
years ago, but in the year of our Lord,
1880. it has aroused considerable as
constituent, and, ~unfayorable COM
ment in this portion of Louisiana. :
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our bayou Is now SO low ina naVl-
CATION, even by f1atboats, has become
we'll nigh impossible. Some days ago,
the Raceland packet took two days to
make the trip ewing to the numerous
sand hanks all along the course, all of
them the outcome of the ST. Mary's Gre
vase. If this state of things should
last, we fear that III planters will be
Inconvenience more than usual in
moving their cane crops.
Something that we do hate heartily
is an oppressive government, but if
there be something that we can hate
and despise still more, it is an oppres-
sive individual or set of individuals.
Now to explain ourselves: in this
parish there is a certain planta-
ton through which runs a pub
lie road. in which a post Office is es-
tablished two very good reasons we
should imagine for allowing free in
gress and egress. Said plantation
however has notices posted conspicu-
ously, and in fact has one inserted in
the official paper, that all Hunters,
Fishermen, Mosspickers, sPeddlers and
Iramps caught on said land will be ar
rested and prosecuted to the full ex-
tent of the law, and this By order of
its Board of Directors! Let us sup
pose any of the above tabOOed classes
wishes to use the Public Road, or call
at the Post-Ofice for letters, will the
HONORABLE board of Directors claim
they have the right to arrest and prose-
cute him Is the Public Road and
the Post Office for the sole use and
benefit of the Board of Directors. 1t
looks as if the Free citizens of the Free
United States could not have the
Free use of a Free Post Office. We
only wish we lived neal enough to
have Our mail once sen there. We
should start Oh a hunt for the fun of
it, and would be overjoyed should the
board of Directors or some of their
hlrelings see fit to arrest us and prose-
cute us to the full extent of the law.
Lockport has its full quota of visitors,
and just now our young mel are in a
tiutter round two fair bellies from the
Crescent City, Miss Fannie Greve and
Miss Annie Meisser. Judging from APP
pearances we should think they have
captured the hearts of several OF our
youths, and their charming faces and
have won everybody. Miss
Greve is staying with our friend Mrs.
n. b. Davenport, and Miss Annie
Meisser is the guest of Mrs. C. G.
Davis.
On Monday Mrs. Albert IDantin. ac-
companied by two of her lovely chill :
dren, paid Us too short a call /; we found
her looking very well and it seems
that her new abode in your city agrees
with her. Next time you send her
Albert, give her a longer vacation.
She was accompanied by her sprightly
trother-in-law, Edward Dantin.
The plank sidewalks are now in
the most shameful condition but we
suppose that until a leg or a neck be
broken, nothing will be done.
Your article ON the jury lists is
much approved of here give it to
them again.
LAFOURCHE.
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THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
9TH Justice Court of John r. Pittman
Parish of LafOurche.
s. Seuin, 4gt., rs. Peter Rice.

TAKE NOTICE THAT ACTING UNDER
L A WRIT of fiji. emanarin. from
the above entitled ard numbered case
in the above entitled and numbered snit. I
have seized and will offer for sale ut puhIio
auction on the prem scs situated in the par
isli of Lafoureho, the rheriot plantation o.
the lett bank of Bayou Lainuiche, at about
IA miles below the town IF Thibodaux. on
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th, 1890.
between. the hours sf II o'clock. n. NJ, and 4
o'clock. p. III the following described proper
ty to-wit:
! double bedstead aud holdings coInrlete.
l single hetistead and beddings compete.
stove and fixtures. six chairs, , tables, 4
bowl and pitchers. : hogs. coffee. sugar. etc.
Seized in the above SUIT.
Terms-Cash in U. y. Treasury Notes.
g., i. kNOBLOGH,
Aug. 2lst., 1880. Special Constable.
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Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
When Baby was sick, re gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoris.
REGISTRATION NOTICE.

OFFIC e OF REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, PARISH
OF LaFnuRCHE.
Thibodaux. Ia. Aug. %. 1890.
hereby give notice that the office of regis
tration of the voters of Parish of Laiourche,
will be open at the following places.
At the Court House, in Thibodaux, Sept.
let to 6 inclusive.
Lzfourebe Refinery, Sept. s.
Jules Basset, Sept. y.
Laiourche Crossing. Leblanc's store, Sept.
10.
Wallace Lefort's store in morning, and in
the evening ar j. Lagarde's brick shed. Sept.
IL.
Lovingly Felse's store. Sept. ~.
Sosti'ene F0lse. Sept. 13.
Edgar Barrios. Lockport, Sept. Is.
NJ. DelauDe's store, Sept, I6.
LscrOia's store. Sept. fifth.
Livaudais Ledet store, in the morning,
Sept. IL.
Alter near Aurelien Bourg, Sept. 10.
Cni-Oh. Dueos store. Sept. 20.
/. Badeaux's store. Sept. ~.
L. .Leriiie store, Sept %.
Hamilton Ago, Vachery, in the morning.
ana Mt j. X Ghreus. IN the evening, Sept. ~.
At Raceland. Sept IS.
w. Hebert store. Sept 20.
j. l.. Ihlbodaux store. Sept. y.
Mrs. l.. G0ssin store, Sept. 90,
Whitehead & Kent. Sept. 80.
4. Debate store. Oct. 1.
Louis Dantin, Oct =.
Victor lagendre. Oct 3.
Mrs. ]. kraeiner store, MaIagay, Oct. A.
Ihibodanx. Oct. 6
LenfrOy Daigle. Bayon Blue, Oct. z.
j. Hotartl. Bayou Blpe. Oct. &.
Francois Aniras, Baton Pilon, Oct ..
Other appointments will be announced Ia
ter. p. TOUPS,
Registrar Voters, Parish OF Lafourche.
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The Republicans having abandoned
the idea of attempting to pass the
Force bill through the Senate, the
Democrats have agreed that general
debate ON the tariff bill shall close on
September 3, and then, 7ntil the Sth:,
be continued until the five minute rule,
with three hours on each side to close
the debate. 1t is expected that Car
Isle will make the closing speech on
the Democratic side. and Aldrich will
close for the Republicans. Congress
will adjourn very soon thereafter.
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NOTICE.
Reduced Railroad Rates To Democrats
Congressional Convention, Lake
Charles.

HEADQUARTERS DEMOCRATIC CoNGRFssyoS.N
AL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, THIRD Dis
TRICT,
Donaldsonville, La, August q. 1890.
T1HE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RI.
Will sell tickets at New Orleans and in
termediate stations to Lake Charles. M An
delegates accredited to the Congressional
convention, at four cents per mile fortha
round trip. Delegates must obtain creden-
tlals from Chairman of Parish Executive
committee. according to printed form adop-
ted, for the purpose of facilitating them In
procuring their tickets.
r. ". SIMS, chairman.
g. ADoLPH GoNDRAN, Secretary.
All newspapers in the district are requested
w insert tHis. Aug. 30-2t. T.
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ITO be continued.)
Stanislaus Commercial College,
BAY ST. LOUIS, MISS.

BEGINS THE NEXT SESSION SEPT. 4th.
The location is q famous health resort. while
no pains are spared to bestow on the pupils
all the comforts consistent with manly train
ing. The course of studies comprises three
departments: Preparatory, Commercial and
to fulfil the requirements of modern educa-
ton. At the Paris Exposition of 1889 a silver
medal was awarded to this College for its Elk.
hibit OF students class work. For particu-
lars and terms address the PRESIDENT,
Aug-9-90-4t.
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The old, old story of the pot call
ing the kettle black has as fine an ex-
emFlification as one could desire, when
the pros and the anti's begin to abuse
n another. And the beauty of it is
both sides strike very near the truth
each blow of the hammer.
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Theodore Fontelieu of iberia an
nounces himself lis a Republican can
dilate for Congress i'll this third con-
gressional district. Judge Fontelieu
is well-kuown in New Iberia politics.
and is always on hand when dirty
work is to be done.
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Representative Lewis F. Watson, of
Pennsylvania, died suddenly in WASH
ington City, on Monday. This is the
third death in the Pennsylvania dele
cation during the present session.
Representing Pennsylvania in Con-
gress, seems to be an unhealthy bust
ness.
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The cry of son to Oklahoma" that
echoed over the country not long ago,
has been changed to a cry for bread.
Starvation is at the doors of the citi-
zens of that territory and a demand
forhelp is heard.