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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
Canning Grabs.

A thriving industry at Hampton, Va,
is the canning of hard-shell crabs, which
was first begun in the year 1873. About
the 1st of April the season for these
crustaceans opens and continues until
June. During that month and July the
crabs are found with spawn and unfit for
canning purposes. Then in August the
work begins anew and from that time
until about the 1st of November the
canneries are kept very busy.
The crabs are caught chiefly with trot
lines and nets. Beef tripe is used for
bait and each line is attended by one
man in d light skiff The average daily
catch per man in Hampton Roads is from
sixty to seventy-fve dozen, although $50
dozen catches have been occasionally re-
ported.
Large boats go out every day and
collect the crabs from the fishermen.
Upon arrival at the cannery the dead ones
and spawners are thrown away. The
others are placed in open slat-wOrk cars
and conveyed to wooden steamer hav-
ing a capacity of $50 dozen into which d
car is rolled. Steam is then turned on
and the crabs cooked until they turn red,
when the car is rolled out and the con-
tents shoveled into baskets. These are
delivered to men technically termed
"strippers," who remove the shells,
small claws and entrails. These men
pass the cleaned portions to force of
women and children called "pickers,"
who take out all the meat and place it iu
large pans. The large claws are crushed
and the meat deftly extracted. AS these
pickers receive but from two to three
cents pound; it naturally follows that
they must be quick and agile workers.
The most rapid pickers can generally
prepare about twenty-five pounds day,
but the average is about sixteen pounds.
The hard parts and other refuse are
dumped into sheet-iron barrels, placed in
scows and sold to the neighboring farm
ers for fertilizing purposes. The upper
shells, which the strippers remove, are
carefully cleaned and used as receptacles
for deviled crabs, being packed up and
sold with the cans containing the meat.
After being weighed, the crab-meat is
taken to the "fillers," who pack it in
one and two-pound cans. Each pound
can is estimated to contain the meat ex-
tracted from thirty-eight crabs. In order
to prevent spelling in the cans, the con.
tents must be very thoroughly cooked,
and consequently after being sealed these
receptacles are placed in boiling water
for half an hour. Then they are taken
out and vented by piercing a small hole
in the top of each and Immediately re.
sealed. After this they are given final
hot wster bath, in which they remain for
two hours. Another process consists in
placing the cans in a strong solution of
chloride of lime water.
Upward of II, 100000 crabs are thus
canned each season in the Hampton es-
adjustments, and fad a ready sale in all
parts of the United States. Detroit Free
| Press
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
RATES or ADVERTISING.
LETTING DOWN THE BARS.

Fair Jane stands near the woodland where
The barn lane joins the field; =
The cows are corIing at her call,
Their treasure whits 10 yield.
The sun is sinking through the trees
To give place to the stars,
And 90 the task the maiden bends
OF letting down the bars.
Young neighbor John, of manly mold,
But timid as aquail,
Climbs Ger the fence and gains her side
And Helps her move ther
Her warm blush tells tale; but fear
From speech his tongue debars
Till eyes meet eyes, then Of his love
Her glance lets down the bars.
o woodlands breath and meadows breeze,
And soft eyed kline and birdsl
Know ye the rapture in your midst .
That cannot flow in words?
Nor wish for wealth, nor thought of fame,
Nor aught the moment mars;
These guileless souls find all their world 7
While letting down the bars.
--NetU York Advertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
Bright Thoughts and Merry.

Frank r. Stockton tells with great
glee how once, many years ago, he in
vented dish and got 81 for the inven-
ton. 1t was while he was sub editor Of
Hearth and Home, weekly paper of
which Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge was the
editor. He had contributed to every de-
partment save the household de partment.
This put him on his mettle. So he
handed in receipt of his own concoct-
ing. Mrs. Dodge accepted it, and paid
for it at the current rates-S2. The
dish is called "Cold Pink, - and here is
the receipt: Take all the white meat left
over from the Thanksgiving turkey, and
chop it ny very fiue. Pour thin cram
berry sauce over the cold meat. Mix
we'll, put it in a china form and set it
away to get cold. When cold, serve it.
1t makes a delightful dish. But alas
as Mr.. Stockton himself remarks, there
is never any turkey left over from the
Thanksgiving dinner. .-Epoch.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
NOrMaY's Headsman.

In Norway au expert executioner is
requisite, although his services are sell
dom needed. August Claeson is now an
old man, and has held the office for
twenty-four years, with occasional assis-
tance. The laws of Norway are still
harsh in terms, and were harsh in prac-
tice not many years ago. Old man
Claeson can remember that, at Trond-
hjem, about twelve years ago, preacher
named Jansen, convicted of numbering
his child, stood in the pillory all day,
with his right hand cut of, and had his
head cut off at sundown. Now, how
ever, the punishment is decapitation,
without the barbarous exhibition that
used to precede it. The death penalty
is so seldom resorted 70 in Sweden aud
Norway that it is practically obsolete
81. Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
The Tin Soldiers of Nuremberg.

The artists of Nuremberg and Furth
have long been famous for their manu-
features of toy-soldiers Of lead, The
art dates from the Seven Years War,
and was developed under the influence
Of the enthusiasm aroused by the career
of Frederick the Great Much pains arc
taken with the sketches of the intended
figures, aud eminent artists are willing
TO supply the models. Certain fixed
rules have to be adhered to in designing
the figures. In colors, deep tInts must
be avoided, and gaudy hues preferred.
The artists must be acquainted with the
military costumes of the period to which
the soldier they represent belonged.
Anachronisms in this matter are fatal.
Molds of slate are used for the plain
figures, and of brass for those in relief.
The figures, having been cast, are taken
out and trimmed; then handed over to
the women, to be painted; and then to
other women, to be packed in wooden
boxes s.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

The New York World declares that
the population of the agricultural dis
tricts is less than it was teu years ago,
the gains having been made in the towns
and cities. But the mortgage indebted
ness is increasing at the rate of s., ,500,-
600 per year, and the loss in farm values
since 1880 is estimated at 5000, 600, 900,
or an average of 81 per acre for the
single State of Ohio. There are States
where the proportion shows a still worsr
condition of affairs.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

Professor Lombroso, a student of
criminals, says that out of forty. one an
archists whom he studied in the Paris
police Office, thirty-one per cent. showed
the criminal type of features. OF forty
three Chicago anarchists the percentage
of wicked faces was forty, aud that is
about the percentage obtained from the
professors researches among the politi-
cal criminals of Turin. Regicides or
murderers of presidents, such as Fiesohi,
Guiteau, Nobiling and historic evil-doers
like Marat, had nearly all the criminal
cast of features. Nobiling, Guiteau and
Booth, in the specialists opinion, had
hereditary tendencies to crime. Certain
socialists, like Karl Marx and Lassalle,
are exempted from the doctors classifica-
ton, as their features are noble, but then
such men do not favor anarchy.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

The Prince of Monaco having secured
wife with 5000, 900 annual income has
made up his mind to be good and have
no more gambling in his spacious realm
after the present lease of the Casino is
run out, April 16, 1892. But the enter
prising managers of the tables have
made arrangements to reproduce the en-
tire establishment, theatre and all, in
Audorra, the little republic in the
Pyrcnees on the border of France aud
Spain. Already S4, 200, 900 of the capi-
tai stock has been taken up in Paris.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

''South Carolina, like most of the
Southern States, continues to be made
up" notes the Boston Transcript,
"mainly of rural communities. There
are but twenty cities and towns in the
State that have more than 2200 inhabit-
ants. Charleston, with 81, 955 inhabit-
ants, has long lead over the second
city, Columbia, the capital, which has
5,35S population. Charleston has
gained 1871 in the last decade, while
Columbia's population is 5Sl7 larger
than it was in 1880. These two cities
contain more than half the urban popu-
lation of South Carolina"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
A CHILD's LAUGHTER.

All tho bells of heaven may ring,
All the birds Of heaven may sing,
All the wells on earth may spring,
All the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
Sweeter far than all things heard,
Hand Of harper, tone Of bird,
Sound Of woods at sundawn stirred,
yelling waters winsome word,
Wind in warm wan weather.
One thing yet there is that none
Hearing ere its chime be done
Knows not we'll the sweetest ono
Heard Of men beneath the sun,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and light
Very sound of very light,
Heard from the mornings rosiest h
When the soul of all delight
Fills child's clear laughter.
Golden bells Of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes, nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold
AS the radiant mouth of gold
Here that rings forth heaven.
IL the golden crested wren
Were nlghtingale-why, then
Something seen aud heard of men
Might be half as sweet as when
Laughs a childof seven.
"A. q. StoinburT
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
Conyicts OF for Siberia.

The Moscow correspondent of the
London Ne,cs says: "To-day witnessed
the departure for Siberia of the first
batch of convicts this season. They
stood in marching column at the railway
station, surrounded by guard of about
100 soldiers with drawn swords. At the
head came the worst class of convicts,
about 300 in number, all having leg fet-
ters and chains. Many had the right
half of the head shaved, an indication of
long service sentences. Then came about
100 without fetters, convicted OF sus-
pected of lighter offcnses, most of them
being without passports, and therefore
liable to punishment. Next follow about
100 women, some convicts and some
prisoners wives. 1t is pathetic to see
little children and some infants starting
on this long and terrible journey Of ex-
lie. The dress worn is gray, with vel.
low diamond on the back. The by
ISLANDERS threw money to them to enable
them to purchase comforts on the jour
ney.n
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
Custer's Last Sword.

The sword which Custer used in his
campaign against the Indians, and which
he lost with his life at the battle of the
Little Big Horn, as now in the possession
Of a Chicago man. Its battered blade is
as flexible as whalebone, and It looks as
though it had been through many a
hand-to-hand encounter. 1t is covered
with innumerable designs of drums,
days, cannons and Other implements OF
warfare. .-Hdiaadp0lis J0Ulnal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

The Philadelphia Bulletin is authority
for the statement that the phonopraph
aas been employed in New York to re-
port the utterances of monkeys, scientific
men have become convinced that their
shattering is language ineligible
among themselves, Their Photographed
talk has been repeated to the animals
with startling effect, and they have en-
deavored with their long arms to draw
out the ape concealed in the instrument.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

The Treasury authorities at Washing
ton have just had their attention called
TO the fact that it would be an easy mat
ter to tunnel from a neighboring build
ing into their vaults, remove the coin
aud ship it down the Potomac. Seven
sy guards now watch the Treasury, and
every precaution has been taken to pre-.
vent robbery.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
license.

Harrison udington, the Ex-Governor
of Wisconsin, who has just died in Mil
waukee, commenced his career at that
point in 1883 as the immediate business
successor of Solomon Juneau, Milwaukees
first settler. The lives of these two men
cover thewhole history of the great North
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

The New York Sun learns that Cornell
is going to improve all the roads on the
University property, around Ithaca, N.
Y, in sections and by different methods,
and thus furnish a standing object lesson
as TO style aud cost. of maintenance for
tho guidance of attempts to improve the
roads of the State.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

A Philadelphia surgeon says that by
three strokes of the lancet he could para
lyze the nerves acted on to make a man
get mad, and thereafter any one could
pull his nose or cuff his ears, and he
would simply smile a soft, bland smile.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

At Gotta, in Saxony, persons who did
not pay their taxes last year are published
IN a list which hangs up in all restaurants
aud saloo~s of the city. Those that are
on the list can get neither meat nor drink
at these places under penalty of loss of
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

Drill instructors are being appointed
by the labor organizations of Australia.
The members are buying guns and am.
munition. Lively times arc expected.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

a wealthy German offered prize OF
S25, 900 to any astronomer who will sat
isfactorily demonstrate to him that tho
sun, moon or stars are inhabited.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
A Cnrlons Nnme Comhinntlon.

"What is in namel" has been ques-
ton sufficiently unanswered to still re-
main subject for discussion, but what
is in two names should have double
interest. If you don't think so, take
two names as well known as any in
American history AMI look at them.
They are the names Lincoln and Hamlin.
OF course, there is nothing peculiar about
them as they stand, but set them differ
emily and observe the result. For an in.
stance, place them thiswise;
HAM LIN
LIN COLIN
Read up and down and then across.
There is something in that, isn't therei
Now, again
ABRA-HAMLIN-COLN.
Can you find two other names of two
other men whose official lives and names
combine as these do9-,St. Louis ReRtB.
dc.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12

Ever! minute, night and day, the
United States Government collects $639
aud spends S461.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-08-12
HAM LIN
LIN COLIN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The Queen Of Spain has umpired the
Co'umbia-Yenezuela boundary case en-.
tirely in favor OF Colombia.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07
4Dpelnusas Courier.
TO our Friends and Patrons.

We wish to call the attention of the friends
and patrons of the COURIER to the necessity
Of their being on the alert, in the matter of
judicial publications, tsherffs sales especial
iyl. as a neglect on their part to give positive
Instructions as to where they desire such
advertisement published, is apt to result in
our being deprived of the patronage that
would otherwise be given to us. The sheriff
of this parish has been making himself es-
peeially Jealous in the matter OF securing
sheriff7s sales for the paper of which he is
director and etockholder, and several puhlica,
tions of that nature have appeared in that
paper which tho parties interested would
have selected to be done in the COURIER, had
they been consulted and others have been
diverted from us at the special solicitation of
the sheriff or his deputies serving the papers
in the matter of seizures.
TO those who prefer to patronize any other
paper in this parish we have no desire to in
ferfere with their preferences, but our friends
who wish to favor us with their patronage
are earnestly requested to see that the proper
officers are instructed to have the publication
done in the CoURIER-and they are especially
warned against allowing themselves to be in
duced to consent that the advertisement
should be done in some other paper.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07

n. @. States: The organ Of the
Hurrah Club declares that the parade
last night was to warm into life the
candidacy Of Il man who was repudiat-
ed four years ago by the people ol
Louisiana OF course the organ refers
to Samuel Douglas McEnery, whose
character lis faction endearofed to
assassinate, the man whose good name
they dragged 10 tho mire and then
branded themselves as slanderers and
falsifers BY placing him on the su-
preme Bench of the State. That tue
procession last night was in the inter
est of the candidacy of Judge Nc
Emery, we all know, bnt what hurts the
Antis is the fact that $4,000 sturdy
Democrats marching in limo and cheer
ing the name Of Samuel Douglas Nc
Emery for Il distance Of six or seven
miles, means that their time to be re-
pndiated is near at hand. They arc
beginning to view the ground where
they mnst shortly lie.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07

Alexandria Times: Cannot the sllirel-
ing Anti-lottery press find any other
argument against the acceptanceby the
State Of $l $50, 900 annually as O legiti-
mate license than TO characterize those
newspapers that are not misled by
poppycock sontinlentality as the tools
of Morris ~ Such q charge might
come with some degree Of force from
editors who are not themselves. snb-
orned to combat the true interests oil
the State. As it is, the case is clearly
one of tlle devil quoting Scripture.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07

McEnery transparencies, paid for By
lottery Doodle, will be conspicuous
feature Of to nights parade. New
Delta
Four years ago it was Nichols trans
parencies which were conspicuously
paid for by lottery Doodle. This
is proved fact, but the Delta's charge
in regard to the McEnery parade IL
bare assertions, without proof. The
source of campaign fund is Of little
interest, unless the recipient nses it
with a spirit of base ingratitnde.
Baton Rouge Advocate.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07
RAQUETTE! RAQUETTE

The Grand Prairie and Plaisanee colored
boys have organized RaQuette Club with
the following officers Robert Similien Capt.
of the Plaisance team: Thomas Adams Capt.
of the Grand Prairie team; Harry Levy,
Seety.; Emile Washington, Treas; Leandre
Pitre, Indian Chief Cook and Bottle Washer,
with I2 members representing each side.
A grand match game of Raquette will be
played by said Clubs in Mr.. A, f. MeKinney's s
pasture in Grand Prairie on
Sunday, Nov. Stla, 1S01,
to which the public is invited. Hon.
Wiegel Shaft will umpire Plenty beef and
bread will be on hand.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07
JUDICIAL NOTICES
DARTITIoN SALE.
MARCELINE DARE EFT AIS. VS.. OCTA,
VIE DARE, WIFE, EFT AIS.
No. las IS.
DISTRICT COURT, ST. LANDRY PARISH,
STATE OF LOUISIANA:

BY virtue of judgment of the Hon. the Dis
trict Court in and for the parish OF st. Landry
rendered in the above entitled cause, there
will be sold at public auction to the last and
highest bidder by the undersigned administra
tor the Sheriff of the parish of st. Landry. or
any other duty qualified auctioneer, at the
Court House in the town of Opelousas, in the
parish of st. Landry, on
Wednesday, Nov. ESths 1881,
the following described property, in order to
effect partition thereof, to-wit;
All of section 49, T. 5 S. of Il. west; all of
section SO. T. 6 S. of Il west which lies west
of bayou Nezpiqu6 and such parts or sections
in township 5 and s. of r. west which arc
the Antoine Boisdore grant in [. 5 and 6 s of r.
west, being the same property acquired by
Marcel Daire, deceased, on the 9TH January,
1860, at the sueeessional sale of Antoine B0is-
dor6, deceased, made by Eyariste Dejean, pub.
lie auctiOneer, and figuring upon the process
verbal of sucecssional sale OF SAID estate OF
Antoine B0isdorG as Nos. !, ,5,6,7and 8, and
containing in all four thousand eight hundred
arpents, more are less, the same being con-
tinuous tract of land and situated partly in
| st. Landry and partly in Calcasieu parish.
| Said land will be sold in lots of one hundred
arpents each, according to plat of survey
and subdivision of tho whole tract made by
| Leonce Il. Littell, surveyor, and to be exhibit
| ted on the day of SALE SAID lands are adapted
| to the culture of rice and are traversed and
| divided into two almost equal parts by bayou
| Nezpiqu6, which affords an unfailIing supply
| of water for irrigating and other purposes.
| Terms and Conditions One fourth cash; one
| fourth in one year, one.fourth in two years,
and onefourth in three years from the day of
sale. All purchases other than heirs TO exc
cute their notes, payable to the order of JOS
eph FL. Fontenot administrator, with eight per
cent per annum interest from maturity till
paid, with special mortgage and vendors
| privilege reserved. The heirs to be allowed to
purchase to the amou, of portion coming to
them from the succession, and not to be
oblige to pay the surplus of their purchase
money over their portion coming to them un-
til this portion has been definitely fixed by a
partition.
JOSEPH II. FONTENOT,
| Oct, 10, 1891. Administrator.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07

Among the malefactors who are TO
be dragged from their LOUISIANA homes
to far off Dakota to answer Wana-
makers indictments is the venerable
Gen. Beauregard, who has no more to
do with the active business of the
Louisiana lottery than Mr.. Wanamaker
himself. His only duty is to supervise,
in connection with Gen. Early, the
monthly drawings, but perhaps this is
such crime in pious Johns eyes as to
inspire malice enough to warrant saint
ly persecution. A Louisianiau ought
to blush even to silently aequiesee in
such an outrage, and to applaud it
almost crime on the part of any man
with Southern democratic blood in his
veins.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.

Probate Court, Parish of 50. Landry, No. 5l26.
ESTATE OF oLIN FoSrENor, JR., Decd
Whereas. DIN Fontenot, Sr., of the parish Of
st. Landry, has applied by his petition TO be
amounted administrator of the estate OF
DIN Fontenot, deceased, late OF the par
ish of st. Landry;
Therefore. any person intending TO make
opposition to said appointment VIII NE ene e
same ia writing, in my office, in the town OF
Opelousas. within ten days from the present
notice ~ C. nj. THOMPSON,
Oct. 81, 1891. oierk'
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07

Tile N. @. City Item gires this bic
OF solid advice:
The farmer can nnt Too persistently
keep the fact in view 10 laying his
plans for next years work, that the
price of cotton will most probably bo
low, while that Of food stuffs must
surely be high. Is it not, therefore,
the part Of wisdom to attain as near
independence as possible by producing
home supplies of all kinds available
The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-07

HALL OF KNIGHTS OF HONOR,
Opelousas, Nov 3, 1891.
Whereas, it has been brought TO the knoWl-
af,~a n fhis Ioige that Bro. Placide Robin has
suffered the irrefrevabla loss of one OF his dear
and loving children, we hereby tender Inn a our our
heartiest Sympathy and coincidence for the loss
Brother; and may the great spirit OF love and
adiuster OF human differences soothe their aeh-
ing hearts and receive their loving babe IN the
eoiui = T. B. BROOKS,
v. K. IRION,
NJ. DEPRES,
Committee.