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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1891-04-30
LOCAL AND GENERAL
~. 7. Wells was in st. Louis

~. 7. Wells was in st. Louis
Monday.
County court will convene
Monday week.
Strawberries will be ripe
In 10 or ID day.
Probate court convenes on
the. 1lth Of May.
Miss Mollie Fisher is visit
ing relatives in Perry county.
Judge Fox is holding
court in st. Genevieve this week.
w. K. Chandler, Esq, has
the thanks of this Office for job
work
Err, b Sander has placed an
order with this Office for job
work.
The hills east of town look
beautiful in their new Spring
clothes.
j. T. Wells shipped two
carloads OF hogs to st. Louis
Monday.
Everything in the millinery
business is kept by Mrs. Biggs,
Lutesville.
Men may come and men
may 60, Tut the PRESS will 60
on for ever.
Robert Drum left Tuesday
for St. Louis, Columbia and JET
ferson City.
-''Uncle" George Mitchell's
pension has been increased to
"a q month.
Examine and try the Bissel
chilled plow sold byJ B Thomp.
son, Lutesville.
Miss Nellie. Bedwell is Wis.,
iting relatives at Pocahontas,
Cape county.
FISHERMEN can get their
supplies cheap OF Erich Sander.
Remember this.
"A. G. Snyder of Glen Allen
made a business call at this Of
flee Monday.
When you get off the train
at Lutesville always take the
big ack-Baker's.
John w. Hatcher was visit
ing in Marble Hill a few days
of last week.
"A grand offer! The "Jouru-
al ofAgriculture" and the PRESS
both one year for S1.5O.
John F. Sander and Erich
o. Sander we're in jackson a
few hours Sunday.
Go to A. & E. Miller's for
your groceries. They sell as
cheap as anybody. Lutesville.
j. M. Poe. after an illness
of two or three weeks, is up and
ready for business.
Mrs. Bigys has the finest
stock of Ribbons and Flowers
that was ever kept in Lutesvllle
The prospects for an abund
ant fruit crop in this county are
very fine, farmers tell us.
Mrs, Biggs buyers and
sells for cash, which enables hel
t sci! cheaper than ever before
Lytesville.
X-The family of Dr. W. B
Fihney of Latin were visiting
here the first OF the week.
The Press and twice a
week Republic one year fol
only $1.70. Cash in advance
on this deal.
Garrett Stephens is work
ING the road in this district
that ia he is having it done by
the eligibles.
Jesse H. Lutes, Lutesville Ii
selling better and cheaper har
ness than can be found else
where.
Irwin Byington Of St. Fran
co.'s county cut Henry Pigg o
the same county 10 death ont
day last week.
ALI novelty shaped Hats
and bonnets Of the latest STYLE
kept constantly on llaud at Mrs
Bjgg's, Lutesville.
N-Geo. Mitchell has Dough
The residence property OF hoo
ert Drum situated south OF tn
Baptist church.
Farmers, go to Jesse H. Lutes
Lutesville, if you want real AM
not imaginary bargains IN haI
ness or saddles.
Farmers are go busily en-
gagged in agricultural pursuit
that our town has been pract'
cally deserted by them.
Remember A. 4 E. Mile
has q large stock Of glass an
Cueensware which they ar
selling cheap. Lutesville'
Spring has just simrll,
been dumping" herself for IN
las. few days, and one can a
most see vegetation grow.
v...o II Tutna Of Lutel
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GoUAUx's PILE CURE. (Guaeauteed.l

From w. II. Moon. bookkecper Of Roberts 4
Co. Sash & Blind Factory, ex-member Of
City Council, President OF the Beard Of Con
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january LIST, 1890

Mr.. F. GouauY. Houma. La.
Your ..File Ointment aaIveH is the best
remedy | rave ever tried for piles. it has
cured me Of a very bad ease | had for years.
i know several persons II has cured also. I
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lau oaghr 10 quit all yonr ot.ler business ana
10 nothing but prepare that salye b. large
quantities. II il Wa well known YOU could
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EItendaie ? q. L4a. SAMUEL WOLF
Price+ 81 09 by a1t 3rHzgsats,
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New Orleans, Dee. 4, 1889

New UtleaEs, Dec. 4, 1857.
F. Gouaux. Esq.
Dear sir-Tl,e bottle of Pile Ointment OBJ
tanned from you las worked wonders and
given me the greatest possible relief. Please
send NE another bottle. It will give me
pleasure 10 recommend this remedy to all
persons similarly afflicted Respectfully,
W. II. MOON, 81 Caronaalet st.
/ endorse the above certificate ~ i has
cured me also, by using on!y enc bottle.
WILLIAM BELL,
Foreman Of Roberts Sash Factory & Lumber
Yards.
Price, $500 by all druggists.
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NEW ARRANGE bIENTS.
ssF EEDEEa..

Mr. Thomas Albert inform a his friends
nd the travelling public thai he has made
acme new arrangements VIII eli will enable
him Q satisfy ali those y 10 will honor aim
with their custom.
Meals furnished at all hours of the dav
Breakfast at 10 o'clock a.. nj. and Dinner
1t 4 o'clock p. NJ.
Commodlous and w~elIFurnIshed rooms.
MODERATE PRICES.
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Train for New Orleans and west
connection leaves ThibodauX 4:l0p. N.
arrives ..1:1S p. m
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Thibodaux, La, April Goth, 1879.
Mr. Gouaux-We have a steady sale for
our "Astnma Remedies" We never had a
= 10 com plant but many compliments.
Your last invoice just received.
ROTH & FLEETWOOD, Druggists.
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RAILROAD

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAIN
FROM NOV. 18TH, 1899.
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Mail closes Is minutes before the de-
partuEe Of The train.
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LIST. train leaves Thibodaux $50 a. M
a." d" arrives ....10:33 a. III
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Military Utility of Swimming Cavalry.

An important feature of the recent cav
airy maueuvres in England was swim
ming cavalry horses the Thames. Twenty
officers of the Guards determined to solve
the problem for themselves. Dashing
into the river with great excitement,
several succeeded in reaching the oppo-
site bank in safety, while three riders fell
off and had to be rescued by boats. It
is held that the trial proves the futility of
attempting to swim cavalry horses across
a stream in a body. Whatever, how
ever, may be the ultimatum in regard to
the swimming of cavalry horses, there is
no doubt that swimming, as a part of the
drilled soldiers, is likely to be brought
largely into requisition. The officers in
attendance with the Emperor William at
the Russian military nau are said
to have been surprised at nothing so
much as at the swimming exploits of the
Russian soldiery. "Boots off" exclaimed
the Colonel, when his battalion reached
the river bank. Then, making the sign
Of the cross, he plunged in himself, and
the whole force followed him, swimming
to the other side. Though swimming, as
a part Of military drill, has not been
heard of in this country, the fscts that
the ancient Greeks understood As value
is shown by the fact that SC few of them
persisted in the naval fight with Xerxes
at Salamis. - Courier Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Congressman Aliens One Lie.

This is Private John Aliens latest
cloak room story:
"You know I never told but one lie in
my life," said the Mississippi Congress
man. 'tThat cured me. It was back in
1862, a day or two after the second bat
tie of Manassas. / was q small, bare
footed soldier boy, about fifteen years
old, marching with Lees army toward
Maryland. My feet became SO sore from
n arching over the rocks that had to fall
out of line, and became separated from
my command, and consequently from all
commissary stores on which / could draw.
The country had been SC often raided by
both armies that it was difficult to get
anything to eat. / was very hungry, and
thought I should starye, when Isuddenly
spied a house away from the road which
seemed to have been missed by the SOL
diers. The family was just sitting down
to a good dinner, and at my special re-
quest they invited me in. I do not re-
member ever to have enjoyed a dinner so
much, and, not knowing when | could
get anything more, / tried myself and ate
q very big dinner. In fact, | took on
about three days rations. / left this
house and had gone about half q mile
when 1 saw some ~nice-looking ladies
going toward q hospital with a covered
basket. / was sure they had something
for the sick soldiers. and while l did not
feel that | could eat anything more then,
I thought I had better make some pro-
essions for the future, and that / might
get something to take along in my haver-
sack. / was small for my age, and a
rather hard looking specimen. You would
| never have supposed I would have deVel-
| oped into the specimen of manly beauty
you now see before you. I approached
these kind-hearted ladies, and, putting
on my hungriest and most pitiful look,
said:
"Ladies, can you tell me where a poor
soldier boy, who has not had a mouthful
to eat for three days, can get something
to keep him from starving.
"You should have seen the look of
sympathy on their faces as they said
I'VE must not let this poor boy ~starve.
and opening their baskets, in which they
had two pitchers of cruel, they began to
feed me on cruel out of a spoon. Now,
when / was a child they used to feed me
on Cruel when I was sick, and I disliked
it above all things eatable, but, having
told my story about the hunger, I had to
eat it. Well, I never was SO punished
for a story as I was by having to eat that
Cruel on my dinner. But, I have often
thought that maybe it was a fortunate
thing for me. It broke me from telling
stories. I have never told one since."-
| Neao York San.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

thought came to me to take her. I
didn't wait to reason about it, but ran
forward and began saving away at the
hempen cable with the old pocketknife
which I had brought with me to the
island and carefully guarded ever since.
It soon parted, and as the vessel drifted
out Of the bay I worked her around with
her head off shore. She was what is
called q Kampoug, fitted for both rowing
and sailing, and, boy that I was, I gave
her enough of the big mainsail to send
her off shore at the rate of four or five
miles an hour. When daylight came I
could not see the island from the deck,
but before sunrise / was alongside of a
Java trader coming up from the South
and among friends. 1t was three months
before / got back to Batavia, and it was
only then that the firm knew how the
schooner was lost. Captain and crew
had believed that she slipoed her moor
ings and drifted out to sea to be lost. A
year later a Malay, who had a brother in
the village destroyed, told me that not
over a dozen people escaped death or
serious injury. There was at least ton
of powder in the storehouse.-Neu YeTb
Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
symbols of the Thunderbolt.

Nearly all peoples have represented the
fire from the sky by an arm, sometimes
also by a bird of strong and rapid flight.
It was s~ymbolized among the Chaldeans
by a trident. Cylinders going back to
the most ancient ages of Chaldean art ex-
hiblt a water-jet gushing from a trident,
which is held by the god of the sky or
of the storm. The Assyrian artist who
first, on the bas-reliefs of Nimroud or
Malthai, doubled the trident or trans
formed it into a tri6d fascicle, docile to
the reinements and ~elegancies of classic
art, by that means secured for the ancient
Mesopotamian symbol the advantage over
all the other representations of thunder
with which it could compete. The
Greeks, like the other Indo-European
nations, seem to have represented the
storm-ire under the features Of q bird of
prey. When they received the Asiatic
figure Of a thunderbolt, they put it in the
eagles claws and made of it the scepter
of Zeus, explaining the combination,
after their habit, by the story of the
eagle bringing thunder to Zeus when he
was preparing for the war against the
Titans. Latin Italy transmitted the thun.
derbolt to Gaul, where, in the last cen
turtles of paganism, it ~alternated, Oh the
Gallo Roman monuments, with the two.
headed hammer. It is also found on
amulets Of Germany, Scandinavia and
Brittany. In the East it penetrated to
India, following Alexander, where it il
found competing with other symbols hav
ing the same significance .-Pepula'
Science Monthly.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
A Senator's Rich Gold Mine.

"The Home Stake mine in the Black
Hills, of which Senator Hearst 10 a prin-
cipal owner, is the richest gold mine in
the world" said II. G. Rorapaugh, of
Deadwood, South Dakota, at the Metro
politan last night. eft is the biggest in
a group of mines in the immediate vicin-
ity of Deadwood. The company has
5000 men at work in the mines, mills and
woods. For fourteen years they have
never missed a dividend, and every
month take out from $3.50, 600 to $780,
900 in gold. There are 1900 stamps in
operation. The vein of the Home Stake
is 300 feet wide by about two miles in
length, and there is ore enough in sight
to run all the mills for the next twenty
years. Washington Post:
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
A Wonderful Mountain.

Almost in the geographical caster Of
Wyoming is a mountain of solid hematite
iron ore, with 800 foot of ii above
ground, more than a mile wide, and over
two miles in length. Besides the iron,
the mountain contains a bed Of Ignite
coal large enough to warm the entire
world for q century, a dozen dried1up
lakes of soda. where the soda is deposited
to a depth of over 800 feet, some of the
lakes being over 600 acres in extent. In
a mountain adjoining therei is a petroleum
basin larger than those of Pennsylvania
and West Virginia combined. Out Of
some Of the springs pure rectiied coal
oil is trickling at the rate of twenty tc
thirty barrels per daY. A wonderful
country, indeed.-Chicago Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
WISE WORDS.

Forbearance is attended with profit.
Life is a journey, and death a return
home.
Causeless anger resembles waves with
out wind.
The Hottest buildings arises from small
accretions.
Tt is better to suffer an injury than to
commit one.
A disconnected man is like a snake
who would swallow an elephant.
While silent, consider your own faults,
and while speaking spare those of others.
To prosecute the unfortunate is like
throwing stones on one fallen into a
well.
If men will have no care for the fu-
ture, they will soon have sorrow for the
past.
Hear both sides, and all will be clear;
hear but one and you will still be in the
dark.
Kind feeling may be paid with kind
feeling, but debts must be paid in hard
cash.
Those above should not Cypress those
below, nor those below encroach on those
above.
The people are the roots of the State;
if the roots are flourishing the State will
endure.-Stardy OGk.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

Hon. Charles A. Boutelle, Chairman
Cf the House Committee on Naval
Affairs, says, In regard to the trial tests
1t Annapolis: s'The result OF the m
tssts concluded Of the proving ground
at Annapolis Is startling in it significance,
as showing the comparative worthless
ness Of the Oannwell compound armor
which has been used on the most impor-
tant battleshjps Of the British Navy. The
demonstration of the destructive power
on the American high-poWer rifles, even
og The smaller calibers Of six and eight
inches, Is as emphatic as the proof Of the
superiority Of the niokel-steel armor from
The French works at Creusot. The sig
ri6cance Of sha test lies in the demon
stsasiOn Of the inferiority Of the arrnor to
which Great Britain has trusted for the
snvainerabllisy Dc her fighting ships, and
the shots Just fred at the Annapolis
proving ground will literally be heard
around the world, and Il viii cause CON
staruatioa Is naval circles on the other
side cf the water. The advantage
these tests viii give our Navy Depart
znelat ~ providing armo for our lew
Aghang ships can hardly b exaggerated,
fhs s., Louis ssqrs8sgings.
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DRIFTING DOWN.
Gone the ripple and the rushes

Gone the ripple and the rushes
OF the love-songs of the thrushes,
Gone the roses in the closes of the garden,
and the bushes
Of tho shy verbenas creeping,
BY the old south wall and sleeping
All its sweetness Id the sunshine of the sleepy
summer bushes.
And ever DER it all in a gold and crimson
pail,
Over mlgnonette grown tawny, and DER grass
a bronzing brown,
With a rustic and q whir, and a sad and SOL
emn stir,
The leaves are drifting down, dear, Oh, the
leaves are drifting down.
Come the mornings gray and chilly,
Come the nights serene and Silly,
Comes an airy midnight fairy, tracing fern,
and rose, and lily,
On the window panes that glisten,
While in dreams the children listen
To the swing of skates that ring, and shouts
that echo shrilly.
And ever, ever still, in the hollow on the
hill,
BY the roadside, where the sun-fower lifts
aloft a ruined crown,
Like the dear old dreams of youth, dreams
of honor, lame and truth,
Forever falling from us-do the leaves keep
drifting down.
Let the summer set in splendor,
Let the summer tribute render
bfldeiike beauty, bridelike duty, every charm
divine and tender,
To the conquering king, who loudly
All in trumpet tones and proudly
Tells the story of his captive, and her pas
sionate surrender.
And with the leaves that fall. in a rich and
royal pail,
Ger the rose-heart's crumbled crimson and
the grass grown dull and brown,
Let the bitterness. the strife, all the little ills
of life,
Go drifting, drifting down, dear-with the
leaves go drifting down!
Kate ID. Cleary, in New York Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Is Of four years ago:
a New Yorker, who has recently spen

a New Yorker, who has recently spent
some time In che literary circles Of Lon
don, says that there must be at least 100
biographies Of Mr.. Gladstone already in
manuscript, awaiting the event Of his
death, at which time they will be ready
for publication in book form. Beside
these manuscriPtc, there are to be found in
She pigeon holes of aathe newspaper of
Aces sketches Of the aged statesman life,
In readiness for the dispatches announc-
Inc the end Of his career that may be re-
ceived at any time. II is said that MI.
Gladstone has seen some of these biogra-
pixies and sketches, and he himself has
prepared memoranda for the use Of some
Of his biographers.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

and lace will have for trimming passe-
menteries and embroideries studded with
turquoises and Rhine stones.
Among the most popular wedding
presents are vinaigrettes, with large dull
gold tops, bearing the brides monogram
set in diamonds and rubies.
The new make of shirt is more lady
like than the stiff mannish front, and ia
arranged all over with small inch-wide
box pleats drawn in at the waist beneath
d belt.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Chopped on His Toe for Bait.

A colored girl, about fourteen years
DID, and two white boys, about ten and
twelve years old, went crab fishing at
Brunswick, Ga. Their bait giving out,
the girl took a Ratchet and chopped of
one Of the white boys toes and used it
for bait. The boys left and came home.
The girl, after fishing awhile with the
toe for bait, buried it in the sand. She
was arrested and placed in jail.-a.
Louis Rar-Gagiags
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

The day of the German toy is past, ex-
claims the chicaso Post. It was not
many years ago when all the toys sold in
the American market were made abroad,
especially in Germany. But at best they
ware only cheap and fragile articles and
would not bear the rough handling of q
sturdy youngster. Few, if any, Of these
imported toys are now sold. The Ameri-
can iron goods, strong and elastic, have
replaced them.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
Sizes of Hats.

Some interesting facts were furnished
some time ago by English hatters re-
specting the sizes of mems hats. 'sThe
size is . mean between the length and
breadth of the hat; thus, measurements
of seven inches and q half by six inches
and a half would give No. z, and SO on.
The usual size for an adult Englishman
is a No. 4. Germans have round heads,
Maylays small ones. The heads of Por.
tuguese average from six inches and
seven-eighes to seven inches; those OF
spaniards are a little larger. The heads
of Japanese excel the English average"
NsU York Witness.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
D~iphtheretic Birds.

Diphtheria, which has been lurking
about Paris ever since the influenza cpl
demic, has attacked the birds. The dis
coYery seems to have been made at the
Jardin DIES Plantes. The men of science
are said to have satisfied themselves that
these birds do not communicate the dis
ease to mankind. It has prevailed
amongst pigeons, and some pigeons in
the markets were proved to have suf-
fered from it; but in no case did the
disease spread to persons who came in
contact with the injected hiSds-ca@-
mereias-Adpsrtiss,
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

Statistics show that there are some
two million people in this country de-
pendent upon the railroads for support.
The number of employed is put at 704,-
74S. In case of a general strike, re-
marks the Boston C~uItioator, the number
OF people to suffer direct loss is thus
shown TO be very large.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

Austin Corbin, the New York railroad
ruagnate, Is anxious to beat the record as
q tunnel maker, AYERS the New Orleans
TSnuss-D Democrat. He now has two in
contemplation, n running under the
two channels at each side Of Staten Island,
the other under the East and Hudson
Rivers, with the central point at Forty
lsecond street, New York city.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

According to a correspondent of the
Topeka Kan.) Capital, stock raisers
have noticed in the last three years an
apparent increasing s~teriltY in heifers.
It il ascribed to the practice of dehorn-
ing. The horns on the cattle must full
gill some useful function or they would
not hare been provided by nature.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

The number of tramps has decreased
seventy-ive per cent. in the last five
years, and it is the laws passed by the
different States which have done it,
opines the Detroit Free Press. When
you make trsmping a crime you oblige q
tramp to go to work and make an honest
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

Recent very trustworthy circulationsl
Of the population of the Chinese Empire
by Russian authorities reckon it at 3S2,-
QUO, 600, and the annual increase at
1900, 600. Not one in 10, 900 ever
heard of the religion of Jesus Christ.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

The succession Of horrible railroad ac-
cidents that has marked the presesat year
is something beyond precedent, ayers the
Detroit free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24
TOWN DRoPERTY ToR SSRI,E G
II. OWN L ROpERTY 4 OR IDLE

A CENTRALLY To- ated and
business stand on Main street, usalae
consisting of building suitable LWna,,ses .
md small store, bel1g the prohh ssTIssnrs
the ~postoflce. This properly asIavSto
very cheap for cash, or halFcasn sold
al terms to suit purchaser. pslaues
Eanilnd 9. Dupra. Va Eifs
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

The following figures are published In
. German publication that stands high as
an authority on railroad matters. Tho
table gives a summary Of the worlds
railroad mileage last year as compared
with The figures Of four years ago:
The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-24

At the French penal colony OF New
Caledonia convicts are permitted to wed
each other. The matron of the prison
pronounces the experiment a failure as
q reformatory move.