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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05
Ghe1emurraf-S Star
A MAy.EATISC s r

"Your wealthy ladies' of Chicago
who assemble at evening parties
and soirees in magnificent COS
tunes cov.r Il with fine pearls,
know little, or absolutely nothing.
perhaps, about the many dangers
encountered in gathering those
pearls from the sea-. remarked j.
&. Danvers, of London. Englan',
in the Chicago Herald. ~ was on
trip along the Cast of Zn zibar,
Africa, "a year ago, when learned
that sea-pearl fishing is not a
trade for men OF weak hearts to
follow. The pearls are gathered
ut The bottom of the sea by divers.
The reason man with a weak
heart il mol fit for the work is be.
cause The stopped breath and The
pressure Of ninety feet at sea wa
ter. with It's weight OF six,y-iwO
pounds TO the cubic foot, will bring
on palpitation Of the heart and
hurst The weaker vessels, causing
distressing and often dangerous
hemorrhages. But The divers are
all sialwart savages, in such rug
ged health that The physical dan
ger never occurs to them. Two
dangers constantly menace the
diver. Wherever the oyster
there also thrives the giant irid'
achna, a monsirous bivalve. whose
shell is from four 10 six feet in
length, firmly anchored to the bot.
tom. 1t lies with its scalloped
shells yawning a foot or more
apart. Immediately any thing
touches it the shells snap together
and once these large shells are
closed not a dozen men out of wa
Ter could get them apart, far less
the single diver fifteen ialhoms
deep, who may have dropped into
the clpaciOus mouth or have care
lessly put his hand within its shells
while cropping in the gloom. II
such a fate beiall the diver there
is only one thing for him to do.
and that is TO ampuiate himself
from the enormous mulluSk and
rise TO the surface, Ialntin2, bloody
aud mangled. Those savages will
fight anything from a lion to a
python ON land, but they haven't
The courage to run against a bi
valve under ninety feet Of water
and stand a chance of those yawn'
ing shells closing in on an arm OF
a leg and crushing the bones tu
splinters. II the monstrous mul
lusk should close down and catch
the divers head of course he
would never know what KILLED
him. His head would lie mashed
10 a pulp, and 1t would 60 off as
it severed by a guillotinc. saw
only one native who had been
caught by one OF these mnllusks
1t had closed down on his left
hand, and the only thing that he
could do as The monster held him
in lis grip was to cut off the lei'
arm at The elbow joint"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05


A Texas sheriff, with papers y
a civil suit, entered The house o.
an attractive widow and said:
"Madam, | have an attachment
for YOU" :,
The widow blushed. but sau
something about reciprocallon;
"Yon must proceed 10 court,
II prefer that you do that.
Come, hurry, please, iheJm
tice is wsiiingl' r..
'')h, well, tkepi you have Inc "
cense, l supposep ,,;,
The sheriff cleared himself ~
lime. ~ Texas 6ittimgs.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

An official visitor of a Connec.
iicnt district school spanked all
The big boys in attendance b.,
cause they kissed The teacher
This was rather hard ON The boys
he chances are that the teacher
was so pretty thy just coulln'I
help il.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

The following from the Yazoo
NentineL is exceedingly frank and
candid. The Sentinel is evidently
a believer in Cleveland's motto,
"tell The truth y
Some of our exchanges, as an
evidence that the negro is elimi.
mated from politics cite the fact,
in connection with other counties,
that in Yazoo county but nine
negroes registered. This argues
nothing so far as Yszoo is concern.
ed. II the nine now registered
vote IL will be about nine more
than have heretofore done 50.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

A Georgia shoemaker has finish
ed lhe largest pair of shoes evel
made for actual use.
1t took a piece of leather con-
tanning 1,040 square inches to make
The uppers and one of 1860 square
inches 10 make The soles, or ex
actly 5000 square inches OF leatheI
altogether. Ii the leather cor
tanned in that pair of shoes were
cut into strips an eighth Of an inch
wide it would make a string 24,WD
inches long.
The sole OF this gigantic pair o.
shoes are IA inches long and D
inches wide. The two combined
tipped the scales at exactly y
pounds.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

George Francis Train, in prophe.
sying the coming revolution. de-
clares that we shall hear from the
cranks again. This encourages
the belief that M. Train will moi
return to his policy Of silence.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

The Yazoo Herald says "every
shot fired by The workingmen Of
Homestead, Penn, was one against
The present high tariff"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

West PORT Leader.
Mississippi girls have their own
peculiar mode Of expression when
a fellow has been 50 audacious a,
to steal a kiss. Here are IA few:
llazIphnrsi girl-Rat~!
Tupelo g,r!-Yum Yum!
Grenada girl-Whuop la
Slarkville girl-Oh, mama!
NaIrhez girl-Deah Harry!
Meridian girl-More, more!
Canton eirI-Ilow shocking!
Kosciusko girl--Om o.! o.!
Columbus glrl-l'm shocked!
Yazoo City glrl-Ihat's nice!
Wimna giri-Well, | declare!
Jackson girl-Thanks, awfu,ly
Louisville girl-You scared me
Durant girl-Golly, amt tina,
nice!
VicksburS girl Repeat that
quick!
Aberdeen girl-Put that back.
now!
Greenville girl Break away
there
Water Valley girl-Are you
sure no one saw Us?
Holly Springs girl--To die thu,
would be heaven!
West Point GIRL wonder il
mama heard that
Pass Christian girl-You editor.
are way up in that sort of thing
Greenwood glrl-Oh don't (bul
she don't mean it.)
Scranton girl-Always sweelel
than the Mysterious Music Of the
Pascagoula.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

1t is hard to believe that a man
who doesn't agree with US can he
altogether right in his heart.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

IT q candidate does not explain,
his enemies will explain for him,
and there he il.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

Men arc much like dogs F; the
more worthless thcy ure The more
they howl when they get hurt.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05
CAMPAIGN ISSUES.

The Courier Journal of recent
date has the following:
Opposition 10 the Republican
party must he based on these is.
sues:
Free trade.
Economy in expenditures.
No force bill.
Republican success means more
juggling with The currency for
speculative purposes; conlinua.
ton of the Mckinley tariff; cor.
rupt and ex,ravagant appropria.
tiohs, and a rorce,bill.
Men Of The South, do you wish
negro postmasters and negro su.
pervisors at the polls?
DO you wish a continuance oil
the inlquitous Mckinley tariff?
Are you salts fed! with extrava'
gance in high places? With boun.
ties, subsidies and pensions for
everybody but yourselves?
IF so, vote Tor Harrison OF
Weaver, it does not matter which,
Weaver is a worn ont politician,
who won a little easy prominence
by abuse of the South.
Will you turn from Cleveland
who put your sons IN The Cabinet
on The bench and in the diplomat,
ic service, to Harrison or Weaver
who stands ready to re.establisI
negro supre macy under The guise
OF the force bill?
Let farmers, laborers. ri, h men
poor men, all men work together
for the reelection of Cleveland
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

The man who is perfectly satis.
fed with himself finds no one Of
like opinion.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-05

A Sioux squaw, living near San
Diego, California, will exhibit in
The Woman's building ut The
Worlds Fair, a dress Of deer skins.
richly embroidered with sixteen
pounds OF beads. She worked for
two years in making the garment.
From The San Diego Mission will
be exhibited q valuable c0l!ec,iOM
OF fine needle work by Indian
girls.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09
TO CATCH THE UNWARY.
Pomona, Cal. Progress.

Pomona, Cal, Progress.
Here is sample of the way the
Louisiana State Lottery Company ad-
vertises its great prizes to catch the
fools all over the country We have
seen a copy of the Minneapolis Tri-
bune, and also of the Memphis (Tenn.)
Appeal during the past week, and both
papers contain the same advertisement
in the columns of news about a certain
Wolfe P. Hartman, of Pomona, CAL,
who had won $500 in one Of the
recent drawings of the lottery. The
advertisement, written in the usual
catching style, goes on to tell how
MIR. Merriman" is hard-working
clerk in a Pomona grocery store how
he has supported his widowed mother
for years how he put only ST in the
lottery and drew $500. Then the
article winds up with a brief account
of how "Wolfe" intends to spend the
suddenly made fortune in buying a
little home for his mother, and tells
about how happy the mother and son
are, and especially how they praise the
great, good and noble Louisiana lot
terry. 1t is, of course, unnecessary to
say that no such person as Wolfe r..
Hartman ever lived here, and also the
Pomona banks say no lottery money
over $50 has ever come here. It is a
lying advertisement of the lottery COM
pany. Some of the California news
papers receive pay for publishing such
lies to catch the public every month.
In some States it is against the law to
publish any lottery it ought to be so
here.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09
PUBLIC SALE.

By virtue of the power in me vested by
law and in pursuance to an order emanat-
ing from the Hon. o. b. Steele, Auditor OF
Public Accounts for the State of Louisiana
1 will proceed at the Court House door in
the town OF Opelousas, La, ON
Wednesday, January 9th, 1892,
at IL o'clock a. M. TO sell at public auction,
through . duly qualified anctioneer the
following described property, to-wit:
Section No. Sixteen in Township No six
South Range No. one west in the Parish of
ST. Landry, Louisiana.
Said property will be sold on the follow
ing terms and conditions, viz: One-tenth
thereof cash ON the day of sale the balance
in nine equal annual instalments from
the day OF sale, represented by notes of
like amount, bearing each eight per cent
yearly interest from day of sale till paid,
to be executed by purchasers with person
al security in solido; said notes made pay
able to the Auditor of Public Accounts,
and shall be secured by special mortgage
on the land sold.
In the event of the purchaser neglecting
or refusing to pay any of these instalments
or interest at maturity the mortgage shall
be forthwith closed and the land re-sold.
The interest ON all the notes to be paid an
nually. The land will be sold in lots ac-
cording to a plat, which will lie exhibited
on the day of sale.
J.J.TH0MPSON.
dec26-5t Parish Treasurer.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09
State Democratic Committee.

: =
The following resolution was adopted by
the anti-Lottery Democratic State eonyen-
ton at Baton Rouge:
Resolved, That the Democratic State
Executive Committee be formed to consist
of twenty-five members to be appointed
at large by the chairman of this convens
one, and one.member be appointed by each
delegation in the convention for each par
ish. Parishes not represented to elect a
member through the parish committee,
and in Orleans one member from each
ward to be elected by the mother club in
each ward recognizing the authority Of
this convention.
Resolved, That said committee thus or
ganized shall assemble as soon as practi-.
cable after tsae adjournment of this con-
Vention on the call of the president
of this convention, and shall issue
an address to the citizens of this
State, and through them the Democracy
of the Union explaining the state of politi-
cal affairs in this State, and said
committee shall superintend the re-,
organization. of the party through
out the State, in the various parishes
thereof, and shall take general charge of
the campaign with full power and authori-
ty incident and usual to such bodies, and
with authority to ell vacancies among the
members atlarge, other rvacancies to be filled
by the local authorities and also to fill any
vacancies that may occur in the State
ticket, from death or resignation.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09

trade and the magnificent sum of 100000
year in the city treasury to be spent by
the lottery hoodium combine for drainage,
and about GOO in the hands of a School
Board, appointed and controlled by the
same political combination And this is to
be purchased by asking from the pockets
of each of you at the rate of $500 per an
mum, or $4,000 in twenty-five years, a small
fortune for each of you-and transferring
it to the pockets of Mr.. Morris and his as
sociates
If you are sensible man in business
these figures must show you why trade is
dull, how you are losing customers, and
how you are being deprived of business adj
vantages. The remedy for the discontinue
ance of this evil is in your own hands.
Register and get your friends to register
Immediately, and vote for the anti-lottery
delegates at the primary election on Nov.
10. Do not let the lottery beguile you into
voting for McEnery delegates or any other
delegate on personal grounds. That is a
trap which they are setting to catch you in.
These so-called McEnery delegates, whom
they ask you to vote for, are either lottery
men, or professed and pretended anti-lot-
terry men, who will vote TO keep the lottery
question out OF the Democratic conven-
ton. With no anti-lottery plank in the
platform, the minority of lottery Demo-
Gratis will then unite with the negroes un-
der the leadership of Herwig and Pinch
back, two of the unnamed associates of
Morris. as the lottery people always have
done in the past, and vote for the amend
ment at the April general election. The
anti-lottery league in your ward will nom
mate candidates for delegates, each of
whom will be true man, pledged to vote
for the insertion of an anti-lottery plank
in the Democratic platform, and by thus
binding the Democraticsparty as whole
against the amendment we will defeat it
in April, and the enormous sum of $1,7S1-
600 of John A. Morris and his six associates
will go into the retail trade of our city, and
the pockets of our honest tradesmen to the
extent of nearly 5000 year for each and
every one, or $4,000 during the twenty-five
years, thus benefting them and giving
their customers food, raiment, necessities
and comforts, instead of making them,
their wives, children and servants lottery
fends, embezzlers, thieves and gamblers.
This is strictly business, and as business
man, we ask your earnest and thoughtful
consideration of the subject and then, see
to it that you register, and when registered,
get a ticket for delegates from your ward
anti-lottery league and vote it. Get all
your friends, relations and customers who
desire to aid you in your business to do the
same.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09

NOTICE.--Land Office at New Orleans,
Dec. 12, 1891 IN office is hereby given that
the following gnamed settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in sup
port of his claim, and that said proof will
be made before the Judge or Clerk of Dis
triet Court at Opelousas, on Monday, JAM
uary 25th, 1892, viz: Louis Chariot who
made homestead entry No. 9265 for the
.SEA sec. q, Tp7 s, R3E, La mer. He
names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation
OF, said land, viz: Isidore Richard, Numa
Richard, jules Miller, Honore Meche. all
Of st. Landry parish, La
CHARLES G. PALFREY,
dec1e ct Register.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09

NOTICE.-U. S. Land Office, New Or
leans, La, December IA, 1891 Complaint
having been entered at this office by Don
abandoning his Homestead Entry n o. 10344,
dated March 2, 1888, upon the N u of SW1&
Section 10, Township s., Range 2 W., in
ST. Landry parish, La, with view to the
cancellation of said entry, the said parties
are hereby summoned to appear at Office
of Register and Receiver e.. Land Office,
n. o., La, on the ID day of February, 1892,
testimony concerning said alleged aban-
donment GHAS. G. PALFREY,
dec19 st Register
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09
Public Sale.
ESTATE OF zELIEN vIDRINE DECD.

y
BY virtue of an order of the Honorable
18th Judicial District Court of the State of
Louisiana, in and for the parish of ST Lam
dry, there will be sold at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, by the under
signed administrator or by some public
drine in Vile Plate prairie, on
Wednesday, january 18th, 1892.
the following ssoperty belonging to the
estate of zelien vidrine deceased, to-wit
One sorrel horse, one COW and calf, one
yearling calf. one lot of about five head Of
hogs, farming implements, buggy and har-
ness one wagon, forge and blacksmiths
TOOLS lot of household furniture, kitchen
barrels of corn, one saddle, and many 9TH
er things too numerous to mention.
Terms-Gash.
FABIUs VIDINE,
jan2-2t Administrator
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09
Democratic Platform

4
Adopted by the anti-Lottery Democratic
convention at Baton Rouge:
The Democracy of the State of Louisiana
in convention assembled do hereby de-
clare:
| l. Their allegiance and support of the
4 time-honored principles of the Democratic
/ party, which form the foundation of free
government and the safeguard of the lib
critics of the people.
| 2 They congratulate the Democrats OF
| their State and of the other States on the
results of the recent Congressional and
State elections as evidencing the growth
| of Democratic doctrine and the confidence
of the people therein.
g. They gratefully acknowledge the skill
| ful and effective labors of minority in
| the last Congress in defeating the odious
and undemoeratic force bill.
| 4. They congratulate the people of Lou
isiana on the wise, careful and economic
administration of her State affairs under
| the leadership of her present executive,
Francis 7. Nichols and his colleagues IN
office
s. The finances Of the State have been
restored to sound basis and there is an
accumulation of $4,000 in the treasury.
The parish debts have been largely re-
duced and in many Instances extinguished.
The Ieyees of the State have been rebuilt
and enlarged, and made stronger than ever
before. The State charitable institutions
have been greatly enlarged and improved,
the school system has been improved and
extended, the present condition of the
State exceeds in property and promise of
future improvement any previous era in
her history since the war.
6. The Democratic party Of this State
can thus claim that through its admins
tration and by the observance of the par
TVS principles the State has beeu placed
upon the high road of general and indi-
vidual prosperity To continuance of
this beneficent policy we pledge our nomi-
nees.
I. A single obstruction now stands in the
way of the progress of the State. An
amendment to the State Constitution is
proposed whereby its revenue shall be
largely derived from the lottery. Such
means of raising revenues are at variance
with the civilization of the age and in OPP
cratic principles
8. Demanding equal rights to all and
special privileges to none, we hereby re-
affirm our uncompromising hostility to the
entire principle of lottery gambling as de-
nounced in the State Democratic platform
of 1883. We denounce the proposed
amendment to our State Constitution to be
submitted to the vote of the people April
next, as concession to monopoly
wholly undemocratic and its adoption
destructive of our liberties No Democratic
platform should be adopted which does
not condemn and denounce all lotteries
until they have ceased to exist in Louisi-
ana; nor should any Democrat vote for
any State, Legislative or Judicial officer
who is not unalterably opposed to lotteries
and pledged to promote the passage of
laws which will secure their suppression.
8. To the maintenance of these principles
and policy this convention pledges its
united and undivided support, and conf
IDENTIFY appeals to the Democrats of Lou
isiana to move on in-solid phalanx to as
sured victory.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09
SCRoEUlA

disease than all other medicines put to-
gether. Don't suffer longer, but give this
remedy trial. IF it did not excel in
curative virtue the many socalled blood
medicines that are commonly found in
drug stores, we would never spend one
cent to advertise it. Our object is to re-
lieye suffering humanity, and every bottle
sold proves this to be fact. Mrs. Robert
A. White, Of Carrollton, KY, writes
aTinherited scrofula. The disease did not
develop until after I was married. The
glands of my neck became and remained
swollen and gave me great pain. I had mis-
erable health and looked consumptive.
began use OF DIR. Bulls Sarsaparilla, and
before had used dozen bottles the swell
ings disappeared and gained in flesh, and
I am now In splendid health thanks to this
one remedy alone. =
Alfred Connors, Memphis, Tenn, writesk
. was born an invalid. From my earliest
recollection I suffered from eczema NV
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-01-09
Proceedings Of the Farmers's Union.

Proceedings Of the Farmers's Union.
| VILE PLATE, Nov. 20, 1891.
The Parish Union of st. Landry met this
/ day at Vile Plate, with President A. l.
Fontenot in the chair.
The doorkeeper, Bro. j. P. 0rtego, having
! departed this life since our last meeting,
| the President appointed Lucius Landre-
neau doorkeeper protein.
| The Chair appointed the following COM
mittee on credentials a. e. Arnold, Hyp-
olite Landreneau, r. Boudreau, Adelma
Guidry, G. w. Kelly, who in due course Of
time reported ss delegates duly elected
/ And on roll being called y delegates
and II officers answered to their names
The Union having been called together to
| adopt or reject the report OF the confer
ence committee.
The secretary read the report as signed
4 by both committees.
/ Bro Pat Donahy moved to adopt the re-
4 port as read.
Bro Mckinney moved to lay the report
on the table.
Motion to table lost and report adopted
4 as read
On motion Chataignier was selected as
/ the next place of meeting, at Attales Hall
/ On motion the Secretary was requested
4 to place upon the minutes the deep feeling
/ of regret of this, the Parish Farmers I'm
ion Of st. Landry, in the loss of two OF our
brother members since our last meeting,
Bro. Ernest Brignac and Bro. j. 2. Ortego.
/ Whereas, it hath pleased Almighty God
/ to remove from our midst our dear below
ed brothers Ernest Brignac and ]. p. Orte-
go, the fatal messenger Of death having
entered our portals and taken from our
| fraternal bond two of our most jealous
| and earnest workers;
Therefore, be it resolved that it is with
4 deep regret and profound humiliation that
we note the deaths of these two brothers.
/ Once more we are brought face to face
4 with a proof of mans mortality. Again
i we are reminded of the uncertainty of life,
i the immutable certainty of death. We are
! made to realize that in the midst of life We
j are in death. May we in the hour of chas-
j tening and trial, lift our hearts unto God
i the Father, the Author and Finisher Of ev-
ery good and perfect gift, and with humil-
4 itg bow in humble submission to the will
4 of Him that doeth all things we'll The
/ usual badge of mourning to be worn for 30
i days.
Il On motion the Union adjourned to meet
Il at Attales' Hall, in Ghataignier, the fourth
/ (41 Wednesday in January, 1892.
G. w. WARD,
! Secretary Parish Union