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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-04-16

Consolidated Union No. 674.-Ovide
Guidry president, w. G. Miller vice-presi
dent, Adolphe Gufdry secretary, Benjamin
Guidry lecturer Adelma Guidry assistant
lecturer, Lymal Domingeau treasurer, Fer
dinand Isringhausen chaplain, Auguste
Royer doorkeeper. Alcee Potter assistant
doorkeeper, Joseph N. Richard sergeant-at,
arms.
!. Fairview Farmers Union No. $50 st
Landry Parish, Louisiana, meets at Belle
vue church, first Saturday in each month
NJ Rs5Wilson president, J. P. Smith vice
president, H. C. Peckham secretary, Jules
Boutte treasurer, A. J. Morgan chaplain
j. s. Hazelwood lecturer, j. Z. Daily door
keeper.
Wont Die Union No. 5f3 meets the
second and fourth Saturdays of each month
at Holly Grove school house. c. w. Ward
president, Big Cane p. o.; d. ]. Fogleman,
secretary, Morrow T. o., La.
Grand Coteau Union No. 73S meets
the second Saturday of every month, at
2p M, at Merry Makers Hail. }. u. Gull
beau president, J. j. Barry secretary.
Opelousas Union No. 451 meets every
other Saturday at A p. M, in Chachere's
Hall. George Pulford, president; s. NJ. Pc
ters, secretary.
Harmony Union No. 664 meets at Big
Cane the first and third Saturdays of each
month, J. A. Boyd president, w G. Flesh
man secretary.
Independent Union No. 7S4 meets 1st
and I'd Saturdays of each month, at Bou-
dreaux' school house, Plaquemine Ridge;
A. Going president, Paul Foster secretary
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-04-16

Some of these little proprietors Of sarsa-
parillas put up in half-pint bottles are en-
vious of the increasing popularity of DR..
John Bulls Sarsaparilla, put up as it is In
large quart bottles, and intimate that theirs
is more concentrated. This is as false as
deceit can be. A teaspoonful Of Bulls
Sarsaparilla contains more concentrated
medicinal virtue than tablespoonful OF
times tin ] the curative @ virtue q bottIe any
other blood purifier made. No exception
is made. Now an invalid wants his
moneys worth. He wants good measure.
Therefore, unless misled through igfior-
aEce, when his system needs blood puri-
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-04-16
"The Devil to Pay"

The phrase, "The devil to pay" is
not SO profane in its origin nor so IL
legitimate as some might suppose. In
every printing office is youthful
specimen of humanity who cannot be
understandingly designated to the
craft with borrowing the Plutonic ap-
pellative. The phrase in question
doubtless originated in a printing-of-
fee on the occasion of the Saturday
nights settlement of weekly accounts.
The publisher, with scant purse,
receives the ominous call of his fore
man.
1Well, John, how is it? What must
! pay you tonight? ?"
"Typus wants five dollars, and
Shootingstick wants four and Column
rule says he must have seven"
"You'll clean me out entirely. My
subscribers haven't done a thing at
paying up this week. But, let's see.
Yes, here's the money"
"And, sir, l should like a few dol
lars to myself"
"That's bad. But here you have it
all I've got"
But, sir, you forget-there's the
devil to pay"
And can we wonder that thereafter
when the poor publisher wished to
particularly emphasize what he deemed
to be a perfect crush in the way of
business, he borrowed this significant
phrase?
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RuckIen,s Arniea SaIYe.

bUckIeH'S ArnICH SHIFes
The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe-
yer Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chill
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
F. E. Bailey, druggist.
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oPELoUsAs, La. SATURDAY, April. 1e 1892 "

est man in the United States. Mr..
Wheelock, with unparalleled audacity,
presented this sale to the then Secre-
/ tary of the Interior; and strange to
relate, it was allowed to be filed, and
has ever since, by Republican Secreta-
ries, been treated as valid transfer !;
and the last hours, yes, the last min
utes of the Republican administration
in March, 1885, were devoted to the
issue of patents to this N. 0. Pac. Co.,
the patents reciting that they were is
sued to the N. @. Pac. Co. as Assign
ees of the N. o., B. R. & V. r. r. Co.
under the Act of March Sd, 1871"
Thus it is seen that this Railway Co.
got no land under the Act of 1871. In
February, 1887, having aseertained that
they could not hold any land as against
the settlers, they brought to Congress
sufficient influence to obtain the
passage of the Act OF Feb. 9Th, 1887,
which by its title pretending to forfeit
the lands heretofore granted to the N.
O., B. r. & Y. R. r. Co., really attemp-
ted to give the lands to this n. O. Pac.
Co., and had the title to the lands been
in the United States, would have sue
ceeded, but the title being in the State
for the n. O., 0. & G. W. r. r., the
lands were thus saved to the settlers.
So decided Mr.. Noble, and SO will the
courts decide when the case shall come
before them.
1t will be seen that for many years
past the erecutive officers of the gov
ernment have tried to take these lands
away from the settlers and give them
to this Railway Co.; they have not
succeeded, nor will they succeed if Con-
gress does its duty instead of leaving
the matter to be settled in the courts
they will assert the powers OF gov
ernment as in duty bound and pass an
Act to forfeit the grant.
The settlers have no reason to be
alarmed the fight will actually COM
menee when they shall, under their
patents, attempt to eject settler from
his land. Protests have been filed with
the President. the Secretary of the In
terror (not the Assistant Secretary
and with the Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, reciting the facts and
giving a complete history of the yari
Gus attempts to defraud the settlers.
Respectfully yours,
GEO. o. ELMs.
Opelousas, La, April l1th, 1892.
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$500 REWARD

VIII be paid for Information that will
lead to the arrest and conviction of the
party who set fire to the store of Peter Van
hille & Brother, in Opelousas, on the night
of Feb 2Ist, 1892 7. s. F0NTENOT,
meh5 Sheriff
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-04-16

MANHATTAN 2G LOAN CoMPA-
NY.-Money to loan at 90 interest. For
particulars and loans, apply to
JN0. P. SAVANT, Agent,
mch2G 3m Whiteville, La
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Proceedings of the Board of Police of
the Twn of Opelousas.

March Tth, 1892
Members present: Robert Chachere pres
ident presiding E. j. Clements E. Latreyte
and J. b. Sandoz Quorum present Min
utes of the previous meeting read and ad-
opted. Street committee reported as fol-
lows:
To the Board of Police of Opelousas, La
Gentlemen: Your committee appointed
toascertain the probable cost of opening the
following streets, begs leave to report, that
to open street from Union to Lombardy
between the property of L. & l.. A. Sandoz
and ]. B. Sandoz, will cost about one hun
dred and twenty dollars, $120; to continue
Lombarky through Alfred Perry's land to
to Catholic church property, will cost about
thirty dollars, $50: to continue said Lom-
hardy street through Catholic property to
the northern limit of corporation, will cost
about one hundred and fifteen dollars
$115; or total of S265.
Respectfully submitted,
]. T. STEWART,
J. B. SANDoz,
OF Committee.
On motion of E. J. Clements, Esq, duly
seconded and carried, that the report be
received and the committee be discharged,
and that the board of street commissioners
be authorized to open such streets as they
may deem proper. The following bills were
read and approved:
The Sun Vapor Street Light Co for the first
months lighting service ..z.5.... $348 SO
OPP. Courier printg 1000 license blks 90
Walters Pierce Oil Co. j Dbl oil for
Market ..,z. 6 O6
B. f. Meginley sundries for Market 65
L. A. Sandoz ptg & bdg Market rcts so
J. T. Stewart lumber for bridges III 72 90
III. & Z. B. Chachere vaccine for town so
There being no further business the
Board adjourned subject to call.
ROBT. CHACHERE, President.
w. r, COCHRAN. Clerk.
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jana
PUBLIC SALE.
SUCCESSION or III. P. PENSIEGER.
No. G12, 18TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CoURT,
PARISH OF RAPIDEs, STATE
OF LOUISIANA,

By virtue of an order of the Honorable
18th Judicial District Court of the State OF
Louisiana, in and for the parish OF Rapides,
| will sell at public auction to the last and
highest bidder, at the front door of the
Court House In the town of Ope1onsas, on
Saturday, April 10th, 1902,
at ii o'clock a. m, the following described
property belonging to the succession of III.
P. Penninger, situated in the parish Of 81.
Landry, to-Wit:
A certain tract of land situated in the
parish of st. Landry, Louisiana, described
as the northeast quarter of the southeast
quarter, and northeast quarter Of south
west quarter, of section eleven, township
two south, range two west, containing eigh-
ty and 30I100 acres.
To be sold subject to appraisement in in
ventory.
Term-Cash.
T. s. FONTENoT,
mch12 Ct Sheriff Parish of ST Landry
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Having been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life, and served about four years,
am applying for pardon.
Feb. 13, 1892. JoE JOHNSON.
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oF oPELoUsAs, La,

STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Parish of ST. Landry.
I, ]. T. Skipper, cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
J. T. SKIPPER, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9th day of March, 1892. Isaac Roos,
Notary Public.
Correct-attest:
d. LATREYTE, 5B
julius MEYERS,
ANT. DIETLEIN. Directors.
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"a GOOD

der, when his system needs tonic, when
his system is breaking dowf, from blood
impurity or some wasting disease, he will
sarsaparilIa, and ofis no occasion be per-
suaded to take anything that may be off
cred in its stead as being .'just as good" !"
There is no other remedy SO good as Bulls
Sarsaparilla for such diseases as scrofula,
syphiiitic affections. salt-rheum, itch. ec-
Eema, pimples, sores, rheumatism, lama
back, swollen joints, aching muscles, nefv-
Gus weakness, nervous debility, loss Of
appetite, loss of flesh, loss Of strength,
eepIessness, premature old age, etc.
T. b. Woodruff, Jefferson vile, Ind, writes
81 For ten years bad been ap invalid. bk-
came chronic medicine tatef There is
that did not try. From none OF them did
derive any permanent good | became
discouraged. Ny system was full OF blood
with brown patches and little sores. My
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-04-16

Caledonia Union No. a63 meets the 1st
secretary's home. Rene Carriere president,
g. T. ST. Cyr vice-president, A. Valin secre-
tary, Mrs. A. Vaiin TREASURER, John Jen-
nings chaplain, Walter St Cyr lecturer, Ar
mand Carriere assistant lecturer, Gilmer
Sonnier doorkeeper, Albert Rider assistant
doorkeeper, Albert What1ey sergeant-at-
arms.
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Published Every Saturday by the
st. Landry Printing and Publishing Co.
OIMITED.)
Official journal Of the Farmers Unions
Or THE
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY.
Official Journal Of the Town Of OpelOusas
Official journal Of st. Landry Parish,
Resolutions Adopted by the Parish
Farmers Union, January 5, 1891.

Resolved, that this convention strongly
endorses the ST.. LANDRY CLARION and re
commend it to the public as reliable, un-
subsidized, honest local newspaper, ,devot-
ed to the interests of the people and hostile
to all monopolies;
Resolved further, that this convention
recommend and advise all the subordinate
Unions in this parish, to officially aid and
support the CLARION, and use their 1niiu-
ence to increase its circulation and patron
age. b.
Resolved further that it be selected as
the Official Organ of our Order in this par
ish
Whereas, the La State Lottery is trying
at the present time to subvert the wishes
of the people of this State, by mandamus,
and papers sent out by the Progressive
League, and also by subsidized press
owned ItJ nesn acting for or in the interest
of said lottery.. therefore, be it
Resolved, thaafee Farmers Union OF the
parish of st. Landryaat Turkey Creek as
sembled, do most sofumnly reiterate their
opposition to this hydra-headed monster,
and affirm most positively that we will not
support any papers in or out OF TINS State,
in favor OF the Louisiana or any other lot
terry, and that we will oppose with all our
manhood and energy the election of any
man to office in this State, or parish, who
is in favor of lotteries.
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MULES FOR SALE

About two miles west of Opelousas. Pri-
ces cheap Come quickly, before they are
all gone mt 1y. G. F. BURR
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C R RE n c Y E.
(a7O9.)
RACE RECORD 2:3sl

Sire of ''Rednlan Clay trial 2:s2. and
dlennie e. winner of 13 prizes in Kentucky
and Ohio show rings
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INVEST M EN1

muscles had lost their strength. Yves very
weak. My appetite and digestion wefe mis-
erable. / kept growing worse end worse
until began TO use DR.. Bulls safsapartlla.
then began te,aZ to rally at 9nss. arg grswS gssS
probably 80 bottles, and my impfotement
In looks and feeling is 30 great seem like
another person. I am now well and strong,
DIR. Bulls Sarsaparilla-'
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STATE TREASURY.
Cash Balances March 4, 1892, Over
$1,OOO,OoO, and a Surplus of
Over S5OO,OOO:

Below we give the cash balances ON hand
in the State treasury March |, 1892, as fur
nished by Treasurer W FL Pines.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-04-16

Ep Your children will be more healthy,
happy and pretty, II you occasionally give
them DR.. John Bulls Worm Destroyers.
Try them Price Is cents
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Wa5 Tot TuHg lIIIIe 4 suIleItI IIuIu
Female Weakness
HOODS Pulls cme all Liver MS.


+. B. Schemerhorn, geologIst, who
recently discovered the great glaciers
in Idaho County, has found fossil
forest in the center Of Cust1y County,
Idaho. In the same locality he has
discovered the petrihed bones of now
extinct race OF meu and animals,
which will be sent TO Chicago.
The forest an area Of four square
miles, and the condition Of the ground
shows that at one time an enormous
flow of clay which worked In from the
northwest buried the tree trunks 20
great depth. This clay has turned to
stone, and no one can ascertain its
true depth without going to great ex-
penSe. All the trees in this forest
have their tops broken off and stand
from ten to forty feet above the
ground, averaging about twenty eight
to the acre. Schemerhorn took the
exact measurement OF some Of the
trees and found them TO average
twelve feet in diameter on top and
sixteen feet in diameter at the sur
face OF the ground. How far the
trunk reached through the clay stone
TO Uhe soil he had no means Of ascer-
taiuing a branch which had be-
come detached from tree and WAS
lying about sixteen feet from it WAS
three feet in diameter From the
size Of the trees aud their branches
Mr.. Schemerhorn thinks they are a
species Of redwood, such as is found
In California, and attributes their
fossilization to the clay, which, bear
ing large part of mineral and pre-
sumably coming from some volcano,
soon turned the living trees into
monuments OF stone. San Francisco
Examiner.
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The Exact Tnne.

Pompey IS bright negro boy, EN-
p!oyed 10 do light work and run er-
rands in a boarding house He has
learned a good many things in the
course or his eight years OF life, but
the art Of read ng a clock face Is not
as yet completely under his control.
The expedients TO which he resorts
to conceal his ignorance on this and
other points are many and amusing.
"What time is it, Pomp?n asked a
young man, into whose room the boy
had brought hodful of coal, and who
had not vet got out of bed.
Pompey studied the clock-face anX.
iously for some seconds, and then said
In an ingratiating tone:
"It's one o. dem times dat l can
les perclsely maxi out what time il
am, Mist wilkins, sab. But one OBJ
De hands Is pintin' todes you. sab, an
lie udder is pintin' right todes me,
sab, an recken you know 'zactlY
what time dat am"
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DUCK SHOOTING

Al ducks are greV in tis dark,
might pass as a proverb with the fight
shooter who prnctises his sport at
night-fail. or with the punt-shooter
who works when the deeper shades of
night are on him, and at times can see
so little of the form and color of his
quarry that he points his great punt gun
towards, and fires at the mere souLd
of feeding wild fowl. The shooter by
daylight, however. needs to be some
thing of a field naturalist, and to know
a mallsrd or pin-tail from a scamp. a
smew, or a merganser. If he fail to
distinguish his ducks he may easily fill
his game bag with some OF the most
uneatable of winged creatures.
Duck are divided, not so much by
the naturalist as by the sportsman,
into two distinct kinds-.the diving
ducks, or those that seek their food at
the bottom OF the water; ard the non-
divers, or those which only dip their
heads beneath the water for food, but
not their bodies; or, if they dive. dive
but little way down. TIE divers
seem to find some very questionable
food in the muddy depths. for the
flesh of nearly all of them is fishy in
taste, tough, oily, and unfit for food.
Among the divers are the pochard, the
golden eye, the different kind OF
scoters, together with the smew, scaup.
and merganser above mentioned.
These ducks are all, as rule, fre-
quenters of the sea, and all except the
pochard nearly uneaiable; while the
surface feeding ducks-who are, II !
mistake not, eaters OF vegetable matter
onlY--haunt the sea occasionally, and
love best the river, the reedy pool, and
the marsh. The surface-feeding duck
comprise the NAL ard, or common viii
duck, the teal, sboveller and garganey,
the pintail and the widgeon-all birds
that give excellent sport in the marsh
and by the river side and make an ex-
cellent dish in the kitchen. From thia
latter point of view it may be remarked
that they probably owe their agreeable
flavor, not SO much to any intrinsic
culinary virtue of their own, as to the
fact that they feed on the wholesome
weeds that grow in fresh water; while
the non-cookable fowl feed on the
fshy, briny slime of the sea bottom.
In proof of which it may he observed
that the diving 20 hard is only good 10
eat when he resorts to fresh water, and
then he is very good; while the nom
diving widgeon loses OF fitness for the
spit or oven when he goes to sea, as he
is far too fond of doing.
There is no easier bird to approach
in his inland haunts and mono easier
to Kill flying, and none better 70 cook
and eat than the common wild duck.
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peaks, with inuttersd prayers and low
organs, they rode under the shadow of
Los Oreanos. Their bronze fsces
we're pale, and their lips trembled.
Polly leaned over the sharp rock.
Her yellow hair was blown by the
wind; her white arms and hands out
stretched. She sang song after song
with all the strength she could COM
mand. Her voice rose clear above the
moaning wind, and like the cathedral
singer fell in waves of harmony, as the
great organ pealed for thits notes.
Don Garcia saw the vision. With
bowed heads, they crossed them selves,
and muttered prayers, and dashed of
toward tie Rio Grande. Fainter, and
far away, the sound of their horse'r
feet grew 10 the camp.
Major Philander Young picked up
the "vision," in his arms and carried
her safely to the ground. "Yod are
splendid" he said, ''s darliDgl You've
saved our horses and the csmp"
When the Colonel rode into camp,
"daughter Poly" was sitting on tho
back of ber "blessed Cricket" talking.
laughing. crying and patting his neck,
the centre of an admiring group. In
one breath the story of the "banditti'
was told.
Didn't tell you that must hesi
the Great Spirit myself, and this was
the very day for the organ to play.
And to think l saved Cricket and heard
the musici and saw with my very own
eyes Don Garcia and his robber bandl
Oh, dearl what glorious day."
Never was there q merrler dinner on
Thanksgiving day. Never a happier
party three thousand miles from home
than these hun CRY boys, who dined un-
der the shadow of Los Organos,
with the Colonel's family.
Little brown piggy meekly sat on
his bed OF green-on a platter twice his
size, holding in his mouth branch OF
pale miseltoe. The turkey was perfec.
tion. The homemade iellies glorifed
the turkey, and biscuit glorihed the
whole.
The Major owns brown stone house
in Washington, d. c., and has given
to the "old boys" many royal Thanks.
giving dinner since that memorable
one in the land of sunshine, dust and
"bandltti."
Mrs. Polly Baker Young grsces her
husbands home with becoming dignity
at the Capital, hut declares no other
Thanksgiving can be equal to that
wonderful day in camp.
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GLEANINGS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.

The Brooklyn Rospit Il Tor Women
and Children has Board of sixty wo-
men managers, hospital staff OF
twenty-five physicians, and a training
school for women nurses. 1t is the
only hospital in Brooklyn where wo.
men are permitted to practise.
A rev Norwegian version Of the
Scriptures has just been published, the
work Of fifty years bestowed by the
most competent scholars in Norway IN
our day.
Three sealed vases full of gold coins,
said be of the Roman epoch, have been
found washed up from the Danube at
Orsova In Ssrvia after a storm. They
were found by an Austrian shipmaster,
but the Servians now claim them as
treasure trcve, and have made the mat.
ter diplomatic question:
A merchant in Germany has been
fined heavily for using a quotation
from the Bible to lead an advertise
ment.
Since the Frapco-Prrszian war Ger.
many has spent two thousand, two
hundred million dollars on her army
and navy.
Bricks made of plaster Of paris and
cork are now used in the construction
of powder mills. fn. case of explosion
They o,er slight re-is,ance, nII are
bIokeh to atoms.
"A Rns!:sh rail-ey carriage CON-
pany /. bl;.d-n. f., On Ind:an poien.
tate thr-e suo.,b railway Carriages,
when will con.Jtute pclace on wlee.s.
In thc fra=aewora Of each cafriAse ID 10
Ls ased $50 work. Of teaA, to resist tie
ravsges Of insects. Tie suit Of carri.
ages irclados day srd nignt apart.
meu.s for the prince and his retinue,
and also cuisine departmsni-the lat
ter having fsc,llues TO carry two tons
o. water und two ,ohs q iso,
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Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs Is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, it's
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand viii pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re syrup co.
SAY FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. ER. NEW YORK. ny