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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
ALLIGATOR SHOOTING.
An Exciting Sport UL:ch Il Pursued In
.1arN.c~S.

An Exciting Sport NI:ch Il Pursued In
DarH.e~s.
MIR. Kirk Munroc describes in the
Cosmopolitan a canoe trip in company
with two young Seminole Indians. Mic
cochee and kowil;a. who were engaged
In their regular occupation Of hunting
alliGators for their hides. The canoe
was duGout. made by Miccoehee him
self out of huge cyprus log The trio
made camp late in the afternoon, and
after awhile Mr. Munroc discovered
what he had not before suspccted-that
the hunting was to bc done ut night.
Darkness had hardly fallen before
the believing Of alliGators was heard
a sound riuch like the roar of an angry
ball Niccochcc listened with evident
satisfaction. "Allapatta Plcnty. Nc
catch 'em, Uncah"'
We had killed five Of the monsters
when we turned our Prov up stream
Miccochee welded his push pole from
the stern, KowilSa sat in the middle Of
the canoe. while |, with jack light on
my head and rife in hand, occupied the
position OF honor in the bow.
nc alllTIlCTS Ilslu Cct>Su tltiT i-luo-
tcrings and had begun to think that
wc had killed or frightened them az.
Just then I was startled by slight
motion on the bank but few yards
away at the same instant two Goals
Of fire Cleaned through the blackncss.
What could they be? ! was about to
speak. when sharp hist from be-
hind tod me that the moment for
action had come. Taking u hasty aim
at one of the lurid Goals, fired.
The report of the rife was followed
by such n wild rush into the water. such
whirling and splashing, such showers
Of spray and bloody foam that it was
as if small cyclone had been dropped
from the heavens into that quiet spot.
Little Kowilla screamed in his excite
mcnt. but Miccochec only expressed his
displcasurc at my bad shot by mutter-
ing: "Ho-le-wa-gus! Heap bad!"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
VETERANS PASCING AWAY.
In Forty Years There VIII re Few Sur
Wv ~ of the Civil War.

Interesting il connection with the de-
rartment caoampment is the report of
the medical director. DR.. j. X. Hayes.
in part as follows, says the Washington
Post:
Our annual death rate EQUALS 2.75
per cent. of the whole number in the
Grand Army Republic in this depart
ment. This is equivalent to death rate
of twenty-scven in a Thousand, larger
death rate than usually pertains to any
given number of people. Our band of
nearly 4.CoO is being rapidly mustered
out. and if we apply the simple rules of
arithmetic, and provided that we re-
cruit no ncrc, in the year 1859 not one
of orr 1900 would be alive to tell the
story Of the past.
I'VE are dying faster than any other
class of our population, because out of
the 1900 in our organization more than
onc-half are daily suffering from loss of
limbs, from wounds, injuries and disa-
bilities contracted during the war. Re-
suits of prisOn-life and the exposure and
deprivation incident thereto now cause
more suffering than the bullet. Lossof
limb shorter5 the life, but the rheu-
matisn and scurvy contracted in prison
also yearly call for their premature vic
tins. Premature aging of all The or
gans. diminished vital resistance to all
disturbing causes. and more especially
diseases of the heart, now SO Affirming
ly present with many surviving COM
rades, are mainly due to the rheuHa-
tis-n and scurvy OF prison life.
Il have never seen survivor from
the prison at An lerso-ville, Ga, that
did not have disease of heart in some
form or other. So, taxing our little
band of 1000 toIay, in about forty
years all who have lost limbs or been
seriously wounded or suffered the hard
ships and horrors of prison life will
have passed away"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
UNDERGROUND aVALANCHES.
isriGcnocs OF Su5:e-raneaa ColvS.sion
Aaoa. tho !. s1ntsins OF Penniyl yania.

EriGcnocs Of Sub:e-ranean ColvG .sions
A-noa. tho i. s-ntsins OF Penny yania.
The curious phenomenon formerly
exciting the wonder OF peoplcliving in
the vicinity of Thick LEAD and Sand
mountains, south OF 1usseyville, Cen
ter county, Pa, when has not been
noticed for five years. has made its pres
encc known again. For twelve years, at
irregular intervals, the jewellers in that
part of Center county had been dis
turbed by loud and mysterious noises
which came from the ground between
the two mountains named. In the
spring of 1883 these noises were heard
daily, with increased volume. for a
week. The noises. according to the
Chicago Herald. were sometimes like
the rumble of distant thunder and then
like the deadencd crash of thunder
heard in the air close by. On the sew
enth day of this protracted disturbance
beneath these two mountains a resi-
dent of Tusseyville was climbing
Thick Head mountain, when the
rumbling began in the mountain op-
posite. At first it was deep and low,
and it increased in violence until it be-
cane as the tuInult of mass of rock
rolling down a mountain side. The
person who heard the sounds said that
they convinced him that they were
caused by a subtcrrancan avalanche,
as it began ut the very top of the
mountain, increasing in violence and
speed as it went down, and terminal
ing IN terrible crash at the bottom.
After that day the Thick Head noises
ceased, and were not heard again until
week ago, when they BEGAN just as
they had terminated in a ,imilar sub
tcrranean land or rock slide, except
that this time the hidden avalanche oc-
CURED somewhere in the depth of
Thick Head mountain, instead of in
Sand mountain. In Potter county, Pa,
between Roulette and Burtville, is a
hill in which rumblinrs of the same
nature are heard at IRREGULAR inter
walls. This elevation is called Thunder
hill, and it rises from the south banl,
of the Allegheny river. The noises
that occur in this hill sometimes make
the earth trcmble for long distance
around. and they have been heard for
a mile away. The theory of local saw
ants is that strong vein of natural gas
undcrEes the hill, and that when the
great retort is disturbed by some IN
derrround convulsion it rises in it's
might and tuInblcs rocks and things
around in the confines of the hill until
everything huns. Still no one has con-
fdence enough in this theory to hand
out the money that is being asked for
to send n drill down into the alleged
gas caullron, let out its treasure and
make everybody in that bailiwicli rich.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
spry Old Name People.

Maine is noted for her hale and spry
old people. EI-Cov. C-rsel9l. in Lew
iston. eirhty-ive years old. is an active
rider and driver Cd fist horses. Of which
his stables contain tyvcnty-shrcc fine
animals. Mrs. Jonathan Dow, of Deer
Isle. eighty years old, has knitted forty
pairs of stockings and woven two hun
Gred yards Of rag carpeti2g and one
hundred yards of cloth during the past
season in old moments snGtched from
her general housewor.S and the care OF
q &c * of hens. Mrs. Joanna Bunker,
Of Nest Trenton, eichty-scvcn years
ed, hes jaSt finished 4 v'asstco2t which
.nAe cut ard made without the use Of
.11asscs. Mr. Robbins, also of Deer
6lc is scven.y-six. and. last year,
etlcs doing much repairing to
66iclcs. be made all the woodwork fer
- carts, one jigGer. g 6orble-seated
TO ar! horse sled
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
A Bright Lad.

There is one Belfast (Me.) youth who
will make general some day. II h
properly develops his natural traits as
they appear at present He is but three
years and eight months old, but showed
engineering skill in getting out of q
scrape last week that few big boys
would have equaled. While at play in
a camp with some other boys he was &C.
cidentally locked in, and his comrades
all went off to school. Finding himself q
prisoner. instead of sitting down and cry
fng our you1gseer first bui)4up the arti-
lcles in thelSRom until he could reach
Ia windoy. VI ich he promptly smashed.
Next he threw out the various, articles
(which he gould lift until the pile out
side was y ithin safe dropping distance
from the window, when he climbed out
and dropped to the pile. lie was near
ly two hours doing the work. but says
he wasn't going TO take any chances of
breaking his meek by jumping from that
h;,r;, window.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
Eeecher.s Cavorisc Soy.

A correspondent of the st. Louis
bc-Dcmocrat' relates what he de-
clares was Henry Ward Eccchers
favorite story. which he never tired of
telling II may have been told before.
1t WAS the story of travelling man
who went 10 church one Sunday and
fell asleep during the services After
the preacher finished his discourse he
requested al! those who wished to 60
to i.cavcn to please stand up and Ill
arose but the travelling nan. An on
lady in sitting down accidentally
brushed Up ;:~c:nst the travelling man
and wo,:c him up Just then the
preacher caid. "All thosc that wiah to
60 to hell plca:c sta-d up" ard the
travelling nan. scarcely awake and rot
knowing what the audience uos doing.
stood up He looked around in q hall
dazcd way ard saw no one else but the
minister standing. Iut be finally said
"Parson. | Goa't anCw what You arc
voting OF bnt you and scera 20 be IL
e hopeless minority"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
TcRRl CcNNE'S SALAMANCA.
Wo-Gcr'rl Snake Charming by an Old
NeSr, vood1o ..oIaaa IL Louisiana.

Wc-dcr-rI Snake Charming by an Old
NeSr, vood1o ..oiaaa IL Louisiana.
A.raSed negroes Of great rcpu:c as
'.vocdoo," or witch doctrcss, anonC the
negroes OF this section, writes a CORE
spon;lcnt from Tcrre Bonnie, La, &c
cortl;ng TO the Chicago Times, il attract
ing much attention, not Only from
those of her own color, but from the
IT2orc intelligent portion Of the COM
niuniiy, and the way in which she does
this is to apparently swallow a nurl-
Der ofs-s.nalI snakes of n variety IN
-lss6wn in this section. They arc of q
drs,1y cclcr. nearly black. pied with q
dull green about the Fat head, and Of Il
dirty white in the belly. These rep
tiles remain sccrcted about old Nance's
cabin until she gives peculiar whi3-
ting call, when they will como to her,
v'riggling in greet haste over The floor,
up her dress. and run into her open
mouth. kissing hideously. They t.isap-
pear and remain hidden sometimes for
minutes She asserts that they are con-
cealcd in her stomach until size recalls
them, when they will come pouring out
to vsrithc about her scraggy neck and
coil in her bosom.
Where the snakes really go when
they vanish in her mouth Is mystery
and has puzzled all the physicians
about, many having come from New
Orleans to witness the phenomenon.
Come really believe that the snakes do
go down into the stomach, while others
ere convinced the witch is simply play
ing some Straightforward tricl; on them,
hut il the latter is the ease it is 50 clcv-
criy doae that there is no detecting the
Performance.
The witch presents Z most ez:traor,li-
nary and hideo-s appearance sitting
with the snakes darling their fiat heads
il AID out of her tootlless mouth, with
their little bcad-iilie eyes shipping as If
in fiery all about their mistress. AS
nearly as they can b. counted there
are six or seven of these reptiles,
though old Nance says there ere many
mere. but they are all SO rluch OF 9 size
and color shat they Cannot be identified.
They are probably of harmless
nature. though old Ealcc declares they
are highly poisonous End no one wish
es to experiment with them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
Engineering Skill.

Speaking CT the remarkable feats Of
marine engineers. the Marine Journal
recalls the achievement of Richard
Peek. who at ore time had charge of
the single engine of the old City of Vera
Cruz corning up from Havana South
Of iiGtteras the piston rod went TO
Smash. breaking into three pieces But
Peek, after twen;y-four hours of con-
tinrous labor. actually rended that
piston so that it was strong and true
enough to 90 its part with the rest of
the I2aehinery. and he brought his ship
into Ne"g York harbor steaming six
knots. This was a decd which, in the
opinion of the Boston Journal. quite
eclipses even the recent notable per-
formanccof Engineer Torlliason, OF the
irah-is
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
our FOsCSTS.
Statistics Cisp-ore the E:unnrs That They
Arc yisaDccario;.

Statistics Cisp-ove the E:urnnrs That They
Arc disappearing.
According to some facts and figures
presented by Henry Gaanctt in q
recent issue IN the New York Sun
there is to-day nearly if not quite as
great an area of woodland in the
United States as when the white man
set foot on our shore. There are
not so rany square miles of mer-
charitable timber now as then, but
the territory occupied By growing trees
is about as extensive as it was four
hundred year AGO, and these trees will
in time grow to sic suitable fer the
production of lunbcr. Some Of Mr..
Gannctt's statements arc quite incon-
sistent with the general belief that
American forests are giving out He
says. for~ins :acce. t,Iat ouly about two
hundred and seventy thou and square
miles. or less than olc-tertl the area
of the country. is artiicially cleared
land. while to OF set this loss there has
in recent years ben great extension
of wooded ianl in :, prairie states as
well as in Some OF the natural tree
growing states. a table is published
showing the total area Al .hc wooded
area of each Gtlt,. the i,urcs having
been Obtained from reports of the CEN
sus and agricultural departments, from
oi.i.ial surveys and in few cases from
careful estimates AS n grand result
it is shown that the wooded area in the
United States. excluding A,a"l:a. is
nearly one million ore br-,!red and
thirteen thou; IL ! square r:ilcs-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
EVERY S-V-,I YEARS.
Curious Eei.ef in Cc-ard to Physical
Ee.cncra. ION.


II is surprising how r1ary people be-
lievc that the entire body of Il man is
renewed every seven years exactly.
says the st. Louis Globc-Der1ocrat.
This used to be tauyit il books. and,
although not orthodox now. is still ac-
ceptcd as gospel By many. TO show
it's inaccuracy one has only to hit u
rail on his finer hard enough. for in
that Gaze the injured object will come
of and be replaced by an entirely new
nail.
II this process occupied seven years
such an accident would be very tire
oornc AFFAIR. bat. as any mechanic will
tell you. it occupies few weeks. The
growth is more rapid il summer than
winter. but never taking more than
four months. SO far as tiIc nails are
concerned. then. the renewal process
is repeated about twenty-one times
during the rc-u,atior cevcn years. and
tn theory r thus destroyed, even if nc
other proof VI It's fal1ity were forth
coming
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
FOOD.
Io1ukc3 Nd Gold ON Tar on the Time,
- --..-L zIGLSDl isiy.r. aiasr-, - .

Il
{. $50 iSkoi River. Alaska.
4. r DsEi.cs. a recent visitor in San
:Frl ncisp gives the Cau graphic &C.
no,sh df<lic prizes current for ordinary
eouffelitirs on the upper Yukon river.
BfF according ID the Call, Just re-
U166t frDn that corrtry, where. he
S;t<.t3 trcre were over one hundred
51eE .Ncri duricg TIE last summer
r7uSt god frcn the river bars and
{Iff ne majority OF them viii winter
&, corE:-y
&. II tell you, | arr glad to ret
civilization a-ai,i." he said.
1s plentiful: in fact il is an ordi-
( zt 1ck tcra mgl to wach out from
|1c h to sixty dollars q day, bit n
ecs 81 that II live anyway COM
e In that country. aid be has but
.]|24 70 snow after 4 season of hard
~ asa left that country trader
a ~ snail stock Of goods YVES making
{ ~ up TIE river frCm some Of the
tr1ding points in canoe. In
ne had several cf them loaded with
llpnS He was assisted in his jour
~ half dozen Indians.
e sii, when be left, after selling cut
<Sf[sees, he hal about all the gold
<1c miners had washed out in four
E,ont:,s CT steady wcr,:.
ran short Of provisions, and had
3z1tcd Gu bear r2c:t and otkcr game
t41s that we willingly parted with
a1<f all we had to get some civilized
81 '<>.csl. this traacr-h;s name was En-
(se--sold the several sacks CT spuds
"a with him at the rate of from
<f1< 70 fifty cents per potato.
5393 four sold fer twenty dollars n
1l<;< md we were just glad enough to
Fz5 Qre dollars pound fer the very
1cetczt quality Of tea he hal with him.
<*1A he'd several sides Of bacon in his
Hto>k. which he disposed of at about
enc dollar Z slice. few sacks of the
(|91Rscl bean brought one dollar q
Ne had been out of tobacco for near
{t7o months. and had Drawn but lit
eolace cut Of pipcfuis Of dried leaves
and moss. When this fellow appeared
~ 't!sc>ssenc we too. hirl 20 cur hearts
~ q fc1eiactor end gave hi.n ounces of
'RoIdEsf pfcgs Ct to6lcco. An ounce of
gold bring sixteen dollars in Alaska
a4d nirctcca dollars at the mint here.
..jE.t.'S'c bought hunGredweight of on
Ions, Tor which we were assessed SIX
ounces of gold.
II tel yol w,!at. we po=red ont the
dust upon that fellow Enmons, and he
bad so rnu"h of it don't tlinll | would
Iketo tal:e the contract to pack it from
he-e to TIE city hall.
.:You rluss net t.linl, from this APP
rai,i1g price list that we were starving
40 dcasA. We had plenty of game and
'f>i,. hat that kind of grub pals on the
appetite"
<sIac boys" however. appear to have
r,Edc money on the Yukon river bars.
Mr.. Miles states th2: all of them have
s'sta.ee3," Ind he came down to Victoria
,vith several Of then who lad cleaned
mp" from twelve thousand dollars to
twcrty-eight thousand dollars apiece.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-01-05
Board of School Differs
.
land OF THE
Fifth Dist. Levee Board

Reaching everys home in
the parish, it is am excellen
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-17
TALK,

Mrs. Henpeck-It's no use talking. Henpeck (meekly)-Then what do you do it for.-Syracuse Post. 7 '[.. i
 There is a sweetness in a woman's smile at dry goods store that her husband never sees.-Atchison Globe.
 Photographer-Her a picture of your wife I took to-day. II call it a speaking likeness. Husband--It must be, if it is anything like her.--Tam- many Times. 3$s.f
 Little Girl-Won't you please have an ambulance sent to that. empty barn? Policeman-Certainly, miss who's hurt |? Little Girl-Nobody yet, But the boys is going to play circus. .-G food News.
 Practical Father--If he says he loves you suppose he does, but can he sup port you? Daughter--Why, papa! You must know that 1t wasn't his fault that the chair broke.-New- York Weekly.
 Taking him down peg. -Chollie Cil- ley Dorothy Bronson is nothing to me. Constanc& Glover (sar- castically)-Oh, you can't tell, She may change her mind.-Kate Fields Wash ington. = 4sts ;sy ,a as,
 Among the important bills passed by this congress is one providing a foghcrn for Kewannee, Wis. KewAnnee youths may not all get to West Eoint but they can study under 6 tooter Minneapolis Journal. sg53 ss 5sss @ Miss Columbia. -fIowsis stY Lord yruff-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-17
BH-L1WS TS. RIGHTS,

It appears that plan has been formed which, if carried out, will effectually and permanently dispose of the most interesting and significant phenomenon connected with the annual meetings of the stockholders of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company? Under the new bylaws Brother Goodwin of East Hart ford, representative of himself and of the rights of stockholders, will no longer be able to ask pertinent or inn pertinent questions at the annual meet ings. The new bylaws deprive stock holders of the right to- elect the pre- siding officer of the meeting and de- clare that "the president shall pre- side" and they virtually prohibit all discussion. They require as first in order a vote for the election of directors and auditors, Cor rather for the re- election of the existing directors and such auditors as they may nominate and print on the same ticket with themselves) and they permit no criti- cism of the management of the direc- tors either before or after their re- election.
 We do not want to see these annual meetings lose the little spice and free dom they have had. For more years than we care to remember Brother Goodwin has been a gaunt and heroic figure at those meetings. He has stood up manfully for his own rights and the rights of all stockholders. He has not been appreciated even by those whose rights he has tried to maintain. He might fltly have been made direc- tor in the company. for he has done good service. and we hoped he would be. If he and precious rights of stock holders are now to be completely ex- tinguished by bylaws it is both sad and OminOuS,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-17
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-17

She-Did you see Fanny at the hotel? He-Of course. She-What did she wear? He-She wore me out trying to get a chance to propose to her.-Detroit Free Press.
 No matter how inexperienced a house keeper the young bride Is she never goes to a bake-shop to try to buy some sweetbreads more than once in her ca reer.-Somerville Journal.
 What have you got in folding beds?" asked the customer addressing the fur niture salesman. "Got one of our clerks in one, and they are just trying to get him out."-New York Press.
 McSwatters - Where's Hoboo now? He was always wanting to run over everybody. McSwitters-Well, he's full filling his ambition. He's a motor man on trolley car.-Syracuse Post.
 He-Can I see Miss Smith? Servant (who knows him)-No, sir; she's out He-Out where? Out with some other fellow? Servant-No, sir; she's out with you, sir. That's what she told me, sir. -:retroit Free Press
 First Anarchist-I am tired of life, und want to die. go me out and kill a mayor or governor, or something's, so I get executed. Second Anarchist-You dake my advice, and don't kill no mayors or governors. Dey will take two or three years finding out if you are zane enough to hang. Shust you drive up to Shantytown and run ofer a pigg. Den you got shot right away.-New York Weekly.