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Go TO Frost's Gem Saloon and ask
for the G. T. Beauregard's Favorite
C;rar. Try them and you will like
+bem. 1913 "a Pm.
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NOR THE ACCOMMODATIONS OF TRAY
IL ELLERS and transient visitors Laba-
dicville, Assumption Parish, La.
Prices, moderate and satisfaction guaran
teed. PROSPER VAIN
2'i0-'4-iN, Proprietor
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Judge l.. p. C~aillouet returned
home from Houma where he has been
holding Court on last Wednesday
evening.
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FOR SALE.

TyHE sMELROSE" PLANTATION II As
i sumption Parish, one mile above Laba-
dieville, in whole or in lots of one acre front.
For terms and particulars apply to
SIMON ABRAHAM, Raceland,
OF write to No. $50 Canal St, New Orleans.
S-11-'94- At.
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The sugar boilers must have been
sadly disappointed with Mckinley's
speech in New Orleans on last Satur-
day. Mckinley was careful to make
no promises i'll regard to sugar.
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M ANTED a GOOD WHITE COOK WITH
w out any children, French or English
speaking best references required.
Apply to: Il f. PEUFIER,
Rector st. Charles Parish, killona I. o., La,
6-30-94.
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Physicians highly recommend DR..
Sylyester's Specific for Bots, Coles and
Tympanites in Horses and Mules. For
sale at Tlibodeaux Drug Store.
l0-13-24-3m,
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Every person owning a horse or Il
mute: should have DIR. %Sylvester's
specific Tor Bots. Collcs and Tympa-
Sltes-"A stitch in time saves nine"
rof sale at Thibcdeaux Drug Store.
10 l3 "a BIN,
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All M sugar notes were crowded
out this week. We will try to do BET
ter later on.
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Do not forget the grand Democratic
Mass Meeting to be held at Lockport
Oh tomorrow evening at 2 p. IN.
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Get ready to cast your vote on
Tuesday November 9th for Hon. An
drew Price, Democracy and white Su-
premacy.
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GRAND ATTRAcTIoN.-There will be
Oh TO- morrow evening at 5 O'Clock at
letrean's Park, four Interesting Bicy-
ce races. Admission, 25cts.; Ladies
free.
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NOTICE

HEADQUARTERS DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE.
Hotel ROYAL. New Orleans. Oct. 9. 1894.
Democratic Mas Meetings VIII be held in
the third Congressional District in the places
-
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Salt Eeheurm often appears in cold
weather, attacking the palms of the
hands and other parts of the body.
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great blood
purifier, cures salt rheum..
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LOCAL NEWS.

The fall gardens are suffering fer
want Of rain.
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The dry weather still continues. and
dust is plentiful.
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ThibOdauX College.
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL.

BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL.
Notice is hereby given to parents and
guardians who have children to educate.
that the next session will open on Monday,
September sd, 1894, with competent teach
ers in English and French to teach the Ian
guages, sciences, mathematics, pcnmanship,
BOOK Keeping, etc. Thorough preparations
have been made to receive boarding or day
scholars at reasonable terms.
For further particulars address
THIBODAUX COLLEGE,
Thibodaux, La.
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INN Gallons C,stcrn Sl5. 1900 Gallons. $50
iDi,gsH Eros, 60 Perdido st. New Orleans
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District Court in the Paris, of
Terreborne adjourned sine die on last
Wednesday.
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negro domination must never be
'oiefated IN this State. This is a white
naans government, aud such it most
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Donaldsonviile. Sun,la~ October 18th.
Napoleonville, Monday 18th.
ThibOdaux. Tuesday 18th.
Morgan City. Wednesday Eth.
Jeannerette. Thursday 18th.
New Iberia. Friday. 10Th.
Lafayette. Saturday, goth.
Abbevitle. Sunday. 2lst.
Breaux's Bridge. Tuesday. :g3rd.
Jennings. Thursday, 18th.
Welsh. FIR lay. Goth.
Lake Charles. Saturday, =" 9th.
Lockport. Sunday. 2sth.
Hoama Monday 29th.
New River. Wednesday,. 3lst.
Plaquemine, Saturday. November Sd.
Whitecastle.. Sunday. 18th.
Notice will be given should q change be
made in dates for above appointments.
RI SIMS.
Chairman.
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a grand Democratic rally was held
a. brule Guiliot on last Saturday
Evening. The meeting was held in
wSaoiic school, and was addressed by
aessrs. t. A. Badeaux. H. n. Coulon
aau W. +. Martin Some $50 persons
a'ss'aed the meeting. With perhaps
ie" exceptions. Brnle Guillot is
o"u Tor Democracy, and its standard
oeafeG, Hon. Andrew Price.
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Attention..
business Wen.

| THE INK ERASING ELECTROSINE
Il PENCIL. 1t grasses Ink in two seconds,
without abrasion on paper.
: HOBERT PICOU. Act.
at McBride's Store on Market st.
Tbibodaux. La.
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The ponds and reservoirs of the
.narjsh have nearly all run dry.
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HOOdl'a Pills are the best after-dinner
pills, assist digestion, cure headache. &c.
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KEEP YOUR MONEY
in a good bank. Time deposits
draw interest and the smallest am
cunt will open an account. Bank
ofIhibOdauX.
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DR.. Sylvester's Specific for Bots,
COLES and Tympanites in Horses and
Mules is the best remedy that science
ever discovered. For sale by Thibo-
deaux Drug Store. 1913 81 3m.
When will we have another good
rain ? Will some OF the weather pro-
pbets enlighten us ?
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os Az II. i. Chauvln. IL young attorney
AeW Orleans. we'll known in this
parish. being the son of IL of our old
GU "lu honored citizens, Mr.. Aicide
E~s9,iaaSin, will be one of the orators OF
Nc meeting to be held tomorrow at
hoessean's Ferry.
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u Royal Reception Cigar is the
st iucts. Cigar on the market to-day.
! IS all hand made, and is pronounced
p experts to be a superb smoker.
10 IL 81 2m.
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New York Produce Market.
New YORK, July IS, -FLoUR-Dr

New YORK. July IS, s,-FLoUR-Dull,
weak.
WHEAT -- Fairly active, lc. lower; No.
2 red store and elevator, 57LaE7I6c.
afioar, Wka57Nc.: I. o. b., 5slSahS&c :
ungraded red, 5GaJSc; No. northern, fjCa
CG2sIc; options fairly active and 1ai Isc
low; No. 2 rsd, July, 57Ssc.; Augnst, 5SJsc.
September 501sc.; December, 6c5kc.
CoRN-Dnll, easier; No g 47l[s4sc, ple
vator; 4SIa4S%c stloat; options dull nnd
steady ~ }sa15c, decline: July. 47gzc.
August, l7%c.; September 473zc: De-
cembor, 45nc.
OATs--Dull, lower, unsettled; opti ,
dull, weaker; July, CSC: August, sSc.
September. &c; No. Q white july 3gc.
spot prices, No. 2, 49a46r., No. 9 white
doc; No. 2 Chicago, 43c.: No. g. 4lc: No
8 white, 42c., mixed western, 4So.; whit,
DO and white state 45a55
BEBF-Qniet, irm.
TIERCED BEEF-Dull.
Cur MEATS Quiet, easier; picked bel
lies. nc; do. shoulders, exc do. hams
llfall&c.
LARD--Qniet, about steady, unchanged
PoRK-l0iet. steady.
BUTTER-Qniet, fancy steay: state dairy
l2al7c.; do. creamery, 14lSal7kc Penn
sylvania, do, 141al7Ac.: western dairy
lOal4c do, creamery, 13a11jsc do FAC
| tory, 91Sa14c,; elgins l7al7kc,; imitation
creamery, ll1Sal4kc.
CHEEsE-Qniet, easy.
EGGS Choice, fairly active. steady
state and Pennsylvania, 12hsiSc.; west
ern fresh, 1lal2c.; do. per case, Sla25O.
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machine factory resumed work at E,izt-
beth N. j., Monday, after being idle for
several weeks.
Two more engines were received at
Drifton, Monday, by the Delaware, Sus-
uuebanna aud Schuylkill Railroad COM
pany. They are known as Nos. ~ anu 20,
and will be used on tho Perth Amboy
division.
The Blossburg mines in the bituminous
region which belong to the Erie company
resumed work on Tuesday aud ARE being
rushed to their greatest capacity. Ihe
Toby mines have also resumed operation
and the Erie boys can expect ~ be burning
soft coal again soon.
Shipments of P0cahontas coal over the
Norfolk and Western railroad for the week
ended July weru IL, 7SS tons, an Increase
Of 81, 3G7 tons as compared with the same
week last year. For tho year to that date
shipmiuts aggregated l. Sl4 3l2 tons, an in
crease over tho corresponding period IN
| 1873 OF l2l, 2S5 tons
IL is reported that tho Erie Railway
company is considering proposition for
the purchase of 4, 900 acres OF coal land on
Stony Fork creek in Tioga county, where a
fve-toot vein or bituminous coal is now
being worked and the product sold in the
town. The coal is clean aud OF u superior
quality for stove aud furnace use.
The Reading company has completed
big deal with the Shenandoah Water com.
pany. The Reaping is to have all its col
lieries in the Shenandoah district cou-
| nected with the reservoirs. A conditional
sale is also incorporated in tho agreement.
The reservoirs are to become the property
Of the Reading Coal and Iron company as
soon as the public water works now being
| constructed for Shenandoah are completed.
| The water plant Is valu ed at $3.50, 900.
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services as philanthropist. Mr. Stokes
father left an estate of about SO, 000,
900, and the son has devoted q consider
able portion of his share to religious
and pbilanthr0pic work. About year
ago Mr.. Stokes finished a quarter Of u
century of labor as member Of the
American industrial committee of the
Y. NJ. @. A, and for many years he
has materially assisted the progress Of
the associations labors in Europe
In fact, he initiated the work of the
Y. NJ. G. A. in wicked Paris about 20
years ago by making such arrangements
that the Paris association was able to
meet in rooms Of its own. The ambi-
ton of his life thenceforth was to
see the day when the Paris Y. NJ. c.
A. should have a palatial building of
its own in the French metropolis. For
years he has laboreG to carry out this
project, and his efforts have at last been
crowned with success. The building
now stands at II Rue Trevise and was
erected at cost of 1000, 600 francs
OF this amount Mr., Stokes and mem
bers Of his family contributed 400, 600
francs, or nearly half.
Among the other contributors were
R. G. Morse, Morris X. Jcsup, Thomas
X. Cree and Franklin Gaylord, all we'll
known Americans residing in Paris, and
Alfred Andre, wealthy Paris banker,
who alone furnished 200, 600 francs to-
ward the magnificent structure, The
building has gymnasium, swimming
tank and baths, bowling alleys, bicycle
track, library, parlors, restaurant, music
room and sleeping rooms.
The presentation Of the order to Mr..
Stokes was made on behalf of the French
government by NJ. Andre, and the in.
teresting event occurred in the big Y. NJ.
G, A. building the recipient had beer
so active i'll rearing. In accepting the
order he said the presentation was q
high official compliment to the great
work of the Y NJ. c. A.
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phhNn ''NOhNi' dI Lle equator
He has thus won the right to be called
the great American traveller. When Mr..
Vincent left Yale about quarter of a
century ago, he found himself possessed
Of a large fortune and a great ambition
10 hobnob with the strange peoples of
the earth. He believed that a man
should thoroughly know his own coun-
try before he began on the others, and
accordingly he made two years. tour
Of the United States, visiting the capi-
tai of every state
Then he descended upon South Amer
tea, mastered the countries ard their
customs from Venezuela to Terre del
Fuego and wrote book describing the
interesting things he saw. Europe was
his next geographical feast, and for de3-
sert he took in nearly all of Asia
Whom he had scaled tn great wall of
China, he made thous' / mile excur-
Sions through different parts of the
great empire. From China he travelled
to India, aud from India TO Australia.
Three years ago MIR. Vincent planned
80, coo mile trip as nonchalantly as most
men would plan visit to neighboring
,ity. 1t included jaunt through cen
tral Asia, the thorough exploration of
the island of Madagascar, which is as
large as France, and trip entirely
around the great continent of Africa
In the course of his African trip he fire.
guently left the coast line he was fol-
lowing and made long journeys to the
Interior. He followed Stanley's trail
up tho Congo, visited Lake Haugwoole,
where Livingstone died, inspected the
gold mines of the Transvaal and the
diamond fields of Kimberley, looked over
Dahomey, the land Of the warlike anna
IONS, visited Liberia and spent seven
months in the Congo Free State.
He says German Africa is q hopeless
oounny. The natives are savage canni-
balls, and boatload Of captives en- route
TO the cannibali6tic market is q common
sight on tho Congo, Mr.. Vincent is s
feet 2 inches tall and is so confident Of
his ability TO look out for himself that
be always travels unaccompanied by
other white u,or
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with scanned and vTiat!cd face, OLD
fashioned ringlcts hanging in front of
her ears, an odd little bonnet cooked
askew on her head, hoopslirts and old
fashioned congress CATERS.
She leaned forward ON her big um-
brolla and gazed at the house for long
while. Finally she beckoned q police
man to her and asked him who lived
there. The policeman touched his cap
and remarked that it was the town
house of the prime minister. Thereupon
Ouida walked up to the door, rang the
bell and told the flunky who opened the
door to announce to Lady Salisbury that
she was there. The flunlly looked her
over carefully and sent second foot
man up stairs with the message, while
he kept his eye upon the odd looking
| visitor
Lady Salisbury, like most English
women, had adored Ouida in her school
days, and she camo down stairs and set
about the work of making the novelist
welcome. Sho was cut short in her
speech, however, by o tcrse inquiry from
her visitor concerning the prime minis
ter.
Il should be greatly obliged if you
will bring him down, and will look at
him. | have mover seen him, and rs /
am going away from London shortly /
shall probably never have another op.
portunity Of seeing him unless you bring
him III now. ."
She seemed to regard the Marquis of
Salisbury rs sort of prize pig to be ex-
hibited, and she talked about him in
such curious fashion that Lady Sails
bury went back to her study and brought
in that exalted parsonage. Ouida look
ed at him through her spectacles with
the same air of examining a prize eX-
hibit that was suggested in her talk and
finally ended by expressing her approval
Of the premier.
She was invited to come and dine in
an informal way two nights later, and
the prime minister, who had been enor-
mously tickled by the interview, invit-
ed number Of lofty personages to his
house that night. The dinner hour
came but no Ouida. The guests sat
down and talked about the novelist, but
not word was heard from her, and it
was not discovered until the following
day that she had read speech of tbs
Marquis Of Salisbury on the morning Of
the day Of the dinner, and it had dis.
pleased her so much that she had decid.
ed to have nothing to DO with the Sails
burys thereafter.
At the present time Ouida is in q
pitiable condition. Her house and all
her personal property in Italy have beer
sold to pay her debts, and she is almost
destitute of money. Her eccentricitie'
have become more and more pronounc
ed, and it is said that the people whC
are brought into contact with her tin(
it almost impossible to retain their com
posure under the sharp and biting com
ments which she makes upon them. -
London Letter.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Stocks and Bonds

New YORK, July 1S,-The stock mar.
ket to today waa / tame affair, the indus
trials monopolizing the little speculative
interest that was smanifested. ln this
group American sugar WAS the sole feat
ure, the stock, after an early decline to
99k rising to and closing ut l024, 46, 100
shares changing hands. The total for tho
whole list WAS only l0l, 600 shares The pur-
chase Of sugar was based on information re.
ceived from Washington that the house will
eventually accede to the senRte's danands
and the trust will get its protection or
there will be no Legislation. Chicago Gas
was tirmer, at one time selling up to IS u
on advices that the Uuiversal Gas ordi-
nance will be vetoed unless the mayor i>
satisfied with the financial backing of the
enterprise. The railway list, while mac
tive presented firm front. The engage
ment OF $50, 900 gold for shipment to En-
rope tomorrow was surprise, but it had
no influence ou the share market, Specu-
lation left of firm and Y to 2H higher on
the day. Distillers lost d, Union Pacific
q and Manhattan per cent.
The following compete table showing the
days fluctuations IN active stocks is supplied
and revised daily by LaBar 3 Fuller, stock
brokers, III Wyoming avenue:
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WILLIAM NJ. SINCERITY. ough business
education, which proved valuable to
him later in life. His father was a
prominent street railroad magnate, and
young Singerly displayed such shrewd-
ness in the management of his sire's
properties that he made fortune. His
father left him $3.50, 900 worth of street
railroad stock, which young Singerly in
a short time sold for double that sum.
In 1877 Mr.. Singerly bought the
Philadelphia Record, which, under his
management, became successful and
influential newspaper. He is interested
in many enterprises and seems to pos
sess the touch that turns everything to
gold. An illustration of the manner in
which fortune smiles upon him is shown
by his experience with the thorough
bred Morello. When Morello was a
yearling, Frank Van Ness bought him
for SO, $50 and sold half interest in
him to Mr. SiHgerly. As a 2-year-old
in 1892 Morello won the $40, 600 Futur-
ity. One Of Mr., Singerly's hobbies is
the development of horses and the
breeding Of Hostein cattle at his stock
farm in Montgomery county,
He has built nearly 1000 houses in
Philadelphia, and his numerous and di-
versified business interests make him q
very busy man. He has been on active
Democrat since 1856 and took al espe.
cially active part in the presidential
campaigns of 1884 and 1888 He is q
personal friend Of President Cleveland
and an ardent champion of tariff re,
form. He is president of the Chestnut
Street National bank and the Chestnut
Street Trust and Savings Fund company
and owns among other things ono Of
the largest paper and pulp mills in tht
| United States.
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Two Lives Saved.

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of junction City,
H., was told by her doctors she had Con-
sumption and that there was no hope for
her, but two bottles DR.. Kiug's New Dis
covery completely cured her and she saws
it saved her life Mr.. Thos Eggers, l39
Florida St., Sau Francisco, suffered from u
dreadful cold, approaching Consumption,
tried without result everything else then
bought one bottle of DR.. Eiug'S New Dis
covery and in two weeks was cured. He
is naturally thankful. 1t is such results
OF which these are examples, that prove
the wonderful efficacy of this medicine in
Coughs and Colds Free tral' bottles at
Matthews Bros, Drug store Regular size
SUr and 81
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oulDA'S ECCENTRlClTlES.
Her Impromptu Call on Lord Salisbury ant
How She Repaid His Courtesy.

Her Impromptu Call on Lord Salisbury and
How She Repaid His Courtesy.
Ouida aud Jimmy Whistler have
caused the Londoners to feel over
whelming spasms Of fear at the near
approach of literary persons, Perhaps
This accounts in some measure for the
great celebrity enjoyed by literary peo-
pie in the big English metropolis.
What Mr.. Whistler writes and says al
ways attracts more attention than the
things he paints, while the stories Of
the manner in which Ouida has snub-
bed, insulted and berated the people
who have tried to be civil to her ore in
numerable Tho last time she was in
London she was wandering along ST.
james place, when big yellow house
up side street caught her eye She
walked up and looked at it thoughtfully.
She was a queer figure Of small,
shrunken woman of advanced years.