St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-04-07

and had been sent down to investigate
the matter. The old lady put IN oar il,
the lock at this moment, and begged
her to allow me to finish She closed her
mouth with . snap and folded her
hands across her lap in . gentle spirit
of resignation. impressed upon Ladd
that he was dealing with the United
States government, that he had an in
tercsting family and farm worth
thirty thousand dollars; that he could
not afford to resist the government
had only brought Capt Norville and
the deputy marshal with me, but that
II he intended to resist would return
and secure a force that would exeente
the Law. explained that Capt. Nor
vile had been very clever. He had an
thority to have arrested his two sons
and seized the two wagons and teams
worth al Of six hu ndred dollars.
The old man said: esquire, you're q
slick one. DO your do. ] reckon We
can't help ourselves, but if you had
ave come with . crowd we had made
up our mind to clean you up of the
face Of the earth"
aAAsAN~
an invoice Of his stock, machinery. etc
] locked the door. and, accompanied by
the two officers. returned to the house
Tho entire party scowled at Norville
but never said a word. The guns had
been depo sited in the parlor on 81,
hundred dollar piano, as subsequently
ascertained.
asked il he would act as custodian
of the property. This surprised him.
asked If he could make bond in double
the value of the property had seized
conditioned upon its being forthcom
ing upon the order of the United State.
court
WHAT" he said, "leave my owr
property with mc?'
/ explained that the property scizct
belonged to Ladd l. Sons. and that
would leave it with Ladd. SE l knew
enough about the business to know
that he had q large stock on hand par
TALLY worked up that must be finished
l gave him authority to do thfG 9hi.
arrange mcnt virtually left things a.
they were. only he could make no sales
He signed the papers and was cviden.
" in a fine hunor. Ithen notified hin
that the marshal had q search warrant
and he and Mr.. Norvil.e would have II
search the house for unstamped to
bacco He jumped MP, started to Nor
vile, who was sitting on the opposite
side of the firep lace. and said he Soult
die before the scoun drel should max,
search. Norvillc had his forty-four il
his grip sack in his lap, with his hant
on it ready to use. Tho marshal wa
so indiscreet as to draw his, while tn,
boys started toward the parlor.
knew there was no danger of th'
officers shooting the old man. 70!
lowed them in in time to see them &C
their guns from the top Of the piano
Hastily closing the door end putting
my back against It, I asked them
they were fools.
Suppose said ], '.you kill thes
two men and myself as to that. cal
you kill all the men in the nation?'
''Rut," said the Oldest, I'VE will no
have our father insulted."
ordered them to put their guns bacl
and pledged them that their iathc
should not be insulted.
''But they shall not search this house.
Then you arc gong to resist tn
law. You are going to force me I
summon q posse, arrest you all, scare
the house, tear UP your factory an
ruin your father. That's your game.
it? Put your guns down, quit actin
the fool. and you and will make tn
search and Norville will remain whcr
he is
This compromise was accepted.
searched the house, found some ur
stamped tobacco and left t@5
When court came on the matter wa
compromised by tho old gentleman
paying all the costs, . small fine an
promising to be more circumspect i
the future. 1t was afterward asccl
tained that Capt. Norville, being
couutryman and an old friend, NJ,
Ladd thought he ought not to have en-
forced the law against him--Glob<
Democrat