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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-07-04

dealt a dsath blow TO the P~laquemines
g~eBtlsman's bill. We need legislation
70 more thoroughly protect aud en-
courage the oyster busiuess, bat we.
do not need any such Legislation as
P~laquemines ofers 70 give us. for it
would result ID plenty If good to
P~laquemines and only injury to the
large oyster producing parishes.
THE eouRIRR eau tions the senators
and representatives from this and
Latourche parish to be on their guard
and watch the triggers Of these oyster
bill fathers, and OF general principles
70 steer shy Of oyster bills fathered by
representatives from depredating
Parishes, who drunk gumho made with
Tefrebonne oysters, and talk about
the oyater yield and wonderful oyster
beds Of their parish.
Since writing the above the bill
has been recOnsidered and passed
By the House. 1t will probably
be killed in the Senate. The bill
so THE COURIER has been in.
formed only makes a few changes
10 the old oyster laws Most of
these changes are not what the
people Of Terrebonne would like,
as they are intended to pa rtly re-
move the obstacles in the way OF
outside fishermen who want to fish
oysters in this parish,
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NOTICE /!

HoUMA, La, JULY3, 1896.
The Police Jury Of TerrebOnne
Parish will meet Tuesday July 9Th.
and sit as a Board Of Re-
viewers.
By order Of
Alex Mcclellan, Pres.
q, a, Celestin, Clerk.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-07-04


Rochel, Ivy III acres of land situated
on the Lower Bayou Black bounded
above hy Kennith Roehel and below
by J. Harris and ais, taxes "a 95B.
Rochel, Kennith u2 acrPs0Iland situ-
ated on the Lower Bayou Black
bounded above hy Jos. Breaux and
below by Ivy Ruchel, taxes 30 -,
Poll 81 90.
Richaud, F, r. & j. f. s47 acres Of
land situated on the Lower Bay on
Black bounded above by Mrs. b.
Denjean and below by Buena Vista
Plaster ca. taxes S5s ~.
Shields, Stephen The North half of lot
mum Der % on Plan ''Cn OI NewtOwn
situated on the Bayou Lacarpe at
the rear of the town Of H0uTna, lakes
544 cents, Poll 81 90.
Thomas, Henry one lot Of ground
situated on the nppei Bayon Black
hOuDded arOve hy the Hnuma
Branch Rail Road. and below by the
Public Road. taxes 50 cents Poll
81 90
Verret, Mrs. AnfOinctte A. 8 lOts of
ground situated la the town of
HOuma. heiDg lnts Mas. 3, 4 and 5
In block 81 Gabasse and Court
Street taxes Is III.
Welsh. Estate Peter The undivided
one half of TAO acres If land situated
on the Bayou LitileC GALLON bounded
above by MIRA. ). B0udraaux and
below Ivy Chas Daspit, balance tn
1894 "a 80, taxes 1895 50 I3f.
Williams, ". s., Moore, w. H., Gidierp
j. j. and Kaufman, NJ. 1900 acres Of
land situated on the Lower Bay on
Black bounded above by state ut
John Smith and below bv Henry
Walther, taxes $40 60 Poll 81 90
Walker, Albert ! lot of ground situatel
in Boardville being lot No. 10 on
John Street. taxes 81 IS, Poll-$I 90.
Non Residents.
Chase, Charles V $40 acres of land 81.
tuattd in the Parish of TerrpbOnne,
as fOllOws: N w I Of N w / of Sec
tion 3; E J of S E I Of section A: w
! Of N E t Of section 4; S w I ofN
w / Of section 3; 5 E. OfN + I 0i
section 4, all in II us r IA E, taxes
SO 20.
Naquin, Mrs. Nellie ] LOT Of ground
situated On the Bayou TerrebOnnr
above the town of Houma being
bounded above by Volcar HehcIl
and below Ivy Euzelicn BabIn, taxes
644 cents.
Welker, Est. John $50 acres of Land
being N ] Of Section 5, and N E / OF
8 w t OF section 5 II IL S Ia E,
taxes $I2 10.
On said day Of sale ! will sell such
portions of said property as each
debtor will point ont, and in case the
-aehtaE will not point ont sufficient
property. will at once, and without
further delay, sell the least quantity
of said property nf any debtor which
any bidder win bny for the amount
OF the taxes, interests and costs due
BY said tax debtor; the sale will be
without appraisement, for CASH, in
legal tender money Of the United
States. and the property sold shall lie
retieemable at any time fOI the snace
Of one year by paying the price given
with tW enty per cent added; and III
ease there I've no bidder for n of the
saIl property, the same will be bid in
Tor the State ofLunisiann.
A. w. COHNELY,
Sheriff g. Ex-Ohicin Tax Collector
Parish of Ferreb nne, La.
HOunln. La, June 9th. 1896.
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To che Pubulc amd Go IMmmters
EspecimaHve

All persons are hereby notified not
to hunt or in any wiGe trespass on the
Honduras plantation under penalty of
the law. j. o. DAsPKT.
marlO-ly.
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no thc Public.

The public ID hereby notified not to
hunt pick-m0ss or otherwise trespass
on the Magnolia plantation of Mrs. s..
q. Humphreys, underpenalty Of law.
sepl5-Iy 4. II. CASEY, Agt.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-07-04
-S1E2zAN D.
EXCURSION
Given by
HELLER BRASS BAND.
FROM
HOUAA 70 NEW ORLEANS,

ONhttd.D, IHE.D 70, 1896.
Go to West End, Spanish Fort and
other pleasure resorts.
Music by the Famous HELLER Brass
Band on Train.
Refreshments and Lunches sold on Train
at reasonable rates. Sale of liquors pro-
hibited on Train. Sufficient number OF
first-class coaches have been engaged.
Train leaves Houma at s o'clock A. n
return leaves New Orleans at 9 P. M.
FARE ROUND TRIP
From Houma to New Orleans..... Al. 80
" Schriever +" " s. IN
" Lafourche Crossing to New Or
leanS.s.. 1.25
From Raceland to New Orleans. loo
Children under ~ years half fare.
Tickets purchased by July 10Th,
1896, at 81 rs after that date full
fare.
For Particulars apply to the following
Committee
F. X. ZERINGER, Chairman;
\. Y. Dorsey, A. j. B~ethancourt.
Wolf Schwartz, Willie Ernest,
Willie Kohmann.
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To The Public.

All persons are hereby warned and
notified not to trespAss and hunt on
my lands without my permission
under penalty of the law.
JOHN BABIN.
June q 6mos.
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rnRMs OF SUBSCRIPTION.
80 rRfcAao ooNYnNgYoY.

Already the delegates to the National
Democratic Convention have begun to
assemble 10 Chicago and to make prelim-
mary preparations for the nomination Of
president and vice-president.
a very peculiar condition Of affairs will
exist Is The convention. The gold advO-
eates compose about two-thirds af the
nationa1 committee, while more than two
thiras Of the delegates elected are for
see silver.
Its probable that the gold standard
eommitsoe mon viii try to force the con-
vention to accept n Of their number as
chairman Of the convention 50 that his
speech in favor Of the yellow metal can
bs printed and circulated over the cOun
tFy aud 1t Is equally as probable that
the silverites will resist any suoh prece-
duro, and in convention . a an out
spoken advocate Of free coinage.
From present indications it seems that
the hope some Of the mOnOmetalis have
Of controlling the convention lie q futile
ono, as the silver men are overwhelming
" IN the minority and will nominate a
Oftheir number probably Boies Of Iowa
o. ssilver DickD Bland, for President.
rho nomination 6feither Of these lead
era Of the silver forces would put the
Democratic party in excellent shape for
kho coming war Of tie metals, aud spread
ven eater CONSERVATION than now <
a in the Republican ranks.
Iho fres silver . ID spreading like
via hEe over the country and all the
hrsadhsre many-tmea-upset arguments
s enemies Of free silver can lead
'npoi stem the tide, Or snatch VIC
fpr yer Democrats.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-07-04

The supN
Trial il ths case o
T~ssrebonne 10 determine the
line between the two parishes. This suts
waal lost BY Fsrrebonne IN the lower court
and the decision reversed BY the Supreme
Court. A new hearing was granted how,
ever and the supreme Court decided TO
send the eass back 70 the lower court
Justice seems 10 be see-sawing with La
sourchs up and TerrebOnne down and
Tcrrebcnns up aud LafourChe down.
Probably the best way TO settle tho case
would be for the judge to order > survey
81 10 run line according to the first de-
oiaion Of The suprems Cauft. IN this way
the question whether bayou Pointe-au.
CHEN is . continuation Of bayou Blse.
would be- settled Tor all time 20 come.
THE CoUnEER dses not know much
bone about the matter than the learned
ndges who disagree 80 to the proper
boundary a but We have been teld by
parties Who hOw the lay of the country
e this sectien thoroughly and By sur
eyorsl that il il a phyaical md geOgra-
hical i~mpossibllity for bayou Pointe,an-
chian % boa part Of Or continuation Of
Bayou Blue. Is these two bayous haye
diaersnt sources and run in different di-
Esttionss
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
THOUGHTS ON EASTER.
Some Extracts from Sermon Delivered
by Bishop Sntteriec.

Some Extracts from u Sermon Delivered
by Bishop Sntteriec.
Rev. Dr. Henry j. Satterlee, recently
consecrated Bishop of Washington by
the Episcopal Church, in an Easter SER
mon written for the New York Herald
said:
Before st. John saw the risen Christ,
before the Lord appeared to Mary Mag
dalene, or single person on this earth,
this apostle, who carried in his heart
the conviction that every wrong must
be righted, had the light of the resur-
rection break in upon his darkened
soul.
The historic proofs of the resurrec-
ton, great as they re-''infallible, as
st. Luke calls them-never really
bring heartfelt satisfaction alone and
by themselves. 1t is the moral proof
that is satisfying The risen Christ
manifests Himself in His fullness, not
to those who are convinced by the sight
of the eye, or the hearing of the ear,
but to those who love Him and keep
His commandments.
And tho reason for this becomes more
and more plainly manifest when we
consider what that eternal life is which
the risen Jesus brings to His followers.
When men speak of eternal life they
keep thinking all the while of a pro
longation of earthly life. This life
ends with the grave eternal life begins
after death and lasts forever. The idea
Of duration is, with us, the dominant
idea. In the Bible the idea of duration
is subordinate idea. Eternal life is
quality of life.
And this eternal life has four charac.
teristics. 1t is new life, it is a cumu-
lativo life, it is the life of heaven, be-
gun on earth; it is a positive life; so
positive that an other things seem ne
gative.
IF only" cried Phillips Brooks in
words that echo all over the land,
''oh, if only we could lift up our heads
and live with Him live new lives, high
lives, lives of hope and love and holi-
ness, to which death should be nothing
but the mere breaking away of the last
cloud, and the letting of the life out TO
its completion
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
With the Minority,

There are no compensations in life
moro delightful and soul satisfying than
those that come from service and sacri-
fee for the welfare of our fellow-m men.
1t has never troubled me to be
in the minority. If you want genuine
pleasure in battle go in with minor
ity on some great principles affecting
the welfare of society You feel the
bracing of muscle and nerve, the rising
of the will power, the determination
not to so down. 1t is glorious.-Chas.
Carleton Coffin.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
Doing One,s Best.

That is all you can demand from peo-
ple-and all one can insist upon from
ones self-to do ones best in every
sphere and situation. In the shop or
factory, at home or at school, in the
pulpit or on the bench, the inexorable
law is the law of doing ones best.
AS to what is the best, that is to be
left to the individual, and it is not our
business to set down a canon or stand
ard as to our neighbours conduct. Let
us sweep the snow from our own side
walk first let us do the nearest duty to
be done; let us breathe into our work
all our manhood or womanhood, all our
earnestness and determination. Then
we can peep little at our neighbor and
see how he is getting along and whether
the result is worthy or unworthy
Jewish Messenger
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02

Man never began to live until he be-
gan to live in Christ. He never saw
things as they really are until he looked
out of Christ's eyes. He gazes upon
the same earthly scenes that others see,
but they have new and different
meaning for him; nor can he explain to
Others in any possible way what the diff
ference is. Men look at him and won
der how he can believe; he looks at
them and wonders how they can posi-
bly, doubt.
That feeble and impoverished thing
which they call life he who knows
something higher calls death. It is not
merely the life of a sleeper who mis-
takes dreams for realities, but the kind
of existence that will die with the things
that die around it. Read the New Tes-
lament; see how that consciousness
finds vent again and again in the teach
ings of st, Paul and st. John and ST.
Peter. They all use the same words to
express this consciousness. What is a
sentiment, a metaphor, figure of rhe
toric to the world meant to them re-
ality and a real contrast.
To one who is alive in Christ, exist
ence without Christ seems mere death,
for "He that hath the Son hath life, and
he that hath not the Son Of God hath
not life."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
A TOUCH OF NATURE.

When first the delicate crocus thrusts its nose
Up through the drifting of belated snow,
When folded green things in dim woods un-
close
Their crlnkled spears, a sudden tremor goes
Into my veins and makes me kith and kin
To every wild-born thing that thrills and
blows.
Seated beside this blazing sea-coal fire,
Here in the city's ceaseless roar and din,
Far from the brambly paths | used to know,
Far from the gurgling brooks that slip and
shine,
l share the tremulous sense of bud and brier
And inarticulate ardors of the vine
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
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A SONG

A bird scared mp in the face of the sun
oh, but the bird sang Rloriouslyl
With throb of bosom and hutter of wing,
In the rich, ripe glow ~ n day in spring
When the bursting of blossoms had just
begun.
And the green on tho hillside was fair TO
see.
A bird scared up in the face Of the sun
Oh, but his song WIS a thing 20 heart
With heart attuned 90 a wild desire.
With the quiver of pas sion and pulse Of fire,
And the bond of "a soul that had well-nigh
won
The first of the golden outworks there.
A bird scared up I'm the face of the sun
And watched his flight with u straining
eye;
But II he descended cannot tell;
j marked alone how his music fell.
TIL the last faint throb of the song was done,
Or lost in the space Of the pillarlcss sky.
Youths Companion.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02

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BRYANTS OLD HOME.
CEDAR MERE STILL KEPT AS THE
POET LOVED 1T.

It stilI Stands on the RosIyn Hillside.
Here the Poet Wrote a Great Many Of
His Poems, and It Was Hero He Passed
Away.
just as it was when the poet knew
it, the home of William Cullen Bryant
still stands on the Roslyn hillside in
Long Island. 1t was here that the in
spiration for many Of his sweetest
poems was derived, and where the poet
himself passed the latter days of his
life. The spot and surroundings we'll
exemplify Bryant's love of nature,
for:
Here is continual worship; nature here,
In the tranquility that thou dost love-
Enjoys thy presence.
Here, too, amid all the beauties that
no loved and admired so much, the poet
died.
Cedar Mere is the pretty name that
Bryant bestowed upon his Roslyn home.
The large two-story mansion, with its
broad piazzas, looks down upon the
waters Of the Sound. 1t is built of
heavy oak to withstand the severe
winds that in winter beat upon the
headlands along the Sound shore.
The timbers are as stanch and perfect
rs they were fifty years ago, and give
every evidence Of enduring for CEN
Jury longer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
Legislature

"When two sets of thieves seek to
discourage one another's rapacity, you
always know there is an amicable I'M
derstanding as to the lootings. That is
legislation. That is the sort of unctious
nav that is even now watering with
beastly voracity at the succulent pros
pect."
About the Greater New York bill
Parkhurst had this to say;
'The meanest and sneakiest thing
about the consolidation bill is that it is
not consolidation bill at all, but the
mere shell of bill that will be loaded
by and by with you don't know what,
and they don't mean you shall know
what.
"This movement is being jammed
through by Tom Pl tt and Dick Croker,
either of whom, if possible, is worse
than the other, Whose souls are reputed
to have soldered themselves together in
the damnable cons piracy to make the
consolidated city pasturage ground upon
which to Craze their political cattle.
DR.. Parkhurst m de the remarkable
statement concerning the Raines' Ex-
else bill which recently became a law
in New York State.
''If the Ten Commandments had been
jammed through in the way the Raines
bill has been jammed through, 1 would
break them-the whole of them"
OF Senator Lexow, chairman of the
famous Lexow Committee, which in
vestigated the Police Department of
New York and was largely instru-
mental in overthrowing Tammany, the
Doctor says:
THAT little pip of Lexow that is
saved from being barren zero only be-
cause of the integer that he leans
against and helps to make ten of, pro-
poses to govern u.s."
''That little rubescent stateman from
Rockland county, Platt's right bower"
THAT turgescent little exclamation
point"
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The house was designed in the old
Colonial style. A wide hallway ex
tends its entire length. The interior
style is also Colonial. There are old
fashioned open CRATES, huge chimneys
and carved balustrades. In the hall,
library and drawing room there are
many valuable paintings, photographs
Of poets and authors, and many fine
steel engravings, representing portion
Of the poets collection.
Bryant first came to Roslyn in 1914.
He was always more than a summer
visitor to the village, for in its affairs
he took decided and manifest interest.
It's poor he helped, and when other
troubles beset the community he fire.
quently came to the rescue with money
or advice.
The Bryant Hall and Library bears
testimony to his munifcence. This he
built, with the sole stipulation that the
village should always keep it in good
repair. In 1890 the village put over
the entrance to the hall tablet bear
ing this inscription;
In honor Of William Cullen Bryant,
who founded this library A. d. 1878,
this tablet is erected by his grateful
fellow townsmen, A. d. 1890"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
EASTER's FEAST OF EGGS.
The Custom of Eating Them and Exchang-
ing Is Centuries Old,


With Easter comes the feast of eggs.
Gobelin informs us that the custom of
giving eggs at Easter is to be traced
back to the theology and philosophy of
the Egyptians, Persians Gauls, Greeks,
Romans, &C., among all of whom an
egg was the emble of the universe,
the work of the SUI RENE Divinity.
Hutchinson remarks that 1.-The egg
was held by the Egyptians as a sacred
emblem of the renovation of mankind
after the Deluge. TIE Hebrews adopted
it to suit the circum stances of their his
tory as type Of their departure from
the land of Egypt, and it was used in
the Feast of the Passover as part of the
furniture of the table, with the Paschal
lamb. Christians have certainly used
it on this day, as retaining the elements
Of future life, for the emblem of the
Resurrection. 1t seems as if the egg
was thus decorated for a religious tro-
ply after the days of modification and
abstinence were over and festivity had
taken place, and as an emblem of the
resurrection of life, certified to us by
the Resurrection from the regions of
death and the grave"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
MhY She Pnses.

when girl comes in and insists on
a certain pose or expression says u
Boston photographer, you can be sure
she is getting up picture for certain
man. She has quarreled, perhaps, and
she means to convey by the picture that
she is sorry. Very few girls will say
that they are sorry, but they will go to
an elaborate trouble and expense to get
a picture representing them looking
mournfully into space or glancing ap
pealingly in sort of oh, please don't
be cross with me- way. Their idea is to
put the picture up in some conspicuous
place where he will see it. His heart
will be softened, he will say something,
and then they can have it over."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
The Can of tho sphiAx.

A most interesting discovery was
made at Ghizeh on February "a last.
While Colonel G. r. Raum, who has
been carrying on excavations around
tho Pyramids and the Sphinx, was at
work on the temple which lies between
the fore paws of the latter colossal
monument he suddenly came upon the
missing cap Of the Sphinx at distance
of fourteen or fifteen feet below the
surface.
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PARKHURST SEVERE.
SPECIMENS OF THE DOCTORS RHE-
ToRlC WHEN HE'S FEELING GOOD.

In a Recent Address the Learned Doctor
who Overturned New YorIs's Police De-
partment, Outs Loose in an Amazing
and Highly Entertaining Fashion.
Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst, of
New York, is not only one of the two
or three best known clergymen in the
United States, but is the one most con
spicuous clerical warrior.
He attacks with vigor that knows
no tiring the things he believes hateful,
and his denunciations ring with an in
vective and bitterness which have few
parallels.
Here are some characteristic extracts
from a recent address
''As gorillas, snakes, feas, and other
vermin fill niche in the divine econ
omy of material things, so their human
analogues, although an inherent nui-
sance, are an historic utility"
'Our cities are hotbeds of every spe-
cies of individual, social, and economic
iniquity that the cultivated depravity
of the human heart can devise"
New York is only sample of what
uiS1iuB ulSueS our CLUES SeuerdllV. New
York five years ago was literally Tester
ing with disease and Shiny with its own
noisome putridity."
"Binghamton, a hotbed of Tammany-
ism, not Tammanyism of the Croker
type, but baptized 1ammanyism. Tam
manyism that has been chrstened over
dry font-Plattism that is by SO much
worse than Crokerism, as it has caught
the trick of decency and millineried it.
self with the affectations of respecta-
bility."
my rolled condition dates from
away back, and neither does drought
dry the channel of my feelings nor cold
weather freeze it over"
He thus described the New York
Legislature:
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
THE MORNING BREAKS.

The morning breaks, and with ii brings
The first faint breath of Spring,
And hearts, like happy birds ON wings,
For JOY are carolingl
A thrill runs through the frozen earth,
A trill peryades the air;
Presaging Punishment of dearth,
Foretelling all things fair
Each shivering bough enwreathed shall glow
With wealth of summer bloom,
Unmindful of the blasts that blow,
Eorgetful of the glooml
And hearts bowed down by weight of woe, &
Souls shivering in Lifes blast,
Beneath Gods smile shall radiant grow
In Summer-land at lastl
Grace Appleton.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-04-02
Depew ON Oyerwork.

/ have learned from observation that
three things happen to man who
works steadily without relaxation. In
the first place, he becomes nervous, ir-
ritable and hard to get along with In
the second place, the grade of his work
falls off, his services are worth less and
he is liable to err in his judgment. In
the third place, he dies suddenly. 1t is
an incontrovertible law of nature.-
Chauncey Depew.