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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

Mrs. DR.. Louis L. Youse, nee
Miss Fannie Smyth, with her
beautiful boy, has been visiting
her family at 'Wavertree and
spending some time with Judge S.
tChas. Young.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

In speaking of Chamberlain s
Pain Balm .Messrs. lDaugherty
Bros. of Indiana, Pa, SAY: '''We
know of many of our customers
who. have used it for rheumatism,
land they all praise it highly. We
sell more of it than of any other
household liniment. For sale at
..25 and so cents per bottle byJ. p.
.Kershaw, the druggist.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15
NOTICE.

DUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given
Il that the Police jury of the Parish OF
Tensas will apply to thenext legislature
for the passage of an act'authorizing the
Parish of Tehsas to issue Thirty thou
sand dollars in bonds for the purpose Of
fhnding the floating debt and opay the
judgments Of Britton & KOontz and Jos
Moore against said parish.
JOHN MURDOCH,
President Police Jury.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

TIE MANY FRIENDS of Hon. Ste
phen H. Cordih, of Franklin par
ish, willbe gratified to know that
he was proclaimed as elected to the
Estate Senate from Che 23rd Dis
trict along with Hon. D. M. Shol-
Ears. At first it was feared that
Mr.. Cordill was beaten by Eon.
ID. M. Breard, ST., buta close vote
showed that Mr.. Cordih had been
elected by thirty votes. Mr.. Cor
dill is brother of our dSstin-
giished Senator, Judge G. G. Cor.
dill.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

THE 1row BOAT Harry Brown
passed st. Joseph Sunday after
moon Nofthbound under full head
of -steam, and when near 'Ursino
ION Davis Island @she blew up
sand became a total wreck. We
learn that nineteen of her crew
were lost. Her cabin hoated by
.our town on Monday. We have
no further particulars.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

ACCORDING ITO "The Diocese of
Louisiana" Right Rev. Bishop
'Sessams is due at st. Joseph and
Newellton on June 9TH and 9Th.
Bishop Sessums always has large
congregation here and at Newell
ton, and we Will keep this notice
sstanding until thu day of his ap-
lpointment.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

JOSEPH RICHARDSON, the colored
painter, did nice job in painting
the office of one of our lawyers last
week. Joe does a good job and we
recommend HIM.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

Mrs. CLARA E. HuNT and
nephew, Master Ike Dale, re-
stafued home hast Sunday from
'vfdalia, where they had been
visiting forisome'time. Mrs. Hunt
twas accompanied by Miss bona
Netherlands, of Natchez, who will
sspend some time here as her guest.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

1t pays you to- buy where you
get the best sand most for you
money. 1T hes been proven be-
yond q donbtetfat Ksrshaw sells
the best and the,cheapest goods in
-; town.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15
THE BLACK STALLION REX

THE BLACK STALLION REX
DENMARK, win make the sea-
son of 1S96at the stable of JIM.
Smitha, st. Joseph, La. Terms to
insure foaling'ten dollars, payable
November LIST 1895. Care will be
taken of mares, but l Will not be
responsible for amy accidents.
Money will be refunded if mare
proves not to be with foal. Rex Us
a beautiful black stallion, 8 years
old, stands is hands and weighs
1920 lbs. He is thoroughly gated
for saddle and harness. He has a
fine pedigree, which can be seen at
the stable.
JAMES r. LYNCH.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

The RIVER is a long ways within
its banks and an danger of an
overflow has passed for 1895.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

If you have "a dolIarto spend
take it to Kershaw, if he's got
what you want you'll save by it
-and if he hasn't got it you've lost
nothing.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

SEE FIRST oUrs1DEPAGE for emo
'tice of Tax Collector TO Unknown
Owners" of lands in Tensas.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15
FOUND

HOW TosAvE MONEY, by buying
from Kershaw. Try his Pine Apple
Cheese. Snow Flake Crackers, Western
Butter, Acme Hams and Breakfast Ba-
con, Smoked Joles, etc.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

IT Is REPORTED that we will soon
hear the sound of wedding bells
=and ihhale the sweet odor Of
.orange blossoms in Or near our
town.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

READ THE advertisement of the
Hammar Paint 90. in this issue.
Mr.. J. P. Kershaw, the druggist,
keeps it.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

Mr.. FRxNKE WATSON, of New
sOrleans, was in town Tuesday on
"a flying "trip and leftsame day.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

CAPT. J. d. s. NEWELL returned
from New Orleans last Friday.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

Mr.. T. G. SAcHsE came up on
theamail boat Tuesday.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

Mr.. r. Y. NEWELL and wife
were visiting Col. w. c. Young
Sunday.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15
ESTIMATE
or
EXPENSES
soF THE
PARISH OF TEN SAS.
For tht Year 1896.

Four(4) terms District Court : S21OO
Expenses Jail 1000
Conveying prisoners penitenti-
arv - 400
Fee Magistrate and Constables 1900
Pay Assessor 500
Tax Collector Commissions - 600
Sheriff for Criminal Expenses 1000
Salaries of Officers 1000
Public Printing $50
Bridges and Repairs 1000
Wages Ferrymen and Repairs to
bats 400
Paupers 800
District Attorneys Fees 400
Mileage and per diem Police
Jury - 3Oo
'Britton & Koontz Judgment : $500
Joseph Moore judgment 1850
Sl6400
w. NJ. DAVIDSON.
Parish Treasurer.
ST. JOSEPH. la. uav "a. 1896
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15
JUDICIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
GALE FOR PARTITION

State of Louisiana. Parish of Tensas
9TH District Court.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

FRIDAY, MAY Is, 1896.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15

WANTED-T0 PURCHASE A
w Seven Column Washington Hand
Press Address this Office.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15
j. w. PLATT,
No. "a Camp st.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.

An sorts Of Plain and Fancy Groceries
for Plantation and Family Uses.
He soiicits the patronage of
His Tensas Friends.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-15
SAMUEL MARKS
PAULINE BOWIE, MINOR.

VS.. No. All.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
The "Bell Wetllero Worried,

Editor Of Wdtchmdn:-What a time the
bell wether of the machine " has bunting
the fellows out of its candidates clover
patch. Here comes a correspondent, in
Fridays Free Press, who says: "There is
one thing in connection with the election of
the coming governor of Importance to Yer.
mont: In case of a vacancy in the United
States senate, the governor would make an
appointment to fill the vacancy. In the
case of Major Grout, he would naturally
appoint his brother" Whereupon the ''bell
wether " backs off and comes at its CORE
spondent, head on. 1t takes up the "sus-
picions, insinuations and transformations
of our correspondent in order" 1t would
not support any man for governor whom
we knew or suspected to have made any
trade or promise in regard to the, we trust,
remote contingency of a vacancy in the SEN
atorship that would be filled by appoint
ment by the governor. The most a square
and self.respecting man could say in regard
to a matter of such grave Importance would
be that, If elected, and il such a duty should
fall to him, he would endeavor to perform
it with an eye to the highest honor of the
state and the best welfare of her people.
We do not believe Major Grout has said
anything different from that if he has said
anything upon the subject" But the Ma
jor might nave his own ideas of what was
necessary "to the highest honor of the
state and the best welfare of her people,"
These might be primary or they might be
secondary.
Then see how the " bell wether" curvets
and dances at an "insinuation of any
promise or combine " upon the part of its
candidate, just as though the Free Press had
not been tied into a Gordian knot the last
ten years. waiting for the Majors turn"
1t says: But our correspondent thinks
that Major Grout woul naturally appoint
his brother. Which of his brothers he
would naturally appoint is not stated"
- Which of his brOthers - ought IN he
framed and hung up in the Majors sleeping
apartment, so he can see it " when the rosy
morn comes tip-toeing" over the Derby
hills. The Free Press stumps" its corre-
spondent to mention an instance in this or
any other state, where a governor appointed
his brother as United States senator" Here
is another sumner And this settles it.
But right here is where the Free Press
and its candidate are hard hit. Which of
his brothers" has been schemiug and plan
ming for Senate Morrill's place all these
latter years? Which of his brothers 3" is it
that the Free Press is constantly landing, in
season and out of season, until the public is
weary and worn? If ever a lot of champions
were kept busy backing up and warding off
and ducking, the Free Press and others are
certainly in it. But the Burlington organ
has announced that it is CIRCUITS turn y
and in all well-regulated tlocks the " bell
wether is to be followed, neck and heels.
So. away they go,
Machine andE Wether ;" oyerthe snow,
Each one doing his best, no doubt,
WhOoping 'er up for Major Grout.
WEST SIDE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
You Don't Say.

"The reasons for which the Journal sup
ports Major CIRCUIT for tbs governorship are
his eminent fitness for the position and the
fact that It properly belongs to Orleans
county. Mr.. Stickney is a young man who
can afford to wait for several years, viii g,
If the honor is ever bestowed upon Major
Grout, IL must be this time. No party can
hope to succeed that refuses to honor those
who do valiant service in its ranks; and
who has done more than Major Grout?"-
Poultney Journal.
How does the governorship belong to Or
leans county? By what right? Conquest
or succession? Orleans county, with a con-
gressman, a state superintendent OF educa-
ton, a~justice of the supreme court supre me
court exporter and an a~spirant for Senator
Morrill's shoes. should now be given the
governorship; Orleans, one of the less i'm
portant counties of the state both in popula-
ton and in property valuation, should now
have new honors thrust upon its ambitious
c~itizensl We repeat, by what right? Stick
ney can wait, but with JOSH IN 1t is now or
never! The Major has been waiting 10,
these many years, and hope long deferred
maketh the heart sick; but we did not mis-
trust that the Majors case was so critical."-
Bellows Falls Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
Business or Politics.

Editor of Wdtchmdn:-So the Barton Mon
it0r takes you across the knee for having a
letter-writer who "insinuates" that the
railroad committee in 1886 twas formed
with a manifest disregard of the popular
demand" Does the Monitor say it was no.?
Vermont producers had been Disseminated
against in the way of freight rates. They
defended it on the ground Of the "short
haul " making good their losses on the
"long haul" All this time it was a con-
slant " haul " on the producers of Vermont.
What producers wanted in 1886 was a rep
resentation on the railroad committee not
for purposes of war, but in the interests of
peace. They wanted a committee that would
take cognizance OF this 60 hauling" process.
Was it " business " or "politics that had
most to do with the formation OF the rail
road committee2 Who had the appoint
ment of the house committees in 1886? Jo-
siah Grout of Derby, candidate for governor.
=
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
Work of the Cattle Commission,

Hon. Victor /. Spear, commissioner
in charge of the eastern half of the
state, furnishes the subjoined interest
ing data of his years battle against tu-
be cu|nsis:
Number of herds tested to March %,
1896, 2S5; number of animals tested, 4,640;
number of herds in which animals were
condemned, 80; number of herds in which
FIVE Or more cases OF tuberculosis we're
found, 81; number of animals condemned
and killed, $50; number found diseased on
examination, 1873; amount paid by the state
for animals condemned and killed as tuber-
%culous, So, 1903; average sum paid, S13 60;
percentage OF diseased animals, eight"
This record covers the eastern dis
trict only, aud work done under Mr..
Spears supervision. He has made, be-
sides the foregoing, some examinations
in the other district, and 81 animals
were killed there under his direction.
Herds in which the existence of tuber-
culosis was suspected have been given
attention first; others as the commits
sioner could reach them. The statistics
of the first years work will be scanned
with interest. Whatever the conclu-
sions reached, there can be but one
judgment as to the wisdom and eff
cheney, tact and good sense of the COM
missioner, in the performance of q very
difficult public duty. Much good work
has been done. Much more evidently
remains. In the light of the first years
experience, supplemented by the expe-
rience of other states and aided by the
developing knowledge of the subject,
the work for the second year can be be-
gun with encouragement and with rea.
sonable hope of beneficial results.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
ion. But he betrayed The cause of

ton. But he betrayed the cause of
the people. -
AS tim9 advances tue columns of The
metropolitan newspapers stick out with
forecasts aud speculation IS to the nom
nation hat will be made at ST. Louis.
knowledge is evidently not TO be
cleaned from all that is prioted. The
confusion of political tongues ie as great
as hat which arose round the Tower of
Babel. Our Washington correspondent
tells how it is in the national capitals:
"a day spent with republican senators
and representatives, trying to ascertain
which Of the presidential candidates is the
ranking ~favorite in congress-, has convinced
me that the average m in or out OF con
gresS, always sees future political events as
he hopes they will be. The Mckinley men
will not admit that any other candidate for
the nomination is really in the race. Many
of them claim his nomination on the first
ballot, and nearly all of them not later than
the third. The Reed men are quite as con-
fdent that the speaker is bound to win.
The Allison men claim that they will hold
the balance of power, and that after there
has been a sufficient number of ballots taken
to show that neither Mckinley nor Reed
can win, that Allison will be nominated
with a hurrab. The Morton men and the
Quay men are not saying much, except that
they are playing a waiting game and expect
to win, while the Cullom men, the Mander-
son men and the friends of several other
candidates say, just wait; this is going to
be a dark horse campaign, and our mans
chances are as good as those of anybody
else"
The first taste of bitterness, in a ri
valry between the leading candidates
that has been in pleasant contrast with
the fierce pre- convention struggles of
other years, is given to the canvass by
Senator Chandler of New Ha npshire.
His imputations upon the integrity of
Mckinley, aud the impugnment of the
Ohio mans methods, will pass by re-
%publicans, whatever their personal pref
erences, as the idle wind. The New
York Sun forcibly and properly charac-
terizes them as I" the offspring of men,
dacity and the grandchildren of political
malice"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25

the legislature, aud given the reasons
for its opposition. 1t has been opposed
to several measures or the increase OF
official salaries and to other projects
which have taken, or will take, large
sums from the treasury. a case in
point exists right under the nose OF the
contemporary who AS suddenly grown
frantic on this subject of state expenses.
Public attention was called to the mat
ter in the WATERMAN several weeks
ago, but the expenditure, immediate
and prospective, is to Burlingtou's Pc
cuniary advantage, and. in the Ne,cs'
view, may therefore be legitimate and
not a squandering of "the peoples
hard-earned money" AT all events,
the contemporary has not published the
plain facts about the state militia camp,
or, in respect of the location and pur-
chase of the camp and the expenditures
upon it, exercised its functions of pub
lie censor.
The WATCHMAN will not undertake
to justify or defend every item of state
expenditure, or every act of state adj
ministration, but in the main it be-
lieves they have been wise and judi
cious, and dictated by sound policy.
The limits of true wisdom might not
have been transgressed if, in some i'm
portant departments, the state had
"s%quandered" much larger sums of
"the peoples h~ard.earned money"
We should, however, have a much
higher respect for these vociferous but
belated champions of retrenchment and
reform had they found their voices and
used them when the measures that have
added to the states expenditures were
projected. They will be entitled to
some respect now if they will come out
of the fog that envelopes them and in
dictate the particular acts of administers
ton and the particular items of expend-
iture they condemn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
Specifications Still Lacking.

One journal gives the following as
the reason why Mr.. Stickney is the best
qualified to fill the Office of governors:
"He has been for a quarter of a century,
and is now, a careful student of state leg
i~slation, and his position during all these
years has been such as to offer the best pos
sible facilities for such a study"
The anne is true of Mr.. Grout.
III position as speaker of the house
during the last two sessions of the legisla-
ture has brought him into the closest touch
with present-day legislation and legislative
matters now under discussion"
Mr.. CIRCUITS occupancy of the speak
er's chair in 'S4, $50 and 'SS gave him
the same touch with pr~esent-day legis-
lation.
"His intelligence, his practical Judgment,
his interest in and aptitude for public af-
fairs, his devotion to the welfare of the
state are not open to suspicion"
Neither are CIRCUITS.
Gle knows the people now on the stage
OF action and is known by them"
This is also the case with Mr.. Grout.
In the case of Mr.. Grout the above
does not exhaust the list of his qualifi
cations.-Bennington Banner.
The maximum claim of the Banner
makes Major Grout simply a close sec
ond to Speaker Stickney in point of OPP
portunity for public service. A writer
in the WATCHMAN recently said:
1T is not claimed, indeed it cannot be,
that Major Grout has not had many oppor-
tunities for good work; but how has he i'm
proved them? What measure of reform has
he ever originated? What measure of re-
form has he ever advocated? What meas
ure of any value to Vermont is he the author
Of? l know of none, and 1 hope his friends
will specify"
These questions have never been
answered. Great @pretensions have
been set up, but the hope that Major
CIRCUITS friends would specify is still de-
ferred. Apparently the shades of the
murdered school reform bill of 1884, of
the highway reform bill, sand-bagged
at the same session, of the house rail
way committee of 1886, remorselessly
packed, and the railway commission
bill, hamstrung and emasculated, of the
smothered free textbook bill of 1892,
rise like ghosts of Banquo and shake
their CORY locks at the panegyrist when
ever he approaches the details of Major
CIRCUITS career as q statesman. So the
call for specifications remains I'M
answered, and is likely to so remain to
the end of time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25

popular, and it has been efficient and
enterprising. His devotion TO the in
terests of Vermont is appreciated by
her people, and they have confidence
in his ability to preserve this great line
of railway, the most important in the
state and the one with which the pros
perity of the state is intimately asso-
ciated, as distinctively a Vermont in
stitution, managed by Vermonters,
with a friendly regard for Vermont's
interest. The appointment of Presi-
dent Smith as one of the receivers Is a
favorable indication.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
Congressional Proceedings.

SATURDAY, Marc1 21.-Neither houses of
congress were in session.
MoNDA The senate discussed the con.
ference r port on the Cuban resolutions for
nearly the eutire day and then disagreed to
the report. L. was unanimously voted that
the senate in 5ist on its disagreement to the
house amendments, and a further confer
ence was requested. - In the house two
bills were passed, one authorizing the leas.
ing of school and in Arizona, amended by
prohibiting the cutting Of timber thereon
ami limiting the mum jer Of acres to each
lessee, so as to remove the objections of the
president in vetoing a bill on the same lines,
Also the bill exempting logging trains from
the Law requiring patent couplers and air
brakes. The house went into committee of
the wnole to consider a bill to reduce the
cases in which the death penalty may be in
hicted. 1t allows juries in trials for crimes
committed in the territories to return quail.
fed verdicts, substituting imprisonment for
life for hanging. An amendment was
agreed to excluding the reason from the list
of crimes for which the death penalty might
be committed for imprisonment for life.
The house adjourned without disposing of
the bill,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-25
In the Hands OF Receivers,

E. G. Smith, president of the Central
Vermont railway, and G. M. Hays, gen-
eral manager of the Grand Trunk rail-
way, have been appointed receivers Of
the irst-named corporation, in an
equity suit by the Grand Trunk to set
tie traffic balances amounting to S415,-
712. The S.. Adams Messenger says:
1.-THE receivers were appointed upon the
petition of the Grand Trunk Railway Com
pany to the United States circuit court for
the district OF Vermont. That company is
a large holder of the securities of the Cen
trail Company, and also a creditor.
The application was made entirely without
the knowledge of the Central Vermont and
was a complete surprise to it's officers. The
motive OF the Grand Trunk Company in
this move is not entirely well defined, but
from the fact that K. G. Smith, president
OF the Central Vermont, was az its request
associated with Charles M. Hays, general
manager of the Grand Trunk Company,
on the receivership, it may be safely as.
sumed that it had only the best interests of
the property in view, and that there will be
no interruption In the operation of the prop
erty SO far az concerns the personnel of the
staff or in its arrangements with its railroad
connections, or in the friendly relations
between the Central Vermont and Grand
Trunk roads. The floating Indebtedness
consists of bills payable and notes. The
latter are largely secured by collateral and
the former mostly projected by the order of
the court, which provides for the payment
Of all outstanding Indebtedness for labor
and supplies accrued within the past six
months.'
The people OF Vermont will hope
that the Central Vermont will not long
abide in this ~receivership. The man
agement of President Smith has been