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In other parts Of the parish the
people have made and are still
making q gallant fight against the
invading dangerous element, and tile
SENTINEL heartily wishes and prays
rhat all the people may be spared
from any aud all further damage and
loss.
1t is no time for us to relax our
vigilance or to discontinue work on
the weak points in the levees for as
long as the bayou remains at it's pres
emit height, with a prospect of a rise
we stand in imminent danger or ere
vasses ; where they may break, no
n knows; we are in dread suspense
like II with a sword hanging over
his head which may fall at any time.
So let us be up and doing fighting for
u homes.
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TIL DINGLEY L

Thr Diaglev Bill passed The honse
last Wednesday under whip and spur
and il now before The finance commit
te. Of the senate, the members al
which are now patching it with
amendments to suit their views.
What the fate Of the bill in the
Senate will. be, 1t is yet too early TO
tell ; all we know is that it xill meet
serious opposition in that body.
In the house, three Louisiana con-
gressmen, Broussard, Dayey and
Meyer voted for the bill on it's fiaal
passage. The SENTINEL approves oi
their action, Notwithstanding its Sc
rious objection to many parts of the
bill and to it's underlying principle.
This avowal may sound like u con-
fession Of Inconsistency on the part Of
the SENTINEL, consldering it's we'll
known views on,,the tariff question, but
it is not. 1t is just as much opposed as
ever to the principle Of the bill, and
believes it to be i false principle Of
political economy bnt the people
having apparently decided in the last
election to- try that principle again,
they should have their way. Besides,
the tariff on sugar ard rice in said bill
is strictly n revenue tariff, in thorough
accord with our views, and inasmuch
as the protective system Is q grab
game, after all, when reduced to its
last analysis, and it looks as though
we are bound to have a high protec-
tive tariff anyhow, and will have to
pay for the tiddling, whether we dance
or not, a we'll known law of nature
dictates that we should join il the
dance.
To what the dance will lead is by
means certain. We fear much that
the bill become a law substantially
as it passed the %lIonse, it will prove
very unpopular and may meet with q
fate similar to the one which overlook
the Mckinley bill. In that event sugar
may have to bear to it's share Of the
odium but Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof.
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A MEETING OF CITIZENS. r

Last Tuesday afternoon, in response
to n call of Mayor Zernott, the citizens
of the town and ~vicinage met in the
town hall for the purpose Of organic.
ing a system of defense against the
high water.
Col. w. H. Price was chosen chair
n, aud Major S. T. Grisamore, Sec
Rotary, of the meeting. Divers plans
of defense we're advanced, each hav.
ing for its object the maintaining of our
levee front at all hazards, and finally
one wa s adapted which virtually yes
ted the full power of the people at the
command and disposition of the mayor
A finance committee wae appointed
and then and there several hundred
dollars were subscribed by our willing
citizens to defray the cost Of buttress-
ing the levee wherever needed from
the lower line Of Ridgeield plantation
to the upper line of Acadia.
Volunteer guards were then called
for that night, as the mayor had no
time to organize one, and at once
some of our best young men cherfully
responded.
Our leyee fl ont is seriously threat
ened but as long as our people res
pond to the call of duty with aiacrity,
as they did Tuesday, we may feel safe.
Notwithstanding the sholt and imper-
feet notice, the hall was filled with
eager citizens, and many were absent
simply, because they we're not aware
that a meeting had been called.
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A WARNING FROM THE GAL,
LOWS.

The brothers, Ernest and Alexie
Blanc, the murderers of poor MartiE
Begneaud, we're quietly executed last
Friday in due form of law at Lafa-
yette. Although a large crowd OF
people bad assembled, estimated al
some 1000. nothing unusual happened
on he occasion.
The culprlts had made their peace
with their God and received the sac
raments of the church, and after death
were given y decent Christian burial
which they had desired.
When standing under the shadow OF
the gallows, and just before going to
his final reckoning, Ernest delivered a
touching address, warning young peo-
pie especially against the reading Of
bad books and the neglect of the prac.
tice of their religious daties. He said /:
"Frlends--We will soon satisfy the
law, and pay with orr lives its tribute.
Before we die want to say a few
words to you all. We are young men,
and it is hard to quit tins lite at 30
early an age. especially in this manner.
For what We did we offer DO excuse,
and again admit the Justice of the sem
tence, though we had hoped that our
years would plead for US, and serve to
have this method of expiration pass
from US
ITO Il and all of you. we desire to
say that we bear no ill-wilI. No spark
of malice rests within us, and we hope
that now we are about to face our God
we will receive your pardon.
"Our death by hanging is to our
minds directly attributable to our
failure to practice our religion. We
had been unmindful Of our obligations
in this respect, and lost sight com
pletely of our God and the care of our
souls. The reading Of bad books, sen.
sational stories and the character of
literature to which we took a fancy is
responsible for our com mission of the
murder.
''It is a practice that cannot be too
strongly condemned, and if the words
Of men soon to die are entitled to any
weight, give heed to the warning
which our presence on this scaffold
furnishes to you young men and you
boys. Let our hanging be a lesson
and a lettering example. Avoid bad
books. Quit them, if you, too, read
them, and pay more heed to your
souls salvation than we did.
1--WE have nothing else to say In
addition to this poor advice and can
only bid . aud all au revoir."
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MOLLY DONE.

Terrebonne planters have sent hands
over into the third ward OF Lafourche
to help the people there to hold the
leyees. Capt. John T.. Moore, of
Waubun plantation, was the first to
send a squad OF twenty men with his
Overseer last Wednesday morning on
the suggestion that help was needed.
and on Thursday, through the instru-
mantality of MI. A, w, Connely, sher-
if of TerrebOnne, in response to a cali
of Mr. n. 5. Williams, of the Atcha-
falaya Board, other planters along the
Bayou Black (whOSe names we have
not yet learned) sent reinforcement.
The Southern Pacific railroad officials
fu FINISHED, we are informed, free trans
portatiOn, as they had hitherto trans
ported the material without charge.
Capt. Moore and the other Terre-
bonnie planters and people who have
come to the assistance of the Strug-
CLING people OF the third ward, have
done a noble action, indeed, for which
the people OF LafOurche will ever feel
grateful, nor will they forget the kind
ly deed of the Southern Pacific Off
Gals.
Since writing the above, we learned
that some $50 hands came over from
Terrebonne ON Thursday on the Hou-
ma train. sent by Messrs. H. q. Minor.
Mcclellan Bros, J. d. Shaffer, Cooke
and Prejeant. j. j. Shatfer, ID. Levy
and John L. Moore, with the necessa-
ry tools ETC., and accompanied by
overseers. MI. John ID. ohatfer ac-
companied the hands with MI. Druil-
let, his overSeer. Beside the planta-
tiOn hands small farmers from Bayou
Cane and the Bayou Blue settlement
also came over to help.
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Subscribers h fail to receive their paper
On time should notify US without DELAY.
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A NOVEL lNDUsTRY.-There is no
doubt about the establishment Of 4
corncob pine factory in Opelousa.
within the next few weeks. The fac
tory will furnish employment to fifteen
or twenty hands-m-n and boys,
with a capacity of about ten thousand
pipes daily. The cobs for the pipes
and reed canes for stems can be had
in this immediate vicinity in unlimited
quantities and thus will be utilized
material which has heretofore been of
no value whatever. The refuse Of the
cobs will be ground, mixed with cot
tonseed meal and sold for stock food.
-OpelOusas Courier.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1897.
S&mnRlee
~@5RAD
THE HERE.

The high water situation is not ma
terially CHI anged since our last issue.
Many have occurred on the
Mississippi in the States OF Mississippi
and Arkansas, but, wonderful TO relate,
up to this present writing, no breaks
have taken place in Louisiana levees,
barring the two breaks below.
Here. the situation is critical, as,
indeed, it has been for many days
past. The weather has been any thing
but propitious to the ~levees. Last
Saturday witnessed a most unprece-
denied rain fall, accompanied by
strong wind. In fewer hours, nearly
seven inches of rain was precipitated
upon our already-soaked and strained
levees. As a result, the levee on the
front of the town, from the bridge to
the Catholic church, sloughed very
badly, and at one point in particular
on the lower line of the Bourg proper
ty, adjoining the church property, a
break was seriously threatened and
would, no doubt, have occurred but
for the timely succor of some patriot
10 citizens of the vicinage, most ABLY
assisted by Col. w. H. Price, Messrs.
j. Scott Williams and Joe Smithwick
with the Acadia hands, who worked
in the cold pelting rain from morn
way into the afternoon, until they
felt that thedanger was, fol the time
being, passed.
All who worked in that miserable
weather to prevent a break in orr
levee at that particular point, deserve
much praise and are entitled to and
should receive the heartfelt thanks Of
the community. The hands from
Acadia, all colored, deserve special
mention for having worked from
morning until nearly four o'clock in
the afternoon without stopping tor
their meals: indeed without eating,
The levee sloughed in other places
also, during last Saturdays rain and
wind storm, bet not so badly as on
the front of the Bourg property.
In the third ward, from Lafourche
Crossing to within a few miles above
Lockport, the people have made a
heroic and desperate struggle to hold
the levee. They have labored long
with might and main and have dis
played unsurpassed courage and hero
ism. They have had to raise the
lsvee, in many places. from twelve
inches to two feet to prevent the water
from running over it. All lent a help
ing hand, even fair young girls were
seen assisting in filling sacks with
dirt and in lifting them unto the
shoulders of old men. Where such a
readiness to help themselves is dis
played by a whole people having q
common interest and a common cause,
we are prone to believe that a benign |
Divine Providence will smile upon
them and avert the danger which
threatens them. }
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Organism ran riot in Chicago last
Tuesday in the election Of a mayor
and aldermn. Carter Har rison was
nominated by the Democrats aud
placed on q platform endorsing Bryan
and free silver and a direct fight made.
He carried the day by a fair majority
over the combined opposition. The
vote stood Carter tDemocrat) l4S, 900,
Sears (Repnblican) IS zoos, Harlan In-
dependent) $4,000, Hesing tInd.) l6,-
600; Carriers majority over all, 5000.
When we consider that Chicago
gave Mckinley u majority of .54.OIl
last November, these figures show
quite a change 10 the sentiment of the
"Windy City,"
MI, Bryan, when interviewed on
the subject of the recent elections,
said, laughing hea. till ..''They Indicate
that confidence has been restored"
"They need no explanation from me-
he added. They speak for them
selves" -.
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SOMETHING OF A SURPRIsE.-The
municipal elections held in Ohio and
other states last Monday proved 4
genuine surprise all around. The
Democrats carried CINCINNATI and in
nearly all the towns of the Buckeye
state Dem ocrats were. elected az nav
ors aud cOuncilmen. Even Canton
itself the home of President McKin-
ley, succumbed to the assaults of rh.
Democracy. and Mr.. Rice, tho Demo.
cratic candidate for mayor carried the
day by q majority ranging any where
between 1000 aud 5000. Detroit.
Mich. Gov. Pingree's bailwick, the
great and only P~ingree's man for Nav
or was badly defeated By his Demo-
cratic opponent. Evansville, Ind.
has swung itself back. into the Demo.
cratic column, and even in Iowa the
Republican met with reverses.
There is no apparent explanation
for this change, unless it ne that the
Den ocrats were waited into popular
favor ny that much promised wave
OF prosperity which v came.
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THE STATE OF LOUISiAyl
18Th. Judicial District Court. Pafih Il
LafourcIle
Succession Of Leon 7ansi4 aua Ii
wJe Eagenie Member, No. 1901
Pro6ates.

TSAKE NOTICE. THAT PuSUAET W
l. Nh order and decree of the asare tout
AMI to u commission la me directed il Ia
above entitled ana numbered s~ureesAua. |
will offer for sale &c public auetial pursuass
to law tn the last and higlesr isfider ii Id
Court House in the Town Of Thibodsas d
SATURDAY, APRIL 9th, 1871,
bet the hours OF II o'cloek ! 10. and 3
o clock p. m.. the following described pus
city, to-wit:
REAL ESTATE
The undivided half OF Il certain trsss d
land situated III the parish " LsluuFche usM
the Bayou G.hackUaie Oh TIE left bank 0iihs
Bayou l.~afourche, aud at ab0nt seven q
eight miles from said BAYOU, &C eight Or idas
miles north of the town OF ThibodaaK, lnasas
uring tifty-six or fiity-seven acres more u
less in superfieies, bounded on the South
lands of Reddick Darden. formerly. nor d
simon Abraham. North Ivy lands of Laais
Hodiigne, Now or Formerly, East BY Iandsof
Pierre Benoit formerly, now of AlexandE
Felix, West nv lands of Jean M0Fean All
those of tho United States formerly. md naK
OF John Darden, with all the buildings sa4
improvements thereon and al the rights ad
privileges thereto belonging. Being thasaas
property acquired from Michel LeEyent lss
the deduction of a fraction thereof sdld y
Jean MoreauJ March 9th. l84I,
MOVEABLES.
Two cows and two calves.
Tn the following terms and e~ondltidHs,
viz: Fol cash to pay debts.
JAMES BEARY,
Sheriff Of LafoaruHA
March Goth. 1897.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA,
18th Judicial District Court, Parish q
LatOurclie.
Succession of Elbia Green, sclfs9
Isaac Talbert No. 1893, Probats.

TAKE NOTICE: THAT PURSUANT ~
Il an order and decree u4 the above Vess
and to u commission to me directed " ~
above entitled and numbered suceessicni W.
otter Tor sale at public auction pufsuaas 7
law, to the last and highest bidder stms
Court House in the town OF Thibodaux ~
SATURDAY, APRIL 10Th, 1871,
between the hours Of II o'clock .. 10. ara
o'clock p. M, the following described p"Y
erty, tO-wit:
REAL ESTATE.
lst.-A certain fractional lot OF groaaa =
town los situated in this parish in tpe lsss
of ThibOdaux being the MOI theastern Palsss
of Lot No. lis, on the plan o. SAID ~.
made and executed by James u. Grlnagc' a
the LIST day of May, Is4s; which sa,a W.
tional lot OF ground measures one bapa.sz
aud thirty-ive tl35) feet front on Gross ~.
by a depth OF sixty-eight feet on ths wsssS @J
line, which said western liue Is 10 % pafaa~
with jackson Street, thence running ~
West to East between parallel lines y 49,
Clay street, bounded North by Cross ~. u N
w est and South BY other portions "a &c ~ !
No. llS and East by Henry Clay sEfees,
gether with all the buildings and inp.s.SS
ments thereon, rights and ways ana -
leges thereunto belonging.
MOVABLES.
2nd- One bed aud contents.
~3rd-Three pictures.
4th-Uue biz looking glass.
5th-Three ChalIs
6th-Halt interest In mare and colt -
Terms and conditions of sale, Casn ~
debts. JAMES BEAnan
Sheriff Of Laioaraas'
March 9th, 1897.
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Senator Cafferey's resolution au-
thorizing the immediate use of $3.50.
OO9. out of the Mississippi improve
ment fand, for the protection of the
levses Of the Mississippi, has been
finally passed, and the funds thus
placed ut the disposition of the au-
thorties having the levees in charge
will prove of immense benefit.
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wFully prepared to do job work
Of every description.
NOTICE!

Henceforth the SENTINEL will charge the
nominal sum of fifty cents for publishing
in memoriam notices and ordinary cards Of
thanks. Societies and others desiring such
publication will please make a note of it.
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just try q lOc. box Of Carcarets, the
finest liver and bowel regulator ever
made.
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Bayou Boeuf, Louis Kraemer. M.ras
Victor LegendIe, chackbay n
Onezippe Chiasson /" y
Edward Chiasson Baton PiIou = =
Leuiroid Dalgle, L'Ean 1Blen / n
And the following tive weeks csruaar
May 10th at the Court Hons.
Il. a. 'tt.tEsH
Ex-cihesa R-gh aE.
Parish VI Lac lgehs.
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REGISTRATION NOTICE

OHco OF Registrar Of Voters, }
Parish of Lafourche.
Thibodaux, La, March 18th, 1897.
In conformity with the law I hereby y;ve
notice that the Office Of Registrar of Voters
VIII be opened at the following places:
Thibodaux Court House from March the oetn
W. Arr.l o. $500 VIZ ~Clu
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-10-15
Preserving EGGS.

A chemist has announced that ne has
discovered method of treating eggs SO
that they will not spoil, and he asserts
thot in the future drinks in which eggs
are used will be mixed with eggs chem
ically insured. Eggs have been manu-.
featured by artificial means so cleverly
that 1t was difficult to tell them from
tie real article, but the discoyerer OF
this remarkable method of preserving
eggs alleges that he is the first man
in the field to succeed. Nearly all OF
the small soda water stands that may
be found through the thickly populated
east side district serve egg phosphate
during the summer months, and 1t oc
casionalIy happens that an egg Of the
'o6 model gets mixed with '07 phos
phate, with results that are disastrous
to the soda water proprietor. The in.
yentor of the new method believes that
his eggs will do more than the police
to keep the peace during the summer
months in these soda water districts.
Thus far he has made no explanation
of his new invention, but he alleges
that it has been thoroughly tested ant
found satisfactory--N. Y. Sun.
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FOREIGN CHATTER.

Urbino, Raphaers birthplace, has col
lected 100000 francs for the monument
it is going to erect to his memory, but
wants more.
Verdi has handed over to his friend
Boito a box, containing the complete
score of an opera, which is not to be
opened till he is dead.
All Menelek's power cannot make the
Abyssinians take to the new dollars
with his image. They still want the
effigy of Maria Theresa on their coins.
Ludwig Fulda, the author of 1.-THE
Talisman," has written a four-act
comedy called Friends" which will be
brought out at the Berlin Deutches the
alter.
Ten judges Of the English supreme
court continue on the bench, though
they have passed the period at which
they are by law entitled to retire on a
pension. la h
There is a great deal of sickness in
the British Mediterranean fleet, the
Malta naval hospitals being full. One
storeship from Crete brought 70 men
sick with dysentery.
Light opera is no longer to be given
vienna's Theater an der Wien, grand
opera taking its place. A beginning
viii be made with Puocinl's ia Boz
icme" and . new opera BY Ignaz
Byuel,