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The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19

The Trimble (Ky.) Banner, Il
Democratic paper, has placed the
party ticket for State officers at
the head of it's columns, but with
an interrogation mark after the
name of each candidate, and it
says: The Democratic politi-
ticians of the State may meet and
put up ticket for the TrimbIe
Banner, and in their own way;
but there their authority ends.
They cannot do the punctuating
for this paper.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
---o D& .

The taxdoger, by. evading his
.:ue share of the public burden,
either defrauds the revenues of
his city, county and State or COM
pels men of more honesty, and
generally of less property, to bear
part of his load. In other
words, he defrauds his fellow cit
izens consciously, intentionally;
he has money, Or its equivalent,
in his possession that belongs to
them. The smuggler and the
moonshincr get in their work
more directly, and they take far
greater risks than the taxdoger,
but we do not believe there is an
honest, intelligent man on earth
who would put them OH a lower
moral basis than that occupied by
the taxdodger.-Washi Pest.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
For District .JuL.e.

For District Judge,
OPELoUsAs, 11th Aug, 1899.
70 My Friends and the Public OF ST. Landry:
am a candidate for Judge OF this District.
subject to the nomination of the Democratic
party through primaries otherwise as the
Executive Committee may deem ad visahle
JOHN NJ OGDEN,
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19

Mr.. Senter, a photographer,
who was located here for some
time, has An invention if it is
what he claims it to be, will make
him rich man in Il very short
time. Mr.. Senter has associated
with him to patent and push his
invention State Treasurer \. Y.
Fournet and Congressman K. +.
Broussard, and all three left this
week for Washington to secure
the patent after which their idea
is to go to New York to test the
invention in q practical manner.
The invention Is to reproduce on
a board to be place at the railroad
offices and upon each train; the
whole division of a railroad track
is shown upon Il board, and all
trains are reproduced in motion,
showing their exact location: if
wreck occurs, the dispatcher as
we'll As all other trains will see
the wreck as they would the re-
production by the vita>cspe.
Supt. T. ". Owen came over 10
see Mr.. Senter about his inyen-
ton, and he promised Mr., Owen
shat as soon as his invention is
protected by patent. to try it on
this division Of the Southern Pa
citic. If the invention is sue
cess, and we have no reason to
doubt, it Will make the owners
fnillionaires in very short time
st. Martinville Messenger.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
Where We're They !

There are about 27oO applica
ions for pensions before the Pen
sion Bureau and tie men who
stood by the guns ,ltil the last
shot was fired are> wondering
where all these soldiers Ts,l
when Lee and johnson surren-
dered. They certainly were not
in Virginia or North Carolina,
and the number OF men then wit h
their commands was considerable y
less than 2oOo,-Baton Rouge
Truth.
Now, Bro. McGrath, old sol
diers like yourself and our friend
Gen. Hemphill, of South Carroll
ma. should not ask these embar-
rassing questions. OF course
some of the applicants from this
parish are deserving. but there
are lots Of them who were hiding
in the marshes or belonged to the
home guard or were detailed in
the quartermaster's department.
The whole pension business is
getting to be an imposition on the
good people of the State. The
Boar, should go over the list
again and carefully weed out all
applicants.-Ahbev
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
NO. 40
JUDICIAL. ADsEzs zsgaaEssgtsFs.
kaEsssEE,A SALE

FELIA i.oEN X BROS y tIA%. J.
EItUAEr.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19

Fer sheriff.
We are authorized to announce MARION r..
SWORDS as a candidate for Sheriff of St
Landry, subject to the nomination of the DEM
ecratic party.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19

The Morgan City Independents
Democrat is perfectly correct
when it says:
The great trouble with the prsss
Of the country is that it enter
talns the idea that it has a per-
feet liberty to publish anything it
pleases regardless of the truth.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19

Congo Free State negroes are
being Christianized by q hand
organ. Capt. Becker, Free
State official, thoughtfully took
one with him to his post, and
finding that the natives enjoyed
the music, and being also desir-
Gus that they should marry in
christian fashion, he! announced
that the organ would be played
at every Christian wedding The
result was that weddings took
place almost daily, and it was dis
covered that many couples got
married more than once in order
to procure the music.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19

The PopuIists of the fifth con-
gressional district met at Ruston
and put up Hon. 4. I. Nelson
OF Claiborne parish as their can
didate, The Farnlerville Gazette
says: 1t Is safe to say that
Nelson will be slscted-to stay at
home.
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
Wednesday,, lSugu.f :s0asa, 1929.
4astEEzE'H1's SALE.
No. 1913.

HENRY J., GARLAND vs.. NGLNEr GUIDEY,
NATURAL TUTEIX, ET Ai.S
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Fer sheriff.

candidates for pasbtic office ,riu he annouaf
et under this head at IS each, cash in adraure,
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19

FKVHE PUBLIC Is hereby notified that by
L. virtue OF authority conferred upon the un-
dersignei by the widow and heirs of the late
Joseph Marcantel Fills, | will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder at the last resi-
dence of the deceased in Fa1uetaique two miles
north of the town of E;Ince on
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
HDuRs4EC SAFE.

Sheriff +;
july 90, 1889
The Opelousas courier., 1899-08-19
q 81 ssz.se' SAFE.

Au4s:I-t ;, lea9.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
A Good ThInr for Nav.rre.

Canton, Aug. S.--The consolidation
of the c., c. & S, and w. & l.. Z.
roads will make n big town out of Ma
varre, this county. Ground was pur-
chased there last week for the CON
solidated yards, and officers of the
company have been looking at sites
for the shops. 1t is stated that the
company has decided to move the C..
c. 4 S. shops here, and the w. & l.. T..
shops at Massillon, both to Navarro.
This will take 400 men from Canton
and as any more from Massillon, and
will put them all at Navarro, with a
monthly pay roll of about $4,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12

Charles Clark, of TORONTO Ont, has
invented bicycle boat that cannot be
capsized and goes equally well in rough
or smooth water.
The czar of Russia announces that he
is well pleased with the work done by
the peace conference at The Hague.
A dispatch from Manila says that the
insurgents at San Fernando captured
and burned the United States steamer
Saturnus.
The cruiser New Orleans arrived at
Santo Domingo City where she was
sent to protect American interests in
case of an outbreak.
The trial of Capt. Dreyfus, charged
with revealing army secrets, began at
Rennes, France.
The supreme council of war in Mad
rid acquitted the officers charged with
the responsibility of surrendering San
tiago to the Americans.
Mrs. John Wanamaker, of Philadel-
phia, was robbed at the Elysee Palace
hotel in Paris of jewels valued at S4o,-
600.
Seventeen persons were killed and 81
injured in a collision on the Orleans
railway at Juvisy, France.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
NEW S OF OHIO.
Gathered by Telegraph From All
Parts of the State.
Dusenbury Is Removed.

Columbus, Aug. 9,-Mayor Schwartz
yesterday ended the contest between
the executive and Legislative branches
of the city government by removing
Director OF Public Safety Joseph w.
Dusenbury, appointing Oliver NJ Ev-
ans to the position. The city council
some weeks ago adopted resolution
impeaching Dusenbury and declaring
the Office vacant, on the ground tha6
Dnsenbury divided his time between
his office and his other business in
tercsts, contrary to law. The mayors
investigating committee found this
charge to be true.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
VIII Burn His Library.

Toledo, Aug. 0,-on the evening of
August Is, in the middle of the street
in front of the Memorial United
Brethren church, this city, the ele-
gantly bound volumes which compose
the library of Marshall o. Waggoner,
formerly one of the most pronounced
agnostics in the country, will be burn
ed. He was recently converted to
Christianity and made public dec
laration of faith few weeks ago and
became member of the United Rreth-
rem church. The library in question
is valued at several thousand dollars.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
LATER.

The fire loss of the United States
and Canada for July aggregates Sill.
$4,000. During 3uly there were 2O4
hres of greater destructiveness thar
| $4,000 each.
Owing to the strike on the New York
Sun Typographical Union No. 6, oil
New York City, has levied an assess,
ment of per cent. on the earnings al
its members, to be continued indef.
nitely. This sum will realize several
thousand dollars per week.
First Sergeant John jackson was
shot and killed at Fort Douglass,
Utah, on the Sth by Private w. II.
Carter, and the latter was then shot
and killed while resisting arrest.
Both are negroes and belong to the
Ninth United States cavalry.
The strike of the Chicago brickmak.
ers is practically off.
The steamer Iowa, one of the best
boats on the Ohio river, was sunk at
the foot of Slim island, five miles be.
low Mt. Vernon, Ind, on the night of
the 9TH. No lives were lost, but there
We're many narrow escapes.
So far this season the amount of
gold received at Seattle from the Alas
kan gold fields aggregates about S4.-
100000, of which $4,O1s. .262 arrived
during July. The amount so far re-
ceived at San Francisco is approx
mately $2,70O,OOO.
Andrew Carnegie has given e1o,-
900 to found public library at Keigh-
ley, Yorkshire, England.
An explosion of gas in the Pine
Brook colliery of the Scranton (Pal
Coal Co. on the sth seriously burned
five men. The explosion was caused
by miners naked lamp. The force
of the explosion was so great that one
man was picked up $50 feet from
where he had been working.
Rev. Charles II. Lamson. of Hort.
iord, Conn, president of the American
board OF commissioners for foreign
missions. died at St. Johnsbury, VT,
on the Sth of neuralgia of the heart.
lie was SO years of age.
a train of 20 freight cars was
wrecked in tunnel on the Cincinnati
d Southern railway near Somerset.
n.y., on the Sth by the explosion of
tank car loaded with naphtba. The
wreckage caught fire and the entire
Train became total wreck.
Two sisters, Annie and Mary Gro
zler, aged respectively 55 and As years.
were found dead in their home at
ON the sth. An inyes-
tigation by the coroner is said TO
have proved that the elder sisters
death was due to natural causes and |
that Mary committed suicide by inhal- |
ing Illuminating gas, grief doubtless
the act.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
Texns,O Old Nnnc.

Probably the fact is not generally
known that Texas was at one time and
for many years called the New Phil
ippines." The first settlement in what
Is now Texas was made by French en-
igrants in 1855. During the next 25
years there was an intermittent strug-
gle between the French and Spanish
Tor supremacy, resulting in favor of
the latter, and in 1714 the name of the
New Philippines was given TO the
country. This was its official name in
Spanish records for many years, and
until the name of Texas, from a tribe
of Indians, gradually came into vogue.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
Personal AND PoL1TICAL.

Iowa republicans in convention in
Des Moines renominated Leslie NJ.
Shaw for governor, j. c. Milliman for
lieutenant governor, r. G. Barrett for
superintendent of public instruction,
and nominated John C. Sherwin for su-
preme court judge. The platform in
dorses the Mckinley war policy and the
gold standard.
Gen. Rufus r. Dawes, a civil war vet
eran and father of the comptroller of
the currency, died in Marietta, o., aged
81 years.
Kentucky prohibitionists met in
Louisville and nominated o. Il. Wal
lace, of Garrard county, for governor.
The platform denounces the state ad-
ministration and favors woman's suf-
frage.
The Maryland democrats met in Bal
timore and nominated for governor
John Walter Smith, of Worcester coun-
ty.
The populists of the Eighth congress
sional district of Missouri have nomi-
mated w. Il. Hale, of Phelps county, for
congress.
of Missouri have nominated Dorsey w.
Shachleford, of Bonneville. for congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
Of Richard p. Bland.
The republicans of the Eighth Mis-
souri, district have nominated j. w. Vos-
hall for congress.
EX-Congressman w. a. Piper died in
San Francisco. He was rs years old
and leaves an estate valued at over
$2,OOO,OOO.
Mrs. Catherine Medars died at her
home in Brooklyn, Ind, aged 1O1 years.
William Brooks, aged 112 years, and
Otway Davis, aged 1O7, died in Knox
Vile, Tenn.
Rev. George w. Pepper, d. d., died in
Cleveland, o. He was civil war vet
eran and United States consul to Milan
under the Harrison administration.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The products of the mineral indus.
tries of Kansas for 1898 amounted to
more than S7,o0O,OOO.
Eighty-four per cent. of the entire
state of Idaho is still public land
amounting to more than 100000
acres.
John Jacob Astor is organizing and
equipping at his own expense in New
York another company for service in
the Philippines.
A statue of the late United States
Senator Zebulon b. Vance is to be
placed at the eastern entrance to the
Capitol square, Raleigh, n. C.
American printing presses have APP
peeared in Edinburgh, and the only adj
| verse criticism made is that they turn
out papers faster than is necessary.
The navy department has decided in
the case of new gunshops at Washing
ton navy yard that workmen must not
be employed more than eight hours a
day.
Ferdinand w. Peck, United States
commissioner-genera to the Paris ex-
position, has been requested to give the
Christian Endeavor society space for n
building of its own.
Thomas f. o. O'Brien, n New York DO
liceman who pleaded guilty to having
stolen jewelry from dead body, was
sentenced to four years and three
months in Sing Sing.
After several years consideration the
Pennsylvania Railroad company has de-
cided to create a pension and superan-
nuation fund for the benefit of the en-
ployes of the company.
Gov. Geer, of Oregon. has decided to
present each member of the Second Gre
gon regiment with bronze medal, to
be cast from one of the cannon can.
tured in the Philippines.
The Hotel Eisenbeis at Port Town
send has been leased by the United
States government and will be used as
hospital for the sick and wounded
soldiers from the Philippines.
Within the past eight years there
has been gain of sc per cent. in the
enrolment of the secondary schools
OF the United States, rate of increase
said TO be five times that of the increase
in population.
The judge advocate of the navy de:
partment in an opinion decides that
there is nothing in the law or regu-
lations requiring a naval vessel to en-
ploy pilot. The decision is general in
its application to all ports.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
wants sa, 900 damages.

Greenville, Aug. 5.-Anna Lawrence
OF New Madison, Thursday brought
suit against Charles l.. Drummer, a
wealthy young man of Beech Grove
FOR $4,000 damages for breach of prom.
ise' The plaintif' alleges that a mar,
rage contract existed between he1
and Brupner, but that the defendant
Kept putting OFF the marriage, and
finally declared that he had no inten-
ton of marrying. This declaration,
she says, was made by letter delivered
TO her on tne evening of the proposed
marriage, while the guests were as.
semhled.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
A lucky Younger Son.

The case of a younger son is usually
pitied in England, but there was a
notable exception in the case of the
family of the late earl of Mansfield,
who died worth some $5,700,OOO. Vis-
count Stormcnt, the father of the earl
OF Mansfield, the great Judge, was one
of the poorest lads in Scotland, and
"as poor as Scottish lord has long
been by-word in England. This
younger son, William Murray, born i'm
17O5, one of family of IL penniless
children, rode off to London on his
pony, to attend Westminster school,
and never, it is said, saw his native
land again, but he left an earldom
and vast fortune to his oldest broth
er's heir. The earl who recently died
was the fifth of the title, and the sixth
earl is his brother.-N. Y, Sun.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
POINT IN THE CASE.
Jake Didn't Mind the Charge Against
Him, He Wanted to Know
Some thing.

How greater trouble overshadows
lesser was aptly illustrated in one of the
minor courts the other day. The accused
was big, strong, honest German, greatl ,
excited and disposed to do more talking
than is permissible under such circum7
stances. The court distinctly said that the
big man was charged with disturbing the
peace and asked him whether he was guilty
or not guilty.
dot vos noting, shudge," came the re-
sponse. Der prew'ry he hired me ter drive
dot wagon. Tony Velters, he say: Shake,
it vos besser and you yoin der union, und
den, he say Why | dond't vait dleetle an
see how vos it. So | wait.
"Purdy gwick der boss he say. Shake,
you can get your moneys und give up your
DEAN. We vos a union prewery.' | say
would see Tony und ask him vot der reason
init him dot he advise me out of yob.
When l find Tony he say did haf some
sense, und l told him he vos schmarder und
vos und he didn't know not 'ings"
But they say you argued with club
and that Tony's strongest proposition was a
brick"
DOT vos not der point, shudge. Vot I
want der, find Quit is, how do slant on der
union labor question ?"-Detroit Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
4 Relic Of ne.nntinrn.

Toledo Aug. 4.--Mayor Jones an
proved the ordinance to appropriate
$4,000 to defray the expenses of the
city council to attend the convention
of the League of Municipalities at
Syracuse. The newspapers called on
the mayor to veto it. but the mayor,
in a message, denounces the veto pow
er as autocratic, and calls for its abo-
lition. He says it is a relic of despot.
ism
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12

ACCORDING to DIR. Gall, every one is
constituted so that he can not assimi-
late more than certain quantity of
sugar without the sugar remaining in
the blood. Beef gives muscle, but sug-
ar and other Hydrocarbons give
strength. Sugar is good to take when
one has to make an. effort for a long
time. Alcohol is hydrocarbon, but it
depresses after elevating, and it de
stroys resistance to disease. Sugar
docs not depress, and is food.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12
Labor nay ProcIamat,oD.

Columbus, Aug. 4.--Gov. Bushnell
Thursday issued proclamation set,
ting aside September 4 as Labor day.
After paying high tribute to labor, tho
proclamation closes with these words:
u heartily commend TO the people that
they unite with the representatives of
the various trades and industries in
doing their utmost to make
the celebration successful and
happy one in all ways"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12

A woMAN's glory is her hair, and
that of Mercedes Lopez, Mexican. is
said to be unique. Mercedes height is
five feet, and her hair, which is said to
be the longest in the world, trails on
the ground four feet eight inches. 1t
is so thick that she can wrap it around
herself till she is completely hidden by
1t. Mercedes is the wife of a poor
shepherd, and SO fast does her hair
grow that she is able to sell large
tresses of it to hair dealers every few
weeks
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12

The monuments erected to the mem
ory of Illinois soldiers at Chattanooga
Tenn, will be dedicated November 2s.
William Waldorf Astor, who latel,
renounced American citizenship. wa,
burned in eifigy in Long Acre square il
New York.
Alexander Hill (colored) was hanged
at Centerville, Ala, fo' the murder ot
Mrs. Rufus Hubbard.
Otto F. Schleuber shot and killed his
wife and himself in Cleveland, O. .Ieal.
ousy was the cause.
James Phelps and Sam Bailey, tive
negroes, were hanged at Charleston, s.
", from the same scaffold for murder.
Official reports from the soldiers
home Mt Hampton, Va, show that the
yellow fever situation there continues
favorable.
Charles Yager, aged 40 years, muir
dered his three small children nj
Brandt, Pa, and then committed sui
eide. He was insane.
kDozens of cattle and horses were
killed and barns were DESTROYED bv a
cyclone at Hicksville, 0.
Three Mormon churches near Middle
Creek and one at Beechburg, in Ken
tucky, were destroyed by mobs and the
elders driven away.
Street railway strikers in Cleveland,
u, stoned cars and injured several per-
sons.
In Philadelphia Burns Pierce, of Bos-
ton, broke the bicycle record for two.
three, four and five miles. The time
was 1884 for first mile, 3:09 for second,
4:46 for third, 6:23 for fourth and :o2
for fifth.
John MaSey, a negro, was hanged at
Van Buren, Ark, for assaulting n little
girl.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 9th were: Brooklyn, .67O;
Boston, .626; Philadelphia, .6O2; Balti-
more, $50; Chicago, .55I; st. Louis.
.5is; Cincinnati, .543; Pittsburgh, .511;
Louisville, .444; New York, .39S; Wash
ington, .S62; Cleveland, .175.
Hebrews have been denied admit
tance at the Oriental hotel, Manhattan
Beach, n. Y.
Gold certificates are again to be is
BY the capsizing of a row boat on the
Patapsco river near Baltimore, Md,
Andrew Deems, William j. Lyman,
James Walsh, Edward Garry and Mrs.
Hoover were drowned.
John Williams murdered his divorced
wife near Cortland, ILL.,, and then
killed himself
Elwood Haynes and E. L. Apperson
arrived in New York, having made a
trip from Kokomo, Ind, on an automo-
bile in 20 days. The distance is 1850
miles.
Because her 16-year-old daughter
Ruth had loved unwisely, Mrs. Gather
inc Wise, of Greentown, o., cut her
throat while she was sleeping, and then
committed suicide.
Jim Mite, the only surviving member |
of the Dalton gang of outlaws, was SEN
fenced at Henderson, Tex, to life i'm |
prisonment for murder.
y trolley car went over trestIe so |
feet high near Bridgeport, Conn, and
35 persons were killed and others were
injured.
Twenty persons were killed and 40
were injured as the result of the break
ng down of ferry slip at Mount Des-
ert Ferry, Me.
President Mckinley has purchased
the famous Mckinley cottage in Can
on, o. 1t was endeared to President
md Mrs. Mckinley as their first home,
where they began housekeeping.
The works of the Glens Falls IN. W
Portland Cement company were burned,
'ausing loss of $25O,OOO.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12

FARM manager at Fodderty, Ding
wall Scotland, watching mole catch
er at work, saw sea gulls hovering
over and occasionally alighting upon
a turnip field in which the observer
and others were at work. A particu-
larly large and handsome bird attract
ed his attention by the graceful way it
hoated slowly over the drills, intently
scanning the surface of the ground.
Suddenly, steadying itself moment,
1t dropped, dug its bill into the heav-
ing ground. and rose with mole for
its prey. Resting a few minutes, it
gracefully began further search for
prey.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-12

The authorities of Lille, France,
have concluded some exhaustive tests
of the efficacy of ozone for purifying
water They find this method APP
plicable on large scale and superior
to any hitherto used. All pathogenic
or saphrophytic microbes inhabiting
the waters experimental upon were
destroyed. After treatment the water
is weakened in organic matter.