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Year: 1879

TEXAS is the greatest stock State in
the Union. 1t is estimated that during
the past ten years 5000, 900 head of cat
tie have been driven from the State,
without counting the number that have
been shipped by sea and rail. Taking
the average net receipts to stock raisers
at 81 per head, the estimate is $24, ,OO4,-
96l worth of cattle have been convert
ed into money in ten years. A novel
feature of the cattle trade is the co-ope-
ration of the mosquito in the manage
ment of the range. One of the largest
owners says that without the aid of the
mosquito three times as many men
would be required to herd and gather.
Out of the mosquito season the cattle
get as wild as deer, but under the influ-
ence of these pests, they congregate and
become docile aud easy to manage.
And now since the mosquito is encour-
aged and utilized as cattle tanner, let
it not be said that he was made in vain,
and let them all migrate to Texas, where
they can be made useful. Western FaTns
Journal
Year: 1879

Is the air full of balloons or the coun-
try full of liarsP When Donaldson was
lost reports camein for days of balloons
that had been sighted here and there
within a radius of from one to two hum
dred miles of Lake Michigan, and it is
the same now that Professor Wise is
missing. Go out doors and gaze into
the sky till your eyes get blurred, and
you may see whole flock of balloons
Yourself. If so, please report to the
nearest paper. - Chicago Journal.
Year: 1879

The Baptist Weakly asks; " How can
a summer vacation be prevented from
working evil to the religious lifeP" The
practice of being sure that you have
enough bait every morning before you
start will help nightly. Nothing so
tends to demoralize the religious life of
the average man as to find as he sits
fishing four miles from the hotel at a
time when the fish are biting we'll that
the bait is all out and he must return
for more.-NetO York World.
Year: 1879

body, a ful! and complete report
OF all their proceedings had such
report to contain the names Of all
parties ordered out for road duty,
the mum er of days required of
them, together with the kind of
tools required to be brought by
such parties and in case Of carls
and teams. the number Of days
worked by said teams, and the
number of days allowed therefor.
Said report to also show, the names
of parties and number of days
worked, together with amount of
monies collected, and from whom
collected, and the disposition
made thereof.


Be it further resolved, that all
Road Overseers hereafter appoint
ed. as well as those whose terms
have just expired, shall be and are
hereby required to furnish said re-
ports to the Police Jury at its
first session after having caused
work to be done on the roads.


Resolved that copy of the
above resolution shall be served
on each Of the outgoing and in
coming Road Overseers Of this
parish.


Art. II Resolved that the Par
ish Treasurer be and he is hereby
authorized to pay Solomon Wise
out Of the : mill fund assessed and
levied to pay the expenses Of re
pairing the Abbeville Bridge, a.
fast as collected and paid in the
treasury and until the balance of
his claim against the parish shall
he fully reimbursed to him.


Art. IL Resolved that the Con-
stable Of this body be and he is
hereby authorized to sell at public
auction, to the last and highest
bidder, for cash, after fifteen days
advertisement in the official jour.
nal, the fence now around the
courthouse the proceeds of said
ale he shall pay over to the par
Ish Treasurer, taking his receil
therefor, and make due report OF
his doings at the next meeting Of
this body.


Art. I3 Resolved that Presi-
lent of this body appoint a COM
mittee Of three persons whose duty
t shall be to correspond with par
les in and out of the State on the
-uhject of having good jail built;
that said committee report at the
next meering of this body.


The President appointed on
said committee Messrs. Ambrose
La our, Alonzo VapsIyke and W.
w. Edwards.


The Jury took recess until 2
o'clock p. m, at the appointed
hour the Jury re-assembled-al al


he members present.


The following claims against
he parish were then allowed to
ne paid out of their respective
funds, to wit


Crir,'I p,oc fnnd 1870
Year: 1879

ululculty In Retllng any one W
haul the timber and lumber for the
work. Your committee had con-
tracted on favorable terms with
Mr.. Thos. L. Ransom to get out
the piles and lumber at his saw
mill at Grosse-Isle, and he was
ready to deliver most of it early,
thereafter. but no one could he
found in the condition the roads
then were to haul it, and even as
high as $40 per thousand was ask
ed for hauling after the roads got
in good condition. The commit
tee was unwilling to pay such
prices as it would not allow them
to complete the work within the
limit of expense fixed by your
body, at the same time the public
and the business men of Abbeville
were setting up a howl because
the committee were making no
progress with the work. Under
these circumstances, one Of your
committee offered to haul the piles
and lumber from Crosse Isle at 81
per tho usanu which the committee
paid. Other lumber had to be
purchased in New Iberia which
cost laid down in Abbeville $50
per thousand being best kind OF
cypress. Your committee con-
tracted with Mr.. Thomas L. Ran
som to do the work for three hun-
dred and twenty five dollars, the
committee furnishing all materials
and the blacksmiths work. Some
additional work such as splicing
The piles, &c., amounting to $65
was paid for. Your committee
found many Of the timbers in the
bridge considerably decayed and
needing new timber, but did not
feel authorized to go to any more
expense in the repairs entrusted
to it. 1t is hoped that the bridge
will be safe and continue to work
well for Is months or two years,
hy which time it will probably
need extensive repairs, again, on
account of decay of its timbers
Many planks in the girders are
uhsound and by that time will re
quire taking out and putting in
new ones and the timbers in the
frame on which the girders rests
are decaying quite fast.


Annexed will be found a detail.
ed acct of expense incurred which
was paid for by drafts drawn of
Mr.. Solomon Wise under his
agreement with the Police Jury.
The cost of iron and blacksmiths
work done is $74 40. A small
amount of blocks and timber is
left on hand which might be sold
for the account of the parish.


The total expense Of said re-
pairs after deducting the amount
of timber taken back by Mr.. Wise
at cost is eight hundred and sixty
four dollars and seventeen cents.
All of which is respectfully sub
| mitted.
Year: 1879

Sometimes police officers are excus
able in being somewhat rough wher
they make arrests, but in many in
stances there is much unnecessary
severity exercised. One Of these latter
took place yesterday afternoon in the
vicinity of Third and Orange streets.
Officer Payne had a drunken man in
tow taking him to the station, and had
pair of old fashioned nippers around
his wrist dragging and pulling him
along while the skin was lacerated and
cut so badly that the blood trickled
down oyer his wrist and hand. One Of
number of gentleman who witnessed
the affair, went to the officer and gently
reconstructed against the unnecessary
pain he was causing the prisoner by
the cruel nippers, but his kind inter
cession was met by the officer with a
volley of oaths and threats that he
would arrest him too.


1t is said that the mans wrist was so
badly cut that after he was taken to
the hall, physician had to be called
in to dress his wounds. The citizen
who was so rndely repulsed by the Off
Ger, made complaint to Mayor Almond
who promised to investigate the matter
stating at the time that he would use
all his influence against unnecessary
cruelty in making arrests.
Year: 1879

CAN anybody tell us why the Govern
ment should coin Il million of dollars of sill
yer bullion, which is more than Is per cent.
discount, into silver dollars of the daddies
for an individual, free of expense for the
coinage, and thus put into the pocket of
that individual $15O,OOO, more or less e? We
pause for reply. We favor the silver dol
lar, but not in that shape.
Year: 1879

UNLESS the MCDONALD bill is seriously,
severely, and emphatically amended, there
is no use in passing it. 1t can never be-
come law over the deserved veto it will
certainly receive.
Year: 1879

THE good people of Washington are es-
pecially and directly interested in the
prompt passage of the appropriation bills by
Congress. They are now beginning to re-
cover from the effects ofpast financial de-
preston and are on the eve of q renewal Of
general business prosperity. But if Con-
gress fails or refuses to make the appropria-
tions in question and thereby locks the
money up in the Treasury which would
otherwise obtain general circulation in
these parts, it stands to reason, as the
phrase goes, that much suffering will ensue
and the renewal Of business activity, which
is now so promising, will be subjected to
further delay. Nor will Washington suffer
alone in this regard from this threatened
failure or refusal. The entire country will
feel the withdrawal from accustomed chan
nels of commerce of the millions of dollars
the Government is expected and should be
compelled to pay out of its vaults during
the coming fiscal year. In fact, the locking
up in the Treasury of this immense sum of
money will amount to the most violent and
practical kind of contraction.
Year: 1879

IT appears that all the attendant and con-
sequent circumstances of the parliamenta-
rian spat between ZACH CHANDLER and
BEN HILL are decidedly to the dsadvan-
tage of the latter. As we predicted, fire.
quent illusions are now being made in the
Northern press to the alleged murder OF
poor BILL YANCEY, of Florida, III the Con-
federate Senate chamber at Richmond dur
ing the war, when, Us the story goes, this
same BEN HILL was as decidedly handy
with the inkstauds of his rebel Senatorial
neighbors as the veriest street rioter would
be with paving stone. After firing sew
era of these missiles at his antagonist how
ever it is reported that HILL clinched with
YANCEY and fell upon him, breaking his
back over the edge or frame of his desk
This gallant illustration Of his superiority
| in brute force over a weaker fellow-man
one who was chronic invalid at that, was
Mr., HILLS greatest exploit in belligerent
line during the war, Now, if he had only
tried these tactics upon Mr.. CHANDLER
| But he knew his man.
Year: 1879

THE Richmond Wing thinks it has dis
covered the fact that the National Vie'o is
nothing more nor less than one of the
many devices by which the Radical con-
"spirators against the liberties Of the people
"are seeking TO make false capital" Per-
haps Colonel CRANDALL will stand this sort
of thing, but ''e greatly misapprehend his
character if he doesn't have business at
Richmond soon. The oflcuse committed on
the part of the Wing is far more heinous
than the careless tying of lady's shoe by
au innocent shoe clerk, which cost him his
| life at Richmond
Year: 1879

If the bill to deprive United States officers
of the privilege or right of being tried in
United States courts upon indictments by
State authority against them for having
simply done their duty as such officers
should ever become law Notification
would be efrectually asserted in this coun-
try. With such law upon the statute
book there would be no necessity for n re-
peal of the supervisors act or any other act
which vests the slightest executive power
in the General Government; and, further,
there would be no use in attempting to ex-
ercise that power in any of the Southern
States
Year: 1879

THE withdrawal OF Secretary McCRARY
from the Cabinet devolves upon the Presi-
dent delicate rs well as difficult duty in
the selection of his successor. The character
and antecedents of the citizen thus to be
honored will be closely scrutinized and sub
iected to the severest criticism. At the
same time the motives Of the President in
making this important selection will be re-
viewed with more than ordinary severity
But after all, with the Republican party
consolidated and unified as it now is, and
presenting so many available statesmen as
it does from which lie can make his choice,
it is apparent that unless he wanders away
under some Utopian inspiration to convert
somebody or to resurrect some one else, or
to assert the tranquility Of political fac
tiousness, he will be able to satisfy the over
whelming masses of those who elected him
and who are loyalty opposed to Bourbonism
in all its varied guises, without violating the
eternal fitness of things, so to speak
Year: 1879

II Senator MCDONALD will betake him
self to a line of policy that will enforce
existing laws relating TO the purity of the
elective franchise and the rights of citizen
ship, instead of standing with pail and
brush in hand TO wipe out existing laws en-
acted for the public good, he might COM
mend himself to popular confidence and re-
spect But he can never do it through the
sugar-coated measure of sedition which he
proposes to introduce upon an early occa-
sion, Stripped of its sweetening blandish-
ments that is the worst measure yet pre-
sented. If it were ever so well intended
there is no call for it, as the existing laws
let alone are ample.
Year: 1879

THE fact exposed in these columns few
days ago that MR." ]. FLOYD KING, of
Louisiana, is being neither prosecuted nor
prosecuted, but really being protected by
the Federal authorities" has had the eff
feet to assuage his desire to make great
hullabaloo over his affairs. In truth this
exposure has served to disrobe him of his
and hns placed him before the public in his
real attitude of boastful political hypo-
critic, if not worse. But it is due to At
torney- General DEvENs to explain that his
interference to prevent the immediate SER
vice of the edpias issued by the United
was based upon the sound legal as
sumption that it would have proved
to be unavailing. The precedent es-
tablished in the case of the attempted
arrest of Senator PATTERSON upon requi-
sition from the authorities of the State of
South Carolina appears to cover KINGS
case as well, and the laws which granted
immunity to the Republican Senator at
that time from political persecution would
now grant the same immunity to this red
handed bull-dozer of the Democratic House
from judicial prosecution. Mr. KING is,
therefore, the fortunate beneficiary of Gen
eral DEvENs' careful economy, an economy
which has saved the Government the ex-
pense, and its officers the trouble, Of going
over the same grounds that were Travelled
over in our District courts in the PATrER-
SON case,
Year: 1879

nonsense rs is daily enncted by the MAJOR
ity in both Houses Of Congress, and they
are indicating very strongly that they have
found way out and are pursuing it. Un-
til the Democracy are reduced to minor
ity in the Government there will be no
peace, no security to the rights of citizen
ship; no safety TO the Constitution and the
laws and their guarantees; 10 public conf
dence; no stability in government or busi-
ness. These can be secured only by reduc-
ing the Confederate Brigadiers to the ranks
and placing them with the Coppcrheads ON
the back seats again, where they belong





1T must not be forgotten that the Solid
South obtained its clutch upon the throat
of the Government through the enfran-
chisement of the blacks, by which the ratio
of representation from that section was in
creased in the House. The Republican
party effected this enfrunchisement ns n
matter of principle, and as an illustration
of its devotion to the Heaven-born theory
of equal human rights. But in the recreant
days of Cancellation, when Southern Gush
was accounted or accepted as true loyalty
and the Bloody Shirt disciples were scorned
and derided as sectionalists or us sensational
agitators, that principle and that theory were
for the time being forgotten and ignored.
The pertinent lesson taught by this expe-
rience needs no elucidation at our hands, for
the era of bogus non-sectionalism is passed,
and the Republican leaders are one and all
in accord with the design of complete Re-
publican restoration ON the basis of the re-
construction acts and the constitutional
amendments If we cannot regain our lost
prestige in the South we can at least pre-
vent further or additional abuse Of the
magnanimity by which we enabled these
so-called ex-rebels to rehabilitate them
selves in the forfeited privileges of citizen
ship.
Year: 1879

For the last five years have not lost
a cucumber or melon vine or cabbage
plant. Get IL barrel with Il few gallons
of gas tar in it; pour water on the tar
always have it ready when needed and
when the bugs appear give them lib
eral drink of the tar water from a gar
den sprinkler, or otherwise, and if the
rain washes it off and they return, re-
peat the dose. 1t will destroy the Col
orado potato beetle, and frighten the
old long potato bug worse than a thresh-
ing with bush. Five years ago this
summer both kinds appeared on my
late potatoes, and l watered with tar
water. The next day all ColOrados
that had not been protected from the
sprinkling were dead, and the others,
though their name was legion, were all
gone, and | have never seen one on the
farm since. L am aware that many will
look upon this with indifference be-
cause is so cheap and simple remedy.
Such should always suffer both by their
own and neighbours bugs, as they fire.
queutly do.-ChicdgO Tribune.
Year: 1879

TFrom the Cambridge Tribune.l
Am I king that should call my own


This splendid ebon throne2
Or by what reason, what right divine,


Can proclaim it mine9
Only, perhaps, by right divine of song


1t may to me belong;
Only because the spreading chestnut-tree


OF old was sung by me.
Well remember it in all it's prime,


When in the summertime
The aff1uent foliage of its branches made


A cavern of cool shade.
There by the blacksmiths forge, beside the street


Its blossoms white and sweet
Enticed the bees, until it seemed alive,


And murmured like hive
And when the winds of autumn with shout,


Tossed its great arms about,
The shining chestnuts, bursting from the sheath,


Dropped to the ground beneath.
And now some fragments of its branches bare,


Shaped as a stately chair,
Have by my hearthstone found home at last,


And whisper of the Past.
The Danish king could not in all his pride


Repel the ocean tide
But seated in this chair can in rhyme
Roll back the tide of Time.
1 see again, one in vision sees,
The blossome and the bees,
And hear the children's voices shout and call,
And the brown chestnuts fall.
1 see the smithy with its fires aglOw,
1 hear the bellows blow,
And the shrill hammer on the anvil beat
The iron white with heat
And thus, dear children, have ye made to me


This day of jubilee,
And to my more than three score years and ten


Brought back my youth again.
The heart hath its own memory, like the mind,
And in it are enshrined
The precious keepsakes into which are wrought
The giver's loving thought
Only your love and your remembrance could
Give life to this dead wood,
And make these branches, leafless now SO long,
Blossom again in song.
HRNRY W. LoNGFELLow.
February 81, 1879.
Year: 1879

One Sabbath eve. in the summer time,


When the burning sun was low.
And the village that slept on the green hillside
Was bathed in its purple glow
tired little wanderer sat him down


On the step by the cottage door.
And rested his cheek on his dimpled hand,
While his face a sad look wore.
By and by he looked up and asked:


Are people afraid to diet
For whenever there's anyone sick, know,
1 always see folks cry.
I'm not afraid of the river dark,


For know what shall do,
I'll pray to God, and the angels then


Will come and carry me through"
/ looked with awe on the little child


To whom such faith was given,
And remembered our Saviour's blessed words:
'or such is the kingdom of heaven"
In one short week his faith tried,


For the angels took him home;
And the lamb is at rest by the shepherds side,
Where no sorrow can ever come.
Year: 1879

HOW RANDALL WAS ELECTED SPEAKER.


Mr.. Randall ought to appreciate the
value of a single vote as Thoroughly as
any man in this country. Had he re-
ceived one less than he did in the vote
for Speaker yesterday he would not
have been elected, the House would not
have been organized, and the little band
of Greenbackers would now be beside
themselves over the realization of their
prediction that they would hold the
balance of power, and would dictate
the organization of the House.


And while attention is called to this
matter, it may be well to see where
that very important vote which made
Mr.. Randall Speaker of the House came
from. In making up the roll of the
present House, Mr.. Adams, the clerk of
the last House, as on the organization
Year: 1879

~ A few handsfuls of gypsum (plas-
teri, sprinkled around the back door or
privy, will absorb all of the bad Odors
and perhaps keep sickness away. We
always save half barrel and have a
dish full in hand in the wood house for
use. Five minutes after it is spread
around, all offensive and sickening
smells will cease. A farmer had better
go hungry than leave these things un-
attended to. Whenever he does do it
he is running up an account with the
doctor and very likely will soon be in
debt to the undertaken, and if he
doesn't, nasty cess-pOol is not desira-
ble about ones dwelling. Correspond
ent Rurdl Nelu Yorker.
Year: 1879

WHAT He WANTED.-He had been
gone from his paternal roof six months
left home in the first bloom of sum-
mer, with smile upon his brow and
pickaxe in his hand. The Black Hills
his destination glory and gold the
goal. A summer spent amid the au-
riferous rocks-industry perseverance
and rare knowledge of chemistry and
mineralogy his useful tools in addition
TO the pickaxe. Results are such that
he is enabled to return sooner than his
most sanguine expectations had allow
ed him to dream of doing.


Almost home, he pauses outside the
town until nightfall and sends to his
waiting, expectant parents the follow
ing suggestive message:


'Bring me large blanket and pair
of old pants-Pve got hat"
Year: 1879

The percentage of people who are un-
successful, in the worldly sense of the
word, is very large one. Often God
snatches away, by His providence,
through no apparent fault or failure of
theirs, the fruit of mems labors when
it is just dropping, ripened, into their
hands. Other men come into life hope
lessly destitute of the knack " for get
ting ahead at anything. The farmer who
thinks he is making good bargain when
every one else sees that it is bad one !;
the schoolteacher who does not know
how to win the confidence or inspire the
enthusiasm of her pupils; the minister
whose "ways" repel people when he
takes the most pains to win their good
will-such persons are found every
where. They do the best they know
how, but they don't succeed. And since
it is an experience that is divinely as
signed to so many, we must conclude
that the ministry of poverty and defeat
is often better for us than any worldly
success could be. BLESSED are they who
make money or achieve prominence, y
did not find place in the Beatitudes-
does not, in fact, sound much like them.
Good Comp my.
Year: 1879

Castor oil will soften leather.


To whiten ivory, boil in lime water.
Hay water is good for washing ma
terial Of ecru tint.


To rid closets of ants, use green pep
permint frequently.


To clean zinc, rub on fresh lard with
"A cloth and wipe dry.


Paint should be vanished, because it
is then more easily cleaned.


Corsets with the whalebones removed
make good cleansing cloths.


A bit of glue dissolved in skim milk
and water will restore old Grape.


Fresh fish should be fried in the grease
obtained by frying sweet salt pork.


Tepid water is produced by combining
two-thirds cold and one.third boiling