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Daus la succession de feus ) Etat de la Louisiane,
Forrestin Bourgogne et > Paroisse d'Iberville.
epouse. Irma Comeaux. ) Cour du Orne District.
ATTENDU que Jules Bourgogne a ce jour pré
senté une petition en cette cour à 1 effet d'
obtenir des lettres d'administration dans la suc
cessions de feus Forrestin Bourgogne et d'Irma
Cornau x, son épouse —
^vis est par le present donné 5 tous ceux que
cela concerne de deduire sous dix jours de la date
a present les raisons pour lesquelles il ne serait
pas fait droit à la dite petition.
Bureau de la Greffier, le 2 July, 1857.
jy4 M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
Dans la succession
de feu
F. Belizaire Doucet.
Etat de la Louisiane,
Paroisse d'Iberville,
Cour du 6me District.
ATTENDU aue Jean Bte. Rils a ce jour enli
assé dans le bureau du Greffier de cette
cour son compte final comme Executeur de la suc
cession de feu F. Belizaire Doucet —
Avis est par le present donné à tdus ceux que
cela concerne de deduire sous trente jours de la
date de ce present les raisonss pour lesquelles
le dit compte ne serait pas homologué et l'exe
cuteur déchargé de toute responsabilité en cette
offaire: Bureau du Greffier, June 12,1857.
jel3 M. A. ESTEVAN. Greffier.
Dans la succession
de feu
John Michsltree.
1 Etat de la Louisiane,
> Paroisse d'Iberville,
j Cour du 6ème District.
ATTENDU que Elizabeth Riggs ace jouren
liassé dans le bureau du Greffier de cette
cour, son compte final omme administrator de la
succession de feu John Micheltree —
Avis est par le present donné à tous ceux que
cela concerne de deduire sous trente jours de la
date de ce present les raisonss pou r lesquelles le
dit compte ne serait pas homologué et l'executeur
déchargé de toute responsabilité en cette affaire.
Bureau du Greffier, June 20,1857.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
Dans la succession ) Etat de la Louisiane,
de feu > Paroisse d'Iberville,
Charles Leblanc. ) Cour du 6ème District.
ATTENDU que George Troxcler a ce jour en
liassÉ dans le bureau du Greffier ae cette
cour, son compte final comme administrator de la
succession de feu Charles Leblanc
Avis es par ie present donné à tous ceux que
cela concerne de deduire sous trente jours de la
date de ce present les raisons pour lesquelles le
dit compte ne serait pas homologué et l'executeur
déchargé de toute responsabilité en cette affaire.
Bureau du Greffier, June 26, 1857.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
Dans la succession ) Etat de la Louisiane,
de feu > Paroisse d'Iberville,
Duval Capdeville. ; Cour du 6èrae District.
ATTENDU que Peregrin P. Sugg a ce jour
enliasjé dans le bureau du Greffier de cette
cour, son compte final comme administrateur de
la succession de feu Duval Capdeville— *
Avis est par le preseril donné à tous ceux que
cela concerne de deduire sous trente jours de la
date de ce present les jraisonss pour lesquelles le
dit compte ne serait pas homologué et l'adminis
trateur déchargé de toute responsabilité en cette
affaire. Bureau du Greffier, June 25, 1857.
je27 M. A. ESTENAN, Greffier. \n\n SOUTHE
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SENTINEL.
VOLUME IX.
PLAQUEMINE. PARISH OF IBERVILLE. LA., JULY 11. 1857.
NUMBER 48.
i'CBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY
WILLIAM P. BRADBURN.
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And finally—AH communications for this paper, of any
**od every character whatsoever, intended to promote the
private ends or iuterest* of individuals, corporations, so
cieties or schools, will be charged as advertisements
The Loss of a Wife.
In comparison with the loss of a
wife, all other bereavements are trifl
ing. The wile—she who fills so large
4» space in the domestic heaven; she
who busied herself so unwenriedly for
the precious ones around her; bitter,
bitter is the tear that fulls upon her
cold clay. You stand beside hereof«,
fin and think of the past. It seems an
amber-colored pathway, where the sun
shone on beautiful flowers and the
esters hung glittering over head. Fain
would the soul linger there; no thorns
are remembered save those your hands
may unwillingly have planted. Her
noble, tender heart lays open to your
inmost sight. You think of her now
as all gentleness, all beauty, all purity.
Hut she is dead—the dear head that
has lain on your bosom rests in the
still darkness upon a pillow of clay.
The bunds that have ministered so
untiringly are folded, white and cold,
beneath the gloomy portals. The
heart whose every beat measured on
eternity of love, lies under your feet.
The flowers she bent over in smiles
bend now above her in tears, shaking
the dew from their petals that the ver
dure around her may be kept green
and beautiful.
A New Jersey Justice,
There is such a Scripture simplicity
about the following, and so refreshing,
carrying one back to the antediluvian
times, that it can't be read without a
hearty laugh:
A distinguished member of the New
York bar was retained on one occa>
sion by a friend, also a New Yorker,
to attend to a complaint made against
him before a New Jersey Justice, for
an alleged assault and battery upon
one of the residents of the "Old Jers
sey State."
'I appear for the prisoner,' said the
counsellor to the modem Dogberry.
'You abbears for the bris'ner, do
you; and who den be you?' interrupted
the Justice, eyeing him from head to
foot with marked curiosity. '1 ton't
knows you; vair be's you come from,
and vot's yer name?'
The counsellor modestly gave his
name and said:
«I am a member of the New York
bar.'
•Vel den,' replied the Justice, 'you
gan't bractis in dis here gort.*
'I am a counsellor of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York,' re
iterated the attorney.
'Dat makes noting different,' said the
inveterate Justice.
'Well then, said the baffled lawyer,
'suppose I show to your honor that I
am a counsellor of the Supreme Court
of the United States.'
'It ton't make it a pit petter,' replied
he of the ermine, 'you ain't a counseN
lor von de State of New Jersey, and
you gan't bractis in dish gort.'
This decision accounts for the fact
that New Jersey is not in the United
States.
A boy at a recent examination in an
English school was asked who discov
ered America? "I wish 1 may die,"
says a British editor, "if he did'nt an
swer—Yankee Doodle!"
Which five letters form a sentence
of forgiveness? I X d 8 U.
Baying a Horse.
BY ALICE CARY.
I am more and more astonished, the
longer I live, at the way men talk around
and live around facts, hesitate, quibble and
lie. An amusing instance of common
procedure in business transactions came
to my knowledge lately.
Mr. Brown, a farmer living new the
city of , was the owner of some half
dozen horses—one of which he was es
pecially anxious to sell, and Mr. Smith,
a resident of , was specially desirous
of purchasing said animal. He was well
advised of the good points of the horse
and predetermined to buy him, no matter
at what price he might be held by his
owner.
Mr. Brown, meantime, knew that Mr.
Smith wanted to buy the horse, and wnuld
probably pay more than his fair value:
nevertheless, weeks and months went by
and Mrs, Brown said repeatedly that
Brown's critters were eating their own
heads off; and Mr Brown answered 'Well,
well, what can I. do, sell them at auo
tion and get half their worth!' and Mrs.
Smith said as often, 'Much good our car
riage does us without a horse; I could find
one, I know,' and Mr. Smith replied that
he wished he could.
At last matters came to such a pass in
the two families that the sale and pur
chase could be deferred no longer, and
at this juncture n happy expedient was
hit upon by both parties, they would con
trive a meeting which should seem acci
dental. Accordingly Mr. Brown mount
ed his fine grey, and proceeded to the
Agricultural Fair, where he thought it
not unlikely he should meet Mr. Smith,
who at the same time, influenced by no
motive under the sun but the hope of
buying Mr. Brown's horse, set out for the
same place. Both were advancing in
hot haste, each intent on seeing the other,
when they met.
'Ah, Brown, how d'ye do?' said Smith,
assuming a look of astonishment, 'You
are the last man 1 expected to see here!'
'Well, I may say the same of you,' re
plied Brown; 'I 'd as soon have thought
o." seeing you at the end of the earth; how
did you happen to come here?'
'Well, I hardly know; I had no partic
ular object, that's certain. How are all
your folksî'
•Tolerable well, I thank ye, how are
yours?'
Then followed a long conversation on
the various ailments of children, in which
neither, of course, felt one particle of in
terest.
'I think,* said Smith at length, chang
ing the subject, 'the wind is veering round
to the East.'
'Yes,' said Brown, 'I should not won
der if we had rain.' Smith thought rain
was more likely to fall when the wind
was southerly. 'I hope it won't rain,' he
said, looking at the sky instead of at
Brown's horse; 'it would make it unplea
sant for the folk's at the Pair, especially
for the ladies.'
'Yes,' replie.d Brown, 'it would be diss
agreeable, especially to the ladies.'
Here both madê long recitals of storms
which they remembered to have fallen on
like occasions.
'There seems to be some nice cattle
here,' said Smith; on no account would
he mention horses.
•Yes,' said Brown, 'there's a fine pair
of oxen,'and he indicated by a gesture
the pair he meant.
'Not any stouter, are they, for being so
lurge?' said Smith.
•No, I don't know as they are; but then
if you happen to want to sell them for
beef cattle, you know, they can't weigh
too much.'
♦Ah, I suppose not.'
Everything was talked of that could be
seen or thought of; everything but what
was uppermost in the thoughts of Brown
and Smith.
•Well, I guess I may as well go home,
said Smith at length; 'it's nearly dinner
time;' and he wound his watch with the
deliberation of a man entirely easy in his
mind.
•I will go too,* said Brown, yawning.
'By the way, Smith,' he added, 'can you
tell me of any person who has a young
horse to sell, sound, good tempered and
handsome?'
If Brown, expected Smith to answer
that he himself wished to buy just such
a horse, he was disappointed, for Smith
replied as promptly as if he were speak
ing the truth, 'Why, yes, I have just the
horse yau want.'
Brown said he was glad to hear of it;
he would ride over and look at him the
first leisure day he had. Thus lying, one
to the other, Brown mounted the grey
horse which he was impatient to sell and
Smith impatient to buy.
They had shaken bands to separate,
when Smith remarked to Brown, slap
ping his fine grey on the shoulder, rath
er a promising colt this of yours; will
make a good work horse some day, I
should think.'
Brown understood the effected appre
ciation, and said he wished he only had
half a dozen more just like him, work
horse or not.
Smith replied that be had employed a
carman, an excellent judge of horses, to
keep on the look out for him; he, too,
would like to buy if he could suit him
self, and he would give the fellow a corn
mission from Brown.
While these pretenses were going on
the sun went down, but by degrees their
circumlocutions narrewed dowh to the
point of interest, aud about ten o'clock,
Brown having affirmed twenty times that
he would not sell his grey horse at any
price, and Smith having affirmed as often
that lie would not pay a hundred dollars
for him, even if he suited him, which he
did not in one single respect, the bargain
was effected, Smith paying three hundred
dollars for the horse.
'It's twice ns much as he is worth, and
you know it Brown,' said Smith, as they
separated.
'It is not half his worth,' replied Brown
as he pocketed the money. 'I am sojry
I let him go.'
When they reached their homes, Mr.
Smith told his wife that he had bought
Brown's splendid grey horse for half price,
and Brown congratulated his better half
on having sold the animal for twice his
value!
The Effect of Wealth .—The New
York Mirror says that it is estimated that
one of 'our rich men' (Wm. B. Astor)
has now a regular income of $3000 a
day, or about $1,100,000 a year. If
wealth led to happiness, Astor should be
the most contented man in this world.
He is not. To keep away the gout he
feeds himself on Graham bread; instead
of being the happiest man in New York,
he is perhaps one of the most discontent
ed. He is in law with his tenants about
one-half his time, and instead of taking
the world kindly, he speud6 eight hours
of ten in reading up the statutes on fraud.
Astar's income is $3000 a day, and yet
we could furnish all he consumes for $15
a week. Such being the case, it strikes
us that the man who makes $15 a week,
is just as well off as Astor. People who
worship ducats, place a false estimate on
them. Three of the best things in the
world are obtained gratis, viz: pure wa
ter, pure air, and unadulterated health.
Nearly everything that wealth gives us
we can do without.
Female Delicacy .-—Above all other
features which adorn the female charac*
ter, delicacy stands foremost within the
province of good taste. Not that delicaw
cy which is perpetually in quest of some
thing to be ashamed of, which makes
merit of a blush, and simpers at the false
construction its own ingenuity has put
upon an innocent remark; this spurious
kind of delicacy is far removed from good
sense; but the highminded delicacy Qliich
maintains its pure arid undeviatiug walk
alike among women and in the society
of men—which shrinks from no necessa
ry duty, and can speak when required,
with a seriousness and kindness, of things
at which it would be ashamed to smile or
blush—that delicacy which knows how to
confer a benefit without wounding the
feelings of another—which can give alms
without assumption and which pains not
the most susceptible being in creation.
A Good Plan .—The keeper of a large
beer saloon up in Toledo has hit on a first
rate plan to put an end to had debts. He
posts up over his bar, in conspicuous let
ters, something like the following:
Gobbs owes this house 75 cents for
beer.
Nobbs had better come and settle for
them beer and sausages. Total, 45c.
Hobbs, why don't you be an honest
man and pay up for the beer. Total, 99c.
Bobbs owes this house 2 dollars. Gone
away. Tam Scoundrel. Total, $2.
And so on. The plan is certainly a no
vel one, and no doubt works well.
>C7*It is stated in the English papers
that a few days ago there died at Morne
Park a horse that carried the late Sir
Charles Colville at the battle of Water
loo. The horse must have been at least
forty seven years of age.
Absence or Mind —The latest case
of absence of»mind is recorded of a lady
about to 'whip up' some eggs for sponge
cake, who whipped the baby and sang
Watts' cradle hymn to the eggs.
A woman in one of the towns of New
Hampshire, who had been ill used by her
husband, on finding him asleep one day,
quietly sewed him up in the bed-clothes,
and then gave him a tremendous thrash
\ Dg -
The protection of God cannot, with-,
out sacrilege be invoked, but in behalf of
justice and right.
Washington's Farewell.
Washington, as is well known, deliver
ed his farewell address in the old Con
gress Hall, Philadelphia, south-east cor«
ner of Chesnut and Sixth streets. A
somewhat garrulous old lady, of eighty
years, now residing in that city, writes to
her grandson in Washington:
When Gen. Washington delivered his
farewell address, in the room at the south
east corner of Chesnut and Sixth streets,
I sat immediately in front of him. It was
i;i the room the Congress had occupied.
The table of the Speaker was between the
two windows on Sixth street. *
There was a narrow passage from the
door of entrance to the room, which was
on the east, dividing the rows of benches.
Gen. Washington slopped nt the end to
let Mr. Adams pass to the chair. The
latter always wore a full suit of bright
drab, with slash, or ruther loose cuffs.—
He also wore wrist ruffles. He had not
changed his fashions. He was a short
man, with a good head. With his fami
ly he attended our church twice a day.
Gen. Washington's dress was a full suit
of black. His military hat had the black
cockàde. There stood the Father of his
Country, acknowledged by nations 'the
first in war, first in peace, first in the
hearts of his countrymen.' No marshals,
with gold colored scarfs; no cheering.—
The most profound stillness greeted him
as if that great assembly desired to hear
him breathe, and catch his breath—the
homage of the heart. Mr. Adams cover
ed his face with both hands. The sleeve
of his coat and his hands were covered
with tears. Every now ar>d then was a
suppressed sob. I cannot describe Wash
ington's appearance as 1 felt it—perfect
ly composed and self-possessed till the
close of his address. Then when strong
men's sobs broke loose, when tears cover
ed their faces, then the great man was
shaken. I never took my eyes from his
face. Large drops came from his eyes.—
He looked to the grateful children who
were parting with their father, their friend,
as if his heart was with them and would
be to the end.
The Bird of the Tolling Bell.—a
crrespondent of the Lynchburg (Va)
Courier, attached to an engineer corps in
Brazil, writes to that paper of a remarka
ble bird called the arawongo, whose voice
is like that of the solemn tolling of a
church bell heard from a distance:
The bird sits at the top of the highest
trees in the deepest forests, and though
constantly heard in the most deserted pla
ces, it is very rarely seen. It is impossi
ble to conceive anything of a more soli
tary character than the profound silence
of the woods, broken only by the metal
lic and almost supernatural sound of this
invisible bird, coming from the air and
seeming to follow wherever you go. The
arawongo is white with a circle of red
around its eyes—its size is about that of
a small pigeon.
A lazy boy makes a lazy man, as sure
as a crooked twig makes a crooked tree.
Whoever yet saw a boy grow up in idle
ness that did not make a shiftless vaga»
bond when he became a man, unless he
had a fortune left him to keep up appear
ances. The great mnss of thieves, pau
pers, and criminals that fill our penitenti
aries and almshouses, have come to what
they are by being brought up in idleness.
Those who constitute the business part of
out community, those who make our best
and most useful men, were trained in their
earliest boyhood to be industrious.
That whs rather a 'fast' specimen of
juvenile 'Young America,'not yet induc
ted into trowsers, who said one day re
cently to his father—
•Father, come and get me this apple.'
There being no immediate signs of his
compliance, the young'chip'exclaimed—
'Father, why don't you start? 1 always
start when you tell me!'
The word girl was nt one time applied
indiscriminately to the young of both sex*
es.
The California, papers say that there
has been another group of large trees dis
covered in Mariposa county. They ex
ceed a thousand in number, and vary in
diameter from eighty-two feet to twenty
five.
The mourning color of the Turks is
blue, an emblem of the bliss they trust the
departed is enjoying.
Mormonism seeks to roll back the tide
of time and engraft upon the present age
the mouldered principles of the past
A New York writer says there is as
much much nourishment in one bushel of
beans as in fire of potatoes.
ADTŒIIÏISTRATOIl^S^îOTICES.
In the succession of ) State of Louisiana,
Forrestin Bourgogne and > Parish of Iberville,
hin wiiè Irma Corneaux, ) Sixth District Court,
boih dee'd.,
WHEREAS, Jules Bourgogne has this day
applied to this court for letters of adminis
tration in the succession of Forrestin Bourgogne
and Irma Comeaux, his wife, both dee'd—
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, to show cause Tvithiii ten days from the
date hereof, why the prayer of petitioner should
not be granted. Clerk's Office. July 2,1857.
jy 1 M A. ESTEVAN, Clerk.
In the succession of ) State of Louisiaua,
F. Belizaire Doucet, > Parish of Iberville,
dee'd. j Sixth District Court
WHEREAS Jeau Bte. Rils has this dav filed
in this Court his fiinal account of Execu
torship in the succession of F. Belizaire Doucet,
dee'd.—
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may con
cern, to show cause within thirty days from the
date hereof, why said account of Executorship
should not be homologated and made a judgment
of this court, and the said Executer fully dis
charged from any further responsibility in the pre
mises. Clerk's Office, June 12, 1857.
jel3 M. A. ESTEVAN, Clerk.
In the succession of ) State of Louisiana,
John Micheltree, > Parish of Iberville,
dee'd. ) Sixth District Court.
WHEREAS, Elizabeth Riggs has this day
filed her final tableau of Administration of
the snccession of John Micheltree, dee'd.—
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, to show cause within thirty days from
the date hereof, why said accouut of Administra
tion should not be homologated and made a judg
ment of this court, and the saidadministrator ful
ly discharged from any further responsibility in
the premises. Clerk's Office June 28, 1857,
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Clerk.
lu the succession of ) State of Louisiana,
Charles Leblanc, > Parish of Iberville,
dee'd. J Sixth District Court.
WHEREAS George Troxcler has this day
filed his final tableau of administration of
the succession of Charles Leblanc, dee'd.—
Notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, to show cause within thirty days from
the date hereof, why said account of Administra
tion should not be homologated and made a judg
ment of this court, and the said Administrator ful
ly discharged from any further responsibility in
the premises. Clerk's Office, J une, 26,1857.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Clerk.
In the succession of ) State of Louisiana,
Duval Capdeville, > Parish of Iberville,
dee'd. ) Sixth District Court.
WHEREAS Peregrin P. Sugg has this day
filed his final tableau of administration of
the succession of Duval Capdeville, dee'd—
Notice is hereby given lo all whom it may
concern, to show cause within thirty days from
the date hereof, why said account of adminstra
tion should not be homologated and made a
judgment of this court, and the said administra
tior fully discharged from any further responsi
bility in the premises.
Clerk's Office, June 25,1857.
je27 M. A. ESTEVAN, Greffier.
DRIED APPLES and PEACkES for sale by
novl
ROTH & DEBLIEÜX
300 bu8 ^ e ^ k 6 ** for aal« ty
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