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Our Choice for Congress .
Andrew Price,
LAFOURCHE.
OF
SATURDAY, JULY G. 188!).
The Gretna Courier thinks that the
Rev. Sam Jones, the notorious preach
er, should visit that much perturbed
town.
The people, of St. Martin will soon
have an exciting question to solve—
the change of their country seat from
St. Martinsville to Breaux Bridge.
"No Louisiana appointments to be
made at present" is the word that is j
said to have been given out from head- !
quarters at Washington.
The Third District election is in the
way, it seems. If it should develope
later on that certain appointments
may help the Republican cause, the
axe will undoubtedly not be slow to
fall. In the meantime our hoys at
the government rack are all serene
and look with half pity and a great
deal of satisfaction on the poor fellows
on the other side of the honse, as they
sit on the ragged edge of uncertainty
Last Monday the people of New Or
leans were shocked by the announce
ment of the suicide of Gen. William
Pierce. He shot himself through the
head, while sitting in the saloon at
T - a. Continen
tal Guards.
Gen. Pierce was iu command of this
militia district during the labor trou
bles of 1887 and is kindly remember
«il by many of our people with whom
he came iu contact while among ns.
A meeting of the Democratic Con-,
gressional Executive Committee of
this district has lieeu called for the
16th inst. at New Iberia for the pur
pose of fixing the time and place for
the nominating convention. We may
soon expect activity and excitement
in our ranks.
The outlook for the candidacy of
Mr. H. C. Miuor for Congress is by no
means roseate. Two of the three Re
publican papers m the district are
openly hostile to him, and the third
throws cold water on the conference '
that indorsed him. From present ap- j
pearances it is exceedingly doubtful if j
M, M.„„ r will be able .» cap,„ re „,e ;
Hepabbcan nommat.oa.-Donal.W |
ville Chief.
A special to the Picayune from Clin
ton, La., dated July 2nd says :
A telegram from Ethel, this parish,
ffirmP,7lrimTl?n 0 f d H ard laS ,A ni * h !
a merchant of tlmTp?ace ha7E
murdered. Upon repairing to the
scene of the homicide, several miles
^ om >n the Fourth ward the
xs a
shot by a party of five negroes,
Charles and Isaiah Deut, the ring
leaders, who did the shooting, made
their escape. Dave .and Cork Deut
and Frank Cooper, the other three,
were arrested and are iu jail here. .
1 !? d i )e ® 11 furnishing sng
P " ^«s tb ?A De " t , brothers and had
some difficulty with them about busi
franun.lien.
ness transactions. ,
The reports received indicate that
the killing was a cold-blooded assassi- ,
nation. Praetorions was shot in the
public road with shotguns. He was 1
unarmed, and was shot from his horse,
and in the back. ,
Senator Chandler.
The uominution of this persistent
enemy of the South by the caucus of
d ,e New Hampshire Republicans, has
liisc to th(* apprehension that lie
"ill signalize liis reappearance in the
l nited States Senate by pressing tin*
adoption of obnoxious ami irritating
treasures, looking to the bolstering tip
of the negro in southern politics.
W e will do President Harrison's ail
ministration and (lie clear-headed ele
ment in his party justice, by saying
That we believe that they lulve fully
realized the evil effects of negro suf
lrage in the South, and the hopeless
ness of seeking to reconcile the whites
•to a division ol the responsibilities of
government with the negroes, who
have glaringly shown their utter inca
pacity to do so. The idea of using
force to bring the white people into
submission io a condition of tilings
that, is absolutely abhorrent, to their
instincts and civilization, is finding
fewer advocates day after day in the
Republican ranks, and any attempt at
this time to revive the methods of the
reconstruction era would simply wreck
the Republican party and achieve no
°ther result than to create disturb
anees in which the negro, would, as us
mil, be the principal sufferer.
Common frankness compels the
f5 tatement that the experiment of mix
ed negro and white rule in the South
has proven an utter failure, and the
practical good sense of tlie American
people must address itself to the task
eliminating this disturbing question
Rom the politics of the country.
Mr. Chandler, therefore, will sim
ply be wrestling against the instincts
of his race, if he persists in his past
course, and lie is doomed to inglorious
defeat, il he does so.—Louisiana Re
view.
Chandler can do no haini to the
South by his re-election to the United
States Senate. The day for men of
liis stamp and small calibre to have
any intlueuce has passed away. The
leading Republicans all over the coun
try are looking the present square in
the face and are preparing to meet its
demands. The bowlings of men who
possess nothiug but malice and hate
iu their systems will produce no fur
j ther effect than the barking of little
! dogs baying the moon,
m^ngton Post ............., 4,973
What the press can do in the way
of coutributionscan be seen by a glance
at the following table, compiled by
the Times-Democrat. The sums con
tributed are for the destitute of the
Conemaugh valley. Only the leading
newspapers are given in the table and
none of the amounts fall below $2000:
New York Mail and Express . .$43,983
New York Herald............ 25,300
New York World............. 12,308
New York Tribune............ 11^552
Pittsburg Times.............. 9,983
Brooklyn Times.............. 7,331
Philadelphia Ledger ......... d'ooo
Baltimore American.......... 5.366
Buffalo Express............... 5,187
Philadelphia North American.. 5,181
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Buffalo Commercial
4,233
4,105
3,749
3,052
3,032
2,587
2,371
2,000
Philadelphia Press............
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Brooklyn Eagle...............
New York Post..............
Buffalo News.................
Other newspapers raised contribu
tions amounting in the aggregate to
$152,762, making a grand total of
$313,045. Surely- this is a magnificent
showing.
Louis Demarest has been twice found
guilty of murder, and condemned to
bang. Owing to irregular conduct of
the jury, who sat on the first case, the
verdict was reversed, and a new trial
ordered from the Supreme Court. O11
appeal from the second trial the judg
ment was affirmed. Unless the par
doning board and governor interpose
' r * ,e ' r elenieuey, *' e W *H have to lmn
j We have receiTeTduri^the past
j week a specimen of the sugar beets
; gr „w„ JL Ciucbu* plau J
| pariah. A careful ten of the beets baa
been made atr the Sugar Experiment
Station, duplicate tests being made,
showing by polariscope 13.5 per cent
sucrose, or total solids 17.3 per cent
with 1,0 glucose present-tlie insoluble
re * idu ° ""T* between aml 3 l™
ceut- * Su £ ar neets are being cultivated
at Falhoun and at Batoii Rouge, and
weekly analysis of their juices will be
:r ie - r;»—■*•*«
t u ' le8,l ts obtained from an analysis
of t,,e beets are due to the abnormal
spring we have had, or whether the
same results would have been obtained ,
under more favorable conditions. ^ I
is hardly probable that sugar beets j
will ever become an important sugar i
producing factor iu this State, but the |
experiments now being made cau be
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productive of no harm, and may brine
to light facts in connection with su«-ar
heretofore unknown.— Sugar Planter
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What little of Johnstown was left
after the Conemaugh overflow, J, a " i
been nearly destroyed by fin. 1
RANDOM SKETCHES.
The Pleasure and Advantage of a Daily
Walk.
I For tllP SENTINEL. 1
"You must walk, walk, walk," said
the professor of physiology to a bright,
handsome young lady with a threaten
ed inclination to obesity of figure.
Not only was the advice given with
reference to the healthy and pleasant
method of preventing a rapid increase
of superfluous weight, but the same
counsel may safely be tendered to ev
ery woman who is able to use her feet
naturally, when not otlierw ise advised
by a physician. When shoemakers
consent to make shoes to properly tit
and shape the feet, and women insist
on wearing such shoes, then our wo
men may learn to walk. With perfect
slioes, permitting freedom of action of
the entire foot, why should one suffer
so much from a protracted walk ? The
barefoot boy often "on his feet" near
ly, if not quite, the entire day, getting
over no one knows how many miles of
surface between sunrise and sunset,
is ready enough at nightfall to suc
comb to "nature's sweet restorer," but
he has no aching corns and bunions to
make him regret his day's pleasure,
and after a night's wholesome rest,
his pedal extremities are ready for
another happy tramp.
Bertha Yon Hillcrn, the celebrated
pedestrian, published several years
a .o, admirable pape » on the heaithful
uess and enjoyment of the exercise for
which she was famous. One could al
most wish to join her in her rambles,
or at least emulate some of her feats*
in a quiet way. Some time ago I met
an agent—a woman of considerable
information—whose business compels
her to walk long distances. I asked
if she did not find lp*r occupation a
healthful one ? "My health is perfect,"
was her answer, "but sometimes my
feet are so sore and swollen by night,
I can scarcely stand upon them." 'I
know another woman, full of energy
and industry, who directs a cotton
plantation, going out day after day to
superintend the laborers, and direct
ing everything under her personal
supervision. While her health was
probably benefited by the out-door
life, she too, suffered tortures with her
feet sometimes. What a pity we can't
have better regulated feet!
if there is anything for which an
American girl can envy her English
sister it is the ability of the average
Englishwoman to take long promen
ades without sensible fatigue and in
weather which they denominate by
the ugly word "nasty." Properly
clothed and shod, a woman cau ven
ture out in weather which, otherwise,
would keep her a close prisoner at
home. I know a few ladies who make
it
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Oll o" t to be out 111 God s free air,
recuperating exhausted energies, and
revelling in the sights and sound* of
dying day
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AnAlnlfll
it a constant practice to take a stroll
after the business hours of the day are
over and thus refresh themselves in
body and spirit, renewing strength for
the next day's battle with work and
cure. No tonics in the world can ex
cel rest, fresh air, proper exercise and
Pure sunshine. I believe it is of Miss
Edgewortli the anecdote is related
that she was so regular in her morn
walks that a servant maid in the
neighborhood, observing her regular
habits, awoke lier mistress every dav
by saying : "It is time to get up, Miss
Edgeworth is just passing the house."
I wish there were walking clubs all
over the country. Many ladies in
town and country are deterred from
walking out because they have no one
to accompany them. Aside from the
pleasure of having a companion, in
some localities it would be imprudent,
if net dangerous, to venture alone.
But even if circumscribed to very uar
ro.v limits a daily "outing" for an
hour, half an hour, or even less, will
prove of benefit physically and men
tally.
Late in the afternoon is the only
time busy women can find for out-door
exercise or recreation, and even then,
there are often so many little duties
to hinder them. If we would make it
a conscientious duty—and it ought to
be so considered—to form this Imbit,
it would require a serious hindrance
to keep ns shut up within doors when
An eminently busy and useful man,
consecrated to tlie service of God, and
devoting his life to his fellowmeo, waa
accustomed to speud, each night, an
hour umler the 8tar »» alone with God
What a beautiful custom! And bon
must his tired body have been refresh
ed, bis noble spirit strengthened by
this silent communion with his Crea
tor, under that broad arch which
shows forth so grandly His glory and
His power. Could we all, at the ap
proach of night, throw off "the cares
that infest the day" and bring our
minds and hearts into that quiet state
most conducive to sound slumber and
perfect rest, how much better fitted
would we be to welcome another day>
and to appreciate the words of the
poet:
"Every day i.s u fresh beginning.
Every morn is a world made new :
You who are weary of sorrow uud sinning,
Here Is a beautiful hope for you.
A hope for me and a hope for you."
Essie.
OUR JURY SYSTEM.
When the framers of our constitu
tion declared that every criminal
should have the right of being tried
by a jury of twelve of bis countrymen,
their act was certainly a wise and
just one. But the rude forefathers of
the nation,anust have here been de
serted by rheir usual foresight and
caution. Yet, their mistake was a
very natural one ; their great mimls
were entirely occupied by thoughts of
liberty, of justice, of equality ; and
with images of cruel and unjust judges
before them, with the shrieks of the
victims of the rack ringing in their
ears, and pursued by the. memory of
the tyranny and despotism of the
Middle Ages, they in their honest en
thusiasm and zeal for justice and li
berty giving laws, very naturally pro
ceeded to the othor extreme, and by
giving to every citizen the right to sit
in jndgmeut upon an accused crimin
al, they defeated the euds which they
hoped to attain.
Their wisdom did not see that the
weak, uneducated human intellect,
with its barrenness and sterility, could
not furnish a soil on which the rare
plants of liberty and equity might
llonrish.
They could not know that the time
would soon come when a privilege in
tended for enlightened, educated citi
zens, should be exercised almost ex
clusively by all manner of ignorant,
unreasoning and corrupt . men, in
whose bands its workings should be
as unreasonable and often as harsh
and as cruel as those of the old system
which it was designed to supersede.
In their blind, blundering, ignoraut
fashion, the juries of to-day often
chance upon the right; but when the
element of chance enters into the de
crees of law litigants may as well dis
regard the right or wroug in their
cases, and toss up pennies to decide
between them.
The subtle and clelicate points and
distinctions which arise so often in
the trial of a case may as well be ar
gued before twelve children, as be
fore an average jury in this State; a
jury' composed of men who are unable
to make the simplest deductions, or
see or understand the plainest and
most fundamental principles of law.
All meu recognize the fact that our
jury sy stem is a failure and all men
are agreed upon the remedy. *
As it is, any citizen, however illi
terate or ignorant, is qualified to pass
upon all questions of legal or moral
right or wrong, to judge of the great
est or most complicated crimes, to
hold the life or liberty of any prison
er within his hands.
As it should, and will be, only in
telligent, thoughtful men are fitted
ter these grave duties ; and only with
such men can an efficient jury system
be formed.
Laws excluding illiterate citizens
from jury services will greatly repair
the most striking imperfection iu our
method of dealing out justice, aud
while it is as vain as it is childish to
cry out for a remedy for all the imper
fections in a system of the imperfect
human race, here is a chance for our
law-makers to make an impr ovement
by strictly defining tlie qualifications
and disqualifications of a juror.—St
Man,- Banns
„ _ „ , Avkil 29, 1889.
F. Gouaux, Houma, La.,
We have & steady sale for your Asthma
Remedies. Y\e never had u single com
plaint, bat many compliments.
• Roth & FleRTwood. Pharmacists.
• ? Thibodaux, La.
bock Your Doors.
Lock your doors at night to keep out
tiueves &d< 1 house-breakers, but you cau't bar
tbeiii against that dread disease, croup, or a
sudds* Mid. A bottle of C. C. C. Cirtzjn
Cough Lure is a safeguard and euro lor these
dreaded maladies.
Sold by Thibodaux Pharmacy.
TAKE THIBODEAUX'S
RIAL ANTIDOTE.
MALA
the state of Louisiana.
20th Judicial District Court Par
ish ol Lafourche.
The Citizens Bank rs. Mrs. Elm B
Bragg et als. No. 2353 .
Take no'iee tlmt net in* under an alias writ
of Fieri Facias emanating from the ah,,v» flt
title,led court in tl.euls.7-e onff,I,.,1!,^ ®'"'
bere,Uuq.n,ave seized and w&fe
at jiulnit .mi turn, pursuant to law, to tlie
and Invest bidder, at , lie conn bouse in ft*
town ot 1 Inbodaux, on
SATURDAY, AL'Ol'ST 10. lS*) t
bet wren tlie hours of 11 unlock*. m and «
pmy, k to?wit" ' th " ,olloWm « bribed,,,*
A certain plantation by the name of Green
woou Plantation in the Parish „f Ufoureh*
formerly belonging to Dr. Uw^Deddodfis
and below by lands of Oz,W Naq.fiu o
the boundaries are expressed i„ 8 o, ue
past eon ve, anees. above by lands now «r fnr
inei ly beioo^u.r to P. Thibodaux and below
by lands now or formerly bclon-ina to Par
ker Campbell, and measuring fifteen orients
front by an uneonal depth, that is t ,i say
thirteen and oned a'farpents Horn harino-'a
depth ol eighty arpeuts and one and one-half
arpents a depth of only forty arpe,,»s. the
latte,ai )„.es be...- parallel to one another
lo K etl.er with the buildings aud iiupiove
meets tl.ei eon or thereunto belongin ' family
residence, mi -hi house and purgery. macliin
ery. negro cabins mules, iron eooWrs. imple
ments of husbandry seed canes, and all an
pnrtenanres thereunto belonging or in lnv
wise appertaining which property is fully
described in a certain act of sale by the Cite
*diis Hank to h. Roger of date the 11th of
November 188*1. pasted before A. Pitot, Vota*
ry Public to which special reference is made
for identification ot the property
Terms and conditions of sale—Pa
spot in United St i
and satisfy the sum of six thousandfour Un
died aul seventy-eight dollars with tea per
cent interest thereon from the 1st dar of De
c -inher, 1873 the amount of the stock note
loan duo to the Citizens Bank and the further
sum ol seven thousand four hundred ami fortv
■ -x doliais for contributions on fire hundred
sale—Pash on the
treasury m tes to pay
v sight shares of tho caoital stock
lens Unuk of Louisiana with ei-ht
ami seveut.
of I he Citizens
per cent on eleven hundred and fifty-six dof
lurs thereof from August 1st. 1873 and with
eight percent interest on two hundred aud
e.glity-nine dollars from the 1st of July 1876
ami with eight percent interest on two hun
dred and eighty nine dollars thereof from the
Istot July 1877 and with eight per interest on
eleven bundled and fifty-six dollars thereof
from the 1st ol Dec nih.-r I8G and with eight
per lent ioier»st < ncloven handled ami fifty.
^*rs th-reof from the 1,-tef December
188. and with eight per ceut i terest on tie
ven bundled and fifty-ix dollars thereof
iroiu tlie 1st et Urreiuber 1888 ao«t with eWht
per cent intercut on eleven liuo<|ri»<t tif
tj six dollars thereof from the 1st of Deeew
ber 1881 ami with eight per cent interest on
eleven hundred and tilty-six dollars thereof
fiom the Istot December 1885 ami tlie fur
ther soui of two hundred and three dollar*
and thirty five costs, besides all the other
costs and charges herein to satisfy a judge
ment rendered against the srid defendants
MrA hlise IJ. Brag*; et als in our said court
for the mii isu of Lafourche on the 7th dav of
June 1888 in fyvor of the plaiutifi the Citi
zens Bank. 1 lie purchaser besides to assume
the stock mortgage debt to the Citizens Bank
of forty six thoueund two buudred and forty
dollars ($f&.M0.00) not due, but liable to be
called lor under the charter of of tha Citizens
Bank.
Jn'r fi, 1889.
P. E. LORIO, Sbttiff.
THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
20. It Judicial District Court—-Par*
isli of Lafourcbe.
Aglae 0. Richard, wife , vs. R. Nich
olas Coulon , husband.
No. 2425.
Hi is case having been regularly fixed for
trial, was regularly taken up and triad pur
suent to assignment, and the law ami the evi
dence being iu favor of plaintiff ami against
defendant.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged aud de
creed that the plaintiff. Aglae Genevieve
kiclntrl, wife of Hwury Nicholas Cou'on, do
have judgment against her said husbacd,
dissolving the community of acquets aud
gams heretofore exit ting' between the said
plmititt and th- defendant; and the said
pluintiit is hereby n creed to bo separate in
property Irom her said husband, and invested
with the separate ailimnistratiou of her para
phernal property.
It is further ordered aiul decreed that the
s;nU Agluii G. Richard do have judgment aud
recover of her husband, the said H. Nichols*
Coulon, the sum of tifteeu humlred aud sixty
seven .17-100 dollars ($1507 37), with legal in*
forest irom judicial demand until paid, to-wit:
April 18, 1889, and nil costs of suit.
It is turtber ordered aud decreed that the
plaintiff's legal mortgage to secure the
amount of this jndgmeut on all of the immov
able property of the said II. N. Coulon, be
aud the same is hereby recognized as valid
and executory, datiug from tlie 9th da.v ot
March, 1888, the dale of its registry iu the
mortgage records of Latourche parish, and
tlu t such property subject to said mortgage
be seized and sold to pay and satisfy this
judgment by prvilege and preference.
It is further ordered that, the intervention
0 Lif 1 )* ** 1 * c ' B WcC'ulla be dismissed at his cost.
1 line dene, read aud signed iu opeu coart
at Thibodaux, La., this 6th day of June, 1889.
(Signed) TAYLOR BEATTIE.
„ . Judge 20th District.
Filed June 6, 1889.
(Signed) P. F. LEGENDRE.
. Deputy Clerk.
trU0 co P v - Test. Clerk's Office,
< L.8. , Parish of Lafourche, June 13, 1889.
< - ) P. F. LEGENDRE,
Deputy Clerk.
- Mt. Carmel Convent, l
Thibodaux, La., Jau, 21, 1888. )
Mr. F. Gouaux, Ilouma. La.
1. ear Sir—I cannot convey in adequate laz
guuge a satisfactory idea of the benefit I
•have obtained by using your Anti-Asthmatic
Powder ami Mixture. Kor twenty years I
have suffered Iroqi that drejpltul disease,
A-thull., and although I have tried many
remedies, none proved lieneticial tiutil I
tried yours. I trust my oxm-rieuce with this
precious and valuable powder and mixture
will be tbf means of inducing others to give
it a trial. Yours respectfully,
A StgTKU rtf Mt. Carmel Convent.
I have used Gouaux's Pile Ointment for'the
last two years iu my |»r»ctice and I have suc
ceeded in every case. D*. Chs. Galdzt.
Cull for samples of Anti Asthmatic at your
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