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S't. jgmmnt OFELOU SAS : S aturday, May 5, !§§§. WASHINGTON LETTER. from our Regular Correspondent* Washington , April 23,1888. Complaints against the present meth ods of doing business in the United States Pat«nt Oftice are becoming loud and frequent. It is charged that the examiners in the office are extremely careless, some say criminal, in their ex amination of applications for patents; that they throw out many applications without properly examining them to dis cover whether they are patentable or not; that other applications are reject ed which the examiner knows should be allowed. These are serious charges against an important branch of the Government. I have thoroughly investigated the mat ter in order to discover what, if any foundation, there is for the charges and who is to blame. I soon discovered that the charges were all too true, or rather that many of them were. I also discovered that the parties who were responsible for this, I might also say disgraceful, state of affairs, were the Republican examiners who have been allowed to continue in office under the present administration. And that is not all. I am fairly convinced that these hold-over Republican examiners have conspired together to bring the office into bad repute, in order to help the Republican party in the Republican campaign this year. In order to get some idea of the po litical effect of such a conspiracy among these Republican examiners, just think for a moment of the, great number of people who are either di rectly or indirectly interested in the business of this office^ Suppose you notice for one day, everything you see, and you will find how many of them are patented or are the product of a patent ed machine or process. You will be surpiised, for you will discover that «.bout nine-tenths of all the things eith er manufactured or produced in this country are connected in some way with a United States patent. After this discovery you will not be surprised to learn that this Government issues more patents every year than all the rest of the world combined. Now yon can more readily understand the amount of damage that can be done the Administration by the conspirator. Every man whose patent is disallowed without a good and sufficient reasop therefor, becomes a deadly enemy, not of the Examiner but of the Democratic Administration, which lie believes has mistreated him, and his idea of petting even is, nine times out of ten, to work like blazes for the Republican party. This fellow is not alone. There are, so to speak, thousands of him, and the Republican examiners of the patent office are to blame for all his troubles. In no branch of the Government is the head of a Department so depend ant on his subordinates as in the pat ent office. In 1885 President Cleveland appointed Mr. Montgomery, a Michi gan lawyer, Commissioner of Patents. At the the time that was considered an excellent appointment, but, owing to a lack of familiarity on the part of Mr. Montgomery with the extremely com plicated practice of the office, his Re publican subordinates virtually ran it for him. The natural result was neg lect and idleness on the part of the em ployes and complaint on the part of the representatives of the patentees of the country. I am informed by a gentleman who is in a positiou to know whereof he speaks that there are quite a number of examiners of the patent office now en gaged in business here as patent at torneys, whose sole capital with which to begin business were long lists of the t names and addreses of applicants for patents whose applications tliey had un justly rejected for the sole purpose of afterwards getting a fee as an attor ney for procuring the patent they had as ■examiner of the United States Patent Office rejected. These men are Repub licans. * In order to break np this practice, Ibills have been introduced in Congress «several times to make Examiners of the Patent Office ineligible to act as patent attorneys for two years from the date of their resignations or dismissals from ftffice. So far, interested parties Iiave in some way been able to prevent Buch bills from becoming laws. Last year Mr. Montgomery was suc ceeded by ex-Representative Hall, of Iowa, as Commissioner of Patents, Mr. Hall is .in able and honest man, but like his predecessor, he, too, was unfamiliar with the workings of the office, and the Republican examiners succeeded in getting him to make a se ries of rulings which have produced much trouble and litigation. In the meantime the Republican examiners are enjoying the situation and working liurd for the success of their party next fall. When Mr. Vilas, with his vigorous busi ness methods succeeded Lamar as Secre tary of the Interior, he at once noticed tiie loose way of doing business that was in vogue there, and issued an order prohibiting employes gossipiug, smok ing, writing private letters, etc., during office li on rs. This order created a big scare among the Republican exami ners and outwardly there was a sud deu transformation in the office, but in reality they are devoting more of their time trying to bring discredit on Mr. Cleveland's administration, than to the work for which they are paid. Vicksburg Herald : His Reverence, Bishop Francis Janssens, of the Dio cese of Natchez, and Reverend Father Pickeritt, of this city, will leave here ou Sunday, 22d inst.. for Warm Spring, South C8Coli!»a, to attend a convention of Catholic clergy and laymen, which will be held here for the purpose of forming a league to encourage immi gration to the South. All of the Catho lic Bishops of the United States are ex pected to be in attendance, besides a large number of priests and prominent gentlemen among the Catholic laity, and the convention promises to "be of vast importance in encouraging set tling farmers and others to seek homes in the new Sontii. Mr. Wofford, who was a guest at the house of Col. Jones S. Hamilton, in Jackson, Miss., on the night of the 23d, tired on two white men who were in the •act of setting fire to the dwelling. One «ftbeuicn was hit as he left blood where lie was standing when .fired on.—■ Capitoliaa-Advocate. LOUISIANA NEWS. Tliibodeau has received a new Syls by fiie engine. Rifles have been reeeived by the Oua chita Pelicans. Pat Taylor, living on the Hollings worth place in Bossier parish, was not long since killed at a negro ball. A saw fish six feet long, weighing nine hundred pounds was caught at Hahuyille recently. A cotton compress company and a fruit and vegetable canning establish ment are spoken of at Ruston. The monument fund raised by the citizens of St. Martinsville to erect a monument to the memory ef the late Father Jan is $281 50. Mr. Robertson has secured the pas sage by the House of his bill appropria ting $15000 for constructing a road to the cemetary near Baton Rouge. Shreyeport will have a creamery. A new colony has been established on theRosedale plantation in Iberia par ish. In a difficulty last Wednesday night at ßellevue. Bossier parish, a negio was shot and killed. For some time the pine woods near Wilford were on fire, cansiug conside rable damage to fencing timber, etc. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Louisiana will hold their an nual convention at Baton Rouge May 11,12 and 13. A short time since a little son of Mr. T. B. Morgan of Amite City, fell into a well twenty-six feet deep pulling the bucket dowu with him. lie escaped without serious injury. It is rumored that a newspaper will soon be started at Welch. Calcasieu parish. Mr. Charles Paiker. who killed W. C. Farmer on the 4th February last, has been released on bail, the iudictment against him being for manslaughter. He has since been acquitted. At Alexandria on the 24th ult. Han nah Brooks, colored, was convicted of administering laudnum to an infant and sentenced to life imprisonment. Messrs. L. C. Ferrel and David Israel of Donaldsonville have received a pat ent on a new shackle. A prisoner fas tened with it cannot deal a blow, run or jump from a tra'in—hence can safely be carried any distance. The following tax-collectors have settled with the auditor for the quarter ending Maich 31 : Bienville, More house, Red River, St. Bernard, St. Hel ena, St. James, Tensas, Terrebonne and Washington. Shreveport will have a three-story hotel with ninety rooms. There was n heavy hailstorm one day last week at Vidalia, but no damage is reported. In the district court at Alexandria on Tuesday of last week, Wm, McGin nis, charged with the killing of a man named Holloway, was tried and acquit ted. A new paper, "The Two States," is now being published at Osyka, situated on the line of Louisiana and Mississip pi. A machine shop has been started at Broussard by Louis Reynaud. The Houston, Central Arkansas and Texas Railroad Co., it is said, will lie gin work on their road about the loth inst. It is probable that a cotton mill will soon be started in New Orleans, as the Chamber of Commerce have been get tinginformation as to the cost of ma chinery. The Maginnis Cotton Mills are to be augmented by an increase of twenty three thousand spindles and five hun dred and forty-six looms. The building is now being erected. A canning factory will soon be started at Ruston. At Pattersonville on Tuesday of last week John Niel shot and killed John Whitehall. At Plaquemine about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th ult., Wm. F. El ler, living about niue miles in the coun try, walked into a barber-shop in the above uamed place, picked up a razor, and stepping in front of a looking glass, cut his throat from ear to ear. He died almost instantly. From the Times-Democrat we learn that a large number of Iowa colonists have made up their minds to settle in Louisiana; also that Hon. James Mur phy, of Iowa, has made soiçe paying in vestments hereand will devote a good deal of time and capital toward de veloping the resources of this coun try. Sheriff Cook, of St. Tammany, offers $100 reward for the arrest and con viction of the mnrderers of M. Swan son and Samuel Smith. Last Sunday the new Catholic church at Vidalia was dedicated by Bishop An toine Durier, assisted by Father Car tissier, of Vidalia and several of the Catholic clergy of Natchez. A hotel with fifty rooms is soon to be erected at Lake Charles. On Thursday of last week Theodore Laswell, charged with robbing the post office at Monroe, was given an exami nation before U. S. Commissioner Rob ert Ray and acquitted. On Wednesday of last week, M. Jef ferson Poche, residing in the 1st ward of St. Jacques parish was stabbed in the back by a son of Mrs. Dr. Bertin. Donalsonville Chief, April 28: One of the largest transfers of real estate on record in Ascension was accom plished on the 28th March, when Messrs. John Crossley and Sons of England «»Id their extensive Southwood, River side and Mount Houmas sugar planta tions, all located on the left bank of the Mississippi river in this parish, to Messrs. L. A. and E. G. Ellis, wealthy laûd owners, for a hundred and seven ty-five thousand dollars. One hundred thousand dollars of the purchase price was paid in cash and the balance in Texas lands. The Messrs. Ellis have as sumed possession of their newly ac quired property and will make few if any changes iu the corps of managers and other employes during the current year. We congratulate them upon their invesment and trust it will yield a profitable return. A PAIR STATEMENT OF THE ELECTIONS, N. 9. PSjaayime. The recent violent attack on the peo ple of Lonisiana in the United States Senate by the men who had assisted to perpetrate odious and infamous politi cal crimes upon them naturally attracts much attention to the .elections which have just been held in this State. Par tisan expressions of various sorts have already been made, and nota few in the malicious spirit of the recent utterances in the Senate. It is pleasing to turn away from these obscene detainers to this statement of the case by a fair, in dependent aud unpartisan critic like the Philadelphia Times. Says the Times : The only important spring State elec tions have been held and they leave the two great parties with honors easy. The Republicans have carried Republi can Rhode Island by a reduced majori ty and the Democrats have carried Dem ocratic Louisiana by an increased ma jority. Both States were warmly con tested, solely because the majority par ty in each invited the opposition to hopeful effort by its serious dissensions. Had Rhode Island been carried by the Democrats, there would have been no reasonable doubt as to lier Republican vote lor President in November ; but had Loussiana elected Warmoth Gov ernor with Republican State officers and Legislature, that State might have voted for a Republican for President, and doubtless would have been returned Republican regardless of the vote. But Warmoth had to face his own election laws, tempered somewhat by the courts giving the Republicans a representa tion on the election boards, aad he is defeated anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000. The significant lesson of the Louisi ana election is in the fact that War moth with his experience in organizing and handling the negro vote, utterly failed to enlist the colored voters in his cause. In a few parishes he did it and made a good run ; in other parishes they took little interest in the election and largely refrained from voting, and in the distant parishes of the northern portion of the State, they turned out and voted, but largely voted the Demo cratic ticket. » It is not specially surprising that the Louisiana colored voters refused to vote for Warmoth. He was the first carpet-bag Governor of the State ; lie organized them into secret bands with lavish promises of idleness and plenty, and before the rule of the adventurers ended the State was bankrupt and the negroes were starving. The presenta tion of Warmoth again as a caudidate recalled his protested promises to the deluded colored voters, and they had no enthusiasm for a cause that had al ready been tried and won, with sweet ness to the taste, but bitterness in the digestion. The Democratic dissensions, bitter as they are, seem to have increased the vote for the Stale ticket, while the dis pute was fought out on rival Democrat ic tickets in New Orleans. The Repub licans supported the reform Democratic ticket, but the Democrats have stood to their State candidates with great fidelity. Doubtless the nomination of Warmoth did much to force Democratic cohes>on, as the Warmoth administra tion left a bad taste in the mouths of t he people that yet lingers with them. With all his faults of the past, he is among the best of the carpet-bag Gov ernors of the South. He remained in the State, commanded respect as a planter and is personally liked by all who know him. He believes that all is fair in poljtics, and the Democrats, with Warnioth's old election machi nery in their hands, regarded every thing as fair to beat Warmoth. This isjust about the situation. It could not have been stated more fairly. CHARTER OF THE St. Landry Homestead and Building Association STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARTSIT OF ST. LANDRY. Be it Known, tliat, on this Twenty-second day of March, A. P. One Thousand Eight Hun dréd and Eighty-Eight, before me. Wm. Ohas. Perrault, a Notary Public in and for the above Parish a#l State,'duly commissioned, qualified and sworn, in presence of the witnesses herein after named and undersigned, personally came and appeared the. several persons whose names are hereunto subscribed, who declared that availing themselves of the provisions of the laws of this State relative to .the organization of corporations, they do by these presents cov enant, agree and bind themselves, their asso eiates and successors, to form aud constitute a corporation for the objects and purposes and under ilie stipulations and regulations follow ing. to-wit : Art. 1st. The name and title of this corporation shall be the "St Landry Homestead and Loan Association," and under its said corporate name, it shall have power and authority to have and enjoy suecession for the term of twenty-five years, from the date hereof, to con tract, sue arid be sued, to make, have, and use a corporate seal, and the same, to break, aller or amend at pleasure, to hold, receivf, lease, pur chase and convey, under its corporate name, real estate ; to lend money on mortgage secu rity, to name and appoint such officers, mana gers, directors and agents, as the interests and conveniences of said corporation may require, to make and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations for the proper management and regulation of the affairs of said corporation, as may be necessary and proper, and the same to change and alter at. pleasure a» d do all other acts and things as are. or may be, necessary and properto carry out the objects and purposes of said corporation. Art. 2d. The domicil of said corporation, shall be in the town of Opelousas, T.a., and all citations and ntlier legal process shall be served upon the President of said corporation, or in bis ab sence, upon flic Vice-President, or in the ab sence of both of these officers, upon the Secre tary. Art. 3d. The objects of saUi corporatin shall be the accumulation of a fund from the weekly installments on account of subscriptions to the capital stock,rentals, premiums and interest on loans, the funds so accumulated to be used for the purchase and sale of real estate, the building, renting and sale of homesteads, and the lenri'ngof funds upou mortgage or realty, or other security in the Parish of St. Landry, but no loan upon other than real estate, securi ty. shall be made without the consent of at least fwo-tliirdsof thewhole Board of Directors. Art. 4th. The said eapital stock of this Cor poration shall be Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, divided into Five Thousand Shares each representing One Hundred Dollar.^ pay able in weekly installments of twenty-five cents per share, per week, and said corporation shall begin business when two hundred (200) shares ot the capital stock have been subscribed; said stock shall bo issued respectively in series designated as series A. H. O. etc., of which tlie stoek now existing shall lie known as series A., but no one series shall contain more than Five Hundred shares. The Board of Directors shall %ave power to close eaeli series before opening a i'ollowing.one. Whenever the shares repre senting any series, shall by reason of payment of installments and accumulation of profits be worth the par value of One Hundred Dollars each, such ssiies shall ijeliquida-ted fjs speedily as is consistent with the interest of the subscri ti ers, and whenever the shares representing the last remaining series shall be worth the sum of One Hundred Dollars each, the Association shall be liquidated by three commissioners se lected by the Board o° Directors from among the stockholders. Art. Slh. The corporate power? of the Asso ciation shall be eserei-ed by a Board of Direct ors te consist of Eleven Stockholders owning at least two shares of stock each, who shall be elected by the Stockholders on the 3d Monday in March, annually, commencing on the 3d Mondavin March A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Nine (1889) each share of stock represented at said election and not in dcfr.ultbei.15 entitled to one vote. Notice of said election-shall be given for at least one week by publication in one or more newspa pers published in the Parish of St. Landry. Said election shall be by ballot, and shall be held at, the domicile of this Coiporation, under tlie sunervision of three stockholders appoint-* > ed by the Board of Directors at the last pre cedin<r regular meeting thereof. The stock holders rece"vin c c a majority of the votes cast shall be declared elected. The failure* to hold ail elect km 00 tlie day specified, shall not dig Corpo office shall hold over until ati election be held after ten days notice of the time and place thereof. Tlie directors shall elect from 1 heir number a President and Vice-President, and seven directors shall be a quorum for the trans action of business. The directors shall elect or appoint a secretary and treasurer and such oth er officers as may be necessary, but 110 salary shall be paid except to the secretary, and said directors slialf have power to enact by-laws not repugnant to this charter ; to select a placo of meeting, to suspend any officer for neglect of duty or misconduct, and to have general au thority to carry out the objects and business of the Association; but they shall not have power to purchase real estate except for cash, nor contract any indebtedness whatever in excess of the amount of one months installments. Art. 6tli. The members of this Association must be residents of Louisiana. Minors may hold stock through their tutors, and women and minors over the age of fifteen years, in their own right. All applications for member ship shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Directers. A.it. 7tli. Each stockholder, for each share of stijeh he may lio'd in tlie Association, shall be elegible to receive from the funds of the Asso ciation a loan of one hundred dollars less the premium offered. Whenever the funds in tlie treasury shall warrant one or more loans, they shall be disposed of to the stockholder offering the highest voluntary premium in such man ner as the Board of Directors may determine, provided, 110 loan shall be- made for a less pre mium than ten per centum. No stockholder shall lie elegible to a loan on more than twenty shares. No stockholder shall lie elegible to a loan who Is in arrears to the Association. Stockholders takhig loans shall pay interest thereon (on nominal loan) by weekly payments at the rate of six per cent per annum. In case ef failure to give satisfactory security for sucli loans, within one month of the, date of pur chase, the interest shall be charged to said purchaser together with all costs and charges or expenses attending examination of titles, and searches, and the money revert to the Asso ciation. Security shall not be deemed suffi cient unless approved by at least a majority of the Board of Directors present. Art. 8. In case any stockholder shall neglect or refuse for one mouth to pay Iiis weekly in stallments, such stockholder so neglecting or refusing to pay, shall forfeit and pay for each share of said stock held by him or her an addi tional sum of five cents for each month and any stockholder who for the term of six months shall fail to pay the installments due 011 his stock, shall by reason of such failure, and with out notice, or putting in mora, forfeit all pay ments previously made by him, together with the profits, interest and accumulations thereon, which shall revert to and become the property of the Association. Any stockholder having effected a loan from or being otherwise indebt ed to the Association, who shall for one month neglect or refuse to pay the weekly portion of the interest 011 such indebtedness, shall pay an additional sum of live cents, each month, 011 each share against which such indebtedness lia$ been affected. The fines for each and every monthly neglect or refusal to pay in stallments or interest shall be charged to the accounts of the stockholder who is in default ; but these tines may be avoided by paying in advance for a certain time, during which pe riod it being covered by a prepayment, no tines can be levied. Art. 9th, If any stockholder who is indebted to the Association, the vaille of his stock being less than his indebtedness, shall desire to settle and liquidate such indebtedness, he shall have the right to surrender to the Association his stock, with interests and accumulations thereon, in part pay mount, «of such indebted ness, provided lie pays the balance of said in debtedness, in cash. Whenever stock lias been pledged tu tlie Association as collateral by a stockholder who is indebted to the Association, and the value of such stock, with interest and accumulation thereon, shall become equal to the amount of indebtedness, (with all interest and cost that may be due on the same) for which stock is pledged; such stock and in debtedness shall cancel each other, the stock and the indebtedness being alike extinguished, and it shall be the duty of tlie stockholder to surrender his stock for cancellation; and upon such surrender it shall lie the duty of the Pres cient or Vice-President to cancel said stock and to give and render to such stockholder a proper receipt, and acquittance. All fees of attorneys, notaries, recorder, register and all expenses incurred in making or cancelling loans, shall be paid by the respective borrow ers. Art. 10th. Should any stockholder who has borrowed money of the Association, desire at any time to reduce his indebtedness, he shall have the right of so doing, by paying on ac count of said indebtedness, a sum not less than twenty-five dollars. Such payment shall be credited on the face of his outstanding notes, and said stockholder shall subsequently pay in terest, weekly at the rate of six per cent per annum on tue remainder of said note only, and if ho desire it, the mortgage bearing on his property shall be reduced proportionately. Art. lltli. Members indebted to the Associa tion may withdraw by giving one month's no tice in writing when an order shall be drawn on the Treasurer in favor of the «withdrawing member for the dues paid in first deducting therefrom all fines and proportion of incidental expenses and losses ; provided that said order on tlie Treasurer shall be liquidated out of the first unappropriated money in the Treasury. Art. 12th. At the death of a member not in debted to the Association the legal representa tives shall be entitled to an order for the full value of the stock at the time of tlie last pay ment made by such deceased member, or to transfer the said shares of stock, or to continue the right of membership by continuing the weekly payments. Art. 13th. No stock shall bo transferred un less the person to whom it lias been transferred has been approved by the Board of Directors, and then only on the books of the Association, and in the presence of the Secretary, upon the surrender of the certificate of stock, and the person to whom the stock is transferred shall sign the charter in like manner, as an original meiner. For each share of stock so transferred there shall be paid ten cents to the Secretary for the Association. Art. 11th. Special meetings of the stockhold ers shall be convened at the request in writing of ten stockholders, stating the time and ob ject of such meeting. Art. 15th. The following named persons shall constitute tlie first Board of Directors, viz : Judge Edward T. Lewis, Jos Bloch, Alphonse Levy, Theodore Chachere, Etienne Latreyte, Oscar H. Terwilliger, Dr. Robt. M. Littell, Ohas. D. Stewart, Reiui Mornhinveg, Henry E. Estorge, Rev. F. W. Lewis. They shail hold office until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified, and any vacancy occur ring in the number, may be filled by them until the next regular elect ion as herein provided for. Art. IGtli. No stockholder shall ever lie held liable for the contracts or faults of this Asso ciation in any further sum than the unpaid balance due on the share or shares of stock owned by him or lier, to the Association; nor shall mere informality in organization, have the effect of rendering this charter null or of ex posing any stockholder to any liability be yond tlie amount of his or her stock. Art. 17th. This charter may be altered, mod ified or amended by a vote or three-fourths of the capital stock represented at any gene ral meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose. Thus done and incorporated in my office in the tlie town of Opelousas, La., in the presence of Joseph A. Oil and Wm. L. Andruscompetent and attendant wtinesses who have signed these presents with the appearcrs and me, notary af ter due reading, on the day and date herein before written. (Signed) Charles N. Ealer andforEtfie Ii. Ealer, J. E. Gardiner. Mrs. E. J. Trask per C. N. Ealer, Opelousas Hope Hook & Ladder Co.. per Gus. E. Fontenot, President, Lucius G. Dnpre, L. P. Louallier, B. F. Megin ley, E. Latreyte, F. W. Lewis, H. E. Estorge and for Mrs. Ceeile Bailey, Alphonse Levy, J. Bloch E. T. Lewis, R. M. Llttcll, Tlieordore Clincher,!, O. II. Terwilliger, R. Mornhinveg, T. W. Lacefield, W. T. Henderson, George O. Elms. Witnesses : Jos. A. Gil. W. L. Andrus. W. C. PERRAULT, Notary Public. STATE OF LOUISIANA. PARISH > OF ST. LANDRY, J Be it known to all whom it may concern, that I, John N. Ogtten, District Attorney of the 13th Judicial District of Louisiana, have examined tho foregoing act of incorporation of the Saint Landry Homestead and Loan Association, and I am of the opinion that- the purposes and ob jects are legal, and that none of the provisions therein contained are contrary to law. JOHN N. OGDEN, District Attorney 13th Jud'l Dist. La. Filed March 23d: 1888. LOUIS P. LOUALLTER, Deputy Clerk. STATE OF LOUISIANA. PARISH » OF ST. LANDRY, j I, Louis P. Louallier, Deputy Clerk of the 13th Judicial District Courtin and for the Par ish of St. Landry, State of Louisiana, do here by certify that theabove, is a true and correct copy of the original act of incorporation on file and of record in my office in Miscellaneous Book No. 8 at folio. In testimony whereof. 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TODD, Importer r.iicl Idealer in White Lead, Zinc, Paints, Oils, Brushes, GU ism , Var nish, Artists' Materials, Glues, Sand Psiper, Whiting, Challt, Axle Grease, Naval Stores, Hiuminating' and Lubricating Oils Etc., -AGENTS FOR TVo. 37 Magazine, Ht. NEW ORLEANN. Bopt ll-y.-a L'. A. BLACK. J. L. MORRIS. îtititt General Fire Insurance -AND Real Estate Agents, Office, Corner of Bellcvuc and Court jreets, OPELOUSAS, LA. The Parker Cun. At the two principal events of tlio year—at tlie World's Trap Shooting Carnival 1uM at Well lugton, Mass., May 30 to June 3,1887, the Parker Gun won the leading prize for the best aver age lor five days' shooting ; also at Seattle, W. T., June 9.10 and 11. 1887, tlie leading prize and best average was won with the Parker Gun, adding victories to 1880 as follows : The Second Annual Tournament of the Cliainherlin Cartridge Co., held at Cleveland, O., Sept. 14, 188ß. . Out of EIGHTY-SEVEN KNTK1KS lroiu REPRESENTATIVE SHOTS, representing * OLRfKEN STATES, the Parker Gun w n FIRST and THIRD MONEY, winning $900 out of »1,200 purse of fered, adding another victory to 1883, which was the Second International Clay-Pigeon Tourna ment for the championship <>t'the world, held at New Orleans, I.a., Feb. 11 to 16. Among tho contestants shooting other guns were such champions as Carver, Rogardus, Cody, Stubbs, tri» ™" L r " PARKER BROS., MAKERS, MERIDEN, CONN. New York Sales Rooms, Chambers St« NOTICE. U nited S tates L and O ffice, ? New Orleans, La., March 9 1888. S Notica is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge,'or in Iiis absence, tlie Clerk.of the District Court, at Opelousas, Louisiana, on Wednesday, April 25th, 1888, viz : TOEODVLE DOl 'CET, who made homestead entry No. 0331, for the south half of northwest quarter and nortu.half of southwest quarter section 24, township 0, south range 2 west, Losisiana meridian. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz : Ertelus Saunier, Anatole Bellon, Llger Vi drine, Milton Robinson.—all of the Parish ot St. Landry, Louisiana. _ ,,,, THOMAS J. BUTLER, march 17-Ot Register. NOTICE. L and O ffice at New Orleans, La., I Feb. 27tli, 1888. > Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has tiled notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judgo or Clerk of Court at Opelousas, La., on Thurs day, April 19th, 1888, viz : Si A I'll A Kf. E. MANUEL, who made Homestead Entry No. 7102 for tlio south half I of the north-west quarter, south west quarter of the north-east quarter, and tho north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of section 33, township 5, south rango 1 west, Louisiana meridian. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultiTatioii of said land, viz : _ „ ., _ ., Auas! hase Gnitlory, Benoît Soileau. Emile Hebert. Joseph Beltou, all of St. Landry 1 arish, Louisiana. TH0 MASJ. BUTLER, march lo-ct Register,