Feliciana sentinel. [volume], October 13, 1877, Image 4

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THE L1IBE1IAN EXODUS.
It see1s from the following
circular that found its way in
to ow-. t yesterday
that ti " lored people of this
sec ' = fthe country are in
ear 2 at emigrating to
Sall the natur
iddo.n grow in the
eaprofusion ;where gold
lver are embedded only
S'fo eet under the ground,
m4are' of solittle value that
the niltiesi ýedo not care to tax
their time-and patience gath'
ering them up. It is the land
of plenty, a land of freedom;
and we advise all black peo
pie who cannot make a living
in this country and maintain
themselves as lords to go as
sooa as possible to Liberia,
the paradise of the black man.
If we were a Moses we
would gladly stretchn our right
fielder across the vasty deep,
and save all our colored
friends who want to migrate
to this land of milk and honey,
ferriage :
KI GsToN. DE SOTo PARISH, Sept. 25.
To all the colored people of the parish of
Doe Soto.
Be it resolved, That we, the
colored citizens of the parish
of De Soto, having taken'with
in consideration, looking back
to the'trouble of twelve years
experience, and we see the
great troubles that have beT
fallen us, so we now do say
that we, as a people, cannot
"make ,a support fot.ourselves
aub our fatnilies.
Secondly, we cannot edus
cate our race.
Thirdly, we cannot control
our daily and homely labor.
Fourthly., we cannot enlist
ourselves as free people,
Fifthly, we cannot be in
subjection to one another.
Sixthly, we cannot appreci
ate tlh cause of ireligion as we
should.
Then we ask you all if you
do not think that it is time for
us to. begin to see ? Yes, we
say that,. we are just now
awaken. So now we say that
we will do as Jesus said to
the poor afflicted man saying,
"rise,?' take up thy bed and
walk, and we say, by the
help of God we will take the
second Egyptian travel, and
we ask every man that has a
drop of colored blood in him
to come and rally with us.
We hear that there is a
lauin that we can inherit, and
if we cannot get a separate in
heritage, we are determined
to go, God being our helper.
There will be many things said
to discourage us, but we will
not hear them. We fear we
have heard too many things
of that sort already.. We fear
we cannot treat our wives as
if they were human. We al
most drive them as if slaves
into the field, and when we
come to our houses there is
no comfort there, for we have
nothing to give them to eat
worth eating; and we hope
that the white people will feel
our care and will lend us a
hand, pray that God may help
us, for, as the Egyptians took
their journey from Egypt to
tbe land. of Canaan, so we will
take our journey from Ameri
ca to the land of Liberia.
A CARELESS MAN.
Yesterday morning a care
less man on South hill threw
a mug of hot shaving-water
out of a second-story window.
Instantly the pale air was
streaked with shrieks, and,
* looking out, he saw he had
emptied the treacherous l1e
ment on the head of his wife,
whd was digging in the gera
nium bed with a pine -stick.
He leaned out of the window
`to laugh in hollow accents,
when the sash fell with fright
ful velocity, shutting off his
witid. His wife, dismayed at
her unexpected shower-bath,
and appalled at her husband's
situantion, turued to run into
the house and release him,
and, in her haste, ran against
the baby's cab, upsetting it
hurling the baby upon a cac
tus plant. The domestic, up
stairs, hearing the shrieks in
the front yard, and doubting
not that the baby had been
devoured by a tramp, sprung
down stairs, to the rescue with
such alacrity that she only
touched two steps. the first
and the last one -touching
the first with her feet, and the
last with her head. A neigh
bor, running to the general
rescue, stepped on a broken
plank in the sidewalk, and fell
a distance of 101 feet, sprain
ing his ankle so badly that he
won't, walk for three weeks.
By this time, the man, with a
violent effort, which scalped
the entire back portion of his
head, got out of the window,
having previously dropped
his razor, which tell on the
edge of a flower.pot and nick
ed itself worse than a coach
horse, and comparative order
was soon restcred. But the
man says he will never again
tempt the anger oftheimmor
tal goods by shaving himself.
-Burlington IHawk-Eye.
A SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.
A row-boat containing five
persons,; two men and three
women, while crossing the
Missouri river from Iowa to
Nebraska, just below the
Union Pacific bridge, at Oma
ha; during a storm, Weas struck
by lightning. George Stadge,
aged 60, was instantly killed.
The electric current struck
him on the head, passing
down one of his arms, tearing
his clothes to threads, and
went through the bottom of
the boat, making a hole
through which the water ra
pidly entered. Almost at the
same instant Mrs. Heyer, ov
ercome with terror, raised her
eelf on her feet, frantically
threw out her arms, tumbling
backward into the river, wa
drowned and swept from the
view of her terror-stricken
husband forever. The 're
maining occupants of the boat
-Mr. Heyer, Mrs. Keinscheidt
and Mrs. Phillip Wagner
were greatly benumbed by
the lightning shocks, as well
as terror-stricken, and were
almost helpless. The boat
fortunately was carried to tihe
shore by the current just in
time to save them from
drowning, as it was nearly
full of water. The party had
been over in lowa gathering
wild grapes.
CURIOSITIES OF CRIME.
The novelist who should make
and tell in a romance such a story
as that which Mr. Floyd tellsof the
recovery of his recently-stolen pro
perty would get himself into trou
ble-with the critics. Mr. Floyd's
house at Englewood, N. J., was
robbed recently. The detectives
have been busy searcihug for the
thief and goods, out have been able
to make nothing out of it. Yes
terday a man caine to Mr. Floyd's
office, and, declaring his purpose to
right the wrong, took Mr. Floydv
in broad daylight to the house in
wiiich the stolen goods were stor'
ed and, within sight of a detective
policeman, loaded the goods on a
truck and sent them home. He de
clined the proffered reward, too,
only asking that no description of
himself should be given.
Another story, not quite so sing
ular, comes from Long Branch.
A theft there, which had been trac
ed to a gcgro parson whose repu
tation was so good that no one
suspected him; and we hear of an
other case in which we have a sin
gular prayer-tesi to wonder over.
. fre occurred on the evening of
4th of July, in the village of Ches
ter, in this State. It was at first
believed to have been the result of
a careless use of fire-crackers, but
after a whi e incendiarism was sus
pected, and, after the rural man
ner, the people of Chester made
the matter a theme of town talk
One pioud young manz even made it
a subject of prayer. In tho weekly
prayer-meeting of one of the village
churched he entreated the Roler of
the Universe to bring the guilty
person to justice to bring about his
detection, iu order that he might
be prperly punished; and we now
lear that the prayer was so effectu
iL1 answered that the pious yonng
man Is securely lodged in jail, with
a fair prospect of serving a term in
the State prison, for arson.-N'ew
York Evening Post.
DEATH OF SISTER MARY THOMAS.
Died at Natchez, Miss., Sept.
22d, Sister Mary Thomas (in the
world Hannah McSwiggan), Sis
ter Servant of St. Mary's Orphan
Asylum.
She was a native of County Ty
rone Ireland. In 1839 she become
a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent
of Paul, at St. Joseph's Mother
House, Emmittsburg, Md. After
ten years spent there she labored
for more than eight years in St.
Louis, where at one time she took
part in organizing the Cholera Bos*
pital.
Since March, 1857, she was in
charge, of the Asylum at Natchez.
)urin, these twenty years she
toiled faithfully and painfolly, nev
er shrinking from labor or priva
tion, never failing in her trust in
Divine Providence. She found
sixty orphans crowded together in
two very small buildings, She suc
ceeded in erecting two ;arger ones
in which both health and comfort
could be better secured.
She established within the Asy
lam a sewing-room, or industrial
school, which Dot only prepared
the orphans to earn their, living
more successfully, but likewise,
when Natchez was more prosperous,
enabled them to contribute largely
to the support of the. institution.
To her energy and activity we
have been chietly indebted for the
success of our Orphan's Fairs, not
only through the work shei accotnm
plished herself, but through the
izeal and encouragement which- her
example gave to others.
We can hardly ddubt that her
life was shortened by hei bodily
exposure and her mental solici
tude for the welfare of the children
entrusted to her. Every winter
she would visit various levees to
solicit help from the charitable
workmen. This always cost her
much suffering, because on a steam
boat she was afflicted with such
nervousness as kept hIer awake all
night. But' it likewise exposed her
to all the changes of the weal her,
at all hious of the niight and in
iplaces where even tough men could
not find comfort; in circumstances,
sometimes, when the capta:iin of the
boat thouight it serious y dangerous
for hier to Iand.
She had an nabounded trust in
God, as she had an unb'unulud ien
c:oity to-wards Him This she
mani'iesied, r:ot only by her sei t
of selfsactifice, but by her !cve
likewise for "the beautyiv of His
house and the place where His glo
ry dweleth." In all ier pcvcrty
she coar.ivcd to decorate beautiful,
ly, even richly, the chapcl of the
Asylum; not diverting means from
the necesstities of her children, but
by applying her personut labors
and those of her Sisters, and by
communicating to others her own
spirit of love for the Blessed Sacra,
ment. During her last sickness,
the period occurred at which every
year the Adoration of the Forty
Hours is held in the chapel of the
Asylum. When it 'was proposed
to defer it, lest the crowd of visi
tors to the chapel through three
successive days might give her dis
tcrbance and increase her suffer
ings, she begged that it might go
on as usual. She would gladly bear
the disturbance for the sake of hav
ing our Lord honored, and for the
blessings it would bring to hier and
the Comrunity.
Her wish was gratified. She
seemed even cheered and strenftih
ened during the exposition, and
there were hopes of her recovery.
But our Lord was satisfied with
her labors, and He called her to
her crown.
Strengthened and consoled by all
tihe hle3sings of the Church, in the
full eijonyment of her senses, sur
rounded by her Sisters,by the Cler
gy snd by her orphans, many of
them settled in life and some of
whom had made long journeys to
visit her in her sickness, quietly
and pcacefuly as she had lived,
"she fell asleep in the Lord" on
the Feast of one of her Patrons,
St. Thontas of Villanova, himself
a predigy of charity. She was
buried on the 24th of September
a day likewise consecrated to heroic
charity-the Feast of Our Lord of
Mercy for the Redemption of cap
tives.
"Who shall find a valiant wo
ttan? Far, and from the utter
most coasts is the price of her.
She hath risen in the night and
given food to her household. She
hath opened her hand to the needy.
All her family nrc clothed with
double garments. Her clhildten
rose up and called her blessed.
The woman that feareth the Lord,
she shall be praised. Let her
works praise her among the peo
ple."-Prot' xarri,
ED. W.
WHITEMAN.
Cor. Principal & Loveo Sts., Bayou Sara
Louisiana.
RECEIVING, FORWARDING
AND
(EM~hISI aERCI'WT
AND DEALER IN
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS
AND
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and manager of the
WOOBVILLE If BAYOU SARA
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THREE MEDALS AND THREE DIPLOMAS!,,
THEIR NEW ROTARY OOK LOCK--STITCH SI1WTNG MAiH
THE STANDARD MACHIINES OF TIE WORLD:
COMPARE WHEELER & WILSON'S CENTENNIAL AWARDS W\jY
AWARDS TO ANY OTIHERt SEWING MACHINE COMPANy .
FROM T : OFF ICIAL 1RE: 02'
A WAL'MS TO WHTEELER 4. WILSCON
1. A Medal and Diploma for the "The Now Wheeler & Wilson Serrig
chine," for the following reasons, q
Stitch Sewilng Machine, unsurpnga
line workmsanship of its parts, and:
ing great originality, great adaptabl
ditloront killnds of work, both onl eloth,
leather, beauty of stitclh,eoae and
of nmotilon, and comnpleteness of di
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Wheeler & Wilson Sowing lMachine?*
ther, for-"SUPERIOR Q1IALITpy
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3d REIPorT.-WHEELER &d:
SEWING MACHINE NEEDDLE\ 0
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LEWIS Z. BASs,
Harney house, Batrn Rouge, La., GEN5RAL ACBI
East acd West i'eluiarny rouinto Coul'pe, Ibcrville, East &. West Batoi6i
and St. Helena Parishes, or J. B. COLE, Canvasser,
Bayou Sara, La., or Post Office Building, Baton Rouge j
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Needles for all Machines sent by mail at fifty centsr
dozen. All kinds of Machines repaired.
March 3d, 1877-lcear
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83200.000.
G glSJf~a~BI.~~ id aer to clear out our stoCk of
sGREATEST perior Gold-plated Jewelry val
over $200,000, we will send as below, 20 Pieces, all warranted Gold)
for $1.OO. 1 pair Gold Stone Sleeve Buttons; 1 pair Engraved I
Buttons; 1 set Pointed Studs; 1 set Amethyst Studs; 1 Wedding Ringf;
BAIRGAJ r F Band Finger Ring; 1 Ametbi
B AR GAIN g~raved Band i
Ri laid with Gold; 1 Elegant
marked "Friendship;" Amethyst Stone Scarf Pin, Inlaid with Gd
Silvered Hat Pin; 1 set Ladies' Jet and Gold Pin and Drops; 1 Missesi
and Gold; 1 Ladies' Jet Set, Ornamented; 1 set Handsome Easeild
E 'V ~ Drops; 1 Gents' Elegant Lake George Diamond
Cardinal Red Bead Necklace; 1 pair Ladiesf Al
Stone Ear Drops, Inlaid with Gold; 1 Ladies' Ornamented Jet B1
Fancy Scarf Ring and Elegant Watch Chain. TAKE YOUR CHOlCIC
ENTIRE LOT OF 3O PIECES, SENT POST PAID FOR $1.
ANY 8 PIECES YOU CHOOSE FOR 5O CENTS. NOW IS TRIO
TO MAKE MIONEY. THESE CA II
OFFERE BE RETAILED AT $10.
NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
Our cetemporary, the ouston Olobe, speaks very highly of both advertiser and gssad
honorable in his dealings, and reliable in his goods, a commendation we heartily en
Louis Dispatch, Dec. 7, 1876.
The house Is a thoroughly reliable one in every respect.-Dorton Globe, Oct. 25,1876.,
lHis reputation for honesty, fair dealing, and liberality is unequaled by any advert
city.-N. Y. Day Book, Dec. 16, 1870.
Advertises more-and sells cheaper than any man in New York.-lTerald, April 8, 1l.t
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hioe lIar is ('onistaii Ily 511pp11 ed withii
choicest brands of wines, liqmors and
Cigars.
A sunptuous Free Lunch s1prcad every
Sunday mnorning. Attached to the es
tahlisluiueut is a Splendiid lii llard al'el,
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AF. M.MUIMFORD, A. D.
DruggistS
ist.
No 5 Princil
Bayou Sara IA
Drugs, Medicines, Chemical8
Toilet Soaps, Fancy fair
Tooth Brushes, Cosh
Perfumory and Faney
T'oilet ArticlCs,
Trusecs,
Shoulder
Braces, Grass
and Garden seods,
Pure Wines and Liq
for Medical purposes.
Oils Varnishes, Dye-slt
Linsted oil. Lard oil,?
foot oil, Coal oil, Carbo
Lamps and lanmps trimmal
all dcscriptiouns. Pen,1
Pencile, Slates, PapCer
music, Blank Booke,
Cutlery, Razors, Rze
Surgical Instruments,tba
dard patent mera
&c. &c., a fresh .aj
complete assort"!
ment of all "
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