The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-05-05
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Col. Kinney has been indicted on the charge
Of having violated the neutrality laws Of the United
States. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
The Memphis Appeal learns that the farmers
in DeSoto county, Miss, are generally ploughing up
and planting over again.
The ship Hero, which arrived at New York
on the 18th, from St. Helena, reports the capture of a
Russian ship by the British ship Plover.
To keep shippers out of bacon in the Sum
mer-eat your meat early in the Spring. We never
knew it to fail. -t. q
An Irish s%choolmaster. said to his pupils,
Z" Gentlemen, if you will all be silent, we shall know
who makes the noise"
MY wife," said q critic, ais one of the
most even-tempered women ever saw she is mad
all the time"
"A traveller, who has never visited the United
States, says nothing can equal the volatility of the
Egyptian women.
Pa, is MT that man in what they call the
spring-time of life p" "Why, my son y" Because
he looks SO confoundedly green"
~ would give almost any thing to hear Ole
Bull" said Susan to her lover. "Well,' answered
Tom, =" dad Is got an old brindled chap, and you can
hear him heller at almost any time" Susan tainted,
"All full inside?" queried a looker-in at the
door of a London omnibus. Can't say for the rest, y
responded Lamb from one of the seats, " but that last
piece of oyster pie did the business for me.'
Mayor Wood, of New York, has received q
letter from Mr.. Fay, U. S. Minister to Switzerland, ell
closing a circular by the Federal Council of Switzer-
land, condemning the sending of Swiss paupers to the
United States, and prohibiting it in the future.
The following notice was lately affixed at a
church in Herefordshire, England, and read in the
church This is to give notice, that no person to
be buried in this churchyard but those living in the
parish and those who desire to be buried are desired
to apply to the parish clerk"
A correspondent Of the Scientific American
suggests that as a difficulty exists in getting white
paper to print upon, that black paper might be sub
.tituted, with white ink. White on a black ground
is more distinct, and the eye is then relieved from the
glare of rays from the white surface. u
They have q Mississippi baby on exhibition
in Mobile, which is said to be the personfication of
fairness. It is some ten months old, weighs "a lbs,
measures 81 inches round the shoulders, IA inches
round the thigh, and l33 inches round the arm. 1t
is supposed to be a girl. ~.' T5g
We perceive by correspondence published in
several Of the city papers, that the Hon. Pierre soule
declines at present an invitation to meet his fellow
citizens there in a public manner, stating that he does
not wish to be "made the object of further demon
STATIONS :" on the part of his friends.
The NewYo rk Post says the export of -four
and wheat to England has wholly ceased. Corn has
been the only cereal shipped in large quantities, and
ot TINS 4,64O,OOO bushels have been sent forward
"S""ts - al ~ CUIItSpOuulux DeTlO0 OF 1894.
namely, LIST September to date. -
In the British House Of! Commons, a few
days ago, in reply to an inquiry by Mr.. Roebuck, Lord
palmelston stated that it was the firm intention of
tne Brush Government to give to Newfoundland a
responsible Government, and that steps had been
taken to carry the project into execution.
1t appears the Russians are preparing to
eve the Allies some warm work if they attempt any
land operations on the Baltic this season. The armyy
OF the Baltic, under Gen. Sievers, is to be largely
augmented. Russian writers state this General viii
shortly have 4 O,OOO men under his command
A woman will cling to the chosen object Of
her heart like a possum to,a gum tree, and you can't
separate her without swapping strings that no art can
mend, and leaving a portion of her soul upon the
upper leatherof your affections. She will sometimes
see something to love where others will see nothing
to admire and when her fondness is once fastened
on a fellow, it sticks like glue and molasses in a bushy
head OF hair.
We are truly distressed to learn, that on
1a"n.;1aIy , evening last week, the young, amiable and
met with a melancholy accident by the bursting Of a
camphene lamp, which resulted in death after n few
hours OF dreadful agony. She was the accomplished
aaughter OF the late Simon Murchison, ESQ.,, OF
Natchez. [Concordia lntelligencer.
my love-" says Mrs. Foozise to her bus-
purchase a new dless.n g Shan't do any such a thing.
Agnes, you called me a bear yesterday" "LorIoye'
That was nothing meant by it that you were fond
G Gl a!aggl J You little, I have no five, but
The Boston correspondent of the Christian
INQUIRER says that :" the odd anomaly exists in Boston
Of a church without a single worshiper, residing in the
CITY, OF the faith of those who built it. It is believed
taat not a single Quaker now resides in Boston.
Dlhgent inquiry of the friends and of Others has failed
10 bring to light n living Quaker as a resident of Bos.
ton for several years."
The Order of Odd Fellows in Washington
olty Is represented as being in o most prosperous
soaaihoa. The neabsship ccmprissu saont iIIass