The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-01-05
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mel Valencia, aged 90, who igured'in the bat
tie of Trafalgar.
Mr.. Bell, formerly Member of Congress from
Ohio, died at his residence in, Drake county on
the 2lst ult.
Schuyler, the absconding NawYork fnan-
cier, it is announced, died recently at Nice,
Italy.
Boston has 5000 more females than males.
Chicago has, about $4,000 more males than
females. lhma fsatE. 4u IL iHFA 3it =
At Rochester, NY, on the It'll, there was
in store and on its way to be received there,
half a million bushels Of wheat.
The population of Massachusetts is not far
from 1,25O,O0O-which is an increase Of 1885,
900 in five years, or 5l,06O q year.
A project is on foot for the establishment in
Winchester, Va, ola college Of high grade, to
be under the control of the Odd Fellows.
The chap who took the thread of life to sew
the rent Of his pants has gone west and invent
ed a patent point for crosseyed needles.
d. B. Clayton, of Holly Springs, Missis
sippi, has thrown up the Ministry and taken to
the worldly pursuit Of politics, and is now no
better than one of the sinful and-an editor.
In Chicago, Illinois, a few days since, while
the judges of the recorders court was trying a
case Of horse stealing, his own horse and buggy
were stolen from the vicinity of the court room.
$20,O0O,00O worth of gold were coined at
the California Branch Mint during the eleven
months ending November 30, principally in
800 pieces. a.a. 5r.@ ~
In many parts of France it is said to be the
popular belief that fire kindled by lightning
cannot be extinguished, and that he who makes
the attempt will die before the end Of the year.
R. NJ. 7. Hunter, of Virginia, and Augustus
schell, Of Newly FORK, are spoken of as candi-
dates for President and Vice President. IT
won t do.
1t is stated that the President will recon.
mend in his message the purchase of the rights
and possessions Of the Hudson Bay Company
on the northwest coast Of the continent.
A paper has just been started in Richmond,
Indiana, called "The Broad-axe Of Freedom
and Grabbing Hoe of Truth" Rather formi-
dable that. ~.
The Secretary of the Interior has declared
that volunteers engaged in the removal of the
Cherokees are entitled to bounty lands under
the existing laws.
Dispatches from Baton Rouge have been
received in NewOrleans, to the effect that the
Governor had given Mr.. Hufty his commits
sion as Sheriff of Orleans Parish. So that
affair is settled at last.
A resolution has passed both branches of the
General Assembly of Florida, authorizing the
inhabitants of West Florida to vote upon the
proposition Of seeding from that State, and
uniting themselves with the State of Alabama.
The ship Mary Spencer sailed q month ago
from San francisco for Liverpool, with several
barrels of California -four. So it
would seem that our countrymen on the Pa
clhc are doing something besides digging gold.
The passengers of the steamship Crescent
City, which ship was wrecked on Matapilla
Reef on the eth ult., arrived at Havana from
Nassau on the 10th, and were transferred to
NewOrleans, where they disembarked q few
lays ago.
A professional beggar named Mrs. Shaw, who
is we'll known to the citizens of Pittsburg for
her pertinacity in soliciting charity, has accu-
mulated property in that city by begging, for
which she has been recently offered ten thou.
'and dollars.
George M. Dallas has been recommended as
The Democratic candidate for next President.
~ committee Of Democratic citizens of Phila-
who urge his claims in an address
which is so lengthy that we have not time to
cad it.
Col. Daniel Jenifer, of Maryland, formerly
Representative in Congress from that State,
nd Minister to Austria under the Harrison
died at Mulberry Grove, near
rort TOBACCO, on the 10th ult., at on advanced
zee.
Mrs. Margaret Trump, of Massillon, Ohio,
wishes information of her husband, Mr.. G. A..
who left his house on the 10th day of
November, 1854, saying he would return next
ay. Any information of the missing Trump
'ould be gladly received by his distressed wife,
Massillon, Ohio.
A woman is either worth nothing or a great
If good for nothing, she is not worth
citing jealous for; if she be a true woman, she
'll give no ca use for jealousy. A man is a
to be jealous of such a fool to
jealous Of a worthless one--but a double
Dol to cut his throat for either Of them.
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