The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1857-01-24
Brogdin has commits

Is now 40 y Brogdin has commit !
suicid Mr. throat. A late paper
reportsA Brodgin exhibited signs Of
insanity " IN his way to the West. What
q se1owfnl 4 fearful consu1nn,ation A.
seducer shot, his paramour q suicide, and poor
Brogdin likely to be insane. 4
1t is said 1t the klamath county, Califor-
MIA, jail consists, Of q live-oak tree, with q
staple and cham ttachea. 1t is well ventilated,
and affords q good opportunity for the study
Of astronomy and the barometer, especially
when biz Is are scarce.
II tap from letters sent to Y = omteo
States from the Netherlands that the
Government pproyed Of the conduct Of Min
lister DuboisA l%eclining to testify in {Ae Herbert
affair, while protesting the warmest regard for
the United tetes.
"A boy fourteen wears Of aF has been ar
rested in New Ydtk for purlqy ing letters and
money from the postofice. e engagtIs@ *
in The name of Stanford &fUo, an "a e
establishment, and helped Himself libcrA g
their rc,nistances. lssfe73y
It is currently rcportedSa nd generally credit,
ed, at least in unofficial circles, that the Right
Hon. Chas. Pelham vil!iers, brother to the
Earl Of Clarendon, and one Of her Majiesty's
privy councillors has been appointed British
Minister to this country, and may soon be ex.
pected at the seat Of government.
#.L4 20 o. ~ .
In Louisville, one cold night recently, a man
named John Brown, the father Of Ave children,
dacked his wife in wasl-tub and then thrust
her out Of doors. with the intention Of having
her frozen to death. A Waterman found her
wandering about the street, took her home,
and then bundled off her bruta! husband to jail.
Late intelligence from Dcmarara announces
the decease at that place, of the denented IN
dividual John S Orr, alias the 'sAngcl Gabriel"
whose exhoitations in this country and else
where for the last few years have BEEN the
cause of much speculstion-ali which, NO
doubt, our readers can call TO mind.
An exchange says :."A man who avoids
matrimony on account Of the cares Of welded
life is compared to one who would amputatc u
leg to save his toes from cefns." Perhaps
there is some justice in the comparison does
not the poet say, Tall aches from little toe
corns grow"
The London Times says that a kind Of pas
siye resistance to the payment Of the income
tax hos, it seems, been intimated in the town
Of Dreghcda, Ireland, and, as such movements
are rather racy on the lri h soil, here is no
knowing to what lengths it may ex .end in the
course Of time.
DIR. Valentine Mott performed the operation
last month, for the forty-fourth time, Of tying
the carotid artery in the living subject. The
!. Napoleon Of surgeons is now II years old, yet
is as straight as ever, and as young at heart as
when so years younger. He does not ever
wear glasses when he operates, and the man is
not extant who ever. saw his hand tremble.
The Georgia Constitutfonalist says that a
bear MAS killed i'll Ebert county, in that State
on the 10th inst, by Mr.. Caruthers, which
weighed as pounds. This old bruin had been
pro~ling about in the neighborhood where he
met his death for some years, bat his tracks
we're all that could be noticed up to tie day o.
his death.