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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23
An Extra Ordis1ry Winter.

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The winter of 174O is. described in
an old book quoted by a. German paper
as very terrible. This work, Brockes'
Contentment,in God,'' thus speaks OF it :
. An unheard Of frost seized with }ex-
traordinay severity on the world and
the elements, SO that it is scarcely pos.
sible to number or relate the many
strange occurrences that took place
through its violence. Men felt 50 op-
pressed that days passed by unheeded.
One woodland could hardly speak lone
sat and thought yet could not think; if any
one spoke word it was hard set face.
Many hens and ducks, even the cattle
in the stalls, died Of cold !; the trees
split asunder. Not only beer but wine
in cellars frozs. Deeply sunken wells
were covered with impenstrable ice.
Crows and other birds fell to the ground
frozen. in their fight. No bread was
eatible, for it was as cold and as hard
as stone" Brokss further relates that
this extraordinary winter was followed
by an equally uncommon spring. In
May no sign of vendure was yet to be
seen; it was still cold in July, and veg
itation was then still further hindered
by, drought. The harvest was not over
until late in autumn, aud by the middle
|of October the frost returned before the
fruits in the gardens had had time to
ripen. 49,. ~. IA sst.t ~. 81.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23
A German Resume Of the Pa
.- pACy.

The Neue Fr-ie Presse, Of Vienna,
sums up in the following severe terms
the history of the Popes:
"From St. Peter Gn supposing that
he ever was at Romeo to Plus TX. there
have been 297 Popes, including "a anti
popes and one female Pontiff; 10 of them
left Rome and 35 reigned in foreig,i
countries; ruled a month only; 40, one
year; %, two years: 54, five years; 81,
fifteen years; IS, twenty years, and nine
only for a longer period. Among the
2o7, 81 were declared usurpers and he
retics: out of the 2G6 legitimate, GA died
of violent death; that is to say, Is were
poisoned and 4 strangled, the rest per-
isbing in other ways. Independent of
the Popes of Aviguon, 90 Pontifs were
deposed, expelled and banished from
Rome; 2S others could only maintain
themselves by the aid of the foreigner.
Out of the whole number, l53, or more
than half, showed themselves unfit for
their Office; 6, in spite Of their vows, had
children. Leon ~, it is said was wo.
man, and died in child birth. Urban Y.
confessed his fallibility, and submitted
to the censures of a council; two other
Popes, Victor III. and Adrian VI, con-
fessed in public that they had sinned,
&c. " u y Certain it is that in this
long history of Christ's Wears note may
be taken Of frequent absences Of the Ho-
" Spirit. "'a" 'i''sf s7<s .''tsf
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23
Florence Nighfingaie'S shoes

g.. A distinguished woman who not long
since returned from Europe, told a
friend of ours, of an interview with Miss
Florence Nightingale. During the con-
versation she could not but noticethe sing
ular shape of that eminent lady's foot.
She never had heard that Miss Night
ingale was lame, or malformed, but Ger
tainly something was the matter. ter J. Her r
curiosity prompted her to inquire OF
some mutual friend, who at once ex-
planned that Miss Nightingale, desplslng
the modern instrument Of torture vended
by fashionable ,shoenakers, W accus.
toned to plant her stocking firmly on a
piece of leather, draw the outline Of the
figure it forms, and have her shoe
made to correspond exactly with it
# Personal Beauty. a1 aT = =
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23

- A Coon ONE.-In an article upon
the probable scarcity of ice during the
next summer, the Hartfort Post tells the
following capital story ::.a..rssaf 4
LA good many, years ago, when ice
in summer was a rarity in cities and an
unheard of thing in the country, good
deacon Of rural church was charged
with having got decidedly fuddled one
Fourth Of July, in New York. He was
arraigned for his misconduct. With
tears in his eyes, he confessed his fault ;
but pleaded in palliation that was a
prodigious hot day, and the lemons and
ice in the punch did look SO cool and
inviting that he could not resist the
temptation, and he supposed he did ac'
tualIy drink to intoxication. A low:
browed brother on a back seat listened
attentively, but ineredulously, to the
defence, and, at. its conclusion, rose
= T hain't no objection" said he, "to q
mans getting drunk. if he owns UP to il
and is sorry for it that's thing aman's
liable to, and p'rhaps sometimes he
can't help it; but when the deacon
| comes in here and undertakes to excuse
himself in any such a. way as thai
talking about seeing ice in JULY g
for ierkin' him out for lynn"
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The Mormon Women Done {
Want Divorces. fh-'1
[Salt Lake City cor. N. Y. World.]

s lcalC Lake Clty COT. ~. L. W oIlu.l
~ No one here believes that any res
pectabls man will put away his family.
Phe people will sooner consent to be
sacrificed together than to break up and
scatter their families Did the women
want to be separated from tyrant lords,
the matter would be easily reached but
the trouble is they don't want to leave
them. Within the past two months no
less than 10000 feminine names OF
maids and matrons have been subscribed
to petitions against the* Cullom bill, de-
claring, in many cases, that they would
sooner 60 to the penitentiary with their
husbands than to be separated from
them. There is nothing surprising in
all this, unnatural as itmay seem to 9th.
cers. To them Mormonism is true, and
the revelation of polygamy is divine.
The people have been preached to and
taught in this manner till their heads
are full of it. How is it that the Gen
tiles believe otherwise? Simply because
their education has been Of another
stripe. The people of Utah need a
food of literature, and net an army with
bayonets.A - @tzs-'is3s ! ",'@.t:18tE@ "'-'5
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Death of Ross, the Cherokee
-~- ,-. Chief. D.. "f

Says the Fort Smith Herald of March
18th ...-.... .n-... ....f ...-.. -.
Mr.. Lewis Ross, prominent Chero-
kee, died at his residence in the Chero-
kee nation, aged about 73 years. He
was a brother of the notorious chiet,
John Ross, man Of a kind heart and
generous impulses. To the indian, his
house was his home, and no man among
that tribe was more beloved and res
pected. At one time he was very
wealthy; being a merchant, he turned
his whole attention to trade. and had
but little to do with politics, and the
Indians travelled far and near to trade
with him. By that trade he acquired
very large fortune. We have known
but little Of him for several years; but
learn from missionary Of that nation.
that be died the faith of Christian
Tins has passed away the last male
member the elder Ross family. 3d..
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23
THE GREAT COUNCIL
Text of the Proposition for the
Papal Enfaliibility.

The Paris Univers, of March 10, re-
produces from the Malone the text of
the proposition for the Papal intallibili-
ty, document which, as sthe Italian
clerical journals declare, could only have
been obtained by violation Of the Sc
crecy promised by members of the
Council 1t is entitled" Chapter to
be added to the decree concerning the
Primacv of the Roman Pontiff," and
runs thus:
"The Pope cannot err when he de-
fines matters of faith and morals. The
Holy Roman Church possesses the su-
premc primary and sovereignty over the
whole Catholic Church. It acknowl-
edges in all truth and humility that it
has received this prerogative, with the
plentitude of it's power, from our Lord
himself, in the person of St. Peter, the
prince of the Apostles, Of whom the
Roman Pontif is the successor. And
as, before everything, it has the obliga-
ton to defend the truth of the faith, so
by its Judgment all questions relating
to the true creed must necessarily be
solved. (Second Council of Lyons
The word of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which says Thou art Peter &c, can
not be contradicted and this expression
has been verified by facts, for the
Apostolic See has always preserved
without alloy the Catholic religion, and
proclaimed the sacred doctrine (accor-
ding to the formula of Pope Hormisdas,
subscribed by the Eastern bishops).
In consequence, we Plus Ky sacro ap-
probamte concilao, teach and define as a
dogma of faith, that, by the aid of God,
the Roman Pontih, to whom, in the per-
son of Peter, it was said by our Lord
himself. i have prayed for thee that
thy faith might not falter,' cannot err
when, exercising the Office of Supreme
teacher Of all Christians, he denies in
virtue of his own authority what ought
to be held by the whole Church in mat
ters Of faith and morals /; and we, more
over, declare that the. intallibility in
question embraces all the objects to
which that of the Church extends.
"And should any one presume
which God forbid-to attempt to contro-
vert this definition, let him know that
in so doing he diverges from the truth
Of the Catholic faith and unity Of the
Church" " ...s.-4 .HE IT,. ~ d
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23
THE LADY OF THE KEY.
How n Russian Husband Dis.
posed of an Intruder.

One of the Paris journals announces
the death, at Versailles, of a Russian
lady who appeared in the drawing rooms
in Paris 1S4S and 1S4S, and was nick
named the Dame la Clef." She died,
aged fortv-fve, in the most complete So
litude. 1t is said that her husband,
who was much older than she, came to
see her for a week or two every six
months, and went away again, no one
knew whittier. All was mysterious a
bout this Lady of the Key. Last month
the husband did not return as usual, but
letter came announcing his death. The
widow survived him a few days only,
and it is supposed she allowed herself to
die of hunger Whether true or not, this
was the story that was whispered about
her when she appeared in Paris, young
and beautiful, more than twenty years
ago. 1t is said that her husband surpri-
sed her in little country house which
he possessed near Moscow, at the mo-
ment she was hastily shutting somebody
up in a wardrobe. A servant had be-
trayed her. The Muscovite Othello
turned the key twice in the wardrobe,
took it out, and then told his wife to fol-
low him. A travelling britzka stood a
few PAGES from the villa. More dead
than alive, the unhappy women obeyed.
When the husband had placed her in a
carriage, and given an order in low
voice to the coachman, keep this key"
he said to his wife: II have forgotten
something, and will return" and then
went back to the house. He returned
according to his promise, but as the car
riage ascended the hill the poor woman
saw the flames issuing from the windows
of the country house and taking full pos
session of it. She tainted away, and on
regaining her senses perceived that a
gold chain was riveted round her neck,
to which the little key Of the wardrobe
was attached. She wished to kill her.
self. but her husband threatened that il
she committed suicide he would reveal
her misconduct, and cover her and her
family with dishonor. She was there.
fore condemned to live, and her strange
necklace excited much curiosity in Par
is. At last her tyrant allowed her to
retire to quiet retreat, on the express
stipulation that she would not attempt
to destroy herself during his lifetime
His death released her from this condi'
tion; but she had languished for more
than twenty years, having the witness
of her guilt always before her eyes.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23
Power of Short words.

The lae Professor Addison Alexander, ID.
D., is the author OF the following remarkable
composition which appeared originally IN the
Princeton Magazine :, .. ..+........ss g..
...,} MoNosYLLABICs. ,.4 .. .....,.- IS
Think not strength lies in the big round
word, s.5:s2 sf Hn -,~"t
Or that the brief and plain must needs be
weak. y-. - .ai ~-
To whom s can t5js be true wh'' t' once "h has
The cry for help, the tongue that u men
a la- speak, 5n a sfi- s... '5
8When want or woe or fear is6n the throat,
So that each word gssped out is like a
Pressed i from the sore hea t, or strange wild
Sung by some fay or end7 There is a
u strepgtR @.H.t = '4,s - 44ae ,~tr-
d Which dies ff stretched too far or spun too
Which has more hight than breadth, more
a depth than length. a ol "r ..ea -.
bet bnk this force of thought and speech be
:. Aine, Nv =. ~.r.T o,.41 - ..a>
And heehat will may take the sleek, fat
,ft lahrase @& t4r,s. u.3 assl 20. s r. ?.
Which glows and burns not, though it gleam
Light but not heat--a fash, bt~hot blaze!
Nor is it mere strength that the word boasts.
It serves of more than fight or storm to tell,
The roar of waves that clash on rock-bound
Id 4. coasts, 45ofgt .B t,.i yHj 5.n. .@5t. t#'.'f
The crash of tall trees when the wild winds
a#-E swell, gb>4} stf@s.' ..tg -.r .t !-- rs-3rt
The roar of guns, the groans of men that die
On d-stained fields. It has a voice as
For them that far off on their sick beds lie ::
For them that weep, for them that mourn
the dead; ..4gf.4 .}s
For them that laugh and dance and clap the
ii hand; "a r.5 ..ttfEs >. ,s s@-$ I"
To joys quick step, as well as griefs slow
tread, =. N a~f m
The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep
time, .
And though the theme be sad, or gay, or
Il grand, 2H lta a,~,spf lJe ..aa,uai. E,a..
With each. with all, these may be made to
chime. @ & "a el 4a.v "a rts.,,# ss
In Thought eor speech, or song, in prose or
rhyme. ..-z.s.4.t
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Our Pre- re>ieaeMtS-WnO ave Dead,
and When They Died.

There have been fifteen persons
elected By the people to the office Of Pres
ident of the United States. OF this
number the present incumbent is the
only survivor. 1t is true that Messrs.
Fillmore and Andrew johnson who
were chosen Vice-P Presidents, became
Presidents by the deaths of their chiefs,
Taylor and Lincoln, are still living.
This is extraordinary mortality.
The first President, General Wash
ington, died while the second President
was in office.
The second and third, John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson, deceased while
the sixth President was in office.
The fourth President, James Madison,
and the fifth James Monroe, expired
during the administration OF President
Jackson. But the fifth President,
James Monroe, died five years before
The fourth, Jas. Madison.
The sixth President, John Quincy Ad-
ans, lived until 1S4S, and died when
James K. Polk, the tenth President was
in office.
The seventh President, General An
drew Jackson, died three years before
his predecessor, the sixth President,
viz, in 1S45.
The eighth, Martin Van Buren, died
in 1866, when Andrew johnson was in
Office.
The ninth, General Harrison, expired
one month after his inauguration, in
1841.
The tenth, James X. Polk, died with
in three months after leaving the Office,
May, 1919. .-
General Taylor, the eleventh Presi-
dent, died in Office in July, 1850.
General Franklin Pierce, the twelfth
President, has just deceased, being the
last survivor OF the ex-Presidents.
His successor, James Buchanan, de-
parted this life in June, 1868, being
the thirteenth President. .-..
Abraham Lincoln, the fourteenth
President, as is we'll known, was assas-
sinated in April, 1865, being the second
month of his second term
We give below a list. showing the
number of years each President lived
after the expiration of his Presidential
term, taking no account of odd months
George Washington, three years +;
John Adams, twenty-five years Thorn
as Jefferson, seventeen years; James
Madison, nineteen years James Mon
roe, six years; ; John Quincy Adams,
nineteen years; Andrew Jackson, eight
years Martin Van Buren, twenty-five
years VIM. II. Harrison died in Office
James X. Polk, three mouths after ex.
piration of office; General Zachary
| Taylor died in Office; Franklin Pierce
twelve years Abraham Lincoln died il
| office. .. .s, I4g., '., F5 i
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-04-23
LEGISLATION ON Life Insurance.

The enactment by the Legislature of
Louisiana of such laws, as will efectually
protect the vast interest of widows and
orphans Which have been intrusted to
life insurance companies, has already
been discussed in our papers.
We have now before us an earnest
article upon the subject in the Insurance
Advocate, of Richmond, Virginia, for
January, 1870. "F..'."'l 1 ri ..t. .'
The views presented by the writer
seem to us very striking. and coming as
they do from high authority upon the
sub ject, they are entitled to conside-
ration. The author is w. c. Caring
ton, President Of Of the Piedmont and
Arlington Company of Virginia, which
company under his management, has
attained a remarkable prominence by
its success, having in little over two
years acquired nearly two millions (s2,-
900, ,OOO) Of assets. Mr.. sCarrington
considers the existing laws Of Virginia
upon life insurance inadequate and un-
wise. They require every life insurance
company working in Virginia to deposit
certain amount in bonds of the State
in the Treasury. He urges that this adds
no security to policy, holders, but On the
contrary diu,inishes their dividends,
damages their interest, and endangers
their polices by tying up so much capi-
I tal IF the cOfnr1aDy, m vi s.'w ~ + II
Instead of requiring deposits, he ur'
ges that the State Legislatures should
enact laws providing for rigid and fear.
less scrutiny into the affairs of insurance
companies that these laws "should re-
quire full exhibit, explicit statement o.
investments, full statement of present
and contingent liabilities" ETC., and that
there should be in every state an iusur'
ance department.. the head of which
"should be yersed in the science OF
mathematics and insurance, pure il
principle, above reproach, and entirely
Independent in his position. = ""h
We are not now prepared to say what
will be the best measures for our State
| to adopt to meet the great and growing
interest Of policy holders. .--.. .'-
But the general outlines Of Mr.. Car
rington's suggestions meet our approval
He has established his skill and energy
by the remarkable success which hi
company has achieved and the earnes
manner which he now invites close scru
tiny into its affairs, shows that he feels
confident that, in extending so rapidly
the business operation, he has in no degree
compromised the; solvency Of the Pied
mont and Arlington, which can stand any
test or examination.- Pieayuns. al.L
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Eife'S kdlerSs

/. There is class of beings that some
how get into existence whom we should
exclude from our plan, if we were going
to project the scheme of world. We
should be strongly disposed to shut
them out by the rigid Quarantine Of non
existence. It may be with us an old
fastened prejudice, that ought long since
to have yielded to the influences OF
modern Improvement, but the plain
truth is, we have always believed in
that principle of political economy
which seeks to missionize the number
of those who are merely useless consum'
ers, and add to the number Of those who
are useless producers. The law of life's
success is action-action first, last, and
always. For this there is No substi'
tute, and for it's absence no compensation
The law of life's duty is action, and
without no life is to be deemed normal
Holding these elementary positions as
a matter of theory, we frankly confess
a sense of deep disgust when compelled
to look upon life's idlers. We would
not pay for the privilege Of seeing them
and indeed would not see them if they
did not so often and so obtrusively force
themselves upon our notice. Whether
male or female, young or old, in big h life
or low life, they certainly have come tc
the wrong world and the sooner they
get out Of it, the sooner society
will be relieved of a .burdensome and
expensive nuisance. They are the vol
untary paupers Of earth. sometimes very
elegant in their way, yet paupers afte,
all. Eating and drinking and sleeping
are their chief employment. With
their provender made sure. they are
quite satisfied. Habits Of useful indus
try they have not and, moreover, they
never expect to do anything that is o1
practical value for either world. They
are just what they mean to be-do-noth
ings. 1'~t '7- &@
These idle and useless people, if o
the masculine gender, must have thei
methods Of relieving the ennui Of doing
nothing. Hence they devise busines
in the shape Of hunting, fishing, card
playing, theatre-going, horse.racing
grog-shop 'ounging, dog and cockfghtipg
and all other sundries that consume time
and exhaust power to no profit. "o
man, generally in a more delecats and
less offensive way, very often falls int
4 the same category, and renders hersei
Justly amendable te the same eensure
II Beecher's Magazine.
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a"EEEEI El34 @Hs-7EI. q #E-I EEEEEI5ttk9
Women Jur0rs-Exeitement i'm
se@a& + Wyoming. "a &o%,"

We propose to let our'readers into the
secret of a few facts illustrative Of the
great excitement which our female jury
has caused in the world. On the eve
ming of the day on which we first pub
lished the list of names, the Western
Union Telegraph operator here broke in
upon the regular dispatches to call Chi
cago, and told them he had some news
to send. They told him to wait till the
regular report was done. .''But," said
the operator, s'this is .hell"' He then
proceeded to forward an account of the
drawing of the jury, the names of all the
ladies', and the remarks of the Sentinel
on the subject. giving our paper the cred
it, like gentlemen. as he is. As soon
as the nature of the dispatch became
known, great interest was manifested
along the line to get it fully and accu-
rately, and this office was several times
obliged to repeat parts Of it, especially
the names Of jurors, so that they might
get them correctly. After the message
had gone over the wires it was amusing
in the extreme to hea- the various ejacu-
latory remarks which it called forth from
one end of the country to the other. But
this was the least part Of the excitement.
The whole message, including the senti-
nel's remarks, was the same night sent
over the cable, and the next morning at
ter the drawing Of our jury, all the par
ticulars. together with the names Of the
ladies, were published in all the leading
journals Of Europe, and furnished to the
crowned heads-to prince and peasant
to digest with their coffee at the break
fast table. Even more remarkable re-
suits than this have sprung from it,
which as yet we are not at liberty to
make public. More than d hundred and
fifty, messages have, been received at this
Office, asking for facts and further par
ticulars. We doubt if the firing on Fort
Sumpter raised q greater excitement in
the world at large than the selection d
females to sit as jurors away out here
in the Rocky Mountains. 4 Laramie
Sentinel. + sfg .sss
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