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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30
The Snow.

Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the house tops, over the street,
Over the head of the people you meet,
Dancing.
Flirting;
SkimmiDg along;
Beautiful snow it can do no wrong,
Flying to kiss fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lip in frolicsome freak.
Beautiful snow from the Heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love!
Oh the snow, the beautiful snow,
How the fakes gather and laugh as they 60
Whirling about in the maddening fun,
1t plays i'll its glee with every one.
Chasing,
Laughing,
Hurryng by;
1t lights on the face and sparkles the eye!
And even the dogs, with a bark and bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy around:
The town is alive, and it's heart glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful SNOW!
How wild the crowd goes swaying along,
Haing each other with humor and song,
How the gay sledges, like meteors. flash by,
Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye ;
Ringing,
Swinging.
Dashing they 40
Over the crust of the beautiful snow;
Snow so pure when it falls from the sky;
To be trampled in mud by the crowd rushing by,
TO be tramplel and tracked by the thousands
Tof feet
TIL it blends with the filth in the horrible
street.
Once I was pure as the snow-but I fell,
Fell like the snow flakes from heaven to hell
Fell to be trampled as filth on the street,
Fell to be scotied, to be spit on and beat;
Pleading,
Cursing,
Dreading to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing In shame for morsel of BREAD
Hating the living and fearing the dead
Merciful God have fallen so low!
And yet was once like the beautiful snow !
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like its crystal, heart like its
glow;
Once l was loved for my innocent grace,
Flattered and sought for the charms Of my face!
Father,
Mother,
Sisters, all,
God, and myself l have lost by my fall
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by,
Will take wide sweep, lest wander too nigh;
For all that is on or above me; know
There is nothing that's pure as the beautiful
[snow
How strange it should be that this beautiful
snow
Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go
How strange it should be, when the night
lcomes again,
If the snow and the ice struck my desperate
brain
Painting,
Freezing,
Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for moan,
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town,
Gone mad in the JOY ofthe snow coming down
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30
MEDICAL NOTICE.

A REGULAR Meeting of the St. Landry
n Medical and Surgical Association will be
held at Opelousas the first Saturday of every
month, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
VINCENT BOAGNI, NJ. D.,
President.
JAMas RAY, NJ D., Secretary.
July %, 1S71-iy.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

A Warsaw reporter saw a wax
among the wives and widows of War
saw, and remarks that "Of all the
wars we ever saw, we never saw q
war like the war we saw among the
wives and widows of Warsaw
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

y young lady, at an examination
in grammar, was asked why the noun
bachelor was singular? She re-
piled Immediately, with much mai
vcte, " Because it is very singular
they don't get married"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

\ young lady i'll Richmond COM
menced crying on the Sd of last
month, and has not stopped yet;
her father says she can howl for
ever, but she'll get no so cents out
OF him to buy a hustle.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

\ clergyman consolinga a widow on
the death of her husband, remarked
that she could not find his equal. II
don't know about that replied the
sobbing fair one, " but I'll try.n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30
THE HUMORISTS' COLUMN.
A little nonsense now and then ~
Is relished by the wiscst men.

An unsuccessful lover was asked
by what means he lost his divinity.
" Alas" he cried, q tlattcred her
until she got too proud to speak to
me.n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

Leisure is a very pleasant gar
ment to look at, but it is very
bad one to wear. The ruin of mil
lions may be traced to it,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

An exchange, wanting to compli-
ment a "live stock Journal" says it
is edited by a man whose head is
chock full Of live stock. Doubtful
compliment.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

" Patrick" said a lady to slip of
green Erin who was officiating in the
kitchen, "where is Bridget - " In
deed ma'am She, fast asleep looking
at the bread baking.'
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

a grass widow in "York Staten
has sued for divorce, alleging mar
rlagc under false prctences as d
ground for it! Shades of courtship!
Does she suppose there was ever a
marriage of any other sort?
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

A NOVEL AND CURIOUS VEGETA-
BLE.-In a tract of coutry in the
southwestern part of Africa, distin-
guised for it's dry but rich soil, the
Boston Journal of Chemistry says,
a gigantic perennial melon has been
discovered, which is a most delicious,
wholesome fruit, and which is large
ly consumed by the native inhabi-
tants as food. In order that this
melon may flourish, it is necessary
that it should strike it's roots through
the sand thirty feet to reach perma-
nent moisture. This it does, and
grows in great luxrlriance, where
all else is shrivelled and parched by
heat. But this is not all. If it were
simply a huge melon, with smooth
and delicate skin, every one would
be destroyed by wild beasts before
coming to maturity. TO prevent
this, nature has armed it's outer lind
with a covering Of long, sharp, ter
rible thOrns, which so lacerate the
mouth and nose of animals that they
are glad to leave them alone i'll all
their tempting freshness. Man, with
his hands and sharp knives, finds
little difficulty i'll opening the lus
cious fruit. TheAnatiyes have no he
cessity Of putting fences about then
melon. patches, for the plants art
selfprotective.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

II say Pompey," said one freed
man to another, "dis chile has tried
lots oh gift fares and tings for q
prize, but ncbber could draw any
thing at ALL" "Nell Caesar, I'd wise
you to try a hand cart de chances
are tousand to one dat you could
draw dat
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

The following speech is attributed
to member of the Legislature Of
Pennsylvania " know wimen Mr..
Speaker: say it in no disrespect
I know'em ; | have had heap to do
with'em. They'er a useful class, and
yet with the best Of 'em you may
have trouble"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

A GOOD ONE FOR SMOKERs.-An
aged negress whose piety had secur-
ed for her an extensive reputation,
in walking her usual round of visits
dropped in upon neighbor who was
equally we'll known as a temperance
man and a hater of tobacco.
After being courteously received
the negress pulled from her pocket
long pipe and commenced smoking
some very " Union" tobacco, to the
infinite disgust of her host. The man
maintained his composlre several
minutes, but the fumes and smoke
became too powerful for him, and
rising from his chair he said:
"Aunt Chloe, do you think You
are Christian ~
"Yes, brudder, I specks I is."
"Do you belivc in the Bible,
aunt?'
{" Yes, bruddcr.'
"Do YOU know there is a passage
in the Sculptures which declares that
nothing rlnclean shall inherit the
kingdom Of heaven?"
"Yes, Eve heard Of it,
ADO You believe it,"
| "Yes.'
"Well, Chloe, YOU cannot enter
into the kingdom of heaven, because
there is nothing 50 unclean as the
breath of smoker. What do you
say to that :"
"Why specks to leave my breft:
behind me when SO to heaven"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

An editor out West, who thought
the wages demanded'by compositors
was an imposition discharged his
hands, and intends doing his own
type setting in the future. He says:
OwiNG TO the cXoRbiTant WggEs
dEmAndeD by prlnleRs haze Con
Cluded 10 do oURoWn typo sEtt1nG
in Tue fUTu1 o.; AnE aLThouGH
WE norer 1Ea.sneD Tue Business ace
DO Not See any gReaT mystery in
t -c art.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

For sale.
. BOILERS 26 feet long, az inches in d-
= ameteg-two Is inch fues in each; three
tubular boilers 3 small steam engines one
sixty saw cotton gin; a patent cord wood cut
ters, capable of cutting 80 to so cords of wood
per day. The above will be sold on reason
able terms Enquire at the Live Oak Plan
tation, near Washington.
JAMES POWERS.
August 19-6m
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

For a specimen of logical consecu-
ton of IDEAS we venture to commend
this, from a schoolboy's composition:
"Tobacco was invented by a man
named Walter Raleigh. When the
people first saw him smoking they
thought he was steamboat, and, as
they had never seen a steamboat,
they were frightened.r
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

One vote was lost by the Demo-
Gratis in California thus: With consi-
derable trouble the voter deciphered
a poster announcing that certain can
didates would address the inhabi-
tants of Gilroy and vicinity, and after
a moments deep meditation exclaim-
ed, "Vicinity! Whars vicinity ? I've
lived hyarabouts nigh unto fifteen
years, an thar amt no such place;
an any party what don't know the
geography of the country better nor
that, can't get my VOTE
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30
Emotional Insanity.

The Cleveland Leader has the
following singular narration:
A day or two since an Elyria
girl of seventeen summers arrived
in this city to visit some friends.
A friendly chat followed the hearty
welcome she received, and in the
evening three gentleman visitors
tapped at the door, were received,
and sat down in the parlor. They
were no sooner seated than the
Elyria girl approached and kissed
them, and then walked about the
room, showing the same favor to all
the gentlemen present. This done,
she confounded the already sur
prised company by bounding into
the yard, with a hearty laugh, and
smacking" her lips against the
gardeners, and then stalking into
the street to see who she could
next devour with her kisses.
The friends of Miss Elyria at last
became alarmed, and insisted that
she should accompany them into
the house. She did so, and to all
the questions put about her strange
conduct, answered with a wild,
ringing laugh and endearing cares.
scs. The visitors, seeing that i'll
sanity was at the bottom of the
most admired disorder that had dis.
turbed the good cheer of the even
ing, stood not upon the order OF
leaving, but left at once. The
young lady was left alone for the
evening, and the amazed family
next morning found that she knew
nothing of what had transpired
Her conduct was related to her, and
she was entirely ignorant of it all
This was a clear case of emOtiona.
insanity.
CHARLES PAUL DE KOCk.-This
somewhat famous author, whose
death is announced in late dispatches
from France, was the son of Dutcl
banker who perished on the scaffolC
during the first revolution, and was
born at Passy in 1894. From very
early age he devoted himselft to litera
ture, and his first book, pEntant d
ma Femme, was published when ht
was but seventeen years old. lts
failure did not discourage him, and he
continued to write plays of all sorts
for the minor theatres untilhe finally
attracted public attention, and achie
we'd considerable popularity. In 1872!
he again attempted novel writing
and with much greater success
How many he wrote may be inferred
from the fact that most of them ar
short, but when collected in 1874
his works made fifty-six good sizet
volumes. The quality of them il
decidedly inferior to the quantity
and but few have been thought wo1
thy Of translation into English. Yer.
many, however, have appeared unde
his name in this country, which h
did not write, and De Kock ma
therefore be considered as rathe
more decent than he has hitherto ha
the reputation of being.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

Perault, decide, born6s au nord par la pro-
priete de G Carriere. a Test par la rue Main
ct la propriete dAlicia Juberte:
Take d'Ftat S6 96
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30
Painting,
Freezing,

Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan,
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town,
Gone mad in the JOY ofthe snow coming down,
10 lie, and to die in my terrible woe,
Wit bed and shroud ef the beautiful snow.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30
BEsgass'S Grocery Store,

On Main Street, Opelousas,
Has Just been re-stocked with new supply
of Fresh Groceries, Western Produce, &c,
recently selected in New Orleans, by the pro-
prietor himself This stock consists partly of
Flour, Bacon, Hams, Butter, Lard,
Canned Fruits, Oysters, Lob
sters, Sardines, Salmons,
Wines and Liquors Of
all kinds, and
CORN, OATS AND BRAN
Terms Cheap for CASH.! se23-3m
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

Mr.. Lincoln was exceedingly as
tonishcd one day, as he was inspect
ing the prison in Washington, by q
prisoner who said to him: GLOW are
you, Mr.. President? | am glad to
see you. I believe that you and I
have been in every jail in the Union"
"This and the jail in Springfield are
the only ones | was ever in in my
life," said Mr.. Lincoln. Very like
ly,' responded the rogue, "but I've
been in all the rest"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30

JACKS LITTLE FILLY.-"P T
know what is tilibuster ?" Well,
Johnny, what is a 1ilibuster 2" at
is green clOver.' "Green what ?"
"Green clover. because when uncle
Jacks little tiIIy foundered herself,
he said little more of the green
clover. would a busted her; and if it
had, wonldn'tit a been q .flly ybuster9'
''Go to bed, child; go to bed"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-09-30
Resistance to Officers.
WHEN KILLING IS ENCTSABLE,

In the court of Oyer and Termincr,
at Philadelphia. Judge Ludlow
charged the jury as follows:
AS a general rule it will be murder
to kill the party accused for flying
from an arrest, though he cannot be
otherwise Ovcrtaken, and though a
warrant exists for his arrest: we
have said that fragrant mistlemeanors
do not fall within even this rule. as
where dangerous wound has been
inflicted, or a riot exists. for the pre-
sumption is great that the offence
may turn out to be a felony. l East.
p. {. 3O2. Where, however. either
in misdemeanors or breaches of the
peace an officer is duly performing
the duties of his Office and meets
with resistance, he is bound by law
to repel force by force, and if the
party arrested be killed in the strug-
gle, the killing will not be merely
excusablc. it will be justitiable. 2
Hale, 7. c. 1T, l East. p. C. 30o,
303. l Russ. 660.
Officers of Justice are under the
special protection Of the law, and if,
i'll the necessary discharge of their
duties, they meet with resistance
from the person arrested, Or from
others acting with or for them, they
may not retreat as far as with safety
they can, but may freely repel force
by force. Foster, 321. But officers
of justice must, at their peril, take
care not to exceed the necessity of
the case, and to warrant the use of
deadly weapon, it ought to appear
that the resistance offered either put
the officer in great personal danger,
or that an escape from actual arrest
was intended which could not ether
wise be prevented.
Each case must be examined with
special reference to the circumstan-
ces surrounding it. Should the Jury
believe that the act of the officer was
illegal, it by no means follows that
the defendant is guilty of murder,
for while the law implies malice from
the use of a deadly weapon, it may
appear that the intention was not to
take life Or maliciously to int1ict bo.
dily harm, but tsimply to MAIN the pri
soner and thus capture him; i'll that
event the crime would bemmslaugh
ter and not murder of either degree
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-13
[BY NALL
Railroad Sales.

The East Tennessee, Georgia and Vir-
ginia railroad company has purchased the
Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charles
ton railroad for the sum of $500, 900 in
Tennessee State bonds.
The Knoxville and kentucky road was
sold by the commissioners to an assoeis-
ton OF gentlemen, composed of W. B.
Johnson and A. L. Maxwell, OF Macon; /;
Governor Joe Brown, of Atlanta: G. N.
McGhee, of Knoxville; Columbus Delsno,
Of Ohio; Simon and Don Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania; Thomas scott, of the Penn
svivanis Central railroad; Moses Taylor,
Of New York, and B. Sevare, of Boston,
for $3.50, 900 in honda.
The exact terms Of the sale of the
Nashville and Northwestern railroad to
the Chattanooga railroad company Is thus
given by the railroad commissioners:
1.-THE substance of the bid of the Nashville
and Chs tsnooga railroad company, and
e. W. Cole and his associates, is that they
will give 81, 400, 900 in bonds of the State
with January, 1871, and subsequent cOu-
pons attsehed; one-fourth payable in
stanter, one-fourth In one year, one
fourth In two years, and one-fourth in
three years. But out of the first and sec
ond payments are to be taken bonds suf-
dcIent to pay the debt to the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad company as
lessee Of said Northwestern railroad,
which ID by an act Of the legislature =
preferred debt. This debt, ss claimed by
the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
company, amounts to S5S7, 900 in curren-
oy. for which in this trade the said Nash
vile and Chattanooga railroad company
agree TO take 500, 900 In bonds of the StateS
the value of which this day at maFke..
price is only s420,0O so that there is left
under said purchase, clear TO the State
81, 100 900 in bonds OF the State. The
Arst payment has been made under this
purchase, and 9 satisfactory bond given
fer the remainder. Your commissioners
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-13
BRIEF TELEGRAMs.

Windsor, Ontario, has lost a block of build
ings by fire.
The North Catholic Union is in session at
Louisville.
Snow fell for an hour in PIttsburg, on
Wednesday.
Destructive fires continue to prevail in
western Ontario.
Three Austrian capitalists called upon the
President yesterday.
The Yellowstone exploring party is making
favorable progress.
Noah Porter was inaugurated President of
Yale College yesterday.
A heavy nhinstorm has prevailed for the
past two days throughout Maine.
The lire In Chicago will reduce Internal rev.
enue receipts this quarter $4,000.
The Fenisn demonstration upon Pemblna,
in the Red river country. was a failure.
A collision on the st. Louis, Wandalia and
Terre Haute railroad yesterday cost hve lives,
A schooner loaded with grain was lost In
Lake Michigan Last night, The crew was
saved.
Alex. Quarter, defaulting cashier Of Wheel
ing, Va, has been sent 70 the penitentiaTy for
eight years.
Giles h. Smith, second assistant postmaster-
general, has resigned An Alabama man sue-
ceeds him,
Colonel William Spence has been appointed
United States marshal for the middle district
OF Tennessee.
The Reverend Myram D. Wood, the seduoer
of Miss Anna CheyeTS, OF Decatur, Georgia. has
been sentenced 10 twenty years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
The proclamation Of Governor Brown OF
Missouri, calling out the militia In Dunklin
and Stoddard counties, In southeastern Mis-
souri, is based upon a report made to Adjatant-
General 5igel, by Captain Woog, who was sent
20 investigate the condition OF affairs in those
counties. Captain Woog's report sayHit is NOT
denied by any citizen OF ofStoddard county that
there exists an organized band Of men Ia tha
county, called by some ku-klux, by others
"deadmen."
The industrial exposition at Cincinnati that
closed last Saturday night, after being open
four weeks was very successful and satisfec.
tory exhibition. The receipts from the sale oi
tickets were s86 eel, against S46, ,llb last year
The total receipts from all sources were S72tsll
The whole nRmber Of persons who visited the
exposition during the four weeks was 1900
the largest attendance being on Saturday aut
saturday night, when the nuInber reached
| II 200. The actual cost o4 the expositiou, In
cinding 5000 Tor buildings and gas fixtures
4 was S74 .0co'
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-13
PETITl0N F0R IsG8RP0RATIOn

In the Second Chancery Court Of Shelby
county.-No. go, K. DIV tlliam B. 0Tesn-
law, William u. Harrington, Hugh l.
Brinkiey, John OvertOn, r., and Sam TATE,
petitioners.
a LII persons are hereby notified to appear
IA before the Second Chanoery Court OF
Shelby county and show cause, ON or before
the hrst Monday in October. II any they haye
or know OF. why letters OF incorporation
should not issue TO the petitioners herein. N
pursuance Of an act OF the General A. sem bIv
OF the state OF Tennessee, passed January "a
lS7l, and approved January 80 IS7l uIider
the name OF the ''Memphis and Little Rock
Ratlroad Company" with powers and priVi.
leges OF q corporate body, Tor the purpose al
transport ng. by suitable vessels and struo-
lures, the trains Of cars Of the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad Company across fbe
Mississippi river, and Of building and main
tanning such railroad tracks and other ~,
purtenances thereto IN tae city of xemDhiR.
IoI the reception 2. SAID trains Of cars, and
the peesaEe "a the same, and for connecting
the hs.su Memphis and LitLle Rock railroad
with he several railroads On the east side Of
the Mississippi river, and Of acquiring. hold
ing. establishing ana maintaining such
grounds for cep0ts, and such de pot buildinqs
and other grounds and buildings IS may 6e
necessary for the use, scoommodatio1s or
convenlence Of the said Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad Company. This August y
ISL.
ND. L. STEWART, Clerk and na.,.~
BY e. BKLdzKRs Deputy Clerk and Masfar
Randolphs Hammond q Jordan eolicisora
- ans