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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-08-05

During the year 1870, there were 1923
deaths in the British merchant service, OF
which 2,94G are assigned to wrecks Or other
accidents, 1888 to fevers and other diseases,
/ to murder, 81 to suicide, and 205 to I'M
known causes.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-08-05

The manufacturing establishments now
in operation in San Francisco number up
ward of 500, employing a capital a$l7,.
900, 00o, consuming annually material of
the value of 1923, 00o. 900, and producing
goods worth S45. 900, QUO.
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s-ry
Disabilities.
from the Lauderdale Times. l

IRON the Lauuerdale Times.
The opinion Of the bar has been often
asked as to the eligibility of candidates in
the coming election. There were differences
Of opinion as to the construction of the
XIVth Amendment, and in order to ascer-
tain what the law was, our esteemed fellow
citizens, Judge r. %. Pickett, Gen. e.. A.
O'Neal, and Judge w. B. Wood, addressed
a letter to Attorney General Alderman. The
reply is as follows,
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, July IA, 1871.
Mcssrs. Hood, Kennedy s. food, attorneys al
Lac, Florence, did:
Sirs-In answer to yours of the Sth inst.
| can only say that this Department will
contend, unless there shall be controlling
legal decision 60 the contrary. that persons
who held any National or State Office prior
to the late troubles and afterwards adhered
to the rebellion, are disabled blythe XVIII
Amendment unless relieved by Congress,
Very respectfully,
A. T. AKERMAN,
Attorney General.
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The Cincinnati Commercial says: The
young man at Hamilton who shot himself
in showing how .Mr. Vallandigham shot
himself, in the attempt to explain how
Myers shot himself, is recovering"
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Succession de Martin Richard.

Succession de Martin Richard.
Els personnes qui ont des reciamations
La contre la dite succession a quelque titre
que ce soft, sont prices de les presenter 4
NM. b. "A. Martel& Hudspeth, a leur bureau
en- la vile d'Opefousas, pong etre par eux APP
p~louvees, la soussignee desirant presenter
SON Tableau de classification ct distribution
des fonds de cette succession.
CLARA CARANTIN,
Administrative.
5Aolt 1871,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-08-05

Trying to do business without advertising
is like winking at a pretty girl through a
pair of green goggles. You may know what
you are doing, but nobody else does.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-08-05

The total amount of currency lost or
worn out while in circulation will exceed
$1,000, 000, or Is per cent of the whole
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-08-05

Adolphe Theirs, the executive chief Of
the French Government, is emphatically
a selfmade man. His father was a poor and
uncultivated laborer in the harbor of Mar
seille, and. his mother had been a servant
girl. She was, however, distantly related
to the family Of Andre Chenier, the great
French poet, who was guiiiotined during
the first revolution. Young Theirs, while at
college, gave already evidence of the bril-
liant talents and the genius which AFTER
ward raised him to his eminent position in
modern literature, but Ills behavior was
always disorderly and unruly. At the age
of twenty-five, the son of the poor laborer
was considered ono of the foremost men Of
France.-Appletons' journal.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-08-05

Gordy r.. A.. Chapter, No. 80.
PECULIAR convocations of this Chapter
IL will be held at Humble Cottage Lodge,
No. 10, the First Tuesday after the
full moon of every month. at Z o'clock, P. NJ.
By order of
JAMES RAY, III. p.
K.H ~BoDEMULLER, Secretary.
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A Buffalo paper prints the following let
ter from one Of its old and prompt paying
patrons please discontinue my paper
from the time 1 have paid up to. | do not
stop the paper because | do not waat ii, but
to get rid Of an intolerable old bore that
intrndes himself ii my house. regardless Of
time OF circumstances, TO sit for an hour or
two, three Or fonr times d week, To read my
papers, and who isa thousand times more
able to take . dozen papers for himself than
am to take one. If the nuisance is
stopped shall send for the paper again =
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New Orleans Market.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.

New Orleans, August 2, 1871.
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
What Bcust and Bismarck Did.

The Neue Frcic PrcsSc says that Beust
and Bismarck have concluded some very
formal and precise arrangements at
Gastien. The representatives of the
two empires have promised most
solemnly to hencetorward maintain the
most friendly relations toward each
other, and to avoid everything which
might compromise the safety of either
of the two states. The cries of opposi
ton uttered from any quarter will not
be listened to. Austria will permit
neither the Bavarian patriots nor the
democratic Wurtumburgers to provoke
agitation against United Germany !;
Prussia. on the other had, will do all in
her power to prevent q war of German
nationalities. Austria declares herself
entirely reconciled to the unity of Italy
and the ne@ political institutions in
augurated by Prussia; Prussia considers
the existence of Austria political ne
cessity, and will regulate her conduct
accordingly. The peaceful system con
ceived bv Count Beust and approved of
by the Emperor of Austria, has been
carried into effect by the alliance at
Gastein. Italy, as an afterthought on
the part of the Premier, has been in
duced to enter into the compact, and
hence the three States are to unite for
the assurance of the peace of Europe.
The plans of vengeance conceived by
France, the crusades intended by the
Ultramontaties. and the desires of con
quest nourished by Russia, will all be
frustrated by this triple alliance.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
Ex-senator Slidcll,s Will.

The will of the late John Slidell has
been probated in the Second District
Court, louisiana The total value OF
his property according to his own in
vcntory made on the lst of April 1861
wa $9S3,026. A considerable part of
his income was derived from lands in
Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and else
where, held conformity with A. Belmont
and others. He left an annuity of $500
to his sister Ann. TO his wife Mathilde
Deslonde, he left an annuity of $1,000,
together with all the carporeal move
ables, and all the slaves of which he
might be possessed, but without the
power of selling any of the said slaves
unless they themselves desired to pur,
chase their freedom These bequests
were not to affect in any way the dona-
ton of $4,000 made TO his wife by his
marriage contract. He made out the
inventory of his property for the dou-
BILE purpose of saving the trouble and
useless expense of judicial proceedings,
and OF showing that the legacies he had
made were very largely within the
limits of the disposable share of his
succession. OF the three executors,
namely, his wife, Andre Deslonde, and
Thomas Allen Clarke, Mr.. Clarke alone
survives.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
Roman Catholic Emigration to America.

Miss Rye has found follower in her
emigration movement for girls, in the
person of a Roman Catholic priest at
Liverpool, Father Nugent, who lately
sent out from that port eighteen young
women, mostly OF Irish extraction, as
emigrants to America, in the steamer
Calabria. On reaching this side of the
Atlantic they are to proceed to Indian
apolis, Ind, where situations are await
ing them upon their arrival. The fol-
lowing letter has been received by
Father Nugent from the Vicar General
of the Bishop of that diocese upon the
great advantage of emigration for young
Irish women
My DEAR FATHER NuGENT Yours, of June
81, was handed to me by Mary McGreevy.
The poor girls you sent here were immedi-
atey engaged. If you had sent twenty they
could have obtained forthwith situations
The demand for female domestics is very
great; much so, that applications are
daily made which cannot possibly be sup
piled. Any intelligent servant girl can COM
mand from So to $4 per week; servant girls
are greatly needed. The native-born girls
will not work in kitchen or do any kind of
housework. | know of no more honorable
or charitable occupation or mission than the
one in which you are engaged. Give us
good, vlrtuous servant girls, and they can
obtain good situations and command high
wages. If you had but tenth of the money
squandered by the Fenians in their foolish
and fruitless efforts, you could remove all
the poor, destitute Catholic boys and girls to
America.
st. Patrick's Cathedral, Rochester, July
IS 1871
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
As TO Low Dresses.
from the New York Evening Post.


Most fashions owe their origin to an at
tempt to give prominence to the strong
point or hide the weak point OF King
or Queen. Thus powder came into
vogue to conceal a Queens gray hair,
and large perukes because Il King was
bald. We learn, however, from Belgian
paper that the custom of ladies exhibit
ing their busts in all the beauty OF nature
has a far more romantic origin. In Il
battle in which the French were en-
gagged (all dates, we may mention, are
reserved) their ranks were broken, and
they were routed. When they retreated,
their women barred their breasts and en-
treated them to pierce them rather than
permit them to fall into the hands OF
the enemy. This was too much for the
gallant Gauls. Nerved with fresh cour-
age, they turned, renewed the combat,
and were victorious. Fram that time
our Frenchwomen have, OH testal occa
sions, always been accustomed to weal
their dresses low. In fact, when you
see one who appears to have forgotten
the upper part of her dress, it is nc
proof of indelicacy, but simply an indi
cation of the power of national senti-
ment. This satisfactorily explains what
many ignorant people have taken 70,
improperly. We live and learn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
Among the Magazine Publishers.

"Carlfried' writes from New 4ork to
the Springfield Repub'ica"
have lately been about among the
magazine publishers, and have learned
some facts about the management OF
our leading periodicals which may be
of interest. What surprised me most
was to see the vast pile OF manuscript
which is received and is daily accumu-
latng on the editors hands. Scribher' S
Honthiy, though barely a year in exist
ence, has received 900 manuscripts,
while H0pcr'S Bazaar, which is four
wears old, has had above $4,000 articles
sent for examination. The labor of ex
amining them is very heavy, and is
about the hardest labor that literary
person can do. The work, however, is
very conscientiously performed, and the
many owners of rejected manuscript
need not think that their claims to at
tention are not duly weighed. Even
then the best writers are often kept
waiting for months to have an article
printed, and hardly get any better
treatment than the merest novice.
There is naturally great variety in the
manuscripts sent to the literary perlodi-
Gals. OF poetry there is "a perfect glut,
and essays are hardly less abundant.
Next in order come sketches and travel
and general description, while the
most scarce class of contributions are
good short stories. They are in great
demand, and any one who can supply
them need have no trouble about find
ing - market.
In one editors room | was shown II
huge safe crammed full of accepted
manuscripts in quantity sufficient to
stock the magazine for Il year, 1T would
be thought. Each number is usually
made no two or three months ahead,
and it is a constant problem in the
mind of the editor how to adjust the
space at his command with the matter
waiting to be printed. Some of the
manuscripts, such as those of novels,
are very bulky, and look quite fornida-
bic. 1t is noticeable how large pro
portion of the writer's of fiction are wO-
men, who. indeed, form the bulk of
contributors to our periodicals.. One of
the curiositles connected with periodi-
cal writing is the number of cases of
persons who succeed in writing one
good sketch or story. and then fail ever
hi'ti "'ti" III Piouu'iiiS any thiiiS HoitH
printing. They resemble the famous
single speech Hamilton in Parliament,
and always fail to equal themselves,
either through lack of new ideas or
from mannerism due to self-imitation.
a lady once wrote to the Harpers, send
ing story for which she asked $25.
They liked it so much as to pay $35 for
it, and, like Oliver Twist, asked for
more. She sent several others, but
they were so worthless that they had to
send them all back and tell her to stop
contributing. This is only a single
case, but others of like character con-
stantly occur, and they prove that
while novice may make hit in a
single instance, it needs training and
special capacity to succeed permanently
in literature
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
Humorous and Witty.
VINO was Richard the Third before he
was Z" himself again p

VINO was Richard the Third before he
was " himself again?'
You say" said judge to a witness,
"that the plaintiff resorted to an ingen-
ious use of circumstantial evidence
state just exactly what you mean by
| that" Well" said the witness, my
exact meaning is that he lied"
A CONNECTICUT ruralist drank his first
glass of soda very solemnly the other
day, and then, cycling the clerk, inquir-
ingly, anxiously remarked It's all
right, 'spose ~ Why, yes said the
clerk, hesltatingly; "but what do you
mean?' "Why, the dern thing won't
go off in fellow, will it ?"
AN angry Western editor wrote to
poetical correspondent the other day
'If you don't stop sending me your
abominable poetry, I'll print piece of
in full, and send u copy to your gal y
quickly dried up.
@. AM lover rejected. Pray, what
shall do? Shall | "shuttle " this NOR
tai COLL like some lowers true?
A. Oh, no; for such actions make
waste of good blood. Just keep up
your courage--your chance is still good.
Remuster your forces, your colors un-
furl, and go forth to the conquest of
some other girl
THERE is story of an English tourist
who entered a restaurant. and by few
scraps of French was able to order q
dinner. He wished some mushroom
very delicious and larg~. Not knowing
the name, he demanded a sheet of paper
and pencil and sketched one. The
waiter understood him in a second, dis
appeared for ten minutes, and returned
with splendid
ROGERS, the poet, related the following
story: My old friend Maltby, the brother
of the Bishop, was very absent minded
man. One day at Paris, at the Louvre,
we We're looking at the pictures, when u
lady entered who spoke to me, and
kept me for some minutes in converse
ton. On rejoining Maltby said
"That was Mrs. -. We had not met
for so long she had almost forgotten me,
and asked me if my name was not
Rogers
Maltby. still looking at the pictures,
said: "And was it?'
WARS the matter, Uncle .Jerr, ~
said Mr.. -, as old jeremiah Il. was
passing by, growing most furiously.
Matter!' said the old man, stop
ping short; why, here I've been lug
ging water all the morning for DR.. C.'s
wife to wash with, and what dye sposc
got for it ~
Why. suppose about ten cents
answered Mr.. -.
"Ten cents! She told me the Doc
tor would pull tooth for me some
time
Two YOUNG gentlemen, the one named
Woodcock, and the other Fuller, walked
together, and happening to see an owl,
the latter said " That bird Is very much
like Woodcock." You are quite
wrong said the first, for it's Fuller
in the head, Fuller in the eyes, and
Fuller all over!'
| Which reminds us of an incident of
our childhood. Two fat old ministers of
the Kirk of Scotland, named respect
lively Waddell and Drip, were caught in
IA shower after service at which both
had otficiated Brother Waddell, feel
ing rather facetious, looked out on the
watery aspect and remarked dryly to
his reverend associate, It's beginning
to drip"
"Oh, no matter" rejoined his friend
coolly, "We'll just waddle through it,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
American " Enterprise" Abroad.

The European correspondent of the
Rochester Democrat relates the follow
ing:
As we were passing the Isle of Man
fine old English gentleman impaired to
me a valuable bit of information. Said
he:
THAT'S the Isle Of Man; the cats
have no tails there"
Beg your pardon, sir, what did |
understand you to say the cats are all
without tails on that island p
Yes, sir, it's fact"
"Do they grow so?'
Yes. or rather they don't grow at
all. Nothing but stub Rather peculiar,
isn't it?'
81 should say so; when did they
adopt this style?'
Cant say, sir"
Then, took out my notebook, and
entered the fact. Don't think | ever
read of it in any English history. How
easy it is for a man to acquire valuable
information if he is only honest, indus
trious, and attentive. Some fellows
wouldn't think that what | have told
was worth repeating, but it is important
to the cats, at least. There are hun
drcds of thousands of cats in America
who know nothing of the unfortunate
and benighted condition of their MOTTO
be.continued fellow felines in that un-
happy island. | should think fellow
foeliin' ought to induce them to send out
missionaries to retail their blighted
relatives. Perhaps even these few words
so lightly spoken may kindle the neces-
| sary spark
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07

A very ingenious method has been
devised by Manchester (England)
mechanic of joining the ends of old
warp to the end of new warp in weav-
ing. According to this arrangement,
the ends of the new warp have to be
joined are held in clip, and the ends
of the new warp are also similarly held.
The two sheets of warp are then placed
in the machine; and the sheet of old
warp being placed over the sheet of new,
they are then acted upon by the ma
chine as follows: The warp threads are
first laid evenly by means of brushes,
and pair of clips or nippers take hold
of both warps after they are laid +; these
nippers take the threads into pair of
rollers set at an angle to tighten the
warp threads, and the end thread of the
old warp and that of the new are de-
tached from the other threads of the
warp by reciprocating pair Of nippers.
The threads thus taken by these recip-
rocating nippers are laid by other nip
pers over the side of tube, by which
the two threads are formed into loop
and hook passed through tube takes
hold of the ends of the two warp
threads and draws them into tube so
forming n knot. the ends of the threads
having been severed by cutting blade
to allow this Finally, the knot is
tightened by the threads being drawn
through narrow nick, which will not
allow the knot to pass, and the threads
are cut close to the knot.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07

rival to the Bessemer process of
making steel is found. says the Mechon
lc's Haga2ine, in Berard's system, adopt
ed at the steel works in Givors, France
The principal features of the system are
stated to be: First. The employment of
gas, acting at once as a heating and re
acting agent in improving the quality
Of the iron by partial puritication, be-
fore throwing off such injurious bodies
as sulphur, arsenic, phosphorus, etc.
Second. The ability to employ iron OF u
secondary quality to obtain steel for GER
tain special purposes, as rails, tires, etc.
Third. BY the combined action of air
and gas, in being able to act alternately
10y means of oxidation and reduction in
keeping the waste at a minimum, and
by decarbonizing and recarbonizing, to
regulate at will, and with certainty, the
nature of the product to be obtained.
The operation requires from an hour to
an hour and half, and the process is
so conducted that the manipulation can
be arrested at any moment, and any de-
sired quality of steel obtained.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
A Sad Case of Drowning.

A sad case of drowning, accompanied
with singular circumstances, occurred at
Chichesterville.U Ulster co., recently. The
wife of John Blythe dreamed a night or
two since that her child, named Lemuel,
two years old, was to be drowned, and
the circumstance made such an impress
SION on her mind that she had the little
fellow watched closely. About 6 o'clock
on Friday he started up the canal to
meet his father, and had not gone far
before his cries reached his mother.
Running 10 the spot whence the cries
came, she saw her little boy in the wa
ter, and he sank as she came up, and
rose no more.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
Olive and Orange Culture.

Two interesting agricultural enter
prlses are III progress-one the cultiva-
ton Of oranges in CalifoI mia, and the
other the establishment of an olive
grove on the st. Johns River in Florida.
For California it is claimed that fully
twenty-five out of the fifty counties in
the State are admirably adapted to the
production of oranges. The gentleman
about to undertake the planting of an
olive grove in Florida is Gen. Van
Valkenburgh, who is said to be practi-
cally acquainted with the cultivation OF
that fruit, and to have sent abroad for
the choicest varieties. 1t was long the
persuasion of citizen of South Carroll
ma who had travelled much abroad in
olive-producing countries that the wes-
tern part of the State was admirably
adal ted to the same purpose, and if the
Florida experiment succeeds something
in the same way might be attempted in
those sandy districts of South Carolina
lying just east of the Savannah River.
As a color, black still holds its pre-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
Lake Superior Silver Mines.

The proprietors of the Silver Islet
mine in Lake Superior, it is stated,
have been successful in finding upon
the mainland opposite the island the
same vein of ore which has proved so
astonishingly rich in their present mine.
1t was discovered at depth of sixty
feet below the surface. From Silver
Islet ore to the value of $S00,000 has
been taken in about ten months, and
the vein seems to grow richer the deeper
it is worked. There is no t. ling what
stores of mineral wealth are laid up in
the rocks and mountains around Lake
Superior.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1871-10-07
Returned TO STAY.

Lately, when the body of George Kirk
was living at Wilson IL Browns under
taking establishment on B street, Vir-
ginia City, man who appeared to be
stranger in the city, seeing something
of a crowd about the door, approached
and looked in at the body lying in the
coffin.
MAN dead ?" asked he Of a person
standing near
"Yes, SIR" shortly answered he who
was questioned.
Fidgetting little, the stranger tried
it again: "How did he die ?"
"Hupg," was the laconic reply.
"IIung! All, hung himself?'
"No; he was hung by the Vigl-
lantes.'
Stranger again-"What did they hang
him for?"
ale had been notified to leave the
town. and he came back"
"When man has been notified to
leave, can't he come back here again
and stay?"
Yes, sir"
"Yes! Then how is this p
"Well, he came back, and"-point-
;ng to the coffin" you see he stayed"
SLEEVES are to be made half wide,