The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-07-13

There was q sllSnt rise Ill tie L"Jp"
U%ourtableau) the first part OF this week;
since then it has been gradually falling.
Low water may be expected the first OF !
next month; butit is thought that 1t VIII
not be so low as last year. ]
The talented and precise editor OF the
Opelousas JOURNAL makes use OF the
Congo word carter for after.
deeply si1npathize with the gentleman
and regret that he, in his sympathy for
his benighted brethren, makes use OF
their grammar. AS far as proof is con-
cerned, / am prepared to produce the
manuscript.-[By the "Prettie" Young
Man.
Observation-Disclosures, who hasalso
been a planter, and who has abundant
means for information, his business
bringing him in contact every week with
the planters and farmers of the parish,
thinks the present cotton crop OF st. Lam
dry will reach twenty-five thousand
bales. if it be not cut short by caterpil-
lars or some unforeseen event. He does
not think the caterpillars will do any
great damage generally this year.
Man SHoF.-Town Constable Andrus
on Sunday last arrested a freedman
named Charles House for disOrderly con-
duct on the streets, and while conveying
him to jail the prisoner jerked away
from the officer and attempted to escape.
The officer fired twice at the prisoner,
missing him the first time, but on the
second shot he was struck near the
shoulder infIicting a flesh wound. The
prisoner stopped after being wounded
and delivered himself up. He was con-
veyed to jail, and released on bail that
evening. w understandth that the wound
is not serious.
There is q young man working in this
Office, whose style has been SO tainted
with the a~Hectations of tove-letter wri-
ting, that it seems to be impossible for
him to set plain English aceordingto the
copy before him. H he has a piece of
copy with the word pretty" in it in
fifty places, he will setit "prettie" every
time. And sometimes he actually, I'M
consciously of course, works into the
matter he is setting up loye-letter Ian
guage that's nota partof andisentirely
foreign to the copy. We have tried to
cure him by all the e'iCd uoce arguments
we could command, butfnd him ineura-
BILE in that way; we are now going to try
this method.
SAD AccIDENT.-Quite serious acct
dent happened on Sunday last to our
young friend BenMayo, living on Bayou
Waxia, i'll this parish. It seems that q
party Of young men, he being among the
number, were gathered in room, just
before going hunting on just after re-
tarning from the hHnt, and while one of
the number, Mr.. Thomas Dunbar, was
wiping off agun it aceidentally went off,
lodging the contents IN the foot of MI.
Mayo who was walking across the room.
"A consultation was held by Drs. Boagni,
Robertson and Cooke who decided upon
ampntation. The Limb was amputated
between the kneean nd ankle. DR.. Boagni
performed the operation, assisted by the
other two gentlemen above named.
From last accounts his situation is a
very critical one, and the worst is feared.
JUsTICE KNox's CONTRIBUTE an in
teresting casecame before Justice Knox,
of this ward, ON the 9th inst, in connec-
ton with the late murder committed
aear Geulee Croche, according to Up.
SIS communication in our last issle), an
account Of which has already been pub
lislled in one of our previous issues. An
affidavit was made on the goth nit, be-
fore the aboyenamed justice by Vincent
Hernandez, charging the chief witness,
Elizabeth Isaacs, ii eolored woman, in
observation-disclosures with perjury. Judge
%. II. Monton the counsel for the pris-
oners new under charge for the murder,
appeared Is prosecuting attorney, and
r. f. Lewis, ESD. for the defence. The
prosecuting attorney failed to make out
a case and the charge was dismissed.
Another affidavit was made on the
same date against the same party by
Sosthene Prejean, charging her with IN
GRtiefde. From Ullatwe learned during
the course of fhe trial under this last
charge, 1t seems the woman, from a se-
vereinjury received wIi1e1i ftiing heavy
weight gave premature birth to a still
born child, which was buried without the
usual ceremony Of inviting the whole
country to attend the funeral. All of
which was fully substantiated by COM
petenf Witnesses. The charge was dis
missed.
NAKE d LADYis pILLow-A
snake caEefH wrapped in fine feathers
anu looking IKE 1 fady,s dpRet which
came out of the pillow 0f q lady down iii
the French quarter OF the city, was
brought to this Nfice yesterday BY d res
pOnslple gentleman. The snake is so
rolled n the feathers as to he invisible.
and might be readily handled without
any one knowing what it was. Some
Thought 1t u goose neck, others a part of
some lady' set of furs made ont OF
feathers, 10 make an Irish bull of it.
Ihesnpposifion is that il was put IN the
pillow bg some heatlen negro, who had
sEate against the lady, and sought ven
geanee 0y this species of spell. The
IgnoraneeandAf ieansupersfiIi0n which
prevail among negroes could not be
better Illustrated than III this fetish
practical Observation-Disclosures
slowly TO the entertainments of