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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-10-19

The world still moves, you say Little it rccks
to me
Whittier it moves or whence. I am weary OF
asking
Nature to open the door locked by her master
key.
Is it not better to lie here in the sunlight
basking!
A truce to your riddle of life. am not in the
mood to think
How can you standaloof, with Nature at arms
lcnEthl
l fling myself at her feet, here where the honey
bees drink
Out OF the clover cups the JOY of the fields and
their strength.
You live in a new world built within the void of
your brain,
BY theories peopled, that swarm and die. like
summer flies.
Build rs high as you will these castles uf yours
in Spain:
am content with the world that enters III at
the eyes;
This spreading, emerald world, so daintily
inlaid
With the violets azure hue, the clovcrs white
and red:
The streamlet's sparkling Row, over the lip OF
the glade;
The dr0wsily floating wings of butterflies
overhead
With fragrance of blossomed trees, and silvery
trilling strains
OF singing birds that fit in and out of the
leaves;
With shimmGtng sunset light that brOods on the
distant plains;
And the west like a harvest home with its
wealth of golden shcave8.
Here where the world flows in at the gate ofeyery
sense,
In fragrance, color, aud song, let me lie at
my ease;
Where the voice of the summer calls with pas
siOnate elOquence
Unto the human soul, from flowers and winds
and trees
Out on the science that sees only Creations
prose,
Wise to its outward form, blind to the spirit
that thrills
Every fibre of life. the subtle sense of the rose
The elOquencc of brooks, the azure light OIL
the hills.
lie with ndolent hands, but stirred from thu
lips to the heart
| With the rhythm of Natures poem, hel
Rplendor of song unrhymcd,
! The voice of the world within that rends carths
| veil apart
| Like clear, loud carlton of bells in the dark
| ness chimed.
Your line can never fathom the depth Of life't
great sea;
| There is that in the lowest flower your figures
! cannot make clear;
| The spirit of Gods intention that fills all thing
We see.
| And the breath Of his love that flU0deth thu
! earth like an atmosphere.
lGalaxy for September.
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Hints to Wives who Don't I'm
IerStRmGa Their Husbands,

An article on WOmen's Men," in the
Saturday Review, contains these hints :
Nothing surprises men more than the
odd ignorance of woman concerning
them. and half the unhappiness of mar
ried life, atleast in England, springs from
that ignorance. They cannot be made
to understand the difference between IL
mans nature and requirements and
their own, and they condemn all that
they cannot understand. In those few
rational homes where mems sports and
gatherings, undisturbed 10y the presence
OF pcttlCOats, are not made occasions
for suspicious or remOnStrAnce. the
stock of love and happiness with which
married life began is more like the
widows cruise than elsewhere these
homes are rare, while those are common
where a game ut billiards in the eve
ming is occasion for tears and pOuting,
and deadly offence is taken at club dim
nerS or a weeks shooting. The cOnse-
Qucnce of which is deceit or diSsensiOn,
and sometimes both.
The w0man's ideal man has none of
these cratic tendencies. His business
done, he comes home with the dOcility
of well-bred pointer sent to heel, and
finds energy enough after his hard days
work for variety of petits S0inS which
make him more precious i'll her eyes
than al! the tact, the temper, the judg-
ment, the uprightness he manifested in
And the dOmesticity which she claims
from her husband she demands from
her son. Latch keys are her abOmina.
ton, and the gas left burning" is q
beacon light on the way of destruction
She has the prOfOundest suspicion OF all
the men whom her boy calls his friends
| She never knows into what mischief
they may lead him, but she is sure it il
mischief il they keep him away from
his home in the evening. She woult
| prescribe the same social restraints anC
moral regimen for her son as for hel
daughter, and she thinks the energies
| OF the masculine nature require NJ
wider field and no lOOscr reign. Bu
though she likes those tame and tende,
men whom she can tie up close to he
! apron strings and lovingly imprisOn il
the narrow domain of home, she sue
| Cumbs without q struggle to the square
jaWed brute Of the Rochester type, tht
man who dcnOminates her by the mere
force of superior strength, and she i
not too severe on Don Juan, if only sht
can tlattef herself that she is the hes
loved and the last.
That these are the men most liked b,
women is shown by their own novel
and by daily observation and it seem
to US that among the many subject
for extended study OF late proposed fo
women, Il better acquaintance wit
mems minds, a higher regard for tn
nOhler kind Of man, aud the ability t
accept love as only one Of many quail
ties, and not always the strongest o
most praisewOrthy Of his impulses
would not be out of place.
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GREAT MEN AND THEIR WIVES
From the days of Socrates to Charles
Dickens there has been one long success
sion of unfortunate examples. Poet
and painter, dramatist and novelist,
philosopher and linguist-the MOlieres,
the Millions, the Byrons, the Bulwcrs,
the Durers, the Scaligers, the Sheridans,
the Thakerays-will marry and quarrel
in the future, lis in the past. All these
men, without exception, will, in the fu-
ture, as in the past, blame their
wives for the several successive
catastrophes. And yet what record
Of heartlessness and indifference our
greatest men have left of their domes-
tic life. DR.. Franklin, that old utili-
tariHn kite-hyer, went to Europe, leav-
ing his wife behind, and never saw her
face for eleven years. She shared his
poverty, and practiced his Poor Rich
ard maXims, pinched and economical,
patched and darned, worked early and
late, bred children, nursed them through
measles, scarlet fever and fits, while
Benjamin enjoyed the splendor of o
court velvet cushions, great dinners
and choice society. OF conrse, when
he came back, the poor drudge was
no match for the philosopher there
| was a great gulf between them. That
her heart rebelled4is manifest in the
hcadstrOng acts Of her children. He
| quarreled with his sons, and disinheri-
| ted one of them. Thus the mother was
revenged. A just retribution for any
wrong on woman is sure to come, in the
| vice:and crime of her children, to the third
and fourth generations. Henry Clay
thought he could safely leave his wife
at Ashland to bear children and make
butter for the Lexington market, while
| he made laws for the nation and love
| to the pretty woman in Washington.
There his heart stood always open as
my h0arding-house door, but shut
against her who was playing SOlomOn's q
wise woman on farm in Kentucky,
cutting out lindsey and jeans for the
Niger" His dream of ambition over,
sick and sad, he went back to Asland
to find that the domestic drudge, called
by the holy name of wife, had reared
up for him race of degenerate and
wayward children. He was filled with
the bitterness OF disappointment. But
they measured the depth of the mothers
humiliation. The angles of indifference
and retaliation were but equal. Was
| it the sOrrowful mother that made one
son crazy with hopeless love +; another, a
sour diseontented man, overcome
through life with a sense of inferiority
and jockeys and gamblers Of the rest
Truly, wisdom is justified by her chill
dren. We do not gather grapes from
thistles, nor figs from thorns. By their
fruits We shall know them. Great paci-
ficatOr How could he fathom the
cause of our social wrOngs2 We
canot quench our thirst at sweet and
pleasant streams, whose fountains we
have poisoned, He might dispisc the
wifc who ministered to him in carnal
things, but just and mighty was her re-
venge. Henry Clay is dead his com.
promise measures are scattered tc
the winds but his misdeeds live af.
ter him.. His own Theodore still lin.
gers in the asylum at Lexington. There
is but one thing immortal, and that il
love.-tMrs. Stanton i'll Baptist Union
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| Too Much FOR MIDGET.-Timkins
TarbOx and Midgetwere a cOnvivial trio
They were married men, and yet they
spent many of their eveningsa at the taV-
ern, thus leaving undOnO duties which
ought to have been done, and doing u
great many things which ought never to
h0VO been done. One night the trio sat
AT the festive board of Pimple's tavern
until very near to midnight, at which
! hour they were about Us drunk as men
could be and not be dead. A dispute
arose touching the payment of the bill
for the evenings entertainment.
| HOP on said Timkins, "Let'r be till
t'-mOrrer. When we get home our
accountable thing, and if ary one of us
refuses to do the first thing his wife tells
| him after he gets inter the house, he
shall pay the whole bill for the party"
This was agreed to, and it was further
| stipulated that each should give q true
account Of the result ut tic next meet
ing. On the following evening the
friends met again. Timpkins led off.
"Well, boys" said he, !" had a tough
one, but did it. It was dark as pitch
in the house when ] got home, and as /
was numbering through the kitchen, |
! stumbled against the stove, and knocked
the teakettle off onto the floor. That
| startled my wife, and she sang out to
me, Say, You brute, tip over the cook
| ing stove, and he done with it, No
sooner said than done, gave the old
thing hist, and over it went. NY reyes
! didn't my wife come out of bed! ButI
! did it,"
| IarbOx next gave his experience:
GOOD for you, Tim but I'm even
with you, though my job wasn't quite so
tough. When / got home had to get
into the house through the buttery win
dow, as usual, and I've no doubt that !
made considerable Of q Clatter among
the tin pans If my wife had been
asleep she wOkeup. That's right = she
called out ut the top of her voice. 'Tip
things over, won't you Don't miss the
cream pot. Upset that too" I knew
the pot must be nearly full Of cream.
but I'd got the order, and was bound to
Obey and over went the next churnin'
on the floor. What befcll me very
shortly afterward, and what particular
language Mrs. TarhOx used on the Oc-
casion, won't say-but Fd obeyed or
ders"
! Midget came next, and he approached
the subject Of his narrative with down
cast looks" swell, boys" he said. F" |
/ s'pose I've got to foot the bill. Unfor-
tnnately, my wife asked too much of
me. When I got home | found the
back door unlocked, SO | got into the
house without making much noise but
in going up stairs, stumbled, and the
racket of my. fall was quickly echoed
by Mrs. Midget's voice, pitched in q
most snappish and peremptOry key :
, There, Midget she cried, tumble
/ again Tumble, and brake your
! worthless neck' Says !, that's too
much for Midget! I'd rather pay the
= bill at the tavern And so, boys, I'll
settle up"
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4 BAYONNE MYsTERT.--Some time
ago one Thomas P. Wright, accompan-
led by q young lady whom he called
Maude Carlton, and who was said to be
his ward, went to BayOnne, N. j., and
last Spring having erected a small cot
tage began keeping house with one ser
want. After remaining in the city for a
time it became known that the lady
was named Mrs. Nicholson, of New
Orleans. Beyond this nothing seems
to have been known except the fact
that Mr.. Wright spent the day in New
York. on Saturday Mrs. Nicholson,
who was only twenty-five years of
age, died. She had not been seen
lately by the neighbors, and to them
her death seems sudden. Mr.. Wright
returned home, and learning OF the
death went away again, and has not
been seen since. The attention of the
authorities was attracted to the case
but as q certificate of death from
consumption was given by a competent
physician, the county physician gave a
burial permit, and the body was rather
hastily buried on Monday. Dissatis-
tied with the state of affairs and the un-
accountable disappearance of Wright
Chief of Police Whitney took charge of
C1IC uON9C ttuS4 AIISGAbuGCu- -hlt CAh4bluu-
ton, and anoficer wasplaced in charge.
Tuesday papers were discovered which
showed that Mrs. Nicholson belonged
in New Orleans, and had married
against the wishes of her parents while
in school in Chicago in 1860. Slips cut
from Chicago newspapers of a later date
gave an account of tie suicide of he1
husband by shoating himself.-EN
wark journal, Goth September.
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SUCCESSION SALES.
Reaaae b EEaaer.fe RTarl.n.


THERE WILL BE SOLD BIZ THE UNDER
aigned administrator, or q duly qualified
officer, OF ArnaMdville, i'll the Parish of St. Lam
dry, on WEDNESDAY, November 18th, the fol-
lowing described property belonging TO the es-
tate OF said deceased, viz
One tract of land situated in Prairie Laurent
near Arnaudville, containing seventy five ar
pents, more or less, bounded north by Ou6zime
Mayer, south by Sosthene Lagrange, east by
Louis KeFIegand and west by Widow Treville
Meehs.
Terms and Conditions one-ha1f Of the pur-
chase price Of said land cash, and the balance
on d credit Of year from tho dny OF sale. Pur-
sOlSfo to tina satisfaction Of the administrator,
bearing interest at eight per cent per a1lnuIn
from maturity until paid. And the land to re-
main specially niort in favor Ct the estate
until the final payment OF the principal and IN
ferest the purchaser not to alfenats o. ineIn-
her said property to the prejudice OF tire mort.
gage and vendors privilege.
&. l. DURIO.
october l2 Isg1-St. AaaiainiEt TRAITOR.
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sept. 28, 1872.
AnanelIa Dunn vs. WilIiarn q. ,Tordlnla. |.

Amelia DuRm va. William B. Jordan.
DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ST. Ian
~ dry.-NO. 12210.-By virtue of q writ of fieri
facias issued out of the honorable the Eighth
District Court, in and for the Parish of st. Ian
dry, in the above entitled suit, and to me direct
highest bidder, at the Courthouse Of said parish,
in the town of Opelousas, on SATURDAY, the
2nd day of November, 1872, ut eleven o'clock,
A. NJ, the following described property, tnwit-
l. The southwest quarter of the southwest quar-
ter and southwest quarter of southeast quarter
of section tWenty-six, in township number three,
south Of range five east, south southwestern
district of Louisiana, containing eighty 44I10O
acres.
2 Northeast quarter of northeast quarter of
section number thirty FIVE, in township number
three, south of range number five east, south
western district of Louisiana, containing forty
2I100 acres.
g. The southwest quarter of southeast quarter
of section twenty-seven and northwest quarter
of northeast quarter and the northeast quarter
Of the southwest quarter of section thirty-five,
township three, south of range five cast III the
southwestern district of Louisiana, containing
one hundred and twenty 24Tle0 acres. q
4. Southeast quarter Of southeast quarter OF
section twenty-siX and south half northeast
quarter Of northwest quarter of section thirty
six. in township three, south Of range i've east
one hundred and sixty 60t10O acres.
5. Northeast quarter of southeast quarter and
southeast quarter and southeast quarter of sec
| tion twenty-seyen of the southeast quarter OF
| township three, south of range five cast, south.
! western land district of louisiana, containing
one hundred and twenty acres more or less, and
| all containing Ave hundred and twenty y-one and
! 50I100 acres.
! Seized in the above suit.
Terms-Cash on the spot.
E. o. HAYES, Sheriff
| sept 2s, 1872.
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Estate af 1EadeIoine DevaElfers.

DY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER oP THE HON.
D orable Probate Court Of the Parish of st.
Landry, there will be sold at public auction, to
the highest bidder, by the undersigned, admin
istcat0r, or by a public auetIoneer, at the last
residence OF deceased, in this parish, on WE'D
SEsDAY, October 3pth, 1870, the following des-
erihed property belonging to the estate of Made
lefne Devil iliiers. deceased, to-Wit
/. A CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF
land, With all the buildings and improvements
thereon, situated and lying in said parish and
Stlte, bounded as follows, f0-eit: on tile north
by lands OF Frederic Brand and yillenellye Bor
dRlon, ON the east by lands OF Theodore Cha
cherB and Ghretien Morn nhinYeg, On the west by
lands of Frederic Brand and Caldwell SWayze,
on the south by lands OF I. Rallevuc Gainl.' con-
taining three hundred al1senfs more or less
2. TWELVE HEAD GENTLE CATTLE, ONE
yoke oxen. one pair mules, two horses, one
mare and colt, one buggy aud harness, one OK
cart, ono lot cypress lumber, one lat gum luIn
ber one lot shingles, thirty arpents of cotton in
the field tunpieked,l fifty arpents OF corn in the
field tuIgT tiIeTndi two aEpenta OF cane stand
ing in the fiel,l one lot Of fodder. eight hun
dred bricks, plantation and farming utensils,
and other mnvables.
Ternis-Eslsh.
Z. s. RICHARD,
SEPT. as-5t. Administrator.
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PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

EALANkWASM AND ESNSwAO AAVkSH'
We, tins Liberal Party of the State of Louis
lana in Convention assembled, hereby proclaim
and adopt the following as our platform OF
principles, essential to the redemption OF @1lr
beloved State from the evils OF mlsgoyernInenf,
and tending to the restoration OF inst, wise and
patriotic rule, the yindicatiOn of the rights of
the sovereign people.
t. We recognize the platform of the Cincinnati
Convention Of the Liberal Republicans, a6 rati-
fed and indorsed by the National Democratic
Convention, as eminently iudicions and repre-
ssntIng the symnathies and needs of our State
and country and We recognize in the national
standard bearers of the great Peoples Party,
Horace Greeley and Benjamin Gratz Brown,
men of sterling worth, capable OF restoring the
government to the simplicity and purity of its
earlier years, when Washington, Adams end
Jefferson were guardians of our liberties. We
therefore pledge them our undivided and earnest
support
a. We recognize the political and civil rights of
all men, and pledge ourselves to maintain them,
aud We invite all men, without regard to past
political differences, to unite with lis in our
honest effort to accomplish such salutary re-
forms as are now OF may be demanded by the
people.
s. We demand that olr State government shall
be administered Justly and economically and to
that end we pledge ourselves to the abolition Of
useless offices, the reduction of exorbitant sala-
ries of officials, the early redemption Of the
legal obligations OF the State and the reduction
Of taxation rs speedily as possible.
4. Wedemhnd that laws shall be enacted for the
punishment of bribery, and that the powers of
the executive be diminished, being inconsistent
with republican institutions, and subyersiTe of
the wishes Of the people.
5. Recognizing public education as an inpera-
tive necessity and a guardian Of our liberties we
pledge ourselves TO maintain generous and
henefcent free school system, which shaal be
extended to every portion of the State, ana en-
braces in Its privileges the children Of oil classes,
and we shall demand . strict economy and per
formance Of duty on the part Of school officials.
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4 case of abused confidence has tran
spired in Detroit. A lady OF that city
confessed to her husband that the hap
piest portion of her married life was be-
fore she was married-or, rather, she en-.
joyed. his society more when he was
courting, her than afterward; and she
proposed that they be divorced and get
married over again, "just for the fun OF
the thing" Thehnsband consented, and
the divorce. was obtained, and in brict
season the lady was courted and married
by another fellow, who hadn't been men,
TONED in the original contract at all
deal Of fun in the arrangement, but
thus far he hasn't enjoyed it much.
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At the Dublin Theatre was famous
comedian named Barry. In a piece
which had run for many weeks, a pair
of duck trowsers formed part of his
costume. In the course of time they be-
came much sOiled, when one evening Ii
boy in the gallery screamed out Bar
ry! Whin did yer ducks take to wath-
er last?n The next evening he had q
clean pair.
On another occasion, Barry appeared
on the stage in rather mellow cOndi-
tion, when he was called ont to by a
2mn S BabT b!1 notEdsns the Roy1 wurTd
had oI tbs % night I :" Looking up HS at his in" in
terlOcutor rather comically, he said ::
None, ye blackguard, at your ex-
pinse.H
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Esaate OF EFugI1 w. Egobinctt-No. s36y.

Estate of Hugh w. KgoBinctt- Nc. 1861.
STATE OF. LOUISIANA COURT,
y Parish Of ST. Landry - Whereas, Oglesby s,
Smith, Of the Parish of st. Landry, Administra-
tor of the estate OF Hugh w. R0billctt, deceased,
having Aled q taDleau of classification of the
debts of said estate, accompanied by his petition
praying fer the homei9gati0n of the same;
And whereas, the prayer of said petition has
been granted by an order of court, bearing date
September 24th, 1872.
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given to all
persons intereafed to make opposition to said
tablaau In writing Mt my Office in the town Of
Opel0usas. within the time required by law. why
said fableau should not be ha1n6iGgated and con-
hrTned. 50Ss ID. RICHARD Clerk
sept. 2s, fsT2-mRh.
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Estate TeIfmaa BordeHon.-No.

STATE OF LOUTsLAEA.-PARIsHC COURT,
~ St Landry.--Whereas, 0neziIne Carriere, of
the Parish of St. Landry, testamentary executor
of the estate of Zalima Bordelon, deceased hay
ing filed tableau of classification of the debts
of said estate, accompanied by his petition
praying for the homologat1On of the same;
been granted by an order of court, Bearing date
September 24th, 1879.
Now, therefore notice ia hereby given to all
persons interested to make opposition to said
tableaa In writing at my office in tho town of
0pclousas. within the time required by law,
why the said tableau should not be homologated
and confirmed.
JOS. D. RICHARD, Clerk.
sent 2R-m&h
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SmERIER,s SALES.
Vincent Boagni, Agent VS.. Andrew J
RarlOw

Vincent Boagni, Agent VS.. Andrew j
Barlow.
DISTRICT COURT. PARISH OF ST Lam
~ dry.-SO. 12260.-By virtue of an order of
seizure and sale. issued ont of the honorable the
Eighth District Court, of the State of Louisiana
in and for the Parish of st Landry. in the above
entitled suit, and to me directed. I will proceed
to sell, at public auction, to the highest bidder
at the Courthouse of said parish, in the town Of
Opelouaas, on SATURDAY, the 2nd day Of Nov
cmher. 1872, at eleven O'Clock A. NJ, the follow
ing described property, to-wit-
A certain plantation with all the buildings
and improvements thereon, situated on Bayou
BCeuf, in the Parish of St. Landry, on the west
side Of said bayou, containing about eight hun
dred and seventy three 1O[100 acres, more or
less, bounded north and east by the said Bayou
BRuf, south by land formerly belonging to
James Morgan, west by widow BuPleigh and
lands supposed to be public.
The above tract of land is composed Of the
the following tracts, to-wit:
/. Half of section thirty-sGven, in township
three. south of range five east, containing four
hundred and six acres, more or less.
2. Lots numbers seven, twelve and thirteen of
same township and range as above and being
in section 81 containing cighty-nine 101O0 acres,
more or less.
8. Sections numbered 80 and 33, in township
four, south of range four east. containing three
hundred and seventy-eight acres, more or less.
Seized in the above suit.
Tcrms-Cash on the spot.
E. .. HAYES, Sheriff.
no