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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31
rhero is NO Death.
By SIR E. BuLwER LrTroS.

There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in Heavens jeweled crown
They shine foreyermore.
Thesis no death The dust we tread
SEMI change beneath the summer showers
To golden grain or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
To feed the hungry moss they bear;
The forest leaves drink daily life
From out the viewless air.
There is no death! The leaves may fall,
The flowers may fade and pass AWAY:
They only wait through wintFy hours
The coming of the May.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks DER the earth with silent tread;
He bears our hcst-loved things away,
And then we call them "dead."
He leaves our hearts all desOlate,
He pllIcks our faircst, sweetest flowers ;
TFansplanted into bliss, they now
AdOrn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones
Made glad these scenes of sin and strife,
Sings now an everlasting song
Amid the tree of life.
And Mhere he seems smile too bright,
OF arts too pure for faint and vice,
Tie bE q it to that world OF light,
70 aradise.
Born ndying life,
Thes gHaass8ep but to come again:
WithtiOy we welcome thcm-the same,
Except in sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear, immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless Universe
Is lifc-there are no dead.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

India rubber trees, it is stated, occupy
Q belt of land around the globe for five
hundred miles south of the equator.
These trees yield on an average three
tablespo0nsful of sap day, and can be
tapped for twenty successive seasons.
trees. In tract OF country thirty miles
long and eight miles wide, there have
been forty-three thousand India rubber
trees counted. In Europe and the Uni
ted States there are one hundred and
fifty manufactures of India-rubber
goods employingfve hundred operatives
each, and consuming over ten million
pounds OF gum every year,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

The following legend relates how a
certain Grand Duke of Florence, built a
bridge without expense TO the State
The Grand Duke issued proclamation
that every heggar who would appear in
the grand plaza at a certain designated
time should be provided with new suit
Of clothes free of cost. Attheappointed
hour the beggars of the city all assem-
-hled, whereupon the officers caused each
avenue Of the public square to be closed,
and then compelled the heggars to strip
off their old clothes, and gave to each
one, according to promise, a new suit.
In the old clothes enough money was
found concealed to build beautiful
bridge over the Arno, still called the
Reggar's Bridge!
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

A Story FOR You've LADIES WITH
LITTLE BROTHERs.-The moral Of the
following, told by the sufferer, is too
apparent to mention. Young ladies will
hereafter run their brothers out when
gentlemen call. It's certain that wish
somebody would spank theyOmg rascal.
We talked of mountains, wales and cata-
racts-I believe / said watCIfall-when
the boy spoke up and said.
"Why, sisters got whole trunk full
OF them up stairs; pa says they are
made of bOSs hair.
This revelation struck terror into me-
and bushes into the cheek Of my fair
companion. 1t began to be very appa-
rent to me that ] must be very guarded
in what | said, lest the boy might slip
in his remarks at uncalled for places in
fact, | turned my conversation to him
and told him he ought to 20 home
with me and see what nice chickens
have in the country. Unluckily men
toned yoke of calves which ruined all.
7 he little one looked mp and said:
"Sister's got dozen pair of them,
but she don't wear them only when she
goes up town of windy days.
" Leave the room, You unmannerIy
little wretch y exclaimed Emily, "leavc
immediately
81 know. what You want me to leave
the room fOrn exclaimed he, "yOu can't
fool me, You want to sit. in that mans
lap and kiss him just as you did Bill
Simmons the other day; you can't fool
| me. | jeS tell you. Gin me some candy
like he did and I'll go. You think cause
| you've got the Grecian bend that you're
smart. Guess ] know thing or two.
| I'm mad at you anyhow, because papa
J would have bought me top yesterday,
! if it hadn't been for getting them curls,
! dog on yer.
"Y0u needn't turn so red in the face,
cause see the paint. There aint no use
a winking that glass eye of yourn for !
aint going out of here, that is what's
the matter with the purps. don't care
! if you are twenty-eight years old you
aint no boss Of mine.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31
Awful.

Awful is the word,
Every awful minute!
For tits in awful world,
With awful people in it;
Some are awful short,
And some are awful tall,
Some are awful large,
And some are awful small:
Some are awful fat,
And some are awful lean,
Some are awful good,
And some are awful mean.
Some are awful sour,
And some are awful sweet,
Some wear awful chignOns,
And some have awful feet;
Some are awful silent,
And some talk awful loud,
Some are awful modest,
And some are awful proud.
Some chaps are awful silly,
And some are awful wise;
Some wear awful mustaclls..
And some heave awful sighs,
Because their awful hearts,
So awful soft are found,
That Cupid's awful darts
Their awful core have found.
And 80 it's awful, awful,
Awful is the word;
From every awful mouth
Some awful things are heard
Some folks are awful nice,
Some girls are awful pretty,
Some men are awful dull
Some women awful witty.
In the awful morning,
From awful sleep we wake,
With the awful warning
That tits awful late;
And through the awful day,
We hear the awful CHATTER
OF awful, awful, awful
T1fat's what's the awful matter
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

THE ANCESTORS OF DANIEL WEBSTER.
On his parental side, as is given in his
Life, by Curtis, he came of the Websters
Of Hampton, among the earliest settlers
of that town. OF his maternal ancestry
less is said. We are told that his
mothers maiden name was Abigail
Eastman, a tailOress of Salisbury. But
whence came she The late DR.. Nye, Of
Salisbury, was much interested in the
history of that town, and has leftpapers
detailing the genealOgy Of some of the
families. From one of these papers we
quote: 81 A Miss Eastman, Il young lady
of Welsh descent living in Salisbury,
was cOurted and had natural son by a
mulattO man, who ran off, or died, be-
fore the birth of her child, who bore the
name of his mother.
"The boy grew to manhood, and mar
ried half Indian girl, whose father was
a white man, and reared up family of
Eastmans, from whom Miss Abigail
Eastman, the mother Of Daniel and
Ezekiel Webster, and all the EastmanS
of Salisbury had their origin. 1t was
very common in the early settlement of
Salisbury and Amesbury for the in
habitants to marry Indian girls. The
characteristics are very visible to this
day among their descendants. We sup
ply this omission to keep history good.
1t is in favor of miscegcnatiOn more
than any other fact within our kn0wl-
edge. Dr.. Nye will be remembered by
some of the elder people, and nobody
will doubt his authority, which possibly
even now would he capable of proof
from the old records. It will account fOl
the complexion Of Black DAN"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

\ Welsh clergyman applied to his
Diocesan for IL living. The bishop
promised him one hut aS the Clergyman
was taking his leave he expressed hopes
that his lOrdShip would not send him to
the interior of the prinripality, as his
wife could not speak Welsh. Your
wife, sir" said the Bishop, "what has
the parson, but she lectures"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

A WOMAN OBTAINS A DIVORCE FROM
AN UNMARRIED MAN.-The case of Mar
tin VS.. Martin, entered upon the docket
of the Supreme Court a few days ago, is
one of the most remarkable specimens
of legal eccentricity that we have heard
of fOrmany day. The appellant makes
affidavit and motion for a writ Of error,
stating that in December, 1871, while he
was at the East, the plaintiff brought
action against him in the Fifth District
Court for divorce, and obtained an al
lOwance of $500 for counsel fees and $50
per month pendente lite. Upon the re-
turn of the defendant he moved for
a reversal of the Judgment and order.
The lower Court refused to grant the
motion, stating that its Judgment was
final. The affidavit filed in the Supreme
Court narrates the above facts, but
alleges further that the defendant never
saw or knew the woman sueing for a
divorce from him until his return from
the East, and that consequently he never
could have married her, and that she
was the widow of another party recently
deceased in Missouri, and that, as his
relict, she had received a portion of his
estate. There is something very queer
about this cause, and If the allegations
of the defendant are true it certainly
presents Il novel method of obtaining a
livelihood for impeeuniOus women. It
is giving considerable latitude to the
doctrine Of wOman's rights.--[Sacra-
mento (Ca1.) Record.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

\ gentleman once asked little girl,
an only child, how many sisters She
had, and was told three or four" Her
mother asked Mary when they were
alone what induced her to tell such an
untruth. "Why, mamma said Many,
Il didn't want him to think that You
were 50 poor that you had but one
child. Wouldn't he think we were dread
fUl nOOr
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31
Humidity and sunstrOke.
From the Sacramento (Cal.) Union

When the mercury rises in the shade
at New York or st. Louis to ninety
seven, the heat causes more suffering
than hundred and five degrees i'll this
city, or than hundred and fifteen in
hill towns havingan altitude of 1900 feet
above the sea. Experience has album
dainty demonstrated these points Min
erS can work, and have often worked
all day long out in the sun ut M0kclumne
Ill., Diamond Springs, COloma, Tim
huctOO and many other places in this
State, when the thermometer marked
one hundred and twelve 10 one hundred
and fourteen degrees III the shade, and
that without danger OF SunstrOl1c. But
WHEN the thermometer iii any Eastern
city marks ninety-seVen degrees, out
door labOrerS are III peril On Monday
in Boston they had this great heat, and
the result was nearly thirty deaths from
SunstrOke. In New York it was a degree
hotter, and there were forty deaths. On
Thursday, the mercury rose in New
York to 1O3 degrees, and there were 200
cases of sunstrOke with 60 deaths. There
has never been a clearly defined case of
sunstrOke Chat we have heard Of) in
California, though all over the State
men work out doors almost every sum-
mer when the thermometer is up to 100
degrees and over i'll the shade. In the
early years of placer mining, before
water had been generally distributed
among the "diggings," there hardly
passed a summer that fell short (sOnle-
times for week at a strctch) at 10 to
112 degrees in the shade. Hundreds,
thousands worked i'll the sun all day
long during such heated spells, without
seriously suffering. One summer (June,
1862 in some of the southern counties,
for two days the mercury III the shade
rose rs high as 1872 degrees at knights
Ferry, to 1873 degrees at Kern River, and
yet there were no cases of sunstrOkc re-
ported, though birds fell down from the
trees and horses and cattle in the fields
close to the coast in Los Angels and
Santa Barbara, from exhaustion. The
popular theory of our exemption from
this complaint, just now so fatally prev
alent at the East, is that our GUNNER
atmosphere is wholly free from humidity.
Whether this be true or not, the fact is
clearly proved by many years Of out
door labor by tens OF thousands, in field
and mine, that no intensity of heat i'll
this climate can cause SunstrOke.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

y contemporary tells this funny ancc-
dOte: "Wake up, here, and pay for
your lodging" said the deacon, as he
nudgcd Il sleepy stranger with the CON
tribution box. We were there, and We
heard the sleepy stranger mmmur, with
a glance at the minister, whose sermon
had narcotizcd him, Lodging! and
bored tOOt"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

JEFPRsoN's Tex RULEs.-1. Never
put off till tomorrow what you can do
to-day.
Q. Never trouble another for what you
can do yourself.
Q. Never spend your money before
you have 1t.
1. Never buy what you do not want
because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger,
thirst and cold
G. We seldom repent of having eaten
too little.
{. Nothing ia troublesome that we do
willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost
us that have never happened.
q. Take things always by the smooth
handle.
10. When angry, count ten before
you speak If very angry, count hum
dred.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

THE HISTORY OF A DEBT.-AbOut tif-
teen years ago there resided in the south
part of st. Louis, a man by the name of
John H. Ritter, who carried on the busi-
ness of timer. Becoming pecuniarily
involved he borrowed, about that period,
of friend, John p. Mack, a druggist,
who was his business neighbOr, S475. In
a short time, and before he was to return
the money, Ritter failed and fed, no one
knew whittier. Years elapsed, and no
word or intimatiOn of him was received.
In the meantime Mack, the lender,
died, and with him probably all lgnowl-
edge Of the debt. But about April last,
Mr.. Conrad Faith, Of the firm of Gisse,
Ewald & Co., who was the administrator
of Mack's estate, saw an advertised let
ter addressed to Mr.. John r. Mack, and
by the authority which his position gave
him, he took it out and read it. The
letter was dated at HiOgo, Japan, and
bore the subscriptiQQ Of John II. Ritter,
and asking for the address of John
Mack. Mr.. Faith wrote in reply that
Mack was deceased, but that he was the
administrator Of his estate, and day
or two since lie received, to his sur
prise and qualification, another note
containing a draft on account of Ritter
and in favor of Mack, from the Oriental
Bank Corporation, Hi0gO, Japan, dated
June 8, and drawn on Messrs. K. Bel
and c. F. Smithers, agents at New ork
for the Bank of Montreal, for 1894 in
American gold, which amount cOmpre,
hended the original loan and interest al
compound rate,-[St, Louis Republican
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

Our poor young man remarks that the
only advice he gets from capitalists is to
live within his income" whereas the
difficulty he experiences is to live with
ont an income.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31
The EIumpOrists' Column.
\ little nonsense now and then,
Is rclishcd by the wiseSt men.

A Toledo chap was quite smittcnwith
his ncighbOr's wife. She did it with IL
rolling-pin.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

4 family of three, with no less than
eighteen trunks, has arrived at New
port. The trunks do not contain the
brains Of the family.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

A bashful printer refused d situation
in q printing Office where females were
employed, saying he never set up =.
with a gal in his life.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

A Fort Wayne man who has invented
a new receipt for cleaning clothes, pa
rades it on his advertisement under the
standing head of every Man His Own
WaSherWOmanH
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

An editor at dinner table being
asked If he would take some pudding,
replied, I'M ii fit of abstraction: 3OWing
to the crowd of other matter we are lan-
able to find room for it.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

AS Dickens worked in blaeking fac
tory wnen he was a boy, 1t was natural
he should shine afterWarll.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

A Georgia paper suspended fora week
in order that all hands might enjoy the
Fourth and a hanging.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

Why are lawyers like ivy? Because
the greater theruin the closer they cling,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

sulksDeff and dun madness. lJosh
Billings,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

A down-east shop-keeper advertises
'' quart bowls of all sizes for rsale cheap
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

The Richmond Register tells this:
i" At II dance given by l.. COyle, in
Kingston, IL few nights since, there were
a number Of married ladies present who
brought their babies along. Feeling in
clined to trip the light fantastic" q
round Ortwo, they left there prOgenies in
an adjoining room in charge of Mr..
COyle and Maunin, who had kindly
volunteered to he mammals to the innO-
cents al interim. During the absence of
the fond parents, Tom and Joe con-
cluded to swap clothes; and i'll short
time every baby SpOrted him OF herself
i'll foreign habilimentS. The mothers
after an hour or so dcvoting to Terp-
sichOrcan delights, took each their baby
Vestments and the little forms therein
contained, and retired to their respec-
tive and once happy homes. On pre-
pairing the little ones for the crib, sexes
had changed-girls We're boys and boys
%irlS-anl with one universal yell tho
outraged Materials set out on baby
hunt. At last account most all had, by
the strawberry mark succeeded in
recovering the lost heirs; but Joe and
Coylc are said to be non est when any Of
those mothers are in or about King
StOn,'
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-31

PIOUS IMPULSES IN \ SQUALL.-By %
sqnall in Delaware Bay last week, while
sailing in a yacht, two young men were
overtaken. At Nazareth church, on
Twelfth street, Philadelphia, at public
Worship they had occasionally been
present. From the way things looked,
the capsizing Of their shallop was very
nearly inevitable.
"Bill,n said one to the other, " this is
serious business: can You pray?"
NO, | can't; I've heard Joe Quinn do
it, and I've listened to Bill Post; but |
can't do it myself"
"Well, YOU can sing a hymn, can't
YOU? For Gods sake do something"
" No | can't sing here. How can sing
when this boat at any moment may
drown us both ?"
"Well, we must do something re-
ligious: If you can't pray and can't sing
let's take up Il collection"
TO this Bill consented. In his COM
paniOn's hat he deposited thirteen pen
MES, c0rkscrcw and broken -bladcd
knife. As he did this the wind lulled
and the shallOp made a successful land
ing
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-28

A report comes by telegraph from
Kansas City that Judge Forsyth
was shot and the body hung to a tree.
Great excitement prevails through
out the country and fears are felt
that still others will be murdered
The perpetrators of this massacre
claim that they have one thousand
men in their organization.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-28

The Nevada Transcript of April
18th is the authority for the follow
ing intelligence:
We saw a letter from T. H. Good
man, general passenger agent Of the
Central Pacific Railroad, which
stated that on and after May LIST the
rates of fare to New York will be as
follows: First class, S140; second
class. $l13 -.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-28

J. II. Hutchings, of Yosemite Val
ley fame, passed through Stockton,
a few days since. on his way to the
valley. He has just returned from
the East, where he spent several
months lecturing on California and
printing a book about the Yosemite
Valley, Big Trees and other Pacific
slope wonders.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-28
WHAT IS TIE MATER WITH THE
SOUTH.

Under the above caption, the Chi
cago Tribune, a Republican journal,
gives the following common sense
view of the condition OF things in
the Southern States:
"The facts developed by the ku
klux COmmittee furnish a powerful
argument for a national policy which
shall not further Cypress and ostra-
else the Southern whites in order to
keepa party in power IN those States.
That report shows that the losses Of
the South during the war amount to
upwards OF five thousand millions of
dollars. while the whole assessed
value of thu eleven States, IN 1860,
exclusive 81 slaves. was placed at
S2.72S. -. 0J0. or but little more
than half the actual value of the
property destroyed and losses, in
Guiding tine rebel debt. 1t would
seem a. though a country thus pros
trate should receive the kIndtat pro
lection which tlte errors of its peo-
pie made possible, But at this point
the depleti0n Of the South only be
gins. Tie increase OF the debts in
the Southern States under cJrpet-ba-
IL To- ~ s;mr1v ,,naUinr In
NJ e, 49,. So .7aLt VS.
$4,000. coo in 1862 $50. O09- 900 in
1860. when tie work of Tecuu~tTUc-
t;on hsr,n. sol $4,000 in 1853.
whom carrat-iaui,,n +riumuhed. and
c2l npn a,nin ISL The whole beue .
fant;r~. If the North distributed
LrDnrb tLa F~r4e,Imen-s Bnraau do
nn+ 81 lie 3rooun+ kv which tLe
49, r. Nr~tG cqroIina alone has
Iaan increased in fine uroce-s Of re
con-+~r.ti,-r Tn S3a+A Carolina.
- 10 .sr.7. c,--,+r ~ k4.shav-
Lav;..g II UH u,aaIatigu 5000 t:z-
~ovar-r- -ons were issued. The taxes
oF 7--r ,r.-EI nave paid tIe taxes Of
o1v five ,,.rs before tile war. and
La,7 ;, ha mid ont of half the r,r0p-
80 -r..~. we therefore, ten
49, E;-,b and more. In two
vaars :. .4Ei J17 q WIS paid ont.
for which NOT a single voucher WI.
Fa.- rEa CanventioD Of 1865
which framed the State Constitution.
conte;r.d - NEGROES and - white
mon Bat I3 of the negroes were
-t,x-nsvars Vet they levied on the
ST 4tv 1f - 30 $50: or over six
ror oa,- on ;ts vh,fA pro,arty. In
IL Ta-I-1.+nr If 1NGn There were
oo rLifa senators and II black ones.
and IN the Eonse there were 81
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-28
LETTER FROM CARSON RIVER.
CARSON RIVER, !
April p, 1872. !

EDITOR REGISTER lettering tC
heads, rings, etc, callst to mind some
OF the several characters, the block
head, the fgurehead, and the dead
head; these rather harmless, and not
at all times particularly attractive or
demonstrative. But when a pivot
head is elevated. look outfor squalls,
quakes and weepings, attended with
i~ntolerable groaning; and, that's
what's the matter" Piyotheads of
late years have been too numerous in
floating 10 the surface. thence to
elevation. In every direction. near
at hand andat approximate distances,
a be seen one or more of these
vicious pates. and their multiplicity
of active e~Nolutions are. and have
been, fearfully threatening, and be-
gin 10 remove the hoodwInk from
the eyes of the popuIace, who now
clearly see that these heads ~reyoIye
II every command Of an opportunity
10 piuhuef anu 10 constitute rings
for the veal OF the Jew and the woe
OF the many. Political piyotLeads
are known to be useful apperdages
and a great convenience in and
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