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The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
Sale of GreenbacE1s.

Acting State Auditor Clinton, with the ap-
proval of Kellogg, gives public notice that he
will, on the 18th day of July, 1873 and on the
second Tuesday of each month thereafter, ad-
vertise for proposals for the purchase, with
warrants, of the currency then on hand be-
longing to the general fund; or, in other
words, sell the amount of cash on hand at auc-
ton, to whoever will pay the most for it in
warrants issued subsequent to January /, 1873.
The N. o. Herald of the 2Sth ult, saws ON
the subject:
"Those who hold warrants of the present
administration are, of course, warmly in favor
of the order: But there are $l.7OO, 600 of war
rants issued by the previous administration
who see nothing but disaster to them and yir-
tual reputation of their warrants in this dis
examination and preference of the new over
the old warrants. 1t must be confessed that
the discrimination is an unjust one, and that
much censure has attached to Kellogg and
Clinton for their various attempts to discredit
past due warrants. 1t is the very worst form
OF reputation; it has an aspect of selfish par
tlsanship. They have no right to stamp the
obligations of the State as invalid and fraudu
lent because issued before they came into, or
rather foisted themselves into, power
'As general rule of legal ethics, the older
debt should take precedence of the younger"
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

We would call the attention of the Town
Council to the condition of the cutters and
streets of the town, and to that of the yards,
&c., about it. The cutters on some of the
streets are filed with filth and stagnant water,
some yards with putrid and putrefying matter
Of almost every kind, and most of the privies
have become nuisances.
Coming into or going about town after
pightfail, one is almost made sick by the hor-
fills the air.
Cutters are being formed in the center of
some of the streets and damage being done,
that, If permitted to go on, will cost much
money to repair. Ii some pestilence docs not
break cut in this place during the hot summer
that has set in, it will not be the fault of our
.eity fathers" 1t will not be their fault,
either, if much meney will not have to be
spent for the purpose of repairing streets,
which if taken in time would cost but little to
be put in good condition. The Council ought
to think of the adage "a stitch in time saves
nine,' and act on it.
They have been elected for the purpose of
Keeping the town in good order at as cheap a
rate as possible if they don't intend to do it,
lct them resign and let those who will attend
to their duties as Councimen be elected or
appointed in their places.
The Taxpayers pay their taxes willingly, if
not eheerfully, and they want to see a proper
use made Of the money. They would pay
them cheerfuily if they were assured that the
money would be wisely and speedily used in
improving the streets and the town generally.
Come, gentlemen, wake up-wake up!
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
March %, 1878,
To The People of st. Landry.

agency Mound City Mutual Life ms. Co., !
OPELoUsAs, La, Nov. 14th, 1871. :
BEG leave to announce that l have
IL accepted of the Agency of the Mound
City Mutual Life Insurance Company of St.
Louis, Missouri. Ny office is in the Court
House. where will lie most happy to explain
to all whose interest and duty requires the
aid OF that most benevolent of modern instr
tutions-Life Insurance. The high character
of the Mound City renders it necessary to say
a word in its behalf; it's policy holders are
composed of some Of the most intelligent and
respectable citizens of this and adjoining par
ishes, to whom | take great pleasure in refer
ring to their names below. The Louisiana
Department is under the control of our best
regarded as guardians to the widow and the
orphan.
The following gentlemen compose the Louis
lana Board: L. T. Merrick, c. III. Mouton
James jackson. Robert Hare, l.. A. Wilt,
Thomas Fitzwilliam, +. III. Hatch, Octave
Voorhies. b. b. Simmes.
would also refer to the card of Mrs. Hayes.
widow Of the late James G.. Hayes, of this
parish, and of Mrs. O'Bryan of Vermillion
The promptness with which all losses are paid
by this institution recommends it most strongly
to the consideration of our people.
NAMES OF POLICY HOLDERS.
DR.. John A. Taylor, Alcae Duprt, Henry l..
Garland. Joel III. Sandoz, j. J, Morgan, Thos.
c. Anderson, c. c. Swaze, DR.. j. L. Estorge,
j. L. Morris, Captain Carmonche, Joseph M.
Moore, A. r. Hawkins, and many others; also,
from other parishes long list could be fur
nished, but l will only mention Governor A.
MOuton, of Lafayette, and Generals Alcibiades
DeBlanc and Alexandra D6clouet, of St.
Martin.
81 A. GARRIGUES.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
Arrival and Departure of Mails.
PLAOUEMINE BRULEE ROUTE.

PLAQUEMINE BRULEE ROUTE.
FROM OPELOUsAS TO PLAQUEMINE BEULEE:
Leaves Opelousas every Tuesday at o'clock
A. NJ, arrives at Plaquemine every Tuesday at
II o'clock A. NJ. Leaves Plaquemine every
Tuesday at II NJ, arrives at Opeloutas every
Tuesday at 6 o'clock p. NJ.
TECHE ROUTE.
FROM ST. MARTINsvILLE TO OPELOUsAs:
Leaves S.. MartinsviIle every Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday at 6 o'clock A. NJ, arrives at
Opelousas at P. NJ. Leaves Opelousas every
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at o'clock
A. M, arrives at st. Martinsville at P. NJ.
HICKORY FLAT ROUTE.
FROM OPELOUSAS TO HICKORY FLAT:
Leaves Opelousas every Tuesday at 8 o'clock
A. NJ, arrives at Hickory Flat every Wednes
day at o'clock P. NJ. Leaves Hickory Flat
every Thursday at 8 o'clock A. NJ, arrives at
Opeleusas every Friday at o'clock p. NJ.
NEW ORLEANS.
The New Orleans mails, via Grand Coteau,
Vermilonville, New Iberia, etc, arrive and
depart daily lSundays excepted.)
rB Mails for above places will close On the
evening previous to the departure of the mails.
p. j. LEFEBVRE, ?. NJ.
Opelousas, June %, 1873.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

The New Orleans Picayune, of the lst inst,
has this to say of an invention lately perfect
ed by one of our fellow -townsmen. We con-
gratulate Mr.. Gibbs upon his success.
'sMr. Joseph Gibbs, of Opelousas, has for
months past been experimenting on an inven-
tion for the purpose of catching and arresting
the sparks from locomotives. This was de-
sirable improvement, as thousands of dollars
have been lost from fires occasoned by sparks,
and it has long been the quest of inventors to
make some arrester to prevent the escape Of
dust and cinders.
"AIl that can be desired has been accom-
plished by MIR. Joseph Gibbs, and after q tho
rough trial on the jackson Railroad, the sue
cess of the invention has been pronounced
All speak in glowing terms of the working of
are not annoyed during travel by smut and
burning sparks. 1t is expected ali x6ads will
adopt Mr.. Gibbs improvement"
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
SPECIAL NOTICES
DMYsICHANs 4 DRUGGISTS.

A prominent New York physician lately COM
planned to DCNDAS DICK about his SANDAL
WOOD OIL CAPSULES, stating that sometimes
they cured miraculously, but that a patient of
his had taken them for some time without eff
feet. On being informed that several imita-
tions were made and sold, he inquired and
found that his patient had been taking capsu-
les sold in bottles, and not Dundas Dick d. Co.'S
What happened to this physician may have
happened to others, and DuRdas Dick d Co.
take this method of protecting physicians,
druggists and themselves, and preventing OIL
of !Sdndal,cood from coming into dsrepute.
Physicians who once prescribe the Capsules
will continue to do so, for they contain the ptre
OIL, in the best and cheapest form.
Dundas Dick Il Co. use more Oil OF Sandal
wood in the manufacture of their Capsules
than all the Wholesale and Retail Druggists
and Perfumers in the United States combined,
and this is the sole reason why the patre Oil is
sold Cheaper in their Capsules than in any
other form.
Oil of Sandalrood is fast superseding every
other remedy, sixty Capsules only Being re-
quircd to insure safe and certain cure i'll six
eight days. From no other remedy can this
result he had.
DICKS SOFT CAPSULES solve the problem
long considered by many eminent physicians,
Of how to avoid the nausea and disgust expert
enced in swallowing, which are well known to
detract from, If not destroy, the good effects
of many valuable remedies.
Soft Capsules are put up in tin-foil and neat
boxes, thirty in each, and are the only y Cap
sules prescribed by Physicians.
- These rrere the only Capsules admitted
to The last Paris Exposition.
Send for Circular to 80 Wooster Street, New
York. SOLD a. ALL DRUG STORES.
General Agency, ITO Reade St, New FORK.
May 17,,ElS73.-4m
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

As it takes Louisiana men about q genera
tion to build thirty miles of railroad, it is mar
velous how fast other people can build them.
The Texas system and success make MS asha.
med. Even the Texas Pacific, under Colonel
Scott and his fast corps of subalterns, is not
ahead of the Northern Pacific, which, running
through % country of almost perpetual SHOWS,
compared with cur route, has already built
500 miles of its line, has earned about ten mil
lions of acres of the land grant, and is now
prepared 10 open it up to immigration. If we
would only look at that Northern people, oe-
casionaIly, in some other than political light,
we would see much to admire and more to
initiate Shreveport Telegram.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

- An exchange touches mp a sub
.ject which, III justice to all parties,
should he better understood. 1t says:
Speaking of newspapers and what is
expected of them, it very forcibly re-
marks that "there is no business in all
the wide world so subject to sponging
as the art or trade of printing a news
paper. Public corporations, societies
and associations in general have pecu-
liar ideas about papers. They think
they ought to print, puff, and publish
all for nothing that is, free gratis In
other words they seem astonished i f
asked half-price only for cards of
thanks, tributes of respect, personal
communications, or anything that only
interests few persons, and not gen
eral reader. They think it costs no
money to advertise, puff, &c. And thus
one and another will sponge. They
forget that it takes money to pay com
positors, buy ink, type and paper; and
lastly, they forget even to thank you
for gratuitously putting their business
or serving the public.o
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
IF you wish to buy cheap, call at
IL M. VILASECA'S STORE.
THE OPELOUSAs COURIER.
PUBLISHED ON SATURDAY
EONCE SAND OZ.
CON ITO n 8 {:

cOND DITIoNs:
Subscription Three Dollars per year, pay
able Invariably in ADVANCE.
AdrersmgFtE Cehts per saare ents fop nor each ac
subsequent insertion. Eight lines or less
All adyertisements sent in for publication
will be inserted in English and French tunless
otherwise oreefea uhs discontinna om poiiSnef S'A
Candidates to public favors will pay Fifteen
Dollars each, in advance, if they wish to be
announced.
Obituary Notices, Cards of Thanks, &c, to
be paid for as advertisements.
Personal cards, when admissible, to be
charged at the rate Of twenty cents per line,
in advance.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
A CARD.

A CLERGYMAN, while residing in South
IN America, as missionary, discovered safe
and simple remedy for the Cure of Nervous
Weakness, Early Decay, Disease Of the Urin-
airy and Seminal Organs, and the whole train
of disorders brought on by baneful and vicious
habits. Great numbers have been cured by
this noble remedy. Prompted by desire to
benefit the afflicted and unfortunate, l will
send the recipe for preparing and using this
needs it, Free of Cha,ge.g Address,
JOSEPH T.. INMAN,
Station D, Bible House,
1S-1y7 Ne3r- York CitY.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
TO THE SUFFERING.

FEVIIE Rev. William H. Norton, While residing
u in Brazil as Missionary, discovered in
that land of medicines q remedy for COnsump-
4 asthma, und Nervous Weakness This remedy
has cured myself after all other medicines
had failed. Wishing to benefit the suffering,
will send the recipe for preparing and using
this remedy to all who desire it Free of Charge.
Please send an envelope, with your name and
address ON it, Address,
Rev. WILLIAM II. NORTON,
676 Broadway,
lS-1y1 New YORK CITY.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

- The Gem of the Toilet the world says is
Sozodoft. 1t renders the teeth pearly white,
gives to the breath fragrant odor, extiI-
bad and neglected set Of teeth. Sozodont is
so convenient, and produces sensation at
once so delightful that it makes it pleasure
to use it.
Spalding's Glue will mend your ways.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
One Of Our Dangers.

At this season of commencements-
when we see and read so mnch of the
interesting exercises and concluding
ceremonies at the graduation of the
youth of the country-the coming men
and women, we cannot but urge upon
parents the vast benefit of this training
and equipment fol, the field of active
life.
Poverty has oysrtaken our people
and prosperity has for the time left us.
Uncertainty, disappointment and fire.
quent failure attend cur labors, how
ever earnest and devoted. We are in
the midst of trying times, and the diff
culties of giving education to the young
are very great and discouraging. But
let us fully appreciate the Importance
of the preparation and do all that may
pc done, assured that the harvest will
certainly be great.
Ihere Is no greater or more perma-
nenf evil attendant on parents than the
failure to educate, and the degradation
of Ignorance. knowledge ID power"
and the force Of the human mind IF az
ercised, has no limit to its imnrove.
ment. Honest and systematic labor IN
the paths of learning and mental
achievement, often makes men of capa-
city, at frstprdinary, become great.
The trained student has the same adj
vantage over the unframed, as tile
practiced pugilist or gymnast has over
persons of common physique, without
exercise.
One of the greatest dangers of the
South ID degeneracy and inferiority in
the education of the young. We there
fore take occasion to impress upon all
the grave duty Of doing all that is pos
sibIe In this direction for the sake Of
the country as well as their own pos
terity. N. O. PsoayHae.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

marble statue of Benjamin Franklin, 1.-THE
great philosopher who began life as a printers
devil.) by Hiram Powers, which was present
ed to the city of New Orleans by Mr.. C. A.
Weed, of the Times. was unveiled in LAFAYETTE
Square, in that city, OH the l4th ult., with ap-
propriate ceremonies
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

THE REIGN OF THE RoBBERs.-A
long list of political, commercial, and
social scandals has attracted the atten-
tion of the world to the demoralized
condition Of this country during the
last few years. Every respectable
American has been ashamed of the
widespread corruption and open job
berry that disgraced the National, State
and Municipal Governments of the
country, and of the cunning rascality
that pervaded our commercial centers.
All this was bad enough, but it does
seem burning shame that the United
States could not even go out in compa-
ny, so to speak, without taking their
dirty linen with them to air before the
assembled nations. Before single
case of American goods was unpacked
at Vienna, American jobbery was ex-
posed, and carried off the first, and
probably only, prize that will be eara-
ed by us at the Exhibition.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05


TRIALS AND TRIBULArIoNs. OF GENIUs.-Mr.
Peck had long entertained the idea that he
could invent sef-aSting sewing machine,
and he did. He procured "a steel ribbon spring
about twenty feet long, and of sufficient power
to run a horse car. This he rigged on his
wife's sewing machine with lot of clockwork,
and it appeared to him, when he finished the
job that evening", that he had realized his
hopes Ii any sewing machine ever would 60
that would, so he wound it up ready for use
in the morning and went to bed. At four
o'clock Mrs. Peck aroused him and told him
to listen to the burglars in the house. He lis
tened and heard most terrific noise in the
sitting-roonl. 1t appeared to him that there
must be a million burglars refreshing them
selves with prize-fght. So he. loaded his
gun, crept softly over, and peeped through
crack in the door. 1t was not burglars, it
was Mrs Peck's sewing machine. The peg
had slipped, and that spring was having full
play. 1t would rear the machine up on one
end. and charge it three or four times like
batterlng ram against the glass front of the
book case. then it would wheel around and
suddenly tear across the room, and butt up
against the mantelpiece, and it would lie
down and roll over the floor, and hammer the
sofa, tear up the carpet, and boost the centre
table, and try and ram o hole through the
wall and then endeavor to leap up on the chan
delier. Then as Peck entered the room, it
flew at him, and tore'in and out between his
legs, the wheel revolving like lightning all the.
time, and the spring gradually unwinding.
And then Peck retreated, and the family all
got up and got mattress off the bed. with
which they covered the machine, snd set it
for while, but finally pushed it ont Of the
window into the yard, where Peck piled boxes,
and ash barrels, and slop buckets, and fence
palings, and wagon wheels on it to keep it
still. But all night under the heap it kept up
a continual buzz and snort and hum, so that
one of Mr.. Birdsalfs bearders fired, at it six
teen times, with the impression that it was
cats, Peck has presented his better half with
a new sewing machine, and he is satisfied for
her to run it with feet. He is taking a short
vacation in the study of mechanics at pres
ent.-Bre,cster, Standard.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

- We see that Proctor d. Candles Extra
Olive Soap is becoming very popular in our
city. it's quality we know is superior, and
being nicely perfumed we are not surprised
that consumers prefer it, and that it has a
large sale.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

Says the Detroit Free Press: IA boy, about
ten years old, came blubbering into the Cen
tral station yesterday noon, and when asked
what the matter was he replied s.You see,
said my dog Sam could lick Billy 0'Grady's
dog Bose, and fd bet stamps on it. Sam went
for to do it, and he'd shook that pup, sure,
only Billy he put snuff ON his dog and Sam
got to coughin' and sneezin', and Bose foored
him and chawed him till he couldn't holler--
gimme-gimme warrant for himp
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

SPARTAN TAX -REsIsTERs. -Conver-
sation with several merchants in town
leads us to believe that the resolution
to pay no license fax to kellogg is gen.
eral. Sparta will, so far as her citizens
know how, and are able, enter.a clear,
unmistakable protest against Kellogg
and his whole concern. We know of
no fire. eaters here, but we have men in
whom all idea of liberty is not yet dead,
and they are foes of Kellogg to a man.
Sparta (La. Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

On the 18th ult, Mr.. Jesse Lacy, of Center
vile, killed, about one mile from that town, a
panther which measured eight feet i'll length
and weighed Ia pounds.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
ST. LANDRY PARISH. June Goth, 1873

ST. LANDRY PARISH, June Goth, 1873.
hereby certify that one of my daughters,
aged twelve years, was completely and radi-
cally cured of severe attack of dyspepsia
and also of asthma, by spending few weeks
at the Point-aux-Loups Springs and making
use of their. waters. ANTOINE Liable.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

Hon. Jesse Il. Grant, the Presidents father
died at his residence in Covington, Ky, on
the 29th ult. The President attended the fu-
neral which took place on the lst inst.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
A SAMPLE OF KELLOGG's REFORMS

"A SAMPLE OF kELLOGG'S REFORMS.
-Chas. F. Smith, Tax Collector in AS
cension Parish, and at one time Mayor
of Donaldsonville, has absconded with
several thousands of dollars, but was
captured in Mobile and is now happy
inmate of the Parish Prison. In Terre-
bonne Parish, south of Lafourche, Bel
den is defaulter of the School funds to
the amount of five or six thousand dol
lars. In Assumption, on our northern
border, Echaveria has collected fifteen
or twenty thousand dollars from per-
sons whom he has returned as delin-
quent Tax payers and embezzled the
same; and on our eastern border in St.
James, Hunsaker has embezzled some
four or five thousand dollars of the
school funds.-Ihibodau1 Sentinel.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

JUDGES DURELL AND SHERMAN.-It
is clearly the duty of the next Congress
to frame articles of impeachment and
arraign both of these corruptionists
before the Senate, shameless as the ma
jority of that body is, they are not as
shameless as the sccused, and it would
be difficult for either to escape convic-
tion. In the meantime public opinion
should be awakened and public honor
aroused from its stupor. Such bold
and bullying culprits should not go un-
whipped. Honest Hugh Latimer. in
one of his celebrated sermons, alluded
to the corruption of the Judiciary, and
cites an instance in wAics the great
Emperor Cambyses tiayed a guilty
Judge quick, and laid his skin in the
chair ofjudgment, that all judges who
might give Judgment afterward should
sit in the same skin. "Surely it was
goodly sign" said the noble old bishop;
"a goodly monument, the sign of the
Judges skin. | pray God we may
once see the skin of England" We,
too, pray God, with no less fervor, that
we may once see the skin in America.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
G. MoRNH1NvEe aJDANr1N

VNAkE pleasure in announcing to their
Il friends and the public that they have
opened their tailor establishment, on Bellevue
street, adjoining the Opelousas Tin Shop, i'm
medately opposite Bloah & Dupres burnt
store, where they are ready to make to order
men and boys clothing, Oh short notice, and a
tit guaranteed
August, 81, 1879. I32-ly
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

THE RING OF THE TRUE METAL
When the secret of the vitality of the
Democratic party is sought, let it he
read in such clear and unimpassioned
statement of its principles as is made
in the Kentucky platform. Just in
proportion to the country's departure
from that unvarying chart, does con-
fusion gather and error abound. In
time of peril it is reassuring to hear
such an even voice above the din,
counseling only strict and self deny
ing obedience to the primal axioms of
a republican system: The sphere of
each part of this complex Government
of ours is here distinctly outlined. The
stretch of Federal power under pre-
text, however plausible, forms the
timely subject of serious warning.
Such an unparalleled invasion of
State by the central Government as
the case of Louisiana presents supplies
the occasion to denounce the bold usur-
patton and to invoke the popular inter-
.erenee. The right of suffrage is claim
ed as the badge of republican freedom,
not to be put on and taken off at the
capricious order of party administra
tions. Economy in public expendi-
lures is demanded as the first guaran-
tee of faithfulness in responsible pub
lie agents. The restricted rights of
the General Government are laid down
in careful conformity with the terms
of the original grant. Aud the most
generous hospitality is extended to
persons of foreign birth, who are to
become citizens under a government
in which they will have personal
ownership. 1t is refreshing, i'll the
huhbub of the cheap and low politics
of the hour, to be led by the recital of
principles like these to the contempla-
tion of the true purposes of republican
government and life.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05

To OUR ExcHANGEs.-Those of our exchan-
res to whom we send this issue are informed
that we will cheerfully pay the postage on
them, at the Postofice here, if they will con-
tinue to favor us with an exchange.
The Opelousas courier., 1873-07-05
n ID r &c E!yy

A S Tax Collector of the legal Government
IA of the State of Louisiana, in and for the
Parish OF st. Landry, hereby forbid and pre-
hbit any and all citizens thereof from paving
taxes to any one but myself and my deputies
at such time and at such places as may deem
necessary to designate.
JNO. l. GARDINER.
Tax Collector.
March 90 1879