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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

W. see that Proctor & CANDLES Ex-
ira Olive Soap is becoming very popular
in our town, it's quality we know is su-
perior, aud being nicely %perfumed we
are not surprised that consumers prefer
it, and that it has a large sale.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

AHoTEL.-A Mr.. Bailey, anew-comer,
is engaged this week, we observe, in
furnishing the old Eagle Hotel, just OPP
posite the Courthouse. We presume it
will be open for the public shortly.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

"Josie" will have to furnish us with
her real name (not for publication be-
fore we can publishhe her communication.
AS it is short, we are willing to insert
it for her qualification but it is "a rule
of printing offices that the name of the
writer of a communication accom-
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

DISTRICT COURT.-The adjourned ses-
sion of the court opened last Monday
and adjourned from day to day until
Thursday, when it adjourned till next
Monday. Cause. sickness of the judge.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

Notwithstanding /" these hard times"
and this very warm weather, we hear
of numerous marriages. Three couples
were married in this neighborhood this
week, and we hear of many others on
the tapis. q
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

During the absence Of the proprietor
of this paper, Mr.. John Mccormick,
foreman, is authorized to act as his
agent.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

Our old friend Louis Desbrest, as will
be seer from his advertisement, is in
the warehouse business at Barry's Land
ing.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28
LOCAL ITEMS.

Mr.. Frank Deem advertises two
strayed or stolen horses, and offers
twenty dollars for their recovery.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

MONEY misunderstood weeks ago,
q nomadic gentleman of color, mailing
from about New Iberia, which his name
we did not learn, applied for employ
ment on a plantation in Bellevue, and
was employed. Last Monday he COM
planned of being sick, and did not go to
the field to work. That night he disap-
peared, and it was thought that he sim
ply became tired of labor these warm
days, and had resumed his wanderings.
In the lower story of the dwelling on
this plantation was a room, occupied by
a young gentleman belonging to the
family in this room he had a trunk,
which was locked and the key hung up
on a nail in the room, but thereon was
not locked and in this trunk was forty
two dollars in money. After the depart
ure Of the wanderer, the trunk was still
locked and the key hanging in it's usual
place, but the money had disappeared.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

HUMAN FIGUREs.-There are on the
globe 1888, 900, 900 souls of which $780,
100000 are Caucasians; 522, 900, 900 are
MOngolians; 8 10000, 900 are Philippians;
176,O0O,0N are Malayans; 100000 are
IndO-AmeriCans. There are 8,G42 Ian
guages spoken, and 1000 religions. The
yearly mortality of the globe is 42,043,-
600 persons. That is at the rate of 115,-
200 per day, $500 per hour, so per min
ute. Among 10,000persOns, one arrives
at the age Oh 100; one in 500 attains the
age of 80; one in 100 to the age of 70. In
100 persons, 95 marry. In numbers, the
two sexes are very nearly equal in the
United States: Males, 19,4993, sos; fe-
males, 19,064,806; but the distribution is
not even. The greatest excess Of males
isfoundin Idaho-12,1 1874 to 1915 females;
MOntana-16,7n to 1894; Wyoming-7,-
219 to 1899; and Nevada-32, $40 to 1O,-
112. Females are in excess in Alabama
sos, 254tO 488, 1888; District Of Columbia.
69,508 to 62,192; Georgia-6O5, 154 to SIS
$50; LOuisiana-364, 75Oto 1862, 1855; Maine
-313,812 to 313,103; Maryland-395 $40 to
384,984 Observation-Disclosures to 703,-
no; New Hampshire-162, $50 to 155, $40 ;
New Jersey-456,42 to 4 1872; New
YOrk-2,219,530 TO 2,162,229 and Penn
sylvania-1,76 1853, 452 tot ,758,499. Virginia,
Tennessee, both CarOlinas, and Rhode
Island show a like excess Of female pop.
u~lation. In Utah there are more males
than females.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

When men become relieved of their
absurd fears respecting dying, they will
grow measurably free of their tenacity
for Over-much life. just one conviction
when reached by the popular mind will
cure both which is, that the individual
condition of all who die is improved bv
the change. It must not be supposed
from this that the effects of sin are not
terrible but as in bodily sickness, we
are ever inspired with the hope of re-
cOvery, so when we encounter the con
sequences of error in the better life, the
sphere of penalty. and pain is illumi-
mated with the light of an eternal day,
and by the precious hopes that dawn
with its breaking. These, added to the
sense that death is progress, and the
discovery that life is real, make death,
beyond comparison a change of advan-
tage over all former conditions, whether
of wealth or Indulgence, grief OF joy.
One of the wants of the world is an
unquestioning reliance ON the exclusive
goodness of God; complete emancipa-
ton from ideas beg0tten of our human
frailties-such as anger OF reYengeful-
ness as qualities of deity. There is law
which governs; it cannot be violated or
disregarded without penalty. Tt is "a
well to call It Gods will, for his divine
perfection would not admit of q SUI
preme will less perfect or harmonious
than supreme law.-LN n. 0. Times.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF TExAs-A
Discussed REsIDENT.-We present the
subjoined extract of a letter from a gen
tleman in Texas to a friend in this city:
GA curse seems to hang over the State
and all that is in it. The winds are
worse than those of Cane Horn or than
you can conceive of. the insects are in
millions, and of all singing, biting, vi
cious varieties. Worms are in all things
for food and drink. Snakes, scorpions,
lizards, tarantulas, are in every path.
Flies take from you all pleasures of eat
ing. Hot and cold to a distressing de-
gree that New Orleans knows n~OtpTevail
almost at the same time. The people
are rougher than the horses and cattle
which are rOugher than the devil, and
they have lied so in praising Texas and
it's climate that they can tell the truth
about nothing. These and q thousand
other evils determine me to quit the
State.n
Louisiana presents ecidedadvantages
Of soil and climate over. any part of the
State of Texas, and if small farms can
be had here unreasonable prices, induce
ments ale held out to actual settlers
that cannot be offered in any other Sec
ton of the UniOn.HCrescent City.
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- -@SA0 w.
two sides to everything, and sometimes
one sideis not all right nor the other
all wrong. We look at matters differ
emily probably from some others.
When we hear people, religious or
otherwise, abusing coffee houses and
coffee house keepers, because their
whiskey drinking relatives get drunk
there on the wlliskey dealt out to them
by said keepers, it naturally occurs to
as thatf the whiskey drinkers would
keep away from them they would die
out for want Of patronage. They exist
because they are patronized, and the
patrons and those who raise up such
patrons are chiefly TO blame. As well
might they blame God for letting hell
exist because some people will travel
the broad road which leads thereto.
And IN regard to the Town Council: let
it he blamed for its own sins, but not
for those Of the entire corporation.
The town council say they do all. the
ditching that can be done with the
taxes levied and collected; but small
as the tax is, it is grnmbled at. AS for
filth in the bitches, there wouh be none
lift was not thrown there cit Of indi-
yiduals yards. The town cannot af-
ford to keep two or three carts, horses
and men employed to go round every
day and haul away the filth thrown
from the yards into the streets; and to
avoid this, an ordinance, which we re-
publish thisWeek, Waspassedbythetow
council as far back as June, 1866, fning
anyone who INSTRUCTED the streets or
bitches with filth, ETC.. thrown from
their premises, and for not keeping the
sidewalks and bitches, id front Of their
premises. clean and open. This is, and
has been for eve years the Ian, and
the town council is aud has been to
blame for not having that law enforced.
The filth does not originate in the
streets, but il the yards and lots and
it is d positive violation of Law to throw
it iii the streets. The streets, ct tile
time we write this, are dry and clean
almost everywhere, except where filth
has been thrown OF deposited from the
yards, etc. Let the law be enforced and
the entire town win be clean. The
town council, We repeat, are to blame
for not having the law enforced. After
a few of us have been fined for non.
compliance, ne viii hear no nor com
plants about dirty streets. Back premi
ses ought to be inspected as well as ths
streets IN front thereof. Now that Tho
law Is repablished, ne hope the council
win move in the matter Of its enforce.
ment.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

A writer on physiogn0my sagely says:
"a human face without a nose doesn't
amount to much, whereupOn Mr.. Jones
observed that O human nose without n
face doesn't amount to much either.0
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The Press Convention.

Mr.. Annis, the able editor and ener-
getic publisher Of the Baton-Rouge Ga
Zette-COmet, has issued call fora meet
ing of publishers of newspapers through
out the State Of Louisiana, to be held in
that city, on Friday, the 4th day Of July.
The Convention will have for its object
the "refOrm (the suppression it should
be- of certain alb Uses practlced upon
publishers by neWspaperand advertising
agents." and it is agreed by the signers
to the call that the proceedings of this
Convention shall be of a business nature
only, and that all questions of politics
shall be ignored" After mature rehec-
ton we have authorised the initiatOr of
this movement, Mr.. Annis, to add our
name to the call which, we regret to see,
bears the ame of but few of those pub
fishers who depend strictly on Legitimate
commercial advertising for their sup
port. While we fear that the Conven-
ton will fall short of the aim which it is
desirable to attain, we trust that some
feasible plan will be presented which
may make it fruitful with good results,
and if it is possible for us to attend the
Convention, we shall. take pleasure to
lend our efforts to that end.
But laying aside all hope of realizing
uHy pCCltLIdIF UCIACAIUS LIOL1 UIIC plUjSCG-
ed Convention, there is another object
which should draw editors and publish
ers together. Belonging to one frater-
nifty, all pursuing the same avOcatiOn-
the same work to gain their livelihood
and often, invisibly, coming in contact
i'll editorial controversies, at times pleas
ant and good natured, and at others,
(too often the case) bitter and disagree
able-We are of the opinion that all ed
itOrs should meet for the sake of ac-
Quaintance and with a view to cultivate
that acquaintance and establish closer,
friendlier. relations with one and the
other. Let them meet, not as Rep1b-
licans and Democrats, but as editOrs-as
men. By all means politics must be ig-
nOred. 1t is not the mission of the editor
to talk politics, but to write concerning
them, that is if he he inclined that way,
To discuss all questions coolly and with
practical result, use the pen. A heated
wOrdy discussion is often followed by
blows without Adhesion Of the question.
For once, let all the knights of the quill
and scissors meet in a fraternal spirit
and furnish an illustration of the pre-
cept handed us by Richelieu-"T The pen
is mightier than the sWOrd.O
We sincerelyhope that the Convention
will be a success in every particular.
Port Vincent Triune.
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It was the opinion of an Illinois young
ster, expressed in a composition, that an
OK toes not taste as good as an oyster,
but it runs faster,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

CROPS n SUGGESTIONS.-IhG con-
slant and unprecedented rains that have
fallen for nearly two months past, have
seriously damaged the prospects of the
crops in this section of the country. Dus
ring this time, farming operations have
been almost entirely suspended and grass
and weeds have foUuiShed with more
than usual l~uXuriance. MuChOf thecOrn
is entirely lost and even under the most
favorable circumstances and the devO-
ting of much attention andlabOr, we es-
innate the probable yield of cotton and
corn, at less than One-half of what they
might have been. Vegetables and other
products have suffered to a proportion
ate extent.
The season has been very discOuraging
and veXatiOuS to cultivatOrs of the soil
and we synpathize with them. The in
telligent and courageous farmer may
avert serious embarrassment, by turning
his attention to other and seasOnable
crops. When these rains cease, corr
might be planted, which would probably
make forage, if nOthingmore. Peas and
sweet potatoes could be made in abund-
ance. Any quantity of hay can be Sc
cured, but it should be moved at the
proper time and cured and preserved in
the proper manner. Such hay mixed
with peas, would make in excellent for
age and a good substitute for corn. In
a word, wise and frugal management
and timely and judiciOus preparations
for the next crop, will lessen any result
ing embarrassment and inspire conf
dence.-[ Lafayette Advertiser, June 81.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-06-28

josh Billings has written some sense
and much nonsense, but somehow has
a wonderful faculty of mixing the two
together as though he did not know the
difference. But there is no question as
to which category the following cOgi-
tation belongs: eve laff at sheep be-
all the rest follow, however ridikilus it
may be; and I suppose sheep laff when
they see us doing The VerY same thinn y
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THE VALUE OF TIME.-Hang this in
your library, parlor, Office, store, shop,
or some other place where it viii be
seen SNhat does it matter if we lose
a few minutes in a dayT Answer.
Timetable: days in a year, 313;
working hours in q daY, ST.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-10
THE IOWA VOTER.
Navigation M the ortfcs Cd
the wfs~testrrt.

The outlet of tae Mississippi b.
slwavs he4n s7rcr of trorslae srae
expense to 81 engaged il fhs rs'Fs
neree az Naw Orleans. The onl
.pr.4f obstacle which eithe- cannot i's
removed or VIII rat stzv reFaovtss I
,ht. bar - Pass Al's1aro The rod
md the shifting sands frefa asssF'f
soon fli in and gse,fras.ze Tie f'sse'
i surt inapr0vem sntas may ~ fsifssie
ety expensive dredging. = 'an 90
overcoming thf officially Which :
regarded a. feasible il ssgs ra'iasiT8e-
-iUn of the For, ~. phil3p cara. f5E
which 4 new out}es to the gull may
,e obtained. The New Orleans
gTzaas urges this project upon Esui'ilc
4tientiDn IN the Interests 81 tire Mis-
-s-sippi VALLEY, 81 FeI. IS 81 every
-ilip-oBrer whose vessel trades q
me asississipI,. Tht necessity f5r 4
telier outlet FROM the 8lississi pg,i j.
regarded a. a national ono, agl the
dsrnal in question considers il siis-
Taditaigle r. Z great eouBirE and So
il-powerfal nation b have hps nlii-
iprs 90 dollars worth o. property IT.
hifs- and products enlarged Tor
.geeiss =. . sssssSas tsisie case about "a month
sgo. Toy bar for tire existence 81
which there Yves 10 sensible reason,
- il might have iaeen removed
DveF thirty steamships 81 large ca
,tacity are nov trading between New
,rleans aud Europe, representing an
aggregate amount Of entrance and
clearance Of So, 900 tons. bot the free
development of the business and
commerce o. tire port cannot proper
s. it carried on at long a. vessels are
liable, even at long intervals, to be
detained on the bar for weeks. The
Iaaes concludes with the following
.a0pefni anticipalons:
When the bar difficulty Il efTectu-
ally removed by the proposed Fort
-. Pulp Canal, New Orleans will
inter- gn new ea-eer Of c0Is~riercial
prosperity, and will become nor on
~ the great importing city for the
toautry. but Il great importing mart
or the valley % the Mississippi. ~
self - point OF entrance for the
rr,tf wave Or European emigration
~ah.h j. commencing 10 sweep over
.exa@ and tie western Territories,
.ld ~ exit for tht large and iEcreas.
~ number III travellers who anuu-
.4ty seek the shores Of Europe on
'ul~~iODs n pleasure or business > ?
steamships and the Fort 1T. Philip
anal arc essential 20 our commercial
redemption. May they both hogr-
"a,
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-10
projects have been feebIy initiated

projects have been feebly initiated
hy the southern Democracy. We
trust that the southern people viii
give their dishonest leaders perfect
overthrow. The only safe policy for
the era 5arassed states q. the South is
CO deserve general confidence by can
dor and honesty. They should place
before the.pi,biic IN exac statement
OF their debts, their resources, and
their measures Of internal improve
merit. The most extravagant ac-
counts have been circulated Of the
aIn0ant Of their Indebtedness. 1t
was asserted by Mr.. Schnrz or his col
leagues that the debt Of Georgia, for
example, was more than 81, 100000 !;
il was shown by recent examination
TO be less than sl5,0G0,O00. Each
State, therefore, should remove all
doubt by giving to tho public a full
statement Of its liabilities. 1t
should select its most trusted citizens,
or, perhaps, financial agents from
abroad. TO calculate its debt and to
estimate the value Of its possessions
and its prospects. In this way we
believe that it might be easily shown
that the liabilities even Of North and
South Carolina are small compared
10 their natural resources that what
they most need is foreign aid to
bring into use their various pro-
ducts; that Charleston, with the help
of northern capital and skill, may be
readily made ilourishing seaport,
and Wilmington open the way to the
renovation Of North Carolina. Com.
mon schools and railways, immigra-
ton and foreign trade, shun the
ports where Reputation is practiced,
and the surest method to cover the
South with lasting decay would be
for its own politicians to destroy its
credit. With honesty, economy,
and strict Republicanism the south
ern States may easily pay all their
debts, develop their neglected wealth.
and attain a position of ease and af-
fuence such as they have never
known before.--LIdrpcr'S Weekly.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-10
Original Notice.

To REUBEN JEwETT AND LYDIA L..
JEwETT:
You and each of you are hereby no.
titled that there Is now on file in the
office of the Clerk of the District Court
of the State of Iowa, in and for the
county of Marion, petition of james
Copeland, asking the said court by u
decree to compel you to make con-
veyance to him of fifty (50) acres off of
the east portion of the east half of the
southwest quarter Of section No. thir-
ty-one (31), in township No. seventy
five t75) north of range No. eighteen
(lS), west of the 9Th y. NJ, situated In
Marion county and State OF Iowa, to
correct the title and grant the title to
said land, made defective by mistak e
in the description, and correct the
mistake in deed made by You to said
land, to said James Copeland, dated
dated March IA. 1858.
And now, unless you appear thereto
and defend ON or before noon Of the
second day of the September term, A.
ID. 1878, Of said court, which term will
commence on the LIST day Of Septem-
Der, A. ID. 1873, default will be en-
tered against you, and decree render
ed thereon as praped for in said petit
ton. A. b. MILLER,
(3-6) Plaintiffs Attorney.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-10

We notice with regret that pro-
ject Of Reputation Is pressed In
North Carolina and several other
southern states. That policy SO IA
tai 70 the prosperity Of the whole
South should even be mentioned
with favor is a most unhappy circum-
stance. The life Of nations and COM
munities IL their reputation for hon
esty. All the railroad enterprises,
the public works, the mines, the lev
ees, and the canals Of the South must
depend for their completion and
their success upon foreign capital,
and the first step toward reputation
in any State will at once close to it
all the avenues Of credit. If q COM
munity Is dishonest all its members
will be held to be equally SO. If
North Carolina refuses to pay it's
creditors, 1t will receive blow from
which IL can never recover. Its land
VIII at once sink III value, its public
improvements stop, and general
disaster fall upon It's people, to which
the burden Of it's debt will seem
slight and insignificant.
Five years ago a portion of the
Democratic party joined to their dis
loyal leanings n plan for repudiating
the national debt. They were sus-
tanned by their southern allies, but
received from the people 80 signal a
rebuke In the election of 1868
that they never ventured again to
suggest the dishonest policy. They
had seemed rs anxious to destroy the
good name Of the country as they
once were to overthrow its govern.
inent, and they fell In both attempts
before The rage Of the intelligent ma
lJority. II seems that their immoral
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-10
Original Notice.
TO WILLIAM ELLIS AND JERUsHA NJ.
ELLIS:

TO WILLIAM ELLIS AND JERUSHA III.
ELLIS:
You and each of you are hereby no.
tilted that there is now on file in the
office Of the Clerk of the District court
of the State OF Iowa in and for Marion
comfy, Il petition Of Admiral Il. Mil
Ter, asking said court by decree
thereof to compel you to make con-
veyance to him OF the south half OF the
southwest quarter of section thirty
four (34) in township seventy-six (7G)
north of range nineteen (15) west Of
the 9TH J.. NJ. containing eighty 1907
acres more or less, situated in Marion
county and State Of Iowa, to correct Il
mistake in deed to said Admiral Il.
Miller, made on the 18th day of Feb
ruary A. ID. 1859 by you.
And now unless you appear thereto,
and defend on or before noon of the
second day of the September term, A.
-. 1878, Of said court, which term will
commence on the lst day of Septem-
Der, A. ID. 1873, default will be en-
tered against you, and decree render
ed thereon as prayed for in said petit
ton. a. Is. MILLER,
$50 Plaintiff