davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02
Falling into q Wen.

We forget which one of the ancient
philosophers it was, who, with his eyes
turned up contemplating the stars, dur
ing his nightly walks in his Athenian
garden when Greece was the glory of the
world, fell into a ditch and had to be
helped out by his old servant wo-
man, who chided him for having
his head among the stars so that
he could not keep his legs out of a
ditch. We read it in Grecian or some
other history during our school boy days
"lang syne," and forgot it until a recent
circumstance here recalledit One gem
tleman was visiting another at some dis
lance from his home, and the two took
a walk in the field. They were convers-
ing as they walked side by side andth
visitor, as is constitutional with him,
was earnestly engaged, with his head
lifted on highlike the philosopher of old.
They marched straight up to a peach
treeful1 Of ripepeaches, which bent over
in front of them. The visitor was near
er the tree; and just as he arrived under
it, with his head still up, not among the
stars but among the peaches, and his
hand extendedtop pull one, o and behold!
he disappeared. His companionmoying
to the spot and hearing asp1utter below,
looked down and saw his guest at the
bottom of a we'll twenty feet deep. The
water was not deep in it, and there was
no danger of drowning. He said he had
not been hurt by the fall, but only his
clothes were wetandmuddied. 1t is true,
when he stretched forth his hand to take
| the fruit from the branches of the peach
tree, the branches did not simply with
draw, as they did from Tantalus, and
leave him tantalized but he was recip-
itated into a well at the risk of breaking
his neck and all the bones in his body.
In this he was served worse than Tan
talus; but no bones had been broken,
and he could stand the loss of the fruit.
But he could not get out of the well I'M
til his companion went to the house, a
considerable distance off and returned
with a rope with which to haul him up.
To console him during his absence, his
comforting host put his head to the
mouth of the well and told him that he
had been informed that there were "lOts
of snakes-water moccasins-in that
well, and for him not to let 'em bite him
till he got back" We will not attempt
to describe his feelings while in that big
snake hole. He was hauled out in due
time. 1t remains to be added, that this
same unfortunate lived at this place
some ten ortwelve years ago, and pulled
a out who had fallen into this
same we'll, which then had Il house nea,
if and was uSed.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02
The Louisiana immigration So
Cietyo
Roundabout in New Orleans Time:

Roundabout begs to call the attention
of this organization to the fact that a
very considerable inquiry is now being
made by persons who would like to try
country life, and exchange poverty here
for labor in the agricultural districts.
1t a hardly be contemplated i'll the
immigration scheme that our own pe0-
pie are to be excluded from it's benefits,
and, such being the fact, it would seem
that material exists in our very
midst Wherewith to inaugurate the ex-
pertinent of share labor, cooperative
labor, or any of the different forms I'M
der which the immigration Society pro-
poses to work.
The following letter may be taken as
a fair sample of the question continually
asked:
If I am not intrudIng on your valuable time,
| would like Some little information. / am very
DESTROYS of going to the country to farm, and
would like to buy Il place so that I could pay for
the same i'll yearly payments. / feel that the
longer 1 stay here sthe older 1 get, and I cannot
save anything, as it takes all | can make to live
on, and ! have often to go i'll debt for the neces-
stiles of life. You seem to be well posted, and
l hope, amongst your vast correspondence, you
may know OF some party willing to make such
arrangement. Best OF reference given.
l am, very respectfully, Us. c.
If the Immigration Company is pre-
pared to make any specific propositions,
it strikes Roundabout that the present
time is a good one. The field appears
to be open, and the day is rapidly ap-
preaching when those who wish to try
agriculture in 1874 should be making
their arrangements.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02

MORE GRAPEs.-This week Mr.. La
cey's buggy, from Mount Hope Nurse
ries, stopped at Office, and put out
a box of grapes and a box Of peaches.
Grapes and peaches never disgust us.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02

We bought some very good fodder
last Thursday, at SO per hundred bun
dies. How it was cured and kept from
getting wet, surpasses our c%omprehen-
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02

Too WET.-The parties who went
from this place, on fishing and hunting
excursions, to Darbonne and Bell
Cheney Springs, returned last Saturday
and Sunday. They report too much
rain for such excursions, and some of
them say they were wet from the day
they left here till after they returned.
RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!-We were absent
three weeks from July I'd, and saw only
one really hard rain during that time,
and considerable dust. Since returning
we have seer rain every day; and it
really seems that all the rain has been
"cornered" right about Opelousas.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02

We have received another big peach,
a little o than eight inches in cir
conference, and quality incorporation to
size. from Mrs. B. R. White ofthis town.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-08-02

No papers are due anyone on account
of having an advertisement in the pa
per; that vas discontinued long ago.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
The Murder of Mrs. Surratt-Whcre
the Responsibility Belongs.

To the Editors Of the Dispatch:
There seems to he Il strenuous effort now
bcin" made on the part of all concerned to
shift the responsibility Of the execution of
poor, innocent Mrs. Surratt, whose only
crime seemed TO have consisted in being an
indul@ent mother. The latest phase is q
scapegoat in tue person of Andrew johnson.
1t is highly probable that he is not entirely
blameless in the matter, but il he alone is
guilty, will some loyal friend tell us whose
ghost frightened to death that hoary old sim
ner Stanton, and give us some explanation
of the sudden deaths of several others con.
spicuously concerned who were loudest In
their inhuman cry for blood, if it was not
retribution Of 4 just God for their share in
the infamous transaction? 1t matters not
whether johnson, Stanton, Holt, or some
one else is directly responsible for her MUIR
der. Enough for Us to know that the afro
cious deed should cause every American to
blush for shame, and that the perpetrators
of the same were Radicals, urged on by
loyal, bowling Puritans Of the North.
The same party of punderers have waged
war upon defenceless old men, women, and
children, under the cover of Federal bayo-
nets, since the cessation Ofhostilities, in North
and South Carolina and almost every other
southern State. The same party are eager
to parpetrate similar outrges in Virginia if
they can persuade the people to let them in
power. Remember this, Virginians, and
LET the campaign besharp and decisive. Re-
member Hughes's Lynchburg harangue and
antcau eulusy, aud let every straisnt-
haired white man so to the polls and resent
The insults and siurs upon their manhood
and intelligence, emanating from this despi-
cable demagogue. "RoANokE.n
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02

MT LINEN LUsTREs at 12a and 1896
worth 20 and 2sc.;
pkRIsIENNE POPLINs at 12.c. yard;
STRIPED JAPANESE CLOTH. in great variety,
at Issc. yard;
ROBE JAPANESE CLOTH only 2oc. per yard'
DIAGONAL POPLINs, CSC. yard;
LACE-sTRIPE PoPLINs, in The new shades al
Csc. yard;
MrGN1oSETTE JAPANESE PoPLINs only SOC
yard;
TUssoRE sUITING-CLoT only IS and soc.
yard;
sILK-MIXED POPLINS at soc. yard;
BLACK SILKS at 81, sl.25. $3.50, s1.75, 80, ,s22''
s2.75, and 50 yard;
Only u few of those 6RENADINE ROBES at .
left: -. ..s.-
s1LK-sTRIpE GRENADINES at les, 1ss, and
|. CSC. yard; ~. ~
MIGNIoNETTE STRIPED GRENADINES al
20, 95, and 3oc.a yard;
Excellent FAST-COLOR LAWNS at l25c. q YARD
PLAIN and STRIPED WASH-POPLIN ut i5c Il
yard;
Excellent BLACK and WHTTE.STRIPEs SKIRT
ING ut l5c yard;
In fact, an excellent assortment OF 'DREes
GOODS at prices far below their value, can be had
Of LEVY BROTHERS,
1917 and 1919 Main street.
VICTORIA LAWN SUITS at 50. al 10
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
Our Western Connections.


On Friday last the master Of transporta-
ton TON Sharp and several other olhcsa's
of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
nassed up the Valley Of Virginia over the
line which has recently been leased by that
comnanv. Baltimore always has her eyes
open, as she ought to have them. She has
no idea of losing the trade Of that part OF
Virginia an. West Virginia lying along the
line of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad---
IL she can help it. For years greater por'
ton of Virginia, as her lines ran before the
war, traded with Baltimore than with kich.
mond. Baltimore still has the trade OF I'LL
the northern part OF West Virginia as wen
as that of the splendid counties OF JEFFERSON
and Berkeley on her eastern boundary, anu
counties like them in Virginia-name'y'
Frederick, Clarke, Rockingham, Shchan'
doah. and so on up to Augusta, though
Alexandria and Richmond divide the trade
If some Of these counties with Baltimore
This magnificent region of country is able OF
itself TO support a small city. Baltimore
we say. does not intend 10 lose the trade o.
that region, as the following reference by
the Baltimore Sun to the newly-leased rail-
road in the Valley shows:
"Undcr this arrangement the line can DC
much more satisfactorily, worked through
than heretofore. and when the twenty-five
miles of the Valley railroad now in course
of construction from Harrisonburg to Staun
ton is completed, as it is expected 10 be IL
December, the Baltimore and ONO Com
pany, working that line also, will have the
proper control of the trains through IRON
Stanton to Baltimore, to insure etllcienc!
and close connections with the chesapeake
and Ohio railroad at Staunton, and thence
/ to huntington, on the Ohio river" rs'r"
The route indicated by the San will be
shorter route from Cincinnati and Louisville
to Baltimore than that by her own great rail
road. 1t will also, of course, be shorter
route to Washington. There will conse
ouently be much travel over the western enc
of our Chesapeake and Ohio road, which
travel will be diverted hence to Baltimore
We have no word Of cc1surc for Baltimore
Let her Look to her own interests. But lc
not Richmond forget that the price OF lars'
trade, as we'll as OF liberty, is eternal yisi
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
Two Interesting Questions.

First. Mr.. HUGHES must come to the oooh'
IT will not do to shirk the question. ~.
must answer 1t: Did you, Mr.. HUGHES 'e'
Mr.. WATSON that you would NOT ru', a. .
candidate for Governor on ticket tnat nau
a negro's name upon it!
secondly, the Washington authorities must
II. the public know how II is that they a'io"
The official stamps Of the several departments
which cannot lawfully be used except IN the
public service, to be employed by the haol-
"a, leaders of Virginia instead OF postage
stamps of the proper kindf The attention
of the Washington Repubhca" is specially
called TO this matter. That journal reaGs
the Dispatch regularly, and if 1t shail
fail to notice this charge we shall be forced
to conclude that an investigating COM
mittee will be needed at the next session OF
congress. Such proceedings cannot ana VIII
not be allowed. The Conservatives OF VIZ
cinia do not intend that the money when the!
nav into the National TreaSury shall be EN-
ployed for the unhoy purpose OF putting
over them government of carpet-oaSSers'
scalawaas. and negroes. Let us repeat inc
charge which our Gordonsville correspondent
made in unmistakabe language, ana WHICH
General KEMrER, we are informed, Is aplc 10
prove to be true. After the RANKING
privilege had been abolished, last winter,
Congress appropriated nearly million Oh
dollars to pay for stamps to Ike used by the
J,,I k,orp-nnpnE trans
uniting through the mails letters upon OH
cial business and public documents. The
Postmastcr-G cneral thcrcupon had stamp
made for each department, differing from the
kind to be used by every other department,
and differing also from the kinds used
bv the general public. These Official
stamps, it is now charged, were lolha
,pop circular sent out by the leaders OF
the Radical party in Virginia. Now,
who is the guilty party: Who was 1t, III Il
word, that stole these official stamps MS
we understand it, the PostEmStcr-Gcncril
has instructed bis deputies to collect postage
rpoD all letters. circulars, or what not, thai
contain these stamps upon the outside thal
Give no evidence that they are official, or
entitled TO have such stamps upon them
This he did, not in consequence OF the I'M
lawful use of official stamps in Virginia. but
because they had been unlawfuly used IL
other States. 1t i, therefore, the duty OF
every postmaster TO sec that no improperly
prepaid letters are sent from or delivered
out Of his office.
1t is bad to have every Federal! ollicia
Using all his legitimate influence to defeat
the people of Virginia in their cndcavors &c
keep the State Government in the hands OF
those who have the intelligence, the proper
". and the virtue Of the community. Il
would he an intolerabIc outrage if the mo-
ncy of the Federal Government were en-
ploycd in so unjust aud wicked cause. Le
lis hear from the Administration. We have
promised not to Judge General GRANT harsh
ly but this promise does not bind lis to shut
our ewes TO ins,Itlcrablc wrongs.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02

"Extraord mary violation OF the postal
laws" Is what the Louisville Coa,ae''s cor
respondent al Washington calls the use made
by the Virginia Radical leaders of the official
stamps Of tue Federal Government. Let
General GRANT never hear the last Of it Until
he takes measures TO stop the fraud and to
punish the guilty authors Of it. Such 'ex-
fraordnary violations Of law" will hardly
be tolerated by the taxpayers Of any State.
WhHaa ALLEN, of 0hio,wil sound the alarm
tor tiEst stnte, Let us all make 1t hot for tile
hadicais who thus divert the money collected
OF Woodworking men into IN instrument for
saeGating 10 Office our bitterest enemies,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
1vrec1- Of ,he steamer Tronsides.

fSTlpclnl tcipSTiH W TIT i'@IsS''S
NORFOLK, VA, September 1.-lntormatlon
was received here this afternoon OF the loss
or the steamer Ironsides on Hog Island beach
Friday night. The steamer had landed pas
sepgers from Philadelphia at Cape May ana
was on her way to Baltimore when she went
ashore. She soon broke in two. NO one
was lost, and most Of the furniture saVeu.
The crew and some of the officers arrived
here on the steamer Banks this Z. NJ, anu
proceeded to Baltimore tonight.
The Radicals hold mass-meeting here TO-
morrow night-Hughes, Ramsdeli, Chano-
Ter. Platt. and Jenkins speak. The Con-
servatiyes will have joint discussion IL tl'e
Radicals agree.
Ramsdell and jenkins had discussion
with Goode and Starke at Princess Ahhe
Courthouse to-day.
Associated Press Telegraml
FORTRESS MONROE, September line
steamer Ironsides. belonging to the Potomac
Steamboat Company, which has been fnn-
ninr between Baltimore and Wilmington,
went ashore on Hog Island shoals last FRIDAY
NIGHT during thick easterly gale and ram
storm. and has gone to pieces. ner cl .,'
was taken off. Cobb Brothers saNeu Tue
furniture and tackle. Carter has gone 10
Norfolk to get wreckers to try to save the
engines and boilers. The lronsldes was a
side-wbeel iron steamer Of about l,ooo TONS
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
The letter of our friend who now both

The letter OF our friend who now both
dates his note on the Grove road and signs
his name to the same was thrown away, as
we stated several days ago; first, because it
came to us anonymously; and secondly, be-
cause our correspondent commented upon Il
state of facts which did not exist. We re-
neat that "B. r. j." did not mistake SER
want for the Earl of Liverpool, this name,
and that of Lord Blank and others, ought
to have enabled our correspondent to see
that y. r. j. was jolling,] nor make the other
plumbers which he charges upon himself
His letter was private letter, addressed to Il
friend of his in this city, and written in the
free.and-eaSy style which one friend may
properly employ in writing to another.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
Terrible Tragedy in Missouri.

ST. LOUIS, September IA special dis.
patch to the Republican from Setlalia. Mo..
gives an account of Il terrible tragedy WHICH
occurred at kniyhtly's station, on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas road, six miles west
of Sedalia, on Saturday last. 1t appears
that Knightly, who had been laboring under
mental arrangement for some time, killed or
caused the death of his sister Adelaide, aged
forty years, and his nephew, Louis Stobbs;
set fire to the house, and then killed himself.
The house occupied an isolated situation,
and when the neighbors reached it it was
mass Of ruins. The charred remains of
knightly were found near a window with
partly-burned shotgun at his feet, and the
bodies of his sister and nephew near the
front door, but so badly charred that it could
not be determined whether they had been
killed by knigbtly or were sulocated. The
coroner's jury Inclined to the latter opinion,
although the neghbors testified to having
heard three shots fired while the house was
burning.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02

THE TIcKBoRNE CLAlMANT.-The last tele-
grams from England contain the following
interesting information
"London, August 29.-ln the trial of the
T.chborne claimant to-day large number of
witnesses from Mapping testified that the
cliimant was not Arthur Orion. Much eN-
element was created in the court by the teS-
timony Of two witnesses, who swore that
they had seen orion and Castro together in
Australia, and they identified the claimant as
the person who went under the name OF
Castro"
This gives new interest to this remarkable
case. No wonder that Mr.. HoAR, of MasSa.
chusetts, dubbed BUTLER "the claimant"
CASTRO and BUTLER are the two men who
have committed the most stupendous OF
crimes against civilization, yet have brass
enough to face the world in defence Of their
claims to consideration.
BY the way, let Mr.. HUGHES take warning.
When he sets up a claim to be an L. L. ",
and the public find him in company with
politica! CAsTKos and ORToss, they may con-
clude that he, too, is bogus claimant.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
GI>AfSYlYaniar

NOMINATION OF DELEGATES TO THE LEGISLATURE.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, September IA
Conservative convention of the senatorial dis
trict composed of the counties of Stafford
spotsylYania, and Louisa, to-day held at
Spotsylvania courthouse, nominated Charles
Hcrndon unanimously on the first ballot for
reelection to the Virginia Senate. DR.. c. &.
Coleman, of Louisa, received very compi'-
mentary vote.
After the adjournment Of the district con-
ycntion county convention was held for
Spotsylvania to nominate the Conservative
candidate for the, House of Delegates. On
tae eighth ballot Major j. Horace Lacy re-
ceivod tue nomination.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
Gerrit Smith-a gain.

Commenting upon GEEEIT SMITH recent
declaration THAR no Judge ought to respect 4
constitution, the Lynchburg FngtHfan
says:
"Gcrrit Smith is not singular in his opin-
ions. for there are thousands like him, at the
North, who entertain the same views re-
SDcciin.c the Obligations OF the Constitution.
Their idea about an absolute and eycrla>t-
inc law a law higher than the Constitu-
tj0i,; which some Of them declared their
willingness TO spit upon was what
brought on the late war. And now they are
making great aio because Jefferson DaYIS
recently in'inatcd that the South would
never abandon the cause Of constitutional
liberty. for which it fought four years.
That. in substance. i what he said, and Ill
that he meant. 4 pretty set are they to be
pratinw about 'rebeiion,' when they never
were willing to be bound by the compact
and the letter or spirit of the Constitution
except when it suited them. Here is Il man
who served in Congress, and took solemn
oath TO support constitution which he ut
tcllv CONDEMNS and dcridcs, and wants 10
ildrc to regard. The fact that there were
so mary like him north OF Mason ana
Dxon's line inStigated the 'irrcprcssihle
conflict and dcIugcd the land with blood.
Let the responsibility rest where OF right
it belongs.'
We'll said. The northern people should
repent of their own sins before preaching to
Us of the South Ours are not Of the sort
the FirTnian complains of. We were al
WAYS faithful to our constitutional obiga-
tons as long as we remained i'll the Union.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-09-02
The New York Contra, Railroad Bend
EnrrnripS.

New YORK, September 1.--Leonard Brown,
who was arrested on Saturday for cndeavor-
inc to procure negotiations of$30, 900 worth
of forged New York Central Railroad bonds,
was arraigncd at the Toombs Police Court
this afternoon. Wooster Sherman said he
received bonds from Brown to negotiate,
and only knew Brown from the Friday pre-
yious. Mr. IIolbrook, Of the tirm of Eddy
& Co.. pronounced bond No. 1Ol, submitted
t. him, All undoubtcd forgery.
The examination Of Brown adjourned till
tomorrow.
James W. Johnson was arrested yesterday.
having in his possession four LOCO forged
bonds Of the Buffalo, New York. and Erie
railroad. Ii was subsequently ascertaineG
where Johnson had disposed OF $4,000 III
the same bonds. The bonds were so adj
mirably executed that they were pronounced
genuine at several Of the banks, the stock
Exchange, and 1T the office of the Erie COM
pany. Even the printer Of the original was
deceived.
The discovery OF the forged bonds has
broken up Il conspiracy formed to launch
upon the market great number OF the
bonds and frightened away the conSpiraors.
Williamson, who attempted to negotiate Il
forged New York Central bond Saturday, Is
believed to be one of the men who escaped.