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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-01-18
ouTntm 81 Febrffage.

It is dOubtfa1letner the aboriginal
inhabitants oEu, Bolivia and Eeua-
| dor were aeaWed with the virtues of
the cinchona Mt as a febrifuge. 1t
seems probahneVeTtheiess, that the
Indians Of p S5O miles south OF
Peru, we're al OF the qualities of the
bark. for tbeas use was first made
known to ppeans. 1t was forty
years after Specification of Peru,
however. befany communication of
the remedialcret was made to the
Spaniards. sph de JusSieu reports
that in 1000 suit, who had q fever at
Malacotas, wlred by Peruvian bark.
In 1888. the ptess Ana, of ChinchOn,
was suferinTIom tert1an fever and
ague at Lim8hlthef q had accom-
paniee the VOy, her husband. The
CorregidOr pOxa, Don Juan, Lopez
de Canizarefnt a parcel Of powdered
quinouina b to her physician, Juan
de Vega. aring him that it was a
sovereign 4 infallible remedy for
"tertiaH." was administered to the
Countess, was SO years of age, and
effected cplete cure. This Countess,
returning Il her husband to Spain in
1910, bro1sHith her a quantity of the
healing bar Hence, it was sometimes
called "Cdess' Bark" and Countess
Powder" r. famous cure induced
Linnaus. i after, to name the whole
of dine-bearing trees, in her
honor U,9tG. By modern writer's
the first hasually been dropped, and
the word now almost Invariably
spelled inst way, instead Of the more
etymologi UnchORG. The Jesuits
afterwardlde great and effective use
of it in Fr missionary expeditions,
and it wa ludicrOus result of their
patronageat it's use should have been
for a lonane opposed by the Protest
ants and 5ored by Catholics. In 1879
Louis Thought the secret of prepar-
inc uuindla from Sir Robert Tabor,
an Englisloctor, for 1000 louis-d'or, a
large pelDn, and a title. Under the
Grand March it was used at dessert,
mingledath Spanish wine. The de-
Law of discovery until the seventeenth
centuryB probably lost to the world
numbers valuable lives. Had Alex
ander THREAT, who died of common
remitteDfever in Babylon, been ac-
quaintefith cinchona bark, his death
would he been averted and the par
tition ope Macedonian Empire indefi-
nitely nponed. Oliver Cromwell was
carried 10y an ague, which the adj
ministron of quinine would easily
have eed. The bigotry of medical
scienceEen a~fterlts efficacy was known
and pred, fol q long time retarded its
dissertation. In 1926 La FOntaine, al
the inslce OF a lady who owed hel
life to. the Countess of Bouillon, COM
posed poem in two cantos to celebrate
it's vires; but the remarkable beauty
of theaVes of the cinchona and thu
deliciS fragrance of it's flowers, with
allusis to which he might have
adorn1 his verses, were still unknown
in Eupe.-[LippincOtt's Magazine.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-01-18

MEN AND WoMEN.-Tn the order of
nature there is believed to be an equal
number of the two sexes, taking the
world at large, but the fighting pro-
pensities of man tends to destroy an
even. balance, so that in all countries
in these latter days females largely out
number the brotherhood, Civilization,
with It's Christianizing influences has
not yet corrected the disparity, and so
long as war, commerce andthe demands
of the world for male labor exist, to
the extent in which they are now en-
ployed in mining, railroading, digging
coal and salt, to the exclusion Of fe-
males, woman will be more numerous
than ever. The late census of Great
Britain revealed the alarming fact that
there were $4,000 maiden ladies in the
kindom above 40 years OF age. There
were 40 ,e25 single women between 90
and 40, and 1,413,912 bachelors of the
same age. In all the cities Of thiscOun-
| try the women far exceed the male pop
ulation. IN New England there areWo-
men enough to take government into
their own hands were they to vote
There are between thirty and forty
thousand more women in the city Of
New York-s0 says o statistican-thaI
males.
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HEIWoMANLY INsTINCT.-"That's
the wlan that stole my muff,n screamed
a ladsas she rushed from a Fourth
s~treettore, wildly gesticulating, aud
pointg to another who had lust pre-
cedeaer exit. "Stop herr
TlIady pointed out did not wait to
be "ppped," but halted at once.
"Dyou say this is your muff?" she
"eeourse 1 do, and you know it."
CIT it is nOt.n
els, and l will swear to it among a
thound. Return it to me or I shall
call policeman"
AFowd was gathering rapidly, for
the Sarge was made i'll q loud tone,
inditing fight. The lady in posses
sionppeared quite undetermined as to
the proper course, and her INDIGESTION
wasecisiVe in convincing the specta-
tor9f her guilt.
"55can prove to yOu-" she began.
''sOu can prove nothing shouted
lad5No. 1 ;"you're q thief and as
JBt then she was interrupted by a
hatAss youth who had forced his way
th1llgh the throng.
"aerhaps this is your muff?n said he.
"Nhere dye find it9n
EDn the floor near where you were
~stanling.n
declare-who'd although two
MUS could bemade so nearalike. Yes
it'smine certain - and then the crowd
which was not really composed of the
bea citizens, hooted her as she deserved
Perhaps this incidental a q moral.-EFat
Contributors Saturday Night.
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nRY1NG WITH THE FEET 70 THE
EAr.-Chamber's Encyclopedia has the
1oEsWing explanation Of the custom of
buISng with the feet to the east:
IL custom of generating the east
was erpetuated by the early Christian
churA from various circumstances
men1Aned in the record. tt was said
that sAArist had been placed in the tomb
with h feet toward the east, and at the
Day oiJudgment he should come from
the edward in the heavens. From
these .vsious circumstances, the build
ing OF q arches with the elancel to the
east, bOsing to the east on uttering the
name O. Jesus and burying with the
feet 70 81 east were introduced as Gus
toms IN tn church. 1t is q curious In
stance OF Ne i~nveteracy of popular Gus
tom, that Scotland, where everything
saEorea I alcient usages were set aside
as Poplsh the refOTmers, the prac-
uee OF huryag with feet to the east was
maintained the churcbyards, nor is it
uncommon ill to set down churches
with Q scrnlalous regard to east and
west. IN m0ssern cemeteriesin England
and Scotland, no attention appears to
De pa1d 10 the ma punctillO, the nature
OF the ground lone being considered in
the disposition a graves.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-01-18

OUR DISTRICT CouRT-Was opened,
pursuant to adjournment last Monday,
Ills Homer j.. y. Morgan, District Judge,
presiding. The Clerks desk was occu-
pied BY cur new and efficient Clerk, w.
al. Robertson, ably assisted by deputy
&. p. Veazie. The Grand jury was
daly empanelled and sworn, and re-
eeived from our new judge an able and
comprehensive charge, which we learn
elected the emphatic approval of the
members of the bar. We regret that
ire have but space to notice that por-
ton DC ii relating to the barbarous
practice of carrying concealed weapons;
8 practice which under the repeated
and eloquent denunciations Of Judge
John q. King, Judge Morgan's prede-
eessos. has been sensibly abated in this
parish, and win, we trust, be 0 n
tirely abandoned. On this point Judge
Morgan said in substance that he could
not too earnestly impress upon the
Grand Jury the duty and The necessity
of giving their special attention 10 the
provisions of tile law against carrying
concealed weapons. He observed ii
was undesirable that the frequency of
honicides was dne mainly to violations
of this laws that with the knife and
pistol ready TO hand, tho slightest all
tercation becomes TOO often i deadly
conflict whereas LII these Weapons were
temporarily ont of reach, passion would
have time to cool, md reason could re-
sumo It's sway before serious conse-
81 could result. He condemned
Gre habit or practice referred 10 as In
consistent with the duties Of peaceahle
and laW-ahiding citizens, ruinous to
our best interests. and i disgrace to our
civilization, and reminded the jury that
e should 81 She earnest ami eoilstanf
endeavor Oh every good citizen to dis
courage and condemn II.
tits generally remarked that Judge
Morgan has made an excellent begin
ming Of his iudicial career.
Tie trial of criminal cases win be-
Gin next Monday, and will probably Oc-.
enpy the court for three weeks.
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The Past.
II PasSato, E Passato, E 9,er ,semarc

II PaSsoto, E PassatO, E per Sempre.
The Past is past! with mary a hopeful morrow.
It's errors and its good works live with God:
Inc agony is DER OF joy or sorrow;
inc MOWERS lie dead along the path We trOd.
The Past is past! in solemn silence taking
Alike the sunny and the rainy day,
On the hfe-altar of the fond heart breaking
Full many an idol built on feet Of clay.
The Past is past in certain still rotation.
DeaCening and lOOsening, as it passes by,
Eaeh nope that bounds in glad authorization.
Each vivid passion and each tender tie.
The Past is past! and our young selves departed
Upon the flashing whirl Of It's swift years:
Its lessons leave us sadder, stronger hearted,
More slow to live, less pr0digal of tears.
The Pastis past! and knOWledgetau suspicfon
To dim the future with its foul, cold shine:
For many base and dark thing finds admission
Amid the wisdom learnt from life and time.
The Past is past! and in that twilight valley
Dwell slow repentance and the vain regret.
Fears for the future from those shadows sally
And hang around the path before MS yet.
The Past is past! and oh! how few depIOPe il.
Or would relieve their life had they the power-
Yet Nature sometimes weakly weepeth DER it.
At memory of some wrong, or happier hour,
The Past is past! in faith and patience taking
Its lessons, let MS lay them on our hearts;
The chains atten1ated links are breaking,
Be earnest! use the Present ere it parts.
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Am Aim.

Give me a man with an aim,
Whatever that aim may be,
whether it's wealth, or whether it's fame,
1t matters not to me.
Let MN walk in the path of right,
And Keep his aim in sight,
And work and pray in faith alWay
With his eye on the glittering height.
Give me o man who says,
-" will do 50 something well,
And make the tleeting days,
A story of labor telI.'
Though the aim he has be small,
u is hetteF than none at all;
WIN something to do the whole year through.
He VIII not stumble or fall.
But Satan weaves o snare
For the feet of those who stray
With never u thought or a care
where the path may lead away.
The man who has no aim,
Not only leaves no name ...
Wnen this life Is dOne, but ten to one,
lie leaves @ record of shame.
Givem me a man whose heart
Is filled with ambitions fire:
Who sets his mark in the start.
AND Keeps moving it higher and higher,
Better to die III the strife,
Il hands with labor rife,
Than to glide with the stream in an idle dream
And live q puTp0seless life.
Better to strive and clint
And never reach the goal,
IMAM TO drift along with time
An a1mless, worthless soul,
Ay, better to climb and fall,
Or SOW, though the yield he small,
THAI to throw way day after day,
ana never strive at all.
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ARoMAN CANDLENCHURCH.-Quite
a sensation was created among O small
assembly at the Paris Catholic church
willie getting ready for High Mass
Christmas morning. On Christmas eve
a Catholic lady entered Joe Rion's con-
dictionary and called for a Roman can
die, having heard of such things, but
having no idea they were in any way
connected with pyroteehnics. One of
the largest was selected, and the lady
left with her purchase, nothing was
thought of it until the lady again en-
tered the confectionery in a high state
ofexcitement demanding the return of
her money, which Joe had to "fork
oyer.n 1t appears the lady wanted a
large candle, such as is used about the
altar during service, and when they
were lit, pop! bang! whizz! went the
Roman candle, filling the church with
smoke and sparks, until the twelve loads
vereexpended, causinga reathuttering
mong those present. It is strongly
Inspected that some of the little boy as
stants knew what it was, but rather
! tan spoil a little sport kept silent.
He lady will knoW what sort of q can
g not to call for next time.-[Paris
hntIekian,
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Aar0M's Rod.
A HEBREW

"
When Moses, in the INDIAN land,
Loved ZiphOrah, and sought her hand,
OF JethrO, priest of God,
He lei him to his garden fair,
IL showed the prophet, growing there
The famous Zaphir-rod;
And to the princely Hebrew told
How Adam, in the days of old,
EXiled from Eden's bowers,
Had this sole relic, given him,
\ boon from plying Cherubim,
OF that bright land of flowers;
That, handed down from sire to son,
AS centuries their course had run,
1t came to Jacob wise,
Who unto the Egyptian Court
With Jealous care, for Joseph brought
This gift OF Paradise.
At JOSeplI's death it CHANGED to be
Within the royal treasury,
And on the indian Priest,
Jethr0, his Counsellor, the King,
Bestowed, as if Il trifiing thing,
The treasure of the East.
And here it grows" the old man said.
And nc who seeks to win the maid
Must pluck it from its place;
The youths of INDIAN strive in vain,
The deep fixed roots their hold maintain.
And none has yet found grace"
The listening prophet, musing, stood.
Gazing upon the sacred wood,
When finely carved thereon,
-Four mystic characters he traced,
Which ages long had near ctfaced,
The REORGANIZATION!
That mighty word to him alone
or living man was truly known,
Aud, by its mystic power,
He plucked the rod and won his bride.
with W0ndrous gifts OF grace beside,
In that prophetic hour.
And, many a mighty deed was done
Before fair Canaan was won
F0r Israel by their God.
Who kept them with His Holy Hand
And led them to the promised Land
PrOtcctedb by His Rod.
STEPHEN BERRY
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The epizootic has about finished with
the horse-fesh here, and is taking hold
on human-fesh. It prevails particular
ly in the schools, we are informed.
When one boy takes it, the others fol-
low suit rapidly. It deprives them of
the ability to study right off, and the
only thing they can do is to play mar
bles and such gentle exercise as that.
Playing marbles does not aggrayate
the disease, but rather affords relief.
Going to the circus is also good for it.
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JAN BIRDs.-These birds are gene
rally considered by ornithologists i'll
favored specimens of the feathered
tribe, but on Wednesday last our Jail
received i'll its southeast room five diff
ferent varieties of such rare excellence
as to occasion a perfect rush there to
examine them. Not less than a dozen
of our best citizens, including several of
our most prominent officials and menu
beers Of the bar, together with o distin-
guished physician and surgeon, re-
paired to that room at 2 r. NJ. on We'd
nesday, by special invitation from
Capt. NE. g. May, and seating them
selves around some circular tables,
awaited with evident anxiety, the pro-
duction of the birds O. learing that
they were dead birds, the surgeon afore-
said seized a table knife andimmediate-
IL made preparations for an autopsy.
The birds were soon brought in, and
laid on the tables, and. horrible to re-
late, were al devoured in less than an
hour. They were choice varieties of
the pheasant, woodcoek, partridge,
wild pigeon, and what Capt. May styled
the Galeasieu pheasant; though gem
tleman from Calcasieu stoutly main
tanned that the latter variety wasa verb
table chicken.
The birds were abundant and deli
oioas, and were washed down with gem
erogls vine, and it was the unanimous
opinion Of all present that they would
like to 60 to Jail every day-proyided
Can't. May would invite them.
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One pound of green copperas, costing
seven cents, dissolved Id one quart Of
water and poured down q water closet,
will effeetually concentrate and destroy
the foulest smells. On board ships and
steamboats,, about hotels and other pub
Lie places, there is nothing so nice to
purify the air. Simple green copperas,
dissolved under the bed in anything
that will hold water, will render a hos
pital, o. other places for the sick, free
from unpleasant smells. In fish mar
kets, slaughter houses, sinks, and
wherever there are offensive putrid
gases, dissolve corperas and sprinkle il
about, and In a few days the smell will
pass away. Tie a cat, rat or mouse dies
about the house and sends forth an
offensive gas, place some dissolved cop
peras in an open vessel near the place
where the nuisance is, and it win purify
! the atmosphere.
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SWeethcart, Goodbye,


Sweetheart, gOOd-by! Our varied day
Ia closing into twilight gray,
up from bare, bleak wastes of sen,
The storm wind rises m%olIrnfUIly:
mystic nfeScience strange and drear
Doth haunt the shuddering twilight air.
1t fills the earth, 1t Ghills the sky
Sweetheart, good-byI
Sweetheart, gOod-by! Our Joys are passed.
night with silence comes at last;
All things must end-yea, even love-
know we if, reborn above,
heaFt-DlBOms of our earthly rriure
Shall flower beyond these bounds of time.
" All! death alone is sure!" we cry
Sweetheart, gO0d-by!
Sweetheart, go0d-by! Through mist and fear
Pass the pale phantoms of our years,
Once bright with spring, or subtiY strong.
When summers noOntide thrilled with song:
Now wan, w~ild-eyed, forlOrn1y bowed,
Each rayless as IN autumn cloud
Fading on dull september'ssky-
Sweetheart, goOd-by!
Sweetheart, gO0d-byI The vapors rolled
Athwart yOn distant, darkening void.
Are types OF what our world doth know
OF tenderest loves of long ago;
And thus. when all is dom and said,
Our life lived out, our passion dead,
what can their wagering record be
But tinted mists Of memory4
Oh! clasp and kiss me ere we die
Sweetheart, goOd-by!
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Never again will the roses blow
For us like the roses we used to know.
On! never again will the wide sky hold
Such wealth Of glory and sunset gold.
And never again viii I whisper, dear,
The pleasant faneies yon smiled to hear,
And never again, at the days decline,
Shall / sit with your little hand in mine.
Never againi for the dream is done
a word, and a look. and a touch beg1lu-
ove if we Arrays could dream, nj. fhe9f
Inc words are as sad as sit might have beer! ~
For us, there is nothing but memory.
In the coming days, of 1rhat cOUII MT Ae
Love-, you are near me, and yet as far
As the round earth is from the fltr4best stor.
Kiss me, and smile in my eyes once more.
Tho your lips should culver and tears run DER
And then, goodbye. for the dream is do1eS
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Dolce Far Niemte.
BIZ sA111E A. BROCK, OF VIRGINIA.

I.
How dreamily the shadows fall
Across my chamber floor!
How laZlly the sunbeams creep
Within the open door!
They mingle in delicious sport,
Like loving waves at play,
Or like the idle, floating clouds
AT noon Of summer day.
II.
TIL whispering breeze that steals adown
The rugged mountain side.
Scarce stirs the ripple's gurgling foam
That tlecks the river wide;
But all is calm, with naught to mark
The drOwsy, lapsing hours
tt bee and butterfly asleep
Within the hearts OF flowers,
III.
A silvery haze hangs DER the earth,
And through its gauZy sheen
We look in vain for summers garb,
Or springtide's dewy green.
Bright, gorgeous tints, like Tyrian dyes,
CLEAN on the ravished sight;
Ifancy an enchanted realm
Revealed in mystic light.
And now there falls upon my ear,
From yonder distant grove,
The ring doves tender, WOOing call,
In sOftest notes of love.
My stated senses seem atiOat
UpOn a WaVelGSs SeQ;
For all arOnnd me, all above,
Is beauteOuS harmony!
v.
Drifting upon a winged boat,
My soul far outward HES,
Till Il me bursts from harps unseen
Music of Paradise!
And natures w0ndrous, witching spell
Has to my spirit given,
In strange communion, Sweetly calm,
Almost q glimpse of Heaven!
[AppletOns' Journal.
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Cause of the Emperor's Death.

In the New York Herald of Sunday
last the subjoined dispatch was pub
lished, which shows the nature of the
operation under which the Emperor
Napoleon died:
LONDON, January 4.-His Majesty the
ex-EmperOr Napoleon III has been snf-
fering in health during some few years
just past, the symptoms of his illness
indicating the existence of stone in the
bladder, and that arrangement of the
physica! system which always follows
from this cause. ~
The presence of a large stone having
been demonstrated by means of "sound1
on Thursday, the patient underwent the
first operation for it's removal by litho-
trity-the breaking down of the calculus
or stone, into small pieces within the
BLADDER, so that it may be voided with
the urine.
This operation in it's presentimproved
form, and practiced on patients caIcula-
ted for it, may be considered easy. safe
and effeetual; but practiced ON cases
not adapted to it, no other operation can
be compared to it for the misery and
fatality of it's results.
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W. E. Riclhn, in a recent speech.
pays a most delcate tribute to Greeley
with regard to lis purity of life. He
says: In thirE years of pretty init
mate Acquaintance / never heard him
use q word that WOULD bring the slight
est hutter of crimOn to the purest cheek
that womanho0d ger unveiled to soci-
ETY.. | do not belhye he ever told or
could be induced Ii listen TO a ynlpSr
story. And this almost superhuman
purity of characters perhaps what has
made him % favoHte among talented
and refined wOmenf
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Opelousas is very much in need of q
hotel, and there will be one offered for
rent, at auction, on the 21st. Persons
attending Court this week can not find
a place to leep-some sleptin the Court
house, and some did not sleep at all,
except sitting in a chair.
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To remove lon Rust from White
GOods.-A remey which I have tried
and found effetuaI, is this: lone
ounce OF oxalic acid dissolved i'm one
quart of water. Yet the iron rust spots
IN this solution md lay it in the hot
sun; the rust wa disappear in from
three To twenty nhrItes, according TO
its depth. have Il experimental by
holding a rnsted eli wet IN this solT-
ton, over the steam az 4 boiling tea
kettle, and the rust sappeared almost
instantly. In eitleS case. tle cloth
should be well nnsed / water al soon
rs the rust disappears prevent injury
from the acid. Many 80 this acid ia
remove fruit and ink sims from white
fabrics. When dilute still more. Il
may be used to rem0a fr4If 0r I'M
stains from the hands,
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METHODIST CHURCH.-We are in
formed by a friend who has just re-
ceived the information from Rev. B. f.
White, that Rev. B. j. Baldwin has
been sent to Opelousas as stationed
preacher this year, by the late Annual
Conference of the Methodist Church.
Mr.. Baldwin is, we are informed, an
able preacher, and a gentleman If pleas
ing address.
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A Boston gentleman who could not
waltz, offered a young lady 500 if she
would let him hug her as much us the
man did who had just wa1tzea her. It
was u good offer, and showed that mo-
pey was no object to him, but they put
him out OF the house SO hard that his
eyes were quite black,
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A bill before the Legislature # Tndi-
ana provides that whenever an rcnsed
person is acquitted upon the lea Of
temporary insanity, the Judge f the
court in which said acquial takesnlace
shall assign him to a lunafc asyIns for
q term of years proportDnate tt fIIe
enormity of the crime committed In
a murder case the assignment Wn1d
of course be for life.