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The Opelousas courier., 1873-10-25

for SIXTY DAYS from this date,
FOR CASH ONLY
OR T S E Q q V A l. Z T.
We will positively sell on no other terms dur
ing that period.
We have come to the determination of sell
ing AT COST in order to induce purchasers to
give us all carly call, and to enable us to reduce
our present very heavy stock.
We guarantee that, by this arrangement, on
a purchase OF so you will save at least THREE.
Retail Merchants will find it TO their advdn-
tagc to give us a call.
We have a large stock of
GROCERIES,, LIQTORS, HARD WARE,
SADDLERK, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
CLOTHING, DRTGOODS, DRESS
GOODS, AND FANCY GOODS.
Give lis Il call and ascertain our prices, and
we are convinced that you will be satisfied.
Remember the large brick store at the cor
ner of Main and Bellevue Streets. Polite and
willing clerks will be Oh hand to wait on you.
Don't lose your chance. Come AT ONCE and
bring your CASH.
COTTON, WOOL and HIDES received as
cash, at highest market prices.
Highest premium paid on GOLD.
JOSEPH BLOCH & Co.
Opelousas, October ID, 1873.
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lands OF EeicIasl I'D SW ain, alec'd.,
Situated near Vile Plate, in the Parish of st.
Landry, fronting on the Bayou Cane in Town
ship 5 South Range East, 5. W. l.. Dist of
La, containing 1913 5SI 100 acres, known as the
grant, conferred by Act Of Congress on the
10Th OF April, 1916.
This is therefore to give notice that have
been specially authorized and charged with
the guardianship and control OF the above
property, and in future to protect the wooded
portion OF the said tract against any cutting
! of timber on said land, as the owners can no
longer pay the taxes Of settlers upon the land
without some equivalent in rent; they are
therefore requested to come forward and con-
tract for the of said land with the under
signed, and all persons are forbidden to cut
timber on said land under penalty of prosecu-
ton. Z. Z. DUSON,
| Agent for Estate of Swain.
Opeousas, Sept. 20, 1873. IT,
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STOI EN-

STOLEN,
ESROM the plantation of Mrs. f. Wartelle,
Il near Opelousas. about the last of August,
a black American Filly, about two years old,
and branded about thus - on the shoulder.
She has two or three white feet, and is a nat
ural PAGER. A liberal reward will be given for
her delivery at the COURIER Office.
October llth, 1878. 52tf
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a. .gDHHNSTON.9
M LIVERY STABLE.

The undersigned respectfully Informs his
his Livery Stable at his same old stand on
Main St, and is prepared to accommodate
the travelling public with Horses, Hacks, Bug
gics. &c, on reasonable terms. = Horses
fed and cared for.
6-ly1 VIM NI JOHNSTON.
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N NCNZESHEIMER, F.-Gr0ceries, Provis-
1SA ions, Crockeryware Glassware, Tinware.
&c. Main St, bet Landry and Bellevue.
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nESMARAIS, LOUIS-Groceries, Liquors,
- Cigars Hardware, Tinware, &c. Corner
of Market and Bellevue streets.
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oPELoUsAS DIRECTORY.
Groceries.

a NDRUs, C. B.-Falnily and Plantation
"A Groceries, Corn, Oats, Tinware, Glass
ware, &c. Corner Main and Landry SITS.
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g NTH, J. T.-Groceries, Glassware. Crock
~ eryware, Hardware Tinware, &c. Corner
Of Main and GrnlGe Streets
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NEOORE JOSEPH M.-Attorney and Coun-
IVA selor at Law. Office on Bellevue street,
opposite the Market House.
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N O.. @.
OPELOUSAS CARDS
goth YEAR

~
DRET9sS ANHD MEDICINES!
FENHE freshest and pureSt always on hand, at
Il wholesale and retail, at the ell-knoWn
ST. LANDRY DRUG STORE AND MEDI-
CAL DEPOT
(Estubtished 4. D., lSiS)
Where can be found every article i'll the mcdi-
cal line besides Paint. Window Glass, Toilet
Articles and Perr1mery School and Blank
Books and Stationery Of every variety.
A full assortment of Garden Seeds from
Landreth. guaranteed fresh anl genuine.l
TOBACCO, SNUFF AND CIGARS.
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS
For Medical use only.
The undersigned, assisted by his son. de
votes his time almost entirely to compoundng
and dispensing RELIABLE NEDILiNES.
Hoping thus, by unremitting devotion to his
calling and IA sincere desire to meet the wants
of his friends and customers, to continue to
deserve their patronage and esteem.
JOHN POSET,
oct4* Apothccary, sc.
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"EDGAR-Groceries, Liquors,
Cigars, Glassware. Tinware, sc. Corner
of Main and North streets.
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Z EWIS Il BRO.-Attornev and Counselors
IL at Law. Office on Landry ST., between
Court and Market streets.
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nGDEN, JOHN n. Attorney and Coun-
" seller at Law. Office with the Parish Re
corder, Court House Square
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NEARTEL & HUDSPETH - Attorneys and
YA Counselors at Law. Office near corner
of Court and Landry streets.
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T EFEBFRE, P. j., Agent-Dry Goods and
= A Groceries, Crockcrywarc, Glassware, sc.
Corner Court and Landry streets
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DERRODIN. +. F.-Attorney and Counselor
i at Law. Office in brick building at cor
ncr of Market and Landry streets.
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= OED, SOLOMON-Staple and Domestic
- Dry Goods, Provisions and Plantation
Supplies Corner Main and Bellevue SITS.
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ISAAC, SOLOMON-Dry Goods, Clothing,
Il Boots. Shoes, Hats, Hardware, Saddlery,
&c. Corner of Main and North streets.
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Physicians IN a..

EEADDEN. LOUIS - Physician and Sur
Z Il geon. Office at residence, southern cx'
tremity Of Union street.
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MISCELLANEOUS CARDS
GREAT REFORM
RUSINE ESSs

TN consequence of the financial disturbance
Il of the country, and the embarrassed con
dition of affairs generally. we, the undersigned,
beg leave to announce 10 our numerous custom,
ers and the public generally that We will sell
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Attorneys at law.

DUPRE. LAURENT-Attorneya and Coun-
| ~ selor at Law. Office with Fl. l.. Garland
| Landry street. between Court aud Market.
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TARLAND, HENRY J.. - Attorney and
~ Counselor at Law. Office on Landry ST.,
between Court and Market streets.
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Dry Goods and Groceries.

ULOCH. JOS & CO.-Dry Goods. Clothing,
ID Hardware, Saddlery, Groceries and Plan
tation Supplies. Corner Main and Bellevue.
pOUTTE, i. A.-Staple and Domestic Dry
- Goods. Groceries and Plantation Supplies.
Corner Of Union and Vine streets.
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MEYERS, JULIUS-Dry Goods Clothing
1VA Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Plantation Sup
plies, &c. Corner Main and Landry sts.
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WASHINGTON DIRECTORY

TARRIERE, G.-Warehouse: dealer in gro
" ceries, Western produce, forage, &c, &c.
Water street, on the levee.
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BUSINESS RELIGION.

AL business should be religious, all religion
should have in IT an element of business and
both should be the service of God. Men say,
" You cannot expect in politics that man
should act as he would in private life" Why
notp Is there a Ten Commandments in poll
tics different from the Ten Commandments In
private life? Is the Sermon on the Mount to
have different meaning in politicsp It is
said that you cannot expect a man to act in
business as he would in the household. Why
not? " You cannot expect a man in public
life to be as honest as a man in private life.u
Why not? | am aware that they do not act
as honestly; but say it is wrong, and say
that that which is true in the household is
the kind of truth that is required in the store ;
that which is right in private life is the kind
of honor and honesty which is required in
public life, and no man has right to relax
his conscience in any way, and the larger the
sphere the more rigorous should be the mans
acquisitions on his conscience. II is not right
to tell lies on the stump any more than in the
church the urgencies of party may seem to
make it necessary that we should countcnance
misrepresentation, BUTT is never right. There
were more lies in the last campaign than there
are mosquitoes in all the dismal swamps in
the country. Three or four of the big
mosquitoes are caught, and all the others are
holding their hands up in horror and crying,
oh oh /! oh oh What right have they to
cry? We have all been lying, all been stretch
ing for the sake of expediency, been winking
at things, or been partners in things that
won't bear scrutiny, not even by the lower
measure of our judgment; but shall we heap
damnation on these men? Not that they are
not guilty, but what right have you to hound
them that are ten times as bad when you see
how wrong wrong u.s. how exceedingly sinful
sin is? Turn in upon yourselves and reform
your own lives first before you blame them.--
Beecher.
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WHO ARE THE EsQUIREs .


The present use of the distinction, " Els
qure, conveys not the rcmotest idea of its
origin, or appropriation, in past ages. The
esquire originated in chivalrc times, when the
sons of gentlemen, from the age of seven
years, were brought up in the castles of
superior lords-which was an nestimable
advantage to the poorer nobility who could
hardly otherwise have given their children the
accomplishments of their station. From
seven to fourteen these boys were called pages
or Wallets at fourteen they bore the name of
esquire. They were instructed in the man.
agement of arms in the art Of horscmanship
in exercises of strength and activity. so as to
fit them for the tournament and battle, and
the mildcr glories of chivarous galantry
Long after the decline Of chivalry, the word
esquire was only used in limited sense, for
the sons and peers of knights, or such as OBJ
tanned the title by creation or some other
legal means. Blackstone defines csquires TO
be all who bear office or trust under the crown,
and who are styled esquires by the king in
their commissions and appointments and
being once honored by the king with the title
of esquire, they have right to that distinc-
ton for life.
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COULDN'T SELL IT.


The following is not new, but always good,
as an illustration of the truth that some of the
finest sentiment crops out betimes from those
who walk in the lowly paths Of life.
A gentleman was walking with his little boy
at the close Of the day, and in passing the
cottage Of a German laborer the boy attention
was attracted to dog. 1t was not King
Charles nor black and tan, but common
cur. Still, the boy took fancy to him, and
wanted "Pa to buy him. Just then the
owner of the dog came home from his labors
and was met by the dog with every demon
stration of dog joy.
The gentleman said to the owner: "My
little boy has taken fancy to your dog and
will buy him. What do you ask for him +"
" can't sell dat dog !" said the dutcliman.
"Look here, said the gentleman. "That
is poor dog, anyway, but as my boy wants
him will give you five dollars for him
"Yaas, says the German, ~ kroAs he is
VERY poor dog, and he amt worth almost
noting, but deere ish Won lcete ding nit dat
dog vat | can't sell. | can't sell de vag of his
dali ven comes home at night
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DANIEL WtBsTER's ADvIcE.--Other young
people may find the advice of Daniel Webster
to his grandson of value to themselves. He
wrote it about four years before his death :
1.-TWO or three things wish now to impress
upon your mind. First, you cannot learn
without your own efforts All the teachers in
the world can never make scholar Of you, if
you do not apply yourself with all your might.
In the second place, be of good character and
good behavior; n boy os strict truth and honor,
and conscience in all things. Have but one
rule, and let that be always to act right and
fear nothing--but wrong doing. Finally, RE
member your Creator In the days of your
youth You are old enough to know that
God has made you and given you mind and
faculties; and will surely call you to account.
Honor and obey your parents love your sister
and brother; be gentle and kind to all avoid
peevishness and fretfulness be patient under
restraint Look forward constantly to your
approaching manhood. and put off every day
more and more all that is frivolous and child
ish."
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The origin of the Southwestern Virginia
salt works is curious.s The place was once a
vast swamp noisome, Shiny and dangerous.
Deer, hogs and cattle would often be found
dead there. Vapor continually arose from
the sodden ground; SO lonely was it that it
got the reputation of being haunted and when
William Crabtree, hunter, settled upon it
he found no one to dispute his right. From
his heirs eertsi;, VIM. King, suspecting its
value as a salt field, from various indications,
bought 1t for rifle and a pony. He opened
it and cleared it, and dug his wells. 1t was
Il profitable business and rapidly increased.
During the war these works were the principal
dependence of the Confederacy for salt.
Often Thousand covered wagons waited at
one time to load. They conveyed the salt
FOR hundreds of miles into the interior After
several attemps the Fedral troops demolished
the works, but never held them for any length
of time. The company now have six furnaces,
and make two thousand and four hundred
bushels Of salt day.
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Unique stlonabIy the best sustained tcos'k of the
kis.d Ia the p0sfd."
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The following familiar quotations are from
the Bible "Therc is death in the pot."-
Kings, iv: 49, "a man after his own heart.
II Samuel, xiii ID. +" Escaped with the
skin Of my teeth. job xix 20. "Spread-
ing himself like green bay tree."-Psalm
xxxvii IS. "lIoap Goals of fire upon his
head. Proverbs XIV 81. "Riches certain
ly make themselves wings" not take, y as
often quoted. xiii 5. emo new
things under the sun. "--Eccesiasties i: 8.
"Peace, peace, when there is no peace" made
famous and popular by Patrick Henry at the
outbreak Of the War of Independence in
America, is from jeremiah viii II.
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GROWING OLD.

DO we notice how much more rapidly each
succeeding year seems to pass away? Cannot
we remember how, in our childhood, the term
OF year appeared interminable, and we
thought we could compress into that great
space almost any amount of work and play
But as we get older, how Is II that, with all
our industry, time seems too short for the
work we take III handp We, become Is az
crossed that holy days and holidays are alike
invaded and, after an Is done, how much il
left unfinished, how many schemes remain un-
triedl 1t is the solemn thought connected
with middle life, " says the late eloouent +.
w Robertson, THAT life's last business Il
begun in earnest; and it is then, midway be-
tween the cradle and the grave, that 4 man
oegins to marvel that he let the days of youth
go by SO half enjoyed. 1t is the pensive au-
tumn feeling, it is the sensation of half sad
ness that We experience when the longest fav
OF the year is past, and every day that follows
is shorter, and the light fainter and the feebler
shadows tell that nature is Fastening with qi-
gantic footsteps to her winter grave. So does
man look back upon his youth. When The
first gray hairs become visible, when the mn
welcome truth fastens itself upon the mind
That man is no longer going up HILL but
down, and that the sun is always westering.
he looks back on things behind. When we
were children, we thought as children. But
now there lies before us manhood, with its
earnest work, and then old age, and then the
grave, and then home. There is a second
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- Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure and In
styuction."
HARPER'S BAZAAR.

The Bazaar is edited with contribution of tact and
talent that seldom md in any journal and the jour
nal itself is the organ of the great world of fashion,
Boston Traveller
The Bazdr commeDds itself to every member of the
househod-to the children by dro and pretty pictures
to the young ladies' by it's fashion plates Ia endless vare
ty the provdent atron by its patterns for the chill
drens clothes TO patedmias by its tasteful designs for
embroidered slippers and luxurious dressinggowns But
the reading matter of the Bdzar is uniformly of great
cellence The paper has acquired wide popularity for
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POETRY.
OUR ONE LIFE.


IT'S not for man to triae Life is brief
And sin is here.
Our age is but the falling of leaf
A dropping tear.
We have no time TO sport away the hours,
ALI must be earnest in a world like ours.
Not many lives, but only one have we,
One, only one;
How sacred should that life ever be,
That narrow span
Day after day filled up with blessed toll,
Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil
Our being is shadow of thin air,
No vacant dream;
No fable of the things that never were,
But only seem.
Ills full of meaning as of mystery
Though strange and solemn may that meaning be.
Our sorrows are no phantom Of the night
No idle tale;
No cloud that floats along sky Of light
On summer gale.
They are the true realities of earth.
Friends and companions even from our birth.
life below how brief and poor and sad
One heavy sigh,
o life above how long. how fair, how gladl
And endless joy
o to be done with daily dying here;
to begin the living in yon sphere!
o day of time, how dark, o sky and earth,
How duh your hue
@ day of Christ, how bright! O sky and earth!
Made fair and new
Come, better Eden with thy freshcr green
Come, brighter Salem, gladden. all the scenel
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During our late war there was young man
in the army who did not join of his own free
will /; he had been drafted. lie was not "a
brave young man; quite otherwise. One
day, during bloody battle, our yonng friend
showed such a remarkably large "white fea-
ther,' that his captain was obliged to threaten
him with his pistol in order to keep him from
running away altogether. Then the youth
began to cry "You ought to be ashamed of
yourself" said the captain; "youre no better
than baby !" 81 wish-I was--a baby
blubbered our hero, "am' gal baby, al thai"
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SEEK THE SUH.-Sleepless peoplc--and
there are many in America--shoud court the
sun. The very worst soporiic is laudanuin,
and the very best Sunshine. Therefore it is
very plain that poor sleepers should pass as
many hours as possible in the sun. Many
women are martyrs, and yet they do not know
it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses
and hearts, they carry parasols, they do all
that is possible to keep off the subtlest and
yet most potent influence intended to give
beauty, strength, and cheerfulness. The
women of America are pale and delicate ;
they may be blooming and strong, and the
sunlight will be the potent influence in the
transformation.
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LEJ'ROSY.

OF all Affections in the catalogue of human
two forms of it, One is rcddening, irritable
condition of the skin in patches, burning
sensation with nearly desqumation of the
cnticle resembling flour, which is often seen
with us. 1t seems to be aggravated by pork.
The other begins with spongy fostering at
roots of the nails and erceps up the limb till
it drops off at the joint. A grcenish pus oozes
out gangrening as it goes Shocking forms
are met with all over Palestine. 1t OCCASION
ally attacks the bones of the face, completely
undermining the framework of the features
We saw II large man in Damascus walking
the streets, whose face was reduced to the size
of a babes III consequence of all the maxilary
props being gone. The muscles hatkno lever
age. Poor manned wretces, victims of that
incurable malady, are met with in Syria,
minus feet and hands, eaten off by leprosy,
still clnging to life and asking charity. One
street is especially assigned them in Jerusalem
There are two institutions for their reception
in Damascus, one for each sex. Through the
day they wander about without restraint, but
are required to be home ct night Even in
that shocking condition they intermany
among themselves. They have existed from
immemorial time in that country. They were
common in the days of the Saviour. Still
more extraordinary, in that loathsome state
they live to an advanced old age The same
disease has been transferred to some of the
West India Islands and Newfoundland re-
curing special legislation to keep it from
being propagated.
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Musical Department.

CABINET ORGANS
In this department offer for sale the Instruments of
rselass makers embracing the celebrated Burdet Or
ans the Tremaine Organ and others, and in some in
at considerable reduction from price list.
Call and see the Instruments on exhibition.
PIANOS
agent for several of the leading piano makers and
will sell and deliver Instruments upon favorable terms
Organs and Pianos sold on monthly instruments
Special inducements to Churches Societies and Music
Teachers.
CUTTERS, BANJOS, DC.
keep also for sale Guitars anjos Accordcons, Music
Boxes etc. and will furnish to order carefully selected
by competent person, any other instruments that may
be desired.
SHEET MUSIC MUSIC BOOKS de-
am receiving from the celebrated house Of o. Ditson
Co all the latest sheet music fast issued. Also
all the most popular music books including instruction
books for voice and instrument
On hand several hundred pieces Of sheet music in
strumental and vocal Please call and look over them
Discount to teachers.
Violin, Guitar and Banjo Strings and other musical
merchandise constantly on hand.