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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

DISTRICT OUKT.-Thef ollowingjudg-
ments have been rendered since cur last
report:
Ernest st. Armand VS.. Lastie Dupre,
Judgment of dismissal.
JOS. D. Richard, agent, VS.. Hezekiah
Hayes, judgmentin favor of A. Gamard'
adm, of Estate BENZ. F. Linton.
Solomon Loeb VS.. Egbert 0. Hayes,
Sheriff, Judgment for plaintiff.
Demcy Hes, ct ais, adm, VS.. Eugene
David. Judgment for plaintiffs. z
Peet & CO., VS.. j. L. Morris, ct ais,
Judgment for plaintiffs.
Moses Greenwood & Son, VS.. Morris
& Smith, judgment for plaintiffs.
Nathaniel Bird, VS.. i'll. Andre etals,
Judgment for plaintiff.
Henry Peychaud ct ais, Syndics' VS..
Mary O. Griffith, Judgment for defend
ant. 49,, s~ -t ... ...
Bloch Bros. VS.. Mary B. Campbell ct
ais, Judgment for plaintiffs. "
b. II. Whitney, VS.. Geo. W. Pike,
Judgment Orplaintif against garnishees
Louisa A. Nelson, VS.. w. H. Nelson,
Judgment for plaintiff.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

. Too Much CREDHT.-Mr. Keene, a
shrewd and thrifty farmer of Allen
borough, owned a large flock of sheep,
and one autumn, when it came housing
time, he was greatly annoyed upon
missing a number of his finest muttOns,
among them three or four wethers
which he had raised and fattened for
his own table. He was sure it was not
the work of dogs, and the most he
could do was to await further develop
mentS.
On the following spring, when his
| sheep were turned out to pasture, he
instituted Q careful watch, and ere long
he detected Tom Stickney, a neighbOr-
| sheep; but he made no noise about it at
| the time. Stickney was a maj well
to-do, and Keene did not are to ex-
pose him, sn-s ~ ..-
Autumn came again, and upon count
ing up his flock, Mr.. KeenefOund eight
sheen missing. He made out a bill in
due form to Thomas Stickney for the
| eight sheep, and presented it. Stickney
clicked and stammered, but did not
back down. Like a prudent MAI he
paid the bill and pocketed the receipt.
Another spring time came, and Mr.,
Keene's sheep We're again turned out
Another autumn came, and the farmer
again took an account of his stSCk, and
| this time fifteen sheep were missing
AS before he made out the bill TO Tom
Stickhey for the whole number miss
ing; but this time Tom objected.
at is too much OF a good thing" said
he. Fifteen sheep! Why, bless your
soul, I hadn't had q fifth part of 'em."
MI. Keene was memorable.
"There is the bill" said he, "and
made it out in good faith. / have made
no fuss when my sheep have been miss.
ing, because I deemed your credit gooC
and sufficient
"Well," groaned Tom, with a bis
gulp, 81 suppose T must pay butt hi
added emphatically, "wen close tina
account from this time. You have give1
me too much credit altogether-som'
other rascal has been. stealing. on. thu
strength of it."-EPittsburg Chronicle.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

Our National Defenees.-The sea and
its sea sickness.
A Regular Nuisance,-Quarter-da day,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-02-22

ATTEMPTED SU1CIDE.-One Of our
Gallo citizens attempted to commit sui
eide this week, because he~was not al
lowed to suck Gd Ebitum from a bottle
Of John Barleycorn. He got in q rage
about it and came to the conclusion
that he did not want to live any longer
if he was deprived of the constant So
ciety Of the aforesaid bottle. He III
serted his knife blade in his right side,
lust under the ribs, to a ssall depth,
when some b~y-stander stopped its fur
ther progress by Selling his arm; or,
not liking the sensations produced by
cold steel e~ntering-his warm body, he
stopped it himself. The wound, We I'M
derstand, is not considered dangerous,
though he is determined to die from it.
A little Of the contents of the bottle
might pacify him, however, and make
him consent to live for the love thereof
until he died from the use thereof.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
WHEN NARY WAS A LAssIE

The maple tEees are tinged with red,
The birch with golden yellow;
And high above the orchard wall,
Hang apples, rich and mellow;
And there's the way, through yonder lane
That looks 50 still and grassy,
The way tOsk one Sunday eve,
When Mary was a lassie.
You'd hardly think that patient face,
That looks so thin and faded,
Was once the very sweetest one
That ever bonnet shaded;
But when / went through yonder lane,
That looks 50 still and grassy,
Those eyes were bright, those checks wer
fair,
When Mary was lassie.
But many 3 tender sorrow,
And many patient care,
Have made their burrows on the face
That used to be so fair.
Four times 10 yonder ehurch-yard,
Through the lane so still and grassy,
We've borne and laid away our dead,
Since Mary was lassie.
And so you see Pye grown to love
The wrinkles more than roses;
Earth's winter flowers are sweeter far,
Than al springs dewy posies;
They'll carry us through yonder lane,
That looks SO still and grassy,
Adown the lane used to go
When Mary was a lassie.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
MAY.
BY CHARLES W. HUBNER

1t is May, the fairy-haunted May,
And the rose-lipp'd spiritual Hours
From her nursing bosom dance AWAY
Lur'd by music, and the sheen Of flowers,
Merry sprites! whose silTer-ringing feet
Smite the glowing world with wanton beat.
Not leaf but thrills with gladder life,
Not bird but sings with sweeter throat
when the May winds, in melodiOus strife,
Chase the echoes from their dim abode;
And the lilies, lull'd in blissful dreams,
Nod in silence by the meadow streams.
How the trees, in the dim forest ai>les,
Wave their eeRser branches at the sky
As the Day, with sunny tears and smiles,
Like bridal pageant passes by
While the fountain naiades in the dell-,
Joyful leaPing, toss their golden bells.
Sweet the breath, exhaling from the lea,
That the twilight's soft'ning shadow
brings,
When the merry wind, that rove The sea,
Sleeps IN cleaning dew the swallow
wings,
And, with starry robes about her furPd,
Crescent-shielded Dian rules the world.
Happy time and happy mortal, be,
Who, while tasting earth's exquisite joys
Marks the glory Of Divinity
Not with needless, or impatient eyes;
But, with glowing soul and lined face,
Givsth God the glory and the uEaiss.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
THE FIRST VIOLETS,


BY SIR z. BULwER LYTToN.
Who that has loved knows not the tender
tale,
Which flowers reveal when lips arc coy to
tell?
Whose youth has paused not, dreaming in
the vale
Where the wreath violets dwell ?
Lo, where they shrink along the lonely
brake,
Under the Iifeless, melancholy tree,
Not yet the cuckoo sings, nor slides the
snake,
Nor Wild thyme lures the bee.
Yet all their sight and scent entranced and
thrilled,
All June seems golden in the April skies;
How sweet the days we yearn for till
fuIflledg
o distant Paradise!
Dear land to which Desires forever flees,
Time doth no Present to the grasp allow;
Say, in the fixed T. ernaI shall we seize
At last the feeting Now?
Dream not Of days to come, of that un-
known
whittier hope wanders (maze without a
elue;)
Give their true wllchery to the flowers
thine own
Youth in their youth renew.
Avarice! remember when the cowslip's
gold
Lured and yet lost its glitter in the grasp
Do thy boards glad thee more than these Of
old:
Those withered in thy clasp.
From these the hands fall palsied-it was
THEN
That thou vert rich thy Golfers are 4 lie
Alas, poor fool! joy is the wealth Of men,
And care their poverty
Come, foiled Ambition! what hast thou
Empire and power 20 wanderer, tempest
tossed?
These once were thine, when life's gay
spring inspired
Thy soul with glories lost.
Let the flowers charm thee to the jOcund
prime,
When Ger the stars rapt fancy traced the
chart;
Thou hadst an angels powers in that blest
time
Thy realm a human heart!
Hark harkl again the tread of bashful
feet!
Uark the bOughs rustling round the tryst-
ing place.
Let the air again with one dear breath be
sweet,
Earth fair with onr dear face!
BrieG-lived first flower, first owe! the hOur'
steal on,
To prank the world in Summers pomp o
hue;
But what shall flaunt beneath a fiercer SUI
Worth what We lose in you!
Oft by a flower, leaf IN some loved book
| We mark the lines which charm US most
Retrace
Thy life, recall its loveliest passage; look
Dead UiOletS mark the place
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10

weeks, but IN vain. / was on the
point OF giTing up when l encoun-
tered an American-a jeWeler-who
had resided in Paris some years. /
inquired OF him if he knew of any
flower store kept by Americans.
Yes, he knew of but one, in the
Rue Bepps. He believed it was
owned by NRanlin s. Bro" That
was the place l was hunting for, the
names that the dying woman tried
to pronounce; began thus; Ran,
the remainder was "Ein."
But the Rue Beppo was the last
place on eaith that / would have
looked for aflower store
| When l reached my hotel set to
work and removed the heavy beard
and mustache which adorned my
face, and repaired to the Rue Beppo.
entered the flower store, and
clerk awaited my pleasure. desir-
ed to see the proprietors. They ap-
peared, and I introduced myself as
Geo. Han, Of Galveston. They did
not recognize me.
/ could hardly restrain myself
in the person of the firm / recog-
nized the umrderers of the banker.
"Gentlelzen," said l, after talking
a while vita them, "were you ever
in New YOKE
"Oh, yes" said one, "we lived
there sevesal years"
| "Did yoH know one Annie Gra-
ham residihg there?"
Their lips grew ashy, and they
rose to fkcir feet.
seWhal cf herr"
stShe ioad."
b--.ke{4 Z .-.--s-1e---.-
"And before she died she con-
fessed.p
They stepped forward, shouting:
HWho are you?"
''Tom Howard, at your service"
| And at the same time drew a brace
of reYolYers and leveled them at
| their heads. Gentlemen, the bond
having expired, have done what l
said l would do that night. l have
tracked you, and now you are my
| prisoners. Come with me-"
Weak as lambs they followed,
/ speaking not a word. At the door
we were met by squad of French
police, whom stationed near as re-
Inducements in case of necessity.
The villains were locked up till a
vessel sailed for the United States,
and l had the pleasure of being their
cOBlpdgRoH dsG 0Oydge.
When the ship reached New Y York
delivered my prisoners over to tie
authorities, who tried them, found
guilty, and they expiated their
crimes on the scaffold. The people
were surprised when they learned of
the detection of Royston's murder
ers after such lapse of time. They
did not know that was under a
bond for one year.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
SIGNED WITH MY OWN blood.
A Leaf From my Life.
BY CAPTAIN HOWARD.

In the Spring of 1850 l entered
the detective force. will not here
give the why's and wherefores for so
doing, but leave the reader to con-
lecture. 1t is said that when man
becomes a detective-a man-hunter
he is desperate. The saying was
applicable to my step. But why
did you do it, captain, asks an in
quisitive reader. Perhaps, my dear
friend, had been Tilted; perhaps a
great commercial crash had left me
penniless, or doubtless l found the
wears of bachelOrhood gathering
around me, and L witk no ''visible
means of support" The last con-
lecture is most probable. Don't you
think SOP
Bat to the story-to the leaf |
pluck from the tree of detectives
life.
was seated one morning on the
steps of the " House, await
ing for breakfast, when little Dick,
the errand boy of headquarters, ran
up and whispered in my ear:
Captain, the chief wants YOU"
''Is his business urgent, Dick?''
| asked, for did not relish a walk
with an empty stomach.
mo; you can cat your breakfast, -
and the boy bounded away.
After partaking of my mornings
meal, consisting of coffee, ham and
eggs-a dish l relish-I sauntered
away towards headquarters. As
entered Eighth street l saw several
groups of men talking eXcitedly,
and l knew that something impor-
tant had lately taken place, with
which my summons to headquar-
ters was connected. l quickened
my steps, and not long afterwards
stepped into the office.
"Take a chair, Howard" said
Matsell.
Iseated myself, and he continued:
"a murder was committed last
night. Some person or persons as
sassinated MIR. Royston, the banker.
in his chamber"
"They didr' l exclaimed.
eyes; you will have to work out
the case, as the rest of the force are
engaged. A reward of five thou
sand dollars is offered for the arrest
of his murderer"
81 viii do what / can to bring hin
to justice" l answered, "and will
proceed at once to the scene of the
midnight murder.
l went direct to the bankers man
sion, and was shown to the room
where the body still lay as it had
been found. An examination of i
and tlAe chamber gave me a clue by
which L hoped to secure the Williams
for L knew now that two person.
were concerned in the tragedy.
went to work with success in the
distance, and in a month felt the
logues almost within my grasp
But on the threshold of accomplish
ment | was thwarted.
One night as l was standing by ;
/ lamp-pOst-my head bowed upoI
my breast meditatingly, a hanC
touched my arm, and looking up
/ confronted q richly clad female
Her face was covered by a veil
/ through which L caught a CLEAN o
eyes-fery eyes-ike the flashes o
! lightning on an inky sky.
cha! l have found you at last
have Il" she said.
1T seems So" L replied. 'Wha
do you want with me:"
! "Do you ever listen to death-beD
confessions"
every often"
81 have a friend who is nearin
the portals of that undiscoVere
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10

The Madison county magistrates
are preparing work for the grand
jury; they recently increased their
pay from 81 to 81 and Sc per day, in
violation of the law. Per contra,
the per diem in both Hardeman and
Eayette counties has been cut down
to the legal maximum of 81. 1t
should be Kept in mind that the
custom among magistrates is TO di-
vide the assessorships, road over
seerships and other offices of profit
among themselves, each thus in the
aggregate drawing every year a suf-
ficient sum from the county treas
ury, aside from Legitimate fees, etc,
TO render the position quite desira-
BILE. 1t must not be assumed that
the average magistrate serves his
country for the little pittance of s.
per day, allowed for his attendance
at the Quarterly Court four times 8
year. No instance of q magistrate
starving to death has ever been re-
ported.-AUdlanche.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
The strength of Mothers Love.

The almost superhuman strentgh
and courage of women under cir
cumstances of great peril or when
the maternal instinct is reused to
the utmost for the preservation of
their offspring, has been recently
exempliied in the most extraord-
mary maner at Segano small Will
age south of Milan. A child of four
years plying near an old well bES
carelessy covered over, went too
near the insecure edge, ap2 before
the eide, sister could reach her, was
precipihted to the bottom. The
frightened child ran screaming to
her mother with the fearful news.
The later q workwoman in the fac
tory stsod for a moment as if para
lrLed, when as if realizing the full
danger of her little one, instantane-
ously fisw across the court, and with
her eye fixed upon the water below,
paid, mute, teeth hard set together
She thought only of rescuing her
child, and clutching the old coping of
the wei, let herselfdown from stone
to stone until she reached the water,
where IN inner row of stones gave
her a boting. The little one had
caught by its clothing to this jagged
wall, and the brave woman reachin z
far over, firmly grasped the child
and lifting it free, held it safe above
water with one hand, while with
the other steaded herself against the
damp slippery wall.
In the meantime the alarm had
been gwen, and the wOrkmen who
had come to the rescue, let down
ropes to which the woman attached
herself and child. But this was i'm
possible to accomplish without let
ting 90 of the child. The poor Ro-
man could not again bear the terror
of losing her baby for an instant,
and With a look of baffled hopeless
despair thrown up 10 those who
waited breathlessly for the result,
was about to resign herself TO her
awful fate, when a sudden grasping
of the rope below gave renewed
courage to the spectators. The un-
daunted woman had made another
effort for life, and successfully.
! Slowly lifting the child to her mouth
she had taken in her teeth a por-
ton of the dress and safely held it
until she made fast the rope to each.
This communicated to the people
above, a shout went up, rs one
more fearless than the rest, at the
risk of of his own life went down to
the rescue of the mother and child,
which he accomplished by intrepid
GOODNESS and undaunted courage
amid the hearty bravos of men, and
the half frenzied hysterical shrieks
| fthe women.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
From Practicing Physicians.

bACAdA1os
EVANSVILLE IND, Feb. Il, 1871.
MEssRs. LILLY & PuELAN, Manufacturing
Chemists and Pharmacists;
GENTLEMEN:-We, the undersigned, res.
ident physicians OF Evansville, having
PRACTICE, your FLUID EXTRACTS AND
| STANDARD PHARMACEUTICAL AND
CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and hav-
| ing found them perfectly reliable, take
pleasure in recommending them TO the
medical profession everywhere, feeling as
Sured that they can be prescribed with the
utmost confidence.
| In presenting these preparations, you
/ are filling a great want long felt by the
profession: that Of PURE REMEDIES Of d
/ liked standard Of strength, and=as nearly
FREE from NAUSEoUs QUALITIES as pos
sible.
We wish you great success your en-
deavOrs TO raise the art of ptai macy TO
higher standard OF perfection.
:. W. Thompson, Nj. -
w. X. Davidson, NJ. ID.
Nj. j. Bray, NJ. ID.
Il. j. Day. NJ. ID.
Geo. w. Yates, NJ. ID.
+. T. Runeie, NJ. ID.
J. +. Hilliard, Nj. ID
John Mageniss, NJ. ID.
|. Casselberry, NJ. d.
J. T.. DeBruier, NJ. u.
! VI. - DdthWeii, VI. II.
Oscar kreSS, NJ. ID.
John Pirnat, NJ. II.
NJ. MuhlhaHsen, Nj. ID.
w. IL. A. Lewis, NJ. ID.
4. NJ. owen, NJ. ID.
I. {. Van Nuys. NJ d.
w. NJ. Newell, NJ. d.
VIM. Durham, NJ. u.
j. w. Compton, NJ. y.
]. G.. Hendrick, NJ. ID.
II. G.. Jones, NJ. ID.
Rich. Hartlof, NJ. d.
4. Wulkop, NJ. ID.
II. NJ. Harvey, NJ. ID.
{. c. Tyrrell, NJ. ID.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
Original Attachment.
Hiram Carl, W.. Gen. John G. O'Neal.

Hiram Carl, W. Gen. John q. ONeal.
4 y this cause 1t appearing by affidavit that
Il the defendant Gen. Jno. G. O'Neal is
Justly indebted 20 the plaintiff, and Is nom
resident of the State, so that the ordinary
process Of the law cannot be served on him,
and an original attachment having been
levied on his property. 1t is therefore or
dered that publication be made in the WhiS
and Tribune, newspaper published in the
city of Jackson for four successive weeks,
commanding the said Gen. JnO. g. O'Neal
TO appear before me or some other acting
Justice Of the Peace for said county, on the
10th day MAY next, and make defense to
said suit against him, or it will be proceed
ed with eX parte.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
FARM FOR SALE,

WISH To SELL MY FARM OF 12j
Il Acres, lying Northwest Of Jackson.
Said farm is in good state of cultivation,
with good buildings and well watered.
There are about fourteen acres in choice
Fruit trees, and about three or four acres
in Strawberries and Raspbcrries. The farm
Is well suited fer fruit vegetable and gar
dening business. Price S6O,9O per acre.
l will also sell four or i've uuimproved
town lots. / will also sell or rent the house
that now live In. / wish TO sell for the
reason that my health is bad and want to
retire from business and get out OF debt.
July %, '72-tf. l.. GOODELL.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10

SLAVERY IN BRAzIL.-Brazil
has more than a million and half of
negro slaves held in servitude by
her laws, with no prospect of eman-
cipation but by the great deliVerer,
death. The Brazilian Government
passed an act relating to emancipa-
ton about a year and half ago, but
that law liberated no slaves except
about 1000 owned by the Govern
ment. Every slave of a private
owner has to wear his bonds for
life. The essence and value of the
act consisted in declaring that
all persons born after its date (Sep-
tember 2I, IS71) should be born
| free. Such persons will not be E.
| slaves. Negroes born the proceed
| ing day OF slave mothers have the
| hard fate of servitude for life, as
well as all other slaves, except the
| few belonging to the Government,
and even these are kept in restraint
and pupilage for five years. The
/ children OF slave mothers, though
declared free from their birth, are
retained in subsection to those
mothers owners for twenty-one
years, differing from other slaves
! only in being born with g legal right
to liberty on reaching the age ot
twenty-one. For about twenty
years to come there will be no more
real liberty in Brazil than if the
law of 1871 had not been passed.
The 1,674,OO0 of its then existing
slaves remain slaves for life, anC
their children viii not be really frel
till the end of the year 1892.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10

Missouri is gradually being annex
ed to the battle-ground OF farmers
against the monOpolies. During the
past six months meetings have been
held and the interest has been rapid
ly but quietly extending. Nearly $50
oranges of the Order of Patrons Of
Husbandry have been organized,
and before the first State COnven-
ton, which is to held next month at
Knob Noster, in johnson County, is
assembled, it is thoHght the number
will exceed 200. At present there is
a representation of the order in every
agricultural county in the State and
the membership which has been
gathered without respect to party
represents the better class of our
agriculturists. On the 10th of Juue
three hundred oranges Of the Patrons
of Husbandry are to be represented
at a convention to be held in Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, and addressed by
Gov. Carpenter. These annouce-
ments give some idea of the Yigor of
the movement, but its sresult can
only be conjectured. As at present
constituted, 1T promises infinite good
to the class for whose benefit it ihas
been instituted, but this will be the
case only so long as the politicians
are held at a long arms length.-St.
LOHiS Democrat.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10

There are two and a half or three
millions OF dollars idle and useless
in cotton warehouses of this city
Why is this cotton unsold? Its con-
version into greeRbacks would lift
the veil and relieve the pressure" +"
and Memphis would become the
happiest city on the continent
Memphis Appeal.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10

How often do we hear the misquo-
tation, He that giveth to the poor
lendeth to the Lord, while the true
version is, "He that hath pity upon
the poor, lendeth unto the Lord;
and that which he hath given will
pay him again"
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-10
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