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The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-04-14

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The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-04-14

"BOQUET ILLINOIS" a
very fragrant and delicate
perfume for the handker-
chief.
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-04-14
From the y y Tribune, March 81
STATE TAXATION.
ADDRESS BY DAVID A. WELLS.

ADDRESS 81 IAV41 =, WELLS.
Radical Defects Of the Present System Of
Assessing Real and Personal Property
To tax Equitably 1t Is Unnecessary 10
Tax eyerything--PropOSs Modih-
cations Of the Law
(Continued)
rfrr rTrFOuy IN TAxATfON
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

STRANGE STORY OF A PIG.-At the
request of some Of my friends in this
county, I will relate a little incident
connected with the setting out of our
company. A call had been made for
volunteers and a company raised in this
county, of which Isaac Watkins was
captain, Joshua Jackson first lieutenant,
Michael Collier second lieutenant. A
few days after organizing, we were in
our saddles and left for the army at the
North. At the end Of our first days
march we camped ON Six Mile Creek
The next day, when we had raveled but
a short distance, small shOat was OBJ
served on the side of the road, with sew
eral other hogs. The shOate followed
us to the Kentucky river, starting from
the northeastern portion of Henry
county. After we crossed the river, the
| pig seemed to hnger on the bank as If
it wished to. cross. 1t was taken into
the boat and rOwed across, when it i'm
| medlately Ieaped out, and started off at
a brisk tr0t after the company. Tt fol-
lowed us through Cincinnati, on through
Illinois; then we went into camp. A
| short time after, we again took uD our
line of march, followed by the DIG to
| Sandusky, then to Fort Meigs, thence
to the rived Raisin, from thence to Pig
cOntOwn and then to Detroit, where the
army camped for some time. The ex-
DeditiOn was then conducted around
Lake Superior, then we marched I'D the
river Thames, the pig still following.
| Thence across the sWamps to Harris and
| JOhnstOn's battle-ground it swan one
mile and q quarter at one time and
| about mile at another; during one of
| it's performances it was 1amed by q
horse, when our commander had it sent
back to Detroit and kept till we return
ed. Capt. Watkins called for our shOate,
and it followed him home to Shelby
vile, Ky. When he passed the gentle
mans house to whom it belonged he
remarked that he had brought his pig
home; the gentleman told him to keen
| it, that it was too much of a military
hog for him. The pig slept many nights
in the tent of the writer, and was never
known to put his nose in dinner plate
It was loved by all the army, and they
would never go into the camp until sure
that the pig was safe. Capt. Walking
kept the pig until it's death. This is nv
recollection of the pig story, and it is
all true. JOHN STANDFORD.
Several other old gentlemen who were
with Mr.. StandifOrd during this cam
paign have frequently related the Incl.
dent to us and vouch for it's truthful.
ness. The gentleman who owned the
pig said that while the army was pass
ing he was sharpening a knife to kill it
probably she had a apresentimentof of some
thing of the kind and concluded to save
| her life by flight. 4 number of he1
descendants are still living in thi:
county, and will furnish any further in
formation that may be desired on thu
subject. ....
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12
Our National Wealth.
A BRITISH STATEMENT OF THE MAZE
RIAL PROSPERITY OF THE
UNITED STATES.

A report recently made by her Majes-
tvs Secretary of Legation at Washing
ton, and transmitted to the Foreign
Office, states the following facts, as
showing to the astonishing progress be-
ing made by the United States, in spite
of the loss of their ocean commerce and
the prOstratiOn of their shipping inter
Csts:
'The wealth of the Union in 1870 was
$40, LOGS, ,488, ,507, against $16,150,616,068 in
the year 1860 and $7,135, ,780, 1888 in 1850,
so that notwithstanding the exhaustion
consequent on the four years. war, and
the loss of $2,000,0O0,000 in slaves, the
increase in the last ten years is rather
over 80 per cent. The thirteen leading
mines in the COmstock lode alone have
prOdncedin bullion, from 1861 to August,
1871, 1884 4,355, ,OO2, and this, too, notWith-
standing very Wastful and careless mi
ming, now being partly corrected. |
believe it has been estimated by compe-
tent judges that there now accumulates
during the winter months, in the various
Western mines, Of precious metals, an
amount equal to about t$10,000,O which
during the spring and early summer
finds its way East to be shipped abroad.
Even the LlanO Estacado, a barren
steppe, destitute of water and long the
terror of travellers to the Pacific, has
lately been discovered to be rich in min
eral wealth. The daily average prOduc-
ton OF petroleum in the United States
in 1871 was about $4,000 barrels, against
1890 in 1870, while fresh impetus is
likely to be given to it in some of the
Western States by it's proved adapta-
bility to the smelling of iron ores, which
is already becoming an important indus
try in the West.
"The unlimited ore deposits of the
iron mountains and the knobs of the
Ozarl1s, their proximity to the coal beds
OF the prairie State of Missouri, the in
exhaustible limonities of the sub-car-
boniferOus and the carbonates of the
coal measures of Western Kentucky, all
promise to make Belmont, Cairo, St.
Louis, Carondelet, Grand Tower, Evans
vile, Paducah, and other places, great
interior centres of an iron trade looming
| up in the possibly not very distant fu-
trre. In Alabama, a late geological
survey estimates the coal fields of War
riOr, Cahawba and Coosa at $500 square
| miles, with about 100000 tons of coal
to the square mile; the accompanying
iron ores are red and brown hematite
black band and fOssiliferous. The guam
tity and quality of these ores, thei1
proximity to both coal and hlxes, and
the low rate of transport to the sea at
| Mobile, are considerations well calcu-
! lated to attract foreign, and especially
| British enterprise to these regions, and
that in spite of amy present political
| drawbacks"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

THE MIsTLETOB.-We give our rea-
ders the following NEUROLOGICAL ac-
count of this plant still dear to every
English home circle. The 1nistletoe
was the holiest plant in nature to the
Druids and early BritOns, for it repre-
sented their sun god. Horus, of Eastern
mythology (the offspring of Leo and
Virgo, which the Egyptians represented
by the Sphinx is also BaldHr, the loved
and early lost-whose tale i'm the Morse
mythology is like sunshiny fragment
of IOnian life dropped into the stormy
centre of scandinavian existence. For
Baldur, the holiest Druids sought with
prayers and ceremonies on the sixth day
of the moon the mistletoe which grew
on the sacred oak. It's discovery was
hailed with songs and sacrifices of white
bulls. None but the chief priest might
gather it, which was done by separating
It from the tree with a golden knife. It
was caught in the robe of priest, and
on no account allowed to touch the
ground. In Denmark, Sweden and
Norway, it has still names equivalent
to "Baldur brow.n Tt was in high rep
utation with all pretenders to the black
art, and isauthOritatively said to possess
the power of resisting lightning. It
grows IN dDunua1ce IN central IeXaS,
and it is currently believed that even If
the tree on which it grew was blasted
by lightning, it was always uniniured.
Chandler says that the custom, of deck
ing the house at Christmas with mistle-
toe is of pagan origin, and was done by
the Drrlids to allure and comfort the
sylvan spirits during the sleep of nature.
It is found in abundance from Texas
north to the mouth of the Ohio River.
...s+, Western Rural.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman has tested the following
method of measuring trees which proved
to be satisfactory: GA stick of timber
is desired, say fifty feet long; select
your tree, measure fifty feet in q direct
line from the foot of the tree on as near
level ground as possible; now cut a
stick the exact height Of the observer
on his back, his feet 'S against the is stick lex
and head in the line of the tree and
stick, and look directly over the top of
the stick, and where the line of vision
strikes the tree will be the length of
stick, fifty feet, desired. If the ground
is not level the measure will not be ex-
act, but allowance must be made.n .-
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

THE WRONG MAN.-Dick Wood, cam
didate for COngressfrOm Mount Sterling.
KY, while canvassing in the mountains,
was compelled at one point to imbibe 4
good deal of apple-jack in order to con-
vince the natives that he was not one of
those honest and hardy yeOmanry."
The consequence was that Dick-after
giving orders to be woke ND at three
o'clock in the morning, that he might be
able to reach d distant appointment
when he retired to rest, was in five min
utes after he laid down "as good as q
dead man.
Some scamps procured some lamp
black, and thoroughly blacked his face.
Next morning promptly wasarOund
at three o'clock, and was in such hurry
to be off that he did not take time to
wash, but bOlted his breakfast and rode
away at brisk gait.
Arriving at his destination, he hunted
mp a prominent politician, to whom he
had letter of introduction, and present.
ed his credentials.
The gentleman read the letter, alter
mating the reading with glances at Dicks
face, and then he asked:
Are you Major Wood of Mount Ster-
ling2"
"That's my name, sir" replied Dick.
"Why, 7 thought you were a white
man ~ said the other. Greatly aston
ished, Dick blurted out:
"And so I am.n
"Well. yOu have cussed black skin
for a white man, said the other.
"What the devil do you mean ?" asked
Dick angrily. "Do you mean to insult
me?n
"No, sir; but you had better not at
tempt to speak here to-day. Our boys
won't stand speech from nigger!"'
"a nigger!n cried Dick "why, there
amt drop of niger blood in my veins!
| I'm as white as any other mani"
Seeing q looking glass on the wall,
Dick stepped up and looked in it.
Starting back with an oath that fairly
| made the windows rattle, he exclaimed ::
"Well, if the cussed fools at Wythe-
vile haven't walked up the wrong man,
and Wood is over there yeti"
Jerking off his hat, he dropped into q
chair, and began vigorously to fan him
| self.
The other seeing isstraight hair, and
noticing that the back part of his neck
appeared to be white, suggested soap and
| water.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

There were fifteen travellers who
stopped at a public house, and called
for a dinner. Tt was served ND and
placed on three eornered table, five
sitting on each side. They invited the
landlord to dine with%hem. After they
had finished their meal, they proposed
to count, commencing at some one. and
count five, and whoever counted five
was to leave the table, or in other words,
every fifth man step out. They further
agreed that the last man left was to
pay the bill. They so counted as to
have it fall upon the landlord. Now
what seat did the man occupy who
started the count?
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12
Twenty-Five. ladies and gentlemen in

Twenty-Five ladies and gentlemen in
Newark, New Jersey, assembled in a
hotel parlor two or three evenings ago,
and formed society for. the promotion
of marriage. An alarming condition of
affairs was disclosed by the statement
that there are in Newark three men to
every woman. The competition which
naturally ensues renders marriage i'm
probable and puts a premium on fliFta-
ton. The society is going to work in
offieions) matchmaking siI IS thereby ina1- a
gllrated in Newark. ----
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

AN ABsENT-MNDED JUDGE.-A GER
tain judge was visiting friends family
when the death of infant child occurred.
The bereaved parent requested the
judge to watch by the remains of the little
departed, and Of course he consented.
As the night hours sped their weary
length along, the judge became exceed
ingly sleepy and weary; so looking
around he found bureau, and trying
the upper drawer thereof, found it empty
and capable of being locked.
He accordingly placed the dead baby
in the drawer, locked it, took out the key,
put the latter in his pocket, and retired
to rest on the sofa.
Awaking early, and having call out,
he entirely forgot the events of the pre-
ceding night.
At court hour he was punctual in at
tendance, and was deeply engaged list
ening to counsel, when strong whisper
startled him:
where's the baby?n
A fumbEng in his pocket, the delivery
of the key, and few explanatory words
delivered all parties from their some
what uncomfortable predicament.
The above is vOuched for as true.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

STOCK RAIs1NG.-A writer in the
Farm and Home throws out the follow
ing hints:
If the farmers of Kentucky find it
pays to devote themselves almost ex-
clusively to raising mules, horses, fine
cattle and sheep on their lands, which
are so much higher III price than the
best lands in the cotton States, why
should it not be profitable for us on our
cheap lands to go into the business !?
Our climate is as good, we can raise
corn, oats, grass, clover as well as in
Kentucky, and we certainly have land
enough and to spare.
If we do not mean to take the trouble
Of raising the mule colts, we can do as
many Kentucky mule raisers do, buy
yearling colts in Ohio or Indiana at
from $50 to $40 per head, take them
home, feed them literally, and at three
years old have mules for which we now
have to pay the drOver $500 a head.
Liberal feeding and well bred stock
| constitute the secret of successful stock
raising.
am strongly in favor of our trying
to raise our own stock of every desCrip-
ton, but il we want to make the buSi-
ness pay and compete successfully with
the professional stock raisers of the
| blue grass region, we must discard the
| scrubs we now have, and introduce the
breeds of cattle which by high feeding
will be prepared for market and for
| home consumption at the earliest period.
To raise hogs with the greatest profit
they should be ready for the butcher at
twelve months old at the furthest
| This is impossible with the saW-backs
| of our Diney woods, .-
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

The most original spelling we have
ever seen is the following: Itbeats pho
nctics.-8O you be-a tub. 8Ooh! pea-a
top. Be 80-bat. See 8O-cat. Pea 80
pat. Are 80-rat. See oh! double you
COW. See you be-cub. See bee
cab. Be you double tca-butt. See a
dOuble nll-caIl.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

A little six year old George, having
been instructed by his aunt to pray for
his papa, and being one evening inter-
rupted in his devotion, and being told
by her that he must now pray for his
mamma, replied: "Aunt Katie, you just
hold your horses now. Who's running
this prayer you or me 2"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

PEACH YELLoWs.-Peach trees are
never attacked by the yellOws in this
section, the sickly color of their foliage
is, doubtless, caused by their stunted
and consequently starved condition, and
the presence Of horers at the roots. To
guard against the latter, remove all the
worms you can discover under the bark
of the roots, apply q handful Of lime or
ashes and afterTaEds j var Is bill hill Up the trees
hy y4r {es g0ea eabed M 9P OF P0aofSS P@ aefr4
when the cone Of earth should be
Ievelled; and repeat the hilling up every
spring, before insect life becomes ac-
tive.-[P. J. Berckmans in Farmer and
Gardener. s''
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

"HOw do you do to-day 2" asked be-
nevolent physician of one Of his Irish
patients at Guys hospital. "Faith doc
tor" grOaned the poor fellow, " I'm that
bad that if any one was to tell me that
[ was clane dead, would.nOt be sur
nriSpd at all
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

A gentleman who had left his wife
alone in the theatre while he went out
to get whiffof fresh air, "apologized
on his return. Dear me,n said she, 81
thought you went to give me chance
to t1irt with that man with that lovely
black mOustache." She has had no cause
to complain of any want of attention
from her husband since.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

a AGerman printer named Conrad Lutz,
now living at Burlington, Iowa, has re-
ceived official information that he has
been drafted into the Wurtemberg land
Wehr. Inasmuch as he left Germany
when two years old he intends remain
inr in the lan0 Mehr he is.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

Elder sister, to her little brother of
about six summers: go, you wicked,
bad boy! put down that pipe directly,
sir, or III box your ears for yOu!" Ju-
nior brother who had been smoking ::
"Box my ears if you dare! I'll go tell
papa you let cousin Jack kiss you twice
behind the door yesterday" n. B.-A
truce was agreed upon.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

A young hunter surprised his
friends by announcing that he was going
into agriculture, and should commence
rich and lovely widows weeds.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

The Portland (Maine) Press says that
the melting of the snow, caused by the
warm sun and winds of the past week,
has revealed a sad and very distressing
sight on High street, in that city. In a
garden not far from Congress street,
there has been found the form of a
woman, entirely denuded of clothing,
and half buried in the snow. Who she
is, what her name may be, her birth and
her nationality, seem wrapped in i'm
penetrable mystery.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

Flipllins says there are three sexes
the male sex, the female sex, and the
inSnctS
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

A popular preacher thinks that hell is
within twenty miles of the earth's sur
face in the latitude of Kentucky, and
his congregation have resolved not to do
any more subsOil blowing.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

A gentleman riding.a very ordinary
looking horse, asked of negro whom
he met dow far it was to a neighboring
town. The negro looking at the animal
under the rider with broad grin of con-
tempt, replied: "Wi' dat ar hoss massa,
it's jist fO'teen miles. WIZ good chunk
of hoss, seben miles; butif you jisthad
Massa Jimmy's hoss, gosh! you're dar
nOW!n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

FowLs.-Fowls, tObe fattened, should
be shut up in flocks of twelve, in light,
airy pen, five by six feet; feed them
three times day all they will eat (no
more), on scalded horse feed. Mix with
this plenty of powdered charcoal At
night throw them all the corn they will
pick up. Furnish plenty of gravel and
pure water, and in one week they will
do for market. The yellow legged
fowls will always look best when fat.
TFxchange,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

Punch defines woman as a creature en-
dOWed with "self-ornamental instinct.n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

EARLY MARRYING. - Morally, men
tally, physically, premature marriage is
a mistake among women; and vet everv
day we see this mistake sanctioned by
the officers of religion, blessed by the
consent OF friends, and entered into with
the ectGt which should be reserved for q
triumph rather than a trial
Morally" it is mistake, because
few women are fit, at an age when they
should be under authority" to rule a
household prudently; since no atmos-
phere is so dangerous for an undevelOp-
ed soul as that of the almost absolute
power which is generally delegated to
the young wife. She may now do what
ever is pleasing in her own eyes. She
has been freed from parental restraint,
and any other has a circumference SO
underlined that it is narrowed and en-
larged according to the will and moral
sense of her who draws it. Angels might
fear to walk in such broad freedom as
is given by love and sufferance to the
majority OF our young married women
women by courtesy, children in the
regard of both law and wisdom.
Mentally" it is a mistake, because
with marriage all mental growth is sus-
pended in the large majority Of women
Education being regarded as simply q
means toward an end, is abandoned as IS
soon as the end is obtained. It NAV he
argued that all education from such a
motive is a mistake to begin with. True.
but then it is one which keeps the cul-
prit in the society of wisdom, and it is
just possible the mind under such infu-
ence might arrive at a juster conception
of it's worth and value.
physically" it is mistake, because
at the early age at which many marriages
are made the human form has not ar
rived at perfected strength; and duties
and responsibilities are laid upon it fo1
which nature has made no adequate
provision. Vitality is destroyed quicker
than it is generated, and early and rapid
decay of both mind and body are the
results. Then the woman is said to die
"by the visitation Of God,1 though in
nine cases ont of ten it is only the sim.
pie and inevitable result Of laws of ma,
ture pitilessly and persistently broken
| FGoianon nf HooJ4b
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

The principle of all virtue and excel
lence lies IN the power of denying our
selves the satisfaction of our own de-
siTes.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-04-12

When is a lawyer strongest? When
be is fee-hlest.
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EDUC AFHONALs
sSTH1SS1s HSSR YsSGNG LADIES.

SGA00L H0& KDUNaE AAH0AEsSs
will open my school for the education Of
young ladies', on Monday. end OF September
iprox.l, in my dwelling at 0pelousas. I intend
this Institution to be permanent, and will en-
deav0r to meet the wants of this community, py
iaff0ryling facilities for a thorough education.
TERMS:
Tuition III primary branches, per month w
Tuition i'm Academic e 4 90
French g 2 30
Music with use of Tliano. q 6 90
Drawing, ldaily lessansl. 90
Painting, fri-weekly lessons, 6 90
beard, p s..s'''' q Il 90
washing, per dozen, 20
All dues payable monthly in advance
MRS. III. NJ. HAYES.
July 20, 1s7a-tf,