The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-09-19
From Our state Exchanges.

lance Committee of Vermilion parish
has been hard at work. Various re-
ports reach us, but most of them can
not be credited. One gentleman, just
from the scene of action, brought the
news that sixteen thieves had been
hung and five shot, and that the Vigil
lancers were in hot pursuit OF others.
Last night, however, we had the pleas
ure of meeting a gentleman on our
streets, whom we. strongly suspect OF
Knowing something of the affair." who
tells us that up to Monday night only
| seven men had been killed-six hung
and one shetland two sOf@these were
negroes. The names of the killed are
Demostin L6g6, Neville Castro, Alex.
L6g& Jr., Oreal L6ge, - Meaux'
Edmore (cl, Polite (c). =, 1t. - -,
The Vigilance Committee IS still at
work, and has about 1875 men enrolled.
These men are divided into companies
and scattered over the, entire parish,
and are securing every nook. and cor
ner, determined to rid the parish Of the
band of: thieves who, for SO many years,
have robbed the citizens and kept out
Observation-Disclosures Cotton
Boil, 10th. ,s,,- -: -, n.Lr
Council of. our neighbOr, franklin, has
passed an ordinance, compelling all
places Of business to close on SUNDAY.
This is very good, SO far as 1t goes, put
it is an evident hardship on merchants
there, so long as n~eighborlng towns
and country stores are not put under
the same restraint, but left free to di-
vest trade from Franklin. It should
become a State law, and then none
would complain. No other State allows
+ Of free transaction Of business on Sun
day, and every. merchant IN Louisiana
would be glad If such a law was enac-
ted here.-LIberia Sugar-BoWl, 11th.
A MURDERER.-A very worthy young
man named VIM. Charleston, who had
been working on Mr., 3; Bernard's Plan
tation III St. Martins Parish, was hrll-
tailv murdered by a negro, last week.
It appears that the two had started
out to the field together, the negro
coming behind with an axe, with which
he had stated he was going to fix the
fence, But on getting out of sight, he
struck Charleston with it, slammed him,
and then almost; severed the head from
the body. T.. 49,
field. the assassin went to the house of
his victim, and demanded money, from
his wife; whereupon, frightened by the
horrible looks of the murderer, she fled
slfieking from his presence ,.., J.,
After rihing the drawers, &C., of what
he could find, his object being. to. OBJ
tain money, he went out, mounted a
horse and made for a hiding place. .',.
But the hue and cry was OOh raised
after him, and Sheriff D~elahOussaye
with q posse next morning caught the
monster, and took him securely to Jail.
1T was with difficulty however, that
{ the authorities could prevent q crowd
f of justly indignant citizens, both white
4 - .-5o-aI T GnOpra {1xTnAhfo ~ tho nNJ1r-
derer on the spot.-[Attakapas Register,
18th. E.. :. E ,... f..
! CULTIVATE HABITS OF OBSERVATION
IN CHILDREN-The boy who leaves
] school with a fixed habit of. observation
: is really just beginning his education.
: Heis passing from the tuition of imper-
, feet teacherst to that of instructors whose
store of knowledge is boundless, and
whose methods are always. the best.
Il There is really no more curious study
than that ofmen's habitsin this particu-
lar. To ordinarily Observant people it
7 seems simply afmarvel that some men
:? and women can see SO much and learn
4 SO little. We ourselves have known,
for instance, persons of fine ability, Oc!
3 eupying editorial positions, who could
never learn how to indicate a desired
d alteration. on aproOf-sheet, and that, too
: when they were called uponftO SO. indi.
9 cate their wishes every day on p~roof-slipe
a on which similar alterations were mark.
ed already. We knew a s~hipping-clerl
81 once, who after dealing directly. with
steamboats, for years, was astOnlshed tt
L learn that a part of every steamboat il
is under water The tendency to THU
IT habit of observation, together with It'll
consequent habits of comparison anC
y reflection, nature implants in every
re human mind, and it is this that give
r birth to the perplexing questionings %
nj all children. When tits allowed to de
yelop itself, it becomes the best ant
os sugest of all educators; but fortthe mos
ld part it is rudely repressed inearly child
s. hood byreasOn of the Incidence of par
I ents, andsO we find it existing Veryfeeb
Id Your child antstOknoWthe facts abOu
everything he sees, and the reasons TO
in them. He naturally asks Is father o
"a his mother, who to him are the Teposi
: tories of all wisdom. 1t is not falway
T. EASY to answer him; and as the aveTag
~ parent cares a good deal more for hi
or her 0Wnfcomfort than for the futur
is character of the ehild's mind, the matte
g. is commonly disposedof byaan injunc
ton against questioning, which is a
- great an outrage upon the c.Ildas any
- blIIlS Gau UGs 1AO MaB eHU 145nb w 80
ID, questions. The God Wh0tph itintO hi
mind to. question you, made it your dut
to answer him to- thelyeTy best of You
gu ability. And your ability to answe
his depends largely upon your industry ]
r. trying to learn how. fyou den0tkno'
- the thing which he asks, and eann(
:. find it out, or if it be something whic
6h, YOU cannot make him understand, 70
Vo have only TO tell him SO, leaving hi
oh free TO ask aboutthe next thing thati1
tereststo or puzzles him. If you Iepel hil
'ue with amocking saw, orforbid his furtht
lat questioning, you injure him for hf
ee- quite as really and quite as seriously I
IL you did him physical hurt.-[HeaTt
- and Home. So
in LetthoseWhothinkth are unluckl
in losing apoFtien of their cTopby Il
worms read the following from Il
u Meridian Mercury: The canebrea
me region in Alabama including q larg
yer area between the Alabama and Bigl
rivers of rich black land of almost u
broken fertility, is, today, O des0latit
); that makes the heart sick fogthe eye
see III. A dull, brown streak thrOus
sp- the green grass, marks the YaWs,lWhe
me the cotton was. And that superb Ian
,en that oughbbo havebeena garden beariI
an abundance Of various feed crops
eat sustain life is a rank desolationl th
yer makes the heart sick to- look at it, al
hat the unbidden tear to start. The cOttl
Il is gone. Iii our Judgment, the Can
> break region, Judged by the samp
e. along the Central Railroad. viii d
eX- more than averaged balet0 seten acre