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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-02-13

. 4OGd1
Penalties and costs ON delinquent taxes due
the above funds are also eolleetable in currency.
The balance Of the twenty-one aiid a half mills,
Viz: fourteen and d half mills, together with
penalties and costs accompanying the same and
back licenses, is, Under the provisions OF section
fifteen OF the act No. 3, approved January "a,
1874 cOllectable either in cash or Auditors war
rants issued for claims due, prior to january ],
1874. For this portion of the delinquent taxes
all State warrants issued for services rendered
or claims due prior to january /, 1874, are re-
cefyahle, except such as are affected by injunc-
tons, viz: - a
Si41, 900 issued under acts Nos. 90 and 100 of
1870, during the months of August, September
and October, 1872, to w. A. Weed 81 Co.
S9T00 issued under act No. 800 1873, during the
month OF March, 1878, to various parties,
5. You will also proceed at once with the col
lection OF licenses for the current year, making
rcqnfeitinn on this Office forthe necessary blanks.
Licenses as well rs taxes for the current year
are Al receivable IN currency only.
4. All taxes are due and eollectable on the first
day or February In each year. 1t has been Gus
ton1ary todelay cOllectionsu until the fall months,
but this is nOtrequired by law, and is p productive
to collectors. You will be required to use the
utmost diligence in making as many collections
as possible early in the year. IN most cases tits
as easy, and in some portions of the State il is
more convenient for taxpayers TO pay in the
spring months than later in the year. In all
such cases there is no good reason for delay, and
q change from the former system is desirable in
order to relieve this and tile TfeasufeF's offices
n0atA the confusion which results from crowding
so much Of the business of the year into the last
feW.days OF December. and at q time when our
hooks should be balanced in order to prepare
nnHal reports.
8. Blank tax receipts in book form. with stubs
attached, will be Furnished by this Office, and the
issue of any other, In receipt for taxes. is strictly
prohibited. These receipts must be used for both
eurrcllt and delinquent taxes collected hut in
ease must one recent cover taxes for more
than one year.
saidfax receipt books viii, in future. be held
as part OF the records Of the collectors office.
and upon the final settlement the book or books
the stubs and remaining unused re-
eeipts must be returned to this office.
Each receipt given to taxpayers should be
numbered, and the stub from which II was de-
avg In Al atiaar resneGtsh e MoperlY filled M al
CHARLES CLINTON.
fetls-fI Auditor
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Al New York doctor says tIlat the
heart Is capable OF beating 6127 times
per hour, but we dom believe IL. We
never heard it sung Id any De the songs
that " this heart, my dear Susan, beats
Gf2f times ali hour for 6lIse.f'
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u tEuo cOpS,
OSEzIME A. GuIDRY, Dep. Clerk.
February II

OPELoUsAs, February 18th, 1874.
| hereby certify that the within was this day
recorded in Mortgage Book No. 16, page 5I1. In
testimony whereof / hereto set my hand and
aft1x the seal of my office.
JOHN n. OGDEN, Dep. Recorder.
feb J2-3t
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no LICENSE PAYRRs.
OFFICE oE srAHR ANn

OFFICE OF STATE AND
PARISH TAN COLLECTOR,
Opelnusas, February 18th, 1871.
All state aud Parish Licenses must be paid
within ten days frDna the date hereof. After
that date they will be collected with costs.
JONATHAN Il. MORRIS,
feb 13-ats Tax Collector.
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MISCELLANEOUS
CKRCULAR.
INSTRUCTIONS TO TAX COLLECTORS,

~ =" y" STATE az LOUIgLAGA, }
g Auditors Office,
New Orleans, January %, 1874.
The following instructions arc issued for the
information and guidance of tax collectors
throughout the State.
l. Fourteen and a half mills on the dollar hay-
ing been fixed as the rate of taxation for all
State purposes for the year 1874, you will extend
and collect at this rate on your assessment rolls
for the year 1878, apportioping to the several
funds as follows
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All eollectable in currency

~ A41 IUIIJUNAWlV III NULIJuCy I'D
Q, You will also proceed with the collection Of
delinquent taxes on the rolls In your possession,
as. the same are now carried out thereon, the
whole being twenty-one and one half mills. OF
this amount the following must be eolleeted in
currency only, to-Wit: t
Mills.
School fund. 3
Interest Q
Levee construction and repair. -..... 8
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The Public Debt.

The public debt statement Of the Uni
ted States has just been issued, of which
the following Is q Tecapitulation:
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN COIN.
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III YIsAU1 PAYRURs DE L.lGRNsR

BUREAU DU C~0LLEcTEuR DIES TAXES, I
Opelousas. IS F6yrfeP, 1874.
T9utes les LieensesdEtat ct DC Paroisgc de-
eette Epoqna Giles seront G0Ilee1ees avee frais.
JONATHAN Il. MORRIS,
d3fey Colleetenr,
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(Signedl

(Signedl JOHN POSEY,
Treasurer and Collector.
The petition of D. Roos, Esq, was presented,
praying to have warrant No. 1923, for $40, dated
Sept. LIST, 1873, ISSUED to H. Hayes, transferred,D
renewed v" on account OF the ses sam me- having been
rant issue in lien of the original, which, if re-
produced, shall be cancelled as null and void.
There being no further business, on motion
the Board adjourned.
Fl. LATOUR, President.
Attest: John PosEY, Clerk pro tenn.
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Circular 90 Collectors Of Customs and
Others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

CORNER IN THE CHICAGO CORN MARKET
The Chicago lnter-Ocean of last Wednesday
said: There was considerable excitement in
The CORR market in this city yesterday. A large
number OF contracts for July delivery remained
unprovidtd for, and through the competition
between buyers prices were forced from 63 to
90 c. nts. The market is undoub tedly under the
control of strong combination, and an effort
viii probably be made to advance prices to
still higher range"
The New YOIk Post of Saturday evening
says: Enquiries we're made to-day as to the
fleet on the grain trade of the great corner in
corn which ye terdsy eliminated In Chicago,
when corn was forced up to SO cents per bushel.
Mr. Franklin Econ, the president of the pro-
duce exchange, said that the speculation had
not Influenced the market in this city, where
corn was sold yesterday at 20 and 70 cents per
bushel, although its freight from Chicago costs
10 cents. The combination did not include any
firms in New York ana Liverpool, as reported.
but was confined entirely to the neighbour hood
OF Chicago, where its immediate effect would
alone be feltv
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Paul Boynton's Proposed Feat.

TIN P6AhL-DlNkk TO BE DROPPED TWO hun
DIRE MILES AWAY PROM LAND.
correspondent OF the Baltimore American
writes from Atlantic City a. follows: paul
boynton's engagement here terminates on
September IS, when he will proceed 70 New
YORK city 70 make arrangements for what might
reasonably be termed shsZardOus undert aking.
tee OF the liie-dTess, has offered $500 TO Mr..
Boy nton 20 make q sea voyage In Ms suit in
order TO demonstrate 70 the public its merit as
q life preserver. He has accepted the proposal ,
and on or about the 18th OF September be will
be carried from New York by an outward bound
steamer 10 a distance not less than two
hundred miles from land, when he will be
dropped and left TO the mercy OF the waves
until he shall meet with a passing vessel.
He will carry with him in rubber-bas
containing sufficient rations, consisting of
dried meats, &c, for one week as well as
q good quantity of fresh water. He will also
carry signal lights and flags, with a sectional
stan twelve feet long for raising them, all of
which are 10 be slowed away the unlimited
portals Of the rubber bag, which is about two
feet square, and Is little or no Inconvenience
strapped TO and hOAted at the side OF tue swim
mer. The feat by many may be considered a.
deliberately challenging death, but Mr.. Boyu-
ton Is very ssnguine OF success, and even saws
that he would willingly allow himself 70 be left
slightest tears regarding his safe recovery He
places implicit conf dence in the Merriman lite-
suit, and feels an anxiety TO have its merits
thoroughly tested and laid before the public In
order 10 accomplish this object he hiss chosen
the mentioned date as the one when he will be
be most likely TO encounter the severe equinoc-
tial gales"
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A CLERICAL SCANDAL IN GRRMAHY.-Pre-
late Augustus Kapff, the highest dignitary OF
the Protestant church of Wurtemburg, has
been accused by one OF his parishioners, one
Frederick Amann, Of Stuttgart, with having
had criminal intercourse with his wife. The
unfortunate woman denied the charge of undue
familiarity with her pastor, but TO no purpose,
her husband perssting in defaming her charac-
ter well as the prelste's, and the result Is
that she is now an inmate of the lunatic ssy-
lum in Thurgovia, Switzerland. The clergy
man implicated for some time kept silence In
regard to the charge, but at length, by the sd-
vice Of friends, Issued q card denying the
charges Of Amann. But Amann has procured
wife, which says that Kapff lived for over q
year ut the Watering place OF Rsgatz with Mrs.
Amann, representing her as his wife.
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President Grant Going TO Visit Wash
tngtOn-s Headquarters.

MoRRIsTOwN, n. j.. August 3.-President
Grant has accepted an invitation "a visit this
lection of the country on Thursday next. the
6th instant, and will Come on a special train.
stopping for a few minutes at Newark aud
orange, and reaching MoTTistown AZ noon. He
will remain here one hour, and will hold a re
ception at Washington's headquarters. lie will
then proceed to Dover and Mount Hope, visit
inR an iron mine; thence 20 Ne~ton, and back
10 Boonton, remaining all night st the latter
place as the guest of John Hill.
THE TRIP POSTPONED.
MoRRIsTowS, y. j., August 3.-A telegraphic
dispatch from the President states that he has
postponed his visit TO this place till next week.
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Time Bedten.-A correspondent of the New York
Express, writing from Saratoga. n. Y, July
31st, says" The now celebrated Vernon (Sa.
ysHnah, Ga.,) crew, mentioned by me yester-
day, have beaten the COlumbia's time. Start
ing twenty minutes after the steamer Commo
lore Brady, they passed that craft, aud at a
quarter mile length turned her bow and glided
into Snake Hill cove, resting on their laurel-
1T II O'Clock in the morning, and this in their
"dug-out," in which they will not row in the
national regatta, but in one Of the three boats
names, as registered at the old Americal hotel,
are James Schley, Hal Schley, brothers. Geo.
Scbley cousin to the brotbers) and Geo. Kim
hall. The approaching national regatta Will
draw here the largest crowd ever seen in Sara
tosa. Crews are daily arriving from eyerv-
where, and soon the full complement Of 11S
crews will be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

A VIOLENT SCENE IN THE FRENCH Assem-
BLY.-A violent scene occurred in the French
Assembly on Saturday. General ID 'Istria, a Bo-
napartist, on Friday US d the expression that
the republic had succumbed before the scorn OF
honest men. Saturday he was challenged BY the
men bers of the left to repeat the words, which
he did. Thereupon Victor Schodehr, a republi-
can, gave him the lie, and several deputies from
the lett rushed toward him, shouting and sh ak
ing their fists. The president OF the Assembly,
unable to restore order, suspended the sitting
lt is probable that several duels will follow
fhe permanent committee OF the Assembly,
which Is to sit during the recess, has been
elected. 1t is composed of SIX legitmists, te n
members of the moderate right and right CEN
tire, and nine of the left. The Bonaparists are
wholly excluded. The police are again search
ibg the houses of prominent Bonapartists and
Selling documents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

FATHER CUTTING HIS THROAT IN THE
PRESENCE OF HIS CHILDRRN.-Josep oh TAYLOR,
q laborer, living near Trenton, n. j., went
ence OF liquor. He took his four children into
an outbilding, ard, after seating himself, he
cut his throat from ear to ear with o razor
The wound was not deep enough to produce in
slant death, and the children ran terrified into
the house and gave the alarm. He died Friday
morning. This was the fourth attempt he had
MADE upon bis life, each one being produced by
excessive drink.
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Foreign Notes.

BASE BALL IN KEGLAND.
LONDON, August Sat Manchester, Satur-
day, the Athletics beat the Red Stockings by a
score OF Is TO u. The game lasted two hours
The cOncourse of spectators was large and very
appreciative. Before the game the players eI-
planned the method of laying out the grounds
and gave exhibitions of throwing aud catching
ball. The audience appeared TO understand the
game, and there was some betting on the result
after the second inningS
BANK HOLIDAY IN LONDON.
LONDON, August 3.-To- day is a bank and
general holiday in this city.
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NeW York NofRS
new
M xnrar NnraDEur

PRANK wALwoRTH, THE PARRICIDs, INSANE
NEW YORK. August 3.-Frsnk Wslworth, the
parricide, has been removed from Auburn
prison to the prison asylum for insane convicts
on the advice OF board Of examining physi-
clans.
THE RAILROAD CONFERENCE AT SARATOGA.
The Tribune thinks that while the ostensible
purpose of the recent railroad conference at
Saratoga was to make combinations TO facili-
tate transporta ion and establish uniform and
passenger rates, the roads really combined to
resist what they look upon as forthcoming en-
croachments of western grapgers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

DIVIDEND FOR JAY COOKE & Co.-Mr Lewis
trustee of the estate of Jay Cooke & Co. rece we'd
Saturday another dividend from Capt. Aims
worth. president of the Oregon Steam Navlga-
ton Company, amounting TO SIS, 6S7 so gold
which, reduced to currency, produced 800 1872 S.
which, added to the dividend received a few
days since, amounts to Sol, 5l6 OF already
received upon the Al SEQ, 600 stock in that COM
pany held by the estate. Other dividends will
follow -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

INNOCENT MAN PARDoNED.-Goyernor Tay-
Tor, of Illinois. on Friday last, psrdoned James
B. Carter, who was sentenced to the state prison
for murder. 1t Is now proved tina he W as in
nocent. The man murdered was Ira b. Wheel
er, and Carter was In his employ. Domestic
trouble arose, and Wheeler accused Carter Of
being too intimate with his (wheeler's) wife,
In one Of the Quarrels Mrs. Wheeler picked up
a Ratchet and killed her husband, and she per-
suaded Carter to help conceal the body. Both
we're arrested, and Carter, weak minded as he
is, was induced by Mrs. Wheeler to father the
crime. Both were convicted, but she WAS dis :
charged on a writ of error. petition for the
pardon OF Carter was signed by the judge who
delivered the sentence and q large number OF
citizens or the county OF Pepin where the muir.
der was committed seven yesrs ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

SUPPosED TRAIN WRECKRR ARRESTED
Detective g. b. Mead, of the Boston and Al
hsny railroad, arrested man giving his name
as James Brown, at Springfield, on wednes-
day, on suspicion of placing distinctions in
front of Conductor Russell's midnight train re-
Gently. Brown got on the train at West Brook.
field, and was endeav0ring 10 avoid the detec-
tive when captured. He is six feet In height
very stout, has state prison experience, and
has vowed vengeance on the road in cense-
quence Of being discharged q few months ago.
RoSfoa .Iosly11nl' 2Ofb
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&The American base ball clubs arrived in
London on Saturday. They take part in
nous English clubs.
ga large number Of sporting men have ar
rived In Pittsburg. expecting to witness the
Edwards Collyer prize fight. expected to take
place on the sth OF August, IL not sooner.
~In the three-mile single-scull race at
Peekskill, New York, on Saturday, Ten Eyck
beat Dickinson only half a length, In twenty
minutes and fourteen seconds. 1t was q very
exciting contest.
1Advices from Brussels report the Spanish
delegates TO the international congress have
been instructed from Madrid not To particle
pate In the deliberations, because that govern
ment is yet unrecognized by European powers.
~The benchers Of Gray's Inn, England,
have decided that DIR. Kenealy, the counsel for
the bogus Tichborne claimant, Is unworthy to
sit with them. He will also be expelled from
the bar, IL he does not desist from his STRUCTURES
on Chief Justice Cockburn In the paper which
he founded In order 70 have An organ through
which be could attack his lordship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

THE PEACH CROP.-It the estimate OF the
peach growers (442 600 baskets) be correct
more than one fourth or the crop of the present
season Is already marketed, and as yet we have
not got beyond the Hates. and have not partak
en- Of really good peach. Consumers will be
loath to believe that the season ia one fourth
over, and will hang hopefully on the estimate
which Is more likely to prove the true one. They
reckoned that almost one half the shipments
would be OF the Hale varieties, and it does see IN
II the crop be no greater than their estimate
that they will he correct in this Particular
Illumination [ DELI Commercial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

A SAD CASE OF DEATH from hydrophobia as
Just occurred In Dublin. wo children. Thomas
and Michael Mooney, sons OF the gatekeeper of
ing outside their fathers door a few DAYS since,
when stray dog came by, OF the retriever OF
pointer breed, and bit each of the children in
tha cheek. A dairyman who was passing imme-
diately attacked and killed the dog, the owner
OF which has not been ascertaiued. 1t was
found necessary, in consequence of the symp-
toms that developed themselves, to take the
children 10 Stephens hospital, where the
Younger child died and the elder is still suffer
ing.
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parish at Cape May, in the course of his SER
mon yesterday, took occasion TO say that the
so-caled "sacred" concerts given at the great
hotels on Sunday Qua bit not TO be patronized By
pious people. He is of the opinion that "sacred''
concerts can be given nowhere except in a
Catholic church; and to compel the Catholic
gnests at the hotels to choose between the con-
certs and the church services, he fixed the hour
for "vespers" at p. m. The telegraph informs
us that number OF Catholics held an informal
meeting In front OF St. Nary's church, and de-
nounced the priest for violating Catholic usage
in changing vesper service from afternoon to
night. The matter Is to be reported to Bishop
Carrigan at Newark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

VAN NESS alias Livingston, arrested at Rich
mopd, Va, three weeks since on q charge OF
forging the name OF Commodore Vanderbilt TO
large amount Of paper, and attempting 10
utter the same az true, was discharged on Sat
urday, the prosecution failing to get witnesses
from abroad to appear against him. His family,
who have been confined In Jail as Migrants,
we're released, and the whole batch ordered to
leave the city within twenty-four hours. Van
Ness few days ago attempted suicide by hang
ing, having twisted strips OF clothing into
rope and fastened it to . hook In the cell, but
WAS frustIa ted by timely discovery.
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Two Morn CASES OF CHILD STEALING
The New York Sun says:-Carrie Isabella
DibliD, an attractive girl of 10 years, has been
missing from her house, 16s Grove street, Jer-
sey City, eince the 18th instant. Mre. Dlblin
believes th at her child has been stolen.
Jennie Robb, aged IA. delicate, fair SOM
plexioned girl with auburn hair, has been misc
ing from her home in First street, MorrIsanis,
since w ednesday, and grave apprehensious are
entertained for her safety. Her father, James
Robb Is Wholesale grocer at Warren and
Washin Qton streets
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Five MnN SRrTKroJ

FIVE MhE SENTENCED TO death FOR ONE
MURDBR.-Governor Kellogg. of Louisiana, on
Saturday morning signed death warrants or
the parish of Assumption, of i've men, who in
April last, murdered and robbed Elisha East
wood, an old fatboatman, in that parish. The
names OF the condemned are Anderson Perry,
John Ross, Antoine Mourel, Joseph Williams,
and James Robertson. One is q white man
two are so light as TO pass for white, one is q
mulatt0, and the other IL negro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03

ARRESTED IN IRELAND FOR MURDzR IN
MAssAcRUsErTs.-Thes state police OF Massa-
chusetts have Information that Themas Cahill
has beeu arrested in Ireland, charged with the
murder OF Bridget Landergan, servant girl, in
Dorchester district, Mass., on the 5th or last
December. Cahill Ii held to await the arrival
Of reQuisitlon from the United States govern
ment, when he will be brought back to Boston
Cahill was residing at o town called ParshulIa
with his father, and 1t appears had been accused
by people in Ireland OF committing this iden-
teal murder, which accusation he met with q
great deal Of talk.
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Goldsmith Maid to Trot Against Her
Rest Time.

BUFFALO, August 3.-Arrsngements are now
being considered 20 give a purse Of -. 900 TO
Goldsmith Maid to trot against her best time
during the races.
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The PHNALrY OF REMoasE.-John Sceery,
the Hartford boy who pushed a playmate into
the river ssfor fun" and 20 caused his DEATH
was tried in the police court, day before yester-
day, on the charge OF mansiaughter and dis.
charged, the judge declaring his belief that re-
moro would be sufficient punishment.
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SuIcIpED BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T GO TO
BALL--A young girl named Larima Cosgrove,
aged IA years, and residing at Moulton, in Bur.
linRton county, n. j., committed suicide q few
days ago by taking lsudanum because her
mother would not permit her to 60 20 . dance
in the neiahborhOod.
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The Grasshoppers Only Take Half
the CrOn I'm Manitoba.

TORONTO, August 3.-A dispatch from Fort
Garry says reports from all sections of Manitoba
bad as fIst reported Fully one-half q crop is
expected.