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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

THREE WIVES AT ONCE.-ThcH latest
marriage ceremony, p%artaking of a
wholesaler character, at Brigham Young's
Endowment House, in Salt Lake City,
it thus described by the Tribune of that
city, of the 10th uit.: "The bridegroom
came from the rural doesticks', q youth
full saint, filled to overlooking with the
nature and admonitiOn of the Prophet
Brigham. His prophetic soul informed
him that it was not good to be alone;
that the dilapidated kingdom sadly
needed building up; thatlegions offugi-
tive spirits were lowering abOuthis steps
seeking, with tears in their eyes, earthly
tabernacles in which to TepOse. So be
did the best he could do under the cir
cumstances. He selected three tender
fair ones, and won them for his brides.
Last Monday the %quartette got married,
The thrice happy groom conducted his
bevyOf brides to the Endowment House,
and the party got sealed Oal the whole
sale plan. Brother Wells was present
at the interesting ceremony, and the
cookies of his heart warmed toward the
ping the Benedict on the shoulder, H.
yoked increase upon his union, and as
sured him of Gods blessing on SO devo-
ted AN act. The awkwardness of the
situation was apparent when the much
married saint attempted to seal the nup-
tiai ceremonies with q kiss all round.
Each blushing bride persisted in receiy-
ing the first salutation, and the b0hbing
of heads was quite lively for a while
The young man gave it up at last, and
issued out into the wicked world with
an expression on his countenance which
indicated that he had now got business
enough on hand to occupy al his leisure
nom ccnts: - :" = "a.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

The temperance society here already
numbers over sixty male members.
Judge John E. King will deliver the
next temperance lecture next Friday
evening at the Courthouse. There is san
effort being made to establish a reading
room in Opclousas, i'll connection with
the temperance society, where both sexes
can resort to spend their leisure even
ingS, both pleasantly and protitably.
The object is a good one, and the effort
should succeed; as the savings of one
reformed topper would more than pay
I'LL the expenses.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

1t has been four weeks to-day since
we had rain. The weather is very hot
and dusty, and vegetation is drying up.
Late corn is cut off; cotton on the high
spots begins to wither. The worms,
however, arc kept down and the cotton
crop of the parish will probably be twelve
thousand bales. This is better than
double that number and Il short corn
crop-this latter crop is now very large
one The sweet potato crop is the one
that suffers most for rain.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

A SERMON IN A PARAGRAPH.-Presi-
dent Porter of Yale, gave the following
advice to the students of that institution,
the other day:
Young men, you are the architects of
your own fortunes. Rely upon yOu1
our own strength of body and soul,
Take for your star s~elf-reliance. Sub
scribe on your banner, Luck is q fool,
Pluck is a hero. Don't take too much
~advice-keep at your helm and steer
your own ship, and remember that the
great art of commanding is to takea fair
share of work. Think we'll of your
self. Strike out. Assume your own
position. Put potatoes in a cart, over a
rough road, and the small one 90 to the
bottom. Rise above the enviOus and
Jealous. Fire above the mark you i'll
tend to hit. Energy, invincible deter
mination, with Alright motive are the leay-
ers that move the world. Don't drink.
Don't chew. Don't smoke. Don't swear.
Don't deceive. Don't read novels.
Don't marry until you can support a
wife. Be in earnest. Be self-reliant.
Be generous. Be civil. Read the
papers. Advertise your business. Make
money and do good with it. Love your
God and feIIowmen. Love your country
and obey its laws"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

A ministerial brother, who married
rather sooner after the death of his wife
than some of the sisters thought proper
and becoming, excused himself as fol-
lows: Ny dear b%retheren and sisters,
my grief was greater than | could bear.
| turned every way for peace and com
fort, but none came. | searched the
scriptures from Ginisis to Invitations,
and found plenty of promises to the
wilder bnt nary, one to the widdererI.
And so I took itthat the good lord didn's
was in his powert to comfort himself, and
having a first rats chance to marry in
the lord, / did so, and would do the same
thing again. Besides, my bretheren, ]
considered that poor Patsey was as dead
as she ever would be-"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

Stanley writes: "No drunkard can
live in Africa. The very fever discovers
his weak point, attacks him and kills
him. [ knew nothing much of this terri
BILE recurring malady previous to my
African experiences, but had good
cause before l ended my mission to
know that a drunkard is least able to
withstand a tropical and malarious eli
mate,n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

The New York Mail denounces as u
double-distilled fool a young French
man who, seeing the dead body of a very
beautiful young woman displayed at the
Morgue, went and killed himself, first
writing a letter stating that he commit
ted the act in order to have his cadavro
put on the next slab to hers.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

At a Brooklyn wedding, among the
presents ostentatiously displayed, was a
one-hundred-doIl bill, a present from
the doting father to the darling daugh-
ter. After the guests had departed. the
old man cody rolled up the bill and put
it in his vest pocket, and that was the
eud of it.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

AN INGENIOUS DEFENCE.-In the DO
lice-cOurt at Chicago, few weeks since,
a wife thus ingepiOusly explained away
serious charges of harsh treatment OF
her poor husband: Zone day when she
was running across the room with a fork
in her hand, he jumped in the way and
struck his wrist against the fork
Wrenehingi it from her grip by the prongs,
endeavored to strike her but she heldu up
a pan of hot dist=water between chem,
and he spilled it alloverhis head. Then
he got still more angry at this accident,
and started to jump at her, but his head
came against her hand, and he fell down,
She took hold of his hair to raise him
up, and the hair was moistened by the
hot water, so that it Games off. Then, she
saw it was no use to reason with him any
longer, and she left the house." ~
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14
An old friend in the southern part of

An old friend in the southern part of
tie parish has sent us a large pomegran-
ate accompanied with the following:
This simple gift
It is from Il friend sincere.
.AlSd may the God who rules the world,
Still guide and watch DER thee and thine;
Yes, .uay he take you III his care,
And watch DER you morning, noon and night,
And all r.luIld your sunny path
May YOU tfId his richest blessing Strucd.
And brighton every hour of gloom
Which Won parrhance may know.
tbs true my lift is little worth an offering;
But il the burrows Of the heart
Enhance the value OF Il gift.
Then does this trife become n priceless Offering,
". II. A..
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

Adrunken Chinaman, feeling rich and
elated at his progress in civilization,
wentthrOugh the streets of San Francisco
crying. "~lloOp-Ia, hoOp-la! Ne all same
Mclean Hair cut short and drunk
like h-Tll'
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

A young man of the name of Brown
has created a small sensation in New
York. He comes from Iowa. A Her
aid reporter was present at an exhibition
given by him at the Sturtevant House,
and describes it. Mr.. Brown suffers
himself to be blindfolded, and, if any
article is hidden, he will Immediately
find it. He reads the thoughts of peo-
pie about him. One of his remarkable
exhibitions was the following: "
Another remarkable exhibition was
given. Mr.. Brown left the room, and
the audience selected four gentlemen,
best known to those present. An article
WAS then passed from One to the other
of these gentlemen, the last person hid
ing it without the knowledge of the
other three. The operator then entered
the room and was b1indfolded. He read
the thought of the first person, and by
tiis means rapidly traced the article to
the second gentleman, and then to the
person who had secreted it,. eventually
finding the article itself, which had been
hid in an out-of-the-way corner of the
room.IAvoyelles Republican.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

PoKE-RooT FOR DESTROYING INSECTS.
ID. L. C. Renner, of Frederick county,
Nd, writes to the Department of Agri-
culture, that several years ago he col
lected some poke-root (Phyfotacco de-
camdraJfor medical purposes, and placed
it mt various places about the house to
dry. After several days he observed
that there we're many cock-roacheslying
dead, and upon examination found they
had been %partaking freely of the poke
root. Some of the root was placed near
rid the premises. of those insects. Since
then he has communicated the remedy
to others, who have tested it with salts
factory results.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

Our recent celestial visitor isthe same
distinguished historic comet whose ter
rible aspect i'll 1866 frightened Charles
Y. off his throne, and forty-three years
before the Christian era figured as the
"spirit of Casar,n taking it's place
amongst the gods, beyond which time it
was observed $40 and 1874 B.. c.. It is
also to the neal approach of this comet
to the earth about the period assumed
a that of the deluge that Winston at
tributes the catastrophe and as time
will show that comets tails are largely
composed of watery vapors there may
be some truth in the poetry charged to
the fancy of that astronomer. .
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

a mother advised her daughter to oil
her hair, and tainted fat away when
that, damsel replied, ooh no, ma; it
spoiIs the gentlemen's vests
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

A Kansas girl wouldn't be married
without Il yellow ribbon around her waist,
and a boy rode eight miles to get it while
the guests waited.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

Landiady (fiercelyj-" You most not
occupy that bed with boots OF !" Board
En-. never mind, they're only an old
pair. The bed bugs can't hurt EN-. I'll
risk it, anyhow"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

We have not had sufficient time since
returning from Darbonnc, to examine
the papers that accumulated during Ii
absence, so rs to furnish our readers
with what happened during that period.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

We have Just returned from a fishing
excursion to the DarbOnne river, about
fifty miles west of OpelOusas. The fine
fishing, bathing and cool pure spring
water there, and the freedom from the
dust and extreme heat of Opelousas, are
worth travelling the fifty miles for.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

See the advertisement of p. }. Lefeb-
vrr. The stand Of the store and ware
house which he offers for rent, is one of
the most desirable in Opelousas,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

A new style of boys trowers has been
invented in Boston, with q copper seat,
sheet-iron knees, riyited down in the
seams, and waterproof pockets, to hold
broken eggs.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

Overstrained-MEs, Mary Strain, 81
Pittsburgh, who maGried three brothers.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14
LOCAL ITEMS.

The attention Of the taxpayers Of
O~pclousas, is called to the advertise
mcnt of Geo. w. M"ginlcy, town con-
sinhln
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

On motion the Police Jury adjourned unit
Monday, September 9th, 1874.
JOHN ROY, President.
Attest: c.. MAYO, Clerk.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

= 70: TURN to a sermon often produces
a more lasting effect than logic or the
ology. Instance this:
my brethren, a man cannot afford to
lose his soul. He's got but one, and he
can't get another. II a man loses his
horse he can get another. If he loses
his wife he can get another, II he loses
his child he can get another; but If he
loses his soul-gOOd by John"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

A paper says that, in reply to a ques-
ton from the lecture committee of the
c cfi 6 town town Of f. the he e d;istr,e ct tbs Rs ; to ;SqfIect
tt the a i testure t. t]eI Ts gafdnd d W " lHS Taste on
it read, "a Taste of Apples and Rum"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

g True religion is the foundation of So
ciety when that is once shaken, the
whole fabric totters.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-14

Our special from Waco reports fear
full murder in the vicinity of Masters
vile, in WHICH Il gentleman who had
shown kindness and hospitality to an
apparently poverty stricken wander
Ell, met his death at the hands Of the
recipient of his beneyolence. 1t is evil
dent that the wretched prepetrator is
insane, and the inhabitants of the neigh
borhoOd who succeeded in making the
arrest, did, right in placing him in the
hands Of the proper authorities charged
with the execution Of Justice. Where
the mai came from, or who he is, is not
stated only the assertion is made by
some one that he had been confined in
Jail as crazy, and that he took pleasure
in frightening women. Can there pos
sibly he any connection between this
demented wretch and the perpetrator Of
the New Braunfels tragedy? The dis
lance between the two points is con
siderable, yet he has had time to over
come that since the date Of the occur
renee at New Braunfe1s. Such horri-
BILE deeds make the blood run cold. A
perfect carnival of crime and accident
seems to prevail all eyer the country
EGalyeston News.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19

abode and there celebrate and consum-
mate the wedding. i forgot to remark
in the proper place, however, that the
young lady herself does not believe the
reports of evil concerning Mr.. K, but
does, on the contrary, most earnestly de-
sire to come to his abode and dwell with
him. The lady telling me this told it
with evident pleasure and with a sort of
feeling, | think, that she herself had been
pretty skillful in the defense. There is
no doubt that the go-between had quite
wrought on her young and tender heart
by his representations of Mr.. x. and of
his burning desire to possess her All of
which goes to show that if any one pro-
poses to do his counting through others
it will be as well to see that the mutual
friend" is friend indeed. / ought also
tohave remarked that Mr.. X. has reached
the mature age of twenty-one, according
to my lady informant. And now l must
leave them. / should be glad to record
the marriage accomplished for the joy
and information of our lady readers, but
unfortunately the steamer that will speed
this to America will leave this port this
afternoon at an early hour.-ReU. j. l..
atkinson, in Dubuque Times.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19
w hat Josh Billings Says.

j NEVER hav known, DOR never expekt
to know, lazy man who did not attribit
all his misfortunes TO bad LUX.
CiviliZing an injun IL good deal like
educating Il crow-it kan be did, but
their genius all seems to run toward lazy
deviltry.
Don't sighn emmy mans note, not even
yure own.
Connubial bliss konsists in being tied
fast to your wife's apron strings, and
paying promptly all her bills.
/ beleave that men are more often
kredited with virtews they don't possess
than they are charged with misdemean-
urs they amt guilty ov.
If yu want to git situashun in sum
almshous Civ all yure property to yure
children before yu die.
Thsre IL lots ov people who never pro-
pozc ennythiDg, they reserve all their
strength TO find fault with.
/ would rather not hav emmy mans
friendship if am obliged TO keep hiz Sc.
krets
The working men are the men
respekt. The idle, don't kare what
their posishun in life liz, are only one re-
move from the l0afer.
One thing is certain, If yu don't make
yure children mind yu they will make yu
mind them; now take yure choice.
luv neatness, but that kind that aint
happy unless they kan skour the inside
ov the stovepipe every day distresses me
The largest work , ever saw men try
to do waz working out their tax on the
road.
Don't make yureself too common
yifnp man. the world alwugs gapes al
misery's.
| Thare are but fu people who fully un
| derstand the real value oy plain common
sense.
| The making ov money haz afforded
the world more real qualification thar
the spending ov II hax.
! We all ov US hav certain sorrows tina
are too intrinsik TO be divided with emmy
boldly
| Dear girls, the only way to ketch
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19
How Telegraph operator Was Walked
Up.

The Troy Wing relates the following:
" We have heard much of the wonders of
cable telegraphy in outrupning time and
annihilating space, but an anecdotc re-
lated TO us last evening by Mr.. w. p.
Phillips, assistant agent of the State
Associated Press in New York, who is on
"A visit to this city, surpasses anything we
have ever heard. A gentleman of the
Western Union Telegraph office at No.
145 Broadway, New York, was sitting in
the cable-room when a telegram from
Philadelphia, destined for Paris, came
over the wires. This message, like all
others for France, was to go over the
cable ria Duxbury, Mass. The operator
called Duxbury few times, and then
said: That fellow IL asleep evidently
but the cable men are always awake-Ill
have to get one Of them to go in and
wake him up So he stepped to another
desk, called Plaster Cove, in Newfound-
land, and sent the following message
TO Cable Operator, Duxbury-Please
go in and wake up my own true love
This message Plaster Cove fastened to
send across the ocean to Valencia, Ire
land, who in turn rushed IL TO London;
thence il was hurried to Paris, and still
onward To the European end of the
French cable at st. Pierre; the operator
there flashing ii back to Duxbury. In
less than two minutes by the clock the
message had accomplished its journey of
some s, 900 miles, by land and sea, as
was evidenced by the clicking of the in
strumept on the Duxbury desk, which
licked out in manner little more pet
ulsnt: That is nice way TO do; go
ahead Your own true love-"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19

man IL to start and run the other way az
fast az yu kan.
The man who Will not take abuse IL the
last one to intiikt it upon others.
find thare IL CRATE menny folks
who amt satisfied in being fools but
want everybody should kno it, so they
cut their names on trees and rocks all
over the United States ov America
The more | git acquainted with the
world the more | admire the policy ov
Noah's flood and the more | see the ne
cessity ov having another one just like it.
Thare il this difference between a
wize man and phool, the one IL alwuss
surprized at how little and the other at
how mulch he knows.-N. y. Weekly.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19
The Weather Reports.

! THE districts of country mentioned in
the daily weather reports are officially
| described as follows:
Name, New Hampshire, Vermont
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and Rhode
Island "a she New England States.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland. District of Colum-
bia and Virginia as the Middle States,
and that part of those States lying east
of the Alleghenies as the Middle Atlantic
States.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia and Northern and Eastern Florida as
the South Atlantic States.
Eastern Mississippi, Alabama and
Northwestern Florida as the Eastern Cult
States.
Western Mississippi. Louisiana and
Eastern Texas as the Western Gulf
States.
Sometimes the South Atlantic States,
Eastern Gulf, that portion of Mississippi
not included in the Eastern Gulf States,
with Tennessee and Kentucky, are
grouped together as the Southern States.
Lower lakes means Lakes Erie and
Ontario, with adjacent territory.
Upper lakes means Lakes Superior,
Huron and Michigan, with adjacent ter
ritory.
The lake region includes the upper and
lower lakes.
The extreme Northwest includes that
portion of Dakota lying west of the Mis-
souri, River and the eastern portion of
Montana and Wyoming Territories.
The Northwest means the country
lying between the Mississippi and the
Missouri Rivers.
The Southwestern States means that
portion of the Western Gulf States lying
west of the Mississippi River, and in
GLIDING Arkansas.
Pacific States include California,
Oregon, and Washington Territory.
The Ohio Valley includes the belt of
country, about 200 miles broad, from
Pittsburgh to Cairo.
The Upper Mississippi Valley includes
the belt of country, about 200 miles broad,
from st Paul to Cairo.
The Lower Mississippi Valley includes
a belt of country, 200 miles broad, from
Cairo TO Ficksburg. Below Nickburg
the character of the country SO changes
that 1t is no longer described as u valley.
The Missouri Valley includes u belt of
country POE miles broad, from Fort Sully
To st. Charles, Mo.
The st. Lawrence Valley includes a
belt of country, 300 miles broad, from
Lake Ontario to the mouth of the St.
Lawrence River
The extensions I" from Missouri to
Ohio" etc, refer to areas reaching TO
and including the central portions of the
States named. Thus, report, westerly
winds, extending from Iowa to Pennsyl-
vania," would signify that those winds
would be felt in the interior of those
States, as well as over the territory lying
between them of the respective States.
In =" the coasts" etc, is included the
lands between the coast and the parallel
range Of coast hills or mountains. In
Texas, Louisiana and Northern Florida
a belt of land extending a hundred miles
inward would be included.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-11-19

everybody we meet. He probably has
not learned that every father keeps a
shotgun on purpose to make a target of
twins whenever his wife has them, and
that no Baptist minister ever thinks of
going into the pulpit without wearing a
bomo-proof undershirt and carrying a
pair OF revolvers so as to offer resistance
when any Presbyterian deacons who
happen to be prowling around rush in
with their knives and try to scalp the
congregation. Nor does he know that
no editor in this country ever goes home
from the office without taking along six
or seven dead poets whom he has slain
during the day and whose corpses he
drags behind him on string. These
things are important and the British
people ought to know them. ! have a
faint hope that Mr.. Bailey will shed
some light upon them while he is in En-
gland, and believe he will, for if he is a
true American he wears his artillery
upon his person while he is abroad and
occasionally dashes through the London
streets with columbiad in each hand, a
butcher-knife in his teeth, wild war
whoop upon his lips and murder in his
heart. We need representative man of
this kind abroad to supply the informa-
ton that McAllister didn't get. | am
going to ask Congress to allow Mr..
Bailey salary for this purpose. Is it
likely that he would accept it: -Hdr
AdeteT, IN Daabuy Nees.