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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-09
TIOF FOE An EXTRA SES-
SION ON OCTOBER FIFTEENTH.

Whereas, the final adjournment of the
fort first congress without making the
usual appropriations for the support
of the army for the fiscal year ending
June 81, 1873, presents extraordinary
occasion requiring the president to ex-
ercise the power vested in him by the
constitution TO convene both houses of
congress in anticipation of the day fixed
By law for their next meeting, now,
therefore, /, Rutherford B. Hayes, presi-
dent of the United States, do, by virtue
of the poj yer to this end in me vested by
the c0nstitutioD, convene both houses of
congress TO assemble at their respective
chambers at II o'clock noon On Monday,
the 10Th day of October, next, there and
then to consider and determine such
measuressas in their wisdom their duty
and the welfare of the people may seem
to demand.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
9Th day of May, in the year of our Lord
1877, and the independence Of the United
States of America 101. r. B. HAYES.
By the President,
WIN. NJ. EEARTs, Secretary of State.
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TR u HIS AND TRIPLES.

To keep the feet dry--etand on your
head.
OF all things in the world that are
better late than never," going to bed
certainly ranks first.
What is the difference Eetween 8
Christian and a Cannibal9 One enjoys
himself, and the other enjoys other PEI
pie.
Applicants for loans generally adopt
a borsow-tone. - Cincinnati Saturday
Night. Especially when they ask for
ten or twelve dollars.
"A Chinese remedy is thus given by
tho young Chinese missionary of the
Chicago Tribune:
Yin All Tung loved ANY Sin.
but not with pure devotion;
He doubted her, she tioated him,
Which st his Ire In motion.
Qnoth YIN Alb TuHg, am shay the girl.
Nor cut, nor shoot, cor nlangle Fer,
But wind her queue % ON her heCH'
And then and theme I'll stTargle her.
The act he suited to tn word;
He slew her as he wooe>' her,
Says YIN All Tung, Miss sin was sleR'
And l have only Queued hA".'
"A IA st. Louis hotel: GG'est, hear
ing and smelling fame, rushesA fRol,t tn from
apartment in alarm. Meets lanoA ord.
Landlord t%ranquilizes guest, thus: "CAo
back to your room my good fellow.
There's no fire." Guest gees back. More
smoke and flames = blaze before the win
dow. Guest again rushes out. Again
consolation from landlord: "My dear
fellow, go back to your room. There's
no cause for alarm. Don't start a
panic."- Guest goes back. Rushes out
again. Shirt on FIRE. Meets landlord
who remarks, MY dear fellow, l told
you you'd come to a bad end If you
didn't keep cool" Guest returns to
room and burns up.
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Why are men Of genius so often BACH
elors? To this I reply that such instances
are not owing to anything like q want
of appreciation of woman's value, but
most generally to unfavorable circum-
stances. Most of eur celebrated authors
have been in love, but found that its
course did not run smooth. Irving, for
instance, was engaged to a maiden whom
he lost by death. Charles Lamb re
manned unmarried that he might devote
himself to his lunatic sister, Mary, whom
he kept as an inmate of his house until
her death. Lord Macauley never mar
ried, but it is probable that this YVES due
to some youthful disappointment. He
might have had
"a love that had an early reOt,
And early had a DOOM
Like trees that never come TO fruits,
But perish jntheir bloom"
Goldsmith was deeply in love with the
charming Miss Horneck, whom he styled
" the Jessamine BRIDE" and even Pope,
though a lifelong invalid, expressed his
admiration of Martha Blount, but neither
of these men married. The one was pre-
vented by poverty, the other by i'll health.
Hume, seems almost the only leading
writer who was formed for eelibacy. He
was naturally cold and ~apathetic, and,
indeed, any one WHO could defend suicide
by such ingenious sophistry was unfit for
social life. Gibbon, when a student,
was in love with Mile. Curchod, the
daughter of a poor clergyman. His,
father opposed the union, and the love-
krn student resigned his hopes of matri-
monial bliss. TIE girl was talented and
became a teaches, and afterward married
the richest man in France and was the
mother of Mime. De Stael. She enter
tanned her former lover at her place
twenty years after the match had been
broken. To return to American authors
Il am reminded that Dercival proposed
but was refused. Indeed he was unfit
for married life by reason Of bis peculi-
HAlleck became deaf and re-
manned single. So did Tuckerman. Con-
frmed bachelors are rare among the
physicians, lawyers and clergy Of
this city, and it has always been SO.
Almost all the great authors of the
empire were married men, though
some had oonjugal trouble. Among
these w3re Milton, Byron, Shelley, Bull
wer and Dickens. Walter Scott was re-
,ected by his first love, who was above
him in rank, but she lived to gee him the
author of his age. He after
ward married an heiress of French birth,
Hiss Carpenter, but would no doubt
AVE done better to have allied himself
With Scottish blood. His life was en-.
irely separate from the domestic circle,
nd his wife never knew till the Bsnna.
ynes failed that her husband had for
years been a silent partner in an
edinburgh printing houJe.-C Cor. C5neiR-
Gazette.
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Near Prospect street she dropped

Near Prospect street she dropped q
little red bow with a gold pin attached,
and it futtered to the edge of the side
walk. She stopped and looked at it. 1t
might as well have fiuttered to the edge
of the universe and dropped over for
anything she could do to get it. She
walked around it two or three times,
gazed sadly at it, and then walked a
block to Bolivar street, got a small boy
and paid him ten cents to come back and
pick up that bow. AS the boy reioined
his companions he remarked, 81 never
saw a woman SO proud. She wouldn't
pick up her own things from the side
walk. But it wasn't pride.
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Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston, t

Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston, the
working7girls' friend, gives some startling
samples of shop girls wages in that city
twenty-five cents a dozen for fancy
aprons, two days work, and twenty cents
a day on an average at some better kinds
of work. These are figures to dalh
the exultation over the bargains re-
warding thrifty shopping just now.
Think of a bargain out of some sisters
shame or starvation. .
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THEN AND NOR INNEW ORLEANS.

Says the NewsOrleans correspondent
of the Baltimore SUN: "This marning
as I was standing in the rotunda of the
st. Charles hotel, Col. Rivers, proprie.
tor of the hotel, drew my attention to a
man who was sitting off by himself in
one of 'Eae n He was a man ap-
parently about sixty years of age; he
had a downcast look; his feet were peer
ing through his boots; his linen was
soiled and torn, his black clothes were
spotted and shiny, and yet there was
about him the unmistakable indications
Of a decayed gentleman. "You see that
mani" said Col. Rivers. HE was once
among the wealthiest of our Gugar plant
ers, the owner of hundreds of slaves;
one of the best customers of this hotel,
and his bill would average from $72 to
800 a day. Now he has scarcely money
enough to buy his breakfast. He haunts
this hotel constantly, and it may be be.
cause it reminds him of what he used to
be-" II y "Our bar-rooms:5' said
Col. Rivers, "don't do more than one halt
of the business done before the war.
Two-thirds of our guests are now north
ern people, whereas before the wal they
were all southern people. Many of our
large plantations are now owned by
northern and western men. Some of our
best young men are now oyerseers ON the
plantations which belonged to their IA
theirs. | know now a gentleman who
used to spend piles Of money in this
hotel who never put q saddle on his own
horse, but who is now glad to hire on his
own place, which, with its 'niggers,' was
worth $500, 900, for $50 a month" AS
Col. Rivers concluded his interesting
recital of old times, he sighed gently and
remarked: "Mydear boy, I feel a little
blue to-day; fesss nave a bottle Of wine. ;"
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&ANUa9@ -,
Paul, you are concealing a secret
"Yes, Catherine

Paul, you are concealing a secret
"'Yes, Catherine
"tA secret from me, who never had
one from you'll .
"'Yeu have had all mine-but thit
one does not belong to me-
"'And, if I may judge from your looks
your words, your thoughts of death and
parting, it must be something very
terriblel' ,
"'Terrible. indeed!'
"After a moments silence, Postal con,
tinued:
"'Hear me, Catherine. When I shall
give you, this evening, my farewell kiss,
it may, perhaps3be the last you will re-
ceive from me. But whatever may be
my lot, whenever you are told "Paul is
dead" come, and you shall find a remem-
brance Of me for, Iswear to you, ny last
thought shall be of YOU
"Pestars presentiment did not deceive
him! He saw Catherine no more.
"The day after the execution of his
sentence a young girl, drowned in tears,
obtained from the keeper of the prison
the favor of being admitted into Pestal's
cell.
CATER a long search she discovered
some linessOf music pencilled on the wall.
Above them were only the two words,
For herr Underneath was Paul's
name.
"Iwo years afterwards there died, in a
lunatic asylum, a poor maniac, whose
madness consisted in singing; every day
and at the same hour, the same little
melody. The madwoman was Catherine
the hour that at which she was ad-
n1itted to her lovers dungeon-and the
air was the last melody of Pestal."-
Engtishponean's Domestic Magazine.
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MAY.
BY JOIN G.. wHIrTfER.

BY JOHN G. wHITTTLR.
Beyond The bursting g~reeaness of the woods
Unto the misty, mountain solitudes,
Has April breathsd her sweet au1 cbangefuI moods
Bat in the folded buds aai leaves, and higher,
Where nest the small birds in the fir trees spire,
Through all the world there breathes a soft desire
A mystic influence broods DER hidden things;
The caterpillar, Ia his diowsy rings,
Dreams purple pictures of his future wings.
A sweet pre%sentiment fills the intense,
Clelr air. The brooks hang in suspense
Among the rocks. The small! grass feels a sense.
Prophetic OF a JOY most strange and dear,
For, 10! May lifts the door-latch OF the year!
Deep out of sight where earth's great mystery lies
Shut up within her heaI forever, flies
Al thrill along the unseen arteries.
Within the tangled roots of beech and lime,
The sweet saps puisate as they blindly climb
And sprJat their tasseled greenness ere its time.
Along the stream the whispering rushes say
To one another, how the gentle May
Brings in the sunshine of a dearer day.
And to the sweet breathed violet that blow
An szure margin 10 their silver flow,
The garrulous ripples tattle as they 60.
Sick with desire, the lily bells turn pale;
The wandering owslips peep from every dale;
And daisies stand on tiptoe through the vale.
Tae amorous boughs bend toward her, far and near,
While May stands in the doorway of the year.
At her charmed coming, at the far South, where
IT fingered for her bidding calm and fair,
The sunshine flows through all the happy air.
Aerial arches Of the sunset dyes
GJAr h nnl,o rat A,n ~ g h~, -
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she accepted him was willing to marry

she accepted him. WA willing to marry
him!"
"What?"
"Yes, don't you see! it was joy that
killed him. Cad, we never thought of
that Queer, amt it. See here, don't
you think you might make a story out of
it Z"
But, Doctor, it hasn't any moral"
"Humph! That's so. Coed morning.
Drive ON, John."--Bret Harte In the MeU
York Sun.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-09

In February last tho commissioner
of internal revenue applied for troops to
assist in raiding the illicit distillery dis.
tricts of North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The
president indorged the application, and,
directed the general of the army to or
der the necessary troops. Congress, at
the last session, appropriated forty thou
sand dollars for the employment of ex-
ira deputy-collectors to perform this
service. Orders have been issued, in
accordance with the policy of non-inter-
ference of the military, and the troops
are withdrawn
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The TichB0rne claimant is still at
ordinary work a. Dartrnoor prison, and
is likely to remain there for the next
seven years. His general health has
been Fetter since he was cured of the
boils by which be was troubled six
months ago, but he is neither allowed to
receive nor reply to all letters that are
sent to hime
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"A Jewish journal learns hat after
FIVE years labor and the expenditure Of
$4,000, the American missionariesin the
wealthy city of Wuchu, China, have
converted only three persons from Budd.
hism.
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New YoRk is going in for a Mardi
Gras. A sort of GLIB has been formed
and at an early day there will be two
professions, th.y first comprising one
thousand wagons and over ten thousand
workingmen. The nocturnal effbrt will
present a living history Of noteworthy
American events, with a display of allie
gorical and historical tableaux on
"~ioats," to be dHESn by elephants,
cameIs and horses. The animals are to
be Illuminated by gas jets, supplied with
gutta-percka tubes running along their
harness. On these floats will be repre-.
sented America as it was, landing of Col
umbus, landing of the Norsemen, PENIS
tea ship, call of Putnam. declare
tien of independence, Mexico, New
York as it was, Washington crossing the
Delaware, jackson at New Orleans, and
other events in American history.
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Beyond The bursting greeaness of the woods
Unto the misty, mountain solitudes,
Has April breathsd her sweet ani changeful moods
New-York tribune., 1877-08-08
PRICE FOUR CENTS.

and ncw man. Ike W. RI. r. Ire. be nominated sncn
policy might keep the party Together mar H. mlHnt
retain the majority ~ s members. hn there - sure 10
be candidate. independent or otherwise, VINO VIII squint
al repudiaftOn.
There viii be least 900 delegatcs n the Conven-
ton. The Malone men AMI anti-NahOne men VIII hght
each other from the word 90" First FOR tie or2aniza-
the Confederate Housed Ia elected President ~ VIII
prcsacc MshOne victory n the Hon Marsha HANGER,
VIII Dresagc anti-Mahone victory. Then VIII come
the struggle over contested seats Then the great wrage
the debt plank the platform. II the Convention
survives that without spt, hen comes the roniu "n
Tor Governor, and II those who "demand' readJns-
mcnt get their plank Malone will be the Loincf, oth-
erwlsc not There Doe two platforms ana fWo nnn-
VINO can fOrctell The Convention - 70 nominate
also Lieutenant t-GOvernor and AttorrcyGcn'r1l but
IL seems to nobody bOtherng about these places at
present. For the first time under this Cons iinton vOt-
VIII have o prepay their potax (T) before tney can
the approaching election. II II believed mat
thousands Of negrOes viii not feel sufficiently interested
10 make the Investment.
New-York tribune., 1877-08-08
THE VERDICT AT READING.

THE TROOTs AND CRY AUTHORITIES fNONERAItp.
READING, Penn, Aug. THE CorOners jury
in the recent riot case rcudcrcda verdict this afternoon
after fourteen dars' investigation. They md:
First-That the person. killed IN, night of the 23d
ultmo came their death by tie firing OF the iniliaS
upon the rioters. a.,
Sccona-Ihcy acqWt the soldiers composing the 4th
Eagim Mt of Inc National GIlid OF Pcnnsi lNana ol ANY
blmo ard Iy would hc expecting too much ol human
nature caly Ou III" part of .na ned soidcrSh hu
To- fire under The fearful ucii IN Wcu tnel were placed
and the jury ccnsure them for the manner III
which they acted. -,
Thrd In reference the presence OF the military The
urN say that Maior-Gcu Bolton Was doub les. aclh-
under he civic authority tne STATE. aud thal ne con"
uuucuted to BrI.Oci. Recdcr, nsirur ting hln l" =
officials; that Gen. R,cdcr reaching Reading dud
meeting neither tnr SHERIFF nor MAYOR, was lequo h'd
bv 70 X auIug Railroad otici 10 release a ud>aeieer
train from ihc hands 0i rir mJb ANA Mh.c c"n.pN is
with that request c firing took TIE jur5 further
say tna Gen Reedcr acting under instructions ana
a. any blame attaches to c military II must De horne l
Cen. Bolton.
F0uiih-Ilayiug ascertaued how the persons were
killed. inc jury lind thu the responsibility Tor the t'r-
bile tragedy directly attrirutanic io those VINO com
uo-,d tnc iawicS- body assembled near tue corner ol
Seventh and Pcuu-ts., who ln-tigdug the roious
proceedings. and thc mob IS primarily respOiisiDlt
ior all the s,hs. qHcut trouble and bio.dshed
FjAi-T C Munc PAL .tnO itler are eN 'nerated.
NfItL-Cmrf of PuIru Cullen IT. con- pnmcuicd Tor MS
faithful dscnarg duty, and Sheriff NUr-cy ir declared
to e i'm measure responsible for tine events which io-
lowed us arrival IA town at a. M Of Monday the I'D
New-York tribune., 1877-08-08
uURDEROUS ASSAULT AT ROCKAWAK.
4 YOUNG PRooF-READrR DYING FROM BULLET
WOUND.

VOTING PRooP-READTR DYING FROM BULLET
WOUND.
Jacob Federein of No. 331 Eighth-ave., lies
DYING with bullet in his brain in the ST. GATHERINGS Hos
,itol Hrooklyn From his antemortem statement inade
last 10 Coroner Nolan the following Facts are learn
ed He went TO Rockaway Beach on sunday on the
Plymouth Rock in company with Jefferson ana Hehiy
Bernstein Of Nnthave., Twenty ythifd-st, ana
ouis Arnold OF No 1856 West Thiriy-trSt-st'
After bathing and swming his friends returned 10 ne"
York at five O'clock p m leaving him to stay at hocA"
WAY day or two After wandering about the beach I'M
~ dark he started to the hotel and when about
h.lf ov between the beach and Far Rockaway he met
about five eight inches In height OF nod
comnIexon who had a dssipated appearance The
stranger asked him the time and he pulled hs watc
ont of his fob pocket, the man attempted 10 snatch
q owav but Fcderlen drew revolver ana
ordered the man to stand back. The stranger
WAS a beavily-buit man OF about 30 years oi
age and as he grasped Federen, who is only II years OF
age the latter he almost poweresS III MS
clutches After a short struggle the ruihan thte" nun
several feet away the sand at the same time securing
and eocking the revolver which he fired al the YOUTH
the hall entering the right temple, and inbeddng tseI
in 6s brain .,,o o,r, ,,os
When Federen recovered consciousness the SURF was
breaking over him BY great exertion he managed 10
reach Capt Krenschers Hotel On the way ne ne' one
New-York tribune., 1877-08-08
4 7HUNDERGOLr IT OCEAN GR0TE.

OCEAN GROVE, y. j. Aug. THE storm to-
DAY broke over tDs place with great violence At 1880
D. H. the lightning struck tall fag stan on the cupoa
of the elegant cottage at Lake and WhiteleldaNes,
owned and occupied by Mr.. c. W. Sanders Of Railway.
Tie staG WIS Torn into small fragments and thrown "A
hnudrcd feet clear the house. Tie electric nud pass
ed downward through three stories tearing several stats
from he roof and cntc ing the walls ON the third floor
The a.tcr walls were cracked. On the second Moor Mrs
C. W. Sanders jr. stunned ior several nm
living on sofa in the parlor, ana AT hrs supposed a
butt had passed through her head. lhe nuld entered
tI,rs room making - hole inch in diameter IN the
wall and passing around square gilded frame went
onward through the wall, ripping OIL weather
hoard lust over the head OF Mr. sanders, who was read
i1ll, nn me NnIAnda.
New-York tribune., 1877-08-08
SHOOTING AFFRAYs IN KENTUCKY.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. IA special to The
Courier Jouna dated narrodsburg, KY, says that two
eron. shooting affairs occurred yesterday in Washing
n County and near the Mercer line. Maxvile was the
scene of one fight IN which John sutieriield shot and
kined nhu Butler The AFFAIR the result OF previous
ii nj over -acl Of hOur Gdrdncs STORE near MlIlefs-
hnrr was where tie other airdv occurIed which several
families took part II tie renewal OF former rdcds
several OF the Royaltys, Gardncis Gases and sherda
,vrre narticpauts OF the Sheridans was shot
hrnurt t, mead aud killed outright, OF the Gard
urIs WAS shot in the ann, and one OF the Cases In
tbe wrist Twenty or Thirty shots were fred and
there are nrolaby others wounded whose names have
not been learned l.. = Brown, who was shot yesterday
in mis- cnurty WAS wounded IN five different places,
torv fire from A revolver taking effect in his body. The
smith hoy who did the shooting II still at large.
New-York tribune., 1877-08-08
A GREAT coNvENrIoN GATHERING.

RICHMOND, Va. Aug. 7.-EXcitcment over
the meeting Of the State Conservative Convention TO
nominate Governor. which viii meet tomorrow, i in
The convention viii be the largest State political
gathering held in Virginia. the counties and cities
being accredited the aggregate with li0O dele
gales. II Is estimated that the convention VIII number
over 900 members. Every tram brings large numpers
of decgacs. Friends OF thn five candidates are working
earnestly. The convention VIII probably remain IN
session several DAYS there will be quite contest over
delegates number OF counties whicn send
double delegations. II il impossible TO name tie snc-
ces,ful candidates. j. ". Daniel and Gen.Nm Malone
will lead bur nclfher have siren h enough 70 secure
tie numiudlOn the first ballot. ard PERHAPS not aJ
all Friends Of Gen. Tali,ferro, +. W. NJ Halliday and
GcO FiZugh Lee each claim that their faYOr1te Will bc
the compromise candidate. It's possb that some person
not yet named may be brought forward and receive
nomination on tie compromise plan. The convention
VIII meet al noon ln the theaIre.
New-York tribune., 1877-08-08

of R0clrl's drivers. who PAID no attention 10 nm
suppOsing rim ha drunk. ir staggered In front o t
hotc porch. in full ~ all the guests there seacd
and fell exhausted ~ the door. II was seen t II tha IL
hurt. md many supposed thaj had been IN u
drunken 0rh and had 40 lost hS nat, rolt ahn
shoes. He placed in an clubhouse during SUNDAY
uight, and Mond - night was br ugt To BrnohlNn pN
Q1ecus County officer. lie then unconscious ana
remained uu last night. when his friends were ~
formed of his condition He very GrEnrs 10 see me-
family before be died, but midnight lasl night ied,u
INTO lethargic state from when It was thought ttt nc
could not
Fedorlcn was q uroof-reGdcr employed hy FRANK les
lie. Hpd seemed 20 be iuteiligrul. Ft sath tal
his assallant str!e iis watch and chain. eight dollars IN
" and his revolver. The o. ms County pohct ~
Rockaway ldy- not yet secured tho man who asslut
FcdcTlcn cy sent iasi night Brooklyn 10 learn the
condition Of the wounded man before taxing measures
for the ~ The as>aGnt, supbos'ng IN Fir oi l
terrible nature of til wound. which Is APPARENT lo III
who have seen the youth, that Federleln was not
eprious sly I'm