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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The Song of the SpHrrotr.
BIZ t~EPPERcoRN

BIZ ~bEPPERCoRN.
An old sparrow sat in a maple tree, +
4" Cheer up, cheer up" tWittt red he,
But thought to himself as he look OH the ground
For any stray crlimb that was lying around,
sc The rain may fall and the wind may blow,
The ground be frozen or covered with sadsE.
But nobody cares for me.
II 1 had a vote, I plainly see,
~ Cheer up, cheer up twittered he;
The city fathers, without hesitation,
Would grant me a small appropriation;
But the square is locked and the keeper away,
Caring for nothing at all but his pay,
And nobody cares for me.
How very ungrateful republics must be,
8 Cheer up, cheer up," twittered he;
" Although | am praised for destroying the worms
I am left to starve midst the winter storms
If this is the city OF brotherly love-,
l wish its professors their kind ness Rotlld prove,
For nobody cares for me.
But spring will come and flowers bloom free,
90 Cheer up, cheer up t~wtttered he
I" And with them will come the worms and files,
And then 1 caB such shabby treatment esrise;
Amidst Thu green trees, upon suRshiny days,
/ can sit id contentment and MARBLE the praise
Of One WHO cNres for me-"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

o,u Then she brought out a pair of
~ 1itt1o, ri tockings, knitted of yarn
spun from the lambs WOOL JIG neo.9 7
which had been travelled OUT HD' si'
away piecemeal, as mementoes. NO Of
can doubt hat she, whose youth was
rendered famous by love for an uhfortu-
nate animal, has lived a life of benlfl-
cence and charity. With a heart over
flowing with love toward all Gods crea-
lures, she has indeed lived to care for
the needy and destitute, and be a moth
er to the motherlecs. And now, in a
green old age, she is surrounded by those
whom her warm heart long since taught
to cling to her and follow as the lamb in
youth.-Sprinqfelh Republican.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21
THEY uEr-THEY PARTED.

Upon the sofa, as they sat,
The lovers talked, in pleasant ehat'
OF that and this and this andI41at,
But of their wedding mainly;
Their wedding which was soon 10 De-
And Sue and Gus did quite agree;
He said ayea, yes" to ali that she
n Thought, in Rer judgment, best would De-
Oae thing, dear Gus, I think, should ne
Understood now, quite plainly"
"Go on" said Gus, " just speak it out
I've not the ~faintest shade OF DOUBT
That still in all things Wen agree,
And end, as we've begun
1.-TWO souls with but a single thought;
Two hearts that beat as one!"
A loving smile, a tender squeeze,
Gus added to bis language:
Then Sue these softly spoken poIds
Between his mugs did SAINT W1ch:
sc course mamma will live with us,
and rule the roost, my darling Gus,
For that you know she's use teT''
uNot much, cried Gus In temper high,
And grasped his hat, and cried: Goodbye
That settles 'twixt you and L!
Recorded is my VOW on hiKh
No mother-in-law, with threatening eye, -
And tongue all peace to cruelty,
Shall ever rule this rooster"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

OLIVE LOGAN is astonished at the
quickness OF a young girl in London who
has remarkable gifts of cIairvoyance.
Olive took out of her pocket-book a
Chinese coin that she had obtained in
San Francisco and handed it to the
father Of the little girl; be stood in the
audience while the daughter remained
on the stage. "What is this Louie ?'
asked the man. "a coin, papa" an
swered the little girl. "What sort of a
coin" "Foreign coin, papa" "Can
you tell me what country it.came from ?'
"China, papa" she replied, without d
pause. Olive Logan was surprised that
the man should know the coin, ever
when he held it in his hands and in.
spected it, for Chinese coins are not SO
common in London as they are in San
rancisco.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

METEoRoLoGY will never attain it<
full rank among the sciences until the
causes OF the movements of wind and
storm, as well as theiraverage directions,
are ascertained. An advance in this
particular is recorded in Germany. nj.
Gustave Helimann had ascertained by
careful comparison hat during the sum-
mer in that country there arc two
periods OF maximum rainfall, separated
by a dry period. With the first of these
rain periods, and partly preceding it, in
June, there is through a limited strip o
country a succession Of currents of cold
air. coming from the Atlantic across the
coast of The North sea, and moving from
northwest co southeast over middle
Europe. NJ. Hellmann concludes that
the cold winds are caused by a movement
to supply the place of heated air rising
from the great European-Asiatic step
pes, as those tracts become hotter with
the frightening days late in the spring
and early in the summer. The winds
which are sthus ultimately drawn from
the North Atlantic surface are cold and
heavily charged with watery vapor, and
their advent determines the beginning
of summer rains in Germany.-N. I.
Tribune.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21
. female architect has lust onenef

A female afchIIecG has just opened
al eaice in Boston. A plan OF a house
which she exhibits has nineteen bay
windows, forty-seven closets, no place
for a man to smoke in, and an inclosed
balcony on each side from which lit is
impossible to look down into the neigh
bors' living rooms: The design is pro-
nonncel by all ladies who have examined
1t al, of course, really quite too far
more than aEfally 6eliei0us,''
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

THERE is no evidence, according 10 the
London Lancet, 10 show that reyaccina-
tion, 11once efficiently performed at or
after puberty, 9eed eve be repeated.
IN the other hand, the frequent repeti-
tien characterization, which has become
common during alarms of smallpox, il
distinctly to be deprecated. Such re-
petitions are as q rule futile, they are
wasteful of vaccine lynn when Iymph
is most precious; they tend to unsettle
the minds of people regarding ON of
the best established. facts as 20 the pre-.
sentative power of vaccination, and they
are unnecessary. The official memoran-
dunn Of the local government board on
revaccination says: "R~eyaccinatiDn
once properly andsuccessfulIy performed
does not appear ever to require repeti-
tion." The nurses and otherservants of
the London smallpox hospital, when
they enter the service are invariably
submitted to vaccination, which in their
case u generally revaccination, and Is
never atterward repeated and 50 per
fect y the protection, that, though the
nurses live IN the closest and most con-
slant attendance on smallpox patients,
and though also the other servants are in
various ways exposed to special chances
Of Infection, the resident surgeon of the
hospital, during his torty-one years OF
office there has never known smal-poxto
affect any Of these nurses or servants.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

Girls who consciously go to work to
pet married know very we'll that a we'll
placed sign is worth fifty ~sonatas, and
that no amount Of major and minor
prestidigitation can win 4 triumph over
the rival who, though . Ounce at the
music book, Is an expert in emiles and
dropped eysIids,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

SINCE the LIST OF February until the
close of congress the widow of president
Tyler has attended every meeting of the
commission and the joint sessions of the
two houses. In person, Mrs. Tyler is a
short, plump, well preserved brunette,
and still wear the deep mourning and
widows cap for her husband. By a
special act the ranking privilege was
one conferred on her, and all the repeats
and reforms on postal affairs have fsft
this courtesy unquestioned.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21
CURRENT

THE fashion critic of the London Cour4
Journal says: "a few years ago riding
habits were SO long that accidents were
of frequent occurrence; they are now so
short that they are not habits. I was
standing the other day at the ratings in
the park, when a young lady on horse
back passed me. / presume she wore a
"riding habit" but were l asked to make
an affidavit that she was not attired in
trousers my strict love of veracity would
prevent me from doing so."
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-21

Pnt q peck of jersey mosquitoes
under blue glass and in tWosdaya you
haVe spring chickens large enough fer
liz New YORK. boarding houses,
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NOTES..

--Violets won't grow In Chicago
Madison University has conferred the de-
gree Of doctor of laws upon Hon. Roscoe
Conkling.
The Turks have about 160 900 infantry, 1000
cavalry and 1893 guns on the Danube and In
Bulgaria.
The Californians say that 1T is intellectual
activity, not the climate, that causes so much
insanity in their State.
An effort is being made in Boston to or
ganize Woman's Mission to women Of the
colored race and of the Indian tribes.
- The Maine Democratic State Convention
is to be held in Portland on Tuesday, August
IA, about a week later than the Republican.
The havest-1y Of New Jersey has red
eyes, stays under ground seventeen years,
and dies in few weeks after 1t moves into the
air.
An egg laid upon the deck plating of the
monitor Monadnock, which is being rebuilt at
Vallejo, was cooked hard without any arti-
fetal heat one day during the recent heated
term
- Ii was decided at a meeting in the interest
OF the Cincinnati Southern Railroad held in
that city Saturday, that the city can do moth
ing save invest about $4,000, 900 more in the
: road and complete it.
1.-THE Good Lord" said Napoleon, sis
always on the side of the heaviest battalions. .
The grasshoppers have driven out the saints
and broken up the Mount Tabor IN. J.,)
Methodist camp meeting.
"A regular legation will be established in
Washington by the Chinese in a month or
two considerable share of its attention is
to be devoted to the large number of Mongols
colonized in Cuba. 1t may also look little
after the hoodlum element on the Pacific
coast.
1T Is proposed to extinguished by pur-
chase the rights of succession Of the Duke of
Edinburg-heir presumptive tothe Duchess
of Saxe-C obourg and SaxeGotha- trans
fer them to the hereditary Prince of SAKE
Meiningen, thus forming State to be known
MS Saxe-Thuringen.
The hotels of Maine have suspended the
publication Of a wine list on their bills of fare
In difference to the new liquor law, which
makes such publication hollow mockery or
criminal offense. The Bangor House, one
OF the leading hotels in the city of that name,
keeps up the head line, "Wine list, and pub
fishes beneath 1t the sadly suggestive line
1--WE would If we could
The population of Great Britain has, since
1901, increased from 100000 to $4,000 OOO
and the London Times estimates that it will
be doubled in fifty-four years. How to feed
ii will be the great difficulty, for leading
British agriculturist said in recent speech !.
SIT appears to me, and it has been observed
by many of our leading men, that a steady
deterioration is going on in the producing
powers of this island"
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-01
CHEAP WIVES.
The Old style Of Counting i'm virginia

The Oiu style Oh COurUfnS In virginia.
In Holmes American Annals" we
find the following curious information,
of the way wives were procured in Vir-
ginia, 25S to $50 years ago. I'm 1913
Gov. Argall, Of Virginia, ordered that
tobacco should be legal tender at
three shillings per pound, and in refer
ring to the passage from Europe, he
says: The enterprising colonists being
then destitute Of families, Sir Edward
Sandys, the treasurer, proposed to the
virginia company to send over a freight
OF young women to become wives for
the planters. The proposition was APP
plauded, and ninety girls, young
and incorrupt, were sent over
in the ship which arrived this
year, 1920, and the year following sixty
more, and we'll recommended to the
company for their virtues, education
and demeanor. The price Of a wife at
first was 100 pounds Of tobacco, but as
the number became scarce the price was
increased to $50 pounds, the value Of
which in money was three shillings per
pound. This debt for wives, it was or
dered, should have the precedence of all
other debts, and be first recoverable
The Rev. Mr.. Wains, Virginia writer.
intimates that it would have done a
mans heart good to see the gallant
young Virginians Fastening to the water
side whenever ship arrived from Lon
don, each carrying bundle Of the best
tobacco under his arm, and each taking
back with him virtuous young wife. 20
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-01
$1,000 REWARD.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Lvonutfuo nnnarfI

!
Executive Department.
| Whereas, It appears from the process verbal Of
inquest and the verdict Of the Coroner's jury. In
the matter Of the investigation into the cause OF
| the death of the late DON SEVERINO DE LA
| RARRERA. Consul of his Majesty, the King OF
| Snain which occurred in the city of New Or
leans, on the twenty-fourth day Of March, A. d.
1877. said inquest having been held In said city
before DR.. Henri de Rance. Coroner OF the
Second Third and Fifth Districts OF the parish
| of Orleans. that the death Of said Severino.
| de la Barrera was occasioned by his taking un-
knowingly poison, placed Intentionally and
feloniousIy In a bottle Of medicine. from which
he, on that day, took the usual dose, by one or
more persons unknown to the jury Of inquest
and who are at large; and
Whereas, To all appearances heinous
crime, punishable under the laws OF this State
has been committed, and for the good OF society
its perpetrators should be brought to justice,
Now, therefore. I. FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS.
Governor of the State OF Louisiana, have
thought proper to issue this my proclamation.
calling upon the good people OF this State TO
give their aid and assistance IN arresting and
bringing to justice the perpetrator or Derpetra-
tors Of said crime. and by virtue OF the author
| ity in me vested by the laws OF this state
| hereby offer a reward of ONE THOUSAND
| DOLLARS for the arrest and conviction OF the
perpetrator or perpetrators Of said crime.
Given under my signature and authenticated
with the seal of the State Of Louisiana. at the
city Of New Orleans, this twenty-eighth day OF
June. in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seventy.seven. and Of the.
one hundred and first year Oh me Independence
| of the United States of America.
| - 'i-0 FRANCIS r. NICHOLS.
| Governor of the State OF Louisiana.
By the Governor:
| WILL. A SToNG,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-01
ACoNFEDERATE TORPEDO.
An Incident Of the War without Par
a1Iel.
L.. l.al... Wlaifr I

Letter to Kichn0nd WnIg.J
But Of ell the boats In all the
tide Of time, and OF all the daring deeds
of mankind In the history OF wars, that
OF Lieutenant Dixon, Twenty first Ala
bama Volunteers, in the submarine tor
pedo boat in the Charleston harbor, In
| 1864. stands unparalleled.
This boat operated under water. She
could take the bearing Of her enemy
more than mile away, then settle down
under the surface Of the water, head for
the hostile ship and strike her at any
depth below the water line. She requir
ed crew of nine men, all told-a cap
tain, or pilot, and eight men to propel
her.
She was built in Mobile by Hundley
& McClintock, who took her by rail to
Beauregard at Charleston. He called
for volunteers from the feet to man her
and use her against the Ironsides. Lieut..
Payne. Confederate navy "a Virginian),
and eight seamen volunteered to take
| her out. She was made ready one even
ing, and lying alongside a steamer, the
crew were all at their posts inside the
boat. Payne was standing in the round
hatchway, just about to stoop down into
his place and fasten the hatch down
when the wave Of a passing steamboat
swept over and into her. sinking her in
SLtItly. Ioyno CauSuo Wy uuu oaAuo
Of the steamer and sprang out the other
eight men went down with the boat and
persisted.
In few days she was raised and
again made ready. Payne again volun-
teered, and eight sailors with him. This
time they are lying by the wharf at
Fort Sumter, Payne standing as before
in the hatch to give his final orders,
when the boat careened, filled and
sunk. Payne and two men sprang out;
the other six men went down in her and
persisted.
In a few days she was again raised,
and Hundley and crew took her into
Stone river, where she dived and swan
on the water and under 1t, showing all
her powers, until presently she dived
and carried her hapless owner and
crew with her to the bottom. When
they were found week after her nozzle
was down deep into the mud OF the bot
tom, and the boat was inclining forty
five degrees to the surface. Her ballast
had shifted and and her crew were
unable to relieve her, and they all
persisted. .
IA gain she was made ready for action,
and though they had seen the fate OF
the three crews, u fourth, led by Lieut..
Dixon, of the Twenty first Alabama In
fantry, volunteered to take her out and
attack the Housatonic, a new corvette,
which had just arrived on the station,
and was lying outside q few miles off
Charleston Harbor.
Brave Dixon steered his boat with the
certainty Of fate, struck the Housatonic
fairly, and blew her whole stern off.
The ship sunk in two minutes and
half, and the torpedo boat disappeared
forever. Six years afterward men in
submarine armor went down to the
wreck of the Housatonic, and they re-
port the Torpedian lying on the bottom,
100 feet from where her great victim
lies. Undoubtedly, the conclusion pro-
duced by the explosion Of the torpedo
destroyed instantly the lives Of Dixon
and his crew.
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CONS u NJ 2 ITO
Positively Cured.

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to he cured should try DIR. KIS5NERS CELE-
BRATED CONSULTATIVE POWDERS. These
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will cure CONSUMPTION and ali diseases OF the
THROAT AND LUNGS-indeed. 50 strong is,
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BOX.
We don't want your money until you are
nerfectly satisfied of their curative powers.
If your life is worth saving, don't delay in giving
these POWDERS trial, as they will surely cure
you.
Price, for large box 50, sent to any part Of the
United States or Canada by mail on receipt OF
price, Address
ASH IL ROBBINS,
ap1s ~ $50 Fulton strict, Brooklyn. n. !.
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WATCHES, WATCHES, WATCHES.
I. G. LEWIS, !.
los Canal street,. los
THE CHEAPEST WATCHES
Ever sold this city will be found in my
JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT.

Double Case English Patent Lever, IS carats
fine, from $65 to 800.
Swiss Lever Watches for Ladies' and Gentle
men. also 18 carats fine, from s25 to s75-all
heavy cases and Of the best movement
Stem Winders for Ladies and Gentlemen. is
carats fine, from $40 to $3.50.
Split Second and Chronographer at various
prices.
American Levers IA and 1s carMs fine, from
$50 to s175.
Silver Double Case American Lever, cases
weighing from IN or to o.. from so to $40.
Stem Winders in proportion.
Ladies' Small Double Case Swiss Levers,
from $40 to s25.
All the above goods have been selected with
care by
]. G. LEVI.
je24 lat No. 108 Canal Street.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-01
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
1t VIII Exceed Last Years by 81 900 900.

WASHINGTON, June 25.-The receipts
of internal revenue for the fiscal year
ending the 30th of June will reach $119,.
600, 900. Last year they were $117 ,000, 600
The increase of 100000 is largely ow-
ing to the breaking up Of illicit dis
tilling and to the more vigorous collec-
ton Of the whisky tax.
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A New Hampshire paper relates that
at Newton. in that State, mad dog,
otter having been wounded, took refuge
IN q barn, where some of the hay became
soaked with his blood. The hay was
fed to a horse, which went mad.
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ADVERTISING RATEs-DAILx.

Transient advertisements 81 per square ten
ines Of solid agate, fret insertion; 20 cents
Wants To Rent, For Sales and Boarding adj
yertigements 10 cents line, net cash. solid mea-
snre. None taken at less than 40 cents.
Advertisements for the period Of one month
nd longer, as follows:
Local or Business Notices 20 cents q line. net.
editorial Notices, In Editorial type. 90 cents q
lino net.
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outside rate for commercial. The sales rom.
prised $55, 900 bank at u B cent discount, $25, 900
do at 1-l6, and 200 do and $4,000 bank 1t
1.32.
The banks continued to check on New York at
n u cent premium, while commercial sight was
quoted at 1-16 cent discount, against 1-16 % dis
count to par yesterday.
NEW ORLEANS STOCK ExoHiNaE SALES.
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COMMERCIAL.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMO NRAT,
EaAnrdnu Euaninns limo % 1917

Saturday Evening, June 80, 1877.
Quotations represent prices for round lots from
first hands, unless ok,e7aoise stated In filling
small orders higher prices are paid.
COTTON-The sales to-day embraced 1900
bales at full and in some eases, stronger prices,
requiring an advance OF 9 partial ~ in Low
Ordinary to Strict Good Ordinary. inclusive. We
give also the figures and report Of the Ex-
change M below:
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Squares limo. amo. 3 mo. 9 mo. | Il mo

Monthly advertisements. having the run OF
the paper, inserted every other day, to be
charged two-thirds the above rates.
Editorial page monthly advertisements. each
square. $40 per MONTH
Rates for Advertising Ina the Weekly New
Orleans Democrat.
Transient and general rates the same as for
Advertisements for the period Of one month
and longer. rs folloMs:
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in bank and on the street, and commercial paper
was unchanged. Gold and Foreign Exchange
ruled at previous rates. The movement in the
former was limited and only few sales of the
latter were reported. New York sight declined
fraction, requiring reduction Of Lie u cent
in the outside rate for commercial Stocks con-
tinued quiet. Meeting with less demand State
Consols gave way "a fs cent and Premium
Bonds "a II cent. City scrip was stronger and
Hslf-Paid City Coupons and State Warrants
easier.
The following semi-annual dividends were de-
clared to-day: The Southern Bank, fs cent,
payable on demand; the Hlbernia National Bank,
u cent, payable on demand; the State Ma
tional Bank, " cent, payable on and after July
g. the Workngmen's Bank, u cent, payable
on July 2; the Louisiana National Bank, %
cent, payable on demand, and the Citizens
Savings Bank, % cent payable on demand.
We c ntinus to quote Exceptional commercial
paper So ID cent per annum discounts Al do.
l0@-; second grade do. l2@15; collateral loans
-@S; 6rst class mortgages $685., and second
grade do. 10@12.
Gold opened at 105@lO5114, against 1867 at
New York, and after Ii hiteu business closed at
the opening rates in both markets. The sales
summed up $751; 90, embracing $4,000 at los, $1,000
and 5000 at 1851, $4,000 and SIS, 600 at 1867,
5000 at 1865. and $1,000 at 1851.
Foreign Exchange was without quotable varia-
ton. The sales were confined to $4,000 bill of
ladipg sterling at cot. and f2G00 Al clear at 509
At the close sterling bills We're quoted at $500
500 for bill Of lading and Al clear. and -@5l3
for bank (bank counter rate -@5l31Ia), and francs
4. 9455s@4 s3A for commercial and nominal for
bank.
New York sight gave way Lie y cent on the