The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

man Wenan a DdDy snoW.
Wenan proved the frightful charge to be
unfounded and consequently
regained the respect of his townmen and
also $25.
Adirondack Murray has a pacing mare
that he expects to make trot a mile in
two minutes, by attaching a loaded
Ieathern sack to each of her forward feet,
and decreasing the weight asshe becomes
accustomed to the t~rotting gait. Wouldn't
Murray make a good cavalry leader for
the Cossacks, since he is such a great
borseman--and so rushin' inhis tastes!
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Enerson's speech at
the dinner givento President Hayes in
Boston was as follows: "Mr. Mayor, l
Lave to return my sincere acknowledge
17ents for your invitation to attend your
most welcome entertainment, and I wish
/ could express in fitting terms my
thanks. But | was always a bad speaker
and am more SO in my old age. The
president, I am SURE, will forgive me for
rndeavoring to sit down.
A singular drowning accident occurred
at Grand Lake. Nova Scotia, recently.
An English girl named Emmett, aged
twelve, sat on a log at the shore of the
Jake to battle her feet, and getting into
81 day dream, did not notice that the log
had foated out into tho lake. Suddenly
realizing her position, she lost presence
Of mind and sprang into the water.
Strange to say, this is the sixth child
her parents have lost by drowning.
DURING the fire Of September, 1776,
which destroyed % large a portion Of
lower New York, including old Trinity
church, the royal arms were taken from
the latter edifce and carried to a place
of safety. When the leyalists subse-
euently emigrated to st. John, New
Brunswick, in 1888, they took these
arms with them and when Trinity church
wa built some five years later, they
were hung up in the new edifice. Here
they remained nDtil the fire of last week
destroyed the churche.sd al jtseaa.aata,
Mr.. Barry Sullivan, the English actor,
has lately had a curious operation per-
xHo wy. IO was aCCIa6ftJ~
ally struck by a sword in the sensitive
organ some months ago, while playing
Richard III. The eye has never since
completely healed, and the physician
concluded that some foreign substance
must have lodged in the eyeball. The
necessary operation was performed and an
eyelash was removed, which had been
thrust in at the point of the sword. Mr.
Sullivan is now recovered.
In Paris, in 1713, women wore above
their silly little skulls 'edifces of brass
wire, ribbons, hair and allsorts of tawdry
rubbish, more than two feet high, MAX
ing their heads seem in the middle of
their bodies. If they moved ever SO
lightly, the edifice trembled and the in
convenience was extreme. The king,
Louis XIV, could not endure them, but,
master as he wa Of everything, was I'M
able to Danish them. They lasted ten
years and more, despite all he could do
and say"
The receiPS5of internal revenue for the
fiscal year e9ding June 80 will reach
$4,000 a4 an increase of $4,000, 900
over the receats for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1876. The receipts were
estimated at $40, 200, 900, and the n
missioner Of internal revenue thinks this
sum would have been exceeded by about
$4,000, 900 if it had not been for uncer-
tainty occasioned by The proposition TO
reduce the tax on spirits. The total re-
ceipts of the government for thecurrent
fiscal year will considerably exceed the
expenditures.
POPULAR SUFFRAGE has been pat to a
singular test in the village Of Ava,
Japan. The neighborhood was harassed
BY q midnight robber, whom nobody
could detect. The head of the hamlet
summoned the entire male population
under his control, and directed every
man to write the name of the person
whom he suspected, and to deposit tho
ticket in a box. Fifteen ballots bore the
name Of Abe Tanihei, the rest being
blanks. The man whom everybody sus-
pected Was 50 overcome with astonish-
ment that he made q full confession and
went to prison.
WoNAE's SPHERE-As house-mistresses
and as mothers, women have duties to
perfOrm quite as important in their re-
suits, ifnot 90 extensive in their area, as
anY that fall to the lot of men. AS to the
former. the comfort and happiness Of a
greater Or less number Of people depends
principally on them asto the latter, they
influence and mold the future genera
tion, and 10 are the ultimate sources
whence flow the current Of events, and
the creators Of the characters in which
Is to be written. But for the