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public. wi! NOT be repeated dnr'n7 The present
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ulnftY ytry successful
, 1877-01-05

Special Dtspaseh to Tie 7r5oHnA
SrRtKarIRtD, ILL.,. JAR. i.-rhc state Board Of
Agriculture concluded It's session this afternoon
and adjourned. The Trcasurcr's report tor tho
year shows tho aggregate receipts for tho year,
itlcluding tho Etate approximation OF $Anoo, tho
prucce!ls OF sa1c of $40 000 uutc States bonds,
and other sources, t24,D15.Ek1 md the cxpcnhi.
turcs nclndne those for premium. at the State
Fair At Ottawa, salaries, commissions, etc.,
$l0, ,G7n5o, leaving balance In the Treasury oi
$5.s39.tf: Resolutions Of compliment To TO
firing officers were na6sctt
, 1877-01-05

dcnce Of the BRIDES pa1cnt., I'D. Orchard TT. hy
the Rev. W. Z. Young. Mr. j. William Lands and
Mist Alice o. Cox. daughter ut Mai. 4. II. Cox.
, 1877-01-05

THE CENTENNIAL JUDGES
recommend tho new Wheeler 4 Wilson Ecvtng-
Machine, No. 8, All entirely now machine with
atraleht medic. Once III, State etrect.
, 1877-01-05
NO MORE GAMING,

NJ HURE dAMH6.
Gambling in the nclehnorhood Of st'Thc Store
Is now thing solely of the pant NeatheEbce,
proprietor of the gaming establishment over II. c.
Mcdonald Co.'S, has been forced ty the latter 10
give up the buslness, and tho bnllding will bo de-
voted entirely to thu Wholesale wine, whisky, aud
cigar trade.
, 1877-01-05

WOODS otUSEUSI.
The performance of '-Ttc Ulackalnith" At tho
Museum Tonight will bc for tho benett Of 3lr.
Maurice Tlkc md MIHa MIlllu snckct&.
, 1877-01-05

SCIENTIFICALLY PREPARED.
DR.. Pfies's Cream Baking Powder u prepared BY
the spplIeat!on OF scentahn principles, forming
whofaQms xud nutritious pom der.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
THE POPE'S HEALTH.

Late accounts of the Pope's failing
health lead to the discussion of his sue
cessor. The cardinals, sitting in the con-
sistory the other day, were evidently
alarmed about the progress of the Pope's
disease, dropsy, for they discussed the
arrangements for holding a conclave, at
which the Pepe's successor is to be
elee1ed, ten days after the Pontif's death.
Up to the eleventh century the Pope
was elected jointly by the clergy and the
people, the supreme secular authority
requiring that the election should receive
its sanction. By a decree of Pope
Nicholas H., in 1853, the election of the
Pope was given to the Cardinal Bishops
and other cardinals and the clergy, the
people approving it. The decree Of Al
exander Ill, in 1179, vested the POWER
of election exclusively in the college of
cardinals, tEo,thirds of the body securing
the election. The council of Lyons, in
1874, prescribed the form Of election, 30
az to exclude secular or political IN
fuence. The present peculiar relations
of the Roman See to the European pow
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
IS HANGING on"

One wa a parcel-boy and the other a
cash-boy, and as they halted under
an awning for a minute the ~parcel-boy
asked:
edo you get the same old wages yeti"
Eyes, just the same.".
"Havn't you been presented with a
watch or cane, as a token of esteem?"
"Ne-not a thing"
"Don't the boss ever ask you up to a
Sunday dinner?"
"Not a one."
"Never comes around and asks your
advice about the markets."
Never"
"And he hasn't got a daughter to fall
in love with you and suicide if she can't
marry your"
"No."
"Well, / don't see why you stay there.
It must be awful humi1iating to a boy OF
your temperament"
80 it is-it's Just awful on me, but
I'm hanging or in hopes of finding a
fve-dollar bill on the floor and buying
all the rock candy I can eat. Seems as
if I could taste it now-yum-good-bye.
Few people know how we boys suffer
day after day."-Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
PTNNEN RIGHT DOWN.

A grocer doing business on Michigan
grand avenue was yeterday asked to
trust a colored man one day for a
quart Of strawberries.
4'Can't do it-you'd never pay, he
replied. i,
"I1l pay de money afOre eight o.
clock in de mawning, earnestly con-
tinued the colored man.
"Perhaps you might, but I don't
believe it. If you have no money
now how will you have any then.
"Don't ak me, boss-Ill have de
cash suah. Ize just perspiring to
death for the want Of Strawberries. ,
"Does any one owe your" asked
the grocer. -.
"No, sah."
"Then how do you expect to gel
any money?
"Oh, de pay will be all right"
81 guess not. You'll have to try
some one else.
"Boss, you hez pinned me right
down to cold facts, " said the customer
I wants strawberries, an dey hez go
to come, an, derefore, let me say da'
I wasn't going out tonight to stea
chickens an sell 'em to git money"
"Ah! you wasn't?" .
"No, sab, cause l dun pulled 'em il
last night, an dey'll be sold to
butcher dis evening, OATS de cold fact
mister, an now wrap up dem strawbe1
ries an don't abuse my confidence. =
Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
FOR THIS ARE WE DOCTORS.

Reading, Pennsylvania, has a doctor
who is a terror to robbers. DR.. VIM.
Harris keeps a drug store and he and
his wife live over lhe store. The other
night he woke and saw a mar in his
room. He asked the intruder what
he wanted. Intruder replied: "Your
money or your life the old style of
bulldozing. Mrs. Harris screamed
and the robber said if she didn't "shut
up" he would kill her instantly. Mrs.
Harris shut up and then the doctor got
in his work very handsomely. He
grappled with the robber, and while
they were at it the robber FREQ two
shots into the ceiling. At length the
doctor knocked the robber down with
a rocking chair, and as he didn't show
any more fight the Victor picked his
adversary up and flung him out of the
window, to which he bud assembled by
a ladder. The doctor simply threw
down the ladder and quietly addressed
himself again to sleep with his wife.
He got a comfortable nights rest after
all.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
TART ON BRET HARTE.

In criticising Bret Harte fora too
striking resemblance between bis latest
poem, "On a Naughty Little Boy
Sleeping" and a poem entitled "The
Toys" first published in the Pail Mall
Gazette, ard afterwards repeatedly
republished in this country, the Boston
Traveller says"
The idea Of Mr.. Harte's poem was
plainly suggested by the other, though
there is little similarity in the language
or form of the verses. 1t is not the
first time that we have had occasion
to point out Bret Harte's indulgence
in this discreditable practice. He has
evidently written himself out since
coming east, and can. only maintain
his position as an active HHerateuw by
trading upon the revamped idea Of
others. Plagiarism may be excused
in the case OF a Shakespeare whose
mental alchemy transmitted the base
metal into the pure gold minted with
the royal stamp of genius, but where
the process is reversed, as N the pres
ent case, there is no palliation for it.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
JUDGE HILTON'S ORD Err.

In reality, to persons thoroughly &C.
uuainted with the business of hotel keep
ing, and conversant with its exigencies,
the question is purely n of business
policy. Such an exclusiveness has,
though more unobtrusively, been prac-
tised ior years at various summer estab-
lishments, that could be named did the
occasion require, and practised purely
upon business principles. Indeed, as
will appear from consulting the adver-
Using columns of the Jewish Messenger
our Jewish fellow-citizens advertise their
exclusiveness openly in the cards of sum-
mer hotels. The Grand Central at Far
Rockaway claims patronage on the
ground of being a "frst-class Jewish
family hotel;" and, on 1;scanning the
whole column devoted to hotels, the
very first thing that strikes the reader
is the expressed or implied intimation
that none but Jews will be accommo-
dated. The same remark applies to the
several boarding houses advertising for
summer patronage in that newspaper.
This fact is not instanced in the way of
criticising Jewish hotel proprietors. 1t
would not be pleasant for 8 fervent
Methodist family to summe in a house
wholly frequented by Presbyterians or
Baptists, or vice versa. Hence, places of
summer resort having an air or religious
exclusiveness are not at all uncommon.
Such are Ocean Grove in New Jersey,
Sea Cliff, L. l., and Martha's Vineyard,
Mass. Notably in the family hotels of
this city, it has always been customary
for the proprietors of such hotels to con-
suit the ideas of their guests i'm relation
to new administrations Journal.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
THE MODERN Farmer

. .a E.--sL. =..
A New Hampshire. correspondent of
the Manchester Mirror expresses his
views on the deserted farm question thus
bluntly: off farms have rundown the
people who occupy them are q long way
ahead in the race. We have got on our
farms to-day a class of people who can
cipher through the algebra, play the
piano and boast of an acquaintance with
the fine arts, but they can't work. They
have got fine minds, but their bodies are
sickly, puny and weak. To otalk the
matter plainly, we have bred the bone
and muscle out of our families until we
have got a kind of human Jerseys, fine
bred, mild-eyed. and nice to look at, and
put on exhibition, but so tender and
weak that they are fit neither for our
climate, our work, or our circumstances.
Our fathers worked twelve or fourteen
hours a day and never thought of getting
tired. We are used up when we work
four hours. Our mothers made butter
and cheese, fed the pigs and chickens,
did the milking, raised a dozen children,
made the clothing for the family, and
when a shower was coming, could rake
or load hay. Our wivesWant a maid to
tend the baby and another to do the
homework, a boy to do the chores, and
if we keep more than n COW, a cheese
factory to prevent the milk from spoil
ing. 1t is safe to say that ten farmers
wives to-day cannot do as much work
as would two fifty years ago. As a farm
ing people we are played out. If the
young farmer, who wants a wife to helI
get a living, instead of n to hang rib
bons on and pour patent medicines into
would just go down to your city and fine
a good, strong, vigorous, industrious ane
frugal Irish or German girl, he woulc
find his farm would pay better than il
does now, and his children would bt
likely to be worth ten times as much al
farmers as will be any of the next gen
Grafton.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
HOW THE RULERS DINE.

Marshal MacMahon is frugal and
V makes any observations on what
is set before him. He is not a great
drinker, but very fond of fruit.
Queen Victoria is not a great eater,
but she likes beef and pastry.
The emperor of Russia is fond of
game. BE drinks plenty of Burgundy
and champagne.
The emperor of Germany drinks
anything he can get-Marcobrunner,
Liebraumilieh and Reederer. He is
a Supplemented and merry guest. He
likes beef and sweet dishes.
The emperor of Austria is a serious
eater. He prefers beef and mutton to
poultry. He drinks Hungarian wines
and Bordeaux.
Victor Emmanuel has a strong ap-
petite; loves small birds; does not
touch the bears he kills. Burgundy is
his wine.
The king of the Netherlands is a
splendid eater. Give him anything
and salmon, with good old wine. His
cellars are the finest in Europe.
The king of the Belgians has a
stomach no bigger than a sparrows.
) Cannot eat much; larks will do and
old Burgundy.
The ex-kingof Hanover likes pleas.
ants, grouse and smoked ham, Rhenish
wines and Moselle.
The king of Portugal is a miserable
guest; eats little, drinks less.
Alphonse XII. has a brave stomach.
Plenty of poultry, veal, dessert and
claret.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
THE OLD SILVER DOLLAR.

How dear to my heart are the coins OF my
childhood,
When fond recollection recalls them to
view;
Dads scanty gifts in an occasional m'id moou,
The hardly.gained pelf which my infancy
knew.
The old.fashioned copper, with green rust
corroded;
The smooth.sided levy, the sixpences small;
The pilastered quarters, by long use erode1;
The old silver dollar, loved better than ALI;
The old silver dollar; our dads legal dollar;
The bright, shining dollar, loved oetter
than all.
Its broad, gleamingdisk hailed rs treasu
The promised reward of long hours in the
field;
To grasp it's dear form was exquisite pleasure,
The strongest and keenest that money
could yield.
How ardent I seized it, with hands that were
. itching,
And quick to the long pockets bottom 1t
There carefully guarded from wasteful be-
witching,
Till yielded at last to the circusman's spell;
The old silver dollar; our dads legal dollar;
The bright, shining dollar, that they loved
so well.
How good from the huckster's grimed hand
to receive it, y
AS pay for our butter, our eggs, and our
sass;
The c~rispiest kiII could not tempt me to
leave it, ,
Though the banknote-detector pronounced
it frst-@ass.
Since now is discarded that loved legal
tender,
The tears of regret will increasingly fall;
As fancy reverts to its size and it's ~splendor;
yearn for the dollar loved better than ell
The old silver dollar; our dads legal dollar;
The bright, shining dollar, loved better
than all.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
LONG-1InEO oRANGE TREES.

An idea of the age which orange
trees may attain is furnished by the
history Of the magnificent n in the
orapgery of the Palace of Versailles,
known by the name of the Grand Con-
notable, or Grand Bourbon, which is
now 45Oyears old. 1t grew from some
pips of bitter orange planted in a
Dot at the commencement of the ff-
teenth century, bv Eleonore OF Castillo
wife of Charles III king of Navarro.
The young plants Which sprang from
the seeds were kept in the same tub at
Pampeluma until 1899. In 1884,
more than two centuries after, they
we're removed to Versailles. The
Grand Connetable, which may be re-
garded as the senior of living orange
trees, is still perfectly vigorous, and
does not exhibit any signs Of decay.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
NO MORE SlDE-SADDLES.

There are few traps for the female
sex any more deadly than the side
saddle, and no one4of any sense grieves
at the decay of the "nobIe art of horse
manship," as long rs art cannot be
practiced except at the imminent risk
of the ladies doing so. English people
are devoted horsemen. and the ladies
as we'll as the men take the highest
pleasure in galloping after the hounds.
But recently an English lady, who en-
joys what is considered an enviable
fame for skill and daring, in riding
close to the hounds, and who is also a
pattern wife and mother, has an
nounced that she will risk her life no
more riding on a si~de-saddle, but in
the next season will ride masculine
fashion. Her announcement has set
the whole fashionable world to talking,
since she is a woman of spirit, and it
is believed she will do as size says. If
she does she will have followers with
out doubt, and it may be that this will
inaugurate the long expected dress re-
volution.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
A SONG OF SUMNER.

in your darkest hour strive to remeHpe
ur brightest.-J. p. Richter.
Sing ME a song of summer.
For nv heart is wintry sad,
That glorious b@ght newcomer
Who makes all nature glad!
Sing me a song Of summer
That the dark from the bright may borrow,
And the part in the radiant whole OF Things
May drown its little sorrow.
Sing me a song of summer,
When God walks forth in light,
II spreads his glowing mantle
Ger the blank and the grey OF night;
And where he comes, his quickenlng touch
Revives the insensate Gead,
And the numbed and frozen pulse OF things
Beats music to his tread.
Sing me a song Of summer
With his banners Of golden bloom,
That glorious bright newcomer,
who bears bleak winters doom,
With banners of gold and OF silver
And wings of rosy display,
And verdous power in his path,
When he comes with the pride OF the May
When he comes with his genial sweep
Ger the barren and bare Of the scene,
And makes the stiff earth to wave
With an ocean of undulent green; q
With flourish of leafy expansion,
And boast of luxuriant bloom,
And the revel of life as it triumphs
Ger the dust and decay of the tomb.
Sing me a song of summer,
God! what a glorious thing
Is the march of the mighty newcomer,
With splendor of life OH his wingl
When he quickens the pulse of creation,
And maketh all feebleness strong,
Till it spread into blossom OF beauty,
And burst into pseans OF song!
Sing me a song Of summer!
Though my heart be wintry and sad,
The thought of this blessed newcomer
Shall foster the germ of the glad.
Meath the veil of my grief let me cherish
The Joy that shall rush into day,
When the bane OF the winter shall perish
In the pride apd the power of the May.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
AMARHs GRIEF FOX ITS DEAD COLT.

Graystocking, a thoroughbred mare,
lost a fine colt in Milton the other dav.
The colt was four days old. Gray
stocking is a granddaughter Of Lex
ington. The father of the colt was a
grandson of Lexington. The grie of
the mare over the dead colt wa ter
rible to witness. She was shut up in
the stable, and the colt lay dead in
the passage outside. There was an
air hole through the roof of the stable,
and in her rawlings the mare actually
got on her hind legs and poked her
head through the hole.-ReidsviM
Times.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18
PLEASANTRTES.

-
The centre of gravity-An under
takers nose.
"A Connecticut preacher says that a
good congregation will praise the music,
the choir, the ventilation, and the civil
tiles of the usher, but as to TIE sermon,
"Well I dunno"
..Arbiter observation-disclosures
&C please, m, could I go out this
evening? cause cook mex doors got q
{ language O. flowers Bee,' and she's re-
quested me to be one O the judges -
Punch.
"A gentleman entered a bachelors
room, and looking around said "Very
snug" eyes, answered the bachelor.
"Rather too snug. But l suppose i'll
had had a better half I might have had
better quarters"
"A colored wedding party gathered at
Hartford, Conn, recently, and waited
long for the bridegroom. A policeman
finally found him about to take the cars.
"The times is SO hard" he said, 81 had
to give It up"
.."Young men of tl&' middle ranks
are getting SO shy and hard to catch that
parents will have to begin to offer chro-
mos along with their manageable
daughters" says the Turner's Falls Re-
porter.
ON Sunday, at baptism in a baptist
church not far from Boston, when "a
somewhat agitated candidate was strug-
Cling in the tank, a small boy in the gal
lery began humming "Pull for the
Shore" loud enough to be heard by all
present.
.."My son." said a mother to a little
boy tour years old, "whom above all
others will you wish to see when you
pass into the spirit world!" "Goliah!"
shouted the child, with 4 joyous antici-
patton; "unless," he quickly added,
" there's a bigger Teller there"
Ministers should remember that the
weather is growing very warm, and the
congregation which sits delighted through
two and one-half hours of a five-act COM
edy can't possibly endure more than
twenty-five minutes of sermon and a
three. minute prayer. There is a limit
even to human endurance.
The strawberry.shortcake festival
held by our church societies might be
rendered more interesting and attractive
by announcing that the young man who
finds the strawberry in his piece of cake
will be entitled to a kiss from the pref
test girl in the room, or something of
that sort.
Scene at tho seaside Youth with
sad, love struck AFRO wilt thou net
be mine-my own dear bride? l love
you deeply, fondly, p~assionately, wildly!
I cannot live without you! Say, oh,
say thou wilt be mineW Maiden, with
downcast eyes" Adolphus, is there
anything the matter with my dress? l
saw the Smith girls just now look at me
c~uriously. Does my hair set all right"
Adelphus discontinues his love-makiDg.
The children Of a clergyman'0 family
in Aberdeen were making themselves
happy propounding conuDdrul1s. Fl
nally one of them said, Who was the
meekest woman ?" The clergyman
seemed struck with a fresh thought, and
replied quickly, we don't read of any"
But madam made herself even with him
when she rejoined, with quite as much
quickness: Well we read of only one
such man, and from the fuss that's made
about him it's plain they're sca'ce."
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

ers. makes the election of the next Pope
of great Importance. Interference from
Germany is feared, and also from the
Italian government, in consequence of
which the election in the event OF the
death of Plus TX, will be held as expe-
ditieusly and secretly as possible.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

The Parisians combine the useful and
ornamental by constructing barometers
in the shape of bouquets. They are col
ored by a composition Of which chloride
of cobalt is one of the ingredients. When
exposed to the sun and dry air the leaves
become a deep blue when the air is
moist they turn pink.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

THE cost of larcerating an alderman's
feelings in England is $25. A verdict
for that amount was rendered against
the turrey Comet because it said Alder
man Wenan attended a baby show.
Wenan proved the frightful charge to be
completely unfounded and consequently
xegained the respect of his townmen and
also $25.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-18

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

Adirondack Murray has a pacing mare
that he expects to make trot a mile in
two minutes, by attaching a loaded
leathern 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!
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-23
THE RUssO.TURKIsH WAR.

Tho news from this great war for the
last tive weeks has been very meagre.
The signal defeat of the Russians at
Plevna, on the 3lst ult, SO effectually
disnrranged their plan of tho campaign,
that they have been unable to make any
offensive movements. The Turks, in
their entsenchments and strong fortreases,
arc awaiting the attack OF their enemy.
They are rnassing their forces for great
battle. The Russians have learned pru-
dence from their past defeats, and are
pushing forward largo reinforcements for
the army in Roumania. It Is stated that
10000 men are now on the march to
reinforce this army. All indications
show that the Russians do not mean to
be in o hurry TO retrieve their defeats,
but that they have determined to await
the arrival of reinforcements, and make
the next battle great and decisive one.
Present indications are that the cam
paign of the present year will not end
the war, but that it will be prolonged
into another year, even provided no 9TH
er power should become involved.