The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-07-28

VI IL ObC@A
CURRENT PARA g
FREDERICK DOUGLASS thinks that the
presidents policy might be better called
tie presidents necessity.
WHEN a Carolina hail storm gets
started it kills horses, splinters shingles,
smashes fences and lays out every chicken
in the country.
THREE thousand old homesteads in
New Hampshire are deserted, and the
occupants of the others are complaining
that their business does not pay.
THE late Benjamin T. Tredick, of
Philadelphia, bequeathed $4,000 to
public charities, not to be paid, however,
until after the death of his wife.
OMAHA will have to build a dixie to
prevent the Missouri from making a
short cut a cross a point of land, which
would leave the city out in the cold.
MR.. and Mrs. Jacob Tufts, of West
boro, Massachusetts,, celebrated their
golden wedding last week, and among
the guests were the bridesmaid and
groomsman of the first ceremony.
CARELESS and jndiscriminate fishing
is gradually reducing the supply of she'll
fish on the coast Of England, which
draws from Norway about 100000 lob
sters a year, and from France about 2O0,-
900.
The st. Louis Globe makes honorable
mention OF an oaken chest in that city
which, it asserts, is eight hundred years
old. The boards are an inch and a half
in thickness anc are held together by
wooden pegs. ....
TWELVE years ago a woAan asked an
official in Portland, Maine, to inform
her if her husband sold a certain piece OF
real estate. Two weeks ago the officer
told her that the sale had just been re-
ported.
The shipments Of Piper Heidsick
champagne to Boston, New York, Phil
adelphia, New Orleans and Montreal
exceedsthat of last year by over 10000
baskets, yet the cry Of hard tires pre-
walls throughout the country.
The Baltimore man who hanged him
self because his wife devotedAo much of
her time to decorating the grave of her
first husband has his revenge. The
woman has two graves to decorate now
and no time to look for third husband.
OHIO really succeeded in doing what
80 many states threatened last winter.
1t passed a law for the protection of
gpaatsin hotels which requires the pro-
prletor "-nxauiaa-a-Gro-aScane from
every department F9 d. TWRRffc cR L Mon,:4,
assigned.
HE first ~centenarian of the season has
been caught at Brewer, Maine, zeal the
banks of the famed segeunkedunk. She
answers to the name of Mrs. Mercy
Studley, is one hundred and three years
old, reads the finest prins without glasses,
walks a mile before breakfast, milks two
cows morning and evening, and often
does the family washing on Mondays.
A NEW kind of lynch-law is reported
from California. Mr.. Belle Lynch,
editress Of the Ukiah Dispatch, was caned
by MIR. Carothers on account of an un-
complimentary notice she pen,5ed refers
ring to him. Californians are evidently
determined to give women equal rights
in everything.
A BRILLIANT opportunity is offered to
hawkers by Colorado, but unfortunately
not TO the hawkers that perambulate the
cities. The legislature offers twenty-five
cents for every hawk killed in the state.
As much as thirty to forty dollars a day
Us paid in Denver City alone and still
] is almost impossible to raise chickens
in the vicinity.
A STRANGE occurrence recently took
place in Russia. An express train.
carrying 100000 roubles, not only
failed to come in on time, but has COM
disappeared, and no trace can be
found OF either money, passengers or
cars. It is not extraordinary that a
train should be robbed, but that train
and everything else should be stolen
passes the wonderful.
HE Canadians are nothing if not
economical. A number Of conyicts YER
to be sent from Elgin county to King.
ston p~enitentiary aud as railroad travel
ing costs money, they were sent from ST.
Thomas to Port Stanley and put On 4
steamer, and not a regular steamer at
The boat went to Toledo loaded
corn, and went back over lake Erie.
through the Welland canal, and on to
Kingston.
Coon authorities estimated the last
crop in the United States AT