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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
Foreign Intelligence.

The ambassadors of the Catholic pow
ers have jointly intimated to the Gamer
lengo that if some of the cardinals known
tor their uncompromising spirit, whom
they named, were likely to obtain the
suffrages of the conclave, the ambassa-
dora would be compelled to oppose their
election. The camerlengo has found in
the Pope's desk a sealed package, with
instructions for delivering it into the
hands of his successor. He also found
four hundred thousand scudi, the des-
tination of which is probably designated
in the papers of the testament. The
Pope's wealth, altogether, is said to
amount to one hundred and twenty
million lire, which is mostly in the hands
of the Rothschilds, at Paris.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
CHORUS.

-" What's the difference" asked the
teacher in arithmetic, "between one
yard and two yards ?' "A fence" said
Tommy Beales. Then Tommy sat down
on the ruler fourteen times.
"A three year old youngster saw
drunken man "tacking" through the
streets. Mother" said he, {" did God
make that man?' Yes, my child"
The little boy reflected a.momcnt, and
then exclaimed: 81 wouldn't have
done it"
Among the curiosities in the army
medical museum at Washington is the
wlthered and parched hand and arm of
man who left it on the bsttlc field at
ttyshurg. A cannon ball carried it to
the top of high tree, where the wind
and sun shriveled it to its present we'll
tanned condition.
"A lady who objects to profanity
because it is both wicked and yuglar,
writes to know what she ought to say
when clothes line breaks aud lets
weeks washing fall in the mud. She
ought to say: "Bessed are the meek
for they shall inherit the EARTH" but
probably she will not think OF il.
Anold- fashioned minister was preach
ing in tight, unventiIated church, in
which, by some means, q window was
left partly open. A good deacon, during
the sermon, closed it. The minister
stopped short, ard turning to the deacon,
said in solemn tones, If was preaching
in jug, | believe you would put the
cork in"
-" Angelina, my daughter, how do
you manage that trail? You certainly
don't 90 to entertainments with that on :"
Angelina, with her '"silvery laugh D.
80, papa, it's no trouble at all. My
puppy is only too. delighted to hold it
for me. Dear, dear Augustus he doesn't
know | call him my puppy. bless his
little helmet hat"
Recently a minister received a
clergymen's halt-fare travelling card, as
they are called, and wrote to the super
intendent asking If he could not en-
brace his wife Also The superintendent
replied that he thought likely he could,
but did not want to say positive until he
had seen his wife, as he was little fas.
tidious in his tastes.
He was saying, AS the pearly
column OF smoke in winters atmosphere
rises unbroken heavepwGrd, SO my heart
rises to thee. AS the sunfower follows
the cruel sun which gives it life, so my
heat follows thine, AS the blue brook
runs it's unhirdered course to the sea, SO
my soul, in slavery, goes to thee" Said
she, "Henry, now that we're engaged,
will your nail-blade cut corns?'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
THE SILVER BILL.

Extract from Mr. Blaine S peech in the Senate,
But I must say, Mr.. President, that
the specific demand for the payment of
our bonds in gold coin and nothing else,
comes with an ill-grace from certain
quarters. European criticism is levelled
against us and hard names are hurled at
us across the ocean for simply daring to
state that the letter of our law declares
the bonds to be payable in standard coin
of July II, 1870; expressly and explic-
lilly declared so, and declared SO in the
interest of the public creditor, and the
declaration inserted in the very body of
the 500, 100000 of bonds that have been
issued since that date. Beyond all doubt,
the silver dollar was included in the
standard coins of that public act. Pay
ment at that time would have been as
acceptable and as undisputed in silver as
in gold dollars, for both were equally
valuable in the European as we'll as in
the American market. Seven. Fights of
all our bonds owned out of the country
are held in Germany and Holland, and
Germany has demonetized silver and
Holland has been forced thereby to sus-
pend its coinage, since the subject of
both powers purchased our securities.
The German empire, the very year after
We made, our specific declaration
for paying our bonds in coin, passed law
destroying, SO far as lay in their power,
the value of silver as money. do not
say it was specially aimed at this coun-
try, but it was passed regardless of its
effect upon us, and was followed, Accord
ing to public and undenied statement, by
q large investment on the part of the
German government in our bonds, with
a view, it was understood, of holding
them as coin reserve for drawing gold
from us to aid in establishing their gold
standard at home. Thus, by one move
the German governmentdestroyed, SO far
as lay in its power, the then existing
value Of silver as money, enhanced con-
sequently the value of gold, and then got
into position to draw gold from us at the
moment of their need, which would also
be the moment of our sorest distress.
do not say that the German government
in these successive steps did single thing
which it had not a perfect right to dc,
but I do say that the subjects of that en-
pire have no right to complain of our
government for the initial step which has
impaired the value Of one of our standard
coins. And the German government, by
joining with us in the reconciliation Of
silver, can place that standard coin in it's
old position, and make it easy Tor this
government to pay and as profitable for
their subjects to receive the one metal as
L.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
Cuban News.

On the 18th inst. an engagement took
place at Ciego Montero, near Cienfugos,
Cuba, between the insurgents and Span.
ish forces, in which the latter lost one
hundred and fifty men and large num-
Der of cavalry horses, rifles, ammuni-
ton, etc.
A newspaper, printed in the interior
of the island, has published the following
official dispatch from headquarters, dated
Zanzou, February 10, on the conditions
of peace.
Article l. The island of Cuba to re-
ceive same political organization and
administrative concessions as are enjoyed
by Porto Rico.
2. Ample pardon for all political
ofenses committed since 1868, and
liberty for persons under sentence,
and political prisoners, and a
general pardon to deserters from
the Spanish lines.
8. Liberty to be given to slaves and
Cinnamon within the insurgent lines. :
A. No person, recognizing by virtue of
this treaty the Spanish authority, can be
obliged to do war service unless peace be
re-established in the whole territory.
5. All persons desiring to leave the
island, to be furnished the means to do
50, without touching either village or
city, if so desired. -. ="
6. The capitulation of each force to
take place on uninhabited spots, where
arms will be deposited. 3s" 80 ..@
Z. The Spanish general-in-chief, for the
purpose of facilitating adhesion to the
other departments to these conditions, to
give free access to the roads by sea and
land. FL. ss IA
5. The foregoing bases to be considered
general for all the departments Of this
island accepting these propositions.
The Spanish troops received orders to
suspend operations, remaining ON the
defensive. Practical guides have been
dispatched to make known these condi-
tiens to all the insurgent bands. The
insurgent camara and government have
resolved itself into central committee
Tor peace.
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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
ColOring Cheese.

Coloring cheese is often necessary to
insure fair price, for, while the inn
provement of the article is confined to
its color, the prejudice of the purchaser
is thus conciliated.. Pure annatto alone
should be used tor this purpose, and a
good recipe for cutting it is the follow
ing: Take four pounds of beet annatto,
two pounds concentrated potash, five
ounces saltpeter, pound and half SAL
soda, and five gallons boiling water
Put ingredients in tub and pour on The
boiling water. Inclose annatto in
cloth, and as it dissolves squeeze it into
the liquid. Two ounces of this liquid
to one hundred pounds Of eurds and pro-
portionately.-[ Moore's Rural.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
HANGED FOR DWELLING,
How Stop was Put to the Practice in the State
ri Illinois

How Stop was Put to the Practice in the State
Of illinois.
I know but one instance of man
having been hung for killing another in
duel. In 1880, two young fellows liv-
ing in Belleville, st. Clair county, H. had
personal quarrel. 1t seemed to be i'm
possible to reconcile them, and their
friends determined to get up sham duel
between them, hoping that the ridiculous
issue OF the affair would bring them to
their senses. One of them, Alphonso
Stewart, challenged the other, William
Bennett, to meet him with rifles. Bennett
accepted the challenge, and the parties
met near the village 1t is said that
Stewart was in the secret and that Ben
nett was not, but believed it to be real
ity: In any event, after the guns had
been handed to the principals and they
turned to take their positions, Bennett
who claimed that he suspected some sort
of trickery, rolled a bullet into his gun.
The seconds hardly able to keep their
faces straight, concluded the arrange
ments, and at last gave the word. The
rifles exploded almost simultaneously,
Bennett, of course, remaining untouched.
Stewart fell to the ground MORALLY
wounded, and expired shortly afterward
in great agony. Bennett was at once
arrested, put upen trial, convicted OF
murder in the first degree and sentenced
to be hanged. His friends made the
most strenuous efforts to have him par
doned. Failing in this they tried to have
the sentence committed But the gov.
ernor remained firm against all entreaty,
On the day appointed for his execution.
Bennett was hanged in the presence Of
an enormous crowd This was the first
and last duel ever fought in the state OF
Illinois. The hanging of Bennett put g
stigma on the practice, and it has been
looked upon with adherence ever since
- Philadelphia Times.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09

human creature. Almost every miner
was familiar with the trick. 1t was
trick to keep from freezing, at the
sacrifice of nails and finger tips. 1t was
a desperate method of exercise to arrest
lethargy. One veteran OF the camp re.
membesed to have climbed up and down
a tree all night one winter when he was
overtaken without matches by Monta-
ma blizzard.
Jim Oaks set his teeth hard when he
saw the frozen blood spots on the tree.
"Stay with me, boys" he said hoarse-
ly, "and help me find my wife.
The men struggled on.
Some two hours later a figure On dis
tant bluff was seen waving hat. All
sought the place where the wind had
blown 40 fercely during the preceding
night that it had prevented the snow
from lodging on the windward ridges,
Mrs. Oaks lay on her back there, half
covered with SNOW, frozen to sleep. Her
left hand was thrust inside the vest she
wore her rig hit was extended above her
head and covered with blood from her
poor torn fingers.
Everybody made way for Jim.
He came up and knelt down rever-
emily besideher, and kisssd her rigid lips.
Minerva" he said gently He
reached, trying to feel her heart.
Minerva"
He glanced around on the faces of his
fellow miners with such an expression on
his drawn and haggard visage that they
turned away.
He touched the cold hand to her
bosom. 1t covered something which she
bad clutched for when she fell. He
drew it forth; it was her testament
Opening it mechanically at the fy-leaf
he saw the words, written, perhaps, long
before.
"This book has been my comfort
Read it, JIM"
And below
ct am the resurrection and the life
saith the Lord. He that believeth il
Me, though be were dead, yet shall he
live; and he that liveth and believeth il
Me, shall never die"
"Boys," said Jim, half rising to hi
feet, and holding out the book with boil
his trembling hands, "she's left me-
Christmas present. See! "-[ IN. Y
Herald.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
The Plain Truth.

II it were announced to-day that the
great silver mines of our country had
Suddenly become exhausted, and that the
,odes now being worked had unexpect-
eddy developed gold: and gold in unlim-
tied quantities, how soon would the tune
of these fellows be changed? If silver
should go up and gold go down, every
mother's son of them would be roaring
s;,verite before the sun could set. so
one can see that it is not the question Of
a single monetary standard these men
are contending for. 1t is that they may
make the most out of their notes, bonds
and mortgages. 1t is that they may
squeeze the greatest amount of blood out
# those men who are so unfortunate az
h be their debtors.-[ Peoria Transcript.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
From Washington.

The bill introduced by Mr.. Robertson,
to improve navigation and to afford pro-
lection and security to the shipping
trade, commerce and alluvial lands of
the Mississippi river, provides for an ap-
preparation Of 81, 500, 900 for that purpose.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09

THE old Colonial laws have never been
repealed, and the Attorney General
declares that they arc still in force. One
If them turns out to be of very lively
importance TO Bob Ingersoll. 1t says:
" If any person shall deny our Saviour
Jesus Christ to be the Son of Goo, or
shall deny the Holy Trinity, the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost, Or the Godhead OF
the three Persons, or the unity OF the
Godhead, or shall utter any pro'ane
words concerning the Holy Trinity or
any of the Persons thereof, and shall be
thereof convicted he or she shall for the
first offense he bored through the tongue;
for the second on-nse, shall be stigmatized
BY burning the: forehead with the letter
r and for the third effense shall suffer
DEATH"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
Miscellaneous.

The total assessment of Louisiana is
estimated at $l76,OOO,OO0; that of the
city of New Orleans at gill, 900, 900,
thus making the real and personal as
easements of the state outside of New
Orleans only $65,00O,0oO.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
Underground Telegraph Lines.

The Austrian Military Review gives
some particulars as to the underground
telegraph lines which are being laid from
Berlin to the most distant extremitjes of
the German empire. The first under
ground line completed was that between
Berlin and Halle, which is to be con-
nected with three lines from Berlin to
Cologne, from Berlin to Frankfort-on-
the-Main, and from Berlin to Strasburg.
The lines from Berlin to Hamburg and
Kiel, from Berlin to Breslau, and from
Berlin to .Konigsberg were then pro-
ceeded with. The Berlin-Hamburg line
is provided with two parallel cables, each
of seven wires and from Hamburg one
of these cables is continued to Kiel, and
the other to Wilheimsbafen and Emdep,
where it is joined on to the North-sea
cable to England. The work of laying
these cables is very difficult in mountain
Gus districts, but along the high roads it
is simple enough, and OF late the opera
ton has been further simplified by the
use of machine constructed for the
purpose. This machine, attached to
tractior5engine, excavates the earth along |
the line Of route, and, having laid the
cable in the ground, throws it back
again, the only manual labor required
being that of the men who level the SOIL
afterward. This machine was tried IN
the presence Of Herr stephan, the
director of the Prussian post ofhce,
NOON the underground line from Berlin
10 spandau, by way of Charlottenburg
and was found to work very we'll.
Marshal ven Moltke has dispatched
from one of the "rallway
regiments to Spandau to make an
passage for the cable under
heath the Notifications, and a commission,
,om posed of civil engineers and telegraph
EMPLOYEES, has been appointed to arrange
or LAYING down, in the coure of the
ring. the lines from Berlin to Cologne,
frankfort and Strasburg. !
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09

Father Why don't you say yer
grace, Charley r Charley Why,
COS / don't like the looks o them there
taters.o
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09

1t is said the age of superstition 's
past, but there yet survive many so'caiieo
Intelligent women who would not nave
a new dress cut on Friday for the
world.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
The Russians in ConstantinOple.


After thousand years OF effort Russia
has reached the goal of her ambition.
The double-headed eagle of Byzantium,
which Sophia, the niece of the last Greek
emperor, Constantine VIII brought in
dowry to her husband, Ivan Ill, of Rus
STA, after four hundred years Of Ottoman
supremacy, again floats on the defenses
of Constantinople. Under the barbarian
dynasty of the Romanohf dynasty, the
possession of Constantinople has been
the constant object of Russian aspi-
rations. At four different times during
the existence of the Ruric dynasty were
expeditions fitted out against CONSTANT
nople, In eight hundred and sixty-fve
fleet of two thousand vessels traversed
the Black sea, descended the Bospho.
rus, and forced their way into the
Golden Horn. When victory see4led
to be within reach a sudden tempest de-
stroyed nearly all the ships and forced a
retreat. O!cg, in nine hundred and
seven, was driven back by the Greek
fire, after he had anchored before
the walls of the city. Igor, in
GAL, after desperate fighting, was defeated
with great loss, and like fate happened
to Vladimir, prince of Novgorod, in
1O43. These invasions from the north
struck such terror into the hearts of the
Greeks that they grimly believed the city
would some day fall into the hands of
the Russians. There was a superstition
that an equestrian statue in the square
of Taurus was secretly inscribed with a
prophecy how the Russians in the last
day should become master of Constanti-
nople. An equally strong superstition
of its conquest by the Russians has
always prevailed among the. Turks.
Under the Romanoffs the first hostilities
against the Turks began in 1878. They
have been continued at frequent inter-
walls from that date to the present day.
The Muscov;te encroachments on the
territory of the Ottoman empire have
been going on for two centuries, until
nearly one third of it has been absorbed.
The conclusion of peace will virtually
dispossess the Turks of their dominions
in Europe. of all Armenia, and of the
ancient citadels that guarded the Euro
pean and Asiatic frontiers.- Philadel-
| phia Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
ALL IN A LIFETIME.
BY II. C. STEDMAM.

BY H. G. STEDMAM.
Thou shalt have sun and shower from heaven above,
Thou shalt have flower and thorn frem earth
below. E @8
Thine shall be foe to hate and friend to love.
Pl easures that others gain, the ill they know
And all in a lifetime.
Hast thou golden day, s ariit night
Mirth and music, and love without alloy
Leave 80 drop undrunken of thy delight;
Sorrow and shadow follow on thy joy.
IT'S all in lifetime.
What If the battle end and thou has lost?
Others have Lost battles thou hast won;
Haste thee, bind thy wounds nor count che cost;
Over the fields will rise to-morrow's gun.
Ills all in lifetime.
Laugh at the braggart sheer, the open scorn-
Ware of the secret stab the slanderous lie;
For seventy years of turmoil thou vast born,
Bitter and sweet are thine till those 60 by.
IT'S all in lifetime
eckon thy voyage we'll, and spread the call
Wind ard calm and current shall warp the way
COMPASS shall set thee FALSE and chart shall tail
Ever the waves will use thee for their play.
IT'S all in lifetime.
Thousands of years agone were change and change,
Thousands of ages hence the same shall be;
Naught of thy joy and grief is new or strange;
Gather apace the good that falls to thee!
IT'S all In litetime!
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09
WAITS AND WHTMS,

Nt9oer mind de right, or lie lef'--don't wait
Keep III de middle ob de road;
FlX your eye on de big white gate,
Keep IN the middle ob de road
Us Wo III am full OBJ grief au' sin:
FL yon'll keep gwine on you am bound TO- to
when you git up dar dey will pass you in
II you IL keep in de middle OBJ de road.
CHORUS
Den, bredren, keep n de middle oh de road,
Den bredren, keep in de middle OBJ de road
Dont look to de ritht-don't lean de Ief',
But keep ia the middle OBJ de Dad "
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-03-09

p'raps-in the storm. o, Minerv'l!"
Out he sprang through the doorway.
The storm was over. The air was clear.
still, and bitterly cold. The SUN was
rising. He cast one strenuous look
around the narrow horizon, then plunged
through the drifts toward the camp.
Minerv'l!" he shouted. "Have
any Of you seen Minerv'l?"
Immediately the camp reused itself
from its aromatic slumbers. When it
was found that Mrs. Oaks was really
missing the miners volunteered as one
man to go to her rescue. A sled was
prepared = some firewood, provisions,
blankets, and a key OF whisky, were roped
fast to it, and, with Jim chatting by this
time, and far in front on the way toward
Wild Swan Gulch, the company started.
Parties were assigned to search the whole
prairie, east, west and north the largest
group followed Oaks trail. It was hard
work foundering across the gulIies and
washouts, which were packed to the
edge with snow. Often the men shud-
dered to think what might be hidden
under these heavy, white masses.
+ The first "sign" was discovered by
Jim Oaks partner, one "Spick Jones,
who kept to the left and signaled from a
clump of timber The bark was par.
tally torn off about four feet from the
ground, on the side of the tree, not BY
the teeth of wild beast, but, as was
plainly to be seen, by the hands of q
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-26
oRDTNANCJl.

10 Oprl Martin street, ATphy street ana Fieid
street, Jrom Nam street 10 Eimareci,
BE II ordained by the city Council of the
city Ot Dallas;
Section /. That Martin street, Murphy
street and Field street, from Main street ON
the south TO Eim rect ON tn north, be and
the same are hereby established AS streets,
and the proceedings necessary for the open
Ing OF the same are hereby ordered.
Sec. .. The Mayor, city Engineer and city
Secretary are herety ordered 10 proceed as
provided In section LOB aud sucC, cdlng Sec
lions of chapter | X Of city charter, to pur-
fOrm their respective duties for the opening
OF said streets.
See. s. The private property necessary 10
be condemned Tor use Ia opening said streets
shall be paid Tor by special assessments as
provided Tor IN section ~ and another Sec
ton OF chapter tx OF charter Of city.
Sec. 1. Said streets are To bo opened 80
prayed for In petitions OF citizens, Martin
street ana Murphy street To be OF the width
of 1901 feet, and on line with that pOroiou
OF SAID streets lying between Commerce and
Main streets, and n continuance OF the same.
Sec. .. Field street shall begin at Il point
on the north side o! Nam street ll015 feet
west Of the alley at Leonnrds southeast
corner; thence west 90 ieet; thence north 20
feet TO Elm street. thence east 50 feet along
south Side OF Elm street to said Leonard s
II rthe st corner; thence south 200 feet TO be
ginning
Sec. O. The sid Streets axe D. be paid for
by SPECIAL assessments, and the general fund
Of the city ID not 10 be used for the purpose,
See, l. The requirements Of city charter To
be strictly complied with In opening said
streets.
Sec s. That this ordinance golnto elect
from and after Its pas age.
Approved DeceT her -, 1877.
W. l.. CABELL, Mayor.
j. b. HEREFORD, Sec'y. dec ldlOt