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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-11-04
Tn uniting the initials T. H. L. at the

In putting the initials I. II. l.. at the
foot of piece Of slangue rhyme
headed "In Memoriam," which APP
neared in our last issue, we would not
have the public understand that it was
the production of Thos. H. Lewis, ESD,
of this place, but Of your humble ser
want. who bears the same initials
uhose "home is under his hat" and who
writes as the spirit moves him." wheth-
or his subject Zoe that Of the cat, dog OF
the President.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-11-04
VOTTCE.

All persons crossing, fishing on or in any
manner trespassing on the Pleasant Hill plalta
ton formerly occupied by W. a. Robertson
and now belonging to Robertson n Co, Will be
prosecuted to the full extent OF the law. Ii4c
only person authorized i'll any manner TO
chang sc this rule or regulate this pl antatlon Is
the undersigned. -
OCTAVE PRUD'HOMME.
nov Aft
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-11-04
FRUIT ST AND.

PAsQCALE DEL BUONO,
OPELOUSAS-C0r Main d North sts.,-LA
ryERY VARIETY OF FRESH FRUIT, dried
" and canned, Choice Vegetables, Family
Groceries always in supply and being constant
ly increased, which he will sell cheap for cash
Market Price Paid for Pecans. *
oct %, 1882.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-11-04
REMEMBER

the election for Congressman on the
9Th November.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-11-04

Those at leisure or having no par
t;cular calling would do we'll to engage
in the iron, moss, bone and bottle bust
ness now furnishing a good living to
hundreds who while they find pleas
ant and profitable recreation In the
work, would otherwise be out OF en-
,oyp,ent and consequently go wanting.
Mr.. Isacks is paying the highest CASH
nriee for hides, wool, moss, bones, cot
ton seed, etc.
Go to Isacks, he's the boss
Dealer in cotton Seed wool and moss
Take your wagon, cart and horse,
Get to work and suffer no loss
If tine or opportunity, but haul it
all down to the depot, get your money
and 90 back home rejoicing.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-11-04

A first-class colored fair was held on
Saturday and Sunday nights OF last
week at the Railroad Hotel, presided
over by his majesty. MI. Emile Laysarde,
colored, which while it was we'll attend
ed aud patronized was the most orderly
Of the season. While the gallery
was occupied by the brass band and a
number Of lockers on, the front room
raye sway to the rustic eolored fiddler
whose foot wraps tailed with the light
ming struck movements Of those who
danced the spigeon wing" etc. The
hack room was occupied by the vendors
for the occasion who had prepared and
were serving magnificent suppers Of
turkey pig and wine to almost every
one present. We learn that the whole !
affair was a success and about $50 dol.
lars was the result Of the sales.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
NEWS AND NOTES.

Oliver Morrell, lad not quite 10 years
old, was arrested at Omaha for robbing the
postoffice He was in the employ of the
Daily Republican, aud had charge of the
taking of the early edition to the postoffice.
He has been stealing letters from the out
going mail for six or seven weeks.
A telegraph operator at Clyde, Texas,
died on the 10Th. He had been there but
two weeks This morning he telegraphed
Train Dispatcher Perkins II am going up
the hill; send doctor with switch engine.
Perkins inquired "whats the matter y
The answer came back, 81 am dying; send
docter." The switch engine was sent up
with DR.. West, but the man was dead before
he arrived.
There is a genuine case of leprosy on th e
outskirts of Little Rock. The victim is a
negro, named Elijah Turner. His skin is
changing from black to murky white, and
the flesh is dropping off in spots from the
body. His suffering is severe, and death is
only a question of time.
d. J. Price, of Bay View, Wis, who was
Postmaster for six years, and mem Der OF
the Legislature of 1881, tried to kill his
wife, and, not being successful, shot himself
Served himself right.
At meeting of the cattle kings of Texas
at Gainesville, $25,OOOoOO of capital was
represented.
The Massachusetts House defeated the
bin allowing women to vote for Presidential
electors.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
The chinese Question.

PORT GIBSON REyEIILE: One mistake
Mr.. Arthur made was in consulting the
Chinese Minister as to his views Of what
would or would not be compatible with his
construction. of the anti-Chiuese bill as
judged By the language of the treaty. The
Chinese Minister was an outsider and ought
not to have been made an interloper. The
talk in Congress about the spirit Of the re-
public in behalf Of the worlds oppressed
people, and of spreading the pinions Of the
American eagle over the heathens, the exile,
etc, etc, in all the earth, is harmless gush,
spread-eagle gush, and only to be tolerated
so long as it does no damage. The enlight-
ened, civilized, christianizsd people of the
world, not the Hottentot and the Esqui-
maux and other heathens viii always find a
welcome il nthe land Of the free and the
bone of the brave, 50 called. We are in
favor Of the anti-O Chinese bill that passed
Congress, and not getting that. We are IN
favor Of taking the next one, and such an
one as viii command executive approval, as
aet forth il the message.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
Putting on Mourning.

The custom 0f putting on mourning"
for the dead has been obsolete IN England
for some years a,nons the hjghrl classes,
and is gradually becoming - here. There
is no reason WHY Il should uht be-. Il often
entails expense up,u iJmiii,- ,Itt. ran 'll
afford it, is Costly, uGbrctn, ~, tnd uu-
healthful. Not one wornan In a 'hnu- "a
looks we'll in IL. | hsY,- +eu q hrsut. ul
woman look piquaRt in a widoWs cap, but
the recollection that her attractiv, rrS~ WAS
born of the grave, that she was making
capital from csrpse around whose uerk her
into another feeling. It's adyucatr- insist
that it is "a mark Of respect" But would
not "respect" be shown quite as we'll by
Withdrawing from public gaze, instead OF
inviting il, at such a time? The fact that
the most intense care is taken that this
"mark of respect" shall always be in the
style of highest fashion somewhat staggers
the conviction that sorrow alone fills our
hearts, even in the first agony Of bereave-
ment. We 'bury our dead out of sight,"
but not in the abomiDation of Grape and
bombazine We lay them away in white
robes and with the soft benison of flowers,
for we would have the last look linger with
US an ever pleasant memory, and in 'whte
robes" we hope to meet them again beyond
the stars" 1t is time that this faunted
advertisement Of sorrow, this compulsory
demand for street sympathy, this senseless
obtrusion of ghoul-like caste should take
its place with the fashion of drowning
witches, and OF the belief that Gehenna is
paved with the skulls of unbaptized infants.
l-philadelphia Item.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26


VIcKsBURG, April 20.-At meeting of
the National Cotton Planters Association,
held in this city to-day, the following letter
was prepared and addressed to President
Arthur, thanking him for his timely mes
sage advocating the building of the leyees
on the Mississippi side:
To Chester A. Arthur, President of the United
States, Washington, D. G.:
In behalf of 900 people, occupying 20, ,000,-
600 acres of land submerged by disastrous over
flow, we gratefully thank the nations Chief
Magistrate for his timely and patriotic message
urging Congress to the adoption of measures
for the amelioration of the navigation of the
great river, and the protection of its lower
delta from devastating floods. Such measures
viii create better and safer waterway on
which floats one-fourth the tonnage Of the
United States employed in the commerce of 25,-
600 600 of people, thereby cheapening transpor-
tation, and will also invite to the lower valley
q denser population and stimulate their indus
tries and energies to tire larger production of
the crops on which foreign commerce and sound
finances so largely depend.
F. G. Morehead, President National Cot
ton Planters Association Hon. III. f. Sim
rail-, E. G. Carroll, Geo. g. Waddill, Jno.
II. Voolfolk, Lee Richardson, Hon. A. II.
Arthur, J. H. d. Bowman, committee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
The Meeting in Greenville in June

The Board of Mississippi Levee Commis-
sioners met in Greenville few days since
to consider the interests of the oyerhowed
section, which it is their duty to protect
and guard, and among other things done
by them was the issuing OF an address to
the citizens of Tunica, Quitman, Coahoma,
Sunfower, Lefore and TaIlahatchie c0un-
ties, and to those citizens residing in that
part of DeSoto, Pamela, Holmes, Carroll and
Yazoo counties, where lands are subject to
overflow from the Mississippi waters, show.
ing the necessity of a Levee district being
formed of all the above named counties, for
common protection by common combination.
They recommended that a convention be
held at Greenville, on Monday, June 18th,
A. D., 1882, for the purpose Of considering
the question alluded to, and agreeing, If
possible, upon such terms of taxation and
representation as may be deemed just and
proper, and the necessities Of the case re-
quire. Yazoo county is asked to join in the
movement, and we believe it would be to
her interest 10. SO do, and to that end her
Board of Supervisors should select two
delegates to attend the convention aforesaid,
and there to represent her interests.-Yazoo
Herald.
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Senator Ben HilPs suferings.

Washington letter to the Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The announcement in to-day's papers
that Senator Hill is assured a permanent
cure suggests the suffering he has undergone.
The extent of the cutting to which he has
been subjected is not realized by the public
Four times has he been under the knife.
One-third of his tongue has been taken out
the entire left floor of his mouth-the
glands in the left side of his neck. He said
that if he had to chose between death and the
suffering he had endured from the cutting,
he would unhesitatingly take death-were
it not his duty to live and endure. The last
operation was the most severe and proba-
bly, successful. When he was put under
ether for it, it was intended to only take
out a small lump that had hardened on the
gland in his neck. After he was insensible
it was determined to adopt the heroic treat
ment and take out the gland. He was kept
under the knife two hours, the gland cut
out, and the knife sent in clear to the new
flesh that had filled the place Of the first
operation. When Mr.. Hill awoke he was
terribly exhausted, and shocked at the hole
cut in his neck. The gashes had been neat
ly sewed up. For seven days he could not
move his lips, and lived on liquid food.
After this, he improved until infamma-
tion developed along the wound. Then
came the most critical period ofhis sickness.
The entire opening of the wound being
closed the pus accumulated and pressed
against his throat. He was seized with
fever and could hardly speak. At last the
tension became so great that the wound
burst inside his mouth. This gave him re-
lief and he went to Philadelphia. He was
put under the knife again, and the outer
edge of the wound slit open SO that it might
heal from the bottom. This it is doing
finely, and without Inflammation. No trace
of the disease can be found, and the hopes
of his permanent cure were never 50 strong.
He says he will not submit to the knife
again, and his surgeons think there will be
no need.
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jurisdiction of the Federal courts
Mr.. nASSISe's PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
Chicago Advertiser.l

Chicago Advertiser.
Mr. Manning, of the House of Represen.
tatives in Congress, has proposed an amend
ment to the Constitution taking from the
courts of the United States their iurisdie-
tion of controversies between citizens of
different States" This deals with the
prime cause of the great pressure OF litiga-
ton in both the Supreme and the lower fed
eral courts. These tribunals are burdened
with cases involving no national issue nor
presenting any question under the laws of
the United States, but brought in them
simply on the ground of interstate citizen
ship.
This amendment ought to be adopted
without delay. The trainers of the Consti-
tuition never contemplated that the United
States would ever grow to be the great ma
tion it is at the present day. If they did
they certainly could not forsee the extent
of the commercial transactions that would
ultimately spring up between the several
States following the easy and rapid facili-
ties for transportation afforded by modern
ingenuity.
The present provision of the Constitu-
tion giving jurisdiction to the federal courts
in cases between citizens of different States
not only over-crowds the courts with litiga-
tion, but it leads to interminable confusion
in expoundings the law applicable to cases
Congress having finished up the two great
jobs regulating the Mormons and the Chi
nese Empire, perhaps they will find time
to give the affairs of the people little at
tention, first among which should be Mr..
Manning's court bill and his proposed
amendment to the Constitution.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
A sad Story.
Globe-Democrat.l ]

Globe-Democrat.
LITTLE Rock, ARK.-A gentleman from
Washington, Ark, gave the Globe Demo-
crat correspondent to-day an item which
illustrates only too clearly the ups and
downs OF life. A fe y years since one of the
most beautiful girls in Union County,
South Arkansas, was Miss Fannie Sedge
Her parents were wealthy and she moved
in the best circles, the cynosure of all be-
holders. She had many admirers, but for
some reason refused all offers Of marriage.
With the lapse Of years came sad changes,
which swept away friends, fortune and
everything almost that makes life desirable.
The reverses following so swiftly on the heels
of prosperity preyed on the Young girls
mind, plunging her into the deepest melan-
choly To add to her troubles, it is said
that she had accepted as her betrothed hns-
band a man who, on hearing that her mind
was likely to be affected, refused to marry
her, and cruelty deserted her without even
farewell word. This last blow was too
much, and reason fell from its throne. To-
day Fannie Sledge is confined in the Hemp
stead County Poor House, chained to the
wall, raving maniac. And this is the fate
of girl who, few years ago, was the envy
and admiration of all who knew her.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
A Word to Young Ladies.

| A pointed V-shaped vest is in many dress
es. This reaches from the throat TO the
| waist line, and is seldom smooth, four grad
ed puf5 being used instead
| The more elegant woolen dresses meant
| for summer wear have collars and cuffs anC
sometimes waisteoats of velvet of aydarkel
kshade or of contrasting color.
Black straw bonnets, trimmed with vel
| low flowers, are much in yogue,-primrCses
jonquils, etc. Colored straws will be gen
orally worn this summer, white ones being
exceptional
A woman, from her sex and character
has claim to many things besides shelter
food and clothing. She is not the less a
! woman for being welded; and the man
who is fit to be trusted with good wife
reeollects all which this implies and shows
himself perpetually chivalrous, sweet-spok-
en-, eonsiderate and deferential
Dresses being somewhat short in front,
give stockings an increasing Importance.
Chantilly lace for black silk and Brussels
point for white silk stockings are the rule
for full dress toilettes. Then there are black
silk stockings with lengthwise stripes OF
different colors which can thus be worn with
several dresses, and, lastly, a whole assort-
ment of embroidered Balbriggan hose.
which brings US to the modest stockings of
plain cotton, but still colored. Harper
Bazaar.
Riding habits made by fashionable tail
ors have short position waists entirely with
out trimming, and the scant short skirts
that were introduced by English women.
Ia Al f.E-s
to have them just touch the floor when the
wearer is standing. There are two breadths
of double-width cloth in these skirts, sloped
toward the top to fit plainly without full
ness at the belt. The seam on the right
side curves outwardly, different from that
on the left, in order to make room for the
knee when it is over the pammel.
Woman will always take care of her hair
if she is wise. She will brush it thoroughly
with a stiff brush every night and morning,
to stimulate the scalp she will wash it oc-
DISQUALIFICATION we'll brushed it need not
be done very often,-with ammonia or bo-
rax; she will change the arrangement of it
frequently, never allowing one spot to get
worn. She will always changei it at night :;
to loosen it and pass the fingers dipped in
cold water lightly over the scalp is said to
be good In short, she will think it worth
her while to take some little daily trouble
in order to preserve, even after it may have
turned gray, her hair, that glory of wo-
man, smooth, soft, thick, glossy, beautiful,
and in thoroughly healthy condition.
All kinds of drapings are used on skirts,
such as loops, soft waves, wide trains in
Louis XIV. style, and narrow, swallow
tailed trains. Large, square aprons are
used with the long habit, the latter forming
a redingote in front, and the square apron
being cut out on the border, almost sur
the skirt and confning the dra-
peries of the train.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
FASHION NOTES.

New pokes poke downward in the fore
head.
Ivory white is the fashionable shade of
white.
Putfs or ruches are more stylish than
plaitings for edging dress skirts.
Gloves are to have twelve buttons no
more, no less.
The chief fancy at present in dress goods
is for all kinds of Scotch plaid fabrics.
Woolen goods are manufactured as light as
gauze, with wide stripes divided in checks.
They make beautiful dresses for slight fig
ures.
A Paris writer in the Young Ladies' Jour
nal says; The great rage this spring is
fceIle. Our lace-makers have been making
very thick lace, in much raised patterns,
somewhat resembling guipure. Il is this
style of lace which is called fcelle. The
outlines are worked in thick round thread
of pale buff color. 1t is now lhe rival
of the rich embroidery in raised work over
tulle or other materials, the patterns of
which are not very different in style. This
kind of trimming is put on plain, and will
therefore do away a good deal with the
draperies of our costumes. Most of the new
SpilhS OOuuCLo ttIS u tiILnCu WIFI JtCcttC'
The handsomest silk embroidered and
bead embroidered designs are seen in appli-
que bands, to be sewed on as trimmings of
the handsomest silk costumes. They are
so admirably executed that they look as il
worked on the material. They sell at high
prices.
Among the newest dress goods are Louis
inc grantees glacees, which, when the suits
are well made, are stylish and novel in
effect. Louisine is fine quality of armure
in two blended shades, of which complete
toilettes are to be composed. Louisine has
body and is soft a suit of it is most neces-
sary for general use.
Flowers are again to be used on bonnets
They form close punches and garlands with
all kinds of leaves and many
shades of flowers. Leghorn capelines and
large directoire hats are covered with failIe
or velvet ribbon bows, with number OF
handsome roses falling over them. Feathers
are also used. The newest straws are rice
"a kind of Panama,) which is bright and
silvery, and "Bamboula," a coarse straw
forming large, smooth ribs. The laces en-
ployed by modistes are ecru and twne-coI-
ored Spanish laces, twine laces, black and
white blondes, and silk laces. The shade to
predominate this year will be twine color.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
GATHERED FRAG MENTS.

1t takes a clever man to conceal from
others what he doesn't know.
What costume ought to remind lady Of
her washerwom Why, her Laoon dress, to
be sure.
A young lady being asked by rich bach
elor, eff not yourself, who would you rather
be ?" replied, Yours truly"
One clap of thunder will sour milk, and
it can never be sweetened again. So human
confidence suddenly destroyed, can never be
regained.
The adage, "a little knowledge is a dan
gerous thing" is a very dangerous adage.
If knowledge is true, do not believe it to
be other than valuable possession, No
matter how infnitesimal in quantity. In
deed if little knowledge be dangerous,
who is there safe among us?-Huxley.
Kind words kind words / love them So
They fall like fakes of silent snow,
Which tremble downward in the night
And leave dark fields at day
Cowardice asks, Is it safe Expediency
asks, Is it polite Vanity asks, Is it popu
lar? But conscience asks, is it right
Every idea, from the moment of its emer-
genee, begins to gather material force, and
after little while makes itself known
Emerson.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
A Struggle for Bread.

The struggle of FIVE Thousand operatives
against 50, 800, 900 of capital still goes on
at Lawrence-a struggle begun by girls who
we're Joined by other workwomen and work
men, who had been treated to like bitter
dose. The women who struck first did so as
individuals, having no organization which
could order them to strike. Nevertheless,
when, without any such protective organi-
zation, they chose a committee Of mill
hands, who selected delegation of three
messengers, not of strikers, norof employees
of any sort, but the mayor of Lawrence,
the cashier of one bank, and a director oi
another, to visit the treasurer and plead
with him for justice, he turned back this
embassy to the local superintendent as
being the proper officials to deal with.
These superintendents, fulfilling their part
in the arrangement, refused to treat with
any body but their own work people. Fl
nalfy, when the latter sent a committee oi
their own, they received the harsh terms OF
unconditional surrender-work at the re-
dueed wages, or the shutting down of the
mills.-New York Sun.
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Cotton Factories.
New Orleans States. |

New Orleans States.
Capital invested in cotton factories here
will pay from five to fifteen per cent. more
than in the East or in England, and for
these among other reasons:
l. The moisture in our climate is an ad-
vantage which has to be overcome in the
East, by artificial means.
. The compression of cotton for distant
shipment Injuries the staple and hence our
factories can produce a better article of
goods.
8. The freight and insurance to distant
localities are saved.
f. The mildness of our climate and the
fertility of our soil renders living cheaper for
operatives.
5. Profits made by middle men and many
other costs and commissions are saved by
the manufacture and sale of the goods here.
Those are but a few of the advantages
we possess over the East. And, indeed. it
must be evident to any one, that, possess
ing the labor and capital, our cotton grown
at our own doors can be more eheaply man.
ufactured here than at points many hun
dreds of miles distant. This has been shown
to be true by the experience of South Car
olina, Georgia, Alabama and North Caroli-
ma, where the cotton factories have yielded
enormous profits and established the great
fact that the cities of the South which grows
the cotton, are the proper seats for its man
| ufacture.