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The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-30
Business Notices.

For SALE.-A fine buggy mare, harness and
now buggy. Apply at this office.
Subscribe for this paper and send it to your
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CouRIER Office. -.
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ook-HeSP1fg III Blackman's Commercial Col
>Se, New Orleans, can be had at a heavy dis
Afount on application at this office.
The COURIER ought to be in the family of
every intelligent man i'll the parish. Single
subscriptions $2.5UIn advance; 1925 each in
clubs of five, and $500 in clubs of ten.
PatroniZe home enterprise, by having your
job work done at tho COURIER office. We
guarantee satisfaction in style of work and
prices. A fine lot of cards, &c, just received
Have your bill heads, letter heads, circulars
cards, ball and wedding tickets, hand bills
labels, posters, etc., printed at the COURIER
office. We are prepared to execute all orders
at The Oery Lowest cash prices.
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rance. If not paid in advance, the price is
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Old Goodnlan went to some English
opera, when he wasln Chicago, of the
Alice Oates variety. He. came home a
yery wrathful man. aDon't talk to me
any more about givin' woman the balt
lot,n he roared. "Ifeyer l catch a wife
or daughter of mine dancin' in a neck
lace and a pain of slippers, somebody'n
have to read the riot act before the bal
lot is half over, l don't care who tries
to stop me-" .
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-30
THE MATHUSHEK
UPRIGHT PIANOS.

In this particular, are made with q thick iron
plate drilled to receive wooden bushings in
which the tuning pins are placed thus the
iron Pine are held directly in the tuning plate
and cannot move by any change in the wood
work.
From the tuning pin the string passes
through u strong brass agraffe screwd into
the iron plate, thence across the sounding
board bridge, and is fastened to u pin at the
other end of the iron plate, thus producing the
MOST SOLID and STRONGEST PIANO
EVER MADE.
In tone, touch, workmanship and general
finish, the Mathnshek Upright cannot be ex-
celled, and is now rapidly coming into nse,
and it's popularity constantly increases. We
will be- very much obliged if You will cali and
examine these pianos. We also take old pianos
in exchange at fair value.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-30

SWINE is a mocker, and strong drink is
raging Take PRIeKIY A~sHsBITFERs.
1t is not a beverage, but q remedy for all
i'll effects of an excess of intoxicating stim-
ulants. Don't take u drink before break
fast. "just to wake you up" You are
sure to feel worse as soon as the effect
e off. Take a half wine glass of
PRICKLY ASH BITTERs. twill brighten
you up for the whole day.
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ATou.h on Chuis.'s
."ascsfor25 cts. in cash or stamps.
Ia NV .Iohn Harham. Atlanta. Ga.

I'D by John Iarham, ATLANTA, Ga.
na. j. W. GIBBoN, of Ark, writes {:
"Eor many years my wife wa asufterer
from n terrible female complaint thatbaf.
fed tleskill ofall physicians around me
She used DIR. Dromgoole's English
Female Bitters, they cured her sound
and well, and | do not hesitate to say,
they saved her life.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-30

.toSsTIpATIoS is a disease-maker and
Is to indigestion, acid stomach, heart
anrn, fevers, b~iiiousness, sick headache,
torpidity of the liver, collie, inflammatory
eases, nervousness, loss of appetite,
-. These can all be removed by the
Buffers Saline ApeTient.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-30

If you clean your mirror with soft pa
per instead of cloth, time and trouble
will both be saved, as there will be no
lint, and the glass will have a better
polish.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-09-30
OPELOUSAs TIN SHOP

NAM. LIGHTLEY announces to our
wv Gems that he has returnedsto Opel{
to stay. Shop next door to Young
drugstore, opposite L. Pucheu's, Main
He is prepared to do all job work. guttc
and repairing at short notice and in a work
manlike manner, Prices moderate. >
Opelousas, Feb. 25, 1882. -.
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CELEBRATED
Cancer Remedy and Treatment,
Both simple Dc ctfeaeio"s, as discovered by
MIR O. A

MIR. c.. A.
Native of Rapiles Parish, La, endorsed by
DR.. John Casson, of Alexandria, La.
Refers to the following persons who have
been cured by the Treatment and Remedy in
this Parish :-Lastie Dupre, A. b. Andrus, w.
Love, Onez. MGche, Opelousas; Fred. Andrus,
Mrs. Gradenigo, Washington.
Persons DESTROYS of being treated can obtain
all necessary information from the undersign-
ed gentlemen, who have made arrangements
for the establishing of offices at tho following
places:-C. A. Hooper, Alexandria, La; A. c.
Kennedy, Opelousas, La; w. o. POsey, Eure-
ka Springs, Ark. Ito Jan l
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a child is never happy from having
it's wi way. Decide for him, and he
has but one thing to do put him to
please himself, and he is troubled with
everything and satisfied with nothing.
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MILLINERY { DRESS MAKING

FE1HE undersigned respectfully thank their
d friends for past favors, and announce
that they have opened a shop on Main street.
between the stores of Messrs. j Perrodin and
L. Pncheu, where they will do all kinds of
SEWING AND DRESS MAKING
for ladies and children, in the best style and
at moderate prices. Sewing also done for gem
tlemen. NINE. L. GUIDRY,
mills MILE MODESTO GUIDRY.
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NOTICE.

III HAVE been instructed by the State au-
Il thorities TO correct my assessment roll, in
cases where there has been loss of property,
or depreciation ia value, by reason of the
overflow. Therefore, all persons who have
changes to make In their assessment should
state their cases to me mt Opelolsas within
tile next thirty days. ~
August &c, 1882. AssessoR.
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Remopcd 10 Bellevue Stree, 6eh0een Hrs. L0alF 4 kR
aud Geo. w. Morartys Shops. oueNM#
SHAVING, Hair-Cutting, Dyeing, Shan y, 1s 1
- pooling, &c. done in the latest e1ps
Prices moderate: satisfacts !. nrfaan8
Hair cutting by maA BELLE de la Nouven0=0e 1Sa6ls
SpITIoN quotidienne, " III psr ali
-, .A d'avance; h~ebdomaaah0
|S06 outfit Tree.
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CHEAPEST to the BEST!
FOR SALE.

viii sell my two plantations, situated on
IL Plaquemine Ridge, containing two hun
dred and fifty arpents, one hundred arpents
thereof enclosed, with two large dwelling
houses and necessary outhouses; also, twenty
five arpents Of woodland situated on Bayou
guste Perrodin, Opelousas, IL. ID. Mcbride.
Church Point, or to the undersigned at Rayne,
st. Landry, La. CHAS. A. PERRODIN.
septl62m
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A Peerless Perfume.

The refreshing roma of Floreston Cologne,
tand its lasting fragrance, makeSit peerless
spegfume foEE 3 etdilet.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-13
ye enomous Beasts sn England. rErn,,, thu pall Mall Gszetta

There is only one country in the world where the present writer IS really afraid Of venomous beasts, and that one country IS England. Deponent has lived a good dsel up and down in the tropics and elsewhere; ; but he knows other land where ones life is rendered so often wretched by stinging things as the British Is'es. Not that even
 here the venomous creatures enter largely into one's ordinary every day exists ,Nce but then elsewhere, in spite of prejudices to the contrary, they enter into 1t even less. Just at present, for example, our lk-downs are being infested by their annual plague of sr- vesters-harvest-b bugs our unsophisticatt u ancestors call them, but more refined
 more squeamish generation has got rid of the
 ll-sounding generic name-and it isimpos-
 sible now to walk for half an hour among
 grass corn without coming home a mass of
 swollen Jumps, with little red beetle neatly
 immolated in the centre Of every self raised
 tumulus Naturally you scratch him, where
 upon he dies and testers in Situ. Alone among animals. the harvester performs his
 own burial, and then erects his own funeral
 monument on top of his mangled and dislo
 cated corpse. His memory remains green,
 OF at least red, for fully 8 week after his
 lamented demise. Now, one would like to
 knew what tropical pGst ia worse more
 persistent than this tiny English beetle. It
 may be freely admitted that the mosquito does not possess single trait i'll his charao- ter which justly entil leg him either to our esteem or our affection, but even the mos
 quito does not dig bodily into the very tis- sues of his victim, and continue to irritate you long after he has ceased to derive any sort of personal qualification from his un- | friendly conduct. Between man and the l mosquito 1t is an even battle he thirsts for l your blood and you thirst for his life. But | between man and the harvest bug the con | fict is as unequal ss between Nihilist and
 a Czar even if you kill him, he goes or irritating you internally, and ranking ir your flesh like poisoned arrow for wholt l days after his little existence has ended for ever. When the brains are ont the mosquito
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YEAST.

First Baker, see by the papers that the wheat crop is immense this year. Second Baker-Yes; I noticed that, and have just told my men to use stronger yeast. We must
 That was a rather unkind remark which Q grabbed old fellow made the other day to one of tuose nice little boys who smoke cigarettes and offered him one. No, thank you" he said I'm old enough to smoke cigars. "- Butalo Express.
 What providential thing it is that as a general rule, by the time the eldest girl gets old enough to have beau the youngest child is old enough to sleep quietly. cross baby yelling up stairs would be fearful dampen- CT on courtship. p.-Iohilodel0hja Neacs.
 Next summer Jay Gould will make 8 bridal tour around the world. He will stop off at Laramie and pick up hot spike at tho roll ing mill, and then he will put it down and ask General Mock if the hen that lays those spikes isn't little feverish. h.-B0omerdng
 In New York State the other night butch CT was robbed as he was going home from the shop. It Is suspected that the attacking party was some customer who Lad bougat a roast and wanted to get enough of his money back to purchase a loaf of bread.-f'hi!0del- ohiG Neaos,
 An amateur scientist sends us long arti- cle written with purple pencil on both sides of twelve sheets of legal cap and entitled "Poisons and their anecdotes. Will the soft-eysc; mullet-heau please call and get 1t, also lick over the eye with @ hot stove leg, and greatly oblige the weary throbblng brain that moulds the scientific course of this pa- per ?-Ldranaic B00nerGng.
 A Brooklyn Sunday school class had just finished singing,
 'tI want to be angel,
 And with the angels stand"
 when the teacher, observing that one of the boys had not contributed his voice to swell the sacred refrain, said: "And you want to be an angel, too, don't you, Willie ?'' No" resumed Willie, ''not right away. 1 want to be a circus rider 8 good deal, first. "-EagIe
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THE SECOND DISTRICT,


 The Democratic Congressional convention of this (the Seeond) district met in this city yesterday and did what it was expected to do few who did not like the programme and the manner in which the performance was conducted protested energetically, but the show went on just the same.
 The thing for the Republicans to do now is to find their best man, nominate him, and "pitch in' for his election. The Democratic nominee is not strong candidate. While there will probably be no open bolt, many Democrats will vote against him. Some find fault with him, and more with the way in which his nomination was forced upon the party. Every effort will of course be made to smooth his pathway to the victory which he is expected to win, but his friends will not be able to appease all the disgruntled ones, or satisfy all the thoughtful Democrats that he is the man for the place.
 Let us look for moment at some of the recent votes in this Congressional district. Two years ago MT. Phelps plurality was only 1885. In 1878 it was 2,273. In 1876 it was 2 723. It is reasonably certain that this year, when the vote will not be as heavy as it is in Presidential year, 1000 votes drawn from Mr. Mitchell would defeat him, and it might not take more than six or seven hundred. The question is how to get those votes?
 In order to take full advantage of their op- portunity the Republicans should nominate a who is well known all over the district man of experience and ability one who would look after the interests of the district in Congress faithfully and sk1llfully, and deal with public questions intelIigently. There are several such men among the Republicans of the district. For instance, General S. E. Merwin of this city. He is popular with tho members of both parties, he deserves to be. He is known to be both able and up right. He is business man. He would make Q very strong candidate. If Hon. Henry B. Harrison of this city could be in- duced to take the nomination we should have a good foundation for work. The most en. thusiastic admirers of the Democratic nom- inee could not claim that it would not be bet ter to have Mr. Harrison, with his brains and experience, in Congress than MT. Mitchell Hon. Stephen W. Kellogg of Waterbury will of course be thought of as available. The manner in which he looked after the interests of the district while he was member of the House needs no praise from us. He is es- pecially well qualified for Congressional work. Hon. Cyrus Northrop of this city might also we'll be considered He is scholar and an orator, thoroughly acquainted with public questions, and would make his mark in Congress.
 There are others who might be mentioned but we forbear. There will probably be no contest for the nomination, and it will doubt less be wisely bestowed. The man who takes it will rot have very fatter1ng prospect of victory, but he will have possibility of win ming. That possibility should be skillfully and heartily ilized by the Republicans of the district, and by all whs object to the Democratic programme
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Sournal anh Gourier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 CARRTN GTON <E CO.,. No. eco State SGxest, Cozxrssr Rufidinx
 JOHN CARREHaToR. EDWARD T. oARRINaToH. JOHN B. okRRIEaToH, sR
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New Orleans merchants are becoming much interested in the Mexican exchange recently established in that city. At the last meeting of the subscribers numerous speeches were made by representative merchants, and number of interesting letters touching upon the importance of international trade were read One letter was from Mir. E. Marti, neg, Consul of Venezuela and Colombia, addressed to the president of the ex- change. The letter stated that when the American Consulate was established at Jayenilla, port of Colombia, the exports to New York amounted annually to $7G,GO0, but for the three months ended June 30, 1882, the exports amounted to $1 ,O75, ,G26. The exports of Venezuela, Colombia and Central America to New York amount to $27,OOO,6 600, yet $75,0OO,O00 of this trade goes to Europe. The Consul believes that by the United States, and by New Orleans, if she goes properly and promptly to work.
 The Republicans naturally somewhat depressed by the result in Ohio, but there is no necessity for despair. The hopeful side of the situation is thus shown by the Wash ington correspondent of the Boston Aduer tiser: There are many Republicans who feel that the campaign, notwithstanding it's un fortunate result, will in the end work enor- nous good to the party. There are, on the other hand, Democrats who have for some time past watched the strengthening temper ance feeling not only in the West, but in sev- eral sections in the South, with serious alarm.
 
 lican leaders here that the party Is suffering great injury from the lack Of some decided moral issue. These sec in the present tend ency among Republicans to espouse the cause of temperance, far as to impose proper legal restraints upon the traffic in liquor and to compel a decent regard for the American Sabbath, the outlines of moral issues on the side of law and order which they believe will give new life to the party and insure it's solid and enduring victory in a near future. There are many Democrats who are very fearful ot the final effect of their extreme Ohio plat form of free rum and no Sunday upon the country as a whole. There are numbers of them who do not hesitate to express their as- tonishment that it has been possible to commit their party in Ohio against the fair proposition to tax the saloon business and oblige them to close on Sunday. as other business houses are obliged to suspend. They think it remarkable that even in the heat of a campaign these positions could be distort cd into prohibition, and an effort to restore the Sunday law of the Puritans. There arc not wanting those among Democrats here, who have calmly watched the campaign from this distance, who fully recognize the force of the arguments that brewers and saioonists stand in their own light when they array themselves against the present very mod crate position of the Republicans and that their course is certain in the end to result in far more stringent measures being forced upon them by an aroused and indignant pub lie sentiment.
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Friday Morning, Oct. l3, 1882. STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET

FOR GOVERNOR, WILLIAM IK. BULIxELEY, Hartford. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, JOHN ID. CANDEE, of Bridgeport. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, STILES Y. STANTON, of stoninston.
 FOR TREASURER, JULIUS CONVERSE, of Stafford.
 FOR CONTROLLER FRANK ID. SLOAT, of New Haven.
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the line, out of the way of the rhyme. The neglect of this rule results in such mistakes as Tel-el-Kebir rhyming with sabre when it is really pronounced Tel el- Kebeer, and would rhyme with 'severe.' 'Arabi,' again, does not agree, either in accent in the sound of the last syllable, with lullaby but rather with "a harpy'; and Kassassin is no rhyme for 'assassin,' though it might run with 'as 8 scene.' Ismailia, with the accent on the penultimate, Port Said and Zagazig- both accented on the last syllable-are gen. orally mispronounced in the verses which the war has insDired ''
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Nervous Debility !

\ R F. c VESTS NERvE AND BRAIN TREATMENT, a
 a specify for H stera. Dizziness, Convusions Nervous Heada"he, Mental Depression, Loss of Mem- ory Spermatorrhoea Impotency. Involuntary Fmis si.ns, Premature Old Age, caused by oper- xertion se-aouse or over-jndulgence, which leads to misery oecas ana death One box will cure recent Each box con aims one months treatment. One dol
 lar box or six bo for five dollars sent by mali prepaid on re eipt of price We guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With order received by for SIX boxe accompanied with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to return the money If the treatment does not eff ct q Guar antees issued by E A. WhttIeseg, New Haven, Ct. to whom all orders should be addressad. eodaWtf
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A Druggist Cured.

Boonsboro, Md, Oct. 1a, 1sso. Gentlemen: Browns Iron Bit ters cured me of bad attack of Indigestion and fullness in the stom- ach. Having tested it, take pleas ure in recommending it to my GUS. toners, and am glad to say it gives entire satisfaction to all. :"
 GEO. w. HOFFMAN, Druggist. Ask your Druggist for BROWNS IRON BITTERs, and take no other. One trial will convince you that it is just what you need.
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COMMUNICATIONS.
Morris For Congress.

To the Ksditor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 If the Republicans of this district want, as they claim to, an able man in Congress let them nominate Judge Morris on 8 citizens ticket and Charles l.. Mitchell won't know what hurt him. DEMOCRAT.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-13
Price Four Cents.
NOTED MEu ]!

DR. JOHN F. HANCOCK, late President of the National Fhar- maceutical Association of the UnitcI States, says:
 "Brown's Iron Bittcrs has a heavy sale, is conceded to be a fine tonic; the character of the manu- lecturers is voucher for it's purity and medicinal excellence" DR. JOSEPH ROBERTS, President Baltimore Pharmaceutical College, says:
 "I indorsc 1t as fine medicine, reliable as strengthening tonic. free from alcoholic poisons." DR. ]. PARIS MOORE, PHI. D., Professor of Pharmacy, Balti- more Pharmaceutical College, says:
 " Crowns Iron Bitters is safe 9El reliable medicine, positively free from alcoholic poisons, and can be recommended as a tonic for use among those who oppose a!cohol.'' DR. EDWARD EARICKsON, Secretary Baltimore College of Phar- macy, says
 "I ndorse it as an excellent medicine, a good digestive agent, and non-intoxicant in the fullest senSe'
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

There is no telling what a jury will do. A jury in the United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia delibersted four hours and tht,n decided that 8 jew's-harp is musical instru- ment
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Dr. RICHARD SAPINGToN.

one of Baltimore's oldest and most reliable physicians, says:
 "All who have used it praise it's standard virtues, and the we'll known character of the house which makes it is a sufficient guarantee of its being all that is claimed, for they are men who could not be in- duced to offer anything else but a reliable medicine for public use.'
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MT. Hobart l.. Hotchkiss spoke some hon. est and forcible words at the Democratic Con- gressional convention yesterday It is pity that he did not have more appreciative au- dience
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will die, but die or not the harvest bug still continues his deadly war against humanity, and lives after death an objective immortali- fu