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The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
They Went A-Fishfng.

One morning, when Spring was in her teens
A morn to a poets wishing,
All tinted in delicate pinks and green's
Miss Bessie and I vent fishing;
i in my rough and easy clothes,
With my face at the sunshine's mercy
She with her hat tipped dow to her nose.
And her nose tipped vice versa;
with my rod, my reel and my hooks,
Aud q hamper for luncling recesses;
She with the bait of her eomely looks,
aid the seine of her golden tresses.
80 WI sat down on the sunny dixie,
Where the white pond-lilies teeter,
And | went to fishing, like quaint old Ike,
And she like Simon Peter.
All the noon | lay in the light Of her eyes,
And dreamily watched and waited
But the fish were cunning and would not rise
And the batter alone was baited.
And, when the time for departure came,
The bag was fiat as a founder;
But Bessie had neatly hooked her game
A hundred-and Ell hty-pounder.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
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,1sn tiOmS.

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tlce to the contrary are considered wishing to
continue their subscriptions.
2. 1t subscribers order the discontinuance
of their periodicals, the publisher may CONT.
nue. to send them until all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their periodicals from the Office to which they
are directed, they are held responsible until
they have settled their bills and ordered them
discontinued.
4. If subscribers move TO another place
without informing the publishers and the pa
pers are sent TO the former direction. they are
held, responsible.
5. The conrts have decided that refusing
to take the periodicals from the office, or re-
moving and leaving them uncalled for, is pri-
ma facie evidence of intentional fraud"
Z 8. Any person who receives a newspaper
and makes use of it, whether he has ordered
its or not, is held in law to be a subscriber.
7.sIfsubscribers pay in advance, they are
bound to give notice to the publisher at the
end ofstheir time, if they do not wish to con-
tinue taking it otherwise the publisher is
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sent to the publisher.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
Cheerful Women.

In marrying, men should seek hap
Ply women. They make a terrible mis-
take when they marry for beauty, OF
for talent, OF for style. The sweetest
wives are those who possess the magic
secret of being happy under any and
every circumstance. Rich er poor,
high or low, it makes no difference
the bright little fountain bubbles up
just as m~usically in their hearts-noth-
ing ever goes wrong with them-n0
trouble is too serious for them "to
make the best Of it," Was ever the
stream of calamity so dark and deep,
that the sunlight of a happy face falling
across it's turbid tides would not wake
an answering CLEAN? No matter how
cross and Grabbed you feel, ne matter
if your brain is full of meditation on
affecting dispensations, and your stom
ach with medicines, pills and tonics ;
just set one of these CHEEKY little wo-
men talking to you, and we are not
afraid to wager anything she can cure
you. The long drawn line about the
mouth will relax, the cloud of settled
gloom will vanish, nobody knows
where, and the first thing you know
you will be laughing All, what bles
sings are these happy women! How
often their little hands guides the pom
derous machine of life, with almost an
invisible touch How we look forward
through the weary day to their Preside
smiles! No one knows, aud 10 one
ever will know until the day of judg-
ment reveals, how much we W to
these helpful, hopeful, accomplishing
woman.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

GET VAccINATE Dust at present
small pox appears to be prevalent gen.
orally over the country. The news
papers and medical men are discussing
whether or not vaccination should be
practiced. Do not wait, however, to
read the outcome of these discussions,
bat proceed TO vaceinate yourself and
family at once. . Do not take the
chances of having been va~ccinated be
fore. Il is a 0 ~loathsome disease to
daily with. Go to q reliable doctor
who will furnish pure virus, and have
him yaccinate yon at once.-American
4~gfacaIturist for February.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
THE DEMOCRATS
Illustrated
FOR 1882, AND

Hand Book Of General Information.
An elegant work of 100 pages, s!x6! inches
in size, printed on finely tinted book paper, H.
lustrated throughout with most beautiful en-.
cravings; and containing, besides all the in.
formation pertaining to the calendar, ~statisti-
cal and general information on various sub.
Jeets, and especially upon the political and
civil divisions, population, names of officials,
State and municipal records of past elections,
productions, railroads, geological formations,
etc., of the States of Louisiana, Texas, Arkan-
sas. Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Flo
rlda, will be mailed free. postage prepaid, to
every subscriber of the Daily or Weekly
TIMES-DEMOCRAT.
Send remittances in registered letter. postal
order or draft, at our risk. Address all cein-
munications and letters to
THE TINES DEMOCRAT,
New Orleans, La.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
Vickss Illustrated
Eloral Guide
FOR 1882

S an elegant Book of 100 pages. two colored
= Plates of Flowers, and more than 1000 illus
trations of the choicest Flowers, Plants and
vegetables. and directions for growing. 1t is
handsome enough for the Center Table or a
Holiday Present. Send ON your name and
pestoffice address, with 10 cents. and | will
send you a copy, postage paid. This is not a
quarter OF its cost. 1t is printed in both Eng
lsh and German. If you afterwards order
seeds. deduct the ten cents.
Vick7s Seeds are the best in the world. The
Floral Guide will tell how to get and grow
them. Vick's Flower and Vegetable Gar
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Vicks Illustrated Monthly Magazine - SO
pages, q celored plate in every number and
many fine engravings. Price SLIPS a year !; five
copies for $500. Specimen numbers sent for
10 cents. Three trial copies for 25 cents.
Address, JAMES WICK,
d24tf Rochester, N. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
Recommendations Of a Health
Journal.

Foote's Health Monthly.l
Try popcorn for nausea.
Try cranberry for malaria.
TRY a sun bath for rheumatism.
Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.
Try clam broth for a weak stomach
Try cranberry poultice for erysipe
las.
Try gargling larger beer for cur OF
sore throat.
Try a wet towel to the back of the
neck when sleepless.
Try swallowing saliva when trou,
bled with sour stomach.
Try eating onions and horseradish
to relieve drepsical swsllings.
Try buttermilk for removal Of freck
les, tan and butternut stains.
Try the Group tippet when a child is
likely to be troubled in that way.
Try a hot flannel over the seat Of
neuralgia pain, and rensw frequently.
Try taking your cod-livsr oil in to
mato catsup if you want to make it
palatable.
Try hard cider-a wine-glassful three
times a day-for ague and rheuma
tism.
Try taking a nap in the afternoon if
you are going to be out late in the
evening.
Try breathing the fumes of turpen
tine or carbolic acid to remove whoop
ing-cough.
Try a cloth wrnng out from cold
water put about the neck at night for
sore throat.
Try shutting powdered borax up the
nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the
head"
Try an extra pair of stockings cut
side of Your shoes when travelling in
cold weather.
Try walking with your hands be
hind you if you find yourself becoming
bent forward.
Try a silk handkerchief over the face
when obliged to go against a cold.
piercing wind.
Try planting snnfowers in your gar
den if compelled to live in a malarial
neighbolhood.
Try a newspaper yer the chest,
beneath your chest, as a chest prstec
tor, in extremely cold weather.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
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AND
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The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

The SMALL Pox DECLARED Ep1
D~EMIc.-Washington, January 90. :
The National Board Of Health to-day
declared small pox to be epidemic in
the United States, and is now occupy
ing itself in devising measures to pre-
tect the country against the disease.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

Many Of nj patrons are in arrears
fer subscription, advertising, &c, to
this paper, and az we have been lenient
with all such through the dull season,
we hope they will now call and settle
without further delay.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

It 10 mighty funny. The star reuters
didn't like Garfield, aud he was assas
sinated. They didn't like Macveagh,
and hs disappeared. They didn't like
Blaine, and he retired. They didn't
like James. and he had to go.-Aaann
Constitution. Dem.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
Vaccination.

IDr. Lewis Sayre ii New York Herald.l
Smallpox have been thinking a
good deal Of it, seeing the reports from
all over the country. Do You know /
have often thought it would be o good
thing if this city were scourged to the
very heart with that disease, to teach
the people their duty? Nothing else
will sver do it. Nothing. A lot Of
these new tangled phantom physicians
have bean telling them pretty stories,
and the foolish people have taken them
for truth. They win find too late they
are like the neutrality-suspicious.
The man who stops to discuss vaccina-
ton with any other view than to insist
on ID alphabetically Ii an idleF.
From the NEST careful study Of sta
tiatics and of Tie opinions and sxpe.
rience of the most acknowledged a q
thorities. physicians have come to the
positive conclusion that smallpox is
capable OF being entirely eradicated
from any community by d proper and
persistent system of universal and
repeated Vaccination. From tile year
1913 when the immortal JeDner an
nonnced to the world his great discov-
ery) to the p~resenttime facts have been
constantly accnmulating for the sluci.
dation Of the most universally accept.
cd truth ever demonstrated by the
science of medicine, and that is that
vaccination, when properly performed,
is . certain and perfect protection
against smallpox. Now ths9e's the
point. Hammer that in as hard as
over you can. Vaccination, whom
properly performed, is q certain and
perfect protection against smallpox, i
repeat. That was my opinion twenty
years ago, and all ! have heard, read
and seen since then strengthens that
opinion, urged compulsory vaccine
tion then, / arge il today with ali the
accumulated force Of twenty years ad
ditionai experience.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

A number of our exchanges are pass.
ing the Victor Well Augur Co, Of st.
Louis, around as q fraud. The Monroe
Bulletin says the augur may be d ser.
vicsable instrument, but the company
il . fret class fraud. If tho press of
the State would expose all frauds in
the matter Of advertising, as well az in
suhiect matter q soon az known to be
such, Che game would soon be blocked.
Vest Bottom Rouge Sugar Planter.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

Augusta. Georgia, has ten cotton
mills, which run 10000 spindles and
pay out $75O.oO0 4 year in wages.
They sell at q half . cen: a. yard less
than the New England mills and vet
their profits are larger.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

During the past five years makers of Piano
fortes have been making great efforts to pro-
duee an Upright which will stand our severe
climate. They have used several devices, and
nave even tried tbut have given it upl double
strong with immense bookings of wood, and
still most of the Upright Pianos have not
proved satisfactory for this reason That the
Tuning Pins in all of them are placed into a
wooden plank which is wedged up to the iron
will shrink or swell, thus causing the piano to
get out of order and out of tune.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
AFHNE CHANCE

a BOUT 300 acres of land to be given the
"a free use of for the year 1882. so or SO
acres rice land. the balance turf land. Situa-
ted about 81 miles from Opelousas, enclosed
With good fence and well ditched. Apply to
Tlseo. Chacher6, Opelousas.
Jan. 7, 1882. I'm.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

A VALUABLE REcIPE.--For the ben.
eft OF those afflicted with colds, or con
sumption in it's incipient stage. we can
10 the greatest of confidence recon
mend the following almost infallible
remedy. W. have seer it tried, and
are witness to it's almost miraculous
influence in graduating an ordinary
cold, and its beneficial effects when ad-
ministered in cases of we'll defined
consumption : Take of pure honey,
iinseed oil and good Jamaica Rum, of
each q eupfnl. mix. OF this mix
tnre take a tablespoonful before meals.
three times a day. The mixture to be
shaken before taking. Perseyere in
its use and resief is certain.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
The MATHUSHEK
UPRIGHT PIANOS,

In this particular, are made with a thick iron
plate drilled to receive wooden bushines n
which the tuning pins are placed thus the
iron pins are held directly in the tuning plate
and cannot move by any change in the wood.
wark.
From the tuning pin the string passes
through "a strong brass agraffe screwed into
the iron plate, thence across the sounding
board bridge, and is fastened to a pin at the
other end of the iren plate, thus producing the
MOST SOLID and STRONGEST PIANO
EVER MADE.
finish, the Mathushek Upright cannot be ex-
celled, and is now rapidly coming into use,
and its popularity constantly increases. We
will be very much obliged if you will call and
examine these pianos. We also take old pianos
in exchange at fair value.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

The 1eras Siifftings learns that there
lsa Young mai travelling around in
Eastern Texas v~accinating the negroes
with beeswax. He charges q dol
lar q vac, and represents himself
as being appointed by the United
States government, and threatens that
dire penalties await those who refuse
to De operated on.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
FOR RENT.

TIME large dwelling house, in Opelousas.
known as the 0verton property.
Also, the rear room of the Office of Jos. nj.
Moore, Esq.
For further information apply at this office,
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

Do you hear the scaudal-mongers
Passing by.
Breathing poison in ID whisper,
In a sight
Meving cautiously and slow,
Snfiling sweetly as they go;
Never noisy-going smoothly like ID snake,
Slipping here and sliding there
Through the meadows fresh and fair,
Leaving subtle slime and poison in theil
wake
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

Weintend, hereafter, to dc business
on . cash basis only. The press Of
this State will ssew its wisdom when
ie adopts and insists upon the same
rule.-W Baton Rouge Sugar Ploassr.
So ii will-so IL will.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

A Texas judge knocked six months
off u SO years sentence in order to
show the prisoners friends that he was
willing to give him a chance.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
THE OPELoUsAs COURIER
AND THE
WEEKLY ~TIMES-DEMOCRAT
For $3.50.

ly TIMES-DEMOCRAT (now recognized as
the best news. commercial and family paper
published south of the Ohio river), for one
year, for the sum of $3.50. The Democrats
Illustrated Almanac for 1881, and Book
OF General Information, described above, will
be mailed to each club subscriber free of
charge, postage prepaid. The club rate ap-
plies only to subscribers who pay in advance.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

Mormonism In Utah and adjoining
Territories is still rampant and grow
inn
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

Peter Martins, an Arkansas patriarch
died recently in the ll2th year of his
age. He used to narrate the stirring
eenes of the American Revolution. But
Temah Brooks, a colored woman who
lately visited the Atlanta Exposition,
is 1873! Documentary evidence, it is
said, leaves no doubt of it. Miguel
Sails of New Granada is a long way
ahead of that-lS0. Contrary to the
ropular notion, it is a fact that the
average age of human life is on the in
crease. To variss in different countries,
as the laws of life and health are or are
not understood and practised. Life is
not regulated by chance. It ia under
fixed laws which cannot be disregarded
without paying the penalty Of it. Their
language is, "Obey or take the conse-
quences. IN O. Tar Payers Organ.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

Health and Strength givensto delicate No.
men; nursing mothers and infant children ygha
uae Browns Iron Bitters.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28

WINTER EXPOSURE OF LIVE Stock.
The Importance of giving proper
shelter to oil farm. animals can not be
too strongly urged. Looked at simply
in the @iew of dollars and cents, it does
not pay to have the sheep, pigs, cattle,
Or horses, left out of doors in the pier
cling winter winds. The animal heat
must be kept up so long as life lasts
and to do this, either a larger amount
of fuel must be consumed, or the fire
will be fed by accumulated or stored
up fuel in the form of flesh, and the
animal grows poorer. It 10 cheaper, as
far as it can be, TO keep up the animal
heat by shelter than by foed. A shiv-
ering, suffering animal is not in q pre-
itable condition. There 10 also an APP
peal to the humane side of our nature
in this lack of comfort. Provide good
shelter from the weather for all farm
animals. for it pays in mere ways than
DR.. B. d. HALsTED, in american
4griculhnrist for February.
The Opelousas courier., 1882-01-28
GEE, CARRIAGE SHOP.
CITIZENS

HAVING claims against the United States,
IL arising out of acts committed against
their persons or their property by the civil or
military authorities of the United States, will
find it to their interest to consult Messrs. r..
I. Posey & Z. l.. Posey, No. SO Canal Street,
New Orleans. attorneys, and members of the
agency for the collection of French Claims in
the United States. Information, blank proofs,
&c.. furnished without cost to claimants.
MIR. L. Lloyd Posey is now in Opelousas,
and can be found at w. o. Poosey's Drug
Store. Sept. 4, lS80-2tf.
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-10

Portland, Dec. 9th, 1881.
decZ
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-10
The interview Anticipated.

Sindram, the murderer of Mrs. Crave of New
York city, sent the following letter to news
paper for publication: l will hear next Mon
day whether or not the court of appeals will
grant me a new trial. Should / be denied a
new trial (Which is very likely, then the death
watch will be put on me again, and the Tombs
will be overrun with reporters, 1 suppose, ev-
cry ons of whom will put to me the following
questions, viz: How do you feel? How's your
appetite, and what did you have for breakfast?
Would you wish the governor to commute
your sentence? Have you made your peace
with God? To save the Sun reporter the time
and trouble of interviewing me, I will give him
my answers to these questions in this letter:
1. feel good, bully-a man always does when
he is going to be hanged 2. / would rather
not have my sentence committed. 3. Having
no work to do and never getting breath of
fresh air, never have, consequently, much Of
an appetite All that 1 usually get for break
fast, therefore. besides Coffee is an omelette,
three hard boiled or fried eggs, ham and eggs,
liver and bacon, and mutton chops. 4. AS to
whether have made my peace with God,
will simply say that that is nobody's business.
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-10

D A. Z. PENNELL
VOICE. SINGING IN ALL BRANCHES
Tenor Soloist, 98 Park Stree
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-10
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

On and after Monday, Dec.
- E Ei@ S ESASS ;; EssS 4 i i1s
LIS, 5.iO. and s.00p. m. Returning. leave Bos
: s9sns e fndp ss las s eoS $50 P
D. m. Portland for Scarborough Beach.
Pine Point. Old Orchard Beach, and X en-.
Note) For saco and Biddeford, at Is a. sI M.
Ito, $50 and $50 p. m. For Wells, at 8.45 q.
m; and s.so p. m. ssee nots2 For North Ber-
Exeter, Haverhill, Lawrence and Lowell,
Ct $40 .. M, 10 and $50 p; N. For New
ana $50 P r.
at 8: rs a. m. and s.s6 p. m. For Msnches as,
nd s ss% Market a as So
Morning Train will leave Kennebunk for
Pertland At 7;25.
land will mot stop at Scarborough Beach, Pine
Point. Old Orchard Beach, Kennebunk or Wells.
except to take passengers for Boston.
Parl0r Cars on trains leaving Boston, at g. 80
9. m. 1890 p. m. and Portland at 8.45 a. m. and
ParIsr Car sea.s secured in advance at
H-Ths Ito p. m. train from Portland connects
with sound Limo Steamers fer New York
train connects with all Rail Lines for New
York and the Sonth and West.
Bsston and Way Stations at 90 p. m. Boston
for Portland at 900 m.
Trains on Boston q Maine road connect with all
steamers running between Portland and Bangor,
Rockland, Mt. Desert Machias, Eastport Calais st.
John and Halifax. Also connect with Grand Trunk
trains at Grand Trunk Station, and Maine Central
and Portland Ogdensburg trains at Transfer Sta
ten.
All trans stop at Exeter ten minutes for refresh
ments. First class Dining Rooms at Portland
Transfer Station, Exeter, Lawrence and Boston.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points West and
Agent, Boston q Maine Depot, and ct Union
Ticket Omce, 40 Exchange st.
JAS. I. FURBHR, Gen. Supt.
B. II. STEVENS, Con. Agent. Portland.
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