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The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
TEXAS TOPICS.

The Gulf, Colorado and S,n4
Railroad Company will erect y Ire re
at Lampasas before the next SEASON. ao'ei
cost over %l'O,nNU. 10
Mr.. Hayes, vice-president Of A..
Gould system, presented a baan.; s%1
drinking fountain to Palestine wLi1
has been placed in the princinal Icl
ness street. The aldermen nasa DIsl-
unanimous vote Of thanks. "
Count Tclfener, the mainsnr;.
and boss OF the New York, Texas anSS
Mexican Road, now runninn fs "na
Rosenberg function to Victoria i n
pected to arrive home shortly. He Ia.
been on a visit to Europe on bns;n nas
connected with the road, and it il noS
credibly said that such %arrangemo nuH
have been c~onsumated as will nuaran
tee the further extension of the roa1
and its general Improvement.
The amended charter of the Mar.
shall Jefferson and Northwestern Ri,
way has been filed. 1t changes ~.
name back to the original Marshall
and Northwestern, and increases tba
capital stock $1,000, 600. Besides t fpe
original line to Pittsburgh, to connect et
with the Texas and st. Louis, It CALI
for d road south through Harrison
Pamela, Rusk and Nacogdoches conn
ties, to the town of Nacogdoches and .
point in Harrison cr Pamela connt;os
southeast to the State line.
1T is learned that the work on tbo
Texas and ST. Louis bridge over tbo
Arkansas river is progressing salts.
factorily. There are two more cylin.
ders to be sunk, one ten, and the 9th.
err twenty feet, when the bridge will he
practically completed, Without douht
through trains will be running on
schedule time by lst of August. The
bridge is the only delay; everything
else is in readiness for through traffic
Every side track north of Jonesboro
Ark. is full of rolling stock.
The conference of railroad trafc
managers at New Orleans, relative n
freights in Texas, is ended, The result
of the meeting was that the old rates
from the North and West were re-.
stored, and the present rates from
New Orleans remain undisturbed.
The conferees e. reticent as to their
action. and no clear idea of what the
old rates were could be ascertained,
except that they were the rates charg.
ed before the disagreement between
the roads in interest. The agreement
perfected to-day is regarded by the
conferees as a satisfactory settlement
of the questions at issue between the
roads.
New York Bulletin: Texas papers
claim that the profits on cattle raising
in that state have averaged 100 per cent.
in the past five years, while in some
cases they have reached 500 per cent.
and the claim is substantiated Ly an
array of statistics that abundently prove
the case. The profit for the first year
is nominal, the second it averages 10
per cent, the third year 30 per cent;
the fourth year 500 per cent; the fifth
year 70 per cent. the average loss by
disease and casualty during the same
period has been fifteen per cent, or
3 per cent. annually. The extension Of
the railroad system of Texas is eE.
pected to increase the profits OF the
business, as it does away with the great
risks involved in long drives.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
Chemistry.

Some time since the director OF u
museum was granted leave to pfos% :
himself with apparatus and chemlcals !
order that he might make some expo D..
ments for the benefit of the cluD. p
ing now called upon to report prog ey;.
he came forward with his first eApea
ment. Taking up an egg, he exp,a and
it's proportions Of lime, albumeh ID
sugar, and broke it into o tin disn, and
then poured in a gill ef WHISKY z;.s al d
explained that whisky was Il iaie lone
corn and was principally used to sprs
up the system, prevent badness s,.sns.
lockjaw and produce pleasant j.
He grated in q little nutmeg, anu Il
planned that the nuts couldn't ether
this country on account OF the M s.as ii.
fooling around SO much, M [aa mixture wrs
ded without comment, and h plaaher
well shaken and handed to nth
Gardener. He gulped it all down. VII be
evident relish, and remarked 'n s;stry
should hereafter encourage chenl n1li.
with all his might.-Lime h's"
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28

tuations that the dry goods and fancy
goods trades are. People eat and
drink at all times, and hardly as much
at one time us another. They will
economizo ON their wearing apparel and
articles of ornament before they will
curtail their supplies for the inner
man." and we therefore, look forward
to an active trade in this line imme-
diately after July l, when the new tariff
takes effect.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
BRAINS ON THE BALL FIELD.


MgA-FpDYtASMG 1u~ OUVu AAAHatb ts
Necessary To Success.
ssThere is q good deal of headwork
about base ball. said Manager =. y.
Mutrie the other day DIT the Polo
grounds, and the proof of it is seen
IN the considerable number Of col
legians and students who have made
their mark IN it, and adopted it as. q
profession. So far as the remunera-
ton is concerned, there ID every reason
why they should do 30, for first class
ball players now receive salaries which
would be considered prizes BY many
young ministers lawyers and doctors.
There are now thirty-one professional
clubs-Eight in the League, eight in
the American association, seven In the
Interstate sassociation and eight LII.
the Northwestern League. This re-
qaires say, $50 skilled players, and the
competition to secure the best has
gradually ri up the salaries, until it
is not Al uncommon thing for d first
class player I'd receive more than
a3 O0Q for Fights months work. An
ordinarysalary IS from $1,000 to 81, 800
for q season. The combined salaries
Of the Metropolitan team amount to
10000, and those Of the New YORK
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now used in connection with the bust
ness, ranks among the crafts that were
instituted in the early day of the trades
when to know the art of doing Il trade
well vas to be III tho possession e1 j.
secret. Indeed, some housewives "olt
only be too glad to know how to make
the famous 'Bonton cracker" ho5-
tom Commercial Bulletin.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28

How 70 GET SIcK.-Exposs your
self day and night, eat too much With
out exercise, work too hard without
rest, doctor all the time, take all the
vile nostrums advertised, and then you
will want to know
How 10 CIR WELL.-Which is d
swered in three words Take Hop Bit
ters.
John holland, of Houston, while
drunk, rolled into . ditch in which
the water was ten inches deep and
was drowned.
A NAN born 81 sea a not be proud
his native land.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
ChriS!'s Sentenc'.
The Alleged Copy ct The Most M'm'"'"h'e '"''f'A'
Sentence Ever Pr0hOu.ttd.

HE Siitktu NoE1 III u
Sentence Ever rr0nOu.rtd.
The following is d copy of the most
memorable Judicial sentence which
has ever been pronounced III the an
nails of the world, namely, that OF
death against the Savior, with the re,
marks which the journal LIE Droit has
collected and the knowledge of which
must be interesting in the highest de-
gree to every Christian. 1t IS word
for word as follows:
Sentence pronounced by Pontius
PLATE, intendant of the Lower Pro
vince ofGalilee, that Jesus of Nazareth
shall suffer death by the cross
In the seventh year of the reign OF
the Emperor Tiberius, and OIL the 9th
day of the month of March, in the
most holy city of Jerusalem, during
the pontifcate of Annas and Ciphas.
Pontius Plate, intendant of the
province of Lower Galilee, sitting in
Judgment of the presidential seat OF
the P1ators, sentences Jesus of Naz-
areth to death on a ros between two
robbers, as the numerous and notorl-
Gus testimonials of the people prove:
/. Jesus is a misleader.
2. He excited the people to sedl'
ton.
3. He is all enemy to the law.
4. He called himself the son Of
God.
S. He calls himself, falsely, the
King of Isreal.
6. He went into the temple followed
by a multitude carrying palms IN thell
hands.
Orders from the First Centurion
Ruirillis Cornelius to bring him 'o the
place of execution forbid all persons
rich or poor, to prevent the execution
of Jesus:
The witnesses who have signed the
execution of Jesus are:
l. Daniel Robani, Pharlsee.
2. John Zorababel.
8. Raphael Robani.
4. Capet.
Jesus to be taken out of Jerusalem
through the gates of Tournes.
The sentence is engraved on a plat
of brass in the Hebrew language, ant
on it's sides are the following words
GA similar plate has been sent t.
each tribe" It was discovered IN tn
year 1920, in the city of Aquilla, il
the Kingdom of Naples, by a search
made for Roman antiquities, and i
remained there until it was found b.
the Commission of Arts in the French
army in Italy. Up 10 the time {
the campaign in Southern Italy i
was preserved in the sacristy of thu
Carthusians, near Naples, where
was kept in a box of ebony. since
then the relic has been kept in tin
chapel of Casert. The Carthusian'
: obtained the privilege, by their peti
tons, that the plate might be kept b.
them, which was an acknowledgment
of the sacrafce which they had made
for the French army. The French
translation was made literally by tn
members of the Commission of Arts
demon had a fac smile of the plate en-
graved, which was bought by Lor'
Howard on the sale OF his cabinet TO
2,S9O francs. There seems to be n
J historical doubt as to the authenticit
of this plate. The easons of the sen
tence correspond exactly with those O
the gospel.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
Financial and industrial.

John Roach was awarded the contract for
building our steel naval vessels, his bids ag-
gregating at $2,44o,Oo.
Sixty carloads Of gold and silver bullion
have Just been shipped from Helena, Montana,
by special train for aretinery at Newark, New
Jersey.
Mr.. Preston acting director of the mint,
says the trade dollarwas coined by the gov
eminent, at the actual cost of the work, for
depositors of silver bullion. 1t was not paid
out by the Treasurer or exchanged for other,
money, and the Government has endeavored
to keep it in its lawful channel.
Since March /, Chicago packers have
slaughtered and sailed SIS, COO hogs, being
10000 head less than for the corresponding
period q year ago.
The Hon. Hugh Mccullough, ex-Comp-
troller of the Currency and ex-Secretary of
the Treasury, thinks the financial outlook in
the United States at present q favorable one.
Casualties
Two blocks of business structures, mostly
frame, were consumed at Badsden, Ala, en-
failing q loss of4$leo.CM.
AN accident on the Rochester and Pitts
burg railroad, near Rosselas, Pa, resulted in
six persons being killed and nine wounded.
A Wabash train ran into a Chicago street
car near the Union Stock Yards, wounded
twelve persons, three of them fatally.
Sections of q freight train on the Louis
vile, New Albany and Chicago road collided
near Bedford, Indiana, killing Conductor Nc
Coy and seriously i~njuring Fireman Searls.
The engineer and fireman of n train saved
their lives by leaping out Several loaded
cars we're o to pieces.
Six persons riding in q huckster-wagon
near Spring Grove cemetery, at Cincinnati,
we're instantly killed by q train on the Dayton
raiIway track. The victims were Henry
Kracke and his wife ana children, all being
horribly mutilated. The engine was sprinkled
with flour to hide the bloodstains.
"A tornado passed through Fond du Lac
county, Wis, sweeping away buildings and
trees. AT Oakield . heavy coil of barbed
wire was lifted from the ground and carried
fifty yards, and at hartford the Court House
was unToofed. The cyclone passed over to
Lake Michigan and dismantled several yes
sells OF Po,t Washington.
"A cyclone swept through Port Jervis,
Hancock and Binghamton N. Y, the Naug-
atuck valley, in Connecticut, and the viii
jamestown valley, in Massachusetts,, uproot-
ing trees, destroying houses and churches,
and laying fat crops and fences. The new
Williams College gymnasium, was wrecked,
causing q loss OF sb0,oO0.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28
An Appalling Thought.

During the second year of the war a
grocer in an Ohio town scaled his pri-
ces by reports from the front. One
day a defeat would cut the price of
butter 5 cents, the next day a victory
would raise the price of eggs a penny
a dozen, and the victory or defeat was
sure to hit even the jar of nutmegs on
the top shelf. One day a farmer who
had some butter to sell entered the
store and asked the going price.
II am paying 16 to-day" was the
answer.
But only about two days ago you
paid 90"
"Yes, but you see Pope has been de-
feated since that, and there is back
action
The farmer sold out and wanted the
most of it in sugar, and the grocer re-
marked as he made ready to weight it
"Sugar has advanced a cent a pound
since Monday
"Mercy on me! but why is that?"
Because the rebels got licked in
Tennessee"
The old man sat down on a nail key
and thought it all over, and presently
looked up and said:
my friend,it a Federal defeat cheap
ems what you buy, and q rebel victory
enhances the value of what you sell,
what a blank of a fix you'd be in if
there should happen to be d drawn
battlelp-WaH Street Daily NeWs.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28

"PAPA," said a lad the other night,
after attentiyely studying for some
minutes an engraving of a human skel-
eton, show did this man manage to
keep in his dinner?
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28

A LOT of farmers who had been
listening to a railroad land agents
praise Of Arkansas valley soil, at last
asked him, sarcastically, if there was
any thing that wouldn't grow there.
s Yes" said the agent quickly, pump
MS WON'T "Why not?' "The soil
Is SO rich. and the vines grow so fast
that they wear out the pumpkins
dragging them over the ground"
The Opelousas courier., 1883-07-28

Music like FIRE wood is meaS
by the chord.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22
Fish Distribution.

A short time ago n palace fish car
belonging to the United States Fish
Commission left here for California with
lS,0Oi young fish. These fish are not
placed loose in the tanks, but are in
pals partly filled with water, 80 that
the motion OF the cars is broken. This
cars first stopping place was ST. Louis,
whence large number of the paiis con
tanning from twenty 70 twenty-five fish
each were sent to various Western rivers.
Since the beginning OF the carp distribu.
ton geason two allotments have been
sent to South Carolina by the United
States Fish Commission to supply orders
from that State. The first comprised
], 800 and about 200 went the last time,
making $500 sent TO the State to date
During the shad season two allotments,
each of $50, 900, were sent to the different
rivers in South Carolina, and it is expect
ed in few years that the most delicious
fish to Washingtonians will he within the
reach Of the cultured palates of the
Palmetto State. The carp distribution
season is from the middle Of October till
March. Hereafter most of the fish for
South Carolina waters will be furnished
from Columbia where large quantity
will be kept. The commission expressed
itself as very favorably impressed with
the advantages possessed by South Caro-.
lina for fsh propagation aud growth. The
rivers in the State run gently toward the
sea and in their course pass through q
country fostering various sorts of vegeta-
tion. Before the close of the carp season
large number of others will be sent to
the State. The orders this year are
nearly double what they were in 1881.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22
A Mouse that WOro Diamond.

Several months ago lady living on
Beacon street took off number of rings
from her fingers and laid them upon her
dressing table. After washing her hands
she returned TO the room to replace her
rings, when, to her establishment, one Of
them, diamond ring, was missing |!
She was certain that she took the ring
from her finger, and equally certain that
no one could have entered the room
without her knowledge during the FIVE
minutes she had been in the bath room.
A most rigid search was instituted, but
the missing ring, valued at $500, was not
found. A few weeks since, the lady was
much annoyed by mice. Almost
nightly they held their revels. They
not only destroyed her sleep, but choice
laces were mutilated. The lady procured
trap, one Of the old fashioned kind, and, j.,
having baited it with tempting bit of
cheese, placed it near the scene of dep
relations. On the following morning
she had three fine silky mice of various
sizes. One of them was SO peculiarly
constructed that it attracted her atten-
tion, as it appeared to have a string tied
around its body. The servant girl was
instructed to drown the captives and
reset the trap, and she was about to
throw the dead mice into the dirt barrel
when her eye was attracted by sparkle
from what proved to be the los. diamond
ring, which was not perceptible when
the mouse was alive, but which came Ia
light after the severe soaking which the
mouse received. 1t is supposed that in
his haste to get away he ran his head
through the ring, and subsequent strug.
giles only forced it over his foreleg, where
It remained Boston journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22
Changing Her Religion and Her Home.

BALTIMORE, February 9.-Aliss Lotta
Galloway, aged seventeen years, brough.
up a Methodist, daughter of John T..
Galloway, residing at, No. 223 Forrest
street, WAS converted to the Jewish faith
on Sunday last by Rabbi l. NJ. Lilicn.
thai, at hisresidcnce, No. 35 Front
street, in accordance with the orthordox
Hebrew !. ritual. There were q num-
ber of persons of both faiths pre-.
sent ut the time. DIR. Lilienthal
stated yesterday that by coming in con.
tact with the Jewish families she had
contracted n love for the old faith.
About eight months ago she expressed n
desire to he converted She was careful
ly questioned in order to ascertain if her
desire sprang from selfish motives or per-
suasion of any kind. Mr.. Lilienthal
ascertaincd that she did not wish to
change her religion in order TO live an
easier life. as she had very good home,
nor was it owing to that usual cause-a
desire to we'd Hebrew youth.
lie then began to give her lessons in the
Hebrew language and taught her the
rudiments of the Jewish faith and oil the
Jewish laws. After the lapse of eight
months, when she was well versed in all
>''c oiapShSsp
thought that if her conversion was to
take place at all it was then the proper
time. All suitable arrangements were
made, and on Sunday last, in the presence
of proper judges, the ceremony took
place. She was examined in the Hebrew
creed, the duties of Jewish woman,
&c, all of which were satisfactory. She
assumed the name of Rebccca, and was
declared Jewess, after which q feast
was spread. The young lady recognized
Mr.. Lilienthal as her father, and will
reside at his house permanently, and Mr..
Lilienthal declares that she is M strict a
disciple of the Jewish faith as can be
found anywhere. The young lady is
quite modest in her demeanor, and has a
very pleasant face. 1t seems somewhat
unnatural for young girl of this age TO
leave her father and sisters permanently
She has no mother. Her people were Mt
first opposed to the step, but she states
that they are now reconciled. The opin.
ion WAS expressed to Mr.. Lilienthal that
a person cannot become Hebrew unless
he or she is such by birth, but the revern-
ed gentleman brought large volume of
Hebrew laws to prove that this can be
done II the motives are pure.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22

A million OF money in five.cent
nickels weighs ono hundred tons. 1t
would perplox us more than little if
any one were to pay us that much money
in five cent nickels-though we are will
ing to be perplcxed.-Norristown Her.
aid.
A stranger called at forty eight diff.
ferent houses in Cleveland and asked !:
''Is the boss homer" There was no man
home in any one instance, and yet forty.
seven of the women promptly replied !:
eyes, sir-what do you t?"-betrois
Free I1resa.
The Boston papers say the girls of
that city have begun to wear police hats.
Then should the Boston papers warn the
Boston girls. If they 90 to initiating
the Boston police, they will never catch
q man.
A Druggist in New Richmond, O., Mr..
f. J. Donham, writes us the following
II consider DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup one
Of the very best things made. use il
altogether in my own family and can
! therefore recommend it.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22

"A wag, speaking ola friend whom
he suspected OF living altogether beyond
his means, observed that he believed he
"would owe several thousand dollars
after all his debts were paid"
american.
= Two Irishmen were lamenting the
illness of friend who had been much
brought down Of late. "It's dreadful
wake he is and thin, sure he's as thin
as the pair Of us put togetherI" one of
the sympathizers observed.-C Chicago
Tribune.
LIVER, KIDNEY AND BRIaHT's DIS.
EASE A medicine that destroys the
germ or cause of Bright's Disease, Dia-
betes, Kidney and Liver Complaints, and
has power to root them out of the system,
is above all price. Such a medicine il
Hop Bittsrs, and positive proof Of this
can be found by one trial, or by asking
your neighbcrs, who have been cured by
1t.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22

who had not seen.'it. ..since1.the. bloody
battle of Sharpsburg. With bedimmed
eyes andi husky voices they greeted it
with long, loud and continued demon
strations of joy. The survivors of the
Legion are proud to know that the three
most prominent leaders Of the people in
their day of deliverance from Radicalism
in &c were Hampton, Butler and Gary.
One sleeps regretted in his grave. Two
are South Carolina's honorcd representa-.
tives in the Senate of the Nation.
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charge, Of detail and hastily marched
several miles, put in position on the line
OF the infantry to the left in BODY of
woods, given picks and spades, aud com.
mIanded to throw up earthworks. Grant
had made
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22
THE HAMPTON LEGION.
,,.,,0r story of an Immortal cornman

,,,, b. II. Ttnyue. Of Cbmpa,,y b, il,
By The Charleston Weekly News.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-16

When enfeebled by long suffering proceed
Ing from torpid liver, biliOusness indigestion
constipation, or sick headache, take Burdock
Blood Bitters, which give rest to the weary
and reinvigorttes all the organs OF the body.
Price 81. For sale by ii. B. Cochran, drug
gist, l37 and l39 North Queen street.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-16
The Print OF the relOn's Hand

The Print OF the relon's Hand
Denton American Union.
On the side of the public road between
this place and Harris chapel, Tuckahoe
Neck, Nd, stands a large sized poplar
tree, perhaps three feet in diameter at the
ground, and on the bark, some ten feet
from the base, is the mark of human
hand, which it has born for about twenty
years past. 1t was produced in the fol
lowing manner: In 1862, James Wilson,
bright mulatto, about twenty-three
years of age, committed terrible crime
upon little child. He was hunted down,
owned the crime, aud was lodged
in Our Jail. A few nights afterward
he was forcibly taken from the Jail
and hung and shot in tho rear of that
building by tho infuriated populace Of the
neighborhood in which the crime was per-
petrated. After he was dead his body
was cut in pieces and burned on the
outskirts of the town. But one of the
hands, cut off at the wrist, was taken in
charge by some one, and with a good
sized Eail was spiked to this poplar tree.
1t remained there until it decayed, and
now the hand print, full size, may be seen
on the bark Of the tree, the nail which
held it in position still fast in the tree.
We visited the spot last week and can
vOuch for the correctness Of the above
statement.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-16

That in this town there are scores OF persons
passing our store every day whose lives are
Sour and distressed Stomach, Liver Com.
plant, Constipation. W hen for 75c. we will sell
them ShtlOhs Vitalizer. guaranteed to cure
them. Sold by II. Il. Cochran, druggist. Nos.
l ~ and l39 North Queen street. fSb7-eod2