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The Opelousas courier., 1883-06-30
Southern prOScriptiOns

In the suburbs Of Natchez l found q
northern man. He was digging worms
alongside the fence and getting ready
to go fishing, and his wife sat on the
back steps smoking a corn-cob pipe
and kicking with her bare feet at the
chickens whenever they come too near.
The man had black patches on the
knees Of gray pants, a leather belt in
place of ~suspenders, and he chewed
plug tobacco and squirted the juice
around with a vigor which would have
earned him two dollars 81 day in any
other locality. There was only one
room to the house, and the furniture
would have been no load at all for a
skeleton mule.
Eyes, Tn from the north-from lila
noy," he said, as We sat down in the
shade for q talk, "and [ made a great
mistake in moving down here"
"How anne You to move?
well, some of the folks back there
got down on me because they missed
some hogs, and it got so hot [ concluded
to move"
"And how do you like the south?"
mot a bit. It's no country for a 60
ahead man. There's nothing here te
reuse mans ambition to rip and teal
and bust things. I've accumulated feu1
dogs, three tishpoles and q shotgun
since striking this country, but I fee
homesick and discouraged"
Glow does your wife feel?"
"Clear discouraged Why I'd hardly
know her to be the same Sarah Jane
Baker. She's run right down to
skeleton, and she's gotheaps on hel
mind"
"Say, we've been here better'n {
year and not one of the ladies IL
Natchez has called on hert'
"Ne!"
Solemn fact, stranger! When VIZ
first came she creased her shoes ant
washed her best calico and called OF
every lady in town, to show 'em tina
she wasn't proudnor stuck up, but mar,
one of them has returned the call. The,
know we are from the north, you see
they cut us on that account. tell yol
the northern family has to suffer dow
here. They are entirely ostrichcize'
from society. Sarah, Sarah janet"
Sarah came around to our side of TIL
house in answer to his call. l remem
Der that I judged she had on just tn
l single garment of 81 dress, and half TIL
} buttons were missing from that. He
bare feet went spat! spat spat! and
l further Judged that they hadn't bee
} washed since the winter breakup.
"What you want" she growled out.
"Say, Sarah, haven't we been ostrich
l cized here in Natchez cause we're fro1
the north?"
J Dead right you are, old man." sh
) replied as she blew a cloud of smok
, from her mouth, "but what do we keer
We kin hold our heads up and bus
l around fur oil that. If they don't Xix
us let 'em look t'other way. Come, ye'
better be offto the river after suckers
If ye don't git fish tonight yell go
bed with a stomach as empty as ye
: wallet Free Press.
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Pursued by q WatsrspeHt,

One of the steamers of the Pacific
Mail Company, while off the coast OF
Guatemala, had the are experience OF
being pursued by a waterspout. 1t sud
denly appeared near the ship. In the
midst Of the CONSERVATION the captain
ordered his course reversed and soon
the steamer was driving along with the
water spout III pursuit.
It's crest was hidden in a dark mass
of cloud, it's base seeming to operate
like an immense revolving cullender
while the entire external periphery
formed a cushion of foam, W. which
the sea-bird screamed. occasionally
Selling upon dead fish which came
within reach.
The spout itself formed a sort OF
spiral sscylinder, streaked with Opaque
parallel lines through it's whole length
from the surface of the sea upward.
These lines were evidently ascend
ing columns of water, for AFTERWARDS
when the upper and lower sections
became detached, the accumulated
body of water overhead Immediately
began it's descent within the body o.
the spout as though it had been the
valve of an immense syringe.
The water thus relieved must have
been equal to several tons, as it was
solid and almost black and returned tt
the sea with o loud roar, all the othel
parts of the aerial structure dissipa
ting gradually.
Perhaps the most singular of all wal
the %serpentine form assumed by tht
section nearest the clouds, which
moved off at first almost horizontally
and then turned upon itself in a per
feet coil, SO that for d moment, whe1
when the end of the. aqueous rope-o.
whatever it was-switehed aroune
squarely to the eye Of the observer
showing a section, it represented a bal
of ink.
When the spout was in it's fines
condition the lightning several time
flew through the penumbra in zigzae
courses making q spectacle not onl.
terrible in its manifestation of power
| but sublime and beautiful.
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Justice to Texas.

When MI. Fred Warde, the distin-
guished tragedian, was in San Antonio
he said many pleasant things of the
people and cities of Texas. It is pleas
ing to find that his impressions were
not eYanescent as in most cases, for re-
Gently he paid the following just trib-
ute to the Lone Star state: Texas is
the grandest state it has ever been my
good fortune to visit-both in point Of
climate and sociability. Northern peo-
pie. as a general thing, associate cow
boys and all that is tough with that
grand country, but it is a mistake. I
found it directly opposite. The citizens
represent the surplus energy and Gull
ture Of the world and enjoy the advan-
tages of all modern improvements.
The cities are splendid ones. In them
can be found a society second to none
in the land, and although a great many
combinations travel through the state
of Texas, the preference of the people
is for the higher order of music and
drama. As o field. for youth and energy
it is ~unexcelled."
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will be pl4eel upon it. The lire at
which tile work rested III 1906 can
plainly be seen, the old portion Of the
monument being darker and more
weather beaten than the new, The
SLOW IA e ut which contractor; are able
t. deliver the marble regulates Ike pro
gress OF the monument. The money
which Congress has already appro-
printed, about $500 oM In al, viii
suffice To compi"t" the shaft and pyra-
midion, IS it is called, the pyramid
which ie to top the shn5t ut tho height
Of 500 feet and rise fer tifty-five foet,
part OF it being Of glass, in order to
light the deep wall Of the monument.
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TEXAS T8Pf(&

-Pretdfo county has 1a miles
railway.
Arrangements have besl rltss J
ship LOGO head of cattle from u1s'
Vile, Mississippi, to Texas.
The damage done by the c.
in the region of GreenTllie, ieAs
estimated to exceed $1,00O,UW.
LAND with water power nus ~ ]
purchased at San Antonio with ~
organizing a yoolen goods ma'a''
uring company.
The committee appointed 70 ia IN
tigato land frauds in Texas h1's =, e &
to work, and expect to recover H.
state some 100000 acres oil iai'a'
Tho Texas report to the s sltsss
ture for June, says all crops Ai - Id
days late, but the prospeoS "s
for an abundant harvest.
Six hundred and thirty,.No 4
of land havo been bought at Ier.sTb
thee rection Of q lunatic asylum
prioo paid was $3.50 on acre
The charter of the Indeps aonptI
cattle company, of 81 Paso i Coi
eapital stock 100000, Once h y ID
RADIO City, Mitchell county n@
filed at Austin.
The Cuero Star says nj 8
tracts of land between Victorlaa ~ ID
dianola have had a hedge OF liam ss d
CARNEY rose planted afotl5a II stoel,
though exposed to all xmas taw yaI
is growing finely, and IN a.; ? d ~
will be a fence which no kiha fame
will attempt to pass. ms a.nsr By
everlasting, and much Cheap
rails, wire or lumber.
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!. Crfrnes anl Crimfnnne.

Paddy Hannois, q resident Of the Chero-
kee nation, murdered his brother James and
an Indian named Tom Scraper.
Ike Paradise, of Paradise Range, David
son county, Tenn, shot his father John Para
disc, through the heart The parrieide was
the outgrowth of al old quarrel.
A store on the 10 yer Rio Grande, in Hi
dalgo county, Texas, was raided by . band OF
outlaws from Mexico, and robbed of $2,oO
in cash and $4,000 worth of goods.
Prank Brown and John Anderson, notori
GUS desperadoes, undertook to srun" the town
of Wiota, Iowa threatening peaseable citizens
and firing their reviewers. Az they passed
up the street, q philosophical citizen fired q
load of buck-shot st them. Andersen has
since died, and Brown cannot recover.
About 100 men assembled at Winterset,
Iowa, and being refused the Jail keys broke
in with crowbars and sledges, They then led
ont John Hammer, held for the murder of
William Newell one year ago, and hanged him
to tree in the COURT House square,, but while
he was struggling one of the mob shot him
through the heart The party fired q volley
and escaped on horseback. Little or ne ex-
eitement was caused by the act,
"A desperate named Whiting, or Fisher,
who operated on the plan of the late James
gang, was taken from jail by a mob at Her
mann. Mo-, and hanged. In his last raid
Whiting and a partner had murdered q young
maj named Burehard, who was protecting
his fathers store in Casconade county. Whit
ing's partner was killed and he himself
wounded by q companion of Burchard's.
There had been a previous attempt. to lynch
the outlaw.
"A United States Deputy Marshal and HE
posse, looking for criminals In the Chickasaw
country, Indian Territory, recently reported
having encountered and killed three dospera-
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Gulf Colorado and Santa /

Xix Jul OO1UIdSEO GtfU .CHlGa Z z
railroad has just closed q contract
with the owners of the coal mines in
the western edge of Parker county,
three miles from Milsap, for 10000
tons Of coal, to be mined and delivered
along the line of their track during the
present year. A company was recent
ly formed to operate these coal mines,
the principal stockholders residing at
Weatherford. They have been making
some nice developments lately, and
claim TO have coal that i'd equal, il not
superior in quality Do the Indian Ter
ritorg coal.
A PHILOSOPHER observes that when
a man takes more pleasure in earning
money than in spending it, he has
taken The first step towards wealth.
He has also taken the first step toward
leading the meanest kind Of a life
Boston Post.
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Personal.

-Amasa Stones will bequeatlls $500, COO and
the Euclid avenue homestead In Cleveland to
HIS wife, andthe rennainder Of the estate goes
to his family, except that Adelbert College is
to receive Sl00,0e0 If the estate reaches So
500,O0O; and $4,000 each is allotted to the
Home for Aged Women and the Children's
Aid Society.
p. J. Sheahy, one Of the Jurors iii Tie
Guftcau case, has become 90 violently I'll
that his family have been compelled to send
Inn to an asylum for confinement He be-
lieYed that Guiteaa was insane, and reluctant
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Financial and Endustrfsnl.

LIN sympathy with tho decline In pig-iron,
ore has been materially reduced in pennsyl-
vania, stock now selling for IS per ton, which
a few weeks ago commanded "a, and eyena at
this figure the demand is restricted.
According to the report of the Directors
of tho Mint, the production of precious me-
tails in tho United States during 1852 was $322,
D ,OO0gold and GAG ,S00,O silver, a decline
d $2,2 CO., 900 az compared with the yield of
the mines in 1881.
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would appear that the officers and crews
have all hocked to the gold folds. The
only persons who should go are those
who arc able to form 4 company and
take with thcm u good pump and
apparatus for digging an artesian WELL.
As II o provisions for obtaining water
were made by the parties who have
gone, they will probably all make
failures and be obliged to return.
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Casualties.

Reports from Council Bluffs say the re-
cent great rainfall and consequent flood re.
suited in no loss Of life. Several families
were driven from their homes, and In some
instances lost all their household effects.
Many bridges, including two stone structures,
wore wrecked, and the rear wall of the Opera
House, in process of erection, collapsed, and
the side walls are in . dangerous condition.
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Voice From the Presss

I take this opportunity to bear testi-
mony to the efficacy of your Hop Bit
ters.' Expecting to find them nause-
u and bitter and composed of bad
whisky, we were ~agreeably surprised
at their mild taste, just like a cup OF
tea. A Mrs. Cresswell and o Mrs. Con-
nor, friends, have likewise tried, and
pronounce them the best medicine they
have ever taken for building up..strength
and toning up the system. l was trou-
bled with co~stiveness, headache and
want of appetite. Ny ailments are now
all gone. I have o yearly contract with
a doctor to look after the health OF my
self andssfamily, but I need him not
now. S. GILLILAND.
Peoples advocate, rittsb'g. Pa.
July 40, 1878.
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A Bears Winter Nap.
Prescott tont.) Messenger.

Mr.. James Hopper Of Edwardsburg
is the happy possessor of a year-old
bear, for which he has snug quarters
prepared in the shed. On the 9th of
last December, his bearship, no doubt
feeling drowsy, returned to his quar-
tiers, and much to the surprise Of his
owner, refused to be coaxed out again:
even savory dishes placed at the door
of his box had no the slightest effect
upon him. Weeks passedinto months,
and still bruin remained in a state of
lethargy, until people began to look
forward to the 18th of March, when
all well regulated bears are supposed
to come forth and look for their sha-
doWs. But alasi for the old story, he
came not forth, and it was not until
the 28th of the month that he conde-
scended to poke his brown nose out
and partake of little milk, and not
until the 9th of April that he may be
said to have partakeu of a square
meal. His long fast does not seem
to have disagreed with him, as he
looks just as well as eVer
1t is estimated that over 1000 head
Of cattle have been exported to Texas
frem Garland and Hot Spring counties,
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SSafsffrHH.

The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a
bill to abolish the contract system in prisons
and reformatory institutions. 1t also passed
a measure designed to prohibit political as
easements.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-06-30

EVERY mar who carries q pistol
ought to be obliged by law to wear it
in a belt at his side, and have it labled
emotional insanity"
GIVING fourteen ounces for q pound
s a wrong weigh to get rich.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-06-30

" consented to a verdict sending him to the
scaffold. Since the hanging he has broodcd
over the matter until finally his reason gave
NV
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TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Foreign.

-GUorgc Ca5a0gtac and Az old Sergeant
Major fought i iucI With SWORDS On 'Ilo
Swiss frontier, and Cas5agnac's throat was
pierced.
-Jcm Mace, the noted pugilist, was sound
II thrashed in 4 prize-tight by Lord charles
Beresforti. The contest vas wltEesSHa ny the
Prince of Wales
The Emperor OF Russia, in sddressing
she Village Elders at Moscow, said: "Do not
credit the senseless rumors respecting a re-
distribution of grants of land. All properly
must be unassailable."
Thomas Caffrey, convicted Of parhc1pa37
t;on In the Phoenix Park tragedy was hanged
on the ID inst, in kiEmainham jail. lie was
he fourth man executed for this crime.
in addition to requiring that the Queen OF
Madagascar recognize tho protectorate OF
France, and concede the right of Frenchmon
to hold property in her country, the French
Government will demand an indemnity OF
100, 600 francs for the expense OF the expo
dition to Madagascar.
1t is estimated that more than l,WV,N
neoIIe attended the grand celebration at MOS
cow in honor of the Cars coronation: lheEt
was no disturbance, and the Gar and EARN
we're received with great enthusiasm by IN
nopulace. The Gear issued 3 proclanaflol
affording greater freedom TO religious sec's
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1t is estimated that over 1000 head
Of cattle have been exported to Texas
frem Garland and Hot Spring counties,
Arkansas, the past few weeks.
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FOR SALE BY
RHODES &c TROXELL.
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Don't Want to Re interviewed n Bit.

lCnlcaSo lltnes.l
John Stetson, the well known theatrical
manager of New York and Boston, has long
been a favorite target with newspaper wits,
and he has BEEN credited with numberless
misuses of the English language. He has
finally becoms tired of these pleasantries at
his expense, and in u card to The New York
Tribune says:
l think, as a patron, and a rather liberal
one, of the press, and as a manager who has
attained by hard work an established posi-
ton in the theatrical profession, 1 am en-.
titled to be spared being the target Of cheap
wits and interview manufacturers.
am aware that | have from time to time
been made a pack-horse of witless paragraph
ers' bad jokes, Joe Millerisms, and "chestnutsn
of numerous descriptions, published a gen.
GRAFTON ago in Davy Crockett's almanac, and
have been represented as a bufroon by penny
a-liners- l have not thought it worth while
to add another to the five hundred persons in
my employ in order to make answer to such
though ~groundless witicisms. In
the present instance there is, however, APP
parent, l think, a deliberate purpose to be
little my standing as a manager and submit
me to ridicule at the outset of an important
season in which l am in the field better
equipped than ever to make n competition
for public favor. Irepeat that the converse
ton Win me winch you publish was never
held; l was not interviewed as you state, and
l used no terms you quote. From beginning
to end the publication is an invention. In
twenty-five years experience l do claim that
l have attained a thorough knowledge of all
details of the theatrical business and the
language relating thereto. L am not a purse.
proud braggart to say 81 amt particular rs
to dollarS;h nor do l ever undertake to orna,
ment mS conversation with either Latin or
French. When l nave occasion, | can
make plain English sufficiently forcible and
expressive.
What say nov is in general answer to a
long drawn out series of small abuse to which
cheap photographers nave subjected me.
Whatever ~improprieties of speech they could
devise have been placed, as all questionable
stories were to Abraham Lincoln twenty
years ago, to the account of John Stetson.
Now, please let me stand acquitted of going
into anything, in talk or in business, in
speech or in print, TINT l know nothing
about. l have employed what limited tai.
ents l nave to some degree of success, and il
less successful people of better education and
better knowledge of language can not Obtain
a livelihood except by coming idle and silly
tictious about me, l I'M not sorry that /
never lost any more time going to school.
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Might Have Lived Longer.
[Chicngo Trlbune.l

1N'N
An old gentleman has just died in France
1t the ripe age of 20, says Mr.. Labouchere,
leaving behind him a log-book of all that he
has drunk for the last fifty years. His habits
in this respect were very regular, his daily
~llowau being four litres of vino seven
piuts), n couple of glasses of nbSinthe before
each Of his three meals, and twelve petits
verTes of cognac, rum, or some other spirit,
ito drive away dependency" The total for
the half century thus came to: Wine, pints,
l27,S27; absinthe, glasses, 1o9,5G6; spirits,
glasses, 2l9, lS2.
The old gentleman boasted that he had
never had a days illness in his life, and he
certainly seems to have proved his point that
4 hard drinker is not necessarily a short liver,
although veCy possibly Sir Wilfrid Lawson
would say that Mad this wine, absinthe, and
spirit bibber confined himself to water he
would have lived for another twenty years.
Jerry Greening: Alters provide fer ev'ry-
thing beforehand, cause since things in
variably turns out different from what you've
ranged fer, it III make ye familiar with dis
appointment an SIGH.
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Nhltchal IlmeS.l
Every man has his favorite story, and the
Hon. Roswell r. Flower tells the following:
"Ono day an old negro, clad in rags aud
carrying a burden on his head, ambled into
the executive chamber, and dropped his load
on the door. Stepping toward the governor,
he said:
EN- You de gu5ner, sahN
Being answered in the affirmative, he said:
eli dat am II fac Use glai ter meet yer.
Yer see 1 lib way up dar in de back Oh de
country, aud is a poor man, sab. | h'ar dni
is some peryishuns in de con'stutiou fer dc
culled mai, and l AN har to get some oh EN-,
Eah.h
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The genuine "Rough on Corns" is
made on by <E. S. Wells, proprietor of
Trough on Rats" and has laughing face
of man on labels, 15c. & 25c. bottles.
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Health Remover" 81.
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