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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-03

alcohol TO manufacturers free Of tax.
Manufac cinrefs who manufacture for ex
port to receive a rebate on their raw ma,
terial equal to the duty, less ten per
cent. A reduction Of ton per cent. TO be
made in favor Of goods imported in
American bottoms. This Is said TO be
similar to the old Law passed in Jcffer
sons administration, except that the
Jefferson diiIerential duty was an in.
crease Of ten per cent. on tho then exist
ing tariff list. while Converse proposes
ten per cent. reduction. Converse
thinks his bill will reduce the revenue
$40, 900, 600
A Campaign Assessment.
WAsHINGToS, D. G., May "a
Georgia Postmaster has sent to Wash
ington a circular received by him re
questing contribution OF S24 for cam.
paign purposes. The circular was
shqwn TO Postmaster General Gresham,
who says he will protect any Postmaster
who refuses the contribution called for
by the circular.
Murderer Hanged.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 2.-Thos. Dick
son was hanged Mt Bloomfield, Mo-, Just
before noon to-day, for the murder Of
Jas McNab, near Essex. Stoddard
county, in this Slate. four years ago.
About 1000 people were present. Dick.
son made brief speech on the scaffold,
in which he declared his innocence.
Forest Fires Near New York.
NEW YORK, May 2.-Forest fires in
the country round about fill the atmos-
phefe here with smoke.
Fatal Explosion OF Fire Damp.
PTrsBURGH, Pa, May 2.-It is ru-
mored tonight that an explosion Of fire
damp occurred this afternoon In the AL.
legheny Valley coal mines, nine miles
from Parker. Pa, and that number of
miners were killed. Owing to the late
hour nothing can be learned, as the tele-
graph office there is closed.
California a warde d, second Prize
mt the SILK show.
PnILADFLrHn, May AT the silk
show the second prize was awarded to
kienze 4 Mantz, of San Jose. The
awards were based on the quantity and
quality of reeled silk yielded to each
hundred cocoons.
Progress OF the Benr.
sr. JoHNs, N. r., May 2.-The Bear,
the first ship of the Greedy Relief Expe-
dition, arrived to-day. She is coaling,
aud sails Saturday.
The EOng-Named Party.
PmLApELPHIA, Pa, May 2.--At to-
days session Of the Prohibition Home
Protection Party platform was adopted
recommending, principally, suppressing
the liquor traffic and compulsory educa-
tion. An amendment, favorable to ac-
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-03
The Converse Tariff mcndment
KiII

The strike is therefore over. All
work will be resumed Immediately.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-03
Murderer Hanged.
Forest Fires Near New york.
Awarded, second Prize
Mt the SIIk ShOW.

PnuADrLPHIA, May AT the silk
show the second prize was awarded to
Rienze 4 Mantz, Of San Jose. The
awards were based on the quantity and
quality Of reeled silk yielded to each
hundred cocoons.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-03
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The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17
Newspaper Laws and Eeegula-
tiORnS.

i. Subscribers who donot give express no
tree TO the contrary are considered wishing to
continue their subscriptions.
2. If subscribers order the discontinuanee
of their periodicals, the publisher may conti-
nue. to send them until all arrearages are paid.
8. IF subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their periodicals from the Office to which they
are directed, they are held responsible until
they nave settled their bills and ordered them
discontinued.
4. lie subscribers move to another place
without informing the publishers and the pa
pers are sent to the former direction. they are
held responsible.
S. The courts 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"
6. Any person who receives a newspaper
and makes use of it, whether he has ordered
it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber.
Z. If subscribers pay in advance, they are
bound to give notice TO the publisher at the
end of their time, if they do not wish TO con-
tinue taking it; otherwise the publisher is
authorized to continue sending it on, and the
subscribers will be responsible until an ex
prsss notice, with payment of all arrears, is
sent to the publisher.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17
Col, Rhett on Concealed wea-
pons.

Col. R. B. Rhett, as foreman of the
Madison county (Ala.) Grand Jury re-
Gently made the following report
against the cowardly practice of car
rying concealed deadly weapons
Fully recognizing the fact that we
are not living in the m%illennial era, and
that injuries and insults will occur,
vet we consider that ARRAYS and street
fights with concealed weapons cut off
all opportunity for the peaceful settle
ment of personal difficulties and pro-
duee homicides without warning or
fairness or justification ; that they
often sacrifice the lives of innocent
persons, and sometimes involve whole
communities in murderous strife. In
fact. the wearing of concealed weapons
is part and parcel of border r~uffianism,
without the pale Of civilized practice
or the custom Of gentlemen, and
wholly out of place in an old settled
community like this. 1t is an unfair
and homicidal resort, which has no
~countenance under the law of honor,
and it will be we'll if the young men of
the country come up to that standard.
- Cincinnati News journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17
Some Modern Atoms.

The man who gets bit twice by the
same dog is better adapted for that
kind of business than any other.
There is a great deal of religion in
this world that is like q life preserver,
only put on at the moment of immedi-
ate danger and then half the time put
on hind side before.
Experience is a school where a man
learns what a big fool he has been,
The man who doesn't believe in any
hereafter has got a dreadfnlly mean
opinion of himself and his chances.
There are two kind of fools in this
world-those who can't change their
opinion and those who won't.
A doctor is a gentleman to whom
we pay three dollaas a visit for advis
ing as to eat less and exercise more.
The world is filling up with educat-
ed feols---mankind reads too much and
learns too little.
Every maR has his folies and often
times they are the most interesting
things he has got.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

A special from youngstown, O., of
Monday says aMr. Case of Franklin,
Penn, is in the city with the small
est perfect locomotive that was ever
constructed. With its tender it is six
inches long and weighs two pounds.
It is a perfect reproduction of a pas.
senger locomotive, generates its steam,
pumps water in the boiler and is com
plete in every particular. Many en-
gineers examined it to-day with mag
nifying glasses, but were unable to
find where anything had been omitted.
Three years we're spent in its construc-
ton, it being built of gold, silver and
steel. Mr.. Case has received fattering
offers from railroad magnates in New
York. He will have it on exhibition
at the Worlds Exposition in New Or
leans.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

Kellogg is catching some rough
handling from the Republican jour-
nails, and to read their comments
makes a Louisianian blush with shame
that such a wretch should be a repre-
sentative of the State in Congress.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat re-
marks kellogg has been acquitted.
But the verdict should have been-'not
found ont in time,' rather than mot
guilty" AS regards his examina-
ton before the Congressional commit
tee, some of Kellogg's friends assume
the position that the House has no iu-
risdiction in the case-cannot expel
him because his transgressions were
not committed during his present in
cumbency. But the constitutional au-
thority of the House to expel its own
members is not limited by any such
consideration. Tweed was denied his
seat in the New York Senate after the
exposure of his crimes, though elected
by a large majority-Daily States,
May IL.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17
CLUBBING RATES.

The Courier and Weekly Times-Democrat
one year for $3.50;
The Courier and Weekly Capitelian-Adyo
safe one year for $3.50;
The Courier and American Agriculturist
one year for $685..
TIE Courier and Scientific American one
year for $500;
The Courier and Our Little Ones and the
Nursery one year for $3.50;
The Courier and American Farmer one year
for $500;
The Courier and Demorests Monthly Maya
zine one year for $4.25;
The Courier aid The Breeders Journal $50
page monthly one year for $500.
subscriptions taken for any of these publ
cations at publishers rates.
no Ouar Agricultural Readers.
The American Agriculturist is one of our
most valued exchanges. 1t has just en-
tered upon the 43d year of its existence, with
varied improvements, and more reading
matter and engravings. 1t is Invaluable to
these engaged in farming pursuits. We will
send the American Agriculturist and the
COURIER fer one year to any address, on re-
receipt eff three dollars and seventy-five
cents.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

Ex-Gov. James NJ. Smith, of Geor.
gia, advocates the nomination of Til
den to the Presidency by the Demo
Gratis, because he is the only man with
whom the party can win. As to the
fear of Tilden dying in office, Mr..
Smith says that that is a habit Demo
cratic Presidents never had. Mr..
Smith is right. Since the Democratic
party was organized under Gen. Jack
son, its opponents have elected six
men to Office, only two of whom lived
to serve ont their terms. Every Wing
President died in Office and tive
of the four Republican Presidents, but
of Democrats. not one.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17
School Books, at the Star Grocery.

DJMVVA DUOhSy 81 VH0 oSts
The Corona corn cure for sale at Lit
tells.
AZ full line Of Choice Confectionery at
the Star Grocery.
r. Nc. Littell is in receipt of a fine as
sortment of pure wines and liquors fol-
medical use.
Choice butter, N. Y. e cheese,
mackerel, Goldfish and potatoes, at the
Star Grocery, under the COURIER Office.
Don't suffer from corns when yon
can get sure relief by the Corona coru
cnre, att Littell's.
Country merchants are reminded that
they can get their paper bags, wrap
ping paper and Irvine at N. O. prices at
the Star Grocery.
At the beginning of the year is a good
time TO subscribe for the COURIER fol
yourself and your friend. Try it and
be happy.
That valuable book, A Treatise on
the Horse and His Diseases BY DIR. y,
Ill KENDALL Wall 100 given as o premium
to every new cash subscriber to the
CoURIER.
Those of u patrons who are still
indebted to us for subscriptions or adj
vsrtiaing will confer q great favor on III
By settling a part, at least, If they can
not pay the whole Of their bills. HelI
as, friends.
Every horse owner should have d copy
II chat admirable work, A Treatise Oh
TIL Horse and Ills Diseases, = by Dirk
daEl. a few Copies-English Or German
for sale att this Office at 25c. per copy.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

The people of this country will have
no more electoral commission deeis-
ions on the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
plan. and the less the perpetrators and
beneficiaries of the fraud Of 1876 talk
about submission to the law being tin
tolerable'' the better it will be for
them. The ghost of that crime haunts
our esteemed Republican contempora-
ries and frightens them into chatter
ing much foolishness.-Boston Globe,
Dem.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

Going to the Reichstag, Bismarck
is guarded as closely as the Gar when
he appears in public. Police agents,
in plain clothes, are posted all along
the way from his house and even in
the Chamber itself, and DO ons-not
even a regular government employe-
il admitted To any part of the building
without special permit. As soon as
the Chancellor reaches bis desk at
tendants place before him q half dozen
well sharpened pencils and q large
glass of Moselle wine.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

For SALE on RENT.--A large, COM
modious town residence, with ample
grounds, kitchen, well, c~istern, fewer
and vegetable gardens, orchard, lots,
ansalI field, ETC., comprising altogether
fourteen acres of land. Also, a. small
residence with three arpents Of ground.
Tor particulars apply at this office.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

Reader, are ron thinking Of pnrchas-
ing Il piano ? n 50, cali on ns. and We
can make the terms easy for yon, nd
matter whether II Is d Steinway that
you want, OF d Knabe, d Hale, Weber,
Pleyal, Fischer, Pease, Oh Behr Bros
Ecu will save money By 1t.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

oPELoUsAs FEMALE 1Nsrrv,,.-
Opelousas, 81. Landry Parish r.

NE Kiln SAS lNSTITTrmr
OpeIonsas, 81. Landry Parish, La
fHHHIS Institution will resume dnt;o.
n day, September Sd, 1888, under = mon
mediate supervision of Mrs. M. NJ Hav sne Ina.
Mrs. NJ. A. DAVIS, with competent aa.;aaan and
The scholastic year consists of forty wsass
TERMS OF TUITION:
Preparatory Department, per month. 4 a
Academic " n W
Music, with use of Piano, " s@
Boardin, including Wash oW
ing, Lights and Fuel, 90 -.
Embroidery, Wax Flowers. PAINTING 10 W
Drawing, each, extra, IN
DISCIPLINE:
The government of this School is st,;o4 :
parental; no hard tasks or restrictions ! euH
posed, but every student mast comnlr ~ ms
the rules, and must prepare, up to tbas WIN
ure of her ability, the lessons assigned "oas
Our course of study and mode of instr,,a..
are designed to train the mind to hah;ts
correct thinking and thorough invest;oat;.
No student will be allowed to enter S;sI
classes without thorough preparation
rents aud guardians may rest assnrad i, Y
the manners, health and morals of their olof
dren and wards shall receive due attent;oaT
No deduction for absence, unless in easa
protracted illness. The location of this To- ~
is healthful and easy of access. The bosrJ;wHaa
department is under the Immediate cbasLs
of Mrs. Hayes. Boarders will provide thasgss
selves with blankets and towels. sAem
For particulars, address
Mrs. NJ. M, HAYES.
July @o-o'-heV2'-'9 Principal.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17


A mule story is told by DR.. William
Hammond in the Youths Compan-
ion. While stationed at Fort Webster in
what is now Arizona, he started down
the canon on a very fine and large
mule. The beast stopped abruptly
and signifed that he would not bulge
q step. Spurs were dug into his TANKS
to no purpose. There he stood as firm
as a rock. Hammond pulled him
round, and galleped back to the fort.
The next morning it was ascertained
that at a point scarcely a hundred
yards in advance of where the mule
had gained his victory seine Apache
Indians had ambushed the road, and
but for the brnte's keen nose, and
irmness in resisting an obstinate man.,
short work would have been made
of both.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

About thirty miles from Zacatecas,
In Mexico, is an immense collection of
ruins, the remains of the great city of
the Aztecs. The city was built upon
a rocky eminence which rises abrupt
" from the plain. The summit is
reached by an ancient causeway on
the northern side, which rises with an
easy slope, and is guarded by bastions
and a double wall. The whole
mountain is covered with ruins, but
chiefly on the southern side may be
traced marvellous remains of temples,
pyramids, affairs and edifices of sacri-
fee, cut from the solid reck and rising
TO the height of from 200 TO 400 feet
above the surrounding country. These
rock-built walls were formerly joined
by frail mortar, but the stenes-many
of which are twenty-five feet in thick
ness, and of corresponding height--are
held in place mainly by ther " mas
siveness.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

James r. Randall in a recent letter
to his paper, from Washington City,
gives the following bit of information !:
"A scientific gentleman here tells me
that the best oil to feed the German
student lamp is that made from cot
ton seed. / have tried all kinds of IL
Illumination, and never yet found the
equal Of a well kept student lamp"
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

A lady wore a bennet at q recent
concert with a picture of three writing
snakes painted on the back of it and
several lizards crawling around in the
flowers on top. It was 80 realistic
that d dissipated old gentleman who
had been out several times between
songs thought he had them again, and
almost tainted with fright.-EYening
Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

The authorities Of Spanish Hondu-
have made application for 1900
feet of space in the main building of
the Worlds Exposition at New Or
leans.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-17

tic You want to buy o aeW piano or
organ, come and see us. We can tell
YOU how to ave some money in such
q transaction.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-15
NOTICE OF SALE.

TN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDER OF
Il the County Court in and for Putnam coun-
ty, Florida, bearing date April 4, 1854, will
sell at public cutlery on May 9Th. 1884, being
the first Monday of said month, within the le-
gal hours of sale, at the Court House in Palat-
kfa, for cash, the following real estate, belong
ing to the minors Mabel i. Webb and Clara l..
Webb, being in said county and state, and
comprising so much of lots No. 70, private sur
yey, in Sec. II. Il. rs, Range 26 east, as remain
ed unsold after deed February 9, 1876, of
Thompson and Webb to George f. Marvin.
Also a part of Section II. T. Is, S. r.. % E.,
bought at sheriff sale in July, 1874, portion
the remnants of the said two lots of land and
containing about nine acres of land. more or
less. Dated this, April T. 1884.
E. S. GRILL, Commissioner.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-15

late these; do not let us have the
party in power train up citizens in
the way they should vote, as well as
officers in the way they should
fight. We want no Prussia on this
continent; better the unlearned
countrymen who have proved them
selves patriots in the ''times that
tried mems souls than the polished
son of despotism however learned.
The freeborn son of the soil, though
he be illiterate, is a nobler man in
Gods sight than the specialized
German professor who talks ten
languages and bows the knee to a
despot; the rustic youth who never
saw teacher, has in him a germ of
growth for the future promising
more fruit to good uses than the
most learned college graduate OF
Jena or Heidelberg who takes books
for Nature and has mistaken doubt
for freedom of thought The poll
tician belongs to dangerous race.
Timeo Dana0s ct dona ferentes.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-15

We asked the Pensacolian to give
us some good logic against consti-
tutional convention. The answer
shows it has the manliness to ac-
knowledge an error. The editor
would have found the logic had it
been in existence. 1t says:
Will our friend of the Palatka DAILY
NEWS, whom we esteem very highly,
please, on the Convention Question, pom
der on our puzzled will that
''-makes us rather bear these ills we
have,
Than fly to others that we know not OFF,
The native hue of our resolution lis
sicklied DER with the pale cast of thought y
and don't like to tackle such enterprises
of great pith and moment"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-15
THE NEW JAIL.

IF public opinion can have weight
with our authorities the building of
new jail is assured. Nothing
shows fairer augury for the future
wellbeing of our county than the
fact that in such a movement as
this, all parties and shades of polit-
ical opinion can work together for
a common object. Not only have
prominent democrats and county Of
ticiaIs endorsed the necessity of a
new jail, but many citizens also, and
some leading republicans. At the
head of these last stands Major
TeasdaIe, the chairman of the re-
publican executive committee. This
gentleman has an influence most po-
tent in his own party, and COM
mands the sincere respect of all
classes. This he pledges III support
of the movement, and wishes the
work God speed. Every democrat
who has spoken will do likewise; let
citizens throughout the county
speak now, and bring to bear a
weight of public opinion which will
raise the new jail as the harp Of the
god did the walls of Troy. 1t is a
work holding place in our heart
next to the Peoples Pension List,
and little less dear. The county is
out of debt, but even if it were not
the jail must be built. 1t is be-
lieved that the money necessary
could be raised by private subscrip-
ton, but this would not lift the re-
proach from the county. The PEG
PIE MUST DO IT; and to ensure pub
lie action let the citizen speak. Our
columns are open to the discussion,
but WE MUST HAVE A JAIL THAT
| WILL NOT DISGRACE US.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-15
The Philadelphia Times.
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THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. 1884

THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 1884.
The TIMES will enter upon the new year
stronger and more prosperous than ever be-
fore in its history more widely read and
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
hercely criticized, with a more complete Or
ganiZatiOn, and an able ssOtf of contributor
and with the same independence and fearless
ness that has made it successful and powerful
i'll the past
dates to advance, but will meet every issue, as
it has ever done, with consistent devotion to
lie welfare. And, while maintaining its posi-
ton as the leading journal of Philadelphia, it
viii aim to be continually in the advance in all
that can add value to a newspaper.
The value of a newspaper is not in its size or
display, but in the intelligence and care, the
cOnciSeness and freshness with which it is
from all parts of the world, but all its dis
patches are carefully edited and condensed, in
order TO give the complete news of the day in
the most concise and attractive shape, and with
1t large variety OF entertaining ana 1nStruc-
tive reading. The best writers at home and
abroad are employed to enrich its columns.
and TO make it a journal adapted both to the
busy man and to the leisure of the home cir
Gle, welcome visitor to intelligent and honest
citizens of every political, religious and social
taste.
THE WEEKLY TIMES is altogether different
from the weekly newspapers of twenty years
ago. The day of those papers have gone by.
The telegraph and better local newspapers
everywhere especially in the thriving centres
of rural population, have made the old weekly
metropolitan newspaper unSatiSfyfng. Those
that cling to their ancient usages have lost
their hold on our fOrward-mOving people: they
are but shadows of their former greatness and
they have but a shadow of their former power
Those papers have had their usefulness, but it
is gone: and with il. they are going. too It
was not the fault of the papers; it was the i'm
prOyement of the country that brought about
the change. Men and women, wherever they
live, now require fresher news; and they re-
Quire more than news
THE WEEKLY TIMES gathers of the types of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest to the people at large, and sets it before
them in such generosity of paper and print as
would have astOnished us ali twenty yeors ago
DAIIY-TwelVe cents week. fifty cents p
month, Sc year, two cents copy.
SUNDAY-Four cents a copy, So a year.
WEEkIY-0ne copy. 81 d year; five copies
SIS year: ten copies, SIS year; twenty cop
les SIS year, with one copy free to the getter-
up of every club.
THE TINES
PHILADELPHIA.