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The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11

How do you pronounce s-t-ln-g-yp
asked the teacher of the Ounce Of the
class. The boy replied: 1T depends
q great deal on whether the word
refers TO a person or a bee"
MY daughter, you ought to have
some aim in life" said a father to his
thoughtless 16-year-old. 20, / am
going to, papa" was the enthusiastic
reply. II have got my beau already
"A conundrum fiend asks: "What is
the difference between Italy and a boy
who has a penchant for shining up
trees?" AS Ii we didn't know that one
Isl sunny clime and the other 4 climb-y
son.
Alas! with the virtues of the domi-
nant race, the red Indian also absorbs
its vices. We weep to think OF the
gilded misery that frontier tribe which
has organized a baseball nine is laying
up for itself.
a San Francisco naturalist sent a
nice cage and a wagon to a friends
house for a fine specimen Of ground
hog that was offered him. He received
q sausage, and it took him three days to
see the joke.
Why is this butter like Sampson Z
asked the spruce young man who tends
the ribbon counter. But the landlady
looked sternly 1T him, remaraing /:
You'd butter settle last weeks bill,
and the cream of the joke was lost.
Little Emma came running into the
parlor, where her mother was enter
tanning young Mr.. Duder until Miss
Mary could complete her toilet and
come down stairs. and crie1 out: "Oh,
mammal Johnny is dot Mary's tcet
and won't give EN- to her.
In Japan women make their i,ge
known BY certain styles Of w~earingthe
hair. In this country they don't.
When an American woman wear her
hair over the back Of achair at night,
The style doesn't indicate whether she
" 4w.,nx4x $50 ~ afk.y ..aaws ~ orc h,,f
the probabilities are that she is.
aIf you don't SEQ what you want,
ask for it, is the sign displayed over
THE bar In i Bradford saloon. And
when q man went in and asked pay
ment On d biz that had been running
for six months, he was run out the
front door. He Is now Of the opinion
that saloon keepers are not consistent
-Bradford Mai.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11

AS there are some flowers which you
should smell but slightly to extract al
that is pleasant in them, and which, If
you do otherwise, emits what IS I'M
pleasant and noxions, SO there are
some men with whom . slight ac-
q~uaintanee is quite sufficient to draw
out al that is agreeable: a more init
mate one would be unsatisfactory and
unsafe.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11
The Bas.yass Tree.

One of the most remarkable trees
belonging to the genus Ficus is the
famous banyan, whose extraordinary
habit of growth and enormous proper
tions so much astonish those whose
idea of a large. tree has been
formed from what we in Europe con-
slider giant forest trees. The banyan,
whose spreading, bowery roof, beneath
which whole villages of huts find
shade and shelter, is supported by gi-
gantic pillar-like props, formed by de-
scending aerial roots, which, on reach
ing the ground, assume the appearance
and perform the functions Of separate
trunks. The following extract from
Tenants 'Ceylon" gives an interest
ing account of the peculiar habits o
the tree, which in many parts of India
is held sacred by the natives: ?
GAS we ascend the hills, the banyans
and a variety of figs make their ap-
pearance. They are the Thugs of the
vegetable world; for although not nee,
e~ssarily epiphytic, it may be said that,
in point Of fact, no single tree comes
to perfection, or acquires even partial
development, without the destruction
of some other on which to fix itself a
its supporter. The family generally
make their appearance as slender
roots, hanging from the crown or
trunk of some other tree, generally a
palm, among the moist bases OF whose
leaves the seed, carried thither by some
bird which had fed upon the fig, begins
to terminate. This root, branching as
it deseends, envelopes the trunk of the
supporting tree with a network OF
wood, and at length, penetrating the
ground, attains the dimensions of o
stem; but, unlike a stem, it throws
out no buds, leaves, or flowers. The
true stem, with its branches, its foil
age. and fruit springing upward from
the crown of the tree, whence the root
is seen descending. and from it ISSUE
the pendulous rootlets. which on reach
ing the earth fix themselves firmly and
form the marvellous growth for which
the banyan is so celebrated. In the
depths of this grove the original tree
is ~incarcerated, till, literlly strangled
by the folds and weight of its resistless
companionsHodies, and leaves the fig
in undisturbed possession of its place
It is not unusual to find a fig tree in
the forest which had been thus up
borne till it became a standard, now
forming a hollow cylinder, the center
OF which was once filled by a sustain
ing tree, but the empty walls form a
circular network of interlaced roots
and branches firmly agglutinatine
under pressure, and admitting the
light through interstices that look Tx
loopholes in a turret."
Deep twilight always prevails under
the shade of the spreading foliage.
through which not a ray of bright
light can pierce. and the awe and
dread with which the Buddhist villa.
gers regard this sacred tree is very in
telligible. In the Wood Museum at
Kew there is a fine specimen Of a palm
trunk, upon which the strangling
growth of a banyan's roots is well
shown. The remarkable way in which
the roots become united to each other
at every point where they touch is oh
servable in the specimen just named.
Scientific american.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11

The United States Fish Commission
has made the experiment Of trans
planting full-groWn HOLSTERS, taken at
the eastern end Of Long Island, to
Chesapeake Bay. The result remains
ID be seen.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11
a Hospseszg FOR Amfsseafs.

The PinTapool, Or hospital for ami
mails, IS . large Enclosure Or series Of
Enclosures. literally provided with
sheds and pens. writes correspondent
grom Bombay. India.
re entered at j gate where many
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11
Frfesszgship.

ErtessSEsEsip.
Gh, fcur-and-twenty carats fine
The gold Of that friends love,
Who, when his presence lacketh mime
Doth still, as in it, move.
No smile, o. look, or willy word.
So jarring with my heart
That, ifby chance, / saw or heard,
A pang would bid me start.
Charlotte Fiske Bates,
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11

have secured the services of Mr. Walton
druggist, and viii be prepared to fill all pre-.
scripfions at any time, and give prompt
attention to all matters in my line of bust
uess. / respectfully solicit a share of the
public patronage.
R.. M. LTTTELL,
Proprietor.
Opelousas, Sept. 6, 1881.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11
HUMOROUS.
AS UsuE

AS UsUK
Low the angler drops his hook
In tbs shady purling brook;
4ndhe waiteth for bite,
From the morning till the night
But the bite it cometh not,
And he curseth at his II
Still homeward doth he HE
With a most enormous Ii
The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11

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The Opelousas courier., 1884-10-11

Ibaye lust purchased Mayo's drug store,
andam now supplying it with a large and
well selected stock of Fresh
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
a Maryland Convent Scandal.

BALTIMORE, April IA sensation has
been accustomed in Roman Catholic circles by
the announcement that Sister Inez of the
Catholic sisterhood had escaped from the
convent at Annapolis, MI, and had made Il
serious complaint against the sister in charge
OF that institution. Sister Inaz is hand
some blonde girl Of IS years, and Is a sister Of
Mrs, Laura Farmer, highly respected lady
of this city. Her name prior to entering the
convent was Mary Magdalene Windsor She
had been two years in the convent On the
night Of Jan. IS last she escaped in
the full dress of the sisterhood and sought
refuge at her sisters house, where she now
is. Sister lAez says she became disguised
at the conduct Of the sisters at the convent.
She proposes to reveal all, and will give
names and prove all she says. She alleges
that threats have been made to kill her if she
tells what she knows; Yet, notwithstanding
this, she will speak out freely, as she says she
wishes II warn people against convent life.
She says she left the convent for the reason
that she could not remain and witness the
sclndalOus conduct of the sisters
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14

WASHINGTON CRY, April l4.--At special
campfire Of the Grand Army of the Republic.
held in commemorati0n of the operations
against Vcksburg, Gen. Hawley presided
and amonS the distinguished guests present
We're the president, Gen. Grant, Secretary
Lincoln. Gen, Logan and Others. Tie presi-
dent was received with great en-
thuSiaSm. as were the other noted
gentlemen, especially Gen Grant The lat
ter walking with the aid Of a cruteh, en-
tered the hall at the head of the invited
guests. He was greeted with the widest ap-
Flause, the assembly rising and sending forth
cheer after cheer, and continuing the ovation
until the general had taken his place on the
platform
Gen. Logan delivered au interesting ad-
dress on the movements of the army which
ended in the capture of Viclsburg. and sew
oral other speeches were made, which
brought hack to the minds OF thoss present
the stirring times of the war for the Union
After the assemblage had sung Marching
Through Georgia" Gen. Grant was called fol
and responded in short speech in which b..
said that it was the intention OF President
Lincoln to have left Vicksburg alone aud
operate with the army on the lower river in
conjunction with Gen. Banks, but that the
orders came too late, and that the president
afterward admitted that his plan was mis-
take, and offered Gen. Grant an apology.
Gen. Grant added: We have had men to
occupy the position that lie did who probably
made more mistakes than he, but never ad-
mittcd them"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
NOT so BAD AS REPORTED.
The southern Floods Not Serious
The Cotton Crop Probably safe.

WASHINGTON CITY, April 14-The secre
tary of war has received telegram from
Maj Stickney, of the engineer corps of New
Orleans, as follows: a have returned from
my inspection of the levees The whole
levee along the TenSls parish front is badly
broken. The grade was much too low for this
food and the water has poured over the tops
of the leyees for miles. There are 10 breaks
in the COncoriia parish front except on Lake
Concordia, where the levee is small. The
overflow in both parishes is not as deep as in
1882, by from three to four feet. From the
Red river to Profit island a strong fight is
being made and no breaks have occurred.
The river has fallen three feet at Nichs-
burg, one and seven-tenths at Natchez one
at Baton Rouge, and one at New Orleans
from the highest point The backwater or
overflow in Tensas and COncOriia has fallen
eight TO tweives inches or more in the upper
part. The situation is more encouraging
than could have been expected two weeks
ago. and it seems very probable that the cot
ton crop may be raised in Tensas and Concor-
dia. 1t is not probable that any further
break will occur
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
THE LEADING TOPIC.
Who are To Be the Standard Bearers
of the Great Parties.
An Ohio Man Who Thinks Arthur
Will BE One--Two views of Til
den'sPositiou-- Democratic
Issues Points.

CHICAGO, April 1.-THE News publishes
an interview with a member of congress from
Ohio at Washington, in which the congress
man was asked:
You think, then, that the president will
be nominatedi7
Yes. y good many people are fighting
him in New York now because they have
been led to think he was ready to fight them.
They imagine they are vindicating somebody
or Furnishing somebody, when. as a matter OF
fact they are simply robbing New York OF
the presidency and trying to put out a good
man To make room for an experiment After
a while they will see this themselves, and
they will see it the sooner from the fact that
no enc is abusing them fer their conduct
They have no favOrite for the place-that is,
they are united upon no one On the con
tray, they viii disagree the moment they
attempt to unite, and As they discuss
this one ana that one will find
a hundred objections 70 any candidate
named. They will 60 to the con-
vention with no well-founded prejudicas
against Arthur, many OF them indeed favor
able to him, though elected as Etmunds men,
and as the matter is discussed ami reflected
upon they viii make up their minds that the
man who is a good fellow, a good president,
ana a citizen of their own state, ought t.
have their support, They will see that the
man to create harmony is the man who has
restored harmony, and that, go where
they will, they can do no better;
and it will be in other states as in New York
Talk as we may, we cannot find is good s
candidate for the office or the party, all
things considered, as Chester \. Arthur
VIII he have any delegates from Ohio!7
YES. He viii have number at the out
SCI, and a reserve force that viii come in
through the conviction that he is the most
available man
"Wlll Your own district send delegates for
him!T
Three weeks ago | would have said no;
to-day believe it will. They will probably
not be instructed for him but they will sup
port him
On the other hand, a Democratic member
remarked in the house that the Republicans
would not nominate Arthur He Is too
much OF a reformer for the machinists who
run the party, he said, aud they viii never
consent man must not be too id honest
and respectable if he wants to win the prize
NOWADAYS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
issues for the DEMOCRATS.

New YORK, April 1.-THE World pub.
fishes replies from Governor Hoadly. of
Ohio, and Governor Jackson, of West Vir-
ginia, to inquiries concerning the issues for
the next presidential campaign.
Governor Hoadly says: The issues upon
which the presidential campaign ought to be
conducted are necessity OF reform of abuses
enGeudered by long continued Republican
miSgovernment, for economy in public ex-
penditure, and the restoration Of the con-
stitution Of the United States to its right
full supremacy. Absolute free trade i.
at present an inpossibilty. Any tariff neces-
sarily affords incidental protection to d.
nestle manufacturers Of the articles it EN-.
braces, but protection should be an incident
rather than the object. A tariff levied only
for public uses means a tariff exclu-
siyely on articles which are not
produced in the United States, such
as tea and coffee. | favor a tariff
for revenue, avoiding monopoliss, but
carefully discriminating 50 as to encourage
labor, and as far as possible so constructed in
Intelligent details as 70 give relief to oppressed
commerce, and restore the American flag to
the seas, but not to shock or rudely disturb
invested capital. This is the Ohio platform
on which we carried Ohio last fall; and with
Tilden or Payne as candidate, We can carry
it again this year
Governor Jackson's views are: Il am not
in favor of making the tariff an issue of the
presidential campaign. l believe the issue
should be reform in government ami restor-
alton Of the republic, to be brought about
by an absolute change at Washington. be-
lieve there should be a modification of the
existing tariff, but I am opposed to the
passage of the Morrison bill By. the house. l
am in favor of the Ohio platform-tarifT for
revenue with incidental protection-as the
wisest policy to unite the Democracy for a
national victory, l believe that large
majority Of the Democrats Of this state are
in accord with the above views
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14

ROsToS, Mas, April iL-Wiliiam A
Paine, secretary of the Committee Of share
holders of the Pacific bank, said that on Tues
lay last serious charges against Comptroller
Knox were forwarded 10 the Louse commit
tee on banking and currency in Washington.
which is now investigating the affairs Of the
bank. These charges are four in number
and contain new evidence duplicating Comp
troller Knox. At the time previous to the
hearing before the house committee
On banking and currency We had been
too much hurried, owing to the death Of
Ives and the change in our coun-
sci to put these later charges il proper form,
50 we delayed their presentation until now in
order to make them complete in every detail,
both as regards the implications and the
evidence supporting them. l am not al
liberty to say what these charges are. They
are very damaging TO Knox, however. and
are abundantly supported by incoutestibia
proofs
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Carl Schurz expects to deliver fifty
lectures in New England next season.
Juan B. Patron, ex-speaker of the
new Mexican legislature, was assasinated at
Las Vegas BY cowboy.
Professors Morse and Richards, OF
Yale college, have left New Haven TO walk
TO Philadelphia aud back
Two men, charged with haTing ez-
plosive bombs in their possession have been
arrested, one at Birkenbead Station ard the
other at Birmingham.
Miss Mary Mcclellan, daughter OF
Gen. Mcclellan, appeared at an entertain
ment in Washington with eleven bouquets,
tie tributes of her admirers.
The Fourteenth Pennsylvania dis
trict elected delegates to Chicago who were
required to sign pledge to vote for Blaine
as long IS he was candidate.
Lindley Muse is the oldest Official in
point Of service III America. He is the mes
senger of the secretary of the navy. and has
filled that position since the year ISIS.
Mr.. Judge, of Lighthall, according
to The London Truth, has sold three Hereford
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14

Mitch Nancy. The affray occurred in a
saloon, and there was absolutely no provoca-
ton for the killing, which can only be at
tributed to whisky and sheer recklessness.
The murderer is being brought here in
charge of no less than twenty sheriffs, as his
desperate character is 50 well known, and
bis friends are so numerous that an attempt
at his rescue was considered more than prob
able. The excitement here is running high,
and threats are rife of lynchiug the prisoner
oni his arrival Patron was very popular,
and leaves a wife and several children.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
Five Hours of Singing.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 14-Mr William
Sheriff, the "Pruss.aH, and Mr. John Welsh
engaged in one Of the most stubborn contests
on record IN this city. The men were
matched to fight TO a finish, the stakes being
$3.50 a side. The fight started at o'cIock in
the afternoon and was not concluded for five
hours and six minutes, during which time
seventy three rounds were fought At the
end Of three hours both Of the men were
badly used up, being bruised, swollen ard
bleeding, but the contest was continued
After fighting another thirty minutes
Welsh, who was the freshest OF the two, al
though he had three fingers broken
and another dislocated, succeeded in
badly Furnishing his antagonist, who
seemed also fresh, but it was
not lacked by strength enough to cause
Wels h to withdraw. After the fifth hour
the fighters staggered at each other and let
harmless blows fall on each others swollen
and bruised bodies. After a conference be
tween the seconds and referee 1t was decided
at the conclusion of tie seventy-thiri round
to postpone the finish until another time,
and the two men were removed to their
homes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
The Bankers to Congress.

CINCINNATI, April 1.-THE correspondent
at Washington City of The Enquirer tele-
graphs: A petition full of meat was pre-
sented to the house from a number of officers
of national banks in Pennsylvania, New Yorhs
and Minnesota The petitioners say they
realize that they probably waste their tinle
in memorializing congress because it is OBJ
vious that this congress does not intend doing
anything in the matter; that the present re-
quirement affecting deposits to secure circu-
latiOn makes business Improbable, however,
and that if nothing is done they will retury
to the state system, and give up their char
tiers as rapidly as their charters expire 'FoI
some strange reason writes President Mar
vine, Of the Delaware National bank,
Delphi, \. Y, congress seems bent on find
ing out how much squeezing We viii stand
and if the past is any evidence, it viii con
tinue doing so until the system is ruined. u
is true some new banks are starting, but they
are mostly managed by inexperienced men
who, ike many congressman, think they
know more about the business Of banking
than old bankers. After short trial they
will also leave the system
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
Liquor License Trouble in Omaha

OMAHA, Feb, April 14-An injunction has
been served on the mayor restraining him
from signing liquor licenses for less time
than one year. The Nebraska legislature
three years ago passed law making license
for Sl,O00, and giving city councils power TO
regulate issue of permits. The object
Of the law was to freeze out
disreputahle dealers by demanding the
entire fee in advance This has been de-
feated by the Omaha city council enacting
ordinance allowing the tax to be paid in
quarterly installments- The matter will now
be taken into the courts, and will probably
result in an overthrow OF the statute This
would entail a lost of 100000 yearly to the
school fund of this city. The dealers tried
/ to combine last week AMI refuse to make ap-
plication for new licenses, but the pool was
broken by hotel-keepers. Every saloon in
the city selling tonight is without license,
the Old ones expiring to-day and the author
tiles being power.eSs to grant renewals
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-14
Rather EmharraSSiug

WASHINGTON CITY, April 1.-THE Star
has the following news from the Sage of
Gramercy Park: In private letter received
by gentleman of this city from prominent
southern Democrat, who expects to be
delegate from his state to the
National Democratic convention, the writer
says that the other day he had an
hours confidential talk with Ex-Governor
Tlden. He called upon Mr.. 1ilden to urge
him to consent to his nomination for the
presidency, and assured him of cordial and
almost unanimous support in the convention
from the south. The writer Of the letter
gives it as his honest conviction, based upon
the conversation referred to, that Mr. Tilden
will not accept the nomination under any
circumstances
A Democatic senator, who recently visited
Mr.. Tilden, in New York, said to Star re-
porter: Il assure you, candidly, that Mr.
Tilden's health is as good as yours or mine.
He has never suffered any general attack of
paralysis. His left arm is partially paralyzed,
and some Of the organs Of the throat also.
The latter affects his voice, but Tilden's gen.
eral health is good
This senator believes that Mr.. Tilden will
be nominated, and that ct the proper time
he will assent to his nomination.