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The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

AVant peu les ehemins de fer
6lev6s a New-York segont mus
par p6lectricite, de Ia a en- venir
q mOuvoir DIES navires il ny a
uu'un pas qui sans doute sera
ayant pen franchi par Ping6nuit6
humaine.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

Nogges dams ane citeype.-A
1shenre du souper lundi soir, M.
g. Burk, de Gordon, Ark, fut
Atsacass6 de ne pas voir rentrer
SD femme ct sa petite file. On
Sc nit q les chercher partout eft
apres de tongues perquisitions
on trouva les deux malheureuses
mov6es dams une citerne.
La snpposition est que Penfant
v sera tomb6e la premiere ct que
Iii mere aura voulu la secourir.
Une fois entr6e, ellie ma pu en-
sortiR ct toutes les deux ont peri
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

~ Notice :. Tickets are Ten Dollars Only
Halves SIS, Fifths Sc, Tennis ST..
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

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ANNOUNCEMENT vera d $3.50 par an,
payable dtavance, on trois piastres dams le
courant de pannEe.
LES AVIS Sc paieront ~cinquante cents par
carr6 pour Ia premiere Insertion ct vingt-cinq
cents par earf6 pour ehaque insertion suhse-
Quente. HUT lignes IN moins c~onstitueront
un earr6.
Les avis qui seront enVoy6s pour atre publ
es seront ins6res en- Francais ct On Anglais q
m0ins quill men soft autrement ordonn6l JUS
qua &c quo p6diteur juge q propos de les dis
contiRuer.
Les candidats au1 fayeurs publiqnes de
vronb payer qufnze piastres d'aVance, s'ils
veHlent 30 faire announcer.
Les n6crologes, les lettres dc renerciment
les rGelames, les communications dun genre
personnel, ete.s Sc paieront an taux des avis
Les articlesdsune nature personnelletquan
t0utefois lis serout admissibIesl Sc paier0nt
viDgt cents Ia hgne cit d'avance.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16
ST MARY's ACADEMY

IN . q ~ 86 90 %@N@
OPELOUSAS, LA.
The course of instruction in this Fnstitu-
ton embraces English, French. Latin, Greek,
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Book-keep-
ing, Natural Sciences, History. Geography,
P~enmanship, and great care is bestowed on
Christian Instruction.
TERMS Board and tuition per month $la ;
Day Scholars per month, 90, 50 or "a, &C
cording to class. Glasses are resumed on the
first Monday Of October:
Rev. G.. RAYMOND, d, D.,
Rev. f. j. RAYMOND,
HENRY G.. LEWIS,
A. BLANC DUoUEsNAT.
Aug %, 1884.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

HE ID for working people. Send 10 cts post
HUIL age, and We will mail you free, a royal,
valuable sample box Of goods that will put you
in the way of making more money in a few days
than you ever thought possible at any business.
Capital not required. You can live at home and
work in spare time only, or all the time. All of
both sexes, Of alI ages, grandly successful SOC
to $5 easily earned every evening. That allwho
want work may test the business, we make this
unparalleled offer: To oil who are not well satis-
fed we will send $I 10 pay for the trouble Of
writing ua. Full particulars, directions, etc,
sent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all
who start at once. Don't delay. Address
49, sTINsoa & Co, Portland, Maine
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

EEA
n via peu de iours, Mile Marie
MarkheE vint q Chicago avec dix
chars charges dc b9tes d comes,
valiant 4 peu pres $4,000, ele-
wees sur sa ferme, situee a Wala
Wala, dams lie Territoire de
Washington, a une distance
de 2500 miles. Ellie dit avoir
tres bien support6 lie voyage,
dorrli profond6ment toutes les
nnits, bien qu'elle ait en- d Sc
Iever fr6quement pour faire Sc
relever les animaHx qui, autre-
ment. eussent etc 6cras6s par
ceux rest6s debout. 81 cette
expedition est profitable, ellie
cOrapte Cd exp6dier 400 autres.
Gette demoiselle, qui est ag6e
da pen pres trente-cinq ans, est
aIerte OF intelligence ct ne mani
feste aucune inclination de ma
riage.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

Romans fraDeais par Pigault- Lebrun,
Alexis Bowler. Alexandra Dumas,
Eugene Sue, ETC., a vendre au Star
Grocery q des prix au-dessous de ceux
6a IL Nonvelle. Orleans.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-16

Une investigation r6cente,
:prouve que d'annee en- aimee,
reeve des bestiaux tie des pores
dininue dams tout lie Sud ct
qu.en consequence cette region
est forc6 denvoyer au Nord ct
dams pOuest, une somme annu-
efIe de plus en- plus considerable.
Csest Ie cas- sp6cialement.en Lou
isiane ct dams lie Mississippi. Des
experts pr6tendent, ct nous SOM
mes de leur avis, Que r6leVe peut
Sire fait a bien meillenr marche
dams le Sud que paRtout ailleurs,
va Ia douceur du climat ct la
psrmRnence pressure complete du
patarage. ]
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14

kingdom, but il has never men.
toned, or, till now, heard them
mentioned as labor supply for the
plantations. They are wanted here
to take up lands to cultivate on
their own account.
Mrs. Peasc, of Micronesia, at the
recent meeting of the Woman's
Board in Boston, brought out n
curious illustration of Gods appar-
emily circuitous method of answering
prayer. The Christians in the Sand
wich Islands, dependent upon the
"NIorning Star" for their mails.
which came TO many of them but
once year, allowed no day to 90
by without remembering the ship in
their prayers, and when some of
them beheld its wreck, and the
others in time heard of it, il seemed
to the native Christians at first as
though their prayers had been un-
heard, or at least unheeded; but
when they learned that the Ameri-
can churches had provided the
steamer "Morning Star" for the
sailing vessel, they changed their
minds, and concluded that the
wreck of the one vessel, which pre-
pared the way for the construction
of the other, was better answer to
their prayers than their largest
hopes had anticipated Christian
Union.
The lady must have been wrongly
reported, or got her geography
mixed. To represent the Sandwich
Islands as getting only one mail a
year by mission vessel may "dam-
age the treaty.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14

requires q few hours in the tropical
sun. The drying process, however,
is allowed to 90 on from day to
day. and the dust. muck, manure
and debris become thoroughly pull
verified. The trade winds come
tearing down the valley or in from
the ocean, and a large portion OF
every hillock of pulvcrized dirt IS
taken up in shovclfuls, carried
through the air and hurled pell-mcll
into the faces of all mcddlesomc
citizens who never would he satisfied
while the dirt was left undisturbed
under their feet. On those streets
along which the scraping up business
has been prosecuted during the past
week, the flying dirt has been abso-
lutely terrible. 1t seems, too, TO be
impossible to get to windward of the
dirt-laden breezes, for the hillocks
have been so ingeniously placed
that from whatever art the wind
blows, there is no avoiding the in
Fiction. Not only is the air charged
with the pulverized accommodations
of the streets, but the hillocks of
dirt are, many of them, re-spread
by the gales over the places whence
they came, to be scraped up again
in more disintegrated condition, only
to be the more easily whirled about
by the breezes of a subsequent day.
After the hillocks have lain long
enough, to be effective for the pur-
poses above specified, cart comes
along and takes what is left of them
away. And this is cleaning the
streets in Honolulu. If the plan is
not unique in its originality, it is
surely unique in its ingenuity, that
is, if it has been adopted with a
view to Furnishing the citizens for
previous insubordination.
We have only single suggestion
to make, and perhaps, the contrac-
TIM party, Mr.. Kaiaikwaha, may be
| discreet enough to adopt it. Its
plain practicability may, however,
be fatal to its adoption. But we
shall hope for the best, and will
demand no fees for the advice. II
is,-Do not scrape up dirt any
faster than it can be carted away
and cart it away as fast as it can be
scraped up.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14

America, especially in 80 Western
States-the life is too C, 80.
have ventured to ASK you to
favor me, at your early convenience,
with such information as may seem
applicable to the views | have put
forth, and any further information
regarding present prices, cost of
living, currency, customs duties,
house rent, servants, servants
wages, and the industries now
existing.
Capital brings so little return in
this country, and the shrinkage of
values is so great, that l am resolved
to make my home elsewhere; but
wherc?-at present l cannot say.
Having been the world over, there
is no place / can choose for climate,
geniality and social surroundings,
that pleases my mind to dwell upon,
more than your own.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14
A VALUABLE WORK.

Department of the Interior-U. 5.
Geological Survey; j. w. Powell,
Director. HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES,
by Capt. Clarence Edward Dut-
ton, Ordnance Corps U. S. A
Extract from the Fourth Annual
Report of the Director-19S2-S3.
Washington: Government Print
ing Office, 1884.
Hawaiian Volcanoes " makes a
volume of 219 large octave pages.
1t is handsomely printed on heavy
calendered paper, is divided into
thirteen chapters, and contains thirty
illustrations, including six maps and
three diagrams. Chapter l. treats
of the geography of the Hawaiian
Islands. Mentioning the unmistak-
able volcanic origin OF the whole
group, Capt. Dutton cites recent
decp-sca soundings as having dis
closed the fact that these volcanic
piles are only the SUBMITS of gigan-
tic mountain masses rising suddenly
from the bottom of the Pacific,
which for many hundreds of miles
around them is only moderately
diversified" A submarine chain
of mountains is presumed to con-
tinue from these Islands, many hum
drcd miles to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
of Kauai, the evidence being minute
islands and shoals strung along ut
intervals of fifty to hundred miles,
and remarkably uniform depth of
$500 to 3,100 fathoms being found,
about 800 to 500 miles south of this
prcsumptive range, by the soundings
of III. B. NJ. S. Challenger in 1875,
extending from Japan to the Ha-
waiian Islands.
In mentioning the two sole points
of volcanic activity remaining on
tbc Mauna Loa and Kilau-
ca. on Hawaii--the author hypothe'
tically discusses the antiquity of the
volcanoes now extinct, without APP
preaching any definite conclusion
Mauna Loa, the great mountain, "
is certainly the king OF modern
volcanoes" he says. " No other
in the world approaches it in the
vastness of its mass or in the mag
nitude of its eruptive activity. There
are many volcanic peaks higher in
air, but they are usually planted
upon elevated platforms, where they
appear as mere cones Of greater or
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14
INQUIRIES ABROAD.--CHANCES TO ''iN-
CREASE THE NATION"

Following are extracts from
private letter written by gentleman
in England and formerly resident
of this Kingdom, addressed to the
Rev. DR.. Damon, the writer not
having been informed, at the time of
writing, of the doctors deceased
being great traveller, am fire.
quently referred to for reliable in
formation and advice, by people who
wish to change their home, and by
others who are interested in finding
an outlet for members of their fami-
lies. In country like England,
with younger sons always coming on
to the stage of life, with families
broken by depression in trade or
other decay of means, it becomes a
serious question when asked, "Where
shall we go?" To the young men
with plenty of energy and very little
money, recommend Texas. They
can rough it. To the man of family
and of some means unable to rough
it, but requiring to find place to
begin afresh for the sake of his
children, recommend fruit farming,
because few acres are sufficient,
outlay small, and labor not labori-
Gus; in fact, to many such farm
would be no more than garden
about their house. l have always
considered that an orange grove
would be very profitable affair in
your islands, and have urged friends
to go in for that do their best in
growing marketable fruits till the
trees are orange-bearing. My diff
Guilty is in giving my friends correct
information as to the present state
of affairs in your islands in regard
to facilities to obtain land, whether
by free grant, purchase from Gov
eminent, or private owners, and If
leased from Government, what term
of years; for if only for Fl years, it
would not answer to eXpend money
in planting trees that will not bear
for . years, or be in full bearing for
8 OF 10 years. 1t has appeared to
me that your islands offer fair field
of retirement for class of refined
people here, who cannot keep up
that position in life that they have
been bred to and who are totally unfit
/! for farming or cattle ranchlng in
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14

with O statement of the advanced
social organization the Hawaiians
possessed when Capt. Cook visited
them, of their feudal land tenure
then, and the change made to fee
simple, with record title, as n
consequence of the social revolution
effected by the American mission
aries. High praise is given to Pro-
fessor Alexander, for his admins
tration of the survey of the Islands
necessary under the new order to
establish mctes and bounds.
Succeeding chapters of the work
recount Capt. buttons explorations
of volcanic phenomena on Hawaii,
Maui and Oahu, particularly of the
active volcanoes on the first-named
island. Hc gives many side glimpses
of Hawaiian customs, with other IT.
formation calculated to delight as
well as instruct, so that, although
his treatise may be shelved among
the proverbially dry ''pub. docs"
continually issuing from the Govern
ment press of q great country, it is
at the same time an intensely read
able account of travel and scientific
investigation, both to those who are
familiar with the ground gone over
and to those who are not.
In the eleventh chapter the ''Pro-
blem of the Volcano" is discussed
too deliberately to be followed in q
newspaper review. The author,
however, although hopeful that a
solution is not impossible, leaves the
question still mystery. He holds
that earth-lifting and volcanic action
are associated phenomena. Eruptive
agencies of undiscovered origin are
raised from varying depths near
enough to the earth's surface to
break through. What causes the
expansion; where the heat is gener-
ated, or, if primordial, where it is
stored, and what in either case re-
leases its action, are questions form
ing rather complicated mystery.
Oahu island has the closing chap
ter to itself, with a map, also good
illustrations of the Nuuanu Pail and
Diamond Head. Some of the other
engravings in the work are very
fine, views of volcanic and other
scenery being bound to arrest the
| attention of the student of nature
wherever they meet his eye. An en-
chanting picture is that of forest
scenery at Puma. This treatise of
Capt. Dutton upon the leading
physical peculiarities of these Islands
their volcanoes-will undoubtedly
take permanent place among the
tones of Hawaiian lore, which are
by no means despicable either in
variety or quality. Messrs. j. M.
Dat & Co., booksellers, supply the
work to the Island public.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14

satisfactorily worked out by any
country, it viii in most eases pro-
badly he only waste of energy for
other countries, under conditions
approximately similar, to begin the
solution of the same question by
entirely original methods. This
seems to have been the view taken
by both the Congress of the United
States and the Legislature of lla-
wall, regarding postal savings banks.
Both pronounced the thing good.
There the American statesmen
paused. Whether they delayed CIV
inc effect to their expressed opin-
ion. through indisposition TO disturb
vested interests of shareholders in
existing institutions for outstanding
the savings of the people, or for
other reasons, is beyond our know
ledge. The Hawaiian Legislators,
however, carried their ideas out to
the point of consummation so far as
their power went. They passed, at
the last session, an Act providing
for the establishment of postal
savings bank in this kingdom. Here
there was novested right concerned,
for the one bank then in existence
had abandoned its savings branch,
in anticipation of the Inauguration
of the postal system. The Act was
approved under the royal sign
manual nearly sixteen months ago,
but as vet nothing has been done
by the Executive toward giving the
law effect. Therefore, this must be
added to the category of matters in
which the Government has assumed
to please itself as to whether the
carefully deliberated legislation of
the peoples representatives should
be carried out or ignored. Over
and over again have the Ministers
been publicly asked for an explana-
ton of their course in regard to this
law. but not word have they
yielded in response. One of the
main charges against the Ministry
has been their utter indifference to
the will of the Legislature in respect
to some of the most important and
carefully conceived acts of the ma
tion's assembled wisdom. As
the challenge has been boldly made
within the past few days, to prove
anything ever alleged against tho
Government, the foregoing facts arc
submitted to the challenging party
and to the public, as an acceptance
of the gage.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t was not monopoly that COM
PEELED several firms in Honolulu to
ship their sugar by particular
steamship line, and take packets of
their own off the route! A new
word will, however, have to be in
vented to describe what it was that
put that bit of coercion in operation.
Mr.. r. w. Laine has been re-
appointed Consul for Mexico in this
kingdom, and recognized as such by
he Hawaiian Government. The
functions of the Consulate are likely
to greatly increase in Importance
with the establishment of steam
ship line between China and Mexico,
touching at this port, which is now
in near prospect. Therefore, it is a
matter of congratulation to all con-
cerned that a business man, noted
for methodical habits and prompt
ness in discharging duty as it arises,
should continue to be Consul.
Mr.. Pearce, the steamship owner,
is not a hard nor a soft-headed
Scotchman, but an Englishman born
and bred. In either case, however,
it is nonsense to say that his sue
cess in securing share of Hawaiian
commerce would imperil the Reel
procity Treaty. The independence
of Hawaii was celebrated the other
day, but it can be nothing but a
myth if the mutually beneficial in
tercourse, friendly and commercial,
between this kingdom and the
United States, is dependent upon
the former supporting, at any sacri-
flee, monopoly held by steam
ship company hailing from the
latter.
Some we'll meaning philanthropy,
ISIS, who think they can settle two
excessively troublesome questions
at once, have conceived a preten-
tious scheme for transporting q
large number of Scotch Crofters to
the Hawaiian sugar plantations. 1t
will not do; and these good people
little understand Scotch character
who believe the croftcrs, however
poor, will not prefer self-respecting
poverty to the slave life of the
coolie laborer.-[ Providence (R.I.
journal.
The paper from which the above
is taken is one of the best-conducted
in New England. 1t, however,
makes slip in the remarks quoted.
The BULLETIN was, we believe, the
first paper to advocate the intro,
duction of Scotch crofters into this
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-29
TailOr-Mnde Men.

Meltons in light colors are in demand for
loose overcoats.
Scotch cheviots, if appearances are cor
rect, will be worn in colors of which wood,
brown and drab will be popular.
Worsted suitings are holding their own
well, and purchaser can find them at any
tailor's in any pattern that suits his fancy.
In worsted goods perhaps the most popu-
lar will be wide wales. Drab, gray, blue,
black and brown are the leading and favor.
tie cOlors.
Velour suitings have for principal patterns
checks and overchecks in various patterns
that are quite indistnct, and look when ex-
amined closely much like the body Of the
goods.
Covert coats, which, in the minds OF the
small street boys, are the badge Of a dude,
although worn by many who cannot be thus
classed, are much made from cloth with
dead finish, and which is warranted water,
proof. The cloth has but recently been
introduced.
The change in texture from last falls
goods will perhaps be comparatively slight.
The spring and summer displays show a
great preponderance Of checks and plaids,
especially in velours and cheviots While
both will be much used, checks will be in
demand. Stripes are called for compare,
tiyely little.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-29
FARM NOTES.

The sugar beet is excellent for sheep, be-
ing palatsble and containing much solid nu'
| iriiiOus matter.
A recent Ohio law makes Exty-eight
| pounds OF esr corn q bushel in that State
which is two pounds more than the sheileo
| bushel. '1
Now is the time to SOW the seeds in the
bot beds for early vegetables. The weather
will soon be warm and the frost out OF the
ground.
A great mistake in tree planting is failure
10 cultivate the orchard. thus allowing the
soil 10 be come hard and crusted, and also
covered with weeds and grass
The average weight Of carcases of AmerI-
can cattle has been increased BY over 80 per
of the weight of 60 years ago, while the
average weight of milk is even greater.
A square, symetricsl COW is not always
the best dairy cow. The mixer is rather
wedee-sbaped, as seen from before, and mas
plenty of belly, with great hips and thighs
There are now more than 500 tile factories
in Illinois and we'll distributed over the
State, against thirty. three, seven years ago
This is the very best indication OF prosper
ity for Illinois farmers.
1t is reported that there are 2,4OO stabes
of COWS in New York, the milk OF which IS
sold in the city, and these cows from the
time they enter the stables until no longer
able to give milk, never see grass.
The winter pork.packing season in Chi
cago closed February %, and since its COM
mencement, November |, the packers have
slaughtered and sailed 2,42l 900 hogs,
against 2,Oll,Os4 for the corresponding
period year ago.
Over 500 carloads of peanuts were sold
in Chicago last year. The peanut business
NAV seem a small affair to some, but we
can assure our readers that it requires
large quantity to ELL 500 cars. And this for
Chicago alone.
IA correspondent of the Ohio Farmer says
he has sown nothing but the Fultz wheat
for wears, as it produces well, stands up
firmly, does not shell out, has nice plump
grains and makes excellent -four.
A fruit grower placed tobacco stems
around the franks Of peach trees and the
borer did not touch the trees. lie set the
stems a. ound the butts of the trees and tied
them at The tops, and it kept off the rabbits
in winter.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-29
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