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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-09

BY dispatches just received we
learn of the death, at Groesbeck, Tex
as, of John A. Shriver, son of James
Shriver, Esq, living near this place.
John was raised near New Martins
vile, but was in the South at the
beginning of the war. He joined
Dick Taylor's brigade and served
through the war in the army of
Northern, Virginia, being wounded
and captured at the battle of the
Wilderness. He was brave soldier,
an honest, upright man, and liked
by all who knew him. He was about
At years of age Wetzel Democrat.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-09
Che Ssp' sp'niuipp.


The circulation Of the NEW DOMINION is
snracr now than at any time since il was
,st b jshed, and, as an advertising medium,
I can not be excelled.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-09

Let's see:-There's College Hill,
Sunny Side, West Morgantown, Hof-
mans Addition, Sally Town, Hous-
ton Il Hirschman's Addition, Dur
hannah and Chancery Hill, besides
Morgantown proper Looks like a
metropolitan paper
1t remains to be seen whether or
not the present Congress will appro-
pirate funds to open up the Monon-
gahela for navigation If it does the
blessings of every inhabitant of the
MonongahelaV Valley will be heaped on
its head, if it does not, the language
of Texas will be brought north and
used freely. HTTf
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-09

Easton, w. Va, Dec. 18th.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-09

eyerybody's mouth, and they are the
cussedest set of men to fight you ever
saw in all your born days; whenever
they have log rollin' or any coming
together of the people, their jackets
are off and the blood and snot fyin'
and all hollerin' "fair play" The
father will fight with the son, and the
son with the father, and brothers will
fight one another. But there is old
Enoch Tenant, stepping around with
his head.a sticking to one side. be-
lieve he's the finest Tenant among
'em-but there's Black Ben, Pete
Tenants niger, I'd like to forgot
him-he the only white man amongst
all of EN-. You'll turn up that Run
by turning to the right--no road to
turn you off till you fall on the head
of Little Pawpaw to my son-in-law's,
Ben Shuman's, one of the ugliest men
you ever saw in your lifetime, and
it's Ben Shuman here, and Ben Shu-
mans in everybody's talk-keeps the
whole neighborhood in an uproar with
his lies, must say that Ben Shuman
has the best breed of dogs in the coun-
try, and he's going to have a lot of
young pups soon. My Joe spoke pup
and Bill spoke pup, and Bob spoke
pup, and Henry spoke another pup,
but low to go over day after to-mor-
row myself and buy the old mother
and sell her to my brother-in-law, Joe
Koon, for Il gallon of whiskey or a
bushel of corn. John Hoods got the
best store in Blacksville. There
goin' to be q famine ON this creek,
for Shep. Lemasters and Joe Parks
are selling their corn out at twenty
five cents a bushel and they'll have
to give fifty cents for the same corn
back agin between this and harvest,
and Bill Lantx and Bill Thomas have
got a barrel Of whiskey apiece, and
are retailin' it out At bushel 81
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
4 Brtbe of SEQ. 600, coo.

The second attempt to bride a mem
Der of Congress was made more than
thirty years after that in which Col. John
Anderson figured SO disastrously. This
time the Intended victim was Stephen
A. Douglass, the little giant of the
West, and at that time a member FROM
the State of Illinois. The attempt was
made by a well known speeulator, D. v.
Hoibrooke, in connection with the pas.
sage of the bill granting the Illinois Cen.
trail Railroad Company an immense tract
of public land lying on both sides of the
projected road. At a certain stage of the
proceedings Holbrooke offered Senator
Douglass one-half the land granted On
condition that he should so arrange mat
tiers that Holbrooke should secure con.
troll of the whole grant. The tempta.
ton was a great one-infact the heaviest
bride ver offered to a legislator in mod
ern times. It was two and q half mil.
lions of acres, worth even then $40, 000,.
900, but valued to-day at very many
times that amount. When this offer
was made, Senator Douglass was confined
to his room at the hotel and unable to
move about without the aid of crutches.
Holbrooke stood near the sofa on which
the senator was reclining. Douglass
waited until the tempter had baited the
hook and throWn out the line.
seThen, = said the senator afterward in
relating the incident, tour former reel.
procity Of feeling was, SO to speak, all on
n side. I Jumped for my crutches, and
as he ran from the room I gave him d
blow on the side of his head that he
didn't forget for many a day.
Fancy a Doodle alderman of 1884
bringing q bribe-offerer to punishment Of
pummelling him with a crutch for tempt
ing him with $40, 0Oo, ooo.-N 7. Mai
and Eapress.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
SDcech P-h0toarGphu,

Descriptions Of the new apparatus Of
Professor A. g. and DIR. G.
Bell make il appear quite as won.
derful as the telephone. It is based on
the remarkable discovery that d jet Of
falling water or q fame Of gas reproduces
every word Of sound within d given dis
fance, and il seems to accomplish, BY
more sensitive means, what was attempt
ed By the speaking photograph. By ar
ranging 4 descending film Of colored
water between the sunlight and d mov-
ing sensitive tablet, the vibrations pro-
dnced Ii the film BY speech are ~instanta-
neously and continuously photographed.
Other arrangements cause the photo
graphed Irregularities corresponding to
air pulsations to be retranslated into air
waves, making the voice heard again.
Il the anticipated uccess Is achieved
with such speech records, the aid Of the
photographers art will be Of more value
to the future reporter than > knowledge
Of short hand.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
Judge Davts ard the Ln,cuers.

A railroad had been surveyed through
Vermillion County, ILL.,, some time before
and had taken a deed for an innocent
old chaps farm, giving him in payment
for it a lot of stock which was repre-
rented to be of par value. The farmer
sftcrward found that the stock was al
most, if not quite, valueless, and brought
suit in the Federal Court to have the
deed set aside and his farm returned to
him. The case came up before Judge
Davis. The railroad company had two
or three of the shrewdest attorneys to be
had, while the plaintiff was represented
by q green country lawyer. It was evi,
dent from the start that the defendants
lawyers would outgeneral the country
man at every tn n, and SO they did until
the evidence was all in and the case SUBJ
mitted for decision.
.'Gcntlemen,n said Judge Davis, II
am familiar with the laws governing this
case and with all the statutes touching
such cases, but / know of no law to pre-
vent a railroad company from stealing a
mans farm
The agent of the defendants man
named Griggs-whispered to one of hi
attorneys that il was all right. The at
torneys looked at each other with con
fident winks and settled back to hear
the decision in their favor.
Il know of n law to prevent a rail-
road company from stealing !. mans
FARM repeated Judge Davis, .abut so
long as | sit IN this bench I will not per-
nit them to keep it. Decision for plain
III f.n-Chicago Nesos.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
SCRAPS.

The eyes of poisonous snakes hav'
been found by DR.. Benjamin Sharp t.
have elliptical pupils, while in the harm
less species they are circf1ar.
London engineers ssy that, as a mat
ter of theory, it is possible to make
steamers to run 40 knots an hour and
cross the Atlantic in three days. But
the vessel could only carry passengers.
The thickness of the earth's crust is
believed by NJ. Faye, the French geolo-
| gist, to be greater under oceans than
beneath continents, because the earth's
heat has always radiated more freely
there.
The earthquakes recorded in 1885, &C.
cording to Mons. G. Detaille, numbered
246, of which only six were felt in North
America. January, with 40 earthquakes,
had the greatest number for any month
and October, with II, the smallest.
The French Academy of Sciences has
been told by Mons. Treve of the curious
phenomenon of a beautiful green ray
which flashes into sight for a quarter of
a second on the disappearance of the
upper edge of the solar disc at sunset.
The appearance can be seen only when
the sky is exceptionally clear, and is
probably an Elusive effect on the eyes OF
the sudden extinction of the SUMS glare.
Of the group of glaciers at Glacier
Bay, Alaska, each n is about 900 feet
high, and is supposed to be submerged
the same number of feet. They are about
three miles wide and extended along the
shore s~eventy-fye miles. These glaciers
are the sight of the world. The pale
blue tinge of ice has a fascination for the
eye. The continual falling of tons of
the breaking and creaking masses causes
a.roar of dcafening sound that no artil-
lery could equal.
Under the slow but continuous action
of the sulphurous acid thrown in the air
of cities by the combustion of coal and
the influence Of the frequent changes in
the degree of atmospheric humidity, it is
found that the peroxide of red lead, used
In coloring certain placards, is destroyed
and sulphated. At the same time the
protoxide of lead thus liberated is trans
formed into an insoluble sulphite, and
this salt, being easily analysed, it is be-
iieved tina. a certain means is thus OBJ
tanned for determining the condition of
the atmosphere in large cities and its re-
lations to- the public health.
Sensations of vision require a definite
time of exposure of the ~retina, which
time Mr.. j. NJ. Cattell, of the University
Of Laipsic, finds to be considerably de-
penden! on the nature of the object and
the intensity of the light. It varies with
the several colors. Orange gives the
quickest impression of the eye, and yell
low closely follows it ; then come blue,
red and green ; while the retina is least
sensitive to violet Nighttime, which is
fromtwo to three times as long as for
orange. By lamplight the eye works
more slowly than By daylight, and the
order of p~erceiving colors is changed to
orange, red. yellow, violet and blue.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
An u Eptcesre,v

Speaking about New York restaurants,
q correspondent tells the following
story: Pedro's best customers are politi-
clans, who are trying to perfect them.
selves in the art of epicurean apprecia
tion.t The average New York politician
is always attracted to a restaurant pat
ronized by brokers, and he will never
knock under to any man in praise Of any.
thing that can be eaten. The Hon.
James Oliver, better known as Paradise
Park Oliver, ono told Jerry Hartigan
that none but epicures ate at Pedro's,
and invited Mr.. Hartigan there to din
mel. Two hours afterward Jerry met the
Hon. Fattie Walsh.
Whats an epicure, Tom2' asked
Hartigan.
IAN epicure is one Of these buffers
that eat anything Mr.. Walsh replied.
thought So Jerry remarked.
I've just ate 3 meal at Pedro's, and ii
makes me sick TO pick my teeth
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
An ARAB Dance at Port safd.

The following extract is from Edwin
Arnold's 'Indio Reoisited:n The Arab
quarter consists at present of booths and
wooden huts, and the bazaars possess for
experienced travellers little interest or
picturesqueness. In one of them, how
ever, we found a native cafe where two
Ghawazi girls were languidly dancing
before the usual audience of low-class
Arabs and negro eonnoisseurs. One,
clad in scarlet, was a novice of no skill;
the other-graceful and clever, with a
handsome face of the old Egyptian type,
worn hard and marked deep by a life. of
vice-was prettily dressed in a wide
trousers of purple and gold, a spangled
jacket and head-dress of coins and beads,
with a jingling girdle of silver amulets.
Asked if she could perform for u the
''balance dance, " she consented to exhib-
it that well-known Egyptian pas for the
modest consideration of two francs anda
bottle of English beer. The cork of this
contribution being drawn, a lighted can
die was then fixed in the neck of the
bottle, which was then placed upon the
crown of her black and glossy little
head. A carpet was next spread upon
the sand, and extending her hands,
armed with castanets, and singing a high
but not unpleasing voice, to the accom-
paniment of a darabouka and rabab, she
swayed her 1.-THE body in slow rhythmical
motions to the words of her song and the
measured beat of the musicians. ~ am
black, but it is the sun of thy love which
has scorched mel Send me some rain of
help from thy pity. / am thirsting for
thee" The Ghawazi began with Arabic
words of this tenor, keeping exact time
to her strain with foot and hand and the
tremors of her thrilling slender frame;
now slowly turning round, now softly
advancing and receding, 10Y clasping
her hands across her bosom or pressing
them to her forehead but p~erpetually
keeping the bottle and lighted candle in
perfect equilibrium upon the top of her
head. Suddenly she sank, with a change
of musical accompaniment, to the ground,
and-While not only maintaining the
completest harmony of her movement,
but even making this strange posture one
of grace and charm-she contrived in
some dexterous manner without touching
it, to shift the bottle from the top of her
her head to her forehead, and thus re-
clined on the mat, her extended fingers
sottly clapping the c~astanets, her light,
girlish frame palpitating from crown to
feet, always in the dreamy passionate
measure of the ancient love-song. This
was really an artistic piece of dancing,
though the performer was only a common
"almeh" from the Delta, but the dance
is, no donbt, as old as the Pharoahs, and
every step and gesture additionally
handed down.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
Where fs He.


"And you say you would die for me,
Georgeq
die for you'll Yes, a thousand
deaths.n
.sYou are a noble man, George
my darling, you do not know me
yet
"Weli, dearest, I do not wish you to
die for me, but | will tell you what you
can do for me to show your afec-
tom
"What is it my darlinga Shall | pluck
the stars from the cerulean domea Shall
/ say to the sea, hal ha! cease to flow, for
my love wills it! Shall I tell yon bright
and ~inconstant moor that is glinting the
hill tops with her light, that she must
not shine on thy face too roughly
hap
mo, George, no. she smiling said.
u do not wish you to attempt such i'm
possibilities. All I ask Of yon is
this
Eyes, my darling"
ssAll / ask Of you is this-don't .all
again.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
Pine Wood.

A pine wood is one of the loneliest
scenes in nature, not merely as regards
the intrusion of any other living thing.
Nothing breaks up its uniformity and mo
notony. It has none of the rich variety
of life that eharacterizes other woods.
The seasons themselves make no impres.
sion upon it, for it is dressed in peren-
NAL green, and it retains its shade alike
in summers heat and winters desolation.
It prevents all underground; no bramblea
dare to stretch Their long, trailing, thorny
arms-like the feelers of some creature OF
prey-within its guarded Enclosure. Nc
wild roses can open their trembling pet
als, white with fear or crimson with
bushes, in its solemn sanctuary. No
hazel bush will drop there its ringlets OF
smoking catkins in spring or its rudy
clusters of nuts in autumn. Ne mimic
sunshine of primrose tufts, no pale star.
beams of anemone OF sorrel will light
up its gloom. No glimpse of blue sky
are let into it by hyacinths, or bluebells,
or yiolets. To all the lowly plants that
find refuge in other woods, and in turn
adorn and beautify their hosts, the pine
trees in their dignified Independence re.
fuse admission. No song Of bird or hum
Of insect is heard beneath their boughs.
And on the ground below, strewn deer
with a carpet Of brown needles and emp.
tied M that have silently dropped in
course of long years from overhead, and
are slow to decay, only a few yellow
toadstools and one or two splendid scar.
let mushrooms make up for the painful
dearth of vegetation. It seems as if the
balsamic breath of the pines which is SO
wholesome to human life-preventine
all fevers aud infectious diseasea-were
IS deadly as the upas shade to Other
forms of life. ID. Hugh Macmillan.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
Coral,

The value of coral depends on its color
and its size. The white or rose-tinted
variety stands highest in popular esteem,
perhaps, chiefly, because it is the rare
est. 1t is mostly found in the Straits of
Messina and on some parts of the Afri-
can and Sandman coasts. The bright
red coral, in which the polyps are still
living when it is fshed up, stands next
in value. Dead coral has a duller tint,
and is consequently sold at alower price.
Two entirely different substances bear
the name of black coral. One of them
is not, properly speaking, coral at all,
and-it is commercially worthless, as it
breaks into flakes instead of yielding to
the knife, though it is often sold rs a
costly curiosity to foreigners. The other
is the common red coral which has un-
dergone a sea change, probably through
the decomposition of the living beings
that once built and inhabited it. 1t is
not much admired in Europe, but in In
dia it commands high prices, s. that
large quantities of it are exported every
year. These are the four important dis
tinctions of color, though they, of course,
include immediate tints which rank &C
cording to their clearness and brilliancy.
The size is a still more important matter;
the thickness of the stem of the coral
plant-we use the commercial and en-
tirely unscientiic expression-determines
its price, and many a branch of red coral
is valued more highly on account of its
thickness than a smaller piece of the
choicer rose color; the reason of this is
clear; a large, straight piece of material
affords an opportunity to the artificer; a
crooked one, if it is only bulky enough,
can, at least, be turned into large beads;
mere points and fragments can only be
used for smaller ones, or made into those
horns which are said to be invaluable
aga INST the evil eye, but which do not
command high price in the market,
perhaps, because it is overstocked.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
rhe Eomer. Trade Of Paris.

Perhaps there is no city in the world
where flowers are so universally loved as
In Paris. According to a correspondent
of the San Francisco Chronicle, the trade
in flowers amounts to several millions
annually, and their cultivation, trans
portation and sale give profitable employ
ment to a great many persons. The
wholesale business is all done at the
Halles Centralles, or public market
house by the churcho OF st. Eustache. At
midnight the wagons and carts from the
cnvirons of Paris begin to arrive. They
are unloaded by market men, the baskets
being placed in rows along the pave
ment between the butchers pavilion and
that given over to vegetables. These
baskets are all pretty much alike, and
are placed side by side, one after the
other. Each flower merchant must take
his or her stand back of the
baskets, never in front of them,
and each dealer is COM
PEELED to put up with the place which
happens to fall to him on that particular
morning. At 8 o'clock the sales begin
in the midst of an indescribable din and
confusion, which is sometimes quelled
only by calling in the police. By $50
o'clock everything is sold, the customers
are gone, and the empty baskets are
being reloaded in the carts and wagons.
MANY of these h~orticu!turists are rich,
and some own whole fields of flowers in
the neighborhood Of Vincennes or Yer
sailles. There are rises and falls in the
prices, and when the day threatens to
be rainy and dreary boquets can be had
for the asking almost. Only cut flowers
are sold on this flower exchange.
Flowers in pots are never carried to the
Central Market. The principal trade in
all potted plants and flowers is on the
-quays, Or the river-banks, at the Made
line, and in the Place du Chateau d'Eau,
or that of st. Sulpice.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
TIE Last Year,

N@ ~
Tender lights on sky and sea;
MILK white blossoms ON the tree;
LuI OF storms and tempest bleak;
Faint bloom on q wan young cheek
ssSpring, the blessed Spring is nignlA
Said my darling. hopefully.
Violets' breath and primrose rays;
Sunshine treading ieafy ways;
Gentle steps, that, weak and slow,
Through the woodland pathways go.
1T were sad in Spring to dieln
Said my darling, wistfully.
Glorious Summer, crowned with fowersA
Dreamy days Of golden hours;
Sunset-crimsoned hills afar;
Dewy eve, and silver star.
Strength may come with by and byel'
Said my darling, patiently.
Growing fruits and ripening grain;
Languid days and nights Of pain;
Fields 50 golden, earth SO glad,
And a young life doomed "'Tis sad
Through the bright days here to lie,"
Said my darling, YEARLY.
Signing winds and falling leaves;
Yearning love, that vainly grievesa
Patient eyes, with farewell gaze,
Greeting the wan Autumn days.
Happy world, fair world good bye,n
Said my darling, tenderly.
Wailing storms and weeping skies;
goft wings spread for Paradise;
r. HF-L ~
Solemn whispering accents thrilled
With the awe of hope fulfilled.
"LifeI Q blissful life on highi'l
Breathed my darling, rapturously.
Wreathing snowdrifts, far and wide.
Mantling DER the one hillside,
Purer than that stainless veil
Like q folded lily pale,
While the moaning blast goes by,
Sleeps my darling, peacefully.
Chambers Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
To Learn The CoEors.

In the course of d trial of an engineer
at the Gloucester, England, a-ssizes, IN ,
charge Of ~manslaughter, of which he wa
acquitted, the counsel for the defense in.
~cidentally gave an easy rule for remem
boring and distinguishing railway sig
mails:
White for right, : red for wrong,
And grten for gently go along.n
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
Bevo,,d fhe Rench 81 Dr,.na

fare you feeling better, Mr.. Feather
ly?n asked Bobby at the dinner table.
Feeling better2 haven't been sick,
Bobby
didn't know said Bobby indifer.
entity. Ma an pa were talking about
your ~gensalogy last night and ma said u
couldn't BE- much worse, supposed yor
we're aick-NSss YoeI zsnssA
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04

Bicycles and t~ricycles have been IN
troduced in some Of the infantry regi-
ments Of the German army. The officers
and soldiers are thoroughly drilled in the.
use Of these machines from which great
results are expected.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-04
ST. r

OPELOUSAS. LA.
The course of instruction in this Institution embraces
English. French, Latin, Greek, Arithmetic, AleabFs
Geometry, Bookkeeping, Natural Sciences, H;ssnrv
Geography, Penmanship, and great care is bestowed
on Christian Instruction.
TERMS:-Board and tuition per month S15. Mar
Scholars per month, So, SO or "a, according to class
Glasses are resumed on Wednesday. September 18th
1886. REV. g. u, d.
REV. +. j. RAYMOND,
HENRY G.. LEWIs
Aug. 90, 1885. A. BLANC DUoUEsNAY.