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The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-02

DleSS you I0f WndG you nave brleu u
| do
Well. now. in about twenty minutes
after she had passed in, what should EN-
ter my head but an idea which lifrud
my heels clean off the floor. If that gal
was as smart as | took her to be, she
had a plan to carry out. What? Why,
to change clothes with Joey and send
him out in her place. That was the
idea, comrades, and for about five min
its I couldn't make up my mind what
to do. | figured it out by and by.
however.
Under one pretense and another I
got all the men but a single guard
away from the door, hung the lantern
UP SO IS to throw a shadow WhereI
wanted it. and while waiting for the
gal 10 reappear I says to the guard.
says |:
Jim, that gal mustfeel jist awful
'Sartin she does he answered,
"Reckon she will
poor thing, but / hope none q us
may seem to gaze at her too stout.
She might reckon we had no hearts"
/ tell you, the last twenty min
utcs was a hull week TO me, and I
had to keep hopping the sweat off my
face. AT last there was atknocks on
the door and I let her out jist felt
in my bones that it was little Joe. and
SO / says, says I: sa s A
"Well, child, I'm sorry for ysu and
please don't think any of us here are
to blame"
With that ! hurried her cut as fast
as / could, and then had to sit down
for the weakness in my knees.
Next morning-what! Jist as / told
you. When they opened the door to
lead Joe to his death they diskiVered
his sister in his place. and she was
just cute 'nuf to smile at 'em at that.
Joey had been gone for hours and was
safe inside the Yankee lines.
Shoot her? Oh, mol They had to
let. her go. and it was sich a smart
trick that the big officers didn't want
it talked about too much. Me? Well
they did start to do something or 9th
er, but Grant made q move jist in the
nick of time to bust up all proceedings,
and nothing further was done. No
body thought had any knowledge of
the plot, but they hankered for vic
tim and might have put me in q seri-
u plight but for having other bust
ness on hand.-Detaoit Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-02
Opelousas, Sept. 6, 1881.
O2ELOUsts F:HALE INSTITUTE.

Opeiousas, 81. Landry Perish, Id.
This Institution will resume duties Monday Sen
l te.uber 7th, 1885. under the immediate arpSrvsisa
of MIS-. M. NJ. Hayes and Mrs. III. A. Davis, 9itheom.
petent assistants. The scholastic year consita oI foFg
weeks.
TERMS OF TUITION:
Pseparat Dry Department, per month, .....@....s 2R
Academic ,.... asS
Music. with use of piano, 800. * "
Boa riding, including washing, light and fuel; ..,.s M1
Embroidery, wax flowers, painting. drawing,
eac0, extra, 1870
Incidental fes. IN
DISCIPLINE:
The government OF This school Is strict but parental;
no hard tasks or restrictions are imposed, but eyy5l
student must comply with the rules, and must pEeusls
up to the measure of her ability, the lessons assgned.
Our course of study and and mode Of instruction afs
10 train the mini to habits OF correct thinking sd
thorcu h iuve .~tigation. No student will be ailoaedto
erier higher classes without thoroug preparation. p
rents and guardians may rest assured that the niaaaah,
heai It'll and morals of the children and wards shah N.
ceive due attention.
No deduction for absence, unless in case Of protraet
ed illness. The location of the town is healthful md
easy OF access. The boarding depaatnaaut ID uades
the immediate charge of Mrs. Hayes. BoArders vii
provide themselves with blankets and towels. For On.
ticuiaTs address
iiIy 2s'33nov 2T7s. Principal.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-02

During eight centuries" says a
correspondent of London Nature,
sone's direct ancestors amount to a far
greater number than would at first be
contemplated. Taking three genera
tions to a century, one has father and
mother az. grandparents (4), great
grandparents (8). AT the end of the
second century the number of ancest-
ors springs to 81. Following the cal
culation, you will find that at the end
of eight centuries one is descended
from no less than 10000 900 ancestors.
Intermarriage, Of course, would reduce
this estimate, and there is no doubt it
must have largely prevailed. But the
figures are so enormous that, in spite
of all, 1 venture to suggest that the
words. 'All We are brethren are liter
ally true"
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-02

Although French families are no
toriously small, exceptional eases oc
cur. Thus, in Royoy-Belleval there
lives a couple, the man being seventy
three, the wife silty-eight years OF
age, who have twenty-five living chill
dren, not to mention two who died.
Three Of tie sons are in the army.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-02

ons hidden away. but Lord a v you !!
dye think 7 even referred to such a
thing? No, sir When she looked
up into my face. her eyes full of tear
and her heart beating like that OF a
wounded bird, Isays to her, says i.
go right in. my dear, and may GEL
bless you for what you have tried tc
The Opelousas courier., 1886-01-02

A remarkable cas- of longevity-h
reported by-a correspondent from the
village Of sheepshed. in Leicester
shire, England, where a married cou-
ple-Richard and Elizabeth Wortley-
have celebrated their diamond wed
ding. The registry of the marriage in
the parish church is dated in July
1915, when the news of the battle of
Waterloo was still ringing through
the country. Twenty years ago the
golden wedding of this couple was
celebrated, and they have, now COM
pleted the extraordinary term of sew
enty years Of married life.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
WHO WILL BE SPEAKER ?
Present Phrase of the COntest-Preparing
For the Inauguration.

TRENTON, Dec. 11.-[Special. 1.-The fact
that no one is making an effort to capture
the Republican nomination for Speaker of
the next House of Assembly, is proof that
the Republicans have abandoned all hope
of captureing the organization. They might
as WELL They hoped to be able to secure
control of the Assembly at the start with
the idea of admitting enough Republicans
from the contested districts to assure their
majority onSjoint ballot; but they see that
they are hors du combat now, and the GER
tainty of a Democratic Speaker confronts
them. For the Democratic caucus nonain-
alton for the Speakership there are many
candidates. Hudson has three in her deie-
cation alone; Hudspeth, Noonan Ed.
Mclaughlin. The elimination of the two
Paterson labor men from the embarrass-
Ments that at 6rst beset an easy Democra-
tic organization has sent the cratic Nc
Laughlln off ON his high horse; and the
moment he found the party leaders depend
ing on him for the thirty first unas sailable
Democratic vote he Immediately struck an
attitude and declared that they could not
have his vote unless they made him
Speaker It's perfectly safe to say that
"Tommy" Noonan is second CT the Hud-
son Democrats with Speakership aspira-
tons. He's valuable member, and would
make an Al Speaker, but he has not, un-
fortunately, any very large show of getting
there. The only really strong Hudson as
pirant is Hudspeth. His chief competitor
is Wolverton of Hunterdon. Harrigan of
Essex is in the race. and the Lone Star of
Monmouth has also been mentioned, but
neither is regarded as formidable candi-
date at the homestretch Hudspeth and
Wolyerton will probably be the only COM
petitors. Both are gallant fighters and ex-
cellent men, but at this writing the indica-
tions point more strongly to tie Success of
nudspeth thaa &c tie Hunterdon mans
success, This, too, notwithstanding the
fact that Tumulty and Feeney are said to
favor Harrigan, and that Noonan is can
didate himself. All three, however. are
ready to go for him as a second choice.
The coming inauguration of Governor
elect Robert s. Green will probably be one
of the most ostentatious affairs of the kind
ever held in the State. 1t is said it will
eclipse in minutia of arrangements the
brilliant Inauguration of the dead McClel-
Ian. The inaugural ceremonies will, Of
course, be held in Taylor's Opera House,
and in the evening there will be an inaug-
uration ball of unusual brilliancy and
splendor at the State House. The city will
be oyercrowded with strangers-that is,
noD-residents-am whom will be every
body who counts for anybody of import
ance at such an affair in the State. A
committee of the Legislature will have
charge of all the arrangements, connected
both with the ceremonies and the ball, OF
which Supreme Court Clerk Benjamin
Lee will be the Chairman. Finance Com
missioner John Edelstein will have charge
of matters at your end of the line. and will
| head the Hudson county delegation.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
HA111ARD MAKES DISCOVERY
THAT Might Have Saved Him Much
Trouble Years Ago.

Among the indictments found against
John Hallilrd. in the excitement that fol-
lowed the collapse of the Mechanics aud
Laborers Savings Bank, of which he was
President many years ago, was one charg-
him with having embezzled certain Bay
onne City bonds belonging to the State
Insurance Company, of which he also was
President He was brought to trial on the
charge, and District Attorney McGill in
sisted upon his conviction with special
fervor. mr.. Halliard insisted that the
bonds had been sold and the money used
in the business of the company. But he
was unable to prove this Judge Garrett
son, who presided at the trial, directed
the jury to give him the benefit of the
doubt, however, and he was, after long
hesitation, acquitted.
The books of the old State Insurance
Company are now in the hands of Sena-
tor elect William D. Edwards. While 60
ing over them recently with Receiver VIII
liams, he struck the proof of Mr.. Hal
liards innocence. An entry in the books
shows that eighteen months before the
time laid in the indictment as that at which
Halliard had stolen the bonds, they had
been sold by order of Company and the
money received from the sale had been used
for its business. Halliard was overjoyed
when this convincing proof of his inno-
cence was shown to him. The singular
part Of the business is that the entry OF the
sale bad been made in the books by Sec
retery Reed, and that it was upon Secretary
Reeds affidavit that Halliard had stolen the
bonds that he was indicted.
What effect clear proof of guilt Ii this
instance might have had upon subsequent
prosecutions to which Hslliard was subject.
ed is matter of conjecture. But there is
no doubt that every charge of crookedness
made against him helped to swell the pub
lie clamor that finally resulted in his con-
victlon of conspiracy to defraud the depos-
TORS Of the Bank by keeping it open after
it had become ins5..veEt.
In this connection another interesting In
cident may be related that has not yet been
made public. Mr. Halliard was sentenced
on his conviction to years Imprisonment.
He appealed and went West pending the
decision. When the judgment was affirmed
he came on East to surrender himself. The
Sheriff had 10 commitment and could not
receive Kim. He went to Judge Garretson.
No commitment was there for him and
again he was rebuffed. Then he went to
the State Prison. They had no commit
ment for him there, and he was turned away
again. Finally he procured his own com
mitment, put it in his pocket, paid his fare
to Trenton and surrendered himself and bis
commitment into Keeper Layerty's Gus
tody.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
rE1EGR4PHTo BREYIrIEs

The --latest Information Sent to the News
by the Associated Press.
The "Moonlighters" at Cork were yesterday ae-
quilted.
Arrangements are being made for grand recep-
ton TO Mlchasl Davitt and his biide.
NJ. Lewis, planter OF Galveston, Texas. was
shot and killed by his sonin-iaw yesterday.
Large numbers OF boats. containing valuable
cargoes, are fast in the ice in The Delaware and
RaTitan Cana.
BosroN Dec. l1.-william Reed, indicted for
embezz-ing slo4 900 of the South Boston Railroad,
plead guilty to-day.
Mary Chadek acquitted in Milwaukee yes
terday of the murder of her husband, thomas
Chadek, the Post master of Deer Brook.
Bernard Tighe, in a quarrel with his brother-in
law, Thomas Ramsey, ia Brooklyn, last night,
struck the latter with Ratchet fracturing MS
skull.
The hardware establishment of Shaphioh l.
Cantwell, at St. Louis. fell yesterday with crasn
carrying with it stock worth half million dol
lars.
Oscar A. Simmons, President of the First Ma
donal Bank of Fort Wayne, Ind, shot himself
dead this morning He was in i'll health and worth
81, 600 $50.
The schooner Samuel H Crawford, of Camden.
n. j., loaded with lumber fron Savannah to Bal
tlmore was abandoned BIZ her crew yesterday and
set on FIRE Tor the safety Of navigation.
Petitions. to which SO 900 signatures are attached
will be presented to he Pennsy Iyania Board OF
fardons on Tuesday, asking Tor the pardon of The
twenty-four coal miners convicted of conspiracy
during the great srlks of tue river miners in 1885
A rittsburg, Pa, despatch says that reports that
have been in circulation for several days 10 the
effect that the engineers of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company were joining ths Knights Of Labor
is pronounced untrue by members OF tbs Brother
mood of Locomotive Engineers.
The Supreme Cour. of Kentucky yesterday af-
Armed the conviction of Lawyer John J. Cornell
son for cowhiding Judge Reed, of the Superior
Court OF Mount Sterling who it will be remem-
bered, was so mortified by the occurrence that he
committed suicide Cornelison will have to spend
three years in prison.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
The Body VIII ne Sen. Here.

Coroner George F. Shindler, OF Harris
burg, Pa, teiegraphed Mayor Cleveland
yesterday as follows:
Inform Mrs. EcGovern. OF Wayne street, your
CITY, that her son James was found dead this
morning. The body is in my charge. awaiting her
ORDERS"
The Mayor turned the matter ever to the
Chief of Police. Last night Undertaken
John F. McNulty. of Brunswick street, tel
ephoned the Chief to order the body sent
to him. He said it was that of the son Of
Mrs. Mary McGovern, of No, 3oS Wayne
street. Chief Murphy telegraphsd Coroner
Shindel and the body will be forwarded.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
------------------------
IN INDIAN LOVE MATCH.
a PaIe-Face Writes Secretary Lamar for
Permission to Marry a Squaw.

A Pale-Face Writes Secretary Lamar for
Permission to Marry Squaw.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia rather novel
request was received to-day at the Interior
Department from young man living in
Nebraska who warts to marry the daughter
of Standing Bear, Sioux chief. He states
who he is, and encloses photograph OF the
girl, who is very good looking and was
educated at Carlisle. The young man,
however, wishes to go and live on the
reservation with his prospective wife and
her relations, and for this reason it was
necessary to Obtain the permission of the
Interior Department. White men are not
allowed to stay on an Indian reservation
unless they have authority from the gov
ernment to DO so, and 50 this young man
was obliged to take the government into
his confidence and reveal his love affairs.
The Secretery of the Interior considered
the matter from its practical rather than its
sentimental side, and concluded that, while
he could not prevent the young man mar
rying the girl, he could prevent him from
going to live with the old folks, and if he
was as anxious to marry the young woman
as he protested to be, he might provide
her with a home. Secretary Lamar will
write letter to the ambitious lover, and
suggest the practical view of the situation,
which seems to have escaped him.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
THAT QUEER OLD WOMAN.
As SHE DID TO HER CATS.

Lighting the City Lamps, with Torch
and Ladder, for Nine MOnths-ReIa-
ttves Here, Looking After Her wealth,
Find "a Fortune of S3O,OOO-A SON
Who Was as Queer as His Mother.
Application was made to Surrogate
0'NeiI yesterday by Mrs. Vaudeville, OF
Seward, Nebraska. for Letters of admins
tration upon the estate of Mrs. Martha
Clark, the queer old woman who, as re-
ported last Sunday morning, was found
dying among her cats on the Harrison es-
tate several days ago. Mrs. Vaudeville is
the daughter, and the only surviving child,
of the peculiar cid woman. She went
West, twenty-five years ago, and married
In all that time she had not so much as
heard from her queer old mother Not
many weeks ago it came to her knowledge
that the old woman was on the verge of
collapse, and she sent her son, hardy
young Western farmer, on East to look
after her. The son came here and found
the old lady living in the lower part Of q
house at No. 121 Hoboken avenue. She
admitted no living thing save her cats to her
on her in the mornings, he would tap on
the win dow on the outside, and she would
tell him to go upstairs. She would not live
II the upper part of the house for the dam
age she might do to the walls. It was
through young Vaudeville that she was
persuaded to go to Christ Hospital, where
she died, as stated last Sunday.
81 remember the old woman WE'LL said
Police Sergeant Charley Cox to SUNDAY
MORNING NEWS reporter Last evening. ssShe
used to live in house that began moving
around the streets till the police put a stop
to it, and it stands on Elliott Place yet.
She lived there With her son, who was jast
as peculiar as herself. He was n yer known
to speak to anybody. He used to light the
lamps in the Hudson City district. Finally
he was taken sick and had to keep to his
bed. The old woman took his ladder and
his torch and for nine months made the
rounds herself. When he died she lost her
job. After his death she refused to allow
his body to be taken out of the house. She
had been with her dead for six days, when
the health authorities interfered. I was
one of the officers sent to take the body
out by force, but she yielded to the
responsiveness of Undertaken Steff and my
services were not required. Afterward she
came into notoriety by her suit with old
9sTom" Mares, Justice of the Peace on
the Hill. whom she accused of having as
saulted her; and later yet by suit with
manufacturer Ariel Cameron The factory
employees used to look down from the fac
tory windows into her house, and she closed
the view with ashigh board fence. Cameron
commended that this cut off his light, and
brought suit to have it removed. But Mrs.
Clark beat him.
Mrs. Clark's grandson has discovered
that the old lady had besides 81, 200 or
1890 that can be traced to her, about
s2S, 600 with Morton, Bliss d Co., the New
York bankers
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
s.You're suckerl'' retorted Brady.
An Original OF George washlnston.

The latest addition to the art loan exhib-
ition of the Jersey City Athletic Club is an
original painting of George Washington by
Gilbert Stuart, executed in 1884 The
painting is the property of Mrs. Rappel-
yea. Everybody interested in the success
of the fair should not fail TO visit the art
exhibition, as it is conceded to be of extra
ordinary merit, containing peintings which
have drawn prizes at the Paris salons as
well as the National Academy of Design.
The exhibition was gotten ap at an ex-
pense OF $500, and is well worth visit by
every person attending the far.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
PERSONAL.

orestes Cleveland. Jr.. the Mayors son, is on She
| N. Y. World staff.
| The widow of the late Patrick Hayden has broken
up her home in this city and returned to Williams
| burg, -" -
Prosecutor winfield and Al Hoffman were among
| the Jerseynen who saw the opening CT Congress
| last Monday.
Frank O. Coles latest important expression Of
opinion on public affairs is that "Grand Jardes are
hnmbugs.
! Mr.. and Mrs F. f. Henley. Of this city, ara in
Los Angeles, California, for tho benefit OF Mrs
/ Henley's health.
Civil Engineer Edlow W. Harrison will, if tue
projects undertaken, engineer the construction of
the county road.
Mr.. aud Mrs, Benjamin Garrison aad Mr.. Roh-
ert Buchanan of Jersey avenue, have gone to Vir-
ginia pleasuee trip.
Last Friday evening the friends OF Mr.. and Mrs.
J. O. Lowsy. Of Pacific avenue. celebrated their
wedding with surprise party.
sMiss Helen Mayer. of this city. and MI Harry
Mayer, of Brooklyn. viii have an eagsssInen5
party tonight at Il Sussex place.
It's likely tina: when Willie Tofsy goes duck
shooting in the Maryland swamps hereafter ne
will deem it wise to carry an umbrella
senator Briukerhof, W. W. Coffin and two or
three others spent few days hunting ducks IN
Maryland week before last. They found more fun
than ducks,
louis Dittmar. young violinist Of the Heights.
has Graduated from the Mozart Conservatory OF
New yorl and has entered the Richter-N icolai
Medical College, Eightyaixth street, New York
notwithstanding the willingness Of Counts Ihy.
stefan Converse to accept $500 20 settleEaent Of
the judgment recovered by hi1d against the d. l.
& W. Railroad Company. the latter has appealed to
the United STATES Supreme Court.
The item in last Sundays News which repre-
scented that Commissioner Thomas D. Jordan had
made successful throw Tor Owen Nolan at the
raiis at McDonald's on the Saturday previous did
him injustice He was not there, nor has he even
the pleasure of The acquaintance Of Mr. owsn NJ
Ian
Warren Dobbs, Foreman Of tue 2. r. r, Freight
Department, vas presented by his follow clerks
last evenin with = beautiful gold watcn. re
past az the Three Bells followed the presentation.
W. r. Vermilye made the presentation speech. T.
81. Mann sang, and N. D. Matthews, ). 81. Coates
and J. Il. French made short addresses,
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-12-12
4 SMASH IN THK ATR.
An Elevated Rail Road Train Leaps From
The Track.

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-The engineer of
our train, which was being switched at
half-past ten this morning to the middle
track of the west side of the elevated road
at one hundred and fourth street, pushed
through the swlch with such speed as to
derail the train, and blocking travel on the
north track for about one hour and half
No one was hurt, but the cars and engine
were badly smashed, and the structure of
the road considerably damaged. The dis
abled locomotive lay on thu stringers of
passage of trains, so that only one track
was used for the passage of trains going in
both directions,by switching above and be-
low the wreck.