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The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-13
Lucky Hits.

It would be a stupid misleading of
events to say that the famous duel to
which David owed his rapid rise was a
single lucky hit--a chance shot, in which
success redeemed what would otherwise
have been a foolhardy adventure. Men
rarely owe their success in life to chance
shots of any kind. But they often do
take their start from some single act
which serves to disclose what manner of
men they are, and to foretell to the saga
cious what their career must prove 1t
was not in reality the singers skill, which
aimed cool and fair at the giants fore
head, when an older hand might have
swerved for fear-not that alone which
revived the decaying ardor of Israel,
bound Jonathan to his friend in life long
admiration, and made David the hero of
the war. He became the mar he was just
because he carried this same devout rell
ance upon an arm unseen into all his
affairs, acted ever as in Jehovah's sight,
and knew himself to be by day and night,
beneath Divine protection. The qualities
which made him the conqueror of Goliath
were the qualities which made him the
founder of the Hebrew empire, and the
type as well as ancestor of the Messiah.
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Snperstitions Miners.

In the mining camps in California in
early days d rabbits claw nailed under
meath tho top Of q table covered with .
faro or monte lay out was reckoned Q
.sdead hoodoo,n and miners visiting
towns adjacent to their camp on Sun
DAYS would often stick q cotton tails
trotter underneath the top Of q gaming
table Ut which they were bueking. i
was not an uncommon occurrence at the
close of j deal resulting unluckily for the
ganae for the deal, lookout and case
keeper to Light q candle and carefully
inspect the under part Of the table In
search OF the obnoxious rabbits claw
to which they attributed their bad luck.
On d occasion q dealer was shot snd
fell stone dead underneath the table
while attempting to remove 2 OF the
in osnaaed claws BY the player who
plead III here.-Vargins0 (Neu.) Chrome
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Dan Rice and the R0Wdies.

Said the old circus man: did you
aver hear how Dan Rice got square
with the Troy thugs? Well, I'll tell
you:
"Troy has yet the reputation of being
the toughest town in New York State,
and twenty years ago it was a terror.
Well, Dan Rice's show was mobbed
there one night, and the circusmen
were all quite roughly handled. The
next day Dan telegraphed to his adj
vance agent to go back and bill Troy,
as the show would go back there again.
When the Troy rowdies saw the return
of the show announced they smiled
grinly, and promised to demolish it
entirely this time. In the meantime
Rice went to New York and engaged
100 sluggers. regular short-haired
brutes who would rather fight than eat.
He brought them TO Troy with the
show. In the evening the tent was
filled, but there wasn't a single lady in
the entire audience. Dan and his hun
dred pugilists scattered through the
| audience, and had the canvasmen ready
TO Jump in at the word. Well, the
| show went along all right until Dan
| was in the ring doing his famous act
with his blind horse. There was some
thing thrown into the ring by n OF
| the spectators. That was enough.
Dan yelled Hay, Rube!' and those
| hundred pugilists began their work in
| royal style. Biff! bang!' went their
ponderous blows right and left, and
YOU could see men falling l. all direc-
lions. The circusmen wero soon into
the melee. and how they did ~pulverize
| the Troy toughsl It was four or five
wears before the bad men of Troy ever
tackled another circus. "-MilwGukee
| Sentinel
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MiSdirected Enthusiasm,

A gentleman who listened to Sam Jones
in Cincinnati tells the following as illus
trative of the peculiar methods of the
%revivalist: He was delivering an especial
ly fervid address, and a little old woman
who sat we'll up in front was constantly in
terrupting him with shrillvoiced cxclama-
tions of "Bless the Lord" "Glory Halle
lujahm and other camp-meeting eccen-
tricities. Jones stood it for a time, but
finally stopped his address, and turning
to the woman said,-
"Sister, enthusiasm is q good thing if
it is only genuine. But you remind me
of a little steamboat that used to run up a
stream down in the country where | came
from. Ii had a small boiler and a very big
whistle, and every time the pilot blew
the whistle the boat stopped. Now let
the boat go ahead
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ADVICE ID Country Girls.

City life is not all that it is painted.
It has its pleasures and convenienees
but il also has its serious drawbacks.
Before making the plunge into life in the
city country girls should ask themselves
what is really To be gained By it.
Perhaps III their quiet rural homes some
stray advertisement has reached them,
promising toyoung women high salaries
for light work. Hundreds Of these adj
vertisements are framed forthe very pur-
pose of deceiving the unwary. They ac-
complish their purpose however, and large
numbers 81 young girls rush up to the
city dazzled BY the generous profusion
of promises.
ii girl from the farm answers one q
these advertisements Life may have
been slow 1t home, but there was always
good food and II plenty, and there wa
some one to care for n the old farm
house. when she goes 70 The big city,
HE finds that The tight work. consists
ii working Ill day IN q badly Lighted
workshop where scores of other girl'
sud women ire employed # wages hard
II high enough 10 keep body and sou
together.
We know what often comes NEXT. 1aas
girl has left home; she Is ashamed q
unwilling ID return, and she must tax
The consequences, oftirnes one ~ tNe
things- shame ii suffering. Many
glEl finds 6ras ii fhe fsirolisies Ana Ger
III the iniqaity d The streets that excite
mans ~ which regrets and resaorse naa!
deadsned. Il slie IL teo strength prin
cpe, too pure IND elevated II tome ahul
to sink down 70 one 81 the pitiable wo
ma1 Il he atFeets she may and hsrsslf i
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Actual Results OF right Lacsne.

Some year or two ago, says a writer
in an exchange, / attended a curse of
medical lectures for the purpose of study
ing anatomy. Ihad been at perhaps q
dozen lectures when the human subject
had been dissected and discussed, but it
70 happened that in every case the SUBJ
iects had been men-sailors, brawny,
muscular longshoremen, in the prime of
vigorous manhood, who had met their
deaths through accidents or murder.
One night there was the body of a
woman ON the table, and as the lecturer
laid open the cavity Of the abomen with
few deft strokes of the knife he re-
marked:
There, gentlemen, is the result Of
tight lacing.n I will never forget it.
The girl must have had in life what ono
would call a trim figure, but every organ
was pushed out of place, was cramped,
distorted and deformed. The liver, the
heart, the stomach, the lungs were
crowded by one another and hampered
in their duties. II produced SO strong
an impression upon me that / have never
seen q small, round waist since that / de
not think, eyes, q pretty waist, but
where isyour Iveran
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Tnportaat j. -nrsrehans raaisrn.

ven Keller III ca, snccessOws e Keller q
RuhA. INC the old C1oth House, corner Ann Ana
William SITS. New YORK city are doing an sx-
teTlsfye business ty means q fuFIaislAlng t9 the
Merchant Tailoring trade fhruughonS the Uni
ted States, enEnpIste sample collections OF
their WOaIens In season. and TecsIV1ng an0.
executing orders reeelYea through the sazaa
PIES Whenever q style has been sold s016s
they notify their customers TO that effect, 90
that the parties holding their samples are 81
Mays properly informed as 20 which styles
they cagaofYeF Hn their uAfroEass Tie MegGaan1
7arpe variety cf styles without saaeurnbsTanE
hsznssM with s laxjea sf0ck.Wa understand
&hsS amy MeEChambIaaHo desiring 5ucMcpa1sE-
Ffon Ill SArsBHes can hare Same sent free OF
charge. Address Messrss ~ you Keller = ca
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nd Abuse of Tea.

It is not q little curious, says the
Lancet that the diseases arising from the
wrong use of tea should be met with IN
sfeater frequency in countries foreign to
its growth. The diseases due to this
cause are well known to doctors, but the
public seem to be strangely Indifferent
to the teachings of their medical advis-
ers in these matters. Recently in France
M. Eloy has reminded medical men how
vast is the number of diseases owing an
allegiance to the dominion of queen tea.
America and England are the two coun-
tries that are afflicted most with the
maladies arising from its excessive con-
sumption. individuals may suffer in a
variety of ways. It is customary to
speak of acute, subacute and chronic
ssfheism, !" a form that has no connection
with theological matters. The pre-
dominance of nervous symptoms is a
characteristic of theism. General ex-
citement of the functions of the nervous
system NAV be observed, or the weak
ness may be noted more especially in the
brain as distinguished from the spinal
cord. Feryersiun of the sense of hear
inc is not at all an uncommon symptom,
patients hearing voices that have no real
objective existence. The i~rritability
! that overtakes women 50 frequently may
sometimes be clearly traced to an excess
siye indulgence in afternoon tea. No
| doubt the tannin which tea that has been
standing contains does a great amount
of mischief; but theism belongs, rather,
to that class of diseases in which NOR.
phiriism, caffeism and vanillism {
| found. The habit of tea-drinking is one
| that grows on its victims like the similar
ones of opium or alcohol. Taken II
strict moderation and with due precau
| tions in the mode of preparation, tea is
like alcohol, a valuable stimulant; in it'
| abuse there is also q certain analogy
Sei6nce.
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A Healthy Body and n Clear Head.

If indigestion, constipation and biliousness
torment the body, the head cannot be clear.
fully, and produce a cloudiness in the organ OF
thought not experienced by a healthy man.
Happily these brain-oppressing maladfes may
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which cheers,
refreshes and invigorates the brain and nerves,
while it regulates the organs of digestion, as
morbid humors which poison the system
through the bowels and urinary passages, and
exerts a powerful ~invigorating influence as
well. lis cathartic action is never irritating,
violent or painful, but even, natural and pro-
gressive. AS an appetizer and sleep promoter,
the bitters is unriyaled; it mitigates the inflrm-
tiles of age, relieves the ailments peculiar to
the getler sex, arrests premature decay, and
builds up an enfeebled physique.
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THE GDgkat Gssfsg3a

There Is j tree ID Mexico called the oily
cocoa. It's seed i almost entirely com.
uosed of fatty substance which has
sometimes been used II making soaps 4
s~suantitv 81 this ssed was recently shipped
to Europe, and i Stuttgart baker has
successfully used The oil = : subatitstt
for lara ii masking bread and cake Ihe
sees eontainsvelye percent. more aetalal
arease shan ordinary pork lard, and esa
II kspt for months without spelling.
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MENsMAN's PERFORMED BEEF TONIC. the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nutrf-
ious properties. 1t contains blood-making
force, generating and DEMONSTRATING properties;
invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
also, in all cnfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell Hazard &
Co.. Proprietors. New York. Sold by druggists.
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rlle Cuban woman's beauty.

800
In the physical beauty of the Cuban
woman the commanding features are the
foot, whose daintiness and symmetry arc
marvellous; the supple, willowy grace of
movement of person ; the exquisitely
modelled form, and the eyes, which never
lose their lustre and glow.
Cuban women wear shoes no larger than
the No. / size for women in the States.
Nor is this diminitive size the result Of
any pinching process. She is born that
way.
She is the most graceful ON on her
feet, in her walk and carriage, in the
promenade, or in the dance, you ever
saw.
of her form, it is perfection. Nine
women out of ten you meet are models OF
symmetry. There is q greater delicacy
in line and proportion. They do not SO
torture their persons or themselves.
The Cuban woman's face may be said
10 be wholly interesting and l~ovelyrather
than wholly beautiful. It's beauty is in
its expression rather than in repose. This
face il Of the Latin mould, oval and with
q delicate protruding of pretty and
shapely chin. Her complexion is warm,
creamy, with no carnation in the cheeks,
But her mouth, large, mobile, tremulous.
with just q suggestion Of pathos in the
slight drawing down at the corners, has
lips 80 red and ripe that her ever-perfect
teeth dazzle In brilliant contrast. Her
hair il Of that lead black darkness which
suggests q weird, soft mist upon the night
and Is indeed b glory ever.
But her eyes are her priceless, crown
ing ~loveliness, her er-ending power
and charm. They cannot be described,
When you say that behind their long.
dark, half-hiding lashes they are large,
dark, dreamy, yet glowing, flashing with
fire, liquid with languor, you have only
limited their inexpressible expressiveness.
Theytare the same eyes at Q, At 10 and at
9O.-PhSIode5phia MeDs.
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W1FE-asay, hubby, have you read
that novel called One Word OnlyyD
Husband-aYes, I guess So" Wife
80 you know who is the author?"
Husband-sNo; but I'm sure it was
not written by a woman.
Journal.
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Natural tact will do much. but It n sup.
pIy the place of education. When a woman
has learned to make a pudding, she has learned
but the smallest part OF her duty. Sne needs
10 know how to sit at the table and dispense a
hospitality so cordial and enlivening that the
pudding shall be forgotten.
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some cold garret, lonely, oyerworked, de-
spondent and miserable.
Better remain at nome than risk the
failure which attends 50 many girls who
go to the city in pursuit of high pay for
light work. It is the saddest Of all ven
tures-forsaking a country home for the
illusions and receptions of a large town.
Reading pa Times.
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Al worthy Quaker wrote thus: II expect to
pass through this world but once. If. therefore,
there be any kindness I can show, or any good
thing T can do to any fellow human being. let
me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect II,
FOR / will not pass this way again.
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.sIti is as harmless as it is effective, :" is what
liz said of Red Star Cough Cure by DR.. s. x,
Cox, b. D., Analytical Chemist, Washington.
DC. Price. % cents.
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The virtues of ST. Jacobs Oil, MS proclaimed
by milIions Of restored sufferers, should induce
every one to supply his household with this
great specific. It conauers pain.
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Extraordinary but nevertheless true. We
refer to the announcement of B. T. johnson
& Co, of Richmond, in which they propose to
show working and energetic men how to make
from 500 to $500 a year over and above ex-
DenSeS.
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Ifyou have numbness in arms and limbs, heart
skips beats, thu1nps or ~tlutters, or you are
nervous and irritable-in danger OF shock
Dir. Kilmer's OCEAN-WEED regulates, relieves,
corrects and cures.
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ELY'S
CREAM BALM

l hare used tlu,
bottles Of Ey's Cream
Balm and cOHsidei
myself cured. Isufer'
ed 20 gears from ca.
tdrrh and catarrhal
headache and this i
the first remedy thu
afforded lasting re
lief. ID. Z. Higgin
son, AS Lake Street
Chicago, H.
A nnrftela ia npniied
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You will get more comfort for 25ets. in
Lyons Heel St%;ffeners than in any other arti-
lie you buy.
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Among the $50 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar
Volumes given away by the Rochester IN. "
American Rural Home for every S subscription
to that 8 a As col, 16 year old Weekly, all
5x7 inches, from 800 to 800 pages, bound in Cloth
are: .
law Without Lawyers. Danelson's (MedicaD
Family Cyclopedja, Counselor.
Farm C~yclopedia. Boys. UsefuA Pas-
Farmers and Stockbreed- times.
ers' Guide. Five Years BEFORE
Common Sense in Poultry the Mast.
Yard, Peoples History of
World Cyclopedia United States.
Universal His. of all
Nations.
Popular History Civil
War (both sides,)
Any one book and paper one year, all post
| paid for $1.15 only! Satisfaction guaranteed
| Reference: Hon. C. R. PARSONS, Mayor Roch-
ester, for IL years past. Samples &c. R
| HOME Co.. LTD, Rochester. N. x.
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The best salve used In the world for Cuts, Bruises
Piles, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, letter, ChappeG
Hands, ChiIblains. Corns, and all kinds of Skin Erup
tions, Freckles and Pimples. The salve is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction in every case. Be SURE
you get HENRy's CARBoLrc SALvE, as all others art
hut limitations and counterfeits.
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Relief is immediate, and a cure sure, Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. 50 cents.
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ss This Cart be Rents

The good die young, but the young don't
always die good.
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Henrx,s Carhalic SaIve.

Nothing can make a man walk more crooked
han whisky straight.
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This is the season when the iceman takes the
,nln
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-13

When a man has water on the brain does he
wear a plug lat?
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M IN 10 80 n day. Samples worth $1.5o FREE
~ IN Lines not under the horses feet Address
IN BnEwsTER's SAFETY REIN HOLDER. Holly. Mich
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ngan .sTite Destruction of the WorId.s For
S1GAW sale by all first-class booksellers. Published
by ALFRED NUDGE Il SON, Boston, Mass.
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PenSa0nSSIRffha%si. .s zss's. Washington ASH t; D B. 8.
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DROCL AM ALTON.

WHEREAS, At an Election held in Cecil
county, on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, in the year eight
cen hundred and eighty six. the question
whether or not any person, house, company
association or body corporate, may be IL
censed in said county, by whom or in
which spirtuous or fermented liquors, in
toxicating drinks, or cider, may be sold, or
whether or not no license to sell the same
in said county shall be issued, was submit
ed to the registered qualified voters thereat,
in pursuance of chapter 291 of the Acts of
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at
January Session, 1886:
AND WHEREAS, From the written re-
turns Of the Judges at said Election of the
vote cast upon said question, made to me in
accordance with the provisions of the Act
of Assembly aforesaid, it appears that there
were twentv-three hundred and thirty-nine
votes Against License" and twentv.one
hundred and thirtv-one votes "For License"
being majority oftwo hundred and eight
votes against License for the sale of spir-
itnors or fermented liquors, intoxicating
drinks. or cider.
Now THEREFORE,, /, JAMES A. DAV-
is, Clerk of the Circuit for Cecil county,
in obedience TO the requirements of the Act
Of Assembly aforesaid do hereby proclaim
the result of such election upon the quest
ion aforesaid. to be as above stated
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have hereun-
to subscribed my name, and affixed the seal
(-->, of my Office, on this fifth day of
L.. S. November, eighteen hundred
~ and eightv-six. JAMES A..
DAVIS. Clerk of the Circuit Court for &c.
Gil county. Nov II 1t
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|
mined at their session on Tuesday
last to compel the P. W. & B Rail.
road Company to place watchmen at
the crossings of the roads from
Charlestown to Principle Furnace;
from North East to Mechanics Val.
ley; from Charlestown to North East :;
from the Chestnut Hill road to the
Wilmington turnpike. County Com.
missioners were invested with
authority by the last legislature to
compel railroads to place guards at
all dangerous crossings.
You can get as good fine or coarse
job work done at the MIDLAND office
as in the cities. It will not cost you
any more; may he less. 1t will he as
well done may he better. In addition
to that you can go in and ''jaw" the
printer for not having your job done
the day before it is ordered; or for
leaving an i indebted or uncrossed;
and this last satisfaction is worth a
great deal to most folks. Have YOU
seen those nice tableted red line note
heads we have just done for the gen.
ial j. b. or those neat terpsicorian
cards executed for G. g.?
GROUP WHOOPING COUGIy and
Bronchitis Immediately relieved bv
Shiloh's Cure. Sold by DR.. L. r. Kirk
The temperance ladies of Port
Deposit were deferred from serving
hot coffee and sand wiches on the day
Of election, because it was thought it
might be Unconstitutional" The
rum party were not afraid altho' they
knew their dispensing whiskey was
illegal. The wrong is as bold as a
lion. while the right is timid as
lamb. That is why "Prohibition
doesn't prohibit better.
A strong effort is being made to
have Reeds sentence changed from
hanging to imprisonment for life,
with probability of success. Reed
it will be remembered is the colored
individual who was condemned for
being implicated in the murder of
BILLY the JOKER" 1t is the general
belief that Mannon who was cleared
by jury. was the real murderer and
that Reed was the instid gator an
abetter. The only real excuse for
not hanging Reed is that Billy was
such an inherent cuss, that putting
out his light should be viewed as a
blessing to society. hut the informal.
ity of the act shou ld be punished to
appease the dignity of the insulted
law. The blind goddess gets 50
many insults about the Court House,
that she has grown less sensitive
than she formerl y was.
For lame back, side or chest. use
Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price Is CTS.
Sold by DR.. l.. r. Kirk.
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ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on the
second Tuesday ofevery month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians. wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring in
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test: R. E. JAMAR, Register.
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NOTICE

By THE ORPHANS Court FOR CECIL COUNTY,
January IT, 1882.
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Eek.
ecutors and Guardians that have not stated
an account within year. come forward and
do the same. or show cause to the contrary,
or they will be cited up.
Test: R. f. LAMAR, Register.