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The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-01-09
M1L1rARY.-T6e opelousas Military

MILITARY.-The Opelousas Military
Company met ON last Wednesday even.
ing and perfected it's organization
The following resolutions wera offered
and unanimously adopted, to-wit !:
That the name of the Company be
known as the "Opelonsas Guards" in
honorof the first volunteer company that
left Opelousas lor the scene of action
in the late war, and in memory of its
heroic dead who sacrificed their lives
upon the historic battle fields Of that
great struggle. That tho Constitution
and Bylaws reported by the commit
tee be adopted as the organic regula-
latioDs for the governance of the COM
pany That committe be appointed
to secure suitable building to be used
as an armory.
That the first quarterly allowance of
money from the State, be donated to
assist in uniforming the company.
That a committee be appointed to se-
lect uniform and report at the next
regular meeting.
Mr.. VIM. Gil was elected Secretary
and Armorer. AS We did not have
access TO the minutes of the meeting
we may have left out some of its pro-
ceedings not reported to US.
The Company is receiving accessions
to its rolls at every meeting, and al
ready number over fifty members. We
learn that some of our public spirited
citizens will contribute to uniformiDg
the command, which is a generous move
in the right direction. From the pres
ent outlook, and provided the boys at
tend drill regularly, we expect ere long
to see Opeiousas have crack Military
Company, and that they will take part
in the competitive drills which, annual
", take place in Louisiana and other
States Of the Union.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-01-09

Jan. 2, 1886.
The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1886-01-09

0pelou sas, July 25.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
ST. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

ST. PAUL. TUESDAY. AUGUST II, 1886.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
LARRUPED LEADERS.
The New York Giants Beaten by the
"Tail-Enders" at Wash
ington,
And the Detroits Drop Game to St.
Louis After Eleven 5edi
Innings. = g 'aIg5q' o ad
Decatur's Amateurs Make a Good
but Losing Fight With
ST. Paul.
The Men Who Dosed Corrigan's
Horses Heavily Fined--
Diamond Dust.
st. Paul Decatur 10.

The game yesterday OH the West Seventh
street grounds, between the st. Paul and
Decatur clubs, came very near being de-
feat for the home club. Not fully estimat-
ing the strength of the visitors, Cleveland
and Sage were left off the list, Frazee
playing at third and Tray occupying the
catcher's position. The consequence was
that the home club, while expecting pic
mic, had to get down to hard work. The
home players knocked out five runs in the
eighth inning, which settled the matter and
saved the game. Tray was hit by the
pitcher in the first inning. and in running
to the home plate collided with the pitcher
and was disabled for the game, Mccarthy
coming in to catch and Tray going to first
Afterwards Tray had to leave the field and
Crooks went to catch, Sullivan went to
first and there was general changing of
the players. The game, Notwithstanding
all these changes and mishaps, was an in
teresting one. There was good deal of
hard hitting, two of the gentlemen from
Decatur sending the ball over the fence for
two home runs. 1t was very fortunate for
the home club that Crooks happened to be
on the ground. He played good game,
Notwithstanding his citizens clothes and
white shirt. The following is the score:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
ILL-ADvIsED PARTIsANs.

The attacks which certain Republican
papers are making upon the state depart
ment over the CUTTING case betray very
despicable form of partisanship indeed.
Simply because this is Democratic adj
ministrstion these newspapers feel called
upon to find fault with Mr.. BAYARD's
every action, while their alleged grounds
are as widespread as they are ridiculous.
One charges him with assuming an over
bearing attitude toward Mexico not war
ranted by the circumstances and simply
because Mexico is not in a position to re-
sent aggression; another asserts that through
a pusillanimous fear of injurlng himself
politically and because of cuIpable negli-
gence of this country'S rights and interests
the secretary Of state has permitted Mexico
to trample upon treaty obligations and to
interfere with the liberty of American citi-
zens. All are actuated by the same blind
and carping spirit, which seeks political
capital at the expense of justice. AS a matter
of fact Mr.. BAYARD has indicated his in
tention to insist upon the maintenance of
all the rights and privileges due American
citizens, as a matter of principle, and in the
concrete case of the man CUTTING, has
sent an envoy to Mexico to determine just
what the grounds for complaint may be-
He has acted with trmness and discretion.
just as a man actuated by patriotism and
proper conservatism should proceed, and de-
spite the cavilling of disgruntled journals,
he will receive the commentator of all
fair-minded people,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
OVERRIDING 1T.

Minnesota and Dakota wanted rain, and
in accordance with the maxim that all
things come round to those who only stand
and wait, they got what they wanted. A
reference to the GLOBES news columns
will show that they got also rather too
much of a good thing. The storm, while
it did considerable damage, came too
late to create the havoc it would
have made had it occurred before
the harvesting was so nearly COM
pleted. AS it was. many timorous
persons had an opportunity to realize the
sense of security given by newly-con-
structed cyclone cellars, while others will
be moved to provide for future emergencies
by following the example of their more
timid neighbors. 1t is feared that the storm
was not unattended with casualties, and
certainly the amount of property destroyed
was in the aggregate large. Happily, how
ever, the damage is not of a character call
ing for state or municipal aid, and the ben
eft derived from the copious rains will go
far toward counterbalancing the injury IN
tlicted, except where loss of life is con-
cerned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
MIR. BLAINE,s AMMuNTTroN.

1t is very evident from the store of pub
ic documents, particularly those relating
to the conduct of the state department I'M
der the present administration, which Mr..
BLAINE is procuring from Washington,
that he is laying in stock of political am
munition to fire off. more or less ineffectu-
ally, during the next campaign. Obviously
Mr.. BLAINE intends to draw contrast be-
tween Mr.. BAYARD's management of our
foreign affairs and his own course
of procedure when secretary of state,
including what it would have been
had he been in charge of that department
during the discussion of the recent difficulty
regarding the Canadian fisheries and the
present contention with Mexico The pur-
pose of the perennial Republican candidate
it is intimated, is to endeavor to place Mr.
BAYARD and the Democratic party in the
humiliating position of tamely submitting
to aggression and insult on the part
of other nations and to indicate
what a different state of things would
have resulted had he been in
charge. 1t will be a curious thing
if his bombast does not fall upon needless
ears. The American people. while they
will always regard with favor firm in
sistance upon the rights due this country,
have no liking for the jingoism of which
Mr.. BLAINE is such a distinguished expo
nent, and which he illustrated upon every
available occasion while secretary of state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
They don't believe in high-handed policy

They don't believe in a high-haDded policy
toward weaker nations when a question of
political capital, and not of right is the
end in view, nor do they believe in a blus-
tering attitude towards other coun-
tries, more nearly our equals, where
courteous and honorable consultation is the
only thing needful to bring about salts
factory settlement of existing differences.
In both the Canadian and Mexican cpl
sodes, both of which the late Republican
leader intends making the text for would-be
scorching sermons to the voters. Mr.. BAY
ARD has acted in manner entirely worthy
of commentator. In the first instance the
privileges claimed by this country have
been conceded and in the second the course
taken is an indication that while there is no
disposition to take undue advantage Of
Mexico because of her inferiority, she will
not be permitted to transgress treaty stipu-
latons With Mr.. BLAINE directing af-
fairs we would in all probability
have been involved in international difficult
ties of a distinctly disagreeable nature.
Peace with honor is much to be preferred to
continual and unfounded pickering, and the
latter is what the Maine statesman would
have brought about; the former is what
Mr.. BAYARD has maintained. With this
distinction clearly recognized, there is little
danger to Democracy from the lombard
ment MI. BLAINE will make by means of
the ammunition he is now gathering.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
VAN wYCK,s PRECEDENT.

For the first time in the history of the
country the people of a state will soon have
an opportunity to express by popular vote
their preference in the choice of a senator.
In 1875 there was inserted proviso in
Nebraska's state constitution to the effect
that at the general election preceding
the expiration of a senatorial term
the electors shall by ballot indi-
cate their preference for some person
to occupy the position of United States
senator. Hitherto the law has been dead
letter, but for some occult reason Senator
VAN WICK has concluded to take advan-
tage of it, and accordingly issues mani
festo to the voters of Nebraska setting forth
his intention. The idea has certain obvious
advantages to recommend it. Undoubtedly
the people have constitutional right to Sc
lect their public servants without let or
hindrance, and it is equally beyond question
that senatorial election through the me-
dunn of a legislature very frequently de-
prives them of their vested rights. The
election of the various bonanza senators
are cases in point. 1t is comparatively
easy, with millions at ones command, to
purchase a sufficient number of votes in
the legislature of some states to secure an
election, but it is different and far more
difficult matter to buy up some thou
sands of voters. Perhaps Senator Van
Wyck appreciates this fact, and scent
ing the danger afar is endeavoring to
forestall the shrewd mauipulations of vet
eran wire pullers. 1t is presumed that the
choice of the people expressed at the polls
will be binding upon the legislature and
thus the possibility of corrupt bargaining
and of combinations into which the peoples
interest do not enter. will be eliminated.
The Nebraska experiment will be watched
with interest. The time may come when
it will be generally adopted, and Minnesota
herself may yet be obliged to resort to it be-
fore she gets the men she wants in the
United States senate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
THE KAssoN CoNvENr1oN.


To-morrow's convention at Kasson prom
ises to be the most exciting political squab-
Bile that has yet occurred in the state. The
triangular fight between WHITE, DUNNELL
and LOVELY for the congressional nomina-
ton in TIE First district has not only awak-
ened ah extraordinary amount of political
excitement throughout the district, but has
excited more or less interest throughout the
state. 1t is conceded in the beginning that
the man who wins the nomination is going
to have tough squeeze for the election,
even if he gets there at all. Therefore the
interest in the fight does not relate so much
to the prize that is ahead as it does TO know
the strength of the various political combin-
Rtions that have been formed in this
state. The result at Kasson to-
morrow will tell to certain
extent ON the outcome of the
gubernatorial and senatorial contests.
All sorts of alliances, both offensive and de-
fensive, are being waged. The congress
sional nominations are regarded as the
skirmish fights for position. 1t is not
WHITE or DUNNELL or LOVELY alone who
feels an interest in the outcome of the Kas-
son convention. There is GILMAN and
MCGILL and GIBBS and DAVIS and WIN
DOM and host of others in the background
who are equally as much interested. Their
friends all over the state are standing on
tip-toe eagerly watching the conflict, and
waiting in Impotence for the announce
ment of the result. 1t is conceded that the
nominee for congress will be more or less
of power in working the machine in his
district, and will consequently have strong
influence in setting up the pins for the state
ticket and for the legislative candidates.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
Small Talk.
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
At minneapolis ii Workman Meet
With Sudden Death.

While fixing an electric lamp at Beede &
Robinson's saw mill on Eighth avenue
northeast, John Kane, an employe of the
Brush Electric Light company, was
instantly killed. He had fixed three
lamps sand was at work upon
the fourth and last when the accident took
place. He had mounted the platform upon
which the lamp stands, shut off the current
and pulled out one of the carbon points
when one of the workmen standing near
saw a slight fash and, Mr.. Kane
fall. Some of the men rushed to the spot
and picked up the unfortunate man, but no
spark of life remained in him. He was
laid out on some boards and the coroner
summoned. 1t was found that his
left hand was badly blistered, and from all
appearances it was evident that he had lost
his footing and in an endeavor to save him
self had thrown up his hand and caught the
wire above the switch. The superintendent
of the electric light company was sum-
moned. He said that Mr.. Kane has been in
the employ of the company for over two
years, and was the most careful man
he had. In fact. he was
the inspector. The body was
conveyed to Connelly's morgue where it
will be prepared for burial. Mr.. Kane re-
sided just off Hennepin avenue on
Thirteenth street and leaves wife and
two or three children. When killed he
had a pair of baby shoes in his pocket
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
IN THE WATER.

Her bathing dress is orange and blue,
1t reaches just to her rounded knee:
The stockings beneath of darker hue
Are as shapely as hose may be.
An orange kerchief enwraps her hair,
From under its edge the stray curls run;
The dainty-molded arms are bare
And brown from the kiss of the sun.
She swims with swift, 1.-THE, supple grace,
One scarce can tell how she comes or goes;
The little waves break full in her face,
And the drops run down her nose.
Venus herself she seems to be
As she rose from the sea ere love began;
But what earthly good is all this to me?
She's engaged to another man.
The Rambler.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17

"Have you applied for place in the ballet?'
asked the manager of an ancient dame who
applied to him for position.
YES" responded the maiden of forty odd
years ago. ''They tell me that 1 am too old
to dance. What shall do to take care of my
little grandchildren
''Can you sing?' Intercepted the manager.
81 have sung in my time.''
1T is plain, then, what you should do, !" re-
marked the manager, as he sat down to write
pass for bill-poster, "apply for place in
the Juvenile Mikado company. They need
singers badly
~
"You don't love me as fondly as you did
before we were married. said the husband of
a few years.
Eyes do" replied his wife.
''Well, you don't show it as much as you
used to- remarked he.
Il don't know how l could show my affec-
ton more than 1 do and still be fashionable"
replied she.
''Just mention one little act''
''Didn't give my new poodle your name
for his middle name! What more can you
ask9 1 suppose you think ought TO have
given him your full name?'
-
Il IL keep CnlS diamond engagement ring,
she said in breaking the engagement
I'm surprised remarked the male mem
Der of the social contract, THAT you should
wish to keep anything that will remind you
constantly of me-
81 keep it, she continued as she toyed
with the gold band and its sparkling setting
mot for its intrinsic value, but simply as a
reminder of how big fiirt man can be-"
If that is the case,' said he, land you do
not want it for its value, will exchange it
and give you cheaper keeps ake-one that
will not tempt you to wear, but will keep
just as well as a genuine diamond"
80
Now is the time of the year when the de-
signer of women's headgear works night and
day to get out as immense hats and fy-away
bonnets, that will take up as much room and
obstruct the view of as many people, as it is
possible for one female head to carry around
with her.
The designer remembers that the dramatic
| season approaches, when women with
big hats can get in front of, and conceal the
stage from many people who have seats more
distant from the footlights. The hats are put
| up accordingly.
The most fashionable hat is the one that
conceals the most of the stage.
THE ONLOOKER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
A Long Lost Letter.
Rochester Herald.

A letter was received at the Rochester
postoffice yesterday addressed to ''Messrs.
Michael Doyle & Co.." which was sent by
the Inflated steamer Oregon last March via
Queenstown. The bag containing this let
ter was found on July 1, buried in the sand
on the coast about 200 miles from the spot,
near Fire Island, where the ship went
down. On the back of the envelope is
pasted slip stating these facts over the
signature of the postmaster of New York.
The vessel went down on March ID, and
the recovery of this bag of mail at this late
day at so great distance from where it
was lost is remarkable. The contents of
the letter were legible though considerably
blurred by the action of the water. The
stamps were gone.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
Chicago 4, Kansas City 2.

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-The Chicagos won
the game by clever base running and bunch
ing their hits. The visitors were better in
the field than the home team. but were I'M
able to hit Flynn's pitching for the first
seven innings. Ten men struck out.
score:
Chicago. o 20 0 0 o.
Kansas City......0 0 0 0 ID
Earned runs, Chicago 4, Kansas City l.;
home run, Ryan; two-base hit Rowe; base on
balls, Chicago 4, Kansas City l; passed balls,
Briody l. Noodle L; wild pitches Flynn q;
struck out, Chicago g. Kansas City 10; base
hits, Chicago 9. Kansas City 5; errors, Chi
cago 6, Kansas City 6; umpire, Pierce
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17

Has a Larger Circulation than that
Of Amy Other Newspaper Printed
fly and Rapidly Increasing. keeping
Pace with the Growth of the Great
City of which the GLOBE is Admit-
tedIy tho Journalistic Representa-
tive.
It's the Best Advertising Medium
for Those who Desire to Reach all
Glasses of Newspaper Readers in the
Great Northwest. and Especially i'm
Minnesota and Dakota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
Bostop s. PhiladeIphia4.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16.-Boston won
a game from Philadelphia to-day in the
third and fourth innings, owing to Cusick's
miserable work behind the bat. He had
three passed balls in those innings, result
ing in that many runs. Stemmeyer was
very effective until the last inning, when
the home club made three of their five hits.
one being home run lift over the fence by
Bastian. Score:
Boston. ....0 1 0 0 1 0-5
Philadelphia. o o 0 0 0 81
Earned runs, Philadelphia 2. Boston 1;
home run, Bastian L; passed balls, Cusick 8,
Daily 8; wild pitches, Ferguson 2; first base
hits, Boston 6, Philadelphia 5; errors, Boston
II, Philadelphia Z; umpire, Gaffney.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
THE ROSE.

Since the days Of Adam the welkin has rung
With the praises of sweet-scented posies,
And poets in numerous phrases have sung
The paramount beauty of roses
Wheresoever she 'bides whether nesting In
lanes
Or gracing the proud urban bowers
The red, royal rose her distinction retains
AS the one reigning queen among flowers
How joyous are we of the West when we find
That Fate, with her gifts ever chary,
has decreed that the rose, who is queen of her
kind,
Shall bloom on our wild, Western prairie.
Let us laugh at the East as az impotent thing
With envy and jealousy crazy,
While grateful Chicago is happy to sing
In praise of the rose; she's daisy!
Chicago News
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17
a Sad Game of Billiards.

N. Y. Cor. Albany Evening Journal
A party of friends of the demented bill
HARDEST. Joseph Dion, wellt to the Bloom
ngdale Asylum to see him. They found
him in the billiard room of that institution
at play with BARLEY Campbell, the insane
dramatIst. These two patients are doomed
to die of progressive softening of the brain.
and alike their chief symptom physically il
paresis, or an inability to control their mo
tons. For instance, neither can now legi.
bly, write his name. Thus hindered thei1
billiard play was necessarily cratic. a
match was proposed and the Irrational con-
testants at once began. Each was per.
fectly confident and their wild talk often
branching off to utterly foreign subjects,
was steady accompaniment of their shots.
In health Campbell had been reasonably
good player, but now his efforts were more
awkward and futile than those of a begin.
ner Curious interest conferred in the
game of the once expert Dion. 1t was
strangely uneven. Once in while several
successive shots were positively brilliant.
and especially was this so when the posi-
ton of the balls, striking his mind at a
glance, was instantly comprehended and
acted upon. Ii he delayed at all in decid-
ing what caroms to undertake his mind
lost all continuity of thought and he used
his cue in dazed. ridiculous manner. The
same popularity was observable In
his lack of complete control of nerve:
and muscles. If he made a shot quickly
it was apt to be sure and steady; but
delay resulted in utter confusion and failure
All through the strange game Dion main
tanned the most dignified demeanor, and
was seemingly unaware that his play wa:
not as good as ever. He fancied part Of
the time that Campbell was some noted
biiliardist, now Vignaux, again Daily, and
so on through the whole list of champions
and once he claimed that the match wa!
for the possession of the asylum, which he
believed to be a royal palace in Spain. He
is not expected to live more that a year.
CampbelPs time is thought to be still
shorter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-17

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Aug. 16.-Special
advices from Sonora announce that
the Apaches killed Vanquero named
Manuel Robes, near Laraga ranch in the
Montezuma district. They afterward
attacked the Palomas ranch and
drove the family off and soon
after the Indians attacked the trains of
Lamoa Mazoles, which was coming from
Syopoya, killed two teamsters and forty-hVe
mules and wounded forty mules more.